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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.
3. They commend their Balm for a special ease to the anger of a venomous biting. But our Balm is more excellent in aculeum Draconis, imò mortis, against the sting of that great red Dragon, nay of Death it self. pOh Death, where is thy sting? Three Serpents give us v• nomous wounds. Sin first stings us, the Devil next, and Death last. This Balm of Christ fetcheth out all their poisons.
3. They commend their Balme for a speciall ease to the anger of a venomous biting. But our Balme is more excellent in aculeum Draconis, imò mortis, against the sting of that great red Dragon, nay of Death it selfe. pOh Death, where is thy sting? Three Serpents giue vs v• nomous wounds. Sinne first stings vs, the Deuill next, and Death last. This Balme of Christ fetcheth out all their poysons.
4. Others say of this Balm, that it is the best solution to the obstructions of the Liver. I have heard the ⟨p. 304⟩Liver in the body, compared with zeal in the soul. The Liver (according to Physicians) is the third principal member, wherein rest the animal spirits. In the soul two graces precede Zeal, Faith and Repentance. I say not this in thesi but in hypothesi, not simply, but in respect; and that rather of order, then of time. For a man is begotten of immortal seed, by the Spirit at once. Now as the Liver calefies the stomach, (like fire under the Pot) and thence succours digestion: so doth zeal heat a mans works, with an holy fervour; which are without that, a cold sacrifice to God. A soul without zeal doth as hardly live, as a body without a Liver. Haly calls the Liver the Well of Moisture: we may say of zeal; it is the very Cistern, whence all other graces, as living there do issue forth into our lives. The Liver is called Hepar and Jecur, because it draweth juice to it self, turneth it into blood, & by veins serveth the body, as the water-house doth a City by pipes. Nay, it ministereth a surging heat to the brain, to the eyes, to the wits, saith Isidore. The Pagan Nigromancers, sacrificed only Livers on the altar of their God Phoebus, before his oraculous answers were given. In the soul other graces, as Faith, Hope, Charity, Repentance, did first rather breed zeal; but zeal being once enkindled doth minister nutrimental heat to all these; and is indeed the best sacrifice that we can offer to God. Without zeal all are like the oblation of Cain.