Heavenly meditations : Or, The devout Christian's paradise. Exemplified in a course of meditations, contemplations, dialogues, letters, &c. suited to all the circumstances of human life; and concern all degrees of people, from the peer to the peasant; a serious perusal of which, will undoubtedly procure tranquility and peace and mind in this life, and eternal happiness and felicity in the celestial regions of the blessed. Containing (among a great variety of other very valuable particulars) 1. Serious meditations among tombs and grave stones. In a letter to a gentleman farmer. 2. Meditations on a flower garden. 3. An elegy, written in a country Church Yard. 4. Private thoughts upon creation. 5. Meditations on the night. 6. Contemplations on the starry heavens. 7. Pious meditations on the winter season. 8. A dialogue on the most important points of the christian religion. 9. Letters on some instructive articles of the Christian duty. Designed to facilitate self-examination, and promote conviction of sin. 10. Meditations on the harvest.-In a series of familiar letters to a gentleman farmer. 11. On sickness. 12. On the last judgment. By an Eminent Divine of the Church of England.

Format:

Book

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 2: New editions.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Meditation--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.

Meditation.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

4 unnumbered pages,224 pages ; 8⁰

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Printed for the proprietors, 1755.

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Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Notes:

A collection, including Thomas Gray's 'An elegy written in a country churchyard'.

Price in square brackets: (Price stitch'd. Two Shillings.)

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from William Andrews Clark Memorial Library (UCLA).

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, N8459.

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