Ye pompous Sons of Reason idoliz'd Then das Monarchs were of old?. Wron no the Chriftian; think not Reafor yours Believe, and taste the Pleasure of a God; Through Realon's wounds alone thy faith can die. YOUNG's Night Thoughts, The Son of Mans come to feek and to fave that which was LOST. Printed by G. PARAMO E, North-Green, Worship. To the principal Inhabitants of the Parish of Madeley, in the County of Salop. GENTLEMEN, You OU are no lefs entitled to my private labours than the inferior class of my parishioners. As you do not chufe to partake with them of my evening inftru&tions, I take the liberty to prefent you with some of my morning meditations. May these well-meant endeavours of my pen, be more acceptable to you than thofe of my tongue! And may you carefully read in your Closets, 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 beftow the latter upon me; grant me, I pray, the fatisfaction of seeing you favourably receive the former, from, GENTLEMEN, Your affectionate Minifter and obedient Servant, Madeley, 1772. J. FLETCHER. (iv) THE Doctrine of Man's corrupt and loft eftatens ftated at large, in the words of the Prophets, Apoftles, and Jefus Chrift; and recapitulated in Man is confidered as an inhabitant of the natural world, and his fall is proved by arguments deduced A view of this mifery in the following parti- culars,-1. The diforders of the globe we inhabit. and the dreadful fcourges with which it is vifited. -11. The deplorable and fhocking circumstances of our birth.-111. The painful and dangerous travail - cleanliness, helplessness, ignorance, and nakedness. THIRD PART. ·Man is confidered as a citizen of the moral The |