Temperance Lays and Poems. By D. G. Paine. 18mo. pp. 136. London, Steill.

By those who feel interested in Temperance Societies, and far be it from us to strive to weaken their zeal in the cause, this little volume will be highly prized. Some of the poems contained in it are really very ingenious.

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We were at first surprised to meet with our friend Ragg on the cold plains of sober prose, but we soon found that he had scattered thereupon so much of the flowers and sunlight of his own exuberant imagination, that he had turned those barren plains into a variegated field. Our poetical readers will very much admire this little volume.

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The Great Commander and his Obedient Servant, a Sermon. 12mo. pp. 12. By Rev. C. Drawbridge. London: Palmers.

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In this little book the reader possesses a sample of the peculiar excellence which renders Dr. Hawker's writings so very precious and profit

table to the family of God. Gathering as it were a single grape from the abundant clusters of the vine of scripture, he presses therefrom such a fulness and richness of comfort and home to the heart by a divine blesencouragement, that when it comes sing, and without this all writing is cheered believer can scarcely credit profitless, the astonished and yet that he hath obtained so much spiritual vigour and refreshment from perhaps only a single phrase. On page 61, for instance, the little word it is so copiously and sweetly illustrated, as to show that it comprises all the blessings of the gospel of God, yea the God of blessings himself. Again on page 55 the word nevertheless is proved to be a barrier and a security to Zion's feeble and fainting children, which Satan with all his ingenuity cannot overthrow." Nevertheless he saved them for his name's sake." But to go on multiplying instances would be to point It has never been, we believe, printed to every chapter in the little volume. before in any other form than detached tracts, it is now presented in very neat attire, and we most cordially recommend it to all who have not yet given it a perusal.

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THE infamous price at which this tract is published, will prevent any extended circulation of it, and so far it is well, for a more crude, incomprehensible discourse, we have seldom read.

We have copied the title exactly. It does not inform us, but we presume that it purports to be by our reverend friend of Meard's Court. And, satisfied as we are from his former publications, and from his general style of preaching, that this Sermon, as now published, was never delivered by him, we much regret that he has

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THE learned Arminian rabbi, John Goodwin, when in the plenitude of his pedantic conceits, he gave to the unlearned cobler the text, 2 Peter iii. 16, which constitutes the ground-work of this discourse, scarcely expected, we dare say, such an overwhelming refutation of his foolish assertion, that only scholars are competent teachers of God's holy word: Samuel How has never been controverted, and we believe never will, while that scripture remains on record,-" God hath chosen the foolish things of the world, to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak things of the world, to confound the things which are mighty; and the base things of the world, and things which are despised,

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THOUGH HE SLAY ME YET WILL I TRUST IN HIM."

LORD, I'll trust in thee alone,
L'en when earthly joy 's unknown;
Thou canst fill each aching void,
With delights pure, unalloyed:
Trials oft may pierce my heart,
Rudely in the tenderest part;
But I lift my soul to thee,
Pleading in adversity.

On the rod these words I trace,
Written there by sovereign grace,
"This vain world is not thy rest,
Fly unto thy Saviour's breast:"
Lord, this word I'd ever hear,
Bid adieu to grief and fear;
To thy will submissive be,
Hoping in adversity.

Give me patiently to wait,
Still content in every state;
Though around dark clouds I see,
Tis not, Lord, too dark for me:

Winds may blow, and tempests lour,
But my soul defies their power,
When thy count'nance, Lord, I see,
Smiling in adversity.

Shall I grieve, since thorns I meet
Lead me thy mercy-seat?
Shall my spirit be dismayed

While thy love dear Lord's displayed?
No, in thee I will rejoice,

Thou shalt hear my feeble voice;
Of thine own I'll give to thee,
Bless thee in adversity.

Every moment mercies new

Tell me thou wilt bring me through,
Turn the darkness into day,-
Every mountain melt away:
All my trust is in thy name,
Humbly then I can exclaim,
I shall thy salvation see,
After deep adversity.

I shall still proclaim thy power,,
Proved in every trial-hour;
Sing the love that worked for me
While beholding-wondrously!
Wilt thou, Lord, my all receive,
Oh assist me to believe;

To make us heart-sick of the world and its things.

Heart-sick of the world with all its profession, Flesh-pleasing religion is all it can claim; No fear of the Lord, no life in possession, Good works is its standard, and by-ends its aim..

Heart-sick of the world with all its beguiling, We enter our closet where oft we have found Rest from the scourge of deceitful reviling, In Jesus' bosom where blessings abound.

Heart-sick of the world with all its self

Thy praise, Jehovah, glorious Lord, Before whom countless seraphs bow, My feeble voice would sound abroad,

The God that doeth wonders thou!

When from thy bright and dateless home,
The fiat issued loud and high;
Forth from thy power's prolific womb
Cherubic myriads filled the sky :
Creation's mandate chaos heard,

And shrinking knew its doom was now; Earth sprang to being at thy word,

The God that doeth wonders thou!

When the first man his glory stained,
When sin first shed his poisonous breath,
When bliss forsook a world profaned

By guilt, contagion, pride, and death; Then was thy mighty power displayed, Then didst thou sovereign mercy shew; Redemption then was first pourtrayed,

The God that doeth wonders thou!

When the young world in guilt grew strong,
Proud in the attitude of guilt;
Thy deluge drowned the ingrate throng,
Thy power its fragrant fields rebuilt:
The fathers of another race

Rode safely on the torrents' brow;
The appointed ark their sheltering place,
The God that doeth wonders thou!

When tortured by the Egyptian's chain
Thine Israel heaved the prayerful sigh,
Thy red right arm was bared again,

And plagues announced thy vengeance nigh: Ten times were awful warnings given,

Ere justice dealt the final blow; None vainly brave insulted heaven,

The God that doeth wonders thou!

When freed from Pharaoh's cruel yoke,
Thy people trod the desert sands,
Streams issuing from the riven rocks,
Supplied the wants of Israel's bands:
Food came abundant to their tents,

Uncultured by the spade or plough; Heaven's windows opening gave it thence, The God that doeth wonders thou!

When in the full appointed year
Immanuel left his azure throne,
A man 'mongst fallen men to appear,
To justify and to atone :
Then vanquished hell beheld amazed

The expiring Lord on Calvary's brow;
Men crucified while angels gazed,

The God that doeth wonders thou!

When on the third, the promised day, The ascending Saviour left the dead. The stone, the seal he tore away,

And filled the sentinels with dread: Up to the pearly gates he soared,

The opening gates invite him through,

While ransomed thousands glad adored, The God that doeth wonders thou!

Now while the gospel sounds abroad,
The length and breadth of earth's exter
Proclaiming mercy bought with blood,
And uttering loud the call-Repent!
Powerful the noiseless message runs,

Taught by the Spirit to subdue,
Melting proud rebels into sons,

The God that doeth wonders thou!

And when the course of time is done,

When this worn world decays with age, When radiance leaves the expiring sun,

And planets cease their pilgrimage; Then on a bright and gorgeous throne, Thou wilt apportion joy or woe, The final doom of every one,

The God that doeth wonders thou! Oh, for that great important day, While the lamp burns let me prepare; Father, before thy throne I pray, Oh spare the tree another year! Give me repentance, give me faith, All needful blessings, Lord, bestow; Preserve me from the second death, The God that doeth wonders thou!

REZENEB.

A SUPPLIANT'S CRY,

Lord I approach thy mercy throne, For pardon full and free;

I am a sinner, Lord,

own,
Yet Lord remember me.

Oh do not spurn me from thy feet,
But listen to my cry:
For at thy footstool sinners meet,
And such, O Lord, am I.

Dear Lord I own my sinful heart
Is prone to go astray;
Yet let me not from thee depart,
My life, my light, my way.
Though Satan oft doth me annoy,
And strive me to devour;
Thy love is such he can 't destroy,
Restrain his raging power.

“Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee. Hide thyself as it were for a little moment, until the indignation be overpast.”—Isa. xxvi. 20.

In these words we may observe, I. That times of awful Judgments, when God's wrath is to be poured out upon any people for their sin, who are ripe for ruin; are times of fear and danger unto God's people that are among them: which is strongly implied, in that they are here called to hide themselves: hide thee. 2. That in all times of fear and danger, God hath provided well, for the safety and joy of his own people; in those chambers given them for their protection, when others are smitten with awful destruction: thy chambers. 3. That at all times of fear and danger, the God of infinite love, grace and mercy, in boundless compassion to his own people, calls them to flee for safety, into those chambers which he hath provided for their security with a Come, my people, enter thou into thy chambers, and shut thy doors about thee: hide September, 1842.]

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fear and danger unto God's people, will be soon over: as it were for a litle moment, until the indignation be overpast. To each of these a little, if the Lord please, And it is here strongly implied,

First. That times of awful judg. ments, when God's wrath is to be poured out upon any people for their sin, who are ripe for ruin; are times of fear and danger, unto God's people that are among them: hide thee.Thus, when the old world, whose wickedness was great, were ripe for ruin, and they were to be smitten with that awful judgment of an universal deluge: it was a times of fear and danger unto Noah and his family. Whence it is said of Noah, that He was moved with fear." Not with an anxious, distressing, unbelieving fear; but with an awful, reverential fear of God, and of his righteous judgment, which was then impending, and just ready to come down upon unbelievers, And as for danger, had not God provided for the safety of Noah and his family; both he and his, with the rest of mankind, must have been destroyed utterly. Thus also, when Sodom and Gomorrah, the cry of whose sins

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