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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.
To cousin the Ministers of their tithes in private; or to devour them in public, and to justify it when they have done, and to have the wrested law taking their parts. (But alas! how should it be otherwise, when it is both Judges and Jurors own case too often!) to laugh at the poor Vicar, that is glad to feed on crusts, and to spin out 20. marks a year into a thread as long as his life; whiles the wo•fe inns a Crop worth three hundred pound per annum: this is a prey somewhat answerable to the voracity of their throats. Let every man, of what profession soever, necessary or superfluous; be he a member or scab of the Common wealth, live: so the Priest be poor, they care not.
To cousen the Ministers of their tythes in priuate; or to deuoure them in publicke, and to iustifie it when they haue done, and to haue the wrested law taking their parts. (But alasse! how should it be otherwise, when it is both Iudges and Iurors owne case too often!) to laugh at the poore Vicar, that is glad to feed on crusts, and to spinne out 20. markes a yeare into a threed as long as his life; whiles the wo•fe innes a Crop worth three hundred pound per annum: this is a prey somewhat answerable to the voracity of their throats. Let euery mā, of what profession soeuer, necessary or superfluous; be he a member or scabbe of the Common wealth, liue: so the Priest be poore, they care not.
Aristotle saith, that when wolves go out of their dens to prey; they first sharpen and whet their teeth with Origanum, or wild Marjoram. Before these wolves speak in public, or confer in private, they edge their tongues against the Clergy: and like the merciless Spaniards to the Indians, they will set them a great deal of work, and but a little meat. Let them preach their hearts out: for they will see their hearts out, ere they restore them ought of their own.
Aristotle saith, that when wolues goe out of their dennes to prey; they first sharpen and whet their teeth with Origanum, or wilde Margerom. Before these wolues speake in publike, or conferre in priuate, theyedge their tongues against the Clergy: and like the mercilesse Spaniards to the Indians, they will set them a great deale of worke, and but a little meate. Let them preach their hearts out: for they will see their hearts out, ere they restore them ought of their owne.