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Of the Dissolution

Now, that he could derive this from noother source but Tradition, is clear; becausehe lived a good while before our Saviour’stime, and the divulgation of the Scriptureamong the Heathen. And because it maybe objected, that Æternas may fignisieonly of long continuance, to put the Mat-ter out of all doubt, in another place hefaith,

-- Nam fi nullum finem ejse put ar eatt

JErumnarum homines, nulla ratione vale'rent

ReU/gioffilus at que minis olfistere vatim.

—But if it once appear

That after Death there’s neither Hope notfear,

Then Men might freely triumph, thendisdain

' The Poet’s Tales, and scora their fancy’dPain.

But now we must submit, since Pains w' cfear

Eternal after Death, we know not where-

And