Whom they pretend, at least, to imitate,

Is equal both to punish and reward;

For few would love their God, unless they feared.

Resistless force and immortality

Make but a lame, imperfect deity;

Tempests have force unbounded to destroy,

And deathless being even the damned enjoy;

And yet heaven's attributes, both last and first,

One without life, and one with life accurst;

But justice is heaven's self, so strictly he,