Fifty of the Protestant Ballads and " The Anti-Ritualistic Directorium, " of Martin F. Tupper ... New; and reprinted |
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XI. FAITHFULNESS.
How great are their mercies to whom it is given
To fight on the side of their Lord,
To strive against hell with the Sabaoth of heaven,
And stand for God's truth in His word!
To fight on the side of their Lord,
To strive against hell with the Sabaoth of heaven,
And stand for God's truth in His word!
Too many have faithlessly started aside,
Ay, some of the good and the great
With papists and infidels sadly allied
To wreck both the Church and the State;
Ay, some of the good and the great
With papists and infidels sadly allied
To wreck both the Church and the State;
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Too few are found faithful in these latter days
When love of the truth is grown cold,
And fashion and folly forsake for new ways
The true ones, because they are old;
When love of the truth is grown cold,
And fashion and folly forsake for new ways
The true ones, because they are old;
Yes, true ones, and old; though the new ones now claim
Antiquity truth and the rest,
In the night mediæval like shadows they came
To darken this Church of the West:
Antiquity truth and the rest,
In the night mediæval like shadows they came
To darken this Church of the West:
From monks and from friars their doctrines they drew,
But not from the Church in its prime,
And so Reformation went back to renew
The Scriptural truths of old time.
But not from the Church in its prime,
And so Reformation went back to renew
The Scriptural truths of old time.
Against creature-worship, and pray'rs for the dead,
And priestcraft, and paganized rites,
And Rome for the Christian's infallible head,
A Protestant faithfully fights;
And priestcraft, and paganized rites,
And Rome for the Christian's infallible head,
A Protestant faithfully fights;
Against superstition, and Satan's own plan
The souls of the worldly to win,
Confession pour'd out, not to God, but to man,
With priestly absolving from sin,—
The souls of the worldly to win,
Confession pour'd out, not to God, but to man,
With priestly absolving from sin,—
Against a closed Bible, against the sly scheme
For darkness extinguishing light
Through Catholic Unity's tyrannous dream,
A Protestant ever will fight.
For darkness extinguishing light
Through Catholic Unity's tyrannous dream,
A Protestant ever will fight.
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He fights, and shall conquer; the banner he waves,
With Constantine's motto deviced,
Is the Cross that gives freedom to sinners and slaves,
The Gospel of God and His Christ!
With Constantine's motto deviced,
Is the Cross that gives freedom to sinners and slaves,
The Gospel of God and His Christ!
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