cus Order, by the fubtle Influences of Attraction : --I would only, like the Herald before that illuftrious Hebrew *, proclaim at every Turn, Bow the Knee, and adore the Almighty Maker; magnify his eternal Name, and make his Praife, like all his Works, to be glorious.

The CONTENTS.

A Delightful Evening Walk; the unmolefted
Enjoyment of fuch Pleafures owing to our

late Victory over the Rebels, 1,&c. to 6,-The fetting

Sun,6-Twilight; its Ufefulness; ferious Confidera-

tion,8 The dewy Coolness; its beneficial Influence

on Nature Returns of Solitude equally useful ta

Man, 10-Angels our Spectators; GOD ever pre-

fent, comfortable Improvement of this Truth, 13-

The Day ended; the Swiftness, the Shortness of

Time; the Work to be done while it lafts; to

Squander it away, the most deftructive Extrava-

gance,16-The profound Silence, 23-Universal Cef-

fation of Bufinefs, 25-The Variations of Nature,

pleafing and advantagious, 28—Darkness; the ob-

liging Manner of its taking Place; wild Beafts of

the Defert, and Savages in human Shape, make ufe.

of this Opportunity, 31-Darkness renders the leaft

Spark vifible, and at the fame time fnatches from

our Sight all the lovely Diftinctions of Things, 35-

Sleep; its chearing Nature; the Gift of Heaven ;

the fine Preparatives for its Approach; the Kind-

nefs of Providence in guarding our Slumbers,39—

Dreams;

Dreams; their unaccountable Oddness; many

Peoples waking Thoughts no less chimerical, 44–

A very fingular, and very happy Circumftance, at
tending Sleep and Dreams, 48-Ghoffs; our unrea-

Jonable Timoroufness on this fanciful Occafion; the

true Object of Fear the Reality and Design of

Apparitions, deduced from a Passage in Job, 50—

The Owl; its gloomy Disposition, the Unholy inca-

pable of relifting the Delights of Heaven, 58-Owl

Screaming, supposed to be a Taken of Death; the

many real Prefages of this great Change; Prepara

tion pointed out and preffed, 60-The Nightingale;

her charming Song; entertains the Lovers of Ree

tirement; how to have a fweeter Melody in our

own Breafts, 64-The very different Circumftances

of Mankind, particularly of the Gay, and the Af-

flicted Addrefs to the Devotees of Mirth and Sen-

Juality, 66-The Glow-worm, and Ignis fatuus;

the Pleafures of the World, and Powers of unen-

lightened Reafon, 71A Comet imagined to be the

Forerunner of Judgments; Licentioufnefs abound-

ing in a Nation, a much more formidable Omen; the

Distemper among the Cattle,7 3—Northern Lights;

the Panic they occafion; the general Conflagration,

77-The Moon rifing brightens as fhe advances;

fuch fhould be our moral Conduct, 81 +Moon opens a

majestic Scène how worthy pár Admiration, 82-

Moon, a moft ferviceable Appendage to our Globe,

84-Moon, foines with derivative Light; Chriftians

receive

receive their All from their Saviour,86-Moon al-
ways varying; the Things of this World liable to
perpetual Viciffitudes; our own Righteoufness une-
qual and imperfect, our Redeemer's complete and
always the fame, 88-Moon under an Eclipfe ; ga-
zed at by Multitudes; the Faults of eminent Per-
fons feldom efcape Obfervation, 94-Moon reflected
by the Ocean; the Virtues of Perfons, in diftin-
guished Stations, influential on others, 96-Moon
actuates the Sea; the everlasting Joys of Heaven
`attract and refine the Affections, 97—Prayer a
reasonable Service, Praife a delightful Duty;
with devout Recollections proper for the Night.

CON-

CONTEMPLATIONS

ON THE

NIGHT.

T

HE Bufinefs of the Day dispatched, and the fultry Heats abated, invited me to the Recreation of a Walk: A Walk, in one of the fineft Receffes of the Country; and in one of the most pleasant Evenings, which the Summer-Seafon produced.

THE Limes and Elms, uniting their Branches over my Head, formed a verdant Canopy, and caft a moft refreshing Shade. Under my Feet lay a Carpet of Nature's Velvet; Grafs intermingled with Mofs, and embroidered with Flowers. Jeffamines, in Conjunction with Woodbines, twined around the Trees, displaying their artless Beauties to the Eye, and difVOL. II, fufing

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