297 [from The Summer]
1. What? summer now? divisions ring
and subdivisions spring,
Errours and heresyes abound
And is it time to sing?
5 2 . O yes. True members all are one
as Christ did preach and pray
The day the heaven and earth is burnt
is good mens wedding day.
3. As for opinions, weeds, and tares
10 Is trueth a feeble reed?
If the elect may bee deceav-d
I will even burne my creed.
4. Drowne not poore faith in faithlesse feares
walke Peter on the wave
15 Christ bears the earth, holds up the church
when men and devills do rave.
5. feare not the Pates of Jesuits
our Jesus them outwitts
now they are neere their journeyes end
20 lett satan tyre his titts.
6. Sing on a brittle sea of glasse
sing in a furne of fire
In flames wee leap for joy and find
a cave a singing quire.
25 7. Sight sense and reason, hold your peace
our Guides no longer bee,
word faith and spirit stand in stead things
(now) unseene wee see
8. Its true we differ in small points
30 as clocks in cittyes do
some travellers do lag behind
who yet to Salem go
9. Know that Christs army hath two wings
and diffring colours all
35 his house hath divers sorted roomes
his trees are short and tall
10. Mens faces, voices, differ much,
saincts are not all one size
flowers in one garden vary too
40 lett none monopolize.
11. In our Gamaliels shcoole there are
and will bee many forms
and divers branches on one root
that clash in time of storms
45 12. In pronunciation of our tongue
some stammer lispe or tone
though sibboleth may cost us deare
in Christ wee are all one.