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?