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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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Some have their faces in their feet; whereas God (Os homini sublime dedit, caelumque tueri juss it) gave man an upright countenance, and framed him to look upwards; these look not to heaven whence they did drop, but to hell whether they will drop. Insatiable earth-scrapers, covetous wretches; that would dig to the Centre to exhale riches. Others have swords in their lips, a strange kind of people, but common; railers and revilers: every word they speak, is a wounding gash to their neighbours. Weigh it seriously. Are not these monsters?
Some haue their faces in their feete; whereas God (Os homini sublime dedit, caelumque tueri iuss it) gaue man an vpright countenance, and framed him to looke vpwards; these look not to heauen whence they did drop, but to hell whether they will drop. Insatiable earth-scrapers, couetous wretches; that would dig to the Center to exhale riches. Others haue swords in their lips, a strange kind of people, but common; raylers and reuilers: euery word they speake, is a wounding gash to their neighbours. VVeigh it seriously. Are not these monsters?
8 On the Sea men do not walk, but are borne in vessels; unless, like our Saviour Christ, they could work miracles. In the world, men do not so much travel of themselves, as they are carried by the stream of their own concupiscence. So saith S. Chrysost. Hîc homines non ambulant, sed feruntur; 1quia Diabolus cum delectatione compellit illos in mala. Here men do not walk, but are carried: for the Devil bears them upon his back: and whiles he labours them to hell, wind and tide are on his side. When he hath them in Profundis Abyssi, upon that bottomless depth, he strives to exonerate his shoulders, and doth what he can to let them fall & sink into the infernal lake. So •aul saith, that temptations and snares, foolish and hurtful lusts do (no less then) 2drown men in perdition. You think your selves on dry and firm ground, ye presumptuous wantons;