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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.
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 dthese mercies of Christ, whereby we do not only persuade you of our selves, but 3God doth beseech you through us. If those tears, sighs, wounds, blood, move not our consciences, we have impenetrable souls. If the heart-blood of Christ cannot make thy heart to relent, and thy feet to tremble, when thy concupiscence sends them on some wicked errand; thy hands, tongue, and all parts and powers of thee to forget their office, when thou wouldst sin obstinately; ⟨p. 283⟩thou art in a desperate case. These were the tears of this Balm tree. The word doth in many places, as it were, weep for our sins, panting out the grievance of a compassionate God. fWhy will ye dye, oh you house of Israel? What Prophet hath written without sorrow? One of them Threnos suspirat, sighs out a book of Lamentations; which Greg. Nazianzene saith, (Nunquam à see siccis oculis lectos esse) that he could never read with dry eyes. The other Prophets also, like Quails, curas hominum gesserunt, took on them the burden of many mens sorrows. Cyprian had so compassionate a sympathy of others evil deeds, evil sufferings, that (cum singulis pectus meum copulo, cum plangentibus plango, saith he) I join my breast with others, and challenge a partnership in their griefs. A Minister, saith Chrysostome, g