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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

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ANE GENERALL DISCRIPTIOUN OF THAME THAT BYDIS NOCHT IN CHRIST.
  
  
  
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ANE GENERALL DISCRIPTIOUN OF THAME THAT BYDIS NOCHT IN CHRIST.

In Christ tha byde nocht, we do vnderstand,
The quhilk, aggreing vnto his command,
Dois nocht imbrace his wourd most louynglie,
With feruent mynd and hart most constantlie,
And in that wourd hes nocht ane solyde faith:
Thir bydis nocht in Christ, the Scripture saith,
Bot ar Inuoluit in-to dung-hillis of Sin,
And euerye daye frome Sin to Sin tha rin.
It sufficis nocht that we Baptizit be,
Bot it requyris als, of necessitie,

[I]hon. xv.


That we contynew in Christs Euangell trew,

Math. x.


Or ellis we can nocht byde in Christ Iesu.

[ii.] Tim. ii.