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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.
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,1 and earth the Physician for ingredients, all their receipts are but deceits, and the paper of their Bills will do as much good as the prescripts in it. Simples are but simple things, and all compounds idle, when they want the (best) ingredient of Gods blessing. Let Plato then, hold the candle to Moses, and all Physicians drink at the well of the sons of the Prophets. As their purpose aimeth at our ⟨p. 226⟩healths, so let them entreat God to level their hands: their direction and success stands in the name of the Lord of Hosts.
But, with vs, Grac• waites at the heeles of Nature; and they diue so deepe into the secrets of Philosophie, that they neuer looke vp to the misteries of Diuinitie. As some Mathematicians deale so much in Iacobs Staffe, that they forget Iacobs Ladder: so some Phisitians (God decrease the number) are so deepe Naturalists, that they are very shallow Christians. The best cure depends •pon Gods care. It is poore and eneruate help, to which Gods blessing hath not added strength. If God doth not heare the heauens for vertue, and heauen heare the earth for influence,1 and earth the Phisitian for ingredients, all their receits are but deceits, and the paper of their Bils will doe as much good as the praescripts in it. Simples are but simple things, and all compounds idle, when they want the (best) ingredient of Gods blessing. Let Plato then, hold the candle to Moses, and all Phisitians drinke at the well of the sons of the Prophets. As their purpose aimeth at our ⟨p. 226⟩