Verse 1
Contempt he justly might express
For his own heathen-deities,
His ear from idle questions turn,
And all their names and fables scorn;
But JESUS is th’ important Name
In which the world’s Salvation came,
The only Name to sinners given,
More worth than all in earth and heaven!
Verse 2
Yet curious man, whose reasoning eye
Would into all creation pry,
Hath no innate desire to know
The things of God Reveal’d below;
Averse from the inquiring pain,
He counts that only knowledge vain,
On which his present peace depends
And bliss supreme which never ends.