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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. › 2. By QualityTHE BLACK DEVILL OR The APOSTATE. › 2. By Quality
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.
2. Unclean, by his operation and effects.
2. Vncleane, by his operation and effects.
His labour & delight is to make man as unclean, as himself. He strives to make Judas his heart foul ⟨p. 12⟩with covetousness, Absalom's with treason, Gehesis with bribes, Cains with murder, Jeroboam's with Idolatry, nay even Davids with adultery. God is Purity: and Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shall see 1God. But a soul soiled and foiled with lust, drunkenness, swearing, hypocrisy, avarice, is an unclean habitacle for an unclean spirit: a foul evil, for a foul devil. Every sin is unclean; but there is one sin called uncleanness: as if it were more immediately derived from the Devil, and more naturally pleasing him. Hereby God is robbed of that he bought with so dear a price, & the member of Christ 2is made the member of an Harlot. It is continually joined with fornication, adultery, whore-hunting. Ephes. 5. 3. 5. Colos. 3. 5. Saint Paul reasons against this sin, by an argument drawn ab absurdo; to couple that body to an Harlot, which should mystically be united to Christ. Not unlike that of the Poet:
His labour & delight is to make man as vnclean, as himselfe. He striues to make Iudas his heart foule ⟨p. 12⟩with couetousnesse, Absalons with treason, Gehesis with bribes, Cains with murder, Ieroboams with Idolatry, nay euen Dauids with adultery. God is Purity: and Blessed are the pure in heart: for they shal see