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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. The Sea is no place to continue in. No man sails there to sail there: but as he propounds to his purpose a voyage, so to his hopes a return. You hold him a prisoner, that is shut up in close walls; the door of egress barred against him. He is no less a Prisoner, (though his Jail be as large as the Sea) that must not set his foot on dry ground. The banks and shores be his prison walls: & although he hath room enough for his body, he ⟨p. 23⟩is narrowed up in his desires. He finds bondage in liberty: the one half of the earth is but his prison; and he would change his walk for some little Island.
4. The Sea is no place to continue in. No man sailes there to saile there: but as he propounds to his purpose a voyage, so to his hopes a returne. You hold him a prisoner, that is shut vp in close wals; the doore of egresse barred against him. He is no lesse a Prisoner, (though his Iaile bee as large as the Sea) that must not set his foot on drye ground. The banks and shores be his prison walls: & although he hath roome enough for his body, he ⟨p. 23⟩is narrow'd vp in his desires. He findes bondage in liberty: the one halfe of the earth is but his prison; and he would change his walk for some little Iland.
The world in like sort, is no place to dwell in for ever. Self-flattering fools, that so esteem it. Psal. 49. Their inward thought is, that their houses 1shall continue for ever, and their dwelling places to all generations: therefore they call their lands after their own names. As if the Sea were for mansion, not for transition. It was a glorious piece of the world, which ravished Peter desired to build Tabernacles on: Math. 17