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PGCJ.774.002
1 Jan 1774:41 (521)
The learned Dr. Doddrige, in his notes on the 17th of Acts,
v. 21, says, that the Hymns of Clyanthes to Jupiter is
beyond comparison the purest and finest piece of natural
religion, of its length, which he knows in the whole world
of pagan antiquity, and which, so far as he could recollect,
contained nothing unworthy of a Christian, or, he had almost
said, of an inspired pen. . . [signed] A Reader.
THE PRAYER OF CLEANTHES, THE STOIC PHILOSOPHER, TO THE
SUPREME God.
Translated from the Greek, by Dr. Bowden.
Great father of the skies, whose boundless sway
Both Gods above, and world below, obey,
Thy laws sustain the universal frame,
Various thy titles, but thy pow'r the same.
. . . [50 lines]
Then, with devotion fir'd, we'll hail thee King,
And in eternal songs thy wonders sing;
. . . [2 more lines]
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