EST Meditationes Divina & Ethica. I. ST nihil occulis vifibile, hominum nullæ actiones, nullum acquifitum bonum, nullum præfens uel futurum malum, a quibus omnibus animi salutem & utilitatem promovere non pofsimus - Et ille homo, non minus sapiens, quàm pius eft, qui tales fructus ab eis carpit. II. PLURIMI queant bene loqui, at paucis bene agere. Majores in fpeculatione, quam fumus in actione. Ipfe autem reverà Chriftianus est qui in utrifque proficit. III. JUVENTUS est capiendi, ampliandi ætas media & utendi fenectus, optima opportunitas. Juventus remifsa, ignorantem facit mediam ætatem, & ferè, fenectutem, utræque vacuam reduat. Et cujus eft tantum vanitate & mendaciis cibus, cubitum mæftus eft eundum. Charlestown, Mass., and grandson of the Rev. Simon Bradstreet, of New London, Conn. He was graduated at Harvard College in 1728, and was or dained minister of the Second Church in Marblehead, Mass., Jan. 4, 1738, to fill the place of the Rev. Edward Holyoke, who had been elected President of Harvard College. He is described as "a moft worthy, pious, devout christian, and faithful paftor," and also as "an excellent scholar." - MASS. HIST. COLL., viii. 75-76. This Latin translation was probably made in his youth. He died Oct. 5, 1771. UT IV. T navis quæ nimium vela petit subtimia,* nullamq; habens vel levem fuburram,† citò evertitur, sic homo multa scientia ac doctrina, fed gratia & prudentia parva præditus, ab imis ruinæ profunditatibus non procul abest. THE "POEMS" are printed from the second edition, which was published in Boston, in 1678, and which contained the author's corrections, and some unpublished pieces. Fac-similes of the titlepages of the first and second editions are given. THE TENTH MUSE Lately sprung up in America. OR Severall Poems, compiled with great variety of VVit and Learning,full of delight. Wherein especially is contained a compleat difcourfe and defcription of Together with an Exact Epitomie of the Four Monarchies, viz. Alfo a Dialogue between Old England and Printed at London for Stephen Bowtell at the figne of the p |