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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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6. There be Sirens in the Sea of this world. Sirens? Hirens, as they are now called. Those in the material Sea are described to have in their upper parts the proportion or beauty of women: downwards they are squalid and pernicious. Virgo form• sa superne, Decidit in turpem piscem. They enchant men with their voices: and with sweet songs labour sopire nautas, sopitos demergere, to lull the Mariners asleep, and sleeping to sink and drown them. What a number of these Sirens, Hirens, Cockatrices, Courtesans, in plain English Harlots swim amongst us, happy is it for him that hath only heard, and not been infected.
6. There be Sirens in the Sea of this world. Syrens? Hirens, as they are now called. Those in the materiall Sea are described to haue in their vpper parts the proportion or beauty of women: downewards they are squalid and pernicious. Virgo form• sa superne, Decidit in turpem piscem. They inchant men with their voices: and with sweet songs labour sopire nautas, sopitos demergere, to lull the Mariners asleepe, and sleeping to sinke and drowne them. What a number of these Sirens, Hirens, Cockatrices, Courteghians, in plaine English Harlots swimme amongst vs, happy is it for him that hath only heard, and not bene infected.
Their faces, and their voices promise joy and jollity; their effects are only to drown and shipwreck mens fortunes, their credits, their lives, their souls. A Book called Opus tripartitum speaks of the Storks; that if they catch one Stork leaving his own mate, and coupling with another, they all fall upon him, and spoil him of his feathers and life to. But as if this sin were grown a virtue by custom among us, there are not wanting, who knowing the judgement of God (that they which commit such 1things, are worthy of death) not only do the same, but have pleasure in them that do them. If in Authority subordinate to inferior Magistrates (the persuasion of my heart excuseth the higher powers; and the impartial proceedings of the truly Reverend and godly Prelates of this land testify it) there were not some connivance, (God forbid Patronizing) of these enormities for some sinister respects: the Sirens about our River of Thames should be (if not