The bending maft is fhattered by the wind, Dashed by the waves, forfaken and alone. For twelve long days the leaky wreck was toft, Each hand and heart oppreffed with toil and grief, No refuge near, all hopes of fafety loft, When, lo! a fail, the pledge of fure relief. Their fainting fpirits are reftorẻd to life; The boat dispatched, receives the precious freight, Angels of mercy round the fair one wait, The helpless Victim lifts her hands in vain, The frantic hufband faw the cruel tide, And faithful #Richard perifhed by her fide, The ways of God with clouds are overcast, Yet Truth and Wifdom fhall break out at laft, And all will terminate in endless good. Richard was a Negro Slave, 224 In memory of Mr. Charles Perronet, who died on Monday, August 12, 1776, aged 53. AREWEL! thou Man of complicated ftrife, Yet not thy hope of pardon, or its crown, This all thy life, this all thy death confeft, HAT is more tender than a Mother's love WHA To the fweet Infant fondling in her arms? Of all the love, within her fingle breast, 'Tis nothing to the Love of God to Man. THE Arminian Magazine, For MA Y 1783. The CALVINIST-CABINET UNLOCKED: in an APOLOGY for TILENUS, against a VINDICATION of the Synod of DORT. [Continued from page 172.] ARTICLE V." Such as have once received Faith, can never fall from it finally or totally, notwithstanding the most enormous fins they can commit." So faith, 1. Calvin. "As the Spirit is never extinguished, fo likewife it is impoffible that Faith, which he hath once imprinted upon the hearts of the godly, fhould be loft." 2. Donteclock. "The Elect cannot finally fall from Faith." 3. Mehnius. Juftifying Faith can never be loft, because it is peremptorily given to the faithful." 4. Pifcator. "It is impoffible true Believers fhould fall from the Faith, the Decree and federal promise of God withstanding it." VOL. VI. |