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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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THE Spiritual Navigator BOUND For the Holy Land.THE Spirituall Nauigator BOVND For the Holy Land.
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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. 1this glassy sea, to that molten sea. Among other admirable works of that heaven-inspired King. ver. 23. He made a molten sea, ten cubits from the one brim to the other: it was round all about, and his height was five cubits: and a line of thirty cubits did compass it round about, &c. It contained two 2thousand Baths. The end why it was made, and use for which it served, you shall find, 2. Chron. 34. The sea was for the Priests to wash in. Now this might well seem to prefigure some great plenitude. For otherwise, for Aaron and his sons to wash in, Exiguus aliquis urceolus vel guttulus suffecisset: some cruet, basin, or laver might sufficiently have served.
3. Some vnderstand by this glassy Sea-like Chrystall, the Fulnesse of all those guifts & graces, which the Church deriues from Christ. In him dwels all fulnesse: yea so aboundant is his oyle of gladnesse, that it runnes (as it were) ouer the verges of his humane nature, vnto the skirts of his clothing; plentifully blessing his whole Church. Thus it is conceiued by Brightman. As if this mare vitreum were an anti-type to that mare fusum: spoken of 1. Kings 7. 1this glassy sea, to that molten sea. Among other admirable works of that heauen-inspired King. ver. 23. Hee made a molten sea, ten cubites from the one brimme to the other: it was round all about, and his height was fiue cubites: and a line of thirty cubites did compasse it round about, &c. It contained two