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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. › 1. By NatureTHE BLACK DEVILL OR The APOSTATE. › 1. By Nature
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. By Nature
He is a Spirit. I will not trouble you with the diverse acception of this word, Spirit. There is a Divine, Humane, Angelical, Diabolical Spirit: yet are not these all. Let every thing that hath breath, praise the Lord: that is, that hath a Spirit. It is observed, 1that when this Article, The, is prefixed to Spirit; and no attribute subjoined, that may denominate or distinguish it; it is meant of the third Person in 2Trinity, the holy Ghost. Rom. 8. The Spirit helpeth our infirmities, &c. So Jerome notes on the fourth of 3Matthew. ver. 1. Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the Wilderness, to be tempted of the Devil. Here the adjunct gives sufficient distinction. As 1. Sam. 16. The Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an 4evil spirit from the Lord troubled him. This was an evil and unclean spirit.
He is a Spirit. I will not trouble you with the diuerse acception of this word, Spirit. There is a Diuine, Humane, Angelical, Diabolical Spirit: yet are not these all. Let euery thing that hath breath, praise the Lord: that is, that hath a Spirit. It is obserued, 1