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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.
9. Balm is, utilis ad omnium morborum expugnationem, good against all diseases. The Receipt, that Linus, Hercules his Schoolmaster gave him, when he taught him wrestling, was only a Balm. Darius, saith Renodaeus, so esteemed it, that non modo inter pretiosissimam supellectilem reponeret, sed cunctis opibus praeponeret; he did not only lay it up amongst his richest treasures, but even prefer it before them all. This spiritual Balm is far more precious in it self, and fructuous to all men; if they apprehend it in knowledge, apply themselves to it in obedience: possessing it in science, in conscience. Philosophers, Poets, Physicians, Historians have reported some one extraordinary thing, exceeding all the rest in their observations. They talk of Cornucopia, that it supplied men with all necessary food. They hammer at the Philosophers stone, which, they affirm, can turn baser metals into gold. Vulcans Armour, saith the Poet, was of proof against all blows. Physicians tell us, that the herb ⟨p. 300⟩Panaces is good for all diseases: and the drug Catholicon in stead of all Purges; as both their names would seem to testify. They come all short of this spiritual Balm. It hath in deed and perfection, what they attribute to those in fiction.1 Panace is an herb, whereof Pliny thus testifieth. Panace, ipso nomine, om•i•m morborum remedia promitt•t. The very name of it, promiseth remedy to all sicknesses. It is but a weed to our Balsam; which is a tree, a tree of life, a complete Paradise of trees of life, flourishing and bearing every month, the fruit being delectable, the leaves medicinable. It is a true purging virtue, to cleanse us from all corruption of spirit, of flesh. bNow are ye clean, through the word, which I have spoken unto you. Catholicon is a drug, a drudge to it. It purifieth our hearts, from all defilings and obstructions in them. A better Cornucopia, then ever Nature (had she been true to their desires and wants) could have produced: the bread of Heaven, by which a man lives for ever. A very supernatural stone, more precious then the Indies, if they were consolidate into one Quarry; that turns all into purer gold, then ever the land of Haulab boasted. A stronger Armour then was Vln's, to shield us from a more strange and savage enemy, then ever Anak begot, the Devil.