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And pulpit, drum ecclesiastic,Was beat with fist instead of a stick.
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Oh, for a forty-parson power to chant Thy praise, Hypocrisy!
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But in his duty prompt at every call,He watch'd and wept, he pray'd and felt for all.
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So clomb the first grand thief into God's fold;So since into his church lewd hirelings climb.
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He of their wicked waysThe paths of righteousness.
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And truths divine came mended from that tongue.
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Sermons in stones and good in every thing.
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By thy language cabalistic,By thy cymbal, drum, and his stick.
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With a little hoard of maxims preaching down a daughter's heart.
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I preached as never sure to preach again,And as a dying man to dying men.
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Take time enough: all other gracesWill soon fill up their proper places.
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But Cristes loore, and his Apostles twelve,He taughte, but first he folowed it hymselfe.
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There goes the parson, oh illustrious spark!And there, scarce less illustrious, goes the clerk.
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A kick that scarce would move a horse,May kill a sound divine.
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Go forth and preach impostures to the world,But give them truth to build on.
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And he played on a harp of a thousand strings,Spirits of just men made perfect.
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It is by the Vicar's skirts that theDevil climbs into the Belfry.
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The gracious Dew of Pulpit Eloquence,And all the well-whip'd Cream of Courtly Sense.
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The lilies say: Behold how wePreach without words of purity.
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Perhaps thou wert a priest,--if so, my strugglesAre vain, for priestcraft never owns its juggles.
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He taught them how to live and how to die.
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Style is the gossamer on which the seeds of truth float through the world.
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In general, rely mainly on Scriptural arguments, and prefer those that are plain and unquestionable.
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Let the sermon thou hast heard be converted into prayer.
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Let him who would move and convince others, be first moved and convinced himself.
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The orator is thereby an orator that he keeps his feet ever on a fact.
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