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Our SAVIOUR and His Twelve Apostles.
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 | A Collection of Poems on Various Subjects |  |
Our SAVIOUR and His Twelve Apostles.
There in the blest indulgent Jesus see
How Heav'nly Sweetness strives with Majesty;
Tho' each in full Perfection is design'd,
Yet more conspicuous Passions there we find,
Mercy in all her Charms, and Love to Human Kind.
How Heav'nly Sweetness strives with Majesty;
Tho' each in full Perfection is design'd,
Yet more conspicuous Passions there we find,
Mercy in all her Charms, and Love to Human Kind.
See, holy Peter on his bended Knee
From his Great Master's Hand receives the Key,
That opens wide high Heav'n's immortal Gate
To all pure Souls, that for Admission wait,
But locks it fast against the impious Train
Doom'd to the Seats of Death and endless Pain.
Thus the Redeemer did the Saint invest
With Pow'r Divine, but not above the rest.
For all the sacred Tribe, as well as he,
Have Pow'r to bind, and set a Sinner free.
Much less this Grant did Sov'raign Right convey,
Obliging all th' Apostles to obey
Their Monarch Peter's Universal Sway:
But do not ask what Raphael's Notions were,
His Judgment might, his Pencil cannot err.
From his Great Master's Hand receives the Key,
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To all pure Souls, that for Admission wait,
But locks it fast against the impious Train
Doom'd to the Seats of Death and endless Pain.
Thus the Redeemer did the Saint invest
With Pow'r Divine, but not above the rest.
For all the sacred Tribe, as well as he,
Have Pow'r to bind, and set a Sinner free.
Much less this Grant did Sov'raign Right convey,
Obliging all th' Apostles to obey
Their Monarch Peter's Universal Sway:
But do not ask what Raphael's Notions were,
His Judgment might, his Pencil cannot err.
| A Collection of Poems on Various Subjects | |