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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
THE Spiritual Navigator BOUND For the Holy Land.THE Spirituall Nauigator BOVND For the Holy Land.
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.
1. Some expound this glassy and Chrystal-like Sea, of Contemplative men: so Emanuel Sa. But I find this foundation so weak, that I dare not set any frame of discourse on it.
1. Some expound this glassy and Chrystal-like Sea, of Contemplatiue men: so Emanuel Sa. But I find this foundation so weake, that I dare not set any frame of discourse on it.
2. Some conceive it to be an abundant understanding of the Truth; a happy and excellent knowledge, given to the Saints; and that in a wonderful plentitude: so Ambrose. Per mare historica, per vitrum moralis, per Chrystallinum spiritualis intelligentia. By Sea is intended an historical knowledge; by glass a moral; a spiritual and supernatural by Crystal.
2. Some conceiue it to be an abundant vnderstanding of the Truth; a happy and excellent knowledge, giuen to the Saints; and that in a wonderfull plentitude: so Ambrose. Per mare historica, per vitrum moralis, per Chrystallinum spiritualis intelligentia. By Sea is intended an historicall knowledge; by glasse a morall; a spirituall and supernaturall by Chrystall.
3. Some understand by this glassy Sea-like Crystal, the Fullness of all those gifts & graces, which the Church derives from Christ. In him dwells all fullness: yea so abundant is his oil of gladness, that it runs (as it were) over the verges of his humane nature, unto the skirts of his clothing; plentifully blessing his whole Church. Thus it is conceived by Brightman. As if this mare vitreum were an anti-type to that mare fusum: spoken of 1. Kings 7.