And mock their vain pretence; Away," they cry, " and trust no more, "For help from power divine! "The triumph of thy youth is o'er: Thy hope in God resign! "Lo! He abhors thy riper age, "Which guilt and follies stain; But thou, O Lord! art strong to save, Though round the stormy billows rave, In youthful strength I sought thy shrine Oh shield me then with love divine Forsake not thou my hoary hair, From out the dark abyss of woe And bid the streams of comfort flow, My soul on wings of joy upborne Oh, Thou! Oh, Israel's Holy One! How shall my harp its loveliest tone With fervent love my soul shall glow; By Thee redeem'd from endless woe, J. P. The following Poems are from Herbert's Temple, noticed in our last Number. SUNDAY. RESTORE to God his due in tithe and time: When once thy foot enters the Church, be bare, Kneeling ne'er spoiled silk stocking: quit thy state, Resort to sermons, but to prayers most: Let vain or busy thoughts have there no part: Bring not thy plough, thy plots, thy pleasures thither. The Sundays of man's life Threaded together on Time's string, THE THANKSGIVING. OH, King of grief (a title strange, yet true, Oh! King of wounds! how shall I grieve for Thee, Shall I weep blood? Why, thou hast wept such store, "My God, my God, why dost thou part from me,' Was such a grief as cannot be. Shall I then sing, passing thy doleful story, And side with thy triumphant glory? But how then shall I imitate thee, and Copy thy fair, tho' bloody hand. If thou dost give me honor, men shall see I will not marry; or, if she be mine, My bosom-friend, if he blaspheme thy name, My music shall find thee, and ev'ry string Nay, I will read thy book, and never move Then for thy passion-I will do for that- EASTER. Recit. Rise, heart; thy Lord is risen. Sing his praise Without delays, Who takes thee by the hand, that thou likewise With him may'st rise. Awake, my lute, and struggle for thy part With all thy art. Who bore the same. The cross taught all wood to resound his name Consort both heart and lute, and twist a song, And multiplied, O let thy blessed Spirit bear a part, REMEMBRANCER, No. 43. Air. I got me flowers to strew thy way, And brought'st thy sweets along with thee. The sun arising in the East, Tho' he gives light, and th' East perfume, If they should offer to contest With thine arising, they presume. Purge all my sins done heretofore, Enrich my heart, mouth, hands in me, Teach me, my God and King, Not rudely, as a beast, To run into an action; But still to make Thee prepossest, This is the famous stone That turneth all to gold; For that, which God doth touch and own, REVIEW OF NEW PUBLICATIONS. Reviewers Reviewed. British Review, No. 36, Art. XVII. A WRITER in the British Review, No. XXXVI. under the ostensible pretence of noticing "a brief memoir of the late Rev. W. Richardson, Sub-chanter of York Cathedral," has thought fit to dilate in no measured terms, on the moral preaching of the Clergy of the Established Church. No man is ignorant, that the term moral preaching is now used as a term of reproach, as a designation of offence imputed to a large body of the English Clergy: but the precise nature of the offence has not been ascertained, nor is it likely to be defined in the pages of the British Review. Mention indeed is made of "a cold and lifeless system of ethics, little better than the heathen instruction which it superseded, and not always as interesting as the ancient philosophy J. P. in the medium of its conveyance :" and this system is called "the religion of the day," in which Mr. Richardson began his labours, (A.D. 1769.) This system was pronounced by Archbishop Secker not "sufficiently evangelical," and the Archbishop was followed in 1790 by Bishop Horsley, who, while he admitted the improvement which had taken place, still spoke of "the dry strain of moral preaching, too much in use, and of the erroneous màxims on which the practice stands," and which were not then " sufficiently exploded." It is not meant to dispute the judgment of Archbishop Secker, or of Bishop Horsley, whose opinions are recited as authority by the British Reviewer. But there is no presumption in counteracting the assertions of an anonymous reviewer, or in asking, without any reference to the preachers of a higher and a better class, whether they, |