Chorus. Janus. I course the fleet ftag, unkennel the fox, With fhouting and hooting we pierce thro' And Echo turns hunter, and doubles the cry. With fhouting and hooting we pierce thro' the sky, And Echo turns hunter, and doubles the cry. Then our age was in its prime, Chronos. Free from rage, Diana. Momus. Chorus. Mars. And free from crime. A very merry, dancing, drinking, Then our age was in its prime, Free from rage, and free from crime. Infpire the vocal brafs, infpire; Arms and honour, Set the martial mind on fire, Mars Chores. Mars. Mars has look'd the sky to red, In Woodland-walks, no more is feen; Plenty, peace, and pleasure fly; The Sprightly green In Woodland-walks, no more is feen; Sound the trumpet, beat the drum, The warrior God is come. Sound the trumpet, beat the drum, The warrior God is come. Thy fword within the scabbard keep, Better the world were faft afleep, The fools are only thinner, With all our coft and care; But neither fide a winner, For things are as they were. 1 3 Chorus. The fools are only thinner, Venus. With all our coft and care; But neither fide a winner, For things are as they were. Calms appear, when storms are paft, Nature is my kindly care; Mars deftroys, and I repair; Take me, take me, while you may, Chorus. Take her, take her, while you may, Chronos. The world was then fo light, Joy rul'd the day, and love the night.. And feebly drag The pond'rous orb around. Momus All, all, of a piece throughout; pointing to The chace had a beaft in view; Diana. to Mars. Thy wars brought nothing about; to Venus. to Janus. All All, all, of a piece throughout; Chorus. count of Mrs. Price more. 26. In this happy manner did we pafs An acthe night in this wild and frightful part of the world, and, for three fucceeding even- of Staneings and days, enjoyed as much true fatiffaction as it was poffible for mortals to feel. Price was an ingenious, chearful, entertaining man, and his wife had not only fenfe more than ordinary, but was one of the best of women. I was prodigiously pleased with her conversation. Though he was no woman of letters, nor had any books in her house except the Bible, Barrow's and Wich cott's fermons, Howell's Hiflory of the World, and the Hiftory of England; yet from thefe few, a great memory, and an extraordinary conception of things, had collected a valuable knowledge, and he talked with an ease and perfpicuity that was wonderful. On religious fubjects fhe aftonished me. and defign As Sunday was one of the days I ftaid The na there, and Price was obliged in the afternoon tue, end, to be from home, I paffed it in converfation of Chrifti, with his wife. The day introduced religion, fidered in a anity, con I 4 and converfa and among other things, I asked her, which fhe thought the best evidences of Christianity? The prophecies or the miracles? Neither, (Mrs. Price replied). The prophecies of the Meffiah recorded in the Old Teftament are a good proof of the Chriftian religion, as it is plain from many instances in the New Teftament, that the Jewish converts of that generation understood them to relate to our Lord; which is a fufficient reafon for our believing them. Since they knew the true intent and meaning of them, and on account of their knowing it, were converted; the prophecies for this reafon fhould by us be regarded as divine teftimony in favour of Chrift Jefus. Then as to miracles, they are, to be fure, a means of proving and fpreading the Chriftian religion, as they fhew the divine miffion of the Meffiah, and rouze the mind to attend to the power by which these mighty works were wrought. Thus miracle and prophecy fhew the teacher came from God. They contribute to the establishment of his kingdom, and have a tendency to produce that faith which purifies the heart, and brings forth the new birth. But the greater evidence for the truth of our holy religion, appears to me to be that which converted the primitive Chriftians, to wit, the powerful influence which the Gospel has on the minds of thofe who ftudy it |