in every thing
The Prophets Isaiah and Ezekiel dined with
04 me, and I asked them how they dared so roundly to
05 assert. that God spoke to them; and whether they
06 did not think at the time, that they would be mis-
07 -understood, & so be the cause of imposition,
08 Isaiah answer’d. I saw no God, nor heard
09 any, in a finite organical perception; but my sen-
10 -ses discover’d the infinite in every thing, and as I
11 was then perswaded, & remain confirm’d; that the
12 voice of honest indignation is the voice of God, I
13 cared not for consequences but wrote.
14 Then I asked: does a firm perswasion that a
15 thing is so, make it so?
16 He replied, All poets believe that it does, &
17 in ages of imagination this firm perswasion remo
18 -ved mountains; but many are not capable of a
19 firm perswasion of any thing.
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