CONTENTS.

BOOK I.

DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL. PART I.

REFLECTIONS on the being of a God

Creation of the earth, the heavens, and man

Address of our first parents to the Creator

Perfections of the Deity

Page
Young. 1

Milton. 3

Milton. 6

Boyse. 8

Order and subordination through all the works of God.

Pope. 40

The philosophy that stops at secondary causes, reproved.

Cowper. 43

Pope. 44

Wisdom proclaiming a Providence to man

The prosperity of vice no just objection to the

Providence

Addison. 49

Soliloquy on the immortality of the soul

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.

To my soul

Cupio dissolvi

Reasonings with an infidel on a future state

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

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

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rington. 82

Lansdowne. 83

Parnell. 84

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

The excellency of the Bible

Lowth. 120

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.

Ecstacy

Rowe. 140

Parnell. 141

COPIOUS SELECTION

OF

INSTRUCTIVE, MORAL, AND ENTERTAINING

PASSAGES,

FROM THE MOST

EMINENT POETS.

VOLUME I

BOOK I. II.

DEVOTIONAL AND MORAL.

NEW-YORK:

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1817.

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