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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.
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 ⟨p. 17⟩1middest of wolues; as S. Mathew hath it. If they cannot deuoure our flesh, they will plucke our fleeces; leaue vs nothing but the tag-locks, poore vicaredge tythes: whiles themselues and their children are kept warme in our wooll, the Parsonage. Nay, and they would clippe off the tag-locks too; rauen vp the vicaredges, if the lawe would but allow them a paire of sheares. Euery Gentleman thinkes the Priest meane; but the Priests meanes hath made many a Gentleman.