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And the cbnfession hereof is, as saith
Your Bellarmine, a point of Catholick faith :
And so must be undoubtedly believed ;
Wliere-out, who payes most, soonest is relieved :
Not by good faith, but only by good deeds.
And pratling Pater nosters on their beads :
And dayly Sacrifices of the living,
And weekly rents, and offerings largely giving ;
And by their publick and proclaimed alms,
A silver showr that fyrie furnace calmes.
And as for me. Sir John, I say no more,
But this into my heart I heap in store ;
By faith in Christ Gods grace is to me given,
That my Soul shortly shal ascend to Heaven.
When this life ends, my ghost shal go to glory.
Pox on your presupposed Purgatory,
Infantum Limbus, and your Umibiis Patrum,
Wliere-out none comes, but by the Preces Fratrum,
(Ye say) and Masses said for souls departed,
Whereby poor pievish peoples pelf is parted
Amongst your Clergy, making them believe
Their silly souls then quickly shal relieve
Out of that pain ; And as for them that pay most,
Creeds, Aves, Paters, Mass, they pray, and say most.
To make their sayings sure, they cite the Scripture,
But falsely formed with a ragged rupture ;
Of which, if ye would surely have a scent.
Read Cartwright against Rhemes New Testament ;
The which to prove how little they prevail.
Read Doctor Mortons Protestant appeal ;
Where ye shal find this purpose well disputed.
And by them both right learnedly refuted.
It passeth Paijists power for to prove it,
The more I hear, the more I loath to love it.
So since. Sir John, ye have no Scripture for it,
But meer alleadgences, I must abhore it ;
To trust such tales I shal be very sory,