They count a vile Abomination, Where ev'ry Prefbyter and Deacon By's Holiness, the Church's Head, Than Gregory or Boniface. Such Church muft (furely) be a Monster With many Heads: For if we confter What in th' Apocalypfe we find, According to th' Apostles Mind, 'Tis that the Whore of Babylon With many Heads did ride upon; Which Heads denote the finful Tribe Of Deacon, Priest, Lay-Elder, Scribe. Lay Whofe little Finger is as heavy Is of a Mungrel, diverfe Kind, Sín That always preys on Grace or SingI A Sheep without, a Wolf within. This fierce Inquifitor has chief e Dominion over Mens Belief And Manners; can pronounce a Saint 1 buA Idolatrous, or Ignorant, When fuperciliously he fifts Thro' coursest Boulter others Gifts. For all Men live and judge amifs Whose Talents jump not just with his. HOT He'll lay on Gifts with Hands, and place A On dulleft Noddle Light and Grace, The Manufacture of the Kirk, Whofe Paftors are but th' Handy-work From whence they start up chofen Veffels, At t'other End the new-made Pope. Hold, hold, quoth Hudibras, Soft Fire, They say, does make fweet Malt. Good Squire, Feftina lente, not too faft For hafte (the Proverb fays) makes wafte: And Figure, to be understood. I'll force you by right Ratiocination, To leave your Vitilitigation, And make you keep to th' Question close, The The Question then, to state it firft, For tho' they do agree in Kind, Specifick Difference we find And can no more make Bears of these, Το To cenfure, curfe, abfolve and ordain, But yet we are befides the Queftion, That Bears are Beafts, and Synods, Men, I For Bears and Dogs on four Legs go, 3 Grows o'er the Hide of Prefbytero Or that, his Snout and fpacious Ears A Do hold proportion with a Bear's. A Bear's a favage Beaft, of all, .1 Moft Ugly and Unnaturali;; anif Brod D Whelpt without Form, until the Damnit!A Has lickt into Shape and Frame CT But T A |