‘I thus declare Thee my beloved Son,
Whom all my servants shall both hear and own.’”
The following lines on the Deity are what no one but a philosopher and a poet could have written:—
“Before this beauteous world was made,
Before the earth’s foundations laid,
He was, He ever is, we know not how!
No mean succession His duration knows,
That spring of being neither ebbs nor flows:
Whatever was, was God, ere time or place;
Endless duration He, and boundless space,