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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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And so by that mean, all their Gospel will be come a thing where ⟨image 98⟩with to scorn the Pope, his Priests, Friars, and the rest of his shorne Balaamites, and all the abuses of the Popish Church, and to make sport and pleasantly talk of them, especially in the companies of Ladies and Gentlewomen. And if the Gospel will give them any such liberty, whereby they may abuse it, into carnal liberty, they will be sure to lay fast hold thereon: and not stick to say, that they are not like unto those superstitious hypocritical Papists, whom they laugh to scorn. Howbeit, further they will not, but as for the rest of their life, it shall be as dissolute, as the most dissolute Papists, from whom they differ in nothing but in this, that they have put on a visor of the Gospel, that they might therewith the better cover their Atheism.
And so by that meane, all their Gospel wilbe come a thing where ⟨image 98⟩with to scorne the Pope, his Priests, Friars, and the rest of his shorne Balaamites, and all the abuses of the Popishe Churche, and to make sporte and pleasauntly talke of them, especially in the companies of Ladies and Gentlewomen. And if the Gospel wil giue them any such libertye, whereby they may abuse it, into carnal lybertie, they will be sure to laye fast holde thereon: and not sticke to saye, that they are not like vnto those superstitious hypocriticall Papistes, whom they laugh to scorne. Howbeyt, further they will not, but as for the rest of their life, it shalbe as dissolute, as the most dissolute Papistes, from whom they differ in nothing but in this, that they haue put on a vizar of the Gospel, that they might therewith the better couer theyr Atheisme.
Tob. Thou hast hitherto spoken of Libertine Atheists, who dissemble their Atheism, under the colour of having some Religion in them, so far forth as it tendeth either to their commodity or discommodity. But there are some others, who be cause they cannot find any such occasion, become ⟨image 99⟩