to
t Son, ate of men [ 80 ]
Sucrouble brouging to subdue
Rational Libertie; yet knohall,
Since true Libertie
Is lost, w Reason dwells
twinnd, and from h no dividual being: [ 85 ]
Reason in man obscurd, or not obeyd,
Immediately inordinate desires
And upstart Passions catc
From Reason, and to servitude reduce
Man till ts [ 90 ]
ito reign
Over free Reason, God in Judgement just
Subjects to violent Lords;
as undeservedly enthrall
yrannie must be, [ 95 ]
to tyrant thereby no excuse.
Yet somtimes Nations will decline so low
From vertue, w no wrong,
But Justice, and some fatal curse annext
Deprives tie, [ 100 ]
t: itness t Son
Of the shame
Don to his heavie curse,
Servant of Servants, on ious Race.
tter, as the former orld, [ 105 ]
Still tend from bad to ill God at last
earied ies, hdraw
h
to leave to ted wayes; [ 110 ]
And one peculiar Nation to select
From all t, of wo be invokd,
A Nation from one faito spring:
es yet residing,
Bred up in Idol-wors men [ 115 ]
(Canst tupid grown,
triark livd, whe Flood,
As to forsake the living God, and fall
to worsone
For Gods! yet safes [ 120 ]
to call by Vision from hers house,
o a Land
hich he will shew him, and from him will raise
A migion, and upon him showre
ion so, t in his Seed [ 125 ]
All Nations s; raight obeys
Not knoo firm believes:
I see t not, Faith
ive Soile
Ur of Che Ford [ 130 ]
to er a cumbrous train
Of ude;
Not trusting all h
ith God, who calld him, in a land unknown.