O could you now the penfive Matron view,
Where only Cypress grows and baleful Yew:
Hid, in the gloomy Valley of Defpair
The Magdalen lies with difhevell'd Hair,
To the cold Earth her tender Bofom bare.
The Ruines of a Sepulchre her Bed,
A Skull the Pillow that fupports her Head,
Unbury'd Bones forlorn about her Spread.
Rending with Penitential Sighs the Skies,
Eccho'd by Ravens Knells and Scrietch Owl Cries.
By tripping Faeries Mock'd, and Antick Sprites
(Tormenting Vifions of her paft Delights!)
Who Dance, in Spiteful Sport, to Mufick's Moans,
For ftill, tho' fad, Harmonious are her Groans!
Heark how the Mournful Melody aspires!

Pauze bere; a Mournful Symphony play'd foft and faint, as at a Diftance.

These tuneful Sighs charm down th' Angelick Quires,
Who, their Repenting Magdalen to Chear,da golf
Proud of the Charge, in Shining Throngs appear
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Fair Mourner Rife (Tryumphant thus they say) Rife Mournful Fair; bright Convert come Away. For fake this Vale of Tears--- with Open Gates For thy Return thy Native Temple waits. Daughter of Heav'n Once more in Glory Shine, Again Appear, what Thou wer't Born, Divine.

She Comes the moving Tryumph I Survey!
Before the Pomp Celestial Harpers Play;
And ftrew Etherial Roses in her Way.

Now Liften Earth to her bleft Hymns of Praise
That bring Heav'n down to Thee, and Thee to Heav'n

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PSALM XIX.

J. HE Heavens declare the Glory of God, and the Firmament fheweth his handy Work.

2. One Day telleth another, and one Night certifieth Another.

3. There is nether Speech nor Language but their Voices are heard among them.

4. Their Sound is gone out into all Lands, and their Words into the Ends of the World.

5. In them hath he fet a Tabernacle for the Sun who cometh forth as a Bridegroom out of the Chamber, and rejoyceth as a Giant to run his Course.

6. It goeth forth from the Outermost Part Counter-ten- of the Heaven, and runneth about unto the End of it again, and there is nothing hid from the Heart thereof.

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7. The Law of the Lord is an undefiled Law converting the Soul; the Teftimony of the Lord is fure, And giveth Wisdom unto Drop the Single.

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T is, Gentlemen, the firft and the moft diftin guishing Prerogative of our Nature, that we alone, of all the Sons of Earth, are taught our Dependance, and to own the Dominion of God that made us. And therefore I hope fo Noble an Affembly, who have all Reafon to pretend unto the beft Compofitions, will not be furprized at their being called to purfue this. Original Defign, and to act according to the Dignity of their Nature. To affift this best of Actions, and advance that firft Defign of all, is the End of this humble Performance; that fo Divine a Gift, as Mufick is, may no longer, like a Prodigal, wander from its true Parent, and become an Omament to Trifles, but may recover its Station, and be received into the Protection of its Guardian Divinity. It was.

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this Excellent Art which foftned the Old World into Societies, and which firft fweetned their Fierce and Barbarous Paffions to receive the Bleffing of Order; and Mankind was fo overfenfible of the Benefit, that every Patron and Inventer of it enjoy'd a Fabulous Honour, and was ftiled a Tutelary God. Nay in the true Antiquity, where Men are taught to keep their Bounds and give Honors fhort of Idolatry, we find the Inventers of the Harp and the Organ recorded in the fame Catalogue with the Founders of Nations; and to employ these Sacred Inftruments as they de ferved, did the true God infpire the Chief of all the Jewish Monarchs; who both compofed, and performed, upon fome Solemn Occafions, thofe Holy Hymns which are to this Day the beft Guides of our Devotion. As for the Chriftian Worship, the firft Obfervers of it could no better defcribe it, than by their Meeting Early to Sing certain Hymns, and fince these have been brought out of Caves into Churches and Temples, we ftill find the greatest Encouragers of them have been the

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