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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.
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, 1when it looseth. Hee had neede bee a Iob, that liues among the Sabeans & Chaldeans of our times. Are you disparaged? suffer. Are you despised? suffer. Are you impouerished? suffer. This same Bulapathū is the best hearb in the garden, the hearb Patience. It shall amase them, after all wrongs, to see your foreheads smoothe, countenances milde, ⟨p. 18⟩lippes silent, and your habites vn-moued. The Wolfe in the Fable (oh that it were but a fable) when hee sees the Lambe drinking at the poole, comes blundring into the water and troubles it: then quarrels with the Lambe. Quare turbasti aquam? VVhy hast thou troubled the water?
- 1Propert.
Sic nocet innocuo nocuus, causamque nocendi Quaerit. So Ahab the wolf told Elijah the lamb, that he troubled Israel. As it is truly reported; the Papists would have laid the Gunpowder-treason on the Puritans; if it had been effected.