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"Old Town Folk," chap. iii.

See this idea illustrated in "An Essay on the Book of Psalms," by Mary Anne Schimmelpenninck, 1825, and "An Essay on the Literature of the Book of Psalms," in the "Preachers' Lantern," vol. ii. p. 558.

Lord Barrington's "Theological Works," 3 vols.

"Biog. Brit." Article, Barrington.

Dr. Southey, remarking on this incident, says: "The hymn, indeed, was likely to have this effect upon an assembly whose minds were under the immediate impression produced by a pathetic preacher." They were those well-known words:

Give me the wings of faith to rise Within the veil, and see The saints above, how great their joys, How bright their glories be.

Once they were mourning here below, And wet their couch with tears, They wrestled hard, as we do now, With sins, and doubts, and fears.

I ask them whence their victory came; They with united breath Ascribe their conquest to the Lamb, Their triumph to His death.

They marked the footsteps that He trod, His zeal inspired their breast; And, following their Incarnate God, Possess the promised rest.

Our glorious Leader claims our praise For His own pattern given, While the long cloud of witnesses Show the same path to heaven.

See an admirable and interesting summary of Doddridge's Life and Character,--"Philip Doddridge:" "North British Review."

Glover's "Leonidas," a poem scarcely ever read or referred to now, but which created considerable interest on its publication, and for some time held a conspicuous place in English poetry.

Mr. Waller's lines, to which her ladyship refers, are at the conclusion of his Divine Poems:

The soul's dark cottage, battered and decayed, Lets in new light through chinks that time has made: Stronger by weakness wiser men become, As they draw near to their eternal home: Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new.

The verses of Dr. Watts which her ladyship intends is the poem in his "Horae Lyricae," entitled "A Sight of Heaven in Sickness."

See the whole of this in the "Posthumous Works of the late learned and Rev. Isaac Watts," 1779.

See an interesting table of "Memorable Affairs in my Life and Coincidents," in Watts' writing, in Appendix to this volume.

See "History of England," by Earl Stanhope, vol. i. chap. 1.

Lord Macaulay says: "There was considerable excitement, but it was allayed by a temperate and artful letter to the clergy, the work, in all probability, of Bishop Gibson, who stood high in the favour of Walpole, and shortly after became minister for ecclesiastical affairs."

Essay on "Popular Ignorance."

See the "Clapham Sect." Sir James Stephen's Essays in "Ecclesiastical Biography."

"Memorials, etc. etc. of the late W. M. Bunting."

Doddridge's "Life and Correspondence," vol. iv. p. 520.

See Preface to the second vol. of "World to Come," Octavo edition.

So says Mr. Carlyle, in one of the most interesting little documents in connection with the life of Watts ever published, the little pamphlet to which we have already referred.

Montgomery on the Cholera Mount of Sheffield.

"Memorials, Historical, Descriptive, Poetical and Pictorial, Commemorative of the Inauguration of the Statue to Dr. Isaac Watts, in the Western Park, Southampton, by the Earl of Shaftesbury, July 17th, 1861." See also "The Proceedings connected with the Inauguration of the Memorial Statue to Dr. Isaac Watts, at Southampton, July 17th, 1861."

"The Athenian Oracle, being an entire collection of all the valuable Questions and Answers in the old Athenian Mercurys, intermixed with many cases in Divinity, History, Philosophy, Mathematics, Love, and Poetry, and never before Published," etc. 4 vols. Printed for Andrew Bell, at the Cross Keys.

"Athenian Sport; or, Two Thousand Paradoxes Merrily Argued, by a Member of the Athenian Society."

"Memoirs for the Ingenious; containing several Curious Observations in Philosophy, Mathematics, Physic, Philology, and other Arts and Sciences, in Miscellaneous Letters." Printed for H. Rhodes, and for J. Harris, at the Arrow, in the Poultry.

"Another Collection of Philosophical Conferences of the French Virtuosi, upon Questions of all sorts for the Improving of Natural Knowledge, made in the Assembly of the Beaux Esprit of Paris, by the most ingenious persons of that nation, rendered into English." Sold at the George, in Fleet Street, and the Mitre, Middle Temple, 1665.

Rogers' "Life of Howe," p. 476.

The matter, we suppose, is long since set at rest; it may be very distinctly set at rest by a study of Watts' works, discussing the great question of the Trinity. "Watts not a Socinian," by the Rev. S. Palmer, puts the matter in a popular and concise form; but when his monument was erected in Southampton, a lecture was delivered and published on "His Life, Character, and Religious Opinions," by the Rev. Edmund Kell, M.A., F.S.A., the late Unitarian minister of Southampton, in which the old exploded dishonest statements were all reiterated.

This is illustrated and manifest by the writings of Waterland, which are almost contemporary with the discussions of Watts.

J. R. Lowell.

This matter has been well argued against the Atheistic view, in a very interesting little pamphlet, "Croll on the Conservation of Force."

Psalm lxxvi. 5, 10.

"These expressions may be sufficiently justified if we consider Jephthah's rash vow of sacrifice, which fell upon his only child; and Samson's rude or unbecoming conduct in his amours with the Philistine woman at Timnath, the harlot at Gaza, and his Delilah at Sorek; his bloody quarrels and his manner of life. The learned and pious Dr. Owen, as I have been often informed by his intimate friend, Sir John Hartopp, called him a rude believer. He might have strong faith of miracles, but a small share of that faith which purifies the heart."

TABLE OF COINCIDENTS.

COINCIDENTS. MEMORANDA.

I went into y? Country June. 1694

Dwelt at my father's house 2 years & 1/4 .

Came to S? John Hartopp's to be a Tutor to his Son at Newington Oct. 15. 1696

May 22. M? John Pook Went to y? Bath by y? advice of Physicians. June. 9. 1701. Nov?: 11: M? Tho. Gunston From y? Bath to Southampton July. 1701 Thence to Tunbridge. Sept 3 1701. returned to Newington Nov. 3: & to preaching at Mark Lane. Nov: 1701

So y? I was detained from Study & preaching 5 o/m by my Weakness. Except one very short discourse at Southto. in extreme necessity.

Dr. Chancy having left his people, Aprill 1701. & I being returned to preach among 'em, they Call'd me to y? Pastorall office. Jan. 15. 1701/2

Visited my friends at Southampton July. 1702.

Seizd w?? violent Jaundice from Sept? 8 or & Cholic 3 weeks after my thereabout to return to London & had a Nov? 27 or 8 very slow recovery--8 or 9 weeks Illness

This year 1702 by Slow degrees removed from Newington to M? Tho: Hollis's in the Minories. 1702

Mrs. Owen Dr Owen's June--M? Sam?? Price was chosen by y? Widow dyed Jan?. 18: Church to assist me in preaching 1703 1703/4

Aug? I went to Tunbridge and stayd there 7 weeks with scarce any benefitt, for the waters thro some defect of my stomach did not digest well.

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