Assuage our grief in love for Christ, we pray,
Since the Prince of Heaven and glory died,
Took away all sins, and hallowed the display,
Infinite being, first man, and then was crucified.
Stupendous God! Thy grace and power make known;
In Jesus' name let all the world rejoice,
Now labour in Thy heavenly kingdom own-
That blessed kingdom, of Thy saints the choice.
How vile to come to Thee, is all our cry ;
Enemies to Thy self, and all that's Thine;
Graceless our will, we live for vanity;

Loathing the very being, evil in design-
O God, Thy will be done from earth to heaven;
Reclining on the gospel let us live,

In earth, from sin delivered and forgiven,
Oh, as Thyself, but teach us to forgive;
Unless its power temptation doth destroy,
Sure is our fall into the depths of woe.
Carnal in mind, we have not a glimpse of joy
Raised against Heaven; in us no hopes we know.
Oh, give us grace, and lead us on the way;
Shine on us with Thy love, and give us peace.
Self, and this sin that rise against us, slay.
Oh, grant each day our trespasses may cease;
Forgive our evil deeds that oft we do;

Convince us daily of them to our shame ;
Help us with heavenly bread, forgive us, too,
Recurrent lusts; and we'll adore Thy name.
In Thy forgiveness we as saints can die,
Since for us, and our trespasses so high,
Thy Son, our Saviour, died on Calvary.

Similar to the above is this verse by George

Herbert :

"OUR LIFE IS HID WITH CHRIST IN GOD."

(Colos. iii. 3.)

My words and thoughts do both express this notion,
That Life hath with the sun a double motion.
The first Is straight, and our diurnal friend;
The other Hid, and doth obliquely bend.
One life is wrapt In flesh, and tends to earth:
The other winds toward Him, whose happy birth
Taught me to live here so, That still one eye
Should aim and shoot at that which Is on high;
Quitting with daily labour all My pleasure,
To gain at harvest an eternal Treasure.

JESUITICAL VERSES.

ESUITICAL, or, as they are sometimes. called, Equivocal Verses, had their origin

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very much in the political and religious feuds of our ancestors. They are designed to give two very different meanings, according as they are read downwards or across. Thus, the following lines, if read as they stand, must be admired for their loyalty, but if perused in the order of the figures prefixed, a very different result is obtained:

1. I love my country-but the King

3. Above all men his praise I sing,
2. Destruction to his odious reign

4. That plague of princes, Thomas Paine ;

5. The royal banners are displayed

7. And may success the standard aid

6. Defeat and ruin seize the cause

8. Of France, her liberty, and laws.

The foregoing relic of a revolutionary period may be well followed by one pertaining to Refor

mation times, which may be read either across or

down the columns:

THE DOUBLE-FACED CREED.

I hold for sound faith

What Rome's faith saith
Where the king's head
The flock's misled
Where the altar's dressed
The people's blessed,
He's but an ass

Who shuns the mass

What England's church allows,
My conscience disavows,
The flock can take no shame
Who hold the Pope supreme.
The worship's scarce divine
Whose table's bread and wine,
Who their communion flies
Is catholic and wise.

We find in another work the foregoing lines
rendered into a kind of monkish Latin; thus
lending an artful aid to the cause of anarchy:
1. Pro fide teneo sana
3. Quæ docet Anglicana.
2. Affirmat quæ Romana
4. Videntur mihi vana
5. Supremus quando rex est
7. Tum plebs est fortunata
6. Seductus ille grex est
8. Cui Papa imperator.
9. Altare cum ornatur
II. Communio fit inanis
10. Populus tum beatur

12. Cum mensa, vinum, panis,
13. Asini nomen meruit

15. Hunc morem qui non capit

14. Missam qui deseruit

16. Catholicus est et sapit.

These Equivocal Verses are mostly all of the same nature, and the next seems to have been composed during the Revolution period:

"I love with all my heart
The Hanoverian part
And for the Settlement
My conscience gives consent
Most righteous in the cause
To fight for George's laws
It is my mind and heart

Though none will take my part

The Tory party here
Most hateful do appear
I ever have denied
To be on James's side
To fight for such a king
Will England's ruin bring
In this opinion I

Resolve to live and die."

The promulgation of the new constitution at the first French Revolution gave birth to the next Equivocal lines:

"The newly-made law
From my soul I abhor
My faith to prove good
I maintain the old code
May God give you peace
Forsaken Noblesse
May He ever confound
The Assembly all round

'Tis my wish to esteem
The ancient regime

I maintain the new code
Is opposed to all good
Messieurs Democrats
To the Devil go hence
All the Aristocrats
Are the sole men of sense.

At the beginning of the Civil War in the United States, the following curious production appeared in one of the newspapers, professedly arranged to suit all parties. The first column is the Secession, the second the Abolition Platform, read across it is the Democratic Platform, thus also representing the whole Union:.

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