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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 is an effectual word, never failing of intended success. What Gods word affirms, his truth performs, whither it be judgement or mercie. uNec verbum ab intentione quia veritas, nec factum à verbo quia virtus. His word differs not from his intent, because he is truth: nor his deed from his word, because he is virtue. What he intends he declares, or rather what ⟨p. 276⟩he declares he intends, he is just: and what he declares and intends, he performs; he is powerful. This is that Delphian sword, that universal instrument, whereby he made, 2whereby he supports the world. It is not a fruitless and ineffectual word, as mans. Propter nostrum dicere et velle, nihil in re mutatur, saith the Philosopher. Our speaking or willing puts no change into any subject. A man is starved with cold, famished with hunger; we advise him to the fire, to repast: is he ever the fuller or fatter for our word? Not, unless like a Chameleon, he can live by air. But Gods word is fruitful, it feeds. xMan lives not by bread only, but by Gods word. Our word and will is like an Idols power: Gods volo is sufficient. yVoluntas eius, potestas eius. His will is his power. One fiat of his was able to make that was not, but had else line in everlasting informitie; to constitute nature when it is not, to confirm or change nature when it is. When GOD was in the flesh, and went about doing good, a faithful Centurion, for his servant so desperately sick, desired not the travel of his feet, nor a dram of his Physic, nor so much as the imposition of his hands, but dic verbum tantum: zLord say the word only, and my servant shall be healed. This word is so effectual, that it shall never fail of the purpose it first was sped for. The Sun and Moon shall fail in their motions, day and night in their courses, the earth totter on her props, Nature it self shall apostate to confusion, before Gods word fall away unaccomplished; whither he dispenseth it to affect mans heart, or disposeth it to effect his will. Of so powerful efficacy is that word, which the world despiseth.