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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.
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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. 2. Cor. 5. 21. VVe are made no otherwise the righteousnesse of God in him, then he was made sinne for vs: which was onely by imputation. So Luther, Christiana sanctitas non est actiua, sed passiua sanctitas: extra nos est iustitia nostra, non in nobis.
3. His blood excellent, and of most transcendent virtue; whether lavando, or levando: we were maculati, et mactati: speckled with corruptions, dead in sins. Not only as the Rhemists say, Diseased: but as Paul saith, Deceased: Ephe. 2, 1. Dead in sins and trespasses. His blood hath recovered our life, our health; and washed us as white, as the snow i• Salmon. Thus he is in every respect profitable to us; more then we could either expetere, or expectare; deserve, or desire. Satan is against us: behold Christ is with us; and we overcome him by the blood of the 1Lamb.