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SCG-C.732.049
16-23 Sep 1732:11, 12, 21 (36)
---No law divine condemns the virtuous,
For differing from the rules your schools devise.
. . . [7 more lines, from] Rowe's Tamerlane.
Sine the trumpet has been sounded in Sion and the alarm
given for a Polemic war, which is generally carried on by
all parties with the utmost rancour and passion, I think I
shall not do amiss in acting the part of a moderator. . . [2
columns: argument about charity as part of religion.]
If a man will approach God with a whip and a hair-cloth,
and seek to please the Almighty by inflicting stripes on his
own flesh; if he chuses to mix dancing and bawling with his
devotion, and also with his sauce, I shall desire no part
either in his devotion or his meals. . .
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