The translation does not give the true sense of the Latin.  It should be ‘was’ and ‘to be’.  The ‘dignus fui’ has here the sense of ’dignum me habuit Deus’.  See Herbert’s little poem in the Temple: 

  Sweetest Saviour, if my soul
    Were but worth the having,
  Quickly should I then control
    Any thought of waving;
  But when all my care and pains
    Cannot give the name of gains
  To thy wretch so full of stains,
    What delight or hope remains?

Ib. p. 404.

  The chiefest physic for that disease (but very hard and difficult it
  is to be done) is, that they firmly hold such cogitations not to be
  theirs, but that most sure and certain they come of the Devil.

More and more I understand the immense difference between the Faith-article of ‘the Devil’ ([Greek:  tou Ponaerou]) and the superstitious fancy of devils:  ‘animus objectivus dominationem in’ [Greek:  ton Eimi] ‘affectans’; [Greek:  outos to mega organon Diabolou hyparchei].

Chap.  XLIV. p. 431.

I truly advise all those (said Luther) who earnestly do affect the honor of Christ and the Gospel, that they would be enemies to Erasmus Roterodamus, for he is a devaster of religion.  Do but read only his dialogue ‘De Peregrinatione’, where you will see how he derideth and flouteth the whole religion, and at last concludeth out of single abominations, that he rejecteth religion, &c.

Religion here means the vows and habits of the religious or those bound to a particular life;—­the monks, friars, nuns, in short, the regulars in contradistinction from the laity and the secular Clergy.

Ib. p. 432.

Erasmus can do nothing but cavil and flout, he cannot confute.  If (said Luther) I were a Papist, so could I easily overcome and beat him.  For although he flouteth the Pope with his ceremonies, yet he neither hath confuted nor overcome him; no enemy is beaten nor overcome with mocking, jeering, and flouting.

Most true; but it is an excellent pioneer and an excellent ’corps de reserve’, cavalry for pursuit, and for clearing the field of battle, and in the first use Luther was greatly obliged to Erasmus.  But such utter unlikes cannot but end in dislikes, and so it proved between Erasmus and Luther.  Erasmus, might the Protestants say, wished no good to the Church of Rome, and still less to our party:  it was with him ’Rot her and Dam us’!

Chap.  XLVIII. p. 442.

David’s example is full of offences, that so holy a man, chosen of God, should fall into such great abominable sins and blasphemies; when as before he was very fortunate and happy, of whom all the bordering kingdoms were afraid, for God was with him.

If any part of the Old Testament be typical, the whole life and character of David, from his birth to his death, are eminently so.  And accordingly the history of David and his Psalms, which form a most interesting part of his history, occupies as large a portion of the Old Testament as all the others.  The type is two-fold-now of the Messiah, now of the Church, and of the Church in all its relations, persecuted, victorious, backsliding, penitent.  N.B.  I do not find David charged with any vices, though with heavy crimes.  So it is with the Church.  Vices destroy its essence.