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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.
1. God leads us by sensible to the sight of insensible wants;1 by calamities that vex our living bodies, to perils that endanger our dying Consciences. That we might infer upon his premisses, what would be an eternal loss, by the sight of a temporal cross, that is so hardly brooked. If a afamine of bread be so heavy, how unsupportable is the dearth of the Word, saith the Prophet. bMan may live without bread, not without the word. If a weary Traveller be so unable to bear a burden on his shoulders, how ponderous is sin in the Conscience? which Zechariah calls a ctalent of Lead. If blindness be such a misery, what is ignorance? lf the night be so uncomfortable, what doth the darkness of Superstition afford? If bodily Disease so afflict our sense, how intolerable will a spiritual sickness prove? Thus all earthly and inferior Objects to a Christian soul, are like Marginal hands, directing his reading to a better and heavenly reference. I intend to urge this ⟨p. 213⟩point the more, as it is more necessary; both for the profit of it being well observed, and for the general neglect of it; because they are few in these days, that reduce Christianity to Meditation, but fewer that produce Meditation to practise and obedience.
1. God leades vs by sensible to the sight of insensible wants;1 by calamities that vexe our liuing bodies, to perils that endanger our dying Consciences. That wee might inferre vpon his premisses, what would be an eternall losse, by the sight of a temporall crosse, that is so hardly brooked. If a afamine of bread be so heauie, how vnsupportable is the dearth of the Word, saith the Prophet. b