Divine moral and historical miscellanies in prose and verse [vol I] [T86172] [ecco]

DMI number:

926

Publication Date:

1761

Volume Number:

1 of 3

ESTC number:

T86172

EEBO/ECCO link:

CW119967162

Shelfmark:

ECCO - BL; Regent's Park Oxford.

Full Title:

DIVINE, MORAL, and HISTORICAL | MISCELLANIES, | IN | PROSE and VERSE. | CONTAINING MANY | VALUABLE ORIGINALS, | Communicated by various Correspondents, and other Pieces ex- | tracted from different Authors, and antient Manuscripts. | The Whole being such a Collection of Miscellaneous Thoughts, | as will tend not only to please, but enlighten and profit the | Reader. | [rule] | [epigraph] | [rule] | VOL. the FIRST. | [rule] | [ornament] | [double rule] | [i]LONDON:[/i] | Printed for J. FULLER, in [i]Newgate-Street, London[/i]; and | T. LUCKMAN, in [i]Coventry[/i]. | [short rule] | M,DCC,LXI.

Place of Publication:

London

Genres:

Collection of religious verse and Periodical miscellany

Format:

Octavo

Bibliographic details:

Originally printed / sold in monthly parts as The Spiritual Magazine. [December 1760?] pp. 1-16 January 1761 pp. 17-32 February 1761 pp. 33-48 March 1761 pp. 49-64 April 1761 pp. 65-80 May 1761 pp. 81-96 June 1761 pp. 97-112 July 1761 pp. 113-128 August 1761 pp. 129-144 September 1761 pp. 145-160 October 1761 pp. 161-176 [November 1761?] pp. 177-192 [December 1761?] pp. 193-204. ECCO version concludes with separately paginated prose treatise 'The Glory of Christ Vindicated' (Printed for J. Fuller, T. Luckman 1761).

Comments:

Contents: each part contains a range of material e.g. verse; religious oriented prose; letters from correspondents; prose including domestic and foreign news from other papers/periodicals; births, deaths, marriages etc.

Other matter:

Prefatory matter: Directions to the Binder [1p]; Contents [2pp]

Related Miscellanies

Title:

Divine and moral miscellanies in prose and verse [vol II] [T86172] [ecco]

Publication Date:

1762

ESTC No:

T86172

Volume:

2 of 2

Relationship:

Part of a Series

Comments:

Title:

Divine and moral miscellanies in prose and verse [vol III] [T86172] [ecco]

Publication Date:

1763

ESTC No:

T86172

Volume:

3 of 3

Relationship:

Part of a Series

Comments:

Related People

Editor:

Anne Dutton

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

See e.g. J. C. Whitebrook, ‘The life and works of Mrs. Ann Dutton’, Transactions of the Baptist Historical Society, 7 (1920–21), 129–46. ECCO copy (based on BL originals) has MS annotation 'By Ann Dutton' on title page.

Publisher:

John II Fuller

Confidence:

Confident (50%)

Comments:

Publisher:

Thomas Luckman

Confidence:

Absolute (100%)

Comments:

Content/Publication

First Line:

Hark the trumpets sound to arms

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p.1

Poem Title:

On the glorious battle of Torgau, and the victory obtained by hsi Prussian Majesty over the Austrians, on the 3d of November 1761.

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My dear redeemer and my god

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p.1

Poem Title:

Christ the object of the Believer's Love.

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What have I done christ's heart to win

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p.2

Poem Title:

On the sinner’s conversion to God.

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First Line:

See read the sacred volumes over

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pp.20-21

Poem Title:

The 5th Chapter of the first Book of Thomas a Kempis, attempted in English Verse. On the superior Excellency of teh Word of God to all Human Compositions.

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First Line:

In that dread day

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pp.21-22

Poem Title:

On the Day of Judgment.

Attribution:

M. A. M.

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First Line:

Over hill over dale over mountains wide extent

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pp.33-34

Poem Title:

Liberty: A Poem.

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First Line:

Behold behold the mighty saviour comes

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pp.34-35

Poem Title:

On Christ's Second Coming.

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Behold how lovely twas to see

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pp.35-36

Poem Title:

[no title]

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How perfect happy and complete

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p.35

Poem Title:

Man before the Fall.

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First Line:

I read with great pleasure

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p.35

Poem Title:

On the Reading the 2d No. of the Spiritual Magazine, or Christian's Grand Treasure.

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By J. P. a Mechanic.

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First Line:

All creatures be still while god we adore

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p.36

Poem Title:

A Song of Praise, For the Success of the Year 1760, as the civth Psalm.

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First Line:

Thus then my son thy humble thoughts declare

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pp.36-37

Poem Title:

Thomas a Kempis, on the imitation of Jesus Christ. Book iii. Chap. xv.

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First Line:

When man had lost his robes of righteousness

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p.36

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

In nature's outstretched volume stands

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p.37

Poem Title:

Morning.

Attribution:

E. L.

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First Line:

Praise to the Lord who arched the sky

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pp.37-38

Poem Title:

The Universal Concert. Psalm 148.

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First Line:

To me o blessed jesus give

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p.37

Poem Title:

The Believer's Address to Christ.

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First Line:

Alas my sins how vast they be

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p.38

Poem Title:

The Relief.

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First Line:

Blessed are the humble souls that know

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p.59

Poem Title:

The Humble only happy.

Attribution:

D. B.

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First Line:

Happy the place whose peaceful plains

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pp.59-60

Poem Title:

Solitude, An Ode.

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First Line:

Thy presence saviour may I feel

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p.59

Poem Title:

A Hymn, For a true Penitent.

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First Line:

My god by all the endearing sweets

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p.60

Poem Title:

Cant. I. 4. Draw me, we will run after thee.

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First Line:

Phocyion the winter's shivering reign

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p.60

Poem Title:

To Phocyion. Winter Improv'd.

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First Line:

Strange is it that the human mind

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pp.60-61

Poem Title:

To Uranio.

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First Line:

No sooner time sprung out his destined way

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p.61

Poem Title:

To Sophrona, Mortality Pressed. Psalm XC.

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First Line:

See now the bulwarks of our land

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p.61

Poem Title:

David's Lamentation, over Saul and Jonathan.

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First Line:

He that enjoys a kind retreat

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pp.62-63

Poem Title:

To Fidelio. Psalm XCI.

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First Line:

Conceived in sin and black within

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p.63

Poem Title:

Faith's View Of Interest In Christ. Under all derived impurity, and imperfection.

Attribution:

W. D.

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First Line:

O thou who formed this earth from naught

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p.63

Poem Title:

Night.

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First Line:

Nature her bravest efforts broke

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p.69

Poem Title:

[no title]

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First Line:

O sweet symphonious sympathising death

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p.72

Poem Title:

Death's Our Friend!

Attribution:

T. S.

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First Line:

Thou awful majesty of heaven

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p.72

Poem Title:

A Storm.

Attribution:

E. L.

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First Line:

Tis finished were the dying words

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p.72

Poem Title:

'Tis Finish'd. A Hymn.

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First Line:

Nature with open volume stands

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pp.73-74

Poem Title:

Morning. An Irregular Ode.

Attribution:

Josiah Lewis

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Josiah Lewis

First Line:

I long to see my jesus he

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pp.74-75

Poem Title:

Faith's View of Interest in Christ, &c. further considered.

Attribution:

W. D.

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First Line:

The king of glory condescends

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pp.75-76

Poem Title:

A Hymn, Sun after receiving the Lord's Supper.

Attribution:

W. D.

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First Line:

Father of light eternal king

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pp.76-77

Poem Title:

A Hymn.

Attribution:

T. C.

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First Line:

With cold lukewarm and languid cries

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p.76

Poem Title:

Three Acrosticks.

Attribution:

W. D.

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First Line:

No more the muse in tender strains

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pp.89-91

Poem Title:

An Ode to our Saviour. Part I.

Attribution:

W. B.

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First Line:

Behold the man behold a god

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pp.91-92

Poem Title:

The Suffering of the Saviour. Isaiah liii. 7. He is brought as a Lamb to the Slaughter, and as a Sheep before her Shearers is dumb, so be opened not his Mouth. -

Attribution:

J. L.

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First Line:

Great all sufficient mighty god

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p.92

Poem Title:

All over Sufficience is of God. 2 Cor. iii. 5.

Attribution:

J. L.

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First Line:

My soul attend the solemn sound

Page No:

p.92

Poem Title:

On the Day of Judgment.

Attribution:

J. N.

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First Line:

Dear sir | from horror's realms lands of umbracious dread

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pp.93-94

Poem Title:

To a Friend writing in great Distress of Soul.

Attribution:

W. S.

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First Line:

In a dark cottage near the shore

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p.94

Poem Title:

The Hermit.

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First Line:

Replete with right great god thy judgments are

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p.94

Poem Title:

A Translation of Mr. Des Barreaux, the French Penitent's Hymn, from the Original, inserted in the Spectator, Vol. vii. Page 149.

Attribution:

W. S.

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First Line:

O thou who art the day of heaven

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p.95

Poem Title:

A Calm.

Attribution:

E. L.

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First Line:

All praise to him that hath not put

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p.96

Poem Title:

[no title]

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originally wrote by a poor Womain in the Year 1659, when confined in the cruel Inquisition of Malta)

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First Line:

Jesus my god my holy king

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p.96

Poem Title:

An Acrostick on the Name of Jesus Christ.

Attribution:

W. M.

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First Line:

To sooth those ills of life which will arise

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pp.100-101

Poem Title:

On Mr. Harward's Observatory, In blank Heroic Verse.

Attribution:

By Eliezer, of Bewdley.

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First Line:

A different theme demands my lays

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pp.102-104

Poem Title:

An Ode to our Saviour. Continued from Page 91. Part II.

Attribution:

W. B.

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First Line:

All hail to thee thou dear omnific dove

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p.104

Poem Title:

A Hymn.

Attribution:

Flavian.

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First Line:

Near Bethlehem on Judah's fruitful plains

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pp.104-105

Poem Title:

The Birth of Christ. An Ode.

Attribution:

Flavian.

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First Line:

When shall I reach the courts above

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p.104

Poem Title:

Longing after Heaven.

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First Line:

Jesus I love thy glorious name

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p.105-106

Poem Title:

An Ode to Free Grace. Psalm 110, ver. 3. Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power.

Attribution:

N. W.

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First Line:

Alas what tongue can speak my heart

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pp.106-107

Poem Title:

Serious reflection on the violence of Satan's temptations, and the workings of a naughty heart, adn humble interroagations to all those who have tasted the Lord is gracious.

Attribution:

N. W.

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On jordan's banks when Israel stood

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pp.107-108

Poem Title:

After a Sacrament.

Attribution:

W. J.

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First Line:

In thy most holy temple lord

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p.108

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

J. S.

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First Line:

To thee my god I hourly sigh

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p.108

Poem Title:

Hymn.

Attribution:

W. J.

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First Line:

Death brings us to a darksome land

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pp.109-110

Poem Title:

On Death.

Attribution:

W. D.

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First Line:

Up to the shining seats above

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pp.136-137

Poem Title:

The Flight.

Attribution:

T. C.

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First Line:

The god of nature and of grace

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pp.137-138

Poem Title:

On seeing the Lightening, and hearing the Thunder, Saturday, Jul 11, in the evening.

Attribution:

W. D.

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First Line:

Christ is a faithful friend to me

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pp.138-139

Poem Title:

Christ the Believer's Friend.

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The tree of life my soul hath seen

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p.138

Poem Title:

Christ compared to an Apple-tree.

Attribution:

R. H.

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First Line:

A pilgrim I am

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p.139

Poem Title:

The Pilgrim's Song.

Attribution:

N. T.

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First Line:

Believer wehn beholding me

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p.140

Poem Title:

Verses for a Believer, when looking on a Watch.

Attribution:

Abdiel.

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First Line:

No earthly love with flattering joys

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p.140

Poem Title:

An Ode to our Saviour. Continued from Page 104. Part III.

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Now had the sun extinctless source of day

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pp.141-144

Poem Title:

The Seat of Death. A Vision.

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The humble man can like the ozier bend

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p.141

Poem Title:

Humility.

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Lord when with a divine survey

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p.144

Poem Title:

The Eighth Psalm.

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O god of mercy and of love

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p.144

Poem Title:

Hymn.

Attribution:

J. W.

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Hail royal prince our much beloved king

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p.153

Poem Title:

A congratulatory Poem to their Majesties.

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God of all worlds source and supreme of things

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p.154

Poem Title:

On a Review of the Creation.

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Ye champions of jesus to heaven you raise us

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p.154

Poem Title:

[no title]

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As all believers christ embrace

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p.154

Poem Title:

On Brotherly Love.

Attribution:

By the Rev. Mr. Elliot.

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Rev. Mr. Elliot

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Jesus thy sovereign aid impart

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p.155

Poem Title:

Complaining of an Hard Heart.

Attribution:

W. C.

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Lovely redeemer all divine

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pp.155-156

Poem Title:

The Loveliness of Christ.

Attribution:

J. L.

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Through every state of life to man

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p.155

Poem Title:

The Believer's best Support.

Attribution:

W. J.

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First Line:

Not all the shining ranks above

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pp.156-157

Poem Title:

Evening Thoughts upon the inhabitants of the heavenly world.

Attribution:

W. D.

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First Line:

O for a tongue like those above

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p.156

Poem Title:

The Love of Christ absolutely incomprehensible both to men and angels.

Attribution:

J. L.

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First Line:

Who can conceive much less express

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pp.157-158

Poem Title:

An Hymn.

Attribution:

J. S.

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First Line:

Behold my soul the grief and woe

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p.158

Poem Title:

An Hymn for afflicted Saints.

Attribution:

J. S.

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First Line:

Fast as the hart when hard pursued

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pp.158-159

Poem Title:

God my Portion.

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To Ephesus where saints abound

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p.158

Poem Title:

Eph. VI. 24.

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Great god how oft I see the tyrant death

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p.159

Poem Title:

An extempore Soliloquy on the Death of several young Acquaintaince.

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Gibbons and wilt thou longer stay

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p.170

Poem Title:

A Translation of Dr. Watts's Latin Ode, intituled, Excitatio Cordis Ad Coelum. Lyric Poems, p. 98, 99.

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My soul admire that wondrous grace

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pp.170-171

Poem Title:

Christ the Sacrifice for Sin, and pleading for a Sense of Pardon and Forgiveness.

Attribution:

J. Lewis.

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Josiah Lewis

First Line:

Gaze on fond mother lose thyself in thought

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pp.171-172

Poem Title:

To Mrs. F*****s, on seeing her gaze upon her child sleeping.

Attribution:

Flavian.

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Behold the glorious sun arise

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p.171

Poem Title:

A Morning Thought.

Attribution:

J. Lewis.

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Josiah Lewis

First Line:

I wish yet fear it cannot be

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p.172

Poem Title:

Christian Confidence, in imitation of the celebrated Hymn of the French Convert in the Spectator.

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Come o ye saints describe the lot

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p.173

Poem Title:

The Saints harmoniously attempting to praise the Saviour. An Hymn.

Attribution:

N. W.

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First Line:

Glory to god my saviour lives

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p.174

Poem Title:

An Hymn.

Attribution:

N. W.

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First Line:

Sin has ten thousand ways t' ensnare

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pp.174-175

Poem Title:

On Sin.

Attribution:

N. W.

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First Line:

Faith is an eye that views the lord

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pp.175-176

Poem Title:

On Faith.

Attribution:

N. W.

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Jesus blessed name how sweet the sound

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p.175

Poem Title:

An Hymn.

Attribution:

N. W.

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First Line:

Fair gratitude dictates the song

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p.176

Poem Title:

Thanksgiving for especial Mercy.

Attribution:

T. C.

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First Line:

As through the universe I winged my way

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pp.186-188

Poem Title:

The Idol of Self, Exalted and Abased.

Attribution:

R. H.

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First Line:

When as cold fears my soul doth shake

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p.188

Poem Title:

Psalm lvi. 3. At what Time I am afraid I will trust in thee.

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Ye heralds great that blow in name of god

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pp.189-190

Poem Title:

A Legal Spirit the Root of Errors; or a Legal Strain of Doctrine discovered. and discharged.

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Jehovah for his pleasure and delight

Page No:

pp.191-192

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

J. R.

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How shall I speak the eternal god

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p.200

Poem Title:

Longing to praise God better. (Composed in a rural Excursion.)

Attribution:

J. L.

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Redemption what a wondrous theme

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pp.200-201

Poem Title:

Redemption by Christ.

Attribution:

J. L.

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Jesus high exalted saviour

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pp.201-202

Poem Title:

An Hymn for those that are joined in Christian Fellowship. To Jesus the Friend of Sinners, Author and Finisher of Faith.

Attribution:

T. C.

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Why do we thus lament why thus complain

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p.201

Poem Title:

On the Death of Mr. William Hayward, of Bury.

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Ah wretched man go search thy heart and see

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p.202

Poem Title:

[no title]

Attribution:

C. N.

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The lord of host my portion is

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pp.202-203

Poem Title:

God the Believer's Portion.

Attribution:

R. H.

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First Line:

As break of day when shadows swiftly fly

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pp.203-204

Poem Title:

Morning Thoughts, upon observing Break of Day.

Attribution:

W. D.

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First Line:

Ah when shall I arrive

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p.204

Poem Title:

Soliloquy.

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Although the fig tree should deny its food

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p.204

Poem Title:

Poetic Paraphrase on Habakuk iii. 17.

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In mercy lord look down on my sad soul

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p.204

Poem Title:

The Evening Address.

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