OF

A Self-Observer ;

OR,

. CONFESSIONS AND FAMILIAR LETTERS

OF THE

Rev. J. C. LAVATER,

AUTHOR OF THE

ESSAYS ON PHYSIOGNOMY, THE APHORISMS ON
MAN, VIEWS OF ETERNITY, &c. &c. &c.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN ORIGINAL,

By the Rev. PETER WILL,

MINISTER OF THE REFORMED GERMAN CHAPEL IN THE SAVOY.

VOL. II.

The large Indictment ftands before my View,
Drawn forth by Confcience, moft amazing true;
And fill'd with Secrets hid from human Eye,
When, foolish Man! thy God ftood witness by.
Then, oh, thou Majefty divinely great,
Accept the fad Confeffions I repeat;

For thine's the contrite Spirit, thine's an Heart
Oppreffed with Sorrow, broke with inward Smart;
That at thy Foot-ftool in Confeffion shows

How well its faults, how well the Judge it knows.

London:

PARNELL.

PRINTED FOR T. CADELL, JUN. AND W. DAVIES (SUCCESSORS
TO MR. CADELL), IN THE STRAND.

1795.

PUBLIC LIBRARY

ASTOR, LENOX TILDEN FOUNDA IONS

You may easily conceive what must be the feelings of a man who receives by the poft, without a letter or any other previous notice, a book bearing the extraordinary title, Secret Journal of a Self-Obferver; and which reminds him, almost in every page, of his own fituations, actions, and fentiments, which he thought to be known to no perfon but himself; a book that contains an important