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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.
Ministers are Physicians under Christ; sent only with his Physic in their hands, and taught to appl• it to our necessities. Neither the Physician of the body, nor of the soul can heal, by any virtue inherent in, or derived from themselves. We must take all out of Gods warehouse. God hath a double Box of Nature, of Grace: as man hath a double sickness, of flesh, of spirit.
Ministers are Phisitians vnder Christ; sent onely with his Phisicke in their hands, and taught to appl• it to our necessities. Neither the Phisitian of the bodie, nor of the soule can heale, by any vertue inherent in, or deriued from themselues. We must take all out of Gods warehouse. God hath a double Boxe of Nature, of Grace: as man hath a double sicknesse, of •lesh, of spirit.
1. The first box is mentioned. Ecclus. 38. aThe Lord hath created medicines out of the earth, and he that is wise will not abhor them. God hath not scanted earth of drugs and minerals, the simples of Physic for such as tread on it. And howsoever our vanity in health transport our thoughts, earth hath no more precious thing in it, then (as sustenance to preserve, so) medicine to restore us. You that have digged into the entrails of the dead earth, and not spared the bowels of the living earth, the poor, for riches: You that have set that at your heart, which was cast down at the bApostles feet, Money; as fit only for sanctified men to tread upon in contempt: You that have neglected heaven, which God hath made your more glorious feeling, and richly stuck it, like a bright Canopy, with burning lights; and doted on your pavement, made only for your feet to tread upon; fixing your eyes and thoughts on that, which God hath indisposed to be your object: for mans countenance is erect, lessoning his soul to a just and holy aspiration: You that have put so fair for the Philosophers stone, that you have endeavoured to sublimate it out of poor mens bones, ground to powder by