THE

COMPLAINT;

OR,

NIGHT-THOUGHTS

LIFE, DEATH, and IMMORTALITY

To which are added,

Some Thoughts on the late Rebellion.

AND

A Paraphrafe on Part of the Book of JOB.

MUENCHEN

A3

PREFACE.

S the occafion of this poem was real, not ficti

tious; fo the method purfued in it, was rather imposed, by what spontaneously arose in the author's mind, on that occasion, than meditated, or designed. Which will appear very probable from the nature of it. For it differs from the common mode of poetry; which is, from long narrations to draw short morals: here, en the contrary, the narrative is short, and the morality arifing from it makes the bulk of the poem. The reafon of it is; that the facts mentioned did naturally pour these moral reflections on the thought of the writer.