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CONTENTS.

MEMOIR OF THE AUTHOR..

PREFACE...

HORE LYRICE.

BOOK I. SACRED TO DEVOTION AND PIETY.

Worshipping with Fear....

Asking leave to Sing..

Divine Judgments.

Earth and Heaven.

Felicity Above..

God's Dominion and Decrees.

Self Consecration.....

The Creator and Creatures

The Nativity of Christ..

God glorious, and Sinners saved

The Humble Enquiry; a French Sonnet imitated.

The Penitent pardoned.....

A Hymn of Praise for three great Salvations...

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The Incomprehensible..

Death and Eternity..

A sight of Heaven in Sickness..

The Universal Hallelujah; Psalm cxlviii. paraphrased... 29

The Atheist's Mistake.

The Law given at Sinai.

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The Infinite....

Remember your Creator, &c.; Eccles. xii.

Sun, Moon, and Stars, praise ye the Lord.

The Welcome Messenger.

Sincere Praise.....

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True Learning: partly imitated from a French Sonnet.... 46

True Wisdom...

A Song to Creating Wisdom

God's Absolute Dominion.

Condescending Grace; in imitation of Psalm cxiv..

Confession and Pardon....

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Young men and maidens, old men and babes, praise ye

the Lord.....

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Flying Fowl and creeping Things, praise ye the Lord...

The Day of Judgment; an Ode attempted in English

The Song of Angels above..

Fire, Air, Earth, and Sea, praise ye the Lord...

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Latin Answer, by a French Protestant, Englished..

The Hundredth Epigram of Casimire, on St. Ardalio.... 96

Two Happy Rivals: Devotion and the Muse..

The Hazard of Loving the Creatures....

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BOOK II. SACRED TO VIRTUE, HONOR, AND FRIENDSHIP.