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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.
Toby. To say truly, he handleth them very roughly, when he once beginneth to lay his hand on them.
Toby. To saye truely, hee handleth thē very roughly, when he once beginneth to lay his hand on them.
Theo. But amongst all the rest,1 whom the example of Saul ought most to terrify, are all glorious, proud, envious, and hypocritical men, and all tyrants, but especially, those kinds of men,2 who fight against their own consciences, and persecute such as they know to be most innocent. For, Saul, was subject to all these vices. But, he most manifestly showed, what great power the Devil had over him, when as he so openly fought against his own conscience, which oftentimes enforced him to accuse & condemn his own self, for the injuries and wrongs which he had done unto David. ⟨image 115⟩For, how often was he enforced to say, that he was a vile and wicked man, and had done great injury to David,3 and that David was innocent, and a far honester man then him self? And who enforced him this to do, but the very power of the trueth, and his own conscience, which drave him to it, as if he had been racked to do it? he right well knew, that he did wickedly, and that he manifestly fought against God, and yet for all this, he no whit amended him self: but still became more traitorous, fierce & cruel, without any regard, either to GOD, justice or equity, then any brute and furious beast. But when he made such a jolly confession of his sins, a man would have thought, that he had been very penitent, and altogether converted. A man would have thought that he had been come again to his right wits, and that he had been very well disposed to have don much better, then before time he had. But he was immediately after, quite and clean altered, and did worse, then before he had done. Insomuch, that at the very same instant, wherein he used these speeches, declaring the innocency of