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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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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.
The next circumstance gives the world, not only for a Sea, but Mare vitreum, a Sea of glass. You see, I must carry you further on this Element, and yet at last leave many coasts unvisited, much smothered ⟨p. 39⟩in silence. Let not all be via navis, as the Wise man speaketh, the way of a Ship on the sea, leaving no track or print in your meditations.
The next circumstance giues the world, not only for a Sea, but Mare vitreum, a Sea of glasse. You see, I must carry you further on this Element, and yet at last leaue many coasts vnuisited, much smotherd ⟨p. 39⟩in silence. Let not all be via nauis, as the Wise man speaketh, the way of a Ship on the sea, leauing no tracke or print in your meditations.
This glassy attribute shall give us observable three properties in the world. 1. Colour. 2. Slipperiness. 3. Brittleness. As certainly as you find these qualities in Glass, expect them in the world. Colour.
This glassy attribute shall giue vs obseruable three properties in the world. 1. Colour. 2. Slipperinesse. 3. Brittlenesse. As certainely as you finde these qualities in Glasse, expect them in the world. Colour.
There is a Glassy colour congruent to the Sea. So Virgil insinuates, describing the Nereades, certain marine Nymphs. Milesia vellera Nymphae Carpebant Hyali saturo fucata colour.1 And not far removed. Vitreisque sedilibus omnes