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Baleus Prolocutor
In ych commen welthe most hygh prehemynence
Is due unto lawes for soch commodyte
As is had by them. For as Cicero geveth sentence:
Where as is no lawe can no good order be
In nature, in people, in howse, nor yet in citie.
The bodyes above are underneth a lawe;
Who coulde rule the worlde were it not undre awe?
Is due unto lawes for soch commodyte
As is had by them. For as Cicero geveth sentence:
Where as is no lawe can no good order be
In nature, in people, in howse, nor yet in citie.
The bodyes above are underneth a lawe;
Who coulde rule the worlde were it not undre awe?
Lyke as Chrysippus full clarkely doth dyffyne,
Lawe is a teacher of matters necessary,
A knowledge of thynges both naturall and devyne,
Perswadynge all truth, dysswadynge all injury,
A gyfte of the Lorde, devoyde of all obprobry,
An wholesom doctryne of men dyscrete and wyse,
A grace from above and a very heavenly practyse.
Lawe is a teacher of matters necessary,
A knowledge of thynges both naturall and devyne,
Perswadynge all truth, dysswadynge all injury,
A gyfte of the Lorde, devoyde of all obprobry,
An wholesom doctryne of men dyscrete and wyse,
A grace from above and a very heavenly practyse.
Our heavenly maker, mannys lyvynge to dyrect,
The lawes of Nature, of Bondage, and of Grace,
Sent into thys worlde with vycyousnesse infect,
In all ryghteousnesse to walke before hys face.
But Infydelyte so worketh in every place
That under the heavens no thynge is pure and cleane,
So moch the people to hys perverse wayes leane.
The lawes of Nature, of Bondage, and of Grace,
Sent into thys worlde with vycyousnesse infect,
In all ryghteousnesse to walke before hys face.
But Infydelyte so worketh in every place
That under the heavens no thynge is pure and cleane,
So moch the people to hys perverse wayes leane.
The lawe of Nature hys fylthy dysposycyon
Corrupteth with ydolles and stynkynge Sodometry,
The lawe of Moses with Avaryce and Ambycyon
He also poluteth; and ever contynually
Christes lawe he defyleth with cursed hypocresy
And with false doctryne as wyll apere in presence
To the edyfyenge of thys Christen audyence.
Corrupteth with ydolles and stynkynge Sodometry,
The lawe of Moses with Avaryce and Ambycyon
He also poluteth; and ever contynually
Christes lawe he defyleth with cursed hypocresy
And with false doctryne as wyll apere in presence
To the edyfyenge of thys Christen audyence.
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Of Infydelyte God wyll hymself revenge
With plages of water, of wyldefyre, and of sworde.
And of hys people due homage he wyll chalenge
Ever to be knowne for their God and good lorde
After that he hath those lawes agayne restorde
To their first bewtye commyttynge them to fayth.
He is now in place: marke therfor what he sayth.
With plages of water, of wyldefyre, and of sworde.
And of hys people due homage he wyll chalenge
Ever to be knowne for their God and good lorde
After that he hath those lawes agayne restorde
To their first bewtye commyttynge them to fayth.
He is now in place: marke therfor what he sayth.
[Exit.]
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