20 NORTHERN MEMOIRS. 



by how much the more honourable he is than 

 the rest of his fellow creatures, by so much the 

 more nobly and divinely ought he to be exer- 

 cised in the piety of Christianity and self-resig 

 nation. 



Arn. This is good advice, but still methinks 

 I see a storm coming ; not that I prognosticate 

 another revolution ; no, no, rather a desolation 

 by sword or famine, for sin, like a granade, tears 

 up all before it, and rips up the foundation of 

 kingdoms and commonwealths. 



Theoph. It is true, sin is the original cause of 

 all national calamity, and there is no satisfaction 

 for sin, but the death of a Saviour. The cross 

 must purchase the crown : the old man must die 

 to seal the regenerate birth. What have we to 

 do but consider the transitory state of things, and 

 the stability of that that gave them a being ? 

 Here's nothing but rumbling and jumbling 

 about us, till He come, whose right it is to reign, 

 and subdue all monarchs, and make their thrones 

 his footstool. 



Arn. By this prophetick discourse, methinks 

 I smell a strong scent of invasion. But where 

 the storm will fall, God he only knows. Are 

 not the nations about us like an acaldemy of 

 blood, that darkens the air, and terrifies my pen 

 to write such dismal and tragical apprehensions ? 

 Will not the sword, plague, and famine, contend 



