Acts 25:11: I appeal unto Ccesar

Prisoner of Christ, to death pursued
By priestly hate implacable,
From those who thirsted for his blood
He doth to Nerds self appeal,
More just than those who saints traduce,
More merciful than canker'd.y c.s'.

Far better 't is that righteous men
Into the Heathen's hands should fall,
Than theirs who holy things profane
Themselves the Christian temple call,
And dare as all their own to claim
The church's venerable name.