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Ye now are forrowing becaufe I go,
But lo! the Comforter fhall come to you,
Your faith and love, and vigour to renew.
Then let the mouth of fervid pure defire,
Widely expand to catch the holy fire:

Let faith's wide heart enlarge to make him room,
And let the ceaseless prayer flill bid him come;
Still deeper to convict of inbred fin,
T'erase the latent vanity within;

To give the fix'd refolve, from nature wide,
To die, to fuffer with the crucified:
To fink the fpirit deep in humble love,
And from that deep the graces to improve;
The work of God t' enlarge, the work revive,
To lengthen Sion's cords: her flakes deep drive
To give fresh unction to her Priests, that they
May in the choiceft form of prayers,-play:
To fatiate their fouls, who oft afford
The facred fymbols of our dying Lord:
T'anoint our Father's fons as with fresh oil,
That "Fratrum Unitas" divide the spoil:
That fellow-workers they may all combine,
Each in their different gifts and fphere to fhine,
And carry on the work and caufe divine,
As Mafter-builders: or call finners in,

Wife as their Sire, the dear-bought fouls to win.

And now, thou mourning mufe, fresh ftring thy lyre, And where thy Saviour is, there fee thy Sire!: Surrounding feraphs fing his loud acclaim, And WESLEY fhouts the univerfal name: Compleats the accents on his lips that hung. (When death's fwift angel ftopt his ready tongue,) “Our God is all."-Eternity's deep fong!

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M SIMON DAY

THE

Arminian Magazine,

For DECEMBER 1791.

DIALOGUES on PREDESTINATION.

[By Dr. WOBACK, fometime BISHOP of WORCESTER.]

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RE thofe graces of remiffion and falvation offered

to the reprobates (under this new covenant) in jeft, or in earnest? Doth God intend to fave or delude them in this offer? Did not you fay pofitively, just now, that it is impoffible the reprobates fhould favingly believe? A legacy. under an impoflible condition, the learned in the laws do ac count unworthy a wife teftator; and therefore they conclude it ought in juftice to be paid abfolutely, as if there were no condition at all added to it: but a ftipulation, and any other contract under an unperformable condition, is accounted null: VOL. XIV.

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and are fuch covenants befeeming the majefty, or the goodness, or the fincerity of God? Does it not favour too much of hypocrify, to offer pardon and eternal life, upon terms impoffible? Suppose you and I were near a very fair palace, into which there is no way poffible to enter, but over one narrow bridge; fhould you promife me ten thousand pounds upon condition I followed you into that palace; though you invite and call me never fo importunately, and stake down never so many folemn vows, and proteftations, to fignify your reality and earnestness; yet if pretending to lead me the way, you fhould draw the bridge after you, and fo make my following you impoffible, there is none but a mad-man would think your invitation or your promise serious.

But I pray deal ingenuously with me. Do you really believe that the miniftry of the covenant is intended for the benefit of these reprobates, or no?

Dio. Because you are fo defirous of information, I will tell you the opinion of a person of great worth and learning, Jo. Pifcator: he faith, "That the miniftry of the words and facraments is not only ineffectual, but mifchievous and deadly to the greater part of those that are called, and that according to God's intention too;" and that he may not be thought to fpeak without his book, he produceth fundry texts of Holy Scripture for it.

PAG. Are the reprobates then invited unto grace, and called to engage themselves in this covenant, when the miniftry thereof is by God's own intention, so dangerous and deadly to them?

Dio. "God's invitation unto grace, is no other than by profeffing, that by faith and repentance they fhall be faved; without faith and repentance they fhall be damned. And hereupon by his minifters he commands them, entreats them, befeeches them, that they will believe and repent, that they may be reconciled unto God, and faved; and this grace the

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