SPRING, SUMMER, HARVEST, WINTER, BY JOHN BROWN, LATE MINISTER OF THE GOSPEL AT HADDINGTON. THE SIXTH EDITION.. Afk now the beafts, and they shall teach thee; and the The ear that is always attentive to God, never hears a voice Let us begin with God; all things are full of God. Some angel guide my pencil, while I draw Cadha What nothing lefs than angel can exceed; A man on earth devoted to the fkies; He fees with other eyes than ours; where we What makes another fmile, makes him adore, Young BERWICK: PRINTED FOR W. PHORSON, BRIDGE-STREET; AND} M DCC XCII.. THE T PREFACE. O be fpiritually minded,-to be habitually dif pofed, with pleafure and attention, to think of, and defire after spiritual objects, is life and peace. It implies an intereft in the life-giving covenant of peace, which cannot be broken; a purification of confcience with Jefus' quieting blood; and an inward poffeffion of his quickening and peaceful Spirit. L promotes habitual ferenity and meeknefs; it rendereth us active and lively in the fervice of God: By it we live as angels on earth, and are fitted to join them in heaven: By it we improve the whole univerfe as the temple of a prefent 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.— Detefting the romantic, the too fashionable amufement of folly, of lewdnefs, and blafphemy, we recreate ourselves with contemplations, which neither defile for the prefent, nor fting for the future; and "and have our converfation in heaven from whence we look for the Saviour." To promote this happy attainment, this delightful temper of mind, is the facred page crowded with emblems to promote this is the defign of the following attempt.-Let not the natural incidents a 2 be 78157 be accounted too mean for the fuperftructure. 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 duft, to improve them to his honour, and cur 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 Wifdom of God, draw his inftructive, his ineflimable parables, from fparrows, fifhes, nets, bottles, grains of muftardfeed, dough and other common objects? Why may not we, though at infinite diflance, follow his bleffed example; and, with the fkilful chymift, extract a precious fpirit from things outwardly bafe and contemptible? To exhibit in every journal, not the exercife of a fingle day, but a particular form of the Chriftian life; and to adapt the ftile 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 infructed in the oracles of Chrift. THE CONTENT S. worms; Of the SPRING-JOURNAL. OUNG traveller half awak es; dreams; not fully recovered; hears the clock and bell; rifes; hard bed; puts on clothes; reads; prays; views himself in a mirror; breakfast; family-worflip; departs on foot; looks out, p. 13,-20. Dew; fnails; mole; fow; afs; coal-loads; fmoaking houfe; fhambles; thief; fepulchre; crooked path; burning heath; moor-fowl; potter, 21,-28. Sun; labouring men; mad-man; galloping-horfe; duck; turkies; plowing; feed-fowing; harrowing; fpringing; weeds; reviving vegetables; infects; doves; two-ways; angry cur; danger; rufher docks'; courtier, 29,44. Bleach-field; mills; kilns; narrow way; birds; farm-houfe; hens; cottages; flocks; fea fhell fishes; falt-pans; mine; quarry; engines; rivulet; dam, 45,-57. Exchange; furnace; fcholars; paftime; hooper; hunger; inn; garden; wall; door; grafts; trees; flowers; fmell; nofegay; bowlers, 58, -68. Sun clouded; fifhing; flopping hill; thunder; reft; defart; burying-place; houfe ; spider; relapse into the fever; physician; danger; rave? hope of recovery; flux ; inflamation, 70,—————89. Of the SUMMER-JOURNAL. TRAVELLER awakes; rifes; fhifts; ftands; clothes; washes; mirror; fecret and family-worship; breakfaft, 90,-97. Stable; horfe; way; turn-pike; lark; crows fun; dew; rain: warmth; fall; improved fields; way changed; way deferted; inheritance, 98, |