and corrections of long-transmitted and accepted mistakes.

The discovery of extremely important MSS.—including State-Papers, and official and private Letters-in H.M. Public Record Office, the Bodleian, Oxford, the British Museum, etc., delays my completion of the Prose Works and the full Life; but within this year it is my hope and expectation to issue the whole to my constituents of the Fuller Worthies' Library. En passant -for the sake of others it may be stated that the complete Works (Verse and Prose: 3 vols.) will be readily accessible in all the leading public Libraries of the Kingdom, and of the United States.

I send forth this new edition of a great Poet assured that he has not yet gathered half his destined renown:—

"Ah! weak and foolish men are they
Who lightly deem of Poet's lay,
That turns e'en winter months to May,
And makes the whole year warm:

'Tis this that brings back Paradise,
Reveals its bowers by Art's device,
Instructs the fool, delights the wise,
And gives to Life its charm.

(STEPHEN JENNER.)

ALEXANDER B. GROSART..

St. George's Vestry,

Blackburn, Lancashire.

Contents.

Those marked with [*] are herein printed for the first time, or
published for the first time among Davies' Poems.

*DEDICATION OF A GIFT-COPY (IN MS.) IN THE POS-

SESSION OF HIS GRACE THE DUKE OF NORTHUM-

BERLAND, AT ALNWICK CASTLE.

OF HUMANE KNOWLEDGE

OF THE SOULE OF MAN AND THE

THEREOF

What the soule is .

IMMORTALITIE

That the soule is a thing subsisting by it selfe

That the soule is more then a perfection or reflec-

That the Soule is created immediately by God

Erronious opinions of the Creation of Soules

Objection :-That the Soule is Extraduce

The Answere to the Obiection

Reasons drawne from Nature

Reasons drawne from Diuinity

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Why the Soule is United to the Body .

In what manner the Soule is united to the Body .

How the Soul doth exercise her Powers in the

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That the Soule is Immortal, and cannot Die

Reason I-Drawne from the desire of Knowledge

Reason II-Drawn from the Motion of the Soule

The Soul compared to a Riuer.

Reason III—From Contempt of Death in the

Reason IV-From the Feare of Death in the

Wicked Soules

Reason V-From the generall Desire of Immor-

talitie

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Reason VI-From the very Doubt and Disputa-

She hath no Contrary

Shee cannot Die for want of Food

Violence cannot destroy her.

Time cannot destroy her

Objections against the Immortalitie of the Soule

Objection I

Answere

Objection II

Answere

Objection III

Answere

Objection IV

Answere

Objection V.

Answere

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The Generall Consent of All

Three Kinds of Life answerable to the three

APPENDIX-REMARKS PREFIXED TO NAHUM TATE'S

EDITION (1697) OF NOSCE TEIPSUM '

HYMNES TO ASTRAEA.

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