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LXXXVIII.

TRADITION.

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UPPOSE we on things traditive divide, And both appeal to Scripture to decide:

By various texts we both uphold our claim,

Nay, often ground our titles on the fame;

After long labour loft, and time's expenfe,
Both grant the words, and quarrel for the sense;
Thus all difputes for ever muft depend,
For no dumb rule can controversies end:
Thus, when you faid, Tradition must be tried
By Sacred Writ, whofe fense yourselves decide,
You faid no more, but that yourselves must be
The judges of the Scripture fenfe, not we.
Against our Church tradition you declare,
And yet your clerks would fit in Mofes' chair;
At least 'tis proved against your argument,
The rule is far from plain, where all diffent!

DRYDEN.

LXXXIX.

THE SABBATH.

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EAM on us brightly, bleffed day,
Dawn foftly for our Saviour's fake;
And waft thy sweetness o'er our way,
To draw us heavenward when we
wake.

O holy life that shall not end,
Light that will never ceafe to be, —
May every Sabbath-day we spend
Add to our happiness in Thee.

A. L. WARING.

XC.

THE SABBATH.

SUNDAY well spent

Brings a week of content,

And health for the toils of the

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morrow:

But the Lord's Day profaned,

Whatfoe'er may be gained,

Is a certain forerunner of forrow.

SIR MATTHEW HALE.

S

XCI.

THE SABBATH.

HE Sundays of man's life,

Threaded together on Time's ftring,
Make bracelets to adorn the wife
Of the eternal glorious King.

On Sunday, heaven's gate ftands ope;

Bleffings are plentiful and rife,

More plentiful than hope.

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GEORGE HERBERT.

XCII.

THE FIRST GREAT CAUSE.

VERY fcience, power, or art,
Which tends to fofter in the heart
Knowledge of Nature's laws,
Muft, fanctified by grace divine,
Precept on precept, line on line,

Exalt the Firft Great Caufe.

The Cross.-The Light of Heaven. 259

XCIII.

THE CROSS.

F loving hearts were never lonely,
If all they wish might always be,
Accepting what they look for only,

They might be glad, but not in Thee.

We need as much the Crofs we bear,
As air we breathe-as light we see ;

It draws us to Thy fide in prayer,
It binds us to our ftrength in Thee.

A. L. WARING.

XCIV.

THE LIGHT OF HEAVEN.

HUS when the lamp that lighted
The traveller at first goes out,
He feels awhile benighted,

And lingers on in fear and doubt.

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But foon, the prospect clearing,
In cloudlefs ftarlight on he treads;
And finds no lamp fo cheering,
As that light which heaven fheds.

Moore.

XCV.

HEAVEN.

F God could make this world fo fair,
Where death and fin abound-
How beautiful beyond compare

Will Paradife be found!

J. MONTGOMERY.

XCVI.

HEAVEN.

HERE'S reft for the foul that on Jefus

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relies;

There's a home for the homeless pre

pared in the skies;

There's a joy in believing, a peace and a

ftay

Which the world cannot give, nor the world take

away.

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