Du Bartas His Divine Weekes And Workes with A Compleate Collectio[n] of all the other most delight-full Workes: Translated and written by yt famous Philomusus: Iosvah Sylvester |
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SIMILE NON EST IDEM: Seeming is not the-Same.
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SIMILE NON EST IDEM: Seeming is not the-Same.
OR All's not Gold that glisters.
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How TIMES are chang'd! and Wee with Times,In new, nefarious, various Crimes!
Exceeding all that haue preceeded,
In Pride, in Fraud, in Filth, in Force,
Rape, Treason, Poyson, past Remorse:
Such, as (in Time) will scarce be creeded.
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O Mindes! O manners, most absurd!When (to the Scandall of The Word)
The more our Light, the worse our Works:
When seeming Saincts be nothing less;
And more Profane, who most Profess,
Than Infidells, or Iewes, or Turks.
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And when, between our roaring Giants,That openly, bid Heav'n Defiance,
Heaping-vp Hills of wickedness;
And th'vndermining close despights
Of double-hearted Hypocrites,
Masking in Hollow-Holiness.
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From Earth are Faith and Trvth exil'd;False Error hath all Hearts beguil'd:
All-over All Abvses raigne.
Vertue is Vice; Vice Vertue growen,
Iustice is iustled from her Owne:
Honor and Right are in disdaigne.
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'Tis, To be Foolish, To be Wise:With Reason, is Against the Guise:
Read they that can My Riddle right.
Christ, Sonne of Man; and God of Hoasts,
How-many of Thy Baptisme boasts,
Whose life doth to the death defie't!
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For, Thy Disciples Thee beleeue;And in Thee onely double-live;
According to Thy Gospel's veritie:
But, dare We say, that We are such;
When now-adayes in Poore or Rich,
Is found nor Faith, nor Hope, nor Charitie?
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God hath engraven in every SouleA native Law, on Natures Roule;
Whereby (alas) Westand convict:
And Precedents of pious Zeal,
Who by their Bloods, their Hopes did seal,
To double Death condemne vs, strict.
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We ought in fringe That Statute never,From everlasting firm'd for-ever:
Doo, as Thou would'st be done vnto:
Doo not, what Thou would'st not accept,
O pure, plain, gentle, iust Precept!
Yet This (alas!) Who looks to doe,
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When all Degrees so tender binTowards them Selves, without, with-in,
They, neither Wrong, nor Right, can suffer?
But towards Others (made as They,
By the same hand, of the same Clay)
Against all Rights, all Wrongs doo offer.
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LORD, Thou hast said, and shew'n it cleer(When in thy Flesh, Thou soiourn'dst heer)
Thy Kingdome is not of This World:
So shall I evermore suspect,
While heer I see, with such neglect,
Thy Holy Statutes after-hurld.
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All those (O Lord) that cry, Lord, Lord;With Shadow of thy Sacred Word,
To cloak their Wickedness, with-in;
Are none of Thine: but of Thy Name
Profanely make a mocking-Game,
To countenance their cursed Sin.
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Like that Ignatian-Latian Colledge,Where, vnder Shew of Sacred Knowledge,
They study State and Stratagems;
Making a staple-Trafick of it
(After their Pleasure, or their Profit)
To murder Kings, and mangle Realms:
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Thee Iesvs (Mercifull and Meek)They make a Tyrant (Nero-like)
Bloody and brute, to kill and quell:
Thee, Saviovr, Source of Innocence;
Thee, Prince of Peace and Patience;
They make a Fury, fierce and fell,
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Thee, Iustice-Fountaine, Order's Author,They make Wrong's Fort, Confusions Fautor:
Immortall Spring immaculate
Of Love, of Concord, and of Vnion,
They make Thee Trumpet of Dis-Vnion,
And Tinder of immortall Hate.
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Such Canons roare from Trent and Tiber,From Powder Traitors bloody Briber,
Whose Holiness, is Hollowness;
Whose Synagogue, is Sinners Wrack;
Whose Fauh, is Favx and Ravailliac;
Whose Deeds and Doctrine, Wickedness.
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O, where is then The Holy Flock!Call'd in one Hope, built on one Rock,
Into one Faith incorporing;
Thorough one Baptisme, by one Word,
Vnder one Father (God and Lord)
One onely Prophet, Priest and King.
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There, there (as Children of one Mother)They succour and support each other,
In Vniou, and in mutuall Charitie;
All making but one Body, being
All of One Minde, in One agreeing:
Bound by One Bond of Peace, and Veritie.
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O, can We (wretched, witched Elves)Can We, We Many, boast our Selves
One Bread, one Bodie (mystick-wise);
And say that We are daily fed
In common with one Drink and Bread,
Amid our many Enmities?
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Alas! Where are those Saincts become,Worthy the style of Christendome;
From Sin's Dominion inly freed;
Vessels of Honor, full of Grace,
Abounding in good-works apace?
None now good Thought hath; less good Deed.
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Nothing but false Eqvivocation:Nothing but wilfull Obduration:
Nothing but Error and Disorder:
Nothing but Pride and Insolence:
Nothing but impious Impudence:
Nothing but Treason, Theft, and Murder.
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Contempt of God and of all Good,Rape, Riot, Incest, Bribery, Blood,
Periury, Plotting, all Impiety,
With more then brutest Brutishness,
This more-than-Iron-Age posess:
No Loue, no Friendship, no Societie.
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Court, Citie, Countrey, Every SortOf either Sex, make Sin a Sport
(Pride, Painting, Poys'ning, Cous'ning, Whoring);
In Sloth, or Surfeit, ever-drown'd;
To Bacchus, or Tobacco bound;
With swearing, staring, stabbing, roaring.
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Wrath, Envie, Slander, and suspicion,Fraud, Rancour, Rapine, and Ambition,
With Blasphemies, all over-spread:
Th'old Christians Badge, bright Charitie
(Most frequent then; Now Raritie)
Is, now-adayes, not down, but Dead.
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We are so Punctuall and PreciseIn Doctrine (Pharisaik-wise)
To seem (at least) the most Religiovs,
That true RELIGION we deforme,
While to our Phant'sies we reforme
Shadowes, and not our Selues, litigious.
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RELIGION! O, Thou Life of Life!How Worldlings, that profane thee rife,
Can wrest thee to their Appetites!
How Princes, who Thy Power defie,
Pretend thee, for their Tyranny;
And People, for their false Delights!
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Vnder Thy sacred Name, all-over,All Vicious all their Vices Cover:
The Violent, their Violence:
The Proud, their Pride: the False, their Fraud:
The Theefe, his Theft: her Filth, the Baud:
The Impudent, their Impudence.
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Ambition, vnder Thee, aspires:Avarice, vnder Thee, desires:
Sloath, vnder Thee, her Ease assumes:
Lux', vnder Thee, all over-flowes:
Wrath, vnder Thee, outrageous growes:
All Evill, vnder Thee, presumes.
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RELIGION, yerst so venerable,Th'art now-adayes but made a Fable;
A holy Maske on Follies Browe,
Where-vnder lyes Dissimulation,
Lined with all Abhomination:
Sacred RELIGION, Where art Thou?
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Not in the Church, with Simonie:Nor on the Bench, with Briberie:
Nor in the Court with Machiauell:
Nor in the Citie, with Deceits:
Nor in the Countrey, with Debates:
For, What hath Heaven to doe with Hell?
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Sith whatsoever Showe we make(For Profit or Promotions sake)
What-ever Colour we put-on;
Where, Faith no other Fruits affords,
But evill-works (though civill words)
Indeed is no RELIGION.
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Reverend RELIGION, Where's the heartThat entertaines thee as thou art,
Sincerely, for Thine owne respect?
Where is the Minde, Where is the Man,
May right be call'd a Christian;
Not formall, but in true effect?
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Who, fixing all his Faith and HopeOn God alone, from sacred Scope
Of his pure Statutes will not stray:
Who comes in Zeale and Humbleness,
With true and hearty Singleness,
Willing to walke the perfect Way:
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Who loves, with all his Soule and Minde,Almighty God, All-Wise, All-kinde,
All-whole, All-Holy, All-sufficing:
Who but One onely God adores
(Though Tyrants rage, and Satan rores)
Without digressing, or disguising:
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Who God's due Honour hath not givenTo Other things, in Earth or Heaven;
But bow'd and vow'd to Him alone;
Him onely serv'd with filiall Aw,
Pleas'd and delighted in his Law,
Discoursing Day and Night thereon;
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Not, not for Forme, or Fashion sake;Or, for a Time, a Showe to make,
Others the better to beguile:
Nor it, in Iest, to wrest or cite;
But in his heart it deep to write,
And work it with his hands the-while;
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Loving his neighbour as him-selfe,Sharing to him his Power, his Pelfe,
His Counsails, Comforts, Coats, and Cates:
Dooing in all things to his Brother,
But as Him-selfe would wish from Other,
Not Offring Other what He hates:
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Whose Heart, inclin'd as doth behove-it,Vnlawfully doth Nothing covet
(To Any an offence to offer):
But, iust and gentle towards all,
Would rather (vnto great, or small)
Then doe one Wrong, an hundred suffer:
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Not thirsting Others Land, or Life;Nor neighing after Maid or Wife;
Nor ayming any Iniury;
Neither of polling, nor of pilling,
Neither of cursing, nor of killing,
Neither of Fraud, nor Forgerie;
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But will confess, if hee offend,Relent, Repent, and soon amend,
And timely render Satisfaction.
Sure, His RELIGION is not fained,
Who doth and hath him Thus demeaned;
Ay deadly hating Evill-action.
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Therefore, O! Vassals of the Divell,That cannot, will not, cease from Evill,
Vessels of Wrath and Reprobation;
Presume no longer Now to shrowd
Vnder RELIGION's sacred Clowd
Your Manifold Abhomination.
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If, But to seem good, goodly seem;To begood, better farre esteem:
Why seem you what to be you care not?
If To Seem evill, be amiss;
Sure, To be evill, worse it is:
Why be you what To seem you dare not?
Be, as you seem; or seem the Same
You be: to free RELIGION's Blame.
FINIS.
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