Are promised spiritual blessings till last judgment’s blare.
Whoever says, at heart: “My trust is in the Lord,”[409]
God’s promise: “Him I’ll feed,” will find a faithful word.[410]20
Without a twist accept this promise, as is meet;
You’ll find it in your mouth as milk and honey sweet.
To twist a term, and so deny gift’s incidence,
Is to invent a cloak to change the word’s true sense.
To think th’ expression’s wrong sad weakness shows of mind;
Wisdom divine’s a kernel; human reason, rind.
Twist then thyself; change not the sense of words divine;