Matthew 24:12: That universal love sincere

That universal love sincere
Where is it to be found?
Out of the mouth of most we hear
The word's unmeaning sound:
But O, how few the saints that know
Their Saviour's i erfect mind,
AVhose hearts with charity o'erflow
To all the ransom'd kind!

If my own party I approve,
And cleave to my own sect,
Holding the few with partial love,
The many I reject;
My nature's narrowness I feel.
Myself I blindly seek,
And still a slave in Babel dwell,
A shackled schismatic.

O that the Spirit of our Lord
Might set His prisoners free,
Might speak the sectaries restored
To glorious liberty!
O that the catholic love Divine
Shed in our hearts abroad
Might all our jangling parties join,
And swallow up all in God!