Father, if justly still we claim,
and a fine missionary hymn
On all the earth Thy Spirit shower,
The earth in righteousness renew,
Thy kingdom come and hell’s o’erpower,
And to Thy sceptre all subdue.
John Norris (1657-1711), who succeeded—sixty years intervening—George Herbert as Parson of Bemerton, was a Platonist of the school of More, for whom he had unbounded admiration, saying
Others in learning’s chorus bear their part,
And the great work distinctly share:
Thou our great catholic professor art,