Thou that fittest on a throne,

To which the night was never known,
Regard my voice and make me blefs'd,
By kindly granting it's request.
If thoughts on thee my foul employ,
My darkness will afford me joy;
'Till thou shalt call, and I fhall foar,
part with darkness evermore.

And

[PARNELL.

The SOUL IN SORROW.
ITH kind compaffion hear my cry,
Ο JESU, LORD of Life, on high!
As when the Summer's feasons beat
With fcorching flame and parching heat,
The trees are burnt, the flowers fade,
And thirty gaps in earth are made.
My thoughts of comfort languifh fo,
And fore my foul is broke by woe.
Then on thy fervant's drooping head,
Thy dews of bleffing fweetly fhed;
Let thofe a quick refreshment give
And raise my mind, and bid me live.
My fears of danger while I breathe,
My dread of endlefs hell beneath;
My fenfe of forrow for my fin,
To fpringing comfort, change within;
Change all my fad complaints for ease,
To chearful notes of endlefs praife;
Nor let a tear mine eyes employ,
But fuch as owe their birth to joy:
Joy tranfporting, fweet and ftrong,
Fit to fill and raife my fong;
Joy that fhall refounded be

While days and nights fucceed for me:
Be not as a Judge fevere,

For then thy prefence who may bear ?
On all my words and actions look,
(I know they're written in thy book)
But then regard my mournful cry,
And look with Mercy's gracious eye.
What needs my blood, fince thine will do,
Το pay the debt to juftice due.

Thy tender mercies are divine!
Thy forrows prove the cure of mine!
Thy dropping wounds, thy woful smart,
Allay the bleedings of my heart:

Thy

Thy death, in death's extreme of pain,
Reftores my foul to life again.
Guide me then, for here I burn
To make my Saviour fome return.
I'll rife, (if that will please him ftill;
And fure I've heard him own it will)
I'll trace his steps and bear my cross,
Defpifing every grief and lofs;
Since he defpifing pain and fhame,
Fift took up his, and did the fame.

The HAPPY MA N.
OW blefs'd the man, how fully fo,
As far as man is blefs'd below,
Who taking up his crofs, effays
To follow JESUs all his days;
With refolution to obey,
And fteps enlarging in his way.
The FATHER of the faints above
Adopts him, with a Father's love,
And makes his bofom throughly fhine
With wond'rous ftores of grace divine;
Sweet grace divine, the pledge of joy
That will his foul above employ;
Full joy, that when his time is done
Becomes his portion as a fon.
Ah me! the fweet infus'd defires,
The fervid wishes, holy fires,
Which thus a melted heart refine,
Such are his, and fuch be mine.
From hence, defpifing all befides,
That earth reveals or ocean hides,
All that men in either prize,
On GoD alone he fets his eyes.
From hence his hope is on the wings,
His health renews, his fafety fprings,
His glory blazes up below,

And all the ftreams of comfort flow.
He calls his Saviour, King above,
Lord of mercy, Lord of love,
And finds a kingly care defend,
And mercy fmile, and love defcend,
To chear, to guide him in the ways
Of this vain world's deceitful maze:
And tho' the wicked earth difplay,
It's terrors in their fierce array,

THE

Or gape fo wide that horror fhews
It's hell replete with endlefs woes;
Such fuccour keeps him clear off IN,
Still firm to good, and dauntless fill.
So fix'd, by Providence's hands,
A rock amidst an ocean ftands;
So bears without a trembling dread,
The tempeft beating round its head;
And with its fide repels the wave
Whofe hollow feems a coming grave;
The fkies, the deeps, are heard to roar ;
The rock ftands fettled as before.

[IBID;

LONDON, O&tober 31, 1793.

HE Delegates appointed by the Conference at Leeds, waited this day on the Right Honourable Henry Dundas, one of his Majefty's principal Secretaries of State, and received from that Gentleman the agreeable Information, That his Majefty in Council, has been graciously pleased to DisANNUL the A&t of the Affembly of St. Vincent's, (mentioned in the preceding Volume of this Magazine, page 441.) Mr. Dundas likewise affured us, That his Majefty's Pleasure would be notified by the first Packet that failed to the WeftIndies.

It is with unfpeakable fatisfaction that we announce, to all our Friends in Europe and America, this important event, whereby Liberty of Confcience is again restored to those who are unalterably Loyal Subjects to the King, and immovably attached to the British Conftitution.

THOMAS COKE,
WILLIAM THOMPSON,
GEORGE STORY.
GEORGE WHITFIELD,

THOMAS RANKIN,
THOMAS WARRICK,
WILL. BLACKBURNE.

ARMINIAN MAGAZINE.

Engraved by Ridley

ME ALEXANDER SUTER

Aged 36.

Preacher of the Gospel.