In vain the highest feraph tries, To form an equal fong. [6 In humble notes our faith adores The great mysterious King, While angels ftrain their nobler pow'rs HYMN XXIII. TE DEUM. By Dr. Patrick. God we praise thee, and we own To thee all angels loudly cry, Lord God of hofts, thy prefence bright Unto thy true and only Son: And And to the Holy Ghoft, from whom, Thou, Lord, at God's right hand art plac'd, . Thy people with falvation crown; Thy name we worship and adore, O let thy mercy, Lord, defcend On us, whofe hopes on thee depend: Lord, fince my truft is fix'd in thee, O let me ne'er confounded be. The Prefence of GOD worth dying for: Or, The Death of Moses. Lo A Poem. By Dr.Watts. I. ORD, 'tis an infinite delight To dwell whole ages in thy fight, II. This Gabriel knows; and fings thy name III. While the bright nation founds thy praife Sweet odours of exhaling grace IV. Thy love, a fea without a fhore, V. Shew me thy face, and I'll away R Speak, Speak, LORD, and here I quit my clay, VI. Sweet was the journey to the sky VII. Softly his fainting head 'he lay VIII. In GOD's own arms he left the breath T SPECTATOR, N° 447. HERE is not a common Saying which has a better turn of fense in it, than what we often hear in the mouths of the vulgar, that Cuftom is a Second Nature. It is indeed able to form the man anew, & to to give him inclinations & capacities altogether different from those he was born with. Dr. Plot, in his Hiftory of Staffordshire, tells us of an ideot that chancing to live within the found of a clock, and always amusing himself with counting the hour of the day whenever the clock ftruck, the clock being spoiled by fome accident, the idiot continued to ftrike and count the hour without the help of it, in the fame manner as he had done when it was intire. Though I dare not vouch for the truth of this story, it is very certain that Custom has a mechanical effect upon the body, at the fame time that it has a very extraordinary influence upon the mind. I fhall in this paper confider one very remarkable effect which cuftom has upon human nature; and which, if rightly obferved, may lead us into very useful rules of life. What I fhall here take notice of in Cuftom, is its wonderful efficacy in making every thing pleasant to us. A perfon who is addicted to play or gaming, though he took but little delight in it at firft, by degrees contracts fo ftrong an inclination towards it, and gives himself up fo entirely to it, that it seems the only end of his Being. The love of a retired or bufy life will grow upon a man infenfibly, as he is converfant R 2 |