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Page 4 - ... have power to charm. Bid them be chaste, be innocent, like thee ; Bid them in Duty's sphere as meekly move ; And if so fair, from vanity as free ; As firm in friendship, and as fond in love. Tell them, though 'tis an awful thing to die, ('Twas e'en to thee) yet the dread path once trod, Heaven lifts its everlasting portals high, And bids " the pure in heart behold their God.
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Page 447 - The Belief of a Future State proved to be a fundamental article of the religion of the Hebrews, and held by the philosophers, &c." and two or three polemic pieces with Warburton were the consequence of this. His next work was, " Remarks upon Middleton's Free Inquiry into the Miraculous Powers, &c.
Page 447 - The Divine Legation of Mahomet." It produced several answers, and so much abuse from the authors of " The Weekly Miscellany," that in less than two months he was constrained to defend himself in " A Vindication, of the Author of the Divine Legation of Moses, from the aspersions of the Country Clergyman's Letter in the Weekly Miscellany of February 14, 1737-8,
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