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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
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Toby. I think that neither they nor you are so spitefully bent, to go about to dishonour one an other after this sort, how spiteful so ever ye be one against an ot•er in other things. But we will leave such occasions ⟨image 52⟩in which some will whiten themselves in blacking other, and talk we again of Julian the Apostate, whose story thou haste not yet ended. Thou hast already told, how he transfigured himself into a white devil divers ways, but thou haste not yet declared, how the white Devil become black.
Tobie. I think that neither thei nor you are so spitefully bent, to goe about to dishonor one an other after this sort, how spitful so euer ye be one against an ot•er in other thinges. But we will leaue suche occasiōs ⟨image 52⟩in whiche some will whiten themselues in blackyng other, and talke we again of Iulian the Apostata, whose storie thou haste not yet ended. Thou hast already told, how he transfigured hymself into a white deuil diuers waies, but thou haste not yet declared, how the white Deuill become blacke.
Theo. When he saw, that by all the means that he could devise, he could not abolish the Christian Religion, and establish and augment the Heathen Religion, but that contrariwise it increased more and more, he was marvellous angry, and in such rage, as he could not forbear, but in the end manifestly to open it. And here upon he forbade the Christians, the reading of the Heathen Poets, Orators, and Philosophers: to the end that they might not allege them for authority against the Heathens. For, he used to say: the Christians do prick us and thrust us through, with our own Fathers, because they did confound the Heathens with their own books: And whipped them with their own Rods, as the faithful at this day do whip the Papists. For, if we had none other books but their own, we should have sufficient to condemn them all of false religion