Thou beauteous Trifler, can fo fine a form

Sustain black Boreas, and benumbing Frost?
Or when black fkies difcharge the impetuous ftorm,
Muft all thy tranfient elegance be loft?

Go where the gay Belinda reigns confest,
Defpotic fovereign of the youthful train:
While her bright eyes explore thy varied vest,
Thy little life fhall moralize my ftrain.

While to her fight thy gaudy wings are spread,
If the light shower, or gentleft dew defcend,
Thy momentary age of mirth is fled:

And the gay dreams of golden fummers end.

In thee, perchance, the thoughtless nymph may view,
The changeful emblem of her blooming face;
As foon disease may that fair form. fubdue,
And each external excellence debafe.

Then would the admiring crowd no longer lend;
No more fweet adulation foothe her ear;
No more the affiduous youth her fteps attend,
No more her smiles on every face appear.

Happy for one, that Beauty's potent Queen,
No lavish graces gave, no matchlefs air;
No foft, refiftlefs, love-commanding mien,
Nor bade a fading face exprefs my care.

These oft to pride elate the female mind:

For these we oft neglect the intrinsic charms Of virtue, which, by Reafon's power refined, Smiles at old Age, and Death itself difarms.

Enough

Enough for me, that Health with Hebe joins,
And from my mind difpels the cheerless gloom;
Enough, the Muse her wreath of Ivy twines,

Mixt with each fmiling field-flower's fragrant bloom:

Pleased, while this artlefs, rural verse I raise,
To fee fuperior Merit shine confeft:
Supremely happy when my humble praise,
Can give one transport to the generous breast.

TH

On PREACHING.

[By Dr. Byrom.]

HE fpecious fermons of a learned man
Are little elfe but flashes in the pan;
The mere harranguing (upon what they call
Morality) is powder without ball:

But he who preaches with a christian grace,
Fires at our Vices, and the shot takes place.

A SHORT HY M N.

Rev. iii. 18. I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, &c.

G

LADLY I take thy love's advice,

While without money, without price,

I come thy grace to buy;

Faith is the golden bullion pure,
Which can the fiéry test endure,
And all my wants fupply.

I come to buy that richeft drefs,
The faints unfpotted holiness,
The covering from above;
To fwallow up my finful shame,
Whate'er I have, whate'er I am,
In purity of love.

(M THOAINE, Aged 40.

THE

Arminian Magazine,

For MARCH 1783.

The CALVINIST-CABINET UNLOCKED: in an APOLOGY for TILENUS, against a VINDICATION of the Synod of DORT.

THE

[Continued from page 61.]

HE firft Article drawn up more briefly is, "God by an abfolute Decree hath elected to falvation a very little number of men, without any regard to their faith or obedience, and fecluded fron faving grace all the reft of mankind, and appointed them, by the fame Decree, to eternal damnation, without any regard to their infidelity or impenitency."

Here Mr. Baxter excepts, 1. " Where talk they of a very little number ?" For your fatisfaction here Martinius, (one of the most moderate of the Synod,) who faith,

"God,

according