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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 have here the similitudes. Hear one or two discrepancies of this natural and supernatural Balms. For as no Metaphor should of necessity run like a Coach on four wheels, when to go, like a man, on two sound legs is sufficient; so earthly things compared with heavenly, must look to fall more short, then Linus of Hercules, the shrub of the Cedar, or the lowest Mole-bank of the highest Pyramids.
You haue heere the similitudes. Heare one or two discrepancies of this naturall and supernatural Balmes. For as no Metaphore should of necessitie runne like a Coach on foure wheeles, when to goe, like a man, on two sound legges is sufficient; so eart•ly things compared with heauenly, must looke to fall more short, then Linus of Hercules, the shrub of the Cedar, or the lowest Mole-banke of the highest Pyramides.
1. This earthly Balm cannot preserve the body of it self, but by the accession of the spiritual Balm. ⟨p. 307⟩Even Angels food (so called, not because they made it, but because they ministered it) cannot nourish without Gods word of blessing. aFor every creature of God is good, and nothing to be refused, if it be received with thanksgiving: for it is sanctified by the word of God and prayer. If the mercy of God be not on our sustenance, we may dye with meat in our mouths, like the Israelites. If his providential goodness with-hold the virtue, were our garments as costly as the Ephod of Aaron, there is no benefit in them. When many are sick, they trust to the Physicians, as bAsa, or to this Balm, fastening their eyes and hopes on that: whereas Balm, with the destitution of Gods blessing, doth as much good, as a branch of herb-John in our Pottage. Nature it self declines her ordinary working, when Gods revocation hath chidden it. The word without Balm can cure; not the best Balm without the word.