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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A43934	The history of the most famous and most renowned Janny Geddes		1688 (1688)	Wing H2169A; ESTC R213462	1,717	1

The HISTORY of the most famous and most renowned JANNY GEDDES WHEN Janny Geddes well did mark Black Papery wrapt in a white Sark Just when the Service did begin The Belldam thought it all o're Sin Then up she took her folding Stool And made the Priest look like a Fool When she had almost knock'd him down Which made proud Prelates fly the Town And then such Mobbing did commence As prov'd of fatal Consequence For it produc'd that dreadful Cant The Solemn League and Covenant Which brought about so great a Change As was most wonderful and strange So when a scolding Woman mad is She 's called e're since A JANNY GEDDES Again Despotick Pow'r commencing And with all penal Laws dispensing There was set forth a Declaration To be proclaim'd all o're the Nation For universal Toleration That every one might do by Right What should seem good in their own Sight Which had they read in every Church Had left their Priest-craft in the Lurch Seven lordly Prelates then had Meeting At Lambeth-House with doleful Greeting Contriving some Way for their Glories Like sturdy Whigs more like than Tories But all their Glory was that they Petition'd in submissive Way To be excused Since they could plead it No Priest of Theirs was safe to read it Because against all Law and Reason And might be made a Sort of Treason Besides to give them all their due It was against their Interest too No Wonder then they did abhore it And suffer like true Martyrs for it But when absolv'd ●s says the Story Both for their own and Nation 's Glory It did unite both Whig and Tory Which brought about What something sad is Without the Help of Janny Geddes But lo those Prelates stood in Awe Because it was against the Law Which we 't is certain cannot plead Since Law ordains it to be read Yet we tho' Lordships disavowed And Grace to none of us allowed And tho' no Lords Spiritual Are true Arch-bishops one and all And We more gloriously than They In Spite of Law do boldly say We neither can nor will obey Shall we submit to Laymens Laws Such Champions for The good old Cause No sure For till We say Amen They 'll find such Laws are all in vain They might as well presume to teach Our Presbyters to pray and preach As penal Laws to make Us read It sets the Lubies well indeed Christ only is Our supreme Head. But tho' Christ bids us when We pray No vain Tautologies to say And does direct a Form of Pray'r Which GOD will most delight to hear Yet ' cause it stints the Spirit 's Aid Ev'n Christ himself is not obey'd How can they think then we 'll obey Either to read or preach or pray What saucy Laymen bid us say No Form of Words that can be made Scarce ev'n The Bible must be read In Presbyterian Kirks we say Because 't is the Prelatick Way And ev'n The Creed and Ten Commands ' Cause us'd in proud prelatick Lands Are banished by Presbytry Which can't endure Morality When lawful Pow'rs make lawful Laws Which we think for our Kirk and Cause Their Pow'rs of God we then allow it But otherwise we disavow it They render us incapable We 'll let them know our Principle Is that whoever did ordain it It 's Sacrilege we will maintain it For by late Laws of Presbytrie When two or three or four agree Then a Secession we can make Both from the Kirk and from the State And Church Judicatories be When we think fit whilst we agree And should they make it even High Treason Spite of all Law and Sense and Reason They 'll find that we will be so bold Our Benefices still to hold For tho' all Powers by GOD appointed It 's we that make the LORD 's Anointed And so they 'll find old Samuel made Saul King But when he disobey'd The Prophet made the King to bend And ' cause he did the Mantle rend Therefore he rent the Kingdom from him And then great Vengeance fell upon him Since then the Seer set Saul aside To give the Right to Judah's Tribe And since it 's so that we do make 'em They'd best take Care least we forsake 'em And leave them as the Prophet did To What the Deil puts in their Head. We scorn all Mitres Crowns and Copes Yet claim as much Pow'r as the Popes And can proclaim whene'er we will Now To your Tents O Israel If they had not at all decreed it That we should be compell'd to read it We might have read it if we wou'd But no Compulsion e'er did good Except when we think it may be For Benefit of Presbytrie But since their Law so very mad is They 'll find perhaps some Janny Geddes May make the Danger very great But let the Wisuks look to that