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Perhaps, if you did seriously take heed,
How this concerns you, and what would proceed
From such a Constitution, you might know
From whence the quarrellings between you flow,
And how to reconcile those differences
Which now increase your dangers and expences.
Perceive you not, that your Prevarications,
Your Falshoods, and your gross dissimulations
With GOD, and with each other, so provokes
His anger, who on all mens actions looks,
That 'tis impossible you should have Peace
With him, your selves or others, till you cease
From provocations, and bring forth such fruit
As with a real Reformation suit,
And with those Churches which are truly Christs?
Yea, that your hopes wil fail, though flattering Priests
Do promise peace, and impudently, too,
Perswade, that GOD is pleas'd with what you do?
How this concerns you, and what would proceed
From such a Constitution, you might know
From whence the quarrellings between you flow,
And how to reconcile those differences
Which now increase your dangers and expences.
Perceive you not, that your Prevarications,
Your Falshoods, and your gross dissimulations
With GOD, and with each other, so provokes
His anger, who on all mens actions looks,
That 'tis impossible you should have Peace
With him, your selves or others, till you cease
From provocations, and bring forth such fruit
As with a real Reformation suit,
And with those Churches which are truly Christs?
Yea, that your hopes wil fail, though flattering Priests
Do promise peace, and impudently, too,
Perswade, that GOD is pleas'd with what you do?
| Miscellaneous works of George Wither | |