Whatever counsels have approved his creed,
The preface, sure, was his own act and deed.
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Our church will have the preface read, you'll say: }
'Tis true, but so she will the Apocrypha; }
And such as can believe them freely may. }
But did that God, so little understood,
Whose darling attribute is being good,
From the dark womb of the rude chaos bring
Such various creatures, and make man their king,