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To find, in lines of beard and face,

The phyfiognomy of Grace;

And by the found and twang of nose,

If all be found within disclose;
Free from a crack or flaw of finning,
As men try pipkins by the ringing;
By black caps underlaid with white,
Give certain guess at inward light;

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Which Serjeants at the Gospel wear,

To make the Sp'ritual Calling clear,
The handkerchief about the neck

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(Canonical cravat of Smeck,!

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Ver. 1156.1 Thefe Triers pretended to great skill in this refpect; and if they difliked the beard or face of a man, they would, for that reafon alone, refuse to admit him, when prefented to a living, unless he had fome powerful friend to fupport him. "The questions "that thefe men put to the perfons to be examined "were not abilities and learning, but grace in their "hearts, and that with fo bold and faucy an inquifi❝tion, that fome men's fpirits trembled at the interro"gatories; they phrafing it fo, as if (as was faid at "the council of Trent) they had the Holy Ghost in a "cloke-bag."

Their questions generally were thefe, or fuch like, When were you converted? Where did you begin to feel the motions of the Spirit? In what year? in what month? in what day? about what hour of the day, had you the fecret call, or motion of the Spirit, to undertake and labour in the ministry? What work of grace has God wrought upon your foul? And a great many other questions about regeneration, predeftination, and the like.

Ver. 1166.] SmeƐtymans was a club of holders-forth.

Of Church-rule, and by right divine.

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Bell and the Dragon's chaplains were

More moderate than these by far :

For they (poor knaves) were glad to cheat,

To get their wives and children meat;

But these will not be fobb'd off so,

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They must have wealth and power too;

Or elfe with blood and defolation

They 'll tear it out o' th' heart o' th' nation.

Sure these themselves from primitive

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And Heathen priesthood do derive,
When Butchers were the only clerks,

Elders and Prefbyters of Kirks;
Whofe directory was to kill,

And fome believe it is fo ftill.

The only difference is, that then

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They flaughter'd only beafts, now men.

For

For then to facrifice a bullock,

Or, now and then, a child, to Moloch, 3ɔ

They count a vile abomination,

But not to flaughter a whole nation.

Presbytery does but translate

The Papacy to a free state:
A common-wealth of Popery,
Where every village is a See

As well as Rome, and muft maintain
A tithe-pig metropolitan ;

Where every Prefbyter and Deacon

Commands the keys for cheese and bacon,
And every hamlet 's governed

By 's Holiness, the Church's head,
More haughty and fevere in 's place,
Than Gregory and Boniface.

Such Church muft, furely, be a monster
With many
heads for if we confter
What in th' Apocalypfe we find,
According to th' Apoftle's mind,
'Tis that the Whore of Babylon

With many
Which heads denote the finful tribe
Of Deacon, Prieft, Lay-elder, Scribe.
Lay-elder, Simeon to Levi,
Whose little finger is as heavy
As loins of patriarchs, prince-prelate,
And bishop-fecular. This zealot
Is of a mongrel, diverse kind, 2.
Cleric before, and Lay behind;

heads did ride upon,

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A lawlefs

A lawless linfy-woolfy brother,
Half of one order, half another;
A creature of amphibious nature,
On land a beaft, a fish in water:
That always preys on grace or fin;
A fheep without, a wolf within.

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This fierce inquifitor has chief.
Dominion over men's belief

And manners; can pronounce a faint
Idolatrous or ignorant,

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At th' other end the new-made Pope.

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Hold, hold, quoth Hudibras, foft fire,

They fay, does make sweet malt. Good Squire,

Feftina lente, not too fast,

For hafte (the proverb fays) makes waste.

The quirks and cavils thou doft make

Are falfe, and built upon mistake:

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And

And I fhall bring you with your pack

Of fallacies, t'Elenchi back;

And put your arguments in mood

And figure to be understood.

I'll force you, by right ratiocination,

To leave your vitilitigation,

And make you keep to th' question close,

And argue dialectics.

The question then, to ftate it first,
Is, Which is better or which worst,
Synods or Bears? Bears I avow
To be the worst, and Synods thou;
But, to make good th' affertion,
Thou fay'st they 're really all one.
If so, not worse; for if they're idem,

Why then tantundem dat tantidem.

For if they are the fame, by course.
Neither is better, neither worse..
But I deny they are the same,
More than a maggot and I am..

That both are animalia

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That Synods are Bear-gardens, too,
Thou doft affirin; but I fay No:
And thus I prove it, in a word;
Whatsoever Affembly 's not impower'd.
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