Page:Dissertation on the first day of the week, and the last of the world; or, A beautiful descant on the Day of Judgment (sic).pdf/3

 arch of heaven with countles tars, and adorned it with all the lovely drapery of the kies: He who aid to the wide extended ocean, hitherto halt thou come, but no further: He it is, who commands thee to remember the Sabbath day; and daret thou, O man! diobey the trict commands of thy God, who, in the twinkling of an eye, can annihilate thee to thy original nothing. An air of reverential awe reigns this day o'er the pacious world, and all nature eems to ait in the grand olemnity. The flowing trees of the beautiful Aurora, carce waves in golden ringlets o’er the dappled eat, when the early lark in notes far weeter than his uual lay, uhers in the acred morn, while all the weet harmonious feathered tribe, in various plumage dret, that keenly perches on each lofty tree, or wings their way thro' fields of trackles air, join in the general concert to warble forth the praies of their Maker, and the world’s great Lord.

The leafy woods, the hollow rocks and plains, the fragrant bowers, whoe grateful odours breath ambroial weets, and blooming groves of weet enamel'd flowers in each fair garden, rings with the joyful ong, till heaven’s high arch reverberates the ound. The neighing hore, the lowing ox, and all the numerous quadruped creation that port along the enamel'd plains, or avage rove through ditant wilds, aumes this day an air of gravity. The buzzing reptiles humm from pole to pole, and breathe in inarticulate founds, the praies of their all-creating Lord. Noble examples, and olely deign’d by God to intruct and teach mankind to hun the direful road of vice, and tread the golden paths of virtue, whoe flowery walks lead after death to the manions of eternal blis. Thus the irrational creation outvies man in his duty this day, and lrictly oberves the laws impoed upon them