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Give ear with patience to what 1 say,
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Now my pear friend I wish you will tell
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= How no salvation ther’s to be found,
In no other Church but the roman temple
Was I to search the wide world round,
Did not our Lord sey to his disciples,
N ~My peace unto all of you I leave, ¬
Go preach the Gospel and teach all nations
Ff hat men of ali sects they may be safed,
Vor your conversion 1 will make bold,
Our blessed Lord he sent his disciples,
: ‘To bring all stray sheep unto one fold, —
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‘To reign.tryumphant as the Scripture tell
And said at all times he would be with her
"To defend and guard her from the pains
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. Now my dear friend the scripture tell as.
That graven images shan’t be adored,
Which you in worship do daily practice,
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Kind sir, to say that we worship images
Itis a falshood believe me true, :
We only have them within our temples,
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. “For by their maxims we'll safvation gain’
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. That your Person daily does so explore,
That your Religion it isthe same, - _
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Now friend there’s still another objection
I have to make to the Roman Creed,
That is the Doctrine you call confession, ¬
By which the Catholic’s from sin is freed, —
I don’t believe it that the Almighty, =
E’er gave the power unto any man, /
Of forgiving sins by confessing truly,
As faith alone is our only plan, |
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Kind sir, that question is easy answered,
If you peruse the 6th chapter of James, aoe
Where our blessed Lord his disciples ordered "
Yo confess their sins the proof is very plain
When the keys to Peter and his Priests.
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To lock and unlock the gates of Heaven,
Saying whose sins you shall releese the are
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And whose sing you shall retain, retained
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Now my friend you can’t tell me it’s a liable
For saying that you have no rule of faith, —
Where in you know that we have the Bible
By which we're guided early and late,
Will it not lead a men to salvation,
As it surely is Gods written word,
For to confute me in this dictation
Um sure you cannot be so absured.
To be your regular rule of faith,
Where by that it is so well corruped, 1 ose
From this reformation present to the date
‘By Martin Luther and old Cranmer too,
So by that answer you are confated, 7
As a correct copy you have not it’s true,
Now friend 1 find that ell your objections,’
Unto my questions are very trac, ~
Besides your ruié of faith is the perfects ene
So whilst 1 live 1 will it persue,
I see it plainly end very clearly, - ig
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