Acts 23:30: I... gave commandment to his accusers also, &c

To groundless lies and slanders bold
If others credit give,
Christians should their assent withhold,
And but on proof believe:
Yet those who bear the name in vain
Nor Pagan justice know,
Believe against the righteous man
His unconfronted foe.-

Even you, the holy fathers, you
The' inquisitors severe,
With blindfold enmity pursue
The Saviour's members here:
Who tax the murderers of Rom
The house of mercy blame,
As heretics unheard ye doom
Your brethren to the flame.
2925 He commanded him to be kept in Herod's, &c. xxiii. 5
1 1 1 i'i'v Paul to bonds consign'd!
What monarch is so free?
Thousands shall the blessing find
Of his captivity;
Kept, (but Christ his Keeper is,
And serves by him His own design-,)
Kept, he rests in perfect peace
Within the arms Divine.

Jesus, full of truth and love,
Thy Godhead we adore,
Thee we trust the same to prove
Both now and evermore;
Let what will Thy church befall,
It shall to Thy great glory tend,
Magnify the Lord of all,
The saints' eternal Friend.