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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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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. yet it was perishable earth; and it might not be granted. Heaven only hath mansions. Joh. 214. (In my Fathers house there are many mansions; all the world else is but of tottering Tabernacles.) And immobile regnum. Heb. 12. a kingdom that cannot be shaken; when all the kingdoms and Principalities 3of the earth shall be overturned. This world then only is for waftage.
The world in like sort, is no place to dwell in for euer. Selfe-flattering fooles, that so esteeme it. Psal. 49. Their inward thought is, that their houses 1shall continue for euer, and their dwelling places to all generations: therefore they call their lands after their owne names. As if the Sea were for mansion, not for transition. It was a glorious piece of the world, which rauished Peter desir'd to build Tabernacles on: Math. 17. yet it was perishable earth; and it might not be granted. Heauen onely hath mansions. Ioh. 2