The Lectures of Priests, or Morality’s Rules,
Or the pitifull Dreams of the Herd we dispise—
The Puritan dull, and the Prelate precise;
Ye learned Philosophers, Deists devout,
Who know not the Depth of the Thing you’re about— 130
But, I’m willing to own it, ’tis proper you should
And Satan here thanks you: ye’ve done him much Good.
Before ye began to reform Men’s Opinions,
How bounded my Realm, how restrain’d my Dominions!
But now, since ’tis clear that there’s no Revelation, }