Mark 2:15: Why do the... Pharisees fast, but Thy disciples, &c

A Pharisee his neighbours blames,
More to reprove their conduct aims
Than to reform his own;
Kager that others should embrace
All his religious forms and ways,
And copy him alone.

Of others with design he speaks.
And marking their omissions, seeks
To draw the' admiring eye,
By branding them as less severe.
Himself he studies to prefer.
Himself to magnify.

Far from his sour hypocrisy.
Thou inexperienced novice flee,
The poisonous leaven shun;
Thy censure rash forbear to deal,
Nor boast thy forwardness of zeal
To serve a God unknown.

Thou feeble soul unsaved from pride,
All thy external rigours hide,
With humbly prudent care:
The inward true religion seek.
Be poor, self diffident, and meek,
And then for God declare.