to

    t Son, ate of men [ 80 ]

    Sucrouble brouging to subdue

    Rational Libertie; yet knohall,

    Since true Libertie

    Is lost, w Reason dwells

    twinnd, and from h no dividual being: [ 85 ]

    Reason in man obscurd, or not obeyd,

    Immediately inordinate desires

    And upstart Passions catc

    From Reason, and to servitude reduce

    Man till ts [ 90 ]

    ito reign

    Over free Reason, God in Judgement just

    Subjects  to violent Lords;

    as undeservedly enthrall

    yrannie must be, [ 95 ]

    to tyrant thereby no excuse.

    Yet somtimes Nations will decline so low

    From vertue, w no wrong,

    But Justice, and some fatal curse annext

    Deprives tie, [ 100 ]

    t: itness t Son

    Of  the shame

    Don to his heavie curse,

    Servant of Servants, on ious Race.

    tter, as the former orld, [ 105 ]

    Still tend from bad to ill God at last

    earied ies, hdraw

    h

    to leave to ted wayes; [ 110 ]

    And one peculiar Nation to select

    From all t, of wo be invokd,

    A Nation from one faito spring:

    es yet residing,

    Bred up in Idol-wors men [ 115 ]

    (Canst tupid grown,

    triark livd, whe Flood,

    As to forsake the living God, and fall

    to worsone

    For Gods! yet  safes [ 120 ]

    to call by Vision from hers house,

    o a Land

    hich he will shew him, and from him will raise

    A migion, and upon him showre

    ion so, t in his Seed [ 125 ]

    All Nations s; raight obeys

    Not knoo  firm believes:

    I see  t not,  Faith

    ive Soile

    Ur of Che Ford [ 130 ]

    to er a cumbrous train

    Of ude;

    Not  trusting all h

    ith God, who calld him, in a land unknown.