Occasional verse, moral and sacred Published for the instruction and amusement of the Candidly Serious and Religious [by Edward Perronet] |
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EXTEMPORE ANSWER
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EXTEMPORE ANSWER
To an Infidel Objection against both the Power and Goodness of God.
What! think you then, that He who all things made,
And spake from nothing Nature and her sons,
Cannot, with the same breath that quickens all,
The whole reduce, and Nature's self revoke
To their primeval state, non-entity of being,
And brightest forms, as lifeless matter, kill?
And spake from nothing Nature and her sons,
Cannot, with the same breath that quickens all,
The whole reduce, and Nature's self revoke
To their primeval state, non-entity of being,
And brightest forms, as lifeless matter, kill?
Cease then to blame the infinite in power,
Who all things made, continues, and directs;
Must, as in one, be Infinite in All,
Consistent One, and Infinite compleat.
Who all things made, continues, and directs;
Must, as in one, be Infinite in All,
Consistent One, and Infinite compleat.
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