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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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THE BLACK DEVIL OR The APOSTATE.THE BLACK DEVILL OR The APOSTATE.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
The Application doth immediately concern the Jews; which hath before been plentifully instanced. For our selves. 1. The unclean spirit hath by Gods holy Gospel been cast out of us. 2. Do you think, he is at quiet? No: he esteems all places dry and barren, till he get into us again. 3. He resolves to try for entrance. 4. Now is it enough, that we leave ourselves empty of faith and good works? for all our abominable sins sweep with an overly repentance? and garnished with hypocrisy, and with our old affections to sin still? 5. Take we heed; he will come with seven spirits, more wicked then the former, and give us a fiercer assault.
The Application doth immediately concerne the Iewes; which hath before beene plentifully instanced. For our selues. 1. The vncleane spirit hath by Gods holy Gospell beene cast out of vs. 2. Doe you thinke, he is at quiet? No: he esteemes al places dry and barren, till he get into vs againe. 3. He resolues to try for entrance. 4. Now is it enough, that we leaue ourselues empty of faith and good workes? for all our abhominable sinnes swepe with an ouerly repentance? and garnished with hypocrisie, and with our old affections to sinne still? 5. Take we heed; he will come with seauen spirits, more wicked then the former, and giue vs a fiercer assault.
But our help is in the name of GOD, who hath made heaven and earth: in whose mercy we trust, because ⟨p. 78⟩his compassions fail not. Our own strength is no confidence for us; but the grace of that strongest man, who is alone able to keep out Satan. Let us adhere to Him by a true faith; and serve him in an holy integrity of conversation: and our latter end shall be better then our beginning. Mark the upright man, and behold the just; for the end of that man is peace. Our end shall be better hereafter; 1when GOD shall wipe away all tears from our eyes: when sorrow, and sickness, and death shall be no more: when Sennacherib cannot rage, nor the Leviathan of hell assault us. Peace shall environ us, Heaven shall contain us, Glory shall crown us. Our trouble, woe, mourning, have been momentany: but our joys, peace, bliss, shall have no intermission, no mutation, no end. Now He that perfects all good works, make our latter end better then our beginning. To whom, three persons, one eternal God, be all praise and glory, for ever and for ever.