By all,—a blissful immortality,
To them whose holiness on earth shall make
The Spirit capable of heaven, assured.[836]
Strange, then, nor less than monstrous, might be deemed
The failure, if the Almighty, to this point
Liberal[837] and undistinguishing, should hide
The excellence of moral qualities
From common understanding; leaving truth
And virtue, difficult, abstruse, and dark;
Hard to be won, and only by a few;