The world possessed with devils containing three dialogues. 1. Of the Devil let loose.…The vvorlde possessed with deuils conteinyng three dialogues. 1. Of the Deuill let loose.…

whose witness remaineth on the yeareth for ever. For, where as before it was compared to Paradise, now it remaineth so in Gods curse,¹ that it beareth no fruit that can sustain man, but it turneth immediately into smoke and ashes.² As the Heathen Historiographers & Cosmographers witness,³ and namely Cornelius ⟨image 19⟩Tacitus, & Strabo, although they knew not the judgement of God, from whence it proceeded. The Israelites which held Samaria, had there a plain spectacle before their eyes, but they could not beware by it, but so far provoked the wrath of God, that he drived them by the Assyrians, from the land that he had given them. Likewise their brethren of Judah saw all these examples and judgements of God manifestly,⁴ and could not amend, but did worse then Israel: wherefore God punished them like wise by the Babylonians. Their successors might have been warned by the examples and punishments of their predecessors. But it behoved them (as our saviour Christ told them) to fill up the measure of their fathers.⁵ And therefore God must needs use extreme vengeance towards them, and so curse them as we at this day see, from one end of the world to the other.

whose witnesse remaineth on the yeareth for euer. For, where as before it was compared to Paradise, now it remaineth so in Gods curse,¹ that it beareth no fruite that can sustaine man, but it turneth immediatly into smoke and ashes.² As the Heathen Historiographers & Cosmographers witnesse,³ and namely Cornelius ⟨image 19⟩