EBBA 31379
British Library - Roxburghe
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The GOOD CHRISTIANS Complaint;
OR,
Poor CHARITYs Languishing Lamentation in a late long and tedious Winter;
Seeing Pride, Envy, Hatred, Malice, with many other Vices, Nourishd like Darlings in the Bosome of Mankind
whilst Love and Mercy, Truth and Charity, did unregarded Wander like strange Pilgrims.
Concluding with a Seasonable Exhortation to a Christian Life.
Licensed according to Order.
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AS Truth was passing through the open Street,
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It was his chance poor Charity to meet,
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Distressed in the bitter Frost and Snow,
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And for Relief she knew not where to go.
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Grief sate Enthrond between her careful Brows,
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[For there was few that] woud her Cause [espou]se[;]
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If Charity amongst the Sons of Men,
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Was freely entertaind, how happy then
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Would Christians be, theyd readily forgive
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All Wrongs, and here in Love and Friendship live.
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But Vice instead of Vertues M[en] receive,
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Which causes Charity to [sigh a]nd gr[ieve;]
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Then what becomes o[f Grandieur], State and Pride,
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And all the Glories of the World beside?
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They lye within the limits of a Shroud,
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Then why should Man, poor Mortal Man, be Proud?
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Yet some against the R[ule]s of solid Sense
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[Will nourish Pride, theres none shall then convince;]
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