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 The church alone beyond all question
 Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.
  [Ger., Die Kirch' allein, read more 
 The church alone beyond all question
 Has for ill-gotten goods the right digestion.
  [Ger., Die Kirch' allein, meine lieben Frauen,
   Kann ungerechtes Gut verdauen.] 
 A beggarly people,
 A church and no steeple.  
 A beggarly people,
 A church and no steeple. 
 No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devill builds a 
Chappell hard by.
 [No sooner read more 
 No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devill builds a 
Chappell hard by.
 [No sooner is a Temple built to God but the Devil builds a chapel 
hard by.] 
Where God hath a temple, the devil will have a chapel.
Where God hath a temple, the devil will have a chapel.
 Whenever God erects a house of prayer
 The devil always builds a chapel there;
  And 'twill be read more 
 Whenever God erects a house of prayer
 The devil always builds a chapel there;
  And 'twill be found, upon examination,
   The latter has the largest congregation. 
 As like a church and an ale-house, God and the devell, they manie 
times dwell neere to ether.  
 As like a church and an ale-house, God and the devell, they manie 
times dwell neere to ether. 
 It is not about the pasture of the sheep, but about their wool.
 [Lat., Non est de pastu ovium read more 
 It is not about the pasture of the sheep, but about their wool.
 [Lat., Non est de pastu ovium quaestio, sed de lana.] 
 It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast 
themselves most of their being near to read more 
 It is common for those that are farthest from God, to boast 
themselves most of their being near to the Church. 
 An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches in flat 
countries with spire steeples, which, as they cannot read more 
 An instinctive taste teaches men to build their churches in flat 
countries with spire steeples, which, as they cannot be referred 
to any other object, point as with silent finger to the sky and 
stars.