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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.
No marvel then, if the lambs care not greatly for the company of wolves. For if one scabbed ⟨p. 23⟩sheep infect the whole flock for morality: what will one wolf do among the lambs for mortality! Therefore so far as we may, let us fly the society of wolves. With the merciful thou shalt show thy self 1merciful, &c. Therefore with the Poet; fly wicked company, et te melioribus offer. But how can this be, when we are sent as Lambs in medio luporum? The lamb would not willingly be alone: yet is far better when solitary, then in wolfish society. Plutarch speaks of certain Law-givers, that would have their Priests abstain from Goats: a luxurious beast, and making men by contact obnoxious to Epilepsy. (As the Jews were commanded in Leviticus, to abstain from unclean things.) Though we cannot escape the company of wolves: let us abhor 2all participation of their vices.
No maruell then, if the lambes care not greatly for the company of wolues. For if one scabbed ⟨p. 23⟩sheepe infect the whole flocke for morality: what will one wolfe doe among the lambes for mortality! Therefore so farre as we may, let vs flye the society of wolues. VVith the mercifull thou shalt shew thy selfe 1mercifull, &c. Therefore with the Poet; flye wicked company, et te melioribus offer. But how can this be, when we are sent as Lambes in medio luporum? The lambe would not willingly be alone: yet is farre better when solitary, then in woluish society. Plutarch speakes of certaine Law-giuers, that wold haue their Priests abstaine from Goats: a luxurious beast, and making men by contact obnoxious to Epilepsie. (As the Iewes were commanded in Leuiticus, to abstaine from vncleane things.) Though we cannot escape the company of wolues: let vs abhor 2all participation of their vices.
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