kind in you, and I thank you for it. I have read Dr. Clarke, and many others, the Theological Repofitory, Priestley, Graham, Lindsay, &c. and have ferioufly confidered what they argue against our Saviour; but I ftill firmly believe that Jefus is very God of very God, is my God as much as the Father, and I adore Him and pray to Him as fuch. I believe that He, as God, in his divine nature, took upon him human nature, that is, the foul and body of man. I believe that the Godhead was fully and wholly in his humanity, and that the Father, whom none hath seen or can fee in his own person, became vifible in Jefus. And therefore that whoever fimply beholds Jefus as his Lord and his God, need (in order to his peace) look no farther, nor puzzle himfelf in the difputes of men concerning their Maker. I do not boast that I have efcaped the Arian or Socinian pollutions of my felf. I do not pretend that I am a match for the fubtilty of thofe men, unaffifted. If I have difcerned the truth from falfehood, it was not by my own light. I always beg understanding of the Spirit of the Holy One. I pray that He may lead me into all truth. I know I need not afk your prayers for me to the fame end. And it is the leaft return I can make for your love, in endeavouring to be a worker together with him for my good, to pray that he may always abide with you, and work all your works by you then you will not be ashamed, when you are reviled, even as your Master was before you, nor will your labours be in vain in the Lord; but rather be a more abundant means of advancing his glory on earth, and of promoting, fill more effectually, the prefent and eternal welfare of your fellow creatures. I remain, Rev. and dear Sir, your much obliged and very refpectful, bumble Servant, J. H-SON. POETRY. This Satyr had its original from one of Plato's Dialogues, called the Second Alcibiades. Our author takes his rife from the birthday of his friend; on which occafion many prayers were made, and facrifices offered. Perfius first commending the purity of his friends, bows, then defcends to the impious and immoral requests of others. ET this aufpicious morning be exprest, LE With a white fione, diftinguished from the reft: What from each other they, for shame, conceal. * White fione.] The Romans were used to mark their fortunate days, et any thing that luckily befel them, with a white flone which they had from the Island Crota; and their unfortunate days with a Coal. In private:-"When wilt thou Mighty Jove, Haft thou in ftore? What bribe haft thou prepared; + Hercules was thought to have the power of bestowing all hidden treasure. VOL. X. 4 M Should Should I prefent thee with rare-figured plate, And makes Calabrian wool receive the Tyrian train; Tell me, vain man! if I may be so bold, The wretch that offers from his wealthy flore But let us all for heaven a gift prepare, Which the great man's great charges cannot bear : A foul, where laws both human and divine, In practice more than fpeculation fhine: Thus far Heathenifm could go: "Be truly righteous, a thou shalt be accepted of God." But how wide is even this ja Unto him that believeth, his Faith is counted for Righte nefs? Infcribed to the Memory of the Hon. Col. G. VILLIERS, Drowned in the River Piava, in the Country of Friuli, 1703, In Imitation of Horace. Ode 28. Lib. 1. AY, dearest Villiers, poor departed friend, SAY, (Since fleeting life thus fuddenly must end,) That anxious thou, from pole to pole didft fail; That gentle peace might quell Bellona's rage: In vain we think that free-willed man has power, Nor awed by Forefight, nor mifled by Chance, Imperious death directs his Ebon Lance; People's great Henry's tomb, and leads up Holben's dance. Alike muft every ftate, and every age, Suftain the univerfal tyrant's rage: For neither William's power, nor Mary's charms, Not fo; for the wicked do not (always) live out half their days. |