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THE 
 
 4* 
 
 WORKS 
 
 Of the late 
 
 Reverend and Learned 
 
 Mr. Jofeph Stennetu 
 
 VOL. IV. 
 
 Containing his Poems, and Letters 
 on various Subjeils. 
 
 LONDON: 
 Printed in the Y e A R M.DCC.XXXII. 
 
( i ) 
 
 To the Reverend ^ 
 
 07 
 
 Mr. Jofepb StennetH^^ 
 
 i?y Joseph Collet, £)^- 
 
 ^ernonT of Bencolen, in the Eaft- 
 Indies. 
 
 TorhTort^ Aug. 22, 171 3, 
 
 Early fought to join the mufes 
 
 train ; 
 And goofe-like, gabling, tho't my 
 felf a fwan \ 
 Long idle hours to love of verfe betray'd : 
 That love a little footh'd, fo ftrong impref- 
 
 fion made. 
 That now advanc'd in years, by cares pof- 
 
 fefs'd, 
 And various kinds of urgent bufinefs prefs'd,! 
 . I ftill the coy one court to be my gueft. 
 
 Vol, IV. 
 
 In 
 
( n) 
 
 In vain ! From court, and camp, and mart 
 
 file tlies, 
 To filent fliades and facred privacies. 
 Your city bard (he vilits in his coach : 
 But mine, tho willing, ihe could not approach ; 
 By guards furrounded and a numerous train, 
 As on the fands I drive, or o'er the plain. 
 When to the ftreams or fliady groves I bend 
 My fteps, the needful troublers Hill attend : 
 The defart's peopled ; and the gloomy fliade, 
 By arms and colours is refulgent made. 
 
 I with regret, yet pleas'd, review the hours 
 To friendfliip facred, and celeftial powVs ; 
 When we far from the crowd retired have fate. 
 On things fablime engag'd in high debate. 
 My foul ftill feels the manly eloquence. 
 The piercing force of truth, the nervous fenfe. 
 With which you talk of virtue's charming 
 
 caufe. 
 Religious blifs, and nature's perfect laws. 
 Of love divine, and of obedience pure, 
 And faith that will the fiery teft endure. 
 The fong begins : the praifes we rehearfe 
 Of God, and god-like men, in flowing verfe : 
 Alternate verfe the lofty theme fullains ; 
 The lefty theme fupports th' alternate ftrains. 
 
 The mufe grown warm exerts her utmoft 
 force, 
 And ftrains and ftretches in the higher courfe: 
 But gently footh'd, I guide her to the plains: 
 She now begins her wanton rural ftrains. 
 
 My 
 
( iii ) 
 
 My homely feat, built on a rifing ground. 
 The cocoa, orange, and the Hme furround. 
 The fragrant bloom and glowing fruit appear 
 Thro' all the months, and crown the cir- 
 cling year. 
 The verdant fields fufta in the fmilino; fun 
 Unparch'd, his rays dired:ly pouring down. 
 Moift dews by night fupply the liquid ftore; 
 And fountain nymphs around unwearied pour 
 From unexhauftedurns ; their ftreams are fccn. 
 On each fide crown'd witheverlafting green. 
 To thefe my lowing kine returning home. 
 With ftrutting udders ev'ry evening come : 
 There flake their thirft^ retreat thence with 
 
 the light, 
 Quitting the plains where tygers range by 
 
 night. 
 Then to my yard return the bleating dams. 
 With all their wanton kids and fporting 
 
 lambs ; 
 A medly there of animals one fees : 
 Hens, capons, ducks and doves, eagles and 
 
 geefe, 
 Hogs, dogs and monkies, red-coats and great 
 
 guns : 
 A fcene unufual in your country towns. 
 
 Thefe chafle delights relieve the adive mind, 
 Whom weighty cares would elfe too flridtly 
 
 bind : 
 Unbent flie with frefh vigour can purfue 
 Her daily tafk, and labours known renew. 
 
 a z But 
 
(iv ) 
 
 , But when, my friend! when will the day 
 arife, 
 Shall blefs me with the fight of native fkies? 
 O when fliall I repafs the liquid main, 
 With reputation bleft and moderate gain ? 
 When fee my offspring, or their deflin'd race ? 
 Or when be lodg'd within thy flridt embrace? 
 
 Jofeph Collet. 
 
 A 
 

 >GiCi:L/ 
 
 A Poem to the memory of 
 the Reverend Mr. Jofeph 
 Stennett. 
 
 By John Qu i n c y, M. 2). 
 
 ^^ 
 
 ^^^^S O mourn the lofs of a departed 
 iW^^ friend; _ 
 l^-.>«frl^l To Others his example to com- 
 ^#i mend; _ \ 
 
 To raife thofe adlions eminently bright ; 
 And draw his virtues in a proper Hght ; 
 That growing ages may the fcene Hve o'er. 
 And be that pattern he has been before : 
 For this has Stennett*s mufe employed her 
 
 art, 
 With pious forrow touched each generous 
 
 heart ; 
 'Till ev'ry breafl with emulation fwells. 
 As the great lofs, with decent grief, flie tdls. 
 
 By thee, oh Stennett! Cmfoytt furvives; 
 And Taylor^ in thy verfe inftrudlive lives. 
 Their bright examples ftill our bofoms warm ^ 
 And fhew in every grace its proper charm. 
 
 a 3 Religion 
 
( vi ) 
 
 Religion here appears a heavenly thing ; 
 And firmeft joys from confcious virtue fpring. 
 Thy country too, (iuch w^as thy tuneful (kill) 
 In manly verfe enjoys her Nassau ftill : 
 In him the foldier and the patriot views, 
 And thro' each fcene his glorious life purfues. 
 Urgd hv th' ungrateful, who their harps 
 
 unftrung, 
 Thou could^fl not fee that glorious theme 
 
 unfung : 
 The firings were touched by thy harmonious 
 
 hand, 
 And airs divine arofe at thy command. 
 
 But who with equal fkill thy worth fhall 
 
 raife, 
 Embalm thy name, and celebrate thy praife ? 
 Who can with equal ftrength and charms 
 
 rehearfe 
 Thy matchlefs virtues, in becoming verfe j 
 Tell o'er a life fo eminently great ; 
 Thy wond'rous worth and pious cares repeat; 
 In proper order every aftion drefs ; 
 And in each line fomc fhining grace exprefs? 
 
 Oh ! Ccllet^ had not heaven for unknown 
 ends 
 Far call'd thee from thy country and thy 
 
 friends ; 
 Thy Stennett's hcarfe {hould ne'er go un- 
 
 adorn'd, 
 But with becoming folemn grief be mourned; 
 
 Thy 
 
( vii ) 
 
 Thy lelf would be harmonious in thy woe ; 
 Thy forrow would in tuneful numbers flow; 
 Such tuneful numbers as did thee infpire. 
 When firft thy ravifli'd foul hung on his lyre ; 
 And dwelling on this melancholy theme 
 Repay thofe numbers which were learned 
 
 from him. 
 If yet in burning climes and painful ftrife 
 Of dangerous toils, heaven flill preferves thy 
 
 life; 
 When firft thou hear'ft the mournful ftory -v 
 
 told, / 
 
 Start not but firmly keep thy hold ^ 
 
 On that fure hope that m.akes the vii-tuous\ 
 
 bold. J 
 
 As thouVt a man, fome filent tears will flow; 
 A groaning breaft thy bitter forrow fhov/ : 
 But yet ! oh ! yet, be moderate in thy woe^ 
 Think ftill thy country worthy thy return, 
 Worthy thy friends, who thy long abfence 
 
 [mourn. 
 Where (hall the mufe begin her mournful 
 
 tale. 
 And Stennett in harmonious tears bewail? 
 How v/ill file trace the faint inev'rv line ? 
 And how the poet with the prophet ioin ? 
 How will fhe this adventurous tafk purfue, 
 And in full luftre the bright image fhew ? 
 
 In faithful lines his private virtues tell ; 
 Say how in every part he did excel, 
 Regardful always of a heavenly end, 
 The Warmeft chriftian, and the trueft friend. 
 
 a 4 Tell 
 
( viii ) 
 
 Tell o*er the parent in his pious care, 
 Happy in filial love, and filial fear : 
 The hufband view thro' life's uneven way, 
 His faith, his truth, his conftancy difplay. 
 
 Mourn him, ye friends, to whom he did 
 impart 
 The free difcoveries of an honeft heart : 
 Who with him oft in fweeteft converfe join'd, 
 And from his clear ideas ftor'd your mind. 
 Lament your lofs, deprived of him below; 
 And in your tears unfeigned forrow fliow. 
 
 Ye tender relidls, weep around his urn : 
 The heft of friends, thebeft of fathers, mourn. 
 Your fure fupport, fnatch'd from your early 
 
 years, 
 Demands the tribute of your pious tears. 
 
 From hence pafs o'er the too afBidting tale; 
 And in foft numbers next the bard bewail. 
 Religion only could his mufe infpire. 
 And friendiliip's facred warmth his bofom 
 
 fire. 
 Nopleafing flattery footh'd the crimes of men. 
 Nor Pagan deities defil'd his pen : - 
 But to his God and confcience ever true, 
 Firll jufily thought, then did thofe thoughts 
 
 purfue. 
 Oh ! how our fouls have on his numbers 
 
 hiing, 
 Unheeded, drawn by the inchanting fong ! 
 
 How 
 
( ix ) 
 
 How juft his thoughts appear ; his turns how 
 
 fine ! 
 How bright his figures in defcription fhine ! 
 In eafy ftrokes the pleafing image lies, 
 And foft perfwafions from his accents rife. 
 
 But who can follow him with equal fire, 
 When his Redeemer does his thoughts 
 
 infpire ? 
 When he addrefles his immortal king. 
 What tuneful notes the praifeful tribute 
 
 bring ? 
 How does he on the pleafing fubjecfl dwell, 
 And what he'as done for us in tranfport tell ! 
 Who can purfue him in the gloomy way, 
 And trace his Saviour up to Golgotha ? 
 View all the horrors in his bofom met. 
 While every pore difcharg'd a bloody fweat 3 
 ^ Deferted by his friends^ by one betray dy 
 And with a treacherous kifs a captive made ! 
 See the rocks rend by his expiring groans^ 
 Whiljl the torn veil his facred priejihood owns ! 
 What heart fo hard but muft relenting lie ;> 
 What tears muft flow from the difiTolving eye, > 
 To fee his God, to fee his Saviour die ? 3 
 
 [voice ; 
 Such was the poet ; fuch his charming 
 And fuch the fubjedis of his pious choice. 
 Such thoughts he lov'd 3 fuch facred notes he 
 
 fung ', 
 The fofteft poet, with the fweeteft tongue. 
 
 =» The lines in Italic^ are borrowed from A/r. Stennext'^ 
 om)n works* 
 
 Bui 
 
( X ) 
 
 But now, mymufe, begin a nobler view ; 
 Forfake the poet, and the faint purfue : 
 Trace him to Zion's hill, the mount of God, 
 And fee the prophet in his work employed : 
 Tell how his mind was turn'd to finifh'd 
 
 And how his words to ftrongeft eloquence. 
 How did he knowledge to the mJnd impart. 
 The firmeil reafon with the richeft art ; 
 Sublimefl: truths in eafy words convey, 
 And facrcd wifdom's force divine difplay! 
 How fwift our fouls to pure religion move, 
 Drawn by the tidings of a Saviour's love ? 
 His gentle words an eafy paffage find, 
 To calm the troubles of a wounded mind ; 
 Lead the poor (inner to the clean fmg jloody 
 And bathe his coujcience in redeeming blood. 
 How did he teach to curb each wild defire, 
 And quench the kindling heat of lawlefs fire ; 
 Tell us the blifs that from right reafon flows, 
 And the true joys of piety difclofe ? 
 Struck and overcome by virtue's brighter 
 
 charms, 
 We yield ourfelves to her all-conquering 
 
 arms ; 
 Body and foul to her juft rules refign. 
 And all our deeds conform to laws divine. 
 
 But we no more that charming voice fliall 
 hear 3 
 No more the faint will in our ftreets appear. 
 
 For 
 
( XI ) 
 
 For fuch a lofs how faft our forrows grow ; 
 What floods of tears on fuch occafion flow ? 
 When fuch a man of God, a prophet dies, 
 No vulgar grief fhould wait his obfequies : 
 A common lofs for common forrow calls ; 
 A nation trembles when a prophet falls. 
 
 Ye little flock, whom oft your preacher 
 
 warm'd, 
 (Whofe fouls exulted while his accents 
 
 charm'd) 
 Where is your father, where your pafl:or fled ? 
 What fins have robb'd you of your reverend 
 
 head ? 
 What crime could prayer of all its force 
 
 difarm, 
 And deafen heaven to her all-conquering 
 
 charm ; 
 Whofe cries have gates, and bars^, and fetters 
 
 broke, 
 And Lazarus in his filent tomb awoke ? 
 
 Oh wondYous man ! whom haft thou 
 left behind ? 
 And where fhall we the prophet's mantle find ? 
 Who has poflTeflion of thy humble heart ? 
 To whom didft thou thy holy {kill impart ? 
 
 Where is that goodly look, inviting mein, 
 Thejuft refemblance of his foul within? 
 Divine perfuafions, with a heav'nly grace. 
 Dwelt on his lips, and pity on his face. 
 
 No 
 
( ^ii ) 
 
 No preacher*s accents ever did reveal 
 
 Such tender love, mixt with fuch ardent zeal. 
 
 How did his words like heav'niy lightnings 
 
 dart; 
 Scarce touch the body while they melt the 
 
 heart' 
 That orator mull: furely be obey'd, 
 Whofe mein is eloquent, whofe looks per- 
 
 fwade ; 
 Who with his own does others paffions raife, 
 And to their bread his very foul conveys. 
 
 But now prepare thy farewel-tearsto flied, 
 As thou draw'ft near the confines of the dead : 
 Behold the chriftian in the laft great ftrife ; 
 Recount his actions on the clofe of life ; 
 Say how becoming he refign'd his breath, 
 And calmly yielded to the llroke of death. 
 
 HowZion mourns! how hangs her wi- 
 dowed head, 
 
 To fee her envoy death's dark regions tread ; 
 
 The gloomy vale from whence there's no 
 return, 
 
 And where no more life's lambent flame will 
 burn, 
 
 Where blackeft night, without one glimpfe 
 of dav, 
 
 Docs all its horrors to our thoughts difplay. 
 
 The awakening Viggott firft refigns his 
 breath, 
 Nor cou'd our prayers retard Ills early death ; 
 
 Seiz'd 
 
( xiii ) 
 
 Seized in his ftrength of life, his work is done, 
 Call'd from his labours to pofTefs his crown. 
 
 Oh! Piggoft, little did we think thine end 
 Would foon be followed by thy deareft friend. 
 Tho weighty cares employ'd his thoughtful 
 
 breaft, 
 And for thy lofs with deepefl: grief opprefs'd; 
 Yet this he conquer'd, and with pious dread 
 Paid his laft office to the reverend dead ^ 
 How did thy Stennett tell thy blefl abode! 
 How did he trace thee to the feat of God ! 
 How charm our fouls, and raife each ftrong 
 
 defire, 
 And by his heav'n-born thoughts the mind 
 
 infpire ! 
 Oh how the audience on his accents hung, 
 When thy bright memory employ'd his 
 
 tongue ! 
 In what tranfporting ftrains did he fet forth 
 Thy wond'rous goodnefs, and thy matchlefs 
 
 worth ! 
 But, oh ! what agonies transfixed each foul. 
 While down his cheeks the pious tears did 
 
 roul, 
 When broken paufes had untun'd his breath, 
 And interrupted accents fpoke thy death ! 
 
 Oh ! may thy name for ever have a part 
 With thy dear friend in every grateful heart. 
 Had heav'n his precious life but longer fpar'd, 
 For thee his tuneful notes he had prepar'd, 
 
 ^ In his fHneral fermon* 
 
 To 
 
( xiv ) 
 
 For thee had poured out the beft perfume, 
 And fcatter'd choiceft odours o'er thy tomb: 
 But heav n thought fit the prophet to remove. 
 From mourning here with us, to fing with 
 thee above. 
 
 See how the mufe avoids th' approaching 
 
 pain, 
 And Ihifts infenfibly the mournful fcene ; 
 In day-hght fain would longer draw her 
 
 breath, 
 And turns reludlant from the paths of death. 
 But'tis decreed : and Stennett now muft fall 
 By that deftrudive hand that levels all. 
 Protradted ills weigh down the yielding frame. 
 And noxious vapours damp the vital flame : 
 Infenfibly the conllitution wears 
 With painful ftudy, and afliduous cares : 
 The organs moft employ'd, now firft refule 
 Their wonted talk, and vital functions lofe : 
 The lungs forget t'expire the ftagnant air. 
 The fpirits ceafe to run their fwift career : 
 The heart irregular begins to beat, 
 Nor warms the purple ftreams with wonted 
 
 heat : 
 Relaxed mufcles all the limbs unbrace ; 
 And death erects his image in the face. 
 
 Ye folemn mourners, who his bed attend. 
 Take your la{l leave of your departing friend ; 
 And as you weep, obferve the awful flrife. 
 The dying groan, and the lall tugg of life ; 
 
 How 
 
( XV ) 
 
 How the decaying fire but faintly burns, 
 Now feems to difappear, and then returns ; 
 Streaks o'er the features with a flatt'ring red. 
 Then quite forfakes them, ghaftly, pale, and 
 
 dead. 
 See how the foul ftruggles to make her way 
 From long confinement, to her native day : 
 The heavenly profpefl: opens to her fight. 
 And airy minifters fuflain her flight. 
 To keep the prophet here we ftrove in vain. 
 His toils are finifh'd, and diifolv'd his chain: 
 To all the cares below he bids farewel, 
 And mounts the regions where jufl fpirits 
 
 dwell. 
 
 Blefs'd man ! who conquered all the ills 
 
 below, 
 Blefs'd in his God, fhall lafting pleafures 
 
 know. 
 No more he grieves the churches mournful 
 
 ftate; 
 But views the various turnings of her fate : 
 He fees how regular the winding turns, 
 Fir'd with th' approaching fcene, in tranfport 
 
 burns. 
 
 Reft now, blefs'd foul, fecure from care 
 and grief. 
 Till the laft trump fhall wake a world to life. 
 Then all the good thy works have wrought 
 
 below. 
 In beauteous order God, thy God fliall Aow ; 
 
 Thv 
 
( xvi ) 
 
 Thy prayVs, thy tears, all for acceptance 
 
 prefs ', 
 And not one virtue fail of wi{h*d fuccefs : 
 Then all whom thou to piety haft form'd, 
 Thofe fouls, who firft were by thy teaching 
 
 warm'd, 
 Whofe hands were ftrengthned by thy pious 
 
 care. 
 And feet delivered from the tempter's fnare, 
 Shall give thee joys beyond our reach fublime, 
 Joys only known by fouls above the fpheres 
 
 of time. 
 
 Stop here, my mufe, a too impetuous flight, 
 Left thou grow giddy with exceffive height : 
 Too fteep th' afcent for infant wings to fly. 
 The view too diftant for a mortal eye. 
 To leave earth, clouds, and air, and trace 
 
 the ftarry fky. 
 Oh ! who can point the place, who mark 
 
 the way 
 To thofe bright manfions of eternal day. 
 Where no rude fcenes the perfedt peace annoy. 
 But endlefs praife and love the mind employ ; 
 Where rich unmingled joys the foul will 
 
 know. 
 Which in one conftant courfe, without cef- 
 
 iation flow. 
 
 On 
 
( xvii ) 
 
 On the Death of the Reve-^ 
 rend Mr. Jofeph Stennett. 
 
 i?y Jonathan Blenman£/^3 
 Attomey-general of Barbadoes. 
 
 Orgive, blefs.'d faint, forgive th* 
 afpiring mufe, 
 Whofe ready will unequal paths 
 
 purfues. 
 
 I, like the mournful lover, flytoverfe, 
 And eafe my mind, whiift I thy charms re- 
 
 hearfe. 
 But ah ! what fighs does the reflection bring 5 
 Not what thou arc, but what thou waft, I 
 
 fing. 
 The man who once fuch wond'rous things 
 
 cou'd fay, 
 Lies there, a d ad unadtive lump of clay ! 
 
 Vol. IV, b He's 
 
( XVlll ) 
 
 He's gone ! and will no more the pulpit grace 
 With his melodious voice, and fweet addrcfs : 
 No more (hall we, his hearers, wond'ring 
 
 ftand, 
 And feel each paffion mov'dathis command. 
 How did his gefture and his adlion fhow. 
 He firft believ'd, what we were taught to 
 
 know ! 
 Juft were his thoughts, nervous and ftrong 
 
 his fenfe , 
 But fmooth his ftyle, and full of eloquence. 
 His mufe (the mufe that fung great Najfaus 
 
 ' praife) 
 Will warble out no more her tuneful lays. 
 How fweet her notes on fubjefts all divine ! 
 How bright the chriftian fhone in evVy line! 
 'Tis hard to fay (he both perform'd fo well) 
 Whether in profe or verfe he did excel. 
 When fuch a prophet, fuch a poet dies, 
 Who is there flarts not with the fad fur- 
 prize. 
 Nor fhews his virtue by his flowing eyes? 
 ; His converfe yielded fomething always new; 
 Inftruftive his difcourfe, and pleafant too. 
 Whatever he faid was with a juft allay ; 
 Tho grave, not dull; tho chearful, yet not gay. 
 Smartly he rally *d, but without offence j 
 None made more mirth with fo much in- 
 nocence. 
 Tho oft by ficknefs and by pains opprefs^d, 
 When was his wit, or wanting, or mifplac'd? 
 So conftant was his temper, and fo mild -, 
 Tho fortune often frown'd, he always fmil'd. 
 
 But 
 
But hold 
 
 ( XIX ) 
 
 to paint a Stennett*s worth. 
 
 will alk 
 A Stennett*s genius, nor tranfcend the 
 
 tafk. 
 Then, infant mufe, forbear: nor try in vain 
 To fweep the furface of a boundlefs main* 
 His living works to future ages fliew, 
 How much from this was to his merit 
 
 due. 
 
 f'^' 
 
 ■Iff 
 
 b i 
 
( XX ) 
 
 Kil! 
 
 ti 
 
 1^ >=*^ *riy ^ 
 
 \'5i"^ 
 
 ^<s^ uy~ 
 
 
 Pindarique ODE; 
 
 To incite the Author to write on 
 the Great Tempeft in 1 703. 
 
 jEaven's dreadful voice fo high, 
 and your's fo low! 
 Dear charming mufc, why are 
 you filent now ? 
 You that the lofty lyra ftrung. 
 In notes as foft as ever poet fung : 
 You that the facred choir can reprefent, 
 And fung dearWiLLiAM thro' the firmament : 
 'Tis you the lofty fubjcdl waits : 
 The lofty fubjedt its own fong creates. 
 Themes make the poets ; and a thought fo 
 Infpires the m'afs of poetry: [high 
 
 But flill the artful hand performs the be ft, 
 And meaner mufick's found among the reft. 
 
 Your 
 
( xxi ) 
 
 Your towVlng fancy, lofty as the wind, 
 Like air capacious, and as unconfin'd. 
 Commands high drains ; and freely fings 
 The ftorms of nations or the fall of kings : 
 Then teach us, heav'nlymufe: for none like 
 
 [thee. 
 Can make thefe ftorms and thy foft verfe agree; 
 
 Sure none like thee 
 Of thefe difcording ftrings can make a har- 
 
 [mony. 
 
 Then triumph In thy lofty verfe ; 
 And heaven's avenging providence rehearfc. 
 Infult the furies; who, let loofe below. 
 Could yet no farther go. 
 Then louder praifes fing with awful joy. 
 To that all-powerful breath, which can the 
 
 [world deftroy.. 
 The darker works of providence defcribe : 
 This is the facred province of the tribe. ' 
 Nor are you dedicated fo in vain : 
 With you the heavenly mufes all remain. 
 Strange bounty ! that it fhouldbeftow 
 The argument, and numbers too ; 
 And in one facred treafure join. 
 What feldom can together ihine : 
 The poet rarely meets in the divine. 
 
 Could I perform the part I fee remains ; 
 Had I the voice, the words, the heavenly 
 rd lead the way, and fo invite [ftrains; 
 You, who by far know better how to write. 
 
 b 3 But 
 
( xxii ) 
 
 But me nor wit, nor art infpirc. 
 To raife my humbl'd fancy higher : 
 Tm not a member of the facred choir. 
 I blufh to fing my humble part, 
 Barren of wit, barren of art : 
 Among the tuneful tribe I claim no place j 
 And hardly reach to touch the bafe. 
 
 While you the facred hymns of praife rehearfe, 
 And write fublimer thoughts in your immortal 
 
 While you the fatal night record, [verfe ; 
 
 And fing the terrors of the Lord ; 
 
 The nobleft text improve, and {how 
 The caufe of winds, the how, and why they 
 Defcribe the fury of the element, [blow; 
 And all the dark difafters reprefent : 
 I'll let my fatirs loofe upon the crimes. 
 And fcourge the people who debauch the 
 
 [times : 
 
 ril draw the ftrange amazing fcenes : 
 Their crimes may tell them what the tempefl 
 
 [means. 
 
 THE 
 
THE 
 
 CONTExNTS 
 
 O F T H E 
 
 FOURTH VOLUME. 
 
 p Verfion of Solomon's Song ; to- 
 gether with the XLVth Pfalm. 
 j^i^' Page I 
 
 ir2^:^^v^j?^ Hymns In commemoration of 
 the fufferings of our blefled Saviour Je- 
 fusChrift, compofed for the celebration 
 of the holy fupper. ^j.9 
 
 Hymns compofed for the celebration of the 
 holy ordinance of baptifm, J53 
 
 A Poem to the memory of Mr. Timothy 
 Crufo, late minifter of the gofpel ^ who 
 departed this life Nov. 26, 1697. ^7^ 
 
 b 4 A 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 A Poem to the memory of Mr. Nathanael 
 Taylor, late minifler of the gofpel. 
 
 Page iS I 
 
 A poem to the memory of his late majefty 
 William III. 199 
 
 To my friend Mr. -, on his philo- 
 
 fophical dream. 220 
 
 To Mr. William Mafon, on his excellent 
 fliort-hand. 222 
 
 To the reverend Mr. Samuel Wefley, on 
 his ingenious poem, intided, Tbe life of 
 Chrifi^ &c. publifl:ied Anno 1693. 223 
 
 An Hymn.. 227 
 
 On the Sabbath. 231 
 
 On the profane liberty of poets in their 
 love-verfes. 235 
 
 Perfedlion. 237 
 
 An epitaph on Mordecai Abbot Efq;, 240 
 
 At hymn. 241 
 
 An epitaph on the reverend Mr. 
 
 Wells, minifler of the gofpel. 245 
 
 On the death of my little Beni. an in- 
 fant. 244 
 
 Simeon's words paraphrafcd. 246 
 
 A 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 A Tranflation of Mr. C *s latin 
 
 verfes, with additions, on the death 
 of the earl of Rochefter's child. Pre- 
 fented to the countefs of Rochefter, by 
 Mr. C . Page 247 
 
 On Proverbs XIV. 9. Fools make a mock of 
 fm. 251 
 
 On a marble-piece reprefenting Chrift 
 bound to a pillar. Tranllated from 
 the Italian 5 but fomewhat altered. 
 
 Pfalm CXLVIIL 254 
 
 An hymn on recovery from iicknefs. 
 
 Ecclefiaftes XL 9, 10. and XII. i. para- 
 phrafed. 259 
 
 Man changeable, but God always the 
 feme. 261 
 
 To the illuftrious prince of Orange, on 
 his expedition into England, anno 1688. 
 
 263 
 
 On the Sabbath. 267 
 
 On the Sabbath. 269 
 
 Religion. 270 
 
 Love 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 Love to a crucified Jefus. Page 271 
 
 On the French perfecution. 273 
 
 An epitaph on his father and mother, 
 Mr. Edward and Mrs. Mary Stennett, 
 
 274 
 
 An epitaph on Mr. William Morton, 
 of Knaphill in Buckinghamfhire. 275 
 
 Mary Magdalen. 276 
 
 The Hypocrite. 278 
 
 /Enigma on writing. 280 
 
 On the acceffion.of king William and 
 Queen Mary. 281 
 
 On a famous vote of the houfe of peers, 
 relating to king William. 283 
 
 On martyrdom. Written 1685. 284 
 
 Pfalm XVIII. Verfe i 15. 289 
 
 Part of Pfalm XXVIL and LXXXIV. 
 
 292 
 
 Pfalm cm. 293 
 
 Pfalm CXXXIV. 296 
 
 Paraphrafe on Proverbs IX. 297 
 
 Part 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 Part of a Poem defign'd by the author, 
 on the death of the reverend Mr. John 
 Piggot. Page 299 
 
 The firft Inventors of poefy defcribed in a 
 military metaphor. 300 
 
 Letter I. Concerning the abolition of the 
 law of Mofes. 308 
 
 Letter IL On the fame fubjeft. 303 
 
 Letter IIL To Mr. W. K. jun. 3 14 
 
 Remarks upon a letter fent to Mr. Charfley 
 of Agmondelham. 318 
 
 Of occafional conformity to the church 
 of England; in a letter to Mr. J—^ 
 B . Nov. 27. 1710. 339 
 
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 ~^^&^^l^^^^^^i^5fe ^^s 
 
 A 
 
 VERSIOxN 
 
 O F 
 
 SOLOMON^ 
 SONG of SONGS, 
 
 TOGETHER WITH 
 
 The XLVth PSALM. 
 
 Ifa. 54. 5. Th^ Maker is tbj Husband^ the 
 
 Lord of Hofis is bis Name. 
 
 Eph. 5. 32. This is a great Myftery : but I /peak 
 concerning Chrift and the Church. 
 
 
 Vol. IV. 
 
 6 
 
THE 
 
 PREFACE. 
 
 
 ^^ HO "^tis generally agreed that 
 
 KjT^Pl this poem was compofed by So- 
 ^ftLv^J^I lomon ; yet fame have denied 
 
 i^^^SM that he wrote it by divine in^ 
 fpiration ; and make his defign to be only 
 that of celebrating his amours with Tha- 
 raoh's daughter^ or fame other per/on. 
 This was formerly the opinion of Theo- 
 dorus Mopfueflanus^ and was condemned 
 in the fecond council of Conjiantinople. 
 And Grotius of late in his annotations on 
 this Book declares himfelf to be ^ much of 
 
 B 2 the 
 
 ^ [Hoc canticum] eft tiarum arcana Tub honeflis 
 oa.tn^'ixi^ inter Solomonem 6c verborum involucris Hie la- 
 filiam regi^ ^^^vpti^ interlo- tent j qux etiam caufa eft 
 quentibus eti;ini choris duo- jCar Hebrxi veteres hunc li- 
 bus, turn juvenum tuni vir- brum legi nolue-unt nifi a 
 ginum,qui in proximis thala-j jam conjugfo priximis, Cre- 
 mo locis excubabant. Nup- idimr aucem Solomon, quo 
 
 magis 
 
The PREFACE. 
 
 the fame mtnd\ tho to qualify the matter 
 a little he tells its, " 'Tls thought that 
 " Solomon, the better to eternize this 
 *' Booky compofed It fo artlfclally^ that 
 •* without much framing there might be 
 *• allegories enough found in It to ex- 
 •* ^rcfs the love of God to the Ifaelltcjh 
 •• nation \ which the Chaldte puraphrafl 
 •* perceived and declared^ and MulmO' 
 •' nides under flood It no otberwtfe. And 
 y this love hehig a type of the love of 
 " Chrlfl to his chinch^ chrlflans have 
 *' laudably exerclfed their minds In ap^ 
 *« plying the words of this poem to this 
 *' purpojey But with how little reafon 
 any have prefumed to deny th^ divine 
 authority and fplrltual defgn of this book^ 
 will appear when ^tis confidered ; that it 
 has always been numbered among the ca^ 
 f ionic al books of the old tefament both by 
 yews and Chrlflans, The title given it 
 by the Chaldee paraphrafl isj Songs and 
 hymns, which Solomon the prophet, the 
 king of Ifrael, uttered by the fpiric of 
 prophecy before the Lord, the Lord of 
 
 ninc»is pcrennnret hoc fcrip- [ Malmonides. lUe autem a- 
 lum, ea arte id compofuiflc, mortypus cuni ^uerit anioris 
 Ut fine multa dillortione Chriftf erga ecclelinin, Chrf- 
 etA.A«;iJ?{tf/ in eo inveniri | (liani inge; ia lua ad appl'- 
 poflent, ciUcC Dfl amorem ad- canda ad earn rem hujus 
 VeiTus popu1i:ni l^*aeli'icuni rarininis verba exercuerunt 
 experimerent: quod <5c (enCn \ laud.ibili (ludio. B, Grot, in 
 
 & oftend't Chnldaeus hie pa- j Cant% 
 raphraftes j nee aliter accepit j 
 
 al! 
 
The P R E F A C E. 5 
 
 all the world. The extreme reverence 
 the : ews had for it, as containing divine 
 myjferies of the htghefl rank, was the 
 reafon of their prohibiting their children 
 to read it (as well as the firfi chapter of 
 Gencfis^ and both the beginning and end 
 of the prophecy of Ezekiel) till they 
 arrt^)ed at thirty years age. They call it 
 the ^ holy of holies ; and fay its divine^ '^'^P 
 authority was never fo much as contro-^"'^'^^ 
 verted among them by any but the profane. 
 They fay the name [Solomon^ mentioned in 
 this fong is facred^ and to be afcribed to 
 the MefTiah, the prince of peace. And 
 the mofi celebrated chrijiian writers, both 
 antient and modern^ fo generally agree in 
 the divine original of this fong, that it is 
 as nee die fs as it would be endlefs to name 
 ^em, 
 
 ^Tis true^ this poem treats of two 
 lovers, fometimes under the character of 
 a (hep herd and [hcpherdefs, and fome^ 
 times under that of a prince and princefs. 
 But does it thence follow that it has not 
 a myficalfinfe, defigning to ft forth the 
 mutual love of Chrifi and bis churchy 
 when His fo tifual a thing to find allego- 
 ries in the divine writings ? The forty^ 
 fifth T^falm celebrates the fame myfiical 
 efpoufalsy and very much in the fame 
 flrain (a verfton of which I have there- 
 fore added at the end) and John the baft iff ^^^^ 2. 
 
 B 3 gives''^' 
 
21— 35- 
 2 Coy. 1 1 . 
 
 ?r The P R E F A C E. 
 
 gives the chara[fer of bridegroom to our 
 nev. I?. ble(}ed Saviour^ as isseli as John the 
 %l\ ^ apojile. The apojile Tan I ufes the fame 
 kind of language, when he alludes to 
 marriage, in [peaking of the myjiical uni^ 
 on of Chrifl and the church. Indeed it 
 may be allow d^ that here are divers allu- 
 fions to Solomon and his queen, their 
 court and gardens, &c. and the rather^ 
 becaufe Solomon was an emijtent type of 
 Chriji : but longe majora canuntur, and^L 
 greater than Solomon is here ; as is evi- 
 dent not only from what has been already 
 faid, hut from the imfrobable things that 
 will refult from the contrary fuppofition. 
 For infance, if Solomon were one of the 
 principal fuhjeiis of this fong, is it to be 
 imagind that he would f peak fo largely in 
 his own praife^ and magnify his own 
 beauty to fo high a degree ? On the other 
 hand, is it likely he jhould one while fo 
 plainly fet forth the defers and imper- 
 feBions of his bride ^ and at another time 
 extol her to the skies ? Is it to be thought 
 he would make her fo ainorous and impor- 
 tunate in her inquiries after him ? or 
 that he would reprefent his queen rmi- 
 fling unattended thro the ffreets of Jeru- 
 falem in the night to feek him ; and fo 
 €xpofini7 herfclf to all ?nanner of a fronts 
 and abvfes^ contrary to the rules of de- 
 cency ? This no way agrees with the 
 
 tnodefy 
 
The PREFACE. 
 
 modejly and rejervednefs of be?' fex^ 
 (efpecially in thofe times, and in that 
 flace) nor 'with the great7iefs of her 
 quality : for in this part of the fong fhe 
 is not conjldered as a Jhepberdefs in a 
 country- cottage, but as a prince fs in her 
 city-palace. Now all this, and much 
 more to the fame purpofe, which for 
 brevity fake I forbear to mention^ will 
 very well bear a my flick fenfe, and may 
 eafily he accommodated to Chriji and the 
 Church. For ^tis no wonder if Solomon 
 /peaks highly in the praife of this heu'^ 
 venly bridegroom^ and reprefents this 
 bride fometimes veiled with blemiffoes 
 and infirmities, and fometimes without 
 any defe[i, Jhining with beauty and glo- 
 ry ; becatife the various conditions and 
 frames of the church of Chrijt make her 
 appear very much to differ from herfelf 
 when viewed in different refpeEis and at 
 different times. 'Tis no trefpafs on her 
 modefty, but an addition to her glory ^ to 
 reprefent her love to Chrijt extremely 
 fervent. Her diligent inquiry after him 
 in the night, when withdrawn from her ; 
 after flje refused him admiffion, her for* 
 rows and affliB ions in fee king him, her 
 t ran/ports of joy when Jhe finds him^ all 
 fii^e very well with what paffes between 
 our Saviour and his fpoufe^ while Jhe 
 continues in this lower World, 
 
 B 4 i^ 
 
^ The PREFACE. 
 
 It is likewife worth obfervation, that 
 chap. 7. the tower oi Lebanon fpoken of in this 
 ^' book^ which^ in all appearance^ is the 
 
 fame with the houfe of the foreft of 
 Lebanon, mentioned i Kings 7. 2. was 
 not built till a confiderabLe time after 
 the temple was ftn'ijhed : and yet Solo* 
 mon was married to '^Pharaoh's daiigh* 
 ter at k^fi fome time before the finifhing 
 of it '^ as appears by comparing 1 Kings 
 3. I. with chap, 6. 38. and chap, 7. i, 2. 
 And therefore^ if this fong had been a 
 kind of epithalamitim 7nade immediately 
 on their marriage^ this building in Leba* 
 non would not have been alluded to in it. 
 ' As to the nature of this poem ; V/j* a 
 
 kind of pafloraly tho fome parts of it 
 contain defcriptions more agreeable to a 
 frince'^s court than to afhepherd's cottage. 
 This mixture of city and country^ and 
 fudden paffing from fimple and rufiick 
 to fioble and magnificent defcriptions^ 
 was no doubt highly efeemed in the He* 
 brew poejy (whatever account our moderns 
 make of it) fince we have fuch inflances 
 of it in this p"^^ em, which was compofed 
 by the wifeft of men, and the choice fl 
 piece of a thou find andfive^ whereof he 
 was the author ; as appears by the title 
 Rev, i9i given it, of the fong of fongs, which fig- 
 nifes\ the mofl excellent fonq^ ; as the 
 king of kings and lord of lords, denotes 
 in fcriftnre the fupreme king and lord. 
 
 The 
 
The PREFACE. 
 
 The form of it is dramatic k : the per* 
 fons /peaking and Jpoken to, are the 
 bridrgroom^ the bride, the friends or 
 companions of the bridegroom, and the 
 companions of the bride, who are called 
 the daughters of Jerulalem. As by the 
 bridegroom Chriji is reprefnted, and the 
 church in general by the bride ; fo the 
 companions of the bridegroom feem to 
 Jignify the prophets, apojUes, and other 
 minijiers of the word of God t, and the 
 daughters of ^ertifalem^ young converts^ 
 or ftch as are inquiring after ChriJI and 
 his religion. 
 
 If any are /hocked at the ffyle and man- 
 ner of compofure, as thinkiifg the Jignres 
 fome of them too bold, and not natural^ 
 the tr an fit ions too abrupt, &c, let "^em 
 conjider that the gufi of all ages and na- 
 tions is not the fame ; and that that is a 
 very graceful exprejfion in one language^ 
 isohich feems very mean in another^ 
 They that would judge accurately of the 
 fiyle of this poem, fhould be well ac- 
 quainted with the language in which it 
 was originally written^ and with the 
 genius and cuftoms of the age and nation 
 in which it was firfi publijhed. Thefe 
 none can now pretend to be throughly 
 verfed in : therefore *tis more modefi and 
 becoming to lay the fault on our own ig- 
 norance ^ if we don^t fee that beauty and 
 
 elegancy 
 
I o The P p. E F A C E. 
 
 elegancy y izhich the antient Hebrews did, 
 in a piece compofed by one^ who, by the 
 tefiimony of God himfelf, had the highejl 
 intellettual accompLiJhments of any man 
 in the world, and who wrote it by the 
 fpecial infpiration of the Holy Spirit too : 
 and infiead of puzzling ourfelves and 
 others by too nicely criticizing on its 
 external form, to feek a more ufeftil and 
 agreeable entertainment^ in getting a fo* 
 lid and experimental knowledge and re^ 
 lijh of thofe fpiritual myjieries it con- 
 tains, 
 
 I have attempted in the enfmtg Jheets 
 to give a verflon of this divine drama : 
 tn which I have endeavoured to keep as 
 clofe as I well could to the terms^ or 
 however to the fenfe ; to be modefl and 
 fparing in paraphrajing ; to leave paffages 
 capable of various probable interpreta* 
 tions^ in fiich terms as might be differ efit^ 
 ly applied, I have endeavoured careful- 
 ly to purfue the ideas of the divine poet % 
 yet not to tie myfelf only to his terms fb 
 fcrupuloufly as quite to negleEi the air of 
 our englifh poetry. No body expels a 
 tranflation in verfe from any language 
 can be performed verbatim, or as firiElly 
 as one in profe, I have coufulted the 
 original text, and various commentators 
 on occajion^ and taken the liberty to differ 
 from our engliff tranflation in fome 
 
 places 
 
The P R E F A C E. 1 1 
 
 places where I thought it reafonable. 
 For hiftmice : chapter i. 17. hijiead of 
 \_r afters of fir^ I fay {^galleries of 
 Brutine-tree.'] Chapter 2. 7. chap.^. y. 
 and chap. 8.4/ take to be the words of 
 the bridegroom^ and that he charges the 
 daughters of Jerufalem not to awake the 
 bride till Ihe pleales ; whereas our tran* 
 flat or s fuppofed the bride now f peaking^ 
 and charging them not to awake the 
 bridegroom till he pleales. And fince I 
 am Jpeaking of th fe texts : it may not 
 be amifs to advert if e by the way, that 
 the abjuration here made by the roes and 
 hinds cf the field, is not to be undtrflood 
 as if the party fpeaking fujore by thefe 
 creatures : for as God Jwears only by mh. ^. 
 himfelf becaufe he can fwear by no^B- 
 greater, fo it is unlawful for his crea- f ^^^^' ^' 
 tures to fwear by any thing below him. Matt. ^, 
 But thefe words may either fgnify^ 134— 35» 
 adjure you who are by \or among"] the 
 rocs and hinds, ^c. or elfe may be taken 
 for a kind of obteftation^ whereby thefe 
 creatures are called to witnefs againfi 
 the daughters of Jerufalem^ iftheyjhould 
 not obferve the folemn charge given "^em : 
 as heaven and earth are, by a profopopoeia^ ^^^^* 3®* 
 called on by Mofis to teftify againfl the ^* 
 Ifraelites\ and the ft one that Jojhua e'Jojh.2^. 
 reeled, is termed z. witnck, and hearing^"^' 
 afcribed to it. Chapter 5. 10. the bride^ 
 
 groom 
 
12 The P REPACK. 
 
 groom in our Englijh tranjlation is faid 
 to be the chiefeft of tea thoufand : this I 
 think might better be rendered^ \earrying 
 the banner over ten thoufand menl^ I 
 therefore turn it thus : 
 
 Under his ftandard marfliard arc 
 Ten thoufand youths, but none lb fair. 
 
 What is called mod fine gold /// our 
 
 Bible ^ I render [the finejt gold^ the gold 
 
 cnn. of Fez, ;] for there is ^ another wordjujl 
 
 before TSD that flgni fie s fine gold \ there* 
 
 fore I take this to be the prof err/ame of a 
 
 fart of Africa fill called the kingdom of 
 
 F^z : and perhaps bccaufe there was 
 
 plenty of pure gold in this country, the 
 
 jirabiaus term fine gold Fez, (for Mr. 
 
 AiJiJv'Ortb in his annotations on this 
 
 fhc'\ tells us^ ^tisfo called tn the Arabick 
 
 To' gHe.) J have thro' out noted which 
 
 J>arty is fp caking^ according to the be ft 
 
 judgment I could make. How I have 
 
 fucceeded in thcfe matters^ mujl be left to 
 
 others tojudg^. 
 
 I haze compofed it in fuch a meafure^ 
 Cf'd divided it into fuch parts ^ as might 
 render it fit and e<}f to he fung in the 
 worfioip of God. If any fhould fcruple 
 
 * nSS'tJ Sui Vcxillum geren«?j cui fubfint decern ho- 
 
 tr.inuir! mi'lia. ji-jant unt enfetgne de dix tnille hommesm 
 Mercer, in loc. 
 
 2 fi 
 
The PREFACE. 
 
 fo to fife it^ becaufe the fenfe of it is 
 {in many places at leajt) obfinre and drjfi- 
 cult ; / defire them to confider that many 
 of the 'Ffalms are liable to the fame 
 object ion (particularly the ^^th^ ^-jubich 
 treats of the fame fubje5i of divine love) 
 and yet thefe are not laid ajide as ifelefs 
 to this pnrprfe^ becaife dictated by the 
 fame Spirit with thofe that are more 
 flain and eafi to be underfood. The ob- 
 fcurity that is found in this or other parts 
 of the facred writings, fl?ould excite us 
 to the greater diligence in fe arching after 
 the mind of the Holy Spirit, that we 
 may improve both in grace and knowledge, 
 jind the providence of God has furnijhed 
 various helps to this end, and fome in our 
 own language : the learned and judicious 
 Mr. Ainfworth s annotations on this 
 book very well deferve to be pent fed by 
 fuch as afpire after the knowledge of 
 thofe excellent things of which it treats. 
 
 What is reprefented to pafs between 
 Chrifl and the church in general in this 
 fong, is in a ^reat meafure applicable to 
 the tranfaEiions between him and every 
 particular chrifian. Here we may dif 
 cern the pious foul convinced of Chrif's 
 love line fs and worthy inflamed with love 
 towar s him, and earneflly defiriitg and 
 fetking intimate communion with him, 
 tho Jhe meets with many difficulties in 
 
 her 
 
 U 
 
14 The PR E FACE. 
 
 her way. We afterwards find her traitf* 
 ported with joy upon the reception of ma- 
 ny fignal favours from him, and very am- 
 ple demonf rations of his love^ which are 
 attended with the mofl grateful expref 
 fions of love on her part, j^fter this^ 
 thro her negligence and the power of 
 temptation^ Jhe grows cool and languid in 
 her ajfe^iion to him ; upon i^hich he ; as it 
 werey retires and hides himfelf from her ; 
 he withdraws the manifejiation of his 
 kindneCs^ the want of which alarms and 
 aivakens her from her fiothful frame ^ 
 and fe ems to fill her vjith almoft as much 
 forrow as his fmiles gave her pleafure : 
 her joyful raptures are now turned into 
 fighs and complaints. However ^ foe re^ 
 folves to feek her abfent lord, till jhe 
 finds him : her zeal revives : /he makes 
 great proteji at ions of the fine erity of her 
 love, and refolutions of her future con- 
 Jtancy : foe diligently inquires after him, 
 and at lengthy after having paji thro 
 7nany dangers and difficulties, jhe meets 
 with him. Their renewed communioit 
 then fur nifljes them both with the fuh lime fi 
 and mojl endearing exprejfions of joy and 
 love ; and they take the great ejl C07/ipla^ 
 cency in each other's fociety, by turns de- 
 fcribing one another'* s beauty, till at la [I 
 fioe feems impatient of longer delays, and 
 to defire a yet fuller and mere perfe[i 
 
 cfijoy* 
 
The PREFACE. 15 
 
 enjoyment of her beloved Lord, by a 
 tranjlat'ton from the kingdom of grace in» 
 to that of glory. This feems to be the 
 general Plot and dejign of this divhie 
 poem. 
 
 And thofe gracious fotils^ who are truly 
 converted to God^ and have experienced 
 the renewing Influences of the divine 
 Spirit to maintain their fpiritual life ; 
 issho have a fpiritual relijh, or (to ufe 
 our Saviour s phrafe) iavour the things 
 that be of God {tho themfelves are ac- 
 counted the foohlli things of this world) 
 'Will eajuy find much intelligible and in^ 
 firuciive matter in this holy fong^ while 
 the vvi(e men of the world are pofed with 
 myjfery, and fumble at it. Not but that 
 tk( wifefl and mo ft learned chrifian may 
 find fome diffii ulties in it {as well as in 
 many other parts of the fcripture) capa^ 
 ble to exercife his pious induftry. 
 
 To conclude^ if the whole fcripture is 2 t/w. 3. 
 given by infpiration of God, and is profit- *^> '7« 
 a It for doc&rine, for reproof, for correc- 
 tion, for inftrudion in righreoufnefs, that 
 the man of God may be perfcdl, throughly 
 furnifhed to all good works : then this 
 part of it is ufeful to thefe purpofes : and 
 we fhall ^-j v.ell to attend to the apo file's 
 exhort ationy who fays^ let the word Qi^oUi,i6n 
 Chnft dwell in you richly in all wifdom, 
 teaching and adraoniibing one another in 
 
 pfalms 
 
jg The P R E F A C E. 
 
 pfalms and hymns and fpiritual fongs, 
 fmging with grace in your hearcs to the 
 Lord. 
 
 And if this fmall performance Jhall by 
 
 the divine hlejjing any way contribute to 
 
 the flrength of thofe pious affe^wns which 
 
 devout fouls bear to the blejfedjeftis \ it 
 
 will be the fatisfaBion and joy of him 
 
 who efieems it the highefi honour in the 
 
 world to be a fervant and friend to 
 
 the heavenly bridegroom ; and heartily 
 
 Eph, 6. wifhes Grace niay be with all them that 
 
 24* love our Lord Jelus Chrifl: in fiocerity* 
 
 Amen. 
 
 J. s. 
 
 T O 
 
17 
 
 T O 
 
 Mr. Joseph Stennett- 
 
 On his excellcat Verfion of the 
 Book of Canticles. 
 
 E T untund fouls poetic flights defpife^ 
 Who to the heights of verfe could ne- 
 ver rife ; 
 Infenfible to all the charms of ivit^ 
 And lofty fenfe^ inflowing numbers writ : 
 Whilfl I (unfkiird to imitate) admire 
 The Hebrew fong of fongs tun d to an 'Englifh 
 lyre, 
 
 Sublime the theme ! this facred poem treats 
 Of love divine^ with all its charming Jweets^ 
 Under a kings and fhepherd's name concealed: 
 The love of Chrifl is to his church reveal' d: 
 ; Hcy tho the f over eign Lord^ God over all 
 ; Blefled for ever, condefcends to call 
 I His churchy collected from the wretched race 
 I Of finful Adam (when adorn d with grace) 
 S Vol. IV. C His 
 
I 8 To Mr. S T E N N E T T, &c. 
 
 His royal bride ; a7id as a bridegroom loves. 
 With J'oft endearments all her pajfions moves. 
 Her mighty joysjloe does in tranfport tell. 
 As on the JiibjeB JJ:e could ever dwell 
 But ah ! too foon forgetful of her blifs. 
 She grows fecure\ aJid then fhe grows remifs, 
 T'ill her provoked yet conjlant lord withdraws, 
 And gives her ti?ne to mourn her fault and lofs, 
 T'hencares and fears poffefs her troubled foul. 
 And anxious doubts within her bofom rolL 
 No eafe^ ?20 quiet can the fair one find. 
 Till his return refiores her peaceful mind. 
 
 Ty infpired poet thus in myjlic lays, 
 The church's duty fings, her Saviour s praife. 
 The prince and preacher both in one combine. 
 And with firongreafon courtly language join,. 
 To beautify afubjedtfo divine. 
 But all thefe beauties were to us obfcurd 
 By dijtant time and place (yet jufifecurd 
 Of the truefenfe in rough unpolifdd profe) 
 Till you (preacher and poet too) arofe 
 To form the heights of f acred poetry. 
 And boldly fet the fmiling captive free, 
 Tho in an Englip, yet a charming drefs : 
 Great the attempt^ and equal the fuccefs ! 
 
 Jof. Collet 
 
 CHAPa 
 
^9 
 
 CHAR L 
 
 Solomons Song of Songs. 
 
 PART L 
 
 ^he Bride. 
 
 Let him feal his lips on mine. 
 
 His kifles breathe a love di- 
 vine : 
 
 No juice the generous Vine 
 can bear, 
 May with thy Aveeter love compare. 
 
 3 The precious ointments on thee fhed. 
 Around their liberal odors fpread. 
 And with their odors fpread thy fame. 
 Sweet, as rich oils diffused, thy name. 
 Thy name the virgins hearts infpires 
 With facred love and pure defires. 
 
 4 Draw me by thy almighty charms ; 
 Well run, we'll fly into thy arms. 
 Me, happy me ! the king of kings 
 Into his bridal chambers brings ! 
 
 C 2 Joy 
 
2 Solomons fong of fongs. 
 
 Joy fits upon our hearts and tongues ; 
 Joy tunes our thoughts, and tunes our 
 
 lb ngs. 
 We'll think upon this love of thine, 
 More than full bowls of fparklingWine: 
 For every foul that's good and juft. 
 Loves thee, dear Lord, and love thee muft. 
 
 PART IL 
 
 5 O daughters of Jerufalem, 
 (Fair offspring of a noble ftem) 
 Tho, I confefs, my skin is brown. 
 My comely features you muft own : 
 I'm black as tents of Kedar are; 
 
 As Solomon's curtains bright and fair. 
 
 6 O do not with cenforious eyes 
 Survey my face, and then defpife : 
 The fun has view'd me many days, 
 And fcorch'd my beauty with his rays. 
 My mother's fons againft me fir'd 
 "With an uncomely rage, confpir'd 
 
 To make me keep and drefs their Vines, 
 Thro winter-ftorms and fummer-fhines; 
 While that lov*d vineyard of my ow^n 
 With weeds and thorns is all o'ergrown. 
 7 Dear objedl of my foul's defire ! 
 O tell me whither doft retire 
 With thy lov'd flock, thy joy and care ? 
 Where doft thou feed 'em ? tell me where. 
 Where giv'ft 'em foft repofe at noon ? 
 For why fliould I, as feme have doi.e. 
 To other paftures turn afide. 
 Where thy companions flocks abide ? 
 
 "The 
 
Solomon s fong of fongs. 2 1 
 
 T!he Bridegroom. 
 8 Fair one, who haft more charms ingroft 
 Than all thy fex befide can boaft ! 
 I'll be thy guide, if thou wouldft know 
 How to my fields and folds to go. 
 The footfteps of my flock you fee : 
 Follow them, as they follow me : 
 Befide thofe fliepherds tents repair ; 
 There feed thy kids, and fold 'em there. 
 
 PART III. 
 
 9 Thy fteps and port fo graceful are, 
 Thee, O my love, I may compare 
 To a fair {(tx. of goodly fteeds 
 Of that fam'd race which Egypt breeds. 
 To Pharaoh's pompous chariot ty'd. 
 When he in folemn flate does ride. 
 
 10 Thy cheeks with rows of jewels {hine; 
 (Jewels become fuch cheeks as thine) 
 And chains of gold, fit to be worn 
 On royal necks, do thine adorn. 
 
 1 1 We'll golden borders for thy fake, 
 Pouder'd with ftuds of filver, make. 
 
 T^he Bride. 
 
 12 While the glad king at table fits 
 Among his welcome favourites, 
 
 My fpikenard ihall the board perfume, 
 And breathe its fweets all round the 
 room. 
 
 13 A heap of myrrh, for fragrancy. 
 Is my beloved Lord to me : 
 
 C 3 Him 
 
2 2 Solomons Jong of fottgs. 
 
 Him in my arms I will embrace. 
 My bofom make his refting place. 
 
 14 My deareft love appears to me 
 
 A clufter from the camphire-tree, 
 Whofe odorous gum in drops diftill'd, 
 Engedi's fertile vineyards yield. 
 
 ^he Bridegroom. 
 
 15 How fair, my love, how wondrous fair 
 Art thou, beyond what others are ! 
 Thy eyes, that flame with fpotlefs loves, 
 Are chafl and bright, like thofe of doves. 
 
 The Bride. 
 
 16 How fair art thou ! my only dear. 
 How amiable doft thou appear ! 
 Come let us here fecurely reft, 
 
 Our Bed with pleafant greens is dreft j 
 
 17 And all we have delightful feems : 
 Ourhoufe is built with cedar beams j 
 The galleries, contrived 10 be 
 
 For fpacious walks, with brutine-tree. 
 
 CHAP. 11. 
 
 PART I. 
 
 The Bridegroom. 
 Am the rofe of Sharon's field, 
 _^ The lilly that the vallies yield ; 
 Which paint the fields with white and red, 
 And far and near their odors fpread. 
 
 2 Juft 
 
 I 
 
Solomons fong of fongs. 25 
 
 2 Juft as the lilly, which adorns 
 The vale befet around with thorns ; 
 So bright my love appears among 
 The brightefl of the virgin-throng. 
 
 The Bride. 
 £ Juft as a tree with apples crown'd, 
 Amidft wild {hrubs encompafs'd round ; 
 So fair my dear appears among 
 The faireft of the youthful throng. 
 To his cool fhade I did retire, 
 There fat me down with great defire 
 To pluck his fruit, which gave delight 
 Both to my tafte, and to my fight. 
 
 4 He led me to the joyful place. 
 Which fplendid banquets us'd to grace : 
 To entertain me there, he fpread 
 Love's conquering banner o'er my head. 
 
 5 O chear this fainting heart of mine 
 With goblets crown'd with gen'rous wine ! 
 Treat me with apples 3 thefe will prove 
 A cordial, now I'm fick of love. 
 
 6 May his left hand my head uphold. 
 May his right arm me round enfold. 
 
 T^he Bridegroom. 
 
 7 O Daughters of Jerufalem, 
 (Fair offspring of a noble ftem) 
 Since here my love now refts fecure, 
 I with a folemn charge adjure 
 
 You, by the nimble roes and fawns, 
 That run and fkip along the lawns ; 
 
 C 4 Permit 
 
24 Solomon s fong of fongs. 
 
 Permit her foft repofe to take. 
 And no indecent clamour make; 
 Nor jog her as Ihe fliimb'ring Hes, 
 Till ihe hcrfelf is pleas'd to rife. 
 
 PART II. 
 
 Tbe Bride. 
 
 8 I hear the voice of him I love ; 
 And now I fee him fwiftly move : 
 OVr haughty mountains how he trips ! 
 O'er hills and rocks how faft he fkips ! 
 
 9 My love is like a roe or fawn, 
 
 That runs and leaps along the lawn : 
 Now by the v*'all he ftands I fee. 
 Now thro the window looks at me : 
 His face now thro the lattice fhows. 
 His beautys all their charms difclofe. 
 
 10 Nor ilands my deareft filent there ; 
 His voice, his charming voice I hear: 
 " Rife, rife, my love, make no delay, 
 " Rife, my fair one, and come away ; 
 
 1 1 " For fee the frozen winter's gone, 
 The rains abate, the fpring comes on ; 
 On the earth's bofom flowers arife, 
 
 *' To pleafethe fcent, and pleafe the eyes: 
 The birds begin to chirp and fing, 
 To welcome the returning fpring : 
 The turtle in our plains we hear 
 " Proclaiming the reviving year : 
 " The fig-tree her green fruit difclofes, 
 " And to the warmer air expofes : 
 
 " The 
 
 
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Solomons fong of fongs. 25 
 
 ** The fruitful vine begins to bloom, 
 '' Her tender buds the air perfume. 
 " Rife, rife, my love, make no delay ; 
 " Rife, my fair one, and come av^^ay. 
 
 PART III. 
 
 14 " My dove, who in a rock doft hide, 
 *' And in the fecret cliffs relide, 
 
 *' O let thy face to me appear ! 
 " Nor let me fail thy voice to hear ! 
 " That melting voice of thine is fweet; 
 " And in thy face all graces meet. 
 
 15 '' The foxes, thofe young foxes take, 
 " Which in our vineyards ravage make : 
 " Strive to defeat their ill defigns ; 
 
 " For tender grapes adorn our vines. 
 
 16 My love is mine, and I am his. 
 His pafture 'mong the lillies is. 
 
 17 Until the welcome dawn of day. 
 When gloomy fliadows fly av/ay. 
 Turn, my beloved, turn again. 
 Nor let me call and beg in vain : 
 Be like a roe or nimble fawn. 
 That runs and fkips along the lawn ; 
 Such as the hills of Bether breed. 
 Such as the hills of Bether feed. 
 
 CHAP. 
 
26 Solomons fong of fongs. 
 
 CHAR III. 
 
 PART I. 
 
 1 ''TT^Was dark, as on my bed I lay, 
 
 1 My dreams and flumbers fled 
 away ; 
 Waking I mifs'd my foul's delight, 
 I mifs'd him in the fhades of night : 
 I caird aloud, and call'd again j 
 I fought him, but I fought in vain. 
 
 2 I'll rife, faid I, and fearch the town, 
 View every corner up and down ; 
 Search every lane, and every ftreet, 
 Till I my foul's delight can meet. 
 For him I afk'd, and afk'd again : 
 
 I fought him, but I fought in vain. 
 
 3 I found not him, but I was found 
 By them that walk the city round, 
 The watch that guard the walls by night ; 
 Saw ye, faid I, my foul's delight ? 
 
 4 From thefe not many fteps I paft, 
 And found my foul's delight at laft : 
 Faft in my arms my dear I caught, 
 And to my mother's lodgings brought. 
 Into the joyful chamber, where 
 
 I drew at firft my vital air. 
 
 The Bridegroom. 
 
 5 O daughters of Jerufalem, 
 (Fair offspring of a noble ftem) 
 
 Since 
 
Solomon s Jong of fangs. %y 
 
 Since here my love now refts fecure, 
 I with a folemn charge adjure 
 You, by the nimble roes and fawns. 
 That run and fkip along the lawns ; 
 Permit her foft repofe to take, 
 And no indecent clamour make, 
 Nor jog her as fhe flumbering lies, 
 Till ihe herfelf is pleas'd to rife. 
 
 PART II. 
 
 ^he Friends of the bridegroom, 
 
 6 Who's this that from the defart comes, 
 Exfpiring aromatick gums. 
 
 Sweet as the altar's fumes, that rife 
 In pillars to propitious fkies ? 
 Such facred odors flow from her, 
 Perfum'd with frankincenfe and myrrh ; 
 And all rich pouders of the ftore 
 The merchant brings from th' eaflern 
 fhore. 
 
 7 Behold great Solomon's bed of ftate. 
 Where threefcore mighty champions 
 
 wait: 
 All other champions thefe excel, 
 That head the tribes of Ifrael ; 
 
 8 All vers'd in arms, know how to wield 
 The warlike fword, and warlike fliield ; 
 Each on his thigh his weapon bears. 
 To guard the court from nightly fears. 
 
 9 The chariot of king Solomon 
 
 Was made of wood from Lebanon : 
 
 lo The 
 
2 8 Solomons fong of fongs. 
 
 10 The pillars filver finely wrought, 
 The bottom gold from Ophir brought, 
 With Tynan purple lin'd above, 
 The middle pav'd with myilick love 
 For th' daughters of Jerufalem, 
 (The offspring of a noble flem.) 
 
 1 1 Come, S ion's daughters, bright and fair, 
 Like that bleft flock that did you bear ; 
 See how king So^-^mon appears. 
 How bright the diadem he wears ! 
 Crown'd by his mother's royal hand. 
 This fmiling day the nuptial band 
 Him to his lovely bride has join'd. 
 And tides of joy o'erflow his mind. 
 
 CHAP IV. 
 
 PART I. 
 
 ^he Bridegroom. 
 
 HOw fair,my love, how wondrous fair 
 Art thou beyond what others are ! 
 Thy eyes that flame with fpotlefs loves. 
 Are chafl and bright like thofe of doves. 
 They fhine beneath thy curling locks. 
 Which feem like goats in num'rous flocks, 
 That on mount Gilead's brow appear. 
 Climbing to find fweet paflure there. 
 Within thy lovely mouth there grows 
 A fet of teeth in even rows, 
 Like flocks of fheep of equal fize, 
 Juft as they from the water rife, 
 
 And 
 
Solomons Jong of Jongs. 
 
 And to be {horn from wafhing come. 
 Bearing their fnowy fleeces home ; 
 Or Uke the pretty twins they bear. 
 When none of 'em abortive are. 
 
 3 Thy Hps, that wear a Hvely red. 
 Are hke a fcarlet-colour'd thread : 
 When with thy fweeteft voice they move, 
 Their graces ftill more charming prove. 
 Thy temples, fhaded with thy hair. 
 And cheeks, Hke cut pomegranates are; 
 As thofe abound with purple veins, 
 
 In thefe a blufliing tincture reigns. 
 
 4 Such majefly and beauty fhine 
 In that illuflrious neck of thine; 
 Like David's tower it feems to be. 
 Built for a royal armory : 
 
 Thy necklace, ftrung with glittering 
 
 gems. 
 Like thoufand {hining bucklers feems. 
 All fhields by mighty captains born, 
 Which that bright lower around adorn. 
 
 5 Thy breafts, which equal beauties fhare. 
 Are like two fawns, an equal pair, 
 The lovely twins o'th' fruitful roe, 
 Feeding where fnow-white lillies grow. 
 
 6 Until the welcome dawn of day. 
 When gloomy fhadows Py away, 
 
 To th' mount of my rh I'll ^ei me hence, 
 And to the hill of frankmcenie. 
 
 PART II. 
 
 7 All beauties ' eign, rrylove, in thee: 
 From every biemifh mou art free. 
 
 8 From 
 
'>o Solomon s Jong of Jongs. 
 
 8 From Lebanon come with me, my bride ; 
 From Leb'non come with me, thy guide. 
 From high Amana take thy view. 
 From Shenir's top, andHermon's too; 
 From dens where Hons do refide. 
 From hills where favage leopards hide. 
 
 9 My fifter and my lovely bride, 
 (To me by many ties ally'd) 
 
 My heart is ravifh'd with thy charms ; 
 My heart is conquered by thy arms. 
 One glance of love {hot from thy eye 
 Has won the eafy vidtory : 
 One chain, wherewith thy neck's ar- 
 
 ray'd. 
 Has me a willing captive made. 
 ID My fifter and my lovely bride, 
 (To me by many ties ally'd) 
 How pleafant is this love of thine ! 
 How much more fweet than generous 
 
 wine ! 
 How much thy precious oils in fmell 
 The beft of fpices all excel! 
 
 1 1 Thy lips, my fpoufe, that move with 
 
 fkill. 
 Drops like the hony-comb diftil. 
 Hony and milk^s beneath thy tongue. 
 Which feeds the weak as well as ftrong. 
 Thy garments with rich fcents abound, 
 Such as in Lebanon are found. 
 
 PART IIL 
 
 12 My fifter and my lovely bride, 
 (To me by many ties ally'd) 
 
 Is 
 
Solomons fang of fongs. 31 
 
 Is like a garden round inclos*d, 
 Nor, as the common field, exposed: 
 A fpring fhut up, a fountain feal'd. 
 And ne'er to vulgar eyes reveal'd. 
 
 13 Thy plants, all fet in decent rows, 
 A fruitful paradife compofe : 
 
 There trees, with fair pomegranates 
 
 crown'd, 
 And all delicious fruits abound : 
 There camphire drops, and fpikenard 
 
 grows, 
 
 14 With fpikenard fragrant faffron blows : 
 Sweet cane, and cinnamon are there. 
 With aloes, frankincenfe, and myrrh : 
 And all choice fpices there are found. 
 Which fill the air with odors round. 
 
 15 From thee the gardens all derive 
 The ftreams that keep their plants alive; 
 From thee their fpring and facred well, 
 Whofe living waters all excel : 
 From Lebanon thefe waters flow. 
 And blefs with fruit the vale below. 
 
 16 Awake, O north- wind, andatlaft 
 Give thou, O fouth, a warmer blaft ; 
 Upon my garden kindly blow, 
 
 That all fweet fpices there may flow. 
 
 The Bride. 
 To's garden let my love repair, 
 Pluck his rare fruits, and eat 'em there. 
 
 CHAP, 
 
J 2 Solomon s fong of fongs. 
 
 CHAR V. 
 
 PART I. 
 
 I'he Bridegroom. 
 
 1 \ yf Y fifter and my lovely bride, 
 
 \yY, O^^ ^^ '^y ^'^^y ties ally'd) 
 rm come into my garden, where 
 I pleafe myfelf in gathering myrrh, 
 In gathering every fpice, and gum : 
 I eat my Hony from the comb ; 
 My wine and milk go fweetly down, 
 With plenty thefe my table crown. 
 Come eat with me, my welcome friends, 
 Eat of the gifts heaven kindly fends; 
 Drink, as our joys and wines abound ; 
 Drink, dear companions, freely round. 
 
 PART II. 
 
 "The Bride. 
 
 2 I laid me down my reft to take j 
 I flept, yet was my heart awake : 
 A voice falutes my waking ear, 
 One knocking at the door I hear. 
 
 My love, it feems, was pleas'd to wait, 
 Calling and knocking at the gate : 
 " My lifter, loud he cry'd, my love, 
 " My fair, my chaft, myfpotlefs dove; 
 " Be kind, as I to you have been, 
 *' Unlock the door, and let me in : 
 
 *' With 
 
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 Solomon s fong of fnngs. ^ V 
 
 With trickling dew my head Is filled, 
 My locks with drops by night diftill'd. 
 
 3 My garments I have laid afide. 
 How fhall I drefs me ? I reply*d : 
 I've lately wafh'd my feet, and how. 
 My dear, fhall I defile 'em now ? 
 
 4 Unkindly thus I let him ftand. 
 
 Till thro' the door he thruft his hand; 
 At lafl: my heart began to move 
 With all the tender thoughts of love. 
 
 5 I rofe : ah that I rofe fo late ! 
 
 I had no fooner touched the gate, 
 My hands with drops of my rrh were filFd, 
 My fingers fweeteft myrrh diftill'd -y 
 The handles of the lock I found 
 With dropping myrrh perfumed around. 
 
 6 I opened to my love the door, 
 
 that I'ad opened it before ! 
 For now alas ! my love was gone, 
 Was gone ! and I left all alone! 
 My foul was ready to expire 
 
 With fear, with forrow, with defire. 
 When his kind words I call'd to mind, 
 
 1 thought how I had been unkind ! 
 I fought him, but I fought in vain ; 
 I caird, but could no anfwer gain. 
 
 y I found not him j but I was found 
 By guards that walk the city round : 
 Thefe treated me with wounds and blows. 
 And aggravated all my woes : 
 - The watch that guard the walls by night. 
 E'en took away my veil in fpight. 
 Vol. IV. D . 8 O 
 
^4 Solomons fong of Jongs. 
 
 8 O daughters of Jerufalem, 
 (Fair oftspring of a noble ftem) 
 You I moft folemnly adjure. 
 Whene'er you find my love, be fure 
 With my complaints his pity move. 
 And tell him I am fick of love. 
 
 PART TIL 
 
 T'he Daughters of Jerufakm. 
 
 9 O thou, who haft more charms ingroft, 
 Than all our fex befide can boaft ! 
 What charms in thy beloved dwell> 
 
 To make him other loves excel ! 
 Defcribe his beauties, let us know. 
 Fair one, why thou adjur'ft us fo ? 
 
 I'he Bride. 
 
 10 In my love's cheeks, pure white and red 
 In juft degrees their mixture fpread. 
 Under his ftandard marfhal'd are 
 Ten thoufand youths, but none fo fair. 
 
 1 1 His head with fineft gold is crown d. 
 The gold of Fez fo much renown'd : 
 His hair in decent curls appears. 
 Black as the plumes the raven wears. 
 
 12 His eyes, that flame with fpotlefs loves, 
 Are pure and bright like thofe of doves, 
 When in clear ftreams their heads they 
 
 wet ; 
 They're wafh'd in milk, and fitly fet. 
 
 13 His cheeks a bed of fpices are. 
 Or flowers, as fweet as they are fain 
 
 His^ 
 
Solomons Jong of fongs. | j 
 
 His lips with balmy myrrh do flow; 
 Within *em fnowy lillies grow. 
 
 14 His hands difplay their lovely white. 
 Decked with gold rings and chryfolite. 
 His breaft of polifh'd ivory made. 
 And all with fapphirs overlaid. 
 
 15 His legs like marble pillars fhow. 
 In golden fockets fixt below. 
 His prefence bears a noble air. 
 As Lebanon and its cedars fair. 
 
 16 But O howfweet his mouth doth prove ! 
 He's all made up of charms and love ! 
 O daughters of Jerufalem, 
 
 (Fair offspring of a noble ftem) 
 This is my deareft ! this is he 
 Who loves, and is belov'd of me ! 
 
 CHAP. VI. 
 
 PART I. 
 
 ^he Daughters of Jerufalem. 
 
 OThou, who haft more charms in- 
 groft, 
 Than all our fex befide can boaft ! 
 Whither is thy beloved gone ? 
 Tell, whither is thy love withdrawn ? 
 Which way he turned let us but know. 
 Well all to feek him with thee go. 
 
 D 2 "thi 
 
J 6 Solomon's fong of Jongs. 
 
 The Bride. 
 
 2 To's garden he's gone to retire. 
 Where beds of fpice their fweets expire. 
 To's gardens, where he feeds, and where 
 He gathers UUies fweet and fair. 
 
 3 My love is mine, and I am his; 
 His pafture mong the HUies is. 
 
 ^he Bridegroom. 
 
 4 As Tirzah fair, my love, you feem. 
 And comely as Jerujalem. 
 Among thy milder graces now 
 
 An awful dread reigns on thy brow ; 
 Like armies that for war. prepare. 
 And to the field their enfigns bear. ' 
 
 5 O turn from me thofe conquering eyes, 
 Whofe powerful charms my heart fur- 
 prize ! 
 
 Thy hair, all curl'd in curious locks. 
 Seem like thofe goats in numerous flocks, 
 That on mount G Head's brow appear. 
 Climbing to find fweet pafture there. 
 
 6 Within thy lovely mouth there grows 
 A fet of teeth in even rows y 
 
 Like flocks of fheep of equal fize, 
 Juft as they from the waters rife. 
 And to be (horn from wafhing come. 
 Bearing their fnowy fleeces home ; 
 Or like the pretty twins they bear. 
 When none of them abortive are. 
 
 7 Thy temples fhaded with thy hair. 
 And cheeks, like cut pomegranates are: 
 
 As 
 
Solomon 5 fong of fongs. 17 
 
 As thofe abound with purple- veins. 
 In thefe a bluihing tindiure reigns. 
 
 PART II. 
 
 8 Not all the train of threefcore queens, 
 And fourfcore beauteous concubines, 
 Innumerable virgins too, 
 
 May e'er compare, my love, with you. 
 
 9 My only dove, my fpotlefs one 
 Tranfcends *em all herfelf alone ; 
 The only one her mother bare, 
 Her mother's tender joy and care. 
 The virgins faw her, and confeft 
 None with fuch beauty e'er was bleft : 
 The queens and concubines admir'd, 
 And in her praifes all confpir'd. 
 
 The Daughters of Jeriifalem. 
 
 10 Who's this fo cheerful and fo bright, 
 Gay as the rifing morning light ? 
 Ne'er did the moon fo fair appear ; 
 Nor is the fun more bright and clear. 
 Among her milder graces now 
 
 An awful dread reigns on her brow j 
 Like armies that for war prepare, 
 , And to the field their enfigns bear. 
 
 PA.RT III. 
 
 The Bridegroom. 
 I To the nut-garden I went down. 
 To fee what fruits the valley crown; 
 D ^ To 
 
^8 Solomons fong of fongs. 
 
 To fee how well the vines were grown, 
 How the pomegranate-trees were 
 blown. 
 
 12 Surpriz'd I know not how, I find 
 Fervent defires tranfport my mind ; 
 And raptures wing my wondrous foul. 
 That nothing can my fpeed controul ; 
 So volunteers in chariots fly, 
 Refolv'd to overcome or die. 
 Return, return, O Shulamite, 
 
 Thy prefence will rejoice our fight: 
 
 13 Return, return, what fliall we fee, 
 O fairell Shulamite, in thee ? 
 
 In thee bright pomp and terror fhine. 
 As when two fhouting armies join. 
 
 CHAR VII. 
 
 PART L 
 
 IN thee, O Prince's daughter, meet, 
 Numberlefs charms from head to 
 feet ! 
 Thofe feet become the {hoes they wear. 
 Become the lovely weiG;ht rhev bear; 
 Two beruteous pillars they fuftain, 
 Whofe joints the fineft work contain ; 
 Like precious gems, more precious ftill 
 V'^pcn cue and fet with wondrous ikill, 
 '1 h^' navel's like a goblet round. 
 Which does witli vital juice abound : 
 
 Thy 
 
Solomons fong of fongs. 50 
 
 Thy belly promifes a race, 
 Heirs to thy honour, and thy grace. 
 'Tis like a heap oi wheat, when crown'd 
 With fnowy lillies all around. 
 
 3 Thy breafts, which equal beauties fhare, 
 Are like two fawns, an equal pair. 
 The lovely twins o'th' fruitful roe. 
 
 4 Above thefe hills of driven fnow 
 Stand that fair neck, which feems to be 
 A tower of polifli'd ivory. 
 
 Thofe eyes, thofe fparkling eyes of thine, 
 Like the clear pools in Hefibo?!, fliine 
 Juft by Bath-rabbim-gate. Thy nofe 
 Methinks like fome fair turret ihows. 
 Like [that of Leb'non, which defcries 
 The plain where great Damafcus lies, 
 
 5 Thy head's with many graces bleft, 
 (Thy head, whofe beauty crowns the reft) 
 It looks like Carmers fields, and bears 
 A lovely fleece of purple hairs. 
 
 By thefe dear chains the king is bound. 
 When in the galleries he's found. 
 
 PART II. ^' 
 
 6 Thou lov'd, and lovely one ; how fair, 
 How charming all thy features are! 
 How they infpire refin'd delight ! 
 
 7 Thy ftature's like the palm upright : 
 Thy breafts like clufters of the vine, 
 When ripe, and full of generous wine, 
 
 8 Theftately palm I'll climb, faid I, 
 ril reach its fruitful boughs on high ; 
 
 D 4 Thy 
 
^o Solomons Jong of fongs. 
 
 Thy breafts, like clufters of the vine, 
 Shall now abound with generous wine. 
 Thynoftrils breathe a fragrant air, 
 Like apple?, fweet as they are fair. 
 9 Thy mouth, the feat of eloquence. 
 Shews the right gufl of truth and fenfe ; 
 Like fparkling wine, that brifkly moves. 
 Such as my deareft love approves ; 
 Which can infpire the dull, and rouze 
 The filent lips of them that drouze. 
 
 The Bride. 
 
 10 I am my love's, I am his own; 
 And his defire's to me alone. 
 
 1 1 Come, my beloved, let's repair 
 
 To th' open fields, and take the air ; 
 Into the country we'll retreat. 
 And there a quiet lodging get : 
 
 12 We'll rife up with the dawning day. 
 And thro' the fmiling vineyards ftray ; 
 See if the vine begins to fhoot. 
 And promifes good ftore of fruit ; 
 See if her tender grapes fhe {hows ; 
 See how the fair pomegranate blows. 
 There will I give my loves to thee. 
 
 J 3 The mandrakes breathe their fragrancy : 
 Our gates with choiceft fruits abound. 
 Fruits new and old with us are found. 
 This ftore, my love, I did provide 
 For thee, who haft my heart befide. 
 
 CHAR 
 
Solomons fong of fongs. 41 
 
 CHAR VIIL 
 
 PART I. 
 
 1 /^^Howlwifh, that thou, my love, 
 \^ Wouldft to me as a brother prove! 
 Fed by thofe breafts, born on that knee, 
 Which fuckled and fupported me. 
 With how much joy I (hould thee meet, 
 Or in the field, or in the ftreet ! 
 There Fd embrace thee, there I'd kifs ; 
 Nor fliould I be defpis'd for this. 
 
 2 How gladly would I lead thee home ! 
 Whither thou wouldft as gladly come. 
 To my dear mother^s pleafant feat, 
 Where thou fhouldft many welcomes 
 
 meet. 
 Thy kind inftrudllons all fhould find 
 A liftening ear, and pliant mind : 
 Wine mix'd with fpices I'd prepare, 
 And thou fhouldft freely drink it there. 
 The fruit of my pomegranate-tree 
 Should yield its grateful juice to thee. 
 
 3 His left hand (hould my head uphold, 
 His right arm fhould me round enfold. 
 
 T'he Bridegroom. 
 
 4 O daughters of Jerufalem, 
 (Fair offspring of a noble ftem) 
 Since here my love now refts fecure. 
 You I moft folemnly adjure , 
 
 Permit 
 
^1 Solomons fong of fongs. 
 
 Permit her foft repofc to take. 
 And no indecent clamour make 5 
 Nor jog her as ihe flumbring Hes, 
 Till file herfelf is pleas'd to rife. 
 
 PART 11. 
 
 T'he Daughters of Jeriifalem, 
 
 5 Who's this that from the defart moves, 
 Leaning upon the arm flie loves ? 
 
 T['he Bridegroom. 
 At firft, my love, I rais'd up thee 
 Under the fruitful apple-tree^ 
 There many a pang, and many a throw 
 Did thy fair mother undergo ; 
 But after many pangs and throws, 
 ' Did her bleft fruit at laft difclofe. . 
 
 ^he Bride. 
 
 6 O let my name be deep impreft. 
 Like a fair fignet, on thy breaft ! 
 Engrave it on thy arm, and wear 
 The precious feal for ever there : 
 For there's fo great a power in love, 
 Not death itfelf fo ftrong can prove j 
 The king of terrors in his pride 
 
 By fiercer jealoufy's outvy'd : 
 Thofe darts fhine with celeftial fire, 
 Thofe darts a love divine infpire, 
 
 7 A love whofe flame can never be 
 Extinguifli'd by th' o'erflowing fea : 
 
 The 
 
Solomons fong of Jongs. 45 
 
 The fwelling floods in vain confpire 
 To quench fo pure and bright a fire. 
 He whofe large ftores do moft abound. 
 Too poor to purchafe love is found ; 
 His offers would fuccefslefs prove, 
 Should he give all his wealth for love ; 
 Love at fo high a rate is priz'd, 
 His treafures would be all defpis'd. 
 
 PART III. 
 
 T'be Bridegroom. 
 
 8 A little fifl:er, fair and young, 
 Does to our family belong: 
 
 Her brealts appear not yet, 'tis true ; 
 What fhall we for our fifter do, 
 When fhe begins to get a name. 
 When growing beauties fpread her fame ? 
 
 9 If, by the firmnefs of her mind. 
 
 She feems a wall, for ftrength defign'd ; 
 A palace on that wall we'll found, 
 Glittering with filver all around : 
 If like a gate, built to defend 
 From foes, and to admit a friend ; 
 With cedar boards we'll fence her well. 
 Of lafting ftrength and fragrant fmell. 
 
 T'he Bride. 
 
 10 Such is the firmnefs of my mind, 
 I am a wall for ftrength defiga'd; 
 
 My breafta are grown, and now appear 
 Like two fair towers built for my dear. 
 When thus I fpake, his fmiles I gain'd. 
 With them his very heart obtained. 
 
 PART 
 
44 Solomons fong of fongs. 
 
 PART IV. 
 
 1 1 King Solomon a field pofleft, 
 Baal-hamon field with plenty bled : 
 With vines of nobleft kind 'twas fet 
 This v'neyard he to keepers let ; 
 Thefe tor the fruit agreed to bring 
 A thou{cind fliekels to the king. 
 
 12 That fertile vineyard I poffefs, 
 
 I always keep, and fence, and drefs : 
 A thouiand filver (hekels are, 
 O Solomon, thy rightful ihare ; 
 And thofe two hundred which remain, 
 To them that keep the fruit pertain. 
 
 T'he Bridegroom. 
 
 13 O thou who dwelft in gardens fair. 
 And art the faireft flower there 1 
 Thy voice our glad companions hear. 
 Which melts the heart, and charms 
 
 the ear. 
 Give me the fame delight, my dear j 
 Thy fweeteft voice O let me hear. 
 
 T'he Bride. 
 
 14 Hafte, my beloved, hafte away, 
 Nor let me vainly beg and pray: 
 Flee like a roe or nimble fawn. 
 That runs and fkips along the lawn ; 
 Such as the fpicy mountains breed, 
 Such as the fpicy mountains feed. 
 
 
 PSALM 
 
45 
 
 PSALM XLV. 
 
 To the chief mufician upon Shofliannim, 
 for the fons of Korah, Mafchil : 
 
 jifong of loves. 
 
 PART I. 
 
 Verfe^ 
 
 1 a^^^^Y heart a noble theme in- 
 dites : 
 
 What I compofe concerns 
 
 _ ^ the king : 
 
 IVi) Lungue the fwifteft pen that writes 
 Outvies, while I attempt to ling. 
 
 2 None among all the human race 
 Like thee for lovelinefs appears : 
 Thy lips, bedew'd with heavenly grace, 
 Ravifli each wondring foul that hears. 
 
 For 
 
4<J 'PfaJm XLV. 
 
 For God will ever from on high 
 His conftant bleffings thee ajflford. 
 
 3 O mighty one, upon thy thigh 
 Make hafte to gird thy conquering fword. 
 
 4 Thy majefty and glory (how : 
 Along in profperous grandeur ride : 
 Let meeknefs, truth, and juftice go 
 In folemn triumph by thy fide. 
 
 Thy right hand, vers'd in warlike arts. 
 Thee terrible exploits Ihall teach : 
 
 5 O king, thy foes rebellious hearts 
 Thy keeneft darts Ihall furely reach : 
 
 The nations under thee {hall fall. 
 
 6 Thy throne, O God, {hall {land fecure ; 
 And, as its power extends o'er all, 
 
 It {hall for evermore endure. 
 
 The fcepter of thy kingdom proves 
 A fcepter of impartial right : 
 
 7 Thy foul unfpotted ju{lice loves, 
 And fin is odious in thy fight. 
 
 For God, thy God, in plenteous {howers 
 On thee the oil of gladnefs {heds : 
 More of that holy ointment pours 
 On thine, than thy companions heads. 
 
 8 Myrrh, aloes, caflia, rich perfumes 
 Thy robes of glory more expire, 
 When pairing from the ivory rooms. 
 Than all thy deareil friends attire. 
 
 9 Kings 
 
Tfalm XLV. ^7 
 
 9 Kings daughters there were waiting leen. 
 And in the croud of virgins preft : 
 
 On thy right-hand the brighter queen • 
 Stood all in gold of Ophir dreft, 
 
 PART II. 
 
 10 O royal daughter, bow thy car, 
 Attend with ferious thoughts to me : 
 Forget thy people once fo dear. 
 Nor long thy father's houfe to fee. 
 
 1 1 So the king's heart fhall be thy own. 
 He fhall thy beauty ftill admire : 
 For he's thy Lord, thy Lord alone. 
 And does thy worfliip all require. 
 
 12 Tyre's ftately daughter fhall attend 
 With coflly prefents at thy gate : 
 The richeft of the people bend, 
 And for thy favour beg and wait. 
 
 13 The king's fair daughter's pious heart 
 All inward glories does enfold : [art, 
 Her outward garments wrought with 
 Are made of threads of purefl gold. 
 
 14 She fhall be led in folemn flate. 
 In robes of fine embroidery : 
 
 Her virgin friends that on her wait. 
 Shall all be introduc'd to thee. 
 
 15 As to the palace they refort, 
 
 Full joys in every heart fhall reign, 
 Till the bright gate o'th' royal court 
 Receives the welcome nuptial train. 
 
 16 In- 
 
48 "Pfahi XLV. 
 
 1 6 Inftead of fathers foon there fprings 
 A ftock of fons, that owe their birth 
 To thee : a noble race of kings, 
 Whom thou {halt place o'er all the earth. 
 
 17 And I, O king, will make thy name 
 To all fucceffive times defcend : 
 
 All nations (hall thy a£i:s proclaim, 
 And thy loud praifes ne'er fliall end. 
 
 HYMNS 
 
fej^o''^y^ 
 
 ^^ 
 
 
 HYMNS 
 
 In Commemoration 
 
 OftheSUFFERINGS 
 
 O F 
 
 Our Blefled Saviour 
 
 JESUS CHRIST, 
 
 COMPOSED 
 
 For the C E l e b r a t i o n of his 
 
 Holy SUPPER, 
 
 Mat. 26. 30. And ivhen they had fmig an hymtiy 
 'l^^y "'Ve/it out to the Mount of Olives. 
 
 Vol. IV. 
 
 G 
 
51 
 
 'Hereas our Saviour inftituted 
 the facrament of his body and 
 blood to be a perpetual memo- 
 rial of his death, and conclu- 
 ded the fame by fmging an 
 hymn together with his difclples ; his 
 authority and example are fufficient to 
 oblige us to do fo likewife. 
 
 And that this duty may be performed 
 with an humble reverence of the divine 
 majefly, and a deep contrition for our 
 numerous fins, with faith in the afl'iftance 
 of the Holy Spirit, and (teddy refolution 
 of obedience to all the laws of Jefus 
 Chrift y we recommend the following 
 hymns, the defign and performance of 
 which render them very proper to raife 
 fuch affedlions in us, as are futable to fo 
 folemn ah occafion. 
 
 To which may be added the verfion 
 of Solomon's fong, by the fame author ; 
 
 E 2 where- 
 
52 
 
 whereby we may arrive at a knowledge 
 of the meaning of that divine poem, 
 and which may ferve to excite becoming 
 aftedtions in our minds on other oc- 
 cafions. 
 
 "Jof. Maiflers, 
 John Shower^ 
 Yho. Reynolds^ 
 Will Harris^ 
 yabez Earky 
 Sam, Rofewely 
 T'ho. Bradbury^ 
 Benj, Stinton, 
 
 Dan. Williams^ 
 Rich, AlleUy 
 "John Piggotfy 
 John Foxoriy 
 Benj. Grofvenor, 
 Nat. Hodges^ 
 Eben, Wilforic 
 
 A N 
 
53 
 
 A N 
 
 ADVERTISEMENT 
 
 TO THE 
 
 READER. 
 
 Any of the following hymns 
 were composed only for the 
 ufe of the congregation under 
 my peculiar charge ; but by 
 means of the copies taken by 
 fbme ferfons who heard them dictated 
 in public ky they were dijperfed into many 
 hands. 
 
 To hinder the propagation of thofe 
 mijtakes that jlide into copies hajiily writ* 
 ten^ and which are multiplied by being 
 often tranfcribed from different hands ; 
 mid to oblige thofe of my friends who 
 defired perfect copies for them fe Ives ^ and 
 who endeavoured to perfuade me they 
 would be acceptable and ufeful to many 
 
 E 3 other 
 
j^ An advcrrifcment to the reader. 
 
 other congregations^ I confented to make 
 them pub lick* 
 
 The two firjl imprejjiorts being gone ojf^ 
 and a third for fome time dtjirtd ; / 
 thought 7neet to review them, that 1 might 
 render the?n le/s imperfecl, by correEitng 
 them in fever al places : "which 1 have 
 done^ as well as added a few hymns not 
 ptiblijhcd before. 
 
 I have prefcribed to myfelf, in the 
 compoftion of them all, to keep the crofs 
 of Chrift continually in view : feeing his 
 Gal. 3. I' holy flipper is defigned evidently to fet 
 him forth before our eyes, crucified a- 
 mong us. / have endeavoured to affifl 
 the devotion of thofe who communicate at 
 his facred table^ by fuggefing what I 
 thought mo fl proper to dijpoife them to hu* 
 mility and repentance, to faith and hope ^ 
 to admiration and joy, to love and gratis 
 tude. And tho the matter of them, as 
 well as the exPreffion^ may feem very 
 much diver fified, fo that fome of them are 
 much more directly adapted to excite this 
 or that pious ajfeBion or chrijiian virtue 
 than others ; yet they are generally fo 
 ordered as to have an obvious regard to 
 them alL 
 
 I have cited thofe fcriptures in the 
 margin, from whence the thoughts, and 
 frequently the very words, are taken : 
 by which means the reader, if he is plea fed 
 
 to 
 
 J 
 
An advertifement to the reader, jj 
 
 to turn to the pa ([ages refered to^ may 
 eajily explain to b'tmfelf thofe phrafes 
 and allnfions^ "which at the fir ft glance 
 aj^pear Jbmcwhat hard and obfcure, 
 
 I have chofcn thofe meafitres which Jute 
 the tunes in 7nojl common ufe among tis^ 
 tho they are 7tot very favourable to a vein 
 of poefy ; it being impoffible to exprefs 
 the fenfe fo elegantly^ when 'tis cramped 
 and confined to very Jhort lines^ as when 
 a larger fcope is allowed. 
 
 I have carefully avoided thofe very 
 bold flights and thofe heathenijh phrafes 
 which fome have indulged even in divine 
 poejy ; for I cannot think them confiflent 
 with the gravity, purity^ and perfpiciiity 
 which ought to be pre fervid in hymns cal- 
 culated for the immediate fervice of Godj 
 and for the common edification of chrif 
 tians. 
 
 And becaufe fome few words that are 
 lefs common here and there occur ^ where 
 fome plainer words as expreffive of the 
 fenfe^ or as grateful to the ear^ did not 
 prefent ; lefl thefe Jhould amufi any rea-- 
 der^ a7id render fome pajfages difficult to 
 him, 1 have fubjoin'd a table at the end 
 to explain thofe terms ; that pcrfons of a 
 mean capacity^ and not converfant with 
 other writings be fides thofe of the Bible ^ or 
 fome plain books of devotion ^ might be able 
 tofing thefe hymns with underflanding. 
 
 E 4 Tkey 
 
5^ 
 
 An advertifemenc to the reader. 
 
 They who reflet on what I have aU 
 ready faid^ will make confiderable allow^ 
 ances for the defeats they find in the 
 f^oetry. And perhaps the imperfed'ton of 
 this ejfay may be a7i occafion of fetttng 
 fome better hand to work, to oblige the 
 pubitck with politer compofitions of this 
 kind. 
 
 The love of truths and a charitable 
 
 regard to fome very ferious and piotts 
 
 chrifians, whofe minds have been fo per- 
 
 plext with fcriiples about the lawfulnefs 
 
 of finging in the fervice of God, that 
 
 they wholly omit this fo very ufeful and 
 
 agreeable part of divine worfhip, mov^d 
 
 me to defire a very worthy and ingenious 
 
 friend to prefix to this book of hymns 
 
 fome arguments on that fubjeEi, with the 
 
 fubjlance of which be had before enter^ 
 
 tained me, in giving me an account 
 
 how thofe prejudices againfl finging of 
 
 pfalms.^c. himf elf was formerly under, 
 
 had been removed. 
 
 His friendjhipy and the hope I endea* 
 voured to make him conceive that what 
 had convinced him, might (by the bleffmg 
 of God) have the fame effect on fome 
 other perfons under the like circumftances^ 
 made him willing not to refttfe my re* 
 que ft ; tho he has not given me the liberty 
 of mentioning his name. 
 
 To 
 
An advertifement to the reader. jy 
 
 To this edition I have alfo prefixed a 
 Jhort ejfay in verfe by way of dedication 
 to our Blesssed Saviour; ^^ whom 
 thefe hymns of right belongs as being 
 confecrated to the frvice of his holy 
 table. 
 
 If any thing I have attempted /hall 
 redound to the glory of his facred namej 
 and to the fpiritual advantage of any part 
 of his church ; as I jhall account it an 
 honour^ fo it will be an occafion of joy and 
 fatisfa£iion to me. 
 
 J. s. 
 
 THE 
 
J 8 
 
 ^=^k=J^^'^=^7i!^^ 
 
 THE 
 
 PREFACE: 
 
 By another hand. 
 
 Have, at the requejl of the 
 reverend author, prefixed this 
 brief difconrfe to the follow- 
 ing hymns, in vindication of 
 the practice of finging the praifes of God, 
 as a pat 't of chrijiian vjorjhip. And I 
 the more . readily complied, becaufe I have 
 my f elf la. honred under the prejudices of 
 education to the contrary ; till cojivinced 
 of what . T now efteem ?ny dtity^ by the 
 highejl aut bority^ viz. that of Chriji and 
 his apojiles . 
 
 / will 7iL '/ doubt of a becotning recep- 
 tio7t from ti hofe chr'ijlians who have dif- 
 ferent fenti. ments. I Jhall only intreat 
 the favour y ','iot to fay jnflice^ of any fuch 
 
 who 
 
59 
 
 The PREFACE. 
 
 who (hall read this preface, to think it 
 poffible for them to have been mijlaken^ 
 and to be equally willing to receive the 
 truths on which joever fide of the qiiefiion 
 it Jhall afpear to be. 
 
 One that reads over the new teflament 
 with any attention, mufi obferve a fre- 
 cfttent mention of finging pfalms, and 
 hymns, and fpiritual foiigs. 
 
 The evangelifs ^ Matthew and Mark 
 both inform usy that our blejfed Saviour^ 
 togf^ther with his difcifles, iung an hymn 
 at the conclufion of the Lord'^s fufper^ 
 then infiituted ajianding ordinance in the 
 church. 
 
 6t, Luke in his hijiory of the a5ls of 
 the apoflles tells us^ that Taul and Silas 
 being in prtfon, arid having been fcourged 
 on account of their minijtry^ ai midnight ^^^^ i^ 
 prayed and fung praifes to God, fo that^'^' 
 the prifoners heard them. 
 
 Tk$ apofile '^taul reproving the Corin* 
 thians for a vain oflentation of their 
 gifts, particularly that of fp caking in 
 foreign languages, tells ^ them, that they 
 ovq^ht to fing with under {landing ; which 
 could not be. whilji they were' ignorwt 
 of the language fung^ tho it might be un- 
 
 * "At. 2^. 30. and Mark 
 14 ir Ai-d when they had 
 fuji^ ^n h) mn, 8cc. 
 
 ^ \Cor, 14. i^. I will fing 
 with the fpirit, nnd I wi 1 fing 
 with the underftanding alfo. 
 
 derfiood 
 
do The P R E F A C E, 
 
 derjlood by the precentor , or ferfon who 
 dittated to the reft. 
 
 The fame apoftle exhorts both the 
 •" Ephefians and ^ ColoJJians to fing plalms, 
 and hymns, and ([3iritual fongs. 
 
 The apoftle ^ James alft> exhorts the 
 fcattefd chriftians of the twelve tribes to 
 whom he writes^ to exprefs their Joy on 
 aUoccafions by finging pfalms of praife to 
 God, 
 
 Now what is to be collected from alt 
 thefe examples^ precepts^ and regulations 
 of this pra^ice^ but that Jingiitg the 
 pra'ifes of God is a part of divine wor- 
 /hip in the chriftian church ? And certain- 
 ly any one would make this cone lufion from 
 ' reading thefe paffages^ who had never 
 heard of any controverf^ about it. It is 
 indeed poffible to raife objections againft 
 any thing. Grammatical critic ifms may 
 be pretended^ and a forced conftrtiction 
 may be put on the plaineft words : but if 
 
 *^ Eppjef. ^. 19, 20. Speak- 
 ing to yourfelves in pfalms, 
 and hymns, and fpiritual 
 fongs ; finging and making 
 melody in youv hearts to the 
 Lord; giving thanks always 
 for all things to God and the 
 father, m the name of the 
 Lord Jefus Chrift. 
 
 * Colof ^. 16, 17. Let the 
 word of" God dwell in vou 
 richly in all wifdom; teaching 
 and admonifhing one an- 
 
 other in pfalms, and hymns, 
 and fpiritual fongs -, finging 
 with grace in your hearts to 
 the Lord. And whatfoever 
 ye do in word or in deed, 
 do all in the name of the 
 Lord Jefus, giving thanks to 
 God and the father by him. 
 ^ ^ames 5. 13. Is any a- 
 mong you afflifted? let him 
 pray : is any merry \ let him 
 fing pfalms* 
 
 the 
 
The P R E F A C E. ^i 
 
 the fame rules be allowed for the inter- 
 pretation of fcriptnre in geiieral^ as mnft 
 be made itfe of to evade the force of the 
 texts I have mentioned:, the plaineji pre- 
 ceps may be rendered doubtful, and the 
 cleareji docirines overthrown. However^ 
 fince there are fome who fill remain un- 
 convinced of this duty. If? a II endeavour^ 
 without fating them particularly, to ob- 
 viate all their obje [lions ^ and confirm the 
 truth ^ by foewing^ 
 
 1. That the finging mentioned in the fe- 
 ver al recited texts is proper. 
 
 2. That it was prattijed as a part of 
 divine worfoip. 
 
 3. That it was performed by joint 
 Voices. 
 
 I. That the fmging mentioned in the 
 feveral recited texts, mnfl be under flood 
 in a proper^ and not a metaphorical 
 fenfe. To this there can no objection be 
 made^ but from fome pretended criticifm 
 on the original: for every one that mi- 
 derftands Englif.)^ knows that ro fing is 
 to exprefs words with a tuneable voice^ 
 according to the rules of mufick ; as 
 proper fpeaking is to exprefs words ac- 
 cording to the rules of grammar ': both be- 
 ing to be performed by imitation and 
 fraSlice, without an acquaintance with 
 
 the 
 
52 The PREFACE. 
 
 the theory of either ; for they are equally 
 natural, the both reducible to artificial 
 rules. Singing in Engltfh is taken in no 
 other fenfe ; nor can any bare Englijh 
 reader doubt whether this be the mean- 
 tng. 
 
 As to the original : the zvordmade ufe 
 of hy the ^ evangclijis is derived from a 
 verb, whofe primary fignification is to 
 fing an hymn or fong of praife. 
 
 Sometimes indeed it is taken abfolutely 
 to praife, without determining the man- 
 ner. But this is a certain rule in the 
 interpretation of all writings ; to take 
 words in their firfi and moji proper fig- 
 ni fie at ion, unlefs fome good reafon be 
 ajfigned why that fenfe cannot be ad^ 
 mitted in the place in que f ion. Now 
 in the injiances und^r confideration no 
 fitch reafon can be -produced ; and there- 
 fore it ought to be rendered^ as in our 
 tranfiation, they fung an hymn or fong of 
 praife. 
 
 In the epifile to the ^ Corinthians^ and 
 that of ^ St. Jafnes, the word ufed in the 
 original fignfies properly to ftng. It is 
 alf) fome times ufed for fin gin g to or play- 
 ing on a mufical infirnment ; but when 
 
 ^ Mat. 16. 50 ^Ty.Vi,ov,/jif- 
 Mark 14. 30. 'T[xvnau.i^i^. 
 Mis i^. 1$. "Tt^Lvay. 
 
 g I Cer. 14. !<,. "^dKco irJ 
 ^ James 5. 13. 'Jtty^y^tt 
 
 applied 
 
The PREFACE. ^3 
 
 applied to the voice, is never taken m 
 
 any other fenfe than that of Jiriaiy fing- 
 
 ing. In the efi[ile to the ' Coloffians <-jve 
 
 fnd another word which alfo Jignifies 
 
 properly to Jingy kit is fome times it Jed to 
 
 expre/s the writing a poem or copy of 
 
 verfes\ which is a fenfe of the word 
 
 that I fuppofe no body will contend for 
 
 in this place, and befides which no other ' 
 
 fenfe can be put on the word^ but that of 
 
 proper flnging* 
 
 In the epijile to the ^ Ephefians both 
 the words laft mentioned are made ttCe 
 of So that had St, Taul ever fo much 
 defigned to fpeak of proper finging, it 
 was impffible for him by words to have 
 expreffed himfelf more clearly and deter ^ 
 minately. 
 
 Ml this, I thinks amounts to a full 
 proof that our tranflation is in this mat^ 
 ter every where juft, and that proper 
 finging is fpoken of in all the infiances 
 given. As to the particular tunes in 
 which the words are to be expreffed, 
 they are left as much at liberty as the 
 tone or different elevation and accenting 
 the voice in fpeaking. T>ecency is the 
 only limitation : and as the tone of the 
 voice ought not to be wanton and ludicrous^ 
 fo neither Jhould the mufical tunes be light 
 
 and 
 
6^ The PREFACE. 
 
 airy : both ought in divine worjhip to be 
 grave and folemn, becoming our addrejfes 
 to God. 
 
 2. That this Jinging mentioned in the 
 fever al recited texts was performed and 
 enjoined as apart of divine worfhip. 
 
 The euchariflical hymn performed by 
 our Lord and his apojiles, is acknowledged^ 
 even by thofe who deny that it was fung^ 
 to have been an a5i of praife and thankf 
 giving to God. For it is agreed on all 
 Jides^ that hymning is praij?ng, whether 
 by fong or without ; aiid to be fure God 
 was the object with whom they were then 
 converfant. 
 
 In the inflance of T^aul and Silas the 
 words are exprefs^ they fung praifes unto 
 God 
 
 To the Ephejians the apoftle thus ex- 
 preffes it : (peaking to yourfelves in 
 pfaJms and hymns, and fpiritual fongs ; 
 finging and making melody in your hearts 
 to the Lord ; giving thanks always for all 
 things unto God and the father, in the 
 name of our Lord Jcfus Chrift. ^r/d to 
 the ColoJJians he fays^ in almofi the fame 
 words : let the word of God dwell in 
 you richly in all wifdom, teaching and 
 admonifliing one another in pfalms and 
 hymns, and ([^iritual fongs ; finging with 
 grace in your hearts to the Lord : and 
 whatfoever you do in word or deed, do 
 
 all 
 
 1 
 
The P R E F A C E. g^ 
 
 all in the name of the Lord Jefus, giving 
 thanks to God and the father by him. 
 In both which places we may obferve the 
 a£iion, giving thanks or prat fe ; the ob- 
 je^y God, thro' the mediator ; and the 
 external mode ^ finging. 
 
 The apo file ^ames has it, is any among ^^w. 5. 
 you affliAed, let him pray ? is any met- ^^^ 
 ry, let him fing pfalms ? Which amounts 
 to thus much : that as prayer is a pro- 
 per manner of exprejjing our wants and 
 griefs to God, fo is Jingtng a proper way 
 of exprejjing our joy and gratitude. And 
 indeed mufick and poetry are both pro- 
 per to exprefs and move the pajjions. 
 They heighten and improve the affections 
 of love and joy, whilft they gently calm 
 the uneafy fen fat tons of grief and forrow. 
 Thus we find the royal pfalmifi finging 
 one while lofty hymns of prat fe, anon a 
 mou rnful penitential fong, and again fer- 
 vent prayers and fttpplications for need-- 
 ful bleffmgs. So that nothing which is 
 fit to be addreffed to God^ can be unfit to 
 be fung before him. 
 
 What St. "Paulfays of this matter to 
 the Corinthians ; I will fing with the i Cor, 14, 
 Ipirit, and I will fing with underftanding '5* 
 alfb ; plainly appears to be fpoken of the 
 publick worfhip in the churchy being 
 joined with prayer : which had fuffered 
 the fame abufe withfingingy from the va* 
 
 Vol. IV, F 7iity 
 
^6 The P R E F A C E. 
 
 7iity and afe station offome in the churchy 
 who had received the gift of tongues^ 
 and prided themf elves in f peaking before 
 the people in an unknown language ; 
 whereas they ought both to pray and to 
 Jing the praifes of God in fuch a tongue, 
 as that all prefent might underfiand, and 
 join in the fame a^ of worfhtp with a 
 fincere devotion and a due knowledge. 
 
 Now from what has been faid under 
 this head it appears, that in all the re- 
 cited places fin gin g is fpoken of as being 
 performed to God as the immediate ob* 
 je6i : which is all that is necejfary to 
 confiitute any aEiion religious, or a part 
 of divine worjhip, 
 
 3 . / now come to fhew that finging the 
 praifes of God was performed by the con^ 
 joint voices of fever al perfons together. 
 It is faid of our Lord and his difciples^ 
 by both Matthew and Mark, that they 
 lung an hymn {in the plural nnmber'\ 
 whereas Chriji^s blejfmg the bread, and 
 giving thanks when he took the cup, are 
 both expreffed \jn the fingular nnwber'\ 
 as performed by Chrifi fpeaktng fingly, 
 and the reft joining mentally only, yind 
 that they did fo join with Chrift in that 
 action ^ I fuppofe no body doubts ; thn it be 
 faid^ he gave thanks and he blefTed, that 
 is^ he in the name of them all, and on 
 their behalf as well as for hin'filf 
 
 fbler y 
 
The PREFACE. 
 
 folemnly pronounced their joint fnppUca- 
 tions and thafikfgivings to God. But 
 here the phrafe is altered^ and the cvan^ 
 gelijls tell us, that rhey fung an hymn ; 
 that isy with joint voices^ as well as 
 with united hearts. Which as it is the 
 plain and obvious meaning of the expref- 
 fion, fo there can no other reajcn be af^ 
 Jlgned for the variation of the phrafe. 
 
 St. Luke tells us, that the prisoners 
 heard Taul and Silas both performing 
 their joint devotions to God. I fuppofe 
 no body imagines they pronounced their 
 prayers together. It muft therefore be 
 the praifes which they fung jointly^ and 
 that with a voice fo raifed, as that their 
 fellow pr i finer s heard them. 
 
 There is another pajfage in the hifory 
 of the A6is^ 'which ^ I thinks if duly con- 
 fidered, is to this purpofe. In the /i^th 
 chapter the 2^th verfe it is faid, that 
 they [/. e. the apojiles that were then at 
 Jerufalem^ and the believers that con* 
 forted with them, being ajfembled toge- 
 ther^ lift up their voice to God with one 
 accord, and faid, ®f . From the context 
 it appears y that the worjhip then offered 
 was a folemn thankfgiving (tho concluded 
 with a petition) and that on d very emi- 
 nent occafony the deliverance of Teter 
 and John from the rage of the Sanhedrim^ 
 by whom^ after examination.^ they were 
 
 F 2 difmijfed 
 
 6j 
 
68 The P RE FACE. 
 
 difmijfed without pmifhment, and this 
 m accomplijlnnent of T)avid's prophecy^ 
 'Pfizlm 2.1. Now the matter being fraife 
 and thankf^iving^ and that exfrejjed 
 with united voice as well as hearty I fee 
 no room to doubt but that it was per* 
 formed as an hymn or facred fong : UU' 
 lefs it jhould be thought that they pro- 
 iiounceda bare oration with united voices ; 
 which is a fenfe I believe none ever yet 
 contended fur. We no where read of a 
 prayer being pronounced by joint voices^ 
 but of praifes being fung by joifit voices 
 I have already given infances. And the 
 action here being folemn praife offered up 
 by joint voices, tho it be not faid they 
 lung, yet it is more than probable that 
 they did Jing ; for tho all faying {which 
 is the word life d) be not finging, yet to be 
 fure all finging is faying, 
 
 Thefe infances, I think^ are fuffcient 
 to prove ^ that finging by conjoined voices 
 was pr art i fed in the chriflian church. 
 
 The fum of what has been faid^ is ; 
 that from divers texts of fcripture^ col- 
 levied out of the new teftament, it does 
 appear, that the praifes of God were 
 fnng by conjoint voices in the chrifiian 
 church, as a part of divine worjloip ; 
 and that this duty is on feveral occa-^ 
 Jions regulated^ injoined and recommended 
 to the feveral churches to whom the apo- 
 
 pes 
 
The P R E F A C E. 
 
 files wrote their epijiles. From all this 
 it naturally follows, that it is now the 
 duty of all chrifiians to Jing the praifes 
 of God, both in their public k affemblies, 
 and in their more private religious exer- 
 cifes. 
 
 To this account from fcripture, I /hall 
 add one foreign tejiimony^ to prove that 
 it was the conflant practice of the pri- 
 mitive chrifiians, in their religious af- 
 femblies^ to fing with conjoint voices^ 
 hymns or fongs of praife to Chrifi as 
 God. And that is of ^liny the younger : 
 who was governor of all Tout us, and 
 Bithynia in Afia Minor ^ together with 
 the city of Byzantium ; 7i0t as an ordi^ 
 nary proconful^ but as the emperor"* s im^ 
 mediate Untenant with extraordinary 
 power. This great man had for Jbme 
 time^ in obedience to his mafier^s com- 
 mands, exercifed his authority in a vi* 
 gorous profecutiou of the chrifiians: but 
 finding that if he proceeded to punifio all 
 that acknowledged themfelves chrifiians^ 
 he mufl in a manner lay wafie his pro- 
 vinces^ he thought it necejfary to write a 
 letter to the emperor himfelf about this 
 matter : wherein after having given a 
 particular account of his procedure a* 
 gainfl the chrifiians^ and of their obfii- 
 nacy in perfifting to death, and of the 
 great numbers that had embraced this 
 
 F 3 new 
 
 69 
 
70 
 
 The PREFACE. 
 
 new flip er Jilt ion y as he calls it ; he re* 
 lates what upon examination he had found 
 to be the ftirn of the chrijiian pra£Iice. 
 ' * ^ Thej ajjirmed. Jays he, that the whole 
 *' fm?2 of that offence or error lay in this : 
 ** that they were wont on a Jet day to 
 *' meet together before fun-rifey and to 
 ** Jing together a hymn to Chriji as a 
 •' Gody and oblige t hem fe Ives by afacra* 
 ment, not to commit any wickednejs^ 
 but to abjiain from theft, robbery^ 
 adultery^ to keep faith, and to rejlore 
 any pledge intrttjied with them ; and 
 after that they retired^ and met a- 
 gain at a common meal, in which was 
 *' nothing extraordinary or criminal^* 
 This eptjlle was written to Trajan then 
 emperor^ about feventy one years after 
 the death of our blejfed Saviour, A, 
 \D. 104. and in the feventh year of 
 Trajan's reign. By this unquejiionable 
 authority we fee what account the chrif- 
 tians of that time gave of their own 
 practice : viz. that in their religious af* 
 
 
 * AfKrmabant autem hanc 
 fulffe fuminam vel culpae 
 fuse, vel crroiis J quod eflent 
 foliti ftato die ante lu- 
 cem convcnire, carmenque 
 Chrifto, quad Deo, dicere 
 fccum invicem, feque fa- 
 cramcnto, non in fcelus ali- 
 quod obftringere, fed ne fur- 
 U, ne latrocinia, ne adulte- 
 
 ria committerent, ne fideoi 
 fallerent, ne depofitum ap- 
 pellari abnegarent : quibus 
 peradis niorem fibi difcc- 
 dendi fuifl'e, rurfufque coe- 
 undi ad capiendum cibum 
 piomifcuunni tamen & in- 
 noxium, Vl'm* tp, lib, 10. 
 ep. 5>7. 
 
 femblies 
 
The PR B FACE. ^i 
 
 femblies they fttng fongs or hymns to 
 J ejus Chrijl as God. 
 
 Concerning the following compofures I 
 Jhall only fay^ that the ftibje^s are well 
 chofin^ and admirably adapted to the oc- 
 cajiony proper to excite becoming affec* 
 tions at that great feaji of love, the 
 Lord's fupper^ injiituted in commemora* 
 tion of that perfeB facrifice^ by which 
 alone we are delivered from everlajiing 
 deflruEiion^ and intitled to eternal blef- 
 fednefs. The poetry is chafl and polite, 
 the exprejfion clear and jufl^ in every 
 rejpe5f becoming the noble theme : as fuch 
 I recommend it both to the public k and 
 private ufe of thofe devout chriftians^ 
 whofe breajis are warmed by a heavenly 
 fire^ and whofe fouls are tranfported 
 with a lively fenfe of divine love^ 
 
 
 R^ 
 
1^ 
 
 A HYMN, written by the fame hand^ 
 ujjon bis being convinced that Si'sgiYIG 
 is a part of divine worjhip. 
 
 ;Ternal intellecflual light, 
 jWith pure illapfe my mind infpire; 
 'And whilft I fing thee great and bright, 
 Inflame my breaft with heavenly fire. 
 
 Tho long miftaken, I withheld 
 Harmonious fong divine, thy due j 
 Yet better knowledge now inftill'd, 
 Thy tuneful praife my voice {hall (hew. 
 
 Subftantial glory, from thy throne 
 Around diffused, illumines heaven ; 
 With life and love fills ev'ry one, 
 To whom thofe happy feats are giveq. 
 
 Nor there confined, thy beams divine 
 Irradiate all thy church below : 
 Thy chofen with thy brightnefs fhine, 
 And by their love, thy grace they fhow. 
 
 To every heart, by fecret ways 
 Conveyed, myfterious influence ! 
 The bright effufion of thy rays. 
 Gives knowledge, truth and innocence. 
 
 When in deep trouble, and oppreft, 
 Thy confolating light fuftains 
 Thy drooping faints y tho fore difl:reft. 
 Calm peace and joy fucceed their pains. 
 
 So the returning fummer's fun 
 Does with frefli vigor bright appear ; 
 The clouds difpell'd, the winter gon, 
 Glad plenty crowns the fmiling year. 
 
 THE 
 
THE 
 
 DEDICATION. 
 
 5 
 
 Thou whom angels with their 
 
 hymns addrefs ! 
 To whom all knees muft bow, 
 
 all tongues confefs ! 
 
 Sacred to thee, this facrifice of praife 
 A willing hand upon thy altar lays ; 
 Encourag'd by that goodnefs which approves 
 A poor man's gift, tho but a pair of doves. 
 May I have one accepting fmile from thee ; 
 'Tis more than all the world's applaufe to 
 
 me. 
 
 Happy ! if I a contrite fpirit bring, 
 And feel my breaft warm'd with the love 
 
 . I fing ; 
 Happy ! if thefe my fongs fuccefsful prove 
 To make one finner look on thee, and love ; 
 To make one prodigal confefs thy charms. 
 And fly for pardon to thy dying arms ; 
 
 J To 
 
74 ^^^ dedication. 
 
 To fan their pious flame who thee adore. 
 
 And make the fouls that love thee, love 
 thee more ; 
 
 Make 'em their praifes and their vows re- 
 new, 
 
 And give their all to thee, to whom all 
 hearts are due. 
 
 Lord, what a train of woes attend thy way 
 From dark Gethfemane to Golgotha ! 
 What gloomy terrors did confpire to roll 
 Thro' all tl i' apartments of thy inmoft foul ! 
 What troubles in thy lab'ring bofom met. 
 And flow'd in tears, flow'd in a bloody 
 
 Iweat ! 
 What clouds, wich thunder charg'd, black 
 
 horror fpread ! 
 And broke with ftorms of vengeance on 
 
 thy head ! 
 This difmal night a darker morn portends: 
 Sejz'd by thy foes, abandoned by thy friends: 
 By one of them abjur'd, by one betray *d. 
 And with a treacherous Kifs a pns'ner made : 
 From one tribunal to another led, 
 New pretexts fought thy facred blood to 
 
 fhed : 
 Charged with thofe crimes thy righteous 
 
 foul abhor'd. 
 And there condemned where thou {houldft 
 
 be ador'd. 
 Humble and meek the paftive vidim ftands, 
 By vileft tongues blafphem'd, and ftruck 
 
 by rudeft hands. 
 
 A 
 
T^he dedication. 7j 
 
 A prince to univerfal empire born, 
 Scepters his hand, and crowns his headj 
 
 had worn, 
 Now holds a reed, and wears a wreath^ 
 
 of thorn. 
 The favage croud the king of glory jeers, -^ 
 With loud reproaches wound his patient/ 
 
 ears, > 
 
 And mix their foaming fpittle with hisV^ 
 
 tears, J 
 
 And now with flow and feeble pace I try 
 To trace thy footfteps up mount Calvary: 
 There fee thofe hands, that made and^ 
 
 fcatter'd bread, 
 And thoufands with the growing banquet 
 
 fed, 
 Thofe hands that heal'd the lick, and 
 
 raised the dead ; 
 That oft returning finners did embrace, 
 And for them oft implor'd forgiving grace. 
 With pious ardor lifted up to heaven, 
 Now pierc'd with nails, amid their finews 
 
 driven : 
 Thy facred feet the fame rude treatment 
 
 know. 
 And both in purple ftreams their torment 
 
 fhow. 
 I fee that face which angels bow'd before, 
 Clouded with forrow, batlVd in fweat and 
 
 gore : 
 Thofe eyes that,mov'd with pity,did condole 
 The various woes of every human foul. 
 
 And 
 
76 ^he dedication. 
 
 And flam*d their luftre with their pious 
 
 flreams, 
 In fhades of death now quench their fet- 
 
 ting beams. 
 With cruel men the powers of hell below 
 The laft efforts of aftive malice fhow, 
 And at thy breaft their fiery arrows throw.' 
 
 Thy father, who, before the world, de- 
 creed 
 His only fon for human kind fhou*d bleed. 
 His hand with thunder arms, his brow 
 
 with dread. 
 To ftrike thee to the regions of the dead : 
 My God^ my God, aloud the Saviour cries, 
 fFby haft forfaken me? then bows his head 
 and dies. 
 
 His paffion univerfal nature moves, 
 Except ungrateful finners whom he loves : 
 The trembling earth her maker's fufferings 
 
 feels, 
 Her pillars ihake, her low foundation reels : 
 The rocks are torn by his expiring groans ; 
 The rending vale his facred priefthood 
 
 owns : 
 The fun afham'd withdraws his fickly light. 
 And turns bright noon intofubftantial night. 
 Afraid to view thofe ghaftly wounds agen; 
 Nothing relentlefs but the hearts of men! 
 
 Dear Lord ! I in thy crofs fuch wonders fee, 
 Nothing befides has any charms for me ; 
 
 Beneath 
 
^he dedication. 77 
 
 Beneath thy crofs, O may I ftill refide -, 
 View and review thy feet, thy hands, thy 
 head, thy fide ! 
 
 how thy fighs do from my heart rebound ! 
 And all thy dying pangs my bofom wound ! 
 Nor is it pity only makes me weep : 
 
 No fingle paffion ftrikes the heart fo deep : 
 Hatred of fin, and love of thee combine, 
 With holy rage repenting forrows join 
 To make thy torments intimately mine.! 
 Since 'twas my fin for which my Saviour 
 
 'Tis juft I (hould with him be crucify'd : 
 
 My fins procured the crofs, the whip, the 
 
 ' fteel. 
 
 Made thee unutterable tortures feel : 
 
 My fins ! O that they never had been mine ! 
 
 1 hate them as my enemies and thine : 
 My fins ! O how their horror makes me"" 
 j ftart. 
 While I behold their ftains, and feel their . 
 
 fmart, ^ 
 
 And fee 'em pierce thy limbs, and break 
 thy heart ! j 
 
 (did Aide, 
 But fince the balm, that from thy wounds 
 Could heal a finner dying at thy fide ; 
 Thy fmiles could calm frail Peter's guilty 
 j fears, 
 
 And thy blood cleanfe the flain that he had 
 ll foak'd in tears : 
 Since thou haft borne th' unfufFerable weight 
 Of a world's fins, both numberlefs and great; 
 
 Lord, 
 
7 8 The dedication. 
 
 Lord, hear a penitent that proftrate lies. 
 And at thy feet for pard'ning mercy cries; 
 To be reveng'd on fin implores thy aid. 
 Bathing with tears thy wounds, the wounds 
 
 his fins have made. 
 O let thy hands that bled, their balm"\ 
 
 apply ! 
 The (in cries loud, thy blood does louder J 
 
 cry ; f 
 
 Thy fmiles will make me live, thy frowns I 
 
 will make me die. J 
 
 But if I die, Til perifli at thy feet, 
 And waiting at thycrofs thy fentence meet. 
 Sure he, who dy'd for finners, won't defpife 
 A finner's broken heart and flowing eyes. 
 OLoRD, refolve my doubts, difpel my fears, 
 Supprefs my fighs, and wipe away my tears ; 
 Or while thy charms my wondring thoughts 
 
 employ. 
 Turn floods of forrow into tears of joy. 
 
 'Tis done Thy groans and cries thy 
 
 loverefound, 
 Writ with thy blood, ingrav*d in ev'ry 
 
 wound : 
 The torture of thy crofs my pain allays, 
 Changing my mournful fighs to hymns of 
 
 praife. 
 
 O J E su s ! how divinely fair thou art! 
 Thy charms have reached the center of my 
 heart 3 
 
 Thy 
 
^he dedication. 7p 
 
 Thy graces all excite refin'd defire ; 
 How pure the flame fed byceleftial fire! 
 Strong are the bands that hearts in friend- 
 
 fhip join. 
 But ftronger ties have link'd my foul tp 
 
 thine. 
 Had I ten thoufand hearts, thofe hearts 
 
 {hould be 
 A voluntary facrifice to thee ; 
 To thee, v^hofe every fear fo fully proveV 
 Thy flame exceeds ten thoufand other loves. 
 
 ercome with love and wonder, I refign 
 My captive heart, which now no more is 
 
 mine : 
 
 1 yield my foul to thy vidorious charms. 
 And fly for grace to thy inviting arms : 
 Life will be death, if I'm exil'd from thee ; 
 Death will be life, if I thy face may fee. 
 
 Thy lovelinefs is equal to thy love, 
 And far out-fhines angelick forms above. 
 Lord, if thy crofs could ne'er thy beauties 
 
 hide, 
 How doft thou fhine at thy great Father's 
 
 fide! 
 Where the ambitious flames of glory now 
 With em^"^ jus beams falute thy lightning 
 
 bruw" J 
 Pointing, as in bright clouds they dart 
 
 around, 
 Where each rude thorn thy facred head 
 
 did wound. 
 
 While 
 
8o ^he dedication: 
 
 While others thee and their own fouls 
 
 abufe, 
 Debafe their love, and proftitute their mufe; 
 O thou to whom all love and praife belongs! 
 To thee I give my heart, to thee my fongs. 
 Waters will rile as high as whence they 
 
 flow : 
 So minds, that came from heaven, to 
 
 heaven fhould go ; 
 With holy fervor to their author move. 
 Who gave 'em pow'r to think, and powV 
 
 to love. 
 
 Eternal beauty ! I thy rays admire. 
 Kindling my flame at that immortal fire, 
 Where fhining feraphs light and cherifh 
 
 theirs : 
 Thou fhalt my praifes have, and thou my 
 
 prayers. 
 
 May all harmonious fouls their numbers 
 
 join. 
 And each a pious offering add to mine j 
 Make earth below refemble heav'n above. 
 Sing holy fongs, and fing of holy love. 
 *Tis love does with eternal joys infpire 
 All the bright orders of the heavenly choir : 
 Seraphick pfalmifts to this noble theme 
 Owe their fweet mufick and poetick flame, 
 O may the liftning faints on earth afpire 
 To reach the found, and catch the holy 
 
 fire! 
 
 And 
 
T^he dedtcation. 
 
 And in their turn with pure devotion fing 
 The praifes of their Saviour and their King ; 
 Till echo thro* heav'n's arches loud re- 
 peats 
 The found, inviting angels from their feats 
 To hear the mufick of the church below. 
 While this from t'other heav n they fcarce 
 
 can know : 
 Nor an eclipfe of light and pleafure fear. 
 Where they fo much of grace, fo much of 
 glory hear. 
 
 Si 
 
 J. S. 
 
 G 
 
8z 
 
 T x\ B L E 
 
 To find any HYMN, if one 
 knows its Beginning. 
 
 HYMN 
 
 ANgels a?2d 7nen yoiirfongs renew ^ xxiv. 
 Behold the king of glory Jits, iv. 
 
 Behold the Saviour of the world, xliii. 
 
 Come let us all, who here have Jeen, xxxiv. 
 Co?ne let us go and die with him, xxxix. 
 
 Co?ne let us blefs the glorious name, xlii. 
 
 Defcend, kmg of faints, defend, yi. 
 
 Eternal Father, how divine, xxix. 
 
 From f upper to Gethfiman^, xxi. 
 
 Glory to God on high, xx. 
 
 Gracious Redeemer, how) divine, xii, 
 
 Happy are they our Lord has chofe, xxxy. 
 Haf 'thou, my foul, thy Saviour viewd, xxvi. 
 Hew ma?2y miracles of love, xy. 
 
 How fweet, how char?ning is the place, xvi. 
 How glorious is this holy place, xly. 
 
 Jehovah, we in hymns of praife, j. 
 
 hiwiortal praife he given, ^ xi. 
 
 In grateful hymns, ye faints, difplay, x. 
 
 2 7cA^ •' 
 
A TA B L E. 83 
 
 yefus ! word div!?iely fweet ! xlvii. 
 
 Let all who love our Saviour s name^ xxxii. 
 het all who enter Sio?is gate, xL 
 
 Lord^ all thy works thy hajid has form' d^ xxv. 
 Lordy thou hajl treated us, xxxi. 
 
 Lord, we approach thy throne, xxvii. 
 
 My blejjed Saviour, is thy love, xxii. 
 
 My fold, let all thy nobler powers, viii. 
 
 O Lord, how Jl:iall we frame afong, xviii. 
 O Lord, thou dojl a broken heart, xxviii. 
 Others 77iay tell of famous things, xxxvii. 
 Our Lord a banquet has prepar d, xxiii. 
 
 Sing Hallelujah to our king, xix. 
 
 ^hat doleful night when our dear Lord, iii. 
 T^he God of grace to human race, xiii. 
 
 T'hefun of righteoufnefs has jhin'd, xli. 
 
 T^hou art all love, my dearejt Lord, ii* 
 
 Hhou haft dercome : Lord, who can prove, -AvvlI^ 
 T'hus we commemorate the day, L 
 
 ^Tts fniJlS d, the redeemer crys, xlix. 
 
 7i us our God his love commends, v. 
 
 What mighty conquror do we fee, xxxvi. 
 What wondrous things we now behold, xxxii. 
 When Chrif, at Simon s table placd, xxxviii. 
 When fn had brought death with a train, xiv. 
 Wherewith fhall I, a finful worm, xvii. 
 While thy love s pledges we receive, xli v. 
 With humble boldnefs, trembling joy, 'ix. 
 
 Te happy guejls, who meet around, xlvi. 
 
 Tou that the holy J ejus love, xxx. 
 
 Ton who our Lord's great banquet Jhare^ vii. 
 
 G 2 The 
 
?4 
 
 The more difficult Wo r d s 
 explained, 
 
 ANtitype, that which is reprefented by 
 a type or figure. 
 AlTume, receive. 
 Attraft, draw. 
 
 Commemorate, bri72g to remembrance. 
 Deplore, bewail. 
 Effufion, pouring forth. 
 Exil'd, banijhed. 
 Expiate, make fatisfadtion for. 
 Extinguifli, quench. 
 Hero, a man of a noble fpirit. 
 Imbibe, drink up. 
 
 Infernal, hellijh, 
 
 Myftick, fecret^ or obfcure. 
 
 Odor, fweet fmell. 
 
 Proftrate, with the face to the ground. 
 
 Revere, refpeB or reverence. 
 
 Satiate, fatisfy. 
 
 Vital, living. 
 
 Viaim, facrifice. 
 
 Symbol, a fign. 
 
 HYMNS 
 
HYMNS 
 
 FOR THE 
 
 LORDS SUPPER 
 
 85 
 
 
 HYMN I. 
 
 Ehovah, we in hymns of praife 
 Thy matchlefs grace adore. 
 
 That grace that gave thy only fon: Rom. 8. 
 What couldft thou give us ^^' 
 
 (more ? 
 
 He's all in all : his faints in him 
 Divine perfeftion view : 
 
 'Tis of his fulnefs they receive 
 AU grace and glory too. 
 
 G 3 
 
 Col. 3. II. 
 Eph.i. 23. 
 
 Johni.r5. 
 
 pr. 84.11. 
 
 H( 
 
8^ Hymns for the Hymn t. 
 
 I Per. I. He freely gave his blood, the price 
 '^''^' Of our eternal blifs : 
 
 Heb. 9. Since no lefs could atone for fin, 
 22, 25. jijg j^^g would give no lefs. 
 
 Lam. I. fje in the wine-prefs of thy wrath 
 '^* For guilty men was crufht ; 
 
 Phil. 2. 8. Humbled himfelf to die, and laid 
 His honour in the dufl. 
 
 That we might at his table fit. 
 And be replenifh^d there 
 I Cor. "'"^^ith thefe dear pledges of his grace, 
 Till vs^e his glory fhare. 
 
 HYMN 11. 
 
 e/^^"^' npHou art all love, my deareft Lord, 
 
 ^o. 
 
 Cant. 5. JL Thou art all lovely too : 
 ^^' Thy love I at thy table tafte, 
 . 27. 4. rpj^y lovelinefs I view. 
 
 1^^.55. 2, »pj^y divine beauty, veiVd with flcfh. 
 Thy enemies defpife 5 
 Thy mangled body they difdain. 
 And turn from thee their eyes. 
 
 Cant^^ But thou more lovely art to me 
 
 For all that thou haft borne : 
 John 15. Each cloud fets off thy luftre more ; 
 31,32. Thee all thy fears adorn. 
 
 Thy 
 
Hymn 3. Lord's fupper. 87 
 
 Thy garments tindur'd with thy blood, ^^a. 63. 
 
 The beft and nobleft dye, '' ^• 
 
 Out-ftiine the robes that princes wear; ^C,^<,,i. 
 
 Thy thorns their gems out-vie. 
 
 That I may be all love to thee, P^- 7^ 25. 
 
 And lovely like thee too, f''';-^'- 
 
 O cleanle me with thy precious blood, Zech.13.1. 
 
 And me thy beauty fliew. 
 
 2 Cor. ?, 
 
 My former vows I now renew: p^- 115. 
 
 O Lord, as thou art mine ; '^^* 
 
 I freely give my heart to thee. Cant. 2. 
 
 For ever I'll be thine. ^^* 
 
 HYMN III. 
 
 \As the 100 pfalm^ 
 
 THat doleful night,when our dear Lord Joh. 1 8. i 
 Into the garden did retreat. 
 To vent his grief in groans, and cries, Luk. 22. 
 In tears, and in a bloody fweat 3 ^^' 
 
 I Cor. 1 1. 
 
 That ne'er to be forgotten night. 
 
 When our redeemer was betray'd ; 
 
 Before his fufferings he took bread, 23,24,25. 
 
 Gave thanks to God, broke it, and faid : 
 
 Take, eat j this is mv body broke ^^^* ^'' 
 
 17 1 -^r 1 26/27,28, 
 
 ror you upon the curled tree : 
 Perform this ord'na?tce as I do^ 
 And when you dot^ remember me, 
 
 G 4 H 
 
8 8 Hymns for the Hymn 4. 
 
 He took the cup too, crownM with wine, 
 Blefs'd it, and to's difciples faid, 
 'Tis the new left'ment in my blood, 
 For you and many others fhed. 
 
 All you, my friends, muft drink of this, 
 Your fin's remiffion here you fee; 
 Terform this ordnance as I doy 
 And when you doty remember me. 
 
 Cant. 1.4. Yes, Lord, we will remember thee, 
 
 And thy love more than fragrant wine : 
 Rev. 5- 9. How can we e'er thy crofs forget, 
 ^°* Which made thee ours, and made us thine ? 
 
 Our right hand firfl: {hall lofe its art, 
 ^^' M7. Our tongue forget to fpeak or move, 
 ^' ^* Ere we'll prove thoughtlefs of thy wounds, 
 
 Thofe everlafting marks of love. 
 
 I Cor. ii-'^Ye'll thus commemorate thy death. 
 Till thou appear on earth again : 
 And, Lord, remember us, we pray ; 
 
 Rev. II. jviake hafte to take thy power, and reign. 
 
 HYMN IV. 
 
 V:.l'"l: X^Ehold the king of glory fits 
 fj At table with his guefls : 
 Welcomes them all with gracious fmiles, 
 Them all with dainties feafts. 
 
 No 
 
 Cant. I. 
 12. 
 
Hymn y. Lord's flipper. 85^ 
 
 No common food he here prefents, 
 
 No common drink provides : John 6, 
 
 For meat he gives his flefh ; for wine joh^^^'. 
 
 The fpear his heart divides. 34. 
 
 Lord, give us faith to raife our thoughts 
 
 Beyond the views of fenfe : 
 Teach us thy myft'ries to difcern. 
 
 And drav/ new joys from thence. 
 
 I Cor, II, 
 28, 19. 
 
 Let's know thy wounded body fell ir^. 53. 5, 
 
 An offering for our guilt ; ^* 
 
 Let's know, to wafh us from our fins. 
 Thy heart's pure blood was fpilt* 
 
 So fhall our minds and voices join i Cor. 14. 
 
 In facred harmony, *^' 
 
 To celebrate thy grace, and fing 
 
 Hallelujah to thee. 
 
 HYMN V. 
 
 TO us our God his love commends, ^o"^- 5- 
 
 When by our fins undone ; ^* 
 
 That he might ipare his enemies, ^^^ g 
 
 He would not fpare his fon; 52. 
 
 His only fon, on whom he plac'd P'-ov. 8. 
 
 - -■ ' li — ^o. 
 
 All his delight and love. 
 Before he form'd the earth below, 
 Or fpread the heavens above. 
 
 He 
 
po Hymns for the Hymn 6. 
 
 John 5. He charged the darling of his foul 
 16,17. rp^ ^^jj j^jg glorious face, 
 
 To wear our mortal flefli, and feel 
 The pains of human race ; 
 
 Gal. 3. 13, Our forrows and our fins to bear, 
 ''^* Our heavy crofs fuftain ; 
 
 Upon a tree to bleed and die, 
 That we might life obtain. 
 
 Col. 3. 3* This life is hid in God with him, 
 ^* Who fell a facrifice, 
 
 Heb.2.14. ^j^j dying conquered death for us, 
 Phil. 3. 21. That we like him might rife : 
 
 Aas 2. Yov he foon triumphed o*er the grave, 
 hCts 1. 9. And went to heaven again ; 
 
 ver. II. There intercedes, and thence will come: 
 Rev. 20. Among his faints to reign. 
 
 Hcb. 10. His word affures he'll quickly come : 
 
 Rom. 8 Saints for his coming pray : 
 
 19—22,. The whole creation for it groans. 
 
 Rev. 2,2. Lord Jefus, come away. 
 
 xo 
 
 HYMN. VI. 
 
 [As the 100 pfalm!\ 
 John 14. Y'^Efcend, O king of faints, defcend: 
 
 !?• ■ \ J By thy free fpirit's vital heat 
 PC 51.11. -"—-f , J ^ f , J 
 
 trcfli joys to every loul extend, 
 
 That at thy table fihds a feat. 
 
 O 
 
Hymn 6. Lord's fupper. 91 
 
 O prince of peace, blefs thou this board 
 With thofe fweetfmiles which angels chear. ^^f- ^2« 
 O give us peace -, and tell us, Lord, L°*,<e 7- 
 
 We're pardoned, and accepted here. 47,48. 
 
 As thou our hungry fouls haft fed, 
 
 Our thirfty fouls fuftain'd with wine ; Mat. 5. s. 
 
 Nourifh us with this heav'nly bread, ^^^^ ^ 
 
 And with this facred blood of thine. 55, 5^.' 
 
 Teach us to waih our garments clean Rev. 7.14. 
 In the pure fountain of thy blood; '^^^^' ^^• 
 
 Lord, purge our fouls from every ftain 
 I'th' ftreams of that all-cleanfing flood. 
 
 Each fin of ours has been a thorn, ira. 53, 4, 
 
 A cruel nail, a whip, a fpear ; ^» ^* 
 
 By thefe thy facred flefli was torn, 
 Thefe did thy foul with horror tear. 
 
 Yet every wound of thine does yield Luke 10. 
 
 A balfam for a contrite heart, 34. 
 
 Which, on the painful fore diftiPd, 
 Heals and allays the torturing fmart. 
 
 Amazing love ! 'tis infinite ! Eph. 9. 
 
 No thoughts its endlefs depth can found; *^> ^9. 
 
 It heaven's high arch exceeds for height, pr. 108. 4. 
 And for extent, the world's vaft round. 
 
 Lord, to advance thy praifes here, ^^' ^^* M* 
 
 Increafe our light, inlarge our love ; 
 And by thy grace our fouls prepare ^^^* ^ ^* 
 
 For better fongs and tunes above. 
 
 HYMN 
 
91 Hymns for the Hymn 7. 
 
 HYMN vir. 
 
 (fliarc, 
 
 YO U who our Lord's great banquet 
 And welcome places find 
 ^°* His table round, his praifes found 
 
 With well-tun*d voice and mind. 
 
 Remember all his a6ls of love, 
 His torments every one : 
 Heb. 1.(5. Whom angels fear'd, him mortals jeer *d. 
 
 Mat. 27. Blafphem'd and fpat upon. 
 3c. 
 
 Ver. 2 9. See's head all torn with thorns, his face 
 "fo^t, (Divinely bright before) 
 ifa. 52. Now mar'd more than the fons of men, 
 14. Reaking with fweat and gore. 
 
 pr, 22. 1^. See in his hands and feet the nails 
 Piercing the tender veins : 
 See how each wound the blufliing ground 
 With precious tinfture flains. 
 
 John 19. See his fide fpout a ftream of blood 
 3^- And water thro' the wound ; 
 
 7. ' A ftream wherein we're wafh'd from fin. 
 And all our guilt is drown'd. 
 
 But, oh ! what terrors wrack'd his foul 
 In that laft agony, 
 Mat 17. When (ere he dy'd) my God^ he cry*d, 
 ^ * Why haft forfaken me ! 
 
 Thus 
 
Hymn 8. Lord's /upper. 95 
 
 Thus groaned and dy'd the fon of God, l^hn lo. 
 
 That we might ever live I CoV a. 
 
 There, w^here all blifs our fouls can wifh, 9. 
 
 Or can contain, he'll give. 
 
 Mean while the myft'ries of his grace 
 
 His table here difplays ; i Cor. u. 
 
 O how his love our fouls fhould move, ^^' 
 And tongues to fing his praife ! 
 
 HYMN VIII. 
 
 MY foul, let all thy nobler powers, P^. 104- 1- 
 And faculties combine : 
 Aw^ike my tongue, and to my thoughts ^^* ^7^* 
 Thy tuneful numbers join. 
 
 All that's within me, blefs and praife ^f- 103* 
 
 My Saviour and my king : ^' ^* 
 
 When he's the fubjed: of the fong, ^^v- ^')* 
 
 Who can forbear to fing ? 
 
 3> 4- 
 
 Holy and reverend is his name ; PC n i. 9. 
 
 How glorious, and how fweet! 
 All greatnefs, and all goodnefs too 
 
 Tth* name of Jesus meet : 
 
 A name vile men (hall one day dread, 16^7,^'^' 
 
 As now the devils fear : jam. 2.19. 
 
 A name the heavenly hofts adore, J^^^' ^'^^' 
 
 rr^ J 'J r J Rev. 5,11, 
 
 To pardon d finners dear j 12. 
 
 Moft 
 
p4 Hymns for the Hymn p. 
 
 Canu I. j-Moft dear to them by ftrongeft ties 
 Of his redeeming love. 
 Which by a thoufand torments try'd. 
 Did ever conftant prove. 
 
 Tho death and hell unite their powers 
 T' oppofe his enterprize ; 
 John 10. The fpotlefs lamb refolves to fall 
 A willing facrifice. 
 
 Heb. 2. So conquering fin, and death, and hell, 
 ^'^* In glory did arife, 
 
 Ads I. 9 And in bright triumph foon afcend 
 His throne above the Ikies. 
 
 judc 14. Thence in due time he will return, 
 I Their. 4. With a celeftial train, 
 16, 17. Q£ fajj^i-g and angels, who (hall fing 
 The wonders of his reign. 
 
 HYMN IX. 
 
 Heb. 10. T T 7 Ith humble boldnefs, trembling joy, 
 pf. 2. II. VV With hope and awful fear, 
 Heb. 12. Lord, we thy majefty addrefs. 
 And to thy feat draw near. 
 
 28 
 
 Ver. 12. 
 
 Gen. 18. For thou, great judge of all the earth, 
 Heb. 4. Now on a throne of grace, 
 \6. Between the wond'ring cherubs wings 
 
 Pi. 80. 1. Reveal'il thy glorious face. 
 
 At 
 
Hymn!o. Lord's /upper. P5 
 
 At thy right-hand behold thy fon, Rom. 8. 
 
 Who kindly intercedes: ^^' 
 
 His blood crys louder than our fins, Heb. 12. 
 
 And for our pardon pleads. ^^* 
 
 Ah cruel fins, how odious now, l^a. u* ^ 
 
 And how deform'd are they, 
 
 While in that crimfon fountain we Deut. ?. 
 
 Their monftrous hue furvey 1 2^. 
 
 Thefe with black horror fiU'd his mind, Mat. 2^. 
 
 Inrag*d his wounds with pain: ^^' 
 Thefe rent with grief his laboring breaft,Pr. la. 14. 
 
 Exhauiled every vein. 
 
 Tho thefe our crimes all teftify jer. 14. 7^ 
 
 Our crying guilt aloud j Gen, 18. 
 
 Lord, veil no more thy {hining face 
 
 Within an angry cloud. 44! 
 
 21. 
 
 Lam. ^, 
 
 Let thy love's rays attraft from us ^^^^ 7. 
 
 A penitential dew ; ^ ' "^^^ 
 
 And while our vilenefs we lament. 
 
 Thy pard'ning mercy (hew : 
 
 Then tho our fins have numerous been Pf. 40. 12, 
 
 Like fands upon the fhore ; 
 Peace, like a river, flouds our fouls, ^^' ^^* 
 
 And fins are feen no more. 
 
 HYMN 
 
^6 Hymns for the Hymn 1 1 . 
 
 H Y xM N X. 
 
 [As the 100 pfalm.] 
 
 Eph. 3.18, yjsj grateful hymns, ye faints, difplay 
 Rev. <. 9. X Jehovah's grace and boundlefs love ; 
 A love, whofe flame infpires the fongs 
 Of all the heav'nly hoft above. 
 
 pr.icj. Tho v/e on earth can't fing like them, 
 20,21, 22. Lgj.'g praife him in a lower ftrain : 
 
 - * *A fervent mind, that breathes his praife 
 With ftammering lips, he'll not difdain, 
 
 Eternal Father, we adore 
 ifa* 53. Thy love, that mov'd thee to expofe 
 *^* The facred body of thy fon 
 
 To bear the wounds due to thy foes. 
 
 I Cor. M* And thee, dear Saviour, we adore, 
 Gal. s. 13. W^^ ^^^ft endure th' invenom'd fling 
 Of death, and every dreadful curfe 
 Juftice provok'd by fin could bring. 
 
 While we behold thee on thy crofs, 
 In every wound thy love appears, 
 ?r. ^3. ?. Dearer than life, more ftrong than death, 
 cam.8,5.Flowing inftreams of blood and tears. 
 
 To 
 
Hymn ii. Lords fupper. p7 
 
 To bathe our fouls defil'd by fin, Zech. i j. 
 
 Lord, we approach this facred flood : '* 
 To hea! our broken hearts, we feek 
 
 The fovereign balfam of thy blood. ^"^- ^'^^ 
 
 34- 
 
 'Tis from this living ftream our fouls, ifa. 55. i.^ 
 Our dying fouls new life derive: 
 This is the facred oil of joy, Pf. 13. 5, 
 
 That can defponding minds revive. 
 
 O king of glory, on us fhine, ^^- 24. 7. 
 
 Who thy own table now furround : 
 
 Let not our fins eclipfe thy face, ifa. 59. 2. 
 
 Since thou haft fuch a ranfom found. ^°^ ^2* 
 
 144 
 
 HYMN XL 
 
 \As the i^pfahn?[ 
 
 IMmortal praife be given, 
 ^ And glory in the high^ft^ Luke 2; 
 
 To th' God of peace^ who fent from heaven ^4^ 
 His own beloved Chrift : PC 2. 2, 
 
 Him a fin-offering made i^^- 55- 
 
 For Adam^s guilty fons; ^^* 
 
 Our prefling crimes upon him laid, ^^[- ^• 
 
 For which his blood atones. 14. * 
 
 Such torments he endur'd ^^* ^^' '^ 
 
 As none e'er felt before; ifaltl-^'/j 
 
 That joy and blifs might be fecur'd 4. 
 To us for evermore. 
 Vol IVc H Hurry'd 
 
p8 Hymns for the Hymn 12. 
 
 Luke 2g. Hurry 'd from bar to bar, 
 ll V ? With blows and fcofFs abus'd ; 
 
 Luke '23. Revird with Herod's men of war, 
 '^- With Pilate's fcourees bruis'd. 
 
 M.U. 27. 
 
 26. 
 
 His fv/eet and reverend face 
 M.ir. 77. With fpittle all profan'd 3 
 
 That vifage, full of heav'nly grace. 
 With his own blood diflain'd. 
 
 *yt y 
 
 Mat. 27. Stretch'd on the cruel tree, 
 4^> S^^. j^e bled, and groan'd, and cry'd; 
 And in a mortal agony 
 Languiili'd a while, and dy'd. 
 
 Heb.i.i4. But dying left a wound 
 Gen.5.15. Q^ ^j^^ qJ^^ ferpent's head, 
 
 For which no cure can e'er be found 5 
 
 M.U. 23. And foon rofe from the dead : 
 I, ^. 
 
 Aas 1. 9, Then did to heaven afcend, 
 
 i^^ ^ ^ That we might thither go, 
 
 I Cor. i3'.W^here love and praifes have no end, 
 
 8. Where loys no chano;es know. 
 
 Rev. 21. '^ ■' ° 
 
 4- 
 
 HYMN Xir. 
 
 Racious redeemer, how divine, 
 T How wond'rous is thy love ! 
 Rev. ^. j^g fubjedl of th' eternal fongs 
 ^—14. Q£ j^i^i^^j fpirits above. 
 
 Join 
 
 G 
 
Hymn 12. Lord's pipper* 99 
 
 Join in the facred harmony, 
 
 Ye faints on earth below, 1(^*7- 14. 
 
 To praife Immanuel, from whofe name Mat. 1.23. 
 
 All fragrant odors flow. Cam. 1. 3. 
 
 He left his crown, he left his throne ^^^^' 2* ^> 
 
 By his great father's fide; ^* 
 
 Wore thorns, fuflain'd a heavy crofs. 
 Was fcourg'd and crucify'd. 
 
 His was the torment, his the curfe; ^^^^ 3-U* 
 
 Tho all the guilt was ours : 14. 
 
 To cleanfe us, on our leprous fouls Lev, 14. 
 His vital blood he pours. 
 
 Behold how every wound of his 
 
 A precious balm diflils, ^"^e ^0.' 
 
 Which heals the fears that fin had made, ^^' 
 
 With joy the finner fills. 
 
 (grace ; 
 Thofe wounds are mouths that preach his^°^" ^2- 
 
 The charadlers of love ; Gal 3. u 
 
 The feals of our expecSed blifs Rom. 8. 
 
 In paradife above. ^^" 
 
 We fee thee at thy table, Lord, ^ ^°''* ^* 
 
 By faith, with great delight: 
 O how refined thofe joys will be 
 
 When faith is turn'd to fight 1 
 
 H 3 HYMN 
 
too Hymns for the Hymn 13, 
 
 HYMN XIII. 
 
 Rom. 5. 'nr^ H E God of grace to human race 
 
 X Does terms of peace propofe j 
 Rom. <. ^^ gives his Son, his only One, 
 10. A ranfom for his foes. 
 
 John lo. chrift, to fulfil his Father's will, 
 *'' ^* Himfelf as freely gave, 
 
 I Pet. 1. An offering whole, body and foul, 
 it 53,10. A guilty world to fave. 
 
 The Spirit divine, for this defign. 
 Milt. 3. 16. Lights on him like a dove : 
 ] John 5. The facred Three in one agree, 
 7* In this great aft of love. 
 
 Pf.85. 10. Juftice and grace like friends embrace. 
 With equal fplendor fliine : 
 No gift could be fo rich, fo free. 
 So glorious, fo divine. 
 
 Bleft Saviour, why fhould we deny 
 To thee, at thy defire, 
 Rom. u-An offering whole, body and foul, 
 ^ • As reafon does require "t 
 
 Since thou for us haft borne a crofs, 
 I John 4, Tho free from every crime; 
 '^* How great fhould be our love to thee, 
 
 Hcv. 5. Our pralfes how fublime ! 
 "• HYMN 
 
Hymn 14. Lords fupper. loi 
 
 HYMN XIV. 
 
 \As the 100 pjhlm.'\ (train 
 
 "^TTHen fin had brought death, with a Rom. tf. 
 VV ^f miferies on the guihy world ;^3« 
 And wretched man was doom'd to be ,0"** ^* 
 Into eternal darknels hurl'd ; 1 Pet. 2. 
 
 17. 
 Where the tormenting worm, that gnaws Mark 9. 
 The feftering confcience, ne'er expires; 44>4^>4^» 
 Where tort'ring brimftone always feeds Rev. 20. 
 The ne'er- to-be-extingui{h'd fires ; *°> M* 
 
 When juftice wav'd the flaming Avord Gen. 3.-24» 
 
 Of vengeance o'er the finner's head ; i Tim. 2. 
 
 The fon of God ftept in, and ftay'd 5« 
 The mortal ftroke, and thus he faid : 
 
 Tho all the offerings men can bring pr. 40. 6. 
 Can't for one fingle crime atone \ Ver.r, 
 
 God, I i:ome tp do thy will, Heb. ic. 
 I'll bear their numerous fins alone, 4-^ — lo. 
 
 A mortal nature I'll afliime, Heb. 2. 
 
 Human infirmities I'll wear; J5* 
 
 Hunger, and thirft, and wearinefs, joha 4.V, 
 
 Sorrows and pains I'll freely bear. 7- 
 
 ^ ^ Heb. 4.1 f. 
 
 Reproaches, tho they'll break my he^rr, Pf.^9. 204 
 
 1 am refolv'd to undergo : ^^^ ^J* 
 I'll fuffer all that's on me laid P^ tj. 
 By God above, or men below. 12— it. 
 
 H 3 Thq 
 
\o^ Hymns for the Hymn 1 5 . 
 
 Mat. 4. 1. Tho all ill infernal powers confpirc 
 Luketi. jy^^y great defign to overthrow; 
 Eph. (T. Thro fhowers of fiery dcirts from hell, 
 ^^' And thro death's horrid vale I'll so. 
 
 Thus faid, the Father foon reply'd : 
 Job 33. Content, I have a ranfom found ; 
 ^^' Dear fon, to fave a ruined world, 
 
 ira.55.10 Ev*n thee I with delight (hall wound* 
 
 Go execute thy brave refolves, 
 Ver. II, Tfhy fufferings {hall rewarded be ; 
 Ads 17. Many thou ihalt redeem, the reft 
 $1. * Shall all at lail be judg'd by thee. 
 
 pr. 139. How precious are thefe thoughts of thine, 
 *'' * How glorious, Lord, thefe ads of love I 
 
 For thefe we fing thy praife- below, 
 Rev. ^. Yor thefe thou'rt better prais'd above. 
 
 XI, II. ^ 
 
 HYMN XV. 
 
 HOW many miracles of love, 
 What myfteries of grace 
 ^, */. Has th' ever-bleffed Jefus fliown 
 To Adam's finful race ! 
 
 That he {hould humbly condefcend 
 Korn.8. 3. Our mortal flefh to wear; 
 Mat.8. i7.0ur licknefles, our forrows all. 
 And numerous fins to bear ! 
 
 Was't 
 
Hymn \6. Lord's Jiipper. 105 
 
 Was't not enough, thou holy one. 
 
 To lay afide thy crown, 
 
 And, in a fervant's form on earth Phil. 1.7. 
 
 To wander up and down ? 
 
 Was't not enough with fighs and tears John n. 
 
 Our miferies to deplore, |5' 
 
 To teach us by thy blamelefs life? MaJn. * 
 
 But wouldft thou ftill do more? ^9^io» 
 
 Whence is this unexampled love 
 
 To wretched human kind ? 
 
 What to attrad thy heart couldfl thou ^^ek, i^. 
 
 In loathfom finners find? ^' ' 
 
 Yet loaded with our fins and pains, i^a. 53. 4, 
 
 Thou thro death's vale wouldft go 5 p^^ 2,?. 4. 
 
 That we made innocent and free, pf. 16. ii. 
 
 The way of life might know. Mat. 7. 14. 
 
 II. 
 
 Worthy art thou, O lamb of God, ^^^^- ^• 
 
 Among thy faints to reign, 
 Who to redeem them by thy blood. 
 
 Waft once an offering flain. 
 
 HYMN XVI. 
 
 HOW fweet, how charming is the place, pr. 84. 1 
 With God's bright prefence crown'd !*• 
 I^appy his children, who his board Pf. 128.3, 
 
 As olive-plants furround, 
 
 H 4 Eat 
 
1 04 Hymns for the Hymn \ 7. 
 
 Cant. 5. Eat of this feaft, fays he, my friends, 
 ** Who to my courts repair ; 
 
 Prov. 9. $.Come, deareft children, freely drink 
 The wine which I prepare. 
 
 Lord, we accept thy bounteous treat, 
 
 With wonder, joy, and love : 
 
 Pf. 17. 4' O may we in thy houfe have place, 
 
 And never thence remove! 
 « 
 
 Here may our faith ftill on thee feed, 
 John ^. The only food divine ; 
 5P> &c. rj.^ £^j^j^ ^j^y ^^^ jg j^^^^ indeed, 
 
 Thy blood the nobleft wine : 
 
 ^john 1. ^j^y blood, that purifying juice, 
 
 ^' To cleanfe our fouls defign'd ; 
 
 Luke 10. To heal a finner's bleeding heart, 
 
 ^^' And chear his drooping mind. 
 
 I Cor. n-Here we are glad to view thy love, 
 *^' Thro figures, and in part; 
 
 ' But how much greater joy wili't he 
 I John 5. cj^Q r^^ fij^^ ^^ ^^^.^ art I 
 
 HYMN XVII. 
 
 [^As the 100 pfalm^ 
 Uic.G,6. TTTHerewith fliall I a finful worm 
 
 V V Jehovah's holy place draw nigh ? 
 With what oblations iliall I bow 
 Before the throne of God moflhigh? 
 
 Shall 
 
l^ymn 17. Lord's flipper, 105 
 
 Shall I burnt-ofFerings to him bring. 
 
 Calves taken from their tender dams? 
 
 Will God be pleas'd, if I (hould flay Mi'c. c, 7. 
 
 A thoufand and a thoufand rams? 
 
 Shall I upon his altar pour 
 Rivers of oil ten thoufand times ; 
 Or my firft-born an offering make. 
 To expiate my odious crimes ? 
 
 No ■ God is fo incensed by fin, P^ 4o- ^. " 
 
 Such offerings all w^ould be in vain; PC 51. i^^ 
 
 Too mean to fave the guilty foul. 
 And purge it from fo foul a ftain. 
 
 With broken heart and fervent cries. 
 
 Dear Jesus, to thy crofs I fly ; ^^^- ^• 
 
 The other refuge fail, on thee 
 
 My foul with fafety can rely. Heb. 7. 
 
 The blood defcending from thy wounds, 
 
 Becomes both oil and w^ine to ours ; Luke 19. 
 
 No eafe, till thy kind hand this balm ^^' 
 
 Into the wounded confcience pours. Job 34. 
 
 As at thy table we behold 
 
 Thy all-fufiicient facrifice, 
 
 Let*s feel the virtue of thy blood, TV^* ^* 
 
 Which heals, and chears, and purifies, ijoh. i! 7* 
 
 So while thy facred courts we tread, 
 
 To thee, O God, our life and joy, Pf. 43. 4- 
 
 We'll bring the facrifice of praife, ^^' "^• 
 
 In praife our hearts and tongues imploy. kioj. i- 
 
 HYMN 
 
io6 Hymns for the Hymn 1 8. 
 
 HYMN XVIII. 
 
 Job 37: ^^ L o R D5 how ihall we frame a fong 
 J 5, 20. y^ To celebrate thy fame ! 
 
 Our higheft flights are all too low 
 To reach thy loftier name. 
 
 Yet (hould the objefts of thy love 
 Thy praifes ceafe to fhour, 
 jjokc 19. To cenfure fuch ingratitude, 
 40- The ftones would foon cry out. 
 
 Pf.i44- 5- What was there, Lord, in finful man 
 That could thy pity move, 
 To draw him from the gates of hell 
 Hof. n: With charming bands of love 1 
 A- 
 
 A love, by many forrows try'd, 
 Cant. 8. And many a painful wound ; 
 
 Whofe flame could not be qu<^nch'd by death. 
 Could by no floods be drown'd s 
 
 <J> 7 
 
 No not by all thofe ftreams of blood 
 John 19. Which on thy crofs did meet, 
 Ver 34. ^^om thy pierced heart, and bleeding head, 
 pf. 11.16. And wounded ha^ds and feet. 
 
 Eph. 3.18.A love whofe wonders far tranfccnd 
 Exod^25. -pi^^ j.^^^j^ ^f human view 3 
 
 Epii, j!io. Whofe myfl'ries the inquiring crowd 
 
 I Pet. I. Of cherubs look into. 
 
 ^2- O 
 
Hymn ip. Lord's fupper. 107 
 
 O happy men who tafte this grace, 
 
 Which angels fo admire ; i Pet. t. 
 
 And feel the {hines of that bright face, rcor.4 
 
 Which they to fee defire ! i«. * 
 
 But when all myftick truth fhall be 
 
 Plac'd in a clearer light j 
 
 What joy ! Chrift face to face to fee i^or. i^ 
 
 With full and endlefs fight ! "• 
 
 HYMN XIX- 
 
 Sing hallelujah to our king, John s. 
 
 _ Who nobly entertains J^* 
 
 His friends with bread of life, and winey^**-^®' 
 That flow'd from all his veins. 
 
 His body pierc'd with numerous wounds, ^^^^ ^• 
 Did as a vidtim bleed 3 ^^* 
 
 That wx might drink his facred blood, 
 And on his flefli might feed. 
 
 Wormwood and gall was once his meat, Pr. ^9.11. 
 
 His cup with terror fiU'd, Luke 22. 
 
 That we might tafte the heav nly fweet '^^' 
 
 His royal banquets yield. 
 
 When our redeemer dy'd, he was Heb. 9. 
 
 Both facrifice and prieft : '^' ^^ 
 
 And now he lives, he is become 1", 10. * 
 
 Th* inviter, and the feaft. 
 
 We 
 
io8 Hymns for the Hymn 20. 
 
 Rev. 3. We feed on Chrift, and fup with him ; 
 
 ^^' At table he prefides 
 
 Canr. i. As ruler of the feaft, his fliaro 
 
 '*• To every gueft divides. 
 
 Cant. 2. 4. While he love's banner here difplays 
 
 O'er our triupiphant heads, 
 Cant. I. Sin dies, each grace revives, and foon 
 ^^' Its precious o^or fpreads, 
 
 Nor are our pleafures bounded here, 
 For he's gone to prepare 
 John 14. Manfions, where heavenly manna (hall 
 Rev. 2. Be our eternal fare. 
 17. 
 
 HYMN XX. 
 
 [As the 2^fb pfalm.] 
 Luke 2. /^ Lory to God on high, 
 *^* ^^ Good will to men below : 
 
 If thus the friendly angels cry, 
 What joy fhould mortals fhow ! 
 
 Thofe angels free from fin, 
 Heb. 9. No bloody offering need : 
 H- ^^ 'Twas for the guilty fons of men 
 
 Our Saviour came to bleed. 
 
 Vcr. 22. 
 
 Luke I. Yet the kind heavenly hofl 
 
 * Pet 2 With fhouting rend the fky, 
 
 4. ' ' Glad that the thrones, their fellows loft, 
 
 Heb.2. R^deem'd men fhall fupply. 
 
 •*• ^ ^ What 
 
Hymn 2 0. Lords fupper. lop 
 
 What good, what welcome news ! 
 
 What wond'rous love is here ! Luke t. • 
 
 That God his only fon fhould bruife, '°' 
 
 So lovely, and fo dear! rra^^^ia 
 
 That poor apoftate man 
 
 In heav'n might ever dwell, John 14. 
 
 Who with wild fury headlong ran 2, 3. 
 
 The way that leads to hell ! Mat.7. 13.' 
 
 Dear Lord, with what furprize 
 
 Do v/e thyfufferings traces tph.j. 18, 
 And mark thy wounds, thy groans, thy cries, ^^' 
 Thy for rows, and difgrace! 
 
 For all this haft thou borne ifa. ^^^ 
 
 To expiate our guilt : 4, 5« 
 Thy flefh to heal our fores was torn. 
 Thy blood to cleanfe us fpilt. 
 
 Thy (hame deferves renown, Phil. 2. 
 
 Thy crofs a princely throne; friT""* 
 
 That head becomes a royal crown, Mat/z^/' 
 
 Which wore a thorny one. i^ 
 
 And one day thou our king 
 In glory wilt appear, ^ 2 ilicf. i; 
 
 And troops of faints and angels bring 7. 
 
 T* attend thy triumph here. ^"'^^ ^4' 
 
 Glory to God on high^ Luker.- 
 
 Good will to 772671 below : 14* 
 If thus the friendly angels cry, 
 What joy ftiould mortals fhow ! 
 
 HYMN 
 
1 1 o Hymns for the Hyma i \ , 
 
 HYMN XXI. 
 
 \^As the loo pfilm^ , 
 
 FRom fupper to Gethfemane 
 Away our blelled Lord does hafte ; 
 ^°* Thither let's follow him, and fee 
 
 How he begins of death to tafte. 
 
 Pf. 40. li'He faw of fins an endlefs fcroul, 
 ifa. I. i8.]\/[iiiions of fins of crimfon red, 
 ifa. 55. c. All meeting on his fpotlefs foul, 
 
 While he flood charg'd in finners flead. 
 
 i Cor. 5. j^£ knew the terrors of the Lord, 
 Rom. 6. The cenfures of his righteous law , 
 15. Naked the bright avenging fword, 
 
 Gen. 5. p^^^ brandifh'd o'er his head he faw. 
 24. 
 
 Mat. 16, Horror and anguifh on him feize, 
 
 I?', His foul's o'erwhelm'd with mortal fears; 
 
 Luke 2*2. He groans, and as his pangs increafe, 
 
 44- Sweats drops of blood, weeps floods of tears. 
 
 But who can tell how much he felt 
 ^*^' ^* On that curs'd tree whereon he dy'd ? 
 Pfal. 21. While's heart like flowing wax did melt, 
 14, 15- His flrength was like a potflierd dry'd. 
 
 There, as his panting body hung, 
 Luke z2. rjpj^^ powers of darkncfs all combin'd, 
 Ep'b. 6. Their flaming arrows at him flung, 
 »^- To fill with thoufand wounds his mind, 
 
 ^^^•^•'^v ... Men, 
 
 J 
 
Hymn 1 1 . Lord's fupper. 1 1 1 
 
 Men, by whofe cruel hands he bled. 
 Ungrateful men, for whom he dy'd. 
 As void of pity as of dread, 
 Blafpheme him, and his pains deride. 
 
 His very friends, like timorous {heep, 
 Are fcatter'd from their fhepherd now : 
 His father's anger wounds him deep, 
 Down to the duft this makes him bow. 
 
 No pains, no coft our God would fpare, 
 Revolted finneis to regain ; 
 That they might robes of glory wear, 
 And with him in his kingdom reign. 
 
 Praife him ye angels round his throne, 
 Who us in thought and might excel; 
 Praife him, his fervants every one, 
 Who in thefe lower regions dwell. 
 
 HYMN XXIL 
 
 MY bleffed Saviour, is thy love Ep^» 3-i8, 
 
 So great, fo full, fo free ? ^^^^^^ ^^ 
 
 Behuid I give my love, my heart, 3. 
 My life, my all, to thee. 
 
 / 
 I love thee for the glorious worth Cant, ^i 
 
 In thy great felf I fee : ^v^/^' 
 
 I love thee for that (hameful crofi l^!^ ^ 
 
 Thou haft endur'd for me. 
 
 No 
 
 A€ts 
 
 2. 
 
 23. 
 Ver 
 Mat, 
 
 17. 
 
 35- 
 
 •45« 
 
 Mat. z6. 
 
 Ver. 
 Mat. 
 4^. 
 
 27. 
 
 I Pet. I, 
 
 18. 
 
 Rev. 7. 9, 
 Ver. 14. 
 Rev. 5. 
 
 10. 
 
 
 Pfal. 
 
 105. 
 
 zo. 
 
 
 Pfal. 
 I. 
 
 1 14. 
 
1 1 1 Hymns for the Hymn 12* 
 
 John 1 5- No man of greater love can boaft 
 ^^' Than for his friend to die: 
 
 Rom s- But for thy enemies thoii waft flain : 
 *^* What love v^ith thine can vie ! 
 
 Phil I. ^.Tho.ih the very form of God, 
 
 Heb. 1. 5. With heavenly glory crown'd, 
 
 14. * Thou vi^ouldft partake of human flefh, 
 
 Heb. 4. Befet with troubles round. 
 
 M- 
 
 Rom. 8. Thou wouldft like wretched man be made 
 
 3. In every thing but fin; 
 
 Heb. 4. That we as like thee might become, 
 
 2 Pet. 1. 4. As we unlike have been : 
 
 Phil. 1. «).Like thee In faith, in meeknefs, love^ 
 In every beauteous grace ; 
 From glory thus to glory chang'd, 
 I Cor. 3. ^g ^Q behold thy face. 
 
 Cam. I. O Lord, I'll treafure in my foul 
 3> 4* The mem'ry of thy love : 
 
 And thy dear name (hall ftill to me 
 A grateful odor prove. 
 
 pr. i<?.3. Thy friends, the excellent on earth, 
 
 Shall be my chief delight : 
 pr. i.i. And when alone, I'll make thy law 
 
 ^j- ' 19. jyjy ^^Jy J^y ^^^ tt ig h U 
 
 Pf. 84. 1. Where thou doft pitch thy tent, and where 
 Pfjl. z6.8. Thy honour deigns to dwell, 
 Pfa!. 29. There I'll fix mine, and there refide, 
 ^' There thy love's wonders tell. 
 
 The 
 
Hymn 2 3 . Lordsftipper. 1 1 ^ 
 
 The pledges of thy love fliall there ^^nr. 2. <,, 
 
 Revive this heart of mine ; ^^^^' ^* ^' 
 
 Thy love, more fragrant and more fweet 
 Than bowls of generous wine. 
 
 HYMN XXIir. 
 
 [^As the 100 pfalm?\^ 
 
 OUR LORD a banquet has prepared, ifa. ^5. i. 
 And every hungry foul invites ; 2. 
 Among his friends at table fits. Cant. i. 
 
 To blefs 'em with reiin'd delights. 12. 
 
 The grape's pure blood, and flower ofi^em. 32; 
 Are proper fymbols to defer ibe (wheat j^^,,, ^ 
 The heavenly bread believers eat, 53—58. 
 
 The facred wine which they imbibe. 
 
 Salem s great prince, Melchifedecky 
 Prleft of an order moft divine, jg^"* ^^' 
 
 The conquering patriarch met, and fedPr. no. 4. 
 His weary troops with bread and wine. 
 
 Of the fame order Chrift our Prieft, Web. 5, 
 
 The other's antitype, and Lord, q^^ ^ 
 
 For bread his broken body gives. 
 And does for wine his blood afford. 
 
 JESUS the king of righteoufnefs, Heb. 7. i. 
 
 And prince of peace, to entertain ^' 
 
 Viftorious faints who bear his arms, Rom- 8. 
 
 Was willing to be bruis'd ancf flain. Vl , 
 
 Vol. IV. I From"''-'-''"' 
 
1 14 Hymns for the Hymn 24^ 
 
 Col. $.4. From thee alone, O Lord of life, 
 john^<^^. Q^^^ ^^^^jg ^j^^jj. jj|-^ ^f grace derive : 
 
 Gal. 2/20. £v thee, the true and living bread, 
 We're daily fed and kept alive. 
 
 2Cor. ^. T^-Q thee, Lord, we refolve to live, 
 rxhef. 4. To thee who doft our life fuftain ; 
 ic, 17. And with thee hope to live at lafl. 
 With thee eternally to reign. 
 
 HYMN XXIV. 
 
 pr. ss 
 
 • I- \ Ngels and Men your fongs renew, 
 £^\^ Sing all with pious mirth ; 
 pr. 9(5. ii.Kejoice and {hour, ye heavens above, 
 And be thou glad, O earth. 
 
 Rom. 8. jjjg fon the God of grace fent down 
 ^* With finful men to dwell, 
 
 John p. The wretched captives to redeem 
 34, 3^- From the wide jaws of hell. 
 
 Heb, 9. So heinous were our crimes, fo great 
 
 ^^~ ^'' Our guilt ; that nothing lefs 
 
 18, 19. 'Than the effufion of his blood 
 
 Heb. 10. Could purchafe our releafe. 
 15). 
 
 1 Thcf. I. His blood his father's wrath atones, 
 J Cor. i< Quenches infernal fire, 
 55, ^6y Difarms Death of its poifon'd fting, 
 57', Makes hell's black troops retire. 
 
 '4» 
 
Hymn 24. Lords flipper. 1 1 5 
 
 He galn'd this vid:ory alone, i'^'- ^i* 3- 
 
 We in the triumph fliare ; 
 He wore our thorns, that we with him Rev. 7. 9. 
 
 Might crowns of glory wear. 
 
 5c 2. 10. 
 
 Thy love, O Lord our right eoiif?2efs^ jer. ig. 5.^ 
 
 Our higheft thoughts tranfcends ; Ep^- 2. 
 
 Divinely free, and knows no bounds ^ p^Jl^ j^^^ 
 
 Conftanr, and never ends. i, 6cc. 
 
 O may that Joy thy favor brings, Phil. 4. 7, 
 
 In all our fouls abound ! 
 
 So while our king at table fits, Cant.i.u. 
 
 Our tongues his praife fliall found, '^^''' 4- 
 
 Of the fweet fruits of paradife, Ephef. r. 
 
 Thou giv'ft us here a tail -, M* '4. 
 
 Wifely referving for thy friends 
 
 The beft wine to the laft -, joh.2. ic. 
 
 To that bright endlefs day, when we 
 
 Shall hiddea manna eat Rev. 2. 17. 
 
 Amid the heav'nly Ederiy where '^^^' ^* 
 Our blifs (hall be complete. 
 
 I 2 HYMN 
 
1 1 6 Hymns for the Hymn 1 5 . 
 
 HYMN XXV. 
 
 Pfai. 8. "T Ord,alI the works thy hand has form'd 
 
 J j In earth and heaven above, 
 
 pr. r7. ^,And al! thy tracks of providence 
 ^>^ ^'» Shew thee a God of love. 
 
 3 
 
 1 John 4. But thy furprlzing ad:s of grace, 
 ^^' To Adam\ guilty feed, 
 
 Loudly proclaim to all the world, 
 & 4 8, That God is love indeed. 
 
 To obje^LS wlio defer ve thy wrath 
 Rom. <,. Thy boundlefs love extends ; 
 ^'^^'' Thou'rt kinder to thy enemies 
 .^oin 15. ^f j^^Q i^eii are to their friends. 
 
 Eph. !. ^, Love drew the model of our blifs 
 5» ^y 7. Iq lYiQ decrees divine ; 
 
 Conducts the work, and will at length 
 Joh. 13. 1. Complete the vaft defign. 
 
 Love brought heav'n's heir down from his 
 Mar.i. Into a virgin's womb; (throne 
 
 2> Faflen'd him to a curfed tree, 
 
 Joh. 1 9.41. And laid him in a tomb. 
 
 In his words, dee. "Is, and fufferings all, 
 !Piov. 31. The law of kindnefs reign'd : 
 2^- Love open'd all his ghaflly v/ounds, 
 
 1 John 4. ^1^^.^ ^yj^i^h his life was drain'd. 
 
 His 
 
Hymn 2 6. Lord^s fvpper. 117 
 
 His love as freely tenders now 
 
 That meritorious blood, 
 That broken body, to our fouls 
 
 The befl and fweeteft food. 
 
 Love carry'd him up to his throne, 
 
 There to prepare us room ; 
 And love will bring him down again 
 
 At laft, to lead us home. 
 
 John 6. 
 
 5i,5:c. 
 
 John v6' 
 
 17. 
 
 Heb. 9. 
 
 28. 
 
 I Thef. 4, 
 
 17- 
 
 HYMN XXVI. 
 
 H 
 
 l^As the 100 ffohn^^ 
 Aft thou, my foul, thy Saviour view'd Aas 5. 
 As on the crofs he hung and bled ? ^^* 
 Hail feen his bruifes, wounds, and tears, j^^^^ 
 Seen him bow down his dying head ? 8. 
 
 Haft heard how rudely he was jeer'd Mat. 17. 
 By thofe that made him groan and die ? 59— 43» 
 Heard him amid their cruel feoffs, 
 Ev'n rend the heavens with his cry, Mat. 27. 
 
 46.* 
 
 That doleful cry, n:v God, 7ny God^ ^^^ 
 
 O why haft thou thy fon forjcok ! 
 Haft mark'd the anguilh of his words. 
 The mortal horror of his look ? 
 
 All this is much, yet 'tis not all ; 
 But thou no proper terms canft find if^^ ^^^ 
 
 To paint the torments of his foul, 10. 
 
 The inward bruifes of his mind. 
 
 I ^ . All 
 
1 1 8 Hymns for the Hymn 27. 
 
 All this and more than thou, my foul, 
 Ifa. 55. 6. Canft tell or think, lie did endure, 
 
 To fkreen thee from his father's wrath, 
 And thy eternal blifs fccure. 
 
 Look back once more, and view his head, 
 m. 52. jijg back, his hands, his feet, his fide : 
 And tell if any fight like this 
 Is found in all the world befide. 
 
 Phil. $. 8. No, all to me is dung and drofs, 
 
 But my dear Jefus crucify'd : 
 C^nt. 2. $. Under the (liadow of his crofs 
 
 ril fit me down, and there abide, 
 
 jolin 15. His wounds, the noblefl: proofs of love, 
 c^at. 5 -^^^ beauty too I there fhall fee, 
 16. I'arting thro his reproachful veil 
 
 Ezck» i^. Jts fweet and powerful beams on me. 
 
 HYMN XXVII. 
 
 [As the 25 pfalm?[ 
 HcD, 4. \ Ord, Vv^e approach thy throne, 
 
 ^^' I ^ To thee thank-offerings brings 
 
 '^^ • ^^' For in thy temple every one 
 pfa. 29- ^' Should of thy glory hng. 
 
 pr. /;S. u'. There thou art pleas'd to dwell, 
 pia. 17.4. ^p^j there thy beauty fhines ; 
 
 There to thy fav'rites thou doft tell 
 pr. 25.14. Thy great, ihy good defigns. 
 
 Thy 
 
Hymn 27. Lord's fupper. \ 19 
 
 Thy table they draw near, ^^"' ^ ^' 
 
 To which thy calls invite ; 
 They find the beft of dainties there, 
 And there to dwell delight. 
 
 Thy flefh is meat indeed, John 6. 
 
 Thy blood the richeft wine ; 55- 
 
 How bleft are they who often feed 
 On this repail of thine ! 
 
 While by our fins to thee ^^t- 2^. 
 
 We fiU'd a bitter cup, ^^' 
 
 Thou mad'ft this noble treat, that we & 27. 34.^ 
 Might at thy table fup. 
 
 6c 25. 25. 
 
 May joy, with humble fear, pra.2. n. 
 
 A true devotion raife 
 In all who are aflSmbled here, 
 To celebrate thy praife. 
 
 So while thy courts refound 
 With fongs, we fhall confefs 
 That no fuch pleafure's to be found Pr. 84 ic. 
 
 Fth' tents of wickednefs. 
 
 And if fuch feafl:s as this Pfai. 3^. 
 
 Yield fo much fweet below, 7*^^- 
 
 What joys fwim in thofe floods of blifs. 
 Which at thy right hand flow ? 
 
 Pf. I5. II. 
 
 HYMN 
 
120 Hymns for the Hymn 28. 
 
 HYMN XXVIII. 
 
 pr. 51. 17. /^^Lord, thou doft a broken heart 
 \^^ And contrite mind approve, 
 Wilt humble penitents receive 
 With pity, joy, and love. 
 
 Pfal.i. 1 1. Teach us o'er all our fins to weep, 
 
 And in thy grace rejoice ; 
 pr 130. ^.To mix confeffions of our guilt 
 
 With a thanklgiving voice. 
 
 Joh. 1^.8,0 let thy fpirit's convincing power 
 9, 10, II. Difpofe us to repent ; 
 50.^^ 'That holy oil will foften rocks, 
 Ads z. 37. Make flinty hearts relent. 
 
 John 14. Let that reviving comforter 
 ^^» Seal to us pard'ning grace ; 
 
 ^ , Nor let the lins we loath, eclipfe 
 Ha. 59. 2. The luitre or thy lace. 
 
 1 Job. 2. 1. Behold our glorious advocate 
 At thy right hand inthron'd, 
 
 Htb.y. 2<5.Who by the offering of his blood 
 Has for them all aton'd. 
 
 He for our great and numerous fins 
 5f"^'5> li Once numerous torments bore ; 
 '^-' For them the fcourges, thorns, and nails, 
 
 His flclli fo rudely tore. 
 
 Rivers 
 
1 21 
 
 Hymn 1 9. Lord's fupper. 
 
 Rivers of blood ran from his wounds, ^^-22. i^ 
 
 His eyes wept briny fliow'rs ; ^ • 5- 7' 
 
 And all this pain and grief he felt 
 
 For crimes intirelv ours. i^a. ^3. ^, 
 
 6^ 
 
 Lord, fince our pardon coft fo dear, i Pet. i. 
 
 Yet comes to us fo free, 18. 19. 
 
 Whence is it that our narrow fouls 
 
 Shew no more love to thee ? 
 
 May this endearing love of thine, Luke 7. 
 
 By thoufand torments prov'd, ^7* 
 
 Increafe our love and zeal to thee, 1 Cor. 6. 
 
 Who us fo much haft lov'd. ^°' 
 
 HYMN XXIX. 
 
 [As the 100 pfahi^ 
 
 ETernal father, how divine. 
 How noble is this gift of thine ! 
 That thou fhould'ft fend thy only fon, Rom. 8. 
 
 That holy, lov*d, and lovely one : 32- 
 
 •^' ^ Mat. 3. 17. 
 
 The nobleft objed of thy love, Prov. 8. 
 
 To leave his throne and crown above, ^}'.. 
 
 To dwell with mortals here below, -^ 8. 
 And death for them to undergo ! 
 
 And thou, bleft faviour, who didft come Prov. s. 
 So freely from thy heavenly home, y^^^ ^^ 
 
 To make thy felf a facrifice 6, i\ 8. * 
 
 For criminals and enemies : 
 
 How 
 
122 Hymns for the Hymn 2p, 
 
 How full of wonder is that love 
 Joh. 17. 5.That could determine thee to move 
 From thy illuftrious palace, where 
 The heav'nly hoft did thee revere ! 
 
 ifa. 6. Where flaming Seraphs bow'd before 
 
 *^°i^^Toh '^^y awful fcepter, to adore 
 
 II. ^y^ Thy hoh\ holy^ holy name, 
 
 4i- And thy perfedions to proclaim ! 
 
 Love made thee all this glory leave, 
 Heb. 10. A veil of human flefli receive, 
 j^' To live in grief and mifery, 
 
 And after all to bleed and die ! 
 
 Gal. 3. 13. To die a death the moft accurfl, 
 Phil. 2. s.^j-jj Qf ^\\ deaths the very worft , 
 28.I-I31.T0 be with lingring torments flain, 
 Abus'd with feoffs and vile difdain ! 
 
 All this thou haft endured, that we 
 1 Cor. I. Holy and happy too might be 5 
 ^^ ^ And with thee in thy kingdom reign, 
 6. ' ' When thou, dear Lord, flialt come again. 
 
 HYMN 
 
Hymn 3 o. Lord's ftipper. 1 1 3 
 
 HYMN XXX. 
 
 YOu that the holy Jefus love. 
 Give honour to his name; Cant. 1.4. 
 
 The great atchievements of his grace 
 In thankful verfe proclaim. 
 
 Tho v^hat your higheft thoughts furmounts 
 
 Can never be expreft ; Eph. 9. iS, 
 
 Yet fomething of it you may tell, ^9. 
 
 And wonder out the reft. 
 
 Remember all his mighty deeds, 
 
 His forrows all review ; PJ^J^- 2. ^, 
 
 How he abas'd his glorious felf, ^' ^' 
 
 To bleed and die for you. 
 
 Remember all the fhame and fcorn, 
 
 The vinegar and gall, P^^^- "^9. 
 
 The gaping wounds thro which he pour'd ^^J^^ ^^^ 
 His vital juices all. 
 
 His forrows, as his virtues, were 
 
 Innumerable found ; o^&V' 
 
 Troubles from earth, fromheaven and hell, ifa. 53.3. 
 
 His fpotlefs foul furround. 
 
 Crucify'd by the worft of men. Ads 5. t^, 
 
 Forfaken by the beft ; '^^^ ^ ^• 
 
 With th' endlefs number of our fins, 5^. 
 
 Sin's mighty weight opprefs'd. ^^' 4^* ^*- 
 
 He 
 
I 24 Hymns for the Hymn 3 1. 
 
 Gal. 3. 1 3. He felt the curfes of the law, 
 45^^ ' ^''* His father's wrath fuftain'd ; 
 Luke 22. Endur*d the cruel fliock of all 
 ^3' The powers of hell unchain'd. 
 
 Afts I. 9, But after all vidorious proved, 
 
 ^°Tim A ^^ triumph did afcend, 
 
 F. ' And now prepares us crowns and thrones, 
 
 Rev. 3.11. And joys that ne'er fhall end. 
 
 HYMN XXXI. 
 
 l^As the 25 pfalm.] 
 
 LOrd, thou haft treated us 
 With true and living bread ; 
 3 3> 34- Thy body, as upon the crofs, 
 The painful crofs, it bled. 
 
 Mat. 26. Thy blood's a precious wine, 
 27,28. The heart of God it chears ; 
 
 .us- 9. ^^l^Yi heav'nly fweets, and joys divine, 
 Rom. 8. Ic calms our guilty fears. 
 
 A living fpring thy fide, 
 John 19. Thy pierc'd fide did impart, 
 ?4- Thro which a vital juice did glide 
 
 P/.11.I4. j)q^vj^ fi-Qj^ ^j^y melting heart. 
 
 Pf. 22. 16. This crimfon ftream, with thofe 
 
 Thy hands and feet did yield, 
 zccli. 13. A bath for finners does compofe, 
 '. In which they're clcans'd and heal'd. 
 
 Such 
 
Hymn ^ i . Lord^s fiippew 1 1 j 
 
 Such bleffings, Lord, in thee, 
 If at thy crofs we meet, Mat. 2^. 
 
 What joys will in thy kingdom be, 
 Joys how divinely fweet ! 
 
 29. 
 
 When thou with glory crowned, Rev. 3; 
 
 Thy faints on thrones wilt place, ^'' 
 And fatiate all thy guefts around 
 
 With th' vifion of thy face. ^ John 3, 
 
 From that bleft paradife Rev. 22. 
 
 None e'er fhall be exil'd ; ?; & 20. 
 
 None by a ferpent's tempting voice. 
 Of joy and hfe beguil'd. 
 
 10, 14. 
 
 The tree of life fhall chafe R«v- 22. 
 Death thence, and all its fears : 
 
 Rivers of pleafure there have place, 22. li 
 
 And there are none of tears. ^ ^'* ^* 
 
 HYMN XXXII. 
 
 \As the 100 pfalm'\ 
 
 LEt all who love our Saviour's name. Cant. i. 
 That name fo full of heav'nly grace^ 5* 4- 
 In fongs of triumph fpread his fame 
 Thro evVy age, and ev'ry place. 
 
 He kindly laid afide his crown, rii'^- i- ^> 
 
 And robes of awful majefly ; ^' ^* 
 
 And in a fervant's form came down 
 To bear a crofs, and on it die, 
 
 I With 
 
1 2 6 Hymns for the Hymn 2 2 . 
 
 Hjb. 5.7. With tears, and fwear, and blood imbrued, 
 4^ * This holy lamb was lacrific'd ; 
 ifa. ^3-7.Jeer'd by the barbarous multitude, 
 4ol^l! And by profaner priefts defpis'd. 
 
 I Cor, M.But dying thus, he pluck'd the ftino- 
 JoJ^Vs. f"^^"^ death ; and riling from the grave, 
 14. He triumphed o'er the mighty king 
 
 Heb. 2. Of terrors^ as a captive Have. 
 
 Afts I. Q,'^^^^ ^^ ^^^^ heav'nly throne was rais'd, 
 10. Whence he'll defcend ag;ain, to be 
 
 Pbii. 2. 9, Xhro the whole world ador'd and prais'd 
 ' ^* By every tongue, and every knee. 
 
 Tho tears, and blood, and fpittle here 
 Clouded, profaned and marr'd his face. 
 Rev. I. K. The mid-day fun is not fo clear, 
 
 Now 'tis adorn'd with heavenly grace. 
 
 Rev. 5. Angellck fongs his beauties praiie, 
 Maf^i'y. While, clad in glorious robes of light, 
 2. He darts innumerable rays 
 
 1 Tim. 6. Ai'ound, for mortal eyes too bright. 
 
 Ezek. i(j. This glory Adam^ fons partake, 
 ilohn'i' Who once deform'd and odious were ; 
 7. For that pure blood he Ihed, can make 
 
 A leprous fmner clean and fair, 
 
 2 Cor. 5. Our bodies too he will refine > 
 
 J: .. Vile bodies, under which we oroan, 
 2,. Shall with immortal beauty fhine, 
 
 Render'd all lovelv like his own. 
 
 HYMN 
 
Hymn 3 3 . Lord's fiipper. i 2 7 
 
 HYMN XXXIII. 
 
 WHat wond'rous things we now behold i Tfm. 3 . 
 At this myfleaous board ! ^^• 
 
 What copious matter for a fong ^^j 5- «• 
 
 Of praifes they afford ! 2c/ * 
 
 Extended on a crofs we fee 
 
 The Lord whom we adore. 
 Both giving and receiving wounds, Col.i. 15. 
 
 Bath'd in triumphant gore. 
 
 No viftor's robe fo rich a dye ifa. ^5.1: 
 
 Before did ever ftain, Heb. 2. 
 
 No champion fuch a vi(5tory ^4» M» 
 Before did ever gain. 
 
 Glory and ftrength his torments add 
 
 To all his mighty deeds ; Heb. 2. 
 
 His enemies fly, and fall the more, *®* 
 
 The more he groans and bleeds. 
 
 Tho the law's curfe lights on his head. Gal. 3.15, 
 
 While Saran wounds his heel, ^^"* 5* 
 
 His body's bruis'd by men, his heart \ cor. 15. 
 
 Death's cruel fling does feel 3 5<^» 
 
 Yet with firm courage he o'er all 
 
 Bears up his conqu'ring head. 
 Till on their captive necks his feet ^^l^ 2.14, 
 
 In folemn triumph tread. 15/ * 
 
 This 
 
I z 8 Hynlnsfor the Hymn 34* 
 
 ifa. 63 3. This iliock our Lord fuflain'd alone, 
 ^l\\^,' -^^^ makes us fhare the fpoils; 
 14! * He felt his father's dreadful frowns, 
 ^lat. 27. That we might have his fmiles. 
 
 Rom. 8. 
 
 I V 
 
 Ifa. 1. 6 
 Sc S3. 
 
 To cure our wounds and putrid fores, 
 Was pierc'd in every limb ; 
 GaK ^I's-His crofs, our tree of life, became 
 & 4- 4j 5- A tree of death to him. 
 
 Rev. I. But tho once dead, he*s now alive, 
 '^- And lives for evermore: 
 
 2 Tim. 3. Then let his faints, whofe life is hid 
 12. In Chriil, his name adore. 
 
 HYMN XXXIV. 
 
 [^s the 100 ffalm,"] 
 
 COme let us all, who here have feen, 
 And tafted of our Saviour's grace, 
 3- From his bleft table to his crofs, 
 
 In thought, his weary footfteps trace. 
 
 Luke 23. Let's trace him up to Calvary, 
 
 5 3 Not leave him as his followers did, 
 
 Mat. 26. Who having at his table fup'd, 
 
 5^. Forfook their fuffering Lord, and fled. 
 
 joh. iS.i.Into the garden firll he goes, 
 Mat. z6. Where mortal fears belet him round ; 
 Mark 14. Sin's preffing weight o'er whelms his foul, 
 55. And finks his body to the ground* 
 
 Here, 
 
Hymn 34- Lord's ftippev, 1 2 p 
 
 Here, proftrate as he lies, he groans, 
 Pouring out pray'rs with fervent cries. 
 Till he fweats drops of blood, to mix 
 With floods that iffue from his eyes. 
 
 Yet are his forrows but begun 5 
 By one difciple he's betray'd, 
 Another him with oaths denies, 
 The reft all run like flieep afraid. 
 
 Falfly accused, he's doomed to die 5 
 Loaded with blafphemy and fcorn, 
 He's rudely buffeted and bound, 
 His facred fleih with fcourges torn. 
 
 His temples wear a wreath of thorns, 
 Spittle his reverend face profanes , 
 His v/eary flioulders bear a crofs, 
 On which he fuffers mortal pains. 
 
 Between two thieves he lingring dies, 
 While thoufand tortures on him meet j 
 His heart's diifolv'd within, his blood 
 Flows out in ftreams from hands and feet. 
 
 Thefe ftreams, join'd with that other flood Jo^^n 19. 
 That gufh'd out from his wounded fide, ^i- 
 Compofe a fovereign bath, wherein Zech. 13 
 
 The leprous Soul is purify'd. ^• 
 
 V^oL IV, K HYMN 
 
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 44. 
 
 
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 Mar. 
 
 z6. 
 
 48. 
 
 
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 CTf. 
 
 
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 3J, 
 
 5^. 
 
 
 Ver. 
 
 59, 
 
 60. 
 
 
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 66, 
 
 67, ( 
 
 5S. 
 
 Mat. 
 
 27. a.- 
 
 Ver. 
 
 25. 
 
 Ver. 
 
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 John 
 
 i?^ 
 
 17, 1 
 
 .8. 
 
 Mat. 
 
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 14,1 
 
 5,i6,' 
 
1 3 o Hymns for the Hymn 3 5 . 
 
 HYMN XXXV. 
 
 pfa!.55.4'Tr TAppy are they our Lord has chofe 
 ^ J^ in his bleft courts to dwell j 
 His prailes ftill their thoughts employ, 
 
 vc. 29. 9. Their tongues his glory tell. 
 
 Pr. 17. 4- There he his lovelinefs makes known 
 To all who love his name ; 
 
 3fa. 28. 5. To them he is a glorious crown. 
 And beauteous diadem. 
 
 I.uke 12. 
 
 With a celeftial banquet there 
 His table's richly fpread ; 
 1^,^20"' The wine's the tindure of his veins. 
 His body is the bread. 
 
 Cant.$. I. To entertain his happy friends, 
 pfai. 23.5. He oft repeats his call ; 
 Mat. 22. Pours fragrant oil upon their heads, 
 11^ 12. Gives robes to clothe 'em all. 
 
 ifa.^/M.Nay, every contrite mind to him 
 pr. 5 r. 17. A holy temple proves : 
 
 For humble fouls are his delight. 
 And he dwells where he loves* 
 
 He at the door of every heart 
 Does friendl;^ calls renew ; 
 i^cv. 5.20." Open to me, and you fhall fup 
 *^ With me, and I with you. 
 
 And 
 
Hymn 3 6. Lord^s flipper. 151 
 
 And will the high and lofty one Ifa. 57.15, 
 
 Vouchfafe to dwell with men ? 
 Opei2^ eternal doors^ and let J^^^^- 24. 
 
 T^he king of glory in. 
 
 7> O'c, 
 
 This entertainment. Lord, of thine, '^«f- i» 
 
 So gen'rous and fo free, * ^^' 
 
 Cofl many a pang, and many a groan. 
 And many a wound to thee. 
 
 Eternal praife to thy great name. Rev. 5. 
 
 By all the hoil: of heaven, ^^ ^^' 
 
 By every nation, every tongue, 
 I And every heart be given. 
 
 HYMN XXXVl. 
 
 [As the 100 pfalmi] 
 
 WHAT mighty conqueror do we fee 
 Whofe garments are diftain'd with i^^- ^3' '• 
 
 (blood, 
 Whofe rich apparel feems to be 
 All tindlur'd in a crimfon flood ? 
 
 Like one who has the wine-prefs trod, ^^^' 2» 
 Whofe clothes ti;e grape has purpFd o'er ? 
 'Tis the eternal Son of God, ifa. <,i ^ 
 
 All full of wounds, all ftain d with gore. 
 
 A mighty conqueror indeed, 
 Who conquers by receiving blows ; 
 To give wounds, is content to bleed; Heb. 2.14^ 
 
 And by his death fubidues his foes. ^^* 
 
 K 2 He 
 
1 J 2 Hymns for the Hymn j 6. 
 
 He treads 'em down, tho all alone, 
 1(2,6^. 3» And with their blood his veflure's ftain'dj 
 But firft is all bath'd in his own, 
 His own by many a w^ound is drain'd. 
 
 Col. 2. 1 5. His blood hell's fubtle powers confounds. 
 
 To them a mortal liquor proves ; 
 Luke 10. But is a balm to heal our wounds, 
 ^^' A wine to chear the fouls he loves. 
 
 J0h.t9.54. The veflels that contained this juice, 
 & 20. 25. ^ fpear and ruder nails did broach ; 
 
 And while his flefh they pierce and bruife, 
 Pi.^9.20. pjjg heart is broken with reproach. 
 
 Ifa. 55. 5. ButbruisVi, and broke, and mangled thus, 
 
 This facrifice our pardon gain d ; 
 Mat. 2(^. And thus prepar'd, is food to us, 
 26> 27. gy which we live, and are fuftain'd. 
 
 rr.78.24. Thrice happy they, whofe tents around 
 pf.iu.r^ Such heavenly bleffings ftill are fpread! 
 John 6. Whcfe cup is with falvation crow^n'd, 
 2 1.3 2,3 3" Their board with true and living bread! 
 
 Rom. -5. Praife him whofe mercies know no end, 
 
 ^^Chr ^^^ ^^ ^ vafter fum arife 
 
 ts 9. Than fins themfelves ; for thefe extend 
 
 Pf. 108.4. Xo heaven, but thofe above the fkles. 
 
 HYMN 
 
Hymn j/. Lord's fupper. 135 
 
 HYMN XXXVII. 
 
 \^As the 100 pfahn^ 
 
 OThers may tell of famous things 
 Done by their heroes and their kings ; 
 
 The Lord we ferve, them all exceeds Rom. 5. 
 
 For mighty fufFerings, mighty deeds. 7, %. 
 
 The torments he has undergone, iPet. i. 
 
 The glorious trophies he has won, ^^' 
 
 Armies of wondring angels caufe Rev. $. 
 
 To fill the heavens with loud applaufe. *^' '^• 
 
 Deep in our breafts let us record iCor. u. 
 
 The ftory of our dying Lord : 24,25,26. 
 
 As we his kind memorials view, Mat. 2s. 
 
 Our wonder, and our fongs renew. 3o- 
 
 From heaven the Lord of glory came, Jam. 2. r. 
 
 On earth to bear reproach and (hame ; ifa. 50. c. 
 
 Thefon of God his face to veil, John 1. 14. 
 AlTumes a body weak and frail, 
 
 The king of kings a crown adorns, ^^^- J?. 
 
 Inftead of gems, all fet with thorns: jfa ^ ^^ 
 
 He whom the angels prais'd and bleft, compard 
 
 Is made the rabble's fcorn and jelt ru;i/^john 
 
 The meek, the juft, the holy one Mat.21.5. 
 
 Under the weight of fin does groan. Afts3.i4, 
 
 The prince of life would learn to die, phii. 2. 6 
 
 And be as low as he was high. 7, ». 
 
 K 3 He 
 
1 34 Hymns for the Hymn 57. 
 
 I Tim. 4. He that diftrlbutes crowns and thrones, 
 Rev 7 21 Hangs on a tree, and bleeds, and groans: 
 A<a 10.59. He on a crofs refigns his breath, 
 Rev. I.I 8. Who keeps the keys of hell and death. 
 
 'Twas thus, becaufe he'd have it fo, 
 John 10. That we his wondrous love might know : 
 Mat 2^ To refcue us, he was betray 'd ; 
 48,49,50. To make us free, a prisoner made ; 
 
 Pf. 22. 1 5. To raife us, in the duft did roll ; 
 i^a.53. 4, Bore many wounds, to make us whole : 
 5' To give us pleafure, felt our pain ; 
 
 l^^' ^' And dy'd, that we might life obtain. 
 
 I Cor. M-Thus fin, death, and the powers of hell, 
 ctT"2^iV ^^^^^^^'^' difarm'd, and wounded fell. 
 Eph.4-8. He mounted then his throne above, 
 z Cor. 5. ^j^(j conquers linners by his love. 
 
 Lord, fince our pardon, and our blifs, 
 3 Cor. 6. Were bought at fuch a price as this ; 
 ^^' As thou art ours, we're thine alone ; 
 
 3 Cor. 7. ,^, . .,, / , 
 
 5. Thine will we be, and not our own. 
 
 -«-. 
 
 HYMN 
 
Hymn 3 8. Lord's ftipper* 1 3 5 
 
 HYMN XXXVIII. 
 
 WHen Chrift, at Simon's table plac'd, Luke 7. 
 His facred dod:rine taught 5 3^>57,i8 
 
 A penitent behind him flood, 
 Whom love had thither brought. 
 
 She with devotion kifs'd his feet, 
 
 Bath'd *em with flowing eyes ; 
 Then drys 'em with her fpreading locks. 
 
 And fragrant oil applies. 
 
 'Twas love thefe funeral tears prepared Ver. 47. 
 
 Before her Lord was dead ; ^^^- ^^* 
 
 12. 
 
 Officious love fupply'd the balm 
 Before his wounds had bled. 
 
 Her faith the virtue of his blood 
 
 Apply'd, before 'twas fpilt -, 
 To wafh her foul from every flain. 
 
 And expiate her guilt. 
 
 o wain her loul from e 
 And expiate her guilt. 
 
 I John 1, 
 
 7. 
 
 The Saviour's fympathizing heart 
 
 Her pious forrow feels 3 
 Commends her faith, her love applauds, Ver. 47. 
 
 His pard'ning grace reveals. ^^' 
 
 Thus every foul fucceeds, that bows 
 
 At the redeemer's feet ^ 
 Thofe who repent, believe and love, 
 
 Chrift at his table meet. 
 
 K 4 The 
 
\26 Hymns for the Hymn 35^. 
 
 Rom. s. The motions of thy fovereign grace, 
 -o, ->• Lord, let no fin controul 5 
 
 Forgiving glances from thy eyes 
 Will ravifli every foul, 
 
 Thefe faithful pledges of thy love 
 Declare thee ftill the fame : 
 i.ui-. 1 2. For thefe memorials of thy crofs 
 ^^' We praife thy facred name. 
 
 HYMN XXXIX. 
 
 [As the 100 pfalm.] 
 Gjli-. 20. i^^OME, let us go and die with him, 
 \^ Who vs^as content to die for us ; 
 Ifa. 55, 5, Let's wound and crucify thofe fins 
 ^' That nail'd our Saviour to his crofs. 
 
 z Cor. 7. ]VIay holy indignation raife 
 ^ ^' A jull revenge in every breaft ! 
 
 rr. 97. TO. May every foul, that Jesus loves, 
 The very thoughts of fin deteft ! 
 
 Rom 2. Hence all ye viprous brood of vice, 
 ^' ^' That bring a train of cndlefs woes ; 
 O how I loath and hate you now, 
 As mine, and as my Saviour's foes ! 
 
 A^s 2. Yours are the bloody hands that feiz'd, 
 '■^' That bound, that buffeted, tlvat flew 
 
 f I). 3. 1 4. The Lord of life, and on the crofs 
 ^^> Ypur poifon'd arrows at him threw. 
 
 You 
 
Hymn 3 9. Lord's fupper. 1 3 y 
 
 You are the barbVous enemies, Luke 19. 
 Who ftill refule that Chrift fliould reign ^ ^4; ^^^ 
 
 Juftice demands you fliould be drag'd Numb. 15. 
 
 Without the camp, and there be flain. 5'>- 
 
 ^ Heb. 13. 
 
 11,12,13, 
 
 Hence all your vain deluding arts, Heb. 3.1 5. 
 Which the unwary foul beguile ; 
 
 Thefe have no charms for one that fees Gal. 6.4. 
 Redeeming mercy on him fmile. 
 
 Rev T 12 
 
 My robes, when wafli'd in facred blood, j^, ' 
 Shall I again with blots deface ? 
 
 My foul, by grace advanc'd to heav'n, Luke lo; 
 
 Shall I again to hell debafe ? 15, 
 
 Prevent me, O almighty grace ! 
 
 Nor let me e'er fo treacherous prove, 
 
 To crucify my Lord afrefli, Heb. 6. 6. 
 
 And render hate for all his love ! ^ V *°'' 
 
 His life the model be of mine : ^ ^^^* *• 
 
 His word the rule to guide my ways ; col. 3. i5. 
 His crofs the death of all my crimes ; Rom.^.tf. 
 His love the fubjed; of my praife. ^^^v- 5- ^• 
 
 HYMN 
 
138 Hymns for the Hymn 40. 
 
 HYMN XL. 
 
 Heb. li. y grp ^ij^ who enter Sions gate, 
 'Pfal. loe. M i And in God's facred courts attend, 
 4- Praife him before his holy feat, 
 
 Eph/3! Whofe mercy knows no bounds or end. 
 18, 19. 
 
 ^^^•^°5'-To the foul's inward harmony 
 Pfa.ioo.i. Join thefweet mufick of the tongue; 
 I Cor. H'No jarring thought admitted be, 
 ^^•, ^^ Nomind untun'd, no heart unftrung, 
 Rom. 8. 
 
 3*' Praife him, who did not fpare to fend 
 Hcb. 10. From heaven his own eternal fon, 
 *°' To veil himfelf in flefh, and end 
 
 ^'^^'^'^'That life in blood which tears begun. 
 
 Job. 1.18. p,.^j|-g ^j^^^ redeemer, who forfook 
 
 Phil. 2. O, % r r^ ' r t > i 
 
 7, 8. The bolom 01 his rather s love ; 
 z Cor. $. 'Xhe guilt of finners on him took, 
 l('.^^Thc pain without the crime to prove. 
 
 Mat. g.i^.^j^j praife that bright immortal dove, 
 Rom. 5.$. Who contrite hearts with joy infpires, 
 And {heds abroad redeeming love. 
 To warm our breafts with holy fires. 
 
 1 John 5. O praife the facred three in one, 
 
 7- To whofe love, wifdom, Pow'r, we owe 
 
 2 Tim. I. That blifs which is in time begun, 
 io» But fhall with time no period know. 
 
 HYMN 
 
Hymn 4 1 • Lord's ftipper. \ j 9 
 
 HYMN XLI. 
 
 THe fun of nghteoufnefs has fliin'd, ^^'[^^^- ^'' 
 And God's new cov'nant has reveal'd -, 78. 
 Chrift's hand the facred bond has fign'd, "^^ S-^- 
 His blood the facred bond has feal'd. Lute 22^* 
 
 20. 
 His numerous promifes affiire 
 Salvation on his father's part : 2 Cor. i. 
 
 Salvation can't but be fecure, .^^• 
 
 When purchased v^ith his bleeding heart, jj^i^/i^. 
 
 The kind teftator freely dies, ^'^- ^^' 
 To ratify this teftament : 
 
 The facred dove from glory flies, Mat. i.\6: 
 
 To gain the finners free confent; John 16. 
 
 The table of the Lord difplays 
 
 The dear memorials of his love : Luke 22. 
 
 The church belov^ applauds his grace, ^' 
 
 In concert w^ith the church above. ptLI'i^. 
 
 Lord, when we gave ourfelves to thee, 2 Cor. 8. 
 
 Drawn by the charming bands of love, ^' ^ 
 
 We vowM for ever thine to be, 4. 
 
 And by thy grace will conftant prove. ^ Pet. 5. 
 
 Thee we have always gracious found, pfal. i6. 
 Thy promifes are firm and true : 1(7)'^^* 
 
 Thetyes wherewith our fouls are bound, ,oV. "^' 
 We now moil folemnly renew. 
 
 Command, 
 
140 Hymns for the Hymn 41, 
 
 Ads 9. ^-Command, and we'll obey thy call ; 
 Marks. ^,^,jj ^^j^^ ourcrofs, and follow thee 
 John 18. To prlfon, to the judgment-hall, 
 
 ^^' Without the gate to Calvary. 
 
 ch. 19. ^ -^ 
 
 26, 27. ^ 
 
 Cam. 1. Since thou art ours, may we retain 
 
 l^\ ,^ Thv facred ima2;e which we bear : 
 Col. $.10. - p 
 
 pfa. 119. oince we are thine, may we remain 
 38- Ever devoted to thy fear. 
 
 1 chr. 29.0urfelves to thee, Lord, we refign, 
 ^^--^^' . AH we poffefs to thee belongs ; 
 j^V^ Thou haft our vows, our hearts are thine, 
 And thou flialt ever have our fongs. 
 
 HYMN XLII. 
 
 \^As the 100 pfa Im.] 
 
 /^lOme, let us blefs the glorious name 
 
 22, 2:'. V^ Of our great prince L?2manuel -, 
 
 Pfa. 8^. Who from heav'ns higheft regions cam.e, 
 
 '^'' To fave us from the loweft hell. 
 
 Aas 5.1$. Nor did this prince of life difdain 
 I Tim. 5. ^^ mortal body to aflume ; 
 ifa! 53. To live in forrow, die in pain, 
 3» 4- And be interred within a tomb. 
 
 Mar. 27. 
 
 Rom. 5. That men, by guilt of life bereav'd, 
 ' ' • Might have their numerous crimes forgiven; 
 
 Rom.5. 10. Rebels might be to grace receiv'd, 
 Heb. 12. T' inlaro;e the family of heaven. 
 
 Th'an- 
 
Hymn 43' Lord's fupper. 141 
 
 Th' angelick hoft this grace admire, ' Pet. i. 
 Which reconciles apoftate man ; 
 
 To found that myftick deep defire, Heb. 9.5. 
 
 Contriv'd before the world began. Eph. i. 4, 
 
 They with foft mufick fiU'd the air, Luke a. 
 
 When firft our Saviour drew his breath : M' M» 
 They chear'd his mind oppreft with care, Luke'^ii!' 
 When tempted, and approaching death. 43. 
 
 They now around his throne above Rev. 5.1 1, 
 
 To heav'nly ayres their voices raife y ^J-- 
 
 With humble joy that grace approve u^^ \^\ 
 
 Which yields 'em endlefs fongs of praife. 
 
 While they loud HalkhijaJjs fing 
 
 Above our notes, our thoughts above; i. 
 
 In glad Hofannas to our king 
 
 We'll fing of reconciling love. 
 
 Rev. 19. 
 
 Mar. 21. 
 9. 
 
 HYMN XLIIL 
 
 Ehold the Saviour of the world 
 
 Embru'd with fweat and gore. vf-,*. , , 
 Expiring on that Ihameful crofs, 
 Where he our forrows bore ! 
 
 Compaflion for loft human race j^^b. 2: 
 
 Brought down heav'n's only fon, u, i^, 
 
 To veil in flefli his radiant face, Heb^^^' ' 
 
 And for their fins atone. 
 
 Who 
 
1^2 Hymns for the Hymn 44. 
 
 Who can to love his name forbear, 
 1 Per. I. That of his fufferings hears, 
 18, 19. And finds the ranfom of his foul 
 Was blood as well as tears ? 
 
 Afts 10. Thy facred blood, O fon of God ! 
 18. Which ran from many a wound j 
 
 Pfal. 22. When earth^s and helFs malicious powVs 
 »*> ^3- All compafs'd thee around: 
 
 Till death's pale enfigns o'er thy cheeks 
 John 19. And trembling lips were fpread; 
 ^°* Till light forlbok thy dying eyes. 
 
 And life thy drooping head. 
 
 ifa. U' Joy for thy torments we receive, 
 f' ">' Life in thv death have found ; 
 
 R.eV- 7» "^ - 
 
 i^^ i^j For the reproaches of thy crofs 
 &c. Shall be with glory crown'd. 
 
 I John 4, May we a grateful fcnfc retain 
 '^* Of thy redeeming love ! 
 
 I John 3. And live below like thofe that hope 
 ^' To live with thee above ! 
 
 HYMN XLIV. 
 
 Cor I Tl^Z"^^^^ ^'^y love's pledges we receive 
 z6, ' ' VV In this blefl: fupper, Lord, we fee 
 Pfal. ii(?. "Wiiat grateful tribute, what returns 
 **' Of love and praifewe owe to thee. 
 
 O may 
 
Hymn 44* Lords fupper. 145 
 
 O may thy altar's holy fire iTa. 6. 5, 
 
 Inflame our hearts, refine our tongues ! ^^' 
 May love divine our breads infpire 3^ 4.' 
 
 With heav nly thoughts, and heav'nly 
 
 (ibngs ! 
 
 Tho to extol thy wondrous grace ^P^- J« 
 
 Our thoughts and w^ords too low will prove ; job '27. 
 Thou, Lord, wilt ne'er refufe a fong 19,20/ 
 
 From any heart that's tun'd with love. 
 
 While to thy crofs we turn our eyes, 
 And there thy agonies review ; i^^* 5s.4» 
 
 What we delerv'd, but thou haft born, ' 
 Thy wounds, thy groans, thy torments 
 
 (ihew. 
 
 While terror o'er thy foul was fpread. 
 Thy cruel foes reviling ftood ; Mat. 17, 
 
 While clouds of wrath burft on thy head, ff^* ^ 
 They bath'd their hands in facred blood. 10. 
 
 The fun aftonifh'd hid his face, M^^- ^t'. 
 
 The heavens a fable garment wore; X]r,<u 
 
 The frighted earth's foundations fhook, 
 And folid rocks afunder tore : 
 
 The temple's veil was rent, to fliew Heb. 5. 7, 
 
 Heav'n's throne unveil'd to our high-prieft ; ^* 
 The opening graves and rifing faints. Mat 27. 
 
 The virtue of his death confeft. 52. 
 
 Thou, 
 
144 Hymns for the Hymn j{^* 
 
 Aas 5.15. Thou, Lord of life, didft foon revive i 
 ^^t'.J^^' Nor could thy tomb thee lone retain, 
 18. Who to lay down thy life hadlt pow'r> 
 And pow*r to take it up again. 
 
 Ifa. $2. Thy body, once w^ith wounds deformed, 
 14- Does now with heav'nly glory {hine, 
 frills. Adorned, and made a temple fit 
 
 For fuch a beauteous foul as thine. 
 
 Gal 2. 20. ^g Qj^^g upon the curfed tree 
 '* ^* Our fins, with thee our Saviour, dy*d: 
 
 21. 
 
 Rev. 7. 9, So, Lord, we hope to rife like thee, 
 ao, 6cc. p^^^ £j^g ^Yiy triumphs at thy fide, 
 
 HYMN XLV. 
 
 ?r. 84. '-TTTOw 2;lorIous is this holy place, 
 Gen. '28.^* IJL Where bread of life is giv n ! 
 16, 17. This furely is the houfe of God ! 
 This is the sate of heav'n ! 
 
 D' 
 
 Jefus, the mafter of the feaft, 
 Vouchfafes his prefence here ; 
 I Cor. 10. The cup of blefljng pafles round, 
 ^^' The picas guerts to chear. 
 
 Cant. I i. Dainties that royal tables bear, 
 *^' "* And bow's of ruddy wine, 
 
 Car't Willi this nobler board compare, 
 Crown'd with a feafl: divine, 
 
 I Hence, 
 
Hymn 45- hord's [tipper, 145^ 
 
 Hence falthlefs doubts, defponding fears Mat. 9.2. 
 
 No more our joys moleft : " ^^* 
 Hence all vain thoughts, and vile defires Rom. ^. 
 
 No more our fouls infeft. 2. 
 
 Can linners doubt their pardon, when 
 
 Their judge upon them fmiles? ^P^* 5- 2. 
 
 Can they ung;ratefully rebel, 
 
 Whom Jelus reconciles ? ^°"^' ^^' 
 
 The merit of his blood can calm Heb. 10. 
 
 The foul with guilt oppreft : 22. 
 
 The torments of his crofs can make Ch. 9. 14, 
 
 The foul all fin deteft. 
 
 Jefus, we lift our hearts to thee, John 3. 
 
 To thee our longing eyes ; ^7'* V' 
 To thee our folemn vows addrefs. 
 
 To thee our ardent cries. 
 
 10. 
 
 O may our fins, that made thee bleed, Gal. i.2o» 
 
 All on thy crofs expire ! 
 
 O may the joys, thy banquet gives, pr. ^4. 2„ 
 
 Equal our warm defire ! ^^"'- 2. 
 
 3, 4. 
 
 So (hall we mount upon the wings 
 
 Of chearful hope and love -, 
 And here begin the fongs that we Rev. 7. 
 
 Shall better fing above. 
 
 Vol. IV. L HYMN 
 
1 4 6 Hymns for the Hymn 46. 
 
 HYMN XLVI. 
 
 p{j. <o. 
 
 YE happy guefts, who meet around 
 This table, your oblations bring : 
 X Pet. 2. Here every one's a prieft, who has 
 ^' A heart to love, and tongue to fing. 
 
 Eph. $.2. Q^j. Saviour's bleeding facrifice 
 15, '16.^' His boundlefs love and grace difplays : 
 As a juft homage, he demands 
 Our facrifice of love and praife. 
 
 Rev. I. 5-'Tvvas love exposed him to reproach. 
 
 To unexampled grief and pain : 
 i^join 3«Lg£g power chan that of love divine, 
 
 John 15. Nor would nor could his crofs fuftain. 
 
 13- 
 
 Mat. 26, See him abandon'd by his friends ; 
 
 Vl 8 d9 -^y ^ perfidious kifs betray'd ; 
 
 Luke 2 2. Sold as a defpifcable Have ; 
 
 s,4- With fwords and llaves a prisoner made. 
 
 'V'. 59, 60 
 
 Luke 2- ^'^^ ^^*^"^ "^ ^^^ tribunal led 5 
 M.jrk 14. There charg'd with crimes by men fuborn'd; 
 By princes and by priefts condemned, 
 
 Hcb. 1.5. 
 
 And by the vileft wretches fcorn'd. 
 
 That awful face, which low refpedt 
 From proftrate angels did command. 
 Mar. 27. Spat on by men of fervile ftate, 
 27— 5^' And flruck by each rude foldier's hand. 
 
 Bearing 
 
Hymn 47- Lord's fiipper. 14^ 
 
 Scaring his crofs to Golgotha, John 19. 
 
 With labouring fleps behold him go > pr'i7'i5- 
 And from his \Voiinds, when open'd there, John i^/ 
 O fee what crimfon rivers flow ! 34- 
 
 Plung'd in thefe flreams, our guilty fouls i John i, 
 Purg'd from their numerous fins fl:iall be :7- 
 Juflice and mercy, tho provok'd Rom. -. 
 
 By us, O Lord, are pleased with thee. ^6. 
 
 Mat. 5.1 7, 
 
 O lamb of God ! who bor^ft our guilt, 
 To thee immortal praife belongs: Rev. 7^^' 
 
 While we thy love and fuflfering fing, ii> i-- 
 
 Angels ihall hear, and join their fongSi 
 
 Luke 2i 
 13, 14. 
 
 HYMN XLVII. 
 
 JEfus ! O word divinely fweet ! Mat. i. 
 
 How charming is the found ! ^ ^* 
 
 What joyful news ! what heavenly fenfe 8,^9.^^° ^" 
 In that dear name is found ! 
 
 Our fouls were guilty, and condemned ^^^' >• 
 
 In hopelefs fetters lay ; \[^{^^ 2. 
 
 Our fouls with numerous fins deprav'd, i^. 
 
 To death and hell a prey. ^°^* ^' 
 
 Jefus, to purge away this guilt. Col. 1. 14, 
 
 A willing vidim fell ; 
 
 And on his crofs triumphant broke Col. 2. 
 
 The bands of death and hell. 14, 15.' 
 L 2 Our 
 
1 48 Hymns for the Hymn 48. 
 
 Heb. 2. Our foes were mighty to deftroy : 
 Ads^2 -^^ mightier was to fave : 
 
 24—28. He dy'd : but could not long be held 
 A pris'ner in the grave. 
 
 Heb. 7. Jefus ! who mighty art to fave, 
 
 ^^' Still pufli thy conquefts on : 
 
 Extend the triumphs of thy crofs 
 
 Ma]. T. Where'er the lun has fnone. 
 1 1. 
 
 Heb 2. O captain of falvation ! make 
 ^°* Thy pov^er and mercy known : 
 
 pfal. no. That crouds of willing converts may 
 1. 25 3. Worfliip before thy throne. 
 
 HYMN XLVIIL 
 
 [As the 100 pj aim,'] 
 
 (prove 
 'Tf^Hou hall: overcome : Lord, who can 
 1% M * i Invincible to heavenly love ? 
 Pf. 45. 2, y[y conquered foul I muft refign 
 5'4> 5- 'Yo that victorious arm of thine. 
 
 Ads 2. Thy grace, whofe wondVous pow'r imparts 
 37 The tend'reft fcnfe to flinty hearts, 
 
 9, 10." "^ My uimoft foul with love infpires, 
 And mixes joy with pure deiires. 
 
 For 
 
 I 
 
Hymn 4 8 . Lord's [upper . 149- 
 
 For who, my Lord, can love like thee ? ^P'^- ^ 
 
 Whofe love was e'er lb great, fo free ? , p^[^ [^ 
 
 Angels may well admi'e the flame: 3* 
 But they have never felt the fume: 
 
 Nor men whom nature has ally'd, Rom. 5. 
 
 Or ftridell: bonds of friendfhip ty'd, /' ^' 
 Who ever did his life expofe. 
 
 To ranfom his ungrateful foes ? ^^''' '^* 
 
 But thou, O Son of God, dldft take 
 
 Frail human nature for our fake ; ^i^^'- 2. 7. 
 
 The griefs of human life didft try, '^•5 3-4- 
 And on a crofs for rebels die. 
 
 This offering well deferves that we 1. ' ^* 
 Should facrifice ourfelves to thee ; 
 
 And where we owe fo vaft a debt, d. h* 7> 
 
 To pay our homage ne'er forget. ^' ^' 
 
 To thee, in whom we live and move, j,\ '* 
 
 We give our praife, we give our love : Gal. 1. 
 
 To thee, on whom our fins were laid, ^°' 
 
 Whofe blood was for our pardon paid. Eph L* 7*. 
 
 To thee, who mak'ft us priefts and kings \ R^v. i. e. 
 Priefts to attend on holy things, 
 
 And kings to reign with thee above, i Pet. 2. 
 
 Tn realms of blifs and endlefs love. \' 
 
 HYMN 
 
1 5 p Hymns for the Hymn 49, 
 
 HYMN XLIX. 
 
 [y^s the 100 pfdlf^J^ 
 John 19. '^ I ''Is finiih'd, the redeemer crys ; 
 ^"' JL Then lowly bows his fainting head \ 
 
 And foon th' expiring facrifice 
 Sinks to the regions of the dead. 
 
 'Tis done — the mighty work is done ! 
 For men or angels much too great -, 
 Heb I, Which none, but God*s eternal fon, 
 
 Or wcuid attempt, or could complete, 
 
 'Tis done^— his tears,his groans, and wounds. 
 His fweat and blood, his pains and toils, 
 ( oi. 2V^''^^J^'^y with deathlefs glory crowns, 
 !4, i'^. With trophies, and triumphant fpolls. 
 
 ^^' ^'^* Ilell's broken troops find no defence : 
 
 1 Cor. 15. gj^^ ^;^ ^j^^ ^z'X\h itfclf Js (lain : 
 
 ^5, 57. Hope, peace, love, joy and innocence 
 G.ii. 5.22. Return to dwell on earth again. 
 
 rr. 40. ^, ^j-|,^ co;iqucror falls a facrifice, 
 
 Hcav'n's jufl rcfcntments to appeafe : 
 pr. S^io. Jyflice with mercy now com ply s, 
 ^5^^' ^* Both with the finner's pardon pleas'd, 
 
 Heb. 3 r;."'Tis done, — old things are pajft away, 
 
 2 Cor. ^. y^,^^j ,^ j^,^^^ {x2i\z of things begun ; 
 
 Heb. 2. ^, A world whole age tecls no decay, 
 ^^^■^^- But lliri]] out-lafi the circline fun. 
 
 ^Ukej.:? ^ 
 
 A 
 
Hymn 50. Lord's Jupper. 151 
 
 A new account of time begins, 
 When our dear Lord refign'd his breath, ^^^f- -^« 
 
 Charg'd with our forrows and our fins, \{^^ ^^^ 
 
 Our lives to ranfom by his death. 28. 
 
 Once he wasdead 5 now lives and reigns Rev. i. 
 
 Where angels his great deeds proclaim: i^; 
 
 Let's tell our joys in pious ftrains, S— 14." 
 And fpread the glory of his name. 
 
 HYMN L. 
 
 \^As the 100 pfalm.] 
 
 THus we commemorate the day ^^^' ^^* 
 On which our deareft Lord was llain j^^' ^^'^ 
 Thus we our pious homage pay, 
 Till he appears on earth again. i ^^^' » i- 
 
 Come, dear Lord Jefus, quickly come, Rev. 22. 
 Why ftay thy chariot-wheels fo long ? ^°' 
 Thy church below, thy other home, 1$. 9, 4. 
 Shall welcome thee with many a fong. ^^^P- '9» 
 
 Conae, great redeemer, open wide Rev. ic. 
 
 The curtains of the parting fky : ^'* 
 
 On a bright cloud in triumph ride, Pf^l* xg. ' 
 
 And on the wind's fwift pinions fly. 9* io» 
 
 Come, king of kings, with thy bright train, Rev. 19. 
 Cherubs and feraphs, heavenly hofts : ^^^ 
 AiTume thy right, enlarge thy reign 31/ 
 
 As far as earth extends her coafts. P'^^^- 2» ^ 
 
 L 4 Come,'^'''- 
 
1 5 ^ Hymns for the Hymn 5 o. 
 
 Phi. 2. 7- Come, Lord, dildain not to come down 
 And rule, where thou waft fcorn'd before : 
 
 Rev. 5.9. How well that head becomes a crown, 
 Which cruel thorns fo meekly bore ! 
 
 (ftood, 
 Rev. II. Come, Lord, and where thy crofs once 
 ^- There plant thy banner, fix thy throne j 
 
 jT il^' And ftain the ground with rebels blood, 
 14, i\ Wnich once was purpled with thy own. 
 
 Mar, If. Come, Lord, what thy weak reed began, 
 P;a'- 1.9- Complete by thy ftrong iron rod : 
 ^^^' ^* Once thou wer't feen a dvins; m^ji, 
 Heb 2.1 4. Now lliew thylelf the Jiving God. 
 
 Rev. 7- i' 
 
 HYMNS 
 
HYMNS 
 
 Composed for the 
 
 CELEBRATION 
 
 O F T H E 
 
 Holy Ordinance 
 
 O F 
 
 B A P T I S M. 
 
 Luke 1 5. 10. ' ^ f^y **^fo yoUy there is joy in the pre- 
 
 fence of the angels of God^ over one finner that repenieih* 
 
 
Mf 
 
 HYMNS 
 
 FOR 
 
 BAPTISM. 
 
 HYMN I. 
 
 ^ U R Lord, when cloth'd with 
 
 "^^^ mortal flefli, 
 
 Tho free from every finful ftain, i Tan. 3- 
 Wou'dbe baptized, that men to J/* , „ . 
 
 ^ ' Heb. 7.25. 
 
 trace 
 His facred fteps might not difdain. Mat. 3.15. 
 
 Nay more — he was all plunged in tears, ^^b. 5. ;• 
 And bath'd in bloody fufferings too : 
 What fountain was requir'd to wafli 
 Our guilty fouls, his wounds will fliew ! Heb.j.ia. 
 
 Thy 
 
15^ Hymns for Hymn 2. 
 
 ijoh.i.7.Thy blood, dear Lord, can cleanfe from 
 This in our baptifm we confefs 3 (fin : 
 
 pral.5r.2. 'Tis for its cleanfing virtue we 
 
 Our prayers and vows to thee addrefs. 
 
 Rom.<5. Bury*d with great folemnity 
 ^' ^' In thy baptilmal fepulchre, 
 
 We are reviv'd, and rais'd again, 
 Rev. 19.8. White robes of righteoufnefs to wear. 
 
 And, as thy facred word declares. 
 
 At the great refurreftion-day 
 Phil. 3. 21. Our bodies fhall be rais'd and changed. 
 Rev. 7. 9. And be adorn'd with bright array. 
 
 HYMN II. 
 
 TH E facred body of our Lord, 
 Which on the crofs had bled, 
 j7; Tiiiee days lay bury'd in the grave, 
 
 40. And then rofe from the dead. 
 
 Luke 14. His prefence the defponding hearts 
 3^- Of his difciples chears : 
 
 John CO. His voice they hear, his fears furvey^, 
 20—28 Which banifli doubts and fears. 
 
 Luke 24. Explaining oracles divine, 
 32- Their ears and fouls he charms ; 
 
 His order to convert the world, 
 Their drooping courage warms. 
 
 For 
 
Hymn 2. Bapttfm. 157 
 
 For thus the mediator Ipoke, 
 
 " All power in earth and heaven ^^^- ^^- 
 
 *' To me, triumphant o'er the grave, 
 
 " Is by my father giv'n. 
 
 18. 
 
 " Go therefore teach the nations all Ver. 19. 
 
 ** What you have learned of me; Mark r^. 
 
 " Baptize 'em in the awful name ^5' ^^* 
 
 '' Of the eternal Three. 
 
 " Teach 'em whatever I command , Ver. 20. 
 
 " My pre fence I a flu re, 
 *' To crown your labours with fuccefs, 
 
 *' While heaven and earth endure. 
 
 Lord ! we thy wondrous grace adore, 
 
 Thy awful word revere : 
 
 Thy death and thy revival both Col.i. n. 
 
 Our baptifm makes appear. ^^"^- ^' 
 
 The promife of thy prefence now Mat. 18. 
 
 Does glad expectance raife : ^^' 
 
 Hope of thy fecond coming fills Heb.^i 
 
 Our fouls with joy and praife : 28- 
 
 Luke 21 i 
 28 
 
 'Tis then the dead thy voice fhall hear, joh. 5.25. 
 
 The dead thy voice obey ; 
 
 Thy faints, who fleep in duft, awake Dan. 12. 
 
 To joy's eternal day. mk4. 
 
 14,15,1^. 
 
 HYMN 
 
15^ Hymns for Hymn ^i 
 
 HYMN IIL 
 
 Mat. 1 1. f^ O M E, lowly fouls, that moufn, 
 ^^- Y^ Deprefs*d with guilt and fhame : 
 
 ReVi.^S.Wafh'd in your Saviour's facred blood, 
 Afts 22. Now call Upon his name. 
 
 ifa. 57. Rejoice, ye contrite hearts, 
 ^i* . ^ That tremble at his word, 
 
 Cn. 6 b. 2. •'11 1 > 1 
 
 Tit. 5. 5. In the bapnlmal laver plung d, 
 Wa:. 3. 13, ^g ^as your humble Lord. 
 
 Bath'd ill repenting tears, 
 The fins which you deplore, 
 I Cor. 15. Dead in your Saviour's grave fliall lie^ 
 ^5' 5^»^7. And fhall be feen no more. 
 
 Gal. ^. 24. 
 
 liev.19.8. Come, pious candidates, 
 ch. 3.4. Of grace and glory too : 
 Vi.C6, i6.Praife your Redeemer's love ; and tell 
 What he has done for you. 
 
 Unfpotted robes you wear , 
 2?, 27. Your fighs to fongs are turn d ; 
 ifa. 61. Garments of praife adorn you now., 
 2? 3- Who late in afhes mourn'd. 
 
 Col. 3.1,2. Your Lord and you are rifen, 
 ]oh. 17. Afpire to things above: 
 22, 23,i4.^j^^j,g he refides, there you fhall dwell 
 Rev. 22.5. In realms of light and love. 
 
 HYMN 
 
Hymn 4- "Baptifm. ij^ 
 
 HYMN IV. 
 
 WHEN th* antient world God's pa-^en. 6. 5, 
 tience try'd, '' 7* 
 
 And long his threatning vengeance dar'd, ^ Pet. 5.' 
 The righteous Noah favour found, ^^* ^^' 
 
 His family alone was fpar'd. Gen. 6. 8, 
 
 9. 
 In fecret chambers of the ark ch. 7. 
 
 They all fecure from danger He, n— 14« 
 
 When th* ocean^s banks were broke, and 
 
 floods 
 Burft thro* the windows of the sky. 
 
 Proud waters o'er the mountains roll, Ver. 19; 
 And common ruin widely fpread ; 
 Yet the blefs'd patriarch's houfe furvives,Ver.23; 
 When all mankind befide were dead. 
 
 At the Almighty's awful word ch. 8. 
 
 Th' obfequious floods retire again ; 
 
 And Noah from his myflick tomb 
 
 Peoples the ruin'd earth with men. ch. 9. i. 
 
 So to reflore a world overwhelmed iPet. 3. 
 
 With guilt and mis'ry, dead in fins, ^^: ^ ^ 2; 
 
 Our Saviour rifing from the grave, Rom.* 5! * 
 
 Another race of men begins : 24. 
 
 ° Col. 3. 10. 
 
 New creatures of a heavenly form, 2 Cor. 5: 
 
 Whofe fouls his facred image bear 5 !7/ 
 
 While^^-^-'^- 
 
1 6o Hymns for the Hymn ^. 
 
 Rjin. 6. While dead to fin they live to God, 
 ReV.^3.* 5. ^^^ fpotlefs in white robes appear. 
 
 Ram. 6,1, Bury'd in their redeemer's grave, 
 
 ' J^'^- 5- With him they live, with him they rife 5 
 
 Ver. 19. While the loft race of human kind 
 
 Mat. 2 J. Deluged with fin and ruin lies. 
 
 28, -.9. ^ 
 
 Philip. 3. O happy fouls, whom grace revives ! 
 
 20, z,i. Their bodies too their Lord will raife, 
 
 Refin'd and fit for holy fouls, 
 
 I joh.g.2.To fee his face and fin^ his praife. 
 Rev. 5. 9, or 
 
 10. 
 
 HYMN V. 
 
 Mat. 5. 13.^ |"^Hus was the great Redeemer plung'd 
 
 J^ In Jordan's fwelling flood ; 
 
 Heb. 5. 7.To fliew he'd one day be baptiz'd 
 
 Luk. 12. ifj tears, in fweat, and blood. 
 44. 
 
 Thus was his facred body laid 
 Col. 2. 12. Beneath the yielding wave : 
 Thus was his facred body rais'd 
 Out of the liquid grave. 
 
 When lo ! from realms of light and blifs 
 Mat.5. 1^. The heavenly dove comes down, 
 Lights on his venerable head. 
 Which rays of glory crown. 
 
 While his eternal father's voice 
 Ver. 17, An awful joy excites s 
 
 This 
 
Hymn 6. Baptifm, i($i 
 
 This is my well-beloved fon. 
 In whom my foul delights. 
 
 c< 
 cc 
 
 The myftick rite his death defcrib'd, Rom. 6 ^, 
 
 His burial did forefhew ^* ^^' 
 
 The quickening of his facred flefh^ 
 His refurredion too. 
 
 Lord, thy own precept we obey. Mat. zg. 
 
 In thy own footfteps tread, Um.2 i< 
 
 We die, arebury'd, rife with thee C0I.3. j. 
 
 From regions of the dead, ^* 
 
 O may the fpirit of truth and love John 14. 
 
 His power on us difplay, ^7- 
 
 Approve our vows, and feal our fouls Eph.4.30. 
 
 To the redemption-day 1 
 
 o 
 
 HYMN VI. 
 
 Blefs'd Redeemer ! in thy fide Joh. 19. 
 
 Upon the crofs was made a wound, 54, 35. 
 
 The bath where we are purg'd from fin, i joh. 1.7. 
 
 And where our p;uilt's intirely drown'd. ^'^^^^ 7. 
 
 ^ -' 19. 
 
 Water and blood hence freely ran, i Joh. 5.5. 
 
 And on the trembling earth were fpilt 3 ^*^^* ^7- 
 
 Water to fandtify and cleanfe, y-J ^. , 
 
 Blood to atone for crimfon g-uilt. Heb.5.2i. 
 
 o 
 
 This wondrous grace to reprefent Afts22, 
 
 Baptifmal waters were defign'd, '^• 
 Vol. IV. M In 
 
\6i Hymns for Hymn 5. 
 
 Mark 1.9. In which thou, Lord, waft bury 'd too, 
 Mat.3.i5,rj.^^j^y great father's will refign'd. 
 
 Thus penitents who die to fin, 
 With thee are bury'd in thy grave 5 
 Col.i. li.rpj^^g quicken'd to a life divine, 
 
 5, &c. 'Their fouls a refurredtion have. 
 
 And tho their bodies turn to duft. 
 
 This holy fymbol does affure, 
 Luk. 14. The refurreftion of thejuft 
 ^t. Shall render them all brip;ht and pure. 
 
 I Cor. 1 $. 01 
 
 42,43344. 
 
 ph;i.3.2i.Made like his body ours fliallbe, 
 
 Col. 3. 4. When Chrift, who is our life, appears ; 
 
 ,jo. Who to procure us lire, was once 
 
 Mark lo. Baptiz'd in his own blood and tears. 
 38. 
 
 HYMN VIL 
 
 Exod.14. \17KEN from Egyptian flavery 
 y Y The Hebrews were redeemed 
 The parted feas and covering cloud 
 A grave to Ifrael feem'd : 
 
 But foon the joyful tribes emerge, 
 And ftand upon the fhore, 
 Exod. 15. Wi'.h grateful hearts and tuneful tongues 
 Their faviour's name adore. 
 
 Exod. 14. He made th' obfequious waves retire, 
 i^' His favourite tribes to fave , 
 
 Made 
 
Hymn 8. ^aptifm. 165 
 
 Made them a way to liberty, ^^^' ^^> 
 
 Where Egypt found a grave. g/^. 
 
 27, 28, 
 
 Thus Jacob's fons baptiz'd of old ^ Co"*- lo- 
 
 To Mofes in the fea, '' *' 
 
 Sav'd by God's arm, themfelves devote ^xod, 20. 
 
 His ftatutes to obey. ch. 19. 
 
 4 9. 
 
 Rom. 6. 
 11—18. 
 
 So from the bondage of our fiiis, 
 
 Redeemed by fovereign grace. 
 We thro' his watry fepulchre ^^l' ^•'^' 
 
 Our faviour's footfteps trace. 
 
 Our fins, the v^orft of enemies. 
 
 Are bury'd there and drown'd ; Col q <. 
 
 To a new life our fouls are raised, q^\[ 2. 20* 
 
 With tender mercy crown'd. 
 
 ^ Col. 2.15* 
 
 To thee, O Jefus, may we live^ Rom. 14. 
 
 Devoted to th y fear : 7» ^> 9* 
 
 Thee will we love, thee will we praife, i john 5. 
 
 And all thy laws revere. »i 2, 5. 
 
 HYMN VIII. 
 
 TH E great Redeemer we adore. 
 Who came the loft to feek and fave ; Luk. 1 9* 
 Went humbly down from Jordan's ftiore, ^^ 
 To find a tomb beneath a wave- ^^' ^ ^' 
 
 " Thus it becomes us to fulfil Vcr. 1$. 
 
 " All righteoufnefs, he meekly faid : 
 
 M 2 Why 
 
1 64 Hymns for Hymn 8 . 
 
 Why fliou'd we then to do his will. 
 Or be afham'd, or be afraid ? 
 
 With thee into thy watry tomb, 
 Lord, 'tis our glory to defcend j 
 Rom. 6. 'Tis wondrous grace that gives us room 
 3, 4, &c. rj.^ jj^ inter'd by fuch a friend ! 
 
 But a much more tempeftuous flood 
 Luk* ^ ^* O'erwhelm'd thy body and thy foul : 
 44. ' That's plung'd in tears, and fweat, and 
 Mat. 26. blood, 
 
 ch. 27 46. ^^^ ^^^^ ^^^^ black terrors roll. 
 
 Yet as the yielding waves give way, 
 To let us fee the light again : 
 So on thy refurreftion-day 
 A£is I. z4. The bands of death proved weak and vain. 
 
 iCor. 15. Thus when thou flialt again appear, 
 5^' 53* The gates of death fhall open wide j 
 joh.5.25. Our duft thy powerful voice fhall hear. 
 Shall rife and triumph at thy fide. 
 
 Thefe now vile bodies then fhall wear 
 Mat. 17. a. A glorious form refembling thine : 
 Rev. 20. To be diffolv'd no more fhall fear, 
 Ch 11 ^^^ ^^^^ immortal beauty fhine. 
 4. 
 
 HYMN 
 
Hymn y. Baptifm. 165 
 
 HYMN IX. 
 
 WHen fam'd Bethefda's waters flow'd, J^h. ^ 2, 
 By a defcending angel mov'd j ^' '^* 
 The wondrous pool a fovereign bath 
 For every pain and ficknefs proved. 
 
 Hither diftemper'd crouds repair. 
 Hither the feeble, lame and blind -, 
 The firft who fteps into the fpring, 
 Leaves his difeafe and pains behind. 
 
 That languifliing and dying fouls 
 
 A nobler cure might freely meet. 
 
 The fon of God came down and ftirr*d 
 
 Baptifmal waters with his feet. M^^- 3*i3» 
 
 Lord, 'tis but juft we follow thee, 1 Pet. 2. ' 
 
 Who didfl: not fcorn to lead the way, ^'' 
 
 Where we juft fee the vale of death, Rom. 6. 
 
 Then view the refurredtion-day. 3j 4, &c. 
 
 Happy ! who hafte into the flood john 5. 7. 
 
 Where healing virtues ever flow. 
 
 Where filthy lepers clean are made, ifa. 55.4, 
 
 The blind to fee, the lame to go : Mat. 8.16, 
 
 17. 
 
 Where contrite fpirits heal their wounds, ifa. ^i. 1. 
 And broken hearts aflTuage their pain ; cb.57.15. 
 The dead themfelves new life infpires, j^j^ 
 They breathe, they move, and rife again, coi. 3. i. 
 
 M 3 With 
 
\66 Hymns for Hymn to. 
 
 With lowly minds, and lofty fongs, 
 Let all admire the Saviour's graqe, 
 I joh. j.r.TiU the great rifmg-day reveal 
 Rcv.i.i^.Th' immortal glory of his face. 
 
 HYMN X. 
 
 Mat. 5.15. jN fuch a gave as this 
 
 X The meek Redeemer lay, 
 
 Luke 19. When he, our fouls to feek and fave, 
 Learu'd humbly to obey. 
 
 ^J^^- '• See hov^ the fpotlefs lamb 
 
 Defcends into the ftream ! 
 Mat. 5.1^. And teaches finners not to fcorn 
 
 What him fo well became. 
 
 Rom. 6.3, His body fanftifies 
 
 ^' ^* The falutary flood, 
 
 j^ ^^^' And teaches us to plunge our fouls 
 
 iiev.7.14. I'th' fountain of his blood. 
 
 Oh ! finners, waih away 
 ifa.i. 18. Your fins of crimfon dye ; 
 C0I.1. i2.Bury'd wiih him, your fins fhall all 
 
 In dark oblivion lie. 
 
 Col.3.1,2. Rife, and afcend with him, 
 
 A heavenly life to lead, 
 Heb.2.i4,whQ came to refcue guilty men 
 
 From regions of the dead. 
 
 Lord, 
 
Hymn ii. Bapttjm. 167 
 
 Lord, fee the finner's tears, ifa. 58. 5. 
 Hear his Fepenting cry -, 
 
 Speak, and his contrite foul (hall live ; i^^. 57. 
 
 Speak, and his fins (hall die : ]^^^^ ^24. 
 
 Speak with that mighty voice, 
 
 Which one day wide fhall fpread Joh.5.2^. 
 
 Its fummons thro' the earth and fea, 
 • To wake and raife the dead. 
 
 Rev. 2o« 
 
 I?. 
 
 HYMN XL 
 
 SEE in what grave our Saviour lay, Col.2.ii. 
 Before he fhed his precious blood ; 
 
 How he marked out the humble way Mat. 3. 
 
 To finners thro the myflick flood. i3> u« 
 
 The fun of righteoufnefs his beams, Mai. 4. 2. 
 
 Tho fo divinely fair and bright, 
 Immers'd in Jordan's fwelling ftreams, 
 Submitting to this holy rite. 
 
 O Jordan ! honoured oft before ! 
 What greater glory would'ft thou have, 
 Than Chrift defcending from thy ftiore. 
 To find in thee a liquid grave ? 
 
 Thy ftreams retired on either fide, j^q, .^ 
 
 To th' holy ark once form'd a way ; 
 A prophet's mantle could divide 1 Kings 1. 
 
 Thy willing ftreams, taught to obey. ^* 
 
 M 4 Plung'd 
 
1 68 Hymns for Hymn ii. 
 
 Plung'd by the holy baptift's hand, 
 Buried in thee our Saviour lies : 
 pfal. 114. Did not thy waters wondring ftand, 
 ^* To fee him die, and fee him rife ? 
 
 Bleft fepulchre ! where Jefus lay. 
 
 Which Jefus for us fanftifies ! 
 k^s 22,. gjg^ £qq^ I ^Q ^^^ ^^j. f^^^ away, 
 
 ch. 2. 38. And fink 'em fo as ne'er to rife. 
 
 HYMN XII. 
 
 Hene'er one finner turns to God, 
 With contrite heart and flowing 
 eyes, 
 Luke I. The happy news makes angels fmile, 
 '>7- And tell their joys above the skies. 
 
 Well may the church below rejoice. 
 And eccho back the heavenly found : 
 
 Lukci$. " This foul was drad, but now's alive; 
 
 52. " This fheep was loft, but now is found. 
 
 Mat. 1$. See how the willing converts trace 
 ^* The path their great Redeemer trod ; 
 
 And follow thro' his liquid grave. 
 Mat. II. Yhe meek, the lowly fon of God^ 
 
 29» 
 
 Tit. 3. 5. Here in the holy laver plung'd. 
 
 Their fouls are cleans'd from every ftain -, 
 Col ^ ^l They die, defcend into the tomb, 
 2. By grace they live, and rife again. 
 
 Here 
 
Hytnnii. Bapttfm. 
 
 Here they renounce their former deeds, 
 And to a heavenly life afpire : 
 Their rags for glorious robes exchanged, 
 They fhine in clean and white attire. 
 
 O facred rite ! by this the nam€ 
 Of Jefus we to own begin ; 
 This is our refurrecflion's pledge, 
 And feals the pardon of our fin. 
 
 Ads 19. 
 18 
 
 Rom. S.^. 
 Zecn. 5.3. 
 Rev. 3, 5. 
 Ch. 19.8. 
 
 Afts 19.5* 
 1 Pet. 3. 
 21. 
 Aasi.3S. 
 
 Luke 1 • 
 14. 
 
 Glory to God on high be giv'n, 
 
 Who {hews this grace to finful men : 
 
 Let faints on earth, and hofts of heav'n, Rev; 7. 
 
 In concert join their loud amen, 9—12.. 
 
A 
 
 POEM 
 
 To the Memory of 
 
 Mr. Timothy Crufo, 
 
 Late Mi nister of the Gospel; 
 
 Who departed this Life Novemh, 26, 1697. 
 
 ■ (^i$ tal'ta fando 
 Temperet a Lnchrymis ? ' 
 
 Virgil. 
 
7} 
 
 POEM, ^c. 
 
 O all the poets then fupinely doze? 
 Will none a funeral-verfe for thee 
 
 compofe ? 
 For thee, bleft CRUSO, whofc 
 furviving fame 
 Calls for a genius worthy fuch a theme ? 
 Shall only heroes live in elegies ? 
 None weep in poems when a prophet dies ? 
 Shall fcriblers, void of reverence and fhame. 
 With nonfenfe blur thy venerable name ? 
 Strow weeds inftead of flowVs upon thy 
 
 herfe ? 
 And wrong thy filent dull with barbarous 
 
 verfe ? 
 And can thy pious friends look coldly on ? 
 And is there none ib juft ? io faithful none, 
 2 Thy 
 
xf^ ji poem to the memory of 
 
 Thy bed of clay with odors to perfume, 
 And fhed harmonious forrows round thy 
 
 tomb ? 
 Where nature feems the talent to refufe, 
 Or art ne^er touched the yet unpolifli'd mufe, 
 Ev*n indignation might a verfe produce 5 
 Can fuch negledt e'er find a juft excufe ? 
 Yet would we rather think the dreadful blow 
 Which in thy death they felt, has ftunn'd 
 
 'em fo. 
 That, fcarce recovered from the fad furprize. 
 They think not what they owe thy exequies* 
 
 O tjiay tliat heav'nly mufe, that did iil- 
 
 The royal prophet's foul with facred fire, 
 And taught him how to tune his mournful^ 
 
 Ivre, 
 And mournful voice to forrow's melting 
 
 ftrains, ' -^lor? 
 
 When he of Ifrael's princes death complains j 
 When he his Jonathan's lov'd name com- 
 mends, : iVJUi VhilU7^ ^\h' 
 
 Dear Jonathan, the beft of men, thebeft of 
 :' ,- friends : 
 
 O may that heavenly mufe my bofom fill ! 
 DifFufe thro' all my foul her worid'rous skill ? 
 While in foft numbers I attempt to tell 
 The grief that wounds our Englifh Ifrael ; 
 Who mifs a beauteous ftar, that did appeat 
 With noted fplendor in the church's fphere. 
 Juft had it climb'd to its meridian height. 
 Then difappear'd, and veil'd its ufeful light* 
 
 r; We 
 
Mr. Timothy Crufo. 17 j 
 
 We hop'd, ah vainly hop'd ! 'twould long 
 
 difpenfe 
 Extenfive luftre, and fweet influence. 
 But foon it vanifh'd : for the powers divine 
 Bid it retire, that firft had bid it fhine. 
 Alas ! how foon's the (hort-Iiv'd glory fled ! 
 C RUS O is numbered too among the dead ! 
 
 Oft has the milky road of late been trac'd 
 By heaven's returning envoys: who have grac'd 
 With {hining fleps the high ethereal way ; 
 While we in vain have begg'd their longer 
 
 flay. 
 The reverend Annesly, Vincent, 
 
 Mather, Cole, 
 Whofe glorious names fhine in life's facred 
 
 roll, 
 'Mong the triumphant followers of the lamb. 
 But lately to the realms of glory came : 
 And C RU S O now, another man of God, 
 To the fame blifs the fame bright path has 
 
 trod. 
 
 O happy fouls ! we envy not your gain. 
 Who on celeflial thrones fecurely reign ; 
 There reap the fruit of all your toil and pain: 
 Yet 'tis but jufl we of our lofs complain. 
 So when the feer to heav'nly manfions flew. 
 And flaming fteeds his lightning chariot 
 
 drew, 
 His lonely fervant ftruck with deep furprize, 
 Purfu'd the radiant track with wond'ring 
 
 eyes : 
 
 My 
 
1 7 (J ji poem to the memory of 
 
 My father y loud he cry'd, my father s fedy 
 In IfraePs chariot unto glory led. 
 Ah could we but Elifha's portion find, 
 Our prophets facred mantles left behind, 
 Their fpirit doubled on their hopeful fons. 
 We {hould have reafon to reftrain our moans. 
 
 O London ! with what grace haft thou been 
 crowned! 
 liOng haft thou heard tifee jubil-trumpet's 
 
 found ; 
 Our Britifti Sion thou, the bleft abode 
 Of Ifrael's prophets, and of Ifrael's God. 
 To thee our priefts, to thee our tribes repait*. 
 In numerous crowds to offer praife and pray 'r: 
 Heav'n fmiles on thee with fuch indulgent 
 
 rays, 
 T^hy walls falvation^ and thy gates are pratfe. 
 But fear left judgments fill up mercy's place. 
 And days of vengeance follow years of grace : 
 No longer heav'n provoke by daring crimes, 
 To cloud with threatning ftorms thy hal- 
 cyon times. 
 By tears prevent the judgments that impend : 
 Mark well the figns that gloomy fcenes por- 
 tend ; ♦' 
 How faft thy prophets have to heav'n retir'd^ 
 With what litigious heats are others fir'd ! 
 The meflengers of peace themfelves con- -. 
 tend / 
 Their mafter*s feamlefs coat unkindly rend, > 
 Ah ! where will thefe uncomely difcordsv 
 end. -/ 
 
 Can 
 
Mr. Timothy Crufo. i y; 
 
 Can no kind hands the widening breach' 
 
 repair. 
 By fage advice, by foftning tears and pray'r ?< 
 No balm in Gilead ? no phyjician there ? 
 
 But tell me you, who blefTed CRUSO 
 
 knew, 
 And catch'd the drops of that celeftial dew 
 His words diftiird, who the fweet manna 
 
 found, 
 That food of angels he difpers'd around ; 
 Tell me what art, what colours can exprefs 
 /That fweet, that humble, and that grave ad- 
 
 drefs. 
 That graceful voice, that unaffefted air 
 Of piety his countenance did wear. 
 How found his Judgment ! how mature his 
 
 thought ! 
 His notions to what juft perfection brought ! 
 No flaunting rhetorick in a fwelling flyle 
 His hearers did with empty noife beguile ! 
 Such weighty fenfe in his difcourfes reign*d. 
 The learned and the wife improvement 
 
 gained : 
 Yet in fuch eafy language he would preach. 
 That truths fublime ftoop'd down to vulgar 
 
 reach. 
 His fpeech polite, nervous his eloquence ; 
 Not big with airy words, but big with fenfe : 
 For bright ideas, rang'd with curious skill. 
 His mind with light, his heart with warmth 
 
 did fill, 
 
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178 ^ poem to the memory of 
 
 And from his mouth in decent order flow'd ; 
 While evVy foul that heard, with pious ar- 
 dor glow'd. 
 Zeal mix'd with knowledge, tun'd his 
 
 charming tongue, 
 And on his lips Suadela*s graces hung;. 
 Now he prophetick oracles unfeal'd, 
 Myflerious fymbols and dark types unveil'd j 
 Obfcurer truths, in parables involv'd, 
 Exposed to light, and dubious texts refolv'd. 
 Now he would fin*s deformity expofe. 
 And all the terrors of the law difclofe : 
 Mount Sinai feem'd again to flafli and quake. 
 Clouds deeply charged with awful thunder | 
 
 brake ; 
 Men dead in fins would at his voice a-' 
 
 wake : 
 Seared confciences his powerful words have 
 
 felt, 
 And flinty hearts would often rend and melt. 
 Now into bleeding fouls, with art divine, 
 He'd pour both healing oil, and cleanling. 
 
 wine : 
 Now (liev/ the glories of redeeming love, 
 Defer ibe the Saviour's crofs below, and. 
 
 throne above. 
 O how he touch'd each movement of the mind ! 
 Could various paffions gently loofe or bind ! 
 Raife mild affedions, ruffling thoughts 
 
 appeafe ! 
 
 He knew both how to profit and tQ pl^afe : 
 
 ,-,,,,;e^ M.r n.m ^ ^ ^^^^^"^ Could 
 
Mr. Timothy Crufo. i yp 
 
 Could all the fours internal fprings employ ; 
 Drown us in tears, diflblve us all in joy. 
 In prayer how full of fervor, how relign'd ! 
 How lowly the proflrations of his mind! 
 To what fweet raptures pious minds he'd raiie. 
 When to his Godhebreath'd his foul in praife! 
 His tow'ring foul to heav'n would take her ^ 
 
 flight, / 
 
 And dip her plumes in boundlefs floods of > 
 .light, C 
 
 Praifing, as ifher faith were turned to fight. J 
 Kind angels^ who are always hovering o'er 
 Aflembled faints, while they their God adore^ 
 Applauding^ clap'd their filver wings for joyj 
 To find our heav'n below fo like their hcavn 
 on high. 
 
 Once all thefe graces that in CRUS O 
 
 (hone, 
 Gould make us glad : but now they riiake us 
 
 groan, 
 And groan the more that all this glory's gone, 
 Before declining age prefum'd to fpread 
 Her threatning fnow upon his reverend head. 
 Who with like grace fhall now fupply hi^ 
 
 room, 
 Since he has changed his pulpit for a tomb ? 
 Pity ! fuch jewels (liould be laid in duft : 
 But we unworthy are 5 and heav'n is jufl:. 
 Ah! that his. tongue fhould now in filence 
 
 dwell, 
 That fpake fuch wondrous things, and fpake 
 
 fo well ! 
 
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 That thofe blefl lips which myftick truths 
 
 reveal'd, 
 Should now with mortal fleep be fliut and 
 
 feal'd! 
 Infatiate death ! how oft doft thou devour 
 Long years of ftudy in one fatal hour ! 
 So have we fometimes itQW a goodly tree, 
 Improv'd by time to full maturity, 
 Array'd with leaves, with fruit profufely 
 
 crown'd, 
 Its {hady arms expanded widely round. 
 Above its fellows rear its head on high ; 
 When lo a furious ftorm rolls up the fky, 
 Rends all the boughs, and ftrows the fruit 
 
 around, 
 Tears up the roots, and throws it to the 
 
 ground. 
 
 Yet when, bleft faint, the prince of 
 
 terrors fpread 
 His dufky (hades o'er thy expiring head, 
 And crowding horrors hover'd round thy 
 
 bed 'y 
 Thy confcience calm, thy thoughts were*^! 
 
 all ferene, I 
 
 Thou knew'fl thy heart, and hands, and I 
 
 robes were clean, i 
 
 Wafh'd in thy Saviour's blood from every I 
 
 ftain ; J : 
 
 And could'ft with joy look juftice in the face. 
 Seated upon a fmiling throne of grace. 
 
 And 
 
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 And tho thy mouldering body lies in duft, 
 Thy nobler foul's inthron'd among the juft ; 
 Weary of this low world, ihe's fled away 
 To the bright regions of eternal day : 
 In that immortal light (he gilds her wings. 
 Always admires, and praifes, loves and fings ; 
 There feraphs teach her their celeftial airs> 
 To fing with fuch a voice and grace as theirs. 
 
 Nor fhall thy body always fleeping lie. 
 But know what 'tis to rife, as well as die. 
 The parted atoms (hall again rejoin, 
 In a new mould be cafl: by hands divine : 
 Thy clay refined, a heavenly form fhall wear, 
 Bright as the mid-day fun, as angels fair j 
 Again be join'd to thy expecSting mind. 
 In clofe embraces ne'er to be untwin'd. 
 No afihma fhall opprefs thy labouring breath, 
 But thou {halt triumph o'er imperious death ; 
 Shalt fear no danger, feel no torturing pain ; 
 Thy eyes fhall know no tears, thy foul no flain : 
 Thy joys be always ripe, yet always bloom, 
 No clouds eclipfe, nor time thy joys confume; 
 But tides of blifs deluge thy wond'ring foul, 
 And deathlefs pleafures in eternal circles roll. 
 
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 EPITAPH, 
 
 A Preacher pious, learned, humble^ wife^ 
 Who knew ivith wo?2d'rous art how to 
 difpenfe 
 Paul's do5lrine in Apollo s eloquence ^ 
 Under this jl one in eajy Jlumbers lies -, 
 ^ill God Jhall of his duji ajlruBureframe, 
 Immortal as htsfouly and as his name. 
 
POEM 
 
 To the Memory of 
 
 Mr. Nathanael Taylor, 
 
 Late Minister of the Gospel. 
 
 Lachrymas lachrymh mifcere juvat* 
 
 Senec. Tragced. Agam. 
 
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tSj 
 
 POEM 
 
 To the M E M O R Y of 
 
 Mr. Nathanael Taylor^ &c. 
 
 ^T T E M p T, O mufe, the pious 
 talk ; and fhed 
 Melodious forrows on the reve- 
 ^^SH rend dead. 
 
 No vulgar lofs can make thee 
 weakly groan, 
 To urge another's tears, or feign thy own : 
 But when a man of God in Sion dies, 
 No equal judge will blame thy mournful 
 
 cries; 
 A caufe fo great, great forrow juftifies : 
 
 2 Religion 
 
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 Religion will indulge fuch fighs as thefe. 
 That juftly wail a holy man's deceafe. 
 Jefus himfelf, the praaice to commend, 
 Wept o'er the grkve of his departed friend. 
 May every pious foul in concert join. 
 And mix their fighs, and mix their tears 
 \vith thine. 
 
 Defcend into the reverend T A Y L O R's 
 tomb, 
 Survey the limits of that dufky room, 
 Where he refides in manfions of the dead. 
 Where he in filent fhades reclines his head : 
 Viflt a while thofe realms of gloomy nighty 
 And thence emerge again to welcome light: 
 Life from his death thy genius fhall de- 
 rive ; 
 A prophet's bones, when touch'd, have made 
 the dead revive. 
 
 Vain ftate of man ! prefs'd with fucceeding 
 woes. 
 As wave on wave i'th' rolling ocean flows, 
 Our calms and ftorms rule with unequal fway^ 
 A long dark night veils a (hort fmiling ^ay : 
 Our joys foon die, our forrows long Kirvive, 
 And like Job's fatal meffengers arrive : 
 Before one has his difmal news declar'd 
 A fecond with like tidings comes prepared; 
 And ere this has his tragic ftory told, 
 New fcenes of trouble make the former old. 
 
 How. 
 
Mr. Nathanael Taylon 1 87 
 
 How changed our Sion*s countenance ap- 
 pears 
 In the fhort fpace of JTew revolving years ! 
 How many radiant ftars extinft and gone. 
 That in our fphere of late fo brightly flione ! 
 Indulgent heaven's embafladors of grace 
 From an ungrateful world retire apace ; 
 The louder and the fofter voices ceafe 
 The fons of thunder, and the fons of peace: 
 The charming Bates, and the awakening 
 
 M E D E, 
 
 Go down to the apartments of the dead ; 
 No more are feen on earth, are heard no 
 
 more, 
 While we our guilt lefs than our lofs deplore. 
 Many befides the filent tombs immure, 
 Whofe names are fragrant all, and not ob- 
 
 fcure. 
 Who fiird the breach our crimes fo often 
 
 made, 
 So oft overcame th' Almighty when they 
 
 pray'di ^ 
 Stop'd the rais'd thunder he prepared to throw. 
 And warded off the fierce impending blow. 
 
 Yet might we lefs regret their flight to 
 heaven, 
 Lefs accent might to our complaints be given, 
 If none were feen to quit the church below, 
 But heads adorn'd with venerable fnow -, 
 Whofe long hard labours for ceflTation call, 
 Who like ripe fruit into earth's bofom fall. 
 
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 As fhocks of corn into the barn are ftor'd : 
 Their age might make their exit lefs deplor'd. 
 But when they fall, or in their verdant prime. 
 Or juft matur'd, nor yet decay'd by time ; 
 To fee our faireft flowers not fully blown, 
 Or nobleft plants to their juft ftature grown. 
 When we hop'd long t'enjoy their fcent and 
 
 fhade, 
 To fee them and our hopes decline and fade , 
 To fee them drop, and moulder into duft, 
 Raifes a grief as great as it is juft. 
 
 How ufeful, how improved, and how 
 
 defir^ 
 Was TAYLOR, when his righteobis foul 
 
 expired ! 
 We faw him enter'd on life's middle ftage, 
 Paft greener youth, nor withered yet with age : 
 Bright images, his notions ftill array 'd, 
 And manly judgment youthful heat allay'd. 
 Study and pray V increas'd his facred ftore, 
 Much he produced, and ftill he promised more. 
 
 Such was he Ah that fuch he is not ftill ! 
 
 How many years to come we thought he had 
 
 • to fill ! 
 O cruel death ! too eager in thy chafe, 
 To ftop him fhort i'th'middle of his race : 
 How is our flattering expectation croft ! 
 How fair a portion of his time is loft ! 
 Quite loft to us thofe bright expedled years! 
 Hence flow thefe fighs, hence flow thefe 
 
 ftreams of tears* 
 
 Who 
 
Mr. Nathanael Taylor. 1 89 
 
 Who now (hall trace his lleps with equal 
 
 pace, 
 Who fhall with equal luftre fill his place : 
 So well the gofpel-trumpet he could blow. 
 Angels were pleas'd above, and men were 
 
 charm'd below. 
 His pious labours with fuccefs were crown'd, 
 Returning (inners oft obey'd the found, 
 And made the joy from earth to heaven 
 
 rebound. 
 The facred oracles he could difpenfe 
 With moving language, and convincing fenfe. 
 His criticks true, and his remarks were fine ; 
 Bright figures made his jufl defcriptions fhine. 
 Abftradled truths in proper garments drefl. 
 Their beauties to each wondering eye confefl. 
 Attentive minds in eafy terms were taught 
 The notions he attain'd by lab'ring thought. 
 An awful majefty his periods led, 
 And foft perfuafion foUow'd what he faid. 
 Blafpheming wits defigning to deride. 
 Laid all their weak artillery afide ; 
 Forgot their impious jefts, and ferious grown, 
 Trembled to hear the facred trumpet blown ; 
 Their fouls fo pierced by every dreadful blaft. 
 That every moment feem'd to be their lafl. 
 While he unveil'd a finner's dying bed, 
 And open'd flaming heaven o'er his head. 
 He made 'em feel what he defcrib'd fo well, 
 The pains of death, and greater pains of hell. 
 His voice was thunder, and his eyes were flame; 
 His words like flafbing darts of lightning came, 
 
 Cleft 
 
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 Cleft hearts of flone, and melted breafls of 
 
 fteel; 
 Then made 'em all thofe tender paffions feel 
 With which religion contrite fouls infpires, 
 Suppreffing vile, and kindling puredelires: 
 So led the finner to the cleaning flood, 
 To bathe his confcience in redeeming blood ; 
 The doubting penitent to hope inclined, 
 Stiird the vibrations of his trembling mind ; 
 Appeas'd the waves that once did fiercely roll^ 
 And fpread a calm o'er his admiring foul. 
 O heav'nly fcience ! truly facred. art, 
 To wound a hard, and heal a broken heart ! 
 
 But we no more that powerful voice fhall 
 
 hear, 
 That taught men how to hope, and how to 
 
 fear. 
 Tho ■* Goldfmith's curious art flrives to 
 
 retrieve 
 His form, and feems again to make him live j 
 Who can, to paint his voice, the fecret find ? 
 Vv^hatmold exprefs the features of his mind? 
 O ihat-fuch talents fliould on earth be fliowDi 
 And then into the duft fo foon be thrown ! 
 So beauteous flo^v'rSj tender as they are fair, 
 Feel rude impreflions from the blafting air: 
 So lofty pines and cedars often prove 
 The thundering-fury of black ftorms above; 
 The fury of the ax beneath 'em feel, 
 While fhrubs avoid the winds, and 'fcape the 
 
 Heel. 
 
 * who has madi Mr. Taybr's rffi^ia cunoujly m wax-iuork. 
 
 Lament, 
 
Mr. Nathanael Taylor. 1 9 1 
 
 Lament, O London, who waft lately bleft 
 With fuch a prophet's voice 5 and tremble for 
 
 the reft. 
 Churches have caiife to mourn, and cities 
 
 When -f angels die, and watchmen fall afleep. 
 Attend long-fuffering heaven's repeated caljs. 
 Attend the joyful found that echoes round 
 
 thy walls : 
 Rouze from thy ftupid eafe, and thoughtlefs 
 
 lleep. 
 Weep o'er thy fins, o er thy dead prophets 
 
 weep : 
 Nor let furviving preachers fpend in vain 
 Their ftrength, and of remorfelefs hearts 
 
 complain ; 
 Left guilty of their blood, as of your own, 
 You make 'em die,as now you make 'em groan. 
 Their fouls in fecret mourn your harden'd 
 
 pride. 
 While fome their meifage flight, and fome 
 
 deride. 
 When fhall true zeal your frozen bofoms 
 
 warm ; 
 Teach you to weep, and weeping to reform ? 
 Repent your crimes, to God and man ingrate, 
 Left haftning vengeance make flow tears too 
 
 late. 
 
 O God of gracCjfufpefid the threa tning doom , 
 Nor ftill go on to call thy envoys home : 
 
 t M'mifiers are fo call'd in the Revtlation, cha^, ^,Vl- 
 
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101 ji poem to the memory of 
 
 O not fo oft repeat the dreadful ftroke. 
 To which our frequent fins thy righteous 
 
 arm provoke. 
 That arm furpriz'd bleft T A Y L O R's foul 
 
 away. 
 Nor gave us time for fuch a life to pray : 
 No fons of art can ftay his fleeting breath. 
 Nor gain an hour to parle with hafty death: 
 The virtue of their med'cines can't be try'd ; 
 No time's allow'd to have 'em once apply 'd. 
 
 Happy indeed for him ! whofe towering 
 
 mind 
 So foon unfetter'd was, fo foon refin'd. 
 His God who oft had heard him meekly 
 
 groan 
 Under the racking pains of gout and ftone, 
 Mov'd with compaflion, kindly did ordain 
 An eafy death (hould clofe a life of pain. 
 His other half fo lately gone before, 
 Made earth the lefs, and heav n defir'd the 
 
 more. 
 
 His foul was from his body difengag'd. 
 As his prophetic wifhlong fince prefag'd; 
 " O may my houfe, faid he, in order be, 
 *' My foul dreft ready for eternity ! 
 " Then let her quit her tottering frame of 
 
 '' clay, 
 " And in a moment fpeed her flight away: 
 " O may I foon refign my willing breath, 
 '' Without a formal fiege of lingering 
 death ! 
 
 " Not 
 
Mr. Nathanael Taylor. 195 
 
 * 
 
 " Not worn with age, or fpent with tedious 
 
 '* groans, 
 " As long, long dropping wears away the 
 
 " ftones ; 
 *' But let me ftart from earth, and mount 
 
 *' above, 
 *' Where endlefs pleafure reigns with endlefs 
 
 " love : 
 " One figh's enough, or one afpiring groan, 
 *^ To raife me from my pulpit to my throne. 
 
 Heav'n heard his fighs, nor difapprov'd 
 
 his prayer : 
 Defcending angels to his bed repair. 
 With charming whifpers lure his foul away. 
 And to the fkies with fpeedy wings convey. 
 This evening in our ftreets we fee him tread j 
 A few foft hours repofe him on his bed , 
 Th'enfuing morn, fo faft his foul refines, 
 He on celeilial Salem's golden pavement 
 
 fhines. 
 
 To him th' uncommon privilege was given 
 To fall afleep on earth, and wake in heaven : 
 No tedious agonies need to untie 
 A foul that's ready to afcend on high, 
 And mourns her exile from her native fky. 
 
 Sure fome bright vifion charm'd him In 
 the night, 
 Ravifli'dhis foul away with fierce delight : 
 She, eager to purfue the glorious theme. 
 Springs out, and drops her body in the dream ; 
 
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ip4 -^ poem to the memory of 
 
 On rapid wings of joy and love afcends, 
 Without a formal taking leave of friends : 
 At glory's brink, loth to return again, 
 Throws off her clothes, and tries th'aethereal 
 
 main ; 
 Plunges into that ocean of delight, 
 Where hope enjoyment turns, and faith re- 
 fines to fight ; 
 Soon reaches heav'nly Salem's fhining 
 
 towers, 
 Soon vifits heav'nly Eden's fmiling bowers, 
 Crown'd with delicious fruits, and odorous^ 
 
 flowers ; 
 
 Drinks at thofe ilreams which make the an- 
 gels live, 
 And with eternal life, eternal pleafure give. 
 There faints more joys than here we forrows 
 
 know, 
 Their fongs more conftant than our fighs 
 below. 
 
 There he receives his Saviour's loud ap- 
 
 plauie, 
 For lab'ring to '*" aflert his righteous caufe 
 Againft thofe impious fools, whofe blafphe- 
 
 m.ies 
 Make the earth groan, and dare the patient 
 
 Ikies ', 
 While the bright hoft of heav'n with loud 
 
 acclaim 
 Are glad to hear, and glad to fpread his fame. 
 
 * In his prefer vative a^ainji Ditfm^ and his treatife oftht 
 ntcejjliy offai. h* 
 
 I There, 
 
Mr. Kathanael Taylof. ipj 
 
 There, happy foul, with glad expeftance 
 
 wait 
 iThe glory of the refurredtion-ftate : 
 When the fhrill trumpet (hall command 
 
 aloud 
 Earth to reftore a vaft immortal croud : 
 When the archangel (hall unbar the graves^ 
 Unlock the jaws of the devouring waves. 
 This withered flower fhall then be freflily 
 
 blown, 
 Shall rife in flrengthj tho now in weaknefa 
 
 fown. 
 Thy body then fhall in a form appear 
 More bright than that Which angels us*d to 
 
 wear. 
 When they rrilde vifitS to a prophet's tent. 
 Or were to loofe fome holy prifoner feiit. 
 Thy duft fhall be immortal as thy mind. 
 The texture elegant, the mould refin'd : 
 A heav nly air thy countenance adorn. 
 Bright as the noon-tide fun, fweet as th^ 
 
 riling morn. 
 So J E S U S on the fhining mount appeared, 
 Where wondring Peter would three tents 
 
 have reared, 
 Charmed with the fplendor of his Saviour*s 
 
 face. 
 And two bright friends, that fpoke w'ith fuch 
 
 a grace. 
 So dazling glorious, and fo heavenly fair. 
 Such were his looks, and fuch his garments 
 
 were, 
 
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 No leffer pain, no torturing gout or ftone 
 A fofter figh fhall raife, or deeper groan ; 
 No grating news fhall e'er difpleafe thy ear. 
 Or give thee caufe to drop one fingle tear ; 
 No fad idea to thy mind be brought, 
 To check one fally, or untune a thought. 
 Thou nor thyfelf, nor others {halt deplore. 
 For time and trouble then fhall be no more : 
 But fhalt fublimefl joys for ever prove, "j 
 And in a fphere of conftant glory move, ^ 
 In one eternal round of pureft life and love. 3 
 
 Mufe, rein thy fancy's too impetuous flight, 
 Left thou grow blind with fo exceflive light : 
 Too high a flretch may burn thy daring 
 
 v^ings. 
 Too bold a flroke may break thy tuneful 
 
 firings. 
 Canfl thou the walks of paradife explore ? 
 And furnifh proper colours from thy flora. 
 To paint the glories of the heavenly flate ? 
 Alas ! thy talent is too fmall, the theme too 
 
 great. 
 No turns of thought have we, no terms 
 
 below. 
 To fhew what joys they tafle above, what 
 
 truths they know : 
 One (ingle moment there prefents to view 
 What here an age of fludy cannot fhew. 
 He that would fing of heav'n with heavenly 
 
 grace, 
 Muft die, to learn the language of the place j 
 
 To 
 
Mr. Nathanael Taylor. 
 
 To learn the airs with which a feraph lings 
 Unutterable words, unutterable things. 
 To reach their fongs 'tis worth the while to 
 
 die, 
 Nor can one ftoop too low, to take a flight 
 
 fo high. 
 
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 A POEM 
 
A 
 
 POEM 
 
 TO THE 
 
 MEMORY 
 
 O F 
 
 His late Majesty 
 
 WILLIAM III. 
 
 Dignum laude virum mufa vetat tnort. 
 
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 04 
 
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 TO THE 
 
 Right Honourable 
 
 IFILLIAM, 
 
 Lord Marquifs oi Hartingtonj 
 
 The following 
 
 POEM 
 
 Is moft humbly dedicated. 
 
 By the A U T H O r: 
 
POEM 
 
 To the M E M O R Y of 
 
 K. WILLIAM III. 
 
 HERE is the tuneful tribe that 
 
 fang fo well 
 The Britifli hero's acfts before he 
 
 fell ? 
 That in no vulgar rhimes fo 
 well could ihow. 
 What Britain and the world to William 
 
 owe ? 
 Thro* fields and floods his ftilning path could 
 
 trace. 
 Their verfe with his immortal trophies grace ? 
 
 Did 
 
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 Did the harmonious nine with him expire. 
 And all foft airs to native fpheres retire? 
 Sure when great fouls to realms of glory go. 
 Poets are left to fpread their fame below. 
 When Ifrael's pious king Jofiah dies, 
 The weeping prophet mourns his obfequies. 
 Smooth numbers firfh were form'd for noble 
 
 themes, 
 To paint great deeds, and fing illuftrious 
 
 names. 
 Can you, who by his royal hand were fed. 
 Who prais'd him living,now negledl him dead ? 
 Ev*n ftones will fpeak, if you forbear to fing 
 So good a mafter, and fo great a king ; 
 Great in himfelf, and bountiful to you. 
 Who found in Casfar a Maecenas too. 
 Is it your prelTmg grief, or confcious thought. 
 That you can never praife him as you ought. 
 
 That makes you ftand amaz'd ? 
 
 Make an effay, your gratitude to prove ; 
 And if you fhew lefs art, yet (hew more love. 
 Speak, fons of harmony — Mean while excufe 
 The weak endeavours of a timorous mufe. 
 That has with awful filence waited long 
 To hear the fighs of your politer fong. 
 Take up your lyres, and touch the charming 
 
 firings. 
 To weep the exit of the befl of kings. 
 Tell the fad world, what they already know. 
 Tell 'em Britannia's tears fo largely flow, 
 Becaufe the great, the good king Wi L l i A m's 
 
 gone : 
 Britannia's tears fhall be your Helicon. 
 
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 Tell 'em what earth has loft, what heaven 
 
 has gain'd ; 
 How he fhines there, who here fo brightly 
 
 reign'd. 
 With his own laurels drefs his mournful herfe, 
 And deck his marble with more lafting verfe. 
 Let diftant (hores with his atchievements ring. 
 While there are pens to wr ite,or tongues to fing. 
 No longer this fo noble talk refufe, 
 Urg'd by t\\ adventure of a humbler mufe ; 
 Who if {he does lefs honour to his name, 
 Yours is the guilt, may yours be all the (hame. 
 Propitious heav'n accepts a pair of doves 
 From willing hands, and from a heart that 
 
 loves. 
 
 Can time, or other thoughts, e'er wipe away 
 The deep remembrance of that gloomy day, 
 When the fad whifper thro' our ftreets was^ 
 
 fpread, 
 Ufher'd by tears, 'The good krng W i l l i A m'i 
 
 dead ? 
 So great a foul, fo dear a life refign d ! ^ 
 O how his glories frefli occur'd to mind ! 
 What he had done,and what hehad defign'd!. 
 How every brow with heavy clouds v/as dreft, 
 And they lamented moft who knew him beft : 
 What was their joy, 'tis now their grief to 
 
 know ; 
 What rais'd their pleafure once, augments 
 
 their woe. 
 True forrow in her pomp at court appears. 
 The city joins her undiffembled tears. 
 
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 ^ To every temple weeping crouds repair. 
 Hoping to vent their forrows in their prayer^ 
 United fighs exprefs the common w^oe, 
 Confederate tears to a vafi: deluge flow. 
 The priefts to heaven turn their complain- 
 ing eyes, 
 And interrupt their prayVs with ardent fighs : 
 Their looks, their gefture, and their voice ir 
 
 changed y 
 Their thoughts no more in wonted order 
 
 rahg'd : 
 Sobs break their periods to give forrow vent; 
 Their words confused and flow, but tears are 
 
 eloquent. 
 The doleful news thro' all the nation flies, 
 Strikes every Englifh heart with deep fur- 
 prize : 
 The general grief, the general lofs expreft. 
 And floods of tears the common father's 
 death confell. 
 
 Grief fits triumphant in the foldiers face^ 
 And in his generous breafl: now finds a place* 
 Never did death to them fo dreadful fiiow 
 In foreign fields, as in this one domefliick blow. 
 Their warlike trumpets make a difmal moan, 
 Their enfigns droop, and drums their trou- 
 ble groan : 
 O how unlike the fame that us'd to go 
 Shouting where William led, to meet 
 the foe ! 
 
 Thofc 
 
king William III. lo^ 
 
 Thofe whom the grace of his indulgent 
 reign 
 Had long attempted to oblige in vain. 
 Touched with remorfe, deplore his hafty fate. 
 And weep that their repentance is fo late : 
 Ungrateful murmurs into praifes turn, 
 Grudg'd him a crown, but now revere his 
 
 urn: 
 Confcious of long negleft in former years. 
 What they in duty owe now pay in tears. 
 So faftious tribes unworthily complain 
 Of their deliverer's meek and gentle reign j 
 The deeds of Mofes, and of God forget, 
 Look back on Egypt's (hore with fond re- 
 gret, 
 Slight angePs fare, and fruits of Paleftine, 
 And for Egyptian leeks and onions pine j 
 The fervile task of treading clay prefer 
 To freedom with the glorious toils of war ; 
 Chufe to make bricks onZoan's flavifh coafts. 
 Rather than lodg in tents to ferve the Lord 
 
 of hofts. 
 But when the prophet to the fky retires. 
 The wondrous lofs a wondrous grief infpires j 
 Thro' the fad camp a general forrow reigns. 
 And fighs, for murmurs, now fill Moab's 
 plains. 
 
 Thofe confeffors, thofe candidates for 
 heaven. 
 Whom perfecuting rage had hither driven 
 
 From 
 
2o8 \A poem to the memory of 
 
 From native fhores, to find a kind afyle 
 
 In the warm bofom of the Britifh ifle ; 
 
 Guilty of nothing but adoring God 
 
 In bold defiance to a tyrant's nod. 
 
 Who racks mens limbs to put their minds in 
 
 frame. 
 Burns 'em to guide their confcience by the 
 
 flame, 
 To fave their fouls devoutly cuts their throats. 
 And to this pious v^ork dragoons devotes, 
 While reverend priefts their approbation 
 
 fhov7. 
 And glut their bloody eyes with fcenes of woe : 
 Thoie confeflbrs whom blows could ne'er 
 
 convince 
 That true religion governs fuch a prince, 
 Mourn for a king that made 'em doubly free. 
 With civil and religious liberty; 
 Whofe liberal hands difpens'd his royal {lore. 
 To feed their prophets, and fupply their poon 
 
 The Belgic lion, touch'd with anguifti, 
 
 roars, 
 And fends the frightful found to diftanc 
 
 fhores. 
 Th' imperial eagle flags his drooping wings, 
 Condoling with confederate fliates and kings, 
 Naflau, they cry, the glory of the age, 
 Naflau is gone, the fcourge of Gallic rage; 
 Able to counfel, conquer and command. 
 And hold the ballance in his fleddy hand. 
 
 Stupendous 
 
^hi^ William III. 2 op 
 
 Stupendous grief! that fmote us by fur- 
 prize, 
 And fnatch'd away the pleafure of our eyes ! 
 
 Oft when a nation's numerous crimes have 
 try'd 
 God's patience long, and long for vengeance 
 
 cry'd ; 
 When pregnant florms come lowering from 
 
 afar 
 To threaten famine, plague, inteftine war 5 
 When heaven its juft artillery prepares; 
 Some fignal the impending ftroke declares : 
 Earth in her entrails ftrange convulfions feels ; 
 Shock'd with ill-boding fears, flie quakes and 
 
 reels ; 
 The fun his radiant head in fables veils ; 
 Or dreadful comets fpread their fiery tails ; 
 Loud peals of thunder tear the lightening air, 
 And falling meteors fhake their flaming hair^ 
 But no fuch frightful figns prefag'd our woe. 
 To give us warning of the coming blow. 
 Secure we lay, nor dreaded future harms. 
 Under the (hade of NafTau's conquering arms. 
 Now thoughts on triumphs paft our joys re- 
 new. 
 And now frefh laurels feem to be in view. 
 Europe had fix'd her eye on him, to be 
 The guardian of her common liberty. 
 Lewis obferv'd his growing intereft fpread. 
 With hate and envy equal to his dread. 
 Vpl. IV. P Buc 
 
2 1 o ji poem to the memory of 
 
 But O the fickle ftate of human things! 
 How frail the Ufe ! how vain the pomp of 
 
 kings ! 
 How are we fliipwreck'd in the view of (hore. 
 Our hopes are dalVd ; for William is 
 
 no more : 
 In every foul grief joins with confcious dread, 
 In every face they both their pallid enfigns 
 
 fpread. 
 
 What triumphs did oui* heroes youth pre- 
 
 fage 
 To crown the toil of his maturer age ? 
 Early he rais'd his country's finking ftate, 
 For doing good he knew was being great : 
 His courage foreign foes could overcome, 
 His patience civil faftions quell at home. 
 Where noxious weeds with deadly juice a- 
 
 bound, 
 There antidotes oft blefs the neighbouring 
 
 ground : 
 While Lewis frights the world with pride 
 
 and rage, 
 William ftands up to prop the drooping 
 
 age : 
 One age our danger and deliverance brings, 
 Theworft of tyrants, and the beft of kings. 
 
 When Albion's cries his generous aid im- 
 plor'd. 
 He foon our dying liberties reftor'd : 
 Pvcligion bleft th' afl^ertor of her caufe, 
 And juftice ihiii'd to fee reviving laws: 
 
 And 
 
king William III- 1 1 1 
 
 And to inhance the value of the good, 
 'Twas done without expence of Engllfh 
 
 blood. 
 The idol-pfiefts his aweful prefence jfhun. 
 And fly like fcatter'd mifts before the fun. 
 Thus by defert rais'd to the crown he wore. 
 He's calFd to rule thofe he had fav'd before ; 
 While nations round applaud Britannia's 
 
 choice. 
 And own the voice of God was in the peo- 
 ples voice. 
 
 Nor does he lefs regard Hibernians cries, 
 6ut thro' rough feas wing'd with deliv'rance 
 
 flies ; 
 In wonted danger wonted honour gains, 
 Conquers her foes, and breaks her flavifii 
 
 chains. 
 OBoyne! the world (hall William's valour 
 
 know, 
 While thy clear ftreams, or time it felf (hall 
 
 flow. 
 Fame keeps the roll of various places 
 
 more. 
 Known by his conquefts on the Iri£ti fliore. 
 
 «. 
 To Namur, when the common fafety calls 
 To plant his enfignsdn thbfe haughty wallSj 
 With daring troops the conquering hero 
 
 fpeeds, 
 While numerous foes bear witnefs to his 
 
 deed'^'. 
 
 P 2 With 
 
1 1 A poem to the memory of 
 
 With new fuccels, and with frefh laurels 
 
 crown'd, 
 He ftill proceeds to gather trophies round. 
 Till the proud Gaul a humble friendfhip 
 
 feign'd, 
 And own'd the title William's merit 
 
 gain'd. 
 
 The Macedonian heroes virtues he. 
 And more poffefs'd, from all his vices free j 
 Himfelf as well as others could fubdue ; 
 While he rul'd men, rul'd his own paffions 
 
 too 'y 
 
 For Europe's freedom generoufly fought, 
 Thro' glorious hazards common fafety 
 
 fought ; 
 Inur'd to clafliing arms and roaring waves. 
 To humble tyrants, and unfetter Haves ; 
 Plung'd into ftorms of fire and feas of blood. 
 Not for proud triumph, but for publick 
 
 good ', 
 Scorning the downy pleafures of a throne, 
 Secur'd our lives, regardlefs of his own ; 
 Scarce thought a glorious aftion hard to do j 
 Scarce thought it great when done, and others 
 
 were in view : 
 Equally vers'd in art^of war and peace j 
 Laurels and palms he wore with equal grace; 
 Rather endur'd than e'er enjoy'd a crown, 
 ' And more defer v'd than e'er defir'd renown. 
 His cyrace his very foes would reconcile. 
 And rnclc 'em down with a forgiving fmiie. 
 
 He 
 
king William III. 213 
 
 He bid them live who had deferv'd to die, 
 And if he err*d, 'twas ftill in clemency. 
 No patriot's guiltlefs blood diftain'd his -* 
 
 throne, / 
 
 To pleafe another's humour, or his own, > 
 Nor would he make a tender confcience V 
 
 groan. J 
 
 No force but that of reafon could approve, o 
 To fway the judgment, and the paflions move^ 
 To pure religion, which is truth and loye.3 
 
 How oft his words the wondering fenate 
 
 charm' d, 
 And every loyal breaft with ardor warm'd ! 
 For all he faid, like all he did, was great j 
 And when he could command, he would in- 
 
 treat. 
 His fpeech, the lively image of his mind, 
 Majellick, prudent, gracious, and refin'd, 
 Had won'drous force, and never-failing 
 
 charms, 
 Bright as his fame, vidlorious as his arms. 
 Abroad 'twas but to fee, and overcome 5 
 'Twas but to fpeak, and overcome at home : 
 Nothing was wanting in his finifli'd fcnk^ 
 Nothing redundant in his eloquence. 
 Such was the produdl of his ripen'd thought. 
 He fpoke nor more nor lefs than what he 
 
 ought. 
 Still nervous reafon every fentence ftrung. 
 And ftill his generous heart kept meafure with 
 
 bis tongue. 
 
 P 3 What 
 
2 1 jL ji poem to the memory of 
 
 What crimfon fins, what aggravated crimes, 
 Have heav'n provoked, and ftain'd our guilty 
 
 times ! 
 Could none but fuch a killing ftroke fuffice. 
 To break our rocky hearts, and thaw our 
 
 frozen eyes ! 
 O Britons ! fee, too late, what you have loft ! 
 O Britons ! fee what your lov'd lins have coft ! 
 Thefe have your king, thefe have your cap- 
 tain flain. 
 And forc'd his heaven-born foul to heaven a^ 
 
 gain. 
 How oft have you refus'd to be reformed. 
 When pious zeal his facred bofom warm'd , 
 And from the throne infpird him to declare 
 Againft your vices a religious war ? 
 How oft he call'd to faft, to weep, and pray. 
 While you fupinely ilept your hours away ! 
 He faw great judgments would great fins 
 
 purfue ; 
 He faw and faid it, unbeliev'd by you. 
 
 Who now fhall head your armies in the 
 field? 
 
 Who wave his fword, and who fhall bear his 
 fliield? 
 
 Who ftiall your troops with generous cou- 
 rage fire, 
 
 And all around him martial rage infpire ? 
 
 Who thro' your fquadrons fwift as lightning 
 
 To give frefli vigour with his fparkling eye. 
 Leading the way to conftant vi(^ory ? 
 
 His 
 
khig William III. 1 1 5' 
 
 His army was the body, he the foul, 
 T' inform, direft, and animate the whole : 
 In dreadful order firm battalions mov'd, 
 To conquer or to die with him they lov'd ; 
 So brave a chief, fo great a witnefs near, 
 They knew not how to fly, or how to fear. 
 Surprize itfelf cou'd no weak pafllon find, 
 To difconcert the texture of his mind : 
 When he approach'd the confines of the dead, 
 In fields of war, or in a dying bed ; 
 Patient in pain, and calm in every ftorm, 
 Fearlefs he feem'd of death in every form ; 
 In doubtful battel, or on foaming feas. 
 In treacherous plots, or languifliing difeafe. 
 
 When the faint lamp of life was burning 
 
 low, 
 And now the tremulous flame was hovering 
 
 to and fro ; 
 Feeling the bonds of nature difunite, 
 His parting foul prepares her wings for flight. 
 Britain ancj heav'i) now {hare his thoughts 
 
 and cares ; 
 Britain his counfels has,and heaven his prayVs, 
 Thee, fair Britannia, how he long'd to fee 
 From civil feuds and foreign dangers free ! 
 And tho in view of paradife, could be 
 Almoft content to live again for thee. 
 
 But *tis decreed; the fatal moment's near. 
 No pray'rs or vows can hold him longer here. 
 Our fainting heads no hopeful omen rears ; 
 Juft heaven rejeds our cries, rejedls our tears. 
 
 P 4 Calmly 
 
2 1 6 A poem to the memoyy of 
 
 Calmly expefting death, the hero lies, 
 Till beck'ning angels call him to the fkies. 
 His life was glorious, and ferene his death j 
 His foul the fame, firm to his lateft breath, 
 Prefence of mind in this dark veil retain'd, 
 And no reludlant agony fuflain'd. 
 .So Mofes on mount Nebo fmiling lay, 
 When the almighty kifs'd his foul away. 
 
 Great Naffau's dawn was like the orient 
 fun, 
 His wond'rous race of glory foon was run. 
 No clouds of envy could his luftre ihroud, 
 And when he fet, he fet without a cloud. 
 Ah ! that fo bright a fun fliould fet at noon, 
 A life fo ufeful Hy away fo foon ! 
 Does heaven fuch gifts as thefe beftow on 
 
 men, 
 So foon, alas! to call them back agen ! 
 
 From this low world his willing foul retires, 
 And fwiftly to its native heaven afpires. 
 No anxious thought reftrains his foaring mind, 
 His royal cares are left with royal duft behind. 
 A guard of angels for his convoy fly 
 Through the vafl regions of the parting fky : 
 Charm'd with feraphick mufick as they go. 
 He fccrns the pageant pomp of thrones below. 
 
 ./^.thereal hills all echo back the fong. 
 
 /Ethereal plains convey the found along, ) 
 
 Till heaven's wide gates receive the wcl- C 
 come throng. 3 
 
 The 
 
hng William III. ^^7 
 
 The fpacious arches of the palace ring, 
 With tidings of th' arrival of a king. 
 Armies of cherubs with kind fpeed refort 
 From diftant manfions to th' imperial court. 
 Their charming fkill in heavenly founds dif^ 
 
 play, 
 To grace the triumph of this folemn day, 
 While troops of faints line all the fhining 
 
 way. 
 The fonof Jefs touches his harp, andfings 
 ' In confort with a choir of pious kings ; 
 The happy few who govern'd well below. 
 And for their labours deathlefs pleafures know- 
 
 And O ! the joy to meet Maria there, 
 The former partner of his crown and care \ 
 What ambient glories deck the happy pair. 
 Who blifs unknown to earthly monarchs {liare. 
 On Eden's flowery banks they ilife refide,^ 
 Where chriftal ftreams from vital fountains 
 
 glide ; 
 No ruffling ftorms of war, or fadlion know. 
 And pity them that feel the weight of crowns 
 
 below : 
 There reign,bleft pair, while your dlftinguifh'd 
 
 name 
 Shall glitter in the brighteft rolls of fame : 
 Bleft by this age, and late pofterity, 
 While there are Britons wife, or juft, or free. 
 There reign ; expefting that reviving day. 
 That will refine and raife your flumbering 
 
 ' '^'^ '' Give 
 
2 1 8 ji poem to the memory of 
 
 .Give it a heavenly form and godlike grace, 
 Fit for fuch fouls, and for fo bright a place. 
 
 But, mufe, reftrain thy too adventurous 
 
 flight : 
 Glories fo difprop.ortion'd to thy fight, 
 O'er whelm thee with unfufferable light. 
 Stoop to the lower regions of the Ikies, 
 And with lefs dazzling light refrefli thy eyes. 
 See how the morning fpreads her growing 
 
 light, 
 And drives away the du&y flaades of night. 
 See Britain's clouds begin to fcatter too, 
 And fcenes of coming glory are in view. 
 Anna the Britifh fcepter mildly fways. 
 And gives vaft hopes of yet aufpicious days : 
 Anna, whom parents frowns could never 
 
 move 
 From her religion, and her country's love. 
 O tyrants ! boaft no more that W i l l i a m's 
 
 dead, 
 Since Annas reign fhall give you equal 
 
 dread. 
 Again the trumpet's clangor war declares, 
 Join'd with our acclamations and our prayers : 
 AfTociate nations echo back the found. 
 And fleets and armies make the fierce alarni 
 
 rebound. 
 
 As great Eliza crufh'd ambitious Spain, 
 And funk their floating cafl:les in the main ; 
 
 May 
 
king William IIL 219 
 
 May both thofe tyrants, that forge Europe's 
 
 chains, 
 Be humbled, now illuftrious Anna reigns. 
 May (he a Deb'rah to our Ifrael prove. 
 Dread of her foes, her people's joy and love : 
 On tyrants haughty necks in triumph tread, 
 Affifted by the noble consort of her 
 
 bed 
 
 r^ 
 
210 Mifcellany Toems. 
 
 To my friend Mr. on his 
 
 philofophical dream. 
 
 '"^^^^ O good the fenfe, fo noble is the 
 theme. 
 My friend, they wou'd become a 
 prophet*s dream. 
 Here*s fo much reafon and religion taught, 
 Byjuft degrees link'd in one chain of thought; 
 In thy pure mind fuch heavenly notions fhine. 
 When bound with heavy fleep thy body lies 
 
 fupine : 
 Thro* the thick veil truth darts her piercing 
 
 beams, 
 And leaden flumbers yield thee golden dreams. 
 So fair their form, and of fo good allay, 
 They v^ell can bear the flri(5teft teft of day. 
 
 Thofe truths thy adlive foul by day explores, 
 Fancy, to charm thee, in the night reftores : 
 And to reward the labours of the day, 
 Thy guardian angel marks the glorious way 
 That leads to blifs ; and entertains thy mind 
 With pleafures only known to fouls refin'd. 
 The pilgrim patriarch thus at Bethel lay. 
 When wearied by the journey of the day ; 
 While in his view officious angels tread 
 The fteps that to celeftial manfions led. 
 
 How 
 
MifcelJa7iy ^oems. 
 
 211 
 
 How few, awake, have thoughts fo juft 
 and bright. 
 As thou, afleep, amidft the fhades of night ? 
 But fince thy dreams of fo much truth partake. 
 What clear ideas fill thy mind awake ! 
 Then write again ; nor quit the ufeful text: 
 Tell us thy waking thoughts of virtue next. 
 
 T O 
 
SX2 
 
 Mifcellany ^oemL 
 
 T o 
 
 Mr. WILLIAM MASON, 
 
 ON HIS 
 
 Excellent Short-Hand. 
 
 N a fmooth train thy myftick fi- 
 gures flow, 
 And fwifteft gales of eaflern winds 
 
 out-go. 
 Thy pen our words paints with the 
 niceft care, 
 Before the fleeting voice diflfolves in air: 
 Flying it draws the image of the mind. 
 Nor one idea wandring leaves behind. 
 Faithful as echo thy rare art is found, 
 Preferves the fenfe as it returns the found. 
 
 y.s. 
 
 o c 
 
 Ta 
 
22 
 
 To the Reverend 
 
 Mr. SAMUEL WESLET, 
 
 On his ingenous POEM 
 
 Intituled 
 
 The life of Chrift, ^c. 
 
 Publiflied Anno K^p]. 
 
 ^ Y friend, in what a juft but fvvcet 
 M amaze 
 
 ^^ Do I upon thy poems beauties 
 gaze ! 
 Thro* ev'ry page a thoufand graces 
 
 fliine 
 SparkUng with decent pomp in every line. 
 
 I traverfe thy great work with longing eyes, 
 While neWjand ftill new pleafing fcenes arife ; 
 Such lively colours there I find difplaid, 
 With fo much art and fo much nature laid ; 
 
 So 
 
11 4 Mtfcellany T^oems. 
 
 So long, and yet fo juft a chain of thoughty 
 Such lofty fenfe coiich'd in aflrain fofofts 
 So fmooth and free thy well-tun'd numbers 
 
 roll; 
 They falfe a noble ferment in my foul. 
 A train of bright ideas ftrait I find 
 Spring up in the apartments of my mind: 
 Light to my wakened judgment they impart, 
 And breath a gen'rous warmth into my heart.- 
 By your magnetic verfe a captive made, 
 Methinks what e'er you fay was done or faid, 
 I fee and hear and feel youVe learn'd to give 
 To words fuch warmth as makes 'em breathe 
 
 and live. 
 
 One while I think I'm with the fhepherd-* 
 
 fwains. 
 And hear the ecchoing hills ftrike thro' the 
 
 plains: 
 The numerous feraphs voices heavenly found. 
 While ambient glories lighten all around. 
 Glory to God on high, I hear 'em fmg, 
 And peace on earth, from Sion's peaceful king. 
 
 To that bleft mount fometimes I follow 
 thee ; 
 Where with fweet awe, and mild folemnity^ 
 Immanuel didates his great father's will. 
 The dews of grace his balmy lips diftil. 
 From them the laws of kindnefs fweetly 
 
 flow. 
 Scattering vafl bleffings on the crowd below/ 
 
 Such 
 
M'tfceJJany ^oems. ti^ 
 
 Such mighty fenfe each weighty claufe con- 
 tains, 
 
 Urg'd with fuch force, yet in fuch melting 
 flrains, 
 
 E^ch awful word with fo much love imprefl i 
 
 Methinks I feel him grave it in my breaft. 
 
 When to tright Tabor you tranfport my 
 thought, 
 My body too, methinks, is thither brought. 
 I fee two prophets clad in bright array 
 Fly from the regions of eternal day -, 
 Glad with their God incarnate to converfe. 
 His fufferings and his glories to rehearfe. 
 With the amaz'd difciples I draw near, 
 Unutterable myftic words to hear, 
 Surpriz d with trembling joy, ^nd awful fear. 
 I fee th' ambitious flames of glory now 
 With lightening rays falute his facred brow. 
 Thefe fubtile beams, fhot from aetherial light. 
 Dazzle my fancy, and confound niy fight. 
 
 But when I trace him up mount Calvary, 
 What a fad fcene of forrow do I fee ? 
 His head with thorns inftead of jewels^ ^ 
 
 crowned, I 
 
 While cruel hands by many abarb'rousl; 
 
 wound I 
 
 With crimfon tinfture flain the blulhing 
 
 ground. I 
 
 When to deaf heaven I hear him groan and 
 
 cry, 
 And fee him bow his fainting head and die ; 
 Vol.IY. Q^ Pi^y 
 
zi6 Mifcellany ^oems. 
 
 pity and forrow, love and ftrong defire, 
 With generous rage firft fee my breaft on 
 
 fire. 
 A troop of horrors then my foul furrounds 
 And every pain he feels, my bofom wounds. 
 
 Such are the charms of verfe, fuch verfe' 
 as thine, 
 Such beauties in each moving period fhine,] 
 So bright thy thoughts, the fubjeft fo divine I^ 
 They ne^erinfipid prove ; ftill entertain 
 My ravifli'd mind ; I read and read again 5| 
 Still find new charms, flill frefh delights 
 obtain. 
 
 Go on, and make the wondering world 
 
 confefs 
 The nobleft theme deferves the lofdeft verfe. 
 From oracles divine more fongs derive. 
 And Ifrael's royal poet's ftrains revive: 
 With the bleft few that in his fteps have trod. 
 Thy mufe devote unto thy Saviour God. 
 Beat thefe now unfrequented milky ways : 
 Follow the lofty Milton's great eflays : 
 Renew th' immortal Cowley's facred lays : 
 And fhare with them the bright Urania's 
 
 praife. 
 Make youthful breafts with true devotion 
 
 burn. 
 And flights of wit into divine oblations turn. 
 
 A N 
 
Mtfcettany Toems. 
 
 217 
 
 A N 
 
 HYMN. 
 
 I. 
 
 Wake my mind ; awake my fong ; 
 Awake my heart -, awake my 
 
 tongue ', 
 Join with the grateful praifmg 
 throng, 
 
 In oflferings to our common Lord. 
 Wherever fleeting winds can blow, 
 Wherever fwelling waves can flow, 
 Where beafts can rove, or plants can grow. 
 All creatures praife his name with one 
 accord. 
 
 11. 
 
 Whate er the circling fun can fpy 
 In earth below, in heaven on high ; 
 Whatever can run, creep, fwim or fly ; 
 The glories of his name difplay. 
 
 0^2 The 
 
iiS M'ifcelkny ^oems. 
 
 The humble vales and mountains fleep, 
 06fer their herds and flocks of iheep, 
 Mines yield their ore, her fifh the deep, 
 
 Their thankful homage to their God to 
 • pay. 
 
 III. 
 
 Each fpring that ftarts from rocks or hills. 
 And forms the little purling rills. 
 Or larger chaniiels largely fills, 
 
 Murmurs, as if to frame a fong ; 
 While every whifper of a breeze, 
 That waves the corn and fans the trees. 
 And louder florms on land and feas. 
 
 Declare their maker's praife without a 
 tongue. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Sun^ moon, and ftars, with glories bright, 
 That rule by day, or rule by night, 
 Tho with unequal power and light, 
 Praife him from pole to pole. 
 Flowers in bright colours which they wear^ 
 Bring incenfe, which perfumes the air ; 
 While trees their fruits and bloflbms bear. 
 And praife without a voice, without a 
 foul. 
 
 V 
 
Mtfcelhny ^oems: up 
 
 V. 
 
 Fields gladly yield their golden crops, 
 Obfequious cedars bow their tops, 
 Clouds freely give their fertile drops, 
 And their creator's bounty fliow. 
 His thunders with their awful found 
 And flaflies, blazing all around, 
 Proclaim^his power on earth renown'd : 
 
 But gentler mercy paints the fmiling 
 brow. 
 
 VI. 
 
 Each little bird an hymn can bring, 
 Thro' groves and plains can chirp and ling, 
 With quavering throat and hovering wing 
 His maker's praifes far and near. 
 Sing then, my foul, who art deiign'd 
 For fervice of a nobler kind : 
 The breathings of a pious mind 
 
 Ar^e fweeteft mufick in th' Almighty's ear. 
 
 VII. 
 
 The happy fpirits that dwell above, 
 O hovy their thoughts and joys improve ! 
 P how they fing ! O how they love ! 
 
 O how their love their fongs infpires ! 
 And is it not, my foul, thy blame. 
 And is it not, my foul, thy fliame, 
 Jhat flill fo languid is thy flame, 
 
 Tho fed and cherifla'd by fo many fires ? 
 
 cu via 
 
^ ^ o MifceJIany ^oems. 
 
 VIIL 
 
 That I may fing without controul. 
 To touch my lip, to touch my foul, 
 Lord, from the altar fend a coal, 
 
 On which my dear redeemer bled. 
 The flame of fo divine a love. 
 Too firm for life or death to move. 
 Will the heft light and m.otive prove, 
 
 To warm my heart, and to inform my 
 head. 
 
 IX. - 
 
 So fhall my thoughts, fo fhall my fongs. 
 In concert with feraphic throngs, 
 Rehearfe what praife to thee belongs, 
 With higheft love and pureft joy : 
 Till foaring far from mortal eye, 
 I quit this earth and pierce the Iky ; 
 Then to thy radiant throne draw nigh. 
 And all eternity in praife employ. 
 
 O N 
 
M'tfcellany Voems. 
 
 3^ 
 
 ON THE 
 
 SABBATH 
 
 L 
 
 Nother fix-days-work Is done ; 
 Another fabbath is begun : 
 Return, my foul, unto thy reft ; 
 Revere the day thy God has bleft. 
 
 II. 
 
 But weep that thou haft done no more 
 In this, and many weeks before. 
 For him whom thou art bound to praife 
 On working and on refting days. 
 
 III. 
 
 If common aftions ought to tend. 
 To praife him as their common end ; 
 How ftiould his glory be defign d 
 In every thing of facred kind I 
 
 Q4 
 
 IV. 
 
2 J z M'tfceUany SPoems. 
 
 IV. 
 
 For fervlle work fix days are given ^ 
 For lacred ufc but one in feven : 
 When for my work God p;ives fuch time 
 Sliall I begrudge" a day to him ? 
 
 • V. 
 
 Lord, one in feven^s too much for me^ 
 And fix too little feeras for thee : 
 My time, my all befides, is thine ; 
 Nothing, no not myfelf, is mine. 
 
 VL 
 
 Nothing I properly could claim^, 
 As truly mine, but fin and fliame : 
 This guilt thou haft removed 5 and given 
 Th-yfelf, thy fon, thy grace, thy heaven. 
 
 VII. 
 
 My foul w^ith grateful ardor burns, 
 My God, to make thee fome returns : 
 Well may I render thee thy own ; 
 Well mayft thou reap where thou haft fown< 
 
 yiiL 
 
Mifcellany Toems, 235 
 
 VIII. 
 
 This grateful foul by thee redeemed, 
 This holy time by thee efteem'd. 
 And what I am or have befide. 
 What I can give or thou provide, 
 
 IX. 
 
 I oflFer all, my God, to thee: 
 If thou accept both mine and me, 
 I'll praife thy grace, thy name adore^ 
 And wifh to offer I had more; 
 
 X. 
 
 O that my thoughts and words may rife 
 As incenfe to propitious fkies ; 
 And fetch from heaven that fweet repofe 
 yVhich none but he that feels it knows. 
 
 XI. 
 
 This heavenly calm within my breaft 
 Is the dear pledge of glorious reft, 
 Which for the church of God remains ; 
 The end of cares, the end of pains. 
 
 XII; 
 
2 34 MifceJJany ^oems. 
 
 XII. 
 
 With joy God's wondrous works I view, 
 In various fc^nes both old and new : 
 With praife I think on mercies paft ; 
 With hope, of future pleafures tafte. 
 
 XIII. 
 
 In holy duties thus the day. 
 In holy pleafures melts away. 
 How fweet, a fabbath thus to fpend 
 In hope of one that ne'er fliali end ! 
 
 XIV. 
 
 Till I am fo divinely bleft > 
 
 rll love this weekly day of reft ; 
 And ftill when days of work begin 
 Remember there's no time for fin. 
 
 MM 
 
 ^r: o N 
 
JMLtfcellany ^oems. 
 
 ^35f 
 
 O N T H E 
 
 Profane liberty of Poets, 
 
 IN THEIR 
 
 LOFE FERSES. 
 
 F Aaron's fons, who fo profanely 
 
 came 
 Up to the altar with unhallowed 
 
 flame. 
 Were juftly by avenging fire con- 
 fum'd, 
 Who with ftrange fire to tempt their God 
 
 prefum'd \ 
 What flames are due to their more daring 
 
 crimes, 
 Who rob his altar to enrich their rhimes ? 
 Steal holy fire, then to an idol turn, 
 And incenfe to it moft profanely burn 5 
 OflFer love's noblefl: flame, by heaven infpir'd. 
 By heaven alone deferv'd, by heaven defir'd, 
 To fome vile heap of flefh and blood, that 
 
 muft 
 In a few moments turn to worms and dull ! 
 
 The 
 
?36 Mifccllany ^oems. 
 
 The language of the temple is employed 
 
 To flatter female vanity and pride. 
 
 His life, his foul, his all, the fool devotes 
 
 To a frail deity in petticoats ; 
 
 Himfelf a proftrate vidtim humbly bov^s 
 
 At her infulting feet with prayers and vowsj 
 
 His brighteft fancies in her praifes fpends. 
 
 And yet all's but her beauty's foil, pretends,' 
 
 Swearing his blifs on her, on her alone de-^ 
 
 pends ; 
 
 Boafts of his painted flames and bloodlefs fears, 
 And bio ws the empty bubble ro the flars. 
 
 He may be witty ; but he can't be wife. 
 Who cheats himfelf, and has a foul to fell;. 
 To buy another a fool's paradife, 
 And purchafe nothing for himfelf but hell 
 
 PerfcBion. 
 
M'tfceJlany ToemSi 
 
 ^IT 
 
 PerfeSlion. 
 
 I. 
 
 Ow my joys are mix'd with tears. 
 And my comforts join'd with fears. 
 Songs with fighs divide my breath. 
 And niiy life's attacked by death; 
 
 II. 
 
 Now my light's confused with error. 
 My Lord's fmiles partake of terror. 
 My fmooth walks are fpread with fnares, 
 My bright days o'ercaft with cares, 
 
 III. 
 
 Now vain thoughts attend devotion, 
 Heavy iloth retards my motioa. 
 Cold indifference checks my flame, 
 And my glory's foil'd with ilaame. 
 
 IV. 
 
'4^8 MifceJJmiy ^oemu 
 
 IV. 
 
 Thus my voy'ge to heaven begins. 
 Wet with tears and ftain'd with fins y 
 I begin to live and move, 
 I begin to praife and love. 
 
 V. 
 
 O happy day. 
 That brings the pilgrim hdme ! 
 When partial mixtures fhall be done away. 
 And bright perfedtion come. 
 
 VL 
 
 Then my joys fhall know no tears. 
 And my comforts fee no fears ; 
 Songs, not fighs, employ my breath. 
 And my life triumph o'er death. 
 
 VII. 
 
 Then my light fhall banifh error. 
 My Ldfd^s frniles be free from terror. 
 My fmooth walks be void of fnares. 
 My bright days be clear fronl cares. 
 
 VIIL 
 
MtfielJany ^om$, 1 3 f 
 
 VIII. 
 
 No vain thoughts fhall cramp devotion. 
 Nor dull floth retard my motion, 
 Nor indifference check my flame, 
 Nor my glory turn to fhame. 
 
 IX. 
 
 Thus my perfeft blifs begins. 
 Free from cares and free from fins ; 
 Ever thus to live and move, 
 ' Ever thus to praife and love. 
 
 X. 
 
 O happy day, 
 That brings the pilgrim home ! 
 When partial mixtures fhall be done away ; 
 And bright perfection come. 
 
 A N 
 
%4<^ 
 
 MtfeeJkny Tdems, 
 
 A N 
 
 EPITAPH 
 
 G N 
 
 Mordecai Abbot Efq; 
 
 U S T, pfudent, pious, generous 
 
 Abbot's dufh 
 Has found a fleeping place be- 
 neath this ftone. 
 Earth, in thy bofom hide the pre- 
 cious truft. 
 Till his departed fpirit claim its own. 
 How that returning foul will joy to fee 
 Her body as immortal and as bleft as fhe ! 
 
 i^. 
 
MifceJIany ^oems. 
 
 241 
 
 A N 
 
 HYMN. 
 
 I. 
 
 Ord, all thefe works of thine 
 Become thy hand divine. 
 
 And pious thoughts infpife : 
 While all thy greatnefs prove^ 
 Thee I admire and love. 
 
 Love and admire* 
 
 IL 
 
 The world's a temple, where 
 Thy creatures all appear 
 
 To offer praife and prayer i 
 The rocks, and hills and trees^ 
 On earth, in air, in feaSa 
 
 Thy altars are. 
 
 Vol. IV^ 
 
 R 
 
 III. 
 
241 
 
 MtfceJJany ^oems. 
 
 III. 
 
 The fcaly troops that fweep 
 Thro* regions of the deep. 
 
 The beafts that feed and ftray 
 Thro' mountains woods and plains^ 
 Confefs Jehovah reigns. 
 
 And homage pay. 
 
 IV. 
 
 The feather'd tribe that fwims 
 In air, with various hymns 
 
 Sound thro* the groves thy name 1 
 While impious men alone 
 Thy name, thy truth, thy throne 
 
 Dare to blafpheme. 
 
 AN 
 
Mifcellany 'Poems. 
 
 24J 
 
 A N 
 
 EPITAPH 
 
 On the Reverend 
 
 Mr. 
 
 WE LLS, 
 
 Miiiifter of the gofpel. 
 
 K Ere lies a flower which death has 
 I cropt, 
 
 Alas before twas fully blown j 
 Into earth's eafy lap 'tis dropt. 
 And there the precious feed is 
 fown. 
 
 His fragrant fcent is left behind. 
 And in the fpring it will appear; 
 
 A nobler form it then fhall find. 
 
 And brighter colours fhall for ever wean 
 
 R a 
 
 O N 
 
244 M'ifcellany ^oems. 
 
 
 O N T H E 
 
 DEATH 
 
 O F 
 
 My little B e n j. an infant. 
 
 Hile fofter nature prompted me 
 "^M to weep 
 Tiiigw--^«^^ O'er a fweet babe that death had 
 '^^}^ luuaaiieep, 
 
 Set each Internal fpring to work, that moves 
 A parent's bowels to the child he loves, 
 And taught me, by experimental fmart. 
 What 'tis to have a tender father's heart ; 
 Severer reafon, ftriving to controul 
 The ftrong emotions of my troubled foul, 
 Convinc'd me 'twas my weaknefs and my 
 
 fhame, 
 To yield to paffion's fo impetuous ftream. 
 1 gave attention when I heard her fpeak, 
 Her arguments v/ere ftrong,but fhe was weak -, 
 I found her wife, but too infirm a guide. 
 That could not give me ftrength to ftem the 
 
 tide. 
 
 My 
 
Mtfcellany ^oems. 245 
 
 My forrow bore me down, till faith ftept in, 
 And told me truths dim reafon ne'er had feen. 
 Her powerful words {he thus to me addreft, 
 Which fpread an heavenly calm within my 
 
 breaft. 
 Why all thefe fighs, why all thefe flowing 
 
 tears ? 
 What caufe for fuch relucStancy appears ? 
 What, tho the curious frame thou doat'fl on 
 
 muft 
 Be laid in earth, and crumbled into dull. 
 Extend beyond the grave thy piercing view. 
 To that bright day when 't fliall be formed 
 
 anew : 
 This infant-duft {hall then revive, and be 
 Ripen'd and rais'd to full maturity : 
 This withered flower {hall then be fre{lily 
 
 blown. 
 Shall rife in {Irength tho now in weaknefs 
 
 fown : 
 Thefe feebk legs that had not learned to go. 
 To tread the milky path of heaven {liall know : 
 Seraphic zeal thefe pretty hands {liall raife 
 In ad:s of worfliip to Jehovah's praife : 
 That tongue, while here untaught a word to 
 
 frame. 
 Shall fpeak, and fing the glory of his name: 
 And tho his body lies among the dead. 
 His happy foul to realms of glory's fled ; 
 And every moment there is taught to know 
 What we can't learn in num'rous years below, 
 O what furprizing raptures feize his mind, 
 To fuch a bright alTembly to be join'd 1 
 
 R 3 Q 
 
2^6 Mifcellany ^oems. 
 
 O happy babe ! fo early fled away 
 
 From this vile earth to realms of endlefs day ! 
 
 "What wondrous change, dear infant ! haft 
 thou known, 
 
 Leaving thy cradle to afcend a throne ! 
 
 Thy infant fancies turned to manly thought. 
 Strength out ofweaknefs, life from darknefs 
 
 brought ! 
 Leaving thy mother's fongs for angels hymns, 
 Thou learn'ft thyfelf to fing with feraphims j 
 Haft left thy cries for joys, thy pains for reft ; 
 For Abraham's bofom left thy mother's breaft. 
 
 Simeonh Words paraphrafed. 
 
 i OW let thy fervant, Lord, depart 
 
 ^^fi in peace j 
 
 ^i^J^ Give my alpiring foul a kind re- 
 
 ^^^gH^ leaie. 
 
 What thro' the myftic glafs of 
 
 prophefy 
 The patriarchs diftant faw, to me is nigh : 
 Thefe languid eyes behold my Saviour's face, 
 Thefe withered arms the heavenly babe im- 
 
 brace. 
 Since I at laft my bleft Redeemer fee, 
 No other fight below has charms for me: 
 
 Now 
 
Mifcellany Voems. 247 
 
 Now clofe thefe aged eyes : for after this 
 Nothing's worth viewing but immortal blifs. 
 
 TRANSLATION 
 
 O F 
 
 Mr. C 's latin verfes, with addi- 
 
 tions, on the death of the Earl of 
 Rochefter's child : Prefented to 
 the Countefs of Rochefter, by 
 Mr. C 
 
 I. 
 
 f3S5^^ 
 
 ^lOUNG Cupid's fkirn, his mother's 
 joy and pride : 
 Here lies his ivory bow uncharged, 
 
 unftrung ; 
 And there his {haftlefs quiver by 
 his fide, 
 That late upon his fnowy fhoulder hung. 
 Venus inconfolable now appears y 
 And fets no time, no mealure to her tears. 
 
 R 4 
 
 II 
 
248 Mifcellany ^oems. 
 
 11. 
 
 Since the lovM boy's imprifon'd in his urn, 
 His mother has forgot her charming fmiles ; 
 
 Where ioy (nee tclgn'd grief takes its mourn- 
 ful iv^rii, 
 And native graces from her brow exiles : 
 
 Since her own Cupid does a mortal prove. 
 
 Beauty herlclf would take the fate of love. 
 
 III. 
 
 But while her charming fon in marble fleeps. 
 
 Why to herfelf fhould Venus cruel prove ? 
 
 Well may we fear if longer thus (he weeps. 
 
 Love's mother will become as blind as love. 
 
 Fair one, confult your glafs, and tears re- 
 
 ftrain ; 
 Nor quench thofe ihining lamps with endlefs 
 rain. 
 
 IV. 
 
 If you refift the counfel of your friends, 
 And difregard a tender hufband's care. 
 Think on your eyes, think how their luftre 
 fpends. 
 And now at lea ft their dying beauty fpare. 
 Spare thofe twin ftars, nor be to them unkind, 
 Leaft grief that makes you deaf fhould ftrike 
 you blind. 
 
 'I V. 
 
Mtfcellany ^oems. 249 
 
 V. 
 
 If leffer reafons leave you ftill unmov'd. 
 Nor can fupport beneath fo great a lofs. 
 
 Think how her fon the bleffed virgin lov'd. 
 And yet beheld him bleeding on a crofs 5 
 
 How every wound of his transfix d her mind. 
 
 And yet how patient fhe, and how refign'd? 
 
 VI. 
 
 Th' Almighty's fceptre claims a fovereign 
 fway. 
 His awful thunder muft be ftill rever'd. 
 If meekly you the will of Chrift obey, 
 
 Your mighty lofs fhall mt«*e than be re- 
 paired. 
 He for your fon will give himfelf : and you 
 Shall be his mother and his fifter too. 
 
 VII. 
 
 Ah ! while with him the happy infant lives, 
 Whofe heaven-born foul has trod the 
 milky way, 
 How vainly here his tender mother grieves. 
 
 As if her tears could animate his clay; 
 Which flumbers, till the awful trumpet 
 
 fpread 
 Life thro' the gloomy regions of the dead. 
 
 VIII. 
 
250 MifceUany ^oems. 
 
 VIII. 
 
 This phofphorus the world no fooner chear'd, 
 
 And flattered with a long expefted light, 
 But funk in darknefs ere the day appeared, 
 
 And left us in the horror of the night. 
 Thus our vain minds with ebbing paffions 
 
 move ', 
 What's now our grief was late our hope and 
 love. 
 
 IX. 
 
 To Pallas the young hero was ally'd : 
 
 Pallas the noble infant's fate deplores ; 
 Lov'd for his charms, and for the name of 
 Hyde, 
 Whofe glory fame has fpread to diftant 
 fliores. 
 The beauteous nymphs, that grace the palace, 
 
 all 
 Lament the lovely boy's untimely fall. 
 
 X. 
 
 His tender genius {how'd his foul refin'd, 
 
 With various charms of all the mufes dreft: 
 His outward form becoming fuch a mindj, 
 
 The beauty of the goddefles expreft : 
 We fee his genius in his fire furvive, 
 And in his mother's wit and beauty he's 
 alive. 
 
 O N 
 
jMifceJlany ^oems. 
 
 lyi 
 
 O N 
 
 Proverbs xiv. 9. 
 Fools make a mock of Jin. 
 
 I. 
 
 H O laughs at fin, laughs at his 
 
 maker*s frowns; 
 Laughs at the fword of vengeance 
 
 o'er his head ; 
 Laughs at the great redeemer's 
 
 tears and wounds, 
 Whp but for fin had never wept or bled. 
 
 II. 
 
 Who laughs at fin, laughs at the numerous 
 woes. 
 That have the guilty world fo oft befel; 
 Laughs at the whole creation's groans and 
 
 throws. 
 At all the fpoils of death, and pains of helL 
 
 III. 
 
2K% 
 
 Mifce/Jany Toems. 
 
 III. 
 
 Who laughs at fin, laughs at his own difeafe. 
 Welcomes approaching torments with his 
 
 fmiles, 
 Dares at his foul's expence his fancy pleafe. 
 Affronts his God, himfelf of blifs beguiles. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Who laughs at fin, fports with his guilt 
 and fhame. 
 Laughs at the errors of his fenfelefs mind: 
 For fo abfurd a fool there wants a name 
 Expreffive of a folly fo refin'd. 
 
 O N 
 
Mifcelhny Toems, 
 
 m 
 
 O N A 
 
 MARBLE PIECE 
 
 Reprefenting 
 
 Chrift hound to a pillar. 
 
 Tranflated from the Italian, but 
 fomewhat altered. 
 
 3 Arble the pillar ; marble he that's 
 
 bound ; 
 Marble the officers that guard 
 him round; 
 Marble by nature that ; by patience he j 
 And thefe by unrelenting cruelty. 
 
 Speftator, melt in tears : or at this view. 
 Wonder will turn thee into marble too. 
 
 iSi, A: 
 
 PSALM 
 
254 
 
 MifceJlany Toems. 
 
 PSALM cxlviu. 
 
 I. 
 
 RAISE the great name of Jah, 
 O praife Jehovah's name ! 
 Praife him from heaven, I fay. 
 On high his praife proclaim. 
 His throne furround 
 
 Angelic hofts. 
 
 Thro' heavens wide coafts 
 
 His praife refound* 
 
 11. 
 
 Praife him, thou glorious fun, 
 Thou moon, ye ftars of light. 
 Which either ftand or run ; 
 Ye heavens of heavens fo bright, 
 
 His praife difplay. 
 
 Waters that move 
 
 Thro* fkies above, 
 
 Your tribute pay* 
 
 irij 
 
Mifcellany Toems. 255 
 
 III. 
 
 Works of his mighty hand. 
 Extol Jehovah*s name 5 
 Which when he gave command, 
 Forth into being came. 
 
 For ever he 
 
 Has fix d their place, 
 
 That none can pafs 
 
 His firm decree. 
 
 IV. 
 
 O praife Jehovah's name, 
 From earth : from deeps below 
 Ye whales : ye lightning-flame, 
 Hail-ftones and fleecy fnow, 
 
 Mifls that difl:ill. 
 
 Fierce winds that blow^ 
 
 And always know 
 
 And do his will. 
 
 V. 
 
 All hills and mountains high, 
 Trees that with fruit are crowned. 
 Cedars that touch the fky, 
 Wild beafts that range around 5 
 And cattle tame, 
 Things low or high, 
 That creep or fly, 
 Repeat his fame, 
 
 VL 
 
2<6 Mifcellany Toems. 
 
 VL 
 
 Kings who on earth prefide. 
 And all of meaner birth ; 
 Princes who nations guide. 
 And judges of the earth ; 
 The youthful throng. 
 And virgins fair. 
 Heads with gray hair. 
 And infants young, 
 
 VIL 
 
 Let all Jehovah's n^nc, 
 With praifes celebrate : 
 His name alone proclaim 
 As excellent and great. 
 His glories bright, 
 Tranfcendent rife, 
 'Bove earth and fkies. 
 To boundlefs height. 
 
 '5 
 
 VIII. 
 
 And he on high does raife. 
 His people's horn of might j 
 And thus infpires with praife 
 His faints, his foul's delight. 
 
 Bleft IfraeVs race, 
 
 A people near. 
 
 And to him dear, 
 
 Jehovah praife 1 
 
M'tfcellany 'Poems, 
 
 257 
 
 i^ 5^^ Viv! vi"\- vivw 
 
 1 iA^-yAa IA>n/* tA^=«iA» «AyS/>l f 
 
 A N 
 
 HYMN 
 
 O N 
 
 Recovery fromjicknefs. 
 
 I. 
 
 OD of my life ; who haft redeemed 
 Thy fervant from th* expedling 
 
 grave, 
 When death's attacks fo fatal 
 feem'd. 
 No other arm but thine could fave. 
 
 II. 
 
 All my difeafes thou doft heal. 
 And all my numerous fins forgive ; 
 Love to my fainting foul reveal. 
 And make my dying body live. 
 
 Vol IV. 
 
 % 
 
 III. 
 
258 M'tfceJJa7iy Toems. 
 
 III. 
 
 Who in the heavens above refides, 
 Whom I fhould love and praife like thee ! 
 Whom have I, Lord, on earth belides. 
 So worthy to be lov'd by me ! 
 
 IV. 
 
 But what wilt thou, my foul, return 
 To him who is above thy praife ? 
 That thou canft fing no better, mourn ^ 
 ,And all thy powers to blefs him raife. 
 
 V. 
 
 For fince my God in mercy joins 
 . Some future moments to the paft. 
 His grace my willing foul inclines 
 To praife him while thefe moments lalt. 
 
 VI. 
 
 And w^hen this little ftream of time 
 Is loft in vaft eternity, 
 For angels hymns Til change my rhime, 
 And fing in feraph's company. 
 
 Ecclejajles 
 
MifceJIany Toefns. 250 
 
 ^^3^t«iH[^|^€^|:^ 
 
 EccUfiaftes xi. % 10. and 
 xii. r. paraphrafed. 
 
 ^^|%?i5|0, heedlefs youth, purlue the 
 Pifr^ gay delights 
 
 pi ^ To which the world thy eag( 
 M^m t^fte invites ; 
 
 The tlowry paths thy heart af-^ 
 
 fedls, explore ; 
 Fantoms that charm thy Wandring eyes^ 
 
 adore ; 
 Diffolve in downy joys thy fenfual mind: 
 But know, the day of vengeance is behind ; 
 When every deed, each word; and fecret 
 
 thought, 
 Before God's own tribunal {hall be brought. 
 O rather fly thefe treacherous fweets betimes; 
 Abandon childifh follies, youthful crimes. 
 Devote thy blooming youth, thy verdant 
 
 days, 
 A pious offering to thy maker's praife ; 
 Ere time thy beauty blafts, thy verdure 
 
 mows ; 
 Ere age arrives w^ith a long train of woes : 
 
 S 2 Left 
 
260 Mifcellany ^oems. 
 
 Left then, too late, thou of thy fins complain, 
 And vvifli to live thy days all o*er again ^ 
 But find'ft thy wifhes and complaints are| 
 
 vain ; 
 
 When youthful fins torment thy aged bones, 
 And guilt cries loud in thy defpairing groans ; 
 When fad refledtions prefs thy labouring foul. 
 And wildeft terrors in thy confcience roul ; 
 Pall vitious pleafures wreck thy thoughtful 
 
 mind ; 
 Their guft all gone, their guilt all left be- 
 hind. 
 
 /--nS 
 
 MAN 
 
 I 
 
MifceJlany "Poems. 16 i 
 
 
 MAN changeable^ hut GOD al- 
 ways the fame. 
 
 I. 
 
 Hen firfl I broke my league with 
 
 fin, 
 And to my God was reconcird ; 
 ^Q§ My breaft was always calm with- 
 
 Becaufe my God upon me fmlFd : 
 With joy I in his houfe appear'd ; 
 And when I pray'd, he always heard. 
 
 II. 
 
 Now tho Tve ferv'd him many years, 
 And for his lake reproach have born. 
 My joys are turn'd to iighsand tears, 
 While I his abfent favours mourn : 
 He fhuts out my petitions now. 
 And with fierce terror arms his brow. 
 
 s 3 ni 
 
6% M'tfcellany ^oems. 
 
 III. 
 
 Shall I fnppofe he loves me lefs 
 Of late, than e'er he did before; 
 Or pleafure takes in my diftrels, 
 While I his wonted grace implore? 
 
 Can truth itfelf inconftant prove ? 
 
 And love itfelf forget to love ? 
 
 IV. 
 
 Earth from its center may be toft. 
 The fpacious heavens together furfd. 
 Their order in confufion loft. 
 And time diffolve the tottering world ; 
 But God's firm covenant never moves, 
 And vv^hom be once, he always, loves. 
 
 V. 
 
 Since there no change in God can be. 
 My trouble to myfelf I owe ; 
 The guilty change is all in me, 
 Tho not enough my guilt I know. 
 ril fcarch my heart for that incroaching 
 
 fin, 
 That makes him frown ; and then he'll fmile 
 again. 
 
 T O 
 
MtfceUafiy Toems. 
 
 26 
 
 T O T H E 
 
 lUuftrious Prince of Orange 
 o N H I s 
 
 Expedition into EiVGL^iV/), 
 
 Anno 1688. 
 
 T. 
 
 Ighty hero ! born to be 
 Heaven's delight and Europe's 
 wonder 5 
 LilSMM Born for eafy viftory, 
 
 Born to trample tyrants under ! 
 
 II. 
 
 How the preffing trophies crowd. 
 To adorn your triumphs round ! 
 
 Fame the while your praife aloud 
 To th' amazed world does found. 
 
 S 4 
 
 Hi 
 
2 ($4 Mifcellany ^oems. 
 
 III. 
 
 You our guardian angel arc, 
 
 Deckt with ambient rays of light j 
 
 And Ignatian furies fcare. 
 By the terror of your fight. 
 
 IV, 
 
 As the Perfians to adore 
 
 Hafte to meet the rifing fun ; 
 
 So to reach the weftern Ihore 
 Did our willing nobles run. 
 
 V. 
 
 You the patron there they meet. 
 Of the beft and nobleft caufe ; 
 
 You the true defender greet. 
 
 Of our faith, our lives, and laws, 
 
 VI. 
 
 In true honor's fphere you move, 
 
 What's right and good, count great and 
 high; 
 
 Prudence and ftrid: virtue prove 
 Your rule to meafure glory by. 
 
 VII. 
 
Jidifcellany ^oems. 265 
 
 VII. 
 
 Juft and generous your defign, 
 
 To fupport a falling ftate ; 
 Therefore have the powers divine 
 
 Smird upon your arms of late» 
 
 VIII. 
 
 Welcome arms ! that are not brought. 
 
 For our ruin, but our good : 
 Welcome peace ! that is not bought 
 
 With the coftly price of blood. 
 
 IX. 
 
 Happy vidlory ! defign'd 
 
 T* heal a bleeding kingdom's veins : 
 Happy triumph ! not to bind, 
 
 But to fet us free from chains. 
 
 X. 
 
 Ready too to fall away, 
 
 France, methinks, does yielding ft and 
 To commit her fcepter's fway 
 
 To your jufter, milder hand. * 
 
 XI- 
 
i66 
 
 MtfceJlany ^oems. 
 
 XI: 
 
 Vajd exploits that you have done. 
 Make her haughty tyrant bow ; 
 
 And the lawrels he has won, 
 
 Wait to grace your nobler brow. 
 
 XIL 
 
 Mighty hero ! may your glory 
 To its full meridian climb ; 
 
 And remain, in deathlefs ftory. 
 The pride and wonder of our time. 
 
 O N 
 
Mifcellany ^oems. 16/ 
 
 O N T H E 
 
 SABBATH 
 
 /^^?l^^ HEN the creator of the world 
 
 pn^5^ had given 
 
 9i^S Laft touches to the frame of earth 
 
 ^^^ and heaven ; 
 
 Peopled both fea and land, and v^orlds fublime, 
 
 r th' firft fix days that ever meafur'd time ; 
 
 With vaft' delight the fabrick he furvey'd. 
 
 And, fmiling, thus th' almighty father faid : 
 
 ril add another day, the reft to crown ; 
 
 Sacred to me, peculiarly my own : 
 
 Thus time in perfed numbers fhall revolve. 
 
 Till heaven's high arches crack and earth 
 
 diffolve. 
 The fun that decks the finiling day with light, 
 The moon and ftars that glitter in the night, 
 To teach mankind to meafure weeks {hall 
 
 fhine. 
 To meafure years in a fucceffive line. 
 With what delight this day my works I view; 
 Works which my wifdom, power, and good- 
 
 nefs fl:iew ! 
 O happy day ! be thou for ever bleft, 
 The great memorial of my joy and reft. 
 
 Shine 
 
2 68 Mifcellany ^oems. 
 
 Shine in time's annals princefs of the days, 
 No found be heard in thee but that of pray'r 
 
 and praife : 
 Let every breaft with pious zeal be warm'd, 
 Aw*d by my precept, by my pattern charm'd. 
 Behold thefe works which I with pleafure 
 
 fee, 
 And take delight to fabbathize with me. 
 I know that rebel fiend, who late was hurl'd 
 From the high towVs of the celeftial world. 
 Who all thofe legions of th* apoftate crew. 
 Into that common guilt and ruin drew. 
 Envies mankind the joys that will arife 
 From this day's reft and facred exercife ; 
 And envies me the honors of the day, 
 In which my creatures ithall their homage 
 
 Their peace in time he'll labour to deftroy. 
 And to prevent their everlafting joy. 
 But how will fatan rage when he fhall fee 
 All the great things perform'd which I decree ? 
 
 
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 O N 
 
Mifcellany ^oems. 
 
 i6p 
 
 O N T H E 
 
 SABBATH. 
 
 LEST day ! ordain'd by God, and 
 
 therefore bleft, 
 The pledge and type of everlafting 
 ___^^^^^_^ reft. 
 Indulgent heaven, to make our worfhip rife 
 With the more pure devotion to the Ikies, 
 To make our prayers uninterrupted climb. 
 Made thee the facred quinteffence of time. 
 With what impatient wiihes do I meet thee ! 
 With what indearing welcomes do I greet 
 
 thee ! 
 Glad that the fix preceding days are run. 
 And with their toil their vanity is gone. 
 
 ««llo» 
 
 Religion, 
 
2/0 Mifcellany T^oems. 
 
 
 Religion. 
 
 ^?22f:Rodu£t of reafon and of faith com- 
 '/^ o PW bin d, 
 j^P^vj^^^ The life, the health, the beauty 
 ^^^^ of the mind ; 
 God's image on an human foul impreft. 
 The fource of joy, and glory of the bleft ; 
 That makes 'em lovely, and that makes em 
 
 love. 
 Brings heaven to earth, and forms their 
 
 heaven above: 
 O hov^ I do thy god-like charms admire ! 
 O how I to thy god-like joys afpire ! 
 
 
 Love 
 
M'tfceJlany ^oenis. 
 
 271 
 
 Love to a crucified Jesus, 
 
 Own I love ; 'tis no uncomely £re 
 That kindles in my breaft in- 
 
 tenfe defire : 
 I hate myfelf that yet I love no 
 more -, 
 And yet I more than love ; for I adore. 
 'Tis not jujfh features, fparkling eyes, or air. 
 That makes the objedl I admire fo fair : 
 'Tis one exploded for deformity 
 By others, has ten thoufand charms for me. 
 'Tis not the lilly damafk'd with the rofe. 
 That does thefe bonds upon myfoulimpofe : 
 Whom others in the vileft terms deride, 
 I lovelier think than all the world befide. 
 Myriads of hearts, fhould they to love con- 
 
 fpire, 
 Can ne'er enough this lovely one admire. 
 Whoever has an heart to srive, is free : 
 Our happy loves fhall fear no jealoufy. 
 The more this perfeft beauty fhall purfue. 
 The more is paid to whom all hearts are due. 
 But would you know to whom I make thefe 
 
 vows, 
 To whofe viftorious charms my fpirit bows ? 
 
 I O 
 
2/2 Mifcellany Toems. 
 
 O turn your eyes to Calvary, and fee 
 A bleeding Saviour on a curfed tree : 
 That languid countenance, thofe dying eyes, 
 Thofe trembling lips that utter doleful cries ; 
 That fainting head with thorns incircled 
 
 round, 
 With ftreams of blood for wreaths of jewels 
 
 crown'd ; 
 Thofe facred hands that always grace implor'd j 
 Thofe tender feet with rugged irons bor'd ; 
 That facred body bruis'd, and covered o'er 
 With dying fweats, purpled with native gore ; 
 That foul that bore th* unfufferable weFght 
 Of a world's (ins both numberlefs and grea t 
 See crimfon ftreams flow from his wounded 
 
 fide. 
 To wafli thofe very hands by which he di'd. 
 Behold my dying Lord, and difapprove 
 My choice; fay, who has charms like him I 
 
 love ^ 
 
 O N 
 
MifceJkny 7oems. 
 
 *^l 
 
 O N T H E 
 
 French Perfecution. 
 
 O O R France, the fcene of anti** 
 chriftian rage, 
 jTh' amazing horror of the trem-* 
 bling age : 
 
 The nations Hand around with wondririg eyes, 
 As if t* attend thy fatal exequies. 
 The world's amazed to fee thy glory fade. 
 And fet in blood behind the weftern fliade*' 
 He who thy nurfing father ought to be 
 Becomes thy foe, and aims his rage at thee* 
 Tho out of human reach, juft heaven will 
 
 fhew 
 What wonders a divine revenge can do 2 
 Avenging heaven will find a day to quell 
 The tyrants rage^ and fend his guilty foul 
 
 to hell. 
 
 Volo IV. 
 
 T 
 
 AN 
 
1/4 Mifcellany Toem. 
 
 S^ S^ ^ ^ ^ S^ S^j' j^t^tit^^Ajft, 
 
 M^^J^mJ^}^^ ~" "" '^' ^^ ^' ^ 
 
 ^■■^^-^'■^'-^-^M, M,^&^M)S^&^ 
 
 A N 
 
 EPITAPH, 
 
 O N H I S 
 
 Father and Mother, 
 
 Mr. Edward and Mrs, Mary 
 
 Stennett. 
 
 ^^^ ERE lies an holy, and an happy 
 
 ^ H ^ P^^^ ' 
 
 ^?rv^^x ^^ ^"^^ ^^ grace, they now in 
 
 ii^iSSdbSi; glory (hare : 
 
 They dar'd to fufFer, but they fear'd to fin ; 
 And meekly bore the crofs, the crown to win : 
 So liv*d, as not to be afraid to die j 
 So dy'd, as heirs oi immortality. 
 
 Reader, attend : tho dead, they fpeak to 
 thee; 
 Tread the fame path, the fame thine end 
 (hall bei 
 
 AN 
 
MifceUany ^oems. 275 
 
 A N 
 
 EPITAPH, 
 
 O N 
 
 Mr. William Morton, 
 
 O F 
 
 Knaphill in Buckinghamfhire. 
 
 F piety and charity, refin'd 
 By all the graces of an humble 
 
 mind, 
 Can faints on earth for joys of 
 heaven prepare ; 
 Then M o RT o n's holy foul inhabits there 
 Earth, in thy bofom keep his precious duft 
 Till the laft trumpet raife to life the juft. ' 
 
 T 2 Mary 
 
27^ 
 
 JMifcellany ^oems. 
 
 Mary Magdalen. 
 
 Lefs'd day to me ! my Lord's come 
 
 hither 5 
 And he and I fliall lup together. 
 
 But how ihall I 
 Dare caft an eye, 
 Or boldly look him in the face, 
 Who all my fecret fins does trace ? 
 
 When to adore him. 
 Angels before him 
 About his throne in myriads hover. 
 Their faces with refped: they cover. 
 
 If I appear, 
 He will, I fear, 
 With fparkllng eyes feverely juft, 
 Blaft my poor carcafe into duft. 
 
 Mine eyes have been 
 The baits of fin, 
 Whofe glances turn'd to amorous fmiles 
 Have charmed rh' unwary to my wiles. 
 
 How fliall I dare 
 Then to appear 
 
 Before 
 
Mtfcellany 'Toems. 277 
 
 Before thofe eyes which cannot fee, 
 Without difdain unworthy me, 
 
 Ah who can fhew 
 What I may do ! 
 
 I'll floop and creep. 
 And figh and weep ; 
 
 For tho I fear him 
 I muft draw near him. 
 Fear checks me : but my foul fhall foon remove 
 All the dividing bars by a refolved love. 
 
 The 
 
zpZ Mifcellany 'Poems. 
 
 The Hypocrite, 
 
 E's the reverfe of all he feems to 
 
 be, 
 And ftill purfues whate er he feems 
 
 to flee. 
 So Satan's felf feems beautiful when 
 dreft 
 In Samuel's mantle, or a cherub's veft. 
 His vice is real, but his virtue paint ; 
 Within a devil, and without a faint. 
 While heavenly calms dwell on his pious face, 
 And while his charming tongue is tip'd with 
 
 grace ; 
 His foul by hellifh legions is pofTcfl:, 
 And furious paifions revel in his breaft. 
 While bright devotion triumphs in his eyes, 
 His heart is fill'd v/ith fraud, his lips with lies : 
 None feems more truly pious, none more juft, 
 Yet ha^ no God to worfliip but his luft. 
 He loves the gufl of fin, but loaths the fliame. 
 And is a devil in all things but the name •, 
 Condemns the fms of others, huggs his own, 
 And loves religion as a maik alone. 
 His treach'rous foul veil'd with a fawning 
 
 fmile 
 Covers wich heavenly air infernal guile. 
 
 Loudly 
 
MifceJIany ^oems. 27p 
 
 Loudly he tones his penitential pfalms. 
 And blows a trumpet to proclaim his alms ; 
 God's altar does of coftly offerings rob, 
 But tithes his mint, to gain th' applaufes of 
 
 the mob -, 
 Equally courts vice and a virtuous fame. 
 Not to deferve but to obtain a name. 
 His clofet's never confcious to his prayV^ 
 Unlefs he knows fome witnefles are near: 
 But in the church he makes a fair parade ; 
 There all his vows arc offered, there are paid. 
 He hates the fubftance, loves the fhcw of 
 
 grace. 
 And banters the Almighty to his face : 
 The worft of men and yet appears the beft ; 
 He fins in earneft, but he prays in jefl. 
 Made up of fraud his evVy geflure lies ; 
 Lies with his tongue, and with his hands and 
 
 eyes. 
 Lafl on himfelf his treachery he completes ; 
 And of his foul himfelf devoutly cheats. 
 
 T 4 JEnigma 
 
i8o 
 
 Mtfcellany ^oems. 
 
 Enigma on Writing* 
 
 ^§:^, E L L me what genius did the 
 W ^ M art invent, 
 Wk w^ The lively imap;e of a voice to 
 
 m^i.^.. Who firft the fecret hov/ to co-. 
 
 lour found, 
 And to give fhape to reafon wifely found ? 
 With bodies how to clothe ideas taught, 
 And how to draw the pifture of a thought ? 
 Who taught the hand to fpeak, the eye to 
 
 hear, 
 A filent language roving far and near; 
 Whofe fofteft notes outftrip loud thunder's 
 
 found, 
 And fpread their accents through the world's 
 
 vaft rcund ; 
 Yet with kind fecrecy fecurely roll 
 Whifpers of abfcnt friends from pole to pole ! 
 A fpeech heard by the deaf, fpoke by the dumb, 
 Whofe echo reaches long longtime to come; 
 Which dead men fpeak as well as thofe alive ; 
 Tell rne what genius did this art contrive ? 
 
 O N 
 
MifceJlany ^oems. 1 8 1 
 
 
 O N T H E 
 
 ACCESSION 
 
 OF 
 
 King iriLLIAM 
 
 AND 
 
 Queen MART. 
 
 h 
 
 j^^^^^ HAT great, what good, what 
 'XA/l^ unexpected change, 
 
 ' Beyond our thoughts, and hopes, 
 
 beyond compare, 
 Makes fliouting echoes thro" our 
 ifland range, 
 And teaches us to breathe a freer air ? 
 Say ! is Aftrea come to dwell with men. 
 To blefs the world with happy times again ? 
 
 IL 
 
2 8 z Mifcellany Toems. 
 
 11. 
 
 'Tis great NaflTau infpires this unknown joy, 
 Chofe by mankind, chofe by the pow'rs 
 above, 
 To be Britannia's fov'reign, heaven's vice-roy. 
 To reign o er willing hearts with awful 
 love : 
 Whom worth, not chance, entitles to renown, 
 Deferving firft, before he wears a crown. 
 
 III. 
 
 Fav*rite of heaven, and glory of the age ! 
 
 In whom all virtues, fit for rule, confpire ; 
 Courage untainted with tyrannic rage, 
 
 Juftice that breathes a truly noble fire : 
 Thefe, mixt with pity, heat your gencroui 
 
 breafl: 
 To humble tyrants, and relieve th' opprcft. 
 
 IV. 
 
 Wifdom and goodnefs, add an air divine 
 That makes your crown flame with im- 
 mortal rays, 
 While with yourfelf, your royal heroine 
 Shares your illuftrious virtues, and your 
 praife : 
 Both glory feek by glorious deeds alone. 
 And by jufl fteps mount fair Britannia's 
 throne. 
 
 On 
 
Mifcellany Toems. zgj 
 
 On a famous vote of the houfe 
 of Veers ^ relating to king 
 William, 
 
 ^lam meruit virtus crefcit fojl funera laurus, 
 
 N vain at William's fame the 
 
 furies rave, 
 His deathlefs laurels flourifh in 
 
 the grave : 
 The hiffing monflers do but urge 
 their doom, 
 And furnifh out new trophies for his tomb. 
 Who fhall our greateft admiration drav^^, 
 The great Alcides, or the great Naflau ! 
 Each ftifled envious ferpents in his turn. 
 One in his cradle, t'other in his urn. 
 
 lUuftrlous peers ! w^orthy of William's reign ! 
 
 So to revere the hero's injur'd duft -, 
 To clear his memory of fo vile a ftain. 
 
 Proclaims you prudent as it fpeaks you juft. 
 Guarding his honour, you your ov/n record. 
 
 So generous virtue brings it's own reward. 
 
 O N 
 
184 
 
 Mifcellany ^oems. 
 
 o N 
 
 MARTYRDOM. 
 
 Written i68j. 
 
 f 
 
 I. 
 
 ^0' O minds terrene, that never drew 
 Celeftial air, nor ever flew 
 
 Above thefe foggy regions, 
 &WW Their deareft blood profufely 
 U^mn^^^ wafte. 
 
 Their lives away as trifles caflc 
 
 Amidft the furious legions ? 
 
 II. 
 
 While proud ambition's fatal fires 
 Inflame their breads with fond defires 
 
 Of an illuftrious name 5 
 Do they with flioutings welcome death. 
 Arid gcneroufly bequeath their breath 
 
 Unto the cheeks of fame? 
 
 III. 
 
MifceUany 7oem$. 2 8 j 
 
 III. 
 
 How then can fouls of heavenly race, 
 Who by regenerating grace 
 
 Acquire a mind divine. 
 Shun to imbrace triumphant flames. 
 Knowing that their immortal names 
 
 In glory's fphere (hall fhlne ? 
 
 IV. 
 
 A chriftian fure, with eager flrife, 
 Shou'd be e'en prodigal of life. 
 
 And covetous of pain ; 
 And, with th* heroick martyr cry. 
 Can I but once for Jefus dye ? 
 
 Is glory's way fo plain ? 
 
 V. 
 
 With tranfport does the hero ride 
 Through horrid plains, while every fide 
 
 Lightens with clafhing arms > 
 While fhouting foldiers tear the ground. 
 And war-like drums and trumpets found 
 
 Bellona's fierce alarms ? 
 
 VL 
 
2 86 Mifcellany ^oems. 
 
 VI. 
 
 Not fearing death in any form, 
 
 Tho thundering guns difcharge a florm, 
 
 Black as infernal caves ; 
 Does he rufh through thofe fhowers of hail. 
 That drown the field with blood *, and fail 
 
 To kingdoms thro* the waves ? 
 
 VII. 
 
 And {hall a faint's heroick mind, 
 With nobler principles refin'd, 
 
 Seeking a heavenly throne. 
 Betray a temper fo fupine, 
 So mean, as not to dare to climb 
 
 A crofs, to reach a crown ? 
 
 VIIL 
 
 O with what calm, compofed fmilcs 
 Should chriftians look on burning piles ? 
 
 With what an equal frame ? 
 Nay with what tranfports (hould they trace 
 The fteps of Jefus, and embrace 
 
 A gibbet, or a flame ? 
 
 IX. Does 
 
Jidifcellany ^oems. 287 
 
 IX. 
 
 Does the gay fplendor of a crown, 
 (Tho ftuft with thorns inftead of down) 
 
 With a delufive fliine 
 So dazzle princes eyes, that they 
 By death's black regions boldly ftray, 
 
 A tottering throne to climb ? 
 
 X. 
 
 And (hall celeftial diadems. 
 
 That flame with ftars inflead of gems. 
 
 Not charm afpiring eyes ? 
 Can any fo profane be found. 
 Who will not hug a mortal wound, 
 
 To gain fo great a prize ? 
 
 XL 
 
 Did vain ambition's hopes excite 
 The Roman champions with delight 
 
 Herculean feats to dare ; 
 To gain a trifling dignity. 
 And ride with proud folemnity 
 
 In a triumphant char ? 
 
 XII 
 
88 
 
 Mtfcellany T^oemz. 
 
 XIL 
 
 How blefs'd are they then who retire^ 
 In chariots of triumphant fire. 
 
 To their eternal home j 
 Where they the robes of glory wear, 
 And in their hands as conquerors bear 
 
 The palm of martyrdom ( 
 
 TO 
 
I^tfcelhny ^oems. 
 
 gjf 
 
 P S A L. xviii. V. I — 15. 
 
 H E E will I love with all my 
 
 foul, 
 2 O Lord, my ftrength, my 
 ^«^,w»^sT.a rock, my fort : 
 
 Thou art my Saviour and my God^ 
 The c^ftle whither I refort. 
 
 To thee, with hope, I ftill retire, 
 Thou iliield, that guards my innocence % 
 The horn of my falvation thou, 
 The lofty tower of my defence. 
 
 3 My refuge % my deliverer-God j 
 
 Thou fav'ft me from approaching wrongs, 
 
 Jehovah's name I did invoke. 
 
 To whom the higheft praife belongs. 
 
 4 'Tis he who fav'd me from my foes^ 
 When pangs of death inclos'd me rounds 
 By raging floods of impious men 
 
 I fear'd to be o'erwhelm'd and drown'd. 
 
 » See 2 Sam. xxii. 5. where this is added. 
 
 Vol. IV. U S When 
 
2po M'tfceJlany ^oems. 
 
 ^ When mortal woes did raife my fears, 
 And fnares of death my foul furprize ; 
 
 6 In this my ftraight to heaven I pray'd. 
 And to my God addrcfs'd my cries. 
 
 He from his facred palace foon 
 To my complaining voice attends : 
 My piercing cries before him come ; 
 And foon an ear of grace he lends. 
 
 7 The earth his fierce refentment felt, 
 And trembled at his angry look 3 
 The hills v/ith their foundations melt. 
 And at his wrath with terror fliook. 
 
 8 Black clouds of fmoke that blot the fky, 
 Th' almighty's kindling anger fliew : 
 Devouring fire his breath appeared, 
 And burning coals around him flew. 
 
 9 He bow'd the heav'ns, and down he came: 
 His feet on gloomy darknefs trod : 
 
 10 He on a cherub's pinions flew, 
 The chariot this on which he rode. 
 
 High on a whirl-wind's rapid wings. 
 How fwift he cut his airy way ! 
 
 1 1 The fnades of darknefs were his veil, 
 To hide his awful iace from day. 
 
 Thick 
 
MtfceJlany Toems. 291 
 
 Thick mifts and clouds that (hade the fkies 
 Were fpread, for his paviHon, round : 
 
 12 But mifts and clouds were veils too thin 
 For his all-piercing glory found. 
 
 The dazling brightnefs of his face 
 Did foon the frighted ihades difpel ; 
 Impetuous fhowers of ratling hail. 
 And ftorms of fire, before him fell. 
 
 [roar'd :• 
 
 13 Thro' heaven's wide arch his thunder 
 The clouds obey'd their maker's call : 
 Impetuous fhowers of ratling hail. 
 And ftorms of fire before him fall. 
 
 14 At foes his burning arrows flew, 
 Broke and difpers'd their troops around 3 
 He forked lightnings at them threw. 
 Struck them with terror to the ground* 
 
 15 Deep beds of rivers then were feen : 
 The world's foundations open lay : 
 At thy rebuke. Lord, at the blaft. 
 Thy anger breath'd that wondrous day. 
 
 
 U t Pare 
 
2p2 
 
 Mifcellany ^oems. 
 
 Tart 0/ P S A L M XX VII. 
 and LXXXIV. 
 
 NE thing, but 'tis a mighty wifh, 
 One thing of thee, Lord, I defire : 
 O may I never be deny'd 
 The boon to which I ;fo afpire ! 
 
 'Tis in thy temple to refide, 
 To fee thy face, to hear thy voice : 
 Sure thou v^ilt not defpife my prayV, 
 Nor difapprove my holy choice. 
 
 There let me find a welcome feat ; 
 Be thy lov'd houfe my conftgnt home : 
 What place therein, I don't prefcribe s 
 But, Lord, I beg, affign me fome. 
 
 Some manfion there, tho ne'er fo mean, 
 I lliould efteem beyond a throne ; 
 Honour 'd enough, if thou, my God, 
 Me for ihy fervant wilt but own. 
 
 There as a porter fliould I ftand. 
 Attending at thy facred gate : 
 Scepters and crowns I could defpife. 
 Compared with my more blifsful flate. 
 
 PSALM 
 
MifceJlmiy 'Poems. 
 
 2p5 
 
 PSALM cm. 
 
 A pfalm of David, 
 
 ' lii?s, 
 
 Lefs thou Jehovah, O my foul, 
 S^^^S Who all thy inmoft powers 
 ]|S did frame : 
 
 Let all thofe inmofl powers 
 confpire 
 To blefs their author's holy name. 
 
 2 Blefs thou, Jehovah, O my foul, 
 Nor thoughtlefs of his favours prove ; 
 
 3 Who does thy every fin forgive, 
 Who does thy every pain remove : 
 
 4 V/ho from deftruftion thee redeems. 
 Thy threatened life in mercy fpares ; 
 Who crowns thee with his grace and love, 
 And v^ith the lenderefl: of his cares: 
 
 5 Who thy returning appetite 
 With every needful good fupplies ; 
 So is thy blooming youth renew'd. 
 And with the vigorous eagle's vies. 
 
 U3 
 
 6 The 
 
^94 Mtfcellany Toems. 
 
 6 The Lord his righteous jadgment {hews, 
 To fuccour all who are opprefs'd : 
 
 y Thus Mofes knew and taught his ways, 
 And Ifrael's fens his adls confefl. 
 
 8 J E n o V A h's merciful and kind : 
 His wrath is flow, his mercy lure : 
 
 9 He will not always frown and chide. 
 Nor fhall his anger long endure. 
 
 10 He treats us fmners, not as we 
 Deferve by our enormous deeds ; 
 Nor our demerit makes the rule 
 By which his chaftening hand proceeds. 
 
 J I As heaven's high frame is rais'd above 
 This humble earth on which we dwell ; 
 So does his grace, to all that fear 
 His name, all human praife excel. 
 
 J 2 As far as the vaft fpace extends 
 From utmoft eail to utmoft weft. 
 So far has he remov'd the fms 
 Which late our guilty fouls opprefs'd. 
 
 13 Juft as a tender father's heart 
 With pity to his children moves, 
 So thofe who fear Je h ova h's name 
 He with pompafiion always loves. 
 
 14 He 
 
Mifcellany ^oems. 205 
 
 14 He knows our frame, remembers well 
 We are but animated clay; 
 
 15 And man, frail man, like withering grafs. 
 Has but a fliort uncertain day. 
 
 Likefome fair flower that paints the field. 
 He flouriflies and beauteous fhows : 
 
 16 One blaft of wind nips all his pride, 
 The place no more its owner knows. 
 
 17 But ftill Jehovah's mercy flows 
 On thofe who him with fear adore ; 
 From everlafting fliill the fame, 
 
 The fame when time fhall be no more. 
 
 His righteoufnefs and truth fhall be 
 To childrens children ever fliown, 
 
 18 Who keep his cov'nant, nor forget 
 T'obey the precepts which they own. 
 
 19 Jehovah, in the heavens above. 
 Of old prepar'd his glorious throne : 
 He o'er the univerfe extends 
 
 His boundlefs reign, and he alone. 
 
 20 O blefs J E H o V A h's facred name. 
 His angels who excel in might ; 
 Who his commands with care obferve. 
 And to obey his voice delight. 
 
 U 4 21 O 
 
%^6 Mi/cel/a?iy Voems. 
 
 21 O blefs J E H o V A h's facred namCj 
 Ye heavenly hofts ; who to fulfil 
 His plealure, with refpe6l attend, 
 And are employ'd to do his will. 
 
 22 O blefs Jehovah, all his works, 
 O'er which he reigns without controulj 
 Thro' his immenfe dominions all : 
 Blefs thou Jehovah^ O my foul. 
 
 PSALM CXXXIV. 
 
 A Song of degrees, 
 
 1 K^3<§ E H o V A h's fervants all attend ; 
 ^! J is J E H o VA h's praifes ftilj repeat ; 
 ^>'r^^^} You who the nights W watching 
 Where he has fix'd his holy feat, [fpend, 
 
 2 There raifc your hands with pious mirth ; 
 J E H o V A h's praifes ftill recount : 
 
 3 "Jehovah, Lord of heaven and earth, 
 " Blefs you from Zion's holy mount. 
 
 PARA- 
 
MifceUany Toems. 
 
 ipr 
 
 PARAPHRASE 
 
 0« P R O V. IX. 
 
 Ifdom has raised a pile with art 
 divine -, 
 A {lately palace, where fhe keeps 
 her court : 
 
 Seven polifli'd columns in bright order fhine. 
 And beautify the fabrick they fupport. 
 
 To make a fplendid banquet fhe defigns : 
 For which her flocks and herds have freely 
 
 bled. 
 She has prepared and mix'd the richeft wines : 
 hus nobly is her facred table fpread. 
 
 T 
 
 The maids of honour who attend her throne. 
 On generous errands round the ftreets fhe fends: 
 To their repeated calls flie adds her own j 
 T' invite her guefls her charming voice ex- 
 tends. 
 
 « To 
 
2p8 IVltfcellany Toems. 
 
 " To you, Omen, I give the folemn call; 
 " To you, O fons of men, my grace proclaim. 
 " Come to my banquet : come, and wel- 
 
 " come all, 
 " Whofe folly has deferv'd eternal fhame. 
 
 " Come, prodigals, who long on hulks have 
 
 " fed, 
 " Why fhould your dying fouls with famine 
 
 " pine ? 
 " My table is with royal dainties fpred; 
 " My table's crown'd with bowls of generous 
 
 " wine. 
 
 / 
 
 *' Forfake the company of fools ; and tread 
 " The happy path that to my palace tends. 
 " Their ways lead to the chambers of the 
 
 " dead ; 
 " But mine condudls to life that never ends. 
 
 *' Who take my counfel, (hall have endlefs 
 
 " joy : 
 " Who hug their folly, and my calls defpiie, 
 " With barbarous hands their precious fouls 
 
 " deftroy -, 
 " And rather will be ruin d than be wife. 
 
 (?>^.K^ 
 
 Pai;t 
 
MifceJlany ^oems. 
 
 99 
 
 Part of a Poem defign'd by the Author, 
 o N T H E 
 
 DEATH 
 
 O F T H E 
 
 Reverend Mr. John Piggott- 
 
 ILefs'd foul ! when thou waft vi- 
 gorous and ftrong, 
 How oft' I faintly drag'd my 
 ^ {hell along ; 
 
 Thinking the heavenly regions to explore 
 Long before thou fliouldft touch the blifsful 
 
 fhore. 
 But thou haft got the ftart : thy heavenly 
 
 mind 
 Could bear no longer to be here confin'd. 
 
 "the 
 
3 
 
 Oo 
 
 M\fcellany 'Poems. 
 
 The firfi Inventors of J? oesy, 
 
 Defcrib'd in a 
 
 Milita?y Metaphor. 
 
 A N 
 
 EPIGRAM. 
 
 H O made rough thoughts in po- 
 
 lifli'd armour fliine. 
 And taught rude words poetick 
 difcipline ; 
 Marfhal'd in number'd ranks to march their 
 
 rounds, 
 And led up conquering fenfe with charming 
 founds ? 
 
 ■s^.^ 
 
 LET- 
 
LETTERS 
 
 UPON 
 
 Various Subjeds. 
 
 
305 
 
 
 ^3j^ "►^ ^r^ Ifi^ ^f^ C#2j^ ^sj?^ ^^v^ V-.'^^ v^ •. ^ - - ^'-'' • ^ 
 
 
 L £ rr£ R I. 
 
 5 i /J, 
 
 H E honour you have done 
 me in defiring a conference 
 ^ with me by writing, may, I 
 S^MI^^ fear, make my fo long filence 
 feem fcarce excufable. I have this to fay 
 in my defence ; that, not forgetfulnefs, 
 but want of opportunity made me defer 
 my purpofe of returning you a fpeedy 
 anfwer. Nor have I time now to inlarge 
 fo much as I defign'd ; but mull treat of 
 the matter you have been pleased to pro- 
 pofe, with as much brevity as it will 
 admit. 
 
 As for the controverfy I was fome time 
 
 fince ingaged in, concerning the law about 
 
 meats clean and unclean ; I am incapable 
 
 of recollecting what was argued^ fo as 
 
 I to 
 
50| LETTER I. 
 
 to give you a tolerable account of It, 
 time has worn it fo much off my me- 
 mory : befides, it wou'd take up feveral 
 fheets of paper. Nor do you, I fuppofe, 
 fo much defire a particular relation of that, 
 as an anfwer to the more general queftion 
 you ftated ; viz. 
 
 Whether the gofpel of Chrift, the doc- 
 trine of the New Teftament, doth 
 declare an abolishment of the law 
 of Mofes in any one particular to 
 the Jews ? 
 
 To which I anfwer affirmatively : and 
 for the proof of what I hold, (hall al- 
 ledge fome few plain texts of fcripture 
 out of the epiftle to the Hebrews ; that fo 
 I may give a full and punftual anfwer to 
 the queltion ; becaufe, that what is there 
 wrote has reference to the Jews, is fo 
 plain, that it will admit of no exception. 
 
 Heb. vii. 12. For the prieft-kood beifig 
 changed^ there is t?iade of iiccejjity a change 
 alfo of the law. 
 
 This text, I think, plainly informs us, 
 that the Levitical priefthood is chang'd ; 
 and therefore by a neceffary confequence 
 the law that related to that priefthood, as 
 fuch, is chang'd. That the apoftle fpeaks 
 here of the Levitical priefthood, appears 
 by the context. What thofe particular 
 laws are, which related to that priefthood 
 
 as 
 
LETTER f. 
 
 as fuch, is not our bufinefs now to exa- 
 mine : 'tis fufficient for our purpofe, that 
 this fcripture proves a change of the law 
 belonging to the Levitical priefthood. 
 
 Chap. X. I, 2. For the law having a 
 (hadow of good things to come^ and not the 
 <oery image of the things^ can never with 
 thofe facrijices which they offered year by 
 year continually^ make the comers thereunto 
 perfect. For then would they not have 
 ceafed to have been offered ? becaufe that the 
 worjloippers once purged^ jhoud have had no 
 more conjcience ofjins. 
 
 Hence it appears, 
 
 1. That thofe facrifices of the Leviti- 
 cal priefthood are ceased ; and that, be- 
 caufe they were not perfed: to purge fin- 
 ners, and take away the confcience of fin : 
 and their ceafing was to make way for 
 that moft perfe<5t facriiice of our Lord 
 Jefus Chrift, as may be further feen in the 
 context. 
 
 2. That as the offering of Chrift'sbody 
 was made by reafon of the imperfeftion 
 of the Levitical facrifices ; which, if they 
 had been perfed:, would not have ceas'd, 
 nor mankind needed any other : fo thefe 
 facrifices cannot furvive that of Chrift 
 Jefus ; becaufe it is perfeft, and confe- 
 quently mankind needs no other. If the 
 Levitical facrifices had been perfect, there 
 would have been no need of the facrifice 
 of Chrift; but being imperfeft they 
 
 Vol IV, X ceafed, 
 
 3bj 
 
3o<$ LETTERl. 
 
 ceafed, when his actually took place : 
 now the facrifice of Chrift being absolute- 
 ly perfedt, there can be no need of any 
 other ; for where there is perfedlion, there 
 needs no addition or fupplement. 
 
 Ver. 8, 9. AbovCy when he faid^ fa- 
 crijice and offerings and burnt-offer tngs^ and 
 offering for fm^ thou wouldji not^ neither hadjl 
 pleajure therein^ which are offered by the 
 law : then, /aid he, Lo, I come to do thy 
 will, O God. He taketh away the Jirjl, 
 that he may ejiablijh thejecond. 
 
 This fcripture, compared with the a- 
 bove-mentioned, informs us, that the Le- 
 vitical offerings being imperfedt, were ta- 
 ken away, or aboliflied, that Chrift's per- 
 fedt facrifice might be eflablifh'd : it was 
 necelTary that thofe fhould be abrogated, 
 that this might be ratified -, if the firft 
 was taken away to eflablifh the fecond ; 
 to continue the firft, would be to derogate 
 from the dignity and perfedtion of the 
 fecond. 
 
 Ver. 10. By the which will we are fane- 
 tified, through the offering of the body of 
 Chrifi 07ice for all, 
 
 Ver. 12. But this man after he had of- 
 fered one facrifice for fins, for ever fat down 
 071 the right hand of God. 
 
 Ver. 14. For by one offering he hath per- 
 fe5fed for ever them that arefan6tified. 
 
 From thefe pafTages 'tis evident, that 
 the facrifice of Chrift was perfedl, and 
 
 there- 
 
LETTERL 307 
 
 therefore the virtue of it permanent ; io 
 that there needs no other facrifice for fin. 
 That offering of nis once for all doth for 
 ever perfect thofe that are findtified, and 
 excludes all the Levitical and Typical 
 facrifices. 
 
 There are many more paflages in this 
 epiftle, as well as in other parts of fcrip- 
 ture, that might be produced to back 
 what has been faid ; but, I think, thefe 
 few inferences from the fcriptures here 
 cited are fo evident, and fo naturally de- 
 duced from them, that it is not neceflliry 
 to multiply quotations. 
 
 Sir, I very well approve of the expe- 
 dient you propofe, to make the contro- 
 verfy we are entring on eafy, by confining 
 ourfelves to two fides of a flieet. 
 
 My fincere wifh is, we may be led in- 
 to all truth by the Spirit of God, and be 
 as ready to embrace and yield to what 
 truths we may not yet know, when con- 
 vinced of them, as to maintain and plead 
 for what we think we have ground from 
 the word of God to believe to be fo ^ and, I 
 queftion not, but yourdefire is the fame. 
 I am, 
 
 SIR, 
 
 Tour mojl humble fervanty 
 
 Jo. Stennett. 
 X 2 L £ r- 
 
3o8 
 
 
 
 
 LETTER II. 
 
 Lo72do7i^ 06lob. 4, 1(^87. 
 
 Honoured Str^ 
 
 ^fi^S^Ml Have been much troubled that 
 I have been fo long prevented 
 ^<»fc^.,«=^^ of niy defire of giving you a 
 ^^^S^ ^^ply- ^^ pleas'd to aflure 
 yourfeif, that not a will to ferve you, but 
 opportunity of doing it, has been wanting 
 to me. 
 
 I cannot hope, Sir, in the compafs 
 of half a flieet, to give a complete an- 
 fwer to your laft : and therefore, becaufe I 
 did but curforily give my fenfe on fome 
 few fcriptures laft time, {liall now con- 
 tent myfelf to elucidate and confirm the 
 inferences and arguments I then brought 
 from thofe feveral pafliages in the epiftle to 
 the Hebrews, which may in part obviate 
 what is objcdted, and facilitate my way to 
 a more direft anfwer to your objedions 
 hereafter. 
 
 My 
 
LETTER 11. 109 
 
 My method fliall hz to lav down feve- 
 ral reafons that perfuade me to believe 
 the aboliihment of the law relating to the 
 Levitical prieflhood. 
 
 I. Becaufe the Icripture feems to in- 
 form us, that Chrift'sexercife of his priefl- 
 ly office, under the gofiiel difpenlation, 
 and the continuation of the Aaronical 
 priefthood, are incompatible. Which I 
 conclude, firft, from the word iJ^era,Ti^e(j.hys. 
 ufed Hel?, vii. 12. which fii^nifies tranjla- 
 ted : the pricjihood being tranflated there is 
 aljb a tnmjlation of the lavj, l^ow, I 
 conceive, the term of tranjlating com- 
 prehends an exclufion of one thir>g to in- 
 troduce another. If a kini^^dom be tran- 
 flated from one family to another, both 
 families do not remain in exercife 
 of dominion. Secondly, This further 
 appears, in that the lay/ forbids that 
 there fliould any fupply tlie variedly office, 
 who were not of the tribe of Levi, and 
 of the family of Aaron ; and cm fed is 
 he, faiih the fcripture, that doth not all 
 the words of this law. But Chrift, by 
 taking upon hini the prieftly office, made 
 a change, or trojijlation, of that offi.ce from 
 the tribe of Levi to the tribe of Judah; and 
 from the family of Aaron to that of David: 
 and confequently made a change, or traJifla- 
 tiG?i, of the law thereunto appertaining. 
 . Heb. X. 9. He taketh away the firjl, that 
 he may eJlablifD the fecond. 
 
 X 3 2. This 
 
lo LETTER 11. 
 
 2. This change of the priefthood being 
 from an imperfedl to a perfe<ft ftate, and 
 from a temporary ftate to an eternal \ the 
 ncceffity and ufe of the Levitical prieft- 
 hood is thereby excluded. For, tirft, 
 where there is a perfect offering once 
 made, there needs no other for the expi- 
 ation of fin, Heb. x. 1,2. For the law ha- 
 loing a Jhadow of good things to come^ and 
 not the 'very image of the things^ can ne- 
 ver with thofe facrifices which they offered 
 year by year cGntinually^ make the comers 
 thereunto perfeB, For then would they not 
 kave ceafed to he offered ? hecaife the wor- 
 
 ffippers once purged^ fljoitld have had 710 
 more confcience of fins, I find fome copies 
 read it fVf 2 av i'KuvauvTo %pcG(pepiJ.evcit/i/re the?i 
 they would have ceajed : and if we rake it 
 according to others, 8Jt av i'^uvcuvTo^ by 
 placing a nore of interrogation after it, it 
 fpeaks tiie fame fenfe, would they not then 
 have ceafed ? for fuch an interrogation a- 
 mong the Hebrews, you knovv^. Sir, has 
 the force of a ftrong affirmation. If then 
 the reafon of the repetition of facrifices 
 under the law was their imperfeftion, 
 becaufe they could not make a perfect ex- 
 piation ; the facrlfice of Chrift's body 
 on the crofs excludes any other offering, 
 
 ■ becaufe itfelf is perfect, and doth intirely 
 expiate. There would have been a cef- 
 fation of thofe legal offerings, if any one 
 of them had been fufficient to expiate 
 
 for 
 
LETTER 11. 311 
 
 for fin : therefore the facrifice of Chrift*s 
 body being all-fufficient, muft needs put 
 a period to all other facrifices of the law, 
 and render them ufelefs. Secondly, This 
 change of the priefthood is from tempo- 
 rary to eternal Therefore, Heb, vii. 2 1. 
 'tis faid, T'hou art aprieji for ever after the 
 order of Melchizedeck, And ver. 23, 24. 
 ^hey were many priejls^ becaufe they were 
 not fujfered to continue by reafon of death ; 
 but this man, becaufe he continueth ever^ 
 hath an unchangeable priefthood, Ver. 27. 
 Who needeth not daily, as thofe high-priefts, to 
 offer up facrifice, fir ft for his own fins, and 
 then for the people's ; for this he did once 
 when he offer d up himfelf It appears from 
 hence, that the reafon of the priefts fuc- 
 ceffion under the law, was their morta- 
 lity ; but Chrift being immortal, his 
 priefthood is thereby rendered immutable 
 and eternal ; and therefore excludes the 
 ufe and neceffity of any other. Heb. x. i o. 
 By the which will we are fanBified, through 
 the offering of the body of Chrift once for 
 all, Ver. 12. But this man, after he had 
 offered one facrifice for fins, for ever fat 
 down on the right hand of God, Ver. 14. 
 For by one offering he hath for ever perfected 
 them that be fanBified, 
 
 3. The Levitical priefthod, I think, 
 cannot be fuppos'd immutable ; becaufe 
 it takes date too late, to be thought an 
 inftitution moral and durable. The pa- 
 
 X 4 triarchs 
 
jii LETTERU. 
 
 triarchs were without it, and the exer- 
 cife of the facerdotal function was com- 
 mitted to the eldeft of every family, till 
 the giving of the law in the wildernefs. 
 Since therefore this priefthood, and the 
 law appertaining to it, was not inftituted 
 from the beginning, it cannot be a moral 
 and unchangeable law ; but, on the con- 
 trary, muft be fuppos'd to be alterable, as 
 the fore-mention'd fcriptures intimate : 
 for if that form of worfliip was not mo- 
 rally necefHiry in the days of the patri- 
 archs, when the manifeftation of Chrifl 
 was fo far diftant ; how much lefs can it be 
 thought morally neceilary to be continued 
 fmce the manifeftation of Chrift in the 
 fle(h, whom it typically prefigur'd, and in 
 whom it receiv'd its accomplifhment ? 
 
 4. I cannot think, that in the primi- 
 tive and glorious plantation of the chri- 
 ftian church, this priefthood would not 
 have been eftablifh'd in its greateft fplen- 
 dor, if Chrift had defign'd its continu- 
 ance ; and the apoftles would certainly 
 have prcach'd up fo neceflary a part of 
 worfhip, wherever they went ; and not 
 contrarily have fpoken of the abolition of 
 it, as the apoftle Paul does in the above- 
 men tion'd texts, and elfe where in others 
 of his epiftles. For tho he did at firft 
 indulge the Jews who were newly con- 
 vertctl, in their opinion for the obferva- 
 rion of thcLevitical law, and that in fome 
 
 things, 
 
LETTER II. 315 
 
 things, even by his own pradice, as a 
 tender father humours a peevifli child, 
 that is recovering out of a fit of ficknefs : 
 yet he fails not in other inftances to de- 
 claim againft the opinion of having that 
 law continued, as, I think appears above. 
 God was, by his providence, then demo- 
 lifhing that form of worfhip, which, if it 
 were to have continued, would, in pro- 
 bability, have been intirely reftor'd and 
 ratify'd by the providence of God, in that 
 mod pure and fliining age of the church, 
 which was founded by Chrift and his 
 apoftles : that nothing might have been 
 wanting to perfedt and embellifli that 
 fpiritual building. 
 
 Sir, 1 at prefent recommend thefe rea- 
 fons to your confideration ; which, tho 
 they do not diredtly anfwer all you objed:, 
 yet may feem to have fome general influ- 
 ence on your laft paper, and tend to clear 
 up my meaning in my laft. Be pleas'd 
 to difpenfe with the method I have taken, 
 tho it feem a little indirect. I hope here- 
 after to come particularly to anfwer your 
 objeftions : but now I am conftrain*d to 
 conclude, in afluring you that I am, 
 
 SIR, 
 
 Tour mojl humble fervant, 
 
 Jo. Stennett, 
 
?H 
 
 
 LETTER III. 
 
 To Mr, jr. ^. jun'. 
 
 Sednal-greefi, May 9, i(^p2. 
 
 2)^^r iSir, 
 
 Y own inclination to ferve you, 
 and the obligations I have re- 
 ceiv'd from your honoured pa- 
 rents, and the hope of having 
 a letter from you the fooner, for which 
 I have your promife already, make me 
 very willing to begin a correfpondency 
 with you by writing. And how pref- 
 fing foever my affairs are, I can no 
 longer forbear to tell you, that I fliare in 
 the joy of your worthy relations, while 
 they inform me that you are extremely 
 pleafed with the place of your prefent re- 
 
 fidence. 
 
LETTER III. 31J 
 
 iidence, and with your company, but e- 
 fpecially with your ftudy, and with your 
 reverend tutor : who, it feems, intends 
 firft to in.vrucft you in the mathematicks; 
 a ftudy that muft needs be very agreeable 
 to you, becaufe you are to take nothing 
 for granted therein but what is demonflra- 
 b!e, and paft doubt. This will lay a good 
 foundation in your mind, and make it 
 habitual to you to examine things well 
 before you receive them for truth. When 
 you come to engage in other ftudies, this 
 will extend, as it were, the capacity of 
 your mind, and render it attentive : in a 
 word, it will prepare you for all other 
 fciences. 
 
 I prefume, Sir, you love your book fo 
 well, that there's no need for me to excite 
 you to diligence. Befides, the counfels and 
 wifhes and kindnefles of your deareft 
 friends, would win upon fo tradlable a 
 difpofition as yours, to afpire to learning 
 purely to oblige them, without the bias 
 of your own mclination to ftudy. But 
 this, confpiring with thofe other motives 
 fo ftrong and endearing, muft needs make 
 the ftudious employment very pleafing to 
 you. And tho the pious and frequent in- 
 ftrudtions of your deareft relations, and of 
 the worthy gentleman under whofe tui- 
 tion you live, may render whatever ad- 
 vice I can give fuperfluous j yet I can't 
 
 per- 
 
3i6 LETTER III. 
 
 perfuade myfelf to omit giving you fome 
 teftimony of the refped: I bear you, by 
 putting you in mind of that which ought 
 to be the chief fcope and end of your 
 ftudy, and that which alone can render it 
 truly advantageous to you. 
 
 I defire you, above all things, to con- 
 fider to whom you owe the faculties of 
 your mind and the temper of your body, 
 and all the advantages you have, that 
 give your friends fo large hopes of your 
 proficiency in learning. Remember that 
 every good and perjcB gift corner from 
 God: and, if your prayers daily accom- 
 pany your ftudies, and you defign 'em to 
 his glory, that you may know him the 
 more, and ferve him the better; the hopes 
 of your friends will ftill increafe together 
 with their joy. 
 
 To conclude : that you may not only 
 have all the true accomplifjiments of a 
 gentleman, but the more ornamental 
 graces of a chriftian ; that you may be as 
 ufeful in your generation as yourfelf can 
 wifli to be honourable therein ; that your 
 riper years may perform the large pro- 
 mifes of your hopeful youth ; and that 
 your honoured parents may reap with 
 loy the fruit of tlieir many prayers, their 
 cares, their admonitions, and their hopes, 
 concerning you ; and you enjoy the hap- 
 py confequenccs of a good education well 
 
 improved : 
 I 
 
LETTER III. 3,7 
 
 improved : in a word, that you may 
 grow in grace as well as in knowledge ; 
 is the hearty defire of, 
 
 SIR, 
 
 Tour fine ere friend^ 
 
 and humble fervant^ 
 
 Jo. Stennett. 
 
 REMARKS 
 
5.8 
 
 REMARKS 
 
 U P O N A 
 
 LETTER 
 
 SENT TO 
 
 iVfr. CHARSLEYo/Ag- 
 mondefham. 
 
 S I Ry 
 
 Ince you have been pleas'd to 
 defire my thoughts on Mr. Ba/Fs 
 letter to Mr. CbarJ/ey, which 
 you lately communicated to 
 me ; I am not willing to deny you ; efpe- 
 cially fince I am informed that the au- 
 thor of that letter and his admirers make 
 
 it 
 
Remarks upon the letter^ Sec. j i p 
 
 it a mighty occafion of triumph, that no 
 perfon has yet thought meet to anfwer it, 
 and therefore conclude it unanfwerable ; 
 whereas they ought to confider, that 'tis 
 poflible for a writer to owe his fecurity 
 from animadverfions to the meannefs 
 of his performance, rather than to the 
 ftrength of his arguments. Whether 
 Mr. C/s antagonift is fo formidable a 
 champion, as fome of his friends feem 
 by their boafting to imagine, will foon 
 appear to any one who (hall impartially 
 examine his letter and the following re- 
 flections upon it. 
 
 I fhall confider the two things by 
 which Mr. B. pretends to prove that 
 Mr. C deferves not to be call'd reve- 
 rend. Firft, fays he, " I'll fhew that 
 
 you have no ordinary vocation in the 
 
 miniflry: fecondly, that you have no 
 
 extraordinary one.'* 
 
 To prove that Mr. C has no ordinary 
 vocation in the miniftry, as he is pleas'd 
 to exprefs it, he endeavours to fhew, that 
 Chrift in his commiffion, MaU, xxviii. 19, 
 20. Go ye therefore and teach all n at ions ^ 
 baptizing them^ &c. refpedts not only the 
 apoftles to whom it was immediately gi- 
 ven, but all the true minifters to the end 
 of the world : which, I prefume, Mr. C. 
 would have readily granted, without put- 
 ting him to the trouble of formally pro- 
 ving it. He then ftates this queftion ; how 
 
 mufl 
 

 320 Remarks t^pon -Mr. Ball'5 
 
 muft fuch perfons come by their autho- 
 rity ? To which, he fays, he anfwers ca- 
 tegorically ; *' that this power was trani- 
 mitted from Chrift to his apoftles, and 
 alone by the apoftles on thofe whom 
 they approved as worthy and capable 
 of difcharging this province." This 
 he confirms by iVf<^^/. xxviii. 18. All power 
 is given to me in heaven^ &c. which he 
 firft quotes in Greek; not that he has any 
 remark to make on the original text, to 
 elucidate the Englifli tranflation ; but be- 
 caufe he thinks it very edifying to adorn 
 his letter with a little Greek, as he does 
 afterwards with a Icrap or two of Latin, 
 his philofophical axioms, and his fyllo- 
 gifmSj when he writes to one who is '' al- 
 " moft ignorant of his primer,'* as he in 
 his letter is pleas'd to fay of Mr. C. If he 
 thinks Mr. C underftands thefe learned 
 languages and fciences ; w^hy does he fay 
 he is almoft ignorant of his primer ? If 
 he believes he does not underftand them; 
 to what purpofe does he ufe all this 
 learning in a letter to an illiterate man ? 
 But to return to his argument. He 
 brings the matter to this refult : that if 
 Mr. C. has a right of adminiftring the 
 word and facramcnts, he muft prove his 
 miffion from apoftolical fuccefiion, or a 
 continu'd fucceflion of miniftry from the 
 apoftles : and concludes, that Mr. C. has 
 had no continu'd fucceflion of miniftry 
 
 from 
 
letter fent to Mr. Charfley. 321 
 
 from the apoftles, and therefore he has no 
 right of adminiftring, &c. 
 
 But Mr. jB. is not aware, that if this 
 argument proves any thing, it proves too 
 much ; and will (hake the authority of 
 the minifters of the church of England, 
 and indeed of all other churches, as well 
 as that of Mr. C. For I defire Mr. B. 
 would produce one minifter who is able 
 clearly to prove the fucceffive derivation 
 of his miniftry from hand to hand with- 
 out interruption from the apoftles. What 
 minifter who is ordain'd, can be certain 
 that the perfon who ordains him has by 
 an uninterrupted fucceffion deriv'd his 
 authority from the apoftles ? And how can 
 the people be fatisfied that they have any 
 lawful Miniftry at all 5 unlefs they could 
 know that the line of their fucceffion has 
 never been broken fince the apoftolick 
 times? which is impoflible for them to 
 know without examining the hiftory of 
 the church for above 1600 years. Nor 
 indeed if they were capable of fuch an 
 examination, could they arrive at a cer- 
 tainty in this matter; becaufe fome re- 
 cords that are neceflary to this purpofe 
 are loft, and others that are extant con- 
 tradict each other; fome have the cha- 
 rafters of a fpurious original, fome have 
 been interpolated, and moft of 'em leave 
 us under great uncertainty, efpecially in 
 fuch particularities as thefe ; fo that the 
 
 Vol. IV. Y greateft 
 
22 
 
 Remarks upon Mr. B^Ws 
 
 greateft criticks would find infuperable 
 difficulties in fuch a re-fearch. It muft 
 needs therefore be a work utterly im- 
 prafticable by the common people : and 
 yet according to Mr. £. no minifler's au- 
 thority can be prov'd without it. If he 
 is him.felf in orders, I ihould be glad to 
 fee him prove his authority by an uninter- 
 rupted fucceffion from the apoftles : or 
 elfe for want of this proof he may, ac- 
 cording to his own account, be " look'd 
 " upon no better than a murderer, muft 
 *' be highly criminal for robbing God of 
 " his honour ;" for thefe are the fevere 
 terms which Mr. B, ufes on this occafion, 
 that he may vent his anger againftMr. C. 
 not confidering that his hypothefis involves 
 the minifters of his own church in the 
 fame guilt, and makes them worfe than 
 murderers, (sc, unlefs they can prove their 
 fucceffion in an uninterrupted line from 
 the apoftles. 
 
 I^oris this gentleman better founded in 
 what he fays afterwards ; namely, that 
 Mr. C. can't have fuch a fucceffion, be- 
 caufe " the names and tenets of the Ana- 
 '' baptifts were not heard of till the mid- 
 '* die of the third century :' for fuppofe 
 an Anabaptift was not heard of till that 
 time, that does not hinder but the firft 
 Anabaptift minifter might derive his mi- 
 niltry from the apoftles as well as others, 
 and might tranfmit it by fucceffion down 
 z to 
 
letter fent to Mr. Charfley, 325 
 
 to following ages as well as they. If he 
 urge that the miniftry fo tranfmitted would 
 ceafe to be lawful, when derived from the 
 hand of an Anabaprift -, he ought ro pro^/e 
 it. If he pretends anabaptifm is herefv, and 
 therefore deprives him that holds it of his 
 minifterial authority ipfo faBo-, then who 
 knows how many of the church of Eng- 
 land, and other churches, have derived 
 orders immediately from hereticks, or from 
 thofe who have received orders from he- 
 reticks in fomc age or other iince the 
 apoftles ? And how can any man that is 
 ordain'd, be fure that he who ordains him 
 is not an heretick, unlefs he were capa- 
 ble of perfectly knowing his heart, which 
 is the incommunicable prerogative of the 
 Almighty? And feeing the minifters of 
 the church of England deriv'd their or- 
 ders before the reformation, from the 
 church of Rome j their orders muft be 
 void, if the Romifli bifhops were guilty 
 of herefy, as I believe 'tis no hard matter 
 to prove they were ; and of idolatry too, 
 which is as bad : I am fure their errors 
 were much worfe than what is call'd A- 
 nabaptifm, fuppofing that were an error. 
 At this rate what will become of Mr. B!s 
 fine difcourfe of a minifterial fucceflion 
 without interruption ? and into what a 
 labyrinth has his way of reafoning brought 
 him? I (hould think therefore, thofc 
 who are competently qualified for the mi- 
 
 Y 2 nifterial 
 
2 24 Remarks upon Mr. Bair^ 
 
 nifterial office, and are regularly cholen 
 by the people over whom they are to 
 prefide, and then ordain'd by the impo- 
 fition of the hands of fuch elders or mi- 
 nifters as were allow'd to be inverted with 
 that office before 'em, may be fatlsfied 
 with their call to the miniftry ; and^ the 
 people under their charge fatisfied with 
 their adminiftration, v^ithout attempting 
 to trace a fucceffion without any flaw from 
 the apoftolick times. 
 
 But all this while I can by no means 
 grant, that the Anabaptifts, as Mr. B. is 
 pleas'd to call 'em, are of fo late a date as 
 he pretends. As for thofe he mentions in 
 the third century, he acknowledges them 
 to be fo caird, becaufe they were for re- 
 baptizing thofe that were baptized by he- 
 reticks; for which he fays they were con- 
 demned as heretical by the church, and 
 that thefe are not fuch as JVTr. C " But, 
 " fays he, the fed: who deny that infants 
 " have a right to baptifm, &c, had no 
 *' exiftence till about the year 1524. in 
 *^ Germany ; where the principal leaders 
 ** in this fadlion play'd fuch pranks, as 
 *' you would be very unwilling to hear 
 *' of. And this is a very flirewd argu- 
 " ment to prove you have no church, be- 
 ^' caufe, mufliroom-like, you fprung from 
 " the earth in a night's fpace, and as foon 
 " difappear'd again, ^c!\ 
 
 Whether 
 
letter fent to Mr. Charfley. 5 2 5 
 
 Whether Mr. C. and thofe of his pro- 
 feflion are in the right to deny baptifm to 
 infants, will beft appear by the reafons 
 fome of them have publi(h*d to the world 
 againft this pradlice of infant-baptifm. 
 If Mr. B. will anfwer their difficulties, 
 and fhew *em a divine precept for infant- 
 baptifm, they will be very much oblig'd 
 to him. But he betrays his great igno- 
 rance of ecclefiaftick hiftory, in pretend- 
 ing that thofe who denied infant-baptifm 
 had no being till the year 1524 : for 'tis 
 evident many of the antient Vaudois 
 and Alblgeois, divers ages before the time 
 this gentleman fpeaks of, were againft 
 infant-baptifm ; as I have clearly prov'd 
 in my anfwer to RufTen, pag. 81, 82, 83, 
 84. And Tertullian, who liv'd in the fe- 
 cond century, fpeaks exprelly againft in- 
 fant-baptifm : whofe words I have cited 
 in the 69th page of the book above- 
 mention 'd. 
 
 Nay, unlefs Mr. JB. can prove infant- 
 baptifm to have been the apoftolick prac- 
 tice, he'll find it of later date than the 
 opinion of thofe whom he calls Anabap- 
 tifts. For 'tis certain that the practice of 
 baptizing adult perfons is apoftolical, and 
 has a divine inftitution 5 but I prefume he 
 will find it difficult to produce one proof 
 that infant-baptifm was pradlis'd in the 
 chriftian church, till near two hundred 
 years after the birth of Chrift. 
 
 Y 3 Again, 
 
7i6 Remarks upon JVLr. Ball's 
 
 Agam, what can be the meaning of 
 the pkafant turn he gives this matter, in 
 faying to Mr. C " You, mufliroom-Uke, 
 " fprung from the earth in a night's fpace, 
 " and as foon difappear'd again r" for if 
 Mr. C and thofe of his opinion fprung up 
 as fuddenly and as lately as he pretends, 
 yet 'tis certain they have not difappear'd 
 again ; nay, they appear to be abundantly 
 increas'd fince the time he fpeaks of. Now 
 to make any tolerable fenfe of this paflage 
 feems very difficult. If the Anabaptifls 
 are all vanifh'd, what need had this gen- 
 tle m^in to trouble his head about them 
 and their minillry ? If they ftill appear 
 in the world, and their number is much 
 increos'd fince the time he mentions, why 
 does he affirm that they foon difappear'd 
 again after they fprung up ? So that his 
 inference is ill-founded, that the Ana- 
 bapiifcs can't be of the true church of 
 Chnfl againfl whom he promis'd the gates 
 of hell Jmuld not prevail^ becaufe of their 
 fudden difappearing in the world 3 fince 
 they ftill fubfift, and are likely fo to do, 
 unlefs convinced or confuted by "better ar- 
 guments than thofe he is pleas'd to pro- 
 duce againft 'em. 
 
 As to the pranks fome German Ana- 
 baptifts play'd, and which he fays 
 Mr. C. would be unwilling to hear of ; 
 they are no worfe than have been often 
 play'd by the Paedo-baptifls of different 
 
 na- 
 
letter fent to Afr. Charfley. 3 27 
 
 nations : and it would be eafy to recrimi- 
 nate particularly, if it were necelTary. If 
 you pleafe, Sir, to lend Mr. jB. my anfwer 
 to Mr. RufTen, he will find by reading the 
 nth chapter of that book, that he has 
 no reafon to charge on the Anabaptifts in 
 England the mad pranks of fome enthu- 
 liaftick people of diverle opinions in Ger- 
 many. 
 
 Mr. B. concludes this head in infult- 
 ing Mr. C. after the following manner. 
 But, fays he, if ftill you will be laying 
 hold on fomething to fuflain yourfelf, 
 and keep your ordinary vocation in 
 the miniflry from finking ; you mufl 
 no longer pretend to be authoriz'd by 
 apoftolical fuccefiion, but haverecourfe 
 to the fag-end, and beftow the power 
 of confering ordination on the people. 
 '' But here you will be at as great a lofs 
 " as you were before ; becaufe you cannot 
 " produce one inftance either from fcrip- 
 " ture or antiquity that will be fervice- 
 able to your dodlrine. You may in- 
 " deed from fcrioture track the prefence 
 " and approbation of the people at ordi- 
 " nations. But this is fo fir from pro- 
 " ving that they had fuch a power, that 
 '' you may as well fay, that I have right 
 to make a juftice of the peace, a baro- 
 net, or a peer of the realm, becaufe I 
 flood by at the folemnity, and approv'd 
 
 Y 4 "of 
 
 (C 
 
It 
 
 (C 
 
 228 Remarks upan Mr. Ball 5 
 
 of thofe perfons, whom the fupreme 
 power dignify'd with thcfe titles and 
 preferments, &€.'' 
 
 But I have (hown already, that there 
 is no need for Mr. C. to beftow the power 
 of ordination upon the people, as Mr. B. 
 expreffes it -, feeing there may be good and 
 regular ordination by the hands of mi- 
 niflers, according to the divine rule, with- 
 out the neceffity of proving an uninter- 
 rupted fucceflion of ordination from the 
 apoftles : and tho the people cannot ordain, 
 they have a right to chufe officers in the 
 church, as is evident from their choice of 
 deacons, JBs vi. 5. and from the choice 
 of perfons to travel with the apoftles, 
 2 Cor. viii. 19. In both which places the 
 Greek word fignifies, a choice by holding 
 up the hands : which fignifies more than 
 the bare prefence or approbation, as Mr. B. 
 fuggefts, waien he would have Mr. C think 
 that the choice of the people mention'd 
 in fcripture, fignifies no more right of 
 eledlion ^' than he has to make a juftice 
 " of the peace, a baronet, or a peer of 
 the reahri, becaufe he ftands by at the 
 folemnit3'% and approves of thofe per- 
 fons whom the fupreme power dignifies 
 " with thefe titles and preferments." 
 
 Mr. jB. now difmifiTes the firft and main 
 point he undertook, which was to dif- 
 prove M. Cs ordinary call to the mini- 
 ftry : this he prefumes is fufficiently done, 
 
 and 
 
 
letter fent to Mr. Charfley. 3 ip 
 
 and therefore proceeds to difprove his ex- 
 traordinary vocation. 
 
 And here he prefumes that Mr. C and 
 thofe with him pretend to ** immediate 
 " infpiration, or elfe they would not pre- 
 " tend, confidering their want of learn- 
 '' ing, to preach to the people/' I muft 
 obferve to this gentleman, that it does not 
 follow, that becaufe a man who wants 
 human learning preaches, therefore he 
 pretends to immediate infpiration. For 
 Mr. B, for inftance, may inftrudt the peo- 
 ple in what he knows, by reading the 
 fcripture, meditating on it, and making 
 ufe of various annotations and other wri- 
 tings, to explain it, that are extant in the 
 Englifh tongue, without leading them 
 fwiftly into deftrudlion, as he uncharita- 
 bly reprefents, and without any pretence 
 to immediate revelation. Nay, a man of 
 good fenfe, with fuch helps as I have 
 mentioned, and the application of his 
 mind to the ftudy of the fcripture, efpe- 
 cially if his converfation be exemplary, 
 may be much more capable of edifying 
 his neighbours, than a man of more learn- 
 ing, who has lefs fenfe, and improves not 
 the talent he has, in applying himfelf to 
 that ftrid: ftudy of the word of God, nor 
 exemplifies the dodlrine of Chrift in the 
 condud: of his life. And if at the be- 
 ginning of the reformation in England, 
 none but men of learning had been allowed 
 
 to 
 

 530 Remarks upon Mr. BallV 
 
 to preach, few parifties had been fupplied 
 with minifters, nor would there have 
 been a neceffity to con^pofe for them a 
 book of homiUes, to read to the people, 
 becaufe few of them knew how to preach. 
 Sure Mr. B, will hardly cenfure thofe 
 unlearned minifters, or fuch as now want 
 learning in the church of England, " as 
 carrying all that depend upon their 
 conduft, fwiftly to the abyfs of de- 
 ftrudion." For 'tis no hard matter to 
 find clergymen in the church of England, 
 who have a very poor ftock of learning. 
 I confefs it were to be wifli'd, that the 
 minifters of all churches had much more 
 learning than they generally are poflefs'd 
 of. In the mean time, it would more 
 become Mr. 5. to improve what learning 
 he has, uhan to defpife his neighbours 
 for having wanted a liberal education, tho 
 they have the better qualities of piety and 
 charity -, and, on that account, are very 
 worthy of his imitation. 
 
 But v/hen Mr. B, affirms that Mr. C. 
 and moft of the teachers of the Anabap- 
 tifts, are almoft ignorant of their primer, 
 he would certainly be thought to know 
 them very well ; elfe how could he take 
 fo exad: a meafure of their knowledge ? 
 And yet the judgment he makes is a plain 
 proof that he is unacquainted with them, 
 fmce they are far from being fo defpica- 
 bly ignorant as he pretends. There is no 
 
 party 
 
letter fent to Mr. Chardcy. 3 j i 
 
 party of chriftians but have fome ignorant 
 people among them, who are uiireafon- 
 ably conceited of their abilities to inftrud: 
 others ; but if the folly of fome jfhould be 
 imputed to all, all parties would on this 
 account be liable to equal cenfure. 
 
 Mr. 5. might have fpar'd the pains he 
 takes in proving that Mr. C. and the reft 
 of the Anabaptifts are not immediately 
 infpir'd, till they pretend to an extraor- 
 dinary miflion : for they will readily grant 
 that fuch a miffion is not to be allovv'd 
 without the extraordinary proof he men- 
 tions. And as to what he fays concern- 
 ing the pretence of the chief of Mr. C's 
 faftion, that is, I fuppofe, of the Anabap- 
 tifts, to this extraordinary miffion ; 'tis 
 boldly aflerted, but he is not pleas'd to 
 attempt the proof of it, no doubt for a 
 very good reafon. What he fays of Spit- 
 tlehoufe, and of fome others, whofe names 
 he thinks not fit to mention, who, he 
 tells us, were miftaken in their predidiions 
 about the millennium, will by no means 
 prove, that the chief of the Anabaptiils 
 pretend to immediate infpiratioo and an 
 extraordinary miffion, any more than the 
 falfe predidlions of the late ?Vlr. Mafon of 
 Northamptonfhire, about the coming of 
 Chrift and the millennium, and the whim- 
 lies of other Enthufiafts of the church of 
 England, prove that the chief of that 
 party pretend to immediate infpiration,Gfr; 
 
 For 
 
332^ jR^w2^r^5 upon Mr. Ball 5 
 
 For Mr. B. can't make it appear, that 
 Mr. Spittlehoufe and thofe other namelefs 
 perfons to whom he refers, were the chief 
 of the Anabaptifts. 
 
 When he fays the predeceflbrs of the 
 Anabaptifts ought to have fufFer'd death, 
 he but too plainly intimates what treat- 
 ment he would give their fucceflbrs, if it 
 were in his power. But, thanks be to 
 God, our governors have more wifdom 
 and charity, than to perfecute the poor 
 Anabaptifts for confcience fake, however 
 the effufion of their blood might gratify 
 fome men. 
 
 What he fays of John of Leyden and 
 his collegues, affecSs the Anabaptifts no 
 more than the enthufiafm and wickednefs, 
 fome of thofe of the church Mr. B. be- 
 longs to have been guilty of, concerns that 
 whole body. 
 
 But left the charge of falfe prophecy 
 and blafphemy fliould not render the 
 Anabaptifts infamous enough, and make 
 fome of them, at leaft, thought worthy of 
 capital punifliment, Mr. B. is pleased to 
 charge them with treafon : for, I fuppofe, 
 'tis not merely Mr. C. but the Anabaptifts 
 in general, that he attacks in the follow- 
 ing terms, viz, " It is plain you preach 
 up do&ine that is contrary to the word 
 of God, as the difobedience to, and ex- 
 tirpation of, kings, Gfr. 
 
 One 
 
 
letter fent to Mr. Charfley. j ^ > 
 
 One would think by this account, that 
 the Britiih government were in great dan- 
 ger by the Anabaptifts, and that there 
 were a great number of nonjurors among 
 them ; whereas I beheve 'twill be hard 
 for Mr. jB. to find one of that charac- 
 ter in the whole party ; while he knows, 
 there are many of the church of England, 
 who refufe to fwear to the prefent govern- 
 ment. So that if we may judge of mens 
 principles by their pradlices, there is a 
 confiderable number of the church Mr. B. 
 relates to, who are ill affefted to the pre- 
 fent government ; while Mr. B, can find 
 no difaffefted party, nor perhaps one dif- 
 loyal perfon among the Anabaptifts. Let 
 any one judge then, what juftice there ap- 
 pears in this man's accufation. 'Tis no 
 hard matter to guefs what punifhment 
 this gentleman would award to thofe 
 whom he accufes of fuch crimes as thefe, 
 befides the levelling principle of afferting, 
 *' that none ought to be greater than 
 *^ other ; and that chriftians ought to 
 " enjoy all things in common j" of rail- 
 ing and backbiting, and of evil fur- 
 mifes, and of fpeaking evil of things 
 which they underftand not at all ; 
 " which, he fays, are numbered among 
 " the works of darknefs." But 'tis cer- 
 tain, this accufation will deferve to be 
 number'd among the works of darknefs 
 too, till the truth of it be fet in a clear 
 
 light. 
 
334 Remarks upon Mr. V>AVs 
 
 light. And ns Mr. B, concludes, in re- 
 commending to Mr. C. and other Ana- 
 baptifts, the ferious confideration of the 
 nth verfe of the epiftle of Jude, Wo wi- 
 to them^ for they have gone in the way of 
 Cain, and ran greedily after the error of 
 Balaam for reward, and perifhed in the gain- 
 faying of Corah ; fo I wifh he had ex- 
 plain'd his meaning. Do the Anabaptifts 
 go in the way of Cain, by envying and 
 perfecuting their brethren, becaufe more 
 righteous than themfelves ? do they run 
 greedily after the error of Balaam for re- 
 ward^ in tempting others to lewdnefs and 
 idolatry ? or do they prefumptuoufly op- 
 pofe divine revelation, like thofe that 
 perifdd in the gain-faying of Corah ? 'Tis 
 ftrange that Mr. B, (hould give himfelf 
 the liberty of cenfuring innocent men in 
 a manner fo grofs, and without any proof 
 or tolerable appearance of reafon. Mr. B, 
 v^ould do well to beware left himfelf fall 
 under the guilt of any of thofe crimes, 
 with which he fo liberally befpatters his 
 neighbours. The fpirit of perfecution he 
 breathes in this letter, feems too much to 
 refemble the temper of Cain, and calls 
 for Mr. JS.'s ferious confideration and re- 
 pentance. 
 
 It were eafy. Sir, to add to thefe re- 
 fleftions many others that would not be 
 impertinent : but I think I have fufficient- 
 ly infifted on the moil material things in 
 
 Mr. 
 
letter fent to Mr. Chardey. j j j 
 
 Mr. jB/s letter. I give you leave to com- 
 municate this to vi^hom you think fit : but 
 in a particular manner I defire Mr. B. 
 may fee it, in hopes it may difengage him 
 from his prejudices, and induce him to 
 think more humbly of himfelf, and more 
 charitably of his honeft neighbours and 
 other innocent people, whom he has egre- 
 gioufly abus'd. I conclude, in offering 
 my hearty prayers to almighty God to 
 make him fenfible of his error, and of 
 his unaccountable fury^ to pardon his 
 rafhnefs, and v^ant of charity ; and to 
 give him a better temper of mind. I am, 
 
 SIR, 
 
 Tour very humble fervanfy 
 
 Jof. Stennett. 
 
 O F 
 
*V*^£^^'5^ 
 
 O F 
 
 Occafional Conformity 
 
 . T O T H E 
 
 Church of England* 
 
 I N A 
 
 LETTER 
 
 T O 
 
 Mr. J 
 
 B 
 
 Novemh. 27, 1710. 
 
 Vol. IV. 
 
O F 
 
 Occajlonal Conformity 
 
 T O T H E 
 
 Church of England, 6^c. 
 
 33? 
 
 Cheafjide^ Nov. 27, lyio* 
 
 Ccording to your defire, and 
 my promife, I here fend you 
 fome of the principal reafons, 
 '^'^y I think the members of 
 our congregations ought not to receive 
 the Lord's fupper in the communion of 
 the church of England. 
 
 (i.) The firft reafon I offer againft this 
 pradtice, is founded on the great diffe- 
 ence there is between the conllitution of 
 
 Z 2 our 
 
^40 A letter concerning 
 
 our churches, and that of the church of 
 England. 
 
 We hold, that a church of Chrift 
 confifts of fuch a number of perfons as 
 are capable of meeting together in one 
 place, to celebrate all the ordinances of 
 focial woriliip which Chrift has ordained: 
 that men are qualified for this privilege, 
 by making a credible profeffion of their 
 faith in Jefus Chrift, and of their obedi- 
 ence to him ; without which they ought 
 not to be admitted into any chriftian 
 church : and that fuch a church as this, 
 which, for diftinftion fake, we call con- 
 gregational, is independent on all other 
 churches ; and having within itfelf fuf- 
 ficient power, when duly organized with 
 proper officers, for the adminiftration of 
 all ordinances, and the due exercife of 
 difcipline, is not under the jurifdidlion or 
 authority of any other Church whatfoe- 
 vers which, however, does not hinder 
 its charitable regard to other particular 
 churches, and a becoming deference to 
 their advice, if found to be" confiftent 
 with the obedience they owe to their com- 
 mon Lord : whereas the church of Eng- 
 land confifts of the people of England in 
 common -, and is therefore of a national 
 form and conftitution : 'tis divided into 
 provincial churches -, thefe into diocefan, 
 and thefe laft are fubdivided into pa- 
 rochial. 
 
 I 
 
occajional conformity. 541 
 
 I need not tell you, Sir, how little re- 
 gard is had to a credible profeffion of 
 faith in Chrift, and of obedience to him 
 in the admiffion of members into this 
 church ; fince, you know, the generality 
 of 'em are admitted into it when they are 
 uncapable of fuch a profeffion, and are 
 fuffer'd to continue in it, tho the far 
 greateft part of 'em are either extremely 
 ignorant, or fcandaloufly vitious. 
 
 And indeed 'tis impoffible that the dif- 
 cipline Chrift has ordain'd, ihould be well 
 obferved in a church of this conftitution ; 
 becaufe the rules he has fet, are calculated 
 for churches of a different form, fuch as 
 I defcribed before. 
 
 The church of England has the king 
 or queen of Great Britain for its head ; a 
 multitude of officers, whofe names and 
 diftind: fundlions are foreign to the word 
 of God, owe their origine to fuperftition, 
 and their eftablifhment and authority only 
 to the law of the land. 
 
 Now the members of our churches 
 are fuppofed to believe as they profefs : 
 namely, that thefe churches being formed 
 according to the diredlion of the word 
 of God, and the pattern of the firft and 
 pureft churches of Chrift, are founded on 
 divine authority : and confequently, that 
 the conftitution of the church of Eng- 
 land, which is fo oppolite to the other, 
 can't derive its being from the divine 
 
 Z 3 word. 
 
lAi -A letter concerning 
 
 word, but owes its frame to human au- 
 thority. 
 
 'Tis therefore evident, that they ought 
 not to receive the Lord's fupper in the 
 church of England, unlefs they can be- 
 lieve it reafonable to communicate with 
 a church whofe conftitution and form is 
 contrary to what the word of God pre- 
 fcribes. For if it be unlawful to confti- 
 tute a chriftian church, after a manner 
 contrary to the rules Chrift has given us, 
 then 'tis unlawful to communicate with 
 fuch a church ; becaufe this is to approve, 
 or at leaft to give countenance to, the 
 tranfgreflion of the laws of Chrift ; nay, 
 to concur with them in this tranfgreflion, 
 by becoming a part of a body fo irregular- 
 ly conftituted. 
 
 For the acl of receiving the Lord's 
 fupper in any church, is taken for a 
 plain declaration of the receivers, that 
 they are members of that church, at 
 leaft pro te?npore ; and this not only in 
 the opinion of the vulgar, but alfo in the 
 fenfe of the law of the land. This adt 
 is therefore interpreted as an acknowledg- 
 ment that they . are members of this 
 church 3 arid confequenrly, either that 
 this church is founded on the divine au- 
 thority dire<5lly, or that 'tis left to the 
 legiilarure, of the nation to conftitute a 
 church after what manner they pleafe^ 
 cither of which conccflions would be 
 
 . \v contrary 
 
occajional conformity. ^45 
 
 contrary to their own avowed principles, 
 which have been flated before. Happy is 
 he who condem?i5 not hijnfelf in the thing 
 which he allows^ Rom. xiv. 22. 
 
 (2.) Another thing which, in my opi- 
 nion, renders the above-mention'd prac- 
 tice unwarrantable, is, that thofe who 
 communicate with the church of Eng- 
 land, are neceffitated in fo doing to com- 
 ply with fuch ceremonies and modes, at 
 the adminiftration of the Lord's-fupper, 
 as are no where prefcrib'd in the holy 
 fcripture to be ufed on that occafion. 
 
 I fhall, at prefent, only in fiance in the 
 ceremony of kneeling ; which is impofed 
 on thofe who receive this facrament in the 
 church of England. 
 
 This gefture, tho dijfFerent from that 
 which our Saviour and his difciples ufed 
 at the inflitution of this ordinance, is yet 
 made neceiTary to the reception of it in 
 the church. Whereas, without entering 
 into any difpute about the lawfulnefs, or 
 fitnefs of this pofture on this occafion, 
 fhould we fuppofe it a matter indifferent 
 in its own nature j for that very reafon it 
 ought not to be made neceffary. For 
 I would fain know, what right and 
 power any church can fairly pretend 
 to have, to alter the nature of things. 
 It feems reafonable that the order of 
 things nei:effary, and that of things in- 
 
 Z 4 different 
 
2 44 A letter concerning 
 
 indifferent, fliould not be confounded ; 
 but each left in its proper rank. There- 
 fore what God has made neceffary, let 
 not Men make indifferent : and what he 
 has left indifferent, let not men make 
 neceffary. 
 
 No^v, fince the church of England 
 makes the gefture of kneeling at the 
 Lord's-fupper neceffary, fo that without 
 this the beft and devouteft chriftian is 
 not admitted to her communion ; what 
 is this but to render this ceremony ef- 
 fential to the ordinance of the holy fup- 
 per ; and to make an inflitution of men, 
 of equal authority with the command of 
 God ? fince kneeling at this facrament is 
 made as neceffary as the reception of the 
 bread and wine. 
 
 If it be faid, in anfwer to this, that 
 this ceremony is in itfelf very innocent : 
 the reply is eafy ; that this can by no 
 
 ?iftify the impofition of it. The 
 y of wailiing of hands pradifed 
 among the Jews immediately before eat- 
 ing, was as harmlefs in itfelf as any thing 
 can be fuppofed to be : but when men 
 prcfumed to make a religious rite of this 
 indifferent thing, and to eftablifh it as a 
 neceffary ceremony, our Saviour cenfured 
 'em for it after the fevereft manner : 
 Well hath EJhias prophe/icd, laith he, of 
 you hypocrites^ as it is written^ T'his people 
 hcHQurs me 'with their lips^ but thejr heart 
 
 is 
 
occajional conformity. 3 4 j 
 
 is far from me. Howbeif^ in vain do they 
 worjhip me^ teaching for doctrines the com- 
 mandments of men, Mark vii. 6, 7. 
 
 Nay, to refufe the Lord's-fupper to 
 thofe who are quaUfied for it according 
 to the rules Chrift and his apoftles have 
 left us, merely becaufe they think them- 
 felves bound in confcience to imitate, as 
 near as they can, the gefture of our Sa- 
 viour and his difciples at the inftitution 
 of it, and therefore fcruple kneeling on 
 this occafion; is to make an inftitution, 
 merely humane, not only of equal autho- 
 rity with the commands of God, but 
 in fome refpeds fuperior to 'em : fince 
 it is pretended to have force and effi- 
 cacy fufficient to vacate the command 
 of Chrift, which diredls that fuch con- 
 fcientious perfons (Rom, xiv. i,) fhould be 
 received to his ordinances, even when 
 fuppofed to be weak in the faith : for 
 the church of England refules to admit 
 them to the LordVfupper, tho Chrift has 
 given them a right to it. Now to refufe 
 it to perfons qualified for it, to fuch 
 as Chrift himfelf allows and commands 
 to be received to this privilege, is to be 
 guilty of unjuftly offending thofe for 
 whom Chriji died, Rom. xiii. 15. i Cor. 
 viii. II. 
 
 It feems therefore highly reafonable to 
 refufe to communicate with that church, 
 which not only makes thofe things ne- 
 
 cefTary 
 
54^ ^ letter concernhig 
 
 ceflary to communion which are not 
 authoriz'd by him ; bur, by thefe impofi- 
 tions, fets afide the authority of fome of 
 hisexprefs commands. 
 
 (3.) Again -, the perverfion of the or- 
 dinance of the Lord's-fupper in the church 
 of England, by making it a civil teft, is 
 another thing that renders it unwarrant- 
 able for the members of our churches to 
 communicate with them. For this is fo 
 great a proftitution of this ordinance to 
 finifter ends, and fo contrary to the ori- 
 ginal defign of it ; that many of the 
 members of that church are themfelves 
 not a little afliam'd of it, and look 
 upon it as a profanation of the holy 
 fupper. 
 
 However 'tis well known, that 'tis ve- 
 ry frequently adminifter'd and received, 
 to qualify men for civil and military em- 
 ploym^ents. And perfons of very profli- 
 gate lives are admitted to it for this end, 
 tho they approach it with reludancy -, 
 being convicted in their own confciences 
 that they are guilty of prefumption in 
 receiving it -, yet are afraid to decline it, 
 becaufe of the pecuniary penalty the law 
 impofes on thofe who exercife certain 
 offices without this qualification. This 
 has very much fcandaliz'd a great num- 
 ber of good men of different perfuafions : 
 aad as this practice is unlawful in itfelf ; 
 
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 fo I take it to be one juft reafon for re- 
 fufing to have communion with that 
 church which has fo perverted this facred 
 inftitution ; and that fo generally, that 
 every minifter is obliged to give the 
 facrament to this end, when an occafion 
 offers. 
 
 The end and deCgn of this facred 
 fymbol is the principal thing to be re- 
 garded in it. This is, i Cor. xi. 29. the 
 dtfcerning the Lord's body by faith, in or- 
 der to excite repentance, love to God, 
 hope, thankfulnefs, ^c. in our fouls. Now 
 if another defign be added to this, which 
 is of a fecular nature, and which many 
 of the communicants have principally in 
 view \ viz, that of qualifying them for 
 offices in the flate ; I think it fo great 
 an abufe, that this alojie would juflify 
 refufal to communicate with that church 
 that orders it to be adminiftred and re- 
 ceived to fuch a purpofe. 
 
 It was a perverfion of the defign of 
 the Lord's fupper, in the church of Co- 
 rinth^ and a diforderly reception of it by 
 perfons unprepared for that folemnity, 
 that drew down the judgments of God 
 upon them, and render'd it dangerous for 
 them to approach the holy table again 
 without deep repentance and other ferrti- 
 ments concerning that ordinance than 
 thofe they had before. 
 
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 (4.) Again ; let it be confidered that 
 every man ought to propofe fome good 
 end to himfelf, even in the common ac- 
 tions of Hfe, much more in the facred 
 exercifes of religion. Now I can't fee 
 any good end thofe of our communion 
 can propofe to themfelves, in communi- 
 cating with the church of England ; 
 while they have the privilege of enjoy- 
 ing this ordinance or the Lord's-fupper 
 in fuch churches as they believe are 
 rightly conftituted, and adminiftred after 
 fuch a manner as is agreeable to their own 
 fentiments. 
 
 The urgency of a cafe of neceflity 
 can't be pleaded, while they can en- 
 joy this ordinance in churches of the pri- 
 mitive form, and celebrated according to 
 the inftitution of Chrilt. 
 
 Nor can the delign of promoting cha- 
 rity be reafonably pretended in this cafe ; 
 fince it is notorious that the praftice of 
 occafional conformity, in this refpedl, has 
 fcandaliz'd a great part of the members 
 of the church of England to a very great 
 degree ; and has given them occafion to 
 reprefent the diflenters as hypocrites, and 
 as men capable of facrificing their con- 
 fciences to their temporal intereft. And 
 it is as evident that this pradlice has given 
 great offence alfo to a great number of 
 the diflenters, efpecially thofe of the in- 
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occnjional conformity. 34^ 
 
 dependent form, and particularly to thofe 
 of our communion ; fince *tis utterly in- 
 confiftent with our principles, as has been 
 made appear before. So that inftead of 
 promoting charity, this pradlice is an oc- 
 calion of fcandal on both fides. 
 
 (5.) Confidering the great difference 
 there is between the principles of our 
 congregations, and thofe of the church 
 of England, in the points above-men- 
 tion'd, and many other things; if our 
 people fhould communicate with them at 
 the Lord's fupper after this manner, it is 
 obvious that this would naturally tend to 
 make them indifferent in matters of reli- 
 gion, and regardlefs of the commands of 
 God in things relating to his worfhip. 
 For if men may be allowed to join in the 
 ftrifteft ad:s of communion with a church 
 whofe very conftitution is contrary to the 
 appointment of our Saviour \ this will 
 eafily open a way for the impofition of 
 new innovations, and a fervile compliance 
 with them : whereas God has ftriftly 
 prohibited both an addition to, and di- 
 minution from his inftitutions, Deut, xii. 
 ult. 
 
 The confequence of this would be, to 
 put an effeftual bar to all reformation 
 for the future, and to diffolve thofe 
 churches that are formed after the pri- 
 mitive pattern : fince, if it be lawful to 
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 communicate with the church of Eng- 
 land in the ordinance of the Lord's- 
 fupper, which is one of the ftrictefl ad:s 
 of communion, as we have obferved be- 
 fore; it will eafily be infer'd, that that 
 church may be complied with in leffer 
 matters ; efpecially when a man is prompt- 
 ed to it by his fecular intereft, which 
 generally lies on the fide of the eftablilh'd 
 church. 
 
 Now fince the purity of divine wor- 
 fhip and difcipline are in the holy fcrip- 
 ture reprefented to us as matters of the 
 greateft moment, and worthy our ftri6tefl 
 care; and no church has power to hinder 
 us from worfliipping God after fuch a 
 manner as we think moft agreeable to his 
 will : it is evident, that we ought to em- 
 ploy our intereft, and whatever talents 
 God has given us, to promote the ho- 
 nour of his name in his worfhip, and to 
 difpofe the minds of men to reform that 
 as well as other things, according to the 
 rule of his word ; and, confequently, to 
 do what in us lies, to fupport thofe foci- 
 eties of chriftians, who moft ftridly ad- 
 here to the divine inftitutions, and refufe 
 to ftoop to the arbitrary impofitions of 
 men in matters of religion. 
 
 If thefe arguments had not that degree 
 of evidence I prefume they have, but 
 fliould only come into the rank of thofe 
 that are termed probable j I think they 
 
 might 
 
occqfional conformity. 
 
 might well determine the pradice of thofe 
 of our communion, as to the matter in 
 debate. 
 
 For certainly, it is much better for them 
 to communicate with thofe whofe con- 
 ftitution they are perfedly fatisfied is of 
 divine appointment, than to venture to 
 join themfelves, tho but occafionally, to a 
 church which they believe to be only of 
 human inftitution, and the form of which 
 is not to be found in the holy fcripture ; 
 efpecially when the natural confequences 
 of this, which have been fpecified above, 
 are duly confidered. 
 
 Nay, if all that has been faid fhould 
 amount to no more than only to make it 
 doubtful, whether the praftice under con- 
 fideration is lawful or not 3 yet even this 
 were fufficient to decide the queftion : 
 fince it is plain, that a man ought, in re- 
 ligious matters efpecially, to chufe the 
 fafeft fide 3 rather to receive the Lord's 
 fupper, for inftance, in a communion 
 with which he is intirely fatisfied, than to 
 go with a mind perplexed with doubts and 
 fcruples, to communicate with a church 
 whofe conftitution he believes to rely 
 merely on human authority ; whofe cere- 
 monies are the inventions of men, and 
 the iinpofition of them direftly contrary 
 to the word of God, and to- chriftian li- 
 berty I fay, if a man only doubts of the 
 lawfulnefs of communicating with fuch a 
 ^ church, 
 
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 church, this doubt ought to determine 
 him to forbear it : for in fuch cafes, ac- 
 cording to the apoftle, whatfoever is not of 
 faith is Jin^ Rom. xiv. ult. 
 
 To conclude, Sir, if by endeavouring 
 brevity in thefe papers, I have happened 
 in any thing to be obfcure, I fhall be w^il- 
 ling to explain myfelf more fully when I 
 have the honour to fee you. In the mean 
 time, I heartily recommend you, and all 
 the hopeful branches of your family, to 
 the divine grace and protedlion. I am, 
 
 SIR, 
 
 Tour fine ere friend, 
 
 and obliged humble fervant, 
 
 J. s. 
 
 FINIS. 
 

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