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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
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

and number shall be their sorrowes As they haue swallowed vp the poore and deuoured the people of God like bread impouerished the common-wealth vndone the Church and all this vnder colour of long prayers and of a fiery-hot deuotion so they shall receiue greater damnation This is Babilons finall recompence Reuel 18. Reward her euen as she rewarded you and double vnto her double according to her workes in the cup which shee hath filled fill to her double 3. As seauen worse spirits are the reward to him that makes much of one bad and vncleane So are seauen better spirits bestowed on him that vseth one good well One Talent well employed shall gaine tenne and the more we haue the more will God delight to loade vs. God is as kinde to those that traffique his graces to his glory as he is seuere against those that throw his pearles to swine And as this Apostates recidiuation is rewarded by the accession of seauen more wicked Spirits so our sanctified and confirmed hearts shall bee honoured with those seauen most pure spirits Reuel 1. which are before the throne of God These seauen spirits are taken eyther for the seauen gifts of Gods spirit prefigured by the seauen eyes in one Stone Zach. 3. and seauen lampes in one Candlesticke Zach. 4. Which are by some gathered from Esay 11. 2. And the Spirit of the Lord shall rest vpon him the spirit of wisedome of vnderstanding the spirit of counsell and of might the spirit of knowledge and of the feare of the Lord. The first is the Spirit of Piety the second is the Spirit of Wisedome the third is the Spirit of Vnderstanding the fourth is the Spirit of Counsell the fift is the Spirit of Might the sixt is the Spirit of Knowledge the seauenth is the Spirit of the feare of the Lord. Or by putting a certaine number for an vncertaine all the guifts and graces of Gods Spirit are here intended Seauen being a nūber of perfection and signifying in the Scriptures Fulnesse God doth so requite his owne blessings that where he finds thankfulnesse for his goodnesse he opens his hands wider and where drops of grace take well he will rayne whole showres of mercy It is his delight to reward his owne fauours crown his owne blessings as if he would giue because he had giuen Thus a greater measure of godlinesse shall possesse vs a greater measure of wickednesse this Apostate then eyther in eyther kind formerly was had When we receiue grace of God wee also receiue grace to employ that grace so that if we thriue not in the growth of godlines wee may causefully call our sanctity into question As he à malo adpeius from euill to worse descends gradually to hell so must we by ioyning vertue to faith and to vertue knowledge and to knowledge temperance c. as per scansum climbing by degrees get vp into heauen I haue described the Associates now for the Assault Wherein briefly obserue 1. their Inuasion 2. their Inhabitation 3. their Cohabitation 1. Their Inuasion They enter Alas what should hinder them when a sauage Troupe appointed at all hands armed with malice and mischiefe cap ape assaults a poore weake Fort that hath nothing but bare walles and naked gates and those set wide open to defend it selfe If Lot were in Sodome if but Faith stood in the Turret of the conscience there might be some beating back of their forces but there is no reluctation where there is no enemy S. Paul describes the Christians Armour Ephe. 6. Stand hauing your loynes girt about with truth hauing on the brest-plate of righteousnes your feet shod with the preparation of the Gospell of peace Aboue all take the shield of Faith wherewith yee shall bee able to quench the fiery dartes of the wicked Take the helmet of saluation and the Sword of the Spirit c. This Apostate hath not a piece of it to warde the least blow wheresoeuer it strikes him He is to deale with cunning Fencers and hath neyther offeusiue nor defensiue weapons Not Truth but error is the girdle of his loynes and for the brest-plate of righteousnesse hee knowes not how to put it on His f●…ete were neuer shod with the preparation of the Gospell he had not so much time to spare from his nimble gadding after vanities The fiery darts of these wicked spirits may burne and wound him to death he hath no Shield of Faith to coole or quench them The helmet of saluation is farre from him he knowes not in what Armory to find it And for the sword of the spirit he cannot tell how to handle it He is an vnwalled city an vndefenced Fort an vnarmed man No maruell if th●…se foule spirits enter when there is neyther contention nor intention to repell them Omnia tradentur portas reserabimus hosti 2. Their Inhabitation Dwell The Deuil dwelleth in a Man not tanquàm corpus locatum in loco as a bodye seated in a certaine place for spirits are not contained in any place Incorporeall created substances doe not dwell in a place locally or circumscriptiuely as bodies doe but definitiuely Nor dwell these in him tanquam forma in materia as the forme in a substance as the soule in the body For the Deuill is a simple substance of himselfe not compounded of any aliene or second matter But they dwell in him by a secret and spirituall power darkning their mindes 2. Cor. 4. that the light of the glorious gospel of christ shold not shine vnto t●…ē Poysoning their affections that being past feeling they might giue themselues ouer to lasciuiousnesse to worke all vncleannesse with greedinesse Hardening their hearts Rom. 2. til they treasure vp to themselues wrath against the day of wrath and reuelation of the righteous Iudgement of God All which is no other in effect but damming vp the lights and windores of this Fort ramming vp the gates and fortifying the walles Thus they dwell in him like witches in an inchanted Castle and who shall breake their spels deliuer him You see then this blacke Deuil hath but sorry guests that purpose longer stay with him then a night to dwell yea to dominere till they haue eaten him quite out of house and home 3. Their Cohabitation They dwel there all of them euen together 1. There is roome enough in one heart for many sins Mary Magdalens heart held seauen deuils this Apostates eight There was a whole Legion in another Math. 8. All the Principalities and powers of darknesse in a fourth Absolon had treason ambition pride incest ingratitude for his hearts stuffing Iudas had no fewer turpitudes in his The heart is so small a piece of flesh that it will scarce giue a Kite her breakfast yet behold how capacious and roomthy it is to giue house-roome to seauen Deuils He that should reade and obserue the great Physitians dissection of mans heart Math. 15. Out of the heart