The sprightly green

In Woodland-walks, no more is seen;

The sprightly green has drank thy Tyrian dye.

CHORUS.

Plenty, peace, and pleasure fly;
The fprightly green-

In Woodland-walks, no more is feen;
The fprightly green has drank the Tyrian dye.

MARS.

Sound the trumpet, beat the drum,
Through all the world around;
Sound a reveille, found, found,
The warrior God is come.

Sound the trumpet, beat the drum,
Through all the world around;
Sound a reveille, found, found,
The warrior God is come.

MOMUS.

Thy fword within the scabbard keep,
And let mankind agree;

Better the world were faft afleep,
Than kept awake by thee.

The fools are only thinner,

With all our coft and care;

But neither fide a winner,

For things are as they were.

The

CHORUS.

The fools are only thinner,

With all our coft and care;

But neither fide a winner,

For things are as they were.

VENUS.

Calms appear, when storms are past,
Love will have its hour at last :
Nature is my kindly care;

Mars deftroys, and I repair;
Take me, take me, while you may,

Venus comes not ev'ry day.

CHORUS.

Take her, take her, while you may,
Venus comes not ev'ry day.

CHRONOS.

The world was then fo light,

I fcarcely felt the weight;

Joy rul❜d the day, and love the night.
But fince the queen of pleasure left the ground,
I faint, I lag,

And feebly drag

The pond'rous orb around.

MOMUS, pointing to DIANA.

All, all, of a piece throughout;
Thy chace had a beaft in view;

To MAR S.

Thy wars brought nothing about;

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Thy

Ta VENUS.

Thy lovers were all untrue;

To JANUS.

'Tis well an old age is out, And time to begin a new.

CHORUS.

All, all, of a piece throughout;
Thy chace had a beast in view
Thy wars brought nothing about;'
Thy lovers were all untrue;
'Tis well an old age is out,
And time to begin a new.

An account of
Mrs. Price of

Stanemore.

26. In this happy manner did we pafs the night in this wild and frightful part of the world, and for three fucceeding evenings and days, enjoyed as much true fatiffaction as it was poffible for mortals to feel. Price was an ingenious, chearful, entertaining man, and his wife had not only fenfe more than ordinary, but was one of the best of women. I was prodigiously pleased with her conversation. Though fhe was no woman of letters, nor had any books in her house except the Bible, Barrow's and Wichcott's fermons, Howell's Hiftory of the world, and the Hiftory of England; yet from these few, a great memory, and an extraordinary conception

conception of things, had collected a valuable knowledge, and she talked with an ease and perfpicuity that was wonderful. On religious fubjects fhe aftonished me.

The nature,

end, and de

fign of Chrif tianity, confidered in a conversation.

As Sunday was one of the days I ftaid there, and Price was obliged in the afternoon to be from home, I paffed it in conversation with his wife. The day introduced religion, and among other things, I asked her, which she thought the best evidences of Christianity? The prophecies or the miracles?

Neither, (Mrs. Price replied). The prophecies of the Meffiah recorded in the Old Teftament are a good proof of the Christian religion, as it is plain from many instances in the New Teftament, that the Jewish converts of that generation understood them to relate to our Lord; which is a fufficient reafon for our believing them. Since they knew the true intent and meaning of them, and on account of their knowing it, were converted; the prophecies for this reafon fhould by us be regarded as divine teftimony in favour of Christ Jesus.-Then as to miracles, they are, to be fure, a means of proving and spreading the Chriftian religion, as they fhew the divine miffion of the Miak,

and rouze the mind to attend to the power by which these mighty works are wrought. Thus miracle and prophecy fhew the teacher was came from God. They contribute to the establishment of his kingdom; and have a tendency to produce that faith which purifies the heart, and brings forth the new birth.

But the greater evidence for the truth of our holy religion, appears to me to be that which converted the primitive Chriftians, to wit, the powerful influence which the Gospel has on the minds of thofe who study it with fincerity, and the inward difcoveries Chrift makes to the understanding of the faithful by his light and good fpirit. This exceeds the other evidences, if the heart be honeft. The Gospel is irrefiftible, when the spirit of God moves upon the minds of chriftians. When the divine power, difpenfed through Christ, affifts and strengthens us to do good, and to efchew evil, then christianity appears a religion worthy of God, and in itself the most reasonable. The complete falvation deferves our ready acceptation. That religion must charm a reasonable world, which not only reftores the worship of the one true God, and exhibits, in a perfect plan, thofe rules of moral rectitude, whereby the conduct of men fhould be governed, and