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They close with God, seem to obey his Laws,
They cry aloud for him and for his cause.
But while they do their strict injunctions preach.
Deny in actions what their words do teach.
O what will men not dare, if thus they dare
Be impudent to Heaven, and play with Prayer!
Yet if they can no better teach than thus,
Would they would only teach themselves, not us:
So while they still on empty outsides dwell,
They may perhaps be choakt with husk and shell;
While those who can their follies well refute,
By a true knowledge do obtain the fruit.
FINIS.
