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■ You’ve mist your aim, ycur ends you shant obtain,
G? ms, for all yourjuibtle snares are vain ;
You’re like a lion seeking to devour.
But over me you shall not have your power.
At this the devil gave a horrid look,
And in a flash of fire the field? forsook;
This heavenly youth he then knelt down to pray,
And when he’d done to school he took his way.
' Almighty and ever living God, who did snfier thine
i|| -only son to be tempted hy the devil, in the wildreness,
after he had fasted forty days and forty nights; and as
;! thou hast been pleased at this time to defend nie from his
| snares and subtilty, to rule my heart so that I was en-
;; nbled to withstand all his temptations. I return luee
humble and hearty thanks for the same, for which I hope
i I shall find rest at the last day ; and give thanks to my
blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Amen.
His master said I pray where have you run,
That you no sooner unto school do come.
You did not use to stay so long from me,
Tell me the reason, pray, now instantly.
BTIip reason that I horn the school did stay,
When from my father’s house I took my way,
I met the devil in the shape of a man,
. Diesscd in black, who unto me did run.
G? ms, for all yourjuibtle snares are vain ;
You’re like a lion seeking to devour.
But over me you shall not have your power.
At this the devil gave a horrid look,
And in a flash of fire the field? forsook;
This heavenly youth he then knelt down to pray,
And when he’d done to school he took his way.
' Almighty and ever living God, who did snfier thine
i|| -only son to be tempted hy the devil, in the wildreness,
after he had fasted forty days and forty nights; and as
;! thou hast been pleased at this time to defend nie from his
| snares and subtilty, to rule my heart so that I was en-
;; nbled to withstand all his temptations. I return luee
humble and hearty thanks for the same, for which I hope
i I shall find rest at the last day ; and give thanks to my
blessed Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ, Amen.
His master said I pray where have you run,
That you no sooner unto school do come.
You did not use to stay so long from me,
Tell me the reason, pray, now instantly.
BTIip reason that I horn the school did stay,
When from my father’s house I took my way,
I met the devil in the shape of a man,
. Diesscd in black, who unto me did run.
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| Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Religion & morality > Satan's decoy, or, The youth's faith in Christ > (5) |
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| Description | Shewing how a merchant's son, of the city of Bristol, was attacked in the fields as he went to Ringswood School, by a man in black clothes, whom he found out to be the Devil, and how the fiend tempted him with a purse of gold, and other allurements but in vain, when at last he vanished in a flash of fire. To which is added, two occasional prayers. |
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| Shelfmark | L.C.2817(47) |
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| Description | Over 3,000 chapbooks published in Scotland in the 18th and 19th centuries. Subjects include courtship, humour, occupations, fairs, apparitions, war, politics, crime, executions, Jacobites, transvestites, and freemasonry. Chapbooks are small booklets of 8, 12, 16 and 24 pages, often illustrated with crude woodcuts. Produced cheaply and sold by peddlars on the streets, they formed the staple reading material of the common people, along with broadsides. |
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