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Rh God's wisdom and God's goodness! Ay, but fools

Mis-define these till God knows them no more.

Wisdom and goodness, they are God!—what schools

Have yet so much as heard this simpler lore?

This no saint preaches, and this no Church rules;

'Tis in the desert, now and heretofore.

IMMORTALITY.

THE GOOD SHEPHERD WITH THE KID.

 saves the sheep, the goats he doth not save.

So rang Tertullian's sentence, on the side

Of that unpitying Phrygian sect which cried,10

"Him can no fount of fresh forgiveness lave,