So As may with Sweetness, through mine Ear, Diffolve me into Extasies, 5. And bring all Heav'n before mine Eyes.” Milton, “ Music religious Heats inspires; " It wakes the Soul, and lifts it high, 66 And wings it with sublime Desires, " And fits it to bespeak the Deity, “ Th’ Almighty listens to a tụneful Tongue, “Andseemswell-pleas’dand courtedwithaSong. “Soft moving Sounds and heav'nly Airs “Give force to ev'ry Word, and recommend [our Pray’rs. 66. When Time itself shall be no more, “ And all Things in Confufion hurl'd, " Music shall then exert its Pow'r, " And Sound survive the Ruins of the World: “ Then Saints and Angels shall agree “ In one eternal Jubilee: “ All Heavonshallechowith theirHymnsdivine, " And God himself with Pleasure fee 66 The whole Creation in a Chorus join." Addifony All there pleasing Testimonies in Favour of divine Harmony are exceedingly strong. If they will not remove the Scruples of serious, and candid, and well-meaning Christi ans |