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128 of the Divine Attributes, except the Sacred Pen-Men. No less than Divine Inspiration could enable Men to write worthily of, and none but the Spirit of knew how to express His Greatness, and display His Glory: In Comparison of these Divine Writers, the greatest Genius's, and noblest Wits of the Heathen World are low and dull. The sublime Majesty, and royal Magniﬁcence of the Scripture Poems are above the Reach, and beyond the Power of all mortal Wit. Take the best and liveliest Poems of Antiquity, and read them, as we do the Scriptures, in a Prose Translation, and they are ﬂat Rh