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In every science- they that liope to rise , Set great examples still before their eyes , Young- lawyers copy ?» Iux-ray where they can 5 Physicians Mead , and surgeons Cheselden : But all will preach , without the least
pretence To virtun , learning ' , art , . or eloquence . "Wh y not ! you cry $ they p lainly see , no doubt , A priest may grow rig ht reverend without Preachers und preaching were at first ciesig-u \^ For common benefit to all mankind .
Public and private virtues they explaiifd , r o fifoodness courted , and from viee restrain M : Love , peace and union breathM in each discourse , And their examples gave their precepts
force . From these good men , the priests and all theh line , „ Were honoured with the title of Divine . But soon their proud successors left this path , Forsook plain morals for dark points of faith ; 'TLH creeds on creeds the warring- world
inilam d And all mankind , by different priests , were dainiTd . Some ask which is tV essential of a priest , Virtue or learning * ? What they ask ' s a jest : We daity see dull loads of reverend fat , Without pretence to either this or that , But who like Hough or Hoadly hopes to shine , Must with great learning real virtue join .
He who by preaching hopes to raise a , name , To no small excellence directs his aim . On every noted preacher he must wait , The voice , the look , the action inflate : And wl ; en compete in style and eloquence , Must then crown ail with learning- and good sense . V , ut some vviih tazy pride disgrace the
g-own , ^ And never p reach one . yennon ot then own ; Tis easier to transcribe than to compose , So sill the week they eat , and drink , and ( hvj . c .
As quacks , with lyinp ; pulls the papers fill , f > r hand their own praise- in a * * bill , Where empty boasts of much superior sense , Druvr from the cheated crowd thdr idle pence-
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So tlie great H-- —ley hires for half a crown , A quack advertisement to tell the town !" Of some strange point to be disputed on : ) Where all who lore the science of debate , May hear themselves or other coxcomb ? prate . When Dukes or noble Lords a Cbaplair
hire , They iirsi o ( his capacities inquire , If stout ! v fjnalifVel to drink and smoke , If no > t too nice to bear an impious joke , If tame enough to be the conimob jest , This is a Chaplain , to his Lordship ' s taste If baids to Pope indiif ' erent verses shew
He is too honest not to tell tlicm so . This is obscure , he cries , and this too rough , These trifling- , or superfluous , strike them . off . How useful every word from such a * } friend ! I
But parsons are too proud riieir works > to mend , I And ev ' ry fault with arrogance defend : j Think them too sacred to be criticis ed , And rather choose to let them be despis'd . He that is wise will not presume to laugh At priests , or church affairs , it is notsafe . Think there exists , and let it check your
spori , That dreadful monster cali'd a Spiritual Court , Into whose cruel jaws if once you fall . In vain , alas ! in vain for aid you call : Clerks , Proctors , Priests , voracious round you ply , Like leeches ' sticking , till they ' ve suck'd you dry .
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Sir , May 15 , 1815-The following couplet , by Sannazanus , of which I have attempted a free translation , is quoted by Boyle in his Leo X . note ( I ) . I have also found it in a " History of Popery , " 1735 , 4 to . i . 185 , nit ; the following' introduction : if
" ¦ The proceedings of Pope Leo , as inclujg-tMicrs , were very offensive to soirt of the \^ iser Papists , and it occasioned Jh < following virulent sarcasm of tho " ° Y poet Sannazaro , lib . 3 . Epis . 5 . ° ^ * Laiwiiig- ' s edit . ( Amst . 1728 . ) , for by or ^ of the Inquisition it is left out in ^' editions published in Popish countries .
Sacra sub extreina si forte requires hora Cur Leo non pctuit sumere ? vendiderat-Ask you why Leo , in his dtjing hour , To seek the aids of Holy CJiurch fo rboTf . To aid , he knew ho had no longer pow f LixinsrA ^ W barter ed all the sacred st «^ 5 . ! . (/ . b-
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), June 2, 1815, page 380, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1761/page/52/
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