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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.
Eust. As for me,1 I know many, which liked the Gospel well, when in the beginning their Preachers cried against the abuse that they said was in the Romish church, and in Priests and Monks. They liked well also, that the goods of the church should be taken from Priests and Monks, to have the government of them themselves, under colour that the Priests and Monks abused them, and that they should be put to better use, but God knoweth how evil they ⟨image 65⟩are bestowed upon many, & in many places.
Eust. As for me,1 I knowe many, whiche liked the Gospell well, when in the beginnyng their Preachers cried against the abuse yt thei said was in the Romish church, and in Priestes and Monkes. Thei liked well also, that the goods of ye church should be taken frō Priests and Monkes, to haue the gouernmēt of them themselues, vnder colour that the Priests and Monkes abused them, and that thei should be put to better vse, but God knoweth how euill thei ⟨image 65⟩are bestowed vpō many, & in many places.
- 1They which abuse the Gospel making it serve to their own gain and affection.Thei whiche abuse the Gospell makyng it serue to their owne gaine and affection.
Toby. The worst is,1 that those which have not done herein as they ought, and which daily forget themselves more and more, cannot nowadays so much as suffer the Preachers to admonish and reprove them, and to stir them to bestow it where they ought to bestow it, according to the order and discipline that heretofore hath been used in the Primitive Church even since the Apostles time.