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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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There is one Sea to all men common, but a different home. We are all in this world either Strangers 1or Stragglers. The godly are strangers. 1. Pet. 2. Dearly beloved, I beseech you as Pilgrims and strangers, abstain from fleshly lusts which fight against the soul. So that aged Patriarch acknowledged to the Egyptian King. Few and evil have the dates of thy servant been in his Pilgrimage. In that true golden legend of the Saints, it is said of them. They confessed 2that they were strangers & Pilgrims on the earth. The wicked are stragglers too; and howsoever conentur figere pedes, and to take their portion in this life. Psal. 317. yet they must, with Judas, to their own home. ⟨p. 24⟩We grow upward, they go forward, to heaven or hell, every man to his own place. Let the rich man promise his soul a Requiem here. Lu. 12. 20. Let the Atheistical Cardinal of Bourbon prefer his part in Paris to his part in Paradise: yet the sea is not to be dwelt on: It is but for waftage, not for perpetuity of habitation. This is the fourth Resemblance.
There is one Sea to all men common, but a different home. We are all in this world eyther Strangers 1or Straglers. The godly are strangers. 1. Pet. 2. Dearely beloued, I beseech you as Pilgrims and strangers, abstaine from fleshly lusts which fight against the soule. So that aged Patriarch acknowledged to the Egyptian King. Few and euill haue the dates of thy seruant beene in his Pilgrimage. In that true golden legend of the Saints, it is said of them. They confessed 2that they were strangers & Pilgrims on the earth. The wicked are straglers too; and howsoeuer conentur figere pedes, and to take their portion in this life.