A SACRED

POE M,

IN NINE DIALOGUES;

WHEREIN THE UTMOST POWER OF

NATURE, REASON, VIRTUE,

AND THE

LIBERTY of the HUMAN WILL,

To adminifter COMFORT to the AWAKENED SINNER, Are impartially Weighed and Confidered.

By Mr. JOHN FELLOWS, AUTHOR of the NEW HISTORY of the BIBLE in VERSE, &c.

·For a small moment have I forfaken thee; but with great Mercies will I gather thee. In a little wrath I hid my face from thee for a moment; but with everlasting kindness will I have mercy on thee, faith the LORD thy Ifaiah, liv. 7, 8.

REDEEMER.

A NEW

EDITION,

Embellished with a PORTRAIT of the AUTHOR.

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TO THE

Rev. Mr. JOHN RYLAND,

Of NORTHAMPTON.

Reverend Sir,

TH

HE care, fkill, and unwearied ardour with which you purfue that great and important employment, the Education. of Youth, induce you to attend to every method of inftruction, and carefully to explore every way of accefs to the human. Mind.

It is therefore the highest reason and moft happy difcernment, that determine you, while you are pursuing the cultivation. and improvement of thofe noble intellectual powers of the Soul, the Reafon, Underftanding, and Judgment, not to neglect the Imagination and Fancy; thofe loose and lower faculties of the Mind: for well you know,

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know, that if thefe unfettled rovers are not provided for, they are fure to feck out for themfelves, and will most certainly introduce fuch a profufion of all kinds of vanity, as will engage the whole attention of the Mind; and, in the end, run away with the nobler intellectual powers; while they utterly defeat the moft judicious, and best contrived fyftem of education.

Thefe vagrant powers of the Mind, in their natural, wild, and uncultivated state, are deplorably fubverfive of every good, and advantageous purfuit; yet, when they are well directed and properly employed, are the foundation of every improvement,-the very ground-work, and materials which form every fine accomplishment our nature is capable of acquiring.

Happy then, and most exquifitely adapted to the great purpose it pursues, is the management of that Tutor, who makes ufe of fuch forms of inftruction as catch thefe wanton wanderers unawares; infenfi

bly