Has ne'er a Claffis, cannot fentence

To ftools, or poundage of repentance;
Is ty'd up only to defign,

T'entice, and tempt, and undermine :
In which you all his arts outdo,

And prove yourselves his betters too..
Hence 'tis poffeffions do lefs evil
Than mere temptations of the devil,
Which all the horrid'ft actions done
Are charg'd in courts of law upon ;,
Because, unless they help the elf,

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He can do little of himself;

And therefore, where he 's beft poffeft,

as

The fame eftate in mortgage twice:

When to a legal utlegation

And never boggle to restore
The members you deliver o'er,
Upon demand, with fairer juftice,
Than all your covenanting Trustees;
Unless, to punish them the worse,
You put them in the fecular powers,
And pass their souls,

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fome demife

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You turn your excommunication,

And, for a groat unpaid that 's due,

Diftrain on foul and body too.

Thought he, 'tis no mean part of civil

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State-prudence to cajole the devil,

And not to handle him too rough,

When he 'as us in his cloven hoof.

'Tis true (quoth he), that intercourse

Have us'd all means to propagate

Your mighty interefts of state,

Laid out our fpiritual gifts to further

Your great defigns of rage and murther:
For if the Saints are nam'd' from blood,
We only 'ave made that title good;

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And, if it were but in our power,
We should not fcruple to do more,

And not be half a foul behind

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Of all Diffenters of mankind.

Right (quoth the Voice), and, as I fcorn

The cock crows, and the morn grows on,

When 'tis decreed I must be gone;

And, if I leave you here till day,

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You'll find it hard to get away.
With that the Spirit grop'd about
To find th' inchanted hero out,
And try'd with hafte to lift him up,
But found his forlorn hope, his crup,
Unferviceable with kicks and blows,
Receiv'd from harden'd-hearted foes.
He thought to drag him by the heels,
Like Gresham-carts, with legs for wheels;
But fear, that fooneft cures those fores,
In danger of relapfe to worse,

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You put them in the fecular powers,
And pafs their fouls, as fome demife
The fame eftate in mortgage twice:
When to a legal utlegation

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You turn your excommunication,

And, for a groat unpaid that 's due,
Diftrain on foul and body too.

Thought he, 'tis no mean part of civil

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State-prudence to cajole the devil,

And not to handle him too rough,

When he 'as us in his cloven hoof.

'Tis true (quoth he), that intercourse

Has pafs'd between your friends and ours,
That, as you trust us, in our way,

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Have us'd all means to propagate

Your mighty interests of state,

Laid out our fpiritual gifts to further

Your great defigns of rage and murther:
For if the Saints are nam'd' from blood,
We only 'ave made that title good;

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And, if it were but in our power,'
We should not fcruple to do more,

And not be half a foul behind

$545.

Of all Diffenters of mankind.

Right (quoth the Voice), and, as I fcorn

The cock crows, and the morn grows on,

When 'tis decreed I must be gone;

And, if I leave you here till day,

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You'll find it hard to get away.
With that the Spirit grop'd about
To find th' inchanted hero out,
And try'd with hafte to lift him up,
But found his forlorn hope, his crup,
Unferviceable with kicks and blows,
Receiv'd from harden'd-hearted foes.
He thought to drag him by the heels,
Like Grefham-carts, with legs for wheels;
But fear, that fooneft cures thofe fores,
In danger of relapfe to worse,

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