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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.
They write of the Indian Physicians, that they cure the wound by sucking the poison. Christ heals after a manner (I know not whither more) loving and strange; by taking the disease upon himself. kWho his own sel•e ⟨p. 313⟩bare our sins in his own body on the tree. lHe was wounded for our transgressions, he was bruised for our iniquities▪ and with his stripes we are healed. And the Lord hath laid on him the iniquity of us all. As the mscape-goa•e was said to bear upon him the sins of Israel: so saith the Prophet of his antitype Christ; morbos portavit nostros, nhe hath borne our griefs: too unsupportable a burden for our shoulders; able to sink us down to hell, as they did Cain and Judas, if they had been imposed. Tulit Jesus. Christ carried our sorrows. Never was such a Physician, that changed healths with his sick Patient. But H•e was humbled for us. Mans maker is made man, the worlds succourer takes suck, the Bread is hungry, the Fountain thirsty, the Light sleepy, the Way weary, the Truth accused, the Judge condemned. Health it self is become sick, nay dead, for our salvation. For mans sake (such was our weakness) Christ descended, (such was his kindness) took one him to cure us (such was his goodness) and performed it, (such was his greatness.) It was not Abanah nor Pharphar, nor all the rivers of Damascus, not the water of Jordan, though bathing in it 70. times, not Jobs •now-water, nor Davids water of Hyssop, not the pool of Bethesda, though stirred with a thousand Angels, that was able to wash us clean. Only fusus sanguis Medici, factum medicamentum phrenetici: the blood of the Physician is spilt, that it may become a medicine of salvation to all believers. This is the Pelican, that preserves her young with her own blood. This is the Goat, that with his warm gore breaks the adamants of our harts. This is