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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 heard the Balm: the next subject that offers it self to our speech, is the Physicians. Is there no Balm at Gilead? is there no Physicians there? The Prophets are allegorically called Physicians, as the word is Balm. So are the Ministers of the Gospel, in due measure, in their place. To speak properly and fully, Christ is our only Physician, and we are but his Ministers, bound to apply his saving Physic to the sickly souls of his people. It is he only, that cures the carcass, the conscience.
You haue heard the Balme: the next subiect that offers it selfe to our speech, is the Phisitians. Is there no Balme at Gilead? is there no Phisitians there? The Prophets are allegorically called Phisitians, as the word is Balme. So are the Ministers of the Gospell, in due measure, in their place. To speake properly and fully, Christ is our onely Phisitian, and wee are but his Ministers, bound to apply his sauing Phisicke to the sickly soules of his people. It is he onely, that cures the carkasse, the conscience.
1. No Physician can heal the body without him The fWoman with the bloody issue was not bettered (by her Physicians, though she had emptied all her substance into their purses) till Christ undertook her cure. The gLeper, in the 8. of Matthew, was as hopeless, as hapless, till he met with this Physician; and then the least touch of his •inger healed him. Physicians deal often, not by extracting, but protracting the disease: making rather diseases for their cure, then cures for diseases: prolonging our sicknesses by Art, which Nature, or rather natures defect hath not made so tedious. Therefore as one saith wittily, the best Physic is to take no Physic: or as another boldly; our new Physic is worse then our old sickness. But when our diseases be committed to this heavenly Doctor, and he is pleased to take them in hand, our venture is without all peradventure, we shall be healed. The least touch of his finger, the least breath of his mouth, can cast out the evil in us, that can cast out the devil in us, he can, he will cure us.