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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. I do verily think, that that which thou sayest is true, but I find few which follow that doctrine. For, I see many of your side, who are no better reformed,1 without, where peradventure they might at the least have fasted sometimes, so long as they held our law: who now, not only never fast, but commonly surfeit both in eating and drinking, as if they had received the Gospel for none other purpose, but to surfeit at pleasure, and make a scorn at all abstinence and sobriety.
Toby. I doe verely thinke, that that which thou sayest is true, but I finde fewe which follow that doctrine. For, I see manye of your side, whoe are no better reformed,1 without, where peraduenture they might at the least haue fasted sometimes, so long as they held our lawe: who nowe, not onely neuer fast, but commonly surfet both in eating and drinking, as if they had receyued the Gospell for none other purpose, but to surfette at pleasure, and make a scorne at all abstynence and sobrietie.
- 1Gluttony and drunkenness, cloaked under the title of the liberty of the Gospel.Gluttonny and drunkennes, cloked vnder the title of the liberty of the Gospell.
Theo. I must needs confess, that there are over many such. And I will confess more unto thee then that. For, if this mischief, whereof thou speakest, were but in some of the meaner sort, it were ⟨image 127⟩less to be lamented. But the greatest mischief of all the rest is this, that there are a great number of ministers and magistrates, who are more licentiously given to this kind of vice of trolling and bowling, then those men, whom they ought to correct for such offences. For these are the special men, whom a man shall ordinarily find in the Caverns and Tippling houses, as if their chiefest occupation were to troll and bowl, & provoke others to all looseness.