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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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9. Lastly, the Sea is that great Cistern, that sends waters over all the earth: conveying it through the veins, the springs; till those dispersed waters become Rivers, & then those Rivers run back again into the Sea. This vast world scattereth abroad her riches; drives & derives them by certain passages, as by Conduit pipes unto many men. The rich man shall have many springs to feed him with wealth: the east & west winds shall blow him profit: industry, policy, fraud, luck shall contend to give his dition the addition of more wealth. At length when these springs have made a brook, and these brooks a river, this river runs again into the Sea. When the rich man hath sucked the world long, at last absorbetur a mundo, he is sucked up of the world. Whatsoever it gave him at many times, it takes away at once. War, exile, prison, displeasure of greatness, suits of law, death, empty that River in one moment, that was so many years a filling.
9. Lastly, the Sea is that great Cesterne, that sends waters ouer all the earth: conueying it thorow the veines, the springs; till those dispersed waters become Riuers, & then those Riuers run back againe into the Sea. This vast world scattereth abroad her riches; driues & deriues them by certain passages, as by Cunduit pipes vnto many men. The rich man shall haue many springs to feed him with wealth: the east & west windes shal blow him profite: industry, policy, fraud, lucke shall contend to giue his dition the addition of more wealth. At length when these springs haue made a brooke, and these brookes a riuer, this riuer runnes againe into the Sea. VVhen the rich man hath sucked the world long, at last absorbetur a mundo, hee is sucked vp of the world. VVhatsoeuer it gaue him at many times, it takes away at once. VVarre, exile, prison, displeasure of greatnesse, sutes of law, death, emptie that Riuer in one moment, that was so many yeares a filling.
Mans wealth is like his life; long a breeding, soon extinct. Man is born into the world with much pain, nursed with much tenderness, kept in childhood with much care, in youth with much cost. All this time is spent in expectation. At last, being ⟨p. 36⟩