Plate 21-22

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I have always found that Angels
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have the vanity to speak of
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themselves as the only wise; this 
they
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do with a confident insolence 
sprouting
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from systematic reason-
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ing

[Verse 1]
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Thus Swedenborg boasts that what he 
writes is new; tho' it is only the
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Contents or Index of already 
publish'd books;A man carried a
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monkey about for a show, & because 
he was a little wiser than the 
monkey,...
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grew vain, and conciev'd himself as 
much wiser than seven men.

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[Refrain 1]
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It is so with Swedenborg; he shows 
the folly of
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churches & exposes hypocrites, till 
he imagines that all are
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religious, & himself the single one 
on earth that ever broke a
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net... Now hear a plain fact;

[Verse 2]
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Swedenborg has not written one new 
truth. And now hear
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another he has written all the old 
falshoods. And now hear the
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reason                    He 
conversed with Angels who are all
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religious, & conversed not with 
Devils who all hate religion, for he
 was

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incapable thro' his conceited 
notions Thus Swedenborgs
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writings are a recapitulation of all
 superficial, opinions,
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and an analysis of the more sublime,
 but no further
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Have now another plain fact- Anyone 
of mechanical talents may;

[Refrain 2]
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From the writings of Paracelsus 
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or Jacob Behmen, produce ten 
thousand vol-
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umes of equal value with 
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Swedenborgs, and from those of Dante
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 or Shake
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spear, an infinite number But 
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when he has done this, let him not
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say that he knows better than 
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his master, for he only holds a 
candle
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in sunshine