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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.
Well, we have every one our own cures; let us attend them. Let us not take and keep livings of an hundred, or two hundred pound a year, and allow a poor Curate (to supply the voluntary negligence of our non-residence) eight, or (perhaps somewhat bountifully) ten pounds yearly: scarce enough to maintain his body, not a doit for his study. He spoke ⟨p. 323⟩sharply, (not untruly) that called this usury, and terrible usury. Others take but tenn• in the hundred, these take a hundred for ten. What say you to those, that undertake two, three, or four great Cures, and Physic them all by Attorneys! These Physicians love not their Patients, nor Christ himself; as he taught Peter: which S. Bernard thus comments on. Unless thy conscience bear thee witness, 1that thou lovest me exceeding much, that is, plus quam tua, plus quàm tuos, plus quàm te, More then thy goods, more then thy friends, more then thy self, thou art not worthy to undertake this Office. God hath made us superintendents of our charges, and bound us, (as Paul adjured Timothy, aI charge thee before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and dead at his appearing) to preach the word, and b•e instant, &c. Many are content with presidence, not with residence. bAc si victuri essent sine cura, cum peruenerint ad curam. As if they had forgotten all care, when they have gotten a cure. This is not (dispensantis, sed dissipantis officium gerer•) to be a Steward; but a loiterer in Gods family. The Physician sleeps in his Study; the Apothecary for want of judgement takes a wrong Medicine, or no Medicine for the sick. The Pastor is absent, the hireling (very often) either preacheth idly, or negligently, or not at all. And thus Gods people ar• not recovered.
Well, wee haue euery one our owne cures; let vs attend them. Let vs not take and keepe liuings of an hundred, or two hundred pound a yeere, and allow a poore Curate (to supply the voluntary negligence of our non-residence) eight, or (perhaps somewhat bountifully) ten pounds yeerely: scarce enough to maintaine his body, not a doyt for his study. He spoke