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 |
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The Fructe, the proffeit, and the commodytie
In to this gratius and Godlie Unitie
Betuix Christ Iesus and his Kirk most trew,
Lo, Christ he dois heir furthirmore ensew.
To mak the consolatioun the moir
Of his Discyplis, he speakis the sam heirfoir;
And for to draw thame till ane constancie,
He schewis thame the grit Utilitie
That followis thame that in him dois abyde,
In to few wourds he dois the sam discyde:
Christ sayis thir wourds, “gyf ȝe will byde in me,
“Thairthrow ȝe sall obtene grit proffittis thre.”
In to this gratius and Godlie Unitie
Betuix Christ Iesus and his Kirk most trew,
Lo, Christ he dois heir furthirmore ensew.
To mak the consolatioun the moir
Of his Discyplis, he speakis the sam heirfoir;
And for to draw thame till ane constancie,
He schewis thame the grit Utilitie
That followis thame that in him dois abyde,
In to few wourds he dois the sam discyde:
Christ sayis thir wourds, “gyf ȝe will byde in me,
“Thairthrow ȝe sall obtene grit proffittis thre.”
Bot quhat ar tha that dois in Christ remane?
Tha kynd of pepill the Text declaris plane:
“Euin tha,” it sayis, “that dois my wourdis imbrace,
“Tha same in me, tha haue ane dwelling place,
“And tha be faith in me ar still Ingrauit,
“And I in thame thairthrow rychtso consauit.”
So this Coniunctioun and this Unitie
Betuix Christ Iesus and his Kirk trewlie,
Is be no meanis bot be his wourd imbrasing,
And it in to thair Inwert Bowellis placing,
As wes of Abraham, and mony faithfull mo:
Go cearche the Scripture, and thow sall find it so.
Tha kynd of pepill the Text declaris plane:
“Euin tha,” it sayis, “that dois my wourdis imbrace,
“Tha same in me, tha haue ane dwelling place,
“And tha be faith in me ar still Ingrauit,
“And I in thame thairthrow rychtso consauit.”
So this Coniunctioun and this Unitie
Betuix Christ Iesus and his Kirk trewlie,
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And it in to thair Inwert Bowellis placing,
As wes of Abraham, and mony faithfull mo:
Go cearche the Scripture, and thow sall find it so.
We find nocht heir the Paip, that Antechrist,
Doith ws Conione vnto our Maister Christ;
Nor we perceaue nocht heir that our ingrauyng
Is in to Christ be our Byschopis receauyng,
As be Annoynting, and schauing of our Croun;
We find nocht heir sic vaine Coniunctioun;
Bot onlie findis ws Ingraft in Christ Iesu
Be the imbrasing of his wourd most trew.
Doith ws Conione vnto our Maister Christ;
Nor we perceaue nocht heir that our ingrauyng
Is in to Christ be our Byschopis receauyng,
As be Annoynting, and schauing of our Croun;
We find nocht heir sic vaine Coniunctioun;
Bot onlie findis ws Ingraft in Christ Iesu
Be the imbrasing of his wourd most trew.
And quho so thus with Christ Conioynit be,
May be assurit to get thir proffittis thre,
The quhilk in ordour, as tha stand in the Text,
I sall declair, Ilkane till vthir Annext.
May be assurit to get thir proffittis thre,
The quhilk in ordour, as tha stand in the Text,
I sall declair, Ilkane till vthir Annext.
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