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THE EVERLASTING GOSPEL
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PAGES 52-54 [Preface]
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[m] t1417
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I will tell you what Joseph of Arimathea
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Said to my Fairy was not it very queer t1418
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Pliny & Trajan what are You here
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Come listen to Joseph of Arimathea
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Listen patient & when Joseph has done
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Twill make a fool laugh & a Fairy Fun
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[n] t1419
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What can be done with such desperate Fools
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Who follow after the Heathen Schools
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I was standing by when Jesus died
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What I calld Humility they calld Pride
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The Everlasting Gospel
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Was Jesus Humble or did he
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Give any Proofs of Humility
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Boast of high Things with Humble tone
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And give with Charity a Stone
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When but a Child he ran away
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And left his Parents in Dismay
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When they had wanderd three days long
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These were the words upon his tongue
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No Earthly Parents I confess
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I am doing my Fathers business
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When the rich learned Pharisee
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Came to consult him secretly
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Upon his heart with Iron pen
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He wrote Ye must be born again
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He was too proud to take a bribe
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He spoke with authority not like a Scribe
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He says with most consummate Art
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Follow me I am meek & lowly of heart
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As that is the only way to escape
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The Misers net & the Gluttons trap
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He who loves his Enemies betrays his Friends t1420
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This surely is not what Jesus intends
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But the sneaking Pride of Heroic Schools
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And the Scribes & Pharisees Virtuous Rules
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For he acts with honest triumphant Pride t1421
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And this is the cause that Jesus died t1422
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He did not die with Christian Ease
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Asking Pardon of his Enemies
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If he had Caiphas would forgive
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Sneaking submission can always live
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He had only to say that God was the devil
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And the devil was God like a Christian Civil
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Mild Christian regrets to the devil confess
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For affronting him thrice in the Wilderness t1423
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He had soon been bloody Caesars Elf
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And at last he would have been Caesar himself
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Like dr Priestly & Bacon & Newton t1424
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Poor Spiritual Knowledge is not worth a button
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For thus the Gospel Sr Isaac confutes
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God can only be known by his Attributes
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And as for the Indwelling of the Holy Ghost
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Or of Christ & his Father its all a boast
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And Pride & Vanity of Imagination
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That disdains to follow this Worlds Fashion
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To teach doubt & Experiment
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Certainly was not what Christ meant
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What was he doing all that time
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From twelve years old to manly prime
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Was he then Idle or the Less
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About his Fathers business
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Or was his wisdom held in scorn
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Before his wrath began to burn
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In Miracles throughout the Land
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That quite unnervd Lord Caiaphas hand t1425
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If he had been Antichrist Creeping Jesus
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Hed have done any thing to please us
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Gone sneaking into Synagogues
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And not usd the Elders & Priests like dogs
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But Humble as a Lamb or Ass
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Obeyd himself to Caiaphas
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God wants not Man to Humble himself
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This is the trick of the ancient Elf
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This is the Race that Jesus ran t1426
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Humble to God Haughty to Man
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Cursing the Rulers before the People
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Even to the temples highest Steeple
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And when he Humbled himself to God
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Then descended the Cruel Rod
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If thou humblest thyself thou humblest me t1427
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Thou also dwellst in Eternity
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Thou art a Man God is no more
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Thy own humanity learn to adore
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For that is my Spirit of Life
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Awake arise to Spiritual Strife
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And thy Revenge abroad display
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In terrors at the Last Judgment day
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Gods Mercy & Long Suffering
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Is but the Sinner to Judgment to bring
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Thou on the Cross for them shalt pray
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And take Revenge at the Last Day t1428
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Jesus replied & thunders hurld
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I never will Pray for the World
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Once [I] did so when I prayd ill the Garden t1429
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I wishd to take with me a Bodily Pardon
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Can that which was of Woman born
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In the absence of the Morn
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When the Soul fell into Sleep
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And Archangels round it weep
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Shooting out against the Light
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Fibres of a deadly night
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Reasoning upon its own Dark Fiction
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In Doubt which is Self Contradiction
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Humility is only Doubt
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And does the Sun & Moon blot out
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Rooting over with thorns & stems
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The buried Soul & all its Gems
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This Lifes dim Windows of the Soul
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Distorts the Heavens from Pole to Pole
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And leads you to Believe a Lie
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When you see with not thro the Eye
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That was born in a night to perish in a night
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When the Soul slept in the beams of Light.
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Was Jesus Chaste or did he
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Give any Lessons of Chastity
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The morning blushd fiery red
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Mary was found in Adulterous bed
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Earth groand beneath & Heaven above
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Trembled at discovery of Love
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Jesus was sitting in Moses Chair
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They brought the trembling Woman There
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Moses commands she be stoned to Death
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What was the sound of Jesus breath t1430
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He laid his hand on Moses Law
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The Ancient Heavens in Silent Awe
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Writ with Curses from Pole to Pole
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All away began to roll
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The Earth trembling & Naked lay
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In secret bed of Mortal Clay
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On Sinai felt the hand Divine
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Putting back the bloody shrine
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And she heard the breath of God
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As she heard by Edens flood
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Good & Evil are no more t1431
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Sinais trumpets cease to roar
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Cease finger of God to Write
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The Heavens are not clean in thy Sight
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Thou art Good & thou Alone
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Nor may the sinner cast one stone
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To be Good only is to be
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A Devil or else a Pharisee t1432
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Thou Angel of the Presence Divine
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That didst create this Body of Mine
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Wherefore has[t] thou writ these Laws
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And Created Hells dark jaws
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My Presence I will take from thee
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A Cold Leper thou shalt be
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Tho thou wast so pure & bright
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That Heaven was Impure in thy Sight t1433
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Tho thy Oath turnd Heaven Pale
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Tho thy Covenant built Hells Jail
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Tho thou didst all to Chaos roll
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With the Serpent for its soul
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Still the breath Divine does move
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And the breath Divine is Love
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Mary Fear Not Let me see
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The Seven Devils that torment thee
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Hide not from my Sight thy Sin
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That forgiveness thou maist win
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Has no Man Condemned thee
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No Man Lord! then what is he
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Who shall Accuse thee. Come Ye forth
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Fallen Fiends of Heavnly birth
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That have forgot your Ancient love
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And driven away my trembling Dove
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You shall bow before her feet
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You shall lick the dust for Meat
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And tho you cannot Love but Hate
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Shall be beggars at Loves Gate
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What was thy love Let me see it t1434
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Was it love or Dark Deceit
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Love too long from Me has fled.
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Twas dark deceit to Earn my bread
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Twas Covet or twas Custom or
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Some trifle not worth caring for t1435
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That they may call a shame & Sin t1436
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Loves Temple that God dwelleth in t1437
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And hide in secret hidden Shrine
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The Naked Human form divine
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.And render that a Lawless thing
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On which the Soul Expands its wing
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But this O Lord this was my Sin
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When first I let these Devils in
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In dark pretence to Chastity
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Blaspheming Love blaspheming thee
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Thence Rose Secret Adulteries
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And thence did Covet also rise
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My Sin thou hast forgiven me
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Canst thou forgive my Blasphemy
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Canst thou return to this dark Hell
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And in my burning bosom dwell
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And canst thou Die that I may live
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And canst thou Pity & forgive
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Then Rolld the shadowy Man away
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From the Limbs of Jesus to make them his prey
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An Ever devo[u]ring appetite
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Glittering with festering Venoms bright
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Crying Crucify this cause of distress t1438
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Who dont keep the secrets of Holiness t1439
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All Mental Powers by Diseases we bind
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But he heals the Deaf & the Dumb & the Blind
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Whom God has afflicted for Secret Ends
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He comforts & Heals & calls them Friends
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But when Jesus was Crucified
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Then was perfected his glittring pride t1440
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In three Nights he devourd his prey
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And still he devours the Body of Clay
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For Dust & Clay is the Serpents meat t1441
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Which never was made for Man to Eat
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Was Jesus gentle or did he
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Give any marks of Gentility
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When twelve years old he ran away
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And left his Parents in dismay
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When after three days sorrow found
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Loud as Sinai's trumpet sound
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No Earthly Parents I confess
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My Heavenly Fathers business
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Ye understand not what I say
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And angry force me to obey
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Obedience is a duty then
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And favour gains with God & Men
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John from the Wilderness loud cried
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Satan gloried in his Pride
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Come said Satan come away
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Ill soon see if youll obey
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John for disobedience bled
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But you can turn the stones to bread
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Gods high king & Gods high Priest
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Shall Plant their Glories in your breast
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If Caiaphas you will obey
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If Herod you with bloody Prey
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Feed with the Sacrifice & be
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Obedient fall down worship me
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Thunders & lightnings broke around
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And Jesus voice in thunders sound
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Thus I sieze the Spiritual Prey
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Ye smiters with disease make way
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I come Your King & God to sieze
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Is God a Smiter with disease
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The God of this World raged in vain
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He bound Old Satan in his Chain
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And bursting forth his furious ire
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Became a Chariot of fire
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Throughout the land he took his course
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And traced Diseases to their Source
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He cursd the Scribe & Pharisee
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Trampling down Hipocrisy
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Where eer his Chariot took its way
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There Gates of Death let in the Day
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Broke down from every Chain & Bar
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And Satan in his Spiritual War
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Dragd at his Chariot wheels loud howld
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The God of this World louder rolld
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The Chariot Wheels & louder still
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His voice was heard from Zions hill
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And in his hand the Scourge shone bright
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He scourgd the Merchant Canaanite
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From out the Temple of his Mind
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And in his Body tight does bind
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Satan & all his Hellish Crew
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And thus with wrath he did subdue
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The Serpent Bulk of Natures dross
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Till he had naild it to the Cross
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He took on Sin in the Virgins Womb
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And put it off on the Cross & Tomb t1442
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To be Worshipd by the Church of Rome
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[e]
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The Vision of Christ that thou dost see
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Is my Visions Greatest Enemy
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Thine has a great hook nose like thine
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Mine has a snub nose like to mine
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Thine is the Friend of All Mankind
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Mine speaks in parables to the Blind
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Thine loves the same world that mine hates
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Thy Heaven doors are my Hell Gates t1443
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Socrates taught what Melitus
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Loathd as a Nations bitterest Curse
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And Caiphas was in his own Mind
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A benefactor of Mankind
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Both read the Bible day & night
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But thou readst black where I read white
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[Marginal Comments on this Poem]
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[l]
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[At k 102, on the whole Humility section]
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I am sure This Jesus will not do
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Either for Englishman or Jew
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*
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[On an aborted attempt by Blake's Spectre to add a
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Philosophy section, halted after two couplets]
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This was Spoke by My Spectre to Voltaire Bacon &c
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Did Jesus teach Doubt or did he
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Give any lessons of Philosophy
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Charge Visionaries with Deceiving
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Or call Men wise for not Believing
