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['Twas not the way of Pagan Rome]
It is not the manner of the Romans to deliver, &c.
—xxv. 16.
'Twas not the way of Pagan Rome
Unheard the prisoner to condemn,
But Christian Romanists can doom
Men unconvicted to the flame,
Innocent saints in secret kill,
With blood the house of mercy fill.
Unheard the prisoner to condemn,
But Christian Romanists can doom
Men unconvicted to the flame,
Innocent saints in secret kill,
With blood the house of mercy fill.
And shall not, Lord, the Heathens rise
To judge the Christians in that day,
When answering to the martyr's cries,
Thou dost Thy vengeful wrath display,
And pay the murderers their hire,
And cast into eternal fire?
To judge the Christians in that day,
When answering to the martyr's cries,
Thou dost Thy vengeful wrath display,
And pay the murderers their hire,
And cast into eternal fire?
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