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"." In the digital collection Eighteenth Century Collection Online Demo. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/e/eccodemo/K046227.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 28, 2024.
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The justly celebrated Dr. Young, in recommending this divine book of heavenly wisdom to the giddy and thoughtless world, in his Night Thoughts, has the following elegant lines:
Perhaps thou'dst laugh but at thine own expence, This counsel strange should I presume to give; Retire and read thy Bible to be gay; There truths abound of sov'reign aid to peace. Ah, do not prize it less because inspired. Read and revere the sacred page; a page, Where triumphs immortality; a page, Which not the whole creation could produce; Which not the conflagration shall destroy; In nature's ruin not one letter's lost, 'Tis printed in the mind of gods for ever, Angels and men assent to what I sing!