To a proud priest? - “No! him have I defied,

Insulted, slighted - shall he be my guide?

But one there is, and if report be just,

A wise good man, whom I may safely trust;

Who goes from house to house, from ear to ear,

To make his truths, his Gospel-truths, appear;

True if indeed they be, ’tis time that I should hear:

Send for that man; and if report be just,

I, like Cornelius, will the teacher trust;

But if deceiver, I the vile deceit