These notes are identified by ♦♠♥♣ symbols in the │ │ text and are shown immediately below the paragraph in which │ │ they appear. │ └────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────────┘ THE WORKS OF THE Rev. JOHN WESLEY, M.A. Late Fellow of _Lincoln-College_, OXFORD. VOLUME X. BRISTOL: Printed by WILLIAM PINE, in _Wine-Street_. MDCCLXXII. THE CONTENTS Of the TENTH VOLUME. _Serious thoughts occasioned by the late Earthquake at Lisbon._ _A Collection of Forms of Prayer for every Day in the week._ _A Collection of Prayers for Families._ _An Address to the Clergy._ _A short Account of the Death of_ Thomas Hitchens. _A short Account of the Death of_ Samuel Hitchens. _A short Account of the Life and Death of_ Nathanael Othen. _Some Account of the Life and Death of_ Matthew Lee. _Extract of the Life and Death of Mr._ John Janeway. _Extract of the Life and Death of Mr._ Thomas Haliburton. Illustration: (‡ decoration) SERIOUS THOUGHTS Occasioned by the late Earthquake at _LISBON_. _Tua res agitur, paries quum proximus ardet._ THINKING men generally allow that the greater part of modern Christians are not more virtuous than the antient Heathens: perhaps less so; since public spirit, love of our country, generous honesty and simple truth, are scarce any where to be found. On the contrary, covetousness, ambition, various injustice, luxury and falshood in every kind, have infected every rank and denomination of people, the clergy themselves not excepted. Now they who believe there is a God are apt to believe, he is not well pleased with this. Nay, they think, he has intimated it very plainly, in many parts of the Christian world. How many hundred thousand men have been swept away by war, in _Europe_ only, within half a century? How many thousands, within little more than this, hath the earth opened her mouth and swallowed up? Numbers sunk at _Port-Royal_, and rose no more. Many thousands went quick into the pit at _Lima_. The whole city of _Catanea_ in _Sicily_, and every inhabitant of it perished together. Nothing but heaps of ashes and cinders shew where it stood. Not so much as one _Lot_ escaped out of _Sodom_!