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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.
Fear• these waters, for they are dangerous: sin is not more colleen the t•st,1 then it is fiery in the operation. Affliction is hot to the relish,2 (you cannot drink ⟨p. 30⟩of my Cup) but cool, easeful, peaceful in the digestion: but these waters are (mel in ore, fell in cord) sweet in the palate, bitter in the stomach. The Oracle gave it:3 Ninum prius capi non posse, quam fluvius ei fiat hostis: Nineveh should not be taken, before the waters became her enemy: she feared no inundation, the Sea was too remote: yet in the third year of her Siege, the waters of the Clouds broke loose, and with abundant rain overwhelmed the walls; (Muros deiecit ad stadia viginti) to twenty furlongs. We live secure, and devour these waters of iniquity, as Fishes the water of the Sea; but when God shall make our sins compass us at the heels, 4and raise up these floods against us, we shall cry, as the drowning world, woe unto us, the waters are become our enemies: the floods of our own sins overwhelm us: so the Drunkard drinks a river into his belly, that drowns his vital spirits with a Dropsy.
Fear• these waters, for they are dangerous: sinne is not more coole•n the t•st,1 then it is fierie in the operation. Afflic•ion is hote to the rellish,2 (you cannot drinke ⟨p. 30⟩