reprove or punish: always bearing in mind, that fervitude is an hard condition of life, which they who are born to command, are bound in confcience to lighten, left ignorance fhould make the poor give way to unjust thoughts of Provi dence. Whence it came to pafs, that fhe was served with affection, and her people had a more than ordinary care not, to offend her, that they might not grieve themselves.

To her Tenants and inferior Neighbours fhe was benefi-. cent and liberal, eafy of accefs, and courteous in reception of them; nor did fhe fuffer them in any exigencies to want thofe helps that her kitchen, her clofet, or her cabinet could fupply. To perfons above or on her own level, she never was wanting in what became the circumftance and occafion. She perfectly well understood what was due to them, and to herfelf; and all fhe did was with a natural eafy grace, that thewed she was no ftranger to forms, but had conquered the ftrictness of them. Her acquaintances were numerous, and of the beft; yet fhe was fo happy in an excellent temper, that few, if any, were contented with that name; they faw fomething that was to be coveted beyond it, and advanced towards the diftinction of friends. And, that God might bless her in the discharge of her duty, and make her fincere endeavours answer their respective ends, the allowed no fort of avocation to interrupt her attendance upon Him. Her flated times of retirement were punctually observed, and the public affembly (if he could help it) never miffed her.

Thus fhe behaved in the married flate. When he became a widow she was above the affectation of a fullen reserve, because she never had levity that needed to be corrected: yet fhe chose to withdraw herfelf from public diverfions, and had no reluctancy in parting with them. She had been accustomed to give her thoughts a serious and useful turn: fhe weighed the world in the balance of a true judgment; and notwithstanding all its pretenfions, knew what it was, and what she was to expect from it: this made her early to wean herself from the innocent gaieties and pardonable vanities of life; which lookers-on would have indulged without cenfure to her condition, age, and fortune. But a thorough good understanding had deprived them of their relifh, and the Glently ftole from them, without leaving a reflection upon thofe that continued to have a tafte for them.

She had a quick apprehenfion, and could (when he had a mind) carry it into the confideration of public affairs, which he was the better qualified to judge of, becaufe entirely dif

paffionate

paffionate and difinterefted. But where she could not avoid it, fhe went with reluctancy into the complaining fide, and was beft pleafed where any thing of ill appearance was fo far doubtful, as to admit of a favourable construction.

Her greatest fatisfaction was in the enjoyment of her children, and in the company of her acquaintance and friends: amongst whom she was careful not to affume more than her part in conversation; and if it was not always edifying, it was much against her will if it was not inoffenfive; for the rules of good manners (in the religious and civil fenfe) were facred to her; no heat or paffion, no reflections, or illnatured touches upon the prefent or the abfent, no difparagement of others, or commendation, though never fo re mote, of herself, could get a paffage through her lips and if others tranfgreffed in any point, which could very rarely happen in the company the kept, her dislike of it was eafy to be obferved, in a careless attendance, or a dead filence.

Thus unblameable in conduct; thus difengaged from the world; thus taught and experienced in the frailties and imperfections of it, fhe food in a preparation, when God, fhould call, to leave it willingly, upon its own account; but fhe had stronger motives to attend that call, which made her watch for it, not only with refignation, but with pleasure. Her eyes were intent upon the place to which the muft go: her heart was fixed upon thofe joys that are fubftantial and unchangeable: fhe knew the fhould leave mortality behind her; that "death fhould be swallowed up in victory;" that she should not be held a moment under the dominion of it for the Sun of Righteoufnefs would immediately arise upon

her.

It was this expectation, that made her proof against a lingering and a fickly decay. It was in the ftrength of this hope, that the faw death make its attacks; perceived him to gain ground every day, and never felt an inward fhock. When medicine was ineffectual, fhe was not difappointed; in the most uneafy moments fhe uttered no impatience: fhe prayed, indeed, for a calm paffage, but it was with an entire fubmiffion to the will of God; and when the confidered that the chambers of death were of painful approach, and the grave was the gate through which the muft of neceffity pass to a better life, fhe went down undauntedly, by fuch fteps as Providence had ordained, in full confidence, that

through

through the merits of her Redeemer, fhe was firmly entitled to, and fhould undoubtedly poffefs a part in it.

They that knew the Lady MAROW will subscribe to what I have faid concerning her and I rather apprehend they will think the character fhort and defective, than that I have exceeded in it. But methinks, upon these occafions, preachers ought religiously to forbear heightenings, and glaring colours. I have endeavoured to do juftice to the graces God had endowed her with, for otherwife I should blemish them. But I have not been unmindful they would be more hurt by being stretched beyond their due proportion.

She was buried in the church of St. James, Westminster, where is a monument with the following epitaph written by bishop Hough.

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Near this place lies Mary Lady Marow, only daughter of Sir Arthur Caley; married first to Sir Samuel Marow Bart. afterwards to Francis Fisher, Esq. both of Warwickfhire.

She was a lady of uncommon merit, and exemplary in every fate of life; religious, and truly charitable, without oftentation, habitually good and virtuous, without intermission. Her converfation was always agreeable and inoffenfiye, guarded with prudence, and quickened with good fense; easy to the meaneft, and not abject to the greatest, which made her univerfally known to, and esteemed by perfons of the first rank; valued by her equals, honoured by her inferiors, and beloved by all. She had a firmness of mind, that abundantly made amends for a weak and tender conftitution; fupporting her in all extremity to that degree, that no cause of grief, no pain, or ficknefs, could extort a complaint from her; the refigned herself entirely to the will of God, and the fuccours of his Holy Spirit never failed her; so that in the whole course of her life, and to the last moment of it, she was a bright and edifying example of faith, meeknefs, and patience. By Sir Samuel Marow he had many children, five whereof are ftill living. Anne, married to Sir Arthur Kaye, Bart. Elizabeth; Urfula, married to Robert Wilmot, Efq. Mary, married to John Knightley, Efq. and Arabella.

From their father they have a plentiful inheritance; and from their mother (what is infinitely more valuable) the bleffing of having been educated and formed after fuch a pattern.

She died October 19, 1714. Etat, 63."

Vol. XIII. Churchm. Mag. for p. 1807.

Review of New Publications.

The Glory of the Heavens. By the Rev. T. BASELEY, A. M. Chaplain to the Lord Bishop of Lincoln. 12mo. 170. pp. 3s. 6d. boards. Longman and Co.

THE fpiritualizing of natural objects, and branches of sci

ence, was first introduced, we believe, by the excellent Robert Boyle, who was ridiculed for it by that wicked wit Dean Swift. Mr. John Flavel, a nonconformift divine, was very fuccefsful in this way, and his two books of Husbandry Spiritualized, and Navigation Spiritualized, are ftill held in eftimation, and have no doubt done much good. The ingenious James Hervey went farther, and in his Meditations and Contemplations gave many pleafing sketches of philofophy and natural history improved by ferious reflections. His ftile, indeed, is too flowery, and his fancy is often extravagant. Still his volumes have been of eminent fervice to young perfons, in exciting their minds to useful ftudy and religious confideration. The little volume before us, is evidently written with the fame view, and is well calculated to improve the youth of both fexes in a knowledge of the fublime fcience of Aftronomy, and, what is better, in the faving truths of religion, without which all other science is but an empty fhell,

The philofophical sketches are delineated with accuracy, and in a pleafing and familiar ftyle. The religious reflections are fuch as arife naturally from the respective subjects, and are not, as is too often the cafe with religious books of this description, fpun out and refined beyond due bounds.

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From a view of the glories of the universe, the author proceeds to contemplate thofe of the "Heaven of Heavens,' and in this part he is peculiarly happy.

The following paffage afforded us fo much pleasure that we have extracted it, as a fpecimen of the volume.

แ By some masterly discoveries of modern philosophy in optical science, and the aids which invention has added to the means afforded us by nature for exploring the recesses of the higher regions, innumerable globes of superior magnitude and resplendence are perceived, ranged in order, and accumulated in clumps, or clustered like grapes on a vine, shining in countless variety, each more glorious than our sun, pouring full day through all the ætherial plain, and in one dazzling constellation above another, crowding the utmost boundaries of space. Their density in these immense assemblages only shews their extreme remoteness from us, as they are actually millions of miles apart, notwithstanding their apparent mutual nearness, and from their remaining so regularly distinct, may be deemed all independent systems revolving like ours in orbits proportioned to their specific gravity round their own vast suns or centres! Who knows but these respective congregations of radiant orbs, blazing on all sides with the brightness of so many suns in meridian majesty, may illuminate the grand empyreal route which leads to the palace of the great king; or that all this transcendent splendour may be no more than the exterior lustre of his divine residence, who dwells in light that is inaccessible and full of glory.

"With such magnificent constellations of flaming worlds are the very precincts of the celestial mansions studded and adorned! And these wonderful prospects, imperfect and confused as seen by our limited and obscure organs, abundantly demonstrate the richness even of exterior creation, and indicate the beauteous gradation and variety in the splendours which distinguish the heaven of heavens; Before this august and tremendous scenery, how diminutive are all the proudest monuments of human ingenuity and grandeur? Do not the whole of our race, in all its generations, all its countless armies and multitudes, all the tumult and dissensions it has raised, all its mighty achievements in arts, arms, and acquirements, the "cloud-capt towers, the gorgeous "palaces, the great globe itself, and all that it inherits," by such a comparison, sink down into nothing!

"From these data, furnished by nature, and corroborated by the more clear and sure light of revelation, we may certainly conclude, that the saints in glory will be charmed by the beauty, as well as satisfied with the happiness of heaven; and that this adaption to the constitutional preference of our common nature, is an essential ingredient in that perfection to which we aspire. There, we

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