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The bending maft is fhattered by the wind,
The helm no more à master's hand will own,
Her conforts leave her floating far behind,

Dashed by the waves, forfaken and alone.

For twelve long days the leaky wreck was toft, Each hand and heart oppreffed with toil and grief, No refuge near, all hopes of fafety loft,

When, lo! a fail, the pledge of fure relief.

Their fainting fpirits are reftorẻd to life;
For, fee! the vessel now approaches near
Alonzo flies on board-Ah, fave my Wife!
And let her find a friendly refuge here.

The boat dispatched, receives the precious freight,
Fickle dependance on the ftormy fea:

Angels of mercy round the fair one wait,
So did her fate require, and heaven decree.

The helpless Victim lifts her hands in vain,
The little bark in vain attempts to brave
The dreadful tumult of the raging main,
And loft Maria floats upon the wave.

The frantic hufband faw the cruel tide,
O'erwhelm at length his dear, his hapless mate:

And faithful #Richard perifhed by her fide,
His death imbittered by his Miftrefs' fate.

The ways of God with clouds are overcast,
By erring mortals feldom underflood,

Yet Truth and Wifdom fhall break out at laft,

And all will terminate in endless good.

Richard was a Negro Slave,

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In memory of Mr. Charles Perronet, who died on Monday, August 12, 1776, aged 53.

AREWEL! thou Man of complicated ftrife,
Thou heir immortal of immortal life!
Protracted years of long protracted pain
Were here thy portion-but are now thy gain.
Who tried thy patience has refined its drofs,
To bear his image as it bore his cross.

Yet not thy hope of pardon, or its crown,
From forrows fuffered, or from duties done :
This all from Him-whofe everlafling grace
Became thy ranfom, as it bought thy peace.

This all thy life, this all thy death confeft,
That" Chrift was all-and Refuse all the rest :"
Even Him-on whom as first and last depend,
Where grace fhall work, and how that work fhall end!

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HAT is more tender than a Mother's love

WHA

To the fweet Infant fondling in her arms?
What arguments need her compaffion move,
To hear its cries, and help it in its harms?
Now, if the tendère ft Mother was poffeft

Of all the love, within her fingle breast,
Of all the Mothers, fince the world began,

'Tis nothing to the Love of God to Man.

AF GEORGESHADFORD, Aged

THE

Arminian Magazine,

For MA Y 1783.

The CALVINIST-CABINET UNLOCKED: in an APOLOGY for TILENUS, against a VINDICATION of the Synod of DORT.

[Continued from page 172.]

ARTICLE V." Such as have once received Faith, can

never fall from it finally or totally, notwithstanding the

most enormous fins they can commit."

So faith,

1. Calvin. "As the Spirit is never extinguished, fo likewife it is impoffible that Faith, which he hath once imprinted upon the hearts of the godly, fhould be loft."

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2. Donteclock. "The Elect cannot finally fall from Faith." 3. Mehnius. Juftifying Faith can never be loft, because it is peremptorily given to the faithful."

4. Pifcator. "It is impoffible true Believers fhould fall from the Faith, the Decree and federal promise of God

withstanding it."

VOL. VI.

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