POEMS

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Principal FESTIVALS and FASTS of the

Church of England.

I. On the Annunciation of
the bleffed Virgin Mary; com-
monly called, Lady-Day, March

25.

II. On the Nativity of our
Saviour, or Birth-Day of Chrift;
commonly called, Christmas Day,
December 25.

III. On the Circumcifion of
Chrift, being New-Year's-Day,
January 1.

IV. On the Epiphany, or,
Manifeftation of Chrift to the
Gentiles, January 6.

V. On the Presentation of
Chrift in the Temple, common-
ly called,The Purification of Saint
Mary the Virgin, February 2.
VI. On Ab-Wednesday, and
the Lent-Faft.

VII. On the Day of our
bleffed Saviour's Crucifixion;
commonly called, Good-Friday.

VIII. On Eafter-Day, the
great Feftival of our Lord and
Saviour's Refurrection from the
Dead.

IX. On the Afcenfion of our
Lord Jefus Chrift; commonly
called, Holy Thursday.

X. On Whit-Sunday, be-
ing the great Feftival of the De-
fcent of the Holy Ghoft; fome-
time called Pentecoft, as being
Fifty Days after Eafter.

XI. On Trinity-Sunday; be-
ing the Lord's-Day, next after
Whit-Sunday.

With PRAYERS for the faid Festivals and Fafts.

Defigned for the Instruction and Benefit of humble
and ferious Chriftians.

By DANIEL HALLOWS, A. M. Rector of Gilston
in Hertfordshire.

LONDON, Printed for J. WILFORD, behind the Chap-
ter-Houfe, near St. Paul's. M. DCC. XXXIII.

147.9.

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GREAT BRITAIN.

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N these loose and dangerous Times, wherein Atheifts, Deifts, Blafphemers, Arians, Socinians, Infidels, are fo numerous and impudent, there is great and abundant Cause, that they whofe Lips are to preferve Knowledge, should fore-warn, and fore-arm their People, and more particularly those of the Younger Sort, against the Poifon and Infection, which thefe Enemies of true Religion and Vertue, are fo very industrious to infufe and propagate.

I HAVE therefore, in the ensuing Poems, endeavoured to guard and defend the Servants of Christ, against A 2 the