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...by sage, Jehovah, Jove, or Lord! Thou great First Cause, least understood: Who all my sense confin'd To know but this, that Thou art good, And that myself...binding nature fast in fate, Left free the human will. * It maybe proper to observe, that some passages in the preceding Essay, having been unjustly suspected...