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 POEMS 
 
 O N 
 
 DIVINE SUBJECTS, 
 
 ORIGINAL and TRANSLATED from 
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 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 King's-College, Cambridge. 
 
 Not from Helicon* j imagined Spring, 
 But SACRED WRIT we borrow what we Sing \ 
 ANGELS and WE afjifted by this Art, 
 May Sing together, tho* we live apart : 
 Their Joys are full r , our Expectation long, 
 In LIFE we differ, tbo* we join iwSoNG. 
 
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 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 fmg the Giver with the Gift of Verfe* 
 Thrice happy Bards, whofe Song is not in vain, 
 When Mortals relifh the inftrudbive Strain, 
 
 764.406 
 
 And
 
 ii A Prefatory Copy of Verfes 
 
 And feek, fincere in Heart, to know the Pow'r 
 Of Pow'rs Supreme, and feek 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 1 expanfive Heav'ns, and Earth's Foundation laid ; 
 Who form'd all Creatures that inhabit there, 
 And ftill protefts them with paternal Care. 
 But, who to fave this World vouchfaf 'd to bleed, - 
 To die, (when Love Eternal fo decreed,) 
 Him b jyejley fmgs ; Him, that Almighty Pow'r, 
 Whofe Type or Shadow c Cowley fung before ; 
 When his luxuriant Fancy Jeffe's Son 
 Engag'd, in Numbers fcarce inferior to his own. 
 
 Hence too we Greatnefs fcorn for the Retreat 
 That humble c Norris fmgs, and fmgs fo fweet, 
 There to colled: our Pow'rs, and all employ 
 In the Perfuit of intellectual Joy. 
 
 Nor 
 
 a His Creation. 
 *ai\*i ait Lift, of Chrijt. 
 c Nis Davidels. 
 4 See his Poem, Sitting in an Arbour.
 
 on Divine P E S T. iii 
 
 Nor a Watt s^ 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 aft, 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 fmg, what thou canft fing fo 
 well. 
 
 When ferious e Waller bid adieu to Arms, 
 To Courts, and Sacbariffa's dying Charms, 
 And tun'd to nobler Themes his folemn Lyre, 
 Defirous foon to join th' Angelic Choir, 
 
 Sweet 
 
 a His Horac Lyricz. 
 
 b d Poem by Prior. 
 
 c His Parafhrafe on \ Cor. xiii. 
 
 * See bis Epiftle to Mr. Pope, 
 
 c His Divine Poems.
 
 iv A Prefatory Copy of Verfes 
 
 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 Pope in lofty Ecchoes founds thofe Joys, 
 And fmgs Mefliab with an Angel's Voice. 
 
 But hear, and tremble at the angry Sound, 
 That b Toung'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 ravilh'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 
 
 a His Paraphrafe on Ifaiah. 
 b His Poem on the Loft Day,
 
 on Divine POESY. v 
 
 Still greater Wonders Heav'n-taught a Milton fmgs, 
 
 1 . 
 
 And as he foars aloft on Eagle's Wings, 
 With him the captive Reader feems to fly 
 Thro' the vaft Tracts of the etherial Sky ; 
 And, foon as the refifllefs 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, 
 Andnum'rous Hoftsthro' all the Starry Plains 
 Salute their Saviour-God with folemn Strains, 
 Which none ran fmg but the CclefUal Choir, 
 And none repeat, unbleflwith Mltotf&Fire. 
 
 All hail, ye facred Bards, whofe Merits claim 
 In the Poetic World a deathlefs Name ; 
 If to inftruft the Mind, andpleafe the Ear 
 With Sounds, that Angels floop from Heav'n to hear, 
 Be Poeffs nobleft Aim ; the Way, which God 
 Firft dictated, and godlike Prophets trod. 
 
 Lojl. " h
 
 vi A Prefatory Copy ofVerfes^ &c. 
 
 f 
 
 " * 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 Lefibn little known, 
 5P adore Superior Pow'r^ and doubt bis own. 
 
 
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 DEO OPT. MAX. 
 
 The Firft Hymn of FID A. 
 
 To GOD the FATHER. 
 
 Acc'tye^ fumme Pater ^ magni Fabricator Olympi 
 Qua Tibi 9 qua Nato, qua amborum carmina Amon 
 Sacra ferem cecini, &c. 
 
 iCcEPT, Great God, whofe wond'rous 
 
 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 
 
 AN NOT A T IONS* 
 
 * Inftead of a formal Preface, which the little I have to offer at 
 prefenr, concerning my Author, or this Translation may well ex- 
 cufe, give me Leave to mention, that 
 
 VI D A is fufficiently known already from the accurate Editions of 
 Dr. Owen and Mr. Triflram, and an excellent Tranflation of his 
 Art of Petry by Mr. Pitt. I pretend not to equal that ; nor in- 
 deed are the Originals themfelves equal : for, though it may not 
 be my Bufinefs to fay fo, thefe Hymns were the Produce of his 
 younger Years, his firft Flight in Poetry 5 and if. they be not fo 
 fiat and jejune as (brae would make them, yet perhaps they want 
 
 both
 
 2 To G D 
 
 5. To Thee, to thy Eternal Son, I fmg, 
 And Holy Spirit : O ! fuflain my Wing, 
 While far above thefe lower Worlds I rife, 
 And range adventrous the Empyreal Skies, 
 k Where in harmonious Order round the Throne, 
 10. The brighteft 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 Diftion, that appear'd fo confpicuous in his A 
 ter-writings 5 ftill (hew they fomething worthy fo great a Genius, 
 and are by no Means injurious to the Sublimity of his Subject. 
 To make him therefore the more compleat in his Englifi Drefs, 
 and look like what he was, I mean, a Divine j I fbmetime ago 
 propofed to tranflate thefe (acred Poems by way of Subfcription j 
 and the great Encouragement I then met with, did nothing elfe, 
 would now oblige me to publifti them ; for I had rather my Friend 
 fhould fay, He has not got his Penniworth, than that I fold him. 
 Words only. 
 
 But as I refler. with Pleafure on the Time I fpent in composing 
 this Eflay, I flatter my felf, that others will find fbme Benefit in per- 
 ufing it. It may probably remind the Negligent of his Duty, and 
 inftrud the Ignorant, at leaft induce them to fearch the Scriptures. 
 1 hope therefore for Reception, if (as the late Bifhop Patrick ob. 
 ferv'd) All Helps are little enough in an Jige> that Jeems to take 
 Pleafure in being ignorant of the mofl important Truths. 
 
 To be the more inftruftive, I have fubjoined thefe Annotations ; 
 which, except a few curfory Obfervations, are collected from Wri- 
 ters of the beft Account ; as they ferv'd either to illuftrate my Author, 
 or to explain any abftrufe Point in Divinity. 
 
 V. 5. Vida. adds Cceli Qwrites, the Saints, or Commonalty of 
 Heaven, and has accordingly beftow'd a feveral Hymn upon many 
 cf them 5 but they bear no Part in my prefent Undertaking.
 
 the FATHER. 3 
 
 *Twas the Divine alone that could infpire 
 My raptur'd Soul to lead the tuneful Choir 
 
 15. From fam'd Aoman Hills to Jordan's Stream, 
 With Harps new fining to a fublimer Theme.' 
 Social the Coafls of Paleftine we tread, 
 And lab'ring climb Idume's 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 Footfleps worn, 
 
 But all with Shrubs o'erfpread, or tangling Thorn i 
 
 B 2 Or 
 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 V. 15. Fromfain'd Aonian Hills. ) . Camcenas 
 
 Venice ab Aonio duxi Jordanis ad Undas. 
 
 From Virgil : Whom our Author is every whre fond of imi- 
 tating ; 
 
 Aonio ridens deducam vert ice Mufaf. Georg. iii. 10. 
 
 So fublime a Subject perhaps requires not thofe weaker Ornaments 
 of Poetry, which Vida, here and in other Places makes ufe of, I 
 mean thofe of Fable ; yet if Variety is pleaflng, fuch beau- 
 tiful Figures as are difpers'd through the whole, cannot but be ac- 
 ceptable to every Reader, when the Poet does not eclipfe, but rather 
 gives a fiercer Light to the Divine. 
 
 y. ^ | ). Way found we none.) Nulla erat ante via. ' 
 
 Having before declared his Defign, he now tells us what Difficul- 
 ties he had to engage with in the Perfuiti alluding to thofe which were 
 
 occafion'd
 
 4 To Q D 
 
 Or jbarr'd with rugged Rocks : but when I weild 
 My two edgd Sword, the fhadowy 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 lifl'ning Age. 
 
 Foun- 
 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 occafion'd by the Subtilty and Entanglement of Error, and the Va- 
 riety of intricate Opinions, that prevail'd in his own Times, and the 
 dark and grofs Ignorance of thofe immediately preceeding. But ha- 
 ving Recourfe, fays he, to the irrefiftible Power of the Word of God, 
 we eafily overcame them all. Heb. iv. i z. 
 
 V, 31. Long have the fpecious Trifles.) 
 
 Sat fcen<s ludoque datum 5 ludicra pritrum 
 Fictaque fat vacua* tenuerunt carmina, mentes. 
 . M From Virgil's 'Georg. iii. i. 
 
 Va SHv* amnefque Lycai 
 
 Cetera, qua vacuas teuuerunt car-mint mentef. 
 
 Cowley fays to this Purpofe. 
 Too long the Mufes Land hath Heathen been, 
 Their Gods too long were De'ils, and Virtues, Sin. 
 But Thou, Eternal Word, haft call'd forth me, 
 Th' Apoftle, to convert the World to Thee. 
 T* unbind the Charms that in flight Fable lie, 
 And teach that Truth is trueft Poefie. 
 
 But 'tis thought they are better exprefs'd in Latin. 
 
 Infolito perciiffits famine Pautus 
 
 f rodeo Mufarum immenfos convertere mundos. 
 Et ceelum feris ignotum aperire Poetis ; 
 Vt juvat, O, purgare fuis Jacra flumina mtnjtrit 
 Ut vili purgare alga, ccent^ue profundo, 
 Et tiyuidi ingenuts Jontts mducere veri.
 
 the F AT HER. $ 
 
 Fountains and fhady Groves, and purling Streams, 
 And wanton Love-Intrigues, are common Themes. 
 35. Some the gay Sports of fparkling Goblets chufe, 
 And force Exprefilon from the bluming Mufe : 
 Others the Gods with Men embattl'd join, 
 And found the Din of War in the well-imag'd Line. 
 
 But nowfince Truth with bright all-piercing Rays, 
 40. Scatters the Clouds, and the One God difplays 5 
 No more let Zeal with Superflition blind, 
 Lead thro* forbidden Paths the carelefs Mind : 
 No rnore let Fiction climb the bleft Abodes, 
 And people Heav'n with ftrange immoral Gods. 
 
 No 
 
 AN N O T A T IONS. 
 V. 4$. Nt mare let Fitfion.) 
 
 Pudeat fcelerum, qua plurima ccelo affingunt. This reminds 
 me of Horace's Converfion ; who, as gay a Courtier as he was, 
 did not think it beneath a Gentleman to difown the atheiftical and 
 irreligious Principles, which he had before maintain'd, (Lib. i. Sat. 5. 
 ad Fin.) and return to Religion ; acknowledging a fuperior Power in 
 fleaven, worthy his Adoration and Worfhip. 
 
 Parcus Deorum cultgr, et infrequent, 
 Infanientis dum fa$ienti<e 
 Con/ultus erro ; nunc retror/um 
 yela. dare, atque iterare curfus 
 Cogor reliftos. 1. i. od. 34. 
 
 I that but feldom did adore, 
 
 I that no God but Pleafure knew, 
 
 Whilft mad Philofophy did blind, 
 
 And Epicurus fool'd my Mind, 
 
 Muft keep that impious Courfe no morej 
 
 But turn my Sails, and fleer anew. Creetb.
 
 6 To G D 
 
 45. No more ye Bards Parnaffian Wonders fmg, 
 Nor dream of Helicon's infpiring Spring, 
 But proving juft to that fweet-flowing Vein, 
 That ftreams from Heav'n, and Heav'n requires 
 
 again, 
 Come, and in grateful Hymns and pious Lays, 
 
 50. For ever dwell on your Creator's Praife. 
 
 aijL'C?3 ?r ' -"t-'vttac.w* ^ 
 
 They hear, they come, and throng the Way to 
 
 prove, 
 
 With eager Hafte their Duty, and their Love. 
 How great my Joy ! to fee the forward Youth 
 Prefs on with fuch a gen* rous Thirft of Truth ; 
 55. Gath'ring my Steps, they ftrip the flow'ry Mead, 
 With beauteous Chaplets to adorn the Head. 
 Moft hopeful Sign ! that this my rude Eflay, 
 Well-meaning, tho' uncouth, unfinifh'd Lay, 
 
 (Weak 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 f. 49. Come, arid tn grateful Hymns) 
 
 Hac tter efto, hue Mttfarum revacantur alumni, 
 Hac cajli vatef in Religione manento. 
 
 From tfrg. &n. 3. 
 
 HUKC facii morent faertrum, htinc iffe teneto j 
 Hue tafli -mantant in Relligitne nefotef,
 
 the FATHER. 7 
 
 (Weak Efforts of a Mind perplext with Care, 
 j5o. That falls to ev'ry duteous P a/tor* s Share,) 
 Will find fome happier Fav'rite to exprefs 
 Our Aim, and polifh it with artful Drefs, 
 To pave the Way, unfeemly to behold, 
 With chequer'd Marble, and refulgent Gold 5 
 65. Nor let the precious Stones of various Die 
 Be wanting to engage the dazled Eye. 
 Let it fuffice for me, to've drawn to View 
 The too-long-tracklefs Path : Let him perfue, 
 And with the Crown of Victory be bleft ; 
 70. As firft in Merit, firft in Fame confeft. 
 Let Ages after Ages ftill admire, 
 And nobler Deeds to nobler Crowns afpire. 
 
 B 4 Yet 
 
 ANNOTATIONS, 
 
 y. 59. Weak Efforts of a. Mind) 
 
 D-im me deficient aliis ntpta otia cunr, 
 Dum papules mihi commiffos fajctqut regoqve. 
 
 The Province of a Bifrop or Pajlor, (fays Sancrojt, afterward* 
 Archbifhop) is bard indeed, and the Task weighty, and frmidable t 
 even to an AngeVs Shoulders : But fure, the more Burthenfome the 
 Office is, the greater will the Reward be, if faithfully difcharg'd. 
 And ever worthy of Imitation {lands our Author herein, who, fetting 
 afide the Prejudices of his Times and Country, was indeed a true 
 Chrifti.in P<u4or, (as Mr. Rook obferves) always ftudying to promote 
 the Glory of God, and the Good of the Flock committed to his 
 Charge ; which gain'd him the Character not only of an extraordi- 
 nary Prelate, but of an indulgent Father.
 
 8 To GOD 
 
 ** ';" ~.7) 
 
 Yet this fmall Tribute, far beneath our Theme, 
 
 We dedicate to Thee, Thou God fupreme. 
 75. For who on Earth fa well deferves our Lay ? 
 Or who with Godlike Bleflings can repay ? 
 (If any Joy we may to Earth afjign, 
 
 If Satisfaction tafte below, 'tis mine : 
 
 . T'-'/l .~5 
 Thanks to the Medyce's, who truly great, 
 
 80. With Saint-like Virtues grace the Holy Settf, 
 Friends to the Learned, and the Good confeft, 
 And bleffing thefe themfelves are truly bleft.) 
 In vain for me proud Honour gilds her Bait, 
 I'll never feek to be a Wretch in State. 
 
 Give 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 V. 79. Thank to the MedyceV.) 
 
 We can never think that Vida. would have ftoop'd from his di- 
 vine Engagement to compliment any Potentate upon Earth, had not 
 a Senfe of Gratitude oblig'd him, and Truth juftified his Deposition. 
 For whatever Crimes fome Writers lay to the Charge of thefe Pre- 
 lates, their Hiftory informs us, that 
 
 John dt Medyce, elefted Pope Anno Dom. 1513, and who took 
 On him the Name of Leo X. having invited to r Rome fuch Men as 
 \vere famous for their Skill in the Liberal Sciences, did there found 
 an Univetilty ; and fo encourag'd the Learned with his Favour and 
 Bounty, that all Men were incited to the Study of polite Literature, 
 and were indnftrious to celebrate his Munificence. And that at the 
 fame time, he was fo obfervant of Julius his Coufin-german, (if you 
 pleafe) and afterwards Pope, under the Name of Clement VII. that 
 he would never attempt, nay, fcarce think of any thing, without ha- 
 ving firft confulted his CouUn j to negleft whofe Counfel, infallible 
 as he was himfelf, he thought a grievous Offence.
 
 the FATHER. 9 
 
 85. Give me thy Prefence, Lord, I ask no more, 
 Nor envy Kings their Thrones, or heapy Store. 
 
 But what are we, that dare invoke thy Name ? 
 
 Shall animated Duft fuch Honour claim ? 
 
 If we the dubious Conflict give not o'er, 
 90. Still cope with- Sin, and Hell's tyrannic Pow'r, 
 
 'Tis from thy Goodnefs, thy right-hand alone, 
 
 That firft we conquer, then obtain the Crown. 
 
 True, thou art pleas'd to hear a human Voice 
 
 Proclaim thy Pow'r, and in thy Praife rejoyce. 
 95. But what can I ? Thy Praife is heard around 
 
 Heav'n, Earth, and Seas, inceffantly refound. 
 
 Yet 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 PI 85. Give me thy Prejence, Lord,} Tu mihifolus ades. 
 
 There goes a Story, you may guefs where, of Thtmas Aquinas $ 
 that praying before a Crucifix, it miraculoufly fpeaks thus unto him : 
 'Ikou hajl 'written inell of me y Thomas ; ivhat doft thou require ? 
 To whom dqu'was is made to anfwer, No Reward, Ltrd, hut thy 
 felf. What Pity 'tis, (fays Mr. Hales} this Story is not true ; it 
 teaches us fb well what to ask of God for our Reward in his Service, 
 which being once allured of, we might well pardon him ail the 
 reft. 
 
 y. 93. True y thou art pleas V.) 
 
 I might with very good Authority, I mean Dr. Trapfs, have ufed 
 indifferently Ton and Tkott in the fecond Perfon fingular ; but have 
 conftantly kept to the latter, as Teeming to me more Grammatical 
 and lefs familiar ; though it coft me the more Pains to avoid feveral 
 hanh Words which the Dr. mentions, (Note on Virg. JEn. i. 278.) 
 as LoTjd'ft, 1old'Ji t mourn d'ji, &c. fince I was refolv'd to fling 
 out all do'fis, did'Jis, and fuch like gracelefs Expletives.
 
 10 To G O D 
 
 Yet if this humble Pledge Acceptance find, 
 As Thou art ever gracious, ever kind, 
 To thy Peculiar Servants, grant, Thou Pow*r 
 TOO. Of Pow'rs Supreme, that the tremendous Hour 
 Of Difiblution may not rack my Sight 
 With hideous goblin Shapes, dire Sons of Night ; 
 But let fweet Peace my Paffions all controul, 
 While into thy Embrace I pour my Joyous Soul. 
 
 Be this my Pray'r ; Let me not pray in vain, 
 1 06. And him, who more can wifhfor, more obtain. 
 
 What, or where am I ? fuch a ftrange Defire, 
 JCindles my Blood, and fets my Soul on Fire ! 
 What mean my tremblingLimbs, my giddy Brain, 
 j 10. And furious Joys that dance thro* ev'ry Vein ! 
 Ah ! Whither am I borne ! How (hall I flie 
 This cumbrous Flefh, and mount the flarry Sky ! 
 How mall my naked Soul thro 1 - Ways unknown, 
 And mazy Wand'rings reach the Heav'nly 
 
 Throne ! 
 
 115. Such her EfTay ! to gain her natal Seat, 
 And be for ever fix'd in Joys compleat. 
 
 Farewell,
 
 the FATHER. ii 
 
 Farewell, thou Earth, and all thofe humble 
 
 Cares, 
 
 That torture bufie Man with fervile Fears. 
 Wonders I fmg, and Oracles unfold, 
 120. Such as our Fathers never fung of old ; 
 
 Their 
 ANNOT ATIONS. 
 
 V. 117. Farewell, thou Earth.) 
 
 Terra vale, curaque humiles l hominef^tte valete. 
 
 Ovid. Met. 15- Juvnt ire per aflra 
 
 Alta t juvat, terris t et inerti fade relicits, 
 Nube vehi t validiefue humeris ivjtftere Atlantis 
 Palantefque animas pajfim, at rationis egentes 
 Defpeftare frocul 
 
 And the late Duke of Buckingham (ays finely to *he fame Purpofe 
 in his Rapture: 
 
 How faft I mount ! in what a wond'rous Way, 
 
 I grow tranfported to this large Survey ! 
 
 I value Earth no more ! and far below 
 
 Methinks I fee the bufie Pigmies go, 
 
 My Soul entranc'd is in a Rapture brought, 
 
 Above the common Trafts of vulgar Thought j 
 
 With Fancy wing'd, I feel the purer Air, 
 
 And with Contempt look down on human Care, 
 
 T. 119. Wonder -s I fmg) 
 
 Nulli audita cano. 
 Thus almoft all the Poets ; to name fome of 'cm, 
 
 TP (JLl&TTUV S-3W 775 6Wf 
 
 Oppian. i. Ven, 
 Virgil. Geor. 3. 
 
 Sed me Parnajfi deferta. per araua dulcis 
 Raptat amor ; jutiat ire jrtgis, qua nulla pritrum 
 Cajlaliam molli d'wertiliir.orbita diva* 
 
 Hor.
 
 if To G D 
 
 Their pleafing Fidions, and their trivial Themes, 
 Their anxious Doubts, and philofophic Dreams, 
 Are far beneath my daring : Lo, I rife, 
 And, light as Air, cut thro* the op'ning Skies ; 
 125. And Oh ! how pleas'd ! to travel with the Sun, 
 And from the Vault of Heav'n on lefs'ning 
 
 Worlds look down. 
 
 Let not the Air invite me to explore 
 Its curious Texture, and elaftic Pow'r, 
 
 Nor 
 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 Hor. 1. 3. od. i. Carmina nan prius 
 
 Audtta. cants 
 Epift. 19. L i. 
 
 Liber a per vacuum pofui vefilgiaprinceps^ 4 Voi 
 
 Non alien* meo prejjt pede.~ 
 So Cowley, Guide my bold Footfteps 
 
 In thefe untrodden Paths to facred Fame. 
 Ovid. Met. 15. 
 
 Magn.tf nee ingeniis inveftigata pritrum, 
 
 <jlttC[ue d'm latuere, canam. - - 
 
 But recommend me to Lucretius, I. 4. 
 
 Avia Pieridum peragro loca, nulllus Ante 
 Trita folo, &c. 
 
 I feel, I rifing feel. Poetic Heats, 
 And now infpir'd trace o'er the Mufes Seats, 
 Untrodden yet : 'Tis fweet to vifit firft, 
 Untouch'd and Virgin Streams, and quench my Thirft. 
 'Tis fweet to crop frefh Flow'rs, and get a Crown 
 For new and rare Inventions of my own. . Cretcfc. 
 And tho' our Author, v. IT. fays, Tentatum multis pf us ante, 
 many had before attempted Divine Poefie ; yet he here joins them 
 in their common Langinge; looking upon himfelfas the Firft j none 
 having done it fo effectually before j nor indeed many fince.
 
 the FATHER. 13 
 
 Nor let me ftay 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 fhowry 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. 133. Fix' el 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 Aflurance 
 of his Promife, tho' there was no correfpondency betwixt it and the 
 Thing fignified. Gen. ix. 13. 
 
 flfffflV 60/XOT6?, &{ Ti 
 
 net^s, 7?#f (Mfoirov tV8fft>VV Horn. II . 1 1. 
 3 we'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 vulgata ^aw nefcit cornua Luna ? 
 
 So Virg. Georg. 3. 
 
 Cmnia funt vulgata. Quis ant Euryftbea durum t 
 illaudati nefcit Bufiridis aras ?
 
 i 4 To G D 
 
 1 40. Flies he fofwift, 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 Wilhes bound, 
 To know that unknown Somewhat ; wrapt around 
 150. With Shades and Darknefs : Yet whate'er it be, 
 Confeft by All a wond'rous Deity : 
 
 Nor 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 V. 146. The Caufe of Caufes) 
 
 If all Things that are made, were made by fome Other, that 
 Other, which produc'd them, was it felf produc'd, or it was not : 
 If it was, we (hall at laft come to fomething that was never made j 
 (elfe we muft admit either a Circle of Productions in which the 
 Effect mail make its own Caufe ; or an infinite Succeflion in Caufa- 
 lity, by which nothing will be made : ) And if it was not it felf 
 produc'd ; 'tis the Tiling we are in Search of, viz. A Self-exiftent, 
 Independent Being, The Caufe of Caufes, &c. 
 
 y. 151. Confetl by 
 
 ^uidve Jit ignorem ; cun&i tamen effe vidimus. 
 
 If the univerfal Confent of Mankind in the Belief of a God can- 
 
 ' not be refolv'd into thofe Caufes that are commonly atfign'd for 
 
 it, viz. Inftitution, Inftruftion, or Tradition, as might eafily be 
 
 fhewn, was it not to fpin out thefe Obfervations to too great a 
 
 Length : We may affirm that his Exiftence is a Dictate of Nature, 
 
 or
 
 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 fee-ret flies, 
 
 155. Veil'd in a cloudy Shade from human Eyes, 
 His ftreamy Rays their piercing Light difplay, 
 And ftill we own Him Parent of the Day : 
 So this great Being fhuns our feeble Sight, 
 Nor Senfe can climb to its majeftick Height. 
 
 1 60. Yet all confefs the Pow'r: when aclive 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 mail obey. 
 
 What 
 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 or a Principle which human Reafon in all Men very foon and ea- 
 fily difcovers : And therefore if not a ftrift 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. 1 52. Not what it is ) H2f v'oot eiQn<ret fft ; <rO ><*f v'oa xJwt 
 A.M<rJ". Greg. Naz. Hymn, ad Deum. 
 
 How cnn the Mind form any Notion of Thee, who art Incom- 
 prehenfible J i King- viii. 12.
 
 16 To G D 
 
 What Title does this active Spirit claim ? 
 Can't We exprefs, or does it want a Name ? 
 It cannot for Diftinction-fake 5 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 Bleffings infinite receive, 
 175. And all the Springs, that Life and Motion give ; 
 Firft, we own thy Exiftence, Sov'reign Lord, 
 
 One, Good, and True, by all admir'd, ador'd : 
 
 Yet 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 J-\ -1 66. What Title ) Quf "vtro id nomine die am ? 
 
 Aut nullum, ant frorfus non enarrtbile nomen. 
 Why askeft Thou after my Name ? {ays the Spirit of God, 
 "judg. xiii. 1 8. feeing it is fecret, Dent. xxix. 19. But Exod. iii. 
 14, God has declared" himfelf by the Name of / AM : Whicli 
 Words plainly fpeak his Exiftence, and none can be more exprcffive 
 of the abfolute Perfe&ion of his Unity. 
 
 THfmegiftus as quoted by Laftantius : 
 
 O'/I ed<, {, in ? OVO^A]- vpffMflM, !r/ $ o 
 
 fV/XOf . Deo igitur Nvmen non eft, qttia folas eft ; nee opus e 
 vtcabule^ nife cum difcrimen exigit multitude, ut u 
 Perfonam fua Nora e! Atyellatione defi&r.es. I. i. c,6. 
 
 of f4ov& tstv, vTrifWyifrts, ciywiTOf. Sibyl, v.
 
 the FATHER. 
 
 Yet neither art Thou True, or Good, or One 
 As other Beings ; of thy felf alone 
 1 80. Exiftent, Good, and True, and very One. 
 
 Thefe Attributes, howe'er diftinft, we find 
 In thee, with perfeft Harmony conjoin' d, 
 
 C But 
 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 r t 180. And very One) Sed Tu 
 
 Ipfum effey iffum unum t verumcfue bonumciue vtcaris. 
 
 Since a Self-exiftent Being muft be immenfe and uniform (t/?V. 
 inf. v. 240.) we cannot fuppofe two or more fuch Beings coextended 
 together in all poflible Place or Space, without any Variety or Dif- 
 ference in their Natures : Since they would not be two or more 
 Self-exiftent Beings, but One. God is one. Exod. \x. 3. Deut. iv. 
 35. vi. 4. I Sam, ii- 2. i Kings viii. 60. 2 Sam. vii. 22. I Chron. 
 xvii. 20. Pf. Ixxiii. 25. If. xliv. 6. xlv. 18. xlviii. 12. ^ohn 
 xvii. 3. Gal. iv. 8. i John v. 18. 
 
 K J 8 1 . Tbefe ^'tributes ) 
 
 The Divine Attributes are not to be confider'd as having really 
 any feparate or diftinft Subfiftence in the divine Nature, but only in 
 our Manner of conceiving them", according to their different and ex- 
 ternal Operations. They are one individual Effence operating after a 
 different Manner, according "to the Different Nature or Circum- 
 ftance of the Subjeft upon which they operate. Fiddes. And Plato t 
 by his 'At/75 ov not only intended a felf-exiftent Being in Contradi- 
 ftincbion to any C.iufe of his Exiftence, but a Being identically the 
 fame without Compofuion of any diftincl Parts or Powers what- 
 ever. Think on Him therefore (fays another) as not to be thought 
 of, as one whofe Wifdom is his Juftice, whofe Juftice is his Power^ 
 whofe Power is his Mercy, and all Himfelf. Good without Quality, 
 Great without Quantity, Everlafting without Time, Prefect every 
 where without Place, without Extent containing all things. We may 
 further obferve here, that this feeming Variety and Difference of 
 Attributes in God put the Heathen Mythologies upon dividing the 
 Deity into as many diftinft Beings : Omnipotence was given. to jf- 
 piter, Wifdom to Minerva^ &c. by reafon that the V/eaknefs of the 
 .human Mind could not conceive fo much Power and Action in the 
 Simplicity of one fingle divine Nature $ but Wejley fays to them, 1. 6, 
 
 In vain you one poor Idol oft divide, 
 ' Hisjiill the faint, however multipl/J.
 
 i8 To G D 
 
 /""" ** " *^ "t "1 * f * -\/-*^"\ tr\ - 4 * 1 * * 
 
 But not confus'd : Each has its Name and Sphere, 
 Confpicuous all in proper Lights appear. 
 
 185. 'Tis ftrange indeed ! yet foon our Wonder ends ;' 
 Since to all Objects poflible extends 
 Thy mighty Pow'r ; that furmounts all Force : 
 
 3 j-S Nor any Lett can flay thy deftin'd Courfe. 
 
 Yet fay we not, thy all-confld'ring Mind 
 190. Contrives, or plans the Works to thee afiign'd, 
 Since ever is thy Will, moft mighty Lord> -^ / -\ 
 And Adi: the fame ; the fame thy Work and 
 
 Word. 
 
 I .2i .Y:,. .?> .v.Jx^l ?c . Jivx 
 
 For 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 V. 1 26. Since to all Objects pvjjible) 
 '>> J :. k*od fieri nec^ilt^ iffc potrs, fates Qmnia. 
 
 Since all the Powers that are in all Things whatever are derived 
 from, and are dependent upon God, 'tis evident, that Nothing can 
 create any Difficulty or Difturbnnce to his Will in the Execution 
 thereof. Wherefore fays ^oh xlii 2. / know that then canjl do 
 all Things But by doing all Things, \ve are not to underftand fuch 
 Things, as in their own Natures imply a Contradiction, or forne 
 plain Repugnancy to the Divine Nature : as, to c.iiife cmy thing t 
 vt, and not be at the fame Time ; to d*ny bimfclf, ckc. for thefe 
 teing no Oiiefts ef Po<uw, 'tis no Diminutioii of Power not to be 
 able to do them : Nny, we are obliged to afleit the Impodibility of 
 them, even in Honour and Vindicatien of God's Holy Name. Vidn. 
 therefore, tho' he may juftly fay, Poles omma, ( and by the way, 
 ALnea-s addrefles the Cumean Sibyl with the fame Expreffion, 
 /: 6. and Homtr in Odyff. % gives us, j\)V<\<t,t $ Atfct^ct) yet per- 
 haps goes too far, in faying, Quod fitritiec[uit) tpfe potef. Tlx>u can'ft 
 do Irnpofllbilities. But for the Manifestation of God's Power, fee Gen. 
 xvii.i. Det.\\\. 24. x. 14. xxxii. 3. i Chron. xvi. 24. xxix. n. ^eb 
 ix. 4, 19. Pfcil. bcxxix. 6. xdvii. 9. Ixii. u. Ixxviii 18. cxxxv 5. cxlvii. 
 5. z Cbron. ii. 5. xx. 6. Ifa. xxvi. 4. Mat. vi. i j. Rev. xix. 6.
 
 the FATHER. 19 
 
 For at thy Word from uncreated Night, 
 And Nothing, fprang thefe Worlds of beauteous 
 Light. 
 
 195. All Things on Thee, the Lord of All 9 de- 
 pend : 
 
 From Thee they all begun, in Thee mall end. 
 But, Lord, from thy great Self, thy Being flows, 
 That no Beginning, no Succeffion knows, 
 
 C 2 Nor 
 
 ANN OT ATI ONS. 
 
 V. 19.3 For At. thy Word} Ut dixti 
 
 Ex nihilo capit fplendefc ere mundus. 
 
 As to the noted Argument of the Epicureanf, that Nihilum ft ex 
 nibilo, Nothing is made of Nothing j if they would be content (fays 
 LnRsintius, z. Inftit. 10 ) to extend the Interpretation of it no 
 further, than to Things within the Reach of Nature, we fhould have 
 no Reafon to condemn it : For it is certain, that Nothing is made of 
 Nothing by the mere Strength and Power of Nature. But cannot 
 the Omnipotent Gtd of Nature's (elf form Worlds on Worlds from 
 Nothing ? Has He not done it ? Gen. i. j. xvifi. 14. Job xxxvii. 
 Pfal. xxxiii. 9. Ixxvii. i6.1xxxix. n. cii. 15. oclvii. 15. if. xlv. Jz, iS. 
 
 -1 God fpoke out the World's vaft Ball 
 From Nothing, and from no where call'd forth all. 
 
 And Rochejier, in his admirable Hymn to Nothing : 
 Yet Something did thy rnighty Pow'r command 
 And from thy fruitful Emptinefs's Hand 
 Snatch'd Men, Beafts, Birds, Fire, Water, Air, and Land. 
 
 V> 197. But, Lord y from thy great felf} 
 
 Incipis abs te, Jt incipis, in te dejtnis ipjum, 
 Incipis ideirco nifn^Ham, nee dejinis unquam. 
 That God hath always exifted, and always will exift, is a Propofi- 
 tbn fo infeparably united to Self-exiftttice, that the one cannot be 
 
 without
 
 20 To G D 
 
 Nor e'er fhall end : fmce all 'thy Days are One, 
 200. In theethey all muft end, where all begurr: 
 As lab'ring Years their finifh'd Courfe renew, 
 And thro' the beaten Track themfelves perfue, - 
 Still running on the Rounds they run before, 
 .{ji-oTilJ Thou command'ft, that Time fhall be no 
 
 more ; 
 205. Who firft for Nature's Wheel cut'ft out the 
 
 Road, 
 
 And bid'ft it move, dependent on its God. 
 But Future, Paft, are Terms, that wondrous Thou 
 Know'ftnot, whofe Age is one eternal Now. **'.:. 
 
 Z'i) vwito -A b-'iw/,' ;ja^j It ; V" 1 A'?,'A\ ^a u jvud^tt. t %\r*MI 
 
 What 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 without the other : For'to fay that a Thing cannot but exift, and at 
 ' the fame time to fay it has not cxifted, or may not exilt, is abfurd, 
 and a mere Coutiadiftion. But tho" no Attribute is more clearly 
 demonftrable than this, the Eternity of God, yet as there is none 
 which we are lefs able to form a clear and diftinft Conception of our 
 felves, or to explicate in a diftinA Manner to others ; I fhall refer 
 you to Deut. xxxii. 40. Jofi. iii. 10. Pf. xc. 2. cii. 12. cxlv. 
 13. cxlvi. 10. Jfa: xl. 28. Ivii. 15. Dan. iv. 34. vi. 26- Joh, 
 i. 4. i Pet. i. 13. Rev. xv. 7. 
 
 * 
 
 V. zoS. Whoje Age is one eternal Now) 
 . Sed Nunc hand labitur 
 
 This may be look'd upon as a pretty Thought, but 'tis faying no 
 more, than that the fame Inftant fhali remain tor ever : And thus 
 we attribute that Succeffion to one Inftant of Time abftraftedly 
 confider'd, which we ufed to attribute to Things exifting in it. Where- 
 fore the Schoolmen call it nuncjians, to diflinouifh it from that oiy, 
 'which is a Difference ot Time, and always flowing. . 
 Nothing is there to come, and Nothing paft, 
 But an eternal Now does always laft.
 
 the FATHER. 21 
 
 What has been done of Old, thy mighty Pow'r 
 210. Makes in Effed to ceafe, and be no more ; 
 What has been faid, mail at thy Pleafure die, 
 And loft for ever in Oblivion lie. 
 
 Thou, Lord, forefaw'ft at one extenfive View, 
 The Follies bufy Mortals would perfue : 
 
 C 3 215. Before 
 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 V- 209. What has been done of old) 
 
 Quod faElitm, infettum facts, indiRume[ue videri 
 
 Quod ditfum eft : I hope, 1 have neither mifs'd my 
 
 Author's Meaning, nor contradicted Horace, when he fays, 
 
 Cras vel a'.ra 
 
 T 7 r* ; T^ 
 
 Nube Polum Pater tccupato, 
 
 Vel Jole furoy non tamen irritum, 
 
 Qupdcunque retro eft, efficiet, neque 
 
 Diffinget, infetfumijue reddet 
 
 Quod fastens feme I Horn vex'it. Od. 29. 1. iii. 
 
 Or Milton t when he fays, 
 
 But paft who can recall, or done undo ? 
 
 Not God Omnipotent, or Fate ! ix. 916. 
 
 y. 213. Tkou, Lord, forefa-wjl) 
 
 QUA nolis cunque futnra 
 
 Stint till Jaffa, oculijqne tuif fubjecta, friufquam 
 Terra patens foret, aut ccelt fulcherrimus ordo. 
 
 As God, having created all Things, muft needs have an abfolute 
 Power and Command over, fo likewife muft he have a perfect 
 Knowledge of all things, he himfelf has made, antecedent in Nature to 
 the making them. He muft thoroughly have underftood all the 
 Natures, Powers, and Faculties, which He himfelf has given them, 
 
 and whatever they can, and will eflfecl:. But this his Fort' 
 
 knowledge being to be confider'd only as an Aft of fimple Intelli- 
 gence, no move affe&s the Thing he foreknows will happen, than- 
 
 his
 
 22 To G D 
 
 2 1 5'. Before the Earth on its ftrong Bafe was laid, 
 Or the Expanfe of Heav'n above difplay'd : 
 When Time was not, but thou wert All in All^ 
 Thou, God alone, the great Original. 
 Then were the Good ordain'd in Heav'n to dwell 
 
 9 
 
 220. And the poor thoughtlefs Sinner doom'd to Hell-, 
 j.. | ; _ ; For thus to compenfate his ev'ry Deed, 
 
 E'er Man was born, thy certain Will decreed. 
 When to thy Throne our Hearts in Pray'r. we 
 
 raife, 
 
 Or tune our Voices to thy glorious Praife: 
 225. Before they were conceiv'd, thou heard'ft our 
 
 Pray'rs, 
 
 And grateful Sounds of Praife had reach'd thine 
 Ears. 
 
 Omnifcicnt 
 ANN OTATIONS. 
 
 his Afterknnvledge affeds what has happen'd : but rather fuppofes 
 the good or ill Ufe of human Liberty, antecedent in the Order of 
 our Ideas to his Ftr (knowledge. Fiddes. Pjal. cxxxix. i. .dfts xv. 
 18. 
 
 y, 119. Then were the Good ) 
 
 Tune quoque Te has 
 
 jfut celo tHgn*s t aut certe fontibus nmbris 
 Traitfcripffleferunt, et jam fua pr<emi* cu'^ue. 
 Se I King. viii. 39. 'job, xxxiv. n. Pfal. vii. 9. Jer. xvii. 10.
 
 the FATHER. 23 
 
 Omnifcient is thy Mind : a Flood of Rays 
 Shot from a thoufand Eyes the World furveys. 
 Numbers are vain : Thou art all Sight, all Eye, 
 
 230. Things future, preient, paft, before thee lie : 
 Nor need'ft thou vifual Rays to aid thy Sight : 
 All Things enlightening, to thy felf a Light. 
 Miftaken Man ! who vainly thinks to fhroud 
 His daring Crimes in Night's all-cov'ring Cloud. 
 
 235. Since in all Parts of the unbounded Space, 
 
 Thy Prefence dwells : for God fills ev'ry Place ; 
 
 C 4 Antf 
 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 K 117. Omnifcient it thy Mind) 
 
 Omniafcis, et euntta vidts. 
 
 Deus now particulatitn vel Jtgillatim amnia videt^ velut alternante 
 etnceptu bine illttc, inde hue ; fed emnia. videt fimuL S.*. Aug. 
 
 God's Omnifcience does not only take in the feveral Species of 
 Beings, but all their Relations, Modes Powers and Properties at 
 once, by direft and immediate Intuition. Job xxi. x. xxviii. 24.xxxvii. 
 16. Prov. xv. 3- 
 
 r. Z33. Mijlaktn Man ! ) That God knoweth t!ie Hearts of Man, 
 and that 'tis Folly therefore to think to conceal any thing from Him, 
 is evident from i King. viii. 39. i Cbron. xxviii, 9. Job xii. az. xxvi. 
 6. xxx. 4. xxxiv. 21. xlii 2. Pfal. xliv. 21. cxxxix. 4. Jer. xx. 
 iz. Zepb. i. 12. Luke xvi. IS- -48s ' 2.4. xv. 8. i John iii. 20. 
 
 For what can fcape the Eye 
 
 Of God all-feeing, or deceive his Heart 
 Omnifcient ? Milt. x. 5. 
 
 V. 135. Since in all Parts ) 
 
 Omnibus iriyxe locis ades omm temport. 
 
 As Gcxl is infinite in Duration, fb is He alfo in the Extent of his 
 Nature j which is fuch as cannot be terminated, meafured, or ex- 
 cluded
 
 24 To GOD 
 
 And what beyond thefe Worlds has its Abode, 
 Is all but the Imnienfity of God. 
 Thy Nature ftill, howe'er diffus'd it be, 
 240. Is ever uniform, entire, and free. 
 
 And tho* in all things thou haft fix'd thy Seat, 
 None fink deprefs'd beneath the mighty Weight : 
 Seat to thy felf : and on thy felf alone 
 Is built thy refting Place, and lafting Throne. 
 
 245. But 
 AN.N OTATIONS. 
 
 eluded out of any Place or Space, but is neceflarily every where, 
 i. e. coexiftent, and coextended with all Place or Space whatever, 
 at the fame Time. And this Infinity of Extention is what we call 
 the Immenfity or Qmniprejence of God, and is likewife infeparable 
 from Self-exigence. Gen. xxviii. 16. Job ix. n. Pfal. cxxxix. 
 
 Were the Soul feparate from the Body, and with one Glance of 
 Thought fhould ftart beyond the Bounds of the Creation $ (hould it 
 for Millions of Years continue its Progrefs thro' infinite Space with 
 the fame A&ivity, it would ftill find itfelf within the Embrace of its 
 Creator, and encompaffed round with the Immenjity of the Godhead. 
 
 Addifon. 
 
 V. 140. Is ever uniform, entire, ) 
 
 tamen omnis itbique 
 
 Integer ufque manes. 
 
 As to the Mode, Manner, or Form of God's Exigence, it muft 
 needs be a fimple, unmix'd, uncompounded Eflence, in Oppofition 
 to material Beings made up of feparable Parts ; It muft likewife be 
 uniform, z. e. without any Variety or Difference in the whole. And 
 this alfo flows from Self-exijlence ; for if we fuppofe a Being capable 
 of different Forms and Modes of Exiftence, it will follow, that it is 
 not necefiary that it mould exift in any one Form or Mode what- 
 ever, ;'. e. in any Form or Mode at all j and confequemly, that it is 
 not neceflary that it fhould exift at all. (See v. 180.) 
 
 V, 141. And tho* in all Things) 
 
 JSon oneri tamen es rebus auibus infttus Jnerts. 
 
 All
 
 the FATHER. 25 
 
 245. But didft thou not in all Things ftill refide, 
 
 And with impulfive Pow'r their Morions guide ; 
 The Heav'ns and Seas, and this felf-center'd 
 
 Ball, 
 
 Wou'd into Night, and their firft Nothing fall. 
 Thy Prefence keeps, preferves, directs the 
 
 whole, 
 
 250. Kind Guardian of the World, its Life, and 
 Soul. 
 
 Yet when we own thy All-creating Pow'r, 
 And Thee, the great Original^ adore ; 
 
 We 
 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 All Things are contain* d in God, but without any mutual Paffion ; 
 He fuflfers nothing from the Motion of Bodies, nor do they undergo 
 any Refiftance from his Qmniprefence. Sir If. Newton. 
 
 *Aw7o$ Ictt/Tw r n f y@- y x) Avnt iet.\nx /zB-AwfWf. 
 
 Philo. 
 
 Full of Himfelf th' Almighty fate, his own 
 Palace, and without Solitude alone. Cowley. 
 
 V. 24?. But didft thou. net ) 
 
 Quedji adeo nenjtt, fubito pajjim omniet cafit 
 Cernere erit rttere, in nihilumque redatfa referri. 
 It is repugnant to the Nature of Chance, that Co many mechani- 
 cal Caufes as are in the World, fo different in their Quality, and 
 which are always afting and exerting their Force upon one ano- 
 ther, fliould not only once, fometimes, often, bnt always concur 
 to the fame ufeful Ends in one continual and confhnt Method : (For- 
 tuna arnica varietati conftantiam refitti*. Cic. ) We muft therefore 
 have Recourfe to fome wife, powerful, and felf-exiftent Being, who 
 
 fupports
 
 GOD 
 
 We know thy Deeds are pure, and pure thy 
 
 Will, 
 Nor ever are thy Thoughts intent on 111 ; 
 
 Like 
 
 ;o/[..ipr 
 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 fupports and preferves this Fabrick of the Univerfe 5 who puts 
 Stop to the Changes we obferve to be made in it, continues 
 
 a due 
 them 
 
 in their due Bounds and Limits, and regulates and orders them in 
 fuch a Manner, that the Face of Nature confiding of an infinite 
 Variety of Things continues ftill the fame. MS. The Duration of 
 fuch a Fiame of Things cannot be conceived poflible, unlefs we fup- 
 pofe with the Pfalmift, cxlviii. 5. That God hath not nly com- 
 manded and they were created, but hath ejlablijhed them jtr ei'tr 
 and ever t and made a Decree which they cannot fafs. 
 
 V.I<H. We know thy Deeds are pure ) 
 
 ^- Ipje mult ne<jue enim auftor in ullt es. 
 
 Tho' God forefaw (i>. 113.) that if Men were left to them/eves, 
 ( and fo far he might juftly determine to leave them, <v. 699. ) 
 they would abufe their Liberty and commit Sin , yet this not being 
 neceffary in the Order of Caufes, but purely accidental ; God is here- 
 by freed from the Charge, at leaft, of being intentionally the Au- 
 thor of Sin. Bolides, we rauft diftinguiflj the A3 itfelf from the 
 Sin annex'd to it. The one is Phyfical, the other Moral ; the one 
 is good, the other evil j the one comes from God, in quality of the 
 firtt Mover, i Cr. xix. 6. the other from the Corruption of Man's 
 Heart, Gen. viii. 21. We muft not therefore accufe the firft 
 Caufe, but the fecond. The fivft is ever pure and conftant, the fe- 
 cond vicious and irregular. I confefs there are many Places in 
 Scripture, that feem to make againft us, but they are either to be 
 refolv'd into a bare Permiflion, where God a&eth not, but only ab- 
 ftains from acting, as PJal. xiv. 2. AR* iv. 28. Row. vii. 17. Jam. 
 i. 1 3. &c. Or into fomething more, namely, the Efficacy of his 
 infinite Power in the Providential Government of Mankind, as 2 
 Sam. xii. 11. xvi. 10, Prov. xx. 14. Jer x. 23. Ram. viii. 16. 
 Phil. ii. j. Thefe, I fay, cannot be look'd upon as a Fermiffion 
 only, but as the Efficacy of that Providence, that governs nil Thing?, 
 even thofe, that are moft free, and abfolute, the Hearts and Wills 
 of Men. For Men can do no more, and in no other Manner, thsn 
 what God hath decreed : He guideth them to his own Ends, yet
 
 the FATHER. 21 
 
 255. Like Man, who oft to his own Welfare blind, 
 Refigns his God, and is by Him refign'd, 
 To all that Tyrant Pafllon can fugged, 
 Or blackeft Image of his guilty Breaft. 
 
 Agent in all, but Sin, we thee declare, 
 260. Yet ftill from Labour free, and ftormy Care. 
 Eternal Reft is thine, and foft Repofe, 
 That bearing all Things, yet no PreiTure knows ; 
 And when difpleas'd at Man's ungrateful Sin, 
 Thou feem'ft to frown, ftill thou art Peace 
 
 within : 
 
 265. A 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 guideth He them according to that Nature which he hath put into 
 them. He caufeth good A&ions, He permitteth bad, He rules and 
 governs all, Proii. xix. 21. xxii. i. Ephef.i. 1 1. . But to 
 
 fay, that God's Antecedent Decrees fo over-rule the Wills and Ac- 
 tions of Men, as that they muft neceflarily fin, left his Decrees mould 
 be fruftrated ; this is not only to make God the Author of Sin, but 
 to reprefent him laying a Scheme for the Punimment of his Crea- 
 tures forcibly finning ; which can no more be reconciled with the 
 Ideas we have of his Juftice and Goodnefs, than to fay, he is the Au- 
 thor of Sin, can confift with the Attribute of Holinefs. Wherefore, 
 Jay not Thou, It is through the Lord that 1 fell away, for thou 
 oughteft not to do the Things which he hateth. Say not thou, He 
 hath caufed me to err ; for he hath 'no Need of the finful Man. 
 Ecclus xv. The Lord is righteous, and holj in all his IVajs. Pjal. 
 cxlv. 7. Deut. xxxii. 4. 2 Chron. xii. 6. i Sam. ii. a. Job 
 viii. 3. xxxiv. 10. xxxvi. 23. Pfal. xix. 7. xxii. 3. 
 
 V. 263. And iahen di filets' d) 
 
 Si forte admiflls irafcere noftris. 
 
 The Imperfection of our Faculties is fuch, that we are forc'd to 
 make ufe of fenflble Images and Reprefemations to fhadow out to 
 
 us
 
 28 To GOD 
 
 265. A gentle Calm plays fmoothly in thy Breaft, 
 And downy Eafe in its own Quiet bleft. 
 
 . Nor 
 ANNO TATIONS. 
 
 ns fpiritual Obje&s } and in Condefcenfion to this general Defect of 
 our Underftanding, God fpeaks to us after the Manner of Men, is 
 grieved, is turotb, &c. whereas 'tis impoffible for a pure and un- 
 compounded Spirit, fuch as God is, to be fubject to any Pajfion : 
 The proper Import of which Word denotes a State of fuffering, a 
 painful uneafy Senfation, which can only be the Refult of Imper- 
 fection. But God is perfect. ^..288. 
 
 V. 265. A gentle Calm ) 
 
 At reciuies tibl Jumma, tibi alt A 
 
 Otia ; tranquillaque Jolutus mente quiefcis. 
 The Epicurean Philofophers form'd their Notion of the Gods be- 
 ing fupinely idle and at Eafe, upon that (landing Maxim of theirs, 
 that Nihil fit beatum, ni/i quod cfuietum. Nothing can be happy , 
 tut 'what is at rejt. 
 
 Wherefore (ays Lucretius, 1. i. 
 Gmnis enim Dl'vum fer fe natura neceffe eft 
 Immortali tevo fumma. cum pace fruatur. 
 For whatfoe'er's Divine muft live in Peace, 
 In undifturb'd, and everlafting Eafe. 
 
 Creech. 
 
 And, left the intermedling with the Affairs of the World fhould 
 bring Cares, Troubles and Diftraftions upon them, he fays their Na- 
 ture muft be, 
 
 Semota ab noftris rebus, fejunftaque knge : 
 Far remov'd from us and our Affairs. 
 
 But tV>is is to circumfcribe the infinite Deity in the Pigure of a Man, 
 and to meafure all his Actions by the fame unworthy Model. What 
 can create any Trouble to that Being, who by a bare Intuition is ac- 
 quainted with all the Springs and Wheels of Nature, his own Work- 
 manfhip (<y. .22,7.) who perfectly knows the Frame of the Univerfe, 
 and with a Word, a Nod, a Thought, can direft and rule the whole ? 
 (w. 18^. ) And tho' we own him "absolutely perfect, and grant that 
 his Nature is 
 
 fyf* 
 
 v: : ":u:> woiAfS'oi &Mt,*,:ti*: .c .'A r.nr ^rnu sic 
 
 a;
 
 the FATHER. 29 
 
 ">:!^B|H| 
 
 Nor is lefs conftant, than ferene thy Mind, 
 
 irffliiL) 1i*M IIL'.} * tf-fi 
 
 Inconftancy belongs to Human Kind : 
 Thou art the fame for ever as to -Day : 
 270. Thy fourcelefs Beauties never can decay. 
 Full of* thy mighty felf, Nothing from thee 
 Is foreign, or eftrang'd ; whether to if, 
 Or not be, fuits not thy Divinity. 
 
 So 
 
 to LtO. A NNOTATIONS. y f [j [[& yi fr 
 ffja fuis pollens ofibu!, nihil indiga npflrl : 
 
 1 rf'Ji'i Eucret. 
 
 Sufficient to its own Felicity ; 
 
 and <onfequently, that he can reap no Advantage or additional Hap- 
 pmefs from his Creatures : Yet we cannot think that God, the moft 
 excellent of all Beings, wants fo amiable an Attribute, as Goodnejs, or 
 Benevolence ; and can he difpaly it clfewhere, than upon his Crea- 
 tures ? In a Word-, Shall not the Judge of the 'whole Earth do 
 Right ? Gen. xviii. 25. 
 
 /-*. 268. Nor is lefs conftant ) ! 
 
 l r jr : .:im fane ac mutablle 
 In Te non cadit, aut nojirn Inconfts.ntia mentis. 
 
 A Change in any thing muft either arife from fome difagree- 
 ing or diftincl: Principle in the Subjcft of it, or from fome Caufe 
 external to its Subject j but the Simplicity of God's Nature exempts 
 him from any Change in the former Rcfped, and his Selfexiftence 
 and Independency in the latter. As God the/efore is incapable of 
 various or different Forms of Exiftence at the Time Time, in which 
 his Uniformity confifts, '( f . 24.0. ) fo by the fame Way of Reafbn- 
 ing, he appears incapable of different Forms or Modes of Exiftence, 
 at different Times : Which fhews him immutable and always the 
 fame, without any Alteration. D.TW. vi. 26. Pfal. 'xxxiii. u. cii 
 27. Rom;i. 23. Heb. xiii. 8. i. 12. Jam. i. 17. 
 Thus changes Man, but God is conftant ftill ; 
 ' To thofc eternal Grounds that mov'd his Wilf. 
 
 Ct-w'ey.
 
 30 To G D 
 
 So rooted in thy feJf : nor Chance, nor Fate, 
 275 Can e'er demoliih thy eternal State. 
 
 Rich as thou art, when all the World is thine, 
 Yet all is but thy felf, thou Pow'r Divine. 
 And nothing can we add, or take from thee, 
 But what at once deftroys the Deity. 
 180. Thofe Wreaths of Light, that round thy Tem- 
 ples play, 
 
 Are all thy felf, Thou glorious Lord of Day. 
 j 3,, .When Life or Wifdom are to thee affign'd, 
 
 That Wifdom, Life, art thou, creating Mind. 
 
 Thou 
 
 lip \\\ .7TA4 -^ .... .awtlhi."' r.t; -' >. i-nr. ol ewn & : ir>8 f't o in 
 -ftvtD *:;! r-j--ii ntrt-; -o-^iv/ A\, .4 vitciiL iii .-;,.-. 
 
 ANNO TAT i ON s. 
 
 y. 18 2. When Life or Wifdom) 
 
 _ Ditto' vfoisy id ipjum eft 
 
 Vwere ; dum fapis, iffa iideto Jafientia Tec urn efl. 
 Whatever vital Powers we obferve in the Effeft, they muft of 
 Neceflity be more eminently in the Caufe : God only may be faid, 
 in the ftri&eft Scnfe, to Live, as operating independently, and ha- 
 ving Life in himfel Fid-des. Pfal. xxxvi. 9. 
 
 ^iW - l ^;ar'iw/%) 
 
 A general Demonftration of the infinite Knowledge and Wifdom 
 of GoJ, is taken horn his being the Creator of the World; (ij. 213.) 
 but if \ve confider farther in what Manner he has created it ; wbat 
 cxquifite Art and Contrivance is to be feen in the whole Frame of 
 the Univerfe ; if we obferve how wonderfully every thing is fitted to 
 attain the moft excellent and ufeful Ends t we (hall have a more par- 
 ticular Confirmation, and a ftronger Evidence of this divine Attribute 
 from Experience, and Matter of baft. Every fingle Part of the Uni- 
 niverfe, which falls under our Cognizance and Enquiry, will fhe\y
 
 the FATHER. 31 
 
 Thou immenfe, incorporeal Spirit pure, 
 285. Dependent on, and in thy fe]f fecure, 
 
 Firm thy Refolves, thy Ways are ever fure. 
 For Wifdom infinite ne'er fought Relief 
 From fad Repentance, or reluctant Grjef T . 
 
 Lfbiriu c f/2)fi\'d_na faniM v<" '. And 
 
 AM NOT ATIONS. 
 
 fhaw wkh what admirable Defign it was made, and proclaim the 
 Knowledge and Wifdom of its Maker. "Job ix. 4. xii. 13. xxxvi. 
 5. PfaL cxlvii. ?. Rom. xi. 33. 
 
 V. 187. For Wifdom infinite ) 
 
 Nee Te cperum figet Auftorem, non panitet unquam. 
 
 In Gen. vl. 6. Exod. xxxii. 14. i S^TH. xv. 1 1. Jer. XV. 6. 
 Grf is faid to Repent ; but Numb, xxiii. 1 9. i Sam. xv. 19. jfaw. 
 i. 4. 'tis faid, That Gad^ the Strength of Ifrael, is net a Man that 
 be fliould lye or repent t and that <u)ith kirn there is no Variablenefs 
 or Shadow of Turning. To" reconcile thefe Places therefore, we muft 
 refolve the former into the Figures Metonymy, whereby the Caufe is 
 put for the Eflfeft ; and s?ithrof>opathia, whereby human Pafltons 
 are Improperly afcrib'd unto God. (v. 260.) I fay, improperly, for 
 otherwife it would argue either a Defect in his Wifdom and Know- 
 ledge, in that he did not at firft fee what was beft and fitteft j or 
 in his Power, in that feeing it, he was not able to e'ffeci it, and 
 that his Counfel is not abfolute, but depends upon fecondary Caufes\ 
 Whereas God is infinitely wife, ( r v. i8z. ) and powerful, (v. 185.) 
 If therefore God wills at\any Time to change his own Ad, (as our 
 Author here reprefents him) yet is there no Change of his Will ; hi 
 Manner only of Adminiftration or Working is chang'd j his Prefcience 
 or Counfel remaining ftill immutable. So the Interminations of 
 God, as in the Cafe of the Nineiiites and of Jeconiah, Jer. xxii. 
 30, cjfr. are interpreted to imply a fecret Condition of Repentance, 
 in Confequence of which God may be fuppofed, or may oblige 
 himfelf by fome fecret Determination of his Will, to remit them. 
 Heb, vi. 1 7. For, (as Dr. Fiddes obferves) the Freedom of the Di- 
 vine Will imports fo perfect and abfolute Freedom of Choice, that 
 all requifite Circumftances being rightly difpos'd for Aftion, and the 
 
 Under.
 
 3 2 To G D 
 
 And when thou feem'ft to have withdrawn thy 
 
 Hand, 
 And Works, thine own confell, unfinifh'd 
 
 Hand; 
 
 'Tis ftill thy better Purpofe to fulfill ; 
 Thy Mind unbyafs*d, unreftrain'd thy Will. 
 
 J^ ( Thy Will the fame as now, and thy Decree 
 Stood fix'd the fame from all Eternity. 
 
 295. As when with pious Hands we ftrip the Mead, 
 And cull the Beauties of each flow'ry Bed, 
 Which into artful Rows, or Ringlets wove, 
 Adorn thy Temple, and mew forth our Love -, 
 So the coherent Chain of Things proclaim 
 
 300. A Caufe eternal, and a Mind fupreme : 
 
 Whence all Events in clofe Connexion join, 
 
 so j iL j In- 1b(i 'v. '7; T 1 Jj.. 
 
 Nor from their flated Caufes e'er decline : 
 
 ^Lims} 'twit . 
 (#i-t To this Contingents too may be rererr d, 
 
 tuo .).'. ?iwo ja 'g^fifb ni 3-niT vrj,.*,.' 
 
 As in their Motions all this End regard : 
 
 For 
 
 4fefc%^M%i: i-'W.w.A--'^? W -..:. 
 . ) i*-i '. 
 
 ANN o T ATIONS. 
 
 I 
 
 ^ 
 
 Undeiftanding having previoufly decermin'd concerning the Propriety 
 or Fitnefs of it, God may ftill proceed at Pleafure to aft, or may 
 wholly fufpend Action. Afts ii. 23. iv. 18. Efhef. i. 9.
 
 the FATHER. 33 
 
 305. For not a lifelefs Hair falls from our Head, 
 Without thy Knowledge, nor a Leaf is flied. 
 Vain then are they, who Chance, or Fate, adore 5 
 Who cringe to Fortune ', or revere her Pow'r ; 
 
 D Ideal 
 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 y. 305. Tor not a lifelefs Hair ) 
 
 Ut non e noftro cadat ullus verticg erinis 
 Te fine, non ulU infylvis ex arbore frondes. 
 
 Gocfs Providence is as general as his Creation, governing all things 
 by the fame infinite Power by which they were made ; or foon, (as 
 we before obferved) would this glorious Fabric of the World, and the 
 great Family, and rich Furniture thereof fall into Confufion : But 
 not a Lilly grows in the Field, (Matth. vi. iS.) not a Drop finks 
 from the Clouds, (Dent. XT. 14.) nor a Hair falls from our Heads, 
 (Mattb. x. 30.) without the Eye of Previdente. Every Grafs hath 
 Meafuie j the Sands of the Sea are number'd j the whole difpofing 
 of a Lot are in the Hand of the Lord. Prov.xvi. 33. Matt. vi. 30. 
 
 V, 307. Vain then ai" e they) . Cafus 
 
 Eft nihil, et Fortune riihil, nifi nomina vana, 
 Qiue fumas infrmis ctmmenti fenjtbtu ifjt. 
 
 Cicero observes, that Nihil eft tarn ctbfurdum, quod non aliquis e 
 Philofopkis offer at ', There is nothing Co abfurd, but that fome one 
 of the Philofophers have afTerted it. And indeed, what can be more 
 fo, than to impute the Creation of the World to Chance, a fortui- 
 tous Concourfe of Atoms, and I know not what ? Can any thing 
 be more vain and idle, than to deny a Providence ? Or, with Ari- 
 jlotle, confine it within the Moon's Orb, leaving Nothing below to 
 its Diredion ? But thefe Extravagancies have been juftly exploded, 
 and their Patrons fufficiently confuted. 
 
 See LaEtanf. de Ira. 10. 
 
 Dominus halet TejHmenium totum htc quid fumus, et quo fumus. 
 
 Tertull. 
 
 By the Teftimony of the Creature we corns to the Knowledge of an 
 Eternal, Independent Being, by whom all Things elfe are govern'd, 
 
 and,
 
 34 To G D 
 
 Ideal Shades ! mere Creatures of the Mind, 
 310. With impious Maxims fraught, or Frenzy blind. 
 
 The many Caufes, that conceaPd we own 
 
 From us, were to thy Omniprefcience known, 
 
 Before 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 and Upon whom they depend. From hence, namely, from the ex- 
 cellent Order and Difpofltion of the Univerfc, the Steicks tock the 
 Notion of their TIVtV[JUtT@^ Wf xj isv$ uJltts ; Intelligent and fiery 
 Spirits, Anaxagoras his Nf, Mind; (fee Note on Creech's Lucrer. 
 i. 78. ) Hence Pythagoras, Plato, Trifmegijlus , and others, believ'd 
 the World to be endued with a rational Soul : And hence, every 
 good and honeft Man has Reafbn to believe a Providence, a God t 
 who is the Difpofer of all Things, and who, being juft nnd 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 Tv%ti, but fuppos'd that all Things were crder'd by a 
 certain Decree, which he calls Mo7fP' And moft of the ancient Phi- 
 lofbphers, who mention her, will not allow her to do any thing of 
 her own Power, but as fhe is the Minifter of Fate, or Providence' 
 Virgil indeed not only acknowledg'd her, but gave her Omnipotence 
 (jEn. viii. 334.) Pindar, (Glym, Od. 12.) and Horace, (1. i.od. 35.) 
 pay her the fame Refpeft. But Juvenal more wifely denies her 
 Heaven. 
 
 Te fafimuS) Fortttna, Dcam, caloque locamus. 
 Fortune was never worfhip'd by the wife, 
 BU; fet aloft by Fools, ufurps the Skies. Dryden. 
 
 And our Author gives her t'other Lift out of the World; 
 Eft Fortuna nihil. 
 
 V. 311. The many Caufes ) 
 
 We meet indeed with many Difficulties 1 in the Oeconomy of Pro- 
 vidence j fuch as the Fall of Adam, the Propagation of S/, Sec. for 
 itfeems to us more juft, that God in his Gdodnefs mould have pre- 
 vented the Fall of his Creature, or at leaft mould have ftifled this Evil 
 in its Birth, and not have fuffer'd it to fpread thro* all the Pofterity of 
 idam : fb that Man is born to Mifery, as the Sparks fly upwards, Job 
 V. 7. Add to this, the ftrange ConfufionandDifbrders that happen in the 
 
 World,
 
 . 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 $ 
 or when the wicked perfecute the righteous : But all thefe feeming 
 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 
 Ways higher than your Ways^ and my Thoughts thnnyour Thoughts. 
 lv. 8. 
 
 V. 3zj. For who the fecret Counfels ) 
 
 Quis mentem abflrufam, quis Numinis aha profundi 
 Conjilia exfloret ? latet injcrutabilis ordo>
 
 36 To G D 
 
 325. The abftrufe 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 Recefies have I pry'd ? 
 What diftant Regions of the W'orlddefcry'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. 
 
 *Tis manifeft from the foregoing Obfervation, that God is incom- 
 prehenfible, not only in his Nature, but alfo in his Operations and 
 Properties : For as there is an infinite Diftance between a finite Un- 
 derftanding and an infinite one, fuch as God's is ; fo the Thoughts 
 of an infinite Underftanding muft infinitely furpafs the Thoughts of a 
 finite one, fuch as is ours. Dent. xxix. 29. 'job v. 8. xi. 7. xxiii. 
 *. xxx vi. i6. xxxvii. 3
 
 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. 
 
 y. 339. that thott haft vijlted ) 
 
 Our Author feems here 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 *deum venerat. Sulp. Sev. And v. 21. I will go down, faith 
 the Lord, and fee whether they have done altogether according tt the 
 Cry that is come unto me. Like which, and probably borrowed 
 from it, (note on OdyfT xvi. 170.) are thofe PafTages in Homer ; 
 
 0801 %(*VOiflV CO/KoTg; 
 
 fipiv re wvoptw yo$uvis. 
 
 OJyf. I. 490. 
 
 They, curious oft of mortal Aftions, deign 
 
 In Forms like thefe, to round the Earth and Main, 
 
 juft and unjutl recording in their Mind, 
 
 And with fure Eyes infpefting all Mankind. Poft, 
 
 And Ovid. Summo delabor Olympo, 
 
 Et Dens humana lujire fub imagine forma. 
 
 Met- 
 
 The Clamours of this vile degenerate Age, 
 The Cries of Orphans, and th* Oppreflbr's Rage, 
 Had reach'd the Stars : I will defcend, faid Jove, 
 Difguis'd in human Shape, in Hope to prove 
 This loud Complaint a Lye. . - Dry den. 
 
 And fo Milton, J. ix. When God, or Angel gueft 
 With Man as with his Friend, familiar us'd 
 To fit indulgent, and with him partake 
 Rural Repaft, permitting him the while 
 Menfal Difcourfe unblam'd. ., - 
 
 And I . xii. God oft defcends to vifit Men 
 
 Unfeen, and through their Habitations walks. 
 To mark their Doings. < <
 
 38 To G D 
 
 And ask'd, in fuppliant Pofture, if fhe knew 
 Thy facred Coverts, or thy Paths cou'd mew ? 
 
 345. Loft in the Wind, my Words no Anfwer found ; 
 She on her Axis filent keeps her Round, 
 Self-balanc'd in the circumambient Air, 
 Still as fhe rolls, prefenting Scenes moft fair. 
 Here faw I Flow'rs, that broider fragrant Beds, 
 
 350. With lovely Hue, or rear their flour ifh'd Heads ; 
 Wild Plants, and Trees, that from the feedlefs 
 
 Ground 
 Spring, and their fruitful Branches fpread a- 
 
 round, 
 
 Or with fweet Blofibms fcent the wholfome Sky, 
 As dift'rent Seafons different Forms fupply. 
 
 355. Variety. 
 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 V. 349> Here fata I Flowers) 
 
 M. de Fonttnelle, in his Plurality of Worlds^ fancies himfelf fuf- 
 pcnded in the Air without Motion, while the Earth turns round un- 
 der him in Twenty four Hours i and he diverts himfelf with the in- 
 finite Variety of Things that appear upon the Face thereof s We 
 muft here fuppofe our Author in the fame Place and Pofture, but 
 in a more ferious Humour, and to better Purpofe. 
 
 V. 351. Ill At from the feedlefs Ground) 
 
 De nullo femine plantas. 
 I fuppofe our Author read with N. Htinjius, 
 
 Virg. Georg. i, *z.
 
 the FATHER. 39 
 
 355. Variety of Creatures now invite, 
 
 And with their beauteous Liveries pleafe the 
 
 Sight, 
 That creep the Ground, or wing the Air, or 
 
 wild 
 
 In Foreft wonn, or pafture in the Field. 
 360. All which to Nature's certain Laws are prone, 
 And propagate no Species but their own. 
 Thus Flow'rs, Trees, Brutes, their mighty Ma- 
 
 ker fpeak, 
 
 And from 'Thee only Prefervation feek, 
 Thee, God of Nature's felf, if me can claim 
 
 More than a Shadow, or an empty Name. 
 
 D 4 365. But 
 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 V. 363. Tkee, God of Nature's Self) 
 
 m . Atque ipftus origo 
 
 N*tur* t Ji eiuicquam ilia eft nip nomen inane. 
 
 'Tis thought by fome, that the Scope of the Leviathan in Jol xlf. 
 (fuppos'd an AfTemblage of the Powers and Properties of all Crea- 
 tures) is to inform us, that we can no ways comprehend, how all 
 Beings are renew'd in the World in their fucceflive Generations j 
 nor how the natural Faculties, which we obferve in Creatures, arc 
 in them, or begin to be. But we may be aflur'd 'tis the Work of God, 
 who is the Author of that very Nature, which Lucretius vainly fays, 
 creates, nourifljeth, and prefervetb all Things, 1. i. v. 51. For, as 
 Cicero argues, Nihil eft pr<eftantius Deo. Ab eo igitur mundum regi 
 necejje eft. Nulli igitur eft nature tbediens aut Jubjeftus Deus : Om- 
 nem ergo regit iffe naturara. Laftant. i. 6. Nothing is more excel. 
 lent than God. By Him thereforemuft the World be govern'd. God 
 is not obedient or fubjed to any Nature i He therefore governs, or 
 is Lord over all Nature,
 
 40 To G D 
 
 365. But ah ! in vain through all this fpacious View, 
 We thy great Hight of Majefty perfue : 
 Still all we fee, is fated to decay, 
 And doom'd to all -devouring l^me, his Prey. 
 
 The Earth I leave, and to the Seas repair, 
 370. Lafhing with ventr'ous Wings the yielding Air ; 
 Becaufe, before the fprightly Lamp of Light 
 Broke from the dark Abyfs of humid Night, 
 Thy Spirit gfcmc'd o'er Cbao's dusky Face, 
 And faintly glimmer'd on the watry Mafs. 
 375. Down, down I plunge, defirous ftill to know, 
 If the Almighty holds the Deep below. 
 
 Moun- 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 r. 367. Still all vitfee) 
 
 $am tuere hte circwn t &c. Lucret. v. 318. 
 
 Look round and view that fpacious Traft of Sky, 
 In whofe Embrace our Earth, and Waters lie, . 
 Tis furely mortal All. Cnech. 
 
 P. 373- T h Spirit glanc'd) 
 
 Our Author here alludes to Gen. i. a. where what Mofes had be- 
 fore call'd the Deep, he now calls Waters ; meaning thofe fluid Parts 
 of the confufed Mafs, that being lighteft, were uppermoft. Now the 
 Spirit of God thus moved upon the Waters, that by its Incubation 
 (for fo the Word rawed fignifies in the Original, and is accordingly 
 render'd by Milton : ,. On the watry Calm 
 
 His brooding Wmgs the Spirit of God out-fprtad) 
 TK might not only feparate the Parts of this confufed Mafs, but give 
 them a vivifa Pirtue to produce what was coruaia'd in them.
 
 the FATHER. 41 
 
 Mountainous Heaps of Water I furvey, 
 
 That dreadful Monflers, hideous Forms difplay , 
 
 Whales of enormous Size the Waves divide, 
 
 3 80. And fportful from their Noftrils fpout a Tide. 
 Swift racing here in Shoals the leffer Frie 
 Cut with fhort Silver Wings the liquid Sky 5 
 Tho'Thoufandsperifli, Thoufands ftill furvive, 
 And ftill the propagated Species live, 
 
 385. In Number many ; as the Kinds that fleer 
 Thro* the wide Ocean of the tracklefs Air, 
 Or wander in the Fields, four-footed Race, 
 Or ftreak the flimy Ground with finuous Trace. 
 But what more wond'rous than the primal Caufe, 
 
 390. That binds thefe Waters to refiftlefs Laws ! 
 
 Twice 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 y. 382. I have borrow'd a Metaphor or two here from Coiuley, 
 as the liquid Sky, the Ocean of the Air ; and he probably had them 
 from Lutretius and Virgil. Lucr. fpcaking of Birds, fays, /.vi.f. 743. 
 
 Remigii oblit* pennarum vela, remittunt. 
 
 1. 5. _.. A'iris in magnum fertur mare , 
 
 So Vlrg. AUn. vi. 15- Dadalus 
 
 Prxpetibus fennis attfus fe credere ceelt 
 Infuetum fer iter gelidos enavit ad Arftos. 
 
 V. 19. Remigiutn alarum. 
 
 ^n.iii.v. 510. yelorum fandimus alas.
 
 42 To G O D 
 
 Twice, e'er the Sun revolving kindles Day, 
 And either World has mourn'd his abfent Ray, 
 Waves rolling after Waves, fwell high the rifing 
 
 Tide, 
 
 And twice fwing back, and in their Channel 
 glide. 
 
 395. Thefe above all their grateful Voices raife, 
 And loud proclaim their great Creator's Praife. 
 But all I fee, I know ; and know them vain, 
 And mortal all ; a momentary Reign ! 
 Still mufti feek that/wr, eternal Light ; , 
 
 400. That fits unfeen amidft excefllve Bright. 
 
 Hence from the watry to th' aerial Skies, 
 With pious Hopes elate, I boldly rife, 
 . And thro* the vaft Expanfion wing my Way ; 
 
 If Chance, thy Pleafure here is to difplay 
 4.05. Thy glorious Self, and providential Care, 
 In the foft Bofom of the fubtile Air. 
 Here clam'rous Winds exert their boift'rous 
 
 Rage, 
 All fierce their bluff ring Brethren to engage. 
 
 Hera 
 
 AN NOT A T I O NS. 
 
 V. 400. That Jtts unfeen} Job xxvi. 9. i Tim. vi. 16
 
 the FATHER. 43 
 
 Here mifty Vapours, Exhalations rife, 
 410. That darken with their flaggy Wings the Skies-, 
 Till, when the Air no longer can fuftain 
 Itsunpois'd Burthen, they defcend in Rain, 
 Or gather'd into fleecy Snow, they fpread 
 A Virgin Whitenefs o'er the glift'ring Mead, 
 415. Or into Hail condens'd, with rattling Sound 
 
 Pour down, and pearly Corns rebound from 
 
 Ground. 
 
 Here thro* riv'n Clouds the livid Lightning plays, 
 And fwiftly darts to Earth the bearded Blaze : 
 Here awful Peals of mutt'ring Thunder roll, 
 420. That fhake with wholfome dread the humble 
 Soul. 
 
 All 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 y. 415. Concretique inftar falis horrida grando, 
 
 You may guefs my Aim in the Run of thefe Verfcs, and judge of 
 the Execution as you pleafe. . .-.," 
 
 V- 410. Q<eque mouent humiles audita. tonltruft mentes- 
 
 Tho' fome (qui numerum perfeEltf infant* cowpleverunt. Laftant.) 
 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 
 fiich like dreadful Phenomena. : as Epicurus, of whom Lucretius fays 
 
 boafting, Non falmlna, nee mlriitanti murmure t comprejjit cee- 
 
 Iwn, Not all the Thunders of the threat'ning Sky 
 
 Could flop his rifing Soul. 
 
 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 Aftion 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 Effefts whatfoever are more 
 apt to imprefs ,on our Minds Divine Fear j as the fame Lucretiu* 
 owns. I- V. Cui non animus formidine divum contrahitur ? 6cc. 
 
 What Mind's unmaken, and what Soul's not aw'd, 
 And who not thinks the vengeful Gods abroad, 
 Whofe Limbs not (brink, when dreadful Thunder hurl'd 
 From broken Clouds, (hakes the affrighted World > 
 What ! do not Cities, Kings, and Nations fear ? 
 
 Creech. 
 
 n .. Nonne perfpicuum eft ex prtma admirations kominum, quod 
 tonhrua jaftufque fulmmum extimuijtfent, credid'tffe en efficert rerum 
 mnium prtpftentem govern ? Cic. de Nat. Deor. ii. 
 
 So Luc an Per fulmina. tantum 
 
 Sciret adhuc folum eels regnare ttnantem* 
 
 From Horace. Cah tonantem credimus govern regnare. 
 Jwe by his Thunder fpeaks himfelf in Heaven. 
 
 r. 4*6 ) I find fince my Note on a;. 133. that others are of Opi- 
 nion, that the Rainbow did not appear before the Flood, as having 
 no fuch Ufe or End then, as it has had ever fince ; and that, if it did, 
 the Sight of it would have been but poor Comfort to Noah and his 
 timorous Pofterity, whofe Fear left the like Inundation might happen 
 again, was greater than could be taken away by any common or 
 ufual Sign. But this is fcarce fo 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, 
 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 jEther high enthron'd 
 Above the Convex of this immenfe Round 5 
 435. Zealous I'll thro' the pureft^Etherftray, 
 
 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. 
 
 P. 439- Ftsd thefe) They are call'd the Fix'd Stars, becaufe 
 they obferve, (or at leaft feem to us to obfervc) the fame invariable 
 Diftance from one another, and from the Ecliptick : They run not 
 thro" one Degree of the Ecliptick fooner than in 71 r. 19 D. i* H. 
 
 V. 440. And regularly move ) 
 
 'Tis obfervable, that the Stoics aflerted and prov'd the Divine Pro. 
 vidence by the very Argument which the Epicuerans brought to op- 
 jpofe ir. Lueret. Y. ii$i 
 
 Prtttre*
 
 4<5 To G D 
 
 Hence Day and Night in grateful Turns appear, 
 And Seafons as they change compleat the Year. 
 Spring iffues 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, ftill 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 furpafiing Radiance mone, 
 Round whom the vulgar Conftellations lead 
 Their circling Dance, confeffing him their Head. 
 
 Full 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 Pr^terea cceli rationes tempora verti, &c. 
 
 Befides, they faw the Heav'ns in Order roll, 
 Their various Motions round the fteady Pole, 
 The Seafons of the Year by conftant Laws, 
 Run round, but knowing not the nat'ral Caufe, 
 They therefore thought that Gods might rule above ! 
 Poor Shift! &c. 
 
 At mibi tarn frtfens ratio non ulla vidttur, &c. 
 
 Manil. i. 475. 
 
 The Stars ftill keep one Courfe ; they ftill perfue 
 
 Their conftant Track, nor vary in a new : 
 
 "From one fix'd Point they ftart, their Courfe maintain, 
 
 Repeat the Whirl, andvifit it again. 
 
 A mofr, convincing Reafon drawn from Senfe, 
 
 That this vaft Frame is rul'd by Pre r vidence t 
 
 Which like the Soul, does ev'ry Whirl advance. 
 
 It muft be God, nor was it made by Chance. 
 
 Creech,
 
 the F At HER. 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 Ihines, like lefier Stars, with furtive Beams. 
 Still feek I, tho* with Darknefs flill opprefl, 
 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 AlmigUfs Throne, 
 465. In minifterial Order wait his Will, 
 
 And duteous all his great Behefts fulfill : 
 Be it to turn a feveral Orb, or Sphere, 
 Or guide the Planets in their fwift Career. 
 
 I 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 I". 467. Be it to tarn ) 
 
 Juffeque rotatu 
 
 Sidera perpetuo torment volventia mundi. 
 Aftive as fome Mind that turns a Sphere. Cowley 
 According to the old Opinion, that the Heavens were divided in- 
 to fcveral Orbs or Spheres i 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, 
 Whofe brighter Glories fpokeHim Sovereign Lord. 
 They all exclaim, and humbly he decries 
 My Creature- Worihip, 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 
 <c 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 our Cldhxm calls 'em, (fome- 
 what too ludicroufly) Turnfpit Angels. 
 
 V. 474. Thy all exclaim) 
 
 Omnes indamant : in priinis verbit precnntis 
 Iffe arcet y refngitque bnmilis t citt Thura pareibara. 
 
 Alluding to thefe Words of St. John ; And I jtll at k'ts Feet ta 
 tvfrjhip him, and be fad unto me $ Stf than d it not, I am thy 
 fellow Servant, &c. Wor(ln$ God. Rev. xix. 10. 
 
 Neque Angeli, cum fnt immortales, did fe Dets atit fatluntur nut 
 volunt. Quorum unum folumijue officitim fervire nutibus Dei y nee 
 tmnino ejuiiijuam^ mji juffit t facere. Laftant. ii. 16. 
 
 The Angels, immortal as they are, neither defire, nor will /uffer 
 themfelves to be called Gods ; it beino their Bufinefsonly to obey the 
 Will of God, and to do nothing but by his Command.
 
 the FATHER. 49 
 
 He faid, and ftrait in Praifeof the moftHigh, 
 480. Triumphant Hallelujahs charm the Sky ; 
 
 No Voice exempt ; 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 : ) 
 485. " Thou Father, Greateft, Beft, whofe fertile 
 
 Thought, 
 
 " And Mind reflective thine own Image wrought; 
 " Likenefs exprefs from Thee was form'd, but 
 
 How, 
 
 " Neither may Man enquire, nor Angels know ; 
 
 u As arc the inmoft Thoughts of Man, conceal'd, 
 
 490. " Which yet the babbling Tongue has not re- 
 
 " veal'd 
 
 " But Simile is vain, and ufelefs here, 
 c< Since all its little Arts can never clear 
 
 E > The 
 
 AKNOT ATIO NS. 
 
 V. 48?. Wfafe fertile Thought) 
 
 Tu de faicunda. mente volutans 
 CtHcipis ipfe tui exsmplum. 
 
 We muft not look upon the Divine Nature as fteril, but rather 
 acknowledge the Fecundity and Communicability of itfelf ; upon 
 which the Creation of the World depends : God making all Things 
 by his Word, to whom he firft communicated that Omnipotency 
 which is ths Caufe of all Things. Bp. Pearfsn.
 
 50 To G D 
 
 " The Word ineffable : that came from Thee 
 " Alone, and has been ever, and muft ever be. 
 
 495. <c Therefore, Eternal as thou art, and One, 
 " Yet ever dwellswith Thee thine only Son, 
 " Both reign Omnipotent ; are both immenle, 
 c Of equal Glory, Pow'r, and Excellence : 
 " Both breathe eternal Love, with equal Mind, 
 
 500. " And equal Thought effentially conjoin'd: 
 
 " From whence proceeds the Spirit 9 God confeft : 
 " (Great Myftery, not by Words to be exprefs'd) 
 " Who reigneth with the Father, and the Son, 
 " Omnipotent, Eternal, iTyree in One -, 
 
 505. In 
 ANNOT ATI.ONS. 
 
 P. 505. Ikret in One) 
 
 The Jeius themfelves, as well before cur Saviour'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 
 likewise found to reftrain this Plurality to a Trinity : Numb. vi. 24, 
 I fa., vi.j. xxxiii. 22. Dan. ix. 19. Hof. xii. 5. Concerning the Son, 
 Pfal. ii. 7. xlv. 6. ex. i. Prov. viii. 13. xxx. 4. Concerning the Ho- 
 fy Gbojt, Gen. i. 2. vi. 3. Numb. xi. 25, 2 Sam. xxiii. 2. PJal. xxxiii. 
 6. Laftly of the Three Perfons together. Gen. i. i, 26. xxxfii. 22. 
 ix. 7. If a. xi. i. xlviit. 16. lix. ij. Jxi. i. And not to mention 
 Plate, and other ancient Philofophers, who arc fuppos'd to have bor- 
 rowed the Belief of a Trinity from the Jews, (fee Dr. Cudvjorth /*- 
 tell. Syfi. p. 46. Grot, de Rel. Chrijt. \. 21.) the wifeft, greateft, 
 and beft of Men in all Ages, have fubmitted to this myfterious Doc- 
 trine ; as having upon Examination found nothing in it contrary to 
 Reafbn, how far foever it be above it. But there are fome, who 
 ftill affirm, that they cannot, nay, that they are not required to be- 
 lieve any further than what they know, or have Ideas of; and con- 
 
 fequcnt/y
 
 the FATHER. 51 
 
 505 " In Nature, One ; in Perfonality 
 
 " Diftinft 3 harmonious, wond'rous Unity ! 
 
 E 2 As 
 
 ANNO T ATIONS. 
 
 fequently reje& this Doftrine. But if any one of thefe mould fall in 
 my Way, and would condefccnd to hear a Reply, I think, I thould 
 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 mould" we know what we believe, and what 
 not ? But if by Idem you mean Conceptions, and that you cannot 
 believe any' further than you can comprehend, as how Three intelligent 
 stgents, or dijiinft Perfons, can be in firitt Union together, fubftjling 
 in one undivided Effence ; you confound Faith and Kmiukdge, you 
 make Reafea the Meafure of all Truth, and are therefore, Iprefume, 
 in an Error. 
 
 Befides, if you have no Intereft in rejecting this Doftrine, nor can 
 expeft any Advantage, but on the contrary, it may poffibly hurt youj 
 Cnce this is to reject the Scriptures, the undoubted Word of God, 
 why mould you not take the fureft and fafeft Side > But why men- 
 tion I the Scriptures ? you will fay ; There is no fuch Word as 7V/- 
 nity to be found therein : Mere Chicanery this ! For tho* the Word 
 itfelf, being Latin, cannot be found in the Originals, which are He~ 
 Ireiu and Greek, yet if what is to be underftood by this Word be 
 found therein, and 'tis one principal Defign of the New Teftameni, 
 we have a Right to ufe it. Now the Scripture fays, There is but one 
 God, but at the fame Time gives the Names and Properties that 
 are eflential to God, to Three diftinct Perfons : From hence then 
 \ve 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 prefent, yet neverthelefs demands our Aflent, as the 
 Infinity ofGod,S(.c. To believe, and to mew our Faith by our Warks, 
 is our only Bufinefs ; and we have all Authority imaginable for fb 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 
 fmifla'd by the Holy Gboft, Three Perfons and One God, blefled for 
 ever. Exod. xxiii. 20, with i Cor. x. 9. John i. i. v. 18. xiii. 31, 
 xiVi ;o. xvii. 5. xyiii. 18. Phil. ii. 6. i John v. 7.
 
 5* To G D 
 
 " As thou art God, the Son, and Spirit the fame, 
 " Yet both in Manner of Exiftence, claim 
 " A relative Diftin&ion : Neither Son, 
 510. " Nor Holy Spirit art Thou ; but God alone 
 " Of all the Head, &nd Father; before Thee 
 " Was none, nor other God fhall ever be. 
 " For God is One, with triple Honours crown'd, 
 " And in eternal Glory high enthron'd. 
 
 ' " Moft 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 V. 509. A Relative DiftinEl'un ) 
 
 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 Sonjhip to the 
 Holy Ghojt. The three Perfons are alike in every Thing except the 
 Relations of Father, Son, and Holy Gboft -, which diftinguifii them, 
 and are incommunicable amongft them. See the following Note. 
 
 V. 511. Of all the Head and Father) 
 
 As there can he but one Eflence properly divine, and fo but one 
 God of infinite Power, Wifdom, and Majefty ; as there can be but 
 one Perfen originally of Himfelf fubfifting in that infinite Being } fo 
 the very Generation of the Son, and the Proceffion of the Holy Ghoft, 
 undeniably prove that neither of thofe two can be that Perfbn 5 for 
 whoever is generated, muft be from Him, which is theGenitor, and 
 whoever proceeded), muft be from him from whom he procecdeth : 
 Whatever the Nature of that Generation or Proceffitn 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 the Origin, the Root, the Fountain, and the Head of the Son t 
 or of the whole Divinity, i Cor. xi. 5. 
 
 TH capitis Cafut, et frimi TH fontis origo, Hilar. 
 And here we may obferve, that wberefbever God hath been ac- 
 knowledg'd, he hath been underftood and worlhip'd as a Father t 
 tmd fo all the Heathen Poets defcribe him :
 
 the FATHER. 53 
 
 515. " Mofl mighty Lord, at whofe majefticNod, 
 " 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, 
 
 3 Oh 
 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 HATH? AvJifuv TI Giuvr% Horn. 
 
 Di<vttmc[ue Hominumeiue Pater, Rex. Enn. 
 Divum Pater, atque Hominunt Rex. Virg. &V. 
 
 And the Scriptures diftinguifli him by this Name in Jfa. Ixiii. id. 
 Ixiv. 8. Mai. i. 6. ii. io- Mattk. vii. 9. xii. 50. xxviii. 19. John 
 v. 26. vi. 57* xiv. 28. xx. 17. Rom, viii. M. I Ccr. viii. 6. a Cw. 
 i. 3. Ef&tf.i 3. iv. 6. i Pff. i. 3. Jam. i. 18, i Jehn'ti. i. 
 
 K 515. At whofe majeftic Nod) 
 
 Cuntfa fupercilio yuatiens - 
 
 At quern Dettm ? fays Terence, Em. iii. 5 
 
 Qui templa. call fumma nutu concutit. 
 And Virg. &n. ix. 106. 
 
 Annuit t et totum nutu treme fecit Olymf urn. 
 Prom that grand and venerable Defcription of Ju^iier^ in Hi 
 Wir, II. i. 
 
 ^H, 3^ ^y*J'i(r/j' I* I 
 
 He fpoke, and awful bends his fable Brows ; 
 Shakes his Ambrofial Curls, and gives the Nod, 
 The Stamp of Fate, and Sanftion of the God. 
 High Heav'n with trembling the dread fignal took, 
 And all Olympus to the Centre ftiook. Poft*
 
 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 ruining 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, 
 
 JBy the Etbenal Virtues is outlhone : 
 
 . V~*;i ^W}'.', 5 ;.*..-), t_ybT # .'. - 
 
 But 
 ANNOTATIONS 
 
 V. J2i. Tkat A*gelt Jee) 
 
 Luctm yuam cernunt clarius ifjt. 
 
 Ye Sons of Light, 
 
 Angels ! for ye behold Him Milt.
 
 the FATHER. 55 
 
 But Sun and Stars, and artificial Day, 
 540. And Virtues at thy Prefence fade away. 
 
 Whence if fome ilreamy 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 plealing 
 
 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 pathlels A,ir : 
 
 E 4 Fait 
 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 V. 540. And Virtues at thy Prefence ) 
 
 To the majeftic Prefence of God we may apply thofe beautiful Ex- 
 preffions in Holy Writ. Bekold 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,
 
 56 To G D 
 
 Faft we perfue, the Object fafter flies, 
 And all in pitchy Dark environ'd lies. 
 555. Yet, flill thy facred Shade attracts the Sight, 
 And feeds the laboring 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 polifh'd Glafs, 
 In various Shapes the dancing Image plays : 
 So look we not to Heav'n our God to know, 
 But judge, from thy Imprefiions here below, 
 
 Thy 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 y. 553. Faft we ferfue) 
 
 Here the Mind (fays Mr. Aidifon\ heaves a Thought now and 
 then towards God, and hath feme tranfient Glances of his Prefence : 
 When in the Inftant it thinks itfelf to have the fafteft Hold, the Ob- 
 >e& eludes its Expectations, and it falls back to the Ground tired and 
 baffled. IVtfJ. xiii. 
 
 f. 5J+- d*d all in fitcfy Dark') 
 
 ' Ttta fubtrabis or a 
 Nube tegem, pice.tque involvis nubts amiftu. 
 
 , How oft amidft 
 
 Thick Clouds and black, doth Heav'n's all-ruling Sire 
 Chufe to rcfide, his Glory unobfcur'd f 
 And with the Mnjefty of Darknefs round 
 Cover his Throne ? Milt.
 
 the FATHER. 5l 
 
 565. Thy great and mighty Pow'r : yet none can tell 
 In what thy Greatnefs, or thy Pow'r excell : 
 Nor higher lhall 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 tbou 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 our Relgafe ) i Cor. xiii. 12. Rev. i. l6j 
 
 r. 569. Thy Skirts appear) 
 
 Terga tu<e funt hac et pffteriora figur*. 
 
 Our Anchor, wuh Mciimonidlt , takes the Difcovery made to A/o- 
 fes, Exact, 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, 
 
 TAVTA $ r* Qtv TaL ovidja. offa. //T' txebrsv 
 Thofe Things are the Skirts or back Parts of God, 'which are after 
 him 'whereby he is known, as the Sun is, by its Image in the Wa~ 
 ter,'!k.c. Upon which Elias Cretenjts fays, The Face of God fignifies 
 his Eflence before the Beginning of the World, and his hinder Parts 
 his Creation and Providence in the Government of the World, 
 
 l\ 575. All fpeak the:r great Creator's ) 
 
 ^dcunciue vidimus 
 
 Sentimafvt tuiim ejt : nobis hac reddit ime.gi.
 
 5 8 To G D 
 
 And thus as in a Glafs, or liquid Stream, 
 Thy Glory fhines, but fhines a languid Gleam. 
 And who this Veil remov'd, can fee thy Face, 
 580. (Great as thou art, diffus'd thro* endlefs Space, 
 From whom all other Lights their Light receive a 
 Self-Origin of Light) can fee and live ? 
 We therefore tremble, and thy Name revere, 
 Struck at thy wond'rous Works with wholfome 
 Fears 
 
 Con- 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 Thou God 
 
 Unfpeakable S Who fltt'ft above thefe Heav'ns, 
 To us inviiible, or dimly feen 
 In thefe thy loweft Works i Yet thefe declare 
 Thy Goodaefs beyond Thought, and Pow'r Divine. 
 
 Milton V* 
 
 V. 582. Can Jee, And live ? 
 
 We find when the SCHECHI&JH or divine Glory fill'd the 
 Tabernacle, Mofes cou'd not enter therein but on Peril of his Life. 
 Exd. xl. 35* Nor could 'the Priefts afterwards enter into the Tem- 
 ple, which was built by Solomon, and confecrated to God by folemn 
 Prayer, -when the Glory of the Lord had Jilltd that Houje, i Chron. 
 vu. i. And from *<></. xix. IK xxxiii. 20. Judg. xiii. ii.Job ix. 
 ii. 5^ iv. 24. i Tim. vi. 1 6. 'tis manifeft, that the Vifion of God 
 in his fpicitual Majefty is not in this Life, We underftand therefore 
 by his Appearance to Jacob, Mojes, &c. Gen. xxxii. 30. Exod. xxiv. 
 10. Dent. v. 14. Numb.xii. 8. xiv. 14. Jtidg. xiii. 6. vi. 22. That 
 j r tmei<jkat 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 Fact to Face ; not that there 
 was any Similitude whereby Idolatry might pretend to reprefent Him- 
 Dtnt. iv- 1 5- Job iv. 1 6. i John iv- X J.
 
 the FATHER. 59 
 
 585. Content fome peaceful Comfort here to find j 
 Nor to the Throne dare raife our humble Mind, 
 
 Hence from an univerfal Fear began 
 Thy Title, DEUS, fays conceited Man i 
 
 But 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 ~y. 587. Hence from cm univerfal Fear} 
 
 Omnibus es timor, unde D E UM dixiffe fritre: 
 Te credunt aliqui, ver* rationis egentes. 
 
 All Men have naturally fbme 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 fbvereign Being, upon which all of us depend, and 
 whom we muft of Necefluy adore. Whereupon ytrjiius obferves 
 that God did never difdain any of thofe general Names which the dif- 
 ferent People of the World made ufe of to denote him by. Former- 
 ly the Pagans, and particularly the Philijtinti, call'd Ged, Elohim, 
 and he permits this Name to be given him in the Old Teftament ; as 
 he does that of Qief in the New Teftament, tho' it be derived from, 
 the Barbarians or Gentiles, who knew not the True God : And hence 
 we 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 anfwcr the fame Notion that we have of a 
 Being that created all Things, is Sovereign over all, and to whom 
 we owe eternal Adoration. Butbecaufe fome have deriv'd this Word 
 >efcf, Deus, from Al(K Timor, Fear, (tho* it may as well be de- 
 riv'd, & TV 9#v* or & T? $6iV, &c.) and others, as Lucretius, 
 \. v. and Statius have aflerted, that Fear introduc'd the Gods into the 
 \Vorld, and was the general Caufe of Religion, 
 
 Primus in orbe D EOS fecit Timor. 
 
 'Tis requisite to obferve (with the learned Dr. Laugbtox, late of 
 Clare H*U, 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 
 Kature, 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 Juftice^ but alfo Mercy and Goodnefe^ which 
 can never be the Produce of Fear ; 1 fay, befides this, it is much more 
 probable, that the Fear of a fupreme Being fhould betheConfequence 
 
 and
 
 do 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 5 
 Let this my other Paflions all controul, 
 Abforb my Thoughts, and grow into my Soul, 
 595. Entranced 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 Pow'r to Will, and Aft, from thee re'- 
 
 ceive. 
 
 That 
 
 AN N O TATIONS. 
 
 and Effect, rather than the Caufelofthe Belief of it} and that the 
 Objeft ftiould rather precede and raife the Paflion, than be confc- 
 qucnr 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, 
 
 'Til fuch a Fear as only makes fecure. Waller. 
 
 V. 597. Yet Iff me ever ) 
 
 The Love of God ( fays Mr. Addifrn ) fhou'd be kept awake in us, 
 at all Times and in all Places, and poflefs our Minds with a perpe- 
 tual Awe and Reverence : It mould be interwoven with all our 
 Thoughts and Perceptions, and become one with the Confcioufncft 
 of our Being.
 
 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. And fpread thy radiant Glory thro* the Skies, 
 If nor the tender Nerves of human Sight 
 Can bear the Flood of unconnected Light, 
 Nor Mortals hear the mighty Thund'rer's Voice, 
 But hearing die, in Death will I rejoyce. 
 
 515. For 
 ANNO TATIONS. 
 
 K 60 1. That in thy glorious Image) 
 
 Sanlfa tu& imaginis injtar. - - ,. 
 
 As to the Faculties of the Soul, not as to any bodily Shape; ' 
 
 EpicJurm, 
 The Reafon of Man it deriv'd fitm that of Go4.
 
 62 To G? D 
 
 615. For Love Ten Thoufand Deaths I cou'd fuftain* 
 That Love of thee, which thrills thro' ev'ry 
 
 Vein, 
 
 And pierceth all my Bones, Night gives no Eafe, 
 Nor mirthful Days my captive Heart releafe. 
 As when from Covert of the fhady Grove. 
 620. The fpeedfiil Hart by deep-mouth'd Hounds 
 
 is drove, 
 
 Swift as the Wind, he fweeps the fcorching Plain, 
 Defirous fome known healing Stream to gain ; 
 So pant I after thee, and wait the Hour, 
 When thou flialt pour from Heav'n the grateful 
 
 Show'r. 
 
 625. Open, ye Heav'ns, and with foft-falling Rain, 
 Heal my parch'd Tongue, and 'fwage my fev'rifli 
 Pain. 
 
 How 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 K 615. For Love Ten Thoufand Deaths) 
 'diet, fynfin&t, (faith Gorduis, the Martyr, in St. Eajil,) 
 JW/t#y- wire? Xecftf 'ar^Act/./* a.voQAV&v. 
 
 Htio ferry am I that I can die but tncefor the Love of Chrijt ! 
 
 y. 619. As vjben front Covert ) Pfal. xlii, I. 
 V. 615. Qjtn,ye Heavens) Pfal. Ixiii. i.
 
 the FATHER. ^ 
 
 How long before Heav'n's ThrefhoM muft I lie. 
 Darkling ; help, Lord, or now I faint, I die. 
 Lift up your Heads ye Doors : be thou, great 
 Pow'r, 
 
 630. Lift up, for thou art to thy felf the Door. 
 And entring in, fuftain me with thy Might,' 
 Thro* all the dazzling Realms of heav*nly Light. 
 In envied Wealth I feek not to be great, 
 Nor Tinfel Honours court, nor Pomp of State, 
 
 635. But thee thy felf: here centre all my Joys, 
 This all the Longings of my Soul employs. 
 Shine forth, O Lord, in Rays divinely bright, 
 Piercing thefe murky Clouds of envious Nighf. 
 Fair as the Sun, when firft his golden Ray 
 
 640. Thro* low'ring Clouds reveals the ling'ring Day, 
 
 But if thy Spirit exceeds all human Senfe, 
 Pure, incorporeal, infinite, immenfe, 
 Known to thy felf alone, whofe facred Mind 
 Is to no Parts of Place or Space confin'd ; 
 
 *MU ' ** 5 ' ^ 
 
 ANNO TATI ON s. 
 
 V. 630. Lip up your Heads} Pfal. xxiv. 7. 
 
 V. 630. For thou art to thy felf the Door ) John x, 9*
 
 64 To G D 
 
 645. Yet, gracious Lord, let one enliv'ning Spark, 
 Shot from thy Prefence chear this horrid Dark. 
 And if too great thy Glories all unfurl'd, 
 (As when with Fire thou lhalt have purg'd the 
 
 World) 
 Yet from thy pow'rful Influence and Abode 
 
 650. In us, and all Things, let me learn, my God 5 
 Or, as thy Greatnefs dwells in Minds infpir'd 
 With heav'nly Thoughts, and Godlike Virtue 
 
 fir'd! 
 
 Or may I fee thy beatific Face 
 Darkly, as thro* th* experimental Glafs ; 
 
 655. Or may I fee, (if fuch a glorious Light 
 Be not too fierce for tender human Sight ) 
 
 Thofc 
 ANNOT ATIONS. 
 
 X 648. As tuJsen with Fire) 
 
 Quod dabitur, Jimul orbem acri laftraveris igni. 
 
 As our Author fcarce mentions one Tenet wherein we differ 
 from the Romifi Churchy fo he alludes not here, nor indeed any 
 where elfe, to her vain, however gainful Doftrine of Purgatory j but 
 to the general Conflagration at the laft Day, when the Glory of the 
 Lord. fhall appear, and the Saints lhall behold him Face to Face, 
 i Cor. xiii. 12. 
 
 V. 655. Or may I fee) 
 
 Tis thought the Heathens had either read, or heard of this Fla* 
 TKtttg Bufi, as appears from the feveral Quotations of Eufebius, 
 (Pr*$. Evang. 1. ix. c. 27.) where Artapanus mentions it, but iri a 
 
 Difguifc,
 
 the FATHER. 65 
 
 Thofe golden Honours that on Horeb blaz'd, 
 Where the foft bleating Charge of Mofes graz'd, 
 When round the trembling Bulh play'd lambent 
 
 Flames, 
 660. And from the unfmg'd Leaves flafh'd fiery 
 
 Streams. 
 
 But oh ! how mall a finfol Mortal bear 
 
 That Brow, whereon fits Terror moft fevere ? 
 
 Or fuch, as when the horrid red'ning Smoke 
 
 From Sinai rofe, and Peals of Thunder fpoke 
 
 F 665. Thy 
 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 Difguife, fayin?, it was a Fire that fiddenly broke out of the Earth, and 
 flam'd, (AflTt uAWf> (AnTs A\B? Ttvkf %u\&at,( KOVK \VTQTrq> t when 
 
 there was no Matter nor any kind ot Wood in the Place to feed it : 
 But an ancient Tragedian (c. zS.) reports it exadly as Mofes ha s 
 done, That the Bujb feentd to burn without being any ways conju- 
 med. 
 
 So we read in Seneca, Thyefl. 670. 
 
 - Quin tot a, folet 
 Mlcare flamma Jilva, et excelf* traits 
 Ardent fine igni. 
 
 And Lucan, 1. iii. 
 
 _ i Non ardentis fulgere incendia Jilv<e. 
 \57ith many more to the fame Purpofe. See Huet. Quaeft AIn. 
 
 V. 663 Or fuch, as when) 
 
 Exod. xix 18. xx. 18. Dent. iv. u'. In thefe InftancesGod (who 
 is not to be feen pcrfonally, v. 581.) gives fiich a Reprefentarion of 
 
 Glory
 
 66 To G D 
 
 665. Thy great Advance ? the Mountain felt the 
 
 Load, 
 
 And fhook beneath the Footfteps of a God. 
 But great thy Goodnefs, and I ftill prefume 
 To ask thy Prefence, tho' I meet my Doom. 
 
 No longer let my hated Sins reftrain 
 670. Thy faving Call, and force me to complain. 
 As, when a pious Madnefs of the Mind 
 Urg'd zealous Paul thy Infant Saints to bind, 
 And he to Prifons halPd thy faithful few, 
 And fcarce from Murder's crying Sin withdrew, 
 675. To give him Light intolerable Beams 
 
 Pour'd from die Sky in long etherial Streams, 
 
 That 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 Glory and Terror to Mofes and to the People, as to make them aw- 
 fully apprehenfive of the divine Majefty. 
 
 Horn. IL v. 70. 
 
 I mark'd his Parting, and the Steps he trod; 
 
 His own bright Evidence reveals a God, Pope, 
 
 And Ms not improbable but that from hence the Per/iam; borrow'd 
 the Story of their Zoreajler, who, fay they, wandering in Defert Pla- 
 ces, was carried up into Heaven ; where he faw God encompafled 
 with Flames : But the Spfendor was fo great tliac he could not behold 
 them with his own Eyes, but with Eyes thar the Angels lent him. 
 And there he received from God a Book of the Law. 
 
 Huetlus,
 
 
 the FATHER. 67 
 
 That delug'd all the Road, and brighter (hone 
 Than the faint Luftre of the blunted Sun ; 
 And as thy Voice his gen'rous Heart reclaim'd, 
 
 680. And bid him teach the Name he had blaf- 
 
 phem'd j 
 
 So, Lord, convert me from my wretched State, 
 If true Repentance never comes too late : 
 If all, who in thy dying Son believe, 
 Mercy, thy darling Attribute, receive : 
 
 685. As thy paternal Love, and gracious Care 
 Extends to all, that breathe the vital Air ; 
 Nor ever will thy facred Deity 
 Leave us forlorn, till we firft break from thee. 
 
 Thou in our Minds haft fow'd the Golden 
 
 Seeds, 
 690. Whence fprings the heav'nly Worth of all our 
 
 Deeds. 
 
 That firft we Will, is from thy Pow'r divine, 
 And have full Strength to act our Will, is 
 
 Thine. 
 
 Till we ourfelves neglect thy offer'd Grace, 
 Moft obftinately break from thy Embrace, 
 
 F 2 695. And
 
 68 To G D 
 
 695. And willful to incur thy unmeafur'd Hate, 
 In Paths definitive labour out our Fate, 
 Tho* from thy Bounty all our Joys proceed, 
 And full Sufficiency in ev'ry Need, 
 Yet are we free to chufe ; freely they fall, 
 
 700. Who in the Bond of Sin themfelves enthrall. 
 
 Devote 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 V. 699. Yet are -we free to chufe ) 
 
 Quodl/bet audendi tamen omnibus <qua foteftar. 
 So far as a Man has Power to think, or not to think, to move, 
 or not to move, according to the Preference, or Direction of his own 
 Mind ; fo far is a Man free : The aftual Exercife of which Power is 
 Volition, or Wil'ing : And we arefo confcious of fitch a Liberty and 
 Indifference which we perceive in ourfelves, that we comprehend no- 
 thin" more perfeftlv, nor wirh greater Evidence. This i what Epic- 
 tetus call'd TO ff y w/1/iV, eXiuflg^c, gJtaAt/JoP, rtVsfS/rro^/l/rfy, and 
 Ef'curus^ TO tr,$ M{*f, and lays sidnar^ THV ir$oat,iftffif */'' o 
 Ztvf viwnmtt Av'vefl&i. 
 
 Per tjuam progredimur, quo dvcit quemqttc voluntas. 
 
 Lucret. ii. 258. 
 _ Traklt Jua tjuemque "voluntas. Virg. 
 
 Now tho' we cannot comprehend the Extent of God's Wifclom and 
 Power, lo as to know how, and by what Means, he leaves the free 
 A&ions of Men undetermin'd, yet thus far we may venture to fay, 
 That if God to prevent Man's Sin had taken away the I iberty of" his 
 Will, he had likewife deftroy'd trie very Foundation of all Virtue, and 
 the verv Nature of Man : 'AfS/* \AV /usfVl4Ajf T IJCBSTO;', orgAiti 
 *I/]K 1U fnv VU'IAV, For Vinue would not have been fuch, had there 
 been n^ Pollibiluy of afting contrary to the Rules of it j and Man's 
 Nature had been divine, becaufe impeccable. 
 
 God made us to his Image ; all agree 
 That Image is he Soul ; and that muft be 
 Or not the Maker's Image, or be free 
 
 God
 
 the FATHER. 69 
 
 Devote to Ruin ; and as free they ftand, 
 Who pay Obedience to thy juft Command ; 
 For ever happy, as they ever love, 
 The Path that leads to Joy prepared above. 
 
 705. Tho s Man for this due Praifes cannot give, 
 Nor ought of God full worthily conceive : 
 Tho* Man with all his Art in vain eflays 
 To reach thy Majefty with pompous Phrafe ; 
 Yet art thou pleas'd to hear his grateful Voice, 
 
 710. And in his decent Pisty rejoyce. 
 
 F 3 No 
 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 God made us Agents free to Good, or 111, 
 And forc'd it not, tho' he forefaw the Will : 
 Freedom was firft beftow'd on human Race, 
 And Prefclence only held the fecond Place. 
 
 Dryd. The Cock and tlie Fox. 
 
 And fays the Angel Raphael to Adam 
 
 God made thee perfeft, not immutable j 
 
 And good He made thee, but to perfevere 
 
 He left it in thy Pow'r ; ordain'd thy Will 
 
 By Nature free, not over-rul'd by Fate 
 
 Inevitable, or ftrift Neceffity. Milton, V. 
 
 709. Yet art than f leas' d) 
 
 nojirxs tamen optime laudes 
 
 Nan rejugis, gaudefque honrinum pie t ate benigmu. 
 
 Of Bounty 'tis that he admits our Praife, 
 Which does not Him, but us that yield it, raife. 
 
 Pfcftr,
 
 70 To G O D 
 
 No fooner did this World of beauteous Light 
 In Order fpring from univerfal Night ; 
 But all Things, that the wond'ring Eye furveys, 
 And all conceal'd in Heav'n, Earth, Air, or 
 Seas, 
 
 715. Thy unexampled Love and Praifes fung : 
 The Heav'ns, and all the Conftellations rung : 
 The Synod of bright Virtues fwell the Sound ; 
 From Pole to Pole the trem'lous Echo's bound : 
 The Sun's ftrong Rays in Heav* ns high Road 
 advance ; 
 
 720. The Planets of the Morn before him dance. 
 The Moon, and Thoufand leffer Stars appear 
 Spangling with Light the glitt'ringHemifphere. 
 Ev'ning and Morn alternate Songs employ, 
 And in the gen'ral Triumph fpeak their Joy. 
 
 725. Loud Peals of Thunder mooting forth a Train 
 Of blazy Terrors, make th' etherial Plain : 
 The noify Main returns the lengthened Sound, 
 And golden Sands in fportive Gyres wheel round. 
 While all the hideous Monfters of the Sea, 
 
 730. Flounce in the Waves, and gamefome Meafures 
 
 The
 
 the FATHER. 71 
 
 The Earth its Head above the Waters rears, 
 And all its joyous Family appears : 
 But neither Cattle paftur'd in the Field, 
 Nor Lions fought their Prey in Forefts wild, 
 735. Nor Birds, nor creeping Infe&s tailed Food, 
 ^illall by Inftind glorify'd their God, 
 And fung the Praifes of th' Almighty King, 
 Who into Being call'd, and gave them Pow'r to 
 fing. 
 
 Whilft thou, invefted with a radiant Cloud, 
 740. Didft fee, well-pleas'd, that all was fair and 
 
 good : 
 
 F 4 So 
 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 V. 738. Wk i*tt Being call'd) 
 
 All the Philofophers before Arijlotle acknowledged the World to have 
 had a Beginning ; and all, except a few mad Followers of Epicurus, 
 agreed to the Mofaic Defcription, or fomething like it, in the Forma- 
 tion thereof, aflerting it to be the Work of God. We might pro- 
 duce innumerable Instances from the ancient Poets to the fame Pur- 
 pofe, but one (hall ferve our Turn, who fpeaks the plaineft. 
 
 Eis ret/if 
 
 Stp&tcletl 
 
 One God there is, who form'd the Heav'ns, 
 
 And Earth's extenfive Length, 
 Who gave the Sea its forging Waves, 
 
 And to the Winds their Strength.
 
 7 To G D 
 
 So joys the Father of a num'rous Race, 
 With genuine Beauty blefl, and heav'nly Grace ; 
 When they his wholfome Precepts duteous hear, 
 Honour their Parent, and their God revere : 
 745. Afilent Pleafure fwellshis rapt'rous Breaft, 
 He gives his Bleflings, and himfelf is bleft/ 
 
 Man lad was fbrm'd : of the prolific Ground 
 Fair CXT-fpring, who the new Creation crown'd ; 
 
 Ered 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 V. 747. Man lafl vjas formd ) 
 
 Tandem natus homo eft. ) 
 
 We cannot but obferve (with Bifhop Patrick) how much more 
 magnificently Mofes fpeaks of Man than any Philofopher ever did, 
 who had not read, nor heard of his Account : They indeed call him 
 little World , but Mofes makes his Greatnefs to 
 
 confift not in his Likenefs to the created W<=rld, but in his being 
 made (as Greg. Nyjfen. fpeaks) X<*T* &KOVO. TJK T* x.TJfO-v1& pu- 
 ffittf ; after the Image ff the Nature of Him iuho created all things. 
 Whereupon Plato calls him eo</lw ^ &ttdiu\w. And Ovid comes 
 verj 1 near him, Met. i. 
 
 Sanffius his animal ; mentifque eapacius alt* 
 Deerat adkuc, et quod dominari in c&tera poJSet. 
 Natus homo eft, &c. 
 
 A Creature of a more exalted Kind, 
 
 Was wanting yet, and then was Man defign'd : 
 
 Confcious of Thought, of more capacious Breaft, 
 
 For Empire form'd, and fit to rule the reft. Dryden. 
 
 When by his Word, God had accomplilh'd all, 
 
 Man to create He did a Council call, 
 
 Employ 'd his Hand to give the Duft he took 
 
 A graceful Figure, and majeftic Look, 
 
 With his own Breath, convey 'd into his Breaft 
 
 Life, and a Soul fit to command the reft, 
 
 Worthy
 
 the FATHER. 73 
 
 Ereft his Stature, and his Front ferene, 
 7 50. Of comely Gefture, and of awful Mien, 
 
 Bleft 
 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 Worthy alone to celebrate his Name 
 
 For fuch a Gift, and tell from whence it came. Waller. 
 
 Ib. - Of the prolific Ground 
 Fair Off-firing, - 
 
 Gen. H. 7. I Cor. xv. 47. And to this bear all the Poets Wimefs. 
 vff* iriejuihvTvv OT}I Tet^/r* 
 , tv / ' avfyuT* Q'i/j.~y cu/JVfx- 
 
 Hefiod. of. tt dieb. 
 
 Horn. II. . 
 
 To fftt/wt T 6<f ^nj'. Eut-ipid, Supplic. 
 
 Callimach. 
 
 . Georg. ii. 340. 
 
 Terrea progenies Juris caput extutit arvis. 
 As Lattantius, Huetiuf, and others read it, and explain it by the 
 latter End of the Verfe. 
 So u'venal, vi. 13. 
 
 Compofit'ujue luto nullos habitgre parentes. 
 
 Now among the many pious Reflections made upon this Original 
 of Mnn's Body, none teems better than Nazianzen's, *ly oT&t 
 iTffet^a^&A <Pia.rnv x.bv&, //a r %K ffurth MffttBa. That when 
 lac are njted up 'With tve Thoughts or being made ajter God's Image, 
 the Cotiji deration oj being Dirt may humble u$ again. 
 
 V. 749. Ere ft his Stature} 
 
 . Ccepitque mover 'i 
 
 Gleba recens, cxh^ue arreclos tollere vuitus. 
 
 From
 
 74 Tp G D 
 
 Bleft with fuperior Senfe, more heav'/ily Worth 
 Than all the Brute Inhabitants of Earth ; 
 
 Strong 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 From Ovid. Met. I. 
 
 Prona<^ue cum fpeftent animalia ctter.i terrttm t 
 Os hofaini Jlthlime dedit, ccelum^ue i/idere 
 JuJJit, et eretfos ad ftdera tollere vultus. 
 
 Thus while the mure Creation downward bend 
 Their Sight, and to their earthly Mother tend, 
 Man looks aloft ; and with erected Eyes 
 Beholds his own hereditary Skies. 
 
 Sed nikil prodejl hominem it a ejffe fftum, ut reBo ctrpore fpecfet in 
 ttflum, nijt erefla mente Deum cernat 3 et co^ttatio ejus in Jpe wit* 
 ferpetu* tot* verfetur. La&aru. But it profiteth Man nothing, 
 to have been fb fram'd, as that with his Body ereft he can behold 
 the Heavens, unlefs he Jift up hjs Mind alfo in Contemplation to be- 
 hold his God, and his Thoughts be continually employ *d upon the 
 View of eternal Life. 
 
 V. 751. Bleft with fuperior Senfe. 
 
 From that Struggle and Conteft which we find within ourfelves, 
 xvhen the Blood and Spirits carry us one way, and Jemetbing elfc 
 within us refifts that Inclination, and forcibly hurries us another, we 
 haveReafon to think that Matter with its Motions and other Qualities 
 is not the whole of our Compofition, and that human Nature being 
 capable ot judging, Apprehending, reafonmg, &c. (which are Proper- 
 ties very different frcm thofe of Matter, Figure, Motion, &c.) confifts 
 of two different Principles, as it were, or two different Part., an im- 
 material Soul, and a material Body. And as our Souls have different 
 Thoughts, or different Forms or Modes of Exigence at different 
 Times ; this changeable Nature of 'em proves, that they do not ex- 
 ift necefTari'.y of themfelves, but muft have been produced by a felf- 
 exijlent, immutable Being, either by his own immediate Operation, 
 or by Means of thofe Instruments he makes ufe of j and accordingly 
 the greateft Matters of Re aj on that ever were, as Plato, Pythagoras, 
 Cicero, Seneca t &c. have afferted them to be the Work of the Eternal 
 Gad. (Seetivet. Aln. qu. 1. if. c. 8.) Our excellent Milton therefore 
 gives us Adam contemplating thus with himfelf in Paradife: 
 
 All ye that live and move, fair Creatures, tell, 
 Tell, if ye faw, how I came thus, how here J 
 
 Not
 
 the FATHER. 7S 
 
 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, where grew 
 
 760. Fruits of all Taftes, and Flow'rs of ev'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 j by fbme Great Maker then, 
 In Goodnefs and in Pow'r pre-eminent. 
 Tell me, how I may know him, how adore. 
 From whom I have that thui I move, and live, 
 And feel that 1 am happier than I know. 
 
 V. 753. Strong was his Reafon) 
 
 Eleft 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 fhining Reafon dreft, 
 
 To dignifie his Nature above Beaft : 
 
 Reafon, by whofe afpiring Influence 
 
 We take a Flight beyond material Senfe j &c. Rochejltr.
 
 76 To G D 
 
 765. Thrice happy had he been, nor ever fell 
 An eafy Conqueft to the Prince of Helf ; 
 When for an Apple (ftrangely powerful Bait ! ) 
 He urg'd Mankind's irrevocable Fate, 
 
 '" Pois'ning 
 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 V. 767. When for an Apple ) 
 
 Nihil juidem duco mirabilius, taut am Mam urban, et de terra- 
 rum trbe per 120 annos tmulam itniut pomi argument* everfam. 
 
 Plin. Nat. Hift. 1. xv. 
 
 Pliny greatly wonders that fb flight a Thing as an dpple, (or 
 whatever Fruit it was that Cato produc'd in the Senate) mould be 
 the Caufe of the Demolition of Carthage, which had long rival'd 
 Rome in contending for univerfal Empire ; But he knew not the Sto- 
 ry before us, which is much more ftrange and true. For fuch was 
 the Will of God ; who, when he had placed our firft Parents in Pa- 
 radife, and given them all the Trees and Fruit thereof for their Ufe, 
 excepted one only, call'd the Tree of Knowledge ; 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 
 Tranfgreflion like their Creator, at the crafty Inftigation of the Ser- 
 pent j which being influenc'd and actuated by the Devil, (as himfelf 
 confefleth) boafting of his Succefs among his Confederates, 
 
 Man by Fraud have I feduc'd 
 From his Creator^ and (the more t* increafe 
 Your Wonder) with an Apple. Milton, x. 
 
 and is plainly to be prov'd from John viii. 44. i Cor. xi. 5. tempted 
 them to eat of the Forbidden Fruit ; they did eat therefore and were 
 undone, Hinc ilU lacbrym*, " involving not only themfelves, 
 
 but all their Pofterity, in Shame, and Guilt, and Mifery ; which were 
 the new Ideas they pluck'd from tho Tree of Knowledge. 
 
 See Hymn to the Holy Ghojt. 
 
 Many Allufions or faint Sketches of this Hiftory are to be trac'd 
 out among the ancient H?achens : For what . elfe can we think 
 .of Pfrus's getting drunk in the Garden of Jufitcr, as mentioned by 
 
 Plato ?
 
 the FATHER. 77 
 
 Pois'ning with various Seeds the Gift of Breath, 
 770. Sooner to fink us in the Shades of Death. 
 
 But fuch thy Goodnefs, that thou would'il not 
 
 leave, 
 Imprifon'd in the dark and loathfome Grave, 
 
 Thy 
 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 Plato ? What of the Can Adon, the G-irden of Adonis, but that it 
 was G.in Eden, this Garden of Delicioufnefs J And what can the 
 Golden Age mean, but the blifsful State of a terreftrial Par*uiife ? 
 And from hence undoubtedly He/tod borrow'd his famous Story of 
 Promotbeus's ftealing Fire from Heaven ; and Jupiter's fending Pan- 
 dora to diffufe Variety of Plagues upon Earth i 
 
 _ Macles tt nova felrrittm 
 
 Terris incubuit colors : 
 Semotitjue frius tarda necefiit.-is 
 Lethi cornpitit gradurn. Hor. Od. iii. L i. 
 
 Fierce Famine, with her meagre Face, 
 
 And Fevers with the fiery Race, 
 
 In (warms th' offending Wretch furround, 
 
 All brooding on the blafted Ground : 
 
 And limping Death, lafh'd on by Fate, 
 
 Comes up to fhorten half our bate. Drjden. 
 
 Upon the whole ; we find, that our Author adheres to the literal 
 
 Senfe of this Account of the Creation of the World, and Fall of Man ; 
 as delivered to us by Me/es : and I don't doubt, but that every ho- 
 neft and ingenuous Man will do the fame j maugre all the Whims 
 invented, or old ones new drefs'd, by the prepoftercus Wits of this 
 Atje, in behalf of their impious allegorizing Scheme : Becaufe, i . 
 This Account of the Infant State of Nature, (as ha* been oblerved,) 
 may be Ltfrallj true, whatever Myflery or Allegory may be con- 
 tained in fbrne Expreflions thereof. ^. It contains nothing contra- 
 dictory to cur Reafon, and the Notion we have of God. And $. 
 None of the be ft Jeiuifl) Writers, and primitive Fathers, do rejeft 
 the Letter, much lefs fpe-ik of the figurative Interpretation as the 
 only Method of vindicating Scripture. And bftly, Becaufe it ft.inds 
 confirmed by the Teftimony of other infpit'd Writers, even of our 
 
 Saviour
 
 ? 8 To G D 
 
 Thy Creature Man j tho f from thy Arms he 
 
 flew, 
 
 And fought vain Refuge from his guileful Foe. 
 775. Strait did'ft thou fend from Heav'n a mightier 
 
 PoVr, 
 ( And what cou'd Mercy infinite do more ? ) 
 
 To 
 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 Saviour tind kit ^poftles, who furely are the moft proper Judges in 
 this Matter, and to whom we may apply what the ancient Poets 
 faidof the Mttfes : 
 
 Vos meminijiis enim, Div*, et taentorare potejlis 5 
 
 Ad nos vix tenu.i jam* ferlabitur aura. Virg. vii- 645. 
 
 From that more noble and folemn Invocation, 
 Htm. ll. ii. 485. 
 
 < $ Qz&i \*<i T^fgrfc re, /Ve T 
 
 - otov dwtftAV, A rt fJ^Uft 
 
 j Virgins, feated round the Throne Divine, 
 Goddcfies I Immortal Nine ! 
 
 Since Earth's wide Regions, Heav'ns unmcafur'd Height, 
 
 And Hell's Abyfs, hide nothing from your Sight, 
 
 ( We wretched' Mortals ! loft in Doubts below, 
 
 But guefs by Rumour, and but Baaft we know. Pope 
 
 . 773. Thy Creature Man) 
 tfm, after his Tranfgrcflion, endeavours to comfort Eve, faying, 
 
 Nor can I think that God Creator wife, 
 Tho* threatningj will in earned fo deftroy 
 Us, his prime Creatures, dignified fb high j 
 Set over all his Works. Milt. ix. 940. 
 
 Tho' Juftice Death, as Satisfaction crave.*?, 
 
 Love finds a Way to pluck us from our Graves. Waller.
 
 the FATHER. 19 
 
 To force from Hell, and from Death's cold Em- 
 
 brace, 
 All, who wou'd Life accept, and profter'd 
 
 Grace. 
 
 None of thofe Sons of 'Truth whofe facred 
 
 Tongue 
 
 780. The joyful Tidings of Salvation fung, 
 Cherub, nor Seraph, Princes of the Sky, 
 Were chofen for this glorious Embafiy. 
 Thine Only Son, (how copious was his Love ! 
 How wond'rous great ! ) defcended from above, 
 785. Where He had fate from all Eternity, 
 The exprefs Image of the Deity. 
 
 Ev'n 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 r. 779. Nine of tbofe Sons of Truth ) 
 
 Not to examine too nicely what an offended God might have 
 done in order to the Pardon of Sinner* j efpecia ! ly by Right of his 
 abfolire Potter and Au.hority : Ir feem'd agreeable! to his Wifdom 
 and GooJnefs, in his Defign of redeeming Mankind, to propofe 
 the MeJuuon of a Perfon to that End, iffucli could be found ftill 
 more nearly allied to him, than any created Beinj; whatever. This 
 Pe;fon \vas toun.^, and only to be found in the Unity of the Divine 
 Nature. And his free Acceptance of that Office gives us the higheft 
 AfluiMnce partible that his Mediation is at once moft fuitab'e to the 
 Dignity o{ God, and will have all the good and happy EfFe&s that 
 ought on any Account to be expe&ed from it by Man. 
 
 tuUts.
 
 8o To G D 
 
 Ev'n He, whofe Majefly and deathlefs Pow'r 
 All Powr's and Principalities adore, 
 Took from the Virgin's Womb an heavy Load 
 790. Of cumbrous Flefh, and therein veil'dthe God ! 
 Subject to Tortures of uncommon Woe, 
 And Death itfelf, the Lot of Man below; 
 That Man his forfeit Bleflings might receive, 
 And crown'd with heav'nly Joys for ever live. 
 
 795. He, when o'erjaded Time has run his Rounds, 
 
 And finking Nature groans in dying Sounds ; 
 
 He, Judge impartial, mall 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. 
 
 " Go, wretched Crew, down, to Perdition 
 
 " down 
 
 " Ye, who rebelled againft th* Almighty 'sThrone, 
 " But ye, whom ne*er from Truth and Virtue fell, 
 " Maugre the Pomp of Earth, and Spite of 
 Hell, 
 
 805. " Afcend
 
 the FATHER. . 8! 
 
 805. " 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 
 
 ANNOTATI ON$. 
 
 V. 807. Niiu Streams of Fire ) 
 
 This Doftrine of the Diflblution and Renovation of the World 
 was held by moft of the ancient Philofophers ; but the Stoicks more 
 particularly thought all Things would be deftroy'd by Fire 5 and that 
 P^afw/ijc-like, they mould be reftor'd again, as it were, from the 
 Ames of the expiring World. Wherefore Ovid makes Jupiter to 
 fear, left with his own Lightnings he mould fire the World, fines, 
 
 Effe quoque in Fatis rcminifcitur, 5cc. Met. i. 
 
 By Doom 
 
 Of certain Fates, he knew the Time mou'd come, 
 When Sea, Earth, Heav'n, and all the curious Frame 
 Of this World's Mafs mou'd fhrink in purging Flame. 
 
 Seiuell. 
 
 And Lucatt (ays, 1. vii. ver* 884. 
 
 Has, defar, populosfi nunc non ufferit ignis, 
 
 Uret cum terris, uret cum gurgite penti, 
 
 Communis mundo fuptreft rogits, ojjibus aftra miftufut J 
 
 Tho' now thy Cruelty denies a Grave, 
 Thefe nnd the World one common Lot mall have; 
 One Lift appointed Flame, by Fate's Decree, 
 Shall walte yon azure Heav'ns, this Earth, and Sea ; 
 Shall knead the Dead up in one mingled Mafs, 
 Where Stars and they mail undiftinguifh'd pafs. 
 
 As his Urtcle Seneca, had faid before him, 
 
 Sidera Jideribus incurrent y et omni flagrante materia, unt 
 quicquid nunc ex difpojito lttcet s ardebit.
 
 82 To GOD 
 
 But Nature labours with a fecond Birth, 
 810. And from her Afhes fpring new Heav*ns and 
 
 Earth. 
 
 The Righteous hence refin'd, and brighter far, 
 Than the dim Radiance of a twinkling Star, 
 
 To 
 ANNOT ATIONS. 
 
 V. 8 1 o. And from her Ajhes fpring ) 
 
 It is not impoffible, (fays Mr. Addijon) but that at the Confum- 
 mation of all Things, thefe outward Apartments of Nature, which 
 are now fuhed 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 fpeaks of new Hea- 
 vens and anew Earth, wherein dwelleth Righteoufoefs. Ifa. Ixv. 17. 
 'Rev. xxi. i. 
 
 r Mean while, 
 
 The World mall burn, and from her Ames fprmg 
 
 New Heav'n and Earth, wherein the juft /hall dwell* 
 
 And after all their Tribulations long 
 
 See golden Days, fruitful of golden Deeds 
 
 With Joy, and Love triumphing, and fair Truth. Milt, iii. 
 
 f. 8 1 T. The Righteous hence rtfn'd) 
 
 The Fathers were of Opinion, that the Souls of all Men, nay, 
 that of the blefled Virgin iterfelf, were to pafs through this purging 
 Fire at the laft Judgment. And this feems the only ancient Purga- 
 tory, which is built upon the Authority of our Saviour and his Apo- 
 ftles, as well as of the Prophets : Who may abide, the Day of his 
 coming ? (fays the Prophet Malachi, ii. 3.) Or who flail jland whfn 
 the Lord appears th ? For he is like the Rt finer* $ Fire ; and that Fire 
 ((ays St. Paitl^ \ Cor. iii. i j. ) flail try every Mans Work, of what 
 fort it is. And the Prophet Daniel tells us, That they that be wife 
 fljall then fJnne as the Brightnefs of the Firmament, and they that 
 turn many to Righteoufntfs, as the Stars for ever and ever. Dan. xii. 
 3. Matth. xiii. 43. Phil. iii. 21. i Cor. xv. 45. Rev. iv. u. Butas 
 folate a Fire would do the Church at Rome no Good 5 they have flnce 
 altcr'd the Property of it, making it indeed a culinary Fire, and blow- 
 ing it up fome Thoufands of Years (boner 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 amidfl Myriads, high above all Height, 
 Sits thy great Self, majeftically bright : 
 
 G 2 And 
 
 ANNO TATIONS. 
 
 V. 815. Where amidfl 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 recetv'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- 
 Jtod we fee the fupreme Power feated in Heaven and encompaffed 
 with inferior Deities, among whom the Mufes are reprefented as 
 finding incefTantly about the Throne. 
 
 <areot*AAfc-, tiv o, 
 
 3 1> > a, a&Jbv dpeifibfMVAt otyl 
 
 Thus the bleft Gods the genial Day prolong, 
 
 In Feafts Ambrofial, and celeftial Song. 
 
 jfpollo tun'd the Lyre ; the Mufes round, 
 
 With Voice alternate aid the (liver Sound. Ptpe. 
 
 tf/ A?/' 
 
 , Sec.' 
 
 Hef. Theog. 37.' "' 
 
 Whofc
 
 84 To G D 
 
 And on the Right of the Empyreal Throne, 
 Second Omnipotence, thine only Son, 
 Where Joy, and Peace, and beatific Love, 
 820. In endlefs Circles, and Perfection move ; 
 In ev'ry Face ecftatic Rapture glows, 
 While on thy Saints thy Holy Spirit flows ; 
 Who all, as they are known, now know their 
 
 God, 
 No longer veil'd behind a mediate Cloud : 
 
 825. All 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 Whofe Voico 
 
 Makes their great Sire, Olympian Jfve, rejoyce j 
 
 The Prefent, Future, and the Paft, they fing, 
 
 Join'd in fweet Confort to delight their King. Cook. 
 
 V, 813. Who all, as thej are known ) 
 
 There is doubtlefs a Faculty in Spirits by which they apprehend 
 one another, as our Senfes do material Objects j and there is no que- 
 ftion but our Souls, when they are difembodied or placed in glori 
 fy'd Bodies, will by this Faculty, in whatever Part of Space they re- 
 fide, be always fenfible of the divine Prefence, when we ftiall fee 
 God, not as now in his Works, which but faintly reflect the Image 
 of his Perfections, but Face to Face, and as he is in the Greatnefs of 
 his Majefty and Power. But what is that ? (fays Mr. Addifon) 'Tis 
 fomething that never enter'd into the Heart of Man ro conceive; yet 
 what we may eafily conceive will be a Fountain of unfpeakable and 
 everlafting Rapture. For as our Minds will then be united to God 
 in perfect Vifion, fo will our Hearts and Affections in perfect Love j 
 not only in that Love which terminates in him, but which is com- 
 municated to the Soul by a continual Emanation of his Goodnefs from 
 him. P/i/.xvi. n. xxxvi. 8. Jer. xxxi. 14. Rev. v. J5.
 
 the FATHER. 85 
 
 825. All infinitely bleft in their own State, 
 Nor Envy know, nor unrelenting Hate : 
 No Pride, nor mad Ambition can disjoin 
 Their Union, firm almoft as the Divine, 
 Fair equal Thoughts, no more with Sin oppreft, 
 
 830, And fweet Complacency fills ev*y Breaft. 
 
 Thrice happy Saints ! who Ages mail employ, 
 In boundlefs Pleafures, everlafting Joy. 
 
 But who thofe Joys, thofe Pleafures can ex- 
 plore, 
 
 When greedy Time and Fate mall be no more ! 
 $35. When all that's paft, or prefent, or to be, 
 Is fwallowed up in one Eternity / 
 The Stars of Heav'n lhall reft : thelifelefs Sun 
 Forget his daily circling Courfe to run 5 
 Torpid and unadorn'd mail lie the Earth, 
 840. Nor Change be known, nor Death, nor Growth, 
 
 nor Birth. 
 Earth, Air, and Seas, purg'd by the gen'ral 
 
 Flame, 
 The fame in Subftance, and in Face the fame.
 
 8<J> To G D 
 
 
 No ruftling Winds Ihall blow, no Show'rs de- 
 
 fcend, 
 
 Nor heavy Clouds their low'ring Fronts extend ; 
 845. The jarring El'ments fhall their Difcord ceafe, 
 And all around be Ipread an univerfal Peace. 
 
 But Thou fhalt fit triumphant on thy Throne, 
 While from thy Efience thy Eternal Son 
 
 Still 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 r. 843. No ruftling Winds} 
 
 Nuttus erit nimbus, nulU toto tthert nubes. 
 
 This is not unlike the Defcription which Homer gives us of Hea- 
 yen, Od. . V. 4. 
 
 j &c. 
 
 There no rude Winds prefume to fliake the Skies, 
 No Rains defcend, no fnowy Vapours vifc 
 But on immortal Thrones the Bleft repofe. 
 
 From whence Lucretius borrow'd his 
 
 ret Divum numen, fedefque quiet* ', 
 ' 
 
 Quas neque concut'mnt venti, neque nubilA 
 jftergunt, 8cc. 
 
 I fee the Gods, and happy Seats 
 
 Which Storm or violent Tempeft never beats : 
 
 Nor Snow invades, but with the pureft Air, 
 
 And gaudy Light diffus'd. look gay and fair , . 
 
 There Minds enjoy uninterrupted Peace. Creech* 
 
 . 847. But Tkou (halt Jit) 
 
 Tu folus gignere prolent 
 Unigenam perges fcecuitdo in fiecula iierbv 
 Cignendi nee finis erit. If
 
 the FATHER. 87 
 
 Still flows, and both ftill breathe eternal Love j 
 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 mail call, 
 855. Defirous in thy kind Embrace to live, 
 
 And tafte the Bleflings that a God can give. 
 
 So mail the Voice of Joy be heard around, 
 
 T ,?? 5<r 3lfl l!Ofl >^l?4j 
 
 And Heav'n eternally thy Praife refound. 
 
 G 4 All 
 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 If I have not kept my Author's Exprefllon, which would found but 
 oddly in Englifh, I hope I have his Meaning ; which can only be the 
 Emanation of the Divine Efience, from and to all Eternity. 
 
 y. 850. As tli at exhauftlefs Lamp) 
 
 Concordi afflatu femper fpirabitis auram, 
 
 Sel uti inexhaujlum nihil unquam mittere lumen 
 
 De/init, 
 
 The Holy Spirit proceeds from and returns to God, as a Beam 
 proceeds from the Sun, and is reflected back again. 
 
 Atken. dfol. by Humphreys, p. i6a. 
 Mr. Wejley fpeaklng of theSo, fays, ' He is 
 
 Move clofely join'd, more intimately one 
 With the Great Father, than the Light and Sun. 
 and obferves that the Brians of old, who had much more to fay for 
 themfelves than their modern Kindred, granted in fbme of their Con- 
 feflions of Paith, 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 
 Exiftence 5 and confequently fell into the fame Abfurdity which other 
 Pretenders to Reafon have done fince i that I mean, of a macieGo<l> 
 or fubordinate Supre?ae, 1. vi
 
 88 To G D 
 
 All Hail ! Thou Source of Goodnefs, Truth, 
 
 and Light, 
 860. Whate'eris virtuous, brave, or juft, and right, 
 
 From Thee, as Rivers from their Fountains flow, 
 t i.!;. \^, f - t"o r>; tjt'if. \ jl^tci 
 
 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. 
 865. For Thou art Wifdom, Juftice, Truth, and Love, 
 That fhed on Man their Influence from above. 
 
 Thou 
 
 AN NOTATIONS. 
 V. S$9. All Hail ! Thau Source of GooJnefs) 
 
 As God is an omnipotent and ommfcient 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 iub- 
 fcrvient to their different Capacities, and anfwerable to allthepoffible 
 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 Affections of Malice and Envy, the bale Refults of Weaknefs and 
 Defpair, can never in Him, (being infinitely removed from them) 
 obftrud the Force and Influence of that Evidence, he muft neceffarijy 
 aft according thereunto ; as having neither Caufe nor Temptation to 
 do Evil, he muft necefTarily follow the Tendency of his Nature to do 
 Good. And thus Goodnefs does originally and moft eminently dwell 
 in God. i CbroK. xvi. 34. a Cbrtn. v. 13. vii. 3. Ezra iii. n. 
 Pfal. xxv. 8. Ixxxvi. 5. cvi. I. cxix. 6S. cxxxiv. 3. cxxxvi. i. cxlv, 9. 
 Jer. xxxiii. 11. Lam. iii. zj. Nab. i. 7. Matth. xix. 17. Aftf xiv. 
 
 '* 7 ^ ", ; 
 
 vAf. 865. For Thou art Wifdom') See V. 281. 
 
 3b. J-uft'ice ) God is juft. For fince the Rule of Equity is the Na- 
 ture of Things, and their nece/Tary 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 liming the Circumftances ofThmgs 
 to the Qualifications of Perfons, according to their Original, and na- 
 tural Fitnefs, and Agreeablenefs : 'Tis evident, that the Great Being, 
 who perfectly knows this Rule of Equity, and neceflarily judges oi 
 Things as they are, and \vho has compleat Power to execute Juftice 
 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. Jib viii. 3. Job xxxii 4. xxxiv. X9- xxxvii. 2}. 
 
 Ib. Truth) 
 
 God muft likewife be true and faithful in all his Declarations and Pro- 
 mifes : For, as Cicer obferves, There is in all intelligent Beings a 
 natural Capacity of apprehending Truth, a natural Defire and Appe- 
 tite of it ; which puts them upon a Search and Enquiry after it, ami 
 makes them uneafy under Ignorance and Error. It is naturally fit 
 therefore, that Truth fhould always be communicated to them, when 
 any Communication is made to them at all : And fince a Being of 
 infinite Knowledge and Power cnnnot but know this, nor can be hin- 
 died from acting according thereunto, by Rafhnefs, Forgetful nefs, tn- 
 conftancy, or the like Imperfections, it follows, that this Bein, fuc!\ 
 as God is, muft always neceflarily keep to the ftrifteft Rules of Vera- 
 city and Truth in all his Communications to his Creatures. Deut. vii. 
 9. i Sam. vii. 28. Deut. xxxii. 4. Numb, xxiii. 19- "John xiii. 14. Pf 
 cxlix. 6. ^ Chron. xv. 3. Jer. x. John xvii. 3- * The/, i, 9. * 
 John v. 20. 
 
 V. 867. Thou only art 
 
 Our Author here enumerates what are commonly called the Works 
 of Nature, and afcribes them, as is moft due, to God, the Creator 
 of all Things both in Heaven and Earth, and the Author of all good 
 Gifts, i Chron. xxix. 12. Pro-u. x. 12. Pfal. Ixxv. 6. 
 
 And indeed had we no other Light than that of Nature, nor other 
 Book than that of the World, we might plainly read a God, and fee 
 a Providence. Wherefore, fajs Latan. 
 
 '
 
 90 To G D 
 
 870. Thy Hand with glaring Robes the Sun adorns, 
 And gives the wexing Moon her changeful Horns. 
 
 On 
 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 Jupiter eft quodcunyue vides, yuocungue raovertf. 
 And yirglly (tho* fome miftake him for an Epicurean.) 
 Deum namque ire per omnes 
 
 Terrafque tractufque marts ccelumejue profundunt. 
 
 For that a God diffus'd through all the Mafs, 
 Pervades the Earth, and Sea, and Deep of Air. 
 
 Georg. iv. Dr. Trapp, 
 
 And again, 
 
 Principle calum, at terras, campofque liquentes, 
 Lucentetnque globtttn lun<e, Titanaque, et aftr* t 
 Spiritus intuf alit, totamque infuja per artus 
 Mens agitat molem, et magno fe corpore mijcet. 
 
 pii-ft Heav'n and Earth, and Ocean's liquid Plains, 
 The Moon's bright Globe, the Sun, and fhining Stars^ 
 A Soul within enlivens : and a Mind 
 DifFusM through all its Parts, the general Mafs 
 Invigorates, and mingles with the whole. 
 
 Dr. Trap?, J 
 
 At quldam ignari 6cc. Lucret. 1. ii. v. 167. 
 
 But fome dull Souls think Matter cannot move, 
 Into fit Shapes without the Pow'rs above, 
 Nor make the various Seafons of the Year 
 So fit for Man, nor Fruit nor Bumes bear, fyc. 
 How great is that Miftake J 
 
 For were I ignorant whence Things arife, 
 
 Yet many Reafons from the Earth and Skies, 
 
 From evVy Thing deduc'd, will plainly prove. 
 
 That this imperfect World 
 
 Was never made by the wife Pow'rs above. Creech. 
 
 How vain, abfurd, and impious ! But fince a Heathen fays it, I 
 (hall confront him with a Brother, who generally was a ftrong and 
 
 able
 
 the FATHER. 9 i 
 
 7 :' 
 
 On thee attend the many Stars of Night, 
 i 
 
 And in their golden Urns from thee draw Light. 
 
 By thee repair'd, Time never knows Decay, 
 Tho* ever on the Wing he haftes away. 
 875. Thus Years and Hours, and fleeting Minutes 
 
 run, 
 
 And urge fucceflive the foregoing on. 
 Thus Nights, and Days, reciprocal delight, 
 As thefe to Toil, and thofe to Reft invite. 
 
 Nor art thou only the Original, 
 880. Firft Author of thefe Worlds, and God of all ; 
 
 But 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 able Champion for Providence. An cum mackinationt ejuadtm ali- 
 cjuid moiieri <videmus, ut fphteram, ut boras, ut alia, fsrmulta, non 
 dubitamus quin fint of era ilia rationis ? cum Ant em impetum cceli, 
 &c. When we fee Things move in fix'd and regular Motions, as 
 the Spheres, the Seafons, &c . do we doubt of their being the Works 
 of Reafon ? But when we confider with what Celerity the Heavens 
 are whirl'd around, in fo conftant and never-failing a Manner, cau- 
 flng the annual Viciffitudes, to the Prefervation and Benefit of all 
 Things, can we any longer doubt but that thefe are the Works of 
 Reafon ; yes, and of an excellent and divine Reafon too ? 
 
 Cicero de Nat. Deor* 1. ii. 
 
 But long before him the antient &gy$tians entertained the Notion 
 of a divine Providence, and feem to have been the firft who did i 
 whom Arnobius makes to reafbn thus : Providence is fo eflential 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 moft auguft of all 
 Princes, to Him muft belong the moft perfeft Providence.
 
 92, 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 1H11 o'er all thy Pow'r fupreme prefides. 
 As thou alone haft form'd thefe Worlds fo fair, 
 All things therein are fubject to thy Care. 
 
 Shall 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 V. 883. Thy Wijdombung tkis Ball) 
 
 Stiff endifque graven telluris in aere moltm. 
 Lucretius fpeaking ofTellus t or Cfbele the Mother of the Gflfr,fays, 
 
 Hnnc veteres Grajum dotti cecinere fet* 
 Subl'.mem in eurru bijuges agitare leotus : 
 Aeris in Jpatio magnam fenders docentet 
 Tellurem, ne^ue $oje in terra. Jtjiere terram. lib. n. V. 6oo t 
 
 The Poets fing that thro' the Heav'ns above. 
 She Chariots drawn by fierce yok'd Lions drove, 
 And riding to and fro flic wanders there : 
 They teach by this that in the fpacious Air, 
 Hangs the vaft Mafs of Eartb, and needs no Prop 
 Of any lower Earth to keep it up. Creech. 
 
 Et circumfufo pendebat in aere tellits 
 
 Ponderibui Mrata fuis. O\4d. Met. 1. ! 
 
 .;cijr- 
 
 The Father now within his fpacious Hands, 
 Encompafs'd all the mingled Mafs of Seas and Lands, 
 And having heav'd aloft the pondrous Sphere, 
 He launch'd the World to float in ambient Air. 
 
 prov. iii. 19. jo0. xxvi. 7. Congtcve* 
 
 y. 11$. All Things tktrtin ) Omnia cur as 
 
 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 ftill fupply. 
 
 Thus 
 ANNOTATIONS 
 
 The Providence of God is Univerfal, but fome have been fb ab- 
 furd as to think he was concerned only in great Matters, and left the 
 reft to Fortune. 
 
 As if the Univeife was like the Pr*tcr'$ Court. De minimis non 
 (ttr at Prstor. 
 
 V. *9i. No, for thy wkolt ) Es tibi tttut 
 
 Ipfe manus, totttfque eculus. 
 
 It is confcfled, that God exifts neceflarily, and by the fame Necef- 
 fity he exifts always, and every where. Hence alfo he muft be per- 
 fectly fimilar all Eye, all Ear, all Brain, all Arm, all the Power of 
 perceiving, underftanding, 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 Milan, fpeaking of Angels, fays, 
 
 All Heart they live, all Head, all Eye, all :Ear, 
 AH Imellelt, all Senfe. /. vi. v. 350. 
 
 y. Spz. Which all Decays ) 
 
 So Lucretiu^ ii. 70. M'.nimam rem quamque vidimus 
 Et qyafi lani.nsuo fi^ere omnta cernr/nus teiio, 
 Ex tcultjepu vetuft.item fnbducere nojlris 
 Cum tamtn incelumis vidtxtur fumma manere. 
 
 .. Every
 
 To G D 
 
 Thus peopled are the Heav'ns, and Earth, and 
 
 S 63 * .i <z 
 
 As all therein thy fruitful Word obey. 
 95. Into our Limbs fcarce fram'd tho'u doft infufc 
 A Sotil, and teach its Faculties their Ufe. 
 
 Nor 
 
 NOTATIONS. 
 
 s>J 3v Ml J-KT - Evei 7 Th ? n S apP e a 
 Worn out and wafted by devouring Years, 
 Still wafting, ftill it vanifhes a 
 And yet the Mafs of Things feel 
 
 And OviJ t much in the fame Strain 
 
 Still wafting, ftill it vanifhes away, 
 
 And yet the Mafs of Things feels no Decay. Creectt. 
 
 wvatnx 
 
 Ex aliis aliat rebarat natur* figuras* 
 
 Nee ferit in tanto, mihi, ejuicquam, credite, mundt, 
 
 Sed variat faciemyue novat. . Met. xv. 
 
 . Por Nature knows 
 
 No ftedfaft Station, bat or ebbs or flows, 
 Ever in Motion, me deftroys her old, 
 And cafts new Figures in another Mold. 
 
 . . . 
 
 y. 895. Intt our Limbs farce fram'd ) 
 
 novas an:mas in membra recentia fundis. 
 
 ArtftrtJe-, and moft 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 infufed into, the Body, and continues in it till it is feparated 
 from it by Death, and then returns back into Heaven, being incor- 
 poreal and immortal. 
 
 f. 896. And teach its Faculties thetP life ) 
 
 Mentem hominis, quamvls earn non ^ideas, ut Dium non videsj 
 tamen ut Deum agnofcis ex oferilus eju;, Jic ex memoria rerum et in' 
 vextione, et ceUritate mo fits, omnique pulchritudine l/irtntis l>it?i di* 
 vinam mentis agnojcito. Cic. Tufc. qu. 1. i.
 
 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 induftrious 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 invefts the Woods, 
 
 oio. And binds in icy Chains the folid Floods. 
 Thus run the certain Seafons, that Hill bear 
 Their proper Enfigns thro* the circling Year. 
 
 Thy 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 As we acknowledge Gad from his Works, tho' we fee him not ; 
 fo tho' we fee not the Soul, we cannot but acknowledge the divine 
 Nature of it from its Operations, the Swiftnefs 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. 911. That run the certain Seafons) 
 
 Ne^ue anus raw^if
 
 p5 To G D 
 
 Thy Pleafure 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 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 I cannot but take Notice here of that beautiful Defcription of the 
 Scafons by Lucretius , v. 735. 
 
 r -.- -'j * r >~:r*^- v r* ' * ~ . ^* t " SJ 
 
 // ver, et Venus, et Veneris prtnuncius antt t 
 Pinnatus graditur Zepfyrus veftigia propter, &c. 
 
 Firft Spring, and Venus kindeft Pow'rs infpire 
 
 Soft Wifhes, melting Thoughts, and gay Defire j 
 
 Then Mother Flora t to prepare the Way, 
 
 Makes all the Fields look glorious, green, and gay \ 
 
 Next Heat, and dufty Harveft take the Tlace, 
 
 And foft Etefia's fdn the Sun-bUrnt Face. 
 
 Then fweaty Autumn treads the noble Vine, 
 
 And flowing Bunches give immortal \57ine. 
 
 And next deep Winter creeps, grey, wrinkl'd, old, 
 
 His Teeth all chatter, Limbs all make with Cold. Creech. 
 
 y. 914. And rufiirg from thy Storehoufe ) 
 
 _ Veluti deprompta reclujts 
 
 Tkefauris, prefers vttitorum tmmitia labra. 
 
 'Tis generally held, that in the Concavities of the Earth, when the 
 Exhalations, which Seneca calls Subterranean Clouds, overcharge tl>e 
 Place, the moift Vapours turn into Water, and the dry into Wind. 
 And thefe are the fecret Treafures out of which God is faid in Scrip- 
 tures to bring the Winds. Job xxxviii. 22. Jer. x. 13. Whence 
 the Poets feign'd that jolus kept them imprifon'd in a vaft Cave. 
 
 Vtrg. &n. i 56. 
 
 _ Hie vajlo rex .fljolus antrg 
 
 Luftantes Ventos, temfeftatejque fonoras 
 Imperlt prtmit, ac vinclit et careers frsnat. 
 
 Where
 
 the FATHER 97 
 
 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 bluft'ring Tempefts, and relu&ant Winds, 
 Whofe Rage imperial jolus reftrains, 
 With rocky Dungeons, and unwieldy Chains. Pht. 
 
 y. 925. Around thy Throne ) 
 
 Nutufque thfervat keriles 
 
 Sanfftrum chorus alituum* 
 
 By Angels we understand all thofe glorious Spirits which ftand be- 
 fore the Throne of God, expeting to receive, and ready to execute 
 his Orders, Pfa.1 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 feveral Ranks, and appointed to ferve about 
 the Elements, the Heavens, and Earth, to regulate the Affairs and Oe- 
 cononay of the World, Luke i, 19, The Angel anfwering Zact<a- 
 
 riat.
 
 9 8 To G D 
 
 And fiiall 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 
 ANNOT AT i o N s. 
 
 fins, (aid unto him, / am Gabriel, that (land in the Prefence tf God* 
 And Daniel had his Vifion interpreted by one-rop ITMOTUV, cap.v'm. 
 
 Laborious Angels ftand around the Throne, 
 Who make the Bufinefs of Mankind their own. 
 
 So Ccialey. 
 
 Round him vaft Armies of fwift Angels ftand. 
 
 And Milton, fpeaking of Uriel, fays, He is 
 
 -M 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. - 
 
 P. 929. See, Lord, they fall} 
 
 Tibi fceptra, tibi iffa 
 Regna accefta ferunt reges, et numen adorant 
 Re&um timendorum in froprios greges 
 Reges in ipfos imferium eft Jawis, _ . 
 
 Hor. 1. iti. od. i, 
 
 Tremendous Kings o'er Nations fway, 
 Their Subjefts tremble and obey ; 
 But Kings themfelves muft humble prove 
 To the Almighty Pow'r of Jove. 
 
 jftybonfus, King of Caflile, Anno Dom. is 51, great as he was 
 both in Power and Knowledge, confefled this Truth. When terri- 
 fied by a dreadful Storm of Thunder and Lightning, he fent for the 
 
 religious
 
 the FAT" HER. 
 
 99 
 
 How mad are they-j 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 rejie&ed) and 
 wept, and humbled himfelf before him, retracing all his former 
 Blafphemies, and turning to God with Prayer and Adoiation. 
 
 And worthily has Horace exprefs'd himfelf in his Addrefs to Au* 
 guflus. Od. v 1. 3. 
 
 Dili te minoreni quod gerit, imferar. 
 For thy Submiflion to die Gods, thou reigneft. 
 As before in his Pray'r to Jupiter for him. Od. xii. /. I* 
 Te minor latum reget aquus orlem, 
 
 Let him with Juftice rule the World 
 Thy Subftitute. - 
 
 But what can be more expreffive than the Words of the PJalmiJl? 
 The Lord hath prepared hit Throne in the Hea<vens t and his Kingdom 
 rtileth over all. eiii. 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 in our 
 Belief, he returns to his Omnipotence, and in a few excellent Verfes 
 runs through the whole Scriptures, recounting the feveral Miracles 
 therein related} that indifputable Proof of a Superior, Divine f Al- 
 mighty Power. 
 
 II t. 40*, 
 
 Know thou, who'er with Heav'nly Pow'r contends, 
 Short is his Date, and foon his Glory ends. Pope* 
 
 , - Fool
 
 100 To G D 
 
 The God of Hofts, refiftlefs Lord of all, 
 Who bids at Pleafure Empires rife, or fail. 
 
 The 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 i i Pool ! to attempt 
 
 Againft th* Omnipotent to rife in Arms ! Milton. 
 
 V. 934. Who lids at Pleafwe ) 
 
 . Cm dasy adimis quoque regna fuperbis* 
 
 Chilo, one of the Seven wife Men of Greece, having ask'd JEfof, 
 what he thought was Jupiter's Employ, receiv'd this Anfwer -, To 
 bring dvwn the high and mighty, and exalt the bumble and lowly. 
 
 Ta ($ 54"** T&T&VXV, TO. Jt TAtretVA uVf.vi'. 
 
 Such Power we find given to God in the Scriptures, Deut. xxx.il. 
 39. i Sam. ti. 6. I Cbron. xxix. n. Job \\. iz. xii. 1 8. xxxiv. 
 24. PfaL Ixviii. 6. Ixxv. 7. cxiii. 7. Luke i. 53. 
 
 And fuch the Heathen Poets attributed to Him, as Horn. II. xvii* 
 176. 
 
 But Jive's high Will is ever uncontroul'd, 
 The ftrong he withers, ahd confounds the bold : 
 How crowns with Fame the mighty Man, and now 
 Strikes the frefh Garland from the Victor's Brow. Pef 
 
 "Of An TcAAawK whiKV> &c. //. ix. zf. 
 
 So Jove decrees, Almighty Lord of all ! 
 
 Jive, at whofc Nod wnole Empires rife or fall, 
 
 Who makes the feeble Props of human Truft, 
 
 And Towns and Armies humbles in the Dull. /\v. 
 
 Valtt ima fummis 
 Mutare, et inpgnem attenitat Dens 
 Gtfcura p- omens. - Hor. od. xxxiv. L I, 
 
 He brings the mod obfcure to Light, 
 
 And robs the Glorious of a Crown j 
 
 Now tumbles down the mighty Proud, 
 
 And makes them know there is a God. C>-ted\
 
 the FATHER. 101 
 
 935, The 'haughty Chief pf HeavVs rebellious 
 
 Band, 
 
 By fad Experience knows thy mighty Hand ; 
 Who, bright as Lucifer., in purple Ray, 
 Rofe with the Morn, and promis'd glorious Day. 
 H 3 But 
 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 ?. 935- The haughty Chief, &c t 
 
 Undoubtedly fome Tradition of the Fall of the Angels, and the 
 Puhifhincnt of the Damn'd, was fpread over moft Parts of the World, 
 efpecially the Eaftern V Plutarch, ( de vitana". or, alien. ) quotes 
 fome remarkable Verfes from Empedocles, who tells us, that fome 
 Angels were caft down from Heav'n into the Deep, there to fuffer 
 eternal Punifliments ; and therefore he calls thefe Angels SiHkdrtifj 
 and ot/f AvwrtTttf- And we find many Paflages in Homer to the 
 fame Purpofe, as where fulcan is faid to be precipitated from Hea- 
 yen, /. j. and where Jupiter threatens 
 
 That he fvpm fteep Olympus fhall be thrown, 
 And in the dark Tartarean Gulf fhall groan, 
 With burning Chains fix'd to the brazen Floors, 
 And lock'd by Hell's inexorable Doors. /. v. 
 
 But what mor^ perfeftly agrees with Holy Writ, is the Fi&ion of 
 Ate, or the Daemon of Difcord. I. xix. 
 
 Jove whirl'd her headlong down, for ever driv'n 
 
 From bright Olympus, and the Starry Heav'n : 
 
 Thence on the nether World the Fury fell, 
 
 Ordain'd with Man's cententious Race to dwell. Pope. 
 
 Whereupon Madam Dacier obferves, that Homer bears authentick 
 Witnefs to the Truth of an Angel thrown from Heaven ; and gives 
 this Teftimony above aa hundred Years before one of the greateft 
 Prophets fpoke of it, If A. xiv. iz. Hw art thou fallen front Hea- 
 ven, O Lucifer, Son of the Morning! Hov> art tkott cut down to tb* 
 Ground, which didji <we*kcn the Natnnt !
 
 i62 To GOD 
 
 But headlong hurl'd from the Empyreal Skies, 
 940. In never-dying Flames he welt'ring Ijes ; 
 Condemn'd with his Afibciates to dwell, 
 In the dread Dungeons of eternal Hell : 
 Where wrapt in horrid Darknefs, lafting Pains, 
 O'er wretched Ghofts the Tyrant captive reigns, 
 
 945. In vain gigantic Rebels raife on high 
 
 Proud BabePs fpifal Tow'r, that threats the Sky ; 
 
 Taught 
 ANNOTATIONS, ' 
 
 y. 944. O'er wretched Ghofts ) ' 
 - Umbfis terror . , 
 
 animas mi/eras txereet in oris, 
 
 As Mil fan makes him fpeak, /. i. i/. 261. 
 
 Here we may reign fecure, and in my Choice, 
 To reign is worth Ambition, tho* in Hell ; 
 Better to reign in Hell, than ferye in Heav'n. 
 
 f. 945. In vain gigantic Rebels) 
 
 Scit Babylon fuperas edufta turrefub auras, 
 Terrigenas quali disjeceris enfe 
 
 As the Heathen Poets drew Occafion for many of their Fables from 
 the Mofaical Hiftory, which they wretchedly mangled and profan'd 
 by their childifh Fiftions ; fo from the Story before us, ( Gen. xi. ) 
 'cis rhanifeft they invented the Fight of the Giants with the Gods, 
 which fo many of 'em have taken Notice of. Thefe Giants they 
 fuppofed to "have been born of the Earth and Titan, and therefore 
 Pida calls them Terrigenas 5 but Homer, from whom they deriv'd 
 this Story, makes them the Sons of Ephimedi* by Neptune ; however, 
 they all agree in the Manner of their invading the Skies, and in ma- 
 king The/aly the Scene of Aftion.
 
 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. 
 
 Proud of their Strength, and more than mortal Size, 
 The Gods they challenge, and affeft the Skies, 
 Heav'd on Olympus tou'ring Gffa ftood j 
 On 0/a Ptlion nods with all his Wood. Broom. 
 
 Which Defcription Virgil Co happily imitates in his fiift Gargle* 
 
 Ter funt conati imfonere 
 
 Scilicet, fttque Off* frondofum involvere Olytapum, 
 
 Ter Pater extruffos ctisjecit fulmine mantes. 
 
 With Mountains pil'd on Mountains thrice they (trove, 
 To fcale the fteepy Battlements of jfw i 
 And thrice his Lightning, and red Thunder play'd, 
 And their demblifh'd Works in Ruin laid. Drydtn. 
 
 V. 949. The Sons of Sodom ) 
 
 Cm. xix. A Shower, or rather Storm of Nitre, Sulphur, 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 Af^kaltites^ the Salt, or Dead 
 Sea ; becaufe no Creature can live therein, and the noifome Steams 
 from it Waft every thing that grows in the Earth about it. 
 
 Dtiit fuftr irrq'wm ftpulnm Gehtnntm mijit e cab* 
 
 Salvlao*
 
 To G D 
 
 And powerful Arm ; that rent the hollow 
 
 Ground, 
 And riv*d the burfting Clouds with thund'ring 
 
 Sound ; 
 
 While ftormy Rain pour'd down in fiery Streams, 
 And delug'd the whole Land in liquid Flames. 
 955. Down the Abyfs the wretched Herd is driv'n, 
 
 ' fcVvO*'"*'- 9- *"'<- -''- toS XI *!/.* J CrV-*j<.* 
 
 ;/ -For offer'd Violence to Thrones of Heav'n, 
 (Moft execrable Crime ! ) the Sons of Truth, 
 In heav'nly Beauty dreft, and Bloom of Youth. 
 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 To this Account likewife of the Deftruftion of. SoJom, many pro- 
 i^ne Authors bear V/itnefs, ( fee Strtbo, lib. xvl, Solin. cap. xxxv. 
 Tacit. HiJ} \. v. cap. 7.) though by their various Piftions they have 
 ft.angely difguis'd it. Tirefias and JEgyptus being ftricken with 
 B'indnefs, the one for entring into Neptune's Temple, and the other 
 for looking uppn Minerva as (he bath'd in Hipfewne ; and the Sol- 
 diers of dlexunder being afflicted with the fame Punifhment by Ce- 
 rts, for demolifhing her Temple at the taking of Miletus, with ma. 
 ny the Lke Stories, feem all to be borrow'd from this. But nothing 
 can be more appofite than the beautiful Tale Ovid tells us of Baucis 
 and Philemn 3 who were the only two of all the Country that would 
 entertain Jufiter and Mercury, when they travell'd over Pbrygia. j 
 and in Recommence for the Favour, Jupiter declared what he was, 
 $j)ph- * **' *' V'tf>*O r?M ii:>'-.-i rV .a';:^ 
 
 And own'd the God. The Neighbourhood, faid he. 
 
 Shall juftly perifh for Impiety : 
 
 You ftand alone exempted : but obey 
 
 With Speed, and follow where we lead the Way : 
 
 Leave thefe accurs'd : and to the Mountain's Height 
 
 Afcend i nor onct look backward in yettr Flight* 
 
 Dryden.
 
 the FATHER. 105 
 
 Such Ma'dnefs dwells in that tumultuous Soul, 
 960. Where frantic Luft, and Thoughts unbridl'd 
 
 At thy dread Signal, the obfequious Flood, 
 Folding its Waves, like icy Mountains flood, 
 
 That 
 ANNOTATIONS. .^'it-ox 
 
 P. 961. At thy dread Signal) 
 
 This Divifion of the Red Sea. is fb graphically exprefs'd, Exod.xiv. 
 that any one with an indifferent Attention may perceive the wonder- 
 ful Hand of God in that Defcription. Yet fome affirm, that there 
 was npthing fupernatural in it, and that Mofes, who was moft skil- 
 ful in natural Wifdom, having obferv'd the Reflux of the Sea, con- 
 ducted his People through it fafely ; while the ^Egyptians being ig- 
 norant, or not aware of it, were drowned at the Return of the 
 Waves. But thefe, and the like Cavils have been fufficiemly an- 
 fwered. F. Natal. Alexander, in his Hiftory of the Old and New 
 Teftament, produces the Teftimonies of Philo Judttus, Artapanus, 
 Ezekiel Tragicu;, Diodorus, and others ; who all of them acknow- 
 ledge this, with the Holy Scriptures, to be a Miracle. And he en- 
 quires, whether it be probable, that there was none in all Pharaoh's 
 Courts or numerous Army, that was skill'd in the Plux or Reflux of 
 the Sea, and could inform the reft of their imminent Danger ; e 
 pecially fince, the Country lying upon the Red Sea, it might reafon- 
 ably be thought to be better known to the ^Egyptian;, than to Mo- 
 les himfelf. He alfo denies any Similitude between this and Alex- 
 ander's Paflage through the Sea of Pamphylia, which Jofephus (An- 
 tiq. 1. ii. c. 27. ) compares to it. But we may fuppofe, that from 
 hence the Perjtan Hiftorians feign'd, that Rivers were dried up, or 
 congeal'd, to facilitate the Return of Zoroaftres, (See Huet. Qu. Aln. 
 p. 206.) And Homer makes Vulcan, at the Inftigation of Juno, dry 
 up the River Scamander ; and when Nfftune mounts his Car, 
 
 The Sea fubfiding fpreads a level Plain, 
 Exults, and owns the Monarch of the Main ; 
 The parting Waves. before his Courfers fly; 
 The wond'ring Waters leave his Axle dry. ' 
 
 //. xiii. Poe.
 
 io6 To GOD 
 
 That Ifrael's Sons might tread the faithful 
 
 Sand, 
 And, freed from Bondage, reach the promis'd 
 
 Land j 
 
 965. But foon difcharg'd, the warring Billows roar'd, 
 And o'er the Troops of harden'd Pharaoh 
 
 pour'd. 
 'Midft Arms, and Chariots, float the num'rous 
 
 Dead, 
 
 And all around the broken War is fpread. 
 And thus they fell, whofe Steely Hearts, nor 
 
 Shame, 
 970. Nor Fear, nor mighty Wonders cou'd reclaim. 
 
 Thou, when no ftrong Machines of War ap- 
 pear, 
 Canft ftrike the tott'ring Walls with Panic Fear. 
 
 And, 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 ' y,$6$.Jnd tbuttkey fell) 
 
 W< may prefume, that God thus contefted with the Contumacy 
 of the Tyrant Phara.oh y that he might difplay his Power, in the 
 Multiplicity of his Miracles ; his Juftice, in Variety of Judgments j 
 and his Mercy and Faithrulnefs to his People, by bringing them 
 forth with a mighty Hand. Pfal. Ixxiv. 13. kxviii, 13, 55. 
 
 V. 971. TL'ou, when n<t ftrang Machines)
 
 the FATHER. 107 
 
 And,when the Trumpet gives itsfprightly Sound,' 
 Level the loftieft Rampiers with the Ground, 
 975. And with the Din of War thy Foes confound : 
 With torrent Speed they fly the direfol Field, 
 And blind with guilty Fears to Shadows yield. 
 Thine Arm is Lightning, and when Thunder rolls. 
 We own thy glorious Voice, that fliakes the 
 
 Poles. 
 
 Thro 5 
 ANNOTA TIONS. 
 
 It came to pafs luhen the People heard the Sound oj the Trumpet, 
 and the People (houted -with a great Shout, that the Walls (efje- 
 richo ) fell down fiat to the Ground. 
 
 Epiphan. Haer. Ixvt, 0.83.) Jofb. vi. 20. Judg. vii. 12. a King; 
 Vii. 7. Heb. xi. 30. 
 
 The ingenious Mr. Fenton, in his Note oa thefe Lines of Wal- 
 ler to King Charles 1L 
 
 Bat while we praife you, you afcribe it all 
 
 To his high Hand which threw th* untouch'd Wall 
 
 Of felf-demolih'd Jericho fo low. 
 
 fuppofes the Greeks to have inverted this Piece of facred Hiftoiy, 
 in their Pable of dmpkion's building the Walls of Thebes by the 
 Power of Mufic. 
 
 Dil*f t et Amphion, Thebanae ctnditor arcis, 
 Saxa movere font tejiudinis, et prece blanda 9 
 Ducere quo vellet. Hor. Art. Poet. 
 
 Thus when Jmphion built the Tk'ban Wall, 
 They feign'd the Stones obey'd his tuneful Call. 
 
 V. 378. We own thy gltrietu Voice )
 
 io8 To G D 
 
 t\X$Q!.'iS3Ji&\l' ^qannT 
 
 980. Thro* barren Defcrts were thy People led, 
 And with the fweet Repaft of Angels fed : 
 
 When 
 ANN o TAT IONS. 
 
 ftx tun terribile eft tonitru, tua. dextera julnftn. 
 
 Tho* Thunder hath its Place and Time in that Order and Courfe 
 of Nature which God hath firft eftabliflied, yet, among other Ends, 
 it might be intended to reprefs the Infolencies of fome, and awa- 
 ken the guilty Confciences of others, whom the Confederation of 
 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. 77, 18. (See above, 
 V. 4*0.) 
 
 Artabanus, Uncle to Xerxes, cries our, Doft thou not fee, that 
 Gad ftrikes with his Lightnings the largeft Animals, nor fuffers them 
 to grow infolent, and leaves the lefs unhurt J Doft thou not fee that 
 his fiery Darts always throw down the moft lofty Edifices, and the 
 talleft Trees ! For 6oJ takes Delight in humbling the Proud, and de- 
 preffing the haughty. : Herodot. 1. vi. 
 
 To this I muft beg Leave to add thofe admirable Lines of our in- 
 imitable Sbakefpfar, in his Defcription of a Ternpeft : 
 
 . Man's Nature cannot carry 
 
 The Affliction, and not fear. Tremble thou Wretch, 
 
 That haft within thee undivulged Crimes, 
 
 Unwhipp'd of Juftice. Hide thee, thou bloody Hand, 
 
 Thou perjur'd, and thou Similar of Virtue, 
 
 That art inceftuous : Caitiff, to Pieces fhake, 
 
 That under Covert and convenient feeming, 
 
 Haft practis'd on Man's Life. Clofe pent up Guilt, 
 
 Rive your concealing Continents, and cry 
 
 Thefe dreadful Summoners Grace- K. Lear. 
 
 V. 981. And. with the fiveer Repa/l) 
 Concrete cali fa'-jijli rare. 
 
 God rained down Manna, from Heaven, Exod. xvi. So that Man 
 eiid eat Angels Food, Pfal IxJcviii'. 15. that is, fuch as Angels might 
 
 eat,
 
 the FATHER. 109 
 
 When from the Heav'ns was pouf*d the genial 
 
 Rain, 
 
 And glift'ring Dews impearl'd the foodful Plain : 
 Rocks foften'd at thy Word, kind Streams beftow, 
 985. And liquid Sweets from bitter Fountains flow. 
 
 Infinite 
 
 ANNTOT A T i o N s. 
 
 cat, if they required Food, Wifd. xvi. 10. ( as the Tongue of An- 
 gels is put for an excellent Tongue by St. Paul, i Cor. xiii. i.) or 
 Food that came from the Habitation of Angels : Or laftly, fuch as 
 was prepar'd and fent by the Miniftry of Angels. 
 
 We have many Prodigies of the like Nature in the Scriptures. See 
 i King.xvii. 6, 14. xix.6. iKlng iv. 6. 3&,drf. And among the many 
 Allufions to this in the profane Writers, we may reckon Romulus and 
 Remus being nourifh'd by a Wolf, Virg. Mn. viii v. 630. Jamus,thc 
 Son of 4f olio, and Evadne, fed by Dragons with df^fji^S V I ft A/ore? v, 
 the innocent Venom of Bees.* find. Od. Qlym* vi. Or what Callimachut 
 fays happen'd to the Infancy of Jupiter. Hymn, ad JOY. v. 
 
 - 2u A'tQnfA* triwet, pttov 
 
 On his Ambrofial Lips the Goat diftill'd 
 
 Her milky Store, and fed th* immortal Child : 
 
 With her the duteous Bee prefents her Spoils, 
 
 And for the God repeats her flowry Toils. Pitt. 
 
 P. 984, Racks foften'd at thy Word ) 
 
 Tu largum Juris e rufibus elicit amnem. 
 
 Exod- xvii. 6. Numb. xx. 1 1 . Mofes lift up his Hand, and with 
 his Rod fmote the Rock twice, and the Water came out abundantly; 
 fo that it ran down like Rivers, (faith the Pfalmijt, Ixxxviii. 15.) to 
 fupply the Want of the whole Camp. Thus Sampfon drank of the 
 Waters that flow'd from the Jaw Bone, Judg. xv. 19. And to con- 
 firm Samuel in the Opinion of the People, the Lord fent Thunder 
 and Rain, i Sam,m, i?. And when the Kings of Ifratl, Judah, 
 
 and
 
 no To GOD 
 
 Infinite Pcw'r fufpending Nature's Laws* 
 As Wifdom infinite approves the Caufe. 
 
 When 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 and Edom, were diftrefs'd for Want of Water in the Wildcrnefs, tho' 
 there was neither Wind nor Rain, yet the Valleys were fill'd with 
 Water, that they might drink, both they, and their Cattle, and their 
 Beafts, ^ Kings iii. 17. 
 
 To thefe the ancient Heathens bear Witnefs, who tell us, that in 
 the Land of Dryope there are Baths which fprung from Hercules's ha- 
 ving fmote a Rock with his Club. They likewife figur'd Janus 
 with a Rod in his left Hand, wherewith he fmites a Rock, and the 
 Waters gufh out, Eufeb. Dem. Evatig. pr. iv, cap. 9. Add to thefe 
 the Teftimony of Euripides, Bacch. 703. 
 
 Ouyrav H rif Aet/3SV' 
 
 -And Callimach. Hymn, ad Jov. 
 
 ^Elfftl *5 AVTAV^ffAffA -S-Set (JtAyttV V^o 
 
 70 J\l 
 
 - She fpoke, and as fhe fpoke 
 Rear'd high her fcepter'd Arm, and pierc'd the Rock; 
 Wide to fhe Blow the parting Mountain rent, 
 The Waters gufli'd tumultuous at the Ventj 
 Impatient to be freed. P' tf * 
 
 V. 985. sfiul liquid Siueett*) 
 
 Tu dukes in aquas fontts convert is amc.rot. 
 
 The Wonderfulnefs of this, lies not in the Faft it felf ; becaufe 
 Mofes caft a certain Tree into the Waters, which might be a natural 
 Means of purging them and making them fweer, (See Plin. J. xxiv. 
 cap. i.) but in the miraculous Difcovery of this Tree by God him- 
 felf. Exod. xv* li. As when Elijha heal'd the Waters of Jericho by 
 cafting Salt therein, ^ Kings ii. iii And at Gilgal, by cafting Meal 
 into the Pot, he cured the poifonous Pottage, for the Sons of the 
 
 Prophets.
 
 the FATHER. in 
 
 When mighty Jojhua with ardent Pray'r, 
 And more than human Strength purfu'd the 
 
 War, 
 
 990. The 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 Prophets. For the Lord (faith the Author of Eccle/iajticus) hath 
 created Medicines out of the Earth, and he that is wife will not ab- 
 hor them. Was not the Water made fweet with Wood, that the 
 Virtue thereof might be known J xxxyiii. 4. 
 
 V. 9*6, Infinite Poiu'rfuJ 'pending ) 
 
 Et quas fxifti leges, idem iffe refgis. 
 
 The reverfing, upon fome great and important Occafions, or fuf- 
 fcending thofe Laws of Nature which evidently appear to be efta- 
 blifh'd in the World, argues a Power and Wifdom not inferior to 
 that which firft eftablifo'd 'em there. The Effect: fpeaks the Caufc, 
 and God manifcfts himfelf as much in one Cafe as in the other. Now 
 that this has happen'd, and that fuch Things have been done as we 
 call Miracles^ all Hiftory, both facred and profane, attefts, and we 
 cannot doubt of it, unlefs we renounce all human Faith, and the E- 
 vidence of our Senfes. For though we cannot pretend to know what 
 Matter might be made to do in another Syftem of Things different 
 from the prcfent World, yet in this we have as much Aflurance and 
 Knowledge of the Regulations of it, and of a fettled Courfe of Things, 
 and of the Difturbances induftrioufly given to it, in fome particular 
 Inftances, as we have of any thing whatever relating to Matter. 
 When therefore fuch a Conftitution of Things, as ordinarily continues 
 fix'd and inviolable, is chang'd and over-rul'd, and when the Means 
 are fo unfuitable and difproportionate to the End, as in the feveral 
 Inftances here mention'd by our Author, we cannot impute thefe Mi- 
 racles to any Force or Efficacy of mere Nature, (they being utterly 
 beyond the Sphere of its Activity,) but muft acknowledge them to 
 be the Works of God. Nor is it any thing to the Purpofe to fuppofe 
 thefe Things to be effected by other Beings different from him ; be- 
 caufe, fince we cannot fuppofe thefe Beings to be felf-exiftent, they 
 muft receive not only their Exiftence, but all their Powers of acting*, 
 from the One felf-exiftent Being , which is God c And fince He is 
 the ultimate Caufe of all Caufes, we prove his Exiftence and Power, 
 as much by fuppofing the Miniftry of his Creatures, as if we fup- 
 pos'd, that the World was made, and is preferv'd and govern'd by 
 Him without the Afllftancc of any of them. MS. Ifa. xxxv. P/xliv.
 
 ii2 To G D 
 
 990. The Sun ftood (till, while the pale wond'ring 
 
 Moon 
 
 Long waited with the Stars his going down ; 
 Till Veng'ance laugh'd, with ghaftly Ruins fed, 
 And Slaughter glutted on the num'rous Dead. 
 
 Back to their Fountains foamy Rivers flow'd, 
 995. And Streams were purpled o'er with reaking 
 
 Blood. 
 
 The 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 V. 990. The Sun flood ftill) 
 
 Sol ccelojletit immotus, mirantibus aftr'is, - 
 
 Many Allufions to this we find in the Heathen Poets; not to men- 
 tion the long Night wherein Jupiter diverted himfelf with Alcmsna } 
 or the unnatural Feaft of dtreus, when aftonifh'd at the Honor 
 of the Faft, the Sun is faid to blufh, and go back again ; we may 
 obferve, that Callimachus reprefents the Sun flopping his Chariot to 
 behold a Chorus of Nymphs 3 and thereby prolong'd the Day. 
 
 f agt (JltiKVVOVTAt. 
 
 Hymn, ad Dian. v. 181. 
 
 He faw the dancing Beauties, pleafing Sight ! 
 And ftaid his Chariot, to protraft the Light. 
 
 And our Dry den > in his Wife of Btitfrs Talg, fuppofes the Maon 
 to dp the fame. 
 
 Nor darkling did they dance, the filver Light ^ 
 
 Of Phebe ferv'd to guide their Steps aright, > 
 
 And with their Tripping pleas'd, prolong'd the Night. 3 , 
 
 V. 995. And Streams were furf> led o'er) 
 
 cano manarunt rubra, enure. . -
 
 the FATHER. 113 
 
 The drudging Afs, Beaftofuntimeful Noife, 
 UtterM the diftind: 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 th? like : All which referable this 
 Story of Mafes's turning the Waters of the ^Egyptians into Blood, 
 Exod. vii. 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,) viz. Where 
 had they Water to mew their Art, when it was all changed before > 
 'Tis incredible to think what Pains many Interpreters ha?e taken to 
 folve this trifling Difficulty j it would be idle to recount their feveral 
 Opinions. The chief were Tbeodoret, who thinks they had it from 
 the Sea, that being not fit to drink was not chang'd into Blood before ; 
 and St. Auftin, who thought that they brought it from Gaflien, where 
 the Ifraelltes dwelt- Le Clerc fays, that the Magicians ftayed till 
 the Water was reftored to its firft State, and this he proves from v. 
 15. Any of thefe Solutions may do ; but I rather join with Sr. 
 Juftin, who was of Opinion, that the Water which the Mgy^tiant 
 chang'd into Blood they drew out of Pits, which they digged by the 
 River Nile, V. 14. 
 
 V. 996. The drudging Afs ) 
 
 Numb. xxii. 28. i Pet. ii. 16. 
 
 Impiety cannot except a^aiRft the Bible, becaufe of thefe ftrange 
 Things that are recorded therein : Since the Heathen Books are full 
 of the like Wonders ; as, the Horfcs of Ach-lles and Adraflrts in 
 Homer; the Tree that fpeaks to JEneas in V^r^il ; the Ram of Pkryx- 
 us, the Bull of Europa, the Elephant of Porus, and the Afs of Bac- 
 chus, and many more, which Bock art has alledg'dout of them, .not 
 to prove that all fuch Things are true, but that the Gentile Writers 
 thought that it did not exceed the Power of their Gods to effect fuch 
 Things ; in all likelihood, they devifed them out of this facred Hi- 
 ftory, that they migjit not feem to come behind the Jeius ill any 
 thing which might give Credit to their own Religion.
 
 To G D 
 
 Long were the Heav'ns ferene, no Clouds, nor 
 
 Rain, 
 
 To lay the Fever of the thirfty Plain, 
 1000. Low buried in the Earth the Fountains fleep, 
 Nor Streams gufti out to feed the fandy Deep : 
 But Heav'n once open'd, and pour'd forth 2 
 Show'r 
 
 Inceflant, till the Earth was feen no more. 
 
 No 
 
 AN NOTATIONS. 
 V. 998. Long iuere the Heav'ns ferene ) 
 
 Inftances of this we find, i Kings xvii. i. a Sam. xxi. i. Job 
 xii. 15. Luke iv. 25. 'Jam. v. 7. And parallel to it in Heathen 
 Story, we read that Ceres y for the Rape of her Daughter Prefer pie t 
 jpunifh'd the Land with Famine, till the Pare* commitfion'd by Ju- 
 piter had appeas'd her Anger. She alfo drove Eryjichtl: on oflkejfaly 
 to fuch Diftrefs by Famine, that he was forc'd to eat his own Flefti, 
 becaufe he had affronted her in cutting down her Grove, (vid. Ovid. 
 Metam.) And in Hejiod we fee Jupiter threatning the wicked with 
 Peftilence and Famine, Ofer. v. 140. 
 
 is Tt 
 
 On the revengeful, wicked Man, fhall Jove 
 Pour from the Vials of his burning Wrath, 
 Famine, and Pcftilence. - 
 
 V. 1002. But Heaii'tt once open'd) 
 
 This happen'd in the Time of Noah, as we read Gen. vii. 1 1. Job 
 xxii. 1 6. A4.7f.xxiv. -9. Luke xvii. 27. ^ Pet ii. <;. which has 
 furnifh'd Matter of Difpute to fo many of our Chriftian Thilofophers, 
 whom let thofeconfuk whofe Curiofuy reaches bepud the Scriptures :
 
 the FATHER. 115 
 
 * 
 
 No Wonder that the mafly Iron rides 
 1005. On the fmooth Stream, nor by its Weight 
 fubfides ; 
 
 I 2 i: t- That 
 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 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 Perfbn's being miraculoufly faved from it : 
 The Chaldeans call him Xifutbrus, or Sijtthrns ; the Cbinefe, Fobi j 
 and moft of the Poets Deucalion; but they certainly allude to thePrefer- 
 vation of Noah from the above-mention'd Flood } which Milttn make* 
 the Angel Michael foretell to Adam in thefe Words, 
 
 All the CataraAs 
 
 Of Heav'n fet open, on the Earth (hall pour 
 
 Rain, Day and Night j all Fountains of the Deep 
 
 Broke up, fhall heave the Ocean to ufurp 
 
 Beyond all Bounds ; till Inundation rife 
 
 Above the higheft Hills. Milt, xi. 
 
 ~* I have omitted two Verfes of my Author, but, to deal fairly with 
 him, fhall fubjoin them here, and venture to tranflate them, fincethe 
 Miracle therein pretended is no Iboner mentioned than ic Hands con- 
 futed. 
 
 Tu Cererem exiguam Nati convertere in artus 
 Divines, corpufque fates facrant is ab ere. 
 
 By thee the Prieft converts mecr Wine to Blood, 
 And of a Wafer forms the Son of Cod. 
 
 Miracle did I fiy ? I mean the Pofition is abfiird, and frlfe, not 
 w> fay impious j but fuch was the Prejudice of his Times and du- 
 
 f. 1004. No Wonder that the ma fa Iron ) a Kings vl 6.
 
 n<5 To G D 
 
 That conquer'd 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 laft 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 conquer* 4 Flames ) Dan. iii. 
 ?. 1008. That Leaves and Blofltms) 
 
 Aridaji nitizo revive feat gamine virgin 
 
 Bordering upon this we read in profane Story, that the Club of 
 Hercules, which was of Box, or the wild Olive Tree, being fet in the 
 Ground, took Root immediately and flourifh'd. And that there was 
 a Poplar planted near the Place of Virgil's Birth, which fuddenly 
 u to an unnfual Height and Bulk, and to which the fuperfti- 
 
 t-ious Neighbourhood attributed marvellous Virtues. 
 
 l\ 1016. Death too obeys thee) i Sam. ii. 6. 2 Kings viii. ?. 
 Many Stories of the Dead beinij reilor'd to Life, we find- among the 
 
 ancient
 
 the FATHER. 117 
 
 And this divinely great, this wond'rous Pow'r, 
 Thou giv'ft to thofe, who rightly thee adore, 
 1020. Who centering all their Thoughts in thee alone, 
 With their afliduous Pray'rs invade thy Throne. 
 Bleft in thy Love, they more than mortal (land, 
 And make all Nature bow to their Command : 
 I 3 Hence 
 
 AN N OT A TI O NS. 
 
 ancient Tabulifts 5 as Tbefeus, Akiflet^ Timon the Lydian, and Ti- 
 mojlhenes the Athenian, by Hercules ; Semele his Mother, and Ariadne 
 his Wife, by Bacchus ; Hippolytus^ and Cafior^ with many more, by 
 /Efculapiu!, as yet an Infant ; Iphigenia by Diana, and Eurydice his 
 Wife by Orpheus, tho' fhort was her fecond Date. 
 
 Jamque pedem referens, caftts evaferat omnet t 
 Redditaque Eurydice fuperas veniebat ad aurar, 
 Pone fequens. - Vir^ Georg. ir. 
 
 All Dangers paft, at length the lovely Bride 
 
 In Safety goes, with her melodious Guide, 
 
 Longing the common Light again to (hare, 
 
 And draw the vital Bceath of upper Air. Drytten t 
 
 V- 1018. And. tins divinely gre At} 
 
 Idque aliis das poffe 3 taas gut peffpre cafto 
 Imp lor ant 'vires. . . 
 
 xiv. 12. Atts iv. 29. vi. 8. vi. 7, 13. x. 44. Through God 
 'will we do great Afts, faith the Pfahnijt, Ix. jz. And Homer much 
 in the fame Strain, 
 
 'A m 
 wp ov ?i Zw 
 
 That happy Man, whom Jove ftill honours moft, 
 Is more than Armies 3 and Hirafelf an Hoft. P
 
 To G D 
 
 Hence the deep Mountains from their Roots are 
 torn, 
 
 1025. And whirl'd aloft to diftant 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. 1014. Hence the deef Mount. tins) 
 
 Matth. xvii. 20. Luke xvii. 6. 
 V. 1026. Secrets ewurapt ) i Cpr. xii. 10. xiii. 2. 
 
 That there have been Prophecies and Predictions verified by real 
 Effe&s, in their refpeftive Times and Seafons in the World, not on- 
 ly the Holy Scriptures, which at leaft may deferve the Credit of true 
 Hiftories, but profane Authors of the beft Account relate many of 
 them, as Herodotus, Paujanias, &e. And Cicero tells us, that Chrj- 
 Jifpus had made a vaft Collection of them, all confirmed by undoubt- 
 ed Authority, and fufficient Teftimonies. Among the Poets, ( a fore 
 of Prophets themfelves) we find frequent Mention of Prophets, and 
 fhe great Veneration they were generally held in by the People, as, 
 
 'Of Sjeto TO. T' loifTitj 7<l 7' 
 
 _ Ckalcaas the wife, the Grecian Pried and Guide, 
 
 That facred Seer, whofe comprehenfive View 
 
 The paft, the prefent, and the future knew, Pe?t'. 
 
 V, 1030. 
 
 Lef
 
 
 the FATHER. 119 
 
 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 
 
 ANNOTATJO N^. 
 
 Let Lucretius, and all fuch who fuppofe that Intereft alone is the 
 Caufe of all good Nature, and the Spring of Action, deny that God 
 made this fpacious World to pleafure Man. 
 
 Decs hominum causa voluiffe 
 
 Pr<eclaram mundi *{*"*> 
 Dicere defyere eft. Lucr. v. 158. 
 
 Par be it from us to think fo meanly, fo ungratefully of our God, 
 who being all perfect, mud confequently be moft benevolent, and 
 has accordingly in his WiWom framed the Univerfe, and in hisGood- 
 nefs fitted all Things therein for the Ufe 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 to croiy* his Joys ) 
 
 The Fables of the Elyftan Fields and Happy Iflands, wherein the 
 Ancients fuppofed, that the Virtuous after Death enjoy'd eternal 
 Blifs, are too well known to be repeated j I fhall only obferve, 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 Lije and Immortality to Light thro' the Gefpel. Matt, 
 xxv. 34. Rom, ix. 13, Heb. xi. 6. 2 Tim. iVt 10.
 
 120 To G D 
 
 1040. Have all the Bleflings 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 ne want > wno on nis God relies ; 
 It lulls the wearied Traveller to Sleep, 
 And lifts the Sailor from the gaping Deep ; 
 For thofe that thirft, it melts in healing Streams, 
 And mines upon Defpair with chearfiil Beams. 
 
 1050. All Riches, and that greater Blefiing, Health, 
 " The Body's Pleafure, and intrinfick Wealth, 
 Wifdom, if Man be wife, Virtue, and Love, 
 All come from thee, Tfbou Lord of Heaven above. 
 Thou art the Rule of Things, the Depth, the 
 Height, 
 
 1055. The Order, Beauty, Number, Meafure, Weight : 
 
 Thou 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 r. 1044. Tfy Godnefs, Lord, 
 
 The Perfon, who has a firm Truft on the Cupreme "Being^ is power- 
 ful in his Power, wife by his Wifdom, happy by his Happinefs : He 
 reaps the Benefit of every divine Attribute, and lofes his own Infuf- 
 ficiency in the Fulnefs of infinite Perfection, Pfal. xxxiv. 1 5. xxxvii. 
 i. dxvi 20, clxvi. 8. Prov. ii. zi. *i. 10. Matth.yi 33. i Pet. 
 iii. zi
 
 the FATHER. 121 
 
 Thou never flatt'ring Hope ! thou mighty 
 Pow'r, 
 
 Thou Way, Thou Light, Thou Life ! 
 
 Glad wou'd I more, 
 
 But fcanty Art denies ; ftill more I leave, 
 Than Language can exprefs, or Heart conceive. 
 1060. 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 exhauft the circling Main. 
 
 But 
 
 AN NOTATIONS. 
 
 V. 1058. Rut fcanty Art denies) 
 
 Defunt rniki carmina, defunt verba. 
 
 But on fo vaft a Subject who can find 
 
 Words, that may reach th' Ideas of his Mind J 
 
 Our Language fails ; or if it could fupply. 
 
 What mortal Thought can raife itfelf fo high J 
 
 Dcfpairing here we might abandon Art, 
 
 And only hope to have it in our Heart. Waller. 
 
 V. 1064. Whom all the Orbs} 
 
 Nan te erbes cafiunt. __ 
 
 Pliny has a Reflexion very pertinent to this in his Natural Hiflory j 
 furor e/ t profttft furor, egredi ex eo, &c. 'Tis Madnefs to go be- 
 
 yotd
 
 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 thoufand Tongues, 
 A Throat of Brafs, and never-failing Lungs, 
 1070. In vain fhou'd I attempt to fhew it forth, 
 
 Or tell with artful Song thy boundlefs Worth. 
 Here then I'll hang my Harp, and raife no 
 
 more, 
 My feeble Voice, but filently adore. 
 
 OGlo- 
 
 AN NOTATIONS. 
 
 yond the Limits of the World, and be perpetually feeking Things 
 without it, as if all Things therein were perfectly known already. 
 But how can he, who knows not his own, take the exaft Dimen- 
 fions of any thing elfe ? Or how can the Wit of Man pretend to 
 comprehend thofe Things, which the World itfelf cannot contain, or 
 comprehend J Let me add a Line or two from Mtlton, 
 
 To attain 
 
 The Height, and Depth of thy eternal Ways, 
 
 All human Thoughts come fhort, Supreme of Things ! 
 
 and conclude with the 'excellent Caution the Angel Raphael gives to 
 ^ very applicable to all Men, - 
 
 Let not thine own Conceptions hope 
 
 Things not reveal'd j which the Eternal King, 
 Only omnifcient, hath fupprefs'd in Night, 
 To none communicable, in Earth, or Heav'n : 
 Enough is left befides to fearch, and know. 
 
 /. viiv. 120.
 
 the FATHER. 123 
 
 O Glorious Splendor ! pure, unfpotted 
 
 Sun! 
 
 Thou God of all ! moft Higheft, ever One ! 
 Be thine all Honour, Glory, Prajfe, and Thine 
 
 alone. 
 
 The End of the Firfl Hymn of V i D A 
 To GOD the FATHER.
 
 ( 125 
 
 DEI FILIO, DEO 
 
 OPT: MA x. , . 
 
 The Second Hymn of M. HIE RON, VIDA 
 To GOD the SON. 
 
 Principio ante eevi primordia, el ante creata, 
 
 Omnia Verbum erat sternum, immertiorabile Verbum 
 
 Ufque Deum propter refidens, &c. 
 
 N the Beginning, the Eternal MPbrdy 
 Of future Worlds confeft the Sovereign Lord, 
 High on the Right of the Almighty fate 
 
 When Matter, Time, were not, or Things create ; 
 5. Only-begotten Son of the Supreme, 
 
 The fame in Pow'r, and Majefty with Him ; 
 
 The 
 ANNO T ATI ON s. 
 
 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 Cbriji to my Tranflation of F/Dy/'s CHRISTI/ID } 
 which (God willing) fhall fhortly be publifhed with large Obferva- 
 tions Hiftorical and "Critical. However, as this Hymn begins with a 
 Rendition of the Firft Chapter of the <3ofpel of St. John, 1 fhall 
 offer you an Encomium or two, which fell in my Way, on that moft 
 divine and excellent Part of Scripture.
 
 126 To GjO D 
 
 The Father's Image ; his reflexive Thought 
 Immediately exprefs'd ; True God of God ; 
 
 Maker 
 ANNOT ATION s. 
 
 gupJ initium S. S. Evangelir, cui netnen tft Secundum Joannem, 
 quidam Platonicus aureis literis ctnfcribendttm et per omnes ecclejias 
 in locis eminentiflimis proponendum effe dicebat. Aug. de Civ. Dei. 
 x. ap. A certain Platonift, (whom the learned Dr. ^Bentley takes to 
 be jfmelius) 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 taihi afpeftu primo augufUjprnrtm illud 
 Cap. Joan. In principio erat Verbum. Lego partem capitit, et ita 
 cemmoveor legens, ut repente divinitatem arguments, et fcripti maje- 
 fiatem auStritatemque fenferim leno ititervallt omnibus eloquenti* 
 human* fiuminibus pr<teutem. Horrebat corpus, ftupebat animus, et 
 to turn ilium diemjic affi debar, ut qui e/em, ipfe mihi incertus itide- 
 rer ej3e. Recordattts es met, Dvm'me Deus mi y pro m'fericordia. tua t 
 tvenHjue perditam in gregem tuam recepijri. Ex eo tempore, quum in 
 me Deus tarn patenter fpirittts fui virtute irruiffet } alia frigtdiuf 3 et 
 uegligentius legere et traflare ceepi, de his ijtra ejuee ad pletatem per- 
 tinent cogitare ampliiu, et in eis ardentiut wrjari. 
 
 Junius in vita fua. 
 
 Employ 'd upon fomething elfe ( fays Jun'ms ) I accidentally cad 
 my Eye on that auguft Chapter of John, In the Beginning was the 
 Word ; I read Part of it, and with great Affe&ion I immediately per- 
 ceiv'd, that the Divinity of the Argument, and the Authority and Ma- 
 jefty of the Writing far exceeded the fweeteft Fluency, and mod art- 
 ful Strokes of human Eloquence. My Body fhiver'd, my Mind was 
 aftonim'd, and the whole Day I was fo aftefted, that I fcarce knew 
 where, or what I was. Thou haft remembered me, O Lord my God, 
 tmdof thy great Goodnefs, received a loft Sheep into thy Flock. And 
 from the Time that the Grace of God's Holy Spirit work'd fo pow- 
 erfully in me, I began to read and treat other Matters coolly and neg- 
 ligently; but to exercife myfelf in thofe that concern'd Religion and 
 Piety, with Devotion and fervent Zeal. 
 
 V. 7. Tke Father's Image, &c. 
 
 I was here oblig'd, as in fome other Place?, to confult the Senfe 
 gr Expreffion, rather than the Rhyme.
 
 the SON. 127 
 
 Maker of all Things; Source of Life and Light, 
 
 10. Scatt'ring the gloomy Shades of Death and Night, 
 The Light that all in pitchy Darknefs fhone, 
 Nor by that Darknefs were its Beauties known, 
 J Till comes a Man, commiflion'd from above, 
 To blefs the Nations with the Fruits of Love, 
 
 15. To fpeak glad Tidings to the lift'ning Throng, 
 And raife new Life with his prophetic Song : 
 Around he fpreads the Truth-difcov'ring Ray, 
 And joyous umers in the Lord of Day. 
 Nor was himfelf that glorious Light he fmgs, 
 
 10. That bears Salvation on its healing^Wings : 
 That fhines on our firft Hours, with tender Care 
 Enlight'ning all that breathe the vital Air, 
 The World, his. Work, was with his Prefencc 
 
 blefs'd, 
 Tho* by the World, blind Heathen, not confefs'd ; 
 
 25. His chofen Ifrael too were fo ingrate, 
 As to rejecl: him with relentlefs Hate : 
 
 But' 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 Eq ue Deo Deus, et verum de numine numeo, 
 Quod Deus sterna produxit origine, nulle 
 Temporis objequio fe in fimet raente refleftens, 
 
 Ju* prepriiim kunc Jibi imaginis injlttr.
 
 i28 To G D 
 
 But happy they, who their kind Lord receiv'd, 
 And, ftrong in Faith, his faving Name believ'd ! 
 To theie, as born again of God, 'tis giv*n, 
 30. To rife to the ecftatic Joys of Heav'n. 
 
 Th* Almighty Word ( ye Sons of Men, draw 
 
 near, 
 
 And, wrapt in holy Zeal, attentive hear) 
 The Word ineffable, from HeavVs high Throne, 
 To vifit us vile Worms comes humbly down, 
 
 35. Difrob'd of Majefly, in human Frame, 
 The fame in Pamons, and in Face the fame. 
 That Man once loft by Man might be reftor'd, 
 And God for Mercy infinite ador'd. 
 Dwells there fuch Charity in Heav'n above, 
 
 40. Such unexampled, fuch myfterious Love ! 
 
 That Thou, creating Mind, and Lord of Day, 
 Should'ft be involv'd in Night, and mix with 
 Clay; 
 
 Thou of Eternal God Eternal Son, 
 E'er in the rofy Eaft bright Pbofphor fhone : 
 
 45. Thou
 
 the SON. 1 29 
 
 45: Thou brighter Phofyher, from whofe Lamp of 
 Light 
 
 His Urn he fills, and all the Stars of Night. 
 
 *'*ii,S'. r . j "; r,'CwTi *jotj ~ 
 
 Thy Generation, which no End ftill knows j 
 
 Knew no Beginning, but- for ever flows 
 From its high Fountain, in unwearied Streams , 
 50. Thou Light of Light ; thou Sun, whofe glorious 
 
 Beams 
 
 Deck the gay Spheres, and gild the Realms above ; 
 Thou Source of Goodnefs, Juftice, Truth, and 
 Love! 
 
 **** T ' 
 
 Thy Mind intuitive, e'er Man had Birth, 
 Forefaw him proftrate, grov'ling on the Earth j 
 55. Bow'd down with Ignorance, and deep Defpair, 
 Nor Heav'n his Aim, nor heav'nly Things his 
 
 Care. 
 
 K Here 
 
 ANNO T ATI ONS* 
 
 r. 4-S. Tlaou brighter Fhofpher) 
 
 Tu Lucifer iffe. . 
 
 I was unwilling to part from the proper Name, by tranflating it thfe 
 Morning Star, which lefs anfwers the Spirit of Poetry ; I have 
 therefoie made ufe of the Greek Word inftead of the Latin, which 
 in this Place muft needs found fomewhat harfli, if not fhocking to a 
 cotnmon Ear j however little I have mended the Matter. Rev.xxil, \6 t 
 
 V. 56. Nor Heav'n his Aim ) 
 
 Genus,
 
 130 To GOD 
 
 Here therefore didft thou mal^e thy mean Abode, 
 
 To reconcile for Man an angry God : 
 
 Then was the Volume open'd, that was feal'd 
 
 60. With Adamantine Seals, and God flood all reveaTd. 
 The myftic Songs of Prophecy were clear'd, 
 And Man from God himfelf his Duty heard, 
 Hear'd and rejoyc'd, foon as the fudden Ray, 
 His Mind illum'n'ing, pointed out the Way f 
 
 65. The Way to Heav'nly Blifs, by thee firfttrod, 
 
 Our gracious Guidance to the Throne of God, 
 
 '.-'O ' . ;> ; ">n ! 
 
 As when the Eagle bids her tender Brood 
 Launch forth advent'rous in the airy Flood, 
 
 She 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 Genus accttrvum terns t ccelejtivm inane* 
 
 From Perjius, Sat i. 61. 
 
 O curiiig in terras ariim<e t & cale/lium inanes. 
 
 O Souls, in whom no Heav'nly Fire is found, 
 Fat Minds, and ever grov'Iing on the Ground. 
 
 Dryden. 
 
 V. 59 Then was the Vohmt open'd,) Rev. V. 
 
 V. 67. As when the Eagle ) ^aalis avis, __. 
 
 I have render'd it Eagle y becaufe I don't doubt but our Author hnd 
 in View Dtut. xxxii. 1 1. where the Zaglii fluttering about her Ncft, 
 
 and
 
 the AT. 131 
 
 - f 
 
 She rifes, finks, and plays around the Neft, 
 70. Till by Example fie provokes the reft : 
 On newly budded Pinions flow they rife, 
 And by Degrees climb the aerial Skies : 
 So Man deprefs'd with Doubts and ftupid FearSj 
 And vainly bufy'd with habitual Cares, 
 75. From thy Example fpurn'd this mean Abode, 
 And traversed in his Mind the Courts of God. 
 
 All Things the Father hath reveal'd to thee. 
 What in Time was, or is, or e*er mall be ; 
 Extenfive as the Father's is thy Sight, 
 So. Thy Knowledge as the Father** infinite ; 
 
 Nor was the Throne with his bright Glory crown'd, 
 E'er thine with equal Radiance fhone around, 
 As living Flames emit inceflant Rays, 
 That ftrike the dazzled Eye with inftant Blaze. 
 85: (If not in vain, far diftant as they are 
 To finite Things we infinite compare) 
 
 K 2 They 
 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 and making a Noife to ftir up her young ones to leave their dirty 
 Neft, and "try their Wings, reprefems the Means God hadufed to rouze 
 up the drooping Spirits of the Ifraelitet 9 when they lay miferably 
 opprefs'd, and encourage them to afpire after Liberty, and to obey 
 thofe, whom he had fent to deliver them.
 
 132 To G D 
 
 They rife together, muft together die, 
 
 Or both maintain the fame Eternity. 
 
 .a>-i%7<-- ; " : it ; T ,x; 
 
 The Greatnefs, Pow'r, and Majefty divine, 
 90. With all that fpeaks the Father God, are thine 5 
 Thine all his Attributes, fave this alone, 
 He only is the Father, thou the Son. 
 The Father's Image (lands in thee exprefs'd, 
 His mighty Hand, and Arm, and Strength con- 
 fefs'd. 
 95. In thee his Wifdom fhines ; and all declare 
 
 Thy plaftic Pow'r in Heav'n, Earth, Seas, and 
 Air. 
 
 For when God fram'd thofe fplendid Orbs of 
 
 Light, 
 
 That kindle Day, or chear the darkfome Night, 
 Who caus'd the fubtile Air in Spires to rife, 
 100. And fpread its curious Texture thro* the Skies ; 
 Who check'd the noify Water's boift'rous Pride, 
 .jjVnd bid them in their Channels humbly glide,, 
 And Earth felf-balanc'd on its Axis move -, 
 And bound the peaceful Elements in Love ; 
 
 105, Af-
 
 the SON. 133 
 
 105. Afiiflant then, and feeing all was good, 
 
 Well-pleas'd thou gav'ft thy all-confirming Nod. 
 
 : ic in'.?dfj!af ior?j f . y?i?;tp r- -,i!T ?.* 
 Without thee nothing was ;. from thee fprings 
 
 an, V; 
 
 We Order, Harmony, or Beauty call : 
 Embofom'd in the Father, e'er the Birth 
 
 1 10. Of Nature peopled the extended Earth : 
 Before the Seas were to their Caverns driv'n, 
 Or Righteoufnefs unbarr'd the Gates of Heav*n ; 
 Before the Mountain-Top fuftain'd a Cloud, 
 Or ferpent Streams from bubbling Fountains 
 flow'd. 
 
 115. Knit to the Father in eternal Love, 
 
 Whence Peace and Joy in endlefs Circles move, 
 And form thofe Pleafures exquifite, immenfe, 
 That far furmount the Reach of finite Senfe ; 
 Joys that the Sons of Morn alone explore, 
 
 1 20. And knowing thefe, they feek to know no more. 
 
 Yet, Lord Eternal, didft thou not difdajn 
 To bear the galling Yoke of mortal Pain, 
 K 3
 
 134 To G D 
 
 And breathe the vital Air, wrapt in a Cloud 
 Of Darknefs, very Man, and very God : 
 Down from the Father, 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 
 
 . ff . , ^,.j ,..,.. tr . .,. T - -^ 7 r 
 
 Stars, 
 
 How fweeta Calm did then the Heav'ns adorn, 
 130. When of a fpotlefs Virgin thou wert born ? 
 Conceived of the Divine, and Holy Pow'r, 
 Whom all with Wee, and God fupreme adore j 
 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 
 c 3v-T! rilri'J /f-.jor.i .'" '. f * J Fr.rs: aoea^' s^ron?7 
 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 impearl the glitt'ring Hill, 
 .viCi'fccn von>< n : ./'' I7v ^r& '^ 
 140. And Streams of neft'rous Milk the ValliesfilJ ; 
 
 The 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 V. 137. DtlifitMi Dews ) 
 
 Vndique felid difiillavt trmuA rare. I don't
 
 the SON. 
 
 The Clouds diffolving fall in gentle Show'rs, 
 And from on High the fruitful Blefling po\irs, 
 A fat'ning Moifture fwells the Womb of Earth, 
 And gives ten thoufand Seeds a kindly Birth : 
 145. Soft-breathing Zephyrs fliake their balmy Wings, 
 A laviih Wafte of flow'ry Beauties fprings, 
 That graceful broider ev'ry fragrant Bed, 
 And various paint the fweet enamell'd Mead : 
 
 - * 4 *^ C ' * * 
 
 Soon as thou fpread'ft thy flowing Locks around, 
 150. Ambrofial Scents perfume the fteamy Ground : 
 Thou art the genial Dew, the golden Show'r, 
 That now defcends, expected long before. 
 
 * Now had the Serpent , moft malicious Scheme, 
 
 Jmbitter'd ev'ry Fountain, ev'ry Scream, 
 
 K 4 155. A 
 
 AN NO T A T I O N S. 
 
 I don't know but that our Author had here in his View that Paf- 
 fagc of Homer, where he compares the Exaltation of Joy in Mtnelaits'a 
 Mind to the Dew of the Morning reviving the Corn. 
 
 - To/o 
 
 Joy fwells his Soul, as when the vernal Grain 
 
 Lifts the green Ear above the fpringing 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, ( \}udg. vi. 56. ) and the Gate mention'd Ezek. xliy. z. to 
 
 to
 
 i 3 tf To G D 
 
 155. A thoufand Deaths, conceal' d beneath the Waves 
 Werefpread abroad, andfill'da thoufand Graves ; 
 The thirfty Flock lay ftretch'd along the Shore, 
 Nor dar'd the deathful Waters to explore, 
 But fearful view the fubtle Poifon glide 
 
 1 60. Thro* the green Wave, and fwell the foaming 
 
 Tide. 
 
 .' t ....,- L -' ~r" r -. ) -' I 
 
 When lo ! a ftately Creature fhap'd a Hind, 
 
 Flew o*er the Lawn, and fwept before the Wind, 
 The trembling Flocks foon hear the rufhing 
 Sound, 
 
 *!** ."'. I. . f\ JL 
 
 And on the Lordly Creature gaze around. 
 165. When plunging in, the boyling Waves he plows, 
 With the huge Horn that grac'd his lovely Brows : 
 Rous'd at the Wound, the clam'rous Waters rife, 
 
 And lafh with Silver Foam the ruffled Skies, 
 
 The 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 be Types of the blefled Virgin, in a Senfe wh?h I fhall not flay to. 
 explain j his Words are thde : 
 
 Candida te ec:fiunt inta8* yellera lava, 
 
 Nee turne* excepto ma&uii lana humida ab imbri : 
 
 Ptrta sterna wane* cxli alto in fanim claufa, &c. 
 
 Thee the foft woolly Fleece receir'd, yet knew, 
 No Stain, or Moifture from the falling Dew : 
 Thro' Heav*ns eternal Doors thy glories pafs, 
 . This nether We ' ' 
 Of beamy Light 
 
 lo Main, or Monture rrom the tailing Dew : 
 'hro' Heav'ns eternal Doors thy glories pafs, > 
 
 his nether World Hlurn'ning , as the Rays C. 
 
 f beamy Light play thro* the polifh'J Glafs. } 
 
 b'j.L'rr'a *..> 3.*ia* ;. j * ;**./ - 

 
 the SON. 137 
 
 The Flocks on ev'ry Side pour from the Shore, 
 1 70. Drink down the healing Draught, and thirft no 
 
 -wj'-* ' 
 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 Tynan Dye, 
 Rofes, that with your maiden Blufhes vie : 
 
 '< t - " .- f . V If 
 
 Let Garlands, wove of various Flow'rs adorn 
 With beauteous Fragrancy the facred Horn. 
 
 Thou art that lovely Creature, faving Pow'r, 
 1 80. That came our forfeit Bleflings 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 (lain, 
 
 And fought a faithful Guide, but fought in vain. 
 185. Difpers'd thro* the Idumean Plains they ftray, 
 And fall to greedy Wolves an eafy Prey. 
 
 Their 
 
 ANNOTATIONS, 
 V. i 8 6. And fall to gretdy Wolves ) Eztk. xxxiv. 6.
 
 138 To G D 
 
 Their doleful Bleatings rerid the diftant Sky, 
 And to the facred Mount of Camel flyi 
 There thy great Goodnefs heard their clam'rous 
 
 Grief, 
 
 ^190. And wing'd with Love flew fwift to their Relief, 
 To heal their Wounds, and free their pefter'd 
 
 Lands, 
 
 And under thee unite their fcatter'd Bands, 
 One Flock obfequious to one Sov'reign Lofd, 
 Happy the Flock ! the, Lord admir'd, ador*d ! 
 
 195. Fly, hafte, ye Nyrriphs," whofe lovely Beauty 
 
 warms 
 
 The Idftmedn Swains with genuine Charms, 
 Forego your Loves, difmifs your woolly Cares, 
 Your long-fought Shepherd comes, your God ap- 
 pears. 
 
 Lo ! Beauty, State, and Majefty divine, 
 200 Grace ev'ry Feature, glow in ev'ry.Line V 
 
 On 
 
 ANNO T A T i o N s. 
 
 y. 199. Lol Beauty^ State, and Majtfy ) 
 
 Cerfiitt ut rnceffk gravif, ut fpeftabilis ore 
 Egregic, ffrrnaque virts fupereminet omnes, 
 Cunffa Deo Jim:lis 3 'Vulium, vocem$ut t foloremquf, 
 H*nd fpirans IK tr tale. .- 
 
 From
 
 the SON. 139 
 
 On the proud Ground with comely Air he walks, 
 High tow'ring o'er the reft ; an4 when he talks, 
 His Words in more than mortal Accents flow, 
 Sure 'tis a God, the Heay'nly Form we know. 
 
 205. He comes, ye fair ones, ftrip 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, 
 
 "/lr/y A ^Iknd^/Hvr- , 
 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 From tfrgil, 
 
 Gradienjefne Deat fttpereminet omrtci. 
 
 hand tiki vtdtuj 
 
 Mortality nee vgx hominem fonat\ O Dea certt ! 
 Nee mortale .fonwif - ./En. vi. 50.- 
 
 And H*mer, i 
 
 Tvvp*i ffS 3 avAosd 1 $os vv TJS n C for- \<al, 
 
 '/ frtiK 77f 00< last 7B/ Kf AVOV il/fuV I^K^I. 
 
 Whom our Sf infer has folIow'J, /. ii. can. 2. when 
 meets !with Belfhake, 
 
 Wherewith reviv'd, this Anfwer forth 
 O GodcL-fs, (for fuch I thee take to be, j 
 For neither doth thy Face terreurial fhe-.v, 
 Nor Voice found mortal.
 
 140 To G D 
 
 Say, what gay Shepherd from Idtime's Hight, 
 Bounding o'er Hills and Dales, directs his Flight, 
 Swift as the Mountain-Jfo, to thefe our Plains, 
 To glad the Nymphs, and blefs the happy Swains. 
 215. Sure 'tis an Angel, or fome Heav'nly Gueft, 
 Who in the Bloom of Youth and Beauty drefs'd, 
 Shoots Glory all around, and fills the Sight 
 Of gazing Crouds with Wonder and Delight. 
 
 r/nJ ' ' . ; ; - >'> ~ -'' r <-; *rif f }'-* 
 He comes, like fome young Bridegroom from 
 
 his Room, 
 
 220. Sweet with ambrofial Scents, and rich Perfume : 
 Mercy and Love fit fmiling in his Face, 
 And comely Gefture heightens ev'ry Grace : 
 Let ev'ry Grace your Admiration move, 
 Till Admiration foftens into Love. 
 
 225. Lo ! gentle Love is all around proclaim'd ; 
 The very Mountains are with Love enflam'd. 
 
 But fee, his Robes diftaih'd with fanguine Red, 
 
 Like thofe who in the fparkling Wine-fat tread ! 
 
 His 
 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 y. 119. He comet, like fome jwng Bridegroom) Cantic. ill 6. 
 V. 117. but fee, Iris Kths ) Ifa. Ixiii, a.
 
 the S- M 141 
 
 His Face o'crwhelm'd with Heart-fore Grief ap- 
 pears, 
 230. And fpeaks his Sorrows in a Burft of Tears. 
 
 Who hath diftain'd thofe Robes that Ihone more 
 
 bright, 
 
 Than Innocence in all its native White ? 
 Where is that Form divine, that Beauty gone, 
 That ftiedding fplendid Glories round the Throne, 
 235. Gladden'd the Synod of Inferior Gods ; 
 
 Thofe Heaven born Souls, that fill the bleft Abodes ? 
 Art thou that Light eternal, once more fair 
 Than rofy-finger'd Morn, or Morning-Star ? 
 
 Art 
 ANNOT ATIONS. 
 
 y. 238. Than rofy- finger 'd Morn ) 
 
 Rofe o ftrmojior afire, 
 
 O caelijutar, O oriens, O Lucifer alme. 
 
 The Comparifon of Youth and Beauty to the Morning Star is 
 common with the Poets. 
 
 Thus VirgT.l t fpeaking of Pallas,. 
 
 Ipfe agmine Pallas 
 
 In media, chlamyde et piciis confyeclus in armis ; 
 Qualis ubi oceani ferfnfus Lucifer tinda 
 Quern Venus ante alits aftrorum diligit ignes, 
 Extulit os facrum calo t tenebrafyue refill/it* 
 
 Pallas himfelf advances in the Midft, 
 Confpicuous in his Veft, and painted Arms : 
 As when the Star by Venut moft bdov'd, 
 Bright Lucifer, juft walh'd in Ocean's Waves, 
 
 Op
 
 - > ' 
 
 To G D 
 
 Art thou the Brigh'tnefs of tliat orient Ray, 
 240. That crown'd the joyful World with new-born 
 Day; 
 
 jjj;* ^JC * ,jL?-.~ ' "' ' '' 
 
 Whom Heav'n and Earth at their Creation lung, 
 And many a World with loud Applaufes rung ; 
 The Sun arid Moon their' Maker's Praife confefs'd, 
 And s all the Elements their Jof expreis'o^; 
 24.5; Ev'ntng and Mbfri alternate Honours paid, 
 With all th'e'Stars, irt living Flame's afray'd ; 
 Triumphant Seraphs in'majeftic Strains 
 Employ *d their Hdrps, artd 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 raifes in the Sky his facred Head, 
 
 And difllpates the Shades. - D 
 
 And Homer calls Aftyanax, 
 
 Whom each foft Charm, and e.irly Grace ndorn, 
 
 Fair as the new-born Star that gilds the Morn. Pope! 
 
 249. Oh ! hinu transformed) 
 
 Hei
 
 the S O tf. 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 : 
 Myfterious 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 blulhing 
 
 Ground ! 
 
 How are thy Hands and Feet with Iron torn f 
 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 miU Lucifero quantum mutatut ak illo J 
 From Virgil, &n. a. 171. 
 
 Hei mibi ytalit erat 1 quantum mutatus al ilk 
 Hectare. -
 
 144 To G D 
 
 What Man could have fuch cruel Pow'r, drwhy ? 
 That God himfelf muft bleed, thifft, groan, and 
 
 die. 
 See Nature's Pangs ! Rocks their Contexture 
 
 break, 
 
 270. And in a Stream of Tears their Sorrow fpeak -, 
 Earth to its Centre riv'd with dire Affright, 
 Difplays thedarkfome 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. 167. What Man could have fu(h cruel Pmu'r ) 
 Cut hominum hoc de te licuit fcelus ? 
 
 From Virgil, Mn. vL 501. 
 
 Quis tarn crudeles oftavjt fumere puntts ! 
 Cut tantum de te licuit ? 
 
 Who had the Will or Pow'r on thee t'afflift 
 Such cruel, barbarous Treatment ! - Dr. 
 
 V. 273. Nor can the Eye of Heav'n ) 
 
 Nee potuit lachrymas fol dl$nmlAre t ferenam 
 Cum Jerrugineo faciem vela-vit amiftu. 
 
 So Virgil, Georg. I 467. 7 
 
 Sol caput obfcura mtidumjerrugine texit, 
 Impiaque aternam t'nnuerunt J*cu!a noftem. 
 
 In iron Clouds was hid the publick Light, 
 And impious Mortals fear'd eternal Night.
 
 the SON. 145 
 
 f 
 
 275. O Grief ineffable ! didfl thou fupply, 
 
 The trembling Sinner's Place condemn'd to die ? 
 Didft thou moft 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 J 
 
 Nail'd to the Crofs, (moft ignominious Death \) 
 In glowing Agonies refign thy Breath ? 
 
 J Twas Man that broke the Law : and foon his 
 
 Blifs 
 
 Swell'd 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 <3 Q J9 
 
 Tho* of a Virgin born, thou wert enmrin'd 
 In mortal Frame, to mortal Bounds confin'd, 
 
 295. Subjeftto reftlefs Paflions, rav'ning Pain, 
 Yet far remov'd from that infeftious Stain, 
 Intail'd on Man, whenfirft our Parent fell 
 An abject Slave to Sin, and Death, and Hell. 
 Still thy eflential Glories ftood confefs'd, 
 
 300. In pureft Aftions, pureft Thoughts exprefs'd ; 
 For, over-fhadow*d by the Holy Dove, 
 That warm'd her Breaft with Joy, and Heav'nly 
 
 Love, 
 
 Thy Mother Parent was from Sin refin'd, 
 And hurtful Taint ; moft bleft 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 theViftim Lamb, that muft attone, 
 At Life's Expence, for Vices not thy own. 
 
 Sa 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 V. 305. fhou an the Bird) 
 
 Tu ftlttcris fata ilia. The Pelican.
 
 the SON. 147 
 
 So great the Toil, fo infinite the Price, 
 
 3 ro. To reinftate us in our native Blifs ! 
 
 When curfed Satan^ moft pernicious Guide, 
 Matchlefe in fraudful Wiles, and lawlefs Pride, 
 Had drawn us down into a World of Woe, 
 And led us many Ages here below, 
 
 3 15. Sunk deep in Guilt, as thofe who with him fell, 
 Rebellious Hoft of Heav*n ! to lowefl Hell. 
 
 Hail, Victor ! whofe all-conqu'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 blefled 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, Viftor ! who haft eas'd our gnawing 
 
 Pains, 
 And freed us from the Dread of lafting Chains. 
 
 L 2 Thy 
 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 y. 313. Tkou art the Lion) Gen. xlix. 9, Rev. V- 5
 
 148 To G O D 
 
 Thy Pow*r not only rais'd us from the Grave, 
 Rut made the griefly King himfelf thy Slave : 
 For thou wert fubjeft in the Realms beneath 
 
 330. To the dire Terrors of infulting Death i 
 
 When in the Earth thy Honours low were laid, 
 And all thy Beauties veil'd in darkening Shade i 
 But foon triumphant to the Realms of Light, 
 More fair thou rifeft, more divinely bright. 
 
 335. So from his Fun' ral Bed the Pb&nix fprings, 
 Shakes from the Parent-Duft his tender Wings, 
 And feeks the glad Arabian's fpicy Plain, 
 Himfelf the faireft of the feather'd Train, 
 That all around him fwell their warbling Throats, 
 
 340. And pay their Homage in melodious Notes. 
 
 Thou 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 V' 339- That *ll around him} 
 
 Circa ilium voluerei vari* comitantur euntem, 
 Et vario indulgent cantu, plaufuque feyuuntur. 
 
 I fuppofe our Author had here in his View thofe beautiful Lines 
 of Latfantim de Pktenice, v. 155. 
 
 Now 
 
 in ccetumjefe genus tmne r volantunt t 
 
 memor eft ulla t nee ulla mettts. 
 Alituum Jtipata choro volat ilia per altum 
 Turbaque prtfyuitur munerc l*ta j>io
 
 the S N. 149 
 
 r..'\ A 3 ; r _;; -, 
 
 Thou art the living Stone, that Men abus'd, 
 
 And Jewijh Builders fcornfully refiis'd ; 
 That in the Rubbifli long rejected flood, 
 Unpoliih'd, unadorn'd, an ufelefs Load ; 
 345. But now confpicuous in the Front difplays 
 Confummate Beauty, and fuperior Grace : 
 
 j+JsL Jid f/i.:\'Xj j ft, i ~ f.i 
 
 Nor does the Fabric Beauty owe alone, 
 
 But all its Strength, to thee the Corner Stone, 
 
 * 311/1 "'f'fL-JLJff'iTK iff* '"- -' 
 
 And flill in Man thy Deity refides, 
 350. Inftrufts with Wifdom, and with Prudence guides. 
 Safe in thy Prefence, and Almighty Pow'r, 
 On thefe alone we truft, and fear no more j 
 Tho* all around the Tumults of the%ea, 
 With hideous Roar expert the hopeful Prey : 
 L 3 355- 
 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 How flq^k together the whole feather'd Kind, 
 And leave theiv Prey, and leave their Fears behind j 
 The Phstnix in the Midft flies o'er the Plain, 
 Pleas'd with th' officipus Homage of his joyful Train. 
 
 'V. 341. Thou art tie living 
 
 Pfal. cxviii. iz. //>. xxviii. 16. Mattk, xxi. 42. Mark xii. 10. 
 illte xx. 17, y#friv. ii. Rotn. ix, 33. I Pei.u. 7,
 
 Ta GOD 
 
 355. Tho' down the Vefiel finks, yet ftill 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' : u 
 In Peace below die fteady VefTel rides 
 Triumphant o'er the Rage of Winds and Tides ; 
 And fearlefs Sailors, long the cruel Sport 
 Of tolling Waves, enjoy the wim'd-for Port : 
 
 3.65. Founded on this, thy City ftandsfecure, 
 
 n.'iw g.. ir.'.-ini .Of \ 
 
 And lafe from circling Dangers Ihall endure^ 
 Till diftarit Nations, proftrate to her Sway, 
 Shall hei v her wholfome Precepts, and obey. 
 
 .Thou 
 AN NOT ATrb'Ns: 
 
 < -*T" __ , v 
 
 V. 3 57. Thou art the Rock ) 
 
 Tu pelagi velut IK. media, firmijjimti caute?, 
 
 Q^jitn neqtie convellunt ijentiy neque fluftibus und*. 
 
 7g 
 
 Horn. 11. xv- v. 620. 
 
 So Tome tall Rock o'ertangs the hoary Main, 
 
 By Winds aflaiTd, by Billows fee.it irr vain, 
 
 Unmov'd, it hears, above, the Tempeft blow, 
 
 And fees the watry Mountains break below. Ptj>f.
 
 the S N. 
 
 Thou art our Guardian, beft, and only Friend, 
 370. Whom thou haft promis'd ever to defend : 
 
 By thee we all are cloath'd, and with the Bread 
 Of this, and Life eternal, are we fed. 
 Thou art the tafteful Dew, that gently pours 
 From the high Heav'ns in fweet all-pleafing 
 
 Show'rs : 
 375. From thee a living Spring of Water rolls, 
 
 That fatiates with full Draughts our thirfty Souls, 
 
 Again it plays up to the Realms above. 
 
 And there delights the Sons of Peace and Love. 
 
 Strong as he is, Man all his Strength receives 
 380. From thee his God, in whom he moves and lives. 
 Thou art the mantling Vine, that fpreads around 
 Its wi^e-extended Arms, and Ihades the Ground ; 
 We the luxuriant Branches gladly feel 
 Thy fpiritous Influence, and cluftring fwell, 
 
 L 4 385< In 
 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 V. 371. And with the Bread) John vi. 32, Sec, 
 
 V. 375* from thee a. living Spring) Pfal. xxxvl 9. .Jer. ". J, 
 vii. 13. Rev. vii. 17. 
 
 V. 381. Thou ar( the mantling Fine) John xv. j.
 
 152 To GOD 
 
 385. In thee, High Treafurer of Heav'n ador'd, 
 Are all its choked Wealth, and Jewels flor'd : 
 From thee the Saints receive their Harry Crowns, 
 Whom thou haft plac'd on everlafting Thrones ; 
 And ev>n on Man, on fmful Man, below 
 
 390. The Streams of thy exhauftlefs Bounty flow ; 
 Plenty each Year returns with loaded Horn, 
 And gainful Joys his Houfe, his Fields adorn. 
 
 Thofe glorious Beauties, that eflential fhone, 
 Reflective from the Father to the Son, 
 395. Before the Worlds were made, ftill mine in 
 
 thee, 
 
 . jf.* ... . < -,.- , , "*r:- 
 
 Thou more than Image of the Deity. 
 
 For thy pure Eflence never was deprefs'd, 
 Though wrapt in Flefh, the God flood all con- 
 
 fefs'd. 
 
 AS thy firft Threads of Life in Nature's Loom 
 4po. Were never wrought, nor in the Virgin's Womb, 
 But from Eternity in Heav'n, tho* Earth 
 Still glories in the great Creator's Birth. 
 And while the Earth beholds thy mortal Frame, 
 Jn Heav'n tjiou dwell'fl eternal, and the fame ; 
 
 405. StiU
 
 the SON. 153 
 
 405. Still with the Father one, tho* pleas'd to bear 
 On Seas, on Land, a weighty Load of Care, 
 (Such Care, as Mortals, bufie, vain, perfuc) 
 True thy divine, thy human Nature true. 
 
 Nor was the World deceiv'd when their Lord 
 
 ft/ 
 fell, 
 
 410. A Prey to Death, and the dire Sons of Hell. 
 They pierc'd his Sides, and Ihed his vital Blood, 
 But through the Man, they could not pierce the 
 
 God. 
 
 Thy Heav'nly Nature, infinitely pure, 
 " Dependant on, and in itfelf fecure, 
 415. (Whence radiant Beams unutterably bright, 
 Beat thick Confufion on our dazzled Sight, 
 Still flying from our lab'ring Thoughts em- 
 brace, 
 
 That pious ftill perfue th* unequal Chace,) 
 This, though it deigns to mix with mould'ring 
 
 Clay, 
 
 420. And in the Shape of Man the God difplay, 
 Divinely great o'er human Nature reigns, 
 Nor gathers Spot, or Blum, from mortal Stains. 
 
 As
 
 i 54 To G D 
 
 As the Sun's Rays, that fearching eV'fy FoFfe, 
 Wade deep the Poifonof .fome common Sh6ar> 
 425. Are ftill reflected in pure native Streams, 
 Nor fuflfer TT^iftt from the infectious Steams ; 
 So from the Earth all pure thy Glories rife, 
 
 blO, I *l. ; u1 ^flw iJ*Yl-'Ui- :.j'ioV/' . :J ij 
 
 Again to blefs the Regions of the Skies ; 
 Again thou filled the Empyreal Throne, 
 
 420. Of God Almighty the Almighty Son. 
 ,boo!cf [:.<<7 R!/J bam br.j': .r.bi?ii;I l/JT^iq Y^T 
 
 Thdf^ 1 *^^- Parts' tha^Here fecelV'd on 
 
 Earth 
 
 From thb rMe^Vlrgin i s WoTrifj'a' Wondrous'Birth, 
 Sublime irt Htorix>br, fubje^fb ri6w n6 more 
 To-Paffions, or to Death's tyrannic P6Wr, 
 
 435. Shifie far above the Radiance of the Stars 
 ^ndall the Beauties of the fplendid Spheres, 
 And, with fuperior Light array'd, 166k down 
 Ofi'the faint Glimm'rings of the dazzled Sun. 
 The Soul' that ftruggling in the Virgin's Womb, 
 
 440. Quicken'd the Clod of Earth to met its Doom, 
 
 ''bWO rf ' i' ' ' - ". OSJ* 
 
 Now" in' its' natal Heav'n new Honours gains, 
 Arid far above the Saints, and Ho'ft of Angels 
 
 -,c.1!K't l^jlOfn (T^l ; . t ffll,'.-- '- (TG-^Cc' 
 
 reigns. 
 
 * A 17 
 
 For
 
 the SON. 
 
 3%T 
 
 For Pow'r, that was, is, fhall be, all is giv'n, 
 To'thee, mod mighty Lord of Earth and 
 
 Heav'h. 
 445. Thy Father thro' the vaft Creation's Frafflfe 
 
 Hath fpread abroad thy Name, thy wond*rous 
 
 I s/h a^fnoo (bscbodm? ebuoD JO 
 
 To this whate'er' the curious Eye furveys,- 
 
 Or thoughtful Mind can reach, deep Reverence 
 
 pays, 
 
 AtthisHeav'n trembles, and its Children bow; 
 450. At this, the guilty Sons of Earth below, 
 And Hell itfelf with air its ftubborn Brood, 
 
 Of Fiends and Furies dire, confefs Th'ee God. 
 si j bvroTj brif. /j-jnr.vb'/. a^islg y 11 ' 3 w ^ "Y^HT .c ir :> 
 
 The fame, who (when the pleafmg dreadfbl Hour 
 Is come, that wearied Time mail be no more, 
 455. And many Worlds, with this once glorious 
 
 Frame, 
 Swell to a Sea of univerfal Flame, ) ^agixx 
 
 Sent 
 .-'wofl .?t4. ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 P. 446. Hath fpread abroad thy Name ) ffa. xlv. 13. Rom> 
 
 . 
 
 ,a
 
 156 To G D 
 
 Sent from, the Father, lhall declare his Pow'r, 
 And all the Deeds of guilty Man explore ; 
 Adjudging fome to Hell's dark dread Abyfs, 
 
 460. And crowning others with eternal Blifs. 
 ? . /c Behold high riding on a flying Throne 
 
 Of Clouds embodied, comes the Judge the Son i 
 Myriads of Angels in Array, complete 
 The pompous Scene, magnificently great.: 
 
 465. The Chriftian Banner is difplay*d around. 
 
 And thoufand Trumpets pour a thund'ring Sound. 
 
 From the four Winds the Sons of Adam come, 
 
 .a r:.::..j 10. ztmc v?;!.;^ sn: jjsjaq 3A, ; .p^> 
 
 And forcibly obedient wait their Doom - f , " " 
 Elate with Joy, orcowringwith Defpair, 
 470. They view thy great Advance, and crowd the 
 
 Jftfcprbgn 
 
 But not the Quick alone (half dead with Fear) 
 The very Dead of Sea and Land appear ; 
 Who thoufand Years had flept in Shades of 
 
 Night, \ A r i; i 
 Shake off their Slumber, and awake to Light ; 
 
 475. Bones, 
 ANNOTATIONS. \ .8^, /* 
 
 V. 461. BefoM high riding) DM. vit. ij, Matth. *xivi '3%, 
 xxvi. 64. Mark xiii. i& X>V, <Si. Rev. i, 7,
 
 the SON. 157 
 
 47 5. Bones, Limbs, and fcatter'd Fragments meet to 
 
 frame 
 
 The perfect Man, who rifes ftill the fame : 
 Nor dares an Atom lag behind ; they fly 
 In Troops unnumber'd thro* the dusky Sky. 
 
 Then mall the Rebel-Chief eflay once more 
 480. To raife the Forces of his weaken'd Pow'r. 
 He gives the mimic Signal : plays the God, 
 And fpreads his lying Banner all abroad. 
 Till Juftice red'ning thy avengeful Arm, 
 Pours on his lofty Pride a thund*ring Storm ; 
 485. Snarling he falls, condemn'd in Flames to lie, 
 And ever writh in Death, but never die. 
 
 While thus united ftand all human Race, 
 And fill the Theatre of ample Space ; 
 High in the midft enthron'd malt thou command 
 490. The parting Throng to fall on either Hand, 
 And with the Smiles of Mercy malt invite 
 The joyful Sons of Virtue to the Right i 
 
 As 
 ANNOTATI ONS. 
 
 ?. 489, High in tbe m'xtjl entbrtnd) Eiek. xxxir- 17. MattU.
 
 158 To G D 
 
 As fome well-judging Mailer of the Plain, 
 From the rank Goats fecerns the woolly Train. 
 495. But to the Left the wicked (halt compel, 
 
 To Death devote, and worfe than Death, to Hell. 
 
 Heav'n now the Signal gives, and all around, 
 Convulfive Nature groans with hideous Sound : 
 Earth from its Hinges mail be torn, and all 
 
 500. The various Kingdoms into Chaos fall ; 
 The Stars diflblving from the fluicy Sky 
 Pour down, and Planets from their Orbits fly : 
 The fick'ning, forrowing, fable Sun mall hide 
 His iron Face, and look a mighty Void: 
 
 505. The Moon, divefted of her borrowed Light, 
 Shall fmk confounded in the Gloom of Night ; 
 For ten-fold Darknefs {hall the World invade, 
 And fpread around one univerfal Shade. 
 Till mighty Thund' rings thro' the rolling Cloud 
 
 510. Break horrible, and (hew the Hand of God, 
 
 Red 
 
 ANNOTATIONS 
 
 > ' 
 
 y. 497. Heav'n now the Signal gives ) Ifa. xiii. 9. Joel if. 
 31. iii. 15. Ezek. xxxii. 7. Mattb. xxiv. 19. Mark xiii. 14. 
 Luke xxi. 25.
 
 the SON. 159 
 
 Red with fliarp Lightnings, that with Veng'ance 
 
 hurl'-d, 
 Cut thro' the fallen Dark, and fire the World : 
 
 Fountains and Rivers kindling, all confpjre 
 To feed the boy ling Seas with flreamy Fire ; 
 715. Old Ocean roaring looks an horrid Glare, 
 
 And, big with Flames, Wings fweep the flafb- 
 
 ing Air ; 
 
 It fpreads, it mounts, and runs thro* all the Sky, 
 Till Worlds on Worlds in fmoky Ruins lie. 
 
 Then in the higheft Heav'ns a glorious Sign 
 520. Of Joy and Peace fhall eminently mine. 
 
 Behold the Tree, whofe Fruit, and balmy Leaves, 
 Whole Nations heals, and Life eternal gives : 
 . It Jhines, but ah ! too fierce for thofe to bear, 
 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 ftrikes ; a Furnace deep and wide 
 Receives the Crew, in a fulphureous Tide 
 
 a 
 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 'V. 511. Sekold tht Tret) Rrv. xxii, a.
 
 160 To G D 
 
 Of never-dying Flames, there doom'd to feel 
 530. The Earnings of an ill-fpent Life, eternal Hell. 
 
 But on the Right the firmly juft and good, 
 (Their Sins effac'd in thy moft precious Blood, J 
 See thro* the gloomy Clouds the dawning Day, 
 And more than Hopes in ev'ry Look difplay. 
 535. Now born aloft on Love's triumphant Wing, 
 They follow thee, their Viftor, 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. 
 Light of the World, from whom all Light began : 
 Kind Intercefibr between God and Man : 
 
 Crown 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 f. 540. Thou twice-begotten Lord ) 
 
 By bis-gtnite, or tivict begitttn, our Author means that ^efus 
 Cbrijl had a real Being and Exiftence in Heaven, being btgotte* 
 from all Eternity of the Eflence of the Father, before he was bom 
 into the World, begotten by the Htly Ghtft of the Virgin Mary. 
 
 y. 544. Kind Intercefir ) i Tim. ii. 5. Hep. viii. 6. ix. 15.
 
 the S ff. i6t 
 
 Crown for o.ur Heads, adorn'd with Gems and 
 
 Gold : 
 545. Our Head, our Glory, Pow'r, and ftrongeit 
 
 Hold. 
 
 The King, who our vi&orious Army leads, 
 Whom all the vanquifh'd Brood of Devils dread, 
 Thou Guardian Shepherd, Guide of all the 
 
 Plain, 
 50. Thou fafe Phyficianj Eafe of all Ouf Pain* 
 
 Thou Church, whofeBafis in Earth's Centre lies, 
 And rifing Turrets penetrate the Skies, 
 Whofe ftately 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 Prieftto lead us to our Journey's End: r ^, 
 M Thou 
 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 V. 549. Thou Guardian Shepherd) Pfal. xxiii. t. ffa. xl. II. 
 Ezek. xxxiv. 23. John x. u. Heb. xiii. zo. i Pet. ti. 15. 
 
 y. 550. Ihou fafe Pkyjician) Matth. ix. n. Mark ii. 17. Lulu 
 IV. ^3. V. 51. 
 
 V. 551. Tbott Church) Matth. xyi. it. 
 y. 555. Thou Altar} Heir. xiii. lV 
 
 V. 556. 7$ Pritft ) Heb, ii. 17. ill I. iv. 14- Vt W. vm t 
 i, ix, ;j
 
 To G D 
 
 Thou Golden Door, that op'ning wide difplays 
 The hiner Courts of Heav'n with radiant Blaze. 
 Thou Ship, in which thro* billowing Life we 
 
 fteer; 
 
 560. 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'd* 
 
 M i-'' / **t m " ""' F \Li'''ff d mj< "tjr-fiT 
 
 5 65 . 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 Pray'rs, for Mer- 
 cy calls, 
 
 When 
 
 .it '< j>3 .1 ,1'ixx .VV 
 
 * 'A* NOTATIONS. 
 
 V. ^7. Thou Golden Door ) Johnx. 7, 9. Rev. iv. r. 
 
 V. 561. Tkett Law and Legj/lttor ) I/a. xxxiii. za. Jam. fv 
 
 J2. 
 
 V. 569. % Gtodnejs, Lord) Ifa.Mil 11. Rm. vh'i. H Htf*. 
 ll
 
 S tf?- 
 
 When Groans, and Tears, and Pray'rs of Mercy 
 
 fail, 
 Thou mew'ft thy Hands ; thy wounded Hands 
 
 fail, 
 
 - . 
 prevail ; 
 
 Thofe Prints of boundlefs Love foon reconcile 
 The angry God, and force a gracious Smile. 
 
 75. Thou on the Right of the Almighty 
 
 Doft fhare the Glories of the radiant Throne* 
 Still blefTmg this our Earth, and Heav'n above, 
 With all the Fruits of joint perpetual Love t 
 As thy great Father's Love with adlive Rays 
 
 580. In and thro* thee moft eminently plays, 
 This the feraphic Hoft, and Saints infpiresj 
 With mutual Amity and pure Defires, 
 That make a Heav'n, and ftands in Man con* 
 
 feft,^ 
 
 When Saint-like Charity enflames his Bread* 
 585. This is that^n'/, whofe eternal Pow'r, 
 
 The Seas, and Earth, and all the Heav'ns 
 adore 
 
 Ms.
 
 164 To G D, 
 
 One God efientially with the Supreme 
 And 72tf, thou moft myfterious, glorious,Theme : 
 Thou greateft, beft, eternal, mighty Word^ 
 90. * From Age to Age confeft our Sov'reign Lord. 
 
 f -.s t-^t .^ j.o.:/ ^l /u - <t^ 
 The End of the Second Hymn of VIDA, 
 
 To GOD the S Q N. 
 
 ;:a:3r .iri 
 
 :.vis 
 
 
 ffia itet aarii vflff > 1 -ns X vO^fc 

 
 SP IRITIS I SANCTO 
 
 DEO OPT. 
 
 The Third Hymn of M. HIERON. VIDA, 
 To G O D the * H O L Y G H O ST. 
 
 An Deus in nobis ? Quid nos mortalibus oris 
 Sevocat, 0, noftrafque rapit fuper cstbera mentes ? 
 Non ea vis opis humane, non pefloris bujus, &c. 
 
 DWELLS there a Gcxi within us, who 
 
 controuls 
 
 The daring Motions of our aftive 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 prefuraed, that every one who profeflcth the Name of 
 Chrift from the firft baptifmal Inftitution, acknowledges that there is 
 an Holy Ghojl ; and the only Queftion confifts in this, what that Ho* 
 ly Ghoft is, in whofe Name' we are baptiz'd, and in whom, accor- 
 ding to our Baptifm, we profefs in our Greed to believe ? Now, 
 Ghoft, or Gajl, in the ancient Saxon Language, fignifieth a Spirit, and 
 in tbat Appellation of the Spirit of Gtd, is his Nature principally 
 
 exprefs'd :
 
 166 To G D 
 
 $. Never can human Pow'r, or Strength like mine, 
 Challenge an A<ft 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. Our paflive Organs, and the Heart inflames. 
 
 By 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 exprefs'd : And the Addition of Holoitfs, tho' it denote the intrinfical 
 Sanctity eflemially belonging to that Spirit, yet it likewife contains a 
 derivative Notion, fisnifying an Emanation of that Holinefs, and a 
 Communication of the Effects thereof ; in which Communication, 
 (fays Biftiop Pearfon) confifts his Office. 
 
 K ij. 'Tis the Divinity. ) 
 
 Intus *git Dexs, tt xtftrg ft fefre Tjerfat. 
 Ovid has confefs'd this Truth, FaJ}. yi. 5. 
 
 Eft Dens in nobis : agitante calefcinus ilk. 
 
 Impetus hie facra ftmtna mentis haket. ' 
 Fas miJai pr*cit>ue vultut vidiffe Dearum, 
 
 Vtl quia fum Vates, tiel quia facra eaat. 
 
 A God within us dwells, whofe Influence fires 
 Our paflive Minds, and Heav'n-bom Thoughts infpires, 
 O might I fee the Gods ! while I rehearfe 
 Their facred Wonders in prophetic Verfc. 
 
 V. %. Oft Man, the facred Temple ) 
 
 Bifhop Ptarfen from hence deduceth a Proof of the Divinity of the 
 Holy Gktjl: The Inhabitation of the Holy Ghoft, (fays he) makerh a 
 Temple, according to the Apoftle, i Ccr. jii. 16. vi 19. 2 Car. 
 vi. 1 6.) But the Inhabitation of any created Perfon cannot make 
 Temple j therefor* tfie Holy Gbojl is Gid.
 
 the HOLT GHOST. 167 
 
 By him the Soul infpir'd with Heav'nly Love, 
 Fit to converfe with kindred Souls above, 
 Quit* 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 blefl 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 perfed reigns among the Saints above ! 
 25. Oh ! thither let my Soul enraptur'd rife, 
 
 And view the Glories of the radiant Skies ! 
 
 From what exhauftlefs Spring thefe Rivers flow, 
 
 Of boundlefs Love to chear the Sons of Woe ! 
 
 Or wou'd the Deity himfelf difplay, 
 30. That I his genuine Beauties might furvey. 
 
 M 4 Jie
 
 i<58 To G D 
 
 Jie hears, he comes ; behold a rufhing Flood 
 Of blazy Lightning pours before the God ! 
 My Soul has caught the FJame, celeftial Fire 
 Wings my brisk Thought, and fpirits my Defire. 
 35.1 foar, methinks above the ftarry Sphere, 
 
 The Darknefs breaks, and dazzling Scenes appear. 
 
 I fee, ( O grant, 'Thou Povfr, 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. 31. He hears, ke comes ) 
 
 Pallor ? an ille ruit color ? ecce mihi or tub HI Ardor 
 Ingruit 
 
 As this is a Strain of Poetic Enthufiafm, I mall quote fbme Lines 
 from Virgil) which Dr. Trapp fo juftly admires, and which undoubt- 
 edly our Author had in his View ; but for the Subject's fake, I com- 
 pare them not together. 
 
 .. . Cum virgt, pefctre Fata 
 Temfus, ait t Deus, ecce y Deus, cui talia fanti 
 jtntt fores fubito non vultus^ ntn coltr untts, 
 Mtn compt* manfere com<e ; fed peftus ant/elum, &C. 
 
 He comes, behold the God ! the God ! Che faid, 
 
 (And fhiv'rinj* at the facred Entry ftaid) 
 
 Her Colour chang'd, her face was not the fame, 
 
 And hollow Groans from her deep Spirit came. 
 
 Her Hair flood up, convulfive Rage poflefs'd 
 
 Her trembling Limbs, and heav'd her lab'ring Breaft. 
 
 Her flaring Eyes with fparkliug Fury rowl, 
 
 When all the God came rufhing on her Soul.
 
 the HOLT GHOST. 169 
 
 Where kindly fhaded 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 ! faft by fits the Almighty Son, 
 
 Who with like Radiance crowns the glorious 
 
 Throne, 
 Joint Makers of the World's moft beauteous 
 
 Frame, 
 The fame in Wifdorn, 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 
 In circling Glories round the joyous Skies ? 
 
 55. Whence 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 * I have omitted four or five Lines, which our Author repeats 
 from the foregoing Hymns, p, 49, 126, and which I have there 
 endeavour'd to tranflate, but not (b much to my Satisfaction, as to 
 think they will bear a Repetition, nor is there any Want of them 
 here to cosnplcat the Senfc.
 
 To G D 
 
 55. Whence a&ive Rays, and all-embracing Flarhfes, 
 Flafh thick along the Heav'ns in golden Streams. 
 With what ftrange Raptures has it fill'd my Bteaft 
 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 ftreamy Rays, 
 ITrat form this piercing, this opprefllve Blaze ? 
 Yes j here are center'd ev'ry real Joy, 
 
 Jj nrtf - %*' ?- -'/ - 'j "Vj p-r;* > ;\* If'iof 
 
 And Sweets of purefl Love, that never cloy ; 
 65. Hence that ineftimable Blefling, Grace, 
 Without Ceflation flows, and heav'nly Peace. 
 
 Or who is that fbrrd Perfon of the Throne, 
 That flowing from the Father and the Son, 
 
 Appears 
 
 A V NO T A TIO N S. 
 
 r. 67. Or iufjt is that Third Per.fon ) 
 
 The Perfonality of the Holy Ghoft is manifeft from Jo^ xiv. 16. 
 xv. 26. xvi, 7. Acts x. 19. xiii. >. Rttn. viii. 26. i Car, iii 10. 
 Epbef. iv. 30, &c. And as the Godhead was communicated from the 
 Father, tathe Son, not from the Sen unto the Father, and therefore 
 there mtift be acknowledg'd a Piiority of Older, by which the Father 
 is Firit, and the Sow, not the Father, Second j tho' 'fince this was done 
 from all Eternity, there can be no Priority of Time : And as the 
 fame Godhead was communicated by the Father and the Son unto 
 the Holy Gheft, not by the Holy Ghoji unto rhe Father or the Son } 
 and fince this was alfo done from all Eternity, and therefore can ad- 
 tnit ef no Priority in Reference of Time, yet that of Order muft be 
 
 here
 
 the HOLY GHOST. 171. 
 
 Appears with equal Pow'r and Glory crown'd, 
 70. Yet fcarce appears,- fuch Lightnings flafii around? 
 Sure 'tis the God, the God to whom I raife 
 My feeble Voice, and humbly drive to praife i 
 
 Who 
 ANNOTATI ONS. 
 
 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 from the Firft and the Se- 
 cond, muft be of the Three the Third. See Bifhop Pear fan. 
 
 V. 68. That flowing from the Father) 
 
 The Proceflfion of the Holy Ghojl from the Father is exprefly de- 
 livered in the Scriptures, Jthn xv. z6. and tho' it be not as exprefly 
 faid that the Holy Ghojl pvoceedeth from the &>, yet the Subftance 
 of the fame Truth is virtually contained in Maith. x. 20. Rom. viii. 
 9. i Cr. xi. \i. Gal iv. 6. Phil. i. 19. i Pet. i. n. 
 
 f. 71. Surt % tit the God ) 
 
 Hie Deus, hie ( ni jailor ) adeft, 
 
 The Soeinians, who deny the Holy Ghojl to be a Perfbn, affirm 
 that the Spirit of God is in God, and is the eternal and omnipotent 
 Power of God : And the Macgdoniam, who deny the Holy Ghojl to 
 be a divine and uncreated Perfbn, acknowledge him to be a Perfbn 
 of an intellectual Nature fubfifting i From our Adverfaries therefore 
 Bimop Pearfon draws another Proof of the Deity of the Holy Ghojl ; 
 becaufe a Perfon fubfifting of eternal and omnipotent Power muft 
 be God. But what need we any further Proof of a Truth fb well 
 attefted and confirmed by the Holy Scripture', Exed. xxxiv. 34 conv 
 par'd with a Cor. iii. 17. A8s v. 3, w e. 
 
 He, to whom the divine Attributes belong, as certain'} 1 as they be- 
 long to God the Father, is truly and properly God j but the divine 
 Attributes, fuch as are Omnifcience, Omnipotency, Omniprefence,and 
 the like, do as certainly belong to the Holy Gboft, as they do unto 
 God the Father ; therefore we are as much afiur'd that the Holy Ghofl 
 is God. Again, He to whom are attributed thofe Works, which are 
 proper unto God, by and for which God doth require us to acknow- 
 ledge
 
 i 7 2 To G D 
 
 Who feeds the Univerfe from Pole to Pole, 
 With vital Spirits, that pervade the whole ! 
 75. Unborn, and uncreate ! Oh !'wond*rous Name ! 
 DifTufive Breath of Life, wide-fpreading Flame ! 
 Immediate Off-fpring of the mutual Love, 
 That reigns eternal in the Heav'ns above, 
 
 Between 
 AN NOTATIONS. 
 
 ledge and worfliip him as God, is properly and truly God ; but fuch 
 Works are attributed often in the Scriptures to the Spirit of God, as 
 the Afts of Creation, and Confervation of all Things, the Miracles 
 wrought upon and by our blefled Sai-icur, the Works of Grace and 
 Power wrought in the Hearts of true Believers, and the like ; there- 
 fore the Hly Ghoft, or Spirit of God, is the true and living God, 
 
 /'. 75. Unborn, and uncreate ') 
 
 The Holy Ghojl is the Spirit of God which is in God, and there- 
 fore is no created Perfon ; as that cannot be a created Perfon, which 
 hath not a created Nature, and that cannot have, nor be a created 
 Mature, which is in God. 
 
 V. 77. Immediate Cf-fprixg ) 
 
 MutuJis ardtr 
 
 communn amor. 
 
 The beft Being, and the beft Underftanding, muft needs conceive 
 the beft Image of hfelf $ now in conceiving i; begets it, and the Be- 
 gotten by Nature is no lefs than the Begetter : Hence then we have 
 the Subfillences of Father and Son. And fince the Father in beget- 
 ting his own Image cannot but love it naturally, and the Son cannot 
 bur as naturally love the Father, hence proceeds mutual Love, which, 
 becaufe it is natural, is no lefs yi Being than the Begetter, and Be- 
 gotten from whom it proceeds ; therefore the Spirit is Gt>.i t and a 
 third Subfiftcucc in the divine Nature.
 
 the HOLY GHOST. 173 
 
 Between the Father, and his only Son, 
 So. Three Perfons, tho' diftmd, yetGoJin Effence Ont. 
 
 All Creatures, that the common Blefling fhare, 
 To be, or live, thy plaftick Pow*r declare 5 
 Imperial Man, who lords it all around, 
 Beafts, Fifties, Fowls, and all that 'creep the 
 
 Ground, 
 85. Numberlefs Infedls ; Trees, and ev'ry Bed 
 
 Of fragrant Flow*rs, that paint th' enamel'd 
 
 Mead; 
 
 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 Bow 
 
 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. 
 
 S- This
 
 i 7 4 To G D 
 
 95. This fills the Univerfe with pure Defires, 
 And Gods and Men with Chanty infpires r 
 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 Virtqe wait. 
 
 Thou Love ignipotent, thou Pow'r divine, 
 
 Breath of celeftial Air, all Things are thine: 
 ^'iall fnoloS dzii <?*flrij 
 
 105. Oa 
 
 A N N o T A T i O'N. s. 
 
 * Ll K 10 1. Whence fangs iokatecr is gtod) 
 -"biH Uw-vmnu fittai> kinc cmvis dwyte virtu:. 
 
 As what our Saviour did and fuffer'd for us belong'^ to that Of- 
 fice of a Redeemer, which he took upon him ; fo whatfoever the 
 Holy Gboji worketh in order to the fame Salvation, may be look'd 
 upon as belonging to his Office. Now therefore, brcatrfe without 
 Holinefs- we cannot fee God, whofe Eyes are pure, and becaufe we 
 are of onrfelves in our natural State impure and unhofy, and infuf- 
 ficient for thefe Things, without the Afllftances of the Holy Spirit, 
 we acknowledge the Office of the Holy Spirit to confift in the fanc- 
 tifying of the Sevvanrs of God, in enabling them to walk in his 
 Ways, to ktef kit C*t*t*Midments, and make their Calling Mid . 
 leftion fure. Ftr the Fruit of the Spirit is Lve t jfoj, Peace, 
 iwg-fttffenng ^ Gentlenejs, Gt>dnejs t Faith, Metkmjs^ Temperance j 
 tgainjt fuch there is n Ln>w t Gal. v. za.
 
 the HOLT GHOST. ! 75 
 
 105. OH all we find thy Deity imprefs'd, 
 
 Thou, Wifdom, Strength, and Pow'r of God 
 confefs'd ! 
 
 Thefe fpacious W T orlds were in thy Balance 
 
 rn n*'.</I rsaT 
 weigh'd, 
 
 When Heav'n's expanfive Radiance was dif- 
 playC l 
 
 '>*iVr > *^r * 
 
 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 Pare. 
 
 -1 15. Then didft thou fly on Lightnings all abroad, 
 And ftill the Rage of the tumultuous Flood j 
 Purging the Waters with thy faving Breath. 
 From all Infection, and the Seeds of Death ; 
 
 TU 
 
 That 
 
 t ! -' AN NOT A T I OKS. 
 V. I*' I. When en Crvttivn Day ) 
 
 i Thou from the firft 
 
 Waft prefent, and with mighty Wings om-fpread, 
 Dove-like Cu'ft brooding on the vaft Abyfs, 
 And mad'ft i: pregnant. Minn. 
 
 Sec Hvnan to GtA the Father, ver. 37?.
 
 To G D 
 
 That future Man might wafh his fmful Stain, . 
 1 20. 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 celeftial Fires, 
 Swells rapt'rous, and to more than Man afpircs : 
 
 125. Mindlefs of Earth, he travels through the 
 lit a*iiA '.[<'..& srij oil .0** 
 
 Skies, 
 
 And with the glowing Splendors feafts his Eyes. 
 And now he feels the flruggling of the God, 
 (That fills his heaving Breaft, and fires his 
 
 Blood) 
 
 s r . ['/ : aaaiaa/H-l ro ?ft 0oi!i -*. ! r ' 5f ' * -*J * 
 Nor knows Reftraint, but painful Silence breaks, 
 
 130. And Truths fublime in worthy Accents fpeaks, 
 Embolden'd awful Secrets to explore, 
 That long in Heav'ns dark Volume flept before. 
 Hence were the myftic Oracles of old, 
 And ftrange Events from facred Tripods told. 
 
 1 3 5. Hence 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 K 1 34, And ftrangt Event f from faered Tripods ). wcCI 
 Hine facri Tripodef, bine fan ft a oracula div&m. 
 '*!&
 
 the HOLY GHOST. 
 
 135. Hence Jewl/h Prophets with melodious Strains + 
 And iblemn Numbers ch'arm'd the neighb'ring 
 Plains ; 
 
 -' ^ v r - ; .v-,/i v 
 
 And Sibylh were inftrufted to relate 
 
 In lofty Verfe the Myfteries of Fate. 
 ,3.noj. r xJ yMf^'paitl 
 
 N % 
 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 *The 7>/;W was a Table, or Stool fupported by three Feet, upoii 
 which the Prieftefles of Apollo were wont to (land or fit when they 
 pronounced the Oracles.. But the wbole Bufinefs of Oracles, (fays 
 Mr. Stanytn, in his Abftraft of the Grecian H:ftory,) was of human 
 Contrivance, an egregious Impdfture founded upon Superftition, and 
 carried on by Policy and Intereft, till the bii'hter Oracles of the Ho- 
 ly Scriptures difpell'd thofe Mifts of Error and Emhuuafm. I don'f 
 fe therefore that our Author h&e Means thofe Inftruments of 
 
 the Devil, but fpeaking poetically; intends by tripodes, and oracuU 
 Divutn, all true and divine Prophecies, fuch as cane not At any timi 
 by the Will of Man, but lubat holy Men of Godfpake as they <wer4 
 movd by tke Holy Gbojt, i. Pet. i. ij. 
 
 V. 137. And Sibylls -wert lnjlrttfted) 
 
 Carmivaqtte ediderunt di<e pr*faga Sibyllx. 
 
 Undoubtedly there is fome Ground for the known Story of thefei 
 ProphetefTes the Sibjlls, whom w find memion'd in the very Infancy 
 of Greece ', tho' vaft Heaps of Dag^rel Greek have fince been 
 forg'd in Imitation of their Writings'. 
 
 M. VArrot (r^uo nemo unjuum dottier, neapud Graces quidem, vixit) 
 SikyHintfS libros ait non fuij/e unius Sibylla, fed appelLiri two nomine 
 Sibyllinos, <juod omnes fanning vates, Sibylla funt a fiteribus nuncu~ 
 fatif \ "Vfl ib unius Delphidu wnine, vel a con/iliis Deorum enunti- 
 andis. S<f enim Deos, non 0gf, et con/ilium non $x\tiV, fed $u- 
 ifftll* ant sEolico genere fermonit 5 itn^tu Sibyliam diftam efi 
 Ceterum Sibyllas decem nuwero fuijjfe, &Ci 
 
 Lafon. /. .i. t. 6.
 
 i 7 
 
 8 To GOD 
 
 By thee, moft Holy Pdw'r, infpir'd and taught, 
 140. Man fhines in all the Dignity of Thought ; 
 Tames the wild Paflions 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 defer v'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 fhould ride, 
 
 And 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 K 139. By thee, mojl Holy Pow'r,) 
 
 We may obferve by the Way, that much the fame Power which 
 Vida. here attributes to the Holy Gkoft, was given by the Heathen 
 Poets to ^follot the God of Divination. 
 
 VTIS rbffOV oasov ' 
 - oirwTnv \Ka." 
 
 > $ > TO^OV \tf 
 
 Kdv 
 
 iv da.va.Toto. 
 
 Callim. Hymn, ad ApolJ. 
 
 To thee, great Phoebus, vavious Arts belong, 
 To wing the Dart, and guide the Poets Songj 
 Th' enjighten'd Prophet feels th)- Flames divine, 
 And all the dark Events of Lots are thine. 
 By Pkabxs taught, the Sage prolongs our Breath, 
 And in its Flight fufpends the Dart of Death. 
 
 Pit?
 
 the HOLT GHOST. i 7 g 
 
 And change thefe dull and forrowful Abodes, 
 150. 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 i 
 
 N 2 Nor 
 
 . #;! '- y. ' ; ; "-rp7-q f.uA. 
 
 ANNOTATION $ t 
 
 V. 151. For Heu'v'n is b.irr'd to none ) 
 
 Nee quifquain fanffis excltiditur <etberis er:s, 
 Ant Fato adiierfit ant alicujus numinis ira t 
 Deditns Aternii mundi ante evordia pcenis. 
 
 I think our Author in thefe Lines juftly denies any abfolute Pr6- 
 ffeftinatioa, and that 'tis abfurd and impious to argue, as Tome do, 
 that our Aftions are indifferent, and be oflr Behaviour what it will, 
 we fhall be fav'd or damn'd according to *I.e determinate Counfel 
 of God. For God has undoubtedly left uj to ouv own Freedom of 
 Choice, (fee Page 68.) and to convince us oi his Impartiality, has 
 declar'd that he hath no Refped of Perfons, but rewards or punifheS 
 all Men, not according to his own Pleafure, bur according to their 
 Deferts $ and that in every Nation, ht that fears kirn, and <ii)orks 
 Righteoufnefs, is accepted of hhn t Acts x. 25. Dent. xxx. 19. \j-ob 
 xxii. 2. xxxv. 6. Ezek. xviii. 4. xxxiii. n. Htfea \i.1. And 
 tho' Original S/, tiut f pint Hal Leprojie handed down from Adam to 
 the whole Mafs of Mankind by an hereditary infectious Generation, 
 fubjects all Men to the Difpleafure of the Almighty, and is ready to 
 fink us in the Gulph of eternal Mifery ; yet being aflur'd that the 
 Grace of God it fufficit'ic for all Men, ^ Cor. iii. 5* xii. 9. And 
 that He Will have all Mt-n to be faifd, i Tim. ii. 4. and that all 
 Men /hall be fayed through Chnft,Rom. v. 9, &c un'efs they have 
 tvilfully trodden under Foot the Son of God, and daw Defpite unfit 
 the Spirit of Grace t Heb. x. 19. we may conclude, that our Dcftruc 
 tion (which God avert) is as entirely due to ourfeives, as if we were 
 out of God's Power, and ^abfolutejy in the Hand oi our own Coun- 
 fel, EfkeJ. i. ?j compar'd with i Cor. ix. 27. 
 
 Freely they ftand, who ftand, and fall, who fall. 
 Milton, iii. 102. 
 
 And Adam confiderin" his own Fall, and the wretched happy 
 Effefts attending it, thus breaks forth : 
 
 O Qoodnefs
 
 i8o To GOD 
 
 Nor was Man doom'd, before the Gift of Breath, 
 To the fad Tortures of eternal Death. 
 
 155. When firft on this World's Threfliold we ap- 
 
 ->:L\ r 
 pear, 
 
 And pierce with tender Cries th* invading Air, 
 Wailing by Inftindt the definitive Fate, 
 That drave Our Parents from their bJiisful State, 
 
 (Whofe 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 O Goodnefs infinite .' Goodnefs immenfe ! 
 
 That all this Good of Evil fhall produce, 
 
 And Evil turn to Good! Doubtful I ftand 
 
 Whether I mould repent me now of Sin 
 
 By me done, and occafion'd ; or rejoice 
 
 Much more, that much more Good thereof (hall fpriug j 
 
 To God more Glory, more Good-will to Men 
 
 From God, and over Wrath fhall Grace abound. 
 
 Milt. xii. 470. 
 
 r. 1 55. IVbenfrJl on this World's Tkrefrold ) 
 
 . Ut fievif projeftus 'ab una'is 
 
 Navita, nttctus burnt j.:cet infam, indigus omni 
 Pit ali auxilio, cum primurn in lummis or as 
 Nixikus ex alve matris natura frofndlt ) 
 frgitayue Itcum lugubri complet. , . 
 
 Lucref. 7. v. 
 
 Wfitfn, like a Sailor, by the Tempeft 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 Aire Prefages of his future Doom. 
 
 Crtect, 
 S> &
 
 the HOLY GHOST. 181 
 
 (Whofe Guilt funk all Mankind beneath a Load 
 1 60. Of fiery Veng'ance from an angry God, )ti ^ 
 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. 
 
 .<J?U nOlVLCJQ i\i TiV3 ICl 7/G? bfi A. 
 
 MflA 
 
 :wc'; x/^b'vT^n'rr ..hv-i- 
 But foon as thy Divinity infpires, 
 
 170. And warms our panting Souls with all its Fires 
 Kindly admonilh'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 his Praifes 
 
 fings. 
 
 *A if, <,. , ,,.. 
 
 175. Proftrate before his Majefty we fall, 
 
 And with ftrong Pray'rs and Tears for Mercy 
 call -, 
 
 N 3 Nor
 
 i8a To G D 
 
 Nor 6nly mourn, and pray, but vow to kavc 
 The Paths of Sin, and thee our God receive. 
 
 Embolden'd by thy Prefence more and more, 
 j 80. We now thofe awful Myfterifs explore 
 Of Holy Writ, and chearfuljy fulfil 
 
 The wholfome Precepts of our Father's Will. 
 
 ' >ij .aCl f /hi. lit J.n*)) 
 
 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,. . 
 
 ZJIM : .: .i::v7 zl'jvZ x-ni,\u^ ii/o<!frnw [.iiA'.o^i 
 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. 
 
 i'd by :Z\ 
 
 Since by Nature we are totally void of nil faving Truth, and un- 
 der an Impoffibility of knowing the Will of God, becaufe as tit 
 Man kntwetfr the Tkingf of A KLrn June the Spirit of Man lubub js 
 in him, evin / none kno^cth the Things of God, but the Spirit of 
 Gd, f Cor. ii. 10. Therefore this Spirit ft n'cheth all Tburgs t yea, 
 even the deep Things of G<w', and revealeth them unto the Sons of 
 Men j fo that thereby the Darknefs of their Undemanding is ex. 
 pdlcd, and they are enlightcn'd with r ~he Knowledge of God. 
 
 Ep. Pearfox.
 
 the HOLY GHOST. 183 
 
 Such are the BleiTings, fuch th? 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. 
 1.95. But God in Mercy views the purple Tide, 
 Dread Sight ! that guflies from the gory fide 
 Of his Almighty Son -, whofe wounded Vein* 
 Pour out this Stream to warn away our Stains. 
 Hence fprings our Hope : New Joy his Sorrows 
 
 give, 
 200. His Sicknefs, Health, and in his Death we live. 
 
 ': , ". ' t {\vv: "UL"'.- :\vf^,"-y.!|- jo 
 
 Still left fome Spot of ancient Sin remain^ , 
 Thou bid'ft us dip, and be for ever clean ; 
 We, in thofe living Waters, facred made 
 By thy Almighty Prefence, dip the Head v 
 
 N 4 205. And 
 
 y. 105. We, in tbtfe living Water: ) 
 
 Sponte capuf facrls de mare immergimus undis^ 
 Pr^fenti quits illxjlras tu nitmine pr<efent. 
 
 I underftand by rhefe Lines only the Sacrament of B^fc/w, \vhtcfi,' 
 from the Authority of the Writings of the New Teftament, contain- 
 ing the Command of Chrift, and the Praftice of his Apoftles, and 
 from univerfal Ufage of the Chriflian Church ever fince, we fpok up- 
 on to be a facred Ordinance t Rife, and Ceremony t inftltv.ted by 
 Chrift t therein by the A&mnittr&tit* of Water on 'the Perfon bap- 
 tixtd, in the Name of the Rwhw, ^. that Ptrfott is admitted t
 
 1 84 
 
 To G D 
 
 5105. And, wond'rous Change ! bleft be thy faving 
 
 Pow'r, 
 White as the Snow we rife, to blufh no more. 
 
 Our 
 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 Cbrijtianity, receives the Remijfion oj original and afiual Sin, and 
 frai a Right and Title, uppn hit Perjeverance in the Grace of his Bap* 
 tijm, to all the BleJJings, Advantages, and Promifes of the Gojpel. 
 This then is Bapfi/m. And if in Compliance to my Author I have 
 ufed the Word dip, yet, I intend by no Means to exclude the 
 cuftomary Way of four ing on, or fpr inkling of Water, which feems 
 much pvpperer than dipping or Iimnerfion j as the Word (B&vri- 
 ft<3wl) to be baptized, does not always fignify the warning of the 
 whole Body, either in the Writings of the Jews, or in the New 
 Tcftamenr, but the fpriukling and walking fome Part of it onty j 
 which likewife beft anfwers ani agrees wit,h the Baptizing unto Mo- 
 Jer, i Car. x. ^. with the Prophecies, Promifes, Types, and Figures 
 of the inward baptizing with the Spirit, i Pet. iii. ?i. and with the 
 Circumftauces of Place and Time of Baptizing, recorded in the 
 of the 
 
 The outward Sign however, or the Thin? ufed in Baptifm, muft 
 be Water, an'd Water' only : Wherefore Pope Stephen II. declar'd 
 the BaptiGn cf an Infant null, which was adminiftred with Wine, 
 for Want of Water } and when ah Archbifhop of fjtnoty asked 
 Pope Gregory IX. his Opinion of Bapiifm adminiftred witlj Beer, he 
 declar'd it to be null : What then muft we think of the B-iptiifm of a 
 certain Jew, who being in a dry Wildernefs ? was bapuzed with 
 Sand J ' 
 
 And ?tis obfervable, that a my^erioijs purgation by Water, has 
 jjeen held from all Antiquity. 
 
 The Sea (fays Euripides,) can expiate all mortal Ills, 
 
 And Ctillimackus reprefems Latona begging of the River God Pe- 
 ncat, that flic may wafh her Children Apollo and Diana, in his 
 Streams, - Hymn, in Del. v. no. So Rbea, when fhe had 
 brought fo. th Jupiter, 
 
 - Xg94 QAtftVVtfftt-, 
 
 * > Qvtt> r r*tv f>ff&wt' Hymn, ad Jov. v. 33. 
 
 - Amid
 
 the HOLY GHOST. 185 
 
 Our Souls refin'd, foon as thy Grace they feel, 
 <Glow, Ihine, and fparkle, as the polifli'd Steel. 
 From this deep-founded Root we tow'ring rife 
 210. With aftive Zeal, and fhoot into the Skies : 
 And with unweary'd Diligence we ftrive, 
 And ardent Minds, till joyous we arrive 
 At the long-wifh'd-for Manfions of the Bleft, 
 Thofe Seats of guiltlefs Pleafure, Peace, and 
 
 Reft. 
 
 ,: zKi.'xrr* -h^pglur: Hi; rM sadi cT ^i 
 215. So noble the Reward, the Prize fo great, 
 That on our fmall, but pious Labours wait ! 
 
 .?.n Yet 
 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 Amid the Flood 
 She plung'd the reeking Babe, and bath'd the God. 
 
 But whoever thinks from feence, that the Application of Water to 
 any ether pious Ufe, than that of Baptifm, neceflary, let me remind 
 him of what Laftantius fays of the old Romans, Se fie facrificaffe 
 Dpinantttr, Jt cutem laverint j tfin^uam libidives infra ptRuf inclufxs 
 ulli amnes abluant, aut ullx taaria purificent. Quantt fatitts eft 
 mentejn fotius eluere^ tju<e ma Us cupidttatibus fordtdatur ; tt uno vir- 
 tutis ac fidei lavacro univerj/t vitia defellere ? Qwd <jui fecerit, 
 quamlibet inquinatum ac Jordidunt corpus gerat, fatis furus ejly I. V. 
 c. ao. And no better has one of their own Poet treated them, fay- 
 Pfe 
 
 Ah nitniitm faciles, qui triftia crimina c*dis 
 Flumtnea tolli peffi futarit a^ua. Ovid. Faft. ii. 45. 
 
 Poor eafy Fools ; to think the guihlefs Flood 
 
 pan wa(h from tnurd'rous Hands 'the Stain of Blood!
 
 ,8J i0 To GO D 
 
 Yet ftjll to thee be all the Honour 
 
 For ev'ry Thought, or Deed demands thine 
 
 ./ .. J-' . . fiU*.'Q 3ii -, *^-jl^l*AjI uiii. - '.,." fW\ 
 
 . Aid. 
 
 - .. - . 
 
 Nor are our beft Endeavours worthy found,, 
 220. If not with thy peculiar Bleffing crown'd,^ * 
 'Thou Sacred Pow'r, thy Will and Influence, 
 (Since human Merit is a vain Pretence,^ . 
 t .Clears the Avenues' of the dark'ned Soul, 
 
 And chearful Light breaks in upon the whole. 
 225. To thee Man all his boafted Vigour owes ; 
 From thee his ev'f y God-like A&ion flows : 
 Nor wAy this : but thy glad Prefence deigns 
 To blefs with hidden Virtues all his Pains. 
 
 As 
 . 
 ANN o T AT IONS. 
 
 y, lg For ev'rj Thought, or Deed) 
 
 Te Jive niltumen Audemus, nil pojfiimus ipfi. 
 What Man is he, that boafts of flefhly Might, 
 And vain Ailurance of Mortaliiy ? 
 Which all fo foon as it doth come to Sight, 
 Againft fpirituAl Foes, yield? by and by, 
 Or from the field moft cowardly doth fly. 
 Nor let die Man afcribe it to his Skill, 
 Thai thorough Grace hath gained Victory. 
 If arty Strength we have, it is to 111, 
 But all the Good is God\ the Pow'r, and eke the Will. 
 Spewjer, 1. i. can. 10. 
 
 'ft? it is Gad (fays St. Paul, P!>il. H. 13.) luhich wketh in ur,. 
 bztk to oyi// and to do oj Ins good Pleafure : And ke is able to do ex- 
 ceeding abundantly ahoije all that lue can aik or think, aecording to 
 the Po-zwr tfyett luorietb in us, Ephef] iii. 20.
 
 the HOLT GHOST. 187 
 
 As fragrant Flow'rs, and Trees, without Supply 
 330. Of fat'ning Mpifture, ficken, fade, and die ; 
 
 So 
 
 ^.NN OT ATI ON S. 
 V. t9L Ai fragrant Flo<w'rs ) 
 
 This Thought is prettily exprefs'd by one M. Anton. Flaminmt* 
 Comfarat Aniwam fuam Fieri. 
 
 Utflos tenelltts in JirM 
 : Telluris aim* lucidarp 
 Ftrmofus explicit com*m 9 
 Si ros et imber edutat 
 Ilium : tenelU mens men 
 Sic floret t almi Spiritus 
 DUTH rare dnlci pafcitnr. 
 Hoc ilia Jt caret , fiatim 
 Languefcit, ut flat arid* 
 Tellure natus, turn nifi 
 Et ros et imber educat. 
 
 The COMPARISON. 
 
 Lo ! as the tender Flow'r, 
 
 On Earth's foft Bofom laid, 
 RefrelVd with balmy Dew, , rfjsb 
 
 Unfolds its beauteous Head ; 
 
 IJ. 
 \ RV . - So flouriftieth my Soul, 
 
 Of vig'rous Joy pofleft, ,. ., v 
 
 When with thy Dew of Heav'ti, 
 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 genial Rain 5 
 
 IV. So
 
 -.5>* *V ?, H 1 R JT*. "NT "\ rtt 
 188 To G D 
 
 So fhould 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 lot-rowing Soul, m < 
 
 And difcontented lies j 
 Without thy faving Aid,, ta t \:^\ 
 It fickens, faints, and dies. . ^wV 
 
 Ab-Mta.tttew .\t ,-.,-\ *\ 
 
 Mille ammiffefe objiciunt difcrintina Xoflris, 
 Mille nocent feftss, occultufjue imjJkiTiet hoftis 
 
 Criminator ille invidens operibus Dei, omncs fallacias, ct callidi- 
 dates fuas ad dtcipiendum houiinem intendit, ut ei adimerct im- 
 inOrtalitatem. Laftan 1. ii. c. 12. 
 
 The Devil, (foys La&antius) evtr envyhig the Works of God, trie* 
 all his Wiles and Stratagems to deceive Man y n-nd deprive him of im- 
 mortal Haffinefs. According to the Apoftlc ; Our Adverfary the De- 
 vil, like a roaring Lion, journeys np and downy fteking luhom he 
 may devour, i Pet v. 8. 
 
 Impendent Death, and Guilt that threatens Hell, 
 Are dreadful Guefts, which here with Mortals dwellj 
 And a vex'd Cunfcience, mingling with their Joy 
 Thoughts of Defpair, does their, whole Life annoy ; 
 But Love appearing, ail thofe Terrors fly, 
 We live contented, and contented die. 
 
 Waller*
 
 the HOLT 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 fhall we efcape ? 
 
 240. Or who fhall fave us from his greedy Gape ? 
 But let this guileful, nightly- working Fiend, 
 Summon his aftive Demons to attend, 
 And ev'ry Wile, and ev*ry Art employ, 
 Far as he is commiiTion'd to deftroy ; 
 
 245. He, nor his Phantom Nations can unbind 
 Th* eternal Striftures of a virtuous Mind. 
 For thy fuperior Pow'r with dazzling Light, 
 Drives the Aflailants to the Shades of Night : 
 
 The 
 ANNO TATIONS. 
 
 V. 139. Ob .' koiu fliall we efcape ? ) 
 
 - Quit etiim queat ko* tvadere cafles ? 
 
 O wretched Man that I am ! who jhtll deliver roe ftom the Bo. 
 dy of this Death ? Horn. vii. 14. 
 
 y. 248. Drive t the dflailants ) 
 
 If we may believcthe Devil, that hirafelfnnd all his infernal Crew 
 are ftill under the Command of the true and living God, and iub- 
 je& to eternal Punifhment, we have his own Conteflion for it, or 
 Apollo fpeaks thus for him : 
 
 J\AnAv]At utr&t {jiArtyi 0*0/9 
 
 We Devils, journeying over Sea, and Land, 
 
 Still fpel the Scourge of Gca, and own his dread Command.
 
 To G D 
 
 The Soul long weary 'd with the doubtful Strife, 
 250. Acknowledges 'the God, and Springs to Life. 
 
 Nor 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 V. 049. The Stoul long 
 
 St rtttgifaue doks, atque i/rita. frangfs 
 Tentamenta, tuoque magis nas numine frmas. 
 
 Confulring the Holy Scriptures, and reflecting upon our own In- 
 fufficiency, and the great Danger we are continually in, from the 
 Strength and Subtilty of the Devil, and his wicked Emiflaries, we 
 cannot but acknowledge the neceffaiy Afllftance of our gracious Gtd, 
 and the helpful Miniftry of his AngeU. 
 
 *Oi /dp ^AtfAovit ittt Ate; pty&v Jd* &**&;. 
 
 Hefiod. op. et dieb. I. i. v. ix. 
 Wherefore fays our excellent old Poet Sptnfer: 
 I. 
 
 And is there Care in Heav'n ? And is there Love 
 In Heav'nly Spirits to thefe Creatures bafe, 
 That may Companion of their Evils move ? 
 There is : Elfe much more wretched were the Cafe 
 Of Men, than Beads ! But oh ! th' exceeding Grace 
 Of Higheft God ! that loves his Creatures fo, 
 And all his Works with Mercy doth embrace, 
 That blefled Angels he fends to and fro, 
 To ferte to wicked Man, to ferve his wicjced Foe. 
 
 II. 
 
 How oft do they their Silver Bowers leave, 
 To come to fuccour us, that Succour want J 
 How oft do they, with golden Pinions cleave 
 The flitting Skies, like flying Purfuivnnt, 
 Againft foul Fiends to aid us'militant ? 
 They for us ' fight, they watch and daily ward, 
 And their bright Squadrons round about us plant, 
 And all for Love, and nothing for Reward : 
 Oh why (hou*d Heav'nly God to Man have fuch Regard ! 
 
 lib. ii. cant. 9. 

 
 the HOLY GHOST, igx 
 
 Nor partial is thy Love -, for all Men fhare 
 Thy copious Bounty and indulgent Care ; 
 Diffiis'd thro' all the World it ftands confeft, 
 Exerting various Charms for ev'ry Breaft. 
 
 255, And who fo blind, fo deaf, he will not fee, 
 Thy glaring Beauties, nor thy Voice obey, 
 Ev'n when in double Luftre thofe appear, 
 And this pours kindly whifpers in his Ear ? 
 Wretch that he is, to fcorn the Pow'rs above, 
 
 260. And flight the blifsful Sheets *>f proffer'd Love ! 
 But the more greedy we fuck in thy Voke, 
 The mbre enlarg'd our Souls, refin'd our Joys : 
 For ever happy in thy boundlefs Grace, 
 Till obftinate we break from thy Embrace j 
 
 265. Plunging we know not into what Abyfs 
 Of dreadful Torments, endlefs Miferies. 
 
 For foon as the Appftate Mind rebels, 
 And, tainted with Sin's deadly Poyfon, fwells, 
 
 And 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 V. 167. For foon as the Apftate Mind ) 
 
 Wherefore St. Paul bids us neither to grieve, rior quench the Holy 
 Spirit, left it fhould utterly forfake us, and g : vt us up to a reprt- 
 bate Mind, being alienated Jrtw the Life tf God, Ephef. iv. 30. 
 \ Ihef. v. 19. And the Light of Nature coulcf direft Seneca to this
 
 192 To G D 
 
 And to and fro with lawlefs Fury driv'n, 
 270. Mocks the dread Thunders of the God of 
 
 Heav'n; 
 
 Strait from the ruinous Hoiife thy facred Pow'r 
 Indignant flies, afliftant now no more. 
 The Wretch foon knows thy Influence with- 
 drawn, 
 And his Death-ending Journey haftens on. 
 
 275. In 
 ANNOTATIONS 
 
 Doctrine in a very remarkable Fafiage among his Epiftles. Sacer in. 
 eft in nobit Spirituf, bonorum maltrumque cuflos et obfervatir, et 
 tfuemadmodum nes ilium traftamus, it* et ille nos. There is a Holy 
 Spirit (fays he) redding in us, who watches and obferves both good 
 and evil Men, and will treat us after tht fame Manner that we treat 
 him. 
 
 V. 173. The Wretch foon kntnus tky Influence ) 
 
 Many Inftances of this we find in Holy Writ : The fifft that offers 
 is Samp fan, who the more familiar he' grew with hrs Miftreft, the 
 more a Stranger he grew to his God, and God to him ; whereby he 
 loft all thofe fpkitual Gifts and Graces with which God had endow'd 
 him as a Governour and Judge of his People : And tho' at laft upon 
 his Repenrance the Lord was pleas'd to reftore to him his fpiritual 
 Lofs, yet in the mean time he fmarted fufficiently. His Enemies 
 took him, and ufed him cruelly, they put out his Eyes, bound him 
 in Chains, and made him grind in a Mill. He was the fame Man 
 indeed as to outward Appearance as before, but God having 
 withdrawn his Holy Spirit, how weak, how abjeft, how mife- 
 rable was his Condition, lower than tlm of the vikft Slave ! So, 
 among many other Examples, David, (prefuming upon God's Mer- 
 cy, and the Unchangeablenefsof his State, and being opigionated per- 
 haps that he mould foon and eufily recover himfelf by Repentance) 
 iok the Liberty for once to indulge his deprav'd Fancy, and to vert- 
 ture upon that which he knew in his own Confcicnce to be a crying
 
 the HOLT GHOST. 193 
 
 275. In his Hell-harden'd Heart ftrange Paffions roll, 
 And growing Sins untune the ftormy Soul ; 
 Till he who late on God his Thoughts em- 
 ploy 'd, 
 
 And a fweet vifioaary Heav'n cnjoy'd, 
 Now lies inglorious, grov'ling on the Ground, 
 
 2 80. Befet with Clouds, and Darknefs all around. 
 
 As fome young Hero priding in his Shield, 
 And flaming Arms, that fun the dazzled Field, 
 When fwol'n with flatt'ring Hopes he mounts his 
 
 Steed, 
 
 And in the Van fpurs on with furious Speed, 
 285. If Chance fome Weapon with unerring Art, 
 Sent from the Foe transfix his glowing Heart, 
 
 O Con- 
 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 Sin : And what follow'd, but dreadful Apprehensions of lofing for 
 ever thofe fpiritual Gifts and Graces, by which alone he was capable 
 of difcharging his Duty in this Life, and attaining everlafting Happi- 
 nefs in the next. His Comfort in God's Favour was now gone, conti- 
 nual Doubts and Horrors aflaulted his Soulj fo that he could not pray 
 \viththat Chearfulnefs he was wont, nor reflect with ufu.il Satisfac- 
 tion on his paft Deeds ; and the People of God began to look upon 
 him as an Hypocrite, and to deride and mock at htm : Befides, he 
 could not but remember, how it had fared with Saul, when the 
 Lord had forfook him } what mad and furious Paffions he was fub- 
 jeft to, and how unprofperoufly went his Affairs of State, till being 
 his own Executioner, he loft both his Life and Kingdom with Di<- 
 grace j before it was too late therefore David paifionately breaks out 
 with that moft impertant Prayer, Lord., I tyttek tkte, takt net thy 
 Holy Spirit from me, Pfal, li. 1 1.
 
 194 To G D 
 
 Confounded falls, and gafping out his Breath, 
 Sinks untriumphant in the Shade of Death. 
 And, who now lovely bloom'd with martial 
 Grace, 
 
 290. Darting Delight and Terror from his Face, 
 The faireft, braveil Youth, now ghaftly lies, 
 And with unwholfome Odours taints the Skies : 
 So glows the Soul, and fhines divinely bright, 
 That from thy Prefence draws its living Light. 
 
 295. But all its Beauty, all its Praife expires, 
 
 Soon as are quench'd thine animating Fires. 
 
 Thus he, who once majeflically gay, 
 With radiant Glories fill'd the Chryftal Way, 
 Hight Lucifer^ that Rebel-Chief, by Thunders 
 
 driv'n 
 300. From the Almighty's envy 'd Throne of Heav'n, 
 
 To 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 V. 199. Eight Lucifer, that Rebel-Chief ) 
 
 Concerning his Fall, fee Hymn to the Fatktr, v. 935. Though 
 after his Fall, he was ftill ambitious of retaining that Honour and 
 Credit amongft Men on Earth, which he had loft in Heaven j for 
 being ask'd by what Titles he would be worfhipped, he anfwer'd, 
 
 Hear us, thou Daemon, who art omniprefent, 
 All-wife, all-learned. , - 
 
 And
 
 the HOLT GHOST. 195 
 
 To bottomlefs Perdition, mourns his Doom, 
 Sleeplefs in Hell's impenetrable Gloom. 
 And he, once happy, whom God's only Son 
 Join'd with the Twelve to crown his Heav'nly 
 
 Throne, 
 
 505. Was hurl'd fpontaneous to the Realms beneath, 
 To try the Pains of an eternal Death : 
 Fool as he was, to tempt thy mighty Hate, 
 And by Defertion earn his dreadful Fate. 
 
 But when we firft break flubborn from thine 
 
 Arms, 
 310. Regardlefs of thy Favours, and thy Charms j 
 
 O 2 Not 
 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 And at another Time, 
 
 O Lucifer, thou Harmony of the World, 
 And wifeit Daemon. 
 
 V. 303. And, he> once 
 
 Ftrtun^tus et ille -- - 
 
 Judas Ifiariot, who (lands recorded In the Scripture for his Wick- 
 ednefs and Impiety, was equally impower'd by Chrift, and commit 
 fion'd to preach, and work Miracles, and was nu.nber d with the 
 Apoftles : For the Efficacy ot an O.dinance depends not upon the 
 Quality of the Perfon, but the Divine Inftiturion and Bleffing of God.
 
 i 9 6 ; e To G O D 
 
 Not fo thine Anger burns, thou gen'rous Pow'r ? 
 As never, never, to forgive us more : 
 Tho' faft we fly, yet ftill thy Love purfues, 
 And ev'ry fweet Emblandifhment renews. 
 
 315. As fome fond Mother feeks the promised Joy 
 And comfort of her Age, her darling Boy, 
 When, confcious of his Fault, to mun the Rod, 
 Or cruel Pedant's Rage, he roams abroad ; 
 Thro* pathlefs Woods, and gloomy Groves flic 
 flies, 
 
 320. Rending the Air with loud diflrefsful Cries ; 
 If Chance the skulking Truant wou'd appear, 
 Or won by gentle Love, or aw'd by Fear ; 
 Now dire Ideas pierce her bleeding Breaft, 
 She thinks him torn by fome rapacious Beaft, 
 
 325. Or ftriptby Robbers, helplefs, and forlorn, 
 Or pale, and lifelefs down fome Torrent born. 
 So when rebellious Man thy Love contemns, 
 And mindlefs of himfelf, himfelf condemns 
 To be a very Wretch ; thy gracious Care 
 
 330. Still, ftill invites him with repeated Pray'r. 
 
 Tf 
 il
 
 the HOLY GHOST. I97 
 
 If chance the Penitent his Crimes will mourn, 
 And duteous and fincere to thee return, 
 Then wilt thou heal him of his gauling Sore, 
 And to his Soul its native Fire reftore. 
 
 O 3 335. But 
 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 V 3 3 * . tf Chance the Penitent ) 
 
 Our Author requires that he ihou'd confefs himfelf to the Pricft, 
 
 Litflratufytie facerdoti comtniffa piavit. 
 
 But all that we think the Piieft can do in this Cafe is, only to judge by 
 the outward Signs and Fruits of Repentance, whether the Perfon ap- 
 plying to him for Advice, be real and fincere in his Convetfion ; and 
 if upon Examination it appears to be /o, he is then to comfort him, 
 with an AfTurance that his Sins arc remitted even in the Court of 
 Heaven, and that he is reftored to the Grace and Favour of Chrift. 
 But then he is to deliver this not abfolutely, but conditionally, /'. e. 
 upon the Prefumption that his Repentance is as fincere as he repre- 
 fents it. He is by no Means to pronounce it as a final Judge j be- 
 caufe Chrift alone can judge of the Reality of the Penitent's Conver- 
 fion, and confequemly he alone can abfolutely determine the State 
 of fuch a Man towards God. I have therefore in my Tranflation 
 kept to what is more neceflarily required, viz. fincere Contrition, 
 and Amendment of Life : However, as there was an excellent and ju- 
 dicious Claufe added in the firft Book of King Edward, for the Secu- 
 rity of mutual Forbearance and Peace in this Refpeft, I (hall beg 
 leave to recite it } it requires all fuch as jhall be fatisfied with a ge- 
 neral CoHfejJieif net to be offended with them that do ufe, to their 
 farther fatisfying, the auricular and Jecret Confejjlon to the Prieft : 
 Nor thofe alfh ii)ho think need\ul a?id convenient , for the Qttietnefs 
 of their own Conferences , particularly to open their Sins t the Priefl j 
 to be offended iuith them that are Jatifjied with their humble Con- 
 fejjions to God, and the general Confejjion to the Church. But in all 
 Things to follow and keep the Rule o] Charity , and every Man to le 
 fatisfied iu;th his own Confcience, not fudging other Mens Minds or 
 Confciences ; whereas he has no Warrant of God's Word for the fame. 
 Wheatley, on the Common Prayer, f. 458. 
 
 V. 333. Then wilt than heal him) 
 
 T.ie
 
 198 
 
 To G D 
 
 335. But he rebels again, again he mourns, 
 His impious Follies, and to thee returns ; 
 Again he lives in thy belov'd Embrace, 
 And taftes the Sweets of thy enliv'ning Grace. 
 And thus until the Spring of Life is down, 
 340. Sin and Repentance in a Circle run, 
 
 And 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 The following Places in Scripture bear a very terrible Afpeft, Matth, 
 xii. 44. Heb. vi. 4. x. 16 z Pet ii. 20. where it looks, as if 
 they, who had been once enlighten d t and luere bleft with the Hea- 
 venly Gift, and 'were mtide Partakers of the Holy Ghoft, and had 
 tr.fted the good Word of God t and the Powers of the World to come y 
 ftiould at laft fall away, their Recovery is impoflible even by Re- 
 pentance. But this is an hard Saying, and therefore, in treating of 
 this Subject, requires an Explication. The Perfons then here fpoken 
 of, are fuch Jews and Pagans^ as having totally apoftatiz'd from the 
 Faith of Chnft. together with their Faifh have loft their Baptifm, and 
 are become Jews and Pagans again. Now Jews and Pagans can 
 never be made Ckriftiatts without Baptifin, wherein they are regene- 
 rated ; and by the iame Reafon thele Apoftates can never become 
 Chriftians again, mould they again believe and repent, unlefs they be 
 re-baptiz*d, and that they cannot be, becaufe there is but one Baptifm 
 in the Chriftian Church. But the ApoftJe does not fty it is impofc 
 fible that thefe Men fri3u!d be fav'd, but it is impoflible they mould 
 be regenerated again by Bnptifm, which is the only Gofpel State of 
 Salvation : If any fuch be faved, they are faved by uncovenanted 
 Grace and Mercy : They are in a State of unbaptized Je<ws and Hea- 
 thens, not of Chriftians, who have a Covenant Right to the Promifes 
 of God. And the Lord (fays Peter) is not flack concerning his Pro- 
 rnife, but is long-fujfering to us- ward, not willing that any jhould 
 peri/h, but that all fowld ctme to Reptntance Wherefore Milton 
 juftly declares, that 
 
 To Pray'r, Repentance, and Obedience due, 
 
 (Tho' but endeavout'd with fincere Intent) 
 
 His Ear will not be flow, his Eye not fliut. lib. iii.
 
 the HOLT GHOST. 199 
 
 And ftill on true Repentance are beftow'd 
 The peaceful Comforts of a bounteous God. 
 Such is thy Guardian Care, fo great thy Love, 
 For thofe, who in due Time obedient prove. 
 
 345. Happy the Soul, from ev'ry Blemim clear, 
 Purg'd by the Breath of thy celeftial Air, 
 
 O 4 That 
 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 V. 341. And ftill on true Repent anct) 
 
 This Doctrine of Repentance is a worthy Leflbn, the Joy and 
 Comfort of our Souls, we drink it in (fays the learned Mr. Hales) 
 with tbirfty Ears : But we muft beware, left relying upon this, as it 
 is commonly taught and unde; ftood, we turn the Remedy of Sin into 
 an Occafion of finning ; as fome Men, trufting to the Help of Phy- 
 ficians, riot in Excefc, and take their Pleafures the more fecurely, 
 becaufe they fee, or fancy they fee, a Remedy for all Inconveni- 
 encies. Repentance is Phyfick indeed, and therefore to be ufed fpa- 
 ringly, and with good Manners, left too familiar Ufe of it make it 
 ceafe to be a Duty, and caufe Piefumption and Wantonnefs. Be- 
 fides 'tis obfervable, that when Men begin to fall, they drop apace, 
 from a cold Indifference to Neglect, and from Neglect to an utter 
 Hatred and Detetlation, (if poffible) of all religious Matters ; fb that 
 they fcarce ever dream of a Recovery, much lefs defire it ; and if 
 they did, very difficult will it be for fuch Bankrupts to regain their 
 Credit, fuch Straglers to find the tight Road, fuch dead Men to 
 rife to Life again ; much penitential Sorrow, many a bitter Sigh and 
 earned Prayer will it coft, before that feeling which is gone can be 
 recover'd, or that inward Peace which is fled, can be recall'd. Such 
 a Change is requir'd in the whole Man, which to accomplifaj (fays 
 David, Pfal. It. 8. ) is as painful as tke, fitting a. broken Bont. 
 
 V. 343. Such is thy Guardian Care ) 
 
 Tantus amtr nojrri, tctnt* cufiodin cttrs. 
 In Imitation of Virgil, Georg. iii, 
 
 Tantus amor lavdum^ tart* eft viltoria cur**
 
 200 To GOD 
 
 That ever burns with juft and pure Defires, 
 Fed with the Fuel of etherial Fires. 
 That Soul loves God ; and (looping from above, 
 350. His God receives him with refpondent Love. 
 From Love's fweet Fountain all his Actions flow, 
 
 Regardlefs of thefe Vanities below. 
 
 . ; ;. ;.;,vr.v.; ,.<; .( '. f a-rj c !- 
 
 He's fwallow'd up in Love, not only due, 
 
 ' To his Creator, but his Brother too. 
 
 But 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 P, 349. That Soul loves God) 
 
 With good Reafon have the Scriptures afcrib'd the Work of our 
 Sanfh'fication, i Cor. vi. 11. and Renovation of our Minds, Tit. iii. 
 5. to the Efficacy of this blefied Spirit 5 fince he not only mollifies 
 our He.irt, and bends our ftubborn Wills to a Compliance with the 
 divine Precepts, but by his fecret Infinuations is continually exciting 
 ftjch Defire;, and AfFeftions in us, as both exalt and purify our Nature. 
 He excites our Love to God, and to all that is truly worthy of that 
 noble Paffion, and ftirs up our Hatred to every thing that is contrary 
 to the Purity of his Nature. 
 
 See Stackhoufc, p. 772. 
 
 y. 354. But bis Brother toe) 
 
 As God does him felf continually delight in doing good, and feems 
 to take an efpccial Pleafure in defcribing himfelf by that particular 
 Attribute of Love and Goodnefs ; for the'fame Reafon it muft necef- 
 larily be his Will, that all rational Creatures mould imitate him in that 
 excellent Perfection. To this Purpofe we may obferve, that he hath 
 fo fram'd and constituted our Nature, and fo order'd the Ciicumftan- 
 ces of our prefent State, as to make Society and Friendmip heccflary 
 to the Support and Comfort of Life, that Men mi^ht be continually 
 exercis'd in the Practice of thefe Divine Virtues : And he has given 
 us no other Way of expreflTng fo acceptably our Love and Gratitude 
 to himfelf, whom ou* hn-vt net ftev, John iv, 21. as by loving and 
 
 c-.*?* Vi**;' doing
 
 the HOLT 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 
 Guildefs 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 indulged with thy peculiar Care, 
 Gifts fo divine, fuch heav'nly Bleffings mare. 
 365. None e'er enjoy 'd fuch Meafure of thy Grace, 
 
 As Mary^ Ueffed Maid of David?* Race, 
 
 Except 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 doing Good to our Brethren, whom iiie have feev, for no Man bath 
 feen God at any Time, i John iv. 12. but if tue love one another, 
 hereby <we kno-iv, that God, tho* invifible, d-uuellcth in us ; that his 
 Live is perfected in us, and that ive dwell in him, find he in us, 
 becaufe we are Imitators of his Nature, and Partakers of his Spirit. 
 
 Ib. p. 895. 
 
 y> 563. Butfeiu ivdulg'd) 
 
 The Sancfcification of holy Men in Scripture, Judg. xiii. Luke vi. 
 15, t^V. (if our Author means them here) did not denote their 
 perfect Freedom from Sin, or their natural Propenfions to it ; but 
 fome 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 him. 
 
 V. 365, None ear enjofd ) With*
 
 202 To G D 
 
 Except the Son himfelf ; whom fhe 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 
 ANNO TAT IONS. 
 
 Without concerning ourfelves with fuch nice Queftions, as, " Whe- 
 " therthis blefTed Virgin was cOnceiv'd in Sin ; and if fhe was, how it 
 was retrained in her at firft," whether fhe was fanftified in her 
 Mother's Womb, and to what Degree, and whether this Sant:fica- 
 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 her 
 Body was chafte and immaculate j and that upon the Account of both, 
 fhe was moft fit, of any among her Race or Sex, for the Holy Ghoft 
 to over(hadow 3 or for the Son of the weft H'.gheft to inhabit. 
 
 Wake's Serm. 
 
 V. 366. nleffed Maid of David's Race. 
 
 The Royal Line of David by StUmon, being extinft in ^econi,ih t 
 the Crown and Kingdom pafs'd into the next younger Line of Nathan, 
 (another Son of David} in Saltthiel and Zorobabel : Which Zoitt- 
 label having two Sons, dbiud and Rhefa, the Dignity defcended of 
 Right upon the Line of Abiud, of which Jofeph was the laft, and he 
 marrying the Virgin Mttry y who fprung from the Line of Rhtfa, his 
 Right pan^d, by the Law of Levirate, into the Line of Miry, being 
 next of Kin, and by that Means alfo upon Jefus her Son. 
 
 South. Serm. Vol. iil 
 
 y. 369. Knowing thee only ) 
 
 As it was requiflte that the Saviour and Sanftifier of the World 
 fnould himfelf be holy, undefiled, -without Blim^h, and 'Without 
 Spot, -i Cor. v. 4. Heb. vi. 16. hence grew an abfolute Necefllty 
 that he mould fpring from the immediate Operation of that Spirit who 
 is the Fountain of all Holinefs and Purity : But as the Scripture fpeaks 
 of this Matter in the moft fimple and natural Terms, and withal moft 
 
 agreeable
 
 the HOLY GHOST. 
 
 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 drefs, 
 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 Breaft infpires ; 
 When with the Pow'r celeflial ihadow'd o'er, 
 3 80. 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 
 aflfeft, (fays Dr. Fiddti) to be wife above what i.s written ; but con- 
 clude, that by virtue of the Power of the Holy Ghoft y the Body of 
 Chrift was form'd not only in the Virgrn Marj, but of her j (for 
 otherwife he could not have been the Seed of Airaliain and Da- 
 vid, according to the Flefr, Rom, i. 3.) not that the Holy Ghojt con- 
 curr'd by Way of a material Agent, or by any Communication of 
 his Subftance, but purely as an efficient Aent, or operative Power 
 ef God, <ujith 'whom nothing is impojjihle, Luke i. 37. 
 
 K 381. Bleft above *\l her Sex !) 
 
 When the Reformation firft began in Germany^ feme too zealous 
 and obferving in the Communion, from which they had feparated, 
 greater Part of the Worfhip addrefs'd to \\^ Virgin-Mother than to the 
 Son, and that Men honour'd her in many Refpeds as they honour'd 
 
 the
 
 __ 
 
 rr- S* f\ T\ 
 
 204 To G D 
 
 All Things around catch the projected Flame, 
 The very Mountains joyous Love proclaim. 
 385. And thus thy Godhead was in Part difplay'd, 
 
 Tho* wrapt from human Sight in envious Shade : 
 
 But 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 the Father j in Deteftation of an idolatrous Practice, fo injurious to 
 the father and the Son, they even deny'd her that Share of Refpeft 
 which as a Mother (he ought to have had, injthe Conception and Birth 
 tf Chrijt. 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 fhewed 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 } 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- 
 vacate of Chriftians ; this is a Compliment which our Author, I pre- 
 fume, never thought of paying her 3 and is a Strain much fitter for 
 fbme poetical Heathen Gtddefs, than for a Chrijtian Saint- Befides, 
 we fhall never be perfuaded to betake ourfelves to the Mediation of 
 the bleffed Virgin, or of any other Saint whatever, while that Text 
 remains in our Bible. There is one God, and one Mediator l/tt-UJeen 
 God and Man, tb Man Chvift Jefus, i Tim. ii. 5. 
 
 P. 3 Si- And fie fcatters Ltve) 
 
 Teto citm dulcem corf ore amorem 
 
 JaStaret. 
 
 ,Pi-om Lucretius, iv. 1048. 
 
 Sett mulier tott jaftans e corptre amorem. 
 So Milton fpeaking of Eve, lib. iv. 
 
 Grace was in all her Steps, Heav'n in her Eye, 
 Jn ev'ry Gefture Dignity and Love. . 
 Mi And into all Things from her Air infpir'd 
 The, Spirit of Love, and amorous Delight,
 
 the HOLY GHOST. 205 
 
 But fuller Glories (hooting from above, 
 That fhone embodied like the Silver. Dove, 
 Were once by Mortals feen, admir'd, ador'd, 
 390. When HeavVs tremendous Voice confirm'd its 
 
 Lord. 
 
 Again 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 y. 388. That fi one embodied) 
 
 Villa feems to have underftood by the following Places, Matth. iii. 
 16. Mark i. 10. Luke iii. az. as if the Spirit had really defcended 
 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 Ma'.omet ; and he likevvife offers a Reafon why the Spirit a 
 fumed the Shape of this Bird. But furely they were miftaken 5 for 
 Grammar and plain Senfe fhew us, that the Words have no Relation 
 to the bodily Shape, but to the Motion of a Dove defcending : The 
 S fir it probably aflumed a Body of Light or Fire, and therein came 
 down from above, uffn 43 > eei$ > efti/, juft as a Dove with its Wings 
 fpread forth is obferved to do, and gathering about our Saviour's 
 Head, crown'd it with a vifible Glory. This Explanation obviates at 
 once a great Blunder in a Socinian Objection, and expofes the Folly, 
 not to lay Idolatry, of thofe who paint the Holy Ghtft like a Dove. 
 And 'tis further obfervable, that in all the wondrous Sights at Horeb 
 there was no Appearance of God j and tho f 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 tremendtut Voice) 
 
 The Heavens were open'd, and there came a Voice therefrom, faying^ 
 This is my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleafed, Mattb. iii. 6. 
 Mark i. 10. Luke iii. u. So we read that the Heavens were once 
 opened to Ezekiel, and to St Stephen, and they fniD the Vijitns of Goct t 
 Ezek. i. i. A6b vii. 55. and that at the Birth of Chrift, the Shepherds 
 heard likewife a Voice from Heaven, Luke if. 10. and that a d.vine 
 Voice called to St. Paul at the Time of his Converfion at Damajcus, 
 and were I to look for a parallel Infhnce in Heathen Story, (as in 
 my Annotations on the firft Hymn) I might mention feveial Prodi-
 
 206 To G D 
 
 Again to Man thy Beauty was difpky'd, 
 Down rufhing from the Skies in Flames array'd : 
 
 When 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 gies of this Nature^ as the opening of Herven (chafina cccli) the Sun 
 feen i* the Fight, and Flames of Light breaking out or Darkneft, 
 which we find in the old Roman Books of Augury ; and that fabulous 
 Greece fuppos'd :he M*n&de: to have feen a great Light, and to have 
 heard a Voice from above, when they were inftigated by Bacchus to 
 murder Penthttis But what is of much more Importance, and calls 
 for our immediate Observation here, is the full Declaration of the 
 Divinit) of the Son, and plain Manifeftation of the Three diftintt 
 PerJ'ons in the one Godhead : The Father fpeaking from Heaven, 
 the Son coming out of \}ordtin y and the Sp/><>defcendinj as a Dove. 
 
 V* 39 1 - dgain to Man thy Beauty ) 
 
 When fuddenly there came a Sound from Heaven, a! of a rujhing 
 Wind, and it filled all the Houfe, where they were fitting. And 
 there appeared unto them cloven Tongues like as of Fire, and it fat 
 upon each of them, and they VJfre all filed luith the Holy Ghoft, &c, 
 Ab ii. a. The Suddennefs of the Sound, and the Point of Direction 
 whence the Spirit came, were of Ufe to ftrike an Aweupon the Per- 
 fons prefent, and prepare them with more profound Humility, and 
 Reverence, to receive the Approaches God was making towards them. 
 And the Refembbnce of Wind is of all other moft familiar in Scrip- 
 ture, to figure the Spirit of God, his Power, and Effects ; becaufe, 
 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 li^e Propriety our learned Di- 
 vines have obferv'd in the Emblem of eleven Tongues fitting on the 
 Heads of the Difciples in a bright RefembLince of Fire. The Tongue^ 
 (fay they) may denote the Readinefs and Aptnefs of their Expreffions 
 and Arguments ; ihe Clefts in them, the Diverfity of Languages they 
 were to fpeak ; and poffibly the fitting of thofe 'Tongues upon them 
 might fignify the Permanency of this Gift ; that it was not to vanifh 
 immediately, but allow 'd to continue, and by their Miniftry to be 
 diffus'd and communicated to others, fo long as the Neceflittes of 
 
 the
 
 the HOLT GHOST. 207 
 
 When mighty Whirlwinds mook 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 
 ANNQT ATIONS. 
 
 the Church, and Propagation of the Chriftian Faith fhould require it. 
 And certainly Fire was a*fit Refemblance of the Light thefe Difciples 
 receiv'd by the Acceffion of the Holy Spirit ; of the clear, unerring 
 Knowledge they attain'd 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. 
 
 V t 397. For as the Son Omnipotent ) 
 
 Our blefied Saviour being about to afcend into Heaven, in order to 
 take Poffeflion of his mediatorial Kingdom, fupports the drooping 
 Spirits of his Difciples with a Promifc that he would fend a Comfor- 
 ter to them, 
 
 ( &j*i P ro f e in ttwis f ua deinceps munera obiret. 
 
 who, as himfelf had done, while prefent with them, (hould protect 
 and affift them with Almighty Power, and enlighten their Minds with 
 his infinite Wifdom and Knowledge, John xvi. 33. xiv. 16. Luke 
 xxiv. zz, 
 
 Wherefore fays Milttn, lib. xii. 
 
 But from Heav'n 
 
 He to his own a Comforter will fend, 
 The Promife of the Father, who fhall dwell 
 His Spirit within them : and the Law of Faith 
 Working thro* Love, upon theii Hearts fhall write, 
 To guide them in all Truth :
 
 208 To G D 
 
 That thou fhould'ft come from thy eternal Seat 
 
 400. In Tide of the glorious Paraclete ; 
 
 To lift us from the Shades of Death and Night 
 To all the Joys of Life and Heav'&ly Light ; 
 So cam'ft thou, facred Pow'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 than fitulfTJl come} 
 
 But as to this Dcfcent of the Holy Ghoft, we are taught, not to ap- 
 prehend any local Motion or Mutation of Place ; for fince, (as we 
 before prov'd) the Holy Gboft is a divine Perfbn, and consequently 
 every where prefent, he cannot properly be (aid to remove, or to 
 come and go from one Place to another ; for this would deftroy his 
 Omniprsfence ; and therefore this Defcent muft be interpreted only ot 
 the efficacious Prefence c f that ble/ed Spirit, or rather of the Difco- 
 very and Manifeftation of that Prefence by fome ftrange Effects, and 
 uncommon Operations. Stackboufe t p. 765. 
 
 V. 400. In Title of the gltrious Paraclete ) 
 
 The Name of Paraclete (which I have here ufed as confonant to 
 Scripture) is common to both the Sen and the Holy Ghoft, 
 <aa.$a,K\tflov J\uff& vf/tv, TX7t?tv, A\\OV u( lp, as St. Chr 
 interprets John xiv. 16. And tho' when it relates to the Holy 
 'tis tranflated always the Comforter ; and when to Ckrift, 'tis ren- 
 der'd Advocate, yet the Notion of it is the fame, and confifts in the 
 Office of Interceffion : As among the Greg's, the sratfctxAijTO/ were 
 fuch who did not plead or maintain the Caufe, but did only affift 
 with their Prefence, intreating and interceding by way of Petition 
 to the Judges ; fuch as were Friends of the Reus, or Perfon accufed, 
 and call'd by him to his Affiftance, and interceding for him ; and 
 in both thefe Refpe&s were called
 
 the HOLY GHOST. 209 
 
 And now embolden'd Acclamations raife, 
 And fpeak in more than human Sounds thy Praife ; 
 No Words fo cramp, no Language fo remote, 
 410. But ftrange ! their Voice istun'd to ev'ry Note, 
 To ev'ry Foreigner they fuit the Tone 
 Of various Tongues, and greet him in his own. 
 
 P Thus 
 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 V. 405. No Words fo cramp) 
 
 Mirctfonant : varias linguis, longeque remetas 
 Inter fe gentes imitanttir munere vocis. 
 
 No more let the Fabulifts boaftof their Dodonaan Oracles, in that 
 they anfwer'd the People that confulted them from all Nations in 
 their own proper Tongue. Nor Philojlratus tell us that Apollonius 
 Tyanms t without any Inftruftion, could fpeak all Languages. A 
 more fin-prizing Story have we here, a Matter of F>ift, done pub 
 lickly in the Sight of all People ; Multitudes from all Nations being 
 at that Time gathered together at Jerufalem to celebrate the Feaft of 
 Pentecoft, who were Eye and Ear Witnefles of it, and were con- 
 verted ; I mean the wonderful Gift of Tongues, with which the /tpo- 
 Jlles were then infpir'd : For the Holy Ghoft, upon his miraculous 
 Defcent, (as before defcribed) did in an Inftant infufe into them the 
 Habit of fpeaking feveral Languages j infomuch that without any 
 Rules or previous Inftruftion, they were heard to fpeak (to the great 
 Aftoniftiment of their Hearers) in the fifteen feveral Tongues of fif- 
 teen feveral Nations, Atti ii. 4, And tho* it was not long before 
 they were difperfed abroad in the World, and fome of them into re- 
 mote Countries, (whole Names perhaps they had never heard before) 
 yet where.ever they came they were inftantly infpir'd with the Lan- 
 guage of the Country, and fpake it as freely, as if it had been theic 
 Mother-Tongue* 
 
 The Spirit (hall them with wond'rous Gifts endue, 
 
 To fpeak all Tongues, and do all Miracles 
 
 As did their Lord before them. Thus they win 
 
 Great Numbers of each Nation, to receive 
 
 With Joy the Tidings brought from Heav'n. Miff. 1. j.
 
 2ip To G D 
 
 Thus they, who late in queft of honeft Gain, 
 C iiL-Captiv'd the finpy Tenants of the Main,; n A 
 
 \&K.\ 415. Simple 
 . ., A N K Q T: A' 1 1 0;fr $ ^nisiff Jv& .b ! * 
 
 r.4iKAiftl$&tt) 
 
 Had the Apoftles had.any worldly Advantages to recommend them, 
 or had been fupported by any human Power, we fhould not have 
 \jeen fp much furpriz'd at the Gicatnefs of their Succefs ; for In- 
 ftance, we do not wonder that Pagan- fm found a Time for its Efta- 
 biifhment, being advanc'd by, Men of Undefftandfng, and great Lear- 
 ning In Egypt by Mercunus Trifrnegiftus, a Man of confummate 
 Skill in the Mathematicks, and other Sciences ; in Chalde* by Z.itri, 
 one of profound Knowledge in Aftronomy j in Greece by Grpheus, a 
 Man of great Genius, and an excellent Poet ; in the Incites by very 
 learned Philofophers, call'd Gymnofcphifls ; or elfe by Men of Au- 
 thority, as King Numa among the Romans. Nor can we fo much 
 wonder that the Religion of Mahomet 1'hould fpread itfelf in the Es.Ji- 
 ern World, it being eftablifh'd by the foft Allurements of the Aico- 
 ran on the one Hand, and the fevere Power of the Cymitar on the 
 other. And I may fay, tha? the very firft Turn cf Religion was not 
 fo marvellous, fince Seth and Enoch were confiderable for their Know- 
 ledge at that Time ; Abraham was a Prir.ce, and Mofes ->vas skill'd 
 in all the Wifdom of Egypt. Among the Prophets too we cannot but 
 allow fbme Advantage to the Dignity of David, the Eloquence of 
 If.iiah, the Politenefs of D-miel, and the exalted Spirit of Ezekiel i 
 In all theft- Inftances therefore, the human Means are too viiible, not 
 to cljim a Part of the Glory ; there being all that can be ask'd ac- 
 cording to the Maxims of Flcm and Bloo!*, -^/a. Power and Know- 
 ledge, the Camp and the School ; all that could infimiate itfelf into 
 the Minds of the Great, and all that cou'J compel and force the 
 weak. .But it was not fo with the fiift Preachers of the Gofpel, they 
 were poor, illiterate, and friendlefs, moft of them Fifhermen, and 
 the beft qualified among 'em vas a Tent-maker ; yet thefe are they 
 v.'ho \vere prompted to eftnbllfh a new Religion, and to bring all 
 Mento'the Knowledge of the Trdth j and their Succefs herein was 
 undeniably great and notorious : the happy Effects of which (blefc 
 fed be Gocii we at this Day enjoy ; fo that we cannot but conclude 
 with St. Paul, 7hat the Excellency of tht. Power VJJS of GoJ, and 
 not of Man, a Cor, iy. 7.
 
 the HOLY GHOST. an 
 
 415. Simple and rude, now ev'ry Street alarm, 
 
 And with fweet Words their greedy Hearers 
 
 charm : 
 
 With their Intrufion ev'ry Palace rings, 
 Maugre the Edicts or Command of Kings. 
 Twice Six were of the Band, who by thine Aid 
 
 420. The joyful Trophies thro* the World convey'd 
 
 P 2 Of 
 
 ANNOTATIONS 
 
 V. 415. Now ev'ry Street alarm) 
 
 Oh ! the Power and Efficacy of the Holy Ghojt, which from this 
 Time fo animated the Apoftles and firft Difciples of Chrift ! that 
 poor, and ignorant, and timorous as they were before, we now hear 
 no more of any of them trembling at the Charge of belonging to 
 Jefus, and beins* afham'd of the Name of Galilean^ no more af- 
 fembling privately for Fear of the Jew*, but putting themfelves for- 
 ward, induftrioufly preaching, and working Miracles boldly in the 
 Temple, in Synagogues, in the Streets ; declaring that they muft and 
 would fpeak, 'what they had feen and heard, for the Sake of Truth, 
 and the Honour of their Lord and Mafter, Jejlts Chrijf. 
 
 V. 419. Twice Six iuere of the Band, ivko) 
 
 We learn from the ancient Records of Chriftianity, that not only 
 the Twelve Apoftles, but many other Difciples made it the express 
 Bufinefsof their Lives to travel into the remoteft Parts of the World, 
 and in all Places gathering Multitudes about them, they acquainted 
 them with the Hiftory and Docirine of their crucijy'd M after. But, 
 (as Mr. dddijon observes) were all Chrijtian Records of thefe Pro- 
 ceedings loft, (as many have been,) yet the Effect plainly evinces the 
 Truth of them ; for hov dfe, during the ^pojUes Lives, could Chri- 
 ftianity have fpread itfeif with fuch an amazing Progrefs through the 
 feveral Nations of the Roman E:r.piie * How could it fly like Light- 
 ping, and carry Convi&on with it, from one End of t,he Earth to 
 the other J
 
 2i2 To G D 
 
 Of him, who dy'd, and rofe again, to fave 
 Expecting Mortals from the gloomy Grave. 
 
 Hence in their Paths, tho' dang'rous, others 
 
 trod, 
 And feal'd their glorious Tenets with their Blood. 
 
 425. Thus 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 y. 4.13. Hence in their Paths, ) 
 
 Suffering and Martyrdom are not, 'tis true, an infallible Sign of 
 the Truth "of thofe Alarms which the Sufferer hath efpoufed j and 
 'tis poflible, a Man may voluntarily differ for a falfe DoftrJne : And 
 fome we know have fuffer'd j yet Martyrdom is a certain Proof of 
 the Perfuafiun and Sincerity ol him tlut fuffer?, 'tis indeed the ftrong- 
 eft Proof that can be given- For a Man may eafily miftake a Falfe- 
 hood for Tiuth, and be fo far bigotted as to fuffer any Evil for the 
 Sake of his darling Opinion j but 'tis incredible to think, that Num- 
 bers, or an) one Perfon, would fuffer the fevereft Tortures in De- 
 fence of a Falfity, which they know in their own Confidences to be 
 fuch. 'Tis therefore inconceivable, how fo many tender Virgins, and 
 delicate Matrons, and aged Bifhops, among the firft Chriftians, could 
 have endured thofe long and dolorous Almyrdoms, (as they many 
 Times did) without a S;2,h or Groan -, could h.ive lung in the Flame?, 
 and fmil'd upon Racks, and triumph'd upon Wheels and Cataftaes, 
 infenfible of Pain, and Strangers, as it were, to their own Bodies 5 
 had they not been confcious of the Truth for which they fuffer'd v and. 
 had they not been fupported in all their Sufferings by a divine invi- 
 fible Hand, and refrem'd with ftrong Coniblarions, as not only aba- 
 ted, but even quite cxtlnguifn'd, what at other Times they feel, as 
 Milton fays, /. xii. 
 
 They were arm'd 
 
 With fpiritual Armour, able to refill 
 Satan's Aflaults, and quench his fiery Darts : 
 What Man can do againrt them, not afraid, 
 Tho' to the Death ; againft fuch Cruelties, 
 With inward Confolations recompensed j 
 And oft fupported fo, as to amaze 
 Their proudeft Persecutors. .
 
 the HOLT GHOST. 
 
 425. Thus various Nations of the World became 
 The fame in Morals, and in Faith the fame ; 
 The fame their Laws, while all obedient prove 
 To the fame Dictates of celeftial Love. 
 
 Thy Heav'n-born Love the favage Heart re- 
 
 ftrains, 
 
 430. And binds the Paflions in coercive Chains. 
 How wretched is the Family, or State, 
 Urg'd by Almighty Heav'ns unmeafur'd Hate, 
 That wants thy Influence to footh their Care, 
 And turn afide the Iron Face of War ! 
 435. For thoa no fooner fpread'ft thy healing Wings, 
 , But the big Hearts of fierce embattled Kings 
 Are foften'd into Love : the fervile Crowd 
 Now fheath their Swords, and thirft np more for 
 
 Blood. 
 
 P 3 Fell 
 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 V. 419: Thy Hea-Sn-born Ltve) 
 
 Hac homines tit face ligas. ... .1 .. . 
 
 Such Wonders can this mighty Love perform, 
 Vultures to Doves, Wolves into Lambs transform,. 
 This Love, the Centre of our Union, can 
 Alone beftow complete Repofe on Man ; 
 Tame his wild Appetite, make inward Peace, 
 And foreign Strife among the Nations ceafe.
 
 U4 To G D 
 
 Fell Difcord flies with all her hideous Train, 
 
 V.IJ i 'T.i ?. : n .^7^ 
 
 440. And fruitful Plenty crowns the peaceful Reign. 
 Faithful Societies by thee are form'd, 
 And ev'ry Bread with mutual Ardor warm'd ; 
 Thus Nations are in folemn Leagues ally'd, 
 " And the fond Bridegroom meets the longing 
 Bride. 
 
 445. Whether we think, or act a virtuous Deed, 
 'Tis thy peculiar Care that we fucceed j 
 If firft in fuppliant Pofture we implore 
 
 Thine Aid divine, and tutelary Pow'r : 
 
 Then 
 
 AN N OT A TI O NS. 
 
 V. 447. Zffrft in fuppliant P off tire ) 
 
 ffec quicquam ordimur niji nomine rite, ijtcnto 
 Ante ttto. - 
 
 So Horace, 1. iv. on. od. 15. 
 
 Rite Deos prius apprecati. 
 
 I/AV Kfiflns eHvAy&Tetl, p.n $v<T{ Tots 
 
 on$s{. Arr. Epid. /. iii. c. 31. 
 
 And 'tis obfervable, that Homer throughout his whole Poem, be- 
 fore every important Enterprise, recommends a Prayer to foaie God 
 or other ; becaufe /. ix. v. 494. 
 
 ) 
 
 K&t fj.lv Tf Suitasiy ^ \vxu\?,s 
 fy%e 
 
 Ttf ' 

 
 the HOLT GHOST. 
 
 Then art thou pleas'd with folemn Pray'r ad- 
 
 drefs'd, 
 
 450. To drive falfe Joys from the tranfportedBreaft ; 
 And with thy fev'n-fold Gifts enrich the Mind, 
 Pure, from the grofs Allay of Sin refm'd : 
 That we, exalted from this mean Abode, 
 
 May traverfe the Empyreal Courts of God. 
 
 a- " :.-iO ^al^t^.ihi^ ii.": '. 
 
 455. Thou art the genial Rain that kindly pours 
 Down from the balmy Skies in golden Show'rs, 
 At Morn and Ev'ning, to refrefh the Soul, 
 And with foft Dews our thirfly Rage controul. 
 
 P 4 Thy 
 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 The Gods, (the only great, and only wife,) 
 
 Are mov'd by OfFrings, Vows, and Sacrifice j 
 
 Offending M<m their high Compaffioo wins, 
 
 And daily Pray'rs attone for daily Sins. Pope. 
 
 Wherefore fays Pliny , Bene ac fapienter majores noftri inftkue- 
 runr ut rerum agendavum ita dicendi initium a precatiombus caperc ; 
 quod nihil rice, nihilque providenter homines fine Deorum immor- 
 taiiuni ope, confilio, honore aufpicarenrur. Paneg. Trajtn. 
 
 To which let me add, that upon our Chriftian Scheme, we are 
 guided in our Prayers and afted in our Devotions by the Holy Spi. 
 nt : For whereas iiue know net what we jhould fray ftr MS <we 
 o:iglrt t the Spirit itfelf maketh Inter cejpon for us, with groaning which 
 cannot be tttitr'dy and be that fiarchetb the Hearts^knoiaeth what is 
 fbe Mind of the Spirit, becaufe he maketh Interceflien fr the Saints 
 according to the Will of God : And this is th' Confidence that we 
 have in him, that if we ask any tiling according to his WJl^ he hear- 
 th u;, Zach. xii. 10. Rom. viii. 26. i John v. 14.
 
 216 To G D 
 
 Thy Light, when anxious Doubt torments the 
 
 Breaft, 
 460. And frights the bufy flutt'ring Thoughts froin 
 
 Reft, 
 
 t-.P ' 
 
 Difpels the Clouds, and cheating our Defpajr, 
 Prefents the Objeft, beautiful and fair. 
 Nor wilt thou leave us deftitute of Hope, 
 When with confuting Cares our Senfes droop. 
 
 465. Thy 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 V. 459. Thy Sight, luhen anxious Doubt ) 
 
 We have before obferved, that one Office and Gift of the Holy 
 Spirit is to enlighten our Minds, that we may fee the great Myfteries 
 of Chriftianity, and underftand our Duty aright : And the Excellency 
 of this our Heavenly Teacher is, that he not only removes thofe falle 
 Notions and Perfuaiions, which'predude Conviction, and thofe unru- 
 ly Paifions 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 Gofpel, and by it to difcern the true Nature of divine Ob- 
 je&s : Wherefore the Subftance of the Apoftle's Prayer for the Ephe- 
 /ians is, that the God of our Lord Jejus Chrtjl might give unto them 
 the Spirit of Wifdom and Revelation in the Knowledge of hint: and 
 thai the Eyes ef their Under ft anding being enlighten d, they might 
 know viha,t it the Hope of his Calling, and vjhat the R.i$.es of the 
 Gltrj of his Inheritance in the Saints, Ephe i. 17. 
 
 V. 463. Nor wilt thou. leave us ) 
 
 We do not doubt but that many good Men have frequently ex- 
 perienced thefe divine Comforts of the Holy Ghoft, (bmet'imes upon 
 their undertaking an heroic Work of Piety and Virtue j fometimes in 
 their Conflift with great Trials and Temptations ; fometimes under 
 the Prefltire of mighty Soirows and AfHi&ions, and many times, ('tis 
 to be hop'd) at the momentous Hour and Extremuies of Death : 
 for this was the Promife, which our Saviour (as we before obferv'd) 
 gave to his Difciples, faying, / wilt pray tJje Father^ and he fliall
 
 the HOLT GHOST. 217 
 
 465. Thy Prefence fcatters the illufive Train 
 
 Of goblin Fears, that crowd the fickly Brain : 
 New Joys fucceed, our pious Toil to crown, 
 And make the Spring of Life run fweetly down^ 
 Tho' ev'ry Place fome frightful Image bears 
 
 470. Of inftant Danger, and grim Death appears ; 
 Still are we fafe, and ftrengthen'd by thy Pow'r, 
 Drive thro* the Storm, and make the peaceful 
 Shore. 
 
 All hail ! thou Joy of Man, his Peace, and 
 
 Reft! 
 
 Incite with zealous Ardour ev'ry Breaft : 
 475. If ever Mortals cou'dfuch Honour claim, 
 
 And were indulg'd thy Love infpiring Flame ; 
 Oh ! kindle now their Hearts with ftrong Defires, 
 And melt them into Love with all thy Fires ; 
 For they are dark, and delug'd in a Flood 
 480. Of fatal Ignorance, forget their God. 
 
 But 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 give you another Comforter, that be may abide with )tu for ever; 
 far he dwelletti with you, and frail be in you. Let me conclude 
 therefore with that earneft Prayer which the Apoftle makes to Gcii 
 for his Chriftian Ramtm, That he 'would fill us with all ^oy and 
 Pence h: kellevln^ t that <u>g may abound in Hope t through the Power 
 t/ tk< Hoi) G>:PJ}, Amen.
 
 To GOD 
 
 But do thou lift them from the Shades of Night, 
 That joyful they may view thy glorious Light ; 
 And born upon the Wings of quick'ning Love, 
 Afpire to Heav'n, and Joys prepar'd above. 
 
 485. So will we tune to thee our grateful Lays, 
 And fing inceflantly thy wond'rous Praife. 
 
 COME, 
 ANNOTATIONS. 
 
 * The Lines which I have here omitted have been long fince out 
 of Date ; neither can the Doctrine' therein deliver'd, be thought a- 
 grceable to the good Nature and Meeknefs of a true Chriftian Spirit : 
 However, to make my Author as perfeft as I can, I mall tranflate 
 them, HOI without an Obfervation or two from LaR.ntius, l.v. c. iz. 
 
 Pr<ecipue tamen tbfcura caliglne merfa, 
 
 Qu<e fp.n&xm everjis Germania nuvien ab aris 
 
 Expulit, c^ ccelitmjceleratis provocat armis, See. 
 
 In horrid Dar'-.nels funk Germania lies, 
 Spurns thee her God, and from thine Altar flies j 
 But do thou puvge her with thy Heav'nly Flame, 
 That fhe 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 
 Raife thou fome noble Prince ; his Breaft infpire 
 With ardent Zeal, and moft heroic Fire; 
 That he the Force of Error may controul, 
 | Provok'd, with Fire and Sword, to ftorm the Soul. 
 
 Bur 
 
 | Prwok'd with Fire and S-vjird ) 
 
 Acferro late ferfentem exchidere fffiem. 
 
 Virgil
 
 the HOLT PHQ.ST. 113 
 
 COME, HOLY SPIRIT, and our Souls infpire, 
 488. Thou Love Omnipotent, celeftial Fire -! 
 
 'i:'::-r'.ysn L r if ,S;A 5>nobf7" vrfT 
 
 ANNOTATIONS, 
 
 But if in us fiill fome infectious Stain, 
 
 Or Spot of Heart corroding Guilt remain ; 
 
 If our once boafted Piety be fled, 
 
 That round the World unrival'd Honour fpread ; 
 
 Oh ! let thy facred Light wjth piercing Ray, 
 
 Scatter the fallen Clouds, and give us Day j 
 
 From 
 
 Virgil indeed fpeaking of thefe, fays, 
 
 Continue ferro culpttm compefee, p 
 
 Dira per incautum Jerpant cant agio, vulgus. Georg. iii. 468. 
 
 Delay not, kill th' infefted, e'er on all 
 Th* onwary Flock the dire Contagion falj. 
 
 Dr, Trapp. 
 
 But, Defendenda eft Religio non tsccldenio t fed monendo 
 
 non ftevitid, fed patientia j non fieltre, Jed fa'e. III a enim male- 
 rum flint , hiec bonorum : et neceffe ejl y bonum In Religions verjari, 
 non raalum. Nam fi J*anguine t Jt tormentis, Ji mala religionctii iielis 
 defender e, jam non defendetur ilia, fed pollaetur, atque vitla&itttr. 
 Nibil eft enim tarn voluntarium, quam Religio : In qua ft animus 
 facrifcantis averfus eft, jam fublata, jam nulla eft. 
 
 Religion is to be defended not by Slaughter, but Admoni- 
 tion : not by Cruelty, but Patience and Long-Suffering j nor by 
 Wickednefs, but by Faith : For thefe are bad Kleafures, thofe are 
 good ; and of Neceffity Religion muft be concerned with the good, 
 and not with the bad. Befides, if by Blood, by Tortures, by 
 Wrongs, you would defend Religion, you do notfbdefend ir, but vio- 
 late and pollute it. For Nothing is fo voluntary as Religion ; and 
 when the Prayer of the Supplicant comes not from his Heart, or the 
 Manner of Worfhip is not agreeable to his Will, they iofe their 
 Religion, i. e. they cannot come under the Name of Virtue, or be 
 term'd Ads of Religious Worfhip.
 
 tao To G D, 
 
 From thy bright Glories let one Spark be hurl'd, 
 That with enliv'ning Flames may fire the World. 
 * But firft on this thy Council we implore, 
 Thy gracious Aid, and reconciling Pow'r j 
 That different Nations in one Heart may join, 
 Hold the fame Tenets, and with us combine, 
 To give new Life to the long (ilenc'd Laws, 
 And ftrenuoufly maintain the Common Caufe. 
 
 * But frjl on this thy Council ) 
 
 The pretended Council of Trent, held jfyril 8, Ann* Dom. 
 
 The End of the Third Hymn of V i D A, 
 To GOD the HOLY GHOST,
 
 M. ANTON. FLAMINIUS 
 
 D E 
 
 REBUS 'DIVJNIS.
 
 Eos tantum beatos efie affirmat, qui 
 ris omnibus reli&is Chrifto adhaerent* 
 
 UOUSgUE vana fomnia 
 
 imagines^ 
 
 O cac'i^ amare pergitis ? 
 Nan forma vincens Nirea, 
 Non dives ufus -purpurg, 
 Non mens peragrans Sidera, 
 Campofque latos aerls^ 
 Marifque Terrafque infimas 
 Re ddunt Beatos. Unua, .' 
 Felldtatis eft via 
 Jefus benignus. Ilk deferem 
 Amore noftri ccelitum 
 Sedes leatas^ pertulit 
 )( Famam, fitimque^ vulnera, 
 Mortemque diram. Neminem 
 Faftidit ille ; perditos, 
 
 ^ malorum -ponders 
 ]u<van diligit.
 
 The Love of CHRIST preferable to all 
 "Things. 
 
 HOW Long fhall we peffiie 
 Mere Shadows, Trifles, - Toys ? 
 How long fhall we delight 
 In vain delufive Joys ? 
 
 II. 
 
 Not all the Charms of Face, 
 
 That might with Nireus vie, 
 Nor Wealth, nor fcepter'd Pride, 
 
 Nor Robes of Tynan Die, 
 
 III. 
 
 Nor bufy Minds, that rove 
 
 Thro* all the ftarry plain, 
 And to Earth's Centre dive, 
 
 Compleat the happy Man, 
 
 IV. 
 
 To Happinefs the Way 
 
 Thro' Jefus only lies : 
 
 For
 
 Non fie et optimum & unicum 
 Amant Parentes Fitium, 
 fa Ut Hie nos. O centies 
 Beatus ille, maxims 
 Jefu, relifth omnibus ; 
 >ui mente tola fe t'ibi 
 Infervitutem dedicat. 
 
 "" jH^u^ sw ilarll gnoi woH 
 S c/-x r-v.ftdf'sb niev nl 
 
 .ii
 
 For this he leaves his Heav'n, 
 
 Thirfts, 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, blefiedLord, 
 With all their vital Pow'rs. 
 
 PRECA-TIO
 
 
 PRECATIO MATUTINA. 
 
 7AM noftis umbras Lucifer 
 Alma Diet nuntius 
 Terra, poloque dimavet. 
 Simulque nos, cubilibus, 
 Monet, reliftis, peftore 
 Preces ab into fundere 
 Ad templa fumma coslitum. 
 Oremus ergo fupplices 
 Fontem perennem luminum y 
 Ut ficut omnis aeris 
 Illuftrat oras, vivido 
 Sic noftra corda repleat 
 Fulgore Sanfti Spirifus. 
 >ui nos per h<zc contagid^ 
 Puros ab omm crimine. 
 
 Traducat
 
 ( 22? ) 
 
 MORNING PRATER. 
 
 From the fame. 
 
 I. 
 
 SE E the bright Morning Star, 
 Fair Meflenger of Day ! 
 Earth fmiles, and all the Heav'ns 
 Their gaudy Robes difplay. 
 
 II. 
 
 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 Sprit, 
 
 With living Splendour drive 
 
 z This
 
 ai8 Precatio Matutina. 
 
 Traducat ad ccelejlium 
 Sedes beatas. Ulius 
 Nutu gerantur omnia : 
 Cibumque five fumimus, 
 Seu quid negotii forh 
 Fraftamus, aut domi, intima 
 Seu mente quid revofoimus, 
 Id omne femfer gloriam 
 Speffef beati Numinis. 
 Reffor fuperne coelitum, 
 Qua mente totdpofcimus 9 
 Hcec omnibus concedito, 
 Qui corde puro te colunt* 
 Et unicum Natum tuum 
 . Cum fempiterno Spiritu. 
 
 PRECATIO
 
 Morning Prayer. 
 
 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 act with bufy Hands, 
 Tend to thy Glory all, 
 
 And fquare with thy Commands. 
 
 VIII. 
 Grant this to us, O Lord, 
 
 OfPow'rs thou Sovereign Pow'r, 
 Grant it to all, who Thee, 
 Thy Son, and Spirit adore. 
 
 C NOON
 
 ( 230 ) 
 
 PRECATIO MERIDIA^A. 
 
 7 A M Sol citato fidere, 
 Suprema caeli culmina 
 Percurrit ; alma fefvidis 
 Tellus calefcit ignibus. 
 At tu btato lumine 
 Accende corda frigid^ 
 Pater lemgne : in omnibus 
 Cantos piorum fenfibus 
 Ignes amoris excita ; 
 Ut quicquid orbis continft ^ , ( 
 Pr<z te fit Hits fordidum ; 
 Nee ulla vis bunc feruidum - 
 Amoris ezjtum tempertf : 
 Sed ujque crefcens^ omnia 
 Convexa cceli tranfuolet? 
 Summoque Patri v'wculo 
 
 M*
 
 ( 2 3 I ) 
 
 NOON PRAYER. 
 I. 
 
 TH E Sun with pointed Blaze, 
 To Heav'n'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. 
 
 IV. Still
 
 132 Precatio Meridiana. 
 
 Nos jungat infolubili. 
 Has nos ab imo -peEtore 
 Precationes mittimus 
 Tuas ad awes, maxime 
 ^ferra^ polique conditor-, 
 1u vota noftra Nvminc 
 Dextro fecunda, idque ad tuam 
 Concede nobis Gloriam. 
 
 PRECATIO
 
 Noon Prayer. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Still foaring, let it rife 
 
 Above the Heavenly 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 ! for thy Glory's Sake, 
 
 Vouchfafe a gracious Ear. 
 
 EVENING
 
 PRECATIO VESPERTINA. 
 
 Qf A M vefper ortus* mcipit 
 J 'Diem tenebris eondcre ; 
 At nos parentem luminis 
 
 Sanfti precemur, ne final 
 
 - > "sx:. . . r 
 
 Noftem feorum mentibus 
 
 Caliginofam irrepere , 
 Seu dulcis alma recreat 
 Sopor quiete, languida 
 Seu Hquit tile lumina> 
 Nunquam recedat a piis 
 Lux fempterna eordibm : 
 Ut femper indies magis 
 Magifauc detur maximi 
 Benignitatem Numinis 
 Videre mente lufiAA, 
 JLt bine amoris optimi 
 Ardere fempcr ignibus. 
 
 Supreme
 
 EVENING PRAYER. 
 
 LO ! Hefperus appears, 
 Array *d with glimm'ring Light, 
 And threatens the Approach 
 Of fable- vefted Night. 
 
 II. 
 
 Oh ! let not Darknefs, Lord, 
 
 Thy Servant's Soul invade, 
 Nor any Pow'r of Night 
 
 O'ercaft a joyous Shade. 
 
 III. 
 
 Whether refrefhing Sleep 
 
 Seals up the willing Eyes, 
 Or, from the laboring Breaft 
 
 Th* Indignant Stranger flies ; 
 
 IV. Let
 
 Precatio Vefpertina. 
 
 Supreme ctzlitum Pater, 
 Votis tuorum fupplicutn 
 Aures benignas admove : 
 Ut fenfa cordis omma y 
 Et difta, faffaque ad tuam 
 Sic dirigamus Gloriam. 

 
 Evening Prayer. 2,37 
 
 IV. 
 
 Let not thy Heav'nly Light, 
 
 Eternal Spring of Day, 
 From fleeplefs pious Minds 
 
 Be ever driv'n away. 
 
 V. 
 
 That with thy faving Grace 
 
 Hlumin'd more and more, 
 Thy Goodnefs we may love, 
 
 And reverence thy Pow'r. 
 
 VI. 
 
 Father of Heav'n fupreme, 
 
 Let this our Pray'r fucceed, 
 And to thy Glory turn 
 
 Each Thought, and Word, and Deed.

 
 Divine POEMS.
 
 DIVINE POEMS. 
 
 Great is TRUTH, and mighty above 
 all 'Things. 
 
 i E s D R A s. iii. 
 
 i c H on the Royal Throne Darius fate, 
 Princes around attend the nice Debate : 
 When Meres thus began : - --- 
 
 ..... Delicious IPine, 
 Exert thy Pow'r, and Victory is thine ; 
 Thy Pow'r, that fcorns to ftoop to fervile Fear, 
 Breaks thro' Law-Cobwebs, and delights to err. 
 It binds the Senfes in a flumbrous Chain, 
 Andfweetly blunts the Poignancy of Pain ; 
 To the poor Orphan, and the Debtor kind, 
 To that a Father, and to this a Friend ; 
 
 R Nor
 
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 Nor envy they the Fortune of the Great, 
 Scarce happier he, who fills the Royal Seat ; 
 Thanks to the fprightly Cup, whofe lufcious Draught 
 Drowns ev'ry Sorrow, ev'ry anxious Thought ! 
 It mounts the Peafant to his fancied Throne, 
 And fwells him with ftrong Paffions not his own ; 
 
 It makes the modeft rear a boaftful Npife,. 
 
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 And as foon filenceth the Proud of Voice : 
 
 Cowards will fight when fumy Wine infpires 
 
 Their daftard Souls with animating Fires : 
 
 Nor can a Senfe of Love, or Duty bind, 
 
 The furious Sallies, of the guidelefs Mind.-, 
 
 They finite their Friends., not knowing whom they 
 
 fmite, 
 Nor dream at fober Morn die Guilt of Night. 
 
 Such is the Strength; of fj^inf. '- 
 
 ;"; -e* -:r He bow'd his Head ; 
 When Tatmai rofe, and thus refpeclful faid : 
 
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 Princes, can we behold and not admire, 
 
 The nervous Strength of Man^ and active Fire ; 
 
 Who ravages the World without Controul, 
 
 And flufh'd with Conqueft flies from Pole to Pole ? 
 
 Yet
 
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 Yet mighty as they are, and great of Name, 
 Superior Pow'rs fuperior Honours claim : 
 Such is the King^ at whofe majeftic Nod 
 Whole Nations trembling own an earthly God; 
 Does he delight in War ? flraight loud Alarms 
 Roufe ev'ry Breaft ; 7*0 Arms, they cry, 70 Arms $ 
 Devoid of Fear, they crowd the lifted Plain, 
 And foon the Battle bleeds in ev'ry- ^ein i 
 The Strength of Art and Nature, (Rampiers, Wallij 
 And deep-fang* d Mountains) to their Fury falls- : 
 They conquer, and are conquer'd j 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 .v nl 
 Suftains 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 ghaftjy Havock defolates the Land ; 
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 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, ,; u ,.r 
 
 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 boaft a more extenfive Sway, 
 
 Than the great King, whom Nations thus obey ? 
 
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 Zorobabel now rofe with modeft Look, 
 And graceful won his Audience e'er he fpoke : 
 
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 In vain (fays he) the Strength of Wine ye boaft, 
 Orfcepter'd Grandeur , or the warlike Ho ft ; 
 All, all muft yield, if I but but Woman name ; 
 ( Oh ! may my Words flow charming as my Theme ! ) 
 For Kings in fplendid 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
 
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 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 fliines, moft 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 Womarfs Love. 
 When drefs'd in ev'ry Grace, and ev'ry Charm, 
 What Heart fo cold, fo dead me cannot warm ? 
 Gold, Silver, Jewels are to Beauty paid, 
 When Love commands , for Love will be obey'd ; 
 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 part 
 The deareft ObjecT: of the Love-fick Heart ; 
 
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 Thefe fhalj be all forfeok to fpend a Life 
 In the fweet Converfe of a faithful Wife ; 
 Her's are the Fruits of all our endlefs Toil, 
 And 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 his deathfcl Way, 
 Or tempt the Horrors of the ftormy Skies, 
 When fome imperious Damfel claims the Prize, 
 Love's fweet Enchantments ftrike the Reafon blindj 
 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'p 1 
 Others fit fighjng out the lingring Hour, 
 And vanifhing to Ghofts are never pitied 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 Majefty with fcornful Air ; 
 
 Who,
 
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 Who, Jefs 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 me more ? (I fpeak with rev'rend Awe ) 
 We faw her ftrike, yet fcarce could think we faw ; 
 Tbemaftus' Daughter of ignoble Blood, 
 With her Left-Hand did ftrike the Monarch- God. 
 Still, ftill he gaZ'd, and with obedient Look, 
 And Heart all Love, enjoy'd the daring Stroke. 
 A Smile from dear Aparff 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's Pow'r. , 
 
 He faid j 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 Fabric of this fpacious Earth, 
 
 And, deep in Thought, call all its Wonders forth ; 
 
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 View the Expanfion of the ftarry Sky, 
 
 And fry, how vaft is chat ! and this how high ! ^ no a 
 
 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 'Truth, moft glorious Theme ! 
 
 * The Caufe of Caufes, Pow ? r of Pow'rs {upreme -, 
 
 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 Heav'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 fiftful Follies fpring 
 From thoughtlefs Wine ? oft guilty is the King ; 
 And Women fometimes err j thus foon or late, 
 The Sons of Men ftill labour out their Fate, 
 The certain Fate, that waits 'em from the Womb 
 Thro* ev f ry Stage to the inactive Tomb : 
 But Truth, Almighty Truth, is ever young, 
 Ever victorious, as for ever ftrong , 
 
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 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 muft praife. 
 
 Blefs'd be the God of Truth ! whofe potent Reign, 
 The Glory of all Ages (hall remain, 
 Their Strength, and Pow'r, and Majefty confefs'd ; 
 Blefs'd be the God of Truth, for everblefs'd. 
 
 He faid , the King himfelf the Speaker crown'd, 
 And the glad People fhouted all around. 
 
 " Great God of Truth , moft mighty is thy Pow'r, 
 *' Let Heav'n and Earth thy Sovereignty adore. 
 
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 250 Divine POEMS. 
 
 WHEREfliall an unexperienc'd Mufe begin, 
 To trace the thoufand fecret Paths of Si N ? 
 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 the Heart ; 
 While fhe fits Watching ev'ry idle Hour, 
 And with our wanton Thoughts improves her 
 Pow'r? 
 
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 For fomc fhe tries the Mufic of her Tongue, 
 
 In Sounds far fwceter than the Syren's Song ; 
 Refiftlefs this ; but when fhe adds the Charms 
 Of Beauty, Oh ! how forcibly fhe warms ! 
 Reafon fubmits, and knows not to controul 
 The darling Paffion of the raptur'd Soul. 
 
 Soon
 
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 Soon falls the Wretch to SJN 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 Danae*s Lap, nor dropt in vain. 
 Dire Thirft of Gold !- what Magic in thee lies, 
 That breaks thro' Honour, Friendfhip, Nature's Ties? 
 No Act fo vile, but thy perfuafive Pow'r, 
 Tempting with Semblance fair, can glofs it o'er : 
 No A<5t fo impious, but the daring Hand 
 Will perpetrate, when urg'd by thy Command. 
 Thou Bawd to SIN ! chief Inflrument 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'rous, brave, and bold. 
 'Yet Si N, her willing Vot'ries to engage, 
 Still ev'ry Humour fuits, and ev'ry Age ; 
 And thefe to charm, difplays a pompous View, 
 Titles, and Crowns, a counterfeited Shew ! 
 
 Ambition
 
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 Ambition rufhes on with headftrong Force, 
 No Curb can check the Fury of its Courfe ; 
 No Laws, or human or divine, reftrain 
 The frantic Paflion, 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. 
 
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 Thus SIN with Wealth and Pleafure oft deceives, 
 
 And oft with PowV the free-born Mind enflaves, 
 When Care we want, and Conduft to improve, 
 With modeft Art thefe Bleifings 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. 
 
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 On REPENTANCE. 
 
 ' r I ^ I S a fad painful living Death he dies, 
 -*- Who from his God, his Guardian, faithlefs 
 
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 And vainly hopes in Sin's foft Arms to find 
 
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 Joys, that will latiate his luxurious Mind. 
 
 Miftaken Wretch, a Tide of bitter Woes 
 
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 Sudden pours in, and the fick Heart o'erflows. 
 
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 Can Riches fave him ? or can Galen'?, Art,' 
 
 With fome kind Opiate lull the raging Smart ? 
 
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 No i ever-wakeful Guilt ftill racks the Sight 
 
 With ghaflly Goblin Shapes, dread Sons of Night 1 
 
 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, Repent ', your Sins Jhall be forgvifn. 
 
 
 Has then Repentance fuch a mighty Charni, 
 To flay the Thunderer's uplifted Arm ; 
 
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 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 flormy Soul ? 
 
 Can it refolve .them into Peace and Love, 
 
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 Fit for the Conyerfe of the Saints above ; 
 
 The Faith confirm, the dying Hopes revive, 
 
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 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 ; 
 
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 To give it up a Prey to fullen Care, 
 
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 And aJl the hideous Horrors of Defpair ; 
 
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 To plunge in an Abyfs of Mifery, 
 
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 When 'twere as eafy to afcend the Sky ; 
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 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 wi ill Heart fincere to be forgiv'n ; 
 
 To
 
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 To look with Faith to the Almighty's Throne, 
 And plead the Merits of his dying SON. 
 So fhall the glorious Paraclete defce.Rfl, 
 And from thy Bofom drive the bufie Fiend. 
 Whence all thy Fears, and anxious Doubts, {hall ceaie, 
 And ev'ry Scene of Life be bleft with Heav'nly Peace, 
 
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 On DEATH. 
 
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 T T T H A T 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 induflrious 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 fhakes a while his Ebon Dart, 
 Then pierceth fore the fturdy 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 Trufl ! 
 Their Glory wither'd, and themfelves are Duft. 
 So vain is human Pride, all earthly Pow*r, 
 And guilty Joys, which frantic Men adore ; 
 Since DEATH is inftant, and whene'er he likes, 
 Call'd, or not call'd, the grifly Phantom ftrikes. 
 
 But
 
 Divine POEMS. 2.57 
 
 But let the confcious Sinner dread the Stroke, 
 And cow' re beneath the Terror of his Yoke : 
 Like Fools, who Fortune's Goddefs-lhip 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 fmce deftroy'd by Cbrtft 9 their SAVIOUR ; 
 Who dy'd, and rifing 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 j 
 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.
 
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 0* 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 Word of Heav'ns Almighty Lord, 
 That pierceth deeper- than the two-edg*d Sword, 
 Threatens a living Lake of fulph'rous Flame, 
 Ever to feed upon th' immortal Frame, 
 Unable to confume its lafting Prey, 
 Or grant that wifh'd-for Blefling, not to be. 
 This is the Sinner's Hell, and to be driv'n 
 In endlefs Banimment, from God and Heatfn ; 
 Where pining Sorrow, vainly-mad Defpair, 
 With Pains too mocking, ev'n for Thought to bear, 
 "iV Still
 
 Divine POEMS. 2.59 
 
 Still urge the Wretch, that on the Torture lies, 
 Sleeplefs, and ever-dying, never dies. 
 
 The Murd'rers here pour forth their hideous Yell ; 
 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* Oppreflbr, Covetous, or luftful Great, 
 Much lefs the Atheift, ( Atheift now no more, 
 Tho' he Spinofa were, or Hobbs before,) 
 Or any of that Crew, whofe daring Rage 
 Empties its Venom on the facrcd Page ; 
 
 Nay, adds to impious Jefts Scurrility : 
 
 If here I tremble, W~lft-n, 'tis for thee, 
 Still mindlefs that thy God can flill forgive, 
 And only to Repentance bids thee live, 
 
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 jTfcif: v-; vtf *k:-Tf*Iiba 
 
 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 Gcd in Mercy hath each Sin declar'd, 
 And Hell aflign'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 moft true, 
 His IVifdom cannot threaten, what his Pow'r can't do, 
 
 * Vid. Milton. f Virs. ./En. vi. 625. 
 
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 Divine POEMS. 261 
 
 On HEAVEN. 
 
 CEleflial Faith ! lend me thy piercing Eye 
 To view the Glories of the diftant Sky ; 
 Faft fix my Mind, preventive Hope, on thefe, 
 Nor let the Earth with gaudy Trifles pleafe ; 
 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 perfeft 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 illumined 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. 
 
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 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 Thoufands to thefc 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 inceflant flng 
 The wondrous Praife of their Almighty King ; 
 And all th* Angelic Hoft in folemn Strains 
 Fill with Devotion the Empyreal Plains j 
 Patriarchs, who Virtue's facred Paths firft trod, 
 And taught the Infant World to know their God ; 
 Prophets, whofe my flic Oracles of Old, 
 Our fuffering, dying Saviour Chrift foretold ; 
 And holy* Apoftles, who confirm'd their Lord, 
 And far thro* diftant Nations fpread his Word i 
 Martyrs, who Heathen Cruelty defy'd, 
 
 And for Truth's Sake with ftubbgrn Patience dy'd ; 
 
 Kings,
 
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 Kings, who dealt Love and Juftice from the Throne, 
 And made the Welfare of Mankind their own ; 
 And Prelates, who with Chriflian 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 Campion liv'd. 
 Th' unbiafs'd Judge, the Patriot, ever true 
 To ferve his Prince, and ferve his Country too ; 
 Thefe, with innumerable Numbers more, 
 The charitable Rich, the virtuous Poor, 
 Allthefe their joyful Hallelujahs join, 
 And fwell with tuneful Harps the Song divine. 
 
 Well may they fing, and praife Almighty Pow'r, 
 And with ecftatic 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 poflefs. 
 
 S 4 Lord,
 
 2^4 Divine POEMS. 
 
 Lord, what is Man, for whom thou haft prepared, 
 This blifsful Heav'n, unmerited Reward ? 
 Oh ! cou'd th f Afpirer, or the Slave to Gold, 
 Thefe Fields of Lights, and ftarry 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 Breaft, 
 The Scene how pompous, how profufe the Feaft. 
 
 Hither, great God, let all our Wiflies tend, 
 And pant for this our happy Journey's End, 
 Where Joys commenfurate to' our Souls abound, 
 And Love, and Peace, for ever keep their Round ! 

 
 Divine POEMS. 
 
 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 fhine 
 In ev'ry Part of human Form divine ; 
 When the leaft Infect vile, that creeps the Ground, 
 Can pofe the learned, and the wife confound -, 
 When Prodigies are daily ilarting forth, 
 And frequent Judgments make the guilty Earth ; 
 'Tis ftrange, how Man cm play the Atheift's Part, 
 And 'gainft Conviction fteel the ftubborn 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. 
 
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 How
 
 266 Divine POEMS. 
 
 How impotent their Aim, do all they can ! 
 How far beneath the Dignity of Man ! 
 Whom Cod 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, 
 
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 Deftin'd e'er long to reach the ftarry Skies, 
 
 And reign with them in everlafting Blifs. 
 With fo fublime a Nature ill it fuits, 
 To wifh to live, or wifh to die, like Brutes, 
 Thoughtlefs of God, to draw in vital Breath, 
 Or fink to nothing in the Shade of Death j 
 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 fubtle Art cou'd ne'er difprove, 
 Nor can an idle Wilh, or airy Dream 
 Difarm his Pow'r, or prevent his Scheme ; 
 When Judgment mail o'ertake the World, and all 
 Muft forcibly obey the Trumpet's Call, 
 
 Where
 
 Divine POEMS. 167 
 
 Where fhall 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 Cbrtft died, the finning World to fave, 
 And ranfom captive Mortals from the Grave. 
 " Then all is well ; the wicked too mall live, 
 " And tafte the BlefTmgs that a God can give. 
 No ; they long fmce have forfeited their Claim, 
 Who madly fcofFd at the exalted Name ; 
 Who Falfhood to celeftial Truths preferred, 
 And Slaves to Folly, not unwilling err'd ; 
 Who fcorn'd the proffer'd Grace, hence doom'd to 
 
 feel 
 The poignant Pains of their long-banter'd Hell. 
 
 More I might add, but more I fear in vain, 
 Fbe Die is cajl, with little HQpes of Gain ; 
 Cou'd I exprefs my Aim with better Grace, 
 Or G i B s o N *s Motives in POPE'S Numbers 
 
 drefs, 
 
 In
 
 268 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 Dead. 
 
 7 AT / S. 
 
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 THE
 
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 THE 
 
 CONTENTS- 
 
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 A Prefatory Copy of Verfes on Divine Poefy, 
 The Firfl Hymn of 'V ID A to God the Father, i 
 The Defegn, 2, 
 
 The Converfion 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 ', 13, 44 
 
 The Exigence of God, 14 
 
 The univerfal Confent of Mankind in the Belief of a God, 
 
 Ib. 
 
 The Incomprehenfibility of God, i5> 35 56, 63, 121. 
 His Name, 16, 59 
 
 His Unity, 17 
 
 His Attributes, Ib. 
 
 //z'j Omnipotence, 18 
 
 /7fj Eternity, 19 
 
 T&tf Creation of the World from Nothing, Ib. 
 
 Tfo Preference of Gcd, 21
 
 270 tte CONTENTS. 
 
 His Omnifcience, 23 
 
 His Omniprefence, Ib. 
 
 His Uniformity, 24, 93 
 His Providence, 25, 33, 34, 89, 90, 92 
 
 # Purity ^ 26 
 
 His ImpaJJibility, 27 
 
 ///j All-fufficiency, 28 
 
 J? Immutability, 29 
 
 HisWifdom, 30, 88 
 
 JV0/ /&* Author of Evil, 3 1 
 
 Fortune, (what and by whom acknowledged) 34 
 
 O/" God'j coming down upon Earth, 37 
 
 y^ Definition of the Earth, 3 8 
 
 yf// Nature Jubie ft to God, 39 
 
 Ti&f Scope of the Leviathan in Job, Ib. 
 
 Of the Spirit moving on the Waters, 40, 175 
 
 A Description of the Sea, 41 
 
 Of the Air, 42 
 
 Of 'Thunder, 43, 107 
 
 Of the Stars, 45 
 
 Of the Heavens, Angels, &c. 47, 97 
 The Angels Hymn to the Eleffed trinity, 49 
 Of the "Trinity, 50 
 'The Supremacy of God the Father, 52 
 The Diftinttion of the Three Perfons in the one Godhead 
 
 relative only, Ib. 173 
 
 The EffeRs of Gotfs Power, 53 
 
 His glorious Splendour, 55 
 
 His back Parts, Exod. xxxiii. 23. 57 
 
 The Belief of a God not arifmg from Fear, 58 
 
 The Appearance of SCHECHINAH, or the Divine 
 
 Glory, Ib. 
 
 The Love of God, 60, 62 
 
 Man made after bis Image, 61 
 
 The Appearance of God in a Flame of Fire on Mount 
 
 Horeb, and in the Bujb, 65 
 
 Men-
 
 The CONTENTS. 271 
 
 Mentioned by Heathen Writers, Ib. 
 
 The Converfion of St. Paul, 66 
 
 The Freedom of Man's mil, 68 
 
 The Mofaic Creation, 70 
 
 Of Man, 72 
 
 His Supremacy to all Creatures, 74. 
 His Fall, 76 
 
 ( The Forbidden Fruit, Ib. 
 
 The Garden of Eden,) 77 
 His Redemption, 78 
 
 By Jefus Cbrijl, 79 
 The Laft^ Day, 80 
 The Antients Opinion concerning it, 8 r 
 Of Purgation by Fire, 64, 82 
 New Heavens and New Earth, 82, 85 
 The Judgment, 83 
 The compleat Happinefs of the Righteous, 84 
 The ProceJJion of the Holy Ghoft/ra /<? Father and 
 
 Son, 87, 171, 172 
 
 The Goodnefsof God, 88, 120 
 
 His Truth, 89 
 7&i? Formation of the Earth, 92 
 
 . The Soul of Man, 94 
 
 The Seafons, 95 
 
 The Winds, 96 
 Of Kingly Power, 98 
 57?<? Converfion of Alphonfus King of Caftile, Ib. 
 God is irrefiftible, 99 
 Thefole Governor and Fate of all Things. 100 
 The Fall of Lucifer and his Angels, 101, 194 
 The Tradition of this among the Heathens, Ib. 
 The Deftrutfion of the Tower of Babel, 102 
 The Giants fuppos'd War with the Gods, Ib. 
 Sodom and Gomorrha, 103 
 Mentioned by Profane Author s, 104 
 The Divifwn of the Red Se.a, 105 
 
 Several
 
 CONTENTS. 
 
 Several Teflimonies of this from ancient Writers, Ib. 
 The Walls of Jericho, 1 06 
 This Story inverted, 107 
 The Ifraelhes/^ with Angels Food, 108 
 Parallel Inflames from Scripture and Heathen Wri- 
 ters, Ib. 
 'The Waters fpringing from the Rock, 109 
 The like Inflames from facred and profane Hiflory, Ib. 
 The bitter Waters at Marah made fweet, no 
 Elifha'j healing the Waters at Gilgal, Ib. 
 Of Miracles, in 
 The Sun flanding flill at the Command of Joihua, 112 
 Allufwns to this from the Heathen Poets, \\?\ Ib. 
 The Waters changed into Blood, Ib. 
 Balaam' s Afs, . 113 
 Allufwns to this among the Gentile Writers, Ib. 
 Drought and Famine recorded in the Scriptures, -with 
 parallel Inflames from the antient Hiflorians, 114 
 Noah' s Flood, 1 1 5 
 All Nations of the World hadfome Knowledge of if, Ib. 
 Of Tranfubflantiation, Jb. 
 The three Children in the Fiery Furnace, 1 1 6 
 Aaron'j Rod, blojfoming, Ib. 
 The Dead reflor'd to Life, 1 1 7 
 The like Inflames from Heathen Poets, Ib. 
 The divine Power of working Miracles given to the 
 Righteous , 117 
 Of Prophecies, 118 
 TJje like Gift pretended to by the Heathens, Ib. 
 Tbe World made for Man, 119 
 Heaven his final Reward, Ib. 
 
 The Second Hymn cf Vida to God the Son, 125 
 
 Junius'j Opinion concerning the Firfl Chapter of St. 
 
 John, 126 
 
 TJje
 
 The CONTENTS. 173 
 
 The Eternity of Chrift, ,29 
 
 His Omnifcience, i^\ 
 
 Equal to the Father in Glory, Ib. 
 
 In Majefty and Power, 132 
 Maker of the World, Ib. 
 
 His Humiliation, 133 
 
 His Birth, 134 
 
 His Beauty, 140 
 - His Sorrows and Sufferings, 141 
 
 His Death, 143 
 The Redemption of Man, 145 
 The Purity of Cbrijl's Nature, 146 
 His triumphant Victory over Death and Hell, 1 47 
 True in both his divine and human Natures, 
 
 His glorified Body in Heaven, 1 53 
 His Power above all Things in Heaven and Earth, 155 
 
 His coming again to judge the World, 156 
 
 The loft Day, Ib. 
 
 The wicked Jink down into Hell, 159 
 
 The Righteous received up into Heaven, 160 
 
 Chrift is all our Hope and Strength, 149, 161 
 
 Our Mediator and Interceffor at the Throne of Cod, 
 
 162 
 
 The Third Hymn of Vida to the Holy Ghoft, 1 65 
 
 What is the Holy Ghoft, Ib. 
 
 The Holy Ghoft is God, 166, 171 
 
 His Office, 167,173, 174, 182, 213, 216 
 
 His Perfonality, 1 70 
 Of Oracles and the antient Tripod, 176. 
 Of the Sibyk, 177 
 Of Predeflination, 179 
 Of Original Sin, 181 
 OfBaptif?n, . 183 
 
 ^ w//& jf without God's Affiftanc^ 1 8 0. 
 
 T f^
 
 | 7 4 Me CONTENTS. 
 
 'The Compari/bn, 187 
 
 The Devil and bis Angels ftitt fubjett to God^ 1 89 
 
 Of Guardian Angels^ 190 
 
 The Hojy Ghoft not -partial, 1 9 1 
 
 The Deprivation of God's Grace obferyable in federal 
 
 Inftances, 192 
 
 "The Pride of Lucifer, 194 
 
 The Revolt of Judas Ifcariot, 1 95 
 
 Of Abfolution, 197 
 
 Qf Regeneration, 198 
 
 Of Repentance, 199 
 
 Of the Love of God i and our Neighbour , 200 
 Of the Virgin Mary, 201, 204 
 
 Her Conce^twn^ 202 
 
 Of the Defcent of the Holy Ghofl like a Dove, 205 
 
 Qf the Voice from Heaven, Ib. 
 
 Of the cloven Tongues of Fire ata * V V. 206 
 
 Of the Comforter^ 207 
 
 His Omniprefence^ 208 
 
 The Name of Paraclete, Ib. 
 
 Of the Gift of Tongues , 209 
 The Meannefs and Inability of the Appftles, with the 
 
 wonderful Succefs of their Preaching^ 210 
 
 Their Boldnefs and Intrepidity -, 211 
 
 The Propagation of the Go/pel, Ib. 
 
 Of Sufferings and Martyrdom, 212 
 
 Of Prayer, 214 
 
 Of Persecution, 2 j 8 
 
 M. Anton. Flaminius de Rebus Divinis, 221 
 
 The Love of Chr$ preferable to all Things, 223 
 
 Mor~
 
 The CONTENTS. 275 
 
 Morning Prayer, 227 
 
 Noon Prayer, 231 
 
 Evening Prayer, 235 
 
 Divine Poems, 241 
 
 On Sin, 250 
 
 On Repentance, 253 
 
 On Death, 256 
 
 On Hell, 258 
 
 On Heaven, 261 
 
 The Condufion, 265 
 
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 T 3 A N
 
 A N 
 
 INDEX ofPerfons. 
 
 ABiud, 202 
 
 Abraham, 37, 210 
 Achilles, 113 
 
 Adam, 74, 78, 115 
 Addifon, 24, 56, 60, 82, 
 
 84, 211 
 
 Adraflus, 113 
 
 Adrian, 68 
 
 Adonis, 77, 78 
 
 The ./Egyptians, 91, 105, 
 
 113 
 
 ./Egyptus, 105 
 
 ./Eneas, 113 
 
 100 
 
 H7 
 9 6 
 
 98 
 104, 
 
 105 
 
 Alexander (F. Natal.) 105 
 Amphion, 107 
 
 Aqujnas (Thorn.) 9 
 
 ,/Efculapius, 
 /Eolus, 
 Alphonfus, 
 Alexander (Mag.) 
 
 Alcmena, 112 
 
 Alceftes, 117 
 
 Amelius 126 
 
 Apollonius Tyaneus, 209 
 
 Artabanus, 
 
 Ariadne, 
 
 Apollo, 83. 
 
 108 
 117 
 
 109, 177, 
 178, 189 
 
 Ariftotle, 71 
 
 Artaparius, 65, 105 
 The Arrians, 87 
 
 Ate, (or Demon of Dif- 
 cord) 101 
 
 Atreus, 112 
 
 Aftyanax, 142 
 
 Arnobius, 91 
 
 Auguftus, 99 
 
 Auguftin (St.) 23113, 
 126 
 Athenagoras, 87 
 
 BafU
 
 An Index of Perfons. 2.77 
 
 feaftf&J 
 
 Bochart, 
 Bacchus, 
 Bentley 
 Brome, 
 
 62 
 
 113 
 
 113, 117 
 
 126 
 103, Pref. 
 
 Baucis and Philemon, 104 
 Buckingham (D. of) 1 1 
 Blackmore (Sir Rich. )Pref. 
 
 Callimachus, 73, 109, 
 no, 112, 178, 185 
 Cato, 76 
 
 Calchas, 118 
 
 Caftor, 117 
 
 Ceres, 104, 114 
 
 Clement VII. (Pope) 8 
 The Chaldeans, 115 
 
 'The Chinefe, 115 
 
 Chryfoftom (St.) 208 
 Chilo, 100 
 
 Le Clerc, 113 
 
 Congreve, 92 
 
 Cowlcy, 4, 12, 19, 20, 
 25, 29, 41, 47, 98, 
 Pref. 
 
 Cicero, 25, 33, 39, 44, 
 
 74, 89, 91,94,118 
 
 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, $8,210 
 
 David, 192,202, 216 
 Dacier (Madam) 101 
 Diana, 117, 184 
 
 Dry den, Pref. 34, 37, 
 
 H2, ii7, I 3j J 68 
 Diodorus, 105 
 
 Deucalion, 115 
 
 Epicharmus, 6i 
 
 Epiftetus, 68 
 
 Epicurus, 43, 68 
 
 Epicureans, 25^ 48 
 
 Eiias Cretenfis, 57 
 
 Enoch, , ' f zuiinii! 2 to 
 Ephimedia, 102 
 
 Ennius, 53 . 
 
 Eufebius, 64, no 
 
 Empedocles, . 101 
 Eryficthon, f & .114 
 
 Epiphanius*i f r ,- 107 
 Europa, 113 
 
 Eurydice, ,^> 117 
 Evadne, 1 09 
 
 Euripides, 73, 93, 184 
 Ezekiel (Trqgxutf 65, 
 105 
 Ezekiel (Prophet) 205, 
 
 2IO 
 
 Fiddes* 17, 22, 30, 31, 
 78, 203 
 
 T ^ Fla-
 
 17$ <An Index of Perfons. 
 
 Flaminius, (M. Anton.} 
 
 187, 221 Jacob, $} 
 
 M. de Fontenclle, 38 Jamus, 109 
 
 Fohi, 115 Janus, ,iiO ; \ 
 
 Fenton, 107 Jeconiah, 31, 202 
 
 Juntos, r0f . 126 
 
 Gideon, 135 Jupiter, 17, 53, 77, Si, 
 
 Gregory IX. (Pope) 184 99, 100,101, 104, 
 
 Gregory (Nazianz.) 15, jq(}, 112, 184 
 
 57 73 J uno I0 5 
 
 Grotius, 50 Jpfephus, Ib. 
 
 Gordius, 62 Jojfeph, 202 
 
 The Gymnofophifts, 210 Juvenal, '34, 73 
 Judas Ifcariot, J5 
 
 Hales (of Eton) 9, 199 Juflin (St.) ' .113 } 
 
 Hippolytus, 117 Ifaiah (Prophet) 210 
 
 N. Heinfius, 38 Iphigenia, .HY 3al JI 7 
 
 HilariusfS/.j 52 M( 
 
 Huetius, 65, 66, 73, 74, Lac^antius, 16, 19, 33, 
 
 105, 205 39, 43, 48, 73> 74> 
 
 Hercules, no, 116, 1171 OOI 148, 177, 185, 188, 
 
 Hobbes, 2591 ^ T _ 2 1 8 . 
 
 Homer, 13, i$, 34, 37, Laughton, 26, 59 
 
 53, 66, 73, 78, 83, Lucan, 44, 65, 8j, 89. 
 
 86, 99, ICG, 101, Lucretius, 12, 28, 39, 
 
 102, 103, 105, 117, 40, 41, 43,. 44, 45> 
 
 u8j 135, 139, 142, 59, 6,8, 86, 90, 92-,. 
 
 150, 214. 93, 96, i^S^j'Sb 
 
 Horace, 5,12,21,34, LeoX.(P^). Hox-ft 
 
 44,77,98,99, 100, Lucifer, 101, 194 
 
 107, 214 Latona, ,184 
 
 Hefiod, 73,77, 83, 114, 
 
 191 Manilius, 46 
 
 Herodotus, 108, 118 Mercury, jy'. 104 
 
 X Minerva,
 
 An Index of Perforis* 
 
 Minerva, 17, 104 
 
 The Macedonians,, 171 
 
 Mahomet, 205, 210 
 
 Milton, Pref. 2 jj 23, 37, 
 
 40, 54, 56, 58, 69, 
 
 74, 76, 78, 83,93, 
 
 98, IOO, IO2, 1I5, 
 122, 175, 179,198, 
 2O4, 2O7, 209, 212 
 
 Maimonides, 57 
 
 Mars, t QT!i.'-idi" 
 
 Menelaus, J f;: i35 
 
 Pearfon, 49, 
 
 182 
 Plato, 17, 34*50, 72 j 
 
 74* 94 
 
 Pythagoras, -34, 74 
 
 Pliny, 76, 1 10, 121,215 
 Perfians, 66 
 
 Pentheus 206 
 
 Paul (St.) 66, 205 
 
 Pitt, 1,97, 109,110,178 
 Pindar, 34, 109 
 
 Philo (Judaus) 25, 105 
 Pope, Pref. 13,37, 53* 
 
 *r.b7 2 > 77> -*5 IO 9 
 
 66, 78, 3, 86, 99, 
 
 ,op ^fO 
 
 100, 101, 105,' 1 17, 
 
 Maay (Virgin) 82 j 134, 
 
 ,l\ Ii8, 135, 142, 150, 
 
 ,1 ;-Ug)6,:2O2, 2X34 
 
 215. 
 
 22* Mufes, ' <n 83 
 
 Prior, Pref. <& 
 
 
 Philoftratus, 209 
 
 Nathan j ."^^ c 1 - 2 2 
 
 Patrick^.; d, 72 
 
 Newton (5ir j^; 25, 93 
 ^^ Ninevites, ' 31 
 
 Panfanias, t^"- 1 1 8 
 Fromotheus, 77 
 
 Noah, 44, 114 
 
 Dallas j ^ j i4i 
 
 Neptune, 102, 104, 105 
 
 Pandora, - 77 
 
 Nireus, 223 
 
 Porus, 76, 113 
 
 Numa, ,2^.210 
 
 Parcae, 114 
 
 Norris, Pref. f 2jnf[/> 
 
 ^roferpina, S> : . Ib. 
 
 
 Phryxus, 113 
 
 Owen (Dr.) i 
 
 Pharaoh^ 105^ 106 
 
 Oldham, ' 48 
 
 Perfms, 130 
 
 Oppian* 1 1 
 
 Plutarch, 101 
 
 Orpheus, 98,117, 210 
 Ovid, 11,12,37,72,74, 
 
 Romul us and Remus, 109 
 
 81,92,94, 104,114, 
 
 Rochefter (E.of) 19* 75 
 
 j66, 185 
 
 Rowe, 8 1 
 
 T 4 
 
 fchea,
 
 a8o An Index of Perfons. 
 
 Rhca, 184 
 
 Tirefias, 104 
 
 Rhefa, 202 
 
 Terence, 53 
 
 
 Triftram, I 
 
 Sampfon, 109, 192 
 
 Trapp, 9, 90, 142, 144, 
 
 Spenfer, 186,190,139 
 
 1 68 
 
 Stoics, 34 
 
 Tacitus, 104 
 
 Sibyllse, 16, 18, 61, 177 
 
 Thefeus, 117 
 
 Stephen II. (Pope) 184 
 
 Timon, Ib. 
 
 Stephen (St.) 205 
 
 Timofthenes, Ib. 
 
 Samuel, 109 
 
 
 Sulpitius Severus, 37 
 Scaliger, 48 
 
 M. Varro, 177 
 Vorftius, 59 
 
 Statius, 59 
 
 Virgil, 3,4, 6,9, 11,13, 
 
 Seneca, 65, 74, 81, 96, 
 
 18, 34, 38, 41, 53, 
 
 19*1 ,ic 
 
 68, 73, 78, 90, 96, 
 
 Sophocles, f 2'ii 71 
 
 103, 109, 113, 116, 
 
 Solomon, .^j 202 
 
 117, 130, 141, 143, 
 
 Salathiel, Ib. 
 
 144, 168, 199, 219 
 
 Seth, 210 
 
 
 South, 202 
 
 Waller, Pref. 60, 69, 78, 
 
 Sancroft, ^irain^ 
 
 107, 121, 188, 213 
 
 Sewell, 1 t 23fi3o.Tn'fttt 
 
 Wefley, Pref. 17, 87 
 
 Semele, 1 1 7 
 
 Wheatly, 197 
 
 Strabo, f f.-io 104 
 Solinus, Ib. 
 
 W--lft-n, e so* :V* 259 
 
 Shakefpear, 108 
 
 Xerxes, 108 
 
 Stanyan, 177 
 
 Xifuthrus, - ' 115 
 
 Spinofa 259 
 
 
 
 Zacharias, -tCL") . 97 
 
 Tertullian, 33 
 
 Zabri, 210 
 
 Theodoret, 113 
 
 Zoroafter, 66, 105 
 
 Trifmegiftus, 16,34,210 
 
 Zorobabel, 202 
 
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 90. 2. 
 
 20 
 
 
 * 
 
 9*-- 9- 
 
 l8r 
 
 Canticles. 
 
 
 102. 12. 
 
 2O 
 
 3. 6. 
 
 140 
 
 *5- 
 
 ig 
 
 
 
 27. 
 
 29 
 
 Ifaiah. 
 
 
 103. 10. 
 
 97 
 
 6. 3- 
 
 50 
 
 19. 
 
 99' 
 
 II. I. 
 
 ib. 
 
 106. I. 
 
 :-** 
 
 12. 22. 
 
 23 
 
 1 10. I. 
 
 : 50 1 
 
 13. 9. 
 
 
 Il8. 22. 
 119/68. 
 
 149 
 ; 88 
 
 14. 12. 
 
 28. 16. 
 
 101 
 
 149 
 
 134. 3- 
 
 ~ ib.< 
 
 33- 3- 
 
 162 
 
 135- 5- 
 
 18 
 
 22. 
 
 50 
 
 136. i. 
 
 88' 
 
 35- i. 
 
 in 
 
 139. i. 
 
 *2Y 24 
 
 40. u. 
 
 161 
 
 ' 4. 
 
 ' 23 
 
 45- 17- 
 
 8* 
 
 145- 13- 
 
 20 
 
 23- 
 
 151 
 
 146. 8. 
 
 120 
 
 48. 1 6. 
 
 50 
 
 10. 
 
 . I 20 
 
 S3- *2. 
 
 162 
 
 H7- 5- 
 
 18 
 
 59- '9- 
 
 * 50 
 
 148. 5- 
 
 29 
 
 61. I. 
 
 ib. 
 
 149. 6. 
 
 89 
 
 63. ' 2. 
 
 140 
 
 
 
 1 6. 
 
 53 
 
 Proverbs. 
 
 
 64. 8. 
 
 r. ib. 
 
 2. 21. 
 
 120 
 
 21. I. 
 
 2 3 
 
 3 I 9* 
 
 92 
 
 26. 4. 
 
 18 
 
 F\ - ii 
 
 
 Ifaiah 28.
 
 Texts of Scripture. 
 
 Ifaiah. 
 28. 24. 
 
 30. 4. 
 34- 
 37- i. 
 40, 28. 
 
 42. 2. 
 
 44- 6. 
 
 12. 
 
 45. 1 8. 
 
 48. 12. 
 
 55- 8- 
 57- '5- 
 
 Jeremiah. 
 
 2. 13. 
 
 7. 13. 
 10. 13. 
 
 15. 6. 
 
 17. 10. 
 
 20. 12. 
 
 22. 30. 
 
 31. 14. 
 
 33. II. 
 
 Lament. 3. 25. 
 
 Ezekiel. 
 
 1 8. 4. 
 
 *5- 3*- 
 
 32. 7. 
 
 33- 
 
 34. 6. 
 
 23. 
 44- a. 
 
 Page 
 
 Daniel. 
 
 Page 
 
 23 
 
 3- 
 
 II(J 
 
 ib. 
 ib. 
 
 4- 14- 
 6. 26. 
 
 20 
 
 ib. 
 
 *P 
 
 7. 13. 
 
 156 
 
 20 
 
 P- i* 
 
 50 
 
 ^3 
 
 12. 3. 
 
 82 
 
 17 
 
 1 6. 26. 
 
 
 17 
 
 Hofea. 
 
 
 ib. 
 
 n. 8. 
 
 179 
 
 34 
 
 12. J. 
 
 50 
 
 20 
 
 
 
 
 Joel. 
 
 
 
 2. 31. 
 
 158 
 
 iji 
 
 3- *5 
 
 ib. 
 
 ib. 
 
 
 
 5$ 
 
 Nahum. I. 7. 
 
 88 
 
 26 
 
 
 
 3i 
 
 Zephaniah. i. 12. 
 
 23 
 
 22 
 
 
 
 23 
 
 Zechariah. 12. IQ. 
 
 215 
 
 s 
 
 Malachi. 
 i. 6. 
 
 53 
 
 
 2, IO. 
 
 ib. 
 
 88 
 
 3- 
 
 82 
 
 
 Wifdom of Solomon. 
 
 179 
 
 13. 
 
 59 
 
 IJ 8 
 
 1 6. 20. 
 
 109 
 
 '79 
 
 Ecclus. 38. 4. 
 
 in 
 
 161 
 
 Matthew. 
 
 
 *35 
 
 3. 16. 
 
 205 
 
 Matthew. 6.
 
 Texts of Scripture. 
 
 Matthew. 
 6. 13. 
 
 28. 
 
 Page 
 18 
 33 
 
 17. 6. 
 
 Page 
 .,4 
 ib. 
 
 33- 
 
 120 
 
 20. 17. 
 
 140 
 
 7. p. 
 
 53 
 
 ai. 25. 
 
 158 
 
 p. n. 
 
 161 
 
 24. 22. 
 
 2bl 
 
 16. 2O. 
 
 22 
 
 
 
 12. 44. 
 
 
 John 
 
 
 CQ. 
 
 53 
 
 I. i. 
 
 I I 2 C 
 
 16. 1 8. 
 
 161 
 
 4- 
 
 20 
 
 I7 20. 
 
 118 
 
 4. 24. 
 
 58 
 
 l. 17. 
 
 88 
 
 5. if- 
 
 51 
 
 21. 42. 
 
 140 
 
 26. 
 
 53 
 
 24. 29. 
 
 
 f * 
 
 ib. 
 
 30. 
 
 I 6 
 
 10. p. 
 
 62 
 
 - |S>- 
 26. 64. 
 
 114 
 
 n. 
 
 161 
 
 2C. 32. 
 
 '57 
 
 14. 12. 
 
 117 
 
 
 
 16. 
 
 207 
 
 Mark. 
 
 
 26. 
 
 170 
 
 I. 10. 
 
 2 5 
 
 28. 
 
 53 
 
 2. 17. 
 
 161 
 
 30. 
 
 
 12. IO. 
 
 149 
 
 15* * 
 
 i 
 
 13. 26. 
 
 24. 
 
 * 
 
 158 
 
 26. 
 
 i(^. 7. 
 
 170 
 ib. 
 
 14. 62, 
 
 156 
 
 32- 
 
 151 
 
 
 
 33- 
 
 207 
 
 Luke. 
 
 
 17. 3. 
 
 17, 89 
 
 i. i p. 
 
 97 
 
 5- 
 
 ' -* : 51 
 
 37- 
 
 203 
 
 1 8. 28. 
 
 ib. 
 
 3. 22. 
 
 205 
 
 20. 17. 
 
 53 
 
 4- 2 3- 
 
 161 
 
 
 
 25- 
 
 114 
 
 Ads. 
 
 
 5- 3 1 - 
 
 161 
 
 i. 24. 
 
 23 
 
 6. 15- 
 
 20 1 
 
 2. 2. 
 
 206 
 
 16. 15. 
 
 23 4. 
 
 205^ 
 Ads. . 23.
 
 Texts of Scripture. 
 
 Ads. 
 
 Page 
 
 
 Page 
 
 2. 23. 
 4- 28. 
 
 26. 32 
 
 13. i. 
 
 2. 
 
 100 
 
 118 
 
 17. 
 
 88 
 
 12. 
 
 57 
 
 29* 
 
 117 
 
 8. 6. 
 
 *J r 
 
 53 
 
 c. 3. 
 
 171 
 
 10. 0. 
 
 
 6. 8. 
 
 117 u. 3. 
 
 52 
 
 10. Ip, 
 
 170 
 
 15- 43- 
 
 82 
 
 13. 2. 
 
 ib. 
 
 47- 
 
 73 
 
 14. 17- 
 
 ij. 1 8. 
 
 88. 
 
 22 
 
 ip. 6. 
 
 26 
 
 
 
 2 Corinth. 
 
 
 Romans, 
 
 
 i. 3. 
 
 53 
 
 i. 3. 
 
 203 
 
 4. 17- 
 
 2fO 
 
 23. 
 
 ip 
 
 5. 4. 
 
 202 
 
 5> 9- 
 
 179 
 
 6. 1 6. 
 
 166 
 
 7. 17. 
 
 26 
 
 12. p. 
 
 1 79 
 
 24. 
 
 l8 
 
 
 
 8. 15. 
 
 53 
 
 Galatians. 
 
 
 9- 
 
 171 
 
 4. 6. 
 
 171 
 
 3& 
 
 170 
 
 8. 
 
 17 
 
 34* 
 
 162 
 
 .5- 22. 
 
 
 33- 
 
 149 
 
 Ephelians. 
 
 
 12. 33. 
 
 3 1 
 
 I. 3. 
 
 53 
 
 14. II. 
 
 155 
 
 5- 
 
 '79 
 
 
 
 9- 
 
 3x 
 
 i Corinth. 
 
 
 n. 
 
 
 2. 10. 
 
 170 
 
 17. 
 
 216 
 
 3. 13. 
 
 I7 1 
 
 3. 20. 
 
 1 86 
 
 16". 
 
 166 
 
 4. 6. 
 
 53 
 
 6. 11. 
 
 200 
 
 30. 
 
 170 
 
 10. 
 
 1 66 
 
 
 
 S 
 
 9 27. 
 
 J 79 
 
 Philippians. 
 
 
 JO. 2. 
 
 184 
 
 i. i p. 
 
 I7J 
 
 12. IO. 
 
 118 
 
 2. 3- 
 Philippians 
 
 26
 
 Texts of Scripture. 
 
 Philip. 
 
 Page 
 
 
 Page 
 
 6. 
 
 51 
 
 18. 
 
 53 
 
 13. 
 
 186 
 
 4. 12. 
 
 162 
 
 3. 21. 
 
 82 
 
 5- 7- 
 
 114 
 
 Coloff. i. 1 6. 
 
 97 
 
 i Peter. 
 
 
 i Thef. i. 9. 
 
 89 
 
 ' 3- 
 
 53 
 
 5. 19. 
 
 191 
 
 ii. 
 
 171 
 
 i Tim. 6. 1 6. 
 
 42 
 
 2 3- 
 
 20 
 
 2. 5. 
 
 1 60 
 
 2. 7. 
 
 149 
 
 2 Tim. 4. 10. 
 
 119 
 
 25. 
 
 161 
 
 Titus. 3. 5. 
 
 200 
 
 3- 12. 
 
 120 
 
 Philem. 2. 10. 
 
 155 
 
 21. 
 
 I8 4 
 
 Hebrews. 
 
 
 5- 8. 
 
 188 
 
 i. 14. 
 
 97 
 
 2 Peter. 
 
 . '- ' 
 
 12. 
 
 29 
 
 I. 21. 
 
 177 
 
 2. 17. 
 
 161 
 
 2. 5 . 
 
 114 
 
 3. II. 
 
 ib. 
 
 1 6. 
 
 JI 3 
 
 4. 12. 
 
 4 
 
 20. 
 
 198 
 
 14. 
 
 161 
 
 i John. 
 
 
 6. 17. 
 
 31 
 
 3- i. 
 
 53 
 
 20. 
 
 161 
 
 20. 
 
 2 3 
 
 7. 25. 
 
 162 
 
 4. 12. 
 
 58 
 
 8. i. 
 
 161 
 
 5- 7- 
 
 
 6. 
 
 1 60 
 
 14. 
 
 215 
 
 9. ii. 
 
 161 
 
 18. 
 
 J 7 
 
 *5- 
 
 1 60 
 
 20. 
 
 89 
 
 ii. 6. 
 
 119 
 
 Revelations. 
 
 
 30. 
 
 107 
 
 i. 7. 
 
 156 
 
 
 29 
 
 4. ii. 
 
 82 
 
 10. 
 
 161 
 
 7. 15. 
 
 84 
 
 James. 
 
 
 3- 6. 
 
 18 
 
 j. 4. 
 
 31 
 
 15. 7. 
 
 20 
 
 13. 
 
 26 
 
 22. I, 
 
 82 
 
 17, 
 
 29 
 
 

 
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