N.Blakey inv. & del In Men, we various ruling Passions find, In Women, two almost divide the Kind; Those only fix'd, they first or last obey, The Love of Pleasure, and the Love of Iway. Char: of Women THE Univerfal Prayer. DEO OPT. MA X. FAT ATHER of All! in ev'ry Age, By Saint, by Savage, and by Sage, Thou Great Firft Caufe, least understood: Who all my Senfe confin'd To know but this, that Thou art Good, COMMENTARY. Univerfal Prayer.] It may be proper to obferve, that fome paffages in the preceding Essay, having been unjustly suspected of a tendency towards Fate and Naturalifm, the Author compofed this Prayer as the fum of all, to fhew that his fyftem was founded in free-will, and terminated in piety: that the First Cause was as well the Lord and Governor of the Universe as the Creator of it; and that, by fubmiffion to his will, (the great principle inforced throughout the Essay) was not meant fuffering ourselves to be carried along by a blind determination, but refting in a religious acquiefcence, and |