Where thousands fell in fhapes of Fees,

Into the Bottomlefs Abyss.

For when, like Brethren and like Friends,
They came to fhare their Dividends,
And every Partner to poffefs

His Church and State Joint-Purchases,
In which the ableft Saint and best,
Was nam'd in Truft by all the reft,
To pay their Money; and, inftead
Of ev'ry Brother pass the Deed
He ftrait converted all his Gifts,
To pious Frauds and holy Shifts,
And fettled all the others Shares
Upon his outward Man and's Heirs,
Held all they claim'd as Forfeit Lands,
Deliver'd up into his Hands,
And paft upon his Confcience,
By Pre-intail of Providence;
Impeach'd the rest for Reprobates,
That had no Title to Eftates,

But by their Spiritual Attaints
Degraded from the Right of Saints,.-

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This being reveal'd they now begun
With Law and Confcience to fall on
And laid about as hot and brain-fick
As th' Utter Barrister of Swanfwick;
Engag'd with Money-bags, as bold
As Men with Sand-bags did of old;
That brought the Lawyers in more Fees,
Than all unfanctifi'd Trustees

Till he who had no more to show
I' th' Cause, receiv'd the Overthrow,
Or Both fides having had the worst,
They parted as they met at firft.

Poor Presbyter was now Reduc'd,
Secluded, and Cafhier'd and Chous'd,
Turn'd out, and Excommunicate
From all Affairs of Church and State,
Reform'd t'a Reformado Saint,

And glad to turn Itinerant,

To stroll and teach from Town to Town,
And those he had taught up teach down,
And make those Ufes ferve agen

Against the New-inlightned Men;

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As fit as when at first they were
Reveal'd against the Cavalier;
Damn Anabaptift and Fanatick,

As pat as Popifb and Prelatick;
And with as little Variation,

To ferve for any Sect i' th' Nation.
The Good Old Caufe, which fome believe
To be the Dev'l. that tempted Eve
With Knowledge, and does ftill invite
The World to Mischief with New Light,
Had ftore of Money in her Purfe,

When he took her for bett'r or worse;
But now was grown Deform'd and Poor,
And fit to be turn'd out of Door.
The Independants (whofe firft ftation

Was in the Rere of Reformation,

A Mungrel kind of Church-Dragoons,

That ferv'd for Horfe and Foot at once,

And in the Saddle of one Steed

The Saracen and Chriftian rid;

Were Free of ev'ry Spiritual Order,

To Preach, and Fight, and Pray and Murther)

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