Blush for hypocrisy, if not for guilt.
The future fear’d?—an infidel, and fear?
Fear what? a dream? a fable?—How thy dread,
Unwilling evidence, and therefore strong,
Affords my cause an undesign’d support! 1322
How disbelief affirms, what it denies!
“It, unawares, asserts immortal life.”—
Surprising! infidelity turns out
A creed, and a confession of our sins:
Apostates, thus, are orthodox divines.