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Calling Off the Dog

“A stranger cajinot call oy a dog front the fiock but the shepherd can do so with a word; so the Lord can easily rebuke Satan when he finds him most violent’ O Lord, when I am worried by my great enemy, call him off, I pray thee. Let me hear a voice saying, “The Lord rebuke thee, O Satan; even the Lord that hath chosen Jerusalem rebuke thee.” By thine election of me, rebuke him, I pray thee, and deliver me from the power of the dog.

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Restored from a scan of the 1883 edition, with page headers and numbers removed and words rejoined across line breaks. Scan-derived text, still being proofread; compare the original scan before quoting.