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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.
Take the opportunity, which Gods mercy hath offered thee. It is fit that God should have his day, when thine is past. Your salvation is now nearer then you believe it: but if you put away this acceptable time, your damnation is nearer, then you fear it. Mourn now for your sins, whiles your mourning may help you.1 Tha•, is the Mourners mark, yet the last letter of the Alphabet, for an ultimum vale to sin. Every soul shall mourn, either here with repentance, or hereafter in vengeance. They shall be oppressed with desperation, that have not expressed contrition.2 Herodotus hath a tale of the Pipe•, that ⟨p. 253⟩coming to the River side, began to play to the fishes, to see if they would dance: when they were little affected with his music, he took his Net, and throwing it among them, caught some: which were no sooner cast on the dry ground, but they fell a leaping: to whom the Piper merrily replied, that since they had erst scorned his Music, they should now dance without a Pipe. Let it go for a fable. Christ saith to us, as once to the Jews; We have piped unto you, the sweet tunes of the Gospel, but ye would not dance in obedience: time will come, you shall run after us, as the Hind on the barren Mountains: but then you may dance without a Pipe, and leap Levolto's in Hell, that have danced the Devils Measures on Earth. This is the time, you shall harly lay the spirit of ruin, which your sins have raised. This World is a Witch, Sin her circle, Temptation her charm, Satan the spirit conjured up: Who comes not in more plausible forms at his first appearance, then shows ugly and terrible, when you would have him depart. Have nothing to do with the Spells of Sin, least you pull in Satan with one hand, whom with both you cannot cast out. The door is now open, Grace knocks at thy sleepy Conscience: Time runs by thee as a Lackey, the Agents of Nature proffer their help. If all these concurrences do no good to purge thy soul, thou wilt at last dwell at the sign of the labour in vain, and at once be washed white with the Moore. For, if any will be unjust, let him be unjust: if he will be filthy, let him be filthy still.