And is LORENZO a Demurrer ftill? Pride in thy Parts provokes thee to contest Reafon apart, would wake high Hope; and open, Extended Views a narrow Mind extend; As Man was made for Glory, and for Blifs, Admit Admit the boundless Theatre of Thought From Nothing, up to GOD; which makes a Man. Laborious? 'Tis impracticable quite; To fink beyond a Doubt, in this Debate, Some with they did; but no Man difbelieves. GOD is a Spirit; Spirit cannot strike Thefe These grofs, material Organs; GOD by Man As much is feen, as Man a GOD can fee, How complicate, in their divine Police! Apt Means! Great Ends! Consent to genʼral Good!— So long (and that with fpecious Pleas) ador'd, LORENZO! This may feem Harangue to Thee; 'Twill not make One amid a Mob of Thoughts, [Home; Lock up thy Senfes ;-Let no Paffion ftir;- As As I have done; and shall inquire no more. "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; ઃઃ 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, 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 66 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 Difpers'd, leave Reafon's whole Horizon clear? "Close with the Side where One Grain turns the Scale; "What |