Christianity the light of the moral world: : a poem. . jive luftre, difperfes all the clouds of ignorance and error ?and fully difplays the bright profpeel: of heaven, from whence it felf isrevealed. Thus much feemed requifite to be premifed by way of introduction,becaufe chriftianity and paganifm are considered in this view throughoutthe following poem. The more judicious and difcerning reader willreadily perceive it to be a. juvenile and crude compofition. And thetruth is, it was written above eight years ago, only as a chrijlmas-ex-erctje ; and has received but very fmall improvements fince
Christianity the light of the moral world: : a poem. . jive luftre, difperfes all the clouds of ignorance and error ?and fully difplays the bright profpeel: of heaven, from whence it felf isrevealed. Thus much feemed requifite to be premifed by way of introduction,becaufe chriftianity and paganifm are considered in this view throughoutthe following poem. The more judicious and difcerning reader willreadily perceive it to be a. juvenile and crude compofition. And thetruth is, it was written above eight years ago, only as a chrijlmas-ex-erctje ; and has received but very fmall improvements fince that time,except the addition of fome notes and obfervations, which may ferveto fupport or illuftrate it, where need requires. If the kind and fa-vourable reception, which it met with on that occafion, has too eajilyprevailed with me to offer it to a more public perufal; it is humbly pre-fumed that the foregoing circumftances, together with the good inten-tion of the author, will befpeak all necejjary candour and indulgence toits many G H R 1- CHRISTIANITY THE Light of the Moral World. O Goodnefs infinite, Goodnefs immenfe!That all this Good of Evil fhall produce,And Evil turn to Good! more wonderfulThan that, which by Creation firft brought forth Light out of Darknefs! Milton. B. 12. NOT from eternity, myfterious name!Sole attribute of God! too big for thoughtOf man to comprehend! this pond rous globeOf earth felf-poisd, nor kindred orbs, that range Not from Eternity] The Exigence of the exiftent Being, has been abundantly demon-World from Eternity, was afierted by many fixated. See Cudwortbs Syft. B. Philofophers. But the Abfurdity of c. 5. Stillingfleets Orig. Sac. B. 3. c. Opinion, and the Creation of the World Clarkes Demonftration Prop. 3. Enquiry intoout of nothing by one fuprcme, eternal, felf- the human Soul, Vol. 2. page 345. C Through 18 Chriftianity the Light Through fpace unbounded, far from mortal ken,In fpheric order
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