For as the pointed fun-beams flies

Through peopled earth and starry skies,
All nature owns thy nod;

We fee its energy prevail

Through beings ever-rifing scale,
From nothing-up to God.

By thee infpiréd, the generous breast,
In bleffing others only bleft,

With goodness large and free,
Delights the widow's tears to flay,
To teach the blind their fmootheft way,
And aid the feeble knee.

O come! and o'er my bofom reign,
Expand my heart, inflame each vein,
Through every action fine;
Each low, each selfish wish controul;
With all thy effence warm my foul,
And make me wholly thine.

If from thy facred paths I turn,

Nor feel their griefs, while others mourn,

Nor with their pleasures glow; Banished from God, from blifs, and thee,

My own tormentor let me be,

And groan in hopeless woe.

To the Memory of the immortal PTOLEMY.

EST learned Sage, whofe facred name
Still memory holds dear;

Secure of an immortal fame,
And freed from evěry care,

Prophet

Prophet of fate, thy skill divine
The rolling planets fhow,

And tell us mortals as they fhine,
How much to thee we owe.

Nor ever may tnhallowed feet
On thee regardless tread;

But pafs with awe, and revérence meet,
The mansions of the dead.

No more doft thou thy vigils keep,
Thy watchings now are o'er;
O peaceful may thy afhes fleep,
Till ftars fhall fhine no more!

Ere long muft we ourfelves betake
Each to his darkfome bed;
And lie till the laft trump fhall wake
The nation's of the dead.

O then may I triumphant rife,
And joyfully repair,

To meet the Sage in cloudlefs fkies,

And fean his lectures there!

The THRACIAN.

HE Thracian infant entering into life,

ΤΗΣ

Both parents mourn for, both receive with grief:

The Thracian-infant, fnatched by death away,
Both parents to the grave with joy convey.
This (Greece and Rome) you with derifion view;
This is mere Thracian ignorance to you:
But if you weigh the cuffom you defpife,
The Thracian ignorance may make you wife.

M ROB JOHNSON

Atatis 24

CHA P. III. Anfwering the Arguments produced to prove, that man is purely paffive in the work of converfion, and that it is done by an irresistible act of God.

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BJECTION 16, 17. God promifeth to write his law in the hearts of his people, and to put it into their inward parts; that he will give them one heart, and one way that they may fear him for ever, and will make an everlasting covenant with them; that he will not turn away from them to do them good, but will put his fear in their hearts that they shall not depart from him, Jer. xxxii. 39, 40. 3 I

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