Emblemes and Epigrames Psal: Quum defecerit virtus mea, ne derelinquas me, Domine. [A.D. 1600, by Francis Thynne ... ]: Edited by F. J. Furnivall |
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(59) Churches.
The Auncient Saxons did full Christianlie,to shewe their fervent zeale and zealous love,
erect most statelie churches plenteouslie,
as holie place ordain'd for god above.
But nowe le monde reuerse, the world turn'd upside downe,
our Scismatikes will haue noe church in Cittie or in towne.
Noe Church! alas! what doe I saye? I lye;
they sett vpp churches twentie for their one,
for everie private howse spirituallie
must bee their church, for other will they none,
Excepte the open felds, or ells false Ethnicks groves of trees,
where sencelesse as the sencelesse woods they flock like swarms of bees;
there sowe they Satans damning seedes, of which dissention springs,
(tearing Christes vndivided coate), which all to ruyne bringes.
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