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...illustrated the argument which Raphael, the archangel, addressed to our first parent in Paradise : — ' The Great Architect Did wisely to conceal, and not divulge His secrets to be scann'd by them who ought Rather admire ; or, if they list to try Conjecture, He his fabric of the...

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