Save me from death, from hell set free,
Death, hell, are but the want of thee;
My life, my crown, my heav'n thou art,
O may I find thee in my heart!

HYMN XXXI. Written in illness*, Psalm civ.

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My meditation of him shall be sweet."
1 WHEN languor and disease invade
This trembling house of clay;
'Tis sweet to look beyond our cage,
And long to fly away.

2 Sweet to look inward and attend
The whispers of his love;
Sweet to look upward to the place
Where Jesus pleads above.

3 Sweet to look back and see my name
In life's fair book set down;
Sweet to look forward, and behold
Eternal joys my own.

4 Sweet to reflect how grace divine
My sins on Jesus laid;

Sweet to remember that his blood
My debt of sufferings paid.

5 Sweet on his righteousness to stand,
Which saves from second death;
Sweet to experience day by day,
His Spirit's quick'ning breath.
6 Sweet on his faithfulness to rest,
Whose love can never end;
Sweet on his covenant of grace,
For all things to depend.

* The late countess of Huntingdon had the original of this wellifluous piece of poetry sent her by the Author. The right honourable lady Ann Erskine gave herself considerable trouble to procure it for the Editor, for which obliging politeness and condescension, he returns this public acknowledgment.

7 Sweet in the confidence of faith,
To trust his firm decrees;
Sweet to lie passive in his hand,
And know no will but his.

8 Sweet to rejoice in lively hope,
That when my change shall come;
Angels will hover round my bed,
And waft my spirit home.
9 There shall my disimprison'd soul
Behold him and adore;
Be with his likeness satisfy'd,
And grieve and sin no more.
10 Shall see him wear that very flesh,
On which my guilt was lain;
His love intense, his merit fresh,
As tho' but newly slain.

11 Soon too my slumb'ring dust shall hear
The trumpet's quick'ning sound;
And by my Saviour's power rebuilt,
At his right hand be found.

12 These eyes shall see him in that day,
The God that dy'd for me;

And all my rising bones shall say,
Lord, who is like to thee.

13 If such the views which grace unfolds
Weak as it is below;

What raptures must the church above
In Jesu's presence know.

14 If such the sweetness of the stream,
What must the fountain be;

Where saints and angels draw their bliss,
Immediately from thee.

15 O may the unction of these truths,
For ever with me stay;

'Till from her sinful cage dismiss'd
My spirit flies away.

HYMN XXXII. The Dying Believer to his Soul.

1 DEATHLESS principle, arise;

Soar, thou native of the skies.
Pearl of price, by Jesus bought,
To his glorious likeness wrought,
Go, to shine before his throne;
Deck his mediatorial crown:
Go, his triumphs to adorn:
Made for God, to God return.
2 Lo, he beckons from on high!
Fearless to his presence fly:
Thine the merit of his blood;
Thine the righteousness of God.
3 Angels, joyful to attend,

Hov'ring round thy pillow bend;
Wait to catch the signal giv'n,
And escort thee quick to heav'n.
4 Is thy earthly house distrest?
Willing to retain her guest?
'Tis not thou, but she, must die:
Fly, celestial tenant, fly.

Burst thy shackles, drop thy clay,
Sweetly breathe myself away:
Singing, to thy crown remove;
Swift of wing, and fir'd with love.
5 Shudder not to pass the stream:
Venture all thy care on him;
Him, whose dying love and pow'r
Still'd its tossing, hush'd its roar.
Safe is the expanded wave;
Gentle, as a summer's eve:
Not one object of his care
Ever suffer'd shipwreck there.
See the haven full in view!
Love divine shall bear thee through.
Trust to that propitious gale:
Weigh thy anchor, spread thy sail.

trinal Calvinism of the Church answered. The Thirty-nine

Articles not Melancthonian. Digression concerning Melanc-

thon. Puritanism and Calvinism not synonymous. Calvin-

ism lays the best foundation of loyalty. View of the present

state of Christianity in this nation. Humble Address to the

Bishops

Conclusion

A Word on the Bathing-Tub Baptism

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Chronology of England, from Egbert to Henry VIII.

Free Thoughts on the Projected Application to Parliament in

the year 1771, for the Abolition of Ecclesiastical Subscrip-

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VOL. II.

SECTION XVI.

JUDGMENT of eminent English Martyrs and Confessors, who suffered death, or persecution, after the overthrow of King Edward's reformation by Queen Mary I.

SECTION XVII.

Judgment of the Martyrs concluded. Bradford, Philpot, Woodman, Clement

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SECTION XVIII.

Restoration of the Church of England by Queen Elizabeth. Doctrinal Calvinism of the Church, during the whole reign of that Princess, largely and variously demonstrated

SECTION XIX.

Accession and Character of James I. His Majesty a bigotted Calvinist. Rise of the Arminians in England. Favoured by the King, for political purposes. Summary of religious affairs in the Dutch provinces. Extracts from James' writings against Arminianism. Conference at Hampton Court. Succinct History and Vindication of the Synod at Dort. New Translation of the Bible. Promotion of Laud. Death, and farther Character, of the King

SECTION XX.

Accession of Charles I. Violent measures pursued by Laud. Arminianism grows rampant. Bishop Davenant called to account for asserting the Doctrine of Predestination. Pretended Repeal of the Irish Articles. Samples of old Episcopal Orthodoxy. Ancient state of Religion in the two Universities. State of Religion during the Usurpation, and after, at the Restoration of King Charles II. Objections to the Doc

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