Scottish Text Society publications > Third series > Works of Sir David Lindsay of the Mount, 1490-1555 > Volume 1, 1938

OF THE MONARCHE.
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Conuertit fragyll faltouris, I conclude.
Be Goddis worde, withouttin sweird or fyre.
Reid 3e nocht quhow that Christ hes gyffin cowmand,
Gyff thy brother doith oucht the tyll offend, Math. xviU.
Than secretlye correct hym, hand for hand, 2551
In freindly maner, or thow forther wend.
Gyff he wyll nocht heir the, than mak it kend
Tyll one, or two, be trew narratioun,
fH 5a] Gyf he, for thame, wyll nocht his mys amend, 2555
Declare hym to the congregatioun.
C And, gyf he 3it remanith obstinat,
And to the holy kirk Incounsolable,
Than lyke ane Turke hald hym excomminicat,
And with all faithfull folk abhominabyll, 2560
Banysing hym, that he be no more able
To dwell amang the faithfull cumpanye.
Quhen he repentis, be nocht vnmerciable,
Bot hym ressaue agane rycht tenderlye.
C Bot our dum Doctoris of Diuinitie, 2565
And 3e of the last fonde religioun,
Off pure Transgressouris 3e haue no petie,
Bot cryis to put thame to confusioun ;
As cryit the lowis, for the effusioun
Off Christis blude, in to thare byrnand yre, 2570
Crucifige, so 3c, with one vnioun,
Cryis fy, gar cast that faltour in the fyre.
Unmercifull memberis of the Antichrist, Roma. xvi.
Extolland 3our humane traditione F.phe. v.
Contrar the Institutione of Christ, 2575
Effeir 30 nocht Diuine punytione ?
Thocht sum of 30W be gude of conditione,
Reddy for to ressaue new recent wyne,
I speik to 30W auld bosis of perditione,
Retume in tyme, or 3e ryn to rewyne,
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