CHEAP REPOSITORY. DAN and JANE; O R FAITH and IF ORKS. A T A L E. M'M : <*ik Sold by J. MARSHALL, (Print.br to the Cheap Repository for Moral and Religious Tracts) No. 17, Queen-Street, Cheapfide, and No. 4, Alder* mary Church-Yard, London. By S. HAZARD, at Bath ; J. Elder, at Edinburgh, and by all Bookfellers, Newfmen,and Hawkers, in Town and Country. Great Allowance will be made to Shopkeepers and Hawkers, Price ONE HALF-PENNY, Or 2s. 3d. per 100. — is, 3d. for 50. — od. for 25. A cheaper Edition for Hawkers. [ Entered at Stationers HaH,~\ ( 3 ) DAN and JANE, Wc. OOD Dan and Jane were man and wife And liv'd a loving kind of life ; One point, however, they difputed, And each by turns his mate confuted, They found not eafy of digeftion. While Dan for Faith alone contended, Jane equally Good Works defended, " The y are not Chriftians fure, but Turks, " Who buiid on Faith and feoff at Works;" 'Twas Faith and Works— this knotty queftion ( 4 ) Quoth Jane— While eager Dan reply'd, u . By none but heathens Faith's deny'd. . " I'll teli you wife," at length quoth Dan, " A ftory of a right good man. " A Patriarch fage, of ancient days, " A man of Faith, whom all.muft praife. " In his own country he poflefs'd, 6i Whate'er can make a wife man bleft; " His was the flock, the field, the fpring, i6 In fhort, a little rural king. cc Yet, pleas'd he quits this native land, " By Faith in the Divine command. " God bade him go, and he, content, " Went forth not knowing where he went. " He trufted in the promife made, " And, undifputing, flrait obeyed. . u The Heavenly word he did not doubt 3 u But prov'd his Faith by going out." Jane anfwer'd with fome little pride-* " I've an example on my fidei ( 5 ) u And tho' my tale be fomewhat longer, " I truft you'll find it vaftly ftronger. u I'll tell you, Daniel, of a man, " The holieft fince the world began; " Who now God's favour is receiving, " For prompt obeying, not believing. " One only fon this man poffeft, " In whom his righteous age was bleft; £C And more to mark the grace of Heaven, 66 This fon by miracle was given. *'* And from this child the word Divjne " Had promis'd an illuftrious line. M When lo! at once a voice he hears, " Which founds like thunder in his ears, sc God fays— Go facrifice thy fon ! Cfi — This moment, Lord, it fhall be done, " He goes, and inftantly prepares, " To flay this child of many prayers. cc Now here you fee the grand expedience 3 " Of Works > of actual found Qbediwce* ( 6 ) " This was not Faith, but ail and deed, " The Lord commands— the child fhall bleed. " Thus Abraham ailed" Jenny cried j «< Thus Abraham trufied," Dan replied. « Abraham," quoth Jane, « why that's my man, " No, Abraham's him I mean," fays Dan. " He Hands a monument of Faith;" " No, 'tis for Works the Scripture faith." " Tis for his faith that I defend him " Tis for obedience I commend him.' Thus he— thus /he— both warmly feel, And lofe their temper in their zeal ; Too quick each other's choice to blame, They did not fee each meant the fame. « At length, good wife," faid honeft Dan, " We're talking of the felf fame man. " The works you praife I own indeed, « Grow from that f«ith for which I plead ; «« And Abraham, whom for faith I quote, " For works deferves efpecial note: ( 7 ) " Tis not enough of faith to talk, « A man of God, with God mull walk: " Our doarines axe at laft the fame, « They only differ in the name. « The faith I fight for is the root, " The works you value are the fruit. C< How fta 11 you know my creed's fincere, " Unlefs in works my faith appear ? ss How fhall I know a tree's alive, fC Unlefs I fee it bear and thrive ? " Your works not growing on my root, " Wou'd prove they were not genuine fruit, " If faith produce no works, I fee, " That faith is not a living tree. f£ Thus faith and works together grow, " No feparate life they e'er can know: ** They're foul and body, hand and heart, * What Cod hath join'd, let no one part. THE END. A Lift of the Tra&s publifhed during the Year 1795* HISTORIES. The Shepherd of Salifbury Plain. Part I. and II. Torn White the Poftilion. Part I. and II. Two Shoemakers. Part I. Life of William Baker, with his Funeral Sermon bv the Reverend Mr. Gilpin. The Two Soldiers. The Plague in London, 166*5. The Lancashire Collier Girl. The Two Wealthy Farmers ; or, Hiftory of Mr. Bragwelf, r'art I. and II. The Good Mother's Legacy. Sorrowful Sam; or, the Two Blackfmiths. True Stories of Two Good Negroes. Murders. The Happy Waterman. The Shipwreck of the Centaur. SUNDAY READINGS, Hufbandry Moralized. On the Religious Advantages of the prefent Inhabitant* of Great Britain. The Beggarly Boy, a Parable, Daniel in the Den of Lions. Noah's Flood. Hints to all Ranks of People on the Occafion of the pre- fent Scarcity. The Harveft Home. The Parable of the Laborers in the Vineyard. The Troubles of Life ; or, the Guinea and the Shilb'ng* P E T R T. Divine Songs, by Dr. Watts, for Children. New Hiftory of a True Book. The Carpenter ; or, Danger of Evil Company, The Gin Shop. The Riot. Patient Joe. Tiie Execution of Wild Robert. A New Chriftmas Carrol, called the Merry Chriftmas, m happy New Year. The Sorrows of Yamba; or, the NegroWoman'sLamentation.