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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
Sermon 1: THE DEVILS BANQUET. The first Sermon.Sermon 1: THE DIVELS BANKET. The first Sermon.
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 Physicians say, that water is a binder: you may apply it,1 that men in these days are terrible water-drinkers: for the times are very restrictive: you may as well wring Hercules Club out of his fist, as a penny from avarice's Purse. Mens hearts are costive, to part with any thing in pios usus: their hands clutched, doors shut, purses not open: nay, the most laxative prodigals, that are lavish and letting-fly to their lusts, are yet heart-bound to the poor. It is a general disease procured be these waters, to be troubled with the griping at the heart. Such were the eKine of Bashan, soluble to their own lusts, bring, let us drink: bound up, and strait-laced to the poor: not refreshing, but oppressing, not helping but cr•shing the needy: they fgrieve not for Joseph; nay, they grieve Joseph. These Kine are dead, but their Calves are in England, abundantly multiplied. These are not the days of peace, that turn Swords into Sickles; but the days of pride, wherein the Iron is knocked off from the plough, and by a new kind of Alchymistrie converted into plate. The Farmers painfulness runs into the Mercers Shop, and the toiling Ox is a sacrifice and prey to the cunning Fox, all the racked rents in the Country will not discharge the Books in the City.
5 Phisitians say, that water is a binder: you may apply it,1 that men in these dayes are terrible water-drinkers: for the times are very restrictiue: you may as well wring Hercules Clubbe out of his fist, as a penny from auarices Purse. Mens hearts are costiue, to part with any thing in pios vsus: their hands clutch't, dores shut, purses not open: nay, the most laxatiue prodigals, that are lauish and letting-flie to their lusts, are yet heart-bound to the poore. It is a generall disease procured be these waters, to be troubled with the griping at the heart. Such were the eKine of Bashan, soluble to their owne lusts, bring, let vs drinke: bound vp, and strait-laced to the poore: not refreshing, but oppressing, not helping but crshing the needy: they