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On a Sermon Preach'd Sept. the 6th, 1697. on these Words, You have sold your selves for Nought.
1 With Grotius on New-Testament yo've done,
2 And chose Authentick Coke and Littleton;
3 The latters Tenures did inspire your Brain,
4 To vent your self in legislative Strain:
5 Where you each nice Distinction did pursue,
6 The Bargain, Sale, and the habendum too.
7 It was not done by Lease or Mortgage then,
8 To be redeem'd as you told how and when;
9 By Deed of Feoffment we had passed away,
10 For nothing too our Tenement of Clay;
11 And that the Devil who the Purchase bought,
12 He nothing gave nor nothing had he got.
13 On this you Cant (awhile) at last recal,
14 Cum Pertinentiis, he had gotten all;
15 When of the Gospel you make Law take Place,
16 Statues may well get upper-hand of Grace:
17 Sure you the Primitive design have mist,
18 Joshua must yield to an Evangelist.
19 But Littleton in you has got the start,
20 Did'st know if thou in Church or Temple were't?
[Page 65]21 Tho' you so Zealously the Non-cons hate,
22 Methinks too like the Pro and Cons you Prate,
23 The Sermon is at best but a Debate:
24 Instead of Proofs you bring us Presidents,
25 Need more the Judges than the Saints consents.
26 You Declare, Plead, Join Issue or Demur,
27 Then sell at last with (come ceo Sur;)
28 Fatal Defeazance, for if you Preach so,
29 Your Hearers may remain in Statu quo:
30 So far you on the legal Rights intrench,
31 We scarcely know your Pulpit from the Bench.
About this text
Title (in Source Edition): On a Sermon Preach'd Sept. the 6th, 1697. on these Words, You have sold your selves for Nought.
Author: Sarah Fyge Egerton
Themes:
religion
Genres:
heroic couplet
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Source edition
Egerton, Sarah Fyge, 1668-1723. Poems on Several Occasions, Together with a Pastoral. By Mrs. S. F. [poems only] London: printed, and are to be sold by J. Nutt, near Stationers-Hall, 1703, pp. 64-65. [20],117,[3],15,[1]p.; 8⁰. (ESTC T125148) (Page images digitized from a copy in the Bodleian Library [280 e.4058].)
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- Delia to Phraartes on his Playing Cæsar Borgia. ()
- The Emulation. ()
- Erato the Amorous Muse on the Death of John Dryden, Esq. ()
- Euterpe: The Lyrick Muse, On the Death of John Dryden, Esq; An ODE. ()
- The Extacy. ()
- The Fatality. ()
- The Fate. ()
- THE Female Advocate, OR, An Answer to a late Satyr against the Pride, Lust and Inconstancy, &c. of Woman. ()
- The fond Shepherdess. A PASTORAL. ()
- The Gratitude. ()
- The Invocation. ()
- The Liberty. ()
- Love. ()
- An occasional Copy, in Answer to Mr. Joshua Barns, Extempore. ()
- An Ode on the Death of Mr. Dryden. ()
- On a Gentleman and his Wife visiting a Lady. He sleeping the while. Extempore. Spoke by Morpheus. ()
- On Atheism. ()
- On being —— tax'd with Symony. ()
- On Friendship. ()
- On my leaving London, June the 29. ()
- On my leaving S—y. ()
- On my wedding Day. ()
- On the Author of Religion by Reason, or the Light of Nature a Guide to Divine Truth. ()
- On the death of dear Statyra. ()
- On the Death of William III, King of England. ()
- On the Honourable Robert Boyl's, Notion of Nature. ()
- The Platonick. ()
- The Power of Love. ()
- The Repulse to Alcander. ()
- The Retreat. ()
- Satyr against the Muses. ()
- Song on Madam S—. ()
- A SONG. ()
- A SONG. ()
- A SONG. ()
- A SONG. ()
- A SONG. ()
- Terpsichore: A Lyrick Muse, On the Death of John Dryden, Esq; extempore. ()
- To Alexis, on his absence. ()
- To Clarona drawing Alexis's Picture and presenting it to me. ()
- To Marcella. ()
- To Marina. ()
- To Mr. Norris, on his Idea of Happiness. ()
- To Mr. Yalden, on his Temple of Fame, Extempore. ()
- To my much valu'd Friend Moneses. ()
- To N. Tate, Esq; on his Poem on the Queen's Picture, Drawn by Closterman. ()
- To one who in Love, set a Figure. ()
- To One who said I must not Love. ()
- To Orabella, Marry'd to an old Man. ()
- To Philaster. ()
- To the Lady Cambell, with a Female Advocate. ()
- To the Queen. ()
- To Thyrsis on his Pastoral to Mr. Creech. ()
- The Vision. ()