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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
THE Spiritual Navigator BOUND For the Holy Land.THE Spirituall Nauigator BOVND For the Holy Land.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
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⟩now (upon the point) a man, the prick of a sword kills him. Even so is our wealth piled, so spoiled: the world, like some politic Tyrant, suffering us to scrape together abundant riches, that it may surprise us and them at once.
Mans wealth is like his life; long a breeding, soon extinct. Man is born into the world with much paine, nursed with much tendernes, kept in childehood with much care, in youth with much cost. All this time is spent in expectation. At last, beeing ⟨p. 36⟩now (vpon the point) a man, the pricke of a sword kils him. Euen so is our wealth piled, so spoyled: the world, like some politick Tyrant, suffering vs to scrape together aboundant riches, that it may surprise vs and them at once.
Innumerable other relations would the World and the Sea afford us. I desire not to say all, but enough: and enough I have said, if the affections of any soul present shall hereby distaste the world, and grow heavenly. Oh, what is in this Sea worth our dotage! what not worthy our detestation! The sins of the world offend our God: the vanities hurt our selves: only the good blessings serve for our godly use, and to help us in our journey. But we know that we are of God, and the whole world lieth 1in wickedness. Pray we, that this Sea infect us not; especially drown us not. Though we lose, like the Mariners in the prophecy of Jonah, our wares, our goods, our vessel, our liberties, yea our lives, let us keep our faith. It is the most dangerous shipwreck, that this naufragous world can give us, the shipwreck of faith. They write of the serpent, 2