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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.
You do well condemn, first, them that prefer Machiavell to Moses; Ishmaels scoffs to Jeremies tears; Jericho to Jerusalem, the tower of Babel to the gates of Bethel: or secondly, those that put away the Ministry as a superfluous Office; and think they know enough to save themselves.
You doe well condemne, first, them that preferre Machiauell to Moses; Ismaels scoffes to Ieremies teares; Iericho to Ierusalem, the tower of Babell to the gates of Bethell: or secondly, those that put away the Ministry as a superfluous Office; and thinke they know inough to saue themselues.
Dux ero, miles ero, duce me, •e milite solus Bella geram.
They will be their own captains and their own soldiers, and without calling the assistance of man or Angel, Prophet or Apostle, they will band• with the Devil and all his army, hand to hand: or thirdly, those that, like the Collier, dance in a circular measure, and hang all their Faith on the hooks of others belief: exercising all their religion by an exorcising Mass: whiles they count the Old and New Testaments books of controversy, and that it is peremptory sacrilege to meddle with the scriptures. You do well to abhor these dotages: but still look, that all be well at home. Love the Word; and that with an appetite. Beati esurientes: dBlessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be satisfied. But as you have love to it, so live by it. eNon scholae, sed vitae discendum: We learn, not only to know good, but to live well,