BY THE SAME AUTHOR. FAITH, THE GENIUS OF REVELATION. A POEM. "The Poem is written on the model of the 'Pleasures of Hope,' and contains a great many spirited passages in that style, the admirers of which, will read it with pleasure."-British Magazine. "Faith is no common-place poem. It is argumentative and often vigorous.-Tait's Magazine. "This is a volume designed to illustrate the excellence and importance of Faith, clothed with the graces of poetry, and demands some attention. The smoothness of the rhyme reminds us of the lyre of Dryden; and the devoted piety breathing throughout the poem of the harp of David." -Evangelical Register. CONTENTS. RELIGION REQUIRING A SPIRITUAL RELISH. Page. DIVINE MERCY AND ESTABLISH EVANGELI- "For this is He that was spoken of by the prophet Esaias, saying, The voice of one crying in the wilderness, prepare ye the way of the Lord, make His paths straight."-Matt. iii. 3. Page. THE GREAT QUESTION-ITS IMPORTANCE "And he took them the same hour of the night, and washed their stripes; and was baptized, he and all his straightway. And when he had brought them into his house, he set meat before them, and re- 103 "I write unto you, little children, because your sins THE NAME OF CHRIST THE PLEA OF THE THE DIVINE FAVOUR TO BE SOUGHT WITH THE WHOLE HEART, AND MERCY TO BE EX- PECTED ONLY ACCORDING TO GOD'S WORD. "I entreated thy favour with my whole heart: be merciful unto me according to thy word."-Psalm, cxix. 58. "Who among you will give ear to this? Who will hearken and hear for the time to come?"-Isaiah xlii. 23. Page. 181 205 |