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Av'rice! thy hands gain'd not the prize,

Nor thine, luxurious ease;

Wealth has no favorites in the skies,
There-luxury.no pleas.

Ambition! to the Saviour's throne,
Thy yesterdays have borne,

Tales thy own heart would scarce have known,
Deeds thy own hönor scorn.

One world to conquer, one to gain,
For thee his only end,

This, pride rejects with mad disdain,
That, lust doth still defend.

Come pleasure's votaries, giddy train,
Turn back th' unwilling eye,
O'er the long list of moments slain,
The year too young to die.

Ask ye of conscience and of thought,
Of your designs and toys,
If time were lent, if life were bought,
To waste in sensual joys.

And you more sober maniac too,
Train'd in false wisdom's school,

Time has no eulogy in you,
And bears none for a fool.

All

ye who lost in folly's maze,
Dance thoughtlessly along,
Glance here the roving eye and seize
Instruction from my song.

Our works immortal as the mind,
Or good or ill their cast,
Perennial verdure leave behind,
Or death's eternal waste.

Cease then, immortals, from the strife
The passions love to wage,
Ascend faith's ever conqu'ring car

The world and lust engage.

Thus spake the Sage, and thus he thought,
And thus his guests he press'd,
Then kneeling to the altar brought
His plaint and heav'n address'd.

"Reason is vain, and passion worse,
"To lead them to the skies,
"Jesus may plead, JEHOVAH curse,

"Man hears, forgets-and dies."

"Thy grace alone, Almighty love!
"Can pow'r and will impart ;
"Time to redeem and life improve,

"And joy to warm the heart."

"Come then, celestial spirit, come,
"On love's swift wings descend;
"Make Wisdom in each heart a home,
"To virtue each a friend."

Time-child of mercy!-grant us still,
"Time's ruins to repair,

"And give, 'tis all we need! the will
"T'improve the New-born Year."

"Teach by thy own resistless pow'r,
"Its undiscover'd worth,

"And be one.blest Eternal hour,
"The issue of its birth.”

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ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS.

A. is requested to continue his communications.

The Bard Christianized, is requested to forward the next efforts of his muse.

The Letter from Matilda, is received and will be published in our next number.

Tineus is too personal to be admitted a place in these pages.

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distinct publication was piece of respect to congratulate printed, without his name, in him in a body. He was gratified 1730. It is entitled Free by their compliment, but told Thoughts on the most probable them, that their learning, piety, Means of reviving the Dissent- and zeal would be more to his ing Interest, occasioned by the honour, and give him a thousand late Enquiry into the Causes of times more pleasure, than his its Decay. Mr. Doddridge's degree, or any other token of pamphlet, in which he material-public esteem.' In the same

ly differed from the author of year, he published Ten Serthe Enquiry, is a model of mons on the Power and Grace the candour and politeness of Christ, and the Evidences of with which remarks may be made on the writings and opin- Dr. Kippis has given an account ions of another. In 1732, he of them in their chronological order; published Sermons on the Ed-a circumstance, to which Mr. Orton, ucation of Children; which contain, in a little compass, a variety of affecting motives, to animate parents in the discharge of their momentous duty. In 1735, he published his 'Sermons to young People*.'

Our limits will not permit us to notice his many single sermons. But VOL. I. NO. 2.

in his very copious Memoirs, had not attended. We must notice, however, that he published a sermon, on a very melancholy and affecting occasion the loss of his eldest daughter, a hopeful child, nearly five years old. It is entitled, "Submission to Divine Providence on the Death of Children, recommended." Few superior instances of pathetic eloquence are to be met with in the English language.

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his glorious Gospel.' The three gence, by many persons of differlast, on the Evidences of the ent persuasions, to some of whom Gospel,' were afterward sepa-they were eminently useful.rately printed, at the particular The character given of them by request of one of the first dig a foreign divine, on their being nitaries of the church of Eng-translated into Dutch, was, that land. They contain a very ju- they united orthodoxy with dicious summary of several of moderation, zeal with meekness, the principal arguments in sup- and deep, hidden wisdom with port of the Christian revelation, uncommon clearness; that simand especially of those which plicity shone in them without prove the genuineness and cre- coldness, elegance without paintdibility of the evangelical history. ing, and sublimity without bomThe author had the satisfaction bast. of knowing that these discourses were the means of converting to the belief of our holy religion two gentlemen of distinguished abilities, who had been sceptical upon this head. One of them who had endeavoured to prejudice others against the evidences and contents of the gospel, became a zealous preacher of Christianity, as well as a shining ornament to it in his life and manners.

In 1743, Dr. Doddridge published an answer to the pamphlet, entitled Christianity not founded on Argument,' which, under the appearance of zeal for orthodoxy, contained, in reality, an attack upon our holy religion. This answer was comprised in three letters, written with the utmost politeness and candour, and for which he was thanked by some men of distinguished rank and abilities. ter, in particular, is thought to contain the best illustration, and most rational and full defence of the influences of the Spirit upon the human heart, which had hitherto been published.

The last let

In 1739, our author published the first volume of The Family Expositor; or, a Paraphrase and Version of the New Testament with critical Notes, and a practical Improvement of each Section. This volume contained the former part of the History of our Lord Jesus Christ, as recorded in the four Evangelists, disposed in the order of an harmony. The second volume was published in 1740, concluding the evangelical history. Soon after, he published, The Scripture Doctrine of Salvation by Grace through Faith, illustrated and improved in two Sermons.' Dr. Doddridge was active in This was followed by Practical the scheme for erecting a county Discourses on Regeneration,' infirmary at Northampton. He which had been delivered on published, in 1748, a Sermon in Sunday evenings, and at- favour of that benevolent detended with remarkable dili

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In the same year, the Doctor published, The Principles of the Christian Religion, expressed in plain and easy Verse, for the Use of Children and Youth.' In this performance, ease, plainness, and elegance are happily united; but it might have been more extensively useful, if no doctrine of a disputable nature had been introduced.

-sign; and the success of it was under the divine blessing, be the greatly owing to his exertions. means of spreading a warm and

In 1748, appeared the third

In the same year, Dr. Dod-lively sense of religion. dridge became a member of a Philosophical Society at North-volume of the Family Exposiampton. In the course of their meetings in 1744, he exhibited a paper on the doctrine of pendulums, and another on the laws of the communication of motion, as well in elastic as in non-elastic bodies. The most material propositions relating to both were set in a very plain light in these papers. He likewise wrote and communicated to the Royal Society three papers, which evince the extraordinary activity of his mind.

tor, containing the Acts of the
Apostles, with Additional Notes
on the Harmony of the Evan-
gelists; and Two Disserta-
tions, 1. On sir Isaac Newton's
System of the Harmony. 2. On
the New Testament.' This
volume is a very valuable part of
Dr. Doddridge's great work.
In the dissertation on sir Isaac
Newton's scheme for reducing
the several histories contained
in the Evangelists to their pro-
per order, Dr. Doddridge suc-
cessfully combats sir Isaac's hy-
pothesis. But, at the same time,
he pays him a very fine compli-
ment. I cannot,' says the dot-
tor, set myself to this task,
without feeling the fatigue of it
sensibly allayed, by the pleasure
with which I reflect on the firm
persuasion which a person of
his unequalled sagacity must
have entertained of the truth of
Christianity, in order to his be-
ing engaged to take such pains
in illustrating the sacred oracles:
a pleasure, which I doubt not
every good reader will share
with me; especially as (accord-
ing to the best information,
whether public or private, I
could ever get) his firm faith in
the divine revelation discovered

In 1745, he published The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul, illustrated in a course of serious addresses, suited to persons of every character and circumstance, with a devout meditation or prayer added to each chapter. This was one of the most popular and useful of his practical works. It met with the warmest applause, not only from the Dissenters, but from several persons of rank, learning, and piety, both clergy and laity, in the established church. A person of distinguished literature and goodness always carried the work with him; declaring that it was every thing on the subject of serious and practical devotion. In 1747, Dr. Doddridge pub-itself in the most genuine fruits lished Some remarkable Pas- of substantial virtue and piety; sages in the Life of the Hon.Col. and consequently gives us the James Gardiner.' His design justest reason to conclude, was not merely to perform a that he is now rejoicing in the tribute of gratitude to the me- happy effects of it infinitely mory of an invaluable friend, but more than in all the applause of duty to God and his fellow-which his philosophical works creatures; as he had a cheerful have procured him; though they hope that the narrative would, have commanded a fame lasting

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