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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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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, 2. King. 5. He was Captain of the host of the King of Syria, a great man with his 1master, and honourable, because the Lord by him had given deliverance to Syria: He was also a mighty man in valour, but he was a Leper. There is a blur in the end of the Encomium: a blank in the Catastrophe: a prickle under the rose. But he was a leper. This veruntamen mars all. The world you say, is spaciosus, speciosus; beautiful, bountiful; rich, delightful: But it is leprous. There is a Sed to it: a filthy some that defiles it.
6. There is foming luxury in this Sea: a corrupt and stinking froth, which the world casts vp. The steame of lust in this mare mortuum fumes perpetually; poysons the ayre we breathe; and like a ⟨p. 15⟩thicke fogge, riseth vp to heauen, as if it would exhale vengeance from aboue the clouds. This spumy fome is on the surface of the world, and runnes like a white leprosie ouer the body of it. Commend the world, ye affecters and affected of it: there is a fome that spoiles the beauty. Praise it no further then Naaman was, 2. King. 5. He was Captaine of the hoast of the King of Syria, a great man with his 1maister, and honourable, because the Lord by him had giuen deliuerance to Syria: He was also a mighty man in valor, but he was a Leaper. There is a blurre in the end of the Encomium: a blanke in the Catastrophe: a prickle vnder the rose. But he was a leaper. This veruntamen marres all. The world you say, is spaciosus, speciosus; beautifull, bountifull; rich, delightfull: But it is leprous. There is a Sed to it: a filthy some that defiles it.