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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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Three inferences from hence must not pass away unobserved.
Three inferences from hence must not passe away vnobserued.
1. That there is difference of sins, sinners, & consequently of punishments. The first was said to be an unclean spirit, yet are the latter seven worse. By the witness of Christ we have it already. Mat. 5. 1and by his Judgement shall find it hereafter, that an angry affection is liable to Judgement: a provoking gesture to the punishment of a Council: but railing invectives are worthy of hell-fire. Chorazin & Bethsaida shall speed worse then Tyre and Sidon, and yet these were already in hell. The servant that knows his Masters will, and doth it not, shall be beaten with many stripes. Simple nescience hath an easier judgement, then sinful knowledge. If Barbaria wring her hands, that she hath known so little; Christendom shall rend her heart, that she hath known so much to so little purpose.
1. That there is difference of sinnes, sinners, & consequently of punishments. The first was said to be an vncleane spirit, yet are the latter seuen worse. By the witnesse of Christ we haue it already. Mat. 5. 1and by his Iudgement shall finde it heereafter, that an angry affection is liable to Iudgement: a prouoking gesture to the punishment of a Councel: but railing inuectiues are worthy of hell-fire. Chorazin & Bethsaida shal speed worse then Tyre and Sidon, and yet these were already in hel. The seruant that knowes his Maisters will, and doth it not, shal bee beaten with many stripes. Simple nescience hath an easier iudgement, then sinfull knowledge. If Barbaria wring her hands, that she hath knowne so little; Christendome shall rend her heart, that she hath knowne so much to so little purpose.