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An answer to the important Queries in our last, on the Fall of Man, by the Same hand.

ETERNAL wisdom form'd the mighty plan,
Of the creation and the fall of man;
Without these two concurring causes, nought
Of false or true religion had been taught.

Attend and hear what says the Great Supreme:
What mortal dares to scan th'Almighty's scheme,
Who dares to ask why this or that was done,
What none can fathom but a God alone?

When I the Earth's foundation first did lay,
Where then wast thou, O man, declare and say,
Have I e'er shewn to you the gates of death?
Or hast thou e'en its doors since thy first breath?

Canst thou bring forth great Mazzaroth in season,
Or guide Arcturus and his sons by reason?
Canst thou Pleiades bind with thy own hands,
Or loose Orion's great and mighty bands?

Canst thou my heav'nly ordinances know,
Or set their dominion in the Earth below?
Then cease to ask how came the fall of man,
Since none can know, or my redemption plan?

They're form'd alone in my omniscient mind
In glory to myself, salvation to mankind.
I am the Builder of the mighty frame,
The great I AM, JEHOVAH is my name:

The seeming fall has into being brought
That great and glorious plan above all thought,
Founded in mercy, favour and mere grace,
In kind compassion to my creatures' case;

All glorious, all important to Mankind,
Raising him kindred to th'angelic mind.
Then cease, ye sons of men, nor wish to know
From whence alternate grace and judgment flow,

Suppose I have permitted man to fall,
Is there not one, who has redeemed all?
Jesus my son, in whom I am well pleas'd,
Who from their fears, my creatures has releas'd,

To him alone I have made known the plan
In depth of wisdom form'd,--the fall of man;
The scene is not yet clos'd nor curtains drawn,
Nor will they be, until the morning dawn

Of that all-glorious resurrection day,
Big with the fate of all the sons of clay.
Then will my son of righteousness arise,
And spread with healing wings the azure skies:

Then will his love present th' entire race
Of fall'n man, before the throne of grace;
Then shall all nations joyful anthems sing,
And heav'n's high arch, with Hallelujahs ring,

Thus spoke to man, the great and mighty Lord,
Which we may find recorded in his word.
Struck dumb with silence, let us henceforth love
All acts of grace and justice to approve,

And humbly walk through all the scenes of life
With minds serene, content and without strife.
Adore our God with reverential praise,
And contemplate his mercy all our days.

This is religion, this will bear the test,
Compar'd with this all vanity's the rest.

Z. Z.