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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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2. There be Pirates in the Sea. Alas! but a handful to that huge army of them in the world. Take a short view of them from our most excellent Postillist. Fury fights against us, like a mad Turk. Fornication, like a treacherous Joab; in kisses, it kills. Drunkenness is the master-gunner, that gives fire to all the rest. Gluttony may stand for a Corporal; Avarice for a Pioneer; Idleness for a Gentleman of a company. Pride must be Captain.
2. There be Pyrates in the Sea. Alas! but a handfull to that huge army of them in the world. Take a short view of them from our most excellent Postillist. Fury fights against vs, like a mad Turke. Fornication, like a treacherous Ioab; in kisses, it kils. Drunkennes is the maister-gunner, that giues fire to al the rest. Gluttony may stand for a Corporall; Auarice for a Pioner; Idlenesse for a Gentleman of a company. Pride must be C•ptaine.
But the Arch. Pirate of all is the Devil; that huge Leviathan, that takes his pleasure in this sea. Psa. 104. And his pastime is, to sink the fraught of those Merchants, that are laded with holy traffic for heaven. Canst thou draw out this Leviathan with an ⟨p. 25⟩1hook? or his tongue with a cord which thou lettest down? Canst thou put a hook into his nose, or bore his jaw th• rough with a thorn? Historians speak of a fish that is a special, & oft-prevailing enemy to this Whale; called by some Vihuella, or the Sword-fish. The most powerful thing to overcome this mystical Leviathan, is the sword of the Spirit: which to be seconded with the temporal sword of the Magistrate is of singular purpose. Whiles neither of these swords are drawn against this Pirate, & his malignant rabble; no marvel, if they make such massacres on the sea of this world. Let the red Dragon alone, & whilst himself comes tumbling down from heaven, he will draw down many stars with his tail.