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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.
It spreads. No sharp frosts, nor nipping blasts, nor chilling airs, nor drizzling sleet, can mar the beauty or enervate the virtue of this spiritual Tree. The more it is stopped, the further it groweth. Many interdictions rung peals of menaces in the Apostles ears, that qthey should speak no more in the name and word of Christ: they did all rather like Bells toll them into the Church, to preach it more fervently. The Princes of the Nations would have hedged it in with their prohibitions: but the Word of Heaven, and edict of Gods spiritual Court of glory, scorned the Prohibitions given by their temporal or temporary Laws. They might ⟨p. 274⟩easier have hedged in the wind, or pounded the Eagle.
It spreads. No sharpe frosts, nor nipping blasts, nor chilling aires, nor drisling sleete, can marre the beautie or eneruate the vertue of this spirituall Tree. The more it is stopped, the further it groweth. Many interdictions rung peales of menaces in the Apostles eares, that qthey should speake no more in the name and word of Christ: they did all rather like Bells toll them into the Church, to preach it more feruently. The Princes of the Nations would haue hedged it in with their prohibitions: but the Word of Heauen, and edict of Gods spirituall Court of glory, scorned the Prohibitions giuen by their temporall or temporarie Lawes. They might ⟨p. 274⟩easier haue hedged in the vvinde, or pounded the Eagle.
The Jews would have cut down this Tree at the root: the Gentiles would have lopped off the branches. They stroke at Christ, these at his Ministers: both struck short. If they killed the Messenger, they could not reach the message. The blood of the Martyrs, spilt at the root of this tree, did (as it were) make it spread more patently. There never died Preacher for Christ his cause, but almost every ash of his burned flesh, bred a Christian. The old Foxes of Rome, that had caliditatis paululum, calliditatis plurimum, little warmth in their bloods, great subtlety in their pates, studied, plotted, acted, by cares, stratagem, engines, to give a fatal, final subversion to the Gospel: yet they lived to see it flourish, and because it flourished, died, fretting themselves to dust. So,