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 Unuual Judgment fills the meaner Heads,

Devotion follows as Intruction leads.

Grave in Behaviour, in Dicoure edate,

And apter to believe than to debate;

And if they can exceed in doing Well,

'Tis in a little little TOO MUCH ZEAL.

In Doctrine ound, in Dicipline evere,

The Church obtains her True Dominion here.

And yet her foft Coercives yield no Pow'r,

Either to perecure, or to devour.

Fiercely tenacious of determin'd Truth,

Dreadful to Error, Vigilant of both.

The wild Opinions of a Neighb'ring State,

Find here no Atom-Fancies to create:

The trong fermented Venom hither brought,

Like Irih Poions, perih in the Thought;

Here no Enthuiatick Notion grows,

The only Barrennes the Nation knows.

A Mitred Jet indeed, the Land perplex'd,

Of Pomp and Pride, and Policy o mix'd;

The awkward medly left us in Debate,

Whether it did proceed from Church or State,

Begot by Power, and introduc'd by Plot,

With Tyranny came in, with Tyranny went out;

But ill agreeing with precier Air,

It oon grew yellow, pale and ickly here.

The People Wie, and in Religion Nice,

Could not be gull'd with uch a Faint Device.