ODE XVII. Vpon the differences between the King, and the two Houses, in point of Church-Government.
TO thee my uprightness is known,
Who hast appointed me to own
Thy sacred Faiths defence;
O let me not of thee forlorn,
Against my Conscience be ore-born,
By floods of violence.
Up Lord, in thine own cause arise;
Least Schism make thy Church its prize,
And trample on her pow'r;
From thee continued to our time,
When Wealth is made her fatall crime;
Her sin is her fair Dow'r.