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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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Worse then the Indians, in some of their blind and Idolatrous sacrifices; offering not for a Ne noceat, but for an ut noceat; crouching not for a blessing, but a curse: and buying with great expense the malediction of God and men. God threatens Israel, that for the multitude of their rebellions, he will septuple their punishments. Levit. 26: And if ye will not yet for all this hearken unto me, I will punish 1you seven times more for your sins. And ver. 21 If ye walk contrary, and will not hearken unto me, I will bring seven times moe plagues upon you, according to your sins. So frequently in the first and second chap. of the Prophecy of Amos. For three transgressions, and for four; which are seven, which are 2many, which are innumerable, I will not turn away your punishment, saith the Lord. According to their sins, by weight and measure, proportion and number, shall be their sorrows. As they have swallowed up the poor, and devoured the people of God, like bread, impoverished the common-wealth, undone the Church; and all this under colour of long prayers, and of a fiery-hot devotion; so they shall receive greater damnation. This is Babylon's final 3recompense. Revel. 18. Reward her even as she rewarded 4you, and double unto her double according to her works: in the cup which she hath filled, fill to her double.
Worse then the Indians, in some of their blinde and Idolatrous sacrifices; offering not for a Ne noceat, but for an vt noceat; crouching not for a blessing, but a curse: and buying with great expence the malediction of God and men. God threatens Israel, that for the multitude of their rebellions, he will septuple their punishments. Leuit. 26: And if ye will not yet for all this hearken vnto me, I will punish 1