Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ Here was No Dashing of the Two Tables one against the Other, for an Office, or an Egg at Easter, as the Fellow ferw'd his Idol here. The Whole Summe of the Moral is in short, Comprized in the Old Saying: He that serves God for Mony, will serve the Devil for Better Wages. ”
Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ It lays before us the Unprofitable Vanity of a False Worship, and gives us to Undersland, that the more zealous we are in a Wrong Way, the Worse. An Idol is an Abomination in the fight both of God, and of Good Men ”
Roger L'Estrange, Fables of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists… (1692)
“ All People that Worship for Fear, Profit, or some other By End, fall More or Less within the Intendment of this Emblem. It is a kind of a Conditional Devotion for Men to be Religious no longer then they can Save, or Get by't. ”
