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love will not only cover many sins but 
help many out of them: indeed these 
will be a strong guard unto you, and 
grief will hardly get fooling long, where 
ineeknesse and tier concomitants dwell. 
When you lose a poor father, or a 
rich friend, you will be able to say you 
knew them mortal, and will be quiet, 
though not sensless. It will fit vou for 
meditation, a duty even out ot doors, 
and very hardly practised: know the sad 
experience of passion, how it barrs the 
door against prayer and other duties: 
Oh! liow can we lift up wrathlull hands 
to heaven. They say, anger is the 
boyling of the blood a!^)Ut the heart, 
I am sure it cools the heart in spiri¬ 
tuals: God took this to himself, when he 
discovered his name to Moses, a pitifull, 
pardoningj long-suffering, God. Oh 
that,you might be God-like, Christ-like, 
Moscs-hke; Michael contesting with the 
dragon, maintained his meekness; and 
Paul sayes, it is the woman’s ornament. 
The Lord make you meek from the true 
root, (my dear child.) 
11. Bew'are of a trilling loose heart, 
which hath been the guise and the h'ane 
of many in these last days of liberty, 
and the decay of that old solemn, se¬ 
rious spirit, and sober, that was among 
and upon the ancient professors of re¬ 
ligion, was very visible, and broke out 
to the common vanity of the world in 
diet, clothes, recreations, 'condemn’d 
and threatiied, Isa. S. But so loose in 
holy things, that who almost did not 
make religion an indifferent thing, and 
all duties concerning it accor<lingiy, 
(though the like reformation vvas nevejr 
known in any age.) But new tempta¬ 
tions drew forth old corruptions, made 
good by the changes tlie Israelites were 
under, and their trifling with G()d un¬ 
der all his bounty to them, till they 
scorn manna and ease, and would have 
gariick and ofipression. It much ap¬ 
peal'd in ihis, that it grew common to 
dispute principles, even the highest 
and most consented to; as also iii 
slighting promises, vows, ingagements. 
Oaths, inconstancy in duty, undervalu¬ 
ing auihority; shaken men were with 
every vrind, like to every company; 
ministers many words, and frothy, shells, 
and out-sides, most men playing fast 
and loose wirh God. Do hut mind in 
your reading, what a sober, plain, un« 
aflected, holy strayn i^ in Dad, Sihs, 
Preston, Hookerf Burrozes, and many 
other good men, to wlwit you find in 
some others, though it may be good men 
too. 
Ah (my cliilde), a frothy wit and a 
vltious life carry directly to atheisme, 
which is the master mischief of this age, 
• • -n / S * 
yea, m professing England. 
Look to a day of reckoning, Cfirist’s 
spiiit was ever serious, never knowa 
to laugh. Be sober and watch, (dear 
ciiild) 
[Tb he ccnlhmed.l^ 
ORIGINAL POETRY. 
EPITAPH 
ON ELEANOR H 
—, WHO DIED IN THE 
author’s service. 
By peter PINDAR, Esq_. 
■pEACE to the shade of gentle Nell, 
Who had no sins to be forgiven : 
Yet should her soul be doom’d to Hell, 
There surely cannot be a Heav’n I 
Somers^ Town, “Juty, 1811. 
C O R R A LINN, 
A LAMENT. 
By JOHN MAYNE. 
■when I was last cn bonny Clyde, 
It was a joytu’ time to me—i 
My lover smiling by my side, 
^nd his sweet bairn upon my knee 
We rov’d about yon castle-wa'. 
We gather’d dow’rs at Corra Liniii, 
Delighted wi’ the water fa’, 
Yet wond’ring at the rumbling din. 
But never mair will bonny Clyde, 
Nor Corra Linn ha’e charms for me, 
For Death has pierc’d my true-love's side^ 
And in his death my fate I see! 
ANACREON ON HIS LYRE. 
I'ROM THE GREEK. 
By the Rev W. FAULKNiR, 
^^TREUS, thy race divine, I’ll sing. 
And Cadmus too, sliall tune my string l 
But ah! my lyre no string will move. 
Nor oitght repeat but strains of love. 
My lyu'e, of late, I strung anew. 
And bade to strains of loye adieu, 
Herculeas 
