His country’s foe to be my friend:
None e’er shall to my favour rise
By flattering or malicious lies.
All those who wicked courses take,
An early sacrifice I’ll make;
Cut off, destroy, till none remain
God’s holy city to profane.
With the publication of the New Version a new era began. It was to be the last ‘authorized’ metrical version. Hymns of the modern type were beginning to be known, and soon there would be hymns in abundance.[92]