From the ORATORIO of SAUL. Compofed by Mr Handel. h While yet the tide of blood runs high, To God thy future life de-. Publifhed by Alex. Hogg, No 16, Paternofter Row, London. REAT God! thou guardian of each Thou guide of all my ways; The fecret purpose of my foul my On ev'ry fide I find thy hand, Where'er I turn my view; Vainly to trace fuch wondrous love, Should hell infpire the blackened thought, If I to heav'n direct my courfe, There thy full glories fhine; And hell's dark prifon feels thy arm, If with the mornings early light, There fhall thine hand detect my flight, If favour'd with the ev'ning fhades, Darkness and light, to thee the fame, Fulfil thy great defign; And funs, and fhades, before their God, With equal brightness thine, Before that God, whofe piercing eye, Thy boundless thought contriv'd the scheme, foul, Lefs num'rous are the countlefs fands, That fwell the lengthen'd fhore; Search me, O God! with strictest view, And frailties of my heart! If error clouds my darken'd mind, ΤΟ THE EDITORS OF THE NEW CHRISTIAN'S MAGAZINE. THE following elegant lines were copied from a monument 111 Bristol cathedral, erected to the memory of a pious young clergyman, who departed this life in the year 1773. The depofiting them in your valuable, work, will doubtlefs please your readers, and will much oblige, Your most fincere well-wisher, W embellish'd urn, HEN worthlefs grandeur fills the No poignant grief attends the fable bier : But when diftinguith'd excellence we mourn, Deep is the forrow, genuine's the tear. Stranger, fhouldst thou draw near this awful fhrine, The merits of the honour'd dead to feek :The Friend, the Son, the Chriftian, the Divine, Let thofe who knew him, those who lov'd him, fpeak. Oh! let them in fome paufe of anguish fay, What zeal infpir'd, what faith enlarg'd his breaft; How foon th' unfetter'd spirit wing'd its way, From earth to heav'n, from bleffing to be bleft. HOPE. TH Remember Death! BY THE SAME. HE drunkard doth himself refign, The atheifts boaft that there's no God, Of earthly and uncertain blifs; HAPPY, highly favour'd maid, From the noife of folly fled, Like the filver-pinion'd dove, He who call'd would meet thee there. They thun the mad fantastic croud, Let the world in funcering tone IN ACADEMICUS. GRATITUDE TO GOD FOR PROVIDEN Ο TYAL MERCIES. God my heart to thee afcends, And owns thy goodness far tranfcends My fcanty praifes, Lord, how mean! While many of thy dearest faints, And better far than I, While in their fouls th' invenom'd darts Or cruth'd by mifery, their hearts Lord! what am I, my God, my King! Lord what am I, or what are mine, That thou fo kind fhouldft be; Shouldt lavish all thefe gifts of thine, On fuch a wretch as me! O'er dimpling waves my little bark, O! may this head to know thy will O may that heart be fervent ftill, And flame with heav'nly love! Thus gliding down life's gentle stream May I advance to thee; "Till fafe I launch with heart ferene, On vaft eternity. RELIGION. O what fequefter'd lone retreat, Ah no! The friend of God and man, CONTENT. AIL, fweet content! whofe magic pow'r HAIL, Can blunt misfortune's keeneft dart, Good humour then ftill, blithe and free The circling periods of my life. That mourn amid fair plenty's ftore;` If heaven's funshine, or its rain, Pour greater at a neighbour door: Benevolence, with heart humane, Wishing all happy as herself, Shall then extract from thy rich mean, Gold far more precious than mere pelf. S. PG. S LITUDE. WEET companion of the mufe, All thy calm content infufe, Lead me, O majestic queen, Solitude, here fix thy feat, Did me fleeting life defpife! Make me humble, make me wife. Stretch me on the verdant mead, Where the murm'ring river flows, Where the elm expands her thade, And each rifing beauty blows; There I'll lay in peace of mind, "Empty greatnefs, fall behind," Pride within thy humble cell, Never yet uprear'd her head; Solitude, with thee I'll dwell, Pride with me is long fince deed. Cold to pleasure, deaf to praife, Here I with to end my days. LIST 1 LIST OF NEW BOOKS, WITH REMARKS. DIVINITY, MORALITY, &c. ART. 1. A Charge delivered to the Clergy of the Archdeaconry of St. Alban's, at a Vifitation bolden May 22, 1783. By the Rev. Samuel Horfley, L. L. D. F. R. S. Published (with additions) at the Request of the Clergy. 4to. 35. T HIS learned and excellent writer, after an introduction full of refpect for the clerical function, enters upon the difcuffion of, and points out in a masterly manner, but with a true Chriftian fpirit, the mistakes, mifconftructions, and evil tendency of Dr. Priestley's Hiftory of the Corruptions of Chriftianity. Having done this, Dr. Horley concludes with the following candid declaration: "I feel no fatisfaction in detecting the weakneffes of this learned writer's argument, but what arifes from a confciouf-, nefs, that it is a difcharge of fome part of the duty which I owe to the church of God. It is a mortifying proof of the infirmity of the human mind, in the highest improvement of its faculties in the prefentlife, that fuch fallacies of reafoning, fuch mifconftructions of authorities, fuch diftorted views of facts and opinions, fhould be found in the writings of a man, to whom, of men in the prefent age, fome branches of the experimental fciences are the most indebted.20 ART. II, The Beauties of Methodifm, felected from the Works of the Rev. John Wesley, A. M. 12mo. 2s. 6d. An excellent half crown ordinary for the; lovers of incoherent nonfenfe. We know the frequenters of the foundery love to be up and doing; and as this favory fpiritual treat from works of boneft John's preparing, it cannot but, it must be, fuitable to dainty palates. ART III. A Sermon on Matthew v. 18. By Henry Dimock, M. A. Vicar of ChippingNorton, and late of Pembroke College, 4to. Is. In this difcourfe is an emendation of a text in Ezekiel xxvii. 17. According to our English verfion, the prophet is made to fay, "They (the Tyrians) were thy merchants; they traded in thy market wheat of Minnith and Pannag, and honey, and oil, and balm.” The author fuppofes Minniib and Pannag to be a corrupt reading; and would fubftitute in their place Zith, Upbag; the text he would, then render" They traded in thy market wheat, the Olive, and the Fig, &c." Which articles of trade the writer thinks were the commodities of Canaan; and fit fubjects of commerce with Tyrian met chants. ART. IV. Vicarious Sacrifice: or, the reality and importance of Atonement for Sin by the Death of Cbrift, afferted and defended, against the Obj ions of Dr. Priestley. By R. Ellie, A. B. 8vo. 2s. 6d. That the corruptors of Chriflianity are not fuffered to adminifter their baneful poi fon, without fufficient antidotes being at the fame time pointed out by the faithful labourers in the vineyard of their mafter, muft be, in our opinion, afcribed to the fpecial grace of God, and his providential care in the prefervation of his church. Chrift has here, we fee, raised up another advocate to fupport the facred truths of his gofpel; which we think Mr. Elliot has done with a fpirit, perfpicuity, and fome ftrength of argument. ART. V. A New Tranflation of St. Paul's Epifle to the Hebrews, from the Original Greek, with explanatory Notes. By Samuet Hardy, Rector of Little Blakenbam, in Saffolk, and Lecturer of Enfield, in Middlesex, 8vo. Is. 6d. This author is too whimfical for a faithful tranflator, or juft expofitor. He dif covers much prejudice, little candour; and in fome parts of his tranflation the original meaning of the text is either obfcured or perverted. CHRO |