V. Should we fuffer the dottrines to which we of yore tion. VI. Thefe youths with their strictness detect our loofe living, Which, known to the world, would keep us from thriving: Religion's a mirror that fhews all profaneness, Exclude it we therefore to hide our own vainnefs. VII. If drinking, or whoring, or fcripture reviling, Had been reprefented as their daily failing, (As often in others it certainly might) To wink at their foibles would then have been right. a VIII. Thus alting with candour and tender forbear ance, Till we had reclaim'd them by patient endur * ance ; But praying and reading, thofe horrible evils, Oblige us at once to devote them to DEVILS. The method purfued by the Heads of Houses, for reclaiming Mr. Welling from his infidelity and drunkennefs; according to the reverend Dr. Nowel, and the Goliah Slayer. AN AN · ΕΡΙΤΑΡΗ For the GRAVE of the SLAIN GOLIA H, After the Manner of the famous Poets, STERNHOLD and HOPKINS. I. TERE lies the once malicious Head His lying quirks and quiddities Now perished are all. II. He liv'd to fee the joyful day III. His plodding head, and eke his band, His heart as hard as flinty ftone; DINATI IV. Till PIETAS of Oxford came, ས. GOLIAH's dropt! Here let him lie, The ftripling's Stone, from fatal fing, FIN I S. |