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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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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.
1. His Flesh is meat indeed; though non dentis, sedmentis. Our fathers did eat Manna, which was the food of Angels, as it were; and yet dyed corporally: 1but whosoever eat the God of Angels ⟨p. 15⟩spiritually, shall not dye eternally.
1. His Flesh is meat indeed; though non dentis, sedmentis. Our fathers did eate Manna, which was the food of Angels, as it were; and yet dyed corporally: 1but whosoeuer eate the God of Angels ⟨p. 15⟩spiritually, shall not dye eternally.
2. His fleece good. We were cold, and naked. Is this all? Nay, and polluted too. The fleece of his imputed Righteousness, keeps us warm, clothes our nakedness, hides our uncleanness. Hence the Prophet calls him, The Lord our righteousness. Ours not inherent, but imputative. 2. Cor. 5. 21. We are made no otherwise the righteousness of God in him, then he was made sin for us: which was only by imputation. So Luther, Christiana sanctitas non est activa, sed passiva sanctitas: extra nos est justitia nostra, non in nobis.
2. His fleece good. We were cold, and naked. Is this all? Nay, and polluted too. The fleece of his imputed Righteousnes, keeps vs warme, cloaths our nakednesse, hides our vncleannesse. Hence the Prophet calls him, The Lord our righteousnesse. Ours not inherent, but imputatiue.