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No more th' effulgent glory of thy God
Speaks awful answers from the mystic cloud,
No more thine altars blaze with fire divine,
And heav'n has left thy solitary shrine.
Yet, in thy courts, hereafter shalt thou see
Presence immediate of the Deity,

The light himself reveal'd, the God confess'd in thee.

And now, at length the fatal term of years

The world's desire have brought, and lo! the God appears.
The heav'nly babe the virgin mother bears,
And her fond looks confess the parent's cares.
The pleasing burden on her breast she lays,
Hangs o'er his charms, and with a smile surveys.
The infant smiles, to her fond bosom prest,
And wantons, sportive, on the mother's breast,
A radiant glory speaks him all divine,

And in the child the beams of Godhead shine.

But now alas! far other views disclose,
The blackest comprehensive scene of woes,
See where men's voluntary sacrifice

Bows his meek head, and God eternal dies!
Fixt to the cross, his healing arms are bound,
While copious mercy streams from ev'ry wound!
Mark the blood-drops that life exhausting roll,
And the strong pang that rends the stubborn soul!
As all death's tortures with severe delay,
Exult and riot, in the noblest prey.

And can'st thou, stupid Man, those sorrows see,
Nor share the anguish which he bears for thee?
Thy sin, for which his sacred flesh is torn,
Points ev'ry nail and sharpens ev'ry thorn;

Can'st thou while nature smarts in ev'ry wound,
And each pang cleaves the sympathetic ground!
Lo! the black sun, his chariot backward driv'n,
Blots out the day, and perishes from heav'n:
Earth, trembling from her entrails, bears a part,
And the rent rock upbraids men's stubborn heart..
The yawning grave reveals his gloomy reign;
And the cold clay-clad dead start into life again.

And thou, O tomb, once more shalt wide display,
Thy satiate jaws, and give up all thy prey,
Thou, groaning earth shalt heave absorpt in flame,
As the last pangs convulse thy lab'ring frame;
When the same God unshrouded thou shalt see,
Wrapt in full blaze of power and majesty.

Ride on the clouds; whilst as his chariot flies,
The bright effusion streams thro' all the skies,
Then shall the proud dissolving mountains glow,
And yielding rocks in fiery rivers flow:

The molten deluge round the globe shall roar.
And all mens arts and labours be no more.
Then shall the splendors of th' enliven❜d glass
Sink undistinguish'd in the burning mass.
And O! till earth, and seas, and heav'n decay.
Ne'er may that fair creation fade away;

May winds and storms those beauteous colours spare,
Still may they bloom, as permanent as fair,

All the vain rage of wasting time repell,

And his tribunal see, whose cross they point so well.

LIST OF NEW BOOKS IN DIVINITY.

HE Christian Mirror; exhibit

R. Lucas, D. D. 2 vols. 8vo. a new

THE Bulucas, D. D. d

and defects of the Religious World, containing Essays in Prose and Verse. 12m. 5s. boards.

Popular Evidences of Natural Religion and Christianity; by the Rev. Thomas Watson, 8vo.

The first Report of the British and Foreign Bible Society, 1805, with an appendix. 8vo. 1s.

An Essay on Toleration in which the subject of Catholic Emancipation is considered; by a Presbyter.

8vo. 1s.

The Dissenter's Appeal against the attacks of the Rev. Rowland Hill, in the conclusion of a book entitled a Warning to Professors." 8vo. 6d.

An Inquiry whether the description of Babylon contained in the 18th Chapter of the Revelations agrees perfectly with Rome as a City, &c. recommended to all such worthy Individuals in the Roman Church as have any sincere regard for the honour of God, and his holy Religion: by Granville Sharp, 12mo.

Extract of a letter on the proposed Catholic Emancipation, addressed to a worthy Clergyman in Ireland, by Granville Sharp. 12mo. 12 pages.

An Inquiry after Happiness; by

Extracts from various Authors; with remarks on the mode, subjects, and history of Baptism; by Thomas Wortlake. 12mo.

The miscellaneous and posthu mous works of the late Rev. Mr. Alex. Pirie, of Newburgh. vol. 2, 12mo. 8s.

A Sermon preached before the House of Commons Feb 20, 1805, being the day appointed for a General Fast, by Charles Henry Hall, D. D. 4to. 1s. 6d.

An admonition against Laypreaching, by Edward Pearson, B. D. Rector of Rempstone, Nottinghamshire. 12mo.

An Exhortation to the duty of Catechising; with observations on the excellency of the Church Catechism, by the same. 12mo.

The Scriptural analogy and con. cord of St. Paul, and St. James, on Christian Faith. A Sermon preached May 9th, 1805, in the Parish Church of St. Mary, Reading, at the visitation of the Archdeacon of Berks, by the Rev. Arthur Onslow, D. D. Dean of Worcester. 8vo. 1s.

-Harmonia Quatnor Evangeliorum juxta Sectiones Ammonianas et Eusebii Canones. 4to. 20s. LITERARY

LITERARÝ INTELLIGENCE.

THE HE Fast India Company have lately established in Hert fordshire a place of public instruction for such young men as are in-, tended to be employed in various civil capacities in the Company's service. The Rev. Mr. HENLEY is appointed president of the institution. The education is to be both commercial and classical, and to comprise, among other branches of instruction, the mathematics, geography, modern languagess, and Oriental literature.

Proposals have been issued by Mr. Samuel Burder, of St. Alban's, for publishing by subscription in 2 vols. 8vo. a work entitled, Oriental Customs, or an illustration of the Sacred Scriptures, by an explana tory application of the customs and manners of the Eastern nations. A. large edition of the first volume was published about three years ago; the second volume is wholly few. It will be seen that the foundation of this work, was Mr. Harmer's excellent observations on Scripture, of which a new and enlarged edition would be highly acceptable to the world, if executed By a person well versed in the Eastern languages and manners.

The Emperor of Russia has granted an entire emancipation to dhe Jews, who are permitted to

open schools for the education of their children.

A new edition of Mr. Hugh Farmer's dissertations on Christ's temptation in the wilderness, is in the press. Our readers, perhaps, will recollect that Mr. Farmer was oue of those rational divines, who in endeavouring to remove all mysteries from sacred writ, asserted that the temptation was not a reality, but only a dream or vision!!

A splendid work entitled a graphical and descriptive Tour of the University of Oxford, is preparing for publication. It will coutain views, representations of public buildings, with their history and present state, and the academic costume. It is to be published in numbers in imperial folio.

A monument is about to be erected to the memory of Sir Joshua Reynolds in St. Paul's Cathedral. For this purpose a subscription has been set on foot by the literary club, of which Sir Joshua was the founder.

A re-publication of a very valu able and interesting work, entitled, "Resolves, religious, moral, and political, by Owen Feltham," is shortly expected to make its appearance.

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mas Woodforde, of Worcester College; and Johnson Grant, of St. John's College, B. A. were admitted Masters of Arts. Mr. Wm. Henry Tinney, of Magdalen College, who distinguished himself in the extraordinary examinations of the present year, was admitted a complete Bachelor of Arts. Messrs. John Wills, of Wadham College; John Williams, of St. Edmund Hall; Charles Henry Sampson, of Magdalen Hall; Thomas Darke and Peter Frye Hony, of Exeter College; Thomas Tudball, of Balliol College; Edward Miller, of Queen's College; Robert Bailey Fisher, of Pembroke College; George Hilliard and William St. Clare, of Christ Church; John Pollard, John Hanmer, Esq. and Thomas Dunbar, Esq. of Brasenose College; John Rowland, Berkley, Thomas Huntingford, and Houlton Hartwell, of New College; Robinson Elsdale, of Corpus Christi College; Giles Rooke Esq. John Pyke, and Richard Roberts, of Merton College; Robert C. Jones and II. Youde, of Jesus College; Hugh Carleton and James Pigott, of Worcester College were admitted Bachelors of Arts.

17th. The Rev. John Carleton, A. M. of Worcester College, and Rector of Hartest cum Boxted, in the Diocese of Norwich, was admitted Bachelor and Doctor in Divinity.

The Rev. Thomas Davies, B. A. of Jesus College, was admitted Master of Arts.

Mr. J. Rose, of Christ Church, was admitted Bachelor of Arts.

20th. the Rev. James Joyce, of St. Edmund Hall; James Henville, of New College; Mr. Ralph Rice, of Oriel College; Rev. James Garbett, of Christ Church; and Mr. Henry Williams, of Merton College, B. A. were admitted Masters of Arts.-Mess. Robert Booth

Vol. VIII. Churchm. Mag. June,

Rawes, of St. Edmund Hall; Eardin Norton, of University College; John Warren and Geo. Rashleigh, of Oriel College; George Hancox, of Queen's College; Thomas Talbot, of St. Edmund Hall; and Henry Seymer, Esq. of Corpus Christi College; were admitted Bachelors of Arts.

21st. William Henry Moseley, B. M. of St. Mary Hall, was adinitted Doctor in Medicine.--John Willis, Esq. of Corpus Christi College, was admitted Master of Arts, Grand Compounder."

22d. The Rev. Robert Portens Beachcroft, B. A. of Oriel College, was admitted Master of Arts, Grand Compounder.

Mr. Edward Hughes, of Jesus College, was elected Scholar of that Society.

The Rev. Charles Crane, B. A. has been instituted by the Hon. and Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Litchfield and Coventry to the rectory of Stoketon, in the county of Warwick,

The Rev. Townley Clarkson, M. A. fellow and bursar of Jesus College, Cambridge, has been instituted to the vicarage of Hinxton in Cambridgeshire, on the presentation of the Lord Chancellor.

The Rev. Thomas Stanley Faber, M. A. has been presented by the Hon. and Right Rev. the Lord Bishop of Durham, to the vicarage of Stockton-upon-Tees.

The Rev. William Browne is licensed to the perpetual curacy of Charsfield in Suffolk, on the presentation of the Hon. William Penn Curzon.

The Rev. Daniel Packard, M. A. is instituted to the rectory of Fordley, and also to the vicarage of Westleton, both in Suffolk, on his own petition, he being the patron.

The Lord Bishop of Lincoln has presented the Rev. Vincent Bayley, M. A. fellow of Trinity College 1805. 3 P Cambridge,

Cambridge, domestic chaplain to his lordship, to the sub-deanry of Lincoln, void by the death of the Rev. Dr. Paley.

The Rev. Thomas Leigh, rector

of Wickham Bishops, has been collated by the Lord Bishop of London to the rectory of Pattiswick in Essex, vacant by the death of the Rev. John Shepherd, M. A.

MONTHLY OBITUARY.

Farther Particulars of the late Dr. PALEY. See page 400. HIS celebrated divine was the

the small living of Helpestone, near Peterborough. About 1746, he obtained the mastership of Giggleswick school, Yorkshire, to which place he removed with his family. In his father's school, Dr. Paley remained till 1759, when he entered a student of Christ's College, Cambridge, and his application to his studies was such, that he became senior wrangler in 1763. On taking his bachelor's degree, he left college, and accepted the situation of assistant in the school at Greenwich. After continuing there about three years, he returned to his college, of which he was elected a fellow. Soon afterwards, he was associated as tutor with Dr. Law (now bishop of Elphin). Dr. Shepherd, the late plumian professor was principal tutor, and taking the half of the profits for himself, he divided the other moiety between Paley and Law. The characters of these tutors filled the college, and they soon compelled Dr. Shepherd to content himself with one-third of the profits of the tuition, as he did not contribute to its support.

After this appointment, Dr. Paley's time was spent in great exertion. His public lectures were the result of much time and applica

tion; and he likewise employed some hours in private teaching. His lectures on moral and political were outline

celebrated work on these subjects; and many of the arguments in his Evidences of Christianity, are stated to have been given in his lectures on the Greek Testament. The mathematics and metaphysics were the province of Dr. Law. This union of labours formed a close and endearing friendship between the tutors, which ended only with the death of Dr. Paley. The Hyson Club, which was formed by the wranglers of Dr. Waring's year, met, as the name imports, to drink a social cup of tea. Of this friendly society, Paley became a member, by which means he acquired a particular intimacy with Waring, one of the profoundest mathematiciaus, and nothing else, in the world. He used to say, that there were not above two or three mathematicians in Europe that understood his writings, and yet he always examined the candidates for Dr. Smith's prizes in them. Paley was not attached to this study, yet the simpli city and integrity of Waring contributed to cement a friendship which could not have been formed on similiarity of intellectual taste. When, however, an edition of Waring's Miscellanea Analytica was printed in 1774, his friend corrected the press, and the author ac knowledged

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