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For Popes do dayly both in word and deed
Deny our Lord, as after ye may read ;
Who derogate from Christ the full perfection
Of mediation, for our Souls election :
And say, his suflerings cannot satisfie
For all our sins, and cure our misery :
But mix their humane merite (vile ambition !)
The foolish brain-sick birth of mans tradition :
And als the works of Supererogation,
With Chi-ists true merite, our sole consolation,
Denyes that Christ can be his only Saviour :
Can ye call this a Christian-like behaviour ?
No, that ye cannot, for we may espy all
Such dealing is of Christ a flat denyal.
But this your Pope doth mishently maintain.
That humane merite mercy must obtain :
What humane merite means, I have no skill,
Go ye to Heaven by any means ye will —
I hope in God that heaven I shal inherite
Through Christ his only mercy- worthy merite.
Your Pope denyes his Lord without repentance.
For dayly profit ; and draws near the sentence
Of Judas case ; For when the Lord had told him
He should betray him, then he shortly sold him
Unto the Jews, and thirty pence did take,
Too smal a sum his Saviour to forsake.
Yet after that he fain would have repiented,
But not so soon his sin he had resented :
He forth-with ran in haste, and hang'd himself,
Who sold his Saviour for vile worldly pelf.
For Judas one, each Pope may compt five hunder
For every day, and do not at it wonder,
Nor think him damnified by such transgression,
For 'tis the richest point of his profession,
And is the finest feather in his wing,
Which makes him loath to quite such trafficking ;
And so your Pope not only doth deny Christ,
Deny our Lord, as after ye may read ;
Who derogate from Christ the full perfection
Of mediation, for our Souls election :
And say, his suflerings cannot satisfie
For all our sins, and cure our misery :
But mix their humane merite (vile ambition !)
The foolish brain-sick birth of mans tradition :
And als the works of Supererogation,
With Chi-ists true merite, our sole consolation,
Denyes that Christ can be his only Saviour :
Can ye call this a Christian-like behaviour ?
No, that ye cannot, for we may espy all
Such dealing is of Christ a flat denyal.
But this your Pope doth mishently maintain.
That humane merite mercy must obtain :
What humane merite means, I have no skill,
Go ye to Heaven by any means ye will —
I hope in God that heaven I shal inherite
Through Christ his only mercy- worthy merite.
Your Pope denyes his Lord without repentance.
For dayly profit ; and draws near the sentence
Of Judas case ; For when the Lord had told him
He should betray him, then he shortly sold him
Unto the Jews, and thirty pence did take,
Too smal a sum his Saviour to forsake.
Yet after that he fain would have repiented,
But not so soon his sin he had resented :
He forth-with ran in haste, and hang'd himself,
Who sold his Saviour for vile worldly pelf.
For Judas one, each Pope may compt five hunder
For every day, and do not at it wonder,
Nor think him damnified by such transgression,
For 'tis the richest point of his profession,
And is the finest feather in his wing,
Which makes him loath to quite such trafficking ;
And so your Pope not only doth deny Christ,
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Description | Scottish songs and music of the 18th and early 19th centuries, including music for the Highland bagpipe. These are selected items from the collection of John Glen (1833 to 1904). Also includes a few manuscripts, some treatises, and other books on the subject. |
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Description | The Glen Collection and the Inglis Collection represent mainly 18th and 19th century Scottish music, including Scottish songs. The collections of Berlioz and Verdi collected by bibliographer Cecil Hopkinson contain contemporary and later editions of the works of the two composers Berlioz and Verdi. |
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