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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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Where can a man bestow himself, that the devil cannot walk to him? Art thou in thy private Chamber? There can Satan find thee; as he did Eve in Paradise, Christ in the Desert. If in any place; he hath there most power and opportunity. Two are better then one. For if either fall, or be prevailed 1against, the other will lift up, or rescue him. But Va solely. Woe to him that is alone: for if he miscarry, there is none to help him. The melancholy man, that loves to be sequestered from society, and lives an Hermitical, solitary life, is most exposed to Satan's assaults. Company is good; especially if the companions be good: as being a means to hinder Satan from so violent working upon our affections. The Philosophers were wont to say: He that lived alone, was either a God, or a Devil. Yet solitariness is not so evil, as evil company. It is better to bustle with one Devil in a close chamber, then with many Devils in a riotous Tavern.
Where can a man bestow himselfe, that the deuill cannot walke to him? Art thou in thy priuate Chamber? There can Satan finde thee; as hee did Eue in Paradise, Christ in the Desert. If in any place; he hath there most power and opportunity. Two are better then one. For if either fall, or bee preuailed 1against, the other will lift vp, or rescue him. But Va soli. Woe to him that is alone: for if hee miscarry, there is none to helpe him. The melancholy man, that loues to be sequestred from society, and liues an Hermitical, solitary life, is most exposed to Satans assaultes. Company is good; especially if the companions be good: as being a meanes to hinder Satan from so violent working vpon our affections. The Philosophers were wont to say: He that liued alone, was either a God, or a Deuil. Yet solitarinesse is not so euill, as euill company. It is better to bustle with one Deuill in a close chamber, then with many Deuils in a riotous Tauerne.