First part: Misery of man without God.
Second part: Happiness of man with God.
Or, First part: That nature is corrupt. Proved by nature itself.
Second part: That there is a Redeemer. Proved by Scripture.
- Blaise Pascal, Pensées, Section II, 60
Hcav*ns, what a ftrange difeafe is this!—That lov^
Should
fo change men, that one can hardly fwear
They
are the fame!—No mortal liv'd
Lcls
weak, more grave» more temperate than he,
—But
who comes yonder ?—Gnatho, as I live ^
The
Captain's paraiite! and brings along
The
Virgin for a prefent: oh rare wench !
f
How beautiful! I (hall come off, I doubt^
But
fcurvily with my decrepid Eunuch.
This
girl furpaflcs ev'n Thais herfelf —
George Colman's
plays of Terence were renderd thus ^
whan
Kindld from the archive whither Midway
hied.
A lass! He cried, but did not, did he? Not.
But
in the inside of his noodle thought:
we
ought not build unto th' already skying
Tower
of Babel not a single brick
since
tongues are crissd and crosst enow as is,
ne
ought we trowel and mortar walls anew
ne add more height and reaching unto God
lest
some should shimmy up and at the top
be
there confounded furthermore and drop ¬
so
off we went and Midway said, 2 bills
of
greeny money is the all we've got
and
is the sum and total of our wad,
and
thinking, Reynolds sd we ought to read
O'Brian, sallied gladdend thro' St. Vinny's,
whan
Lo! behold to our right shoulder, propt
primly,
there it was, hardcoverd, stood
right
on its ends up: H.M.S. Surprise !
Now
who dove guest at ? Naturally, we went
the
few mean steps it took to gang anear
that
high white shelf and gently claspt the buik,
than
opend it to check the pencilld cost—
you
guessd aright, a twain of bucks| Now Midway
ell-o-elld
whenas his windows lighted
on
that number, and he thankd his Lord
and
put his tender index to the Cross
and
to the Son that sufferd there and Christ
His
arms spread wide in terrible restraint,
His
slender body bleeding, hands and feet
transfixt,
that we might here with joy endite :
His yoke is easy, and His burden, light.
His yoke is easy, and His burden, light.
6.8.14
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