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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.
1The Jews were near to Gilead; it was but on the other side of Jordan. The fetching over their Merchandise was no long nor dangerous voyage. Yet was this spiritual Balm nearer to them: it lay like Manna at ⟨p. 311⟩their dores. Venit ad limina virtus. The Kingdom of Heaven is among you, saith Christ. There needed no great journey for natural Physic, but less for spiritual comfort. Behold, God himself gives his vocal answers between the Cherubins. Yet alas! as it was once justly proverbed on the Monks, and such spiritual, or rather carnal Convents, in that night of Popery: that the nearer they were to the Church, the further from God. So it was even verified of the Jews; that by how much they were of all next to the Sanctuary, by so much of all remotest from sanctity. And therefore, he that once said, aGilead is mine, and of the Temple in Judah, bthis is my house, called by my name; afterward left both the hill of Gilead, and the Mount Zion, and the holy Sanctuary, a pray to the Romans; who left not a stone upon a stone, to testify th• ruins of it, or for succeeding ages to say, This was the Temple of God. Thus saith the Prophet Hosea: cGilead is a City of them that work iniquity, and is polluted with blood. Therefore God turned that dfruitful Land into barrenness, for the wickedness of them •hat dwelt therein. For not content with the fertility of their soil, they manured it with blood, saith the Prophet. Hence no marvel, if it became at last, like the cu•sed eMountains of Gilboa, that drunk the blood of Saul and Jonathan.