HOLY AND HEAVENLY SPIRITS AS THEY ARE,

SPOTLESS IN LIFE, AND ELOQUENT AS WISE,

WITH WHAT ENTIRE AFFECTION DO THEY PRIZE

THEIR NEW-BORN CHURCH! LABOURING WITH EARNEST CARE TO BAFFLE ALL THAT MAY HER STRENGTH IMPAIR;

THAT CHURCH, THE UNPERVERTED GOSPEL'S SEAT;

IN THEIR AFFLICTIONS A DIVINE RETREAT;

SOURCE OF THEIR LIVELIEST HOPE, AND TENDEREST PRAYER

THE TRUTH EXPLORING WITH AN EQUAL MIND,

IN DOCTRINE AND COMMUNION THEY HAVE SOUGHT
FIRMLY BETWEEN THE TWO EXTREMES TO STEER;
BUT THEIR'S THE WISE MAN'S ORDINARY LOT,

TO TRACE RIGHT COURSES FOR THE STUBBORN BLIND,

AND PROPHESY TO EARS THAT WILL NOT HEAR.

Wordsworth's Ecclesiastical Sonnets.-THE REFORMERS.