Oh that our prelates would be as diligent to sow the corn of good
doctrine, as Satan is to sow cockle and darnel! And this is the devilish
ploughing, the which worketh to have things in Latin, and letteth the
fruitful edification. But here some man will say to me, What, sir, are
ye so privy of the devil's counsel, that ye know all this to be true?
Truly I know him too well, and have obeyed him a little too much in
condescending to some follies; and I know him as other men do, yea, that
he is ever occupied, and ever busy in following his plough. I know by
St. Peter, which saith of him, _Sicut leo rugiens circuit quaerens quem
devoret_: "He goeth about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may
devour." I would have this text well viewed and examined, every word of
it: "_Circuit_," he goeth about in every corner of his diocess; he goeth
on visitation daily, he leaveth no place of his cure unvisited: he
walketh round about from place to place, and ceaseth not. "_Sicut leo_,"
as a lion, that is, strongly, boldly, and proudly; stately and fiercely
with haughty looks, with his proud countenances, with his stately
braggings. "_Rugiens_," roaring; for he letteth not slip any occasion to
speak or to roar out when he seeth his time.
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