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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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3. There be Rocks in the sea; which if a skilful Pilot avoid not warily, he may soon have his vessel dashed in pieces. How many Ships have been thus cast away! How many Merchants hopes thus split? They call their vessels by many prosperous names: as the Success, the Good speed, the Triumph, the Safeguard; How vain doth one Rock prove all these titles! The Rocks of our Marine world are Persecutions and offences: which lye as thick, as those fiery serpents in the wilderness, with their venomous and burning stings. Numb. 21. Christs cause and Christs cross go most commonly together: and who shall be sooner offended then his little ones? All that will live godly in 1Christ Jesus, shall suffer persecution. As if it were a fatal kind of destiny to them, not to be evaded. Woe 2unto the world, because of offences; saith He that is able to execute vengeance upon his adversaries. It must needs be that offences come: but woe be to that man ⟨p. 26⟩by whom the offence cometh. It were better for him, that with a Mil-stone hung about his neck, he were drowned in the depth of the material Sea: as his soul hath been already drowned in this mystical Sea of wickedness. Well, put the worst: if these Rocks do shatter us, if these persecutions shall split the Bark of our life, yet this be our comfort: our death is not Mors but immortalitas: not a death, but an entrance to life uncapable of dying. Rocks in the Sea undo many a Merchant; these Rocks eventually make us happy: and often we have just cause to take up that saying. Perieramus, nisi perijssemus; we had been undone, had we not been undone.
3. There be Rocks in the sea; which if a skilfull Pilote auoide not warily, he may soone haue his vessel dash'd in peeces. How many Ships haue bene thus cast away! How many Merchants hopes thus split? They call their vessels by many prosperous names: as the Successe, the Good speed, the Triumph, the Safeguard; How vaine doth one Rocke proue all these titiles! The Rocks of our Marine world are Persecutions and offences: which lye as thick, as those fiery serpents in the wildernes, with their venemous and burning stings.