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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.
2. The Physician must not commit his Patients health to the Apothecary. God hath trusted thee with his peoples welfare, whom he hath purchased with his own blood; thou must not be at thy man, and impose all on him. It was the reason, that the Romans Horse was so ill tended, himself so well. Ego curo meipsum, Statius verò equum. I look to my self, but my man looks to my Horse. The like reason, sometimes, makes fat Shepherds, and lean Flocks. God hath placed us, as Mothers to obear children unto him: now as we must not be barren, and bring forth none; so we must not, when we have them, put them forth to nurse. It is not more unkind in a natural, then unnatural in a spiritual M•ther. There is a necessary use of the Apothecary, s• of the Reader. He that digs the ground is not to be de•p•sed, though a more exquisite Gardiner draws the knot. But it is dangerous to trust all on him, and do Gods business by an Attorney. God hath given thee the milk, that thou shouldest feed his Sheep, and not put them over to an hireling: who suffers the pWol•e to enter, and tear the Lambs, never breaking his sleep for the matter. Not but that preaching may yield to a more weighty dispensation. When the vaunts of some heretical Goliath shall draw us forth to encounter him with our Pens, against whom we cannot draw the sword of our tongues: when the greater business of Gods Church shall warrant our non-residence to the inferior: ⟨p. 321⟩when one is called from being a Mariner, and running about, to the office of a Pilot, to sit still at the helm: then and upon these grounds, we may be tolerated, by another Physician to serve our Cures; (for so I find our qcharges, not without allusion to this metaphor, called:) a Physician, I say, that is a skilful Divine; not an illiterate Apothecary, an insufficient Reader. That mere reading of the Scriptures hath, and may save souls, who ever doubted? But that Preaching with Reading is more effectual, can it be denied?