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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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5. The Sea is not more deep then the World. A bottomless subtlety is in mens hearts, and an honest man wants a plummet to sound it. Policy and Piety have parted company; and it is to be feared, they will hardly ever meet again. He is counted a shallow fellow, that is, as the Scripture commends Jacob, a plain man, dwelling in tents. New devices, tricks, plots, and stratagems are only in 1request. Do you not know the reason hereof? The world is a Sea; and in this Sea is plain-dealing drowned.
5. The Sea is not more deepe then the World. A bottomlesse subtlety is in mens hearts, and an honest man wants a plummet to sound it. Pollicy and Piety haue parted company; and it is to be feared, they will hardly euer meete againe. He is counted a shallow fellow, that is, as the Scripture commends Iacob, a plaine man, dwelling in tents. New deuices, trickes, plots, and stratagoms are only in 1request. Doe you not know the reason hereof? The world is a Sea; and in this Sea is plaine-dealing drown'd.
6. There is foaming luxury in this Sea: a corrupt and stinking froth, which the world casts up. The steam of lust in this mare mortuum fumes perpetually; poisons the air we breathe; and like a ⟨p. 15⟩thick fog, riseth up to heaven, as if it would exhale vengeance from above the clouds. This spumy foam is on the surface of the world, and runs like a white leprosy over the body of it. Commend the world, ye affecters and affected of it: there is a foam that spoils the beauty. Praise it no further then Naaman was,