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Saint John for love of our Saviour
Did undergo much pain<\/i>
And never ceased during life<\/i>
To preach Christ Jesus’ name.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
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Saint John, he at Jerusalem\n<\/p>\n
To Patmos banish’d was Saint John, I am Alpha and Omega, <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Then John turn’d him about to see, Then wretched Caesar, as ’tis said, \n William Sandys, Christmas Carols Ancient and Modern<\/em> (London: Richard Beckley, 1833)<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Saint John, Saint John was Christ’s disciple,and Evangelist also;He for the sake of Jesus ChristMuch pains did undergo,Because he loved our Saviour Christ,As Holy Scriptures say,And was belov’d of him also,And in his bosom lay. Chorus Saint John for love of our SaviourDid undergo much painAnd never ceased during lifeTo preach Christ Jesus’ name. Saint … Continue reading Saint John the Evangelist (the Beloved Disciple)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[1710,1893],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24203"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24203\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"St](\"https:\/\/communio.stblogs.org\/St%20John%20the%20Evan.jpg\")
<\/a><\/span>Did preach God’s holy word,
And for the same the spiteful pagans
They did him cruel scourge.
Then did he for the same rejoice,
That he was counted worthy
To suffer for the sake of Christ,
And would him not deny.<\/p>\n
As Scripture doth record,
For the testimony of Christ,
And his most holy word.
And as he was in the Spirit
On the Lord’s blessed day,
Our Saviour by an Angel spake,
and unto him did say, <\/p>\n
Which was and is to come;
And what thou seest write in a book
Thus said he to Saint John
And send it to the Churches then,
Which are in Asia seven.
And said the Angel to Saint John,
Which came to him from Heaven.<\/p>\n
And was astonished
At the sight of the Angel bright,
Who said, Be comforted,
For I was alive, and also dead,
Now I live for evermore,
And have the keys of death and hell;Take comfort now therefore.<\/p>\n
The Emperor Domitian,
Into a tub of boiling oil
At Rome he thrust Saint John.
Therein received he no harm,
But safely from thence came,
And died at last at Ephesus
Writing declares the same.<\/p>\n