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Excerpt from The Mill of the Muses
Those who are freed irom the slavery of sin will not interrupt the progress of power, when exerted with a design to remove the yoke of the bondage of sin, by a recital of the truths of that Grace which shall make you tree. May the world perceive that to the pious, the songs of Zion are sweeter than the songs of Selma. There is a slavery in fashion, which thousands who partake of it, cannot perceive in its disguise, that it is a bitter draught. If the ears be nailed to the door post, they listen with pleas ure for life, to the' lyre of Apollo, when strung, by Moore and Byron, by Burns and Walter Scott. The writer of these essays has long been, also, a willing slave. The chains were thrown found him as early as the Colonies burst those which bound them to Great Britain, -by such Muses as moved Shakespeare and Milton, Dryden and Pope, Goldsmith and Gray, Addison and Steel, Watts and Wesley, Rowe and some others. Beginning to live, before Whitefield yielded his spirit to the Father of Spirits at N ewbury-port, which occurred (sep s.oth 70, )much pleasure. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
