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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. Besides Rocks, in the sea there be also gulfs. In the Sicilian sea there is Scylla, a great Rock: and Charybdis, a place of dangerous swallows: whereout was drawn that proverb. Incidit in Scyllam, cupiens vitare Charybdim. Mystically, in this world there are not only Rocks of persecutions, but gulfs and swallows of Errors and Heresies. Let us beware, lest avoiding the one, we be devoured of the other. There is a perilous Gulf in the Roman sea: (too too many of our nation have found it.) Dangerous swallows about Amsterdam. It is good to fly from the Gulf of superstition; but withal to avoid the swallow of separation. It is ill turning either to the right hand or to the left: mediocrity is the safest way. When Opinion goes before us, it is a great question, whether Truth will follow us. Straggling Dinahs seldom return, but ravished home. Singularity in conceits concerning matters of Religion, are as perilous as to follow a plurality ⟨p. 27⟩or multitude in evil customs. A man may perish as easily in the fair-coloured waters of heresy, as in the mud of iniquity. What matters it, whether thou be drowned in fair water or foul, so thou be drowned. Beware of these gulfs and swallows.
4. Besides Rockes, in the sea there be also gulfes. In the Sicilian sea there is Scylla, a great Rocke: and Charybdis, a place of dangerous swallowes: whereout was drawne that prouerbe. Incidit in Scyllam, cupiens vitare Charybdim. Mystically, in this world there are not onely Rockes of persecutions, but gulfes and swallowes of Errors and Heresies. Let vs beware, lest auoiding the one, we be deuoured of the other. There is a perilous Gulfe in the Romane sea: (too too many of our nation haue found it.) Dangerous swallowes about Amsterdam. It is good to flye from the Gulfe of superstition; but withall to auoide the swallow of separation. It is ill turning eyther to the right hand or to the left: mediocrity is the safest way. VVhen Opinion goes before vs, it is a great question, whether Truth will follow vs. Stragling Dinahs seldome returne, but rauish'd home. Singularity in conceites concerning matters of Religion, are as perilous as to follow a plurality ⟨p. 27⟩or multitude in euill customes. A man may perish as easily in the faire-colour'd waters of heresie, as in the mudde of iniquity. VVhat matters it, whether thou be drown'd in faire water or foule, so thou be drown'd. Beware of these gulfes and swallowes.