One to his pastor or his church untrue;
All have the truth with mutual zeal profess’d,
And why, dear Doctor, differ from the rest?”
“’Tis my hard fate,” with serious looks replied
The man of doubt, “to err with such a guide.”— 290
“Then why not turn from such a painful state?”—
The doubting man replied, “It is my fate.”
Strong in her zeal, by texts and reasons back’d,
In his grave mood the Doctor she attack’d;
Cull’d words from Scripture to announce his doom,