THE BLACK DEVIL OR THE APOSTATE.TOGETHER WithThe WOLFE Worrying the LAMBS. ANDThe SPIRITUAL NAVIGATOR, BOUNDFor the Holy Land. In three Sermons.By THOMAS ADAMS.Jerem. 13, 23.Can the Black-Moore change his skin? Or the Leopard his spots? Then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do evil.Bern. Sent.Quid prosunt lecta & intellecta, nisi teipsum legas & intelligas?LONDON, Printed by William Jaggard, 1615.THE BLACKE DEVILL OR THE APOSTATE.TOGETHER WithThe WOLFE Worrying the LAMBES. ANDThe SPIRITVALL NAVIGATOR, BOVNDFor the Holy Land. In three Sermons.By THOMAS ADAMS.Ierem. 13, 23.Can the Black-Moore change his skin? Or the Leopard his spots? Then may ye also do good, that are accustomed to do euill.Bern. Sent.Quid prosunt lecta & intellecta, nisi teipsum legas & intelligas?LONDON, Printed by William Iaggard, 1615.Title page of The black devil or the apostate Together with the wolf worrying the lambs. And…, London, 1615The 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…Thomas Adams, 1615

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He is a Spirit. I will not trouble you with the diverse acception of this word, Spirit. There is a Divine, Humane, Angelical, Diabolical Spirit: yet are not these all. Let every thing that hath breath, praise the Lord: that is, that hath a Spirit. It is observed, ¹that when this Article, The, is prefixed to Spirit; and no attribute subjoined, that may denominate or distinguish it; it is meant of the third Person in ²Trinity, the holy Ghost. Rom. 8. The Spirit helpeth our infirmities, &c. So Jerome notes on the fourth of ³Matthew. ver. 1. Then was Jesus led up of the Spirit into the Wilderness, to be tempted of the Devil. Here the adjunct gives sufficient distinction. As 1. Sam. 16. The Spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an ⁴evil spirit from the Lord troubled him. This was an evil and unclean spirit.

He is a Spirit. I will not trouble you with the diuerse acception of this word, Spirit. There is a Diuine, Humane, Angelical, Diabolical Spirit: yet are not these all. Let euery thing that hath breath, praise the Lord: that is, that hath a Spirit. It is obserued, ¹that when this Article, The, is prefixed to Spirite; and no attribute subioyned, that may denominate or distinguish it; it is meant of the third Person in ²Trinity, the holy Ghost. Rom. 8. The Spirite helpeth our infirmities, &c. So Ierom notes on the fourth of

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