Acts 17:32: Others said, We will hear thee again of this, &c

Lovers of earthly things defer
Unto another day
The one important business here,
As life would always stay,
As grace were in the sinner's power,
And God compell'd to give
Whene'er they find a vacant hour
His mercy to receive.

The gospel some with scorn refuse,
The joyful tidings hate,
Others neglect the grace to use,
And still procrastinate;
To scoff the saving truth they dare,
Or cast it quite aside,
And these, alas, the Christians are,
And these the world divide.