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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.
Christ knew in the days of his flesh, what easy apprehension worldly things would find in us; what hard impression heavenly would find on us: therefore so often, by plain comparisons taught secret Doctrines; by Histories, Mysteries. How, to the life, doth he explain the mercy of God, to the misery of man, in the lost Sheep; in the lost Groat; in the lost Son? 1How sweetly doth he describe the different hearers of Gods Oracles, in the Parable of the Seed; which (howsoever it seemed a Riddle to the self-blinding Jews, yet) was a familiar demonstration to the believing Saints? So the Prophets found that actual applications pierced more then verbal explications. Nathan by an instance of supposition, wrought Davids hart to an humble confession. He drew the Proposition from his own lips, aThe man that hath done this, is worthy of death; and then stroke while the iron was hot, by an inferred Conclusion, Thou art the man. The Prophet bAhijah rent the new garment of Jeroboam in twelve pieces, and bad him reserve ten to himself; in sign, That God had rent the Kingdom out of the hand of Solomon, and given ten Tribes to him. Isaiah by going cnaked and bare-foot, as by a visible sign, lessons Egypt and Ethiopia, that after this manner they should go captive to Assyria. Jeremiah dby wearing bands and yokes, and sending them to the Kings of Edom, Moab, Ammon, Tyre, Sidon, Judah, gives them an actual representation, a visible Sacrament of their Babylonish captivity. eEzekiels portraying upon a Tile the City Jerusalem, and the siege against it, is called by God, a sign against them. fAgabus took Pauls girdle, and bound his own hands and feet; a sign, and that from the holy Ghost, ⟨p. 216⟩that he who ought the girdle, should be so bound at Jerusalem, and delivered into the hands of the Gentiles. God schooled Jonah in the Gourd, by a lively Apothegm, and real subjection to his own eyes, of his unjust impatience against God and Nineveh.