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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.
Let the professions be heterogen•a, different in their kinds; only respondentia, semblable in their proceedings. The Lord acreated the Physician, so hath he bordained the Minister. The Lord hath put into him the knowledge of Nature, into this the knowledge of grace. All knowledge is derived from the Fountain of Gods wisdom. The Lord chath created Medicines out of the earth. The Lord hath dinspired his holy word from heaven. The good Physician acts the part of the Divine. eThey shall pray unto the Lord, that he would prosper ⟨p. 222⟩that which they give, for ease & remedy to prolong life. The good Minister, after a sort is a Physician. Only it is enough for the Son of God to give both natural and spiritual Physic. But as Plato spake of Philosophy, that it covets the imitation of God, within the limits of possibility and sobriety: so we may say of Physic, it is conterminate to Divinity; so far as a Handmaid may follow her Mistress. The Institutions of both preserve the constitutions of men. The one would prevent the obstructions of our bodies, the other the destructions of our souls. Both purge our feculent corruptions: both would restore us to our primary and original health: though by reason of our impotency and indisposition, neither is able. Both oppose themselves against our death, either our corporal or spiritual perishing.
Let the professions be heterogen•a, different in their kindes; onely respondentia, semblable in their proceedings. The Lord acreated the Physitian, so hath he bordained the Minister. The Lord hath put into him the knowledge of Nature, into this the knowledge of grace. All knowledge is deriued from the Fountaine of Gods wisedome. The Lord