Jew Bill: Israelite oratorios and English politics
Shew me the man that dares and sings
Great DavicPs verse to British strings: Sublime attempt! Isaac Watts, T h e Hebrew Poet', in Reliquiae Juveniles: Miscellaneous Thoughts in Prose and Verse, on Natural, Moral, and Divine Subjects, Written chiefly in Younger Years (1734)
It is no doubt, as worthy of Praise in an Englishman to fight in
Defence of his Religion, whenever it is necessary in order to preserve our Church, as it was heretofore in the Jews to take up Arms in Defence of theirs: And, to speak Truth, our Nation is in point of Religion, in Circumstances that pretty much resemble the Jewish] for, let our Enemies come from what Quarter they will, who can say that our Religion is so out of Danger, that a prudent Lover of it will have no Cause to be afraid of its being hurt? A Dissertation on Patriotism: Shewing, the Use of those Two Great Qualifications of a Patriot, Integrity and Courage (1735) 1
A Seasonable Warning and Caution against the Insinuations of Papists and Jacobites in favour of the Pretender
Being a Letter from an Englishman at the Court of Hanover