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.…

A great while they kept (Gods Balm) the word wholly from the people: now, because the cursings of the people have a little pierced their souls, for engrossing this Balm, and denying i• to their sores; they have stopped their mouths with the Rhemish Testament. But as they erst did curse them for hording Gods grain; so now their just anger is as sharp against them, for the musty, mill-dewed, blasted stuff, they buy of them. Their wickedness is no less now in poisoning them, then it was before in starving them. Before no Balm, now new Balm. Before no plaster to their wounds, now that which makes them rankle worse. So they have mended the matter, as that Physician did his Patients health; to whom, because he was urged to minister somewhat, he gave him a potion, that dispatched his disease & life at once. Thus the Popish Balm is, as Renodaeus calls one vulgar Balsamum, exoletum, inodorum, vietum, rancidum: stale, unsavoury, rammish, lank, vile.

A great while they kept (Gods Balme) the word wholly from the people: now, because the cursings of the people haue a little pierced their soules, for ingrossing this Balme, and denying i• to their sores; they haue stopped their mouthes with the Rhemish Testament. But as they erst did curse them for hoording Gods graine; so now their iust anger is as sharp against them, for the musty, mill-dew'd, blasted stuffe, they buy of them. Their wickednesse is no lesse now in poysoning them, then it was before in staruing them. Before no Balme, now new Balme. Before no plaister to their woundes, now that which makes them ranckle worse. So they haue mended the matter, as that Phisitian did his Patients health; to whom, because hee was vrged to minister somewhat, hee gaue him a potion, that dispatched his disease & life at once. Thus the Popish Balme is, as Renodaeus cals one vulgare Balsamum, exoletum, inodorum, vietum, rancidum: stale, vnsauory, rammish, lanke, vile.

Such is the sophisticate doctrine of superstitious heretics; speaking for Gods precepts, their own prescripts: preaching themselves, and in their own names, for ostentation, like the Scribes: delivering falsehoods, and fathering them on the Lord, He hath said it: abusing mens ears with old wives tales, and old mens dreams, traditions of Elders, constitutions of Popes, precepts of men, unwritten truths, untrue writings, either with-holding the truth in unrighteousness,