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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.
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It is but colour, that delights you, ye worldlings: ⟨p. 41⟩Esau lusts for the pottage, because they look read: and the drunkard loves the wine, because it looks read, and sparkles in the cup. Prou. 23. Look not thou upon the wine when it is read, when it giveth his 1colour in the cup, when it moveth it self aright. What babes are we to be taken with these colours, that only please the eye, or the sensual part of man, & harm the soul? like children, that play with Glass, till they cut their fingers.
It is but colour, that delights you, ye worldlings: ⟨p. 41⟩Esau lusts for the pottage, because they looke redde: and the drunkard loues the wine, because it lookes redde, and sparkles in the cup. Prou. 23. Looke not thou vpon the wine when it is redde, when it giueth his 1colour in the cup, when it moueth it selfe aright. VVhat babes are we to bee taken with these colours, that onely please the eye, or the sensuall part of man, & harme the soule? like children, that play with Glasse, till they cut their fingers.
Avicen saith, that glass among stones, is as a fool amongst men. For it takes all paint, and follows precious stones in colour, not in virtue. So does this world give colours to her riches, as if there were some worth and virtue in them: till we are cozened of heavenly and substantial treasures by over prizing them. No matter (saith Isidore) is more apt to make mirrors, or to receive painting then Glass. So men deke the world, as the Israelites did their Calf: and then superstitiously dote upon it, as Pygmalion on his carved Stone.