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The devils banquet described in four sermons [brace], 1. The banquet propounded, begun, 2.…The deuills banket described in foure sermons [brace], 1. The banket propounded, begunne, 2.…
The devils banquet described in four sermons [brace], 1. The banquet propounded, begun, 2. The second service, 3. The breaking up of the feast, 4. The shot or reckoning, [and] The sinners passing-bell, together with Physic from heaven / published by Thomas Adams ...The deuills banket described in foure sermons [brace], 1. The banket propounded, begunne, 2. The second seruice, 3. The breaking vp of the feast, 4. The shot or reckoning, [and] The sinners passing-bell, together with Phisicke from heauen / published by Thomas Adams ...
London: printed by Thomas Snodham for Ralph Mab, 1614
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
2. It excites the hearers to pray for the sick: and when can Prayers be more acceptable, more comfortable? The faithful devotions of so many Christian-neighbours sent up as Incense to Heaven for thee, are very available to pacify an offended Justice. This is S. James his Physic for the sick: nay,1 this is the Lords comfort to the sick. The prayer of faith shall save the sick; and the Lord shall raise him up: and if he have committed sins, they shall be forgiven him. Now (though we be all servants of one family of God, 2yet) because of particular families on earth; and those so ⟨p. 210⟩removed, that one member cannot condole another's grief, that it feeles not: non dolet cor, quod non novit. The Bell, like a speedy Messenger, runs from house to house, from ear to ear, on thy souls errand, and begs the assistance of their Prayers. Thy heart is thus incited to pray for thy self, others excited to pray for thee. He is a Pharisee, that desires not the Prayers of the Church: he is a Publican that will not beseech Gods mercy for the afflicted. Thy time and turn will come to stand in need of the same succour, if a more sudden blast of Judgement do not blow out thy Candle. Make thy sick Brothers case thine now, that the Congregation may make thine theirs hereafter. Be in this exigent even a friend to thine enemy; least thou become like Babel, to be served of others, as thou hast served others; or at least, at best, in falling Nero's case, that cried, I have neither friend nor enemy.
2. It excites the hearers to pray for the sicke: and when can Prayers be more acceptable, more comfortable? The faithfull deuotions of so many Christian-neighbours sent vp as Incense to Heauen for thee, are very auaileable to pacifie an offended Iustice. This is S. Iames his Physicke for the sicke: nay,1 this is the Lords comfort to the sicke. The prayer of faith shall saue the sicke; and the Lord shall raise him vp: and if hee haue committed sinnes, they shall be forgiuen him. Now (though we be all seruants of one familie of God, 2