Needless, or needful, I not now contend,
For still you have a loop-hole for a friend,
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Rejoined the matron; but the rule you lay }
Has led whole flocks, and leads them still astray, }
In weighty points, and full damnation's way. }
For, did not Arius first, Socinus now,
The Son's eternal Godhead disavow?
And did not these by gospel texts alone
Condemn our doctrine, and maintain their own?