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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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2. Cleanliness. It is swept.
2. Cleanlinesse. It is swept.
This is the effect of an overly and superficial repentance: like a slight besom, it sweeps away the dust and cobwebs, and such lighter stuff, but the filth and dirt is caked and baked on. Sins of less delight to the flesh, and tentations of weaker force, are brushed away; but the main affection to some old impiety hath the root in the heart undigged up. The devil is content, the conscience should be swept, so long as it is but only swept.
This is the effect of an ouerly and superficiall repentance: like a slight beesome, it sweepes away the dust and cobwebs, and such lighter stuffe, but the filth and dirt is caked and baked on. Sinnes of lesse delight to the flesh, and tentations of weaker force, are brush'd away; but the maine affection to some olde impiety hath the roote in the heart vndigged vp. The deuill is content, the conscience should be swept, so long as it is but onely swept.
Sin is congealed, concorporated, baked on; and must be pared and digged away by greater violence then sweeping. Swept Satan yields it, so not pared. Impiety is habituated by custom, hardened ⟨p. 50⟩by impenitency, concorporated to him by his affection to it: and shall he think, that a formal repentance, like a soft besom, can sweep all clean? Can a few drops and sprinklings of water purge off the inveterate foulness and corruption of the flesh? There is required much rinsing to whiten a defiled soul.