Horses Besides all these the greatest of her losses Will be the Bodies and the Souls of men The Merchandize of which she loseth then Then will they her bewail and much lament Her loss so great her woful punishment Saying those fruits her foul had thirsted for Those dainties are departed quite from her Them goodly things she cannot find at all For which her Merchants will so cry and bawl Who were made rich by her and they shall stand Afar off weeping for her great loss and For fear of her great torments they shall say Alas alas how great is thy decay Thou City great that clothed was so gay In Linnen fine most rich and brave array As Purple Scarlet deckt with Gold so brave And precious stones which thou wast wont to have And Pearls Alas but now all 's gone Oh how Thy glory 's lost and in an hour thou That wast so rich the riches thou hast got Are lost and gone and are quite come to nought The Masters of her ships shall weep also The company in ships when they shall know That Babylon the great is down and spoil'd For whom they have so greatly toil d and moil'd The Sailers likewise and as many as Did trade by sea shall stand and cry Alas And stand afar off too when they shal see Her smoke arise and shal amazed be Saying What City is like unto this For greatness riches mightiness I wis They now with mourning weeping wailing and With throwing dust upon their heads they stand Admiring how that all her costliness By which her Leaders riches did possess And all her Masters that fail'd in the sea Should in an hour all thus destroyed be And she he made an utter desolation That was the pride and glory of her Nation We then by holy Scripture find and see This scarlet Whore shall thus rewarded be And how her dreadful fall shall be lamented By all her Traders which have not repented But at this time when these lament her so And weep and mourn because of her great wo The Heav'ns shall be commanded forthwith all For to rejoice ore her and at her fall So shall Apostles be commanded straight With all those Prophets that this Whore did hate Now to rejoice ore her because they see That God on her will now avenged be They sing his praise the praises of that God Who hath destroy'd and broke her with his Rod That Rod of 's strength he out of Zion sent He gave command and thither his Rod went Then wil be sung by them that Heavenly song With all those Saints and Martyrs she did wrong Those Hallelujahs with Salvation be All glory honor power unto thee O Lord our God for true and righteous are Thy Judgements on the Earth who would not fear Thee who hast judg'd the great Whore for the Nations She hath corrupted with her Fornications And thou on her and hers and on her Land Hast now avenged justly at her hand The blood of all thy faithful servants dear Whom this great Whore did never no time fear To burn in firy flames who to truth stood But now of her thou hast aveng'd their blood Then Hallelujah Praise the Lord therefore Her smoke rose up for ever evermore For which great total fall of hers let 's pray Unto the Lord that judgeth her and say Now Lord make haste and cloath the self with Zeal As with the cloak let her thy fury feel And cloath thy self with vengeance as with garments And bring her to those everlasting torments Those plagues that thou hast written in thy Book Lord in thy fury down upon her look Let all the blood that this great Whore hath shed Of holy Saints and Martyrs in that bed Of firie-flames who sweetly went to sleep Committing of their souls to thee to keep Come up to thee dear Lord upon her think And give this bloody Whore ev'n blood to drink And judge her for her great iniquitie Which great Concern O Lord we leave to thee Here followeth now a hint of that great Day That Christ shall sit upon his Throne for aye In which his Enemies shall bow the knee And unto him shall in subjection be In which his Foes shall coverd be with shame That have reproachfully spoke of his Name In which the Crown upon his head shall flourish In which Day he his Lambs will feed nourish VVHen Babylon is fallen fallen then Have at the Beast that monstrous Man of sin Which hath seven Heads ten Horns whose coming will Be after Satans power and working still A more immediate working than before Was seen to be in this great Scarlet Whore With signs and lying wonders he shall come Deceiving all the World excepting some Whose Names are written in the Book of Life These will the Lamb defend these are his Wife This man of sin shall none of them seduce It is impossible he should produce That lying-wonder that can them deceive Do all he can they will not him believe Them Christ will keep they in his strength shall stand That won't receive his mark in their right hand Nor in their foreheads nor this Beast adore Nor fall down to his Image which before Was and was not yet is and which shall be Much wonder'd after when the world shall see His Prophet call for fire down from Heav'n And cause the Image of the Beast with seven Heads and ten Horns to speak and then to cause As many as would not obey his Laws And worship him likewise this is decreed They must be kill'd whoe're they be with speed With these his wonders he will much deceive All men on earth that won't the truth believe Or did not truth receive with love to it Upon all such this dreadful doom is writ Who pleasure took in all unrighteousness Shall all be damn'd for their lasciviousness This Beast Christ shall defeat and soon annoy The brightness of his coming shall destroy This rampant Beast who glories in his strength Shall so confounded be that he at length And his false Prophet Jesus Christ shall take And cast them both alive into the Lake And then O then that blessed Prince alone Shall reign and be exalted on his Throne For then an Angel he shall send to bind And chain up Satan who the world did blind And them deceive but Satan then no more Shall able be men to deceive before A thousand years be fully come and ended That time from him all men shall be defended But some may here object to me and say Christ now doth sit upon his Throne to day Did yesterday to morrow will and still For ever did and doth and ever will In order therefore to their satisfaction That are propounders of this old objection 'T is granted Christ now sits upon a Throne But this he now sits on is not his own For 't is his Father's Throne he now sits in So properly his own it hath not bin As 't is his Fathers for himself hath said 'T is
the Reward his Father hath him paid For that most great and glorious victory He did obtain ore Death when he did dye He overcame and sate down on the Throne With God his Father so shall ev'ry one That overcomes sit down with him and be Plac't in the Throne of Christ by vvhich vve see As God the Father hath his Throne so shall Our blessed Jesus have his Throne an'all From vvhence vve learn that certainly 't is so That Christ sits on a Throne his Father 's tho And so as true and certain also 't is There is another Throne that vvill be his Of vvhich most glorious Throne I am to speak VVhich vvill that other Throne in pieces break That throne I mean the Pope and Beast sits on I do not mean the throne God sits upon And therefore that I might not tedious be I 'le fall upon it straight novv presently A Throne in Scripture vve read of that shall As an Inheritance to Jesus fall It is the promise of the Father he Shall one day sit thereon exalted be To rule the Nations with an Iron Rod This shall be given to him by his God For 't is the Covenant his Father made With him that he as I before have said Should sit and rule upon the Throne for ever Of David dispossest he shall be never When once the throne he doth and shall obtain He then will ever govern rule and reign The Prophet Esay did this truth foresee That Jesus Christ should thus exalted be To us saith he a Child is born a Son Is given unto us there shall upon His shoulders be the Government his Name Shall called be the Wonderful for Fame A Counsellor the mighty God the Prince Of Peace the everlasting Father hence It is his Government shall still encrease For of his Government nor of his Peace There is no end upon the Kingdom and The Throne of David he shall sit his hand Shall hold the Scepter and he Davids Kingdom Will rule and order shall with so much wisdom And shall establish it with Judgement and With Justice too likewise throughout the Land That henceforth and for ever if shall be The zeal of God the Lord of Hosts shall see This done his zeal shall this perform and then Our blessed Lord shall rule and reign and when He sits upon his Throne the Throne of David Then shall the Seed of Abraham be saved If this be truth as doubtless but it is I think there 's few that lives so wicked is Plain Scripture to deny except it be The Pope of Rome that whorish State and he That saith he hath got such a Light within That sheweth what is not and what is sin The first indeed as I before have said The Scriptures by command and threats have laid Aside that no man dares in them to look Nor scarce at I have shewn no other Book The other saith the Scriptures he don't need He hath a Light with which he can both read And see and know what 's good and what is bad And should if he the Scriptures never had These both a crafty subtile trick have got That none may do or say what they think not Agrees with eithers mind or interest But I to heed the Scriptures think it best But to go on this is but by the by Yet I do think and know they must the lye Give to the Scripture that will not believe Or do deny that Christ the Throne shall have That throne of David and his Kingdom sway And that the Nations ever shall obey His Laws and Precepts so his will shall even Be done on earth as now 't is done in Heav'n But that I may this truth yet further clear Which is so precious lovely and so dear To all that wait and long and love to see That Christ alone should thus exalted be See what Jehovah unto David said Who by an Oath a Covenant had made With David That unto his Seed for ever His throne he would establish and would never Break that same Oath that Covenant that Word That is gone forth out of his mouth the Lord Once swore to David by his Holiness That he his Seed for evermore would bless And should endure for ever and his Throne As long at there was either Sun or Moon By Davids seed must needs be understood The seed of Faith for there 's no likelihood That any other seed should keep his throne For after the Messiah came was none Of Davids nat'ral seed that did possess His Throne or Kingdom yet nevertheless The oath God swore to him was that for ever His seed should sit upon his throne and never Be dispossest thereof But now it 's plain His throne is empty til it shall again By Christ be mounted who God wil enthrone And set thereon he is that Seed and none But he and those that he then shall now hath Made one with him through Grace not Works but Both he and they together shall sit down On Davids throne and wear a glorious Crown-Faith We find that Peter in the Acts confirms This exposition fully in plain terms Knowing saith he that God had sworn an Oath Which cannot be a fable but a truth That of the fruit of Davids loyns should be According to the flesh undoubtedlie Christ should be rais'd to sit on Davids Throne This Peter saith I am not then alone If neither he nor I you will believe What wil you then an Angel now receive By whom this exposition likewise shall Confirmed be from Heaven I think then all Wil be content more of this truth to hear There 's some it love though others do it fear The Angel Gabril who from God was sent Unto a City nam'd Naz'reth he went Unto a Virgin ' spoused to a man He named Joseph was the line down ran From David unto him the Virgins name Was Mary unto whom the Angel came And her salute with saying to her Hail Thou highly favour'd blessed woman shal Conceive thy womb shall now bring forth a Son And thou shalt call his Name when he is born JESVS he shall be great and called be The Son of the Most High undoubtedlie God shall to him the throne of David give And on it he shall sit and ever live And ore the House of Jacob ever reign His Kingdom shall for evermore remain For of if there shall never be an end This God to do doth certainly intend If Peter were a man none could afford To Credit yet methinks an Angels word All men should credit out of doubt believe What they do speak from heaven and all receive What they do say as well as part or some For part of this believed is by Rome To wit that Christ was of a virgin born Though they believe God won't on earth his horn Exalt yet he the horn of his Anointed Wil sure lift up for so he hath appointed I here conclude it is a certain truth That Christ shal come and reign here on
attended with such danger In thy own native Country nay that place That very City which with such disgrace Hath thee abur'd with such contempt and scorn In which thou were both bred brought up born Who should of right a Mother be to thee And thou her Child defend from injurie And from whose breasts thou shouldst such nourishment And not from her sustain such detriment As thou hast done and still art like to do If she so much degenerate into A Monster so unnatural and strong Without all pity to devour her young If thou hadst unto her some Rebel bin Then justly might she punish thee for sin If thou by Oaths hadst made her Land to mourn That were a thing she ought not to have born Or hadst thou by such foul debauchery Her glory blemish'd with such infamy As some have done she ought not to refrain From such Corrections as might thee restrain Or hadst thou given any cause unto Her righteously or justly to pursue Thee at this rate as for some time she'th done Then let her never own thee for her son But cast thee off as one to be rejected And nevermore by her to be respected But if thou hast in nothing her offended Nor any evil to her hast intended If thou hast rather laboured her to save From those great Evils which God's Judgements have Been threatned long against her glory then Why should she evilly intreat thee when Thou speak'st somtimes yet keepst within thy station Against her sins sin shameth any Nation And will at length bring down that dreadful Wrath Of that just God whose Judgments on the Earth Have oft been manifested on such places To do uncleanness who have set their faces And have rejected counsel who did harden Their hearts like to a stone such God won't pardon Though he will suffer long and presently Don't rain down Fire and Brimstom from on high As once he did on Sodom who the strangers That Lot receiv'd who like devouring rangers The Angels hunted for about Lot's door Until they smitten were with blindness sore Nor would they hearken unto Lot's advice But griev'd his foul persisted in such vice That did from Heav'n bring down God's Wrath c. Ire Consum'd they were with his eternal Fire Dost thou to London do such injury When thou reprovd'st her sins so modestly That no exceptions justly can be taken To that end too that London might awaken And from her sins return repent and live And never more such great occasion give To God whose Wrath revealed is from Heav'n Against all such unrighteousness of men That Truth withhold in all unrighteousness And live in every kind of viciousness As she hath done for many years and doth By crying sins call down for God's great Wrath And is there any way she can prevent The Wrath of God except she do repent Then is not he her friend that doth reprove Her for her crying sins so much in love To her and hers that alwayes prayes she may Be kept from those sore plagues that ev'ry day Hangs ore her head and will for certain be Upon her on a sudden and then she May cry Alas would we had counsel taken We had not then been now of God forsaken But if for what thy duty is she do Become so far thy enemy and foe To persecute thee for 't yet more and more And use thee ten times worse than heretofore She did yet go thou on and never cease To cry aloud and spare not speak no peace To such as hate reproof and such as take Delight in serving sin else may'st thou make Thy self partake with them as guilty be As they are of their own iniquity For so doth duty bind and love to those Who for thy love are now become such foes To thee that how to ruine thee they seek And quite undo thy Wife and Children eke Though badly they require thy love and pains As for to let thee have no better gains Yet this will comfort be unto thee still That God will recompence thy wrongs and will For what thou dost in love to him reward Thee for 't and will assuredly regard Thy sighs and groanings which are secretly Put up to him into his ears they fly His heart they move his piercing eyes to pity But Wo will be to the oppressing City VVhat ere the usage be thou meetst with here It can't be worse than what thy Saviour dear Did find and meet with from the hands of them That were his Country-men for unto him They gave but sorry entertainment too Although the best they had was but his due For him they stigmatiz'd with names so bad They said he had a Devil and was mad And call'd him Belzebub they were so bold Much more then will they them of his houshold The Servant is not greater than his Lord. If they no better welcome could afford To give to him that was the Lord of all Thy entertainment then can be but small Who art a stranger in thy Country now A Freeman yet a Foreigner then how Canst thou expect to be accommodated Where thou a stranger art and so much hated By such as don't thee know nor can't thee love Because thou art a Child born from above And yet thou dost no more require alas Than quietly in peace along to pass Unto the most Celestial Canaan No injury thou 't do to any man No bread thou dost not seek to have or eat But what 's thine own no nor no other meat Their Gold nor Silver neither dost thou crave As for their Honour none of it thou 't have And yet like Esau they prove so unkind Thou canst not through this world a passage find To go in peace without the fear of danger Unto that Country where thou art no stranger But go thou must there is no remedy 'T is but a folly by the way to lye Shouldst thou go back and from that Country run Take opportunity for to return Back to the vomit or unto the mire As thou maist many have if thou desire To live at ease and take thy pleasure here But then be sure thou 't lose the glory there And like to Esau fall to so much dotage To sell thy Birthright for a mess of pottage Thenf or a Pilgrim stranger thy self take Thou art no other no provision make But what may serve thee in thy journey here That is enough then take no further care Consider here no biding-place hast thou No City that continue will then how Shouldst thou that care that is inordinate Cast off lest thou shouldst surfeit with it strait Or it be in thee like to weeds and thorns Far worse then all the cruel mocks and scorns That thou maist meet with in this pilgrim-state From all the Seed of Ishmael who hate The free-born Children and the heav'nly Seed Which do the Land of Promise chiefly heed But cast thy care on God and be content With Food and Rayment which he hath thee sent And
as a Father go before the sheep And feed them well and them from danger keep From being by the crafty Fox annoy'd Or by the Lyon or the Wolf destroy'd And he that is the chiefest Shepherd will Such Shepherds certainly reward so well They shall not once from him receive a frown Nor triple Mitre but of life a Crown By what is said we may already find The Lordly Pope is of another mind Than Peter was for he no Lord would be Nor no man else that was in his degree Which proves the Pope as you may clearly see To have no Primitive Antiquity For there no Popes nor Cardinals were then Nay Christ forbids such Lords should be for when He was upon the earth a charge left he With his Disciples that they should not be Lordly nor lofty as when men do meet Them in the Market-place they should them greet Nor must they suffer any of them to call Rabby for Christ was Master ore them all No nor must they presume by no means neither To call a man upon the Earth their Father For they no Father have on earth but one Which is in Heaven their Father is alone Nor no preheminence must any seek But holy humble they must be and meek For he that doth exalt himself shall be Abas'd so much our Lord hath said That he That will be greatest 't is his will he shall No Master be but servant to them all Indeed the Princes of the Gentiles do Dominion exercise ore men 't is true And such as Lords and one that 's greatest he Did exercise ore them authority But Christ's Disciples must not Lord it so If any seek such power he must know This is the mind of Christ that such men should Be ministers unto the rest that would Keep faithful in the place which Christ hath set Them in and ne're such honor seek to get And further Paul unto the Corinths saith That they had no dominion ore their Faith Nor were they Lords but helpers of their joy They stood by Faith then would they not destroy That Faith that Jesus Christ unto them gave For there is no man on the earth can have Dominion over Faith but Christ alone For that Prerogative is his and none But he can lay such claim unto the same Though Pope or call'd by any other name And yet this lofty proud imperious Whore Assumes this great Prerogative and more She doth by force presume to contradict That precious Faith the Faith of Gods elect Nay such she saith is her Authority That Kings and Princes she dares to defie Which Peter never had then this if true She Peters Faith and Practice never knew And therefore it concluding is that Rome Hath not Antiquity beyond what some Now living have who in the Faith now be That Peter had those have Antiquity The next thing which we chiefly are to heed Is her Succession she doth also plead And saith from Peter 't was she did receive Her great Commission if you 'l her believe And that from him and since down all along Which she will prove by arguments so strong That none shall them oppose her reasons are So wicked strong indeed that no man dare As for her arguments the best are these If any Rome oppose or her displease Away with him unto the Inquisition Or take him Gaoler grant him no permission Of any Liberty but keep him from His Friends or those that unto him would come And keep him there close up some months or years And then he will conform be fill'd with fears Of worser things that after will ensue If all these fail and none of them will do Then out she brings that argument at last That is the strongest and that keeps them fast Unto the question answer Yea or no Will you conform or to the Fire go The strongest argument Rome hath is Fire Which is confuted when Saints do expire In flames as Witnesses of Christ against Her Usurpation Darkness Ignorance That she hath introduc'd and caus'd to be Committed ever since the time that she A right did plead or claim unto Succession As she pretends to Peters great Commission But also unto this we do reply She doth not him succeed the reason why Is very clear exceeding plain that she A Successor of Peter cannot be Because that none but those of Peters Faith Can him succeed or that from Peter hath Receiv'd Commission or Authority To be a Bishop or to use thereby The Pow'r of Christ to rule or take the care Of peoples souls such men must make no spare Of pains nor labour neither should they please Themselves nor live in pleasure nor at ease Nor pomp and state nor have things as they will But must deny themselves if they 'l fulfil Their Ministry with joy which they receiv'd Of Jesus Christ in whom they have believ'd And ready be to offer up their All For him and for his Flock if God should call Them forth to such a service and a work Them to defend against the Pope or Turk Defend I say by sound and wholsome preaching Of gospel-Gospel-truths and them confirm by teaching To let them understand to see and know What great Impostors there 's at Rome and show Their great prophaneness and their filthy pride Idolatry and cruelty beside But as I said Succession no man hath But such as follow Christ and keep the Faith That precious Faith which Peter had and none But that which Christ did build his Church upon For those that do succeed in that true Faith They and no other true Succession hath Which all impartial men may clearly see By what Paul writeth unto Timothy This charge he gives to Timothy That all The things that Timothy had heard of Paul Among those many witnesses that he Did Faith and Truth confirm to Timothy The same he did receive he must commit To faithful men for so Paul thought it fit And not to men that had not Faith nor such That erred from the Faith or thought it much To feed the Flock except they had the wool And would make war except their mouths were full But unto such whose lives were commendable And who to teach the Truth were very able That they likewise to other faithful men Should give the self-same charge as Paul did then That down along none should succeed but he That kept the Faith From time to time you see From what is said it doth appear so plain That there doth no Succession now remain In Rome because Rome now hath wrackt and lost The Faith of Peter whereof she doth boast For she that Faith hath often stigmatiz'd With such defame and hath apostatiz'd That long ago she her Succession lost And Christ withall she chang'd him for the Host Which now she doth adore and fall down to And therefore let us give the Whore her due If any one there be she doth succeed It is the Serpent for she doth proceed So fully in his ways and paths she goes
pure mind for then Came they to any by the will of men Besides the holy Scripture is the thing That doth unto our understandings bring The knowledge of that holy Mystery Which hath been kept from Ages secretly Ere since the world began but now are made Known by the Scriptures of the Prophets aid According to the great Commandement Of God who did and hath those Prophets sent That he by them might make known what he saith To Nations for obedience to the Faith Yet notwithstanding this besotted crew Doth say there is more to their Fathers due Than to the Scripture that they might men blind So darken and becloud the hearts and mind Of those they have so much deceiv'd that so They should not their Abominations know But Paul might sure as well believed be As any Cardinal or Pope or he That is the greatest Champion they ere had For sure in their conceit he wa'nt so bad But he might be believ'd as soon as they And yet when ever Paul did preach or pray He would do neither in the speech or tongue When he did either pray or preach among Such men who could his speech not understand But did declare the truth in plainness and When he and Silas to Berea went They being thither by the Brethren sent To preach the Gospel to them of that place Preach there they did the Gospel of the Grace Of God to sinners where were some so noble Though Paul was authoriz'd and very able To preach yet would they not him trust for they More noble were than Thessalonica Because they search'd the Scriptures there to find If Paul did preach according to the mind Of Jesus Christ they search the Scriptures so That they might satisfie themselves and know The truth of what was preach'd or whether he Had preacht to them the Truth they would not be Content to take 't on trust but to 't they go To try whether those things were so or no. This deed recorded is a mark of their Nobility because they did not spare To reade and search the Scriptures as appears Which Rome forbids to do 't is that she fears So plain that none can well the truth deny Except it be the Whore who doth defie The man that doubts or shall in question call Her filthy lies her great deceits though all Of them be so direct contrary to The holy Scriptures one would marvel who Could be so blind that cannot find and see That she their souls deludes and that they be Led by the nose to such a pit and snare That if they do not take a special care And from her flee they will no doubt partake Of all those plagues that will her overtake Christ did command the Jews when he was here To search the Scriptures for the Scriptures are Those holy Records that did testifie Of him and how that he should come and dye Be of a Virgin born and how that he Should for our sakes and sins abased be Laid in a manger so impoverishe'd As not to have whereon to lay his head And should receive both scoffs scorns from men Be brought before their Judgment-seat and then Be crucifi'd and for poor sinners slain And them to justifie be rais'd again And how he was by his Disciples seen After he three dayes in the grave had been And after that ascended up on high Into his Fathers Throne above the Skie Where now he intercedes for them that are His faithful Followers all them that fear His holy Name that do depart from evil And from the Pope his deeds from the Devil Where now he also sits expecting when His Foes God will his footstool make and then He shall descend to judge both quick and dead Why should the Whore the Scripture then forbid Except it be because she would not have Men know the Truth but be to her a slave For if Rome had the Truth be sure those scorners Would never hide the Truth Truth seeks no corners But further Paul doth Timothy commend Because he when a child his mind did bend And give himself to search the Scriptures so That he thereby the mind of God did know He such a good proficient soon became By reading or the study of the same If Paul then doth commend and will allow A Child to search and reade the Scripture how Dares Rome to be so impudent and bold The Scriptures then from any to withhold For all the Scripture was by inspiration Given of God to ev'ry Generation And profitable is for Doctrine eke For to reprove correct instruct the meek In Righteousness they able are we know To make one wise unto Salvation tho They are rejected by two sorts of men Concerning one I shall not use my pen At this time what I may hereafter do I will not say but this I know is true The Scripture ought to be a Rule to thee Thy duty 't is to make it so to be If thou unto Perfection wouldst attain The Word of God will perfect thee amain Or if thou wouldst be throughly furnisht well To all good works let me thee one thing tell Live in the Light and Spirit of the Word And thou shalt find it will such help afford Thou wilt be furnished so thorowly To all good works thou 't flee iniquity But if thou dost the Scripture once reject And disesteem it under what respect So-e're it be thou 't find my words are true For what I say I by experience knew Thou then art made so fit as fit may be For Satans Ministers to work on thee What pleaseth them thou wilt to Error fall And lose thy Faith and Hope and Christ and all But to return It seems without the Books Of Romes great learned Doctors let their looks Be nere so high yet this we find and know The Scripture's of ability to show Such saving Truths there is no want of trash That comes from Rome their rubbish nor hog-wash Nor of their Superstitions that are found From sacred Scripture to receive no ground But may we not by this time understand What is the reason Rome doth so command Her subjects all the Scripture to reject That they to it dare give no more respect Now without doubt we have the reason why It is because her beastly Sodomy Should not by any once perceived be For should they reade the Scriptures they would see Her nakedness and all her filthy trade And that her gods are such her-self hath made And yet to see that men should be so blind So willingly deceiv'd that they ne're mind The holy Scripture nor no other Book There 's none of them that scarcely dares to look In any such that she doth not allow For them to use a man would wonder how Men can part with their souls at such a rate As they lose theirs some say it is their fate Or destiny for God did once decree That men should sin and thus deluded be But 't is not so God ne'r decreed no evil