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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. Go then, saith the Devil, but not far; keep within my whistle: that when I beckon my hand with a bag in it, or give you the call of vanity, you may hear and return. No, Satan: I must go far off; three days journey from Egypt. I must not stay near Sodom, nor in any of the Plain, lest I be destroyed. It is no repentance, that puts not on a contrary habit. Pride must be turned to humility, Covetise to charity, Dissimulation to honesty, &c.
2. Goe then, saith the Deuill, but not farre; keepe within my whistle: that when I beckon my hand with a bag in it, or giue you the call of vanity, you may heare and returne. No, Satan: I must go farre off; three dayes iourney from Egypt. I must not stay neere Sodom, nor in any of the Plaine, lest I bee destroyed. It is no repentance, that puts not on a contrary habite. Pride must bee turned to humility, Couetice to charity, Dissimulation to honesty, &c.
3. Well then, saith Satan, go ye the men, but leave the children behind you: let me have your youth and strength, and when you are old talk of sacrifice & of religion. This is the Devils dispensation, Youth must be born with. To dance, to dice, to drink, to ruffle, scuffle, wear fleeces of vanity on their heads, and to leave no place without some vicious testimony of their presence, non est vitium adolescenti, is no fault in a young man. So the King of Babylon took not the men, but the children of the Jews, to teach them the learning of Chaldea. Answer; 1It is good to begin at the gates of our life to serve God; and from our birth to be Nazarites unto the Lord. Lest if the frame of our lives be built on a lascivious, and riotous foundation of long practised wantonness, Our bones be full of the sin of our youth, and it lies down with us in the dust: and when 2our bodies arise from the earth, our sins also rise with them to judgement. No, Satan; youth and age, all the degrees of our life shall be devoted to the service of God.