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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.
Other things may have in them (salubritatem quandam) a certain wholesomeness▪ but from this Balm (sanitas •t ipsavita petitur) health & life it self is derived. Humane writings may, like the Aliptae, put blood in our cheeks; but this is the true Physic to cherish our spark, to maintain our life. Other herbs, & plants, and roots may be toxica, and poison the broth; this is Elisha's salt, that only sweetens it. Lignum crucis, is lignum vitae, like Moses wood, to put a healthful taste into the bitter waters of humane knowledge. These are the two Testaments of God (which no man shall interline without certain judgment) like the two pillars of smoke & fire, one dark like the old, the other bright as the new, only able ⟨p. 302⟩to conduct us from Egypt to Canaan: and to furnish us with all necessaries by the way, if we depend thereon. The two Cherubins, that look directly toward the Mercy-seat, both pointing to Jesus Christ. The eTreasure, that hath both old and new in it, sufficiently able to instruct the Scribe to the Kingdom of Heaven. This is that medicamentum medicamentorum, as Petrus Apponensis saith of the Balme, ubi nihil deficit, quod in salutem sufficit, where, there is no want of any thing requisite to salvation. fCuius plenitudinem adoro, whose fullness I reverence and admire.
Other things may haue in them (salubritatem quandam) a certaine wholesomnesse▪ but from this Balme (sanitas •t ipsavita petitur) health & life it selfe is deriued. Humane writings may, like the Aliptae, put blood in our cheeks; but this is the true Phisick to cherish our spark, to maintaine our life. Other hearbs, & plants, and roots may be toxica, and poyson the broath; this is Elisha's salt, that onely sweetens it. Lignum crucis, is lignum vitae, like Moses wood, to put a healthfull tast into the bitter waters of humane knowledge. These are the two Testaments of God (which no man shal interline without certaine iudgment) like the two pillars of smoke & fire, one dark like the old, the other bright as the new, only able