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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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Would the young man repent? his harlot steps forth, and like a Remora, stays his course. Let ⟨p. 32⟩a Sermon touch a mans heart, and begin remorse in him, that he purpose reformation; good fellowship, like a Remora, stops him. Yea, let a man in an age, (for rare are the birds that drop such feathers) erect Hospitals: Piety and devotion shall meet with some Remora's, that would overthrow them. You hear the dangers of the sea of the world; the fifth circumstance of this Comparison.
VVould the yong man repent? his harlot steps forth, and like a Remora, stayes his course. Let ⟨p. 32⟩a Sermon touch a mans heart, and begin remorse in him, that he purpose reformation; good fellowship, like a Remora, stops him. Yea, let a man in an age, (for rare are the birds that drop such feathers) erect Hospitals: Piety and deuotion shall meete with some Remora's, that would ouerthrow them. You heare the dangers of the sea of the world; the fifth circumstance of this Comparison.
6. In the sea there be [Greek or Hebrew], fishes that eat up fishes: so in the world [Greek or Hebrew], men that eat up men. Psal. 14. Have all the workers of iniquity no knowledge? who eat up my people 1as they eat bread. Hab. 1. The wicked man devoureth the righteous. Thou makest men as the fishes of the Sea. The labours of the poor, even his whole heritage is worn upon the proud mans back, or swallowed down into his belly. He racks rents, wrings out fines, extorteth, enhanceth, improveth, impoverisheth, oppresseth; till the poor Tenant, his wife, and children cry out for bread: & behold, all buys him scarce a suit of clothes; he eats and drinks it at one feast.