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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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But how bitter, saltish, and unsavoury soever the Sea is, yet the Fishes that swim in it, exceedingly like it. The World is not so distasteful to the heavenly palate, as it is sweet to the wicked. Who have learned, though with that woe and curse. Esa. 5. To call good evil, and evil good; bitter sweet, and 1sweet bitter. They strip themselves to adorn it, as the Israelites did for the Golden Calf; and so adorned, adore it with devoted hearts. It is their Baal, their Idol, their God. Alas! it is no God; more like, they will find it a Devil. M. Fox in his Martyrology hath a story of the men of Cockeram in 2Lancashire. By a threatening command from Boner, they were charged to set up a Rood in their church: accordingly they compounded with a Carver to make it. Being made, and erected, it seems it was not so beautiful as they desired it; but with the harsh visage thereof scared their children. (And what should a R•od serve for, but to please children and fools?) Hereupon they refused to pay the ⟨p. 19⟩Carver. The Carver complains to the Justice. The Justice well examining and understanding the matter, answers the Townsmen. Go to, pay the workman; pay him: and get you home, and mark your Rood better. If it be not well-favoured enough to make a God of; it is but clapping a pair of horns on't, and it will serve to make an excellent Devil. So add but your superstitious dotage, covetous oppressions, and racking extortions to the World, whereby you gore poor mens sides, and let out their heart-bloods: and though it be no God to comfort, you shall find it Devil enough to confound. The world then is extremely bitter in digestion, what ever it be at the first relish.
But how bitter, saltish, and vnsauourie soeuer the Sea is, yet the Fishes that swim in it, exceedingly like it. The World is not so distastfull to the heauenly palate, as it is sweete to the wicked. Who haue learned, though with that woe and curse. Esa. 5. To call good euill, and euill good; bitter sweete, and