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Poesis Rediviva

or, Poesie Reviv'd. By John Collop
 
 

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On the Umbraticall Doctors on the Romish party.
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

On the Umbraticall Doctors on the Romish party.

Hell gates against the Church cannot prevail:
Who ere believ'd Christianity could fail?

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But 'cause in clouds, must therefore be no Sun?
All truths in streams of Roman phancies run?
Unto the end God will his Church assist.
In what is needful, not phanaticks list.
If th' Pope Can't erre, what need we Councels too?
In vain 'tis done by more, what few can do.
They who the Pope can't erre would teach, believe
Sure cheating others, can't themselves deceive;
They write for hæresie, Popes depos'd may be:
What needs the question, if all Popes were free?
The Roman Church's particular, Catholick too:
Surely the Roman Church not's one, but two.
Their Councell's, like the Pope, infallible be,
Means or th' prophetick part from errors free.
Hath fallible means infallible effects?
Or what needs means, if th' spirit truth detects:
Councels can't erre, if to them Popes assent.
Sure 'fore they'r finish'd no confirmings ment.
If falshood's there, can their assent make't true?
If truth? 'tis so, should none assent thereto.
These all like empty purses open wide;
Yet nought within them, doth but air abide.