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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.…
The world possessed with devils containing three dialogues. 1. Of the Devil let loose. 2. Of black devils. 3. Of white devils. And of the coming of Jesus Christ to judgement, a very necessary and comfortable discourse for these miserable and dangerous days.The vvorlde possessed with deuils conteinyng three dialogues. 1. Of the Deuill let loose. 2. Of blacke deuils. 3. Of white deuils. And of the commyng of Iesus Christe to iudgement, a verie necessarie and comfortable discourse for these miserable and daungerous daies.
London: printed by John Kingston for John Perin, 1583London: printed by John Kingston for Ihon Perin, 1583
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Jerome. If it be so dangerous to have ⟨image 28⟩to do with a deaf man, how much more dangerous is it,1 to meddle with him that is both deaf, dumb, yea, and possessed with a Devil, as many are in these days? Thou hast heretofore compared the world to one, possessed with a Legion of Devils but as the possessed (which our Saviour Christ healed) were of divers sorts, so are they that now adays live in the world.
Ierom. If it bee so daungerous to haue ⟨image 28⟩to do with a deaffe man, how muche more daungerous is it,1 to meddle with him that is bothe deaffe, dombe, yea, and possessed with a Deuill, as many are in these daies? Thou hast heretofore compared the world to one, possessed with a Legion of Deuils but as the possessed (whiche our Sauiour Christ healed) were of diuers sortes, so are thei that now adaies liue in the worlde.
- 1The world deaf, blind and possessedThe worlde deaffe, blind and possessed
Toby. Why, how knowest thou that?
Tobie. Why, how knowest thou that?
Jerome. Ask of Theophraste how many sorts our Saviour Christ healed, as he findeth in the Scriptures: and then thou shalt easily know, if all those divers kinds of devils, which then tormented men are not now as rife, as ever they were, or worse, and if there be none possessed with devils now, which torment others also.