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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.
2. If God complains against sin,1 let us not make our selves merry with it. The mad humours, idle speeches, outrageous oaths of drunken Atheists, are but ill mirth for a Christian spirit. Wickedness in others abroad, should not be our Tabret to play upon at home. It is a wretched thing to laugh at that, which feasts Satan with mirth, laughing both at our sins, and at us for our sins. Rather lament. Make little weeping for the dead, for he is at rest: 2but the life of the fool is worse then death. Weep for that. When Israel now in Moses absence had turned beast, and Calved an Idolatrous Image; Moses did not dance after their Pipe, and laugh at their superstitious merriment with Tabrets and Harps; but mourned to the Lord for them, and pleaded as hard for their sparing, as he would have done for himself; nay more,3 Spare thy own people, though thou race my name out of the Book of Life. They are only marked for Gods, with his own privy Seal, that mourned for the abominations of Israel: ⟨p. 240⟩and their mournings were earnest, as the wailings of Hadadrimmon in the valley of Megiddo.
2. If God complaines against sinne,1 let vs not make our selues merry with it. The madde humours, idle speeches, outragious oathes of drunken Athiests, are but ill mirth for a Christian spirit. Wickednesse in others abroad, should not be our Tabret to play vpon at home. It is a wretched thing to laugh at that, which feasts Satan with mirth, laughing both at our sinnes, and at vs for our sinnes. Rather lament. Make little weeping for the dead, for he is at rest: 2but the life of the foole is worse then death. Weepe for that. When Israell now in Moses absence had turned beast, and Calued an Idolatrous Image; Moses did not dance after their Pipe, and laugh at their superstitious merriment with Tabrets and Harpes; but mourned to the Lord for them, and pleaded as hard for their sparing, as hee would haue done for himselfe; nay more,