version the blood of Christ washeth away a whole life of sins at once, so after our conversion the same fountain stands open, whereunto we may and must resort to cleanse our daily failings. Christ received by faith in the heart is a continual sacrifice, which I may present unto the Father, for my sins committed after my conversion.

9. A comfortable restitution of a just interest in the creatures. When man forsook the allegiance he owed to his Maker, the interest he had in the creature did, as it were, escheat to the Lord: and though his goodness afterward permitted him the use of them, yet it was still, as it were, upon account: and, as the sons of men have a great account to give unto God for their sins, so they have for his creatures. Christ hath restored unto us a better propriety in that, which civil right hath made ours, than what we had before.

10. A comfortable and sanctified use of all conditions: in prosperity, moderation; in adversity, contentedness; in all, sobriety. For as our Lord hath purchased for our grace, to use all things aright, so he hath obtained for us an inheritance that renders the best the world can give us unworthy to be valued, and the worst it can give us unworthy to bẹ feared, in respect of the blessedness which he hath settled upon us.

11. Consequently, contempt of the world; be cause higher matters are in my eye, such as the best the world can yield cannot equal, nor the worst it can inflict cannot take away. All this All this upon,

12. A lively hope, a hope that maketh not ashamed; even of that glory, which my Saviour came down from heaven to purchase by his blood. I go to prepare a place for you, and if I go, and prepare a

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place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself, that where I am, ye may be also. A hope of a blessed resurrection after death; a hope of that blessed appearance of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ; a hope of that glorious sentence, in the presence of men and angels, Come, ye blessed,' and a hope of an everlasting estate of blessedness and glory in the presence of the great God, and glorified saints and angels, unto all eternity. And the efficacy of this hope, dipped in the blood of Christ, brings us victory.

1. Victory over sin. Sin shall not have dominion over you; for ye are not under the law, but under grace. He that hath this hope purifieth

himself, even as he is pure.

2. Victory over the world, in the best it can afford us; it's flatteries, and favours. These are too small and inconsiderable, when compared with this hope they shine like a candle in the sun, and are ineffectual to win over a soul that is fixed in this hope, and victory over the worst the world can inflict. Our Lord hath conquered the world in this respect for us: Be not afraid, I have overcome the world: and conquered death in us; This is the victory that overcometh the world, even your faith.

3. Victory over death; which now, by means of this blessed hope, is stripped as well of her terror as her power; thus Thanks be unto God, who giveth us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ.

And now though the nature of this argument hath carried my meditation to a great height, yet to avoid mistakes, some things I must subjoin.

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‹ 1. That when I thus aggravate the sufferings of our Lord under the imputed guilt of the sins of mankind; yet we must not think that his sufferings were

the same with the damned in duration, so neither in kind nor in degree: for this could neither consist with the purity of his nature, nor innocence, nor dignity of his person, nor the hypostatical union of both natures in him. But he suffered as much, as was consistent with these considerations; and as considering the dignity of his person, was equivalent to the sin and demerits of all mankind.

2. That his righteousness, imputed to us, doth not exempt us from acquiring a righteousness inherent in us. This were to disappoint the end of his suffering, which was to redeem us from our vain conversation, and make us a peculiar people zealous of good works.

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3. That this purchase of salvation by Christ for believers is not to render them idle, or secure, or presumptuous: where there is such a disposition of soul, it is an evident indication, that it is not yet truly united unto Christ by true faith and love; his grace is sufficient to preserve us, and always ready to do it, if we do not wilfully neglect, or reject it.'

Judge Hale left also some Poems, of a religious description, written chiefly upon several Anniversaries of his Saviour's Birth, from 1651 to 1668 inclusive, if the four undated may be ascribed to that interval; in which case, only one will be wanting to render the series complete. That of 1663, as a specimen of his poetical piety, is here attached.

'WHEN the great lamp of Heaven, the glorious Sun,
Had touch'd this southern period, and begun

To leave the Winter tropic, and to climb

The Zodiac's ascending Signs; that time

The brighter Sun of Righteousness did choose,
His beams of light and glory to disclose

To our dark lower world; and by that ray
To chase the darkness, and to make it day.
And lest the glorious and resplendent light
Of his Eternal Beam might be too bright
For mortal eyes to gaze upon, he shrouds
And clothes his fiery pillar with the clouds
Of human flesh; that in that dress he may
Converse with men, acquaint them with the way
To Life and Glory, show his Father's mind
Concerning them, how bountiful and kind

His thoughts were to them; what they might expect
From him, in the observance or neglect

Of what he did require: and then he seal'd,
With his dear blood, the truth he had reveal'd.'

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ANDREW MARVELL.*

[1620-1678.]

ANDREW MARVELL, the son of the Rev. Andrew Marvell, minister and schoolmaster of Kingston upon Hull in Yorkshire,† was born in the year 1620; and discovering a genius for letters, was sent at the early age of thirteen, with an exhibition belonging to his native place, to Trinity College, Cambridge. He had not been long however at the University, before (like Chillingworth) he was enticed from his studies by the Jesuits, and carried to London. Fortunately his father received timely intelligence of this seduction, and persuaded him to return to college, where he applied to his studies with great assiduity, and took the degree of B. A. in 1639. About this time he lost his father by an accident, of which the particulars are thus re

* AUTHORITIES. Cooke's Life of Marvell (prefixed to his Works, 1712), Macaulay's History of England, and Biographia Britannica.

+ "He died," says his son, "before the war broke out, having lived with some reputation both for piety and learning; and he was moreover a conformist to the established rites of the Church of England, though (I confess) none of the most overrunning, or eager in them." ("Rehearsal Transprosed,' II.)

From the records of Trinity College, it appears that he was, with some others, excluded from it's benefits (probably, a scholarship) for non-attendance, in 1641.