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self of the Comfort of his Children, and his Children of the Comfort of a Father.
And where was the Religion of all this? In short, what of Matrimony was in it all? what was it but, as I said before, a poisoned Stream from a corrupted Fountain, a dishonest Flame quenched in a dishonest Manner? And it can be no otherwise, where the Soul is governed by the Body, where the spiritual Part is over-ruled by the fleshly, where the sensual directs the rational, as is the Case here exactly; I say, it can be no otherwise. The Order of Things is inverted; Nature is set with her Bottom upward; Heaven is out of the Mind, and Hell seems to have taken Possession.
Nature inverted, the Infernal Fires
Burn inward, raging in corrupt Desires:
Such as the sulph'rous Lake from whence they came,
Alike the Fuel, and alike the Flame.
Burn inward, raging in corrupt Desires:
Such as the sulph'rous Lake from whence they came,
Alike the Fuel, and alike the Flame.
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