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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. Their Number. Seven.
2. Their Number. Seauen.
A certain number is put for an uncertain: by seven spirits is intended a monstrous number of capital sins. This expresseth a forcible seducing of Satan: before one spirit, now seven more. Mary Magdalen had once in her seven Devils; this Apostate hath gotten eight.
A certaine number is put for an vncertaine: by seauen spirits is intended a monstrous number of capitall sinnes. This expresseth a forcible seducing of Satan: before one spirit, now seauen more. Mary Magdalen had once in her seauen Deuils; this Apostate hath gotten eight.
It doth so provoke and distemper Satan to be cast out, that he meaneth and menaceth a fiercer assault; and ramparts his recovered Fortress with a septuple guard: that the security of his defence may give defiance to all oppositions. He doth so fill the heart, as he filled the heart of Ananias. Act. 5. that there is no room for the least drop of grace. 1Now he that could not rid himself of one foul spirit, what will he do to encounter seven with the former? The combat is but tolerably equal, when one to one; but ne Hercules contraduos, two is odds though against Hercules: how then shall this weak man shift or deal with eight? If I might a little allegorize. The Papists make but seven deadly sins. I am sure that Hypocrisy is none of them in their account. Hypocrisy might be in this Apostate before;