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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. He is in worse state, by so much as a relapse is more perilous then the first sickness. By reason that strength is now spent, and nature made more ⟨p. 74⟩weak, and unable to help it self, or to receive benefit by what is ministered. The sparkles of goodness are now dying, or quite extinct, & the floods of iniquity more violent against him. There be sorer assaults, and less strength to encounter.
3. He is in worse state, by so much as a relapse is more perilous then the first sicknesse. By reason that strength is now spent, and nature made more ⟨p. 74⟩weake, and vnable to helpe it selfe, or to receiue benefit by what is ministred. The sparlies of goodnesse are now dying, or quite extinct, & the flouds of iniquity more violent against him. There be sorer assaults, and lesse strength to encounter.
4. Before he was quiet in himself, and might have a flattering hope, that the night would never come. But now breaking forth into palpable contempt and obduracy, he finds his conscience open to condemn him, and hell gates open to receive him. His ulcer seemed to be fairly skinned over, and in his own sense healed; but now to come to a new incision, is greater terror then ever. The sound of fear is now in his ears, the sense of a dagger at his heart. His body would, his mind cannot rest. The horror of future punishment lies at Cain's door, and is at every noise ready to wake. There is a fearful conflict betwixt Sensuality and Reason in him: that he may use Jobs words, though in a deeper and direr sense. Pactus sum mihimet 1ipse gravis: I am a burden and trouble to my self.
4. Before he was quiet in himselfe, and might haue a flattering hope, that the night would neuer come. But now breaking forthinto palpable contempt and obduracy, he finds his conscience open to condemne him, and hell gates open to receiue him. His vlcer seemed to be fairely skinn'd ouer, and in his owne sense healed; but now to come to a new incision, is greater terror then euer. The sound of feare is now in his eares, the sense of a dagger at his heart. His body would, his mind cannot rest. The horror of future punishment lyes at Cain's doore, and is at euery noyse ready to wake. There is a fearefull conflict betwixt Sensuality and Reason in him: that he may vse Iobs words, though in a deeper and direr sense. Pactus sum mihimet