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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A00888	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 ...	Adams, Thomas, fl. 1612-1653.	1614 (1614)	STC 110.5; ESTC S1413	211,558	358

soule her true forme and playes the make-bate betwixt God and thee betwixt thee and thy selfe So long as securitie hath kept thee sleeping in thy delighted impieties this quarrell is not commenced The mortallest enemies are not alwayes in pitched fields one against another This truce holds some till their death-beds neither doe they euer complaine till their complaints can doe them no good For then at once the sicke carkase after many tossings and turnings to finde the easiest side moanes his vnabated anguish and the sicker conscience after triall of many shifts too late feeleth and confesseth her vnappeased torment So Cain Iudas Nero in vaine seeke for forraine helps when their executioner is within them The wicked man cannot want furies so long as he hath himselfe Indeede the soule may flye from the body not sinne from the soule An impatient Iudas may leape out of the priuate hell in himselfe into the common pit below as the boyling fishes out of the Caldron into the flame But the gaine hath beene the addition of a new hell without them not the losse of the old hell within them The worme of Conscience doth not then cease her office of gnawing when the fâ—ends begin their office of torturing Both ioyne their forces to make the dissolutely wicked desolately wretched If this man be not in the depth of Hell deepely miserable there is none Loe now the Shot at the Deuils Banket A reckoning must be payd and this is double 1. the earnest in this life 2. the full payment in the life to come The earnest is whiles Hell is cast into the wicked the full satisfaction is when the wicked shall be cast into Hell Whosoeuer was not found written in the booke of life was cast into the Lake of fire I will take leaue to amplifie both these a little further 1. The earnest is the horrour of an euill conscience which sparkles with the beginnings of future torments I know that some feele not this in the pride of their vanities or at least will not seeme to feele it Some whorish for-heads can out-face their sinnes and laugh them out of countenance Wide gorges that can swallow periuries bloodynesse adulteries vsuries extortions without trouble But it may be the heart doth not laugh with the looke He dares be an hypocrite that durst be a villaine If hee would speake truth of himsâ—lfe he would testifie that his thoughts will not affoord him sleepe nor his sleepe affoord him rest but whiles his senses are bound his sinne is loose No command of reason can quiet the tempest in his heart No sonne of Sceua no helpe of the world can cast out this Deuill The blood of the body often being stopped in the issue at the nostrils bursts out at the mouth or finds way into the stomach The conscience thus wounded will bleed to death if the blood of Iesus Christ doe not stanch it Thinke of this ye that forget God and are onely indulgent to your selues the time shall come you shall remember God neither to your thankes nor ease and would forget your selues Happy were it for you if you hauing lost your God could also loose your selues But you cannot hide your selues from your selues Conscience will neither be blinded in seeking nor bribed in speaking You shall say vnto it as that wicked Ahab to Elias hast thou found me oh thou mine enemie yet alas all this is but the earnest A hell I may call it and a deepe hell and as I â—ay say a little smoake reâ—king out of that fiery pit whereby the afâ—licted may giue a guesse at Hell as Pythagoras guessed at the stature of Hercules by the length of his foote But else per nulla figura gehâ—nnae nothing can truely resemble Hell 2. The earnest is infinitly short of the totall summe And his Lord was wroth and deliuered him to the tormenters till hee should pay all that was due vnto him The guest must indure a death not dying liue a life not liuing no torment ends without the beginning of a worse The sight afflicted with darknesse and vgly Deuills the hearing with shrikes and horrible cries the smelling with noysome stenches the tast with rauenous hunger and bitter gall the feeling with intollerable yet vnquenchable fire Thousands poynting at not one among thousands pitying the distressed wreâ—ch I know this Earth is a dungeon in regard of Heauen yet a Heauen in respect of Hell wee haue miserie enough here it is mercie to what is there Thinke of a gloomy hideous and deepe Lake full of pestilent dampes and rotten vapours as thicke as cloudes of pitch more palpable then the fogs of Egipt that the eye of the Sunne is too dull to peirce them and his heate too weake to dissolue them Adde hereunto a fire flashing in the reprobates face which shall yeeld no more light then with a glimpse to shew him the torments of others and others the torments of himselfe yet withall of so violent a burning that should it glow on mountaines of steele it would melt them like mountaines of Snow This is the guests reckoning a sore a sowre payment for a short and scarce sweet Banket All his senses haue been pleased now they are all plagued In stead of perfumes fragrant odors a sulphurous stench shall strike vp into his nosthrils In stead of his lasciuious Dalila's that fadomed him in the armes of lust behold Adders Toades Serpents crawling on his bosome In stead of the Dorian musicke charming his eares Man-drakes and Night-rauens still shriking to them the reuerberating grones of euer and neuer dying companions tolling their funerall not finall knels and yels round about him In stead of wanton kisses snakes euer sucking at his breath and galling his flesh with their neuer blunted stings Thinke of this feast you riotous feasters in sinne There is a place called Hell whither after the generall and last assises the condemned shall be sent through a blacke way death is but a shadow to it with many a sigh and sobbe and grones to those cursed fiends that must be their tormentors as they haue beene their tempters Behold now a new feast a fatall a finall one To suppe in the vault of darknesse with the princes and subiects of horror at the table of vengance in the chaire of desperation Where the difference on earth betwixt Master and Seruant drudge and commander shall be quite abolished Except some Atheisticall Machiauell or trayterous Seminary or some bloody delegate of the Inquisition be admitted the vpper-end of the table But otherwise there is no regard of age beauty riches valour learning birth The vsurer hath not a cushion more then his broker There is not the bredth of a bench betweene Herod and his Parasites The Pope himselfe hath no easier a bed then the poorest Masse-priest Corinthian Lais speeds no better then her chambermaid The Cardinall hath not the vpper hand of his Pander There is no prioritie betweene the plotter

The villanâ—es of the Cloistures were not vnseene to his reuenging eye Perhaps they tooke a recluse life that they might practise experimentall wickednes without suspition proâ—â—sing to the world contemplation premising their owne thoughts to contamination They thought themselues secure shadowed from the eye of notice and fenced from the hand of Iustice So they were in doctrine out of the world but in proofe the world was in them they were not more politi strict in profession then polluti loose in conuersation But as darke as their Vaults were the all-seeing GOD descried their whoredomes and destroyed their habitations or at least emptied them of so filthy Tenants The obscuritie of their Cels and Dorters thickenesse of Wals closenesse of Windores with the cloake of a strict profession throwne ouer all the rest could not make their sinnes darke to the eye of Heauen Our impieties are not without witnesse To videt Angelus malus videt te bonus videt et bonis et malis maior Angelis Deus The good Angell and the bad and hee that is better then the Angels farre aboue all principalities and powers sees thee The iust man sets foorth his actions to be iustified Lucem aethera petit teste soâ—e viuit Hee loues the light and walkes with the witnesse of the Sunne It is recorded of Iacob Hee was a plaine man dweâ—ling in Tents Nathaniel by the testimonie of the best witnesse was an Israelite indeed in whom was no guile It was the Rabbins councell to his Scholler Remember there is 1. a seeing Eye 2. a hearing Eare. 3. a Booke written Sic viue cum hominibus quasi Deus videat sic loquâ—re Deo quasâ— homines aâ—diant So conuerse with men as if GOD saw thee so speake to God as if men heard thee For non discessit Deus quando recessit God is not absent though thou dost not feele him present Corporeall substances are in one place locally and circumscriptiuely incorporeall created substances neither locally nor circumscriptiuely but definitiuely GOD the creating substance is euery whit in euery place not circumscriptiuely as bodies nor definitiuely as Angels but repletiuely Ioâ—is omnia plena filling euery place by his essence Hee is hypostatically in CHRIST graciously in his Saints gloriously in Heauen powerfully in Hell You see then the falsehood of the Deuils assertion Sinnes would be secret but they are not The Bread of secrecie being described I should come in the third and last place to the Ascription It is pleasant But because the former adiunct of sweetnesse doth but little diuersifie from this of Pleasure and I shall haue iust occasion to conuince the Deuils fained delicacie from Solomons proued miserie I will therefore silence it And for conclusiue application giue mee the leaue of your patience to examine the truth of the former secrecie It is the Deuils pollicie though he can not blinde his eyes that made the light in Heauen and the sight in man yet hee would darken our sinnes with the vaile of secrecies from the view of the vvorld And are they so no the suffering eye sees them and can point them out nay sensible demonstration speakes them to the eaâ—es and obiects them to the sight of man The iniquities of these dayes are not ashamed to shew their faces but vvalke the streets without feare of a Serâ—eant The sinnes of the Citie are as pert and apert as the sonnes of the Citie I would Iniquitie was not bolder then Honestie or that Innocence might speed no worse then Nocence Absit vt sic sed vtinam vt vel sic saith Saint Augustine in the like case God forbid it should be so bad yet I vvould it were no worse For the times are so wheeled about to their olde byas that vix licet esse bonum it is scarce safe to be an honest man Suspition makes the good euill and flatterie makes the euill good the first in the opinion of others the last in the opinion of themselues Our faith is small and led â—â—th reason our life euill and led without reason Corruptio morum toâ—lit scientiam ethicam Our euill maners shut vp Philosophy and Diuinitie too into the caue of Ignorance This Forrest of Man and Beast the world growes from euill to worse like Nabuchâ—dnezzars dreamed Image whose Head was Golden Siluer armes Brasen thighes but his feet were of Iron and Clay What Ouid did but Poetâ—ze experience doth moralize our manners actually performe This last is as it must bee the worst Our Couetise saith It is terrae aetas an Earthen Age. Our Oppression ferrea aetas an Iron Age. Our Impudence ahâ—nea aetas a Brasen Age. Neither aurea nor argentea saith Necessitie For the poore may say as the Priest Siluer and Gold haue I none Let me say our sinnes haue made it worthy to be called inferna aetas a hellish Age. Sinne is called by Paul The olde man but hee is stronger now then hee was in his Iâ—fancie diebus Adamâ— in the dayes of Adam Most mens repentance is in the knee or tongue but their wickednesse in the heart and hand Money marres all for this and the pleasures this may procure Esau sels his Birth-right Iudas sels his Master Ahab sels himselfe to worke vvickednesse Sinne was wont to loue priuacie as if shee walked in feare The Tippler kept his priuate Ale-bench not the Market place the Adulterer his Chamber not with Absolon the house-top the Theefe was for the night or sequestrate wayes the corrupt Lawyer tooke bribes in his Studie not in the open Hall but now peccata nullas petitura teâ—â—bras our sinnes scorne the darke Men are so farre from being ashamed of their fruitlesse liues that mala comittunt commissa iactant iactata defendunt they commit euill â—oast that they committed and defend that they boasted Pride is worne as a chaine and crueltie as a garment conspectu omnium as proud of the fashion They talke of a Conscience that seekes couers like Adams Figge leaues but these glory in their shame whose end is damnation saith Saint Paul The very Harlot comes short of them shee wipes her lippes and saith shee hâ—th not sinned Bâ—tter fare those that yet would be accounted honest Wee may iustly paralell these times and our complaints to the Prophet Esay's The shew of their countenance doth witnesse against them they declare their sinne at Sodome they hide it not But woe bee to their soules for they haue rewarded euill to themselues So the Iewes answered GOD pleading hard to them There is no hope no for I haue loued strangers and after them I will goe Nay resolutely they discharged GOD of further paines Wee are Lords wee will no more come vnto thee Therefore Ezekiel denounceth their destruction For this cause yee shall bee taken with the hand of Iudgement because your sinnes are discouered and in all your

of sullen silence Some are shallow pits that run so long open mouth till their Springs are quite dry whiles they wâ—l be prius Doctores quam discipuli Masters that neuer were Schollers and leape into Pauls Chaire when they neuer sate at the feet of Gamaliel There must be therefore Wisedome both in the Dispensers hearers of Gods mysteries in the former to distribute in the other to apportion their due and fit share of this Balme 3. The Balsame tree being vvounded too deepe dyes the word of G0D cannot be marred it may be martyred and forced to suffer iniurious interpretations The Papists haue made and called the Scriptures a â—ose of waxe and they wring this Nose so hard that as Solomon sayes they force out blood As Christ once so his word often is crucified betweene two Theeues the Papist on the left hand the Schismaticke on the right These would rauish the virgin-purenesse of the Gospell and adulterate the beautie of it They cannot cut except they cut a pieces nor distinguish but they must extinguish They diuide faire but they leaue the Quotient emptie They subdiuide till they bring all to nothing but fractions but factions Wee may obserue that among these there are as few vnifici in the Church as Munisici in the Common-wealth They are commonly most miserable men of their purses most prodigall of their opinions They diuide the Word too plentifully to their turbulent Auditours they diuide their goods too sparingly to poore Christians There are too many of such ill Logicians that diuide all things define nothing As a moderne Poet well Definit Logicus res non modo diuidit at nos Nil definimus omnia diuidimus These pierce the Balme too deepe not to straine out Iuyce but blood and in what they are able to kill it 4. When the Balsame is cut they vse to set Vialls in the Dennes to receiue the Iuyce or sappe When the word is diuided by preaching the people should bring Vialls with them to gather this sauing Balme These Vials are our eares which should couch close to the Pulpit that this intrinsique Balme may not be spilt besides How many Sermons are lost whiles you bring not with you the vessels of attention We cut and diuide and sluce out Riuers of sauing health from this Tree but all runnes besides and so your health is not recouered You come frequently to the Wells of Life but you bring no Pitchers with you You crie on vs for store of Preaching and call vs idle Drones if wee goe not double iourney euery Sabaoth but still you goe home with vnfallowed with vnhallowed hearts Our Gilead affords you Balme enough yet you haue sickly soules You heare to heare and to feede either your humours or your opinions or your hypocrisies You shall heare a puffed Ananias cry Alas for his non-preaching Minister if at least he forbeares his snarling and currish inuectiues of dumbe dogge c. When alas let many Apostles come with the holy coniuration of Prayer and Preaching yet they cannot cast out the deafe Deuill in many of them They blame our dumbe Dogges not their owne deafe Deuils They vvould seeme to cure vs that are sent to cure them if at least they would be cured Wee would haue cured Babell nay we would haue cured Bethell but shee would not be cured It will be said that most hearers bring with them the Vials of attention yeeld it yet for the most part they are either without mouthes or without bottoms Without mouthes to let in one droppe of this Balme of Grace or without bottomes that when wee haue put it in and looke to see it againe in your liues behold it is runne through you as water through a sieue and scarce leaues any wet behinde it And to speake impartially many of you that haue Vials with bottomes eares of attention with hearts of retention and the ground of remembrance yet they are so narrow at the toppe that they are not capable but of drop by drop Thinke not your selues so able to receiue at the eare and conceiue at the hart innumerable things at once You are not broad glasses but narrow-necked Vials and then best receiue this Balme of life when it is stilled from the Lymbecke of Preaching with a soft fire and a gentle powring in So saith the Prophet Line must be added to line precept vpon precept heere a little and there a little When a great vessell powres liquour into a straite-mouth'd Viall the sourse must be small and sparing fit to the capacitie of the receiuer that in time it may be filled It is often seene that when this iuyce comes with too full and frequent a streame almost all runnes besides I doe not speake this vel prohibendi vel cohibendi animo to curbe the forwardnesse of godly Ministers or perswade the raritie of Sermons God still of his mercie multiply labourers into and labours in his haruest But to correct your obstreperous clamours against vs noâ— to chill the heate of your zealous hearing but to inkindle the fire of your conscionable obeying Doe not stand so much vpon Sacrifice that you forget Mercie Bee not so angry for want of two or three Sermons in a weeke when you will not obey the least Doctrine of one in a month You blesse your Samuels in the name of the Lord with protestation of your obedience to the will of the Lord wee reply what meanes then the bleating of the Sheepe and the lowing of the Oxen in our eares the loud noyse of your Oaths Iniuries Oppressions Fraudes Circumventions You come with bookes in your hands but with no booke for Gods Spirit to write obedience in A Bible vnder the arme with many is but like a Rule at ones backe whiles all his actions are out of square The Historie of the Bible is carryed away easier then the misterie Philosophy saith that there is no vacuitâ—e no vessell is empty if of water or other such liquid and materiall substances yet not of aire So perhaps you bring hither Vialls to receiue this Bâ—lme of Grace and cary them away full but onely full of winde a vast incircumscrib'd and swimming knowledge is in some a motion a notion a meere implicite and confused tenencie of many things which lye like Corne loose on the floore of their braines How rarâ— is it to see a Viall carried from the Church full of Balme a Conscience of Grace I know there are many names in our Sardâ— I speake not to disharten any but to encourage all Onely would to God we would shew lesse and doe more of goodnesse Yet shew freely if you doe godly I reprehend not shewing but not doing Wee preach not to your flesh but to your spirits neither is this Balme for the eare but for the soule Therefore I summe vp this obseruation with a Father Quantum vas fidei capacis afferimus tantum gratiae inundantis haurimus Looke how capacious a vessell of

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