SPRING, SUMMER, HARVEST, WINTER, AND SABBATH-DAY. BY JOHN BROWN, LATE MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL AT HADDINGTON.. THE SIXTH EDITION. Ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee; and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee : or speak to the earth, and it shall teach thee; and the fishes of the fea, Shall declare unto thee. 1 Јов хіі. 7, 8. The ear that is always attentive to God, never hears a voice that speaks not of him; the foul, whose eye is intent on him, never fees an atom wherein the doth not difcern her best beloved, Let us begin with God; all things are full of God. What makes another smile, makes him adore, Cadha. Hesiod. Young BERWICK: PRINTED FOR W. PHORSON, BRIDGE-STREET; AND! B.LAW AND SON, AVE-MARIA-LANE, LONDON.. M DCC XCII,. THE T PREFACE. O be spiritually minded, -to be habitually difpofed, with pleasure and attention, to think of, and defire after spiritual objects, is life and peace. It implies an interest in the life-giving covenant of peace, which cannot be broken; a purification of con. science with Jesus' quieting blood; and an inward poffeffion of his quickening and peaceful Spirit. It promotes habitual ferenity and meekness; it rendereth us active and lively in the service of God: By it we live as angels on earth, and are fitted to join them in heaven: By it we improve the whole universe as the temple of a present Godhead. In our deepest plunges of trouble and want we converfe, we walk with the high and lofty One who inhabiteth eternity, and dwell in the high and holy place." Every visible object commenceth preacher, concerning things which do not appear: in every creature we difcern a Maker, a Saviour's perfections; we hear his voice, that our foul may live.Detesting the romantic, the too fashionable amufement of folly, of lewdness, and blafphemy, we recreate ourselves with contemplations, which neither defile for the present, nor sting for the future; and "and have our conversation in heaven from whence we look for the Saviour." ८८ To promote this happy attainment, this delightful temper of mind, is the facred page crowded with emblems: to promote this is the design of the following attempt. - Let not the natural incidents be accounted too mean for the superstructure. Are not all things mean? nay, equally mean if compared with the MOST HIGH? But if he made them, if he preferve and manage them for his own glory; is it below us, the offspring of dust, to improve them to his honour, and our eternal advantage? Doth not the divine Spirit, in his invaluable oracles, conftitute the puny ant, the lazy cur, the wallowing fow, the troubled fea, with its mire and dirt, our fpiritual inftructors? Doth not Jefus, the Wisdom of God, draw his instructive, his inestimable parables, from fparrows, fishes, nets, bottles, grains of mustardfeed, dough and other common objects? Why may not we, though at infinite diftance, follow his blessed example; and, with the skilful chymist, extract a precious fpirit from things outwardly bafe and contemptible? To exhibit in every journal, not the exercise of a fingle day, but a particular form of the Chriftian life; and to adapt the stile to the traveller's varying frame, hath been attempted. To have quoted every, even facred authority, would have crowded the margin: a thousand infpired phrases are therefore folely marked in Italic: a thousand more left to the mere obferval of the attentive reader, well inAructed in the oracles of Chrift. THE THE CONTENTS. Of the SPRING-JOURNAL. OUNG traveller half awakes; dreams; not hard bed; puts on clothes; reads; prays; views himfelf in a mirror; breakfast; family-worship; de- parts on foot; looks out, p. 13, -20. Dew; worms; snails; mole; fow; af's; coal-loads; fmoak- ing house; shambles; thief; fepulchre; crooked path; burning heath; moor-fowl; potter, 21,-28. Sun; labouring men; mad-man; galloping-horfe; fea shell fishes; falt-pans; mine; quarry; engines; rivulet; dam, 45,-57. Exchange; furnace; fcholars; paftime; hooper; hunger; inn; garden; wall; door; grafts; trees; flowers; mell; nofegay; bowlers, 58, -68. Sun clouded; fishing; flopping hill; thunder; reft; defart; burying-place; house; spider; relapfe into the fever; physician; danger; rave? hope of recovery; flux; inflamation, 70, 89. Of the SUMMER-JOURNAL. TRAVELLER awakes; rises; shifts; stands; clothes; |