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A00564 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. Adams, Thomas, fl. 1612-1653. 1615 (1615) STC 107; ESTC S100391 96,543 190

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by the Sunne of Righteousnesse breaking through the grosse and foggy Clouds of Ignorance and Impiety wherein the Gentile world was wrapped VVhat doth he but re-salutes his former habitation He liked the old seat well and will venter a fall but recouer it 4. Thether he flyes and loe how fit he findes it for his entertaine The heart of the Iewes is empty of Faith swept with the beesome of Hypocrisie a iusticiary imaginary false-conceited righteousnes and garnished with a few broken traditions and ceremonies suppellectile complements in stead of substantiall graces 5. Glad of this he recollects his forces takes with him seauen other spirits a greater dominion of sinne then he was earst armed with all more wicked then himselfe as if hee would make inuincible prouision and preuention of any future dispossession 6. He enters in with his crew not purposing to be as a Guest but a Tenant not a Tenant but a Land-Lord not a Land-Lord but a King a Commander a Tyrant till at last he may presume of an indubitate right As Vsurpers that come to a Kingdome by a violent or litigious title are at first so modest dainty that they signe not their Graunts Edicts and such publike Acts in their owne particular and singular names but require the conscription and euident consent of their Counsell But once established by succession and vnriual'd by opposition they grow peremptorily confident in their owne right and power and in their most tyrannous acts dare signe Teste meipso So Sathan at first erection of his Kingdome in the Iewes conscious of his vniust title was content to admit the helpe of fond Ceremonies Tales Traditions c. to make for him against Christ whose Kingdome hee vsurpes This he condiscended to out of a mannerly couzenage and for the more subtle insinuation into the Iewish hearts But now established in his Throne and confirmed in his title by their hard-hartednes and wilfull obstinacy in reiecting their Messias hee is bold to signe all his oppositions to the Gospell with a Teste meipso 7. Hereupon their latter end becomes worse then their beginning A stronger delusion hath taken hold of them and that in the iust iudgement of the wise Ordinatour of all things For this cause God shall send them strong delusion that they should beleeue a lye that all they might bee damned who be●…eeued not the truth but had pleasure in vnrighteousnesse For if He that despised Moyses law dyed without mercy vnder two or three Witnesses then verse 29. Of how much sorer punishment shall he be thought worthy who hath trodden vnder foote not the Seruant but the Sonne of God hath counted the bloud not of Buls and Goates but of the Couenant wherewith he was sanctified whereby he shall now bee condemned an vnholy thing and hath done despite to the Spirit not of bondage but of grace His beginning was farre better or at least lesse bad then his ende shall be The Occasion was so materiall that it hath led me further then eyther my purpose or your patience would willingly haue allowed me What soeuer is written is written eyther for our instruction or destruction to conuert vs if we embrace it to conuince vs if we despise it Let this consideration quicken your attention enliuen your meditation encourage your obedience You demaund viu●…m vocem it is then a Liuing voyce when it is a voice of life to the beleeuing hearers Otherwise there is vox mortifera a voice that brings death to disobeyers The word that I haue spoken sayeth Christ shall iudge you in the last day The White Deuill the Hypocrite hath beene formerly discouer'd and the sky-colourd vaile of his dissimulation pulled off I am to present to your view and detestation a sinner of a contrary colour swarthy rebellion and besmeared Profanesse an Apostate falling into the clutches of eight vncleane spirits Needs must he be fowle that hath so many fowle deuils in him Mary Magdalen had but seauen and they were cast out this hath gotten one more to make his soule the blacker and they keepe in If Hypocrisie there were iustly called the White Deuill Apostacie here may as iustly bee termed the Blacke Deuill In the former was a white skinne of profession drawne ouer an vlcerous corps here hyde and carcasse hand and heart shadow and substance seeming and being outward profession and inward intention are blacke foule detestable Therfore we will call him the Apostate or blacke Deuill This Text dwelleth on two persons Man and Satan Alas it goes ill when Man and the Deuill come so neare together weake man and his infest profest enemy Wherein wee will metaphorically compare Man to a Fort and the Deuill to a Captaine 1 Man to a Fort. Not that hee is like stupid and dead walles without sense without science of no ability either to offend his aduersary or to defend himselfe but a liuing Tower that hath sense reason vnderstanding will affections which giue him meanes to open a voluntary doore to this Captayns entrance For a seipso est quod peccator aperiat Satanae a Deo quòd Deo It is of God that a sinner opens his heart to God of himselfe that he opens to Satan 2 The Deuill to a Captaine a strong impious impetuous imperious Captaine violēt in inuasion tyrannous in obsession a rampant Lyon that scornes either competition or superiority The materiall circumstances concerning both Fort and Captaine hold and holder place and person may be generally reduced to these three The vncleane Spirits Egresse forsaking the Hold wherein wee haue his Vnroosting wherin obserue the Person going out Manner Measure of Vnresting or disconteut which appeares in his Trauell He Walkes Tryall In dry places Trouble Seeking rest Euent Findeth none Regresse striuing for a re-entry into the he lost consider'd Intentiuely wherinare regardable his Resolution I will Revolution Returne Descript. of his seat House Affection to the same place My house whēce I came out Inventiuely For hee findeth in it Clearnesse It is empty Cleannesse Swept Trimnesse Garnished Ingresse which consists in his fortifying the Hold manifested by his Associates for he encreaseth his troopes who are describd by their Nature Spirits Number Seven Measure of Malice more Wicked Assault to the repossessing of the place testifyed by their Invasion They enter Inhabitation Dwell Cohabitation They dwell there together The Conclusion and Application shut vp all 1. The Conclusion The last state of that man is worse then the first 2. The Application Euen so shal it bee also vnto this wicked generation You see I haue ventured on a long iourney and haue but a short time allowed me to go it My obseruations in my trauell shal be the shorter and I hope not the lesse sound So the breuity shall make some amends for the number I am to begin with the vnclean spirits departure When the vncleane spirit is gone out of a man It is wel that he is gone if he would neuer returne