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Thou mention'st Impositions, Humane Laws,
Forms, Yokes, Decrees, Pales, any thing to cause
Strange Apprehensions, Fears and Jealousies,
(Whence Discontent and Prejudice might rise)
In some professing Truth, who have not taken
Root deep enough therein, not to be shaken:
And that thou also mightst the Church expose
To the Contempt and Fury of her Foes.
But (blest be God) though thy mischeivous Heart
Be desperately Wicked, yet thy Art
Hath fail'd thee: for thou art so full of Fiction
Confusion, Envy, and Self-Contradiction,
That he must be already more than blind,
Who to believe thee can perswade his Mind.
One while thou sayst, (but in deriding-wise)
The Churches Laws, are, to her Members, Eyes.
This is a plain Acknowledgment, that she
Would have her Members with their own Eyes see.
Yet, ten Lines further off, thou sayst, she cryes,
Dark Spirits, he that sees not with our Eyes.
This needs no Comment: 'Tis so plain, that he
Is blind, that don't the Contradiction see.
But, William, here's not only Contradiction,
But a foul Slander too; a Lying Fiction.
Thou, speaking of the Church, here say'st, She cryes
Dark Spirits, he that sees not with our Eyes.
This is a down-right Falshood, I declare;
Make Proof on't, if thou canst, and do not spare:
Acquit thy self thereof, or it shall ly
Upon thee, as a Badge of Infamy.
'Tis by such base dishonest tricks as these,
Thou thy misguided Party, seek'st to please,
And captivated hold: But Truth thee strips,
And thy deceitful workings open rips.
Forms, Yokes, Decrees, Pales, any thing to cause
Strange Apprehensions, Fears and Jealousies,
(Whence Discontent and Prejudice might rise)
In some professing Truth, who have not taken
Root deep enough therein, not to be shaken:
And that thou also mightst the Church expose
To the Contempt and Fury of her Foes.
But (blest be God) though thy mischeivous Heart
Be desperately Wicked, yet thy Art
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Confusion, Envy, and Self-Contradiction,
That he must be already more than blind,
Who to believe thee can perswade his Mind.
One while thou sayst, (but in deriding-wise)
The Churches Laws, are, to her Members, Eyes.
This is a plain Acknowledgment, that she
Would have her Members with their own Eyes see.
Yet, ten Lines further off, thou sayst, she cryes,
Dark Spirits, he that sees not with our Eyes.
This needs no Comment: 'Tis so plain, that he
Is blind, that don't the Contradiction see.
But, William, here's not only Contradiction,
But a foul Slander too; a Lying Fiction.
Thou, speaking of the Church, here say'st, She cryes
Dark Spirits, he that sees not with our Eyes.
This is a down-right Falshood, I declare;
Make Proof on't, if thou canst, and do not spare:
Acquit thy self thereof, or it shall ly
Upon thee, as a Badge of Infamy.
'Tis by such base dishonest tricks as these,
Thou thy misguided Party, seek'st to please,
And captivated hold: But Truth thee strips,
And thy deceitful workings open rips.
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