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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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So long as he may foment our corrupt affections, ⟨p. 15⟩and give us complacency and self-satisfaction in his vicious obedience; till he make us not subjects but slaves, and rather Res then Personas, as the Lawyers speak; he gives to every one a Dormi-securè. But when we begin to suspect his right, to try his title, and to go to law to cast him out, and to bustle against him: the skulking fox is turned to an Ox, and puts forth his goring horns of tyranny.
So long as he may foment our corrupt affections, ⟨p. 15⟩and giue vs complacency and selfe-satisfaction in his vicious obedience; till he make vs not subiects but slaues, and rather Res then Personas, as the Lawyers speake; he giues to euery one a Dormi-securè. But when we begin to suspect his right, to try his title, and to go to law to cast him out, and to bustle against him: the sculking foxe is turn'd to an Oxe, and puts foorth his goring hornes of tyrranny.
When thou beginnest to sue him, 1. He will plead prescription. Meum est, meum erit, quia meum fuit. It is mine, it shall be mine, because it hath been mine. Custom in sin is a shrewd argument against repentance. Turpius cijcitur, quám non admittitur hospes. A Guest is with better manners not admitted, then ejected. 2. If that will not serve, he goes to't in plain force. He doth not say as Jacob to Laban, These twenty years have I served thee, &c. but these many years have I commanded thee; and dost thou now shake off my service? degenerate, rebel, and refuse allegiance? As Rabshaceh in the Embassage of Sennacherib to Hezekiah. Now on whom doest thou trust, that thou rebellest against me? Who shall deliver thee out of my 1hands? 3. If we answer with that threatened King; The Lord of Hosts shall deliver us; at whose Name the Sennacherib of infernal Babylon doth tremble: so that he must depart; he will not go out without terror; but tear and afflict the heart, in the parting and desertion of our old delights.