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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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4. Satan may be said cast out, in the opinion of the party, in whom he resides. Every one presumes, there is no Devil within him. The proud hath no Lucifer, the Covetous no Mammon, the Idolater no Melchom, the Adulterer no unclean spirit. Let me catechise thee. I did promise in my Baptism, to for sake the Devil. What? doest thou stay there? Nay: and all his works. Alas! be not so supine and careless. Ubi opera, ibi operans. Where the works are, there is the work-master. Thou art asleep Sampson, whiles these Philistines are upon thee, are within thee. The ague is not gone, though the fit be over. Whilst thou slumberest in thy waftage, the vessel goes on still. Satan is not out, though thou conceitest him ⟨p. 21⟩gone: and so as it is in our phrase, he is gone in conceit.
4. Satan may be saide cast out, in the opinion of the party, in whom he resides. Euery one presumes, there is no Deuill within him. The proud hath no Lucifer, the Couetous no Mammon, the Idolater no Melchom, the Adulterer no vncleane spirit. Let me catechise thee. I did promise in my Baptisme, to for sake the Deuill. VVhat? doest thou stay there? Nay: and al his works. Alasse! bee not so supine and careles. Vbi opera, ibi operans. VVhere the works are, there is the worke-maister. Thou art asleepe Sampson, whiles these Philistins are vpon thee, are within thee. The ague is not gone, though the fit be ouer. Whilst thou slūbrest in thy waftage, the vessell goes on stil. Satan is not out, though thou conceitest him ⟨p. 21⟩gone: and so as it is in our phrase, he is gone in conceit.
5. This unclean spirit may seem gone in the opinion of the Church. Sometime the Devil is gone from a man in his own judgement, not the worlds: sometimes in the worlds judgement, not his own. The Church had a good estimation of Judas, as conformable to the outward duties of obedience, and the rather because Christ trusted him with the stewardship: but God and his own conscience knew him a thief. The Devil will not always be hunted by the sent, or followed by the print of his steps. The world shall not ever have him in palpable view and full cry; by reason of his notorious and gross impieties. If he can but now and then shoot in an instigation to some wickedness, it serves his turn. He doth not every day sally out of his fort, and charge his enemies in the face; but watcheth opportunity, when his excursions may do most mischief. The Devil may be within, though he stand not at door to be seen.