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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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This is that hypocritical and half-turning to God; when the outward action is suppressed, and the hidden corruption lies still fostered in the heart. The appearance is masked, the affection not mortified. And though, like an Eunuch, he doth not beget palpable and manifest enormities; yet hath a lust, and itch, and concupiscence to them, and forbears not in the dark, safe from the eyes of the world, to practise them.
This is that hypocriticall and halfe-turning to God; when the outward action is suppressed, and the hidden corruption lyes still foster'd in the heart. The apparance is masked, the affection not mortified. And though, like an Eunuch, he doth not beget palpable and manifest enormities; yet hath a lust, and itch, and concupiscence to them, and forbeares not in the darke, safe from the eyes of the world, to practise them.
A man, that doth outwardly refuse adherence to the world, for a colourable embracing of the word; yet inwardly, and in a hearty affection parts not with his former turpitudes, fulfils that on himself, which S. Basil once said of a Senator: that seemed to renounce the world, yet retained part of his ill-gotten riches, as Ananias kept back part of the price of his Lands. Thou hast spoiled a Se•our, and hast not made a Monk. So I may say of this man, Thou hast marred a worldling, and hast not made a christian.
A man, that doth outwardly refuse adherence to the world, for a colourable embracing of the word; yet inwardly, and in a hearty affection parts not with his former turpitudes, fulfils that on himselfe, which S. Basil once said of a Senator: that seemd to renounce the world, yet retain'd part of his illgotten riches, as Ananias kept backe part of the price of his Lands. Thou hast spoild a Se•our, and hast not made a Monke. So I may say of this man, Thou hast marr'd a worldling, and hast not made a christian.