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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.
1. The unclean spirit, the power of sin, was cast out of the Jews, by Moses law; and God had great stir about it. He was fain to speak early and late, and attend them all the day long, with outstretched 1hands. Till he appeals to censure. What could have been done more to my Vineyard?2
1. The vncleane spirit, the power of sinne, was cast out of the Iewes, by Moses law; and God had great stirre about it. He was faine to speake early and late, and attend them all the day long, with outstretched 1hands. Till he appeales to censure. What could haue beene done more to my Vineyard?2
2. At last he is out; and then like a discontented Guest, hindered of his old Lodging, and destitute of so warm a bed, he walks through dry places, revisits the Heathen. But finding them as strongly his own, as the infrangible chains of wickedness could make them; he disdains rest, like an Engrosser, in his own Lordship; so long as there are other purchases to be made abroad. Or perhaps the Ark of salvation is now brought to the Gentiles, and then the Dagon, Dragon of hell must needs be packing. A new King, the true King beginning his Reign in the Conscience, deposeth, dejecteth, ejecteth that usurping Tyrant. There is no remedy: out he must.