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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Peace-maker. |
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Peace-maker.
Troubled in minde at each dissentious sound,
Or motion of thy neighbours disagreeing:
Thy chiefest care hath beene to find the ground,
Of all their discord, studying and foreseeing
The way to make an vniuersall peace,
To bring the factious hearts to quietnesse.
Or motion of thy neighbours disagreeing:
Thy chiefest care hath beene to find the ground,
Of all their discord, studying and foreseeing
The way to make an vniuersall peace,
To bring the factious hearts to quietnesse.
Who from the rootes of enuies hatefull branches,
Haue practised the most accurst deuises:
Each against other plotting of mischances,
To breed contentions and detested vices.
Causing not onely worldly expence and charges,
But secret malice, which soules paine inlarges.
Haue practised the most accurst deuises:
Each against other plotting of mischances,
To breed contentions and detested vices.
Causing not onely worldly expence and charges,
But secret malice, which soules paine inlarges.
Most worthy thou in the superior place,
Bearing the title of the Child of God
Shouldst haue beene set disposing of that grace,
Committed to thee for reproofe, of odde
Disordred creatures, foule and naughty doings,
Delighting falshood, theft, and blood imbrewings.
Bearing the title of the Child of God
Shouldst haue beene set disposing of that grace,
Committed to thee for reproofe, of odde
Disordred creatures, foule and naughty doings,
Delighting falshood, theft, and blood imbrewings.
In heauens seruice to the Fathers peace,
For executing Iustice, and vpholding
Of truth: and for the punishment of vice,
In iustice seat we place thee at vnfolding
Of those disorderly accursed slights,
As haue beene vsed by vntamed wights.
For executing Iustice, and vpholding
Of truth: and for the punishment of vice,
In iustice seat we place thee at vnfolding
Of those disorderly accursed slights,
As haue beene vsed by vntamed wights.
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