Mark 12:5: The Lord, whose mercies never end

The Lord, whose mercies never end,
More messengers vouchsafed to send;
By teachers His demands made known,
By seers and saints required His own;
They call'd on man his rent to pay.
They urged, " Repent, believe, obey.
Restore whate'er His grace bestow'd,
And live to glorify your God."

But man averse in heart and mind
Cast all his Maker's words behind,
In every age the' ungrateful race
Hath spurn'd the ministers of grace,
Hated whoe'er the message brought,
Their ruin and destruction sought;
Truth and its witnesses abhorr'd,
And stoned, and kill'dthem with the sword.