Glen Collection of printed music > Printed text > Harp of Renfrewshire

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That's not the way his faults for to diminish ;
He must implore our blessed Ladies aide,
Then she should shew her son what he hath said,
And so command him go unto his Father,
That for his sute some comfort he may gather ;
Or else he must employ some Saint or Angel,
PacJc-man,
Such words I do not find in the Evangel.
Surely, Sir John, such sayings are but idle :
Such blasphemy is not in all the Bible ;
To trust your words, or Pauls, now tell me whether ?
Priest.
Reject them, if they jump not just together.
Pack-man.
And so I shal, for I can let you see
In Pauls Epistle unto Timothie,
He plainly sayes. There is one God, and than,
One Mediator between God and man.
The same is He, which is the man Clirist Jesus,
As he from death to life can only raise us ;
Since he redeem'd us as our elder brother.
Pray as ye please, I'le never seek another.
S. I. S.
And so what e'er I have, wliat e'er I want,
I neither pray to He, nor to She Saint.
And as for tongues, I have but one, no more ;
And wit ye well, albeit I had ten score,
I would use all conform to Pauls commanding,
Pray with my tongue, pray with my understanding.
Think ye these twelve, when they receiv'd these tongues.
Did talk like Parrets, or like barrel bungs,
Yielding a sound, not knowing what they said ;
Idle in preaching, idler when they pray'd ?
No : each of them knew well what he did say.
And why not we. Sir John, as well as they 1
For since all men have one tongue at command,