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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.
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1. Patience. We must take up Christs cross, when we become his Scholars. Not only bear it, but take it up. Tollere and Far differ. An Ass bears, man takes up. There is a threefold cross: Innocent, perient, penitent. Christ bore the first: the perishing thief the second: the repentant; and we all must bear the last. The lamb, whether he be shorne or slain, is dumb to complaints.
1. Patience. VVe must take vp Christs crosse, when we become his Schollers. Not onely beare it, but take it vp. Tollere and Ferre differ. An Asse beares, man takes vp. There is a threefold crosse: Innocent, perient, penitent. Christ bore the first: the perishing theefe the second: the repentant; and wee all must beare the last. The lambe, whether he bee shorne or slaine, is dumbe to complaints.
We bless God, that we are well freed from the Boners and butchers of these lambs: but we have still fleecers enough, too many; that love to see Learning follow Homer with a staff and a wallet. This we must expect: Christ sends us not as wolves among wolves, or Shepherds among wolves, or sheep about wolves; but as lambs [Greek or Hebrew], in the ⟨p. 17⟩1middest of wolves; as S. Matthew hath it. If they cannot devour our flesh, they will pluck our fleeces; leave us nothing but the tag-locks, poor vicarage tithes: whiles themselves and their children are kept warm in our wool, the Parsonage. Nay, and they would clip off the tag-locks too; raven up the vicarages, if the law would but allow them a pair of shears. Every Gentleman thinks the Priest mean; but the Priests means hath made many a Gentleman.
VVe blesse God, that we are well freed from the Boners and butchers of these lambes: but wee haue still fleecers enough, too many; that loue to see Learning follow Homer with a staffe and a wallet. This we must expect: Christ sends vs not as wolues among wolues, or Shepheards among wolues, or sheepe about wolues; but as lambes 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, in the