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Heresies.
Let Heresies Come on, hold up their hands.That in the hollow have receivd their brands.
Old Heresies now barbd, as Montanists:
The Manichean, and the Donatists
Are found in many places: Arians too
Furbusht in Monothelitithick hew
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And did delude the jews to whom he shows.
Some after Epicurian notions run:
Asserting God his Governments not spun
Over the World but all things come by chance
Some after starry deities do dance,
That do ascribe to Fate or Asterism
The Justs Felicity, and that they're d[r]iven
To hell that wicked are. And that they must
Not Stand or Fall before Gods judgment just.
But yet the Heresies the briskst of all,
Is flowrishing now in the Churches Wall
Mantled in Bishops Weeds: and snug doth ly
In Image Worship, and Idolatry.
Worshiping Angells, Saints, and deadmens bones:
Nay bits of Wood, and Clouts: this all is known
By that gross Superstition at which doore
I now do knock, and heave on Shop board Store.
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