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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.
He that enters this holy Calling, must be content, as Paul, to dye daily. 1. Cor. 15. 31. To preach the Gospel boldly, is to pull the world about our ears; and to conjure up the furies of hell against us. But
He that enters this holy Calling, must be content, as Paul, to dye daily. 1. Cor. 15. 31. To preach the Gospell boldly, is to pull the world about our eares; and to coniure vp the furies of hell against vs. But
Frangit, et attollit vires in milite causa,
Yet Patience is the best gamester; for it winneth, 1when it looseth. He had need be a Job, that lives among the Sabeans & Chaldeans of our times. Are you disparaged? suffer. Are you despised? suffer. Are you impoverished? suffer. This same Bulapathū is the best herb in the garden, the herb Patience. It shall amaze them, after all wrongs, to see your foreheads smooth, countenances mild, ⟨p. 18⟩lips silent, and your habits un-moved. The Wolfe in the Fable (oh that it were but a fable) when he sees the Lamb drinking at the pool, comes blundering into the water and troubles it: then quarrels with the Lamb. Quare turbasti aquam? Why hast thou troubled the water?
Yet Patience is the best gamester; for it winneth, 1