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The Critics Chastised.

Written on a Page of “The Monthly Review.”

(1784.)

These critics, who to faith no quarter grant,
But call it mere hypocrisy and cant
To make a just acknowledgment of praise,
And thanks to God for governing our ways,

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Approve Confucius more, and Zoroaster,
Than Christ's own servant, or that servant's Master.