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- g H E Wifeﬂ' are by narrow Bounds
canﬁn’d,
And“ fame” few Truths fill up the
llreighten‘d Mind :
Succeﬁl‘ye Thought our Knowledge
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But foon in Death the Inn: ' Chaih mufl’e‘nd ;
Yet you with Lumber' {lluﬁythe‘ {canty Room;
Yet you the Moment in vain Search confhme ;
In ruﬁy Antiques,'Dates., and Habits'tracei,
Or curidus, meaﬁir'e the [Etherial Space;
In diﬂ‘ant Times, and airy Realms, you roam,
Unmark’dt the prefent, and unknown your Home;
How ﬂuggifh Matter can infpire the Soul, '
The blended‘Aétings of" the various Whole
Firﬁ learn; e'er yet you fearch what ruling Force
Conﬁrains the Orbs to dance their meafur’d Courfe; I
What to yourf'elf, to others, what you owe, ’
Firl’c feek, e’er‘Eucl'z‘d’s‘Elements you know ;
”Tis not enou h, tho’Truths unnumber’d thence,
Shine‘in the {glendid Rays of Evidence ; ‘ .
They fhou’d be ufefnl’too, what mof’t concern
Mankind; for fuch, alone, Mankind ﬂiou’d learn.
OF Things, he thou, the great Creator, known,
Reaﬂm’s ﬁrlt Link be ﬁx’d upon thy Throne ;
lultly to Thee is due, Who Rea/7271 gave,
he ﬁrﬁ, its grateful Tribute, to receive;
That e’er we were, now are, and e’er {hall be,
Paﬂ',‘ prefent, future, all we'owe to Thee 3

 

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You will, the World {tarts forth, from nothing brought
Ceafe, and it ﬂarinks into its former Nought; ’ ‘
Thought, Motion, Ref’t, the univerfal Frame,
A new Creation ev’ry Moment claim. ‘
All Matter’s Mafs thou jul‘tly, didl’r produCe,
For Sov’reign Man’s fuperior Body’s Ufe ;
That Body thou as juﬁly haf’c deﬁgn’d
Subfervient to the more exalted Mind;
The Mind to thee,‘ tn thee fhould juﬂlv tend,
Thou soul of All, of All thou Cauf‘e and End.

FAR then be thofe, who impiouﬂy believe
The Inﬁnite no ﬁnite Minds perceive ;

Are we then Form’d by Heaven to know and love,
What, by no Means, our narrow Powers can move 3
When holy Flames infpjre the raptur'd Breaft,
Are Sighs and Pray’rs to nothing then addrefs‘d?
Almighty Being! with all Virtues fraught,

To Thee all other Things are truly nought:
Hence Clariﬂ'ian Atheiﬂx, ye a God difclaim, .

And worfhip, in his Stead, an empty Name.

GOD, in {himfelf ﬁrﬁ known, attentive know
Thofe * Types in him that Things created fhow, V
Of Worlds unnumber’d, and of this the Scheme,
Divine, eternal, uncreate, the fame; ‘ , i ‘
For, e’er Creation was, th’ Almighty Mind,

From long Eternity, the World deﬁgn’d; '
’Midft others, never to be made, chofe this,

 

 

In Pollibility’s immenfe Abyl's: ,

Thence the great Syﬂetn’s various Parts he drew

Alone, and in himfelfalone, he knew. V V. '
THE ﬂuid Ideas juﬁ Proportions teach,

g: Greater or lefs, more or lefs perfect each;

 

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] Can change the Nature of that {ingle Line ;
_ ;% Angels than Men more perfect Beings are, "
til And more Perfeétions‘Menthan Bcaﬁs declare ;
' There Truths eternal Pow'r omnifcient fees,
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Nor can he better love what merits leaﬂ',
Wherein his Attributes are leis confeﬂs't,
Man than an Angel, 1' and than Man a Beaﬂ‘.
Hence Rmﬂm, hence immortal Order f‘prings‘,
Knowledge and Love that juﬂly litit the Things.
Hail {acred Law I the univerfal Fate, '
Which God liimfelf can never violate.
VVHI‘LE Man in Nature’s Purity remain’d,
By Pain untrouhled, and by Sin unﬂain’d ;
Fair Image of the God, and Clofely join’d,
By Inmate Union to the heavenly Mind;
In the pure Splendor of fubl‘tantial Light,
The Beam divine of Rea/on hlefs'd his Sight;
Seraphic Order in its Charms he view’cl, a , :-
Seeing he lov’d, and loving he ptirfu’d ; -;§
His Thoughts, his Inclinations were the fame, '
With the almighty Source from whence they came-,-
Nor dar’d the Body, humhl'e Slave, controul
The fov’reign Mandates of‘the j: ruling Soul.
BUT; lQI‘h‘y Guilt the facred Union broke,
Man bows to Earth beneathgthe heavy Yoke ;
The darltling Soul {carce feels a glimmering Ray,
Shut in grofs Senf'e from out immortal Day:
Now right’ous Veng’zanee injut’d Order arms,
And wraps in Terrors all its heavenly Charms:
Dreadful ly. beauteousl
Material O-bjeé’cs fpiritual Souls poﬁeﬁ,
Paﬂions inﬂave, and fervile Cares opprefs: 1: ‘2
Force, Rapine, Murder, Guilt’s long direful Crew,
Diﬂraéted Nature’s Anarchy purfue : i
No more pure Reafon groffer Minds can move,
No more can Order’s Charms perfuaﬁve prove;
But as the borrowing Moon’s reﬂefted Day,
Gleams on the ﬂiadow’d World a feeble Ray,

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Some wand’ring Beams of Re-afon, Law contains,
And Order’s Rule muff be inforc’d by Pains.
Hence written Statutes; Torrures hence are giv'n,
And Magiﬁrates the xieceif’ry Curfe of Heav’n.

NA v, e’en the Verh Divine, 9’0 be obey’d,
Niul’t {pad-1' to Senfe, and he in Fleﬂt array’d‘.
Vitiniy ﬁlali Truth in all its Rays appear,
it" Eves don’t fee, and if the Ears don't hear ;
Amiftiii as: vain, it Paﬁion don’t incite,
Difiatte avert, or * Pleafure don't invite.
Thus {Ewing Grace, the Paﬁion’s Aid employs,
And Sin with its own tav’rite Arms deliroy‘s.

BE tiiofe few Rays in human Laws that ﬂtinc,
Pure Emanations from the Fount Divine ;
Such as from Thence the poiilh’d Grecian: drew;
Such as from Them th‘improving Rtmam knew. ;
Such as canpierce the Gloom of Pagan'Night,
And untaught Savage: in'Woods enlight;
Such as the h’Iurd’rers‘liited Arm arreﬂ, _
And blaft-the lurking Crime withinthe Trajztor’s Breaf’t;
Such as on Scafiblds can the Guiltlefsfave,’ <-
And rack on Thrones th’oﬂ’ending fcepter’d Slave;
Such as the VVretch cond-emn’d indignant owns,
And hails their Beauty with his dying;r GroansQ
Law, from this SourCe, like the blef's’d Tree of Life,
E’er yet the Daemon Snake beguil’d the Wife,
Propitious rear'd from EDEJN’S‘ facred Ground,
Spreads its wide. Arms, diffuﬁng Bleﬁings- tbund :
Unlike that Plant, which” from th’ nnhallow'd’Earth,
Of rutl'iful Paflion takes-its baneiul Birth :'
In fomevgrim T yrant’s Breal’t deep ﬁx’d its Roots,
From the black Source th’ infectious Poifon ﬂtoots;
Oppreﬂion’s bitter Draught dil’rilling ﬂows;
Death its curll Fruit, and agonizing Throws :
But vengeful Order plies the ﬂaming Bran-d,
And hlaﬂ‘s the Tree within the» Planter’s Hands

SUPPOSE the Law repleat with Truth Divine,
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Laws
  

Laws that to all in general extend, ‘
Muﬂ often fail to reach the deﬂin’d End ; ,

ll’en thofe by which u-nerring Heav’n deﬁgn’d

To fave, and to prefervc T 311 human Kind;

The dif’r’rent Circumf’tances, Time and Piace,

And Things and Perfons change the Varying Cafe;
The Murd’rer ’fcapes, the Innocent mul’c bleed,

And Oaths, and I.“— ’gain{i f;— and Truth Ihcceed‘;
S— Gains his Canfe, and jnﬂ was the DeCree;

He ﬂarves in Jail far his Attorney’s Fee.

EVEN you, 0 Senate, where fair Truth prefides’,
W hom Order governs, and- whom Reafon guides ;
Makers of Laws, heft knowing where they tend,
Who lofe the Letter to preferv‘e the End.

You too mull: fail, and from thy Sov’reign Court,
To Heaven’s Tribunal he the hill Relbrt :

There injur’d Innocence ﬁnds quick Redref's,
And Juﬂice damns who legally Oppreﬂs.

SINCE fuch is Man deprav’d, that Fear muﬁ fway,
To tread thofe Paths where Duty points the Way;
The Wretch muf’t‘ﬁtfier to forewarn the reﬁ,

And fome mull {all to {top the fpreading Peﬁ:
Hence publick Pains; what to the Crime is due,
0 JUDGE SUPREME, muﬁ he relierv'd to you!
Alone the gen’ral Welflre, can demand

The tender Tribute,:from the bleeding Hand.
Such the fole End, then ﬂwnld no gloomy Spleen,
Int'reﬁ, nor Rage, no Pallion intervene.

Tins well, thou know’l’t, 0 ROGER SON E whofe Seat-ti

To fufi ’ring Innocence is fur-e Retreat:

Severely juﬁ, and piouﬂy Revere,

The Crime. you punifh, while the Pain. you ﬂiare:
Tears, 3: the dreadful Words of Sentence ﬂow,
Nor the righteous judge the Man fbrego.

' ether He, if fuch a. Monﬁ‘er were,

' Agony Can. feaﬁ’, and Groans can Chear ;

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CircumﬂaﬁcgJ’ in briﬁgiﬁg (Ellwt t-lche tiiﬂzlij fl?!” ‘LUiTI’éL‘z’ tilt:
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With gloomy joy elatte, whol‘e baleﬁil Breath;
Triumphant, ‘f'wells with the dread Sounds of Death
Who on th’ imploring Face malignant fmiles,
And {entenc’d Wretches wantonly reviles.
Shch, far from hence; where CA; SA R’s gentle Sway,
With Iiihjeél: Heartsrthe willing World obey.
To thofe curs’d Realms, rul’d by fome Tyrant God,
Whofe Scepter's Perfecution’s Iron Rod, :
There may thisLord his faithful Slave command,
And trul’t his Bow—ﬁring to his ready Hand.
PERfJ E her Sange hoaﬂs, his Serpent Nun,
But Both in One iniel’t our fated lﬂe :
Portentous Beaﬁ, togthofe blefs’d Climbs unknown,
A monﬂ’rous Birth peculiar to oar own.‘ .
Well, may no otherVenom curfe the Ground,
Exhaulied all to form this dire Com-potind 1
Well, may no \Nol’ves deﬂroy the ﬂeeéy Care,
Since ﬁercer theft: the trembling Shepherds tear!
If ranfcour’d Malice, or low Rage provoke,
The Sword of Jul’tice deals the Villain°s Stroke :
The Reptile Crew pollute her Rites Divine,
And Plunder {helter’d underneath her Shrine.
T1 BER ms foremoli in the blotted Roll 1
. Of gloomy Tyrants : Well, thy {ﬁbril-Soul
1 i'; r‘ Chole vile 4: Inlbrmers, Tools offeﬁ’er'd Spite; ,
l? The Pimps of Torture, and the Scourge of Might:
.,: Fitly on fuch fupporting Props reclin’d , ,
The Shame, the Dread, the Pelt of Hunian~kindl ‘
HAIL, mighty TRAJA'N i thou Wert truly great, \
Who to the Crime proportion’d well their Fate ;
Nor did to wrong’d ASTREA Pow'r refufe,‘ ‘ H
To damn the Wretch who did her Pow’r abu’i'i;
By this one Aétion, thou haﬂ far ontdon'e ‘“ ﬂ
Thy Proudef’t Triumph o’er the Parthimz: wo‘
AND Thou, our C‘eﬁtr, may thy righteous ‘
From the fell Monﬂer fave the frighted Land;
Nor {hall ﬂlcz‘dei’Toils more Merit claim,
Nor higher raif'e than Thine his deathlefs Name.

 

  
 
 
 
 
  
  
 
     

   
 
 

 

 

 

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