Transcribed from the 1812 S. Holemberg edition by David Price, email
ccx074@pglaf.org
[Picture: Pamphlet cover]
SCRIPTURAL
AND
Hieroglyphic Observations
_which were foretold in_
THE Years OF
1750 & 1792.
By
_Francis Moore_
alluding to the present
TIMES.
_To which is added a singular Account_
_of the Emigration of the Jews in_
1812.
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POPES OF ROME.
ONCE on a time Rome’s Church had lost her Head,
Princes and Cardinals in no Pope agreed;
At length the wearied Faction, with one voice,
To Card’nal _Dossa_ left the sacred choice:
He nam’d himself, defeated all their hopes,
And taught ’em a new way of making Popes.
_Urban_ and _Clement_ did the world divide;
Scarce forty years could the dark right decide:
Councils and Card’nals both their titles damn’d,
And _Alexander_ a third Pope was nam’d.
Where, all this while, was Rome’s unerring Guide?
Did he in none, or in all three reside?
If Popes be doubtful, who can their priesthood trust?
For if they fail, their long succession must;
Since then false Popes, as well as true ordain’d,
How can Rome’s holy orders be maintain’d?
St. _Peter_ could no successor declare;
_Clement_ he nam’d; but _Linus_ took the chair;
We find some priests to gain the sacred chair;
They can usurp, kill, poison, yet not err.
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