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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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Omnia Pontus erant, deerant quoque littora Ponto. All was a Sea, and that sea had no shores. The Deluge of sin is no less now, then was then the deluge of Waters. The flood of wickedness brought that flood of vengeance. If their souls had not been first drowned, their bodies had not been overwhelmed. The same over-flowing of iniquity shall at last drown the world in fire.
Omnia Pontus erant, deerant quoque littora Ponto. All was a Sea, and that sea had no shores. The Deluge of sin is no lesse now, then was thē the deluge of Waters. The floud of wickednesse brought that floud of vengeance. If their soules had not bene first drowned, their bodies had not bene ouerwhelmed. The same ouer-flowing of iniquity shall at last drowne the world in fire.
The World may be very fitly compared to the Sea in many concurrences.
1. The Sea is an unquiet Element, a fuming & foaming beast, which none but the Makers hand can bridle. Math. 8. What manner of man is this, that even 1the Winds and the Sea obey him? The world is in full measure as unruly. It is the Lord that stilleth the noise of the Seas, the roaring of their waves, and the tumult 2of the people. Where the Psalmist matcheth roaring waves, and roaring men: the raging of the Sea with the madness of the world. And yet God is able to still them both. The Prophet calls the Sea a raging creature, and therein yokes it with the wicked. The wicked are like the troubled Sea, when it cannot rest, whose waters cast up mire and dirt.