On all the wings of time it flies,
Each moment brings it near;
Then welcome each declining day!
Welcome each closing year!

Not many years their rounds shall run,

Nor many mornings rise,

Ere all its glories stand revealed

To our admiring eyes.

Ye wheels of nature, speed your course; Ye mortal powers, decay;

Fast as ye bring the night of death,

Ye bring eternal day.

THE CHRISTIAN FAREWELL.

Thy presence, everlasting God,
Wide o'er all nature spreadsabroad;
Thy watchful eyes, which cannot sleep,
In every place Thy children keep.

While near each other we remain,
Thou dost our lives and souls sustain ;
When absent, happy if we share
Thy smiles, Thy counsels, and Thy care.
To Thee we all our ways commit,
And seek our comforts near Thy feet;
Still on our souls vouchsafe to shine,
And guard and guide us still as Thine.

Give us in Thy beloved house
Again to pay our grateful vows;
Or, if that joy no more be known,
Give us to meet around Thy throne.

THE ETERNAL SABBATH.

Lord of the sabbath, hear our vows,
On this Thy day, in this Thy house;
And own, as grateful sacrifice,

The songs, which from the desert rise.
Thine earthly sabbaths, Lord, we love;
But there's a nobler rest above;
To that our labouring souls aspire
With ardent pangs of strong desire.
No more fatigue, no more distress ;
Nor sin nor hell shall reach the place;
No groans to mingle with the songs,
Which warble from immortal tongues.

No rude alarms of raging foes;
No cares to break the long repose;
No midnight shade, no clouded sun,
But sacred, high, eternal noon.

O long expected day, begin;

Dawn on these realms of woe and sin; Fain would we leave this weary road,

And sleep in death to rest with God.

INDEX.

Addison, Joseph, referred to by Doddridge, 182.
Aikin, Rev. John (D. D.), 93.

Mrs, 93.

J. (M. D.), 93,
Lucy, 93.

Akenside, 175, 176.

his Pleasures of the Imagination, 176.
Barker, Rev. John, biographical notice of, 144.
his letter to Doddridge, 144-146.
Barrow, Isaac, Doddridge's opinion of, 60.

his sermons read by Chatham, 60.

Baxter quoted, 46.

Bowles, 86.

Boyd, Rev. J., a mistake of corrected, 35.

Boyle, lectureship (the), 39.

Brainerd, David, 138, 139.

his grave at Northampton, 139, 140.

Bulwer, E. L. quoted, 61.

Burder, Rev. Geo., 148.

Burnet, Bp., 14, 15, 19, 38, 39, 119.

Bunyan, 158, 159.

Calamy, Dr., his Nonconformist's Memorial quoted, 23.

biographical notice of, 30.

Chalmers, Dr., his opinion of Baxter and Doddridge, 58.

Journal of quoted, 133, 134.

Clarke, Rev. Dr., his advice to Doddridge, 19.

his Scripture Promises. 27.

Coleridge, his Aids to Reflection, 132.

quoted, 159.

Colton, 62.

Cowper, 150.

Cradock, Samuel, his Harmony of the Four Evangelists, &c., 66.
Darracott, Ridson, biographical notice of, 83-86.

Davies, Rev. Samuel, his allusion to Mrs. Doddridge, 169–171.

anecdote of, 170, 171.

Dibdin, T. F., his opinion of Lardner's works, 20.

Disraeli, Isaac, quoted, 25.

Doddridge, Daniel, the father of Philip, 23.

Sir John, 22.

John, the father of Philip, 23.

Philip, his birth, 22

his first religious instruction, 24.

his academical career, 25.

death of his parents, 26.

becomes acquainted with the Rev. Samuel Clarke, 27.

commences to keep a diary, 33.

removes to Kibworth, 35.

his academical studies at Kibworth, 36-40.

his love of nature, 40-42.

rules for the direction of his conduct, 43–47.

removes to Hinckley, 49.

finishes his course of preparatory studies at Hinckley, 50.
his first sermon, 50.

his pastoral settlement at Kibworth, 52.

his studious retirement and love of country life, 54-57.

studies the works of Baxter, Howe and Barrow, 57-60.

forms a valuable private library, 61.

chosen assistant to the Rev. Mr. Some at Market Har-
borough, 62.

his course of reading, 63-69.

opens a theological academy at Market Harborough, 69.