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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.
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.
This Text dwelleth on two persons, Man and Satan! Alas! it goes ill, when Man and the Devil come so near together: weak man; and his infest, profest enemy. Wherein we will (metaphorically) compare Man to a Fort, and the Devil to a Captain.
This Text dwelleth on two persons, Man and Satan! Alas! it goes ill, when Man and the Deuill come so neare together: weake man; and his infest, profest enemy. Wherein wee will (metaphorically) compare Man to a Fort, and the Deuill to a Captaine.
1 Man to a Fort. Not that he is like stupid and dead walls, without sense, without science; of no ability, either to offend his adversary, or to defend himself: but a living Tower, that hath sense, reason, understanding, will, affections: which give him ⟨p. 7⟩means to open a voluntary door to this Captains entrance. For a seipso est quod peccator aperiat Satanae, a Deo, quòd Deo. It is of God that a sinner opens his heart to God; of himself, that he opens to Satan.
1 Man to a Fort. Not that hee is like stupid and dead walles, without sense, without science; of no ability, either to offend his aduersary, or to defend himselfe: but a liuing Tower, that hath sense, reason, vnderstanding, will, affections: which giue him ⟨p. 7⟩meanes to open a voluntary doore to this Captayns entrance. For a seipso est quod peccator aperiat Satanae, a Deo, quòd Deo. It is of God that a sinner opens his heart to God; of himselfe, that he opens to Satan.
2 The Devil to a Captain; a strong, impious, impetuous, imperious Captain; violent in invasion, tyrannous in obsession: a rampant Lyon, that scorns either competition, or superiority.