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She was the Lord's anointed
   To (hew the root of fin,
And in its full defiruafion
   Her gofpel did begin.
A flefhly, carnal nature,
   WXith all iti deep difguife,
She ftript entirely naked
  Before the finners' eves.
Sunk in your bafe zorruptions,
  Ye wicked and unclean!
You read your fealed Bibles,
  But know not what they mean;
Confefs your filthy adions,
  And put your luffs away,
And live the life of Jefus,
  This is the only way.
Ye haughty kings and beggars,
  Come learn your equal fate t
Your carnal, fallen nature,
  You've furely got to hate;
Whatever your profeffion,
  Your fRx or colour be,
Renounce your carnal pleafures,
  Or Chrift you'll never fee.
The way of God is holy,
  Mark'd with Emmanuel's feet,.
Lull cannot reach Mount Zion,
  Nor (tain the golden ftreet;
If you will have falvation,
  You firfl muff count the coft,
And facrifice that nature,
  In which the world is loft.
At Manchefter in England,
  This bleffed fire began,
And like a flame in fiubble,
  From houfe to houfe it ran.
At firft a few receiv'd it.
  And did their luff forfake,
And foon the word in power
  Brought in a mighty (hake.
The rulers cry'd " Delufion!
  Who can thefe Shakers be i
Arc thefe the wild fanatics
  Bewitched by Ann Lee
We'll ftop this noife of flaking,
  It never fhall prevail;
We'll feize the grand deceived,
  And thruft her into jail."
Before their learned councils,