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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.
But if earth be at once nearer to your standing and understanding; and like dissembling Lovers, that (to avoid suspicion) divert their eyes from that cheek, whereon they have fixed their hearts; so you look one way, and love another; Heaven having your countenance, Earth your confidence: then for Earth; read this instruction in all things, the destruction of all things. For if the ra•ified and azure body of this lower Heaven shall be folded up like a Scroll of Parchment; then much more this drossy, feculent, and sedimental Earth shall be burnt.
But if earth be at once neerer to your standing and vnderstanding; and like dissembling Louers, that (to auoyd suspition) diuert their eyes from that cheeke, whereon they haue fixed their hearts; so you loooke one way, and loue another; Heauen hauing your countenance, Earth your confidence: then for Earth; read this instruction in all things, the destruction of all things. For if the ra•ified and azure body of this lower Heauen shall bee folded vp like a Scrole of Parchment; then much more this drossie, feculent, and sedimentall Earth shall be burnt.
Uret cum terris, uret cum gurgite ponti. Communis mundo superest rogus, &c.
Vret cum terris, vret cum gurgite ponti. Communis mundo superest rogus, &c.
The Heavens shall pass away with a •oyse, 1and the Elements shall melt with fervent heat, the Earth also and the works that are therein shall be burnt up. At least quoad •iguram, though not quoad naturam. The form shall be changed, though not the nature abolished. Every creature on earth may teach us the fallibility of it. It is an Hieroglyphic of vanity and mutability. There is nothing on it, that is of it, that is not rather vitiall, then vital. In all the corrupted parts of this decrepit and doting world, mens best lesson of morality, is a lesson of mortality. As it was once said. Foelix qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas: so now better; Foelix