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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
Title page typeset from the transcription.
LYCANTHROPY. OR THE WOLFE Worrying The LAMBS.LYCANTHROPY. OR THE WOLFE Worrying The LAMBES.
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.
You have heard the Persons designing, and designed: the Designation follows; which gives them, 1. Their Warrant. 2. Their Qualification.
You haue heard the Persons designing, and designed: the Designation followes; which giues thē, 1. Their VVarrant. 2. Their Qualification.
1. Christ seals them a warrant in his word, [Greek or Hebrew] I send you. It is not Humanum inuentum, but Divinum Institutum: authorised under the Broad-seal of heaven, in the power of the second Person of that State-royal. He says not, I will pray 1to my Father to send you, but I send you. For All power is given to me in heaven, and in earth. They come not then, without their commission; as those, Jer. 23. 21. I have not sent these Prophets, yet they ran: I have not spoken to them, yet they prophesied. Would 2you have a Minister? Seek to the Nurseries of Christian learning, the Universities: there you shall have them furnished with excellent parts and arts. ⟨p. 11⟩Is it enough to have learning? No, the man of God must also be holy. Say, he be well learned, and well lived, may he instantly climb up into the Pulpit & preach? No; he must first have an inward commission from heaven, and an outward Ordination on earth by imposition of hands. You may see their warrant.
1. Christ seales them a warrant in his word, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 I send you. It is not Humanum inuentum, but Diuinum Institutum: authorised vnder the Broad-seale of heauen, in the power of the second Person of that State-royall. He sayes not, I wil pray 1