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IDOLATRY.
IF it is true, what the Prophets write,
That the Heathen Gods are all stocks and stones,
Shall we, for the sake of being polite,
Feed them with the juice of our marrow-bones?
And, if Bezaleel and Aholiab[1] drew
What the finger of God pointed to their view,
Shall we suffer the Roman and Grecian rods
To compel us to worship them as Gods ?
They stole them from
The Temple of the Lord,
And worshiped them that they might make
Inspired art abhorred.
The wood and stone were called the holy things,
And their sublime intent given to their kings;
All the atonements of Jehovah spurned,
And criminals to sacrifices turned.
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- ↑ The artificers of the decorations to tho Mosaic tabernacle. See Eхodus chap. 31.
