Ye pompous Sons of Reafon idoliz'd
And vilify'd at once; of Reafon dead,

Then deify'd, as Monarchs were of old;

Wrong not the Chriftian; think not Reafon yours:

'Tis Reafon our great Mafter holds fo dear;

'Tis Reafon's injur'd rights his wrath refents;
'Tis Reafon's voice obey'd his glories crown
To give loft Reason life he pour'd his own;
Believe, and fhew the Reason of a Man;
Believe, and tafte the Pleasure of a God;

Through Reafon's wounds alone thy faith can die.
YOUNG'S Night Thoughts.

The Son of Mën is come to feek and to fave that which aras
LOST.
Luke xix. 10.

DUBLIN:

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and all the Methodist Preaching-Houfes in Ireland.

1802

BRITISH LIBRARY

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To the principal INHABITANTS of the Parish of MADELEY, in the County of SALOP.

GENTLEMEN,

You

"OU are no less entitled to my private labours than the inferior clafs of my parishioners. As you do not chufe to partake with them of my evening instructions, I take the liberty to present you with fome of my morning meditations. May thefe well-meant endeavours of my pen, be more acceptable to you than thofe of my tongue! And may you carefully read in your Clofets, what you have perhaps inattentively heard in the Church! I appeal to the Searcher of hearts, that I had rather impart truth than receive tithes. You kindly bestow the latter upon me; grant me, I pray, the fatisfaction of feeing you favourably receive the former, from,

GENTLEMEN,

Your affectionate Minifter,

and obedient Servant,

J. FLETCHER.

MADELEY, 1772.

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