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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.
Gods questions are not of the nature of mans, the effects and helps of dubitation: according to the saying [Greek or Hebrew]: Doubting is the Mother of questioning. He that doubteth not, will not ask▪ no; Gods demands are not to satisfy himself, but us: Illations upon our actions. That from the proposition ⟨p. 227⟩of our sins, and the assumption of his questions, we may conclude against our selves; as David, I have sinned. Neither can we give solution to his interrogatories. Who dares, who can answer God? 1he is not as a man, saith Job, that I should answer him. The intent is then, to justify himself; to put into our conscience, a sense, a Science of our own iniquities. God so apposed Jonah: Doest thou well to be angry? And again; Doest thou well to be angry for a Gourd? Art thou discontent for so contemptible a thing, a poor vegetative creature; and doest thou grudge my mercy to so many rational creatures, brethren of thine own flesh? Gods question was a manifest conviction, as strong as a thousand proofs. Jonah sees his face in this little Spring, as if he had stood by a full River.
Gods questions are not of the nature of mans, the effects and helps of dubitation: according to the saying 〈non-Latin alphabet〉: Doubting is the Mother of questioning. He that doubteth not, will not aske▪ no; Gods demaunds are not to satisfie himselfe, but vs: Illations vpon our actions. That from the proposition ⟨p. 227⟩of our sinnes, and the assumption of his questions, we may conclude against our selues; as Dauid, I haue sinned. Neither can we giue sollution to his interrogatories. Who dares, who can answere God? 1hee is not as a man, saith Iob, that I should answere him. The intent is then, to iustifie himselfe; to put into our conscience, a sense, a Science of our owne iniquities. God so apposed Ionas: Doest thou well to be angry? And againe; Doest thou well to be angry for a Gourd? Art thou discontent for so contemptible a thing, a poore vegetatiue creature; and doest thou grudge my mercie to so many rationall creatures, brethren of thine owne flesh? Gods question was a manifest conuiction, as strong as a thousand proofes. Ionas sees his face in this little Spring, as if he had stood by a full Riuer.