A Justification of the Synod of Sion Colledge, against
those, who say they have sate long, and done nothing.
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THe Synod who dare to controule,
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That sit in Sion house,
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The people lookt for mountaines, but,
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They have brought forth a mouse:
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Each man four shillings hath a day,
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And do you think theyl lack ho,
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When everie man has so much pay,
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To drink Wine and Tobacco.
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The Synod have full four years sate
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To find out a Religion,
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Yet to conclude, they know not what,
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They want a new Edition.
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Say all wise men, what shall we be,
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Brownists, or else Presbyters,
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Of the Antinomian Heresie,
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Or Independent-Fighters:
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Shall we be harmlesse Adamites,
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And weare no cloathes upon us,
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Or shall we be base Catamites,
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And damne Religion from us.
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The Synod have etc.
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Shall we be brave Apostolicks,
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Or else all turne mad Arrians,
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Or shall we leave such cursed tricks
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And bee Episcoparians:
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Shall wee be of the Sect of Love,
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And meet in upper roomes,
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And doe as doth the Spirit move,
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When as the Sisters comes.
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The Synod have etc.
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Or shall we bee, as late we were,
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For Government and Order,
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And have a King and Monarchie
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With Courts, the truth to further:
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Shall we have Musick now and Copes,
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And kneel as we were wonted,
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Instead of Presbyterian Popes,
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Have Common-Prayer chaunted.
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The Synod have etc.
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5.
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Pray tell us, what you do intend,
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For, weed be something faine,
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Will you our former errours mend,
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Or for one give us twaine.
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Pray somthing now unto us shew,
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Give us the bad, or better:
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Or what is old, or what is new,
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And each will be your debter.
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The Synod, etc.
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6.
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I wonder much, that you should want
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Your learning, being huge,
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You having that same Usurer,
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Ycleped Doctor G------
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But he good man is neare his end,
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The bell now for him toles,
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Black-Friers poore have praid for him,
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Ere since he sold them coles.
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The Synod, etc.
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7.
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Methinks, the place should help you make
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Some truth for to relie on,
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How heavenly King David spake,
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When as he dwelt in Sion.
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But it may be, in that your place
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Things cannot well be scand;
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Why then I wish you fild that house
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Is in the holy Land.
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The Synod, etc.
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8.
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The Anabaptists are content
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You should sit there for ever,
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And say ast please the Parliament,
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While they dip in the River:
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The Brownists sure well pleased are,
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To adde unto your pay,
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The Familists do domineere,
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Because you nothing say.
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The Synod have etc.
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9.
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The Independents do rejoyce,
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They now have won the field,
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They say it is the Armies voice,
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The Presbyters must yeeld:
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Now Case must unto Goodwin stoop,
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And Calamie to Dell,
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The Presbyters like rushes droop,
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O this is wondrous well.
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The Synod, etc.
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10.
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Some say, like Tinkers you have dealt,
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Who mending of a kettle,
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Do make two more then ere were felt,
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Or els things will not whittle.
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And under a most good pretence,
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That we should find much ease,
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Religion quite is fled from hence,
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Pray cure us this disease.
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The Synod, etc.
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11.
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Dub-dapper Sydrach Sympfon now
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Like unto Simia flickers;
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A deep and dread revenge doth vow,
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On the Schoolmaster Vicars.
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And Edwards, that same Hercules,
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Will now write his Gangraena,
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And therein praise the Sectaries,
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The like was never seen-a.
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The Synod, etc.
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12.
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The Army sweare, they will have none
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But Independents sway,
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And that the Presbyters each one
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In office tother day;
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And voted one day, and then nuld,
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And then voted againe,
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Shall all out of the House be puld,
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The others onely raigne.
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The Synod, etc.
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13.
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And now farewell O Synod brave,
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It is in vaine to think,
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We a Religion ere shall have,
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While that your pockets chink.
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Four shillings evry day, besides
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Your greazie Benefices,
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Makes you to have inlarged sides,
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But puls the truth in pieces.
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The Synod have full foure yeares sate,
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To finde out a Religion:
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Yet to conclude they know not what,
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They want a new Edition.
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