REMNANTS OF TIME EMPLOYED IN PROSE AND VERSE : .Short Essays and Composures on Various Subjects. ADVERTISEMENT. Dr. Watts's Opinion about publishing these Papers, appears in the following Advertisement prefixed to them by himself. THESE papers were written at several seasons and intervals of leisure, and on various occasions arising through the greatest part of my life. Many of them were designed to be published among the Reliquie Juveniles, but for some reason or other, not worth present notice, were laid by at that time. Whether I shall ever publishthem I know not, though far the greatest part of them have long stood corrected among my manuscripts i nor do I suppose many of them inferior to those Essays and remarks of this kind which have before appeared in the world with some acceptance. If they are not published in my life -time, my worthy friends, who have the care of my papers, may leave out what they please. I. W. JULY 3, 1740. NNEVERand Grace. EVER was there any hoùr since the creation of all things, nor ever will be till the last conflagration, wherein the holy God so remarkably displayed his justice and his grace, as that hour that saw our Lord Jesus Christ hanging; upon the cross, forsaken of his Father and expiring. What a dreadful glory was given to vindictive justice when the great and terrible God made the soul o;` his own Son á painful sacrifice for sin ! What an attiazing in- stance of grace that he should redeem such worthless sinners as we are from the vengeance by exposing his beloved Son to it When I view the severity or the compassion of that hour, my thoughts are lost in astonishment : It is not for me, it is not for Paul or.Apollos, it is not for the tongue of men or abgels to say which was greatest, the compassion or the severity. Hum- ble adoration becomes us best, and a thankful acceptance of the pardon that was pnrchased at so dear a rate. Next to this I know not a more eminent display of terror and mercy, than the dying hour of a pions but desponding chris- tiau under the tumultuous and disquieting temptations of the devil. See within those curtains a person of faith and serious piety, but ofa melancholy constitution and expecting death. While his flesh is tortured with sharp agonies and terribly convulsed; a
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