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Ye pompous Sons of Reason idoliz'd
And vilife at ce; of Reafon dead,

Then das Monarchs were of old?.

Wron no the Chriftian; think not Reafor yours
Tis Reafon our great Master holds fo dear;
'Tis Reason's injur'd rights his wrath refents;
'Tis Reason's voice obey'd his glories crown;
To give loft Reafon life he pour'd his own ;
Believe, and fhew the Reason of a Man;

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.

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Printed by G. PARAMO E, North-Green, Worship.
Street; and fold by G. Whfield at the Chapel, City-
Road; and at the Methodist Preaching-Houfes in Town
and Country. 1792.

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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.

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cleanliness, helplessness, ignorance, and nakedness.
-V1. The grofs darkness in which we naturally
are, both with respect to God and a future ftate.-
V11. The general rebellion of the brute creation
against us.-V111. The various poifons that lurk
in the animal, vegetable, and mineral world, ready
to deftroy us.-1x. The heavy curfe of toil and
fweat to which we are liable; instances of which
are given in the hard and dangerous labours of the
Author's parishioners.-x. The other innumerable
calamities of life. And x1. The pangs of death.

THIRD PART.

·Man is confidered as a citizen of the moral
world, a free agent, accountable to his Creator
for his tempers and conduct; and his fall is far-
ther demonftrated by arguments drawn from-
X11. His commiffion of fin.-x111. His omiffion
of duty.-xiv. The triumphs of fenfual appetites
over his intellectual faculties.XV. The corrup
tion of the powers that conflitute a good head:
the understanding, imagination, memory, and rea-
fon.--xv1.The depravity of the powers which form
a good heart: the will, confcience, and affections.
-XV11. His manifeft alienation from God.-
XVIII. His amazing difregard even of his nearest
relatives.-X1x. His unaccountable unconcern
about himfelf.xx. His deteftable tempers, xx.
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