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Published for the instruction and amusement of the Candidly Serious and Religious [by Edward Perronet]
Perronet, Edward (1721-1792)

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ADORATION.
 
ON THE NATIVITY.
 
ON THE CRUCIFIXION.
 
ON THE RESURRECTION.
 
THE LORD IS KING.
 
THE MASTER'S YOKE—THE SCHOLAR'S LESSON.
 
THE WAY-FARING MAN.
 
THE GOLDFINCH.
 
THE COMPLAINT.
 
THE TEMPEST.
 
THE CONFLICT, OR CONQUEST OVER THE CONQUEROR.
 
AN ALPHABETIC PRAYER.
 
THE SECOND PSALM.
 
THE SOUND AND ODOUR.
 
THOUGHTS ON HEBREWS XII.
 
THOUGHTS ON JOB, XIX. 25.
 
ON GOOD FRIDAY.
 
ON THE FALLEN ANGELS.
 
ON SLEEP.
 
THE POWER OF DIVINE VENGEANCE,
 
A PRAYER FOR MERCY,
 
THOUGHTS ON JOB, I. 21
 
CHRIST EXALTED.
 
THE SINNER'S JOY.
 
THE SPIRITUAL PATIENT.
 
A HYMN ON ISAIAH, LXV. 19.
 
THOUGHTS ON CANTICLES, V. 3
 
THE SINNER'S RESOLUTION.
 
THE SURE PETITION.
 
CEASING FROM SELF.
 
THE EXILE'S COMPLAINT.
 
THE SINNER'S WISH.
 
CONSCIENCE DISSATISFIED.
 
THE PRAYER OF JABESH
 
THOUGHTS ON REVELATIONS, IV. 1.
 
CONFIDENCE OF HOPE.
 
THOUGHTS ON MATT. VIII. 2.
 
A THOUGHT ON MARK, X. 51.
 
THOUGHT ON MALACHI, III. 2.
 
THOUGHT ON JEREMIAH, XVIII. 7.
 
THE TRUE TIME-SERVER,
 
THE PRAYER OF FAITH.
 
WEAPONS OF WRATH.
 
ADVICE.
 
ON LITERARY OBSCURITY.
 
TO A FRIEND.
 
ON FAITH AND HOPE.
 
ON GRATITUDE.
 
ON THE WONDERS OF ELECTRICITY,
 
EXTEMPORE THOUGHTS ON DISCONTENT.
 
The real and only Cause, Occasion, and Motive of Quarrelling, Disputation, and Resentment, in all Matters of Controversy, whether Civil, Political, or Religious; traced from their first simple and efficient Source.
 
THOUGHTS ON LUKE, XVIII. 8.
 
RELIGION,
 
THE FRIENDLESS SEARCH.
 
THOUGHTS ON GENESIS, III. 19.
 
AN ALPHABETICAL ACROSTIC.
 
ON DEPENDENCE, AS A SITUATION.
 
ON VIEWING A BACK-GAMMON BOARD.
 
THE LAW OF LIBERTY.
 
TRANSLATION OF TWO LATIN LINES IN WITT'S COMMONWEALTH.
 
WHAT IS CONSCIENCE.
 
INDIFFERENCE OF DEATH, AS TO TIME
 
A MEDITATION ON MARTYRDOM.
 
A REFLECTION.
 
THE WANDERING SHEEP RESTORED.
 
A THOUGHT ON THE NEW YEAR, 1785.
 
QUID DE MORTUIS?
 
A THOUGHT ON PSALM, XLVII. 7.
 
A THOUGHT ON MATTHEW, XXV. 21.
 
A THOUGHT ON MATTHEW, XI. 28.
 
A THOUGHT ON PSALM, LXXVII. 4.
 
SPIRITUAL GRATITUDE.
 
TRANSLATION OF THREE SHORT LINES IN LATIN,
 
TRANSLATION FROM THE FRENCH
 
DELAY NO SECURITY.
 
THE CHRISTIAN VOYAGE, OR THE PILGRIM'S SAFE ARRIVAL.
 
“PLUS LOIN, PLUS SERRÉ”
 
ON RELIGIOUS PROFESSORS EXPOSING THE FAULTS OF OTHERS.
 
SIN, WHAT IS IT?
 
Translation of the penitential Sonnet of the famous Monsieur des Barreaux, a converted Profligate.
 
WISHING ONLY, THOUGHT MISSPENT.
 
NO ABSOLUTE SOLITUDE.
 
ADVICE TO THE MISER.
 
CAUSES AND CONSEQUENCES.
 
FREE GRACE AT LIBERTY.
 
OBEDIENCE TO PROVIDENCE IN EVERY DISPENSATION.
 
WARS AND FIGHTINGS! WHENCE COME THEY?
 
ON PARTING FROM A FRIEND.
 
INSINCERITY,
 
A SOLILOQUY,
 
ON TIME'S UNCERTAINTY.
 
OFFENCES THREATENED.
 
DAVID'S WISH.
 
THE CONFLICT.
 
THE QUESTION ANSWERED.
 
THE HONEST MAN.
 
THE DOUBLE INFIDEL.
 
THE CAUSE AND EFFECT COEVAL.
 
DIVINE EFFICACY.
 
REAL WORTH, WHAT IS IT?
 
AVARICE, A HORSE-LEECH
 
HUMAN ARTIFICE.
 
WHO THEN CAN BE SAVED?
 
CAUTION IN COMMENDING BOOK OR COMPANY.
 
LIBERTY AND BONDAGE.
 
CAUSE OF THE GAIN AND LOSS OF FRIENDS.
 
TRANSLATION FROM OVID,
 
RELIGION OPPOSED TO BIGOTRY
 
CAUSES, Moral and Judicial, Of National Calamities and Commotions.
 
ON READING “THE CALL TO BRITAIN,”
 
ON THE FOUR CARDINAL POINTS OF THE COMPASS, N. E. S. W.
 
DISAPPOINTMENT NO MISFORTUNE.
 
“WHAT IS GOD?”
 
TRANSLATION OF FOUR LINES FROM HORACE. Book II. Satire vii.
 
ONE'S OWN THOUGHTS.
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NO END OF CRAVING.
 
ON ONE MR. WALTER MILLER, A Martyr in Q. Mary's Days.
 
TRANSLATION OF SIX LATIN LINES,
 
A THOUGHT ON ROMANS, XIII. 5.
 
TRUE LIFE, AND REAL DEATH.
 
“WHAT IS LIFE?”
 
A THOUGHT ON JEREMIAH, XXIII. 23, 24.
 
EXTEMPORE THOUGHTS.
 
A SIMILE.
 
AN EXTEMPORE THOUGHT.
 
A DEFINITION Of the False Arminian,
 
DEFINITION Of a Fictitious Calvinist,
 
Who is the Right Calvinist, and who is the Right Arminian?
 
WHATEVER'S WRONG IS RIGHT.
 
PRIDE OF FAMILY.
 
THE INFIDEL ARRAIGNED.
 
WHO AND WHAT IS A MAN?
 
THE SKY-LARK'S COMPLAINT:
 
In Answer to the Question, “Who will have most reason to be thankful in Heaven?”
 
On a Friend's asking how he might walk with God in the midst of Business, &c.
 
UNWILLINGNESS OF OLD AGE TO DIE.
 
EXTREMES THEIR OWN OPPOSITES,
 
A THOUGHT ON EXODUS, XV. 4.
 
THE PREACHER'S CALLING.
 
FALSE SENTENCE THE FRUIT OF RASH JUDGMENT.
 
AN EXTEMPORE THOUGHT.
 
THE WEATHER-COCK,
 
WILFUL IGNORANCE THE ONLY INVINCIBLE.
 
THE WAKING DREAMERS,
 
INFINITE POWER NOT INDEFINITE
 
POSSIBILITY THE PROOF OF PROPRIETY.
 
IMPROMPTU,
 
DEATH,
 
AN EXTEMPORE REFLECTION
 
AN EXTEMPORE THOUGHT
 
A THOUGHT ON ETERNITY.
 
AN EPITAPH.
 
“WHAT IS THE GREATEST BLESSING UPON EARTH?”
 
TRUE PEACE IN THE MIDST OF TROUBLE.
 
AN EXTEMPORE ADDRESS TO TIME.
 
ON THE ILL-REQUITED LABOURS OF INGENUITY AND LEARNING.
 
A SINGLE THOUGHT.
 
ON CONTENT.
 
ON A WEDDING-RING.
 
WROTE ON THE KING OF SPADES.
 
WHAT IS THE WORST EVIL THAT CAN HAPPEN?
 
A THOUGHT.
 
THE EVANGELIC SOLDIER,
 
A PRAYER
 
THE DESCRIPTION OF A POOR MAN'S GARDEN,
 
THE ROSE.
 
GUILT,
 
THE BEST GIFT SOONEST GRANTED.
 
EXTEMPORE ANSWER
 
A THOUGHT ON 2 TIM. IV. 7.
 
IMPOSSIBILITY POSSIBLE,
 
THOUGHTS ON ISAIAH, XXVI. 20.
 
THE COVETOUS COMPARED WITH THE DROPSICAL.
 
DESCRIPTION OF BEES.
 
TRUE CONSTANCY,
 
SELF-LOVE!
 
WHAT IS LIFE?
 
HYPOCRISY.
 
INCONSTANCY.
 
THE WAGES OF SIN.
 
THE DISTAFF.
 
THE SHORT DECISION.
 
THE INQUIRY ANSWERED.
 
NO END OF MURMURING.
 
ON CONSCIENCE,
 
SOME TOKEN FOR GOOD.
 
CAUSES OF SPIRITUAL DECAY.
 
CALCULATION WITHOUT NUMBER.
 
CREATION A MYSTERY.
 
ON A DYING CHRISTIAN
 
THE CHANGE REPENTED.
 
DAVID'S REQUEST.
 
THERE IS BUT A STEP BETWEEN ME AND DEATH.”
 
“NONE OF THESE THINGS MOVE ME.”
 
SUDDEN SALVATION,
 
NOBODY AT HOME,
 
PLAIN TRUTH,
 
NEVER CONTENTED,
 
AN EPIGRAM.
 
THE RETURNING SPRING,
 
THE FOUR IMPORTANT THINGS,
 
THE RACE OF LIFE,
 
EVERY EFFECT CONGENIAL WITH ITS CAUSE,
 
TRANSLATION OF AN EPIGRAM IN LATIN,
 
REPROACH,
 
“LIE NOT AGAINST THE TRUTH,”
 
A REFLECTION.
 
AN EPIGRAM ON EPIGRAMS.
 
TO THE MEMORY OF THE REV. MR. VINCENT PERRONET;
 
AN EPITAPH,
 
To the MEMORY of Mr. C. P. Who departed this Life, August 12, 1776, aged 56.
 
On the DEATH of Miss D. P. September 19, 1782, aged 56.
 
To the MEMORY of Mr. J. P. who died October 28, 1767, aged 34 Years.
 
AN ACROSTIC On the Word “Acrostic.”
 
AN ACROSTIC On Mr. J--- C---
 
ON THE VELOCITY OF TIME.
 
AN EPITAPH.
 
AN EPITAPH, In Monkish Latin.
 
AN EPITAPH.
 
TRANSLATION OF AN EPITAPH Over some modest Abbot of St. Alban's .
 
Remark.
 
EPITAPH On the famous Mr. Matthew Prior .
 
Remarks on the foregoing Epitaph.
 
AN EPITAPH On one Mr. Jos. Baylis and his Wife, in Malver Church, in Worcestershire.
 
The Simile.
 
EPITAPH On a Miser.
 
AN OCCASIONAL EPITAPH.
 
ANOTHER.
 
In MEMORY of Master J. H.
 
AN EPITAPH,
 
To the MEMORY of Mr. W. J. Who died on August the 28th, aged 24.
 
THE TRUE DYING SWAN, OR THE REAL CHRISTIAN

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THE WEATHER-COCK,

AN EPIGRAM.

Hail, versile emblem of the human mind,
True to thyself, and model of mankind:
Thy only virtue is in them a vice;
This moment thus, the next quite otherwise.
Thine an effect of nature' potent laws,
As theirs self interest, or self-love the cause.
Thy various motions point which way inclin'd,
The fix'd or varied current of the wind:
Theirs only prove how fickle are their own,
How weakly grounded, and how little known.
First this, then that; then this, then that again;
Now all a-go, and now a milder strain.
Such is mankind, creation's restless heir,
Than wind less certain, and more light than air!
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