. Sermons and religious tracts of the late Reverend Philip Doddridge, it yet more imperfedl than it But hard-ly any Thing was ever farther from my Thoughts, thanthe Publication, either of this, or of the Difcourfe itfelf. The hymn. I. ETERNAL God ! our humbled SoulsLow in thy Prefence bow :With all thy Magazines of Wrath,How terrible art Thou ! II. Fannd of the Fire at Wellingborough. 165ir. Fannd by thy Breath, huge Sheets of Flanae Do like a Deluge pour;And all our Confidence of Wealth Lies moulderd in an Hour. Led on by Thee, in horrid Pomp, Dellruclion rears us Head ;And bl


. Sermons and religious tracts of the late Reverend Philip Doddridge, it yet more imperfedl than it But hard-ly any Thing was ever farther from my Thoughts, thanthe Publication, either of this, or of the Difcourfe itfelf. The hymn. I. ETERNAL God ! our humbled SoulsLow in thy Prefence bow :With all thy Magazines of Wrath,How terrible art Thou ! II. Fannd of the Fire at Wellingborough. 165ir. Fannd by thy Breath, huge Sheets of Flanae Do like a Deluge pour;And all our Confidence of Wealth Lies moulderd in an Hour. Led on by Thee, in horrid Pomp, Dellruclion rears us Head ;And blackend Walls, and fmoking Heaps,. Thro all our Streets are fpread. in our Dull we lay us down. And mourn thy righteous Ire;Yet biefs that Hand of guardian Love, Which fnatchd us from the fire. V. Oh that the hateful Dregs of Sin, Like Drofs, were periilid there iThat in fair Lines our purer Souls Might thy bright Image bear ! VL ^o might we view with dauntlefs Eyes That laft tremendous Day,When Earth, and Seas, and Stars, and SkieS) In Flames Ihall melt asvay !. THE THE NECESSITY OF A General REFORMATION, In order to a well-grounded Hope of SUCCESS in WAR, Reprefented in a SERMON Preached At Northampton^ Jan. 9, 1739-40. The Day appointed by His Majesty forPublick Humiliation. TO [ i69 ] To The Honourable Col. JAMES , /Am far from thinking, that I pay any Tart of the DebtIjhich I oive to your mofi engaging Frietidjhip, by pre/eat-ing you ^vith this plain Difcourfe ; on the contrary, I amfctfible, that by your permittixg me to infcribe it to you^that Debt is increafed: but Obligations to fo much Gcodnefsas I hanje experienced in you, fit fo eafly and fo pleafantly up-on me, that no Objeilion arifes from that Quarter. And ithas this Claim to your Patronage, that many of the Thoughtsare as much yours as mine ; having been talked over bet^weenSj:ith a great deal of Freedom, 1 knon-v. Sir, they are jnch asmake a very deep Imprejfion on your Heart, and feuh as you


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