the efficacy of his atonement, is the foundation of all our hopes. It is through his merit that the sting of death is drawn ; and the strength of sin is obviated by the expiation which he has made. Through an interest in him, we contemplate the resurrection of our bodies from the grave with calmness and tranquillity, as an object of our wishes rather than of our fears. Though the is but a subterraneous road to bliss. It is with an eye to that glory which shall be revealed hereafter, that St. Paul concludes the chapter with this wholesome and important advice, seriously addressed to all true believers: "Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, immoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord; forasmuch as ye know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord." grave is a gloomy passage, it H EXTRACTS. In his elegant Latin poem on the Immortality of the Soul, Isaac Hawkins Browne, Esq. supposes man in a degenerat state of nature, unsanctified and unenlightened by Divine revelation, to hold similar language to the infidel Libertines, spoken of in page 107, of Euthanasia: Quare age, vina liques: epulæ, convivia, lusus, and, after describing mere Nature to be incapable of affording any prospect of a better state of things, thus pleasingly speaks of that immortal principle in man which will live forever. Gaudia quinetiam non hæc fugientia poscit, No fleeting joys she asks, which must depend JENYNS. A few more gleanings from this highly-cultivated field of classic literature shall adorn these notes, to illustrate the present work; its author being honoured with the friendship of a relation of the writer of that justly admired poem. Præteria esse aliquid verè quod pertinet ad nos, That there's a self, which after death shall live, All are concern'd about, and all believe; That something's ours, when we from life depart This truth, the public voice declares the same; JENYNS. Finely does he thus reprove the Epicureans noticed in page 121, &c. of Euthanasia. I nunc, usuram vitæ mirare caducam; Hæccine vitai summa est? Sic irrita vota? Go then, forgetful of its toil and strife, Are these man's great pursuits,—is this to live? JENYNS. The ills incident to age, man going to his long home, and the mourners passing along the streets— so pathetically described by the pen of Solomon, as introduced page 49, are briefly alluded to in these lines: Qui prior abscedit, portum prior occupat; Eja! Who first set sail, the peaceful port first gain;. The wretched privilege daily to deplore And age surrounded with a thousand snares. JENYNS. After painting, in strong colours, the inquietudes. of vice, during life, and its horrors, on the approach of death, from an anticipation of that eternity in woe to which the polluted soul will be doomed after death, the author contrasts the happiness of one -Who Virtue's radiant course has run, concluding the pleasing picture with a fine eulogy to "Worcester's good Bishop," who is introduced in Euthanasia, page 131, 132. Hic, sese excutiens sibi plaudit et aureus ut Sol Usque sub occasum diffuso lumine ridet; Hic, matura dies cum mortis venerit, ævum Dum tanti tempus propugnatoris egebat HOUGHIUS! Hic, numeros prope centenarius omnes |