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Or misconceiving somewhat of this speech
Scattered from mouth to mouth, as I

suppose.

Believe ye will not see him any more
About the world with his divine regard!
For all was as I say, and now the man
Lies as he lay once, breast to breast with God.

[Cerinthus read and mused; one added this :

"If Christ, as thou affirmest, be of men

Mere man, the first and best but nothing more,-
Account Him, for reward of what He was,
Now and for ever, wretchedest of all.

For see; Himself conceived of life as love,
Conceived of love as what must enter in,
Fill up, make one with His each soul He loved :
Thus much for man's joy, all men's joy for Him.
Well, He is gone, thou sayest, to fit reward.
But by this time are many souls set free,

And very many still retained alive :

Nay, should His coming be delayed awhile,

Say, ten years longer (twelve years, some compute) See if, for every finger of thy hands,

There be not found, that day the world shall end, Hundreds of souls, each holding by Christ's word That He will grow incorporate with all,

With me as Pamphylax, with him as John,

Groom for each bride! Can a mere man do this?

Yet Christ saith, this He lived and died to do.

Call Christ, then, the illimitable God,

Or lost!"

But 'twas Cerinthus that is lost.]

CALIBAN UPON SETEBOS;

OR,

NATURAL THEOLOGY IN THE ISLAND.

"THOU THOUGHTEST THAT I WAS ALTOGETHER SUCH AN ONE AS THYSELF."

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