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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.
TO THE VERY WORTHY GENTLEman, Mr. John Alleyne, saving health.
TO THE VERIE WORTHY GENTLEman, Mr. Iohn Alleyne, sauing health.
SIR,
I have endeavoured in this short Sermon, to prescribe to these sick times some spiritual Physic. The ground I have received from the direction of God: the method I submit to the correction of man. In this I might err, in the other I could not. The main and material objects I have levelled at, are. 1. to beget in us a sense of the sins we have done, of the miseries whereby we are undone. 2. To rebuke our forgetfulness of Gods long-since ordained ⟨image 142⟩remedy, the true intrinsic Balm of his Gospel. In the saving use whereof, we are (like some Countries blessed with the medicinal benefits of Nature, yet) through nescience or negligence, defective to our selves in the application. Inward diseases are as frequent as outward; those by disquiet of mind, as these by disdiet of body. It was a rare age, that had no spiritual plague ranging and raging in it. Ours hath manifold and manifest, vile and visible ones: the World growing at once old and decayed in nature, lusty and active in producing sins. Wickedness is an aged Harlot, yet as pregnant and teeming as ever. It cannot be denied, but that our Iniquities are so palpable, that it is as easy to prove them, as to reprove them. Were our bodies but half so diseased, (and yet this year hath not favoured them) as our souls are, a strange and unheard of mortality would ensue. Man is naturally very indulgent to himself, but misplaceth his bounty. He gives the body so much liberty, that it becomes licentious: but his soul is so prisoned up in the bonds of corrupt