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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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3. Their Cohabitation. They dwell there; all of them, even together.
3. Their Cohabitation. They dwel there; all of them, euen together.
1. There is room enough in one heart for many 1sins. Mary Magdalens heart held seven devils: this Apostates eight. There was a whole Legion in another. Math. 8. All the Principalities and powers of darkness in a fourth. Absalom had treason, ambition, pride, incest, ingratitude, for his hearts stuffing. Judas had no fewer turpitudes in his. The heart is so small a piece of flesh, that it will scarce give a Kite her breakfast: yet, behold, how capacious and roomthy it is, to give house-room to seven Devils. He that should read and observe the great Physicians dissection of mans heart. Math. 15. Out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, 2fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies; ⟨p. 71⟩would bless himself to think, that so little a thing could extend it self to such a capacity; or that it could be so full and not burst.
1. There is roome enough in one heart for many 1sins. Mary Magdalens heart held seauen deuils: this Apostates eight. There was a whole Legion in another. Math. 8. All the Principalities and powers of darknesse in a fourth. Absolon had treason, ambition, pride, incest, ingratitude, for his hearts stuffing. Iudas had no fewer turpitudes in his. The heart is so small a piece of flesh, that it will scarce giue a Kite her breakfast: yet, behold, how capacious and roomthy it is, to giue house-roome to seauen Deuils. He that should reade and obserue the great Physitians dissection of mans heart.