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369: it was this that our great poet King David desired so fervently & invokes so patheticly,
370: saying by this he conquers enemies & governs kingdoms;
371: and we so loved our God, that we cursed in his name all deities of surrounding nations, and asserted that they had rebelled;
372: from these opinions the vulgar came to think that all nations would at last be subject to the jews.
373: This said he, like all firm perswasions, is come to pass, for all nations believe the jews code and worship the jews god, and what greater subjection can be?
374: I heard this with some wonder, & must confess my own conviction.
375: After dinner I ask’d Isaiah to favour the world with his lost works, he said none of equal value was lost.
376: Ezekiel said the same of his.
377: I also asked Isaiah what made him go naked and barefoot three years?
378: he answer’d, the same that made our friend Diogenes the Grecian.
379: I then asked Ezekiel, why he eat dung, & lay so long on his right & left side?
381: this the North American tribes practise, & is he honest who resists his genius or conscience only for the sake of present ease or gratification?
