Did damn, pass by, and reprobate
The most of human race.
Farther than this I cannot go,
Till Tophet take me in.
But, O, forbid that I should know
This mystery of sin.[133]
Such were the amenities of religious controversy in the eighteenth century!
Again, in a lighter but still intensely earnest vein, he caricatures his adversaries’ teaching—
The righteous God consigned
Them over to their doom,