Acts 3:23: Every soul, which will not hear that prophet, &c

Ye adders deaf, who stop your ears
Against the' immortal Prophet's voice,
(That voice which dying sinners cheers,
And bids our broken hearts rejoice,)
Who nature's perfect law maintain,
Your own weak reason idolize,
And dare the' incarnate God disdain,
The God who made both earth and skies.

Ye men who Christ profess to know,
ml vainly call Him Cod and Lord,
But will not in His footsteps go,
Or hearken to His Spirit's word,
Deists and formalists, who slight
His love, expect His wrath to feel,
Cut off and banish'd from His sight
Ye both shall shortly meet in hell.