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Where God hath a temple, the devil will have a chapel.
Where God hath a temple, the devil will have a chapel.
God never had a church but there, men say,
The devil a chapel hath raised by some wiles,
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God never had a church but there, men say,
The devil a chapel hath raised by some wiles,
I doubted of this saw, till on a day
I westward spied great Edinburgh's Saint Giles.
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.
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.]
To Kerke the narre, from God more farre.
To Kerke the narre, from God more farre.
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.]
In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities
of twenty generations lie buried, in the Great Abbey, read more
In that temple of silence and reconciliation where the enmities
of twenty generations lie buried, in the Great Abbey, which has
during many ages afforded a quiet resting-place to those whose
minds and bodies have been shattered by the contentions of the
Great Hall.
Where Christ erecteth his church, the divell in the same
church-yarde will have his chappell.
Where Christ erecteth his church, the divell in the same
church-yarde will have his chappell.
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.
