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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.
Eusta. Theophrast and Jerome may not marvel, if I and such as I am, cannot follow the Religion and living, which they follow, considering that we see so great disorder and fault in those, which do most vaunt of that reformation, which they so much set out: for we perceive, that they cannot agree themselves.1 The Ministers are one against an other. And if they disagree together, they disagree worse with the Magistrates & people, and each of them accuseth other. And for my part, me thinks the Ministers that have forsaken the Romish church, to set forward that reformation, which they now have, deserve to be used as they are. For in seeking to get the Magistrates and peoples favour against the Pope, Priests and Monks, they have so despised the state of Priesthood, and ministry of the Church, and so magnified ⟨image 70⟩the state of Magistrates, that they now feel the fruits thereof. They thought to set the Magistrates and people, against the Pope and his Church men, but they have now set them against themselves. For they now drink of the same cup, that they gave other to drink of. They thought they should bring a great enterprise to pass, if they could drive out the Priests and Monks, to set those in their stead,2 whom they have now placed. They thought it a goodly reformation in the church, to abolish all the Cannons and Decrees, with the good statutes, which the ancient Fathers and Doctors had ordained, to maintain good discipline in the Church. They have put all into the Magistrates hands, and have made them masters of the church. It is no marvel, though they will not only maintain that, which they have in possession, but also encroach farther, to be out of the subjection of all discipline. Yea, they are not contented herewith, but where they should be subject to the discipline, which have been ordained in the church, they themselves will appoint such discipline, aswell to the Ministers, as to the whole church, as shall seem good unto them. Yet when they have that, they themselves will not be subject to that ⟨image 71⟩law and discipline, which they have appointed to other, but will dispense with it, aswell for themselves, as for those whom they favour as they think good, even aswell as the Pope.