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And is LORENZO a Demurrer ftill?

Pride in thy Parts provokes thee to contest
Truths, which, contefted, put thy Parts to Shame.
Nor fhame they more LORENZO's Head, than Heart
A faithless Heart, how defpicably Small!
Too Streight, aught Great, or Gen'rous, to receive!
Fill'd with an Atom! fill'd, and foul'd, with Self!
And Self miftaken! Self, that lafts an Hour!
Inftincts and Paffions, of the nobler Kind,
Lie fuffocated There; or They alone,

Reafon apart, would wake high Hope; and open,
To ravish'd Thought, that Intellectual Sphere,
Where Order, Wisdom, Goodness, Providence,
Their endless Miracles of Love difplay,
And promife All the truly Great defire.
The Mind that would be happy, must be great;
Great, in its Wishes; Great, in its Surveys.

Extended Views a narrow Mind extend;
Push out its corrugate, expansive Make,
Which, ere-long, more than Planets fhall embrace,
A Man of Compass makes a Man of Worth;
Divine contemplate, and become Divine.

As Man was made for Glory, and for Blifs,
All Littleness is in Approach to Woe;
Open thy Bofom, fet thy Wishes wide,
And let in Manhood; let in Happiness;

Admit

Admit the boundless Theatre of Thought

From Nothing, up to GOD; which makes a Man.
Take GOD from Nature, nothing Great is left;
Man's Mind is in a Pit, and nothing fees;
Man's Heart is in a Jakes, and loves the Mire.
Emerge from thy Profound; erect thine Eye;
See thy Distress! How close art thou besieg'd!
Befieg'd by Nature, the proud Sceptic's Foe!
Inclos'd by these innumerable Worlds,
Sparkling Conviction on the darkest Mind,
As in a golden Net of PROVIDENCE,
How art thou caught, fure Captive of Belief!
From this thy bleft Captivity, what Art,
What Blafphemy to Reason, fets thee free!
This Scene is Heav'n's indulgent Violence;
Canft thou bear up against this Tide of Glory?
What is Earth bofom'd in these ambient Orbs,
But, Faith in GOD impos'd, and prefs'd on Man?
Dar'ft thou still litigate thy defp'rate Cause,
Spite of these num'rous, awful, Witnesses,
And doubt the Depofition of the Skies ?
O how laborious is thy Way to Ruin!

Laborious? 'Tis impracticable quite;

To fink beyond a Doubt, in this Debate,
With all his Weight of Wisdom, and of Will,
And Crime flagitious, I defy a Fool.

Some with they did; but no Man difbelieves.

GOD is a Spirit; Spirit cannot strike

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These grofs, material Organs; GOD by Man

As much is feen, as Man a GOD can fee,
In these astonishing Exploits of Power.
What Order, Beauty, Motion, Distance, Size!
Confertion of Defign, how exquifite!

How complicate, in their divine Police!

Apt Means! Great Ends! Consent to genʼral Good!—
Each Attribute of thefe material Gods,

So long (and that with fpecious Pleas) ador'd,
A fep'rate Conqueft gains o'er Rebel Thought;
And leads in Triumph the whole Mind of Man.

LORENZO! This may feem Harangue to Thee;
Such All is apt to feem, that thwarts our Will.
And doft thou, then, demand a fimple Proof.
Of this great Mafter-Moral of the Skies,
Unfkill'd, or dif-inclin'd, to read it there?
Since 'tis the Bafis, and All drops without it,
Take it, in One compact, unbroken Chain.
Such Proof infifts on an attentive Ear;

'Twill not make One amid a Mob of Thoughts,
And, for thy Notice, ftruggle with the World.
Retire;-The World fhut out;-Thy Thoughts call
Imagination's airy Wing reprefs;-

[Home;

Lock up thy Senfes ;-Let no Paffion ftir;-
Wake all to Reafon ;-let her reign alone ;-
Then, in thy Soul's deep Silence, and the Depth
Of Nature's Silence, Midnight, thus inquire,

As

As I have done; and shall inquire no more.
In Nature's Chanel, thus the Questions run.

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"What am I? and from Whence ?-I nothing know, "But that I am; and, fince I am, conclude "Something Eternal? Had there e'er been Nought, Nought ftill had been: Eternal there must be.--"But What Eternal?-Why not Human Race? "And ADAM's Ancestors without an End?"That's hard to be conceiv'd; fince ev'ry Link "Of that long-chain'd Succeffion is fo frail; "Can ev'ry Part depend, and not the Whole? "Yet grant it True; new Difficulties rife; "I'm ftill quite out at Sea; nor see the Shore.

Whence Earth, and thefe bright Orbs?-Eternal too?"Grant Matter was Eternal; still these Orbs "Would want fome Other Father ;-Much Defign "Is seen in all their Motions, all their Makes;

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Defign implies Intelligence, and Art:

"That can't be from Themselves-or Man; That Art "Man scarce can comprehend, could Man beftow? "And nothing Greater, yet allow'd, than Man."Who, Motion, foreign to the smallest Grain, "Shot thro' vaft Maffes of enormous Weight? "Who bid brute Matter's reftive Lump affume

Such various Forms, and gave it Wings to fly? "Has Matter innate Motion? Then each Atom, "Afferting its indifputable Right

To dance, would form an Univerfe of Duft:

"Has

"Has Matter none? Then whence these glorious Forms, "And boundless Flights, from Shapeless, and Repos'd? "Has Matter more than Motion? Has it Thought,

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Judgment, and Genius? Is it deeply learn'd

"In Mathematics? Has it fram'd fuch Laws, "Which, but to guess, a NEWTON made immortal?— "If fo, how each fage Atom laughs at me, "Who think a Clod inferior to a Man!

"If Art, to form; and Counsel, to conduct; "And That with greater far, than Human Skill, "Refides not in each Block;-a GODHEAD reigns."Grant, then, Invifible, Eternal, MIND; "That granted, All is folv'd.-But, granting That, "Draw I not o'er me a still darker Cloud?

Grant I not That which I can ne'er conceive? "A Being without Origin, or End!

"Hail, Human Liberty!-There is no GOD

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Yet, Why? On either Scheme that Knot subsists; "Subfift it must, in GOD, or Human Race; "If in the Laft, how many Knots beside, "Indiffoluble All?-Why chufe it There, Where, chofen, ftill fubfift Ten thousand more? Reject it, where, That chofen, all the Rest

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Difpers'd, leave Reafon's whole Horizon clear?
This is not Reafon's Dictate; Reason fays,

"Close with the Side where One Grain turns the Scale;
"What vast Preponderance is Here! Can Reason
"With louder Voice exclaim-Believe a GOD?
"And Reafon heard, is the fole Mark of Man.

"What

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