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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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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 de•ke the world, as the Israelites did their Calf: and then superstitiously dote upon it, as Pygmalion on his carved Stone.
Auicen saith, that glasse among stones, is as a foole amongst men. For it takes all paint, and followes precious stones in colour, not in vertue. So does this world giue colours to her riches, as if there were some worth and vertue in them: till wee are cosen'd of heauenly and substantiall treasures by ouer prizing them. No matter (saith Isiodore) is more apt to make mirrors, or to receiue painting then Glasse. So men de•ke the world, as the Israelites did their Calfe: and then superstiously dote vpon it, as Pigmalion on his carued Stone.
But can colour satisfy? Is mans imaginative power so dull and thick, as to be thus pleased? Shall a man toil to dig a pit, and laboriously draw up the water; and then must he sit by, and not drink? or drink, and not have his thirst quenched? Yes. Thus do we long after earthly things, which obtained give us no full content: thus disregard spiritual and heavenly; whereof but once rafting, we go away highly satisfied. Say then with Bernard.
But can colour satisfie? Is mans imaginatiue power so dull and thicke, as to be thus pleased? Shall a man toyle to dig a pit, and laboriously draw vp the water; and then must he sitte by, and not drink? or drinke, and not haue his thirst quenched? Yes. Thus do we long after earthly things, which obtained giue vs no full content: thus disregard spirituall and heauenly; whereof but once rafting, we go away highly satisfied. Say then with Bernard.