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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.
Theo. If I had any hope, I should rather hope, that God would do as he hath promised by his Prophets: he saith he will gather together all the Gold, Silver, Brass, Copper, Tin, Lead, Latin, and all other metals, and will cast them into a furnace in the middest of Jerusalem, to purge them, and to try out all the dross and falsehood. But it is very hard to do this, for the disease is incurable.
Theo. If I had any hope, I should rather hope, that God would doe as he hath promised by his Prophets: he saith he will gather together all the Golde, Siluer, Brasse, Copper, Tinne, Lead, Latten, and all other mettals, and will cast them into a furnase in the middest of Ierusalem, to purge them, and to trie out all the drosse and falshoode. But it is very harde to doe this, for the disease is incurable.
Jerome. We may well say with Titus Livius, that the world is so corrupt, that we can neither away with the vices, nor the remedies necessary for the same.
Ierom. Wee maie well saie with Titus Liuius, that the worlde is so corrupt, that wee can neither awaie with the vices, nor the remedies necessarie for the same.
Theo. He is a very wayward and unpatient patient, and therefore is like an old year then pot, which when it is once cracked, can neither be molten, sowed, nor men dead again, but the shards serve either to lade out water, or to fetch fire in. And yet I am afraid least that happen unto him which the Lord by his Prophets threateneth the wicked withal: saying, that he will break them like an year then pot, and will not leave so much as one piece or shard to carry either fire or water in: Or else that which David Prophesieth of the wicked, saying: They shall be all pulled up like thorns, which no man handleth: and if any man touch them, he shall be fenced with Iron, or the staff of a spear, and they shall be wholly burnt: David doth rightly compare the wicked to thorns, which every way do hurt: for they do not only hinder the earth from bearing fruit, but also prick and hurt them, that either come near them or handle them. Therefore the Lord threateneth the wicked as unruly