Beyenot thro Faith but Fol: lowersof Promifes. Themwho HEB.V.12, See Page 34. In Memory of ANNE STONHOUSE, How lovd, how valu'd once avails Thee not; She died,a few days after theBirthofher4 Child REFLECTIONS ON A Flower-Garden. I look upon the Pleafure, which we take in a Gar den, as one of the most innocent Delights in human Life. A Garden was the Habitation of our firft Parents before the Fall. It is naturally apt to fill the Mind with Calmness and Tranquillity, and to lay all its turbulent Paffions at Reft. It gives us a great Infight into the Contrivance and Wifdom of Providence, and fuggefts innumerable Subjects for Meditation. Spect. Vol. VII. N°. 477. The CONTENTS. WALK in the Garden; Summer Morning a foaring Lark; Invitation to early rifing, 116-Vaftness of the Heavens, greater Extent of Divine Mercy, 118-The Sun; its rifing Glories; noble Emblem of CHRIST, in its enlightening, fructifying, chearing, and extenfive Influences, 120-Dews; their tranfient Brightness; their refreshing Nature; their immenfe Number: Difficult Paffage in the Pfalms cieared up, 128-The various, but harmonious, Procedure of Providence and Grace, 135-View of the Country, and its principal Productions; particularly of an Orchard, and Kitchin-Garden; chiefly characterized as ufeful, 137-CHRIST made and recovered, upbolds and actuates All; Addrefs to Mankind on this Occafion, 146-Obfervations contracted to the Garden Fields of Literature left for the Study of the Bible, 152-Fragrance of Flowers; Its fugitive Nature, another Motive to shake off Sloth; the delightful Senfation it creates, faint Reprefentation of the Preciousness of CHRIST's Sacrifice i all our Performances polluted, this the Caufe of our Acceptance, 154-The Colours of Flowers, H 6 bow |