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The minor poems of William Lauder

playwright, poet, and minister of the word of God, (mainly on the state of Scotland in and about 1568 A.D., that year of famine and plague) ... Edited from the unique originals belonging to S. Christie-Miller ... By F. J. Furnivall
Lauder, William (1520?-1573)

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Ane Godlie Tractate Or Mirrour.
  
The Contentis of this Buke.
  
THE DIUISIOUN OF THE TEXT.
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[THE FIRST HEAD.]
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THE DISCRIPTIOUN OF THE FIRST HEAD.
  
ANE GENERALL DISCRIPTIOUN OF THAME THAT BYDIS NOCHT IN CHRIST.
  
ANE DISCRIPTIOUN OF THAME IN SPECIALL THAT BYDIS NOCHT IN TO CHRIST.
  
OF THE GREUOUS TORMENTIS PREORDINAT FOR THE WEKIT.
  
THE EXHORTATIOUN VPON THE FIRST HEAD.
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[THE SECOND HEAD.]
  
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THE FIRST COMMODITE OF THAME THAT ABYDIS IN TO CHRIST.
  
ANE QUESTIOUN DIRECT TO ALL PAPISTIS, DEMANDING GYF CHRIST CAN BE SEPARET FROME THE FAITHFULL.
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THE DISCRIPTIOUN OF THE SECUND COMMODITIE OF THAME THAT ABYDIS IN CHRIST.
  
ANE EXCLAMATIOUN AGANIS ALL FENȜEIT YPOCREITIS, AND SPECIALLIE AGANIS ALL GREDIE DISSEMBLIT FALS PROTESTANTES.
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FOLLOWIS THE THRID PROFFIT OF THAME THAT ABYDIS IN TO CHRIST.
  
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The Lamenta[t]ioun OF THE PURE. TWICHING THE MISERABILL ESTAIT OF THIS PRESENT WARLD.
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Ane prettie Mirrour Or Conference, betuix the faithfull Protestant and the Dissemblit false Hypocreit.
  
To the faithful Reder.
  
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Ane trew & breue Sentencius Discriptioun of ye nature of Scotland Twiching the Interteinment of virtewus men That laketh Ryches.
  
Ane GVDE EXEMPILL. BE THE BUTTERFLIE, INSTRUCTING MEN TO HAIT ALL HARLOTTRIE.

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ANE DISCRIPTIOUN OF THAME IN SPECIALL THAT BYDIS NOCHT IN TO CHRIST.

The Romane Kirk, and all of that degre,
Quhilk dois menteane peruerst Idolatrie,

[G]al. ii. and [iii.]


Sic as the Messe, (quhilk is plane derogatioun
To Christ[i]s glore and his most blissed Passioun,)
With all the rabill of tha Sophistis and Clerks
That doith ascryue Saluatioun to thair werks,
Or attributis Remissioun of thair Sin
To ony wicht that is the warld within,
Tha pepill, I say, doith nocht abyde in Christ,
Bot ar the Children of the Antechrist.
Thir Temporesars doith nocht in Christ abyde,
Neathir thir schrinkars that from the treuth dois slyde,

[I]say. iii.


Neathir thir flattrers, that for feir of thair bags

[I]aco. i.


Dois wag about aye as the busse it wags,
Neathir tha pepill that for feir of thair lyues,

[L]uc. ix. [a]nd xiiii.


And tinsall of thair houshaldis, bairnis, and wyues,

Math. x.


And lose of guds, [&] gear, or wardlie rent,
Frome God[i]s wourd thame selues doith absent;
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Nor tha that dois, for pleasure of thair Prence,

[A]ct. iiii.

Refuse Gods wourd, of maist magnificence.
And sure it is, quho treulie list discydit,
God will nocht haue that man that is deuydit;
Bot he will haue him, Saule and bodye haill;

[ii.] Cor. vi.

Quho is deuydit, his faith doith nocht auaill.
Dissemblit pepill doith nocht abyde in Christ,
Bot ar the children of the Antechrist.
And as the faithfull in Christ ingraftit be,
Be his Euangell and wourd of Ueritie,

Iho. viii. and xv.

So is the Kirk malignant, but more plead,
Ingraft in Sathan,—of that ilk kirk thair head,—
With dewillysche doctrine, and Idolatrie
Of thame that speykis leis throw Ypocresie.
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