Av'rice! thy hands gain'd not the prize, Nor thine, luxurious ease; Wealth has no favorites in the skies, Ambition! to the Saviour's throne, Tales thy own heart would scarce have known, One world to conquer, one to gain, This, pride rejects with mad disdain, Come pleasure's votaries, giddy train, Ask ye of conscience and of thought, And you more sober maniac too, Time has no eulogy in you, All ye who lost in folly's maze, Our works immortal as the mind, Cease then, immortals, from the strife The world and lust engage. Thus spake the Sage, and thus he thought, "Reason is vain, and passion worse, "Man hears, forgets-and dies." "Thy grace alone, Almighty love! "And joy to warm the heart." "Come then, celestial spirit, come, Time-child of mercy!-grant us still, "And give, 'tis all we need! the will "Teach by thy own resistless pow'r, "And be one.blest Eternal hour, 1 ANSWERS TO CORRESPONDENTS. A. is requested to continue his communications. The Bard Christianized, is requested to forward the next efforts of his muse. The Letter from Matilda, is received and will be published in our next number. Tineus is too personal to be admitted a place in these pages. distinct publication was piece of respect to congratulate printed, without his name, in him in a body. He was gratified 1730. It is entitled Free by their compliment, but told Thoughts on the most probable them, that their learning, piety, Means of reviving the Dissent- and zeal would be more to his ing Interest, occasioned by the honour, and give him a thousand late Enquiry into the Causes of times more pleasure, than his its Decay. Mr. Doddridge's degree, or any other token of pamphlet, in which he material-public esteem.' In the same ly differed from the author of year, he published Ten Serthe Enquiry, is a model of mons on the Power and Grace the candour and politeness of Christ, and the Evidences of with which remarks may be made on the writings and opin- Dr. Kippis has given an account ions of another. In 1732, he of them in their chronological order; published Sermons on the Ed-a circumstance, to which Mr. Orton, ucation of Children; which contain, in a little compass, a variety of affecting motives, to animate parents in the discharge of their momentous duty. In 1735, he published his 'Sermons to young People*.' Our limits will not permit us to notice his many single sermons. But VOL. I. NO. 2. in his very copious Memoirs, had not attended. We must notice, however, that he published a sermon, on a very melancholy and affecting occasion the loss of his eldest daughter, a hopeful child, nearly five years old. It is entitled, "Submission to Divine Providence on the Death of Children, recommended." Few superior instances of pathetic eloquence are to be met with in the English language. F his glorious Gospel.' The three gence, by many persons of differlast, on the Evidences of the ent persuasions, to some of whom Gospel,' were afterward sepa-they were eminently useful.rately printed, at the particular The character given of them by request of one of the first dig a foreign divine, on their being nitaries of the church of Eng-translated into Dutch, was, that land. They contain a very ju- they united orthodoxy with dicious summary of several of moderation, zeal with meekness, the principal arguments in sup- and deep, hidden wisdom with port of the Christian revelation, uncommon clearness; that simand especially of those which plicity shone in them without prove the genuineness and cre- coldness, elegance without paintdibility of the evangelical history. ing, and sublimity without bomThe author had the satisfaction bast. of knowing that these discourses were the means of converting to the belief of our holy religion two gentlemen of distinguished abilities, who had been sceptical upon this head. One of them who had endeavoured to prejudice others against the evidences and contents of the gospel, became a zealous preacher of Christianity, as well as a shining ornament to it in his life and manners. In 1743, Dr. Doddridge published an answer to the pamphlet, entitled Christianity not founded on Argument,' which, under the appearance of zeal for orthodoxy, contained, in reality, an attack upon our holy religion. This answer was comprised in three letters, written with the utmost politeness and candour, and for which he was thanked by some men of distinguished rank and abilities. ter, in particular, is thought to contain the best illustration, and most rational and full defence of the influences of the Spirit upon the human heart, which had hitherto been published. The last let In 1739, our author published the first volume of The Family Expositor; or, a Paraphrase and Version of the New Testament with critical Notes, and a practical Improvement of each Section. This volume contained the former part of the History of our Lord Jesus Christ, as recorded in the four Evangelists, disposed in the order of an harmony. The second volume was published in 1740, concluding the evangelical history. Soon after, he published, The Scripture Doctrine of Salvation by Grace through Faith, illustrated and improved in two Sermons.' Dr. Doddridge was active in This was followed by Practical the scheme for erecting a county Discourses on Regeneration,' infirmary at Northampton. He which had been delivered on published, in 1748, a Sermon in Sunday evenings, and at- favour of that benevolent detended with remarkable dili In the same year, the Doctor published, The Principles of the Christian Religion, expressed in plain and easy Verse, for the Use of Children and Youth.' In this performance, ease, plainness, and elegance are happily united; but it might have been more extensively useful, if no doctrine of a disputable nature had been introduced. -sign; and the success of it was under the divine blessing, be the greatly owing to his exertions. means of spreading a warm and In 1748, appeared the third In the same year, Dr. Dod-lively sense of religion. dridge became a member of a Philosophical Society at North-volume of the Family Exposiampton. In the course of their meetings in 1744, he exhibited a paper on the doctrine of pendulums, and another on the laws of the communication of motion, as well in elastic as in non-elastic bodies. The most material propositions relating to both were set in a very plain light in these papers. He likewise wrote and communicated to the Royal Society three papers, which evince the extraordinary activity of his mind. เ tor, containing the Acts of the In 1745, he published The Rise and Progress of Religion in the Soul, illustrated in a course of serious addresses, suited to persons of every character and circumstance, with a devout meditation or prayer added to each chapter. This was one of the most popular and useful of his practical works. It met with the warmest applause, not only from the Dissenters, but from several persons of rank, learning, and piety, both clergy and laity, in the established church. A person of distinguished literature and goodness always carried the work with him; declaring that it was every thing on the subject of serious and practical devotion. In 1747, Dr. Doddridge pub-itself in the most genuine fruits lished Some remarkable Pas- of substantial virtue and piety; sages in the Life of the Hon.Col. and consequently gives us the James Gardiner.' His design justest reason to conclude, was not merely to perform a that he is now rejoicing in the tribute of gratitude to the me- happy effects of it infinitely mory of an invaluable friend, but more than in all the applause of duty to God and his fellow-which his philosophical works creatures; as he had a cheerful have procured him; though they hope that the narrative would, have commanded a fame lasting |