These Warblers sweet, on Pinions borne,

My Heart with joy elate;

While by the Rill, on yonder Thorn,

The Blackbird cheers his Mate.

How delightful is this place! amid the harmony of sprays, the sweet smelling crowfoots, and the fmiling green which every where flushes the lovely cheek of furrounding nature, where is the man who can indulge himself in careleffnefs of thought? Write that man thoughtlefs indeed, unworthy of the bleffings of spring.

But as for thou, O my foul, as the sap of vegitation arises from the root to the top, improving the whole, climb the ladder of nature, contemplate thy God, fee his glory in all, and his goodness profufely scattered around.

Is there a fingle plant filent in his praise? 'Yes, filent they are, but expreffing infinitely more than language can unfold. Bear me witness of this ye lofty pines, which lift your ever verdent heads to the sky in honour of him.

I am here reminded of the earthly paradise when our firft father was placed in the delightful garden, midft trees in full verdure, the fruits of all which, one only excepted, he might freely eat; while the birds fang

melodiously around, and all creation was joy: And minds me ftill more of the paradise above, where fongs of everlasting praifes to God and the Lamb ftill refound.

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May I join that happy concert of the redeemed before the throne, in finging that eternally fweet anthem of gratitude, “un"to him that loved us, and washed us from 66 our fins in his own blood, and hath made us kings and priests unto God and his Fa"ther; to him be glory and dominion for "ever and ever. Amen." Rev. i. 5. where a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceedeth out of the throne of God and of the Lamb and in the midst of the street of the city, and on either fide of the river is there the tree of life which bears twelve manner of fruits, and yields her fruit every month; the leaves of which are for the healing of the nations, Rev. xxii. 1, 2,

Here grow a number of hazels: though they be but little efteemed in comparison of most other trees in the wood, yet are there none more fruitful, if indeed any fo

much: though they be humble plants, yet are they as ufeful in their kind as fome o ther trees which are more highly valued,

Not to speak of various other ufes they are for, that of hoops for supporting ftaves of far more valued wood is none of the least and as they hold up the staves, and the staves them, thus the one fupporting the other forms a complete veffel: fo tho' the poor are numerous in the world, and but little esteemed in comparison of the rich and great; yet are they, generally speaking, most fruitful in holiness and good works.

As hoops of the hazel fupport ftaves of efteemed wood; fo they hold up the rich and great in their affluence and dignity, and the rich and great fupport them.

Without the poor, not only the wealth, but the dignity of the great would foon come to nought, neither without these could thofe fubfift: thus the veffel of human fociety is still preserved uniformly up.