The Rev, R, Valpy^s Sermons, 
Gracious now the orbs of light, 
Brighten up the delug’d plains ; 
And the bell from j’onder height, 
Tells that tranquil midnight reigns ! 
allen’s cot. 
A Song. 
In a green fertile spot, the blue mountains 
among, 
O’erlooking the valleys and dells, 
Hear a slow“Stealing streamlet, v/hich ripples 
along, ^ 
Stands the cot—where my lov’d Allen 
dwells ; 
O’er the spot rosy health and contentment 
preside ; 
And my bosom thus faithfully tells,— 
That still to be happy is still to reside 
In the cot—where my lov’d Allen dwells ! 
Give splendor to vain ones, to Pride her 
desires, 
All the baubles which Fortune’s lap 
swells; 
But give Ellen the heart of the man she 
admires, 
And the cot—where her lov’d Allen 
dwells 1 
SENTIMENTS 
OF 
The dead to the LIVING. 
Ye flutt’ring gay, ye thoughtless proud, 
Who tread this ball, 
A bloodless corpse nov/ calls aloud ; 
Then mark its call ! 
Mark it all you, who careless run 
This life away j 
Who, basking in your rising sun. 
Consume the day: 
Know that your lives are but a sleep. 
By dreams oppress’d; 
And those-, who stay behind to weep. 
Will soon find rest. 
My spirit’s fled with early flight 
Above the sky, 
- To dwell in realms of endless light, 
With God on high ! 
My troubled hours that here roll’d by, 
Were scarce a breath ; 
For those who creep, and those who fiy, 
** Must rest in death. 
Then what’s this giddy round of dust, 
On which we tread ? 
What ? but a spacious field in trust. 
For aU the dead 1 
And, what are you, who, on this ball, 
Draw your harsh breath? 
The rich, the poor, the mighty, all 
Are dusty death i 
SERMONS 
Preached on Public OccasionSf 
With Notes, and an Appendix, 
On Various and Important Subjects, 
By R. VALPY, D.D. F.A.S. 
IN TWO VOLUMES. 
[If Dr. Va ley’s name and character were 
not already well known to the public as 
the author of many valuable works, these 
Sermons and their Notes would fully en¬ 
title him, as a clergyman and politician, to 
the epithets of liberal, judicious, and en¬ 
lightened. Among the following extracts, 
all of which possess eminent claims to 
attention, the Observations on the Church 
of England, are particularly curious, as 
proceeding from a zealous member or its 
establishment, who candidly admits some 
of its imperfections and dangers, and freely - 
points out the practicable means of combin¬ 
ing reform with security.] . 
CHRISTIAN SOCIETIES IN ENOLAND. 
N the year 1701, a Society was 
formed by some distinguished cha¬ 
racters of the Church of England, with 
the pious design of extending trie in¬ 
fluence of the Gospel, in various parts 
of tlie world, particularly in the British 
Plantations in America. This zealous 
body of men received the approbation 
and support of King William III. who 
granted tliem a charter under the deno¬ 
mination of The Incorporated Society 
for the Propagation of the Gospel in Fo¬ 
reign Parts. 
Some Members of that Society, who 
bad originally formed a plan for advan¬ 
cing the honor of God, and the good 
of mankind, by promoting Christian 
knowledge both at home and in other 
parts of the world, established a Society 
distinct from the Corporation, and are 
known by the name of The Society for 
promoting Christian Knowledge. 
Zealous were the endeavours, and ex¬ 
tensive were the benefits, of these So¬ 
cieties. Cliristian knowledge began to 
dawn over countries, whicli had liitherto 
been involved in the gloom of ignorance 
and superstition, by the exertions of the 
former. The first object of the latter 
was to procure and encourage the esta¬ 
blishment of Ciiarity Schools in all parts 
of the kingdom, for the education of 
ciiildren of both sexes, in religious know¬ 
ledge and useful industry. An impor¬ 
tant part of their attention was directed 
to disoerse, both at home and abroad, 
'• Bibles, 
