With @3Grotius@1 on @3New-Testament@1 yo've done, And chose Authentick @3Coke@1 and @3Littleton@1; The latters Tenures did inspire your Brain, To vent your self in legislative Strain: Where you each nice Distinction did pursue, The Bargain, Sale, and the @3habendum@1 too. It was not done by Lease or Mortgage then, To be redeem'd as you told how and when; By Deed of Feoffment we had passed away, For nothing too our Tenement of Clay; And that the Devil who the Purchase bought, He nothing gave nor nothing had he got. On this you Cant (awhile) at last recal, @3Cum Pertinentiis@1, he had gotten all; When of the Gospel you make Law take Place, Statues may well get upper-hand of Grace: Sure you the Primitive design have mist, @3Joshua@1 must yield to an Evangelist. But @3Littleton@1 in you has got the start, Did'st know if thou in church or Temple were't? Tho' you so Zealously the @3Non-cons@1 hate, Methinks too like the @3Pro@1 and @3Cons@1 you Prate, The Sermon is at best but a Debate: Instead of Proofs you bring us Presidents, Need more the Judges than the Saints consents. You Declare, Plead, Join Issue or Demur, Then sell at last with (@3come ceo Sur@1;) Fatal Defeazance, for if you Preach so, Your Hearers may remain in @3Statu quo@1: So far you on the legal rights intrench, We scarcely know your Pulpit from the Bench. | Discover our Poem Explanations and Poet Analyses!Other Poems of Interest...STOPPING BY WOODS ON A SNOWY EVENING by ROBERT FROST HEAVEN-HAVEN; A NUN TAKES THE VEIL by GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS CYNTHIADES: TO CYNTHIA ON CONCEALMENT OF HER BEAUTY by FRANCIS KYNASTON VALENTINES TO MY MOTHER: 1883 by CHRISTINA GEORGINA ROSSETTI MAY MORNING by CELIA LEIGHTON THAXTER MANY ARE CALLED by WILFRID SCAWEN BLUNT GIBBON by WILLIAM LISLE BOWLES ON A PRESSED FLOWER IN MY CPOY OF KEATS by WILLIAM STANLEY BRAITHWAITE |