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…

There you shall hear Hypocrites, a pipient brood, cackling their own ripeness, when they are scarce out of their shells. Whose words and works differ, as it is seen in some Tap-houses: when the painted walls have sober sentences on them, as Fear God, honour the King, watch and pray, be sober, &c. and there is nothing but drunkenness and swearing in the house. There is Ignorance, like a strucken Sodomite, groping for the way: nay indeed, neither discerning nor desiring it. He sees neither Numen, nor Lumen; neither Diem the daylight of the Gospell, nor Deum, the God of day and Gospel.

There you shall heare Hypocrites, a pipient broode, cackling their owne ripenesse, when they are scarce out of their shelles. Whose wordes and workes differ, as it is seene in some Tappe-houses: when the painted walles haue sober sentences on them, as Feare God, honour the King, watch and pray, be sober, &c. and there is nothing but drunkennes and swearing in the house. There is Ignorance, like a strucken Sodomite, groping for the way: nay indeede, neither discerning nor desiring it. He sees neither Numen, nor Lumen; neither Diem the daylight of the Gospell, nor Deum, the God of day and Gospell.

There goes slovenly Faction, like a mal content, that with incendiary scruples labours to divide Judah from Israel. It was a strange doom, that Valens the Emperor gave against Procopius; causing him to be tied to two great trees bowed forcibly together, and so his body to be pulled asunder, that would have pulled asunder the body of the Empire. The Humorists thrust themselves into this throng, or else I would have spared them, and that for loves sake: but truth of love must not prejudice ⟨p. 55⟩love of Trueth. If they had as Imperative tongues, and Potential hands as they have Optative minds, they would keep an Infinitive stir in the lacerated Church. God sees the malicious Jesuit calling up a Parliament of Devils, to plot treasons. He hears their damnable consultations: and observes them, whiles they apparel blood-red murder, and black conspiracy, in the white robes of Religion. He saw Garnet plotting in his study; and Faulx digging in the vault; and meant to make the pit, which they digged for others, swallow themselves.