Religion
Book III, 79: On the receiving of the Lords Supper
From Divine Fancies (1633), Book III
Men take the Sacred Seales of their Salvation,
As some doe Physick, not for health, but fashion:
The Day preceding, and the following Day,
There's none so strict; none so reform'd as they:
They curb the fury of their wanton Ryot,
And call their Surfets to a stricter Dyet:
The Time expir'd, the first Assault that haps,
Prevailes, and strikes them to a worse Relaps;
Like Doggs to vomits they returne agin,
As though they'ad past a Patent now to sin:
Let such Day-Christians, on the very toppe
Of all their mirth, remember Judas Sopp
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