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B03529 A supplement to The asses complaint against Balaam; or The cry of the country against ignorant and scandalous ministers.; Asses complaint against Balaam Griffin, Lewis. 1661 (1661) Wing G1984; Interim Tract Supplement Guide C.20.f.4[8] 953 1

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A SUPPLEMENT TO THE Asses Complaint against Balaam Or the Cry of the COUNTRY AGAINST Ignorant and Scandalous Ministers A Vaunt ye smooth-Tongu'd flatterers of the age Praesto ye meal-mouth'd Prophets clear the Stage Enter the Asse again who though he Kneel Unto the Higher Pow'rs lifts up his Heel Against all those who make Gods house a Den Of * It hath been a Den of Lay Theeves too long already Clergy Theeves Have at them once agen But hark I hear a Country Parish crye Were ever Christians in such slavery Must we be taught by an Illit'rate Bear Hee Preach Hee 'l only teach our Boyes to swear Is then your Priest a Swearer Hah must he That taunts a Bishop taste a Pillory And 't is but Just and right Yet who controules Him who Blasphemes the Bishop of our Souls What Is an oath lesse poenal then a word Or is the Servant greater then his Lord No He that swears commits the fouler Sin And more deserves to lose his eares then 'T is true Seditious Spirits that Deny Obedience to the Sacred Hierarchy Merit Severe Correction let them hae't They 'r the Disturbers both of Church and State Yet Praelat's Zeal would be much better shown In striking Gods offenders then their own Nay Gods are theirs for he that wears lawn sleeves Like Christ is murder'd 'twixt a brace of Theeves Both shew their enmity but Divers wayes The Presbyter Denyes but This betrayes Now tell me gentle Reader which were Greater The sin of Judas or the crime of Peter Then let the Bishops cast them out for thus They do but Justice to themselves and us Like the wise Mariners who to appease The fury of the raging VVinds and Seas Threw Jonas over-board such was hi●● There was no Cannon Law to keep him in Nor is it reason all should be maintain'd I' th Church who took Degrees and were Ordain'd For He that after proves a Drunken Beast Degrades himselfe from Man much more from Priest And such they were who caus'd our Bloody War When Levy's tribe were kick'd by Issacar For though Men speak with a not so my Sons Yet God reprov'd them with the voice of Guns Phanaticks those Philistins wan the field Whilst our poor Israel were forc'd to yield For Eli's boyes had lost the Ark of God Each Phinehas begat an Ichabod Then Oh ye Bishops heal these sad disasters We do not call for Rectors but for Pastors A Priest should lead his Parish as a guide Not leap upon their galled backs and ride For 't is our Mother Churche's grand disgrace That these black patches stick upon her face Written by Lewis Griffin