Acts 14:19: Who can the sudden turns explain

Who can the sudden turns explain,
Or trust the various hearts of men?
This hour they cry with sacred fear,
The gods in human shape appear!
The next, they contradict the word,
And persecute whom they adored,
Curses instead of praises give,
And stone the wretch not fit to live.
And can a messenger be proud,
ExtolFd by the admiring crowd,
Honours Divine with joy receive,
Which sinners blasphemously give?

Ah, no: the praise that comes from men
Exchanging for reproach and pain,
He would be like the' apostle tried,
And rather slain than deified.