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The black devil or the apostate Together with the wolf worrying the lambs. And…The blacke devil or the apostate Together with the wolfe worrying the lambes. And…
The black devil or the apostate Together with the wolf worrying the lambs. And the spiritual navigator, bound for the Holy Land. In three sermons. By Thomas Adams.The blacke devil or the apostate Together with the wolfe worrying the lambes. And the spiritual navigator, bound for the Holy Land. In three sermons. By Thomas Adams.
London: printed by William Jaggard, 1615London: printed by William Iaggard, 1615
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LYCANTHROPY. OR THE WOLFE Worrying The LAMBS.LYCANTHROPY. OR THE WOLFE Worrying The LAMBES.
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.
Thi• was our Saviour Christs Sermon ad Clerum; whose Pulpit is now in Heaven: and sends us to preach on his preachings, to paraphrase his Lectures, and no more but to deliver that to you, which he hath dictated to us. Your attention is therefore charged in this Behold. Open your ears, those organical conduits of discipline: nay, your hearts are liable, and therefore should be pliable to this charge. Keep then patience in your minds, attention in your ears, meditation in your hearts, practise in your lives. Behold.
Thi• was our Sauiour Christs Sermon ad Clerum; whose Pulpit is now in Heauen: and sends vs to preach on his preachings, to paraphrase his Lectures, and no more but to deliuer that to you, which he hath dictated to vs. Your attention is therefore charged in this Behold. Open your eares, those organical conduits of discipline: nay, your hearts are liable, and therefore should bee pliable to this charge. Keepe then patience in your minds, attention in your eares, meditation in your hearts, practise in your liues. Behold.
Behold what? S. Matthew recites this Deputation, together with a Direction. Behold, I send you forth as 1Lambs in the middest of Wolves: be ye therefore wise as Serpents, and harm-less as Doves. Where Christ doth not only confer a Charge, but infer a Carriage. The former is Institutio viae, the other Instructio vitae. I send: Be you, &c. The Deputation or designing their office, shall only limit my speech, and your attention for this time. This Current parts it self into two rivulets, a Commission, a Commixtion. The Missure, I send you: the Mixture, as Lambs among wolves. Every Commission, consists on necessity, besides the mere act, of at least two persons, the Sender, the Sent.
Behold what? S. Mathew recites this Deputation, together with a Direction. Behold, I send you forth as 1