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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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6. Lastly Satan is said so far to be gone out, as there is an interruption in the sovereignty of sin for a season. The floods of iniquity are not so violent, as if they were kept within the dam by shutting down the sluice. The Dromedary, the ungodly, runs not so madly, whiles that infernal rider forbears their sides with his spur.
6. Lastly Satan is said so far to be gone out, as there is an interruption in the soueraignty of sinne for a season. The flouds of iniquity are not so •iolent, as if they were kept within the dam by shutting down the sluce. The Dromedary, the vngodly, runs not so madly, whiles that infernall rider forbeares their sides with his spurre.
As he is said to come in, when he was in before: because there cometh in a more forcible & stronger illusion of Satan, than the hart erst suffered. Lu. 22. It is said, that Satan entered into Judas before the Passover: 1yet we cannot think that Gods Spirit was in ⟨p. 22⟩him before: but only now a greater power of Satan got in; that like a ripe tumour would be no longer hid within the thin skin of hypocrisy. Corruption now gets eruption, and the rancorous ulcer of wickedness bursts forth.
As he is said to come in, when he was in before: because there commeth in a more forcible & stronger illusion of Satan, thē the hart erst suffred. Lu. 22. It is said, that Satā entred into Iudas before the Passouer: 1yet we cannot thinke that Gods Spirit was in ⟨p. 22⟩him before: but onely now a greater power of Satan got in; that like a ripe tumour would bee no longer hid within the thinne skinne of hypocrisie. Corruption now gets eruption, and the rancorous vlcer of wickednesse bursts forth.