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* MTJ+ EC T I O K $ on MfSPORtUNE.-
MISFORTUNE bed Sincerity can Ihcw,
And *tis the only test our Friends to know;
i The my toochftond 6f the Truth.
Refiitlefi it attrafts our Friends more close,
v And marks the faithful Few at Heart from show
Who are so only at the Mouth.
Fite and Misfortune serve alike t’ unfold.
As from the Draft Fire separates the Gold,.
And (hews the metal’s real worth j
With equal troth Misfortune furcly tends
To purge the mass of undlftingutfh’d Friends,
And bring the trely Faithful forth,
like Hope Profpcrity too often lends
Delusive Joys and interested Friends |
While, with Sincerity's hard rod,
Misfortune em does impress the Truth ;
like feme kind Mailer, in our days of youths
Chastising only for ounGbod.
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• J STJe Littleness of Hvman Wisdom : OrFottr i/Ma**
‘Th If AN measures earth, weighs air, surveys the (ky,
• • JLy JL Explores the planeti as they rapid fly;’
t .-views fan* on funs and worlds on worlds advance *
Through the vast, boundless, infinite expanse i
Yet knows not how a Angle grass doth grow,
A cherry ripen, or a lilly blow.
Full of conceit, fed with temerity,
Nature’s firll principles he would decry;
•By his own law* make worlds, or worlds de.lroys; ‘ t
* Pervadeth all things with his piercing eyes t
Yet knows not how bis foot obeys his will,
At hit command, or mores or flandeth Hill.
Such"his preemption, folly, confidence,
He would describe the place of residence
Os God, and how he að, fees, commands j
All things, .pad, present, future onderflaad*:
But lives a stranger to bimfelf, nor know*
How he began, exills, extendeth, grows*
Or how he thinketh; how he doth retain
A sense of feeling pleafore, fear, or pain,’
(So, wondrous cieature ! firll learn to be good;
. To cloath the naked, give the hungry food ;
To cheriOi worth, true merit patroniie ;
Thy country's good and happiness devise:
This done—Of nature's feci’cts. beauties rare.
Take to the full of thy allotted (hare:
But drive to reach not what was pre-defign’d
Too vast for thee, by the Eternal Mind,
To whom alone Creation doth belong,
Who made all right—(’ti* thou that judged wrong)
To whom all praise and adoration be,
Froqi (his time forth to all eternity.
The CONTENTED PAIR.
A COTTAGE, with a decple nigh,
A little brook that bubble* by ;
A garden full of fruits and flowers, a
Os roofly beds and lhady bowers ;
An orchard richly ftor’d with fruit
x That any Lady’s tafle may suit;
Da fie o’erfpread th’ enamel’d ground,
Diflufing ftagrance all around;
The tender trees and /hrubs exhale
Those sweets that blow with ev’ry gale >
fV ‘The fertile lands and fruitful fields,
pAv Enlivening all that natare yields ;
“Without, you.view this love!y frame ;
Within, the feene is much the fame.
Tho’ feme would call oar cottage mean,’
Few palaces are kept so clean.
For sumptuous fare we never look
When there’s a flitch upon the hook. “,
* Bled with two lovely girls and hoys.
Who part our care and (hare our joys,
We chcarful pass the rime away
~ Jn labour H the live-long day :
With hearts quite open,and sincere.
With no improper wifti or fear,
We Andy, aim, aud wish to do
Juil as we would be done unto;
Thinking Content * greater gain
Than Pride, with all her haughty train ;
r blase and fplendour of a Court,
’here Honour's dften but a fgort.
* r /Contented, as we said before,
.ui We tfTther aflt or wilb so/ more; .
/ To wifirror more were but a jell/
1 • Providsacc we leave tkc red.
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WEDNESDAY, March 29, 1769.
v ANP. CDOTE 1
CHRtSTOrHER RADZIVIL, the fourth Palatine ofVilna, Grand
Marshal and Chancellor of Lithuania iu the sixteenth century, when
the reformation began to !>e eftablilhed there, being extremely sorry that
s Prince of his faintly embraced the Protcftant religion, he went to Romp,
and paid-all imaginable honours to the Pope. The Roman Pontiff, be
ing also deftrous of indulging his kindness to him, gave him, at Jus de
parture, a hot filled with relicks. Being returned to hishoufc, and the
news of these relick* being fpreaJ abroad, certain Friars, forne months
after, came and tord this Prince, that a man was poflefled with the devj),
tv ho had been exorciled to no purpose. They therefore btfought him,
frr the fake of that unhappy wretch, telend them the prcciou* relief*
which He had brought from Rotne. The Prince granted them very readi
ly ; upon which they were carried to church is solemn pomp, all the
Monks going in pioceflion on that occasion; at lad they were laid on the
Altar; and, at the day appointed, anumbetlefs multitude bf people flock
ing to this Ihew, after the usual exorcism, the relicks were applied. At
that very instant the pretended devil spirit came out of the body of the man.
with the usual pollure* and grimaces. Every one cried out, A miracle!
and the Prince lifted up his hands and e/es to heaven, to return thanks
for his having brought so holy a thing, which performed such miracles.
But fome days after, as he was in that admiration and transport of joy,
and was bellowing the highest elogiums on the.virtue of those relicki, he
oVervedj that a’young gentleman of his houlhold, who bad the keeping
that rich treasure, began to smile, and made certain gestures, which Ihcw •
ed that he only laughed at his words ; the Prince flew into a palfion, and
would know the reason of his derision. A promifebeing made to thegen
tleman that mo harm Ihould be done him, he declared secretly 10 the Prince,
that in the return from Rome he had 101 l the box of relicks, which had
been given him to keep ; and that, not daring tb divulge this, for fear of
punimment, he had found means to get one Tike it, which he had filled’
with little bones of beads, and such trifles as resembled the reticles
loft: That feeing so much honour was paid to a vile heap of filth, and
that they even aferibed to it the virtue of driving away devils, he hadjuft
cause to wonder at it. The Prince believed this (lory to be true ; and,
rcverthelefs, being deftrous of get ting further light into this impolture,
he sent for the M nks the very next day, and desired them to enquire
whether there were no more demoniacks who wanted the afiiftance of hits
relicks A few days after they brought him another men poflefled wirh
an evil spirit, who a&ed the fame part with him who had appeared be
fore. The Prince Commanded him to beexorciftd in his pretence; but
at all the exorcisms, which are usually employed 0/1 those occasions, prov
ed, ineffectual, he ordered that man to (lay in hit palace the next day, and
bid the Monks to withdraw. After they were gone, he put the Demoni
icfc among the Tartarian Grooms, who, purfuaat to she orders which had
been given, firll exhorted him to confeis the cheat; but as he perfiited
obltinately in it, Hill making his furious and dreadful gestures, ITx of
them exercised him so severely with rods and scourges, that he was oblig
ed to implore the Prince’s mercy, who pardoned him the instant he con
feffed the truth. The next morning the Prince sent for the Friars, when
the wretch in question, throwing himfelf at his feet, prote(led that he was
not poffeffea, and had never been so, but that those Friars had forced him
to aft the part of one wiio was so. The Monks, at firll, besought the
Prince not to believe this, faying, that itwaa an artifice of tbedCvil, who
spoke through the man’s mouth. But the Prince answered, that if the
Tartarianr had been able to force the devil to tell truth, they would aJfo
bejble to extort it from the mouths of those Priars. But now these Monks,
feeing themfelvei put to it in this manner, confefled the irnpoJlnr< fay
ing, that they had done all this with a good intention, and so Hop the
progress of heresy. But the Prince offered up hit hearty prayers to GOD,
for having been so gracious as to dHcoverfucb an inspofture; and now en
tertaining a fufplcion of a religion which was defended bjr such diabolical
praftices; thn’ they went by the names of pious frauds, said, that he would
no longer depend on any man for his falvatfbm; and thereupon begin to
read the Scriptures with unparallelled assiduity. In fix months time, all
which he spent in reading and prayer, hs mode a wonderous progress in
piety, and in the knowledge of the myllery of the gospel. After which,
he himfelf, with his whole family, publickly profefled his religion in
1664. This paflage is from Mr. Drelincourt, Minister of the.Protellant
Church in Paris t It is rela ed by an aofwer published by him in 1663, to
the letter which Prince Ernest, Landgrsve of HefTe, had writ to the fivy
Proteftant. MiniHers of Paris, he adds the following words: “Yoop;
Highness may give credit to it, if you judge proper; but I p rote ft to ytmT’
the fame as jf 1 was before the Almighty’s throne, that this story was told
mein this manner, by the Minister belonging 10 Prince Januftiq* RadzU
vih nay he delivered to me in writing part of what he had told me,
and which he explained to me more fully by word of mouth.” £
E st A t E of THOMAS MATHBR3,
late of the parilh of Christ-Church, dpceafed, by bond, note, or
otherwise, are requerted to difeharge the fame immediately, and those
havinc demand* again* the said eftato ts f*id thein in, properly attested, .
ta S * ANN MATHERS, Execuirix.
* „ RICHARD. FOX, Execotoy. •
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paper. ‘ • .