me. That time, which cannot be recalled, oh! give me power to redeem, and in the mean time a settled resolution to reform. Suppress the violence of my headstrong passion, and establish a meek spirit within me. Let the sight of my own vileness take from me the sense of all disgrace, and let the crown of my reputation be thy honour; possess my heart with a desire of unity and con- » cord, and give me patience to endure what my impenitence hath deserved; breathe into my soul the spirit of love, and direct my affections to their right object; turn all my anger against that sin that hath provoked thee, and give me holy revenge, that I may exercise it against myself; grant that I may love thee for thyself, myself in thee, and my neighbour as myself. Assist me, O God, that I may subdue all evil in myself, and suffer patiently all evil as a punishment from thee; give

me a merciful heart, O God; make it slow to wrath, and ready to forgive; preserve me from the act of evil, that I may be delivered from the fear of evil; that, living here in charity with men, I may receive the sentence of -"Come ye blessed of my Father, &c." in the kingdom of glory.

THE SECURE MAN.

His Triumph.

So now, my soul, thy happiness is entailed, and thy illustrious name shall live in thy succeeding generations; thy dwelling is established in the fat of all the land; thou hast what mortal heart can wish, and wantest nothing but immortality. The best of all the land is

thine, and thou art planted in the best of lands; a land whose constitutions make the best of government, which government is strengthened with the best of laws, which laws are executed by the best of princes; whose prince, whose laws, whose government, whose land, makes us the happiest of all subjects, makes us the happiest of all people: a land of strength, of plenty, and a land of peace; where every soul may sit beneath his vine, unfrighted at the horrid language of the hoarse trumpet, unstartled at the warlike summons of the roaring cannon; a land, whose beauty has surprised the ambitious hearts of foreign princes, and taught. them by their martial oratory to make their vain attempts; a land, whose strength reads vanity in the deceived hopes of conquerors, and crowns their enterprises with a shameful overthrow; a land, whose native plenty makes her

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the world's exchange; supplying others, and able to subsist without supply from foreign kingdoms; in itself happy, and abroad honourable; a land, that hath no vanity, but what by accident proceeds and issues from the sweetest of all blessings, peace and plenty; that hath no misery, but what is propagated from that blindness which cannot see her own felicity; a land, that flows with milk and honey, and in brief, wants nothing to deserve the title of a Paradise. The curb of Spain, the pride of Germany, the aid of Belgia, the scourge of France, the empress of the world, and queen of nations; she is begirt with walls, whose builder was the hand of Heaven-whereon there daily rides a royal navy, whose unconquerable power proclaims her Prince invincible, and whispers sad despair into the fainting hearts of foreign Majesty: she is compact within herself; in unity, not apt to

civil discords or intestine broils; the envy of all nations, the ambition of all princes, the terror of all enemies, the security of all neighbouring states. Let timorous pulpits threaten ruin, let prophesying churchmen doat-till I believe. How often and how long have these loud sons of thunder false prophesied her desolation? and yet she stands the glory of the world! Can pride demolish the towers that defend her? Can drunkenness dry up the sea that walls her? Can flames of lust dissolve the ordnance that protects her?

BE well advised, my soul; there is a voice from heaven roars louder than that ordnance, which saith,

Thus saith the Lord, The whole land shall be desolate. Jer. iv. 27.

Isaiah, xiv. 7.

The whole earth is at rest, and at quiet; they break forth into singing: