He was not confined in his fentiments to any particular human fyftem, but the tenor of his conduct, private and public, proved him to be actuated by the best principles, The love of GOD, and of all Mankind. From fuch abilities, therefore, it is natural to expect the most agreeable productions; and herein, we apprehend, the judicious reader will not be disappointed.

THE

CONTENTS.

Page

ON Creation

Morning Hymn

Adam's Relation to Raphael of the First Survey

he took of himself

Adam's penetential Reflections after his Fall

Adam and Eve expelled Paradise

From the Second Chapter of the Wisdom of

Solomon

A Paraphrafe on the latter Part of the Sixth

1

17

20

23

27

30

32

35

38

Haffan; or, The Camel-Driver. An Oriental

Charity. A Paraphrase on the Thirteenth Chapter

of the First Epistle to the Corinthians

The Frailty and Folly of Man

Christ above all Praise

Preservation by Land and Sea. A Divine Ode

A Soliloquy on the Immortality of the Soul

A Paraphrafe on Part of the Nineteenth Pfalm

The Twenty-third Pfalın

Cardinal Wolfey's Lamentation of his Fall

The Man of Rofs

On the Words: If thou knewest who it is, &c.

The Deserted Village

Four Elegies; Descriptive and Moral.

1. Written at the Approach of Spring

II. Written in the Hot Summer, 1757

III. Written in Harvest

IV. Written at the Approach of Winter

Ån Hymn from the Eighth Pfalm

45

47

49

51

52

53

56

59

62

63

72

74

75

76

78

80

82

83

84

99

An Elegy, defcribing the Sorrow of an ingenuous

Mind, on the melancholy Event of a licentious

Amour

114

115

The Hermit

A Night-Piece on Death

The Meffiah

An Elegy written in a Country Church-Yard

To the Right Honourable the Earl of Warwick,

on the Death of Mr. Addifon

120

130

134

138

144

Reflections by a Clergyman in Virginia, returning

home from his Duty in a very gloomy Night 148

Bedlam

The Shepherd and the Philofopher

151

158

A Description of a Man perishing in the Snow,
from whence Reflections are raised on the

Miseries of Life

162

A Thaw

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165

Reflections on a Future State, from a Review of

Reaping, and a Tale relative to it

The Royal Penitent

Grongar-Hill

Edwin and Angelina

173

179

185

191

198

The Institution and Solemnity of the Sabbath

A Monumental Inscription

The grand Diftinction between the Virtuous and

the Wicked, reserved for another State
288

The Unreasonableness of denying a Future State 290

God declares the dreadful Confequence of Adam's

Sin to him and his Pofterity, unless Satisfaction

is made to his Justice; which the Son of God

undertakes

Incidental Miseries attendant on Poverty

Few Happy Matches

291

294

296

Verses written by a Gentleman on feeing his Child

afleep in a Cradle, just before his going to'

Prifon

The Conflagration

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