Citation - New Hampshire Gazette-Portsmouth: 1779.04.06

NHG-P.779.007
6 Apr 1779:32 (2/59)
ON PREDESTINATION.
If all things succeed as already agreed,
And immutable impulses rule us;
To preach and to pray, is but time thrown away,
And our teachers do nothing but fool us.
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AN ANSWER.
If an all perfect mind rules over mankind,
With infinite wisdom and power,
Sure he may decree, and yet leave the will free,
The deeds and events of each hour.
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