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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

of the other Thus if Christ at his Table offer to his Saints his owne body for bread bloud for wine in a misticall sort The Deuill will proffer some such thing to his guests Bread and Waters Waters of Stealth Bread of Secrecie He is loath to giue God the better he would not doe it in heauen and therefore turned out and doe you thinke hee will yet yeeld it no in spight of Gods water of Christall peace and glory he will haue his waters of Acheron guilt and vanitie But by Satans leaue there is a Bread that nourisheth not Wherefore doe ye spend money for that which is not Bread and your labour for that which satisfieth not It seemes but is not bread and if it be yet it satisfies not Say it could yet man liues not by bread onely but by the word and blessing of God 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 all the delicates that Sinne can afford vs are but 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 the bane of the soule Pabula peccati pocula lethi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 properly signifies 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 All meate prepared with fire There is no cheare at this Banket drest without fire either present of Lust or future of torment Now since the Deuill will put the forme of Bread vpon his tempting wickednesse let vs examine what kinde of bread it is 1. The seede is corruption an vncleane seede No other then the tares which the Enemie sew God sew good Corne but whence are the tares The seed whereof this bread is made is not Wheate or good Corne but Cockle Darnell Tares Dissention Rebellion Lies Vanities The Deuill is herein a Seedes-man but he sowes corrupt seede that infects and poysons the heart which receiues it 2. The heate of the Sunne influence of the Ayre sap and moisture of the Ground that ripens this seede are Temptations The seede once sowne in the apt ground of our carnall affections is by the heate of Satans motion soone wrought to ripenesse So that it is matured suggerendo imprimendo tentando suggestion impression tentation hasten the seed to grasse to a blade to spindling to a perfect eare to growth in the heart and all suddenly for an ill weede growes apace Rather then it shall dwindle and be stunted he will crush the cloudes of hell and raine the showres of his malediction vpon it Before he sowes here he waters 3. The seede thus ripend is soone cut downe by the Sickle of his subtilty whose policie to preserue his state Florentine is beyond Machiauels His speede is no lesse else he could not so soone put a Girdle about the loynes of the earth But what policie can there be in shortning the growth of sinne this trick rather eneruates his power weakens his Kingdome The Deuill doth not euer practise this cunning but then alone when he is put to his shifts For some are so vile that the Deuill himselfe would scarce wish them worse Such are Atheists Rob-altars Vsurers Traytours c. But some liuing in the circun ference of the Gospell are by mans awe and law restrained from professed abominations what would you haue him now doe Sure Satan is full of the Politiques Daemonas grammatici dictos volunt quasi 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 id est peritos ac rerum scios He is a Deuill for his craft I call therefore the reaping his Subtiltie for he might seeme therein to dissolue his Kingdome and spoile the height of sinne by cutting it downe But the sequell and successe proues he doth it rather to corroborate the power thereof by making it fitter for application Thus he transformes himselfe to an Angell of light and is content to top the proud risings of palpable and outward Impieties that hee may more strongly possesse the soule by hypocrisie Thus there may be an expulsion of Satan from the house of the heart quoad veter●m eruptionem when his repossession is made stronger quoad nouam corruptionem Common grace throwes him out but he findes the house empty swept and garnished that is trimmed by hypocrisie and therefore enters and fortifies with seauen other spirits more wicked then the first What he cannot doe by notorious rebellion hee ●erformes by dissimulation So that as Sorcerers and Witches conuerse with euill spirits in plausible and familiar formes which in vgly shapes they would abhorre So many would not endure him vt rude cacodaemon as a rough and grosse Deuill in manifest outragious enormities who yet as a smooth sleeke fine and transformed Deuill giue him entertainment This then is his Haruest 4. Being thus reaped and hous'd he soone thresheth it out with the Flaile of his strength Hee is called the strong man where he takes possession he pleads prescription hee will not out His power in the captiued conscience scornes limitation Hee is not content to haue the seed lye idle in the heart hee must thresh it out cause thee to produce some cursed effects Hee doth not to speake for your capacitie in the Countrey hoord vp his Graine but with all his might and the helpe of all his infernall flailes hee thresheth it out and makes it ready for the Market If any Cain or Iudas be so hastie that he will not stay till it be made Bread tarry for tentation but tempt himselfe the Deuill is glad that they saue him a labour howsoeuer he will haue his Graine ready his suggestion shall not be to seeke when he should vse it Hee would be loath that the lustfull eye should want a Harlot the corrupt Officer a bribe the Papist an Image the Vsurer a Morgage the theefe a bootie Hee knowes not vvhat guests will come he will thrash it ready 5. Being thrashed out it must you know bee ground Satan hath a Water-mill of his owne though founded on mare mortuum a dead Sea for all sinnes are dead workes yet the current and streame that driues it runnes with swifter violence then the straites of Giberaltare The flood of concupiscence driues it The Mill consistes of two stones Deliciae diuitiae Pleasure and Profit There is no seede of sinne which these two can not grinde to powder and make fit for Bread when Concupiscence turnes the Mill. Rapine Sacriledge Murder Treason haue bin prepared to a wicked mans vse by these Instruments Quid non mortaliae pectora cogunt Couetousnesse and carnall delight bid any sinne welcome Onely pleasure is the nether stone Idlenesse would lye still but Couetousnesse is content to trudge about and glad when any sackes come to the Mill. These two grinde all the Deuils grist and supply him with tentations for all the World All the vgly births of sinnes that haue euer shewed their monstrous and stigmaticke formes to the light haue bene deriued from these Parents Carnall pleasure and Couetousnesse You see how the Deuill grindes 6. It is ground you heare It wants leauening The Leauen is the colourable and fallacious

aduantage to cut all their throates Hence if there had beene Papists in the Parliament-house yet rather then loose so holy a massacre they must haue flowne vp with others Call you these Saints Tantaene animis coelestibus irae It was Gods reseruation in the olde Testament for accursed Sodome Si decem iusti if tenne righteous persons be found there c. It was Christs suspension in the new Let the tares alone till Haruest least the Wheate be plucked vp withall Theodosius was taxed that in sontes vnà cum sontibus trucidasset that he had slaine the good with the guilty and might not be suffred to enter into the Temple In the Primitiue Church the Bishops staid processe against the Priscillian Her●tikes ne catholici cum illis perirent least some good Christians should perish with them Iehu intending due destruction to the worshippers of Baal made a speciall search that none of the Lords seruants were amongst them But malice is euer blinde to see what sequell attends her courses The Enuious man is content to loose one eye of his owne so he may put out both his neighbours nay which is worse hee will loose both his owne to put out one of his The least trespasse shall not passe without suite The Deuill can send him on a very slight errand to Westminster-hall Be the case neuer so broken if the Lawyers wit can stitch it together that it may hold to a nisi prius it is enough I may with a little inuersion reade his destinie from the Poet. Hunc nec dira venena nec hostius auferet ensis Nec laterum dolor aut tussis vel tarda podagra Garrulus hunc quando ●onsumet Let him not feare Domesticall poison nor forraine sword nor a stitch in 's sides nor a Cough in 's lungs nor the Gowte in 's ioynts Hunc proprius liuor cons●m●t Hee will fret himselfe to dust His Praecordia are steeped in Vineger A sound heart is the life of the flesh but Enuie is the rottennesse of the bones The Drunkard rots his flesh the malicious his bones Hee burnes vp his bloud in the fornace of hatred Insunit cùm aliena nequit sua pectora rodit Madde that his poyson will not others kill He drinkes it off himselfe himselfe to spill Enuie is throwne like a ball of Wild-fire at anothers Barne rebounds and fires thine owne The Swallow hauing crossed some Lands and Seas returnes next Summer to her olde Chimney the Arrow of malice shot farre off turnes vpon his heart that set it flying Blesse your selues you know not whither you will be carried if once you be horsed on the backe of the Enuious man Forbeare then this water as thou louest thy health bloud life and peace 5. The fift Cup is Drunkennesse a Viall of the waters of Stealth a liquid foode literally taken For that which Ebrietie sinnes withall is wine and strong drinke Vae fortibus ad potandum Woe to them that are mightie to deuoure Drinke and strong to carrie it away for their habillitie encourageth their more frequent sinnes But Drunkennesse as it is a Cup of this seruice is a speciall water of it selfe at the Deuils Banket This sinne is an horrible selfe-theft God hath past his word against him The Drunkard and the Glutton shall come vnto pouertie and Drowsinesse shall cloath a man with ragges Hee that drinkes more in a day then hee can earne in a vveeke what will his gettings come to at the yeeres end There is no remedie hee must shake hands with beggerie and welcome it into his companie How many in the compasse of our knowledge haue thus robbed themselues and beene worse enemies to their owne estates then the most mischieuous Theeues Theeues cannot steale Land vnlesse they be Westminster-hall Theeues crafty contenders that eate out a true title with a false euidence but the Drunkard robs himselfe of his Lands Now he dissolues an Acre and then an Acre into the Pot till hee hath ground all his ground at the Malt-querne and runne all his Patrimonie through his throate Thus hee makes himselfe the liuing tombe of his fore-fathers of his posteritie hee needes not trouble his sicke minde with a Will nor distrust the fidelitie of Executours he drownes all his substance at the Ale-fat and though he deuoures much is the leaner euery way Drunkennesse is regius morbus a costly sinne It is like Gun-powder many a man is blowne vp by it He throwes his house so long out at windowes t●ll at last his house throwes him out at dores This is the Tiplers progresse from luxurie to beggerie from beggerie to theeuerie from the Tauerne to Tyburne from the Alehouse to the Gallowes 6. The last Viall of these selfe stolne waters is Couetousnesse a dish of drinke at the Deuils Banket which more come for then for all the rest The couetous is a cruell Thiefe to himselfe worse then the Deuill for the Deuill would giue much for a soule how much vvould hee giue for himselfe The Couetous man loues money better then his owne soule This mercenarie Souldier is fit for any office in the Deuils Campe. There is no sinne so vgly so hideous but sent to the Couetous mans dore in a golden vizour it shall haue entertainement This Sinne is like a great Beast which violently breaking vpon Gods free-hold makes a gappe wide enough for the whole Heard to follow Fruitur mundo vtitur Deo The Couetous possesseth the world and makes vse of God but if a man cannot serue God and Mammon he can much lesse serue Mammon and God God scornes to be set after the world He heauens himselfe on earth for a litle pelfe cousous himselfe of blisse He steales quiet from his owne bones peace from his conscience grace from his soule Is not this a Thiefe How much of fame libertie peace conscience is laid out to purchase gold some for loue of it would plucke downe Heauen and empty it of a Deitie others to ouertake it runne quicke to Hell And they that seeke it finde it for if a man will sell Heauen for pelfe he shall not faile of his purchase Hence Mammon is the God of no beggars but Merchants and Gentles and Cormorants and Vsurers and Chuffes The Idols of the Heathen were siluer and gold It is but inuerting the sentence Their Idols are siluer and gold and siluer and gold are our Idols Many a wretched Father playes the Thiefe with himselfe and starues his owne carkasse to leaue wealth to his Babe Hee liues on rootes that his prodigall Heire may feede on Pheasants he keepes the Chimney corner that his Heire may frequent Ordinaries hee drinkes water that his Heire may drinke wine and that to drunkennesse Though hee be richer then Diues he liues like an Alchimist Miserable Fathers make wretched Sonnes none often haue more vndone them then they that haue done most for them They make heritages but God makes Heires the children of

and the intelligencer betweene the vestall and the Nunne betweene the proud Prodigall and his vnconscionable Creditor Indeede the greatest sinner shall haue the greatest punishment And hee that hath beene a principall guest to the Deuill on earth shall and that on earth were a strange priuiledge hold his place in Hell Reward her euen as she rewarded you and double vnto her double according to her workes in the cup which shee hath filled fill to her double How much shee hath glorified her selfe and liued deliciously so much torment and sorrow giue her Diues that fedde so hartily on this bread of Iniquitie and drunke so deepe draughts of the waters of sinne reserues his superioritie in torment that hee had in pleasure Behold hee craues with more floods of scalding teares then euer Esau shed for the blessing but one drop of water to coole his tongue and could not be allowed it But what if all the riuers in the South all the waters in the Ocean had beene granted him his tongue would still haue withered and smarted with heate himselfe still crying in the language of Hell a non sufficit It is not enough Or what if his tongue had beene eased yet his heart liuer lungs bowells armes legges should still haue fryed Thus hee that eate and dranke with superfluitie the purest flower of the Wheate the reddest blood of the Grape his body kept as well from diseas●● as soft linnen and fine rayment could preserue it here findes a fearfull alteration From the table of surfet to the table of torment from feeding on Iunkets to gnaw his owne flesh from bowles of wine to the want of cold water from the soft foldes of fine silkes to the winding lashes of furies from chaines of gold for ornament to chaines of yron for torment from a bed of downe to a bed of flames from laughing among his companions to howling with Deuils from hauing the poore begging at his gates to begge himselfe and that as that Rich-man for one drop of water Who can expresse the horrour and miserie of this guest Non mihi si centum linguae sint oraque centum Ferrea vox omnes scelerum comprendere formas Omnia poenarum percurrere nomina possim No hart of man can thinke no tongue can tell The direfull paines ordain'd and felt in hell Now sorrowes meete at the Guests hart as at a feast all the furies of hell leape on the Table of his Conscience Thought calls to Feare Feare to Horrour Horrour to Dispaire Dispaire to Torment Torment to Extremitie all to Eternitie Come and helpe to afflict this wretch All the parts of his body and soule leaue their naturall and woonted vses and spend their times in wretchednesse and confusion Hee runnes through a thousand deaths and cannot dye Heauie irons are locked on him all his lights and delights are put out at once Hee hath no soule capable of comfort And though his eyes distill like fountaines yet God is now inexorable His Mittimus is without Bayle and the Prison can neuer be broken God will not heare now that might not he heard before That you may conceiue things more spirituall and remote by passions neerer to sense Suppose that a man being gloriously roabed deliciously feasted Prince-like serued attended honoured and set on the proudest height of pleasure that euer mortallitie boasted should in one vnsuspected moment be tumbled downe to a bottome more full of true miseries then his promontory was of false delights and there be ringed about with all the gory Mutherers blacke Atheists sacrilegious Church-robbers and incestuous Rauishers that haue euer disgorged their poyson on earth to re-assume it in Hell Nay adde further to this supposition that this depth he is throwne into was no better then a vast Charnell-house hung round with lamps burning blew and dimme set in hollow corners whose glimmering serues to discouer the hideous torments all the ground in stead of greene rushes strewed with fun●rall rosemary and dead mens bones some corpses standing vpright in their knotted winding-sheetes others rotted in their Coffins which yawne wide to vent their stench there the bare ribs of a Father that begat him heere the hollow skull of a Mother that bare him How direfull and amazing are these things to sense Or if Imagination can giue being to a more fearefull place that or rather worse then that is Hell If a poore man sodainely starting out of a golden slumber should see his house flaming about him his louing Wife and loued Infants brea●hing their spirits to heauen through the mercilesse fire himselfe inringed with it calling for despaired succour the miserable Churle his next neighbour not vouchsafeing ●o answere when the putting forth of an arme might ●aue him such shall be their miseries in Hell and nor an Angell nor a Saint shall refresh them with any comfort These are all but shadowes nay not shadowes of the infernall depth here expressed You heare it feare it fly it scape it Feare it by Repentance flye it by your Faith and you shall scape it by Gods mercie This is their Po●na sensus positiue punishmen● There is also Poena damni to be considered their priuatiue punishment They haue lost a place on earth whose ioy w●s temporall they haue missed a place in Heauen whose ioy is eternall Now they finde that a dinner of greene hearbes with Gods loue is better then a stalled Oxe and his hatred withall A feast of sallets or Daniels pulse is more cheris●ing with mercie then Belshazzars Banket without it Now they finde Solomon● Se●mon true that though the bread of deceit ●e swe●t to a man yet the time is come that the mouth is filled with grauell No no ●he blessing of God onely maketh fat and hee addeth no sorrow vnto it Waters the wicked desired and Bread they lusted after behold after their secure sleepe and dreamed ioyes on earth with what hungry soules doe they awake in Hell But what are the Bread and the Waters they might haue enioyed with the Sain●s in Heauen Such as shall neuer be dryed vp Ie● thy presence is the fulnesse of ioy and at thy right hand there are pleasures for euermore Happy is the vndefiled soule who is innocent from the great offence all whose sinnes are washed as white as Snow in that blood which alone is able to purge the conscience from dead workes He that walketh righteously c. he shall dwell on high his place of defence shall be the munitions of rockes Bread shall be giuen him his Waters shall be sure His ioyes are certaine and stable no alteration no alternation shall empaire them The wicked for the slight breakfast of this world loose the Lambs supper of glory Where these foure things concurre that make a perfect feast Dies lectus locus electus coetus bene collectus apparatus non neglectus A good time eternitie A good place Heauen A good companie the Saints Good cheere