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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.
Gods intent in declaring this Banquet of Sin, is to make you loathe it; and that which is written, is for our instruction, 1to de•erre, not to commend, as some of the Heathen had a custom in their solemn Feasts, to make a bondslave drunk, and then set him forth as a ridiculous object to their children. This Banquet then, per•ibetur una & prohibetur; is at once declared and declaimed, spoken of and forbidden: lest through ignorance you should like and eat it, you are more ⟨p. 43⟩fully made acquainted with the vileness of it. Hence our royal Preacher draws the Curtain of the World, and shows you all the delicates of her Table; not to whet your appetites to feed on them, but to cool your courage, dishearten your opinions, alienate your affections; giving you a true censure of their worthiness; all is vanity, and vexation of soul. 2They are detected, that •hey might be detested. Therefore if any of Gracchus brood, shall like a Catilmary disposition the better, because Tully hath indicted, interdicted, condemned it: if any son of Belial, shall more affectedly devour some morsel of damnation at this Feast, because the Preacher hath execrated it; and derive at once notice and encouragement from our terrifying censures: testimonium sibi ferat condemnationis: let him bear in himself the evidence of his own condemnation. They are wretched men, (qui minimè declinant, quod boni maxime declamant) that most impetuously pursue, what all good men dissuade: running with Ahimaaz the more eagerly, because their friend Joab forbids them.3 So blasphemously spake the sacrilegious spoilers of Proserpine's Temple in Locris, whose ring-leader was Dionysius: Videtis ne amici, quàm bona navigatio ab ipsis Dijs sacrilegis tribuatur? 4sailing home, and now arriving at the Haven safe; see you not my friends, saith Dionysius, how fair and fortunate a Navigation, the Gods vouchsafe to Sacrilege? as if they therefore robbed the CHURCH, because they were by the Oracle expressly inhibited: so (gens humana ruit in vetitum nefas) mans nature precipitates it self into forbidden wickedness.