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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.
Thus, memorable and worthy to be our precedent, was that Italian Physicians course: that when dissol•te Ludovicus lay desolate in his sickness, and desired his help; he answered him in his own tune: If you shall live, you shall live, though no Physic be given you: If you shall dye, you shall dye; Physic cannot help you. According to the sick mans libertine and heretical opinion concerning Predestination. If I shall be saved, I shall be saved, howsoever I love or live. If I shall be damned, I shall be damned, howsoever I do or dye. The Physicians answer gave him demonstrative conviction, taught him the use of means, as well for his souls as bodies health, and so cured recanting Ludovicus of both his diseases at once. A godly practise, worthy our Physicians imitation.
Thus, memorable and worthy to be our precedent, was that Italian Phisitians course: that when dissol•te Ludouicus lay desolate in his sicknesse, and desired his helpe; hee answered him in his owne tune: If you shall liue, you shall liue, though no Phisicke be giuen you: If you shall dye, you shall dye; Phisicke cannot helpe you. According to the sicke mans libertine and hereticall opinion concerning Praedestination. If I shall be saued, I shall be saued, howsoeuer I loue or liue. If I shall be damned, I shall be damned, howsoeuer I doe or dye. The Phisitians answere gaue him demonstratiue conuiction, taught him the vse of meanes, as well for his soules as bodyes health, and so cured recanting Ludouicus of both his diseases at once. A godly practise, worthy our Phisitians imitation.
But, with us, Grace waits at the heels of Nature; and they dive so deep into the secrets of Philosophy, that they never look up to the mysteries of Divinity. As some Mathematicians deal so much in Jacobs Staff, that they forget Jacobs Ladder: so some Physicians (God decrease the number) are so deep Naturalists, that they are very shallow Christians. The best cure depends upon Gods care. It is poor and enervate help, to which Gods blessing hath not added strength. If God doth not hear the heavens for virtue, and heaven hear the earth for influence,