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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| ANE QUESTIOUN DIRECT TO ALL PAPISTIS, DEMANDING
GYF CHRIST CAN BE SEPARET FROME THE FAITHFULL. |
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ANE QUESTIOUN DIRECT TO ALL PAPISTIS, DEMANDING GYF CHRIST CAN BE SEPARET FROME THE FAITHFULL.
Can Christ be frome thame, that he do[is] stil support,And grants to thame thair will in lauchfull sort?
No! thair is none of Iudgement discreit,
Can saye bot he is present in the Spreit
Still in to thame that ar his trew Eleckit,
Least tha alwayis with Sin suld be subieckit,
I mene, with grit and odious transgressioun,
Siclyke as thift, reif, murthour, and oppressioun;
For thocht the richtyus doith seuin tymes daylie Sin,
Ȝit dois he nocht contynew still thairin;
For, be his Spreit Christ geuis thame Iudgement
To knaw thair Sin; syne maks thame to repent,
So that tha do nocht in thair Sin delyte,
Bot murnis thairfor with conscience contryte,
As Dauid, Peter, and the Magdalene,
With mony mo nor heir I may contene.
Christ als is with thame, as Uicar generall,
Rewlar and gydar of the faithfull all,
Without quhais spreit no gude thing can be wrocht;
Without his help our strenth aualis nocht;
In him we leue and mouis quhill we indure,
It is he onlie, that taks on ws cure;
Thus none can saye, but Christ most certanlie
Is be his Spreit with ws contynewallie.
Rewlar and gydar of the faithfull all,
Without quhais spreit no gude thing can be wrocht;
Without his help our strenth aualis nocht;
In him we leue and mouis quhill we indure,
It is he onlie, that taks on ws cure;
Thus none can saye, but Christ most certanlie
Is be his Spreit with ws contynewallie.
So till his Kirk, Christ heir before his Passioun
Repeatis thir wourdis, to gyf thame consolatioun,
That tha in that suld nocht discuragit be
For his deperting frome thame corporallie,
Bot be his Spreit he promist stil support thame;
So on this wayis Christ Iesus did confort thame,
“Howbeit,” sayis he, “I am to passe abone;
“Ask quhat ȝe will, it sall to ȝow be done;
“Prouyding alwayis that ȝe constant be
“Abyding at my wourd of Uerite.”
This consolatioun dois serue for ws also,
Repeatis thir wourdis, to gyf thame consolatioun,
That tha in that suld nocht discuragit be
For his deperting frome thame corporallie,
Bot be his Spreit he promist stil support thame;
So on this wayis Christ Iesus did confort thame,
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“Ask quhat ȝe will, it sall to ȝow be done;
“Prouyding alwayis that ȝe constant be
“Abyding at my wourd of Uerite.”
Assuring ws, quhair euer we ryde or go,
Ȝe, euin amyd our Inymeis most grit,
He euer is with ws present in the spreit,
Preseruing ws, and doing ws defend,
As he hes promist, vnto the war[l]dlis end.
Now haue ȝe herd the first commoditie,
The riche rewaird, and grit vtilitie,
Breiflie discussit, of thame that ar ingrauit
In to Christ Iesus, and how it is conceauit.
Now herkin fordwart; and ȝe sall schortlie heir
The Secund proffeit, discussit in ordour cleir
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