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<DIV1 TYPE="title page">
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<P>THE SECOND PART <HI>OF THE DEMO|NIACKE</HI> VVORLDE, or worlde po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed <HI>with Diuels, contei|ning</HI> three Dia|logues:</P>
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<ITEM>1. Of Familiar Diuels.</ITEM>
<ITEM>2. Of Lunaticke Diuels.</ITEM>
<ITEM>3. Of the coniuring of Diuels.</ITEM>
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<P>Tran&s;lated out of French into En|gli&s;h by T. S. Gentleman.</P>
<P>&leaf; Imprinted at <HI>Lon|don for Iohn Perin, and are</HI> to bee &s;olde in Paules <HI>Church|yard, at the &s;igne of the Angel.</HI></P>
<P>1583.</P>
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<DIV1 TYPE="dedication">
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<HEAD>&para; To the right wor&s;hip|ful Sir Iohn Higham, Knight, increa&s;e of al heauenly and Spirituall giftes, to the <HI>aduauncing of the glorie of God, and the</HI> benefiting of his Church: together, <HI>in|crea&s;e of true worldly Wor&s;hip here in this life, and in the world to come, perfect bli&s;&s;e and felicitie for euer.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_HAuing once purpo&s;ed with my &s;elfe (Right Wor&s;hipfull) to haue put into our Engli&s;he tongue, certeine French Dialogues of M. Peter Viret his &s;et|ting forth, a man known to the world, to haue bin in his time &s;ingulerly wel learned, &amp; very godly, and &s;uch a one, as hath publi&s;hed many other books, to the glory of God and benefit of his Church to all po&s;terity to come: and being preuented of three of them, by
<PB REF="3"> rea&s;on they were gotten into their En|gli&s;h liuery, before &s;uch time as I tooke them in ha~d: I was therfore eft&s;oones driuen to bee contented, with the fini|&s;hing of the&s;e la&s;t three: the Dialogues are &s;ixe in number, &amp; by mine author intituled by a generall name, called <HI>The Demoniacke worlde:</HI> Or the world, po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed with Diuels: giuing be&s;ides, to eche Dialougue, his &s;euerall title al|&s;o, as by the reading ouer of the~, maye well appeare. The Arguments are ve|ry pretie, and the handling of them (in my poore opinion) well worthy the reading, and both plea&s;ant, and profi|ble. In&s;omuch (Sir) as that when I hadde made an ende of the&s;e three, minding to make choy&s;e of &s;ome &s;ufficient Patrone whiche were of good wor&s;hip, and of power able, in knowledge both in diuinity and hu|manitie wi&s;e, and in zeale and affecti|on, willing and forwarde about the aduancing of the glory of God, e&s;pe|cially
<PB REF="3"> in the cau&s;e of true and &s;ounde religion, for the &s;hielding of this my &s;imple trauell: called to remembrance (amo~g&s;t the re&s;t of &s;uch Gentlemen as I was acquainted withall) your wor|&s;hip, to whom I might addre&s;&s;e the &s;ame: hauing therwith this confide~ce, that you will mo&s;te willingly patro|nize and defend it. And heereuppon, humbly crauing pardon for this my boldne&s;&s;e, I cea&s;e to trouble you with ouer many wordes, committing you and al yours to the tuition of the mo&s;t high.</P>
<CLOSER><SIGNED>Your VV. mo&s;t hum|ble <HI>in the Lord.</HI> Tho. Stocker.</SIGNED> <DATELINE>London <DATE>the 25. of March. 1583.</DATE></DATELINE></CLOSER>
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<DIV1 TYPE="summary">
<PB REF="4">
<HEAD>The Title and Summe of <HI>the fourth Dialogue.</HI></HEAD>
<P>_THis fourth Dialogue is intituled, Familiar Diuels, becau&s;e it maketh menti|on of the &s;ubtleties wher|by Sathan per&s;ecuteth the Go&s;pel, vnder &s;hewe of friend&s;hip and familiarity to the &s;eruants of God. The&s;e Diuels are of the kind of tho&s;e which before I called White Diuels, and therefore they may very well bee placed alike. And as for the matters here trea|ted of in this Dialogue, there is mention made of the contradiction, that is in the Diuel, and the wicked: Of the commendation which they giue to the good to an euil end. And contrari|wi&s;e, how they di&s;commend and di&s;honour al &s;uch as prai&s;e and honour Chri&s;t, his &s;eruants, and Go&s;pel.</P>
<P>The manner howe the Papi&s;tes honour the Go&s;pel, and of the true honour, or di&s;honour that may be done to the &s;ame.</P>
<P>The honour that the enimies of Chri&s;tian di&s;cipline doe to the Go&s;pel, whiche they pro|fe&s;&s;e
<PB REF="4"> only in the lippes.</P>
<P>The Sorcere&s;&s;es diuel of Philippi.</P>
<P>The prai&s;e and commendation which the Diuel giueth to the mini&s;tery and mini&s;ters of the Go&s;pel.</P>
<P>The meanes wherewith the Diuel v&s;eth to fight again&s;t the Go&s;pel.</P>
<P>The Diuel transfigured into an Angell of light.</P>
<P>Of the troth which the Diuel may &s;peake, and how we ought to iudge of the troth.</P>
<P>Of the feigned friend&s;hip that certeine &s;horne hypocritical Balamites &s;hewe vnto the go|&s;pel, that they might thereby hinder the cour&s;e thereof.</P>
<P>What fauourable accu&s;ations the enemies of the Go&s;pel are woonted to v&s;e again&s;t the true &s;eruants of God.</P>
<P>Of the diuers and &s;undry fal&s;e &s;hewes whi|che the Diuel maketh.</P>
<P>What good affection the wicked beare vn|to God and good men.</P>
<P>Of the charitie of Iudas.</P>
<P>With what colour the mainteiners of Anti|chri&s;t v&s;e to colour their fal&s;e religion.</P>
<P>What iolly &s;hiftes they haue, that glory of the profes&s;ion of the Go&s;pel, and yet followe
<PB REF="5"> the old manner of Poperie.</P>
<P>How they condemne the Go&s;pel, before they know any cau&s;e why.</P>
<P>The fayned friend&s;hip which the enemies of the truth v&s;e towards Princes.</P>
<P>What fauour the wicked find among magi|&s;trates.</P>
<P>What regard Magi&s;trates ought to haue to Backbiters &amp; &s;launderers.</P>
<P>What greate mi&s;chiefe is ordinarily done vnto the &s;eruantes of God.</P>
<P>What the cau&s;es are why men cannot abide nor away with the &s;eruantes of God.</P>
<P>The iudgement of God for our vnthankful|nes of de&s;pi&s;ing &amp; hating of the troth: &amp; of the power and force of illu&s;ion and errour.</P>
<P>What the cau&s;es are, why we rather follow lyes then trueth.</P>
<P>The lets that hinder vs from the knowledge of the truth.</P>
<P>What kind of men they bee, vnto whom, Ie&s;us Chri&s;t is a teacher and a Schoolemai&s;ter.</P>
<P>The Pre&s;eruatiues again&s;t error and fal&s;e doctrine.</P>
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<PB REF="5">
<HEAD>&leaf; <HI>The fourth Dialogue</HI> of the Demoniacke world, na|med <HI>Familiar Diuels.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Theophra&s;t, Tobie, Ierome, Eu&s;tace.</P>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theophra&s;t.</SPEAKER>
<P>_ACcording to our former talke, of tho&s;e which are conte~ted with y^e &s;hew of y^e go&s;pel only, methinks y^t if we &s;o~what narrow|ly look into their behaui+our, we &s;hal find the~ not much vnlike to y^t Demoniack, of whom S. Marke and S. Luke both make mention.</P>
</SP>
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<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>How behaued he him&s;elfe?</P>
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<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>In his behauiour, he &s;hewed him+&s;elfe cleane contrary to him&s;elfe.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>It is no greate maruayle if the Diuell be contrary to him &s;elfe, but it were rather to be maruayled at, if hee <NOTE PLACE="marg">The Diuel con+trary to him|&s;elfe.</NOTE> &s;hould not be &s;o: for that he is both a lyar, &amp; al&s;o a deceiuer. But wherin doth he grayn|&s;ay him&s;elfe?</P>
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<SPEAKER><PB REF="6">Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>Hee called our Sauiour Chri&s;t <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">arke 3. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ike 4.</NOTE> the holy one of God, if he be the holy one of God, than is he come to hallow vs: &amp; if hee become to hallow vs, he mu&s;t of nece&s;&s;itie <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;us Chri&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> holy one of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">od.</NOTE> driue the Diuel from vs. For the Diuell is an vncleane and filthy &s;pirite, and cleane contrary to all holine&s;&s;e, and to the &s;pirite of God, which is called holy, becau&s;e it hal|loweth, <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ath. 12.</NOTE> yet the Diuel feareth nothing &s;o much, as to be driuen from vs, for feare we &s;hould be &s;anctified of Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, whiche is the holy one of the mo&s;t holy.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>The wicked &s;pyrits did manife&s;t|ly &s;hewe that, by the petition whiche they made to Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, that he woulde not dryue them out of the countrey.</P>
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<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>We need to &s;eeke for no further proofe hereof. For the Diuel de&s;ireth no|thing &s;o much as to entertayne vs in al fil|thine&s;&s;e and vncleanne&s;&s;e, to the ende that God might not be &s;anctified nor glorified in vs, but be more and more di&s;honoured and bla&s;phemed: And therefore doeth this wicked &s;pirite flatter Chri&s;t, giuing hym the tytle that belongeth to him. Doubtle&s;&s;e hee did this for two principall cau&s;es: The fir&s;t, to bring Chri&s;t in &s;u&s;pition, and
<PB REF="6"> to dimini&s;h his glory in &s;eeming to pray&s;e him. The &s;econd to e&s;cape his hands by flat|tery, that he might thereby be accompted of him, as his friend.</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>Me thinkes this Deuill gain&s;ay|eth him&s;elfe: for he de&s;ireth &s;till to play his part, that is, to hynder vs, and yet acknow|ledgeth Ie&s;us Chri&s;t to be the &s;ame, which &s;hal let him, and is purpo&s;ely come into the world to the &s;ame end.</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>Yea he flattereth Chri&s;t, there|by to let him from executing his office, while&s;t hee in the meane time might playe his prankes. There are alwayes manye &s;uche Diuels among vs. For there are ma|ny that pray&s;e the true mini&s;ters of GOD and good men before their faces, who~ they knowe well enough to be enemyes to their vices: which they doe not, for any loue that they haue eyther to them or their vertues, (for they hate nothing more) but to get the more in fauour, and that good men &s;hould not puni&s;he them as they de&s;erue.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>They call them hone&s;t me~, becau&s;e they would hinder them, from doing y^e duty of hone&s;t men, &amp; prai&s;e their vertues, to the end they &s;hould not v&s;e them.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><PB REF="7">Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>Indeed, thou ha&s;t hit the nayle on the head. And therfore lea&s;t the &s;eruants of God and vertuous men, &s;hould make them lyars, which &s;o pray&s;e them, they cannot do better then faithfully execute their charge, and &s;hewe the duety of good men, as well towardes them, as towardes all other: euen as Ie&s;us Chri&s;t did towardes the&s;e Diuelles, which pray&s;ed him &s;o much. For in ca&s;ting out the&s;e Diueis, he &s;hewed in effect, both to the Diuelles and to all o|ther, that hee was verily the holy one of GOD, and the &s;onne of the mo&s;te high God.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>Tu&s;h man, that is not it that the di|uels and wicked ones would haue.</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>Why, we knowe this for cer|tayne, <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">f tho&s;e kindes <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">me~ who giue <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Ie&s;us Chri&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the Go&s;pel, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ch titles as <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">elo~g vnto the~, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">cau&s;e they <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ould haue the~ <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">acke their du|ie.</NOTE> that they are contented to giue Ie&s;us Chri&s;t and his faithfull &s;eruants the titles that belo~g to them, whyle they &s;ee no remedy to gayn&s;ay or re&s;i&s;t. But they had rather that Ie&s;us Chri&s;t &amp; his, wold be con|tent with the bare name alone (as many o|ther be) &amp; not execute the office which belo~|geth therto, &amp; for which cau&s;e &s;uch names &amp; titles are giuen them. For howe many are there in the world now a dayes: but chiefly
<PB REF="7"> in the Popi&s;h Churche, whiche are conten|ted with the titles, and rentes whiche they po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e vnder colour of the &s;ayd tytles: not caring for executing the office whiche they are bounde to, and whereof they beare the name?</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>There are enow &s;uch of al &s;orts.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>The Diuell was contented that Chri&s;t &s;hould be called the holy one of God, if he would not &s;hew the office of the holye one of God again&s;t him. So are there many in the&s;e dayes, which are content to pray&s;e the Go&s;pell, and to honour it with their mouthes, and outward ceremonies: &s;o that it be not looked on, &amp; the doctrine ther|in contayned bee not publi&s;hed &amp; practized. We haue euide~t proof therof in the Popi&s;h ma&s;&s;e: for it is maruelous to &s;ee what honor the ma&s;&s;e giueth to the book of the Go&s;pell, when it is &s;ong, &amp; &s;pecially in high ma&s;&s;es. Whe~ y^e go&s;pel is &s;o~g, there is &s;e~&s;ing, torch|light, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Of the honour which the Pa|pi&s;ts giue to the Go&s;pel.</NOTE> ki&s;&s;ing of y^e book, &s;ta~ding vp: Alwaies prouided, that the Go&s;pel be &s;ong or &s;aid to the people in an vnknowen tongue, and not in &s;uche &s;orte to bee vttered, as that the vertue and efficacie thereof bee manife|&s;ted vnto the heartes of the people. Is not
<PB REF="8"> this a great &s;ubtletie of Sathan, to &s;hewe &s;uch honour to the Go&s;pel, to the ende it might bee the more di&s;honoured? For the <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the honour, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ich the ene|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">es of the di&s;|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">line of the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;pel giue to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Go&s;pel.</NOTE> greate&s;t honour that the Go&s;pel can haue, is to be printed in the heart: &amp; contrariwy&s;e the greate&s;t di&s;honour that may be done vn|to it, is, not to receiue it with true faith, and to be carele&s;&s;e of the vnder&s;tanding, and ef|fecting thereof.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>This then I perceiue to be thy drift to proue, that we honour the Go&s;pel in <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hat the true <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">iour, and di&s;|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">our of the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;pel is.</NOTE> our Ma&s;&s;e, as the Diuell honoured Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, when he called him the holy one of God, meaning thereby to put him from do|yng of that his duety which God his father had commaunded him to doe.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>I wil not giue a poynt to choo&s;e. For, is not that which you doe, a very moc|kery vnto Ie&s;us Chri&s;t and his Go&s;pel?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>Thou comme&s;t very fa&s;t &s;til vp|pon vs. But I pray thee tell me, is there none among&s;t you that playeth the like di|uels part?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>Yes I warrant thee, too too manie: But they playe it after an other &s;orte: For there are &s;ome, who are con|tented to &s;uffer the mini&s;ter of the Go|&s;pel
<PB REF="8"> preach the pure word of God, yea, and to haue mini&s;ters al&s;o, and to mainteyne them: &s;o they enforce them not to the prac|ti&s;e of the Go&s;pell. Wee &s;pake before of tho&s;e that with&s;tood the di&s;cipline of the Go&s;pel. Of whiche there are two &s;ortes: The fir&s;t of them, are they, that cannot a|byde, that any &s;houlde &s;peake, preache, or write thereof: The &s;econde &s;ort of them are they which are contented to heare with all that, &s;o there bee no talke of the execution thereof. But the wor&s;t is, that among the&s;e, there are &s;ome, that do not only with&s;tande the execution therof on them&s;elues, but al&s;o hinder tho&s;e that would be contented to re|ceiue it, and wil not &s;uffer them &s;o to doe.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>Why doe they &s;o? Me thinketh it inough, &amp; in deed too much for the~&s;elues to be rebels again&s;t God &amp; his word, although they hindred not the obedience of others.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>I thinke they doe it, becau&s;e they feare, lea&s;t, after y^e others were brought to y^t di&s;cipline, they al&s;o might bee enforced thereunto. For there are many that would not greatly care though other men lyued neuer &s;o vprightly, &s;o that they them&s;elues might be at liberty to do what them li&s;ted.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><PB REF="9">Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>I wonder at tho&s;e men. For if they think the doctrine good, y^t is preached vnto the~, why &s;uffer they it not to be practized &amp; put in execution: if they thinke it not good, why &s;uffer they it to be preached, and &s;peci|ally, &s;eeing they haue authority and power to &s;toppe the &s;ame?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>No doubt of it, there are too too many (as we haue before &s;aid) that woulde gladly &s;top it, if they dur&s;t: were it not for feare they &s;hold be accompted tyrantes &amp; o|pe~ enemies to God. But becau&s;e they &s;ee, y^t they cannot do it but to their great reproch &amp; &s;hame, they are like the diuel, who is con|tented to take Ie&s;us Chri&s;t for the holy one of God, &s;o he may be &s;til a diuel, &amp; continue in the &s;elfe &s;ame &s;tate, wherin Ie&s;us Chri&s;t fou~d him. And therfore whe~ they are infor|ced, as Chri&s;te inforced this diuel, they crye out as he cried, &amp; &s;hew their &s;ecret hatred to the truth of God, &amp; fal a threatning &amp; per&s;e|cuting of his true &s;erua~ts, whe~ as they per|ceiue y^t they can neither by fayre &s;peeches, nor yet hypocri&s;y, obteine their de&s;ire.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>And therefore it is naught euerye way, &amp; waxeth &s;til wor&s;e &amp; wor&s;e. You make a ie&s;t at vs, &amp; &s;ay, y^t we on our &s;ide honor the
<PB REF="9"> go&s;pel outwardly, but that we neither care for y^e vnder&s;ta~ding therof, nor lyuing there|after. And I be&s;eech you, wherein is your &s;ide any whit better? For they are conten|ted the Go&s;pel &s;hould be preached, and the &s;ence thereof expounded, &s;o they heare it not, or if they heare it, &s;o they follow it not, no more tha~ we. Thus we are both wel ple|&s;ed with the name of Chri&s;tian, and go&s;pel, but we neither care either for the dutie of chri&s;tianitie, or yet for the fruite that wee &s;hould receiue by the Go&s;pell.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>So &s;ay I to: For we are all contented that Ie&s;us Chri&s;t &s;hould bee the holy one of GOD, &s;o hee hallowe vs not.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>To.</SPEAKER>
<P>Hereby we may ea&s;ily perceiue, that the Diuell, which gaue this title to Chri&s;te, is not yet out of the world.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>As much may be &s;ayde of that other Diuel in the Sorcere&s;&s;e of Philip|pi, <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Acts. 16.</HI> The Deuill of Philippi. The commenda+tion, whiche the deuill giueth to the myni&s;teri of the Go&s;pell.</NOTE> of whome we &s;pake before. For GOD knoweth howe little plea&s;ure the Diuell which po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed her tooke, in the mini&s;terie of Paule and Sylas, and yet hee pray&s;ed them and their mini&s;terie, and extolled the~ to the people of Philippi to the vttermo&s;t.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><PB REF="10">To.</SPEAKER>
<P>Surely, it is to be meruailed at, that the father of lyes woulde pray&s;e and extoll before men, the trueth, which hee ha|teth aboue all other thinges.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>Yea, but here is a further matter then all this. For, thou &s;ee&s;t, that be doeth not onely forbeare to with&s;tand, and openlye re&s;i&s;t the &s;eruauntes of God, but beeing al&s;o enemy to mans &s;aluation, en|courageth the people to hear the doctrine of &s;aluatio~ at y^e mouths of tho&s;e, who~ god hath appoynted to be y^e ouerthrow of his king|dome. <HI>To.</HI> Truely, herein <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e meruailou&s;&s;y changeth and altereth his nature: for where before time, he was woont with might and maine, to withdraw men from the worde of God: here he &s;tirreth and prouoketh them thereunto.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>And yet that is not, his mea|ning was cleane contrary, how glorious &amp; <NOTE PLACE="marg">The meanes which the De|ull v&s;eth to fight again&s;t the Go|&s;pell.</NOTE> glittering a &s;hew &s;oeuer he made. And ther|fore hereby thou mai&s;t perceiue, that com|monly, the Deuill hath two &s;tringes to his bowe to re&s;i&s;t the trueth.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>To.</SPEAKER>
<P>Which be they?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>The one is, in that, y^t he is a ty|rant and murtherer, he will, if it be po&s;&s;ible
<PB REF="10"> re&s;i&s;t the trueth by force: and &s;o v&s;e y^<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;tring, beecau&s;e it agreeth iumpe with his nature: but if that &s;tring will not &s;erue, hee putteth on the other. <HI>To.</HI> What ma~er a one is that?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>It is lying: for, he wil by y^e, if he ca~, practi&s;e to come in credit: for y^t is as natural to him, as y^e fir&s;t. But when hee mindes to worke by lying, hee v&s;eth not alwayes one way. <HI>To.</HI> How doth he than?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>Fir&s;t, if he haue to doe with igno|raunt men, in the word of God, and gro&s;&s;e headed people, he the~ be&s;tirreth him to ouer|throw the trueth by fal&s;e doctrine, &s;uper&s;ti|tion, and idolatry, wherwith he di&s;gui&s;eth. y^e true religio~. But, if that way wil not &s;erue his turne, he &s;eemeth by &amp; by to allow of the doctrine of the trueth, and to be friend ther|vnto, to the end that vnder this colour, he maye the more &s;ubtillye and &s;ecretly bring his enterpri&s;e to pa&s;&s;e. And, although this enemy is alwayes greatly to be feared, yet is he neuer &s;o much to be feared, as when <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>2. Cor. 11.</HI> The deuil tran&s;|figureth him &s;elf into an Angel of light.</NOTE> he v&s;eth thus to faigne and glo&s;e. For hee neuer hurteth &s;o &s;ore, as when he tran&s;figu|reth him&s;elfe into an Angell of light, which he can right well doe.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>To.</SPEAKER>
<P>I thinke that was the cau&s;e,
<PB REF="11"> whie S. Paule put the Diuell of Philip|pi to &s;ilence, as al&s;o why Ie&s;us Chri&s;te put tho&s;e to &s;ilence, which pray&s;ed him.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>The.</SPEAKER>
<P>That is out of all doubt. For although, that the&s;e Diuels &s;pak y^e truth, in te&s;tifying that that was true, which both Ie&s;us Chri&s;te and his Seruauntes hadde &s;poken and doone: yet is it not to be &s;aid properlye, that they &s;pake the trueth, by rea&s;on of their intent, and the ende which they pretended. For, where they <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">That trueth it <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> that the deuil <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> able to &s;peak, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd to what end <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;peaketh it.</NOTE> outwardly &s;eemed to induce the people to followe Ie&s;us Chri&s;te, by rea&s;on of the gloryous woordes, which they gaue out of him, they had a cleane contrary pur|po&s;e, to withdrawe them from him.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Toby.</SPEAKER>
<P>How is that po&s;&s;ible?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>Euen by this meane. For, whe~ the Diuelles v&s;e the&s;e kinds of woordes, they whiche heare them, eyther beleeue them, or not beleeue them. And if they beleeue them, they beleeue them not as if they were the Enemies of Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, and of his Seruauntes: But doe rather thinke, that there is great friend&s;hip, and a friendlye agreement betwixt them.</P>
<PB REF="11">
<P>And therfore, if they thought Saint Paule and Sylas to bee the Seruaunts of God, they might likewi&s;e thinke, that this Sor+cere&s;&s;e was neyther again&s;t them, nor yet they again&s;t her, but that they agreed all very well together. But if they beleeued them not, but tooke the wicked &s;pyrites, to bee wicked &s;pyrites in deede, that myght haue brought a great &s;launder vppon Ie|&s;us Chri&s;te and his Seruauntes, and vppon their doctrine al&s;o: and &s;o haue made them all to bee very greatlye &s;u&s;|pected, by rea&s;on they had the te&s;timonie of &s;uch witne&s;&s;es.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Toby.</SPEAKER>
<P>Then I perceyue that the Deuill is alwayes readye to &s;erue his own turne at a pynch.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>A&s;&s;ure thy&s;elfe of that. For, if hee and his Te&s;timonie were reiected, they whom hee hadde commended, &s;hould al&s;o for the &s;ame cau&s;e, bee reiected with him for company: and yet hee him &s;elf in, the meane whyle, not bee reiected at all. For hee woulde &s;till keepe his po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion in tho&s;e, who had for&s;aken Ie&s;us Chri&s;te and his, vnder another colour. And ther|fore if they were entertayned, the Deuill
<PB REF="12"> would al&s;o be entertayned with them: and &s;o by that meanes, hee &s;hould be in truth, and in deede, entertayned: and Ie&s;us chri&s;t, his doctrine, and &s;eruauntes, but in &s;hewe, and for fa&s;hions &s;ake. For, Ie&s;us Chri&s;t and his aduer&s;arye, are not to bee enter|tayned both at once, neyther hath hee any familyaritie and common abode and dwel|ling with him.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Toby.</SPEAKER>
<P>Heere is a meruailous &s;ubtill pollycie, and crooked nature of the Deuil, being therin &s;o compounded with lea&s;ing and vntrueth, as that hee turneth the truth it &s;elfe into lying, and maketh the trueth to bee no more trueth, when it once com|meth out of his mouth. <NOTE PLACE="marg">The trueth, not trueth.</NOTE></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>You &s;aye verye tru<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lye. For, Trueth, to &s;peake properly, con&s;i&s;teth not in the bare woordes &s;poken, but in the meaning, for which cau&s;e they are vttered. And therefore hee &s;peaketh not the trueth, which &s;ayeth not the trueth, but onely to lye, and deceyue.</P>
<P>And bee&s;ides, wee are not to take for trueth, the trueth that is myxed with lying.
<PB REF="12"> For, in this ca&s;e, the trueth is nowe no more trueth, but onelye a fal&s;e colour of trueth, and without any &s;ub&s;tance therof, for the colouring of a lye. And therfore, <NOTE PLACE="marg">How wee oug<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> to iudge of th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> trueth.</NOTE> when we are to iudge of the trueth, wee mu&s;t not iudge only according to y^e woords which wee heare, nor yet take them by halfes, but receyue all the partes toge|ther, and &s;o looke to what end and purpo&s;e they were &s;poken.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Toby.</SPEAKER>
<P>If this, that thou &s;peake&s;t off were well looked vnto, wee &s;houlde neuer haue &s;o manye men &s;educed and leadde a|waye from the trueth, as daylye wee &s;ee.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>Why, I will tell thee, we neede <NOTE PLACE="marg">The honour which the Pa|pi&s;ts do to Ie|&s;us Chri&s;t, is t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> di&s;honour him.</NOTE> not &s;eeke any further for examples, concer|ning this matter, the~ to the Romi&s;h church. For, the Pope and his fal&s;e Prophets haue v&s;ed the &s;elfe &s;ame cunning, which the De|uilles v&s;ed at Philippi: be&s;ides others al&s;o, who haue made as glorious a confe&s;&s;ion of Ie&s;us Chri&s;t. For the holy &s;cripture attri|buteth nothing to Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, and to his church, which they do not al&s;o attribute vn|to him, in plain &amp; bare words. For, ther is no prai&s;e
<PB REF="13"> nor commendation, which the Prophets, Apo&s;tles, and Martyres euer gaue vnto him, that they likewi&s;e giue not vnto him: And yet Ie&s;us Chri&s;t and his church haue not more cruel enemies, that more villanou&s;ly bla&s;pheme, nor more cruelly per&s;ecute them, then the&s;e men, whiche fayne them&s;elues to bee their greate&s;t and deere&s;t friendes.</P>
<P>They will giue al the pray&s;e that a man woulde wi&s;he them, both to Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, to his Church, and to his Go&s;pell, and yet in all the re&s;t of their dealinges, they make no reckning of them: but onelye in faigning them&s;elues to be their friends and defendours, and &s;o by that meanes they deceyue the worlde, and aduaunce them &s;elues farre aboue Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, and his Church.</P>
<P>And in &s;o dooing, they make warre with Ie&s;us Chri&s;te, at his owne proper coa&s;te and charge.</P>
<P>And this cour&s;e al&s;o tooke Mahomet, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Mahomet, and the Pope, the Deuille<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ollye counter<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eitors.</NOTE> when he fir&s;t began to deliuer his law. For if he had not &s;poken wel of Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, of his Prophetes, and Apo&s;tles, he had ne|uer
<PB REF="13"> had &s;uch a traine following him as hee hath had. But he aduanced, and &s;et foorth the pray&s;es of Ie&s;us Chri&s;te &amp; of his, therby to ouerthrowe Chri&s;tian religion, and &s;ay a foundation, whereon to builde his fal&s;e re|ligion with &s;ome apparance of truth.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>What? thinke&s;t thou that there are not moe then tho&s;e which thou ha&s;t &s;po|ken of, who haue put this matter in prac|ti&s;e?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>Why? a man &s;hall hardly &s;ee any other thing practi&s;ed at this day in the <NOTE PLACE="marg">Shorne mon<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+&s;ticall hypocri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> feigne the~&s;elu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> to be friends <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the go&s;pell, th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> they might the<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> by hinder the cour&s;e thereof.</NOTE> worlde. For, to an&s;were to the fir&s;t poynt, we &s;ee that euer &s;ithence that God hath cau+&s;ed at this day, the light of his holy Go&s;pell to &s;hine among&s;t vs, that there haue an ex|ceeding pe&s;tilent number of Monkes and Fryers, and others of that rabble entred, who haue, and dayly doe, Iu&s;tily play theyr partes. For &s;o &s;oone as they &s;awe, that their beggerly wallet brought them not home, &s;o notable a reuenue as in tunes pa&s;t it did, and that they were not in &s;uch honor and reputation as before indeed they were, by preaching of their fables and lyes, they then baganne to counterfeite to bee
<PB REF="14"> Chri&s;tian, and Go&s;pellike Preachers. For, &s;ome of them, for&s;ooke their cloy&s;ters, and became to &s;erue in Churches, where they vnder&s;tood they might liue with greater li|bertie, and &s;o cleane ca&s;t off their cowle and weede when they were gotten out. And &s;ome of them continued amo~g&s;t tho&s;e peo|ple, who as yet had not the &s;incere mini&s;te|rie of the go&s;pel free amonge&s;t them. The&s;e men ware &s;ome part of their mona&s;ticall weedes, and ca&s;t &s;ome outward part of the~ cleane off. And &s;o by this their hypocriti|cal dealing, they had recour&s;e vnto many good hou&s;es and Churches, whereinto they had not been as yet receiued, if they had not made &s;ome &s;hew to haue been friendes, and not enemies, and per&s;ecutors, as commo~ly they are, who vowe the~&s;elues to the&s;e dam|nable &s;ects. Howbeit they had no &s;ooner &s;et in footing, but that they &s;hewed a ca&s;t of their office, &amp; what loue they bare to Ie&s;us Chri&s;t and his go&s;pel. For, then they &s;hew|ed them&s;elues whether they were &s;horne mona&s;ticals or not, and with what &s;pirite they were guided. And there are at this day anexceeding &s;hameles nu~ber, who both on y^e one &s;ide &amp; the other, play their parts in this
<PB REF="14"> pageant, &amp; &s;uch in deed, as trouble more the churches, then all the re&s;t of the enemies, which they ca~ po&s;&s;ibly haue. Howbeit, I meane not here, to find fault with &s;uch good me~, as with good toke~s haue for&s;aken the&s;e damnable &s;ects, &amp; behaued them&s;elues as y^e good &s;eruants of God, of which, god be tha~|ked for the~, there are a great number. And therefore, it is very needefull for all men to take good heed of the&s;e tran&s;figured &s;horne mona&s;ticals, who haue thru&s;t them&s;elues into the church as Apo&s;tles &amp; mini&s;ters of the go&s;pel, to the end men by them bee not lightly deceiued.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>I know not after what maner thou handele&s;t the&s;e &s;horne mona&s;ticals, of whom thou &s;peake&s;t, &amp; many others &s;uche like, who dayly ioyne with you: but this I right wel know, that there are an exceeding &s;hameles number of the~, who haue no great good liking of you, nor yet of your Chur|ches, and namely of the mo&s;t famous, ver|tuous, and learned among you.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>The.</SPEAKER>
<P>Why man, they mu&s;t needs make an end of playing out their whole pageant, which they haue begunne, &amp; that the end of theyr &s;port iump with the beginning.</P>
<PB REF="15">
<P>For, &s;eeing they haue begunne to play the iolly Diuels, and haue &s;o entred by hypo|cri&s;ie and di&s;&s;imulation, it mu&s;t nece&s;&s;arily followe, that they mu&s;t in the ende di&s;couer the iollitie therof, as the Diuel of <HI>Philippi</HI> did. For, when he &s;awe him&s;elfe di&s;coue|red, and laid wide open, and that all his flat|terie and di&s;&s;imulation woulde doe hym no good, and that Saint Paule and Silas had no will to tarry with them, nor yet come <NOTE PLACE="marg">The fal&s;e &s;hewe <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">f the diuell, is <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">irned into fury</NOTE> neere them, hee turned all his flatterie into furie, and &s;o manife&s;ted him&s;elfe to be euen &s;uch a one as in deed he was. For, &s;o &s;oone as he was come out of the cha~ber maide, he ran vpon the ma&s;ters, and entred &s;o far in|to them, as that hee made them &s;tarke mad. And in &s;o doing, he played another maner of part then the fir&s;t was. Now, there are a great many which play the like parts. For &s;o long as a man will let them alone to bee as they are, or not di&s;couer them, they wyll be very milde and gentle: but if the pa&s;time be for a good round &s;umme of money, and that they &s;ee any man goe about to take it from them in good earne&s;t, then lay they o|pen the Diuel whom before they kept clo&s;e vnder &s;o goodly a &s;hewe &amp; countenaunce.
<PB REF="15"> There is al&s;o another &s;ort of them, &amp; they will neuer tarry vntill &s;uch time as they be driuen to that extremitie: But &s;o &s;oone as they may once vnder&s;tand, where they may get into a warmer kitchin, and bee better fed, away they pack thence, and &s;hake hands with the go&s;pel, which they made &s;hew they meant to haue followed.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Toby.</SPEAKER>
<P>In very deede, I haue right well vnder&s;tood, that there haue beene too too many of &s;uch, who after they had once made &s;o iolly a &s;hewe, haue well enough raked vp diuers Benefices, when as they might well rake them, and then haue quyte and cleane lea<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t the Go&s;pell, and kept them+&s;elues altogether occupied about them.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>There is no doubt of it, but that &s;uche hypocrites finde Benefices enough, to rake vp before &s;uch time as they woulde be founde. But heere is the wor&s;t matter of al the re&s;t: that for as much as they are reuolted from the Go&s;pel, they proue the greate&s;t enemies that the go&s;pel can po&s;&s;ibly haue.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>But to returne to this Diuell whereof thou ear&s;t &s;pake&s;t, that was at <HI>Phi|lippi,</HI> hee was not yet carried away with
<PB REF="16"> &s;uch a furie, but y^t he right well coulde tell how to play the pagea~t, which he had enter|pri&s;ed to play. For he couered him&s;elf with a right fauourable colour towards al men. For, whereas before he had &s;o greatly com|mended S. Paule &amp; Sylas, together theyr doctrine &amp; mini&s;terie, he &s;oone after accu&s;ed them to be mutinous &amp; &s;editious fellowes, who went about to ouerthrowe all politike and publike order &amp; gouernment, &amp; aboli&s;h <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> fauourable ac|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;ation again&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e &s;eruants of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">od.</NOTE> the lawes and &s;tate of life of the countrie, which had from time to time been receiued and allowed of all men, &amp; be&s;ides, that they troubled the publike peace, &amp; all the whole world.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>The.</SPEAKER>
<P>Thou maye&s;t the~ perceiue by that with what affection he &s;o greatly commen|ded them before. For this is alwayes one and the &s;elfe &s;ame diuel. For, he did but on|ly <NOTE PLACE="marg">The diuell hath <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">iuers vizers.</NOTE> change his vizer, to play another part, in the per&s;on of the ma&s;ters of that maide the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">orcere&s;&s;e, as he had before plaied in the per+&s;on of y^e &s;aid maid. For, he had ma&s;tred both the one and the other. And becau&s;e he feared that that &s;hould not com<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> to pa&s;&s;e, whi|che came to pa&s;&s;e, he tran&s;figured him &s;elfe as thou ha&s;t heard. But when hee &s;awe,
<PB REF="16"> that he was put be&s;ide his hope, he &s;troue a|nother way, again&s;t the &s;eruants of God. And herein we &s;ee y^t, which before was &s;po|ke~ of y^e po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed, who are po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed w^t the di|uel, by rea&s;o~ of theyr &s;ins, althogh they &s;eem nothing le&s;&s;e, then to be po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed with Di|uels. For, wee euidently &s;ee in this place, how the Diuel made the&s;e Philippians be|come men po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed with wicked &s;pirites, by whom, he ray&s;ed vp all the whole Citie, but chiefly the magi&s;trates, again&s;t the &s;er|uants of God. And in this dealing, hee had <NOTE PLACE="marg">The wicked <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the euill which they them&s;elue<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> do to the charg<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> of the godly.</NOTE> recour&s;e vnto his auncient practi&s;es, wher|of we haue heretofore &s;poken. For, he ac|cu&s;eth the&s;e holy men, of the &s;elf &s;ame thing which he him&s;elfe did, by tho&s;e wicked men whom he had po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed with Diuels. For, he accu&s;ed the Apo&s;tles of &s;edition and mu|tente, and rayled on them, as though they had been the publique enemies of peace, and of all good order. For, (quoth he) who haue <NOTE PLACE="marg">The notable af|fection, where|with the wicked are mo|uth.</NOTE> beene the cau&s;e of this hurly burly in the ci|tie, but the&s;e &s;editious fellowes? And who hath &s;tirred vp the people hereunto, but their couetou&s;ne&s;&s;e?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>In very deed, hee that had heard
<PB REF="17"> them &s;peak, would haue &s;aid, y^t they greatly loued the Romanes, who were their Lords and heads, and generally al the whole coun|trie, and that they mightily feared, that &s;one hurt might come vnto it, by the meane of Paule and Sylas.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>As you &s;ay in deede, for when Iudas found fault with the lo&s;&s;e which the <NOTE PLACE="marg">The great cha|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tie of Iud<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s. <HI>Math. 20. Marke. 14.</HI></NOTE> poore had, by rea&s;on of the oyntment that was &s;pent vpon Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, who woulde not haue greatly allowed and lyked of his rea&s;ons, if hee had but onely regarded his wordes? Howbeit, Saint Iohn rightly <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ohn. 12.</NOTE> di&s;couereth his hypocri&s;ie, when as he &s;aith, That Iudas &s;pake not tho&s;e words for any compa&s;&s;ion that he had on the poore, neither yet of any de&s;ire that he had that the money which might haue been had for the ointme~t, &s;houlde haue been be&s;towed vpon them: but hee &s;pake tho&s;e wordes, becau&s;e he him&s;elf was a theefe. And therefore, de&s;ired that this money might come thorow his hands, to the end he might purloyne &s;ome part of it to his owne v&s;e. And euen &s;o fared it with the&s;e Philippians, of whom we now &s;pake. For, they cloaked them&s;elues with a certaine care which they had of the full
<PB REF="17"> and whole pre&s;eruing and maintenance of the good lawes and policie of the Country: But Saint Luke &s;etteth foorth the &s;ecre&s;ie <NOTE PLACE="marg">Act. 16.</NOTE> of their di&s;ea&s;e, &s;aying: That they did it, be|cau&s;e they were angrie for the lo&s;&s;e of &s;o great a gaine which they receiued thereby.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>By this may ea&s;ily be perceiued what their affectio~ was that they bare vn|to the countrie.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>The.</SPEAKER>
<P>In deed here was y^e loue which they had vnto y^e countrie, for&s;ooth, it greeued the~ that they could no longer abu&s;e the~ of the countrie, by robbing &amp; &s;poiling it, by meane of the &s;orceres, &amp; her familiar diuel, as here|tofore they had done. Now, if I &s;hold &s;ay vn|to thee, I pray thee co~&s;ider, whether y^e Pope &amp; his &s;uppo&s;ts do not the like, I know thou woulde&s;t an&s;were me, &amp; &s;ay, as heretofore thou ha&s;t ofte~times an&s;wered mee, I pray thee al&s;o con&s;ider, if your me~ who &s;o great|ly glory in the reformation of the Church, do not as much.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>Thou &s;aye&s;t truly, and &s;o I would in deede. <NOTE PLACE="marg">The colour<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> which the &s;up|po&s;tes of Anti|chri&s;t v&s;e, for the defence of their religion.</NOTE></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>And yet thou can&s;t not po&s;&s;ibly denie it, but that the Pope &amp; his, doe cloake their tyrannie, ambition, and couetou&s;ne&s;&s;e,
<PB REF="18"> with &s;uch colours. It is well enough kno|wen, that the more part of the~, care no more for God, nor yet for any religion what&s;oe|uer, then the very Epicures: And yet whe~ a man &s;hal heare the~ &s;peake, a man woulde &s;ay that they were &s;o feruent and zealous a|bout the maintenance of the church, ancient lawes, cou~cels, &amp; canons of y^e ancie~t fathers, as it is po&s;&s;ible for men to be. And yet there are none, who dare more boldly and &s;hame|le&s;ly infringe &amp; breake the~, then they which cal the~&s;elues the pre&s;eruers of the &s;ame. It &s;eemeth, that they tremble with feare, for y^e de&s;truction of Chri&s;tendome, and yet there are none y^t go about to ouerthrow it &s;ooner the~ they, no, &amp; if all the enemies of Chri&s;te~|dome be&s;ides were gathered together, they could not all (I &s;ay) do more for the ouer|throwing thereof.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>In very deede, I cannot gaine &s;ay that, which thou ha&s;t &s;aid: But yet I pray thee, &s;ay &s;omething al&s;o of your owne &s;ort.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>True it is, that this diuell who dealeth in this maner, amonge&s;t the fauou|rers &amp; abbettors of the Romi&s;h Antichri&s;te, tran&s;figureth him&s;elfe after another maner
<PB REF="18"> of &s;ort amonge&s;t vs. For, it is out of all que|&s;tion, that the Popes, Cardinals, Bi&s;hops, prie&s;tes, friers, &amp; al the re&s;t of that rabble, do what they can, to make kings, princes, and potentates vnder&s;tand and beleeue, that yf they take not &s;ome good order for the roo|ting out of tho&s;e whom they condemne for heretiks, they are in great hazard of lo&s;ing their kingdomes and dominions. Howbeit they fetch mo&s;t of their colours from religi|on, and from the ancient councels &amp; cano~s, and the de&s;olation and de&s;truction of the <NOTE PLACE="marg">The Imitation that is betweene the papi&s;te, and tho&s;e which bra<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> of the go&s;pel.</NOTE> church of Chri&s;t. But our people, who are led with the &s;ame &s;pirite, dare not arme the~+&s;elues with the name of the church, again&s;t the true mini&s;ters, but come armed with y^e lawes and ordina~ces of princes and gouer|nors, to make war again&s;t God. For, if a man lay the worde of God before, they will in no wi&s;e meddle with that. For, they dare not openly, once quetch again&s;t that, as before we haue &s;aid, but by and by alleadge theyr reformation, and di&s;putations and or|denances. And &s;o, vnder the &s;hadowe thereof, they condemne the true Mini&s;ters of the Lorde, not for that they haue done any thyng agayn&s;t God: But becau&s;e
<PB REF="19"> they will not agree to the &s;tatutes &amp; tradi|ons of me~, but would haue them to be tryed &amp; ouer ruled by the word of God.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>Why, the~ they do euen as I heard thee once finde fault withal. For, there are &s;ome countries, wherein princes haue for|bidden any ma~ once to &s;peake of this newe law, &amp; y^t no man &s;hould bring in any new re|ligio~, vpo~ paine of loo&s;ing his life. Then &s;oone after y^t the&s;e lawes were made, if it had &s;o fallen out y^<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> any man had beene char|ged to haue byn hearde once &s;peake of the word of God, as thou now &s;peake&s;t, and had done any thing, otherwi&s;e the~ according to y^e old religio~, the que&s;tion was neuer a&s;ked, whether this ma~ had either &s;poken or done wel or ami&s;&s;e. But it was enough if any ma~ could haue &s;aid, he hath done again&s;t y^<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> law of the prince of the countrie.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>In deed, Daniel was ca&s;t into y^e Lions den vpon &s;uche a complaint, becau&s;e he cho&s;e rather to obey God, then the wic|ked edict of the king.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>Me thinketh, y^t they do the like a|mo~ge&s;t you in &s;ome places.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>If we here wel co~&s;ider the words of the mutinous Philippia~s, we &s;hal almo&s;t
<PB REF="19"> find y^e like in the&s;e our dayes, a&s;wel amo~g&s;t the papi&s;tes, as al&s;o amonge&s;t tho&s;e which <NOTE PLACE="marg">The Go<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> conde~ned th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+row preiudi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> w^tout know<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> of the cau&s;e. <HI>Act. 16.</HI></NOTE> make warre again&s;t the go&s;pel, and yet doe brag of the reformation thereof. For the&s;e mutinous people, namely &s;aid: The&s;e men goe about to ouerthrowe &amp; aboli&s;he, tho&s;e lawes &amp; ordina~ces, which are not lawful for vs to alter, becau&s;e we are Romanes. They deale here marueilous maliciou&s;ly. For they here goe about, through their own pre|iudice, to make the cau&s;e of the &s;eruants of God to be &s;o hateful &amp; &s;o &s;u&s;pected, as that it cannot be heard in iudgeme~t, nor yet be tal|ked of. And euen &s;o, deale the papi&s;ts alto|gether with vs. For, they &s;end vs to old cu&s;|tomes, old councels, and to the co~&s;ent of the whole church, a great number of yeres pa&s;t, to the end our cau&s;e &s;hould neither be rea&s;o|ned of, nor yet heard, but to be conde~ned be|fore y^e cau&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e known. And they amo~g&s;t vs which will bend the~&s;elues again&s;t the &s;er|uants of god, &amp; oppo&s;e the~&s;elues again&s;t the true di&s;cipline of the church, make euen as great warres. But if there be a matter in que&s;tio~ but of y^<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> value of 10. or 12. s. I war|ra~t you there is neither partie, but &s;hall be heard at large, either in their propo&s;itions,
<PB REF="20"> oppo&s;itions, replies, &amp; triplies, and in what+&s;oeuer they can, or are able to alleage. But if it be a matter which concerneth the mini|&s;ter of the Go&s;pell, the worde of God, the church, &amp; con&s;ciences of all men, it falleth out many times, that iudgement is giuen, &amp; the partie neuer heard. For, in &s;uch a ca&s;e, they need bring in no better matter, then a fal&s;e report, or &s;ome euill &s;u&s;pition, for the condemning of a good cau&s;e, without being either hard or yet wel knowe~. It is enough if it be &s;launderou&s;ly reported, that it is a|gain&s;t the reformation or lawes of princes, &amp; yet it &s;halbe taken out of the &s;incere word of God. And &s;o by that meane they will not leaue &s;o much as any one place, either on y^e one &s;ide, or yet on the other, for the word of God, or for y^e truth therof, but mu&s;t alwaies become &s;ubiect to the traditions of men, if any man will &s;o proceede therein.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>To.</SPEAKER>
<P>S<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">th the ca&s;e &s;o &s;ta~deth, me thinketh y^e one of vs &s;hould not &s;o &s;oone war again&s;t another as we do. For, if we do ill, you doe eue~ as ill. And therfore, if thou wil<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;ay, that the philippia~ diuelis amo~g&s;t vs, we may al+&s;o as boldly &s;ay, that he carrieth not &s;o long with vs, but that he co~meth nowe &amp; then to you, and taketh his plea&s;ure amo~ng&s;t you,
<PB REF="20"> y^t he might catch you with his cu~ning baits.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>I mu&s;t needs agree with thee in parte, but not in all, for there are &s;om of vs, who in deed, are very like the Iewes, y^t pur|&s;ued Ie&s;us Chri&s;t to death. For, euery man <NOTE PLACE="marg">There is b<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> cou~terfet fren<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+&s;hip mo&s;t whe<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> among&s;t princ<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> knoweth, howe well the Iewes loued the Romanes, con&s;idering y^<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> they held them as cruell tyrants, &amp; enemies to God, to their religio~ &amp; to all their whole nation.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>To.</SPEAKER>
<P>I &s;uppo&s;e they loued the~ &s;o well, as that they wi&s;hed them all hanged.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>No doubt of that. And yet the Iewes &s;o mortally hated Chri&s;t, and had &s;o great a de&s;ire to be rid of him, and put hym to &s;ome cruel death, as that it made them &s;peake, as though they had beene the be&s;t &s;ubiectes that the Romanes had in any part of the worlde. And yet &s;carcely had the Romanes greater rebels then they were. Neuerthele&s;&s;e, they &s;toutly and con&s;tantly maintained the lawes of the Romane Em|pyre, &s;aying: that they had none other king but <HI>Cae&s;ar.</HI> For, they accu&s;ed Ie&s;us Chri&s;te, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Iohn. 19.</NOTE> as one that meant to inuade <HI>Cae&s;ars</HI> king|dome, crying out and &s;aying: That who|&s;oeuer he was y^t &s;pake again&s;t <HI>Cae&s;ar,</HI> was worthie of death.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><PB REF="21">Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>Wherefore &s;peake&s;t thou the&s;e wordes?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>I &s;peake them for this purpo&s;e. becau&s;e we &s;ee there are &s;ome &s;uch in the&s;e our dayes, y^t loue not their princes &amp; Lordes one iote, &amp; much le&s;&s;e the true religion whi|che their princes &amp; Lords &s;ay, y^t they defend &amp; maintaine, &amp; and yet for all this, the&s;e me~ will be the fir&s;t that &s;hal arm the~&s;elues with the lawes &amp; &s;tatuts of princes, again&s;t their pa&s;tors &amp; mini&s;ters. And to the ende y^t that which I &s;ay, might, by woefull experience, be the better perceiued, we &s;hall not need to con&s;ider of any other thing better, then of tho&s;e who make them&s;elues &s;o zealous to|wards the lawes of their Lords, &amp; &s;ee howe heretofore they haue ob&s;erued them, and yet doe, &amp; e&s;pecially tho&s;e lawes which agree be&s;t with the word of the Lord. And if there be any rebels in all y^e cou~tries, both again&s;t the word of God, &amp; again&s;t all the good or|denances of their princes &amp; Lords, they are y^e only men. For, all their talke, their liues, and conuer&s;ations, do to too euidently wit|nes the &s;ame.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>But by your leaue, they make the greate&s;t &s;hew to be y^e be&s;t ob&s;eruers of th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">,
<PB REF="21"> as y^e Philippians did, who accu&s;ed Paule &amp; his companion.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>It is euen all one. Howbeit, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Magi&s;trates ouer greatlye fauouring wi<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+ked men.</NOTE> the greate&s;t mi&s;chiefe that en&s;ueth hereon, is this: that &s;uch wicked men finde often|times as vniu&s;t and vndi&s;cret Magi&s;trates, as the Magi&s;trates of Philippi. For, after y^t the&s;e Magi&s;trates of Philippi had heard the fal&s;e accu&s;ation that was made again&s;t S. Paule and Sylas, they cau&s;ed the&s;e two holy men to be whipped, without hea|ring of them what they could &s;ay for their defence: and yet were they not contented herewith, but cau&s;ed them &s;oone after to be &s;ent to a mo&s;t cruell pri&s;on, and there &s;et them in the &s;tockes.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Toby.</SPEAKER>
<P>They v&s;ed but an ill order in y^t ob&s;eruing of the lawes and cu&s;toms of the Romaines in this poynt. For I am very well a&s;&s;ured, that it was not the cu&s;tome a|mong&s;t the Romaines, to condemne and puni&s;h men, how wicked &s;oeuer they were, but that they woulde fir&s;te heare at large <NOTE PLACE="marg">A mo&s;t barba|rous crueltie, to condemne a man, without hering his cau&s;e.</NOTE> what their cau&s;e was, and what they could &s;ay for them &s;elues. For, that it is &s;o rea|&s;onable a thing, as that there is not &s;o bar|barous and inhumaine a nation, vnto who~
<PB REF="22"> the law of nature hath not taught this rule of right, equitie, and Ju&s;tice. Now, if the mo&s;te blocki&s;he and vnciuile Nations of the woorlde vnder&s;toode and knew this, no doubt of it, the Romains, who had beene &s;o greatly commended for their Iu&s;tice and other vertues, would not in this ca&s;e, haue dealt more barbarou&s;ly and vniu&s;telye, then any other nation.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>Indeede S. Paule, &s;oone after <NOTE PLACE="marg">Acts. 16.</NOTE> made the Magi&s;trates of Philippi vnder|&s;tand this matter &s;o well, as that he put the~ in great feare: and had made them through|lye felt their fault, if hee would haue com|plained on them vnto the Romains, as they well de&s;erued it, and as he was verye well able to haue done? For they, who had &s;o <NOTE PLACE="marg">The lawes in|fringed by &s;uch as named them &s;elues the chie|fe&s;t ob&s;eruers thereof.</NOTE> bragged, y^t they were the great ob&s;eruers of the lawes of the Romains, and had puni|&s;hed &s;uch as were charged with the breache of them, &s;hould haue beene well adui&s;ed, be|fore they had done any thing, not to haue broken tho&s;e lawes, wherewith they meant to arme them &s;elues.</P>
<P>And &s;o, by the lyke rea&s;on, all Princes and Magi&s;trates had neede bee very cha|rye, that if they will haue their lawes and
<PB REF="22"> ordinaunces kept, not to be them &s;elues the fir&s;t breakers of them. For, although they haue no Superiours to correct them for it, or if their Superiours wink at them, yet will not. God &s;uffer them goe &s;cotfree for all that.</P>
<P>Indeede the Philippians had Supe|riours: But there was no bodye that told the~ of it, becau&s;e there was none which complayned vnto them of the matter, &amp; yet God would not let them goe vnpuny&s;hed.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>To.</SPEAKER>
<P>And me thinketh it al&s;o very re|qui&s;ite, that Princes and Magi&s;trates doe <NOTE PLACE="marg">Magi&s;trats ought to haue great regard t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> &s;uch as are re|porters and ac<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+cu&s;ers.</NOTE> not ouer lightly beeleeue all reports which are brought vnto them, neither yet gyue o|uer ea&s;ie credit to &s;uch, as make &s;hewe to be their great friendes, and to be very care|ful of their honour and benefite. For, there are an exceeding number of &s;uch, who doe it for none other purpo&s;e, but to flatter the~, that they might be the greater with them, &amp; therby di&s;credit &s;uch men as they like not of, and of whom they &s;eeke to be auenged, by the meanes of &s;uch Princes and Magi|&s;trates. For, &s;uch then are not the be&s;t, nor the faythfulle&s;t kynde of men, but the mo&s;te &s;lauy&s;he, di&s;loyall, and mo&s;te tray|terous
<PB REF="23"> of all others: And therefore the&s;e villaynes would be the fir&s;t that &s;houlde beetraye them, and &s;oone&s;t for&s;ake them, when as they thought to finde others els where, that they myght better &s;erue theyr turnes.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>In very deede wee haue a ma|nife&s;t example of that which thou &s;peake&s;t, in the&s;e mutinous and &s;editious Philippi|ans: For, how daungerou&s;ly hazarded they their Magi&s;trates, and their whole ci|tie, to be aduenged of S. Paule and of his companyon. And who loued better the Magi&s;trates, the Citie, and all the whole Countrey,and that were more carefull of their honour and profit, eyther the&s;e muty|neus and wicked vacabondes, who accu&s;ed S. Paule and Sylas, or S. Paule &amp; Sy|las, who were accu&s;ed?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Toby.</SPEAKER>
<P>That is ea&s;ilye to bee iudged. For, the&s;e deceitfull Iackes and theeues deceiued and robbed al the whole country, and cared for nothing els, but the fillyng of their pur&s;es. Where contrariwi&s;e, S. Paule and Sylas hazarded their own lyues, for the &s;aluation of the Philippians, which was dearer to them then their owne <NOTE PLACE="marg">Acts. 16.</NOTE>
<PB REF="23"> lyues.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>And as di&s;creet as the Magi|&s;trate was, after hee had greatly wronged <NOTE PLACE="marg">The common iniquitie of m<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> towards the&s;e <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+uants of God.</NOTE> the&s;e good &s;eruantes of God, and knewe it well ynough: yet for all that, in &s;teede of amending the offence which hee had com|mitted, hee procured the&s;e holy men to be banni&s;hed the Citie and Countrey, whome he ought rather to haue entertayned, then any other. And kept in &s;till the roges, that had wrongfully informed him agayn&s;t them, and had put in daunger both theyr wealth and offyces, and the whole lo&s;&s;e of their dominion. And where he &s;houlde haue expul&s;ed them as vacabondes and roges, and &s;o haue whipped them, he &s;till retayned them, as good Citizens.</P>
<P>Thus wee &s;ee how the &s;eruants of God are continually delt withal here in this world, and that equitie and right, that euery man ought to haue, is not for them to be had: yea, and although they be founde innocent and guiltle&s;&s;e, yet &s;hall they haue much to doe, to get iu&s;tice admini&s;tred vnto them.</P>
<P>Againe, although the wicked be founde guiltie, yet is it out of all doubt, that &s;ome &s;hifte or other will be made, continually to
<PB REF="24"> &s;upport them, and &s;hall be &s;ooner and bet|ter entertained and entreated, then the true <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">or whatcau&s;es <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e &s;eruaunts of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">od are &s;o mi|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ked of world|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ges.</NOTE> &s;eruaunts of God: for euery man is gladde to be ridde of them. For, the world thinketh it to be ouer harde and yrke&s;ome a thinge to liue among&s;t them, and that there neuer commeth any goodne&s;&s;e, where they are.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Toby.</SPEAKER>
<P>Certes, the world maketh that reckning of them, as thou ha&s;t &s;ayde, and yet, if they did wel, they &s;hould iudge other|wi&s;e of them.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>Thou &s;ay&s;t truely indeede, but becau&s;e the worldlinges naturally loue vi|ces, more then vertues, and lying, more then trueth, they de&s;erue rather to haue &s;e|ducers, vacabondes, theeues, and traytors, to &s;educe, robbe, and betray them, then the true &s;eruauntes of God and good men, who would be faithful vnto them, and faithfully procure their honour and benefit. And <NOTE PLACE="marg">The iudgment of God again&s;t the vnthankful|ne&s;&s;e of men. The force of the illu&s;ion of error for the puni&s;h|ment o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> world|linges.</NOTE> therefore, if God meant not thus to puni&s;h worldlings by his iu&s;t iudgement, he would not laye the brydle in Satans and the wic|kedes neckes as he doth, nor yet &s;uffer the~ to be &s;o caryed away with &s;trong illu&s;ions and errours. For, from whence com|meth it, that this Deuill, which &s;o po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed
<PB REF="24"> this Philippian Sorcere&s;&s;e, could foretell and declare hidden and &s;ecrete thinges? he could not haue done this but by the permi&s;|&s;ion of God, and without God, had, in his iu&s;t iudgement, giuen him this power and &s;trength. For, it is written, that he gaue a lying &s;pirite into the mouthes of Aachabs fal&s;e Prophets, y^t Achab might be deceiued <NOTE PLACE="marg">1. Kings. 22.</NOTE> by the~. Now, when the Lord gaue the De|uill this lycence, knew not he right well, that the Deuill therupon might by y^t meane feduce? And did he not al&s;o know in what daunger he put men, in &s;o doing?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Toby.</SPEAKER>
<P>Why then gaue he &s;uchlicence vnto the Deuill?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>For&s;ooth, becau&s;e he would by his iu&s;t iudgeme~t, puni&s;h the vnthankfulnes of men, as he him&s;elf witne&s;&s;eth by Mo&s;es, &amp; <NOTE PLACE="marg">Deut. 13. Rom. 1. 2. The&s;. 2.</NOTE> S. Paule, and namely in the Epi&s;tle to the Romains, and in the &s;econd to the The&s;&s;a|lonians.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Toby.</SPEAKER>
<P>That is the very cau&s;e, why ma|ny take occa&s;ion to finde fault thereat, and therby reiect all religions as vncertaine: and this is the rea&s;on, as they &s;ay, that there is &s;uch a confu&s;ion in them, as that a man cannot de&s;cerne trueth from fal&s;hood.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><PB REF="25">Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>But God hath well prouided for that, to pre&s;erue his cho&s;en from the&s;e <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he elect of god <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e pre&s;erued <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">om being &s;e|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ced.</NOTE> daungers. And therefore, although fal&s;e Chri&s;tes and fal&s;e Prophetes, doe great thinges thorow the power of the Deuil, by which they may ea&s;ily &s;educe al the whole worlde, yet Ie&s;us Chri&s;t openly declareth, that his cho&s;en cannot be &s;o &s;educed by the~, <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lath. 24.</NOTE> but will continue in the trueth euen to the ende. For, when hee &s;aieth, that if it were po&s;&s;ible, the very electe &s;hould be deceiued by &s;uch men: hee doeth vs to witte, in what <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ohn. 17.</NOTE> &s;aftie his were, whome his heauenly father had giuen vnto him. But, to the end thou mighte&s;t the better vnder&s;tand the iudgme~t <NOTE PLACE="marg">The cau&s;e why <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">en rather fol|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ow fal&s;hod then <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rueth.</NOTE> of God in this ca&s;e, thou mu&s;t con&s;ider and note, that if they which are &s;educed by the&s;e &s;educers had the true feare of God before their eyes, and &s;uch a loue in their heartes, to &s;erue and honour him as they ought, they &s;houlde neuer fall into the&s;e errours, whereinto they fall. And therefore Ie|&s;us Chri&s;te rightly toucheth their di&s;ea&s;e, who reiecting the doctrine of the trueth, followe after lea&s;inges: when as hee &s;aieth, The doctrine is not mine, but his, who &s;ent <NOTE PLACE="marg">Iohn. 7.</NOTE> me. And therefore, if any man will doe his
<PB REF="25"> will, he &s;hall know whether the doctrine be of God, or whether. I &s;peake it of my &s;elfe. His meaning in effect is this, that they which are de&s;irous, rightly to vnder&s;tande the will of God to obey him, &s;hall ea&s;ily al|&s;o acknowledge the doctrine, by whiche God declareth to men his will, that they might thereby accordingly bee in&s;tructed. But contrariwi&s;e, they that haue not this affection, are alwayes finding of excu&s;es, re&s;ting them &s;elues alwayes vppon &s;ome fal&s;e &amp; vn&s;ound proppes, becau&s;e they haue no good de&s;ire to come to the right &amp; true &s;tay, how glorious &s;o euer their wordes be, and howe goodlie a &s;hewe &s;oeuer they <NOTE PLACE="marg">Hipocri&s;&s;e tak<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> for Wi&s;ed<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">me.</NOTE> make.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>Yet by your leaue Sir, there are a great many of ignorant people, and &s;uche indeed as per&s;ecute y^e truth, who neuer the|le&s;&s;e in all other things make a gllant &s;hew of hone&s;tie, and to be zealous and feruent in Gods cau&s;e.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>I graunt thee as much as thou &s;aye&s;t, that they are good people in &s;hewe: But yet it is out of all doubt, that, all that their wi&s;edome, and what&s;oeuer zeale they haue in &s;hew, is meere hypocri&s;ie and di&s;&s;i|muled
<PB REF="26"> deuotion. For, to aun&s;weare the fir&s;t poynt, if they were of that &s;ound hart, <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ride and pre|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">mption, doe <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nder the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">owledge of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e truth.</NOTE> and in &s;uche &s;orte feared GOD, as they ought, they woulde be humble and mode&s;t. For, if they were humble and mode&s;t, they woulde not &s;o proudlye and arrogauntly, conte<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">mie and re<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ect the good Seruauntes of God, who bring vnto them the trueth, as they do: but wold patiently heare, &amp; receiue them as the Angels or me&s;&s;engers of God. For, what a mighty number doe wee day|lye &s;ee, that &s;o pre&s;ume of them &s;elues, of their &s;kil, wi&s;dome and vertue, as that they think no man in the world to bee &s;o able for their &s;kil, to &s;hew any better matter the~ that which they the &s;elues haue already brought and deliuered. And what a number al&s;o is there of &s;uche people, as are not contented alone with the de&s;pi&s;ing of the &s;eruauntes of GOD, but likewi&s;e per&s;ecute and con|demne them to death, without once hearing of the~ &s;peake? What religion thinke&s;t thou the&s;e men to be of? Surely &s;urely, there is no religion at alan them, but in &s;hewe only, how&s;oeuer they di&s;&s;emble theyr zeale towards the Church, &amp; Chri&s;tian religion. I promi&s;e thee for mine own part, I think
<PB REF="26"> that the greate&s;t number of them, haue not <NOTE PLACE="marg">What feare Pilate had <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> God.</NOTE> &s;o great feare of God before their eyes, as Pylate had.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>Why &s;houlde&s;t thou &s;ay &s;o?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>I wil tel thee, becau&s;e that after the Iewes had let Pilate vnder&s;tande, that <NOTE PLACE="marg">Iohn 19.</NOTE> Ie&s;us Chri&s;te hadde called him &s;elfe the Sonne of GOD, and accu&s;ed him ther|fore, as a Bla&s;phemer, and woorthye of death: It was &s;o farre off from him, that hee was thereby the more mooued to con|demne Ie&s;us Chri&s;te, as that hee was the more afearde therof, and was then more ni&s;e in the condemning of him, then he was at any time before.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>What meant he by that?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>Marke it well and thou &s;halte &s;ee, for although in all thinges els, Pylate was a cur&s;ed and wicked Heathen manne, yet was hee not altogether &s;o irreligy|ous, but that &s;o &s;oone as hee hearde him &s;peake of the name of GOD, hee was therewith mooued, and did reuerence him. And therefore, before hee woulde <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Iohn 19.</HI> Chri&s;tians, not &s;o religious as Pilate.</NOTE> goe anye further, hee agayne, farre nar|rowlier examyned Ie&s;us Chri&s;t. And after
<PB REF="27"> he had heard him more at large, hee was a greate deale the rather de&s;irous to deliuer him, then euer he was before.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>To.</SPEAKER>
<P>If he had continued &s;til in that mind, it had byn much better for him.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>That is true indeede. But be|cau&s;e there was no true feare of GOD in him, neither yet had taken deep &amp; good roo|ting in his hart, it forth with vani&s;hed cleane away, when he was pre&s;&s;ed to the contrary, and neuer &s;traue to with&s;tand the crueltye of the Iewes. And yet hee &s;hewed him|&s;elf to beare more reuerence vnto the name of GOD, then a great many of tho&s;e, who would at this daye, be taken not on|ly for Chri&s;tians, but al&s;o for the very &s;taies and pillers of the fayth. For, although they know well inough, that the cau&s;es which come before them, concerne the glo|ry of GOD, and his Churche; yet haue they le&s;&s;e care to giue iudgement and con|demne them, without further enquiring, what were the be&s;t way for the~ to take, ma|king lighter account of giuing iudgement on them, then of the lea&s;t cau&s;e in y^e worlde, whether it were of a money matter, or of a|ny other worldly thing what&s;oeuer.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><PB REF="27">Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>If there were in them but that feare which they ought to haue, in condem|ning the cau&s;e of God, vnder the name and tytle of here&s;ie, mee thinketh they &s;houlde therein, bee more circum&s;pect and di&s;creete. And for mine owne part, as igno|raunt &amp; vnlearned as I am, yet I euer ab|horred the&s;e fire tormentors, who &s;o little e&s;teemed of the liues of men, e&s;pecially in &s;uch a cau&s;e.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>Truely, if thy fir&s;te rea&s;on which thou ha&s;t alleadged would not &s;erue them, mee thinketh that the &s;econd which thou euen nowe didde&s;t touche, might right well &s;uffyce, for them to ca&s;t, I will not &s;ay, a little water into their Wyne, but into their fires. For to take away the liues of menne, is no &s;mall matter in the &s;ight of the Lorde. But the offence is a great deale more haynous, when as menne for Gods cau&s;e, &s;hall take life away from &s;uche, as &s;houlde rather bee pre&s;erued, and &s;uche al&s;o as &s;houlde bee in mo&s;te e&s;timation, with Princes and Magi|&s;trates.</P>
<P>Thus then thou &s;ee&s;t what an inconue|uience pryde bringeth with it to tho&s;e that are
<PB REF="28"> proude and arrogant: For, &s;eeing they pre|&s;ume &s;o muche of them &s;elues as that they will not once vouch&s;afe to entertayne the &s;eruauntes of God, and to bee taught by them, as they had neede, it is impo&s;&s;ible for them to vnder&s;tande the trueth, becau&s;e they will at no hande vnder&s;tande it. And contrariwi&s;e, as Ie&s;us Chri&s;te &s;hew|ed him &s;elfe to bee the Teacher and May|&s;ter <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e&s;us Chri&s;t is <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hoolemai&s;ter <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the humble, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd not to the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">oude.</NOTE> of the humble and meeke, euen &s;o reiecteth he out of his Schoole, all highe inynded, proude, and pre&s;umptuous per|&s;ons. And therefore hee gaue thankes to God his Father, in that he had reuealed his will and trueth vnto the poore in &s;pirite, <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ath. 11. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;aiah. 66.</NOTE> and hidde it from the mighty and great men of the worlde. For, there are none but the poore and meeke in &s;pirite which are capa|ble thereof.</P>
<P>And therefore, the Lorde &s;ayeth by the Prophete <HI>I&s;aiah, Whom will I regarde, but onelie the afflicted, and contri<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e in hearte and mynde, and him, who trem|bleth at my woordes? Saynt Paule al&s;o</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">1. Cor. 5.</NOTE> telleth the <HI>Corinthians,</HI> That <HI>the Lorde hath not called manye wi&s;e, &s;tronge, riche, and honourable menne of the
<PB REF="28"> worlde: But the mo&s;te feeble, mo&s;te vyle, and mo&s;te contemptible.</HI> It is al&s;o written, <HI>That GOD re&s;i&s;teth the</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">1. Pet, 5.</NOTE> <HI>proude, and giueth grace to the hum|ble.</HI> And therefore Saynt <HI>Paule;</HI> dili|gentlye admoni&s;heth all Chri&s;tians not to e&s;teeme, nor pre&s;ume ouer muche of them+&s;elues. <NOTE PLACE="marg">Rom. 12. Philip. 2.</NOTE></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>True it is indeede, that humility and honour, &s;eldome or neuer agree quietly together.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>That is mo&s;t true. For, wher|as humilitte is not, there cannot be a tea|cheable, and well di&s;po&s;ed hearte to re|ceiue doctrine and di&s;cipline: Which thing Saynt <HI>Augu&s;tine</HI> confe&s;&s;eth to haue found in him &s;elfe by experience, &s;aying in this <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>S. Aug.</HI> in his <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. Booke 5. Chap. of <HI>Con|fe&s;&s;.</HI></NOTE> manner. I then determined to applye my mynde to the &s;tudy of the holy Scriptures, that I might &s;ee what they were. And beholde, I &s;aw a thinge that was neuer <NOTE PLACE="marg">The confe&s;&s;ion of <HI>S. Aug.</HI> <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s concerning the pride, whiche hindred him fro~ profiting in the holy &s;criptures.</NOTE> knowne to the proude, nor opened to chil|dren, but was lowly in his goyng, and ve|rie high in his arryning, &amp; whiche brought greate profite, and hidden &s;ecretes. And as for my &s;elfe, I was euen &s;uche a one,
<PB REF="29"> as that I was not able to make anye en|traunce into it, or yet &s;toupe &s;o lowe, as once to be able to put my head into y^e intree therof. For I was not then of the opynion whereof I now &s;peake, when I looked vp|pon this peece of Scripture, but thought it vnworthy to be compared to <HI>Tullies</HI> dig|nitie. For, my greate pryde coulde not away with the ba&s;ene&s;&s;e thereof, and ther|fore it fled from mee: Neyther was my wytte &s;o &s;harpe, as that it was once able to pear&s;e into it, and yet it was &s;uche, as grewe vp amonge&s;t the ba&s;e&s;t and mea|ne&s;t. Howebeeit, I might haue vouch&s;a|fed to haue beene lowlie. And becau&s;e I was highe mynded, I thought my &s;elfe to be a great Clearke. Heere wee &s;ee howe Saynte <HI>Augu&s;tine</HI> confe&s;&s;eth, that whiles be flattered him&s;elfe, and e&s;teemed &s;o much of his owne knowledge, and of the pride of his mynde, as that he continually di&s;dayned and contemned the holy Scriptures. And although hee had a mynde oftentimes to giue him &s;elfe to the &s;tudie of them, it was &s;o farre of that he found any ta&s;te or &s;auour in them, as that hee founde le&s;&s;e &s;auour in them at that time, then he did at the fir&s;te.
<PB REF="29"> For, hee thought them to bee nothing in re&s;pecte of the eloquence, and knowledge which hee founde in the Bookes of <HI>Tullie</HI> and of the re&s;t of the heathen Philo&s;ophers. But, after that this his pryde was come downe and aba&s;ed, and the opinion whiche he had of him &s;elfe and of his knowledge, hee was of an opinion, cleane contrarye to his fir&s;t: And then, hee right well per|ceyued, all humane eloquence, and Phy|lo&s;ophie, to be no better then bladders &s;tuft full of wind, and of no &s;ub&s;tance in re&s;pect of the holye Scriptures: although to the outwarde apparaunce they made a farre gallanter mu&s;ter and &s;hewe. And therfore, whiles the eyes of Saynt <HI>Augu&s;tines</HI> vn|der&s;tanding were blyndfolded with y^e fal&s;e opinion which he had of him &s;elfe, he had the more hoodwinked them with this pompe &amp; fal&s;e apparaunce.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>There are at this day, a greate many in the worlde, who are in the &s;elfe <NOTE PLACE="marg">There are ma|nye, that will counterfeit S. <HI>Augu&s;tines</HI> pride, but they will not follow his humilitie.</NOTE> and &s;ame predicament, that Saynt <HI>Augu|&s;tine</HI> was in, at that time. But I know not, whether GOD will giue them that grace, which he gaue vnto him, to let them
<PB REF="30"> vnder&s;tande their pride, that thereby they might be humbled, and for the fal&s;e opinion which they haue of their eloquence, know|ledge and wi&s;edome, to acknowledge them &s;elues to be &s;uche fooles, and blockeheaded bea&s;tes as indeede they are, to the end they might bee made apte and Teacheable Schollers in the Schoole of the woorde of God. For, there are &s;uch a number of Po|eticall braynes, &amp; &s;o learned in the tongues and in humayne Philo&s;ophy: that they doe not onely make &s;mal accompt of the books of the holy Scriptures, in compari&s;on of their Heatheni&s;he volumes: as that, which is of all other the mo&s;te vyle, they e&s;teeme of them no better, then of the Dreames of olde doatyng fooles, and of doating olde wyues tales. And as fo<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">mine own part, let them haue as great knowledge as they will, vntill they bur&s;t withall, I wil e&s;teem of th<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> no whit y^e more, if they be not hone&s;t men, and haue the feare of God before their eyes.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>Thou touche&s;t now a di&s;ea&s;e, which at this day raygneth more then euer it did, yea, and that among&s;t &s;uch as beare
<PB REF="30"> the name of Chri&s;tians, which is the cau&s;e that we haue &s;o many Libertine Athei&s;tes, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Libertine A|thei&s;ts.</NOTE> who &s;corne and laughe at all Religions. And although they are not in trueth, &s;etled in any Religion, yet for&s;ooth they woulde not bee thought to be vtterly voyde of Re|ligion. And therefore, becau&s;e they are of no religion, they are neuerthele&s;&s;e of all Religions, in what Countries &s;oeuer they come vnto. For, they &s;hoote at none other marke, but temporizing, or &s;eruing of times, with euery man, a Papi&s;t among&s;t Papi&s;tes, an Epicure with Epicures, an Athei&s;t, with Athei&s;tes, and to be &s;horte, a Diuel among&s;t Diuels, for they wil not be di&s;quieted eyther in body or mynd neyther yet hazarde eyther bodye or goodes. And therefore, they will not greatly frame them+&s;elues neyther after Ie&s;us Chri&s;te, nor af|ter the Pope, neyther after the Go&s;pell, nor after the Ma&s;&s;e, nor yet after any con|trouer&s;ie that is at this day for Religion a|mo~g&s;t Chri&s;tians, without perhaps &s;ome of them &s;u&s;taine &s;ome particular lo&s;&s;e therby. For, if eyther gayne, or lo&s;&s;e fall <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ut vnto them on eyther &s;ide, they will counterfayte zeale in that Religion whiche they thinke
<PB REF="31"> will bee mo&s;te for their profite, and whiche they &s;uppo&s;e will be&s;te agree with that, which they de&s;ire to haue heere in this life, as wee haue a manife&s;t example, chiefly, in the Prelates and Beneficed men of the Popi&s;he Churche. For, if they did be|leeue that there were a GOD in heauen, and anye true religion, whereby their life and conuer&s;ation ought to bee gouerned, and that they &s;houlde render an accounte thereof in the day of Iudgement, they woulde &s;urely, be other maner of men, then in deede they are. Howebeit, they right well &s;hew, as wel by their doctrine, as al&s;o by their life and conuer&s;ation, that they haue as much mynde of God, as haue bruite bea&s;tes, and doe as muche e&s;teeme of the immortality of their &s;oules, as of the &s;oules of their hor&s;es and moyles. And therfore, all the zeale which they haue to their Reli|gion, proceedeth not from any loue whiche they beare thereunto, but on<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lye to the ho|nours, and greate wealth whiche commeth vnto them thereby. And therefore, when they &s;ee them &s;elues in danger to loo&s;e the~, they eyther become manife&s;t blacke diuels, and beginne openlye to per&s;ecute, or if
<PB REF="31"> they haue anye knowledge and eloquence, they &s;traight way, playe the iollye Balaa|mites. <NOTE PLACE="marg">Libertine Ba|laamites.</NOTE> For they commend them&s;elues vn|to Antichri&s;t to re&s;i&s;t the trueth of God, and mainteyne his fal&s;e doctrine, again&s;t their owne con&s;ciences: For, they them|&s;elues laugh him to &s;corne in their heartes, and doe no more beleeue him, then tho&s;e a|gain&s;t whom they oppo&s;e them &s;elues. But I feare mee, I haue doone them greate wrong to compare them vnto Balaam, be|cau&s;e they haue not &s;o muche fayth vnto the true Religion, as Balaam hadde vn|to the Religion of the auncient Churche of GOD, neyther haue they &s;o greate a regarde to God, as he had. But they are as like him in all other poyntes, as like may bee, as in de&s;ire of honours, and worldly po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ions. And therfore although they are in part, black Diuels, yet are they in nature, more like vnto white and Famili|ar Diuels, where, the re&s;t &s;hew them &s;elues to bee altogether blacke Diuelles.</P>
<P>Howebeit, what&s;oeuer vizers they put on, they are alwayes in trueth, very Liber|tine Athei&s;tes, notwith&s;tandyng, that they &s;eeme outwardely the Followers of Po|pi&s;he
<PB REF="32"> Religion. And there are others al|&s;o, who are almo&s;t like them, euen of tho&s;e which follow the Go&s;pel, if they knew they might any way gayne thereby. But the mo&s;t of that &s;ort, &s;erue in Kings and Prin|ces Courtes. For, if Kinges and Princes fauour the Go&s;pell, then they know, that <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ibertine Courtiers.</NOTE> if they fauour it as he doeth, that they &s;hal come to greater dignity, or at lea&s;t, be the better and more firmely e&s;tably&s;hed in that degree and honour wherein they &s;tand, for, as they can court it well, &s;o will they al&s;o be the fir&s;t that &s;hall make court to the Go|&s;pell, and will bee come fayre whyte, and familiar Diuels, among&s;t the very angels. But if a man &s;houlde iudge them by theyr woorkes, fruites, and life, what Go&s;pell it is that they profe&s;&s;e, it woulde be &s;oone iudged that they are very Libertine Athe|i&s;tes. For, a man &s;hall neuer finde any re|formation of life in them, which is the chief cau&s;e of the preaching of the Go&s;pell, and the principal marke to be marked and kno|wen by, in tho&s;e who haue receiued the true faith, in the true feare of GOD, and in a good con&s;cience. And &s;o by that meane, all their Go&s;pel wilbe come a thing where
<PB REF="32"> with to &s;corne the Pope, his Prie&s;ts, Fri|ars, and the re&s;t of his &s;horne Balaa|mites, and all the abu&s;es of the Popi&s;he Churche, and to make &s;porte and plea|&s;auntly talke of them, e&s;pecially in the com|panies of Ladies and Gentlewomen. And if the Go&s;pel wil giue them any &s;uch liber|tye, whereby they may abu&s;e it, into carnal lybertie, they will be &s;ure to laye fa&s;t holde thereon: and not &s;ticke to &s;aye, that they are not like vnto tho&s;e &s;uper&s;titious hypo|criticall Papi&s;tes, whom they laugh to &s;corne.</P>
<P>Howbeyt, further they will not, but as for the re&s;t of their life, it &s;halbe as di&s;&s;olute, as the mo&s;t di&s;&s;olute Papi&s;tes, from whom they differ in nothing but in this, that they haue put on a vizar of the Go&s;pel, that they might therewith the better couer theyr Athei&s;me.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>Thou ha&s;t hitherto &s;poken of Libertine Athei&s;tes, who di&s;&s;emble their Athei&s;me, vnder the colour of hauinge &s;ome Religion in them, &s;o farre foorth as it tendeth either to their commodity or di&s;co~|modity. But there are &s;ome others, who be+cau&s;e they ca~not find any &s;uch occa&s;io~, beco~
<PB REF="33"> as it were newters, beeing of neyther &s;ide, as thou ha&s;t oftentimes &s;ayde. And the <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">bertine new|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">rs.</NOTE> chiefe men whiche marche vnder this En|&s;igne, and that are of this Bande, are they which are puffed vp with eloquence, &amp; knowledge, and are dronken in their own wit and vnder&s;tanding: As Saynt <HI>Augu|&s;tine</HI> confe&s;&s;ed him &s;elfe to bee, before &s;uche tyme as GOD had touched his heart with his holye &s;pirite, whiche is the &s;py|rite of humilitie. But, although Saynt <HI>Augu&s;tine</HI> pre&s;umed thus of him &s;elfe, by rea&s;on he was of &s;o fine and quicke witted a &s;pirite, and of &s;o verie a &s;harpe vnder&s;tan|ding, and excellent knowledge in humani|tie, as anye man that euer liued in his time and age: yet was there alwayes in him, &s;ome good &s;eed of religio~. But becau&s;e hee was an heathen man borne, and there|fore had not from his youth beene brought vp in the woorde of God: but onely in hu|manitie and Pagani&s;me, and in the Reli|gion wherein he was borne, hee could not rightly iudge of the true Religion, whiche he knewe not. And the opinion whiche hee had of him&s;elfe, did &s;o hinder him, as that he could not &s;earch after it, as he ought to haue
<PB REF="33"> done. And after that diuers, but e&s;peciallye his mother Monica, who was a widdowe, and became a Chri&s;tian before him, a very good woman, and one that feared GOD, had exhorted and &s;olycited him, to &s;earch af|ter the holy Scriptures: tho&s;e their exhor|tations &s;tirred him vp to the reading of the Bible. Howbeit hee read it not &s;o reue|rently as he &s;hould haue done, but rather for fa&s;hions &s;ake, by rea&s;on he came not ap|poynted with that humilytie and mode&s;tie, which afterward hee knew was meete for the di&s;ciples of the holy Gho&s;t to come.</P>
<P>But when God had rebated this his pride, with the &s;pirite of mode&s;tie and humilitie, then found he that in it, which before hee knew not how to finde in it: And by that meane, he was &s;o much the more humbled. Howbeit, the&s;e glorious arrogant men, of whome we now &s;peake, who thus glory of their knowledge, and &s;kill, are euen the ve|rye &s;corners and contemners of God: for they neuer &s;hew, that euer they had the true feare of God before their eyes, nor yet any good &s;eede of religion in them. For, there is a great many of them, who haue manife|&s;ted them &s;elues greater Athei&s;ts, after they
<PB REF="34"> had once gotten &s;ome knowledge of the go|&s;pell, then euer they had before, and &s;ince y^t time, haue euer le&s;&s;e reuerenced the worde of God. For, the knowledge which they re|ceyued by the entertayning of the Go&s;pell, &s;erued them to none other v&s;e, but to di&s;co|uer the Idolatries, &s;uper&s;titions, and abu|&s;es, which are in the popi&s;h Church, that they might laugh at them.</P>
<P>And euer &s;ithence that time, they are growen euen vnto this, that they are almo&s;t at the like poynt with the doctrine of Chri|&s;tian religion. For, as S. Paul &s;aid, They iudge thereof, as the Grecians and wi&s;e <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. Cor. 1.</NOTE> men of the world, iudged of Ie&s;us Chri&s;te, &amp; of his Go&s;pel: who thought the preaching thereof to be fooli&s;hne&s;&s;e, becau&s;e they were carnall men, and puffed vp with an opiny|on of their owne wi&s;domes.</P>
<P>And becau&s;e the Grecians, were alwaies more accounted of then any of the re&s;te of the Nations, by rea&s;on of their &s;harpene&s;&s;e of witte, and of the knowledge which they had in the artes, in Philo&s;ophy, and in all o|ther Letters of humanitie, S. Paule na|meth them &s;pecially, although hee compre|hendeth vnder this name, all the re&s;t of the
<PB REF="34"> heathen, as well appeareth by that, that he oppo&s;eth them to the Iewes, and &s;epera|teth them al&s;o from the Chri&s;tians, vnto whome, as hee him &s;elfe witne&s;&s;eth, Ie&s;us Chri&s;t is the true wi&s;dome, vertue, and po|wer of God.</P>
<P>Nowe, if the&s;e Libertine Epieures and Athei&s;tes, had beene heathen borne, as S. Augu&s;tine was, or, if they had as much re|ligion in them, being Chri&s;tians borne, as hee had in his Pagani&s;me, they &s;houlde neuer haue &s;hewed them &s;elues, to haue beene &s;o mon&s;trous bea&s;tes, as in deed they are. But although in name, they are Chri&s;tians born, they are to be accounted of, as if they had beene borne and bredde a|mong&s;t Infidelles and Paganes, yea euen among&s;t the Epicures, out of who&s;e books they haue &s;ucked and droonke, this prophan &s;pirite of Athie&s;me, who thus caryeth the~ away.</P>
<P>For, they haue yet le&s;&s;e Religion in them, then euer had any of the heathen, who not onely did not approue their doctrine, but which is more, manife&s;tly, both by word and wrytinge condemned it, yea, and often|times executed the~ by publick iu&s;tice name|ly at
<PB REF="35"> Athens. For, when God giueth vs ouer &s;o farre, hee then by his iu&s;t iudgement bru|ti&s;heth vs in the cau&s;e of religion. And <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">at it is to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e~ne prayer.</NOTE> therefore, that we &s;hall not neede any more to pray vnto him, to be&s;eech him, enlighten vs with his holy &s;pirite, in the knowledge of his holy word.</P>
<P>But, ouer and be&s;ides, that Dauid, and S. Peter, calleth the holy Gho&s;t, the word <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">il. 19. 119. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Pet. 1. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hn. 16. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">al. 16. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;al. 50. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lat. 7. 18.</NOTE> of the Lorde, a candle and lanterne which lightneth a darke place, and doth enlighten the &s;imple, yet there is onething more in it, which the Lord hath promi&s;ed, that he will heare as manye as &s;hall call vppon him in trueth, be neere them, and graunt them his holy &s;pirit.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Toby.</SPEAKER>
<P>This then is the effect of thy conclu&s;ion, that proud men, and &s;uch as call not vpon the Lord as they ought, for their in&s;truction in the knowledge of his holye <NOTE PLACE="marg">The iugdme<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">t of God again&s;t the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ontempt and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hating of his word.</NOTE> will, haue no great good lyking to &s;erue him accordingly. And becau&s;e they haue no &s;uch loue and lyking: but contrariwi&s;e will liue as plea&s;eth them, God, in his iu&s;t iudgement giueth them ouer into a repro|bate &s;ence, and leaueth them as a &s;poyle vn|to &s;educers, and fal&s;e teachers. Wherefore,
<PB REF="35"> they alwayes receyue and allowe rather fal&s;hood and errour, then the trueth of the Lord.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>Indeede, becau&s;e they had no loue nor liking of the trueth, but rather of lea&s;inges, the Lord by his iu&s;t vengeaunce, hath giuen a mighty power of errour vnto &s;uch mai&s;ters as they haue a lyking of, and &s;uch as they are be&s;t worthy of. And ther|fore when Mo&s;es admoni&s;hed the people <NOTE PLACE="marg">Deut. 13.</NOTE> of I&s;rael, that they &s;houlde bew<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">re of fal&s;e Prophetes, who might deceyue them, hee namely &s;ayde, that the Lorde would tempt his people by fal&s;e Prophetes, who &s;houlde make great &s;hewes of trueth: and he would doe it to this end, to proue whether his peo|ple feared and loued him with al their hart, or not.</P>
<P>Wherein he manife&s;tly declareth, that they which had the true feare of God before them, and loued him indecde, would neuer receiue the fal&s;e Prophetes, and ca&s;t off the <NOTE PLACE="marg">A pre&s;eruatiue again&s;t errors.</NOTE> law, &amp; word of God, but alwayes continue in the doctrine, which the Lord God had reuealed vnto them from heauen.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Toby.</SPEAKER>
<P>I thank thee, I now very wel
<PB REF="36"> vnder&s;tand this poynt, and the cau&s;e al&s;o, why the deuill euery manner of way, hath &s;o great power ouer vs, as he hath. More|ouer, although we haue already &s;poken of many that are haunted with Deuilles, yet <NOTE PLACE="marg">Lunatique, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">if, dumb, and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">nd Demoni|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ques. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">at. 12. 17. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ark. 9. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">uk. 11.</NOTE> haue wee not all this while &s;poken anye whit of the Lunatique, deafe, dumb, and blynde Demoniacques.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>It is no great matter: For we will treate of them, when thou &s;halt thinke it be&s;t.</P>
</SP>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="summary">
<PB REF="36">
<HEAD><HI>The Tytle and effect of the</HI> fift Dialogue, of the world po&s;&s;e&s;|&s;ed with Deuils.</HEAD>
<P>THis fifte Dialogue is called, the dialogue of Lunatique Deuilles: becau&s;e the chiefe matter contained therein, treateth of a Luna|tique Demoniacque, of whom the Euangeli&s;ts make mention, and of &s;uch as may be compa|red to the &s;ame. And beecau&s;e there were many accidentes, which fell out vnto this De|moniacque, &s;omewhat is al&s;o &s;ayde, of deafe, dumbe, and blinde Demoniacques, and howe Ie&s;us Chri&s;t healed them.</P>
<P>What grace God graunteth to men, by the preaching of the Go&s;pell.</P>
<P>In what a dangerous e&s;tate they are, which are depriued of the Go&s;pell.</P>
<P>Of the Prophecies, of the hardening and blynding of their hearts, which contemne the word of God.</P>
<P>What power the Deuill hath ouer younge children, and what be the cau&s;es therof, and of Originall &s;inne.</P>
<P>What occa&s;ions the Deuil taketh at the infir|mities
<PB REF="37"> of men, thereby to hurt them.</P>
<P>Of tho&s;e meanes, by which wee giue the Deuill libertie to haue acce&s;&s;e vnto vs.</P>
<P>Howe the Aungelles were conuerted into Deuils.</P>
<P>Of Lunatique fooles.</P>
<P>Of the wicked Spirite which tormented Saule.</P>
<P>Of the vengeaunce of God, vpon the migh|tie men of the world.</P>
<P>Of &s;uch as follow Saules ill conditions, and which &s;inne again&s;t their owne con&s;ciences.</P>
<P>Of &s;uch as the Deuill ca&s;teth into the fier, and into the water.</P>
<P>Of the woman po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ed of a Spirite, which &s;tale money, by &s;upping vp of it.</P>
<P>Of the reigne of God Mammon heere in this world.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="dialogue">
<PB REF="37">
<HEAD>&para; <HI>The fift Dialogue of the</HI> Demoniacke world, intituled <HI>Lunatike Diuels.</HI></HEAD>
<P>Theophra&s;t. Toby. Ierome. Eu&s;tace.</P>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theophra&s;te.</SPEAKER>
<P>_THere is no man liuing, but that would be great|ly afeard, when as hee con&s;idereth of the e&s;tate wherein the&s;e poore and mi&s;erable demoniackes &s;toode, who were po&s;&s;e&s;|&s;ed with a Legion of Diuels. But if they were very mi&s;erable, no doubt of it, the e&s;tate of y^e lunatike, deafe, dumb, &amp; blind altogether, &s;eemeth vnto me to bee mo&s;t vn|gracious.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>I warrant thee, the lea&s;t of all the&s;e mi&s;chiefes is great enough to make the e&s;tate of a poore man mi&s;erable. For, although we bee neuer wholy blind, deafe, nor dumb, yet &s;ee how we take on, when as
<PB REF="38"> our &s;ight alone, beginneth to faile vs, and that wee mu&s;t bee faine to v&s;e &s;pectacles: Or, if wee heare not &s;o well as wee were wonted to do? or that we &s;tammer, or haue any other impediment in our tongue, and &s;peake not &s;o plainely as wee woulde. And if we be thus at this point, wee may ea&s;ily iudge, what a mi&s;erie it is to bee altogether blinde, deafe, and dumbe. But, if we haue al the&s;e at once, be&s;ides a number of other &s;trange di&s;ea&s;es, ioyned together with the~, then is there a notable &s;ort of mi&s;chiefes pi|led vp in vs all at once.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>That is out of al doubt, and by how much both the &s;ight, the hearing, &amp; the &s;peech are the excellent giftes of God, by &s;o much are tho&s;e me~ mo&s;t mi&s;erable, who are depriued of them.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>For mine owne part, I verily &s;up|po&s;e that there is no man liuing but had ra|ther die tenne times, then he would be only blinde, deafe, and dumbe, although hee were no demoniacke.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>Surely, hee that &s;hould be in that e&s;tate, &s;houlde be more mi&s;erable, as a man would &s;ay, then the very bruite bea&s;t. Now imagine that this might be, when as the di|uell
<PB REF="38"> &s;hould be amidde&s;t all his mi&s;chieuous turnes, whereof he is the cau&s;e &amp; in&s;trume~t. And if wee mu&s;t iudge the&s;e Demoniacks to be mi&s;erable, what &s;hall we &s;ay by them, who haue all the&s;e inconueniences in their &s;oules?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>To.</SPEAKER>
<P>If we could a&s;wel di&s;cerne the&s;e mi&s;|chiefes in our &s;oules, as we ca~ whe~ we haue the~ in our bodies, I doe not dout but y^t wee would be in greater fear of the~, then we are.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>And yet for all this, they whome Satan the god of this world, haue blindfol|ded <NOTE PLACE="marg">2. Cor. 4.</NOTE> their eies, to the end they &s;hould not &s;ee the light of the go&s;pell, and who&s;e eares he hath &s;topped, that they &s;hould not heare the worde of God, and who&s;e tongues he hath tyed, y^t they &s;hould not call vpon, and prai&s;e the Lorde, and &s;uch as who&s;e hearts he po&s;|&s;e&s;&s;eth and hardeneth, to the end they &s;hould not beleeue the go&s;pel, are without al doubt a great deale more mi&s;erable and accur&s;ed, then the&s;e dumb, deafe, and blinde demoni|ackes, whereof wee &s;peake.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>And yet a man &s;hall finde a great number of the&s;e demoniackes in the world.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>The.</SPEAKER>
<P>Why ma~, there is almo&s;t nothing els in it. For we our &s;elues, haue &s;omtimes been all in this e&s;tate. And that which is
<PB REF="39"> more, al men are &s;uch by their owne nature, vntill &s;uch time as Ie&s;us Chri&s;t commeth vnto them, to driue out the diuel, who ma|keth them &s;o deafe, dumbe, and blinde. And therefore, &s;o often as we &s;ee any man con|uerted <NOTE PLACE="marg">Deafe, dumbe, &amp; blinde Demoni|acks, healed by the go&s;pell.</NOTE> to the Go&s;pell, wee mu&s;t thinke it to bee &s;uch a worke, euen a mo&s;t excellente work of god: neither ought we le&s;&s;e maruel at the matter, then if wee &s;awe him healing the deafe, dumbe, &amp; blynde demoniacks be|fore our eyes. And by this we may iudge, what grace God &s;heweth to tho&s;e kindes of people, out of who~ Ie&s;us Chri&s;te driueth the Diuell, by the preaching of the go&s;pel, that they might &s;ee the light of God, whiche without al co~pari&s;on, is a great deale more to bee de&s;ired, then the light of the Sunne, and make them heare the voyce of theyr &s;hephearde Ie&s;us Chri&s;te, and open theyr mouthes to preach &amp; declare his pray&s;e and <NOTE PLACE="marg">The grace, whi|che god &s;hew|rth to men, by the preaching of the go&s;pel.</NOTE> glory. For, there is no harmonie of the mouth, nor yet of mu&s;icall in&s;trument, &s;o plea&s;ant to y^e bodily eare, as y^e voyce of god is plea&s;ant to the eares of the &s;oules, of the children of God. And as this greatly de|lighteth them, to heare this &s;o &s;weete and plea&s;ant a voyce, euen &s;o likewi&s;e is it as
<PB REF="39"> great a delight to the~, to haue their mouths open, to magnifie and &s;anctifie the name of God, and to call vpon him ince&s;&s;antly. And <NOTE PLACE="marg">What a cur&s;ed e&s;tate they are in, which are de|priued of the go&s;pel.</NOTE> coutrariwi&s;e, we may iudge in what a cur|&s;ed e&s;tate they are, who bee depriued of this benefite of the Lord. For, it is euen as muche as if wee &s;awe the Diuell vi&s;ibly raigne among&s;t the deafe, dumbe, &amp; blinde, neuer cea&s;ing tormenting of them, both in &s;oule and body, more cruelly, then the mo&s;te tormentrous hangman in the world is able to deui&s;e to torment the mo&s;t wicked man that might po&s;&s;ibly be committed into his handes.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>A&s;&s;uredly, I doe tremble when I thinke of that whiche thou &s;peake&s;t, and when I heare thee &s;peake.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>What woulde&s;t thou then &s;ay, if thou &s;houlde&s;t &s;ee with thine owne eyes, the thing as it is in deed? For, if the Infidels, and enemies of God could perceiue and be|leeue, that they were in this e&s;tate, no doubt of it, they would bee more afeard of it then they are.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>For mine owne part, I verily thinke, that they would fully and wholy bee contented to die, &s;o that they might but only
<PB REF="40"> vnder&s;tand and lay hold of it</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>Why then, if the e&s;tate of all &s;uch as remaine in the darkne&s;&s;e of error and ignorance, be &s;o accur&s;ed, horrible, and fear|ful, yet for all this, there are none of all tho&s;e which are in &s;uch e&s;tate, who are more accur&s;ed, then tho&s;e whome God reiecteth, by rea&s;on they haue co~te~ned his holy word, and to whom he &s;endeth his prophetes and &s;eruants, to doe that duetie which the Lorde committed to I&s;aiah, when as he &s;aid vnto him, Goe thy way, and tell this people, <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>I&s;aiah. 6.</HI> A prophe&s;&s;e of the hardening of their heartes, which contemne the go&s;pel.</NOTE> that in hearing they &s;hall not vnder&s;tand, and in &s;eeing, they &s;hall not perceiue.</P>
<P>Blocki&s;he the hearte of this people, &s;toppe their eares, and clo&s;e vp their eyes, to the ende, they may not &s;ee with their eyes, nor heare with their eares, nor yet vn|der&s;tande with their heartes, that they may not bee conuerted, and &s;o bee hea|led.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Toby.</SPEAKER>
<P>Surely, &s;urely, this is a feare|full prophe&s;ie.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>By this we may euidently &s;ee, that euen as God by his iu&s;t iudgement a|bandoneth the Demoniackes vnto the Di|uell,
<PB REF="40"> ouer whom he gaue them power, eue~ &s;o he abandoneth him, and di&s;chargeth his handes of all &s;uch as contemne his giftes &amp; graces, to the end the diuell might clo&s;e vp <NOTE PLACE="marg">Exod. 4. 7. 8. 9. 10.</NOTE> theyr eyes and eares, and &s;o harden their heartes as he did Pharaos, that they might peri&s;h accur&s;edly, as they de&s;erued and wi|&s;hed. For, &s;eeing they toke plea&s;ure to blind them&s;elues, becau&s;e they would not &s;ee the light of the worde of God, and &s;topped their eares, that they might not heare his voice, and hardened their heartes, that they might not beleeue the go&s;pel, they well de&s;erued, that God &s;hould for&s;ake them.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Toby.</SPEAKER>
<P>Verily, the&s;e men might well bee placed, amonge&s;t the blinde, deafe, and dumbe Demoniackes, &s;aue that I thinke they are not dumbe to bla&s;pheme the name of God.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>If euer there were blinde, deafe, and dumb Demoniacks in the world, the&s;e are they. And the greate&s;t number of tho&s;e, are they who &s;o greatly glory of the knowledge of the go&s;pel, &amp; to be the people of God.</P>
<PB REF="41">
<P>And therefore this prophe&s;ie of <HI>I&s;ayah,</HI> is alleadged and rehear&s;ed &s;ixe times at the lea&s;t in the newe te&s;tament, as well by the foure Euangeli&s;ts, as al&s;o by Saint Paule. For, euen as the preaching of <HI>I&s;aiah</HI> did blind and harden the heartes of tho&s;e hypo|crites, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 13. Mark. 4. Luke. 8. Iohn. 12. Actes. 28. Rom. 11.</NOTE> and rebels that were amonge&s;t the Iewes, not through the Prophetes faulte, but through their owne: euen &s;o was the preaching of Ie&s;us Chri&s;te, and of his A|po&s;tles, amonge&s;t them who in their dayes were like vnto the&s;e, again&s;t whom <HI>I&s;aiah</HI> prophe&s;ied. And we &s;ee that this prophe&s;ie is dayly accompli&s;hed, not onely in Chri&s;ti|an Papi&s;tes, but al&s;o in &s;uche as greatly boa&s;t of the reformation of the Go&s;pel: and more in them, then in any other be&s;ides, be|cau&s;e they mo&s;t villanou&s;ly abu&s;e the gra|ces which God hath be&s;towed vpon them. And therefore, becau&s;e their vnthankeful|ne&s;&s;e is meruellous great, it is good rea&s;on their puni&s;hment &s;hould bee the greater.</P>
<P>Wherefore, it is not without iu&s;te cau&s;e that this prophe&s;ie is &s;o oftenrepeated in the newe Te&s;tament, more then any other that is in all the Bookes of the Prophetes.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>I be&s;eech the Lord keepe vs by his
<PB REF="41"> grace, y^t we fal not into any &s;uch inconueni|ences, to the end we become not &s;uch de&s;pe|rate Demoniakes. But what &s;aie&s;t thou now of Lunatike Diuels? For thou ha&s;t <NOTE PLACE="marg">Lunatick De<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">|niackes. <HI>Mat. 17. Mark. 9. Luke. 9.</HI> The power wh<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">|che the Diuel<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> hath ouer young children, &amp; wha<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the cau&s;es there|of, are.</NOTE> not as yet, &s;et downe thine opinion of the~.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>The.</SPEAKER>
<P>Although Saint Matthew cal|leth this Demoniacke, only Lunatike, yet Saint Mark &s;ayth, that he was deafe al&s;o, and Saint Luke, that he was dumbe, and they all agree together, that he was euen &s;o from his infancie.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>This is very &s;trange, that the Diuel &s;hould haue &s;uch power ouer young children.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>The.</SPEAKER>
<P>This is an example admonitato|rie to vs of many things, if we can wel con|&s;ider of them.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>I pray thee tell me what things they are.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>Fir&s;t of all, wee are hereby to iudge of the &s;tate &amp; condition of our nature, and how corrupt and accur&s;ed it is, by rea|&s;on of &s;inne, &s;eeing, that euen from our in|fancie, the Diuel hath &s;uch power ouer vs. For, if young childre~ were without &s;in, the Diuel &s;hould haue no power ouer them, no <NOTE PLACE="marg">Originall &s;inne. <HI>Rom. 5.</HI></NOTE> more then death which the diuel hath begot
<PB REF="42"> through &s;inne. And therefore, Saint Paule proueth, that becau&s;e children dye, that they are &s;ubiect to originall &s;inne, and that they <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ead again&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ul.</NOTE> haue alreadie de&s;erued puni&s;hmente for the &s;ame in this their infancie. And &s;o, &s;ome of the auncient doctors of the Churche, take this example of the Lunatike infant, to proue the &s;ame, again&s;t all &s;uche as denie o|riginall &s;inne, affirming, that young chil|dren are innocent, and without &s;inne.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>Surely, the rea&s;on of the&s;e an|cient doctors is built vpon a &s;ound founda|tion.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>If children then of this age de|&s;erue now &s;uch iudgement at the handes of God, if God will iudge them in rigour, wee may &s;oone haue an e&s;timate, what venge|ance we dayly de&s;erue at the hands of God, con&s;idering, that wee haue not this natural corruption onely in vs, which we call Ori|ginall &s;inne, and is in young children, but that whiche is more, wee continually carry about with vs the cur&s;ed and damnable fruites, by which, we ince&s;&s;antly prouoke the heauie wrath and di&s;plea&s;ure of God again&s;t vs.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>This example ought to teach vs,
<PB REF="42"> to humble our &s;elues vnto the Lorde our God, and ince&s;&s;antly pray vnto him. <HI>That</HI> <NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 6. Luke. 11<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> <HI>hee woulde not leade vs into temptation, but deliuer vs from euill.</HI> And therefore we ought to bee very watchfull, and &s;tande vpon our guard, to the end he ouertake vs not vpon the &s;odaine. For, if this be &s;o cruel an enemie vnto young children, be &s;ure, hee will v&s;e no great curte&s;ie vnto vs. And if GOD giueth him &s;uche libertie to hurt young children, out of doubte, hee wyll ne|uer &s;pare vs, &s;eeing that we haue a great deale more de&s;erued his furie and indigna|tion, then young children?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>Euerye man may vnder&s;tande this, if hee will. But yet con&s;ider &s;om|what more in another point, of the malice of Satan. I<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> appeareth by the wordes of Saint Luke, &s;peaking of this mi&s;erable Lunatike, that the Diuel, tormented him <NOTE PLACE="marg"><HI>Luke. 9.</HI> Of the di&s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;e which this luna|tike demoniacke had.</NOTE> not continually, but that hee gaue him &s;ome re&s;pyte, although but a little. For, hee &s;etteth it downe in the&s;e plaine termes, that this Diuell, would hardly depart from this wretched childe. Whereupon, it mu&s;t followe, that hee departed &s;ometimes from him.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><PB REF="43">Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>Is this the cau&s;e, why the Eua~|geli&s;ts called him Lunatike.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>I doe not thinke, that hee was <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he falling &s;ick|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">s.</NOTE> called Lunatike, becau&s;e he had the falling &s;ickne&s;&s;e, which commeth by fittes, as the Moone increa&s;eth and decrea&s;eth. For, be|cau&s;e that this di&s;ea&s;e commeth of the in|firmitte of the brayne, it therfore followeth the cour&s;e of the moone. And again, becau&s;e the brayne is very colde and moy&s;t, it agree|eth mightily with the nature of y^e Moone, which God hath created to be of &s;uch a na|ture, as that it might pre&s;erue colde and moy&s;t things, as hee hath created the Sun to bee of a hoate and drye nature, that it might pre&s;erue the re&s;t of the &s;ame conditi|on, to the ende, that all the creatures of God, might be kept in order, which God in his Almightie prouidence hath di&s;po&s;ed.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>Is this the cau&s;e, why wee al&s;o commonly call this di&s;ea&s;e, the hie euil, and <NOTE PLACE="marg">The hie euill.</NOTE> that we terme them which are &s;ubiect there to, to fall into the hie euill?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>That may bee one cau&s;e there|of. For it cannot take a man hier, then by the head, or brain, when it taketh him in the
<PB REF="43"> head and braine, as that he falleth to the grounde, as a Butcher knocketh an oxe in the head. It is al&s;o &s;aid of this Lunaticke infant, that the Diuell ca&s;t him, and made him &s;ometimes fall into the fire, and &s;ome|times into the water, in &s;uch &s;ort, as that it was maruaile that hee had not beene kild a thou&s;and times. It is likewi&s;e written, that he fomed at the mouth, and tare him&s;elf hor|ribly.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>All the&s;e accidents, do greatly folow the falling &s;icknes. But it is namely &s;et downe, that the diuel did all the&s;e things and not the di&s;ea&s;e.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>The one of them is no let to the other. For although the Diuell is the Go|uernour <NOTE PLACE="marg">The Diuell ta|keth occa&s;ion to cau&s;e men hurt them&s;elues, eue<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> by their own in|firmities.</NOTE> and ruler of this doing, yet hee ta|keth it from the infirmitie and di&s;ea&s;e, wher+vnto he knoweth this infant to be &s;ubiecte, and occa&s;ioneth him to doe that euill to him &s;elfe which he doth, and &s;o &s;erueth his turne there with, for the exerci&s;ing of his crueltie and malice towards him. And therefore, hee watched and pryed out the tymes and &s;ea|&s;ons, when this di&s;ea&s;e came agayne to this childe, and hee him&s;elfe al&s;o ha&s;tened and furthered it as much as was po&s;&s;ible. And
<PB REF="44"> therefore the Diuell &s;urpre&s;ed this childe, when hee knew that hee &s;hould fall into the di&s;ea&s;e, to make him fall either into the fier or into the water, and &s;o by that meane de|&s;troy him if hee coulde. And therefore S. Luke &s;aith, that the Diuell, with much a doe, departed from this childe. <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">uke. 9.</NOTE></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>I haue alreadie con&s;idered of two thinges which thou ha&s;t &s;poken. The Fir&s;t, is of that which hath heretofore been hande|led, as concerning the de&s;ire which the Di|uell hath to hurt the creatures of God, but e&s;pecially men, as for example wee haue &s;eene in the Legion of Diuels, who entred into the Gerge&s;ites &s;wine, after they had beene driuen out of the Demoniacks.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>The.</SPEAKER>
<P>What is that other point, whiche thou woulde&s;t &s;peake of?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>It is euen this, That I &s;ee the horrible iudgement of God, and his greate mercy together, in one and the &s;elfe &s;ame per&s;on. For, although God had left this poore and mi&s;erable childe vnto the diuell, yet hee &s;o brideled vp the diuel, as that hee coulde not hurte the childe as hee woulde: but in good &s;orte, in de&s;pite of all that the Diuell coulde doe. And God pre&s;erued this childe, that Ie&s;us might heale him, as
<PB REF="44"> &s;uch time as hee had appointed, to the end that his &s;onne Ie&s;us Chri&s;te might be glo|rified by hym, and that the worlde might know what power hee had, ouer the mo&s;t wicked and terrible diuels.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>Nowe in very deede, this was very well con&s;idered, and &s;poken of thee, but yet there is &s;omthing more to be noted, ouer &amp; be&s;ides all this, and y^e is this, that &s;ee|ing the diuel taketh occa&s;ion to ru&s;h in vpon men, through their infirmities, and corporal <NOTE PLACE="marg">The meane by which we &s;uffer the diuel to haue acce&s;&s;e vnto vs.</NOTE> di&s;ea&s;es, and &s;o cruelly deale with them, we may very well con&s;ider, what occa&s;ion hee might take, by the infirmities, di&s;ea&s;es, and greeuous &s;innes whiche are in our &s;oules, for the de&s;troyng of vs eternally. And therefore we had need, very carefully looke to our &s;elues, how by &s;uch means, we inuite and bid him come to vs.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>Surely, me thinketh y^e we haue a very manife&s;t example of that which thou &s;peake&s;t, in Iudas. Becau&s;e, y^e diuel, &s;eeing <NOTE PLACE="marg">The example of Iudas.</NOTE> him inclined to couetou&s;nes, tooke occa&s;ion to enter into him, y^e redie &amp; open way. For, as I take it, &s;ome of the Euangeli&s;tes &s;ay, that Satan entred into him.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>In deede, Saint Luke and <NOTE PLACE="marg">Luke. 22.</NOTE>
<PB REF="45"> S. Iohn haue &s;o &s;et it down. And althogh <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hn. 13.</NOTE> the Diuell entered not into him to torment his body, as his cu&s;tome is, to torment De|moniackes, yet he &s;o tormented his &s;oule, as that he droue him to that i&s;&s;ue that he made him hang him&s;elfe. And becau&s;e hee <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">udas a very <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">iuell. <HI>Mat. 27. Acts. 1. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ohn. 6. Mala. 1.</HI></NOTE> was &s;o di&s;loy all a Traitour, where he &s;hold haue been an angel of God, vnto the which e&s;tate Ie&s;us Chri&s;t had called him, our Sa|uiour of very right and iu&s;tly, did not onely cal him Demoniack, but euen plaine diuel. For, &s;eeing the true mini&s;ters of the Lorde be called in y^e holy &s;criptures, the angels of <NOTE PLACE="marg">Apoc. 2. 3.</NOTE> god, the~ may they iu&s;tly be holde~ for diuels, which abu&s;e their office, and band the~ &s;elues again&s;t God, where they &s;houlde thereby honour him. For, heerein they do the office <NOTE PLACE="marg">The conuer&s;ion of Angels into diuels.</NOTE> of Diuels, becau&s;e they abu&s;e their office, and the excellent giftes which God hath be|&s;towed vpon them.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>To.</SPEAKER>
<P>Me thinketh, that this exa~ple &s;hold terrifie all couetou&s;men, but e&s;pecially, all the wicked mini&s;ters of the Churche who make they<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> mini&s;terie &s;erue their coueto|ou&s;ues. For, the diuel hath a iolly entrance <NOTE PLACE="marg">Coutiou&s;nes.</NOTE> into them.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>For&s;ooth, it is very true. But
<PB REF="45"> thiefly into tho&s;e, which &s;ell and betray Ie|&s;us Chri&s;te and his Church, through their couetou&s;ne&s;&s;e.</P>
<P>Wee might &s;ay as much of other vices, notwith&s;tanding that this vice of coueton&s;|ne&s;&s;e, is one of the chiefe&s;t, by which the Deuil hath Lord&s;hip ouer vs, &amp; maketh vs his &s;laues.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>To.</SPEAKER>
<P>I may thee, &s;hew me &s;ome other examples of Lunatique Deuilles, tending to this purpo&s;e, and of the occa&s;ions, y^t the Deuill taketh by our infirmyties &amp; &s;innes to hurt vs withall.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>Contented, It is written in the Booke called Eccle&s;ia&s;tes: <HI>That the talk <NOTE PLACE="marg">Eccle. 27.</NOTE> of a man whiche feareth GOD, is al|wayes wi&s;e: But a foole chaungeth as the Moone.</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>To.</SPEAKER>
<P>Why, then I perceyue, we may very wel place fooles, among&s;t Lunatique <NOTE PLACE="marg">Lunatique fool<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> men. And &s;o by that rea&s;on, the number of Lunatiques &s;houlde bee great, &s;eeing that there is a great and infinite number of fooles.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>Howbeit, if they be both Luna|tique and demoniacques: yea, deafe, dumbe, and blinde, they are the more daungerous
<PB REF="46"> fooles. And yet we &s;ee almo&s;t nothing els before our eyes. For wee &s;hall &s;ee &s;ome of them, at one time or an other, &s;eeme to haue a good lyking of God, his worde, and of vertue, and hone&s;ty. They haue their momentes, and fittes, wherein they deale wonderfully, &s;o that a man would thinke them to be become the hone&s;te&s;t men in the world. And in the turning of an hand, they are &s;o &s;uddainlye chaunged from better to wor&s;e, as that thou woulde&s;t &s;aye, that the Deuill was entred into their bodyes, and &s;o became Demoniacques.</P>
<P>The&s;e men are &s;uch Demoniacques, as <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">aule is left to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e wicked &s;pirit <HI>Sam. 16.</HI></NOTE> king Saule was. For, it is written of him, that after Samuel had annoynted Da|uid, to be king ouer the people of God, in Saules &s;teede, the good &s;pirit of the Lorde departed from Saule, and the euill &s;pirite of the Lord tormented him. And &s;hortly af|ter, Saules &s;eruants, called this Spirit, the euil &s;pirit of the Lord.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Toby.</SPEAKER>
<P>I take it, that the holy Scrip|ture, &s;o &s;aith, vnder&s;tanding therby, that the lord &s;ent this wicked &s;pirit, in his iu&s;t iudg|ment, to puni&s;h him by him, as he had of lo~g de&s;erued.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><PB REF="46">Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>There is no doubt of it.</P>
<P>Whereupon thou art to note fir&s;t of all, that the Hebrew word, which the holy &s;crip|ture v&s;eth in this place, may be diuer&s;lye interpreted. For, it may al&s;o be interpre|ted, that this wicked &s;pirite, terrified, or choked, or puffed vp, or els a&s;toni&s;hed Saul, and made him become blocki&s;h.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>To.</SPEAKER>
<P>But, before we talke any further <NOTE PLACE="marg">How the Deu<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> hath dayly gre<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> aduantage ou<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> vs.</NOTE> of this wicked &s;pirite, which came vppon Saul, after that the good &s;pirit of the Lord was departed from him. It hath heretofore beene declared, that Saule was a great hy|pocrite, and a mo&s;t glorious man, and an enuious Rebel to God, and had &s;o prouoked God vnto anger, as that he cau&s;ed Samuel <NOTE PLACE="marg">1. Sam. 15. 1 1. Sam. 31. 2. Sam. 11.</NOTE> to tell him, that he &s;hould be hereaued of the kingdome, which he had giuen him, as in deede it was. And the cau&s;e why GOD gaue him ouer vnto the wicked &s;prite, came by rea&s;on therof.</P>
<P>How, Saule was not &s;o wicked and cur|&s;ed, before &s;uch time as the wicked &s;pyrite had taken po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion in him, neyther was he any right Demontacque, without he kept it more clo&s;e before, then afterward he did.</P>
<PB REF="47">
<P>And therefore, how are wee to vnder&s;tand this, that the good &s;pirite of the Lorde de|parted from Saule, and that the wicked &s;pirit came vpon him, in the &s;teede of the good?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>The example of Iudas, of whome wee haue &s;o often &s;poke, may &s;erue vs to great purpo&s;e, for the re&s;oluing of vs in this que&s;tion.</P>
<P>For, when Ie&s;us Chri&s;te &s;ayd, that Iu|das was a Deuill, there is no doubt, but that <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ohn. 6.</NOTE> the Deuill reigned in the heart of Iudas before. But becau&s;e that Iudas continu|ally more and more abu&s;ed the giftes and graces of God, and grew wor&s;e &amp; wor&s;e, wher he &s;hould haue waxed better &amp; better, hee made the waye more open and plaine, for the Deuill to enter into him.</P>
<P>Wherefore S. Iohn &s;etteth it down, that the Deuill put it in Iudas heart, to beetray Ie&s;us Chri&s;te: and afterward hee &s;aieth, as S. Luke &s;ayde, that Satan entred into <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ohn. 13. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">uke. 22.</NOTE> him.</P>
<P>It was not meant by the Euange li&s;tes, but that the Deuill was in him before, and namely, when hee beganne to murmure a|gain&s;t the woman, who had &s;pent her pre|cious
<PB REF="47"> oyntment vpon Ie&s;us Chri&s;t. But <NOTE PLACE="marg">Math. 26. Mark. 14. Iohn. 12.</NOTE> their meaning is, that we &s;hould vnder&s;ta~d, that the Deuill at that time, had taken lar|ger po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion in the heart of Iudas, and had greater power ouer him, in&s;omuch that he was mai&s;ter of all, as experience after|warde manife&s;tly declared.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Toby.</SPEAKER>
<P>Thy meaning then is, that it fared euen &s;o with Saule.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>True in deede, for the thing is mo&s;t apparaunt.</P>
<P>For, euen as Iudas did a great deale wor&s;e, after &s;uch time as S. Luke and S. Iohn &s;pake, that the Diuell was entred in|to his hart, &s;o that Iudas was the~ come eue~ vnto the fulne&s;&s;e of all iniquitie &amp; wicked|ne&s;&s;e: Euen &s;o fell it al&s;o out with Saule, after that the good &s;pirite of the Lorde was gone from him, and he left vnto the wicked &s;pirit. For, before that, the good &s;pirit of the Lorde, cau&s;ed him to doe manye good things, although Saule had not a true and &s;ound heart. Howbeit, although he did him &s;elfe no good, yet did he good to others, con|&s;idering the e&s;tate wherein he was. But, after that the good &s;pirit of the Lord, had wholy giuen him ouer to Satan, a manne
<PB REF="48"> might haue &s;eene him grow wor&s;e, daylye and hourely, &s;o that hee neuer re&s;ted, vntill &s;uch time as he had filled the mea&s;ure of al wickedne&s;&s;e, and for a man of his degree &amp; qualitie, made euen as &s;hamefull an end, as Iudas did. For, after that Saule had com|mitted the very wor&s;t deedes that he could po&s;&s;ibly deui&s;e, again&s;t God, and again&s;t his &s;eruant Dauid, the Deuil at la&s;t egged him &s;o far forth, as that hee de&s;troyed him &s;elfe with his owne handes.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Toby.</SPEAKER>
<P>This is a fearfull example of Gods heauy vengeance, e&s;pecially vpon &s;o <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. Sam. 31. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">od plagueth <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he mo&s;t mighty <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">inges for their <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ran&s;gre&s;&s;ions.</NOTE> noble a per&s;onage. For, if God &s;pare not kings and Princes, we are not to look that he will &s;pare any others what&s;oeuer.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>It is &s;o farre off, that hee &s;pa|reth great kinges, and mightie potentates, becau&s;e they are of great magnifice~ce, as y^e he puni&s;heth them with more greeuous, no|table and fearefull tortures, then any of all the re&s;t of his people. For, by how much the more he hath made them great and ex|cellent, by &s;o much the more are they vn|thankefull vnto his maie&s;tie, when as they abu&s;e his graces. And againe, there are no enemies of God, which more di&s;honor
<PB REF="48"> him, &amp; do greater hurt vnto al me~, by their euill examples, and le&s;&s;e puni&s;hed by men, then they which are in the greate&s;t autho|ritie. And therfore it cannot be cho&s;en, but that God him &s;elfe mu&s;t ari&s;e to execute iu|&s;tice vpon them, &s;eeing that none els will, or can doe it: And hee mu&s;t needes cau&s;e them make a publick amends, for all the horrible and grieuous offences, which they haue heretofore committed, and &s;til dayly doe.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Toby.</SPEAKER>
<P>To &s;aye truely, hee handleth the~ very roughly, when he once beginneth to lay his hand on them.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>But among&s;t all the re&s;t, who~ the example of Saul ought mo&s;t to terrifie, <NOTE PLACE="marg">The Imitator of Saule.</NOTE> are all glorious, proude, enuious, and hypo|critical men, and all tyrants, but e&s;pecially, tho&s;e kindes of men, whoe fight again&s;t <NOTE PLACE="marg">What a grie|nous thing it i<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> for a man to &s;in<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> again&s;t his own<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> con&s;cience.</NOTE> their owne con&s;ciences, and per&s;ecute &s;uch as they know to be mo&s;t innocent. For, Saule, was &s;ubiect to all the&s;e vices. But, he mo&s;t manife&s;tly &s;hewed, what great po|wer the Deuil had ouer him, when as he &s;o openly fought again&s;t his own con&s;cience, which oftentimes enforced him to accu&s;e &amp; condemne his own &s;elf, for the iniuries and wronges which he had done vnto Dauid.</P>
<PB REF="49">
<P>For, how often was he enforced to &s;ay, that he was a vile and wicked man, and had done great iniurie to Dauid, and that Dauid was innocent, and a far hone&s;ter man then <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. Sam. 24. 26.</NOTE> him &s;elfe? And who enforced him this to doe, but the very power of the trueth, and his owne con&s;cience, which draue him to it, as if he had beene racked to doe it? he right well knew, that he did wickedly, and that he manife&s;tly fought again&s;t God, and yet for all this, he no whit amended him &s;elfe: but &s;til became more trayterous, fierce &amp; cruel, without any regarde, either to GOD, iu&s;tice or equitie, then any brute and furious bea&s;t.</P>
<P>But when he made &s;uch a iolly confe&s;&s;i|on of his &s;innes, a man would haue thought, that he had beene very penitent, and altoge|ther conuerted. A man would haue thought that he had beene come againe to his right wittes, and that he had beene verye well di|&s;po&s;ed to haue don much better, then before time hee had. But hee was immediately after, quite and clean altered, and did wor&s;e, then before he had done. In&s;omuch, that at the very &s;ame in&s;tant, wherein hee v&s;ed the&s;e &s;peeches, declaring the innocencye of
<PB REF="49"> Dauid, he tooke his Iaueling, &amp; thought if he had coulde, to haue run Dauid through <NOTE PLACE="marg">1. Sam. 18. 2<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> 26.</NOTE> with it, with his owne handes, and after|ward cau&s;ed him to be &s;ought for al ouer, to haue put him to death.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>Surely, herein he right wel &s;he|wed, that he was a very Demontacke, and mo&s;t Lunaticke.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>We &s;ee a great number of &s;uch. For, there are an exceeding mighty num|ber of tho&s;e, who, after they haue long time fought again&s;t their own con&s;ciences, haue &s;ome remor&s;e thereof. But for&s;omuche as GOD for&s;aketh them, becau&s;e they haue for&s;aken him, the Deuill their mai|&s;ter, who hath &s;o great power and dominio~ ouer them, hath no more &s;tay of them, then of &s;en&s;le&s;&s;e and mad men. And therfore they alter their mynds euery houre. And if it &s;o fall out, as that they &s;ometimes light on the right &s;ide, theyby &amp; by tumble ouer againe vnto y^e other &s;ide, &s;o y^t, the moone changeth not &s;o ofte~ as they do. But this is the nature of al &s;uch as are &s;ubiect to the diuel. For, af|ter any furious &amp; mad &s;pirit hath once got po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of them, they are neuer long in one mind. <HI>Tob.</HI> Thou ha&s;t already &s;po|ken
<PB REF="50"> of many greate vices which greately haunt vs, that make vs &s;ubiect vnto him.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>The.</SPEAKER>
<P>It is &s;aid, that the diuel many times ca&s;t the Lunaticks one while into the fire, &amp; <NOTE PLACE="marg">Who they are, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">om the diuel ouerthroweth<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> and maketh them fall into <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he fire.</NOTE> another while into the water. Now, whe~ y^e diuel eggeth vs forward, &s;o that he cau&s;eth vs to fall into the &s;inne of couetou&s;ne&s;&s;e, he ca&s;teth vs into a farre more dangerous fire, then if he did ca&s;t vs into a materiall fire. For, couetou&s;nes, is &s;uch a fire, as is impo&s;|&s;ible <NOTE PLACE="marg">The fire of Co|uetou&s;nes.</NOTE> to be quenched, by rea&s;on of that which is ca&s;t into it, but burneth &s;til more &amp; more. Wherefore the couetous men burne conti|nualy in this fire, and con&s;ume therin much of that that is ca&s;t in, with them.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>If they were ca&s;t in into a ma|teriall fire, they &s;houlde bee di&s;charged for being burnt any more. Howbeit, the&s;e men, of whom thou &s;peake&s;t, are in a farre wor&s;e e&s;tate, then if they were burnt but in a &s;mal fire.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>Wee might likewi&s;e &s;aye as much of Whoremongers. For Lechery is <NOTE PLACE="marg">The fire of whoredome and Lecherie.</NOTE> a fire al&s;o, and as hard to be quenched, as y^e fire of couetou&s;ne&s;&s;e. And how many do we daylie &s;ee ca&s;t into this infernall fire by the diuel, who are there cruelly roa&s;ted both
<PB REF="50"> body &amp; &s;oule. But there are a maruellous great number, e&s;pecially, of the&s;e Luna|ticke Demoniackes, whom the diuell very often ca&s;teth into this fire of whoredome and lechery, amonge&s;t the &s;uppo&s;tes of the popi&s;h Church, who had rather burne in it, contrary to the coun&s;ell of Saint Paule, and the expre&s;&s;e commaundement of God, <NOTE PLACE="marg">The contempt of marriage pu+ni&s;hed. <HI>1. Cor. 7</HI></NOTE> then marry, and finde water in holy marri+age to remedy it, wherby they might que~ch this fire, and &s;o be ridde of it. But they had rather haue the diuel keep them there, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Gen. 1. 2. Math. 19.</NOTE> then they woulde &s;erue God in that e&s;tate which he hath ordeyned fro~ the beginning.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>But, what are they, whom y^e diuel maketh thus fall into the water?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>Why man, there are an ex|ceeding number of them. We may place in this ranke, all voluptuous and lycenti|ous per&s;ons, who &s;uffer the~&s;elues to ouer|flow <NOTE PLACE="marg">Who they are whom the diuel cau&s;eth to fall into the water.</NOTE> as it were water, in their plea&s;ures &amp; delightes. And therfore they make this en|tree for the Diuell to enter into the~, to the end he might plunge and drown them ouer head and eares, &s;o that they &s;houlde neuer be able to come out agayne. To be &s;hort, if wee woulde di&s;cour&s;e of this matter
<PB REF="51"> more at large, we &s;hould find, that the mo&s;t parte of vs, are thus dayly dealt withall by the Diuell, who handeleth vs not onely as hee handled the mi&s;erable Lunaticke, but a great deale more curelly. For there is no compari&s;on betweene the harmes whiche the Diuell is able to doe to the bodies, and tho&s;e whom he ince&s;&s;antly hurteth in their &s;oules.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>Seing we haue talked &s;o long, of &s;o many &s;ortes of Demoniackes, I wold gladly now know of <HI>Ierome,</HI> what he were able to &s;ay to this matter, con&s;idering hee hath &s;o long heard vs, &amp; neuer &s;pake worde which I maruel of. And me thinketh al&s;o y^t he is about to leaue his &s;ilence, and to &s;ay &s;omewhat.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ier.</SPEAKER>
<P>Surely, thou and <HI>Theo.</HI> haue &s;aid &s;o much, as that you haue lefte me no great matter to talke of. But I will tell you a <NOTE PLACE="marg">A &s;tor&s;e of a wo|man Demoni|acke that was neuer &s;ati&s;fied with money.</NOTE> Tale which once I hard done by a woman Demoniacke, who differeth farre fro~ tho&s;e &s;ortes of Demoniackes, of whom thou ha&s;t before &s;poken.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>Thou woulde&s;t fayne tel vs here &s;ome fable and old wiues tale, to make vs forget all the doctrine whereout we might
<PB REF="51"> gather &s;ome good matter, of the talk which we heretofore haue had.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ier.</SPEAKER>
<P>I wil tel thee, they that told me this hy&s;torie, tolde it not vnto me for a fable, but for a true hy&s;torie. And for myne own part, I verily beleeue, that they counterfayted not the matter. And put the ca&s;e it were a counterfayte thing, yet &s;hal it turne to good purpo&s;e, as co~cerning tho&s;e matters, wher|of you haue talked.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>Thou &s;houlde&s;t haue gone on with thine hi&s;tory, whiles we haue entertai|ned thee with the&s;e great promi&s;es. And therfore let vs now heare it.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ier.</SPEAKER>
<P>Fir&s;t of al, it was told me that this hi&s;tory happened in Almayne, and that this Demoniacke was &s;o lycorous of money, as neuer Iacke Dawe had greater delight in it. For &s;he woulde no &s;ooner come neere any man, but that her hand was &s;odainly v|pon his pur&s;e or money bagge if he had a|ny, that &s;he could find. And if &s;he had once fingred it, &s;he woulde haue &s;o lu&s;tely be|&s;tirred her, and &s;o &s;uddaynely haue put the Gold or &s;iluer which &s;he had fingered vnto her mouth, as that a man coulde not haue beene &s;o wary of her, but that &s;hee woulde
<PB REF="52"> haue more &s;uddainelye haue licked it in.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>I promi&s;e thee, this was a mar|uellous &s;traunge Diuell. Why, tho&s;e whi|che we commonly call Sara&s;ins, or Egip|tians, or els Bohemians, are nothing &s;ail|full in re&s;pecte of this Diuell, no nor yet the Iacke Dawes, who are the notable&s;t theeues for money that may bee, and will &s;ometimes as quickely di&s;patche it. But what became of this Demoniacke in the ende?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Iero.</SPEAKER>
<P>I vnder&s;toode by them who tolde me the tale, that Luther was a&s;ked his opinion of her. For hee was then a|liue, when as this matter fell &s;o out. And the place wherein this thing happened, is not farre fro~ y^e place where Luther dwelt: but I doe not well remember the name which was told me.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>It is no matter for the name of the place. But tel vs if thou can&s;t, what Lu|thers aun&s;weare was, as touching this de|moniacke, to tho&s;e which a&s;ked his coun&s;ell herein.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ier.</SPEAKER>
<P>I vnder&s;tood, that he told them, that it was an aduerti&s;ement of God to the
<PB REF="52"> Almaynes, and to all the world be&s;ides, that the diuell Mammon was vnchayned &amp; let <NOTE PLACE="marg">God Mam<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">|raigning in <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> world.</NOTE> loo&s;e, and raigned in the worlde, and was now more vn&s;atiable then euer he had byn before, and therefore leaft neither pur&s;e nor bagge vnryfled. And that although he had drawen drye all pur&s;es and bagges, and lic|ked vp all the gold and &s;iluer within them, yet coulde hee not be through full: For it is an vn&s;atiable gulfe whiche neuer cryeth hoe.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>What meane&s;t thou by this di|uell Mammon?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ier.</SPEAKER>
<P>That couetou&s;nes, wherof the diuel him&s;elfe is both God and father.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>Indeed, me thinketh that Luther hitte it rightlye. And if &s;o bee there had been no &s;uch thing, but a fayned matter, for &s;porte, yet it carrieth a good &s;ence with it, for we daylye &s;ee before our eyes, the prac|ti&s;e whereof Luther &s;pake, both in al coun|tries, and al&s;o in all e&s;tates, and therefore the Almaynes are not to bee onelye char|ged therwith. For, we are able to &s;ay with|out counterfetting, that there is a diuelli&s;h couetou&s;nes al the world throughout. And if a man &s;hould con&s;ider well of the matter,
<PB REF="53"> we &s;hould &s;ee couetou&s;ne&s;&s;e, to be a verye right &s;hee Diuel, and maketh men become hee Diuels, &amp; maketh &s;uch a nu~ber of De|moniacks as the woman was, of who~ thou er&s;t &s;pake&s;t, and begetteth &s;uche a number of great &amp; litle Diuels, to play this pagea~t, as that the whole worlde is nothing <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ls but a Diuelrie, altogether diueli&s;hed.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ierome.</SPEAKER>
<P>This was that &s;he diuel which chiefly made Iudas &s;uch a Diuel, as thou ha&s;t &s;aide he was, and &s;o, neuer &s;ithence that euer &s;he cea&s;&s;ed hatching and bringing forth of &s;uch like as her &s;elf, who are the greate&s;t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">inderers of the cour&s;e of the go&s;pel, which any way might come vnto it.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>We are then in a iolly countrey, when as we be in &s;uche an hel, and haue to doe with &s;o many &s;ortes of Demoniackes and Diuels.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ier.</SPEAKER>
<P>The danger is not &s;o great to haue to doe with them, as it is to be one of the number.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>I right wel know thy meaning. And therefore the harde&s;t matter for vs re|&s;teth herein, to find y^e meanes how to auoyd al the&s;e inconueniences, to wit, howe wee may fir&s;t keepe our &s;elues, from falling in|to
<PB REF="53"> the&s;e mi&s;chiefes. The &s;econd is, as tou|ching the meane, whereby we may e&s;chewe the hurt which the&s;e diuels and Demoni|ackes might doe vs.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ier.</SPEAKER>
<P>That, which thou ha&s;t &s;poken of, is the very be&s;t and chiefe&s;t: For, to what pur|po&s;e were it for a man to vnder&s;tand the di&s;|ea&s;e, without a man did thinke to get nece&s;|&s;ary remedyes for the healing thereof, and it were to &s;mal purpo&s;e to thinke of them without a man were &s;ure to find them.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>In very deede it would &s;erue to none other end, but the more to torment the party grieued, and make him become more de&s;perate.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ier.</SPEAKER>
<P>And therefore the verye be&s;t way will be, that at our fir&s;t meeting together, we trauel and goe about this matter.</P>
</SP>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="summary">
<PB REF="54">
<HEAD><HI>The Title and effect of the</HI> &s;ixt Dialogue, of the Demo|acke world.</HEAD>
<P>_THis &s;ixt Dialogue is intituled, The coniuration of Diuelles, becau&s;e in it, is &s;et forth, whi|che way to driue out Diuels whiche rule and torment the world. Wheruppon, tho&s;e re|medies are &s;poken of, which Saul &s;ought after, that hee might bee ridde of that wicked &s;pirite whiche tormented him, and of the remedies which Infidels, and wicked men hunt after, for &s;uch di&s;ea&s;es as come vnto them, and how men haue recour&s;e vnto creatures, wheras in truth they &s;hould run vnto God.</P>
<P>Of the cau&s;e of Saul his madnes, and of the right remedy that was v&s;ed for the &s;ame.</P>
<P>Of the blocki&s;h and witching &s;pirit which God &s;endeth vnto vs in his iu&s;t iudgement.</P>
<P>For what cau&s;e, fa&s;ting and prayer are auay|leable, for the driuing out of diuels.</P>
<P>How very nece&s;&s;ary a thing the increa&s;e of faith is.</P>
<P>Of the true v&s;e of fa&s;ting, and of the abu&s;e
<PB REF="54"> thereof.</P>
<P>Of gluttonie &amp; drunkenne&s;&s;e, cloked vnder the title of the libertie of the Go&s;pell, and namely in the per&s;on of the Magi&s;trates, and mini&s;ters of the church.</P>
<P>Of the Diuels force, whe~ he is to be put out of his lodging.</P>
<P>Of the victory which Ie&s;us Chri&s;t hath a|gain&s;t him.</P>
<P>Of the principall and mo&s;t nece&s;&s;ary know|ledge that is wa~ting in man, &amp; of his vnthank|fulne&s;&s;e, as well towardes God, as al&s;o vnto to tho&s;e to whom of duety he is bound.</P>
</DIV1>
<DIV1 TYPE="dialogue">
<PB REF="55">
<HEAD>The &s;ixte Dialogue of the <HI>Demoniacke worlde, intituled, The</HI> Coniuration of Diuels.</HEAD>
<P>Ierome, Tobie, Eu&s;tace, Theophra&s;t.</P>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ierome.</SPEAKER>
<P>_THou de&s;ired&s;t <HI>(Tobie)</HI> to vnder&s;tand what reme|dies there were to keep vs, not onely from be|comming to be Demo|niacks, but al&s;o to be de|fe~ded from taking anye hurt either by the diuels, or by the demoni|acks whom the diuels po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e and rule.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>Very true. And therefore I am here now ready to heare what fit remedies thou ha&s;te brought mee for the purpo&s;e: For I right well knowe, that all the Prie&s;tes, Friers, and Charmers Coniu|rations, and all the Coniurers that be in the worlde, will litle or nothing auaple, without there be &s;ome other helping haud then theirs.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><PB REF="55">Ier.</SPEAKER>
<P>Why man, thou mu&s;t not looke that the diuels and Demoniackes coniure one another.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>Why &s;peake&s;t thou that:</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ier.</SPEAKER>
<P>Becau&s;e, if there be any men in the whole world, ouer whom the diuels raigne and haue power, they are the people, of whom thou er&s;t &s;peake&s;t. And therefore if there bee any who of right are to bee taken for Demoniackes, euen tho&s;e kindes of men, of whom we heretofore &s;pake, are to bee looked for amonges the men of that Courte. For they are &s;uche demoniackes, as that they make all men els very demo|niackes al&s;o, what with their fal&s;e doctrine, traditions, and by meane of that wicked &s;pyrite which guideth and gouerneth them. For, &s;eeing they are the guyders and Go|uernours of others, it cannot bee cho&s;en, but that they whiche are guyded and go|uerned by them, mu&s;t needs bee led by that &s;pirit, which guideth &amp; gouerneth their lea|ders and Gouernours.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>I doubt that <HI>Eu&s;tace,</HI> wil not yeeld vnto that thy opinion.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ier.</SPEAKER>
<P>I care not whether he will yeelde to it or not, yet I am &s;ure it is true that I
<PB REF="56"> haue &s;ayde.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Eu&s;t,</SPEAKER>
<P>If thou wilt needes haue it &s;o, I &s;hall but loo&s;e tune to &s;peake again&s;t thee. And therefore I &s;halbe contented to heare, what Coniuerers they are that thou can&s;t bring foorth for thy parte, and &s;ee what greater vertue they haue more, then tho&s;e whom thou ha&s;t di&s;ciphered, and &s;o greatly blamed.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ier.</SPEAKER>
<P>Mee thinketh <HI>Tobie,</HI> that <HI>Theo.</HI> hath &s;hewed vnto vs a mo&s;t excellent reme|die again&s;t this mi&s;chiefe, whiche is &s;o greatly to be feared: &s;o that in my opinion, if we take it, we &s;hall neuer neede a<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e o|ther.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>I vnder&s;tand right wel, y^t he hath &s;ent vs backe to Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, to &s;eeke this meane and remedy at his hand. And &s;urely for myne owne parte I would neuer goe a|ny further.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>Saul very diligently &s;ought after it, but becau&s;e he went not to God, to who~ he ought to haue gone, he neuer found that comfort and remedy again&s;t his di&s;ea&s;e, that he looked for.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>What remedy was that: <NOTE PLACE="marg">1. Sam. 16.</NOTE></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>His &s;eruants made him beleeue
<PB REF="56"> that it was be&s;t for him to haue &s;ome cun|ning <NOTE PLACE="marg">The coun&s;ell which Saules &s;eruants gaue him.</NOTE> Mu&s;ition, which could play excellent|ly vpon an harpe. And he thought this, to be very good coun&s;el. Wherupo~, he forth with &s;ent to haue &s;uch an one gotten him: and at la&s;t, Dauid was brought to him to play this parte, for hee had therein, mo&s;te excellent &s;kill.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>What rea&s;on had they to dot thus:</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>There was great like lihoode, that the &s;eruantes which gaue Saule this coun&s;el, as the hi&s;torie witne&s;&s;eth, were his Phi&s;itions, who had met together to con|&s;ult of his di&s;ea&s;e. For, when anye &s;icke|ne&s;&s;e, or other inconuenience falleth vpon <NOTE PLACE="marg">What reme|dies the wicked hunt after, whe~ they are di&s;e<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">|&s;ed.</NOTE> the wicked, they neuer co~&s;ider, that it is the hande and rodde of the Lorde that is layde vppon them, without they bee enfor|&s;ed thereto, with the greate blowes of a mawle, as was layde vppon Pharaob and the Egyptians. And therefore, where they <NOTE PLACE="marg">Exod. 12.</NOTE> &s;hould looke vp vnto heauen, they &s;til looke groueling downe to the earth, and runne rather vnto creatures, then vnto the Cre|ator.</P>
<P>And agayne, they that are about them, &amp;
<PB REF="57"> like them, neuer giue them other direction. Wherefore, when Saul was not well at ea&s;e, hee mu&s;t needes &s;ende for remedy for his di&s;ea&s;e. And his mo&s;te excellent re|medy had beene, to haue &s;ent for &s;ome &s;ound Prophete or Preacher, to haue told Saul of the grieuous and great &s;innes which he had committed, whereby the wicked &s;py|rit had &s;o great power ouer him, to torme~t him as he did: For, by the&s;e and &s;uche lyke &s;peeches, he mu&s;t needes haue been brought to repentance, and &s;o haue fled to the mer|cies of God, whereby he might haue obtai|ned his fauour, and remi&s;&s;ion of his &s;innes: for, if he had growne to an attoneme~t with God, through true and faithful repentance, he &s;houlde haue founde at Gods handes, that remedye that was mo&s;te nece&s;&s;ary for him. For, that God, who had &s;triken him in his iu&s;t iudgement, could, and al&s;o woulde, haue healed him in mercy. But becau&s;e that Saul, had &s;o lo~g dallied w^t God, &amp; perfeue|red &s;o long in his wicked doing, co~trary to his own co~&s;cience, as y^t god would not once vouch&s;afe to giue him that grace to haue re|cour&s;e vnto him, nor &s;uffer him haue anima~ in his Court, &amp; about him, to giue him that coun&s;el.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><PB REF="57">Toby.</SPEAKER>
<P>I doe not thinke this coun&s;ell, to be the be&s;t coun&s;el that might haue been <NOTE PLACE="marg">Wee runne to creatures for aide, rather t<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> vnto God.</NOTE> giuen him: howbeit, this is the verye ordi|nary cour&s;e, which we almo&s;t all take, to runne rather vnto Phi&s;itions, and &s;ecke re|medie at the handes of Creatures, then vnto God, the mo&s;t excellent Phi&s;ition of all.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>I doe not thinke it ami&s;&s;e, to v&s;e Phi&s;itions, and all other meanes what|&s;oeuer that men are able to helpe withall, &s;o that they be ordeyned of God.</P>
<P>But herein re&s;teth the faulte, that wee for&s;ake GOD, and runne vnto Creatures: But if wee runne vnto GOD, yet haue we more confidence in men, &amp; in the crea|tures, and in the meanes and in&s;trumentes, which he hath ordained, then in God y^e fra|mer and worker of all, without whome, all the in&s;trumentes are able to doe nothing.</P>
<P>And therefore it is written of king Aza, that GOD tooke away his life from him, <NOTE PLACE="marg">1. Chron. 16.</NOTE> becau&s;e that in his &s;ickne&s;&s;e, he tru&s;ted more vnto his Phi&s;itions, then hee did vnto GOD. Nowe, if God puny&s;hed tho&s;e, whoe v&s;ed &s;uch remedies as hee had orday|ned, when as they put their confidence
<PB REF="58"> in that, which they &s;hould haue done in him, we ought not to meruayle, although hee &s;euerely dealeth with many, who are not contented to abu&s;e the meanes which hee hath ordayned, but &s;eek after other meanes, which he hath forbydden, &amp; put therin their whole tru&s;t.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>To.</SPEAKER>
<P>They which haue recour&s;e to the Deuill, and vnto Charmers, and Sorce, rers, who are his Mini&s;ters, directe them &s;elues to other Phi&s;itions and meanes then GOD hath ordayned.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>Neyther doe the&s;e men e&s;cape the heauy hande of GOD, although hee be flow in comming, nor yet they which runne vnto Idolles, and to &s;traunge Gods.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Toby.</SPEAKER>
<P>But I pray thee tell me, whe|ther Mu&s;icke hath any power again&s;t &s;uch <NOTE PLACE="marg">Mu&s;ick, a reme dy again&s;t mad|ne&s;&s;e.</NOTE> kinde of madne&s;&s;e as Saules was, or not: For, it is to be pre&s;umed, that they which gaue Saule coun&s;ell, to &s;end for a cunning Mu&s;ition, where of this opinion.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>There are many Melancho|like, and franticke people, whom Mu&s;icke &s;erueth as a medicine, becau&s;e it reioy&s;eth and tempereth mens affections, and there|by
<PB REF="58"> draweth awaye their imaginations els whether, if it be v&s;ed as it &s;hould be. But Saules madne&s;&s;e proceeded not onelye of a &s;adde and melancholicke humour, eyther yet vppon anger and wrath. But the principall cau&s;e was &s;upernaturall: And therefore, although hee founde him &s;elfe &s;omewhat comforted and ea&s;ed, when Da|uid played vppon the Harpe, yet continued hee &s;till in his madne&s;&s;e, yea in&s;omuch that he &s;till enforced him &s;elfe to thru&s;t through Dauid, his Mu&s;ition.</P>
<P>And therefore hee was to looke for re|medie &s;ome where els. For, Saules madne&s;&s;e proceeded from the cur&s;&s;e of god, <NOTE PLACE="marg">The cau&s;e of Sauls madnes. <HI>Deut. 28.</HI></NOTE> wherewith hee threatneth all &s;uch as will not obey his lawe, that hee will &s;trike them with blindne&s;&s;e, furye, and madne&s;&s;e: in &s;uch a &s;orte, as that hee will make them &s;encele&s;&s;e, that they &s;hall be no more able to guyde and gouerne them &s;elues, <NOTE PLACE="marg">The &s;pirite of f<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ry and bloc|ki&s;hnes.</NOTE> then tho&s;e blind men, that grope by y^e wals at noone dayes.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Toby.</SPEAKER>
<P>Surely, this is an horrible and very fearefull threat.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>All the re&s;t of the Prophetes, which liued after Mo&s;es, threatned the like
<PB REF="59"> cur&s;e and vengeance, namely to tyrauntes, their Coun&s;ellors and Offycers, when as <NOTE PLACE="marg">&s;aiah. 19. O&s;eah. 4. 5. Iohn. 6. 12</NOTE> they threatned them, that God would &s;ende among&s;t them, a blocki&s;h, &s;leepy, &amp; drunken &s;pirite.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>To.</SPEAKER>
<P>I thinke, that fooli&s;h and wicked Coun&s;elles, which greatly hurt Princes, their courtes, and principalities, proceede from &s;uch a &s;pirite.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>That is que&s;tionle&s;&s;e. For, &s;eeing they make no account of the coun&s;el of God, which he delyuereth vnto them by his worde, and &s;eruauntes, they are worthy of &s;uch coun&s;ellors as are ledde with &s;uch a <NOTE PLACE="marg">1. Kings. 22.</NOTE> &s;pirite: As the fal&s;e Prophetes of Achab: who were, by y^e iu&s;t iudgement of God, &s;ent vnto him, to deceiue him, as he had well de|&s;erued. <HI>To.</HI> Thou woulde&s;t the~ thus conclude, that there is no &s;uffycient Phi&s;i|tion, to deliuer or ridde men of &s;uch incon|ueniences, &s;aue the mo&s;t excellent Phi&s;i|tion of al.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>Our &s;auiour Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, yeel|ding a rea&s;on, why his Di&s;ciples were not <NOTE PLACE="marg">Mat. 17.</NOTE> able to heale the Lunaticque, tolde them, that that &s;ort of Deuilles could not bee ca&s;t <NOTE PLACE="marg">Fa&s;ting &amp; praic<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> requi&s;ite for the ca&s;ting out of Deuils.</NOTE> out, but by fa&s;ting and prayer.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><PB REF="59">Toby.</SPEAKER>
<P>Why &s;ayd he &s;o?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>He him &s;elf declared that &s;uffi|ciently enough, when as he as wel rebuked his Di&s;ciples, as al&s;o the father of the Lu|naticque, for their incredulitie, giuing them therby to vnder&s;tand, that, y^t was the cau&s;e, why his Di&s;ciples were not able to ca&s;t out y^t Deuil, albeit they had v&s;ed al the &s;kil and cunning they had. Wherefore, &s;eeing it was for want of fayth, it was requi&s;ite, that <NOTE PLACE="marg">Encrea&s;e of fayth nece&s;&s;ary.</NOTE> their faith &s;hould be encrea&s;ed. And this could not be had, but by the grace of God. For, fayth is the gift of GOD: And ther|fore, as we cannot haue it without him, no more al&s;o can it bee encrea&s;ed but by him a|lone. And therefore, Ie&s;us Chri&s;t exhorted his Di&s;ciples, to pray that it might bee en|crea&s;ed in them. Wherfore, &s;ith it is &s;o, we <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ephe. 2. Iohn. 6.</NOTE> mu&s;t addre&s;&s;e vs vnto GOD, by hearty and faythfull prayer. And prayer can in no wi&s;e plea&s;e him, without it come from the &s;oule and heart.</P>
<P>And becau&s;e that ab&s;tinence or fa&s;ting, <NOTE PLACE="marg">The right v&s;e of fa&s;ting.</NOTE> greatlye auayleth the &s;oule or minde, for&s;o|much as being le&s;&s;e pre&s;&s;ed by the body, it is better di&s;po&s;ed towardes God: therfore the &s;eruauntes of GOD, haue commonly
<PB REF="60"> ioyned ab&s;tynence and fa&s;ting with their prayers, when as they would addre&s;&s;e them &s;elues vnto his Maie&s;tie, for any things of great importaunce, and be more feruent in prayer, according as the nece&s;&s;itie of the cau&s;e requyred. And therefore, Ie&s;us Chri&s;te meaning to let his Di&s;ciples vn|der&s;tande, that they had great neede to pray vnto GOD, for the encrea&s;e of their faith, and that fa&s;ting, greatly auayled vnto prai|er, becau&s;e it was of great effycacie: he ioy|ned fa&s;ting with prayer, when as he &s;pake of fayth that was to be required, for the ca|&s;ting out of this kinde of wicked, and mo&s;t cruell Deuils.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Toby.</SPEAKER>
<P>I doe not much meruaile, that there are this day &s;o few Coniurers, which are able to ca&s;t out of the worlde tho&s;e De|uilles, of whome wee haue heretofore &s;o much &s;poken. For, there are but a few men, very earne&s;t in prayer. And as for fa&s;tinge, the number is le&s;&s;e, e&s;pecially amonge&s;te you, who &s;o greatly glory of the Reforma|tion of the Go&s;pell: For, you are not con|tented your &s;elues not to fa&s;t: but, which is wor&s;e, you &s;corne them that fa&s;t, and con|demne <NOTE PLACE="marg">The abu&s;e offa|&s;ting conde~ned.</NOTE> them for &s;uper&s;titious people, and
<PB REF="60"> hypocrites.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>I know right well, that thou take&s;t great plea&s;ure to be mery with vs, or els thou &s;peake&s;t of our doctrine accor|ding as thou ha&s;te hearde our aduer&s;aryes talke, who can neuer &s;peake well of it, and yet neuer eyther heard or yet vnder&s;tood it: or, if euer they heard it and vnder&s;toode it, they &s;peake ill of it again&s;t their own con|&s;ciences. For, who euer heard vs more con|demn fa&s;ting and ab&s;tynence, then true prai|er, and all other good workes, which God alloweth and lyketh of.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Toby.</SPEAKER>
<P>Wherefore then fa&s;t you not in Lent, the foure Ember dayes, the Vigi|les, and other fa&s;ting dayes, commanded by y^e Church. <HI>Theo.</HI> If we condemne y^t &s;uper|&s;titious and importable abu&s;es, which the <NOTE PLACE="marg">What true<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> are.</NOTE> Papi&s;tes v&s;e in their fa&s;tes, wee doe not for all that comdemne the true fa&s;tes, that are according to the worde of GOD, and ac|cording to the right rule of the auncient Fathers and true &s;eruauntes of God: But contrariwi&s;e, weegreatly de&s;ire, to haue the right v&s;e of tho&s;e fa&s;tes, to bee broughe into the Church. For, there is great dif|fere~ce between correcting the abu&s;es, &amp; the
<PB REF="61"> aboly&s;hing of good things which men haue abu&s;ed. And as for the common fa&s;tes, there are no preachers which more comme~d the~, nor who more grieuou&s;ly reproue and con|demne gluttony, drunkenne&s;&s;e, and al di&s;|&s;olutene&s;&s;e, or lo&s;ene&s;&s;e of life, as well for eating and drinking, as al&s;o for all other thinges, then the true Mini&s;ters of the Go&s;pell, reproue and condemne them.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Toby.</SPEAKER>
<P>I doe verely thinke, that that which thou &s;aye&s;t is true, but I finde fewe which follow that doctrine. For, I &s;ee manye of your &s;ide, whoe are no better re|formed, without, where peraduenture they <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ttonny and <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ukennes, clo|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> vnder the ti|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> of the liberty <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he Go&s;pell.</NOTE> might at the lea&s;t haue fa&s;ted &s;ometimes, &s;o long as they held our lawe: who nowe, not onely neuer fa&s;t, but commonly &s;urfet both in eating and drinking, as if they had receyued the Go&s;pell for none other pur|po&s;e, but to &s;urfette at plea&s;ure, and make a &s;corne at all ab&s;tynence and &s;o|brietie.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>I mu&s;t needes confe&s;&s;e, that there are ouer many &s;uch. And I will con|fe&s;&s;e more vnto thee then that. For, if this mi&s;chiefe, whereof thou &s;peake&s;t, were but in &s;ome of the meaner &s;orte, it were
<PB REF="61"> le&s;&s;e to bee lamented. But the greate&s;t mi&s;chiefe of all the re&s;t is this, that there are a great number of mini&s;ters and magi|&s;trates, who are more licentiou&s;ly giuen to this kinde of vice of trowling and bowling, then tho&s;e men, whom they ought to correct for &s;uch offences. For the&s;e are the &s;pe|ciall men, whome a man &s;hall ordinarily finde in the Tauernes and Tipling hou&s;es, as if their chiefe&s;t occupation were to trowle and bowle, &amp; prouoke others to all loo&s;enes.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>I haue hearde it oftentimes &s;poken, y^t there are many of the chiefe&s;t of your officers among&s;t you, who take great <NOTE PLACE="marg">Of the Glutto|nie and drunken<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+nes of magi|&s;trates and mini&s;ters.</NOTE> plea&s;ure to giue the mini&s;ters, which will play the good fellowes alittle, theyr lading (as wee &s;ay). And the&s;e officers thinke, that they haue made a great conque&s;t, when as they haue a mini&s;ter drunke, as it too too often falleth out. And I doubt not, but that <HI>Ierome</HI> hath hearde as great newes of this as I.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>I knowe more of this, then I gladly would, &amp; I ca~not heare it &s;poken of, but to their great &s;hame which doe, and continue &s;uch villanies. But it is ea&s;ily
<PB REF="62"> to bee &s;eene, what maner of men the&s;e mi|ni&s;ters and officers are, who thus hone&s;tly behaue them &s;elues, thou mai&s;t right well &s;ay, That Rowland and Oliuer are well met. For, becau&s;e the&s;e officers, are men of wicked life and conuer&s;ation, and feare that the Mini&s;ters woulde reproue them of their &s;innes: They are the gladde&s;t men in the worlde, when they can get in their Mi|ni&s;ters to bolle with them, to the end there|by to brydle them, that they &s;houlde not bee ouer greeuous in accu&s;ing and reprehen|ding of them. For, when the&s;e Mini&s;ters or rather min&s;trels, haue well wet theyr why&s;tle, they, ouer whom they are Pa&s;tors, doe a&s;&s;ure them&s;elues then, that they wyll not be too eager vpon them. And againe, the&s;e cup whi&s;teling min&s;trels, haue no re|gard, to much crying out, becau&s;e they fear that &s;ome man woulde accu&s;e them, if they &s;hould di&s;plea&s;e tho&s;e who were witne&s;&s;es of their trolling and bolling, &amp; the re&s;t of their vices whereunto they are &s;ubiect.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>If the ca&s;e thus &s;tandeth, I dare a&s;&s;ure thee, that you haue very venerable Apepo&s;tles, to ca&s;t out all the Diuels by fa&s;ting and prayer, which at this pre&s;ent &s;o
<PB REF="62"> greatly trouble the worlde. And if there were no Diuels at all in the whole worlde, the&s;e good fellowes, in &s;teede of ca&s;ting of them out, woulde bring them in. Wherfore, I doe not much maruel, although the Di|uels haue &s;o great power of the&s;e dru~kards and gluttons of all &s;ortes and e&s;tates, and namely, ouer tho&s;e mini&s;ters &amp; magi&s;trates who ry&s;e early in the morning, not to go to a Sermon, but to the Tauerne and there drink a dutant, what &s;aie&s;t thou to it <HI>Theo|phra&s;te?</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>This I &s;ay vnto it, that y^e land, and common weale is accur&s;ed, which hath gluttonous &amp; drunke~ magi&s;trates &amp; pa&s;tors, &amp; ri&s;e vp in the morning to folow drunken|ne&s;&s;e <NOTE PLACE="marg">Eccle. 10. I&s;aiah. 5.</NOTE> vntyll they are hoat with wine. And therefore, &s;eeing that all vices reigne in the world, &amp; more among&s;t them, which &s;hould correct and puni&s;h the~, then among&s;t any of the re&s;t, it is no maruell, though there be &s;o many diuels &amp; Demoniacks euery where, as are. But &s;uch as feare y^e Lord, haue a ve|ry good recour&s;e. In very deed, it will bee <NOTE PLACE="marg">What deui&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> and meanes <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> Diuel hath <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> he is to be di&s;<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+ted.</NOTE> a hard matter to make tho&s;e diuels departe fro~ the~, but yet they &s;hal, wil they, nil they, be di&s;placed, becau&s;e Chri&s;t laieth his hand on them,
<PB REF="63"> as hee did vpon the mi&s;erable Lunatike. For, when Ie&s;us Chri&s;te was in place, it <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">. 17. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">k. 6. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e. 9.</NOTE> was &s;o farre of that the wicked &s;pirite woulde departe from this poore childe, as that hee became more madde in him. And &s;o likewi&s;e, when the&s;e Diuels, and demo|niackes that they po&s;&s;e&s;&s;e which are nowe in the worlde, feele the Go&s;pel came neare them, and beginne to heare the voyce there|of, they are euen as madde, as if a man &s;houlde &s;ounde out the Trumpet, to a&s;&s;ault them, and giue them the alarme. And, as the Diuell went not out of the Lunatike, vntil &s;uche time as he had fir&s;t tryed all his forces again&s;t Ie&s;us Chri&s;t: No more wyll hee be di&s;placed of the&s;e Roomes, which he hath gotten po&s;&s;e&s;&s;ion of, without &s;tronge and mightie combates. And al the while that the Diuell &s;o furiou&s;ly re&s;i&s;ted Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, the diuel a great deale more tormen|ted the poore Lunatike, then euer hee dyd before, In&s;omuche, that hee lay before Ie|&s;us Chri&s;te, as if hee had been dead.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>Hee dyd that, to vexe the poore father, of that &s;o very a mi&s;erable childe, and becau&s;e hee had &s;o little faith, his increduli|tie was the rea&s;on, why this childe was no
<PB REF="63"> &s;ooner healed. For it &s;eemed, that the pre&s;ence of Ie&s;us Chri&s;t, did him more hurt then good.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>It might &s;eeme that Ie&s;us Chri&s;te came thyther, to giue the Diuell <NOTE PLACE="marg">Victorie ag<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> the diuell, he had been <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+uen, to his &s;hifts.</NOTE> greater power, to the end hee might fini&s;h that worke which hee &s;o long before trauel|led about, which was, to kill this poore mi|&s;erable childe. For, euery man thought the childe to bee dead, when the Diuell leaft him. Howbeit, it fell out cleane contrary. For, when it was thought, that hee was &s;tarke dead, hee was quite and cleane deli|uered of the Diuell, and made through whole.</P>
<P>Nowe, wee &s;ee that the like of this fal|leth out dayly, we &s;ee how the Diuel trou|bleth and tormenteth the worlde, e&s;pecially in tho&s;e places, out of which hee knoweth he &s;hall be ca&s;te. For, he then falleth into &s;uch a rage, as that a man woulde thinke that the Go&s;pell, by which meane Ie&s;us Chri&s;te will ca&s;t him out, had &s;et open all the gates of hell, to let out all the Legions of Diuels that were in it. For, then hee fretteth and &s;umeth, and maketh as manie as he hath power ouer, to fret and fume.
<PB REF="64"> To be &s;hort, he &s;o terrifieth y^e whole world, yea, the valiante&s;t and mo&s;t con&s;tant, as that a man would think it &s;hould be vtterly con|&s;umed and come to naught. But euen then, when we thinke it &s;houlde bee cleane wa&s;ted and de&s;troyed, our Sauiour Ie&s;us Chri&s;te, &s;heweth him&s;elfe to be farre &s;tron|ger then he. And therefore, wee mu&s;t not &s;tande in a maze when we &s;ee the troubles and per&s;ecutions, which the Diuell and his retinue &s;tyrre vp in the world, when as they feele Ie&s;us Chri&s;te come neere them, to ca&s;t them out through the power of his go&s;|pell. We haue none other thing to doe but to remaine &s;tedfa&s;t and con&s;tant, and do that duetie that appertaineth vnto euery of vs: and &s;o leaue the charge of all the re&s;t of y^e things vnto our Lord Ie&s;us Chri&s;te, who will neuer for&s;ake vs, nor yet &s;uffer the di|uell to reigne among&s;t vs.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>I tell you, it is mo&s;t nece&s;&s;arie that hee &s;houlde put to his helping hande.</P>
<P>For there is none els to with&s;tand the Di|uels power, nor yet &s;tay and tame &s;uche an enemie, whome, neuer man was able to vanqui&s;h, but he alone. For, &s;o far foorth
<PB REF="64"> as I am able to vnder&s;tand by the talk that wee haue had together, we are not only in wor&s;e e&s;tate, and more intractable and ra|gyng then bruite bea&s;tes, but al&s;o then the very Demoniackes. Whereupon, I can not &s;ufficiently enough maruaile at our na|ture. For, we are of that nature and condi|tion, that wee can &s;kill to do any thing, but that which &s;hould be for our benefite, &amp; mo&s;t nece&s;&s;ary for vs. For, there is neither Art, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Man can doe <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+nie thing, &s;au<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> that which he ought chiefl<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> to doe.</NOTE> Science, practi&s;e, nor yet occupation what|&s;oeuer, which we haue not deui&s;ed, and can doe it, and teach others al&s;o, &s;auing the art to liue well, which wee bragge to teache to euery one, and yet are not able to teache our &s;elues, but muche le&s;&s;e able to practi&s;e it. For, there is almo&s;t, no bea&s;t &s;o &s;a|uage, cruell, furious, or villanous howe&s;o|euer, but that men by Arte, is able to vanqui&s;he, tame, and ma&s;ter, and make familiar and gentle: But it is a won|der to &s;ee that hee is not able to fynde out any Arte, Science, Practi&s;e, nor <NOTE PLACE="marg">Man a conq<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">+tor of thin<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> but of him&s;el<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"></NOTE> weapons, to vanqui&s;he, tame, and ma&s;ter hym &s;elfe, and to ouercome and &s;ubdue his owne affections.</P>
<PB REF="65">
<P>Hor&s;es and Moyles are with much a doe brought to it: But yet hath man founde the meane to handle them, and make them doe him &s;eruice, in a &s;hort time. Bulles and Dren are mightie and &s;trong: and yet man teacheth them to beare the yooke, and draw in the Cart. The Elephants likewi&s;e are mo&s;t terrible: and yet man maketh them beare as great a burden as he Iu&s;teth. Wol|ues and Beares, are very cruell: and yet man maketh them tractable. Lions are very fierce, proude, cruell, and terrible: and yet man maketh them humble them&s;elues, and obey him. Contrariwi&s;e, I &s;ee too often that the hu&s;bande is not able to mai&s;ter his <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">here is di&s;a|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">erment be|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eeue the hu&s;|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">and and the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ife. <HI><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">en. 2, 3. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">phe. 5. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ien. 1. 2.</HI></NOTE> wife, nor the wife, her hu&s;band, that they might liue quietly together: although &s;hee be fle&s;he of his fle&s;h, and bone of his bones, and litte long time togeather, both in one hou&s;e, and eate their meate together, both at one Table, and lye both in one bed, and which is more, are one body, and one blood. If man then cannot liue with him&s;elf, with his owne fle&s;he, and his owne blood, with whome will hee liue: If hee cannot loue his wife, whom God hath made of his owne &s;ub&s;tance, and hath giuen her vnto him, for
<PB REF="65"> his aide and comfort, whom will hee loue: Likewi&s;e, if the wife cannot humble her&s;elf and fit her &s;elfe, to agree with her hu&s;band, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Ephe. 5.</NOTE> who me God hath giuen her, to be her head, and framed her out of his body, with whom will &s;hee agree, and who &s;hall bee able to a|bide her: There is great contrarietie be|twixt dogges and Cats, yea &s;uch a naturall hatred, as is not almo&s;t to bee reconciled. And &s;o likewi&s;e, betweene Woiues and Sheepe: Lions and Dren: And yet if they had been brought vp together from their youth, their bringing vp and company kee|ping, which they had had together, woulde worke &s;ome power and efficacie to di&s;poile them &s;omething of their nature, &amp; &s;o ioyne them&s;elues in vnitie together: Although they bee bea&s;tes of &s;undrie kindes, and mer|uellou&s;ly differing, and contrary one to another. What &s;aye&s;t thou to this <HI>Ierome:</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ierom.</SPEAKER>
<P>Mee thinketh, it fareth with men, as it fareth with flyes and &s;wallowes, who are alwayes lodged among&s;t men, and <NOTE PLACE="marg">A &s;imilitude o<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> vnthankful men.</NOTE> lye in theyr hou&s;es, and yet for all that, a man is not able to ma&s;ter them: for, the
<PB REF="66"> &s;wallowe buildeth her nea&s;t in his hou&s;e, and layeth her egges there, and hatcheth vp her young ones. Man, be&s;toweth hou&s;e roome on her, &amp; they both &s;leepe vnder one roufe, and yet there is no familiaritie be|twene them, neither yet liue they one with another. And in the end the Swallowe leaueth nothing els to the good man of the hou&s;e for his hou&s;e rente, but her filthie dounge, after &s;hee hath continued there a great while, and broken him of manie a &s;leepe with her chattering and chirping. And therfore <HI>Tully</HI> rightly compared &s;wal|lowes <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">my in his 4. coke to <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">tren.</NOTE> to fal&s;e and vnfaithful friendes, For, as the Swallowes make them readie to come in the Spring, and then depart when cold weather commeth in: Euen &s;o wyll fal&s;e friendes &s;tande by vs &s;o long as the weather is faire and cleare, but when they &s;ee the winter of mi&s;hap come vppon vs, they flie away from vs euery chone. And therefore it was not ami&s;&s;e &s;aid of <HI>Pitha|goras,</HI> to forbid men of receiuing the &s;wal|lowe <NOTE PLACE="marg">Pithagoras Creede.</NOTE> vnder their roufe.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>What meant <HI>Pythagoras</HI> by that.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>His meaning was, that it is not <NOTE PLACE="marg">Piuta<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">th.</NOTE>
<PB REF="66"> good to be familiarly acquainted w^t <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ang|lers, &s;taunderers, and vnthankfull per&s;ons, <NOTE PLACE="marg">Dueit. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> 8.</NOTE> who are rightly repre&s;ented by the Swal|lowe. For, a man &s;hall neuer get any good by them, but &s;orrowe, griefe, hurt, and di&s;honour. And is not the flie likewi&s;e I pray you, alwayes in the kitchin: The fir&s;t at the Table, the fir&s;t in the di&s;he, and ta|&s;teth all the meates wee eate of. Yea, they will doe it, although we were Emperours and Kinges, and more then this to: They take a&s;&s;aye oftentimes before the cooke.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ier.</SPEAKER>
<P>But what fauour find we by them for all the benefites which they dayly haue at our hands, in our hou&s;es. What wage &amp; reward haue we of them?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>This wee haue, they greue and be|ray with their dirt, what&s;oeuer faire and beautifull thing that is within the hou&s;e.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ier.</SPEAKER>
<P>And more then that, for they en|gender vermin and corruption, neuer cea|&s;ing to importune, &s;ting, and bite vs, eue~ til the blood follow withal, and are neuer con|tented with all the benefits y^t we be&s;tow on the~, wout they al&s;o &s;uck &amp; drinke our blood.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>The&s;e Flyes are farre more dangerous then man, and a great deale
<PB REF="67"> more vnthankefull. I &s;ee fathers and mothers al&s;o dayly, that cannot agree with their children, but after, that tho&s;e fathers and mothers haue wa&s;ted the odours, and fumes of the odours, which are continually about their children, and dandeled them, and haue been greeued and dered, and had many a foule hand with them in the bringing of <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter"> great vn|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">&s;efulne&s;&s;e of <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">e children, <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ardes their <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ents.</NOTE> them vp: &s;o &s;oone as the&s;e children haue bin growne vp to rype yeeres, they would not once acknowledge either father or mother: They would neither &s;ee them, nor beare with them: but driue them oftentimes, out of the hou&s;e: or els. theyr parents were in|forced to driue them out, by rea&s;on of their rebellion and wicked dealing. I neuer &s;aw any &s;uch vnthankfulne&s;&s;e, nor crueltie betweene Dogs and Cats, Wolues and Lymmers, Lions and Lions whelpes. I haue &s;eene the&s;e Landleapers, who haue lead all the countries ouer, Lions, Beares, <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">andleapers.</NOTE> Apes, A&s;&s;es, Hor&s;es, and many other &s;ortes of bea&s;ts, and ruled them as they li&s;ted. For, they would make them do what&s;oeuer they plea&s;ed, and commanded them. They haue made them daunce, leape, lye &s;tyll, &s;tand vp, touch on the ground, make curte&s;ie, march
<PB REF="67"> march with a pyke, and winde a flate. To bee &s;horte, I am not able to tell you in a longtime, howe many &s;undrie thinges they haue taught them, and made them doe. For, they taught them to doe all things. What is the cau&s;e then, why man is &s;o well able to in&s;truct the mo&s;t vnteachable bruite bea&s;ts, and doe learne of him, and yet hee him&s;elfe, not able to teach him&s;elfe, nor yet learne of him&s;elfe that, that is nece&s;&s;ary for hym to learne, and without the which, he is in deed no man:</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ierom.</SPEAKER>
<P>No, not the wife of her hu&s;|bande, nor the childe of the father.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Toby.</SPEAKER>
<P>What is the cau&s;e then, why doe the&s;e Landleapers take &s;o great paine, to teach bea&s;tes, after this &s;ort?</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ierom.</SPEAKER>
<P>It is to none other eude, but to make men &s;porte, and thereby, get mo|ney of them, that they myght liue the ea&s;e|lier.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>Now, what greater plea&s;ure can any man haue, then to &s;ee his children well in&s;tructed: Is there any Ape more plea|&s;ant: with whom may they haue any better pa&s;time: And what greater commodity can any Landleaper draw out of bea&s;tes, which
<PB REF="68"> he &s;o teacheth, then the father fro~ his &s;onne, the hu&s;band, from his wife, or the brother, from his brother, or one neighbour from an other, if they could as wel learne of them, as the bea&s;ts learne of the Landleapers.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ierom.</SPEAKER>
<P>This is mo&s;t certaine, a man <NOTE PLACE="marg">&rindx;</NOTE> &s;hall finde a great many moe children, like the <HI>Hippopotame,</HI> then the Storke. <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">he Hippopo|<GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">me.</NOTE></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Toby.</SPEAKER>
<P>What manner of bea&s;t is that <HI>Hippopotame?</HI></P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ierom.</SPEAKER>
<P>It is a bea&s;t that is bred chiefly in Egypt, in the riuer of <HI>Nile,</HI> &amp; y^t one half of him is like an hor&s;e, and the other halfe like a fi&s;h. And therefore, he beareth this name, that is to &s;ay, a riuer hor&s;e.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>What is thy meaning by naming of this bea&s;t:</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ierom.</SPEAKER>
<P>I will tell thee, They that haue written the hi&s;tories of the natures of bea&s;tes, haue &s;et downe the nature of this <NOTE PLACE="marg"><GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">lutar. Booke. <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">hether the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">ea&s;tes bred on <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eland, be wi&s;&s;er <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">en they which <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">re bred in the <GAP DESC="illegible" RESP="KEYERS" EXTENT="1 letter">eater.</NOTE> bea&s;t, to bee &s;o peruer&s;e and cruell, as that &s;o &s;oone as hee is come to any type yeeres, being therto brought by y^t endeuour of his parents, that hee will kill his father, and afterwarde haue to doe with his mother. And howe many children, thynke&s;t thou &s;hall wee finde at this day, who are
<PB REF="68"> not grieued, that Fathers &amp; mothers liue &s;o long, and thinke of nothing els, but to &s;ee the end of them:</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Toby.</SPEAKER>
<P>And how many thinke&s;t thou there are of &s;uch childre~, who bring their pa|rentes to the graue, with very &s;orowe and pen&s;iuenes, to &s;ee their vnto wardnes.</P>
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<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ierom.</SPEAKER>
<P>Alas, if man &s;heweth him &s;elfe to be &s;uch a one, to tho&s;e who haue be gotten him, and brought him vp, what good &s;hall other men hope for at his handes.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Toby.</SPEAKER>
<P>But tell mee al&s;o, I be&s;eech thee, what thou meane&s;t by &s;peaking of the Storkes:</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ierom.</SPEAKER>
<P>I put in them, beecau&s;e they are of a cleane contrary nature. For, if wee <NOTE PLACE="marg">The Storke Plin. in his Booke. cha. Antipelar|go&s;is.</NOTE> &s;hal giue credit vnto natural Philo&s;ophers, both Greeks and Latines, &amp; to their Pro|uerbs, they bring vp &amp; comfort their dams in their old age, &amp; by that meanes, &s;hew the~ &s;elues thankful vnto them, for their bring|ing vp of the~, when they were young. How &s;aye&s;t thou <HI>Theophra&s;t,</HI> is it not &s;o:</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>In very deede the Hebrewes, giue this Fowle, which here, in our la~guage, we call a &s;tork, &amp; giueth her in y^e Hebrew to~gue a name, which &s;ignifieth, mercy &amp; curte&s;ie. And
<PB REF="69"> right well &s;ay, that he were the mo&s;t my&s;e|rable of all the creatures in the world. And yet he dareth him &s;elfe alone, boldly re&s;i&s;te al order of nature, and refu&s;e to doe his due|tie, wherunto al the re&s;t of the creaturs are mo&s;t obedient. He boldly dareth lift vp him &s;elfe, again&s;t the Authour, and Gouernour of all things, who made him of the flyme of the earth, and in a moment is able again to di&s;&s;olue him. I cannot inough meruayle, when as I con&s;ider of this great pryde and arrogancy of may, how he alone dareth re|&s;i&s;te his God, whome, all the re&s;t of his cre|atures, the heauens, the earth, the &s;ea, the &s;tarres and planets, al the elements, bea&s;ts, Angels, and Deuils obey.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Toby.</SPEAKER>
<P>Surely, for mine owne parte, I woonder at it, euen as much as thou doe&s;t.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>But thou woulde&s;t a great deale more woonder, if thou didde&s;t more nar|rowly con&s;ider, of the infirmitie and my&s;e|rie of man, wherewith hee is continuallye enuyroned, and as it were almo&s;te quite and cleane &s;wallowed vp, &s;ithence the time of his conception, and what his nature and frame is. And therefore, &s;eeing we are
<PB REF="69"> entred into this talke, me thinketh, that this co~&s;ideration, and contemplation wil not be ami&s;&s;e, for vs to debate on. For the which cau&s;e, I am of the opinion, that wee might handle this poynt &s;ome what more at large, if you will agree vnto me herein. Howbeit, I feare nothing but that we &s;hould be ouer long, becau&s;e there are in this behalfe ma|ny good thinges, and worthy dilygent con|&s;ideration.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Ierom.</SPEAKER>
<P>I beleeue there is none here, but would be right gladde of it. For, it is a matter worth the handling. But to the ende we might all profit the more. I take it, that our be&s;t way were, for the pre&s;ent, to talk of &s;ome other matter between, &amp; recre+ate our &s;elues a little in this faire Garden. For, when, our mindes are alwayes occu|pyed about one thing, it groweth yrke&s;ome vnto vs at la&s;t, although it were neuer &s;o plea&s;aunt or profitable. Againe, we cannot &s;o well carry away all, when our mindes are &s;urcharged with ouer great a multitude of matters, and be&s;ides, when wee haue no delight in that that we heare.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Eu&s;t.</SPEAKER>
<P>Without doubt, there is nothing more certaine.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><PB REF="70">To.</SPEAKER>
<P>I know not my may&s;ters, whe|ther you be weary or no: But for mine own part, I am weary of hearing of good talke, when I &s;hall tarry all day and all night a|bout it.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER>Theo.</SPEAKER>
<P>And, I doe thinke, that there is none of vs weary in this good co~pany: But becau&s;e we may be the fre&s;her, and followe the matter more cheerely, I am contented to agree to <HI>Ierome.</HI> And therefore, I thinke it mo&s;te expedient, that we walke a little here in this garden, and looke vppon the goodly flowers, which God hath crea|ted for our v&s;e: to the end, that in beholding of them, we may the better alwayes learn, to acknowledge his great power, wi&s;dom, bountie, and that therby, we may haue the better occa&s;ion to pray&s;e him, and yeelde him our humble and hearly thankes: And then wee maye after enter againe into our matter. And where wee haue heretofore &s;poken in generall, of the di&s;order and con|fu&s;edue&s;&s;e of the world, and of the daunger wherein it &s;tandeth, wee will al&s;o &s;peake &s;ome what more, in perticular of man, who is the cau&s;e of all the di&s;order, and great mi&s;chiefes, that at pre&s;ent reigne in the world.</P>
</SP>
<SP>
<SPEAKER><PB REF="70">Tob.</SPEAKER>
<P>Seeing you are all of this opi|uion, I promi&s;e you, I for my parte, wyll not be again&s;t it. Let vs ri&s;e therefore, and get vs hence.</P>
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<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
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<P><HI>Imprinted at London at the</HI> three Cranes in the Vintree, by Tho|mas Daw&s;on, for Iohn Perin in Paules Church yard at the &s;igne of the Angel.</P>
<P>1583.</P>
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