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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 Measure.THE BLACK DEVILL OR The APOSTATE. › The Measure.
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Now so far as this illumination, swimming, nimble, and discursive knowledge is let in; so far is Satan said to be cast out. There is, saith Solomon, 1Scientia contristans: and saith Paul, Scientia conflans. There is a knowledge that maketh sorrowful, that maketh proud. God in all knowledge regards not so much the quantity, as the substance. There may be more light in a Reprobate, then in a sanctified soul, but not so good light. I speak not to vilify knowledge, but to rectify it. Otherwise, you know, the greater punishment belongs to him, that knows Go as will, and doth it not. Oftentimes the more shallow in knowledge, the more bungerly in wickedness: when a quick and sharp wit without grace, is like a head-strong Horse without a bridle. Neither is this Knowledge in a Reprobate gratia vana, sed evanescens: not a vain, but a vanishing grace. They walk in the light. Joh. 12. They rejoice of the light. Joh. 5. Yet is not the light in 2them. They have not the Sun of righteousness risen in their hearts. Mala. 4. For this Sun can never set. Bona non benè novit.
Now so farre as this illumination, swimming, nimble, and discursiue knowledge is let in; so farre is Satan said to be cast out. There is, saith Solomon, 1Scientia contristans: and saith Paul, Scientia conflans. There is a knowledge that maketh sorrowfull, that maketh proud. God in all knowledge regards not so much the quantity, as the substance. There may be more light in a Reprobate, then in a sanctified soule, but not so good light. I speake not to vilifie knowledge, but to rectifie it. Otherwise, you know, the greater punishment belongs to him, that knowes Go as will, and doth it not. Oftentimes the more shallow in knowledge, the more bungerly in wickednesse: when a quicke and sharpe witte without grace, is like a head-strong Horse without a bridle. Neyther is this Knowledge in a Reprobate gratia vana, sed euanescens: not a vaine, but a vanishing grace. They walke in the light. Ioh. 12. They reioyce of the light.