The SECOND PART of
The Loyal Subject's
LITANY.
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FRom measuring Devotion with Beads or with Sand,
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In a Language or Phrase that we don't understand;
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From a Preacher with Reliques or Spoons in his hand,
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Libera nos Domine.
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From stripping Religion to avoid the Excesses
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Of a cumbersom Ruff, and a Collar of SS;
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From His Holiness, and Their Holinesses,
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Libera nos Domine.
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From Plot upon Plot, which no Herald admits,
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Nor any Man else that is well in his Wits;
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From Conscience that comes like an Ague, by Fits,
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Libera nos Domine.
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From the Pope in One Stick, or the Pope in a Faggot;
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From the Catholick Worm, and Schismatical Maggot;
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From such as swear round to keep what they ha' got,
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Libera nos Domine.
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From Penance reformed to a Stool of Repentance;
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From a new Inquisition to aid the Tridentines,
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And the Savager Courts where the Godly give Sentence,
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Libera nos Domine.
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From setting Christ's Vicar to teaze his Vicegerent;
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From the Saints in whom the same Sin is inherent,
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The best Friends he has, though they seldom appear in't,
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Libera nos Domine.
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From St. Omers Consult, and a Leyden Cabal,
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Inveterate Foes both to Pauls and Whitehall;
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From a Plot pro and con, like a Tennis-ball,
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Libera nos Domine.
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From the Roman Disease, and Geneva Physician;
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From admitting Prophaneness to purge Superstition;
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From Raviliacks or Bradshaws Commission,
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Libera nos Domine.
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From taking the Covenant, or baulking the Test;
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From both the Renouncers when th' are but in jest;
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From the Pope's hatching Eggs in a Presbyter's Nest,
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Libera nos Domine.
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From the Godly Disguises of Cropping and Shaving,
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The different Ear-marks of Fooling and Knaving,
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Though both can do both for the sake of Soul-saving,
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Libera nos Domine.
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From a Jesuit transformed to a Sanctified Elder,
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And cursing Romes Church [to] her dear Hans-en-Kelder;
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From hugging her Brats, and yet hope w' ave expell'd her,
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Libera nos Domine.
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From the Mass and the Directory bound in one Volumn;
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From the Trent Conventicle, and the Dort What d'e call 'um;
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From the Votaries of Saints, & those that Peter 'um Paul 'um,
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Libera nos Domine.
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From transforming a Cowl to an a-la-mode Jump;
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From the Jusuit's Bucket in the Minister's Pump;
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From a Representative Monster, that's all over Rump,
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Libera nos Domine.
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