****** ̄*6*0*8* ̄* POET R Y. To SILVIA. [By Mifs Steele.] MY lovely Silvia, while in blooming youth Attend the voice (the voice of Love and Truth) Those active When chilled by Time's cold hand, thofe fprightly powers Thofe mental ftores fhall cheer the wintry hours, So flies the industrious bee around the vale, To keep for wintry-days the rich regale. Defiring Defiring a Cheerful RESIGNATION to the DIVINE WILL W [By the fame.] HY breathes my anxious heart the frequent figh? Is it to mark how prefent bleffings fly? Is it that griefs to come awake my fear? O may I fill with thankful heart enjoy The various gifts indulgent heaven bestows! Nor let ungrateful diffidence deftroy The prefent good, with fears of future woes, Nor let me curious afk if dark or fair My future hours; but in the hand divine, With full affiance, leave my every care; Be humble hope and refignation mine. Celeftial guests! your fmile can cheer the heart, And bid fweet flowers amid the defart bloom Yes, bere and there, amid the dreary wild My God, my guide, be thou for ever near! Gild each dark scene with thy enlivening ray Be earth's quick changing feenes, or dark, or fair, THE Arminian Magazine, For OCTOBER 1786. An EXTRACT from Dr. WHITBY'S DISCOURSES on the FIVE POINTS. CHAP. VI. Arguments from Reafon for Univerfal Redemption. V.WE [Continued from page 469.] 7E find our Saviour marvelling at the unbelief of his own people. Now could he who knew they could not believe, wonder that they did not? Again, When he heard the answer of the Centurion, He marvelled, faying, Verily I have not found so great faith, no not in Ifrael; but if this faith is the effect of an Almighty power, what reafon could he have to marvel, that it was found where that Almighty power was exerted? or that it was not found where the fame power was with-held? To clear this by fome few inflances from fcripture. 1ft. St. Matthew informs us that Chrift upbraided the cities in which most of his mighty works were done, because they VOL. IX. 3 S repented |