and Articles, because these don't tally with their Şen, timents, therefore they don't chufe to have a Subfcrip: tion, which is against their Confcience, laid any longer in the Way of their Preferment.-This would have been the Cafe, if, instead of the Archbishops, Bifhops, and all the Members of both Houfes of Convocation, all the Angels in Heaven had drawn up, approved, and ratified thefe public Confeffions of the Christian Faith. As without fome public Confeffion of Faith, a visible Church cannot existfo without a strict and due Maintenance of that Confeffion, it must fink into Annihilation ;-but if we are to wait for a Confeffion to which all Men will agree, or (which amounts to the fame) alter or abolish every Thing, which "factious, peevish, and perverfe Spirits may find Fault with, who approve of nothing but what they do themselves Confufion, Ruin, and Defolation, muft enfue.

I fhall now conclude in the Words of an Author, whofe Commiferation for the Ignorant, and thofe that are out of the Way, gave Birth to the following beautiful, and truly Christian Hymn:

SOLE Self-exifting GoD moft High,
From all Eternity the fame,

No longer let thy Foes deny

Thy GODHEAD, and revile thy Name.JESUS-JEHOVAH-JAH-defcend,

And bid the Hour of Darkness end!

The Star (in thy Right-hand no more)
Which on the imbitter'd Waters fell,
How has he fhed his baneful Pow'r,
Wafted the Earth and peopled Hell,

See Preface to the Liturgy ad Fin.

: 10, 11.

+ Rev. viii.

While Millions drink the Arian lie,
Or poifon'd by Socinus die!

Lefs peftilent the Men who dare
Thy Coming in the Flesh gainfay,
And, fitting in the Scorner's Chair,
Caft all thine Oracles away.
Led by their own fufficient Light
To Horrors of eternal Night.

How long shall Antichrift blafpheme,
And trample on thy written Will'?
How long fhall the Pelagian dream
The Doom of fallen Spirits feal,
And Error, in ten thousand Forms,
Destroy the Souls of wretched Worms?

Destroy the Souls-which cannot end!
Tho' Satan may awhile deceive,
That Liar old, and murd'rous Fiend,

Who tells them, "They at last shall live;"
Extinguishes th' eternal Fire,

And makes the deathlefs Worm expire t.

What but th' Effential Truth divine,
Can all this Gloom of Hell difperfe?--
JESUS, the FATHER'S GLORY 1, Thine,
To teach our dark'ned Universe:
In ev'ry § new-born Soul to prove

That THOU art Gop-and GOD IS LOVE!

* Job xxv. 6.

+ Heb. i. 3.

+ If. lxvi. 24. Mark ix. 44, § John iii. 3, 5.