Phillips Family Papers Box 2

What conquests cannot that preacher make when he himself walks in that path of virtue in which he exhorts others to go? Saurin

Christians believe in God to him that believes all things are possible and if you believe thay shall be so to you He hath said he will be and therefore you may boldly say "The Lord is my helper. Trust in the Lord and keep his way trust in the Lord and be doing good & verify you shall be led verify you shall be assisted verify you shall be supported and comforted commit your way to him & whatever difficulty there be in your works he shall bring it to pass commit the keeping of yourselves to him and you shall be kept by his power through faith unto slavation Faithful is he that called you & will do it. Distrust yourselves as much as you will but distrust not your Stock you are weak Creatures but you have a Strong God you have empty hearts but a full Saviour you have but a poor stock in yourselves but a rich stock in the promise whence you have such a continual supply

supply that your barrel of meal shall not waste nor your Cruse of Oyl spend till you have finished your work and course. Hang on your crucified Lord; take hold on his Covenant take hold on his strength go forth in his strength and Name and then fear not your difficulties shall vanish your way shall prosper your souls shall flourish you shall have your fruit unto holiness & your end everlasting life.

Virtues of an Holy Life.

Feruency in devotion - frequency in prayer - aspiring after love of God continually - Striving to get above the world and the body - loving Silence & Solitude as far as one's condition will permit humble and affable to all - patient in suffering affronts and contradictions - glad of occasions of doing good even to enemies - doing the will of God and promoting his honor to the utmost of [??] power - resolving never to offend him willingly for any temporal pleasure profit or loss. These are virtues highly pleasing to God.

Carnal man cannot comprehend that God loves those whom he permits to suffer - but faith teaches us that the cross is the gift of love the foundation of our hope the mark of his children and the title of an inheritance in Heaven. But unless God sanctify it by his Spririt it becomes an insupportable burthen a Subject of murmering and an occasion of Sin.

Thou little wondrerous Miniature of Man Formd by unerring Wisdoms perfect Plan Thou little Stranger from eternal Night Emerging into Lifes immortal Light.

2. Thou Heir of Worlds unknown thou Candiatae For an important everlasting State Where this young Embryo shall its Powers expand Inlarging ripening Still but never Stand.

3. This glimmering Spark of Being just now Struck From nothing by the all creating Rock To immortality shall flame & burn While Suns & Stars to native Darkness turn.

4. Thou shalt the Rains of the World survive And through the Rounds of endless Ages live How thou art born into an anxious State Of dubious Trials for thy future State How thou are listed in the War of Life The Prize immense & oh! severe the Strife.

5. Another Birth awaits the when the Hour Arrives that lands the on the eternal Shore And oh! tis nigh with winged haste twill come

6. Thy Cradle rocks towards the neighbouring Tomb. When shall Immortals Say a Son is born While the as Death [unspoken?] Mortals [move?] Or Sink from deep to deeper Miseries Assend Perfections everlasting Seale Or still defend from Gulph to Gulph in Hell.

7. Thou Embryo Angel or thou infant Fiend A being just began but neer to end What boding Fears a Fathers Heart torment Trembling & anxious for the grand Event

8 Lost thy young Soul so late from Heaven bestowd Forget the Father & forget her God Lest while imprisond in this House of Clay To tyrant Lusts she fall a Helpless Prey

9 And lest defending still from bad to worse Her immortallity shall prove her Curss Maker of Souls evert so dire a Doom Or snatch her back to native nothings Gloom.

Finis.

A Poem composd by Mr Davis President of New Jersey College on the Birth of one of his Children.