And urge his flock to virtue, though he knew
The very heathen taught the virtues too.
Nor was this moral minister afraid
To ask of inspiration’s self the aid 20
Of truths by him so sturdily maintain’d,
That some confusion in the parish reign’d.
“Heathens,” they said, “can tell us right from wrong,
But to a Christian higher points belong.”
Yet Jacques proceeded, void of fear and shame,
In his old method, and obtain’d the name