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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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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.
This is the Description of those, among whom the Lambs are sent. There is a natural antipathy of these, one against another; ever since God put emnity, an irreconcilable hatred and contrariety, between the seed of the Woman and of the Serpent. I have read, that a string made of Wolves guts, put amongst a knot of strings made of the guts of sheep, corrupts and spoils them all. A strange secret in nature: and may serve to insinuate the malice of these Lycanthropi against Lambs: that they do not only persecute them living, but even infest them dead.
This is the Description of those, among whom the Lambes are sent. There is a naturall antipathy of these, one against another; euer since God put emnity, an irreconcilable hatred and contrariety, betweene the seed of the Woman and of the Serpent. I haue read, that a string made of Wolues guts, put amongst a knotte of strings made of the guttes of sheepe, corrupts and spoiles them all. A strange secret in nature: and may serue to insinuate the malice of these Lycanthropi against Lambes: that they do not onely persecute them liuing, but euen infest them dead.