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Guard nie ' g&uist those watchful foes , Whose eyes are open wMle mine close Let no dreams my head infest , But such as Jacob ' s temples blest . While I do rest , my soul advance ; Make my sleep a . holy trance , That I may , my rest being wrought , Awake into some holy thought , And with as active vigour run My course , as doth the nimble sun . vSleep is a death ! () make me try , By sleeping , what it is to die : And as gently lay njy head , On my grave , as now my bed .
Howe ' er I rest , great God , let me Awake again at last with thee : And thus assured , behold 1 lie Securely , or to wake , or die . These , are my drowsy days ; in vain I do now wake to sleep again : O come the hour when I . shall never Sleep again , but wake for ever . " —P . 50
Dr . Whichcote . " 1 . The pleasures of sense ; 2 . the prevaleiicy of bodily temper ; 3 . the allurements of pleasure , gain and honour from without ; 4 . the presence of tlie things of this life , and this
world ; the absence of the things ot the other life , and the other world ) ; 5 . the great improvement uecessury to a higher life , ihe no improvement , necessary to this ; 6 . the depravation of our principles by ill use ;—these things make it hard to
live religiously . "—P . G 2 . Dr . Lucas . " A black cloud makes the traveller mend his pace , and mind his home : whereas a fair day and a pleasant way waste his time , and that stcaleth away his affections in the prospect of the country . However others may think of it , yet I take it as a mercy that now and then some clouds do interpose my sun , and many times some troubles do eclipse uiy comforts ; for I perceive , if I should find too much friendship in my inn , in my pilgrimage , I should soon forget my father ' s house , and my heritage . "—Pp . 70 , 71 . A Postscript is commonly said to
contain the marrow of a letter , and we have an " Addendum , " which contains the most interesting passage in this pleasing selection . The reader will be gratified with having it placed before him entire , together with the biographical preface .
" Oliver Heywood . [ Born 16 ? i ) , died 1702 . ] One of the last survivors <> f the race-of Puritan ministers , and one of the links which connect English Puritanism with English Presbyterian Dis-S ( - "t . His birth was at Bolton in Lan-<* a . shire , in the very ' focus pf northern
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Puritanism . His father ' s house yvB ^ lilaged , when Prince Rupert crowed . Lancashire In his march to York . While at ? Cambridge , he says ,- in some private and unpublished Memoirs of his Life , that
he preferred Perkins , Bolton , Preston , and Sibs , far above Aristotle , Plato , Ma ?» gyrus , and Wendetou ; aud he brought , in consequence , from the University , a mind in which religious and Christian feelins was predominant .
" He received ordination to the miniftry from a classis of Presbyterian ministers ; and , during the time of . . Commonwealth , settled as curate of Coley , one of the twelve chapels of the parish ot * Halifax , in Yorkshire . He decliued
to comply with the terms of the Act of Uniformity , but resided near the place in which he had been the public minister ; and continued to exercise-his ministry , though sometimes in exile , and sometimes a prisoner .
" His published writings have met with the fate which usually attends works which are addressed rather to particular classes of men , than to the world at large . But he left behind him a great mass of writing of ; a more private and personal nature , ( for he suffered no occurrence to pass by him unimproved , )
now more valuable than any thing which he committed to the press . It forms the finest materials for . . ft curious biographical memoir , if in the hands of one who could look with a philosophical eye upon the general Character of the body to which he belonged , and the peculiar features of his own character , a 3 they were
brought out by the remarkable circumstances in which he was placed at different periods of his eventful life . This ought to be done , for he was no common man . One specimen of his mode of remarking on passing events is here given ; there is a deep and solemn pathos
running through it . The subject was the death of a young woman , daughter . of one of his most intimate friends , who was drowned while attempting to cross a brook swollen with raius , near his own home . It is here given rather as a literary curiosity . Whoever will
compare it with- the reflections of l > avie Deaues , in somewhat similar circumstances , as . they are . it presented by , the author ot the * Heart ot Mid Lothian / will see how accurately he has caught the manners and sentiments ot the people and the times .
< c And now , my soul , what personal improvement dost thou make of-this severe and astonishing Providence ? Surely , herein 'God'hath * declared his coves
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Review . —Golden Sentences . T 237
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vol . xxi . 2 i
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), April 2, 1826, page 237, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct2547/page/49/
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