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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.
2. Glass is a slippery metal: a man, that walks on it, had need be shod as the Germans, that slide upon Joe. But go we never so steady on this glassy sea; even the just man falls seven times a day. How soon are we tripping in our most considerate pace! David said, he would take heed to his ways; but how ⟨p. 43⟩soon did his foot slide upon this glass! Psal. 94. 1When I said, My foot slippeth, thy mercy, oh Lord, held me up. Let us all pray with him. Hold up my goings 2in thy paths, that my foot steps slip not. And if we have stood, let us magnify him in the next Psalm. Thou hast enlarged my steps under me; that 3my feet did not slip. For the wicked, how surely soever they think themselves fixed in the world: yet Psal. 73. they are are set in slippery places. They 4talk of strong and subtle Wrestlers: but the cunningest wrestler of all is the world: for whose heels hath not it tripped up! The wisest Solomon, the strongest Sampson, have been fetched up by this wrestler and measured their lengths on the ground. How dangerous then is it to run fast on this Sea, whereon men are scarce able to stand! No marvel, if you see them fall in troops, and lye in heaps: till with their weight they crack the Glass, and topple into the depth.
2. Glasse is a slippery met•all: a man, that walkes on it, had need be shod as the Germanes, that slide vpon Ioe. But go we neuer so steddy on this glassy sea; euen the iust man falls seauen times a day. How soone are we tripping in our most considerate pace! Dauid said, he would take heed to his wayes; but how ⟨p. 43⟩soone did his foote slide vpon this glasse!