gorgeous with gold and fparkling with gems. With all his mad philofophy, and Afiatick taste, he has yet too bright an eye, and too noble a wing to be emulated in his flight by fuch an imitator. ....We forbear however any farther obfervations on Mr. Story. The prefent edition of his work is undoubtedly improved, as it is diminished to one third of its former fize. He has alfo added fome good lines and expurgated it of a great deal of nonfenfe. It is in truth a better poem, than nine tenths that are publifhed. And when he has learned to be content with the limits, which Butler affigns, of giving only one line for rhyme, and one at leaft for fenfe; when he has learned, that our language is already tolerably copious, and that his ideas are really not fo novel nor gigantick, as to require that its vocabulary should be enlarged to exprefs them; when alfo his mind fhall have become regulated by age, and enlarged by meditation, we think he may write very tolerable verses.

ART. 53.

The moral tendency of man's accountableness to God; and its influence on the happiness of fociety. A fermon, preached on the day of the general election, at Hartford, in the fate of Connecticut, May 9th, 1805. By Afabel Hooker, A. M. Paftor of the church in Goshen. Hartford, Hudson and Goodwin, 8vo. pp. 41.

MR. Hooker was judicious in felecting his topick of difcourfe; and his fermon, among ordinary fermons, and before ordinary affemblies, might be deemed a good

the retreat of the invalid for the healing qualities of the waters, but as the refort of the dejected for amusement and recreation, and of the polite and accomplished for the purpose of mingling in genteel company and improving fociety. The clergymen of the city are therefore expected to poffefs talents to please the learned, and interest the cheerful, as well as powers to footh the difconfolate, and adminifter to the laft ftages of human mifery the reviving cordials and comforts of religion. Mr. Jay was undoubtedly felected under thefe confiderations, and appears to have done honour to fuch a choice. He is confidered as one of the moft eloquent and popular preachers in Great-Britain. A volume of his fermons was eagerly defired, and when it was published was read with fuch avidity, that a fecond edition was called for within a year. Such was the general approbation, that another volume was folicited by his friends in 1803, which has alfo paffed thro' a fecond edition. Both these volumes are here reprinted; and every perfon of piety and tafte must be pleased with the perufal. As compofitions they are animated and elegant; as moral leffons, inftructive and folemn; and as fcriptural illuftrations, clear and evangelical. There is great ingenuity in the plan of each difcourse, and the intereft excited by the exordium increases to the clofe. The author's talent appears to be that of PERSUASION; which he attains by convincing the judgment, awakening the imagination, roufing the paffions, and impreffing the heart.

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Our limits will not allow us to enter into a particular examination, nor to make large extracts; but we will felect a few fpecimens of Mr. Jay's manner.

The Vth fermon is from 1 Kings xviii. 12. I fear the Lord from my youth. After briefly ftating the hiftory of the context, the preacher tenderly mentions his concern for the fpiritual improvement and happiness of the youth he addreffes, and adds....

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Behold standing near your preacher, your friends, your relations, your parents, hearing for you with trembling, and prayers, and tears. Thy father is faying, my fon, if thou be wife, my heart fhall rejoice, even mine." The woman who bare thee is faying, "What, my fon, and what the fon of my womb, and what the fon of my vows!"

Behold too your fellow-citizens, your countrymen. I imagine all thofe affembled here this evening, with whom you are to have any future connexions by friendship, by alliance, by business'; whofe kindred you are to espouse, whofe offices you are to fill; thefe, I afk, is it a matter of indifference, whether the rifing generation be infidel and immoral, or influenced by confcience, and governed by Scripture? Where is the perfon, who has any regard for the welfare of the nation, for focial order, for relative life, for perfonal happiness, who would not immediately exclaim, "Rid me and deliver me from the hand of ftrange children; whofe mouth

fpeaketh vanity, and their right hand is a right hand of falfehood: that our fons may be as plants grown up in their youth; and that our daughters may be as corner ftones, polished after the fimilitude of a palace."

Behold the bleffed God looking down from heaven, blending his claims with your welfare, and urging the language of command and of promife: member thy Creator in the days of thy youth"; "they that feek me early, fhail

"Re

find me." Thefe are parties concerned in the fuccefs of this endeavour. But, my young friends, there are characters

here more deeply interested than all thefe; they are yourselves. To be pious in early years, is to be "wise for YOURSELVES": it is your privilege, fhall I fay, more than your duty? Yes, the gain will be principally your own.

The whole of this difcourfe is excellent, and deferves the attentive perufal of every young perfon, who has the intention to be virtuous or the wish to be happy. Sermon X. is an ingenious application of the addrefs of Jehovah to the Captain of the Lord's inheritance, when, having nearly completed the conqueft of Canaan, he fuffered his fervour to cool, and his courage to fail. There remaineth yet very much land to be poffeed. Joshua xiii. 1. From this remark the preacher urges, by a variety of confiderations, the propriety and neceffity of making fresh and continual advances in knowledge and holiness. In illuftration of his argument he ob

ferves,

hour of regeneration "unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fulness of Chrift." And, O what is it when we are the fubjects too! The nearer we live to heaven, the more of its pure and peaceful influence we shall enjoy. The way of life, narrow at the entrance, widens as we proceed. It is the nature of habits to render their acts eafy and delightful. There is little pleasure in religion, if there be no fervency; if there be no vigour in faith, no zeal in devotion, no life in duty, religion is without a foul; it is the mere carcafe of inanimate virtue. What fenfations of ecftacy, what profpects of affurance can fuch chriftians expect? In converfion, as in the alteration of an old edifice, we first demolish, and this only furnishes us with rubbish and ruins; But afterwards, we raife up an orderly beautiful building, in which we are refreshed and charmed What an happinefs arifes from difficulties overcome, and from labour crowned with fuccefs!

What emotions can equal the joy of one, who after the painful battle" divides the spoil?" But what can refemble the fatisfaction of the chriftian, who

on each fuccessful exertion gathers fresh "glory, honour, and immortality!"" The life of the active chriftian is the labour of the bee; who all day long is flying from the hive to the flower, or from the flower to the hive; but all his business is confined to fragrancy, and productive of fweets.

The XIXth is a beautiful and excellent fermon "on Domestick Happinefs." As a farther fpecimen of Mr. Jay's manner, we enrich our pages with the following extract.

Oh, what fo refreshing, fo foothing, fo fatisfying as the placid joys of home!

See the traveller. Does duty call him for a season to leave his beloved circle? The image of his earthly happiness continues vividly in his remembrance; it quickens him to diligence; it cheers him under difficulties; it makes him hail the hour which fees his purpose accomplished, and his face turned towards home; it communes with him as he journeys; and he hears the

promife which caufes him to hope, Thou shalt know also that thy tabernacle fhall be in peace; and thou fhalt vifit thy habitation and not fin." Oh, the joyful re-union of a divided family; the pleasures of renewed interview and converfation after days of absence !

Behold the man of fcience. He drops the labour and painfulness of research, clofes his volume, fmooths his wrinkled brows, leaves his study, and unbending himself, stoops to the capacities, yields to the wishes, and mingles with the diverfions of his children.

"He will not blush that has a father's heart,

To take in childish play a childish part : But bends his ftùrdy back to any toy That youth takes pleasure in to please his boy."

Take the man of trade. What reconciles him to the toil of bufinefs? What enables him to endure the fastidiousness and impertinence of customers? What rewards him for fo many hours of tedious confinement? By and by the feafon of intercourfe will arrive; he will be imbofomed in the careffes of his family; he will behold the defire of his eyes, and the children of his love,

for whom he refigns his eafe; and in their welfare and fmiles he will find his recompenfe.

Yonder comes the labourer. He has borne the burden and heat of the day; the defcending fun has released him from his toil, and he is haftening home to enjoy repofe. Half-way down the lane, by the fide of which stands his cottage, his children run to meet him; one he carries, and one he leads. The companion of his humble life is ready to furnish him with his plain repast. See his toil-worn countenance affumes an air of cheerfulness; his hardships are forgotten; fatigue vanifhes; he eats and is fatisfied; the evening fair, he walks with uncovered head around his garden; enters again and retires to rest, and "the reft of a labouring man is fweet whether he eat little or much." Inhabitant of this lonely, lowly dwelling, who can be indifferent to thy comfort! "Peace be to this houfe."

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