Divinity and Morality in Robes of Poetry Composed for the Recreations of the Courteous and Ingenious. By the Author Tho. Jordan |
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The Doctor.
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The Doctor.
Proud Polititian, whither wilt thou flyeWith thy imperious Impiety?
Dost think a Cable made of twisted sands
Can Anchor thee against Almighty hands?
Can vaile thee from the searcher of all Hearts?
He doth make war against Gods sacred seat,
Who treads upon the good to make him Great:
The Civil War of Heaven did foretell,
Men shall not rise by that which Angels fell:
Methinks those Powers thy strength hath overthrown,
Should tell thee so obnoxious are thy own;
What man is he that can in such Seas swim,
Where one or other dares not follow him,
And sink him too? In our Morality
We take it for an Axiom, that he
Who pulls Superiors down, to raise his fame,
Shewes his own Servants how to doe the same:
If this will not suffice, but still your eye
Mounts to (that Sphere of Mischief) Majesty;
Look on Eternity, and well revise
The vile Gradations, which make such men rise:
The usuall steps of Corrupt States-men are
Envy, Pride, Wealth, Hypocrisie, and Warre,
Covetousnesse, Oppression, Tyranny:
And all these cemented with Perjury,
Painted with Piety, but how they are
In opposition, Scripture will declare.
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