Wesley Corpus

Page 12 "Bishops, and lords, and gentlemen, Who proudly o'er the people reign, And all the men on gain intent, And all the tools of government, The government o'erturn'd shall see, And mourn its sad catastrophe. "But O! What death doth he require, Who cast our names into the fire, Repuls'd, and treated us with scorn? He, and his house, and church shall burn. That rogue Romaine8 we soon shall have him; Nor Mence's9 tuneful voice shall save him," (Who would not the Associates join, Or list beneath a madman's sign.) "Old Wesley too, to Papists kind, Who wrote against them for a blind, Himself a Papist still in heart, He, and his followers shall smart. Not one of his fraternity We here beneath our standard see, To which whole regiments resort Both from the Lock10 and Tottenham-Court,"11 (Who rave, like patriots disappointed, And roar, and curse the Lord's anointed.) The rabble speak, and spread their bands, To execute their own commands, Impetuous, as the torrent pours, Resistless, as the flame devours, And scatt'ring ruin far and wide, While terror is on every side, 8William Romaine, a prominent evangelical Anglican clergy person in London, who was sympathetic to the Calvinist Methodists. 9The Rev. Benjamin Mence, supposed to be the finest counter-tenor in England. He was Minor Canon at St. Paul's. 10The Lock hospital chapel was served by Martin Madan, a Calvinist Methodist. 11Chapel built by George Whitefield, belonging to the Calvinist Methodists.