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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.
1The form of the words is Interrogatory. Is there no Balm at Gilead? are there no Physicians there? It is most true: Balm is not scarce, nor are the Physicians few, yet Israel is sick. God doth convince that by a question, which might be without question affirmed, but would not be (without question) granted. The best insinuation or piercing assertion is ex interrogando, by way of question; not only for explication, but for application of truth. God doth as it were appeal to mans conscience; and fetch evidence from the impartial testimony of his heart. That here, what is true in Gods reprehension, may appear true in mans apprehension. The first word that ever God spake to man after his fall, was a question. ADAM, ubi es? where art thou?2 He continues the same (formam loquendi, normam arguendi) form & method of speech. Who told thee that thou was naked? 3Hast thou eaten of the Tree, 4whereof? &c. And to the woman. What is this that thou hast done? Before man fell to sin, God fell not to questioning. All his speeches were to him, either commendatory or commandatory: approbationis non exprobationis verba; words of approval, not of exception. He createth, ordereth, blesseth man, and all things to him: but when man fell to sliding, God fell to chiding. Because man turned his heart to another object, God turned his voice to another accent.
1The forme of the words is Interrogatorie. Is there no Balme at Giliad? are there no Phisitians there? It is most true: Balme is not scarce, nor are the Phisitians few, yet Israell is sicke. God doth conuince that by a question, which might be without question affirmed, but would not be (without question) graunted. The best insinuation or piercing assertion is ex interrogando, by way of question; not onely for explication, but for application of truth. God doth as it were appeale to mans conscience; and fetch euidence from the impartiall testimonie of his heart. That here, what is true in Gods reprehension, may appeare true in mans apprehension. The first word that euer God spake to man after his fall, was a question. ADAM, vbi es? where art thou?