The last couplet is a direct acknowledgment of a future state, and was probably omitted to avoid contradicting the infidel tenets of Bolingbroke.
[1464] Christians have never raised the objection. They only say that since this world is not a kingdom of the just, reason, as well as revelation, teaches that there must be a kingdom to come.
[1465] Bolingbroke, Fragment 57: "Christian divines complain that good men are often unhappy, and bad men happy. They establish a rule, and are not agreed about the application of it; for who are to be reputed good christians? Go to Rome, they are papists. Go to Geneva, they are calvinists. If particular providences are favourable to those of your communion they will be deemed unjust by every good protestant, and God will be taxed with encouraging idolatry and superstition. If they are favourable to those of any of our communions they will be deemed unjust by every good papist, and God will be taxed with nursing up heresy and schism."
[1466] MS.:
This way, I fear, your project too must fall,
Will just what serves one good man serve 'em all?
[1467] After ver. 142 in some editions:
Give each a system, all must be at strife;
What diff'rent systems for a man and wife?—Warburton.
[1468] Young, Universal Passion, Sat. iii. 61.
The very best ambitiously advise.
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