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""Blessed are ye that sow beside all Waters!"

A LAY SERMON,

ADDRESSED TO THE

HIGHER AND MIDDLE CLASSES,

ON THE EXISTING

Distresses and Discontents.

By S. T. COLERIDGE, Esq.

Εὰν μὴ ἐλπίζητε, ἀνέλπιςον οὐκ ευρήσετε, ἀνεξερεύνητον ὄν καὶ ἄπορον,
HERACLITUS apud Theodoret, Vol. iv. p. 716.

If ye do not hope, ye will not find: for in despairing ye block up the
mine at its mouth! ye extinguish the torch, even when ye are already
in the shaft.

LONDON:

PRINTED FOR GALE AND FENNER, PATERNOSTER ROW;

J. M. RICHARDSON, ROYAL EXCHANGE; AND

J. HATCHARD, PICCADILLY.

1817.

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DRAW NOT OUR LAWS TO HIM, BUT HIS TO OURS;

UNTRUE TO BOTH, SO PROSPEROUS IN NEITHER,

THE IMPERFECT WILL BRINGS FORTH BUT BARREN FLOWERS!

UNWISE AS ALL DISTRACTED INTERESTS BE,

STRANGERS TO GOD, FOOLS IN HUMANITY :

TOO GOOD FOR GREAT THINGS AND TOQ GREAT FOR GOOD,

WHILE STILL "I DARE NOT" WAITS UPON "I WOU'D!"

S. Curtis, Printer,
Camberwell.

A Lay Sermon,

ADDRESSED

TO THE HIGHER AND MIDDLE CLASSES

ON THE EXISTING

DISTRESSES AND DISCONTENTS.

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