Thee will I love, and here acclaim
The treasures of thy hallow'd name ;
A fountain pure, unseal'd to me,
To drink of immortality.

If Seraph hosts the ocean pore,
Whilst they thy saving acts explore;
The wonders of thy own right arm
May well a sinner's bosom warm!

Thou art my Rock, in thee I laid
Ere the vast universe was made;
So safely then imbedded there,
That in thy triumphs Lord I share!
My secret place, from ev'ry blast
My fortress-buckler girded fast-
When terrors compass, as in scorn
Of my salvation-Thou the horn.
To shake the pillars of thy reign,
Did Satan compass thee in vain;
He could not sap the mighty base,
Nor on my mountain leave a trace.
In thee, (that sin avenging day
When justice did her sword display,)
In thee my Rock so closely wrought,
Thy blood my full deliv'rance bought.

Who is a Rock save thee alone?
Jesus, my God, the lofty One!
Oh, from thy high and holy place,
Shew forth the brightness of thy face!

My faith and trust in thy great pow'r,
Who art my Wisdom, my High Tow'r,
My Nail most sure, my Battle-Bow,
And Stumbling-Stone to ev'ry foe!
Here will I sit in thee and sing,
"Till, borne upon thy Spirit's wing,
In thee my Rock, my God I rise,

To shout thy triumph in the skies! M. B. B.

REV. H. A. SIMCOE, (Penheale-Press,) Cornwall.

Sermons made upon the Lord's Prayer, by the Right Rev. Father in God, Master Hugh Latimer, before the Right Virtuous and Honourable Lady Catherine, Duchess of Suffolk. A. D. 1552.

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HERE I have occasion to tell you a story which happened at Cambridge. Master Bilney (or rather

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Saint Bilney, that suffered death for God's word sake,) the same Bilney was the instrument, whereby God called me to knowledge: for I may thank him, next to God, for that knowledge I have in the word of God. For I was as obstinate a Papist as any was in England, insomuch that, when I should be made Bachelor of Divinity, my whole oration went against Philip Melancthon, and against his opinions. Bilney heard me at that time, and perceived that I was zealous without knowledge, and he came to me afterward in my study, and desired me for God's sake to hear his confession. I did so. And to say the truth, by his confession I learned more than before in many years. So from that time forward, I began to smell the word of God, and forsook the school-doctors and such fooleries.

Now, after I had been acquainted with him, I went with him to visit the prisoners in the Tower at Cambridge, for he was ever visiting prisoners and sick folk. So we went together, and exhorted them, as well as we were able to do, moving them to patience, and to acknowledge their faults. Among other 'prisoners, there was a woman that was accused that she had killed her child, which act she plainly and stedfastly denied, and could not be brought to confess the act: which denying gave us occasion to search for the matter, and so we did. And at the length we found that her husband loved her not; and therefore he sought means to take her out of the way. The matter was thus:

A child of hers had been sick by the space of a year, and so decayed, as it were, in a consumption: at the length it died in harvest time. She went to

her neighbours and other friends to desire their help, to prepare the child to the burial; but there was nobody at home; every man was in the field. The woman, in a heaviness and trouble of spirit, went, and being herself alone, prepared the child to burial. Her husband, coming home, not having great love towards her, accused her of the murder, and so she was taken and brought to Cambridge: but as farforth as I could learn, through earnest inquisition, I thought in my conscience the woman was not guilty, all the circumstances well considered. Immediately after this I was called to preach before the King, which was my first sermon that I made before His Majesty, and it was done at Windsor: where His Majesty, after the sermon was done, did most familiarly talk with me in a gallery. Now, when I saw my time, I kneeled down before His Majesty, opening the whole matter, and afterward most humbly desired His Majesty to pardon that woman. For I thought in my conscience she was not guilty, else I would not for all the world sue for a murderer.

The King most graciously heard my humble request, insomuch that I had a pardon ready for her at my return homeward. In the mean season that same woman was delivered of a child in the Tower at Cambridge, whose godfather I was, and Mistress Cheke was godmother. But all that time I hid my pardon, and told her nothing of it, only exhorting her to confess the truth.

So we travelled with this woman till we brought her to a good trade, and at length shewed her the king's pardon and let her go.

This tale I told you by this occasion, that though

some women be very unnatural and forget their children, yet when we hear any body so report, we should not be too hasty in believing the tale, but rather suspend our judgment till we know the truth.

And again we shall mark hereby the great love and loving-kindness of God, our loving Father, who sheweth himself so loving unto us, that notwithstanding women forget sometimes their own natural children, yet he will not forget us, he will hear us, when we call upon him, as he saith by the Evangelist Matthew, "Ask and it shall be given unto you, seek and ye shall find, knock and it shall be opened unto you," &c. Then he cometh and bringeth in a pretty similitude, saying, "Is there any man amongst you, which, if his son ask bread, will offer him a stone? If ye then, being evil, can give your children good gifts," &c. In these words, where he saith, "Which be evil," he giveth us our own proper name, he painteth us out, he pincheth us, he cutteth off our combs, he plucketh down ou stomachs.

And here we learn to acknowledge ourselves to be wicked, and to know him to be the well-spring and fountain of all goodness, and that all good things. come of him. Therefore, let every man think lowly of himself, humble himself, and call upon God, who is ready to give us, not only bread and drink, or other necessaries, but the Holy Ghost. To whom will he give the Holy Spirit? To lords and ladies to gentlemen or gentlewomen? No not so; he is not ruled by affections, he hath not respect unto personages. Poscentibus, saith he, unto those which