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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.
Quas olim intulerant terris contagia sordes,1 vos olim ultrices ablueratis aquae. At nunc, cum terras, cum totas aequoris undas polluerit manus, quàm fuit ante, scelus: Quiá superest, caelo nisi missus ut ignis ab alto, Ipsas cum terris devoret ulter aquas? Once in Gods sight the World so filthy stood, That he did wash and soak it in a flood. But now, it's grown so foul and full of mire, Nothing remains to purge it but a fire.
Quas olim intulerant terris contagia sordes,1 vos olim vltrices ablueratis aquae. At nunc, cum terras, cum totas aequoris vndas polluerit manus, quàm fuit ante, scelus: Quiá superest, caelo nisi missus vt ignis ab alto, Ipsas cum terris deuoret vlter aquas? Once in Gods sight the World so filthy stood, That hee did wash and soake it in a flood. But now, it's growne so foule and full of mire, Nothing remaines to purge it but a fire.
- 1Beza.
Which Strabus, writing on the worlds destruction by fire, would seem to gather from those two colours in the Rainbow, caeruleo et igno, blew and red. The first cataclysm of water is past, the second deluge of fire is to come. So saith the Apostle. The heavens being on fire shall be dissolved; 1the Elements shall melt with fervent heat: Novam qualitatem induent manente substantia: All earthly things shall wax old and dye.2 Mors etiam saxis nominibusque venit; but the substance shall remain. It is but the fashion of this world that passeth away: [Greek or Hebrew], figura, non natura. When all the putrefied f•ces, drossy and combustible matter shall be refined in the fire, all things shall be reduced to a crystalline clearness. Thus (though the heathen profanely made the Physician a God, yet) the Christian may say truly, Our God is become our Physician. And his Ministers are his deputies under him, bringing in their lips the saving Medicines, that God hath given them.