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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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Innumerable are the benefits redounding to you ⟨p. 22⟩by these Lambs. They are eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame; nurses to infants, and feeders of stronger Christians. They lend their eyes to those that cannot see: their feet to those that cannot go: speak comfortable things to the troubled heart; and inform others in the higher mysteries of salvation. If you truly prized, and duly praised the profits arising to you by them; you would not, as most do, more esteem a rotten sheep, then a sound Minister.
Innumerable are the benefits redounding to you ⟨p. 22⟩by these Lambes. They are eyes to the blinde, and feete to the lame; nurses to infants, and feeders of stronger Christians. They lend their eyes to those that cannot see: their feete to those that cannot go: speake comfortable things to the troubled heart; and enforme others in the higher mysteries of saluation. If you truely prized, and duely praised the profites arising to you by them; you would not, as most do, more esteeme a rotten sheep, then a sound Minister.
But I forget my self; as if I were so delighted with these Lambs, that I knew not how to leave them. Especially (blame me not, if I be) loth to come among the wolves: whereupon, by the next point of my Text, and last I purpose now to handle, I am enforced to venture. Of the Wolfe I must speak: but I hope it cannot be said, lupus in fabula: there are any such present to hear me.
But I forget my selfe; as if I were so delighted with these Lambes, that I knew not how to leaue them. Especially (blame me not, if I be) loth to come among the wolues: whereupon, by the next point of my Text, and last I purpose now to handle, I am enforced to venture. Of the Wolfe I must speak: but I hope it cannot bee said, lupus in fabula: there are any such present to heare me.