The parables of our lord and saviour Jesus Christ Done into familiar verse, with occasional applications, for the use and improvement of younger minds. By Christopher Smart |
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PARABLE LVII. Adherence to the Doctrine of Christ.
Then to them all our Saviour cries,Beware left you apostatize,
Or to the Pharisees ye make,
Or leav'n of Sadducees partake.
They thereupon conferr'd and said,
It is because we've took no bread.
But Christ observing them, exclaim'd,
O scant of faith, most rightly nam'd!
Why do you tax yourselves with wrong,
Because you brought no bread along?
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How five loaves did five thousand fill,
And what the baskets that remain'd?
And how sev'n thousand were sustain'd
By four, who did sev'n baskets leave?
How is it, ye do not perceive,
I spake not touching daily food,
But that ye should yourselves exclude
From that same leav'n whose horrors please
The Pharisee and Sadducees.
Then by them it was clearly seen,
The leav'n of bread he did not mean,
But to the doctrine did object
As held by each dissenting sect.
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