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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A63078	A poem occasioned by the late discontents & disturbances in the state with reflections upon the rise and progress of priest-craft / written by N. Tate.	Tate, Nahum, 1652-1715.	1691 (1691)	Wing T206; ESTC R28193	12,392	34

clear the Soul can only win With Club or Hammer try to force the Pin The Brains you may beat out ne'r drive the Notion in Absurd the Zeal that Gospel's Pow'r promotes ' Gainst Gospel Laws and Peace by cutting Throats That Faith to plant does Charity disband And break for doubtful Truths a clear Command Since first this Pest the Christian World annoy'd Since Persecuting Pow'r the Church enjoy'd Zeal marr'd Religion Creeds the Faith destroy'd PALAEMON Where Rome bears sway bid Laws Divine farewell And Human Rights t'assert is to Rebel Speak suffering Witness I appeal to Thee Thou First Apostle of our Liberty Condemn'd to Stripes Thy Crime Thou didst presume To write ' gainst Arbitrary Pow'r and Rome Didst Inferences of strange Treason draw And say 'T was Legal to defend the Law Thy envious Foes no other Crimes could urge And to confute thy Pen produc'd the Scourge PHILANDER You mention'd Constantine in whose mild Reign The harass'd Church did first her Freedom gain When Priests secure to Bishopricks aspir'd Without First-Fruits of Martyrdom requir'd Tell me How then could Cruelty intrude How came the Persecuting Plague renew'd PALAEMON Lust Riot Avarice Ambition Strife Are Bastard-off springs of too peaceful Life With nice Disputes the wanton Priests began To Envy next and wild Confusion ran Wou'd Mysteries too curiously enquire That first rais'd Smoke then set the Church on fire From brangling Arrius the first Fire-brand came PHILANDER But Constantine took care to quench the Flame PALAEMON The Nicene Fathers summon'd to decide The Strife instead of Lenitives apply'd Too late convinc'd th'indulgent Emperour How fatal 't was to trust a Priest with Pow'r PHILANDER The pious Prince to do th' Assembly Grace Refus'd I 've heard Himself to take his place 'Till they were sat 'T was favour ill apply'd If such Behaviour taught the Doctors Pride PALAEMON Then having as a Christian Monarch ought First burnt th'Invectives which the Fathers brought Against each Other and for Union press'd Thus to the Council he himself address'd God made you Priests and God alone can be Your Judge Rest therefore from my Censure free No Man shou'd judge of Gods and You are Gods to Me. PHILANDER When Princes yield the Prelate must prevail PALAEMON When e'r did Priest to take Advantage fail Forthwith Church-Censures flew as thick as Hail The Arrian Systeme to just flames assign'd And Nicene Creed with Penalties enjoyn'd They fix'd not Here but for each trifling Cause The Mettal try'd of their new Penal Laws Think how each Victor went triumphant home With Titles swell'd too bulky for his Dome From Council Orthodox and Catholick Each Hare that cross'd him was an Heretick And if his Horse but stumbl'd in his way Th'erroneous Beast incurr'd th' Anathema PHILANDER Yet since they squar'd by Rules of Sacred Writ Their Symbol you to their Decrees submit PALAEMON I own what e're the Sacred Books contain Can Mysteries believe though not explain Have none in Footsteps of first Martyrs trod And dy'd for Truth who ne'r conceiv'd the Mode Brand such as won't to Truths reveal'd agree But Penalties on such as cannot see What others can is Breach of Charity Had Charity in Synods interpos'd The Seamless Garments Breach had soon been clos'd Which to repair the wrangling Doctors try'd While Metaphysicks sacred Truths decide And by ill-botching made the Rent more wide But they had now learnt Sciences and must To their own Fame as well as Truth be Just Would Mysteries not like Mechanicks know But both the 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 and 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 show Were subtle School-men grown and to agree Had Scandal been to their Philosophy PHILANDER But tell me did these Clouds the Faith invade When first whole Nations were its Converts made PALAEMON The Faith shone clear till School-Terms rais'd like Mists Favour'd the Juggles of Imposing Priests And Councils having Scripture Bounds o're-past Advanc'd to forging of New Creeds at last Which by the Hocus of Infallible Went down so glib the Difference few could tell The Priest's Turn better serv'd and pleas'd the Crowd as well They heard how their Redeemer at his Death Did Sacred Legacies to all bequeath Which if they'd now inspect and had the Skill The Church into her Hands had got the Will For now the Laity were left i' th' Lurch Th' Encroaching Clergy were become the Church Nor stood the Magistrate on higher Ground In vain to Scripture their Appeals they found While 't was the Churches Priv'ledge to expound Thus through Indulgence Fond of such as Reign'd And through the People's Sloth th' Ascendent gain'd Romes Prelate topp'd upon her Temp'ral Pow'r And from her Priest became her Emperor With artful Baits the Fisher long had sought And Empire was the Fish at last he caught But Time and Breath and Patience too wou'd fail To count the Steps of this prodigious Scale Suffice it that at first th' Impostor gain'd By Frauds his height and by worse Frauds maintain'd Sloth Ignorance blind Zeal and blinder Fear Combin'd to level Thrones and mount the Chair PHILANDER 'T was then th' aspiring Clergy Crown'd their Hope And form'd their Church Leviathan a Pope In whom they still possess the Pow'r they give Earth's Tyrant but their Representative PALAEMON 'T is Done the Ambitious Priest has got the Day The Prelate Rules and Princes must Obey The Spiritual Lord exalted to the Skies Looks down and all the Subject World defies Does safe his Empyraean Height possess His only Care to manage his Success How to dispense his Beams to whom be kind And who shall his Malignant Aspects find To whom large Territories he shall give To whom sell Crowns and whom of Crowns deprive To Judge who best to Merit does pretend And Merit is to be the Church's Friend PHILANDER For Crimes so black that Humane Nature shockt Unpeopled Earth and Hell's Plantations stockt Th' Indulgence-Shop was ope'd with Pardons stor'd And to a Friend good pen'orths cou'd afford At th' old fixt Rates the rest their Ware must take PALAEMON But if y' are impious for the Churches sake Ev'n with their Office-Fees they can dispense They con you Thanks and Consecrate th' Offence A Cut-Throat Priest of Murder cou'd make sport From Laws protected by the Spiritual Court Kings let him Kill and blackest Treasons Act His Judges still were Parties in the Fact PHILANDER What if a Lay-Man did the Priest Offend PALAEMON An injur'd Priest or who could Wrong pretend Cry'd Burn the Heretick the ready Stake Forthwith did Pious Reparation make PHILANDER To hurt his Person made the Sentence Just ●●at the Priest said 't was Death but to mistrust PALAEMON Fear more than Wit this Tyranny enjoin'd Lest the dull Crowd at last the Cheat should find And to requite their gross pernicious Pranks Pull down their Stage and stone the Mountebanks Dull Souls with Ease are of their Rights bereav'd But none Revenge like Fools when undeceiv'd And strongest Stomachs with large Draughts opprest The last Disgusts and