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Papist.
Holy Saint Christopher be thou my guide
And ayd my speed, that I by eventide
May arive safely at Saint Francis shrine,
That holy Francis that by ayd divine
Conversing in the solitary wood
Making wild fruits and water be his food,
O be propitius.
Protestant,
See it is my chance
To meet with one wil give me cause to advance
Gods truth above the unwritten veritie,
Worshipful Pilgrim, all hail to thee
That wrapt in errors dost thy journey take
Bare footed, while the sirly thorny brake
Often draws blood.
Papist.
By Saint Sebastian
I now have met a SOLIFIDIAN;
Why thou deluded, how long wilt thou bee
Unto the holy Church an enemie,
And still persisting in thy wrethed state
Dye as an Heretick, excommunicate
By Christs Vicegerent.
Protestant.
My good-pilgrim hold,
Enough and each too much, thou now hast told
Ime not deluded, but with setled faith
I tye my selfe, to what the Scripture faith
Which in no place mentions the papall throne,
That Septred Kings, must yeeld subjection
To mytred Bishops, that false power do vaunt
That Christum simulant, & contra christum pugnat
Nor do I weigh, how me, the Pope shall handle
No though, he curse me, with bel book and candle.
Papist.
The ayres infected, O that I had now
Some holy water, for to crosse my brow
O fire I blasphemy have heard thou soul
Who art infected so, with errours foul,
Tis hard to cure thee.
Protest.
Nor do I desire
Thou shouldst as my Physitian gaine thy hyre
Which will be more, then all the world affords
My precious soul,
Papist.
Although to bandy words
With thee an Heritick, were fond and Vaine
Yet so I see, that learn'd Ile not abstain
But I wil converse a while, know then that Rome
Is the most ancient Church (where martyrdome)
Diverse Apostles did receive, and there
By Christs appointment, is S. Peters chair
Where Christs Vice-gerent, Peters seat doth fill
And what he doth Comand, even Christ doth wil
He cannot erre in ought, for on this stone
Christ builds his Church (all opposition)
Shall not prevail against him, every state
Al Kings on Earth to him subordinate;
He to the glorious sun I may compare,
Kings to the Moon, who of his lustre share.
Protest.
Papist.
I do find something in me prompts me now
The Popes usurped power to disavow.
Protestant.
This man of sin doth hold the world in hand,
He holds his Papal power by Christs command
And left the vulgar should into it pry
He doth lock up the sacred Verity,
And feeds the peoples minds with outward glosses
VVith pleasant musick, Images, and Crosses,
VVith Pilgrimages, Offerings, and Oblations,
VVith holy Rood days, and such recreations,
VVith holy-water, wafer, cakes, and challices,
VVith Copes, & Mitres, Crosiers, such like fallacies
Bewitch the people so, they blindly run
To all excesse of Superstition;
Again, that he his Priests may magnifie
To win them honor in the peoples eye
Theyre told, when once the words of consecration
Are uttred, just upon the elevation
Of the bread God, 'tis very Christ even hee,
VVho for their sins, did suffer on the tree,
O horrid, that a mortal should create
Even his Creator.
Papist.
I now see the state
That I am in is wretched, and by thee
O happy friend I am converted, see
I am not as I was, I here lay by
This weed of shame, and now intirely I
VVil be a Protestant.
Protestant.
If so
Thy tongue and heart in equipage do go,
Come follow me, and thou wilt find theres none
Of true Belief, but Protestants alone.
Holy Saint Christopher be thou my guide
And ayd my speed, that I by eventide
May arive safely at Saint Francis shrine,
That holy Francis that by ayd divine
Conversing in the solitary wood
Making wild fruits and water be his food,
O be propitius.
Protestant,
See it is my chance
To meet with one wil give me cause to advance
Gods truth above the unwritten veritie,
Worshipful Pilgrim, all hail to thee
That wrapt in errors dost thy journey take
Bare footed, while the sirly thorny brake
Often draws blood.
Papist.
By Saint Sebastian
I now have met a SOLIFIDIAN;
Why thou deluded, how long wilt thou bee
Unto the holy Church an enemie,
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Dye as an Heretick, excommunicate
By Christs Vicegerent.
Protestant.
My good-pilgrim hold,
Enough and each too much, thou now hast told
Ime not deluded, but with setled faith
I tye my selfe, to what the Scripture faith
Which in no place mentions the papall throne,
That Septred Kings, must yeeld subjection
To mytred Bishops, that false power do vaunt
That Christum simulant, & contra christum pugnat
Nor do I weigh, how me, the Pope shall handle
No though, he curse me, with bel book and candle.
Papist.
The ayres infected, O that I had now
Some holy water, for to crosse my brow
O fire I blasphemy have heard thou soul
Who art infected so, with errours foul,
Tis hard to cure thee.
Protest.
Nor do I desire
Thou shouldst as my Physitian gaine thy hyre
Which will be more, then all the world affords
My precious soul,
Papist.
Although to bandy words
With thee an Heritick, were fond and Vaine
Yet so I see, that learn'd Ile not abstain
But I wil converse a while, know then that Rome
Is the most ancient Church (where martyrdome)
Diverse Apostles did receive, and there
By Christs appointment, is S. Peters chair
Where Christs Vice-gerent, Peters seat doth fill
And what he doth Comand, even Christ doth wil
He cannot erre in ought, for on this stone
Christ builds his Church (all opposition)
Shall not prevail against him, every state
Al Kings on Earth to him subordinate;
He to the glorious sun I may compare,
Kings to the Moon, who of his lustre share.
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I hear too much, although tis truth Rome was
Once cald the mother Church, but truth did passe
From Rome, drove thence by erring fallacies,
By groundless fables, superstitious lies,
When Gods love was relinquisht, and instead
Thereof, was mans traditions honored.
Nor is the Pope to sit in Christ his throne,
For Christ himself doth rule his Church alone;
Nor can we find by what our Savior said
(To Peter) that on him alone he laid
A charge to rule his Church, but when he spake
To Peter, he did the rest his Partners make,
And not on Peter, but upon his faith
Christ builds his Church, when on this rock he saith
Ile build my Church, and whereas you compare
The Pope unto the Sun, you grosly erre,
But rather we ful aptly render may
The Pope as Moon, for as one wel doth say.
—Fratri contraria Phæbe
Ibit & obliquum, bigas agitare per orbem
Indignata, diem poscit sibi totaque discors
Machina convulsi, turbabit fœdera mundi.
Once cald the mother Church, but truth did passe
From Rome, drove thence by erring fallacies,
By groundless fables, superstitious lies,
When Gods love was relinquisht, and instead
Thereof, was mans traditions honored.
Nor is the Pope to sit in Christ his throne,
For Christ himself doth rule his Church alone;
Nor can we find by what our Savior said
(To Peter) that on him alone he laid
A charge to rule his Church, but when he spake
To Peter, he did the rest his Partners make,
And not on Peter, but upon his faith
Christ builds his Church, when on this rock he saith
Ile build my Church, and whereas you compare
The Pope unto the Sun, you grosly erre,
But rather we ful aptly render may
The Pope as Moon, for as one wel doth say.
—Fratri contraria Phæbe
Ibit & obliquum, bigas agitare per orbem
Indignata, diem poscit sibi totaque discors
Machina convulsi, turbabit fœdera mundi.
The Moon disdeigning of her rule by night
Would needs rule Phæbus Carr the day to light,
And by this civil, and unnatural Jarr
Inforced natures bands to fry in Warr.
Would needs rule Phæbus Carr the day to light,
And by this civil, and unnatural Jarr
Inforced natures bands to fry in Warr.
Even so at first, the Aspiring Popes of Rome,
When they would Kings as wel as Priests become
Layd claim, and urgd it their Prerogative
For to dispose of Crowns, and those did strive
For to make frustrate, Their so il Intent
They presently deprivd of Government,
And then being seated in the Suns bright Carr
They streight involvd all nations in VVarr,
And now the sole Incendiaries be
For to set Crown and Crown at enmity.
When they would Kings as wel as Priests become
Layd claim, and urgd it their Prerogative
For to dispose of Crowns, and those did strive
For to make frustrate, Their so il Intent
They presently deprivd of Government,
And then being seated in the Suns bright Carr
They streight involvd all nations in VVarr,
And now the sole Incendiaries be
For to set Crown and Crown at enmity.
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I do find something in me prompts me now
The Popes usurped power to disavow.
Protestant.
This man of sin doth hold the world in hand,
He holds his Papal power by Christs command
And left the vulgar should into it pry
He doth lock up the sacred Verity,
And feeds the peoples minds with outward glosses
VVith pleasant musick, Images, and Crosses,
VVith Pilgrimages, Offerings, and Oblations,
VVith holy Rood days, and such recreations,
VVith holy-water, wafer, cakes, and challices,
VVith Copes, & Mitres, Crosiers, such like fallacies
Bewitch the people so, they blindly run
To all excesse of Superstition;
Again, that he his Priests may magnifie
To win them honor in the peoples eye
Theyre told, when once the words of consecration
Are uttred, just upon the elevation
Of the bread God, 'tis very Christ even hee,
VVho for their sins, did suffer on the tree,
O horrid, that a mortal should create
Even his Creator.
Papist.
I now see the state
That I am in is wretched, and by thee
O happy friend I am converted, see
I am not as I was, I here lay by
This weed of shame, and now intirely I
VVil be a Protestant.
Protestant.
If so
Thy tongue and heart in equipage do go,
Come follow me, and thou wilt find theres none
Of true Belief, but Protestants alone.
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