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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.
Here halts Opinion, lame not with the shortness, ⟨p. 53⟩but length of his legs: one foot too long, that mars the verse. There runs Policy, and moves more with an Engine, then many men can do with their hands: leading the life after this rule. Si occultè, been. If close enough, well enough. There hurries the Papist to the Mass, and his wife the Catholic: equivocate before a competent Judge, though Christ would not before a Caiaphas: climbing to salvation by an Attorney, and likely to speed by a Proxey.
Heere halts Opinion, lame not with the shortnesse, ⟨p. 53⟩but length of his legges: one foote too long, that marres the verse. There runnes Policie, and moues more with an Engine, then many men can do with their hands: leading the life after this rule. Si occultè, bene. If close enough, wel enough. There hurries the Papist to the Masse, and his wife the Catholique: aequiuocate before a competent Iudge, though Christ would not before a Caiaphas: climbing to saluation by an Atturney, and likely to speed by a Proxey.
There slides by the meagre ghost of malice, her blood drunk up, the marrow of her bones wasted, her whole body like a mere Anatomy. There fly a crew of Oaths, like a flight of dismal Ravens; croaking the Plague to the House, where the Swearer is. Zach. 5. Nay, ruin to the whole Land. Jer. 23. For Oaths the Land mourneth. Here reels drunkenness, with swollen eyes, stammering feet: befriended of that poor remnant of all his wealth, (the richly stocked grounds, richly furnished house, richly filled purse, are all wasted; and nothing is left rich but) the nose. There goes murder from Aceldama, the field of blood, to Golgotha the place of dead sculls, and from thence to Hinnon the valley of fire and torments. There see Atheism projecting to displant the Paradise of God, and turn it to a wilderness of Serpents. Heaven is held but a Poets fable: and the terrors of hell, like Hercules club in the Tragedy, of huge bulk, but rags and straw are the stuffing. Creatures that have a little time on earth, & then vanish. Tu qui dicis, Transit Christianus, ipse transis sine Christianis. Thou that sayest, the Christians perish,