was fo preffed with the matter of fact which he could not have the confidence to deny, that he was forced to account for it by one of the moft abfurd unphilofophical notions that was ever ftarted. He tells

us, that the furfaces of all bodies are perpetually flying off from their respective bodies one after another; and that these furfaces or thin cafes that included each other whilft they were joined in the body. like the coats of an onion; are fometimes feen entire when they are feparated from it; by which means we often behold the fhapes and fhadows of perfons who are either dead or absent.

I fhall difmifs this paper with a story out of Jofephus, not fo much for the fake of the ftory itself, as for the moral reflections with which the author concludes it, and which I fhall here fet down in his own words, "Glaphyra the daughter of "king Archelaus, after the death of her 66 two first husbands (being married to a "third, who was brother to her first hus"band, and fo paffionately in love with. "her that he turned off his former wife to "make room for this marriage) had a ve66 ry odd kind of dream. She fancied that

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HYMN

HYMN XL.

The Univerfal Hallelujah.

Pfalm cxlviii. Paraphras'd. By Dr.Watts. To the 81ft Pfalm Tune.

PR

Raife ye the LORD with joyful tongue, Ye Pow'rs that guard his throne; JESUS the MAN fhall lead the fong, The GOD inspire the tune.

2 Gabriel, and all th' immortal choir
That fill the realms above,
Sing; for he form'd you of his fire,
And feeds you with his love.

3 Shine to his praise, ye crystal skies,
The floor of his abode,

Or veil your little twinkling eyes
Before a brighter GoD.

4 Thou reftless globe of golden light,
Whose beams create our days,

Join with the filver queen of night,
To own your borrow'd rays.

5 Blush, and refund the honours paid
To your inferior names;

Tell the blind world, your orbs are fed
By his o'erflowing flames.

6 Winds, ye fhall bear his name aloud
Through the ethereal blue,

For when his chariot is a cloud,
He makes his wheels of you.

7 Thunder and hail, and fires and storms, The troops of his command,

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Appear in all your dreadful forms,
And speak his awful hand.

Watts 8 Shout to the LORD, ye furging feas,
In your eternal roar;

ngue,

Let wave to wave refound his praise,
And fhore reply to fhore:

ne; 9 While monfters fporting on the flood
In fcaly filver fhine,

Speak terribly their Maker-GoD,
And lafh the foaming brine.

10_But gentler things fhall tune his name
To fofter notes than these,

Young Zephyrs breathing o'er the ftream,
Or whifp'ring through the trees.
II Wave your tall heads, ye lofty pines,
TO HIM that bid you grow,
Sweet clusters, bend the fruitful vines
On ev'ry thankful bough.

12 Let the fhrill birds his honour raise,
And climb the morning sky:

While groveling beafts attempt his praise
In hoarfer harmony.

13 Thus while the meaner creatures fing,
Ye mortals, take the found,
Echo the glories of your King

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Thro' all the nations round.

Th' eternal name must fly abroad
From Britain to Japan;

And the whole race fhall bow to God
That owns the name of man.

HYMN

HYMN XLI.

GOD the THUNDERER; Or,
The Laft Judgment and Hell.

Made in a great fudden Storm of Thunder, Aug. 20, 1697.

Ing to the Lord, ye heav'nly hofts,

And thou, O earth, adore,

Let death and hell thro' all their coafts
Stand trembling at his pow'r.

2 His founding chariot fhakes the sky,
He makes the clouds his throne;
There all the ftores of lightning lie,
Till vengeance dart them down.
His noftrils breathe out fiery ftreams,
And from his awful tongue

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A fov'reign voice divides the flames,
And thunder roars along.

4 Think, O my oul, the dreadful day
When this incenfed God

Shall rend the sky, and burn the fea,
And fling his wrath abroad.

5 What shall the wretch the finner do?
He once defy'd the Lord:
But he fhall dread the thund'rer now
And fink beneath his word.
6 Tempests of angry fire fhall roll
To blaft the rebel worm,

And beat upon his naked foul

In one eternal Storm.

FINI S.