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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.
Now, there is no action without motion, no motion without will,1 no will without knowledge, no knowledge without hearing. Ignoti nulla cupido. There is no affection to unknown objects. God must then by this word call us to himself. Let us come when and whiles he calls us; leaving our former evil loves and evil lives: (for emali amor•s make malos mores, saith Saint Augustine. Bad affects produce bad effects.) And let us show the power of this Balm in our confirmed healths. Solummodo bene conuersus est, qui bene conversatus est: A good conversion is proved by a good conversation. Perhaps these effects in all, may not be alike in quantity, let them be in quality. God hath a liberal, not an equal hand: and gives geometrically, by proportion, not arithmetically, to all alike. Only magis & minus non tollit substantiam: the dimensions of greater or less do not annihilate the substance. Our ⟨p. 279⟩Faith may be precious, nay flike precious, though less and weaker. Sanctification admits degrees, Justification no latitude. Luther saith, we are as holy as Mary the Virgin, not in life, which, is active holiness, but in grace of adoption, which is passive holiness. Come we then faithfully to this Balm; so shall we b• safe under the shadow, and filled with the fruits thereof. Thus in general: let us now search for some more special concurrences of the Similitude.
Now, there is no action without motion, no motion without will,1 no will without knowledge, no knowledge without hearing. Ignoti nulla cupido. There is no affection to vnknowne obiects. God must then by this word call vs to himselfe. Let vs come when and whiles hee cals vs; leauing our former euill loues and euill liues: (for emali amor•s make malos mores, saith Saint Augustine. Bad affects produce bad effects.) And let vs shew the power of this Balme in our confirmed healths. Solummodo bene conuersus est, qui bene conversatus est: A good conuersion is proued by a good conuersation. Perhaps these effects in all, may not be alike in quantitie, let them be in quallitie. God hath a liberall, not an equall hand: and giues geometrically, by proportion, not arithmetically, to all alike. Onely magis & minus non tollit substantiam: the dimensions of greater or lesse doe not annihilate the substance. Our