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 IDOLATRY.

IF it is true, what the Prophets write, That the Heathen Gods are all stocks and stones, Shall we, for the sake of being polite, Feed them with the juice of our marrow-bones?

And, if Bezaleel and Aholiab drew What the finger of God pointed to their view, Shall we suffer the Roman and Grecian rods To compel us to worship them as Gods ?

They stole them from The Temple of the Lord, And worshiped them that they might make Inspired art abhorred.

The wood and stone were called the holy things, And their sublime intent given to their kings; All the atonements of Jehovah spurned, And criminals to sacrifices turned. _______________________________________________________