Should not, by forms or creeds, his mind debase,
That keep in awe an unreflecting race.”
He heeded not what Clarke and Paley say,
But thought himself as good a judge as they;
Yet to the Church profess’d himself a friend, 270}
And would the rector for his hour attend; }
Nay, praise the learn’d discourse, and learnedly defend. }
For, since the common herd of men are blind,
He judged it right that guides should be assign’d;
And that the few who could themselves direct