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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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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.
Go to thou wolf: put that thou hast robbed the Minister of into the Inventory of thy goods: it shall be gravel in thy throat, hooks in the bellies of thy posterity, and engender destruction to all the ⟨p. 31⟩rest. Aristotle saith, that the wool of that sheep which was devoured by a wolf, infecteth and annoyeth the wearer. So the goods stolen from the Minister, though never so closely, is an infectious contagion, and a devouring pestilence to thy body, to thy state, to thy conscience; and will bring all thou hast to confusion. The world says now, Alas poor Lamb: It shall say one day, Alas poor Wolfe; how art thou caught in the snares of Hell! Mean time they lye in the bosom of the Church; as that disease in the breast, called the Cancer, vulgarly the wolf: devouring our very flesh, if we will not pacify and satisfy them with our substance.
Goe to thou wolfe: put that thou hast robbed the Minister of into the Inuentory of thy goods: it shall be grauell in thy throat, hookes in the bellies of thy posterity, and ingender destruction to al the ⟨p. 31⟩