Calls us to penance? More destroyed than thus, We should be quite abolished, and expire. What fear we then? what doubt we to incense 95 His utmost ire? which, to the height enraged, Will either quite consume us, and reduce To nothing this essential—happier far Than miserable to have eternal being!— Or, if our substance be indeed divine, 100 And cannot cease to be, we are at worst On this side nothing;
