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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.
The decay of the parts argues the dotage of the whole. Aetna, Parnassus, Olympus are not so visible, as they were. The sea now rageth where the ground was dry: and fishes swim, where men walked. Hills are sunk, floods dried up, rocks broken, towns swallowed up of earth-quakes: plants lose their force, and planets their virtue. The Sun stoops like an aged man; as weary of his course, and willing to fall asleep. All things are subject to violence and contrariety; as if both the Poles were ready to ruinate their climates. The end of all 1things is at hand: when Compage soluta, Secula tot mundi suprema coaggeret hara. God hath given us many signs of this. Portenta, quasi porrò tendentia. Signa habent, si intelligantur, linguam suam. Signs have their language, if they could be rightly understood. Ultima tribulatio multis tribulationibus praevenitur. There are many calamities preceding the last, and universal calamity of the world. No Comet, but threatens; no strange ⟨p. 48⟩exhalations, alterations, seeming combustion in the heavens, but demonstrate the general deluge of fire, that shall destroy all. Nunquam futilibus percanduit ignibus aether. As Gods tokens in the plague pronounce the infallibility of instant death: so these signs of the worlds sickness, are vaunt-currers of the destruction.
The decay of the parts argues the dotage of the whole. Aetna, Pernassus, Olympus are not so visible, as they were. The sea now rageth where the ground was dry: and fishes swimme, where men walked. Hilles are sunke, flouds dryed vp, rockes broken, townes swallowed vp of earth-quakes: plants lose their force, and planets their vertue. The Sunne stoopes like an aged man; as weary of his course, and willing to fall asleepe. All things are subiect to violence and contrariety; as if both the Poles were ready to ruinate their climates. The end of all 1things is at hand: when Compage soluta, Secula tot mundi suprema coaggeret hara. God hath giuen vs many signes of this. Portenta, quasi porrò tendentia. Signa habent, si intelligantur, linguam suam. Signes haue their language, if they could be rightly vnderstood. Vltima tribulatio multis tribulationibus praeuenitur. There are many calamities preceding the last, and vniuersall calamity of the world. No Comet, but threatens; no strange