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deserved, as it is written by the same Prophets ; yet hath Lin - 

 he left nothing of his wickedness and perverse practises, 

 the which lie hath made manifest by all meanea possible, 

 like a mad doggo that bites the sword wherewith ho is 

 strucken. For as it is written, the pride of such as hate 

 God doth alvvaies increase. Hence comes the continual! 

 and strange care which this enemio of God hath alwaies 

 had to make him to b worshipt of men, inventing so many 

 kinds of Idolatries, whereby he hath so long held the gretcst 

 part of the world in subjection, so as there scarce remaines 

 any one corner for God and his people of Israel. And since Man. 

 the power of the Gospel hath vanquished and disarmed 

 him, and that by the force of the Crosse, hee hath broken 

 and ruined the most important and puissant places of his 

 kingdornc with the like tyrannic, hoe hath begunno to 

 assailo the barbarous people and nations farthest oil , striving 

 to maintaino amongst them his false and lying divinitio, 

 the which the Sonno of God had taken from him in his 

 Church, tying him with chaines as in a cage or prison, like 

 a furious beast, to his great confusion, and reioycing of the 

 servants of God, as lie doth signify in lob. 



])ut in the end, although idolatrio had beeno rooted out 

 of the best and most notable partes of the worlde, yet he 

 hath retired himself into the most remote parts, and hath 

 ruled in that other part of the wo ride which, although it bo 

 much inferiour in nobilitio, yet is it not of less compassc. 

 There are two causes and chiefo motives for the which the 

 ilivcll hath so much laboured to plant idolatry and all in 

 fidelity, so as you shall hardly iindc any Nation where there 

 is not some markes thereof. The one is this great pre 

 sumption and pride, which is such, that \vhoso would con 

 sider how heo durst affront the very Sonno of God, and 

 true God, in saying impudently, that he should fall downe 

 and worship him ; the which he did, although he knew not 

 certainoly that this was tho very God, yet had he some Mut i 



