Religion
Acts 9:24: Who lately shed the martyrs' blood
From Short Hymns on Select Passages of the Holy Scriptures (1762) · Osborn ed., vol. 12 (1872)
Religion
Who lately shed the martyrs' blood
Is now himself to death pursued,
By day and night beset;
But Christ he confidently knows
Will rescue him from all his foe
And break the hellish net.
Yet conscious of his Lord's desig
He will not human means decline
The threaten'd death to fli
To ways most humbling he submits.
And by a basket's help defeats
The dire conspiracy.
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