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The vision of Christ that thou dost see	A
Is my vision s greatest enemy	A
Thine has a great hook nose like thine	B
Mine has a snub nose like to mine	B
Thine is the Friend of all Mankind	C
Mine speaks in parables to the blind	C
Thine loves the same world that mine hates	D
Thy heaven doors are my hell gates	D
Socrates taught what Meletus	D
Loath d as a nation s bitterest curse	D
And Caiaphas was in his own mind	C
A benefactor to mankind	C
Both read the Bible day and night	E
But thou read st black where I read white	E
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Was Jesus gentle or did He	A
Give any marks of gentility	A
When twelve years old He ran away	F
And left His parents in dismay	F
When after three days sorrow found	G
Loud as Sinai s trumpet sound	G
No earthly parents I confess	D
My Heavenly Father s business	D
Ye understand not what I say	F
And angry force Me to obey	F
Obedience is a duty then	H
And favour gains with God and men	H
John from the wilderness loud cried	I
Satan gloried in his pride	I
Come said Satan come away	F
I ll soon see if you ll obey	F
John for disobedience bled	J
But you can turn the stones to bread	J
God s high king and God s high priest	K
Shall plant their glories in your breast	L
If Caiaphas you will obey	F
If Herod you with bloody prey	F
Feed with the sacrifice and be	A
Obedient fall down worship me	A
Thunders and lightnings broke around	G
And Jesus voice in thunders sound	G
Thus I seize the spiritual prey	F
Ye smiters with disease make way	F
I come your King and God to seize	D
Is God a smiter with disease	D
The God of this world rag d in vain	M
He bound old Satan in His chain	M
And bursting forth His furious ire	N
Became a chariot of fire	O
Throughout the land He took His course	D
And trac d diseases to their source	D
He curs d the Scribe and Pharisee	D
Trampling down hypocrisy	D
Where er His chariot took its way	F
There Gates of Death let in the Day	F
Broke down from every chain and bar	P
And Satan in His spiritual war	Q
Dragg d at His chariot wheels loud howl d	D
The God of this world louder roll d	D
The chariot wheels and louder still	R
His voice was heard from Zion s Hill	R
And in His hand the scourge shone bright	E
He scourg d the merchant Canaanite	E
From out the Temple of His Mind	C
And in his body tight does bind	C
Satan and all his hellish crew	S
And thus with wrath He did subdue	S
The serpent bulk of Nature s dross	D
Till He had nail d it to the Cross	D
He took on sin in the Virgin s womb	T
And put it off on the Cross and tomb	T
To be worshipp d by the Church of Rome	U
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Was Jesus humble or did He	D
Give any proofs of humility	D
Boast of high things with humble tone	V
And give with charity a stone	V
When but a child He ran away	F
And left His parents in dismay	F
When they had wander d three days long	W
These were the words upon His tongue	X
No earthly parents I confess	D
I am doing My Father s business	D
When the rich learn d Pharisee	D
Came to consult Him secretly	D
Upon his heart with iron pen	H
He wrote Ye must be born again	H
He was too proud to take a bribe	Y
He spoke with authority not like a Scribe	Y
He says with most consummate art	Z
Follow Me I am meek and lowly of heart	Z
As that is the only way to escape	A2
The miser s net and the glutton s trap	B2
What can be done with such desperate fools	D
Who follow after the heathen schools	D
I was standing by when Jesus died	I
What I call d humility they call d pride	I
He who loves his enemies betrays his friends	D
This surely is not what Jesus intends	D
But the sneaking pride of heroic schools	D
And the Scribes and Pharisees virtuous rules	D
For He acts with honest triumphant pride	I
And this is the cause that Jesus dies	D
He did not die with Christian ease	D
Asking pardon of His enemies	D
If He had Caiaphas would forgive	C2
Sneaking submission can always live	D2
He had only to say that God was the Devil	E2
And the Devil was God like a Christian civil	E2
Mild Christian regrets to the Devil confess	D
For affronting him thrice in the wilderness	D
He had soon been bloody Caesar s elf	F2
And at last he would have been Caesar himself	F2
Like Dr Priestly and Bacon and Newton	G2
Poor spiritual knowledge is not worth a button	G2
For thus the Gospel Sir Isaac confutes	D
God can only be known by His attributes	D
And as for the indwelling of the Holy Ghost	H2
Or of Christ and His Father it s all a boast	H2
And pride and vanity of the imagination	G2
That disdains to follow this world s fashion	G2
To teach doubt and experiment	I2
Certainly was not what Christ meant	J2
What was He doing all that time	K2
From twelve years old to manly prime	K2
Was He then idle or the less	D
About His Father s business	D
Or was His wisdom held in scorn	L2
Before His wrath began to burn	M2
In miracles throughout the land	N2
That quite unnerv d the Seraph band	N2
If He had been Antichrist Creeping Jesus	D
He d have done anything to please us	D
Gone sneaking into synagogues	D
And not us d the Elders and Priests like dogs	D
But humble as a lamb or ass	D
Obey d Himself to Caiaphas	D
God wants not man to humble himself	F2
That is the trick of the Ancient Elf	F2
This is the race that Jesus ran	O2
Humble to God haughty to man	O2
Cursing the Rulers before the people	E2
Even to the Temple s highest steeple	E2
And when He humbled Himself to God	P2
Then descended the cruel rod	P2
If Thou Humblest Thyself Thou humblest Me	D
Thou also dwell st in Eternity	D
Thou art a Man God is no more	Q
Thy own Humanity learn to adore	Q
For that is My spirit of life	Q2
Awake arise to spiritual strife	Q2
And Thy revenge abroad display	F
In terrors at the last Judgement Day	F
God s mercy and long suffering	R2
Is but the sinner to judgement to bring	R2
Thou on the Cross for them shalt pray	F
And take revenge at the Last Day	F
Jesus replied and thunders hurl d	D
I never will pray for the world	S2
Once I did so when I pray d in the Garden	G2
I wish d to take with Me a bodily pardon	G2
Can that which was of woman born	L2
In the absence of the morn	L2
When the Soul fell into sleep	T2
And Archangels round it weep	T2
Shooting out against the light	E
Fibres of a deadly night	E
Reasoning upon its own dark fiction	G2
In doubt which is self contradiction	G2
Humility is only doubt	U2
And does the sun and moon blot out	U2
Rooting over with thorns and stems	D
The buried soul and all its gems	D
This life s five windows of the soul	V2
Distorts the Heavens from pole to pole	V2
And leads you to believe a lie	W2
When you see with not thro the eye	W2
That was born in a night to perish in a night	E
When the soul slept in the beams of light	E
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Did Jesus teach doubt or did He	D
Give any lessons of philosophy	D
Charge Visionaries with deceiving	R2
Or call men wise for not believing	R2
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Was Jesus born of a Virgin pure	X2
With narrow soul and looks demure	X2
If He intended to take on sin	Y2
The Mother should an harlot been	Y2
Just such a one as Magdalen	G2
With seven devils in her pen	H
Or were Jew virgins still more curs d	D
And more sucking devils nurs d	D
Or what was it which He took on	Z2
That He might bring salvation	G2
A body subject to be tempted	A3
From neither pain nor grief exempted	B3
Or such a body as might not feel	C3
The passions that with sinners deal	C3
Yes but they say He never fell	D3
Ask Caiaphas for he can tell	D3
He mock d the Sabbath	E3