The Court of Conscience or Dick Whippers Sessions With the order of his arraigning and punishing of many notorious, dissembling, wicked, and vitious liuers in this age. By Richard West |
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Faithfull Minister. |
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Faithfull Minister.
Heauenly Phisition for the feeble soule,
Ministring Phisicke of a pleasant tast:
Of comfortable hearbes spirituall,
Excerped from the Godly gardens wast,
Clothing that naked soule in Godly rayment,
Thou shalt receiue an heauenly seat for payment.
Ministring Phisicke of a pleasant tast:
Of comfortable hearbes spirituall,
Excerped from the Godly gardens wast,
Clothing that naked soule in Godly rayment,
Thou shalt receiue an heauenly seat for payment.
Thy silly flocks in plesant pastures greene,
Goe feeding, fat, and full of Choysed flowers:
Not penn'd nor pounded in a pinfold keene,
Yet still defended from the rauening powers,
In spight of Romish sheppard and his traine,
Thou grazest with them on the pleasant plaine.
Goe feeding, fat, and full of Choysed flowers:
Not penn'd nor pounded in a pinfold keene,
Yet still defended from the rauening powers,
In spight of Romish sheppard and his traine,
Thou grazest with them on the pleasant plaine.
Thou leadst them not among the thornes and briers
Tearing their fleeces, neither dost permit:
Their carcases to sticke in clammy myers,
They walke secure from deepe and daungerous pit,
Then guid we pray thee with thy sheppards hooke,
Those of this Iurie from a partiall Crooke.
Tearing their fleeces, neither dost permit:
Their carcases to sticke in clammy myers,
They walke secure from deepe and daungerous pit,
Then guid we pray thee with thy sheppards hooke,
Those of this Iurie from a partiall Crooke.
Take place among them, passe thy Iudgement freely,
According as thou find'st the guiltie mate:
Sift out and search their crafty dealings neerely,
That being opened men may see the state.
Wherein these foule and execrable Crew,
Haue liued in spight of other men and you.
According as thou find'st the guiltie mate:
Sift out and search their crafty dealings neerely,
That being opened men may see the state.
Wherein these foule and execrable Crew,
Haue liued in spight of other men and you.
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