Luke 4:41: O Saviour, repeat

O Saviour, repeat
Thy prohibiting threat.
Nor suffer Thy foe
By his instruments base to confess Thee below:
No longer endure
His apostles impure
To publish abroad
With their unhallow'd lips the Anointed of God.

By preaching Thy word
They make it abhorr'd,
Who by deeds they deny,
The truth in unsanctified Lips is a lie;
While with infamous praise
The abusers of grace
Thy gospel commend,
But the kingdom advance of their soul-killing friend.

O end the dark hour
By the word of Thy power,
The ranters suppress,
The witnesses false of Thy mercy and peace:
Let the faithful alone
Thy Divinity own,
Thine unction receive.
And demonstrate the truth of the gospel they live.