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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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If they were condemned, Rom. 1. and given over to a reprobate sense, that had •o other glass to see the Deity in, but nature: for Seculum: peculum, the world is a glass: what shall become of those that have had the book of the Gospel, yet are stomach-sick at Manna, and beat away the hand of mercy reached fo•th unto them: what, but a triple reprobate sense; and here, a septuple possession of Satan?
If they were condemned, Rom. 1. and giuen ouer to a reprobate sense, that had •o other glasse to see the Deitie in, but nature: for Seculum: peculum, the worlde is a glasse: what shall become of those that haue had the booke of the Gospell, yet are stomacksicke at Manna, and beate away the hand of mercie reached fo•th vnto them: what, but a triple reprobate sense; and heere, a septuple possession of Satan?
Thus God in justice (for contempt of his mercy) admits a stronger delusion of the Devil: not to make them two-fold more the children of hell. Math. 23, 15. as Proselytes; but seven fold as Devils. That 1their bewitched and infatuated souls shall do service to him that murders them: as Ahaz did sacrifice to the Gods of Damascus that smote him. 2 Chron. 228. As our treacherous and fugitive Seminaries that adore the Babylonish Beast, who profusely carouseth up their blood that serve him: and whiles he builds up the Tower of his universal Monarchy, to overlook and command the Christian world, he sets them to cement and mortar the walls with their own bloods.