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Ecclesia & Factio a dialogue between Bow-Steeple Dragon and the Exchange Grasshopper.
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Ward, Edward, 1667-1731.
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Ecclesia Factio A DIALOGUE BETWEEN Bow-Steeple Dragon AND THE Exchange Grashopper LONDON Printed in the Year 1698. ECCLESIA FACTIO A DIALOGUE c. Dragon TELL me Proud Insect since thou can'st not Fly By what assistance thou art Hopp'd so high The busie swarms of Gnats and Wasps around With Hum and Buz thy Revelations sound And cry in thee alone their happiness is found Me they Despise and thee they Praise aloud Admire thee and Adore thee as a God Misled by false Enthusiastick Light They 've rais'd thee now to a Destructive hight Who restless strive'st by thy accustom'd ways To stain those Glories which thou ne'er cou'dst raise And like your Dam the Babylonian Beast Cry down those Truths by which Mankind are Blest Which Reason well as Faith makes manifest Grashopper Thy Scaly Body and Aspiring Wings Thy furious Tallons and thy frightful Stings Makes thee seem Monstrous to our milder Flock Who Dreaded once but now Disdains thy Yoke You 'd bind our Souls b'Omnipotence made free And Rob us of that Heav'n-born Libertie To which we have a Right as cleaâ— as thee My Sons thou wou'dst unreasonably confine To Worship God within no Walls but thine As if the Prayers from other Temples sent Of sighing Souls who faithfully Repent Were Scorn'd and by repulsion backward driven Vanish'd in Air and reach'd no Ear of Heaven Where is its Goodness What avails its Grace If our sincere Repentance wants access Thro' Heav'ns respect to either Time or Place Those measures but our own Projections be Vnminded of the Great Eternitie Whose Love Divine moves round the Sinful Ball To Bless each wretch who on his Mercies call Without regard to Place no matter where If the Heart 's Contrit and the Mind Sincere Our Humble Guide the great Example yields Who Pray'd and Preach'd in Gardens Mounts and Fields Temples but Sacred from their use became Our Piety makes any House the same Where e'er we in th' Almighty's Name repair Omnipotence hath promis'd to be there Besides Our Prayers by which all-pitty'ng Heav'n we move To grant us His inestimable Love When with true Zeal our Pious Souls are warm'd Makes the Place Holy wheresoe'er perform'd Dragon Thou know'st I 'm founded on a fateless Rock Freed from the danger of an Envious shock Scripture's my Bass Immovable I stand Guarded by Lawful Pow'r on ev'ry hand Establish'd by a National Consent Preach Faith and Charity do ills prevent And for the Truths I Teach am made Predominant Stedfast and Pure from Innovations free Preserv'd intire from Mutabillity Safe from your Pride and Envy Arm'd with Law To humble stiff Precisians who withdraw From my Communion Conscious to agree With Heads uncover'd or a bended Knee And think a Bow a rank Idolitry Religion like a Prince tho' ne'er so Pure By Pow'r to Punish must be made secure Or else your Saints to Reformation given Would quickly cut Ten Thousand Paths to Heaven Could I from Factious Insolence be free And live unstain'd without an Enemy But that till thou art crush'd can never be Then Church and State might happily Unite To Mankinds Safety and to Heav'ns Delight But you by Pride are swell'd to such a Rage Fed by the Vice of a Corrupted Age That now you strike with Envy at my Pow'r And aim'st above my Sacred Head to tow'r But all in vain For that Blest Edifice can never drop Which when assail'd good Heav'n is still the Prop. You urge a Barn or Stable where you Meet A Field a Coffee-House Dancing-School or Street Are fit for Heav'nly Worship and for Prayer Sacred as unpoluted Temples are Rare Arrogance indeed so vilely prone To justify Irreverence to a God-head done A Room where Men their common Lusts pursue Drink Swear Lye Cheat all Worldly-business do In Christian Reason is a hopeful Place To beg God's Presence or expect His Grace Whilst His own House for Holy use ordain'd To Him Erected by our Sins unstain'd Shall be Despis'd and Unregarded stand A useless Fabrick in an Impious Land Yet do'st thou grumble in oppressive tones And rail at me for Persecutions If you thro' studdi'd Prejudice retire From what the Laws of God and Man require A Legal Force may justly then be us'd Such Factious Serpents may in time be bruis'd My Pow'r's from God and in His Word declard To those who to my Laws bear no regard Heav'ns Punishments are Just as to the Good Reward The Scriptures whatsoe'er I Teach contain What 's Easie I Recite what 's Hard Explain Virtue commend to Practice Sin reprove Excite to Faith Hope Charity and Love Obedience Loyalty Repentance Prayer The use of what we Spend or what we Spare Truth I advance and what is False suppress You can no more than these I do no less Then tell me what strange Feavour in the Head At first those Superstitious Frenzys bred From whence you raise that causeless discontent Which makes you from my Temples thus Dissent Grashopper Superfluous Rites there are which you maintain And hold as Decencies which I think Vain Look back upon your boasted Pedigree One part deriv'd of Romes Idolatry From whose fantastic Customs you have drawn Spuare Caps low Bows your Surpliss and your Lawn Proud Lazy Prelates with Pluralities Who speak but by their hair-brain'd Deputies Whose Iunior Years no Truths obscure can reach And seldom are so Wise as those they Teach Your Mass-like Service with your noisie Toots Of hum drum Organs Fiddle Faddles and Flutes Your high-flown Doctrins to advance a State And Please it till Vnlawfully made Great Then turn your Holy Flat'ries to its Fate These I dislike from these in chief Dissent As quite repugnant to the Lords intent These are the sumptious Trappings of the Whoar The Marks and Patches which she always wore These are her studdi'd and prevailing Charms Which but the looser part of Fancy warms And draws unwary Youth to her Adult'rous Arms. Dragon External Order first informs our Sence And raises in us a due Reverence Either towards Place or Person where we see Concurrent parts in Noble Form agree And tend to a peculiar Harmonie Or why did the Creator shape the World From a dark Mass together rudely hurl'd But that in ev'ry part Mankind should see The strokes of an Allpow'rful Deity From whence the light of Faith does first arise And makes our Reason subject to our Eyes For ev'ry wond'rous work of Heav'n we see Gives fresh Assurance of Eternitie And by its Graseful Order strikes an Awe Humbles our Souls and does Obedience draw By Natural means to Heav'n and Natures Law Therefore such decent Rites do I dispense As best shall Humble and Affect the Sense And in my Sons beget a Graceful Reverence How Insolent it looks How Evil bred T' approach God's Presence with a Cover'd Head Yet to a Great-man Couch with Hat in Hand And Bare before the Wealthy Idol stand Or at Devotion so neglectful be As quite abandon all Humilitie And rather than to