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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.
3. They write of the Balsamum, that the manner of getting out the juice, is by wounding the tree. Sanciata arbour praebet opobalsamum. Provided, that they cut no further then the ••nde: for if the wound extends to the body of the tree, it bleeds to death. I have read no less of Vines, that unjustly pruned, they bleed away their lives with their saps. The issuing Balm is called opobalsamum; as some from the Greek opo, which signifies a Den; or rather of [Greek or Hebrew], Juice. A treble lesson here invites our observation.
3. They write of the Balsamum, that the manner of getting out the iuyce, is by wounding the tree. Sanciata arbor praebet opobalsamum. Prouided, that they cut no further then the ••nde: for if the wound extends to the body of the tree, it bleedes to death. I haue read no lesse of Vines, that vniustly pruin'd, they bleede away their liues with their sappes. The issuing Balme is called opobalsamum; as some from the Greeke opo, which signifies a Denne; or rather of 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Iuyce. A trebble lesson here inuites our obseruation.
11. The Balsam tree weeps out a kind of gum, like tears: the word of God doth compassionately bemoan• our sins. Christ wept not only tears for Jerusalem, but blood for the world. His wounds gush out like fountains, and every drop is blood. Ecce in lachrimis, in sanguine locutus est mundo. His whole life was a continual mourning for our sins. Nunquam rider dictus, flere saepissimè. He may adjure us to repentance and obedience, by more forcible arguments, then ever Dido used to Aeneas: Ego vos per has lachrymas, per hos gemitus, per haec vulnera, per corpus sanguine mersum. I entreat you by tears, by groans, by wounds, by a body (as it were) drowned in it own blood: by all d