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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. Will not these mournings, menaces, querulations, stir your hearts; because they are derived from GOD, through us (his Organ-pipes) as if they had lost their vigour by the way? Then open your eyes, you that have dea•'d your ears, and see him actually complaining against us. Observe at least, if not the thunders of his voice, yet the wonders ⟨p. 246⟩of his hand. I could easily loose my self in this Common-place of Judgements. I will therefore limit my speech to narrow bounds; and only call that to our memories, the print whereof sticks in our sides: God having taught Nature, even by her good to hurt, (as some wash gold to deprave the weight of it) even to drain away our fruits by floods. But alas, we say of these strokes, as the Philosopher in one sense, and Solomons Drunkard in another, non memini me percussum, we remember not that we were stricken: or as the Prophet, of the Jews. Thou hast smitten them, but they have not grieved: thou hast consumed them, but they have refused to receive correction: 1even whiles their wounds were yet raw, and their ruins not made up. Many are like the Stoics in Equuleo; though the punishment lye on their flesh, it shall not come near their heart. God would school our heavy-spirited and coldly devoted worldlings,2 that sacrifice to their Nets, attribute all their thriving to their own industry: and never enter that thought on the point of their hearts, how they are beholding to God▪ Here, alas, we find, that we are beholding to the Corn and other fruits of the earth,3 they to the ground, the ground to the influences of Heaven, all to God.
2. Will not these mournings, menaces, querulations, stirre your hearts; because they are deriued from GOD, through vs (his Organ-pipes) as if they had lost their vigour by the vvay? Then open your eyes, you that haue dea•'d your eares, and see him actually complayning against vs. Obserue at least, if not the thunders of his voyce, yet the vvonders