Xm ^m w « v-* K2 FROM THE LIBRARY OF REV. LOUIS FITZGERALD BENSON. D. D. BEQUEATHED BY HIM TO THE LIBRARY OF PRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY MARCVS HlERONYJMVSVlDA CremonenAlbakEptscopx' 5 it , ■ — : O E O N IVINE bUBJETTrS^ Original and Translated from the Latin of M. Hieron. Vida, Bp. of Alba. With Large Annotations, More particularly concerning the Being and Attributes of GOD. By THO. MORELL, A.M. Fellow of Kings-College, Cambridge. — Not from Helicon'j imagined Spring, But Sacred Writ^ borrow what we Sing , Angels and We affifled by this Art, May Sing together, tho' we live apart : Their Joys are full, our Expectation long, In Life we differ, tho 9 we join i«SoNG f Waller. LONDON: Printed by E. Owen in Amen-Corner \ and Sold by A. Bettesworth and C. Hitch, F.Fayram and T. Hatchett, J. Osborn and T.Long- man, C. Rivington, J. Batley, S. Austen^ and L. Gilliver. MDCC XXXII. > ' ^4 V* * < (i) A Prefatory Copy of Verfes O N Divine POESY. I S the Divinity within, that fires Theraptur'd Mind, and worthy Thoughts infpires, When pious Bards the Praife of God rehearfe, And Ting the Giver with the Gift of Verfe, Thrice happy Bards, whofe Song is not in vain, When Mortals relifh the inftru&ive Strain, And ii A Prefatory Copy of Verfes And feek, finccre in Heart, to know the Pow'r Of Pow'rs Supreme, andfeek to know no more •, The Sceptic hence his anxious Doubts refigns, Convinc'd that a Blackmore in his nervous Lines At leafl has prov'd a God\ a God who made Th' expanfive Heav'ns, and Earth's Foundation laid ; Who form'd all Creatures that inhabit there, And {till protects them with paternal Care. But, who to fave this World vouchfaf'd to bleed, ~ To die, — (when Love Eternal fo decreed,) Him h Wefley fings ; Him, that Almighty Pow'r, Whofe Type or Shadow c Cowley fung before •, When his luxuriant Fancy JeJJe's Son Engag'd, in Numbers fcarce inferior to his own. Hence too we Great nefs fcorn for the Retreat That humble c Norris fings, and fings fo fweet, There to coiled: our Pow'rs, and all employ In the Perfuit of intellectual Joy. Nor a His Creatitn. > His Life of Chriji. c His Davideis. ' Set bis Poem, Silting in an Arbour. on Divine POESY. iii Nor a Watts, will I forget thy Lyric Song, As fmooth as Horace, yet as Pindar ftrong. And taught by b Solomon's perfuafive Strain, That all we fee, or think, or act, is vain •, The Fruits of Knowledge we admire no more, Pleafures feem Poifon, and a Shadow Pow'r. What awkard Joy excites the Mifer*s Breaft, To make poor Charity his welcome Gueft, When e'er fhe begs in c Prior's eafy Line, Who almoft makes the Scripture more divine ! Where d Broome, let thy harmonious Numbers dwell, Nor ask thy Friend to fing, what thou canft fing fo well. When ferious c Waller bid adieu to Arms, To Courts, and Sachariffa's dying Charms, And tun'd to nobler Themes his folemn Lyre, Defirous foon to join th* Angelic Choir, Sweet a His Horae Lyricar. b A Poem by Prior. c His Paraphrs.fe on i Cor. xiii. * See his Epifle tt Mr. Pope. c His Divine Poems. iv A Prefatory Copy of Ferfes Sweet flow'd his Words, and fo divine his Senfe, That Dryden thought him but new come from thence. And ftill, methinks, we hear thofe Heav'nly Strains, That once with Tranfport fill'd Judea's Plains, While a Pope in lofty Ecchoes founds thofe Joys, And fmgs MeJJiah with an Angel's Voice. But hear, and tremble at the angry Sound, That b Young's Ten Thoufand Trumpets fpread around ; Strange ! we the Paflions catch from either Hand, As Mortals at the dread Tribunal ftand ; Difguis'd in all the hideous Shapes of Fear, With thofe who on the guilty Left appear, And ravifh'd now with Wonder and Delight, We tafte th' ecftatic Joys that crown the Right ; Hopeful, from thy Example, Young ; to rife, One Day with them to Everlafting Blifs. Still tt His Paraphrafe on Ifaiah. b His Poem on tht Lafi Day on Divine PO EST. v Still greater Wonders Heav'n-taught a Milton fings, And as he foars aloft on Eagle's Wings, With him the captive Reader feems to fly Thro' the vaft T rafts of the ethcrial Sky ; And, foon as the refiftlefs Arm of God Hurls flaming Myriads to Hell's dire Abode, He hears, or feems to hear, the Thund'rer's Voice, Smiles at juft Vengeance, and the Wrack enjoys. And now he joins the Triumph of the Son, As joyful Seraphs wait Him to the Throne, And num'rous Hofts thro' all the Starry Plains Salute their Saviour-God with folemn Strains, Which none can fing but the Celeflial Choir, And none repeat, unbleft with Milton's Fire. All hail, ye facred Bards, whofe Merits claim In the Poetic World a deathlefs Name ; If to inftrucl: the Mind, and pleafe the Ear With Sounds, that Angels floop from Heav'n to hear, Be Poeffs noblefl Aim ; the Way, which God Firft dictated, and godlike Prophets trod. " Oh * Varadife LoJ. * vi A Prefatory Copy ofVerfes^ &c\ <« * Oh ! may fome Spark of your celeftial Fire Spread through my Soul, and fill its large Defire, That I at humble Diftance may purfue, And keep my Duty, and my God in view. To teach vain Man a Leflbn little known, 7* adore Superior Pow'r, and doubt his own. * Pope'* Ejfdj on Criticifm. \ ( i ) DEO OPT. MAX. The Firft Hymn of FID A. To GOD the FATHER. Jccipe, fumme Pater, magni Fabricator Olympi Qua Tibi, qua Nato, quce amborum carmlna Amori Sacra ferens cecini, &c. |P|||^Cc e p t, Great God, whofe wond'rous 139 Works declare A Power Supreme, in Heav'n, Earth, Sea, and Air, This tributary Song, thefe pious Lays That humbly aim at thy unrival'd Praife. B To Annotations. * Inftead of a formal Preface, which the little I have to offer at prefent, concerning my Author, or this Tranflation may well ex- cufe, give me Leave to mention, that VI D A is fufficicntly known already from the accurate Editions of Dr. Oiuen anJ Mr. Tnftram, and an excellent Tranflation of his Art oi Poetry by Mr. Pitt. I pretend not to equal that ; nor in- deed are the Originals themfelves equal : for, though it may not be my Bufine(b to fay fo, thefe Hymns were the Produce of his younger Years, his firft Flight in Poetry j and if they be not fo Hat and jejune as fome would make them, yet perhaps they want both 2 To GOD 5. To Thee, to thy Eternal Son, I fing, And Holy Spirit : O ! fuftain my Wing, While far above thefe lower Worlds I rife, And range adventrous the Empyreal Skies, Where in harmonious Order round the Throne, 10. The brighter!: Sons of Morn thy Godhead crown. Great the Defign, by many urg'd before, But urg'd with vain Attempt by human Pow'r, 'Twas Annotations. both the Spirit and Diction, that appeared fo conspicuous in his Af. tcr-writingi , ftill mew they fomething worthy fo great a Genius, and arc/by no Means injurious to the Subhm.ty of h> o^jed. To mske him therefore the more compleat id Ins Engbjh D.els, and look like what he was, I mean, a Divine , I fomeume ago propofedto tranflate thefe facrcd Poems by way of S«bn,pt l0 ; and the great Encouragement I then met with , did nothing elfe. would now oblige me to publifh them ; for 1 had rather « Friend mould fay, H? has not got his Penniworth, than that 1 fold htm ^ifas^reflea with Pleafure on the Time I fpent in coming this Eflay, 1 flatter my felf, that others will bf foine Benefit m p - Ufipg it. It may probably remind the Negligent of h.s Duty, and nflrutt the IgnoJanl at lead induce them to fearch »£ 1 hope therefore for Reception, if (as the late Bifhop ,Mr«t ofe. ferv'd) All Helps are httlc enough in an «/'"*> to take Plea fore in being ignorant of the viofl mfirtant yutlts. To be the n^infttuflivc. I have fubjoined thelc ^»°^ which, except a lew canny Obfcrvations are caUefted t. on W - ten of the bed Account , as they f t TvMe.thet to illufttate my Autho., or to explain any abfttufe Point in Divinity. V « r,jA&b Cali Striritti, the Sama, or Commonalty ol Heaven, and ha. accordingly beftoWd a foetal Hymn »|>on imanj Of them ; but they bear no Hart in my pre&M Underttk«* the FATHER. a 'Twas the Divine alone that could infpire My raptur'd Soul to lead the tuneful Choir 15. From fam'd Aonian Hills to Jordan' % Stream, With Harps new flrung to a fublimer Theme, Social the Coafts of Paleftine we tread, And lab'ring climb Idumeh lofty Head : Thence with propitious Gales we wing the Air, 20. And joyous foar above the ftarry Sphere. Till happily we reach the bleft Abodes, Of Saints and Angels, and inferior Gods ; Nor dread thofe brighter Glories to furvey, That from thy Temples pour a Flood of Day, 25. Way found we none, with guiding Footfteps worn, But all with Shrubs o'erfpread, or tangling Thorn ; B 2 Or Annotations. V. 15. From fam'd Aonian Hills. ) Camcenas Venice ab Aonio duxi Jordanis ad L'ndas. From Virgil ; Whom our Author is every where fond of imi- tating ; y Aonio ridtns deducam Venice Mnfas. Georg. iii. 10. So fublime a Subjea perhaps requires not thofe weaker Ornaments of Poetry, which Vida here and in other Places makes ufe of, I mean thofe of FmU* ; yet if Variety is pleafins, fuch beau- tiful Figures as are diipers'd through the whole, cannot but be ac- ceptable to every Reader, when the Poet does not eclipfe, but rather gives a fiercer . igfac to the D.vhie. V. 25. IV ay found we nmt.) Nulla era t ante via . Havmg before declared his Defign, he now tells us what Dirtied- ties he had to engage with in the Perfuttj alluding to thofe which were occafion'd 4 To G D Or barr'd with rugged Rocks : but when I weiJd My two edg'd Sword, the fliadowy Barriers yield. They fall on either Side, and feaft the Eyes, 30. With an inviting Path to Heav'nly Joys. Long have the fpecious Trifles of the Stage, And lufcious Lays allur'd the lift'ning Age. Foun- Annotations. occafion'd by the Subtilty and Entanglement of Error, and the Va- riety ofintricate Opinions, that prevail'd in his own Times, and the dark and grofs Ignorance of thofe immediately preceeding. But ha- ving Recourfe, lays he, to the irreilftible Power of the Word of God, we eafily overcame them all. Heb. iv. 12. V. 31. Long have the fpecious Trifles.) Sat fenia ludoque datum j hidicra priorum Ficiaque fat vacuas tenuerunt carm'ma tm From VirgiVs Georg. iii. 2. ■ - — fos Silv. II. fays, Tentatum vndtis opus ante, many had before attempted Divine Pocfie ; yet he heie joins them in their common Lan • oktng upon himfe'.f as the Firft; none having done it fo effectually before \ nor indeed many fincc. the FATHER. 13 Nor let me flay with Wonder to admire 130. The Rage of Winds, or Thunders wing'd with Fire; The dewy Clouds, the Froft, or feather'd Snow, Or glaring Beauties of the fliowry Bow, Fix'd Sign of Peace with Heav'n, and Earth below. Thefe, and the ftarry Order form'd to grace 135. With radiant Pomp the throng'd Etherial Space, Are known to all : known is the horned Moon, And flaming Palace of the Golden Sun. Not when the Golden Sun with chearful Ray, Vifits both Worlds, and meafures out the Day ; Flies Annotations. V. in. Fix'd Sign of Peace.) The Rainbow might probably have been feen before the Flood, the Caufes of it -having been from the Beginning : But God was now pleas'd to inftitute it as a Sign of his Covenant with the World ; and thereby to feal the AiTurance of his Promife, tho' there was no correfpondency betwixt it and the Thing fignified. Gen. ix. 15. if/ov/i/ so/jam*, <*.<; 71 K&vicov 'Ev vitpzi {TYi&izz-, li&s fxi^oTuv cLvft^cdnffW Horn. II . 1 1. Jove's wondr'ous Bow of three Celeftial Dies, Plac'd as a Sign to Man amid the Skies. Pope. V. 136. Are known to all : Omnia funt njulgata — Quis nefcit cormia Luna ? So Virg. Geoig. 3. Omnia funt vulgata. Quis aut Euryjibea durum t Ant illaudati nefcit Bufiridts aras $ 14 To GOD 140. Flies he fo fwift, nor can he reach the Hight, Strong as he is, of my ambitious Flight. I pafs the Tenants of the upper Skies, All fix'd at my Attempt in deep Surprize. Above the Heav'ns, and Things create I foar, 145. The felf-exiftent Being to explore. The Caufe of Caufes, Pow'r of Pow'rs fupreme, From and to all Eternity the fame. Be this our Task -, Let this our Wiflies bound, To know that unknown Somewhat •, wrapt around 150. With Shades and Darknefs : Yet whatever it be, Confeft by All a wond'rous Deity : Nor Annotations. V. 146. The Caufe of Ciufes) If all Things that arc made, were made by fome Other, that Other, which produe'd them, was it felf produe'd, or it was not : If it w.'S, we fha!l at laft come to (omething that was never made j (elfe we inuft admit cither a Circle of Productions in which the EiFcct mail make its own Caufe ■, of .m Infinite Sncceilion in Caufa- lity, by which nothing will be made :) And it it w.is not it felf produe'd; 'tis the Thing we are in Search of, viz. A Sclt-c\iftcnt, Independent Being, Tiie Caufe ol Caules, frc, /'. 151. Cor.fcft by sill) i j cuvSti tatnen effc vttttftMS, If the univerfal Confent of Mankind in the Belief of a God can- not be rcfulv'd into thofe Caufes that are commonh ailign'd for it, viz. Inftitiuion, Lnftril&ion, or Tradition, as might eafily be fhewn, was it not to fbin out thefe Obfervation to too 1 engtli : We may affirm that his Exigence i> a Dictate ol Nature, ci the FATHER. 15 Not what it is, but that it is, we know, Whence thefe tranfcendent Beams of Glory flow. As when the living Sun in fecret flies, 155. Veil'd in a cloudy Shade from human Eyes, His dreamy Rays their piercing Light difplay, And ftill we own Him Parent of the Day : So this great Being fliuns our feeble Sight, Nor Senfe can climb to its majeftick Height. 1 60. Yet all confefs the Pow'r : when active Thought And ardent Minds fuck in the welcome Draught, Which thro' the Limbs diffus'd, and ev'ry Part, Ufurps our Organs, and inflames our Heart, Kindly points out, and guides us in the Way ; 165. As we its Heav'nly Dictates fhall obey. What Annotations. or a Principle which human Reafon in all Men very foon and ea- iily difcovers : And therefore if not a ftrict Proof of the Exiftence of God, yet is a Motive of the Credibility of it, and ought always to be of fome Weight in our Reflections on this Argument. V. 152. Not what it is ) Tlcos voo; etSfriffei cv yd% via xdivt ^fiTrjQ-. Greg. Naz. Hymn, ad Deum. How can the Mind form any Notion of Thee, who art Incom- prchcnfible } 1 King, viii. 12. 16 to GOD What Title does this aftive Spirit claim ? Can't Weexprefs, or does it want a Name ? It cannot for Diftinftion-fake ; where One alone Without Compeer, reigns Monarch of the Throne. 170. Great Being, neither Creature, Thing, nor Part, Nor Male nor Female ; whatfoe'er Thou art, Mind, Spirit, or inexplicable Pow'r, Whofe faving Aid, Heav'n, Earth, and Seas implore, From whom they Bleflings infinite receive, 175. And all the Springs, that Life and Motion give ; Firfl, we own thy Exiftence, Sov'reign Lord, One, Good, and True, by all admir'd, ador'd : Yet Annotations. V. 166. What Title ) Quo vero id nomine die am ? Aut nullum > nut p'rorfus non enarrttbile nomen. Why askeft Thou after my Name? fays the Spirit of God, Jttdg. x'm. 18. feeing it is fecret, Dent. xxix. 29. But Exod. iif! 14- God has declared himfelf by the Name of / A hi : Which Words plainly (peak his Exiftence, and none can be more cxprcflive •of the abfolute Perfection of his Unity. Trifmegijlus as quoted by Latfnnt'uis : O'cTe Oio<> z7$, ofi *s oVoixetjQ- * *fOffiy thing to be, and not be at the fame Time ; to deny hrmj\\j\ 6cc. for thefe being no Object s of Power* 'tis no Diminution of Power not to be able to do them : Nay, we are oblig'd to aflert the Inipoilibiliry of them, even in Honour and Vindication o\ God's Holy Name. V.da. therefore, tho' he may juftly fay, Potts omwa, (and by the way, JErteas addreflcs the Cumean Sibyl with the fame Expreflion, JEx. 6. and Homer in Odyff. £ gives us, jtivcflcLi $ et'UAvJct) }et pef- haps goes too far, in faying, §(upd f what exquiflte Art and Contrivance is to be feen in the whole Frame of the Univerfe 5 if we obfervc how wonderfully every thing is fitted to attain the molt excellent and ufeful Ends j we fhall have a more par- ticular Confirmation, and a monger Evid nee of this divine Attribute from Experience, and Matter of lacl. Every fingle Part of the Uni- nivcifc, which falls under our Cognizance and Enquiry, will fhew with the FATHER. 31 Thou immenfe, incorporeal Spirit >pure, 285. Dependent on, and in thy felf fecure, Firm thy Refolves, thy Ways are ever fure. For Wifdom infinite ne'er fought Relief From fad Repentance, or reluclant Grief. And Annotations, fhew with what admirable Defign it was made, and proclaim the Knowledge and Wifdom of its Maker. Job ix. 4. xii. 13. xxxvi. 5. Pfal. cxlvii. 5. Rom. xi. 3 3. V. 287. For Wifdom in finite ) Nee Te operum piget AuBorem, non pcenitet unquam. In Gen. vi. 6. Exod. xxxii. 14. 1 Sam. xv. II. Jer. xv. 6. God is faid to Repent ; but Numb, xxiii. 19. 1 Sam. xv. 29. Ja7». i. 4. 'tis faid, That Gad, the Strength of Ifrael, is not a Man that he ft.ould lye or repent , and that But thefe Extravagancies have been juflly exploded, and their Patrons fufficiently confuted. See Latlant, de Ira. 10. Domlnus habet Tefti?nonium totum hoc quod fumus, et quo fumus* Tertull. By the Teftimony of the Creature we come to the Knowledge of an Eternal, Independent Being, by whom all Things elfe are govern'J, and 34 To G D Ideal Shades ! mere Creatures of the Mind, 310. With impious Maxims fraught, or Frenzy blind. The many Caufes, that conccal'd we own From us, were to thy Ommprefcience known, Before Annotations. and upon whom they depend. From hence, namely, from the ex- cellent Order and Difpofition of the Univerfe, the Stoicks took the Notion of their UViV/JLAT^ roif* ^ iiVPtoAvc ; Intellgent and fiery Spirits. Anaxagoras his NkV, Mind-, (fie Note on Creech's Lucrer. i. 78. ) Hence Pythagoras, Plato, Jrifmegiftus , and others, believ'd the World to be endued with a rational Soul : And hence, every good and honed Man has Reafon to believe a Providence, a Cod, who is the Difpofer of all Things, and who, being )uft and merciful, will take Notice of, and one Day reward him for his Piety and Virtue. V. 308. Who cringe to Fortune) Homer did not acknowledge Fortune, nor any where, I think, ufes the Word Tvy^ti, but fuppos'd that all Things were order'd by a certain Decree, which he calls Moi§etV And moll: of the ancient Phi- lofbphers, who mention her, will not allow her to do any thing of her own Power, but as fhc is the Mmiitcr of Fate, or Providence. Virgil indeed not only acknowledg'd her, but gave her Oimr.potevce (j¥.u. via. 3 34) Pindar, (Gly?n. Od. 12.) and Horace, (1. i.od. 35.) pay her the fame Refpecl:. But Juvenal more wifely denies hei Heaven. Tt facimuSj Fortuna, Deam, cceloque locamus. Fortune was never worfhip'd by the wife, But (it aloft by Fools, ulurpS the Skies. Dryden. And our Author gives her t'other Lift out of the World; Eft Fortuna nihil. V. 31 ). Tie many Caufes) We meet indeed with many Difficulties in the Occonomy of Pro- vidence i filch as the Fall of Adam, the Propagation of Sin, ckc. for it feems to us morcjufr, that God in his Goodnefs fhould have pre- ed the Fall o( his Creature, or at lead mould have ftifled this Evil in its Birth, and not have fuffer'd it to fprcid thro' all the Poftcritv of » : fo that Man is bom U Sparks fly ut>vjards,]ob V. 7. Add to this, the fttaoge Coniufion and Diforders that happen in the World, the FATHER. 35 Before the Heav'ns were made, or Time begun, In conftant Rounds his annual Courfe to run ; 315. If therefore Thou to Man wilt not impart The fecret Views of thy prudential Art ; If ftrange, and inconfiftent feem thy Ways, ( When Virtue meets with Scorn, and Vice with Praife. ) Shall he of partial Judgment Thee arraign ? 320. Shall he of Wifdom infinite complain ? No •, but confefs, that he himfelf is blind, That Shades and Darknefs cloud his guilty Mind. For who the fecret Counfels hath explor'd, Or known the Mind of Heav'ns Almighty Lord ? D 2 325. The Annotations. World, particularly in the Example I have mention'd, (I confefs without Leave of my Author) when Vice triumphs, and Virtue is opprefs'd 5 or when the wicked perfecute the righteous : But all thefe Teeming Irregularities muft be refolv'd into that Oracle of Ifaiah : My Thoughts are not your Thoughts, neither are your Ways my Ways, faith the Lord : For as the Heavens are higher than the Earth, fo are my W.iys higher than your Ways, and my Thoughts than your Thoughts, lv. 8. V. 323. For who the fecret Counfels) Qv's mentem abftrufam, quis Num'mis aha profundi Conflia exploret ? lata injcrutabilis ordo. 36 To G D 325. The abftrufc Order of th' eternal Chain Long may we feek, but long may feek in vain. Sooner Earth's Centre might we hope to know, And learn the Treafures of the Deep below ; Than, curious as we are, thy Footfteps find, 330. Or trace thy Ways with an obfervant Mind. Thou fitteft mantled in the Shades of Night, Thick Veil ! not to be pierc'd by human Sight ! Into what dark RecefTes have I pry'd ? What diflant Regions of the World defcry'd ? 335* While over Plains, and craggy Steeps I rove, Swift-wing'd with duteous Zeal, and ardent Love, In Search of Thee, whofe Voice th' inclement Sky, The Winds, and wild tumultuous Seas obey. That Annotations, f Tis mnnifefl: from the foregoing Obfervation, that God is incom- prebenfible, not only in his Nature, but alfo in his Operations and Properties : For as there is an infinite Diftance between a finite Un« demanding and an infinite one, fuch as God's is j fo the Thoughts of an infinite Undemanding muft infinitely furpafs the Thoughts of a finite one, fuch as is ours. Dent. xxix. 29. 3°b V. 8. xi. 7. xxii'k $. xxwi. 26. xxxvii. 23. the FATHER. 37 That thou haft vifited this Earth, 'tis faid, 340. And of thy dazzling Glory difarray'd, Here commun'd with our Fathers, greatly bleft ! I therefore, big with Hope, the Earth addreft, D 3 And Annotations. V, $39. That thou haft vifited ) Our Author feems heve more particularly to allude to Gen. xviii. where of the Three Perfons that appeared to Abraham, two are faid to be Angels, and the third God himfelf. Dominus cum duobus An- gelis ad eum venerat. Sulp. Sew And v. 21. I ivill go down, faith the Lord, and fee tuhether they have done altogether according to the Cry that is come unto me. Like which, and probably borrowed from it, (note on OdylT xvi. 170.) are thofe PalTages in Horner ; - €>iOt Z&VOlG-tV 10IX.QTU cl*\0 4 2 o. Quaque movent humiles audit ft tonitrua mentes. Tho' fome (qui numerum perfects infania complenjtrunt. Lactam.) have arriv'd to that Pitch of Madnefs and Impiety, as not only not to fear, but to deride and mock at Thunder and Lightning, and fuch like dreadful Phenomena : as Epicurus, of whom Lucretius fays boafting, Non fulmina, nee mini t ant i murmur e co??ipreJfit cce- [um. . Not all the Thunders of the thi'eat'ning Sky Could flop his riflng $oul. Ytt 44 To G D All thefe rejoyce thy Sov'reign Pow'r to own, And Thee their Maker fpeak, and Thee alone. For who of Man, — or more exalted Kind, " Spirits to Action Spiritual confin'd, 425. Can bid the Thunders roar, or Lightnings fly, Or with the beauteous Rainbow paint the Sky ? The ANNOTATIONS. Yet generally fpeaking, no natural Effe&s whatfoever are more apt to imprefs on our Minds Divine Fear ; as the fame Lucretius owns. /• v. Qui non animus formidine divum contrahitur ? ckc. What Mind's unfhaken, and what Soul's not aw'd, And who not thinks the vengeful Gods abroad, Whofe Limbs not fhrink, when dreadful Thunder hurl'd From broken Clouds, makes the affrighted World : What ! do not Cities, Kings, and Nations fear ? Creech. _ Nome perfpicuum eft ex prima admiratione hominnm, quod tonitrua jatlufyue fulminum txttmuijfint, credidife ea efficere rerum omnium preterit em govern ? Cic. de Nat. Deor. ii. So Luc an Per fulmina tantum Scire t adhuc folum ccelo rcgnare ttnantem. From Horace. Ccelo tonantem credimus govern regnare. . Jove by his Thunder fpcaks himfelf in Heaven. V. 426 ) I find fince my Note on v. 133. that others are of Opi- nion, that the Rainbow did not appear before the Flood, as having no fuch Ufc or End then, as it has had ever fince j and that, if it did, the Sight of it would have been but poor Comfort to Noah and his timorous Fofterity, whofe Fear left the like Inundation might happen again, was greater than could be taken away by any common or utual Sign. But tliis is fcarce fa material as to require a Determi- nation. the FATHER. 45 The Works of God ! who thus with glimm'ring Rays, A Track of his own glorious Light difplays ; Tho' ftill remains invifible that Soul y 430. Or Spirit , that infenfibly pervades the whole. Where ends this Track ? where fhall I joyous meet With him I love, and fall before his Feet ? If in the purer iEther high enthron'd Above the Convex of this immenfe Round $ 435. Zealous I'll thro' the pureft iEther flray, And tread the Ground-work of the milky Way. Oh ! for the Swiftnefs of the failing Dove ! While high amid the radiant Orbs I rove. Fix'd thefe, while thefe in oblique Courfe advance, 440. And regularly move their ftated Dance : Hence Annotations. V. 439. Fixd thefe} They are call'd the Fix'd Stars, becatife they obferve, (or at lead feem to us to obferve) the fame invariable Diftance from one another, and from the Ecliptick : They run not thro* one Degree of the Ecliptick fooner than in 7 1 T. 1 9 D. 1 z H. V. 440. And regularly move ) ^ 'Tis obfervable, that the Stoics alTerted and prov'd the Divine Pro- vidence by the very Argumejn which the Epicuerans brought to op- pofeit. Lucnt, v. nSu Prttcrct 46 To GOD Hence Day and Night in grateful Turns appear, And Seafonsas they change compleat the Year. Spring ifTues forth, and Summer fwift fucceeds, As Summer Autumn, Autumn Winter leads. 445. And now innumerable Stars, with Light Not to be meafur'd, ftrike my dazzled Sight. I gaze, admire, flill hope that Light to gain, So long defir'd, and fo far fought in vain. Soon as I faw the Glory of the Sun, 450. Glory, that with furpaffing Radiance fhone, Round whom the vulgar Conftellations lead Their circling Dance, confefling him their Head. Full Annotations Prjeterea ccelr rai'iovcs tempora verti, &C Befidcs, they faw the Heav'ns in Order roll, Their various Motions round the {ready Pole, The Seafons of the Year by conllmt Laws, Knn round, but knowing not the nat'ral Caufe, They therefore thought that Cods might rule above ! Poor Shift ! &c. j4: mihi tarn frxfeus ratio non alia "jidetnr, cVcc. Manil. i. 475. The Stars ftill keep one Courfe 5 they ftill perfue Their conftant Track, nor vary h\ a new : From one nYd Point they ftart, their Courfe maintain, Repeat the Whirl, and vifit it again A mc ft convincing Reafbn drawn Jrom Senfe, That this vail Frame is rul'd bv P Which like the Soul, does ev\'y Whirl adv ince. It muft be God, nor was it made by Choice. Creed'. the FATHER. 47 Full glad I thought, none but the Lord of Day, Cou'd e'er fo bright an Eminence difplay. 455. Vain Thought ! however gay and ftrong he feems, He mines, like lefTer Stars, with furtive Beams. Still feek I, tho' with Darknefs flill oppreft, That Pow'r that all Things moves, himfelf at Reft ; That Glory, that tranfcendent Majefty 460. That has for ever been, and muft for ever be. Now in the vaft expanfive Heav'ns what more Than the Etherial Minds cou'd I explore, Intelligential Subftances, who crown With radiant Luftre the Almighty's Throne, 465. In minifterial Order wait his Will, And duteous all his great Behefts fulfill : Be it to turn a federal Orb, or Sphere, Or guide the Planets in their fwift Career. I Annotations. y. 467. Be it to turn ) Juffcque rotatu Sidcra perpetuo torquent njol'ventia inundi. Attive as fome Mind that turns a Sphere. CczjUy According to the old Opinion, that the Heavens were divided in- to icveial CTrbsor Spheres j and that a particular Intelligence, or An- gel 48 To G D I join'd the Choir : who all their Songs employ 470. In Praife, and form a Scene of boundlefs Joy. Proftrate with rev'rent Awe, I One ador'd, Whofc brighter Glories fpokeHim Sovereign Lord. They all exclaim, and humbly he decries My Creature-Worfhip, and vain Sacrifice. 475. " Far above us (fays he) fits God fupreme " Without Compeer, to Him moft glorious " Theme, " In wak'ning Raptures let the Heav'nly Choir " Sing joyful, and retune the fpeaking Lyre. He Annotations. gel was aflign'd to each of them to turn it round to all Eternity : Like a Mill-Horfe, fays Scaliger $ aud OUT Oldham calls 'era, (fbme- what too ludicroully) Turnfpit Angels. V. 474. They all exclaim ) Onmes inehimant : in primis verba precantis Ipfe arcet, rcfugitqu* bumilis, era Thttra parabam. Alluding to thefe Words of St. John ; 4nd I jell at his Feet fr tuorjhip him, and he ( a- d unto me $ See t'roi do it not, I am thy Fello-vj Servant, Sec. Worth if God. Rev. xx. 10. Neque Aweli, cum fint imrnor tales, diei fe Deos ant patiuntur fttit 'volunt. §(u$rMM uvum folumyiic ojficium fervire nutibus Dei, nee ommno quidqudM, ntfi jujfu, facere. Lnftant. ii. 16. The Angels, immortal as they arc, neither defire, nor will luffer themfclves to be called Gods ; it being their Bufineisonry to obey the Will of God, and to do nothing but by his Command. the FATHER. 49 He faid, and (trait in Praifeof the moflHigh, 480. Triumphant Hallelujahs charm the Sky ; No Voice exempt 5 no Voice but well cou'd join Melodious Part in Harmony divine, « Thrice Holy, Holy, Holy Lord (they fung, " With Holy Lord the Empyrean rung : ) ' J. « Thou Father, Greateft, Beft, whofe fertile Thought, 1 And Mind reflective thine own Image wrought; 1 Likencfs exprcfi from Thee was form'd, but How, ' Neither may Man enquire, nor Angels know ; 1 As are the inmoft Thoughts of Man, concealed, 490. « Which yet the babbling Tongue has not re- " veal'd ' But Simile is vain, and ufdefs here, c Since all its little Arts can never clear E «■ The Annotations, V. 48?. Whife fertile Thought) Tu de fcecunda mente volutans Concipis ipfe tut txsmphm. ^osTL n V7 k T n toj******* " fterfl, but rather STi!T Fec " n , dl 7 and Communicability of itfclf : upon b h s r^rio i?l th \ Wo A d dcpends ■ G » d mak - *» v*B 50 To G D " The Word ineffable : that came from Thee " Alone, and has been ever, and muft ever be. 495. cc Therefore, Eternal as thou art, and One, " Yet ever dwells with Thee thine only Son, €t Both reign Omnipotent ; are both immenfe, 505. ^ Annotations. V. 505. Three in One) The Jews themfelves, as well before our Savour's coming as fince, have acknowledg'd a Plurality in the one infinite Being of God, from the Intimations given thereof in their Scriptures, which they likewife found to remain this Plurality to a Trinity : Numb. vi. 24. //#. vi.$. xxxiii. 22. Dan. ix. 19. Hof. xii. 5, Concerning the Son, Pfal. \\. 7. xlv. 6. ex. i. Prov. viii. 23. xxx. 4. Concerning the Ho- ly Ghoft, Gen. i. 2. vi. 3. Nu?»l>. xi. 25, 2 Sam. xxiii. 2. PJal.xxxui. 6. Laftly of the Three Perfons together, Gen. i. 1, 26 xxxiii. 21. ix. 7. Ifa. xi. I. xlviii. 16. lix. 19. Ixi. 1. And not to mention Plato, and other ancient Fhilofbphcrs, who arc fuppos'd to have bor- rowed the Belief of a Trinity from the Jews, (fee Dr. Cudiyorth ln- tell. Syjl. p. 46. Grot, de Rel. Chriji. v. 21.) the wifeft, grcateft, and beft of Men in all Ages, have fubmitted to this myflcrious Doc- trine j as having upon Examination found nothing in it contrary to Reafon, how far foever it be above it. But there are fome, who ilill affirm, that they cannot, nay, tli.it they are not required to be- lieve any further than what they know, or have Ideas of j and ccn- fecjueat/y the FATHER. 5l 505" In Nature, One; in Perfonality " Diftinft ; harmonious, wond'rous Unity ! E 2 As Annotations* fequently reject this Doctrine. But if any one of thefe mould fall in my Way, and would condefcend to hear a Reply, I think, I Ihould venture upon it in this or the like Manner : — Sir, if by Ideas you mean that a Man muft fo far have Notions of the Things he believes, as to know what he means, and to be able to diftinguifn them from other Things, as that Three are Three, and One is One, you may be right : For how elfe fhould we know what we believe, and what not \ But if by Ideas you mean Conceptions, and that you cannot believe any further than you can comprehend, as how Three intelligent Agents , or diftintl Per [oris, can be in ft rift Union together. fiibfifting in one undivided E fence ; you confound Faith and Knowledge, you make Reafon the Meafure of all Truth, and are therefore, Iprefume, in an Error. Befides, if you have no Intereft in rejecting this Doctrine, nor can expect any Advantage, but on the contrary, it may poffibly hurt youj fince this is to reject the Scriptures, the undoubted Word of God, why fhould you not take the fureft and fafeft Side ? But why men- tion I the Scriptures ? you will fay ; There is no fuch Word as Tri- nity to be found therein : Mere Chicanery this ! For tho' the Word itfelf, being Latin, cannot be found in the Originals, which are He- brew and Greek, yet if what is to be understood by this Word be found therein, and 'tis one principal Defign of the New Teftament, we have a Right to ufe ir. Now the Scripture fays, There is but one God, but at the fame Time gives the Names and Properties that are elTential to God, to Three diftinct Perfons : From hence then We deduce the Trinity in Unity* 'Tis no Matter whether you can comprehend it, or no ; this is not the only thing that is incompre- lienfible to us at piefent, yet neverthelefs demands our Aflent, as the Infinity o/God,&c. To believe, and to mew our Faith by our W©rks, is our only Bufinefs j and we have all Authority imaginable for fo do- ing : Befides, no ill Confequences can attend it, and we may more than hope one Day to be rewarded for our Obedience herein. Ac- cept therefore this gracious Tender of new Life, fo mercifully begun by the Father, fo powerfully difpens'd by the Son, and fo perfectly finifu'd by the Holy Ghoft, Three Perfons and One God, blefTed for ever. Exod. xxiii. 20. with 1 Cor. x. 9. John i. 1. v. 1%. xiii. 31. xiv. 30. XYii. 5. xyiii. a*. Phil, ii, 6. x John Y. 7. 5 i To G D " As thou art God, the Son, and Spirit the fame, " Yet both in Manner of Exiftence, claim " A relative Diftindtion : Neither Son, 510. " Nor Holy Spirit art Thou •, but God alone « Of all the Head, uA Father-, before Thee " Was none, nor other God fliall ever be. " For Godis One, with triple Honours crown'd, " And in eternal Glory high enthron'd. " Mod Annotations. y. 509. A Relative Dijlinclion ) The fathers always excepted the Paternity from thofe Perfections, which are common to the Father and the Son j and held that the Paternity was not communicable to the Son, nor the Sonfiip to the Holy Ghoft. The three Pcrfons are alike in every Thing except the Relations of Father, Son, and Holy Ghoft ; which diftingmfh them, and are incommunicable amongft them. See the following Note. V. 51 1. Of all the Head and Father) As there can he but one EfTence properly divine, and fo but one Cod of infinite Power, Wifdom, and Majelty , as there can be but one Per Con originally of Himfelf fubiifting in that infinite Being , fo the very Generation of the Son, and the Proceflionof the Holy Ghojl, undeniably prove that neither of thofe two can be that Perton $ for whoever is oenerated, muft be from Him, which is the Genitoi , and Whoever prSceedeth, muft be from him from whom he proceeded! i Whatevei 'the Nature of that Generation or ProteJJion be, (of which more hereafter). It follows therefore that this Perfon, who is from none, is the Father , whom the antient Doctors of the Church have callM theOiigin, the Root, the Fountain, and the Head 01 the Son, or of the whole Divinity. 1 Cor. xi. 3. TM capitis C.iput, ct prum Tu jontis origo. Hilar. And here wc may obfcrve, that whercfoever God hath been ao knowledge, he hath been undcrftood and worlhip d as a Father, *nd fo all the Heathen Poets defcribe him 1 the FATHER. 53 515." Mod mighty Lord, at whofe majeftic Nod, " The Earth and Heav'ns with trembling own " their God. .While thus th* Angelic Choir alternate fing, The wond'rous Praifes of their bounteous King, Heav'n feems its facred Beauties to difplay, 520. And mew from far the glorious Lord of Day. E 3 Oh Annotations. n*Tw? ivJ\$V Ti Blum Horn. Divumque Hominumque Pater, Rex. Enn, Divum Pater, at que Hominum Rex. Virg. &V. And the Scriptures diftinguifh him by this Name in Ifa. Jxiii. 16. Ixiv. 8. MaL i. 6. ii. io- Matth. vii- 9. xii. 50. xxviii. 19. John v. 26. vi. 574 xiv. 28. xx. 17. Rom. vni. 15. 1 Cor. viii. 6. 2 Or. i. 3. Ephef. i. 3. iv. 6. 1 Pet, i. 3. ^tt;. 1. 18. 1 Join iii. 1. V. 515. At whofe majeftic Nod) Cunifa fupercilio quatiens — ^ ^«fw Deum ? fays Terence, Etin. iii. 5 S«» templa cceli fumma nutu concutit. And Ffrg. JEn. ix. 106. Annuit, et totum nutu treme^ecitOlympum. From that grand and venerable Defcription of Jupiter, in //#« fnrr, //. i. He fpoke, and awful bends his fable Brows : Shakes his Ambrofial Curls, and gives the Ned, The Stamp of Fate, and Sanation of the God, High Heav'n with trembling the dread fignal took, And all Oljmpus to the Centre ftiook. ' Popt. 54 To G D Oh Light ineffable ! that Angels fee, Angels, immortal as the Deity, Tho' ftill on God dependant : Mortal Sight Suftains not fuch a Flood of rufhing Light, 525. Or dimly fees, nor whether can I fay, Or radiant Night it be, or gloomy Day. But ah ! whence fprings this pure etherial Stream, As from th" eternal Fountain, Light fupreme ? All Lights whatever it exceeds fo far, 530. If any Light to this we may compare. Earth's artificial Days can never vie, With the bright Order of the Starry Sky ; And when the Golden Sun with orient Ray Purples the fmiling Morn, and kindles Day, 535. The Stars, and all the Splendors of the Night, Retire before his Beams with hafty Flight ; The Sun, tho' mounted on the Blaze of Noon, By the Etherial Virtues is outfhone : But Annotations •'. < t. 'linn jhgtU J§*) . Yc Sons of Light, Angels ! for yc behold Him M/r« the FATHER. 55 But Sun and Stars, and artificial Day, 540. And Virtues at thy Prefence fade away. Whence if fome ftreamy Rays break forth, they fire My raptur'd Heart, and all my Soul infpire, But fwif t, as from the Poles the Lightning flies, They pafs, nor can I fill my longing Eyes. 545. Oh ! wou'd fome friendly Pow'r draw off this Cloud, That veils the glorious Majefty of God ! That Heav'n wou'd all its facred Pomp difplay, To which we bow, and pious Homage pay ; The God unknown ; whom thus with pleafing Pain, 550. And ftrong Defires we feek, but feek in vain. The more thefe anxious Doubts we ftrive to clear, We grafp at Clouds, and beat the pathlefs Air : E 4 Faft Annotations. V. 54®. And Virtues at thy Prefence ) To the majeftic Prefence of God we may apply thofe beautiful Ex. predion* in Holy Writ. Behold even to the Moon, and it Jhineth not, yea the Stars are not pure in his Sight, Job xxv. 5. The Light of the Sun, and all the Glories of the World in which we live, are but as weak and fickly Glimmerings, or rather Darknefs itfelf, in Comparifon of thofe Splendors which encompafs the Throne of god. 5 5 To G D Faft we perfue, the Object fafter flies, And all in pitchy Dark environ'd lies. $55. Yet, ftill thy facred Shade attracts the Sight, And feeds the lab'ring Senfes with Delight, As fome to view the Motion of the Sun Struggling in dark Eclipfe, or crimfon Moon, Lift not prefumptuous to the vaulted Skies, 560. Their Face erect, but pleafe their feafted Eyes, While on the watry Plain, or polinYd Glafs, In various Shapes the dancing Image plays : So look we not to Heav'n our God to know, But judge, from thy Impreflions here below, Thy Annotations. F. ff 3. Faft we perfue ) Here the Mind (fays Mr. jtddifin) heaves a Thought now and then towards God, and hath fome tranfient Glances of his Prefence : When m the Inftant it thinks itfelf to have the ialteit Hold, the Ob- ieft eludes its Expectations, and it falls back to the Ground tired and baffled. Wifd. xiii. y, 554- dfld all In pitchy Dark) ■■ ■ ■ Tun fubtrahis 91 Nube trgens, picejeque :n r Johis nulls am'iBu. How oft arnidft Thick Clouds and black, doth Heav'n's all-ruling Sire Chufe to rcfide, his Glory unobfcur'J, And with the Maiclty of Darknefq round I over his Throne \ the FATHER. 57 $65. Thy great and mighty Pow'r : yet none can tell In what thy Greatnefs, or thy Pow'r excell : Nor higher fhall we climb, nor farther fee, Till our Releafe from dull Mortality. Scarce to our feeble Senfe thy Skirts appear, 570. What thou art not, we fooner can declare, Than what thou art in lively Colours paint, From this thy Pourtrait, vifible, but faint. Creatures, that fwim, or creep, or walk, or fly, The Tenants of the Seas, or Earth, or Sky, 575. All fpeak their Great Creator's Pow'r divine, And all we fee, and all we feel is Thine, And Annotations. V. 568. Till &ur Releafe) 1 Cor.xuu 12. Rev. i. 16* y. 5 69. Thy Skirts appear ) Terga tuafunt hac et p$Jleriora figure. Our Auchor, with Mabnonidis, takes the Difcovery made to Mo- fes, Exod. xxxiii. 23. to be the Knowledge God gave him of his Works and Attributes, viz. Thofe mention'd xxxiv. 6. And Greg* Naz. thus expounds it, TauT* $ t« 0£» ret M£i& of& //4t' iKetvoy — > Thofe Things are the Skirts or back Parts of God, 575. All fpeak their great Creator's ) Qnodcunque vide?nus Sentimufvt tuum ejt ; nobis h*c reddit imagy. 5 8 To G D And thus as in a Glafs, or liquid Stream, Thy Glory mines, but mines a languid Gleam. And who this Veil remov'd, can fee thy Face, 580. (Great as thou art, dirrus'd thro' endlefs Space, From whom all other Lights their Light receive, Self-Origin of Light) can fee and live ? We therefore tremble, and thy Name revere, Struck at thy wond'rous Works with wholfome Fear ; Con- Annotations, ; Thou God Unfpeakable ! Who fitt'ft above thefe Heav'ns, To us invifible, or dimly fecn In thefe thy loweft Works : Yet thefe declare Thy Goodnefs beyond Thought, and Pow'r Divine. Milton fi V, 582. Can Jee, ajid live ? We find when the SC HECHIMdH or divine Glory fill'd the Tabernacle, Mofes cou'd not enter therein but on Peril of his Life. Exod. xl. 35. Nor could the Priefts afterwards enter into the Tem- ple, which was built by Solomon, and confecrated to God by folemn Prayer, xuben the Glory of the Lord had filled that Hou/e, 2 Chron. vii. 1. And from Exod. xix. 21. xxxiii. 20. Juig. xiii. 22. Job ix, 11. John iv. 24. 1 Tim, vi. 16. 'tis manifeft, that the Vifion of God in his fpiritual Majcfty is not in this Life. We underftand therefore by his Appearance to Jacob, Mojes, &c. Gen. xxxii. 30. Exod. xxiv. 10. Deut. v. 24. Ntimb.xu. 8. xiv. 14. Judg. xiii. 6. vi. 22* That what was obvious to their Senfes, that plainly difcover'd the more immediate Prefence of God, fo that they need no more doubt of it, than of one talking with them Face to Face j not that there was any Similiri'de whereby Idolatry might pretend to repiefent Him. .. 15. Job iv. 16. 1 John iv- J 2. the FATHER. 59 585. Content fome peaceful Comfort here to find ; Nor to the Throne dare raife our humble Mind. Hence from an univerfal Fear began Thy Title, Deus, fays conceited Man : But An notation*. V, 587. Hence from an univerfal Fear) Omnibus es timor, unde DEUM dixiffs priores Te credunt aliqui^ vera ratioms egentes. All Men have naturally fome Idea of God (v. 151.) to which they prefix a Name, which in almoft all Languages denotes not his ab- ftraft, metaphyfical, and abfolute Idea, but his religious, popular, and relative one, a fovereign Being, upon which all of us depend, and whom we muft of Neceffity adore. Whereupon Vorflius obferves that God did never difdain any of thofe general Names which the dif- ferent People of the V/orld made ufe of to denote him by. Former- ly the Pagans, and particularly the Philijlines, call'd God, Elohim, and he permits this Name to be given him in the Old Teftament -, as he does that of Qtoe. in the New Teftament, tho* it be derived from the Barbarians or Gentiles, who knew not the True God : And hence W€ call him D E US, which was a Roman Term, when they had no other but falfe Gods. For it feems indifferent what general Name we ufe, fo they all equally anfwer the fame Notion that we have of a Being that created all Things, is Sovereign over all, and to whom we owe eternal Adoration. Butbecaufc fome have deriv'd this Word QtQ$, Deus, from AltSK Timor, Fear, (tho 9 it may as well be de- riv'd, &s Ta Q&v, or &f t? etQeiV, &c.) and others, as Lucretius, I. v. and Statius have aliened, that Fear introduc'd the Gods into the World, and was the general Caufe of Religion, Primus in orbe D EOS fecit Timor, — 'Tis requifite to obferve (with the learned Dr. Laughton, late of Clare Hall, Cambridge,) That the Belief of a God, univerfal as it is, cannot be thought to proceed from any Fears of Mens own Minds, or a certain Jealoufy of the worft that may happen incident to our Nature, which is apt to imagine dreadful Things. For though this may be general, yet, befides that the Notion of a God comprehends in it not only Power and Juf};ce y but alfo Mercy and Goodnefs, which can never be the Produce of Fear-, lfay, befides this, it is much more probable, that the Fear of a fupreme Being fhould be the Conference and tfo To G D But let the vulgar, and the guilty Crew 590. Cowring with Horror, dread thy Vengeance due ; Be thou all Love to me, and Joy, and Peace, Nor ever let this poignant Pleafure ceafe ; Let this my other PafTions all controul, Abforb my Thoughts, and grow into my Soul, 595. Entranc'd in holy Fervor, let me lie, Till all my Senfes fail, I bleft and blefiing die. Yes, let me ever breathe this ardent Love, Mindful of what I owe to God above : That I the Springs which Life and Motion give, 600. Free fcow'r to Will, and A<5t, from thee re- ceive. That Annotations. and FfFecl:, rather than the Caufe (of the Belief of it j and that the Objed fhould rather precede and raife the Pjflion, than be conft- cjucih to, and created by it. The Fear of God is "Freedom, Joy, and Peace, And makes all Ills that vex us here to ceafe, Tho' the Word Fear fome Men .may ill endure, *Tis fuch a Fear as only makes fccuie. Waller. V. 597. Tes let me ever ) The Love of God i\)i Mr. 4ddif$n) fhou'd be kept awake in us, ar all Times, and in all Plates, and poffefs our Minds with a perpe- tual Awe and Reverence ; It fhould be interwoven with all our Thoughts and Perceptions, and become one with the Confcioufnefs wf our JBeing. the FATHER. 61 That in thy glorious Image I was rais'd, Be ever bleft thy Name, and ever prais'd. But fweeter Sounds than e'er from Human Tongue Harmonious flow'd, or Saints departed fung, 605. And greater Deeds thy boundlefs Merit claims, Tho' Racks I wearied, and expir'd in Flames. Come holy, eternal Light ! ah ! doft thou fly ? Muft I in Darknefs ever mourning lie ? Emerge, thou Brightnefs, from thy Shades arife, 610. Andfpread thy radiant Glory thro* the Skies, If nor the tender Nerves of human Sight Can bear the Flood of uncorrected Light, Nor Mortals hear the mighty Thund'rer's Voice, But hearing die, in Death will I rejoyce. 515. For Annotations. V. 601. That in thy glorious Image) — _ San ft a tu& imaginis inftar. -. , As to the Faculties of the Soul, not as to any bodily Shape. Xlkicurus, agreed to the Mofaic Defcription, or fomething like it, in the Forma- tion thereof, aliening it to be the Work of God. We might pro- duce innumerable Inftanccs from the ancient Poets to the fame Pur- pofe, but one flinll ferve our Turn, who fpeaks the plaineft. Sophocles* One God there is, who form'd the Heav'n?* And Earth's extensive Length, Who gave the Sea its forging Waves, And to the Winds their Strength. - t i To G D * So joys the Father of a num'rous Race, With genuine Beauty bleft, and hcav'nly Grace •, When they his wholfome Precepts duteous hear, Honour their Parent, and their God revere : 745. Afilent Pleafure fwellshis rapt'rous Bread, He gives his Bleffings, and himfelf is bled. Man lad was fonn'd : of the prolific Ground Fair OJ-fpring, who the new Creation crown'd •, Ercd Annotations. V, 747. M.xn lafl iuas form ' d ) Tandem natus homo e'J. ) We cannot but obferve (with Bifhop Pntrck) how much more magnificently Mofes fpeaks of M.in than any Philofbpher ever did, who had not read, nor heard of his Account : They indeed call him p06?cf XO07/OC, * little World , but Mofes makes his G\ eatnefs to conlift not in his Likenefs to the created World, but in his bein» made (as Greg. Nyfferr. fpcaks) x,a.T eiKova. th? tk x.w Bled Annotations. Worthy alone to celebrate his Name For fuch a Gift, and tell from whence it came. Waller. lb. Of the prolific Ground Fair Of -firing, Gen. \\. 7. 1 Cor. xv. 47. And to this bear all the Poets Witnefs. *H'g. Georg. ii. 34c. Virumque Terrea progenies duris caput extultt awi'. As LfitJantius, Huetius, and others read it, and explain it by ihe latter End of the Verfe. So uvcn.il, vi. 1 3. Compofitique luto nullos habiure parent es. Now among the many pious Reflexions made upon this Original of Man's Body, none feems better than tfaziavzsn's, "1/ otap k^A^eofxi^A fiATriv ukova, f!eiit, imm.Uab'e Being, cither by his own immediate Opt ration, or bv Means of thofc Inftruments he makes ufe of ; and accordingly the greateft Matters of Kca/mi rhat ever were, as Plato, Pythagoras, Cicero, Seneca, 5cc. have averted them to be the Work of the Eternal Cod. {Set H'nt. Aln. oju. I. ii. c. 8.) Our excellent Milton therefore gives us Adam contemplating thus with himfclf in Paradife : All ye that live and move, fair Creatures, tell, Tell, if yc faw, how 1 came thus, how here > Not the FATHER. 75 Strong was his Reafon, and his Soul refin'd With Thought, bright Image of feraphic Mind : 755. He therefore joyful Adoration paid, And with ecftatic Gratitude obey'd ; (When, with his Confort, of a fairer Face, More winning Smiles, and more attractive Grace, In that delicious Paradife y where grew 760. Fruits of all Taftes, andFlow'rs ofev'ry Hue, He travers'd ev'ry Walk, and pleafant Grove, And for his Maker flow'ry Garlands wove, ) Oh ! had he ftill obey'd thy fov' reign Pow'r, And knowing Thee, had fought to know no more ! Thrice Annotations. Not of my felf ; by fome Great Maker then, In Goodnefs and 10 Pow'r pre-eminent. Tell me, how I may know him, how adore, From whom I have that thus I move, and live, And feel that 1 am happier than I know% V, 753. Strong "jjas his Reafon ) Bleft glorious Man ! to whom alone kind Heav'n, An everlafting Soul has freely giv'n : Whom his Creator took fuch Care to make, That from himfelf he did the Image take, And this fair Frame in mining Reafon dreft, To dignifie his Nature above Beaft : Reafon, by whofe afprring Influence We take a Flight beyond "material Scnfej &e* Rochejler. 76 To G D 765. Thrice happy had he been, nor ever fell An eafy Conqueft to the Prince of Hell •, When for an Apple (ftrangely pow'rful Bait! ) He urg'd Mankind's irrevocable Fate, Pois'ning Annotations. V. 767. When for an Apple) Nihil equidem duco mirabihus, t ant am illam urban, ct de terra- rum orbe per 120 annos amulatn uuiut pomi argumento evirfa?n. — Plin. Nat. Hift. 1. xv. Pliny greatly wonders that fo flight a Thing as an Apple, (or whatever Fruit it was that Cato produe'd in the Senate) fhould be the Caufe of the Demolition of Carthage, which had long rival'd Rome in contending for univerf.il Empire: But he knew not the Sto- ry before us, which is much more mange and true. For fuch was the Will of God ; who, when he had placed our firft Parents in Pa- radiff, and given them all the Trees and Fruit thereof for their ITfe, excepted one only, call'd the Tree of Knotted" e . Which light In- junction was all that he required of them as an Inftance of their Gratitude and Obedience ; but fuch was their Vanity and Ingrati- tude, that they foon forgot the Dependance fuitable to a borrow'd Being, and were deluded into an empty Hope of becoming by their Tranfgrefilon like their Creator, at the crafty Indication of the Ser- pent j which being influene'd and actuated by the Devil, (as himfclt confefTeth) boafting or his Succefs among his Confederates, Man by Fraud have I fedue'd From his Creator, and (the more t'incrcafe Your Wonder) with an sfppL: Milton, x. and is plainly to be prov'd from Job 1 vlii. 44. 1 Cor. xi ?. tempted them to eat of the Forbidden Fruit ; they did eat therefore and were undone, Hinc ill* lachrymty • involving not only themfclves, but all their Pottcrity, in Shame, and Guilt, and Milery j winch were the new Ide^s they pluck'd from the Tree of KfUVjl See Hjmn to tie Holy GLoJJ. Many AUufions or faint Sl.ctch.es of this History are to be tracM out among the ancient H a:hens : For what elfe can we think of P firm's getting drunk in the Garden of Jufiter, as mentioned bv Plato > the FATHER. 77 Pois'ning with various Seeds the Gift of Breath, 770. Sooner to fink us in the Shades of Death. Bat fuch thy Goodnefs, that thou would'ft not leave, Imprifon'd in the dark and loathfome Grave, Thy Annotations. Phito ? What of the Gan Adon, the Garden of Adonis, but that it was Gan Eden, this Garden of Delicioufnefs J And what can the Golden Age mean, but the blifsful State of a terreftrial Paradife ? And from hence undoubtedly Hefiod borrowed his famous Story of Promotheus's ftealing Fire from Heaven ; and Jupiter's fending Pan- dora to diffufe Variety of Plagues upon Earth i Maries et nova fehrinm Terns incubnit cokors Seynotique prius tarda 7iecej]itas Lethi curvipmt gradum. Hor. Od. iii. L 1. Fierce Famine, with her meagre Face, And Fevers with the fiery Race, In fwarms th' offending Wretch furround, All brooding on the blafted Ground : And limping Death, lafh'd on by Fate, Comes up to fhorten half our Date. Dry den. Upon the whole 5 we find, that our Author adheres to the literal Se?ife of this Account of the Creation of the World, and Fall of Man, as delivered to us by Moles •, and I don't doubt, but that every ho- neft and ingenuous Man will do the fame ; maugre all the Whims invented, or old oues new drefs'd, by the prepofterous Wits of this Age, in behalf of their impious allegorizing Scheme : Becaufe, 1. This Account of the Infant State of Nature, (as has been obferved,) may be literally true, whatever My fiery or Allegory may be con- tained in fome Expreflions thereof. 2. It contains nothing contra- dictory to our Reafon, and the Notion we have of God. And 5. None of the befi Jevjijh Writers, and primitive Fathers J do rejeB the Letter, much lefs [peak, of the figurative Interpretation as the Only Method of vind' eating Scripture. And laftlv, Becaufe it ftands confirmed by the Telfimony of other infpir'd Writers, even pf when o'erjaded Time Ins run his Rounds, And finking Nature groans in dying Sounds \ He, Judge impartial, fhall again defcend -, And Angels fummon Mortals to attend \ With Joy elate, or Fear deprefs'd they come, 800. For Thoughts, Words, Deeds, to hear their final Doom. M Go, wretched Crew, down, to Perdition " down M Ye, who rebel I'd again ft th' Almighty 'sThronc, M But yc, whom ne'er from Truth and Virtue fell, " Maugre the Pomp of Earth, and Spite of 1 [ell, 805. ■" Afccnd the FATHER. 81 805. M Afcend the promis'd Seat of Joy and Peace, " And live a calm Eternity of Eafe. Now Streams of Fire pour from the fluicy Sky, And Worlds diflblv'd in fmoky Ruins lie : G But Annotations, V. 807. Nov) Streams of Fire) This Dodiine of the Diflolution and Renovation of the World was held by moft of the ancient Philofophers 5 but the Stoicks more particularly thought all Things would be deftroy'd by Fire ; and that PkeenixAike, they fhould be reftor'd again, as it were, from the Allies of the expiring World. Wherefore Ovid makes Jupiter to fear, left with his own Lightnings fie mould fire the World, fince, Effe quoque in Fads reminifcitur, &c. Met, u By Doom Of certain Pates, he knew the Time fhou'd come, When Sea, Earth, Heav'n, and all the curious Frame Of this World's Mafs mou'd fhrink in purging Flame. SevjelL And Lucan fays, 1. vii. ver* 884. Hoi, Cafar, fopulos ft nunc non ufferit ignis , Uret cum terris, uret cum gurgite ponti, Communis mmdo fuptrejl rogus, ojjibus ajira miflurus, m, Tho' now thy Cruelty denies a Grave, Thefe and the World one common JwOt mall have j One laft appointed Flame, by Fate's Decree, Shall watte yon azure Heav'ns, this Earth, and Sea ; Shall knead the Dead up in one mingled Mafs, Where Stars and they fhall undiftin^uifh'd pafs. Roiuel As his Uncle Seneca had faid before him, Sidera fiJenbus ineurrent, et omni flagrante materia, uno igne, quicquid nunc tx difpojito lucet> ardebit. 82 To GOD But Nature labours with a fecond Birth, 8 10. And from her Ames fpring new Heav'ns and Earth. The Righteous hence refin'd, and brighter far, Than the dim Radiance of a twinkling Star, To Annotations. V '. 8 1 o. And from her AjJjes fpring ) It is not impoffible, (fays Mr. Addijon) but that at the Confum- marion of all Things, thefe outward Apartments of Nature, which are now fuited to thofe Beings that inhabit them, may be taken in, and added to the Heavens, and made a proper Habitation for Beings who are exempt from Mortality, and clear'd of their Imperfections : For fo the Scripture feems to intimate, when it fpcaks of neiu Hea- vens and a new Earth, wherein dwelled Righteoufnefs. Ifa. lxv. 17. Rev. xxi. 1. Mean while, The World mall burn, and from her Ames fpring New Heav'n and Earth, wherein the juft fhall dwell* And after all their Tribulations long See golden Days, fruitful of golden Deeds With Joy, and Love triumphing, and fair Truth. Milt, ill V, Si 1. The Righteous hence re fin d) The Fathers were of Opinion, that the Souls of all Men, nay, that of the bleflcd Virgin hcrfelf, were to pafs through this purging Fire at the laft Judgment. And this feems the only ancient Purga- tory, which is buik upon the Authority of our Saviour and his Apo- flics, as well as of the Prophets: Who may abide the Day of hit timing ? (fays the Prophet Malachi, ii. 3.) Or who fi> all flan d when the Lord appeared ? For he is like the Refiner's Fire ; and that Fire (fays St. Paul, 1 Cor. ill. 13.) fli all try every Mans Work, of vjh at fort it is. And the Prophet Daniel tells us. That they that be wife '(hall then (lime as the Brigbtnefs of the Firmament, and they that turn many to Richtcoufnefs, as the Stars for ever and ever, Dan. xii. 3. Matth. Xlif. 4J. Phil. iii. 21. 1 Cor. xv. 45- Rev. iv. n. Butas folate a Fire would do the Church of Rome no Good j they have fince ahcr'd the Property of it, making it indeed a culinary Fire, and blow- ing it up fome Thoufands of Years fooncr than thofe good Fathers ever thought of. the FATHER. 83 To Seats of everlafting Blifs arife, Convoy'd by Guardian Angels through the Skies. 815. Where amidft Myriads, high above all Height, Sits thy great Self, majeftically bright : G 2 And Annotations, V. % 1 5. Where amidft Myriads ) Our Author intends here to defcribe that Place which is mark'd out in Scripture under the different Appellations of Paradife, the Third heaven, the Throne of God, and the Habitation of his Glory ; where the glorify 'd Body of our Saviour refides, and where all the celeftial Hierarchies, and the innumerable Hofts of Angels are reprefented as perpetually furrounding the Seat of God with Hallelujahs and Hymns of Praife. About Him all the Sanctities of Heav'n Stood thick as Stars, and from his Sight receiv'd Beatitude paft Utterance ; On his Right The radiant Image of his Glory fat, His only Son Milt. iii. And 'tis obferved, that this Opinion of God Almighty's Prefence in Heaven prevails among all the Nations of the World, whatever different Notions they have ©f the Godhead. As in Homer and He- fiod we fee the fupreme Power feated in Heaven and encompaffed with inferior Deities, among whom the Mufes are reprefented as finging inceffantly about the Throne. AcLiMT ' If %Tl SvfiLQS \ «t4 'sror' b'fiCga Ait/«Tfit/, &c. There no rude Winds prefume to (hake the Skies, No Rains defcend, no fnovvy Vapours rife j But on immortal Thrones the Bleft repofe. Pojel from whence Lucretius borrow'd his sfpparet Divum numen, fedefefue quiet t % «M neque eoncutiunt 'vend, neque nubdii nimbis Jjpergunt, 6cc ■ I fee the Gods, and happy Seats Which Storm or violent Tempeft never beats Nor Snow invades, but with the purcft Air, And gaudy Light dirTus'd. look gay and fair There Minds enjoy uninterrupted Peace. Creech* y. 847. But Thou (I) alt Jit) Tufolus gitnert protrm 1 T ->v.gen.tm pcrges faecundt in faculu Vtrfo Qignendi ntc finis erit. , If the FATHER. 87 Still flows, and both ftill breathe eternal Love ; 850. As that exhauftlefs Lamp of Light above Its genial Warmth, and Virtue pours around, In conftant Streams to cheer the dewy Ground. Bleft Three in One ! One God, and Lord of all, On whom alone thy eager Saints fhall call, 8 55. Defirous in thy kind Embrace to live, And tafte the Blefiings that a God can give, So fhall the Voice of Joy be heard around, And Heav'n eternally thy Praife refound. G 4 All Annotations. If I have not kept my Author's Expreffion, which would found but oddly in Englijh, I hope I have his Meaning ; which can only be the Emanation of the Divine Effence, from and to all Eternity. V. 850. As that exhaujllefs Lamp) Concordi affatu femper fpirabitis auram, Sol uti inexhaujlum nihil unquam viittere lumen Definit. The Holy Spirit proceeds from and returns to God, as a Beam proceeds from the Sun, and is reflected back again. Athen. dpol. by Humphrey s> p. 162. Mr. Wejley fpeaking of the Son, fays, He is More clofely join'd, more intimately one With the Great Father, than the Light and Sun. and obferves that the Avians of old, who had much more to fay for themfelves than their modern Kindred, granted in fome of their Con- feffions of Faith, That the Son was from all Eternity by fuch an E- manation from the Father, as that whereby the Light proceeds from the Sun, tho* they contended for a Moment's Difference between their Exigence 5 and confequently fell into the fame Abfurdity which other Pretenders to Reafon have done fmce ; that 1 mean, of a made God, or fubordinate Supreme, 1. yu 88 To GOD All Hail ! Thou Source of Goodnefs, Truth, and Light, 860. Whate'er is virtuous, brave, or juft, and right, From Thee, as Rivers from their Fountains flow, Defcends in gentle Streams on Man below, When he in Pray'r fweet Converfe holds with Thee, And fteals, as 'twere, a Part of thy Divinity. $6$. For Thou art Wifdom, Juftice, Truth, and Love, That fhed on Man their Influence from above. Thou An notations. V, S59. jilt Ha: l ! Thou Source of Goodnefs) As God is an omnipotent and omnifiitnt Being, and the Creator of all Things, we cannot but conceive an unalterable Difpofition in Him to do, and communicate all that Good to his Creatures, which is fub- feivient to their different Capacities, and anfwerable to all the pollible Improvements of them ; becaufe the Fitnefs of this muft ever be be- fore his Mind, and infeparable from his Divinity. And fince the cor- rupt Affe&ions of Malice and Envy, the bafe Refults of Weaknefs and Defpair, can never in Him, (being infinitely removed from them) obftruft the Force and Influence of that Evidence, he muft neceflarily acl: according thereunto ; as having neither Caufe nor Temptation to do Evil, he muft neceflarily follow the Tendency of his Nature to do Good. And thus Goodnefs does originally and moft eminently dwell in God. 1 Chron. xvi. 34. 2 Cbron. v. 13. vii. 3. Ezra Hi. 11. Pfal. x\v. 8. Jxxxvi. 5. cvi. I, cxix. 68. cxxxi'v. 3. exxxvi. 1. cxlv. 9. ■ XXXiiL II. Lam. ni, zj. blah, i. 7. Matt/:, xix. 17. Acts xiv. V. ?6<. For Thou art Wifdom) See V. 282. lb. Juftln ) God is juft. For iTnce the Rule of Equity is the Na- Ui»e of Things, and their ueccflary Relation one to another, and fince the FATHER. 89 Thou only art the Light, the Life, the Soul, That brightens, ftrengthens, animates the whole. 870. Thy Annotations. fince the Execution of Juftice is the fuiting theCircumftancesofThings to the Qualifications of Perfons, according to their Original, and na- tural Fitneft, and Agreeablenefs : Tis evident, that the Great Being, who perfectly knows this Rule of Equity, and neceflarily judges of Things as they are, and who has compleat Power to execute J u (lice according to that Knowledge, and who can neither be impofed upon by any Deceit, nor fway'd by any Byafs, nor aw'd by any Power, muft of Neceflity always do that which is juft and right, without Ini- quity, Partiality, or Prejudice : And fuch a Being is God. 2 Chron. xii. 6. Job viii. 3. Job xxxii. 4. xxxiv. 19. xxxvii. 13. lb. Truth) God muft likewife be true and faithful in all his Declarations and Pro- mifes ; For, as Cicero obferves, There is in all intelligent Beings a natural Capacity of apprehending Truth, a natural Defire and Appe- tite of it j which puts them upon a Search and Enquiry after it, and makes them uneafy under Ignorance and Error. It is naturally fie therefore, that Truth mould always be communicated to them, when any Communication is made to them at all : And fince a Being of infinite Knowledge and Power cannot but know this, nor can be hin- dred from acting according thereunto, by Rafhnefs, Forgetfulnefs, In- conftancy, or the like Imperfections, it follows, that this Being, fuch as God is, muft always neceflarily keep to the ftri&eft Rules of Vera- city and Truth in all his Communications to his Creatures. Dent. vii. 9. 2 Sam. vii 28. Deut. xxxii. 4. Numb, xxiii. 19 John xiii. 14. Pf, cxlix. 6. 2 Chron. xv. 3. Jer. x. John xvii. 3. 1 Theft i. 9. r John v. 20. V. S67. Thou only art the Light) Our Author here enumerates what are commonly called the WorVi of Nature, and afcribes thern, as is moft due, to God, the Crentor of all Things both in Heaven and Earth, and the Author of all good Gifts. 1 Chron. xxix. 11. Prov. x. 12. Pfal.lxxv. 6. And indeed had we no other Light than that of Nature, nor other Eook than that of the World, we might plainly read a God, and fee a Providence. Wherefore, fays Lutan, Jmfitn 9 o To G D 870. Thy Hand with glaring Robes the Sun adorns, And gives the wexing Moon her changeful Horns. On Annotations. Jupiter eft quodcunque vides, quocunque moveris. And Virgil^ (tho* fome miftake him for an Epicurean.) Detan namqne ire per omnes Terra/que traclufque maris ccelumque projundum. For that a God diffused through all the Mafs, Pervades the Earth, and Sea, and Deep of Air. Georg. iv. Dr, Trapp, And again, Principle cerium, at terras, campofque Lquentes, Lucentemque globum lun Cicero de Nat. Deor. 1. if. But long before him the antient /Egyptians entertained the Notion of a divine Providence, and feem to have been the firft who did ; whom Arnobius makes to reafon thus : Providence is fo efiential to a Prince, that he cannot be, or even called a Prince without it j and the more auguft a Prince is, the more perfect ought his Providential Care to be ; God therefore being the greateft and mod auguft of all Princes, to Him muft belong the mod perfect Providence. 9z To G D But that pure Spirit, Harmony, and Love, Whence all Effects their own juft Caufes prove. Thy Wifdom hung this Ball, prodigious Mafs, Self-balanc'd in the feeble Air's Embrace ; 885. And bound the noify Force of furging Tides, And ftill o'er all thy Pow'r fupreme prefides. As thou alone haft form'd thefe Worlds fo fair, All things therein are fubjecl: to thy Care. Shall Ann otations. V. 883. Thy Wi'dom hung this Ball) Sufpendifque gravem telluris in aere molem, Lucretius fpeakin^ of 7V//«j, or Cybele the Mother of the Gods f {ays 9 Hanc 'veteres Grajum dotJi cecinere feet* Sublimem in curru bijugos agitare hones : sjeris in fpatio magnam pendere docentes Tellurem, ne^ue po/Te in terra ft ficre terram. lib. ii. V. 6oQ y The Poets fing that thro' the Heav'ns above. She Chariots drawn by fierce yok'd Lioni drove, And riding to and 110 flie wanders there : They teach by this that in the fpacious Air, Hangs ihe van Mafs of Earth, and needs no Prop Of any lower Earth to keep it up. Creech* Et circumjufo pendebat in acre tellus Pondtribus hbrata fuis, Ovid. Met. 1. \\ '1 he Father now within his fpacious Hands, Encorapafs'd all the mingled Mafs of Seas and Lands, And having heav'd alo(t the pondrous Sphere, He launeb'd the World to float in ambient Air. Prov. iii. 19. jfo£. xxvi. 7. Congrevec 58. All Tkirgs therein ) Omnia CUTM The the FATHER. 93 Shall I then paint thee of Gigantic Size, 890. Strong with an hundred Hands, an hundred Eyes ? No, for thy whole is Foot, and Hand, and Eye, Which all Decays of Nature dill fupply. Thus Annotations The Providence of God is univerfal, but fome have been fo ab- furd as to think he was concerned only in great Matters, and left the reft to Fortune. T£ fMKpd J? ets 7UX" V * v &* *£• Euripid, As if the Univeife was like the Pratofs Court. De minimis non curat Prat or. V. 891. No, for thy whole ) — Es tibi totus Ipfe manus, totufque ocuhs. ■ It is confcfTed, that God exifts necefTarily, and by the fame Necef- fity he exifts always, and every where. Hence alfo he muft be per- fectly firoilar all Eye, all Ear, all Brain, all Arm, all the Power of perceiving, understanding, and acting ; but after a Manner not at all corporeal, after a Manner not like that of Men, after a Manner whol- ly to us unknown. Sir If Newton* And Milton t fpeaking of Angels, fays, All Heart they live, all Head, all Eye, all Ear, All Intellect, all Senfe. /. y'u v. 3 50. V. 891. Which all Decays ) So Lucretius, ii. 70. — Minimam rem quamqtte vidimus Et qua ft lonqiyiquo fluere omnia terminus *evo, Ex oculijque njetuflatem fnbducere nojiris Cum tamtn incolumis videatur fumma manere> Every 94 To G D Thus peopled are the Heav'ns, and Earth, and Sea, As all therein thy fruitful Word obey. 895. Into our Limbs fcarce fram'd thou doft infufc A Soul, and teach its Faculties their Ufe. Annotations. Nor Every Thing appears Worn out and wafted by devouring Years, Still wafting, (till it vanifhes away, And yet the Mafs of Things feels no Decay. Creech, And Ovid 9 much in the fame Strain Rerumqut novatrix Ex aliis alias reparat natura figuras, Ncc perit in tanto, mihi, quicquam, credite, mundo, Sed njariat facie?nq;,e novat. . ■ ■• ■ Met. XV. For Nature knows No ftedfaft Station, but or ebbs or flows, Ever in Motion, fhe deftroys her old, And cafts new Figures in another Mold. V. 895. Into oar Limbs fewee franid) Vfqae novas animas in membra recentia fundis. Jlriftotlc, and mod Philofophers fince, are of Opinion, that the Soul was not created from all Eternity, as Plato thinks, but at the fame Time with the Body, that is to fay, that it begins to exift in Heaven, at the Time that the Body is born, and is the fame Mo- ment iniufed into the Body, and continues in it till it is feparatcd from ir by Death, and then returns back into Heaven, being incor- poreal and immortal. V. 896. And teach its Faculties their Vfi ) hdentem b$miuif t quamvis earn non widens, ut Deum non videfi tr.mcn ut Dcnm agnofeh ex opcribus ejus, fie ex meWtftA renim et in- njcntioncy et cekntatc motus, Otnmq'ie pulchritudme Tjirttttis nj'im di- vinam mcnt:s agnojuio* Cic. Tufc. era. 1. i. As the FATHER. 95 Nor is there ought in Nature's lavifh Store, But owes its Being to thy plaftic Pow'r. Thy balmy Show'rs regale the thirfty Earth, 900. And give ten thoufand Seeds a fragrant Birth. When the gay Fields in vernal Pomp appear, And painted Flow'rs adorn the Infant Year. But foon as Summer warms the glowing Plain, Ripening the Hopes of the induflrious Swain, 905. Soft-footed Winds the rivel'd Grafs renew, And blafted Ears are plump'd with nightly Dew. Autumn next purples o'er the mantling Vine, And Trees o'ercharg'd with Fruit on Props re- cline. Comes Winter, and with Snow inverts the Woods, 910. And binds in icy Chains the folid Floods. Thus run the certain Seafons, that flill bear Their proper Enfigns thro' the circling Year. Thy Annotations. As we acknowledge God from his Works, tho' we fee him not; fo tho' we fee not the Soul, we cannot but acknowledge the c: Nature of it from its Operations, the S.v'itnefs of its Motion, the Sub- tilty of its Invention, the great Depth of Memory, the commanding Power of Wifdom, and perfect Beauty of Virtue. V. 9 II. Thus run the certain S:>ifons) Xc?ue -. tfitmr wik. 96 To G D Thy PJeafure bids the ftruggling Winds arife, And rufhing from thy Storehoufe fweep the Skies * 915. But Storms and Tempefts own thy Sov'reign Pow'r, Creep to their Caverns, and are heard no more : For Annotati ons. I cannot but take Notice here of that beautiful Defcription of the Seafbns by Lucretius, v. 735. It ver, et Venus, et Veneris pranuncius ante, Pinnatus graditur Zephyr us vefligia propter, &c. Firft Spring, and Venus kindeft Pow'rs infpire Soft Wiflies, melting Thoughts, and gay Deflre ; Then Mother Flora, to prepare the Way, Makes all the Fields look glorious, green, and gay j Next Heat, and dufty Harveft take the Place, And foft Etejta*s fan the Sun-burnt Face. Then fweaty Autumn treads the noble Vine, And flowing Bunches give immortal Wine. And next deep Winter creeps, grey, wrinkl'd, old, His Teeth all chatter, Limbs all (hake with Cold. Creed:. V. 914. And ruflrivg from thy Storehoufe ) Veluti detrompta reclufis Thefauris, profers 'ventorum immitia labra. *Tis generally held, that in the Concavities of the Earth, when the Exhalations, which Seneca, calls Subterranean Clouds, overcharge the Place, the moift Vapours turn into Water, and the dry into Wind. And thefc are the fecret Treafures out of which God is faid in Scrip- tures to bring the Winds. JqI? xxxviii. 22. Jer. x. 13- Whence the Poets feign'd that /Eolus kept them imprifon'd in a vaft Cave. Vtrg. /En. i 56. . . Hie vaflo rex J£o\us eintro I.uflantes Ver.tos, tcmpeJltUeJque fonoras Imperii prumt, ac vinclis et carcerc frsnat. Where the FATHER. 9l For tho* loud Thunders roll, and Lightnings fly, And Shades of gloomy Darknefs blind the Sky, Soon as on harnefs'd Clouds thou fly'ft abroad, 920. And founding Whirlwinds fpeak th' Advance of God, Darknefs before thee breaks, the Sun's bright Ray, Gilds the Expanfion, and recalls the Day. Thy juft and equal Laws from Pole to Pole Extend their Sway, and th' Univerfe controul. 925. Around thy Throne the menial Angels ftand, And high Archangels wait thy great Command. H And Annotations. Where in huge gloomy Caves their Tyrant binds The blurt'i ing Tempefts^ and reluftant Winds, Whole Rage imperial JEolus reftrains, With rocky Dungeons, and unwieldy Chains. Put, y. 925. Around ihy Throne ) Nutufque ebfervat heriUs Sanclorum chorus alihium. By Angels we underftand all thofe glorious Spirits which ftand be- fore the Throne of God, expecting to receive, and ready to execute his Orders, Pfal. ciii. 10. Heb. i. 14. Col. i. 16. Whether they be, Thrones, Dominations, Princedoms, Virtues, Pow'rs, whom we believe the divine Architect and Creator of the World hath diftributed into (everal Ranks, and appointed to ferve about the Elements, the Heavens, and Earth, to regulate the Affairs and Oe- conomy of the World. Luke i. 19. The Angel anfwering Zacha- ria$i P 8 To G D And fhall not mighty Princes thee obey ? And at thy Feet their Crowns and Sceptres lay ? See, Lord, they fall, they worfhip, and adore, 930. And bend their kingly Souls to thy fuperior Pow'r. How Annotation $. rids, faid unto him, / am Gabriel, that (land in the Prefence of God. And Daniel had his Villon interpreted by oncirSv irtiKOTtoV, cap, yiii. Laborious Angels ftand around the Tin-one, Who make the Bufmefs of Mankind their own. So Coin ley. Round him vaft Armies of fwift Angels Hand. And Milton, fpeaking of Uriel, fays, He is One of the Sev'n, Who in God's Prefence neareft to his Throne Stand ready at Command, and are his Eyes That run thro' all the Heav'ns, or down to th' Earth, Bear his fwift Errands. V. 929. See, Lor J, they fall) Tib 1 fceptra, tu Regna accept* ftrunt reges, et numen a dor ant, — Return timendorum in proprios grcges .< m iffis imperium ejl jovis. Hor. 1. iii. od. 1, Tremendous Kings o'er Nations fvvay, Their Subjects tremble and obey ; But Kings themielves mud humble prove To the Almighty Pow'r of Jove. Alfhonfus, Ki: Hg % Anno Don;, i:^, great as he was in Power .\nd Km/ >nfeiled this Truth. When • ficd by a dreadful Storm of Thunder and Lightning, he fem foi the FATHER. 99 How mad are they, who dare in Arms to rife Againft th' Almighty Thund'rer of the Skies ? H 2 The Annotations. religious Hermit, ( whom he had before contumelioufly rejected) and wept, and humbled- himfelf before him, retracting all his former Blafphemies, and turning to God with Prayer and Adoration. And worthily has Horace exprefs'd himfelf in his Addrefs to Aa~ guftus. Od. v. 1. 3. Diis te minor em quod geris, imperas. For thy SubmifTion to the Gods, thou reigneft. As before in his Pray'r to Jupiter for him. Od. xii. /. 1, Te minor latum reget aquas orbem. Let him with Juftice rule the World Thy Subftitute. But what can be more expreffive than the Words of the Pjalmift? The Lord hath prepared his Throne in the Heavens, and his Kingdom ruleth over all. ciii. 19. ... » V, 931. How mad are they ) After what has been faid, our Author might well conclude it to be Folly and Madnefs, to deny the Being of a God, to oppofe his Power, or trifle with his Commands. Yet ftill to confirm us m our Belief, he returns to his Omnipotence, and in a few excellent Verfes runs through the whole Scriptures, recounting the feveral Miracles therein rel.uedj that indifputable Proof of a Superior, Divine, Al* mighty Poiver. N»tf7©-, CV e/Vcfc/3*, 0* ct'QetVATVlOl [JLAX 0170 ' II. i. 408. Know thou, who'er with Heav'nly Pow'r contends. Short is his Dare, and foon his Glory ends. Pope* ». Fool I iCo To G D The God of Hofts, refiftlefs Lord of all, Who bids at Pleafure Empires rife, or fall. The Annotations. ■ Fool ! ro attempt Againft th' Omnipotent to rife in Aims ! Mihon. V. 934. Who bids at Pit afore ) . Ceu das, adimis cfiioque regna fuperbis* Chilo, one of the Seven wife Men of Greece^ having ask'd Mfop, what he thought was Jupiter 's Employ, receiv'd this Anfwer 5 To bring down the high and mighty, and exalt the humble and lovjly. T* ^V u4« AA Tcf&&vxv % ret Si vctireiva. o4*v- Such Power we find given to God in the Scriptures, Dent. xxxu. 39. 1 Sam. ii. 6. 1 Chron. xxix. 11. Job ix. u. xii. 18. xxxiv. 24. Pfal. lxviii. 6. lxxv. 7. cxiii. 7. Luke i. 53. And fuch the Heathen Poets attributed to Him, as Horn. Il, xvii, J 76. 'AM' diet Tt A/o$ Kfeiosuv vq@-, &c. But Jove's high Will is ever uncontroul'd, The ftrong he withers, and confounds the bold : Now crowns with Fame the mighty Man, and now Strikes the frefh Garland from the Victor's Brow. Pope. "O; this Teftimony above an hundred Years before one of the greateffc Prophets fpoke of it, If a. xiv. n. How art thou fallen from Hea- ven, O Lucifer, Son of the Morning I Hotu art thou (M dovjn to ?}>$ Ground, which didjl ive*ken the Nations ! 102 To GOD But headlong hurl'd from the Empyreal Skies, 940. In never-dying Flames he welt'ring lies ; Condemn'd with his Afibciates to dwell, In the dread Dungeons of eternal Hell : Where wrapt in horrid Darknefs, lading Pains, O'er wretched Ghofts the Tyrant captive reigns. 945. In vain gigantic Rebels raife on high Proud Babel's fpiral Tow'r, that threats the Sky ; Taught Annotations. , y t 944. O'er wretched Ghofts ) Utnjtris raror Luc>f:igifquc ananas in ij eras exercet in oris. Rs' tfthon makes him fpeak, /. i. v. 261. Here we may reign fcaire, and in my Choice, To reign is worm Ambition, tho' in Hell ; Better to reign in Hell, than ferve in Hcav'n. V. 945. hi 1 :c Rebels) Sat B^>jl| 'OS eduZa turrc fub aur.is, quati disjecer.s enfe gigantes. As the Heatben Poets drew Occafion for many of their Fables from •./;/,j.c,:/ Hiftpry, whicn tltcy wretchedly mangled and profan'd their childifh I idtions ; io from ihc Story before us, {Gen. x'u ) ft they invented the Fi^ht of the Giants with the Gods, ; t Co many of 'era have taken Notice of. Thefe Giants they mppofed to have been born of the F+a,tb and 7;;.??/, and therefore frill them 'Jimgetui •> but Ihir. ;•, l,jm whom they dcriv'd •his Story, m.V the Son; pi . however, nner of the:, invading the Skies, and in ma- enc of Action. the FATHER. 103 Taught by fad Ruins they confefs thy Pow'r, And fall before thy Sword, to rife no more. The Sons of Sodom, an abandon'd Crew, 950. Giants indeed in Sin, thy Juftice knew, H 4 And Annotations. TlnMov itvoclqvkKov, h 1 *z&vh d^Ga}®- &#• OdyJf t \\, Proud of their Strength, and more than mortal Size, The Gods they challenge, and afTecl: the Skies, Heav'd on Olympus tott'ring Offa ftood j On Offa. Pelion nods with all his Wood. Broom. Which Defcription Virgil Co happily imitates in his fiift Georgic. Ter fwnt conati imponere Pelio Offlim, Scilicet, atque Ojfe jrondofum involvere Olympum, Ter Pater extruclos disjecit fulmine monies. With Mountains pil'd on Mountains thrice they move, To fcale the fteepy Battlements of Jove ; And thrice his Lightning, and red Thunder play'd, And their demolifn'd Works in Ruin laid. Dryden. V. 949. The Sorts of Sodom) Gen. xix. A Shower, or rather Storm of Nitre, Sufphur, or Bitu- men mingled with Fire, fell upon this Country of Sodom from above ; and was accompanied with a dreadful Earthquake, which made an Irruption of thofe bituminous Waters, whereby the whole Country was turn'd into a Lake, called Afphaltites^ the Salt, or Dead. Sea j becaufe no Creature can live therein, and the noifome Steams from it blaft every thing that grows in the Earth about it. Deus fuper impiiim popukm Gehennum mijit e ccelo. Salyian* io 4 To G D And pow'rfiil Arm ; that rent the hollow Ground, And nv'd the burfting Clouds with thund'ring Sound ; While ftormy Rain pour'd down in fiery Streams. And dclug'd the whole Land in liquid Flames. 955. Down the Abyfs the wretched Herd is driv'n, For offer'd Violence to Thrones of Heav'n, (Moft execrable Crime ! ) the Sons of Truth, Inheav'nly Beauty dreft, and Blocm of Youth. Such Annotations. To this Account likewife. of the Deftruftion of Sederm, nftny pro- fane Authors beat- Witnefs, ( fee Strabo, lib, xv;'. Sr,!m dt\ .' xxxv. Tacit. HiJF, 1. v. cap, 7.) (bough by their various Fictions tl ; have ftran<>ely difguis'd n. Ttrejtas and Mgjptus being ftrickeit with Biindncfi, the one for entring into Heptanes Temple, and the other for looking upon Minerva ai fhe bnth'd in Hippocrme i a&3 the Sol- diers of Alexander being afflicted with the fine Punifhment by Ce- res, for dcmoli filing b*> Temple at the lalcing of Miletus ^ with ' ma- ny the lkc Stories, feera all to be borrow 'd fro/n this. But nothing CM be more appolite thnn the beautiful Tale tJvi& tcHs us of Baucis and PbiUmen, who were tire only two of al! the Country that would entertain Jupiter and Mercury, when they traVelVd over Pkr and in Recomper.ce (or the favour, Jupiter declared what he was, An 1 own'd the God. The Neighbourhood, hid he, Shall inflly perifh for lmpietv : ft and alone exempted : "but obev With Speed, and follow wiierc we lead the W.iy : '•! : and to the Mountain's Height AiCeiM ; nor once look baek'xard in jour Flight. Dryden. the FATHER. 105 Such Madnefs dwells in that tumultuous Soul, 960. Where frantic Luft, and Thoughts unbridl'd roll. At thy dread Signal, the obfequious Flood, Folding its Waves, like icy Mountains flood, That Annotations. V. 961. At thy dread Signal) This Divifion of the Red Sea is fo graphically exprefs'd, Exod.xW. that any one with an indifferent Attention may perceive the wondei- fiil Hand of God in that Defcription. Yet fome affirm, that there was nothing Supernatural in it, and that Mofes, who w r as moft skil- ful in natural Wifdom, having obferv'd the Reflux of the Sea, con- duced his People through ic fafely ; while the ^Egyptians being ig- norant, or nor aware of ir, were drowned at the Return ot the Waves. But thefe, and the like Cavils have been fufficiently an- fwered. F. Natal. Alexander, in his Hiftory of the Gld and A"«w Tejlament, produces the Teftimonies of Philo Jud e$x** &**i*' Epiphan. Haer. lxvi, n.83.) Jofih vi. 20. Judg* vii. 22. 2. Kwg% vii. 7. Heb. xi. 30. The Ingenious Mr. Fenton, in his Note on thefe lines of WaU ler to King Charles XL But while we praife you, you afcribe it ali To his high Hand which threw th* untouch \i Wall Of felf-demoliOYd Jericho fo low fuppofes the Greeks to have inverted this Piece of facred Hiftoiy, (n their Fable of, A?nplnons building the Walls of Thebes by the Power of Mufic. DitlnS) et Amphion, Thebanae conditov arcis, Saxa movere fono teftvdims, et prece blanda. Dm ere quo vellet, Hor. Ait. Poet, Thus when Amphion built the Theban Wall, They feign 'd the Stones obey'd his tuneful Call. VWi thy gforipjtS f Fox 108 To G D 980, Thro' barren Defcrts were thy People led, And with the fweet Repaft of Angels fed : When Annotations. Vox tun terribile eft tonitru, tun dextera julmen. Tho' Thunder hath its Place and Time in that Order and Courfe of Nature which Goi hath firft eftablifhed, yet, among other Ends, it might be intenJed to reprefs the Infolencics of Tome, and awa- ken the guilty Confciences of others, whom the Confederation or his other Works, and daily Providence, cannot move to the Fear and Acknowledgment of a fupreme Power ; and is therefore call'd the Voice of God. 2, Sam. xxii. 14. PjaL xxix. yj, 18. (See above t o. 420.) ArtabaniiSy Uncle to Xerxes, cries out, Doit thou not fee, that God ftrikes with his Lightnings the largeft Animals, nor differs them :o grow infolent, and leaves the lefs unhurt \ Doft thou not fee that his fiery Darts always throw down the moil lofty Edifices, and the \ Trees' For God takes Delight in humbling the Proud, andde- prelling the haughty. Herodot. 1. vi. [*o ' ;, .is 1 nmft beg Leave to add thofe admirable Lines of our in- •le Sbakefpear, in his Defcription of a Tempcft : Man's Nature cannot carry The Affliction, and not fear. Tremble thou Wretch, That haft within thee undivulged Crimes, Orrwhipp'd of Juftice. . Hide thee, thou bloody Hand, ,1 penur'd, and thou Similar of Virtue, That art inceftuous : Caitiff, to Pieces fh.ike, That under Covert and convenient fecming, Haft prnctis'd on Man's Life. Clofe pent up Guilt, Rive your concealing Continents, and cry Thefe dreadful Summoncrs Grace. K. Lear. '■■'. 98 1. And "Jiitb the fv:ect Rcti.ift) Concrete call pavijli r$rt, God rained down Manna from Heaven, Exod. xvi. So that Man fUitat Angels rood, PfaL Ixxviii. 2.5 that is, (uch as Angels might the FATHER. 109 When from the Heav'ns was pour'd the genial Rain, And glinVring Dews impearPd the foodfiil Plain : Rocks foften'd at thy Word, kind Streams beftow, 985. And liquid Sweets from bitter Fountains flow. Infinite Annotations. cat, if they required Food, Wifd. xvi. 20. ( as the Tongue of An- %th is put for an excellent Tongue by St. Paul, 1 Cor. xiii. 1.) or Food that came from the Habitation of Angels : Or laftly, fuch as was prepared and fent by the Miniftry of Angels. We have many Prodigies of the like Nature in the Scriptures. See 1 King.xvu. 6, 14. xix. 6. iKing iv. 6. 38, cW. And among the many Allufionsto this in the profane Writers, we may reckon Romulus and Remus being nourifh'd by a Wolf, Virg. JEn. viii v. 630. Jamus, the Son of Apollo, and Eva dm, fed by Dragons with df^c^ei V I Pind.Cd. Oljm. vi. Or what Callimachus fays happen'd to the Infancy of Jupiter. Hymn, ad Jov. v. 2u Jl* lQYU(tQ IfflWA jJLCt^OV 'Ai)fii 'AyLA^Seine, \at Callimachns reprefents the Sun Hopping his Chariot to behold a Chorus of Nymphs, and thereby prolong'd the Day. Hymn, ad Dian. v. 1 S 1 » He few the dancing Beaitfies, pleafing Sight ! And {hid his Chariot, to protraft the Light. And our Drydev, in his Wife of Bath's Tale, fuppofcs the Moon to do the fame. Nor darkling did they dance, the filver I ight } Of Phmkt lo-v'd to guide their Steps aright, > And with their Tripping pleas'd, prolong'd the Night. J V. 995. And Strews were purpled o'er) rlnminaqiie obfeceno manarunt rubra cruore. - ■ the FATHER. 113 The drudging Afs, Beaftofuntuneful Noife, Utter'd the diftinft Sounds of human Voice. I Long Annotations. We read of nothing more frequent in the Roman Hiftories, than of Rivers of Blood, Water being chang'd into Blood, Showers of Blood, Statues fweating Blood, and the like : All which refemble this Story of Mofes*s turning the Waters of the /Egyptians into Blood, Exod. \'\\. 19. But concerning this Miracle we may obferve, that, becaufe the Magicians, v. 22. are faid to do the fame with their En- chantments, a Queftion is ftarted, (which I have heard fome little Cavillers urge my felf, and therefore 1 mention it,) vit. Where had they Water to mew their Art, when it was all changed before > 'Tis incredible to think what Pains many Interpreters have taken to folve this trifling Difficulty j it would be idle to recount their feveral Opinions. The chief were Theodoret, who thinks they had it from the Sea, that being not fit to drink was not chang'd into Blood before 5 and St. Auftin, who thought that they brought it fiom Gojhen, where the Ifraelites dwelt. Le Clerc fays, that the Magicians ftayed till the Water was reftored to its firft State, and this he proves from punifh'd the Land with Famine, till the Pare* commilfionM by Ju- piter had appeas'd her Anger. She alfo drove Eryjichthon of ' Tkefialy to fuch Diftrels by Famine, that he was fore'd to eat his own Flefti, becaufc he had affronted her in cutting down her Grove, (vM. Ovid. Met am.) And in Hejiod we fee Jupiter threatning the wicked with Pcftilcnce and Famine, Oper. v. 240. OU Atpjov o^a hot[/.ov On the revengeful, wicked Man, fhall Jove Pour from the Viahofhis burning Wrath, Famine, and Peftilence. V. 1002. But Hea-Sii once open'd) This happen'd in the Time of No.ih, as we read Gen. vii. t i. Job xxii. ifi. M*t. xxiv. 39. Luke xvii. 27. 2 Pet ii. <;. which has f.nnifh'd Matter of Difputeto Co many of our Chriftian Philofophers, •whom let tlole conluli whole Cuiiuiity reaches beyodd the Scriptures: the FATHER. 115 No Wonder that the mafly Iron rides 1005. On the fmooth Stream, nor by its Weight fubfides ; I 2 That An notations. I fhall only obferve, that all Nations in the World (as plainly ap- pears by the Records that remain) had heard fomething of an uni- verfal Deluge, and of one Perfon's being miraculoufly faved from it : The Chaldeans call him X'tfuthrus, or Sijithrus ; the Chine fe, Fohi -, and moil: of the Poets Deucalion \ but they certainly allude to thePrefer- vation of Noah from the above-mention'd Flood j which Milton makes the Angel Michael foretell to Adam in thefe Words, All the Catara&s Of Heav'n fet open, on the Earth fhall pour Rain, Day and Night 5 all Fountains of the Deep Broke up, fhall heave the Ocean to ufurp Beyond all Bounds j till Inundation rife Above the higheft Hills. Milt, ~* I have omitted two Verfes of my Author, but, to deal fairly with him, fhall fubjoin them here, and venture to tranflate them, uncethe Miracle therein pretended if no fooner mentioned than it ihnds -con- futed. Tu Cererem exiguam Nati convertere in artns Divinos, corpufc^ue potes facrantis ab ore. By thee the Prieft converts mcer Wine to Blood, And of a Wafer forms the Son of Cod. Miracle did I fay ) I mean the Pofition is abfurd, and filfe, not to toy impious ; but fuch was the Prejudice of his Times and Edu- cation. K 1004. No Wonder that the maffy Iron ) z Kings vi. 6. n6 To G D That conquered Flames withdraw their poignant Sting, Whilft in the midft unhurt thy Children fing ; That Leaves and BlofToms deck the faplefs Rod, Far mightier Acts proclaim the Pow'r of God. ioio. By thee the deaf with perfect Organs hear, And feel well-pleas'd the undulating Air : The blind and comfortlefs, reftor'd to Sight, With trembling Eyes behold the gaudy Light : Thou giv'ft new Vigour to Life's lad Remains, 1015. When fhiv'ring Death creeps cold along the Veins. Death too obeys thee, and the rav' nous Tomb, Lab'ring with Life, becomes a fruitful Womb. And Annotations. V. 1006. That conquered Flames ) Dan. ill. V. 1008. That Leaves and Blofiotns) j4ridaji mt'ido rehire fiat gcrminc virga. Bordering upon this we read in profane Story, that tlie Club of Bercuies, which was of Box, or the wild Olive Tree, being fct in the Ground, took Root immediately and flourifh'd. A\k\ that there was a Pvplar plan* the Place of Virgil's Birth, which fuddenly , up to an unufual Heigbi and Bulk, and to which the fuperfti- tioua Neighbourhood attributed marvellous Virtues. r. igi6. ' -.. ii. 6. 2 Kings viif. *. Many Stoiicsof the Dead bciiu reftor'd to Lit?, we find among the ancient the FATHER. n 7 And this divinely great, this wond'rous Pow'^ Thou giv'ftto thofe, who rightly thee adore, 1020. Who cent'ring all their Thoughts in thee alone, With their afliduous Pray'rs invade thy Throne. Bled in thy Love, they more than mortal {land, And make all Nature bow to their Command : I 3 Hence Annotations. ancient Pabulifts ; as Thefeus, Aheftes, Tirnon the Lydian, and Ti- THofthenes the Athenian, by Hercules ; Semele his Mother, and Ariadne his Wife, by Bacchus; Htppolyius, and Cajlor, with many more, by /Efculapius, as yet an Infant ; Iphigema by Diana, and tun dice his Wife by Orpheus, tho' fliort was her fecond Date. Jamque pedem rejereas, cafus evaferat cmnes, Redditaque Eurydice fuperas veniebat ad auras, Pone fequens. Va*g. Georg. iv. All Dangers paft, at length the lovely Bride In Safety l^ocs, with her melodious Guide, Longing the common Light again to fhare, And draw the vital Breath of upper Air. Drydtn, * " ' ■ r i . ■ . ' ' , ■ V> io 1 8. And this divinely great) Idque aids das po/Je, tuas qui peclore cajlo Imp lor ant vires. — ■ John xiv. 12. Acts iv. 29. Vi. 8. viii. 7, 13. x. 44. Through God williue do great Afts, faith the Pfalmiji, lx« 12. And llgmet much in the fame Strain, ■ 'AVTI VU TO\KcoV That happy Man, whom Jove mil honours moft, Is more than Armies, and Himfelf an Holt. Pope % u8 To G D Hence the deep Mountains from their Roots are torn, 1025. And whirl'd aloft todiftant Ocean born: Secrets enwrapt in the dark Womb of Fate They certain fee; and wond'rous Truths relate. Such Grace in Meafures large is oft beftow'd On Man, full rich and happy in his God, 1030. On Man, for whom this fpacious World was made, And all the Splendors of the Sky difplay'd : At Annotations V. 1024. Hence the deep Mountains) Matth. xvii. 20. Luke xvif. 6. V. ioz6. Secrets enwr apt) 1 Ccr. xu. \o. xiii. 2. That there have been Prophecies and Predi&ions verified by real Effects, in their rcfpeclive Times and Seafons in the World, not on- ly the Holy Scriptures, which at lead may dcferve the Credit of true Ilidories, but profane Authors of the bed Account relate many of them, as Herodotus, Pauf aulas y &c. And Cicero tells us, that Chry- Jtppus had made a vaft Collection of them, all confirmed by undoubt- ed Authority, and fufficient Tedimonies. Among the Poets, ( a fort of Prophets thcmfelvcs) wc find frequent Mention of Prophets, and the great Veneration they were generally held in by the People, a?, *P$ McA» TcL T hvTtt) 70. T* k&QfjitVel, Tpo T Vov\(ti , — Chalcbas the wife, the Grecian Pried and Guide, That (acred Seer, whofe comprehcnfivc View The pad, the prefent, and the future knew. Pope, V. 1030. On Man, for whom) Let the FATHER. n 9 At laft to crown his Joys, to Man is given, Precious Reward ! eternal Life in Heav'n. Lord, would'ft thou fatisfy our longing Pains, 1035. Bind us to thee in ever-during Chains, And blefs thy Servants, this alone we know, Can make us happy, and for ever fo ; For they, who live in thy belov'd Embrace, And tafte the Sweets of thy all-faving Grace, I 4 1040. Have Annotations. Let Lucretius, and all fuch who fuppofe that Intereft alone is the Caufc of all good Nature, and the Spring of Action, deny that God made this fpacious World to pleafure Man. Deos hominum causa voluiffe Vraclaram mundi naturam . Dicere defyere eft. — Lucr. v. 158. "Far be it from us to think fo meanly, fo ungratefully of our God, who being all perfect, muft confequently be moil: benevolent, and has accordingly in his Wifdom framed the Univerfe, and in hisGood- nefs fitted all Things therein for the UCq and Benefit of his Crea- tures, efpecially of Man, his Favourite, Gen. ix. 2. Th' undoubted Lord of this inferior World. V. 1032. At laft So crown his Joys ) The Fables of the Ely flan Fields and Happy Iflands, wherein the Ancients fuppofed, that the Virtuous after Death enjoy 'd eternal Blifs, are too well known to be repeated ; I fhall only oblerve, that thefe were faint Sketches of thofe facred Truths, that were more ful- ly explained afterwards in the Writings of the Prophets and Apoftles, who brought Ltje and Immortality to Light thro y the Gofal. Mitt, xxv. 34* Rom, ix. 13, Heb. xi. 6. 2 Tim. iy. 10. «o To G D 1040. Have all the Bleffings that a God can give, Nor Creatures more can wifh, nor more receive : For all Things come from thee, on thee alone, They all depend, and make thy Goodnefs known. Thy Goodnefs, Lord, our ev'ry Need fupplies, 1045. Nor can he want, who on his God relies ; It lulls the wearied Traveller to Sleep, And lifts the Sailor from the gaping Deep ; For thote that thirfl, it melts in healing Streams, And mines upon Defpair with chearful Beams. 1050. All Riches, and that greater Bleffing, Health, " The Body's Pleafure, and intrinfick Wealth, Wifdom, if Man be wife, Virtue, and Love, All come from thee, Thou Lord of Heaven above. Thou art the Rule of Things, the Depth, the Height, 1055. The Order,Beauty, Number, Mcafure, Weight* . Thou Annotations. T. I044. Thy Gidntfi, Lord, &$$$& u%i£x%%z sains k ',, '• '•'* M ' *'• ,0 - *««*, Vi- 33- . Pet, the FATHER. 121 Thou never Mattering Hope ! thou mighty Pow'r, Thou Way, Thou Light, Thou Life ! Glad wou'd I more, But fcanty Art denies \ flill more I leave, Than Language can exprefs, or Heart conceive. j 060. For while we ftrive to plumb with Reafon's Line, The wond'rous Depths of Majefty divine, Or climb the Heights of the all -ruling Pow'r, And with our grov'ling Senfes God explore, Whom all the Orbs of Heav'n cannot contain, 1065. We labour to exhaufl the circling Main. But An notations. V f 1058. But fcanty Art denies) Defunt mihi carmina, defunt 'verba. But on Co vaft a Subject who can find Words, that may reach th' Ideas of his Mind > Our Language fails ; or if it could fupply. What mortal Thought can raife itfelf 10 hioh > Defpairing here we might abandon Ait, And only hope to have it in our Heart. ^Valler^ V. 1064. Whom all the Orbs) Non te orbes capiu?Jt, — . Pliny has a Reflexion very pertinent to this hi his Natural HiJIory ? Vuror ejf, profcclo furor, egreki ex eo, &c* 'Tis Madnefs to go be- yo*d 122 To G D But cou'd I ventrous learn thy hidden Ways, And dive into the Secrets of thy Praife, Had I an Angel's Voice, a thouland Tongues, A Throat of Brafs, and never-failing Lungs, 1070. In vain fhou'd I attempt to fhew it forth, Or tell with artrul Song thy boundlefs Worth. Here then I'll hang my Harp, and raiie no more, My feeble Voice, but filently adore. OGlo- Annotations. yond the Limits of the World, and be perpetually fecking Tilings Without it, as if all Tlrngs therein were perie&ly known already. But how can he, who knows not his own, take the exact Dimen- fions of any thing elfe \ Or how can the Wit of Man pretend to comprehend thofe Things, which the World ittelf cannot contain, or comprehend ? Let me add a Line or two from Milton, To attain The Height, and Depth of thy eternal Ways, All human Thoughts come mort, Supreme of Things • and conclude with the excellent Caution the Angel Raphael gives to I, very applicable to all Men, _— - Let not thine own Conceptions hope Things not reveal'd •, which the Eternal King, Only omnifcient, hath fupprek'd in Night, To none communicable, in Earth, or Heav'n : Enough is left bellies to fearch, and know. /. vii.i 1 . lie. the FATHER. 123 O Glorious Splendor ! pure, unfpotted Sun! Thou God of all ! mod Higheft, ever One ! )> Be thine all Honour, Glory, Praife, and Thine alone. J The End of the Firji Hymn of V id a To GOD the FATHER. ( I2 5 ) DEI FILIO, DEO OPT. MA X. The Second Hymn of M. Huron. Vida To GOD the SON. Principio ante cevi primordia> et ante ere at a Omnia Verbum erat &ternum 9 immemorabile Verbum Ufque Deum propter refidens, &c. N the Beginning, the Eternal Word, OffutureWorldsconfeft the Sov'reign Lord, High on the Right of the Almighty fate When Matter, Time, were not, or Things create s 5. Only-begotten Son of the Supreme, The fame in Pow'r, and Majefty with Him ; The Annotations. I intend not to be fo tedious in my Annotations on this Hymn, as on the former, having referr'd all that relates more particularly to the Life of Chrift to my Tranflation of VIDA'% CHRIST I AD j which (God willing) mail fhortly be publifhed with large Obferva- tions Hiftorical and Critical. However, as this Hymn begins with a Reddition of the Firft Chapter of the Gofpel of St. 'John, I fliall offer you an Encomium or two, which fell in my Way, on thatmoft divine and excellent Pan of Scripture, — Slued 126 To G D The Father's Image ; his reflective Thought Immediately exprefs'd ; True God of God ; Maker Annotations. §luod initium S. S. Evangelii, cm nomen eft Secundum Joannem, quidam Platonicus aureis Uteris confcribcvdum et per omnes ecdefias in locis eminentiffimis proponendum effe dicebat. Au£. de Civ. Dei. x. zq. A certain Platonift, (whom the learned Dr. ^Bentley takes to be Amelius) faid, The Beginning of the Gofpel of St. John deferv'd to be written in Letters of Gold, and fet in the moft confpicuous Place in every Church. — Aliud agenti exhibet fe mihi afpe&u primo augujiijfimnm illud Cap. Joan. In principio erat Verbum. Lego partem capitis, et tta commoveor legens, ut repente divinitatem argumenti, et fcripti maje- fiatem autforitatemque fenferim longo intervallo omnibus -eloquenti* human* fluminibus praeuntem. Horrebat corpus, flupebat animus, et totum ilium diem ft c ajfiaebar, ut qui ej/em, ipfe mihi incertus i>ide- rer efie. Recorduttts es mei y Domine Deus mi, pro mifericordid tud, •vemque perditam in gregem tuam recepifti. Ex eo tempore, avion in we Deus tarn patenter Jpiritus fui njinute irruiffet, alia frigidius, et negligcntius legere et tr acf are ccepi, de his uerb <]u by a wond'rous Birth 125. Thou cam'ft, a poor Inhabitant of Earth, Now wanting Light thy felf, who all the Spheres Didft cloath with Light, the Sun, and num'rous Stars. How fweeta Calm did then the Heav'ns adorn, j 30. When of a fpotlefs Virgin thou wert born ? Conceiv'd of the Divine, and Holy Pow'r 9 Whom all with Thee, and God fupreme adore ; When fmiling Peace her Blefiings firft difplay'd, And o'er the World her downy Wings were fpread •, 135. Whence boundlefs Pleafures flow, and all around With blooming Joys the Univerfe is crown'd •, As when the Spring revives the drooping Year, And Nature's Stores in beauteous Pomp appear ; Delicious Dews impcarl the glitt'ring Hill, 140. And Streams of nedt'rous Milk the Valliesfill ; The Annotations. V. 137. Delicious Devjs ) Undijue felici dijlillant omnia rore I don't the SON. 135 The Clouds diffolving foil in gentle Show'rs, And from on High the fruitful Bleffing pours, A fat'ning Moifture fwells the Womb of Earth, And gives ten thoufand Seeds a kindly Birth : 145. Soft-breathing Zephyrs make their balmy Wings, A lavifh Wafte of flow'ry Beauties fprings, That graceful broider ev'ry fragrant Bed, And various paint the fweet enamelPd Mead : Soon as thou fpread'ft thy flowing Locks around, 150. Ambrofial Scents perfume the fleamy Ground : Thou art the genial Dew, the golden Show'r, That now defcends, expected long before. — * Now had the Serpent \ moft malicious Scheme, Imbitter'd ev'ry Fountain, ev'ry Stream; K 4 155. A Annotations. I don't know but that our Author had here in his View that Paf- fage of Homer, where he compares the Exaltation of Joy in Menelaia's Mind to the Dew of the Morning reviving the Corn. To/0 — //. xxiiir Joy fwells his Soul, as when the vernal Grain Lifts the green Ear above the fpiinging Plain, The Fields their vegetable Life renew. And laugh and glitter with the Morning Dew. Ptpe. * Vida, I prefume, in the following Lines looks upon Gideons fleece, (Jvdg. vi. 56.) and the Gate rnemion'd Ezek. xI»Y. a. to be 136 To G D 15 5. A thoufand Deaths, conceal'd beneath the Waves Were fpread abroad, and ft] I'd a thoufand Graves i The thirfty Flock lay ftrctch'd along the Shore, Nor dar'd the deathful Waters to explore, But fearful view the fubtle Poifon glide 160. Thro' the green Wave, and fwell the foaming Tide. When lo ! a (lately Creature fliap'd a Hind, Flew o'er the Lawn, and fwept before the Wind. The trembling Flocks foon hear die rufhing Sound, And on the Lordly Creature gaze around. 165. When plunging in, the boyling Waves he plows, With the huge Horn that grated his lovely Brows: Rous'd at the Wound, the ckm'rous Waters rife, And Jafh with Silver Foam the ruffied Skies, The Annotations. be Types of the blefled Virgin, in a Scnfc which I fhall not ftay to explain j his Words are thefe : Candida te excipiuvt intaft* 'vellera lava, Nee tamen execpto maduit Una humid a ab imbri ■ Porta xterjin manet cecli alto in limine claufa, &c. Thee the foft woolly Fleece rcceiy'd, yet knew. No Stain, or Moifture from the falling Dew : Thro* Heav'ns eternal Doors thy g'")ric$ pafs, •) This nether World illum'niog j as the Rays C Of beamy Light play thro* the jolifh'j Glafs. j the SON. 137 The Flocks on ev'ry Side pour from the Shore, 170. Drink down the healing Draught, and thirft no more. Hither, ye mirthful Nymphs, and fy Ivan Swains, Who range the Mountains, or the flow'ry Plains: Rifle the mazy Groves, difrobe the Fields, Bring all the Treafures fertil Nature yields, 175. Lilies and Violets of the Tyrian Dye, Rofes, that with your maiden Blufhes vie : Let Garlands, wove of various Flow'rs adorn With beauteous Fragrancy the facred Horn. Thou art that lovely Creature ', faving Pow'r, 180. That came our forfeit BlefTings to reftore. Celeftial Light ! we now no Poifon dread, And from our Souls is baleful Darknefs fled. The chofen Flock now mourn'd their Shep herds flain, And fought a faithful Guide, but fought in vain, 185. Difpers'd thro* the Idumean Plains they flray, And fall to greedy Wolves an eafy Prey. Their Annotations. K 186. And fall to greedy Wolves ) Ezek. xxxiv. (5. 138 To G D Their doleful Bleatings rend the diftant Sky, And to the facred Mount of Carmel fly : There thy great Goodncfs heard their clam'rous Grief, 190. And wing'd with Love flew fwift to their Relief, To heal their Wounds, and free their pefterM Lands, And under thee unite their fcatter'd Bands, One Flock obfequious to one Sov'reign Lord, Happy the Flock ! the Lord admir'd, ador'd ! 195. Fly, hade, ye Nymphs, whofe lovely Beauty warms The Idumcan Swains with genuine Charms, Forego your Loves, difmifs your woolly Cares, Your long-fought Shepherd comes, your God ap- pears. 1 .0 ! Beauty, State, and Majefty divine, 200 Grace ev'ry Feature, glow in ev'ry Line V On Annotations. V, 199. Lo ! Beauty , State, and Majefly ) Cemite ut inceffu gravis, tit fpettabilis ore EgrcgiOy formiiqut vivos fu^cr emmet omnes, Cunfla Deo fimilis % Vultum, -vocemque, coloremque, H*ud fprans mortalc. ,. From the SON. 139 On the proud Ground with comely Air he walks, High tow'ringo'er the reft; and when he talks, His Words in more than mortal Accents flow, Sure 'tis a God, the Heav'nly Form we know. 205. He comes, ye fair ones, (trip the flow'ry Meads, And drew the painted Way where'er he treads -, With gen'rous Fruits your fragrant Baskets load, And to the fweet Repaft invite your God : To him retune your cuftomary Lays, 210. And in your Songs extol his endlefs Praife. Say, Annotations. From Virgil 9 — • Gradienjfjuc Deas fnptrtmimt omnes. — baud tiki vultus Mortal!;, nee vox homlnem fonat \ O Dea eertt ! — - Nee mart alt fotrnns. JEn. vi. 50 And Homer , r«r?/u«ti «, avotosct' Qi'os tv tie. h CforQ- tort, 'E/ y!\f tii Of o< \m tvi ifotVQv iv?vv \y*9i 'AfTt/u/ 235. Gladden'd the Synod of Inferior Gods ; Thofe Heav'n born Souls, that fill the bleft Abodes ? Art thou that Light eternal, once more fair Than rofy-finger'd Morn, or Morning-Star? Art Annotations. r. 238. Than r ofy~ finger d Morn) Rofeo form oft or aflro, O colli j< bar, O oriexs, Lucifer alme* „ The Comparifcm of Youth and Beauty to the Morning Star Is common \> ith .; Po Thus Vttgil, 1 king ©I Pallas, - tyfi -'p- : f-. f alias In me. . 1 ,a?nyde et piffis confpeBus in armis ; §1 ■ ■ - iceani ptrfvfus iMcifer unda Q • . ;s Mlti alios MJhmum diligit ignes, Ex. factum ccslo, tenebrafyve refohit* Pal . nfdf advances in the Midft, Com,. ^us in hi* Veft, and painted Arms ; As when the Star by Venus moft belov'd. Bright Lucifer, juft wafh'd in Ocean's Waves, Up 142 To G D Art thou the Brightnefs of that orient Ray, 240. That crown'd the joyful World with new-born Day, Whom Heav'n and Earth at their Creation lung, And many a World with loud Applaufes rung ; The Sun and Moon their Maker's Praife confefs'd, And all the Elements their Joy exprefs'd ; 245. Ev'ning and Morn alternate Honours paid, With all the Stars, in living Flames array'd ; Triumphant Seraphs in majeflic Strains Employed their Harps, and charm'd th* etherial Plains. Oh ! how transform'd from that once glorious Light! 250. How are thy Beauties veil'd with envious Night ! From Annotations. Up raifcs in the Sky his facred Head, And diilipates the Shades, Dr. Trapp. And Htmer calls Ajlyanax, 'AAtyitov *rtei **A»* Whom each foft Charm, and early Grace adorn. Fair as the new-born Star that gilds the Morn. Pope. /'. 149. Oh I h$v transform' d) Hei the SON. 143 From what dire Source does this fad Change arife, That has eclips'd the Glory of the Skies ? Is thy Face fcorch'd with the Sun's fultry Beams ? Or haft thou dy'd thy Robes in purple Streams? 255. No : from thy unexampled Love to Man, Thy early Sorrows with thy Life began : Myiterious Love ! for Man, a weighty Load, Bows down the Shoulders of a patient God ; While from the Prefs foft healing Liquors flow, 260. To gladden with new Life the Sons of Woe. What mean thofe livid Stripes ! that gory Wound, That ftains with crimfon Dye the blufhing Ground ! How are thy Hands and Feet with Iron torn ! Thy facred Temples crown'd with pungent Thorn ! 265. And do I hear thy laft forgiving Breath ! And fee thee writhing in the Pangs of Death. What Annotations. Hei mihi Lucifero quantum mulatus ab HU ! prom Virgil, &n. ii. 273., Hti mihi qualis erat I entantum Jnutatus fib ilU Heclorc, _ i44 To G D What Man could have fuch cruel Pow'r, or why ? That God himfelfmuft bleed, thirft, groan, and die. See Nature's Pangs ! Rocks their Contexture break, 270. And in a Stream of TeaKtheir Sorrow fpeak ; Earth to its Centre riv'd Svith dire Affright, Difplays the darkfome Realms of ancient Night: Nor can the Eye of Heav'n his Grief conceal, But weeps encurtain'd in a fable Veil. 275. O Grief Annotations. V. 267. What Man could have fuch cruel Pcw'r ) Cui hominum hoc de te licuit fcclus ? From Virgil, Mn. vi, 50 1 . Quij tarn crudeks optav : t fumcre farms ! Cui tantum de te licuit ? Who had the Will or Pow'r on thee t'afflid Such cruel, barbarous Treatment ! . Dr. Trafp, V. zji* Nor can the Eye of Heav'n ) Ntc potuit lachrymas f$l dijfimulare, fcrcnam Cum ferrugifteo faciem velavit amiilu. So Virgil, Georgr. |, 467. Sol caput obfeura mtidumjcrrugine texit, hnpiaque atcrnavi timuerum Jtcula noctew. In iron Clouds was hid the publick Light, And impious Mortals fear'd eternal Ni^ht. the SON. 145 275. O Grief ineffable ! didft tht>u fupply, The trembling Sinner's Place condemn'd to die? Didft thou mod pure and fpotlefs Lamb fuftain A fad Variety of poignant Pain ? Didft thou, tho' free from the foul Stains of Sin, 280. (Human without, but all divine within) Nail'd to the Crofs, (moll ignominious Death \) In glowing Agonies refign thy Breath ? 'Twas Man that broke the Law : and foon his Blifi SwelPd to a Sea of endlefs Miferies ; 285. Devoid of Hope, we float upon the Waves, And trembling view the Gape of loathfome Graves ♦, But thy dear Blood the gainful Lofs reftores, Uplifts our gafping Souls from mortal Shores, Whitens our crimfon Stains, and marks the Way 290. To the glad Regions of eternal Day ; We Health and Vigour from thy Stripes receive, Joy from thy Grief, and in thy Death we live. L Tho* 146 To GOD Tho' of a Virgin born, thou were enfhrin'd In mortal Frame, to mortal Bounds confin'd, 295. Subject to reftlefs Paflions, rav'ning Pain, Yet far remov'd from that infectious Stain, Intail'd on Man, when firft our Parent fell An abject Slave to Sin, and Death, and Hell. Still thy efifential Glories flood confefs'd, 300. In pureft Actions, pureft Thoughts exprefs'd ; For, over-fhadow'd by the Holy Dove, That warm'd her Bread with Joy, and Heav'nly Love, Thy Mother Parent was from Sin refin'd, And hurtful Taint ; mofl blefl of Womankind ! 305. Thou art the Bird, that pours her vital Blood From her goar'd Sides, to give her young ones Food ! Thou art the Victim Lamb, that mufl attone, At Lite's Expence, for Vices not thy own. So Annotations. V. 50 v t%m art the Bird) Tit Voliicrit fata ill*, , The Pelican. the SON. 147 So great the Toil, fo infinite the Price, 310. To reinftate us in our native Blifs ! When curfed Satan, mod pernicious Guide, Matchlefs in fraudful Wiles, and lawlefs Pride, Had drawn us down into a World of Woe, And led us many Ages here below, 315. Sunk deep in Guilt, as thofe who with him fell, Rebellious Hoft of Heav'n \ to lowed Hell. Hail, Victor ! whofe all-oonqu'ring Spirit fled Thro* the dark difmal Regions of the Dead. Then was the Rebel-Chief thy Pris'ner made, 320. And from his Bands rofe many a bleiTed Shade ; Climbing the Skies, they join thy glorious Train, And with new Honours crown'd, their Heav'n regain. Thou art the Lion, long foretold to fpring From Judab's Race, our Saviour, Lord and King, 325. Hail, Victor ! who haft eas'd our gnawing Pains, And freed us from the Dread of lafting Chains. L 2 Thy Annotations. f. 523. Thou art the Lion) Gen. xlix. 9. Rev. v, f. 148 To G D Thy Pow'r not only rais'd us from the Grave, But made the grlefly King himfelf thy Slave : For thou wert fubjedl in the Realms beneath 330. To the dire Terrors of infulting Death \ When in the Earth thy Honours low were laid, And all thy Beauties veil'd in dark'ning Shade i But foon triumphant to the Realms of Light, ' More fair thou rifelt, more divinely bright. 335. So from his Fun'ral Bed the Phcenlx fprings, Shakes from the Parent-Dufl: his tender Wings, And feeks the glad Arabian's fpicy Plain, Himfelf the faired of the feather'd Train, That all around him fwell their warbling Throats, 340. And pay their Homage in melodious Notes. Thou Annotations. V. 359. That *U around him) Circa ilium volucres VOrid comitavtur euvtew, Et njario indulgent cantu, phiufuque fequuntur. 1 fuppofe our Author had here in his View thofe beautiful Lines ui LaBantius de PJjcenice y v. 155. Contrahit in ccctumfefe genus omne volant tn*, Nee pradx memor ejl ulla, nee ulla mctus, Alituum Jiipata choro volat il.a per altum Turbaque prosequitur viunere Uta pio» Now the SON. 149 Thou art the living Stone, that Men abus'd, And Jewi/h Builders fcornfully rerus'd *, That in the Rubbifh long rejected flood, Unpolifh'd, unadorn'd, an ufelefs Load ; 345. Bat now confpicuous in the Front difplays Confummate Beauty, and fuperior Grace : Nor does the Fabric Beauty owe alone, But all its Strength, to thee the Corner Stone. And ftill in Man thy Deity refides, 350. Inftructs with Wifdom, and with Prudence guides. Safe in thy Prefence, and Almighty Pow'r, On thefe alone we truft, and fear no more ; Tho' all around the Tumults of the Sea, With hideous Roar expert the hopeful Prey : L 3 355. Tho 5 Annotations. Now flock together the whole feather'd Kind, And leave their Prey, and leave their Fears behind j The Pheenix in the Midft flies o'er the Plain, Pleas'd \vi:h th' officious Homage of his joyful Train. » ■ ■ . ' . 1 . . 1 . 1 ■ 1 1 1 ■ V. 341. Tho.i art the living Stone ) Pfal. cxviii. 22. If a, xxviii. 16. Mattlu xxi. 42. Mark xii. io» Luke xx. 17. J8s\x,'i\. Rom. ix. 35. 1 Pet. v.. 7. 150 To GOD 355. Tho* down the Veffel finks, yet flill thine Arm Arrefts our Fate, and faves us from the Storm. Thou art the Rock, whofe folid Sides difdain The threatning Forces of the boift'rous Main ; Strong, and deep rooted in itfelf it braves 360. The feeble batt'rings of the furging Waves : In Peace below the fteady VefTel rides Triumphant o'er the Rage of Winds and Tides ; And fearlefs Sailors, long the cruel Sport Of tolling Waves, enjoy the winYd~for Port : $6$. Founded on this, thy City ilands fecure, And fife from circling Dangers mail endure, Till diftant Nations, proflrate to her Sway, Shall hear her wholfome Precepts, and obey. Thou Annotations. y. 357. Thou art the Rock ) Tu pelagi vclut in medio firm'-flima caufts, Q^jim tieque ccnvellunt ve?iti y vequc fiuttibus wida. 'Hu7g Who all appall'd with Guilt and black Defpair, 525. Stand trembling on the Left, and hopelefs wait The dreadful Thunder of approaching Fate : Now, now it flrikes \ a Furnace deep and wide Receives the Crew, in a fulphureous Tide Of Annotations. V. 511. Btkold the Tret) Rev. xxii. z. 160 To G D Of never-dying Flames, there doom'd to feel £30. The Earnings of an ill-fpent Life, eternal Hell. But on the Right the firmly juft and good, (Their Sins effae'd in thy moft precious Blood J See thro' the gloomy Clouds the dawning Day, And more than Hopes in ev'ry Look difplay. 53$. Now born aloft on Love's triumphant Wing, They follow thee, their Victor, Judge, and King, And reach the Manfions, God for] them prepar'd, E'er on high Pillars the vaft World was rear'd. All hail ! of God Supreme thou only Son, With him Copartner of th' eternal Throne : 540. Thou twice-begotten Lord, from whom fprings Grace, And fruitful Hopes, to glad all human Race. v Light of the World, from whom all Light began Kind IntercefTor between God and Man : Crown Annotations. V. 540. Thou twice-begotten Lord ) By bis-genite, or twice begotten, our Author means that Jifiu Chriji had a real Being and Exiftence in Heaven, being begotten from all Eternity of the EfTence of the Father, before he was born into the World, begotten by the Holy Ghofl of the Virgin Mary. V. 544. Kind Ititerce for ) 1 Tim, ii. 5. Heb. viii. 6. ix. 15. the SON. 161 Crown for our Heads, adorn'd with Gems and Gold : 545. Our Head, our Glory, Pow'r, and ftrongeft Hold. The King, who our victorious Army leads, Whom all the vanquifh'd Brood of Devils dread, Thou Guardian Shepherd, Guide of all the Plain, ,550, Thou fafe Phyfician, Eafe of all our Pain* Thou Church, whofeBafis in Earth's Centre lies, And rifing Turrets penetrate the Skies, Whofe (lately Pillars ftand for ever fure, In all the Storms of Fate or Time fecure, 555. Thou Altar, by whofe Steps we Heav'n afcend : Thou Prieft to lead us to our Journey's End : M Thou Annotations. P. 549. Thou Guardian Shepherd) Pfal. xxiii. I. Ifr. xl. II. Ezek. xxxiv. 23. John x. n« Heb. xiii. 20. 1 Pet. ii. 25. V. 550. Thou fafe Phyfician) Matth. ix. It* Mark ii. .17. Luki is. 23. v. 31. T. 551. Thou Church) Matth. xvi. 18, V. 555. Thou Altar) Heb. xiii. 10. V. 556. Thou Priefi ) Hcb, ii. 17, iu\ 1, if* 14* H i0- vlfi* I. ix. 1 1 162 To G D Thou Golden Door, that op'ning wide difplays The inner Courts of Hcav'n with radiant Blaze. Thou Ship, in which thro' billowing Life w« fteer ; k6o. Thou Haven, where we reft devoid of Fear ; Thou Law and Legiflator, who alone Haft made the deep myfterious Secrets known, Which in the fatal Volume lay conceal'd From all the Saints, with feven Signets feal'cL $6$. When our repeated Sins call Veng'ance down, And angry Flames array the Father's Throne, When murm'ring Thunders gather as they roll, And threaten Ruin to the guilty Soul ; Thy Goodnefs, Lord^ before him proftrate falls, 570. And with Groans, Tears, and Prayers, for Mer- cy calls, When Annotations. »". s<7. Thou Golden Door ) John*. 7, 9. Rev. iv\ i. V. 561. Thou Lavj and Legjjtator) Ifa. xxxiii. 2.2. \} whofe eternal Pow'r, The Seas, and Earth, and all the Heav'ns adore, M z One 164 To GOD, &c. One C^eflentially with the Supreme And Thee, thou mod myfterious, glorious,Theme : Thou greateft, bell, eternal, mighty tVord, 590. c From Age to Age confeft our Sov'reign Lord, The End of the Second Hymn of V id a, To GOD the S N. ( ItfJ) SP IRITU I SANCtO DEO OPT. MAX. The Third Hymn of M. Hierok. Vida, To GOD the * H O L Y G H O ST. An Beus in nobis ? Quid nos mortalibus oris Sevocat, O, noftrafque rapit fuper athera menies ? Non ea vis opts humance^ non peftoris hujus, &c. WELLS there a God within us, who controuls The daring Motions of our aclive Souls, When rapt on Wings of Fire, they tow'ring fly- Above thefe lower Worlds, and claim the Sky ? M 3 Annotations, 5. Never * It is preliimed, that every one who profefleth the Name of Chrift from the firft baptifm.il Inftitution, acknowledges that there is an Holy GboJ} ■, and the only Queftion confifts in this, what that Ho- ly GhoU is, in whofe Name we are baptiz'd, and in whom, accor- ding to our Baptifm, we profefs in our Creed to believe ) Now, Ghoj}^ or G.ijl, in the ancient S.ixon Language, fignirieth a Spirit, anj in that Appellation of the Spirit of Gcd 3 is his Nature principally CKprefs'd ? 166 To G D 5. Never can human Pow'r, or Strength like mine. Challenge an Act fo glorious, fo divine. 'Tis the Divinity, that is beftow'd On Man, the facred Temple of his God; 'Tis God himfelf, that to his Pleafure frames 10. Ourpafllve Organs, and the Heart inflames. By Annotations. exprefs'd : And the Addition of Holinefs, tho'it denote the imrinfical Sanctity eiTemially belonging to that Spirit, yet it likewife contains a derivative Notion, figniiyin" an Emanation of that Holinefs, and a Communication of the Effects thereof j in which Communication, (fays Bifhop Pearfon) conflfts his Office. V. 7. Its the Divinity. ) Intus ngit Deus, et nojiro fc peaore verfat. Ovid has confefs'd this Truth, FaJI. vi. 5. $Jt Deus in nobis : agitanxe cakfeimus Mo. Impetus hie facra (emina 7nen:is habet. Fas mihi prtcipue viiltus .,>;\ (&vs he) maketh a Temple, according to the Apoftle. 1 Cor. w. *6. vi, 19. z O* vi. 16.) But the Inhabitation of any created Pcilbn cannot make a Temple ; therefore the ihiy Gi.of; is g :. the HOLT GHOST. 167 By him the Soul infpir'd with Heav'nly Love, Fit to converfe with kindred Souls above, Quits the dull Sphere of frail Mortality, And joins the Virtues of th' Empyreal Sky. 15. For all our holy, juft, and pure Defires, Spring from this Fountain, are what this infpires. From this unfpotted Sun flows living Light, That from our chearful Souls drives defp'rate Night. Inflam'd by this, we mount the bleft Abode, 20. Adopted Heirs of Heav'n, and Sons of God. Oh ! wou'd this Light pour down in plenteous Streams, And pierce thefe murky Clouds with genial Beams ! Wou'd it inflame my Heart with facred Love, That perfect reigns among the Saints above ! 25. Oh ! thither let my Soul enraptur'd rife, And view the Glories of the radiant Skies! From what exhaufllefs Spring thefe Rivers flow. Of boundlefs Love to chear die Sons of Woe ! Or wou'd the Deity himfelf dilplay, 30. That I his genuine Beauties might furvey. ( M 4 He i<58 To GOD He hearse he comes ; behold a rufhing Flood Of blazy Lightning pours before the God ! My Soul has caught the Flame, celeflial Fire Wings my brisk Thought, and fpiritsmy Defire, 35.I foar, me thinks above the ftarry Sphere, The Darknefs breaks, and dazzling Scenes appear. I fee, ( O grant, Thou Pow'r, I may rehearfe Thy wond'rous Deity in facred Verfe ! ) I fee the happy Manfions of the "Bleft, 40. Eternal Seats of Joy, and Peace, and Reft. Where Annotations. V. 51. He bears, he co?nes ) Tailor ? an ilk ruit calor } eccc tnihi MrtuhuS ardor Ingruit. As this is a Strain of Poetic Enthufiafm, I fhall quote fome Lines from Virgil, which Dr. Irapp fo juftly admires, and which undoubt- edly our Author had in his Y T iew ; but lor the Subject's fake, I com- pare them not together. Cum "oirg$, pofcere *F.it.i Terr.pm, air, Dcus, ecce> Dens, cm taha fanti Ante fifes fubito non vuk*s t von color HJiu $, lJon comft* manjere cyna j fd pectus anhelun, &C. He comes, behold the God ! the God ! me faid, (And (hiv'ring at the facred Entry (laid) Her Colour chang'd, her Face was not the fame, And hollow Qroans from her deep Spirit came. Her Hair flood up, convulfive Rage joflcfs'd Her trembling Lim£>s, and heav'd her lab'ring Brcaft. Hyr (taring Eyes wim fparkling Fury rowl, ty hen all the God came rufhing on her Soul. Dryden. the HOLT GHOST. 169 Where kindly (haded with a glimm'ring Cloud, The Beatific Majefty of God, Sitteth enthron'd in an Excefs of Light That pains the dazzled Eye with exquifite Delight. 45. And lo ! fail by fits the Almighty Stm 9 Who with like Radiance crowns the glorious Throne, Joint Makers of the World's moft beauteous Frame, The fame in Wifdom, and in Pow'r the fame. But what new lovely Face, what fparkling Star 50. Is that, which ftrikes my trembling Eyes from far ? Oh ! were I now all Eye, or Heav'n-born Soul, Fix'd here, that I might comprehend the whole ! Say, what is that illumin'd Globe, that flies Jn circling Glories round the joyous Skies ? 55. Whence Annotations. * I have pmitted four or five Lines, which our Author repeats from the foregoing Hymns, p. 49, 126, and which I have there endeavourM to translate, but not fo much to my Satisfaction, as to think they will bear a Repetition, nor is there any Want of them here to cosnplcat the Senfc, 170 To G D $$. Whence active Rays, and all-embracing Flames, Flafh thick along the Heav'ns in golden Streams. With what ftrange Raptures has it fill'd my Bread With hafty Tranfports, thrilling Joys oppreft ! Will it all Fancy, and Illufion prove ? 60. Or is not this the funny Seat of Love ? Where in a Point meet all the dreamy Rays, That form this piercing, this opprefiive Blaze ? Yesi here are center'd ev'ry real Joy, And Sweets of pureft Love, that never cloy ; 6$. Hence that ineftimable Bleffing, Grace, Without CefTation Mows, and heav'nly Peace. Or who is that "Third Perfon of the Throne, That flowing from the Father and the S&fly Appears Annotations. l\ 67. Or vjho is that Third Per/on ) The Perfjnality of the Holy Ghoft is manifeft from Johi xiv. 2.6. xv. 26. xvw 7. Acts x. J 9. xiii. x. Row. viii. 26. 1 Cor, if. : o. Ephef. iv. 50, fre. And as the Godhead was communicated from the Father to the Son, not from the Son unto the Father, and therefore rlTere nmft be acknowledged a Priority of Older, by which the Father IS Full, and the Sou, not the Father, Second : tho' fince this was done from all Eternity, there can be no Priority of Time : And as the Tame Godhead was communicated by the Father and the Son unto the Holy Gbojl, not by the Holy Ghoji unto the Father or the Son 5 and fince this was alfo done from all Eternity, and therefore can ad- mit of no Priority in Reference ot Time, yet that of Order mult be bete the HOLY GHOST. 171 Appears with equal Pow'r and Glory crown'd, 70. Yet fcarce appears, fuch Lightnings flafh around? Sure 'tis the God, the God to whom I raife My feeble Voice, and humbly drive to praife > Who Annotations. here obferv'd -, therefore the Spirit receiving the Godhead from the Father, who is the Firft, cannot be the Firft, receiving the fame from the Son, cannot be the Second, but being Irom the Firft and the Se- cond, rauft be of the Three the Third. See Bimop Pear/on. V, 68. That flowing from the Father) The Proceflion of the Holy Ghoft from the Father is exprefly de- livered in the Scriptures, John xv. 26. and tho' it be not as exprefly faid tliat the Holy Ghoft proceedeth from the Son, yet the Subftance of the fame Truth is virtually contained in Matth. x. 20. Rom. viii. 9. 1 Cor. xi. 12. Gal. iv. 6. Phil, i. 19. 1 Pet. i. n. V, 71. Sure 'tis the God ) Hie Detts, hie {ni jailor) adeft, The Socinians, who deny the Holy Ghoft to be a Perfon, affirm that the Spirit of God is in God, and is the eternal and omnipotent Power of God : And the Macedonians, who deny the Holy Ghoft to be a divine and uncreated Perfon, acknowledge him to be a Perfon of an intellectual Nature fubfifting : From our Adverfaries therefore Bifhop Pearfon draws another Proof of the Deity of the Holy Ghoft ; becaufe a Perfon fubfifting of eternal and omnipotent Power mult be God. But what need we any further Proof of a Truth (b well attefted and confirmed by the Holy Scriptures, Exod. xxxiv. 34 com- par'd with 2 Cor. iii. 17. Alls v. 3, ^ c. He, to whom the divine Attributes belong, as certainly as they be- long to God the Father, is truly and properly God j but the divine Attributes, fuch as are Omnifcicnce, Omnipotency, Omnipiefence, and the like, do as certainly belong to the Holy Ghoft, as they do unto God the Father j therefore we are as much aftur'd that the HolyGhofi is God. Again, He to whom are attributed thofe \Ji7ork«, which are proper unto God, by and for which God doth require us to acknow- ledge 172 To G D Who feeds the Univerfe from Pole to Fole, With vital Spirits, that pervade the whole ! 75. Unborn, and uncreate ! Oh ! wond'rous Name ! Diffufive Breath of Life, wide-fpreading Flame ! Immediate Off-fpring of the mutual Love, That reigns eternal in the Heav'ns above, Betwaw* Annotations. ledge and wovfhip him as God, a properly nnd truly God ; but fuch Works arc attributed often in the Scriptures to the Spirit of God, as the A£ts of Creation, and Confervatfon of all Things, the Miracles wrought upon and by our blcfled Saviour, the Works of Grace and Power wrought in the Hearts of true Relievers, and the like ; there- fore the Htly GkoJi y or Spirit of God, is the true and living God, V. 75. Unborn, and uncreate ') The Holy Ghofi is the Spirit of God which is in God, and there- fore is no created Pcrfon ; as that cannot be a created Pcrfon, which hath not a created Nature, and that cannot have, nor be a created Nature, which is in God. V. 77. Immediate Off-fpring ) Muttius ardor AviboYH n communis amor. The heft Being, and the bed IJndcrfbnding, mull needs conceive the beft Image of itfclfi now in conceiving it begets it, and the lie- gotten bj Nature is no lefs than the Begetter : Hence then we have the Subsidences o! Father and Son. And lincc the Father in beget- ting his own Image cannot but love it naturally, and the Son cannot but as naturally love the Father, hence proceeds mutual Love, which, becaufe it is natural, is no lefs in Being than the Begetter, and Be- aten from whom it proceeds ; therefore the Spir.t is God, and \ rnirJ Subfiftencc in the divine Nature. the HOLY GHOST. 173 Between the Father, and his only Son, 80. three Terfons, tho' diftincl:, yet God in Effence One. All Creatures, that the common Blefllng fhare, To be, or live, thy plaflick Pow'r declare i Imperial Man, who lords it all around, Beads, Fifhes, Fowls, and all that creep the Ground, 85. Numberlefs Infects j Trees, and ev'ry Bed Of fragrant Flow'rs, that paint th* enamel'd Mead j And lifelefs Stones, and Ore, that buried deep In the all-bearing Earth's rich Bofom deep, If not fuftain'd by thee, to Ruin tend, 90. And form'd from Nothing, wou'd in Nothing end. Thou art that Love, whence num'rous Blef- fings flow From Heav'n's Almighty Lord on Man below : And thou the Love through which we Mortals raife Our ardent Minds to God in grateful Praife. 95. This. 174 To G D 95. This fills the Univerfe with pure Defires, And Gods and Men with Charity infpires : This ev'ry pious Soul, ftill free, conftrains In ever-during, ever-pleafing Chains. To blefs the State of Angels this is giv'n, 100. And Man by this anticipates his Heav'n : Whence fprings whate'er is good, or truly great, And all the Graces that on Virtue wait. Thou Love ignipotent, thou Pow'r divine, Breath of celeflial Air, all Things are thine : 105. On Annotations. V. 10 1. Whence fprings whatever is geoi) Hwc wnjs p';efas y hinc omnis demote virtus. As what our Saviour did and fufferM for us belong'd to that Of- fice of a Redeemer, which he took upon him \ fa whntfocver the Holy Ghcff worketh in order to the fame Salvation* may he look'd upon as belonging to his Office. Now therefore, brcuife without Holinefs we cannot, fee God, whofe Eyes are pure, and becaufe we are of ourfelves in our natural State impure and unholy, and infuf- ficient tor thefe Things, without the Aflillances of the Holy Spirit, we acknowledge the Office of the Holy Spirit to confut in the fruc- tifying of the Servants of God, in enabling them to walk in his Ways, tA keep his Commandments, and ;uake their Calling and £- leclion Jure. For the Fruit of the Spirit is Love, Joy, Peace, im^fifidagi Gentlenejs, Gomhie/s, Fanh, Mtikvefs % Temperance ', et^ainjl Juch (here is no La t vj i Gal. v. n. the HOLT GHOST. i 75 105. On all we find thy Deity imprefs'd, Thou, Wifdom, Strength, and Pow'r of God confefs'd ! Thefe fpacious Worlds were in thy Balance weigh' d, When HeavVs expanfive Radiance was dif- play'd, And the felf-center'd Earth, prodigious Mafs ! no. Wastrufted to the feeble Air's Embrace* When on Creation-Day, afliftant flood The Son Almighty of Almighty God, Thou too waft by, Eternal as thou art, And in the Work ftill mines thy glorious Part. 1 15. Then didft thou fly on Lightnings all abroad, And ftill the Rage of the tumultuous Flood % Purging the Waters with thy faving Breath, From all Infection, and the Seeds of Death ; That Annotations. V. in. Whm on Creation Day ) ■ Thou from the firft Waft prefent, and with mighty Wings out-fpread, Doye-likc fat'ft brooding on the vaft Abyfs, And mad 'ft it pregnant. Milfn, Sec Hymn to God the Father, ver. 373. iy6 To GOD That future Man might warn his finflll Stain, 120. And freed from flinging Guilt, true Peace obtain. By thee the Clouds of Ignorance were driv'n, That Man might triumph in his View of Heav'n. His Heart, dilated with celeflial Fires, Swells rapt'rous, and to more than Man afpircs : 125. Mindlefs of Earth, he travels through the Skies, And with the glowing Splendors feafls his Eyes* And now he feels the flruggling of the God, (That fills his heaving Breafl, and fires his Blood ) Nor knows Reftraint, but painful Silence breaks, 130. And Truths fublime in worthy Accents lpeaks, EmboldenM awful Secrets to explore, That long in Heav'ns dark Volume flept before. Hence were the my flic Oracles of old, And ftrange Events from facred Tripods told. 135. Hence Annotations. V. I34. And jirange Events fro?// facrtd Tripods) Bine facri Trifodti^ hint fan ft a or at da divum. 4_ The the HOLT GHOST. 177 135. Hence Jewijh Prophets with melodious Strains, And folemn Numbers charm'd the neighboring Plains y And Sibylls were inftru&ed to relate In lofty Verfe the Myfteries of Fate. N By Annotations. The Tripod was a Table, or Stool fupported by three Feet, upon which the Pricftefles of Apollo were wont to ftand or fit when they pronounced the Oracles. But the whole Bufinefs of Oracles, (fays My. St any an, in his Abftradt oi the Grecian Hiftory,) was of human Contrivance, an egregious Impoilure founded upon Superftition, and carried on by Policy and Intereft, till the brighter Oracles of the Ho- ly Scrip'uies difpell'd thoie Mifts of Error and Enthufiafm. 1 don't iuppofe therefore that our Author here Means thofe Inft.uments of the Devil, but fpeaking poetically, intends by Tripodes, and oracula Dinjum, all true and divine Prophecies, fuch as came not at any time by the Will of Man, but vjhat holy Men of Godfpake as they were mov'd by the Holy Ghof^ 2 Pet. i. 2i- V. 137. And Sibylls were inflrutfed) Carminaqite ediderunt due prafaga Sibylla?. Undoubtedly there is fome Ground for the known Story of thefe ProphetefTes the Sibylls, whom we find mention'd in the very Infancy of Greece ; tho' vaft Heaps of Dog^rel Greek have fince been jforg'd in Imitation of then* Writings. M. Varro, {quo nemo unqnam do£iior, ne apud Cracos ejuidem y v'xit) Sibyllinos libros ait non fuijfe unius SibylU, fed appellari uno nomine Sibyllines, quod omnes fcemin* i/ates, Sibylla funt a njeteribus nuncu* fata , vel ah unius Delphidis nomine, vel a confiliis Deorum cnunti- andis. 2/af enim Deos, non 0«»?, it confilinm non $\s\yiv, fed $V- Any appella'>ant Molico genere fermonit ; itaque Sibyllam dttfam effe auaft ©2oC*Anr. Ceteruw SU/yllas daem mimero fiujfe, 6cc. La &an. /, ;i. c. 6 i 7 8 To GOD By thee, moll Holy PoVr, infpir'dand taught, 140. Man fhines in all the Dignity of Thought •, Tames the wild Pafllons of his favage Heart, And bends his Nature to the Rules of Art. To thee the Charms of Eloquence belong, And all the melting Mufic of the Tongue, 145. When with deferv'd Succefs he pleads a Caufe, Or for his Country's Good forms wholfome Laws. That under Convoy of a gracious Guide, Mortals on harnefs'd Clouds aloft iliould ride, And Annotations. V, 139. By thee, mojl Holy Pow'r,) We may obfervc by the Way, that much the fame Power which yida here attributes to the Holy Gho{} y was given by the Heathen Poets to Apollo, the God of Divination. TiX V} f ^ dj/L$t*dupris s7/$ toctov ocaav 'At'qKKuV. KtivQ~ oistvrfo 'tK&x *"*? A > HelvO- dviJtir •iHTpci cPifdcLCtv dLvcLfihtKriv Sclvatois. Callim. Hymn, ad Apoll. To thee, great Phoebus, various Arts belong, To wing the Dart, and guide the Poets Song ; Th' enlightened Prophet feels thy flames divine, And all the dark Events of Lots me thine. By Phoebus taught, the Sage prolongs our Breath, And in its flight fufpends the Dart of Death. Pin. the HOLY GHOST. i l9 And change thefe dull and forrowful Abodes, 1 50. For Heav'nly Glories and be mix'd with God's, Thy Pleafure wills : for Heav'n isbarr'd to none, By adverfe Fates, or Fortune's fancied Frown : N 2 Nor Annotation So y. 1 5 1 i For Heav'n is barrd to none ) Nee qn\f(juam fanftis excluditur atheris oris, Aut Fato adverfo, aut alicujus numinis ird, D edit us Aternis mundi ante exordia pce?iis. I think our Author in thefe Lines juftly denies any abfohtte Pre- deftination, and that 'tis abfurd and impious to argue, as fome do, that our Aftions are indifferent, and be our Behaviour what it will, we fliall be fav'd or damn'd according to the determinate Counfel of God. For God has undoubtedly left us to our own Freedom of Choice, (fee Page 68.) and to convince us of his Impartiality, has declar'd that he hath no llefped of Perfons, but rewards or punifhes all Men, not according to his own Pleafure, but according to theik* Deferts ; and that in every Nation, he that fears him, and works Ri&hteoufnefsy is accepted of him, Acts x. 25. Dent. xxx. 19. Job xxii. 2. xxxv. 6. Ezek. xviii. 4. xxxiii. II. Hofea xi. 8. And tho' Original Sin, that fpiritual Leprofie handed down from Adam to the whole Mafs of Mankind by an hereditary infectious Generation, fubje&s all Men to the Difpleafure of the Almighty, and is ready to fink us in the Gulph of eternal Mifery ; yet being aiTur'd that the Grace 0) God is fufficient for all Men y 2 Cor, iii. 5. xii. 9. And that He ivill have all Men to be favd, 1 Ti?n. ii. 4. and that all Men Jh all be faved through Chrijl^ Rom. v. 9, Sec unlefs they have wilfully trodden under Foot the Son of God, and done Defpite unto the Spirit of Grace ■> Heb. x. 29. we may conclude, that our Deftruc- tion (which God avert) is as entirely due to ourfclves, as if we were out of God's Power, and abfolutely in the Hand of our own Coun* fel, Ephef. i. 5 a compar'd with 1 Cor. ix. 27. Freely they (land, who (land, and fall, who fall. Milton, iii. 102. And Adam confldering his own Fall, and the wretched happy Effects attending it, thus breaks forth ; O Goodncfs 180 To G D Nor was Man doom'd, before the Gift of Breath, To the fad Tortures of eternal Death. 155. When firft on this World's Threfhold we ap- pear, And pierce with tender Cries th' invading Air, Wailing by Inftincl: the deftruftive Fate, That drave our Parents from their blifsful State, (Whofe Annotations. O Goodnefs infinite ! Goodnefs immenfe '. That all this Good of Evil mall produce, And Evil turn to Good ! Doubtful I (land Whether I fliould repent me now of Si« By me done, and occafion'd : or rejoice Much more, that much more Good thereof (hall fpring j To God more Glory, more Good- will to Men From God, and over Wrath mail Grace abound. Milt. xii. 470. ^.155. When firft on this World's Threfliold ) lit fav'is projecfus ab undis Navrta, nudus burnt fatit infans % indigus omni lltah auxiliOy cum pri?/tnm in lummis oras Nixibus ex alnjo tnatrls natura profudit, V*gitwtm4 locum lugubri complet. ■ Lucret. /. v. When, like a Sailor, by the Temped hurl'd Afhore, the Babe is fhipwreck'd on the World, Naked he lies, and ready to expire, Helplefs of all, that human Wants require. Strait with foreboding Cries he fills the Room, Too fure Prefaces of his future Doom. Creech. the HOLY GHOST. 1*1 (Whofe Guilt funk all Mankind beneath a Load 160. Of fiery Veng'ance from an angry God, ) Our wounded Eye flies the unpractis'd Light, And fhameful feeks the Covert of the Night : Long groveling thus we lie, devoid of Hope, Our fad Heart fickens, and our Senfes droop, 165. Condemn'd to Death, and after Death to dwell, For Vices not our own, in agonizing Hell, So far the Poyfon of that Guilt is fpread, It grieves us Living, and torments us dead. But foon as thy Divinity infpires, 1 70. And warms our panting Souls with all its Fires Kindly admonifh'd, we effay to rife, And view the Glories of the ftarry Skies ; We own the Lord of Lords, and King of Kings, "Whom Earth adores, and Heav'n hi§ Praifiis fings. 175. Proflrate before his Majefty we fall, And with ftrong Pray'rs and Tears for Mercy call ; N 3 Nor 182 To GOD Nor only mourn, and pray, but vow to leave The Paths of Sin, and thee our God receive. Emboldcn'd by thy Prefence more and more, 1 80. We now thofe awful Myftcries explore Of Holy Writ, and chearfully fulfil Thewholfome Precepts of our Father's Will. And left fome fad Remembrance mould annoy The faliant Tranfports of our growing Joy, 185. Purg'd by thy healing Streams our Sorrow flies, And loft for ever in Oblivion lies. Our Hearts and Minds renew'd, we fpurn the Earth, And fpring to Heav*n, as at a fecond Birth ; Wrapt in Sincerity, and heav'nly Love, 190. Worthy the Converfe of the Saints above. Such Annotations. V. 179. LmboldeiCd by thy Prefence ) Since by Nature we are totally void of all faving Truth, and un- der an Impoffibility of knowing the Will of God, becaufc as no Man kniweth the Things of a Man fave the Spirit of Man vjhich is in him, even Jo none knovjeth the Things of God, but the Spirit of Cod, 1 Cor. ii. 10. Therefore this Spirit fearcheth ail Things, yea, even the deep Things of God y and revealeth them unto the Sons of Men j Co that thereby the Darknefs of their Underftanding is ex- pelled, and they are enlighten'd with the Knowledge of God. Pp. Ptarfon* the HOLT GHOST. 183 Such are the Bleflings, fuch the Gift of Heav'n, That God to undeferving Man hath giv'n. For though at faint-like Piety we aim, Vain is our Plea, nor truly juft our Claim. 195. But God in Mercy views the purple Tide, Dread Sight ! that gulhes from the gory fide Of his Almighty Son ; whofe wounded Veins Pour out this Stream to wafh away our Stains. Hence fprings our Hope : New Joy his Sorrows give, 200. His Sicknefs, Health, and in his Death we live. Still left fome Spot of ancient Sin remain, Thou bid'ft tis dip, and be for ever clean ; We, in thofe living Waters, facred made By thy Almighty Prefence, dip the Head ; N 4 2.05. And V. 203. W* y in thofe living Waters ) Spontc caput facris de msre immergimus undis^ Pr, 184 To G D 205. And, wond'rous Change ! blcft be thy faving Pow'r, White as the Snow we rife, to blufh no more. Out* Annotations. Chriflt*mty % receives the Remijjion of original and aflual Sin, and ha< a Right and Title, upon his P erf ever ance in the Grace of his Bape t 'ui y to all the BleJJings, advantages, and Promifes of the Gojpel. This then is Baptilm. And if in Compliance to my Author I have :he Word dip, yet, I intend by no Means to exclude the nary Way of pour nig on, or fpr inkling of Water , which feems i pioperer than dipping or Immerfion j as the Word (BatTTt- £s£al) to he baptized, does not always fignify the warning of the winne Body, either in the Writings of the Jews, or in the New Teftamenc, but the fprinkhng and warning fome Part of it only j which liKewife beft anfwers and agrees with the Baptizing unto Mo- jes, 1 Cor. x. -l. with the Prophecies, Promifos, Tjpes, and Figures of the inward baptizing with the Spirit, 1 Pet. iii. aj. and with the Cfrcumftances of Place and Time of Baptizing, recorded in the Alls of the Apofiles. The outward Sign however, or the Thins* ufed in Baptifm, muft be Water, and Water only : Wherefore Pope Stephen II. declar'd the Baptifm of an Infant null, which was adminiftred with Wine, for Want of Water j and when an Archbifhop of Norway asked Pope Gregory IX. his Opinion of Baptifm adminiitrcd with Beer, he declar'd it to be null : What then muft we think of the Baptifm of a certain Jew, who being in a dry Wddernefs, was baptized with Sand J And 'tis obfervable, that a myftetious Purgation by Water, has been held from all Antiquity, ©AActorat K^v^ei rffdviA t cLvfyu k&kcL. The Sea (fays Enr.pides,) can expiate all mortal Ills. And CalUmachus repefems Latona begging of the River God Pe- ncus that (he may wafli her Children Apollo and Diana in his Streams, . Hymn, in Del. v. no. So Rhea when (he had brought fo.th Jupiter, "fly*, TiSv *&*<$ *W Hymn, ad Jov. v. 33. Amid the HOLY GHOST. 185 Our Souls refin'd, foon as thy Grace they feel, Glow, fhine, and fparkle, as the poltfh'd Steel. From this deep-founded Root we tow'ring rife 210. With active Zeal, and fhoot into the Skies : And with unweary'd Diligence we drive, And ardent Minds, till joyous we arrive At the long-winYd-for Manfions of the Bleft, Thofe Seats of guiltlefs Pleafure, Peace, and Reft. 215. So noble the Reward, the Prize fo great, That on our fmall, but pious Labours wait ! Yet Annotations. __. Amid the Flood She plung'd the reeking Babe, and bath*d the God. But whoever thinks from hence, that the Application of Water to any other pious Uje, than that of Bapttfm, neceflaiy, let me remind him of what LaSantms fays of the old Romans, Se pie facrificajfe opinantur, fi cutem laverint j tanqua?n libidmcs intra peclus inclufus ulli amnes abluant, ant ulla maria purifcent, Quanto fatius eft mentem potius eluere, qua malts cuplditatibus fordidatur 5 ft uno vir- tutis ac jidei Uvacro univerja 'vitia dcpsllere ? Quod qui fecerit, quamhbet inqmnatum ac Jordiduvi corpus gerat, fatis punts ift y 1. V. c. 30. And no better has one of their own Poets treated them, fay- fngi Ah nimium faciles, qui trijlia crimina cadis Flumined tolli pojfe putatis aqua. Ovid, Faft, ii. 4$. Poor eafy Fools j to think the guiltlefs Flood Can warn from murd'rous Hands the Stain of Blood 1 i86 To GO Yet Hill to thee be all the Honour paid > For ev'ry Thought, or Deed demands thine Aid. Nor are our beft Endeavours worthy found, 220. If not with thy peculiar Blefiing crown'd. Thou Sacred Pozv'r^ thy Will and Influence, (Since human Merit is a vain Pretence J Clears the Avenues of the dark'ned Soul, And chearfii] Light breaks in upon the whole. 225. To thee Man all his boafted Vigour owes ; From thee his ev'ry God-like Aclion flows : Nor only this : but thy glad Prefence deigns To blefs with hidden Virtues all his Pains. Annotations. V. a 1 8. For evry Thought, or Deed) Te fine nil t amen audemus, nil polfinnus ipfi. What Man is he, that boafts of fleflily Might, And vain AfTurance of Mortality ? Which all Co Toon as it doth come to Sight, Againft foiritual Foes, yields by and by, Or from the Field nioft cowardly doth fly. Nor let the Man afcribc it to his Skill, That thorough Grace hath gained Victory. If any Strength we have, it is to 111, But all tOC Good is God's, the Pow'r, and eke the Will. Spcnfer, 1. i. can. 10. r or it is God (fays St. Paul, Phil, ii. 13.) which vorketh in us, both to lutll and to do oj his good Pleafare : And he is able to do ex- ceeding abundantly above all that ive an ask or thir.k, according to the Power that vjorketh in us, Ephef. iii. zo. the HOLT GHOST. 187 As fragrant Flow'rs, and Trees, without Supply 330. Of fat'ning Moifture, ficken, fade, and die ; So Annotati on s. V. *2 9. As fragrant Flow'rs ) This Thought is prettily exprefs'd by one M. Antop, Flaminius* Comparat Animam fuam Flori. Vtflos tenellus in Jtnu Telluris alma lucidam Formofus explicat comam % Si ros et imber educat Ilium : tenelU mens mea Sic floret , almi Spiritus Dum rore dulci pafcitur. Hoc ilia Ji caret, ftatim Languefcit, ut flos aridd Tellure natus, eum riiji Et ros et imber educat. The COMPARISON. I. Lo ! as the tender Flow'r, On Earth's foft Bofom laid, Refrefh'd with balmy Dew, Unfolds its beauteous Head ; II. So flourifheth my Soul, Of vigorous Joy ported, When with thy Dew of Heav'n, Thou Holy Spirit, bleft. III. But as the fading Flow'r Lies lifelefs on the Plain, When robb'd of a Supply Of Dew, or gonial Kain j IV. So i88 To G D So ftiould we faint, and all our Labours prove Fruitlefs and vain without thy faving Love. A thoufand Deaths in various Shapes appear, That threat'ning fhake our guilty Souls with Fear,, 235. And that invet'rate ever-envious Foe, Ready to plunge us in eternal Woe, Prowls Annotations. iv. So droops my forrowing Soul, And difcontented lies j Without thy faving Aid, It fickens, faints, and dies. V. 233. A Thoufand Deaths) hidle anuria f eft objiciunt difcrbnina xofiris, Milk nocent pefles, occultufque imyntnet hojlis Semper. ■ Criminator ille invidens operibus Dei, omnes fallacias, et candi- dates fuas ad decipiendum hominem intendir, ut ei adimeret im- mortalitatem. Lallan. 1. ii. c. 12. The Devil, (fiys La&antius) ever envying the Works of God, tries all his Wiles and Stratagems to deceive Man, and deprive him of im- mortal Happinefs. According to the Aportle j Cur Adverfary the De- vil, like a noting Lion, journeys up and down, feeking whom he may devtur t 1 Pet- v. S. Impendent Death, and Guilt that threatens Hell, Are dreadful Gucfts, which here with Mortals dwell i And a vex'd Conference, mingling with then Joy Thoughts of Defpair, docs their whole Life annoy : Bui ! ove appealing, all ihofe Terrors fly. We?ivc concerned, and contented die, Waller, the HOLY GHOST. 189 Prowls about all our Paths, about our Beds, And mighty' in Wiles, as many Nets he fpreads As Sin has Forms : Oh ! how mall we efcape ? 240. Or who mall fave us from his greedy Gape ? But let this guileful, nightly- working Fiend, Summon his aclive Demons to attend, And ev'ry Wile, and ev'ry Art employ, Far as he is commiflion'd to deftroy ; 245. He, nor his Phantom Nations can unbind Th' eternal Structures of a virtuous Mod. For thy fuperior Pow'r with dazzling Light, Drives the Affailants to the Shades of Night : The Anno tations. V. 239. Oh ! hoiu fliall ive efcape ? ) ■ §(ujs enim queat hos evadere cajfes ? O wretched Man that I am ! who fija.ll deliver me from the Bo. dy of this Dtath ? Rom. vii. 24. V. 248 Drives the Affailants ) If we may believethe Devi], that himfelfand all his infernal Crew are ftill under the Command of the true and living God, and {ab- ject to eternal Punifhmcin, we have his tfwn Conleffion for ir, or Apollo fpeaks thus for him : AefrpwK ot l 0*0/0 We Devils, journeying over Sea, and Land, Sail feel the Scourge of Ged, and own his dread Commani 190 To G D The Soul long weary 'd with the doubtful Strife, 250. Acknowledges the God, and fprings to Life. Nor Annotations. V. 249. The Soul long iveary'd ) Affulges, retegifaue dolos, atque irrita frangis Tentamenta, tuoque magis nos numint firmas. Confulting the Holy Scriptures, and reflecting upon our own In- fufficiency, and the great Danger we are continually in, from the Strength and Subtflty of the Devil, and his wicked Emiflaries, we cannot but acknowledge the neceflary Affiftance of our gracious Ged^ and the helpful Miniftry of his Angels. *Ot /d$ AttiixwU kits &ih yny&K* the Support inu Comfort of Life, that Men mitfht be continually excrcis'd in the Practice of thefe Divine Virtues : And he has given us no other Way ofexpreffing fo acceptably our Love and Gratitude to himfelf, whom we haze net feen t loin iv. 21. as by loving and the HOLY GHOST. 201 355. But happy above all, fupremely blefs'd, Are thofe, who in their Mother's Womb carefs'd By thy myfterious Pow'r, thence fpring to Day Guiltlefs as Angels, and as bright as they : Whofe dauntlefs Innocence fuftains the Strife 360. Impos'd on all thro* this tumultuous Life, And fets the fame in the expecting Tomb, The fame it rofe victorious from the Womb. But few indulg'd with thy peculiar Care, Gifts fo divine, fuch heav'nly Bleflings fhare. 365. None e'er enjoy'd fuch Meafure of thy Grace, As Mary, blejfed Maid of David's Race, Except Annotations. doing Good to our Brethren, whom we have feen, for no Man hath feen God at any Time , 1 John iv. 12. but if we love one another , hereby we know, that God, the* invifible, dwelleth in us ; that his Love is perfected in us, and that we dwell m him, and he in us, because we are Imitators of his Nature, and Partakers of his Spirit, lb. p. 895. V. 563. But few ivdulgd) The San edification of holy Men in Scripture, \}udg. xiii. Luke vf. 15, : -Y. (if our Author means them here) did not denote their perted Freedom from Sin, or their natural Propenfions to it $ but Tome peculiar Defignation of their Perfons to facred Offices, and that they might minifter in Things pertaining to God, by virtue of a more immediate and fpiritual Relation to bun. V, 365. None ttt enpfd ) With- 202 To G D Except the Son himfelf ; whom me brought forth The Wonder of the Heav'ns, and Joy of Earth ; Knowing thee only, thou etherial Dove, 370.Whowarm'd her Breaft with all the Fires of Love. But Annotations. Without concerning ourfelves with fuch niceQueftions, as, " Whe- " ther this blefled Virgin was concciv'd in Sin ; and if fhe was, 1k>w it was reftrained in her at firft," whether fhe was fan&ified in her Mother's Womb, and to what Degree, and whether this Sanctifica- tion were fuch, as to keep her from committing any, fo much as ve- nial Sin ? I fay, without being fo curious as to enter into thefe nicer Speculations, in which fo many have in vain exercifed themfelves, we may believe her to have been a moft pure, and holy, and virtu- ous Creature ; that her Virgin Mind was clean and fpotlefs, as hei Body was chafte and immaculate j and that upon the Account of both, me was moft fit, of any among her Race or Sex, for the Holy Gboji to overfhadoWy or for the Son of the ?noJl Higheft to inhabit. Wake 's Scrm V. 566. Bleffed Maid of David's Race. The Royal Line of David by Solomon, being extinct in Jtctniah, the Crown and Kingdom pafs'd into the next younger Line ot Nathan, (another Son of David) in Salathiel and Zorobabel : Which Zor$- babel having two Sons, Abmd and Rhefa, the Dignity defcended of Right upon the Line of Ab'md, of which Jofeph was the laft, and he marrying the Virgin Mary, who fprung from the Line of Rhefa, his Right parted, by the Law of Levirate, into the line of Mary, being next of Kin, and by that Means alfo upon \jefus her Son. South. Scrm. Vol. iii. V. 569. Knowing thee only ) As it was vecjuifitc that the Saviour and Sanftifier of the World fhould himfelf be holy, undented, ij.t.':out Blemih, and -without Stot, 2 Cor. v. 4. Hcb. vi. 26. hence grew an abfolutc Ncallity that he fhould (bring from the immediate Operation of that Spirit who is the Fountain of all Holincfs and Purity : Bur as the Scripture fpeaks of this Matter in the moft fimplc and natural Terms, and withal moft agreeable the HOLT GHOST. 103 But dull and languid are the Pow'rs of Verfe, Thefe great and glorious Myft'ries to rehearfe, Which Art can never in true Colours dreis, Nor all the Forms of Eloquence exprefs. 375. Yet daring ftill, I climb the fteepy Height, Panting beneath the too unequal Weight. For who can fpeak, or think thofe holy Fires, With which the God the Virgin's Bread infpires ; When with the Fovfr celeflial fhadow'd o'er, 380. She drinks in facred Love at ev'ry Pore ? Bleft above all her Sex ! where'er fhe moves, Still Heav'n attends her, and fhe fcatters Love. All Annotations. agreeable to the Dignity and Purity of the Divine Nature: Let us not affect, (fays Dr. Fiddes) to be wife above what is written ; but con- clude, that by virtue of the Power of the Holy Ghoft, the Body of Chrift was form'd not only in the Virgin Mary, but of her j (for otherwife he could not have been the Seed of Abraham and Da- vid, according to the Flefh, Rom, i. 3.) not that the Holy Ghoji con- curr'd by Way of a material Agent, or by any Communication of his Subftance, but purely as an efficient Agent, or operative Power of God, vuith iuhom nothing is impoflible, Luke i. 37. V. 381. Bleft above till her Sex \) When the Reformation fiift began in Germany, fome too zealous and obferving in the Communion, from which they had feparated, greater Part of the Worfhip addrefs'd to the Virgin-Mother than to the Son, and that Men honoui'd her in many Refpe&s as they honour'd the 204 To G D Ail Things around catch the projected Flame, The very Mountains joyous Love proclaim. 385. And thus thy Godhead was in Part diiplay'd, Tho' wrapt from human Sight in envious Shade : But Annotations. the Father j in Deteftation of an idolatrous Pra&ice, Co injurious to the Father and the Son t they even deny'd her that Share of Refpeft which as a Mother fhe ought to have had, injthe Conception and Birth of Chnji. For undoubtedly we ought always to fpeak of her with Reverence, and never mention her Name without fome Preface or Epithet of Honour : And we do not at all queftion, but that God, who (hewed her fuch Favour on Earth, hath alfo very highly exalted her in Heaven, probably above all the Race of Adam, next unto him^ who is God as well as Man. But then to call her a Goddefs, and ourfelves her Suppliants j ftile her the Queen of Heaven, and Mother of Divine Grace, the Sovereign Lady of Angels, Archangels, Patriarchs, Prophets, Apoftles, &c. the Refuge of Sinners, and Ad- vocate of Chrifiians ; this is a Compliment which our Author, 1 pre- sume, never thought of paying her 5 and is a Strain much fitter for fome poetical Heathen Geddefs, than for a Chrijitan Saint. Befides, we fhall never be perfuaded to betake ourfelves to the Mediation of the blejfed Virgin, or of any other Saint whatever, while that Text remains in our Bible. There is one God, and one Mediator letvjeen God and Man, the Man Chrift Jcfus, 1 Tim. ii, 5. V. 3 Si. And fie fc after s Live) To to cum dulcem cor pore amor em Jafiaret. From Lucretius, iv. 1048. Sen mulier tot» jaclans e corporc amorem. So Milton fpeaking of Eve, lib. iv. Grace was in all her Steps, Heav'n in her Eye, In ev'ry Gefturc Dignity and Love. And into all Things from her Air infpir'd The Spirit of Love, and amorous Delight, the HOLT GHOST. 205 But fuller Glories mooting from above, That (hone embodied like the Silver Dove, Were once by Mortals feen, admir'd, ador'd, 390. When HeavVs tremendous Voice conhrm'd its Lord. Again Annotations. V. 38S That pone embodied') Vida feems to have underftood by the following Places, Matth. iii. 16. Mark i. 10. Luke iii. 22. as if the Spirit had really defccnded in the Form of a Dove. Huetius gives them the fame Interpretation, and thereupon takes Occafion to mention Noah's Dove, and that wondrous one which is faid to whifper fuch fublime Things in the Ear of Mahomet j and he likewife offers a Reafon why the Spirit afc fumed the Shape of this Bird. Bui furely they were miftaken j for Grammar and plain Senfe (hew us, that the Words have no Relation to the bodily Shape, but to the Motion of a Dove defcending : The Spirit probably afTumed a Body of Light or Fire, and therein came down from above, uret *BieA?Z$£v> juft as a Dove with its Wings fpread forth is obferved to do, and gathering about our Saviour's Head, crewn'd it with a vifible Glory. This Explanation obviates at once a great Blunder in a Socinian Obje&ion, and expofes the Folly, not to lay Idolatry, of thofe who paint the Holy Gh$(l like a Dove. And 'tis further obfervable, that in all the wondrous Sights at Horeb there was no Appearance of God j and tho* the Jews faw many other Similitudes, as Fire, Smoke, &c. yet were they to make no Refem- blance of him ; and the Likenefs of any Bird is particularly forbidden, Deut, iv. 12, 17. V. 390. When Heav'ns tremendous Voice) The Heavens were opsn'd, and there came a Voice therefrom, faying^ This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleafed, M.itth. iii. 6. Mark i. 10. Luke iii. 21. So we read that the Heavens were once opened to Ezekicl, and to St. Stephen, and they Jaw the Vijitns of God 9 Ezek. i. 1. Ads vii. 55. and that at the Birth of Chrift, the Shepherds heard likewife a Voice from Heaven, Luke ii. 10. and that a dvine Voice called to St. Paul at the Time of his Conversion at Da?nnjcus t and were I to look for a parallel Inftance in Heathen Story, (as in my Annotations on the fu ft Hymn) I might mention feyeral Prodi- gies 2o6 To GOD Again to Man thy Beauty was diiplay'd, Down rufhing from the Skies in Flames array'd ; When Annotations. gies of this Nature, as the opening of He xven (chafma cocli) the Sun feen in the Fight, and Flames of Light breaking out ot Dirkncfs, which we find in the old Roman Books of Augury } and that fabulous Greece fuppos'd the M*nades to have fcQn a great Light, and to have heard a Voice from above, when they were mitigated by Bacchus to murder Pentheus. But what is of much more Importance, and calls for our immediate Obfervation here, is the full Declaration of the Divinity of the Son, and plain Manifestation of the Three diftincl Perfons in the one Godhead : The Father (peaking from Heaven, the Son coming out of Jordan, and the Spir/f defcendin ' as a Dove. V- 39 '• dg a in t0 Man thy Beauty ) When fuddenly there came a Sound jrrm Heaven, as of a rufting Wind, and it filed all the Houfe, where they were fitting. And there appeared unto them cloven Tongues like as of Fire, and it fat upon each oj them, and they ivere all filed with the Holy Ghoft, &c. Ads ii. 2. The Suddevnefs of the Sound, and the Point of Direction whence the Spirit came, were of life to ft, ike an Awe upon the Per- fons prefcnt, and prepare them with more profound Humility, and Reverence, to receive the Approaches God was mnking towards them. And the Refeinblance of Wind is of all other moft familiar in Scrip- ture, to figure the Spirit of God, bis Power, and EfFeds ; becauie, as that Spirit is itfelf invifible, (unlefs the Place before us may be look'd upon as an Exception) wonderful and unaccountable in its Manner of working, fo is the Wind, yet in its Force and Efficacy notorious and undeniable. And the lifce Propriety our learned Di- vines have obfciv'd in the Emblem of cloven Tongues fitting on the Heads of the D'fciples in a bright Rtfcmblance of Fire. The Tongue, (fay they) may denote the Readinefs and Aptncfs of their Exprcflions and Arguments ; the Clefts in them, the Diva fity of Languages they were to fpeak -, and poftibly the fitting oj thofe Tongues upon them might fignify the Permanency of this Gilt; that it was not to vanifli immediately, but allow 'd to continue, and by their Miniltry to be diffus'd and* communicated to others, (o long as the Ncccfllties of the the HOLY GHOST. 207 When mighty Whirlwinds fhook the trembling Ground, And cloven Tongues of Fire appear'd around •, 395. That bick'ring fate on each Difciple's Head, And thro' the Dome amazing Luftre fpread. For as the Son Omnipotent of God Promis'd, returning to his high Abode, That Annotations. the Church, and Propagation of the Chriftian Faith fhould require if. And certainly Fire was a fit Refemblance of the Light thefe Difciples receiv'd by the Acceflion of the Holy Spirit ; of the clear, unerring Knowledge they attainM of all Things, that it concerned Perfons in their high Character and Truft to underftand ; and of that Zeal and fearlefs Courage which fpread itfelf into their Hearts, and kindled fuch a vital and vigorous Heat therein, as was never afterwards to be extinguifhed. &i 397- For as the Son Omnipotent ) Our bleflei Saviour being about to afcend into Heaven, in order to take PoiTeflion of his mediatorial Kingdom, fupports the drooping Spirits of his Difciples with a Promife that he would fend a Comfor- ter to them, (^*l r ro f e m *e rris f« a deinceps munera obiret, who, as himfelf had done, while prefent with them, mould protect and ailift them with Almighty Power, and enlighten their Minds with his infinite Wifdom and Knowledge, John xvi. 33. xiv. 16. Lule xxiv. 22, Wherefore fays Milton, lib. xii. But from Heav'n He to his own a Comforter will fend, The Promife of the Father, who mail dwell His Spirit within them : and the Law of Faith Working thro' Love, upon their Hearts (hall write. To guide them in all Truth : 2o8 To G D That thou fhould'ft come from thy eternal Seat 400. In Title of the glorious Paraclete ; To lift us from the Shades of Death and Night To all the Joys of Life and Heav'nly Light ; So cam'ft thou, f acred Pozv'r, when lo ! thy Fires Reviv'd each drooping Heart with new Defires. 405. Forth from their Cells thy chofen come ; where late They tim'rous skulk'd, to mourn their Leader's Fate, And Annotations. V. 399. That thou fhould'Jl come") But as to this Defcent of the Holy Ghojl, we are taught, not to ap- prehend any heal Motion or Mutation of Place ; for fince, (as we before prov'd) the Holy Ghojl is a divine Perfon, and confequently every where prefent^ he cannot properly be faid to remove, or to come and go from one Place to another ; for this would deftroy his Omniprefence ; and therefore this Defcent mud be interpreted only of the efficacious Prefence o( that blejjed Spirit, or rather of the Difco- very and Manifeftation of that Pretence by fome itrange ErTe&s, and uncommon Operations. Stackhoufe y p. 765. V. 400. In Title of the glorious Paraclete ) The Name of Paraclete (which I have here ufed as confonant to Scripture) is common to both the Sen and the Holy Ghojl, aAAoK he hear. 9th us, Zach. xii. io, Rom. viii. 26 1 John v. 14. 216 To G D Thy Light, when anxious Doubt torments the Breaft, 460. And frights the bufy fluttering Thoughts from Reft, Difpels the Clouds, and chearing our Defpair, Prefents the Objeft, beautiful and fair. Nor wilt thou leave us deftitute of Hope, When with conflicting Cares our Scnfes droop. 465. Thy Annotations, V. 459. Thy Sight, iuhen mixions Doubt ) \v'e have before obferved, that one Office and Gift of the Holy Spirit is to enlighten our Minds, that we may fee the great Myftenes of Christianity, and underftand our Duty aright : And the Excellency ot this our Heavenly Teacher is, that he not only lemoves thofe falfc Notions and Perfuafions, which preclude Conviction, and thofe unru- ly Palhons and Affections, which darken and difquiet the Mind, but opens (as it were) the Eyes of the Soul to let in the glorious Light of the Gofpcl, and by it to diiccin the true Nature of divine Ob- jects : Wherefore the Supftance of the Apoftle's Prayer for the Epbe- : , that the God of our Lord Jcj/.-s Chrijl might groe unto them I '. 4.63. Afor iaih . '. . us ) dp not doubt but that many good Men have frequently ex- pertcne ivine Comjorts of the Holy Ghoft, fometimes upon '.heir v..- an heroic Work of Piety and Virtue ; fometimes in th great Trials and Temptations ; fometimes under the Pre Sorrows and Afflictions, and many times, ('tis :o be hop'd) at the momentous Hour and Extremities of Death : - Was the Promife, which, our Saviour (as we before oblerv'd) 'ave 10 his 1 tic fa(bct t fanft'im everfis Germania numen ab aris Ext>ulit t & ccclani Jceleratis povocnt armis> &c. In horrid Darknefs funk GcrmMua lies, Spurns thee her God, and from thine Altar flies j But do thou purge her with thy Heav'nly Flame, That fhc with Rome may think and aft the fame. Shou'd me, refolv'd to be for ever blind, Still urge the Follies of a ftubborn Mind j Kaife thou fome noble Prince • his Bread infpire With ardent Zeal, and moft heroic Fire; That he the Force of Error may controul, j Provok'd, with Fire and Sword, to ftorm the Soul. But | Provok'd mi\th fire And Sivord ) At fcrro Lit: fcrfcntcm cxcir.dcre p-Rcm. Virgil the HOLT GHOST. 119 Come, Holy Spirit, and our Souls infpire, 488. Thou Love Omnipotent, celeftial Fire ! Annotations. But if in us ftill fome infe&ious Stain, Or Spot of Heart corroding Guilt remain ; If our once boafted Piety be fled, That round the World unrival'd Honour fpread 2 Oh ! let thy facred Light with piercing Ray, Scatter the fullen Clouds, and give us Day ; From Virgil indeed fpeaking of thefe, (ays, m Continuo ferro culpam compefce y priufquam Dim per incautUm Jerpant contagia vulgus. Georg. iii. 46 S, Delay not, kill th' infected, e'er on all Th' unwary Flock the dire Contagion fall. Dr. Trapp. Bur, 1 — Defendenda eft Religio non occidenio^ fed monendo ; non f<£ Ut Ille nos. O centies Beatus ille 9 maxime Jefu, reliRh omnibus ^ §ui mente tola fe tibi Infervitutem dedicat. Y ( 22 5 ) For this he leaves his Heav'n, Thirds, hungers, bleeds, and dies* V. Wretched, or fick, or loft, His Goodnefs none difdains ; He chears the troubled Mind, And joys to heal our Pains. VI. Not fo a darling Son The fondeft Mother moves, That fhe can love him more, Than Chrift his Servant loves. VII. Thrice happy they ! who fcorn This World's enchanting Stores, And ferve thee, blefTedLord, With all their vital Pow'rs. PREC ATIO [ 2X0 ) PRECATIO MATUTINA. yA M noBh umbras Lucifer Almce Diet nuntius Terra, poloque dimovet. Simulque nos, cubilibuSi Monety rdiftiSy peclore Preces ab into f under e Ad templa fumma ccelitum. Oremus ergo fupplices Fontem perennem lummum 9 Ut ficut omnis aeris llluftrat oras, vivido Sic twjlra corda repleat Fulgore Santli Spiritus. Qii nos per here contagia> Puros ab omni crlminc* Traducat ( 22 7 ) MORNING PRATER. From the fame. I. SE E the bright Morning Star, Fair Mefienger of Day ! Earth fmiles, and all the Heav'ns Their gaudy Robes difplay. n. Straight let us leave our Beds, And with a Heart fincere, Raife to the Throne of Grace The Fervency of Pray'r. III. We pray thee, gracious Lord, Eternal Spring of Light, As from the Earth thou driv'ft The dreary Shades of Night : IV. So let thy Holy Spirit, With living Splendour drive This ai 8 Precatio Matutina. Traducat ad cceleflium Sedes beatas. fflius Nutu gerantur omnia : Cibumque five fumimus y Seu quid negotii foris Traftamus, aut domi y intima Seu mente quid revolvimus^ Id omne femper gloriam Speftet beati Numinis. Rett or fuperne coelitum^ Qua mente totd pofcimus> Hcec omnibus concedito, Qui corde puro te colunt, Et unicum Nat urn tuum Cum fempiterno Spiritu. PRECATIO Morning Prayer. 119 This Darknefs from our Souls, And Saint-like Vigour give. V. That fafely we may fleer Thro* Life's tumultuous Sea ; And reach the Realms of Blifs, From all Pollution free. VI. May all the fweet Repaft, By which we daily live, Be deem'd thy bounteous Gift, And kindly Thanks receive. VII. May what we think, or fpeak, Or aft with bufy Hands, Tend to thy Glory all, And fquare with thy Commands, VIII. Grant this to us, O Lord, Of Pow'rs thou Sov'reign Pow'r, Grant it to all, who Thee, Thy Son, and Spirit adore. CL3 . NOON ( 230 ) PRECATIO MERIDIANA. yA M Sol citato ftdere y Suprema cceli culmina Percumt •, alma fervidis Tellus calefcit ignibus. At tu beato lumine Accende corda frigida, Pater benigne : in omnibus Santos piorum fenfibus Jgnes amoris excita •, Ut quicquid orbis continet Pr& te fit Mis fordidum , Nee ulla vis hunc fcrvidum Amoris afium temper et : Sed ufque crefiens y omnia Convexa cceli tranfvolet y Summoque Patri vinculo Nos ( 23i ) S^AMAAAXAAff t NOON PRATER. t TH E Sun with pointed Blaze, To Heaven's high Roof afpires, And warms the thirfty Earth With its enliv'ning Fires. II. But with celeftial Rays Our wint'ry Hearts enflame* And fo provoke us, Lord, To love thy lovely Name, III. That all the World befides, Vile in our Sight may prove -, Nor any Force deftroy The Fervour of our Love, Q.4 XV. Still. 2. 3 2 Precatio Meridiana. Nos jungat infohibili. Has nos ab imo -pettore Precationes mittimus Fuas ad aures, maxime ^erra^ polique conditor-, Tu vota noftra Numine Depctro fecunda^ idque ad tuam Concede nobis Gloriam. PRECATIO Noon Prayer. IV. Still foaring, let it rife Above the Heav'nly Plains, And bind our Souls to thee In ever-during Chains. V. Lord, from the Deep of Heart, We pour this ardent Pray'r, Oh I for thy Glory's Sake, Vouchfafe a gracious Ear # *33 EVENING ( M4 ) |3>CVwXl^v: PRECATIO VESPERTINA. Of A M vefper ortus incipit J Diem tentbm condere r' At nos farefiftm luminis Sanfti precemw, ne final Noclem ftcorum mentibn.s Caliginofam irrepere , Sen dutch alma recreat Sopor quiete, languida Sen liquii ilk lumina, Nunquam recedat a pits Lux fempiterna cordibus : Ut femper indies magis Magifque detur maximi Benignitatem Numinh Videre mente lucidd, Et bine amoris optimi Ardcre femper ignibus. Supreme ( *35 ) i/5 «XA> j «XAX» X*/i «aAAi «.v-vm 'Jv-vo t/^ok* v^AA»«AAAi^\ir5wWsX> and active Fire ; Who ravages the World without Controul, And fiufliM with Conqueft flics from Pole to Pole ? Yet Divine POEMS. 243 Yet mighty as they are, and great of Name, Superior Pow'rs fuperior Honours claim t Such is the King, at whofe majeftic Nod Whole Nations trembling own an earthly God* Does he delight in War ? ftraight loud Alarms Roufe ev'ry Breaft ; To Arms, they cry, To Arms % Devoid of Fear, they crowd the lifted Plain > And foon the Battle bleeds in ev'ry Vein : The Strength of Art and Nature, (Rampiers, Walls, And deep-fang* d Mountains) to their Fury falls : They conquer, and are conquer'd ; but the Spoil, And dear-bought Profits of the Soldier's Toil, Before their honour'd Prince are humbly laid, Themfelves they think in Wounds and Scars well paid, For him the Husbandman with fweaty Brow Suflains the gainful Labours of the Plough, And gratefully to him for home-fpun Chear Repays the Harveft of the bounteous Year* Yet is the King but Man ; nor more than one, Tho' Life and Death wait menial round his Throne % Tho* Slaughter gluts herfelf at his Command, And ghaftly Havock dcfolatea the Land % R 2 And 144 Divine POEMS. And foon new Palaces, new Cities rife, And (lately Forefts moot into the Skies, While he by Day enjoys the genial Feaft, At Night the pleafing Sweets of balmy Reft, Safe in a watchful Guard, but fafer far, When Love increafeth ev'ry Subject's Care, Who all their Art, and ev'ry Nerve employ, To ferve their Prince, and give him boundlefs Joy, And what can boafl a more extenfive Sway, Than the great King, whom Nations thus obey ? Zorobabel now rofe with modeft Look, And graceful won his Audience e'er he fpoke : In vain (fays he) the Strength of Wine ye boaft, Or fcepter'd Grandeur, or the warlike Ho/i ; All, all muft yield, if I but but Woman name -, ( Oh ! may my Words flow charming as my Theme ! ) For Kings in fplcndid Majefty enthron'd, And Heroes, with immortal Honours crown'd, From Woman fprung •, to Woman's tender Care All owe a Debt, who breathe the living Air : She Divine POEMS. 245 She rais'd them all from the dark Womb of Night, Nor e'er without her had they feen the Light ; Not he, whofe Labour bids the Vintage flow With gen'rous Wines, to chear the Sons of Woe ; Not he, who mines, moil glorious to behold ! In Robes of various Dies, and labour'd Gold, Her curious Work, that emulates the Sun, And gives a double Luftre to the Throne. Dull, and infipid wou'd all Tranfports prove, Were they not fweeten'd with a Woman\ Love. When drefs'd in ev'ry Grace, and ev'ry Charm, What Heart io cold, fo dead fhe cannot warm ? Gold, Silver, Jewels are to Beauty paid, When Love commands •, for Love will be obey'd j Such Toys and Trifles caft but feeble Rays, To thofe that lighten from a beauteous Face : On this we gape, and feaft our fond Defire, Till our ecftatic Souls are fet on Fire ; Nor can our Parents, Friends, or Country pare The deareft Object of the Love-fick Heart : R 3 Thefe 246 Divine POEMS. Thefc fhall be all forfook to fpend a Life Jn the fweet Converfe of a faithful Wife \ Her's are the Fruits of all our endlefs Toil, Anu happy we, if all can gain a Smile. In Love Man centers ev ? ry Thought and Care, Turns Robber, Thief, or Pirate for the Fair, Fears not to brave the Perils of the Sea, To face a Lion in h;s deathful Way, Or tenipt the Horrors of the ftormy Skies, When foaie imperious Damfel claims the Prize. Love's fweet Enchantments ftrike the Reafon blind, And taint with Madnefs the too thoughtful Mind. To what ftrange Frenzy are fome Wretches driv'n, That mouthe with thund'ring Rants at partial Heav'n ! Others fit fighing out the lingring Hour, And vaniming to Ghofts are never pitted more. *Tis true, whole Nations trembling at the Nod Of our great Prince confefs the prefent God •, But we have feen Apame, charming Fair, Look down on Majcfty with fcornful Air : Who, Divine POEMS. a 47 Who, lefs than Wife, and furely fomewhat more, Sate on the King's Right Hand with Lordly Pow'r, And taking from his Royal Head the Crown, She with the borrow'd Honours grac'd her own. And cou'd fhe more ? (I fpeak with rev'rend Awe ) We faw her ftrike, yet fcarce could think we faw > Tbemafius 9 Daughter of ignoble Blood, With her Left-Hand did ftrike the Monarch- God. Still, flill he gaz'd, and with obedient Look, And Heart all Love, enjoy'd the daring Stroke. A Smile from dear Apam* is worth a Throne, But worfe than Death attends her angry Frown, With fupple Flattery he feeks his Peace, And puts all Shapes of Folly on to pleafe. So great is Woman 9 s Pow'r. , He faid i and Whifpers of deferv'd Applaufe, And gentle Murmurs fill'd the decent Paufe, Till he refum'd his Song. So great her Pow'r, That foon alas! muft fet, to rife no more. But view the Fab/ic of this fpacious Earth, And, deep in Thought, call all its Wonders forth ; R 4 View i-4 8 Divine POEMS. View the Expanfion of the (tarry Sky, And fay, how vaft is that ! and this how high ! If Thought can fly fo fwift, conceive the Sun, In endlefs Circles ever journeying on ; While round the Heav'ns and Earth he fpeeds away, And to both Worlds remeafures out the Day. Hence learn how great is Truths moft glorious Theme ! " The Caufeof Caufes, Pow'r of Pow'rs fupreme *, Who form'd this Earth, and the Expanfe above, And fix'd the Laws of their harmonious Love. All Regions of the Earth proclaim her Praife, And Hcav'n extols her with Seraphic Lays ; The whole Creation trembles at her Name •, And all h~r Works eternal Honours claim. What a dire Troop of fmful Follies fpring From thoughtlefs Wine ? oft guilty is the King \ And Women fornc times err y thus foon or late, The Sons of Men (till labour out their Fate, The certain Fate, that waits 'cm from the Womb Thro* ev'ry Stage to the inactive Tomb : But Truth, Almighty Truth, is ever young, Ever victorious, as for ever flrong •, Not Divine POEMS. 249 Not to be brib'd by Wealth, nor aw'd by Pow'r To rack the Orphan, or the Poor devour •, To deck a Knave with fome high-honour' d Name, While friendlefs Virtue grieves her baffled Claim : But ever juft, and righteous are her Ways, And tho' few follow her, yet all mull praife. Blefs'd be the God of Truth ! whofe potent Reign, The Glory of all Ages mail remain, Their Strength, and Pow'r, and Majefty confefs'd ; Blefs'd be the God of Truth, for ever blefs'd. He faid ; — the King himfelf the Speaker crown'd, And the glad People fhouted all around. " Great God of Truth, mod mighty is thy Pow'r, " Let Heav'n and Earth thy Sov'reignty adore. On 250 Divine POEMS. On SIN. WHERE fhall an unexperienced Mufe begin, To trace the thoufand fecret Paths of Sin I How paint her ftrange Variety of Drefs, And all her guileful Stratagems exprefs, Each foft Delufion, ev'ry fubtle Art, To charm the Ear, or captivate die Heart ; While me fits watching ev'ry idle Hour, And with our wanton Thoughts improves her Pow'r ? For fomc me tries the Mufic of her Tongue, In Sounds far fwceter than the Syren's Song ; Refifllefs this •, but when fhe adds the Charms Of Beauty, Oh! how forcibly fhe warms ! Reafon fubmitc, and knows not to controul The darling P40ion of the raptur'd Soul. Soon Divine POEMS. 251 Soon falls the Wretch to Sin an eafy Prey, And Shame confounds, or Sicknefs ends his Day. But if Circean Arts too feeble prove, She doubts not the Intrigue of am'rous Jove: When (as your Poets fay) a Golden Rain He dropt in Dame's Lap, nor dropt in vain. Dire Thirft of Gold ! what Magic in thee lies, That breaks thro' Honour, Friendlhip, Nature's Ties ? No Acl: fo vile, but thy perfuafive Pow'r, Tempting with Semblance fair, can glofs it o'er : No Aft fo impious, but the daring Hand Will perpetrate, when urg'd by thy Command. Thou Bawd to Sin ! chief Inftrument to wound The Peace of Man, and fcatter Death around. But all fubmit not to the Pow'r of Gold, It feldom tempts the gen'roys, brave, and bold. Yet Sin, her willing Vot'ries to engage, Still ev'ry Humour fuits, and ev'ry Age y And thefe to charm, difplays a pompous View, Titles, and Crowns, a counterfeited Shew ! Ambition aji Divine POEMS. Ambition rufhes on with headftrong Force, No Curb can check the Fury of its Courfe ; No Laws, or human or divine, reflrain The frantic Pafiion, fond Defire, to reign *, Till it o'erleaps itfelf, and falls full low, From vifionary Joys to real Woe : As once from Heav'n ufurping Angels fell, And by their mad Ambition founded Hell. Thus Sin with Wealth and Pleafure oft deceives, And oft with Pow'r the free-born Mind enflaves, When Care we want, and Conduct to improve, With modeft Art thefe Blefllngs from above ; But fly betimes, fond Youth, her treach'rous Wiles, And with Difdain return her Harlot Smiles ; Fair tho' they feem, fell Poifon lurks beneath ; Her Service all is Drudgery^ her Wages Death. On Divine POEMS. 253 On REPENTANCE. 9r ~ r^ I S a fad painful living Death he dies, J- Who from his God, his Guardian, faithlefs flies, And vainly hopes in Sin's foft Arms to find Joys, that will fatiate his luxurious Mind. Miftaken Wretch, a Tide of bitter Woes Sudden pours in, and the fick Heart o'erflows. Can Riches fave him ? or can Galen's Art, With fome kind Opiate lull the raging Smart ? No •, ever-wakeful Guilt Hill racks the Sight With ghaftly Goblin Shapes, dread Sons of Night : Nor all Peru can bribe the Powr's above, Or the dire Inmate of the Soul remove. But hear the Prophet's Voice, a Voice from Heav'n, That cries, Re pent 9 your Sins Jhall be forgiv'n. Has then Repentance fuch a mighty Charm, To ftay the Thunderer's uplifted Arm •, T' arreft 1 54 Divine POEMS. T' arreft the flying Bolt, prevent the Blow, And fmooth the Terrors of his angry Brow ; To give a Theme for Praife around the Throne, And glad all Heaven with a new-born Son ? Can it recall the Sinner's fleeting Breath From the dread Confines of eternal Death ; Heal his fick Heart, and pleafingly controul The various Pafiions of the ftormy Soul ? Can it refolve them into Peace and Love, Fit for the Converfe of the Saints above ; The Faith confirm, the dying Hopes revive, With all that Man can ask, or God can give ? And will you not repent ? unthinking Fool ! To fport thus long with an immortal Soul ; To give it up a Prey to fullen Care, And all the hideous Horrors of Defpair ; To plunge in an Abyfs of Mifery, When 'twere as eafy to afcend the Sky *, To urge th' unmeafur'd Hate of God above, When 'twere as eafy to regain his Love. 'Tis but to bow the ftubborn Knee to Heav'n, And ask with Heart fincerr to be forgiv'n - y To Di ivine POE MS. *J* To look with Faith to the Almighty's Throne, And plead the Merits of his dying Son. So (hall the glorious Paraclete defcend, And from thy Bofom drive the bufie Fiend. Whence all thy Fears, and anxious Doubts fhall ceafe, And ev'ry Scene of Life be bleft with Heav'nly Peace. On IS 6 Divine POEMS. On' DEATH. WHAT means this mad Ambition to be great, As if the Pomp and Pageantry of State, Scepters, or Crowns, cou'd flay the fleeting Breath, Or free his Captive from the Arms of Death ? He fmiles, to fee with what induftrious Toil, Some labour to increafe the Golden Pile ; While others rack the Poor, their Friends betray, Or fawn upon their Country's Foe for Pay. He fmiles, and makes a while his Ebon Dart, Then pierceth fore the flurdy Villain's Heart. Where's now their promis'd Blifs, their hopeful Scheme ? Alas! we know not where •, 'tis all a Dream : Their Gold is fcatter'd, that delufive Truft ! Their Glory wither'd, and themfelves are Duft. So vain is human Pride, all earthly Pow'r, And guilty Joys T which frantic Men adore ; Since Death is inftant, and whene'er he likes, Call'd, or notcall'd) thegrifly Phantom ftrikes. But Divine POEMS. z 51 But let the confcious Sinner dread the Stroke, And cow' re beneath the Terror of his Yoke : Like Fools, who Fortune's Goddefs-fhip maintain, And bow to th' Idol of a fickly Brain, Let them revere the Pow'r themfelves have giv'n ; For Death was never made by th' Hand of Heav'n, But born on Earth, (or he had never been,) His Father Satan, and his Mother Sin : The Righteous know him not, or know his Pow'r, Long fince deftroy'd by Chrift y their Saviour ; Who dy'd, and rifmg from the vacant Grave Triumphant, made the Tyrant King his Slave. To die, — to deep, — yet more -, 'tis Life new-born, To tafte the Sweets of a more glorious Morn i A Morn, whofe Beams of beatific Light Shall cloudlefs mine, nor ever fet in Night, But from their living Spring flow, fair and gay, To glad the Sons of Heav'n with everlafting Day. On 258 Divine POEMS. ft ft ft ;*> ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft ft On HELL. THINK not to die, and in the fenfelefs Tomb Calmly to fleep, is all the Sinner's Doom, As if no After-Pains were to be fear'd, Nor God in Judgment terrible, rever'd. 'Tisnot all Cant, or Sounds of empty Air, That from the warning Pulpit wounds the Ear, The very IFordof Heav'ns Almighty Lord, That pierceth deeper than the two-edg\l Sword y Threatens a living Lake of fulph'rous Flame, Ever. to feed upon th' immortal Frame, Unable to confume its lading Prey, Or grant that wifh'd-for Blefling, not to be. This is the Sinner's Hell, and to be driv'n In cndlcfs Banifhment, from God and Heav'n ; Where pining Sorrow, vainly-mad Defpair, w.i. Pains too (hocking, ev'n for Thought to bear, Still Divine POEMS. 259 Still urge the Wretch, that on the Torture lies, Sleeplefs, and ever-dying, never dies. The Murd'rers here pour forth their hideous Yell j Firft Tenants, and the blackeft Band in Hell : From him who' a Brother flew in envious Rage, To all pretending Cato's of this Age : Who lavifh of a Treafure not their own, Contrive eternally to be undone ; From Ills they fly, and momentary Pain, Poor Cowards as they are ! but fly in vain : Legions of Devils watch the fatal Blow, And hail the new Companion of their Woe. Nor can the Traitor hope a milder Fate, Th' Oppreffor, Covetous, or luflful Great, Much lefs the Atheift, ( Atheifl now no more, Tho' he Spinofa were, or Hobbs before,) Or any of that Crew, whofe daring Rage Empties its Venom on the [acred Page \ Nay, adds to impious Jefts Scurrility : If here I tremble, IV-lfl-n, 'tis for thee, Still mindlefs that thy God can ftill forgive, And only to Repentance bids thee live. S 2 An i6o Divine POEMS. An execrable Band of Crimes remain, That merit Hell, and Hell's their certain Gain : But to declare what is, or what has been The num'rous Progeny of * Death and Sin, Requires a God, or more than human Mind, Since f Virgil the unequal Task declin'd. But God in Mercy hath each Sin declar'd, And Hell afllgn'd to each, its due Reward : That hence we might indulge a pious Dread, And this Life's flipp'ry Path with Caution tread. Know then, arid fear •, for as he is mofl true, His JVifdom cannot threaten, what his Pow'r can't do, Vid. Milton. f Virg. jEn. vi. 62.5. On Divine POEMS. 26 r On HEAVEN. CEleflial Faith ! lend me thy piercing Eye To view the Glories of the diftant Sky \ Fafl fix my Mind, preventive Hope, on thefe, Nor let the Earth with gaudy Trifles pleafe i And, gracious Charity, do thou infpire My rapt'rous Soul with all-informing Fire. Now, now I fee, or think I fee th* Abode Of perfect Saints, the Paradife of God. — This is that Salem, of fubftantial Mould, Whofe Walls are Diamond, and whofe Streets are Gold, Whofe Day is not illumin'd with the Sun, Nor Night is guided by the changeful Moon \ Nor bufy Day, nor filent Night are here, Nor reftlefs Seafons fill the circling Year : But God, the Spring of Light, pours from the Throne His Radiant Glory, ever conftant, ever one. S 3 No 262 Divine POEMS. No dull-ey'd Melancholy, or mad Defpair, Pale Sicknefs, meagre Want, or gloomy Care ; No jealous Envy, or revengeful Hate, Can pafs the fev'n-fold Adamantine Gate ; Nor Death, who Thoufandsto thefe Realms of Blifs Daily conveys, can get himfelf Accefs : But all is Harmony, and Love and Joy, And Sweets that ever fatiate, never cloy, Where Life, a Shadow, or a Dream before, Now reigns with real and immortal Pow'r. Here flaming Seraphim incefTant fing The wondrous Praife of their Almighty King ; And all th' Angelic Hoft in folemn Strains Fill with Devotion the Empyreal Plains -> Patriarchs, who Virtue's facred Paths firft trod, And taught the Infant World to know their God i Prophets, whoft my flic Oracles of Old, Our fuffering, dying Saviour Chrift foretold ; And holy* Apoflles, who confirm'd their Lord, And far thro' diflant Nations fpread his Word ; Martyrs, who Heathen Cruelty defy'd, And for Truth's Sake with flubborn Patience dy'd •, Kings, Divine POEMS. 263 Kings, who dealt Love and Juftice from the Throne, And made the Welfare of Mankind their own > And Prelates, who with Chriftian Zeal infpir'd, Their Maker's Glory, not their own, defir'd -, Whofe Precepts Sanction from their Lives receiv'd, Who taught like Compton, and like Comport liv'd. Th* unbiafs'd Judge, the Patriot, ever true To ferve his Prince, and ferve his Country too -, Thele, with innumerable Numbers more, The charitable Rich, the virtuous Poor, All thefe their joyful Hallelujahs join, And fwell with tuneful Harps the Song divine. Well may they fing, and praife Almighty Pow'r, And with ecflatic Gratitude adore, Who at the Fount of Truth their Thirft allay, And all God's complicated Works furvey ; In Nature, Providence, and Grace ftill rife New Wonders to engage their feafted Eyes ^ Who feeing all that Beauty can exprefs, Love all they fee, and all they love pofTefs. S 4 Lord, 264 Divine POEMS. Lord, what is Man, for whom thou haft prepar'd, This blifsrul Hcav'n, unmerited Reward ? Oh ! cou'd tli' Afpirer, or the Slave to Gold, Thefe Fields of Lights, and Harry Crowns behold, With what Contempt and Scorn wou'd they look down On gilded Clay, or a precarious Throne ! The Libertine wou'd quit, with eafy Strife, The darling Pleafures of his wanton Life, Knew he what Tranfports here fill ev'ry Bread, The Scene how pompous, how profufe the Feaft. Hither, great God, let all our Wifhes tend, And pant for this our happy Journey's End, Where Joys commcnfurate to' our Souls abound, And Love, and Peace, for ever keep their Round ! Divine POEMS. i6$ The CONCLUSION. WHEN God in all his Works his Pow'r dif- plays, Excites our Wonder, and demands our Praife, When fuch confummate Art, fuch Beauties mine In ev'ry Part of human Form divine ; When the leaft Infecl vile, that creeps the Ground, Can pofe the learned, and the wife confound -, When Prodigies are daily flarting forth, And frequent Judgments fhake the guilty Earth ; 'Tis ftrange, how Mtf# can play the Atheifl's Part, And 'gainft Conviction fteel the flubborn Heart ; Who, proud of Strength and Riches not their own, Vainly prefume th' Almighty to dethrone ; As Children, when they 've clos'd their willing Eyes, Deny the Sun his Splendor in the Skies. How 266 Divine POEMS. How impotent their Aim, do all they can ! How far beneath the Dignity of Man ! Whom God hath with a fecond Portion blefs'd, Next Angels, his chief Favourite confefs'd ; They in high Heav'n their full Perfection know, But Man a while reigns Paramount below, Deftin'd e'er long to reach the {tarry Skies, And reign with them in everlafling Blifs. With fo fublime a Nature ill it fuits, To wifh to live, or wifli to die, like Brutes, Thoughtlefs of God, to draw in vital Breath, Or 'fink to nothing in the Shade of Death ; Poor Comfort this ! if this were certain Fate, Scarce wou'd the Devil envy fuch a State. But grant a God, grant a Supreme above, Which the moft fubtlc Art cou'd ne'er difprove, Nor can an idle Willi, or airy Dream Difarm his Pow'r, or prevent his Scheme ; When Judgment (hall o'crtake the World, and all Mud forcibly obey the Trumpet's Call, Where Divine POEMS. i6 7 Where (hall the Sinner fly •, or how appear ? Well it becomes the Righteous now to fear, Hopelefs of Pardon, fuch the Guilt is known Of their Forefathers Crimes, and fuch their own, Had not Chrift died, the finning World to fave, And ranfom captive Mortals from the Grave. " Then all is well ; the wicked too fhall live, " And tafte theBlefiings that a God can give. No *, they long fince have forfeited their Claim, Who madly fcoff'd at the exalted Name ; Who Falfhood to celeftial Truths preferr'd, And Slaves to Folly, not unwilling err'd -, Who fcorn'd the proffer'd Grace, hence doom' J to feel The poignant Pains of their long-ban ter'd Hell. More I might add, but more I . fear in vain, The Die is caft, with little Hopes of Gain ; Cou'd I exprefs my Aim with better Grace, Or G i b s o n 's Motives in P o p e's Numbers drefs, In i6% Divine POEMS. In vain fhould I expeft that Soul to win, That long enflav'd to fome habitual Sin, Reje&s what Heav'n - taught, Prophets erft have faid, Nor would believe One rifen from the Bead. FINIS. THE ( 269 ) THE CONTENTS- Page A Prefatory Copy of Verfes on Divine Poefy, The Firji Hymn of V id a to God the Father, i The Befign, 2 The Conversion of Horace, 5 The Office of a Bijhop, 7 The Munificence of Pope Leo X. 8 A Prayer of Thomas Aquinas, 9 The Rapture ', or Beginning of the Hymn, 10 An Account of the Rainbow, 1 3 , 44 The Exiftence of God, 14 The univerfal Confent of Mankind in the Belief of a God, lb. The Incomprehenfibility of God, 15, 35, 56, 63, 121. His Name, 16, 59 /frj Lfe_v, 17 /frj Attributes, lb. /#j Omnipotence, 1 8 /fry Eternity, 19 Tfo Creation of the World from Nothing, lb. Tfo Prefcience of God, 21 /frV 270 The CONTENTS. His Omnifcience, 2 2 His Omnipre fence, lb. His Uniformity , 24, 93 fl« Providence, 25, 33, 34, 89, 90, 92 /flj Purity, 26 ///j Impaffibility, 27 ///j All-fufficiency, 28 //» Immutability, 29 //« Wifdom, 30, 88 JV0/ //fe Author of Evil, 3 1 Fortune, (what and by whom acknowledged) 34 Of God' j coming down upon Earth, 3 7 u4 Defcription of the Earth, 3 8 yf// Nature fubjetl to God, 30 7ft* 6V0/>* 0/" /&* Leviathan in Job, lb. Of fife Spin/ moving on the Waters, 40, 175 yf Defcription of the Sea, 4 1 — Of the Air, 42 — Of Thunder, 43, 107 — Of the Stars, 45 — Of the Heavens, Angels, &c. 47, 97 The Angels Hymn to the Blejfed Trinity, 49 Of the Trinity, 50 The Supremacy of God the Father, 52 Ti6* Diflinclion of the Three Perfons in the one Godhead relative only, lb. 173 The Ejfetls of God'j Power, 53 I Its glorious Splendour, 55 His bach Parts, Exod. xxxiii. 23. §y The Belief of a God not arifing from Fear, 58 The Appearance of SCHECHINAH, or the Divine Glory, lb. The Love of God, 60, 62 Man made after his Image, 6 1 The Appearance of God in a Flame of Fire on Mount llorcb, and in the Bujh, 65 Men- The CONTENTS. 271 Mentioned by Heathen Writer s, lb. The Conversion of St. Paul, 66 The Freedom of Maris Will, 68 The Mofaic Creation, 70 — Of Man, 72 — His Supremacy to all Creatures, 74 His Fall, 7 6 — ( The Forbidden Fruit, lb. — The Garden of Eden,) 77 His Redemption, 78 — By J ejus Chrift, 79 The Laft Bay, 80 The Antients Opinion concerning it, 81 Of Purgation by Fire, 64, 82 New Heavens and New Earth, 82, 85 The Judgment, 83 The compleat Happinefs of the Righteous, 84 The Procejfon of the Holy Ghoft from the Father and Son, 2 j, 171, 172 The Goodnefs of God, 88, 120 — His Truth, 89 The Formation of the Earth, 92 — The Soul of Man, 94 • — The Seafons, 95 — The Winds, 9 6 Of Kingly Power, 98 The Converfion of Alphonfus King of Caflile, lb. God is irrefiftible , 99 The file Governor a?id Fate of all Things, 100 The Fall of Lucifer and his Angels, 101, 194 The Tradition of this among the Heathens, lb. The Deftruclion of the Tower of Babel, 102 The Giants fuppos'd War with the Gods, lb. Sodom and Gomorrha, 103 Mentioned by Profane Authors, 104 The Divifwn of the Red Sea, . 105 Several i 7 i ^ CONTENTS. Several Teftimonies of this from ancient Writer % lb. The Walls of Jericho, 1 06 This Story inverted, 107 The Ifraelites/d'd with Angels Food, 108 Parallel Inflames from Scripture and Heathen Wri- ters, lb. The Waters fpringing from the Rock, 109 The like Inftances from facred and profane Hiftory, lb. The bitter Waters at Marah made fweet, 1 1 o Elifha'j healing the Waters at Gilgal, lb. Of Miracles, 1 1 1 The Sun Jlanding flill at the Command of Jofhua, 1 1 2 Allufions to this from the Heathen Poets, lb. The Waters changed into Blood, lb. Balaam' s Afs, 113 Allufions to this among the Gentile Writers, lb. Drought and Famine recorded in the Scriptures, with parallel Inflames from the antient Hiftorians, 1 1 4 Noah' j Flood, 1 1 5 All Nations of the World hadfome Knowledge of it, lb. Of Tranfubftantiation, lb. The three Children in the Fiery Furnace, 1 1 6 Aaron' j Rod, blojjbming, lb. The Dead reftor'd to Life, 117 The like Inftances from Heathen Poets, lb. The divine Power of working Miracles given to the Righteous , 1 1 7 Of Prophecies, 118 The like Gift pretended to by the Heathens, lb. The World made for Man, 1 1 9 Heaven his final Reward, lb. The Second Hymn of Vida to God the Son, 125 Junius' j Opinion concerning the Firfl Chapter of St. John, 126 The The CONTENTS. i 75 The Eternity of Chrift, 129 — His Omnifcience, 131 — Equal to the Father in Glory, lb. — In Majefty and Power, 132 Maker of the World, lb. — His Humiliation, 133 — His Birth, 134 — His Beauty, 140 --- His Sorrows and Sufferings, 141 — His Death, 143 'The Redemption of Man, 1 45 27?47> 9 8 > Pre/. Cicero, 25, 33, 39, 44, 74, 89, 91,94, n8 Creech, 5, 12, 28, 34, 40, 44, 46, 86, 90, 92, 94, 96, 100, 108 Cudworth, 50 Cybele, 92 Charles II. (King) 107 Chryfippus, 1 1 8 Daniel, 98, 210 David, 192, 202., 210 Dacier (Madam) 101 Diana, 117, 184 Dryden, Pref. 34, 37, 69, 7 2 >77> I 03> I °4> 112, 117, 130, 168 Diodorus, 1 05 Deucalion, 1 1 £ Epicharmus, 61 Epidetus, 68 Epicurus, 43, 68 Epicureans, 25, 48 Elias Cretenfis, 57 Enoch, 210 Ephi media, 102 Ennius, 53 Eufebius, 64, 110 Empedocles, 101 Eryficthon, 114 Epiphanius, 107 Europa, 1 1 3 Eurydice, 117 Evadne, 109 Euripides* 73, 93, 184 Ezekiel (Tragicus) 6$, 105 Ezekiel (Prophet) 205, 210 Fiddes, 17, 22, 30, 31, 7 8 > 2 °3 T 3 Fla- 178 An Index of Perfons. Flaminius, (M. Anton,) 187, 221 M. de Fontenelle, 38 Fohi, 115 Fen ton, 107 Gideon, 135 Gregory IX. (Pope) 184 Gregory (Nazianz.) 15, 57, 73 Grotius, 50 Gordius, 62 The Gymnofophifts, 2 1 o Hales (of Eton) 9, 199 Hippoly tus, 1 1 7 N. Heinfius, 38 H\hrius( St.) 52 Huetius, 65, 66, 73,74, 105, 205 Hercules, 110, 116, 117 Hobbes, 259 Homer, 13, 18, 34, 37, 53i 66 > 71, 7 8 > 8 3> 86, 99, 100, 101, 102, 103, 105, 117, 118, 135, i39' 142* 150, 214. Horace, 5, 12, 21, 34, 44,77,98,99, 100, 107, 214 Hefiod, 73,77, 8 3> IJ 4, 191 I Lrodotus, 108, 118 Jacob, 58 Jamus, 109 Janus, no Jeconiah, 31, 202 Junius, 126 Jupiter, 17, S3 1 77> 8l > 99, joo, 101, 104, 109, 112, ] 184 Juno 105, Jofephus, lb. Jofeph, 202 Juvenal, 34. 73 Judas Ifcariot, 195 Juftin (St.) "3 Ifaiah (Prophet) 210 Iphigenia, 117 Laclantius, 16, 19, 33, 39, 43, 48, y^, 74, 148, 177, 185, 188, 218. Laughton, 26, 59 Lucan, 44, 65, 81, 89. Lucretius, 12, 28, 39, 40, 41, 43, 44, 45, 59, 68, 86, 90, 92, 93, 96, 118, 180 Leo X. (TV) 8 Lucifer, 101, 194 Latona, 184 Manilius, Mercury, 46 104 Minerva, An Index of Perfons. 179 Minerva, 17, 104 The Macedonians, 171 Mahomet, 205, 210 Milton, Pref. 21, 23, 37, 4Q> 54> 56> 5 8 > 69, 74, 76, 78, 83,93, 98, 100, 102, 115, 122, 175, 179, 198, 204, 207, 209, 212 Maimonides, 57 Mars, 1 o 1 Menelaus, 135 Mofes, 40, 58, 65, 66, 72, 77, 105, 109, 210 Mary (Virgin) 82, 134, 136, 202, 204 The Mufes, 8^ Nathan 202 Newton (Sir If.) 25, 93 The Ninevites, 3 1 Noah, 44, 114 Neptune, 102, 104, 105 Nireus, 223 Numa, 210 Norris, Pref. Owen (Dr. ) 1 Oldham, - 48 Oppian, 1 1 Orpheus, 98, 117, 210 Ovid, 11, 12,37,72,74, 81, 92,94, 104,114, 166, 185 Pearfon, 49, 166, 171, 182 Plato, 17, 34, 50, 72, 74> 94 Pythagoras, 34, 74 Pliny, y6, no, 121,215 Perfians, 66 Pentheus 206 Paul (St.) 66, 205 Pitt, 1,97, 109, no, 178 Pindar, 34, 109 Philo (Judceus) 25,105 Pope, Pref. 13, 37, 53 y 66, 78, 83, 86, 99, 100, 101, 105, 117, 118, 135, 142, 150, 215. Prior, Pref. Philoftratus, 209 Patrick (Bp. ) 2, 72 Panfanias, 1 1 8 Promotheus, jy Pallas, 141 Pandora, 77 Porus, 76, 113 Parens, 114 Proferpiua, lb. Phryxus, 1 1 3 Pharaoh, 105, 106 Perfius, 130 Plutarch, 101 Romulus and Remus, 1 09 Rochefter < £, of) 19, j^ Rowe, 8 1 T4 Rhea, ISO sin maex oj rerjons. Rhea, 184 Tirefias, 104 Rhefa, 202 Terence, 53 Trillram, 1 Sampfon, i 09, 192 Trapp, 9, 90, 142, 144, Spenier, 186, : [90, .139 168 Stoics, 34 Tacitus, 104 Sibyllne, 16, 18, 61, 177 Thefeus, 1 1 7 Stephen II. (Pope) 184 Timon, lb. Stephen (St.) 205 Timofthenes, lb. Samuel, 109 Sulpitius Severus, 37 M. Varro, 177 Scaliger, 48 Vorftius, 59 Statius, 59 Virgil, 3, 4> 6 >9> 11, 13, Seneca, 65, 74, 81 >9 6 > 18, 34, 3 8 > 4-i, 53t 191 68, 73>7 8 > 9°^ 9 6 > Sophocles, 7i 103, 109, 113, 116, Solomon, 202 117, 130, 141, 143, Salathiel, lb. 144, 168, 199, 219 Seth, 210 South, 202 Waller, Pre/. 60, 69, yS y Sancroft, 7 107, 121, 188, 213 Sewell, 81 Wefley, Pref. i7>%7 Semele, JI 7 Wheatly, 197 Strabo, 104 W-lft-n, 259 Solinus, lb. Shakefpear, 108 Xerxes, 108 Stanyan, 177 Xifuthrus, 1 1 5 Spinofa 259 Zacharias, 97 Tertullian, 33 Zabri, 210 Theodoret, 11 3 Zoroafter, 66, 105 Triimcgiftus, 16, >34 , 210 Zorobabel, 202 Texts ( a8i ) Texts of Scripture Refer'd to or Explain'd. Page Page Genefis. Exodus. i. i. 50 3- H. l6 J- 19 7- i9> 22, 24. "3 2. 4i> 50 *i- 35- 5« I' 7 ' 73 14. i, < fee. 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