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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

doings your transgressions doe appeare So the same people to the Sonne as they had erst to the Seruants Wee will not come vnto thee How often would I haue gathered you but you would not Yee will not come at mee that you might haue life 1. The way is easie 2. You shall haue life for comming it is worth your labour 3. You can haue it no where else then Come to mee No you will not come at mee as Daniel answered Bels●azzar Keepe thy rewards to thy selfe and giue thy gifts to another These are sinnes with lifting vp the hand and he●le against God the hand in opposition the heele in contempt There are two Ladders whereby men climbe into HEAVEN the godly by their Prayers the wicked by their sinnes By this latter Ladder did Sodome and Niniueh climbe GOD graunt our sinnes be not such climbers that presse into the presence Chamber of HEAVEN and will bee acquainted vvith GOD though to our confusion Are our wickednesses done in this R●●●on and Sphaere of sinne the Earth and must they come to Heauen first Must the newes be at the Court of what is done in the Co●ntrie before the Countrie it selfe know of it Our consciences take no notice of our owne iniquities but they complaine in the audience-Court of HEAVEN and few out an Outlawry against vs. So impudent and vn-blushing is our wickednesse that with the Prophet wee may complaine Were they ashamed when they had committed abhomination nay they were not at all ash●med neither could they blush Our sinnes keepe not low water the tide of them is euer swelling they are obiects to the generall eye and proud that they may be obserued And let mee tell you many of the sinnes I haue taxed as secret and silent as you take them and as hoarcely as they are pleaded to speake are no lesse then Thunder to Heauen and Lightning to men They doe votally and vocally ascend that vvould actually if they could The labourers hyre cries in the gripulous Landlords hand The furrowes of the Incloser cry complaine nay weepe against him for so is the Hebrew word The vaine-glorious builder hath the stone crying out of the Wall against him and the beame out of the Timber answering it The Blasphemers tumult cryes and is come vp into the eares of God The Oppressors rage and violence reacheth vp to Heauen and is continually before mee saith the Lord. These are crying sinnes and haue shrill voices in Heauen neither are they submisse and whispering on the Earth To bee short most men are eyther Publicanes or Pharises eyther they will doe no good or loose that they doe by ostentation Many act the part of a religious man and play Deuotion on the worlds Theater that are nothing beside the Stage all for sight Angels in the High-way Deuils in the by-way so monstrous out of the CHVRCH that they shame Religion It was prouerb'd on Nero It must needes be good that Nero persecutes their vvicked liues giue occasion to the world to inuert it on them It must needs be euill that such wretches professe Others are like Publicanes Onely they were Christened when they were Babes and could not helpe it but as angry at that indignitie they oppose Christ all their liues Take heed Beloued Hell was not made for nothing The Deuill scornes to haue his Court emptie● you will not bend you shall breake you will not serue God God will serue himselfe of you Put not these vices from you by your impudent cloakings How many sta●d here guiltie of some of thes● sinnes How many may say with Aeneas Et quorum pars magna sui whereof I haue a great share Many cry out the dayes are euill whiles they helpe to make them worse All censure none amend If euery one would plucke a brand from this fire the flame would goe out of it selfe But whiles wee cast in our iniquities as Fewell and blow it with the Bellowes of disobedience wee make it strong enough to consume vs yea and all we haue For God will not spare euer he is iust and must strike Shall wee loosen our hands to impietie and tye God from vengeance I haue often read and seene that Mercy and 〈◊〉 meet together that Righteousnesse and Peace kisse one ●nother But Mercie and sinnefulnesse keepe not the sa●e ho●s● Peace and wickednesse are meere stra●●ers To reconcile these is harder then to make the W●lfe and L●mbe liue together in quiet Thinke not that God can not strike Mars vl●or galeam quoque perdidit res non potuit seruare suas The H●●then Gods could not auenge their owne quarrels But our God ca● punish a thousand wayes Fire Plague Warre Famine c. Milla nocendi artes Our sinnes may thriue a while and batten beca●se they liue in a friendl● Ayre and apt Soile but in the end they will ouerthrow both themselues and vs. Ciuitatis euersio est morum non murorum casus A Cities ouerthrow is sooner wrought by lewd liues then weake walles Were the walles of our Cities as strong-Turreted and inexpugnable as the wall that Phocas built about his Pallace yet it may bee really performed on them as the voyce in the night tolde him Did they reach the Clouds they may be scaled the sinne within will marre all Gra●iores sunt mimici mores praui quàm hostes infesti Our worst enemies are our owne sinnes And thoug● these punishments fall not suddenly yet certainely if repentance step not betweene Adam did not dye presently on his sin yet Gods Word was true vpon him for hee became instantly mortall sure to die and fell as it vvere into a Consumption that neuer left him till it brought him to the graue GOD hath leaden Feet but Iron hands take heede ye feasting Robbers when God strucke that secret theefe Iudas hee strucke home he tooke away the world from him or rather him from the world and sent him to his owne place Feast Reuell Ryot Couet Ingrosse Extort Hoord whiles you will Earth is not your House but your Bridge you must passe ouer it either to Canaan or Egipt Heauen or Hell euery man to his owne place Graunt oh deare Father that wee may so runne our short Pilgrimage on Earth that our dwel●ing-place may bee with thy Maiestie in Heauen through the merits and mercies of our Sauiour Iesus Christ. AMEN In conviuium Diabolicum They that to glut on sinnes such pleasure haue Descend with sickly Conscience to their graue Vnlesse Repentance and true Faith make sure The physicke of Christs bloud their wounds to cure Forbeare thou Christen'd soule the Deuils Feast And to Heauens Supper be a welcome Guest FINIS THE SHOT OR The vvofull price vvhich the wicked pay for the feast of Vanitie BY THOMAS ADAMS Preacher of Gods Word at Willington in Bedford-shire LVKE 16.25 But Abraham said Sonne remember that thou in thy life time receiuedst thy good things and

the Inditement a rebellion against our Soueraignes Crowne and Dignitie Ambitious theefes in the Court Simoniacall theeues in the Church hollow-hearted theeues in the Citie oppressing and men-eating theeues in the Country all must be summoned their debts summed their doome sentenced The impartiall conscience from the booke of their liues shall giue in cleere euidence There is no retaining of Counsell no bribing for a partiall censure no tricke of demure no putting off and suspending the sentence no euading the doome The cursed generation of thefts are now easily borne and borne out Subtiltie can giue them the helpe of a conueyance and money purchase a conniuence But then alasse what shall become of them and of many soules for them what shall become all the Traitours gory Murtherers impudent Atheists secret Church-robbers speckled Adulterers rusty Sluggards nasty drunkards and all the defiled wretches that haue sucked damnation from the breasts of blacke Iniquitie An impenetrable Iudge an impleadable Inditement an intolerable anguish shal ceaze vpon them Mountaines of Sand were lighter and millions of yeeres shorter then their torments Oh thinke thinke of this ye Sonnes of rapine that with greedinesse deuoure these stollen waters You can not robbe God of his glory man of his comforts your selues of your happinesse but God Man your owne Soules shall cry against you What thunder can now beat into you a feare of that which then no power shall ease you of why striue wee not Niniueh-like to make the message of our ouerthrow the ouerthrow of the message and so worke that according to Sampsons Riddle the Destroyer may saue vs Wherefore are wee warned but that wee might be armed and made acquainted with Hell in the speculation but that wee may preuent the horrour of it in passion Let me tell you yee theeues that sit at Sathans boord there is a theefe shall steale on you steale all from you The day of the Lord will come as a Theefe in the Night in the which the heauens shall passe away with a great noyse c. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 a Theefe 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 to take away priuily or by stealth or 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 of hiding or couering Fur a furuo quia in obscuro venit A theefe as well for stealing on vs as for stealing from vs. He comes in the darke when no body sees treads on wooll that no body heares watcheth an houre that no body knowes This Theefe shall steale on you perhaps Banketting at this Feast of Vanitie as the Flood came on the old World vvhiles they ate and dranke and were merrie Watch therefore for you know not what houre your Lord doth come So Chrysostome on that place from our Sauiours comparison of the good man of the house non laederetur ille furto si sciret venturum vos scitis paratiores esse debetis The theefe should not hurt him if he knew of his comming you know he wil come prepare for his welcome We are all housholders our bodies are our houses our soules our goods our senses are the Doores and Windores the Lockes are Faith and Prayer The day of our doome will come as a theefe let our Repentance watch let it neuer sleepe lest we perish Si praescirent homines quando morituri sint deligentiam super cam rem ostenderent If men foreknew the time of their death they would shew carefulnesse in their preparation how much more being ignorant But alas Ignorance couenants with death and securitie puts far away the euill day and causeth the seat of violence to come neere When the Prophets of our Israell threaten Iudgements you flatter your selues with the remotenesse The vision that he seeth is for many dayes to come and he prophecyeth of the times that are farre off As if it concerned you not what ruine laid waste the Land so peace might be in your dayes But there is no peace sayth my God to the wicked our Rose-buds are not vvithered our daunces are not done sleepe Conscience lye still Repentance Thus with the sentence of death instant and in a prison of bondage to Satan present saith S. Augustine Maximo gaudio debacchamur wee are drunken we are franticke with pleasures There may be other there can be no greater madnesse Loe the successe of these stollen waters You heare their nature time hath preuented their sweetnesse God of his mercie that hath giuen vs his Word to enforme our Iudgement vouchsafe by his Spirit to reforme our consciences that wee may conforme our liues to his holy precepts For this let vs pray c. What here is good to God ascribed be What is infirme belongs of right to me FINIS THE Breaking vp of the Deuils Banket OR The Conclusion BY THOMAS ADAMS Preacher of Gods Word at Willington in Bedford-shire ROM 6.21 What fruit had ye then in those things whereof you are now ashamed For the end of those things is death TERTVL lib. ad Martyres Pax nostra bellum contra Satanam To be at warre with the Deuill is to be at peace with our owne Conscience LONDON Printed by Thomas Snodham for Ralph Mab and are to be sold in Paules Church-yard at the signe of the Grey-hound 1614. TO THE RIGHT VERTVOVS AND VVORthy Sisters the Lady Anne Gostwyke and Mris DIANA BOVVLES sauing Health THat I haue clothed this SERMON in the Liuery of your Patronages I might giue many reasons to satisfie others But this one to mee is in stead of all that you affect the Gospell Not with the suddaine flashes of some ouerhote dispositions but with mature Discretion and sound Obedience I could not therefore suffer any thought of mine owne vnworthinesse to disswade mee from presenting this poore labour to your hands who haue so fauourably accepted my weaker seruices I owe you both a treble debt of Loue of Seruice of Thankefulnesse The former the more I pay the more still I owe. The second I will be ready to pay to the vttermost of my power though short both of your deserts and my owne desires Of the last I will striue to giue full paiment and in that if it be possible to come out of your debts Of all these in this small Volumne I haue giuen you the earnest As you would therefore doe with an ill debtor take it till more comes It shall be the more currant if you will set thereon the seales of your acceptance It is the latter end of a Feast yet it may perhaps afford you some Christian delicate to content your well affected spirits It shall let you see the last seruice of Sinnes Banket the harsh and vnpleasant closure of vanitie the madnesse of this doating Age the formall dislike and reall loue of many to this World the euill works of some criticall others hypocriticall dispositions the ending conclusion and beginning confusion of the Deuils Guests The more perfectly you shall hate sinne the more constantly you shall hold your erst