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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.
Dic, rogo, cur toties descendit ab aethere nimbus, Grandoque de coelis sic sine fine cadit? Mortales quoniam nolunt sua crimina fl•re, Coelum pro nobis soluitur in lachrym•s. What mean those aery spouts and spongy clouds To spill themselves on earth with frequent floods? Because man swelling sins and dry eyes bears, They weep for us, & rain down showers of tears.
Dic, rogo, cur toties descendit ab aethere nimbus, Grandoque de coelis sic sine fine cadit? Mortales quoniam nolunt sua crimina fl•re, Coelum pro nobis soluitur in lachrym•s. What meane those aery spowtes and spungy clouds To spill themselues on earth with frequent flouds? Because man swelling sinnes and dry eyes beares, They weepe for vs, & raine down showres of teares.
God hath done, for his part, enough for Israel. 1He hath stored their Vials with Balm, their Cities with ⟨p. 248⟩Physicians. It was then their own fault, that their health was not recovered.2 Oh Israel, thou hast destroyed thy self, but in me is thine help. Let even the inhabitants of Jerusalem and Judah themselves be umpires, And what could I have done more to my Vineyard, 3that I have not done in it? God is not sparing in the commemoration of his mercies to us: as knowing, that of all the faculties of the Soul, the memory first waxeth old; and of all objects of the memory, a benefit is soonest forgotten. We write mans injuries to us in Marble, but Gods mercies in dust or waters. We had need of remembrances. God hath done so much for us, that he may say to us,