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<NAME>Elspeth Healey</NAME>
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<STC T="T">669.f.11[76]</STC>
<BIBNO T="umi">99871628</BIBNO>
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<HEAD>A Iu&s;tification of the Synod of Sion Colledge, again&s;t tho&s;e, who &s;ay they have &s;ate long, and done nothing.</HEAD>
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<HEAD>1</HEAD>
<L>THe Synod who dare to controule,</L>
<L>That &s;it in Sion hou&s;e,</L>
<L>The people look't for mountaines, but,</L>
<L>They have brought forth a mou&s;e:</L>
<L>Each man four &s;hillings hath a day,</L>
<L>And do you think they'l lack ho,</L>
<L>When everie man has &s;o much pay,</L>
<L>To drink Wine and Tobacco.</L>
<L><HI>The Synod have full four years &s;ate</HI></L>
<L><HI>To find out a Religion,</HI></L>
<L><HI>Yet to conclude, they know not what,</HI></L>
<L><HI>They want a new Edition.</HI></L>
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<LG>
<HEAD>2.</HEAD>
<L>Say all wi&s;e men, what &s;hall we be,</L>
<L>Browni&s;ts&punc; or el&s;e Presbyters,</L>
<L>Of the Antinomian Here&s;ie,</L>
<L>Or Independent-Fighters:</L>
<L>Shall we be harmle&s;&s;e Adamites,</L>
<L>And weare no cloathes upon us,</L>
<L>Or &s;hall we be ba&s;e Cata<GAP DESC="illegible" EXTENT="1 letter">uites,</L>
<L>And damne Religion from us.</L>
<L><HI>The Synod have &amp;c.</HI></L>
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<LG>
<HEAD>3.</HEAD>
<L>Shall we be brave Apo&s;tolicks,</L>
<L>Or el&s;e all turne mad Arrians,</L>
<L>Or &s;hall we leave &s;uch cur&s;ed tricks</L>
<L>And bee Epi&s;coparians:</L>
<L>Shall wee be of the Sect of Love,</L>
<L>And meet in upper roomes,</L>
<L>And doe as doth the Spirit move,</L>
<L>When as the Si&s;ters comes.</L>
<L><HI>The Synod have &amp;c.</HI></L>
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<LG>
<HEAD>4.</HEAD>
<L>Or &s;hall we bee, as late we were,</L>
<L>For Government and Order,</L>
<L>And have a King and Monarchie</L>
<L>With Courts, the truth to further:</L>
<L>Shall we have Mu&s;ick now and Copes,</L>
<L>And kneel as we were wonted,</L>
<L>In&s;tead of Presbyterian Popes,</L>
<L>Have Common-Prayer chaunted.</L>
<L><HI>The Synod have</HI> &amp;c.</L>
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<LG>
<HEAD>5.</HEAD>
<L>Pray tell us, what you do intend,</L>
<L>For, wee'd be &s;omething faine,</L>
<L>Will you our former errours mend,</L>
<L>Or for one give us twaine.</L>
<L>Pray &s;omthing now unto us &s;hew,</L>
<L>Give us the bad, or better:</L>
<L>Or what is old, or what is new,</L>
<L>And each will be your debter.</L>
<L><HI>The Synod,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
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<LG>
<HEAD>6.</HEAD>
<L>I wonder much, that you &s;hould want</L>
<L>Your learning, being huge,</L>
<L>You having that &s;ame U&s;urer,</L>
<L>Ycleped Doctor <HI>G</HI>&mdash;</L>
<L>But he good man is neare his end,</L>
<L>The bell now for him toles,</L>
<L>Black Friers poore have praid for him,</L>
<L>Ere &s;ince he &s;old them coles.</L>
<L><HI>The Synod,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
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<LG>
<HEAD>7.</HEAD>
<L>Me thinks, the place &s;hould help you make</L>
<L>Some truth for to relie on,</L>
<L>How heavenly King <HI>David</HI> &s;pake,</L>
<L>When as he dwelt in Sion.</L>
<L>But it may be, in that your place</L>
<L>Things cannot well be &s;can'd&punc;</L>
<L>Why then I wi&s;h you fild that hou&s;e</L>
<L>Is in the holy Land&punc;</L>
<L><HI>The Synod,</HI> &amp;c&punc;</L>
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<LG>
<HEAD>8.</HEAD>
<L>The Anabapti&s;ts are content</L>
<L>You &s;hould &s;it there for ever,</L>
<L>And &s;ay as&punc;t plea&s;e the Parliament,</L>
<L>While they dip in the River:</L>
<L>The Browni&s;ts &s;ure well plea&s;ed are,</L>
<L>To adde unto your pay&punc;</L>
<L>The Famili&s;ts do domineere,</L>
<L>Becau&s;e you nothing &s;ay.</L>
<L><HI>The Synod have &amp;c.</HI></L>
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<LG>
<HEAD>9.</HEAD>
<L>The Independents do rejoyce,</L>
<L>They now have won the field,</L>
<L>They &s;ay it is the Armies voice,</L>
<L>The Presbyters mu&s;t yeeld:</L>
<L>Now <HI>Ca&s;e</HI> mu&s;t unto <HI>Goodwin</HI> &s;toop,</L>
<L>And <HI>Calamie</HI> to <HI>Dell,</HI></L>
<L>The Presbyters like ru&s;hes droop,</L>
<L>O this is wond'rous well.</L>
<L><HI>The Synod,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
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<LG>
<HEAD>10.</HEAD>
<L>Some &s;ay, like Thinkers you have dealt,</L>
<L>Who mending of a kettle,</L>
<L>Do make two more then ere were felt,</L>
<L>Or els things will not whittle.</L>
<L>And under a mo&s;t good pretence,</L>
<L>That we &s;hould find much ea&s;e,</L>
<L>Religion quite is fled from hence,</L>
<L>Pray cure us this di&s;ea&s;e.</L>
<L><HI>The Synod,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
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<LG>
<HEAD>11.</HEAD>
<L>Dub-dapper <HI>Sydrach Symp&s;on</HI> now</L>
<L>Like unto <HI>Simia</HI> flickers;</L>
<L>A deep and dread revenge doth vow,</L>
<L>On the Schoolma&s;ter <HI>Vicars.</HI></L>
<L>And <HI>Edwards,</HI> that &s;ame <HI>Herculcs,</HI></L>
<L>Will now write his <HI>Gangraena,</HI></L>
<L>And therein prai&s;e the Sectaries&punc;</L>
<L>The like was never &s;een a.</L>
<L><HI>The Synod,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
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<LG>
<HEAD>12.</HEAD>
<L>The Army &s;weare, they will have none</L>
<L>But Independents &s;way,</L>
<L>And that the Presbyters each one</L>
<L>In office t'other day;</L>
<L>And voted one day, and then nul'd,</L>
<L>And then voted againe,</L>
<L>Shall all out of the Hou&s;e be pul'd,</L>
<L>The others onely raigne.</L>
<L><HI>The Synod,</HI> &amp;c.</L>
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<LG>
<HEAD>13.</HEAD>
<L>And now farewell O Synod brave,</L>
<L>It is in vaine to think,</L>
<L>We a Religion ere &s;hall have,</L>
<L>While that your pockets chink.</L>
<L>Four &s;hillings ev'ry day, be&s;ides</L>
<L>Your greazie Benefices,</L>
<L>Makes you to have inlarged &s;ides,</L>
<L>But puls the truth in pieces.</L>
<L><HI>The Synod have full foure yeares &s;ate,</HI></L>
<L><HI>To finde out a Religion:</HI></L>
<L><HI>Yet to conclude they know not what,</HI></L>
<L><HI>They want a new Edition.</HI></L>
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<TRAILER>FINIS.</TRAILER>
<CLOSER>Printed in the Yeere 1647.</CLOSER>
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