Then, this devil being such one as can never be unlike himself; lo, of Envy, his well-beloved Leman, he begat the World, and after left it with Discord at nurse; which World, after that it came to man's state, had of many concubines many sons.He was so fecund a father, and had gotten so many children of Lady Pride, Dame Gluttony, Mistress Avarice, Lady Lechery, and of Dame Subtlety, that now hard and scant ye may find any corner, any kind of life, where many of his children be not.In court, in cowls, in cloisters, in rochets, be they never so white; yea, where shall ye not find them? Howbeit, they that be secular and laymen, are not by and by children of the world; nor they children of light, that are called spiritual, and of the clergy.No, no; as ye may find among the laity many children of light, so among the clergy, (how much soever we arrogate these holy titles unto us, and think them only attributed to us, Vos estis lux mundi, peculium Christi, &c."Ye are the light of the world, the chosen people of Christ, a kingly priesthood, an holy nation, and such other,") ye shall find many children of the world; because in all places the world gettethmany children.Among the lay people the world ceaseth not to bring to pass, that as they be called wordly, so they are wordly indeed; driven headlong by worldly desires: insomuch that they may right well seem to have taken as well the manners as the name of their father.In the clergy, the world also hath learned a way to make of men spiritual, worldlings; yea, and there also to form worldly children, where with great pretence of holiness, and crafty colour of religion, they utterly desire to hide and cloak the name of the world, as though they were ashamed of their father; which do execrate and detest the world (being nevertheless their father) in words and outward signs, but in heart and work they coll and kiss him, and in all their lives declare themselves to be his babes; insomuch that in all worldly points they far pass and surmount those that they call seculars, laymen, men of the world.The child so diligently followeth the steps of his father, is never destitute of the aid of his grandfather.These be our holy holy men, that say they are dead to the world, when no men be more lively in worldly things than some of them be.But let them be in profession and name most farthest from the world, most alienate from it; yea, so far, that they may seem to have no occupying, no kindred, no affinity, nothing to do with it: yet in their life and deeds they shew themselves no bastards, but right begotten children of the world; as that which the world long sithens had by his dear wife Dame Hypocrisy, and since hath brought them up and multiplied to more than a good many; increased them too much, albeit they swear by all he-saints and she-saints too, that they know not their father, nor mother, neither the world, nor hypocrisy; as indeed they can semble and dissemble all things; which thing they might learn wonderful well of their parents.I speak not of all religious men, but of those that the world hath fast knit at his girdle, even in the midst of their religion, that is, of many and more than many.For I fear, lest in all orders of men the better, I must say the greater part of them be out of order, and children of the world.Many of these might seem ingrate and unkind children, that will no better acknowledge and recognise their parents in words and outward pretence, but abrenounce and cast them off, as though they hated them as dogs and serpents.Howbeit they, in this wise, are most grateful to their parents, because they be most like them, so livelyrepresenting them in countenance and conditions, that their parents seem in them to be young again, forasmuch as they ever say one thing and think another.They shew themselves to be as sober, as temperate, as Curius the Roman was, and live every day as though all their life were a shroving time.They be like their parents, I say, inasmuch as they, in following them, seem and make men believe they hate them.Thus grandfather Devil, father World, and mother Hypocrisy, have brought them up.Thus good obedient sons have borne away their parents' commandments; neither these be solitary, how religious, how mocking, how monking, I would say, soever they be.
同类推荐
热门推荐
灵眼皇妃,这个大臣不好惹
一场穿越,她掉进了一个铺设千年的迷。他自称是迎她回宫的大臣,却在她回宫当天就占有了她。他喂他哑药,将她扔进了开水桶,还让她从他的贴身婢女一路变成皇帝的宠妃。白日里,他仍旧是朝庭呼风唤雨的大臣;夜里,却几次三番出现在她的寝宫……追妻无门:女boss不好惹
青涩蜕变,如今她是能独当一面的女boss,爱了冷泽聿七年,也同样花了七年时间去忘记他。以为是陌路,他突然向他表白,扬言要娶她,她只当他是脑子抽风,他的殷勤她也全都无视。他帮她查她父母的死因,赶走身边情敌,解释当初拒绝她的告别,和故意对她冷漠都是无奈之举。突然爆出她父母的死居然和冷家有丝毫联系,还莫名跳出个公爵未婚夫,扬言要与她履行婚约。峰回路转,破镜还能重圆吗? PS:我又开新文了,每逢假期必书荒,新文《有你的世界遇到爱》,喜欢我的文的朋友可以来看看,这是重生类现言,对这个题材感兴趣的一定要收藏起来。心是孤独的猎手
八月漫长的下午,沉闷的南方小镇,午夜咖啡馆里喝着冰啤酒的人们,喜欢莫扎特的少女、察言观色的酒馆老板、精通维修的流浪汉、郁郁不得志的黑人医生……这是一个孤独到极至的故事,在那些灰暗的天空下,一个温和的聋哑人用他的孤独预示了这样一个狂乱年代的变更。自由与隐忍的矛盾,疯狂绝望却又依然坚定向前的决心,没有人能摆脱掉孤独的影子,至死方休。揭秘那些被演义的历史
在中华民族数千年的历史长河中,有太多让人耳熟能详的故事。然而这些流传千年的美丽传说,都是真正的历史吗?其实,历史可以“被”演义,真实可以被虚构,我们一直熟知的历史真实面貌并不是我们知道的那样,商纣王真的是千古暴君?赵氏孤儿的故事是怎么回事?关羽“武圣人”的称号是不是够格?诸葛亮真的智冠千古?杨家将有没有评书里那么威风?和珅、刘墉和纪晓岚谁是忠奸?我们这本书,就是要揭开那些在长期流传中被扭曲的历史人物、历史事件,还他们以历史的本来面貌,并进一步探寻这些误解产生的原因,从而尽可能地把历史的真实展现在人们面前,为这些耳熟能详的历史事件和历史人物“正身”。追妻无门:女boss不好惹
青涩蜕变,如今她是能独当一面的女boss,爱了冷泽聿七年,也同样花了七年时间去忘记他。以为是陌路,他突然向他表白,扬言要娶她,她只当他是脑子抽风,他的殷勤她也全都无视。他帮她查她父母的死因,赶走身边情敌,解释当初拒绝她的告别,和故意对她冷漠都是无奈之举。突然爆出她父母的死居然和冷家有丝毫联系,还莫名跳出个公爵未婚夫,扬言要与她履行婚约。峰回路转,破镜还能重圆吗? PS:我又开新文了,每逢假期必书荒,新文《有你的世界遇到爱》,喜欢我的文的朋友可以来看看,这是重生类现言,对这个题材感兴趣的一定要收藏起来。