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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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The holy word of God, who can give most congruous names to natures, often compares the wicked to brute and savage creatures. God doth not only send reasonable man, to learn wisdom of the unreasonable beast. So he schooled Israel by the Ox, Balaam by his Ass; and Solomon sends the Sluggard to the Pismire. For it is certain, that many beasts exceed man in divers natural faculties: as the dog in smelling, Hart in hearing, Ape in tasting, &c. But he matcheth degenerate man with beasts of the most notorious turpitudes.
The holy word of God, who can giue most congruous names to natures, often compares the wicked to brute and sauage creatures. God doth not onely send reasonable man, to learne wisedome of the vnreasonable beast. So he school'd Israel by the Oxe, Balaam by his Asse; and Solomon sends the Sluggard to the Pismire. For it is certaine, that many beasts exceed man in diuers naturall faculties: as the dog in smelling, Hart in hearing, Ape in tasting, &c. But he matcheth degenerate man with beasts of the most notorious turpitudes.
The proud enemies of the Church are called Lyons. Psal. 58. Break out the great teeth of the young 1Lyons, O Lord. Wilde Boars. Psal. 80. The Boar out of the wood doth waste it: and the wild beast of the field devours it. Bulls. Psal. 22. Many bulls have compassed ⟨p. 24⟩2me: strong Bulls of Bashan have beset me round. And in the same Psalm; Unicorns. The Bull hath 2. horns, the Unicorn one. The roaring Bull, (I had almost said the roaring Boy) the swaggering Ruffian hath two horns; Ishmaels tongue, and Esau's hand: with one horn wounding our bodies and estates, with the other our good names. The Unicorn, that's the Hypocrite, the foul-breasted, fair crested, factious Puritan hath but one horn: but therewith he doth no small mischief. This Unicorns horn might be very good, if it were out of his head: but so long as it is there, it hurts rather.