"On Controversies in Religion"
By Katherine Philips

Transcription, correction, editorial commentary, and markup by Staff and Research Assistants at The University of Virginia, John O'Brien, Sara Brunstetter, Rachel Retica
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London : Printed by J.M. for H. Herringman, 1667This text is based on transcriptions created by the Early English Books Online Texts Creation Partnership, a library-based project directed by the University of Michigan and Oxford University. Their digital text was produced from the 1667 edition, published by Henry Herringman in London in 1667, three years after Philips's death, but with the collaboration of her late husband. We have also consulted The Collected Works of Katherine Philips, edited by Patrick Thomas (Essex: Stump Cross Books, 1990), which takes Philips's manuscript versions of her poems as its copytext. Annotations have been provided by faculty and students at the University of Virginia. For a full description of this object, see its ESTC entry.

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Philips, Katherine. "On Controversies in Religion". Poems by the most deservedly admired Mrs. Katherine Philips, the matchless Orinda; to which is added Monsieur Corneille's Pompey & Horace, tragedies; with several other translations out of French, Printed by J.M. for H. Herringman, 1667 , pp 59-61 . Literature in Context: An Open Anthology. http://anthologydev.lib.virginia.edu/work/Philips/philips-religion. Accessed: 2024-04-25T13:08:15.33Z

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59 On Controversies in Religion 1Religion, which true Policy befriends, 2Design’d by God to serve Man’s noblest ends, 3Is by that old Deceiver’s subtle Play 4Made the chief Party in its own decay, 5And meets that Eagle’s destiny, whose Breast 6Felt the same shaft which his own Feathers drestEagleEaglePhilips alludes to Aesop’s fable, "The Eagle and The Arrow.". 7For that great Enemy of Souls perceiv’d, 8The notion of a Deity was weav’d 9So closely in Man’s Soul; to ruine that, 10He must at once the World depopulate. 11But as those Tyrants who their Wills pursue, 12If they expound old Laws, need make no new: 13So he advantage takes of Nature’s light, 14And raises that to a bare useless height; 15Or while we seek for Truth, he in the Quest 16Mixes a Passion, or an Interest, 17To make us lose it; that, I know not how, 18’Tis not our Practice, but our Quarrel now.
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