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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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4. Sometimes it boils with wrath: and herein the world and the sea are very semblable. A mad & impatient element it is; how unfit to figure man! Ye• such is his indignation; if in the rage and fury of the sea there be not more mercy.
4. Sometimes it boyles with wrath: and herein the world and the sea are very semblable. A mad & impatient element it is; how vnfit to figure man! Ye• such is his indignation; if in the rage and fury of the sea there be not more mercy.
There is a time when the sea ceaseth from her raging: but the turbulent perturbations of this ⟨p. 14⟩passion in the world continue without remission or interruption. The angry man is compared to a Ship sent into the sea quae Daemonem habet gubernator•m; which hath the Devil for the Pilot. Ira mortalium debet esse mortalis. The anger of mortal man should 1be mortal, like himself. But we say of many, as Vader. Max. of Sulla: It is a question, whether they or their anger dye first: or whether death prevents them both together. If you look into this troubled Sea of anger, and desire to see the Image of a man: behold, you find fiery eyes, a faltering tong, gnashing teeth, a heart boiling in brine, and drying up the moisture of the flesh; till there be scarce any part lest of his right composition. The tumultuous rage of the world so reeks with these passions, that the company of those men is as ominous and full of evil bodings, as the foaming Sea.
There is a time when the sea ceaseth from her raging: but the turbulent perturbations of this ⟨p. 14⟩passion in the world continue without remission or interruption. The angry man is compared to a Ship sent into the sea quae Daemonem habet gubernatorm; which hath the Deuill for the Pilot. Ira mortalium debet esse mortalis. The anger of mortal man should