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With glory and power to judge both quick, They die; but in their room, as they fure

and dead,

To judge th' unfaithful dead, but to reward
His faithful, and receive them into bliss,
Whether in Heav'n or Earth, for then the
Earth

Shall all be Paradise, far happier place
Than this of Eden, and far happier days.

So spake th arch-angel Michael, then
paus'd,

As at the world's great period; and our sire Replete with joy and wonder thus reply'd :

O Goodness infinite, Goodness immense!
That all this good of evil shall produce
And evil turn to good; more wonderful
Than that which by creation first brought
forth

Light out of darkness! full of doubt I stand,
Whether I should repent me now of sin
By me donc and occasion'd, or rejoice
Much more, that much more good thereof shall
spring,

To God more glory, more good-will to men
From God, and over wrath grace shall abound.
But say, if our Deliverer up to Heav'n
Must reascend, what will betide the few
His faithful, left among th' unfaithful herd,
The enemies of truth? who theu shall guide
His people, who defend? will they not deal
Worse with his followers than with him they
dealt?

Be sure they will, said th' angel; but from
Heav'n

He to his own a Comforter will send,
The promise of the Father, who shall dwell
His Spirit within them, and the law of faith
Working through love, upon their hearts shall
write,

To guide them in all truth, also arm
With spiritual armour, able to resist
Satan's assaults, and quench his fiery darts,
What man can do against them, not afraid,
Though to the death, against such cruelties
With inward consolations recompens'd,
And oft supported so as shall amaze
Their proudest persecutors: for the Spirit
Pour'd first on his Apostles, whom he sends
To evangelize the nations, then on all
Baptiz'd, shall then with wondrous gifts in-
due

To speak all tongues, and do all miracles,

As did their Lord before them. Thus they win

Great numbers of each nation to receive
With joy the tidings brought from Heaven: at
Tength"

Their ministry perform'd, and race well run,
Their doctrine and their story written left,

warn,

Wolves shall succeed for teachers, grievous

wolves,

Who all the sacred mysteries of Heav'n
To their own vile advantages shall turn
Of lucre and ambition, and the truth
With superstitions and traditions taint,
Left only in those written records pure,
Though not but by the Spirit understood.
Then shall they seek to avail themselves of
names,

Places, and titles, and with these to join
Secular power; though feigning still to act
By spiritual, to themselves appropriating
The Spirit of God, promis'd alike and given
To all believers; and from that pretence,
Spiritual laws by carnal power shall force
On every conscience; laws which none shall
find

Left them inroll'd, or what the Spirit within
Shall on the heart engrave. What will they

then

But force the Spirit of Grace itself, and bind
His consort Liberty? What, but unbuild
His living temples, built by faith to stand,
Their own faith not anothers? for on earth
Who against faith and conscience can be
heard

Infallible yet many will presume:
Whence heavy persecution shall arise
On all who in the worship persevere
Of spirit and truth; the rest, far greater part,
Will deem in outward rites and specious
forms

Religion satisfy'd; Truth shall retire
Bestuck with sland'rous darts, and works of
faith

Rarely be found: so shall the world go on,
To good malignant, to bad men bewign,
Under her own weight groaning, till the day
Appear of respiration to the just,
And vengeance to the wicked, at return
Of him so lately promis'd to thy aid
The Woman's Seed, obscurely then foretold,
Now amplier known thy Saviour and thy

Lord,

Last in the clouds from Heav'n to be reveal'd In glory of the Father, to dissolve

Satan with his perverted world, then raise From the conflagraut mass, purg'd and re

fin'd,

New Heavens, new Earth, ages of endless date,

Founded in righteousness and peace, and

love,

To bring forth fruits, joy and eternal bliss. He ended; and thus Adam last reply'd;

How soon hath thy prediction, Seer blest, Measur'd this transient world, the race of time,

Till time stand fix'd? beyond is all abyss,
Eternity, whose end no eye can reach.
Greatly instructed I shall hence depart,
Greatly in peace of thought, and have my

fill

Of knowledge, what this vessel can contain:

Beyond which was my folly to aspire.
Henceforth learn, that to obey is best,
And love with fear the only God, to walk
As in his presence, ever to observe
His providence, and on him sole depend,
Merciful over all his works, with good
Still overcoming evil, and by small
Accomplishing great things, by things decin'd
weak

Subverting worldly strong, and worldly wise
By simply meck; that suffering for truth's

sake

Is fortitude to highest victory,

And to the faithful death the gate of life,
Tanght this by his example whom I now
Acknowlege my Redeemer ever blest.

To whom thus also th' Angel last reply'd : This having learu'd, thou hast attain'd the

sum

Of wisdom; hope no higher, though all the

stars

Let her with thee partake what thou hast heard,

Chiefly what may concern her faith to know,
The great deliverance by her seed to come
(For by the Woman's seed) on all mankind z
That ye may live, which will be many days,
Both in one faith unanimous thongh sad,
With cause for evils past, yet much more
With meditation on the happy end.

He ended, and they both descend the hill;
Descended, Adam to the bow'r where Eve
Lay sleeping ran before, but found her
wak'd;

And thus with words not sad she him receiv'd:

Whence thou return'st, and whither weat

I know;

For God is also in sleep, and dreams advise, Which he hath sent propitious, some great good

Presaging, since with sorrow and heart's dis

tress

Wearied I fell asleep: t now lead on;
In me is no delay; with thee to go,
Is to stay here; without thee here to stay,
Is to go bence unwilling; thon to me
Art all things under Reav'n, all places thou,
Who for my wilful crime art banish'd hence
This further consolation yet secure

I carry hence; though all by me is lost,
Such favour I unworthy am vouchsaf'd,

Thou knew'st by name, and all th' ethereal By me the promis'd Seed shall all restore.

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So spake our mother Eve, and Adam heard Well pleas'd, but aaswer'd not; for now two

high

Th' Arch Angel stood, and from the other hill

To their fix'd station, all in bright array
The Cherubim descended on the ground
Gliding meteorous, as evening mist
Ris'n from a river o'er the marish glides,
And gathers round fast at the lab'rer's heel
Homeward returning. High in front advanci
The brandish'd sword of God before them
blaz'd

Fierce as a comet; which with torrid heat,
And vapour as the Libyan air adust,
Began to parch that temp'rate clime; whereat
In either hand the hast'ning Angel caught
Our ling ring parents, and to th' eastery

gate

Led them direct, and down the cliff as fast
To the subjected plain; then disappear'd.
They looking back, all th' eastern side be-
held

Of Paradise, so late their happy seat,
Way'd over by that flaming brand, the gate

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Circassian Slave, 28, 83

Sketch of the Character of Mr. Windhath, 7'
Solution of a curious Arithmetical Problem, 16
Story of a Horse, 83

The Revenge; a moral tale, 85

Visit to a Nunnery; or the history of Donna
Maria de S8, 240

FASHIONS

FOR FEBRUARY, 1810

Evening Dress, 41

A description of several Dresses worn by Ladirs
of distinction, ib.
Parisian Fashions, ib.

Ladies Dress on her Majesty's Birth-day, 48

FOR MARCH.

Hyde-Park Walking Dress, 97
Evening Full Dresses, ib.

A description of several Dresses worn by Ladies
of distinction, ib.

FOR APRIL.

Evening Dresses, 145
Parisian Fashions, ib.

A description of several Dresses worn by Ladies
of rank and fashion, ib.

FOR MAY.

Curious adventure of George Bruce, with inter-
esting particulars of the Island of New Zea-
land, 228
and interesting facts relative to British Evening Shawl Dress, 197
Plants, by Dr. Thornton, 233

- anecdote of Henrietta, Duchess of Or-
leans, 244
Extracts from the "Lower World," a Poem by
Mr. Pratt, 271

from the "Rival Princes," by Mis.

Clarke, 282
History of the Oldcastle Family, 9, 67, 122, 169,
217, 266

of Joseph and Aseneth, 225
Hymenæa in search of a Husband, 4, 60, 116,
164, 212, 262

Matrimonial invitation, 291

Maxims for the conduct of Life; selected from

the works of Sir Mathew Hale, 24, 136
Modern Prophets, 273

Mysterious Guests, 140

Magic Whip, 79

Maid of the Inn; or the Golden Fleece, 38
Observations on Wills, 32

Persian Letters from Muley Cid Sadi, one of the

Secretaries of his Excellency the Persian Am-
bassador in London, to Osman Cali Beg, his
friend at Ispahan, 6, 65, 119, 167, 212, 265
Power of Faith, 237, 288

Philosophy of Heraldry and Genealogy, 274
Remarkable discovery of murder, 225

Secret Tribunal of the Soap-boiler of Messina,
191

Full Dress, ib.

A description of several Dresses worn by Ladies
of rank and fashion, 197

FOR JUNE.

Evening Dress, 245]
Walking Dress, ib.

FOR JULY.

Evening and Morning Dresses, 293

A description of several Dresses worn by Ladies
of rank and fashion, ib.

General Observations and Reflections on Fashion
and Dress, 42, 98, 146, 198, 245, 294

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Sudden Arrivals, or Too Busy by Half, 46
Revival of Cinderella, ib.

Riches, or the Wife and Brother, 100
The Maniac, or Swiss Banditti, 147

ROAL ACADEMY EXHIBITION.

Christ teaches to be humble, by West, 247

Select extracts from the Essays of M. Argenson, Hercules, to deliver Theseus, assails and wounds

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Andromache imploring Ulysses to spare the life || Gower's-Walk Free School, ib.

of her Son, by G. Dawe, A. 248

A subject from Ossian, by Drummond, A. ib.
Titania, by H. Howard, R. A. ib.

Titania, Puck, &c. by H. Thompson, R. A. 250
Death of the Earl of Argyle, by J. Northcote,
R. A. ib.

Views of Lowther and Petworth, by Turner, ib.
Village Choristers rehearsing a Sunday Anthem,
by E. Bird, ib.

Portrait of Sir P. Francis, by J. Londsdale, 298
Faitrait of the Marquis of Downshire, by the
same artist, ih

Fortrait of A. Yates, Esq. by the same artist, ib.
group of Portraits of the Buring family, by T.
Lawrence, 209

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Discovery of a substitute for gold, 149

Preservation of vegetables for distillation by salt-
ing, ib.

Discovery of the ancient city of Dscherrasch, ib.
The only lump of native platina, ib
Opening of the British Institution, i5.
Singular instance of intrepidity, 150

Astonishing preservation of Mr. Kelso, ib.
Particulars of the late carthquake at the Cape of
Good Hope, ib.

INCIDENTS NEAR LONDON.
Extraordinary suicides, 48
Alarming fire in Long Acre, 104
Elopement of Miss Elwes, ib.

Breach of prouitse of marriage, Mills . Flower,

153

The resistance of Sir Francis Burdett to the ware
rant of the Speaker of the House of Commons,
and the escording the Baronet to the Tower,

202

Extraordinary robbery, 253

Mysterious attack on the Duke of Cumberland,

300

Interesting mariages and deaths, 50, 105, 154,
204, 254

PROVINCIALS.

Whimsical English custom, 51

Singular advertisement for a wife, ib.

Shocking accident at the Old Church, Liverpool
107

Lamentable shipwreck, 110

Carious circumstanhe, the effect of confirming 4-
species of superstition, 112

Ingenious machine for thrashing corn, invented -
by a watchmaker, 159
Barbarous murder, 254
Sale of a wife, ib.

BEAUTIES OF THE BRITISH POETS.
Milton's Paradise Lost.

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