A New Yeares Gifte, dedicated to the Popes Holinesse and all Catholikes addicted to the Sea of Rome: preferred the first day of Ianuarie, in the yeare of our Lorde God, after the course and computation of the Romanistes, one thousand, fiue hundreth, seauentie and nine, by B. G. [i.e. Bernard Garter]... In recompence of diuers singular and inestimable Reliques, of late sent by the said Popes Holinesse into England, the true figures and representations whereof, are heereafter in their places dilated |
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[On The Cause of Our Salvation.]
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[On The Cause of Our Salvation.]
If
that be true, which can nor will not lye,
If that be false, which was nor can be true:
It cone for tother tane do leade awry
The mindes of men, & make these mischiefes new:
If troth bring blisse, and falshood carke and care,
Is it not good to know them as they are?
If that be false, which was nor can be true:
It cone for tother tane do leade awry
The mindes of men, & make these mischiefes new:
If troth bring blisse, and falshood carke and care,
Is it not good to know them as they are?
Let troth haue then a blamelesse passage free,
And let Gods word, be ballaunce of the cause:
This little booke wil then declare to thee,
How farre the Pope, dissenteth from the lawes
Of God, and seeking honor, gold, and gayne,
Nought dreadeth God, nor feares eternal payne.
And let Gods word, be ballaunce of the cause:
This little booke wil then declare to thee,
How farre the Pope, dissenteth from the lawes
Of God, and seeking honor, gold, and gayne,
Nought dreadeth God, nor feares eternal payne.
A florish fayre, alone he seekes to make,
And vnder white, to shrowde his colour blacke:
And then by craft, and for his profit sake,
The sincere word of God by force to racke:
So as the simple may not ther of deeme,
But be deceiude, and thinke them as they seeme.
And vnder white, to shrowde his colour blacke:
And then by craft, and for his profit sake,
The sincere word of God by force to racke:
So as the simple may not ther of deeme,
But be deceiude, and thinke them as they seeme.
As Zeuxis worke, the liuely birds deceivd,
Which peckt for grapes vpon a painted wall:
Euen so the Pope, if he be once receivde,
Wil leade awry the wisest wit of al:
For Zeuxis skill in paynting was not such,
But that in craft the Pope hath twice so much.
Which peckt for grapes vpon a painted wall:
Euen so the Pope, if he be once receivde,
Wil leade awry the wisest wit of al:
For Zeuxis skill in paynting was not such,
But that in craft the Pope hath twice so much.
That so let sequele shorte expresse the cace,
Let Truth be Tutche to trie the golde from drosse:
Take nowe a time his farthell to vnlace,
Great is the gaine, and none at all the losse:
For treasons so shal die, or not increase,
Cut off the cause, and then th' effect wil cease.
Let Truth be Tutche to trie the golde from drosse:
Take nowe a time his farthell to vnlace,
Great is the gaine, and none at all the losse:
For treasons so shal die, or not increase,
Cut off the cause, and then th' effect wil cease.
Compare the Pope (which chalengeth to be
Christs Uicar here, and ouer all the earth)
With Christ our Lord, and they so well agree,
As light with darke, and blisfull life with death:
Then, if from Christe directly he doe ierre,
Lette Christ be Christe, and giue him leaue to erre.
Christs Uicar here, and ouer all the earth)
With Christ our Lord, and they so well agree,
As light with darke, and blisfull life with death:
Then, if from Christe directly he doe ierre,
Lette Christ be Christe, and giue him leaue to erre.
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