infinite length of foreknowledge given him, at his first admission into glory, that he knows beforehand all the future scenes of providence, and the wonders which God shall work in the upper and lower worlds? I thought the "Lion of the tribe of Judah, the root and the offspring of David," had been the only person in heaven or earth that was "worthy to take the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof" (Rev. v. 5). Surely the meanest of the saints does not foreknow all those great and important counsels of God, which our Lord Jesus Christ is intrusted with. And yet we may venture to say, that the spirits of the just in heaven shall know those great and important events that relate to the Church on earth, as they arise in successive seasons, that they may give to God, and to his Son Jesus Christ, revenues of due honour upon this account, as I shall prove immediately.

And indeed if the limits of their knowledge in heaven were so fixed at their first entrance there, that they could never be acquainted with any of these successive providences of God afterwards, we here on earth have a great advantage above them, who see daily the accomplishment of His Divine counsels, and adore the wonders of His wisdom and His love; and from this daily increase of knowledge, we take our share in the growing joys and blessings of Zion.

MRS ELIZABETH ROWE.

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MRS ELIZABETH ROWE.

ELIZABETH SINGER was born at Ilchester, in Somersetshire, September 11, 1674. Her father, Mr Walter Singer, was an ejected minister, who had been imprisoned for nonconformity; but, possessing a considerable landed estate near Frome, he suffered fewer hardships than many of his brethren; and he was able to procure the best educational advantages for his beautiful and gifted daughter. She became an accomplished painter and musician, and, with the Hon. Mr Thynne for her tutor, acquired the French and Italian languages. At twelve years of age she had begun to write verses, and at twenty-two was induced to publish a volume under the title, "Poems on Several Occasions, by Philomela." Her paraphrase of the thirty-eighth chapter of Job was written at the request of the venerable Bishop Ken, who highly esteemed her talents and piety.

It will be readily supposed that one so good, and in every way so charming, would have many admirers. One of these is said to have been her poetical contemporary, Matthew Prior, in whose works will be found a metrical effusion addressed to her, and ending,—

"But if, by chance, the series of thy joys
Permit one thought less cheerful to arise,
Piteous, transfer it to the mournful swain
Who, loving much, who, not beloved again,
Feels an ill-fated passion's last excess,

And dies in woe, that thou may'st live in peace."

However, it was not till her thirty-sixth year that Miss Singer was married. Her husband, Mr Thomas Rowe, was twelve years younger than herself,—a man of warm feelings, but of a somewhat irritable temperament, who, during his

infinite length of foreknowledge given him, at his first admission into glory, that he knows beforehand all the future scenes of providence, and the wonders which God shall work in the upper and lower worlds? I thought the "Lion of the tribe of Judah, the root and the offspring of David," had been the only person in heaven or earth that was "worthy to take the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof” (Rev. v. 5). Surely the meanest of the saints does not foreknow all those great and important counsels of God, which our Lord Jesus Christ is intrusted with. And yet we may venture to say, that the spirits of the just in heaven shall know those great and important events that relate to the Church on earth, as they arise in successive seasons, that they may give to God, and to his Son Jesus Christ, revenues of due honour upon this account, as I shall prove immediately.

And indeed if the limits of their knowledge in heaven were so fixed at their first entrance there, that they could never be acquainted with any of these successive providences of God afterwards, we here on earth have a great advantage above them, who see daily the accomplishment of His Divine counsels, and adore the wonders of His wisdom and His love; and from this daily increase of knowledge, we take our share in the growing joys and blessings of Zion.