It was his tender care to me,

Upheld my youthful way;
And length'n'd out m fpan to fee
Once more my natal day.

The day when I a ffranger came,
To fojourn on this earth;
But he, my God! (I'll blefs his name)
Preferv'd me from my birth.

Think, O, my foul! what thanks are due,
(Beyond thy pow'r to pay)
To him for mercies ever new,
By thee receiv'd each day.
If to create, preferve, redeem,

As wond'rous acts thou fee;
Then ever make his love thy theme,

For thefe are done for thee.

Thro' all my life, while years do bring
This day in annual round;
In praising Him, my heav'nly king,
May I be ever found.

Then, tho' my path thro' life fhould be,
With rofes thick o'erlaid;

On him I'll e'er rely, for he

Will keep me undifmay'd. While I live he is my friend; I through my Saviour's love Shall hope, whene'er this life To be receiv'd above.

may end,

J. B.

Praife the Lord on earth's domains;
Praife, ye mutes, that fea contains
They that on the furface leap,
And ye dragons of the deap.
Batt'ring hail, and fires that glow
Streaming vapours, plumy fnow:
Wind and ftorm his wrath incurr'd,
Wing'd and pointed at his word.
Mountains of enormous fcale,
Every hill and every vale:
Fruit-trees of a thoufand dies,
Cedars that perfume the skies!

Beafts that haunt the woodland maze,
Nibbling flocks and droves that graze;
Reptiles of amphibious breed,
Feather'd millions forin'd for fpeed.

Kings, with Jefus for their guide,
Peopled regions far and wide:
Heroes of their country's caufe,
Princes, judges of the laws.

Age and childhood, youth and maid,
To his name your praise be paid:
For his word is worth alone
Far above his crown and throne.

He fhall dignify the creft

Of his people, rais'd and bleft:
While we ferve with praife and pray'rs,
All in Chrift his faints and heirs.

H

PSALM CXLVIII.

BY C. SMART, M. A.

ALLELUJAH! kneel and fing Praifes to the heav'nly king ; To the God fupremely great, Hallelujah in the height!

Praife him, arch-angelic band,
Ye that in his prefence ftand!
Praise him, ye that watch and pray,
Michael's myriads in array.

Praise him, fun, at each extreme,
Orient ftreak, and western beam;
Moon and ftars of myftic dance,
Silv'ring in the blue expanfe.

Praise him, O ye heights, that foar
Heav'n and heav'n for evermore:
And, ye ftreams of living rill
Higher yet, and purer ftill.

Let them praife his glorious name,'
From whofe fruitful word they came:
And they first began to be
As he gave the great decree.
Their conftituent parts he founds
For duration without bounds:
And their covenant has feal'd,
Which thall never be repeal'd.

Whene'er the bell proclaim'd fome shepherd dead,

Startling the ear of night with fudden found;

For me why tolls not now that bell? he said, For me why yawns not the funereal ground?

Muft I for ever life's hard bondage bear? Muft 1 for ever ftem misfortune's wave? Nor ever drop affliction's faddeft tear,

Denied the laft fad refuge of the grave. In vain the youthful beauties of the fpring, Bloom on each flow'r, and bud on ev'ry

tree;

In vain the birds their fweetest carols fing, Their fweetest carols what are they to me?

Whilft Delia liv'd, the blackeft sky feem'd fair,

Each ftorm was milder than the Zephyr's breath;

She died the fofteft gale that fans the air, Now blows with keenest rage the blaft of death.

While Delia liv'd, how jocund pafs'd the day!

How sweet the fragrance of yon vernal 1 grove!

There as we fondly fmil'd the hours away, Each thought was rapture, and each look was love.

Her face adorn'd with ev'ry charm of youth, Deriv'd no beauties from the hand of art: Her tongue obedient to the voice of truth,

Spoke the untainted language of the heart. Oh! afk each stream, near whose luxuriant fide,

On the foft turf reclin'd the damfel fung; Oh! afk each confcious echo that reply'd, And fpread the warbled mufic of her tongue.

Were not her fongs, my Delia's fong more sweet,

Than the pure morn's moft aromatic

breath?

Or when the Cygnet, at the call of fate, With his smooth fong fooths the last pangs of death.

How fweet was praife by Delia's lips be ftow'd!

(For ever could I dwell on Delia's name) What ardent tranfports in my bofom glow'd,

For me when Delia own'd a mutual flame? At yonder thrine the nuptial knot was tied, The nuptial lay was fung in yonder bow'r ;

And ev'ry thepherd hail'd my blushing bride,

And prais'd thofe fweet perfections now

no more,

HA

By the Rev. Mr. GREGG. ARK! mercy cries; let finners hear; "Repent, and live! it's cry; But, finners clofe th'unwilling car, Grow harden'd fouls, and die.

Yes, die, relentless fouls, ye must ;

so heaven's decrees ordain : Decrees of Heav'n are wife and just; And to difpute them, vain.

The means of grace, though ours to day,
To-morrow, may be past i
Death will demand thefe fouls away,
And mercy call it's laft.

O, for an ear! a heart divine!
To liften, and comply

Dear Jefus (and the praite be thine !)
Come, form us for the sky!
Hh

LIST

WITH REMARKS.

ART. II. An Attempt to explain certain PafJages of Scripture generally misunderstood. By Philaletbes. 8vo. Is. 6d.

This Lover of Truth may, with respect to himself be well fatisfied with the integrity of his intentions, and the goodness of his defign; but we apprehend his readers, who are not the credulous difciples of SoCINUS, will not be fatisfied with his diftorted interpretations of fcripture, weak arguments, and ftill weaker inferences, which militate against the plain fenfe, and general teftimony of the word of God.

ART. III. Animadverfions on the present Profanation of the Chriftian Sabbath: with an earnft Perfualive to Perfons in Authority, to attempt the fuppreffion of that fcandalous Abule: In a Letter to the Right Hon. the Lord Mayor of London. By a Minister of a City Parish. 8vo. 6d.

The motives by which this unaffected, pious writer appears to be influenced, are highly commendable; and the folid fenfe, accompanied with a fpirit of moderation, that fupport his judicious animadverfions, render them worthy the confideration of our chief City Magiftrate.

ART. IV. A Free Examination of the Soci cinian Expofition of the prefatory Verfes of St. John's Golpel. By the Rev. R. Shepherd, B. D. 8vo. 25. fewed.

This writer examines the fentiments of SOCINUS, and his followers of the prefent age, refpecting the Logos, and pre-existence of Chrift, with remarkable precifion, acutenefs, and fpirit. He expofes their artful perverfions, and inconfiftent accommodations of fcripture, to their pre-adopted schemes of doctrine; and we perfectly coincide in opinion with him, when he obferves, No men are more acute than Socinian writers, in difcovering difficulties in doctrines, to which their own opinions are oppofed; none more blind to the inconfiftences, which the notions they have themfelves adopted involve.' For the truth of this obfervation, we need only refer fuch of our readers, who are uninfluenced by a love of novelty, to the infiduous farragoes of a Lardner and a Prieftly.

ART. V. Thoughts upon Creation, &c. 2s. 6d. fewed.

Thefe thoughts are addreffed by the author, to his brother Dr. Roberts, mafter of St. Paul's fchool, and upon the whole, are pertinent, judicious, and entertaining.

ART VI. The Brevity, uncertainty, and im fortane of human Life; preached at the Proteftant Diffenting Meeting-Houle, in Hammer mith, June 224, 1783, on Occafion of the fudden Death of the late Rev. George Turnbull, D. D. 8vo. 6d.

By this difcourfe we are informed that the late Dr. Turnbull, was a learned, candid, pious, and liberally minded man.

ART. VII. A Sermon preached at the Vifitation of the Archbishop of York, at Wakefield. By John Briggs, M. A. Rector of Methley, in Yorkshire, and Prebendary of Chester, 8vo. 6d.

The text is in Col. ii. 8.-The subject, a very fenfible argument in favour of Chritianity-the whole contents, a rich treat, at a very trifling expence.

CHRO

FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE. Warfaw, Oct 5.

I

'Tis well known that the king of Pruffia has no defign to make himfelf master of Dantzick. The republick, and the king of Poland, as well as the minifter of Petersburgh, are convinced that the demand of the court of Berlin made to the faid town, concerning the free navigation for the Pruffian fubjects, 'is founded in right.

Vienna, Oct. 1.. There was in the proceffion in memory of the defeat of the Turks before this city, a man, aged 119 years, who was formerly a foldier, and in the garrison of this city, where he was wounded on that occafion.

Vienna, Oct. 19. The imperial mint is now melting down, and coining the gold and filver plate found in the fuppreffed con

vents.

Naples, Oct. 10. Vefuvius, which has been feveral days past in a state of fermentation, hath begun to iffue forth flames, but rather flowly. Foreigners who are here flock in crowds to examine the effects of this eruption.

Conftantinople, O&. 10. The plague has carried off three members of the Divan, who died fo fuddenly that the common people fufpected it was fomething befides the plague that occafioned their death.

The 19th ult. the feftival of Bairam was celebrated with the ufual folemnities, and as it happened to fall on a Friday, his high. nefs was obliged to go twice to the Mofque to offer up prayers. The inevitable concourfe of people of all ranks and conditions at this folemnity; the healthy, fick, and even thofe infected with the peftilence; has fpread that distemper fo much that 800 perfons were buried in the fea in one day from different parts of this city.

Hainburgh, Oct 12. A very extraordinary inftance of fecundity has happened, in Lower Auftria, to the wife of one Langenloir.

After being married a very long time, without having any children, on the 10th of Sept. laft the brought forth four. On the 17th the felt freth pains, and was brought to bed of four more. The eight children, which are all boys, have been baptifed, and feem likely to live; nor does the mother appear to be at all incommoded by this double delivery.-Paris Gazette.

GAZETTE INTELLIGENCE. Ceremonial of the Introduction of his Royal Highness George Auguftus Frederic Prince of Wales into the Houfe of Peers, at the meeting of Parliament on Tuesday, Nov. II, 1783.

IS royal highness having been by

H letters patent dated the 19th day of

DIARY.

Deputy Great Chamberlain of England.
Vifcount Stormont,

Lord Prefident of the Council.
The CORONET

On a crimson velvet cushion, borne by Viscount Lewisham, one of the Gentlemen of his Royal Highness's Bed-chamber. His Royal Highnefs the Prince of Wales,. Carrying his writ of fummons, fupported

by his uncle, his Royal Highness the Duke of Cumberland, and the Dukes of Richmond and Portland.

And proceeding up the House with the ufual reverences, the writ and patent were delivered to the earl of Mansfield, Speaker, on the woolfack, and read by the Clerk of the Parliament at the table, his Royal Highnefs and the rest of the proceffion standing near: after which his Royal Highnefs was conducted to his chair on the right hand of the Throne, the Coronet and cufhion having been laid on a stool before the chair; and his Royal Highness being covered as ufual, the ceremony ended.

Some time after his Majefty entered the Houfe of Peers, and was feated on the Throne with the ufual folemnities, and having delivered his most gracious fpeech, retired out of the Houfe.

Then his Royal Highnefs at the table took the oaths of allegiance and fupremacy, and made and fubfcribed the declaration; and alfo took and fubfcribed the oath of abjuration.

Salonica, Sept. 10. On the 6th inftant we had two fmart fhocks of an earthquake. On the 8th, at half paft eight in the morning, we had a very violent one, and, in the fpace of a quarter of an hour, three others, and eleven more within the twenty-four hours. Part of the city walls, a bagnio, and fome other builings were thrown down.

The king has been pleafed to appoint George Payne, Efq. to be his majefty's conful-general in all the dominions of the emperor of Morocco.