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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.
5. Good Physicians must not aim more at their own wealth, then their Patients health. Indeed the spiritual Labourer is worthy of his hire; but if he labour for hire only, he may make himself merry with his ⟨p. 330⟩reward on earth, Heaven hath none for him. That good is well done, that is done of conscience. The Pastor feeds Christs Sheep for his own gain: the Sheep are fed; Christ gives him no thanks for his labour. Peter made three manner of Fishings: he caught Fish for money, Fish with money, Fish without money. The first was his temporal trade, the second a miraculous and singular action, the last his spiritual function. Some are of all these sorts: the worst now is,1 to •ish for the twenty pence. Pi•cantur ut adipiscantur, non homines, sed hominum. They labour hard to take, not men,2 but mens. Peters Successors called (Simons Successors not doubted) have so fished this many a hundred year, not with the Draw-net of the Gospel, but with the Purse-net of Avarice. There are too many such S•luer-fishers, that angle only for the tributary Fish: too many of those Physicians, that set up their bills, and offer their service and cure, not where the people are sickest, but where they are most liberal. Some will not practise, except they have three or four Parishes under their Cure at once: these are Physicians, not for Church, but Steeples. Some are wandering Empirics, that when they come to minister, spend all the time in a cracking ostentation of their Cures, or demonstration of their skill in Pictures and Tables, never approving it to their credulous Patients: These are bragging Physicians.
5. Good Phisitians must not ayme more at their owne wealth, then their Patients health. Indeede the spirituall Labourer is worthie of his hire; but if he labour for hire onely, he may make himselfe merrie with his ⟨p. 330⟩reward on earth, Heauen hath none for him. That good is well done, that is done of conscience. The Pastor feedes Christs Sheepe for his owne gaine: the Sheepe are fed; Christ giues him no thankes for his labour. Peter made three manner of Fishings: hee caught Fish for money, Fish with money, Fish without money. The first was his temporall trade, the second a miraculous and singular action, the last his spirituall function. Some are of all these sorts: the worst now is,