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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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As he walks through the streets, there he throws a short measure, a false balance into a Trades-mans shop. He steppes into a drinking house, and kindles a quarrel. He shoulders to the bar, and pops in a forged evidence, a counterfeit seal. He dares enter the schools, and commence schisms and contentions: nay, climb up into the pulp it, and broach sects and divisions. He travels no ground, but like a stinking fog, or a dying oppressor, he leaves an ill sent behind him. This is he that makes men serve God percunctorily, perfunctorily: to go slowly to it, to sit idly at it.
As hee walkes through the streetes, there hee throwes a short measure, a false ballance into a Trades-mans shoppe. Hee steppes into a drinking house, and kindles a quarrell. Hee shoulders to the barre, and pops in a forged euidence, a counterfeit seale. He dares enter the schooles, and commence schismes and contentions: nay, climbe vp into the pulp it, and broach sects and diuisions. He trauels no ground, but like a stinking fogge, or a dying oppressor, he leaues an ill sent behind him. This is he that makes men serue God percunctorily, perfunctorily: to go slowly to it, to sit idlely at it.
Whither, where can we walk, and not behold Satan's walks: and see the prints of his feet as plain, as if his steps were set in snow, or like the Priests of Bel, in ashes: that we may say, the devil hath been here? He that shall travel the lower Provinces, and in some parts thereof see the Cities ruinated, habitations spoiled, forts battered, Temples demolished, fields untilled: will say, Sure the enemy hath been here. He that with observing and weeping eyes beholds, not our Temples, but the piety in them dissolved; not our Cities, but the Citizens ⟨p. 28⟩perverted; not our houses, but their inhabitants defaced with iniquity; not our fields, but our hearts lying untilled: our Lawyers turned truth defrauders, our Citizens usurers, our Landlords oppressors, our Gentlemen rioters, our Patrons Simonists; would surely say, this is Satan's walk: the devil hath been here. Let this fasten on our souls 2. instructions.