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To all his Angels, who with true applause Recount his praises: thus he did to Job, When to extend his fame through Heav'n and Earth, 65

As thou to thy reproach may'st well remember, He ask'd thee: Haft thou seen my servant Job?

Famous he was in Heav'n, on Earth less known;

Where glory is falfe glory, attributed

To things not glorious, men not worthy' of

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They err who count it glorious to fubdue
By conqueft far and wide, to over-run
Large countries, and in field great battels
win,

Great cities by affault: what do these wor

thies,

But rob and fpoil, burn, flaughter, and in

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Peaccable nations, neighb'ring, or remote, Made captive, yet deserving freedom more Than those their conquerors, who leave be

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Nothing but ruin wherefoe'er they rove,
And all the florifhing works of peace de-

stroy,

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Gods,

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Great Benefactors of mankind, Deliverers,
Worshipt with temple, priest and sacrifice;
One is the fon of Jove, of Mars the other;
Till conqu'ror Death discover them [carce

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Rolling in brutish vices, and deform'd, Violent or fhameful death their due reward. But if there be in glory onght of good,"

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It may by means far different be attain’d
Without ambition, war, or violence;
By deeds of peace, by wisdom eminent,
By patience, temperance: I mention ftill
Him, whom thy wrongs with faintly patience

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Poor Socrates (who next more memorable?) By what he taught and fuffer'd for fo doing, For truth's fake fuffering death unjuft, lives

now

Equal in fame to proudest conquerors.

Yet if for fame and glory ought be done, 100 Ought fuffer'd; if young African for fame

His wafted country freed from Punic rage, Thee deed becomes unprais'd, the man at least, And lofes, though but verbal, his reward. Shall I feek glory then, as vain men feek,

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Oft not deferv'd? I feek not mine but his Who fent me', and thereby witnefs whence I am.

To whom the Tempter murm'ring thus

reply'd:

Think not fo flight of glory; therein least Refembling thy great Father: he feeks glory,

And for his glory all things made, all things
Orders and governs; nor content in Heaven
By all his Angels glorify'd, requires

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Glory from men, from all men good or bad, Wife or unwife, no difference, no exemption;

Above all facrifice, or hallow'd gift

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Glory' he requires, and glory he receives Promifcuous from all nations, Jew, or Greek, Or barbarous, nor exception hath declar'd; From us his foes pronounc'd glory' he ex

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To whom our Saviour fervently reply'd.. And reafon; fince his word all things pro

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Though chiefly not for glory as prime end,
But, to fhow forth his goodness, and impart
His good communicable to every foul 125
Freely; of whom what could he lefs expect
Than glory' and benediction, that is thanks,
The flightest, easiest, readiest recompense

From them who could return him nothing else'
And not returning that would likelie strender 130
Contempt inftead. difhonor, obloquy?
Hard recompenfe, unfuitable return

For fo much good, fo much beneficence.
But why should man feek glory, who' of his

own

Hath nothing, and to whom nothing belongs

But contemnation, ignominy', and shame?
Who for fo many benefits receiv'd

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Turn'd recreand to God, ingrate and false,
And fo of all true good himself defpoil'd,
Yet, facrilegious, to himself would take 140
That which to God alone of right belongs;
Yet fo much bounty is in God, fuch grace,
That who advance his glory, not their own,
Them he himself to glory will advance.

So fpake the Son of God; and here

again
Satan had not to answer, but stood struck
With guilt of his own fin, for he himself
Infatiable of glory had loft all',

Yet of another plea bethought him foon.

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Of glory, as thou wilt, fait he, fo

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Worth or not worth the feeking, let it pass: But to a kingdom thou art born, ordain'd To fit upon thy father David's throne;

By mother's fide thy father; though thy right Be now in pow'rful hands, that will not part

Eafly from poffeffion won with arms:
Judaea now and all the promis'd land,
Reduc'd a province under Roman yoke,
Obeys Tiberius; nor is always rul'd

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With temp'rate fway; oft have they viola

ted

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The temple, oft the law with foul affronts,
Abominations rather, as did once
Antiochus and think'ft thou to regain
Thy right by fitting still or thus retiring?
So did not Maccabeus: he indeed
Retir'd unto the defert, but with arms;
And o'er a migthy king so oft prevail'd,
That by strong hand his family obtain'd,
Though priests, the crown, and David's
throne ufurp'd,

With Modin and her fuburbs once content. 170 If kingdom move thee not, let move thee zeal

And duty; zeal and duty are not flow;

But on occafion's forelock watchful wait.
They themselves rather are occafion beft,
Zeal of thy Father's houfe, duty to free 175
Thy country from her Heathen fervitude;
So fhalt thou beft fulfil, best verify

The prophets old, who fung thy endless reign;

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