This double aspect of the matter will plainly appear further on.

A votary of wealth when his brain gives way under disease or age fancies that he is a beggar.

A Methodist when his brain gives way under the same influences fancies that he is forsaken of God.

In both cases the root of the malady is physical, In the lines which Cowper sent on his disappointment to Theodora's sister, and which record the sources of his despondency, there is not a touch of religious despair, or of anything connected with religion.
The catastrophe was brought on by an incident with which religion had nothing to do.

The office of clerk of the Journals in the House of Lords fell vacant, and was in the gift of Cowper's kinsman Major Cowper, as patentee.