ONT ENTS.

BOOK I.

DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. PART I.

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REFLECTIONS on the being of a God Young. 1

Creation of the earth, the heavens, and man Milton. 3

Address of our first parents to the Creator Milton. 6

Perfections of the Deity

Boyse. 8

Order and subordination through all the works of God.

Pope. 40

The philosophy that stops at secondary causes, reproved.

Cowper. 43

The present state of man vindicated

Pope. 44

Wisdom proclaiming a Providence to man Ogilvie. 46

The prosperity of vice no just objection to the wisdom of

Providence

Ogilvie. 48

Soliloquy on the immortality of the soul Addison. 49

The immortality of the soul implied from its motion,

Sir J. Davies. 51

The immortality of the soul inferred from its dissimilarity

to the body

Soame Jenyns. 52

Life not worth enjoying, without the hope of immortality.

Soame Jenyns. 53

To my soul

Davenport. 54

Cupio dissolvi

Habbington. 55

Reasonings with an infidel on a future state Young. 57

Reflections on a future state, from a review of winter. 68

A contemplation on night

Gay. 70

A thought on eternity

Gay. 71

Death

Porteus. 72
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On seeing the figure of death in a dream. Dr. Har.

rington. 82

Meditation on death

Lansdowne. 83

A night-piece on death

Parnell. 84

Death and eternity

Watts. 87

The Grave

Blair. 89

Messiah, a sacred eclogue

Pope. 112

Ode on the Messiah

Cotton. 116

Christ's passion, from a Greek ode by Mr. Masters, for-

merly of New College

Pitt. 118

The genealogy of Christ, as it is represented on the east

window of Winchester college chapel Lowth. 120

The excellency of the Bible

Watts. 128

Divine illumination necessary to the most expert philo-

sopher

Cowper 129

The day of judgment; a Setonian prize poem. Dr.

Glynn. 131

On the last day and the happiness of the saints in heaven.

Rowe. 140

Ecstacy

Parnell. 141