The Defoe is: Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be found upon examination, The latter has the largest [sic] congregation.
It's from The True-Born Englishman, pt i, 1.1 It is|was 'well known'. It is, I suspect, derivative too. The Elizabethan divine Richard Bancroft (1544-1610) said Where Christ erecteth his Church, the devil in the same churchyard will have his chapel. in a once celebrated sermon delivered at St. Paul's Cross on 9 February 1588. --jg ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to lists...@listserv.ua.edu with the message: INFO IBM-MAIN
