Fifty of the Protestant Ballads and " The Anti-Ritualistic Directorium, " of Martin F. Tupper ... New; and reprinted |
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“ANOTHER,—NOT ANOTHER.”
Trust in your priest: the Church is your saviour,—
Not the lay-folk, but the clerical kind,—
And you must serve her with humblest behaviour,
Passively yielding your heart and your mind:
Trnst in the priest! with him is all blessing,
Since he baptized and received you at birth,
Since he has often absolved you confessing,
And evermore been your refuge on earth.
Not the lay-folk, but the clerical kind,—
And you must serve her with humblest behaviour,
Passively yielding your heart and your mind:
Trnst in the priest! with him is all blessing,
Since he baptized and received you at birth,
Since he has often absolved you confessing,
And evermore been your refuge on earth.
Trust in your priest: eternal salvation
Stands with his favour and hangs on his nod;
Woe to the soul where he hints condemnation,
Happy the heart that reveres him as God:
Trust in the priest; his tangible presence
Be to your conscience the Christ in his stead,
Specially, when he has prisoned God's essence,
At his mere will, in a morsel of bread!
Stands with his favour and hangs on his nod;
Woe to the soul where he hints condemnation,
Happy the heart that reveres him as God:
Trust in the priest; his tangible presence
Be to your conscience the Christ in his stead,
Specially, when he has prisoned God's essence,
At his mere will, in a morsel of bread!
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Trust in your priest, and rest on his power;
He will deliver through life,—if he can,—
And at the last, in death's solemn hour,
Choose, if you dare, this salvation by man:
Trust in the priest! this gospel, “another,
Yet not another,” is Satan's chief lie,
Ever through life men's conscience to smother,
And to make sinners despair as they die!
He will deliver through life,—if he can,—
And at the last, in death's solemn hour,
Choose, if you dare, this salvation by man:
Trust in the priest! this gospel, “another,
Yet not another,” is Satan's chief lie,
Ever through life men's conscience to smother,
And to make sinners despair as they die!
| Fifty of the Protestant Ballads | |