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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.
The Tree it self is the Word. We find the eternal Word so compared. eI am the true Vine, and my Father is the Husbandman. He is a Tree, but arbour inuersa: the root of this tree is in Heaven. It was once fmade flesh, and dwelt amongst us (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father) full of grace and truth. Now he is in Heaven. Only this Word still speaks unto us by his word: the word incarnate by the word written; made sounding in the mouth of his Ministers. This word of His, is compared and expressed by many Metaphors: to leaven for seasoning: to honey for sweetening: to the hammer for breaking the stony heart gIs not my Word like as a fire, saith the Lord? and like a hammer that breaketh the rock in pieces? To a sword, that cuts both ways. hThe word of God is quick and powerful, and ⟨p. 272⟩sharper then a two-edged sword, &c. Another sword can but enter the flesh and pierce the bones, or at most divide the soul and the body; but this the soul and the spirit, where no other sword can come, no not the Cherubins fiery sword, that kept the passage of iParadise.
The Tree it selfe is the Word. We finde the eternall Word so compared. eI am the true Vine, and my Father is the Husbandman. Hee is a Tree, but arbor inuersa: the roote of this tree is in Heauen. It was once fmade •lesh, and dwelt amongst vs (and wee beheld his glory, the glory as of the onely begotten of the Father) full of grace and truth. Now hee is in Heauen. Onely this Word still speakes vnto vs by his word: the word incarnate by the word written; made sounding in the mouth of his Ministers. This word of His, is compared and expressed by many Metaphores: to leauen for seasoning: to honey for sweetning: to the hammer for breaking the stonie heart