The ods or difference betwixt the Knaves Puritan, and the Knave Puritan.
And first of the Knaves Puritan.
Hee that resists the world, the flesh, and Fiend,
And makes a conscience how his daies he spend
Who hates excessive drinking, Drabs and Dice,
And (in his heart) hath God in highest price;
That lives conformable to Law, and State,
Nor from the Truth will flie or separate:
That will not sweare, or couzen, cogge, or lie,
But strives (in Gods feare) how to live and die:
He that seekes thus to do the best he can,
He is the Knaves abused Puritan.
The Knave Puritan.
He whose best good, is only good to seeme,
And seeming holy, gets some false esteeme:
Who makes Religion hide Hipocrisie,
And zeale to cover cheating villany;
Whose purity (much like the devils Ape)
Can shift himself into an Angels shape,
And play the Rascall most devoutly trim,
Not caring who sinkes, so himself may swim:
Hee's the Knave Puritan, and only He,
Makes the Knaves Puritan abus'd to be.
For (in this life) each man his lot must take,
Good men must suffer wrong for bad mens sake.
