And, as old ZENO motion did difpute, The accufation read, the tryal's done, His guilt's as plain as is the noon-day fun. There's not one man in court but's heard to cry, The treafon's clear; fo, let the traytor die! To fentence then we juftly may proceed, Where no day enters, where no no fun appears, And the fad place with its bright presence chears; There he to all eternity must lie In pangs of death, but yet must never die; Doom'd by that power,whom he too late will know, To never-ceafing pains, and everlasting woe. Nor Nor will their guilt or punishment be less, Our happy fouls shall to his mansion fly: Befides, in doubtful cafes we deride That man who will not chufe the fureft fide; Prudence commands us with a cautious care, Against the worst may happen to prepare; And names those men alone discreet and wife, Who chuse their road where certain fafety lies. For once then, let the cafe as doubtful go, Whether there be a Deity or no, Till Till after death the point must needs remain A wife man therefore would believe it here, Then will the disbeliever feel his rod. Why then will men their wisdom thus betray, And by their folly caft themselves away? In things of leffer moment and concern, They can with eafe the safest way difcern; But when th' immortal foul is made the ftake, With what contentedness the fools mistake! If we on roads of war and danger go, And are not fure but we may meet our foe, Wifely we arm against the worst event, Left made his flaves we should too late repent; This differs from our cafe in terms and name, But in reality is juft the fame. Belief of God our fouls fecurely arms, And makes them proof against all future harms.` And find a God, 'twill coft us very dear. Belief like weapons we about us bear, To guard our felves from danger and from fear. If we fucceed, as there's no doubt we shall, If not, the worst event that we can have, For For the third fort, who by their lives dethrone Better to own no Lord, than this our Lord betray. And this is fome, tho' but a bad excuse, And that they might as well affirm no God there is) Or |