THE Modern Fanatical Reformer: OR, THE Religious State-Tinker.
Licensed according to Order, To the Tune of,
Liggan Water.
I
I'm Born of
English Flesh and Blood;
And surely, for my Country's Good:
For the Good o'th
Cause, I take great Pain,
And
Godliness is all my Gain.
II
'Tis true, some Sawcy Knaves do Bawl,
Nick-naming me,
Fanatick call:
But
Godly Meekness I profess;
A Pox confound their Wickedness.!
III
I hate all Noise, all Strife, and Grutch,
So much as th'
Organs in the
Church.
I love all People, without Strife;
Nay, hate not even my
Neighbour's Wife.
IV
I hate Formalities and Rules,
Disputes and Canons of the Schools;
Set Times for Feasting, with Minc'd Pyes;
I hate Plumb-Pudding, as my Eyes.
V
When in the State there is a Rent,
Disputes 'twixt
King and
Parliament,
I then apply my Healing-Salve;
That is, I make it worse by Half.
VI
I Preach up
Godly Reformation,
And love a
Pious Declaration;
I don't approve of
Sabbath-Breaking,
[...]o, not a Wench in Corner squeaking,
VII
I love Religious Conversation,
Where Godly Sighs are much in Fashion;
I love the Whites of Ladies Eyes,
Their Lovely, Tender, Panting Cries.
VIII
I love to press my Doctrine home,
And squeeze it in, as 'twere, to some.
When Hears do sail, I take their Hand,
Which cannot my
Warm Zeal withstand.
IX
I love not Those who will not Swear
To be true to' th
King and
Queen, that are;
And if King
James should come a Main;
To Say and Swean as much again.
X
I hate Disputes of
Wrong and
Right,
Unless we get our Living by't;
To Talk of
Government's and
States,
Unless we gain by these Debates.
XI
The
Surplice, Cope, and
Mitre too,
Are Things to me that will not do.
But yet, since
Sisters are permitted
To come to us, they are all acquitted.
XII
All Men in Power I do profess,
Are meerly Tools of Wickedness,
Unless from us they take Direction
By way of
Godly Saints Perfection.
XIII
For Great King
William I do Pray,
That is, if he doth get the Day;
The
Great and
Prosperous I Bless,
And who the Divel would do less?
XIV
And now, to make my Application;
All things are
in, or
Out of Fashion.
Some, Things are
Old, and
some are
New,
And as
Things Change, so
I will too.
London, Printed for Rich Kell, in West-Smithfield, 1693.