It may be true - but who shall add, it must?

To the plain words and sense of Sacred Writ,

With all my heart I reverently submit;

But where it leaves me doubtful, I’m afraid

To call conjecture to my reason’s aid;

Thy thoughts, thy ways, great God! are not as mine,

And to thy mercy I my soul resign.

Jews are with us, but far unlike to those,

Who, led by David, warr’d with Israels foes;

Unlike to those whom his imperial son