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PRELATES
That make the Grace of God Create a Prince
But smallest Prælats, Divine Providence,
And all of Th' order Lord's Spiritual call
In meare Distinction from the Temporall,
Altho their Honors are Intaild upon
Their Families, when they themselvs have none:
Would make a King believe, Hee's a Phantastique
Mixt Person, Laique and Ecclesiastique;
And, when they could not Render Prælats Princes,
Made Princes Priests, to serve them for Pretences.
But smallest Prælats, Divine Providence,
And all of Th' order Lord's Spiritual call
In meare Distinction from the Temporall,
Altho their Honors are Intaild upon
Their Families, when they themselvs have none:
Would make a King believe, Hee's a Phantastique
Mixt Person, Laique and Ecclesiastique;
And, when they could not Render Prælats Princes,
Made Princes Priests, to serve them for Pretences.
The Roman Emprors, in their Hands at Home
Preservd the Chief Epi[s]copacy of Rome;
And had soe Absolute a Jur[i]sdiction,
Their greatest Lawes were nothing but Rescription:
But when some weake ones gave that Powr the Pope,
The East, and west was lost beyond all Hope.
Preservd the Chief Epi[s]copacy of Rome;
And had soe Absolute a Jur[i]sdiction,
Their greatest Lawes were nothing but Rescription:
But when some weake ones gave that Powr the Pope,
The East, and west was lost beyond all Hope.
All Revrend Persons never use to stick
At Marriage, but for an Archbishopprick.
At Marriage, but for an Archbishopprick.
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