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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

Heathen might iustifie and exemplarily make good that verse Nitimur in vetitum semper cupimusque negata Wee hunt for things vnlawfull with swift feet As if forbidden ioyes were onely sweet But such a report among Christians is so strange that fictum non factum esse videatur it would seeme rather a fable then a fact a tale then a deed Publish it ●ot in Gath nor tell it in the streets of Askelon that any Israelite should the more desperately cleaue to Baal because Elias hath cursed it There are none such neither is there Raine in the Clouds Indeed Charitie would not beleeue it for it is euen the order of Nature that tarda sole● magnis rebus adesse fides slow faith is giuen to great reports but alas wee are forced to see what wee would not beleeue such refractary Recusants to all Christianitie l●uing and speaking 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 according to their owne lusts that would not be so ill if they had not beene taught to be better quibus res diuinae lusus sunt ijs voluptas pro vita libido pro ratione est They that play with Diuinitie and make Rel●gion a mocke giude their Life by Pleasure and their Reason by Lust. Time was the Kingdome of Heauen suffered violence and men tooke it by strong hand now it offers violence and men by strong hand repell it before it was so precious that euery man preassed and crowded into it now it press●th vpon vs and wee are glad to be rid of it as Couetousnesse of pouertie at his dore And as the fountaines would not be so colde if the Sunne had not heated the ayre and forced the contrarie qualitie into such abstruse corners many would haue beene lesse outragious in their filthinesse is the Gospell of Grace had not so vniuersally spread his beames Their whole life is a continuall preuarication and it is the cordiall Physicke to fat their spleenes that they can be crosse to God But lex in sermone tenenda I speake to Christians of whom we cannot but hope better things if there be any here that hath sold his faith for his pleasure as Adam did his life for an Apple or Esau his birth-right for a messe of Pottage and will venture himselfe a guest at the Deuils Bank●t maugre all devitation let him stay and heare the Reckoning for there is a Shot to be payed which cannot be auoided as Circe's Cup turnes men into beasts so it brings them to a beastly end it fats them against the slaughter-day of Iudgement We leaue then the prescription of the waters and come to the description of their natures Stollen It is a word of Theft and implies besides the action of Stealth some persons actiue and passiue in this businesse some that doe wrong and steale some that suffer wrong and are robbed Robberi● is a sinne literally forbidden onely in one Commandement but by inference in all What sinne is committed and some person is not robbed Doth not Id●latrie rob God of his worship Blasphemie of his honour Saboth-impietie of his reserued time Doth not Irr●ueren●e rob our betters Murder rob man of his life Theft of his goods False t●stimonie of his good name or right Doth not the Harlot here knit the eight precept to the seuenth and call adulterium furtum The pleasures of a forbidden bed Stollen waters Let vs solace our selues with loues for the good man is not at home c. Since then all sinnes are waters of stealth it is an ineuitable consequent that euery sinne robs some let vs examine whom The parties robbed are 1. God 2. Man 3. Our selues and there be diuers sinnes rob either of these Of euery circumstance a little according to the common liking for some had rather h are many points then learne one they would haue euery word a sentence and euery sentence a Sermon as hee that wrot● the Pater-noster in the compasse of a Penie Onely I entreate you to obserue that this is a theeuish Banket where is nothing but stollen waters all the Cates be robberies the guests cannot drinke a drop but there is iniurie done Accordingly I will ioyntly proceede 1. To describe the Waters of Sinne at this Feast 2. And withall to proue them stollen waters such as rob either our God our Brethren or our selues I need not cleare the Feast from an opinion of coursenesse because the prime Seruice goes vnder the name of waters this alone doth inforce the delicacie Neither is all water for the Bread of Secrecie is one halfe of the Banket Let vs not be too nice in the letter and shadow the substance is The Deuill inuites and tempteth men to feede on vanitie to feast on Sinnes those sinnes I haue laboured to display so farre as the Metaphor would giue me leaue onely let your affections follow me that as I feare not to make the Iniquities hatefull to your vnderstandings so I may hope they will be loathed of your hearts eschewed of your liues in confidence whereof I proceede The first course of these wae●rs are such sinnes as more immediatly rob God And here as it is fit Atheisme leades in the rest a principall Viall of these stollen waters 1. Atheisme is the highest Theft against God because it would steale from him not sua ●ed se his goods but himselfe proceeding further then Deus haec non curat to Deu● non est Then to say God will not regard it but there is no God to regard it These offer not onely a wicked hand to their owne conscience to scrape out the deepe-ingrauen and indeleble characters of the Diuinitie there but a sacrilegious hand to heauen as if they would empty it of a Deitie and pull Iehouah out of his Throne and make him a nonens All with them is begun and done either by the necessitiy of Fate or contingencie of Fortune Te facim●● Fortuna Deam If any strange vice be committed the Planets shall be charged with it Mercurie told the lye Mars did the murder Venus committed the whoredome Thus by looking to the inferiour causes producing necessarie effects they rob God who is prima causa creans causas the causing cause and the originall mouer of all things These are worse then the Deuill for if at first he doubts and tempts Christ yet seeing feeling his power and miracles he confesseth onely impudent Caiaphas saw and knew yet tempts Thus often the Instrument excels the Agent and there be Machiauels Polititians Atheists haue trickes beyond the Deuill The Deuill beleeues and trembles these haue neither faith nor feare The Deuill quakes at the day of Iudgement torment vs not before the time these deride it Where is the promise of his comming Strange euen the Father of Sinnes comes short of his Children and that there should be Atheists on Earth when there is none in Hell These Monsters are in the Wildernesse No they borough in Sion if seldome

shall har●ly lay the spirit of ruine which your sinnes haue rais●d This World is a Witch Sinne her circle Temptation her charme Satan the spirit coniured vp Who comes not in more plausible formes at his first appa●ance then shewes vgly and terrible when you would haue him depart Haue nothing to doe with the Spels of Sinne least you pull in Satan with one hand whom with both you cannot cast out The dore is now open Grace k●ockes at thy sleepy Conscience Time runnes by thee as a Lackie the Agents of Nature prof●er their help If all these concurrences doe no good to purge thy soule thou wilt at last dwell at the signe of the labour in vaine and at once be wash'd white with the Moore For if any will be vniust let him be vniust if he will be filthy let him be filthy still If any man will goe into captiuitie let him goe As he in the Comedie abeat pereat profundat perdat let him sinke or swimme or scape as he can God will renounce whom he could not reclaime Lastly obserue there is Balme and Phisitians what is the reason saith God that my Peoples health is not recouered or as the Hebrew phrase is gone vp The like is vsed in the second of the Chronicles 24. where the healing of the breaches of Syon is specified So the worke-men wrought and the worke was perfected by them Hebr. The healing went vp vpon the worke When a man is sicke hee is in our vsuall phrase said to be cast downe His recouerie is the raising him vp againe Israell is cast downe with a voluntarie sicknesse God sends her Phisitians of his owne and Drugges from the Shop of Heauen why is shee not then reuiued and her health gone vp Would you know why Israell is not recouered by these helps Runne along with mee both with your vnderstandings and selfe-applications and I will shew you the reasons why Gods Phisicke workes not on her 1. Shee knew not her owne sicknesse Wee say the first steppe to health is to know that we are sicke The disease being knowne it is halfe cured This is the difference betwixt a Feuer a Lethargie the one angers the sense but doth keepe it quicke tender and sensible the other obstupefies it The Lethargiz'd is not lesse sicke because hee complai●es not so loud as the Aguish He is so much the neerer his owne end as hee knowes not that his disease is begunne Israell was sicke and knew it not or as Christ said of the Pharases would not know it There is no surer course for the diuell to worke his pleasure on men then to keepe them in ignorance How easily doth that Thiefe rob and spoile the house of our soules when hee hath first put out the candle of knowledge That tyrannicall Nebuchadnezzer caries many a Zedechias to his infernall Babell when hee hath put out his eyes No meruaill if the Gospell be hid to them that are hid to it Whose mindes the God of this world hath blinded least the light of the glorious Gospell of God should shine to them Who wonders if the blinde man cannot see the shining Sunne When Antiochus entred to the spoile of the Sanctuary the first things hee tooke away were the golden Altar and the Candle-sticke of light When the Diuell comes to rifle Gods spirituall temple Mans soule the first boot●e that hee layes his sacrilegious hands on are Sacrifice and Knowledge the Alter and the Lampe That subtile Falconer knowes that hee could not so quietly carry vs on his fist without baiting and striuing against him if wee were not hooded Thus wretched is it for a man not to see his wretchednesse Such a one spends his dayes in a dreame and goes from earth to hell as Ionas●rom ●rom Israell toward Tarshish fast asleepe This Paul cals the cauterized Conscience which when the Diuell an ill Surgion would doe hee first casts his Patient into a mort●ferous sleepe And that all the noyse which God makes by his Ministers by his menaces by his iudgements might not waken him Satan giues him some Opium an ounce of Securitie able to cast Sampson himselfe into a slumber especially when he may lay his voluptuous head on the lappe of Dalilah Israell is then sicke in sinne and yet thinkes her selfe righteous Euery sinne is not this sicknesse but onely wickednesse an habite and delight●ull custome in it For as to a healthfull man euery ach or gripe or pang is felt grieuous whiles the sickly entertaine them with no great notice as being daily guests So the good man findes his repentant heart griped with the least offence whiles great sinnes to the wicked are no lesse portable then familiar Neither doth their strength in sin grow weaker with their strength in age but preposterously to nature the older the stronger And as it is storied of Romane Milo that being accustomed a Boy to beare a Calfe was able himselfe growne a man to beare the same being growne a Bull So those that in youth haue wonted themselues to the load of lesse sinnes want not increase of strength according to the increase of their burthens Euery sinne then may be a stitch or fit to the godly but that which is meere sicknesse is meere wickednesse 2. As Israell did not iudge from the cause to the effects so nor from the effects to the cause For though shee was now grieuously pained and pined with misery she ●orgot to go down by the boughs to the roote and digge out the ground of her calamitie Ill she was and that at hart Gods sword from heauen had stroke their very flesh and sinewes in seuerall iudgements which came on them by short incursions before God ioyned the maine battell of his wrath Israell cries out of her bow●ls shee is payned at the very heart Her children went with cleane teeth lanke cheekes hollow and sunke eyes Could she not guesse at the cause of this bodily languishment So Paul schooled his Corinths For this cause many are weake and sickly among you and many sleepe There is no weaknesse but originally proceedes from wickednesse As Mephibosh●th caught his l●m●nesse by falling from his Nurse so euery one taketh his illnesse by falling from his Christ. Though sicknesse may be euentually a token of loue yet it is properly and originally a stroke of Iustice. For euery Disease God inflicts on vs is a Sermon from Heauen whereby God preacheth to vs the vilenesse of our sinnes and his wrathfull displeasure for them That those whom Gods vocall Sermons cannot moue his actuall and reall may pierce Indeede all things shall worke to their good that are good And the rough Rockes of afflictions shall bring them as Ionathan to the Garrison of the Philistines by fit stayres to glory Miseries doe often helpe a man to mercies So the Leapers incurable Disease brought him to the Phisitian of his soule where he had both cured by one playster the sauing word