for a while, from the most favourite Amufe ments, to view the Place, where his onceloved Companions lie? Who would not fame time furvey thofe Apartments, where be himself is to take up an Abode, till Time Shall be no more?

As to the other little Ejay, may I not bumbly prefume, that the very Subjet itself will recommend the Remarks? For who is not delighted with the ProSpect of the blooming Creation, and even charmed with the delicate Attractions of Flowers? Who does not covet to assemble them in the Garden, or wear them in a Nofegay? Since this is a Paffion fo univerfal, who would not be willing to render it productive of the fublimeft Improvement?.- This Piece of holy Frugality I have ventured to fuggeft, and endea voured to exemplify, in the Second Letter; that while the Hand is cropping the tranfient Beauties of a Flower, the attentive Mind may be enriching itself with folid and lafting Good. And I cannot but entertain fome pleafing Hopes, that the nicest b 2 Tafte

Taste may receive and relish religious Impreffions, when they are conveyed by fuch lovely Monitors; when the instruttive Lessons are found, not on the Leaves of fome formidable Folio, but ftand legible on the fine Sarcenet of a Narciffus; when they favour not of the Lamp and Reclufe, but come breathing from the fragrant. Bofom of a Jonquil.

The

The CONTENTS.

CCASION of the Meditations, 1-Soli

tary Walk in a Church, 2-Handsome Altar-
Piece; Gratitude celebrated, 3-Solomon's Tem-
ple; his noble Sentiments at the Dedication; the
Paffage illustrated; 5-The Holy Ghost dwelling
in our Hearts; a rich Privilege; its Obligation
to Holiness, 7-The Floor covered with funeral
Infcriptions, 9-Wisdom of meditating on our
latter End, 10-Promiscuous Ledgment, and
amicable Agreement of Corpfes, fuggeft Humility
and Concord, 12-Monument of an Infant; its
fortunate Circumftances fuperior Felicity of Sur-
vivors; 14-Monument of a Youth; Grief of
the Parents; mitigated or aggravated by the Pro-
Spect of the invifible State; Exhortation to edu-
sate Children religiously; 17-Monument of a
young Man; cut off in his Prime; how un-ex-
pected and afflictive the Stroke; the Frailty of all
fublunary Happiness, 21-Reflection on the three
preceding Exits; the Uncertainty of Life; Call

to be always ready, 24-This farther urged from

the Inftance of a Perfon killed by a Misfortune i

nothing cafual, but all ordered by Providence, 26-

Cafe of a Lady, who died in Child-bed; her

Character; with regard to earthly Things, We

know not what is really defirable, or truly good ;

Remarks on Mrs STON HOUSE's Monument, in

the great Church at Northampton, 31—A reli-

gious Father taken from his young Family; his Be

haviour on a dying Bed; their Support in a Fa-

sherlefs State, 39-Monument of a middle-aged Per-

fon; immerfed in Business; Disappointment of his

Schemes; his dying Acknowlegements; the Folly of

Worldly-Mindedness; very Bitterness in the End,

45-The Graves of the Aged; the Difficulties and

Hazard of a late Repentance; Youth intreated to

enter upon a Courfe of Holinefs without Delay,

49-The fingular Wisdom and Felicity of the

Righteous; the Reft of their Bodies; the Calmness

of their Departure; the Safety of their dif-em-

bodied Souls; their delightful Situation till the..

Fudgment-Day, 53—Monument of a Warrior,

flain in Battle; Reflections on the Death of

CHRIST, that it was voluntary, foreseen, an-

dergone for Enemies; was moft torturous, linger

ing, and ignominious, 60-The Meanness of be

ing obliged to a Monument for perpetuating our

Names: Author's Wish for himself; true Method

of

of eternizing our Characters, 64-The Vault;

its awful Aspect; Grandeur in Abafement; The

Vanity of Pleafures, Honours, and Riches, 68

The Glock ftrikes; a Warning to redeem the

Time, 75-The wonderful Change which takes

place in the Tomb, inftanced in feveral Particu

lars, 74-Soliloquy of a Lover; Admonition to

the Ladies; True Beauty of the fair Sex, 76-

Sin the Gaufe of our Diffolution, 79-Subject of

Mortality brought home to our own Cafe; Incite-

ment to improve Life; this the best embalming, 80

-View of our Saviour's Sepulchre; his lying in

the Grave has foftened it for his People; Faith

in his dying Love difarms Death, 83—The Re-

furrection of the Righteous; their Meeting the

Judge their Acceptance at the great Tribunal,

88-Sickness, Sin, and Death, deftroyed; Blifs

or Mifery unchangeable; Obfervation on Eter-

nity, 90-The Wicked; the Anguish of their last

Sickness; No Hope but from the Religion they

defpifed; that very precarious; the Horror of

their Diffolution; this the Beginning of Sorrows;

their Treatment in the invifible World; referved

to the Judgment of the great Day, 93—They rife,

though reluctant; are diftracted with Terror;

covered with Contempt; condemned to endless

Woe, 93-To be inftrumental in faving our

Friends from this Mifery, the trueft Exercife of

Benevolence,