On a Sermon Preach'd Sept. the 6th, 1697. on these Words, You have sold your selves for Nought. Sarah Fyge Egerton Alexander Huber Editor Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
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Oxford This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. T125148 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.

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On a Sermon Preach'd Sept. the 6th , 1697. on these Words , You have sold your selves for Nought . With Grotius on New-Testament yo've done , And chose Authentick Coke and Littleton ; The latters Tenures did inspire your Brain , To vent your self in legislative Strain : Where you each nice Distinction did pursue , The Bargain , Sale , and the habendum too . It was not done by Lease or Mortgage then , To be redeem'd as you told how and when ; By Deed of Feoffment we had passed away , For nothing too our Tenement of Clay ; And that the Devil who the Purchase bought , He nothing gave nor nothing had he got . On this you Cant ( awhile ) at last recal , Cum Pertinentiis , he had gotten all ; When of the Gospel you make Law take Place , Statues may well get upper-hand of Grace : Sure you the Primitive design have mist , Joshua must yield to an Evangelist . But Littleton in you has got the start , Did'st know if thou in Church or Temple were't ? Tho' you so Zealously the Non-cons hate , Methinks too like the Pro and Cons you Prate , The Sermon is at best but a Debate : Instead of Proofs you bring us Presidents , Need more the Judges than the Saints consents . You Declare , Plead , Join Issue or Demur , Then sell at last with ( come ceo Sur ; ) Fatal Defeazance , for if you Preach so , Your Hearers may remain in Statu quo : So far you on the legal Rights intrench , We scarcely know your Pulpit from the Bench .