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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.
Well; in the mean time they are grievous sins, that make our gracious God thus seemingly passionate. There is great cause sure, if so patient and forbearing a God, be angry, sorry, penitent, grieved, that he hath made such rebellious creatures. It is long before his wrath be incensed; but if it be throughly kindled, all the Rivers in the South are not able to quench it. Daily man sins, and yet God repents not, that he made him. Woe to that man, for whose creation God is sorry. Woe to Jerusalem, when Christ shall so complain against her. Stay the Bells, ye Sons of wickedness, that ring so loud peals of tumultuous blasphemies in the ears of God? Turn again, ye wheeling Planets, that move only as the sphere of this world turns your affections; and despise the directed and direct motion of Gods Stars. Recall your selves, ye lost wretches, and stray not too far from your Fathers house, that your seekers come again with a non est inuentus: least God complains against you, as here against Israel; or with as passionate a voice, as once against the world; It repents me that I made them.
Well; in the meane time they are grieuous sinnes, that make our gracious God thus seemingly passionate. There is great cause sure, if so patient and forbearing a God, be angry, sorrie, penitent, greeued, that he hath made such rebellious creatures. It is long before his wrath be incensed; but if it be throughly kindled, all the Riuers in the South are not able to quench it. Daily man sinnes, and yet God repents not, that he made him. Woe to that man, for whose creation God is sorrie. Woe to Ierusalem, when Christ shall so complaine against her. Stay the Bells, ye Sonnes of wickednesse, that ring so lowd peales of tumultuous blasphemies in the eares of God? Turne againe, ye wheeling Planets, that moue onely as the sphere of this world turnes your affections; and despise the directed and direct motion of Gods Starres. Recall your selues, ye lost wretches, and stray not too farre from your Fathers house, that your seekers come againe with a non est inuentus: least God complaines against you, as heere against Israell; or with as passionate a voyce, as once against the world; It repents mee that I made them.
If we take the words spoken in the person of the Prophet,