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would learn to fear GOD, and to observe his laws; if the Earth were full of the Knowledge of the Lord as the waters cover the Seas^[1], Nature herself would wear another face. All would be peace, harmony, and love. Men would become merciful; Savage Brutes would become tame; and the tame Brutes would no more groan under the lash, and bear the weight of the sins of Men; but all, both Men and Brutes would experience the blessing of the renovating change. When the LION shall eat straw like the OZ, as he once did^[2], the Lion will be as tame as the Ox;

1. Isaiah xi. 9.
2. And God said—To EVERY BEAST of the Earth—I have given every green Herb for Meat. Gen. i. 30.

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