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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.
THE Second Service of the Devils Banquet. The second Sermon.
THE Second Seruice of the Deuils Banket. The second Sermon.
PROVERB. 9.17▪ Stolen waters are sweet, and Bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
PROVERB. 9.17▪ Stollen waters are sweet, and Bread eaten in secret is pleasant.
WE have already served in the first course at the Devils Banquet; and feasted your ears with those Waters, from which God keep your souls fasting. Some things are proposed to our practise, some things are exposed to our contempt and dislike. The more accurately the Scriptures describe sins, the more absolutely they forbid them: where wickedness is the subject, all ⟨p. 42⟩speech is declamation. As no spectator at those horrid Tragedies, where Oedipus is beheld the Incestuous Husband of his own Mother,1 or Thyestes, drunk with the blood of his own Children, or at any of the bleeding Banquets of the Medea's, can receive those horrors a• the Windows of his senses, without terror to his bowels, and trembling to his bones: so when you hear the relation of the Devils cheer, all the flattering, petulant, insidious, nature-tickling dishes of delight: the rarities of Impiety, the surfeits of the World, Horse-leaches to the blood, Witches to the affections, Devils to the Consciences of men; think that they are related, that they may be rejected: to bestow upon the Devils Cates his own names: the glory of Pride, the satiety of Epicurism, the gallantness of Ebriety, the credit of Murder, the greatness of Scorn, the gracefulness of Swearing, the bravery of (the stigmatic) Fashion, the security of Usury, the singularity of Opinion, the content of Superstition; nunciantur, ut renuncientur: think not, they are prescribed for you, when they are described to you. Monstrantur ut monstra: they are set forth as monsters, that they might be loathed: they are advanced as Traitors heads, in terrorem futuri proditoris, to the terror of him that should be tempted to future Treason.