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 CONSISTING     OF 
 
 Spiritual  Songs,  ' collected  from  the  Holy 
 Scriptures;  and  feveral,  of  the  Psalms,  toge- 
 ther witfc  the  Whole  Song  of  Solomon,  pa- 
 raphrafed. 
 
 To  which  alfo  aife  prefixed, 
 
 Three  Discourses  relative  to  thofe Subjects; 
 
 W  I  T  II'    A 
 
 Letter  concerning  the  AfTurance  of  FaaffiS 
 
 By    JOHN     BARCLA.  Y, 
 Preache j^pf  the   Gospel. 
 
 *   in 
 
 When  the  Foundations  of  the  Earth  were  laid,    the  M 
 Stars  fang  together,  and'  all  the  Sens  of  God  f'~ 
 Joy.     Job  xxxviii.   7 
 
 Be  not  drunk  with  JVine,  wherein  is  Excefs ;  hut  h< 
 ■  the  Spirit :    Speaking  to  your/ elves  in  Pfalms,  a 
 and  fpiritual  Songs,  finging  and  making  Melody 
 Heart  to  thg  Lord,  giving  thanks  always  Jot  all  Thinp 
 God,  and  tffe  Father,  in  the  Nahze  of  our*  Lord  Jefus  Chrift 
 Eph.  v.  io- — 21. 
 
 GLASGOW 
 
 Printed  by  W.  B£Lt?  for  theSjjiUTHOR. 
 
OF    THE 
 
 SPIRITUAL    SONGS. 
 
 LAMENTABLE  and  alarming,  but,  alas!  in.agreat 
 meafurc,  unlamented,  unperceived,  unfufpected,  is  the 
 guilt  of  almoft  all  perfons  of  all  ranks  in  the  nation,  either  by 
 actually  practifing  themfelves,  earneftly  encouraging  and  pa- 
 tronizing, or,  at  leaft,  filently  countenancing  in  others  about 
 them,  the  ufe  of  profane  fongs :  and  fuch  are  all  fongs  what- 
 foever,  but  thofe  only  which  are  fpiritual ;  for  what  middle 
 point  is  there  between  fpiritual  and  profane  ? 
 
 That  I  may  not  be  mifunderftood,  by  profane  fongs,  I 
 mean,  the-  whole  rnafs  of  thofe  defcribing,  recommending, 
 and  fetting  pfr,  in  an  advantageous  and  alluring  point  of  vi : 
 that  which  Is  commonly  called  love,  war,  wantonnefs,  drunk% 
 ennefs,  revellings,  merry  fcenes,  drolleries,  jeftings,  and  like 
 things  which  are  not  convenient,  or  agreeable  to  the  grace 
 of  thegofpel;  in  a  word,  all  fuch  fongs  and  fonnets,  under 
 whatever  name  they  fpread  their  pollutions  abroad  in  the 
 world,  as  cannot  be  compofed  and  *u fed  to  the  glory  of  God, 
 in  the  name  of  the  Lord  Jefus  Chrtft,  by  thofe  wife  virgins 
 who  are  waiting  for  his  appearing,  being  filled  with  thank- 
 fulnefs  and  praife  for  his  grace,  whereby  it  is  gives  them  al- 
 ways to  triumph  and  glory  in  his  name. 
 
 All  other  fongs  befides  thofe  alone,  which  may  be  thus  com- 
 pofed and  fung  in  the  power  and  love  of  the  Holy  Ghoft  up- 
 on the  fpirit,  what,  tn  the  pame  of  God  I  befeech  you,  are 
 they,  but  evident  works  of  the  flefh,  whofe  wages  is  death  ? 
 flagrant  rebellions  againft  the  Moft  High  !  to  be  ranked  among 
 the  very  grofTeft  of  abominations !  with  this  exceffive  aggra- 
 vation in  the  nature  and  fpirit  of  them,  that  they  cannot  be 
 ufed  without  being  exulted  and  gloried  in. 
 
 Thus,  many  of  you  who  are  enemies  of  the  crofs  of  Chrifr, 
 and  whofe  end,  if  God  be  true,  whom  you  hold  a  Har,  is  de- 
 struction, whofe  god  is  your  belly,  who  mind  earthly  things, 
 do  glory  in  your  lhame,  proclaiming  your  fin  as  Sodom. 
 
 It  is  not  meant  by  any  thing  here  faid,  but  that  any  of  all 
 the  works  of  God,  either,  in  creation,  or  providence,  may  be 
 
 a  2 
 
iv  Of  the  Spiritual  Songs. 
 
 declared  in  a  long  or  hymn  ;  if  it  be  in  fuch  a  wife  and  devout 
 manner,  as  may  fill  the  heart  with  reverential  awe  and  love  to 
 his  holy  name.  In  this  manner,  all  thofe  efleotial  paffions  or 
 affections  of  the  human  heart ;  and  all  the  revorctionfc  of  ftates 
 and  kingdoms,  both  in  war  and  peace ;  with  alHthe  fcenes  of 
 domeftie  life,  may,  after  the  example  of  the  holy  men  of  old, 
 be  celebrated  or  recorded  inafong:  which,  in  this  manner, 
 would  be  only  a  plcafant  and  uieful  remembrancer  of  the  ways 
 of  God  to  men. 
 
 Aud  likewife,  on  the  other  hand,  any  of  thofe  works  of 
 darknefs  which  will  bear  to  be  named  among  faints  (for  the 
 very  naming  of  fome  of  them  defiles,  and  is  exprefsly  forbid- 
 den) may  alfo  be  defcribed,  no  doubt,  in  a  fong,  as  well  as 
 in  ^platn  profe ;  provided  it  be  done,  as  it  ought  in  any  cafe, 
 after  a  fanctified  fafhion,  with  fuch  a  juft  abhorrence  and  de- 
 tection of  the  crimes  mentioned,  as  may  fill  the  heart  with 
 ♦horror  at  the  commiflion  of  them,  and  infpire  it  with  grati- 
 tude to  Him,  who  in  mercy  gives  us  to  efcape  fuch  gulphs  of 
 perdition  :  though  here,  as  in  all  other  things,  only  that  wif- 
 dom  and  prudence  which  are  from  above  can  direct  and  pre-  j 
 ferve  us  fo  that  we  fin  not  againft  God. 
 
 Under  this  limitation,  that  we  fin  not  againft,  but  glorify 
 God  in  our  fongs,  compofing  and  Tinging  them  in  the  commu- 
 nion of  the  Holy  Ghoft ;  they  ought  not  to  be  called,  more 
 than  intended,  merely  as  moral  and  entertaining  (fo  they 
 fpeak);  but  as  fpiritual  and  holy  :  the  greater  part  whereof, 
 without  all  controverfy,  ought  to  be  employed  in  fhewing 
 forth  the  praifes  and  ways  of  the  Eternal  Three  who  bear 
 record  in  heaven  who  are  One,  in  that  grand  amazing  work  of 
 bringing  many  fons  and  daughters  to  glory,  according  to  the 
 manner  laid  down  in  the  New  Teftament,  difplaying,  as  in  a 
 clear  glafs,  that  they  who  behold  may  admire  and  adore — 
 that  infinite,  eternal,  incomprehenfible,  electing,  redeeming, 
 calling,  juftifying,  fanctifying,  glorifying  Love,  till  they  are 
 changed  into,  the  fame  image,  from  glory  to  glory,  as  by  the 
 Spirit  of  the  Lord. 
 
 The  warrant  for  making  fuch  fpiritual  fongs,  the  manner 
 of  ufing  them,  and  the  temper  of  fpirit  therein  required,  be- 
 ing founded  in  the  exprefs  commandment  and  power  of  the 
 
 Holy 
 
Of  the  Spiritual  Songs, 
 
 Holy  Ghoft;  the  world  has  no  right  to  demand  any  further 
 account  of  the  matter. 
 
 That  the  Holy  Ghoft  never  fails  to  accompany  and  imprefe, 
 in  his  own  time  and  manner,  his  commandments  with  his 
 power  upon  the  fpirits  of  the  faints,  whereby  they  are  ena- 
 bled willingly  to  yield  that  truth  of  obedience  required,  ac- 
 cording to  the  proportion  of  his  grace  within  them,  will  ap- 
 pear from  fuch  paiTages  as  thefe,  where  we  fee  the  command- 
 ment, "  Rejoice  in  the  Lord.  Rejoice  evermore.  And  a- 
 gain,  I  fay,  Rejoice."  And  thefe,  where  we  fee  the  power, 
 "  They  were  filled  with  the  Holy  Ghoft — with  peace  and 
 joy  in  believing — with  joy  unfpeakable'  and  full  of  glory. 
 The  fruit  of  the  Spirit  is  love,  joy,  peace."  So  that  accord- 
 ing to  his  word,  fo  is  his  power  in  all  the  children  of  adop- 
 tion; in  whom  he  dwells  "  A  well  of  living  water  fpringing 
 up  to  everlafting  life.  "  Is  any  merry  ?"  that- is,  sdifpofcd  to 
 gladnefs  in  the  Holy  Ghoft  ?  <f  Let  him  fing  plalms,  "even 
 fongs  of  praife.  Thus  the  Spirit  of  adoption,  wherever  he 
 refides,  makes  the  temples  of  God  the  habitations  of  his  praife  ; 
 the  habitations  of  his  joy. 
 
 "  Let  the  word  of  Chrift  dwell  in  you  richly  in  all  wif- 
 dom;  teaching  and  admonifhing  one  another  in  pfalms,  and 
 hymns,  and  fpiritual  fongs,  iinging  with  grace  in  your  hearts 
 to  the  Lord.  And  whatioever  ye  do  in  word  or  deed,  do  ail 
 in  the  name  of  the  Lord  Jefus,  giving  thanks  to  God  and  the 
 Father  by  him."  By  "  the  word  of  Chrift,"  in  this  paiTage, 
 we  are  plainly  to  underftand  that  word  of  Chrifc  whereby  we 
 (hall  be  judged,  according  as  he  hath  fpoken  it  by  his  Spirit 
 jn*  the  mouth  of  his  Apoftles,  even  as  it  is  written  by  the  A- 
 poftles,  faying,  "  We  are  of  God :  he  that  knoweth  God, 
 heareth  us;  he  that  is  not  of  6od  heareth  not  us,  hereby 
 know  we  the  Spirit  of  truth,  and  the  fpirit  of  error."  And, 
 "  hereby,"  know  we,  if  we  hearken  to  the  Apoftles,  the  manifeft 
 error  of  thofe  who  would  palm  upon  us  their  private  interpre- 
 tations of  the  Old  Teftament;  that  is,  any  interpretation 
 whatsoever  of  any  one  promife,  prophecy,  flgo,  type,  or  fi- 
 gure therein,  befides  that  alone  public,  authentic,  infallible 
 divine  interpretation  which  the  Holy  Ghoft  hath  blefTed  us 
 with^  by  the  miniftr&tion  of  the  Apoftles  in  the  New  Tefta- 
 menT;  according  to  which  alone,  eaclufive  of  Mofes  and  the 
 
 ■   Prophets, 
 
\i  Of  the  Spiritual  Songs. 
 
 Prophets,  let  it  be  fubmitted  to  inquiry,  if  we  are  not,  as 
 juft  now  hinted,  to  be  judged;  even  as  thofe  who  had  only 
 Mofes  and  the  Prophets  (hall  be  judged  by  their  writings, 
 exclufive  altogether  of  our  prefent  difpenfation ;  and  even  as 
 thofe  who  had  neither  the  Old  nor  the  New  Teftamenr,  fhall 
 be  judged  without  the  one  or  the  other. 
 
 And,  "  hereby,"  toXtick  by  the  Apoftles  rule,  we  will  be 
 directed,  if.  the  Spirit  of  Chriit  be  in  us,  in  the  nature  and 
 manner  of  thofe  fame  pfalras,  hymns,  and  fpirituai  fongs; 
 concerning  which  the  commandment  is  precifely  as  ftrict  and 
 binding,  that  ve  fing  and  admonifh  one'another  in  them,  as 
 that  the  ,word  of  Chriit  dwell  in  us  richly  in  all  wifdom, 
 Col.  iii.  1 6. 
 
 It  will  be  eafy  and  juft  from  all  this  to  obferve ,  that  we 
 have  no  liberty,  after  the  manner  of  fome,  from  the  word  of 
 Chrifr,  to  put  any  fong  of  confolation  and  praifein  the  mouth 
 of  any  perfon  but  a  believer  of  the  truth  unto  righteoufnefs, 
 who  makes  confe.lion  with  the  mouth  unto  falvation :  for,  is 
 there  any  confolation,  peace,  or  joy  in  God,  but  through  the 
 blood  of  Jefus%  the  atonement,  through  faith  in  his  blood  ? 
 Therefore,  in  the  following  collection,  you  will  meet  with  no 
 example  of  a  perfon  praying,  praifing,  profefling,  pleading, 
 as  one  acknowledging,  and  rejoicing  inthe  character  of  God  ac- 
 cording to  his  own  tefiimonv  well-pleafed  in  his  beloved  Son, 
 and  yet  fuppofing  himfelf  frill  without  any  perfonal  intereft  in, 
 the  love  and  righteoufnefs  of  God,  which  he  confeiTeth  he  hath 
 not  yet  attained,  but  is  above  all  things  defirous  of. — Such 
 characters  are  far  from  being  unfrequent;  nay,  in  many  places 
 to  which  you  might  be  directed,  you  will  meet  with  nothing 
 dfe;  but  whether  the  Holy  Ghoft,  who  alone  maketh  inter- 
 cefiion  for  the  faints  according  to  the  will  of  God,  had  any  . 
 hand  in  the  drawing  of  them,  let  the  Apoftles  of  God  bear 
 witnefs:  for  whatever  fhift  may  be  fallen  upon  for  an  excufe, 
 certain  it  is,  that  the  moft  folemn  act:  and  profeffion  of  fuch 
 people  is  but  an  indirect  way  of  calling  God  a  liar,  whether 
 in  what  they  call  praife  or  prayer  :  however,  it  would  be  un- 
 juft  to  include  in  this  cenfure  any  who  have  not  included  them- 
 fclves.  Let  Ifaac  Watt  for  example,  be  upheld  as  an  inftance 
 of  one  who  is  not  altogether  to  be  blamed  in  this  refpect, 
 feeing,  in  his  well  known  method  of  prayer,  he  molt  difcreet- 
 
 Jy 
 
Of  the  Spiritual  Songs,  vii 
 
 ly  advifeth  believers  now  and  then  upon  occafions,  even  when 
 praying  in  public  where  known  unbelievers  are  fuppofed  to 
 be  preient,  not  wholly  to  conceal,  but  with  due  caution  to 
 mention  and  dwell  upon  their  own  peculiar  privileges  as  faints 
 in  Chrift  Jefus  accepted  and  beloved,  that  the  unbelievers 
 may  be  a  (named, 
 
 From  hence  you  may  fee  to  what  a  pafs  we  are  now  arrived, 
 when  our  moil  venerable  leaders  are  come  fuch  a  length.  But 
 that  we  may  not  follow  any  atom  under  the  fun  one  flep  fur- 
 ther, without  prefent  proof  of  our  fafety,  let  them  produce 
 upon  the  fpot  one  inftance  from  the  whole  records  of  God,  of 
 perfons  already  regenerated,  juftified,  and  accepted  of  God, 
 praying  that  they  may  be  regenerated,  juftified,  and  accepted 
 of  God,  or  any  thing  to  the  fame  purpofe  implying  a  fenie  of 
 their  abfolute  want  of  thofe  things  which  the  Spirit  teaches 
 them  are  freely  given  to  them  of  God,  without  which  know- 
 ledge they  cannot  come  to  God,  calling  him  Father,  our 
 father;  and  without  calling  him  Father,  our  Father,  namely, 
 with  boidnefs  and  aflurance  by  the  blood  and  in  the  name  of 
 Chrift,  they  cannot  pray  :  for  fays  the  Spirit,  "  How  can  they 
 call  on  him  in  whom  they  have  not  believed  ?  No  man  com- 
 eth  to  the  Father  but  by  the  Son.  *  Afk  in  faith  nothing  wa- 
 vering. Let  not  that  man  that  wavereth  think  he  mail  re- 
 ceive any  thing  of  God.  Without  faith  it  is  impoffihle  to 
 pleafe  God.  For  whalfoever  is  not  of  faith,  is  fin."  If  it  be 
 replied,  It  is  written,  Afk,  and  ye  fhall  receive,  &c.  Anfiver, 
 It  is  written  again  in  connexion,  After  this  manner  pray  ye, 
 faying,  our  Father. 
 
 Further,  with  regard  to  fpiritual  fongs,  it  is  certain,  if  they 
 are  to  be  at  all,  they  muft  be  compofed  by  fome  one,  accord- 
 ing to  that  proportion  which  it  hath  pleafed  God  to  beftow 
 of  ability,  and  fpiritual  difcernment  in  things  pertaining  to 
 godtinefs.  For  thofe  fongs  and  pfalms  which  are  of  divine  in- 
 fpiration,  compofed  according  to  the  form  and  idiom,  as  it  is 
 called,  of  the  Hebrew  and  Greek  tongues,  wherein  they  were 
 originally  written,  can  be  nothing  to  perfons  ignorant  cf  thofe 
 tongues,  till  rendered  into  their  own ;  and  even  then,  how- 
 ever joyful  the  fubiectsbe,  they  cannot  be  fung  according  to 
 the  commandment,  till  prepared  and  fafhioned  into  the  form 
 
 of 
 
viii  Of  the  Spiritual  Songs, 
 
 of  fongs  and  hymns,  as  the  nature  of  every  particular  lan- 
 guage will  admit. 
 
 Moreover,  as  God  hath  not  confined  the  fnbject  matter  of 
 our  joy  and  praife  to  any  one,  or  even  to  all  thofe  paflages  of 
 his  holy  word  called  fongs  and  pfalms,  but  dirrufed  it  through- 
 out all  his  words  and  works,  all  thefe,  as  faid  before,  may 
 be  the  fubject-matter  of  our  fpiritual  fongs. 
 
 As  the  humble  mite  of  gratitude  to  God,  which  at  prefent 
 I  could  attain  to,  the  following  collection  of  Spiritual  Songs, 
 and  Scripture-paraphrafes,  all  of  them  originally  defigned  for 
 that  very  purpofe,  is  fent  abroad  into  the  world  ;  that  thofe 
 who  rejoice  in  the  fame  things  with  me,  may  candidly  ufe 
 them,  and  give  God  the  glory ;  or  if  it  be  a  talent  in  the  pow- 
 er of  their  hand,  as  I  wifti  it  may,  to  put  better  ones  in  their 
 place,  I  will  as  candidly,  I  hope,  ufe  theirs  with  them,  and 
 rejoice  before  God  who  hath  given  better  gifts  to  men. 
 
 Many  collections  of  the  fame  nature,  more  fplendid,  more 
 fmiftied,  more  efteemed,  than  I  can  expect:  the  prefent  will 
 be,  have  lately  made  their  way  into  the  public  confideration ; 
 but  whatever  they  be,  or  are  efteemed  to  be,  they  are  no- 
 thing to  one  who  feels  hjmfelf  obliged  in  his  confcience,  ac- 
 cording to  all  the  views  given  him  of  the  truth  by  the  word 
 of  Chrift,  to  think,  fpeak,  write,  preach,  and  pray,  as  God 
 fnall  be  pleafed  to  help  him,  againft  many  things  in  all,  or  al- 
 moft  all,  which  he  hath  feen  of  thofe  fame  books,  which 
 might  otherways  perhaps  have  quite  fuperfeded  and  rendered  fu- 
 perfluous,  even  in  his  own  opinion,  this  prefent  feeble  attempt. 
 
 Wherefore,  in  fpite  of  all  the  poflible  contempt  that  can 
 be  poured  by  any  man,  or  number  of  men  full  of  their  own 
 fyftems,  upon  the  Author  (who  is  alfo fully  perfuaded  in  his  own 
 mind)  and  his  performance,  if  they  bring  no  other  authority 
 againft  him,  as  he  apprehends  they  cannot,  but  their  own  o- 
 pinions,  or  the  opinions  of  other  creatures  equally  jaded  and 
 hackneyed  in  the  fame  ways  of  prejudice  with  themfelves,  he 
 reckons  it  equally  his  duty  to  difregard  their  cenfure  and  their 
 praife,  refting  fatisfied,  that  he  hath  profefFed  nothing  but 
 what  he  hath  believed  to  be  the  truth  according  to  the  doc- 
 trine of  the  Apoftles  ;  and  that  he  hath  eflayed  in  this  matter 
 what  he  ought  to  have  done  in  perfection,  if  perfection  were 
 within  the  reach  of  a  fojourner  upon  earth. 
 
 For 
 
Of  the  Spiritual  Songs.  ix 
 
 For  the  poetry,  he  makes  no  apology,  hitting  defigned  ir, 
 as  in  his  apprehenfion  it  ought  to  be,  only  for  a  commodious 
 vehicle  or  method  of  conveyance  to  thole  truths  which  he 
 judges  himielf  bound  to  propagate  and  defend  to  the  utmoft 
 of  his  power. 
 
 And  he  is  fenfible,  it  is  more  for  his  honour  to  have  aimed 
 one  arrow,  however  low  it  may  have  gone  on  its  path,  in  fuch 
 a  manner  as  was  in  his  view  moll:  likely  to  reach  the  mark, 
 than  to  have  made  ten  thoufand  fly  into  the  air  above  it, 
 though  they  (hould  have  foared  beyond  the  clouds,  till  they 
 were  Joft  among  the  ftars. 
 
 Therefore,  fcorning  it  as  a  point  of  ambition  utterly  crimi- 
 nal in  itfelf,  and,  in  all  refpedts  inconceivably  below  the  man 
 who  would  glory  in  the  crofs  of  Chrift,  fo  much  as  to  aim 
 at  pleafing  thofe  Handing  monuments  of  Satan's  pride  and 
 power,  the  wifdom  and  tafte  of  this  world,  whofe  friendship 
 is  death  and  enmity  againfl  God,  he  hath  written  to  thofe  in 
 the  lower  walks  of  life,  to  whom  the  Lord  gives  it  out  as  the 
 peculiar  glory  of  his  reign,  that  the  gofpel  is  preached,  and 
 of  whom  the  greater  part  of  thofe  who  are  called  into  the  fel- 
 lowship of  his  love  confifr.  And  for  their  fakes  it  is  needful 
 for  the  one  who  would  do  them  fervice,  to  ufe  great  plainnefs- 
 and  fimpliciry  of  language ;  as  knowing  their  joy  ought  to  arife, 
 as  indeed  all  the  joy  which  the  Holy  Gh oft  gives,  whatever 
 way  communicated,  will  arife  from  the  fubject-matter,  and 
 not  from  the  manufactured  form  of  the  things  which  are  fpo- 
 ken  of,  whether  in  profe  or  verfe. 
 
 However,  though  the  metre,  or  meafure  of  verfe  which  is 
 ufed,  be  the  lead  thing  to  be  confidered  in  a  fpiritual  fong, 
 yet  it  may  be  needful  to  give  fome  account  why  fuch  a  varietv 
 of  metre  is  called  into  the  fervice  of  this  publication  ;  and  the 
 rather,  becauie  fome  people  of  weaker  underftandings,  efpeci- 
 ally  among  thofe  who  are  more  pioufiy  difpofed,  may  perad- 
 venture  be  offended  when  they  fee  ho.iy  things  recorded  in 
 verfes  of  certain  kinds  of  metre,  which  they  have  been  ac- 
 cuftomed  to  confider  as  unlawful  and  profane.  Therefore, 
 for  the  fatisfaction  of  fuch  perfoos,  let  it  be  confidered, 
 
 Firft,  That  one  main  defign  of  fpiritual  fongs  is  to  fupply 
 the  place  of  all  unlawful  and  profane  fongs,  and  (hut  them 
 out  of  c^oors  for  ever,     A  laudable  defigu  futeiy!   profane 
 
 b  fongs ! 
 
Of  the  Spiritual  Songs. 
 
 fongs !  God  extirpate  them  !  utterly  !  utterly  !  let  their  voice 
 be  heard  no  more  !  how  their  voice  afcendeth  like  the  cry  of 
 Sodom  to  heaven,  crying  for  vengeance  upon  an  evil  and  a- 
 dulterous  generation  !  how  abominable  is  it  to  fee  the  difci- 
 ples  of  Jefus — difciples  of  Jefus  !  no!  they  are  the  difciples  of 
 the  devil,  who  roar,  or  whine  out  in  their  lewd  fonnets,  "  Ye 
 gods,  and  goddefTefs,  ye  powers  above,  Venus  queen  of 
 foft  defires,  Jove,  Apollo,  Cupid,  Hymen,  Diana/'  and  fuch 
 like  abominations  of  the  infernal  pit!  for  were  they  not  devils 
 whom  thofe  heathens  ignorantly  worshipped,  while  thick 
 darknefs  covered  the  people,  and  grofs  darknefs  covered  the 
 nations  ?  but  worfhip  them  thou  !  worfhip  them  now  !  when 
 the  true  light  ihineth  !  and  thou  doeft  it  in  prefumptuous  de- 
 fiance, and  avowed  defpite  of  the  Holy  Ghoft  !  thou  doeft  it, 
 and  indeed  thou  doeft.  it,  when  thou  invokeft  their  filthy 
 names  into  thy  own  as  filthy  lips,  in  oppofition  to  the  blood 
 of  the  Lamb,  which  thou  throweft  beneath  thy  foot,  while 
 thou  fuckeil  their  infernal  venom  with  thy  mouth  !  thou 
 doeft  it  in  the  face  of  the  beaming  love,  and  flaming  wrath  of 
 God,  to  thy  own  irretrievable  condemnation  and  cafting  into 
 the  midft  of  eternal  darknefs  and  fire  with  the  devil  and  his 
 angels !  yea  verily !  except  ye  repent,  ye  (hall  all  likewife  perifh. 
 
 But  hail,  O  ye  children  of  Zion,  who  are  joyful  in  your  King ! 
 lift  up  your  voice  with  ftrength,  and  fing  aloud  the  glories  of 
 his  name;  ftrike  rn  with  all  your  fire  and  fkill  amidfr  the  uni- 
 verfal  chorus  who  dwell  upon  his  praife.  But  away  !  away! 
 with  their  vile  Tea  Table  Mifcellanies,  Charmers,  Larks,  Lin- 
 nets, Nightingales,  with  all  their  other  trumperies  from  hell  I 
 thither  may  they  foon  defcend !  while  they,  who  loved  their 
 gaudy  glitter,  as  a  bride  loveth  her  ornaments,  and  a  maid  her 
 attire,  are  pluckt  as  brands  from  the  burning ! 
 
 In  order  tofupplant,  at  leafr,  that  they  might  bid  the  fair- 
 er for  fupplanting  all  fuch  ridiculous  and  profane  toys,  as  far 
 as  this  performance  may  prevail  (and  one  candle  can  only  en- 
 lighten its  own  fphere)  the  following  fpiritual  fongs  were  of 
 fet  purpofe  indeed  compofed,  and  adapted  to  a  confiderable 
 variety  of  meafures  or  tunes  :   For  whofe  further  vindication, 
 
 zdfy,  Let  it  be  obferved,    That  God  having  both  formed 
 the  voice,  and  planted  the  ear,  hath  made  us  fenfible  of,  and 
 capable  of  ufing  all  kinds  of  founds,  grave,  chearful,  mourn- 
 ful, 
 
Of  the  Spiritual  Songs.  xi 
 
 ful,  eager,  plaintive,  animating,  and  fo  forth,  according  to 
 all  their  poUible  variations  and  combinations ;  fhould  thefe, 
 all  thefe,  or  any  of  thefe  (let  prejudice  herfelf,  with  all  her 
 afTociations  of  ideas,  foolifh  connexions,  and  concatenations, 
 declare)  be  employed,  gnd  continue  -to  be  employed  in  the 
 fervice  of  the  devil,  because,  forfooth  i  they  are  fo  by  others, 
 or  have  been  {o  by  ourfelves  in  former  times,  even  in  the  days 
 of  our  vanity  I  or  rather  fhould  not  we  glorify  God  with  all  and 
 every  one  of  thefe  fame  powers,  and  founds,  or  motions  of 
 voice  ?  for  they  are  not  our  own,  but  his ;  and  therefore 
 good  ;  and  good  to  be  ufed  in  his  praife. 
 
 ydfy,  For  the  further  eftablifhing  of  this  point,  let  it  be  re- 
 marked, that  there  neither  is,  nor  can  be  any  fuch  thing  in 
 the  world  as  a  profane  tune  or  air,  to  which  a  fong  may  be 
 fung,  give  your  voice  whatever-modulations,  accents,  tranfi- 
 tions,  fallings,  or  rifmgs  you  pleafe ;  fo  that  it,  is  abfolutely 
 impoflible,  that  a  fpiritual  fong  can  be  polluted  or  profaned,  or 
 even  the  perfon  who  fings  or  hears  it,  by  any  tune  or  air 
 whatfoever,  more  than  a  violet-bed  can  be  polluted  by  the 
 fun-beams,,  becaufe  they  fhine  with  the  fame  light  on  a  neigh- 
 bouring dunghill:  for  as  the  light  is  to  the  objects  fhined  up- 
 on, fo  is  the  air  to  a  fong  that  is  fung ;  which  air  does  not 
 make  the  fong  good  or  bad,  but  only  fliews,  like  the  fun,  what 
 the  object  is;  or,  as  the  fire  and  flame  in  combuftible  matters 
 do  not  make  the  fuel,  when  it  burns,  of  better  or  worfe  qua- 
 lity and  fcent;  but  only  difcover  what  the  quality  and  fcent  of 
 the  refpeclive  kinds  of  materials  are:  [o  that,  when  you  fing 
 or  hear  a  fpiritual  fong,  provided  the  matter  be  good,  be  the 
 air  or  tune  what  it  will  or  may  be,  if  there  be  any  polluti- 
 on, bad  quality,  or  evil-ftvouring  thing  in  the  cafe,  they  can 
 by  no  means  arife  from  the  light  and  flame  of  the  fong;  but 
 altogether  from  a  different  fource  do  they  fpi  ing,  even  from 
 the  defperate  wickednefs,  O  man,  of  thy  own  heart !  For 
 what  is  a  tune  or  air,  but  only  the  combination  of  certain 
 founds  or  tones,  quicker  or  flower,  higher  or  lower,  in  that 
 fcale  and  order  of  proportions  which  God  himfelf,  and  not  man, 
 hath  created,  without  anv  meaning,  as  the  Apoitle  hath  (aid 
 of  a  tinkling  brafs  and  founding  cymbal,  feparate  from  the 
 ufe  to  which  they  are  applied  ?  And  to  thofe  fame  founds 
 men  find   themfdves  pofTeiTcd  of  a  power  of  adapting   what 
 
 b  2  words 
 
xii  Of  the  Spiritual  Songs. 
 
 words  and  meafures  they  pleafe ;  and  fo  the  fong  is  finimed 
 with  its  air  or  tune ;  even  as  the  natural  founds  of  the  alpha- 
 bet are  capable  of  being  combined  into  words  exprefiive  of 
 the  mort  horrible  blafphemy,  which  is  really  the  cafe  in  all 
 profane  fongs ;  or,  they  may  combined  into  words,  beauti- 
 fully exprefiive  of  the  moil  holy  and  rapturous  devotion  ;  which 
 may  be  the  cafe  in  all  fpiritual  fongs. 
 
 This  maxim  can  never  ceafe  to  hold  good,  namely,  That 
 the  former  abufe  of  a  thing  can  never  profane  the  right  ufe 
 thereof;  elfe  the  whole  language  of  the  New  Teftament  mufl 
 have  been  profaned,  and  rendered  unlawful  to  be  ufed  by  us, 
 but  efpecially  by  the  firft  Chriftians,  becaufe  they  could  not 
 but  remember,  how,  before  they  believed,  they  themfelves  had 
 abufed  that  tongue,  even  the  Greek,  wherein  the  NewTefta- 
 ment  vyas  written,  by  employing  it  in  all  their  abominable 
 idolatrous  fongs  to  devils,  and  inutterable  blafphemies.  But 
 thanks  be  to  Him  who  hath  warned  his  Church  from  their  fins 
 in  his  own  blood,  and  fanclified  and  perfected  in  himfelf  for 
 ever  both  them  and  all  their  ways  of  peace  and  praife  !  The 
 former  things  are  paft  and  gone !  Behold,  all  things  are  be- 
 come new !  If  any  man  be  in  Chrift,  he  is  a  new  creature : 
 Old  things  are  done  away.  Thus  th'e  Egyptian  gold,  which 
 God,  who  created  all,  created  good,  had  indeed  been  molten 
 into  graven  images  by  idolaters,  who  profaned  themfelves, 
 but  not  the  gold  ;  which  was  taken  again  at  God's  command, 
 and  not  a  new  gold  created  to  be  wrought  into  the  appointed 
 forms  of  the  holy  veflels  of  his  own  Tabernacle.  Triumph, 
 ye  vefTels  of  mercy  ;  be  filled  with  love  ;  and  pour  forth  all 
 within  )7ou,  your  foul  and  voice,  in  fongs  of  everlafting  praife, 
 to  Him  who  chofe  and  called  you  to  joy,  and  not  to  wrath. 
 
 The  things  which  have  been  above  fuggefted,  being  well 
 confidered,  it  is  to  be  hoped,  that,  whatever  the  Gallio's  da, 
 no  perfon  who  retains  in  his  heart  any  regard  to  God,  and 
 care  for  his  things,  will  go  on  to  plead,  becaufe  carrols  to 
 Satan  have  been  fung  to  certain  tunes,  airs,  or  variations  of 
 found,  which  fame  found  is  indeed  the  workmanfhip  of  God, 
 that  therefore  thqfe  fame  tunes,  airs,  or  variations  of  found, 
 which  people  are  from  their  infancy  acquainted  with,  the  on- 
 ly ones  indeed  which  many  of  them  know,  ought  Hill  to  be 
 l;ept.  devoted  and  dedicated  to  the  fame  idolatry ;  and  not 
 " '  rather 
 
Of  the  Spiritual  Songs.  xiii 
 
 rather  returned  from  whence  they  were  taken,  and  confecrat- 
 ed  to  the  fervice  of  him  whofe  are  we,  and  they,  and  all  our 
 ways,  God  blefled  over  all,  for  ever.     Amen  ! 
 
 Serve  therefore,  Chriftian,  and  worfhip  thy  God,  thy  glo- 
 ry, thy  only,  thy  eternal  joy,  with  all  the  heart,  and  voice, 
 and  ear,  and  tune  thou  haft  !  his  gifts  to  thee  are  altogether 
 clean!  they  both  chew  the  cud,  and  cleave  the  hoof.  The 
 infideof  thy  cup  is  clean,  being  purified  through  faith,  aud 
 fo  is  the  outfide  alfo.  Let  Baal  contend  for  Baal :  But  let 
 thofe  whofe  hearts  are  clean,  whofe  hands  are  pure,  whole 
 garments  are  undefiled,  being  warned  in  the  biood  of  the 
 Lamb,  and  fancYifled  by  the  Holy  Ghoft,  allow  what  is  writ- 
 ten, and  give  all  to  their  Lord,  knowing,  that,  "  To  the 
 pure  all  things  are  pure;  but  to  them  that  are  defiled,  and 
 unbelieving,  is  nothing  pure;  but  even  their  mind  and  con- 
 ference is  defiled.  They  profefs  that  they  know  God;  but 
 in  works  they  deny  him,  being  abominable  and  difobedient, 
 and  unto  every  good  work  reprobate.  But  God  hath  creat- 
 ed" (all  things)  to  be  received  with  thankfgiving  of  them  which 
 believe  and  know  the  truth :  for  every  creature  of  God  is 
 good  ;  and  nothing  to  be  refufed,  if  it  be  received  with  thankf- 
 giving: for  it  is  fanctified  by  the  word  (or  appointment)  of 
 God,  and  prayer.  Tit.  i.  15.  1  Tim.  iv.  3.  Let  every  voice 
 and  found,  therefore,  and  every  variation  and  poffible  com- 
 bination of  voice  and  found  utterable  by  the  mouth  of  man, 
 inearth,  as  in  heaven,  praife  the  Lord  !  Old  men,  and  babes, 
 young  men,  and  maidens,  praife  ye  the  Lord  !  my  foul,  and 
 a*ll  that  is  within  me,  be  rouzed  up  to  blefs  his  Holy  Name  ! 
 Hallelujah  !  and  again,  Hallelujah  !  evermore  Hallelujah  ! 
 
 But  hold !  what  blafphemous  objector  is  that  replies  ? 
 Would  you  have  old  men,  and  babes,  young  men,  and  maidens, 
 going  about  continually,  or  lolling  at  their  eafe  doing  nothing 
 but  bawling  out  Hallelujahs  ?  or,  do  you  mean  they  fhould 
 work  with  their  hands,  and  fing  the  while  a  fpiritual  long, 
 by  all  means  to  deceive  their  toil,  and  lift  their  hearts  to  hea- 
 ven  ?  No  doubt ! — How  charming  it  would  look  to  fee  at  carl 
 or  plow  ! — Stop,  thou  fool !  and  let  filence  take  poflcilion  oi 
 thy  lips,  or  be  alhamed  for  ever  !  it  is  already  feeu  whitbej 
 thou  waft  ruffling,  in  the  madnefs  of  thy  impietv,  into  a  flooc 
 pf  bljfplmny,  letting  thy  mouth   ag:::nft  the  htavens, 
 
 cfJc 
 
xiv  Of  the  Spiritual  Songs. 
 
 offering  to  burlefque  thy  Creator  and  Judge,  in  thofe  very  offices 
 of  various  kinds  which  he  hath  required  of  his  fervants  in  this 
 preient  ftate,  that  by  them  they  may  minifter,  or  rather  may 
 hold  a  correfpondenee  and  fellowfhip  with  himfelf,  in  mini- 
 ftririg  to  their  own  and  others  neceffities,  while  it  is  his  good 
 pleafure  to  feed  thern  from  the  field,  with  the  fweat  of  their 
 brow  :  In  which  offices  and  exercifes  of  their  refpec"tive  cal- 
 lings which  they  profefs,  and  employ  themfelves  in,  to  his 
 glory,  they  are  as  holy  in  his  eye,  and  ought  to  be  as  refpecT- 
 able  in  thine,  as  Mofes  {hiking  the  rock  that  the  waters  migh$ 
 flow  for  the  refrefliment  of  all  the  families  of  Ifrael,  with  their 
 cattle  alfo  ;  or  as  the  Princes  of  the  congregation  digging  at 
 another  time  the  miraculous  well  with  their  ftaves,  ilnging 
 in  chorus  all  the  while  around  its  border  as  they  wrought, 
 '*  Spring  up,  O  well !  fpring  up,  O  well  I" 
 
 But  fome  of  thofe  works  and  relations  which  it  hath  pleaf- 
 ed  Jehovah  in  his  wifdom  and  mercy  to  ordain  for  pledges 
 of  fellowfhip  and  love  betwixt  his  children  and  himfelf,  thou, 
 pitiful  infecl !  in  thy  fufficiency  of  wifdom,  and  grave  regards, 
 to  be  fure  !  for  the  Decent  and  Solemn  of  things,  wouldeft 
 fingle  out,  and  fet  off  with  a  fool's-cap  in  a  ridiculous  point 
 of  view-;  endeavouring  to  expofe  the  eternal  Father  and  his 
 methods  of  management  in  his  own  family  to  fhame,  from  the 
 imagined  circumftances  of  meannefs  and  contempt  wherein 
 thy  reprobate  heart,  (not  confidering,  that  if  there  be  any 
 fhame  arifing  from  the  circumftances  wherein  providence  has 
 placed  a  man,  it  mult  redound  upon  the  Creator,  and  not  the 
 creature)  in  the  height  of  its  malice  and  drollery*  mifreprefents 
 certain  perfoas  and  things,  becaufe  of  their  fituation,  not  their 
 fin. — -And  therefore  you  would  reprefent  them  as  profane  and 
 vile,  wholly  unfit  upon  fuch  occafions,  and  in  fuch  circum- 
 ftances to  praife  their  God  with  a  holy  fong;  and  yet  they  muft 
 praife  and  ferve  him  with  their  work,  unlefs  they  would  be- 
 come fuch  mockers  as  thou. 
 
 But,  avant,  thou  adverfary  !  fuch  perfons  as  thou  have  no 
 part  or  lot  in  this  matter  of  praife  and  joy.  The  verieft  child 
 in  the  kingdom  of  heaven  may  perceive,  that  thou  art  in  the 
 gall  of  bitternefs  and  in  the  bond  of  iniquity.  God  have  mer- 
 cy upon  thy  foul !  if  fo  be  the  thoughts  of  thine  heart  may  be 
 forgiven  thee.     With  thee  I  have  done ! — But  oh  !  let  not 
 
 the 
 
Of  the  Spiritual  Songs.  xv 
 
 the  faint  forget  to  confider  the  expediency,  nay,  indeed,  ab- 
 folute  neceffity  of  the  fame  devout  holy  temper  of  mind  to- 
 wards God,  in  all  manner  of  work,  amufement,  and  conver-. 
 fation,  without  exception  of  one  moment,  throughout  the 
 whole  number  of  hours,  days,  weeks,  months,  years  of  one's 
 life,  upon  any  occafion  or  pretence  whatfoever,  precifely,  as 
 in  thofe  which  are  commonly  called  the  immediate  acts  of 
 worfhip,  or  fometimes,  with  a  very  bad  effect,  as  it  were  by 
 way  of  eminence  and  particular  determination,  the  duties  of 
 religion,  as  prayer,  Sabbath-day  exercifes,  and  the  like; 
 particularly  the  Lord's  fupper,  which  is  very  frequently  ffyled 
 the  moil  folemn  and  holy  duty,  act  and  profefhon  of  all  Chri- 
 ftianity,  and  that  upon  a  comparifon  of  it  wuh  all  other  du- 
 ties, acts,  profeflions ;  and  then,  in  preference  to  all  other  ap- 
 proaches to  God,  which  are  equally  by  the  blood  and  Spirit  of 
 the  fame  Lord,  it  is  called  the  neareft  approach  to  God  on  this 
 fide  of  eternity  ;  and  if  you  die,  fay  they,  before  another  oc- 
 cafion of  this  kind  upon  earth,  you  mult  not  expect  fuch  ano- 
 ther banquet  till  you  go  to  heaven  ;  as  if  the  communion  were 
 fixed  to  the  bodily  acts  of  eating  bread  and  drinking  wine, 
 or  even  to  the  fpiritual  graces  exercifed  at  that  inftant  of  time 
 or  near  it;  as  if  the  believer,  who  is  the  only  communicant, 
 may  not  all  along,  without  intermi/Tion,  feed  equally  upon  hfer 
 Lord,  and  have  the  very  fame  communion  in  the  Holy  Ghcit, 
 when  not  eating,  as  when  eating ;  even  as  the  itrength  and 
 refrefhment  we  receive  from  our  natural  food,  are  not  more 
 confined  to  the  act  of  eating  our  meals,  than  to  the  intervals 
 between  :  and  is  it  not  mainly  for  the  intervals  between  tnat 
 we  eat  at  all,  that  we  may  glorify  our  heavenly  Father,  not 
 only  in  eating  and  drinking,  but  in  whatfoever  we  do. 
 
 And  is  it  for  men,  O  fools  and  flow  of  heart  to  believe,  to 
 weigh  the  laws  and  Spirit  of  God  in  their  balances  ?  to  parcel 
 out  with  a  bold  hand  what  degree  of  holinefs,  folemnity,  de- 
 votion, is  due  to  particular  times  and  things  ?  Abfolute  Po- 
 pery! Go  to  Rome,  thou  papift,  there  thou  wilt  find  hours, 
 and  days,  and  years,  canonical  and  holy,  all  according  to 
 thy  own  heart;  holy  places  !  holy  bones  !  holy  oil !  holy  wa- 
 ter !  holy  garments  !  holy  charms  !  and  holy  nothings  !  Nay, 
 his  holinefs  himfclf,  where  Satan  hath  his  feat,  reigning  upon 
 Satan's  throne,  and. giving  out  that  he  himfelf  is  God  !  go 
 
 into 
 
xvi  Of  the  Spiritual  Sengs. 
 
 into  thy  own  heart,  and  there,  even  there,  thou  wilt  find  all 
 iuch  ridiculous  dreams  as  thofe  at  Rome,  O  vain  man ! 
 who  art  ftill  of  opinion,  that  there  are  feafons  and  occafions 
 wherein.it  would  be  profane  to  rejoice  in  a  fpiritualfong,  and 
 therewith  to  praife  God ;  as  for  example,  at  one's  work  in 
 the  field,  or  by  the  way. 
 
 But  left  any  perfon  think  he  hath  here  found  an  occafion 
 to  go  away  prating  againft  the  truth,  as  if  it  had  been  in- 
 sinuated, that  the  Lord's  day,  and  the  Lord's  fupper  were 
 not  holy,  and  to  be  kept  holy  ;  God  forbid  all  fuch  infinua- 
 tions !  holy  let  them  be  allowed ;  and  holy  let  them  be  kept, 
 according  to  all  the  appointment  of  the  Lord  of  both  ;  but 
 let  every  thing  elfe  of  his  appoiment  be  holy  alfo,  and  kept 
 holy,  according  to  the  manner:  for  he  is  one,  and  his  way 
 one.  The  Lord  faid,  Remember  the  9abbath-day  to  keep 
 it  holy — After  what  manner  ?  The  manner  of  the  Lord  him- 
 felf,  who  refted  on  the  fevenrh  day,  and  hallowed  it.  Six 
 days  (halt  thou  labour — After  what  manner  ?  After  the  man-' 
 ner  of  the  Lord  himfelf,  who  in  fix  days  made  heaven  and 
 earth,  with  all  the  works  in  them.  Was  not  the  Lord  as  ho- 
 ly in  the  fix  days  work  as  in  the  feventh  day's  reft  ?  Was  not 
 the  Lord  Chrifr,  by  whom  all  things  were  made,  as  holy  all 
 the  time  he  was  fufFering  for  his  people,  and  bearing  their 
 fins,  and  finishing  the  work  which  the  Father  gave  him  to  do, 
 from  his  conception  to  his  death  ;  as  holy,  I  fay,  as  when  he 
 rofe  again  from  the  dead  on  the  firft  day  of  the  week,  and 
 hallowed  for  us  the  New-Teftament-Sabbath  ?  Did  not  he 
 .leave  for  us  a  pattern  that  we  might  follow  his  fteps,  as  well 
 when  fubject  to  his  parents,  the  Carpenter,  reputed  the  Son 
 cf  the  Carpenter,  miniftring  with  his  own  hands  to  his  own 
 neceffities,  and  thofe  of  the  family  wherein  he  dwelt,  as  at 
 any  other  time  ?  Was  not  he  all  along  equally  and  univerfal- 
 ly  holy  ?  And  what  is  perfect  can  admit  of  no  degrees,  no 
 more,  no  lefs.  Now,  ought  not  we  to  be  equally  and  uni- 
 verfally,  even  perfectly  holy,  in  all  things,  in  all  feafons,  to 
 eternity,  as  our  Lord  ? 
 
 If  it  be  faid,  we  are  not  able  to  be  fo  holy  and  devout  as 
 our  Lord,  efpecially  throughout  the  week,  at  our  work,  as 
 on  the  Sabbath  day,  and  particularly,  when  eating  the  Lord's 
 fupper.    It  is  anfwei.ed,  neither  is  it  in  our  power  to  be  as  ho- 
 ly 
 
Of  the  Spiritual  Songs.  xvii 
 
 ly  and  devout  as  the  Lord  on  the  Sabbath-day,  or  at  the 
 Lord's  fupper  ;  and  who  are  we  to  limit  the  Holy  Ghoit. !   is 
 it  not  in  his  power  to  make  us  as  holy  and  devout  at  one  time 
 as  another  ?  though  indeed  nothing  dwelling  in  fleiri  and  blood 
 can  attain  to  the  holinefs  and  devoutnefs  of  the  Lord  Chrifr. 
 But  is  it  really  our  ability,  or  even  the  power  of  the  Holy 
 Ghoit  enabling  us,  that  is  the  meafure  of  our  duty  ?  Is  it  not 
 rather  the  law  of  God  confirmed  in   the  blood  and  example 
 of  our  Lord  ?  faying,  "  Be  perfect,  as  your  Father  in  heaven 
 is  perfect.     Thou  (halt  love  the  Lord  thy  God  with  ail  thy 
 heart."     Mow,  does  not  this  law,  and  this  example,  which 
 was  no  more  than  the  law  required,  bind  always,  and  equal- 
 ly, to  abfolute  and  univerfal  obedience?  But  no  man  is  able 
 to  keep  this  law,  and  to  fulfil  this  example  of  the  Lord,  ac- 
 cording to  the  perfection  thereof :  Therefore  no  man  lives 
 but  is  reproved  by  this  law  of  fin  and  wrath  :  Neither  is  there 
 any  help  but  in  Chrift  alone,  the  end  of  this  law  for  righre- 
 oufnefs  to  every  one  that  believeth.     Has   Chrift-then  made 
 void  the  law  to  believers  ?  God  forbid  !  Nay,  he  hath  fulfil- 
 led it  for  them  in  his   own  blood  ;  and  given  it  to  them  thus 
 fulfilled,  the  royal  law  of  their  liberty,  that  they  may  love  it, 
 and  acknowledge  it  holy,  juft,  and  good,  and  yield  to  him, 
 their  Lord,  that  obedience,  the  teftimony  of  their  thankful- 
 nefs,  which  his  Spirit  within  them  enables  them  to  yield.    So 
 that,  if  they  are  daily  convinced  of  fin  and  wrath  according 
 to  that  law,  by  the  Spirit  of  their  Lord,  they  are  alfo  equal- 
 ly convinced  of  righteoufnefs,  even  the  righteoufnefs  of  their 
 Lord  fulfilled  for  them,  according  to  that  fame  law,  and  by 
 that  fame  Spirit.    Thus  they  have  their  acquittal  and  final 
 difcharge  written  at  the  foot  of  their  bill,  fo  to  fpeak,  writ- 
 ten in  the  blood  of  the  Lamb,  and  miniftred  from  day  to  day 
 by  the  Spirit,  in  the  court  of  their  confcience,  as  an  extract 
 faithful  and  true   of  what  is  regiftred   from  everlafting  to  e- 
 verlafting  in  the  court  of  heaven,  and  in   the  heart  of  God, 
 according  to  his  own  unchangeable  purpofe,  which  he  hath 
 purpoied  in  himfelf. 
 
 Hence  it  comes  to  pafs,  that,  though  they  be  continually 
 finning,  they  are  a'fo  continually  believing,  continually  re- 
 penting, continually  praying,  continually  forgiven,  .'continu- 
 ally loving,  continually  obeying,  and  continually  afpiring  af- 
 
 c  ter 
 
xviii  Of  the  Spiritual  Songs. 
 
 ;  yet  continually  coming  lhort  of  the  mark,  be- 
 lag  only  perfeel  in  their  Lord,  from  whom  alfo  all  their  fruit 
 is  found,  not  for  their  acceptance,  but  to  the  praife  of  his 
 grace  who  hath  made  them  accepted,  not  in  themfelves,  but 
 in  his  own  Beloved. — What  is  perfection  of  obedience,  but 
 
 k>  the  very  thing,  in  the  very  feafon,  manner,  and  fpirit 
 commanded:   Thus  the  Lord  obeyed  to  the  death  for  his 
 church.     Thus  they  are  cailed  to  follow  him  in  love  with 
 their   whole  heart :    It  is  the  heart  he  requires :  it  is  equal 
 what  the  fervice  be,  whether  plowing,  or  prailing,  (both  are 
 duties,  and  they  do  not  interfere,  more  than  breathing  in- 
 terferes with  living)  if  you  do  whatfoever  you  do  in  faith, 
 you  are  holding  fellowihip  therein  with  him  in  his  love, 
 through  the  Holy  Spirit.     As  on  the  other  hand,  without 
 faith  it  is  impoflible  to  pkale  God.     Thus  the  carnal  mind  is 
 enmity  agzinfrGoi;  Ibis  every  thought,  word,  ami  deed : 
 thus  the  plowing  and  praying  ot  the  wicked  are  both  equally 
 fin;  as  the  fountain,  fo  the  ftreams,  as  the  tree,  lb  the  fruits : 
 as  the  mind  is  not  fubiect.  to  the  law  of  God,  neither  indeed 
 can  be,  \o  neither  can  any  thing  proceeding  from  fuch  a  mind 
 s  water  can  arife  no  higher  than  its  own  fource. 
 if  any  perfon  ftill  fay,  we  are  not  obliged  equally  and 
 univerfally  at  all  times  to  be  holy  and  devout ;  then  weaken- 
 ing the  obligation  of  the  law,  you  weaken  alfo  the  righteouf- 
 nefs  of  Chrift,  and  take  away  the  ufe  thereof,  at  leaft  in  part, 
 and  if  in  part,  then  in  whole ;  for  it  cannot  be  halved  :  you 
 reflrain  the  working  of  the  Spirit  of  God  in  thofe  peculiar 
 energies  and  operations  of  his  upon  the  fpirits  of  the  faints, 
 namely,  faith,    repentance,   prayer,    praife,  joy   before  God 
 through  the  atonement,  meeknefs,  humility,  and  every  other 
 connected  grace :  for  if  I  be  lefs  bound  to  be  holy  at  one 
 time  than  another,  then,  though  I  fail,  I  am  lefs  bound  to 
 believe,  repent,  pray,  &c.  as  being  lefs  guilty. 
 
 Lajlly,  If  people  will  never  have  done  pleading  againft 
 Scripture  their  own  dreams  and  imaginations,  for  fome  ex- 
 traordinary kind  of  holinefs  and  devotion  required  in  particu- 
 lar occasions,  2nd  things,  as  the  Lord's  fupper;  let  them 
 confider,  that  under  a  pretence  of  exalting  one  or  two  of  the 
 s  of  God,  in  the  pride  of  their  zeal  for  fuperftition  and 
 will-worihip,  they  caft  down  all  the  reft  of  his  precepts  and 
 
 appoint- 
 
Of  the  Spiritual  Scr.gf, 
 
 appointments,  to  the  level  of  what  they  •:  nary 
 
 and  lefs  folemn.     What  a  flood-gate  opened  to  a  fa] 
 licentioufnefs    have  we   here  !   for,  if  a  man  be  bet  moO  ex- 
 traordinarily holy,  devout  rod  ,  on 
 a  communion  Sabbath,  or  were  it  vfiea  once  a  a 
 ordinary  portion.,  even  a  very  moderate  pittance 
 of  ballads,    devotion,    foicrr.r.ity.    may   ferve  I  een 
 hands !   I  fay  pretence  to  hoiine:;.   i;:. 
 fphere  of  reaiity  and  truth  altogether. 
 
 Has  this  their  doctrine  had  no  efleft  \  let  the  practice  of 
 the  multitude  about  their  (acnuneatai  oceafions,  compared 
 with  their  practice  upon  all  other  oeeafions,  tell,  h  it  pof- 
 fible  they  can  be  Chrifciar.s  who   h: 
 
 cipies  which  hold  fuch  conclufic  :  .  /       -. 
 
 pents  in   their  bofoms  I  aril]   they  I  Moles, 
 
 and  lecture  us  from  thence  c  holy  ground  at  the  burn- 
 
 ing bnfh  I  about  the  holinefs  of  the  tabernacle,  ?:ieirs  gar- 
 ments, meats,  days,  the  temple,  and  and 
 ceremonies  \  that  would  be  to  ae  in  the 
 flefli;  and  that  he  batfa  -:i  the  fki  ^g  m 
 the  true  light ;  that  would  be  to  take  part  aril  i  I : . .-  (c  - 
 crucified  him  j   that  would  be  i 
 
 hath  given  us   the   fub  fiance  and  rmth  of  all  thofe  figc 
 which  have  no  glory  now,  by  rtafoo  of  that  glory  '   bkh  ex- 
 celleth  ;  the  holinefs  of  thole  things  having  been  only  rdati 
 the  reality  and   truth  whereof  was  Chriit   and  his  thi: 
 Oh  friends!  do  not  any  m  a  of  the 
 
 law  of  God,  now  fulfilled  in  the  blood  of  his  Son.  :  y  an  im- 
 plicit denial  of  its  perfection,  by  your  tv  itinttions  in 
 holinefs,  folemnity,  and  devotion,  where  God  ha?  made  no 
 
 :;ence:  or,  if  you  will  ftill  plead  your  own  way,  inG: 
 name  we  adjure  you.  fnew  God's  authar!:;-.  and  the  pi 
 where  he  hath  laid  in  all  d  Teftament,  that  •.  : 
 
 be  lefs  folemn,  holy,  and  devout  upon  one  occa:       .   I 
 nother,  or  any  thing  to  the  lame  purr     _. 
 are   not  required  to  be  .   fo- 
 
 lemn, devout  in  all  times.  r,  with- 
 
 out exception,  or  dHti 
 ly,  with  whom  is  no  rariabkaeJs  or  Chad  aiming. 
 
 As  you  infill  mofl  upon  the  L 
 
 c   > 
 
xx  Of  the  Spiritual  Songs. 
 
 ftance  ferve  for  all ;  try  how  you  will  difen  tangle  yourfelf 
 from  the  natural  perplexities  that  involve  you  and  your  opini- 
 ons there:  will  you  allow  yourfelf  calmly  to  confider,  what 
 anfwer  you  ought  to  give  when  you  areafked,  Wherein  does 
 this  fame  extraordinary  holinefs  in  the  Lord's  fupper  which 
 you  plead  for,  above  all  other  holinefs  of  ChrifVs  inltitutions, 
 coniift  ?  Is  it  in  the  words  of  the  inftitution  ?  They  are  fimple 
 and  plain,  as  any  of  all  the  precepts  of  the  Lord  ;  "  Do  this 
 "  in  remembrance  of  me."  And  is  it  for  you  to  eke  them 
 out,  and  add  to  his  words  ?  Is  it  in  the  immediate  prefence  of 
 the  ligns,  bread  and  wine  ?  But  what  do  the  figns,  bread  and 
 wine,  profit  ?  Are  they  really  tranfubftantiated,  and  become 
 God  ?  that  you  will  not  fay.  What  profits  then  ?  is  it  not 
 the  Spirit  and  the  life  ?  even  the  repreiented  Lord,  the  altar 
 which  fanc"tifies  the  gift  ?  who  was  dead,  and  is  alive  ?  Is  not 
 he  always  immediately  prefent  ?  and  what  can  the  prefence  of 
 a  creature  add  to  the  folemnity  of  the  Lord's  prefence,  whofe 
 prefence  dwells  within  thee,  wherefoever  thou  art,  O  believ- 
 er, for  ever  and  ever  .?  "  Know  ye  not,  that  Chrift  is  in  you 
 except  you  be  reprobates?"  if  any  man  have  not  the  Spirit  of 
 Chrift,  he  is  none  of  his. — Are  not  ye  the  temples  of  the  liv- 
 ing God  ?  living  itones  ?  built  by  the  Spirit  upon  the  living 
 foundation  ?  branches  in  the  true  vine  ?  Sheep  that  hear  the 
 good  Shepherd  ?  Kings  and  priefts  to  God  ?  his  fervants,  re- 
 deemed by  his  blood  I  his  children,  begotten  by  his  Spirit  ? 
 efpoufed  to  him  ?  one  body  with  him  ?  one  Spirit  with  him? 
 joined  to  the  Lord,  every  one  of  you  members  of  his  body, 
 who  is  the  head  of  you  and  of  all  principality  and  power  ? 
 Behold,  he  cometh  with  clouds  to  take  you  to  his"joy !  when 
 is  the  time  then  ?  where  the  work  ?  what  the  converfation, 
 wherein  you  ought  not  to  be  looking  out  with  earneff.  ex- 
 pectation for  his  appearing  ?  fober  and  watchful,  with  your 
 loins  girt,  and  your  lamps  burning  ?  remember,  he  hath  faid, 
 Be  ye  holy  in  all  manner  of  converfation  ;  for  I  am  Holy  faith 
 the  Lord.  And  again,  Glorify  God  in  your  bodies  and  fpirits 
 which  are  God's.  And  whether  ye  eat,  or  drink,  or  whatfo- 
 ever  you  do,  do  all  to  the  glory  of  God ;  heartily  as  to  the 
 Lord:  not  flothful  in  bufinefs,  but  fervent  in  fpirit,  ferving 
 the  Lord,  according  to.  the  feafon  :  for  ye  ferve  the  Lord 
 Chriil,     Therefore  adorn  the  doctrine  of  God  your  Saviour 
 
 in 
 
Of  the  Spiritual  Songs.  xxi 
 
 in  all  things,  /hewing  all  good  fidelity.  And  let  all  yourcon- 
 verfation  be  with  grace,  feafoned  with  fait,  good  for  the  uie. 
 of  edifying,  that  it  may  minifter  grace  to  the  hearers.  You 
 fee  this  grace,  this  feafoning,  this  fait,  are  to  be  equally  and 
 univerfally  fpread  over  the  whole  Chriftian  life. 
 
 Now  to  conclude,  as  we  began  againft  profane,  and  for 
 Spiritual  Songs  ;  Where  is  the  edification  ?  where  the  feafon- 
 ing with  fait  ?  where  the  grace  miniftered  in  a  profane  fong  ? 
 a  profane  work?  or  any  thing  that  is  not  a  facrifice  of  thankf- 
 giving,  a  hymn  of  praife  to  God,  miniftered  through  the  Spi- 
 rit, in  the  name  of  Chrift  the  Lord  ?  O  men  !  how  have  ye 
 made  of  none  effect  the  commandments  of  God  by  your  tra- 
 ditions ?  this  is  for  a  lamentation  !  and  fhall  be  for  a  lamenta- 
 tion ! 
 
 But  let  the  children  of  joy  be  joyful  in  their  God.  Gather 
 yourfelves  at  the  found  of  his  trumpet !  prefs  around  his  ftand- 
 ard !  behold  it  waving  upon  the  walls !  throw  yourfelves  in 
 the  breach  !  ftem  the  torrent!  ftop  up  the  ways  of  wicked  - 
 nefs  i  condemn  the  works  of  darknefs  by  your  chafte  behavi- 
 our in  the  light !  ftand  faft  !  play  the  hero !  glory  in  the 
 crofs !  bold,  undaunted,  avowed,  live  ye ;  die  ye  by  the 
 crofs  !  and  live  for  ever,  O  kings  and  priefts  to  God  ;  live  with 
 your  Lord,  and  reign  on  thrones  appointed  you  of  your  Fa- 
 ther, wearing  crowns  of  glory  and  immortal  joy !  fing  praife ! 
 fing  praife!  fing  praife  !  Amen. 
 
 Of   the    PSALM  S, 
 
 Confidered  as  fpoken  by  the  Prophet,  not  of  himfelf, 
 but  of,  or  in  the  Perfon  of  Messiah  the  Lord. 
 
 IS  it  not  furprizing  at  this  day,  when  all  honeft  freedom  of 
 inquiry  is  beginning  to  be  fo  much  indulged,  that  thofe 
 vaft  mountains  of  rubbifh,  which  whole  legions  of  commenta- 
 tors have  been  heaping  for  ages  upon  the  Pfalms,  are  frill  fuf- 
 fered  to  lie  aimoft  unmolefted,  untouched  ?  for  what  though 
 fome  one,    happily,  may  have  difcovered,  a/fayed,  and  laid 
 
 open 
 
xxii  Of  the  Pfalms. 
 
 open  the  golden  vein  of  truth  which  runs  through  that  pre* 
 cious  portion  of  the  book  of  God ;  where  have  they  been 
 found  who  have  purfued  the  tract,  and  wrought  the  mine  ? 
 or,  if  fome  have  actually  begun  to  put  their  hands  to  the 
 work,  in  what  a  my  referved  partial  hidden  manner  have  they, 
 proceeded  ?  that  we  may  ftill  fay,  where  are  they  ?  who  are 
 they  ?  as  if  they  had  been  itealing  away,  rather  than  boldly 
 avouching  the  caufe  of  truth. 
 
 How  much  the  caufe  of  truth,  to  the  h-urting  of  many 
 fouls,  hath  iufFered  by  wrefting  that  particular  book  of  di* 
 vine  infpiration,  may  appear  from  a  comparifon  of  the  com- 
 mon itream  of  commentators  with  the  words  of  the  Holy 
 Gholt ;  who  hath  certified  us,  that  no  prophecy  of  the  Scrip- 
 ture is  of  any  private  interpretation.  For  the  prophecy  came 
 not  in  old  time,  or  at  any  time,  as  the  margin  reads,  by  the 
 will  of  man  :  but  holy  men  of  God  fpake  as  they  were  moved 
 by  the  Holy  Ghoff.  Now  where  has  the  Holy  Ghoft,  in  the 
 whole  public  interpretation  of  the  Old  Teftament  writings 
 by  the  Apoltles,  given  any  one  hint  for  applying  any  one  of 
 the  Pfalms,  or  any  one  part  of  a  Pfalm,  to  David  ?  or  any 
 one  of  the  penmen,  concerning  whom  we  hear  fo  much,  who- 
 foever  they  were  ?  Is  not  a  dead  filence  obferved  on  this  head 
 throughout  the  whole  New  Teftament  ?  A  fhrewd  hint,  that, 
 whoever  was  employed,  the  Holy  Ghoft  had  no  hand  in  any 
 fuch  applications.  For  he  hath  faid  to  the  churches,  con- 
 cerning the  falvation  which  the  Apoltles  preached,  that  the 
 Prophets  enquired  and  fearched  diligently,  who  prophefied  of 
 the  grace  that  mould  come  unto  you  :  fearching  what,  or 
 what  manner  of  time  the  Spirit  of  Chrift  which  was  in  them 
 did  fignifie,  when  it  teftifled  before-hand  the  fufFerings  of 
 Chrift,  and  the  glory  that  mould  follow.  Unto  whom  it 
 was  revealed,  that  not  unto  themfelves,  but  unto  us  they 
 did  minifler  the  things  which  are  now  reported  unto  you, 
 by  them  that  have  preached  the  gofpel  unto  you,  with  the 
 Holy  Ghoft.  fent  down  from  heaven ;  which  things  the  an- 
 gels defire  to  look  into.  Agreeably  to  ail  this,  David  had 
 faid,  by  the  fame  Spirit  in  his  laft  words,  the  Spirit  of  the  • 
 Lord  fpake  by  me,  and  his  word  was  in  my  tongue.  And 
 the  Lord  faid  to  the  Jews,  Search  the  Scriptures,  for  in 
 them  ye  think  ye  have  eternal  life  ;  and  thefe  are  they  which 
 
 tefUfy 
 
0  Of  the  Pfalms. 
 
 XXUl 
 
 teftify  of  me.     It  was  the  Scriptures  of  the  Old  Teftament 
 to  which  they  were  referred ;  and  this  teacheth  us,  that  Chrift: 
 is  the  great  and  principal  fubjecl  of  them-,  and  that  our  moft 
 painful  fludy  and  learned   refearches  are  to  no  profit  as  to 
 ^eternal  life,  and  confequently,  to  nothing  at  all,  if  we  can- 
 not difcern  God  testifying  of  his  own  Son,  our   Lord  Jefus 
 Chrift,  in  them.    As  in  that  place,  he  refers  to  the  Scriptures 
 in  general,  fo,  when  going  to  accomplish,  his  obedience  in  his 
 death  at  Jerufalem,  he  tells  his  difciples  exprefsly  of  the  mat- 
 ter, pointing  to  the  Pfalms  in  particular,  faying,  The  things 
 which  are  written  in  the  Prophets  and  in  the  Pfalms  concern- 
 ing me  have  an  end.    And  accordingly,  in   the  New   Tefta- 
 ment we  find  many  of  the  Pfalms  exprefsly  applied  to  him  ; 
 which  fhews,  as  Chrift  is  the  great  fubjecl:  of  the  Scriptures 
 in  general,  fo  in  particular,  and  efpecially  of  the  Pfalms  :   and 
 therefore  we  fhould  fearch  for  Chrift  in  them,  even  in  them 
 all.     For,  if  no  part  of  the   Pfalms  is  to  be  explained  of 
 Chrift,  but  what  is  in  as  many  words  applied  to  him  in 
 the  New  Teftament,  as  fome  would  make  us  think,  fo  nei- 
 ther is  any  fuch  part  of  the  Law  and  the  Prophets  to  be  un- 
 derftood  of  Him ;  and  fo  a  great  part  of  the  Old  Teftament, 
 fpeaking  of  Chrift,   muft  go  for  nothing  as  to  any  faving  pur- 
 pofe ;  nay,    muft  be  confidered  as  a  blot  upon  the  face  of  Je- 
 fus ;  for  the  Spirit  teacheth  us  by  truth,  and  not  by  falfe- 
 hood  :  for,  if  I  am  reading  any  pafTage  fpeaking  of  Chrift,  and 
 apply  it  otherways,  I  cannot  be  profited,  it   is  impoflible, 
 whatever  pious  views  I  may  have,  feeing  I  rob  God  of  his  glo- 
 ry, and  give  it  to  another,  deceiving  myfelf,  and  being  deceiv- 
 ed :  now  deceit  can  never  be  of  God,  nor  for  the  glory  of  God. 
 But,  as  we  have  feen  the  New  Teftament  explains  the 
 Old,  by  letting  us  into  the  fpiritual  intent,  truth,  or  mean- 
 ing thereof;  with  this  key  we  are  warranted  to  open  up  and 
 explain  thofe  pafTages  which  are  not  directly  mentioned  in 
 the  New  :    Neither  need  we  be  afraid  of  any  dangerous  mif- 
 take,  as  long  as  we  are  guided  by  that  light  which  fhineth  in 
 the  face  of  Jefus. 
 
 If  then  we  would  exprefs  praife  with  knowledge,  and  ling 
 the  Pfalms  with  underftanding  and  grace  (and  there  can  be- 
 no  grace  without  truth)  in  our  hearts,  we  muft  go  to  the  A- 
 poftles,  who  alone  had  the  Holy  Ghoft  given  them  to  fearch 
 
 into 
 
xxiv  Of  the  Pfalms.  0 
 
 into  the  mind  of  Chrift,  and  declare  to  the  Churches  thofe 
 things  which  God  had  kept  fecret  from  the  foundation  of  the 
 world,  even  the  hidden  things  of  God,  wrapped  up  in  the 
 myflery  of  all  the  prophecies,  promifes,  figns  and  figures  that 
 had  gone  before,  (hewing,  like  the  outer  leaves  of  an  unblown 
 flower,  that  fome  better  things  were  to  come,  whofe  form  and 
 beauty  mould  appear  difplayed  to  open  view,  in  the  fulnefs 
 of  their  glory,  when  the  proper  feafon  appointed  of  God  fhould 
 arrive. 
 
 If  this  matter  had  been  well  attended  to,  we  had  not  feen 
 reverend  fathers,  and  admired  doctors  gravely  explaining,  that 
 is,  perverting  and  destroying  the  New  Teftament  by  the  Old, 
 cafting  the  vail  of  Mofes  again  upon  the  face  of  Jefus,  and 
 hiding  the  glory  by  that  which  in  itfelf  had  no  glory,  fpread- 
 ing  night  and  tenfold  darknefs  between  us  and  the  fun  of  righ- 
 teoulhefs,  giving  us  ffones  for  bread,  ferpents  for  fifties,  the 
 letter,  inftead  of  the  Spirit,  the  miniftration  of  death,  inftead 
 of  life,  the  reveries  of  their  own  carnalized  imaginations,  in- 
 ftead of  the  eternal  truths  and  confolations  of  the  Holy  Spi- 
 rit. Let  the  reader  who  is  acquainted  with  fuch  teachers  and 
 their  adherents  judge  how  far  they  are  guilty.  How  dange- 
 rous are  their  glofies  upon  the  Pfalms! 
 
 Prudential  confederations,  perhaps,  mould  lead  one  cauti- 
 oufly  to  enquire,  if  it  would  not  be  conftrued  calumny  to  in- 
 sinuate, that  you  will  hardly  meet  with  a  place  of  public  teach- 
 ing in  the  kingdom  wholly  free  from  the  grofs  abufe  here 
 complained  of.  Therefore  to  cut  off  occasions  from  thofe 
 who  might  be  difpofed  to  take  them,  inftead  of  making  irri- 
 tating afTertions,  however  juftifiable  in  proof,  let  the  perfon 
 of  like  precious  faith  with  the  Apoftles  confider,  how  he 
 ought  to  be  moved  with  the  highefl  indignation  and  pity, 
 when  he  hears  a  fet  of  men,  with  their  admirers,  fubftituting 
 what  they  call  their  moral  virtue,  fincere  obedience,  good  dif- 
 pofitions  of  heart,  and  fuch  like  names,  I  fay  names,  for  in  their 
 fenfe  and  connexion  they  can  be  nothing  elfe  but  names, 
 falfehoods,  and  not  truth,  inftead  of  Jcfus  Chrift  and  him 
 crucified,  for  the  j unification  and  acceptance  of  finners  with 
 God.  They  leave  you  at  no  lofs  for  their  meaning;  for,  to 
 pafVby  other  devices  of  theirs  to  eftablifh  an  imperfect  in- 
 ftead of  a  perfect  obedience,  (0  mafter-plot  of  hell,  to  efta- 
 blifh 
 
Of  the  Pfalms.  xxv 
 
 bTifti  the  torments  of  hell,  inftead  of  the  glory  of  heaven!) 
 they  will  read  out  all  the  paffages  in  the  Pfalms,  where  the 
 righteoufnefs,  integrity,  and  uprighrnefs  of  Jefus  Chrift  are 
 mentioned  and  rewarded  ;  thefe  they  explain  for  proof  and 
 illuftration  of  their  fenfe,  namely,  that  our  own  virtuous  in- 
 clinations and  actions  are  the  exprefs  conditions  of  our  ob- 
 taining the  mercy  of  God  and  acceptance  with  him.  So,  ma- 
 ny of  them  are  not  afhamed,  nor  afraid,  after  all  that  the 
 witnefles  for  the  Lord  Jefus  have  advanced,  broadly  to  fpeak 
 out. 
 
 They  have  different  ways  of  phrafing  and  difguifing  the 
 matter;  fometimes  they  will  tell  you,  that  Jefus  Chrift  by  his 
 death  laid  a  foundation  for  the  acceptance  of  your  repentance 
 and  faith,  and  that  he  works  thefe  graces  in  you,  and  upon 
 account  of  them  you  are  accepted  of  God  ;  at  other  times,  to 
 the  fame  purpofe,  they  will  tell  you,  that  Jefus  Chrift  pur- 
 chafed  by  his  death  the  blotting  out  of  all  paft  fcores,  and 
 that  he  gives  you  the  Spirit  to  work  in  you  the  moral  virtues, 
 and  all  good  works,  which  if  you  bring  forth,  you  are  jufti- 
 fied  and  accepted  in  the  fight  of  God  on  account  of  them; 
 whereas,  they  might  as  well- have  taught  you  of  your  being 
 accepted  and  juftified  in  the  fight  of  God,  upon  the  account 
 of  an  energy  from  hell  upon  your  fpirit,  the  one  being  as  true 
 as  the  other ;  feeing  there  is  no  acceptance,  no  juftification 
 of  any  perfon  with  God  but  through  the  blood  of  the  Lamb 
 only,  excluding,  in  this  refpect,  all  our  good  works,  as  much 
 as  our  bad  works. 
 
 No  matter,  they  go  on  in  their  way,  hardy,  zealous,  un- 
 daunted ;  no  wonder  the  blind  be  foremoff ;  for  Satan  hath 
 blinded  their  eyes,  and  they  fee  not  their  danger  :  Kow  elfe 
 could  you  fee  them  fet  whole  congregations  of  poor  deceived 
 people  a-flnging  the  24th  and  15th  Pfalms,  according  to  that 
 blafphemous  view  they  have  given  of  that  righteoufnefs 
 whereby  a  man  can  afcend  into  the  hill  of  God  ?  as  if  it  could 
 be  any  other  but  the  righteoufnefs  of  God,  even  the  riphte- 
 oufnefsof  his  Servant  whom  he  uphokL-th,  his  elect  in  whom 
 his  foul  delighteth,  for  whofe  righteoufnefs  fake  Jehovah  is 
 weli-pleafed,  becaufe  he  hath  magnified  the  law  and  made  it 
 honourable,  and  become  the  end  thereof  for  righteoufnefs  to 
 every  one  that  believed),  having  pureed  away  the  fins  of  his 
 
 d  people 
 
xxvi  Of  the  Pfahns, 
 
 people  by  himfelf,  and  then  entered  into  the  higheft  heavens 
 with  his  own  blood,  their  accepted  Head  and  Forerunner, 
 having  obtained  eternal  redemption  for  them,  who  enter 
 along  with  him  in  his  right,  in  their  appointed  time,  not  by 
 works  of  righteoufnefs  which  they  themfelves  have  done,  but 
 by  that  finished  accepted  everlailing  work  of  righteoufnefs 
 which  He,  their  Lord,  their  reprefentative  hath  done  for  them ; 
 whom  he  aifo  fanctifies  throughout,  in  body,  foul,  and  fpirit, 
 to  the  glory  of  his  Father,  and  fo  makes  meet  for  the  inheri- 
 tance purchafed  and  pre-pared  by  himfelf  for  his  faints  in  light. 
 
 Neverthelefs,  as  if  it  were  a  hainous  guilt  to  leave  any  faying 
 of  the  Lord  unwrefted  to  the  deftruction  of  as  many  as  fhall 
 fully  imbibe  the  fpirit  of  their  doctrine,  they  perfevere  in  their 
 purpofe,  ■  and  make  the  18th  Pfalm  alfo  chime  into  the  fame 
 tune,  where  it  is  faid,  The  Lord  recompenfed  me  according 
 to  my  righteoufnefs,  &c.  pvr*  19 — 27.  which  they  apply  to 
 the  good  people  of  their  own  flock,  as  being  fimilar  in  their 
 experience  to  David — Not  a  word  here  of  the  good  Shepherd 
 who  laid  down  his  life  for  his  (heep!  In  like  manner,  Pfalm 
 26th  never  fails  to  be  fung  in  the  fame  flrain,  efpecially  on  a 
 communion  occaficn,  when  you  behove  by  all  means  to  be 
 put  in  mind  of  fome  earthly  altar  ;  "  1  will  wa(h  mine  hands 
 in  innocency."  Whofe  innocency  ?  your  own  indeed !  for, 
 does  not  the  royal  pfalmift  David  fay  ?  I  will  wafh  mine  hands 
 in  innocency,  (o  will  I  encompafs  thine  altar  O  Lord. — He  had 
 need  to  be  very  pure,  who  would  adventure  upon  fuch  a  boaft  ! 
 Pfalm  cxviii.  19.  "  Open  tome  the  gates  of  righteoufnefs, 
 This  is  the  door,  &c,"  feldom  efcapes  being  prelfed  into  the 
 fame  fervice.  If  they  happen  upon  fuch  times  to  drop  a  word 
 about  the  righteoufnefs  of  Chrift,  you  may  expect  to  hear  it 
 upheld  only  as  a  pattern  to  your  righteoufnefs;  that,  as  he  enter- 
 ed into  heaven  by  his  own  perfect  obedience,  even  fo  might  you, 
 by  the  higheft  perfection  of  obedience  which  you  can  attain 
 to,  to  wit,  your  fincere,  though  imperfect  obedience  or  en- 
 deavours after  it ;  which  is,  they  fay,  your  goipel- perfection, 
 and  which  the  new  covenant,  with  many  other  things  which 
 the  Holy  Ghoft  gives  as  little  allowance  for,  admits  of  actor- 
 ding  to  them ;  I  fay,  according  to  them,  if  fo  be  you  will 
 allow  the  fcope  of  a  whole  fcrmon  to  explain  itfelf. 
 
 The  texts  commonly  made  to  Hand  on  the  front  of  fuch 
 
 deftroying 
 
Of  the  Pfalms.  xxvii 
 
 ^eftroying  jdoctrines  are  fuch  as  thefe,  all  the  words  of  the 
 Lord  Jefus  fpeaking  of  himfelf,  "  I  delight  to  do  thy  will,  O 
 my  God— O  how  love  I  thy  law  V — Or,  bearing  witnefs  to 
 the  righteoufnefs  of  the  law  which  he  earns  to  fulfil ;  "  As  I  live, 
 faith  the  Lord,  I  have  no  pleafure  in  the  death  of  him  that 
 dieth,  &c. — The  man  that  doeth  thefe  things  (hall  live  by 
 them. — Verily,  verily,  I.  fay  unto  you,  except  your  righte- 
 oufnefs mail  exceed  the  righteoufnefs  of  Scribes  and  Pharifes, 
 &c."  or  fome  fuch  paffage  of  a  like  fpirit,  where  a  righte- 
 oufnefs is  recommended,  by  which  a  man  may  have  entrance 
 given  him-into  the  kingdom  of  heaven. 
 
 As  they  make  this  righteoufnefs  in  their  texts  fomething  elfe, 
 and  not  the  very  righteoufnefs  of  the  Lord  Jefus  Chrift,  it  is 
 evident,  that  all  their  after-talk  of  fincerity,  virtue,  repentance, 
 faith,  (for  faith  is  a  name  they  muft  deal  in  too,  though  they 
 take  away  the  fenfe  of  it,  and  give  you  one  more  fui table  to 
 their  own  ideas)  goodnefs  of  difpoiition,  and  the  like,  can 
 be  nothing  elfe  but  a  round-about-way  of  bringing  in  au  abfo- 
 lute  juggle,  (not  defigned,  it  may  be,  by  them,  but  at  lead, 
 by  the  father  of  lies,  who  makes  whom  he  may  his  hard-ware- 
 men  to  vend  fuch  abominations)  a  mere  muffling,  cutting, 
 dealing,  and  playing,  of  a  pack  of  unintelligible  words ! 
 
 The  effect  of  thofe  their  doctrines  of  vanity,  where  they 
 take  place,  may  be  compared  to  the  admiffion  of  a  great  mul- 
 titude of  fwineinto  a  garden  full  of  precious  roots  and  flow- 
 ers. So  have  they  ufed  their  endeavours  to  root  up  every 
 precious  thing  in  the  book  of  Pfalms,  and  indeed  in  the 
 whole  word  of  God  ;  as  if  they  had  received  a  commiiTion 
 to  deal  by  the  Scriptures  as  the  lfraelites  did  with  regard  to 
 the  land  of  Moab,  "  To  fmite  every  fenced  city,  and  every 
 choice  city,  and  to  fell  every  good  tree,  and  to  flop  all  wells 
 of  water,  apd  to  mar  every  piece  of  good  land  with  ftones." 
 Thus  they  utterly  fpoiled  the  Moabites.  And  thus  the  end 
 of  thofe  who  are  po/feffed  with  fuch  a  falfe  fpirit  of  doctrine, 
 except  they  be  again  difpoffeffed,  may  be  reprefented  by  thofe 
 three  thoufand  who  ran  from  the  Gadarene- mountains  violent- 
 ]y"tiown  a  fleep  place,  and  were  all  chocked  in  the  fea. 
 
 They  who  have  confeience  for  it,  may  call  fuch  ones  Chri- 
 ftians,  if  they  pleafe,  and  then,  when  they  have  done  fo,  en- 
 deavour to  fax&ify  Satan-  by  calling  him  Saint/    But  Saints 
 
 d  2  indeed 
 
xxviii  Of  the  Pfalms, 
 
 indeed  will  do  well  to  confider  thofe  words  of  their  Lord,  as 
 they  ftand  in  their  own  connexion,  "  Every  plant  which  my 
 heavenly  Father  hath  not  planted  fhall  be  rooted  up." 
 
 Thefe  are  the  men  who  are  for  ever  filling  your  ears  with 
 fomething  or  other  about  philofophers,  Tully,  Seneca,  So- 
 crates, the  divine  Plato,  as  they  call  that  other  whom  the  de- 
 vil at  Delphos  is  faid  to  have  deified,  honeft  heathens,  the 
 wonderful  things  the  light  of  nature  teaches  you,  the  moral 
 fenfe,  the  beautiful,  the  fublime,  the  decent,  the  fair,  the 
 handfome.  and  fometimes  the  Tokalon,  (for  they  love  to  fpeak 
 plain  !)  with  other  ravings  of  the  fame  ftamp. 
 
 There  is  another,  but  in  many  refpe&s,  very  different  kind 
 of  men.  indeed,  whom  you  will  find  alfo  at  the  head  of  their 
 thoufands  and  ten  thoufands,  who  do,  verily,  highly,  asjuft- 
 ly,  difapprove  of  thofe  mifinterpretations  of  the  Pfalms,  and. 
 other  fcriptures  concerning  righteou'fnefs,  &c.  juft  now  men- 
 tioned, yet  are  by  no  means  free  themfelves  of  fome  fort  of 
 corrupt  leaven;  which  (hews  its  malignity  in  them  alfo,  but 
 in  a  different  appearance  from  the  former. 
 
 Obferve  them  only  expatiating  and  enlarging  upon  their 
 darling  heads  of  fpiritual  defcrtions,  hidings  of  God's  coun- 
 tenance, withdrawings  of  his  favour,  or  a  fenfe  of  it  at  times 
 from  his  accepted  dear  children,  doubts  and  fears  about  their 
 eftate,  darknefs  concerning  their  intereft  in  Chrift ;  which, 
 with  their  other  kindred- topics  of  difcourfe,  make  up  no  fmali 
 part  of  their  doctrine  and  popularity. 
 
 To  give  a  tafte  of  this  fame  leaven  ;  after  thefe,  or  the  like 
 words  of  the  Lord  Jefus  have  come  in  their  way,  "  In  my 
 profperity  I  faid,  1  (hall  never  be  moved.  Lord  by  thy  favour 
 thou  haft  made  my  mountain  to  ftand  ftrong  :  thou  didft  hide 
 thy  face,  and  I  was  troubled."  Thefe  expreflions  (the  mean- 
 ing whereof  is  not  difficult  to  fee,  when  viewed  in  the  light  of 
 the  Apoftolick  teftimony)  behove  by  all  means  to  be  compared 
 and  illuftrated— with  that  teftimony  ?  No ;  but  with  the  ex- 
 periences of  Job,  who  in  the  day  of  his  affliction  faid,  "  O 
 that  it  were  with  me  as  in  months  paft,  when  the  candle  of 
 the  Lord  fhined  upon  my  head!"  Is  the  caufe  of  Job's  com- 
 plaint a  fecret  ?  but  whatever  he  feared,  doubted  or  complain- 
 ed of,  it  was  not,  certainly  \t  was  not  concerning  his  ftate 
 with  Gad,  or  his  intereft  in  Chrift  -,  feeing  in  that  he  triumphs, 
 
 and 
 
Of  the  Pfalms.  xxis 
 
 and  in  that  only,  faying,  "  I  know  that  my  Redeemer  liveth. 
 Though  he  flav  me,  yet  will  1  put  my  truft  in  him  :  then 
 (hall  I  be  at  reft." 
 
 They  proceed  next  to  David's  experiences  as  what  frequent- , 
 ly  happen,  fay  they,  or  may  happen  to  all  faints.  How  they 
 trumpet  forth  that  famous  faying  of  his  which  he  faid  in  his 
 heart,  "  One  day  I  fhallperifh  by  the  hand  of  Saul,  &c."  If 
 that  of  David  had  any  relation  to  a  believer's  fears  of  falling 
 into  perdition,  it  is  plain,  that  the  reading  of  the  fentence  to 
 the  end,  would  have  given  the  conclufion  a  quite  contrary 
 turn,  being  a  proof,  that,  like  David,  they  thought  they 
 ftiould  efcape,  and  not  fall.  Why  do  you  trifle  with  us  in  the 
 name  of  the  Lord  !  Have  we  need  of  this  ?  or  if  fuch  a  doc- 
 trine is  to  be  maintained,  has  it  need  to  be  maintained  with 
 fuch  weapons  ? 
 
 They  are  now  come  to  the  Pfalms ;  and  there,  fee  how  they 
 feize  upon  every  ftrong  figure  of  fpeech  which  the  Holy  Ghoft 
 hath  ufed,  expreflive  of  the  fufFerings  of  Chrift,  and  of  the 
 following  glory !  Lo,  how  heartily,  blindly  and  boldly  they 
 apply  all  them  as  expreflive  of  the  frames  of  the  fpirits  of  Da- 
 vid, Heman,  and  Afaph,  in  the  times  of  their  foul-trouble  and 
 fpiritual  defer tion ;  till  at  length,  through  their  prayers,  fup- 
 plications,  failings,  and  tears,  they  find  a  glorious  out-gate  (as 
 they  fpeak)  by  a  new  and  fenfible  manifeftation !  and  thefe 
 fame  heights  and  falls  in  their  fpirits  or  frames,  through  the 
 vain  fuppofition  that  they  were  the  experiences  of  mere  mor- 
 tals, are  confidered,  upheld  and  afcertained,  as  fo  many  incon- 
 trovertible models  or  patterns  of  God's  fovereign  way  of  deal- 
 ing with  his  children,  whom  the  New  Teftament  fays,  he 
 fills  with  peace  and  joy  in  believing,  fo  that  they  even  glory  in 
 God  (which  is  not  an  accidental  coming  and  going  thing,  but  an 
 eflential  permanent  part  of  their  character)  through  their  Lord 
 Jefus  Chrift,  by  whom  they  have  now  received  the  atonement. 
 But  thofe  leaders,  in  diametrical  oppofition  to  the  Apoftles, 
 apply  upon  occafions  to  the  Saints  and  faithful  in  Chrift  Jefus, 
 all  fuch  pafTages  in  the  Pfalms  as  the  following  ;  "  My  foul  is 
 fore  vexed— The  forrows  of  death  cornpafied  me— The  pains 
 of  hell  got  hold  upon  me — Thine  arrows  ftick  faft  in  me — 
 Deep  calleth  unto  deep  at  the  noife  of  thy  water- fpouts  :  all 
 thy  waves  and  thy  billows  are  gone  over  rne— Horror  ji  a  th 
 
 over- 
 
xxx  Of  the  Pfalms. 
 
 overwhelmed  me — I  fink  in  deep  mire,  where  tbere  is  no 
 ihnding — I  am  come  into  deep  waters,  where  the  floods  o- 
 verflow  me — I  am  like  a  Pelican  of  the  wilderne{s — I  have 
 eaten  afhes  like  bread,  becaufe  thou  haft  lifted  me  up,  and 
 caft  me  down — The  deep  waters  are  come  into  my  foul — My 
 foul  refufed  to  be,  comforted — I  remembred  the  wormwood 
 and  the  gall — I  remembred  God,  and  was  troubled— While  I 
 fuffer  thy  terrors,  I  am  diffracted,  or  torn  afunder — Will  the 
 Lord  caft  off  for  ever  ?  and  will  he  be  favourable  no  more  ?  Is 
 his  mercy  clean  gone  for  ever  ?  And  doth  his  promife  fail  for 
 evermore  ?  Hath  God  forgotten  to  be  gracious  ?  hath  he  in 
 anger  fhut  up  his  tender  mercies  ?  Selah.  And  I  faid,  this  is 
 mine  infirmity :  but  I  will  remember  the  years  of  the  right 
 hand  of  the  moft  High."  What  ideas  have  thofe  ment>f 
 the  power  and  operation  of  the  Comforter  upon  the  fpirits  of 
 the  Saints,  when  they  think,  that  their  ftate,  even  at  any 
 juncture,  may  be  defcribed  in  the  very  fame  language  which 
 defcribes  the  power  and  operation  of  God's  wrath  upon  the 
 fpirit  and  body  of  their  Redeemer,  when  ftanding  in  their 
 room,  and  drinking  up  for  them  that  cup  of  bitternefs  which 
 the  Father  had  put  into  his  hand,  that  they,  in  place  thereof, 
 might  have  a  cup  of  Salvation,  thankfgiving  and  eternal  con- 
 folation  put  into  their  hands  ? 
 
 O  vain  men,  how  came  ye  to  make  fad  the  hearts  of  thofe 
 whom  the  Lord  by  the  fadnefs  of  his  heart  hath  made  glad  ? 
 how  many  diftreiTed  ones  go  with  a  back  bowed  down  al- 
 ways through  the  influence  and  burden  of  your  ftrange  doc- 
 trines ?  how  came  ye  to  rob  them  of  their  peculiar  privileges 
 and  titles,  calling  them  defponding  believers,  whom  their 
 God  and  Father  had  filled  with  the  Holy  Ghoft,  and  all  his 
 divine  confolations  and  fruits,  love,  peace,  hope,  joy,  joy  un- 
 fpeakable  and  full  of  glory? 
 
 How  came  ye  to  overlook,  that  the  infirmity,  or  weak- 
 nefs,  which  ye  attributed  to  them,  was  their  ftrength,  their 
 glory,  their  crown  ?  what  elfe  mean  fuch  pafTages  as  thefe  ? 
 "  He  was  crucified  through  weaknefs ;  but  raifed  again  by 
 the  power  of  God— Put  to  death  in  the  fielh  :  but  quickened 
 by  the  Spirit."  And  the  years  of  the  right  hand  of  the  moft 
 High,  which  he  faid  he  would  remember,  are  they  not  explain- 
 ed by  fuch  pafTages  as  thefe?  "  For  the  joy/hat  was  fet  before 
 
 him, 
 
Of  the  Pfalms.  xxxi 
 
 him,  he  endured  the  crofs,  and  defpifed  the  fhame,  and  is 
 now  fet  down  again  on  the  right  hand  of  the  Majeffy  on 
 high — I  have  glorified  thee,  O  Father,  upon  earth — I  have 
 finished  the  work  which  thou  gaveft  me  to  do:  Now  glorify 
 me  with  the  glory  which  Ihad  with  thee  before  the  world 
 began  ;"  which  glory  is  fpoken  of  in  the  book  of  Proverbs, 
 "  The  Lord  pofTeiTed  me,  in  the  beginning  of  his  way,  before 
 his  works  of  old.  I  was  fet  up  from  everlaiting.  Then  I 
 was  by  him  as  one  brought  up  with  him  :  and  I  was  daily  his 
 delight,  rejoicing  always  before  him :  rejoicing  in  the  habi- 
 table parts  of  his  earth,  and  my  delights  were  with  the  fons 
 of  men."  Was  it  not  for  the  joy  of  bringing  many  fons  and 
 daughters  to  glory,  that  he  came  into  the  world,  made  of  a 
 woman,  made  under  the  law,  made  the  curfe  ?  Yea  verily ; 
 for  their  fakes,  in  the  days  of  his  flefh,  he  offered  up  prayers 
 and  fupplications,  with  ftrong  crying  and  tears  to  Him  that 
 was  able  to  fave  him  from  death,  which  he  was  then  under- 
 going, and  was  heard  according  to  all  his  defire,  and  exalted 
 for  his  fubmiilion  and  obedience  to  his  Father.  It  was  he 
 who  funk  in  the  miry  clay ;  and  was  raifed,  and  fet  upon  a 
 rock.  The  waves  of  wrath  went  over  him,  the  deep  waters 
 broke  in  upon  his  foul,  and  his  foul  was  troubled  ;  fo  that  he- 
 cried,  my  foul  is  forrowful,  exceeding  forrowful,  forrowful 
 round  about,  forrowful  even  to  death.  His  Spirit  was  dif- 
 fracted, torn  afunder  by  the  terrors  of  Jehovah.  The  arrows 
 of  God  ftuck  fall:  in  him.  The  mercy  of  God  went  clean 
 from  him.  And  the  judgments  of  God  refted  upon  him,  for 
 a  light  to  the  nations  of  them  who  are  faved  ;  that  they  might 
 have  the  boldnefs,  and  not  the  amazement  through  the  blood 
 of  their  Lord,  the  atonement ;  who  obtained  for  them  the 
 remiflion  and  kingdom,  not  in  the  way  of  favour  or  mercy  to 
 himfelf;  but  in  the  way  of  itrict  abfolute  jultice,  as  the  due 
 wages  of  his  own  moft  abfolute  perfect  obedience  in  their  flead. 
 But  alas  !  though  all  this  true  doctrine  concerning  the  fuf- 
 ferings  of  the  Lord  and  following  glory  be  ftrenuoufly  main- 
 tained by  thofe  men  we  fpeak  of,  yet  they  have  not  thought 
 of  it  in  fuch  as  the  above-mentioned  pafTages  of  the  Pfalms, 
 and  therefore,  according  to  the  fofteft  thing  that  can  be  faki, 
 they  have  inadvertently  made  all  they  maintain  of  the  truth 
 in  fo  far  of  none  effect,  by  pouring  into  the  hearts  of  God's 
 
 children 
 
xxxti  Of  the  PfalmL 
 
 children  the  vinegar,  wormwood  and  gall  of  God's  wrath; 
 which  their  Surety  drank  wholly  up  to  their  immortal  confo- 
 lation.  Wherefore,  to  afcribe  to  them  any  part  of  the  expi- 
 atory fufFerings  of  their  Lord,  as  defcribed  in  the  words  of  the 
 Holy  Ghoft,  what  is  it,  let  candour  itfelf  fay,  but  implicit 
 blafphemy  ?  defigned,  or  undefigned,  does  not  alter  the 
 cafe  of  thofe  who  are  wounded,  when  they  ought  to  be  healed. 
 
 The  queftion  here  is  not,  whether  there  be  fuch  a  doc- 
 trine or  no,  as  thofe  men  plead  for ;  but  whether  it  be  to  be 
 found  in  thofe  advanced  proofs  of  theirs  from  the  Pfalms, 
 which,  it  is  aliedged  in  oppofition  to  their  fentiments,  have 
 a  fenfe  of  their  own,  quite  feparate  from,  and  abfolutely  un- 
 connected with,  if  not  altogether  everfive  of  theirs. 
 
 If  they  would  allow  any  weight  at  all  to  their  pofrtions, 
 and  not  expofe  themfelves  with  their  tenets  to  ridicule,  they 
 ought  to  (hew  the  world  the  fealed  authority  of  the  Lord  fu- 
 preme,  the  only  Judge  of  fuch  controverfres.  Let  them  car- 
 ry the  caufe  to  the  only  lawful  court  which  binds  the  con- 
 ference of  the  Chriftian,  and  hear  what  the  Apoftles  of  Chrift 
 fay,  whom  he  commiffioned  his  ruling  and  judging  Princes 
 over  all  the  Ifrael  of  God,  to  bind  and  loofe  on  earth,  all  thofe 
 things  which  he  Himfelf  hath  bound  and  loofed  in  heaven. 
 We  behold  them  endowed  for  this  purpofe  with  power  from 
 on  high,  ihortly  after  the  afcenfion  of  the  Lord,  and  not  be- 
 fore; upon  their  decifions,  therefore,  from  the  beginning  of 
 their  acts  to  the  end  of  their  teftimonv,  let  us  reft  all  our  mat- 
 ters :  neither  does  this  make  void  Mofes  and  the  Prophets, 
 more  than  the  Lord  made  void  his  own  parables  by  his  inter- 
 pretations of  them  ;  or  the  prophecies  and  the  law,  by  fulfil- 
 ling them. 
 
 The  Apoftles,  the  Apoftles  alone,  are  the  voice  of  God 
 to  the  Chriftian  churches ;  and  not  Mofes  and  the  Prophets. 
 Let  nothing  therefore  be  imprinted  on  our  hearts,  but  the 
 hand- writing  of  the  Apoftles.  The  hand  writing  of  the  Apo- 
 ftles is  God's  Imprimatur, 
 
 Do  you  believe  then,  O  friends,  and  freely  allow  us,  that 
 the  Spirit  of  Chrift  in  his  Apoftles  is  his  own,  his  only  Inter- 
 preter, exclufive  of  you,  and  of  all  the  univerfe  ?  You  muft 
 either  give  up  your  argument,  take  fhame  to  yourfelves,  and 
 give  God  the  glory,  or  advance  fome  other  guife   kind  of 
 
 proofs 
 
Of  the  PfaJms.  xxxiii 
 
 proofs  than  thofe  from  the  Pfalms,  from  Job,  or  even  thofe 
 fo  much  infifted  upon  by  you  all,  ever  and  anon  infifted  up- 
 on, from  Ifaiah,  chap.  50.  "  Who  is  among  you  that  fear- 
 eth  the  Lord,  that  obeyeth  the  voice  of  his  Servant,  that 
 waiketh  in  darknels  and  hath  no  light?  let  him  truft,  &c." 
 Is  this  a  defcription  of  a  believer  in  darknefs,  and  without 
 light  (as  your  argument  fuppofeth)  concerning  his  fpiritual 
 ftate,  or  his  intereft  in  the  love  of  God  ?  According  to  the 
 prophetic  ftyle,  one  would  naturally  think  in  this  place  of  a 
 perfon  in  fome  temporal  calamity,  who  was  allured  of  his  eter- 
 nal happinefs,  but  uncertain  as  to  the  particular  event  of  his 
 earthly  affairs,  which  his  heavenly  Father  had  kept  in  his  own 
 hand,  for  the  daily  exercife  of  faith,  whereby  fuch  a  one  was 
 allured,  all  would  be  well  upon  the  whole,  though  for  the 
 prefent  he  had  in  himfelf  no  affurance  of  his  way,  but  only 
 in  his  God,  whom  he  could  truft  in  all  events  ;  as  if  a  fon, 
 deftitute  of  all  things,  in  the  midft  of  a  dreary  wildernefs, 
 not  knowing  one  inch  of  his  way  towards  fafety,  mould  there, 
 upon  the  fpor,  meet  with  his  own  father,  friend  and  guide, 
 who  had  come  forth  to  feek  him,  with  power,  and  will,  and 
 great  defire,  to  conduct  him  to  his  own  abode.  But  you  have 
 other  things  in  your  head. 
 
 "  Feaieth!  and  obeyeth  I"  Are  fear  and  obedience,  then, 
 marks  with  you  of  one  that  knoweth  not  whether  the  Lord 
 ioveth  him  or  not  ?  the  Apoftles  would  have  taught  you,  that 
 there  can  be  no  fuch  fear,  or  reverence  and  obedience,  as  here 
 fpoken  of,  without  love  for  their  principle  ;  and  no  fuch  love 
 without  the  perfou's  knowledge  cf  God's  love  to  him. 
 "  Herein  is  love,  not  that  we  loved  God,  but  that  he  loved 
 us. — We  love  him,  becaufe  he  firft  loved  us,  and  manifefted 
 his  love  to  us."  Obedjence  is  the  expreflion  of  this  love: 
 Thus  the  debtor  and  Mary  loved  much,  becaufe  they  knew 
 their  Lord,  their  creditor,  had  forgiven  them  much.  But  you 
 join  creeds  with  one  who  daringly  faid,  "  God  can  read  "the 
 truth  of  Icvq  in  thy  heart  towards  Him,  when  thou  canft  not 
 read  the  truth  of  love  in  his  heart  towards  thee."  But  fays  ano- 
 ther, whofe  creed  is  rather  more  fterling,  as  being  one  whom 
 God  hath  confirmed,  and  upheld  for  a  pattern  to  all  them 
 who  fhould  afterwards  believe,  "  I  know  in  whom  I  have  be- 
 lieved, who  loved  me,  and  gave  himleif  for  me." 
 
 allegation  from  So???  iid   U   aafaered   bv  thefe   re- 
 
xxxiv  Of  the  Pfahns. 
 
 marks :  for  whatever  the  fpoufe  fought  her  Lord,  her  Belov- 
 ed, for,  it  was  not  for  clearnefs  about  her  intereft  in  his 
 Jove  ;  for  fhe  loved  him  becaufe  fhe  knew  her  intereft  in  his 
 love.  But  how  abfurd  is  your  application  of  this  place  ?  is  it 
 poiTible  for  you  to  afcertain  your  fenfe  of  it  ?  might  you  not 
 as  well,  as  fome  of  you  have  done,  alledged  thefe  words  of 
 the  Lord  in  proof  of  your  point  ?  that  the  childen  of  God  are 
 fometimes  forfaken,  and  know  not  his  love  to  them  ;  therefore 
 they  cleave  to  him  by  the  faith  of  adherence,  as  you  fpeak, 
 while  they  want  what  you  call  the  faith  of  afTurance;  and  fo 
 cry  in  their  mournful  moods  when  they  are  without  the  fun, 
 with  their  Lord  on  the  crofs,  "  My  God,  my  God,  why  haft 
 thou  forfaken  me  ?"  Dare  you  ftand  by  this  interpretation  ? 
 fee  where  it  will  lead  you,  being,  if  it  be  any  thing  at  all  in 
 your  way,  a  conclufion  againft  the  Son  of  God,  that  he  was 
 for  a  time  without  the  knowledge  of  his  intereft  in  his  Father's 
 love.  But  why  was  he  forfaken  ?  was  it  not  that  thofe  who 
 believe  on  him  might  never  be  forfaken  ? 
 
 Again,  lfaiah  xlii.  3.  "  A  bruifed  reed  fhall  he  not  break; 
 and  the  fmoking  flax  mail  he  not  quench,"  makes  nothing 
 for  your  purpofe,  being  defcriptive  of  the  character  of  the 
 Mefliah,  going  on  in  the  fteadinefs  of  his  heart,  fulfilling  his 
 Father's  counfels,  upholding  his  own  elect,  and  all  things  for 
 the  elects  fake,  till  he  have  called,  prepared,  and  prefented 
 them  all  to  his  Father  at  the  reiteration  of  all  things,  when  he 
 mail  deliver  up  the  kingdom,  and  wipe  tears  from  every  eye 
 in  the  new  heavens  and  the  new  earth,  where  the  inhabitants 
 mall  not  fay  they  are  fick ;  where  there  fhall  be  bo  more  figg- 
 ing, nor  crying,  nor  groaning,  nor  curfe.  So  that,  as  far  as 
 a  bruifed  reed  and  the  fmoking  flax  may  be  true  emblems  re- 
 prefenting  the  ftate  of  a  gracious  heart,  they  were  as  true  of 
 Enoch,  Noah,  Elijah,  Daniel,  and  the  Virgin  Mary,  in  their 
 days,  and  all  their  days,  equally  at  one  time  as  another,  from 
 the  firft  dawning  of  faith  in  their  hearts  till  they  finifhed  their 
 courfe  with  joy,  as  of  any  other  heart  whatfoever  even  of  thfc 
 weakeft  believer  in  whom  the  Holy  Ghoft  dwells  at  this  day. 
 So  little  ground  is  there  for  building  your  doctrine  on  the 
 words  of  the  Prophet. 
 
 But  if  you  leave  the  Prophets,  and  come  to  the  Apoftles  ; 
 alledging,  that  even  Paul  cries  out  fometimes  {o  pitiably,  Rom. 
 
 viL 
 
Of  the  Pfafms.  xxxv 
 
 Vii.  24.  "  O  wretched  man  that  I  am  !  who  (hall  deliver  ms 
 from  the  body  of  this  death  ?"  Obferve,  he  cries  out  alfo  with 
 the  faine  breath  in  anfwer  to  his  own  exclamation,  "  1  thank 
 God,  through  Jefus  Chrift  our  Lord."  Which  fame  empha- 
 tic queftion  and  anfwer  are  not  to  be  underftood  cf  fome  par- 
 ticular frames  of  his  at  particular  and  different  times ;  but  of 
 the  one  even  and  uninterrupted  echo  of  the  heart  of  every  one 
 of  thofe  who  have  the  firft  fruits  of  the  Spirit,  groaning  within 
 themfelves  while  in  this  tabernacle,  being  burdened,  waiting 
 for  the  adoption,  namely,  the  redemption  of  the  body,  when 
 they  (hall  be  delivered  from  this  bondage  of  corruption  into 
 the  glorious  liberty  of  the  children  of  God. 
 
 If  it  be  urged  from  Heb.  ii.  1 5.  that  there  we  read  of  fome 
 weak  and  doubting  believers  who  through  fear  of  death  were 
 all  their  life-time  fubjeft  to  bondage,  whom  Chrift  came  to 
 deliver.  Remark  the  anfwer  to  your  lair  argument,  and  the 
 connexion  of  the  prefent  text,  and  then  honellly  fay,  if  tjie 
 perfbns  there  faid  to  have  been  all  their  life-time  through  fear 
 of  death  fubject  to  bondage,  are  not  ail  thofe  whom  the  Lord 
 by  his  death  delivered  from  fin,  death,  and  the  power  of  fa- 
 tan,  even  all  whom  he  fanclified  in  himfelf,  who  are  all  his 
 brethren,  of  one  father,  with  whom  he  partook  in  flefh  and 
 blood,  Abraham,  Samuel,  and  John  the  apoftle,  as  much  as 
 any  other  perfon  whatfoever  of  the  blood  of  Adam,  whom  he 
 loved  and  walhed  in  his  own  blood  ;  having  found  them  all  in 
 the  fame  condemnation,  that  he  might  bring  them  all  to  the 
 fame  abfolution  and  glory  in  himfelf.  Now,  how  oddly  does 
 your  account  of  certain  faints  fearing  death  and  damnation 
 being  in  bondage,  agree  with  the  Apoftle's  account  of  himfelf 
 and  all  the  called  of  God?  "  We  have  not  received  the  fpirit 
 of  bondage  again  to  fear,  but  we  have  received  the  Spirit  of 
 Adoption  whereby  we  cry  Abba,  Father.  We  groan  to  have 
 the  earthly  houfe  of  this  tabernacle  diffolved,  that  wc  may  be 
 eloathed  upon  with  our  houfe  from  heaven  ;  and  in  this  we  are 
 always  confident,  knowing  that  while  we  are  at  home  in  the 
 body,  we  are  abfent  from  the  Lord.  And  we  wait  for  the 
 Lord  from  heaven." 
 
 Laftly,  If  you  infill:  upon  2  Pet.  i.  10,  Where  believers 
 are  called  upon  to  give  all  diligence  to  make  their  calling  and 
 election  fure,  that  therefore  believers  may  be  ignorant  of  their 
 
 e  2  calling 
 
Xxxvi  Of  the  Pfahin. 
 
 calling  and  election ;  and  confequently  in  darknefs  as  to  their 
 intereft  inChrift.  It  is  afked  of  you,  to  whom  is  this  calling 
 and  election  to  be  made  fare,  according  to  your  fenfe  ?  To 
 God  ?  Abfurd  !  can  worms  of  the  earth  have  any  influence 
 upon  the  purpofe  or  knowledge  of  God  ?  To  themfelves  ?  No; 
 the  addrefs  to  them  came  too  late  for  that :  for  they  were  al- 
 ready defigned  as  Elect,  and  called  according  to  the  foreknow- 
 ledge of  God,  &c.  i  Pet.  i.  2.  as  being  made  partakers  of 
 the  divine  nature  through  the  knowledge  of  their  Lord  and 
 Saviour,  &c.  Now,  if  they  are  fuppofed  not  to  know  their 
 own  character  and  designation,  the  exhortation  proceeding 
 upon  their  knowledge  of  that  character  and  defignation  muff 
 go  f  ?r  nothing.  To  whom  then  are  they  called  to  fhew  their 
 calling  and  el ection  •  even  to  all  who  may  behold  them;  as 
 the  Lord  faid  to  his  difciples,  John  xvi.  You  have  not  chofen 
 me,  but  I  have  chofen  you,  and  ordained  you,  that  ye  mould 
 ga  and  bring  forth  fruit,  and  that  your  fruit  mould  remain- 
 Herein  is  my  Father  glorified  that  ye  bear  much  fruit,  fo  (hall 
 ye  be,  that  is,  approve  yourfelves  to  be,  my  difciples.  And 
 again,  the  foundation  of  God  itandeth  fure,  having  this  feal, 
 the  Lord  knoweth  them  who  are  his.  And,  let  every  one 
 that  nameth  the  name  of  Jefus  depart  from  iniquity.  I  know 
 my  fheep,  and  am  known  of  them,  and  they  know  my  voice, 
 and  they  follow  me.*  Shew  your  faith  by  your  works  :  as 
 your  charity  by  your  alms-giving.  Make  your  calling  and  e» 
 lection  fure.  Prove  them,  manifeft  them  fure.  Let  the  Spi- 
 rit of  life  within  you  have  free  fcope  in  the  direction  of  your 
 life  and  motions ;  that  it  may  appear  you  were  not  fealed  to 
 the  day  of  redemption  for  nothing.  Thus  a  man  is  declared 
 juft  by  his  works,  even  as  God  himfelf  is  juftified,  or  declar- 
 ed juft  in  his  works.  Thus  children,  fervants,  wives,  fub- 
 jects,  foldiers,  make  fure  their  loyalty  and  love  by  their  obedi- 
 ence according  to  the  relation,  election  and  calling,  as  we 
 may  exprefs  it,  of  their  feveral  refpective  flares.  Thus  good 
 fruit  makes  (ure  the  goodnefs  of  the  mother- tree.  Thus  Ifaac 
 made  it  fure  that  the  Lord  was  true,  and  Sarah  barren  no  more. 
 Thus  all  witneffes  of  truth  eflablifn  and  make  i'ure  the  facts 
 which  they  only  fhew,  and  not  60.  So  do  ye  make  your  fure 
 calling  and  election  appear,  as  being  God's  workmanfhip, 
 created  in  Chrifr  Jefus  unto  good  works,  which  God  hath  be- 
 fore 
 
Of  the  Pfalms.  xxxvii 
 
 fore  ordained  that  ye  fhould  walk  in  them  ;  as  dear  children 
 holy  and  beloved,  walking  worthy  of  God  to  all  well-pleafing, 
 as  knowing  your  election  of  God. 
 
 Tnofe  fpoken  of  i  John  ii.  13.  are  evidently  the  fame  per- 
 fons  confidered  in  different  refpecls,  and  not  believers  of  dif- 
 ferent ranks,  or  degrees  in  grace,  as  weaker  and  ftronger ; 
 certain  it  is,  the  weakeft  of  them,  even  in  your  view,  are  not 
 defcribed  as  doubting  of  their  intereft  in  Chrift,  but  allured 
 of  that,  in  which  point  they  are  equal  all  of  them.  "  I  have 
 not  written  unto  you,  little  children,  becaufe  your  fins  are 
 not  forgiven  yon,  but  becaufe  they  are  forgiven  you.  I  have 
 not  written  to  you,  becaufe  you  know  not  the  truth,  but  be- 
 caufe you  know  it,  and  that  no  lie  is  of  the  truth  :  f6r  ye 
 have  an  un&ion  from  the  Holy  One,  and  ye  know  all  things. 
 And  again,  hereby  know  we  that  he  abideth  in  us  by  the  Spi- 
 rit which  he  hath  given  us.  And  we  know  that  we  are  of 
 God.  And  we  know  that  the  Son  of  God  is  come,  and  hath 
 given  us  an  underftanding  that  we  may  know  him  that  is  true: 
 and  we  are  in  him  that  is  true,  even  in  his  Son  Jefus  Chrift. 
 This  is  the  true  God,  and  eternal  life.  Little  children,  keep 
 yourfelves  from  idols.     Amen." 
 
 It  is  now  entreated  of  you  in  the  name  of  the  Lord  Jefus 
 that  you  excufe  this  freedom,  and  confider  the  anfwers  have 
 been  given  to  your  arguments,  whereby  your  principal  wea- 
 pons have  been  endeavoured  to  be  wrefted  out  of  your  hands, 
 that  you  might  not  for  the  future  endeavour  to  abufe  your- 
 felves, and  your  hearers,  by  abufing  the  book  of  Pfalms,  or 
 any  other  portion  of  the  book  of  God ;  and  that,  at  leaft, 
 one  might  be  clear  of  the  blood  of  all  men.  Beware,  O  be- 
 ware of  that  judaizing  fpirit  of  yours,  left  thereby  it  come  to 
 pafs  that  Chrift  profit  you  and  your  followers  nothing  ;  and 
 you  be  found  guilty  of  undoing,  to  all  intents  and  purpofes, 
 before  God  and  man,  the  doctrine  of  SancYtfication,  which  is 
 by  the  Spirit  of  Chrift  ;  as  the  former  fet  of  men  were  found 
 guilty  of  undoing  by  their  doctrines  (which  you  hated)  the 
 doctrine  of  Juftiflcation,  which  is  by  the  blood  of  Chrift. 
 
 There  is  a  third  fet  of  people  whom  it  is  not  eafy  to  de- 
 fcribe  at  full  length,  as  being  a  mixture  of  many  things,  but 
 who  feem  to  be  ftrongly  characterized  by  their  leading  fec- 
 turer.  in  the  writings  of  the  Apoftles,  as  dfcdvmg,  and  being 
 
 dece'ivcdj 
 
xxxviii  Of  the  P/alms. 
 
 deceived,  fpoilt  and  fpoiling  with  philofophy  and  vain  deceit, 
 after  the  tradition  of  men,  after  the  rudiments  or  elements  of 
 the  world,  and  not  after  Chrift ;  being  given  up  to  profane 
 and  vain  babblings,  and  oppositions  of  fcience  falfly  fo  called. 
 One  of  thefe  gentlemen  will  think  nothing  of  reading  you  a 
 text,  for  example,  out  of  the  2d,  16th,  or  7 2d  pfalm;  and 
 then  without  any  ceremony  apply  it  to  fome  earthly  conftituti- 
 on,  or  eftablifhment  of  human  wifdom's  deviling,  which  may 
 have  ftruck  his  fancy  as  a  proper  fubjecT:  for  him  to  difplay  his 
 talents  upon,  as  much  (if  the  Holy  Ghoft,  Acts  ii.  and  xiii.  . 
 chap,  may  be  allowed  to  know  his  own  meaning)  in  the  fpirit 
 of  the  pfalm,  as  if  you  had  been  entertained  by  the  performer 
 with  a  ftory  or  two  out  of  the  Fairy  Tales,  or  with  a  parcel 
 ofLadyMary  Wortley's  Letters  from  Constantinople,  initruct- 
 ing  you  concerning  the  feraglios,  cuftoms,  and  drefTes  that  ob» 
 tain  among  the  Turks. 
 
 This  way  of  doing  puts  one  in  mind  of  that  precious  crea» 
 ture  who  courted  his  miftrefs  in  the  word.;  of  the  Song  of  So- 
 lomon, and  called  her  the  pair  Circafllan :  or  that  other,  a 
 minifter  too,  who,  in  a  letter  1  larely  faw,  congratulated  his 
 friend  on  his  having  married  a  wife  with  a  portion,  in  the  very 
 language  of  the  Lord  Jefus,  faying,  "  The  lines  have  fallen, 
 &e."  Row  terrible  is  this  !  Were  even  thofe  rare  divines  of 
 the  laft  age  farther  gone  in  guilt  and  abfurdity,  who,  in  all 
 the  long-robed  gravity  of  their  wifdom  folemnly  burlefked  the 
 Pfalms,  and  that  in  the  name  of  the  Lord,  after  prayers  read, 
 and  a  bleiTing  implored  that  they  might  be  enabled  fuitably  to 
 apply  and  improve  ?  And  fo  with  a  vengeance  they  did  apply 
 and  improve-^how  fuitably,  let  the  world  judge  I  "  The 
 King — The  Lord's  annointed-^his  righteoufnefs — his  righte- 
 ous caufe — his  glory  filling  the  whole  land — his  flouriuYmg 
 crown — righteous  fee  ptre-^-peace  of  his  government,  &c." 
 To  whom  were  all  thofe  elogiums  from  the  Pfalms  applied  ? 
 To  the  Lord,  of  whom  they  were  meant  ?  No.  To  Da- 
 vid ?  nor  to  him  neither.  To  whom  then  ?  to  whom  but  to 
 their  own  good  king  Charles  !  who  with  all  his  furviving  ad- 
 mirers behoved  to  be  Martyr !  ConfeiTor  !  of  blelfed  memory  ! 
 and  fo  forth  !  let  his  own  book  Eikon  Bafilike,  Royal  Image,  or 
 form  of  devotions,  and  his  own  Doctor  Juxon  (peak  the  reft, 
 and  tell  the  world  one  manner  in  which  the  Pfalms  have  been 
 
 abu  fed 
 
Of  the  Pfalms.  xxxix 
 
 abufed  to  the  vileft  of  purpofes — and  let  all  others  who  choofe 
 contend  in  this  point  for  the  palm  of  impiety  and  down  right 
 jargon  with  Bonaventure  the  Monk,  of  whom  Ben  net  in  his 
 Memorial  of  the  Reformation  fpeaks,  as  having  appiied  in  an 
 abominable  piece  of  his  (rendered  afterwards  infallible  by  his 
 holinefs  at  Rome,  fo  they  call  their  pope)  every  word  of  the 
 Pfalms  that  fpeaks  of  God  the  Lord,  to  Mary  his  mother.  But 
 thofe  who  have  ears  to  hear,  let  them  hear,  and  beware  of 
 wrefting  the  Holy  Word,  left  they  wreft  it  to  their  own  de- 
 ftruclion. 
 
 You  fee  now  it  was  not  of  yeflerday  that  the  Pfalms  began 
 to  be  perverted  ;  nor  in  one  manner  only.  But  to  conjure, 
 if  it  be  poffible,  at  Jeafl  to  effay  it,  all  thofe  dreams  and  de- 
 lufions,  puns  and  forgeries,  upon  the  book  of  Pfalms,  let  it  be 
 ferioufly  weighed,  if  it  be  lawful  for  us  to  give  an  interpretation 
 of  any  part  thereof  different  from,  that  is,  contrary  to  what  the 
 Holy  Ghcft  hath  given.  Would  not  you  plainly  fey  that  the  man 
 openly  blafphemed,  who  lhould  give  another  interpretation  of 
 the  parables  of  the  Sower  and  Seeds,  of  the  Wheat  and  Tares, 
 than  the  Lord  hath  given  ?  And  why,  pray,  fhould  not  we 
 look  with  equal  deteftation  and  contempt  upon  the  man  who 
 fhould  deal  fo  by  the  Pfalms,  or  any  other  part  of  the  holy 
 Scriptures  ?  Here,  perhaps,  you  will  fay,  that  fome  of  the 
 Pfalms  may  be  fafely  explained  in  the  manner  you  fpeak  of, 
 there  is  no  queftion  ;  but  would  you  have  us  to  explain  the 
 whole  of  them  after  the  fame  fafhion  ?  Yes  indeed  ;  the  whole 
 •hundred  and  fifty  ;  if  fo  be  the  Spirit  by  whom  they  were  in- 
 spired hath  given  us  a  key  fo  to  do.  "  Make  that  appear,  and 
 the  controverfy  is  at  an  end."  Amen:  Here  we  reft  the 
 ifTue.  Take  your  Bible  then  with  the  parallel  places,  and 
 finifh  the  proof  yonrfelf.  You  will  find  your  profit  in  the 
 purfuit,  and  the  procefs  of  the  argument  fimple  and  eafy,  if 
 you  afford  but  a  moderate  degree  of  candour  and  attention. 
 
 i/?,  Carefully  mark  all  the  pfalms  whereof  you  fee  any  part 
 applied  to  Chrilt.  in  the  New  Teftament,  as  fpoken  of  him,  or 
 b'A  him.  Now,  where  any  part  of  a  pfalm  is  explained  as  fpo- 
 ken of,  or  in  the  perfon  of  Cbriit,  fo  muff  the  whole  of  that 
 pfalm,  whatever  feeming  objections  lie  againft  it,  for  this  ob- 
 vious reafon,  that  (as  will  appear  by  ocular  demonflration,  if 
 you  read  the  places  in  queftion)  the  whole  of  every  fuch  pfalm 
 
 is 
 
is  fpokcn  »u  one  perfon,  who  is  himfeif  frequently  the  conti- 
 nued fubjecl  of  the  pfalrn  from  the  beginning  to  the  end 
 thereof;  and  every  thing  belides  in  the  plalm  is  but  a  predi- 
 cate, as  they  fay,  or  declaration  of  the  fame  fubjecl,  or  (which 
 does  not  alter  the  cafe)  an  imprecation,  or  a  prayer,  or  a  bkff- 
 ing,  or  a  defcription,  or  a  narrative,  uttered  by  the  fame  perfon. 
 There  are  indeed  a  few  pfalms  which  item  to  be  in  the  way 
 of  dialogue,  or  chorus;    fuch  as  the  2d,    24th,  45th,  91ft, 
 I02d,  121ft,  I32d,  and  perhaps  feveral  others;  yet,  thofe  are 
 all  evidently  fo  full  of  Meffiah  the  Lord,  that  though  there  be 
 a  change  of  perfon?  fpeaking  in  them,  they  make  no  infringe- 
 ment upon  the  general  rule  here  advanced ;  founded,  not  on 
 a  metaphyseal  fubtlety,  but  on   plain  common  fenfe,  level 
 with  every  one's  apprehenilon,  who  in  fuch  matters  knows 
 but  the  right  hand  from  the  left.     For  illuftration,  take  the 
 following  examples;    Pfal.  xl.  6 — 9.  is  brought  in,-  H,eb.  x. 
 5,  as  fpoken  by  Chrift :  Shew  a  change  of  perion  in  the  fpeak- 
 er,  and  indeed  the  alledged  interpretation  of  the  reft  of  the 
 pfalm  falls  to  the  ground  ;  allow  the  fpeaker  the  fame,  and  it 
 ftands  good,  in  fpite  of  all  the  power  of  contradiction  and  wit. 
 — Pfalm  xviii.  49.  is  applied,  Rom.  xv.  9,  as  fpoken  by  Chrift 
 concerning  his  bringing  the  Gentiles  into  the  fellowmipof  the 
 gofpel:  therefore,   as  the  fpeaker  is'one,  the  whole  pfalm  is 
 defcriptive  of  the  warfare  and  victory  of  Meihah,  the  Prince, 
 bringing  judgment  to  victory. — Pfalm  xxxv.  19.  is  quoted  by 
 the  Lord,  John  xv.  25,  as  fpoken  of  himfelf :  his  words  are 
 remarkable,  (left  we  fhould  retain  fome  ridiculous  notion  of  a 
 type  and  antitype)  "  But  this  cometh  to  pafs  that  it  might  be 
 fulfilled  which  is  writen  in  their  law,  They  hated  Me  with- 
 out a  caufe."    Pfalm  ixix.  9,  is  alfo  introduced  in  a  very  cb- 
 fervable  manner,  Rom.  xv.  3.  "  Even  Chrift  pleafed  not  him- 
 feif ;  but  as  it  is  written,  the  reproaches  of  them  that  reproach- 
 ed thee  are  fallen  upon  Me."     Not  a  word  of  David  !    this 
 pfalm  is  more  frequently  quoted  of  Chrift  in  exprefs  words, 
 than  any  other  in  the  book. — Pfalm  lxviii.  18.  is  explained, 
 Eph.  iv.  8.  of  Chrift's  afcenfion,  receiving  and  giving  of  k  u. 
 Holy  Ghoft. — Pfalm  xlix.  4.  and  lxxviii.  2.  are  faid  to  be 
 fulfilled,  Matth.  xiii.  35.  when  the  Lord  began  to  open  hiu 
 mouth  in  parables  :   this  interpretation  lets  us  into  the  mean- 
 ing of  the  hiftorical  pfalms,  which  are  fo  many  Old  Teftameiv. 
 
 parable... 
 
Of  the  Pfalms.  xli 
 
 parables,  wherein  the  Lord  himfelfis  the  hiftorian. — Pfalm 
 lvii.  7.  and  cviii.  3.  quoted  of  Chrift,  Rom.  xv.  9,    where 
 harp  and  pfaltery  are  called  upon  to  awake,  and  praife,  will 
 let  us  into  the  meaning  of  all  thofe  pialms  where  all  fuch  in- 
 frruments  of  mufic,  organs,  and  thofe  of  ten  firings  are  in- 
 troduced, with  cymbals  and  dances  into  the  worfhip  of  God  ; 
 being  defigned  in  the  temple  fervice,  for  figures  to  exprefs  that 
 fpiritual  worfhip,  joy,  and  exultation,  which  are  uttered  in 
 harmonious  concert   by  the  mouths  of  all  the  redeemed  af- 
 fembly  and  church  of  the  Firlt-born,  in  the  power  and  com- 
 munion of  the  one  Spirit ;  which  fame  dances,  organs,  and 
 inltruments  of  mufic  of  all  kinds  were  never  more  to  be  em- 
 ployed in  fuch  fervice,  after  that  difpenfation,  and  earthly  ce- 
 conomy,  whereof  they  were  a  part,  along  with  the  temple  and 
 facrifices,  were  fet  afide  and  abolifhed  for  ever,  when  the 
 true  temple  and  facrifice,  even  the  Lord  Chrilt,  was  come:  o- 
 therways,  if  fuch  things  had  been  to  continue  in  nfe  among 
 the  churches  of  Chrilt,  we  fhould  certainly  have  had  fome 
 precept  or  example  left  us  by  him,  or  his  Apoftles,  without 
 which,  the  ufing  of  them  in  churches  muff,  be  as  ridiculous 
 abfurdity,  fu  perflation,  and  will-worfhip,  as  if  you  were  to 
 blow  trumpets  at  the  New-moon — to  circumcife  yourfeif  and 
 your  fons  after  the  example  of  Abraham — to  prefent  yourfeif 
 with  all  your  family  three  times  a  year  before  the  Lord  at  Je- 
 rufalem — or,  after  the  manner  of  Jofiah,  and  upon  the  fame 
 authority,  to  make  a  covenant  with  the  Lord  and  all  the  peo- 
 ple, according  to  all  the  words  and  manner  found  written  in 
 the  book  of  the  law  of.  the  Lord,  by  the  hand  of  his  fervant 
 Mofes  1  and  indeed,  in  this  laft  particular  piece  of  Jewi(h  fer- 
 vice, you  will  find  thoufands,  and  ten  thoufands  of  your  fel- 
 low fubjects,  at  their  very  hearts  bloodily  in  earneff  to  join 
 you.     Such  perfons  would  do  well  to  confider  the  fpirit  of  the 
 Apoitles  docixine,  Gal.  v.  1. 5,  where  we  are  plainly  gi- 
 ven to  underftand,  that  if  we  acknowledge  our  obligation  in 
 part  to  bear  that  yoke  and  burden,  we  are  bound  to  the  whole; 
 and  that  the  nature  of  that  fame  acknowledged  part,  is  like 
 the  poifonous  fiy  in  the  apothecary's  ointment;  Chrift  fhall 
 profit  us  nothing;  nay,  Chrift  fhall  be  our  death,  and  not  our 
 - i  fe  :  for  if  light  had  not  come,  there  bad  been  no  condemna- 
 .  for  walking  in  darknefs.     But  of  this  by  the  by. — Pfalm 
 
 f  cxvi. 
 
xlii  Of  the  Pfalms. 
 
 cxvi.  ic,  is  applied,  2  Cor.  iv.  13,  as  fpoken  by  Chrifr.-— So 
 alfo  Pfalm  cxvii.  1,  in  Rom.  xv.  1 1. — Pfalm  cxviii.  22,  in  like 
 manner,  Marth.  xxi.  42.— And  to  mention  no  more  under 
 this  head,  Pfalm  cxix,  upon  the  true  application  whereof  fo 
 much  depends,  as  for  fubftance,  in  many  other  places,  fo  in 
 particular,  v.  139.  parallel  to  Pfalm  lxix.  9.  is  brought  by 
 the  Holy  Ghofr,  who  leads  into  all  truth,  unto  the  remem- 
 brance of  the  difciples,  John  ii.  17.  as  written  before  hand 
 of  the  Lord,  the  purger  of  his  Father's  houfe,  "  My  zeal, 
 the  zeal  of  thine  houle  hath  confumed  me,  hath  eaten  me  up." 
 And  the  very  icntence  which  the  Lord  pafTeth,  Matth.  vii.  23. 
 upon  thofe  whom  he  there  condemns,  you  read  verbatim,  v. 
 1 1  5.  of  this  pfalm,  "  Depart  from  me  ye  that  work  iniquity," 
 So  you  fee  this  cxix  Pfalm,  and  the  Sermon  upon  the  Mount, 
 are  fpoken  by  the  fame  Perfon :  and  alas !  you  are  blind,  if 
 you  do  not  fee  them  both  running  in  the  fame  flrain  and  fpi- 
 1  It,  explaining,  vindicating,  eltablifhing  the  law  in  that  very 
 fenfe  in  which  he  alone  who  is  perfect  as  his  Father  is  per- 
 fect, fulfilled  it  in  his  heart,  in  his  life,  in  his  death,  accord- 
 ing to  the  perfection  of  Jehovah's  felf.     Rejoice  O  Believer ! 
 
 Thefe  few  examples,  out  of  fifty  others  equally  clear,  which- 
 might  have  been  brought,  may  fuffice  by  way  of  a  hint,  which 
 every  one  may  purfue  at  pleafure,  for  the  illuftration  of  the 
 firft  rule.     Which  brings  us  to  what  is  equally  plain  and  con- 
 clufive, 
 
 A  2d  Rule  of  interpretation,  namely,  That  wherever,  you 
 meet  with  a  pfalm  that  is  not  directly  applied  itfelf  to  Chrifr, 
 yet  if  it  have  any  part  of  it  evidently  parallel  to  any  part  of  an- 
 other pfalm  which  is  fo  applied,  you  mull  apply  them  both 
 alike ;  becaufe  of  the  famenefs  of  the  perfon  and  fubject,  as 
 argued  above:  according  to  that  mathematical  axiorn^  If  two 
 things  are  equal  to  one  third  thing,  they  are  equal  to  one  ano- 
 ther. Thus,  for  illuftration  of  this  remark,  if  you  allow  pfalm 
 xl.  to  be  fpoken  in  the  perfon  of  Chrift,  you  cannot  deny  but 
 the  lxx.  (which  is  only  a  repetition  with  little  variation  of  the 
 five  laft  verfes  of  the  xl.)  muff  of  neceflity  be  explained  in  the 
 fame  way  ;  not  of  David,  but  of  his  Lord.  In  this  view,  pfalm 
 cviit.  where  Chrifl's  fpiritual  dominion  over  his  church,  ga- 
 thered out  of  all  nations,  tongues,  kindreds,  and  languages, 
 is  defcribed  in  fuch  terms  as  feemed  good  to  the  Holy  Ghoft, 
 
 will 
 
Of  the  Pfa/ms.  xliii 
 
 will  fix  the  meaning  of  pfam  Ix>  where  alfo,  Moab,  Edom, 
 and  Philiftia  are  introduced  with  Judah  and  Ifrael,  as  fubject- 
 ed,  owning,  and  triumphing  in  their  fubjection  to  their  own 
 eternal  King.  So  alfo,  pfalm  2d,  20th,  21ft,  24th,  61ft, 
 72d,  89th,  149th-,  afcertain  the  meaning  of  many  others,  as 
 of  one  another;  where  the  King  and  his  acts  are  praifed,  ac- 
 cording to  the  quotation  from  pfalm  ii.  by  the  Apoftles,  Acts 
 iv.  25.  Pfalm  xxiv.  where  the  afcenfioQ  of  the  eternal  King, 
 having  received  the  exaltation  and  dominion  over  ail,  for  hiso- 
 bedience  to  the  death,  is  celebrated,  under  the  character  of  a 
 perfect  man,  according  to  the  law,  afcending  into  the  hill  of 
 ,God,  from  whence  he  mould  never  be  moved,  this  Pfalm,  1  fay, 
 will  vouch  for  pfalm  xv.  where  the  fame  character  and  reward 
 are  defcribed.  To  call  any  mere  mortal  the  eternal  King, 
 would  be  an  iniquity  to  be  punifhed  by  the  judge.  And  what 
 better  is  it  to  tear  from  him  his  character  for  which  he  receiv- 
 ed the  glory,  and  give  it  to  another  ?  will  he  give  his  glory 
 to  another  ?  his  praife  to  graven  images  ?  conllder  this,  yc 
 who  have  afcribed  the  perfection  of  righteoufnefs  defcribed  in 
 thofe  Pfalms  to  finful  worms.  Pfalm  xxii.  and  cxvi.  where 
 the  Lord  fays,  "  I  will  pay  my  vows  in  the  prefence  of  the 
 people,  in  the  midft  of  the  congregation,  &c."  do  evidently 
 lhew  who  is  the  fpeaker  in  all  thofe  Pfalms  where  fuch  expref- 
 fions  are  ufed.  What  light  will  this  obfervation  fpread  upon 
 many  Pfalms?  and  upon  many  hearts?  on  pfalm  Ixv.  1.  for 
 one  example,  "  Praife  waits  for  thee,  O  Lord,  in  Zion — O 
 thou  that  heareft  prayer  unto  thee  fhall  all  flefh  come." — 
 Why  ?  "  Unto  thee  fhall  the  vow  be  performed."  What  vow? 
 Even  his  vow,  who  faid,  "  1  come  to  do  thy  will,  O  God." 
 — And  M  Mine  iniquites  have  taken  hold  upon  me,"  pfalm 
 xl.  11.  as  here,  "  iniquities  prevail  againft  me."  He  charges 
 himfelf  alone  with  the  iniquities  and  fufferings  for  them  ;  but 
 in  the  bleflednefs  and  glory  he  takes  in  his  Saints;  faying, 
 "  our  tranfgrefhons  thou  fhalt  purge  away — we  fhall  be  fatif- 
 fied,  &c."  Ought  not  the  minifter  to  obferve  fuch  things, 
 efpecially  upon  facramental  occafions,  when  the  people  are 
 (hewing  forth  the  death  of  the  Lord,  that  is,  his  vows  fulfil- 
 led in  his  own  blood  to  the  pi  ail e  of  his  Father  for  ever,  that 
 they  might  eternally  fing  thefong  of  the  Lamb  that  was  /lain? 
 how  different  would  be  the  effect  of  this  lively  true  per  fu  a  (ion 
 
 f  '  i:pon 
 
xilv  Of  the  Pfalms. 
 
 npon  the  heart  of  the  humble  adorer,  from  that  kifipid  un- 
 icriptural  notion  of  ibme  kind  of  covenant,  vow,  engagement, 
 bargain,  obligation,  which  people  are  faid  to  be  making,  or 
 renewing  with  their  Lord  in  the  eating  of  his  fupper  ?  how 
 can  they  maintain  this  their  doclrine,  and  deny  the  unbloody 
 facrifice  of  the  Mafs  ?  for  if  the  commemorating,  or  keeping 
 in  remembrance  of  a  fulfilled  covenant  or  vow,  be  a  renewing 
 or  making  of  a  covenant,  or  vow,  the  papifls  will  rid  their 
 feet  as  well  as  they,  when  they  come  to  give  an  account  of 
 their  propitiatory  facrifice  of  the  Mafs  for  the  dead  and  for  the 
 living. 
 
 Has  not  your  fpirit  burnt  within  you,  Chriftian,  with  ve- 
 ry indignation,  vexation  and  fhame,  when  you  have  been 
 told,  with  the  fymbols  of  your  Lord's  body  and  blood  in  your 
 hands,  that  you  were  come  to  his  table  to  renew  or  make  your 
 covenant  with  God,  to  make  up  your  peace  with  God,  to  get 
 an  interefl  in  Chrift,  and  to  get  this  intereft  cleared  up,  and 
 fo  forth  ?  may  we  not  afk  you,  if  your  eating  and  drinking  in 
 fuch  circumftances  was  not  faying  Amen  ? — Then,  behold, 
 as  the  conclufion  of  the  whole  matter  and  fervice  for  the  day, 
 uprears  himfelf  an  admired  creature,  the  molt  efteemed  of  the 
 whole  afibciation,  and  with  all  the  poflible  folemnity  of  his 
 manner,  reads  you  out,  for  the  ground  of  his  enfuing  difcourfe, 
 in  the  forecited  cxvi.  pfalm,  thefe  words  of  the  Lord  Jefus, 
 <l  I  will  pay  my  vows  now  before  the  Lord,  in  the  prefence 
 of  all  the  people."  Then  proceeds  the  worthy  preacher, 
 helping  your  devotions,  and  faying,  "  Upon  what  particular 
 occafion  David  penned  this  Pfalm,  is  not  certain ;  but  certain 
 it  is,  he  had  been  in  great  diftrefs,  and  foul-trouble;  the 
 forrows  of  death  comparted  him  ;  the  pains  of  hell  got  ho!4 
 upon  him;  but  out  of  the  deeps  he  cried  to  his  God,  he  made 
 fupplication,  and  was  delivered — what  was  his  pious  refoluti- 
 on  upon  this  remarkable  out-gate  ?  what  ought  to  be  yours, 
 my  friends,  efpecially  on  the  back  of  this  great  folemnity  ? 
 have  you  got  any  foul-good,  you  will  be  ready  to  fay  with 
 David  on  his  deliverance,  I  will  blefs  the  Lord  as  long  as  I 
 live,  and  in  the  words  of  my  text,  I  will  now  pay  my  vows— 
 why  pay  thy  vows,  David  ?  Let  David  fay  in  his  own  words, 
 Thou  had  delivered  rfly  foul  from  death,  my  eyes  horn  tears, 
 my  feet  from  filing— I  am  thy  fervant,    Lord,  thy  fervant, 
 
 the 
 
Of  the  Pfalms.  xlv 
 
 the  fon  of  thy  hand-maid;  thou  haft  loofed  my  bands."     By 
 this  time  we  are  hurried  all  at  once  into  the  midft  of  things ; 
 *nd  begin  to  hear  the  method,  which  is  in  the  firft  place  to 
 {hew  us,  who  have  been  making  our  covenant,  and  renewing 
 our  vows  to  God,  the  obligations  lying  upon  us,  after  the  pi- 
 ous and  devout  example  of  holy  David,  to  pay  our  vows,  and 
 keep  our  covenant — And — but  left  you  fay  I  am  going  to 
 preach,  inftead  of  prefacing — God  forbid  I  mould  preach  in 
 iuch  a  ftrain!   The  words  are  good;  but  are  they  well  appli- 
 ed? as  Achifh  faid  of  David  when  he  feigned  himfelf  mad,  and 
 fcrabbled  on  the  door,  and  let  his  fpit tie  fall  upon  his  beard, 
 &c.  Have  I  need  of  madmen,  that  ye  have  brought  this  fel- 
 low to  me  ?  Have  we  need  to  have  our  eyes  drawn  away  from 
 the  atonement  ?  to  have  David  preached  to  us  inftead  of  Chrift, 
 from  fuch  a  text?   take  away  the  crofs  of  Chrift,  that  alone 
 pillar  of  confidence,    from  any  place  of  the  book  of  God, 
 where  the  Holy  Ghoft  has  made  it  to  ftand  forth  in  its  glory, 
 to  attract  the  heart  and  eye  of  the  true  worfhipper,  and  place 
 what  you  will  in  the  room  thereof,  though  you  fhould  (hew 
 us  all  in  heaven  and  earth  befides,  you  do  no  more  than  if 
 you  (hould  fay,  "  Behold  the  tower  of  Babel !  or,  the  image 
 of  the  great  goddefs  Diana  !  worfhip  them  !  and  glory  in  your 
 gods!"   Might  not  a  Jew,  fhould  he  happen  to  be  prefent, 
 hearing  fuch  an  harangue  from  the  cxvi  Pfalm,  delivered  by  a 
 man  of  elocution,  cry  out  in  raptures,  an  admirable  fermon  ! 
 you  have  no  more  to  do  but  fubftitute  David,  or  fuch  like  in 
 the  place  of  Chrift,  and  you  are  the  very  man.  of  their  heart. 
 Should  it  be  fo  with  Chriftians  too  ?  would  not  the  congre- 
 gation have  been  more  edified  if  the  minifter  had  followed 
 Philip's  example,  and  begun  at  the  fame  place  and  preached 
 to  them  Jefus  ?  putting  them  in  remembrance,  how  he  had 
 payed  his  vows,  made  the  covenant  good,  and  the  peace  with 
 God  in  his  own  blood,  that  they  might  rejoice  in  him,  and 
 not  in  themfelves ;  in  his  vows,  and  not  in  their  own  ?  Say 
 not,  the  doctrine  of  thankfgiving  is  hereby  denied  :  no  ;  it  is 
 eftablifhed  in  the  crofs  of  Chrift,  and  in  the  power  of  his  Spi- 
 rit.— For  an  appendix  to  this  fecond  rule,  it  may  be  added, 
 3<f/v,  That  whatever  pfaim  has  a  part  of  it  parallel  to  any 
 pafTage  in  the  Law  or  the  Prophets,  evidently  pointing  to  the 
 MeMiah,  or  the  fpiritual  things  of  his  kingdom,  muft  be  allow- 
 ed 
 
xlvi  Of  the  Pfalms. 
 
 ed  the  fame  kind  of  fenfe.  Thus,  pfaltn  lxv.  9.  to  the  end, 
 and  fuch  others,  will  be  eafily  and  fafely  underftood  by  fuch 
 paiTages  as  compare  the  kingdom  of  heaven  to  feed  fown,  and 
 producing  a  plentiful  harveft,  being  blefTed  and  watered  from 
 heaven,  till  at  length  the  year  is  crowned  with  the  goodnefs  of 
 the  Lord.  The  whoI$  prophecies  of  Ifafah  are  full  of  fpiritual 
 things  reprefented  by  earthly  refemblances  of  the  fame  kind, 
 where  the  context  determines  the  fenfe,  and  fhews  what  we 
 are  to  understand  by  fruitful  fields,  rivers  of  water,  ftreams  in 
 the  defart,  fhowers  of  rain,  clean  grain,  pare  provender,  fo- 
 refts  clapping  their  hands,  hills  finging,  cattle  rejoicing,  &c. 
 See  Iiaiah  vii.  xxxi.  xxxv.  Iv.  and  John  vii.  38.  Acts  ii.  18, 
 One  might  argue  ftrongly, 
 
 4thly,  For  the  confirmation  of  this  doctrine,  from  the  ma- 
 nifeft  impiety  and  abfurdiry  (as  would  appear  from  the  face  of 
 the  whole  Word  of  God)  of  applying  numberlefs  paffages  in 
 the  Pfalms  to  David,  or  any  man  whom  God  ever  created,  ex- 
 cept the  man  Chrift  Jefus  alone,  though  there  had  been  no  di- 
 rect, nor  indirect  application  of  them  to  him  befides  the  gene- 
 neral  tenor  of  the  Scriptures,  which  is  the  only  analogy  of 
 faith  or  form  of  found  words  which  the  church  of  Chrift  can 
 allow.  What  mere  creature  that  ever  dwelt  in  flefh  and  blood 
 could  lift  up  its  mouth,  and  fay  to  Jehovah,  glorying  in  itlelf 
 and  its  own  deferts,  "  Judge  me,  and  try  me — Examine  heart 
 and  reins,  O  God — Preferve  me,  becaufe  I  am  holy — Thou 
 wilt  prolong  my  life  from  generation  to  generation — Let  them 
 fhout  for  joy  who  love  my  righteoufnefs — The  world  is  dif- 
 fered; but  I  hold  up  the  pillars  thereof  r"  How  do  thefe 
 things  agree  to  any  but  the  holy  One  of  God,  of  whofe  years 
 there  (hall  be  no  end  ?  Who  upholdeth  all  things  by  the  word 
 of  his  power  ?  Who  obtained  through  his  own  righteoufnefs 
 power  over  all  fiefh,  that  he  might  give  eternal  life  to  as  many 
 as  the  Father  hath  given  him  ?  If  with  this  key  we  open  the 
 ift  and  1 19th  pfalms,  we  will  be  admitted  into  .the  fecrets  of 
 a  perfect  heart ;  and  behold  our  Lord  made  under  the  law, 
 exercifed,  panting  and  wreftling  under  the  curie,  till  at  length, 
 through  his  own  obedience,  he  attain  to  the  everlafVing  joy, 
 his  own  due  reward,  which  he  gives  to  his  people  who  rejoice 
 and  delight  with  him  in  all  the  perfection  of  the  law  only  as 
 fulfilled  in  his  blood. 
 
 To 
 
Of  the  Pfalms.  xlvii 
 
 To  purfue  this  important  point  through  ail  the  variety  of 
 examples  which  might  be  adduced,  till  they  amounted  to  a 
 'full  and  particular  proof  with  regard  to  every  fingle  pfalrn, 
 would  make  a  considerable  volume  of  itfelf :  And  good  fervice 
 it  would  be  for  any  one  who  had  time  and  ability  equal  to  the 
 tafk ;  that  there  might  remain  no  fliadow  of  hefitation,  where 
 the  fcriptures,  were  fpiritual  things  compared  with  fpiritual, 
 would  appear  to  fpeak  fo  plain. 
 
 Thofe  directing  pafiages  in  the  Pfalms  may  beconfidered  as 
 fo  many  erected  poles  in  the  corners  of  a  high-way,  afcertain- 
 ing,  not  only  that  thofe  remarkable  places  where  they  ftand  are 
 in  the  courfe  thereof,  but  alfo  all  the  intermediate  fpaces  from 
 one  to  another. — So  that,  it  is  apprehended,  the  whole  num- 
 ber of  the  pfalms  are  comprifed  in  this  fcheme  of  interpreta- 
 tion. For  we  have  no  other  direction  left  us  whereby  wc 
 may  interpret  them  ;  feeing  it  is  manifeft,  there  is  not  a 
 pfalm,  or  portion  of  a  pfalm,  applied  in  the  whole  New  Tef- 
 tament  as  expreffive  of  David's  ftate,  but  all  of  Chrift's,  who 
 is  the  way,  the  truth,  and  the  life :  fo  that,  if  we  expound 
 any  thing  in  the  pfalms,  of  David,  we  do  it  without  his  leave 
 who  hath  the  keys  of  the  houfeof  David.  It  would  not,  per- 
 haps, be  much  beyond  the  fact,  if  it  were  affirmed,  that  there 
 are  more  references  to  the  pfalms  as  fpeaking  of  Chrift,  than  to 
 the  whole  writings  of  Mofes  and  the  Prophets  taken  together. 
 
 How  careful  are  the  Apofties  ro  caution  their  hearers  to  be- 
 ware of  thinking  of  David  at  all  as  the  perfon  fpoken  of  in  the 
 pfalms  !  fee  Acts  ii.  and  Acts  xiii.  The  manner  of  their  quo- 
 tations is  alfo  remarkable,  having  forefeen,  through  the  Spi- 
 rit, no  doubt,  the  abufe  that  was  to  happen  of  that  book. 
 Thus  they  fay,  David  being  a  prophet  fayeth,  David  in  Spi- 
 rit fayeth,  God  faith  in  David,  Chrift  faith  in  David,  The 
 Holy  Ghoft  faith  by  the  mouth  of  David  ;  but  more  frequent- 
 ly when  any  quotation  is  brought  from  the  pfalms,  David  is 
 not  mentioned  at  all ;  but  only  Chrift  fpeaking  in  David : 
 thus,  "  Chrift  faith  when  he  cometh  into  the  world — It  is 
 written,  I  will  confefs  to  thee  among  the  nations — I  believed, 
 therefore  have  I  fpoken. " 
 
 It  was  owing  to  the  miftakes  the  Jews  entertained  about  the 
 pfalms,  and  other  lively  oracles  which  were  delivered  to  them, 
 that  they  rejected  and  crucified  the  Lord,  even  becaufe  he  in- 
 ter- 
 
xlvni  Of  the  Pfalms. 
 
 terpreted  them  in  another  manner  than  they :  And  yet  the 
 guilt  and  danger  of  mifinterpreting  them  now,  muft  be  great- 
 er than  theirs,  according  to  our  greater  proportion  of  light :  for 
 as  tht;  light,  fo  is  the  condemnation  to  them  that  walk  in 
 darknefs. 
 
 Now  it  may  be  proper  to  confider  a  few  of  the  moft  com- 
 mon objections  which  are  brought  againft  this  method  of  in- 
 terpreting the  Pfalms  ;  fome  of  them  frivolous  enough,  it 
 muft  be  confeffed,  but  not  the  leis  infifted  upon  becaufe  of 
 that  circumftance,  and  therefore  not  the  lefs  needing,  how- 
 ever little  deferving,  to  be  anfwered. 
 
 Obj.  i.  If  your  fcheme  muft  hold,  what  {hall  become  of 
 all  thofe  books,  devotional,  practical,  and  trying,  and  of 
 preachings  innumerable  ;  lectures,  and  lecture  books,  which 
 are  full,  and  fome  of  them  full  of  nothing  elfe  but  of  David's 
 own  exercifes  and  experiences  ?  What  a  foolifh  figure,  ia 
 particular,  would  the  mod  of  our  celebrated  treatifes  on  re- 
 generation, r.nd  cafes  of  confeience  make,  if  you  were  to  de- 
 ny them  their  own  ufe  of  their  own  grand  magazine  of  frames 
 f»nd  foul-poftures  wherewith  they  tell  us  David,  Heman,  and 
 Alaph  were  exercifed  in  their  day  ?  moreover,  what  would 
 you  do  with  the  contents  at  the  top  of  the  pfalm  in  every 
 Bible  which  reprefent  aimoft  all  of  them  as  defcriptive  of  the 
 penman's  own  ftate  ? 
 
 Anf.  We  would  have  nothing  to  do  with  them  at  all  :  and 
 would  you  have  any  more,  if  they  be  not  for  the  truth,  but 
 againft  it  I  what  (hall  become  of  them  then  ?  as  the  chief 
 priefts  faid  to  Judas  when  he  came  and  told  them  he  had  fin- 
 ned in  betraying  innocent-blood,  "  See  thou  to  that."  So 
 let  every  man  fee  to  his  own  work.  And  whether  it  be  bet- 
 ter to  give  ear  to  the  fond  imaginations  of  men  all  well-full 
 of  their  own  fenfe,  or  to  the  infallible  dictates  of  the  Holy 
 Ghoft  concerning  his  own  meaning,  let  the  objector  judge. 
 "  But  who  are  you  to  oppofe  fo  many  V  Anf.  And  who  are 
 many  enow  to  oppofe  the  Holy  Ghoft  ?  Do  we  maintain  any- 
 thing about  the  Pfalms,  on  our  own  authority  ? 
 
 Obj.  2.  Many  of  the  pfalms  have  a  title  mewing  the  oeca- 
 fion  of  their  being  compofed,  which  title  being  a  part  of  the 
 infpirsd  text,  plainly  determines  them  to  the  very  occafion 
 there  mentioned,  from  which  occafion  and  its  tircamftrtnees 
 
Of  the  Pfahns.  xlix 
 
 as  to  the  Prophet's  ftate,  you  muft  feek  the  meaning  of  thofe 
 pfalms. 
 
 Anf.  If  you  allow  the  text  to  be  infpired  ;  Is  it  to  be  imagi- 
 ned the  Holy  Spirit  would  infpire  men  to  utter  their  own  ex- 
 periences, and  never  once  give  the  lcaft  hint  of  the  matter  in 
 all  the  New-Teftaurent- revelation,  where  alone  we  are  com- 
 manded to  look  for  the  interpretation  of  all  the  foregoing  in- 
 fpirations  ?  But  waving  this,  and  alfo  that  controversy,  whe- 
 ther the  title  be  indeed  a  part  of  the  text,  and  not  rather, 
 like  the  dates  of  fome  of  the  Epiftles,  only  a  note  perhaps  of 
 fome  ancient  commentator ;  it  is  alledged,  that  the  title,  how- 
 ever true  and  exprefs,  can  never  in  more  or  lefs  determine  the 
 fenfe  of  the  pfalm  to  the  occurrences  therein  mentioned, 
 more  than  the  date  of  a  letter  can  determine  the  fenfe  of  the 
 contents.  That  the  feeming,  or  even  real  occasion  of  an  an- 
 cient prophetic  writing  is  no  mark  at  all  to  direct  the  in- 
 terpretation to  that  occurrence,  but  rather  quite  the  reverfe, 
 Will  appear  from  I/a.  vii.  If  you  ponder  well  ihe  occafion  and 
 circumftances,  never  occafion  feemed  to  bid  fairer  for  deter- 
 mining the  whole  of  the  Prophet's  melTage  to  itfelf,  and  pre- 
 fent  things ;  yet  then  and  there,  on  an  occafion  looking 
 quite  the  other  way  (were  human  wifdom  the  judge)  and  in 
 the  midft  of  a  very  mingled  unlikely-like  alTemblage  of  things, 
 was  uttered  that  ever-memorable  prophecy  faid  to  be  fulfilled 
 when  Jefus  was  born  of  Mary  the  virgin — Fix  the  meaning 
 to  a  fon  of  Ifaiah's,  and  you  mock  the  Holy  Spirit,  who  tells 
 us,  Mat.  i.  21.  nothing  of  Ifaiah's  fon,  but  of  Chrift,  when 
 he  explains  the  prophecy.  If  you  fay  Ifaiah's  child,  in  his  con- 
 ception, birth,  and  infancy,  was  a  type  of  Chrift,  and  that 
 the  prophecy  was  literally  fulfilled  in  him,  the  type,  being 
 applicable  only  in  a  very  remote  and  figurative  way  to  the 
 Mefliah ;  it  is  enquired  of  you,  How  could  Shear-Jafhub, 
 or  any  fon  afterwards  born  to  lfaiah  of  the  prophetefs,  be  a 
 figure,  in  his  conception,  birth,  infancy,  of  One  who  was 
 to  be  born  of  a  virgin,  through  the  power  of  the  Highefl 
 overfhadowing,  &c.  ? 
 
 The  truth  is,  the  carnal  people  w4e  always  blinded,  but 
 never  enlightened  by  the  times  and  occafions  wherein  the  pro- 
 phefies  were  uttered :  fo  that  the  time  and  occafion  (as  mighc 
 be   made  appear  by  a  hundred  inlhnces)  is  fo  far  from  being 
 
 g  a  guide 
 
1  Of  the  Pfahns. 
 
 a  guide  to  find  out  the  meaning  of  the  pfalm  or  prophecy, 
 that  if  we  follow  them,  they  will  land  us  into  the  very  midft 
 of  falfehood :  and  we  will  find  ourfelves  in  fuch  a  fituation, 
 as  the  Affyrians,  who  feeking  the  prophet,  found  themfeWes 
 in  the  midit  of  the  ftreets  of  Samaria.  Would  to  God  we 
 may  all  efcape  as  well !  It  was  not  Ifaiafc's  prophefies  alone 
 that  blinded,  flopped,  ftupified  the  eyes,  the  ears,  the  heart* 
 of  the  people ;  but  thofe  alio  of  Mofes,  David,  Jeremiah,  and 
 all  as  many  as  fpake  in  the  name  of  the  Lord  :  therefore,  if 
 we  have  eyes  to  fee,  ears  to  hear,  and  hearts  to  underftand, 
 let  us  fee,  hear,  and  underftand  the  Spirit  of  God  (hewing 
 the  confolations,  teadernefs,  and  meaning  of  his  own  heart, 
 by  the  Apoftles,  that  we  may  drink  in  the  fincere  milk  of  the 
 word,  and  grow  thereby  ;  initead  of  fucking  ar  the  dead 
 1  breafts  of  titles,  occafions,  and  carnal  things  of  carnal  times : 
 what  can  we  receive  in  this  way,  but  wind,  putrefaction,  and 
 death  ?  Truly  it  is  the  one  thing  needful  for  us,  to  fit  with 
 Mary  at  our  Lord's  foot  and  hear  his  word  !  Obfsrve  on  eve- 
 ry occurrence,  how  the  Lord  takes  occafion  from  thence,  im- 
 mediately to  draw  away  the  attention  of  his  hearers  from  pre- 
 fent  things  and  occafions,  to  fomething  quite  different  from 
 thofe  in  hand,  even  as  different  as  heavenly  from  earthly. 
 The  man  would  appear  crazy,  who  mould  affirm,  that  the 
 Lord  came  down  from  heaven  to  inffruct  the  world  in  thofe 
 things  which  they  knew  as  well  before  as  fince ;  fuch  as  the 
 nature  of  bread,  water,  fowing,  building,  making  of  war,  &c. 
 though  he  applies,  as  the  prophets  had  done  before,  all  thofe 
 terms  in  the  manifeftation  of  his  witnefs-bearing  to  the  truth. 
 But  why  feek  farther  for  a  proof  and  illuftration  of  this  point, 
 than  thofe  very  pfalms  in  difpute  ?  Take  pfalm  xviii.  for  an 
 example  of  the  weaknefs  of  your  objection ;  the  title  is  allow- 
 ed good,  2  Sam.  xxii.  I.  yet  you  have  feen  the  interpretati- 
 on the  Apoftle  hath  eitablifhed,  without  any  relation  at  all  to 
 the  title  or  occalion  of  its  being  written ;  which  mould  have 
 fixed  the  fenfe  to  David's  own  circumltances,  as  you  alledge: 
 Indeed  the  title  itfelf,  wherein  David  is  called  the  fervant  of 
 the  Lord,  might  have  led  us  to  think  of  fame  other  one  than 
 David  ;  for  the  fervants  or  prophets  of  the  Lord  ufed  not  to 
 be  infpired  to  make  declarations  of  their  own  fufferings  and 
 glory.     What  they  themfelves  at  the  time  underflood  of  the 
 
 meaning, 
 
Of  the  Pfalms.  h 
 
 meaning,  is  of  no  importance  for  ns  to  know,  were  it  in  our 
 power  to  fearch  it  out.     Perhaps  they  knew  little  more  of  it 
 than  of  an  afTecling  dream  or  parable,  whofe  meaning,  in  the 
 time  of  God's  good  pleafure,  was  afterwards  to  be  discovered 
 by  the  interpretation.     Peradventure,  the  Apoftles  were  the 
 firft  who  knew  it.     Certainly  they  were  in  any  thing  of  a  full 
 fenfe.     The  Holy  Ghoft  was  given  in  vain,  if  the  leaft  one  in 
 the  kingdom  of  heaven  were  not  to  know  the  meaning  of  their 
 prophecies  better  than  the  greateft  prophet  of  them  all,  whofe 
 faith  and  patience  with  their  fellow-faints  were  fuftained  by 
 the  profpect  of  fomething  afar  off,  carrying  their  eyes  beyond 
 the  things  which  were  then  prefenr,  to  the  futurities  which 
 are  now  come,  which  they  faw  in  the  dapk,  like  a  light  at  a 
 diftance,  pointing  out  their  own  habitation,  that  they  might 
 not,  like  bewildered,  defpairing,  over-fatigued  travellers,  fall 
 down  and  reft  on  the  fpot  where  they  were,  before  they  came 
 to  their  appointed  place.    When  David  was  purfued  by  Saul, 
 by  Dotg,  by  Abfalom,  by  Shimei,  when  fkulking  in  the  wil- . 
 dernefs  like  a  partridge  on.  the  mountains  of  Ifrad,  befet  by 
 the  Ziphites,  infulted  by  Nabal,  hunted  on  every  fide  like  a 
 wild  beaft,  ready  to  fall  into  every  fnare,  trembling  for  his  fa- 
 ther's family,  and  all  Ifrael  whom  he  loved,  in  jeopardy  eve- 
 ry moment  of  his  life,  intangled  in  the  thickeft  thorns  of  per- 
 plexity, not  knowing  to-day  how  to  efcape  to-morrow — Was 
 it  unlike  God  to  fhew  him,  and  by  him,  all  the  twelve  tribes, 
 in  the  glafs  of  a  new  revelation,  on  each  of  thofe  occafion?, 
 fomc  part  of  the  fufTerings  of  the  MefTiah  and  of  his  glory,  for 
 his,  and  their  comfort,  till  the  defire  of  their  hearts  mould 
 come  ?  In  like  manner,  in  the  time  of  prefperity,  left  tempo- 
 ral victories  and  deliverances  mould  be  taken  for  the  fulneis  of 
 their  joy,  and  embraced  as  the  accompliPament  of  the  promi- 
 fes  made  to  the  fathers,  they  were  (hewed,  as  a  proper  anti- 
 dote to  fuch  earthly  infections,  the  glories  of  the  Median's 
 reign,  fucceeciing  to  his  fufTerings.     Has  it  not  always  been 
 the  way  of  our  heavenly  Father  to  lifp,  as  it  were,  and  acl  the 
 child*  with  his  children,  fpeaking  to  men,  in  the  language  of 
 men,  the  things  of  God  j  and  to  every  nation  and  people,  ac- 
 r.ording  to  the  natural  confufion  of  their  own  language  and  ap~ 
 prehenfions ;  that  light,  and  fpirit,  and  heaven,    mioht  arife 
 'ipi>n  them,  like  the  fun  out  of  dirknefs,   by  the  jufl  degrees 
 
 B    2  of 
 
lii  Of  the  Pfalms. 
 
 of  his  own  decree,  till  the  fulnefs  of  glory  mould  blaze  out 
 in  meridian  fplendor  ?  Hence,  in  the  days  of  David,  Saul, 
 Doeg,  Shimei,  Abfalom,  Goliah,  dogs,  bulls,  lions,  wolves, 
 bears,  ferpents,  vipers,  unicorns,  afps,  were  proper  language 
 for  defcribing  traitors,  and  falfe  brethren,  chief  priefts  and 
 rulers  of  the  people,  fcribes,  and  pharifees,  Herod,  Pontius, 
 foldiers,  thieves,  murderers,  flanderers,  falfe  witnefs,  devils, 
 who  all  fwarmed  about  the  blefTed  Lord  to  deftroy  him,  and 
 in  him  his  church. 
 
 If  this  way  of  interpretation  is  not  allowed,  you  muft  fay, 
 the  Father  of  our  fpirits  has  been  but  trifling  with  us ;  and 
 that  he  only  meant  to  fhew  us  earthly  things,  becaufe  he  on- 
 ly ufed,  in  all  his  revelations  to  us,  our  own  earthly  language, 
 the  only  one  he  has  given  us  to  underftand.  Would  not  this 
 way  of  yours  make  the  hiftory  of  the  fall  an  old  wife's  tale,  oe 
 fome  thing  fillier  ?  as  if  the  ferpent  had  been  merely  and  lite- 
 rally that  animal  fo  called,  without  any  evil  fpiriting,  inform- 
 ing, and  a&uating  him  ;  though  the  devil  is  called,  in  plain 
 allufion  to  this  matter,  the  old  crooked  ferpent. 
 
 Lajily  upon  this  point ;  We  may  fay  of  every  thing  that  was 
 prefent  to  David,  the  fathers,  and  all  the  prophets,  though 
 the  revelations  to  them  run  in  terms  correfponding,  indeed, 
 to  the  language,  and  manners,  and  things  prefent  with  them, 
 as  God  faid  to  Abraham  concerning  Ifhmael,  who  was  born 
 after  the  flefli,  and  not  by  promife,  "  This  is  not  thy  fon ; 
 but  in  Ifaac  mail  thy  feed  be  called" — which  feed  was  Chrift. 
 Obj.  3.  David  was  a  type  of  Chrift;  and  therefore,  though 
 we  do  not  deny  but  there  may  be  fomething  of  a  Spiritual 
 meaning  in  fome  of  the  pfalms  relating  to  Chrift,  yet  there  is 
 always  a  true  literal  fenfe  which  we  muft  keep  by,  "  for  our 
 fpiritual  edification  in  Chrift,  no  doubt !"  And  if  at  any  time 
 they  are  applied  to  Chrift,  it  is  only  by  way  of  accommoda- 
 tion, in  a  fecondary  kind  of  fenfe ;  while  the  genuine,  origi- 
 nal primary  fenfe  is  only  true  of  the  type,  and  not  of  the  an- 
 titype. 
 
 Jnf.  That  David,  being  an  anointed  king  and  prophet,  (as 
 the  priefts  alfo  with  all  the  other  kings  and  prophets  of  that 
 nation)  had  appointed  him  by  the  Lord  an  official  part  to  acf, 
 in  which  fenfe  they  might  all,  as  well  as  he,  be  called  the  vi- 
 able reprefentatives,  mefTtngers  or  officers  of  Chrift,  is  freely 
 
 allowed  j 
 
Of  the  fjalms.  1m 
 
 allowed  ;  but  that  David,  (or  any  of  them)  In  any  other  fenfe 
 was  a  type  of  Chrift,  fo  as  to  have  ftates,  frames,  and  expe- 
 riences fimilar  to  Chrift's,   which  were  typical  of  ChrifVs 
 ftates,    frames,  experiences,    remains  to  be  proved.     Shew 
 wherein  David  is,  and  wherein  not  a  type  of  Chrift ;  for  that 
 he  cannot  be  fo  always,  is  evident  from  Pfalm  xl.  where  it  is 
 faid,  I  come  to  do  thy  will,  O  God  ;  a  body  haft  thou  prepared 
 me— to  wit,  for  a  facrifice  or  fin-offering.  How  did  David  ty- 
 pically offer  up  himfelf  a  facrifice  or  fin-offering  ?  or  what  great- 
 er likenefs  had  David  to  the  furTerings  of  Chrift  and  following 
 glory,  than  thoufands  of  other  believers,  before  or  fince  his 
 coming  in  the  ffefh  ?  They  were  all  ordained  to  fuffer  with 
 Chrift  in  this  world,  and  to  reign  with  him  in  the  next ;  nay, 
 not  only  to  be  as  he  was,  in  tribulation  while  in  the  body, 
 but  alfo  to  glory,  triumph,  and  reign  even  in  that  tribulation 
 itfelf :  fo  that  when  they  glory,  they  glory  not  alone  in  the 
 joy  to  come,  but  in  thofe  things  alio  which  concern  their  in- 
 firmities.  Are  the  faints  therefore,  becaufe  they  have  all  their 
 adverfity  and  profperity  given  them  of  God  for  their  joy,  and 
 his  own  glory — are  they  therefore  all  types  of  Chrift  ?  But  left 
 you  fay  we  mock,  were  all  theOld-Teftament  faints  types  oi 
 Chrift  ?  How  abfurd  the  fuppofition  !  Why  then  fingle  out 
 David  for  a  type,  except  you  tell  us  where  it  is  written  ?  It  is 
 not  fuppofed  you  would  make  him  a  type  alfo  in  his  murde! 
 and  adultery,  though  you  would  do  well  to  confider  how  fai 
 your  argument  would  lead  you.    As  to  that  fcheme  of  apply' 
 ing  quotations  from  the  Old  Teftament  to  Chrift  only  by  waj 
 of  accommodation,  though  all  the  doctors  of  the  world  wen 
 at  it,  as  alas !  fome  of  them  are,  it  is  fuch  an  outrageous  in 
 fult  and  burlefk  put  upon  the  Holy  Ghoft,  that  it  ought  no 
 even  to  be  once  named  among  faints  as  a  thing  poflible  wit! 
 God  !  It  unhinges  at  one  blow  the  whole  Old  Teftament  anc 
 the  New  !  It  refts  the  veracity  of  all  the  prophets  and  apoftle? 
 that  is,  of  God,  upon  a  mere  moveable  flip-board  of  diffimu 
 lation  and  deceit !  So  that,  according  to  it,  the  gofpel  mzs 
 be  yet  but  a  cunningly  devifed  fable  !  and  not  the  accompiifh 
 ment  of  the  promifes  made  to  the  fathers  !  By  the  help  of  tha 
 fame  accommodation  of  yours,  a  fharp  wit  might  have  taugh 
 the  apoftles  to  have  eftablifhed  their  doctrines  as  the  fulfilmcn 
 of  ancient  prophecies,  from  the  traditions  of  the  elders,  Efcp 
 
 fable: 
 
liv  Of  the  Pfalms. 
 
 fables,  or  even  Mahomet's  Alcoran,  had  it  then  exifted,  by 
 taking  fuitable  paffages  in  thofe  books,  tearing  them  away  from 
 their  original  fenfe  and  connexion,  and  framing  them  fo  as  to 
 expiefs  another  quite  different  meaning  in  the  fame  words : 
 which  is  your  famous  accommodation  !  a  bufinefs  fuited  only 
 to  the  genius  and  abilities  of  that  father  of  lies,  who  is  faid  to 
 have  folaced  a  congregation  of  witches,  on  the  night  before 
 they  were  to  be  burnt,  by  preaching  to  them  from  John  xiv. 
 i.  but  be  that  as  it  will,  in  his  temptation  of  the  Lord,  and 
 in  ail  his  temptations  where  with  he  tempts  people  by  mifre- 
 prefenting  the  fciiptures,  he  difcovers,  to  thofe  who  are  not 
 ignorant  of  his  devices,  his  abundant  fkill  and  addrefs  at  ac- 
 commodating ! 
 
 Obj.  4.  But  many  parts  of  the  Pfalms  are  fuch,  that  it 
 is  impofnble  to  conceive  how  they  can  be  interpreted,  as  fpo- 
 ken  of,  or  in  the  perfon  of  Chrift.  Anf.  This  is  fuch  an  ob- 
 jection as  concludes  with  equal  fhe'igth  againft  what  yourfelf 
 muff  allow  to  be  the  apoftolic  application ;  all  thofe  things 
 which  you  ignorantly  boggle  at,  conteffions  of  fin,  heavy 
 complaints,  prayers  and  ^applications  for  pardon  and  deliver- 
 ance, thanksgivings  and  exultations  for  thefe,  vehement  ex- 
 poilu'ations  with  God,  with  men,  weighty  imprecations  up- 
 3u  enemies,  Jewifn  language  and  manners  (and  do  voufcruple 
 at  them  in  the  Pfalms  1)  and  the  like,  being  all  to  be  found 
 in  thofe  very  Pfalms  inconteftibly  interpreted  by  the  Apoftles 
 :>f  Chrift  :  fo  that  the  objection  lies  not  againft  man,  but  the 
 Floly  Ghoft  himfelf:  take  Pfalms  40th,  69th,  16th,  22d, 
 39th,  35th,  forinftances.  This  is  fuch  an  oYfervation  as  the 
 whole  weight  of  the  caufe  might  be  made  lo  reft  upon  it. 
 But  to  be  more  particular;  it  can  be  no  objection  againilour 
 ntcrpretation  of  the  Pfalms,  though  there  may  be  fome  ftrong 
 metaphorical  expreflions,  fpirited  exclamations,  and,  to  our 
 ipprehenfion,  feveral  other  very  ftrange  things  in  them  which 
 ive  cannot  exactly  fhew  the  meaning  of,  being  certain  we 
 *ave  all  the  fenfe  or  fpirit  of  them  fome  where  in  the  New 
 reftament.  For  the  illuftration  of  this  point,  you  may  con- 
 sider our  true  country  proverb,  u  Every  hair  cafts  its  own 
 "hadow  :"  Which-  remains  full  true,  though  it  be  no  cafy  af- 
 rairto-imtwift  the  rope,  and  fay,  which  is  the  particular  fha- 
 low  of  every  individual  hair.     And  we  are  the  eafier  on  this 
 
 head 
 
Of  the  Pfalms.  W 
 
 head  when  we  hear  the  A  pottles,  Heb.  ix.  ra  general  difcour- 
 fing  of  the  Holy  of  Holies,  the  ark  of  the  covenant,  the  gol- 
 den pot  that  had  Manna,  Aaron's  red  that  budded,  the  mer- 
 cy Seat,  &c.  as  {hadows,  the  bodily  fubltance  whereof  was 
 Chrift,  and  then  faying,  "  Of  which  things  we  cannot  now 
 fpeak  particularly."  Thus,  when  the  houle  was  built,  there 
 was  the  lefs  need  of  the  pattern  or  model ;  unlefs  you  will  fay 
 that  becaufe  a  houle  is  built  after  fome  plan,  that  therefore 
 we  dwell  in  the  houfe  and  in  the  plan  together.  Neither  need 
 wc  have  infifted  fo  much  upon  this  point,  if  it  had  not  been 
 for  the  mifchievous  confequences  following  upon  a  mifinter- 
 pretation  of  the  Pfalms  ;  many  things  wherein,  no  doubt,  as 
 well  as  in  all  the  other  writings  of  ancient  infpiration,  may  be 
 like  the  fnuffers,  pans,  (hovels,  bafons,  pins,  loops,  and  tach- 
 es,  knops,  flowers,  and  chapiters,  and  certain  additions  of 
 thin-work  over  upon  the  altar  of  incenfe,  which  things  being 
 part  of  the  tabernacle  and  temple,  were  typical ;  yet  who  but 
 a  madman  will  offer  to  mew  you  their  correfpondenC-  anti- 
 types ?  you  may  take  alfo  into  this  account  the  almoft  univer- 
 sal prejudice  arifing  from  the  falfe  teaching  of  near  three  thou- 
 fand  years  fmce  the  Pfalms  were  delivered  to  the  Jewifh  church; 
 from  whence  our  tranflators,  though  perhaps  the  molt  unex- 
 ceptionable in  the  world,  having  had  David  always  running 
 in  their  head,  have  given  their  whole  translation  of  the  Pfalms 
 a  ftrong  calf  towards  him.  See,  for  example  how  they  have 
 called  Chrift's  righteoufnefs,  as  in  the  margin,  pfalm  xxxv.  27. 
 *f  A  righteous  caufe,"  not  knowing  fo  well  how  to  think  of 
 David's  righteoufnefs  in  fuch  a  connexion  ;  as  it  is  not  eafy  to 
 fee  how  they  could,  without  foftening  the  matter,  and  bring- 
 ing it  down  the  bell:  way  they  could  to  fit  David's  cafe.  But 
 the  moft  egregious  blunder  of  this  kind,  perhaps  in  their 
 whole  work,  you  meet  with  pfalm  xxiv.  6.  where  they  make 
 the  Spirit  to  defcribe  a  generation  of  people  under  that  one 
 fingular  peculiarly  appropriated  character  of  the  only  Holy  One 
 and  Juit,  who  alone  afcended  by  his  own  righteoufnefs  into 
 the  hi g heft,  heavens,  and  received  the  biefling  from  the  Eter- 
 nal, even  power  over  all  flefh,  that  he  might  give  eternal  life 
 to  as  many  as  the  Father  hath  given  him:  "  This,"  fay  they, 
 "  is  the  generation  of  them,  &c."  inllead  of  "  This!'*  or, 
 "  This  Hei"  O  generation  of  them  that  feek  him,  &c. ;" 
 
 <;  This" 
 
hi  Of  the  Pfalms* 
 
 "  This"  being  evidently  meant  of  the  Meffiah's  felf  defcnbed 
 in  the  remaining,  as  in  the  former  part  of  the  Pfalm  ;  while 
 the  generation  of  them  that  feek  him  is  not  ipoken  of  at  all, 
 but  only  fpoken  to,  and  called  upon,  as  it  were*  to  behold 
 H  This  perfeEl  One,  this  King  of  glory  "  Tojuftify  this  obfer- 
 vation  to  the  merely  Engliih  reader,  let  him  obferve,  that 
 the  word  (is)  between  this  and  "  the  generation"  is  a  fup- 
 plement  of  the  translators  ;  as  will  appear  by  its  being  print- 
 ed  in  a  different  letter  from  the  reft ;  which  is  the  mark 
 whereby  to  know  when  they  add  any  word  for  which  there 
 is  none  in  the  original,  to  fill  up  what  they  take  to  be  the 
 meaning,  that  the  fentence  may  run  fmooth  without  a  break. 
 
 But  to  return  :  though  the  meaning  of  many  things  in  the 
 pfalms  may  be  difficult:,  thro'  fo  many  caufes,  that  it  is  not 
 eafy  to  fay  precifely  what  it  is ;  neverthelefs,  where  the  Holy 
 Ghoft  hath  vouchfaved  us  a  clear  revelation  of  what  was  hid 
 in  the  myfteries  of  old,  let  us  not  (hut  our  eyes  againft  the 
 true  light  where  it  fhineth  ;  but  wifely  confider  that  intimate 
 union,  infeparable  connexion,  and  eternal  fellowfhip  fubfift- 
 ing  between  Chrift  and  his  church ;  infomuch  that  they  are 
 called  One,  One  Perfon,  Head  and  Members,  Spirit  and  Bo- 
 dy ;  fo  that  their  names  are  One.  He  is  the  Lord  our  righ- 
 teouinefs,  and  this  the  name  wherewith  He  mall  be  called,  the 
 Lord  our  righteoufnefs  :  He  is  called  the  Anointed,  they 
 are  the  anointed;  He  is  the  Son  of  God,  they  are  the  children 
 of  God  in  Him  ;  He  is  Heir  of  God,  they  are  heirs  of  God, 
 joint-heirs  with  Chrift ;  He  is  the  feed  of  the  woman,  they 
 are  the  feed  of  the  woman ;  they  are  called  Jacob,  Ifrael, 
 and  David,  fo  is  He,  Jer.  xxx.  9.  Ez.  xxxiv.*"f?.  Hof.  iii.  5. 
 and  elfewhei  e.  Thus,  the  fpoufe's  name,  intereft,  and  eftate, 
 are  fwallowed  up  in  thofe  of  her  Hufband  ;  her  debts  are  his 
 debts  ;  her  friends  his  friends,  her  enemies  his  enemies,  and 
 lb  in  every  infrance ;  »they  are  one  in  law,  married  to  the 
 Lord,  one  fpirit,  one  body,  no  more  twain  but  one  flefh,  He 
 in  them  and  they  in  him  :  this  is  a  great  myftery,  faith  the 
 Apoftle,  but  I  fpeak  concerning  Chrift  and  his  church.  What 
 God  hath  joined  together  let  no  man  put  afunder. 
 
 This  indifToluble  bond  of  union  between  Chrift  and  his 
 church,  whereby  He  cannot  be  considered  without  her,  nor 
 fhe  without  htm,  will  account  for  all  thofe  confeflions  of  fin, 
 
 prayers 
 
Of  the  Pfalms.  M 
 
 this  Pfalm,  v.  16.  as  being  parallel  to  Pfalrn  xl.  6.  has  been 
 already  mewed  as  an  exprefs  quotation   of  the  words  of  the 
 Lord  Jefus  Chrilt.     If  David  was  the  fpeaker  in   the  former 
 part  of  the  Pfalm,  by  what  argument  do  you  fbew  that  he 
 ceafes  to  fpeak   in  the  i  6th  verfe  ?   if  you  fay,  it  is  not  the 
 Lord  but  David  who  fpeaks  there,  yon  are  guilty  of  Annanias 
 and  Sapphira's  crime;   nay  worfe,   you  do  not  merely  lie  to, 
 but  actually  do  give  the  lie  to  the  Holy  Ghoft.    Do  you  con- 
 ceive the  Holy  Ghoft  removes  in  the  xl.  pfalm,  that  which 
 God  hath  no  defire  to,  delight  or   pleafure  in, (even  as  the 
 creditor  hath  no  dedve  to,  delight  or  pleafure  in  the  debtor's 
 bond,  or  renewal  of  hh  bond,  but  only  in  the  payment  there- 
 of) and  brings  in  that  which  he  hath  a  defire  to,  delight  or 
 pleafure  in,  even  the  doing  of  the  will  of  God  by  Chrift,  by 
 which  will,  done  and  fulfilled  by  Chriil,  thofe  who  are  ChriftV., 
 are  finclified,  rompleated,  and  pericc'ted  for  ever?    do  you 
 conceive  this,  I  lay,  in  Pfalm  xl.  and  in  the  li.  Pfalm  where 
 the  fame  thing  is  removed,  that  the  Holy  Ghoft  doth  bring  in 
 another  thing  which  is  not  defpifed,   that  is  delired,  delight- 
 ed, and  acquiefced  in,  even  the  contrite  heart,  and  broken 
 fpirit  of  David  r  can  the  Spirit  of  Go  J  indeed  amufe  us,  amaze 
 us,  deceive  us,  by  fpeaking  the  fame  words  in  the  fame  con- 
 nexion, a«d  yet  meaning  different  things  ?  were  not  this  to 
 juggle  us  out  of  all  certainty  whatfoever?    what  could  a  fly 
 Socinian  fophifter  do  more  ?  compare  Ifaiah  lvii.  15.  andlxvi. 
 2.  with  Mat.  iii.  17.  which  three  paffages,  with  others  pa- 
 rallel to,  and  explanative  of  Pfalm  li.  16,  17.  if  you  do  not  fee 
 fpoken  of  the  Meffiah,  yon  may  read  your  character,  2  Cor. 
 iv.  3.  as  blind  and  loft:  yea  verily,  except  you  repent  and 
 believe  the  gofpel — What !  did  it  not  belong  to  him  who  wafh- 
 ed  away  ail  fin,  original  and  actual,  (Rom.  v.  9.  to  the  end) 
 in  his  own  blood,  to  fay,  that  he  was  conceived  in,  or  under 
 that  fin  r  was  not  he  made  under  the  law,  the  broken  law, 
 convincing  of  fin  and  wrath  ?  If  God  defired  truth  in  the  in- 
 ward part,  could  not  he  fhew  it,  and  righteoufnefs  pure  as  Je- 
 hovah is  pure:   might  not  he,  the  true  paffover  and  facrifice 
 of  every  kind  for  fin,  fay,  Purge  me  with  hyfop,  the  emblem- 
 atic fign  in  fprinkliog  the  blood  of  the  atonement  ?  might  not 
 he  fay  fo,    who  was  baptifed  with  the  baptifm  of  Jehovah's 
 wrath  in  his  own  blood,  that  his  people  might  have  that  peace- 
 
 h  z  fpeak- 
 
Ix  Of  the  Pfalms. 
 
 f peaking  blood  fprinkled  upon  their  confcience  ?   might  not 
 he  fay,  deliver  me  from  blood -guiltinefs,  or  as  the  margin 
 reads,  bloods,,who  gave  blood  for  blood,  even  his  own  blood, 
 the  blood  of  God  for  the  guilt  of  Adam  as  it  relates  to  them, 
 and  all  the  other  guilt  of  thofe  who  are  faved,  who  through; 
 guiltinefs  had  forfeited  their  bloods,  even  their  lives,  bodies 
 and  fouls,  to  the  pains  of  hell  for  ever  ?  Might  not  he  fay  to 
 his  Father,  create  in  me  a  clean  heart,  and  renew  within  me  a 
 right  fpirit  ?  He  in  whom  all  things  were  firft  reftored  ?  who 
 gives  the  clean  heart,  and  creates  the  right  fpirit  ?  Might  not 
 he  who,  becaufe  of  the  loft  glory,  endured  the  wrath  and  re- 
 ftoreth  all  things,  having  obtained  the  Spirit  aid  power,  fay, 
 Reftore  to  Me  the  joy  of  thy  Salvation  ?  and  take  not  thy 
 good  Spirit  from  me  ?    and  caufe  the  bones  which  thou  haft 
 broken  to  rejoice  ?  Might  not  he  who  received  the  Holy  Ghoft, 
 that  he  might  give  the  gifts  of  God  to  men,  fay,  then  will  X 
 teach  tranfgreflbrs  thy  way  ?  and  finners  (hall  be  converted  to 
 thee  ?  Might  not  he  plead  for  Zion,  who  gave  himfelf  for  the 
 price  of  her  Redemption  ?  Might  not  he  plead  God's  good  plea- 
 sure for  Jerufalem,  his  church,  the  city  of  the  living  God, 
 who  offered  for  her  ranfom  that  which  was  better  thaij  bul- 
 lock or  ox,  or  any  thing  that  had  horn  and  hoof,  (Pfalm  lxix. 
 31.)  even  the  broken  heart,  the  contrite  fpirit,  when  through 
 the  eternal  Spirit  he  offered  himfelf  a  fweet-fmelling  facrifice 
 of  peace  to  God  ?  Was  it  unlike  the  Holy  Ghoft  the  Advocate, 
 who  takes  of  the  Father's  and  of  the  Son's  and  fhews  to  the 
 faints,  leading  them  into  all  truth,  helping  their  infirmities, 
 making  intexceflion  for  them  according  to  the  will  of  God, 
 with  groanings  that  cannot  be  uttered,  was  it  unlike  the  Ho- 
 ly Ghoft,  I  fay,  upon  fuch  an  occafion  as  is  fpoken  of  in  the 
 title  of  that  Pfalm,  to  reprefent  to  David,  whofe  fin  was  for- 
 given him,  the  Lord  Jefus  the  true  facrifice,  propitiation,  and 
 High  Prieft,  making  the  atonement  and  interceflion  in  his  own 
 blood,  for  all  his  elecl:,  and  for  all  their  fins  ?  is  not  this  the 
 way  in  which  the  Holy  Ghoft  gives  his  confolations  now  to  e- 
 very  particular   believer,    through  the  blood  of  the  Lamb, 
 through  faith  in  his  blood  ?  as  it  is  written,  if  any  man  fin, 
 we  have  an  Advocate  with  the  Father,  even  Jefus  Ghrift  the 
 Righteous,  whofe  blood  cleanfeth  from  all  fin.    And  he  is  the 
 Propitiation  for  our  fins,  and  not  for  ours  only,  but  alfo  for  the 
 
 whole 
 
Of  the  Pfalms.  Ixi 
 
 whole  world,  namely,  of  them  who  believe  on  his  name.  Did 
 the  One  Spirit  ufe  a  different  way  in  the  days  of  David  ?  more* 
 over,  how  could  David's  facrifices  of  a  broken  and  contrite 
 heart  or  fpirit  make  the  facrifices  of  the  people  accepted  ?  or 
 his  repentance  for  a  private  fin  be  the  caufe  why  they  fhould 
 be  fpared,  built  up,  and  blefled  ?  for  the  people  never  fuffered 
 for  the  private  fins  of  their  kings,  but  only  for  thofe  commit- 
 ted in  their  public  character  as  kings,  in  their  government ;  as 
 for  the  numbering  of  the  people,  the  breaking  of  the  princes 
 covenant  with  the  Gibeonites  by  Saul.     As  for  this  private 
 and  perfonal  fin  of  David's,  the  bloody  fword  was  entailed  a« 
 a  temporal  ptfnifhment  upon  his  own  houfe  only,  and  not  up- 
 on the  kingdom  in  general,  which  had  nothing  to  fear  from  the 
 fin,  nor  to  hope  from  the  repentance  of  it,  fo  as  to  be  throwr 
 down  and  rejected,  or  built  up  and  accepted  with  their  offer 
 ings,  either  for  the  one,  or  the  other.     Now  judge  for  your 
 felf,  whether  this  Pfalm  be  a  private  prayer  of  David's,  whicr 
 we  deny,  or  the  public  intercefiion  of  the  Meffiah  himfelf  fo 
 his  whole  church,  miniftered  by  the  Holy  Ghoft  in  Old  Tef 
 tament  ftyle,  and  only  written  by  David,  and  wherein  Davit 
 had  only  his  own  portion  equally  with  Mary  Magdalen  an< 
 Noah  the  preacher  of  righteoufnefs ;  the  Pfalm  being  a  praye 
 of  the  fame  nature,  fpirit,  and  extent,  with  that  other  inter 
 ceflbry  prayer  of  the  Lord,  John  xvii.  not  for  the  confolaticn 
 of  one  only,  but  for  the  whole  election  of  God,  for  whom  th 
 Lord  having  made  the  atonement  by  his  blood,  makes  th 
 prayer  by  his  fpirit ;  which  we  affirm.     Who  is  in  the  righl 
 that  day  will  fhe^w,  when  the  fire  will  confume  all  but  th 
 True  foundation,  and  that  which  is  built  thereupon  by  th 
 Holy  Ghoft. 
 
 As  to  the  curfes,  imprecations,  and  denunciations  of  wrat 
 wherewith  the  pfalms  abound,  they  can  only  be  uttered  by  hir 
 who  has  alfo  power  and  authority  to  blefs :  fo  that  the  blefl 
 ings  and  the  curfmgs  in  the  pfalms,  are  by  no  means  the  feebl 
 jviftitngs  and  wouldings  of  a  thing  crufhed  before  the  motr 
 like  David,  who  is  both  dead  and  buried,  and  his  fepulchr 
 alfo  with  himfelf  turned  to  dull:  in  its  place  to  this  day  ;  bi 
 they  are  the  utterances  of  him  who  hath  all  judgment  con 
 mitted  into  bis  hand,  of  the  exceeding  great  and  eternal  weigl 
 pf  dory  to  them  who  love  him  and  his  righteoufnefs,  bein 
 
 th 
 
lxii  Of  the  Pfaims. 
 
 the  called  according  to  his  purpofe ;  and  of  the  exceeding 
 great  and  eternal  weight  of  wrath  to  them  who  hate  hir  and 
 his  righteonfnefs,  being  abominable,  and  difobedient,  and  to 
 every  good  work  reprobate.  To  ftrengthen  this  remark,  it  is 
 obfervable,  that  thofe  bleffings  and  curfes  are  always  laid  in 
 the  ballance  one  over  again  ft  the  other,  as  the  fanctions  of  Je- 
 hovah round  the  blood  and  righteoufnefs  of  the  Lamb,  in 
 whom  his  foul  acquiefceth  :  and  they  are  all  to  be  found  where 
 the  fufTerings  and  glory  of  Chrift  are  unquestionably  meant, 
 as  in  Pfaims  xl.  lxix.  cix.  &c.  (hewing  that  the  whole  love  of 
 God,  or  wrath  of  God,  are  centered  upon  every  one,  as  their 
 hearts  are  centered,  or  not  centered,  upon  the  alone  object  of 
 his  delight,  the  Lamb  that  was  flain,  but  now  in  the  midft 
 of  the  throne,  who  is  the  only  bond  and  centre  of  union  be- 
 tween God  and  his  creatures,  whether  in  heaven  or  in  earth ; 
 to  whom  be  glory  for  ever  amen.  He,  He  alone  blefleth,  and 
 they  are  blefled  •,  He  curfeth,  and  they  are  curfed  :  if  he  fay 
 it,  who  can  difannul  it  ?  Behold  he  hath  fpoken  to  the  chil- 
 dren of  his  love,  and  faid,  "  Come  to  me  ye  blelTed,  &c."— 
 But  to  the  children  of  his  wrath,  he  fayeth,  "  Depart  from 
 me  ye  curfed,  &c." — "  As  for  thofe  mine  enemies,  who  would 
 not  that  I  mould  reign  over  them,  bring  them  hither  and  flay 
 them  before  my  face  ;"  as  it  is  written,  Luke  xix.  27.  a  true 
 commentary  upon  fuch  pafTages  as  thefe  in  the  pfaims,  "  Let 
 them  be  confounded  and  afhamed  that  fet  themfelves  againfl 
 me — Pour  out  thine  anger  upon  them,  and  let  thy  wrathful 
 indignation  take  hold  upon  them — Let  them  go  down  alive  in- 
 to hell — Let  fhame  cover  them — Let  the  pit  clofe  her  mouth 
 upon  them — Let  them  be  blotted  out  for  ever.": — Thefe  things 
 are  further  explained  in  the  New  Teftament ;  "The  dead 
 fhall  hear  the  voice  of  the  Son  of  Man — And  fome  fhall  arife  to 
 fhame  and  everlafting  contempt— And  thefe  fhall  go  away  into 
 everlafting  punUhment,  but  the  righteous  into  life  eternal." 
 "  Kite  ye  the  Son.  Behold  the  King  who  hath  the  government 
 of  his  Father's  houfe  upon  his  moulders."  Turn  away  your 
 eyes  from  David,  and  behold  the  Branch  of  the  root  of  JefTe, 
 who  hath  the  keys  of  death  and  hell,  who  openeth,  and  no 
 man  fhutteth,  who  fhutteth,  and  no  man  openeth.  ^Behold 
 he  harh  faid ,  faid  to  every  creature  under  heaven,  "  Blefs,  and 
 Would  you  jump  into  Jehovah's  judgment-feat  ? 
 
 or 
 
Of  the  Ffalms.  lxiii 
 
 or  plead  for  David's  being  there,  ufurping  the  word  out  of  his 
 mouth  ?  wrenching  the  fword  out  of  his  hand  ?  fcattering  the 
 bolts  of  the  Almighty's  wrath  i  and  dealing  with  his  arm  dam- 
 nation or  falvation  round  the  world  ?  according  to  his  good 
 pleafure,  certainly  !  as  people  were  favourers  or  oppofers  of 
 him  and  his  righteous  caufe  l  Behold  what  you  have  done, 
 when  you  contended  for  David  againft  the  Lord  fpeaking  in 
 the  pfalms  ! — Verily  !  in  the  fight  of  God  !  Thofe  curfes  ut- 
 tered in  the  Pfalms,  are  fo  far  from  being  an  argument  againft, 
 that  they  are  an  irrefragable  teftimonv  of  God,  bearing  his 
 own  peculiar  feal  and  character,  proving  that  it  is  his  own  Son 
 it  perfon  that  fpeaks  in  thofe  Pfalms.  Therefore,  if  thou 
 wouldft  not  be  found  fighting  even  againft  God  here  alio,  you 
 muft  allow  that  David,  in  all  the  curfes  uttered  in  the  Pfalms, 
 is  only  the  mouth  of  God,  to  whom  vengeance  belongeth, 
 who  faith,  "  I  will  recompenfe  faith  the  Lord" — x^nd  again, 
 Let  them  {hout  for  joy  who  love  thy  falvation,  and  fay,  Let 
 thy  name  be  magnified — But  let  them  be  deftroyed  together 
 who  wifh  me  evil — who  perfecute  the  foul  of  thy  Turtle — add- 
 ing iniquity  unto  their  iniquity,  and  bow  down  their  back  al- 
 way— Let  them  be  defolate,  for  a  reward  of  their  (hame,  who 
 fay  unto  me,  Aha  !  Aha  !— To  fpeak  thus,  was  it  not  his  pre- 
 rogative alone,  who  was  hated  without  a  caufe,  infulted,  fcofF- 
 ed,  reproached  as  an  aflbciate  with  publicans  and  people  of  bad 
 fame,  a  glutton,  a  wine-bibber,  a  raifer  of  fedition,  and  Sab- 
 bath-breaker, a  profaner  of  the  temple,  a  madman,  a  devil 
 in  communion  with  Beelzebub,  blindfolded,  buffeted,  fpitted 
 upon,  fcourged,  crowned  with  thorns,  cloathed  with  a  robe 
 of  mockery— crucified,  and  blafphemed  every  where,  ever 
 more,  by  the  ferpent  and  all  the  ferpent's  feed,  in  his  own  per- 
 fon, and  in  the  perfonsof  ail  his  members — was  it  not  his  pre- 
 rogative, I  fay,  to  utter  his  Father's  wrath,  and  execute  the 
 judgment  due  upon  the  devil  and  all  the  devil's  children  > 
 was  he  not  exalted?  fent  he  not  the  Holy  Ghoft  of  purpopj 
 to  convince  the  world  of  fin,  of  righteoufnefs,  ,and  of  judg- 
 ment, becaufe  the  Prince  of  this  world  is  judged,  and  caft  out 
 with  his  children  for  ever,  for  their  rebellion  againft  the  Son  < 
 Thus  hath  the  Son  declared,  If  I  had  not  come  and  fpoken  to 
 you,  you  had  had  no  iin  (no  fin  in  rejecting  me)  but  now  I 
 have  come  and  fpoken  to  you,  and  done  the  works  which  none 
 
 other 
 
lxiv  Of  the  Pfalms. 
 
 other  man  did,  you  have  no  cloak  for  your  Ha — I  am  covat 
 the  light  into  the  world — He  that  beiieveth  on  me  mail  not 
 walk  in  darknefs — But,  this  is  the  condemnation,  that  the 
 light  is  come  into  the  world,  and  men  loved  darknefs  rather 
 than  the  light,  becaufe  their  deeds  are  evil ;  and  therefore, 
 Pfalm  lxix.  22.  &c.  is  faid  to  be  fulfilled,  Rom.  xi.  9.  in  the 
 deftrucYion  of  thofe  who  believed  not  the  Apoftles  teftifying 
 of  Chrift  and  his  righteoufnefs — So  that  if  thou  believe  not 
 thofe  fame  his  Apoftles,  all  the  curfes  of  Jehovah's  power,  by 
 Chrift,  and  for  Chrift's  fake,  fhall  be  even  poured  into  thy 
 fpirit;  and  eternity  fhall  mew,  that  it  was  not  a  fellow-worm 
 you  had  to  do  with,  talking  or  praying  about  the  dcftiny  of 
 his  enemies,  or  thofe  of  the  church,  but  Chrifl  himfelf,  the 
 Lord  in  perfon,  God  over  all  bleffed  for  ever,  appearing  with 
 his  own  blood  which  you  trample  under  foot,  and  wherewkh 
 he  fanclified  himfelf,  and  with  his  own  Spirit  to  which  you  do 
 defpite,  againft  you,  and  as  many  as  fhall  continue  to  the  death 
 calling  God  a  liar,  by  difcrediting  his  teftimony  which  he  hath 
 given  concerning  his  Son.— The  very  appearance  of  a  curfe, 
 therefore,  in  any  Pfalm,  were  there  no  other  evidence  of  the 
 Pfalm's  being  fpoken  by  the  Lord,  is  an  infallible  mark  of  in- 
 terpretation to  go  by  :  that  we  may  learn  not  to  blafpheme, 
 but  afcribe  to  him  his  own  prerogative,  who  hath  power  to 
 call:  both  foul  and  body  into  hell-fire. 
 
 What  a  piteous  thing  is  it  to  fee  Dr.  Watt  and  others  mak- 
 ing palliations  and  apologies  for  the  harfh  Jewifh  fpirit,  as 
 they  call  it,  and  unkindly  genius  or  nature  of  that  difpenfation 
 appearing  in  the  curfes  and  imprecations  uttered  in  the  Pfalms! 
 And  then  you  are  roundly  advifed  by  them,  after  their  own 
 method,  to  leap  over  fuch  pafTages  in  your  devotions,  as  if 
 you  had  ftumbled  on  a  deadly  fnake ;  for  this  reafon,  add 
 they,  becaufe  they  are  unfuitable  to  be  ufed  by  us  now-a-days, 
 under  our  milder  difpenfation,  which  breathes  nothing  but  love 
 and  gentlenefs — True !  to  all  who  rejoice  in  the  crofs  of 
 Chrift.  But  does  the  gofpel  curfe  the  fearful  and  unbelieving 
 lefs  bitterly  than  the  law  ?  or,  had  we  ever  heard  a  word  of 
 the  law,  but  for  the  fake  of  the  gofpel  ?  or  of  the  gofpel,  but 
 for  the  fake  of  the  law  ?  are  thefe  two  contrary  the  one  to  the 
 other  ?  or  is  there  any  curfe  in  Mofes,  the  Pfalms,  the  pro- 
 phets, but  in  as  far  as  there  is  gofpel  in  them  unbelieved  ?  was 
 
 there 
 
Of  the  Pfalms.  Ixv 
 
 there  ever  any  condemnation,  but  becaufe  light  was  come, 
 and  the  darknefs  comprehended  k  not?  where  is  the  ground, 
 then,  for  any  perfon  acknowledging  the  New  Teftament,  in 
 finging  the  pfalms  in  churches,  families,  or  by  themfelves, 
 to  pafs  by  any  pafTage,  becaufe  of  the  curfe  therein  ?  feeing 
 the  curfes  and  bleflings  are  both  by  the  fame  Spirit,  and  e- 
 qually  efTential  eternal  parts  of  the  fame  plan,  wherein  is  ma- 
 nifefted  the  character  of  God  and  glory  of  his  love,  guarded 
 and  defended  by  the  fanction  of  all  his  infinite  power  and 
 wrath,  whofe  name,  even  our  God  in  Chrift,  (for  no  where 
 elfe  was  he  ever  feen,  either  in  creation,  prefervation,  or  re- 
 demption, but  in  Chrift)  is  "  a  confuming  fire."— He  that 
 would  fhew  his  zeal  for  the  love  and  bleflings  of  God,  by  be- 
 ing again  ft  the  wrath  and  the  curfes,  is  like  a  man  who  (hould 
 pull  up  the  hedges  for  the  beauty  and  defence  of  the  gar- 
 den. It  is  the  univerfal  voice  of  the  New  Teftament,  fpeak- 
 ing  as  exprefsly  as  ever  the  Old  did,  "  That  he  who  believ- 
 eth  fliall  be  faved — That  he  hath  life,  and  (hall  not  come  in- 
 to condemnation,  but  that  he  who  believeth  not  fhall  be 
 damned — nay,  is  condemned  already,"  and  (while  this  is  his 
 character  that  he  believeth  not)  he  fhall  not  fee  life  ;  but  the 
 wrath  of  God  abideth  upon  him — And,  if  any  man  love  not 
 the  Lord  Jefus  Chrift,  let  him  be  Anathema  Maranatha.  So 
 faith  the  Lord,  and  the  Spirit  to  the  churches :  who  hath 
 ears  to  hear,  let  him  hear. 
 
 $thly,  And  laftly,  if  it  be  objected,  That  the  other  Pro- 
 phets fay  to  their  prophecies,  "  Thus  faith  the  Lord,"  but 
 David  in  the  Pfalms  never  ufeth  that  form  :  therefore  he 
 fpeaks  not  of  the  Lord,  but  of  himfelf. 
 
 Jnf.  The  Apoftles  have  obviated  this  objection,  by  af- 
 furing  us,  that  the  Lord  fpeaks,  and  not  David,  where  no 
 fuch  form  is  ufed,  as  in  Pfalm  xi.  and  16.  But  if  there  were 
 any  thing  in  your  objection,  it  would  deftroy  not  only  the 
 inspiration  of  the  Pfalms,  but  of  the  whole  New-Tefhment, 
 wherein  no  fuch  form  is  ufed,  in  the  manner  of  Mofes  and  the 
 Prophets,  by  the  Lord  or  his  Apoftles;  God  being  in  them 
 all  in  all  ifTuing  out  his  own  mandates  as  a  King,  immediate- 
 ly of  himfelf.  And  this  is  a  proof  in  comparing  the  Lord 
 with  his  Prophets,  who  were  faithful  in  all  things  as  fervants, 
 that  in  himfeif,  as  in  the  Son  over  his  own  houfe,  dwelt  the 
 
 i  fol- 
 
Ixvi  Of  the  Pfalms. 
 
 fulnefs  of  the  Godhead  bodily :  and  that  the  apoftles  wefe 
 not,  like  the  prophets,  moved  only  at  times  by  the  Spirit  of 
 Chrift,  but  always,  and  without  intermiffion ;  fo  that  they 
 needed  not  fay,  "  Thus  faith  the  Lord;"  the  Lord  himfelf  be- 
 ing always  perfonally,  or  as  it  were  perfonally  prefent  by  his 
 Spirit,  without  intermiffion,  giving  his  own  teftimony  with  his 
 own  mouth  through  them :  and  fo  after  the  fame  manner,  in  the 
 Pfalms ;  even  as  a  peribn  of  authority,  perfonally  acting  and  pre- 
 fent, fpeaking  immediately  with  his  own  mouth,  or  writing  with 
 his  own  hand,  (hews  himfelf  by  his  fpeech  or  writing;  and 
 the  manner  thereof.. 
 
 After  all,  6thlyy  if  It  be  afked,  Why  are  we  fo  zealous  for 
 the  right  interpretation  of  the  Pfalms  ?  and  where  is  the  great 
 harm  of  miftaking  the  meaning  of  any  part  of  the  Old  Tefta- 
 ment,  feeing  the  New  is  fo  full  and  clear  about  Chrift  ? 
 
 Anf  This  zeal  is  (hown  for  the  fake  of  the  truth,  even  that 
 full  and  clear  truth  in  the  New  Teftament  about  Chrift.  And 
 the  harm  of  mi  ft  a  king  the  meaning- of  the  Pfalms,  as  has  beea 
 already  made  appear,  lies  in  a  great  meafure  in  this,  that  of 
 however  little  importance  thofe  miftakes  are  fuppofed  to  be  it* 
 themfelves,  yet  they  have  been  employed  to  hide  the  light, 
 and  eat  out  the  fpirit  of  the  New  Teftament :  fo  that,  taker* 
 along  with  thofe  errors,  it  turns  out  to  be  not  only  a  dead, 
 but  a  killing  and  deftroying  letter,  inftead  of  a  miniftration  of 
 life ;  every  member  thereof  being,  as  it  were,  disjointed  and 
 broken  ;  as,  if  you  let  an  error  efcape  you  in  the  firft  figures 
 of  a  calculation,  which  will  caufe  the  whole  fum  to  turn  out  a 
 falfhood,  however  painfully  the  operations  were  carried  on  af- 
 terwards ;  or,  as  the  phyficians  fay,  an  error  in  the  firft  con- 
 coction cannot  be  rectified  in  any  after  procefs  of  digeftion. 
 But  when  the  Pfalms  are  confidered  as  fpoken  of  Chrift,  or  as* 
 Chrift  fpeaking  in  them,  we  behold  the  love  of  God,  furround- 
 ed  and  guarded  with  all  the  terrors  of  his  wrath,  blazing  forth 
 in  the  face  of  Jefus;  in  whom  we  fee  God  all  light,  and  no 
 darknefs  at  all,  even  perfectly  well-pleafed  through  the  blood 
 of  the  atonement ;  fo  that  we  may  come  boldly  forward,  and 
 worfhip  with  enlarged  hearts. 
 
 Had  our  criticks  and  commentators  laboured  with  equal  di- 
 ligence, to  find  out  and  fhew  the  relation  the  Pfalms  have  to 
 the  New  Teftament,  as  they  have  done  to  edify  us  with  the 
 
 pen- 
 
Ofihe  Pfalms.  hmi 
 
 penmen,  and  particular  occafions  and  times  when  they  were 
 written,  and  the  fenfe  which  either  ancient  or  modern  Jews, 
 and  thofe  called  primitive  fathers  have  put  upon  them,  the 
 church  might  have  rejoiced  in  their  labours  ;  but,  as  they  now 
 ftand  forth  fo  many  mafkers  (alas !  there  are  few  exceptions) 
 of  the  face  of  Jefus,  if  you  have  got  a  giimpfe  of  that  face,  how 
 can  you  look  upon  thofe  who  have  been  endeavouring  to  hide 
 the  glory  thereof  from  your  view,  by  cafling  on  the  ancient 
 vails — but  with  the  greateft  thankfulnefs  to  him,  who,  com- 
 manding the  light  to  fhine  out  of  darknefs,  hath  enlightened, 
 your  own  mind  with  his  glory  !  while  at  the  fame  time,  you 
 cannot  but  look  upon  them  with  the  fame  kind  of  emotion,  as 
 if  you  had  flood  in  the  days  of  Solomon  in  the  court  of  the 
 temple,  at  the  dedication  thereof,  beholding  the  offerings  ac- 
 cepted, and  the  glory  of  the  Lord  filling  the  whole  houfe,  and 
 then  beheld  a  band  of  drunken  prieits,  running,  raking,  and 
 fcavenging  together  with  might  and  main,  all  the  afhes  about 
 the  place,  with  the  filth  and  dung  of  the  (lain  beafts,  and  then 
 throwing  them  all  in  a  heap  upon  the  altar,  fmothering  the 
 heavenly  fire,  and  polluting  the  facrifices !  their  defign  per- 
 haps was  to  feed  the  fire  with  fuel,  and  lay  on  more  Sacrifices 
 according  to  the  law ;  but  what  of  that,  if  in  their  madnefs 
 and  wine  they  caft  on  dung  ?  Let  God  be  true  and  every  man 
 a  liar.  If  this  method  of  interpretation  hold,  which  allows 
 only  the  apoflles  to  give  their  fenfe  of  the  Pfalms,  holding  eve- 
 ry other  fenfe  whatfoever  foreign  and  fpurious,  as  many  as  hold 
 it,  not  tofpeak  of  many  obvious  advantages  they  may  enjoy, 
 will  be  delivered  from  two  great  evils ;  \fi,  That  countenance 
 and  authority  alledged  from  the  Pfalms  to  eftablifti  a  creaturely 
 righteoufnefs,  where  the  Holy  Ghoft  had  eirablifhed  the  ever- 
 lafting  righteoufnefs  of  God.  idly,  They  will  be  delivered  from 
 that  manifold  kind  of  confufion  which  has  been  eftablifhed  on 
 a  falfe  view  of  the  Pfalms,  where  the  Holy  Ghoft  had  eftablifh- 
 ed  that  faith  which  is  of  his  own  gift  and  operation,  which  he 
 defines  and  manifefis  where  it  is,  the  evidence,  or  afTurance  of 
 things  not  feen,  the  fubftance  of  things  hoped  for.  Where  is 
 this  evidence,  where  is  this  fubftance  to  be  found  ?  Even  in 
 the  hearts  where  they  are  ;  and  no  where  elfe*.  What  a  gene- 
 ral abfurdity,  then,  is  that  which  they  call  a  general  faith  ?  Is 
 nor  the  truth  of  God,  or  object  of  faith,  one  particular  indivi- 
 
 i  2  dual 
 
lxviil  Of  the  Pfalms. 
 
 dual  truth  or  object  ?  Is  not  all  faith  particular  ?  fixed  and  dz^ 
 termined  to  the  particular  individual  fubject  wherein  it  is,  bow- 
 ever  extenfive  the  truth  or  object  of"  belief  be  ?  Certainly.  You 
 believe,  and  fee,  and  hear,  and  love,  and  live,  in  you rfelf  alone, 
 and  not  in  another  :  neither  indeed  can  it  be  otherways.  If 
 this  be  fo,  is  it  not  truly  an  affecting  thing  to  fee  thofe,  whom 
 in  many  refpects  you  would  incline  to  fay  "  God  fpeed"  to— 
 ranking  themfelves  under  different  heads  and  denominations ; 
 maintaining  on  the  one  fide,  That  juftifying  and  faving  faith 
 is  a  perfuafion,  "  That  Chrift  died  for  you  in  particular,  and 
 that  you  through  his  blood  fhall  be  faved"—- and  this  fame  is 
 their  appropriating  act,  whereby,  they  fay,  Chrift  becomes 
 theirs !  as  if  the  Scripture  had  any  where  faid  fo- — as  if  you 
 could  be  faved  through  the  belief  of  any  thing  but  what  the 
 Scripture  hath  faid,  which  is  true,  whether  you  believe  it  or 
 not — as  if  a  blind  perfon  could  receive  his  light,  a  deaf  perfon 
 his  hearing,  a  dead  perfon  his  life,  (the  cafes  are  quite  paral- 
 lel) by  a  perfuafion  that  they  faw,  heard,  and  lived — while, 
 in  oppofition  to  this  falfe  doctrine,  it  is  asfalfely  as  zealoufly 
 maintained  on  the  other  fide,  That  a  perfon  may  fee  very  well 
 allured  or  perfuaded  of  the  truth  of  the  teftimony  concerning 
 Jefus,  which  perfuafion  or  afTurance  they  compare  to  one  end 
 of  an  arch  founded  upon  a  rock,  and  yet  at  the  fame  time  re- 
 main in  great  doubt  concerning  his  own  particular  interefr  in 
 Jefus ;  which  latter  thing  they  compare  to  the  other  end  of  the 
 forefaid  arch  founded  upon  the  find— Well,  how  fhall  this  end 
 alfo  be  eflablifhed  ?  By  your  felf-denied  obedience,  fay  they, 
 by  your  continued  fubjection  to  the  gofpel.  How  fhall  I  know 
 this  fame  felf-denied  obedience,  this  continued  fubjection  to 
 the  gofpel,  except  I  know  the  principle  from  whence  they  pro- 
 ceed ?  for  if  1  do  not  bring  forth  my  fruits  to  the  glory  of  my 
 own  Father  and  God,  in  the  name  of  the  Lord  Jefus,  as  ianctifi- 
 ed,  wafhed,.jufHfied,  and  by  the  Spirit  of  adoption  crying  Abba 
 Father,  I  can  never  conclude  they  are  proofs  of  my  obedience 
 and  fubjection  to  the  gofpel.  Thefe  fruits  do  not  flow  merely 
 from  the  relation  fubfifting  between  God  and  me  ;  but  from  that 
 relation  known  :  and  the  fruits  are  not  the  means  whereby  the 
 relation  is  known,  but  acknowledged  :  as  it  is  written,  "  Here- 
 by acknowledge  we,  (not  know  we,  as  it  is  rendered)  that  we 
 have  paffed  from  death  to  life,  bscaufe  we  love  the  brethren." 
 
 Take 
 
Of  the  Pfalms.  lxix 
 
 Take  away  the  knowledge,  the  certain  knowledge  of  my  own 
 perfonal  relation,  union,  intereft,  communion  with  God;  and 
 you  dry  up,  at  the  fame  time,  all  the  fprings  of  my  felf-de- 
 nial  and  obedience,  or  painful  labour  of  love:  can  I  obey, 
 unlefs  I  love  ?  can  I  love,  unlefs  I  am  loved,  and  know  that 
 I  am  loved  ?  Says  one,  Would  to  God,  I  were  as  certain  of 
 my  own  particular  intereft  in  Chrift,  as  I  am  of  the  truth  of 
 the  gofpel  in  general !  Did  that  man  know  what  he  was  fay- 
 ing, he  would  have  precifely  the  fame  afTurance  and  certain- 
 ty of  his  own  particular  intereft  in  Chrift,  as  of  the  general 
 truth  of  the  gofpel :  For  is  it  not  written,  Chrift  is  the  end 
 of  the  law  for  righteoufnefs  to  every  one  that  believeth.  Be- 
 lieveth  !  what  ?  even  what  is  there  faid,  that  Chrift  is  the 
 end  of  the  law.  Do  you  know  you  believe  or  underftand,  ac- 
 cording to  the  teftimony,  what  you  call  the  general  truth  ? 
 the  conclufion  is  as  direct  upon  you  for  your  own  particular 
 intereft  therein  :  for  they  who  believe,  believe  not  in  gene- 
 ral, but  in  particular  ;  even  as  no  perfon  ever  faw  the  light 
 in  general  for  others,  and  was  blind  himfelf:  fo  no  perfon 
 has  any  ground  to  believe  there  is  falvation  for  others,  but 
 he  has  the  fame  evidence  it  is  to  himfelf.  And  thofe  people, 
 who  fay  they  believe  there  is  falvation  for  others,  according 
 to  the  gofpel,  and  fay  they  doubt  of  their  own  intereft  there- 
 in, do  evidently  lie;  they  do  not  underftand  what  they  pre- 
 tend to  believe  :  for  no  perfon  can  believe  without  being  con- 
 scious or  certain  that  he  himfelf  in  particular  believes.  They 
 afk  you,  is  afTurance  of  the  effence  of  faith  ?  They  might  as 
 •well  afk  you,  if  the  fun  be  of  the  efTence  of  the  fun  ?  for  what 
 is  faith,  but  the  afTurance  God  gives  one  through  his  word  by 
 the  Spirit  ?  and  this  being  particular  in  a  perfon's  own  felf, 
 and  not  in  another,  he  has  as  much  afTurance  that  he  believes, 
 when  he  believes,  as  that  he  fees,  hears,  lives,  loves,  hates, 
 defires,  rejoices,  &c.  when  he  is  in  very  deed  fo  affected ; 
 which  affections  he  hath  no  manner  of  evidence  for,  but  that 
 he  is  confeious  of  his  being  fo  affected  :  and  yet  it  is  not  by 
 perfuading  himfelf  that  he  is  fo  affected,  that  he  really  is  fo; 
 but  being  fo  affected,  it  is  impoffible  but  he  fnuft  have  a  con- 
 fcioufnefs  or  perfuafion  of  his  being  fo.  Says  another,  in 
 one  of  his  differtations  lately  publifhed,  "  All  faith  muft  in- 
 deed include  fomething  particular  in  the  nature  of  it."   He 
 
 gives 
 
Ixx  Of  the  P/alms. 
 
 gives  you  an  inftance  in  the  believer  of  the  law  and  its  threat- 
 enings,  which,  fays  he,  "  Arike,  the  perfon  in  particular,  as 
 he  himfelf  were  the  very  one  pointed  at:  even  fo  with  regard 
 to  the  gofpel  he  believes — Not  that  his  fins  are  actually  for- 
 given him,  and  that  he  fhall  be  faved — But  that  there  is  mercy 
 and  forgtvenefs  with  God  for  finners  in  general,  and  that  he 
 may  be  faved,"  or  fomething  to  that  purpofe.  Who  taught 
 him  to  fay  fo  of  a  believer  of  the  gofpel  ?  not  the  Holy  Ghoft : 
 for  he  fays,  i  John  ii.  12.  I  write  unto  you  little  children, 
 becaufe  your  fins  are  forgiven  you  for  his  name's  fake — and 
 verfe  21.  I  have  not  written  to  you  becaufe  ye  know  not  the 
 truth ;  but  becaufe  ye  know  it,  and  that  no  lie  is  of  the  truth. 
 — Says  another,  the  father  of  his  own  ftory,  about  an  official 
 Saviour  to  all  mankind  who  (hall  be  faved  and  damned,  thefc 
 words,  1  Cor.  i.  30.  "  Chrift  made  to  you  of  God  wifdom, 
 righteoufnefs,  &c."  are  not  abfoiutely  to  be  underftood  of  the 
 faints  and  faithful  at  Corinth  and  other  places;  but  in  a  quali- 
 fied fenfe,  Thus,  he  is  made  fo  by  office,  if  you  apply  to  him, 
 he  will  be  made  fo  ;  not  that  he  is  already  actually  made  fo  ; 
 but  he  is  fo  officially  to  all  mankind  finners  indefinitely,  their 
 Goel,  their  kiniman  Redeemer,  and  it  is  their  own  fault,  &c. 
 or  fomething  to  the  fame  fpirit.  God  deliver  whom  he  will 
 deliver  from  fuch  abominations !  which  are  the  more  danger- 
 ous the  liker  they  are  to  the  truth :  even  as  forged  money 
 or  bills  receive  all  their  currency  from  their  being  the  more  ex- 
 actly counterfeited. ^-Thefe  forgeries  and  counterfeits  of  faith 
 had  not  been  mentioned  in  this  place,  but  for  the  fake  of  the 
 truth,  which,  by  their  currency,  is  greatly  funk  and  debafed. 
 If  it  had  been  poffible,  the  falfehoods  they  maintain  about 
 faith  and  the  Pialms,  &c.  had  been  mentioned  without  the 
 perfons  or  parties  who  maintain  them  at  all — and  if  fome  find 
 themfelves  more  exactly  defcribed  than  they  would  wifh — if 
 the  cap  fit  them,  they  are  welcome  to  wear  it — if  it  do  not, 
 there  is  no  harm  done,  they  are  not  the  perfons  meant — But 
 as  men,  and  fects  of  men  have  given  the  ftamp  and  authority 
 of  their  refpective  names  and  fects  to  their  notions  and  nos- 
 trums, thefe  behoved  to  be  defcribed  by  fuch  ftamps  and  marks 
 as  they  were  not  afharned  to  give  them.  And  he  ought  to  be 
 afhamed,  who  would  be  afharned  or  afraid  to  expofe,  as  far  as  in 
 him  lies,  wharever  is  found  in  oppofition  to  the  truth  of  God, 
 
 Here 
 
Of  the  Pfalms.  teS 
 
 Here  obferve,  notwithftanding  the  paragraph  may  appear 
 fomewhat  disjointed,  That  though  the  afTurance  of  faith  and 
 the  afTurance  of  hope  be  indeed  moft  juftly  diftinguimed,  as 
 differing  in  nature  one  from  another,  yet  the  diftinc'tion  and 
 foundation  of  it  which  fome  men  make  between  them  is  evi- 
 dently weak  and  ridiculous,  being  the  moft  foreign  thing  in 
 the  world  from  the  meaning  of  the  Holy  Ghoft,  who  does  not 
 even  infinuate  (as  thofe  men  fay  he  declares)  that  the  afTurance 
 of  hope  is  lefs  certain  than  the  afTurance  of  faith,  but  only 
 that  the  afTurance  of  hope  regards  the  good  thing  as  certainly 
 to  come,  which  the  afTurance  of  faith  regardeth  as  certainly 
 true  :  {a  that  the  afTurance  of  faith,  or  the  good  hope  through 
 grace  is  not  oppofed  to,  or  diftingujfhed  from,  the  certainty, 
 but  the  futurity  only,  of  the  good  tiling  to  come,  which  is  e- 
 qually  the  object  of  the  hope  and  faith,  and  of  the  hope,  be- 
 caufe  firft  of  the  faith  :  To  that  the  afTurance  of  hope,  were 
 there  any  degrees  in  the  cafe,  is  rather  an  advance  upon  the 
 afTurance  of  faith,  than  a  lefTer  or  more  uncertain  thing;  Teeing, 
 by  the  grace  of  faith,  whatever  good  thing  one  looks  upon  tc 
 be  true,  by  the  grace  of  hope,  with  equal  afTurance,  he  looks 
 for  (if  abfent)  to  come  :  fo  that  whatever  afTurance  there  was 
 in  the  faith,  there  is  precifeiy  as  much  in  the  hope  built  upon 
 that  faith.  Both  the  afTurance  of  faith  and  the  afTurance  oj 
 hope  are  found  in  the  Lord  Jefus,  in  whom  furely  they  in< 
 eluded  equal  certainty;  and  from  the  application  of  them  both 
 to  him,  take  the  meaning  of  them  both  as  exifting  by  his  Spi- 
 rit in  his  followers,  who  have  the  fame  fpirit  of  faith  and  hope 
 with  him,  their  Head  and  Pattern,  concerning  whom  it  is  writ- 
 ten that  he  faid,  "  I  believed,  and  therefore  have  I  fpoken,' 
 2  Cor.  iv.  13.  Behold  the  afTurance  of  faith  in  him — was  th< 
 afTurance  of  his  hope  lefs  certain  ?  "  moreover  "alfo,  my  flefr 
 fhall  reft  in  hope,"  Acls  ii.  26.  Behold  the  afTurance  of  hope 
 which  is  founded  ascertain  as  God  is  true,  in  the  afTurance o: 
 faith. 
 
 To  conclude,  if  thefe  loofe  hints,  thrown  together  in  the 
 order  in  which  they  occurred,  do  not  make  their  own  apolo 
 gy,  it  will  be  in  vain  to  attempt  a  vindication  of  them,  or  o 
 the  following  book :  thofe  who  are  convinced,  and  love  th< 
 caufe,  will  need  none ;  thofe  who  are  otherways  will  receiv< 
 none. 
 
 Nov 
 
Ixxii  Of  the  So?ig  of  Solomon. 
 
 Now  my  dear  friends,  and  greatly  beloved  in  the  bowels  of 
 the  Lord  Jefus  Chrift,  for  whom  this  book  and  preface  are 
 wholly  defigned,  to  you,  among  whom  my  endeavours  in  the 
 work  and  fellowship  of  the  gofpel  have  been  moflly  emplo}ed, 
 even  to  you  in  the  parifhes  and  neighbourhoods  of  Fettercairn 
 and  Errol,  who  are  of  the  true  circumcifion,  and  worfhip  God 
 in  the  Spirit,  rejoicing  in  Chrift  Jefus,  who  is  that  Spirit 
 and  that  Truth,  having  no  confidence  in  the  flefh  ;  and  to  e- 
 very  reader  who  is  of  the  fame  fpirit  and  fellowfhip  in  the  gof- 
 pel,  wherefoever  you  ibjourn  ;  in  teftimony  of  his  immortal 
 love  and  efteem,  this  prefent  pledge  which  he  could  afford,  is 
 nioft  affectionately  devoted  and  dedicated,  by  your  humble 
 fervant  for  Chrift's  fake,  who  bids  you  heartily  farewel  in  the 
 Lord.     Amen. 
 
 Of  the  SONG  of  SOLOMON. 
 
 AS  tb.  the  Song  of  Solomon,  it  is  evidently  parallel  in  fpirit 
 and  expreffton  to  the  xlv.  Pialm ;  wherein  the  Lord  Jefus 
 Chriit.  is  celebrated  as  the  Father,  Brother,  Hufband  and 
 King,  as  in  many  other  paffages  of  the  Old  Teftament,  and 
 the  church  defcribed  as  his  daughter,  filler,  and  queen,  the 
 joyful  mother  of  many  children ;  explained  by  fuch  paffages 
 as  thefe,  "  He  that  hath  the  bride  is  the  Bridegroom — The 
 bride  the  Lamb's  wife  hath  made  herfelf  ready — adorned  as  a 
 virgin  to  meet  her  Lord — who  prefents  her  as  a  chaff  e  virgin 
 
 *  without  fpot.or  wrinkle,  or  any  fuch  thing,  before  the  prefence 
 of  his  Father  with  exceeding  great  joy."  What  a  lofty  idea  is 
 this  given  us  in  the  New  Teftament !  how  poor  and  low  the 
 carnal  fenfe  given  by  fome,  while  they  fpeak  of  Solomon  and 
 Pharaoh's  daughter,  with  this  difadvantage,  that  it  is  not  by 
 any  means  the  meaning  of  the  Holy  Ghoft  in  this  place  to  tell 
 us  any  thing  about  Solomon  who  married  Pharaoh's  daughter! 
 Is  it  not  plain,  that  Solomon  fignifying  "  Peaceable  Perfect" 
 is  here  taken  for  the  name  of  the  Prince  of  Peace  the  Perfect: 
 Captain,  of  our  Salvation?  To  fay  Solomon  was  a  type  of  Chi  ill 
 in  his  marriages  is  an  abfolute  laugh  till  you  have  proved  it 
 
 '  What !  could  Solomon's  marrying  a  regiment  of  flrarige  wo* 
 
 men, 
 
Of  the  Song  cf  Solomon.  Ixxiii 
 
 men,  or  any  ftrange  woman,  or  any  woman,  be  a  type  more 
 than  any  other  marriage,  of  Chrift's  union  with  his  church, 
 except  the  Holy  Ghoft  had  told  us  fo  ?  That  the  Holy  Ghofr, 
 in  reprefenting  and  defcribing  this  fpiritual  eternal'  union, 
 might  ufe  the  language  appropriated  to  that  holy  -inftitution  of 
 
 God,  was  never  denied And  as  Solomon's  marriage,  no 
 
 doubt,  was  the  moft  grand  and  glorious  Lirael  ever  faw,  he 
 might  draw  comparifons  or  illuftrations  from  thence,  to  fet 
 off  an  infinitely  greater  glory  and  marriage,  by  reafon  where- 
 of all  other  glory  was  glory  no  more.  So  that  the  admirers  of 
 Solomon  and  his  earthly  glory,  on  feeing  the  heavenly,  might 
 become  as  the  queen  of  Sheba,  when  fne  faw  the  manner  of 
 Solomon's  court  in  comparifon  with  her  own.  Thus  the  Holy 
 Ghoft  raifes  the  affections  of  his  children,  from  carnal  and  va- 
 nishing, to  fpiritual  and  eternal  things.  As  the  Lord  afterwards 
 laid  to  his  difciples,  Behold  the  lilies  of  the  field  how  they  grow. 
 They  toil  not,  neither  do  they  fpin ;  and  yet  I  fay  unto  you,  that 
 Solomon  in  all  his  glory  was  not  arrayed  like  one  of  thefe.  If 
 God  therefore  fo  cloath  the  grafs  of  the  field,  which  to-day  is, 
 and  to-morrow  is  caft  into  the  oven,  how  much  more  will  he 
 cloath  you,  O  ye  of  little  faith  ?  Even  fo  here  in  meditating 
 upon  this  Song,  our  fpirits,  if  in  the  power  of  the  Holy  Ghofl, 
 will  take  wing  and  foar  away  above  all  fublunary  things  to  the 
 higheft  heavens,  and  there  dwell  upon  the  raptures  of  redeem- 
 ing love,  till  fun  and  moon,  like  all  the  glories  over  which  they 
 ever  rolled  and  fhined,  (hall  become  but  fpots  and  clouds  of 
 darknefs  to  the  fplendours  of  our  eternal  day. 
 
 But  that  we  may  not  appear  to  think  of  foaring  without 
 wings  fufficient  for  the  flight,  it  is  to  be  remarked,  that  Pfalm 
 xlv.  and  confequently  this  Song,  as  hinted  before,  is  exprefs- 
 ly  declared  to  be  fpoken  of  Chrift,  Heb.  i.  8.  Confider  this, 
 ye  who  have  been  accuftomed  to  confider  and  fing  Pfal.  exxvii. 
 and  exxviii.  not  as  expreflive  of  that  great  myftery,  the  union 
 and  love  between  Chrift  and  his  church,  but  only  as  fongs  or 
 fonnets  of  David's  own  compofure  (or  if  you  fay,  of  divine  in- 
 fpiration,  you  have  not  helped  the  matter)  concerning  a  breed- 
 ing wife,  like  a  fruitful  vine  in  a  man's  houfe,  and  a  parcel  of 
 thriving  children,  like  fo  many  olive-plants  about  his  doors !  () 
 ignorance  (of  God!)  how  art  thou  the  mother  of  devotion  to 
 every  vaniry  under  the  fun  ?  Let  them  gnaw  upon  fbcb  hufks 
 
 !;  who 
 
Ixxiv*  Of  the  Song  of  Solomon. 
 
 who  have  teeth  and  ftomach  for  them  ;  and  call  them,  if  they 
 choofe,  apples  of  paradife.  But  furely  fuch  kind  of  longings 
 after  earthly  things  do  not  proceed  from  health,  but  difeafe. — 
 That  the  Lord  and  his  church  are  the  characters  in  this  wholly 
 divine  Song,  has  indeed  been  generally  acknowledged.  And 
 it  is  manifeft,  they  are  rejprefented  as  two  human  perfonages 
 of  the  mod  abfolute  perfection  of  beauty,  holinefs,  and  mu- 
 tual love,  the  glory  of  the  whole  earth;  the  united  fplendour 
 of  whofe  perfections,  beheld  in  the  living  glory  of  their  con- 
 fummate  beauty,  illuftrated  and  adorned  with  all  the  excel- 
 lencies of  the  univerfe,  ftrikes  the  minds  of  the  true  holy  de- 
 \rout  admirers  with  the  moft  exquifite  fen  fat  ions  of  delight; 
 while  they  themfelves  who  behold,  are  changed  more  and 
 more  into  the  fame  glory.  How  different  the  effect  of  fuch  a 
 heavenly  vifion,  wherein  every  feature  in  the  objects  of  your 
 holy  admiration  mines  forth  in  the  natural  living  expreflion, 
 proportion,  and  harmony  of  God.  How  different  this,  fay  ye 
 who  know,  from,  thofe  fulibme  anatomical  diffections  fent  a- 
 broad  by  fome  Levite  or  other  in  the  land,  from  Dan  to  Beer- 
 fheba,  through  the  twelve  tribes  of  our  Ifrael,  under  the  no- 
 tion of  expofitions  of  the  Song!  Expofitions  indeed  !  in  as 
 far  as  that  term  may  fignify  expofing  of  glory  to  fhame.  To 
 condefcend  upon  fuch  particulars  in  their  doings  upon  this 
 Song,  as  would  juftify  this  cenfure,  would  be  fairly  to  defervc 
 it.  From  a  perfuafion  therefore,  that  the  Chief  among  ten 
 thoufands,  who  is  altogether  lovely,  with  his  Fair  One  and 
 Undented,  are  belt  and  molt  innocently  contemplated  and  ad- 
 mired in  that  original,  inviolable,  and  divinely  facred  drcfs  of 
 living  majefty,  beauty,  and  love,  wherewith  the  Holy  Ghoft 
 hath  adorned  and  crowned  them  in  the  day  of  their  efpoufals, 
 to  bloom  and  mine  in  this  Song,  as  it  ftands,  in  all  the  glory 
 of  God,  till  the  heavens  be  no  more ;  from  this  perfuafion  it 
 was  (I  fay)  that  the  following  paraphrafe  hath  not  been  allow- 
 ed to  venture  beyond  the  unfolding  of  a  few  of  the  leis  obvi- 
 ous fimilies,  whereof  this  Song  is  one  of  the  largeft  and  fair- 
 eft  conftellations  in  the  whole  Old  Teftament. 
 
 Now  may  the  Holy  Ghoit  the  Comforter  and  Advocate, 
 taking  of  the  Father's  and  of  the  Son's,  lead  his  children  into 
 all  truth,  peace,  and  joy  in  believing,  patience,  humility, 
 meeknefs,  ielf-deaial,  fobriety,  obedience,  hafteniog  us  unto 
 
 the 
 
Of  the  AJfurance  of  Faith,  lxxv 
 
 the  coming  of  our  Lord,  who  is  our  hope,  who  will  deliver 
 the  children  of  his  love  from  this  bondage  of  corruption,  in- 
 to his  own  glorious  liberty,  perfecting  our  fpirits,  and  chan- 
 ging our  vile  bodies,  that  they  may  be  fafhianed  into  the  like- 
 nefs  of  his  own  mofl  glorious  body,  who  Himfelf  was  in  all 
 things  made  like  to  us,  except  fin,<hat  we,  in  all  things,  (fin 
 and  death  in  him,  and  by  him  in  us,  being  abolifhed  for  ever, 
 and  caft  with  hell  into  the  lake  of  fire)  might  be  made  like  to 
 him,  when  we  (hall  fee  him  as  he  is,  being  transformed  into 
 the  fame  image,  from  glory  to  glory,  as  by  the  Spirit  of  the 
 Lord,  till  we  break  forth  at  once  in  the  perfection  of  his  beau- 
 ty, to  fhine  like  the  fun  in  the  kingdom  of  his  Father  and  our 
 Father,  his  God  and  our  God  !  fo  fhall  we  ever  be  with  our 
 Lord  ;  who  hath  faid,  Lift  up  your  heads  for  your  redemp- 
 tion draweth  nigh— Behold  I  come  quickly.  Amen  !  Even  (o 
 come,  Lord  Jefus.     Amen. 
 
 Fetter  cairn,   19th  Ocl.  1766. 
 
 JOHN    BARCLAY. 
 
 A    LETTER    to   R.   M.   concerning  die 
 ASSURANCE  of  FAITH. 
 
 Dear    Sift, 
 
 YOURS  1  received  in  courfe  of  poft  with  great  eagernefs, 
 being  always  revived  when  I  fee  your  hand,  and  refreSi- 
 ed  with  the  accounts  of  your  welfare  ;  being  very  much  per- 
 fuaded  that  the  Father  of^mercies,  the  God  and  Father  of  the 
 Lord  Jefus  Chrift,  hath  written  Welfare  on  all  the  difpenfa- 
 tions  of  hjs  hand  to  you,  as  the  diftinguifning  and  well-known 
 mark  and  feal  of  all  things  to  his  own  chofen  and  called ;  who 
 are  taught  of  his  Spirit  to  know  the  things  that  are  freely  gi- 
 ven to  them  of  God,  though  the  world,  lying  in  wickednefs, 
 know  nothing  of  the  matter;  but  the  Spirit  fearcheth  ail 
 things :  the  Spirit  is  the  true  light  difcovering  the  darknefs, 
 and  is  itfelf  difcovered  of  none  but  thofe  in  whom  it  dwells, 
 who  are  made  light  in  the  Lord,  and  know  the  joy  which  the 
 world  intermedleth  not  with,  the  peace  of  the  children  of 
 peace,  being  peace  with  God  through  the  blood  of  Jefus, 
 
 k  z  fprink- 
 
Ixxvi  Of  the  Affurance  of  Faith. 
 
 fprinkled  in  filence,  by  the  Holy  Ghoft,  upon  their  conferen- 
 ces !  how  can  the  world  know  it,  give  it,  or  take  it  away  ? 
 Theirs  is  the  new  name ;  theirs  is  the  white  (tone,  which  no 
 nun  knoweth  fave  he  that  receiveth  it ;  they  eat  the  hidden 
 manna  ;  they  drink  the  quiet  waters  of  the  well  of  living  wa- 
 ter, Springing  up  within  them  to  eternal  life---Can  they  be  the 
 children  of  God,  without  the  Spirit  of  adoption,  crying  Abba 
 Father  ?  Can  they  cry  Abba  Father,  without  the  Spirit  bear- 
 ing witnefs  to  their  fpirits,  that  they  are  the  children  of  God  ? 
 how  are  they  the  children  of  God,  but  by  faith  in  JefusChrift  ? 
 before  they  believed,  were  they  not  by  nature  children  of  wrath, 
 dead  in  trefpafles  and  fins,  without  God,  without  Chrift, 
 without  hope  in  the  world,  ftrangers  from  the  covenant  of 
 promife,  unknowing  of  the  new  teftament  in  the  blood  of  the 
 Lamb,  enmity  againft  God  in  their  mind,  even  as  all  others, 
 of  their  father  the  devil,  whofe  lufh  they  fulfilled. 
 
 Without  faith  it  is  impoffible  to  pleafe  God.  Whatfoever  is 
 not  of  faith  is  fin.  Can  there  be  any  faith  but  the  knowledge 
 of  the  Father,  and  the  Son  whom  he  hath  fent,  whom  to 
 know  is  the  true  God  and  eternal  life  ?  If  any  man  have  not 
 the  Son,  the  fame  hath  not  the  Father.  Can  a  man  have  the 
 tyrue  God,  without  the  Father  and  the  Son  ?  but  if  any  man 
 have  the  Son,  the  fame  hath  the  Father  alfo.  Is  not  this  know- 
 ledge of  the  Father  and  the  Son,  only  by  the  revelation  which 
 is  by  the  Spirit  of  the  Father  and  the  Son  ?  Is  not  this  the 
 true  God  and  eternal  life  .?--0  Father  preferve  thy  little  chil- 
 dren from  idols. 
 
 If  any  perfon  know  not  God  the  Father,  Son,  and  Spirit, 
 the  three  in  Heaven,  that  are  One  pod,  as  manifefted  in  Je- 
 fus  Chrift ;  does  that  perfon  know  God  at  all  ?  Where  does 
 the  glory  of  God  mine,  but  in  the  face  of  Jefus  ?  Is  not  he 
 the  brightness  of  his  Father's  glory,  the  exprefs  image  of  his 
 perfon  ?  Is  not  this  the  great  myftery  of  God  and  godlinefs, 
 God  manifefted  in  the  flefh,  juftified  in  the  Spirit,  feen  of  an- 
 gels, preached  unto  the  nations,  believed  on  in  the  world  ?-•- 
 As  faid  before,  have  we  any  revelation  of  this  God,  thus  ma- 
 nifefted, but  by  his  own  Holy  Spirit,  of  the  Son  revealing  the 
 Father?  have  we  any  revelation  by  this  Spirit  at  all,  but. in 
 his  written  word  )  Faith  cometh  by  hearing,  and  hearing  by 
 the  word  of  Gcd  :~--does  this  fp^ak  of  our  preachings,  or  not 
 
 rather 
 
Of  the  AJfurance  of  Faith.  Ixxvii 
 
 rather  of  the  holy  men  of  old  ?  only  of  the  holy  men  of  old's 
 preaching,  who  fpoke  not  of  thernfelves,  but  as  they  were 
 moved  of  the  Holy  Ghoft.   Thus  the  word  of  the  Lord  came 
 to  Mofes,  and  to  the  prophets  :  and  they  who  were  ordained 
 to  eternal  life,  then  believed,  by  hearing  the  word  of  God,  in 
 the  mouth  of  Mofes,  and  the  Prophets.    But  now  God  hath 
 ipoken  by  his  Son,  and  by  all  his  Apoftles,  and  by  none  elfe. 
 Was  it  they  who  fpake,  or  the  Spirit  of  their  Father  within 
 -them  ?  They  to  whom  God  fpake  by  Mofes  and  the  Prophets, 
 (hall  be-judged  by  the  words  of  Mofes  and  the  Prophets:  But 
 the  words  which  Chvift  hath  in  thefe  laft  times  fpoken,  thefe 
 fhall  judge  us,  and  not  Mofes  and  the  Prophets. — Let  us  then 
 no  more  know  Chrift  after  the  flefli,  but  after  the  Spirit. — Try 
 the  fpirits,  whether  they  be  of  God  :  Hear  the  teftimony  of 
 God  for  his  Apoftles;  He  that  receiveth  you,  receiveth  me  ;  he 
 that  rejecteth  you,  rejecleth  me.     Were  not. they  fet  for  the 
 defence  of  the  Gofpel?  Could  they  fay  any  thing  againft  the 
 truth,  but  for  the  truth ;  faying,  in  truth,  and  in  the  Holy 
 Ghoft,  "  Beloved,  we  are  of  God  ;  every  one  that  is  of  God, 
 heareth  us;  every  one  that  is  not  of  God,  heareth  not  us: 
 hereby  know  we  the  Spirit  of  truth,  and  the  fpirit  of  error." 
 Is  any  Scripture  of  the  Old  Teftament  of  private  interpreta- 
 tion ?  Has  not  the  Spirit  of  God  given,  by  his  Apoftles,  the 
 public  interpretation  of  all  thepromifes,  prophecies,  types,  fer- 
 vices  of  the  old  difpenfation  ?  Why  then  have  the  whole  fuf- 
 ferings  of  Chrift  and  following  glory,  in  all  the  miniftration 
 thereof  by  the  Spirit,  in  the  Head,  and  in  the  members,  been 
 made  of  none  effecl  to  multitudes,  who  have  got  the  experi- 
 ences, as  they  call  them,  of  David,  of  Heman,  and  Afapb,  pour- 
 ed as  the  gall  and  bitternefs  of  death  upon  their  hearts,  from  the 
 mouths  of  their  leaders,  inftead  of  the  confolations  of  the  Holy 
 Ghoft,  which  areminiftred  by  the  Apoftles  to  the  called  of  God, 
 who  are  taught  to  know  that  all  thofe  deeps  calling  unto  deeps, 
 miry  clays,  water  fpouts,  terrors  of  the  Lord,  troubles,  hidings 
 of  God's  face,  were  the  judgments  of  Jehovah,  refting,  for  a 
 light  to  the  nations,  upon  the  Lord  of  David,  and  Son  only 
 according  to  the  flefh  ?  Thus  all  the  iniquities  going  over  his 
 head,  Pfalm  xl.  afhes  for  bread,  Pfalm  cii.  are  exprefsly  appli- 
 ed by  the  Holy  Ghoft  to  Chrift  ;  fee  Heb.  i.  and  xth  chapters, 
 Peter,  John,  Andrew,  or  Thomas,  are  no  Apoftles,  nor  exam. 
 
 ple< 
 
Ixxviii  .Of  the  AJfurance  of  Faith. 
 
 pies  to  us,  till  they  receive  the  power  from  on  high.  What- 
 ever therefore  be,  in  our  opinion,  the  meaning  of  any  pafTage 
 in  the  whole  Old  Teftament,  except  it  be  fupported  by  the 
 Holy  Ghoft  in  the  New,  we  have  furely  miffed  it ;  and  we  are 
 fo  far  from  being  led  by  the  Spirit  of  Chriffc,  that  we  are  re- 
 turning again  to  the  beggarly  elements,  and  making  void  the 
 grace  of  God ;  yea,  making  God  a  liar : — But  let  God  be  true, 
 and  every  man  a  liar  ! 
 
 I  know  nothing  of  the  creation  of  all  things  by  God,  but  on- 
 ly by  his  teftimony  in  his  Word.  By  faith  we  underftand  that 
 the  heavens  and  the  earth  were  made  by  the  Word  of  God, 
 even  by  Jefus,  John  i.  Heb.  i.  Nothing  of  Adam^-the  com- 
 mandment— the  fin— the  death— according  to  the  manner, 
 Gen.  hi.  Rom.  v.  imputed — enmity  of  heart: — exprefTed  in  every 
 thought,  word,  and  deed  of  the  unbeliever,  who  is  flefh — See 
 the  meaning,  Gen.  vi.  3,  5,  6.  Nothing  of  the  law,  the  wrath, 
 the  impofllbility  of  being  juftified  by  the  deeds  of  the  law;  no- 
 thing of  all  thefe  do  I  know,  but  by  the  Word  alone;  no- 
 thing of  the  character  of  God,  but  by  the  Word,  as  before; 
 and  fo  nothing  of  God  at  all,  not  even  as  Creator  and  Prefer- 
 ver,  but  by  the  Word.  Heathens  called  their  Jupiter,  &c.  the 
 King  of  heaven,  Creator  and  Preferver,  Jufr,  &c.  what  was 
 that,  but  taking  the  mofr.  holy  things,  and  giving  them  to  the 
 dogs  ?  yea,  their  gods  were  juft  devils,  and  no  more,  nor  lefs ; 
 and  yet  we  are  told  all  nations  acknowledge  a  God,  and  we 
 know  him  by  the  light  of  nature.  Any  notion  or  view  of  God, 
 thatlcaves  out  the  knowledge  of  God  as  the  Creator,  the  pre- 
 ferver in  Jefus  Chrift  his  own  Son,  the  Redeemer  in  whom  he 
 is  well  pleafed,  the  end  of  the  law  for  righteoufnefs  to  the 
 perfon's  own  felf  who  thus  believeth,  made  of  God  to  him 
 wifdom,  righteoufnefs,  fan&ification  and  redemption,  in  the 
 fame  view,  truth,  and  evidence  of  the  like  precious  faith  as  the 
 Apoft.le  Paul  had  and  fellow  Apoftlcs  ;  any  view  or  notion  of 
 God  other  than  theirs,  who  had  boldnefs  before  God  by  the 
 blood  of  Jefus,  is  not  the  view  or  knowledge  of  the  true  God, 
 but  of  a  devil,  whom  the  perfon  ignoranrly  worships.- — They 
 know,  they  acknowledge  no  God  ;  but  the  devil,  the  god  of 
 this  world,  who  ruleth  in  the  hearts  of  the  children  of  difo- 
 bedience,  having  blinded  their  minds,  and  hid  thegofpei  from 
 their  view*;  they  are  rank  atheifh  in  their  hearts :  for  the 
 *  z  Cor.  iv.  3r  4.  kP°w" 
 
Of  the  Affurance  of  Faith.  ixxix 
 
 knowledge  of  God,  is  not  the  joining  fo  many  letters  toge- 
 ther in  a  word  or  name,  as  God,  or  Lord,  no,  nor  Father,  Son 
 and  Holy  Ghoft.  Satan  may  be  worfhipped  under  thofe  names, 
 as  effectually  as  of  old  under  thole  of  Baal,  Jupiter,  Beelzebub. 
 Now,  my  dear  friend,  as  I  know  nothing  of  God  at  all, 
 nor  God's  way,  but  purely  by  the  teftimony  of  Himfelf,  in 
 the  word  of  God,  the  underftanding  of  which  alfo  is  his  own 
 operation ;  in  this  word  of  God,  then,  as  fpoken  exprefsly, 
 without  a  parable  or  vail,  by  the  Apoftles,  in  great  plainnefs 
 of  fpeech;  and  not  as  Mofes,  who  alio  was  faithful,  accor- 
 ding to  the  purpofe  of  God,  in  his  fervice : — I  fay  in  the 
 writings  of  the  Apoftles,  I  fee  the  fame  affurance  that  the  law 
 is  fulfilled  in  Chrift,  as  ever  it  was  broken  in  Adam  ;  and  that 
 he  was  appointed  and  upheld  a  figure  of  Chrift : — I  fee  the 
 fame  evidence  precifely,  that  the  law  is  fulfilled  for  me,  even 
 for  me  myfelf,  by  Jefus,  as  that  there  is  a  law  at  all ;  the  fame 
 evidence  that  I  am  palled  from  death  to  life,  as  that  ever  I 
 was  under  a  death,  and  needed  a  life ;  the  fame  evidence, 
 precifely,  that  Chrift  is  made  to  me  of  God,  wifdom,  righte- 
 oufnefs,  fanclification,  and  redemption,  as  that  there  is  a 
 God  at  all,  and  I  needed  thefe  things.  I  have  neither  more 
 nor  lefs  than  the  teftimony  of  the  Holy  Ghoft,  for  the  one, 
 and  for  the  other. — Chrift  is  the  end  of  the  law  for  righteouf- 
 nefs  to  them  that  believe — How  do  you  know  there  is  a 
 Chrift  ? — and  a  law  ? — Will  you  tell  me  you  believe  it  ?  well, 
 do  not  you  mean  you  know  it ;  and  that  believing  is  to  know 
 a  thing  on  teftimony  ?  if  you  will  not  allow  me  to  call  in  quef- 
 tion  your  knowledge  of  Chrift,  and  the  law,  becaufe  you  be- 
 lieve, that  is,  know,  and  are  lure  there  is  a  Chrift,  and  a  law 
 on  God's  teftimony,  why  mould  I  call  God  true  in  his  tefti- 
 mony concerning  Chrift  and  the  law,  and  call  Him  a  Irar  in 
 the  following  condufion  which  he  has  made,  namely,  that 
 Chrift  is  the  end  or  perfection  of  the  law  for  righteoufuefs 
 to  them  that  believe  ?— I  believe  God  has  given  me  to  be- 
 lieve, and  therefore  to  know  that  Chrift  is  the  end  of  the  law 
 for  righteoufnefs  to  me. — 1  have  the  fame  affurance  that  I  fhall 
 fhine  like  the  fun  in  the  kingdom  of  my  Father,  for  ever  and 
 ever,  as  that  any  of  the  Prophets  or  Apoftles  fhall ;  nay, 
 as  that  there  is  a  kingdom,  or  Fairer  at  all:  for  to  believe, 
 is  to  be  born  again  of  God,  John  i,  12,  13,  14.  and  thofe 
 
 who 
 
Ixxx  Of  the  Affurance  of  Faith. 
 
 who  are  begotten  again  to  the  lively  hope,  thro'  the  gofpej, 
 are  preferved  by  the  power  of  God,  thro'  faith  unto  falvation. 
 
 Let  no  man,  let  no  devil  deceive  us,  then,  with  vain 
 words.  Can  a  man  have  an  intereft  in  Chriff,  without  the 
 Spirit  of  prayer  ;  or  does  the  Advocate  make  any  interceflion, 
 or  perfume  any  prayers,  but  thofe  which  he  hath  moved  by 
 his  own  Spirit,  the  Spirit  of  faith  and  love,  faying,  thou  art 
 no  more  a  fervantbut  a  fon  ?  draw  near  therefore  by  the  new 
 and  living  way  to  your  Father.  No  man  can  pray,  without 
 knowing  God,  and  calling  upon  God  as  his  Father,  even  Fa- 
 ther in  Chrifl ;  for  there  is  no  other  God  and  Father  fpoken 
 of;  otherwife  the  devils  might  cry  Father,  for  God  created 
 them;  and  unbelievers,  who  are  one  fpirit  with  the  devil, 
 for  they  are  preferved,  and  have  their  comforts,  but  have  no 
 part  in  Chrift  therefore,  John  viii.  44.  To  fay  that  a  perfoa 
 can  call  on  him  on  whom  they  have  not  believed,  and  to  call 
 that  prayer,  is  it  not  to  call  God  a  liar,  Romans  x.  14.  James 
 l.  5,  6. — Can  a  perfon  have  a  lot  in  Chrifl,  and  call  him  acur- 
 fed,  at  the  fame  time,  in  their  addrefTes.  Now,  who  calls 
 him  accurfed,  but  who  calls  God  a  liar  in  the  teftimony  he 
 hath  given  concerning  his  Son?  1  John  v.  10 — Now,  does 
 not  every  prayer,  that  I  may  obtain  an  intereft  in  Chrift,  be 
 regenerated,  &c.  infold  in  the  bofom  an  exprefs  calling  God 
 a  liar,  and  Chrift  accurfed,  in  as  much  as  it  implies  1  believe 
 not  God,  but  call  him  a  liar,  feeing  I  believe  not  ?  can  a 
 perfon  be  a  child  of  God*  and  not  have  love  to  God  ?  now, 
 if  we  love  God,  what  mult  be  the  fpring  of  it  ?  Is  it  not  God's 
 love  to  us  flied  abroad  in  our  hearts  by  the  Holy  Ghoft,  even 
 God's  perfect  love,  or  good  pleafure  in  us,  thro'  Jefus  Chrifl  : 
 1  John  iv.  8.  to  the  end — Can  God's  love,  unknown,  be  the 
 ground  of  my  bringing  forth  the  fruits  of  love  I  fee  the  para- 
 ble, Luke  vii.  of  the  woman  who  loved  much,  becaufe  much 
 was  forgiven  her. — We  cannot  love  God  for  his  hidden  pur- 
 pofes,  otherwife  we  might  have  loved  God,  while  we  were 
 enmity  againft  God  ;  before  God's  love,  or  good  pleasure  in 
 us,  thro'  Jefus,  was  (Vied  abroad  in  our  hearts  by  the  Holy 
 Ghoft,  Romans  v.  1 — 1 1  :  for  then  God  had  a  hidden  purpofe 
 of  love  to  us,  and  loved  us  with  an  everlaffing  love,  in  his 
 Son;  therefore,  with  loving  kindnefs  he  hath  drawn  us. 
 
 Are  we  called  upon,  and  taught  of  the  Spirit,  to  do  what- 
 
 foever 
 
Of  the  AJfurance  of  Faith.  lxxxi 
 
 foever  we  do,  to  the  glory  of  God,  to  the  Father,  in  the  name 
 of  the  Lord  Jefus  Chriff.  ? — Are   all  the  Epiflles  directed  by 
 the  Holy  Ghoft  to  the  faints  and  faithful  ? — Can  they  be  of 
 any  benefit  to  the  faints  and  faithful,  if  that  point  be  left  out, 
 that  they  are  the  faints  and  faithful  ?  If  I  do  not  know  that  I 
 am  redeemed  by  the  blood  of  Chrift,  a  temple  of  God,  a  child 
 of  God  ;  how  can  I  walk  worthy  of  God,  to  all  well  pleafing 
 as  a  child  ;   glorify  God  in  my  foul  and  body,  which  are  not 
 my  own,  but  his  ?  Can  one  hit  the  mark,  without  feeing  it  ? 
 In  fho'rt,  where  the  Spirit  of  God  does  not  make  manifeft  to 
 the  fpirit,  that  the  perfon  is  the  child  of  God,  the  Holy  Ghoft 
 can  have  no  power ;    there  is  no  communion  with  the  Father 
 and  Son  by  the  Spirit.  Making  your  calling  and  election  fure, 
 is  fpoken  to  thofe  who  are  already  defcribed  by  being  partak- 
 ers of  the  Divine  nature,  having  obtained  the  like  precious  faith 
 with  the  Apoftles :  and  the  meaning  cannot  be,   to  make  it 
 fure  as  to  God,  for  that  were  to  deny  the  faith  ;    nor  to  the 
 perfons  themfelves,   for  they  are  declared,  Eph.  i.  3.  blefled 
 and  accepted  in  the  Beloved.    The  meaning  then  muit  be, 
 ihew  your  calling  and  election  fure,  or  mew  your  fure  calling 
 and  election  by  your  good  fruits — let  the  tree  be  made,  that  is, 
 proven,  as  by  witnefTes,  good,  by  the  fruits,  John  xv.  16,  17. 
 Let  your  light  fhine,  that  it  may  appear  ye  are  the  children  of 
 your  Father  in  heaven.     The  fruits  of  the  Spirit  manifeft, 
 Gal.  v.  22. 
 
 You  may  fee  in  what  view  I  look  upon  all  books,  now, 
 fave  the  book  of  God's  judgment  alone  :  and  therefore,  in 
 what  view  I  look  upon  my  former  felf,  when  I  was  given  to 
 thofe  things  in  the  days  of  my  enmity,  and  upon  your  books 
 which  you  recommend,  whatsoever  they  are,  they  are  nothing 
 to  me ;  but  the  Apoftles  of  God  only  : — not  that  I  defpife  the 
 word  of  God,  becaufe  a  man  fpeaks  it,  or  writes  it;  God  for- 
 bid :  ail  I  mean  is,  that  Chrift's  fheep  hear  their  own  Shep- 
 herd's voice  only,  and  not  the  voice  of  one  another  ;  and  till 
 they  hear  the  found  of  his  voice,  fo  as  that  they  can  diflinguifh 
 it  in  any  mouth  or  book,  they  find  no  benefit,  remembring 
 that  their  Lord  had  fpoken  before  by  the  mouth  of  his  holy 
 prophet,  concerning  this  prefent  infallible  fyflem  of  truths 
 which  he  hath  now  given  them  by  his  Apoftles, — "  Bind  up 
 my  law,  (my  law  of  love:)  leal  my  tcflimony  among  my  difci- 
 
 1  pies. 
 
Ixxx'ri  Of  the  Affurance  of  Faith* 
 
 pies. — To  this  law,  to  this  teftimony  !  if  they  fpeak  not  ac^ 
 cording  to  thefe,  there  is  no  light  in  them."  No  morning,  no 
 dawning  of  faith  in  their  hearts — they  are  in  darknefs  ftill. 
 
 Thanks  be  to  God,  the  Father  of  lights,  from  whom  Com- 
 eth eVery  good  and  every  perfect  gift,  with  whom  there  is  no 
 variablenefs  nor  fhadow  of  turning,  for  his  unfpeakable  gift, 
 Jefus  Chrift,  the  true  light,  that  whofo  believeth  in  Him, 
 might  not  walk  in  darknefs,  but  have  the  light  of  life  !  thanks, 
 eternal,  univerfal,  by  the  whole  church,  to  Him  who  hath 
 brought  us  from  darknefs  to  light,  from  tire  power  of  Satan 
 into  the  Kingdom  of  his  owu  dear  Son  !  to  whom  be  glory 
 for  ever  and  ever  Amen.  The  Three  who  bear  record  in  hea- 
 ven fill  your  heart.    Adieu. 
 
 If  the  Lord  were  pkafed  to  kill  us — he  would  not 
 
 have  fiewcd  us  all  thefe  things,  nor  would  at  this  time  have 
 told  us  fuch  things  as  thefe.   Judges  xiii.  2.  to  23. 
 
 ERRATA. 
 
 Difcourfe  on  the  Pfalms,  page  lvi.  line  23.  for  wherewith  He 
 fhall  be  called,  read  wherewith  She  fhall  be  called.  See 
 Jer.  xxxiii.  16. 
 
 Song  XXV.  page  43.  fome  copies  want  a  line  in  verfe  3, 
 which  mould  read  as  follows. 
 
 3  Feel  we  no  more,  now,  our  enemies  harming  us, 
 Swimming  in  oceans  of  love  overwhelming  us  ; 
 Loll:  in  our  God,  we  do  roll  in  his  bofom,  yea, 
 Round  all  eternity,  blowing  in  blofToms  gay, 
 Paradife  dwell  we  in,  blooming  in  glory  all, 
 High  halleluias  finging,  adore  we  all. 
 
 Song  LXI1I.  page  97.  wants  the  4th  verfe.     See  it  in  p.  287. 
 Song  CLXIV.    page  250.  verfe  4.  line  r.  for  the  prefent ; 
 
 read  thee  prefent ; 
 Song  of  Solomon,  chap,  vii,  p.  432.  verfe.  3.  line  5.  for  The 
 
 neck's  read  Thy  neck's. 
 
 THE 
 
THE 
 
 CONTENTS 
 
 Song  Page 
 
 I.  T3LOW  the  trumpet.  Preach  the  gofpel.   Ifaiah  xxvii.  13,     1 
 
 II.  D     The  word  of  God.  Luke  xi.   28.  6 
 
 III.  The  one  thing  needful.  Luke  x.   42.  9 
 
 IV.  Chrift:  the  Creator,  and  Preferver.  Col.  i.  16.  11 
 
 V.  God  is  love.     1  John  iv.  16..  1 3 
 
 VI.  Sin  the  tranfgreflion  of  the  law.      1  John  iii.  4.  17 
 
 VII.  The  law  curfeth  us ;  but  Chrift  blefTeth  us.  Gal.  iii.  13.    ibid. 
 
 VIII.  Chrift  the  Heir  of  all  things.  Heb.  i.  2.  18 
 
 IX.  A  comparifon  between  Adam  and  Chriir.  Romans  v.  12.     19 
 
 X.  The  new-birth.     John  iii.  3.  21 
 
 XI.  Adam  a  figure  of  Chrift.  Romans  v.  14.  23 
 
 XII.  Boldnefs  by|he  blood  of  Jefus.  Heb.    x.  19.  26 
 
 XIII.  Greater  rich'es  than  the  treafu res  of  Egypt.  Heb.  xi.  26.  28 
 
 XIV.  Peace  by  the  blood  of  the  crofs.  Col.  i.  20.  30 
 
 XV.  Be  filled  with  tlie  Spirit.  Eph.  v.  18.  31 
 
 XVI.  Pledge  the  Lord.  Mark  x.  39.  (Has  another  title  .at  top.)  32 
 
 XVII.  Mercy!  mercy!  Heb.  iv.  16.  33 
 
 XVIII.  Our  treafures  hidden  in  Chriir.  Col.  ii.  3.  35 
 
 XIX.  A  fpiritual  houfe.      1  Peter  ii.  5.  ibid. 
 
 XX.  The  voice,  the  voice.    Ifaiah  xl.  3.  36 
 
 XXI.  The  Lord  and  his  Efpoufed.     Pfal.  xlv.  10 — 16,.  ibid. 
 
 XXII.  God's  dear  little  children.  Eph.  v.  1.  40 
 
 XXIII.  The  king  of  terrors.  Job  xviii.  14.  41 
 
 XXIV.  Pride  and  humility  recompenfed.  James  iv.  6.  41 
 
 XXV.  The  death  of  the  faints.  Romans   vii.  24.  43 
 
 XXVI.  BleiTed  the  dead  in  the  Lord.  Rev.  xiv.  13.  44 
 
 XXVII.  The  fons  of  God,  and  how.      1  John  iii.  2.  45 
 
 XXVIII.  Behold  love.      1  John  iii.  1.  47 
 
 XXIX.  Flefh  and  Spirit.  Romans  vii.  17.  ibid. 
 JXXX.    To  us  the  (hame,  to  God  the  glory.  Pfal.  ex  v.  1.  49 
 
 XXXI.  Holinefs   to  the  Lord,  ye  virgins.     1  Cor.  vii.  34.  50 
 
 XXXII.  Hafte,  my  fpirit,  to  the  mark,  Pfal.  exxvii.  4.  51 
 
 XXXIII.  The  Lord  defending  with  a  fhout.    1  Theff.  iv.  16.      52 
 
 XXXIV.  A  departed  faint,  finging  on  the  way  to  heaven.  Luke 
 xvi.  22.  ib. 
 
 XXXV.  The  falvarion  of  the  JLord.  Exod.  I'.iv    12.  55 
 
 1  2  XXXV* 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 Song  Page 
 
 XXXVI.  The  rofe  of  Sharon  and  lily  of  the  valleys.  Song  Ii.  I.    56 
 
 XXXVII.  The  lily  of  the  valleys.     Song  ii.  1.    '  57 
 
 XXXVIII.  The  rofe  of  Sharon.  Song  ii.  1.  59 
 
 XXXIX.  Amen  to  the  coming  of  the  Lord.  Rev.  xxii.  20.  ib. 
 XL.  Glorj'ing  in  the  crofs  of  Chrift.  Gal.  vi.  14.  60 
 XLT.  The  Chriftian  race.  1  Cor.  ix.  24.  61 
 XLII.  Away  with  idols !  Hofea  xiv.  8.  63 
 XLIII.  All  things  lofs  for  Chrift.  Phil.  iii.  8.  64 
 XLIV.  Aloft,  my  foul,  to  God  !      Col.  iii.   2.  6$ 
 
 .XLV.  Nay  but  O  man,  who  art  thou  ?     Romans  ix.  20.  66 
 
 XLVI.  Who  will  reprove  God,  and  anfwerit?  Job  xl.  2.  70 
 XLVII.  All  for  good  to  the  called  of  God.  Romans  viii.  28.  72 
 XLVIII.  He's  high  up  above  the  iky.     Pfal.  Ixxiii.  25.  74 
 
 XLIX.  High  time  to  awake.     Romans  xiii.  ir.  76 
 
 L.  Our  paflage  through  life  like  a  River.     Ifaiah  xxiii.  10.  77 
 
 LI.  Your  life  a  Vapour.     James  iv.  14,  78 
 
 LII.  Awake,  and  fing.     Ifaiah  xxvi.   19.  79 
 
 LIII.  Chrift  our  peace.     Eph.  ii.  14.  80 
 
 LIV.  The  Lord  coming.     Rev.  xxii.  12.  81 
 
 LV.  VefTels  of  Mercy  in  an  earthen  Furnace.  1  Kings  vii.  46.  82 
 LVI.  Heavenly  Vifion.     1  John  iii.  2.  83 
 
 LVIf .  Death  will  banifti  fadnefs.   Welcome,  death,  with  gladnefs. 
 
 2  Cor.  v.  4.'  84 
 
 LVIII.  The  Fool.     Prov.  xiv.  33.  86 
 
 LIX.  The  praife  of  God's  Word.     Pfal.  Ivi.  4.  ib. 
 
 LX.  BlefTed  the  pure  in  heart.     Matth.  v.  8.  91 
 
 LXI.  The  affurance  of  faith.     Ifaiah  xxxii.  17.  92 
 
 LXII.  The  good  Shepherd.     John  x.   11.  95 
 
 LX1II.  See  CXCVI.  287 
 
 LXIV.  Chrift  alone  hath  the  words  of  eternal  life.  John  vi.  68.  97 
 LXV.  A  flight  to  glory.     Rev.  iv.  1.  <  9& 
 
 LXVI.  Shall  we  continue  in  fin  that  grace  may  abound?  Romans 
 
 vi.  1.  IOO 
 
 LXVII.  Why  do  ye  halt  between  two  opinions  ?  Mat.  xii.  30.  101 
 LXVIII.  Peace  and  fellowfhip  on  the  true  foundation.  Eph.  ii.  19.  ib. 
 LXIX.  Wherewith  mall  I  come  before  the  Lord  ?  Mic.  vi.  6.  103 
 LXX.  Ho,  every  one  that  thirfteth.  Ifaiah  Iv.  throughout.  ioc 
 LXXI.  The  wells  of  falvation.     Ifaiah  xii.  3.  108 
 
 LXXII.  The  chief  Shepherd  appearing.      1  Peter  v.  4.  109 
 
 LXXIII.  The  merciful  Samaritan.   Luke  x.  33.  ib. 
 
 LXXIV.  A  departing  faint's  laft  farewel.     Phil.  i.  21.  11c 
 
 LXXV.  The  purpofe  of  the  Lord.     Jer.  Ii.  29.  1 1 1 
 
 LXXVI. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 Song  Page 
 
 LXXVI.  The  progrefs  oflife  :  or,  All  flefti  grafs.  ifaiah  x*.  6.   iif 
 LXXV1I.  The  marriage  of  the  Lamb.     Rev.  xix.  7.  118 
 
 LXXVIU.  The  Counfel  of  Peace.     Zechar.  vi.  13.  119 
 
 LXXIX.  The  Sabbath.     Heb.  iv,  9.  120 
 
 LXXX.  Glory  in  tribulation  alfo.     Rom.  v.  3.  121 
 
 LXXXI.  The  faints  in  this  world.      1  John  iii.  2.  124 
 
 LXXXII.  Prayer.     Rom.  viii.  26.  126 
 
 LXXX1II.  Hope.     Rom.  viii.  24.  127 
 
 LXXXIV.  Hope  to  defpair.  Thefe  two  contrary  the  one  to  the 
 
 other.     Gal.  v.  17.  128 
 
 LXXXV.  The  Flood.     1  Peter  iii.  20.  ib. 
 
 LXXXVI.  The  Judgment.     Jude  14,   i£.  130 
 
 LXXXVII.  Let  not  your  hearts  be  troubled.  John  xi?.  1 — 7.  131 
 LXXXVIII.  Humility.     Prov.  xviii.  12.  133 
 
 LXXXiX.  Heaven.     Rev.  xi.  12.  136 
 
 XG.  Godly  Contentment.      1  Tim.  vi.  6.  137 
 
 XCI.  The  power  of  temptation.     Matt.  xxvi.  41,  140 
 
 XCII.  The  raging  fea  becalmed.     Matt.  xiv.  30.  142 
 
 XCIII.  The  choice  of  a  wife.     Prov*.  xviii.  22.  143 
 
 XCIV.  The  drama  finifht :  or,  the  fafhion  of  this  world  paffeth 
 
 away.      1  Cor.  vii.  3  r.  144 
 
 XCV.  Pleafure  and  Shame.    Rom.  vi.  21.  144 
 
 XCVI.  The  World.      1  John  ii.  17.  145 
 
 XCVII.  God,  or/  Father,  the  guide  of  our  youth.  Pfal.  cxix.  9.  146 
 XCVIII.  Patience.     Heb.  x.  36.  ib. 
 
 XCIX.     The  faint's  hope  in  death.      1  ThefT.  iv.  13.  150 
 
 C.  God  well-pleafed  in  his  beloved  Son.     Matt.  xvii.  5.  152 
 
 CI.  Chrift's  refurreftion  a  pledge  of  ours.  1  ThefT.  iv.  14.  153 
 CII.  The  manner  and  effect  of  the  Lord's  coming.      1  ThefT. 
 
 iv.  15.      fc  1*4 
 
 Oil.  The  times  and  feafons  concealed.  1  Then.  v.  1 — 5.  155 
 CIV.  The  children  of  light.      1  ThefT.  v.  5 — 12.  156 
 
 CV.   Chrift's  Refurreclion.      1  Cor.  xv.  1 — 12.  158 
 
 CVI.  Where  art  thou,  Chriftian,  if  Ch  rift  be  not  rifen?     12 — 
 
 21.  159 
 
 CVII.  Death  and  life  both  by  man.     21 — 24.  161 
 
 CVIII.  The  kingdom  delivered  up  to  the  Father.  24 — 29.  163 
 CIX.  The  hope  of  the  refurreclion  the  anchor  of  the  foul.  29-35.  163 
 CX.  As  feeds  fown  and  fpringing,  fo  the  refurrecHon.  35 — 39.  165 
 CXI.  Every  creature  after  its  own  kind  ;    fo  alfo  the  glorified 
 
 bo/ly.      39—42.  166 
 
 CXII.  The  glory  of  the  raifed  body.     42 — 4$.  ib. 
 
 /~"VT1  r 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 Song  Page 
 
 CXIII.  The  natural  and  fpiritual  body,     i  Cor.  xv.  44 — 46.  167 
 
 CXIV.  The  natural  body  before  the  fpiritual.     46 — Ji.  168 
 
 CXV.  We  fhall  not  all  die.      51—54.  ib. 
 
 CXVI.  Immortal  glory.     54-^—58.  169 
 
 CXVII.  Vitfory,  Viclory  !      55.  to  the  end.  170 
 
 CXVI1I.  Cbrift:  joining  his  two  difciples.  Luke  xxiv.  13 — 37.  172 
 
 GXIX.  Falfe  hope  and  true  hope.     Zech.  ix.  12.  175 
 
 CXX.  God's  meflage.     1  John  i.  1.  to  the  end.  179 
 
 CXXI.  Love  not  the  world.      1  John  ii.  15 — 18  181 
 
 CXXII.  Mary  Magdalen.     A  vifion.     Mark  xvi.  9.  ib. 
 
 CXXIil.  Death  an  antidote  to  female  pride.     Ifa.  xxxii.  n.  183 
 
 CXXIV.  The  Word  my  joy  and  choice.  Jer.  xv.  16.  187 
 CXXV.  The  Word  better  than  gold,  fweeter  than  honey.  Pfal. 
 
 xix.  10.  188 
 CXXVI.  Soliloquy  of  an  unbelieving  foul  departing  to  the  pit. 
 
 John  iii.  36.  189 
 
 CXXVII.  An  infant's  dream.      1  Kings  iii.  15.  190 
 
 CXXVIII.  Chrift's  love  paffing  knowledge.     Eph.  iii.  19.  192 
 
 CXXIX.  The  Angels  fong.      1  Pet.  i.  end  of  ver.  12.  194 
 
 CXXX.  The  indwelling  Spirit  of  God.      1  Cor.  iii.  16.  196 
 
 CXXXI.  The  Spirit,  the  Comforter  and  Advocate.  John  xvi.  7.  197 
 
 CXXXII.  A  fair  haven.     Acls  xxvii.  44.  198 
 
 CXXXIII.  Joy  in  trials.     Jam",  i.  2.  199 
 
 CXXXIV.  Refurreftion.     Pfalm.  xc.  3.  200 
 
 CXXXV.  Behold  he  cometh  in  the  clouds.     Rev.  i.  7.  202 
 
 CXXXVI.  Penitential  mourning.     Ezek.  xxxvi.*3i.  203 
 
 CXXXVII.  ThePafTover  inftituted.     Exod.  xii.  1 — 3.  205 
 
 CXXXVIII.  Take  every  man  a  lamb.     3 — 5.  207 
 
 CXXXIX.  Your  lamb  without  blemifh,  a  male.     5.  209 
 
 CXL.  Kill  it  in  the  evening  of  the  fourteenth  day.     6.  210 
 
 CXLI.  Strike  the  blood.     7.  ib. 
 
 CXLII.  Roft  with  fire.  Unleavened  bread.  Bitter  herbs.     8.  211 
 
 CXLIII.  Eat  not  of  it  raw.     9.  214 
 
 CXLIV.  Let  nothing  of  it  remain  till  the  morning.      10.  215 
 
 CXLV.  The  manner  of  the  PafTover.  11 — 13.  216 
 CXLVI.  Blood  on  the  door-polts,  a  fign  between  God  and  ifrael. 
 
 13 — 16.  217 
 
 CXLVII.  This  and  Thus.     Exod.  xii.  11.  218 
 
 ,-CXLVHI.  Deceiving,  and  being  deceived.     Gal.  i.  8.  223 
 
 CXLIX.  A  deadly  (tumble  at  the  gate  of  life.     Gal.  iii.  1.  226 
 
 CL.  If  God  be  for  us,  who  can  be  againft  us  ?     Rom.  viii.  31.  232 
 
 ,CLI.  VeiTels  of  mercy  toll,  not  loll.     Mat.  xiv.  24.  234 
 
 CLII. 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 Soog  t  Pag2 
 
 CLII.  Temptation  and  prayer.     Jam.  i.  12.  234? 
 
 £LIII.  Prayer  and  praife.     Jam.  v.  13.  235 
 
 CLIV.  The  Holy  Ghoft's  invitation  to  leave  the  body,  and  come 
 
 to  Jefus.     Phil.  i.  23.  236 
 
 CLV.  No  falvation  but  in  jefus,  thro' the  Spirit.  Ads  iv.  12.    237 
 GLVI.  Mounting  as  upon  eagles  wings.     Ifaiahxl.  31.  ib". 
 
 CLVII.  A  birth-day  fong.     1  Cor.  xv.  10.  238 
 
 CLVIII.  The  faints  in  glory.     Rev.  vii.  13.  241 
 
 CLlx.  Sowing.     Mat.  xiii.  3.  243 
 
 CLX.  A  funeral  fong.     Luke  xvi.  22.  244 
 
 CLXI.  Mill-wheel.     Numb.  xi.  8.      1  Cor.  x.  17.  245 
 
 CLXII.  One  fpirit  with  the  Lord.     1  Cor.  vi.  15.  246 
 
 CLXIII.  God's  Word  and  Spirit  our  treafure.     2  Cor.  iv.  7.     248 
 CLXIV.  From  glory  to  glory.     2  Cor.  Hi.  18.  249 
 
 CLXV.  Sin  no  bar  in  the  way  of  falvation  :  or,  No  fin  no  Savi- 
 our.    Matt.  ix.  12.  250 
 CLXVI.  Every  creature  under  heaven  labouring  and  heavy  laden. 
 Matt.  xi.  28.    Therefore  the  gofpel  preached  to  all;  not  find- 
 ing them  already  convinced  of  fin  and  mifery,   but  making 
 them  fo.  251 
 CLXVII.  God  the  only  light  and  (lay  of  his  faints.  Ifa.  1.  10.    252 
 CLXVIII.  David's  afiured  confidence  our  example.     For  David 
 fays  not  he  fhall  perifh,  but  efcape.    He  perimed,  if  he  ftaid ; 
 he  efcaped,  if  he  fled.    Read  the  paffage,  Chriftian,  Let  no 
 man  deceive  you.      1  Sam.  xxvii.  1.  ib. 
 CLXIX.  drift's  kindred.     Mark  iii.  32.                                     253 
 CLXX.  Jacob  deceived,  no  example  for  us  to  follow.  Gen  xlii. 
 
 36.  254 
 
 CLXXI.  God's  word  quick  and  powerful.     Heb.  iv.  12.  25c 
 
 CLXXII.  Jehovah  my  falvation  and  fong.  ifa.  xii.  1.  to  the  end.  ib. 
 CLXXIII.  Jefus,  the  King,  and  his  Apoftles,  his  princes.    Ifa. 
 
 xxxii.  1 — 5.  256 
 
 CLXXIV.  Chrill  the  end  of  the  law  for  righteoufnefs  to  every 
 
 believer.     Rom.  x.  4.  258 
 
 CLXXV.  Righteoufnefs  and  peace.     Ifa.  xxxii.  17.  ib. 
 
 CLXXVI.  Beer-lahai-roi.     Gen.  xvi.  14.  260 
 
 CLXXVII.  What  tho'  you  gain  the  whole  world,  if  you  lofe 
 
 your  foul.  Mat.  xvi.   26. 
 CLXXVIH.  The  fait  of  the  earth. 
 CLXXIX.  Joy  to  Zion.     Ifa.  Ixii, 
 .  CLXXX.  Chrift  the  fpiritual  Rock. 
 
 Matt.  v.   13. 
 
 261 
 
 262 
 
 1. 
 
 1  Cor,  x.  4. 
 
 263 
 265 
 CLXXXL 
 
CONTENTS. 
 
 Song  *  .JPage 
 
 GLXXXI.  The   man   Chrift   Jefus,   the   hiding-place.     Ifaiah 
 
 xxxii.  2.  266 
 
 CLXXXII.  The  world,  and  the  fafhion  thereof.   1  Cor.  vii.  31.  267 
 CLXXXIII.  The  days  of  my  vanity.    Eccl.    1.2.  ib. 
 
 CLXXXIV.  Behold  the  Lord  cometh.  Jude  14,  15.  268 
 
 CLXXXV.  Chrift  the  beginning  and  the  end.     Rev.  xxi.   6.     270 
 CLXXXVI.  Rifen  with  Chrift.     Col.   Hi.  1.  271 
 
 CLXXXV1I.  Alpha  and  Omega.     Rev.  xxi.  6.  272 
 
 CJLXXXVIIJ.  Do  all  in  the  name  of  the  Lord  Jefus:  or,  equal 
 and  univerfal  holinefs  in  all  times,  places  and  things.  The  ar- 
 gument runs  upon  the  eternal  unchangeable  relations  God  hath 
 made  between  himfelf  and  his  faints.  Col.  iii.  17 — 25.  273 
 
 CLXXXIX.  Begotten  of  the  will  of  God  with  the  Word  of  truth. 
 
 Jam.  i.  18.  27 5 
 
 CXC.  Sojourning  here,  reft  in  heaven.  Heb.  xiii.  14.  276 
 
 CXCI.  Rejoice  in  the  Lord  alway ;  and  again  I  fay,  rejoice.  Phil. 
 
 iv.  4.  277- 
 
 CXCII.  A  dialogue  between  a  loft  foul  and  the  tormentors. 
 
 Matt,  xviii.  34.  279 
 
 CXCIII.  Our  heart  fprinkled  with  the  blood  of  Chrift.  Heb.  x. 
 
 19,  22.  *       282 
 
 CXCIV.  The  tree  of  life.     Rev.  xxii.  2.  284 
 
 CXCV.  No  ftandard  but  the  Apoftles.     1  Cor.  ii.  1—8.  285 
 
 CXCVI.  God's  word  of  itfelf  the  only  pofiible  rule.  2  Tim. 
 iii.  17*  287 
 
 Pfalms,  paraphrafed,  and  applied  to  Chrift.  288 
 
 CXCVII.  A  fong  to  Chrift  Jefus  who  is  all  in  all.    Eph.  i.  22, 
 
 23.  <  4°7 
 
 Solomon's  Song  paraph rafed  in  a  literal  manner.  409 
 
 Difcourfe  of  the  Spiritual  Songs.  iii 
 
 «f  of  the  Pfalms.  xxi 
 
 of  the  Song  of  Solomon.  Ixxii 
 
 A  Letter  to  R.  M.  concerning  the  aiTurance  of  faith,  lxxv 
 
 S  P  I  R  I- 
 
SPIRITUAL  SONGS, 
 
 COLLECTED    FROM    THE 
 
 HOLY   SCRIPTURES. 
 
 I.  The  great  Trumpet  ftall  be  blown.  Ifaiahxxvii.  13. 
 
 BLOW  the  trumpet,  blow  it  high; 
 Sound  the  Gofpel  far  and  nigh ; 
 Cry  aloud,  and  fpare  no  man ; 
 Cry  as  loud  as  e'er  you  can ; 
 Caufe  the  race  of  Adam  know, 
 (See  them  wand'ring  to  and  fro  !) 
 How  they  wand'red  all  a  ft  ray, 
 From  the  holy  happy  Way. 
 
 2  Tell  them  how  the  Shepherd  good 
 Left  a- while  the  throne  of  God, 
 And  became  a  worm  on  earth, 
 
 To  deliver  men  from  death. 
 Death  he  flew,  by  tafting  death  ; 
 Wrath  remov'd,  by  bearing  wrath; 
 Then,  by  his  own  pow'r  releas'd, 
 God  declares  himfelf  well-pleas'd* 
 
 3  God  declares  the  pris'ners  free ; 
 For  the  Surety  paid  their  fee, 
 Paid  their  fee,  and  got  difcharge ; 
 Now  he  cometh  to  enlarge, 
 
 To  enlarge  his  prifoners  : 
 Blefs'd  is  ev'ry  foul  that  hears ! 
 Freedom  names  thro'  the  ear; 
 They  are  blefs'd  by  him  who  hear. 
 
 A  4  God 
 
2  Blow  the  Trumpet* 
 
 4  God  is  faithful,  juft,  and  true, 
 When  he  gives  the  mercy  due, 
 Due  to  the  Redeemer's  blood. 
 (Spread  the  joyful  news  abroad !) 
 Ho,  behold  ye,  young  and  old, 
 Poor  and  rich,  and  all,  behold, 
 Male  and  female,  high  and  low, 
 God  will  no  difhinclion  know. 
 
 5  See,  ye  blind,  and  who  have  eyes; 
 Hear,  ye  foolifh,  and  ye  wife, 
 Harlots,  hypocrites,  and  knaves ; 
 Jefus  any  creature  faves. 
 
 Are  ye  creatures  under  heav'n, 
 So  is  the  commandment  giv'n; 
 Be  ye  what  ye  will,  or  can, 
 Hear,  and  live  ye,  ev'ry  one. 
 
 6  For  if  yet  ye're  out  of  hell, 
 Joyful  news  to  you  we  tell, 
 Jefus  fhed  his  precious  blood ; 
 God  approv'd  th'  atoning  flood ; 
 You  are  warned  if  you  know, 
 All  for  you  the  dreams  did  flow 
 From  his  pierced  heart  and  fide ; 
 There  he  wafh'd  his  ele&  bride. 
 
 7  Have  you  known  the  great  Bridegroom  I 
 Then  are  your  efpoufals  come ; 
 
 Have  you  known  him  and  his  voice, 
 Let  your  fpirits  then  rejoice : 
 You  and  he  are  one  in  fpirit ; 
 God  in  him  you  fhall  inherit. 
 Where's  the  enemy  can  roar, 
 That  he  vanquiuYd  not  and  more? 
 
 8  Hath  he  told  ye  of  the  law, 
 How  ye  lay  beneath  its  awe  ? 
 
 Hath 
 
Blow  the  Trumpet* 
 
 Hath  he  told  ye  of  the  fin, 
 
 How  ye  liv'd  conceiv'd  therein  ? 
 
 How  the  fin,  by  imputation, 
 
 Came  on  you  to  condemnation, 
 
 Came  thro'  Adam  by  his  fall, 
 •    Upon  Adam's  children  all  I 
 9  Hath  he  told  ye  of  your  heart, 
 
 Wicked  all  and  defperate, 
 
 That  it  is  but  enmity 
 
 'Gainft  the  God  of  love  on  high  ? 
 
 That  your  thoughts,  and  words,  and  deed' 
 
 Are  abominable  weeds, 
 
 Springing  from  that  bitter  root, 
 
 All  mere  fin,  without  difpute? 
 ro  Has  he  flopt  your  guilty  mouth, 
 
 By  the  force  of  weighty  truth, 
 
 That  you  cannot  fay  a  word, 
 
 Stricken  fpeechlefs  by  the  Lord, 
 »     Circled  with  a  fiery  wall, 
 
 The  center  of  his  terrors  all ; 
 
 Wrath  above  you,  wrath  below. 
 
 Wrath  on  every  fide  you  go  P 
 
 1 1  No  efcaping  from  the  fire, 
 No  enduring  of  his  ire ; 
 Juftice  has  you  in  her  bow, 
 Fixed  foul  and  body  now, 
 Pointed  like  a  drawn  arrow, 
 To  the  mark  of  endlefs  forrow  ; 
 No  relief  by  any  doing, 
 
 No  relief  from  utter  ruin ; 
 
 12  No  endeavours  will  be  blefs'd, 
 God  himfelf  will  not  aififl. 
 No  entreaties,  cries,  nor  tears. 
 No  expoflulating  pray'rs, 
 
 A    2 
 
^  Blew  the  Trumpet, 
 
 No  compofure,  deed,  or  form, 
 Of  a  covenanting  worm, 
 No  refolvings  to  be  better, 
 "Will  at  all  amend  the  matter. 
 
 1 3  But,  behold  the  way  of  God ! 
 Now  the  Righteoufnefs  is  fliow'd ! 
 Righteoufnefs  by  God  ordain'd, 
 Righteoufnefs  by  God  fuftain'd, 
 Which  fo  dear  to  Jefus  coft, 
 Given  by  the  Holy  Ghofl, 
 Without  any  deed  of  thine3 
 Abfolute  and  all  divine ! 
 
 1 4  Do  you  hold  the  record  true, 
 All  therein  is  fure  to  you ; 
 You  are  faved  thro'  your  faith, 
 Thro'  the,  thing  the  Spirit  faith; 
 Saved  thro'  the  precious  blood 
 Of  the  fpotlefs  Lamb  of  God : 
 God  is  holy,  juft,  and  true, 
 
 In  forgiving  all  to  you. 
 
 1 5  For  if  there  be  any  truth, 
 In  the  holy  Spirit's  mouth, 
 See  we  juft  the  fame  precifc 
 Teuumony  open  lies, 
 
 That  the  law  is  now  fulfill'd, 
 In  the  blood  of  Jefus  fpill'd ; 
 As  that  e'er  the  fame  was  broke, 
 By  Adam  ftarting  from  the  yoke. 
 
 1 6  Know  we  fin,  becaufe  he  faid  it  ? 
 And  the  law,  that  he  hath  made  it, 
 Purely  by  the  fame  record 
 
 Of  the  true  and  faithful  Lord  ? 
 Then  we're  freed  from  condemnation, 
 And  affur'd  of  our  falvation, 
 
 Who 
 
Blow  the  Trumpet. 
 
 Who  believe  the  holy  Ghoft, 
 Ev'n  as  fure  as  we  were  loft. 
 
 17  For  the  very  light  whereby 
 I'm  convinced  of  enmity, 
 Enmity,  and  dreadful  wrath, 
 Shews  the  true  and  bleffed  path, 
 Ev'n  Jefus  Chrift,  the  perfecl  end 
 Of  the  law,  to  you,  my  friend, 
 
 If  you  fliall  believe  him  fo : 
 All  are  juftify'd  who  know. 
 
 1 8  Then  let  all  who  know  the  grace 
 Shining  out  in  Jefus'  face, 
 
 Walk  according  to  the  light, 
 Worthy  God  with  all  their  might; 
 Crying- daily,  Abba,  Father, 
 High  rejoicing  in  his  favour ; 
 Boldly  by  the  blood  of  God, 
 Drawing  near  to  his  abode. 
 
 19  Drawing  nearer  ftill  and  nearer, 
 Shining  clearer  ftill  and  clearer; 
 Go  ye  forward  in  his  ftrength, 
 Till  you  fee  the  Lord  at  length. 
 Gideon-like,  proclaim  aloud 
 Ev'ry  founding  note  of  God  ! 
 All  away  your  pitchers  throw, 
 And  alarm  Jehovah's  foe ! 
 
 20  Sound  your  trumpets,  found  them  high! 
 Wave  your  torches  thro'  the  iky ! 
 Flourifti  thro'  the  hoftile  hofts ! 
 
 (All  the  powVs  the  holy  Ghoft's!) 
 Glorious  let  the  Gofpel  fliine ! 
 For  the  Gofpel's  all  divine  ! 
 When  your  battle's  fairly  won, 
 You  fhall  fliine  like  vonder  fun ! 
 
 II, 
 
6  The  Word  of  GOD. 
 
 II.  Bleffed  are  they  who  hear  the  Word  of  Ood%  and 
 keep  it.     Luke  xi.  2  8. 
 
 \¥7HEN  firft  the  holy  Ghoft  was  giv'n, 
 V  V      And  in  my  breaft  began  to  reign, 
 He  purg'd  me  from  the  corrupt  leav'n, 
 
 And  founded  thro'  my  heart  this  ft  rain, 
 "  Hold  communion,  communion  with  thyXord ; 
 "  Hold  communion  thro'  his  word." 
 
 2  His  Word  finks  down  as  ev'ning  dew,  ! 
 Diililling  meek  on  parched  fields ; 
 Bringing  his  purpos'd  love  to  view ; 
 
 It  ev'ry  where  refrefhment  yields.     Hold,  &c. 
 g  As  fpring  the  flow'rs  in  garden-foil, 
 Prepared  with  affiduous  care ; 
 His  Spirit  takes  the  gard'ner's  toil, 
 
 Spreads  out  the  Word  in  bloiToms  fair.     Hold,  &c. 
 
 4  He  fows  the  Sowings  of  the  fnow ; 
 
 The  fnow  falls  down  on  downy  wings, 
 Wrhere'er  he  fays,  ev'n  there  they  flow,, 
 
 And  do  whate'er  his  counfel  means.     Hold,  &c. 
 
 5  He  fifteth  fmall  the  dewy  rains ; 
 
 The  dewy  rains  his  will  obey, 
 Soft-watering  the  hills  and  plains  : 
 
 Minutefl  drop  ne'er  went  aftray.     Hold,  &c, 
 
 6  He  driveth  on  the  furious  ftorm  j 
 
 He  wings  the  whirlwind's  fierceft  way : 
 The  dorms  and  whirlwinds  rough,  perform 
 Their  courfe  in  his  appointed  way.     Hold,  &c, 
 
 7  He  forms  the  thunder's  hideous  din  • 
 
 He  forms  the  lightning's  fiery  glare  ; 
 He  fays,  "  Be  gonS !"  and  they  are  gone : 
 His  Word  they  ftaiflj  in  the  air.     Hold,  &c. 
 
 8  No 
 
The  Word. of  GOD.  7 
 
 3  No  thunder  loud,  no  lightning-flafh, 
 No  dewy  rains,  no  flowing  fnows, 
 No  ftorms,  no  winds  impetuous  dafli ; 
 
 No  word,  but  on  his  errand  goes,     Hold,  &c 
 
 9  The  blowing  furnace  in  the  fire, 
 
 Melteth  the  hardeft  metals  down ; 
 Ev'n  fo,  the  Word,  at  his  defire, 
 .     All  melts  the  hardeft- heart  of  ilone.    Hold,  &c. 
 
 io  The  hammer,  dealing,  daunting  blows, 
 Breaketh  in  pieces,  makes,  and  mars; 
 The  Word  jn  diif'rent  fafhions  throws 
 
 Hearts,  as  the  hammer  iron-bars.     Hold,  &c. 
 
 1 1  The  found' ry  tries  all  kinds  of  ore.; 
 
 The  precious  fep'rates  from  the  drofs : 
 The  Word,  God's  found'ry,  trying  fore, 
 
 Brings  fome  to  gain,  and  fome  to  lofs.    Hold,  &c. 
 
 12  The  winnowing  fan,  on  dufty  floor, 
 
 Sends  forth  a  purifying  blafl : 
 The  Word  of  God  all  winnoweth  pure, 
 Final  difmiflion  giving  fail.     Hold,  &c. 
 
 13  The  wheat  falls  down  in  chofen  heaps ; 
 
 The  frothy  chaff  is  blown  aftray ; 
 The  wheat  he  in  his  garner  keeps ; 
 
 To  fire  he  throws  the  chaff  away.     Hold,  Sec. 
 
 14  The  bolt  is  for  the  bolted  meal, 
 
 The  flour  it  fifteth  from  the  bran  : 
 His  Word  he  made  for  fifting  well : 
 
 Sifting,  it  fifteth  man  from  man.     Hold,  &c. 
 
 15  A  fearfe  made  of  the  fined  lawn, 
 
 Is  us'd  for  fearfing  powders  fmall : 
 His  word  it  fearfeth  ev'ry  one; 
 
 To  their  own  place  afligning  all.     Hold,  Sec. 
 
 \6  That 
 
3  The  Word  of  GOD. 
 
 1 6  That  all  the  foul  may  flay  behind, 
 
 The  milk  is  drained  thro'  a  cloth  : 
 God's  Word  it  ftraineth  ev'ry  mind; 
 
 The  foul  he  loatheth  as  a  moth.     Hold,  &c. 
 
 1 7  True  fealed  weights  God  loveth  well ; 
 
 .    As  you  weigh  things,  God  weigheth  you :  - 
 His  Word's  his  weights,  feal'd  with  his  feaf, 
 Diitinguifhing  the  falfe  from  true.     Hold,  &c. 
 
 18  The  Shepherd  marks  his  proper  (lock ; 
 
 Upon  their  ears  his  mark  they  bear : 
 God  marks  his  own  peculiar  flock ; 
 
 His  Word  abides  upon  their  ear.     Hold,  &c. 
 
 lo  God  rends  a  channel  thro'  the  rocks, 
 In  which  the  mighty  rivers  go : 
 His  Word's  the  channel  for  his  folks, 
 
 In  which  their  whole  affections  flow.    Hold,  && 
 
 20  The  earthquakes  heave  the  mountains  vaft, 
 
 And  overthrow  their  monflxous  bulk  : 
 God's  Word  lays  all  the  wicked  wafte ; 
 
 No  corner  find  they  where  to  fkulk.    Hold,  8cc, 
 
 2 1  Tremendous  tempefts  on  the  feas 
 
 Confound  the  proudeft  (hips  that  fail ; 
 Before  God's  Word  fo  Satan  flees, 
 
 Abounded  to  the  lowed  hell.     Hold,  &c. 
 
 22  Till  deeps  arofe  to  kifs  the  clouds, 
 
 The  wat'ry  vengeance  came  of  old, 
 Tumultuous  gufhing  down  in  floods : 
 
 Againfl  the  Word  the  men  were  bold.    Hold,  &c. 
 
 23  God's  Word,  they,  and  themfelves  abufe, 
 
 On  Sodom  and  Gomorrah's  plain: 
 God's  indignation  hot  purfues, 
 
 In  deluges  of  burning  rain.    Hold,  &c. 
 
 24  In 
 
The  One  Thing  Needful  9 
 
 24  In  council  with  the  devils  join'd, 
 
 They  with  the  devils  fhall  be  bound, 
 Who  (land  agaiiifl  the  Word  combin'd ; 
 God's  crufliing  wrath  fliall  them  confound.  Hold,  &c. 
 
 25  Who  yielding  to  the  Word  comply, 
 
 Are  bound  to  God  in  chains  of  love : 
 God  lives,  and  they  fhall  never  die, 
 
 But  ever  reign  with  God  above.     Hold,  &c. 
 
 III.  One  Thing  is  needful.     Luke  x.  42. 
 
 THE  one  eternal  needful  good, 
 For  fallen  Adam's  race, 
 Is  Jefus  Chrifh  the  Son  of  God, 
 The  meafure  of  his  grace. 
 
 2  The  Father's  glory  all  doth  fhine 
 
 Full  bright  in  Jefus'  face, 
 Juftice  and  holinefs  divine, 
 
 Truth,  mercy,  grace,  and  peace. 
 
 3  His  word  of  peace  into  my  heart, 
 
 He  fent  in  love  and  pow'r : 
 His  knowledge  is  my  better  part ; 
 My  portion  evermore. 
 
 4  Thoufands  of  filver,  yea,  and  gold, 
 
 I  reckon  all  but  lofs : 
 To  me  falvation  manifold, 
 Doth  flow  from  Jefus'  crofs. 
 
 5  For  there,  he  paid  the  ranfom  good, 
 
 Me  to  redeem  from  hell : 
 And  there,  he  wafh'd  me  in  his  blood. 
 That  I  with  him  might  dwell. 
 
 6  Now  his  own  everlafling  love, 
 
 Which  faved  me  from  woe, 
 
io  The  One  Thing  Needful. 
 
 Shed  down  on  me  from  him  above, 
 To  him  again  doth  flow. 
 
 7  All  worldly  things  are  idle  toys, 
 
 Away  which  quickly  fly : 
 Who  truft  in  thole  accurfed  joys, 
 Shall  perifh  finally. 
 
 8  But  Chrift  is  made  of  God  to  me 
 
 "Wifdom,  and  nghteoufnefs  : 
 in  God  he  me  doth  fanctify; 
 He  my  redemption  is. 
 
 9  For  my  redemption,  in  his  grace, 
 
 My  King  comes  from  above  : 
 
 Before  the  brightness  of  his  face, 
 
 This  world  away  lhall  move. 
 
 jo  But  oh  !  his  fweet  eternal  word, 
 Is  heav'n  within  my  foul ! 
 Thy  word  within  my  bofom,  Lord, 
 For  evermore  fliall  roll. 
 
 1 1  The  earnefts  of  thy  heav'nly  grace,- 
 
 The  foretaft.es-  of  thy  love, 
 Do  make  me  long  fuU  to  poffefs 
 My  heritage  above? 
 
 1 2  My  heart  inflam'd  with  flrong  defire, 
 
 Led  captive  by  thy  charms, 
 To  thee,  my  Lord,  would  fain  afpire, 
 And  breathe  into  thine  arms. 
 
 IV.  To 
 
Chrlft  the  Creator  and  Preferver.  1 1 
 
 IV.  To  Chrlft  %efus,  by  whom  were  created  all,  things, 
 vl/ible  and  irroifible ;  and  by  whom  they  confijl.  CoL  i.  i  6. 
 
 LO !  all  thy  works  proclaim  aloud 
 Thy  bleffed  name,  O  Lord  : 
 And  fhall  thy  faints  be  over  proud, 
 Their  tribute  to  afford  !       m 
 Z  The  fun,  the  moon,  the  flars  of  light, 
 -    Above  us  as  they  roll, 
 From  day  to  day,  from  night  to  night, 
 Refpund  from  pole  to  pole. 
 
 3  The  earth  re-echoes  to  the  flcies, 
 
 The  winds  the  notes  prolong  ; 
 The.  fwelling  furges  as  they  rife, 
 Roar  rough  to  bafs  the  fong. 
 
 4  We  hear  thee  founding  in  the  florin, 
 
 And  ruining  in  the  hail : 
 The  furious  flames  thy  will  perform, 
 At  thy  command  affail. 
 
 5  We  own  thy  thundering  chariot-wheels, 
 
 When  burfting  clouds  give  way ; 
 Th'  amazing  flam  thy  name  reveals, 
 When  glancing  light'nirigs  play. 
 
 6  Who  binds  the  floods  in  icy  chains, 
 
 Then  gives  the  word  to  flow  ? 
 The  Father  of  the  vernal  rains, 
 Who  wings  the  drifted  fnow. 
 
 7  The  Lord  who  rules  the  nigra?  floods, 
 
 The  rapid  winds  confefs ; 
 Who  fpreads  the  heav'ns  with  woolly  clouds, 
 Then  bids  them  quick  difperfe. 
 
 8  They  move,  they  bur  ft  away,  they  fly, 
 
 Like  ccurfers  from  the  goal, 
 
12  .  Chrifl  the  Creator  and  Preferver. 
 
 And  leave  a  clear  expanded  fky : 
 
 O  God,  thou  doft  the  whole ! 
 9  Thou  ftrew'ft  the  fields  with  glift'ring  dew, 
 
 Then  fpeedy  wings  are  giv'n ; 
 When  morning  funs  their  ftrength  renew, 
 
 The  pearls  remount  to  heav'n. 
 io  Thy  genial  fpirit  in  the  fun 
 
 Impregns  our  mother  earth, 
 Whofe  teeming  womb  calls  out  anon 
 
 For  fhow'rs  to  help  the  birth. 
 
 1 1  Soft  come  the  fhow'rs ;  forth  burfts  the  Spring, 
 
 To  fuck  the  foft'ring  dew, 
 The  rains  to  view  her  beauties  bring, 
 And  bloflbm'd  glories  fhew. 
 
 12  The  painted  daughters  of  the  grove, 
 
 By  millions  on  the  wing, 
 Crowd  all  around,  infpiring  love  : 
 The  hills  and  vallies  fing. 
 
 13  Lo!  like  a  blooming  bride  array'd, 
 
 In  robes  of  velvet  green, 
 Bright  Summer  comes  in  virgin-pride, 
 Of  flow'ry  tribes  the  queen. 
 
 14  She  flows  along,  led  by  the  breeze, 
 
 Difplaying  all  her  charms  : 
 Her  bridegroom-fun  rejoicing  fees, 
 
 And  darts  into  her  arms.  -  * 
 
 15  How  veh'ment,  veh'ment  is  th'  embrace! 
 
 The  Autumn  comes  apace, 
 With  bleffings  fraught  for  human  race, 
 Our  forrows  to  folace. 
 
 16  Our  forrows%  vanifh  as  a  dream, 
 
 Lift  loud  vour  voice,  and  fing!** 
 
 For 
 
GOD   is   Love.  1 3 
 
 For  us  ten  thoufand  bleflings  flream,. 
 From  our  perennial  Spring  ! 
 
 1 7  Our  King  governeth  all  above, 
 
 Governeth  all  below, 
 Our  King  governeth  us  in  love, 
 And  makes  our  joys  o'er  flow. 
 
 1 8  His  hand  he  opens,  and  bellows 
 
 His  bounties  upon  all ; 
 But  nought  that  lives  fuch  favour  knows, 
 As  doth  to  man  befal. 
 
 19  Blefs'd  be  the  man,  and  blefs'd  his  tafle, 
 
 That  love  with  love  repays : 
 He  feafls  with  God,  a  welcome  gueft, 
 And  lings  eternal  praife. 
 
 20  O  praife  the  Father,  praife  the  Son, 
 
 And  praife  the  Holy  Ghoft  j  „,     . 
 
 The  God  of  love,  the  Three  in  One : 
 Sing  loud,  ye  heav'nly  hoft. 
 
 V.   God  is  Love.     1  John  iv.  16. 
 
 THAT  God  is  Love,  a  lofty  theme!  I  fing: 
 O  may  I  rife  upon  the  Spirit's  wing, 
 And  fee  creation  iiTuing  from  his  hand, 
 With  all  the  hods  his  empire  doth  command  ! 
 His  high  eternal  counfel  (lands  in  love ; 
 And  holds  them  all  in  bands  that  cannot  move  : 
 He  made  them  all ;  he  made  them  wholly  good  1 
 His  goodnefs  all  his  works  proclaim  aloud  : 
 For  God  is  love :  in  love  he  made  them  all  : 
 Love  will  be  glorify'd  in  great  and  fmall.  10 
 
 Love  is  an  ocean,  bounded  by  no  fhore ; 
 For  this  good  angels  fing;  for  this  the  fallen  rciir  : 
 
 For 
 
14  GOD   is  Love. 
 
 For  love  defign'd  the  univerfe  fo  fair, 
 With  all  things  that  contained  therein  are, 
 Whether  inanimate,  or  animate, 
 jLove  to  enjoy,  or  to  communicate. 
 
 j  hat  all  his  faints  might  drink,  rejoicing  on, 
 He  pour'd  the  floods  of  pleafure  round  his  throne. 
 If  Lucifer  with  his  rebellious  crew, 
 V/K     do  were  made  in  love,  from  love  withdrew,      20 
 /         orn'd  to  live  dependent  on  their  God  ; 
 4,  he  banifh'd  them  from  his  abode ; 
 banifh'd  them  from  his  abode,  in  love, 
 l^ccaufe  they  thought  to  make  a  breach  above ; 
 A  breach  in  love,  among  the  fons  of  light;  [nignt : 
 
 Wrath  therefore  bound  them  hard  in  tenfold  chains  of 
 For  what  is  wrath,  but  love  provok'd,  wrought  high. 
 To  keeneft  flames  of  fmoking  jealoufy  ? 
 Againfi:  the  Sun  of  love  and  glory  fet, 
 If  defperadoes  rufli  into  a  pit,  30 
 
 Refufing  to  behold  his  healthful  beam, 
 He  wraps  them  round  in  flames  of  wrath  and  fhame : 
 That  all  the  fons  of  God  might  love  and  fear, 
 And  know,  a  breach  in  love  he  will  not  bear. 
 
 ■  In  love,  he  bade  his  blooming  Eden  rife  ; 
 That  Adam  and  his  fons  might  know  the  prize, 
 The  ferpent  heard  the  kind  defign  of  love, 
 And  then  began  his  ftratagems  to  move, 
 
 To  fow  divifion  in  the  heart  of  man 
 
 Diviiion  from  God's  one  infinite  plan.  40 
 
 In  evil  day,  alas !  the  guile  prevail'd, 
 And  man  becaufe  of  indignation  wail'd  : 
 The  indignation,  firft,  a  drizzling  fhow'r, 
 Before  the  mighty  floods  broke  loofe  devour. 
 
 Their  eyes  now  open'd  to  behold  their  fhame, 
 They  dread  the  vengeance,  and  the  fiery  flame  : 
 
 Confcious, 
 
GOD   is   Love*  15 
 
 Confcious,  fufpe&ing,  trembling  at  their  fin, 
 
 Deep  confcience-fmitten,  they  fink,  they  die  within. 
 
 So  have  I  feen  the  lark,  on  chearful  wing, 
 All  briikly  in  the  fun-beams  foar  and  fing- —  50 
 
 Sing  praife  to  God,  till  fliadow'd  by  a  cloud, 
 She  droops,  fings  dumb,  and  lowrs  upon  a  clod, 
 In  terrors  waiting  till  the  heavens  fall : 
 So  man  is  fallen,  funk,  and  lowring  all ! 
 
 "  Ye  angels,  and  archangels,  lo,  give  heed, 
 "  Which  of  you  all  will  downwards  wing  your  fpeed 
 "  Downwards  to  earth,  and  there  become  a  man, 
 "  To  fave  your  brethren  ?  fave  them  if  ye  can  : 
 "  Fulfil  my  broken  law,  and  die  the  death, 
 "  Bearing  the  fulnefs  of  almighty  wrath."  60 
 
 If  thus  Jehovah  had  exprefs'd  his  mind,. 
 Before  the  hofts  around  his  throne  that  fhin'd, 
 Profoundefl  filence  muft  have  filPd  the  place ; 
 Or  if  they  fpoke ;  with  many  a  fad  alas, 
 Perhaps  they  might  have  broke  their  filence  thus ; 
 "  Eternal  Father,  King,  behold  thou  us- — 
 
 *  Behold  us  ready  to  fulfil  thy  will, 
 
 "  To  outmofl  bound  of  earth,  or  outmofl  bound  of  hell ; 
 
 "  We  fly  as  whirlwinds  in  a  temped:  fly, 
 
 "  Or  furious  flames  along  the  burning  iky:  70 
 
 "  Unchain  thy  prifoners  in  the  pit,  we'll  fight, 
 
 •'  And  drag  them  thro'  the  flames  with  all  our  might. 
 
 *  But  who  are  we,  Lord,  who  are  we,  that  we 
 "  Should  fland  a  moment,  unupheld  by  by  thee ! 
 "  How  could  we  then  fuflain  the  fierce  aflault ! 
 
 "  Or  make  a  recompence  for  any  fault ! 
 "  Before  thy  footftool,  lo,  behold,  we  bend ; 
 "For  man's  redemption  fend  whom  thou  wilt  fend. 
 %t  If  thou  flialt  bid  us  die,  behold  we  die, 
 "  But  cannot  bear  thy  wrath,  Q  thou  moil  High."   80 
 
 "  My 
 
1 6  G  0  D   is   Love. 
 
 "  My  wrath  you  cannot,  fhall  not  bear,  Amen, 
 *'  Your  loyalty  approved  is  fully  feen  : 
 "  Yet  furely,  man  fhall  my  redemption  know ; 
 P  For  God  is  love :  in  God  companions  flow." 
 
 "  Amen  !  my  Father,"  faid  the  Son,  "  Amen ! 
 "  O'er  me  let  all  thy  fiercer!:  fury  reign ! 
 "  I'll  dive  into  the  deeped  ocean  of  thy  wrath, 
 "  And  for  the  blefiing  praife  thee  in  my  death ; 
 "Yea  praife  thee  in  my  life  for  evermore, 
 "  When  all  thy  feas  of  wrath  fhall  ceafe  to  roar."       90 
 
 Hofanna  to  the  Prince  of  life  and  peace, 
 God's  chofen  channel  of  redeeming  grace  ! 
 He  faid — he  came — -he  died — he  rofe  again, 
 And  full  difplay'd  the  love  of  God  to  men. 
 
 So  when  at  firft  the  night  o'er  chaos  hung, 
 He  faid,  "  Be  light :"  and  light  around  him  fprutig, 
 The  light  he  gathered  in  the  fun  around  : 
 The  light  of  love  is  in  the  Gofpel  found. 
 The  bridegroom-fun  rejoiceth  in  his  race : 
 And  he  rejoiceth  in  the  gofpel-grace.  1 00 
 
 The  fun  is  light  to  all  who  fee  the  fame ; 
 And  he  is  light  to  all  who  know  his  name. 
 The  fun  was  made  the  fource  of  light  by  God; 
 And  he  the  only  light  that  God  hath  fhow'd. 
 If  unenlightened  by  the  funny  beam 
 Any  remain,  they  have  no  eyes  in  them: 
 If  unenlight'ned  by  the  holy  Lamb, 
 They  know  not  him,  nor  God  from  whom  he  came. 
 If  into  darknefs  you  fhall  run  away, 
 You  hate  the  Lord,  and  hate  the  light  of  day.  no 
 
 The  day  confumes  the  darknefs  of  the  night ; 
 So  God  confumes  the  men  who  hate  the  light : 
 They  in  the  love  of  God  refufe  to  fliine, 
 Therefore  in  wrath  of  God  they  burn  and  pine. 
 
 Know, 
 
Sin>  the  Tranfgrejfton  of  /he  Law.  17 
 
 Know,  all  above,  and  know  ye,  all  below, 
 That  God  is  love !  ye  faints,  and  damned,  know ! 
 That  God  is  love !  aloud  the  anthem  found! 
 That  God  is  love !  let  heaven  and  hell  rebound  ! 
 That  God  is  love  i  Amen,  for  evermore ! 
 That  God  is  love !  adore!  adore!  adore!  120 
 
 VI.  Sin  is  the  Tranfgrejfton  of  the  Law.   1  Johniii.  4, 
 
 THE  King  eternal  made  the  law, 
 He  made  it  for  his  fons ; 
 To  keep  their  fpirits  in  his  awe/ 
 To  keep  them  fhining  ones. 
 
 >  But  ah  !  their  glory  made  fo  bright, 
 
 Was  foon  to  darknefs  turn'd ; 
 The  fons  of  day,  now  turn'd  to  night, 
 In  fhades  of  darknefs  mourn'd. 
 
 >  Black  were  the  fhades,  the  forrow  deep; 
 
 By  fin  they  both  began  : 
 IJe* threw  all  head-long  down  the  fteep — 
 And  plung'd  in  wrath  the  man. 
 \  Thus  fares  the  one,  whoe'er  he  be, 
 Who  lifting  high  his  hand, 
 Plucks  up  the  fence  of  liberty, 
 And  breaks  the  high  command. 
 
 VII.  Chrift  hath  redeemed  us.  from  the  Curfe  of  the  Law, 
 being  made  a  Curfe  for  us.     Gal.  iii.  13. 
 
 T  HOLD  you  in  my  deadly  paw ;" 
 A    So  faid  the  dragon-fiery-law ; 
 "  I'll  from  your  body  tear  your  foul; 
 "  And  make  you  in  mv  wrath  to  howl. 
 
 C  "  In 
 
1 8      The  Law  curfeth  us  ;  but  Chrift  blejfeth  us. 
 
 "  In  torrents  I  will  pour  my  fire; 
 "  And  drench  you  in  my  deepeft  ire  : 
 "  Then  to  my  den  will  bear  away,' 
 "  Againft  the  dreadful  judgment-day." 
 2  "  Thou  malt  not  in  the  lead  injure 
 "  A  faint,  whom  I  have  warned  pure ;" 
 In  love  reply'd  the  Son  of  God, 
 "  For  them  I  yielded  all  my  blood, 
 (i  And  anfwer'd  all  demands  of  thine, 
 "  And  fealed  them  for  ever  mine; 
 "  And  they  mall  dwell  in  love  for  ay, 
 "  And  hail  me  at  the  judgment-day." 
 
 VIII.  God  hath  appointed  his  Son  Heir  of  all  things, 
 Heb.  i.  2. 
 
 WOULD  you  defire  to  know  that  One, 
 Whom  prophecies  of  old, 
 According  to  Jehovah's  plan, 
 The  Saviour  have  foretold  I 
 
 \  The  holy  Spirit  thus  defcribes 
 The  high  eternal  Son, 
 By  whom  the  fair  created  tribes 
 In  borrow'd  luftre  flione. 
 
 ;  For  they  by  him  created  were,  ' 
 
 And  called  by  their  names : 
 He  reigns  the  fole  appointed  Heir, 
 And  all  the  kingdom  claims. 
 3.  The  Father  him  decreed  to  be 
 The  Lord  of  all  his  grace  : 
 The  fountain  and  the  ft  ream  is  he 
 Of  all  our  happinefs. 
 
 ?  Bleffed 
 
drift  the  Heir  of  all  Things.  19 
 
 5  Bleffed  be  he  for  evermore, 
 
 The  pure  atoning  Lamb, 
 Who  came  our  freedom  to  reftore, 
 And  wipe  away  our  fliame. 
 
 6  When  Adam  was  betray'd  to  fin  ; 
 
 No  more  the  bond  of  peace ; 
 The  ftiame  and  bondage  flowing  in, 
 O'erwhelmed  Adam's  race. 
 
 7  In  Adam  help  remained  none, 
 
 His  nature  all  to  wreck  : 
 According  as  the  fire  hath  done, 
 The  children  mud  partake. 
 
 8  The  law  was  perfect  every  whit ; 
 
 Tbe  law  mutt  be  fulfil  I'd  ; 
 But  Jefus  was  the  end  of  it, 
 Therefore  his  blood  was  fpill'd. 
 
 9  Lo  he,  the  fecond  Adam,  fhines, 
 
 The  light,  the  life,  the  grace : 
 In  him  the  righteous  Father  reigns 
 The  God  of  love  and  peace. 
 
 1 0  The  fin  and  death  are  flown  away ; 
 The  darknefs  is  no  more  : 
 The  Son  is  our  eternal  day  ! 
 Ye  fons  of  light,  adore ! 
 
 ! i ; 
 
 IX.  Adam  the  Fountain  of  Sin  and  Death  to  his ;  Chrift  ■ 
 the  Fountain  of  Right  eoufnefs  and  Life  to  his,rRom.  v.  1 2. 
 
 AS  Adam.finn'd  and  died, 
 With  all  mankind  in  him; 
 So  Jefus  crucified, 
 
 Aton'd  for  Adam's  crime  ; 
 
 C  2  2  Yea, 
 
2o       A  Comparifon  between  Adam  and  Ghrifl* 
 
 2  Yea,  fully  magnified 
 
 The  holy  law  of  God; 
 That  juftice  fatisfied 
 
 Triumphed  in  his  blood. 
 
 3  Peace,  peace  aloud  proclaim  ye, 
 
 To  every  thing  that  lives ! 
 Believe,  or  God  will  damn  ye  #j 
 He's  faved  who  believes. 
 
 4  Believing  is  ordained,    . 
 
 The  way  of  having  peace  ; 
 Believing  Chrift  fuftained 
 The  caufe  of  righteoufnefs. 
 
 5  As  death  and  fin  have  reigned, 
 
 Have  reigned  over  all, 
 By  one  alone  who  finned, 
 Deflroying  great  and  fmall. 
 
 6  So  life  and  righteoufneffes, 
 
 Do  flow  to  every  One, 
 Whom  God  the  Father  bleifes, 
 By  Jefus  Chrift  alone. 
 
 7  As  fin  and  death  poflefs  us, 
 
 When  coming  in  the  flefh, 
 And  ftill  the  more  opprefs  us, 
 Until  the  Lord  refrefh: 
 
 8  So  righteoufnefs  is  given, 
 
 Accompany'd  with  life ; 
 And  we  are  heirs  of  heaven, 
 When  children  of  belief. 
 o  As  Adam's  ftate  and  nature 
 Entailed  come  on  us, 
 By  will  of  our  Creator ; 
 And  fo  we  bear  the  curfe: 
 
 io  So 
 
 •  He  that  belicyeth  not  lhall  be  damned.   Mark  $vi.  ;6, 
 
A  Gomparijon  between  Adam  and  bhrijt.        2 1 
 
 jo  So  he  becomes  partaker 
 
 With  Jefus  Chrift,  who  lives 
 By  love  of  God  his  Maker ; 
 And  thankfully  receives. 
 
 1 1  As  never  child  of  Adam 
 
 Began  to  be  at  all, 
 Until  the  Lord  had  call'd  him, 
 And  quickened  by  his  call ; 
 
 1 2  Thus  verily  the  cafe  is, 
 
 With  every  child  of  God, 
 Before  they  know  Tiis  graces, 
 Born  of  his  Spirit  good. 
 
 13  As  fin  and  death  o'erflowing, 
 
 Overflowed  for  a  while, 
 While  we  were  undergoing 
 What  came  thro'  Adam's  guile ; 
 
 14  So  grace  to  life  for  ever, 
 
 Thro'  righteoufnefs  o'erflows, 
 By  jefus  Chrift,  believer,    , 
 For  thee  who  died  and  rofe. 
 
 15  Now  (halt  thou  then  believing, 
 
 That  he  did  this  for  thee, 
 And  all  his  love  receiving, 
 Refufe  to  bow  the  knee  ? 
 
 1 6  O  never !  never  !  Jefus, 
 
 Let  us  refufe  our  love, 
 To  thee  who  lov'd  and  fav'd  us, 
 To  all  thy  joys  above ! 
 
 X.  Except  a  Man  be  born  again,  he  cannot  fee  the  King- 
 dom of  God.   John  iii.  3. 
 EXCEPT  thou  be  new-born, 
 The  Lord  himfelf  hath  fwbrn, 
 
 (A  cafe 
 
22  The  New  Birth. 
 
 (A  cafe  the  mofl  forlorn !) 
 
 His  kingdom  can't  be  thine. 
 Unborn  of  the  Spirit, 
 Again  I  hear  him  fwear  it, 
 Thou  never  (halt  come  near  it ; 
 
 Nor  in  his  glory  fhine. 
 
 2  Pray  tell  me  now  how  is  it, 
 No  mortal  living  fees  it, 
 Except  the  Spirit  pleafe  it, 
 
 Begetting  him  again  ? 
 What's  born  of  the  flefh  is 
 Devoid  of  fp'ritual  graces ; 
 Refembling  the  grafies, 
 
 That  turn  to  dufl  amain. 
 
 3  But  what  is  of  the  Spirit, 
 The  kingdom  fliall  inherit  : 
 No  flefh  and  blood  can  bear  it ; 
 
 The  glory  is  fo  pure. 
 But  as  the  wind  which  bloweth, 
 You  know  not  whence  it  floweth, 
 Nor  yet  the  wray  it  goeth; 
 
 But  only  feel  its  power  : 
 
 4  So  is  the  cafe  with  all  them, 
 If  e'er  the  Spirit  call  them, 
 Who  know  what  doth  befal  them  j 
 
 But  neither  how  nor  why : 
 As  when  the  bones  are  growing, 
 In  womb  of  her  that's  going 
 With  child,  thou  art  unknowing 
 
 How  fpirits  mix  with  clay. 
 
 5  So  God  the  world  loved, 
 So  tenderly  was  moved, 
 That  Jefus  his  approved 
 
 And  only  Son  he  gave  : 
 
 And 
 
Adam  a  Figure  of  Chrift.  2  3 
 
 And  whofoe'er  believeth 
 On  him,  for  ever  liveth  5 
 For  fo  the  Spirit  giveth 
 
 Eternal  life  to  have. 
 The  man  who  disbelieves  him, 
 God's  mercy  ne'er  relieves  him ; 
 But  juft  as  mercy  leaves  him, 
 
 The  fame  fhall  judgment  find. 
 Already  he's  condemned, 
 By  whom  the  truth's  contemned, 
 And  therefore  is  he  damned, 
 
 Becaufe  to  light  he's  blind. 
 
 XI.  Adam  the  Figure  ofH'wi  that  was  to  come,  Rom.  v.  1 5, 
 
 IN  image  of  the  Lord  his  God, 
 Was  Adam  made  in  love ; 
 And  bleffings  to  him  largely  flow'd 
 From  paradife  above. 
 
 2  The  ftreams  of  pleafure  round  him  ran, 
 
 Which  Eden  fill'd  with  joy  : 
 Who  was  fo  happy  as  the  man, 
 While  pure  without  alloy  ! 
 
 3  In  him  Jehovah's  glory  fhin'd, 
 
 Beauty,  and  holinefs ; 
 And  every  attribute  combined, 
 To  furnifh  each  a  grace  : 
 
 4  Save  mercy  only  had  no  room, 
 
 To  a£r.  a  friendly  part  : 
 For  yet  there  was  no  mifery  come, 
 Nor  fin  to  ftain  his  heart. 
 
 But  mercy  foon  found  out  a  way, 
 When  fin  had  entered ; 
 
24  Adam  a  Figure  of  Chrij1t 
 
 To  give  her  power  and  glory  play, 
 By  railing  up  the  dead. 
 
 6  For  death  and  hell  purfu'd  like  fire, 
 
 •  And  bore  him  down  amain, 
 Stript  naked  of  his  fine  attire, 
 When  fin  had  fix'd  a  ftain. 
 
 7  Oh,  Adam !  why  didft  thou  rebel, 
 
 And  from  thy  glory  fall  ? 
 An  heir  of  heaven,  but  now  of  hell  I 
 And  fo  thy  children  all ! 
 
 8  The  fin  and  death  appear  in  thee, 
 
 Frowning  like  blackeft  night ; 
 But  O  the  fovereign  wife  decree,. 
 From  darknefs  bringing  light ! 
 
 9  For,  Adam,  thou  a  figure  art, 
 
 Of  him  that  was  to  come. 
 Whofe  righteoufnefs  fhall  not  depart; 
 Nor  honour  ceafe  to  bloom. 
 
 I  o  For  as  the  blood  that  flows  from  thee, 
 
 Conveyeth  death  along  ; 
 Even  fo  the  blood  of  Chrift  we  fee, 
 Quickeneth,his  elecl:  throng. 
 
 I I  As  thou  by  difobedience  fell, 
 
 And  didft  from  God  withdraw ; 
 So  he  endur'd  the  pains  of  hell, 
 To  magnify  the  law.. 
 
 1 2  As  thou  waft  fain  to  hide  thy  {hamA 
 
 Among  the  garden  trees, 
 'Till  God  the  Lord  upon  thee  came, 
 Cool,  in  the  evening  breeze : 
 
 13  So  thou,  O  Chrift,  endur'd  the  fliame, 
 
 In  garden  on  the  tree  j 
 
Adam  a  Figure  of  Chrift.  25 
 
 While  wrath's  hot  burning  fiery  flame 
 Fiercely  came  down  on  thee. 
 
 "  Where  art  thou,  Adam  ?  Adam,  fee 
 
 "  The  ftate  thou  now  art  in ; 
 *  Thou  wert  a  favourite  to  me  ; 
 
 "  But  now  deftroy'd  by  fin !  " 
 
 So  founded  out  Jehovah's  voice, 
 
 In  lamentation  loud, 
 Adam  to  thee  ; — but,  "  Chrift,  rejoice, 
 
 «  Beloved  Son  of  God." 
 
 Lo,  Adam,  as  thou  finned  haft, 
 
 We  all  with  thee  do  fliare  5 
 For  as  the  root,  by  fin  laid  wafte, 
 
 The  branches  wafted  are. 
 
 "  Behold  your  ftate  by  nature,"  lo, 
 
 The  Lord  to  us  doth  call ; 
 "  For  ignorant  why  fliould  ye  go, 
 
 "  How  ye  were  ruined  all  I 
 
 "  Point  out  the  way,  ye  fons  of  men, 
 
 "  This  ruin  to  repair ; 
 "  Come,  ranfom  off  your  blood,  and  than, 
 
 "  My  love  and  glory  fliare." 
 
 Lord,  where  have  we  a  price,  we  pray, 
 
 To  buy  again  thy  love  ? 
 "  Ye  mail  not  dare—nor  mint  to  pay ; 
 
 "  Or  all  my  vengeance  prove." 
 So  faid  the  Lord;  on  mercy  bent, 
 
 He  look'd  from  heaven  above; 
 And  for  his  mercy  found  a  vent, 
 
 Thro'  Chrift  his  fon  of  love. 
 
 Lo  then  hath  God  prepar'd  the  way 
 Of  royal  fovereign  grace ;     • 
 
 D  Thro' 
 
26  Boldnefs  by  the  Blood  of  Refits. 
 
 Thro'  Jefus  Chrift,  ordain'd  to-day, 
 
 And  evermore,  our  peace  ! 
 2  2  In  Him  thou  haft  thyfelf  proclaimed, 
 
 To  be  well  fatisfy'd  ; 
 In  Him  we  fliall  not  be  afham'd ; 
 
 In  Him  we  will  confide.  /~\ 
 
 23  Now  in  thy  way  of  faith  and  love,\ 
 
 O  draw  us  by  thy  grace ; 
 Until  we  all  arrive  above, 
 
 And  fee  thee  face  to  face.  Cj 
 
 24  Thy  Spirit  ever  in  us  breathe, 
 
 To  guide  us  in  thy  love ; 
 To  raife  our  hearts  from  things  beneatljf, 
 And  fix  them  far  above  : 
 
 25  That  by  thy  power  and  thy  word. 
 
 While  in  this  wildernefs, 
 "We  may  be  led  in  the  ftraight  road, 
 To  thy  eternal  blifs : 
 
 2  6  That  we  may  in  thy  love,  O  God, 
 Rejoice  for  evermore ; 
 *  And  fing  thy  praifes  fweet  and  loud, 
 When  pafl  the  other  ftiore. 
 
 XII.  We  have  Boldnefs  to  enter  into  the  Holiejl  by  the 
 Blood  of  Chrtfi.    Heb.  x.  1 9. 
 
 IO  !  Jefus  offered  up  himfelf, 
 -J     A  facrifice  to  God  : 
 God's  holy  Lamb,  in  our  behalf, 
 Did  Hied  his  precious  blood. 
 2  By  Jefus'  blood  we're  juftify'd, 
 And  wafhed  clean  and  fair : 
 
 In 
 
Boldnefs  by  the  Blood  of  Chrijl,  2.7 
 
 In  him  by  faith  we  do  abide  y 
 Our  fafety's  only  there, 
 
 3  Where  Jefus  with  his  blood  hath  gond, 
 
 Into  the  holy  place: 
 And  we  have  accefs  to  the  throne 
 With  boldnefs  by  his  grace. 
 
 4  Tho'  tribulations  fhould  annoy, 
 
 And  us  opprefs  with  grief; 
 By  Jefus'  blood,  in  God  we'll  joy : 
 In  God  is  our  relief. 
 
 5  No  more  (hall  we  without  the  vail, 
 
 Like  trembling  flaves  appear ; 
 But  to  the  holiefl  of  all, 
 By  Jefus'  blood  draw  near. 
 
 6  Tho'  warlike  hofts  mould  line  the  way, 
 
 Need  we  their  terrors  dread  ; 
 Since  our  eternal  Prieft  on  high, 
 For  us  doth  interceed  ? 
 
 7  All  that  we  fuffer  here  below, 
 
 We  know  it  is  for  good  ; 
 For  all  that  unto  us  doth  flow,  ^ 
 
 Is  dipt  in  Jefus'  blood. 
 
 8  No  death  at  all,  nor  evil  thing, 
 
 Shall  over  us  have  power  : 
 We  thro'  the  blood  of  Chrift  our  king, 
 Are  conquerors  and  more. 
 
 9  Hail  to  the  day  of  Chrift:  with  joy  ! 
 
 We  look  with  keen  defire, 
 When  he  fliall  death  and  hell  deftroy, 
 Drown'd  in  the  lake  of  fire. 
 
 1 0  For  Chrift:  upon  our  fide  fliall  Hand, 
 
 And  our  redemption  bring ; 
 
 D  2  And 
 
2<J      Greater  Riches  than  the  Treafures  of  Egypt, 
 
 And  who  dial!  pluck  us  from  the  hand 
 Of  our  almighty  Kin 
 
 1 1  Our  King,  forbid,  thy  virgins  fair, 
 
 Should  wallow  more  in  fin ; 
 As  thofe  who  never  warned  were 
 In  living  water  clean. 
 
 12  O  thro'  thy  grace  may  we  abound 
 
 In  works  of  faith  and  love ; 
 Till  with  thy  glory  we  be  crown'd, 
 For  us  prepar'd  above ! 
 
 ■■' '        "'        ■  ■'■■    ■'  '' — -  ■         w 
 
 XIII  Greater  Riches  than  the  Treafures  of  Egypt. 
 Heb.  xi.  25. 
 
 WO  ULD  you  have  a  lading  treafure, 
 Equal  to  your  high  defire  j 
 And  a  joy  above  all  meafure, 
 
 Holding  blanch  of  thief  and  fire  ? 
 Then  mult  you  look  up  to  heaven, 
 
 And  receive  them  from  above : 
 Freely  taken,  freely  given, 
 
 Are  the  treafures  of  God's  love, 
 
 2  Other  treafures  are  a  bauble ; 
 
 Other  pleafures  but  a  fnare: 
 None  of  them  were  ever  able 
 
 To  relieve  the  mind  from  care : 
 But  the  treafures  from  above 
 
 Are  the  golden  chains  of  God, 
 Drawing  you  with  tender  love, 
 
 To  the  joys  of  his  abode. 
 
 3  Draw  me  then,  Jehovah,  draw  me ; 
 
 Throw  thy  chains  about  my  heart  \ 
 
 Let 
 
Greater  Riches  than  the  Treafures  of  *  Egypt.      29 
 
 Let  thy  prefence  over-awe  me, 
 
 That  from  thee  I  may  not  flart. 
 To  thy  wifdom  I  refign  me, 
 
 Thanking  thee  for  thy  decrees : 
 To  the  joys  which  they  defign  me, 
 
 Lead  me  by  thy  own  degrees. 
 
 4  Lo,  my  heart  and  motions  center, 
 
 To  the  heart  of  thee  my  God  : 
 Let  no  evil  fpirit  enter, 
 
 To  feduce  me  from  my  road. 
 But  maintain  thy  hand  about  me, 
 
 Thou  in  whom  my  treafure  lies  : 
 That  no  enemy  may  rout  me, 
 
 Guard  me  with  thy  watchful  eyes. 
 
 5  Whom  have  I,  or  whom  defire  I, 
 
 In  the  heavens  but  my  God, 
 While  I  travel  thro'  this  miry 
 
 Way  that  leads  to  his  abode  ? 
 I  defire  no  earthly  treafures ; 
 
 I  defire  no  earthly, thing; 
 Yea,  I  tread  on  worldly  pleafures ; 
 
 Yea,  becaufe  I  fee  my  king. 
 
 6  Therefore  with  a  bold  ambition, 
 
 I  endure  unto  the  end, 
 Till  I'm  in  the  fame  condition 
 
 With  Abraham,  God's  own  friend  : 
 Abraham  in  his  God  rejoiced ; 
 
 So  did  every  patriarch  : 
 None  of  them  were  difcompofed, 
 
 Following  God,  tho'  in  the  dark. 
 
 7  What  tho'  all  the  world  be  lowring, 
 
 Dark  as  night,  upon  the  ground ; 
 Since  the  God  of  love  is  pouring 
 Floods  of  light  about  me  round, 
 
 Yea, 
 
3  o  Peace  through  the  Blood  of  the  Crofs. 
 
 Yea,  of  holy  ele&  veflels 
 
 God  the  glory  is  within; 
 And  the  lefs  the  creature  dazzles, 
 
 God  the  more  in  me  doth  fhine, 
 
 8  Give  me  ftill  the  bleffed  vifion 
 
 Of  thyfelf  invifible ; 
 That  I  may  abhor  divifion 
 
 From  the  God  of  Ifrael; 
 And  endure  as  he  endured, 
 
 Scorning  Pharaoh  and  his  race, 
 Mofes,  after  thee  allured, 
 
 By  the  riches  of  thy  grace. 
 
 XIV.  Peace  through  the  Blood  of  the  Crofs.  Col.  i.  20. 
 
 HATH  Jefus  made  peace,- — by  the  blood  of  his 
 While  humble  and  lowly  he  lay  ?  [crofs, 
 
 How  precious  the  grace — he  beftowed  on  us ! 
 
 A  grace  we  can  never  repay ;- — 
 Can  never  repay ;— -O  then  let  us  obey, 
 
 Being  led  by  his  fpirit  alone ; 
 And  walk  in  his  way, — while  yet  fliineth  the  day ; 
 
 For  darknefs  is  flattening  on. 
 1  The  darknefs  of  death — foon  will  rob  us  of  breath, 
 
 And  fend  us  away  to  our  homes. 
 O  live  in  the  faith, — and  beware  of  his  wrath, 
 
 Then  hail  him  with  joy  when  he  comes. 
 Behold  he  is  near, — yea,  I  fee  him  appear ; 
 
 His  glories  enlighten  the  fky : 
 Away  every  fear !- — and  away  every  tear ! 
 
 My  Lord  my  Redeemer  is  nigh  ! 
 
 XV.  Be 
 
Be  filed  with  the  Spirit.  3 1 
 
 XV.  Be  filled  with  the  Spirit.     Eph.  v.  18. 
 
 DRINK  deep  of  the  Spirit,  and  thou  flialt  be  filled, 
 Be  fill'd  with  the  fweeteft  enjoyment. 
 Attend  to  the  Spirit,  and  thou  flialt  be  /killed, 
 Be  flull'd  in  the  bed  of  employment. 
 
 2  Be  led  of  the  Spirit,  and  thou  fhalt  rejoice, 
 
 Rejoice  in  the  happiefl  ending : 
 The  Spirit  will  lead  thee  to  heavenly  joys; 
 To  heaven  O  then  be  thou  bending. 
 
 3  Give  ear  to  the  Spirit,  he'll  perfectly  teach  ; 
 
 He'll  teach  you  celeftial  leflbns : 
 He'll  build  up  your  walls,  yea,  and  heal  every  breach, 
 Adorning  you  round  with  his  bleflings. 
 
 4  Be  friends  with  the  Spirit,  and  laugh  at  your  foes; 
 
 With  him  you  may  boldly  defy  them: 
 He'll  guard  you  from  every  temptation  that  blows, 
 And  give  you  the  power  to  deny  them. 
 
 5  Revere  thou  the  Spirit,  who  dwells  in  thy  breaft; 
 
 Revere  him  in  humble  fubmiflion : 
 Wherever  he  dwelleth  a  welcomed  gueft, 
 He  giveth  a  fealed  remiffion. 
 
 6 .  Exult  in  the  Spirit,  exult  evermore ; 
 Exult  in  his  high  confolations : 
 In  raptures  of  gladnefs  before  him  adore, 
 Triumphing  o'er  all  defolations. 
 
 7  Amen  to  the  Spirit,  in  all  that  he  fays ! 
 
 Amen,  and  amen  to  his  doing ! 
 Amen  to  the  Spirit,  in  all  of  his  ways ! 
 The  Spirit  preferves  me  from  ruin. 
 
 8  I  am  fill'd  with  the  Spirit,  and  led  by  the  hand, 
 
 In  all  of  mv  workings  direded. 
 
 The 
 
3  2  The  Admiration  of  my  Sou/. 
 
 The  Spirit  he  gives  me  the  word  of  command, 
 In  all  my  behaviour  refpe&ed. 
 9  I  am  taught  of  the  Spirit,  and  builded  up  all, 
 By  him  the  infallible  Teacher  : 
 My  heart  now  is  ftrong  as  a  fortify'd  wall, 
 Since  the  Spirit  alone  was  my  Preacher  *„ 
 
 io  The  Spirit  he  loves  me,  and  gives  me  his  joys, 
 My  fpirit  to  him  being  fubjecl:; 
 He  defendeth  his  darlings,  their  foes  he  deftroys; 
 My  foes  of  his  wrath  are  the  object. 
 
 1 1  My  fpirit  is  turned  as  wax  to  the  feal, 
 
 Beneath  his  fweet  holy  impreflion  : 
 1  cannot  exprefs  what  already  I  feel, 
 Yet  heaven  remains  in  reverfion. 
 
 12  Begone,  idletoyings!  be  gone  ye  from  me ! 
 
 I  am  otherwife  fully  employed, 
 Poffefs'd  of  the  Spirit :  the  Spirit  is  he, 
 With  a  rival  who  can't  be  enjoyed ! 
 
 XVI.  Te  flail  indeed  drink  of  the  Cup  I  drink  of 
 Mark  x.  39. 
 
 OH  admiration  of  my  foul! 
 In  joy  I'm  fwallowed  up ! 
 With  tumult  big  above  control, 
 
 I  drain  the  flowing  cup, 
 The  flowing  cup  from  Jefus'  hand 
 
 Of  confolation  fweet! 
 Before,  we  did  at  variance  ftand; 
 
 But  now,  in  peace  we  meet. 
 We  meet  in  peace,  and  mutual  love 
 
 Infpireth  both  our  breads : 
 
 Before 
 
 1  John  iv.  6 
 
Mercy  at  the  Throne  of  Grace.  3  3 
 
 Before  I  can  my  prayer  move, 
 
 He  heareth  my  requefls. 
 No  wonder,  for  he  drank  the  gall; 
 
 The  honey  gave  to  me; 
 The  gall  of  wrath,  he  drank  it  all; 
 
 And  faid,  "  I  drink  to  thee." 
 
 j  "  I  drink  to  thee !  but  change  the  wine, 
 
 "  I  bid  thee  pledge  in  love; 
 "  The  wrath  was  mine,  the  love  be  thine ; 
 
 "  Thanks  to  the  God  above  I" 
 Amen,  my  Lord ;  but  who  am  I, 
 
 To  be  fo  highly  blefs'd  ! 
 The  Prince  of  life,  that  he  fhould  die, 
 
 That  I,  a  worm,  might  feafl ! 
 
 XVII.  Let  us  come  boldly  to  the  Throne  of  Grace  >  that 
 we  may  obtain  Mercy.     Heb.  iv.  1 6. 
 
 O  Mercy  !  mercy !  mercy,  Lord  ! 
 Mercy  is  all  I  crave : 
 Thou  only  mercy  canfl  afford  ; 
 Thy  mercy  let  me  have. 
 1  In  Jefus'  name,  in  Jefus'  name, 
 In  Jefus'  name  alone, 
 To  thee,  to  thee  1  make  my  claim : 
 Thy  fpirit  fees  me  groan. 
 5  Thy  fpirit  fpeeds,  thy  fpirit  fpeeds, 
 Thy  fpirit  fpeeds  my  caufe ; 
 Thy  fpirit's  good,  thy  fpirit  pleads, 
 "  Thy  Son  fulfill'd  thy  laws." 
 \  Thy  laws,  thy  laws  are  good  and  juft; 
 My  heart,  my  heart  fays  fo. 
 My  heart,  my  heart  lies  in  the  dufr, 
 
 Down  in  the  duft  lies  low.  t$ 
 
 E  c  Lie 
 
34  Mercy  at  the  Throne  of  Grace. 
 
 5  Lies  low,  lies  low,  (hall  ever  Iy, 
 
 Shall  ever  ly,  if  thou, 
 If  thou,  if  thou  ihall  bid  me  die, 
 Shall  bid  me  die ;  yet  how, 
 
 6  Yet  how,  yet  how,  how  fhalt  thou  bid, 
 
 How  (halt  thou  bid  me  die, 
 Me  die,  me  die,  fince  Jefus  dy'd? 
 Since  Jefus  dy'd,  not  I ; 
 
 7  Not  I,  not  I  can  now  be  bound, 
 
 Be  bound  to  pay  the  debt. 
 The  debt  is  paid,  the  ranfom  found  j 
 I  am  at  freedom  fet. 
 
 8  Sing  praife,  flng  praife,  fing  praife  to  God, 
 
 To  God;  for  God  is  love, 
 Is  love,  is  love ;  love  his  abode  : 
 So\r  O  my  foul  above ; 
 
 9  Above,  above,  where  pleafures  flow, 
 
 Flow  from  below  the  throne, 
 The  throne  below,  the  throne  below, 
 To  every  elecl:  fon. 
 
 I  o  To  elect  fons,  to  elecl:  fons, 
 
 To  elecl:  fons  are  given 
 Fair  glorious  crowns,  fair  glorious  crowns, 
 By  thee,  O  King  of  heaven. 
 
 I I  O  King  of  heaven,  O  King  of  heaven, 
 
 O  King  of  heaven  by  thee,  .  x 
 
 A  crowTn  is  given,  a  crown  is  gives, 
 A- crown  is  given  to  me- — 
 
 1 2  To  me,  to  me,  to  me,  even  me, 
 This  glory  is  beftow'd ! 
 To  thee,  to  thee,  to  thee,  even  thee, 
 Alone  be  praife,  O  God ! 
 
 XV11I 
 
Our  Treafures  hid  in  ChriJI.  3  5 
 
 XVIII.  In  ChriJI  are  hid  all  the  Treafures  ofWifdom 
 and  Knowledge.     Col.  ii.  3. 
 
 GI VE,  O  God,  thy  hidden  treafure, 
 Treafure  flowing  without  meafure, 
 From  the  fource  of  all  my  pleafure, 
 
 Jefus  Chrift,  I  aik  no  more  j 
 Only  do  not  now  deny  me, 
 When  the  powers  of  hell  defy  me, 
 Thy  good  Spirit  to  (land  by  me, 
 And  reprefs  their  mad  uproar. 
 
 XIX.  Lively  Stones  built  up  a  ffiritual  Houfe.  1  Pet.  ii.  5, 
 
 I'M  affur'd  of  full  falvation, 
 Built  upon  the  true  foundation, 
 Laughing1  at  dilapidation, 
 
 Jefus  being  the  rock  in  Zion. 
 Jefus  is  my  habitation, 
 Keeping  me  from  perturbation, 
 Giving  daily  intimation 
 
 Of  the  glorious  things  in  Zion. 
 
 2  Glory,  glory,  glory  give  ye, 
 
 To  our  King  in  whom  we  live,  yea, 
 Evermore  (hall  glory,  if  we 
 
 Now  are  built  upon  mount  Zion. 
 Holy  Ghoft,  poflefs  us  wholly ; 
 Purge  thy  temples  clean  from  folly ; 
 Since  nothing  may,  but  what  is  holy, 
 
 Stand  upon  the  hill  of  Zion. 
 
 3  O  that  holy  hill  of  joys, 
 Where  no  beaft  of  prev  deftroys, 
 
 *  £  1  Wh^e 
 
6  The  Voice  of  Him  that  crieth. 
 
 Where  no  evil  thing  annoys, 
 
 O  that  holy  hill  of  Zion ! 
 Oh  !  my  breafl  is  all  on  fire! 
 All  my  fpirit's  one  defire, 
 Panting,  panting  to  be  higher, 
 
 Higher  up  the  hill  of  Zion ! 
 
 XX.  The  Voice  of  him  that  crieth.  Ifaiah  xl.  3, 
 
 THE  voice,  the  voice,  Jehovah's  voice! 
 Has  ftain'd  the  pride  of  glory  all; 
 Has  {lain  the  foal  of  fleihly  joys, 
 
 And  made  them  like  green  flowrets  fall, 
 «  All  flefli  is  grafs!"  I  heard  the  found, 
 
 The  glory  thereof  withereth ; 
 Jehovah  bloweth  it  to  the  ground ; 
 And  back  to  duft  delivereth. 
 
 T*he  Lord  will  bring  the  mountains  low, 
 
 And  to  a  plain  the  vallies  raife : 
 That  every  foul  of  man  may  know, 
 
 The  Lord  will  fiablifh  well  his  ways. 
 The  Lord  alone,  in  day  of  grace, 
 
 Shall  be  exalted  glorious : 
 For  all  the  people  are  but  grafs : 
 
 The  Lord's  alone  victorious. 
 
 XXL  Hearken,  0  Daughter,    Pfalrn  xlv.  10 — 16. 
 
 O  Daughter,  fee  my  love  explor'd  j 
 I  am  thy  Father  and  thy  Lord. 
 Thy  own  efpoufed  lover  hear ; 
 From  (bangers  turn  away  thine  ear. 
 Lo,  thy  firfl  father  difobey'd, 
 And  from  the  pure  commandment  ftray'd ; 
 
 And 
 
The  herd  and  his  Efpoufed.  27 
 
 And  thou  with  him,  by  going  aftfty, 
 Wail  robbed  in  deftruetion's  way. 
 
 Stript  naked  of  thy  righteoufnefs, 
 Bereaved  of  thy  holinefs, 
 Thy  foes  did  thee  encompafs  round ; 
 Ail  helplefs,  hopelefs,  thou  wail  found  j 
 When  fo,  companions  in  me  fprung, 
 And  all  my  heart  about  thee  clung; 
 For  thee  I  gave  the  law  its  due, 
 And  over  thee  my  ikirt  I  threw. 
 
 Thy  foes  I  overcame  them  ail ; 
 None  of  them  overcome  thee  mall. 
 I,  in  my  own  appointed  hour, 
 My  fpirit  in  thine  heart  did  pour  j 
 I  purify 'd  thee  from  thy  fin, 
 And  made  thee  glorious  all  within ; 
 My  Father  is  well-pleas'd  in  me ; 
 In  me,  he  is  well-pleas'd  in  thee. 
 Lo,  I,  Jehovah's  heir  and  Son, 
 For  thee  the  heirfhip  fair  have  won. 
 My  fpoufe,  my  fifter,  thou  art  mine ; 
 My  favour  now  doth  make  thee  fhine. 
 I've  cloth'd  thee  with  my  royal  drefs, 
 My  everlafling  righteoufnefs. 
 
 0  daughter,  (till  thine  ear  incline, 
 And  hearken  to  my  kind  defign. 
 
 With  no  connexions  do  thou  flay, 
 Nor  walk  with  them  in  perverfe  way. 
 No  rival  in  thy  heart  fliall  reign 
 With  me ;  thy  heart  is  my  domain. 
 
 1  am  a  covering  to  thine  eye, 
 From  every  hateful  vanity  : 
 
 For  nothing  corrupt,  nor  unclean, 
 Shall  in  my  Father's  Jjoufe  be  feen, 
 
 6  No 
 
3.8  The  Lord  and  his  Efpoufed. 
 
 6  No  fin  can  ftain  his  holy  place, 
 Before  the  brightnefs  of  his  face; 
 Yet  there  my  virgins  mall  be  feen, 
 All  pure,  all  blamelefs,  faultlefs,  clean. 
 For  I  do  lead  them,  I  their  King, 
 While  all  my  hofts  around  us  fing, 
 "  All  glory  to  the  high  Bridegroom, 
 "  Who  brings  his  bride  to  glory  home." 
 
 7  Amen,  amen,  thy  virgins  fay  • 
 Lord  haften  thou  the  joyful  day, 
 And  bring  us  to  thy  holy  place, 
 Into  the  manfions  of  thy  grace : 
 The  glory  that  cannot  be  told, 
 We  with  our  eyes  fliall  then  behold. 
 Then  we  eternal  praife  ihall  fing, 
 To  God  our  Father  and  our  King, 
 
 8  Already,  lo,  thy  virgins  know, 
 The  glory  great  to  which  we  go. 
 Our  fpirits  fir'd,  by  thine  infpir'd, 
 Are  all  on  flame  for  joys  defir'd : 
 Nor  can  we  tell  what  now  we  feel ; 
 
 But  heaven  (hall  know,  when  there  we  dwell : 
 Yea  now,  even  now,  we'll  make  to  flow 
 Thy  praife,  where'er  thy  winds  do  blow. 
 
 9  Blow,  blow  ye  winds,  and  fan  your  wings, 
 To  waft  the  praife  our  fpirit  brings  ; 
 Spread  round  the  ball,  informing  all, 
 Where  fun-beams  fhine,  or  rain-drops  fall, 
 Sound,  found  aloud  the  love  of  God, 
 And  God  is  love;  love  his  abode : 
 
 We  dwell  in  love,  in  God  above ; 
 While  God  is  love  we  cannot  move. 
 io  Ye  roaring  waves,  with  all  your  noife, 
 Lift  up  your  voice,  and  tell  our  joys  j  . 
 
 Where'er 
 
,  The  Lord  and  his  Effoufsdi  39 
 
 Where'er  ye  go,  let  gladnefs  flow, 
 Till  all  the  deeps  our  gladnefs  know. 
 Proclaim  aloud,  how  good  our  God, 
 Who  wafh'd  us  in  his  ftreaming  blood ; 
 And  purg'd  our  flain,  which  would  remain, 
 Where  all  the  floods  were  pour'd  in  vain. 
 
 1 1  Pour,  pour  your  throats,  in  warbling  notes, 
 Ye  winged  tribes  whom  aether  floats ; 
 
 Let  every  grove  refound  the  love, 
 That's  due  unto  the  holy  Dove : 
 He  lighted  on  the  holy  One, 
 And  heaven  on  earth  he  poured  down, 
 Where'er  ye  fly,  through  all  the  iky, 
 Let  nought  be  fung  but  God  on  high. 
 
 1 2  Let  cattle  all,  both  great  and  fmall, 
 That  graze  upon  the  flowery  ball, 
 Rejoice  with  us,  freed  from  the  lofs, 
 We  Jhad,  before  the  bloody  crofs ; 
 
 When  herds  and  flocks,  on  plains  or  rocksy 
 The  flaughter'd  goat,  or  flaughter'd  ox, 
 If  facrific'd,  the  Lord  defpis'd ; 
 God's  holy  Lamb  was  only  priz'd. 
 
 1 3  But  thofe  are  mutes ;  it  ill  befuits, 
 
 That  we  (hould  leave  thy  praife  to  brutes ; 
 Thy  love  infpires,  and  wakes  our  fires, 
 And  bids  ourfelves  lead  up  the  choirs ; 
 Elijah-like,  we'll  mount  the  flame, 
 And  clap  our  hands  before  the  Lamb. 
 Clap,  clap  your  hands,  ye  heavenly  hoft, 
 To  Father,  Son,  and  holy  Ghoft : 
 
 14  Let  hallelujah's  round  you  ring, 
 Till  all  creation  echoing  fing. 
 Sing  to  God  his  Fatherhood^ 
 For  his  love  to  finners  fbew'd : 
 
 Sing 
 
40  Q  0  D's  dear  Little  Children. 
 
 Sing  the  glories  of  the  Son, 
 For  the  trophies  he  hath  won  : 
 Sing  the  praifes  of  the  Spirit, 
 Who  applies  to  us  the  merit : 
 
 15  Sing,  the  Godhead  is  but  One; 
 Sing  the  Godhead  is  for  man  : 
 Three  in  One,  and  One  in  Three, 
 O  my  foul,  is  all  in  thee. 
 Full  of  God  is  full  of  blifs, 
 The  paradife  of  paradife. 
 All  one  fpirit  with  the  Lord. 
 Sing,  ye  faints,  with  one  accord. 
 
 XXII.  Be  Followers  of  God  as  dear  Children.  Eph.  v.  I. 
 
 AS  dear  little  children,  be  followers  of  God ; 
 His  love  is  your  portion,  his  heaven  your  abode, 
 His  Son  your  Redeemer,  his  Spirit  your  guide ; 
 Who  can  be  againfl  you,  and  God  on  your  fide  ? 
 
 2  Stand  always  by  God,  and  you're  fure  of  a  fhield ; 
 Who  fought  by  his  ftandard  ne'er  loft  on  the  field  : 
 Who  ran  fair  in  his  race,  they  all  carry'd  the  prize; 
 They  flew  on  his  wings,  and  they  flew  to  the  fkies. 
 
 3  So  Abraham  fought,  and  fo  Abraham  ran, 
 
 He  liv'd  in  the  faith,  and  he  follow'd  the  Lamb ; 
 And  fo  did  the  martyrs,  even  fo,  every  one, 
 Till  glad  to  the  end  of  their  journey  they  came. 
 
 4  Be  patient,  and  humble,  rejoicing  in  God, 
 
 And  move  not  a  ftep  whithet  God  has  not  fliow'd : 
 
 His  purpofe  is  for  you,  and  you  are  for  it ; 
 
 And  if  God  can  prefer ve  you,  you're  free  from  the  pit. 
 
 5  You  are  free  from  the  pit,  and  the  heirs  of  his  glory , 
 Whate'er  is  contrary  to  him  then  abhor  ye ; 
 
 Abhor 
 
The  King  of  Terrors.  4  r 
 
 Abhor  ye  exceedingly  what  he  abhorreth ; 
 And  foar  ye  on  high  whither  his  fpirit  foareth. 
 
 6  Jehovah  is  coining,  is  coming  for  you ; 
 Adieu  to  the  world !  a  long,  long  adieu  ! 
 And  all  hail  to  the  heavens  !  all  hail !  and  all  haiH 
 Where  no  death,  nor  iniquity  peeps  thro'  the  vail. 
 
 XXIII.  The  King  of  Terrors.    Job  xviii.  14. 
 
 DEATH,  that  grifly  king  of  terrors, 
 Sparing  neither  age  nor  rank, 
 Sending  forth  impartial  arrows, 
 
 Makes  the  proudeft.  eye  look- blank. 
 
 2  Happy  thou,  who  haft  curtailed 
 
 All  the  hopes  that  death  can  feize; 
 When  he  has  o'er  thee  prevailed, 
 Thou  haft  got  thy  bill  of  eafe. 
 
 XXIV.  God  refifteth  the  Proud,  but  glveth  Grace  to 
 tke  Humble.  Jam.  iv.  6. 
 
 WITH  mountain-floods,  as  fwollen  Nile 
 Comes  rufliing  down  amain, 
 Impetuous,  tumbling  o'er  ragg'd  rocks, 
 
 And  pouis  all  o'er  the  plain ; 
 It  thunders,  foams,  and  wheels  away, 
 
 A  deluge  deep  and  flrong; 
 Who  dares  to  tempt  the  rapid  tide, 
 Is  gulph'd  and  whirlM  along  : 
 
 2  Even  fo,  the  mighty  wrath  of  God, 
 Expanded  every  fluke, 
 With  'whelming  billows  roaring  loud, 
 la  floods  of  lire  broke  loofe, 
 
 F  And 
 
4  2  Pride  and  Humility  recompenfed, 
 
 And  fwept  away  the  fons  of  pride, 
 
 To  regions  down  below  : 
 With  Lucifer  who  take  a  fide, 
 
 With  Lucifer  muft  go. 
 
 3  Him,  vengeance  feized  haftily, 
 
 With  all  his  fellow  flaves ! 
 As  whirlwinds  in  a  temped  fly, 
 
 Seizing  the  withered  leaves. 
 Driv'n  away,  and  tofs'd  about,    . 
 
 They  funk  into  their  den : 
 So  far'd  the  rebel  angel  rout, 
 
 So  fare  the  rebel  men. 
 
 4  Remember,  O  ye  fons  of  men, 
 
 Remember  Adam's  fall ; 
 Deep-humbled  in  the  duft  remain, 
 
 Abas'd  and  trembling  all. 
 Yea,  worms,  behold  the  Son  of  God; 
 
 For  he  became  a  worm; 
 By  men  and  devils  he  was  trod, 
 
 Who  was  in  God's  own  form  ; 
 
 5  Jehovah's  form,  nor  was  he  lefs, 
 
 God  blelfed  over  all. 
 Pride  to  reprefs,  and  then  redrefs, 
 
 A  victim  he  did  fall ; 
 But  now  exalted,  reigns  on  high, 
 
 Our  Saviour  and  our  Prince  -r 
 Becaufe  of  his  humility, 
 
 Accomplifhed  long  fince. 
 
 6  Behold,  and  follow  ye  the  Lamb, 
 
 In  all  his  lowly  ways : 
 For  meek  and  lowly  as  he  came, 
 
 His  pattern  is  your  praife. 
 .  O  view  him  in  his  glory,  going, 
 And  view  him  in  his  glory,  now, 
 
 And 
 
The  Death  of  the  Saints.  43 
 
 And  if  your  hearts  to  him  be  flowing, 
 All  his  glory  flows  to  you* 
 
 Have  you  feen  the  drops  of  dew, 
 
 All  bedazzling  your  eyes, 
 How  unto  the  fun  they  flew  ? 
 
 So  fliall  you  to  him  arife : 
 Nay,  refembling  even  the  fun, 
 
 Streaming  thro'  the  fpacious  fay* 
 When  your  courfe  of  life  is  run, 
 
 You  fhall  dwell  with  him  on  hi  eh. 
 
 XXV.  0  wretched  Man  that  I  am,  who  /ball  de- 
 liver me  from  the  Body  of  this  Death  !  I  thank 
 God,  &c.     Rom.  vii.  24. 
 
 HOVERING  upon  the  fteep  brink  of  eternity, 
 Viewing  the  precipice,  viewing  with  pain  fo  nigh, 
 Thoufands  of  images,   dreadfully  hurrying, 
 Drive  my  foul  furioufly  round  in  a  hurricane; 
 Mightily,  mightily  fond  to  efcape  them  all, 
 Swooning  and  trembling  all,  down  in  the  deep  I  fall. 
 Earthly  my  life  was,  and  earthly  my  fearings  were, 
 So  tender  lovers  do  feparate,  tearing  hair  ; 
 Death,  fo  commirTioned,  makes  feperation  fuch, 
 'Twix't  foul  and  body,  with  fad  lamentation  much. 
 BlefTings  on  bleffings  exceeding  expreflion  all, 
 Inflant,  on  vefTels  of  mercy,  refreshing  fall. 
 Feel  we  no  more,  now,  our  enemies  harming  us, 
 Swimming  in  oceans  of  love  overwhelming  us; 
 Loft  in  our  God,  we  do  roll  in  his  boibm,  yea, 
 Round  all  eternity,  blooming  in  glory  all. 
 High  halleluias  fmging,   adore  we  all. 
 
 XXVI.  Eleffed 
 
44  Blejfed  the  Dead  in  the  Lord. 
 
 XXVI.  Blejfed  are  the  Dead,  which  die  in  the  Lord. 
 Rev.  xiv.  13. 
 
 HERE's  the  patience  of  the  faints, 
 Here  they  reft  from  all  complaints; 
 No  devouring  lion  here, 
 No  temptation,  fin,  nor  fear. 
 
 2  Shining  in  the  love  of  God, 
 Sing  they  hallelujahs  loud. 
 God  rejoiceth  in  his  love, 
 They  rejoice  with  God  above: 
 
 3  With  him  now  and  evermore, 
 Maugre  all  the  late  uproar; 
 Look  they  now  with  pity  down, 
 Having  to  their  heaven  won, 
 
 4  Down  on  all  the  weary  ones, 
 Who  for  them  are  heaving  groans; 
 And,  if  tears  could  dwell  in  heaven, 
 They  would  ihed  them  for  the  living. 
 
 5  Living  faints  on  troubled  fea, 
 Tolled  to  a  ftrange  degree, 
 DahVd  upon  by  foaming  billows, 
 Chatter  all  like  cranes  or  fwallows. 
 
 6  Drag  they  on  a  heavy  chain, 
 Walking  on  the  fmootheft  plain, 
 Stooping  under  heavy  load, 
 Cm  filed  as  a  very  clod  ; 
 
 7  Giving  way  at  once,  they  fink, 
 Death's  amazing  cup  they  drink. 
 Then,  Elijah-like,  they  tower 
 To  the  God  of  ali  their  power. 
 
 8  Prcflin^  then  a-while  this  clod, 
 Fear  ye  nothing  but  your  God, 
 
 Tender 
 
 i 
 
j  rj¥  Kiwis   uj    kjuu,  ana  vow,  45 
 
 Tender  children  of  his  love, 
 Till  ye  join  your  friends  above. 
 9  There  the  faithful  every  one 
 Wear  a  frefli  immortal  crown; 
 For  they  kept  the  holy  path, 
 Therefore  have  the  end  of  faith. 
 
 10  Heard  I  not  the  voice  from  heaven  ? 
 Saw  I  not  the  writing  given  ? 
 Charging  in  expreflefl  word ; 
 Write  them,  BlefTed,  in  the  Lord.— 
 
 1 1  Bleffed,  in  the  Lord  who  die ; 
 From  henceforth  to  eternity ; 
 
 "  Yea,  and  Amen,"  the  fpirit  faid, 
 "  I  give  them  joy  in  being  dead. 
 
 12  "  Reft  they  from  their  labours  now; 
 
 "  And  their  works,  which  were  by  me, 
 "  Teflify  in  order  due, 
 
 "  They  rejoic'd  in  God's  decree.— 
 
 13"  God's  decree  of  faving  men, 
 "  Saving  by  his  only  ion  \ 
 "  All  my  children  fay,  Amen, 
 "  So  I  fave  them  every  one." 
 
 XXVII.  Now  are  we  the  Sons  of  God,  1  John  iii.  2. 
 
 THE  fons  of  God!  intrancing  love! 
 Aloft  thine  eyes  and  fee 
 Love  fhowering  down  from  all  above, 
 Love  fhowering  down  on  thee. 
 2  The  heavens  bow'd  to  meet  the  earth, 
 Jehovah  bow'd  them  low; 
 He  fmote  the  fin,  he  fmote  the  death, 
 He  dafh'd  them  with  his  bow. 
 
 3  He 
 
46  lhe  bons  of  Uod,  and  how, 
 
 3  He  quell'd  the  lion's  keeneft  fire, 
 
 The  dragon's  fiery  glare ; 
 The  dragon  flew  before  his  ire, 
 The  lion  crouch'd  for  fear  : 
 
 4  He  bound  their  paws  in  wreathed  chains; 
 
 In  wreathed  chains  they  roll  ; 
 The  brimftone-billow  o'er  them  reigns, 
 In  burning  lakes  they  growl. 
 
 5  Thefe  were  the  foes  that  pluck'd  us  down, 
 
 That  pluck'd  us  from  the  fky ; 
 They  rent  our  robes,  they  tore  our  crown ; 
 Trampled  in  blood  we  lie. 
 
 6  Our  blood  they  fuckt,  they  crufli'd  our  bones, 
 
 They  cruflit  us  in  the  earth. 
 Deftruclion  fierce,  with  havoc  reigns  ; 
 Sin  havocks  us  to  death. 
 
 7  Jehovah  eyed  them,  eyed  his  fon, 
 
 And  eyed  the  mangled  prey; 
 The  Son  in  lightening  fires  flew  down, 
 With  burning  bolts  to  fray. 
 
 8  They  faw  the  temped,  on  its  way, 
 
 In  winged  whirlwinds  roll ; 
 They  fhriek,  they  roar,  they  gnafh,  they  bray, 
 Bruis'd  thro'  their  inmoft  foul. 
 
 9  But  lo,  he  breathed  on  our  bones, 
 
 His  fpirit  breathed  love; 
 And  lo,  we  bloom  his  living  fons, 
 Born  of  the  holy  Dove. 
 
 io  The  holy  Dove  with  fhadowing  loves, 
 Keen  hovering  o'er  our  joys, 
 All-kindly  influencing  moves; 
 And  every  grief  deftroys. 
 
 XXVIII.  Behold 
 
Behold  what  Manner  of  Love.  47 
 
 XXVIII.  Behold  what  manner  of  Love.   1  John  iii.  1. 
 
 BEtofs'd  away  baubles!  Hofanna  to  heaven! 
 His  highly  beloved,  We  ne'er  fhall  be  moved  I 
 A  kingdom  and  Sonfhip  the  Father  hath  given  i 
 
 0  folly,  begone  with  thy  cup,  and  thy  leaven ! 
 Ah  fadly  deceived,  ye  children  of  men, 
 
 Full  objects  of  forrow,  The  marks  of  God's  arrow, 
 Big-going  with  ihame,  and  perpetual  pain, 
 If  God  and  his  fellowship  hidden  remain ! 
 2  Lo,  he  calls  us  his  children,  the  heirs  of  his  love  I 
 How  fweet  his  refrelhings,  Celeftial  bleffings, 
 Down  fhowering  in  pleafures,  love  hovering  above ! 
 Unmov'd  as  his  purpofe,  our  pleafures  mail  prove! 
 Behold,  he's  a  coming,  and  bending  the  iky! 
 
 1  fee  his  eyes  ftreaming,  In  bright  glory  beaming  i 
 Then  we  all,  as  he  is,  fo  glorious,  fo  high ! 
 
 Who  dwell  in  this  hope,  they  themfelves  purify. 
 
 XXIX.  No  more  I,  but  Sin  that  dwelleth  in  me. 
 Rom.  vii.  17. 
 
 DIP  your  ftaffinto  the  water, 
 And  1:  is  a  fimple  matter, 
 You  have  done  unto  your  ftaiF, 
 Yet  you'd  think  it  bent  a  half; 
 So,  methmks,  the  cafe  is  even 
 With  the  man  defign'd  for  heaven  ; 
 Plung'd  into  the  groffer  medium 
 Of  the  flefli,  you'd  half  upbraid  him, 
 As  a  child  of  death  and  hell, 
 When  you  fee  the  flefh  rebel.  10 
 
 He'll 
 
48  Flcjh  and  Spirit 
 
 He'll  appear  in  crooked  angles, 
 
 While  the  ftream  of  lufl  entangles; 
 
 Nay,  perhaps,  as  broke  in  twain, 
 
 Till  emerging  up  again, 
 
 He  will  fhine  in  all  his  glory, 
 
 Straight  as  Truth  herfelf  before  ye. 
 
 View  him  in  the  light  of  truth, 
 
 And  you'll  find  him  clear  and  fmooth  : 
 
 Let  the  light  of  truth  withdraw, 
 
 And  you'll  find  him  all  one  flaw.  20 
 
 God  beholds  him  in  the  true, 
 
 And  the  happy  point  of  view, 
 
 Brighter  than  thefliining  fun, 
 
 In  the  glory  of  his  Son. 
 
 Happy  he,  who  fliines  in  Chrifl, 
 
 Far  above  the  odious  mill ; 
 
 Freed  by  a  fecond  birth, 
 
 From  this  vile  contagious  earth. 
 
 Free  me  from  this  body,  God ; 
 
 Death  and  hell  lurk  in  my  blood.  33 
 
 Give,  in  thy  appointed  time, 
 
 Me,  the  victory  over  them. 
 
 Let  me  in  the  Spirit  live, 
 
 Till  thou  (hall  the  victory  give, 
 
 Standing  firmly  by  thy  laws; 
 
 Fighting  boldly  for  thy  caufe ; 
 
 That  it  may  appear  I  am 
 
 One  that  plorieth  in  the  Lamb; 
 
 Warned  in  his  precious  blood, 
 
 Following  his  Spirit  good.  4* 
 
 Keep  me  from  that  hateful  thing, 
 
 Which  is  known  to  thee  my  King; 
 
 Keep  roe,  thou,  by  night  and  day, 
 
 O  for  Jefus'  fake,  I  pray. 
 
 God 
 
To  us  the  Shame,  to  God  the  Glory.  40 
 
 God  defend  me,  from  the  fource," 
 
 Idlenefs,  the  itrength  and  courfe 
 
 Of  that  over-bearing  flood, 
 
 Bearing  me  away  from  God. 
 
 Thanks  to  God,  who  knows  my  cafe, 
 
 God  has  pitied  my  diftrefs  j  50 
 
 Yea,  and  given  me  his  love, 
 
 My  unhallowed  to  reprove. 
 
 I  will  glory  evermore, 
 
 In  his  holy  Spirit's  power, 
 
 Glory  in  thy  fweet  communion ! 
 
 Take  to  thee  the  whole  dominion.  56 
 
 XXX.  Not  unto  us,  not  unto  us,  0  Lord.  Pfal/cxv.  1 . 
 
 NOW  we,  thy  faints,  O  God,  confefs 
 Our  fins,  and  bafe  unrighteoufnefs; 
 To  us  for  all  our  trefpaffes, 
 
 Belongeth  fliame  for  glory. 
 Becaufe  we  hated  thee,  our  Lord, 
 And  disbeliev'd  thy  holy  word, 
 Sith,  we  deferv'd  thy  juftice-fword, 
 
 To  cut  us  off  from  glory. 
 Thus  miferable  was  our  cafe; 
 But  of  thy  own  mere  fovereign  grace, 
 Thou  fent  thy  Son  to  be  our  peace ; 
 
 Even  for  thine  own  name's  glory. 
 Thy  everlafling  love,  we  fee, 
 Is  abfolutely  ours,  and  free ; 
 Becaufe,  becaufe  it  pleafed  thee, 
 
 Thou  haft  ordain'd  our  glory. 
 Now,  now  we  know  the  joyful  found, 
 We  in  thy  grace  fliall  ftill  abound, 
 
 G  Thy 
 
50  Holinefs  to  the  Lord,  ye  Virgins* 
 
 Thy  favour  compaffing  around, 
 
 Till  perfected  in  glory. 
 Thou  holds  us  by  thy  righteoufnefs, 
 Thou  fhields  us  by  thy  faithfulnefs  ; 
 Thy  high  eternal  name  we'll  blefs, 
 
 And  give  thee  all  the  glory. 
 
 XXXI.  That  fie  may  be  holy,  both  in  Body  and  Spirit. 
 i  Cor.  vii.  34. 
 
 DEAR  maidens,  I  befeech  you  all, 
 Occafions  wifely  fhun ; 
 Ceafe,  ceafe  from  every  luring  call 
 To  what  were  bafely  done. 
 
 2  O  may  the  love  of  God  perfuade 
 
 Rebellious  thoughts  to  flee ; 
 Jefus  thee  wooes,  O  tender  maid, 
 Ambitious  to  have  thee. 
 
 3  May  thou  believe  his  kind  defign, 
 
 Early  thy  heart  to  win  ; 
 So  fhalt  thou  mine  in  love  divine, 
 Free  from  the  odious  fin. 
 
 4  Atoning  blood  is  all  thy  claim ; 
 
 Run  thou,  and  plunge  therein; 
 Queen  Efther-like,  then  waflit  from  fliame, 
 Unflain'd  with'  any  fin, 
 
 5  Have  thou  the  courage  bold,  to  go, 
 
 And  fall  before  thy  King; 
 Refreshing  mercy  he  will  mow; 
 Sweet  mercy  thou  (halt  fing. 
 
 6  On  you  he  all  his  love  will  flied; 
 
 No  more  lhall  you  repine  j 
 
 En- 
 
Uajle,  my  Spirit,  to  the  Mark  51 
 
 Encircling  jewels  round  his  head, 
 1     Set  in  his  crown,  you  fliine. 
 
 XXX1L  As  Arrows  in  the  Hand  of  a  mighty  Man. 
 Pfal.  cxxvri.  4. 
 
 UP,  my  fpirit,  foar  and  fing ! 
 Rifmg  on  thy  chearful  wing, 
 Chearful  wing  of  faith  and  love, 
 Till  thou  join  the  blefs'd  above. 
 Blefs'd  above  are  blefs'd  for  ever, 
 -  Drinking  of  God's  pleafure-river, 
 Drinking  deep,  forgetting  pain, 
 Drinkihg  ever  and  amain. 
 
 2  Little  knew  they  while  below, 
 
 All  the  flrength  of  their  own  bow* 
 Their  own  bow  the  Spirit  was, 
 Who  fhot  them  foaring  to  the  Jkies; 
 When  the  event  came  to  pafs, 
 They  were  fwallowed  in  furprife; 
 Sweet  furpriie  it  was  to  them, 
 Sprung  away  from  fin  and  fliame. 
 
 3  So,  my  Spirit,  fo  (halt  thou, 
 An  arrow  in  the  felf-fame  bow, 
 BurnifrYd  keen  by  tribulation, 
 Take  thy  flight  unto  falvation ; 
 Only  this  remember  well, 
 Know  no  motion  of  thy  own ; 
 Left  thou  blunt  thy  point  of  fteel, 
 Then  in  wrath  away  be  thrown. 
 
 4  But,  foreboding  ftill  the  bed:, 
 Keep  my  counfel,  and  be  blefs'd ; 
 
 G   2  Fcsr 
 
52  The  Lord  defcending  with  a  Shout, 
 
 Fear  no  monfter  by  the  way, 
 Tho'  it  were  th*  old  dragon's  heart, 
 Lighten  thro',  and  do  not  ftray, 
 Till  thou  reach  the  central  part 
 Of  the  mark  unto  thee  given, 
 Sunk  up  to  the  head  in  heaven. 
 
 XXXIII.  The  Lord  himfelf  Jhall  defcend  with  a 
 Shout,     i  Theffiv.  16. 
 
 117 HAT  high  hallelujahs  are  thefe  that  are  given: 
 How  tremble  and  float  the  glad  accents  from  hea- 
 
 0  is  not  that  Jefus,  the  Prince,  in  the  clouds,    [veil! 
 
 V    With  all  thofe  that  dwell  in  celeftial  abodes ! 
 •  ,\ 
 
 2  Plow  awfully  foundeth  the  trumpet  of  God ! 
 
 How  it  ringeth  the  world  all  around  and  around ! 
 Lfow  glorious  the  elecl:  a  rife  from  the  clod, 
 Awakened  by  millions  to  life  at  the  found ! 
 
 -3  In  light  everlafting,  behold  how  they  fhine! 
 *  For  the  glory  of  faints  it  is  glory  divine. 
 
 1  fee  them  afcending  triumphant  along, 
 
 And  hailing  the  Lord,  with  a  new,  new,  new  fong. 
 
 4  What  raptures  I  feel !  For  with  me  it  is  well,  - 
 Being  changed  to  glory  in  twinkling  an  eye  : 
 With  the  wings  of  an  angel  I  foar  and  I  wheel, 
 Away  to  the  Lord,  too,  with  them  in  the  iky. 
 
 XXXIV.  Carried  by  the  Angels  into  Abraham's  Bofom, 
 Luke  xiii.  22. 
 
 EXP  AND,  ye  portals  of  the  iky. 
 Receive  a  freed  foul  on  high ; 
 A  foul,  that  once  was  chained  down, 
 An  eagle  clogged  with  a  ftone  ; 
 
 Heavy 
 
A  departed  Saint  fmging  on  the  Way  to  Heaven,     5 
 
 Heavy  the  ftotie,  and  ftrong  the  cord, 
 My  neck  and  ftruggling  foot  that  fcor'd ! 
 A  glad  difmiflion  death  has  given, 
 And  wing'd  me  all  away  to  heaven. 
 
 2  Expand,  ye  portals  of  the  iky,  ^ 
 Receive  a  fpotiefe  foul  on  high ; 
 
 A  foul,  that  late  was  black  and  foul,     ^ 
 Dwelling  in  ruins,  a  hateful  owl, 
 Abhorring  light*  and  flying  away 
 From  every  glimpfe  of  painful  day, 
 Unknowing  of  the  divine  power, 
 While  darknefs  had  the  power  and  hour, 
 
 3  Expand,  ye  portals  of  the  fky, 
 Receive  a  filming  foul  on  high ; 
 No  more  in  darknefs,  now  flie  mourns. 
 But  all  a  lamp  of  glory  burns,  A 
 A  blazing  ftar  efcapt  from  hell, 
 Where  (hades  of  darknefs  ever  dwell  i 
 The  Sun  of  glory  fhin'd  on  me, 
 His  love  enlightening  me  I  fee. 
 
 4  Expand,  ye  portals  of  the  fky. 
 Receive  a  virgin-foul  on  high; 
 How  fadly  I  miftook  the  way, 
 When  from  my  Lord  I  went  aflray ! 
 I  tore  my  vows,  and  marriage- vail, 
 I  cry'd  to  every  lover,  "  Hail  !" 
 My  Lord  forgave,  my  Lord  was  good  ; 
 I  fmote  his  heart,  out-gufht  the  blood. 
 
 5  Expand,  ye  portals  of  the  fky, 
 Receive  a  wafhed  foul  on  high  ; 
 My  Lord,  feeing  all  my  ways  unclean, 
 Did  not  reject  me  for  his  queen: 
 His  pierced  bofom  overflows 
 With  blood  and  love  unto  his  fnoufc; 
 
54     A  departed  Saint  finging  on  the  Way  to  Heaven* 
 
 As  fhe  had  ne'er  polluted  been, 
 Blood-cleanfed  now,  his  fpoufe  is  clean. 
 
 6  Expand,  ye  portals  of  the  iky, 
 Receive  a  loved  foul  on  high  ; 
 
 My  Love,  with  mutual  flames  he  burns; 
 Nay,  he  to  flame  my  fpirit  turns: 
 1  burn  but  with  reflected  love, 
 Shed  down  on  me  from  him  above. 
 Lo,  he  is  love,  love  in  my  bread:, 
 And  I  in  his,  fuprernely  bleft. 
 
 7  Expand,  ye  portals  of  the  fky, 
 Receive  a  lovely  foul  on  high ; 
 
 Her  eyes  are  dove's  eyes,  chafte  and  kind, 
 
 All  gleaming  love  upon  hci  friend ; 
 
 Her  friend,  her  Lord,  well  knows  her  heart ; 
 
 He  beautify'd  that  better  part. 
 
 No  blame,  no  fhame,  upon  his  queen, 
 
 His  queen  all-glorious  is  within. 
 $  Expand,  ye  portals  of  the  fky, 
 
 Receive  a  loving  foul  on  high ; 
 
 What  keen  defires  within  me  move  I 
 
 I'm  all  a  raging  fire  of  love ! 
 
 O  fan  me,  angel,  with  thy  wing, 
 
 And  flng  your  loves  as  angels  fmg ! 
 
 What  rapturous  airs,  your  harps  employ  J 
 
 I'm  failing  on  a  fea  of  joy!  * 
 
 o  Expand,  ye  portals  of  the  iky, 
 
 Receive  a  bleiTed  foul  on  high; 
 
 Blefled  be  he  for  evermore ; 
 
 Who  blefled  me,  whom  I  adore. 
 
 Adieu,  adieu,  ye  things  below, 
 
 Where  vanities  perpetual  flow; 
 
 To  you  I  bid  a  long  adieu; 
 -  All  .hail  to  heaven  within  my  view  ! 
 
 io  Behold, 
 
The  Salvation  of  the  Lord.  5  c; 
 
 10  Behold,  the  portals  of  the  Iky, 
 Before  ray  face  wide  open  fly ! 
 With  fongs  the  mining  holts  of  God, 
 Receive  me  to  their  blefs'd  abode ; 
 My  guardian-angels  clap  their  wings ; 
 To  meet  my  God,  my  fpirit  fprings; 
 u  All  hail,  my  bride,  welcome  to  me." 
 All  hail,  my  Lord,  all  hail  to  thee. 
 
 XXXV.  See  the  Salvation  of  the  Lord.  Exod.  xiv.  13. 
 
 BOLDLY  triumphant  in  my  God, 
 Efcap'd  the  feas  of  wrath, 
 Sing  I  to  him,  who  dried  the  flood, 
 And  laved  me  from  death. 
 
 2  Impetuous  did  the  torrents  roll; 
 
 Their  depth  was  deep  as  hell; 
 Deep  and  impetuous  rolPd  my  foul; 
 Who  will  the  tumult  quell  ? 
 
 3  I  meditated  terrors  long ; 
 
 I  knew  not  what  to  think ; 
 I  could  not  item  the  waters  jftrong, 
 No  more  than  hope  to  drink. 
 
 4  Than  Pharaoh's  hoft,  more  fierce,  I  faw, 
 
 Purfuing  hard  behind, 
 The  terrors  of  the  fiery  law ; 
 My  heart  was  moved  wind. 
 
 5  On  either  hand,  the  mountains  fteep, 
 
 Full  o'er  my  head  loofe  hung ; 
 And  now  my  eyes  could  neither  weep, 
 Nor  utter  fpeech,  my  tongue. 
 £  The  fwords  and  thunderings  on  my  rear, 
 The  mountains  o'er  my  head, 
 
 And 
 
5  6  The  Salvation  of  the  Lord- 
 
 And  things  before  me  that  appear, 
 Have  me  quire  ftupify'd. 
 
 7  Hark !  all  abrupt,  another  found, 
 
 Surprizeth  me  yet  more ; 
 The  fcene  around  me  loft  and  drown'd, 
 Sleeps  found  the  mad  uproar. 
 
 8  "  Be  ftill,  and  fee  Jehovah's  hand ; 
 
 "  Thy  ftrength  is  to  ftand  ftill  :'* 
 The  waters  part  at  his  command, 
 Obedient  to  his  will. 
 
 9  I  found  upon  the  paved  rock, 
 
 A  paffage  thro'  the  fea; 
 No  rebel-waters  o'er  me  broke; 
 They  flood  a  wall  to  me. 
 
 I  o  I'm  fafely  thro'  upon  the  ground ; 
 
 But  all  my  foes  behind, 
 Ly  in  the  clofed  waters  drown'd; 
 
 Unto  the  pit  confign'd.  -!. 
 
 I I  Salvation,  glory,  to  my  God, 
 
 Of  love  and  glory  King, 
 Who  took  me  from  the  raging  flood, 
 
 And  fet  me  here  to  fing  ! 
 1 2  Sing,  new  creation,  the  new  fong, 
 
 Of  Mofes  and  the  Lamb : 
 My  God,  thy  Spirit's  on  me  ftrong ; 
 
 I'm  fwallowed  in  I  AM  ! 
 
 XXXVI.  /  am  the  Rofe  of  Sharon,  and  Lily  of  the 
 Valkys.    Song.  ii.  i. 
 
 OF  all  the  flowers  that  deck  the  field, 
 The  Sharon-rofe  and  valley-lily, 
 To  me  delight  can  only  yield, 
 And  make  me  fing  in  life's  low  valley. 
 
 i  I 
 
The  Sharon  Rofe  and  Valley-Lily.  Sf 
 
 c  I  was  upon  the  brink  of  death, 
 
 My  head  tum'd  round,  all  giddy,  giddy, 
 I  fwoon'd  away,  dead-ft.il  1  my  breath, 
 Lo,  down  the  precipice  then  flid  I. 
 
 3  But,  O  the  memorable  day! 
 
 As  I  was  to  the  bottom  going, 
 I  chanc'd  to  light  on  by  the  way, 
 What  fav'd  my  abfolute  undoing. 
 
 1  I  (tuck  upon  a  narrow  cliff, 
 
 No  fenfe,  nor  motion  was  I  knowing, 
 All  wounded,  mangled,  cold  and  (tiff, 
 But  in  the  rock-fide,  lo,  was  growing; 
 5  Growing,  as  afterwards  I  found, 
 A  little  diflance  jufl  below  me, 
 The  flower  with  bloffom'd  glories  crown'd, 
 "Whofe  wafted  flavours  circumflow  me. 
 
 S  I  flart  alive,  and  find  a  heaven, 
 
 Of  fweetnefs  brought  me  in  the  gale's  wing; 
 Such  flrength  and  vigour  to  me  given, 
 I  fing  till  all  the  hills  and  vales  ring. 
 
 7  I  fing  the  praife  of  Sharon's  rofe, 
 
 The  heavens  reply,  "  And  valley-lily,'' 
 On  eagles  wings  my  fpirit  flows, 
 And  always  haunts  the  lily-valley* 
 
 ]  O  blefs'd  the  day  for  evermore, 
 Dead  o'er  the  precipices  fell  I ! 
 Since  I  the  glories  now  explore, 
 Of  Sharon's  rofe  and  valley-lily* 
 
 XXXVII,  I  am  the  Lily  of  the  Valkyr.    Song  ii.  r. 
 
 ART  thou  drooping  in  thy  fpirit, 
 Thy  grief  fo  bi?,  no  heart  can  bear  it. 
 
 ^   Ii  'Twill 
 
 o 
 
58  The  Lily  of  the  Valleys. 
 
 'Twill  drop  away,  thou  need  not  fear  it, 
 If  thou  but  fmell  the  valley-lily. 
 
 2  No  tafte  fo  harm,  no  cup  fo  bitter, 
 But  fmooth  as  oil,  and  mild  as  butter, 
 Will  feem  to  thee,  and  tenfold  fweeter; 
 
 If  thou  but  fmell  the  valley-lily. 
 
 3  Though  thou  have  drunk  the  wormwood  potion, 
 And  death  poffefTeth  every  motion, 
 
 Thou'lt  wake,  and  find  them  a  mere  notion, 
 If  thou  but  fmell  the  valley-lily. 
 
 4  The  valley-lily  withered  for  ye, 
 
 Yea,  blooms  again,  ye  faints,  in  glory; 
 The  valley-lily  O  adore  ye ; 
 
 Sing  loud  the  praife  of  valley-lily. 
 
 5  The  valley-lily  lies  between  the 
 Breads  of  every  ranfom'd  queen,  yea, 
 The  valley-lily's  all  fo  cleanly, 
 
 There's  nothing  equals  valley-lily. 
 
 6  The  valley-lily  blows  in  heaven; 
 And  heaven's  glory  all  is  given, 
 Byheaven's  fovereignty,  even 
 
 Unto  his  darling  valley-lily. 
 
 7  The  angels  bright,  before  the  throne  who 
 In  burning  raptures  every  one  glow, 
 
 Full  loyally  adoring,  down  bow, 
 Before  their  princely  valley-lilly. 
 
 8  Heaven's  felf  to  us  were  but  a  prifon, 
 Its  fweeteft  flowers  but  deadly  poifon, 
 Unlefs  we  there  could  lift  our  eyes  on 
 
 Our  own  fweet  life,  the  valley-lily. 
 
 XXXVIII.  lam 
 
the  Koje  of  6  bar  on.  59 
 
 XXXVIII.  I  am  the  Rofe  of  Sharon.     Song  ii.  i« 
 
 TH  E  rofe  of  Sharon  evermore ! 
 For  me  the  rofe  of  Sharon! 
 Whofe  budding  beauties  heretofore, 
 
 By  Mofes  and  by  Aaron, 
 But  faintly  fhew'd,  the  people  view'd. 
 
 Even  the  whole  congregation; 
 Its  glory,  peeping  thro'  the  cloud, 
 
 Became  their  fweet  falvation : 
 2  Now  fully  blown  in  gofpel-days, 
 
 Before,  but  like  the  dawning; 
 We're  loft  in  the  meridian  blaze, 
 
 Without  the  cloudy  awning; 
 For  grace  and  truth  by  Jefus  came, 
 
 Who  is  the  rofe  of  Sharon ; 
 But  typify'd,  God's  Holy  Lamb, 
 
 By  Mofes  and  by  Aaron. 
 
 XXXIX.  Amen.  Even  fo  Come,  Lordjefus.  Rev.  xxii.  20. 
 
 nis 
 
 OC  O  M  E  away,  come  away, 
 O  come  thou -from  the  Iky,  Jefu 
 We  will  hail  thy  glorious  day, 
 Coming  from  on  high,  Jefus. 
 
 1  Worn  away  with  looking  up, 
 
 O  fee  our  watery  eyes,  Jefus  ; 
 We  have  pledg'd  thee  in  thy  cup; 
 O  give  us  now  the  prize,  Jefus. 
 3  Faith  and  hope,  and  all  we  have, 
 Lo,  they  are  thine  own,  Jefus ; 
 Thy  word  and  Spirit  both  thou  gave, 
 Unto  us  every  one,  Jefus, 
 
 H  2  4  Know- 
 
60  Glorying  in  the  Crofs  of  Chri/l. 
 
 4  Knowing  therefore  thee  the  True, 
 
 The  Faithful,  and  Amen,  frfus, 
 Look  we  longing  for  thee  now, 
 To  glorify  thy  name,  %efus, 
 
 5  Glorify  rhy  name  in  us, 
 
 And  thy  redemption  fend,  %fefus ; 
 Thou  wilt  refine  thy  gold  from  drofs, 
 
 When  thou  thy  heavens  ftiall  rend,  %efus. 
 
 6  To  br'ng  thy  Elect  Jewels  home, 
 
 O  quickly  come  again,  Jfefus. 
 "  Behold,  for  you  I  quickly  come :" 
 Come,  even  fo,  Amen,  %efus. 
 
 XL.  God  forbid  that  I  fhould  Glory  fave  in  the  Crofs. 
 Gal.  vi.  14. 
 
 FALSE  men,  they  glory  in  a  name, 
 And  all  their  glory  is  their  fliame, 
 Who  do  not  glory  in  the  Lamb, 
 
 But  glory  in  a  fliadow; 
 Their  gold  is  a  mere  tinfel-fhow, 
 Their  god  does  down  their  belly  go, 
 Vile  ferpents,  licking  dufi  below! 
 
 And  much  they  would  perfuade  you, 
 Thai:  flefhly  wifdom  were  the  thing, 
 
 O  believer,  O  believer; 
 O  beware  thou  of  the*  fling, 
 
 They  would  have  thee  mourn  for  ever. 
 2  Be  it  far  from  me,  that  I  fhould  raife, 
 ]My  glory  on  fo  weak  a  bafe, 
 Delighting  in  a  carnal  praife, 
 
 And  glory  not  of  Jefus; 
 This  were  to  rear  upon  the  fand, 
 A  fabrick  that  could  never  ftand, 
 
 Agah}ft 
 
Glorying  in  the  Crofs  of  Chrijf.  6 1 
 
 Againft  the  mod  exprefs  command, 
 
 Of  him  who  came  to  fave  us; 
 Flefhly  wifdom  he  deftroys, 
 
 O  believer,  O  believer; 
 If  thou  then  would  tafle  his  joys, 
 
 Scorn  thou  to  hear  the  grand  deceiver, 
 
 3  Now  God  forbid,  and  fo  he  mail, 
 That  I  a  glorying  e'er  mould  fall, 
 Save  the  mere  crofs,  in  ought  at  all* 
 
 Of  my  Lord  crucified. 
 The  world,  and  all  below  the  iky; 
 Together  crucified  ly, 
 To  me;  and  to  the  world  I, 
 
 By  him  who  for  me  died. 
 Glory  in  the  Lord  alone, 
 
 O  believer,  O  believer, 
 Who  is  reigning  on  the  throne, 
 
 Let  him  reign  o'er  thy  behaviour. 
 
 4  If  any  man  in  Jefus  be, 
 
 A  mighty  change  in  him  you'll  fee, 
 Then  former  things  away  do  flee, 
 
 All  leaving  him  for  ever; 
 But  lo,  advanced  in  their  place, 
 Whoever  runs  the  Chriftian  race, 
 Shall  find  God's  mercy,  grace,  and  peace ; 
 
 And  leave  him  (hall  they  never. 
 Then  glory  now,  and  evermore, 
 
 God's  election,  God's  election; 
 Sing  ye  praife,  rejoice,  adore; 
 
 Jefus  is  your  fure  protection. 
 
 XLI.  They  who  run  in  a  race,  run  all  I  Cor.  ix.  24. 
 
 THOU  haft  us  chpfen  to  the  race 
 Thy  faints  above  have  run,  fefes; 
 
 ■       r:.  The 
 
62  lhe  Lhnjtian  Race. 
 
 The  prize  they  have  obtain'd  by  grace, 
 In  grace  let  us  go  on,  ffefus. 
 
 2  The.  Alpha  and  Omega  thou, 
 
 The  new  name  and  new  ftone,  Jfefusi 
 No  ftrefs  fliall  ever  break  our  bow, 
 Our  ftrength  in  thee  alone,  %efus. 
 
 3  Though  tribulations  line  the  way, 
 
 In  them  we  will  rejoice,  %efus  • 
 Thy  faitbfulnefs  doth  laft  for  ay; 
 Thou  wilt  give  us  thy  joys,  %efust 
 
 4  O  blefs'd  the  day,  for  evermore, 
 
 Thy  love  took  hold  on  me,  fefus  ; 
 Let  all  thy  hods  thy  name  adore, 
 And  fing  loud  praife  to  thee,  %efus. 
 
 5  Let  gratitude  my  heart  inflame, 
 
 In  whatfoe'er  I  do,  ^efus, 
 To  God,  my  Father,  in  thy  name ; 
 As  I  acknowledge  due,  frfus. 
 
 6  Thy  Spirit  on  my  fpirit  reft, 
 
 The  fame  creating  new,  %efus  ; 
 So  fliall  I  be  compleatly  blefs'd, 
 And  pay  my  prefent  vow,  %efus. 
 
 7  O  how  can  I  return  again, 
 
 To  fin,  for  which  thou  dy'd,  %efus  ! 
 Thou  by  thy  death  my  foes  haft  (lain, 
 When  thou  waft  crucify'd,  ffefus, 
 
 8  Thou  died  once,  to  die  no  more ; 
 
 But  glorious  now  doft  reign,  %efus  ; 
 That  I  with  thee  mould  live  therefore, 
 And  fing  a  glorious  ftrain,  Jefus, 
 o  Now  wait  I  longing  for  thy  day, 
 
 Thy  day  when  thou'lt  appear,  %efus  ; 
 
Away  with  Idols.  63 
 
 When  thou  wilt  wipe  our  tears  away, 
 And  banifti  every  fear,  %efus. 
 
 10  Now  to  thy  name  the  glory  be, 
 
 Of  all  thy  love  divine,  %efus  ; 
 
 When  we  fhall  all  thy  glory  fee, 
 
 In  glory  we  fhall  mine,  fefus. 
 
 1 1  As  thou  haft  faid,  O  come  away, 
 
 From  heaven  high  for  me,  Refits  ; 
 O  thou  my  King,  make  no  delay ; 
 I  long  to  be  with  thee,  %efus. 
 
 1 2  Where  fin,  and  death,  and  for  row  all, 
 
 Shall  quite  forgotten  be,  %efus, 
 Full  of  thy  love  and  joy,  I  fhall 
 For  ever  reign  with  thee,  %efus. 
 
 XLII.   What  have  I  any  more   to  do  with  Idols! 
 Hof.  xiv.  8. 
 
 TELL  me  not  of  little  things, 
 Which  may  delight  the  foul, 
 Of  low  ambitious  earthly  Kings; 
 A  higher  flight  my  fpirit  fprings; 
 Let  God  poffefs  me  whole. 
 
 2  Avaunt  ye  !  all  my  former  lords, 
 
 That  lately  bore  the  fway; 
 For  lo,  Jehovah  now  affords, 
 Of  confolation  high  the  words; 
 
 His  words  I  will  obey. 
 
 3  I  know  no  more  the  ufe  of  you, 
 
 You  have  no  ufe  at  all ; 
 Therefore  to  you  a  laft  adieu; 
 For  you  to  me  could  never  mew 
 
 A  bleffing  great  or  final!, 
 
 4  But 
 
64  All  Things  Lofs  for  Ghrifl, 
 
 4  But  now  I  feel  my  raviflit  foul, 
 Is  full  and  running  o'er; 
 No  empty  corner  in  the  whole; 
 Of  love,  my  foul's  a  flowing  bowl, 
 And  I  can  hold  no  more. 
 
 XLIII.  Tea,  doubtlefs  I  count  all  Things  but  Lofs, 
 Phil.  iii.  8. 
 
 WHEN  I  lay  bound  in  darknefs  grofs, 
 By  ignorance  enchain'd, 
 Dreaming  my  gain  was  in  my  lofs, 
 The  fun  of  glory  reign'd. 
 
 2  In  love  he  me  enlightened, 
 
 And  free'd  from  every  chain ; 
 My  foul  a  willing  captive  ledj 
 With  him  I  fHll  remain. 
 
 3  He  rais'd  me  by  the  Holy  Ghoft, 
 
 My  confcience  eas'd  from  pain; 
 Away  my  works  of  death  he  tcft; 
 My  Lord's  my  life,  my  gain. 
 
 4  He  cloath'd  me  with  a  comely  robe, 
 
 The  Righteoufnefs  of  God ; 
 And  made  me  foar  above  this  globe, 
 Away  to  his  abode. 
 
 5  All  former  things  I  know  but  dung, 
 
 Away  let  them  be  gone; 
 The  Lord  my  Righteoufnefs,  be  fung, 
 And  pleafures  round  his  throne. 
 
 6  Hofanna  to  this  Prince  of  mine! 
 
 Mortality  when  gone, 
 In  his  love  clear  and  bright  I'll  fhine, 
 A  jewel  in  his  crown. 
 
 XLIV. 
 
Aloft,  rr.y  Soul,  to  God.  6$ 
 
 XLIV.  Sei^'our  Affeclions  on  Things  above.  Col.  iii.  :. . 
 
 ALOFT,  my  foul,  aloft  to  God; 
 Let  Satan  roar  for  thee  aloud, 
 He  can  no  more,  but  make  uproar ; 
 Only  be  bol4  and  upward  foar, 
 To  heaven,  upon  the  wings  of  faith, 
 Keepinetjaat  certain  marked  path. 
 Which  Jems  lin'd  out  by  his  blood, 
 And  guardeth  by  his  Spirit  good. 
 
 :  Aloft,  my  foul,  aloft  to  God, 
 Rejoicing  in  his  Spirit  good ; 
 He  will  for  thee  fubdue  thy  fin, 
 And  he  will  cleanfe  thee  all. within; 
 And  he  will  daili  the  ferpent  down, 
 And  all  thy  war  with  victory  crown; 
 And  then  will  lift  thee  to  the  iky, 
 And  make  thee  reign  with  him  on  high. 
 
 j  Aloft,  my  foul,  aloft  to  God, 
 To  reign  with  him  in  his  abode; 
 Thy  (canty  cottage  here  below, 
 Will  never  make  thee  throw  thy  brow; 
 Nor  yet  the  fcantier  fare  within, 
 If  once  thou  to  his  kingdom  win ; 
 No  ftraitening  place,  nor  flraitening  fare, 
 No  flraitening  thing  at  all  is  there. 
 
 |  Aloft,  my  foul,  aloft  to  God, 
 And  reign,  and  fing  with  him  aloud ; 
 No  caufe  there  is  to  damp  thy  long, 
 No  weight  to  quell  thy  fpirit  ftrong; 
 The  fin  and  death  are  both  away, 
 And  chained  in  the  pit  for  ay ; 
 The  ill  is  gone,  the  good  is  come, 
 And  I  am  come  to  God's  own  home. 
 
 I  5  Amen, 
 
66  Nay  but  0  Man,  who  art  thouf 
 
 5  Amen,  my  foul,  amen  to  God, 
 Delighting  in  his  purpofe  good; 
 Delight  thou  therein,  too,  with  him 
 Thy  glory  never  fliall  be  dim ; 
 Let  all  the  things  beneath  thee  roll, 
 And  worlds  reel  from  pole  to  pole  \ 
 Let  all  creation  fing  aloud, 
 I'm  loft,  I'm  fwallowed  in  my  God ! 
 
 XLV.  Nay  but  0  Man,  who  art  thou  that  replieft 
 againft  God,    Rom.  ix.  20. 
 
 WOULD  you  refufe  to  take  a  drink, 
 Becaufe  you  could  not  drink  the  whole, 
 If  (landing  on  a  river's  brink, 
 
 Thirft-fcorched  thro'  the  inmoft  foul  ? 
 Or  would  you  fhun  to  take  the  fords, 
 
 With  pleafant,  fafe,  and  pebbly  fhoals, 
 Purfu'd  by  foes  and  deadly  fwords, 
 
 Becaufe  you  could  not  ford  the  pools  ? 
 Or  would  you  drown  you  in  the  fea, 
 
 Rather  than  fail  along  the  top,  19 
 
 Becaufe  the  bottom  hid  from  thee, 
 
 Ne'er  cometh  to  the  furface  up  ? 
 "  Then  I  were  mad,"  I  hear  you  fay, 
 
 With  admiration  and  difdain, 
 "  If  I  fhould  aft  in  fuch  a  way, 
 
 "  Thrice  worthy  of  a  bedlam-chain." 
 And  is  there  in  thy  heart  a  drop, 
 
 Of  wifdom,  or  of  good  defign, 
 When  thou  wouldft  dafh  the  flowing  cup, 
 
 Of  God's  own  felecl:  heavenly  wine ;  20 
 
 Becaufe,  indeed,  thy  narrow  foul, 
 
 Go  ftretch»it,  ftretch  it,  as  thou  will, 
 
 Can 
 
Nay  but  0  Man,  who  art  thou?  6j 
 
 Can  never  comprehend  the  whole 
 
 Of  the  wine-grapes  on  Zion  hill  ? 
 Believe  it,  thou  fhalt  have  a  draught, 
 
 Of/pureft  love  or  pureft  wrath  ; 
 Thecbreat^of  God  will  either  waft 
 
 To  Me  eternal,  yea,  or  death. 
 If  thou  wilt  fa^I  upon  the  flood, 
 
 Jlejojcirg  yi  the  holy  gale,  30 
 
 He  ihprloTto  his  harbour  good; 
 
 If  not,  he'll  fink  thee  quick  to  hell. 
 Now  how  abfurd  and  fooliih  is  it, 
 
 Jf  thou  would  calmly  lend  thine  ear 
 To  common  fenfe,  left  thou  fhould  raifs  it, 
 
 But  common  fenfe  be  nothing  here :    • 
 Pray  do  not  you  impugn  it  then, 
 
 When  you  reject  the  Book  of  God, 
 And  never  fay  in  faith,  Amen, 
 
 Becaufe  the  whole's  not  underflood  ?  40 
 
 Behold  thou  art  that  peevifh  foul, 
 
 Who  would  not  drink  nor  fly  the  fword  5 
 For  fome  few  myfteries  in  the  whole, 
 
 Defpifefl:  thou  the  precious  Word  ? 
 Afld  is  not  that  to  dive  the  deep, 
 
 Becaufe  it  floateth  not  a- top? 
 And  therefore  down  to  hell  you  fweep, 
 
 Becaufe  the  (hades  would  not  come  up ! 
 Contemptible,  below  contempt ! 
 
 Thou,  vilipend  the  word  of  grace!  50 
 
 Thou  forry,  crawling,  hcllifh  imp, 
 
 Becaufe  beyond  thy  creeping  pace ! 
 Forgive,  forgive  the  mufe's  rage ; 
 
 She  could  not  help  a  fudden  burfl: 
 Of  indignation,  'gainft  an  age,  l 
 
 God's  Scripture-mocking,  all  accurft ! 
 
 1  2  •  But 
 
68  Nay  but  0  Man,  who  art  thou? 
 
 But  flie  will  try  to  quell  her  flame, 
 
 Yet  warm  with  fentiments  of  truth  ; 
 Nor  thou  a  fpice  of  burlefque  blame, 
 
 Proceeding  from  an  honefl  mouth,  6m 
 
 She  can't  reftrain  the  pitying  fmile, 
 
 Or  even  fometimes  laughter  loud; 
 To  fee  a  worm  of  earth  revile, 
 
 Andfneer,  and  laugh,  and  queftion  God! 
 Firft,  try  thy  hand  on  leffer  things, 
 
 And  fee  what  thou  canft  make  of  them; 
 Go,  check  the  Summer  as  (he  fprings, 
 
 And  clothe  her  glory  all  with  fliame. 
 Or  if  you  cannot  flop  the  hand, 
 
 While  the  main  wheels  of  time  are  going,  73 
 
 Then  give  the  fun  your  high  command, 
 
 And  arreft  him  for  the  debt  he's  owing  ; 
 Arreft  him  in  his  highefl  fphere, 
 
 And  bid  him  quick  obey  thy  warrant, 
 Or  feize  him  by  his  flaming  hair, 
 .  Humbling  to  dull  the  rebel  arrant ; 
 And  if  he  difobey  thy  word, 
 
 Then  drag  him  to  the  fhades  of  night, 
 And  thrulf  him  thorough   with  thy  fwordj 
 
 Extinguifli  quite  his  name  and  light.  8o 
 
 Or  if  thou,  like  a  Scythian  brave, 
 
 Of  an  opinion  art  pofleft, 
 That  if  thou  kill  a  lord  or  Have, 
 
 With  all  his  virtues  thou  art  dreft ; 
 Then  boldly  claim  the  Perfian  worfhip*, 
 
 At  thy  uprifing  every  day ; 
 And  if  they  (hall  difown  thy  lordfliip, 
 
 Even  fend  them  to  their  fun  away. 
 For  when  thou  like  an  ancient  Roman, 
 
 Killefl  the  general  on  the  field,  f  o 
 
 What 
 
 *  Perfians  worfhip  the  Sun. 
 
IS  ay  but  U  man,  who  art  thou?  69 
 
 What  thou  fayed,  gainfay  let  no  man, 
 
 Let  all  beneath  thy  fceptre  yield  j 
 Bedeck  thee  in  the  princely  fpoils, 
 
 Set  all  his  glories  in  thy  crown, 
 To  recompenfe  thee  for  thy  toils  j 
 
 And  call  die  world  thine  own  when  done. 
 Yea,  gird  thou  on  the  light  of  day, 
 
 And  wrap  thine  enemies  in  night. 
 Nor  give  thou  them  a  fingle  ray, 
 
 Except  they  conquer  thee  in  fight  10© 
 
 But  ere  thou  fmifh  all  thy  wars, 
 
 The  moon  may  feel  thy  fury  next, 
 And  all  the  armies  of  the  liars, 
 
 As  fpangles  in  thy  belt  be  fixt. 
 And  when  thou  hail  atchieved  this, 
 
 I  would  not  leave  the  meaneft  thing 
 Defign'd  by  me,  unbrought  to  pafs, 
 
 Till  I  were  univerfal  king  : 
 Then  I  would  have  thee  chain  the  tides, 
 
 Unto  the  rocks  beneath  the  fea ;  II© 
 
 And  every  monfler  there  that  glides, 
 
 Should  roll  to  thee,  and  lick  thy  knee. 
 Then  hail  to  the  defpotic  lord ! 
 
 Come,  all  ye  flaves,  and  cringe  ye  low, 
 To  him  who  triumphs  o'er  the  word 
 
 Of  the  Eternal  King,  I  trow ! 
 Behold  the  mighty  feats  of  fame, 
 
 Behold,  and  fing  the  victory  loud, 
 Of  him  who  wars  againft  the  Lamb, 
 
 And  laugheth  at  the  word  of  God  i 
 
 XLY1, 
 
70         Who  will  reprove  God  and  anfwer  it? 
 
 XLVI.  He  that  reproveth  God  let  him  anfwer  it* 
 Job  xl.  2. 
 
 I  HEAR,  my  friend,  your  grave  remark, 
 Upon  the  Scriptures  in  the  dark; 
 You  tell  us  they  cannot  be  fure, 
 Which  hold  fo  many  things  obfcure, 
 And  therefore  cannot  be  of  God, 
 Who  would  his  meaning  clearly  fliow'd; 
 And  fo  you  hope  to  be  excufed, 
 And  fcorn  to  have  your  fenfe  abufed. 
 A  mighty  plaufible  pretence ! 
 
 What  candor,  decency,  and  fenfe,  i© 
 
 With  rarefl  modefty  combin'd! 
 How  thefe  improve  the  human  mind! 
 Improve  to  fuch  a  fearful  height, 
 That  every  felf-fufficient  wight, 
 Is  bold  to  open  wide  his  mouth, 
 And  take  to  talk  the  God  of  Truth! 
 But  Hay  a  little  by  the  way, 
 And  hear  what  even  a  man  can  fay; 
 "  The  whole's  too  big  for  your  fmall  heart," 
 Your  heart's  too  big  for  any  part.  20 
 
 Now  would  not  equal  reafon  fay, 
 I  cannot  comprehend  the  day; 
 So  I  conclude  there  i^no  light, 
 But  the  mid-day  is  theJShidnight : 
 Or  I  conclude  there  is  mo  fea, 
 Becaufe  not  wholly  feeii  by  me; 
 Or  is  the  fea  allow'd  to  us, 
 You  may  wind  up  your  logic  thus; 
 The  tides  may  ebb,  the  tides  may  flow, 
 But  not  by  God,  1  furely  know,  30 
 
 Elfe  I  myfelf,  (how  can  you  doubt?) 
 Full  eafily  might  fearch  them  out: 
 
 Why 
 
Who  will  reprove  God  and  anfiuer  it 
 
 ji 
 
 Why  fliould  not  I  furround  the  fea, 
 As  well  as  it  furround eth  me? 
 No,  no,  there  can  be  no  fuch  thing, 
 Elfe  I  were  made  its  fovereign  king; 
 At  lead  I  fliould  its  motions  trace, 
 And  found  its  depth  in  every  place; 
 Therefore  I  fatisfy  myfelf, 
 
 ?Tis  an  imaginary  elf.  40 
 
 A  fingular  logician  thou  i 
 Is  this  the  way  you  always  do  ? 
 Where  thou  canft  not  receive  the  whole, 
 Wilt  thou  no  part  ?  thou  filly  fool ! 
 One  paflage  of  the  word  is  hard, 
 And  from  the  plain  thy  heart  is  fcarr'd; 
 Well,  are  you  fcarred  at  your  meat; 
 Becaufe  you  cannot  eat  the  plate? 
 Or  wilt  not  eat  a  bit  of  flefh, 
 
 Becaufe  a  bone  lies  in  the  difh?  5© 
 
 Or,  fince  we're  in  the  mood  of  eating, 
 To  dwell  on  food  is  mod  befitting; 
 A  fancy  now  has  ft  ruck  my  mind, 
 And  it  perhaps  may  hit  my  friend ; 
 If  you  were  juft  fet  down  to  dine, 
 The  table  either  mine  or  thine, 
 And  fully  charged  every  difh, 
 With  fineft  flefh,  or  fined  fifti; 
 :  Suppofe,  the  grace  is  duly  faid, 
 
 :  And  every  decent  rite  expede,  60 
 
 ;  And  all  your  heart  is  fill'd  with  gladnefs, 
 J  When  lo,  a  fudden  guft  of  fadnefs 
 1  Be-glooms  the  beauty  of  the  feaft, 
 ,  And  you  won't  deign  a  bit  to  tafte, 
 Becaufe  your  ftomach  is  unable 
 1  For  all  the  meat  upon  the  table ! 
 
 You 
 
7  2  All  for  good  to  the  Called  of  God. 
 
 You  might  proceed  a  little  further, 
 
 And  fwear,  you'd  rather  do  a  murther, 
 
 Than  touch  an  atom  of  the  meat, 
 
 Becaufe  io  narrow  was  your  ftate,  70 
 
 You  could  not  have  the  pleafant  view, 
 
 To  fee  the  ocean  come  to  you, 
 
 With  every  fcale  and  every  fin, 
 
 That  ever  fwim'd,  or  fwims  therein ; 
 
 The  fame  propriety  of  thought, 
 
 Runs  thro'  the  whole  objections  brought, 
 
 Againft  the  page  of  Holy  Writ, 
 
 Becaufe  in  part  beyond  your  wit; 
 
 As  if  you  would  not  love  your  bride, 
 
 Unlefs  you  could  the  whole  fex  wed !  8« 
 
 Nor  wear  a  fliirt  upon  your  rib, 
 
 Except  you  wrapt  you  in  the  web ! 
 
 XLVII.  All  things  work  together  for  good  to  them  wk§ 
 love  God,  who  are  the  called  according  to  his  Pw~ 
 pofe.     Rom.  viii.  28. 
 
 LO,  all  things  work  for  good  to  them, 
 Who  are  belov'd  of  God, 
 Ordain'd  and  call'd  in  Chrift  his  Lamb, 
 And  warned  in  his  blood  : 
 
 2  For  God  in  Chrift  did  fin  condemn, 
 
 His  purpofe  to  fulfil  ; 
 
 And  juftify'd  us  all  in  him, 
 
 According  to  his  will. 
 
 3  He  reigns,  o'er  all  dominion  placM, 
 
 Above  the  highefl  heaven  ; 
 The  pattern  of  his  grace  exprefsM, 
 To  all  his  children  given. 
 
 4 
 
 For 
 
All  for  Good  to  the  Called  of  God.  7  3 
 
 4  Fcr  Adam's  fin,  and  curfe,  and  fliame, 
 
 Point  out  the  glory  fure, 
 A  life  through  Jefus'  bleifed  name, 
 Which  fhall  as  .God  endure. 
 
 5  As  we  deform'd  like  Adam  were, 
 
 A  lump  of  corrupt  leaven ; 
 So  we  fhall  bear  the  likenefs  fair 
 Of  Chrifl,  the  Lord  from  heaven. 
 
 6  As  fire  the  gold,  in  melting  down, 
 
 Doth  purify  from  drofs; 
 So  Chrifl  his  jewels,  for  his  crown, 
 Refineth  by  the  crofs. 
 
 7  When  we're  perplex'd  and  troubled  fore, 
 
 Fiefti  fails  for  a  defence; 
 Jehovah,  gracious,  {hews  his  power, 
 For  our  deliverance. 
 
 8  The  more  diflrefs'd,  the  more  we  do 
 
 In  faith  and  love  increafe  : 
 For  when  mofl  weak,  the  more  we  know 
 The  ftrength  of  fovereign  grace. 
 
 9  Though  ftratagems  from  hell  be  brought, 
 
 Againfl  us  florins  to  raife ; 
 Our  God  their  plots  will  bring  to  nought : 
 Their  fury  fhall  him  praife. 
 
 10  Though  raging  feas  fliould  meet  in  one, 
 
 And  mount  to  heaven  and  roar, 
 They  fhall  but  ferve  to  waft  us  foon 
 To  our  defired  more. 
 
 1 1  While  pafTing  through  the  vale  of  death, 
 No  evil  can  us  move : 
 
 The  Prince  of  life  hath  trod  the  path, 
 And  pav'd  it  all  with  love. 
 
 K  1:  Efcnpe 
 
74  He's  high  up  above  the  Sky, 
 
 1 2  Efcape  we  free  from  en'mies  hands; 
 
 His  fword  hath  flain  them  all: 
 And  while  Jehovah's  counfel  {lands, 
 His  ranfom'd  cannot  fall. 
 
 1 3  He'll  raife  our  bodies  pure  from  blame, 
 
 Like  Chrifl's,  with  Chrift  to  reign: 
 That  heaven  and  earth  may  praife  the  Lamb, 
 Who  for  our  fins  was  flain. 
 
 XLV1IL  Whom  have  I  in  Heaven  but  Thee  f 
 Pfalm  lxxiii.  2  5. 
 
 AMAZEMENTS,  they  would  me  comprefs, 
 And  cover  o'er  with  fhame  ; 
 Would  rob  me  of  my  happinefs,   . 
 And  blot  my  Saviour's  name  ; 
 Chorus.  But  let  them  fay,  or  let  them  dof 
 'Tis  all  one  to  me ; 
 For  he's  high  up  above  the  iky,  that's  waiting  for  me } 
 
 Waiting  for  me,  my  foul,  waiting  for  me, 
 He's  high  up  above  the  iky,  that's  waiting  for  me. 
 
 2  Lo,  Folly,  with  a  foft  addrefs, 
 
 Would  fain  poffefs  my  love ; 
 He  trieth  every  fond  carefs, 
 
 To  fee  if  he  can  move.    But,  &c 
 
 3  Defpair  he  came  the  other  day, 
 
 Stood  as  a  fury  grim ; 
 He  thought  to  fright  my  faith  away, 
 And  take  my  hope  with  him.     But,  &c. 
 
 4  Impatience  cried  o'er  the  way, 
 
 And  deafened  me  with  din; 
 Long  will  ye  watch,  and  faft,  and  pray, 
 Ere  ye  to  heaven  win.    But,  &c. 
 
 c  Com- 
 
 * 
 
He's  high  up  above  the  Sky,  75 
 
 5  Complaint,  he  muttered  thro'  his  teeth, 
 
 And  bade  me  fee  my  ftate; 
 Againft  the  winds  you  blow  your  breath, 
 And  labour  for  a  cheat.     But,  &c. 
 
 6  Fear,  fliuddering,  itaring,  pale  as  clay, 
 
 Standing  on  end  his  hair, 
 Whifpered,  There's  lions  in  the  way; 
 You'll  never  end  this  war.     But,  &c 
 
 7  Wan  Envy,  with  an  evil  eye, 
 
 Said,  See  how  others  fare ; 
 They  never  look  above  the  iky; 
 
 Yet  fat  and  plump  they  are.     But,  &c 
 
 8  Prefumption,  with  a  brazen  face, 
 
 Said,  leering  by  my  fide, 
 You  have  yourfelf  enough  of  grace ; 
 You're  fafe  whate'er  betide.     But,  &c. 
 
 9  Pride,  flxutting  with  a  haughty  air, 
 
 Said,  Have  you  any  heart  ? 
 Thofe  jewels  fhould  be  mighty  fair, 
 
 That  I  would  pick  from  dirt !    But,  &c, 
 
 I  o  Murmur,  grumbling  by  the  way, 
 
 Muttered  in  my  ear, 
 Your  kingdom  makes  a  ftrange  delay ; 
 I  doubt  if  you  win  there.     But,  &c. 
 
 I I  The  World  faid,  I'll  give  you  pay, 
 
 I'll  give  it  ready;  lo! 
 If  you  my  counfel  will  obey, 
 
 You  will  no  farther  go.     But,  &c. 
 
 12  Then  fair-tongu'd  Pleafure  ftarted  up, 
 I'll  give  you  choice  of  lufts ; 
 With  me  I'll  make  you  dine  and  fup ; 
 My  cookery  fuits  all  gufts.    But,  &c. 
 
 K  2  12  "  Yes! 
 
l6  High  Time  to  awake. 
 
 13"  Yes  1  yes !  we  fitters  three,  the  Flefli, 
 
 "  The  Pride  of  Life,  the  Eye,  *jr 
 
 "  With  pleafure  every  foul  refrefh ; 
 "  And  ftand  within  a  cry."     But,  &c. 
 
 14  Then  Pain,  a  hideous  fpe&re  rofej 
 
 His  pincers  pinch'd  me  fore ; 
 As  if  he  were  ten  thoufand  foes, 
 
 The  anguifli  made  me  roar.     But,  &c. 
 
 1 5  Lo,  Death  has  caught  me  in  his  fangs ; 
 
 1  druggie  in  his  gripe ; 
 Yet  triumph  o'er  his  fierceft  pangs; 
 I'm  now  for  glory  ripe  ! 
 Chorus,  So,  let  them  fay,  or  let  them  do, 
 'Tis  all  one  to  me ; 
 For  he's  high  up  above  the  Iky,  that's  waiting  for  me ; 
 
 Waiting  for  me,  my  foul,  waiting  for  me ; 
 He's  high  up  above  the  fky,  that's  waiting  for  me. 
 
 XLIX.  Now  it  is  high  Time  to  awake.  Rom.  xiii.  1 1. 
 
 ?rTHlS  now  high  time  that  we  awake, 
 
 -■-       We  children  of  the  day ; 
 Nor  draw  we  more  to  darknefs  back, 
 Now  mines  the  gofpel-ray. 
 
 2  Yea  fully  fliines.  the  gofpel-grace, 
 
 In  God's  beloved  Son  : 
 For  he  with  God  hath  made  our  peace ; 
 Our  peace  proclaim'd  alone. 
 
 3  The  holy  Ghoft  to  purify 
 
 Us  wholly,  he  hath  given ; 
 To  cleanfe  from  all  iniquity, 
 And  make  us  meet  for  heaven : 
 
 •  4  In. 
 
Our  Pajfage  through  Life  like  a  River.         77 
 
 4  In  thee  our  God,  we  will  be  glad, 
 
 Outpace  draws  near  an  end; 
 Our  dreary  days  away  are  fled ; 
 Thou'lt  foon  redemption  fend.  • 
 
 5  Lord,  reign  thoa  o'er  my  heart,  alone, 
 
 My  paffions  rule  always; 
 Let  all  iflo,  to  thee  be  done,  * 
 And  every  breath  be  praife. 
 
 6  From  thee,  who  call'd  me  by  thy  grace,- 
 
 When  I  was  quite  undone, 
 
 The  worn:  of  all  the  fallen  race, 
 
 Free  love  upon  me  ftione. 
 
 7  O-  may  free  love  my  heart  conftrain 
 
 All  folly  now  to  flee ; 
 Thy  Spirit,  fealing  me,  remain, 
 So  I'll  remain  with  thee. 
 
 8  Without  thee,  I  can  nothing  do, 
 
 With  thee,  I  can  do  all ; 
 My  Lord,  my  God,  uphold  me,  thou, 
 And  I  mall  never  fall.. 
 
 L.  Pafs  through  thy  Land  as  a  Riven    Ifaiah  xxiii.  10. 
 
 PLEASANT  fountains,  in  the  mountains, 
 Purl  away  with  trickling  current ; 
 Bigger  growing,  in  the  flowing, 
 Till  they  fwell  into  a  torrent. 
 2  See  their  motion  to  the  ocean, 
 Now  directly,  then  obliquely, 
 Ne'er  abiding,  onward  gliding, 
 
 Now  more  flowly,  then  more  quickly. 
 
 2  Every  fingle  drop  will  mingle, 
 Howfoever  they  may  fever, 
 
 in 
 
78  Tour  Life  a  Vapour. 
 
 In  their  courfings,  thro'  their  ooziqgs; 
 
 In  th'  abyfs  they're  loft  for  ever. 
 4  So  full  pleafant  is  our  prefent  r-  r 
 
 Starting  up  at  once  to  being ;  f+    ^ 
 
 Feeble  motions,  feeble  notions,  tf/^~~ 
 
 With  our  firft  eftate  agreeing.  V 
 
 jj  Waxing  ftronger,  (till  the  longer, 
 
 Life  and  we  are  on  our  motion ; 
 Every  paflion,  every  fafhion, 
 
 Laying  claim  to  our  devotion.  • 
 
 6  Till  at  laft,  we  croud  the  vaft  fea 
 Of  eternal  joy  or  forrow; 
 As  you  live  now,  God  will  give  you 
 Heaven,  or  hell,  yea,  on  the  morrow. 
 
 LI.  What  is  your  Life?  Even  a  Vapour,  Jam.  iv.  14. 
 
 YOUR  life  is  a  fliadow,  and  fo  it  doth  glide; 
 He  is  perfectly  mad,  who  would  therein  confide; 
 Refembling  a  man  who  mould  leap  in  a  pit; 
 The  pit's  void  of  fubftance;  fo  he  were  of  wit; 
 Suppofing  the  darknefs  will  bear  him  afloat; 
 He  diveth,  and  fmketh,  and  dieth  on  the  fpot, 
 
 2  Your  life  is  an  arrow,  dividing  the  air, 
 
 It  leaveth  no  trace  of  its  having  been  there; 
 The  arrow  ftill  hafteneth  on  to  the  mark, 
 So  life  on  its  motion,  till  funk  in  the  dark; 
 The  dark  fpot  of  death  is  the  center  of  all; 
 And  there  in  communion  together  we  fall. 
 
 3  Your  life  is  a  vapour,  a  gleaming  of  light, 
 
 That  flaunteth  a-flop  thro'  the  gloom  of  the  night; 
 A  meteor,  lightening,  and  fliining  afar, 
 The  peafants  they  fee  it,  and  cry,  H  A  (hot  ftar." 
 
 So 
 
Awake>   and  Sing.  79 
 
 So  a  luminous  liken  efs,  a  moment  of  Iufter, 
 We  fall  to  the  turf  down  at  once  in  a  clufter. 
 
 Or  have  you  obferved  the  Northern  light, 
 Defigjed  Aurora,  fo  ftreaming  and  bright? 
 All  reddening  and  blufliing,  it  flies  off  at  once, 
 Full  merrily,  merrily  dancing  a-ikance, 
 With  keen  emulation,  and  motion,  and  ftrife; 
 If  fo,  you  have  feen  the  true  emblem  of  life. 
 
 LIL  Awake,  and  fing,  ye  that  dwell  in  Du/l. 
 Ifa.  xxvi.  19. 
 
 HOW  highly  blefs'd  are  all  the  feed 
 Of  Jefus  Chrift,  our  Lord  and  Head ! 
 When  he  did  die,  in  him  we  dy'd, 
 With  him  our  flefh  was  crucify'd; 
 Death,  by  his  death,  he  overcame; 
 The  lion  was  conquered  by  the  Lamb; 
 The  Lamb  arofe,  by  his  own  power, 
 On  all  our  foes  contempt  to  pour. 
 
 2  Afcended  he  vi&orioufly, 
 
 In  triumph  then  moft  glorioufly; 
 In  him  our  Head,  we  did  afcend, 
 In  him  we  have  life  without  end. 
 In  Jefus  when  we  fall  afleep, 
 He  only  foldeth  in  his  Sheep; 
 His  Sheep  within  his  bofom  hide 
 From  ills,  whatever  fhall  betide. 
 
 3  But  oh,  his  great  appearing  day, 
 His  Saints  in  glory  fhall  difphy; 
 Our  bodies  from  the  dull  he'll  raife, 
 YeiTels  of  honour,  love,  and  praife; 
 In  us,  his  glory  he  will  (hew, 
 
 As  fun  illuftrates  morning-dew. 
 
 «  Arife 
 
So  Chrift   cur   Peace. 
 
 ■  Arife,  my  tribes,  arife,  and  fmg," 
 He  cries :  with  joy  to  him  we  fpring. 
 
 4  "We  fmg  thy  praifes  ever  due, 
 We  iing  thy  fong  for  ever  new; 
 Glory  to  thee  we  do  afcribe, 
 Redeem'd  by  thee  from  every  tribe; 
 We  fmg  oar  God,  his  Son  who  gave, 
 Us  from  fo  great  a  death  to  fave; 
 We  fing  the  glories  of  the  Son, 
 Who  hath  for  us  the  victory  won. 
 
 5  Yc  Cherubims,  and  Seraphims, 
 Who  vail  your  faces  with  your  wings, 
 In  burning  raptures  do  you  fmg, 
 The  love,  the  glory  of  our  King. 
 Sing,  fing,  all  heaven,  fing  to  our  Lord; 
 Behold  all  things  he  hath  reftor'd; 
 
 Our  God  reigns  ever,  ajl  in  all ; 
 We  reign  with  him  for  ever  mall. 
 
 LIIL  Chrift  is  our  Peace.     Epef.  ii.  14, 
 
 THE  Father  fpeaketh  peace  unto 
 His  faints,  and  children  every  one; 
 Abundant  peace  to  us  doth  flow, 
 Through  his  belov'd  eternal  Son. 
 
 His  Son  the  enmity  hath  (lain, 
 
 And  cloath'd  our  enemies  with  fhame ; 
 Exalted  over  all  to  reign ; 
 
 Peace,  peace  to  us  he  doth  proclaim. 
 My  blood,  he  fays,  I  fhed  for  you, 
 
 And  cleanfed  you  from  every  ftain ; 
 My  love-conftrained  faints,  O  now, 
 
 Do  not  defile  your  robes  again : 
 
 T* 
 
The  Lord  coming.  8i 
 
 4  To  folly  do  not  turn  again, 
 
 But  dwell  in  bofom  of  my  grace ; 
 So  fhall  your  foes  affault  in  vain, 
 And  you  mall  ever  reft  in  peace. 
 
 5  Amen  to  all  thy  words,  O  Lord; 
 
 According  to  thy  own  decree, 
 Thy  everlafting  ftrength  afford, 
 And  perfeft  what  concerneth  me. 
 
 6  O  let  me  now  no  more  return, 
 
 To  any  earthly  bafe  defires; 
 Thefe  by  thy  breath  confume  and  burn, 
 And  fill  me  with  thy  heavenly  fires. 
 
 LIV.  Behold  I  come  quickly.  Rev.  xxii  2  o. 
 
 COME,  ye  tempefts,  pour  your  rage, 
 Blow,  ye  winds,  defcend,  ye  floods ; 
 Chrift,   the  Rock  of  every  age, 
 Will  make  you  pafs  like  morning  clouds. 
 £  Pafs  ye,  pafs  ye  far  away, 
 
 Pafs  ye  now,   return  no  more  ; 
 Haften  Lord,  thy  coming  day, 
 
 Hafte,  we  pray  thee  o'er  and  o'er. 
 
 3  Lo,  behold  with  out-fpread  hands, 
 
 Ali  thy  children  ftretch  to  theej 
 Come,  refrefh  thy  weary  lands, 
 And  let  all  flefli  thy  glory  fee. 
 
 4  Come,  a:*d  be  tkou  like  a  roe, 
 
 Like  a  roe  or  fallow-deer,  t 
 
 «  Joyful  on  the  mountain's  brow ; 
 That  fo  we  may  with  thee  appear. 
 
 5  O  my  fpirit,  watch  and  pray, 
 
 Let  thy  lamp  inceifant  burn, 
 
 L  Waiting 
 
8  2         Vejfels  of  Mercy  in  an  Earthen  Furnace. 
 
 Waiting  for  thy  marriage-day, 
 
 When  thy  Bridegroom  fhall  return, 
 
 6  Hear  I  not  his  chariot-wheels, 
 
 Sounding  thro'  the  bending  Ikies, 
 With  all  the  heavens  at  his  heels? 
 See !  the  world  before  him  flies. 
 
 7  Hark,  the  faint-tranfporting  found !   '  * 
 
 Ye  elect,  fee  the  Bridegroom  come- 
 Come  ye  from  your  far  theft  bound, 
 Welcome  to  your  glory  home. 
 
 8  Welcome,  welcome,  Lord,  to  thee, 
 
 Lo,  thy  virgins  round  thee  throng, 
 Come,  and  ever  with  us  be ; 
 Sing  we  now  th'  eternal  fong ; 
 
 o  Sing  we  now  the  fong  of  Mofes, 
 Song  of  Mofes,  and  the  Lamb  ; 
 Thou  haft  beaten  all  our  foes,  as 
 Smalleft  fand  below  the  ftream  : 
 i  o  Streams  of  wrath  have  gone  above  them, 
 And  have  fwept  them  clean  away  : 
 But  thy  faints,  (ye  fiends  remove  them!) 
 Swim  in  pleasures,  ever  gay. 
 
 LV.  In  the  Clay-Ground  did  the  King  cafl  the  Vejfels  of 
 the  hordes  Houfe.     i  Kings  vii.  46. 
 
 COME,  my  friend,  and  wifely  ponder, 
 How  the  Ikilful  veffel-founder, 
 Brings  his  works,  without  a  blunder, 
 
 Every  one  to  due  perfection. 
 The  drofs,  commingled  with  the  metal, 
 Fire-refolved,  foon  will  fettle; 
 And  he  forms  a  pot,  or  kettle, 
 Sound  and  pure  to  all  infpe&ion, 
 
 2  So 
 
Heavenly  Vifion,     m  8? 
 
 2  So  the  elecl  veffels  caften 
 
 By  the  hand  of  God,  will  fatten 
 Drofs-free,  by  themfelves,  in  fafliion, 
 
 As  their  Maker  hath  decreed. 
 He  will  fire  and  bellows  furniih, 
 While  they  melt  in  earthen  furnace, 
 And  grow  meet  to  take  the  burnilh, 
 
 From  their  clay-built  furnace  freed 
 
 LVI.  We  /ball  fee  Him  as  He  is.  i  John  iii.  2.  4. 
 
 WE  RE  1  difmiffed  from  this  cell, 
 Where  all  my  damps  and  fhadows  dwell, 
 No  forrow  fhould  my  fpirit  quell, 
 
 Which  burns  for  heavenly  Villon. 
 When  linking  in  the  miry  clay, 
 Unblefled  with  a  fingle  ray, 
 My  blacked  night  was  chang'd  to  day. 
 By  glimpfe  of  heavenly  Villon, 
 
 2  Bewildered,  {landing  all  aghaft, 
 The  fainting  pilgrim  on  the  wafte, 
 Cries,  "  Lo,  the  danger's  overpaftl" 
 
 On  feeing  kindly  Vifion. 
 You  take  him  in  your  friendly  hand, 
 And  lead  him  to  the  bleffed  land, 
 Till  glad  before  the  king  he  (land, 
 Faith  fwallowed  up  in  Vifion. 
 |3  By  faith,  we  live  in  barren  foil, 
 ^     Feeding  on  Manna  the  mean  while  ; 
 We  baffle  every  fly  eft  wile, 
 Of  him  who  fows  di vifion. 
 Through  faith,  we  leave  our  fears  behind, 
 When  all  about  is  wavering  wind; 
 
 L  2  Ifaiih 
 
84  Death  will  banijh  Sadnefs. 
 
 Faith  is  our  conftant  friend,  and  kind; 
 
 Faith  is  a  fmile  of  Viiion. 
 4  O  always  fmile  with  pleafant  eye, 
 No  mortal  thing  will  I  envy; 
 My  treafure's  all  above  the  iky, 
 
 With  thee,  my  lovely  Vifion. 
 O  hafte  thee,  death,  and  burft  my  chain, 
 Deliver  me  from  tears  and  pain, 
 And  give  me,  all  in  love  to  reign, 
 
 In  bofom  of  my  Vifion. 
 
 LVII.  We  that  are  in  this  Tabernacle  do  groan. 
 2  Cor.  v.  4. 
 
 THIS  world  is  a  vale  of  tears, 
 A  wildernefs  of  thorns  and  briers, 
 A  den  of  lions,  a  haunt  of  bears ; 
 
 But  death  will  banifli  fadnefs; 
 The  tears  are  firft  a  fpringing  well, 
 The  well  becomes  a  running  rill, 
 The  rill  doth  to  an  ocean  fwell, 
 O  welcome,  death,  with  gladnefs. 
 
 2  This  wildernefs  is  full  of  care; 
 Care  is  the  thorn  and  the  brier, 
 Our  tender  flefli  whofe  prickles  tear; 
 
 But  death  will  banifli  fadnefs ; 
 As  flrayed  lambs  the  thickets  twine, 
 Rough-branching  thorns  around  them  cling* 
 So  wrenching  pains  our  bowels  wring; 
 
 O  welcome,  death,  with  gladnefs. 
 
 3  As  travelling  thro'  this  howling  wafle, 
 Companions,  talking  breafl-a- bread, 
 Springs  forth  a  roaring  hideous  beaft, 
 
 (But  death  will  banifh  fadnefs,) 
 
 A  dread- 
 
Death  will  bcmiJJj  Sadnefs.  85 
 
 A  dreadful  lion,  glaring  fires, 
 Lafliing  his  fides  with  maddeft  ires, 
 Between  his  jaws  my  friend  expires; 
 
 O  welcome,  death,  with  gladnefs. 
 Among  her  father's  new-mown  hay, 
 Lately,  on  her  efpoufal-day, 
 A  virgin  pure  went  forth  to  pray, 
 
 (But  death  will  banifh  fadnefs-) 
 Before  the  joyful  Bridegroom  came, 
 A  foaming  bear  from  foreft  ran, 
 And  hugg'd  *  the  lovely  blamelefs  Lamb; 
 
 O  welcome,  death,  with  gladnefs. 
 All  lorn  on  our  weary  way, 
 We  wander  from  our  homes  aftray; 
 Our  guides  they  feldom  but  betray; 
 
 But  death  will  banifh  fadnefs*; 
 Sad,  fable-wing'd,  with  fhrieks  and  howls, 
 Comes  on  the  night,  and  prowling  wolves, 
 Trembling  we  cry  as  wailing  owls, 
 
 O  welcome,  death,  with  gladnefs. 
 Amaz'd,  we  pafs,  and  Humble  on, 
 Now  on  a  flock,  now  on  a  ftone, 
 Our  hopes  are  with  our  pleafures  gone; 
 
 But  death  will  banifh  fadnefs; 
 Before  us  a  fteep  frightful  den, 
 Around  us  all  a  deadly  fen, 
 Purfue  behind  more  dreadful  men ; 
 
 O  welcome,  death,  with  gladnefs. 
 
 If  any  rime  we  fall  aileep, 
 Lo,  monflers  raging  from  the  deep, 
 Or  ferpents  hilling  by  us  fweep ; 
 But  death  will  banifh  fadnefs; 
 Awake  we,  ftartled  from  our  wit, 
 
 And 
 
 In  this  way  the  Bears  make  their  attack. 
 
86  The  Fool 
 
 And  flying,  hide  us  in  fome  pit, 
 Then  bleed  we  there,  by  ferpents  bit; 
 
 O  welcome,  death,  with  gladnefs. 
 8  Lo,  morning  fprings,  with  healing  beams ; 
 Full  on  my  heart  the  glory  dreams, 
 And  all  my  bofom  gladnefs  gleams, 
 
 For  death  has  banifh'd  fadnefs; 
 The  fadnefs  fled  as  morning  dew, 
 Whole  heaven  rufheth  on  my  view: 
 
 0  death,  my  trufty  friend,  Adieu! 
 
 Come,  welcome  life,  with  gladnefs. 
 > 
 
 LVIII.  That  which  is  in  the  midjl  of  Fools  is  mack 
 known,  Pro  v.  xiv.   33. 
 
 I  SAW  the  harveft  in  the  ear, 
 A  blaft  came  by  and  ftript  it; 
 
 1  faw  the  womb  with  child  to  bear, 
 
 A  fword  came  by  and  ript  it : 
 
 2  So  is  the  fpirit  of  the  fool, 
 
 His  mole-hills  all  are  mountains ; 
 He  has  a  little  {linking  pool, 
 
 And  cries,  "  My  charming  fountains!" 
 
 LIX.  In  God  I  will  praife  his  Word.  Pfal.  lvi.  4. 
 
 ARISE,  my  fpirit,  foar  and  fing, 
 Melodious  breathings  to  thy  King; 
 Sing  high  the  praifes  of  his  Word, 
 What  raptures  does  his  Word  afford ! 
 Afford  to  me,  afford  to  all, 
 On  whom  the  Holy  Ghofl  does  fall ! 
 No  joy  did  ever  equal  theirs, 
 And  in  his  Word  the  joy  appears. 
 
 2  His 
 
The  Praifes  of  God's  Word.  87 
 
 !  His  Word  furpafleth  earthly  things, 
 
 With  praifes  thereof  heaven  rings; 
 
 Yet  we  may  climb  by  gradual  mean, 
 
 Till  up  fome  pinacle  we  win, 
 
 Some  Pifgah-top,  to  view  the  plains, 
 
 Where  God  in  love  for  ever  reigns, 
 
 Where  ft  reams  of  pleafure  always  flow, 
 
 And  all  the  fweets  his  Ifrael  know, 
 ;  Well  knew  old  Ifrael  in  their  day, 
 
 While  tabernacling  in  this  clay, 
 
 What  bleffings  grew  upon  the  field, 
 
 And  all  the  gladnefs  earth  could  yield ; 
 
 Their  rivers  ran  with  milk  and  oil, 
 
 And  honey  flow'd  in  fr!  their  foil  ; 
 
 Feeding  on  thefe,  in  death  they  griev'd ; 
 
 He  fent  his  Word,  and  lo,  they  liv'd. 
 \  Sweet  is  the  light  of  pleafant  day, 
 
 When  all  array'd  in  glory  gay, 
 
 Appears  the  year  in  Summer's  pride, 
 
 Adorned  as  a  blooming  bride  ; 
 
 Around  her  health  and  beauty  reign, 
 
 And  pleafure  beats  in  every  vein ; 
 
 The  whole  is  as  the  glow-worm  gleams ; 
 
 But  in  his  Word  the  day-fpring  beams. 
 ;  Incaptivates  the  wife  and  fool 
 
 Sweet  mufic,  thrilling  through  the  foul ; 
 
 Melt  her  touches,  trembling,  light, 
 
 As  lightnings  playing  through  the  night, 
 .  Yea  melt  the  fierceft  fpirit  down, 
 
 Into  a  ftill  ecftatic  fwoon ; 
 
 The  mind  who  loves  this  mufic  mourns ; 
 
 His  Word  to  joy  our  mourning  turns. 
 $  Efcapt  from  all  the  deaths  at  fea, 
 
 His  head  down-hanging  to  his  knee, 
 
 The 
 
88  The  Praifes  of  God's  Word. 
 
 The  fickly  failor,  pained  fore, 
 Slow-creeping  up  fome  fpicy  fhore, 
 His  ravifh'd  noftrils  in  the  gale, 
 Life,  health,  and  tranfport  fweet  inhale; 
 But  in  the  Word,  my  garden,  blows 
 The  valley-lily  and  Sharon's  rofe. 
 
 7  Twilling  in  agonizing  throws, 
 When  time  her  burden  would  difclofe, 
 Anguifh,  hard-gripping  in  his  fangs 
 The  mother  labouring  in  her  pangs, 
 What  burfts  of  gladnefs  o'er  her  gleam, 
 Her  foul  emerging  from  the  flream, 
 The  fudden  blafr.  when  overblown! 
 God's  Word  fo  gladdens  all -Pis  own. 
 
 8  On  Samfon,  mighty  prince  of  Dan, 
 A  lion  from  the  vineyards  ran ; 
 
 He  caught  him  by  his  ftretched  paw, 
 And  tore  the  monfler  jaw  from  jaw, 
 Whom  palling  afterwards  he  fees 
 Embowelled  all  by  honey-bees ; 
 How  fweet  the  honey  from  the  combs! 
 The  Word  of  God  much  fweeter  comes. 
 
 0  Alarm'd  at  every  ruffling  wind, 
 If  any  time  a  treafure  find, 
 Adventrous  on  the  Indian  plains, 
 The  merchants,  hunting  after  gains, 
 They  boldly  guard  it  on  the  field, 
 And  only  with  their  life  they  yield; 
 God's  Word's  my  only  treafure;  I, 
 With  it  will  live,  with  it  will  die. 
 
 1  o  Bewildered  fore,  his  eyes  bedimm'd, 
 
 The  weary  traveller  all  benumb'd, 
 Expofed  in  the  wreathing  fnow, 
 When  drifted  tempefts  fiercely  blow, 
 
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 How  welcome  is  his  pleafant  home, 
 Inftead  of  horror's  deadly  gloom, 
 His  children  running  round  his  knee ! 
 So,  welcome  is  God's  Word  to  me. 
 
 1 1  When  lying  helplefs  in  my  blood, 
 My  Lord,  in  mercy,  o'er  me  flood  ; 
 Upon  my  wounds  his  eyes  he  turn'd, 
 
 m  And  all  the  while  his  bowels  yern'd ; 
 He  wrapt  me  in  his  fofteft  love  ; 
 Aqd  fwift  away  my  forrows  move ; 
 For  then  he  feal'd  me  for  his  own; 
 And  by  his  Word  his  love  was  fliown. 
 
 12  When  Adam  and  his  Eve  were  bold, 
 As  Holy  Scriptures  have  us  told, 
 To  eat  of  that  forbidden  tree, 
 
 So  dear,  my  friends,  to  you  and  me, 
 Jehovah  came  in  friendly  guife, 
 And  ihew'd  his  mercy  by  furprize; 
 He  fmiled  at  their  apron-leaves; 
 But  in  his  Word  a  covering  gives. 
 
 13  Sweet  Jonathan  and  David  were, 
 One  foul  within  two  bodies  fair; 
 If  David,   chofen  and  belov'd, 
 Was  grieved,  Jonathan  was  mov'd ; 
 They  foar'd  two  eagles  to  the  fun ; 
 Their  courfe  of  friendihip  equal  run; 
 Were  both  accepted  of  the  Lord; 
 For  both  believed  in  his  Word. 
 
 14  In  dire  diftrefs  I  found  no  eafe; 
 The  Word  my  kind  phyfician  was : 
 When  bound  in  chains,  condemn'd  to  die, 
 The  Word  gave  me  my  liberty; 
 Weary,  I  wandered  all  alone, 
 
 Without  a  guide,  I  was  undone; 
 
 M  The 
 
90  The  Prai/es  of  God's  Word. 
 
 The  Word  drew  nigh,  and  faid  to  me, 
 "  Behold  a  faithful  friend  to  thee." 
 
 1 5  Inclos'd  in  horror's  deepeft  (hade, 
 I  fat,  I  wept,  I  mourned  fad; 
 When  lo,  behold,  a  fudden  gleam. 
 Of  glory  all  around  me  came ; 
 All  inftantaneous  fled  away, 
 
 The  iliades  and  horrors  from  the  dayj 
 I  fprung  for  joy,  with  fweet  furprife; 
 It  was  the  Word  that  blefs'd  my  eyes. 
 
 1 6  Imbattled  legions  from  the  deep, 
 
 Like  rufliing  whirlwinds  round  me  fweep, 
 They  tofs'd  me  as  a  tennis-ball, 
 In  pieces  almoll  mook  me  fmall ; 
 No  flop,  no  (lay  their  fury  knows, 
 
 0  who  will,  fave  me  from  my  foes  I 
 Flew  lightening,  as  the  fiery  flame, 
 God's  Word,  and  quite  confumed  them. 
 
 i  7  Bewildered  in  a  wildernefs, 
 From  for  rows  finding  no  regrefs, 
 
 1  fell  into  a  finking  fen, 
 
 And  then  into  death's  difmal  den; 
 Death,  grappling  dragon,  round  me  clafpt, 
 And  tore  my  entrails  as  he  grafpt; 
 My  God  beheld  the  dreadful  deed, 
 His  Woro*  he  fent,  his  Word  me  freed. 
 1 8  A  paradife  of  joy  to  me, 
 
 His  Word  before  me  fpread,  I  fee, 
 
 Where  flreams  of  pleafure  ever  flow, 
 
 And  where  the  Tree  of  Life  doth  grow ; 
 
 The  glory  thereof 's  all  divine, 
 
 The  Tree,  and  Fruit,  and  all  are  mine ; 
 
 No  ferpent  lurks  in  all  the  place; 
 
 For  all  is  God,  and  all  is  grace. 
 
 i?  My 
 
Blejfed  the  Pure  in  Heart,  9  X 
 
 19  My  God  is  God  for  evermore; 
 His  grace  I  evermore  adore : 
 My  God  up-built  me  on  his  Son. 
 His  Son  is  my  foundation-ftone ; 
 On  him  the  building  all  depends, 
 And  he  the  building  all  defends; 
 I  am  a  temple  for  my  Lord, 
 
 He  dwells  within  me  by  his  Word 
 
 20  His  Holy  Spirit  is  my  prieft, 
 By  him  my  temple  all  is  blefl; 
 Away  with  every  thing  unclean, 
 Nought  here,  but  holinefs  be  feen! 
 O  thou,  adored  of  my  foul, 
 Poifefs  my  foul,  poflefs  me  whole ; 
 Conduct  me  to  thine  own  abode, 
 According  to  thy  Word,  O  God. 
 
 LX.  Blejfed  are  the  pure  in  Heart,  Mat.  v.  8. 
 
 OBleffed,  bleffed  every  one, 
 Whom  God  the  Father  bleffeth ! 
 He  bleffeth  them  in  his  own  Son, 
 
 Whofe  love  their  foul  poffefleth  : 
 For  God,  our  Father,  fees  no  (in, 
 
 In  Jefus  his  Beloved, 
 Who  dwells  by  faith  our  fouls  within, 
 In  whom  we  are  approved. 
 
 2  Within  our  heart,  a  living  well, 
 His  Holy  Spirit  fioweth ; 
 And  cleanfeth  it,  tho'  foul  as  hell, 
 Till  pure  as  heaven  it  flioweth. 
 God's  promifes  are  pure  and  fure, 
 
 In  Jefus  all  amen,  yea, 
 O  ye  who  thus  in  heart  are  pure, 
 In  him  ye  (hall  rem.iin  ap 
 
 M    2  i  Your 
 
92  Blejfed    the    Pure    In    Heart. 
 
 3  Your  eyes  {hall  fee  his  glorious  face, 
 
 In  love  eternal  glowing, 
 "Whofe  brightnefs  fills  the  holy  place, 
 
 With  raptures  overflowing. 
 Let  heaven  and  earth  his  love  proclaim, 
 
 And  fing  to  God  our  glory  > 
 His  holy,  holy,  holy  Name, 
 
 O  all  his  faints*  adore  ye. 
 
 4  I  will  myfelf  adore  and  fing, 
 
 With  fpirit  burning  vehement ;  -' 
 And  every  foul  will  praife  the  King, 
 
 Who  knows  the  King  is  clement. 
 His  clemency  I  know  full  well, 
 
 He  wrapt  me  in  his  favour  : 
 When  I  deferv'd  in  wrath  to  dwell, 
 
 He  came  himfelf  my  Saviour. 
 
 5  He  flew  to  me  on  wings  of  love, 
 
 And  made  a  timely  refcue, 
 And  caught  me  up  to  him  above, 
 
 That  I  might  fing  at  reft  now. 
 Round,  round  eternity  fhall  found, 
 
 And  all  his  hofts  fhall  join  me; 
 While  heaven,  and  earth,  and  hell  rebound, 
 
 His  praife  who  doth  refine  me. 
 
 LXI.  The  Work  of  Righteoufncfs  Peace,  and  the  Ef- 
 fecl  of  Rightecufnefs,  guietnefs  and  Affurance  for 
 ever.  Ifaiah  xxxii.  1 7. 
 
 REDEEMED  by  the  blood  of  God, 
 What  more  have  I  to  do, 
 But  follow  him  to  his  abode, 
 And  to  his  Spirit  bow  I 
 
 2  He 
 
The  AJfurance  of  Faith. 
 
 2  He  finifiVd  all  the  Righteoufaefs, 
 On  that  accurfed  tree; 
 And  fent  the  Spirit  of  his  grace, 
 To  fliew  the  fame  to  me. 
 5  This  Righteoufnefs  is  now  my  own, 
 My  God  ordain'd  it  fo; 
 For  theirs  it  is,  to  whom  'tis  fhown ; 
 They're  juftify'd  who  know. 
 
 4  Who  know  the  Father,  and  the  Son, 
 
 In  whom  he  is  well  pleas'd, 
 Are  fav'd  by  what  the  Son  hath  done, 
 From  all  their  guilt  releas'd. 
 
 5  I  have  the  Witnefs  in  my  heart; 
 
 The  Holy  Ghoft  is  he, 
 Who  doth  to  me  the  joy  impart, 
 And  give  me  light  to  fee. 
 
 6  The  perfon  who  beholds  the  light, 
 
 Rejoiceth  in  the  fun;  . 
 And  I,  a  child  of  glory  bright, 
 Rejoice  in  God  alone. 
 
 7  Rejoicing  in  my  God,  I  know, 
 
 I  do  rejoice  in  him; 
 From  him  the  ftreams  of  glory  flow, 
 That  fill  me  to  the  brim. 
 
 8  Why  fhould  I  then,  as  empty,  cry, 
 
 "  O  Lord,  give  me  a  drop," 
 When  I  am  full  of  God  Moft  High, 
 Preventing  fear  and  hope  I 
 
 9  Could  Adam  in  his  innocence, 
 
 Cry,   "  Lord,  give  me  to  live, 
 "  And  caufe  me  feel  the  pleafant  fenfe 
 "  Of  what  thy  bounties  give  ?,; 
 
04  The  AJfurance  of  Faith. 
 
 i  o  Or  can  a  child  of  God  by  faith, 
 An  heir  in  Jefus  Chrift, 
 Mock  God,  and  cry  for  what  he  hath, 
 As  if  he  were  not  bleft  ? 
 
 1 1  Or  rather  mould  he  not  allow, 
 
 The  mercies  of  the  Lord  i 
 And  thankful  at  his  foot-ftool  bow, 
 Triumphing  in  his  word  ? 
 
 12  Where  is  the  high  prefumptuous  fin, 
 
 To  take  the  gift  of  God? 
 
 As  freely  as  he  doth  incline, 
 
 So  freely  take  we  fhou'd. 
 
 13  Oh  hateful,  counterfeiting  pride! 
 
 'Tis  thou  who  ftole  the  name, 
 Of  meek  humility,  to  hide 
 The  groflhefs  of  thy  Ihame. 
 
 14  'Tis  not,  Humility,  thy  tafk, 
 
 To  weave  a  thin  excufe; 
 And  then  for  worthinefs  to  aik, 
 That  thou  may  grace  abufe. 
 
 1 5  Thy  office,  O  Humility, 
 
 Is  frankly  to  receive, 
 What  frankly  cometh  from  on  high, 
 And  God  the  glory  give. 
 
 1 6  Amen,  to  God  the  glory  be, 
 
 Who  made  the  fons  and  heirs, 
 That  they  might  all  his  glory  fee; 
 His  glory  all  is  theirs. 
 
 17  O  worthy  of  his  glory  then, 
 
 And  worthy  of  his  love, 
 Ye  highly  favoured  of  men, 
 Your  Whip  now  approve. 
 
 18  Bear 
 
The  Good  Shepherd.  9$ 
 
 1 8  Bear  witnefs,  every  child  of  hell, 
 
 And  every  child  of  heaven, 
 Whene'er  my  fpirit  fhall  rebel, 
 To  me  the  (name  be  given; 
 
 19  To  him  the  glory  of  his  love; 
 
 Let  love  poffefs  my  foul; 
 Let  all  my  motions  be  in  love; 
 My  God,  poffefs  me  whole; 
 
 20  Poffefs  me  now,  poffefs  me  ftill; 
 
 Thy  Spirit  in  me  reign, 
 And  guide  me  to  thy  holy  hill; 
 My  God,  fay  thou,  "  Amen." 
 
 LXII.    /  am  the  Good  Shepherd.    John  x.  2. 
 
 I  ONLY  am  the  Shepherd  good, 
 My  life  I  freely  gave ; 
 So  was  I  fore-ordain'd  of  God, 
 That  I  my  (heep  fhould  fave. 
 
 2  Loft  were  my  fheep,  forlorn  their  cafe, 
 
 No  favour  to  them  ftiown  ; 
 I,  of  my  own  free  fovereign  grace, 
 Did  choofe  them  for  my  own. 
 
 3  I  faw,  when  none  to  refcue  was, 
 
 And  from  my  throne  came  down ; 
 1  took  you  from  the  lions  jaws  ; 
 Fierce  lions  trampled  on. 
 
 4  I  founded  loud  my  gofpel-pipe, 
 
 And  opened  your  ear; 
 This  mark  I  give  all  my  own  fheep, 
 My  voice  they  know  and  hear. 
 
 5  No  flranger  they  will  hear,  nor  go 
 
 With  thofe  who  frx>i!ed  them; 
 
 For 
 
96  The  Good  Shepherd. 
 
 For  their  own  Shepherd's  voice  they  know, 
 And  glory  in  his  name. 
 
 6  Although  my  flieep  in  diftant  lands, 
 
 Be  fcattered  far  abroad, 
 I'll  guide  them  by  my  ikilful  hands, 
 Safe  to  my  own  abode. 
 
 7  Our  great  High  Shepherd  goes  before 
 
 His  fheep;  he  leadeth  them, 
 In  paflures  green  for  evermore, 
 Where  living  waters  ftream. 
 
 8  For  no  deftroyer  haunts  the  plains, 
 
 Wherein  his  flocks  are  fed; 
 Glorious  our  Shepherd  ever  reigns, 
 And  victory  crowns  his  head, 
 
 9  He  death  for  us  did  undergo ; 
 
 For  us  he  bore  the  pain ; 
 That  we  eternal  life  might  know, 
 And  in  his  kingdom  reign. 
 
 10  Lo,  God  the  Father  holds  us  all; 
 
 In  God  the  Son  we  ftand  ; 
 
 O  who  are  they  that  ever  fliall 
 
 Pluck  us  out  of  his  hand  ? 
 
 1 1  Though  all  the  powers  of  earth  and  hell, 
 
 Again  ft  us  fhould  advance, 
 The  mighty  God  in  us  doth  dwell ; 
 His  glory's  our  defence. 
 
 12  We'll  raife  his  glory  in  our  fong, 
 
 Who  us  fo  high  doth  raife; 
 For  heaven  in  us  is  now  begun; 
 And  our  employ  is  praife. 
 
 13  Our  works  of  love  fliall  clearly  fliow, 
 
 That  we  are  born  of  God; 
 
 Sith 
 
God 's  Word  of  itfelf  the  only  fojjlble  Rule.         9  7 
 
 Sith,  all  we  have  to  him  we  owe, 
 
 Redeemed  by  his  blood. 
 14  Extolled  be  thy  name  by  me, 
 
 Let  all  thy  creatures  join, 
 And  praife  the  God  of  love,  the  Three, 
 
 Eternal  Three  in  One. 
 
 LXIII.  That  the  Man  of  God  may  be  Ferfecl. 
 2  Tim.  iii.  1 7. 
 
 PRAY,  tell  me,  friend,  what  will  you  be 
 The  wifer,  if  you  do  not  fee 
 The  meaning  of  the  page  or  book, 
 In  which  you  for  inftruclion  look ?. 
 
 2  And  tho'  you  fliould  the  meaning  find, 
 Unlefs  according  to  the  mind, 
 
 And  meflage  of  the  Holy  Ghoft, 
 You'll  find  your  pains  and  labour  loft. 
 
 3  Yea,  though  according  to  the  mind, 
 And  melTage,  by  the  Lord  defign'd, 
 You  are  not  yet  a  jot  the  better, 
 Except  yourfelf  perceive  the  matter. 
 
 5  Whence  I  moft  firmly  do  conclude, 
 Only  the  Word  of  God  is  good, 
 To  teach,  inftru<ft,  correct,  reprove, 
 To  perfect  men  in  faith  and  love. 
 
 LXIV.  Lord,  to  whom  pall  we  go  f  Thou  haft  the 
 Words  of  eternal  Life.  John  vi.  68. 
 
 TO  whom,  to  whom,  Lord,  (hall  we  go. 
 But  thee,  but  thee,  alone? 
 For  being  taught  of  God,  we  know, 
 Thou  art  his  only  Son. 
 
 N  2  With 
 
9  3      Chrlfl  alone  hath  the  Words  of  Eternal  Life. 
 
 2  With  thee  eternal  life  is  found, 
 
 The  promife  thou  doft  give; 
 They  who  are  in  this  bundle  bound, 
 With  thee  mall  ever  live. 
 
 3  Thy  words  did  quicken  us  when  dead, 
 
 Thou  breath 'd  this  life  of  thine ; 
 By  faith  we  on  thy  body  feed, 
 And  drink  thy  blood  divine. 
 
 4  How  can  we  hunger  more,  O  God, 
 
 Or  thirft,  or  more  repine, 
 When  fed  with  thy  delicious  food, 
 And  drink,  fupremely  fine? 
 
 4  How  can  we  with  the  world  more, 
 Purfue  for  empty  things; 
 When  lo,  we  have  all  needful  (lore, 
 In  thee,  O  King  of  kings  ? 
 
 6  For  thus  thou  freely  haft  declar'd, 
 
 Thy  love  to  all  thine  own; 
 Thy  grace  in  glory  to  reward, 
 With  an  immortal  crown. 
 
 7  Lord,  haften  on  thy  wifli'd-for  day, 
 
 Swift  folding  up  the  fky; 
 And  glory  of  thy  power  difplay, 
 With  (lately  majefly; 
 
 8  That  viewing  all  thy  glory,  we, 
 
 In  bright  array  may  fliine; 
 Reflecting  back  thy  love  on  thee, 
 With  all  thofe  hofls  of  thine. 
 
 LXV.  Come  up  hither,  and  I  will  fhew  thee  things 
 which  mufl  be  hereafter.  Rev.  iv.  I. 
 
 HAIL  to  the  Holy  Spirit's  bearo, 
 That  upon  my  fpirit  plays; 
 
 Kindling 
 
A  Flight  to  Glory.  o? 
 
 Kindling  up  a  heavenly  flame, 
 That  makes  all  my  fpirit  blaze. 
 
 2  Like  Manoah's  Angel  from  the  rock, 
 
 Lo,  my  fanclify'd  defire, 
 A  fparkling  glory  thro'  the  fmoke, 
 Keen  afpireth  to  be  higher; 
 
 3  Higher  up,  and  higher  flill, 
 
 Winged  by  the  fine  below, 
 Till  it  reach  to  Zion-hill, 
 
 And  all  into  God's  bofom  flow; 
 
 4  Mingling  with  Eternal  Love; 
 
 Thence  it  came,  and  there  it  flows; 
 Chaining  me  to  God  above, 
 For  a  chain  between  us  goes,; 
 
 5  A  chain  of  fympathetick  links; 
 
 Sympathetick  pulls  I  feel ; 
 
 Drawn  up  fpeedily,  methinks, 
 
 Now  I  reft  on  Zion-hill. 
 
 6  O  what  glories  on  me  burft ! 
 
 Were  I  in  the  body  now, 
 (For  I  fee  I've  dropt  my  cruft) 
 Life  would  with  the  vifion  go. 
 
 7  Ah !  my  fellow-faints  beneath, 
 
 Whom  I  left  as  groveling  worms, 
 You  are  dead  for  want  of  death ; 
 Oh  what  wonders  death  performs ! 
 
 8  Here,  we  cannot  now  exprefs, 
 
 There,  you  cannot  yet  conceive, 
 Hafte  ye,  come  to  paradife, 
 
 Come,  and  fee  what  you  believe. 
 
 N  2  LXVL  Shall 
 
ico  Shall  ive  continue  in  Sin. 
 
 LXVI.  Shall  we  continue  in  Sin,  that  Grace  may 
 abound  f  God  forbid!  Rom.  vi.  i. 
 
 WHOE'ER  fhould  eat  a  poifonous  thing, 
 And  cry,  "  God  fave  me  from  the  venom !" 
 Would  only  mock  the  heavenly  King; 
 
 His  very  prayers  would  condemn  him. 
 And  wert  thou  guiltlefs,  O  my  foul, 
 
 If  thou  mould  fuck  the  worft  of  poifon; 
 And  underneath  thy  tongue  fhould  roll, 
 As  if  it  were  a  healthful  potion  ? 
 
 Can  ft  thou  imagine,  God  will  hold, 
 
 Unto  thy  wickednefs  a  candle ; 
 While  viewing  mercy,  thou  art  bold, 
 
 Thy  Delilah  on  knee  to  dandle? 
 Whoe'er  they  be  that  fin  embrace, 
 
 In  hopes  of  having  free  falvation; 
 Becaufe  they  fee  abounding  grace, 
 
 Are  doom'd  by  juftice  to  damnation. 
 
 A  vaunt  ye  then,  each  curfed  thing! 
 
 What  have  I  more  to  do  with  idols  ? 
 For  I'm  efpous'd  to  Chrift  my  King; 
 
 And  Chrift  my  King  will  bear  no  rivals. 
 Thy  love,  O  Chrift,  a  mighty  ftream, 
 
 With  even  courfe,  never  to  vary, 
 Me  warned  all  from  ftain  and  blame, 
 
 Along  with't  fwiftly,  fweetly  carry. 
 
 Adown  the  channel  of  thy  will, 
 
 Thy  love  the  element  I  fwim  in; 
 Thy  love  and  Spirit,  Lord,  me  fill, 
 
 As  in  thine  eyes  is  moft  befeeming. 
 While  hypocrites  but  make  a  (how, 
 
 Like  dead  fifh  with  the  current  going; 
 
Why  do  ye  halt  between  two  Opinions  f         ioi 
 
 Let  all  my  life  and  motions  flow, 
 
 From  thy  pure  love,  within  me  flowing. 
 
 LXVIL  He   that  is   not   with   me   is   againjl   me. 
 Mat.  xii.  30. 
 
 LO,  the  Prince  of  falvation  hath  lifted  on  high, 
 His  banners  unfurled  to  flow  thro'  the  fky ; 
 Infcrib'd  on  the  borders,  his  motto  I  fee, 
 lnfcrib'd  with  his  blood,  dreaming  red  from  the  tree; 
 "  From  me,  O  ye  neutrals,  avoid  ye,  avoid  ye, 
 "  Ye  odious  indifferents,  I  cannot  abide  ye ; 
 "  He  who  is  not  with  me,  even  he  is  againft  me; 
 "  If  thou  fayed  not  as  I  fay,  thou  flatly  gainfayeft  me," 
 
 ;  Ah !  ye  fadly  deceived,  and  flow  to'  believe, 
 Who  hath  ears  to  receive  it,  now  let  him  receive; 
 Who  gathers,  and  gathers  not,  Jefus,  with  thee, 
 He  but  fcatters  abroad  on  the  waves  of  the  fea. 
 Whate'er  thou  art  fpeaking,  or  thinking,  or  doing, 
 If  thou  unto  Jefus,  thy  Lord,  be  not  bowing, 
 Thou  art  only  projecling  a  project  of  death ; 
 How  to  plunge  thee  in  folly,  till  plunged  in  wrath. 
 
 LXYIII.  Now  ye  are  no  more  Foreigners.  Eph.  ii.  19. 
 
 AWAY,  O  ye  for'rowsand  fears, 
 Away  ye,  for  ever  away. 
 Away,  O  ye  fighings  and  tears, 
 
 For  this  is  the  joyful  day; 
 How  joyful  is  it  to  me, 
 
 Now  I  live  by  the  death  of  my  Lord, 
 Agreeable  to  the  decree, 
 
 Which  I  read  in  th'  infallible  word  ! 
 \  With  high  exultation  I  fing ; 
 
 And  gladly  my  confidence  place, 
 
 In 
 
102     Peace  and  FellowflAp  on  the  true  Foundation* 
 
 In  thee  my  Redeemer  and  King ; 
 
 Thy  blood  is  my  glory,  my  peace ; 
 For  tho'  I  be  nothing  at  all, 
 
 But  an  atom  that  creepeth  in  earth; 
 That  I  might  arife  by  his  fall, 
 
 He  humbled  himfelf  to  the  death. 
 
 3  That  I  might  no  more  be  a  ftranger, 
 
 And  foreigner  with  the  exiles, 
 He  ruuVd  thro'  the  heart  of  my  danger  j 
 
 And  dying,  upon  me  he  fmiles. 
 A  citizen  now  with  the  faints, 
 
 In  fellow-communion  with  God, 
 I  triumph  above  my  complaints, 
 
 And  laugh  at  the  terrors  abroad. 
 
 4  I  know  my  foundations  are  fure, 
 
 They  cannot  be  moved  away ; 
 For  he  is  infinite  in  power, 
 
 Who  is  my  foundation  and  flay. 
 In  him  the  whole  building  is  made, 
 
 Compared  together  in  one ; 
 And  I  by  the  Spirit  am  laid, 
 
 On  him  as  a  poliflied  flone. 
 
 5  A  temple  of  beauty  for  God, 
 
 We  are  builded  together  in  love ; 
 A  pure  everlafting  abode, 
 
 From  whence  he  will  never  remove. 
 Sing  loudly,  and  glory  proclaim, 
 
 To  him  who  projected  the  plan, 
 Yea,  and  built  in  the  blood  of  the  Lamb ; 
 
 Sing  glory  to  God  every  one. 
 
 LXIX. 
 
Wherewith  /hall  I  come  before  the  Lord  I       103 
 
 LXDBW 'herewith  Jhall  I  come  before  the  Lord?  and 
 bow  myfelf  before  the  High  God  I  Micah  vi.  6> 
 
 BEFORE  the  Lord,  wherewith  fliall  1, 
 Prefume  to  come  and  pacify? 
 Shall  I  with  offerings  come  to  thee, 
 O  God  mofl  High,  and  bow  the  knee  ? 
 Or  calves  upon  thine  altar  lay, 
 My  aggravated  debts  to  pay  r 
 Oh,  will  the  Lord  well  pleafed  be, 
 With  any  thing  that  comes  from  me? 
 
 Shall  rams  by  thoufands  yield  their  blood, 
 
 To  mollify  the  heart  of  God  ? 
 
 Or  twice  as  many  thoufand  more, 
 
 Rivers  of  oil  before  him  roar  ? 
 
 Or  {hall  I  my  firfl-born  kill, 
 
 That  God  may  fpare  my  blood  to  fpill  i 
 
 Shall  I  my  body's  fruit  refign, 
 
 To  free  my  foul  from  death  and  fin  ? 
 
 Away,  thou  fool!  for  God  hath  fhow'd, 
 
 That  none  of  thefe  are  things  for  God : 
 
 Thy  gifts  may  flay  within  thy  walls, 
 
 Thy  calves  may  feed  them  in  their  flails. 
 
 Thy  rams  may  dwell  among  thy  flocks; 
 
 God  covets  not  thy  ram  nor  ox; 
 
 And  though  thou  pour  ten  thoufand  floods. 
 
 He  fcorns  thy  oil  and  all  thy  goods. 
 
 But  God  hath  fliew'd  to  thee,  O  man, 
 The  Good,  the  Juft,  the  Holy  One: 
 Behold  the  Lamb  of  God,  behold, 
 Behold  his  blood,  and  be  thou  bold. 
 In  him  appeas'd,  the  Lord  doth  reft ; 
 In  him,  reft  thou,  and  be  thou  blefs'd; 
 
 Receive 
 
1 04       Wherewith  /hall  I  come  before  the  Lord? 
 
 Receive,  rejoice,  and  humble  be; 
 Jehovah  alks  no  more  of  thee. 
 
 5  Jehovah's  righteoufnefs  is  fhown, 
 That  thou  may  know  it  all  thy  own; 
 Jehovah's  Juft,  and  Faithful  too, 
 Believe,  be  juft,  and  faithful  thou; 
 Mercy  he  loves,  and  gives  to  thee, 
 Mercy  love  thou,  and  thankful  be; 
 Faith,  love,  obedience  Mill  be  fhow'd; 
 This  is  the  way  to  walk  with  God. 
 
 6  npHEN  hath  Jehovah  fliow'd  to  men, 
 
 JL       The  way  that's  good,  and  fovereign  ? 
 And  what  doth  he  require  of  thee, 
 But  done  in  Jefus  thou  may  fee  ? 
 By  Grace  we're  freely  juftify'd ; 
 For  nought  have  we-that  can  us  hide, 
 Or  from  the  handh^r  juftice  free; 
 No  other  way  but  Grace  we  fee. 
 
 7  Now  fince  thou  haft  thy  mercy  fhown, 
 And  to  the  worft  of  men  made  known, 
 That  we  mould  love,  and  live  in  God, 
 Our  everlafting  fure  abode; 
 
 That  humble  in  thy  way,  O  Lord, 
 We  may  be  found  with  one  accord, 
 O  give  to  walk  by  Grace  divine ; 
 That  we  may  ia.thy  glory  mine. 
 
 8  There  mall  we  in  thy  love  abound, 
 And  evermore  thy  praifes  found; 
 
 Nor  from  thofe  chryftal-ftreams  above, 
 Shall  any  fiend  thy  faints  remove. 
 Away  with  doubts  and  terrors  then, 
 Why  mould  they  any  more  remain  ? 
 
 Give 
 
Ho,  every  One  that  Thirfteth.  T05 
 
 Give  us  to  watch  in  faith  and  love, 
 Till  Chrift,  our  hope,  come  from  above. 
 
 LXX.  Hoy  every  one.  Ifaiah  lv.  throughout. 
 
 HO,  ho,  ye  thirfty,  fee  the  ftreams, 
 Jehovah's  ftrength  aloud  proclaims j 
 The  ftreams  of  life  before  you  flow, 
 From  heaven  down  to  earth  below: 
 Come  to  the  waters,  come  ye  all, 
 And  drink  obedient  to  my  call; 
 Yea,  he  that  hath  no  money,  come, 
 For  money  here  there  is  no  room. 
 
 Come  ye,  and  buy,  and  fill  your  foul, 
 And  eat  and  drink  without  control ; 
 Come  moneylefs,  buy  milk  and  wine, 
 Without  a  price,  or  ought  of  {June. 
 Why  do  ye  fpend  your  ftrength  in  vain  ? 
 And  labour  in  the  fire  with  pain? 
 Your  money  goes  but  for  your  fweat, 
 And  brings  you  neither  drink  nor  meat* 
 
 Attention  give  to  me,  your  Lord, 
 And  live  by  my  eternal  Word; 
 My  Word's  the  food  by  which  you  live, 
 You  eat  the  food  when  you  believe; 
 Eat,  O  my  friends,  and  drink  your  fill, 
 The  Bread  of  Life  is  at  your* will; 
 Delight  your  foul  rn  what  is  good, 
 Fatnefs  and  marrow  be  your  food. 
 
 Incline  your  ear,  and  come  to  me, 
 And  you  fliall  all  my  glory  fee; 
 Hear,  and  your  foul  fliall  live,  I  fwear; 
 Let  heaven  and  earth  Jehovah  hear; 
 
 O  I  make 
 
106  Ho,  every  One  that  Thirftetk. 
 
 I  make  an  everlafling  deed, 
 
 And  pledge  my  faith  to  David's  feed; 
 
 My  covenant  I  feal  in  blood, 
 
 I  feal  it  in  thy  blood,  O  God. 
 
 5  Lo,  I  have  given  thee,  my  Son, 
 Who  filled  my  eternal  throne, 
 A  witnefs  to  the  people  all, 
 
 To  raife  them  from  their  woful  fall; 
 A  leader  and  commander  be, 
 To  all  the  people  I  give  thee ; 
 And  bring  them  to  my  holy  hill, 
 According  to  thy  power  and  Hull. 
 
 6  Behold,  the  multitudes  of  thofe, 
 Who  are  by  nature  all  thy  foes, 
 Yea,  in  rebellion  raging  fierce, 
 Shall  feel  the  influence  of  thy  grace; 
 And  all  into  thy  prefence  flow, 
 
 As  doves  into  their  windows  go: 
 In  clouds  they  fly,  thro'  all  the  iky, 
 Becaufe  my  love  has  drawn  them  nigh. 
 
 7  Behold  the  Prince  of  Ifrael, 
 
 And  tremble,  all  ye  powers  of  hell. 
 Let  go  my  captives  from  your  hold ; 
 And  ye,  my  fons  of  hope,  be  bold ; 
 For  I,  Jehovah,  in  my  power, 
 Devour  the  dragons  that  devour; 
 I  glorify  my  Holy  One, 
 Who  hath  for  you  the  glory  won. 
 
 8  Seek  ye  Jehovah,  while  he  may, 
 Be  found  in  the  accepted  day ; 
 And  call  upon  the  Lord  your  God, 
 While  he  is  near  upon  the  road : 
 Let  wicked  men  forfake  their  way, 
 And  hear  what  God  the  Lord  will  fay; 
 
Ho,  every  One  that  Lhirjldh,  1 07 
 
 Let  them  return  and  boldly  claim, 
 For  mercy,  in  the  Saviour's  name. 
 
 9  But  let  them  difavow  the  thought, 
 
 As  if  the  Lord  to  terms  were  brought, 
 Upon  account  of  what  they  bring; 
 He  giveth  freely  as  a  King. 
 Believe,  and  thou  (halt  mercy  have, 
 And  all  thy  wants  on  mercy  leave; 
 For  mercy  loves  to  multiply 
 Her  favours  on  the  feeing  eye. 
 
 10  Jehovah  pardons  multiplies, 
 Where'er  he  heareth  faithful  cries ; 
 For  lo,  my  thoughts,  Jehovah  fays, 
 Are  not  as  yours,  nor  yet  my  ways ; 
 For  as  the  heavens  are  high  above, 
 So  are  my  thoughts  and  ways  of  love ; 
 As  high  as  heaven  above  the  earth; 
 For  mine  are  life,  but  yours  are  death. 
 
 1 1  Behold  the  rain  and  falling  dew, 
 Which  all  the  face  of  things  renew ; 
 And  fee  the  flowings  of  the  fnow, 
 Which  foftly  from  the  heavens  flow: 
 They  never  more  return  again, 
 But  watering  hill  and  vale  remain, 
 And  make  the  earth  a  fruitful  field, 
 The  life  of  man  and  bead  to  yield: 
 
 M  So  mall  my  words  which  pafs  my  lip; 
 None  of  them  all  away  (hall  flip; 
 Nor  turn  again  upon  me  void, 
 But  mail  upon  the  earth  abide, 
 Till  they  accomplifli  all  I  pleafe; 
 And  mall  accomplifli  all  with  eafe; 
 Succefs  (hall  every  purpofe  crown. 
 And  every  work  my  Godhead  own. 
 
 O  2  13  Lx 
 
Io8  The  Well  of  Salvation. 
 
 13  Lo,  you  fliall  go  along  with  joy, 
 My  peace  fliall  be  your  glad  convoy; 
 The  mountains  and  the  fields  fliall  fin?, 
 Before  you,  glorying  in  your  King; 
 The  rocks  fliall  break  into  a  fong, 
 And  hail  yoaas  you  pafs  along; 
 
 The  foreft-trees  fliall  clap  their  hands, 
 And  fpread  the  joy  thro'  diftant  lands, 
 
 1 4  The  thorn  fliall  affrighted  fly, 
 And  in  its  ftead  up-towering  high, 
 The  fpiry  fir-tree  you  fliall  fee; 
 And  for  the  brier,   the  myrtle-tree. 
 Now  this  fliall  be  Jehovah's  name, 
 His  everlafting  flgn  of  fame ; 
 
 "  Jehovah  is  the  God  of  love, 
 
 "  Whofe  purpofe  never  fliall  remove." 
 
 LXXL  With  Joy  Jball  ye  dram  Waters  out  of  the 
 Wells  of  Salvation.  Ifaiah  xii.  2. 
 
 THE  fountain  of  beauty,  the  fountain  of  joy, 
 Perennial  flows,  perennial  flows; 
 I  drink  of  the  waters,  the  waters  deftroy 
 My  numberlefs  woes,  my  numberlefs  woes. 
 
 I  lately  opprefled  with  poverty  fell, 
 
 And  funk  to  the  ground,  and  funk  to  the  ground  \ 
 I  fell  on  the  brink  of  my  heavenly  well; 
 
 Rich  treafures  I  found,  rich  treafures  I  found. 
 
 My  well  is  to  me  a  whole  heaven  of  treafures ; 
 
 I  tofs  away  gold,  I  tofs  away  gold ; 
 1  tread  on  the  earth,  and  1  tread  on  her  pleafures; 
 
 I  dwnk  and  am  bold,  I  drink  and  am  bold. 
 
 4  lam 
 
The  Chief  Shepherd  appearing.  1 09 
 
 I  am  bold  and  courageous,  becaufe  of  my  well ; 
 
 My  well  is  the  Word,  my  well  is  the  Word; 
 By  the  Word  of  the  Lord  I'm  deliver'd  from  bell; 
 
 And  to  heaven  reflor'd,  and  to  heaven  reftor'd. 
 
 LXXII.  When  the  Chief  'Shepherd  flail  appear  ye  Jhall 
 receive  a  Crcwn  of  Glory.   1  Pet.  v.  4. 
 
 LO,  I  fee  from  afar,  my  Shepherd  in  the  air, 
 He  is  coming  to  take  me  along ; 
 No  more  mail  I  pine,  nor  want  the  fun-fhjne, 
 Since  I  hear  my  Shepherd  his  fong. 
 
 2  O  his  fong  it  is  fweet,  and  kindly  doth  greet, 
 
 All  melting  my  foul  into  love ! 
 My  redemption  is  come,  and  I  go  to  my  home, 
 To  fmg  with  my  Shepherd  above. 
 
 3  Lo,  behold  he  is  near,  his  glories  appear, 
 
 And  appearing  they  dazzle  my  eyes : 
 See,  the  fun  flies  away,  and  the  moon  cannot  flay  j 
 For  my  Shepherd's  the  light  of  the  huts. 
 
 4  O  the  found  of  his  pipe,  makes  my  fpirit  leap ! 
 
 My  forrows  fly  wailing  away ; 
 Now  adieu  all  below,  to  my  Shepherd  I  go, 
 To  fmg  with  my  Shepherd  for  ay. 
 
 LXXIII.  A  Samaritan  came,  faw,  a?id  iad  Compaf 
 fion.     Luke  x.  33. 
 
 COLD-fliffened  as  clay,  all  bleeding  we  lay, 
 Stript  naked,  and  wounded,  upon  the  high  way  5 
 For  thieves  on  us  ruiht,  and  miferably  cruflit, 
 Then  fled  off,  with  their  booty  and  victory  flnflit. 
 
 2  No 
 
1 1  o  The  merciful  Samaritan. 
 
 2  No  hand  we  efpy,  no  pitying  eye, 
 
 To  lend  us  companion  or  aid  drawing  nigh ; 
 When  lo,  in  a  glance,  falvation  at  once ! 
 "What  raptures  of  gladnefs  our  fpirits  intrance ! 
 
 3  All  hail  to  our  God !  on  a  cherub  he  rode, 
 Bright-flaming  in  love  from  his  holy  abode  ^ 
 He  wafli'd  off  the  foil,  and  anointing  with  oil, 
 He  healed  our  wounds  with  unwearying  toil. 
 
 4  He  healed  our  wounds,  and  his  trumpet  he  founds ; 
 And  banifh'd  our  foes  all  within  their  own  mounds : 
 His  anger  was  hot,  for  he  feiz'd  on  the  fpot, 
 
 And  in  boilings  of  brimftone  he  fent  them  afloat. 
 
 5  Defpairing,  they  roar,  and  roar  evermore; 
 They  fwim  in  an  ocean  that  knoweth  no  fliore.    % 
 They  fink  in  a  pit,  no  bottom  has  it; 
 
 The  ferpent,  he  bit  us,  the  ferpent  is  bit. 
 
 6  But  we  to  God  near,  elected  and  dear, 
 With  him  in  his  glory  {hall  quickly  appear; 
 And  wear  on  our  head,  the  glory  decreed; 
 
 For  a  crown  and  a  kingdom  he  gives  to  his  feed. 
 
 7  What  he  does  reveal,  and  the  glorify'd  feel, 
 Not  they,  but  eternity  only  can  tell;  * 
 
 In  deep  filence  then,  ye  children  of  men, 
 Expreilive,  adore  your  Redeemer.     Amen. 
 
 LXXLV.  For  me  to  die  is  Gain.  Phil.  i.  21. 
 
 FArewell  to  my  pain,  and  farewell  to  my  chain; 
 Farewell  to  my  lofs,  and  welcome  my  gain; 
 Chorus.  My  fins  and  my  forrows,  farewell  evermore; 
 My  foul  and  all  in  me,  Jehovah  adore. 
 
 i  The  earthquakes  may  quake,  and  the  mountains  may 
 break  : 
 Yet  never  a  jot  of  my  confidence  {hake.   My  fins,  &c. 
 
 3  Old 
 
A  departed  Saint*  s  la  ft  FarezveL  m 
 
 3  Old  ocean  may  rage,  and  fierce  tempefts  engage; 
 Yet  none  of  them  all  mail  my  courage  aflwage.  My  &c 
 
 4  The  deeps  may  rufh  up,  and  the  heavens  may  down 
 
 {loop; 
 Yet  none  of  their  boaftings  demolifh  my  hope.  My  &c. 
 
 5  The  trumpet  fhall  found,  earth  and  hell  fhall  rebound ; 
 Then  my  dud  fhall  all  gladly  fpring  forth  from  the 
 
 ground.     My  fins,  Sec. 
 
 6  The  King  ihall  defcend,  and  the  fides  he  fhall  rend ; 
 Then  I'll  ifTue  forth  boldly  to  welcome  my  friend. — 
 
 7  The  lights  of  the  fky,  in  darknefs  fhall  ly; 
 
 But  darknefs  from  me  fhall  far  away  fly.  My  fins,  &c. 
 
 8  The  world  it  fhall  die,  and  expire  with  a  figh; 
 jiBut  I,  as  an  eagle,  fhall  tower  to  the  fky.     My,  &c. 
 
 9  All  love  to  my  God,  this  love  who  beftow'd; 
 
 The  kingdom,  power,  glory,  to  him  ail  are  ow'd. — 
 io  How  amazing  it  is!  What  an  extafy  this! 
 
 I'm  fwallow'd,  I'm  loft  in  an  ocean  of  blifs ! 
 Chorus.  My  fins  and  my  forrows,  farewell  evermore; 
 My  foul  and  all  in  me,  Jehovah  adore. 
 
 LXXV.  Every  Purpofe  of  the  Lord  fhall  be  performed, 
 Jer.  li.   29. 
 
 THOU  vain,  afpiring,  puny  worm! 
 Would'fl  thou  Jehovah's  Purpofe  fcan? 
 By  mighty  wifdom,  thou,   reform, ' 
 His  infinite  eternal  plan  ! 
 Chorus.  High  dominion,  dominion  all  above, 
 
 Dwells  with  God,  and  God  is  love. 
 2  As  flowers  in  their  peculiar  blooms, 
 Array'd  appear  in  their  own  fpring; 
 
 Accord 
 
1 1 2  The  Purpofe  of  the  Lord. 
 
 According  to  his  Purpofe  comes 
 
 To  full  perfection  every  thing.     High,  &g. 
 5  The  fair  creation  flarted  forth, 
 
 In  glory  all  around  his  throne; 
 His  Purpofe  waited  at  the  birth, 
 
 And  waiteth  flill  the  fame  upon.     High,  &c. 
 
 4  The  fons  of  God  fhouted  aloud, 
 
 Together  fung  the  morning-ftars, 
 His  holy  Purpofe  when  they  view'd ; 
 
 Their  mufic  then  being  free  from  jars.  High,  &c. 
 
 5  In  love,  they  all  created  were, 
 
 And  fliined  in  primeval  light; 
 Rejoicing  in  their  given  fphere, 
 
 Their  motions  as  his  Purpofe  ftraight.   High,  &c. 
 
 6  But  Satan  rofe  in  his  own  time, 
 
 And  burft  away  to  fliades  of  night ; 
 He  drew  away  an  hoft  with  him, 
 
 Combined  againfl  the  Purpofe  right.     High,  &cf 
 
 7  Their  purpofe  was  to  fight  with  God, 
 
 And  trample  on  his  Son  their  Prince; 
 His  Purpofe  was  to  quell  the  proud, 
 
 And  dafli  them  down  to  hell  at  once.     High,  &c. 
 
 £  In  kindling  flames,  I  fee  the  Son, 
 His  Father's  Purpofe  keen  purfue ; 
 To  quafh  rebellion  new-begun, 
 
 His  thunder-bolts  in  tempefts  flew.     High,  &c. 
 9  Toft  from  the  battlements  of  heaven, 
 According  to  his  purposed  ire, 
 With  dire  combuftion  headlong  driven, 
 
 Deep-plung'd  they  ly,  in  liquid  fire.     High,  &c. 
 
 ^o  Againft  his  Purpofe  who  rebel, 
 
 And  choofe  a  purpofe  of  their  own> 
 
 With 
 
1  he  furpoje  of  the  Lord.  1 1 3 
 
 With  devils  in  the  pit  muff,  dwell, 
 
 By  their  own  purpofe  overthrown.     High,  &c. 
 
 11  When  he  created  man  the  Lord, 
 
 His  viceroy,  o'er  the  earth  to  reign, 
 He  fhew'd  his  Purpofe  in  his  Word, 
 
 A  fixt  decree  concerning  men.     High,  &c. 
 
 1 2  "  By  dying  Adam,  thou  ilialt  die, 
 
 "  If  thou  tranfgrefs  my  firm  command, 
 "  My  Purpofe  thou  mud'  underly, 
 
 "  And  fatisfy  my  high  demand."     High,  &c. 
 
 13  The  Serpent  heard  the  oath  of  God  j 
 
 Then  lo,  apprizing  all  his  den, 
 He  hifs'd,  and  flew  from  his  abode; 
 Permiflion  lengthening  out  his  chain.     High,  Sec. 
 
 14  "  Yea,  hath  your  Maker  faid  indeed, 
 
 "  Was  this  his  Purpofe  and  his  love  ? 
 "  On  every  tree  you  (hall  not  feed, 
 
 "  Or  elfe  my  deadly  judgment  prove!  High,&c* 
 
 1 5  A  rebel  man,  became  anon, 
 
 And  purpos'd  death  purfued  fin; 
 The  ferpent  deem'd  the  victory  won, 
 
 And  hell  triumph'd  with  odious  din.     K\;>h,&:c. 
 
 16  With  pitying  eye,  Jehovah  faw; 
 
 In  him  companions  flowing  drove, 
 To  magnify  the  broken  law, 
 
 And  fliew  to  man  his  purpos'd  love.     High,  &c. 
 
 17  Defcended  he  with  Purpofe  mild; 
 
 Yet  coldnefs  frowning  in  his  eye; 
 To  over-awe  his  froward  child, 
 
 He  lifted  up  the  rod  on  high.     High,  &c. 
 
 1 8  In  mercy,  for  the  ElecYs  fake, 
 
 The  curfe  came  hand  in  hand  with  guilt; 
 
 P  Adam 
 
1 1 4  The  Purpofe  of  the  Lord. 
 
 Adam,  and  Eve,  and  we,  partake, 
 
 No  atom  of  his  Purpofe  fpilt.  High,  &c. 
 19  His  purpos'd  love  appears  to  view, 
 
 The  way  prepar'd  thro'  fin  and  death ; 
 
 He  fays,  «  My  Son,  I  give  for  you, 
 
 "  To  take  away  the  fin  and  wrath."     High,  &c. 
 
 :o  His  Purpofe  more  and  more  unfold, 
 Concerning  the  eternal  Word, 
 The  prophets,  who  were  fent  of  old, 
 
 All  meaning  Jems  Chrift  the  Lord.     High,  &c, 
 
 21  At  length  he  comes,  and  dwells  in  dull, 
 
 Rejected  and  defpis'd  of  man; 
 They  murdered  the  Pure  and  Juft ; 
 
 But  fo  the  Holy  Purpofe  ran.     High,  Sec. 
 
 22  The  death  he  finifli'd  at  a  blow, 
 
 By  yielding  up  himfelf  to  death ; 
 Grace,  righteoufnefs,  and  life  o'erflow, 
 
 ('Twas  purpos'd  (o,)  for  fin  and  wrath.  High,  &c, 
 
 23  God's  Purpofe  whole  difclofed  lies, 
 
 Within  the  Holy  Book  of  God ; 
 Bl elTed  art  thou  whofe  heart  and  eyes, 
 
 Have  feen,  rejoie'd,  and  underftood.   High,  See. 
 
 24  There's  not  a  blefling  in  the  whole, 
 
 Of  all  his  Purpofe  and  his  Word, 
 But  he  bequeathed  to  thy  foul, 
 
 Who  faithful  art  to  him  thy  Lord.     High,  &c. 
 
 25  Eternal  life,  eternal  death, 
 
 Have  all  the  race  of  Adam  claim'd ; 
 Believe,  and  live,  all  free  from  wrath ; 
 Reject  his  Purpofe,  and  you're  damn'd. 
 Chorus.  High  dominion,  dominion  all  above, 
 
 Dwells  with  God,  and  God  is  love. 
 
 LXXVL 
 
The  FrGgrefs  of  Life  :  or,  All  Flejb  Grafs.        1 15 
 
 LXXVI.  All  Flejb  is  Grafs.     Ifaiah  xl.  6  * 
 
 IN  earlieft  morning  of  our  days, 
 When  fcarce  the  fpring  of  life  begins 
 To  peep,  and  fprinkle  fcantieft  rays 
 
 Of  feeling  o'er  our  weak  machines, 
 Moving  in  filence,  moift,  and  warm, 
 
 Thro'  elemental  fcenes  we  pafs ; 
 Conceiving  neither  good  nor  harm, 
 We  never  know  ourfefh  is  grafs. 
 
 2  Now  drawing  onward  to  the  birth, 
 
 We  ifTue  thro'  the  ports  of  life ; 
 Conceiv'd  in  fin,  in  pain  brought  forth. 
 
 Of  fin  and  pain  we  live  the  tfrife  ; 
 Chill'd  by  the  circumambient  air, 
 
 We  foon  lament  our  change  of  place; 
 Our  fudden  cry  betrays  our  fear, 
 
 As  if  we  cry'd,  "  All  fief j  is  grafs  T 
 
 3  When  wafti'd  with  water  from  the  well, 
 
 Mifchiev'd  by  every  bufy  hand, 
 What  griefs  opprefs,  we  cannot  tell, 
 
 When  piuion'd  hard  in ^Twa  idling  band  i 
 To  fkewer  us  up  i  miftaken  care  ! 
 
 Why  fliould  ye  kill  with  kindnefTes  ? 
 Oh  leave  usunconfin'd  and  bare; 
 
 Remembering,  that  cur  flejb  is  grafs. 
 
 4  We're  butchered  by  our  parents'  love  I 
 
 Spitted  with  pins  in  every  nerve  ; 
 
 P  2  Bound 
 
 *  In  this  text  and  connexion,  flpfh  evidently  figniiles  ■  the  whole 
 nature  and  (late  of  fallen  man :  See  Gen.  vi.  g,  5.  John  iii.  6. 
 Rom.  viii.  7,  8.  Wherefore,  the  lefs  attentive  reader  will  need  to 
 obferve,  that  it  is  only  the  lead  coa&ierkWe  par:  0:  qui  fifaBty  ftrbidi 
 is  touched  upon  in  this  fq*»g. 
 
1 1 6      The  Progrefs  of  Life  :  or,  All  Flefh  Grafs. 
 
 Bound  hand  ahd  foot,  we  cannot  move ! 
 
 A  'prenticefhip  to  pain  we  ferve ! 
 We're  Aew'd,  we're  fretted  from  our  birth ! 
 
 What  harrowing  tortures  o'er  us  pafs! 
 Hard-dragging  us,  poor  frogs  of  earth  ! 
 
 That  we  may  feel  our  flefh  is  grafs. 
 
 5  Another  ftage  of  life  being  gain'd, 
 
 We  lifp  and  prattle  at  the  knee; 
 But  never  long  without  being  pain'd; 
 
 Our  joys  before  our  forrows  flee; 
 Our  breaking  teeth  did  bite  us  fore; 
 
 Now  cholics,  gravels,  break  our  peace; 
 We  weep,  we  wail,  we  pine,  we  roar, 
 
 Alas!  alas!  our  flefh  is  grafs. 
 
 6  How  flow,  how  loth,  we  move  away, 
 
 When  banifli'd  to  the  weary  fchool! 
 Our  matter  chides  our  long  delay, 
 
 His  plaited  brows  upon  us  fcowl; 
 Ah  too !  his  plaited  fcourge  was  rear'd, 
 
 If  any  little  action  was 
 Againft  us,  and  our  quiet,  heard; 
 
 Our  hihcd  fejh  Jhr  link  as  the  grafs, 
 
 7  Advance  we  now  to  floods  of  fin, 
 
 When  childhood  gone,  youth-hood  begins; 
 We  boldly  plunge  us  headlong  in, — 
 
 All  lawlefs,  heedlefs  folly  reigns; 
 We  long,  we  figh,  we  wifh,  we  burn, 
 
 We  grafp  at  ihadows  as  they  pafs; 
 We  laugh,  we  fing;  but  foon  we  mourn, 
 
 Seeing  our  flefh  confumed  grafs. 
 3  Now  fpring  we  at  the  five-bar  gate 
 
 Of  manhood,  emulous  and  proud; 
 4-S  courfers  for  a  mighty  plate, 
 
 Kigh-mettl'd,  fpr'ung  of  trufty  blood ; 
 
 Pounding 
 
The  Frogrejs  of  Life  :  or,  All  klejh  Lirajs.       I  r  7 
 
 Bounding  away,  we  burn:  the  reins, 
 
 Our  founding  hoofs  as  ftrongeft  brafs; 
 Swift  beating  on,  we  fweep  the  plains, 
 
 Ne'er  heeding,  that  our  flejb  is  grafs. 
 9  Now  tir'd,  we  mount  the  higher  ground, 
 
 Of  cool  reflexion,  for  a  while, 
 Surveying  where  food  may  be  found, 
 
 To  folace  us  in  future  toil ; 
 We  cad  about,  and  find  a  fpot, 
 
 Defigning  there  our  life  to  pafs, 
 Refrefhed,  blefTed,  and  what  not  i 
 
 Regard lefs,  that  ourflejh  is  grafs, 
 
 1  o  After  the  inftitution  good, 
 
 True  Adam's  fons,  we  want  an  Eve, 
 Of  youth,  and  beauty,  fenfe,  and  blood ; 
 
 And  w7hat  we  wilh,  perhaps  we  have.- — 
 She  fill'd  the  meafure  of  our  heart, 
 
 The  mother  of  a  blooming  race; 
 But  brooding  hares  the  grey-hounds  flart; 
 
 So,  death  convinc'd,  herfiefb  was  grafs. 
 1  r  Lorn,  on  our  folitary  way, 
 
 Poor  weary  pilgrims,  on  we  move; 
 The  evening  comes,  and  kills  the  day, 
 
 As  death  before  had  kill'd  our  love; 
 We  mourn  as  doves  in  widowhood, 
 
 Our  gold  being  chang'd,  and  turn'd  to  brafs ; 
 We're  glad  within  the  grave  to  fhroud ; 
 
 Our  flefh  confumed  as  the  grafs. 
 
 1 2  O  welcome,  death,  to  prifoned  fouls, 
 
 To  fouls  clean-wafli'd  from  every  (lain; 
 No  more  deep-funk  in  clayey  holes, 
 
 Shall  fliame  and  forrow  o'er  us  reign. 
 O  welcome  to  our  coming  Judge  ! 
 Thy  judgment  quickly  come  to  pafs ; 
 
 With 
 
X  1*8  .  TJje  Marriage  of  the  Lamb. 
 
 With  thee,  that  we  may  wholly  ledge, 
 
 Our  flefli  no  more  confutned  grafs. 
 1 5  O  now  may  we  remember  ftill, 
 
 Our  prefent  irate  will  pafs  away ; 
 To  holy  purpofe  frame  our  will, 
 
 While  tabernacling  in  this  clay ; 
 We'll  find  that  jewel  within  the  grave, 
 
 We  ne'er  could  find  above  the  ground ; 
 For  Jefus  will  us  wholly  fave, 
 
 Ourflefo  and  all  with  glory  crowrtd. 
 
 — ! _— 
 
 LXXVII.  Be  glad  and  rejoice,  for  the  Marriage  of 
 the  Lamb  is  come,  and  his  Wife  hath  made  her- 
 felf  ready.  Rev.  xix.  7. 
 
 BE  gone,  every  vanity,  toying  and  play; 
 Bafe  imaginations,  be  gone,  every  one; 
 yjBe  gone,  every  fpirit  of  going  aftray; 
 
 'Be  gone,  every  idol,  be  gone  ye,  be  gone. 
 irus.  O  fee  my  Bridegroom !  O  fee  him !  O  fee ! 
 All  in  glory  he  fliines!  all  in  glory  he  reigns! 
 All  in  glory  he's  coming,  he's  coming  for  me !: 
 The  Lamb,  my  Bridegroom,  he  abommates  fin  ;  * 
 
 He  waih'd  away  all  my  pollution  and  ftain;- 
 And  were  it  for  me,  now  to  wallow  a  fwine, 
 
 As  a  dog  foon  returning  to  his  vomit  again  ?  O,  &c. 
 Be  gone,  melancholy,  amazement,  and  doubt; 
 
 Why  would  ye  my  fpirit  furround  as  the  night? 
 Lo,  the  Lamb,  my  Redeemer,  defcends  with  a  fliout; 
 A'l  dazzling  the  fun  with  the  blaze  of  his  light!— 
 
 LXXVIII. 
 
The  Counfel  of  Peace.  f  rj 
 
 LXXVIII.  The  Counfel  of  Peace  fhall  be  between 
 them  both,  even  between  Jehovah  and  the  Man 
 whofe  Name  is  the  Branch.  Zech.  vi.  13. 
 
 BY  God's  own  Eternal  Word,  rofe  into  being 
 Creation,  according  to  his  purpofes; 
 In  glory,  which  finifn'd,  before  him  when  feeing, 
 
 Pronounced  he  "  Good,"  for  his  Counfel  was  peace. 
 When  Adam  was  lorded,  and  covenant  given, 
 
 In  name  of  himfelf  and  his  following  race, 
 By  perfonal  working,  to  climb  up  to  heaven, 
 
 God's  Counfel  was  pure,  and  his  Counfel  was  peace. 
 When  Adam  made  fhipwreck  of  all  that  he  had, 
 
 His  paradife  funk  in  his  unrighteoufnefs, 
 Jehovah  provided  a  fecond  new  head; 
 
 His  Counfel  the  fame,  and  his  Counfel  was  peace. 
 When  Noah  alone  was  the  righteous  found, 
 
 Corrupted  around  him  all  flefh  in  their  ways, 
 A  deluge  of  vengeance  was  pour'd  on  the  ground ; 
 
 God  fhewing  his  wrath  in  his  Counfel  of  peace. 
 
 When  Abram  was  called  away  from  Chaldea, 
 
 Affur'd  of  the  coming  Meffiah  and  grace, 
 Sojourning  he  travelled  into  Idumea ; 
 
 Purfuing  God's  Counfel,  his  Counfel  of  peace. 
 When  Lot  was  delivered,  the  chofen  of  God ; 
 
 Strange  abominations  around  him  did  prefsj 
 God  raining  a  hell  of  fire  on  their  abode, 
 
 Shew'd  the  ire  of  his  wrath  for  his  Counfel  of  peace. 
 When  Pharaoh  of  Egypt  God's  Ifrael  opprefTed, 
 
 And  thought  to  have  made  the  whole  nation  to  ceafe, 
 The  Counfel  of  God,  Pharaoh's  counfel  repreffed; 
 
 To  Pharaoh  'twas  wrath,  bur  to  Ifrael  peace. 
 
 8  Even 
 
!2o  The  Sabbath. 
 
 8  Even  fo,  the  redemption  difplayed  to  view, 
 Fulfilled  by  Jems  in  power  of  his  grace, 
 Rejected,  is  abfolute  wrath  unto  you; 
 
 But  if  you  believe  it,  a  Counfel  of  peace. 
 
 LXXIX.  There  remaineth  a  Sabbath  to  the  People 
 of  God.  Heb.  iv.  5. 
 
 WEEKLY,  weekly,  comes  the  Sabbath, 
 Sweetly,  fweetly,  comes  to  me ;  » 
 
 For  to  me  the  way  it  paveth, 
 
 To  the  reft  I  fain  would  fee ; 
 Fain  would  fee  it,  fain  would  fee  it ; 
 
 Yet  I  muft  endure  a  while, 
 And  be  quiet,  and  be  quiet, 
 Till  my  Lord  upon  me  fmile. 
 
 2  Smile  thou  on  me,  fmile  thou  on  me, 
 
 Giving  all  my  fpirit  reins ; 
 As  the  funny,  as  the  funny 
 
 Beams  diflolve  the  icy  chains ; 
 Icy  chains  diftblved  all, 
 
 Down  the  rapid  rivers  flow ; 
 Flow,  and  in  the  ocean  fall; 
 
 I  into  my  ocean  go ; 
 
 3  Ocean  of  celeftial  joy, 
 
 Where  I  fwim  for  evermore ; 
 Where  no  preying  fharks  annoy, 
 
 Where  no  ftormy  billows  roar. 
 Flowing  pleafures,  fmooth  as  oil, 
 
 Waft  us,  waft  us  to  and  fro ; 
 In  oblivion  former  toil, 
 
 God  and  love  is  all  we  know. 
 
 4  Such  the  portion  of  the  holy, 
 
 Who  the  Sabbath  keep  in  love  ; 
 
yi/ory  in  Tribulation  alfo.  in 
 
 Loving  truth,  and  hating  folly, 
 
 They  converfe  with  God  above; 
 God  in  them,  and  they  in  God, 
 
 Dwelling  in  his  bofom  blefs'd, 
 Heaven  is  their  laft  abode ; 
 
 God  their  everlafting  reft. 
 
 LXXX.  Not  only  fo,  but  we  glory  in  Tribulation 
 
 alfo.   Rom.  v.  3. 
 
 OHOW  well  does  joy  become 
 All  the  followers  of  the  Lamb ! 
 The  Lamb  is  going  to  take  us  home, 
 
 Home  unto  the  great  I  AM, 
 Acquiefce  ye  in  the  Lamb, 
 
 Who  our  PaiTover  did  fall; 
 Shines  he  in  the  pureft  flame, 
 Flame  of  love  upon  us  all. 
 
 2  What !  ye  royal  heirs  of  God, 
 
 Living  free  upon  his  love, 
 Living  by  the  precious  blood 
 
 Of  his  only  Son  above ; 
 Has  he  given  his  only  Son, 
 
 Will  he  now  withhold  a  creature  ? 
 Suffer  you  to  be  undone  ! 
 
 When  he  gave  the  divine  nature  ? 
 
 5  Divine  nature  gave  for  you ! 
 
 Left  you  doubt  of  his  good-will ; 
 Every  creature  is  your  due ; 
 
 Wave  your  cup,  and  drink  your  fill ; 
 Drink  your  fill  of  holy  wines, 
 God  enjoying  in  them  all; 
 Richer  than  the  Ophir  mines, 
 Can  you  want  a  penny  fmall  ? 
 
 Q^  4  Ha3 
 
122  Glory  in  Tribulation  alfo, 
 
 4  Has  he  pour'd  the  ocean  on  you, 
 
 Grudging  you  a  little  drop  ? 
 Fy  and  (name !  O  fy  upon  you ! 
 
 Grudging  at  a  fcanty  cup  ! 
 Cup,  amazing  cup  of  wrath  ! 
 
 Jefus  drunk  it  up  for  you, 
 Drunk  to  your  eternal  health  ; 
 
 Will  ye  grudge  to  pledge  him  now? 
 
 5  Pledge  him,  in  falvation  pure. 
 
 All  the  wrath  he  drain'd  away; 
 Thank  him,  ye,  with  all  your  power, 
 
 Singing  chearful  pleafant  lay ; 
 What  though  bitter  be  the  beverage, 
 
 Bitter  herbs  are  wholfome  drink  ; 
 Taking  matters  at  an  average, 
 
 You  no  reafon  have  to  flirrnk. 
 
 6  The  ingredients  all  are  mingled, 
 
 Mingled  with  the  blood  of  Chrift ; 
 Sadly  is  your  judgment  jumbled, 
 
 If  you  think  they  are  not  blefs'd; 
 Blefs'd,  and  abfolutely  needful, 
 
 To  fubdue  your  fleftily  furfeit ; 
 Fleflily  furfeit  is  mod  dreadful; 
 
 Flefli  fubdued,  you  are  perfect. 
 
 7  Tender  mothers  thus  confider, 
 
 The  difeafes  in  their  child; 
 Child  indeed  may  flirink  and  fhudder, 
 
 At  the  mother's  purpofe  mild; 
 While  the  bitter,  bitter  potion, 
 
 Wrings  the  heart  and  throws  the  brow, 
 The  difeafes  make  remotion; 
 
 And  the  child  alive  comes  thro\ 
 
 8  Here  we  flay  a  little  fpace, 
 
 Kept  within  thenurfery  walls: 
 
Glory  in  Tribulation  dlfo*  123 
 
 la  the  hands  of  fovereign  grace, 
 
 Wifely  ordering  what  befals. 
 We  would  perifti  unreftrained; 
 
 All  forbidden  fruit  ,is  death ; 
 But,  our  peccant  humours  drained, 
 
 We  are  faved  from  the  wrath. 
 
 9  Brighten  up  your  cloudy  brow, 
 
 Let  your  Alining  glory  chear  ye  \ 
 Banifh  moody  fafhions,  now, 
 
 When  your  heaven  is  fo  near  ye. 
 You  fhall  eat  the  Manna  fine  ; 
 
 O  how  proper  is  its  name! 
 "  What  is  this?"  And  this  is  thine; 
 
 Heaven  is  a  pleafant  theme. 
 
 10  You  (hall  drink  the  blood  of  grape, 
 
 God's  fweet  confolation  wine, 
 Which  for  you  your  God  doth  keep, 
 
 Preifed  from  his  own  True  Vine; 
 You  fhall  drink  in  flowing  bowls, 
 
 Brimming  full  and  running  p'er; 
 Heaven  defcending  on  your  fouls, 
 
 Till  you  can  receive  no  more. 
 
 11  Sing,  creation,  a  new  fong; 
 
 Lend  me,  angels,  lend  your  fire ; 
 Nay,  my  God,  they  need  their  own: 
 
 Thy  good  Spirit  me  infpire. 
 AUelujahs  upward  fly, 
 
 Fly  they  now  and  evermore; 
 My  Redeemer  bring  me  nigh ; 
 
 That  I  thy  love  may  all  explore. 
 
 Q^2  LXXX: 
 
124  The  Saints  in  this  World. 
 
 LXXXL  It  doth  not  yet  appear  what  we /hall  be, 
 i  John  hi.  2. 
 
 ON  loud- founding  pinions  the  eagle  he  flies  ; 
 Even  fo,  O  my  foul,  thou  (halt  flie  to  the  flues. 
 Full-winged  with  joy,  fpringing  quickly  away, 
 Above  every  fliadow,  to  bafk  in  the  day. 
 
 2  Methinks  now  already  the  glory  I  feel ; 
 My  God  he  is  love;  and  he  loveth  me  well ; 
 Imbofom'd  compaflions  from  God  to  me  flow; 
 He  made  me  a  fon,  he  will  glorify  too. 
 
 3  No  marvel,  beloved,  if  fools  do  not  know, 
 Nor  you,  nor  the  way  you  are  haflening  to  go ; 
 Whom  Satan  had  blinded,  the  truth -never  knew; 
 The  Son  and  the  Father  were  hid  from  their  view, 
 
 4  They  proudly  difdained,  and  fpurned  at  God, 
 Now  bleeding  in  chains,  they  are  lafh'd  by  his  rod; 
 Such  punifhing  vengeance  have  thofe  who  rebel, 
 Quite  banifli'd  his  prefence,  quite  banilh'd  to  hell. 
 
 5  But  highly  beloved,  beloved  of  him, 
 
 From  you,  in  his  love,  he  removed  the  crime ; 
 
 He  faid,  "  Be  there  light ;"  and  all  lightening  it  fleWj 
 
 He  faid,  "  Be  ye  fons ;"  and  created  us  nev* 
 
 6  All  fons!  yea,  and  princes!  a  kingdom  enfues; 
 The  kingdom  he  promis'd,  the  kingdom  is  ours ; 
 How  high  is  that  dignity,  he  only  knows, 
 
 Who  dwelling  in  kindnefs,  his  kindnefs  bellows. 
 
 7  But  children,  tho'  heirs,  yet  we  cannot  enjoy, 
 Till  fully  prepared  for  fulnefs  of  joy; 
 
 We  live  in  this  nurfery  a  competent  while, 
 "  To  be  thoroughly  purg'd  of  fuperfluous  guile. 
 
 8  Advancing  in  ftature,  advancing  in  grace, 
 He  gives  us  a  leffon,  and  failles  in  our  face ; 
 
 if 
 
The  Saints  in  this  World.  H$ 
 
 If  hardly  put  to  it,  all  tender  his  bowels, 
 
 He  kindly  will  ihow  us,  and  call  us  his  jewels. 
 
 <?  Yet,  if  any  fhameful  foul  deed  he  efpies, 
 
 Love  burns  in  his  bofom,  but  wrath  in  his  eyes; 
 Companion  calls  loudly  the  fcourges  to  rear; 
 Aloft  fly  the  fcourges  high  trembling  in  air. » 
 
 io  If  humbled  in  fpirit,  we  (land  all  abafh'd; 
 The  darlings  are  fpar'd,  the  iniquity  quanVd; 
 That  hateful  yet  if  we  go  on  to  efpoufe, 
 "With  blows  quick  he  plies  us  redoubled  on  blows, 
 
 1 1  Say,  why  to  his  chofen  chaftifement  he  gives  ? 
 There's  none  of  his  chofen  pollutionlefs  lives ; 
 If  none  of  the  finful,  the  hateful,  will  we, 
 
 No  more  of  the  wrathful,  the  mournful,  will  he. 
 
 12  How  fadly  besieged,  encompafled  round, 
 
 We  live  in  this  wildernefs,  fetter'd  and  bound  ! 
 O  liberty,  liberty  !  who  will  give  thee  ? 
 O  thanks  be  to  Jefus !  by  Jefus  we're  free  ! 
 
 1 3  O  Jefus,  thou  faw  us  moil  fiercely  purfu'd, 
 Purfu'd  by  the  dragon,  while  hell  all  halloo 'd  • 
 The  dragon  threw  after  a  fwallowing  flood; 
 But  full  in  his  face  thou  expofed  thy  blood ; 
 
 14  And  dying,  thou  flew  him,  by  yielding  to  death; 
 Hofannah  to  Jefus,  the  breath  of  our  breath ; 
 Demolifhing  death,  lo,  thou  hung  on  the  tree; 
 And  left  an  example  for  following  thee. 
 
 15  The  royalty  of  heaven  ally'd  to  the  crofs! 
 Confpicuous  example  of  loyalty  to  us ! 
 Who  dwelled  in  light,  the  Creator  of  all, 
 Deep  humbled  in  dud,  high  exalted  our  fall. 
 
 16  O  where  now  thy  arrows  and  quiver,  O  God? 
 All  emptied  thy  quiver,  thy  arrows  beftow'$! 
 
 Ail 
 
126  PRATER. 
 
 All  empty'd  on  him!  no  one  arrow  was  loft; 
 He  fufiamed  our  caufe,  and  he  yielded  the  ghoft. 
 
 1 7  All  highly  exalted,  now  therefore  he  reigns ; 
 Above  all  dominion  he  ever  remains; 
 
 How  low  he  was  humbled,  was  humbled  for  thee, 
 How  highly  exalted,  fo  high  {halt  thou  be. 
 
 1 8  Thus  aiming  and  bending  the  lower  the  bow, 
 The  high-pointed  arrow  the  higher  will  go ; 
 So  bended  and  aimed  for  heavenly  abode, 
 We're  fent  aloft,  fpringing,  and  foaring  to  God. 
 
 19  The  poor  bird  imprifoned,  all  fluttering  her  wings, 
 Efcapt  from  her  cagings,  to  heaven  ihe  fprings; 
 
 So  flightring,  fo  rapid,  fo  trembling,  fo  keen, 
 On  our  manumiflion,  our  foul  fhall  take  wing, 
 
 20  Yet,  O  my  Beloved,  we  know  not  at  all, 
 What  bleflings  the  fons  of  redemption  befal ; 
 But  fee  him  a  coming  in  clouds  of  the  air, 
 And  we  ihall  refemble  him,  fo  glorious,  fo  fair. 
 
 LXXXU.   The  Spirit  helpeth  our  infirmities,  and 
 maketh  inter cejjion  for  us.  Rom.  viii.  26. 
 
 HOW  fwift  flies  the  prayer  that's  wing'd  by  the 
 How  vehement,  expecting,  accepted!    [Spirit! 
 Infifting  on  righteoufnefs,  blood,  and  pure  merit 
 Of  Jefus,  pleas  never  rejected! 
 
 As  flies  all  a-trembling,  purfu'd  by  the  hawk, 
 The  dove,  and  fhe  flies  to  her  dove-cote ; 
 
 So  flies  the  foul  fpeedily,  guilt  at  her  back, 
 Nor  refts  fhe  till  high  all  above  got. 
 
 Keen-flightring,  high-panting,  Ihe  hies  to  the  throne ; 
 All  breathing  fubmiffion,  fhe  down  falls; 
 
 The 
 
HOPE.  127 
 
 The  Lamb  that  was  flain,  well-regarding  her  moan, 
 In  mercy  upon  her  he  foon  calls. 
 
 4  His  tender  companions  come  flowing  upon  her ; 
 
 Her  (tains  of  pollution  evanilh; 
 He  fills  her  with  gladnefs,  a  veflel  of  honour; 
 .  And,  fays  he,  "  All  fadnefs  I  banifh." 
 
 5  She  drinks  of  the  pleafures  encircling  the  throne, 
 
 And  dwells  upon  high  hallelujahs; 
 Her  paffions,  all  joy,  to  the  Lamb  cry,  and  run, 
 u  We'll  never  betray  thee,  as  Judas.5' 
 
 6  O  faithful,  and  humble,  rejoicing  in  God, 
 
 Her  paflions,  her  all,  in  thy  keeping, 
 All  blamelefc,  preferve  her,  to  thy  own  abode, 
 Where  fin  cannot  enter,  nor  weeping. 
 
 LXXXIII.    We  are  faved  tbro*  Hope.  Rom.  viii.  25. 
 OPE,  O  Hope,  my  hidden  treafure, 
 
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 Wilt  thou  ever  leave  my  heart? 
 Thou,  my  fource  of  fweetefl  pleafure, 
 Can  I  live  if  thou  depart  ? 
 
 2  Far  away  be  ill  foreboding, 
 
 Thus,  I  hug  thee  to  my  breaft! 
 Dwell  thou  here,  as  dove  purfu'd  in 
 By  the  hawk  into  her  nefh 
 
 3  Soft  and  downy  be  thy  dwelling, 
 
 Feathered  well  with  tender  love; 
 Evil  bird  of  prey,  rebelling, 
 
 Ne'er  a  wing  fhall  at  thee  move. 
 
 4  Thou  and  I,  in  union  decent, 
 
 Lovingly  will  pafs  the  way; 
 Hardefl  ways  with  thee  feem  pleaiant ; 
 Night  bv  thee  is  turn'd  to  ihv, 
 
 LXXXIV 
 
nS  Hope,   to   Dejpair. 
 
 LXXXIV.  Thefe  two  contrary  the  one  to  the  other. 
 Gal.  v.  17. 
 
 o 
 
 |UT,  thou  hideous,  dreadful  creature! 
 Dreadful  enemy  to  me ! 
 I'm  deftruction  to  thy  nature, 
 Thou  deftru&ion  unto  me. 
 
 Light  and  darknefs  cannot  mingle, 
 
 Cold  and  heat  cannot  agree; 
 Truth  I  cannot  well  diffemble, 
 
 Sad  defpair  is  not  for  me. 
 
 • .  ■"' 
 
 LXXXV.  God  waited  in  the  Days  of  Noah,  while 
 the  Ark  was  a  -preparing,  1  Pet,  iii.  20. 
 
 AS  mufing  upon  a  full  thoufand  of  things, 
 My  fpirit  away  with  me  fuddenly  fprings; 
 She  flew  to  the  ages  beyond  Noah's  flood, 
 And  faw  all  befides  him,  vain,  haughty,  and  proud. 
 
 All  keen  mighty  hunters  of  ftiadows  and  clouds, 
 Purfuing  thro*  vallies,  and  mountains,  and  woods ; 
 No  flopping,  no  flaying,  mad  whirlwinds,  they  flew, 
 Impetuous,  refiftlefs,  as  th'  hurricane  blew. 
 
 All  laughter,  and  lewdnefs,  and  mirth  now  they  fcem; 
 Now  with  {laughter,  and  carnage,  and  havoc  they  teem ; 
 Lo,  plagues  upon  plagues  to  reclaim  them  are  fent ; 
 And  they  run  up  the  fword,  tho'  their  bowels  be  rent. 
 
 As  wild  beafts,  when  ftriken,  enraged  the  more, 
 They  gnaw  on  the  weapon,  and  fuck  up  their  gore; 
 New  emptied  the  quiver,  in  Angle  blows  fpenf, 
 The  flood-gates  of  vengeance  again  A  them  gtz  vent. 
 Unhing'd  in  a  twinkling,  the  heavens  give  way ; 
 To  night,  inftamaneous,  is  changed  the  day  ; 
 
 Loud- 
 
The    Fbod*  129 
 
 Loud-ruftiing,  the  deluge  defcerids  in  the  ftorm, 
 And  fweeps  away  all,  from  the  prince  to  the  worm. 
 
 6  What  hideous  yellings,  and  terrors  of  death, 
 
 £y  fmothered  in  'whelming  wide  oceans  of  wrath! 
 The  hidden  foundations,  th'  unfearchable  deep, 
 Dafht  high  to  the  heavens,  no  boundaries  keep. 
 
 7  Tumultuous,  roaring   and  eddying,  boil 
 
 The  tempefted  waters,  thick-mingled  with  foil ; 
 Dafltt  to  and  fro,  wheeling,  afloat  on  the  tide, 
 Men,  cattle,  and  forefts,  promifcuoufly  ride. 
 
 8  But  Noah,  the  patriarch,  fingly  preferv'd, 
 Who  God,  with  his  family,  faithfully  ferv'd, 
 The  wave-caffied  ark  of  appointment  up-bore, 
 Till  the  waters  affwaged  were  funk  in  their  fhore. 
 
 9  Thus,  vengeance  broke  loofe,  thro'  the  breach  of 
 
 the  law, 
 Tremendous  o'erflow'd  us !  we  could  not  withdraw ; 
 No  mortal,  no  angel,  the  torrent  could  item ; 
 Our  barriers  oppofing,  went  down  with  the  ftream. 
 
 10  Now  death  inevitable,  feal'd  with  amen, 
 Was  fwallowirig  up  all  of  the  children  of  men ; 
 When  lo,  inexpreffible !  wing'd  with  defire, 
 The  Son  of  God  flew,  and  extinguifli'd  the  fire. 
 
 1 1  The  vengeance  was  fire,  and  it  burnt  up  his  foul ; 
 But  this  he  endured,  that  we  might  be  whole ; 
 He  drunk  up  the  wrath,  and  he  drunk  to  our  peace ; 
 He  died,  and  bequeathed  us  falvation  and  grace. 
 
 12  Yea,  lo,  I  behold  him  arifen  and  crown'd, 
 With  glory  ineffable  compaifed  round ; 
 His  Teftament  cannot  but  fully  obtain ; 
 His  own  full  executor  now  he  doth  reign. 
 
 R  tXXX 
 
1 3  ©  The '  -  judgment. 
 
 LXXXVI.  Behold  the  Lord  cometh  with  ten  thoufands 
 cfhis  S  a  bits,  to  execute  judgment  upon  all.  Jude  15. 
 
 HEaving  the  mountains  from  their  vafl  foundations, 
 Filling  the  world  with  dire  tumultuations, 
 Raifmg  the  dead  from  filent  habitations, 
 
 Loudly  refoundeth 
 Voice  of  the  trumpet,  dreadful  and  amazing; 
 All  in  fierce  flames  around  the  wide  world  blazing; 
 Hark  ye!  be  humble,  proud  heart,  all  abafing, 
 Pride  it  confoundeth. 
 
 2  Jefus,  behold  him  glorioufly  fhining, 
 
 Bending  the  ikies  down,  cloud-charioted,  leaning 
 Forward,  all  eager,  holy  judgment  keen  on, 
 
 Angels  beholding; 
 All  emulation,  to  perform  his  orders, 
 Swift  fly  the  angels  forth  to  all  the  borders 
 Of  his  dominions.     Faithful  true  recorders, 
 
 Books,  are  unfolding. 
 
 3  Thrones  being  builded,  builded  for  the  purpofe, 
 Off  in  an  inflant,  heaven  with  the  earth  goes, 
 All  in  a  tempeft;  for  on  them  his  breath  blows; 
 
 Place  for  them  none  is. 
 Lo,  his  ambaffadors  now  a-returning, 
 Onward  advancing,  his  bowels  fall  a-yerning, 
 Viewing  with  them  the  bleft  fons  of  his  mourning; 
 
 Mourning  now  gone  is. 
 
 4  Love  from  his  countenance  directly  beaming, 
 Shine  they  illuftrious,  with  joy  all  a-gleaming; 
 Sun-like,  around  him  prefs,  circling  and  ftreaming, 
 
 Bold  and  victorious, 
 Saints  bright  embodied,  keen,  keen  exploring; 
 Cherubim,  feraphim,  rapturous  adoring; 
 
 Great 
 
Let  not  your  Hearts  be  troubled. 
 
 Great  principalities  their  ardors  pour  in ; 
 
 High  all  and  glorious. 
 Loftily  waving,  flies  the  banner  royal ; 
 Silent  and  paufing,  fee  the  army  loyal, 
 Spring  at  their  fentence,  leaping  full  of  joy  all ! 
 
 "  Yours  is  the  kingdom." 
 Sweet  hallelujahs  founding,  all  aloft  fly; 
 Gladnefs  to  tranfport  in  an  inftant  wrought  high; 
 Full  on  the  right  hand,  wheeling  they  are  brought 
 
 Judging  to  give  doom ;  [nigh » 
 
 Doom  on  the  godlefs,  haughty,  proud,  rebelling; 
 Dafht  with  a  blow,  they  fink  down,  fadly  yelling, 
 Hopelefs,  confounded;   hot  hell  muft  they  dwell  in; 
 
 Guards  quick  enclofe  them. 
 Ah  me !  how  ghaftly  hideoufly  fcreaming, 
 Look  they,  when  feeing  furioufly  ftreaming, 
 Brimftone  and  fire!    the  Judge  fays,  "  Throw  ye 
 
 Vengeance  o'erilows  them.  [them  in.'7 
 
 LXXXVII.  Let  not  your  Hearts  be  troubled,  John  xiv.  i 
 
 AWAY,  away  with  blading  dews, 
 That  dwell  in  barren  foil, 
 That  prey  upon  the  tender  boughs, 
 And  all  the  bloffoms  fpoil. 
 
 2  The  blading  dews,  are  doubts  and  fears, 
 
 About  your  Father's  love  ; 
 Banifh  your  doubts,  dry  up  your  tears ; 
 His  purpofe  cannot  move. 
 
 3  Believe,  he  locks  you  in  his  bread: ; 
 
 I  know  you  do  believe  ; 
 He  keeps  you  well,  his  jewels  bleft; 
 No  creature  can  mifchieve. 
 
 R  2  4  Thi 
 
132  Let  not  year  Hearts  be  troubled, 
 
 4  The  high  Creator  is  your  God, 
 
 Behold,  he  reigns  in  love ; 
 He  fent  me  from  his  bleft  abode. 
 To  fend  you  all  above. 
 
 5  Within  my  Father's  dwelling-place, 
 
 Full  many  manfions  are ; 
 And  I,  the  Son  of  all  your  peace, 
 Am  his  appointed  heir. 
 
 6  Thofe  tabernacles  of  his  joy, 
 
 To  me  he  will  difpofe ; 
 My  power  and  fkill  1  will  employ, 
 On  them  for  your  repofe. 
 
 7  I  go,  even  now,  mov'd  with  defire. 
 
 My  promife  to  fulfil ; 
 My  bofom  glows  with  keenefl  fire, 
 To  do  my  Father's  will. 
 
 8  1  go  but  for  a  moment's  ftay, 
 
 My  Spirit  wings  my  fpeed  j 
 I  only  go  to  pave  the  way, 
 •    For  you,  my  chofen  feed, 
 
 9  And  as  I  go,  I  come  again, 
 
 To  take  you  up  with  me ; 
 In  brighteft  glory  you  fhall  reign, 
 Where'er  ypur  Lord  fliall  be. 
 
 I  o  The  where  you  know,  you  know  the  way  j 
 '  "  O  Lord,  how  is  it  fo? 
 f.  The  place  itfelf  we  cannot  fay, 
 "  Much  lefs  the  way  you  go." 
 
 j  1  I  am  the  Way,  the  Truth,  the  Life, 
 The  only  way  orckin'd ; 
 The  Father's  love  by  this  belief, 
 pm  only  be  regain'd, 
 
 12  Save 
 
HU  M  I  L  IT  T.  133 
 
 12  Save  only  me,  th'  accepted  One, 
 Who  yield  for  you  my  breath, 
 And  with  my  blood  the  wrath  atone, 
 '  All's  wandering,  error,  death ! 
 
 LXXXVI1I.  Before  Honour  is  Humility.  Prov.xviii.  i2c 
 
 HUMILITY,  fweet  precious  grace! 
 All  looking  mild  and  lowly, 
 Love,  fmiling  in  her  lovely  face, 
 Came  gliding  to  me  flowly. 
 
 2  «  Behold,  behold  thy  Son,"  I  faid. 
 
 "  Behold  thy  guardian  angel," 
 Replied  the  celeftial  maid, 
 And  gave  me  an  evangel. 
 
 3  Th'  evangel  opens  to  my  view, 
 
 Clear  truth,  and  no  opinion  j 
 She  all  into  my  bofom  flew, 
 
 And  fhew'd  to  me  the  meaning. 
 
 4  Oft  had  I  view'd,  but  never  feen, 
 
 The  lowlinefs  of  Jefus ; 
 Why  he  was  humbled  all  fo  mean, 
 Remain'd  a  puzzling  thefis. 
 
 5  She  prefs'd  my  fpirit  with  her  hand, 
 
 And  blew  upon  my  vifion; 
 I  faw  the  Son,  on  high  command, 
 Come  down  to  heal  diviuon. 
 
 6  The  yielding  heavens  gave  him  way; 
 
 It  was  his  Father's  purpofe, 
 To  give  him  univerfal  fway, 
 And  banifli  vain  ufurpers. 
 
 7  Vain  ufurpers  banifh'd,  flew, 
 
 Like  whirlwinds  in  a  temped. 
 
 Before 
 
i34  HUM  I  L  ITT. 
 
 Before  the  burning  bolts  he  threw; 
 So  fled  they  from  his  camp  faft. 
 
 8  Hofanna  to  the  Prince  of  peace, 
 
 Hofanna  in  the  higheft; 
 If  thou  rebel  againft  his  grace, 
 He  frowneth,  and  thou  died. 
 
 9  Lo,  fee,  the  proud  tumultuous  one?. 
 
 With  maddeft  envy  fwelling, 
 High  principalities  and  thrones, 
 
 "Whofe  fiercenefs  call'd  for  quelling  • 
 
 10  Faft-bolted,  deep  within  the  pit,      |   jyS 
 
 In  fpite  of  all  their  raging ; 
 Their  bridled  jaw-teeth  gnaw  the  bit; 
 Their  pain  fees  no  affwaging. 
 
 11  Oh,  had  they  but  contented  been, 
 
 Alone  to  have  rebelled; 
 Alone  they  had  his  fury  feen, 
 Alone  they  had  been  quelled! 
 
 1 2  But  ah !  the  day  that  fin  began, 
 
 That  fin  began  in  Adam! 
 They  eat  the  fruit  againft  the  bann, 
 Becaufe  the  ferpent  bade  them. 
 
 1 3  Invenom'd  pride  began  to  fwell, 
 
 To  fwell  within  their  fpirit; 
 On  pride  deftruclion  fudden  fell; 
 Why  did  the  man  come  near  it? 
 
 14  For  pride,  the  fecond  Adam  came, 
 
 All  humbled  down,  the  loweft; 
 Fair  Innocent,  atoning  Lamb, 
 Our  guilt  who  undergoeft ! 
 jc  For  pride  of  ours,  o'erflow'd  thy  foul, 
 The  'whelming  floods  of  vengeance; 
 
 Thy 
 
hum  r  lit  r.  i35 
 
 Thy  foul  flood  all  a  fiery  pool, 
 Becaufe  of  pride  avengings. 
 
 [6  All  fad,  thou  *  Eli,  Eli  *,"  cry'd, 
 Yea,  "  Lama  fabachthani  -f  ? 
 Then  yielded  up  the  Ghoft  and  dy'd, 
 And  rofe  the  life  of  many. 
 [7  Advanced  to  thy  peerlefs  throne, 
 God  over  all  thou  reigneft; 
 God's  ever  bleffed  Heir  and  Son, 
 Thou  evermore  remaineft. 
 
 [  8  Thy  Father  rais'd  thee  by  his  power, 
 And  thus  exalted  highly; 
 Becaufe  that  thou  didft  in  thy  hour, 
 Death-humbled  in  his  eye  Jy. 
 [  0  Aloft,  my  foul,  thy  praifes  fend, 
 And  vie  with  high  dominions; 
 The  higher  thou  thy  praife  intend, 
 The  lower  felf-opinions. 
 
 20  Self-opinions!  O  how  low! 
 
 They  fink,  but  cannot  raife  ye; 
 If  drowning  in  the  fwa] lowing  main, 
 Would  grafped  bubbles  eafe  ye  ? 
 1 1  Puih  boldly  for  the  Eternal  Rock, 
 Self-yielding  as  a  willow; 
 Then  boldly  brave  the  fierceft  (hock, 
 And  laugh  at  every  billow. 
 22  Humility's  the  beft  buoy; 
 
 Created  things  will  leave  yej 
 Humility  will  give  you  joy, 
 In  him  who  can  relieve  ye. 
 
 2  3  Humility's  the  feathered  wing, 
 To  paradife  that  foareth  ; 
 
 Humility 
 
 *  My  God,  my  God.  f  Why  haft  thou  forfaken  me  ? 
 
i36  HE  AVER 
 
 Humility  will  foar  and  fing, 
 
 When  bittereft  temped  roareth. 
 
 24  The  bittereft  t'empefl  pour'd  and  roar\i 
 
 Againfl  the  bfeffed  Jefus  ; 
 Humility  the  path  explor'd, 
 And  wing'd  his  way  to  fave  us. 
 
 25  To  fet  a  pattern,  he  came  down, 
 
 Among  us  Meek  and  Lowly  -7 
 Humility  to  give  his  own, 
 And  glorify  them  wholly. 
 
 26  All  humbly,  then,  you rfelf  deny, 
 
 His  glory  he  will  fliow  ye ; 
 If  you  deny  humility, 
 
 He'll  never,  never  know  ye. 
 
 LXXXIX.  They  afcended  up  to  Heaven  in  a  Cloud. 
 Rev.  ix.  12. 
 
 L 
 
 IGHTLY  bounding  as  a  roe, 
 Leaps  my  heart  within  my  bofom, 
 Heaven,  when  I  think  on  you, 
 All  my  hopes  begin  to  blofTom. 
 
 2  Lo,  evaniih  as  a  dream, 
 
 Vapours,  damps,  and  melancholy ; 
 Sun  of  Glory's  cheary  beam 
 
 Chafeth  madnefs,  froth,  and  folly. 
 
 3  Fairy-fancies,  in  a  ring, 
 
 Nightly-fkipping,  would  perfuade  us, 
 They  fubftantial  bleflings  bring ; 
 But  awake,  we  find  them  fhadows. 
 
 4  Droufy  mortals,  ho,  give  heed, 
 
 Look  with  me,  and  fee  them  flying  • 
 
 Half 
 
HEAVEN.  137 
 
 Half  your  earthly  joys  are  dead ; 
 All  the  reft  are  quickly  dying. 
 
 5  What!  afleepyet!  ah!  the  flames 
 
 All  your  houfe  and  goods  invade! 
 Save  you  will  a  hugged  dream, 
 And  a  head  wrapt  in  the  bed  i 
 
 6  Lo,  the  deathful  fmouldering  fmoke 
 
 Smothers  him  and  all  his  vifions; 
 Ere  the  fire  his  flumbers  broke, 
 Soul  and  body  felt  divifions. 
 
 7  Haplefs  creatures !  all  deceived, 
 
 With  the  grofTeft  of  delufions ! 
 But,  my  fpirit,  thou  relieved, 
 
 Triumph'ft  o'er  the  dark  counfufions, 
 
 8  All-rejoicing,  thou  art  bold, 
 
 Free  from  all  that  e'er  difpleafes, 
 Canft  thou  fee,  and  yet  be  cold  ? 
 Cold !  and  fee  the  blood  of  Jefus  ? 
 
 9  Blood  of  Jefus  pav'd  the  way, 
 
 Pav'd  it  all  with  choicefl  bleflings, 
 Bleffings  now,  and  bleflings  ay, 
 Pav'd  the  way  to  full  poffeflions. 
 
 10  Here,  we  tafle  fome  pleafant  drops, 
 
 Dwelling  in  the  land  of  Gofhen, 
 Love  by  little,  little  fips; 
 Swim  we,  there,  in  love's  wide  ocean. 
 
 XC.    Godlinefs   with  Contentment  is  great  Gain. 
 1  Tim.  vi.  6. 
 
 OMy  joy !  O  my  joy ! 
 O  my  joy !  a  pleafant  vein  i 
 
 S  Ail 
 
138  Godly   Contentment* 
 
 All  fo  fweet !  all  fo  fweet ! 
 In  my  bofom  ever  reign ! 
 Sweet  Contentment !  thee  I  fing, 
 O  the  bleffing9  thou  doft  bring  I 
 Happier  than  the  reigning  kings, 
 He  in  whom  Contentment  fprings! 
 
 2  Springs  Contentment  in  my  breads 
 Lulling  all  my  foul  to  reft; 
 Adam  thus  in  pleafant  hour, 
 Slumbering  in  his  virgin-bower, 
 Felt  unufual  thrilling  joys, 
 While  creating  Love  employs 
 Special  fkill  in  forming  Eve, 
 Who  his  bofom  ne'er  (hould  leave, 
 
 3  Eve,  the  queen  of  Adam's  loves, 
 Eve,  the  fpring  of  all  that  moves, 
 Sing  the  bleft,  the  happy  pair; 
 Yet  they  fell,  though  formed  fair. 
 Evil,  in  an  evil  hour, 
 
 Smote  the  root,  and  fmote  the  flower, 
 Sunk  they  then  like  Jonah's  gourd, 
 A  vehement  heat  upon  them  pour'd; 
 
 4  Pour'd  on  them,  and  pour'd  on  us, 
 Smitten  all  with  equal  curfe. 
 Where  is  now  the  holinefs? 
 Where  is  now  the  bold  addrefs, 
 Bold  addrefs  of  holy  man ? 
 
 How  their  praifes  upward  ran ! 
 Glory  fhining  all  above, 
 Shedding  down  the  beams  of  love. 
 
 5  Yes,  the  bold  addrefs  to  heaven, 
 Yes,  the  holinefs  is  given, 
 Even  the  holinefs  of  God; 
 
 In  God  I  have  a  firm  abode; 
 
 \^ 
 
 No 
 
 1 
 
Godly    Contentment,  i 3  9 
 
 No  danger  of  a  fecond  fall, 
 For  God  and  love  inwrap  me  all, 
 Inwrap  me  now  and  evermore; 
 Planted  grace  begins  to  flower. 
 6^  Grace  in  flower  is  glory  bloom'd ; 
 Glory's  all  perfection  fumm'd; 
 In  a  littleJLJball  know, 
 
 which^I  go; 
 caiWbt  comprehend, 
 WKat's  theVeaven  to  which  I  bend; 
 But  Contenrnient,  thou,  the  while, 
 Lifts  my  head  and  makes  me  fmile. 
 Care  I  how  the  world  goes  ? 
 (Tho*  1  live  among  my  foes) 
 Every  thing  goes  mighty  well, 
 Moving  wheel  within  a  wheeL 
 I'm  a  prince  in  foreign  land ; 
 Why  mould  I  dejecled  ftand, 
 Becaufe  my  dignity  bereaves 
 Me  of  dominion  among  flavesP 
 
 Reigns  my  Father  all  above; 
 
 Reigns  my  Father  in  his  love; 
 
 He  fent  me  to  his  nurfery--room ; 
 
 'Twas  meet  I  fliould  be  nurs'd  from  home; 
 
 Then  he  has  me  back  again, 
 
 And  makes  me  on  his  throne  to  reign; 
 
 Thou,  Contentment,  wilt  fupport 
 
 My  veffel  to  the  loved  port. 
 
 Roar  the  tempefts,  ocean  rage, 
 Thou,  Contentment,  wilt  aflwage ; 
 Should  the  mon tiers  of  the  deep, 
 Rife  and  wheel  with  dreadful  fvveep, 
 Thou,  Contentment,  wilt  confound, 
 And  chain  them  in  their  proper  bound; 
 
 S  2  Should 
 
I40  The  Power  of  Temptation. 
 
 Should  the  fwallowing  whirlpools  play, 
 Contentment,  thou  wilt  ftem  their  way. 
 
 10  Lo,  night's  fhadowy  frownings  come, 
 And  all  o'er-cafl  the  heavens  with  gloom; 
 Thou,  Contentment,  draw'ft  the  vail, 
 And  bid'ft  the  fun  of  glory  hail; 
 Hail,  Contentment,  hail  to  thee, 
 Thou  a  beam  of  light  to  me ; 
 Guide  me  upward  on  my  way, 
 To  th'  eternal  Spring  of  day. 
 
 1 1  Upwards  on  my  way  I  climb ; 
 Lowring  fkies  and  fhadowrs  dim* 
 BaniflYd  all  the  bleffed  realm, 
 Flooding  glories  overwhelm ; 
 Saints  and  angels  fwim  and  fing 
 Allelujahs  to  the  King, 
 Swim  in  pleafure,  fing,  adore, 
 All  in  raptures  evermore. 
 
 ■I  '  >'■■  ■■!  . 
 
 XCL  Watch  and  fray,  that  ye  enter  not  into  Tempt  a^ 
 tion.  Mat.  xxvi.  41. 
 
 ^JJ  RIO  US,  mingling  fleet  and  fnow, 
 When  the  fea-winds  fweep  the  plains, 
 Whirlwinds  whirling  to  and  fro, 
 Wild  cpnfufion  lawlefs  reigns  j 
 
 So,  Temptation  fent  from  hell, 
 
 When  it  rages  in  my  bread, 
 Ailuiy  pafTions  then  rebel, 
 
 O  how  far  am  I  from  bleft ! 
 See  the  huge  rough -bridling  bear, 
 
 New-bereaved  of  her  whelps; 
 See  her  foam,  and  gnafh,  and  tear, 
 
 Hearing  (till  their  wailing  yelps  j 
 
 4  $°> 
 
 F 
 
The  Paver  of  Temptation,  141 
 
 4  So,  mad  Anger  high  inflam'd, 
 
 Fiercely  breaking  all  her  reins, 
 Burfts  away,  a  bead  untam'd, 
 Laughing  at  the  ftrongeft  chains. 
 
 5  Lo,  the  fkies  to  darknefs  turn, 
 
 Pouring  in  a  deluge  down ; 
 All  the  fummer-glories  mourn, 
 BlaclSSMftn  a  fable  gown; 
 
 6  S+,  myf|!rbefabled  all, 
 
 ChangSjyove  for  deathful  Luft, 
 Quite  difabled  by  her  fall, 
 Lies  flie  groveling  in  the  duft. 
 
 7  Have  you  feen  the  blowing  bells, 
 
 Blooming  on  the  pleafant  flower; 
 While  her  juicy  frefhnefs  fvvells, 
 Caterpillars  quick  devour; 
 
 8  So,  my  bud-nipt  heavenly  joys, 
 
 Drop  away  and  itrew  the  ground, 
 When  a  Lawlefs  pleafure  cloys; 
 Lawlefs  pleafures  fore  confound. 
 
 9  How  the  keen  invenom'd  frofts, 
 
 In  molten  iron  firmly  lock, 
 From  fea  to  fea  our  wintery  coafts, 
 And  all  the  plowman's  labours  mock ! 
 
 I  o  So  exafperating  Sin, 
 
 Binds  my  heart  in  hardeft  fteel ; 
 No  companions  flow  therein, 
 No  foft  pity  there  I  feel 
 
 I I  View  the  fcorched  defart  fields, 
 
 While  the  fultry  heat  defcends, 
 Earth  no  moid  refrefhment  yields, 
 Though  the  burning  heat  offends  ; 
 
 T2 
 
142  The  raging  Sea  becalmed, 
 
 1 2  So  Temptation,  if  fhe  beat, 
 
 Her  impreflions  on  my  foul, 
 Grief,  repentance,  leave  me  quite, 
 A  filly,  lorn,  remorfelefs  fool. 
 
 13  Vanifli,  every  fiery  dart; 
 
 Sad  Temptation,  vanifh  thou; 
 Banifh'd,  banifh'd  from  my  heart, 
 Difappear  as  early  dew. 
 
 14  Omy  God,  to  thee  I  fly, 
 
 Thy  compaflions  let  me  have; 
 If  thou  leave  me,  lo,  I  die, 
 Save  me,  fave  me,  quickly  fave, 
 
 15  Caufe  the  fun  of  glory  fhine, 
 
 Like  clear  heat  on  dewy  fields, 
 In  a  feafon  fair  and  fine, 
 
 When  the  morning  pleafure  yields. 
 
 16  He  my  darknefs  fhall  difpel, 
 
 Good  affections  caufe  to  flow ; 
 Every  evil  paflion  quell, 
 
 Eden- like,-  then  I  fhall  blow, 
 
 1 7  O  already  now  I  feel, 
 
 Feel  his  influences  kind; 
 Feel  them  in  my  fpirit  well, 
 
 Lightening,  ftrengthening  all  my  mind ! 
 
 1 8  O  how  weak  a  heart  was  mine, 
 
 When  Temptation  could  me  move! 
 Now,  my  God,  I'm  wholly  thine; 
 Bind  me  in  thy  chains  of  love. 
 
 XCIL  When  be /aw  the  Wind  boiflercus,  be  was  afraid^ 
 and  beginning  to  fink,  cried,  Lord,  Save  ?ne.  Mat.  xiv.  30. 
 
 MAD  tempeftuous  pafTions  roar, 
 Sounding  billows  lafli  the  fhore, 
 
 Banifh'd 
 
The  Choice  of  a  Wife.  143 
 
 Banifh'd  calms  I  now  deplore, 
 
 My  foul  is  all  a  raging  fea  j 
 Raging  fea  of  fin  arid  mame, 
 Sin  and  ftiame  of  every  name, 
 Flooding  over  every  dam, 
 
 Driving  poor  unhappy  me; 
 Loofe  they  broke  beyond  their  bounds. 
 Carried  me  within  their  mounds, 
 Sin  oppreffes,  fhame  confounds, 
 
 "  Save  me,  Lord,  before  I  fink  1** 
 Was  it  thou,  my  Lord  of  peace, 
 Caus'd  devouring  death  to  ceafc, 
 Snatch'd  me  from  the  fatal  place, 
 
 Falling  in  the  very  brink  ? 
 
 Dwell  thou  ever  in  my  mind, 
 
 Thine  is  all  to  love  inclin'd; 
 
 "  Peace,"  thou  faid'ft,  and  lo,  the  wind, 
 
 Lo,  the  wind  and  feas  obey. 
 Never  more  oppofed  be, 
 Motion  in  my  heart  to  thee; 
 All  within  me,  bend  the  knee, 
 
 And  own  thy  univerfal  fway. 
 
 XCIII.  Whofo  findetb  a  Wife,  findeth  a  good  thing. 
 Prov.  xviii.  22. 
 
 IT  is  not  a  fhape,  nor  a  ict  of  fine  features, 
 That  to  my  affections  commends  the  dear  creatures; 
 Good-nature,  good-humour,  with  modefty  join'd, 
 Thefe,  thefe  be  the  portion  of  her  whom  I  find ! 
 But  religion  alone  is  the  fait  of  the  Spirit, 
 And  the  lufter  of  fair  ones,  if  fair  ones  will  hear  it, 
 Their  rofes,  their  lilies,  their  beauties  in  bloffom; 
 O  may  fuch  a  one  be  the  wife  of  my  bofom ! 
 
 XCIV, 
 
144  3TA*  Drama  finifht. 
 
 XQV.   The  Fafblon  of  this  World  paffeth  away, 
 1  Cor.  vii.  31. 
 
 •  ■ .  £ 
 
 LOOKING  up  with  eager 'eyes; 
 Catch  the  moment  as,it  flies, 
 Ere  the  Lord  fold  up  the  ikies, 
 
 And  difplay  the  Drama  finifht; 
 Then  mail  every  former  thing, 
 Whether  it  did  laugh  or  fins, 
 Be  oblig'd  to  leave  the  ring,- 
 When  the  Drama  all  is  finifht. 
 
 1  Heaven  and  earth  mall  pafs  away, 
 As  the  wind  on  windy  day, 
 Drives  away  the  withered  hay, 
 
 When  the  Drama  all  is  finifht. 
 Hear  the  bleffing  from  on  high; 
 "  Come,  ye  faithful,  come  ye  nigh, 
 "  Dwell  with  me  above  the  £ky, 
 
 "  Bleffed."     When  the  Drama's  finifht. 
 3  Hear  the  doom  in  dreadful  tone, 
 Doom  of  every  godlefs  one; 
 "  Ye,  into  the  fire  begone, 
 
 «  Curfed."     When  the  Drama's  finifht. 
 Hafte,  fulfil  thy  purpofe,  Lord, 
 Written  in  thy  holy  Word; 
 We,  thy  faints,  with  one  accord, 
 
 Long  to  fee  the  Drama  finifht. 
 
 XCV.  What  Fruit  had  ye  then  in  thofe  things  where- 
 of you  are  now  ajhamedf  Rom.  vi.  21. 
 
 1 
 
 N  my  former  days  of  folly, 
 Low  ambition  in  her  wings, 
 
 Bore 
 
The   Wo;  11  M5 
 
 Bore  away  my  fpirit  wholly, 
 
 Mad-purfuing  earthly  things; 
 As  the  eagle's  fpirit  fends  her 
 
 Swiftly  after  eagle's  prey, 
 So  my  fpirit  was  a  ranger, 
 
 Ranging,  preying,  day  by  day. 
 Much  fhe  loved  to  be  dwelling, 
 
 On  the  craggy  banks  of  pleafure ; 
 Stooping  down  to  drink,  fhe  fell  in, 
 
 And  of  the  deep  became  a  feizure ; 
 Sunk  fhe  then  beneath  the  eddy, 
 
 Roll'd  away  below  the  flream  ; 
 So  it  fares  with  all  the  giddy ; 
 
 Pleafure-fippers  fall  in  fliame. 
 
 XCVI.  The  World pqffith  away,  i  John  ii.  17. 
 
 WHAT  canft  thou  give,  what  canft  thou  hold,  O 
 What  canft  thou  do  to  me  ?  [World  ? 
 
 From  thy  excellency  thou'lt  foon  be  hurl'd, 
 And  all  thy  boafts  with  thee. 
 
 2  But  I  fhall  live,  and  fee  thy  funeral-blaze, 
 
 Nor  ever  drop  a  tear ; 
 When  thou  art  gone,  then  I  fliall  get  the  bays, 
 Upon  my  head  to  wear. 
 
 3  O  hafte  thee,  hafte  thee,  lingering  World,  hafte, 
 
 And  do  "»o  more  delay ; 
 I  want  no  more  of  thee,  but  fee  thee  breathe  thy  laft, 
 And  then,  farewell  for  ay. 
 
 4  O  welcome,  welcome,  welcome  heaven,  to  me ! 
 
 My  dull,  begone,  begone  ; 
 And  let  me  with  my  own  Immanuel  be ! 
 And  fee  him  on  his  throne ! 
 
 T  XCVII. 
 
l/\6       God  our  Father  the  Guide  of  your  Youth. 
 
 XCVIL  Wherewith  Jh all  a  young  Man  cleanfe  his  Way? 
 Pfal.  cxix.  9. 
 
 GOD,  my  Father,  guide  my  youth, 
 Fill  my  heart,  and  fill  my  mouth, 
 With  that  holy  Word  of  thine, 
 Till  I  all  in  glory  fhine ; 
 
 2  Shine  in  glory,  like  the  fun, 
 When  my  race  is  fully  run, 
 Race  of  faith,  and  race  of  love, 
 In  thy  pureft  light  above. 
 
 XCVIII.  Te  have  need  of  Patience.  Heb.  x.  36, 
 
 INTRENCHED  deep  within  my  veins, 
 In  wreathes  me,  pain,  in  hardeft  chains, 
 And  mournfully  my  foul  complains, 
 
 O  pain !  O  pain !  O  pain ! 
 But  hail,  fweet  Patience,  hail  to  thee, 
 Thou  blandient  lenitive  to  me, 
 A  prefent  help,  doft  kindly  free 
 
 From  fiercefl  gripes  again. 
 1  Opening  the  profpect  of  the  ikies, 
 The  dulky  vapour  quickly  flies, 
 Thou  .enlightening  all  mine  eyes, 
 
 Like  honey  on  the  rod ; 
 The  rod  of  Ifrael's  princery  Son, 
 Who  fore  fatigu'd  the  battle  wonr 
 But  hunger  battling  him  anon, 
 
 Sweet  honey  came  from  God; 
 
 3  He  faw,  he  tailed,  vigour  flew 
 Thro'- all  his  heart  and  limbs  anew? 
 His  en'mies  fled  as  morning  dew, 
 
 Before  the  beaming  fun, 
 
 O  Pari- 
 
PATIENCE,  14/ 
 
 O  Patience,  thou  my  fun  fo  bright, 
 Fill'ft  all  my  foul  with  mining  light ; 
 Where  are  ye  all,  ye  fhades  of  night  ? 
 Heaven,  heaven  is  begun  ! 
 
 4  What  glories  burft  upon  mine  eye ! 
 How  blefs'd  a  creature  now  am  I, 
 Beholding  all  below  the  iky ! 
 
 Beholding  I  adore ; 
 Adore  the  High  Eternal  King ; 
 His  praife  celeitial  armies  fmg, 
 By  millions  flaming  all  on  wing, 
 
 And  fo  for  evermore. 
 
 5  I  fee  my  tabernacle  made, 
 
 A  Glory  that  lhall  never  fade; 
 And  there,  a  fun  without  a  made, 
 
 How  glorious  I  fliall  mine! 
 Shine  in  my  Father's  dwelling  place, 
 And  drink  the  raptures  o(  his  face, 
 Raviflit  to  nlence  with  the  grace  j 
 
 My  glory's  all  divine ! 
 
 6  My  glory  is  not  mine,  but  his, 
 And  therefore  all  divine  it  is; 
 Oh  me!  what  high  excefs  of  blifs 
 
 His  faints  do  all  enjoy ! 
 Enjoy  ye  then,  enjoy  ye  now, 
 For  it  was  pre-ordain'd  for  you,  Vj 
 
 Before  the  light  from  darknefs  flew, 
 
 Or  evil  to  deftroy. 
 
 7  The  evil  came,  and  reign'd  a-while, 
 The  evil  reign'd  thro'  ferpent's  guile; 
 The  Eternal  God  of  Love  did  fmile, 
 
 And  fpoke  unto  his  Son; 
 "  Behold,  the  ferpent  has  deceiv'd, 
 "  And  man,  our  image,  is  mifchiev'd, 
 
 T  2  *.  Bti 
 
 ]/*■ 
 
148  PATIENCE. 
 
 "  But  man,  I  fwear,  (hall  be  reliev'd."— ■* 
 '*  My  Father's  will  be  done ! 
 8  "  Thy  Son  is  all  impatient  fire, 
 
 «  Till  I  fulfil  thy  kind  defire; 
 
 "  Upon  our  foes  I'll  pour  thine  ire, 
 "  And  man  I  will  relieve  j 
 
 "  I'll  do  thy  work,  I'll  do  it  all; 
 
 *  I'll  give  thy  Sp'rit  to  great  and  fmall; 
 
 "  And  He  fhall  make  them  hear  thy  call, 
 "  Whom  thou  to  me  lhall  give." 
 
 0  The  Father  and  the  Son  combin'd; 
 In  one  amen  the  Spirit  join'd ; 
 The  Godhead,  all  to  love  inclin'd, 
 
 Sent  death  upon  the  man; 
 The  death  was  but  a  foil  to  life ; 
 As  peace  enhanced  by  the  flrife, 
 The  glory  by  the  fad  mifchief ; 
 
 But  death,  like  fire,  he  ran. 
 
 1  o  He  reft  the  infant  from  the  breaft, 
 
 The  bleeding  parent's  bofom  prefl, 
 And  all,  from  each  the  foul  to  wreftjj 
 
 So  cruel  was  his  rage ! 
 He  tofs'd  them  on  an  ocean  wide ; 
 On  every  wave  dark  horrors  ride; 
 Definition  roars  on  every  fide; 
 
 Undafh'd  efcapes  no  age. 
 
 1 1  The  flouncing  Leviathan  wheels, 
 And  all  the  fhoal  his  fury  feels, 
 He  fweeps  off  millions  at  his  meals; 
 
 And  yet  he  gapes  for  prey. 
 But  lots  are  cad;  the  lot  befel 
 The  man  who  never  did  rebel, 
 The  raging  death  alone  to  quell, 
 
 The  death  of  death  for  ay. 
 
 12 
 
PATIENCE.  149 
 
 12  Call,  Jonah  like,  to  dill  the  blaft, 
 Down  the  devouring  jaws  he  paft, 
 Up-fwallowed  by  the  monfter  vail:, 
 
 Deep-funk  within  his  bowels ; 
 Dafhing  the  bowels  of  death  about, 
 And  damning  all  the  hellifh  rout, 
 Jefus,  the  Prince  of  Life,  came  out, 
 
 Redeemer  of  his  jewels. 
 
 1 3  With  power  declar'd  the  Son  of  God, 
 The  firft  that  rofe  from  death's  abode, 
 He  life  to  all  his  own  beflow'd  ; 
 
 They  rofe  again  in  him; 
 In  him  afcended  up  on  high, 
 In  him  they  reign  above  the  fky; 
 And  where  he  is,  he'll  bring  them  nigh, 
 
 Arrayed  in  glorious  trim. 
 
 14  As  fummer  the  whole  year  renews, 
 Diflilling  foft  refrefhing  dews, 
 
 In  verdure  cloathing  all  the  boughs, 
 
 The  whole  creation  fmiles; 
 The  little  birds,  on  chearful  wing, 
 Light-leaping,  thro'  the  branches  fing, 
 And  hail  the  univerfal  fpring ; 
 
 No  blaft  their  hope  beguiles. 
 
 15  So  in  the  refurreclion-day, 
 The  fin  and  death  fly  all  away  • 
 The  Son  commands,  they  mufl  obey; 
 
 He  fpeaks,  and  it  is  done. 
 His  Spirit  falls  in  dewy  mowers; 
 And,  raifing  from  the  duft  his  flowers, 
 On  them  he  all  his  glory  pours; 
 They  bloflbm  every  one; 
 %6  For  lufter,  as  the  drops  of  dew.. 
 Glittering,  trembling  to  the  view, 
 
 In 
 
z$o  The  Saints  Hope  in  Death* 
 
 In  numbers  vying  with  them  too, 
 
 Shed  from  the  morning's  womb ; 
 The  Sun  of  glory  mines  on  them; 
 In  beauty  they  refemble  him; 
 Without  a  fpot,  or  (hadow  dim, 
 
 As  paradife  they  bloom. 
 1 7  In  paradife  they  bloom  and  glow, 
 Where  living  pleafures  ever  flow; 
 And  breathing  loves  upon  them  blow, 
 
 The  breathing  loves  of  God. 
 A  moment  more,  and  Patience,  thou, 
 My  friendly  fweet  companion  now, 
 The  full  redemption  (halt  me  fliow, 
 
 In  heaven  my  own  abode. 
 
 XCIX.    Sorrozv  not  as  others  who  have  no  Hope. 
 i  Theff.  iv.  13. 
 
 TO  chear  up  your  hearts,  I  would  have  you  to 
 know, 
 That  they,  O  my  brethren,  to  duft  who  down  go, 
 Afleep  in  the  Lord,  are  at  reft  from  their  fin ; 
 And  at  reft  from  their  forrows,  his  kingdom  within. 
 The  Forerunner  entered,  he  entered  for  them; 
 Praife  God  for  the  joy  they  enjoy  now  with  him, 
 Efcapt  every  yoke,  and  efcapt  every  load, 
 All  finging,  rejoicing,  triumphant  in  God. 
 
 O  weep  not  for  them,  but  leave  weeping  to  flaves, 
 Whom  Death  of  their  God,  and  their  comfort  bereaves, 
 In  darknefs  they  live,  and  in  darknefs  they  die; 
 No  marvel  at  all,  if  as  Micah  they  cry; 
 "  You  have  taken  my  gods  away,  what  have  I  more?" 
 So  all  inconfolable  they  may  deplore; 
 
 But 
 
The  Saints  Hope  in  Death.  151 
 
 But  mould  God's  own  election  too  cherifh  fuch  grief ; 
 As  if  Death  were  to  you  the  moft  dreadful  mifchief  ? 
 
 5  Pra)r,  when  did  the  husbandman  ever  complain, 
 That  the  harveft  too  early,  brought  forward  his  grain  ? 
 He  manureth,  he  ploweth,  he  foweth  in  hope, 
 Then  gladly  receiveth  his  plentiful  crop. 
 
 6  Even  fo,  the  beloved  and  bleffed  of  heaven, 
 To  whom  in  companion  difmiflion  is  given, 
 They  fowed  in  tears,  but  they  reap  now  in  joy; 
 For  griev'd  finking  fpirits  a  noble  buoy ! 
 
 7  His  money  no  mifer  will  ever  refufe ; 
 O  God's  generofity  do  not  abufe ! 
 
 While  here  in  the  body,  on  int'reft  we  live ; 
 The  dead  both  their  int'reft  and  principal  have, 
 
 8  No  mercy's  the  lefler  for  being  fo  foon  ; 
 
 No  hireling  is  griev'd  for  his  time  being  done ; 
 Nay,  longing,  impatient,  he  chides  the  delay, 
 And  chearfully  haileth  his  jubile-day. 
 
 ?  Bound  to  forrow,  we  ferve  an  apprenticefhip  fad ; 
 To  druggie  for  chains  and  correction  is  mad  j 
 Our  brethren  departed  are  fet  up  above ;  [love, 
 
 Their  employment  is  praife,   and  their  payment  is 
 
 1 0  Will  the  flave  be  difcourag'd,  when  ranfom'd  and 
 
 m  free'd, 
 With  cruelty  and  blows  when  his  fides  no  more  bleed ; 
 When  he  hears  the  lafli  founding  no  more  o'er  his 
 
 head  ? 
 No  more  thpuld  your  fpirit  be  griev'd  for  the  dead. 
 
 1 1  Behold,  they  are  fafe,  yea,  and  happier  than  thou ; 
 And  (hould  thy  heart  break  for  the  ftrength  of  their 
 Their  battle  is  over,  their  victory  won ;         [bow  ? 
 A  mighty  caufe,  truly,  that  thou  be  undone ! 
 
 12  They 
 
152  God  well-pleafed  in  his  Beloved  Son. 
 
 1 2  They  fell  to  the  ground,  and  were  lifted  to  heaven ; 
 They  crooked  a  draw,  and  got  all  their  crooks  even; 
 Do  not  thou  envy  them,  becaufe  they  are  crown'd; 
 Lofing  fight  of  the  devil,  Jehovah  they,  found  ; 
 
 13  They  lean  on  his  bofom,  they  drink  at  his  eye, 
 Whole  heavens  of  raptures  that  never  {hail  die ; 
 Allelujahs  upon  allelujahs  arife ; 
 
 The  fatigues  of  the  race  ly  dead-funk  in  the  prize. 
 
 14  Farewell  to  their  watchings,   their  fadings,   their 
 
 prayers, 
 Their  fcanty  proportions,  their  wearifome  days; 
 For  God  is  unfearchable,  and  he  is  theirs ;      [praife. 
 His  love  is  their  portion,  their  tranfport,  their 
 
 15  Ye  mountainous  billows  may  ride  on  the  floods; 
 Ye  floods  may  arife  up  and  fly  with  the  clouds ; 
 Wrought  high  thro'  the  cether,  as  hell  ye  may  roar; 
 Our  friends,  the  deceafed,  are  fafely  afliore. 
 
 G  This  is  my  Beloved  Son,  in  whom  I  am  well-pleafed. 
 Matt.  xvii.  5. 
 
 THOUGH  waves  of  tribulation  roll, 
 (Why  Jhouldejl  thou,  my  foul,  be  moved* ') 
 And  rock  the  earth  from  pole  to  pole, 
 My  God  is  pleased  in  his  Beloved, 
 
 2  Though  ftormy  wars  around  thee  blow, 
 
 (Why  Jhouldejl  thou,  my  foul,  be  moved? ) 
 And  thoufands  to  the  fword  fhould  go, 
 My  God  is  pleased  in  his  Beloved. 
 
 3  Though  famine  fhould  thy  life  affail, 
 
 (Why  Jhouldejl  thou,  my  foul,  be  moved?) 
 And  all  the  world  begin  to  wail, 
 My  God  is  pleased  in  his  Beloved. 
 
 4  Though 
 
ChriJFs  Refuneclion  a  V ledge  of  ours.         155 
 
 Though  bitter  troubles  on  thee  feize, 
 (Why  fl? oul deft  thou,  my  foul \  be  moved f  J 
 
 Death,  death  will  put  an  end  to  thefe ; 
 My  God  is  pleased  in  his  Beloved. 
 
 CI.    %efus  both  died  and  rofe  again,  even  Jo,  &c. 
 1  TheiT.  iv.  14. 
 
 BELIEVE  ye  Jefus  died  and  rofe, 
 Triumphing  over  all  our  foes? 
 By  death  he  flew  that  monfter  death, 
 That  robbed  us  and  him  of  breath ; 
 By  death  he  flew  the  devil  too, 
 That  had  the  power  of  death  and  you; 
 He  only  left  their  gho.fts  behind, 
 The  terrors  of  a  weaker  mind. 
 
 Thofe  ghofls  indeed  will  feize  and  gripe, 
 The  tender  grapes  for  glory  ripe, 
 And  fqueeze  the  hools  in  burial-prefs  ; 
 
 The  fpirit  runs  a  precious  juice, 
 Into  the  holds  of  happinefs; 
 
 Death  only  opens  up  a  iluice, 
 To  drain  them  pure,  giving  them  vent, 
 From  all  their  dreg  and  fediment. 
 
 Nor  let  the  heavenly  Wines  repine, 
 For  all  their  fqueezings  and  hard  pain; 
 
 For  over  Jefus  the  True  Vine, 
 
 Both  death  and  wrath  did  grievous  reign; 
 
 OpprefTed  in  the  inmofl  foul, 
 
 The  perfect  anguifli  made  him  howl; 
 
 Wrath-trodden  in  wine-prefs  of  God, 
 
 That  we  might  rife  to  God's  abode* 
 
 Yet  fird  we  fuffer  many  a  jerk ; 
 And  all  for  to  exprefs  the  fpirit; 
 
 U  Refining 
 
154     The  Manner  and  Effect  of  the  Lord's  coming. 
 
 Refining  now,  in  vat  we  work, 
 
 i\nd  tribulations  often  ftir  it. 
 The  liquor's  naught  without  the  zeft; 
 
 Fine  metals  muft  the  fire  endure; 
 So  we  attain  celeftial  reft, 
 
 Being  purify'd  as  he  is  pur^. 
 
 5  Having  purchas'd  eternal  grace 
 
 For  all  his  flock,  the  Shepherd  good, 
 Did  enter  into  perfect  peace, 
 
 Did  enter  with  bis  ftreaming  blood; 
 He  is  the  Way,  the  Truth,  the  Life; 
 
 The  dead  with  him  are  entered  in; 
 In-  him  they  fleep,  at  reft  from  ftrife, 
 
 And  all  this  world's  tumultuous  din. 
 
 6  The  Lord,  the  Shepherd,  mighty  God, 
 
 Behold  him  riding  on  a  cloud ; 
 The  bending  fides  beneath  him  yield, 
 
 Defending  to  the  judgment-field  ; 
 Chear  up  your  hearts,  chear  up,  and  fing, 
 
 Our  glory,  lo,  is  all  in  bloom; 
 See,  all  the  faints  are  with  the  King, 
 
 He  comes  to  bring  his  jewels  home. 
 
 CI  I.  For  this  we  fay  unto  you,  by  the  Word  of  the 
 Lord,  &c.  i  ThefT.  iv.  15. 
 
 WE  of  God's  own  conimiflion  ambaffadors  are, 
 And  this  is  the  meffage  we  have  to  declare ; 
 Give  heed  to  the  purport,  it  cometh  to  you, 
 And  bringeth  his  purpofe  difclofed  to  view; 
 That  they  who  are  faints  in  the  body  alive, 
 Remaining  on  earth,  when  the  Lord  (hall  arrive, 
 Shall  not  get  the  ftart  of  the  faints  in  the  fkies, 
 When  the  trumpet  lhall  found,  «  To  the  judgment 
 «  arife." 
 
 2  For 
 
The  Times  and  Seafons  concealed.    ,       15  5 
 
 2  For  the  Lord  fliall  defcend,   and  the  trumpet  (hall 
 Re-echoing  loud,  the  creation  around ;  [found, 
 
 For  the  high  trump  of  God  it  fliall  fwell  with  the  fliout 
 Of  Jefus,  and  all  his  archangels  about; 
 The  rocks  and  the  mountains,  like  Jericho-wall, 
 All  crumbling  to  powder,  (hall  inftantly  fall; 
 Breaking  open  the  bars  of  the  dungeon  of  death, 
 The  dead,  long  imprifoned,  fliall  burft  from  the  earth. 
 
 3 _How  joyful  and  glorious  they  fpring  to  the  ikies! 
 For  the  dead  in  the  Lord  they  muft  fooneft  arife; 
 Refembling  in  number  the  drops  of  the  dew, 
 From  the  womb  of  the  morning,  they  iflue  to  view; 
 As  flreams  of  light  flowing,  they  flow  round  the  fun, 
 The  Sun  of  their  glory,  impearling  his  crown ; 
 Then  they  who  remain  yet  alive,  being  God's, 
 Shall  be  caught  up  .together  with  them  in  the  clouds, 
 
 4  Then,  then,  in  a  body,  all  heavenly  fair, 
 We  meet  our  Redeemer,  the  Lord,  in  the  air. 
 In  duffc  He  was  humbled,  and  carried  the  crofs, 
 Thus  highly  exalted,  to  carry  up  us. 
 In  bodies  of  light,  reprefenting  the  Sun, 
 We  fhine  in  his  glory,  we  fhine  every  one; 
 We  {hine  with  the  Lord,  and  we  fhine  evermore; 
 Thus  refrefh  one  another,  and  Jefus  adore. 
 
 CIIL  But  of  the  Times  and  Seafons,  &c.  1  Theff.  v.  1.--5. 
 
 NOW  concerning  the  Times  and  the  Seafons  de- 
 creed, 
 The  Father,  my  brethren,  would  have  us  at  eafe; 
 That  we  from  anxiety  perfectly  freed, 
 
 Contented,  and  patient,  may  flnifh  our  race. 
 You  know,  of  the  Spirit  abundantly  taught, 
 
 That  the  day  of  the  Lord,  like  a  thief  in  the  night, 
 U  £  So 
 
j $6  The  Children  of  Light: 
 
 So  comes  like  a  whirlwind,  with  vengeance  fall  fraught, 
 With  pain  on  the  head  of  the  wicked  to  light. 
 
 2  Amufing  their  fancies  with  follies  and  dreams, 
 
 They  think  but  of  peace,  and  of  fafety  they  cry, 
 Out-ftretching  themfelves  on  their  beds,  when  the 
 flames 
 Round  their  dear  habitations,  high  raging,  do  fly; 
 Sad,  heavy,  impending,  in  acT:  to  fall  down, 
 
 Lo,  all  in  a  moment,  their  imminent  doom, 
 Slung  away  from  above,  as  a  mountain  of  (tone, 
 With  dreadful  deftru&ion  doth  fuddenly  come. 
 g  While  they  wallow  in  pleafures,  and  riot  away, 
 All  madly  diftra&ed,  ungovern'd  and  wild, 
 Their  anguiili  upon  the  determined  day, 
 
 Shall  feize  them,  as  travail  a  woman  with  child ; 
 There's  no  poffibility  of  an  efcape, 
 
 No  fliifting  afide  from  the  day  of  the  Lord  ; 
 The  dreadful  experience  of  this,  in  their  fleep, 
 Found  the  haughty  Egyptians,  who  laught  at  his 
 word. 
 
 4  But  you,  O  my  brethren,  the  Ifrael  of  God, 
 
 Are  efcapt  from  the  darknefs,  the  fons  of  the  day ; 
 He  made  you  a  paffage  to  pafs  thro'  the  flood, 
 
 His  countenance  iliining  directed  the  way ; 
 The  blacknefs  and  darknefs  of  Sinai  are  gone", 
 
 The  found  of  the  trumpet  hath  died  away ; 
 Amen  to  the  Lamb  in  the  raidfl  of  the  throne, 
 
 Amen  to  his  coming  in  that  happy  day. 
 
 CfV.  Te  are  all  the  Children  of  Light,  i  Theff.  v.  5.-12, 
 
 A 
 
 LL  hail  to  the  children  of  light, 
 All  hail  to  the  children  of  day  • 
 
 Farewell 
 
The  Children  of  Light.  1 57 
 
 Farewell  to  the  darknefs  and  night, 
 
 We'll  fing  with  a  joyful  lay. 
 Away  with  ye,  revelling  and  wine, 
 
 With  drowfinefs,  iurfek,  and  fleep; 
 PoiTefl  of  the  Spirit  divine, 
 
 We'll  watch,  and  fobriety  keep.^^^ 
 
 The  fleeper,  he  Heeps  in  the  night, 
 
 In  heavinefs  llumbering  till  day  j 
 The  drunkard  avoideth  the  li^ht, 
 
 Into  darknefs  he  flyeth  away ; 
 But  we  being  children  of  love, 
 
 Enlightened  with  heavenly  grace, 
 Afpiring  to  joys  above,  • 
 
 Should  trample  on  fin  as  the  grafs. 
 Our  life  is  a  warfare  with  fin; 
 
 And  fin  is  a  vigilant  foe ; 
 If  we  would  the  victory  win, 
 
 We  mud  in  fobriety  go; 
 Our  hearts  as  a  fortify'd  wall, 
 
 Well  fortify'd  round  with  our  faith, 
 We'll  beat  all  our  enemies  fmall, 
 
 And  joyfully  hold  on  our  path. 
 
 Our  path  is  before  us,  behold, 
 
 For  us  he  appointed  a  race; 
 To' run  for  the  prize  be  ye  bold, 
 
 And  love,  let  it  quicken  your  pace; 
 The  prize  is  a  glory  and  crown  ; 
 
 Contend  for  falvation,  contend; 
 With  hope,  your  companion,  hold  on, 
 
 Rejoicing,  hold  on  to  the  end. 
 
 God  never  appointed  to  wrath, 
 
 His  darlings,  the  fons  of  his  love; 
 But  he  gave  his  own  Son  to  the  death, 
 
 The  death  from  us  all  to  remove. 
 
 Now 
 
158  ChriJTs    Refurreclion. 
 
 Now  therefore,  awake,  or  afleep, 
 
 We  live  dill  together  with  him; 
 His  love  in  fweet  fellowship  keep, 
 
 And  your  glory  fliall  never  grow  dim. 
 
 C  V.  Moreover,  Brethren,  I  declare  unto  you  the  Go/pel. 
 1  Cor.  xv.  1.- 1 2. 
 
 GLAD  tidings  of  joy  now  to  you  I  declare, 
 I  befeech  you,  my  brethren,  give  ear,  O  give  ear ; 
 No  fecrets  among  you  my  embattles  were, 
 %   As  witnefs  your  greedinefs  crowding  to  hear; 
 What  you  heard  you  believed,  and  therein  you  dand, 
 
 Nay,  therein  are  faved,  if  you  keep  injnind 
 The  Gofpel  I  preached  by  Jems'  command; 
 Unlefs  your  belief  be  a  moveable  wind. 
 
 2  For  this,  I  deliver'd  to  you  firfl  of  all* 
 
 Which  I  alfo  received  from  Jefus  the  Lord; 
 That  he  for  our  fins  did  a  facrifice  fall, 
 
 According  to  holy  authentic  record; 
 And  that  he  was  buried,  and  up  again  rofe, 
 
 The  third  day  thereafter,  as  Scriptures  foretold; 
 And  that  he  was  feen  of  the  twelve  whom  he  chofe, 
 
 But  was  feen  firfl  of  all  by  Cephas  the  bold. 
 
 3  Yea,  and  after  that,  feen  of  five  hundred  and  more, 
 
 Seen  at  once  of  them  all,  brethren  faithful  and  true; 
 The  mod  part  of  whom  are  alive  to  this  hour, 
 
 But  fome  to  the  world  have  bid  an  adieu; 
 Then  feen  of  James  afterwards,  then  of  them  all, 
 
 His  apoftles  and  witneffes  whom  he  did  call; 
 Then  lad  of  them  all,  of  me  he  was  feen, 
 
 Of  all  mod  unworthy,  a  podbumous  fon. 
 
 4  For  1  am  the  lead  of  all  thofe  whom  he  fent, 
 
 An  apoflle  of  Jefus  unmeet  to  be  call'd, 
 
 The 
 
Where  art  thou  Chriftian,  ifChrift  be  not  rifen?  1 59 
 
 The  lambs  of  his  flock,  who  fo  lion-like  rent, 
 And  all  to  the  prifon  his  difciples  haul'd; 
 
 But  I  by  the  grace  of  God  am  what  I  am, 
 
 And  the  grace  he  beftow'd  on  me  was  not  in  vain; 
 
 A  chofen  dear  veflel,  of  mercy  I  came; 
 
 For  he  feal'd  me  his  own,  and  my  heart  faid  Amen. 
 
 I  have  laboured  abundantly  more  than  they  all, 
 And  yet  I  difclaim  all  the  labour  I  do; 
 
 Difclaim  it  to-day,  and  difclaim  ever  mall,        [thro\ 
 "'Twas  his  grace  which  was  in  me  that  carried  me 
 
 Now  hear  the  conclufion  and  fcope  of  the  whole, 
 (For  whether  'twere  they  or  I  matters  not  much,) 
 
 Let  Ch rift's  refurrection  your  fpirits  confole; 
 
 For  fuch  was  our  preaching,  your  credit  was  fuch. 
 
 CVL  Now  if  Chrift  be  preached,  &c.  1  Cor.  xv.  12.--2  r. 
 
 PROCLAIMED  aloud  by  the  heralds  of  heaven, 
 God's  only  Begotten,  the  firft  from  the  dead, 
 Chrift  Jefus,  the  Son,  and  the  Prince  to  us  given, 
 .    Our  Lord,  Representative,  Saviour,  and  Head; 
 How  come  fome  among  you  fo  boldly  to  fay, 
 •    There  is  no  rcfurre^iort  for  which  we  may  hope; 
 But  our  bodies  dtflbhed  and  crumbled  to  clay, 
 From  their  dire  defoiation  mall  never  get  up? 
 
 2  But,  O  my  dear  brethren,  beware  of  this  point; 
 A  fpot  of  damnation  among  you  it  is ; 
 The  falvation  of  God  it  does  wholly  disjoint; 
 
 And  plunge  irremediably  in  the  abyfs. 
 For,  if  our  refurreclion  be  all  a  mere  dream, 
 
 Falfe  imagination,  a  flafti  in  the  air; 
 Still  buried  lies,  in  corruption  and  fhame, 
 
 Even  Chrift,  an  impoftor  difcovered  and  bare! 
 
 3  Now 
 
160  Where  art  then  Chnftian,  ifChrift.be  not  rifen? 
 
 3  Now  if  Chrift  be  unrifen,  our  preaching  is  wind, 
 
 And  fo  is  your  faith  a  delufion  indeed, 
 An  idle  deception,   amufing  your  mind,  [dead. 
 
 Till,  damn'd  in  the  dungeon,  you  mourn  with  the 
 Yea,  and  verily  then,  but  deceiving  the  world, 
 
 Even  we  the  apoftles,  apoftles  of  God, 
 Betraying  you  all,  by  Satan  are  whirl'd, 
 
 Notorious  liars,  to  Satan's  abode; 
 
 4  Notorious  liars,  convicted  and  caught, 
 
 Becaufe  we  have  preached,  and  preached  aloud, 
 Declared  with  boldnefs,  and  openly  taught, 
 
 A  falfhood  againft  the  Moft  High  Mighty  God; 
 "With  ftrongeft  affurances  ftill  giving  out, 
 
 That  God  he  had  raifed,  had  raifed  indeed, 
 Even  Chrift,  whom  he  rais'd  not,  (a  terrible  plot!) 
 
 If  indeed  there  be  no  refurre&ion  of  dead! 
 
 5  For,  if  there  be  no  refurrecYion  at  all, 
 
 Then  neither  is  Jefus  arifen  again, 
 The  Head  and  example  to  all  great  and  fmall, 
 
 Who  blefs'd  in  his  kingdom,  his  members  fhall  reign ; 
 But  his  kingdom  and  members  are  all  a  deceit, 
 
 If  in  truth  and  fobriety  ftill  he  be  dead ! 
 Our  gofpel  is  all  a  mere  abfolute  cheat! 
 
 And  fo  your  belief  but  a  withered  blade! 
 
 6  You  are  ftill  as  you  were,  yet  deep-buried  in  guilt* 
 
 The  fprouts  of  your  glory  fhall  never  arife; 
 For  Jefus,  your  root,  now  within  the  earth  fpilt, 
 
 All  mouldered  to  duft,  he  in  rottennefs  lies ! 
 Yea,  and  all  his  ingrafted  are  withered  away, 
 
 Their  bloflbms  like  fmoke  blown  away  in  the  air; 
 Who  dy'd  in  the  hope  of  exchanging  their  clay, 
 
 And  finding  their  bodies  as  his  body  fair. 
 
 7  If  we  in  this  world  alone  have  our  hope, 
 
 Our  hope  in  the  Lord,  a,nd  expecting  no  more; 
 
 Baptized 
 
Death  and  Life  both  by  Man.  161 
 
 Raptiz'd  with  his  baptifm,  drinking  his  cup,    [plore! 
 
 The  mod  wretched  of  all  men,  then  we  may  de- 
 But  Jefus  now  rifen,  the  firft  of  the  field, 
 
 Full  blooming  in  glory,  the  flower  of  the  fpring; 
 The  dead,  all  arifing  with  Jefus,  (hall  yield 
 
 A  glorious  crop  to  Jehovah  our  King. 
 
 CVII.  Since  by  Man  came  Death,  i  Cor.  xv.  21. --2  4. 
 
 LIGHT  and  pleafant  be  my  foul, 
 Ever  chearful,  fweet  and  gay; 
 Making  fhipwreck  of  the  whole, 
 
 What  tho'  Adam  he  gave  way? 
 Stormy  billows  from  the  deep, 
 
 Ere  we  knew  the  light  of  heaven, 
 Overwhelm'd  us  in  our  fleep; 
 But  oiv  odds  fhall  all  be  even. 
 
 2  Chrift,  the  fecond  Adam,  came, 
 
 To  repair  our  ruins  all; 
 Innocent  and  Holy  Lamb ! 
 
 Leaping  at  his  Father's  call; 
 Plumb  into  the  deeped:  fliades, 
 
 Leaps  he  in  the  lion's  den; 
 There,  his  pierced  bofom  bleeds; 
 
 There  he  dy'd,  the  life  of  men; 
 
 3  There  was  bury'd,  thence  he  rofe, 
 
 High-triumphing  evermore, 
 .    Over  all  our  deadly  foes; 
 O  redeeming  love  adore  ! 
 Rofe  we  all  again  in  him; 
 
 He  afcended  up  on  high, 
 Vifit  we  the  happy  clime, 
 Denizons  above  the  Iky. 
 
 X    J  .    4'D^cll 
 
1 62  Death  and  Life  loth  by  Man. 
 
 4  Dwell  we.  yet  a  little  while, 
 
 Here,  fojoarning  upon  earth, 
 Full  of  forrow,  trouble,  toil, 
 Till  defunft  we're  carried  forth; 
 *  So  our  glorified  Head, 
 
 Set  a  pattern  for  his  friends; 
 So  he  lived,  fo  he  dy'd, 
 
 So  his  kindnefs  he  commends. 
 
 5  Shame  and  guilt  by  Adam  came, 
 
 Guilt  and  fhame  o'erfpread  us  all; 
 Righteoufneffes  by  the  Lamb 
 
 Blotted  out  old  Adam's  Fall; 
 Adam's  Fall,  the  fource  of  death; 
 
 Death  a  debt  we  could  not  pay; 
 Jefus  bore  away  the  wrath, 
 
 Brought  the  refurre&ion-day, 
 
 6  Every  thing  in  order  due, 
 
 So  the  purpofe  is  fulfill'd; 
 Firfl  the  root,  and  then  the  bough, 
 
 Firfl:  the  father,  then  the  child; 
 Jefus  is  the  Olive  good, 
 
 Father  of  eternity; 
 Lo,  he  has,  and  fo  he  fhou'd, 
 
 Always  have  th'  excellency. 
 
 7  He-goat- like,  before  the  flock, 
 
 How  he  travelled  in  his  might! 
 All  oppofing  barriers  broke, 
 
 Pointed  out  the  path-way  right ; 
 Entering  firfl  into  the  fold, 
 
 He  prepares  our  proper  homes; 
 Then  we  enter,  young  and  old, 
 
 All  in  glory,  when  he  comes. 
 
The  Kingdom  delivered  up  to  the  Fatter. .      j 63 
 CVIII.  Then  cometh  the  End,  &c.  1  Cor.  xv.  24.-29. 
 
 T 
 
 kHE  Lamb  that  was  ilain,  lo,  behold  him  on  high, 
 '  Vi&orious,  reigning  in  midft  of  the  throne. 
 Advancing  the  period,  the  period  is  nigh, 
 Of  full  reftitution  of  things  every  one. 
 
 2  The  End  and  the  Purpofe  jliall  then  be  difplay'd, 
 
 When  every  authority,  rule  and  power, 
 Dominion  and  kingdom,  fubdued  are  laid, 
 Delivered  up  all,  the  Father  before. 
 
 3  For  over  the  kingdom  he  mud  perfevere, 
 
 Deftroying  the  rebels  and  enemies  all, 
 Till  abfolute  victory  ftiout  in  his  ear, 
 
 "  See  Death,  the  lad  enemy,  vanquiflied  fall*" 
 
 4  For  fuch  was  the  certain  eternal  decree, 
 
 That  God's  own  Anointed,  his  Son  and  his  Heir, 
 Shall  reign  till  his  en'mies  all  trodden  down  be; 
 Peace,  peace  everlafting  the  end  of  the  war. 
 
 5  Now  the  fulnefs  of  Godhead  in  Jefus,  the  Man, 
 
 (For  he  dwelt  in  the  dud,  the  prededinate  Lamb) 
 Performing  the  purpofe,  fhall  finiih  the  plan; 
 But  in  all  this,  'tis  certain,  a  Servant  he  came. 
 
 6  And  when  his  mediatorial  work  is  no  more, 
 
 His  foes  all  fubdued,  to  dud  beaten  fmall, 
 All  loyal,  the  kingdom,  the  Son  giveth  o'er 
 To  his  Father,  that  God  may  be  all,  and  in  all. 
 
 CIX.  Elfe  what  Jhali  they  do  that  are  bapzzed  for 
 the  Dead?  &c.  1  Cor.  xv.  29.-35. 
 
 w 
 
 A  S  not  Jefus  appointed  Example  and  Head, 
 Of  all  the  beloved  election; 
 
 X  2  The 
 
1 64  The  hope  of  the  Refurrection  the  Aiichor  of  the  Soul. 
 
 The  Lord  of  the  living,  the  Lord  of  the  dead, 
 
 The  pattern  of  our  refurrection  ? 
 But  if  there  be  no  refurre&ion  at  all, 
 
 Why  were  we  baptiz'd  with  the  Spirit; 
 Baptiz'd  in  his  death,  yea,  and  told  that  we  (hall 
 
 With  Jefus  the  kingdom  inherit  ? 
 
 2  If  the  body  of  Jefus  be  dead  in  the  earth, 
 
 The  Spirit  mult  furely  deceive  us; 
 Our  fhare  in  his  death,  and  the  fpiritual  birth, 
 
 All  a  fable,  can  never  relieve  us ! 
 But  (hall  we  blafpheme,  and  imagine  the  Spirit 
 
 Will  father  unto  us  a  fiction;  [merit, 
 
 That  the  blood,  and  the  righteoufnefs,  glory,  and 
 
 Of  Jefus  are  all  but  in  diction  ? 
 
 3  And  ilia  11  we  imagine  the  Spirit  will  plunge 
 
 Our  pupilage  into  confufion; 
 So  gripe  us,  and  tofs  us,  and  drag  us,  and  twinge/ 
 
 Contufion  purfuing  contufion  P 
 With  jeopardy  treading  on  jeopardy's  heels, 
 
 We  follow  the  Spirit  in  anguilh; 
 The  Spirit  he  knoweth  what  our  fpirit  feels, 
 
 How  fadly  diftrefTed  we  languifli. 
 
 4  I  verily  do,  O  my  brethren,  proteft, 
 
 By  your  prefent  rejoicing  in  Jefus, 
 In  which,  1  a  fibre  you,  my  fpirit  is  blefl, 
 
 That  deaths  do  continually  feize  us. 
 .     If  lately  at  Ephefus  fought  I  with  beads, 
 
 Or  men  in  the  fauYion  of  mongers; 
 What  advantage  have  I,  in  the  midfl  of  their  feafis, 
 
 The  jed  and  deriiion  of  fongflers  ? 
 
 5  What  advantage  have  I,  if  the  dead  be  not  rais'd, 
 
 Daily  gnaw'd  on,  and  prey'd  on  by  forrow? 
 The  licentious  caroufer  is  more  to  be  praiYd, 
 f  Eat  and  drink  ye,  for  die  we  to-morrow !" 
 
 A  gap. 
 
As  Seeds  foivn  and  fpringing,  fo  the  Refurrettion.  16$ 
 A  gangrened  member  will  ruin  the  body, 
 
 Unlefs  it  be  fpeedily  lop t  off; 
 Then  wou'd  ye  be  faved,  my  brethren,  wou'd  ye  ? 
 
 Let  the  joint  of  infection  be  knockt  off. 
 6  For  be  not  deceived;  deceivers  abroad, 
 
 They  go  but  abroad  to  deceive  you ; 
 Bad  communications  corrupt  manners  good; 
 
 Beware,  that  they  may  not  bereave  you; 
 Nay,  bereaved  already,  and  fadly  deceived, 
 
 Awake  unto  righteoufnefs,  fin  not; 
 For  fome  in.  the  truth  have  not  truly  behaved;  " 
 
 For  to  flaame  you,  my  fpeech  I  defign  it. 
 
 CX.  But  fome  Man  will fay r,  &c.  i  Cor.  xv.  35. — 39. 
 
 BUT  after  what  faihion  the  dead  come  they  up  ? 
 Some  idle  objector  replies; 
 What  kind  of  a  body,  we  pray,  may  they  hope, 
 When  they  in  their  time  {hall  arife  ? 
 
 2  Thou  fool!  in  the  feafon  when  you  go  to  fow, 
 
 And  fcatter  your  feed  in  the  fields, 
 It  dieth  before  it  (hall  quicken  and  grow, 
 Elfe  no  bountiful  bleffing  it  yields. 
 
 3  Moreover,  concerning  the  feed  which  thou  foweft, 
 
 Thou  foweft  not  the  body  fliall  be; 
 
 ^bfolute  grain  in  the  ground  thou  beftoweft, 
 vVhich  thy  eyes  again  never  fliall  fee; 
 
 4  But  God  gives  a  body  to  each  kind  of  feed, 
 
 In  methods  to  God  only  known; 
 According  as  he  in  good  pleafure  decreed, 
 And  to  every  feed  giveth  its  own. 
 
 CXI. 
 
1 66  The  glorified  Body  a  ilnd  by  it/elf. 
 
 CXI.  All  Fkjh  is  not  the  fame%  &c.  I  Cor  xv.  3Q.--42*. 
 
 ALL  flefh  is  not  of  the  fame  kind  and  fize ; 
 XX  Of  man,  of  beaft,  of  fifli,  of  bird  that  flies, 
 Are  different  kinds,  according  to  their  nature, 
 Of  different  beauty,  figure,  ufe,  and  feature. 
 
 2  Some  bodies  of  celeflial  mold  do  fhine, 
 Whofe  form  and  texture,  beautiful  and  fine, 
 No  veflige  bear  of  an  impaired  bloom, 
 
 All  dazzling  luftrous  from  the  heavenly  loom. 
 
 3  And,  glow-worm-like,  fome  bodies  fcantly  gleam, 
 Of  homlier  fafhion,  and  terreftrial  frame ; 
 Both,  for  their  own  peculiar  fhtes  and  times, 
 
 In  the  celeflial  or  terreftrial  climes. 
 
 4  Thus  in  the  heavens,  the  whole  is  figured  there ; 
 Bold,  princely,  bridegroom-like,  and  peerlefs  clear, 
 The  fun,  in  blazing  majefty  is  feen, 
 
 The  moon,  in  modeft  glory  as  his  queen. 
 
 5  Differing  amongft  themfelves,  the  ftars  appear; 
 One  ftar  feems  lefs,  another  feems  more  clear ; 
 According  to  the  holy  wife  defign 
 Diverfify'd,  their  twinkling  glories  fhine ; 
 
 6  So  is  the  refurre£tion  of  the  dead, 
 
 Sown  in  the  earth,  to  fpring  a  fruitful  kcd ; 
 
 According  to  the  pre-ordained  grace, 
 
 A  glorious  harveft  to  the  Prince  of  peace. 
 
 CX1I.  So  is  the  Refurreflwn  of  the  Dead.  1  Cor.  xv.  42, 44. 
 
 ALL  in  glory  fweetly  blowing, 
 Blooms  the  lily  of  the  vale, 
 
 Pains 
 
 *  There  is  a  variety  of  kinds,  and  a  variety  of  glory  among  the 
 creatures ;  why  (hould  there  not  be  fich  a  kind  and  glory  as  that  of 
 the  body,  in  the  refurredion  ? 
 
The  Glory  of  the  raifed  Body.  1 6j 
 
 Pains  repaying  tor  the  Cowing; 
 
 But  the  valley-lilies  fail ; 
 •Never  fails  the  body,  Cpringing 
 
 Fair,  in  reCurre&ion-day ; 
 Full  of  laughter,  mirth,  and  finging, 
 
 After  having  died  away. 
 
 2  Sown  it  is  in  deep  corruption, 
 
 For  the  vermin  to  devour; 
 Life,  abhorring  interruption, 
 
 Wrefts  it  from  the  vermin's  power. 
 Sown  it  is  in  fad  difhonours ; 
 
 Sad  difhonours  o'^r  it  reign ; 
 Recreating  love  exoners, 
 
 Rais'd  in  glory  up  again. 
 
 3  Like  a  fhadow  or  a  likenefs, 
 
 Cruftit  to  death  before  a  fly, 
 Sown  it  is  in  very  weaknefs ; 
 
 Springs  it  powerful  to  the  /ky. 
 Sown  it  is  a  natural  body, 
 
 Heavy,  dull,  and  lumpifh  clod; 
 PurifyM  the  fubftance  muddy, 
 
 Rais'd  a  fpiritual  by  God. 
 
 CXIII.  There  is  a  Natural  Body,  &c  i  Cor.  xv.  44-46. 
 
 FULL  blazing  at  once,  behold  we  the  fun, 
 In  glory  emerging  from  under  a  cloud ; 
 Clouds  following  clouds,  fwift- brigading  did  run, 
 In  their  body  his  countenance  from  us  to  fhroud; 
 2  Lo,  the  clouds  of  his  vailings  evaniflit  away, 
 The  glooms  and  the  horrors  are  fled  from  the  day; 
 Even  fo  is  the  fpiritual  body  of  man 
 Succeeding  inftead  of  the  natural  one. 
 
 3  For 
 
1($8         The  Natural  Body  before  the  Spiritual. 
 
 3  For  a  fpiritual  body,  and  natural  too, 
 Claim  boldly  in  each  of  us  their  proper  due; 
 Advancing  in  order,  as  day  upon  night, 
 The  fpiritual  putting  the  natural  to  flight. 
 
 4  For  fo  it  is  written  in  Holy  record, 
 
 Firft  Adam  was  breathed  into  by  the  Lord ; 
 A  living  foul  He,  and  fo  were  all  his  feed ;' 
 But  the  Second's  the  Spirit  that  quickens  the  dead. 
 
 CXIV.  Howbeit  that  was  not  firft,  &c.  i  Cor.  xv.  46.-5 1. 
 
 COMPOS'D  of  earthy  fubftance,  thick,  and  grofs, 
 Adam  the  firft;  the  fecond  Adam  is 
 The  Lord  from  heaven ;  blotting  out  our  lofs, 
 Bleffing,  with  all  the  blefiings  that  are  kis. 
 
 2  As  is  the  Earthy,  fo  the  earthy  ones; 
 As  is  the  Spiritual,*  fo  his  fpiritual  fons; 
 The  Earthy  firft,  the  Spiritual  fucceeds, 
 
 As  faireft  flowers  from  dead  corrupted  feeds. 
 
 3  As  we  have  fallen,  the  reprefented  feed, 
 And  borne  the  image  of  our  Earthy  Head ; 
 So  we  fliall  ftand  before  the  Holy  One, 
 And  bear  the  image  of  the  Heavenly  Son. 
 
 4  Now  this  I  fay,  that  flefti  and  blood  can  ne'er 
 The  glories  of  God's  heavenly  kingdom  bear; 
 Nor  this  corruption,  wherein  now  we  dwell, 
 Of  incorruption  bear  his  royal  feal. 
 
 CXV.  Behold  1 Jhe^iv  you  a  Myftery.  1  Cor.  xv.  51.- 54. 
 
 LO,  behold,  now  a  myftery  to  you  I  difplay; 
 We  (hall  not  all  die,  but  when  comes  the  laft  day, 
 
 We 
 
We  Jhall  not  all  Die.  1 69 
 
 We  all  in  a  moment,  in  twinkling  an  eye, 
 Shall  be  changed,  and  all  away  fly  to  the  iky; 
 
 2  At  the  trump  of  the  Lord,  for  the  trumpet  (hall  found, 
 The  laft  trump  of  God,  unto  hell's  loweft  bomid  j 
 The  dead,  incorruptible,  then  mall  arife, 
 
 And  we  fliall  be  chang'd  in  celeflial  guife. 
 
 3  For  this  corruptibility  wherein  we  dwell,* 
 This  ruin'd,  polluted,  incruftating  (hell, 
 "With  incorruptibility  muff,  be  array'd, 
 And  mortality  with  immortality  clad. 
 
 CXVI.  So  when  tins  corruptible,  &c.  1  Cor.  xv.  54.-58* 
 
 WHEN  this  corruption  is  laid  down, 
 And  incorruption  cloathed  on, 
 When  rags  of  mortal  flefh  are  gone, 
 
 For  an  immortal  glory; 
 Fulfilled  all  the  Holy  Word, 
 Of  the  infallible  record  ; 
 Then  welcome,  welcome  to  the  Lord, 
 The  Lord  of  all  our  glory. 
 
 2  In  victory  is  fwallowed, 
 
 The  death  wherein  we  wallowed  ; 
 His  holy  name  be  hallowed, 
 
 Who  reigneth  all  in  glory. 
 O  death,  where  haft  thou  left  thy  fling? 
 And  thou,  O  grave,  victorious  king, 
 To  fin  may  now  thy  triumphs  fmg,' 
 
 Bereaved  of  thy  glory. 
 
 3  Now  thanks  to  God  be  thro'  his  Son, 
 Who  hath  for  us  the  victory  won; 
 And  made  us  kings  and  pnefts  in  cue, 
 
 To  reign  with  him  in  glory. 
 
 Y  In 
 
l*o  Immortal   Glory. 
 
 In  faith  and  love  let  us  obey, 
 Stedfaft  in  God,  nor  from  him  flray ; 
 We  know  he  will  his  grace  repay  ; 
 Our  Lord  is  King  of  glory. 
 
 4  We'll  praife  the  Father  in  his  way; 
 Then  gladly  welcome  the  Son's  day, 
 When  old  things  all  (hall  pafs  away; 
 
 All  things  are  new  in  glory. 
 Methinks,  already  now  I  fee, 
 The  King  of  glory  come  for  me  j 
 And  I  mall  glorious  be  as  he, 
 
 When  viewing  all  his  glory. 
 
 CXVII.  0  Death,  where  is  thy  Sting?,  i  Cor.  xv.  55, 
 to  the  end. 
 
 O  Grave,  where  is  thy  victory  ? 
 O  death,  where  is  thy  fling  ? 
 Abolifh'd,  ye  transfixed  ly, 
 By  our  almighty  King. 
 
 2  Thy  venom  from  the  fiery  law, 
 
 Fierce  viper !  Sin,  thou  fuckt ; 
 But  dafht  to  pieces  all  thy  jaw, 
 Thy  fling  away  he  pluckt. 
 
 3  Aloft  your  hallelujahs  fly, 
 
 Let  loud  hofannas  ring, 
 To  Him,  who  reigns  above  the  fky ; 
 To  Him  the  victory  fing. 
 
 4  Sing,  every  faint,  triumphing  o'er 
 
 Thy  every  deadly  foe ; 
 Againfl  thee  they  triumph  no  more; 
 Damn'd,  down  to  hell  they  go. 
 
 5  Their 
 
Viftory  /    Viflory  !  171 
 
 5  Their  prifon-gates  upon  them  barr'd, 
 
 They  can  no  more  return ; 
 In  chains  of  darknefs  fwaddled  hard, 
 They  pine,  they  twift,  they  mourn. 
 
 6  The  burning  (urges  o'er  them  roll, 
 
 And  wheel  them  to  and  fro ; 
 The*  torments  of  their  inmofl  foul 
 Shall  no  remiflion  know. 
 
 7  Defpairing,  they  blafpheme  and  roar, 
 
 And  gnafh  their  teeth  amain ; 
 While  frefher  floods  of  vengeance  pour, 
 Increafing  pain  on  pain. 
 
 8  Behold  the  portion  of  their  cup, 
 
 In  the  abyfs  below ; 
 The  indignation  fwallowed  up, 
 Re-fwallows  up  the  foe. 
 
 9  But  ye,  the  ranfomed  of  God, 
 
 The  children  of  his  love, 
 Wjth  God  (hall  dwell  in  his  abode ; 
 And  all  his  bleffings  prove. 
 
 I  o  O  ftedfaft  therefore  ever  (land, 
 
 Obedient  to  your  King, 
 Immoveable  in  his  command, 
 Till  your  reward  he  bring. 
 
 I I  Behold,  he  comes,  the  God  of  love, 
 
 I  hear  his  trumpet  found, 
 He'll  glorify  us  all  above, 
 
 With  palms  of  victory  crown'd. 
 
 1 2  O  Grave,  whe^e  is  thy  Victory  i 
 O  Death,  where  is  thy  Sting? 
 Caught  up  above  you,  and  the  iky, 
 In  God  we  dwell,  and  fing, 
 
 Y  z  CXVfti 
 
172  Chrifl  joining  his  Two  Difcipks. 
 
 CXVIII.  Beheld  Two  of  them  went — Lukexxiv.  1 3-37. 
 
 AMAZED,  on  their  lorn  way, 
 With  heavy  heart,  and  heavy  pace, 
 Repeating  oft,  "  O  woful  day  !" 
 
 And  iighing  fad,  with  many  alas, 
 A  pair  of  weary  ones  there  walk'd, 
 
 Leaving  behind  Jerufalem; 
 And  walking  onwards,  ftill  they  talk'd 
 
 Of  Jefus'  death,  that  fcene  folemn. 
 2  Scarce  had  they  walk'd  a  mile  or  twain, 
 
 With  watery  eyes,  deep-forrow-prefty 
 Tabouring  upon  their  breafh  amain, 
 
 And  uttering  what  their  griefs  fugged  ; 
 When  lo,  the  Lord  himfelf  drew  nigh; 
 
 "  All  hail,  my  fellow-travellers,  hail," 
 With  kind  falute  they  heard  him  cry, 
 
 "  And  why,  my  brethren,  do  you  wail? 
 5  "  What  is  the  patter  fills  you  fo, 
 
 "  And  makes  you  both  fo  fadly  mourn?" 
 But  all  the  while  they  did  not  know, 
 
 Who  footh'd  them  on  their  way  forlonr 
 Thou  muff,  a  ft  ranger  be  indeed, 
 
 They  faid,  in  our  Jerufalem, 
 Who  aikeft  why  our  fpirits  bleed, 
 
 Brimful  of  fnch  a  tragic  theme ! 
 
 4  "  What  tragic  theme!"  replied  he, 
 
 "  What  tragic  theme,  pray,  do  you  mean?" 
 Said  they,  For  Jefus,  mourn  do  we, 
 
 For  Jefus  Chrifl:  the  Nazarene; 
 A  Prophet  bold  in  Word  and  Deed, 
 
 In  fight  of  God  and  Ifrael  all ; 
 But  now  alas!  he's  cold  and  dead; 
 
 Our  eyes  did  fee  the  niM^irv  falj 
 
Chri/i  joining  his  Two  Di/cipks.  173 
 
 5  A  facrifice  to  cruel  rage, 
 
 They  caught,  they  bound  him  in  their  fpitc; 
 His  murder  only  could  affwage 
 
 Their  thirft  of  blood,  who  drank  it  fweet; 
 Condemning  firft  without  a  caufe, 
 
 They  wreakt  on  him  their  bitternefs ; 
 For  keeping  all  the  holy  laws 
 
 His  body  nail'd  they  to  a  crofs, 
 
 6  But  we  fuppos'd  the  period  come, 
 
 Foretold  from  ages  long  ago, 
 To  bring  the  chofen  Ifrael  home, 
 
 According  as  the  Scriptures  fliow ; 
 We  faw,  we  lov'd  him,  and  efteem'd 
 
 He  from  the  Father's  bofom  came, 
 Who  fliould  have  Ifrael  redeem'd, 
 
 The  very  Chrift,  God's  Ele&  Lamb, 
 
 7  But  what  furprizeth  mod  of  all, 
 
 Is  that  which  happened  to  day, 
 In  courfe  the  third  which  now  doth  fall 
 
 Since  all  thefe  things  were  on  the  way ; 
 Some  women  of  our  own  had  went 
 
 This  morning  early  to  the  tomb, 
 To  give  their  grief  and  tears  a  vent, 
 
 And  fbon  returned  trembling  home ; 
 
 8  They  told  us,  thdy  had  angels  feen, 
 
 AiTuring  Jefus  was  alive ; 
 Ourfelves,  to  know  the  truth,  fo  keen, 
 
 At  the  fepulchre  next  arrive ; 
 The  women  had  indeed  been  true, 
 
 As  far  as  all  our  fearch  could  go; 
 The  Lord  appeared  not  to  view; 
 
 But  all  they  faid  appeared  fo. 
 .0  In  foft  compaffion,  then,  the  Lord, 
 
 Began  to  chide  their  unbelief; 
 
 O  flow 
 
174  Chrift  joining  his  Two  Difciples. 
 
 "  O  flow  of  heart  to  hear  the  Word! 
 
 "  The  Word  believ'd  had  quencht  your  grief. 
 "  Meffiah,  ought  he  not  to  have, 
 
 "  According  to  the  prophets  all, 
 "  Endured  thus,  and  thus  to  fave 
 "  His  people's  life  by  his  own  fall?"- 
 i  o  Expounding  then  the  facred  page, 
 
 He  bade  the  fhades  of  darknefs  fly, 
 From  Mofes  down,  thro'  every  age, 
 
 And  brought  the  meaning  to  their  eye; 
 He  fhew'd  them  all  himfelf  concerning ; 
 
 The  men  aftonifh'd,  flood  amazed, 
 Marvelling  at  his  quick  difcerning, 
 While  he  their  drooping  fpirits  raifed. 
 r  r  The  evening  now  advancing  on, 
 Led  them  to  their  defired  place, 
 And  Jefus  would  have  further  gone, 
 But  they  conflrain'd  him  ne'erthelefs ; 
 Within  the  hofpitable  walls, 
 
 Arriv'd  the  three  among  their  friends; 
 Behold  the  fcene  that  now  befals, 
 AiH  in  furprizing  manner  ends. 
 
 1 2  Lo,  as  they  fat  in  wonted  guife, 
 
 And  Jefus  blefs'd  and  brake  the  bread, 
 He  fmil'd  and  opened  their  eyes, 
 
 Then  in  a  twinkling  vanifhed. — 
 How  hotly  burn'd  our  hearts !  faid  they, 
 
 Recovering  from  their  firft  furprize, 
 He  walking  with  us  by  the  way, 
 
 The  Scriptures  opening  to  our  eyes. 
 
 13  They  faid,  they  rofe,  they  ran,  they  flew, 
 
 Bound  ftraightway  for  Jerufalem, 
 To  tell  the  Lord  appear'd  to  view, 
 And  that  he  had  appear'd  to  -them. 
 
 The- 
 
Falfe  Hope,    and  True  Hope.  17 
 
 They  found  their  brethren  all  together; 
 
 "  Lift  up  your  heart,  lift  up  your  head ! 
 "  Now  blooms  the  flower  that  late  did  wither: 
 
 "  The  Lord  is  rifen  from  the  dead !" 
 14  "  Alive  indeed !  our  eyes  have  feen  him; 
 
 "  He  walked  with  us  by  the  way." 
 They  told  of  all  had  pafs'd  between  them, 
 
 And  how  he  did  himfelf  difplay, 
 In  breaking  of  the  bread,  and  how 
 
 But  lo,  before  they  faid  the  thing, 
 Full  in  their  view,  "  Peace  be  to  you !" 
 ;  Said  Jems,  {landing  in  the  ring. 
 
 CXIX.  Turn  ye  to  the  flrong  Hold,  ye  Prifoners  of  Hope. 
 Zech.  ix.  12. 
 
 AH !  now  no  more,  I'm  fick  of  you, 
 Your  blandifhments  are  all  in  vain; 
 You  cannot  fmooth  the  writhed  brow, 
 
 You  cannot  footh  the  torturing  pain ; 
 Away,  away,  Falfe  flattering  Hope, 
 
 Falfe  flattering  Hope  of  fmful  joy  ; 
 Too  long  you've  made  me  blindly  grope ; 
 Decoying  firft,  you  then  deflroy. 
 
 2  Your  dazzling  rays  firft  flrike  me  blind, 
 
 Then  flrangely  move  me  to  purfue ; 
 Touchlefs  and  viewiefs  as  the  wind, 
 
 The  phantom  flies  and  mocks  me  too ; 
 "  Hold,  hold !"  I  cry,  "  I  have  you  now !" 
 
 But  lo,  down  headlong  in  a  pit 
 Falling,  my  bones  are  bruis'd  by  you, 
 
 And  you  are  never  catched  yer. 
 
 3  You  raife  me  up,  another  glance 
 
 Of  gladnefs  thrills  thro'  all  my  heart; 
 
 Mv 
 
1 7  6  Falfe  Hope,  and  True  Hope. 
 
 My  fpirits  fpring  and  buoyant  dance, 
 
 Wrought  high  to  madnefs  thro'  your  art- 
 
 O  magic  !  magic !  curfl  from  herl, 
 To  hell  foon  may  you  curfl  defcend, 
 
 And  leave  my  labouring  breafr.  a-while, 
 'Till  I  mail  know  my  latter  end. 
 
 4  My  latter  end !  ah  !  little  known ! 
 
 I've  only  minded  prefent  things ; 
 My  garden's  robb'd,  my  pleafure's  flown ; 
 
 O  where  are  now  my  living  fprings  ? 
 My  living  fprings !  what  would  I  give, 
 
 To  have  you  once  my  own  again  ? 
 Drinking,  in  raptures  I  would  live ; 
 
 The  tempter  tempt  me  fliould  in  vain. 
 
 5  The  tempter !  blafted  be  the  name  ! 
 
 He  fpoil'd,  he  fpoil'd  me  of  my  God ; 
 ^In  guile  he  covered  me  with  fliame ; 
 He  drew  me  down  to  his  abode, 
 His  dark  abode,  to  live  in  death, 
 
 Damn'd  to  eternal  mifery, 
 Under  intolerable  wrath, 
 Dying  to  die,  yet  never  die. 
 
 6  Dying  to  die!  O  man,  behold, 
 
 Behold  thy  fair  inheritance, 
 By  fin  bequeath'd  to  thee  of  old; 
 
 You  pafs  to  darknefs  thro'  a  trance ; 
 Dark  is  the  trance  thro'  which  you  pafs, 
 
 The  chambers  dark  in  which  you  dwell; 
 Thy  chains  are  forg'd  of  ftrongeft  brafs ; 
 
 The  fons  of  fin  are  fons  of  hell. 
 
 7  In  fin  conceiv'd,  they  dwell  in  fin, 
 
 By  nature  children  all  of  wrath ; 
 O  better  had  they  never  been, 
 
 If  as  they  live,  they  yield  their  breath ! 
 
 A-whor- 
 
Falfe  Hope,  and  True  Hope*  177 
 
 A-whoring  from  the  very  womb, 
 
 From  life  they  wander  quite  aft  ray  ; 
 A-whoring  to  the  very  tomb, 
 
 They  nought  but  divers  lufts  obey. 
 
 8  Ah  !  divers  lufts !  for  wifdom  {hews 
 
 The  motto  of  the  carnal  heart, 
 And  that  no  mortal  dare  refufe, 
 
 "  Thou  enmity  againft  God  art." 
 AH  that  is  born  of  nefh  is  flefli ; 
 
 Except  thou  (hall  again  be  born, 
 Celeftial  love  ihall  ne'er  refreih 
 
 Thy  heart,  of  every  hope  forlorn. 
 
 9  Forlorn  of  hope !  how  (halt  thou  pine, 
 
 In  dreary  howlings  pine  away ! 
 In  beams  of  glory  never  fhine  ! 
 
 Nor  fee  a  peep  of  coming  day  !  * 
 
 Canft  thou  efcape  thy  judgment  paft  ? 
 
 Canft  thou  efcape  thy  dreadful  doom  ? 
 Unmov'd  as  rocks,  thy  guilt  ftands  faft  ; 
 
 And  (till  thy  wrath  is  wrath  to  come. 
 
 Jp^No  doing  that  thou  e'er  canft  do, 
 ^        No  furfering  that  thou  e'er  canft  fuffer, 
 Will  'bate  the  leaft  thy  fum  that's  due, 
 
 Or  make  thy  cafe  at  all  to  differ ; 
 Bound  over,  as  the  fallen  fpirits, 
 
 Who  fell  from  truth,  and  fell  from  love, 
 To  underly  thy  juft  demerits, 
 Due  from  the  jealous  God  above, 
 i  i   The  jealous  God  hath  lifted  high, 
 
 Hath  lifted  high  his  hand,  and  fworn, 
 M  Deeds  of  the  law  {hail  juftify 
 
 <;  No  flefli  that  lives  of  woman  born." 
 But  now,  behold,  without  the  law, 
 The  righteoufitefs  of  God  is  come  j 
 
 Z  Is 
 
178  Falfe  Hope,  and  True  Hope. 
 
 Is  come  to  hand,  what  prophets  faw, 
 Saw  from  afar,  is  now  brought  home. 
 
 1 2  Lift  loud  your  voice,  lift  loud  and  fing, 
 
 The  mandates  of  the  mighty  King ; 
 The  righteoufnefs  of  God  is  found! 
 
 O  joy  to  every  living  thing ! 
 The  righteoufnefs  of  God  believ'd, 
 
 Is  even  righteoufnefs  to  thee; 
 No  fooner  known,  than  reliev'd 
 
 From  guilty  fears,  thy  breaft  is  free. 
 
 1 3  Praife  to  the  Father,  and  the  Son, 
 
 And  praife  be  to  the  Holy  Spirit ; 
 That  as  the  fin  and  death  by  one, 
 
 Reign'd  over  all  by  juft  demerit, 
 So  grace,  thro'  Jefus,  glorious  reigns, 
 
 Byjuftice  to  eternal  joy. 
 Avaunt  ye,  fin !  avaunt  ye,  pains ! 
 
 Overflowing  loves  my  tongue  employ ! 
 
 14  O'erflowing  loves  employ  my  tongue  j 
 
 And  mall  I  then  in  fin  remain  ? 
 Becaufe  the  grace  of  God  is  fung, 
 
 Shall  I  for  fin  God's  grace  difdain  ? 
 Ah  no !  how  can  I  live  in  fin  ? 
 
 To  fin  long  fmce  I  dy'd ;  I  rofe, 
 I  dy'd  in  Chrift,  I  rofe  in  him ; 
 
 Who  lives  in  fin  Chrift's  love  foregoes. 
 
 1 5  Forego  Chrift's  love  !  can  I  forego  ? 
 
 He  bore  the  fin,  he  bore  the  wrath, 
 He  bore  them  both  away  me  fro ; 
 
 That  I  might  live,  he  tailed  death  ; 
 That  I  might  be  efpous'd  to  him, 
 
 He  kindly  did  my  caufe  efpoufe ; 
 Gave  me  the  glory,  took  the  fhame  ; 
 
 Lord,  how  fliall  I  thy  love  abufe  ? 
 
 16 
 
1 6   Thy  love  abufe  !  forbid,  my  God, 
 O  leave  me,  leave  me  not  alone ; 
 Thy  Spirit's  free,  thy  Spirit's  good, 
 Thy  Spirit  guide  me  to  thy  throne ; 
 *Thou  art  my  light,  my  life,  my  peace, 
 
 My  ftrength,  my  joy,  my  hope,  my  crown; 
 Th'  overwhelming  glory  of  thy  grace 
 Shall  every  fin  and  forrow  drown. 
 
 CXX.  That  which  was  from  the  Beginning.  I  John  i.  & 
 to  the  end. 
 
 BEFORE  the  land  and  flowing  fea, 
 Before  the  world  began  to  be, 
 He,  who  being  to  all  beftow'd, 
 The  Being  of  all,  to  all  is  fhow'd ; 
 Have  heard  our  ears,  have  feen  our  eyes, 
 We  lookt  upon  him  with  furprize, 
 Our  hands  have  toucht ;  and  lo,  behold, 
 The  Word  of  life  we  now  unfold. 
 
 2  The  Life  to  us  was  all  difclos'd, 
 Who  with  the  Father  High  repos'd  ; 
 Our  eyes  have  feen,  and  lo,  behold, 
 The  Life  to  you  we  all  unfold. 
 That  which  from  the  beginning  was, 
 Before  creation  came  to  pafs, 
 
 The  Blefs'd,  the  Lov'd  Jehovah's  Name, 
 Wide-publiiliing,  we  loud  proclaim  ; 
 
 3  Proclaim  to  you,  that  you  may  have 
 A  fellowfhip  with  us,  and  live  ; 
 We  live,  of  fellowship  poffeft, 
 
 Even  with  the  Father  and  his  Chrift ; 
 Thefe  tidings  then,  all  loving  kind, 
 Our  yerning  bowels  do  greeting  fend ; 
 
 Z    2 
 
180  God's    Mejfage. 
 
 That  you,  well-full  of  heavenly  joy, 
 May  all  your  powers  in  praife  employ. 
 
 4  This  then  the  Meflage  we  have  heard 
 Of  him,  and  now  to  you  declar'd, 
 That  God  is  Light,  all  mining  clear ; 
 In  him  no  darkneffes  appear ; 
 
 The  Sun  of  glory  glorious  fliines ; 
 
 The  fhadows  all  are  blown  away ; 
 The  eye  that  fees  him  ne'er  repines ; 
 
 The  Holy  Ghoft  hath  mown  the  day. 
 
 5  If  we  pretend  to  his  communion, 
 
 And  walk  in  darknefs  all  the  while ; 
 If  unbelief  have  the  dominion, 
 
 No  love,  no  joy,  no  hope,  do  fmile  ; 
 We  make  a  fad  notorious  lie, 
 Nor  with  the  truth  at  all  comply : 
 The  truth  believ'd,  is  full  of  grace, 
 Of  works  of  love,  of  joy,  of  peace. 
 
 6  But  if  we  walk  in  light,  as  He, 
 
 In  his  Beloved  Son  well-pleas'd, 
 In  fellowfhip  with  him,  we're  free ; 
 
 The  blood  of  Jefus  hath  us  eas'd. 
 The  blood  of  Jefus,  mower 'd  on  fin, 
 DiiTolves  the  guilt  that  lies  between ; 
 And  makes  a  way  for  mining  grace, 
 On  us  to  fhine  with  open  face. 
 
 7  If  we  fliall  fay  we  have  no  fin, 
 
 We  much  deceive  ourfelves  therein, 
 And  forge  a  lie  with  a  high  hand ; 
 And  how  (hall  liars  guiltlefs  (land  ? 
 But  if  we  will  our  fins  confefs, 
 (The  Father  will  allow  no  lefs) 
 Hic;  faith  and  juftice  have  their  due ; 
 Both  faith  and  juftice  for  us  now. 
 
LJjje  noi   lue   w  una.  1.01 
 
 8  Both  for  us  now,  and  evermore ! 
 
 The  Lamb,  the  Lamb  blots  out  the  fcore; 
 The  merit  all  is  due  the  Lamb, 
 From  Him  our  righteoumefTes  came. 
 If  we  fliall  fay  we  have  not  finn'd, 
 Againft  the  Lamb  we  (land  combin'd ; 
 We  call  him  liar,  of  him  afham'd; 
 Afham'd  of  him,  we're  juftly  damn'd. 
 
 CXXI.  Love  not  the  World,    i  John  ii.  15--18. 
 
 OLove  not  the  world,  neither  what  is  therein  ; 
 If  any  man  love  it,  to  him  it  is  fin, 
 To  him  all  a  Babel-confufion  and  ruin  ; 
 He  loves  not  the  Father,  but  his  own  undoing. 
 
 2  All  that's  in  the  world's  mere  odious  trafli, 
 
 The  pride  of  life,  luft  of  the  eyes,  and  the  flefh ; 
 
 Away,  away  all !  are  thefe  of  the  Father  ? 
 
 All,  all  of  the  world !  thus,  blown  off  like  a  feather, 
 
 3  The  world!  pray,  what  is  it?  a  dream  of  the  night, 
 A  glow-worm  that  gleameth  and  yieldeth  no  light ; 
 Behold,  how  it  paffeth  away  like  a  fliadow, 
 
 And  leaves  the  poor  fool-thing  that  weds  id  a  widow 
 
 CXXII.  Mary  Magdalen,  out  of  whom  the  Lord  had  cafl 
 Seven  Devils.  Mark  xvi.  9. 
 
 MY  fpirit  in  me  fore  amaz'd, 
 I  gaz'd,  and  trembled  as  I  gaz'd ; 
 Dazzling  my  eyes,  a  heavenly  vifion, 
 Sailing  on  wings  with  foft  elifion, 
 The  vifion  all  a  blaze  of  light, 
 Jn  filence  of  the  middle  night, 
 
 Adyani 
 
i[J2  Mary    Magdalen. 
 
 Advancing,  mildly  fpoke  and  fmiled ; 
 The  air  was  all  with  fragrance  filled. 
 
 2  Courage  into  my  bofom  flew, 
 Vanilht  my  fears  as  morning  dew, 
 
 "  Wafh'd  pure,  behold  a  perfect  fpirit," 
 
 The  vifion  faid,  "  Thro'  blood  and  merit  j 
 
 "  Maria  Magdalen  my  name ; 
 
 "  All  glory  to  the  Holy  Lamb, 
 
 "  From  whom  we  have  a  full  remiflion ; 
 
 "  To  thee  1  come  by  his  permiflion. 
 
 3  u  Beware,  and  flee  from  youthful  luft; 
 "  Thus  fays  the  Holy  One  and  Juft, 
 
 "  Revere  his  Spirit  dwelling  in  you, 
 
 "  Satan  hath  fought  you  all  to  winnow  j 
 
 "  The  chaff  before  the  temped  flies, 
 
 "  So  carnal  minds  that  follow  lies ; 
 
 ?  From  fin  who  will  their  pleafure  borrow, 
 
 "  With  fin  they  muft  ly  down  in  forrow. 
 
 4  "  Repent,  repent,  you'll  foon  repent, 
 
 "  In  dragon's  fangs,  the  grace  mifpent, 
 "  If  to  your  fhame  you  mufl  be  going, 
 "  And  to  the  flefli  have  all  your  fowing. 
 "  Begone,  thou  dry  enkindled  wood, 
 "  Extinguifh  thee  in  Jefus'  blood." — 
 She  viewlefs  grew,  1  grew  amazed, 
 My  troubled  fpirit  all  abafed. 
 
 5  O  Jefus,  Jefus,  wafh  me  clean ; 
 Create  a  pure  heart  me  within ; 
 Caft  out,  call  out  the  unclean  fpirits  j 
 Nothing  unclean  thy  love  inherits ; 
 O  fet  a  guard  on  every  fenfe, 
 
 And,  freeing  me  from  all  offence, 
 My  fpirit  warm  with  pure  devotions; 
 And  leal  me  thine  with  all  my  motions. 
 
 6  I  fee. 
 
Death  an  Antidote  to  Female  Pride.  .       183: 
 
 I  fee,  I  fee  thy  holy  feal, 
 Thy  Spirit  all  within  me  feel, 
 My  humbled  heart  fpiritualizing, 
 Where  fin  before  was  carnalizing  ; 
 Go  on,  go  on,  O  Spirit  good, 
 And  banifh  every  motion  lewd ; 
 Subject  me  all  to  thy  dominion, 
 And  blefs  me  with  thy  full  communion. 
 "  Amen,  amen,  be  not  afraid, 
 "  But  follow  me,"  the  Spirit  faid. 
 Amen,  amen,  my  heart  replied, 
 Under  his  hand  now  felf-denied ; 
 Now  fprinkled  with  the  water  clean, 
 I  fee  how  great  my  fin  has  been ; 
 My  fin  is  evermore  before  me, 
 In  duft  and  allies  I  abhor  me. 
 
 CXXIII.    Tremble,  ye  Women   that  are   at  eafe. 
 Ifaiah  xxxii.   n*; 
 
 DEATH !  death !  O  fair  lady,  fee  death  coming  on ; 
 All  kind  thou  and  loving,  yet  fvvift  is  he  moving; 
 He  may  be  up  with  thee  to-morrow  ere  noon, 
 Or  next  day,  or  next  day,  or  who  knows  how  foon  ? 
 
 2  Con- 
 
 *  The  following,  it  is  apprehended,  is  fully  as  jufr.  and  edifying 
 an  account  of  the  matter,  as  that  which  ufes  to  be  given  by  thofe 
 lewd  idolatrous  flatterers,  who  addrefs  the  Sex  as  if  they  were  indeed 
 fo  many  female  divinities,  calling  them  goddeiTes,  and  what  not  other 
 
 fluff ! If  you  think  the  irony  too  bitter,  or  the  fryle,  which  is 
 
 borrowed  from  the  current  mode  of  love-fong  phrafe,  over  light  and 
 airy,  remember  how  Elijah  taunted  the  prielts  of  Baal ;  Cry  aloud : 
 for  he  is  a  god  ;  either  he  is  talking ,  or  he  is  purfuing,  or  he  is  in  a 
 journey,  or  peradventure  he  fleepeth  ar.d  mujl  be  awaked* — O  ladies, 
 ladies,  how  can  you  doubt  but  you  itiojhafl  die  like  men,  and  fait 
 like  the  meansfl  of  the  people ! 
 
184  Death  an  Antidote  to  Female  Pride. 
 
 2  Confider,  confider,  your  beauty  muft  fade, 
 Your  beauty  bright-fhining,  in  vain  is  repining ; 
 Your  glory  will  leave  you,  when  once  you  are  deacif 
 Your  body  grow  heavy,  and  lumpilli  as  lead. 
 
 3  The  fpirit  now  actuates  thofe  pretty  limbs, 
 
 In  dance  lightly-moving,  glad  motions  approving, 
 Muft  then  go  and  vifit  th'  invifible  climes ; 
 O  may  fhe  along  with  her  carry  no  crimes ! 
 
 4  Then  iilence  profound  ay  muft  dwell  on  your  tongue, 
 Your  tongue  brilkly-going,  with  words  overflowing  -, 
 The  leftbns  of  filence,  meet  for  you  while  young, 
 Will  ferve  you  no  purpofe,  the  dead  when  among. 
 
 5  Tho'  fweet  were  your  mufic  as  raptures  of  heaven, 
 Soft-trembling,  high-fwelling,  no  falfe  found  rebelling, 
 On  feftivals  when  allelujahs  are  given,  [driven. 
 Yet  charm'd  from  your  mouth,  away  death  won't  be 
 
 6  Two  funs  tho'  your  eyes  were,  the  ftars  to  out-drown> 
 All  glorioufly  beaming,  with  floods  of  light  ftreaming, 
 Yet  they'll  never  daunton,  when  fairly  laid  down, 
 Dark  eager  devourers,  the  worms,  to  feed-on. 
 
 7  Tho'  fweeter  and  reder  than  lily  or  rofe, 
 
 Your  rofes  fweet-growing,  your  lilies  full-blowing, 
 In  youth's  blooming  pride  now  your  pulpy  cheek  glows, 
 Remember  it,  madam,  the  worms  are  no  beaus ! 
 
 8  Out-rubying  rubies,  or  finer  than  thefe, 
 
 Tho'  pure  be  the  ruby,  and  purer  tho'  thou  be, 
 Thy  lips  and  thy  mouth  all  of  beauty  a  blaze, 
 The  worms  kifs  the  ladies,  difpleafe  ye,  or  pleafe. 
 
 9  Your  breath  were  it  fweeter  than  heavenly  airs, 
 Tranfporting  and  filling,  foul-melting,  and  thrilling 
 Solacing  pure  virgin-fouls  after  their  cares, 
 
 Tho'  civet-cats  living,  you're  polecats  when  theirs. 
 
 10  Tho? 
 
Death  an  Antidote  to  Female  Pri!.\  1 85 
 
 10  Tho'  ivory  turn  coal-black  when  fet  by  your  teeth, 
 In  Alining  rows  (landing,  our  wonder  commanding, 
 The  pompous  parade  of  your  fimpering  mouth, 
 Tho'  hard, they  muft.yield  to  the  worm's  rapid  tooth! 
 
 1 1  Tho'  fmiles,  yea  and  Cupids,  ten  thoufand  times  ten, 
 In  beauty  befeeming,  with  gladnefs  all  gleaming, 
 Play,  wanton,  and  Tally  on  that  dimpled  chin, 
 The  worms  are  not  amorous  courteous  young  men, 
 
 [2  Tho'  pencils  of  angels  ben't  proper,  you're  told, 
 (Light-flowing  and  eafy,  the  angels  might  pleafe  ye,) 
 To  paint  thofe  fine  trefTes  and  ringlets  of  gold, 
 To  feize  them  for  beds  of  down  worms  will  make 
 bold. 
 
 [3  With  fcandal,  or  courtfhip,  or  pfalms  do  they  ring, 
 With  holy  refounding,  or  folly  rebounding, 
 With  flattery,  or  fonnets,  or  what  other  thing  P 
 Yet  ftanch  by  your  ears  thofe  keen  tigers  ilia  11  cling. 
 
 [4  Thofe  eye-brows  like  rainbows,  well  arched  around, 
 So  comely,  fo  pleafant,  and  lovely  at  prefent, 
 O  fanciful  lovers,  (hall  fhortly  be  found, 
 With  clutters  of  wreathing  worms  nibbled  and  bound. 
 
 :5  That  noble  magnificent  fpecious  head, 
 
 In  glory  high-ftanding,  all  prince-like  commanding, 
 
 Alas  !  a  few  feafons  fliall  fmite  it  indeed, 
 
 A  palace  for  worms,  where  they  litter  and  feed. 
 
 6  Ah  me  !  how  your  brains,  now  enlegion'd  fo  full, 
 With  trifles  and  folly,  ungracious,  unholy, 
 
 Of  lothfome  vile  vermin,  fhall  turn  to  a  ihoal, 
 Rough-crawling !  rough-preying  !  rough-peflering- 
 foul! 
 
 7  Thofe  noflrils,  now  fucking-in  clouds  of  perfume, 
 With  plcafures  contented, and  things  the  beft-fcented, 
 
 A  a  Muft 
 
1 86         Death  an  Antidote  to  Female  Pride. 
 
 Mud  quickly  be  gone  to  regale  in  a  tomb ; 
 
 Ye  daughters  of  beauty,  go  think  on  your  doom. 
 
 1 8  On  fnowy-white  bofoms,  in  duft  humbled  down, 
 Now  {inking  and  rifing,  unfofe  to  fet  eyes  on,  *' 
 O  how  the  tyrannical  monflers  brood-on ! 
 
 For  theirs  you  are  all,  from  the  fole  to  the  crown, 
 
 19  Whate'er  be  the  paflion  that  beats  in  thy  vein, 
 Or  joy  fpirit-eafing,  or  pain  fore  difpleafing, 
 V/ith  lolies  difheartened,  or  heartened  with  gain, 
 There,  fome  lordly  beau-worm  enthroned  (hall  reigr 
 
 20  Your  breafl:  is  it  heaving  with  anger  or  love, 
 All  madly  inflamed,  or  foftly  becalmed, 
 
 Each  feat  of  the  paflions,  wherever  they  move, 
 To  mercilefs  jaws  a  fad  victim  mult  prove. 
 
 2 1  O  think,  if  your  glory  be  wrapt  in  a  fkin, 
 No  fooner  it  kindles,  but  quickly  it  dwindles, 
 When  life  is  extinguiflit,  pray,  what  is  it  then  ? 
 To  bafe  putrefaction  all  turned  again. 
 
 22  All  real  perfection  is  lodg'd  in  the  mind  -f 
 To  heaven  efpoufed,  you  fliall  be  well  ufed ; 
 Be  humble,  be  modeft,  be  holy,  be  kind ; 
 Then  hail  to  the  daughters  for  heaven  defign'd. 
 
 23  When  life's  breathing  engines  give  over  to  mover 
 The  angels  are  hovering,  fent  from  their  high  Sc 
 
 vereign, 
 To  guard  you,  and  bear  you  to  regions  above, 
 All  blamelefs  and  fair,  to  his  bofomof  love. 
 
 24  Sweet,  fweet  may  ye  ileep^  then,  within  the  quk 
 
 grave, 
 Since  heaven  you  borrow,  and  glory  for  forrow ; 
 All  kindly  your  {liters  embraces  receive, 
 Till  the  dwellers  in  duft  the  laft  trumpet  relieve. 
 
 CXXI1 
 
The  Word  my  %oy  and  Choice.  187 
 
 CXXIV.  Thy  Word  unto  me  the  joy  and  rejoicing  of 
 my  Heart.   Jer.  xv.  1 6. 
 
 OF  race  divine,  thou  needs  mud  be, 
 Since  nothing  earthly  equals  thee  • 
 The  Spirit  he  rps  favoured  me, 
 And  given  me  to  love  thee. 
 Chorus.  Now  thou  art  my  .own  choice, 
 I  do  love  thee,  I  do  love  thee ; 
 Now  thou  art  my  own  choice, 
 How  dearly  do  I  love  thee ! 
 
 2  One  thing  thou  all  peculiar  had, 
 That  they  who  know  thee,  all  are  bleft, 
 And  dwell  in  everlafting  reft ; 
 
 Becaufe  'tis  their|  to  love  thee.    Now,  &c. 
 
 3  To  merit  I  no  clajp  can  make, 
 But  that  I  love,  and  for  thy  fake 
 Would  do  whate'er  I  undertake ; 
 
 So  dearly  do  I  love  thee.     Now,  &c. 
 
 4  My  paffion,  conftant  as  the  fun, 
 
 Flames  ftronger  ftill,  will  ne'er  have  done, 
 Till  time  my  thread  of  life  have  fpun ; 
 
 Which  breathing  out  I'll  love  thee.     Now,  Sec. 
 
 5  Like  bees  that  fuck  the  morning-dew, 
 From  flowers  of  fweeteft  fcent  and  hue, 
 So  does  my  fpirit  dwell  on  you ; 
 
 And  all  becaufe  1  love  thee.     Now,  &e, 
 
 6  So  long's  I  have  the  ufe  of  light, 
 I'll  on  thy  Beauties  feaft  my  fight, 
 Ay  dwelling  on  them  with  delight; 
 
 They  dwell  in  light  who  love  thee.     Now,  fee 
 
 7  How  fair  and  pleafant  is  thy  f^ce  ! 
 Thou  beameft  all  with  heavenly  grace, 
 
 A  a  %  A  Qxwnk 
 
1 88  The  Word  better  than  Gold,  fweeter  than  Honey. 
 
 A  fhining  fun  of  lore  and  peace ; 
 
 How  bleft  are  they  who  love  thee !     Now,  &c. 
 8  Dwell  thou  within  this  breaft  of  mine, 
 Thou  and  thy  glories  all  divine, 
 And  make  me  fruitful  as  the  vine, 
 
 In  works  of  them  who  love  thee.     Now,  &c. 
 
 o  Death's  on  the  wing,  and  will  not  flay, 
 Death  he  brings  on  the  joyful  day, 
 And  he  will  come  without  delay, 
 
 And  blefs  them  all  who  love  thee.     Now,  &c. 
 io  Methinks  the  chariot- wheels  I  hear, 
 Of  my  Redeemer  drawing  near ; 
 My  foul's  all  liftening  in  my  ear, 
 
 The  foul  of  him  who  loves  thee.     Now,  &c. 
 
 CXXV.  More  to  be  defired  than  Gold,  yea,  than  much 
 fine  Gold ;  fweeter  alfo  than  Honey,  and  the  Honey* 
 comb.  Pfalm  xix.  io. 
 
 i 
 
 I  Have  feen  all  the  pleafures  of  hoarded-up  treafures, 
 More  fleet  than  a  fhadow,  fly  quickly  away  j 
 lnftead  of  a  bleffing,  they  are  an  opprefTing, 
 
 To  have  them,  and  hold  them,  a  pitiful  day; 
 But  now  my  bread  glowing,  with  raptures  o'erflowing, 
 
 I  fwim  in  an  ocean  that  knoweth  no  fhore, 
 An  ocean  of  bl effing,  the  good  Word  poffeffing; 
 
 I'm  full,  full  of  treafures  that  laft  evermore. 
 I  well  know  the  prefent,  how  balmy  and  pleafant 
 
 Of  fmall  honey-workers  on  fair  fummer-day  ; 
 The  honey  taftes  fweetly,  yet  not  fo  compleatly, 
 
 But  mingled  with  bitter,  the  fwcet  will  decay  ; 
 Unfpeakably  fweeter,  without  any  bitter, 
 
 The  pure  Word  of  God  is  eternally  mine  j 
 
 '  My 
 
Soliloquy  of  an  unbelieving  Soul  departing  to  the  pit.   189 
 
 My  heart  it  delighteth,  mine  eyes  it  enlighteneth  j 
 I  thereby  a  diadem  of  beauty  do  ihine. 
 
 3  Deep  {hades  they  enclos'd  me,  and  death  difcompos'd 
 
 When  light-flaunting  folly  my  heart  did  betray ;  [me, 
 But  Jefus  the  prize  won,  which  I've  now  my  eyes  on; 
 
 The  darknefs  is  fled,  and  is  loft  in  the  day. 
 Subftantial  poffeffions,  perennial  bleflings, 
 
 Are  laid  up  in  heaven  with  Jefus  for  me; 
 Thy  Spirit  I  feel  it ;  thy  Word  is  my  pilot ; 
 
 Blow  thy  breath  in  my  fails ;  blow  my  veflel  to  thee. 
 
 CXXVI.  He  that  believeth  not  the  Son  /ball  not  fee  Life, 
 but  the  wrath  of  God  abideth  upon  him.  John  iii.  36. 
 
 BEREAV'D,  bereav'd  I  mourn  and  wail, 
 Bereaved  of  the  day ; 
 The  fliades  of  darknefs  now  prevail, 
 Prevail  o'er  me  for  ay. 
 
 2  What  (hall  I  do !  my  hopes  are  fled. 
 
 Fled  as  the  morning-dew ; 
 Q  Jefus,  though  thy  bofom  bled, 
 My  foul  abhorred  you. 
 
 3  I  was  indeed  conceiv'd  in  fin, 
 
 I  ow?d  my  life  to  death ; 
 As  all  men  have  conceived  been, 
 By  nature  all  of  wrath. 
 
 4  Yet  God  is  love,  and  God  he  flew, 
 
 On  wings  of  love  to  fave  ; 
 His  finifht  work  he  brought  to  view, 
 But  this  I  would  not  have. 
 
 5  I  thought  it  all  an  idle  tale, 
 
 As  Sodom's  fons  of  old  ; 
 He  rain'd  on  them  the  fiery  hail, 
 As  holy  Prophets  told. 
 
 6  'Bold 
 
l$Q  A    Child 'j    Dream, 
 
 6  Bold  it  -S  I  was,  I  could  not  bear 
 
 To  live  by  Abraham's  faith, 
 A  righteoufnefs  fent  thro'  the  ear, 
 Which  Holy  Ghoft  difpiay'th. 
 
 7  I  fought  to  live  by  other  means, 
 
 The  means  I  could  atchieve; 
 By  all  the  felfifli  ways  and  pains 
 I  took  for  to  believe. 
 
 8  On  pride  depended  all  my  hope, 
 
 Tho'  Jefus  got  the  name  ; 
 Self-righteoufnefs  had  perfect  fcope ; 
 I  trampled  on  the  Lamb. 
 
 9  He  was  the  only  preached  Peace, 
 
 That  e'er  the  Scriptures  knew ; 
 But  men,  of  Scriptures  took  the  place, 
 And  hid  them  from  my  view. 
 
 i  o  O  wo  to  me,  and  wo  to  them, 
 Who  led  me  thus  aftray ; 
 Who  led  me  here  to  endlefs  fliame, 
 From  Chrift  the  only  way. 
 
 1 1  O  horrors !  O  the  dungeon-mouth  ! 
 Black,  yawning  wide  for  me  ! 
 Oh  !  Oh  !  I  feel  the  dragon's  tooth  ! 
 O  where,  where  fliall  I  flee  ?— 
 
 C^XVII.  He  awoke,  and  behold  it  was  a  Dream. 
 i  Kings  hi.  15.  v 
 
 NOW  ye  who  I  faw  laft  night, 
 Sleeping  on  my  bed,  Mamma  i 
 A  fhining  creature  ail  in  light ; 
 
 She  feera'd  a  heavenly  maid,  Mamma. 
 I  met  her  tripping  o'er  the  dew, 
 Fine  as  a  queen  of  May,  Mamma ; 
 
 Sih 
 
 K' 
 
A   Child's    Dream.  roi 
 
 She  faw,  fhe  fmil'd,  ftie  to  me  flew, 
 
 And  bade  me  come  away,  Mamma. 
 I  lookt,  I  lov'd,  I  blufht  a-whiie, 
 
 0  how  could  I  fay  No,  Mamma  ? 
 She  fpoke  fo  fweet,  fo  fweet  did  fmile, 
 
 1  was  oblig'd  to  go,  Mamma  ; 
 For  love  my  tender  heart  beguiPd, 
 
 I  felt  unufual  flames,  Mamma ; 
 My  infant-fancy  turn'd  fo  wild, 
 
 So  flrangely  wild  my  dreams,  Mamma, 
 I  was,  I  was,  I  know  not  how, 
 
 O  had  you  been  with  me,  Mamma ! 
 Such  wonders  open  to  our  view, 
 
 As  none  but  angels  fee,  Mamma. 
 Meth  ought  we  wander'din  a  grove, 
 
 A  grove  in  pleafant  fields,  Mamma  • 
 In  joyful  meafures  on  we  move, 
 
 As  mufic  rapture  yields,  Mamma. 
 
 She  took  me  in  her  fnow-white  hand, 
 
 Then  led  me  thro'  the  air,  Mamma, 
 Far  higher  above  fea  and  land, 
 
 Than  ever  eagles  were,  Mamma ! 
 The  fea  and  land,  with  all  their  (lores, 
 
 Of  rivers,  woods,  and  hills,  Mamma, 
 Indeed  they  do  appear  no  more 
 
 Than  five  of  doclors  pills,  Mamma, 
 
 I  fought,  and  fought  Pappa's  eftate, 
 
 But  found  it  not  at  all,  Mamma ; 
 The  world,  in  whole,  feem'd  not  fo  great 
 
 As  half  a  cannon-ball,  Mamma. 
 We  faw  the  fun,  but  like  a  ftar, 
 
 The  moon,  a  muflard-feed,  Mamma, 
 Like  Eiias  in  his  fiery  car, 
 
 Being  wing'd  with  lightnings  fpeed,  Mamr^a. 
 
 6  Swifc 
 
192  ChrijTs  Love  pajfing  Knowledge, 
 
 6  Swift  as  our  thoughts,  O  joyful  day ! 
 
 We  glance  thro'  all  the  fpheres,  Mamma ; 
 Their  mufic  founding  by  the  way, 
 
 Heaven  rufht  upon  our  ears,  Mamma  ; 
 Now  fpheres,  and  all  we  knew  before, 
 
 Are  loft  unto  our  view,  Mamma ; 
 •  The  former  things  are  now  no  more, 
 
 Behold,  all  things  are  new,  Mamma. 
 
 7  No  death  there  is,  nor  forrow  there, 
 
 To  damnify  our  blifs,  Mamma ; 
 For  death,  fin,  hell,  and  forrow  are 
 
 Deep-buried  in  th'  abyfs,  Mamma. 
 With  wintry  ftorms  the  ground  ne'er  pines, 
 
 Cloath'd  in  eternal  bloom,  Mamma ; 
 The  Sun  of  glory  ever  (nines ; 
 
 The  Juft  they  fhine  with  him,  Mamma. 
 
 8  I  faw  my  fitter  Anna  mine, 
 
 A  virgin  in  her  prime,  Mamma ; 
 Not  fnch  as  with  you  fometimes  dine ) 
 
 But  like  the  angels  fine,  Mamma ; 
 Her  robe  was  all  a  flowing  flream 
 
 Of  filver  dipt  in  light,  Mamma ; 
 But  ah !  it  wak'd  me  from  my  dream, 
 
 It  fliin'd  fo  ftrong  and  bright,  Mamma ! 
 
 CXXVIIL  to  know  the  Love  of  Chrijl  which 
 
 pajfeth  Knowledge.    Eph.  iii.  19. 
 
 ADMIRE  the  Love,  adore  the  God, 
 In  Chri(t  v,v»o  brought  us  nigh. 
 When  we  agairfft  mm  bafely  fhow'd, 
 Our  defperate  enmity. 
 
 2  Our  e;uiltineft  he  laid  upon 
 Hk  Holy  True  Firft-born  ; 
 
 His 
 
ChriJPs  Love  faffing 
 
 His  grace  and  truth  in  brigh 
 His  jealoufie  did  burn. 
 
 3  How  long !  how  broad  !  how 
 
 Like  God,  the  gift  he  gave 
 His  Son  of  love,  for  fin  to  die ; 
 The  heirs  of  hell  to  fave ! 
 
 4  Love  bolted  earthly  paradife ; 
 
 Love  opened  heaven's  door ; 
 Love  gave  us  life  through  righteouftu 
 All  pure,  as  God  is  pure. 
 
 5  Though  we  in  every  thing  offend, 
 
 The  Perfect  Faithful  One  :  \ 
 
 Doth  in  his  holy  beauties  {land,  "V 
 
 Eternal  God  and  man. 
 
 6  His  blood  is  our  atonement  dear,  \ 
 
 Love  centers  in  his  heart ; 
 Our  names  are  all  ingraven  there, 
 By  Divine  Wifdom's  art. 
 
 7  As  on  the  grafs  diftills  the  dew, 
 
 Nor  waits  the  will  of  man ; 
 So  God  to  us  his  love  did  mew, 
 When  we  nor  will'd,  nor  ran. 
 
 8  As  rivers  from  the  ocean  go, 
 
 And  to  the  ocean  run, 
 BleiTing  the  vales  through  which  they  flow, 
 Till  all  their  courfe  be  done. 
 
 9  So  pure  Unfeigned  love  doth  flow, 
 
 All  free  to  us  from  God  : 
 Let  us  love  all  our  brethren  fo ; 
 For  love  is  our  abode. 
 io  Begone  ye  filthy  lulls,   below  ! 
 Hail  to  the  joys  above  i 
 
 B  b  Eternal 
 
Angels  Song. 
 od  is  love ! 
 
 Which   things  the  Angels  defire  to 
 into,  i  Pet.  i.  12. 
 
 God  our  King, 
 abode,  we  fing, 
 ermore. 
 the  Holy  One, 
 >i(h'd  folly  down, 
 rufhing  boldly  on, 
 .made  uproar. 
 
 oudly  rebelling,  they, 
 Juilty  of  felony, 
 
 Stood  all  afham'd : 
 Scorn 'd  of  the.  Lofty  One, 
 Hell- ward  he  tofs'd  them  down  r 
 There,  ever  loft,  they  groan, 
 
 Juftly  condenln'd. 
 But,  in  their  place,  we  fee, 
 (O  Sovereign  Grace  and  free !) 
 
 Lifted  on  high, 
 Myriads  of  Ran/on? d  ones, 
 From  among  Adam's  fons, 
 Wearing  more  radiant  crowns, 
 
 Filling  the  iky. 
 
 Fell  they  in  Adam's  fall, 
 Sinning  in  Adam  all, 
 
 Loft  in  their  Head; 
 Robb'd  of  their  liberty, 
 Sprung  they  to  niifery, 
 Sproifts  of  a  wither'd  tree, 
 
 A  ruin'd  feed. 
 
 But 
 
■ 
 
 T/je  Angels  Song.  195 
 
 5  But  blefs'd  Immanuel  fee  ! 
 He  comes  them  all  to  frpe 
 
 Whom  he  receiv'd : 
 Made  of  a  woman,  we 
 See  him  a-coming,  yea, 
 Hung  on  the  Roman-tree  ! 
 
 Them  he  hath  fav'd. 
 
 6  Them,  he  hath  fanftify'd/ 
 Warned  and  juftify'd, 
 
 Whofe  fin  he  bore  ; 
 Shining  in  glory  all, 
 For  his  memorial, 
 Mediatorial 
 
 Love  they  adore. 
 
 7  Sing  they  more  lofty  notes, 
 Sweeter  their  mufic  floats 
 
 Through  all  the  heaven, 
 Than  ever  angel  fung, 
 Cherub  or  feraph's  tongue  : 
 For*  them  of  Adam  fprung 
 
 Jefus  was  given ! 
 
 8  Glory  to  Jefus,  King 
 Of  men  and  angels,  fing ! 
 
 Glorify'd  now, 
 Reigning,  the  Head,  on  high, 
 To  bring  thy  body  nigh, 
 Come  in  the  cloudy  fky, 
 
 Lord,  quickly  do  ! 
 
 £  Let  now  thy  trumpet  found 
 To  the  earth's  utmolt.  bound, 
 
 That  we  may  fee 
 All  thy  redeemed  ones, 
 Highly  edeemed  ones ! 
 
 Bb  2 
 
iy6  The  Indwelling  Spirit  of  God. 
 
 With  their  fair-beaming  crowns, 
 Glorious  like  Thee ! 
 
 10  Lo,  now  the  King  is  come, 
 To  bring  his  Elecr.  home  ! 
 
 Hail  to  the  King  ! 
 "  Come,  come,  ye  BlerTed,  come ! 
 "  Come  from  the  dufty  tomb ! 
 "  Come  to  your  Father's  home ! 
 
 "  Come  all  and  fing  ! 
 
 1 1  "  Praife  everlafting  fing, 
 "  To  the  celeftial  King, 
 
 "  Free'd  by  the  Son  I— - 
 "  Father,  prefented  fee, 
 "  Thofe  thou  hail  lent  to  me ; 
 "  I  give  them  back  to  thee. 
 
 "  Now  it  is  done  ! 
 
 CXXX.  Know  ye  not  that  ye  are  the  Temple  of  God,  and 
 that  the  Spirit  of  God  dwelleth  in  you  f  i  Cor.  iii.  16, 
 
 OLO  VE  ye  the  Spirit  indwelling; 
 In  humble  fubmiflion  adore  j 
 No  paflion,  n&  motion  rebelling, 
 
 From  henceforth,  amen,  evermore. 
 He  fioweth  with  tender  companion, 
 
 Demanding  reciprocal  fires ; 
 To  purpofe  of  love  let  him  famion 
 Your  fpirit,  with  all  your  defires. 
 2  Beholding  the  moving  example, 
 
 Of  Jefus  who  dy'd  in  your  (lead, 
 Your  body,  becoming  his  temple, 
 
 Keep  holy  for  Jefus  your  Head. 
 If  the  fiefli  lhoufd  advife  you  to  finning, 
 The  Spirit  well  knoweth  the  plot, 
 
 Yqw 
 
The  S'jtirit  the  Comforter  and  Advocate.        197 
 
 Your  doing,. '-with  all  your  defigning, 
 Remarking  the  time. and  the  fpot. 
 
 Beware  then  of  grieving  the  Spirit, 
 
 With  accurft  Babylonian  fluff; 
 Fly,  fly  ye,  before  ye  come  near  it ; 
 
 Left  he  blow  you  away  with  a  puff: 
 Thus,  Achan  received  damnation, 
 
 For  the  coveted  garment  and  gold ; 
 Rejecting  both  God  and  falvation, 
 
 Who  refifteth  the  Spirit'  is  bold. 
 
 CXX£I.  /  will  fend  the  Comforter  unto  you.  John  xvi.  7. 
 
 AT  the  very  predeftinate  hour, 
 From  whence  he  will  never  depart, 
 With  plenipotentiary  power, 
 
 The  Spirit  came  into  my  heart  j 
 He  fhew'd  the  conditions  of  peace 
 
 Between  my  Creator  and  me, 
 Were  finifhed  all  in  his  grace, 
 By  Jefus  who  hung  on  the  tree. 
 
 2  Devoted,  appointed  to  death, 
 
 The  Holy  Sacrifical  Lamb, 
 On  the  altar  endured  the  wrath  ; 
 .  And  his  foul  mounted  up  in  the  flame, 
 An  offering  perfect  and  pure ; 
 
 Jehovah  accepted  the  fame  : 
 Proclaim  the  Redemption  is  fure, 
 
 For  Jehovah  provided  the  Lamb. 
 
 3  The  Spirit  proceeded  and  feaPd 
 
 The  articles  all  with  Amen,  'k 
 Precifely  the  fame  as  reveal'd, 
 By  authentic  infallible  pen ; 
 
 He 
 
ip  8  i    .    A  Fair  Haven. 
 
 He  feal'd  both  for  God,  and  for  me, 
 
 He  fealed  them  full  on  my  heart ; 
 I  now  a  propriety  fee, 
 
 Mod  perfect  in  every  part. 
 
 4  Yea,  Neceflity  abfolutely, 
 
 If  fmners  behoved  to  live, 
 Demanded  the  Surety  (hould  die, 
 
 And  the  principal  debtors  relieve. 
 Hofanna  to  Jefus  our  Prince, 
 
 Hofanna,  Hofanna,  Amen ; 
 Our  redemption  he  finifiVd  long  fince ; 
 
 His  Spirit  now  dwelleth  with  men. 
 
 CXXXII.  And  fo  it  came  to  pafs  that  they  efcaped  all 
 fafe  to  Land.   Acts  xxvii.  44. 
 
 PLEAS  ART  life-removing  hour,  * 
 
 Come  thou  in  almighty  power, 
 And  feize  upon  my  foul ; 
 Willing,  willing,  will  {he  go, 
 From  this  troublous  fea  below, 
 Where  ftormy  paflions  roll. 
 
 2  Roll  they  as  the  dreadful  waves, 
 When  the  lawlefs  temped  raves, 
 
 Foundering  gallant  (hips ; 
 Mount  they  fird  and  touch  the  ikies, 
 Sink  they  then,  and  never  rife, 
 
 Swallowed  in  the  deeps. 
 
 3  In  the  deep's  devouring  jaws, 
 Led  they  ly;  oblivion  draws 
 
 A  fcore  upon  their  names ; 
 Rich  their  cargo  is  no  more, 
 Ten  thoufand  fathoms  o'er  them  roar 
 
 Of  the  ruthlefs  dreams. 
 
 a.  O  the 
 
%oy  in  Trials.  199 
 
 O  the  more  than  madnefs  then 
 Of  the  wifhful  merchantmen ! 
 
 Their  hopes  why  place  they  here  ? 
 Plowing  up  the  azure-main, 
 Hot-purfuing  after  gain, 
 
 Away  from  peace  they  fleer. 
 So  were  all  my  idle  days, 
 Drowning  all  my  eager  ways, 
 
 In  feas  of  fin  and  fhame ; 
 Till  wifdom  came  to  my  relief, 
 And  banifht  all  away  my  grief, 
 
 And  wip'd  away  my  blame. 
 She  told  me  of  the  hour  of  death,. 
 When  I  furrendering  my  breath, 
 
 Should  glide  into  ray  haven. 
 Hour  of  death,  unto  the  land 
 Draw  me  with  thy  friendly  hand ; 
 
 Draw  me  into  heaven. 
 
 CXXX1II.  Count  it  all  %oy  when  ye  fall  into  divers 
 Trials.   James  i.  2. 
 
 IN  days  of  defolation,  when 
 The  tempeft  loudly  roareth, 
 And  overfets  th'  ungodly  men, 
 The  godly  man  he  foareth, 
 On  heavenly  contemplation's  wing, 
 
 Rejoicing  in  his  Saviour ; 
 His  Saviour  ordereth  every  thing, 
 And  watcheth  his  behaviour. 
 
 2  His  eye's  on  you,  be  yours  on  him, 
 You  never  {hall  be  moved ; 
 When  you  endure  your  trying  time, 
 You're  evermore  approved ; 
 
 Thus 
 
'zoo         RESURRECTION. 
 
 Thus  Abraham  lived,  Abraham  dy'd, 
 
 And  fo  did  every  martyr ; 
 For  God  and  they  were  on  a  fide  ; 
 
 To  God  was  their  departure. 
 
 3  They  bartered  fin  for  righteoufnefi, 
 
 They  bartered  fhame  for  glory, 
 They  bartered  earth  for  paradife; 
 
 In  paradife  adore  they ; 
 Adore  for  every  bleffed  flroke, 
 
 Of  grievous  tribulation, 
 Whereby  their  haughty  fpirits,  broke, 
 
 Grew  meet  for  the  falvation. 
 
 4  Then  upward  like  Elijah  went, 
 
 From  Ahab  and  his  chiding, 
 (An  emblem  of  a  dying  faint) 
 
 In  fiery  chariot  riding. 
 Eliflia  mounted  in  his  turn, 
 
 And  vifited  the  regions 
 Where  fellow-fpirits  mine  and  burn, 
 
 With  bright  angelic  legions. 
 ■ 
 
 CXXXIV.  Haft  thou  turned  Man  to  DeftruBion,  thou 
 fay  eft,  Return,  ye  Children  of  Men.  Pfalm  xc.  3. 
 
 ARISE  lightly  winged,  all  faithful  and  loving, 
 Ye  pure  virgin-fpirits,  to  angels  fwift-moving ; 
 Chorus.  Your  Judge  he  is  founding,  Have  patience,  nor 
 mourn  ye, 
 How  joyfully  founding !  From  duft  ye  (hall  turn  ye. 
 
 2  Your  Saviour  bled,  in  his  love  much  abounding, 
 And  wafli'd  away  all  that  to  you  was  confounding ; 
 
 3  He  carts  out  the  body,  all  loathfome  and  bloody, 
 But  up  again  raifeth,  fair,  blooming,  and  ruddy; 
 
 4  The 
 
RESURRECTION.  201 
 
 4  The  worms  he  gave  charge  to,  the  body  to  dine  on, 
 They  eat  out  the  (tains,  and  then  ends  their  dominion; 
 
 5  When  parling  and  mourning  thro'  life's  gloomy  valley, 
 Or  labouring  fore  up  the  way  tirefome  and  hilly ; 
 
 6  When  children,  or  parents,  or  wife  in  her  bloflbm, 
 All  wounded,  all  bleeding,  death  rends  from  your 
 
 bofom ; 
 
 7  Tho'  gafping  in  agonies,  dewy  fweats  fill  them, 
 All  coldly  bedewing,  till  agonies  kill  them; 
 
 8  When  poverty,  hovering  on  wings  made  of  fhadow, 
 Has  blafted  the  beauty  and  bloom  of  your  meadow; 
 
 o  Tho'  human  oppreflion  be  defperate  and  evil, 
 The  gods  on  earth  curfe  not,  tho'  led  of  the  devil ; 
 
 10  When  dying  of  raging  and  fury  for  living, 
 You  tremble  and  quake  at  a  withered  leaf  moving; 
 
 1 1  Tho'  fcorched  with  burnings,  or  almoit  dead  freezed, 
 Tho'  mountains  o'er-loading,  your  marrow  have 
 
 fqueezed ; 
 
 1 2  When  high  and  tempeftuous  whirlwinds  are  fweeping, 
 The  builded  foundations  their  place  no  more  keeping, 
 
 1 3  Big-fwelling  tumultuous  feas  waving  like  mountains, 
 He  Walks  on  the  whirlwinds,  who  foothes  them  like 
 
 fountains ; 
 
 14  When   dreadful   tremendous  the  earthquakes  are 
 
 heaving, 
 Away,  coward -heart,  O  away  with  thy  grieving; 
 
 15  If  fwallow-wing'd  lightnings  all  fheety  and  glaring, 
 With  cloud-rending  thunders  your  eyes  fet  a-ftaring; 
 
 16  When  founding  of  trumpets  are  fpreading  confufions, 
 And  echoing  loudiy  for  bloody  eifufions ; 
 
 Cc  17  Un- 
 
2C2  Behold  He  ccmeth  with  Clouds. 
 
 17  Undaunted  and  pawing,  as  deed  on  the  field  \% 
 We'll  tofs  high  our  heads,  for  kind  Heaven  will 
 
 fhield  us ; 
 
 1 8  Come  empty  thy  quivers  upon  us,  O  forrow ; 
 
 No  figh  we  have  for  thee;  no  figh  we  will  borrow; 
 
 19  When  death  in  your  vitals  himfelf  is  intrenching, 
 And  (tardily  plucking,  the  bars  of  life  wrenching ; 
 
 20  When  all  round  about  you  feems  heavy  and  weary, 
 And  life  appears  all  a  dream  fickly  and  dreary ; 
 
 2 1  Whenftruggling,intangled  in  death's  firmed  grafping, 
 You  lie  all  a-panting,  a- writhing,  a-gafping; 
 
 22  Come  lightering  away  thou,  O  come  fider-fpirit, 
 Thy  angels  are  with  thee,  thy  Kingdom  inherit ; 
 
 23  Thy  glory  is  ready,  thy  glory  is  fhining, 
 Thy  glory  it  never  fhall  know  a  declining ; 
 
 Chorus.-  Your  Judge  he  is  founding,  Have  patience,  nor 
 mourn  ye ; 
 How  joyfully  founding !  From  duft  ye  (hall  turn  ye. 
 
 N.  B.  The  Chorus  to  be  fung  at  the  end  of  every  verfe. 
 
 CXXX V.  Behold  he  comet h  with  Clouds ;  and  every 
 Eye  Jhall  fee  him,  and  they  alfo  which  pierced  him  : 
 and  all  Kindreds  of  the  Earth  Jhall  wail  becaufe  of 
 him:  Evenfo,  Amen.  Rev.  i.  7'. 
 
 SEE,  fee  Jehovah  in  the  clouds, 
 With  all  his  hods,  from  high  abodes ! 
 The  trumpet  founds,  *  To  judgment  come ! ' 
 He  comes  to  bring  his  Elecl  home ; 
 
 He  comes,  he  comes,  he  comes,  he  comes, 
 He  comes  to  bring  his  Elecl  home. 
 
 2  '  Come, 
 
Penitential  Mourning.  203 
 
 2  c  Come,  come,  thou  duft,  from  every  wind ; 
 1  No  lingering  atom  flay  behind  j 
 
 1  Earth,  fea,  and  air,  give  up  your  charge ; 
 '  I  come  my  pris'ners  to  enlarge ; 
 
 *  I  come,  1  come,  I  come,  I  come, 
 1  I  come  my  pris'ners  to  enlarge. 
 
 3  c  Enlarge  the  circles  round  my  throne, 
 '  Make  room  for  every  Faithful  one ; 
 
 1  Come  forward,  bold,  at  my  command ; 
 1  My  friends  upon  my  right  (hall  (land ; 
 
 *  My  friends,  my  friends,  my  friends,  my  friends, 
 
 *  My  friends  upon  my  right  (hall  (land.' 
 
 4  ■  Ye  blefTed  of  my  Father,  come, 
 
 "  Come  to  my  Father's  Kingdom  home : 
 
 "  Before  the  Univerfe  was  rear'd, 
 
 "  For  you  the  Kingdom  was  prepar'd  ; 
 
 "  For  you,  for  you,  for  you,  for  yen, 
 "  For  you  the  Kingdom  was  prepar'd. " 
 
 5  *  But  who  are  thefe  upon  my  left, 
 1  Of  every  joy  and  hope  bereft  ? ' 
 "  Accurs'd  into  the  fiery  waves, 
 
 "  Begone  from  me,  ye  trembling  flaves ; 
 "  Begone,  begone,  begone,  begone, 
 
 *  Begone  from  me,  ye  trembling  flaves.'' 
 
 CXXXVI.  /  willfprinkle  clean  Water  upon  you then 
 
 /ball  ye  lothe  your/elves  in  your  own  fight  for  your 
 Abominations.  Ezek.  xxxvi.  31. 
 
 DEEP-frowning  my  God,  and  my  foul  fad  and 
 lowring, 
 Becaufe  from  his  love  all  aflray  gone  a-whoring ; 
 Yet  truth  dwelling  in  her,  abhorring  diffembling, 
 She's  full  cf  confufion,  fliame,  blufhing,  and  trembling. 
 Cc  2  2  Ah! 
 
2  04  Tenilenaal  Mourning. 
 
 i  Ah  !  why  were  her  paillons  fo  eagerly  bending 
 Againft  her  Redeemer  and  his  Lave  contending ! 
 Contending  and  bending  againft  her  Redeemer ! 
 And  where  is  another  but  He  to  exeem  her  ? 
 
 3  Ah  me !  I've  prov'd  falfe !   to  myfelf  be  it  laid  now ; 
 Was  it  this  thou  deferv'd  when  thou  faid,  I  will  wed 
 
 you? 
 Was  this  thy  reward  when  thy  love  me  efpoufed  ? 
 Thy  love  thus  deferring  by  me  to  be  ufed  I 
 
 4  Shame  on  thy  efpoufed  !  and  fhame  on  her  doing ! 
 Oh !  had  (lie  thy  love  been  folicitous  viewing, 
 
 She  would  not,  (lie  could  not  have  thus  gone  aftraying ; 
 Nor  now  on  her  fpirit  been  agonies  preying. 
 
 5  I  cannot,  I  cannot,  I'm  wholly  afnamed — 
 (How  juftly,  how  juftly  am  I  to  be  blamed !) 
 
 I  cannot  look  upward  i  bulruuVlike,  down-leaning 
 Becomes  me,  becomes  me,  from  fin  to  be  weaning ! 
 
 6  What!  thou,  my  efpoufed,  art  thou  only  moved? 
 Haft  thou  only  bowels,  and  none  thy  Beloved? 
 Plave  thefe  thy  difafters,  and  fad  overthrowing 
 Quench t  all  the  compaffions  in  me  that  are  flowing  ? 
 
 7  No,  no,  my  Beloved,  thy  Lord  fiw  thy  Humbling ; 
 ^He  rais'd  thee  again,  and  he  faw  thy  deep  humbling ; 
 
 Yea,  humbled  thou  lived  by  his  indwelling  Spirit: 
 Blood-wauYd,  Spirit-led,  thou  my  kingdom  inherit. 
 
 8  Amen  to  my  Lord,  thou,  my  Paramount  royal ; 
 I'm  all,  all  Amen  !  O  !  my  foul  is  all  loyal ! 
 
 But  leave  me  not !  leave  me  not !  O  !  never  leave  me ! 
 
 Q  good  Holy  Spirit,  let  me  never  grieve  thee ! 
 
 O  grieve  thee !  O  grieve  thee !  O  how  can  I  grieve 
 
 thee  1 
 J.ct  me  live  and  die  in  thy   \ove}  but  never  grieve 
 
 thee! 
 
 PXXXVIL 
 
The  Pafover  inftituted,  205 
 
 CXXXVII.  The  Lord  /pake  unto  Mofes  and  Aaron. 
 ExocL  xii.  1 — 3. 
 
 THE  mandate  of  the  mighty  King 
 To  his  own  Ifrael,  I  fing, 
 When  he  them  led  from  Egypt-land, 
 By  Mofes'  and  by  Aaron's  hand ; 
 He  wrapt  his  purpos'd  love  in  fign?? 
 Unfolding  gradual  his  defigns ; 
 But  yet  the  wife  obfervant  eye. 
 Could  thro'  the  carnal  myfteries  pry. 
 
 2  Within  (the  fpirit  of  the  thing) 
 They  fee  Meffiah's  felf,  the  King  : 
 Thus  Abraham  fpied  from  afar, 
 The  bright  and  mining  Morning-ftar ; 
 Thus  all  the  Patriarchs  by  his  rays, 
 Rejoicing  held  upon  their  ways, 
 Until  they  felt  the  funny  beam, 
 
 In  blazing  glory  on  them  ftream. 
 
 3  Of  all  the  fhadows  now  are  fled, 
 
 Confum'd  and  driven  far  away, 
 (For  all  their  light  was  but  a  (hade 
 
 Compared  to  our  Gofpel-day) 
 There  was  not  one  expreflive  more, 
 
 Than  was  the  Lord's  Paflbver-Lamb, 
 Whofe  blood  was  fprinkled  on  the  door ; 
 
 A  ftatutc  from  1  AM  I  AM- 
 
 4  The  ftatute  thus,  but  as  we  move, 
 
 The  Spirit  let  us  take  along ; 
 The  Spirit  is  redeeming  love, 
 
 Be  this  the  burdeu  of  my  fong. 
 ^  The  Lord  Jehovah,  lo,  he  gave 
 
 H  Aaron  and  Mofes  his  command;" 
 
 Tht 
 
206  The  Fajfover  injtitnted. 
 
 The  Spirit  did  the  people  fave, 
 
 And  they  were  but  the  Spirit's  hand. 
 
 5  "  In  Egypt-land  he  fpake  to  them  ;" 
 In  bondage  we  were  found  by  him, 
 He  gave  command  to  bring  us  out, 
 And  the  fulfilment  brought  about. 
 
 "  Of  all  the  feafons  in  the  year, 
 
 "  And  revolutions  that  appear, 
 
 "  This  month  to  you  fhall  be  the  firft, 
 
 "  In  which  you  were  with  freedom  blefl— 
 
 6  "  The  prime  of  months  to  you."     He.faid, 
 
 And  failed  nothing  in  his  word; 
 For  fin  and  death  o'erflowed  had, 
 
 And  every  foul  of  jus  lee-fhor'd ; 
 But  righteoufnefs  and  life,  anon, 
 Broke  forth  upon  us  thro'  the  Son, 
 Who  bore  away  the  fin  and  death, 
 And  fwept  away  the  floods  x>f  wrath ; 
 
 7  Jie  fent  them  floating  to  the  lake, 
 
 And  now,  behold,  for  his  own  fake, 
 (The  bitter  waters  roli'd  away) 
 We're  flow'd-on  by  a  rolling  fea ; 
 A  rolling  fea  of  perfect  love, 
 That  we  might  all  his  Godhead  prove 
 Nothing  to  be  but  per  feci:,   pure, 
 Immenfe,  eternal,  loving  power. 
 8"  So  where  the  fin  and  death  before 
 Abounded,  grace  abounding  more, 
 O'erfloweth  now,  and  ever  {hall, 
 
 The  higheft  of  the  mountain-tops  ; 
 As  drops  into  the  ocean  fall, 
 
 We  fwim  in  love,  God's  Elect  drops. 
 Sing  this  the  New-creation-day; 
 The  New  ha?  chas'd  the  Old  away. 
 
 CXXXVKI. 
 
Take  every  Man  a  Lamb,  207 
 
 CXXXVIH.  Speak  ye  unto  all  the  Congregation- 
 Exod.  xii,  3-5. 
 
 SPEAK  ye  to  all  my  Ifrael, 
 No  atom  of  my  Word  {hall  fail." 
 Thus-,  in  the  Chriftian  jEra,  we, 
 
 Proclaimed  aloud  the  joyful  found, 
 To  every  living  creature,  fee ; 
 
 The  Spirit  hands  the  gofpel  round,   , 
 Gives  men  to  drink  the  flowing  cup, 
 Infpiring  faith,  and  love,  and  hope.  * 
 
 2  "  In  the  precife  appointed  day 
 
 "  And  manner,  ye  my  Word  obey." 
 Thus  every  thing  was  finifht  fure, 
 According  to  the  pur*pofe  pure ; 
 Thus  Jefus  came,  and  liv'd,  and  dy'd, 
 Was  rais'd  again,  and  glorify'd ; 
 Thus  came  the  Holy  Ghoft  from  heaven, 
 In  feafon  by  the  Father  given. 
 
 3  "  Let  all  the  people  take  a  lamb, 
 *  Remembering  I  Jehovah  am, 
 
 "  According  to  their  father's  houfe. 
 "  The  Lamb  for  every  family's  ufe." 
 'Tis  no  prefumption  to  believe ; 
 
 'Tis  no  prefumption  to  obey  ; 
 'Tis  no  prefumption  to  receive; 
 
 Prefumption's  quite  the  other  way. 
 
 4  Has  God  appointed  then  a  gift, 
 Let  us  receive,  and  think  no  theft ; 
 Since  God  provided  him  a  Lamb, 
 Au\d  on  the  altar  bound  the  fame, 
 That  we,  the  fons  of  laughter,  might 
 Wiih  Ifaac  fliine  in  glory  bright, 
 
 Reioicin 
 
2o8  Take  every  Man  a  Lamb. 
 
 Rejoicing  in  God's  only  Son ; 
 Let  all  God's  family  join  in  one. 
 
 5  "  And  if  the  houfhold  be  too  fmalf, 
 "  Let  him  upon  his  neighbour  call ; 
 "  And  let  them  feaft  upon  the  lamb, 
 "  For  God  provided  it  for  them ; 
 
 "  According  to  the  numbered  fouls, 
 "  For  God  delighteth  not  in  fools  ; 
 "  So  let  them  feaft  before  the  Lord, 
 "  Rejoicing  all  with  one  accord." 
 
 6  Thus  were  they  bound  by  fafteft  tie, 
 To  join  in  love  and  harmony ; 
 
 And  all  together  eat  the  Lamb, 
 No  divifion  in  him  nor  them ; 
 So  were  they  to  be  dealt  withal, 
 Without  refpect  to  great  or  frnall, 
 As  they  obey'd  or  difobey'd, 
 According  to  the  word  difplay'd. 
 
 7  Tn  every  houfe  there  was  a  type ; 
 Nor  was  the  myftery  hidden  deep ; 
 Each  houfhold  reprefents  the  whole 
 
 Houfhold  of  God  above,  below ; 
 And  every  houfhold,  every  foul, 
 
 Can  only  one  redemption  know ; 
 Amen,  even  fo,  to  God  be  praife, 
 In  prefent  evangelic  days. 
 3  Nor  can  there  any  feaft  alone, 
 
 Upon  the  facrificed  Lamb, 
 "Whofe  love  with  equal  rays  hath  flione, 
 
 On  all  for  whom  he  fuffered  fhame ; 
 Nor  one  of  thofe  can  ferve  himfelf, 
 And  lay  afide  the  other  half; 
 He  is  a  Saviour  whole,  or  none, 
 And  not  by  halves  to  every  one, 
 
 Loving 
 
Your  Lamb  without  Blemif}?,  a  Male.        209 
 
 )  Loving  all,  belov'd  of  all, 
 
 For  whom  a  facrifice  he  fell, 
 He  gives  them  all  to  hear  his  call; 
 
 They  walk  in  love,  nor  would  rebel ; 
 That  they  might  live,  he  died  the  death, 
 They  know  for  them  he  drank  the  wrath, 
 And  then  afcended  up  above, 
 Saying,  "  Feaft  on  me  with  mutual  love." 
 
 3XXXIX.  Your  Lamb  Jhall  be  without  Bkmifh-Ex.xn.  $t 
 "  ^VJO  blemifh,  ftain,  nor  fpot  mall  be 
 <f  1^1    On  all  your  pafchal-lamb," 
 Was  the  eftablifhed  decree, 
 
 Which  from  Jehovah  came ; 
 "  A. male,"  of  the  moft  perfecl  kind, 
 
 "  The  firftling  of  its  dam, 
 "  Chofen  from  the  flocks  the  clean  defign'd, 
 
 "  A  kidling  or  a  lamb." 
 1  So  Jefus,  God's  Eternal  Son, 
 
 All  in  his  Father's  power, 
 Who  in  his  Father's  brightnefs  Ihone ; 
 
 And  Pure  as  he  is  Pure, 
 Forth  from  his  Father's  bofom  came 
 
 Into  the  Virgin's  womb  ; 
 And  glorify'd  his  Father's  name, 
 
 Unto  the  death  and  tomb. 
 
 j  For  he  behov'd  to  be  a  man, 
 One  chofen  from  the  flock  ; 
 The  reft  were  filthy  every  one, 
 But  he  redeem'd  the  flock  ; 
 He  was  pronounced  Pure  and  clean, 
 
 By  Perfect  Holinefs; 
 And  fo  he  cleans'd  us  all  from  fin, 
 By  his  blood  fpeaking  peace. 
 
 Dd  CXL. 
 
i  to     Kill  it  in  the  Evening  of  the  Fourteenth  Day, 
 
 CXL.  Keep  it  until  the  Fourteenth  Day,  &c.  Exod.  xii.  6. 
 
 THEY  were  not  to  begin  the  feaft, 
 Until  the  day  by  God  exprefs'd ; 
 Nay,  'till  the  very  hour  decreed ; 
 "  At  evening-tide  the  Lamb  fhall  bleed ; 
 "  And  then  th'  afTembled  congregation, 
 «•  Partaking  of  the  fame  falvation, 
 "  Imbruing  all  their  hands  in  blood, 
 "  Shall  blefs  their  God,  and  eat  their  food." 
 
 2  Thus  in  the  fulnefs  of  the  times, 
 
 According  to  the  difpenfation, 
 The  Saviour  came  from  heavenly  climes, 
 
 And  wrought  for  us  the  great  falvation ; 
 At  evening-tide  he  bow'd  the  head, 
 
 When  facrificed  lambs  did  bleed ; 
 He  for  God's  whole  aifembly  bled, 
 
 And  they  by  him  were  wholly  freed. 
 
 3  Dark  was  the  hour,  when  day  declin'd, 
 And  he  his  fpotlefs  foul  refign'd  j 
 
 A  perfect  facrifice  it  was, 
 
 Tho'  late  before  it  came  to  pafs ; 
 
 But  like  the  fun,  in  mid-day-tour, 
 
 He  darteth  every  where  his  beams ; 
 Even  fo,  his  blood's  atoning  power 
 
 Thro  all  eternity  it  dreams. 
 
 CXLI.  They /ball  take  the  Blood  and  Strike  it,  &c 
 Exod.  xii.  7. 
 
 "  \TO  U  are  to  take  the  victim's  blood, 
 "    A     Hot-reeking  from  the  vein, 
 "  And  fprinkle  with  a  hyifop-bud 
 "  Abroad  the  bloody  (lain, 
 
 All 
 
Strike  the  Blood.  2  r  r 
 
 "  All  over  on  the  houfe-door-head, 
 
 "  And  the  collateral  pods,  £> 
 
 "  Wherein  upon  the  Lamb  ye  feed 
 
 "  Before  the  Lord  of  Hofts." 
 A  ftriking  emblem  unto  us, 
 
 To  be  remembred  ftill, 
 Who  glory  in  the  bloody  crofs, 
 
 Where  Chrift  his  blood  did  fpill; 
 To  walh  away  our  (tains  of  guilt, 
 
 And  eafe  our  confciences, 
 His  blood  to  the  laft  drop  he  fpilt, 
 
 That  we  might  lift  our  face. 
 
 CXLII.  They /hall  eat  the  Flejh  in  that  Night  roft  Kith 
 Fire,  &c.  Exod.  xii.  8. 
 
 "  npHAT  very  individual  night, 
 "    A       In  emblematic  guife, 
 •  They  are  to  ufe  the  holy  rite, 
 
 "  And  ufe  it  on  this-wife ; 
 "  Roafted  with  fire  to  eat  the  flefli, 
 
 "  With  bitters  feafoned  ; 
 "  All  dipping  in  the  felf-fame  difh, 
 
 "  Unleavened  their  bread." 
 
 2  So  Jefus  came  in  darkeft  night 
 
 Of  fin  and  mifery, 
 And  full  difplay'd  on  us  the  light 
 
 Of  God  his  Father's  eye. 
 All  groping  in  the  (hade  we  mourn'd, 
 
 Along  death's  difmal  vale ; 
 When  lo,  the  Sun  of  glory  burn'd, 
 
 And  we  forgot  to  wail. 
 
 3  Ifrael  that  fame  very  night 
 
 They  ate  the  Lamb,  were  fav'd 
 
 Dd  2  From 
 
2 1 2  Roft  with  Fire-Unleavened  Bread— Bitter  Herbs, 
 
 From  all  their  bondage  by  their  flight; 
 
 So  we,  when  we  believ'd. 
 To  Egypt  they  return'd  no  more, 
 
 But  held  upon  their  road ; 
 So  we  advance  to  glory's  ihore, 
 
 Rejoicing  all  in  God. 
 
 4  "  Roafted  with  fire" Even  fo  the  Lamb, 
 
 Who  came  by  his  own  blood, 
 Was  roafted  in  the  wrathful  flame, 
 
 Of  fin-avenging  God. 
 He  burned  for  our  fin  and  (name ; 
 
 And  burnt  them  all  to  afhes ; 
 His  fpirit  mounted  in  the  flame, 
 
 And  flew  to  God's  embraces. 
 
 5  "  My  God,  my  God,  my  offering  view, 
 
 "  Behold  my  blood,  my  Father ; 
 •'  I  have  redeem'd  thy  people,  now, 
 
 "  Let  them  enjoy  thy  favour." 
 Amen,  amen,  the  Father  fware, 
 
 All  power  to  thee  is  given, 
 In  heaven  and  earth,  my  Son  and  Heir, 
 
 Bring  thou  my  fons  to  heaven. 
 
 6  The  Spring  of  life  again  he  rofe, 
 
 And  breathed  on  us  peace; 
 A  dream  of  love  his  bofom  flows, 
 
 O'erflowing  us  with  grace. 
 How  fweet  the  bleflings  of  his  love, 
 
 The  tafte  can  only  tell ; 
 All  other  loves  as  high  above, 
 
 As  heaven  the  lowed  hell. 
 
 7  All  other  loves  are  leavened  bread, 
 
 That  vitiate  the  tafte; 
 They  muft  to  hell  be  baniihed, 
 f  hat  fo  pollute  the  feaft  \ 
 
 But 
 
Roft  with  Fire-Unleavened  Bread-Bitter  Herbs,  2 1 3 
 
 But  Elect  fouls  unleavened, 
 
 Unleavened  their  love, 
 Led  by  the  Spirit  of  their  Head, 
 
 The  Spirit  (hall  approve. 
 
 8  Tho'  here  we  fip  a  bitter  fauce, 
 
 'Tis  not  the  fauce  of  wrath ; 
 But  even  the  teftamented  claufe, 
 
 I  OurJSaviour  did  bequeathe ; 
 A  who^efome  drink  of  bitter  herbs, 
 
 To  overcome  the  furfeit, 
 And  drain  the  humour  which  difturbs, 
 
 'Till  we,  as  He,  are  perfect. 
 
 9  But  bitter  herbs  ferve  many  ends, 
 
 Rejoice,  O  Chriftian,  in  them ; 
 Now  God  and  you  are  perfect  friends, 
 
 Remember  when  ye  fhunn'd  him,        * 
 How  hateful  was  your  flavery, 
 
 When  ferving  Satan's  caufe ! 
 How  terrible  your  mifery, 
 
 In  his  devouring  paws  ! 
 
 10  Nay,  what  if  you  had  gone  to  hell, 
 
 And  drunk  the  fiery  cup ; 
 The  damned  only  they  can  tell, 
 
 How  bitter  is  its  nip ; 
 And  muft  not  thou  have  pledged  them, 
 
 And  drunk  the  roaring  bowl  j 
 If  Jefus  had  not  come  in  time 
 
 And  draughted  off  the  whole  ? 
 
 1 1  For  every  drop  of  hell  you  want, 
 
 You  have  a  heaven  of  '  ve  ; 
 He  flew  the  ferpent  in  the  faint, 
 
 And  breath'd  the  Holy  Dove  \ 
 He  ftooped  to  the  lowed  hell, 
 
 And  rais'd  you  to  his  throne ; 
 
 And 
 
2 1 4  Eat  not  of  it  Raw, 
 
 And  all  to  (hew  he  lov'd  fo  well ; 
 And  love  for  love  he  won. 
 
 CXL1II.  Eat  not  of  it  Raw Exod.  xii.  o. 
 
 THEY  had  no  leave  to  eat  it  raw, 
 Nor  mild  in  water  boil'd  j 
 But  after  the  paffover-law, 
 
 In  fires  all  fiercely  broil 'd. 
 The  head,  and  legs,  and  purtenance, 
 
 According  to  the  Scheme, 
 Were  to  be  eaten  all  at  once 
 Of  their  pafibver-lamb. 
 
 The  lamb  behoved  to  be  drefs'd,  \ 
 
 In  manner  of  the  art ; 
 Becaufe  no  mercy  was  exprefs'd 
 
 But  thro'  the  fuffering  heart, 
 The  fuffering  heart  of  the  Antitype, 
 
 Who  magnify'd  the  law ; 
 In  him,  behold  the  myflery  deep, 
 
 "  Ye  fiiall  not  eat  it  raw. " 
 
 "  Nor  (hall  ye  boil  the  lamb,"  becaufe 
 
 No  mildnefs  in  the  death 
 Of  him  who  bore  the  fcorching  blaze, 
 
 Of  God's  avenging  wrath  ; 
 Befides,  the  favour  was  to  flow, 
 
 A  favour  all  of  peace, 
 Filling  heaven  above,  and  earth  below, 
 
 With  God's  fweet-fmelling  grace. 
 
 Black-roafted  therefore  in  the  fire 
 
 Of  fmoking  jealoufy, 
 He  quencht  Jehovah's  fiercer!:  ire, 
 
 And  then  to  him  drew  nigh, 
 
Let  nothing  of  it  remain  until  the  Morning.      2 1 5 
 
 An  offering  pure  of  perfect  peace, 
 
 Prefenting  his  own  blood ; 
 Thro*  him  his  faints  have  perfect  grace, 
 
 With  their  appeafed  God. 
 [  The  perfect  grace  was  fignify'd 
 
 Too  by  the  typic  lamb, 
 His  being  eaten,  legs,  and  head, 
 
 And  every  part  of  him; 
 Sfrjefus  dy'd,  and  Jefus  liveth, 
 *^iShdrdoeth  all  for  them ; 
 And  all  he  taketh,  all  he  giveth, 
 
 Is  perfect  love  from  him. 
 
 CXLIV.  Let  nothing  of  it  remain  till  the  morning,  &c 
 Exod.  xii.  1  o. 
 
 "  ^[O  morfellings  they  were  to  fave, 
 «  1^1   To  keep  them  over  night ; 
 "  And  whatfoever  they  might  leave, 
 
 "  Was  burnt  at  morning-light." 
 A  notable  example  this, 
 
 To  Ifrael,  Falfe,  and  True; 
 The  True,  arriving  at  their  blifs, 
 
 As  drops  of  glittering  dew 
 Exhaled  by  the  morning-fun, 
 
 When  life's  dark  night  is  o'er, 
 They're  all  into  their  glory  gone, 
 
 Trembling  on  earth  no  more ; 
 Even  all  the  night  they  feafted  glad, 
 
 Upon  the  coming  Sun ; 
 And  now,  efcaped  from  the  {hade, 
 
 They  fparkle  on  his  crown : 
 The  Falfe,  unworthy  of  the  Lamb, 
 
 Who  thought  to  live  by  halves, 
 
 To 
 
2 1 6  The  Manner  of  the  Pajher. 
 
 To  feaft  on  him,  and  feaft  on  fhame, 
 
 At  morning  fee  themfelves 
 Heapt  faggots  on  the  funeral  pile 
 
 Of  their  own  defperate  folly ; 
 The  wrath  of  God  defcends  the  while, 
 
 All  to  confume  them  wholly ; 
 It  bloweth  in  a  tempeft  loud, 
 
 And  fcattereth  them  thro'  hell  ; 
 Behold  thou  wretch,  profane  and  lewd, 
 
 And  ceafe  thou  to  rebel  j 
 If  thou  {hall  leave,  in  part,  or  whole, 
 
 The  holy  Lamb  of  God, 
 Thou  haft  no  portion  for  thy  foul, 
 
 But  wrath's  eternal  load. 
 
 CXLV.  Thus  Jhall  ye  eat,  &c.  Exod.  xii.  11--16. 
 
 BEHOLD  the  faftiion  of  the  rite  ordain'd; 
 "  With  no  foul  blemifh  be  your  practice  ftain'd." 
 The  high  Jehovah  founds  this  awful  word, 
 
 *  Remember  thou  Jehovah  is  thy  Lord  ; 
 
 "  With  girded  loins,  eat  my  pafs-over-lamb, 
 "  Left  I  confume  you  in  the  fiery  flame. 
 f  You  are  my  fervants,  I  redeemed  you ; 
 "  With  girded  loins  before  me  therefore  bow ; 
 "  And,  ready  in  my  paths  of  love  to  run, 
 "  Be  fure  to  have  your  fandals  girded  on. 
 
 *  My  travelling  pilgrims  and  fojourners  ye, 
 
 *  As  travelling  pilgrims  and  fojourners  be ; 
 "  With  ftaff  in  hand,  in  a£t  to  pafs  away, 
 
 "  Eat  haftily,  and  fnatch  without  delay, 
 
 "  Remembering  'tis  the  Lord's  PafTover,  yea, 
 
 "  Left  inftantly  I  fweep  you  all  away. 
 
 "  My 
 
Blood  on  the  Door-pofls  a  Sign  between  God  and  Ifrael.  2:7 
 
 *'  My  fury  now  will  brook  no  more  the  reins, 
 
 "  This  very  night  fhall  Egypt  bleed  in  ail  her  veins ; 
 
 "  I'll  vifit  Egypt,  fifting  thro'  and  thro', 
 
 "  And  Egypt's  firft-born  all  (hall  in  my  wrath  exfpire; 
 "  Both  men  and  cattle  (hall  my  judgment  know, 
 
 "  Yea,  gods  and  all  mail  perifh  in  mine  ire; 
 "  And  hardly  quench  it.     Know  I  am  the  Lord, 
 "  Obey,  and  fear,  and  tremble  at  my  Word ; 
 *  For  blood  fhall  be  a  fign  between  your  God  and  you, 
 
 "  The  Covenant-blood  of  my  Paffover-Lamb  j 
 "  Keep  always  this  my  covenant  in  view, 
 
 "  That  ye  may  live  and  never  fee  your  fhame. 
 "  For  when  I  raife  my  mighty  fword,  and  fmite 
 "  The  land  of  Egypt  in  the  dead  of  night, 
 "  If  I  fhall  fee  the  fign  upon  your  doors, 
 
 "  Even  this  the  blood  of  my  appointment  fried, 
 "  I'll  pafs  you  over  when  the  plague  devours, 
 
 "  And  only  Egypt  fhall  be  fmitten  dead. 
 "  Behold,  of  me,  thro'  generations  all, 
 "  Be  this  to  you  a  high  memorial, 
 "  A  feafl  of  God  to  you  for  evermore. 
 "  Thy  God  believe,  obey,  love,  fear,  adore." 
 
 CXLVJ.  /  will  pafs  thro'  the  Land  of  Egypt,  &c. 
 Exod.  xii.  13 — 16. 
 
 I    Jehovah,  this  night  throughout  Egypt  will  pafs, 
 *  And  lo,  my  avengings — in  fierce  floods  of  ven- 
 geance 
 Shall  burn  up  all  Egypt  as  withered  grafs, 
 Their  gods,  and  their  cattle,  and  firft-born  race ; 
 But  the  blood  fhall  a  fign  be  between  you  and  God, 
 Upon  all  your  houfes — wherein  your  repofe  is ; 
 When  I  of  deftruction  fhall  ftretch  forth  my  rod, 
 Lo,  I  pafs  over  you  on  the  fight  of  the  blood. 
 
 Ee  2  Be 
 
2i8  THIS    and   THUS. 
 
 i  Be  this  a  memorial  for  ever  and  ever, 
 
 Of  abfolute  gladnefs,  a  feafl  without  fadnefs, 
 
 To  keep  in  remembrance  the  Lordrs  pairing  over, 
 
 Blood-  fprinkled  your  dwellings  when  I  did  difcover. 
 
 Amen,  even  fo,  to  Jehovah  Amen, 
 
 We  fee  his  Son  Jefas- — who  died  to  fave  us, 
 
 The  PaiTover  True,  the  Salvation  of  men ;      [reign. 
 
 Thro'  the  blood  of  his  fprinkling,  we  triumph  and 
 
 CXLVII.   Thus  /ball  ye  eat  the  Lord's  Pajfover. 
 Exod.  xii.  ii. 
 
 "  npHUS  {hall  ye  eat  the  pafchal  lamb." 
 J-     Forth  from  on  high  the  fentence  came; 
 
 An  indication  abfolute, 
 
 To  change  the  fafhion  certain  death, 
 
 Of  any  precept  God  hath  put ; 
 
 Who  changeth  it  mufl  feel  the  wrath  : 
 
 It  furely  then  behoveth  us 
 
 Equal  to  heed  God's  This  and  Thus. 
 
 2  Alas !  how  many  choofe  the  thing, 
 Without  the  fafhion  of  the  King  ; 
 
 They  eat,  they  drink,  they  plant,  they  build, 
 And  all  the  while  they  act  the  child; 
 They  pray,  they  praife,  they  read,  they  hear, 
 Yet  nothing  from  the  heart  is  there. 
 Mere  Papifts !- — they  have  vainly  thought, 
 That  God  regardeth  the  work  wrought. 
 
 3  They  never  think  they  once  rebel 
 Acting  without  the  principle ; 
 The  principle  of  faith  I  mean, 
 Yet  all  without  is  downright  fin; 
 Thus  plows  the  wicked,  fows,  and  prays, 
 Abomination  all  his  ways ; 
 
 Thus 
 
THIS    and   THUS,  219 
 
 Thus  foolifh  Ifrael  facrific'd, 
 And  God  their  mockeries  defpis'd ; 
 
 They  did  it  not  at  all  to  him, 
 
 And  therefore  gloried  in  their  {name ; 
 
 All  bafely  from  his  woriliip  fwerving, 
 
 "  Go  tofehe  gods  whom  you  are  ferving," 
 
 Was  all  the  anfwer  they  receiv'd, 
 
 Becaufe  they  had  not  God  beiiev'd. 
 
 A  fad  delufion  this,  indeed  ! 
 
 So  men  profefs  not  Spirit-led. 
 
 Be  nothing  added,  nothing  pared, 
 
 If  fo  you  would  obey  the  Spirit ; 
 Elfe  furely  you  will  be  debarred 
 
 From  the  Kingdom,  ne'er  being  near  it : 
 Nay,  faints  themfelves  are  only  fafe 
 By  remembering  of  Lot's  wife ; 
 Lot  was  not  fav'd  by  going  out, 
 But  fav'd  by  looking  not  about. 
 
 The  warning  was  againft  the  fac~t, 
 Notorious  fact,  of  looking  back  ; 
 The  Father  and  the  daughters  too 
 Had  periih'd  for  the  guilty  view ; 
 Let  Perez-Uzzah  ever  preach, 
 The  Lord  on  Uzzah  made  a  breach ; 
 The  Lord  forbade,  pray,  this  remark, 
 A  man  to  touch  the  tottering  ark. 
 God's  fooliihnefs  a  wifer  thing, 
 
 Than  wifdom  of  the  wifeft  men  \ 
 Their  wifdom  is  a  viper's  (ting, 
 
 Infixed  in  their  inmoft  vein; 
 Their  wifdom  when  againft  him  fet ; 
 And  death  is  all  the  thanks  they  get ; 
 Beware  to  do  in  any  wife, 
 What  feemeth  right  in  thine  own  eves , 
 
 Ee  2  8  Tbil 
 
22o  THIS    and   THUS. 
 
 8  This  were  prefumption  with  a  witnefs ; 
 
 And  of  prefumption  where  the  fitnefs  ? 
 
 Lo,  Korah,  Dathan,  and  Abiram, 
 
 For  wifdom  can  you  much  admire  them  ? 
 
 Their  incenfe  on  the  altar  blazed, 
 
 But  highly  they  the  Lord  difpleafed ; 
 
 Wherefore  the  earth,  with  fearful  rive 
 
 Wide-yawning,  fwallowed  them  alive. 
 o  So  Nadab  too,  and  Abihu, 
 
 In  madnefs  to  their  cenfers  flew; 
 
 They  fprinkled  on  a  fweet  perfume, 
 And  kindled  up  a  common  fire ; 
 
 But  ftrange  and  dreadful  was  their  doom, 
 Jehovah  burnt  them  in  his  ire  ; 
 
 Remember  therefore,  you  and  I, 
 
 The  Lord  our  God  to  fanctify. 
 i  o  'Tis  not  enough  to  do  the  thing, 
 Without  the  manner  of  the  fame ; 
 
 The  abfolute  eternal  King, 
 
 Will  have  the  whole  to  his  own  name. 
 
 Even  Mofes  forfeited  his  life, 
 
 For  fpeaking  rafh  in  day  of  ftrife  ; 
 
 "Witnefs  the  ftreams  of  Meribah, 
 
 And  fmitten  rock  againft  the  law. 
 
 1 1  Remember  too  the  Prophet,  who, 
 To  Jeroboam  down  did  go, 
 
 And  prophefy'd  the  words  of  truth, 
 According  to  Jehovah's  mouth  ; 
 But  turn'd  afide  upon  the  road, 
 And  met  a  lion  fent  from  God ; 
 The  lion  rent  him  all  in  pieces, 
 To  fhew  that  God  refpecls  not  faces. 
 
 12  Nay,  tho'  he  were  the  fignet  feal, 
 
 The  fignet-feal  of  God's  own  finger, 
 
 The 
 
THIS    and   THUS.  221. 
 
 The  perfon  who  mall  dare  rebel, 
 
 God  will  repute  rhe  fame  a  (inner, 
 And  can1  him  from  his  glory  down, 
 And  trample  him  as  bafefl  dung. 
 Except  you  mall  repent  and  turn, 
 In  vengeful  flames  of  wrath  you  burn. 
 
 13  But  would  you  then  the  crown  inherit, 
 Be  fure  to  hear  and  keep  the  Spirit, 
 The  foul  and  fecret  of  your  ftrength  ; 
 Elfe,  Sampfon-like,  you'll  mourn  at  length. 
 Remember  ftill  Delilah's  guile, 
 Whether  {he  fawn,  or  teaze,  or  fmile ; 
 You'll  be  confumed  at  the  laft, 
 
 Except  you  hold  the  Spirit  fall ; 
 
 14  I  mean  the  Spirit  of  your  God, 
 
 To  hold  the  way  as  he  hath  {how'd  ; 
 For  tho'  you  run  with  all  your  might, 
 You  are  not  crown'd  fave  running  right ; 
 No,  no,  there  is  no  prize  at  all, 
 
 For  thofe  who  run  at  their  own  will  j 
 And  tho'  you  mould  a  martyr  fall, 
 
 If  not  for  God,  yourfelf  you  kill. 
 
 15  For  mould  you  fight,  fight  all  your  days, 
 
 Fight  with  your  utmoft  power  and  /kill, 
 You  go  aftiam'd  without  the  bays, 
 
 Save  fighting  by  your  Prince's  will. 
 And  mould  you  plow  another's  croft, 
 
 And  then  go  home  to  your  own  Lord, 
 And  afk  the  wage  for  which  you  wrought, 
 
 What  anfwer,  pray,  would  he  afford  i 
 17"  Go,  go,  my  friend,  to  that  fame  field, 
 
 "  And  reap,  I  fay,  where  you've  been  fowing, 
 "  Believe  me,  I'll  no  harveft  yield, 
 
 "For  nothing  given  nothing  owing." 
 s  So, 
 
in  THIS    and   THUS. 
 
 So,  think  not  you  the  Lord  to  fleece, 
 For  keeping  of  the  devil's  flock ; 
 
 Who  love,  and  ferve,  and  hug  the  flefli, 
 You're  all  the  devil's  proper  ftock. 
 
 iS  Will  God  alone  by  you  be  mocked? 
 
 And  can  you  ferve  both  God  and  Mammon  ? 
 Beware,  if  once  his  wrath's  provoked, 
 
 He'll  damn  you  down  with  cur  fed  Haman. 
 Be  not  deceiv'd,  who  feed  the  flefh, 
 Ye  dip  your  fop  in  Satan's  difli  j 
 And  Satan  enters  with  the  fop, 
 He  is  your  lord,  your  god,  and  pope. 
 
 19  Bat  God  will  damn  ye  both  together, 
 Yea,  turn  ye  hither,  turn  ye  whither, 
 Believe  it,  man,  fave  thy  intent, 
 
 In  matter,  manner,  both  be  bent 
 Towards  thy  God,  and  him  alone, 
 Thou  art  the  devil's  firft-born  fon  j 
 You  live,  you  move  to  his  defire ; 
 You  live,  you  move  towards  his  fire. 
 
 20  Turn  ye,  turn  ye,  ere  ye  die, 
 O  turn  ye  yet,  and  Jefus  fpy  ; 
 Behold,  behold  ye  God's  own  Lamb, 
 Who  took  away  the  fin  and  fhame; 
 Obey  the  Spirit,  and  adore  ; 
 Behold,  and  live  for  evermore, 
 Thro'  him  who  dy'd  upon  the  Crofs ; 
 Remembering  always  This  and  Thus. 
 
 CXLYIII.  ' 
 
Deceiving  and  being  Deceived.  223 
 
 CXLVIIT.    If  ive,  or  an  Angel  from  Heaven   f  reach 
 any  other  Gofpel  anto  you  than  that  which  we  (the 
 Apoflles)  have  f reached  unto  you,  let  him  be  Accur- 
 fed  ; — and  again,  let  him  be  Accurfed.  Gal.  i.  8. 
 
 ACCURST)  be  the  doctrine!  accurs'd  be  the  forrow! 
 Accurs'd  be  to-day;  and  accurs'd  be  to-morrow; 
 The  doctrine  which  leads  us  away  from  our  God, 
 And  plunges  us  headlong  to  Satan's  abode ! 
 From  Satan's  abode,  and  by  Satan  it  rofe, 
 By  Satan  it  reigns,  and  with  Satan  it  goes; 
 The  doctrine  iuppofing  our  nature  is  good ; 
 The  doctrine  which  vilifies  Jefus  his  blood ; 
 The  doctrine  which  blows  upon  natural  powers, 
 From  dead  fallen  blooms  to  bring  fweet-fcented  flowers; 
 The  doctrine  which  teaches  you  fomething  to  do, 
 That  God's  righteoufnefs  may  be  given  to  you. 
 The  anfwer  it  fhould  be,  ';  Believe  in  the  Lord  : 
 But  this  is  an  anfwer  they  cannot  afford  ;  [Spirit ; 
 
 Yes,  they  give  you  the  words,  but  they  keep  up  the 
 Tho'  Chrift  get  the  name,  yet  they  lick  up  the  merit; 
 They  give  with  the  one  hand,  and  take  with  the  other; 
 They  bring  forth  the  child,  but  they  quickly  do  fmother. 
 They'll  tell  you,  the  work  it  is  finifhed  now, 
 Then  give  you  advices  the  fame  how  to  do; 
 They'll  tell  you  that  Jefus  the  law  hath  fulfilled ; 
 But  why  fhould -^our  confciences  thereby  be  ftiiled, 
 Except  you  have  turned  the  fcales  in  your  favours, 
 By  dint  of  your  morally  ferious  endeavours  ? 
 They  fpeak  of  the  peace  in  his  Teftament-blood ; 
 
 ?lhen  kindly  directing,  bid  you  make  it  good, 
 hey  give  you  their  rules  for  an  intereft  fecure ; 
 Which  if  you  fliall  follow,  your  inrerefl  is  fure. 
 They  give  you  receipts  how  to  make  a  converfion ! 
 And  what  is  all  this  but  to  hell  a  diverfion  ? 
 
 They 
 
•  24  Deceiving  and  being  Deceived. 
 
 rhey  write  on  their  methods,  "  This  is  a  probatum." 
 
 Vs  if  you  anointed  a  corfe  with  pomatum ; 
 
 ^matum  will  never  enliven  a  corfe ; 
 
 ^or  enliven  a  foul,  all  their  reafoning  force. 
 
 is  peace  in  the  blood  of  the  pure  Lamb  o/  God, 
 
 rhe  peace  is  your  own,  if  the  thing's  underftood. 
 
 [F  righteoufnefs  in  the  word  is  received, 
 
 rhe  righteoufnefs  is  your  own,  if  believed. 
 
 if  the  gofpel  to  them  that  are  loft  be  concealed,  . 
 
 Fhen  to  them  that  are  fav'd  it  is  only  revealed; 
 
 \nd  if  'tis  revealed,  what  want  you  now  more  ? 
 
 ion  love,  you  obey,  you  rejoice,  you  adore. 
 
 ?ray,  how  came  the  fin  and  the  death  unto  you  ? 
 
 from  Adam  the  fin  and  the  death  to  you  flew ; 
 
 Conceived  in  finning,  you  live  all  in  forrow ; 
 
 5four  life,  fin,  and  death,  from  another  you  borrow. 
 
 Have  death  now  and  fin  overflowed  a  little  ? 
 
 And  may  not  their  fury  God's  righteoufnefs  fettle  ? 
 
 rhat  where  fin  and  death  all  abounded  in  rage, 
 
 Gfrace  reigning  thro'  Juflice  might  fully  afifwage; 
 
 ¥ea,  fully  affwaging,  might  fully  deftroy, 
 
 And  in  their  room  bring  overflowings  of  joy. 
 
 By  fin  not  our  own,  but  imputed,  we  dy'd  ; 
 
 And  why  not  by  righteoufnefs  fo  juftify'd  ? 
 
 [s  God  on  damnation  fo  eagerly  bent, 
 
 That  into  the  world  he  all  of  us  fent 
 
 Conceived  in  fin,  to  be  led  of  the  devil, 
 
 Abhorring  of  good,  and  all  cleaving  to  evil, 
 
 And  yet  not  as  eafily  bring  us  to  peace 
 
 And  innocence  by  his  own  righteoufnefs  ? 
 
 Pray,  what  was  our  action  when  we  were  conceiv'd  ? 
 
 Pray,  what  is  our  action  when  we  have  believ'd  ? 
 
 O  where  is  your  acting  the  light  when  you  fee  ? 
 
 And  where  when  the  gofpel  appeareth  to  thee  ? 
 
 Behold 
 
Deceiving  and  being  Deceived:  225 
 
 Behold  how  the  fun  all  fo  glorioufly  ftreams, 
 Enlightening  all  eyes,  where  they  are,  with  his  beams ; 
 *  Even  fo,  the  glad  tidings  of  peace  and  great  joy, 
 
 Belong  to  all  thofe  who  have  eyes  to  enjoy 
 
 But  a  parcel  of  ^quacking  bewildered  fools, 
 Would  give  you  prefcriptions  for  murdering  your  fouls. 
 Did  thus  the  A  potties,  who  followed  the  Lamb, 
 When  on  them  from  heaven  the  Holy  G heft  came  ? 
 They  founded  all  loudly,  "  That  death  was  in  fin ; 
 
 "  That  all  men  by  nature  were  children  of  wrath; 
 "  That  as  we  were  born,  fo  we  lived  therein  ; 
 
 "  No  man  by  his  doing  could  efcape  from  the  death ; 
 u  But  now  there  is  preached  to  you  free  remiffion, 
 "  From  all  the  law-curfmgs  a  total  difmiflion ; 
 "  Thro'  Jefus  proclaimed,  proclaimed  to  all ; 
 "  On  all  who  believe  them,  thofe  bleffings  do  fall  ; 
 "  On  ail  who  believe  the  report  made  of  Jefus, 
 "  That  he  is  the  end  of  the  law  for  to  fave  us." 
 All  that  were  ordained  to  life  they  believed  ; 
 The  Lord  added  daily  who  were  to  be  faved. 
 They  who  underflood,  cry'd,  not  "  What  mall  we  do  ? 
 "  What  do  to  be  faved  r  but,  what  (hall  we  now, 
 "  Now  that  we  are  faved,  accepted,  and  blelTed, 
 "  Now  do  thro'  the  Spirit,  of  him  being  poifefTed  ? 
 u  How  (hall  we  for  him  all  our  members  employ, 
 "  Until  we  receive  all  the  promifed  joy  ?" 
 Did  not  the  Apoitles  all  walk  in  this  way  ? 
 Confult  their  Epifties  and  hear  what  they  fay; 
 "  Faith  cometh  by  hearing,  by  hearing  his  Word  :" 
 And  this  is  the  way  of  our  Shepherd  the  Lord. 
 By  what  is  believed,  and  not  by  our  doing, 
 We  live ;  but  if  otherwife,  doomed  to  ruin  : 
 Thus  Abraham  believed,  he  lived  by  faith  ; 
 And  that  we  might  follow,  he  left  us  a  path. 
 
 F  f  Abraham 
 
226        A  deadly  Stumble  at  the  Gate  of  Life. 
 
 Abraham  all  righteous  and  juftify'd  flood ; 
 
 But  how  was  he  juftify'd  ?- — by  the  Lamb's  blood ; 
 
 And  was  that  an  act,  or  a  doing  of  his  ? 
 
 Ah  me  !  how  abfurd  a  delufion  it  is ! 
 
 The  Lord  Jefus  came  the  redemption  to  finifti, 
 
 And  not  to  direct  us  the  law  to  diminifh ; 
 
 High  thundering,  the  law  fays,  "  All  do,  or  be  damn'd ;' 
 
 The  gofpel,  "  Believe,  and  be  never  afham'd." 
 
 O  were  all  folicitous  gofpel  to  preach  ! 
 
 O  Lord,  we  offend  all,  the  mark  do  thou  reach : 
 
 O  fend  forth  thy  Spirit,  thy  Spirit  is  good; 
 
 And  be  thy  good  Word  by  us  all  underflood. 
 
 CXLIX.  0  Foolifh — who  hath  bewitched  you,  that  ye 
 fhould  not  obey  the  Truth,  before  whofe  Eyes  %efus 
 Chrift  hath  been  evidently  fet  forth,  crucified  among 
 youf  Gal.  iii.  I. 
 
 CAN  you,  my  friends,  behold  the  foolsr 
 And  not  be  moved  in  your  fouls  ? 
 For  fee  how  deep  their  folly  draws, 
 Removing  God's  eternal  laws, 
 And  fubflituting  in  their  part, 
 The  dreams  of  a  bewitched  heart. 
 One's  indignation  fcarce  refrains 
 From  giving  laughter  flowing  reins, 
 If  folly  were  a  fubjecl:  meet 
 Thereat  to  laugh,  and  fliew  your  wit ; 
 Such  folly  as  is  found  in  fools, 
 Who  call  on  God,  and  damn  their  fouls; 
 I  do  not  mean  the  fwearing  rabble, 
 But  thofe  who  feek  to  God's  own  table, 
 And  there  do  fit  with  difmal  face, 
 And  eat  his  bread  without  his  grace. 
 
 They're 
 
A  deadly  Stumble  at  the  Gate  of  Life,         227 
 
 They're  ever  harping  on  this  firing, 
 
 "  O  who  will  me  to  Jefus  bring  ? 
 
 "  O  who  will  give  me  to  receive  ? 
 
 "  "Which  is"  (fay  they)  "  more  than  believe  *. 
 
 "  What  fliall  I  do,  they  cry  aloud, 
 
 a  That  I  may  have  my  peace  with  God  ?" 
 They  feem  as  humble,  really  proud, 
 
 Seeming  to  ftoop  beneath  the  load, 
 The  load  of  deep  humility, 
 
 And  fenfibility  of  fin  ; 
 And  fo  they  cry  full  mournfully, 
 
 "  O  how  ihall  I  be  cleanfed  clean  ?" 
 The  gofpel  cries  in  every  page, 
 The  blood  of  Jefus  will  affwage 
 The  fierceft  tumult  of  the  foul, 
 And  hum  it  as  the  fmoothefi  pool. 
 "  But  what  is  that,"  they  cry,  *  to  me  ? 
 "  My  foul  is  Mill  a  raging  fea !" 
 Well,  whereabouts  is  all  thy  raging  ? 
 Againfl  thy  God  thou  art  engaging ; 
 He  ne'er  ordain'd  a  man  to  live 
 By  what  he  does,  but  to  believe. 
 Doft  thou  believe,  and  yet  complain, 
 The  death  of  Jefus  was  in  vain  ? 
 In  vain  to  thee  ?  it  cannot  be, 
 If  thou  the  death  of  Jefus  fee ; 
 In  feeing  it  thou  art  releas'd, 
 The  death  wherewith  God  is  well-pleas'd. 
 
 F  f  2  When 
 
 *  But  as  many  as  received  him,  to  them  gave  he  power  to  become 
 the  fons  of  God,  even  to  them  that  believe  on  his  Name,  John  i.  12, 
 Hence  obferve,  that  receiving  is  explained  by  believing,  and  not  be- 
 lieving by  receiving Seeing  I  know  nothing  cf  Chrift  but  by  the 
 
 teftimony  concerning  him,  how  is  it  pcfuble  to  receive  him  othcrways 
 than  by  believing  that  teiiimony  ? 
 
228         A  deadly  Stumble  at  the  Gate  of  Life. 
 
 When  Jefus  under  death  did  bend, 
 
 He  then  became  the  Law's  full  end, 
 
 The  Law's  full  end  for  righteoufnefs, 
 
 To  quiet  his  people's  confciences; 
 
 They  who  believe,  his  people  are, 
 
 They  reft  difmiifed  from  the  war. 
 
 "  But  what,"  you  fay,  "  do  they  believe  ?" 
 
 Even  that  which  holy  Scriptures  give. 
 
 "  And  what  have  holy  Scriptures  given  ?" 
 
 That  Jefus  Chrift  came  down  from  heaven, 
 
 That  all  the  elect,  trufting  to  it, 
 
 Might  have  eternal  life,  and  know  it. 
 
 "  How  (hall  I  my  election  know  ? 
 
 How  know  ye  that  the  light  is  fo  ? 
 
 "  I  fee  the  light,  and  all  about  it." 
 
 If  fo  the  truth,  you  cannot  doubt  it. 
 
 "  I  walk  moreover  in  the  light." 
 
 And  in  the  truth,  if  known  aright. 
 
 *  If  fo,  the  truth  is  very  cheap! 
 
 "  We  fpring  to  heaven  at  a  leap  !" 
 
 But  hark  ye,  friend,  a  word  or  two, 
 
 How  came  ye  life  itfelf  to  know  ? 
 
 This  prefent  life  of  fin  and  death, 
 
 Under  the  curfe,  under  the  wrath  ? 
 
 "  I  live,  and  I  can  fay  no  more, 
 
 "  And  fo  I  live  from  hour  to  hour." 
 
 Now  wherein  did  your  a&  confift 
 
 When  you  with  natural  life  were  bled  ?. 
 
 "  To  tell  the  truth,  I  cannot  fay ; 
 
 "  My  time  was  come— I  could  not  ftay." 
 
 Bat  did  you  life  your  keen  endeavours, 
 
 To  make  one  more  among  the  livers  ? 
 
 f*  I  can't  pretend  to  even  that, 
 
 "  Nor  knew  I  how,  nor  what  was  what." 
 
 And 
 
A  deadly  Stumble  at  the  Gate  of  Life.         229 
 
 And  yet  you  fprung  to  mifery, 
 
 In  hour  of  your  nativity ; 
 
 A  child  of  fin,  a  child  of  wrath, 
 
 Doom'd  by  your  birth  to  endlefs  death. 
 
 You  finn'd  in  Adam,  and  why  not, 
 
 Since  you  by  Adam  got  the  blot, 
 
 May  not  the  fin  and  death  together 
 
 Go  out  by  Jefus  Chrifl  for  ever  ? 
 
 You  entered  on  the  fin  and  death, 
 
 When  you  received  firft  your  breath  j 
 
 And  why  not  enter  on  the  life, 
 
 And  righteoufnefs  by  pure  belief  ? 
 
 "  Well,  pure  belief's  an  eafy  way  ! 
 
 u  No  more  about  it  then,  I  fay, 
 
 "  We  merrily  may  laugh  and  fing, 
 
 "  Since  pure  belief  to  heaven  will  bring !" 
 
 Abfurdly  faid !  thou  filly  fool, 
 
 Thou  ftabb'ft  thy  foul  by  idle  droll ; 
 
 Upon  thee  from  thy  mother's  womb, 
 
 What  fcenes  of  forrow  to  thy  tomb  ! 
 
 What  weepings,  wailings,  pangs,  and  throws, 
 
 And  endlefs  trains  of  endlefs  woes ! 
 
 One  tide  a  moment  may  be  gone, 
 
 But,  lo,  another  flows  anon ; 
 
 Thefe  are  the  taxes  of  your  life, 
 
 And  fo  you  live  and  die  in  ft  rife ; 
 
 And  yet  you  ftruggled  not  for  being, 
 
 It  came  upon  you  as  a  fleeing 
 
 Bird,  alighting  from  the  wing  ; 
 
 And  afterwards  you  weep  or  fing ; 
 
 The  confequences  of  your  living, 
 
 And  not  the  caufe  of  your  receiving  ; 
 
 Even  fo  upon  the  firft  belief, 
 
 Comes  all  the  jov,  or  all  the  grief, 
 
 All 
 
230         A  deadly  Stumble  at  the  Gate  of  Life. 
 
 All  the  grief  and  all  the  joy, 
 
 That  the  fons  of  God  employ, 
 
 Their  exercifes  by  the  way, 
 
 Even  until  their  dying  day, 
 
 Their  hopes,  their  fears,  their  tears,  and  prayers, 
 
 Their  wreftlings,  alms-givings,  and  praife, 
 
 Their  doings,  fufferings,  total  fum, 
 
 Until  their  fure  redemption  come. 
 
 Thus,  every  mother  has  her  pains, 
 
 Her  cramps,  her  qualms,  and  aching  veins, 
 
 Her  fears,  anxieties,  and  fmarts, 
 
 Which  pierce  her  heart  like  pointed  darts ; 
 
 But  was't  by  thefe  (he  firft  conceived  ? 
 
 Conceiving  firft,  {he  thefe  perceived ; 
 
 At  length,  her  hour  approaching  on, 
 
 They  die  with  her  parturient  groan ; 
 
 Even  fo  the  Chriftian's  labour  ends, 
 
 When  midwife  Death  before  him  bends, 
 
 And  gives  him  joy  of  his  fpirit, 
 
 His  Father's  kingdom  to  inherit, 
 
 Delivered  living,  fafe,  and  found, 
 
 A  child  of  God,  with  glory  crown'd ; 
 
 The  forrow  all  is  part  away, 
 
 And  angels  fmg  the  natal  day. — » 
 
 But  for  a  counter-part  to  this, 
 
 A  counter-part  to  heavenly  blifs, 
 
 Ephraim-like,  the  foolifti  fons,, 
 
 In  gate  of  life  clo  crufti  their  bones ; 
 
 They  call  their  natural  powers  the  grace, 
 
 The  power  of  God,  and  feek  their  face, 
 
 Expecting  dill  from  them  relief, 
 
 Till  death  deal  on  them  as  a  thief  j 
 
 But  like  a  foolifh  gracelefs  heir, 
 
 Entering  on  his  eitate  fo  fair, 
 
 He 
 
A  deadly  Stumble  at  the  Gate  of  Life,  231 
 
 He  eats,  and  drinks,  and  whores  away, 
 And  rants,  and  fmgs  at  every  play, 
 He  dreams  his   fums  will  ne'er  be  done, 
 Till  perfon,  purfe,  and  all  are  run ; 
 "  All's  vanity !"  I  heard  him  cry, 
 
 And  then  expir'd  he  with  afigh 
 
 So  they,  amufed  for  a-while, 
 By  Terpentine  deceit  and  guile, 
 May  glory  in  their  form  and  cant, 
 And  think  they  have  the  thing  they  want  • 
 As  fquirrels  with  their  fquirrel-bells, 
 Clatter  on  their  chiming  fhells, 
 Hoping  flill  to  climb  the  wheel, 
 Round  and  round  it  as  they  reel ; 
 Down  they  fall,  repulfed  frill, 
 So  to-day,  and  ever  will. 
 Or  have  you  feen,  with  heavy  pace, 
 Waggons  moving  on  their  ways ; 
 The  jaded  creatures  too  have  bells, 
 Jingling  with  the  jogging  wheels ; 
 Amus'd  with  their  continual  play, 
 The  hackneys  drag  their  load  away; 
 Drag  away  their  life  and  load, 
 Till  down  they  fink  upon  the  fod, 
 Of  all  devouring  dogs  the  prey, 
 A  filthy  carrion  by  the  way. — 
 I'm  forry  to  apply  this  fcene 
 To  any  of  the  fons  of  men ; 
 More  forry  Mill  to  let  it  pafs, 
 Till  all  their  fleih  be  tum'd  to  grafs ; 
 Nay  too,  their  fouls  confum'd  and  loft, 
 As  they  muft  find  it  to  their  coft, 
 Who  always  gnaw  upon  the  (hell, 
 And  never  break  into  the  kernel, 
 
 Feeding 
 
232       If  God  be  for  us,  who  can  be  again/1  us? 
 
 Feeding  ftill  on  leavened  meal, 
 
 Stolen  out  of  nature's  garnel ; 
 Though  holy  call'd,  it  makes  no  odds, 
 As  Pagans  call'd  their  devil's  gods. 
 But  One  is  only  10  the  faints, 
 
 One  God,  one  Lord,  one  faith,  one  hope  \ 
 One  God  fupplieth  all  their  wants; 
 
 They  drink  of  his  falvation-cup ; 
 With  faith  and  love,  as  the  Apoftles, 
 Embracing  all  of  God's  difpofals  : 
 In  God  and  love  their  fpirit  dwells,^-~1    Am  - 
 And  all  with  heaven  their  bofom  fwell$/ 
 
 CL.    If  God  be  for  us,  who  can  be  againfl  us  f 
 Rom.  viii.  31 — 35. 
 
 LO,  God  hath  us  ordain'd  to  know  his  love, 
 Becaufe  his  own  good  pleafure  did  him  move  ; 
 Now,  who  can  counter-aft  his  fovereign  will  ? 
 Or  his  eternal  purpofe  difannul  ? 
 On  his  own  Son  he  poured  out  his  wrath, 
 For  us  he  gave  him  freely  to  the  death, 
 For  us,  ftrong  principalities  he  trampled  on, 
 For  us,  in  triumph  now  he  reigns  upon  the  throne. 
 His  Holy  Spirit  breathes  on  us  with  power, 
 And  makes  our  fouls  like  pleafant  fields  to  flower ; 
 Well-watered  with  his  confolations  fweet, 
 We  flouriih,  and  for  paradife  grow  meet. 
 Now  then,  if'God  do  fland  upon  our  fide, 
 Who  can  endure  againfl  us  to  abide  ? 
 'Tis  God  who  juftifies  and  makes  us  free; 
 By  whom,  by  whom  (hall  we  condemned  be  ? 
 'Tis  Chrift  who  dy'd,  yea,  rofe  again,  and  reigns, 
 Who  all  the  power  in  heaven  and  earth  fuftains. 
 
 Againfl 
 
If  God  be  for  us,  wh$  can  be  againfl  us?      233 
 
 Againft  us  who  fliall  dare  maintain  a  caufe, 
 
 Mufl  fight  with  God,  and  abrogate  his  laws? 
 
 Muft  rife  to  heaven  and  overthrow  his  throne, 
 
 Ungod  the  Godhead,  and  union  the  Son. 
 
 But,  wrapt  in  his  Almighty  power,  he'll  laugh, 
 
 And  blow  them  all  away  to  hell  like  chaff; 
 
 As  whirlwinds  in  a  temped:  thro'  the  air, 
 
 See,  fee,  they  fly  confounded  here  and  there  ; 
 
 But  lo,  his  wing'd  ambaffadors  of  love  he  fends, 
 
 And  bids  them  camp  around  his  chofen  friends ; 
 
 By  millions  i  fib  tag,  fee  them  from  on  high, 
 
 In  fwift  divifions  f  weep  along  the  iky  ; 
 
 They,  to  fuifil  his  pleafure,  eager  come, 
 
 And  wait  to  guard  his  elect  children  home ; 
 
 In  flaming  chariots  round  us,  lo,  they  burn  ; 
 
 And  who  can  thefe  his  armies  overturn  ? 
 
 What  though  creation  then  around  us  roar  and  rage, 
 
 And  floods  of  men,  and  fiends,  with  mountain-waves 
 
 •  ensage ; 
 
 Th'  Almighty  Lord  of  hods,  rejoicing  on  our  fide, 
 Will  dafh  them  down,  confounding  their  malicious  pride. 
 Nothing  in  life,  we  know,  can  us  annoy, 
 Nor  can  the  power  of  death  our  life  deftroy. 
 Our  life  lies  fafe,  being  hid  in  God  with  Chrift; 
 In  him  who  death  unfting'd,  is  our  eternal  reft. 
 Our  adverfary,  let  him  now  come  near; 
 Boldly  before  our  Judge  we  ihall  appear. 
 Our  Advocate  is  Judge  !  attune  your  voice,  and  fing; 
 Our  Advocate,  our  King,  will  our  redemption  bring  1 
 Come,  fhine,  O  Lord,  in  all  thy  glory  forth,       fe 
 And  bring  thy  fons  from  Eafl,  and  Weft,  and  South, 
 
 and  North, 
 To  fhine  with  thee,  in  ail  the  fulnefs  of  thy  love, 
 From  whence  no  power  that  is  fliall  ever  us  remove. 
 
 G  g  CLVIn 
 
2 34  Veffels  of  Mercy  tojjed,  not  loft. 
 
 CLI.  In  the  midft  of  the  Sea,  tojfed  with  Waves,  Sec. 
 Mat.  xiv.  24. 
 
 THE  floods  of  temptation  down-carried  my  foul, 
 A  wreck  on  the  ftream,  a  wreck  on  the  flream  r 
 So  veffels  of  mercy,  I  fee,  they  may  roll, 
 
 O'envhelmed  with  fliame,  o'erwhelmed  with  fhame. 
 
 2  Yea,  rolling  and  finking,  they  poffibly  may 
 
 Be  found  now  and  then,  be  found  now  and  then;, 
 But  if  they  be  veffels  of  mercy,  I  fay, 
 
 They'll  get  up  again,  they'll  get  up  again. 
 
 3  Of  both  I  have  had  the  experience  good, 
 
 Believe  ye  the  truth,  believe  ye  the  truth  ; 
 My  Redeemer  he  blew  me  fafe  over  the  flood, 
 With  the  breath  of  his  mouth,  with  the  breath  cf 
 his  mouth. 
 
 4  I  cried,  "  O  fave  me !  O  fave  me  !  I  fink  ! 
 
 "  I'm  loft  in  the  fea !  I'm  loft  in  the  fea !" 
 He  calmed  the  ftorm,  and  my  foul,  in  a  blink, 
 In  mercy  to  me,  in  mercy  to  me. 
 
 5  I  ride  now  ar  anchor,  full-fraughted  with  love, 
 
 All  gallant  and  trim,  all  gallant  and:  trim ; 
 For  he  is  my  Admiral  ruling  above ; 
 All  glory  to  him,  all  glory  to  him. 
 
 6  By  his  own  commiflion  I'll  fail  to  my  haven ; 
 
 He'll  draw  me  afhore,  he'll  draw  me  alhore ; 
 To  him  be  the  glory  and  victory  given, 
 By  me  evermore,  by  me  evermore. 
 
 CLIL  Bleffed  is  the  Man  that  endureth  Temptation, 
 James  i.  12. 
 
 'EASE,  Temptation,  ceafe  thy  ftrife, 
 And  let  me  live  the  heavenly  life ; 
 
 Grievous 
 
Prayer    and  Praife.  £?5 
 
 Grievous  thing  it  is  to  me, 
 Daily  to  be  plagu'd  by  thee ; 
 TofTed,  moved  as  the  wind, 
 Wavereth  to  and  fro  my  mind, 
 Whirled  round  in  folly's  wheel. 
 Dancing  madly  in  a  reel. 
 Pour  on  me  th'  atoning  flood, 
 Jefus,  of  thy  flreaming  blood  ; 
 Wafh  me  as  the  precious  gem 
 Sparkling  in  thy  diadem, 
 Thy  diadem  of  beauty  fair; 
 Thy  diadem  thy  people  are ; 
 Set  in  circling  love  they  (hine. 
 Each  in  brightnefs  all  divine. 
 
 CLIII.  Is  any  afflicted,  Jet  him  fray,  is  any  merry \  fa 
 him  Jing  Pfalms.  James  v.  13— • 
 
 PITY,  pity,  pity  me, 
 O  my  God,  to  thee  I  flee; 
 Hide  thou  me  thy  wings  within, 
 From  the  death  purfuing  fin, 
 From  the  fin,  and  from  the  (hamc, 
 From  the  forrow,  from  the  blame  I 
 Have  they  overflowed  apace, 
 O  reflrain  them  by  thy  grace. 
 2  Say,  as  when  the  furges  roar, 
 "  Ceafe  ye  now,  and  roar  no  more ; 
 "  Sink  ye  down  in  your  own  fand." 
 Lo,  they  fink  at  thy  command  ; 
 Yea,  behold,  the  death  and  hell, 
 Every  thing  that  did  rebel, 
 Sleep  together  in  the  lake ; 
 N  --ver  {hall  they  more  awake. 
 
 Ge:  2  a  Blefs'd 
 
236  Leave  the  Body  and -.come  to  Refits. 
 
 3  Blefs'd  be  thou,  my  fpring  of  day, 
 Driving  every  lhade  away, 
 Who,  enlightening  all  my  dark, 
 Chear'd  me  up,  thy  trembling  lark ; 
 Mount  I  Tinging  through  the  air, 
 Vanifht  all  my  fear  and  care, 
 Joy  now  quivering  briik  my  notes, 
 Through  thy  heavens  my  mufic  floats. 
 
 CLIV.  to  depart,  and  to  be  with  Chrifl :  which 
 
 is  far  better.  Phil.  i.  23. 
 
 COME  to  Jefus,  come  away, 
 Heard  I  not  the  Spirit  fay  ? 
 Come,  and  all  the  fweetnefs  prove. 
 Of  the  Holy  Ghoh1  and  Love ; 
 Come,  and  dwell  for  evermore, 
 All  in  raptures  burn,  adore. 
 
 2  Come  to  Jefus,  come  away, 
 Come  to  Jefus,  do  not  flay  ; 
 Jefus  flied  his  precious  blood, 
 
 That  you  might  fvvim  in  pleafure's  flood ; 
 
 Jefus  div'd  into  a  fea 
 
 Of  the  deepefl  wrath  for  thee. 
 
 3  Come  to  Jefus,  come  away, 
 Virgin-fpirit,  fliun  delay ; 
 Jefus  laid  afide  his  robes, 
 
 That  you  might  lay  afide  your  fobs ; 
 
 Jefus  cloath'd  himfelf  with  fhame, 
 
 That  you  might  cloath  you  with  his  name. 
 
 4  Come  to  Jefus,  come  away, 
 This  is  thy  efpoufol-day  ; 
 Come  away,  come  to  thy  home, 
 Come  away  to  thy  Bridegroom  : 
 
 Ti 
 
No  Salvation  but  in  %ejus,  through  the  Spirit.     237 
 
 To  the  world  bid  adieu, 
 Heaven  fee  within  thy  view. 
 Come  to  Jefus,  come  away, 
 Welcome  with  thy  Lord  to  ft  ay ; 
 Welcome  to  thy  haven  at  laft, 
 Now  the  indignation's  paft. 
 Roll,  ye  billows,  roll  and  roar, 
 Now  my  treafure's  fafe  aftiore. 
 
 CLV.  Neither  is  there  Salvation  in  any  other  :■ 
 Acts  iv.  12. 
 
 WHOEVER  they  be,  that  do  away  flee, 
 O  Jefus,  from  thee,  they're  finally  loft ; 
 Except  thou  in  love  fhall  fend  from  above, 
 
 And  caufe  on  them  move  thy  own  Holy  Ghoft. 
 1  Wherever  he  comes,  he  banifhes  glooms, 
 Your  withered  hopes  arraying  in  blooms ; 
 No  profpect  fo  dull,  but  he  to  the  full, 
 Will  lift  up  your  heart  by  giving  a  pull. 
 
 3  O  praife  ye  my  God,  for  grace  to  me  fhow'd, 
 His  grace  is  a  debt  mud  ever  be  ow'd  j 
 
 I  cannot  repay ;  but  this  is  his  way, 
 
 To  give  what  he  gives  without  yea  and  nay. 
 
 4  O  fwell  with  his  praife,  angelical  lays, 
 A  fubjecl:  above  mortality's  phrafej 
 Mortality  gone,  and  I  at  my  crown, 
 
 I'll  fing  with  the  higheft  that  circle  the  throne. 
 
 CLVI.  But  they  that  wait  upon  the  Lord- —  Ifa.  xl.  3 1 . 
 
 THEY  who  believe  the  true  record, 
 And  patiently  wait  for  the  Lord. 
 
 In 
 
23  8  Mounting  as  upon  Eagles  Wings. 
 
 In  union  with  his  Spirit  live, 
 By  him  they  conftantly  believe. 
 King  Jefus  is  their  glorious  Head, 
 His  members  therefore  fliall  not  fade. 
 He  is  the  Plant  of  high  renown, 
 In  glory  he  doth  wear  the  crown. 
 
 2  No  wearying  fhall  make  me  to  faint, 
 No  trouble  fill  me  with  complaint ; 
 Jehovah  is  the  ftrength  I  need, 
 Jehovah  is  my  ftrength  indeed ; 
 Tho'  enemies  fhould  me  furround, 
 And  mean  to  chain  me  to  the  ground  j 
 Yet  in  his  everlafting  arms, 
 Jehovah  holds  me  free  from  harms, 
 
 ,3  His  Spirit  in  me  foaring  high, 
 By  him  I'll  mount  above  the  fky, 
 Like  foaring  eagles  to  their  neft, 
 To  God  my  everlafting  reft. 
 Lord,  hafteh  thy  appearing-day, 
 When  gloomy  {hades  fliall  pafs  away, 
 When  thou  thy  faints  from  duft  fhall  raife, 
 All  glorious,  to  thy  own  name's  praife. 
 
 CLVII.  By  the  Grace  of  God  I  am  what  I  am* 
 1  Cor.  xv.  10. 
 
 HOW  I  ftarted  into  being, 
 Knew  I  nothing  more  than  fleeing 
 Birds,  that  fkiffupon  the  wing, 
 Where  they'll  light,  and  where  they'll  fing, 
 But  exalted  into  life, 
 Fir  ft  I  knew  it  by  the  ftrife, 
 Of  my  paftions  hunting  pleafure ; 
 Pleafure  was  my  only  treafure. 
 
 3  While 
 
A  Birth-Day  Song, 
 
 3  While  I  hung  upon  the  breaft, 
 I  fought  pleafure  in  my  tafte ; 
 Knew  not  then  the  thing  I  fought, 
 No,  nor  yet,  for  all  my  thought. 
 
 4  Think  I  ftill  to  catch  the  fliadow ; 
 £very  thought  is  pleafure's  widow  ; 
 Mourns  flie  in  the  bridal-night, 
 O'er  her  fpbufe,  a  weary  wight. 
 
 5  Smote  by  her  own  eye  he  dy'd, 
 Dy'd  before  he  was  enjoy'd  : 
 Thus  a  bafilifk  will  kill, 
 
 With  a  glance,  againft  her  will. 
 
 6  Who  would  earthly  pleafure  wed, 
 Is  happy  if  flie  dk  a  maid  -r 
 Happy  if  flie  overthrow  him, 
 Smitten  dead,  before  fhe  know  him. 
 
 7  What !  to  marry  with  a  dragon  ! 
 Chriflians  marry  with  a  Pagan ! 
 No !  let  dragons  firft  devour, 
 Ere  I  touch  fuch  paramour ! 
 
 8  So  I  boafled,  vow'd,  and  fwore, 
 Fifty  thoufand  times  and  more ; 
 Fifty  thoufand  times  again, 
 
 Found  my  vows  and  oaths  were  vain. 
 
 9  Still  I  turned  to  my  fin, 
 Prompted  by  the  fiend  within ; 
 Pleafure,  pleafure  (till  I  fought, 
 Always  difappointment  got. 
 
 i  o  All  the  treafurers  of  fenfe, 
 Could  not  reimburfe  th'  expence  '7 
 Tho'  he  put  them  to  the  horn, 
 Mortal  man  can  gain  b*t  fcorn. 
 
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240  A  Birth-Day  Song. 
 
 1 1  Bleffed  be  my  Author's  hand, 
 Who  my  madnefs  did  withftand ; 
 Who  let  me  tafte,  and  let  me  find 
 Pleafure  peftilential  wind. 
 
 12  Heal  me,  God,  in  gracious  hour, 
 All  thy  balm  of  Gilead  pour, 
 Cleanfe  me  from  my  filthy  (lain 3 ; 
 Love  almighty  ever  reigns. 
 
 1 3  Day  by  day,  and  hour  by  hour, 
 Let  thy  Holy  Ghoft  have  power, 
 O'er  my  Spirit  evermore, 
 Gracious  Father,  I  implore  ; 
 
 14  Fill  me  with  thy  joys  fo  pure ! 
 
 0  how  pure !  and  perfect  fure ! 
 
 1  {hall  never  thirft  again, 
 For  the  joys  of  finful  men. 
 
 1 5  Thus  on  my  fweet  natal  day, 
 Thou,  my  God,  haft  given  to  pray ; 
 Given  me  by  thy  Spirit  good, 
 Lead  me  on  to  thy  abode. 
 
 1 6  Leave  me  leave  me  never  more, 
 Till  I  ftand  thy  throne  before ; 
 Sweet  communion  in  thy  love, 
 Let  me  Have  where'er  I  move. 
 
 17  Move  me,  thou,  by  thy  decree, 
 In  the  faith,  where'er  I  be  ; 
 To  thy  glory  all  I  do, 
 
 Let  me  do,  and  fuffer  too. 
 
 1 8  Thou  haft  well  provided  me, 
 
 All  my  frefti  fprings  are  in  thee  j  - 
 I  have  food  and  raiment  had, 
 In  my  God  I'll  Hill  be  glad. 
 
 19  Haft 
 
The  Saints  in  Glory. 
 
 19  Haft  thou  given  thy  Son  for  me, 
 That  I  might  confide  in  thee? 
 Shall  1  then  diftruft  my  God, 
 Who  hath  given  me  all  he  cou'd  ? 
 
 20  Join,  ye  angels,  join  my  fong, 
 Join,  creation  all,  along ; 
 Sing  the  bounties  of  our  King ; 
 Clap  your  hands,  and  ever  fmg. 
 
 CLV1II.  What  are  thtfo  that  are  arrayed  in  White  f 
 Rev»  vii.  13. 
 
 OWHO  are  thefe  whom  I  efpy, 
 So  joyful  on  mount  Zion  high  ? 
 Lo,  thefe,  who  once  were  dead  in  fin, 
 And  fill'd  with  darknefs  all  within, 
 Were  quickened  by  God's  Holy  Lamb, 
 Enlightened  by  his  glorious  beam ; 
 In  grateful  fongs  they  now  relate, 
 The  trophies  of  his  mercy  great. 
 
 2  O  who  are  thefe  within  my  view, 
 In  numbers  as  the  drops  of  dew  ? 
 Even  thefe  who  were  all  bound  in  debt, 
 The  Lamb  at  liberty  them  ftt ; 
 
 His  payment,  as  the  law  of  God, 
 Was  perfect  and  infinite  broad ; 
 So  he  a  Saviour  to  them  prov'd, 
 To  every  people  whom  he  lov'd. 
 
 3  O  who  are  thefe  I  fee  that  mine, 
 Cloath'd  as  with  linnen  clean  and  fine  ? 
 Thefe,  who  thro'  fin  were  crimfon-hu'd ; 
 To  whom  the  Lamb  his  favour  ftiew'd ; 
 Yea,  in  his  blood  he  wafh'd  them  clean; 
 No  ftain,  no  fin,  now  on  them  feen ; 
 
 .      H  h  The 
 
3  The  Saints  in  Glory. 
 
 .ey  in  his  glory  all  appear, 
 ^ike  as  the  fun  full  bright  and  clear. 
 O  tell  me  now  from  whence  they  came, 
 So  glorious  all  before  the  Lamb  I 
 Thefe,  whom  he  brought  from  wildernefs,. 
 From  hunger,  thirft,  and  deep  diftrefs ; 
 Yea,  from  the  Leopard's  mountains  they 
 Efcaped  are,  from  dens  of  prey; 
 Now  fafe  on  flowery  funny  hills, 
 His  love  divine  them  wholly  fills. 
 O  thefe,  O  thefe,  1  know  them  well, 
 And  their  abode  now  where  they  dwell, 
 Within  the  paradife  of  God, 
 The  ranfom'd  of  his  precious  blood ; 
 Clofe  round  the  Tree  of  life  they  cling ; 
 As  birds  upon  the  branches  fing  ; 
 Now,  now,  there  en'mies  hurt,  no  more, 
 Under  the  wrath  their  en'mies  roar. 
 
 The  Lamb,  the  King,  reigns  on  the  throne, 
 And  they  reign  with  him  every  one ; 
 No  more  with  thirfl  and  hunger  pain'd, 
 Their  cheeks  no  more  with  tears  diflain'd. 
 Their  food  the  heavenly  manna  fair, 
 They  drink  the  living  waters  clear, 
 That  flow  and  circle  round  the  throne, 
 In  God,  their  glory,  glorying  on. 
 
 Their  forrows  all  away  are  paft, 
 
 Their  joys  eternally  do  lad, 
 
 In  God,  the  God  of  all  their  joy, 
 
 Whofe  praife  their  harps  doth  ftill  employ. 
 
 "  High  allelujahs  to  our  God, 
 
 "  To  him  who  wafli'd  us  in  his  blood, 
 
 "  And  made  us  priefts  to  God,  and  kings ;" 
 
 They  found  on  all  their  founding  firings. 
 
 8  The 
 
SOWING.  243 
 
 8  The  angels  and  archangels,  who, 
 Before  the  throne  adore  and  bow, 
 Join  in  the  anthem  all  around ; 
 The  heavens  re-echo  to  the  found  ; 
 I  hear  them  all  with  one  accord, 
 Afcribiug  to  our  mighty  Lord, 
 The  kingdom,  glory,  and  the  power ; 
 Amen,  amen,  for  evermore. 
 
 CLIX.  Behold,  a  Sower  went  forth  to  Sow.  Mat.  xiii.  3. 
 
 O  Sowing,  fowing,  fow  my  field, 
 Still  more  and  more,  with  feeds  of  grace  ; 
 How  bleu:  a  harveft  they  fhall  yield 
 To  thee,  of  glory ;  me,  of  peace  1 
 
 2  Let  no  prefumptuouf  fliowy  glare, 
 
 Rufh  up  along  with  gaudy  bloom, 
 Nor  angry  weeds  of  dark  defpair, 
 Until  the  crop  come  fafely  home. 
 
 3  O  fpare  not  thou  the  wintry  ftorms, 
 
 Nor  nipping  chilnefs  of  the  froft, 
 Which  nip  the  weeds,  and  nip  the  worms, 
 That  prey,  expenfive,  on  my  cod. 
 
 4  Let  Ihowers,  and  dews,  and  funs,  fucceed, 
 
 Or  cold,  or  hot,  or  moid,  or  dry  ; 
 According  to  my  various  need ; 
 
 Thy  will  be  done,  my  God,  I  cry. 
 
 5  When  I  am  bending  to  the  ground, 
 
 And  all  befilvcred  o'er  my  head, 
 My  fruit  to  glory  then  be  found, 
 To  glory  that  {hall  never  fade. 
 
 6  Then  play  thy'fickles  at  my  roots, 
 
 And  lay  my  fheaf  with  joy  along, 
 
 H  h  2  Thv 
 
244  ^  Funeral-Song, 
 
 Thy  angel-reapers  raifing  fhouts, 
 At  my  in-gathering,  with  a  fong. 
 
 ■  ■   ■   ..I 
 
 CLX.  Died,  and  was  carried  by  the  Angels  into 
 
 Abrahams  bofom.  Luke  xvi.  22. 
 
 MIGHTY  angels  heard  I  not, 
 All  around  their  filler  ling  ? 
 Raifing  trophies  on  the  fpot, 
 Yonder  dancing  in  a  ring  ? 
 
 2  Alleluias'  lofty  found, 
 
 In  the  hour  when  Mary  dies, 
 Kills  the  fobs  and  cries  around, 
 Mingling  upwards  to  the  fkies. 
 
 g  O  the  fad  mi  (take  of  man, 
 
 Never  wife  before  his  death ! 
 Death  difplays  Jehovah's  plan, 
 Extricates  from  fin  and  wrath. 
 
 4  Mary  much  rejoic'd  in  God ; 
 
 In  him  now  rejoiceth  more, 
 Since  he  kind  companion  fhow'd, 
 Towing  her  to  glory's  more. 
 
 5  Raging  feas  harafs'd  a-while, 
 
 Ere  the  veflel  of  his  love 
 Saw  her  Sun  of  glory  fmile ; 
 Shines  me  now  with  him  above, 
 
 6  Jordan  made  a  dreadful  mew, 
 
 Overflowing  far  and  wide ; 
 
 (Happy  Tfrael !)  back  fhe  flew, 
 
 New-forfaken  of  her  tide. 
 
 7  Furled  out,  their  banners  fmile, 
 
 Unreflrained,  in  the  wind, 
 Lately  where  the  crocodile 
 
 Eager  ravenned  to  his  mind.  •  * 
 
•  M  I  L  L-W  H  E  E  L  245 
 
 8  Ran  ye  to  your  promis'd  land, 
 *  Then,  ye  well-beloved  race ; 
 (O  glorious  type !)  at  God's  command, 
 Now,  we  run  thro'  death  to  peace. 
 
 CLXI.  They  ground  the  Manna  in  Mills,  and  made  Cakes 
 of  it.  Numb.  xi.  8.  We  being  many  are  One  Bread. 
 1  Cor.  x.  1 7. 
 
 LIKE  the  wheel  of  water-mill, 
 Yielding  to  the  water's  will, 
 Round,  and  round,  and  round  it  wheels, 
 As  the  gufliing  weight  it  feels  j 
 
 2  So  obedient  be  my  foul, 
 
 To  the  Holy  Ghoft's  control, 
 Ever  moving  by  his  will, 
 Never,  never  ftanding  flill. 
 
 3  Let  thy  grinding  milftones  bring 
 To  fubjection  every  thing ; 
 Grind  away  my  rough  and  harfh ; 
 
 Grind  my  flefh,  though  bones  fhould  crafli. 
 
 4  Grind  me  o'er,  and  o'er,  and  o'er, 
 Till  I  fall  thy  fineft  flower : 
 
 Lay  me  down  a  mellowy  heap, 
 Make  me  thro'  thy  bolters  fweep. 
 
 5  Sift  me,  fift  me,  lift  me  well, 
 Sift  me  to  approven  meal, 
 Give  my  duft  unto  the  wind, 
 Leaving  all  the  pure  behind. 
 
 6  Stow  me  up  in  thy  own  veffel, 
 That  no  thief  thy  flore  embezzle. 
 Make  me,  thou,  and  make  with  fpeed, 
 Pleafanr4  pure,  unleavened  bread. 
 
246  One  Spirit  with  the  Lord. 
 
 7  A  fweet  confecra ted  cake, 
 
 Make  me,  thou,  for  Jefus'  fake ; 
 That  I  be  not  like  Ephraim, 
 O  forbid,  thou  great  1  AM! 
 
 3  Ephraim  was  but  fmgly  turn'd, 
 Ephraim  therefore  doubly  mourn'd. 
 Left  I  burn  me  in  the  oven, 
 Draw  me  foon,  O  God,  to  heaven. 
 
 CLXIL  Know  ye  not  that  your  Bodies  are  the  Members 
 ofChrifif  1  Cor.  vi.  15.  to  the  end. 
 
 KING  Jefus'  fpoufe,  remember  flill, 
 That  you  are  not  your  own ; 
 No  flefhly  lufts  muft  you  fulfil, 
 Since  you  the  Lord  have  known. 
 
 2  To  flavery  you  yourfelves  had  fold, 
 
 For  vanity  and  nought ; 
 Not  all  the  flores  of  earthly  gold, 
 Could  have  you  free'd  and  bought. 
 
 3  But  lo,  you  highly  were  efteem'd, 
 
 When  you  were  low  and  vile ; 
 Behold  the  blood  which  you  redeem'd, 
 And  free'd  you  from  exile. 
 
 4  Your  Lord  fulfilled  his  Father's  will 
 
 For  you,  whom  he  hath  lov'd ; 
 O  do  you  glorify  him  ftill, 
 His  fervants  well  approved. 
 
 5  With  vanities  in  any  cafe, 
 
 How  can  you  grudge  to  part  ? 
 When  \oy  to  pnrchafe  you  from  thefe, 
 Blood  flream'd  from  Jefus'  heart. 
 
 6  For 
 
One  Spirit  with  the  Lord*  247 
 
 6  'For  foul  and  body  bought  by  Chrift, 
 To  him  you're  wholly  due ; 
 Your  Lord,  your  glory,  in  your  bread', 
 Don't  ye  to  idols  bow. 
 7.  Be  holinefs  to  me,  your  Lord, 
 In  thought,  in  word,  in  deed ; 
 Giving  good  ear  to  my  record, 
 Who  am  your  living   'I-rd 
 8  O  may  thy  Spirit  and  thy  Word 
 Us  fill,  for  we  are  thine ; 
 That  we,  thy  temples,  may,  O  Lord, 
 In  holy  beauties  fhine. 
 o  Our  fpirits  pant,  hence  to  remove, 
 Still  to  be  more  folemn, 
 To  join  thy  citizens  above, 
 In  New  Jerufalem. 
 
 10  Lo  thou,  the  Lamb,  in  midfl  of  them> 
 
 The  glorious  Lord  dofl  reign  j 
 All  glory  to  thy  holy  name, 
 For  thou  for  us  waft  flain. 
 
 1 1  Thou  art  indeed  our  Lord  and  King, 
 
 Our  Advocate  and  Head ; 
 From  flavery  bafe  thou  didft  us  bring, 
 And  raife  us  up  when  dead. 
 
 1 2  Our  bodies  are  thy  members,  lo, 
 
 Thy  Spirit  is  the  foul ; 
 From  him  let  all  our  motions  flow ; 
 Let  him  poffefs  us  whole. 
 
 1 3  Our  fpirits  join'd  in  union  fweet, 
 
 O  Lord,  are  one  with  thine ; 
 In  burning  raptures  let  them  meet, 
 Till  ours  grow  all  divine. 
 
 CLXIIL 
 
248         God's  Word  and  Spirit  our  Treafure. 
 
 CLXIII.  We  have  this  Treafure  in  Earthen  Veffeh. 
 2  Cor.  iv.  7. 
 
 THY  Word,  O  Lord's  my  treafure, 
 O  fend  it  in  full  meafure, 
 Into  my  heart  with  pleafure, 
 
 And  caufe  it  to  abide ; 
 While  it  is  there  abiding, 
 My  foot  is  free  from  Aiding, 
 My  confcience  free  from  chiding, 
 My  God  is  on  my  fide. 
 
 2  O  never,  never  leave  me, 
 For  Satan  fain  would  have  me, 
 And  fpecioufly  deceive  me, 
 
 "With  words  of  fubtile  guile  5 
 But  thro'  thy  Word  and  favour, 
 My  glory,  and  my  Saviour, 
 *    Direft  thou  my  behaviour, 
 And  on  my  fpirit  fmile. 
 
 3  While  thou  art  on  me  fmiling, 
 Tho'  Satan  be  beguiling, 
 And  horribly  reviling, 
 
 He  cannot  move  my  mind. 
 Thy  Spirit  move  me  wholly, 
 And  purge  away  my  folly; 
 Thy  Spirit's  wife  and  holy, 
 
 Thy  Spirit's  good  and  kind. 
 
 4  Thy  Spirit  is  my  portion,  \ 
 Thy  holy  Word  enforcing, 
 
 Still  caufing  me  abhor  fin ; 
 
 Thy  Spirit  is  my  praife. 
 Thy  Spirit  I  delight  in, 
 Thy  perfeft  love  inditing, 
 
 And 
 
From  Glory  to  Glory.  249 
 
 And  forwardly  inciting 
 
 My  fpirit  in  thy  ways. 
 My  fpirit,  don't  rebel,  now ; 
 But  every  Iuft  repel  thou, 
 And  never  more  to  hell  bow ; 
 
 Thy  God  poffefling  thee ; 
 Since  he  is  in  thee  dwelling, 
 Let  every  motion  fwelling, 
 And  flefhly  thought  rebelling, 
 
 Before  his  prefence  flee. 
 But  thus  tho'  I  refolve  it, 
 And  in  my  mind  revolve  it, 
 On  God  I  mull  devolve  it; 
 
 The  work  cannot  be  mine ; 
 Then,  God,  conduct  my  motions, 
 My  Spirit,  and  my  notions, 
 My  practice,  and  devotions ; 
 
 For  all  the  power  is  thine. 
 
 CLXIV.  Changed  into  the  fame  Image  from  Glory  to 
 Glory.  2  Cor.  iii.  18. 
 
 SINCE  God  his  glory  hath  difplayed, 
 And  thou,  my  foul,  had  now  furveyed, 
 'Tis  meet  for  thee  to  pafs  from  talking, 
 And  to  betake  thyfelf  to  walking ; 
 According  as  he  hath  declared, 
 The  way  wherein  his  love  is  fliared. 
 If  thou  be  fervent  found,  and  humble, 
 He  will  not  fuller  thee  to  (tumble; 
 
 :  Then  like  a  pilgrim  going  to  Zion, 
 His  holy  beauties  keep  thine  eye  on ; 
 Abftaining  flill  from  flefhly-pleafures, 
 That  fo  thou  maveft  poifefs  his  treafures, 
 
 li  His 
 
250  No  Sin,  no  Saviour. 
 
 His  treafures  of  celeftial  bleffings; 
 How  high  above  thy  highefl  wifhings  f 
 For  none  of  him  fhall  be  approved, 
 Save  thofe  who  by  his  love  are  moved. 
 
 3  But  they  fhall  fing  with  his  redeemed, 
 Of  whom  his  love  is  much  efteemed ; 
 The  mutual  loves  between  them  glowing 
 From  him  do  flow,  to  him  re-flowing; 
 His  love  their  Spirit  all  pervadeth, 
 And  they  obey  as  love  perfuadeth. 
 
 His  love's  the  element  they  live  in, 
 The  very  heaven  of  their  heaven. 
 
 4  Thy  God,  my  foul,  is  in  the  prefent ; 
 
 How  fweet  his  love !  how  fweet !  and  pleafant  i 
 O  do  not  thou  reject  his  motions  ;• 
 But  cleave  to  him  with  warm  devotions. 
 Thy  God,  on  thee  fuperincumbent, 
 Defer ves  that  thou  fhould  be  for  him  bent. 
 Lo,  he  effe&eth  all  he  pleafeth  ; 
 And  to  himfelf  me  all  compreffeth. 
 
 CLXV.  They  that  are  Whole  need  not  a  Phyftcian,  but 
 they  that  areJtcL   Mat.  ix.  1 2. 
 
 YE  fools,  and  flow  of  heart  to  know, 
 O  when  will  you  be  wife  ? 
 And  chearfully  with  God  comply, 
 Leaving  pernicious  lies  ? 
 
 2  Do  you  fuppofe,  that  you  are  thofe, 
 Who  are  without  your  fin  ? 
 And  therefore  blame  God's  Holy  Lamb 
 For  eating  with  th'  unclean  i 
 
 3  They 
 
The  Go/pel  to  every  Creature.  251 
 
 3  They  who  be  found  without  a  wound, 
 
 Phyfician  need  they  none ; 
 But  only  thofe  who  have  their  woes, 
 Do  need  the  help  of  one, 
 
 4  I  came  not  here  to  interfere 
 
 With  any  that  are  good ; 
 You're  finners  all !  finners  I  call ; 
 And  turn  them  to  their  God. 
 
 CLXVI.  Come  to  me,  all  ye  that  labour.  Mat.  xi.  28-— 
 
 COME  all  to  me,  behold,  and  fee, 
 I  make  you  welcome  all, 
 Who  fad  and  heavy  laden  be, 
 Under  your  wroful  fall. 
 
 2  I  hear  your  groans,  and  weary  moans, 
 
 Scrambling  about  the  grave  ; 
 Scrambling  for  life  with  hopelefs  ft  rife. 
 Which  there  you  cannot  have. 
 
 3  Your  eager  luft,  among  the  dull:, 
 
 Will  never  find  its  fill ; 
 But  if  you  lift  among  the  juft, 
 To  lhine  on  Zion-hill ; 
 
 4  To  me  give  ear,  and  live,  who  hear, 
 
 Believe,  and  faved  be  ; 
 For  lo,  1  fwear,  you  need  not  fear, 
 You  fhall  have  reft  in  me. 
 
 5  Take  you  my  yoke  upon  your  neck, 
 
 And  meekly  learn  of  me ; 
 For  I  am  lowly,  kind,  and  meek : 
 From  gall  my  heart  is  free. 
 
 6  Come  therefore  roll  on  me  your  foul, 
 
 And  reft  you  in  my  love ; 
 
 '  I  i  2  My 
 
252     God  the  only  Light  and  flay  of  his  Saints. 
 
 My  yoke  is  eafe,  my  burdens  pleafe ; 
 I'm  gentle  as  a  dove. 
 
 CLXVII.  Who  is  among  you  that  feareth  the  Lord,  &.c. 
 Ifa.  1.  10,  11. 
 
 LET  all  the  people  fland  around; 
 Jehovah  calls  you  man  by  man, 
 Among  you  all  who  is  there  found 
 
 Obedient  to  my  holy  One  ? 
 Who  knows,  and  loves,  and  fears  his  God, 
 
 Sees  him  his  guide  and  nothing  more, 
 His  God  will  {hew  him  his  abode ; 
 Tho'  all  the  powers  of  darknefs  roar. 
 
 2  The  dangers  threatening  in  his  way, 
 
 Shall  pafs  away  like  fhades  of  night  ; 
 For  God  will  fend  the  joyful  day, 
 
 And  change  his  darknefs  into  light. 
 Trufl  therefore,  in  Jehovah  truft ; 
 
 Jehovah  cannot  make  a  lie ; 
 Jehovah's  Faithful,  True,  and  Jufl ;    - 
 
 To  fave  his  fervants  ever  nigh. 
 
 3  Behold,  all  ye  that  kindle  up 
 
 Your  fires,  impatient  of  the  Lord, 
 Becaufe  you  have  no  faith  nor  hope, 
 
 To  wait  for  his  enlightening  word, 
 Walk  in  the  light  of  your  own  fire, 
 
 And  let  the  fparks  about  you  fly; 
 But  this  from  me  fhall  be  your  hire, 
 
 On  forrow's  bed  you  down  (hall  ly. 
 
 CLXVIII.   Now  David /aid- — -fo  flail  I  efcape- — - 
 1  Sam.  xxvii.  1. 
 OW  David  faid  within  his  heart, 
 One  day  I  perifh  (hall, 
 
 N 
 
David's  ajfured  Confidence  our  Example,       25; 
 
 If  I  remain  in  any  part 
 
 Of  Ifrael  at  all. 
 For  Saul  hath  made  a  bloody  vow, 
 
 To  hunt  the  hill  and  dale ; 
 And  drive  my  foul  with  fword  and  bow, 
 
 Down  to  the  gates  of  hell. 
 
 And  how  can  I  lift  up  my  fword. 
 
 To  'fend  me,  or  aflault, 
 Againft  th'  anointed  of  the  Lord, 
 
 To  do  a  grievous  fault  j 
 
 Then  let  me  flee  into  the  land, 
 
 (No  other  way  remains,) 
 Of  the  tmcircumcifed  band, 
 
 Till  God  my  caufe  revenge. 
 
 So  fhall  I  lhun  the  hand  of  Saul, 
 
 Being  guiltlefs  of  his  blood ; 
 Till  his  own  lot  upon  him  fall, 
 
 Sent  by  the  hand  of  God. 
 Thus,  David,  mighty  prince  of  old, 
 
 Upon  his  God  rely'd ; 
 By  his  example  be  thou  bold, 
 
 And  in  thy  God  confide. 
 
 CLXIX.  Behold  thy  Mother.  Mark  jii.  32. 
 
 THY  mother,  and  thy  brethren,  fee, 
 O  Jefus,  want  to  fpeak  with  thee. 
 My  mother,  and  my  brethren,  who, 
 O  who  are  thefe  ?  I  want  to  know  ;  " 
 Behold,  my  difciples  around, 
 In  whom  my  word  hath  accefs  found ; 
 You,  I  acknowledge  for  my  brother, 
 And  greet  you  well,  filter,  and  mother. 
 
 2  For- 
 
254      7ac°b  deceived  no  Example  for  us  to  follow, 
 
 2  For  whofoever  fhall  fulfil, 
 
 What  is  my  heavenly  Father's  will, 
 The  fame  a  brother  is  to  me ; 
 I  glory  in  the  near  degree ; 
 Yea,  mother,  lifter,  all  in  one, 
 To  reign  with  me  upon  my  throne; 
 Kindred  I  claim  in  all  degrees, 
 With  thofe  who  do  my  Father  pleafe. 
 
 CLXX.  AH  thefe  things  againjl  me.  Gen.  xlii,  36. 
 
 OW  AST  thou  not  deceived  much, 
 Jacob  ?  when  thou  believedft  fuch 
 Were  thy  diftrelTes  round  about, 
 That  every  forrow  found  thee  out ; 
 And  was  againft  thee  raging  fet, 
 That  thou  might  be  engaging  it; 
 And  made  thee  cry,  "  They're  all,  they're  all 
 Againft  me  fet  for  my  downfall !" 
 
 2  Didft  thou  continue  the  fame  tune, 
 When  thou  had  feen  that  all  was  done 
 According  to  the  wife  decree ; 
 
 For  thy  own  life,  and  thofe  with  thee  ? 
 Yea,  thefe  were  links  in  that  fame  chain, 
 That  brought  redemption  unto  men; 
 As  thou  haft  owned  in  thy  fong 
 "  O  thy  falvation,  Lord,  how  long !" 
 
 3  Beware  then,  Chriftian,  to  pretend, 
 If  thou  falvation  would  defend, 
 That  Jacob  was  a  pattern,  then, 
 For  thee  to  join,  and  fay  Amen  ; 
 What!  imitate  the  flefhly  part ! 
 And  call  the  fame  a  holy  heart ! 
 Away,  away,  you  might  as  foon 
 Go  make  a  lie,  as  he  had  done ! 
 
 CLXXI. 
 
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 CLXXL  The  Word  of  God  is  quick  and  powerful. 
 Heb.  iv.  12. 
 
 THY  Word  moil  powerful  is,  O  Lord, 
 No  ftrength  can  it  withftand ; 
 And  fharp  as  any  piercing  fword, 
 Being  wielded  by  thy  hand. 
 1  The  thoughts  that  in  my  heart  ly  hid, 
 From  all  the, world  abroad, 
 To  view  thereby  are  opened  wide, 
 Keenly  difcern'd  of  God. 
 
 3  All  creatures  manifefted  ly, 
 
 O  God,  unto  thy  view, 
 Naked  and  bare  before  thine  eye, 
 With  whom  we  have  to  do. 
 
 4  'Twas  thy  incarnate  Word,  O  God", 
 
 Thy  Word  to  us  did  give, 
 
 Which  many  publifhed  abroad, 
 
 That  we  in  him  may  live. 
 
 5  'Tis  by  thy  Spirit  in  thy  Word, 
 
 O  Chrift,  we  hope  in  thee, 
 That  thou  wilt  ftrength  and  joy  afford ; 
 And  make  our  forrows  flee. 
 
 6  So  we'll  before  thy  prefence  come. 
 
 With  humble  confidence; 
 While  fown  in  us,  thy  Word  mall  bloom, 
 To  fair  obedience. 
 
 CLXXIL  0  Lord,  I  will  praife  thee.  Ifaiah  xii.  chapter, 
 
 NOW  is  the  day  of  gofpel-grace, 
 Sing  praifes  to  the  God  of  peace  j 
 Altho'  thou  angry  waft  with  me, 
 Thine  anger  turn'd  away  I  fee. 
 
 My 
 
256  Jehovah  my  Salvation  and  Song. 
 
 My  comfort,  lo,  is  in  tfry  Word, 
 Beholding  thy  falvation,  Lord, 
 I'll  therefore  firmly  truft  in  thee, 
 And  never  more  will  fearful  be. 
 
 2  My  flrength  is  in  Jehovah  ftrong, 
 Jehovah  now  is  all  my  fong. 
 Hofanna  to  Jehovah's  name; 
 Hofanna  heaven  and  earth  proclaim. 
 With  joy  and  peace  therefore  ye  (hall 
 
 Draw  water  from  this  living  well, 
 While  ye  exalt  your  praife,  and  fall 
 Lowly  to  him,  O  Ifrael. 
 
 3  Declare  abroad  his  doings,  then, 
 His  mercies  to  the  fons  of  men, 
 'Till  all  the  ikies  re-echo  round 
 His  mercies  to  their  outmoil  bound. 
 Shout  loud,  O  ye  in  Zion  that  dwell, 
 Cry,  "  Great's  the  >God  of  Ifrael. 
 
 "  Thy  Holy  One  behold,  and  fee, 
 "  Immanuel  dwells  in  midft  of  thee." 
 
 CLXXIII.  Behold  the  King Ifaiah  xxxii.  1-5. 
 
 BEHOLD  the  King,  ye  nations  fing, 
 Shall  reign  in  righteoufnefs, 
 Whofe  princes  fhall,  around  him  all, 
 
 Govern  with  uprightnefs. 
 This  Holy  One,  this  Corner-ftone, 
 This  Man  of  God's  right-hand, 
 When  winds  fhall  blow  tempefts  below, 
 
 An  hiding-place  (hall  (land  j 
 Amidfl  the  rains,  which  fcourge  the  plains, 
 A  tower  of  fafe  retreat  j 
 
 A  co- 
 
^efus  the  King  and  his  Apoftles  his  Princes,     257 
 
 A  covert  from  the  raging  ftorra, 
 When  angry  Wafts  do  beat. 
 
 4  As  water-ftreams  in  thirfty  climes, 
 
 Where  panting  pilgrims  ly, 
 Becaufe  they  find  no  fountain  kind, 
 Their  fcbrchings  to  fupply ; 
 
 5  But  if  they  fpy  a  river  nigh, 
 
 Their  foul  returns  again; 
 Their  forrows  they  n'ow  fling  away, 
 And  run  to  drink  amain  : 
 
 6  So,  even  fo,  behold  him,  \ot 
 
 A  ftream  for  thirfty  foul; 
 Your  drought  to  cool,  drink  to  the  full, 
 And  drink  without  control. 
 
 7  If  wearinefs  fhould  much  opprefs, 
 
 Beneath  the  fultry  fun, 
 Lift  up,  and  look,  behold  a  rock, 
 Beneath  the  fame  to  run. 
 
 8  His  fhadow  fills,  from  hills  to  hills, 
 
 The  vales  of  wearinefs ; 
 His  ftretching  wings  he  round  you  brings, 
 And  makes  you  dwell  in  peace. 
 
 9  Whofe  eyes  were  dim,  on  feeing  him, 
 
 No  more  fhall  dimnefs  know ; 
 And  lo,  the  ear  of  thofe  who  hear 
 Shall  keener,  keener  grow. 
 
 10  Knowledge  fhall  flafli  upon  the  raih; 
 
 And  men  of  ftammering  heart, 
 And  ftammering  fpeech,   (hall  wifdom  teach  ; 
 And-fools  become  alert. 
 
 K  k  CLXXIV, 
 
2jS     Chrljl  the  End  of  the  Law  for  Righteoufnefs. 
 
 CLXXIV.  Chrift  is  the  End  of  the  Law  for  Righteoufnefs. 
 
 Rom.  xr  4. 
 
 rpHE  power,  and  the  glory,  dominion,  and  praMe, 
 A     Afcribe  ye  to  Jefus,  the  King ; 
 Salvation,  and  bleffing,  in  loftieft  lays, 
 With  high  alleluias,  fing. 
 
 2  Tho'  mining  in  glory,  in  fubftance,  and  power, 
 
 The  fame  with  the  Father  and  one, 
 The  form  of  his  Godhead  he  cafl  a  vail  o'er, 
 And  humbled  himfelf  to  a  man. 
 
 3  He  thought  it  no  robbery  to  be  equal  with  God, 
 
 God  eternally  bleifed  o'er  all ; 
 Nor  thought  it  too  low,  to  aiTume  flefli  and  bloody 
 In  the  form  of  a  fervant  to  fall. 
 
 4  He  opened  his  mouth  and  explained  the  law, 
 
 Impartially  [hewing  the  truth ; 
 From  falfhood  and  ruin  that  we  may  withdraw. 
 And  cleave  to  the  words  of  his  mouth. 
 
 5  The  law  in  the  fpirit  thereof  he  fulfilled, 
 
 Fulfilled  it  in  his  own  blood ; 
 That  our  guilty  blood  might  efcape  being  fpilled, 
 And  be  dear  in  the  light  of  our  God. 
 
 6  Now  having  acceptance  thro'  what  we  believe, 
 
 Being  led  by  his  Spirit  of  love, 
 His  kingdom  of  protnife  we  furely  fhall  have ; 
 For  therefore  he  reigneth  above. 
 
 CLXXV.  The  Work  of  Righteoufnefs  Peace,  and  the  Ef- 
 feci  Ouietnefs  and  Affurance  for  ever.  Ifaiah.  xxxii.  17, 
 
 THE  Righteoufnefs  ordain'd  of  God, 
 Was  wrought  by  Chrift  the  Lordf 
 This  work  he  finifli'd  in  his  blood  ; 
 Declares  he  in  his  Word. 
 
 t  This 
 
 
 
Righteoufnefs  and  Peace.  .    259 
 
 This  Righteoufnefs  by  faith  who  know, 
 
 Are  faved  from  their  fin ; 
 Becaufe  the  will  of  God  is  fo ; 
 
 Great  peace  they  have  within. 
 
 Lo,  Righteoufnefs  with  peace  abound, 
 
 And  flow  to  us  abroad, 
 As  rivers  from  the  mountains  round, 
 
 The  city  of  our  God. 
 
 No  foe  (hall  fpoil  our  dwelling  place, 
 
 Our  habitations  fure ; 
 Since  everlafling  love  and  grace, 
 
 Our  refuge  do  endure. 
 Becaufe  the  mighty  Lord  of  power, 
 
 On  Zion-hill  doth  dwell ; 
 Her  citizens  are  kept  fecure, 
 
 From  power  of  death  or  hell. 
 O  what  a  fafety  this  is  found, 
 
 For  heirs  of  death  and  hell ! 
 We  might  by  juftice  have  been  bound, 
 
 Under  fierce  wrath  to  wail. 
 
 But  God  his  fovereign  love  fo  free, 
 
 On  us  hath  poured  down, 
 According  to  his  wife  decree, 
 
 In  his  beloved  Son. 
 Now  may  thy  Holy  Spirit,  Lord, 
 
 Direct  our  motions  all, 
 According  to  thy  faithful  Word ; 
 
 And  we  fhall  never  fall. 
 Eftablifh'd  in  thy  righteoufnefs, 
 
 By  faith,  our  God,  we  cry, 
 For  full  and  perfect  bleifednefs, 
 
 Within  thy  houfe  on  high  ; 
 
 Kk2  io  Where 
 
26o  BEE  R-L  AHA  I-R  0  I. 
 
 10  Where  fin,  and  death  no  more  annoy 
 Upon  thy  holy  hill ; 
 But  overflowing  love  and  joy, 
 The  dwellers  there  do  fill. 
 
 CLXXVI.    The   Well  was  called  Beer-lahai-roi. 
 Gen.  xvi.  14. 
 
 BEEJr  lahai-roi's  my  fountain! 
 Tg    -suing  Godfee-eth  me  here  / 
 Tho'  n^y  at  the  foot  of  the  mountain^ 
 On  the  top  I  {hall  quickly  appear ! 
 
 2  A  moment,  till  he  pleafe  to  call  me. 
 
 And  then  I  am  with  him  anon ; 
 What  is  it  that  needeth  apall  me  ? 
 Being  to  dwell  with  Jehovah  fo  foon. 
 
 3  Tho'  irons  and  {hackles  fliould  fqueeze  me. 
 
 Need  I  be  oblig'd  to  look  brown  ? 
 Since  Jehovah,  the  living  God,  fees  me ; 
 And  is  fitting  my  head  for  my  crown. 
 
 4  Tho1  banifh'd,  like  John,  to  an  ifland. 
 
 Where  never  a  one  were  befide, 
 Jehovah  would  fee  his  exile,  and, 
 Jehovah  would  with  me  abide. 
 
 5  I  lately  was  found  in  a  defart, 
 
 Like  a  chicken  forfook  of  the  wing  ; 
 Jehovah  perceiving  my  hazard, 
 His  mantle  about  me  did  fling; 
 
 6  My  fpirit  was  thirfty  and  fcorched, 
 
 Being  flung  with  the  ferpents  were  there ; 
 When  the  power  of  Jehovah  approached, 
 I  forgot  them  that  ever  they  were. 
 
 7  He  filled  me  full  of  his  glory, 
 
 And  quite  overwhelmed  me  then  ; 
 
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What  tho'  you  gain  the  World,  if  you  lofe  your  Soul  261 
 
 I'll  adore  him  while  green,  and  when  hoary ! 
 Adore  him,  ye  children  of  men. 
 
 8  His  Spirit's  a  fountain  of  rapture, 
 
 Still  fpringing  and  flowing  thro'  mine; 
 The  more  that  I  drink  I'm  the  apter 
 To  drink  of  his  Spirit  divine. 
 
 9  The  choicer!:  of  wines  are  but  wormwood, 
 
 Compar'd  to  this  heavenly  joy, 
 Which  Jehovah  to  me  hath  confirmed ; 
 Come  drink,  all  ye  faints,  to  n.y  foy, 
 
 10  I  am  going  to  death's  narrow  wicket, 
 
 At  the  end  of  this  valley  of  tears ; 
 Where  Jehovah  himfelf  will  up-break  it, 
 And  there  put  an  end  to  my  fears. 
 
 CLXXV1I.  What  is  a  Man  profited- Mat.  xvi.  2  6. 
 
 IN  all  the  pride  of  earthly  glory, 
 What,  my  foul,  tho'  you  mould  fliine ; 
 Tho'  all  the  world  mould  ly  before  ye, 
 And  you  could  call  its  kingdoms  thine ; 
 
 2  Pray,  tell  me,  what  you  would  make  of  it, 
 
 If  fo  you  were  to  lofe  yourfelf  ? 
 Would  not  the  lofs  confume  the  profit, 
 Of  ten  thoufand  worlds'  pelf? 
 
 3  What  mighty  ranfom  would  you  offer, 
 
 To  redeem  the  precious  jewel  ? 
 Or  hidden  treafure,  in  what  coffer, 
 Would  countervail  your  lofs  fo  cruel  ? 
 
 4  O  then,  my  foul,  beware  of  ftraying, 
 
 From  the  pure  and  bleffed  path ; 
 Each  ftep  afide  is  the  betraying, 
 Qi  yourfelf  to  lofs  and  death. 
 
262  The  Salt  of  the  Earth, 
 
 5  Take  heed,  left  Satan,  foul  deceiver ! 
 
 Cheat  you  with  a  fpecious  lie ; 
 And  make  yourfelf  the  poor  receiver 
 Of  a  bribe,  that  you  may  die. 
 
 6  But  commit  your  way  to  Jefus, 
 
 Lean  not  to  your  own  device ; 
 For  Jefus  gave  his  blood  to  fave  us ; 
 God  accepted  of  the  price. 
 
 7  What  man  foev^  him  denieth, 
 
 Jefus  him  dentil  again  j 
 But  who's  the  man  to  him  complieth  ? 
 Jefus  doth  by  him  remain. 
 
 8  Yea,  whofoever  for  the  prefent, 
 
 Refifts  to  death,  in  godly  ftrife, 
 Shall  be  receiv'd  into  the  pleafant 
 Fields  of  everlafting  life. 
 o  Behold,  he  cometh  in  the  clouds  of 
 Heaven,  to  give  a  jufl  reward, 
 To  defperate  atheifts,  who  at  God  feoff, 
 And  his  precepts  difregard. 
 
 io  But  run,  ye  felf-denied,  to  greet  him, 
 For  ye  mail  mine  in  glory  all  j 
 And  ye  who  now  are  bold  to  fpite  him, 
 Fierce  fiery  flames  devour  ye  mail. 
 
 CLXXVIII.  Te  are  the  Salt  of  the  Earth.  Mat.  v.  13. 
 
 "ASTE,  fulfil  the  love  of  God, 
 Throw  the  Salt,  throw  it  abroad  j 
 Spread  it  over  all  the  earth, 
 Let  no  corner  feel  a  dearth. 
 You,  dlfciples,  are  the  Salt, 
 Let  none  perifh  thro'  your  fault; 
 
 All 
 
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The  Salt  of  the  Earth.  26: 
 
 All  the  earth  is  corrupt  grown, 
 Quickly  let  the  fait  be  fown. 
 
 3  Scatter,  fcatter  every  where, 
 Preach  the  gofpel,  do  not  fpare ; 
 All  ordained  to  believe, 
 
 Shall  eternal  mercy  have ; 
 
 4  Yea  now,  fill'd  with  peace  and  joy, 
 No  corruption  (hall  deftroy  ; 
 Being  faked  by  your  word, 
 They  are  favoury  to  the  Lord, 
 
 5  Let  all  your  converfation  tell, 
 You  with  fait  are  feafoned  well, 
 Good  for  edifying  men, 
 
 Full  of  grace  that  fhail  remain. 
 
 6  For  if  fait  be  faldefs  grown, 
 What  to  fait  it  is  there  known  ? 
 It  is  good  for  nothing  more, 
 And  men  throw  it  to  the  door : 
 
 7  Trodden  under  foot  it  lies, 
 Yielding  not  the  leafh  fupplies, 
 To  the  dunghill  where  it  rots, 
 Here  and  there,  in  hateful  fpots ; 
 
 8  So  the  cafe  is  parallel, 
 If  difciples  mall  rebel ; 
 
 They  draw  back  unto  perdition ; 
 Worfe  their  laft,  than  firft  condition. 
 
 CLXXIX.  For  Zlorfs  Sake  will  I  not  hold  my  Peace. 
 Ifaiah  lxii.  1. 
 
 ZION,  now  rejoice  and  fing, 
 Joyful  news  to  you  I  bring ; 
 Your  King  hath  all  your  foes  o'erthrown, 
 And  love  to  all  your  lovers  ihown ; 
 
2^4  7°y  to  z'iofi* 
 
 No  deflroyer  more  mall  come, 
 Within  thy  borders  to  confume ; 
 No  hoftile  banners  more  fhall  fly, 
 Nor  warlike  hofts  againfl  thee  cry. 
 
 2  Your  own.  ImmanuePs  love  mall  Hand, 
 A  wall  of  fire  around  his  land ; 
 
 For  I,  Immanuel,  love  you  well, 
 And  make  you  in  my  love  to  dwell ; 
 When  nothing  was  in  you  to  move 
 My  free,  my  full,  eternal  love, 
 I  to  myfelf  did  you  efpoufe ; 
 So  you  are  mine,  and  I  am  yours. 
 
 3  O  thou  my  lov'd,  my  chofen  land, 
 Planted  by  my  Almighty  hand, 
 Thy  bloffoms  of  unfading  grace, 
 Shall  flourifh  in  my  holy  place; 
 Beneath  my  fructifying  beams ; 
 For  o'er  thee  all  my  glory  gleams, 
 Pouring  light  and  life  abroad, 
 O'er  all  the  land  belov'd  of  God. 
 
 4  In  thee,  in  thee,  we  do  rejoice, 
 
 For  we  do  know  our  Bridegroom's  voice, 
 "Who  hath  for  us  falvation  wrought, 
 And  righteoufnefs  eternal  brought ; 
 The  love  of  God  do  ye  proclaim, 
 All  people,  fpread  abroad  his  fame, 
 Of  every  nation,  kindred,  tongue, 
 Exalt  above  the  heavens  your  fong. 
 
 5  Rejoice  in  him  for  evermore, 
 Who  doth  rejoice  on  us  to  pour 
 The  ftreams  of  his  unbounded  love, 
 Which  fills  all  paradife  above. 
 
 Ye  faints,  and  angels,  high  in  place, 
 Who  fwim  in  oceans  of  his  grace, 
 
 In 
 
Chrijl  the  Spiritual  Rock.  265 
 
 In  fangs  eternal  do  ye  raife, 
 
 Our  God  and  our  Redeemer's  praife. 
 
 CLXXX.  They  drank  of  that  Spiritual  Rock.  1  Cor.  x.  4 
 
 IN  Jefus  Chrifl:  alone  doth  dwell, 
 The  fountain  of  all  grace ; 
 O  come  ye  to  the  flowing  well, 
 Of  everlafling  peace. 
 
 2  I  come,  I  come,  for  why  fliould  I 
 
 Confume  my  foul  away, 
 In  waiting  upon  fountains  dry, 
 Till  living  waters  play? 
 
 3  Fof  thro'  this  wildernefs  below, 
 
 I  go  from  rock  to  reck ; 
 Expecting  till  the  waters  flow, 
 Which  (till  my  patience  mock. 
 
 4  But  Jefus  is  the  Rock  of  God, 
 
 Deep-fmitten  by  his  hand, 
 Whofe  waters  gufliing  all  abroad, 
 Refrefli  the  weary  land. 
 
 5  The  cooling  draughts  my  foul  infpire, 
 
 With  life  before  unknown  ; 
 Save  them  alone  I  do  defire, 
 To  call  nothing  my  own. 
 
 6  O  give  me  ftill  to  drink  my  fill, 
 
 While  I  am  drawing  near, 
 Till  1  (hall  fee  thy  holy  hill, 
 And  in  thy  fight  appear. 
 
 7  Then  I  (hall  fhine  in  light  of  thine, 
 
 And  drink  the  chryftal-ftream, 
 Of  joys  that  flow  thy  throne  below; 
 And  2[lory  in  thv  name. 
 
 LI  3  How 
 
266       The  Man  Chrijl  %efus  the  Hiding- fl ace. 
 
 8  How  blefs'd  are  they  who  ftand  alway, 
 Enraptur'd  in  thy  fight ! 
 Nor  ever  turn  afide  to  mourn ; 
 For  there  they  have  no  night. 
 
 CLXXXI.   The   Man  Jhall  be  an  Hiding-place. 
 Ifa.  xxxii.  2. 
 
 BEHOLD  the  man,  of  God  defign'd, 
 His  mercy  to  perform ; 
 An  hiding-place  from  every  wind, 
 A  covert  from  the  dorm. 
 
 As  dreams  of  water  do  refrefh, 
 
 The  parched  weary  earth, 
 He  comes  to  raife  our  faded  flefli, 
 
 And  raife  our  fouls  from  death. 
 
 While  from  the  clouds  the  winds  do  blow, 
 
 And  high  up-raife  the  fand, 
 The  fhadow  of  a  rock  below, 
 
 The  traveller's  fain  to  ftand ; 
 
 So  Chrift's  the  Rock  of  fure  defence, 
 
 Wherein  believers  (lay, 
 And  fafely  place  their  confidence, 
 
 While  unbelievers  ftray. 
 
 Away  with  unbelief,  away, 
 
 Herein  I  fafe  (hall  (land ; 
 And  wait  for  my  redemption-day ; 
 
 Behold  the  fame  at  hand. 
 
 See  how  the  heavens  open  wide, 
 
 And  part  the  gloom  in  twain ; 
 The  Bridegroom  cometh  for  his  bride, 
 
 Come,  even  fo,  Amen. 
 
 CLXXXIL 
 
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The  World,  and  the  Fafhion  thereof.  267 
 
 CLXXXII.  The  Fajhion  of  this  World paffeth  away. 
 1  Cor.  vii.  31. 
 
 ALL  abfolute  puppet-fliow  !  arrant  raree  ! 
 It  were  mad  to  be  uppifh,  O  world,  of  thee; 
 Thy  joy,  all  a  fliadow,  flies  off  with  a  gleam, 
 Like  the  joy  that  a  widow  may  feel  in  a  dream  j 
 She  fees  her  beloved,  the  guide  of  her  youth, 
 Her  fpirit  is  moved,  and  leaps  to  her  mouth; 
 She  imagines  him  living,  and  loving  and  kind, 
 How  fweet,  how  reviving  the  face  of  her  friend ! 
 She  runs  to  embrace  him,  and  grafpeth  the  air ! 
 
 [as  her  fancy  did  trace  him,  and  fancied  him  there; 
 SW wakes  in  confufion,   to  find  in  his  (lead, 
 
 lidnight  illufion ;  and  mourns  for  the  dead. 
 Sc^aou  art  a  nothing,  and  nothing  thy  joys, 
 And  they  all  are  nodding,  who  in  thee  rejoice  ; 
 But  thou  little  naughtinefs,  thou  of  a  world, 
 Shalt  down  from  thy  haughtinefs  quickly  be  hurl'd ; 
 
 And  they  all  along  too  (hall  down  with  thee  go, 
 Who  dance  to  thy  fong,  who  do  moot  in  thy  bow, 
 With  fierce  indignation  be  hotly  purfu'd ; 
 For  a  vaft  inundation  of  vengeance  is  brew'd  ; 
 
 And  thou,  fool  ifh  worldling,  muft  drink  the  dregs  all, 
 For  death  will  come  bold  in,  and  fweep  clean  the  ball ; 
 Yea,  fire  running  liquid  ihall  burn  up  the  place ; 
 Ye  defperately  wicked,  why  fpurn  ye  at  grace  ? 
 
 CLXXXI1I.  Vanity  of  Vanities,  Vanity  of  Vanities, 
 all  Vanity!  Eccl.  i.  2. 
 
 1 
 
 N  days  of  my  vanity,  thought  I  not  good, 
 To  hunt  after  fhadows,  forfaking  my  God  ? 
 
 LI  2 
 
268  Behold,  the  Lord  comet b. 
 
 With  the  fpeed  of  a  roe-buck  to  ruin  I  run, 
 h  the  wings  of  an  eagle  I  flew  from  the  fun. 
 
 2  T  prey'd  upon  carrion,  defpifing  the  Dove  ; 
 
 1  giory'd  in  fhame,  being  afham'd  of  God's  love  ; 
 
 I  fought  after  life  in  the  path-way  of  death ; 
 
 I  dream'd  of  a  heaven  in  the  heart  of  God's  wrath, 
 
 3  At  the  beck  of  the  prince  of  the  power  of  the  air, 
 My  heart  was  allur'd  by  his  fafhions  fo  fair ; 
 Away  at  his  pleafure  he  fpirited  me, 
 Wherever  he  pointed  even  there  I  would  be. 
 
 4  But  blefs'd  be  my  God  who  hath  turn'd  me  again, 
 And  wing'd  me  for  heaven  in  his  glory  to  reign ; 
 I'm  fill'd  now  with  faith,  yea,   peace,   love,   hope, 
 
 and  joy ; 
 My  God  is  my  portion,  his  praife  my  employ. 
 
 CLXXX1V.  Behold,  the  Lord  cometh.  Jude  xiv,  15, 
 
 BEHOLD,  Jehovah  from  on  high, 
 With  thoufands  of  his  faints, 
 Comes  thundering  thro'  the  flaming  iky, 
 
 To  quell  the  boailing  vaunts, 
 Of  each  ungodly  hypocrite, 
 
 Who  trampled  on  his  love; 
 And  therefore  trampled  in  the  pit, 
 
 Their  madnefs  he'll  reprove. 
 2  Like  fmoke  he'll  make  the  mountains  fly, 
 
 Tumultuous  thro'  the  air; 
 The  deeps  below,  the  heavens  on  high, 
 
 Shall  flirink  away  for  fear, 
 JJefore  the  great  tremendous  blaft, 
 
 Which  from  his  trumpet  flows, 
 And  horrid  (naked  death's  dungeon  vail, 
 
 Death's  priibnjrs  to  difclofe. 
 
 3  The 
 
Behold,  the  Lord  cometh.  269 
 
 The  dead  in  Chrift  as  funs  arife, 
 
 And  mount  as  lightening  up ; 
 And  (hine  like  their  Redeemer's  eyes, 
 
 Pure  as  the  diamond  drop ; 
 In  number  as  the  pearly  dew, 
 
 That  fparkles  in  the  ray, 
 When  morning's  womb  has  brought  to  view, 
 
 The  glories  of  the  day. 
 
 Thus  from  the  King  their  fentence  runs, 
 
 Nor  (hall  his  words  be  mov'd ; 
 *  Well  done  !  ye  good  and  faithful  fons, 
 
 *  Your  fervice  is  approv'd  ; 
 "  Come  to  my  Father's  kingdom,  come, 
 
 Nor  ever  thence  remove  ; 
 "  My  Father's  kingdom  is  your  home, 
 
 "  Ye  blelTed  of  his  love." 
 But  lo,  behold,  on  th'  other  hand, 
 
 With  horrors  overfpread, 
 There  (lands  the  black  deje&ed  band, 
 
 The  king  who  fcorned. 
 By  Satan  they  had  been  deceiv'd, 
 
 And  baited  on  his  hook ; 
 And  now  of  hope  they  are  bereav'd, 
 
 Nor  upwards  dare  to  look. 
 
 Their  bodies  rais'd  with  (harne  and  fcorn, 
 
 And  hell  within  their  fouls, 
 Their  foul  and  body,  both  are  borne 
 
 Away  to  burning  coals  ; 
 The  burning  coals  of  flaming  ire, 
 
 Inclofe  them  round  about; 
 And  there  they  drink  the  liquid  fire, 
 
 Nor  ever  drink  it  out. 
 For  thus  their  fentence  from  their  judge, 
 
 I  heard  it  ring  aloud  j 
 
 "  Quickly 
 
£7°         Chrijl  the  Beginning  and  the  End* 
 
 "  Quickly  from  me  away  diflodge, 
 
 "  Accurfed  ye  of  God, 
 "  Into  the  everlafting  flame, 
 
 "  For  Lucifer  prepar'd, 
 "  And  all  his  angels,  drown'd  in  fliame, 
 
 "  With  Lucifer  who  fhar'd." 
 
 CLXXXV.  //  is  done.  I  am  the  Beginning  and  the  End* 
 Rev.  xxi.  6. 
 
 I'M  the  Beginning  and  the  End, 
 The  work  of  love  is  done. 
 My  faints  from  evil  I  defend, 
 And  give  them  each,  a  crown. 
 
 2  My  Father's  purpofe  to  fulfil, 
 
 1  pay'd  their  debt  at  large ; 
 And  left  to  them  my  latter-will, 
 (There,   fee  a  full  difcharge!) 
 
 3  There  is  no  bleffing  in  the  whole, 
 
 But  what  is  fure  to  you  j 
 For  you  are  bleffed  every  foul, 
 Who  hold  the  record  true. 
 
 4  My  Father  charges  to  believe, 
 
 And  hold  them  mod  fecure; 
 And  therefore  I  my  Spirit  give, 
 That  you  may  know  them  fure. 
 
 5  To  fave  you,  withered  leaves,  from  fire 
 
 Of  God's  avenging  wrath, 
 The  Tree  of  life,  I,  bore  his  ire, 
 Which  fcorched  me  to  death. 
 
 6  But  now  I  bloom  in  paradife, 
 
 Diffufmg  life  around ; 
 For  every  branch  in  me  I  blefs ; 
 
 From  me,  your  fruit  is  found. 
 
 7  The 
 
Rifen  with  Chrift.  271 
 
 7  The  gates  of  paradife  before 
 
 Your  face  fhall  open  wide ; 
 And  you  fhall  dwell  for  evermore 
 With  me,  my  chofen  bride. 
 
 8  Amen  unto  the  Lamb  of  God, 
 
 How  glorious  our  Bridegroom ! 
 Who  lov'd  and  wafiVd  us  in  his  blood, 
 And  makes  our  glory  bloom.' 
 
 9  In  his  fweet  fliadow  we  fhall  fit, 
 
 With  raptures  of  delight ; 
 
 Ye  fiends  from  the  infernal  pit, 
 
 Can't  rob  us  of  our  right ! 
 
 CLXXXVI.  If  ye  then  be  Rifen  with  Chrift.  Col.  iii.  1. 
 
 LO,  Chrift  hath  rais'd  us  up  indeed, 
 From  earthly  carnal  things ; 
 Faft  will  we  hold  by  him,  our  Head, 
 And  mount  upon  his  wings. 
 
 2  He  treads  our  en'mies  by  his  power* 
 
 And  fheds  on  us  his  love, 
 That  our  affections  high  may  foar7 
 And  reft  with  God  above. 
 
 3  For  we  to  all  below  the  iky, 
 
 In  Chrift,  our  life,  are  dead ; 
 In  Chrift,  our  life,  we  did  arife, 
 And  live  in  God  indeed. 
 
 4  Our  God  fhall  raife  our  bodies  up, 
 
 According  to  his  Word  ; 
 Then  pafs  away  fhall  faith  and  hope, 
 In  vifion  of  our  Lord. 
 
 5  Thou,  Lord,  didft  breathe  this  living  flame, 
 
 That  in  our  fouls  doth  burn ; 
 
 O  mor# 
 
272  Alpha   and  Omega, 
 
 0  more  and  more  encreafe  the  fame, 
 Till  all  to  flame  we  turn. 
 
 6  Thy  cords  of  everlafting  love, 
 
 Clofe  round  our  fpirits  throw; 
 And  draw  us  up  to  thee  above, 
 From  vanities  below; 
 
 7  And  fill  us  with  th'  immortal  charms, 
 
 Of  thy  fweet  Holy  Dove, 
 While  we,  infolded  in  thy  arms, 
 JJrom  thee  mail  never  move. 
 
 8  But  being  preferved  by  thy  power, 
 
 Until  thy  day,  O  Chrift, 
 Shall  fafe  arrive  upon  the  more, 
 Of  everlafting  reft. 
 
 CLXXXVII.  //  is  done!  I  am  Alpha  and  Omega. 
 Rev.  xxi.  6. 
 
 1A  L  P  H  A  am  and  Omega, 
 Salvation-work,  behold  it  done ; 
 
 1  dy'd,  but  now  I  live,  and  lo, 
 
 My  glory  fills  the  heavenly  throne. 
 
 2  In  me  a  living  fountain  dwells ; 
 
 I  of  the  water  freely  give, 
 "Which  thirft  of  every  foul  repels, 
 Who  do  my  faithful  word  believe. 
 
 3  All  ye  this  life  divine  who  know, 
 
 Are  children  of  my  Father's  love ; 
 Then  hate  their  corrupt  pools  below ; 
 And  largely  drink  with  me  above. 
 
 4  Lo,  from  my  counfel  deep  it  flows ; 
 
 To  you  the  living  waters  ftream, 
 That  bear  away  your  fins  and  woes ; 
 And  make  you  glory  in  ray  name. 
 
 All 
 
Do  all  in  the  Name  of  the  Lord  %efus.         273 
 
 5  AH  earthly  ftores  and  pleafures  fail, 
 
 In  which  the  worldly  ones  do  truft ; 
 They  leave  the  foul  to  mourn  and  wail, 
 And  cry,  "  Alas !  my  hope  is  loft  !" 
 
 6  Ye  heirs  of  God,  his  name  adore, 
 
 Who  you  will  never,  never  leave ; 
 Your  Elder  Brother,  by  his  power, 
 Hath  overcome  death  and  the  grave. 
 
 7  Your  portion  is  a  land  of  reft, 
 
 There  you  fliall  reign  with  me  your  King ; 
 In  paradife  with  me  ihall  feaft, 
 
 On  joys  immortal  there  which  fpring. 
 
 3  No  weeping  there,  nor  fad  complaint, 
 Nor  death,  nor  forrow,  nor  diftrefs ; 
 For  God  is  yours,  no  good  you  want, 
 In  th'  ocean  of  eternal  blifs. 
 
 CLXXXVI1I.  Whatfoeverye  do  in  Word  or  Deed,  do  all 
 in  the  Name  of  the  Lord  fofus.  Col.  iii.  17-25. 
 
 YE  chofen  faithful  faints  of  God, 
 Of  every  rank  or  place, 
 In  Chrift  rejoice,  your  only  good, 
 And  thank  him  for  his  grace. 
 
 2  From  death  he  wholly  did  you  fave, 
 
 Nor  was  it  but  by  halves ; 
 So  you  to  him  muft  wholly  live ; 
 And  no  more  to  yourfelves. 
 
 3  To  Chrift,  the  glorious  husband,  lo, 
 
 In  fpirit  you  are  join'd  ; 
 In  love  and  meek  fubjeclion  bow, 
 Before  your  deareft  friend. 
 
 4  You,  by  the  will  of  God  above, 
 
 Are  children  of  the  light ; 
 
 M  m  Led 
 
274         &°  a^ in  ^e  Name  of  the  Lord  %efus. 
 
 Led  by  the  Spirit  of  his  love, 
 Approve  ye  what  is  right. 
 
 5  You're  bought  by  Chrifl  to  ferve  for  ay, 
 
 In  his  omnifcient  eye ; 
 With  holy  reverence  him  obey ; 
 Your  Lord  do  not  deny. 
 
 6  Behold,  for  you  he  hath  prepar'd 
 
 An  heritage  in  heaven ; 
 God-like  and  glorious,  this  reward 
 To  you  is  freely  given. 
 
 7  Why  didft  thou  favour  us,  O  God, 
 
 Loll  worms,  thy  very  foes  ? 
 Thy  will  was  fo,  thy  mercy  flow'd, 
 On  thy  forlorn  fpoufe ! 
 
 8  God's  fierceft  wrath  for  us  took  place,/ 
 
 On  Jefus  for  a  time ! 
 Now  God  on  us  in  Jefus'  face, 
 
 Eternal  love  doth  mine ! 
 p  O  may  we  pray,  and  watch,  and  may 
 
 Our  lamps  in  brightnefs  burn, 
 As  virgins  waiting  for  the  day, 
 
 Our  Bridegroom  fhall  return. 
 
 io  O  how  we  look  and  long  to  fee, 
 The  glorious  recompence ! 
 Come,  glorious  Lord,  to  us,  and  be 
 Our  great  inheritance ! 
 
 1 1  Jehovah  evermore  fhall  reign, 
 
 And  angels  praife  our  King; 
 But  faints  fhall  fing  a  higher  (train, 
 Than  can  the  angels  fing. 
 
 1 2  They  fing,  "  Our  God  is  holy  flilJ, 
 
 «  He's  Faithful,  Juft,  and  Good ! 
 
 "  Amen !" 
 
Begotten  of  the  Will  of  God.  275 
 
 «  Amen  !"  fay  faints,  "  and  Merciful ! 
 *  For  us  he  fhed  his  blood  !" 
 * 
 CLXXXIX.  Of  his  own  Will  begat  he  as  with  the 
 Word  of  Truth.  James  i.  18. 
 
 ALL  glory  to  my  God  on  high, 
 Who  hath  begotten  me, 
 Unto  a  lively  hope,  by  him 
 Who  dy'd  the  death  for  me. 
 
 2  His  death  proves  life  to  every  one, 
 
 Who  holds  it  true,  that  He, 
 Did  undergo  the  wrath  of  God, 
 Upon  that  curfed  tree. 
 
 3  He  was  the  offering  pure  and  clean, 
 
 Did  fatisfy  my  God  ; 
 For  he  the  wrath  did  bear  alone, 
 When  he  the  wine-prefs  trod. 
 
 4  But  now,  behold  in  heaven  above, 
 
 He  reigns  upon  his  throne ; 
 From  whence  he  fends  his  Spirit  down. 
 To  quicken  all  his  own. 
 
 5  It  was  thy  will,  O  bleifed  God, 
 
 Me  to  beget  again, 
 According  to  thy  word  of  truth  ; 
 That  I  with  thee  may  reign. 
 
 6  Now  being  born  of  my  God, 
 
 Yes,  born  of  him  I  am  ! 
 His  feed  is  fown  into  my  heart, 
 My  heart  like  his  to  frame. 
 
 7  Wherever  he  begins  his  work, 
 
 Even  there  he'll  carry 't  on, 
 Until  he  do  perfect  his  grace, 
 In  glory  on  his  throne. 
 
 Mm  2  s  AifW 
 
2j6  Sojourning  here,  Reft  in  Heaven. 
 
 8  Altho'  ne  dwell  in  heaven  high, 
 And  we  on  earth  below, 
 Yet  is  he  prefent,  God  with  us, 
 Wherever  we  ftiall  go. 
 o  Thro'  fire  and  water  he'll  us  keep  ; 
 Our  Father  loves  us  well ; 
 Tho'  floods  of  fire  fhould   round  us  roar, 
 Within  his  heart  we  dwell ! 
 
 1  'Mi 
 
 CXC.  Here  we  have  no  continuing  City,  but  ivefeek  One 
 to  come,    Heb.  xiii.  14. 
 
 THIS  world  is  not  our  abode  j 
 In  tabernacles  we  fojourn, 
 Towards  the  building  of  our  God, 
 Prepar'd  for  us  by  his  dear  Son. 
 
 2  How  many  foes  do  haunt  this  vale, 
 
 This  weary  land,  this  irkfome  gloom, 
 Where  budding  pleafures  blafted  fail, 
 And  hopes  are  cropt  before  they  bloom ! 
 
 3  Our  light  afflictions  foon  will  end, 
 
 Our  forry  moments  fly  apace ; 
 We  joy  in  hope,  our  faithful  friend, 
 Will  give  the  glorious  fweet  releafe. 
 
 4  When  down  this  earthly  houfe  (hall  fall, 
 
 Diffolv'd,  and  mouldered  into  duft, 
 We  with  our  King  in  glory  fhall, 
 In  chamber  of  his  prefence  reft, 
 
 5  Infinite  wifdom  laid  the  plan, 
 
 And  mercy  built  the  fabric  on ; 
 There  reigns  the  Lamb,  who  once  was  flain, 
 Foundation,  Head,  and  Corner-ftone. 
 
 6  Lo  there  life's  river  broad  doth  ftream, 
 
 Nor  death,  nor  darknefs,  there  can  come, 
 
 For 
 
Rejoice  in  the  Lord  alway>  277 
 
 For  God  our  Father,  and  the  Lamb, 
 Do  light  the  high  eternal  dome. 
 
 7  No  raging  fee  nor  temped  (hall, 
 
 Our  city's  ftrong  foundations  make ; 
 Our  corner-flone  on  them  fliall  fall, 
 And  crufh  them  in  the  burning  lake, 
 3  But  we,  now  built  on  him  by  grace, 
 In  faith,  in  hope,  in  joy,  in  love, 
 Shall  reft  fecure  in  perfect  peace, 
 Unmov'd  as  He  who  reigns  above. 
 
 CXCI.  Rejoice  in  the  Lord  ahvay,  and  again,  I  fay 
 Rejoice.  Phil.  iv.  4. 
 
 "TO  E  JOICE,  ye  faints,  in  Chrift  your  Lord, 
 -i^-  By  whom  the  heavens  and  earth  were  made, 
 Jehovah's  True  Eternal  Word, 
 
 For  ever  in  his  name  be  glad. 
 5  The  fulnefs  of  the  earth  below, 
 
 Sun,  moon,  and  ftars  in  heaven  above, 
 And  feas,  whofe  waves  he  made  to  flow, 
 
 Proclaim  his  glory  and  his  love. 
 
 3  Govern'd  are  they,  upheld,  and  mov'd, 
 
 By  Zion's  great  Almighty  King  ; 
 Rejoice  in  him,  his  children  lov'd, 
 And  of  his  tender  mercies  fing. 
 
 4  Lo,  all  in  Adam  fmn'd  and  dy'd, 
 
 The  figure  of  our  Living  Head  ; 
 But  fovereign  grace  is  magnify'd, 
 In  quickening  of  his  elect  feed. 
 
 5  Tho'  you,  by  Adam's  one  offence, 
 
 Were  juflly  doom'd  to  endlefs  pain; 
 Rejoice,  thro'  drift's  obedience, 
 Grace  to  eternal  life  doth  reign. 
 
 6  For 
 
27^  Rejoice  in  the  Lord  alway. 
 
 6  For  payment  ye  no  more  are  fold, 
 
 For  Chrift  the  law  did  magnify ; 
 This  Lamb  was  flain,  his  blood,  behold, 
 For  ever  pleads  your  liberty. 
 
 7  Triumph,  your  King  exalted  reigns ; 
 
 All  power  in  heaven  and  earth  is  his ; 
 Jehovah's  whole  perfection  mines, 
 ExprefTed  bright  in  Jems'  face  ! 
 
 8  Rejoice  in  bearing  now  the  crofs;  ► 
 
 Your  pattern  he  did  fo  ordain, 
 And  bore  it  firft,  tho'  Lord  of  hofts, 
 Your  crown  of  glory  to  obtain. 
 
 9  Altho'  you  be  the  world's  fong, 
 
 As  evil  they  call  out  your  name ; 
 Rejoice,  your  name  is  found  among 
 The  living  in  Jerufalem. 
 io  Thro'  fire  he'll  purge  you  from  your  drofs; 
 Thro'  floods  his  hand  (hall  you  maintain ; 
 Nor  life,  nor  death,  can  be  your  lofs ; 
 For  Chrift  is  your  immortal  gain. 
 
 1 1  Behold,  he  comes,  the  Morning  Star, 
 
 Firft-born  of  all  his  elecl:  ones ; 
 His  brightnefs  fee,  out-fhining  far, 
 Ten  thoufand  thoufand  flaming  funs, 
 
 1 2  His  angels  ftrong  in  raptures  burn ; 
 
 They  bring  his  faints  home  at  his  word : 
 Then,  cloath'd  with  flume,  the  wicked  mourn  : 
 Then,  ye  are  faihion'd  like  your  Lord. 
 
 1 3  Lo,  down  to  utter  darknefs,  then, 
 
 His  foes  by  his  great  power  are  thruft ; 
 Ye  to  their  doom  mail  fay  Amen, 
 Rejoicing  in  his  judgment  juft. 
 
 14  Lo 
 
Dialogue  between  a  Loft  Soul  and  the  Tormentors.  279 
 
 14  Lo  we,  redeem'd  from  fin  and  fhame, 
 
 All  fpotlefs  in  his  tent  divine, 
 Circling  in  vifion  of  the  Lamb, 
 Round  all  eternity  fhall  fliine. 
 
 1 5  Our  King  hath  conquered  death  and  hell ; 
 
 No  evil  now  can  us  befal. 
 Within  his  palace  fair  we  dwell, 
 Where  God  himfelf  is  all  in  all. 
 
 16  The  fin  and  darknefs  pad  away, 
 
 Jehovah  never  more  fhall  frown ; 
 Jehovah's  our  eternal  day ; 
 
 The  Lamb  is  our  eternal  fun. 
 lj  Triumph  in  God,  and  praifes  fing, 
 
 To  him  in  whom  we  are  approved. 
 While  God  omnipotent  doth  reign, 
 
 His  faints  fhall  never  be  remov'd. 
 
 CXCII.  His  Lord  delivered  him  to  the  Tormentors. 
 Mat.  xviii.  34. 
 
 L.  S.    AND  have  ye  got  me  here,  a  damned  ghoft, 
 
 -£~x  In  an  eternity  of  wrath  compleatly  loft  ? 
 Torm.  Yes ;  here  we've  got  thee,  in  the  devil's  fangs, 
 Big  heavy  labouring  with  the  wrath  of  God : 
 
 No  midwife  mercy  here,  to  eafe  thy  pangs ; 
 But  welcome,  friend,  to  us  in  our  abode. 
 L,  S.  O  fiends !  accurfed  friends  indeed  to  me ! 
 
 With  opened  eyes  your  friendfhip  now  I  fee. 
 Torm.  Nay,  fret  not,  brother-monfter,  in  thy  chain ; 
 
 In  vain  you  ftruggle  with  a  hell  of  pain. 
 L.  S.  A  brother  monfter  in  his  chain  you  view; 
 
 But  in  a  tenfold  greater  hell  than  you 
 Torm.  We  give  you  joy,  in  an  elder-brother's  fhare ; 
 
 Wifhing  a  tenfold  pleafure  to  the  tenfold  heir. 
 
 'Tis 
 
?  Bo  Dialogue  between  a  Lojl  Soul  and  the  Tottwntors. 
 
 'Tis  very  true,  thy  cup  is  large,  and  filled ; 
 
 Nor  {halt  thou  be  of  the  leaft  drop  beguiled. 
 
 Thou'rt  worthy,  worthy  thrice,  to  drink  it  all; 
 
 For  Jefus  Chriffc  a  iacrifice  did  fall. 
 L  S.  O  tell  me  not  of  Jefus  Chrift ;  oh  !  oh  ! 
 
 That  name  to  me  is  a  whole  hgll  of  woe. 
 Torm.  Strange!  hear  it,  devils,  proclaim  aloud  thro'  hell, 
 
 A  facrifice,  the  Lamb  Chrift  Jefus  fell. 
 
 His  name  Immanuel,  found  ye,  God  with  us ; 
 
 To  fave  his  people  from  the  fin  and  curfe. 
 L.  S.  Oh !  there  it  is !  his  people  heard  his  voice, 
 
 In  the  accepted  day;  and  now,  they  feel  his  joys: 
 Torm,  And  feel  thou  too,  what  cometh  from  his  hand ; 
 
 Thou  canft  not  both  his  love  and  wrath  withftancL 
 
 L.  S.  His  love  is  turned  all  to  wrath  on  me 
 
 Torm.  Yea,  pureft  fublimated  wrath  on  thee. 
 
 L.  S.  I  trampled  under  foot  his  dreaming  blood — 
 
 Torm.  And  therefore  roll  thou  in  this  ftreaming  flood* 
 
 L.  S.  I  always  to  his  Holy  Spirit  did  defpiie— -- 
 
 Torm.  Ly  therefore  always  blotted  in  the  fliades  of  nighf, 
 
 L.  S.  I  counted  all  his  words  but  idle  tales- — 
 
 Torm.  And  therefore,  now  the  brimftone-wave  o'er  thee 
 
 prevails. 
 L.  S.  I  fuckt  and  fqueezed  every  flefhly  luft, 
 
 A  grovelling  ferpent  licking  up  the  duft — 
 Torm*  And  therefore,  now,  behold,  to  quench  thy  thirfr, 
 
 The  dregs  of  wrath  into  thy  cup  are  preft. 
 L.  S.  I  laught,  I  pufTd  at  all  the  ways  of  God — . 
 Torm.  And  therefore,  now  he  pays  thee  what  he  ow'd. 
 L.  S.  He  fhew'd  my  way,  and  end  to  me  before — 
 Torm.  Now  gives  the  fhaken  meafure,  prefled  down,  and 
 running  o'er. 
 
 A  portion  at  his  hand  none  ever  loft; 
 
 Nor  can  you  fay,  he  grudgeth  what  your  pains 
 have  coft. 
 
 L.S.  I 
 
Dialogue  between  a  Loft  Soul  and  the  Tormentors.   2  8  r 
 
 L.  S.  I  juftly  earned  all  this  load  of  woes- — 
 Tornu  Thus  every  ft  ream  in  irs  own  channel  flows. 
 L.  S.  I  always  thought,  I  would  be  good  at  laft — 
 Tornu  At  laft,  thou  downwards  to  the  pit  art  caft. 
 L.  S.  The  devils  hid  from  me  the  joyful  found — 
 Tornu  And  therefore  now  with  devils  thou  art  bound. 
 
 But  left  thou  fay  the  devils  always  hide, 
 
 Behold  the  devils  preaching  by  thy  Mq. 
 
 "  Behold,  behold  the  righteoufnefs  of  God  ; 
 
 "  God's  righteoufnefs  proclaim,  proclaim  aloud. 
 
 "  The  gofpel  preach  to  every  living  thing ; 
 
 "  So  is  the  mandate  of  the  mighty  King. 
 
 "  The  righteoufnefs  of  God  without  the  law! 
 
 "  Let  none  that  hear  the  fame  from  Gcd  withdraw. 
 
 "  Cry  loud,  and  fpare  not,  to  the  fons  of  men ; 
 .     "  For  God  is  love.     In  love  the  Lamb  was  flain. 
 
 "  Behold  the  Lamb  of  God,  who  takes  away  the 
 fin. 
 
 4t  Hear,  all  without,  and  all  the  pit  within  ; 
 
 "  Behold,  and  live ;  and  never  be  afham'd. 
 
 "  Be  blind,  and  die;  and  evermore  be  damn'd!" 
 L,  S.  Oh,  cruel  fpite  !  thus  to  upbraid  and  ihame 
 
 The  wretch,  for  you,  who  dar'd  his  foul  to  damn ; 
 
 The  wretch  who  fpurn'd  at  heaven,  and  his  God; 
 
 That  he  might  be  by  devils  under-trod — 
 Tornu  Amen !  by  devils  under-trod  for  ever ! 
 
 Severed  from  us  thou  fhalt  be  never,  never ! 
 L.  S.  O  damned  you,  and  damned  is  your  rage, 
 
 Who  hid  from  me  God's  blefTed  holy  page. 
 
 And  damned  I,  and  damned  is  my  folly, 
 
 That  made  me  fcorn,  and  difavow  the  Lamb- — 
 Tornu  Yea,  damn'd  thou  art,  and  damned  thou  art  wholly; 
 
 Damn'd  down  to  hell,  damn'd  by  the  great  I  AM. 
 
 N  n  CXCIIL 
 
282     Our  Heart  fprinkled  with  the  Blood  ofChrift. 
 
 CXCIII.  Boldnefs  by  the  Blood  of  Chrijl — having  our 
 Heart  fprinkled.  Heb.  x.  19,  22. 
 
 THERE  is  no  peace,- — but  holy  blood  ! 
 O  Jefus,  in  thy  fovereign  grace, 
 Suftain  me,  by  thy  Spirit  good. 
 
 2  I  don't  refufe — to  own  the  blame; 
 But  oh,  the  wrath  I  cannot  choofej 
 
 I  cannot  thole  the  fiery  flame. 
 
 3  But  thou  endured- — all  the  wrath  : 
 Full  on  my  bofom,  then  be  poured, 
 
 All  the  virtue  of  thy  death. 
 
 4  O  fend  thou  Lord, — and  pluck  me  up  -f 
 Quickly  to  me  thy  help  afford : 
 
 Deep  miry  clays  do  fuck  me  up. 
 
 5  My  finking- — heart  within  me  fails, 
 A  thoufand  meditations  thinking; 
 
 But  ft  ill  thy  mercy,  Lord,  prevails. 
 
 6  This  flefti,  this  flefli— -is  death  to  me; 
 But  lo,  thy  Spirit  doth  refreih: 
 
 Sweet  cordials  given  are  by  thee. 
 
 7  Thou,  my  temptation- — knoweft  well ; 
 A  thorn  in  the  flefti,  a  paflion, 
 
 "  Which  only  power  of  God  can  quelL 
 3  O  quell  it !- — by  thy  mighty  power, 
 Subduing  all,  fubdue,  repel  if, 
 Before  the  mighty  death  devour. 
 9  O  clean fe  me,-— cleanfe  me  all  within ; 
 Tho'  tribulations  harfh  fliouid  rinfe  me, 
 Yet  cleanfe  me  from  my  filthy  fin. 
 1  o  Thy  pure  beginning —  is  the  heart ; 
 For  there:  beginneih  all  the  finning  : 
 Oh  throushiy  rinfc  that  inner  part: 
 
 11  Oh 
 
Our  Heart /printed  with  the  .Blood  of  Chriji.      283 
 
 11  Oh  in  me  dwell- — thou  Holy  Ghoft, 
 My  fweet  perennial  flowing  well 
 
 My  glory,  my  Eternal  Holt. 
 
 1 2  With  all  thy  confolations- — fill  me ; 
 And  banifh  all  thofe  defolations, 
 
 Which  preying  on  me,  now  do  kill  me, 
 
 1 3  Poffefs  me  whole — in  every  power ; 
 All  influencing,  fill  my  foul, 
 
 From  day  to  day,  from  hour  to  hour. 
 
 1 4  Nay  every  moment, — take  the  lead ; 
 Thy  abfence  is  my  greater!:  torment. 
 
 I'm  wholly  thine  j  be  whole  my  guide. 
 
 15  O  if  thou  leave  me— -but  a  twinkling, 
 Then  Satan  will  be  fure  to  have  me : 
 
 Shield  me  with  thy  blood  of  fprinkling. 
 
 1 6  Th'  atonement- — in  the  blood  of  God, 
 Is  text  enough  without  a  comment; 
 
 The  blood  of  God  hath  on  me  flow'd, 
 
 1 7  The  blood  of  God — i-s  all  to  me. 
 Now  God  his  blood  to  me  hath  ihow'd, 
 
 I'm  furely  from  my  trefpafs  free. 
 
 18  Can  any  (lain- — by  Satan  mixed, 
 Have  power  an  inftant  to  remain, 
 
 By  blood  and  power  of  God  unfixed  ? 
 
 19  Since,  O  my  God,- — I  fee  fulfilled 
 Thy  Teftament  in  thy  own  blood  ; 
 
 How  can  a  drop  of  mine  be  fpilled? 
 
 2  0  Rebuke,  rebuke,- — O  God  of  love, 
 And  banifh  Satan  with  a  look  ; 
 And  give  me  all  thy  joys  to  prove 
 
 N  a  2  /  x  2   Oz 
 
284  The  Tree  of  Life. 
 
 2  1   On  wings  of  love,- — and  godly  fear, 
 Till  1  appear  with  God  above, 
 O  Holy  Ghoft,  do  thou  me  bear. 
 
 22  Aloft  me  bear — on  eagles  wings, 
 With  all  my  fpirits  light  as  air; 
 
 While  clofe  to  thee  my  fpirit  clings, 
 
 23  Methinks  already — now  I  feel, 
 Carried  up  with  motion  fteady, 
 
 This  world  away  beneath  me  reel. 
 
 24  Adieu,  adieu— -each  giddy  thing; 
 I'm  done,  for  ever,  done  with  you ; 
 
 Gladly  fpringing,  to  meet  my  King, 
 
 25  Behold!  behold  ! — his  bright  abode! 
 The  gates  of  paradife  unfold ! 
 
 I'm  loft,  imparadis'd  in  God  ! 
 
 CXCI V.  In  the  midjl  of  the  Street,  and  on  either  fide  of 
 the  River  was  the  Tree  of  Life- — Rev.  xxii,  2. 
 
 OHOW  I  long  to  be  above, 
 Where  all  is  reft,  and  all  is  love ; 
 The  reft  and  love  bud  here  below, 
 But  there,  to  full  perfection  blow. 
 How  vain,  how  vain  the  worldly  joys. 
 Wherein  ye  worldly  ones  rejoice; 
 Like  bloffoms,  blafted  on  the  tree, 
 To  duft  the  fruit  and  bloffoms  flee. 
 2  But  O  the  Tree  is  all  Divine, 
 
 Wherein  my  fruit  and  bloffoms  mine !    • 
 The  fruit  and  bloffoms  of  my  Tree 
 Are  certain,  as  my  God  to  me ; 
 My  Gcd,  Jehovah,  is  my  Vine ; 
 And  1  km  his,  and  he  is  mine ; 
 
 '  He 
 
No  Standard  but  the  Apflks.  285 
 
 He  dwells  in  me,  and  I  in  him, 
 While  he  can  fhine  I  can't  be  dim. 
 
 3  He  rufh'd  down  to  the  deepeft  night, 
 That  I  might  fpring  to  cleared  light ; 
 Thy  wrath,  Jehovah,  wrapt  him  round, 
 And  loofed  me  when  him  thou  bound. 
 The  death  he  died,  the  work  he  wrought, 
 
 He  wrought  and  died  all  for  me ; 
 With  his  own  felf  my  God  me  bought, 
 My  God's  my  life,  his  blood  my  plea. 
 
 4  From  Adam's  blafled  root  I  fprung, 
 And  o'er  the  pit  mouth,  lo,  I  hung ; 
 "  Deliver  man  from  going  down, 
 
 "  The  flame  (hall  feize  upon  my  Son," 
 Jehovah  cried ;  and  lo,  the  flame, 
 Around  him  foul  and  body  came. 
 Worthy  the  Lamb,  the  Lamb  was  ilain, 
 The  Lamb's  the  life,  the  light  of  men. 
 
 CXCV.  No  Standard  but  the  Apoflles.    1  Cor.  ii.  1 — 8. 
 
 1WAS  not  fent,  all  to  allure, 
 With  flattering  human  fpeech  ; 
 But,  clearly,  by  the  Spirit's  power, 
 Chrift's  gofpel,  pure  to  preach. 
 2  Nor  was't  by  man's  enticing  words, 
 That  ye  were  fav'd  from  wrath : 
 Who  truft  man's  words,  will  find  them  fwords, 
 To  pierce  their  fouls  to  death. 
 
 I  The  truth  who  by  their  judgment  weigh, 
 At  their  own  mind  and  pleafure, 
 By  falfehood  they  would  you  betray, 
 And  rob  you  of  your  treafure. 
 
 1  4  They 
 
28  6  No  Standard  but  the  ApeJIles. 
 
 4  They  preach  themfelves  (not  Chrift)  the  Lord** 
 
 Of  Chrift  they  make  a  vail ;  - 
 For  Chrifl's,  they  give  you  their  own  words, 
 That  ye  may  bid  them  hail. 
 
 5  But  oh,  God's  wifdom's  deep,  immenfe ! 
 
 Of  how  fublime  a  (train  ! 
 It  cannot  mingle  with  the  fenfe 
 Of  earthly  {hallow  men. 
 
 6  His  word  of  power  did  firft  command, 
 
 Within  your  confcience,  peace. 
 1  By  faith,  in  God,  alone  ye  fland, 
 Unmoved  in  his  grace. 
 
 7  Now,  grafted  in  your  Lord,  ye  fpring, 
 
 Branches  of  righteoufnefs : 
 Still  nourifh'd  by  his  word,  ye  bring 
 Forth  fruit  to  holinefs 
 
 3  When  flowing  troubles  on  me  meet, 
 And  billows  round  me  roll, 
 God's  faithful  word  doth  greet  me  fweet* 
 And  bear  aloft  my  foul. 
 
 y  While  lies  are  broke,  through  their  own  {hock. 
 And  quite  difperft  to  foam ; 
 The  truth  {hall  ftand7  firm  as  the  Rock, 
 Which  doth  the  lies  confume. 
 io  For  no  word  can,  but  his,  abide; 
 Since  no  word  elfe  is  pure ; 
 But  thofe  who  in  his  word  confide,- 
 Shali  as  his  word  endure. 
 
 As 
 
Cod's  Word  of  it/elf  the  only  foffible  Rule.       287 
 
 As  the  fourth  verfe  of  the  following  Song  was  forgo: 
 to  be  printed  in  the  97th  page,  the  whole  Song  is 
 here  inferted. 
 
 CXCVI.  1   That  the  Man  of  God  may  be  perfta, 
 for  LXIIL5  2  Tim.  iii.  17, 
 
 PRAY  tell  me,  friend,  what  will  you  be 
 The  wifer,  if  you  do  not  fee 
 The  meaning  of  the  page  or  book, 
 In  which  you  for  inftruction  look  i 
 
 2  And  tho'  you  ftiould  the  meaning  find, 
 Unlefs  according  to  the  mind, 
 
 And  meffage  of  the  Holy  Ghoft, 
 You'll  find  your  pains  and  labour  loft, 
 
 3  Yea,  though  according  to  the  mind, 
 And  meffage  by  the  Lord  defign'd, 
 You  are  not  yet  a  jot  the  better, 
 Except  yourfelf  perceive  the  matter. 
 
 4  Now  how  can  you  perceive  it  fo, 
 Except  you  firfl  the  Scriptures  know  ? 
 And  if  you  have  the  Scriptures  known, 
 The  Truth  of  God  is  all  your  own : 
 
 5  Whence  I  moft  firmly  do  conclude, 
 Only  the  Word  of  God  is  good, 
 To  teach,  inftruft,  correct,  reprove, 
 To  perfect  men  in  faith  and  love. 
 
 End  of  the  Songs, 
 
[288] 
 
 Part  of  the  Book  of  PSALMS 
 Paraphrafed, 
 
 And  Applied  to  CHRIST. 
 
 PSALM    I. 
 
 THAT  man  hath  perfect  bleffednefs, 
 Who  hath  the  perfect  righteoufnefs; 
 Who  came  not  to  deflroy  the  law, 
 But  underly  its  utmoft  awe  \ 
 And  to  fulfil  in  every  jot, 
 And  title,  deed,  and  word,  and  thought  j 
 Nor  went  a  hair-breadth  he  aftray, 
 Afidc  from  that  eternal  way* 
 
 h.  In  counfel  of  ungodly  men, 
 
 He  never  flood,  nor  faid  Amen  j 
 
 But  ever  zealous  for  the  truth, 
 
 For  truth  he  opened  bold  his  mouth ; 
 
 It  often  turned  to  his  fliame, 
 
 But  he  maintain'd  his  Father's  name ; 
 
 Nor  ever  gave  the  leafl  connivance, 
 
 To  any  one  profane  contrivance. 
 3  If  lewdly  fneering  at  the  law, 
 
 At  any  time  he  fcorners  faw, 
 
 Their  bafe  reproaches  on  his  God> 
 
 Lighted  on  him  a  grievous  load ; 
 
 A  perfeft  contrail  unto  them, 
 
 Who  glojied  in  their  fin  and  fliame, 
 
 He  gloried  in  his  Father's  word ; 
 
 By  night,  by  day,  his  word  explor'd. 
 
 4  Wht  J 
 
 / 
 
PSALM    I.  2S9 
 
 Who  is  the  man  ?  I  know  him  we]!, 
 He  with  his  God  lhall  ever  dwell  j 
 He- (hall  be  like  a  tree  that  grows, 
 Near  planted  where  a  river  flows, 
 In  every  feafon  ftrong  and  green, 
 No  withering  thereon  ever  feen  ; 
 The  bloffoms  blow,  and  fruit  fuceeds ; 
 So  he  is  blefs'd  in  all  his  deeds. 
 
 Such  was  the  High  and  Peerlefs  one, 
 
 God's  own  eternal  heir  and  Son, 
 
 Who  came  arrayed  in  flefh  and  blood, 
 
 And  magnify'd  the  law  of  God ; 
 
 Obedient  to  the  curfed  death, 
 
 He  bore  the  keened:  edge  of  wrath ; 
 
 And  rofe  again  the  law's  full  end, 
 
 To  all  who  on  this  truth  depend. 
 
 Planted  in  paradife  he  groweth, 
 
 Upon  the  banks  where  pleafure  flowerh, 
 
 The  Olive  good ;  and  every  one, 
 
 Believing  is  a  grafted  fon ; 
 
 They  live  by  him,  their  fecond  Head, 
 
 He  flourifhing,  they  cannot  fade ; 
 
 His  very  Spirit,  very  fruit, 
 
 Thro'  every  branch  in  him  doth  {hoot. 
 
 For  when  he  fprung,  their  federal  Item, 
 From  JefTe's  root,  and  bore  their  fhamc, 
 For  them  he  left  a  pattern  fure, 
 How  in  his  love,  they  might  endure, 
 By  keeping  the  direction  plain, 
 Which  runneth  thro'  the  perfect  flrain, 
 Of  God's  infallible  record ; 
 By  holding  this  they  hold  their  Lord. 
 
 Whoever  then  hath  perfect  bJifs, 
 fa  V7o  »;.c  t  orcj  even  f0  jie  ;s . 
 
 O  c  Under 
 
i9o  PSALM    I,  II. 
 
 Under  the  fame  direcYmg  power, 
 Of  holy  Ghoft  he  fhall  endure ; 
 By  looking;  in  the  felf  fame  word, 
 He  groweth  pure  even  as  the  Lord. 
 But  ah  !  the  wicked  are  not  fo, 
 Plumb-down  to  hell,  aecurft,  they  go, 
 9  Ung rafted  in  the  holy  Stem, 
 
 They  fpring  up  to  perpetual  fhame ; 
 Refembling  chaff  on  the  barn  floor, 
 "When  mighty  winds  their  fury  pour  j 
 They  mall  be  blown  all  far  away, 
 Nor  from  the  pit  one  atom  ftray ; 
 With  devils  damned,  loft,  and  toft, 
 Becaufe  they  fpurn'd  the  Holy  Ghoft. 
 
 10  They  mock  the  Father,  mock  the  Son, 
 And  mock  the  Holy  Ghoft  in  One; 
 
 In  judgment  therefore  fhall  not  ftand 
 Such  as  are  godlefs  in  the  land ; 
 When  thrones  are  feu  and  Judge  is  come, 
 To  take  his  faints  to  heaven  home, 
 No  foul  of  all  the  gracelefs  band, 
 Shall  ftand  upon  the  King's  right-hand. 
 
 1 1  For  why,  Jehovah  loves  the  Lamb, 
 And  virgin-fouls  who  follow  him ; 
 Whofe  garments,  waflied  in  his  blood, 
 Are  hallowed  by  his  Spirit  good ; 
 
 To  God,  the  Lamb  and  they  are  known, 
 Nor  he,  nor  they,  fliall  be  o'erthrownj 
 Whereas  the  way  of  godlefs  men 
 Shall  quite  be  overturned  then. 
 
 P  S  A  L  M    II. 
 
 \1/HAT  mean?,  ye  nations,  that  uproar, 
 ▼V    Which,  as  the* ocean,  loud  doth  roar? 
 
 Ye 
 
PSALM    II.  2?i 
 
 Yc  kings,  and  princes,  are  ye  mad  ? 
 And  at  your  own  definition  glad  :  * 
 Your  rage  is  like  a  mighty  wind, 
 Tolling  the  motions  of  your  mind  : 
 In  vain  you  foam,  in  vain  you  fret, 
 Intangled  wild-bulls  in  a  net. 
 Tho'  you  mould  roll  and  roar  as  floods, 
 Againft  th'  eternal  God  of  gods, 
 You  do,  as  if  a  raging  fly 
 Should  breathe  againft  a  mountain  high  ; 
 Or  as  a  flight  of  thiftly  down 
 Should  light  upon  a  monarch's  crown; 
 You  only  blow  in  veh'ment  ire, 
 Againft  a  fiercely  flaming  fire. 
 
 He  in  a  moment  will  confnme  ye, 
 Audacious  ones !  how  then  prefume  ye, 
 On  battle-field  to  fill  the  lift, 
 Againft  Jehovah  and  his  Chrift  ? 
 He  hath  deciphered  all  your  plot, 
 And  hath  appointed  you  your  lot : 
 Go  vaunt  ye  then,  you  burft  his  bands, 
 When  you  efcape  his  vengeful  hands ! 
 
 But  think  not  to  efcape  them  fo, 
 You  war  not  with  a  mortal  foe ; 
 He  fits  in  heaven  the  fovereign  Lord, 
 And  heaven  trembleth  at  his  word ; 
 I  hear  his  laughter,  thro'  the  clouds, 
 Burfting  againft  your  dunghill-gods ; 
 He  laughs  at  them,  and  laughs  at  you, 
 Who  down  before  your  idols  bow. 
 
 Why  tempt  ye  then  a  fea  of  wrath  ? 
 You  ly  within  the  mark  of  death  I 
 He  meets  derifion  with  derifion, 
 And  gives  divifion  for  divifion  ■> 
 
 O    O    2  I 
 
292  P  S  A  L  M    II. 
 
 If  you  divide  againfl;  his  name, 
 Lo,  he  divides  you  to  the  flame ; 
 A  fiery  fentence  from  his  mouth, 
 Shall  fwallow  up  the  foes  of  truth. 
 
 6  Hark  !  heard  I  not  Jehovah  tell? 
 "  He  is  my  King  on  Zion  hill, 
 
 «  Anointed  and  defign'd  by  me 
 "  Prince  paramount  o'er  all  to  be." 
 Attend  ye  all,  in  humble  way, 
 On  this  fide,  and  beyond  the  fea ; 
 Attend  ye,  every  living  foul, 
 Jehovah  founds  from  pole  to  pole ! 
 
 7  Jehovah,  the  almighty  God, 
 Hath  fpoken,  I  will  found  aloud, 
 The  fure,  the  abfolute  decree, 
 That  he  declar'd  and  gave  to  me  ; 
 
 "  Thou  art  mine  only  Son  and  Heir9 
 "  And  thine  be  all  my  kingdom  fair, 
 "  This  is  thy  refurre&ion-morn, 
 "  To-day  thou  unto  me  art  born. 
 
 8  "  Boldly  to  me  put  in  thy  claim, 
 
 "  Thy  God  will  glorify  thy  name ; 
 "  The  nations  I  make  fure  to  thee, 
 "  With  all  the  ifles  upon  the  fea. 
 "  Thou  lhalt  as  with  a  weighty  rod, 
 "  Make  them  to  own  the  power  of  God  j 
 u  And  all  the  haughty  who  rebel, 
 "  Thou  (halt  dafli  down  alive  to  hell, 
 o  "  Now  therefore,  kings,  be  wife,  be  taught, 
 "  For  he  is  with  my  fury  fraught ; 
 "  And  all  ye  lofty  of  the  earth, 
 "  Adore,  and  tremble  at  his  wrath  ; 
 "  Kifs  ye  the  Son,  and  bend  ye  low* 
 (;  Ere  ve  the  day  of  vengeance  knew  ; 
 
 !f  For 
 
PSALM    III.  293 
 
 «  For  if  his  wrath  begin  to  blaze, 
 
 "  They're  only  blefs'd  who've  kept  his  ways.'* 
 
 PSALM    III.     1-5. 
 
 WHAT  a  vafl  inundation  of  woes, 
 With  billow  breaking  on  billow, 
 My  foundered  quiet  overflows ! 
 
 My  heart's  like  a  trembling  willow. 
 What  legions  of  enemies !  fee  ! 
 
 Still  legions  following  legions ! 
 Advancing  and  rolling  on  me, 
 
 As  my  foul  of  hell  were  the  regions ! 
 
 2  For  my  foes  are  the  frogs  of  the  pit, 
 
 How  they  creep  thro'  all  of  my  borders! 
 And  men  of  malicious  wit, 
 
 Are  proud  to  encreafe  my  diforders. 
 All  the  multitude  loudly  exclaim, 
 
 And  feal  their  boaftings  with  Selahs ; 
 "  No  help  in  Jehovah's  high  name, 
 
 "  To  be  found  by  him  for  his  foul  is !  " 
 
 3  But  now  my  falvation  thou  art, 
 
 And  me  from,  my  enemies  fhieldefl ; 
 The  bulwark  and  ftrength  of  my  heart. 
 
 All  my  confolation  thou  yielded. 
 I  lifted  my  voice  to  my  God, 
 
 1  cried  aloud,  and  I  roared  ; 
 lie  heard  from  his  holy  abode, 
 
 And  granted  me  what  I  implored. 
 
 PSALM    III.     5.-10  the  end. 
 
 ROLL  ye  your  heavy  cumb'rous  load, 
 Upon  your  life-fuftaining  God  ; 
 For  I,  your  Lord,  and  Saviour,  came, 
 And  for  you  died,  pod's  elect  Lamb ; 
 
 Well- 
 
294  PSALM    III. 
 
 Wcjfcpleas'd  in  me,  behold  my  Father, 
 Weil-pieas'd  with  you,  behold  his  favour; 
 Your  Surety,  I,  fuftain'd  your  caufe, 
 And  under-lay  the  fiery  laws. 
 
 2  I  pled  for  you  at  Juftice'-bench, 
 Nor  could  I  thence  retreat  an  inch, 
 'Till  I  cleared  off  my  Surety-debt, 
 Before  I  was  at  freedom  fet. 
 
 I  laid  me  quietly  down  to  deep, 
 And  flept  within  the  prifon  deep ; 
 I  wak'd  again,  O  joyful  morn ! 
 For  God  fufhin'd  his  own  Firlt-born. 
 
 3  God's  own  Firft-born  of  all  the  dead, 
 I  rofe  again,  your  quickening  Head  : 
 My  Spirit  to  my  members  flows, 
 
 And  they  are  mine ;  Who  are  their  foes  ? 
 I  will  not  fear,  tho'  thoufands  ten, 
 Of  devils  and  of  devilifh  men, 
 Were  fet  againfl  me  in  a  ring ; 
 For  God  of  me  and  mine  is  King. 
 
 4  Arife,  Jehovah,  in  thy  power, 
 And  quell  the  monflers  that  devour ; 
 For  thou  haft  daiht  them  with  thy  bow, 
 And  circled  in  thy  chains  below  : 
 
 Put  now  thy  bridle  in  their  jaws, 
 And  fhorten  thou  their  ftretching  claws  • 
 And  make  them  to  their  dungeon  flee, 
 Who  rife  againft  my  church  and  me. 
 
 5  Salvation  to  the  God  of  peace, 
 
 Who  cloath'd  me  and  my  fpoufe  with  grace  j 
 
 Eternal  allelujahs  fing, 
 
 Jehovah  is  our  God  and  King; 
 
 He  fav'd  the  Shepherd  and  the  flock ; 
 
 lie'il  every  infurreclion  mock : 
 
 The 
 
PSALM    IV.  295 
 
 The  bears  may  foam,  the  lions  roar, 
 But  we  will  fing  for  evermore. 
 
 PSALM    IV. 
 
 OLend  me  thine  ear,  behold  I  appear, 
 Even  I,  thy  beloved  dear  Son  ; 
 Lo,  I  Was  diftrefs'd,  deep  anguifli  opprefs'd, 
 
 Hell-hounds  they  againft  me  did  run ; 
 I  ran  to  my  God,  compaflion  he  fhew'd, 
 
 And  flieltered  my  foul  in  his  love : 
 Their  fury  was  quench'd,  in  wrath  they  were  drench'd  ? 
 So  far'd  they  againft  me  who  ftrove. 
 
 2  O  God  of  my  peace  and  righteoufnefs, 
 
 Who  fav'd  me  in  critical  hour, 
 Save,  fave  me  again,  and  vanquifh  my  pain; 
 
 Triumphing  in  mercy  and  power. 
 I  thank  thee  with  joy,  thy  praife  fhall  employ 
 
 My  lips,  yea,  for  ever,  my  Father; 
 No  fooner  I  fpoke,  but  free  from  my  yoke, 
 
 My  fpirit  was  glad  by  thy  favour. 
 
 3  Vain  mortals !  fo  ho!  why  will  you  not  know? 
 
 Jehovah  hath  raifed  my  name ; 
 O  wherefore  then  would,  ye  fools  if  you  could, 
 
 My  glory  turn  all  into  fhame  ? 
 You  follow  a  He,  and  love  vanity, 
 
 As  a  dog  purfuing  the  moon ; 
 But  the  light  to  me  given,  eniighteneth  heaven, 
 
 When  you  fhall  in  afhes  ly  down. 
 
 4  For,  know  ye,  the  Lord  hath  fpoken  the  word, 
 
 And  what  he  hath  fpoken  he  doth; 
 Upright  I  fhall  (land,  the  man  of  his  hand, 
 
 Upheld  by  the  breath  of  his  mouth; 
 For  I  do  fulfil  the  whole  of  his  will, 
 
 Maintaining  his  righteoufnefs; 
 
 And 
 
296  PSALM    IV. 
 
 And  therefore  he  mall,  whenever  I  call, 
 Return  me  an  anfwer  of  peace. 
 
 5  Attend  to  the  thing  proclaim'd  by  your  King, 
 
 Addrefs'd  to  your  hopes  and  your  fears j 
 And  (land  ye  in  awe,  embracing  my  law; 
 
 Your  filence  attefting  your  ears ; 
 In  filence  profound  receiving  my  found, 
 
 Even  down  in  your  innermoft  foul ; 
 And  meditate  (till  my  fovereign  will, 
 
 Till  you  are  poflfefs'd  of  the  whole. 
 
 6  O  my  children,  prefent,  with  perfect  confent, 
 
 An  offering  approved  of  God ; 
 God  righteoufneis  this  facrifice  is, 
 
 The  fame  I  have  fininVd  and  fhow'd. 
 Believe  ye  my  word,  for  I  am  your  Lord, 
 
 The  abfolute  bond  of  your  peace; ' 
 Hold  faft  by  your  Head,  and  you  fhall  not  fade,. 
 
 But  bloom  in  my  fulnefs  of  grace. 
 
 7  How  many  do  fay,  and  vehemently  pray, 
 
 Who  is  it  will  fhew  us  fome  good! 
 They  mean,  of  this  world,  which  foon  will  be  hurl'd 
 
 Down,  down  to  th?  infernal  abode. 
 But  this  is  the  prayer  of  thy  Son  and  heir, 
 
 O  God,  in  behalf  of  my  feed; 
 Thy  glory  of  love  fliine  forth  from  above 
 
 On  me,  and  on  mine,  as  decreed. 
 
 8  Decreed,  I  know,  thy  bleflings  do  flow, 
 
 And  flowing  they  flow  evermore. 
 More  gladnefs  I  found  in  death  lying  bound, 
 
 Than  they  in  their  fulnefs  of  ftore. 
 I  lay  down  in  peace,  and  flept  by  thy  grace, 
 
 And  arofe  in  the  morning  again; 
 The  life  of  thy  faints,  fupplying  their  wants, 
 
 Both  now  and  for  ever,  amen. 
 
 PSALM 
 
P  S  A  L  M    V.  297 
 
 PSALM    V. 
 
 OBow  thine  ear,  and  do  me  hear, 
 My  meditation  weigh  ; 
 For  I  will  pray  to  thee  alway, 
 My  King,  by  night  and  day; 
 Yea  early  I  to  thee  will  cry, 
 
 New-born  from  the  womb ; 
 And  flill  go  on  when  lying  down, 
 And  rifing  from  the  tomb. 
 
 2  I  will  be  bold,  and  ftill  behold, 
 
 Till  I  obtain  the  boon, 
 For  which  I  came,  thy  fpotlefs  Lamb, 
 
 And  faid,  Thy  will  be  done. 
 Lo,  1  have  done  thy  will,  and  won 
 
 Thy  blefling  for  thy  fons ; 
 No  fon  is  bleft,  but  he  whofe  reft;, 
 
 Is  centered  in  my  wounds. 
 
 3  For  wounds  I  have,  and  they  are  brave, 
 
 Who  ftand  and  fall  by  me; 
 Rejoicing  ftill  in  all  my  will; 
 
 And  they  are  dear  to  Thee; 
 For  thou  art  not  the  God,T  wot, 
 
 Who  pleafure  haft  in  fin; 
 Nor  fhall  the  fign  of  bad  defign 
 
 Appear  thy  courts  within. 
 
 4  The  wicked  fall,  deftroyed  all, 
 
 Beneath  thy  mighty  fword; 
 Demoliihed  with  mighty  fpeed 
 
 Are  they  who  mock  thy  word. 
 The  men  of  bloods,  who  fwell  like  floods, 
 
 And  love  tumultuous  lyes, 
 Away  they  flow,  as  melting  fnow, 
 
 And  drop  away  as  ice. 
 
 PP  5  For 
 
i9S  PSALM    V. 
 
 5  For  of  the  Lord  they  are  abhor r'd, 
 
 Deceitful,  lewd,  and  vile; 
 But  1  will  come  with  boldnefs  home7 
 
 And  qreet  thee  with  a  fmile. 
 In  multitude  of  mercies  vow  d, 
 
 My  Father,  vow'd  by  thee, 
 I'll  fee  thy  face,  and  fing  thy  praife; 
 
 Thy  faints  fhall  fing  with  me. 
 
 6  Direct  my  feet,  I  thee  intreat, 
 
 Lord,  in  thy  righteoufnefs ; 
 And  lead  me  on  unto  thy  throne, 
 
 In  all  my  progrefs  peace ; 
 Becaufe  of  thofe  my  deadly  foes, 
 
 Who  rife  againft  thy  King; 
 Their  throat  is  death,  their  heart  is  wrath, 
 
 Their  tongue  a  quivering  fling. 
 
 7  Deftfoy  them,  God,  with  vengeance  load, 
 
 And  never  let  them  rife; 
 Who  have  rebelPd,  let  them  be  queli'd, 
 
 By  counfels  they  devife.  > 
 
 Deflroy  thou  now,  O  quickly  do, 
 
 The  whole  accurfed  race; 
 For  they've  defpis'd,  by  hell  entic'd, 
 
 My  Spirit,  blood,  and  grace. 
 
 8  But  let  my  blood,  and  Spirit  good, 
 
 And  all  I  am,  and  have, 
 Plead  powerfully,  and  cry  on  high, 
 
 For  thofe  who  to  me  cleave; 
 Who  love  my  peace  and  righteoufnefs, 
 
 Rejoicing  in  their  Lord; 
 And  hold  me  faft  unto  the  laft, 
 
 Triumphing  in  my  word. 
 
 9  And  well  they  may  triumph  alway, 
 
 For  thou  Jehovah  wilt, 
 
 From 
 
PSALM    VI.  299 
 
 From  every  wile,  and  every  guile, 
 
 Defend  their  blood  unfpilt; 
 For  thou  their  fhield,  that  will  not  yield, 
 
 Their  bulwark  and  high  wall, 
 Art  round  about  thy  faints,  who  flicut 
 
 To  thee,  rejoicing  all 
 
 PSALM    VI. 
 T  TOLD,  hold  thy  hand,  my  God,  and  pour  no 
 J—l    Into  my  cup,  fo  full  and  running  o'er;    [more 
 Thou  knoweft,  1  mean  not  to  defert  the  fcene. 
 Till  I  have  brought  thy  purpofe  to  amen. 
 
 2  But  while  I  fuffer  and  endure  the  while, 
 
 O  let  thy  chearing  eye  upon  me  fmiie; 
 a  Till  thou  remove,  in  thy  appointed  time, 
 The  horrors  deep  of  my  imputed  crime. 
 
 3  My  labouring  foul  now  panteth  vehemently. 
 
 While  heavinefs  and  wrath  upon  me  ly; 
 Withdraw  apace  thy  indignation  hot ; 
 Let  mercy  fweet  revive  me  on  the  fpot. 
 
 4  See,  I  am  weak,  Lord,  weak,  as  water  weak ; 
 
 My  bones  and  heart  thofe  crufhing  preffures  break. 
 Pierc'd  thro'  the  foul  with  forrows  (harp  and  firon^. 
 Shall  I  remain,  O  Lord?  O  Lord,  how  long? 
 
 5  Return,  return,  fwift  as  a  glancing  thought, 
 
 And  bring  with  thee  my  own  falvation-iot, 
 And  take  away  the  lot  of  fhame  and  wrath ; 
 Thy  fword  of  juftice  plunging  in  its  (heath. 
 
 6  Behold  I  lay  my  breaft  expanded  bare; 
 
 Thy  fword  of  juftice  wield,  and  (heathe  it  there; 
 I  fall  obedient  to  thy  holy  word, 
 
 But  rife  the  ilronger  from  the  trenchant  fword. 
 
 7  For  fure  I  know  it  never  was  defign'd, 
 
 That  death  mould  hold  me  in  the  grave  confin'd; 
 P  p  2  But 
 
3oo  PSALM    VI. 
 
 But,  burfting  open  the  fepulchral  doors, 
 
 That  I  fhould  rife  and  fave  whom  death  devours. 
 
 8  What  peals  to  thee  of  Allelujahs  burft, 
 When  they  make  of  their  long-contra&ed  ruft, 
 VefTels  of  mercy,  who  had  been  accurft, 
 
 In  fin,  in  fhame,  in  mifery,  in  duft! 
 
 9  If  I  mould  ly  in  earth,  they  could  not  fee  the  flcies ; 
 If  I  fhould  dwell  in  duft,  they  never  could  arifej 
 But  lo,  behold,  in  death  triumphant,  I, 
 
 And  they  with  me,  triumphant,  upward  fly. 
 
 io  Now  I,  the  Captain  of  the  felecl:  band, 
 
 Ordain'd  for  them  the  fhocks  of  death  to  ftand, 
 Affailed  fiercely  by  ten  thoufand  foes, 
 Redoubled,  feel  ten  thoufand  blows  on  blows. 
 
 i  j  Being  fhockt  all  day  with  foul  outrage  and  fpite, 
 I  figh,  I  tremble,  mourn,  and  groan  all  night. 
 Confum'd  my  eyes,  and  worn  away  with  grief, 
 Grow  old  and  dim,  awaiting  thy  relief. 
 
 12  Avaunt,  begone,  ye  wicked  workers  all, 
 For  ere  I  fpoke  he  anfwered  to  my  call; 
 My  forrows,  Io,  are  turned  all  to  joys, 
 Jehovah  heard  my  weeping  and  its  voice; 
 
 1 3  Yea,  hears  to  day,  and  evermore  attends, 
 
 His  heart  and  ears  companion  downward  bends; 
 My  prayers  arife  an  incenfe-fmcking  cloud, 
 And  fiowing  round  him,  overcome  my  God. 
 
 14  Confounded  be  mine  enemies  with  fhame, 
 Up-fwallowed  all  by  hell's  devouring  flame; 
 Straight,  fuddenly,  eternally  go  down, 
 
 Who  from  my  head  would  mean  to  pluck  the  crown, 
 
 M 
 
 PSALM    VII 
 Y  God,  Jehovah,  bend  thine  ear, 
 Deliver  me  from  what  I  fear, 
 
 For 
 
PSALM    VII.  301 
 
 For  thou  art  my  whole  confidence; 
 Bat  all  around  is  fpleen  and  fpite, 
 Mere  ferpents!  that  but  hifs  and  bite; 
 
 Such  favours  daily  they  difpenfe. 
 Oh  dreadful!  how  they  rage  and  glare, 
 Like  fiery  dragons  thro'  the  air; 
 
 And  furious  fweep  about  ray  foul ! 
 Arife,  O  God,  and  beat  them,  O! 
 Plumb  down  into  the  den  below; 
 
 To  brood  upon  the  burning  coal. 
 
 Arife  at  once,  my  God,  my  God, 
 They  third  as  fire  for  my  heart-blood, 
 
 Arife,  and  vindicate  thy  Son  ; 
 Left  they  in  pieces  tear  my  foul  ; 
 As  floods  they  on  me  roar  and  roll, 
 
 And  boaft  to  feize,  and  bear  me  down, 
 O  God,  what  hath  thy  Chofen  Lamb 
 Done,  or  projected  to  his  blame, 
 
 Of  lions  to  be  worried  up  ? 
 O  Lord,  my  God,  if  I  deferve, 
 If  from  thy  love  one  jot  I  fwerve, 
 
 Then  give  defpair  inftead  of  hope. 
 
 If  I  rewarded  ill  to  man, 
 
 Of  peace,  or  juftice  broke  thy  plan, 
 
 (Yea  on  my  foes  I  poured  love) 
 Then,  let  my  foes,  my  mortal  foes, 
 Devife  againft  me  bittereft  woes, 
 
 And  never  from  their  purpofe  move; 
 
 Let  them  purfue  and  wreak  their  fpite, 
 Upon  my  foul  with  all  their  might ; 
 
 Yea  feize  it,  tread  it  in  the  earth, 
 And  flamp  mine  honour  in  the  duft, 
 And  ftamp  my  name  for  ever  curft; 
 
 Yea  curft  of  God  in  endlefs  wrath ! 
 
 Arife, 
 
go2  *       PSALM    VIL 
 
 7  Arife,  Jehovah,  take  the  field, 
 And  caufe  my  enemies  to  yield. 
 
 Behold  ftill  maddening  more  their  rage5 
 I  plead  in  midft  of  tears  and  blood! 
 Fulfil,  my  God,  thy  judgment  vow'd, 
 And  inftant  rage  with  rage  aiTwage. 
 
 8  Amen,  my  Son,  thy  Father  fwears, 
 I  am  thy  help  in  all  thy  fears, 
 
 A  prefent  help,  behold  thy  God. 
 Becaufe  thou  haft  withftood  this  fhock, 
 I'll  make  thee  ftand,  with  all  thy  flock, 
 
 To  fing  thy  praife  in  my  abode. 
 
 9  Return,  return,  my  Son,  on  high, 
 And  pave  their  way  unto  the  fky. 
 
 Becaufe  thou  haft  their  foes  repell'd, 
 Reign  thou  the  Prince  of  all  above 
 Upon  my  throne,  in  fovereign  love; 
 
 In  fovereign  wrath  the  rebels  quell'd. 
 
 I  o  Welcome  Jehovah,  and  thy  voice, 
 
 In  thee,  my  Judge,  I  will  rejoice ; 
 
 Judge  me,  Jehovah,  judge  my  flock, 
 According  to  my  righteoufnefs; 
 My  righteoufnefs  fhall  be  their  peace! 
 
 Thy  Shepherd  faves  his  Father's  ftock,    - 
 
 I I  I  plead  not  for  an  atom  Iefs 
 Nor  more,  than  as  my  holinefs 
 
 Shall  teftify  for  me  and  mine ; 
 For  I  came  down  with  fury  fraught, 
 That  all  creation  might  be  taught, 
 
 No  breach  fhall  ftain  the  law  divine. 
 
 12  O  let  the  wickednefs  difTolve 
 
 Of  men  who  wickednefs  revolve,  ■ 
 
 And  aggregate  like  balls  of  fnow; 
 Still  rolling  round,  and  round,  and  round, 
 
 Where  el 
 
PSALM    VII.  303 
 
 Where-e'er  they  move  they  fleece  the  ground; 
 Breathe  burning  fire  and  make  them  flow. 
 
 1 3  But  let  thy  Holy  One  and  Jud, 
 And  all  his  friends  who  dwell  in  dud, 
 
 In  (melting  furnace  pure-refin'd, 
 Come  forth  without  the  fmalled  lofs, 
 Leaving  behind  their  ruft  and  drofs, 
 
 O  God,  who  tried  reins  and  mind. 
 
 14  Becaufe  thou  fitted  on  my  heart, 
 And  tried  me  in  every  part, 
 
 O  God,  thou  art  my  fure  defence  ; 
 My  glory  and  falvation  thou, 
 For  thou  had  found  me  dandard-true; 
 
 And  feal'd  approved  all  my  faints. 
 
 15  O  let  no  vain  prefumptuous  man 
 Dare  think  to  break  Jehovah's  plan; 
 
 No  mortal  can  efcape  untry'd ; 
 "With  fons  of  falfhood,  God,  difpleas'd, 
 The  fons  of  truth  hath  highly  rais'd, 
 
 Heaven-minted  all,  affay'd  and  weigh'd. 
 
 1 6  O  turn  ye,  turn  at  God's  command, 
 For  God  hath  lifted  high  his  hand, 
 
 And  winged  vengeance  fills  his  bow ; 
 He'll  empty  now  his  quivers  all, 
 Upon  the  wicked  great  and  fmall ; 
 
 And  in  a  twinkling  drike  you  through, 
 .  1  7  No  arrow  (hall  midake  its  mark, 
 No  bolt  efcape  you  in  the  dark. 
 
 Feathered  with  God's  decree  they  go; 
 His  glittering  faulchion  afterward, 
 On  God-defpifers  followeth  hard, 
 And  God  defcends  in  every  blow. 
 1 8  Tho'  they  conceive  iniquities, 
 And  travail  with  mifchievous  lyes, 
 
 With 
 
304  PSALM    VIIL 
 
 With  felf-damnation  they  go  big ) 
 They  open  up  a  hideous  pit, 
 And  cover  o'er  with  fubtile  wit, 
 
 But  for  therafelves  a  dungeon  dig, 
 10  They  heave  and  roll,  with  might  and  main, 
 A  ftone  that  will  recoil  again, 
 
 And  crufh  the  potfherds  in  its  den. 
 They  flioot  an  arrow  in  the  fky, 
 And  aim  to  hit  my  God  on  high, 
 
 Who  turns  it  back  on  them  again. 
 20  I  will  advance  Jehovah's  praife, 
 My  faints  with  me  his  glory  raife, 
 
 Jehovah  reigneth  God  moft  High  \ 
 Jehovah  reigneth  all  in  love, 
 On  earth  below,  in  heaven  above, 
 
 Prince  o'er  his  wide  dominions,  I. 
 
 PSALM    VIII. 
 
 HIGH  allelujahs  be  raifed  to  thee, 
 Lord  of  the  univerfe,  lifted  on  high ; 
 Glorious  thou  art  above  earth  and  fea, 
 
 Towering  up  higher  than  towers  of  the  iky ! 
 
 2  Wonderful,  wonderful,  thou  in  thy  ways, 
 
 Sucklings  and  infants,  ordained  of  God, 
 Perfecting  glory,  and  perfecting  praife, 
 
 Strength  have  exprefl:  in  contempt  of  the  proud, 
 
 3  Proud!  mighty  God!  proud!  away  with  the  name, 
 
 Proudnefs  belongs  not  to  veffels  of  clay ; 
 
 Swallowed  thy  enemies,  fwallowed  in  fhame, 
 
 Sink  they  confounded,  and  vanifh  awTay. 
 
 4  Dwelling  in  boundlefs  immenfity,  God, 
 
 Orbs  of  the  light  turning  round  in  thy  hand, 
 
 Sun  and  the  moon  from  thy  fingers  have  flow'd, 
 
 Running  as  lightening  at  thy  high  command. 
 
 5  Thefe 
 
PSALM    VIII.  305 
 
 5  T*hefe  I  confider,  admiring  them,  much, 
 
 Gazing  and  marvelling,  deeply  amaz'd, 
 Such  the  Creator,  creation  being  fuch, 
 Higher  and  higher  my  wonder  is  rais'd. 
 
 6  Grovelling  on  earth !  a  mere  atom  of  duft ! 
 
 Speck  of  creation !  O  God,  what  is  ir#n  ? 
 Pitiful  wormling !  a  filing  of  ruft! 
 
 Sharing  a  part  in  thy  grandeur  and  plan ! 
 
 7  Mindful  of  him,  O  how  tenderly !  thou, 
 
 Lofty  exalted,  haft  made  him  thy  Prince, 
 Vifited  daily,  and  blefled  anew, 
 
 Bleffings  on  bleffings  his  portion  ay  fince. 
 
 8  Miracle  this,  and  aftonifhment  all ! 
 
 Duft  humbled,  fee  I,  the  Prince  of  the  flues, 
 Fafhion'd  the  Son  of  Man !  lo  he  doth  fall 
 Lower  than  angels,  their  fovereign  to  rife ! 
 
 9  Verily,  lower  a  breathing  of  fpace, 
 
 Haft  thou  not  made  him  than  fons  of  the  morn? 
 Glorious  emerging,  again  in  thy  grace, 
 
 Shall  we  not  fee  him,  O  God,  thy  Firft-born  ? 
 
 10  Glory  and  honour  the  jewels  of  his  crown, 
 
 Peerlefs  dominion,  dominion  of  all, 
 Cloathed  haft  thou  upon  Jefus  thy  Son ; 
 Under  his  feet  made  his  enemies  fall. 
 
 1 1  All  in  fubje&ion,  the  tame,  and  the  wild, 
 
 Crouching  fubmiflive,  and  licking  his  foot, 
 Oxen  and  cattle  that  graze  the  green  field, 
 Forth  to  his  yoke  their  necks  willingly  put. 
 
 1 2  Harneffed  lions,  with  tygers  do  join 
 
 Brotherly  forces,  to  draw  in  his  cars ; 
 Savage  with  favage  is  proud  to  combine, 
 Roaring  their  gladnefs,  to  fight  in  his  wars. 
 
 Q^q  13  Fowls 
 
3o6  PSALM    VIII. 
 
 1 3  Fowls  of  the  air  by  his  Spirit  are  mov'd, 
 
 Eagle,  and  harpy,  and  vulture,  and  kite, 
 Preying  fraternity!  hover  reprov'd;  ^ 
 Furious  no  more  on  the  quarry  they  light. 
 
 14  Peacocks  in  gaudinefs  vaunting  no  more, 
 
 Daily  difplaying  their  glorious  blaze, 
 Meekly,  with  all  the  houfe  poultry  adore, 
 Murmuring,  fcreaming,  or  keckling  praife. 
 
 1 5  Dawning-preventing,  the  lark  on  the  wing, 
 
 Soaring  and  fmging,  faluteth  her  God; 
 Nightingale,  linnet,  and  millions  that  fing, 
 Vary  the  fymphony,  fwelling  aloud. 
 
 1 6  Monfters  in  dens,  wearing  claws,  wearing  flings, 
 
 Dragons,  and  vipers,  and  ferpents  that  hifs, 
 Creeping,  or  flying  with  bright  fiery  wings, 
 Falling  down  lowly,  their  den  bottoms  kifs. 
 
 17  Vaft  inundations  of  tribute  the  fe3,  * 
 
 Flowing  and  roaring  whole  oceans  of  praife, 
 Brings,  O  Jehovah,  her  Prince,  unto  thee ; 
 Dreadful  amazing  art  thou  in  thy  ways. 
 
 18  Flouncing  and  tumbling  unwieldy,  the  whales 
 
 Lead  up  the  chorus,  then  follow  the  fhoals, 
 Skiffing  the  waters  with  fins  or  with  fcales, 
 Each  kind  of  creature,  or  fwims  it,  or  rolls. 
 
 19  Reigneth  leviathan  king  of  the  flood, 
 
 Fierce  aligators  fly  crocodiles  join, 
 Levying  tribute,  proclaiming  aloud 
 
 Thro'  their  dominions,  u  Our  King  is  Divine !" 
 
 20  High  hallelujahs  be  raifed  to  thee, 
 
 Lord  of  the  univerfe,  lifted  on  high ; 
 Glorious  thou  art  above  earth  and  fea, 
 
 Towering  up  higher  than  towers  of  the  iky ! 
 
 Another 
 
PSALM    VIIL  307 
 
 Another  cf  the  Same. 
 
 OL  O  R  D,  our  mighty  Lord, 
 In  our  delight,  thy  Word, 
 See  we  thy  name, 
 CJ'er  all  th'  earth  glorious, 
 Lofty,  victorious, 
 Sweetly  call'd  over  us, 
 God's  holy  Lamb. 
 
 2  Highly  advanced,  thou, 
 God's  own  right-hand  unto 
 
 Reigneft  above 
 
 All  principality 
 
 We  have  equality 
 
 In  thy  humanity,  *■ 
 
 With  thee  thro'  love. 
 
 3  Bone  of  our  bone  thou  art. 
 Yea  for  us  born  thou  art, 
 
 Made  fuch  as  we ;    ^ 
 That  we,  in  glory  bright, 
 Who  now  adore  thee,  might 
 Mount  with  a  foaring  flight, 
 
 High-up  with  thee. 
 
 4  Above  the  ftarry  frame, 
 Thou  haft  fet  far  thy  name, 
 
 Glorying  we  fee : 
 Reigning  along  with  thee, 
 Singing  new  fongs  to  thee, 
 We  all  ere  long  fhall  be 
 
 Fafhion'd  like  thee. 
 
 5  Praife  unreftrained  flow; 
 Strength  is  ordained  to 
 
 Sucklings  and  babes ; 
 
 Qqj  In 
 
3o8  PSALM    V1IL 
 
 In  the  high  contempt  of 
 Thofe  thou'rt  afhamed  of, 
 Who  dare  thy  name  to  feoff, 
 Satan  and  flaves. 
 
 6  Son  of  the  Higheft  One, 
 For  us  thou  died  on 
 
 Th'  accurfed  tree. 
 O  how  depreffed,  ly, 
 (Sadly  debafed !)  thy 
 Honour  and  majefty, 
 
 In  our  degree ! 
 
 7  When  I  contemplate  the 
 Beauty  and  amity 
 
 Of  all  thine  hoft; 
 Mights,  powers,  and  cherubim, 
 "Virtues,  and  feraphim, 
 Highly  admiring  them, 
 
 Wond'ring,  I'm  loft. 
 
 8  Yea,  when  the  fun  I  fee, 
 With  the  bright  moon,  and  the 
 
 Stars  on  me  fliine; 
 Thefe,  I  with  wonder  fee ; 
 Yet  they  are  under  me, 
 With  all  fur  rounding  me : 
 
 Lord,  all  are  thine. 
 o  Lord,  what  is  man !  I  cry, 
 Thefe  are  all  vanity, 
 
 To  the  God-man ! 
 Him,  thou  delighteft-in, 
 Him,  thou  inviteft-in 
 Kindnefs,  and  writeft-in 
 
 Head  of  thy  plan, 
 
 io  Lofty 
 
PSALM    VIII.  309 
 
 10  Lofty  the  angels  are, 
 Higher  th'  archangels  far ; 
 
 But  they  are  low : 
 Lower  the  fun  and  moon, 
 Unto  the  Son  of  man, 
 Made  of  a  woman ;  and 
 
 Lower  to  go ._ 
 
 1 1  A  little  fpace  he  falls, 
 When  divine  mercy  calls, 
 
 Lower  than  all  : 
 Uuder  the  ftain  and  death, 
 Under  the  pain  of  wrath, 
 Yields  he  again  his  breath, 
 
 Rais'd  by  his  fall. 
 
 j  2  Lo,  thou  haft  crowned  him, 
 Glorioufly  owned  him, 
 For  thy  dear  Son : 
 To  him  the  ponderous 
 Majeftic  honour  is  j 
 For  the  great  onerous 
 Caufe  he  hath  won. 
 
 1 3  Reigns  he  in  glory  now ; 
 Lowly,  before  him  bow, 
 
 All  thou  haft  made ; 
 High  principalities, 
 God-like  regalities, 
 Bright  immortalities, 
 
 Own  him  their  Head, 
 
 14  Thou  over  mortals  too, 
 Over  Hell-portals  too, 
 
 Reigneft,  O  God ; 
 O'er  fheep  and  oxen,  yea, 
 Thofe  in  the  rocks  that  ftay, 
 "Where  the  wild  foxes  ftray, 
 
 Roaming  the  wood ;  15  Over 
 
3io  PSALM    IX. 
 
 15  Over  the  airy  wing 
 Of  each  bird  varying 
 
 Mufic  and  flight ; 
 Over  each  fin  and  fcale, 
 Salmon,  trout,  minnow,  whale, 
 Who  the  flood  winnow  well ; 
 
 Lord  God  of  might. 
 
 JV.  B.  Here  repeat  the  firfl  four  verfes  of  the  paraphrafe. 
 
 PSALM    IX. 
 
 JEHOVAH,  Jehovah,  I'll  ftrike  up  a  fong; 
 And  all  my  redeemed  fliall  join  me  along, 
 With  warm  emulation  avouching  my  theme; 
 While  I  with  my  Spirit  thy  wonders  proclaim. 
 
 2  Sing  praife,  O  fing  praife,  fays  the  Prince  of  your 
 
 j°y; 
 
 To  praife  the  Moft  High  I  myfelf  will  employ ; 
 In  raptures  rejoicing  I'll  lead  up  the  dance  5 
 With  me,  in  a  row,  all  my  faints  (hall  advance. 
 
 3  Back !  enemies,  enemies,  wheel  away  all ! 
 Obey  in  an  inflant,  or  inftantly  fall, 
 
 m  DifTolved  to  vapor  and  afhes  at  once, 
 Burnt-up  in  a  twinkling,  if  God  on  you  glance ! 
 
 4  Salvation,  falvation  to  God  we  afcribe ; 
 Our  enemies  weaved  a  fpider's  thin  web; 
 Deftruftion  came  thro'  it  and  brulht  with  a  fweep, 
 Both  them  and  their  weavings  down  the  hollow  deep. 
 
 5  While  vengeance  defcended,  they  laughed  thereat, 
 
 Wrapt  round  in  their  frauds  and  malicious  guile ; 
 But  Jehovah  beheld  them  on  throne  where  he  fat, 
 And  let  them  go  on  with  their  projects  a-while. 
 
 6  Now  deftroyed  together,  in  ruins  they  ly, 
 And  ly  evermore,  hurled  down  from  the  fky. 
 
 Jeho- 
 
PSALM    IX.  311 
 
 Jehovah  maintained!  my  righteous  caufe : 
 '     My  caufe  is  the  caufe  of  Jehovah's  own  laws. 
 
 7  O  enemy,  enemy,  vaunt  if  thou  will, 
 
 Lo,  deftru&ions  and  thou  ly  deep-buried  in  hell ; 
 Thou  haft  fent  devaftations  and  terrors  abroad, 
 Whofe  very  memorial  is  loft  as  a  cloud. 
 
 8  Enduring  for  ever,  Jehovah  fhall  reign  ; 
 
 Deep  founded  in  judgment,  his  throne  fhall  remain. 
 The  world  he  judgeth  in  righteoufnefs, 
 Diftributing  juftice,  eftablifliing  peace. 
 
 9  A  refuge  for  ever  Jehovah  will  be, 
 
 In  times  of  diftrefs  to  my  people  and  me. 
 Who  know  thee,  Jehovah,  in  thee  will  rejoice, 
 For  thou  all  my  forrows  haft  changed  for  joys. 
 
 10  O  praife  ye  Jehovah,  in  Zion  he  dwells, 
 The  nations  he  ftilleth,  the  tumult  he  quells ; 
 When  he  inquifition  (hall  make  for  their  blood, 
 His  faints  fhall  be  bleffed  who  by  him  have  flood. 
 
 1 1  In  tender  compaflion,  O  God,  to  me  turn, 
 Behold  how  in  every  one  member  I  mourn ; 
 Thou  lifts  me,  the  head,  from  the  dungeon  of  death, 
 O  fave  now  my  body,  thy  church,  from  thy  wrath. 
 
 1 2  O  fave  me,  and  mine,  for  thine  own  they  are  too, 
 That  I  thy  compaffions  to  Ifrael  may  fhew  j 
 
 O  daughter  of  Zion,  rejoice  in  thy  King, 
 Who  glory  to  thee  and  falvation  doth  bring. 
 
 13  The  nations  are  funk  down,  and  loft  in  the  pit 
 Which  for  others  they  digg'd,  and  went  firft  into  it; 
 They  fixed  a  bait,  and  they  fpread  forth  a  net, 
 And  were  catched  themfelves  in  the  fame  which 
 
 they  fet. 
 
 14  Jehovah  by  his  operations  is  known, 
 And  judgment  he  executeth  for  his  own. 
 
 The 
 
3i2  fSALM    X. 
 
 The  wicked,  entrapped,  are  caught  iirthe  gin, 
 Which  by  their  own  fingers  was  forged  in  fin. 
 
 15  I'll  rear  up  my  trumpet,  and  loudly  refound 
 Thy  judgment,  Jehovah,  to  mankind  around ; 
 The  wicked  fliall  all  be  thrown  o'er  into  hell, 
 With  the  nations  againft  thee,  O  God,  who  rebel. 
 
 1 6  But  the  poor  in  *heir  fpirit  and  rich  in  their  faith 
 Shall  ne'er  go  affray  from  the  heavenly  path; 
 Thro'  darknefs  indeed  they  fhall  mourn  for  a  while* 
 But  the  fun  of  their  glory  upon  them  fhall  fmile* 
 
 17  Arife,  O  my  God,  in  thy  light  and  thy  fire, 
 And  burn  up  thine  enemies  all  in  thine  ire ; 
 As  fhadows  of  midnight  let  them  dffappear, 
 The  Lord  of  the  day  in  his  middle  career. 
 
 1 8  In  hot  blowing  anger  burn  them  to  a  coal, 
 
 As  grafs  felf-enkindled,  too  green  in  the  quoif, 
 That  fmoking  and  fmouldering  aloft  thro'  the  fkies, 
 They  may  fee  it,  and  tremble,  againft  thee  who  rife. 
 
 PSALM    X. 
 
 MY  enemies  have  brought  me  down, 
 And  from  my  head  would  tear  the  crown, 
 And  ftamp  it  in  the  duft ; 
 A  world  of  them,  like  raging  wind, 
 Againft  me  prefs,  being  clofe-combin'd, 
 And  at  me  fore  they  thruft. 
 
 2  Oh !  Why,  Jehovah,  ftand  aloof, 
 In  day  of  this  fevere  reproof? 
 
 Draw  near  and  take  a  fide? 
 Nor  hide  thee  more  behind  the  wrall, 
 Left  they  behold  thy  darling  fall, 
 
 Who  doth  in  thee  confide. 
 
 3  Turn  thou  thy  whirlwind  in  their  teeth, 
 Their  fword  in  their  own  bowels  flieathe, 
 
 Who 
 
PSALM    X.  313 
 
 Who  'perfecute  the  meek. 
 They  glory  in  their  bitter  ire, 
 And  vow  to  fee  my  foul  expire, 
 
 As  wax  fire-touched  weak. 
 
 They,  proud  and  fanguine  in  their  heart, 
 With  proud  and  fanguine  take  a  part, 
 
 Againfl:  the  lowly  One; 
 But  God  abhors  the  odious  deed, 
 And  God  will  crufh  the  ferpent's  feed, 
 
 Thac  plot  againfl:  his  Son. 
 
 They  mud  go  down,  deflroyed  and  bit* 
 Beneath  the  fiery  temped  toil ; 
 
 So  proud  they  fcorn  to  pray ; 
 They  fpurn  at  God  with  lofty  face, 
 They  laugh  at  all  his  preached  grace, 
 
 Eternally  affray. 
 
 Thou  defperate  fon  of  wickednefs, 
 This  glafs  behold,  and  view  thy  face; 
 
 Thy  ways  are  grievous  all ; 
 The  judgments  of  Jehovah  are 
 Viewlefs  to  thee,  as  far  reft  flar; 
 
 Thour't  deaf  unto  his  call. 
 Thou  ferpent,  poifoning  the  earth, 
 Deep-blowing  peftilential  breath, 
 
 And  hiffing  at  thy  God ; 
 His  wrath  ihall  hifs  at  thee  in  turn, 
 And  make  thy  caverns  round  thee  burn, 
 
 Wherein  is  thy  abode. 
 
 Now  fing  thy  triumphs  in  the  blaze, 
 The  triumphs  of  thy  haughty  ways, 
 
 With  crackling  flames  around. 
 Thou  faideft  in  thy  rampant  pride, 
 '-  I  Hand  unmov'd,  and  {hall  abide; 
 
 *  No  God  ihall  me  confound," 
 
 R  r  0  Thou 
 
3H  PSALM    X. 
 
 9  Thou  ever  waft  for  damning  men, 
 Now  damn'd  thyfelf,  God  faith  amen ; 
 
 Thy  lips  were  fraud  and  guile ; 
 Thy  tongue  was  but  a  venom-bag, 
 Let  loofe  to  rage,  and  kill,  and  brag, 
 
 Mifchievous  pra&ice  vile. 
 
 I  o  The  hateful  worm !  I  fee  it  fet, 
 
 And  lurking  at  the  village-gate, 
 On  th'  innocent  to  creep  ; 
 
 It  lyeth  by  the  fecret  way, 
 
 In  abfence  of  the  funny  ray, 
 
 To  watch  the  traveller's  ftep ; 
 
 I I  How  greedy-like  it  darts,  and  clings, 
 And  planteth  in  its  viper-ftings, 
 
 Among  the  fprings  of  life ! 
 The  touch  of  death  as  lightening  runs, 
 The  fire  of  hell  thro'  all  their  bones  -7 
 
 And  murder  ends  the  ftrife. 
 
 1 2  If  cunning,  artifice,  and  wile, 
 Cannot  the  wary  foul  beguile, 
 
 He  tries  the  open  way ; 
 Avowedly  he  ft  amps  and  roars, 
 And  every  hill  and  dale  explores. 
 
 Mad-quivering  for  his  prey. 
 
 1 3  His  tenfold  more  than  lion-rage 
 Both  foul  and  body  fcarce  afFwage, 
 
 And  glut  his  thirfty  maw, 
 O  plunge  him,  God,  in  floods  of  ire  \ 
 And  let  him  drink  the  liquid  fire, 
 Who  burns  againft  thy  law. 
 [4  The  humble  he  lhall  drag  no  more, 
 N«r  make  the  innocent  deplore, 
 As  when  he  humbly  crouch'd  j 
 
 Or 
 
P  S  A  L  M    X,  315 
 
 Or  fiercely  glar'd  acrofs  the  way, 
 Gnafhing  his  teeth  upon  the  prey, 
 His  fpite  to  God  avouch 'd. 
 
 1 5  I  heard  the  bold  avouchment  made. 
 And  from  his  heart  it  did  proceed, 
 
 "  God  hath  forgotten  me ; 
 "  I  will  fulfil  my  utmoft  luft, 
 "  And  tear  and  murder  all  the  juft, 
 
 *  For  God  (hall  never  fee." 
 
 16  Arife,  Jehovah,  mighty  God, 
 
 And  fliake  the  heavens  with  thy  nod, 
 
 And  vindicate  thy  fword ; 
 Relieve  thy  poor  afflicted  ones, 
 Who  fill  the  world  wide  with  groans, 
 
 And  tremble  at  thy  word. 
 
 1 7  Let  us  proclaim  thy  word  is  true, 
 When  we  the  vengeance  on  them  view, 
 
 Who  have  contemn'd  our  Sire ; 
 For  verily  in  deed  and  truth, 
 The  lye  was  forged  in  his  mouth, 
 
 That  thou  would  not  require. 
 
 1 3  We  faw  the  vaunter  hiffing  by, 
 And  cry'd  "  A  mofl  notorious  lye !" 
 
 For,  Father,  thou  haft  feen 
 The  fparks  of  hell  flraight  upward  fly 
 Againft  thyfelf,  O  thou  Mod  High  ; 
 And  we  have  fmged  been. 
 19  Thine  eyes  of  purity  beheld, 
 How  fons  of  filth inefs  rebelPd, 
 
 With  dire  mifchief  and  fpite  ; 
 They  hight  to  fweep  creation  clear 
 Of  all  who  for  thy  love  appear, 
 Adhering  to  the  right. 
 
 Pvr  2  so  Adhering 
 
3i6  P  S  A  L  M    X 
 
 20  Adhering  to  thy  love,  we  cry 
 To  thee,  even  ail  ray  faints,  and  I, 
 
 Thy  faultlefs  Lamb,  O  God  ; 
 To  thee  we  recommend  our  caufe, 
 In  every  tittle,  every  claufe  ; 
 
 Thy  juftice  now  be  fhow'd. 
 
 2 1  Thou  art  the  friend  of  uprightnefs, 
 The  Father  of  the  fatherlefs ; 
 
 The  helplefs  cries,  "  My  help !" 
 O  break  to  pieces  thou  the  jaws, 
 Of  monfters  who  dare  break  thy  laws, 
 Lions  and  lions  whelp. 
 
 22  Search  out  their  dens,  and  fee  the  bones, 
 The  blood,  the  wounds,  the  fighs,  the  groans. 
 
 Of  thy  expiring  fons ; 
 Let  death  and  hell  difgorge  the  dead, 
 And  bruife,  O  bruife  the  ferpent's  hejid 
 
 And  tail,  dafht  to  the  ft  ones. 
 
 23  Let  death  and  hell  be  turn'd  again, 
 With  all  the  damn'd  accurfed  train, 
 
 Of  Satan  and  his  Haves, 
 Into  the  fire-and-brimiLone-lake ; 
 The  wages  of  their  pride  to  take, 
 
 In  wrath's  eternal  waves. 
 
 24  Hark  !  hear  I  not  the  trumpet  fwell. 
 Rocking  the  earth  and  loweft  hell  ? 
 
 Jehovah  reigneth  King ! 
 Jehovah  reigneth  evermore ! 
 Let  all  the  hefts  of  God  adore; 
 
 Let  earth  and  heaven  fmg, 
 
 25  Prolong  your  raptures  in  the  found, 
 Till  all  eternity  rebound ; 
 
 Th'  ungodly  are  no  more! 
 
 hey 
 
PSALM    XL  317 
 
 They  fwell'd  and  roared  heaven  high ; 
 But  God  hath  pour'd  them  from  the  iky ; 
 They  fink  within  their  fhore. 
 
 26  They  never  know  another  fwell, 
 But  ftill  as  water  in  a  well, 
 
 Low-ebb  in  pit  they  ly ; 
 No  more  in  terrors  of  the  tide, 
 The  Lamb-efpoufed  humble  bride, 
 Triumphs  above  the  iky ; 
 
 2  7  The  Lamb  rejoiced  in  her  foul, 
 
 And  bade  the  death-floods  ceafe  to  roll, 
 
 And  ran  to  meet  her  prayers 5 
 Such  is  the  portion  of  his  faints, 
 Jehovah's  love  prevents  their  wants, 
 
 Before  they  fpeak  he  hears. 
 
 28  Jehovah  he  prepar'd  the  heart, 
 
 And  made  the  prayer  of  faith  to  dart  j 
 
 It  flew  into  his  breaft ; 
 He  reached  down  a  chain  of  love, 
 And  drew  us  up  to  him  above  ; 
 Oppreffion-free  we  reft. 
 
 PSALM    XI. 
 
 JEHOVAH  my  truft,  the  rock  of  the  jaft," 
 Who  hears  me  ere  ever  I  call, 
 Why  fay  to  my  foul,  when  tumults  do  roll, 
 "  No  help's  in  Jehovah  at  all ! 
 
 2  *  Flee  away  to  your  mount,  and  lay  your  account, 
 
 "  Like  partridge  efcaped  the  fnare, 
 "  Deferted  to  dwell,  no  mortal  can  tell, 
 "  How  long,  or  how  fituate,  there  !" 
 
 3  The  wicked,  behold,  are  daringly  bold  ; 
 
 Their  arrows  they  privily  fit. 
 
 And 
 
3i8  PSALM    XL 
 
 And  ftrengthen  their  firings,  Jehovah  my  King's 
 Beloved  and  Darling  to  hit. 
 
 4  But  if  the  well-laid  foundations  be  fway'd, 
 
 Pray,  what  hath  the  Righteous  won  ? 
 If  broke  the  decree  of  Jehovah  to  me, 
 I'm  ruin'd  for  ever  and  done ! 
 
 5  But  Jehovah  above  is  the  God  of  my  love, 
 
 Who  dwelleth  in  Zion,  his  hill ; 
 He  hath  fpoken  the  word,  and  drawn  out  his  fword* 
 And  fworn  he  will  finilh  his  will. 
 
 6  His  eyes  are  a  flame,  big  terrors  they  gleam, 
 
 Againft  the  ungodly  of  men ; 
 But  complacent  they  fhine  upon  me  and  mine; 
 For  I  by  his  purpofe  do  reign. 
 
 7  In  me  they  (hall  truft,  the  Head  of  the  juft, 
 
 Nor  ever  experience  ftiame, 
 From  Jehovah  I  came,  I  am  that  I  am, 
 Your  Saviour  who  follow  the  Lamb. 
 
 8  But  the  children  of  Ham,  who  glory  in  fhame, 
 
 Shall  inhabit  the  valley  of  death; 
 For  tempeft  and  fires,  and  horrible  ires, 
 I  will  blow  upon  them  in  my  wrath. 
 
 9  This  fhall  be  your  cup,  without  any  hope, 
 
 Who  would  trample  on  me  and  my  grace ; 
 But  oceans  of  love  I'll  pour  from  above, 
 On  my  faints  who  rejoice  in  my  peace. 
 
 PSALM    XII. 
 
 JEHOVAH,  arife,  and  bow  down  thy  fkies, 
 And  give  them  a  juft  retribution  ; 
 For  children  of  flrife  embitter  our  life, 
 And  replenifh  the  earth  with  confufion. 
 
 2  The 
 
PSALM    XIL  3i9 
 
 2  The  godly  do  fail  when  finners  prevail, 
 
 And  faith  is  accounted  as  fhameful ; 
 Thy  Spirit  is  griev'd,  thy  children  deceiv'd, 
 Thy  image  is  reckoned  blameful. 
 
 3  They  feaft  upon  lyes,  and  fpeak  calumnies, 
 
 With  a  tongue  and  a  heart  that  are  double ; 
 Their  neighbours  they  greet  with  flattering  deceit, 
 To  load  them  with  anguiih  and  trouble. 
 
 4  Jehovah,  cut  off  the  lips  that  put  off 
 
 Such  flattering  wares  to  the  market ; 
 And  prune  thou  away  the  tongues  that  mail  fay 
 The  things  they  have  proudly  remarked. 
 
 5  They  boaft  with  their  tongues,  *  We'll  riot  in  wrongs, 
 
 "  Our  lips  are  our  proper  poffeffion ; 
 "  We'll  fland  our  own  lords,  and  {land  to  our  words, 
 *  And  triumph  in  godlefs  profeffion ." 
 
 6  But  heard  I  not  thee  declaring  to  me  ? 
 
 Jehovah,  my  portion  for  ever ; 
 u  I'll  ftand  by  my  church,  when  caught  in  the  lurch, 
 "  And  never  forfake  her,  nor  leave  her. 
 
 7  "  I'll  gather  her  brood,  for  I  am  her  God, 
 
 "  And  under  my  wings  I  will  cherifh  ; 
 u  And  purfue  to  th'  abyfs  the  ferpents  who  hifs7 
 *■  Defiring  my  children  fhould  perifh ; 
 
 3  "  But  I  will  defend  my  doves  who  depend, 
 "  Upon  my  decree-ed  falvation ; 
 "  My  love  be  a  theme,  for  ever  to  them, 
 "  Impregnate  with  fweet  contemplation." 
 
 9  Oh  !  rapture  and  praife  !  Jehovah  he  fays, 
 And  what  he  hath  faid  he  hath  fealed, 
 His  people  he  loves,  their  foes  he  reproves ; 
 His  word  is  his  purpofe  revealed, 
 
 io  His 
 
32o  PSALM    SIM. 
 
 i  o  His  words  are  mod  pure,  and  always  endure ; 
 Like  filver  ail  purely  refined  ; 
 They  come  not  to  Iofs,  nor  charged  with  drofs ; 
 None  ever  believ'd  and  repined. 
 
 1 1  And  yea,  what  is  more,  the  men  who  explore,    N 
 
 From  earth,  and  things  earthly  are  purged"; 
 To  the  furnace  of  earth  adhereth  the  death ; 
 To  life  the  pure  fpirit  is  urged. 
 
 1 2  Thou  flialt  keep  them,  O  Lord,  by  thy  perfect  word. 
 
 Thro'  this  and  thro'  all  generations ; 
 Tho'  the  fcum  of  the  earth  be  fwelled  with  wrath, 
 And  plac'd  in  the  higheft  of  ftations. 
 
 1 3  They  poflibly  may  embarrafs  your  way, 
 
 And  give  you  no  fmall  moleflation  ; 
 But  tho?  they  moleft,  and  trouble  your  reft, 
 They  cannot  prevent  your  falvation. 
 
 PSALM    XIII. 
 
 HOW   long,   O   Jehovah,   how  long  wilt  thou 
 grieve  me  ? 
 How  long  ere  thy  love  and  compaffion  relieve  me  ? 
 How   long   wilt  thou  hide  thine  eye,  leaving  me 
 
 mourning  ? 
 Ah  !  lonely  abiding  aye  till  thy  returning  ! 
 
 2  Hew  fadly  perplexing  are  my  cogitations ! 
 Perpetually  vexing  me  their  machinations ! 
 
 How  long  fhall  thefe  vipers,  mine  enemies,  reigning 
 Remain  my  foul-neighbours,  my  quiet  diftraining  ? 
 
 3  Confider,  and  hear  me,  and  lighten  mine  eyes,  thou, 
 O  Lord  God,  come  near  me,  or  thy  fervant  dies  now, 
 And  vifits  the  regions  of  dire  devaftations, 
 Oppreffed  with  legions  of  difconfolations ! 
 
 4  I'm 
 
P  S  A  L  M    XIV.  3ax 
 
 4  I'm  the  jeft  of  the  fongfters  fo  proudly  infulting; 
 Deftroy  thou  the  monfters  in  the  a£t  of  exulting; 
 Left  they  fay  in  their  irony,  "  We  have  prevailed, 
 "  Have  feized,  environed;  God,  his  rock  failed!" 
 
 5  But  I  in  my  paffion  Jehovah  have  trufted ; 
 In  tendereft  fafhion  my  caufe  he  adjufted. 
 
 Now,  rejoice  ye,   my   faints,  ling  with  me  to  my 
 
 Father ; 
 'Who  poured  his  joys  through  my  foul  in  his  favour  1 
 
 PSALM    XIV. 
 
 EXPLOSIONS  of  folly  in  defperate  volley, 
 Oh  !  hear  I  not  burfting  in  peels  from  the  fool  ? 
 The  motion  proceeding  from  heart  forrow-breeding, 
 Will  dafh  down  his  turrets,  difmantling  his  foul ; 
 
 2  The  report  is  moft  dreadful,  the  ball  will  in  {p(zcd  fall, 
 
 Returning  with  anguilh  upon  his  own  head ; 
 How  can  he  efcape  it  ?  againfl  God  who  gaped, 
 And  boldly  avowedly  fware  it,  and  faid, 
 
 3  "  There  is  not  a  Godhead ;"  Jehovah  he  loaded 
 
 With  curfed,  malicious,  audacious  lyes ; 
 They're  a  mafs  of  corruption,  without  interruption, 
 Allfwarming  on  filthinefs,  Beelzebub's  flies; 
 
 4  Unally'd  to  falvation  the  whole  generation, 
 
 For  in  perfon  the  Lord  looked  down  thro'  a  cloud, 
 And  narrowly  fpy'd  them  who  fprung  out  of  Adamj, 
 To  fee  but  a  fingle  one  joying  in  God ! 
 
 5  Without  underftanding,  in  Satan's  commanding, 
 
 They  are  quite  gone  afide,  gone  afide  every  one ; 
 "  Mere  abomination,  blind  infatuation," 
 Are  the  chara&eriftics  of  each  human  fon. 
 
 6  What !  is  there  nowifdom,  nor  knowlege  amidu  them  I 
 
 Is  workin?  iniquity  all  their  defign, 
 '   Sf 
 
322  PSALM    XIV. 
 
 Who  cat  up  my  people,  as  harpies  that  fweep  all  ? 
 1*11  fweep  them  to  hell  away  all  in  their  fin. 
 
 7  Upon  me  who  call  not,  and  lowly  who  fall  not, 
 
 In  humble  fubmiflion,  before  me,  their  God, 
 Shall  find  me  a  fteady  avenger  and  ready, 
 
 Full  fpeediiy  when  they  mall  wallow  in  blood. 
 
 8  How  deep  your  ccnfufion,  ye  fons  of  illufion, 
 
 When  the  ponderous  machine  of  the  heavens  ftiall 
 break, 
 The  earth  overwhelming  and  finking  to  hell  down ! 
 For  heavens,  earth,  hell,  you,  and  all,  go  to  wreck. 
 
 9  But  God  is  falvation  to  his  generation, 
 
 The  men  of  your  mockery  derifion  and  fcorn ; 
 But  know,  you  have  fhamed  the  Captain  proclaimed, 
 Of  all  my  oppreifed  defer  ted  and  lorn. 
 
 10  Jehovah,  their  refuge,  will  pour  in  a  deluge 
 
 Of  hot  indignation  upon  the  hell-hounds, 
 Who  perfecute,  worry,  rejoice,  and  make  merry, , 
 With  his  lambs  of  election,  and  feafl  on   their 
 wounds. 
 
 1 1  Oh  !  were  the  falvation,  my  fweet  confolation, 
 
 Commanded  for  Zion,  come  down  from  on  high ! 
 Lo,  the  captives  returning,  adieu  to  their  mourning ! 
 Sing,  ling  ye  to  God ;  your  redemption  is  nigh. 
 
 PSALM    XV. 
 
 OWHO  is  the  man  that  fhall  mount  to  the  fky, 
 And  on  Zion-hill  dwell  with  Jehovah  on  high? 
 The  man  in  perfection  who  keepeth  the  law, 
 In  whofe  fpirit  the  Holy  Ghoft  finds  not  a  flaw ; 
 Who  never  offended  in  thought,  word,  or  deed, 
 But  lifts  up  his  face  without  terror  or  dread ; 
 
 Even 
 
J   -  J 
 
 PSALM    XV. 
 
 Even  he  who  is  abfolute  holinefs  pure, 
 As  Jehovah  himfelf  is,  and  fo  doth  endure. 
 
 2  O  who  is  the  man  that  {hall  mount  to  the  iky, 
 And  lead  us  the  way  up  to  Zion  on  high  ? 
 The  man  who  delighteth  in  righteouinefs, 
 Whofe  meat  and  whofe  drink  is  all  mere  holinefs ; 
 Whofe  foul  with  the  fpirit  of  the  law  is  array'd, 
 Who  never  departeth  a  hair-breadth  afide ; 
 
 But  dwells  in  full  power  of  the  Spirit  of  grace. 
 And  juft  as  he  thinketh  the  truth  doth  exprefs. 
 
 3  O  who  is  the  man  that  (hall  mount  to  the  iky, 
 And  dwell  in  the  fmiles  of  Jehovah  on  high  r 
 The  man  who  from  guile,  as  Jehovah,  is  clean, 
 Who  will  not  backbite  any  man  high  or  mean  ; 
 Who  cannot  endure  any  fcandal  or  fliame, 
 
 To  be  pour'd  on  his  neighbour,  to  blacken  his  name 
 As  the  lambs  with  their  dams,  you  are  fafe  in  his 
 
 hand, 
 His  hand  never  form'd  for  his  neighbour  a  band. 
 
 4  O  who  is  the  man  that  fhall  mount  to  the  iky, 
 And  reign  on  the  throne  with  Jehovah  on  high  ? 
 The  man  in  whofe  eyes  vile  ones  are  contemn'd, 
 An  eye- fore  and  nufance  !  with  anger  enflara'd, 
 Who  nafheth  on  Belial,  and  Belial's  fons, 
 
 And  frights  to  the  dungeon  with  bowlings  and  groans, 
 But  them  he  exalteth  who  honour  the  Lord  ; 
 .  For  them  he  will  brandifn  his  glittering  fword. 
 
 5  O  who  is  the  man  that  mail  mount  to  the  iky, 
 And  reign  evermore  with  Jehovah  on  high  ? 
 The  man  who  advifed  and  paffed  his  oath ; 
 
 It  was  to  his  hurt,  but  to  break  it  was  loth ; 
 He  behoov'd  to  defccnd,  and  his  glory  to  lofe, 
 For  abfolute  nothings,  nay  worfe,  for  his  foes; 
 
 S  f  2  But 
 
324  PSALM    XVI. 
 
 But  lo,  he  came  down,  and  he  bowed  the  head; 
 "  Strike  !  ftrike !  O  my  Father,  Fm  willing  to  bleed!" 
 
 6  This !  this  is  the  man  who  (hall  mount  to  the  iky, 
 Yea,  and  take  us  along  too  with  him  up  on  high ! 
 So  far  he  from  playing  the  ufurer  with  us, 
 
 "  To  you  be  the  gain,  and  to  me  all  the  lofs ! 
 "  To  me  all  your  fm  and  your  mifery  1"  he  cry'd ; 
 **  To  you  I  my  kingdom  and  honour  divide !" 
 Lo,  this  is  the  man  that  fhall  never  be  mov'd, 
 The  Son  and  the  Heir  of  Jehovah  belov'd! 
 
 7  Behold  ye  the  man  who  fhall  mount  to  the  fky, 
 And  reign  with  his  faints,  their  Redeemer  on  high! 
 The  darknefs  and  fhadows  are  fled  far  away, 
 
 Your  God  is  your  glory,  and  you  are  the  day. 
 "  Expanding  thy  wings,  O  thou  my  Holy  Dove, 
 "  Lead  upward  my  Eleft  to  Zion  above ; 
 *  As  doves  to  their  windows,  in  clouds,  lo,  they  fly, 
 "  To  dwell  with  my  Father  and  me  up  on  high." 
 
 PSALM    XVI.  1.--3. 
 
 IT  O  W  long,  ye  fons  of  death  and  hell, 
 
 ■Tl  Will  ye  againft  me  rage  and  fwel]  ? 
 
 A vaunt  ye  !  quick  difperfe  ye  all ! 
 
 Preferve  me,  God,  make  them  to  fall ! 
 1  Ou  'me  they  roll  them  as  a  flood, 
 
 And  as  the  fea  roar  for  my  blood  ; 
 
 But  ft  ill  the  more  they  prefs  on  me, 
 
 I  prefs  me  ftill  the  more  to  thee. 
 >  My  foul,  thou  boldly  haft  avouch'd, 
 
 And  let  thy  faith  be  ftill  untouch'd, 
 •  Thy  faith  unto  thy  Lord,  that  he, 
 
 Is  Lord  of  all  thy  ways,  and  thee, 
 j.  I  ftand,  Jehovah,  in  thy  caufe, 
 
 To  vindicate  thee  and  thy  laws ; 
 
PSALM    XVI.  325 
 
 'Yetftillldoconfefsthefaa, 
 In  all  I  think,  or  fpeak,  or  aft, 
 
 5  To  thee  my  goodnefs  cannot  reach, 
 But  I  the  world  thy  purpofe  teach, 
 Thy  purpos'd  peace  unto  thy  faints. 
 My  fpirit  thereupon  defcants. 
 
 6  I  dwell  on  thy  eternal  love 
 
 And  falthfulnefs,  which  cannot  move  • 
 In  man  thou  placeft  thy  delights, 
 And  man  my  Spirit  all  invites. 
 
 PSALM    XVI.  3.-5. 
 
 TO  dwell  with  thy  faints  I  delight, 
 And  with  thofe  excelling  in  might, 
 Thy  miniflring  fpirits  of  flame, 
 Who  do  burn  with  zeal  for  thy  name. 
 
 2  I,  the  Prince  of  thefe,  and  of  thofe, 
 In  fury  will  burn  up  our  foes.   . 
 Their  forrows  {hall  multiply'd  be 
 Who  worfhip  a  deity  but  thee. 
 
 3  Their  idol-libations  of  blood, 
 
 Shall  be  dafht  for  thy  fake,  O  my  God, 
 Dafht  to  the  earth,  and  mingled  with  theirs 
 Who  bring  fuch  drink-ofFerings  and  prayers. 
 
 4  I  will  fcorn  to  mention  their  names, 
 But  condemn  their  memory  to  flames ; 
 Behold,  O  Jehovah,  and  fee, 
 
 How  zealous  thy  King  is  for  thee. 
 
 PSALM    XVI.  5.— to  the  end. 
 
 FILL  my  cup,  Jehovah,  high, 
 To  thy  dory  drink  will  I : 
 
 Fill 
 
326  PSALM    XVI. 
 
 Fill  it  up,  and  make  it  flow, 
 Down  within  my  foul  to  go; 
 For,  Jehovah,  thou  alone, 
 Art  the  portion  of  thy  Son ; 
 Thou  the  portion  of  my  cup  ; 
 How  I  burn  to  drink  it  up! 
 
 2  Thou  the  portion  of  my  lot, 
 Pleafant  portion  have  I  got  j 
 Pleafant  my  appointed  place, 
 Blooming  fair  with  heavenly  grace  j 
 For  Jehovah  laid  the  line 
 
 Of  my  heritage  divine ; 
 He  the  heritage  fo  fair 
 Of  his  own  anointed  Heir ! 
 
 3  My  Jehovah  will  I  blefs, 
 
 For  his  counfels,  for  his  peace ; 
 
 Yea,  his  Spirit  dwells  within, 
 
 Saving  mine  from  every  fin ; 
 
 Tho'  I  walk  in  darken1  night, 
 
 All  within  is  perfect  light ; 
 
 Search  my  heart,  and  fearch  my  reins, 
 
 Nothing  there  but  God  remains ! 
 
 4  Who  my  path- way  did  explore, 
 But  Jehovah  going  before  ? 
 Holds  he  ftill  at  my  right-hand, 
 Therefore  I  fhall  ever  ftand ; 
 Therefore  I  in  judgment-day, 
 Shall  redeem  my  fons  of  clay ; 
 Purging  them  from  all  their  drofs, 
 In  the  furnace  of  my  crofs. 
 
 5  Therefore  is  my  fpirit  glad, 
 I  am  all  enraptured  j 
 
 Glory  1  glory,  fays  my  tongue, 
 Join,  my  faints,  and  fing  along  ; 
 
 Sinn: 
 
PSALM    XVI.  327 
 
 Sing  ye  now  and  evermore, 
 Earth  rejoice,  and  ocean  roar ; 
 Heavens  bow,  the  earth  ro  meet, 
 Swell  the  choir  with  mufic  fweet. 
 
 6  Echo,  waft  the  joyful  found, 
 Tell  creation  round  and  round, 
 Refteth  not  my  flefti  in  hope, 
 Soon  to  rife  in  glory  up  ? 
 
 Up  I  rife,  and  all  the  throng, 
 Of  my  brethren,  too,  along ; 
 Upwards  foaring  thro'  the  ikies, 
 Hallelujahs  with  us  rife. 
 
 7  Thou  wilt  not  my  fpirit  leave, 
 Underneath  the  rolling  wave, 
 Though  I  come  thy  wrath  to  quell, 
 And,  enduring  pains  of  hell, 
 
 For  a  while  above  my  foul 
 
 Feel  the  fiery  torrent  roll, 
 
 Willow-like,  I  ftart  again, 
 
 From  the  ftream,  when  ceas'd  the  rain. 
 
 8  Nor  wilt  thou  my  body  leave, 
 Long  to  dwell  within  the  grave ; 
 Tabernacle  made  for  me 
 Never  (hall  corruption  fee ; 
 Thou  haft  fafhioned  every  ftake, 
 Fafliioned  for  thine  own  name's  fake, 
 Drawn  my  cords,  and  curtains  fpread ; 
 All  thy  power  me  ftrengthened. 
 
 9  Therefore,  diffolution-free, 
 Springs  my  body  back  to  thee, 
 Firft-arifen  from  the  dead, 
 Fruits  the  firft  of  all  my  {qq6, 
 To  revifit  life  and  joy, 
 Where  no  forrow  fliall  annoy. 
 
 Seas 
 
328  PSALM    XVfL 
 
 Seas  of  pleafure  evermore 
 Round  thee  flow  without  a  fhore. 
 
 PSALM    XVII.   i--.-5( 
 
 COME  near  thou,  and  hear  now, 
 Jehovah,  thine  ear  bow, 
 Attend  to  the  right. 
 My  tears,  yea  and  prayers,  they, 
 My  God,  are  not  hear- fay, 
 But  plain  in  thy  fight. 
 
 2  No  feigning,  defigning 
 I  know,  nor  repining, 
 
 .    Thou  fee-eft,  O  God; 
 My  crying,  and  dying, 
 Deep  groans  upwards  flying, 
 Do  reach  thy  abode ; 
 
 3  Be  fent  thence  thy  fentence, 
 Which  knows  no  repentance, 
 
 Thou  wilt  not  revoke ; 
 For  furely  and  purely 
 Thy  words  fliall  endure  aye,r 
 
 Unrnov'd  as  a  rock. 
 
 4  Beholding,  unfolding, 
 
 0  God,  be  thou  bold  in 
 
 AfTerting  my  caufe ; 
 Let  juftice  adjuft  this, 
 And  do  thou  what  jufl  is, 
 
 Maintaining  thy  laws, 
 
 5  O  prove  me,  remove  me, 
 If  thou  canft  reprove  me, 
 
 When  thou  haft  me  try'd  \ 
 
 1  claimed,  or  named 
 No  boon,  unafnamed 
 
 In  truth  I  confide. 
 
PSALM    XVII.  329 
 
 >  Thy  right-hand  by  night  and 
 By  day  never  lighted, 
 
 When  fearching  me  out, 
 Severely  and  clearly, 
 On  fin  late  or  early, 
 
 Within  and  without. 
 
 No  blame  mail,  no  fhame  fliall, 
 No  trefpafs  my  name  foil, 
 
 In  thought,  word,  or  deed. 
 Annoyed,  deftroyed, 
 My  evil-employed 
 
 Proud  enemies  bleed. 
 
 PSALM    XVII.  5-— to  the  end. 
 
 HO  L  D  up  my  goings  in  thy  word, 
 That  I  may  never  fall ; 
 The  fulnefs  of  thy  grace  afford, 
 
 Thine  be  the  glory  all. 
 If  thou  defert  me,  who  will  hear  ? 
 
 Or  can  comply  with  my  requefl  ? 
 But  boldly  I  prefer  my  prayer, 
 
 In  confidence  of  being  bleft. 
 Jehovah,  thou  wilt  not  deny 
 
 To  give  an  a&fwer  foon  ; 
 For  I,  behold,  thy  fervant,  cry, 
 
 And  I  thy  will  have  done. 
 Difplay  the  glories  of  thy  power, 
 
 And  all  the  treafures  of  thy  love ; 
 Then  welcome  to  the  midnight  hour, 
 
 When  death's  grim  terrors  round  me  ijiove. 
 
 No  mortal  ever  cry'd  in  vain, 
 
 When  forrows  hemm'd  him  round, 
 To  him  who  doth  in  mercy  reign., 
 
 If  faith  was  in  the  found. 
 
 Tt  He 
 
33o  PSALM    XVII. 
 
 He  knows  my  faith,  he  knows  my  hope, 
 
 He  weighs  my  mifery  and  grief; 
 To  whom  I  mournfully  look  up, 
 
 Imploring,  fighing  for  relief. 
 
 What  direful  monflers  fill  the  air, 
 
 With  mrieks  and  fiery  wings, 
 Fierce,  defperate,  quivering  all  to  tear 
 
 My  foul  with  darting  flings ! 
 But  they  may  think  as  foon  to  rend 
 
 The  apples  from  Jehovah's  eyes, 
 Who  doth  his  wings  round  me  extend, 
 
 As  finite  my  foul  which  hell  defies ! 
 God,  finite  them  !  fmite  them  through  their  heads  ! 
 
 Them  fcorch  with  their  own  flings ! 
 Thus !  thus !  reward  their  filthy  deeds, 
 
 At  me  who  flap  their  wings  ! 
 They  proudly  aft  with  tenfold  more 
 
 Than  dragon's  rage  againft  my  foul ; 
 Like  lions  on  their  prey  they  roar; 
 
 Like  furious  flames  their  eye-balls  roll. 
 
 Even  now,  they  compafs  me  around, 
 
 (Me,  and  my  people  help  !) 
 Marking,  and  lurking  on  the  ground, 
 
 Lion  and  lion's  whelp ; 
 Ready  in  aft  to  fpring  abroad, 
 
 From  hiding  places  where  they  crouch ; 
 Rife  thou,  and  difappoint  them,  God; 
 
 Thyfelf,  and  thy  falvation  vouch. 
 The  wicked  are  thy  fv/ord,  O  God, 
 
 They  may  us  fmite  indeed ; 
 But  they  fhall  fmite  us  for  our  good, 
 
 And  make  our  death  to  bleed. 
 And  Satan  is  thy  rod,  O  Lord, 
 
 To  give  thy  chofen  ones  a  blow ; 
 
 When 
 
PSALM    XVIIL  33 
 
 When  they  break  loofe  againft:  thy  word. 
 
 Thou  loofeft  acrainfl:  them  their  foe. 
 »_> 
 
 8  Deftroy  thou  the  rebellious  ones 
 
 And  fave  us  from  their  pride, 
 The  Haves  of  Mammon,  Belial's  Tons, 
 
 Whofe  hearts  to  earth  fubfide. 
 Their  portion  have  they  in  this  world, 
 
 Big,  full,  and  fat,  their  bellies  fweli; 
 Their  flocks  of  children  fhall  be  whiiTJ 
 
 Down  with  themfelves  to  deeps  of  hell. 
 
 9  Gay  they  may  be  a  little  fpace, 
 
 And  gallant  in  their  trim  ; 
 Then  leave  their  babes  their  wealth  and  places 
 
 To  follow  in  their  time. 
 But  I,  the  Lord  of  righteoufnefs, 
 
 When  I  mall  waken  from  the  tomb, 
 With  all  my  fons  {hall  fee  thy  face, 
 
 And  welcome  to  thy  glory  come. 
 
 P  S  A  L  M     XVIIL  1---3. 
 
 TWILL  love  thee,  Jehovah  my  ftrength, 
 And  laugh  at  my  enemies  all ; 
 Become  my  falvation  at  length, 
 
 Thou  (landing,  I  cannot  well  fall. 
 Thou  Handed  my  Rock  in  the  plain, 
 
 I  dwell  in  the  holds  of  the  top ; 
 No  army  is  able  to  gain 
 A  footing  upon  the  abrupt. 
 
 2  My  Fortrefs  commandeth  the  fkies, 
 And  ail  the  champainry  below ; 
 If  any  infulters  arife, 
 
 They  are  foundered  and  daflit  with  a  blow. 
 A  tempeft  of  horrors  oppreft, 
 
 The  arrows  by  millions  were  pour\ 
 
 T  t  2  Am 
 
332  PSALM    XVIII. 
 
 And  a  quiver  they  made  of  my  bread, 
 My  fpirit  they  drunk  and  devour'd. 
 
 3  In  midfl  or'  my  ftruggle  of  death, 
 
 My  Deliverer  regarded  me  well ; 
 He  blew,  and  difperfl  with  his  breath, 
 
 My  foes  and  my  anguiih.  to  hell. 
 My  God,  my  Comforter,  and  Lord, 
 
 Comforteth  me  daily  anew ; 
 My  ftrength,  by  the  ftrength  of  his  word, 
 
 My  foes  will  eternally  hew. 
 
 4  I  will  boldly  eftablifh  my  truft 
 
 In  him,  yea,  for  ever  amen. 
 My  Buckler  will  plant  in  the  dull 
 
 The  hoftile  bravadoes  of  men. 
 He's  a  Horn  of  falvation  to  me, 
 
 That  every  way  pufheth  around ; 
 The  Bafhanite-buils  they  muft  flee, 
 
 Or  welter  in  gore  on  the  grouud. 
 
 5  He's  my  Tower  for  defence  and  for  fhqw, 
 
 Afpiring  above  clouds  and  iky ; 
 But  they,  as  the  dungeon  are  low, 
 
 Compar'd  with  my  Tower  fo  high  ; 
 He  hurleth  the  engines  of  death, 
 
 And  hurleth  away  to  the  pit, 
 Overwhelming  with  deluging  wrath, 
 
 The  fools  who  againft  me  are  let. 
 
 P  S  A  L  M    XVIII.  3--19. 
 
 I  WILL  fing  to  Jehovah  in  rapturous  lays, 
 Whofe  glory  upholds  me  in  all  of  my  ways ; 
 Environing  enemies  preifed  me  fore, 
 Jehovah  he  (homed,  and  filenc'd  their  roar  : 
 Yea,  the  forrows  of  death,  flying  fwift  as  a  cloud, 
 ^hat  rideth  before  the  wing'd  tempefts  of  God, 
 
 Apal!e4 
 
PSALM    XVIIL  333 
 
 Apalled  my  fpirit,  enccmpafTing  me ; 
 
 And  round  me  they  rag'd  as  the  floods  of  the  fea. 
 
 2  Yea,  the  terrors  of  hell,  both  behind  and  before, 
 All  around  me,  beneath  me,  above  me,  did  roar ; 
 They  fwelled,  they  dafhed,  they  foam'd  o'er  my  head, 
 Proud  death-billows !  rolling  my  foul  to  the  dead. 
 In  my  pangs  of  diftrefs  I  but  heaved  a  groan, 
 
 And  cry'd  to  my  God,  "  1  am  gone !  I  am  gone !" 
 My  voice  to  his  temple  as  lightening  flew, 
 And  all  in  his  bofom  it  melted  him  thro\ 
 
 3  Inflam'd  in  my  favours,  he  gave  me  a  nod, 
 
 Then  the  earth,  in  amazement,  deep*-trembling  at  God, 
 All  quaked,  and  heaved,  and  fhook  to  the  heart  \ 
 The  mountains  and  hills  in  the  hurry  depart, 
 And  leave  their  foundations  difcovered  and  bare, 
 Becaufe  they  obferved  his  wrath  in  the  air ; 
 They  fled  in  a  tempefl  away  from  the  war, 
 Beholding  the  Lord  coming  down  from  afar. 
 
 4  In  curled  wreaths  rowling,  as  clouds  of  the  South,  « 
 Afcended  in  volumes,  a  fmoke  from  his  mouth  ; 
 His  noftrils  difcharging  whole  worlds  of  fire, 
 Devoured  the  heavens  to  a  coal  in  his  ire ; 
 
 The  firmament  round  him  he  bent  like  a  bow ; 
 And  pavements  of  darknefs  beneath  him  did  throw ; 
 On  cherub,  and  feraph,  he  royally  rode, 
 And  on  them  flew  lightening  and  flaming  abroad. 
 
 5  In  circles  around  him  the  winds  their  wings  play, 
 And  ufhering  darknefs  directed  his  way ; 
 
 He  made  the  dark  waters  pavilioning  rife, 
 His  canopy  o'er  him,  with  clouds  of  the  fkies. 
 Whole  mountains  of  volleying  cinders  and  fmoke, 
 Through  the  centering  darknefs  alternately  broke. 
 The  brightnefs  and  flafliing  difperftng  the  clouds, 
 Rattl'd  haiiftones,  and  coals  of  fire,  ruflimg  in  floods. 
 
 6  Loud- 
 
334  PSALM    XVIII. 
 
 6  Loud-uttering  his  voice,  from  Jehovah  on  high, 
 The  thunder,  and  hailftones,  and  fiery  coals  fly; 
 Yea,  he  fends  out  his  arrows,  and  fcatters  my  foes, 
 He  darts  forth  his  lightenings,  and  fo  overthrows. 
 The  channelled  waters  evaporate  to  air,     s 
 Their  bafons  deferted  ly  naked  and  bare ; 
 
 At  the  blaft  of  his  noftrils  rebuked  they  fly, 
 And  melt  to  a  fhadow,  when  fmote  by  his  eye. 
 
 7  Thy  judgments,  Jehovah,  unravelled  appear, 
 Thy  counfels  as  chryftal  tranfparent  and  clear; 
 Before,  they  were  hid  as  the  deeps  of  the  flood, 
 But  now  that  we  fee  them,  we  fee  they  are  good. 
 He  fent  from  above,  and  drew  me  up  to  him, 
 From  the  waters  of  troubles  when  fwell'd  to  the  brim. 
 He  bafMed,  defcroyed,  and  utterly  quaflit 
 
 The  floods  of  malicioufnefs  on  me  that  dafht ; 
 
 8  Too  flrong,  they  prevailed,  and  bore  me  along, 
 For  all  but  Jehovah  the  torrent  was  flrong ; 
 They  ruflit  in  an  inftant  preventing  my  fears, 
 But  lo,  in  an  inflant  Jehovah  appears ! 
 
 Now,  calamity  paft,  and  creation  renew'd, 
 
 Be  my  dying  and  living  with  raptures      view'd, 
 
 By  you,  O  my  children,  elected  and  lov  d. 
 
 "  Yea!  amen  to  our  Prince  and  Redeemer  approv'd  !" 
 
 PSALM    XVIII.  19—28, 
 
 OPPRESSED  I  was,  and  harraft, 
 And  well-nigh  quite  ruin'd  and  gone ; 
 But  my  Father,  beholding  what  paft, 
 
 Flew  downwards,  and  refcu'd  his  Son. 
 He  difpatched  my  foes  with  a  look, 
 
 And  gently  raifed  my  foul ; 
 They  fled  away  at  his  rebuke, 
 And  now  in  the  fiery-lake  roll. 
 
 2  But 
 
PSALM   . XVIII.  335 
 
 But  I  on  the  mountains  now  cjwell 
 
 Of  liberty,  finging  his  praife ; 
 He  fav'd  me  and  loved  me  well, 
 
 Becaufe  I  well  loved  his  ways. 
 My  righteoufnefs  anfwered  for  me ; 
 
 My  righteoufnefs  he  did  reward ; 
 In  practice  and  heart  being  free, 
 
 I  called  to  him  and  he  heard. 
 5  I  cried,  and  pled  I  was  clean, 
 
 "  My  purenefs  and  innocence  fee ; 
 "  Deftroy  me,  O  God,  if  a  ftain 
 
 "  Of  iniquity  cleaveth  to  me  ! 
 "  Oh  !  fearch  thou  my  fpirit  and  reins, 
 
 "  And  narrowly  view  thou  my  hands ; 
 u  If  a  witnefs  againfl:  me  remains, 
 
 "  Wreathe  around  me  thy  harden:  of  bands !" 
 
 4  No  witnefs  againfl  me  was  found, 
 
 Without  me,  within  me,  at  all ; 
 Then,  then  he  pronounced  me  found, 
 
 And  made  my  oppreHbrs  to  fall. 
 He  bleft  me  for  keeping  his  ways, 
 
 Even  all  of  the  judgments  he  fliow'd  ; 
 And  charg'd  to  refound  with  my  praife 
 
 Even  all  thy  Dominions,  O  God. 
 
 5  Triumph,  my  redeemed,  with  me, 
 
 Triumph  in  my  righteoufnefs  wrought; 
 Your  iniquities  cafl  in  the  fea, 
 
 Your  judgment  to  victory  I  brought. 
 I  never  departed  a  jot 
 
 From  what  I  engag'd  to  fulfil, 
 Until  I  unravelled  the  plot 
 
 Of  my  Father's  falvation  and  will. 
 
 6  For  his  counfels  1  kept  in  mine  eye, 
 
 His  ftatutes  I  kept  in  mine  heart ; 
 
 If 
 
33  6  PSALM    XVIII. 
 
 If  he  faid  to  me  "  Run/'  I  did  fly, 
 If  "  Stay,"  then  I  could  not  depart. 
 
 I  walked  upright  as  his  line ; 
 And  folidly  hung  as  his  plumb, 
 
 Upon  the  commandment  divine ; 
 From  me  no  infringement  did  come. 
 
 7  Tho'  charged  I  was  with  your  fin, 
 
 With  the  load  of  your  forrows  oppreft, 
 For  I  call'd  your  iniquities  mine, 
 
 And  under  their  burden  did  reft ; 
 Though  thoroughly  fifted  and  weigh'd, 
 
 No  drofTmefs  in  me  was  found ; 
 As  gold  in  the  furnace  well-try'd, 
 
 1  kept  my  integrity  found. 
 
 8  Now  therefore,  Jehovah,  my  Judge, 
 
 Pronounced  me  perfectly  pure ; 
 And  without  hefitation  or  grudge, 
 
 Stamped  me  with  his  glory  and  power. 
 Yea  verily,  this  is  thy  way, 
 
 Jehovah  who  reigned  above ; 
 Unmoved  who  ever  fhall  flay 
 
 In  thy  Truth,  mail  rejoice  in  thy  Loye* 
 
 9  In  the  Merciful  Mercy  is  glad ; 
 
 Uprightnefs  is  glad  in  th'  Upright  j 
 Thy  beauties  all  holy,  difplay'd, 
 
 Encircle  the  holy  in  light. 
 But  is  there  contrarinefs  ftt 
 
 In  the  mad  generation  of  fools  ? 
 They  fhall  find  their  contrarinefs  met, 
 
 And  meafured  by  their  own  rules. 
 
 i  o  For  ever  and  ever  amen, 
 
 Jehovah,  my  God,  I'll  adore, 
 In  juflice  and  mercy  to  men, 
 Who  reigneth  by  me  evermore  j 
 
 He 
 
PSALM    XVIII.  337 
 
 He  humbled  me  down  to  the  ground, 
 
 Death -fettered  I  lay  for  their  fin ; 
 But  flatting  again  I  rebound, 
 
 And  enter  his  temple  within. 
 1 1  The  redemption  and  glory,  I  reign, 
 
 Of  every  elected  dear  fon  ; 
 Tho'  prodigal,  lewd,  and  profane, 
 
 Away  from  my  Spirit  they  run ; 
 Overpower'd  by  his  grace  they  return, 
 
 All-lowly  before  me  they  fit ; 
 They  hear,  love,  obey  me,  and  mourn; 
 
 But  the  proud  fhall  be  damn'd  in  the  pit. 
 
 PSALM    XVIII.  28 — 35. 
 
 EXtinguifht  my  taper,  in  darknefs  I  mourn'd, 
 Being  chockt  with  the  vapor  of  deaih ; 
 But  foon  to  a  flambeau  my  taper  was  turn'd 
 By  Jehovah,  the  God  of  my  breath. 
 
 2  He  fnatcht  from  the  pit,  to  the  glories  of  day, 
 
 Yea,  he  made  me  the  regent  of  light  j 
 I  fliine  with  his  own  inexpreflible  ray, 
 Condemning  the  ftiadows  of  night ; 
 
 3  Thro'  my  God  being  active  and  flrong  as  the  fun, 
 
 His  Prince  paramount  over  all, 
 I  have  boldly  thro'  troops  of  my  enemies  run  j 
 Tbro'  Jehovah  leapt  over  a  wall. 
 
 4  How  perfect,  Jehovah,  how  tried  thy  word ! 
 
 Thy  word  is  thy  purpofe  expreft ; 
 Thou  gave  me  thy  purpofe,  thou  gave  me  thy^fword, 
 A  buckler  thy  wTord  to  my  breafL 
 
 5  The  rabble  of  idols  are  abfolute  trafh ! 
 
 Jehovah  alone  is  the  God ; 
 Jehovah's  the  Rock,  when  the  billows  do  dafh, 
 He  remands  to  the  depth  of  the  flood. 
 
 U  u  6  In 
 
338  PSALM    XVIII. 
 
 6  In  fquadrons,  ye  mortals,  upon  me  may  pour, 
 
 Jehovah  begirdles  my  loins ; 
 He  fingly  fupports  me  in  dangerous  hour, 
 Tho'  infernal  deep  policy  joins. 
 
 7  I  walk  as  compos'd  as  no  mifchief  were  near, 
 
 I  walk  in  the  made  of  my  rock ; 
 My  foes  as  a  forefl  wind-moved  appear, 
 And  hie  them  away  from  the  fliock. 
 
 8  Jehovah  too  fitteth  me  for  the  purfuit, 
 
 Ail-nimbly  hind-like  1  bound; 
 I  prance,  and  the  mountain-rocks  tremble  and  fhout, 
 My  foes  are  the  grafs  of  the  ground ; 
 
 9  I  ftamp  them  to  dufl,  and  they  wither  away, 
 
 Nor  waver  they  more  in  the  wind ; 
 Their  glories  are  gone  to  eternal  decajr, 
 Their  bloffoms  in  am.es, they  find. 
 io  Jehovah  in  perfon  directing  my  hands, 
 Undertook  the  formation  of  me ; 
 For  warfare  fo  form'd  me,  that  fliff  fleely  bands 
 By  my  arms  in  pieces  did  flee. 
 
 P  S  A  L  M    XVIII.  35-— 39. 
 
 JEHOVAH  will  yield  me  falvation  to  fliield  me, 
 Emergencies  come  as  they  will ; 
 His  hand  will  uphold  me,  his  kindnefs  infold  me,  [ 
 From  enemies'  malice  and  ikill. 
 
 2  "When  enemies  charged,  thou  haft  me  enlarged, 
 
 And  fet  me  at  liberty  full ;  [led 
 
 But  they  were  entangled,  the  more  that  they  wrang- 
 They  their  bodies  the  ftraiter  did  pull. 
 
 3  Inveigled  I  view'd  them,  and  quickly  purfu'd  them, 
 
 Like  wild-bulls  they  wrought  in  the  net; 
 They  roared,  and  bellow'd,  which  I  undervalu'd, 
 And  pierced  them  wirhout  regret ; 
 
 4  They 
 
PSALM    XVIII.  339 
 
 4  They  fell  quite  aftounded,  and  mortally  wounded, 
 Unable  to  rife  up  again  ; 
 With  forrow  confumed,  the  man  who  pre  fumed 
 Againfl  me,  in  forrow  remain, 
 
 P  S  A  L  M     XVIII.  39 43- 
 
 STRENGTH  is  the  girdle  of  my  toil 
 And  thou,  Jehovah,  art  my  girdle ; 
 Thou  faveft  me  when  battle  joins, 
 
 And  terrors  round  me  intermeddle. 
 Thou  giveft  me  the  hoftile  necks 
 
 Trampled  beneath  my  foot,  fubdued  ; 
 Who  rofe  in  wrath  my  foul  to  vex, 
 My  foot  is  in  their  blood  imbrued. 
 
 2  They  cried,  but  they  cry  too  late, 
 
 For  there  was  no  Redeemer  near  them ; 
 Even  to  Jehovah  cries  repeat, 
 
 But  lo,  Jehovah  would  not  hear  them; 
 Then  furious,  I  began  to  beat, 
 
 And  tread  them  with  my  feet  like  allies, 
 A  nufance  on  the  open  ftreet, 
 
 O'er  which  the  cralhing  cart-wheel  dailies. 
 
 PSALM    XVIII.  43— -46, 
 
 FROM  ftrifes  of  the  people  I'm  fafely  at  reft, 
 Jehovah  hath  quelled  the  tumult  j 
 In  ruins  I  lay,  being  fadly  diftreft, 
 
 But  now  I  am  glorioufly  new-built ; 
 The  temple  of  God,  I  fell  down  to  the  dull, 
 
 To  rejoice  in  a  bleft  refurreclion ; 
 x^ccompany  me  in  my  triumph,  ye  juft, 
 For  I  am  your  head  and  protection. 
 2  I'm  the  King  of  the  heathens,  appointed  of  God, 
 Yea  verily,  King  of  the  nations ; 
 
 U  u  2  I  rule 
 
34e  PSALM    XVIII. 
 
 I  rule,  and  move  them,  and  fway  by  my  rod, 
 
 I  break  up  their  affociations. 
 Subdued,  before  me  the  ftrangers  mail  ly, 
 
 Adoring  in  humble  fubmiflion ; 
 No  fooner  they  fee  me,  than  weeping  they  cry 
 
 "  We  acknowledge!  acknowledge  thy  million  !" 
 
 3  What  numbers  of  people  whom  I  have  not  known, 
 
 Come  pouring-in  daily  by  myriads ! 
 Glad  fwarming  Plebeians  my  fceptre  do  own, 
 
 Yea,  their  Kings,  and  their  Princes,  and  Peerage  ! 
 The  fons  of  rebellion  that  keep  in  their  dens, 
 
 Shall  melt  like  the  fnow  on  the  mountains, 
 And  flow  to  the  pit,  as  the  waters  thro'  glens 
 
 Flow  away  to  the  fea  from  their  fountains. 
 
 PSALM    XVIII.  46 to  the  end. 
 
 WHO  liveth  for  ever,  Jehovah,  my  King, 
 The  theme  of  my  raptures,  for  ever  I  fing ; 
 And,  bled  be  my  rock,  let  eternity  found, 
 Thro'  all  his  dominions  re-echoing  round ; 
 Bleft,  blefr.  be  the  God  of  falvation  to  me, 
 Who  me  and  my  people  from  bondage  did  free; 
 It  was  he  who  aveng'd  me,  efpoufing  my  caufe, 
 And  gave  me  the  world,  with  a  world  of  applaufe, 
 
 2  For  fweet  liberation  I  fweetly  will  praife, 
 For  high  exaltation  exalting  my  lays. 
 The  children  of  violence  are  violent  as  floods, 
 They  rum  like  the  fea,  and  they  drive  like  the  clouds, 
 Their  waves  feem  like  mountains  broke  loofe  from 
 their  bafe; 
 
 •   How  tremendous  appeareth  the  pride  of  their  ways  ! 
 Jehovah  but  peepeth  abroad  thro'  the  cloud, 
 I  wonder  and  g'ize,  and  cry  u  Where  is  the  flood  !" 
 
 3  Jehovah 
 
PSALM    XVIII.  341 
 
 Jehovah,  becaufe  thou  haft  made  me  the  Head, 
 And  rais'd  me  on  high  thy  falvatioa  to  fpread, 
 The  Prince  of  the  kingdom  that  cannot  remove, 
 To  give  thy  redemption  to  fons  of  thy  love ; 
 I'll  caufe  thy  commandments  approved  to  be 
 Among  all  the  Gentiles,  and  Ifles  of  the  fea; 
 Amid  their  affemblies  I'll  triumph  their  King, 
 And  thy  name  in  communion  together  we'll  fing  ! 
 
 O  Father  Almighty,  we'll  fing  to  thy  name, 
 And  "  Abba,"  thy  Spirit  aloud  mall  proclaim, 
 For  we'll  borrow  thy  Spirit's  moft  ardorous  lays ; 
 O  how  lofty,  unfpeakably  lofty  thy  praife ! 
 What  high  confolation  thou  giveft  to  thy  King, 
 Thy  King  with  his  fubjecls  mall  glorioufly  fing, 
 Thy  Chrift  with  his  chriftians  fhall  evermore 
 In  power  of  thy  Spirit  Jehovah  adore. 
 
 PSALM    XIX. 
 
 HIS  Godhead,  fee!  with  glorious  beams, 
 Thro'  all  the  fpacious  ether  dreams; 
 Enlightening  heaven  and  all  below, 
 His  glories  thro'  creation  flow. 
 The  firmament  expanded  wide, 
 With  all  the  worlds  of  fire  that  glide, 
 Within  the  ample  bounds  of  fpace, 
 Are  but  the  vailings  of  his  face. 
 But  woven  in  Jehovah's  loom,  _ 
 
 They  in  Jehovah's  luftre  bloom ; 
 And  flaming  thro'  their  texture  gleam 
 Th'  amazing  wonders  of  his  name. 
 Shines  out  in  blazing  light  the  day, 
 And  bids  her  rays  by  millions  play, 
 O'er  all  the  ocean,  earth,  and  fky ; 
 To  flxew  the  works  of  God  Moft  High, 
 
 9  The 
 
g42  PSALM    XIX. 
 
 3  The  night  fucceeding  in  her  turn, 
 Bids  all  her  ftarry  armies  burn ;     - 
 They  burn,  keen  ardors!  in  our  view, 
 And  give  the  God  of  hofts  his  due ; 
 Around  they  roll  a  dancing  choir, 
 Harmonious  moving  to  his  lyre, 
 
 And  twinkle  on  with  trembling  eyes, 
 In  modefl  filence  thro'  the  ikies; 
 
 4  But  as  they  pafs,  I  hear  them  fay, 
 In  fecret  whifpers,  "  Come  away, 
 "  O  come  away,  rejoice  along, 
 
 "  And  ftiine  as  funs  the  ftars  among  ; 
 "  Rife,  O  ye  fleepers,  rife,  and  mine, 
 "  Your  light  is  come,  your  light  divine; 
 li  And  we  will  point  you  out  the  way 
 "  Unto  the  fpring  of  endlefs  day.'' 
 
 5  Behold,  with  bolder  face  the  moon 
 Advancing  to  her  midnight-noon, 
 Her  vifage  varies,  comes  and  goes, 
 For  fhe  in  borrowed  beauty  glows ; 
 She  feeds  her  flambeau  at  rhe  fun, 
 
 To  fhew  the  night  what  God  hath  done; 
 Walking  majeftic  through  the  clouds, 
 She  cries,  "  We  all,  we  all  are  God's  ! " 
 
 6  There  is  no  fpeech  nor  tongue  at  all, 
 But  hears  the  loud  eeleftial  call ; 
 There  never  was  a  line  abroad, 
 Outftretched  by  the  mighty  God, 
 But  where  he  meafured  with  the  fame 
 The  knowledge  of  his  holy  name  ; 
 Around. the  world,  from  pole  to  pole, 
 He  hade  his  faithful  heralds  roll. 
 
 7  As  light  is  fpread  by  fun  and  moon, 
 So  is  by  his  Apoftles  done  ; 
 
 They 
 
PSALM    XIX.  343 
 
 They  lift  the  trumpet  to  their  mouth, 
 And  found  abroad  th'  eternal  truth, 
 The  Gofpel  to  the  fons  of  men  ; 
 Jehovah  feals,  and  cries  Amen. 
 Proclaim  the  marriage  of  the  Lamb, 
 Unto  a  bride  of  fin  and  marae.- 
 3  For  it  behoov'd  his  Son  and  Heir, 
 To  lay  afide  his  glory  fair, 
 And  tabernacle  in  the  clay, 
 To  trim  his  bride  in  glory  gay ; 
 But  rifing  from  the  fhades  again, 
 The  fun  of  righteoufnefs  to  reign, 
 IiTuing  flaming  thro'  the  fky, 
 Forth  from  his  tabernacle  high. 
 
 2  In  glory  deckt,  behold  him  mine  3 
 
 His  Father's  glories  all  combine, 
 
 In  circling  radiance  round  his  crown ; 
 
 And  angels  circle  round  his.  throne. 
 
 His  race  of  love  the  Bridegroom  runs, 
 
 More  glorious  than  ten  thoufand  funs, 
 
 As  Giants  in  their  mighty  courfe, 
 
 O'erturning  all  oppofmg  force. 
 10  The  clouds  beneath  his  chariot  fly, 
 And  whirl  around  within  the  iky, 
 Far  from  the  fury  of  his  path, 
 They  dive  and  hide  their  heads  beneath, 
 To  tell  the  waters  of  the  pit, 
 How  great  the  vehemence  of  his  heat, 
 So  fhall  they  all  confumed  be, 
 O  Mighty  Prince,  who  love  not  thee. 
 
 PSALM     XIX.  6—to  the  end. 
 
 SEE  how  the  fun  with  glorious  beams, 
 Thro'  all  the  fpacioits  ether  flreams  j 
 
344  PSALM    XIX. 
 
 See  how,  with  keen-exploring  eye, 
 He  fearches  all  below  the  fky  ; 
 He  circuits  heaven  round  and  round, 
 And  nothing  hidden  there  is  found, . 
 In  all  the  watery  or  the  dry, 
 But  what  his  heat  and  light  efpy. 
 
 2  Even  fo  the  Gofpel  of  our  God, 
 
 Is  Teen  through  all  the  world  abroad.; 
 Light  hath  no  fellowlhip  with  night ; 
 So  perfect  clear  the  gofpel-light  -7 
 Light  guides  the  pilgrim  on  his  way ; 
 So  in  the  kindly  Gofpel-day, 
 The  light  of  truth  burfts  thro'  the  cloud, 
 And  points  to  men  the  love  of  God. 
 
 3  Unfolding  wifdom's  ample  roll, 
 The  truth  converts  the  fimple  foul; 
 Thy  teftimonies,  Lord/  are  true, 
 And  juft,  and  faithful  in  our  view. 
 Thy  ftatutes  are  eternal  truth, 
 Proceeding  from  thy  holy  mouth ; 
 Directly  beaming  on  our  heart, 
 From  whence  they  never  fhalf  depart. 
 
 4  The  lightenings  of  thy  pleafant  eye, 
 Are  thy  commandments  from  on  high ! 
 They  glance  and  play  upon  our  foul, 
 Soft-melting  into  love  the  whole. 
 
 In  tender  reverence  to  our  Lord, 
 We  tremble  at  thy  holy  word ; 
 Thy  word  endureth  ever  clean, 
 And  purgeth  us  from  all  our  fin.     , 
 
 5  Thy  judgments,  Lord,  mod  furely  are 
 The  quinteffence  of  jullice  fair, 
 Defired  more  than  purefl  gold, 
 
 By  all  who  do  thy  love  behold ; 
 
 Much 
 
PSALM    XIX.  345 
 
 Much  fweeter  than  the  honey  comes 
 Diflilling  from  the  virgin-combs ; 
 Befides,  they  are  my  only  rule, 
 My  pearl  of  price,  my  precious  jewel. 
 
 6  Who  can  conceive  his  numerous  flaws  ? 
 But  I  appeal  to  thy  own  laws ; 
 
 Oh  try  me,  God,  by  purefr.  rule, 
 Thou'lt  find  me  all  a  faultlefs  jewel, 
 From  any  crack,  or  blemifh  free; 
 In  clearelt  light  infpecl:  thou  me; 
 Thou  mud  pronounce  thy  fervant  clean 
 From  failing  or  prefumptuous  fin. 
 
 7  For  thou  canfi  witnefs,  if  thy  word 
 Be  pure,  fo  is  thy  fervant,  Lord. 
 Juftice,  Jehovah,  is  my  plea  ; 
 
 In  confidence  to  thee  I  flee ; 
 In  confcioufhefs  of  pure  defign, 
 And  perfect  freedom  from  all  fin, 
 I  plead  for  every  elect  one ; 
 In  righteoufnefs  accept  thy  Son. 
 
 8  Thou  bade  me  do  thy  righteoufnefs, 
 And  fpeak  to  all  thy  children  peace  ; 
 Lo,  I  have  done  thy  will,  O  Lord, 
 And  glorify'd  thy  holy  word. 
 
 My  ftrength  and  my  Redeemer  now, 
 With  all  my  faints  to  thee  I  bow ; 
 Accept  my  vow,  my  heart,  my  hand ; 
 And  life  for  all  my  feed  command. 
 
 PSALM     XX. 
 
 .♦ 
 
 LE  T  every  heart,  and  every  lyre, 
 Be  tun'd  to  fmg  with  heavenly  fire; 
 And  hail  King  Jefus  in  a  choir 
 Of  all  his  flints  with  joy : 
 
 X  x  Join 
 
46  PSALM    XX. 
 
 Join  thou,  O  Holy  Ghoft,  along, 
 And  lead  the  dance,  and  lead  the  fong, 
 Prefiding  in  the  eager  throng, 
 
 Combin'd  in  fweet  employ. 
 Jehovah  hear  thee,  mighty  King, 
 Unto  his  heart  thy  prayer  ring, 
 And  may  the  anfwer  make  thee  fingv 
 
 In  day  of  thy  diflrefs. 
 The  God  of  Ifrael  who  hath  fent 
 His  Prince  to  us  with  kind  intent, 
 When  foes  againft  thy  life  are  bent, 
 
 Their  dire  outrage  reprefs. 
 Jehovah  fend  thee  in  thy  day, 
 And  fend  thee  foon  without  delay, 
 Supporting  ftrength  in  all  thy  way ; 
 
 Till  thou  have  gain'd  the  crown, 
 Behold  thy  King  of  Zion-hill, 
 Oh  Abba,  Father,  thou  fulfil 
 His  pure  requefts  who  doth  thy  will, 
 
 Even  in  his  dying  groans. 
 Accept  his  offering,  fee  how  pure, 
 According  to  thy  precept  fure ! 
 His  facrifice  muft  ftill  endure, 
 
 Fulfilled  his  counfels  all : 
 For  he  hath  flood  thy  fierceft  fire, 
 Th'  infinite  fulnefs  of  thine  ire, 
 A  chofen  veffel  all  entire; 
 
 No  drofs  from  him  did  fall. 
 Thanks  to  Jehovah  evermore; 
 The  army  of  thy  faints  adore, 
 Expunged  quite  the  fhameful  fcore 
 
 Of  debt  we  ow'd  to  thee. 
 We'll  glory  now  in  Chrift  our  King, 
 By  him  to  thee  the  glory  fing, 
 
 Whe 
 
PSALM    XXL  347 
 
 Who  doth  to  us  redemption  bring; 
 Away  our  for  rows  flee.   • 
 
 6  Our  royal  Captain  wears  the  bays, 
 By  him  our  banners  we  will  raife ; 
 Our  royal  motto  ihall  be  "  P^aife, 
 
 P raife  to  our  God  Mo/I  High:' 
 Wherever  we  mall  fee  him  move, 
 Our  valor  we  will  drive  to  prove ; 
 J  For  we  will  live  and  die  in  love, 
 
 Where'er  his  flandards  fly. 
 
 7  O  glory !  glory  !  what  is  this  ? 
 What  high  unknown  excefs  of  blifs! 
 My  foul  imparadifed  is ! 
 
 The  Holy  Ghoft  is  given  ! 
 I  hear  celeftial  voices  fing, 
 With  fhouting  all  the  concaves  ring, 
 Sing  praifel  fing  praife  to  Chrift,  the  King 
 
 He  reigns  the  King  of  heaven ! 
 
 8  In  chariot-horfes  fome  confide, 
 Mere  fliadows  which  away  do  glide! 
 But  by  Jehovah  we'll  abide ; 
 
 He'll  hear  us  when  we  cry. 
 Our  enemies  are  fallen  down, 
 But  we  are  raifed  for  the  crown, 
 Our  Saviour  reigneth  on  the  throne, 
 
 Our  Advocate  on  high  ! 
 
 PSAL  M     XXI. 
 
 IN  burning  raptures  (hall  the  King, 
 With  all  his  faints,  Jehovah,  fing 
 The  fweet  falvation  thou  doll  bring ; 
 
 And  boldly  will  we  glory. 
 Yea,  in  thy  ftrength  we'll  lift  our  voice, 
 And  give  a  breath  to  all  our  joyS, 
 
 X  :     :  Till 
 
348  PSALM    XXIr 
 
 Till  wide  creation  round  rejoice, 
 And  hear  how  loud  we  glory. 
 
 2  He  triumphs  in  his  heartVdefire, 
 Even  all  his  lips  did  e'er  require, 
 
 That  we  might  charge  the  founding  lyre. 
 
 With  viftory  and  glory. 
 Thro'  the  prevention  of  thy  love, 
 And  bleflings  that  fliall  never  move, 
 Thy  Ernbaffy,  the  Holy  Dove, 
 
 Hath  filPd  him  with  thy  glory. 
 
 3  Thou  crown'd  him  with  thy  pureft  gold. 
 And  faid  to  all  thy  hofts,  Behold 
 
 The  Man  in  whom  alone  is  bold 
 
 My  foul  to  reft  and  glory. 
 Of  thee  he  afked  length  of  days, 
 Thou  fill'd  his  bofom  with  thy  praife, 
 And  gave  him  an  eternal  blaze, 
 
 Of  light,  and  life,  and  glory,   ; 
 
 4  Thy  fparkling  love  upon  his  crown, 
 Majeftic  honours  round  him  thrown, 
 With  high  falvations  thou  hail:  fhown, 
 
 Point  out  the  Lord  of  Glory. 
 For  thou  haft  fmgled  him  alone, 
 And  call'd  him  thy  Beloved  Son, 
 And  made  him  reign  upon  thy  throne, 
 
 The  Lord  of  all  thy  glory. 
 
 5  Thou  threw  his  fpirit  in  a  trance, 
 When  lifting  up  thy  countenance, 
 
 Thou,  "  To  my  bofom,"  faid,  "  Advance, 
 
 "  Thou  Son  of  all  my  glory.'7 
 The  glory,  hi  effing,  he  alone 
 Of  all  the  faints  before  the  throne", 
 Who  ftiine  adorn 'd  with  palm  and  crown,  « 
 
 Admiring  at  his  glory. 
 
 Their 
 
PSALM    XXL 
 
 9  Their  glory  He,  for  evermore, 
 And  thou  art  his,  he  ftands  before 
 Thy  face,  on  head  of  all  his  choir ; 
 
 Thou  wilt  defend  his  glory. 
 Jehovah,  fee !  he  ftreams  with  blood 5 
 Defending  of  thy  purpofe  good, 
 And  quelling  all  the  haughty  proud, 
 
 Who  rofe  againft  thy  glory. 
 7  His  royal  joy  is  in  thy  will ; 
 Thy  will  he  burneth  to  fulfil ; 
 Tho'  every  drop  of  blood  he  fpill, 
 
 He  fpills  it  for  thy  glory. 
 Uphold  thy  King,  Jehovah,  do; 
 He  trufteth  in  Jehovah's  bow, 
 And  thro'  thy  mercy-ftandeth  too, 
 
 Unmoved  in  thy  glory. 
 3  His  enemies,  I  fee  them  fly, 
 
 Before  thy  fword,  O  thou  Mod  High  ; 
 Thou'lt  them  extirpate  utterly, 
 
 To  vindicate  his  glory, 
 A  fiery  oven  make  them,  God, 
 The  fulnefs  of  thy  wrath  be  blow'd, 
 Till  all  thy  flames  have  overflow'd, 
 
 A  bonfire  to  his  glory. 
 9  Already,  lo,  they  feel  the  flame 
 Arifing  fmouldering  over  them, 
 Who  rag'd  and  burn'd  againft  thy  Lamb, 
 
 A  foil  unto  his  glory. 
 Confum'd  together,  branch  and  root, 
 They  leave  no  bud  behind  to  (hoot ; 
 In  parched  lands  they  reap  their  fruity 
 
 Againft  thy  Branch  who  glory. 
 io  For  they  defign'd  a  fad  mifchief, 
 
 And  thus  exprefs'd  their  purpofe  brief; 
 
 349 
 
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3So  PSALM    XXII. 
 
 "  We'll  fill  the  chofen  Piant  with  grief, 
 w  And  o'er  him  loadly  glory  j 
 
 "  For  God  will  bring  him  no  relief, 
 
 "  His  ftrength  (hall  fall  before  the  thief; 
 
 "  We'll  hew  to  earth  the  cedar  chief, 
 "  And  fpoil  him  of  his  glory !" 
 
 1 1  They  fpoke,  and  boafled  in  the  air, 
 But  God  preferv'd  his  Prince  and  Heir ; 
 The  boaflers  caught  in  their  own  fnare, 
 
 And  fpoil'd  them  of  their  glory, 
 Surprizing  in  the  very  act, 
 He  made  his  heavens  o'er  them  crack, 
 And  dafh'd  his  arrows  in  their  back, 
 
 Giving  them  fhame  for  glory, 
 
 12  Exalted  thou,  Jehovah  be, 
 
 And  in  thy  power  our  King  with  thee; 
 That  we  may  all  thy  mercy  fee, 
 
 The  glory  of  thy  glory. 
 Oh  Abba,  Father,  Spirit,  Son, 
 Eternal  Godhead,  on  the  throne, 
 To  Thee,  Jehovah,  who  art  One, 
 
 Be  Glory  !  Glory  !  Glory ! 
 
 PSALM    XXII. 
 
 MY  God,  my  God,  why  haft  thou  left 
 Me  thus,  of  all  my  joys  bereft  ? 
 In  pain !  in  pain  !  in  pain ! 
 In  mercy,  mercy,  oh !  return, 
 And  leave  my  foul  no  more  to  mourn  : 
 Return,  return  again ! 
 2  Behold,  and  fee  thy  Lamb  implore, 
 Help,  help,  before  I  am  no  more. 
 Why  Hand  fo  far  away  ? 
 
PSALM    XXII.  351 
 
 This  bitter  anguifh  makes  me  roar,' 
 Hell's  blackeft  horrors  flow  me  o'er ; 
 I  roar  both  night  and  day. 
 
 The  fhades  of  midnight  hear  my  moan ; 
 The  dawnings  and  the  noon  my  groan ; 
 
 Art  Thou,  who  made  them,  deaf? 
 Creator  of  the  eye  and  ear, 
 Why  doft  thou  not  in  pity  hear, 
 
 See  and  remove  my  grief  ? 
 Yet  holinefs  is  all  thine  own, 
 The  circling  glory  of  thy  crown, 
 
 Who  dwells't  in  Ifrael's  praife. 
 The  Patriarchs  and  thy  lfrael  all, 
 In  low  fubmiffion  down  did  fall, 
 
 And  loud  their  voices  raife  ; 
 
 To'  thee  their  prayers  upward  flew ; 
 Thy  bleffings  fell  as  heavenly  dew ; 
 
 They  cry'd,  and  were  not  'many  d  : 
 They  pled  their  foes  were  fierce  and  ltrong  ; 
 Their  cry  was  turned  to  a  fong ; 
 
 Their  plea  was  not  contemn'd, 
 
 But  I,  the  Prince  of  all  thy  might, 
 The  mod  contemn'd,  defpifed  wight, 
 
 That  ever  prefs'd  the  ground, 
 Nay  trodden  in  the  ground,  a  worm, 
 Dafh'd,  dafti'd  upon  by  every  florm, 
 
 No  mortal  heeds  my  wound  ; 
 
 Nay,  all  that  fee  me  fcorn  and  laugh, 
 And  count  me  as  the  ufelefs  chaff, 
 
 That  fporteth  in  the  wind ; 
 The  more  I'm  toffed  in  the  ftorms, 
 Scoffing  they  cry,  "  How  he  performs 
 
 "  Deeds  of  a  mighty  mind  1" 
 
 3  Mif- 
 
352  PSALM    XXII. 
 
 8  Mifchievous,  bitter,  bitter  foes ! 
 They  weigh  upon  their  fneering  nofe 
 
 My  bitternefs  of  foul ! 
 They  jeer,  and  grin,  and  make  the  head? 
 "  Plants  of  renown,  we  fee,  can  fade, 
 
 "  And  with  the  whirlwinds  rowl !" 
 
 9  "  He  trufted  in  Jehovah's  throne, 
 w  And  faid,  he  was  Jehovah's  Son, 
 
 "  Then  let  Jehovah  now, 
 "  If  he  will  have  him,  run  in  time, 
 "  Of  his  delights  the  flowery  prime* 
 "  From  afhes  to  refcue  i" 
 io  Yet  furely,  thou,  Jehovah,  art 
 (And  wilt  fuftain  the  tender  part) 
 My  Father,  God,  and  King, 
 Thou  brought'ft  me  fafely  from  the  womb* 
 And  guardefl  fafely  to  my  tomb, 
 Yea,  up  again  wilt  bring. 
 
 1 1  For  thou  hafl  all  my  fafety  been, 
 Since  I  engaged  in  this  fcene, 
 
 In  birth,  in  life,  in  death. 
 I  hung  upon  the  breafts,  by  thee ; 
 By  thee,  I  prefs'd  my  mother's  knee ; 
 By  thee,  I  yield  my  breath. 
 
 1 2  See,  fee  me  now  how  I  am  troubled ! 
 For  flroke  on  ftroke  is  fore  redoubled. 
 
 And  nought  but  trouble  near ! 
 For  many  bulls  do  fiercely  gore  me, 
 On  every  fide,  behind,  before  me; 
 
 They  rage,  they  ftamp,  they  tear* 
 
 13  Strong  bulls  of  Bafhan,  mad  and  proud* 
 Devour  me,  revelling  in  my  blood, 
 
 Their  mouths  upon  me  gape; 
 
 Their 
 
PSALM    XXIL  353 
 
 Their  throat  is  like  an  open  pit, 
 And  I  am  rolled  down  through  it ; 
 How  can  I  now  efcape  ? 
 
 14  They  caft  me  forth  upon  the  ground, 
 And  (till  continue  raging  round, 
 
 As  lions  on  their  prey  ; 
 Ravening,  roaring  on  my  bones, 
 They  crufli  me,  dafli  me  to  the  (tones  ; 
 
 My  fpirit  melts  away. 
 
 15  I'm  poured  out,  a  heavy  fliower 
 
 Of  ftreaming  life  through  every  pore; 
 
 I'm  drench'd  in  pools  of  blood  1 
 My  bones  are  all  in  fmgle  joints, 
 MaiTacred  by  their  fliarpened  points, 
 
 My  flefli  with  games  hew'd ! 
 
 16  My  heart,  like  wax  in  raging  flames, 
 All  fiercely  melted  glows  and  gleams, 
 
 Amidfl  my  burning  bowels ! 
 My  ftrength  is  fcorched  to  a  coal ;      N      v 
 My  eyes  are  fet,  and  cannot  roll ; 
 
 Dark  hell  upon  me  fcowls  i 
 
 17  My  tongue  fafl-cleaveth  to  my  jaws; 
 Grim  death  upon  me  wrecks  his  laws, 
 
 And  drags  me  to  the  grave ! 
 Affembled  devils  have  me  found ; 
 The  dogs  enclofmg  me  around, 
 
 Keen- worrying,  to  me  cleave ! 
 
 1 8  They  cling,  and  make  their  teeth  to  meet,     * 
 And  piercing  through  my  hands  and  feet. 
 
 They  havoc  on  my  foul ! 
 Diftended  in  fuch  cruel  guife, 
 My  bones  do  flare  upon  their  eyes: 
 For  joy  they  fnriek  and  howl, 
 
 y  y  10  My 
 
354  PSALM    XXiL 
 
 19  My  human  enemies  no  lefs 
 Again  it  me  do  their  fpite  exprefs, 
 
 And  triumph  in  my  fpoil ; 
 They  part  my  garments  on  the  fpot, 
 And  for  my  vefture  caft.  the  lot, 
 Even  to  reward  their  toil. 
 
 20  But  be  not  far,  O  Lord,  from  me ; 
 To  thee,  my  ftrength,  to  thee,  I  flee ) 
 
 Haft  to  relieve  me  thou ; 
 Deliver  from  the  murdering  fword, 
 According  to  thy  pledged  word, 
 
 Oh  fave  me,  fave  me  now ! 
 
 21  O  fave  my  darling  from  the  dogf 
 And  bears  who  now  my  fpirit  hug, 
 
 Snatch  me  from  lion's  mouth  ! 
 Dire  unicorns  tofs  me  hip;h  ; 
 Between  their  horn-points  I  fly  j 
 
 O  fave  me  in  thy  truth ! 
 
 22  So  will  I  fpread  abroad  thy  praife, 
 High  hallelujahs  to  thee  raife, 
 
 And  glorious  make  thy  name, 
 In  the  aflembly  of  thy  faints, 
 My  brethren  all,  whole  fpirit  pants 
 
 To  know  thy  wondrous  fame. 
 
 2  3  Now,  now,  ye  faints,  who  love  die  Lord/ 
 Rejoice,  and  tremble  at  his  word; 
 
 Strike  up  a  joyful  found, 
 Ye  fons  of  Ifraelitic  race, 
 And  all  ye  children  of  his  grace, 
 
 Let  heaven  and  earth  rebound, 
 
 24  For  he  defpifed  not  the  cry, 
 
 Nor  fcorn'd  the  afHi&ed's  mifery  ; 
 He  heard  me  when  1  pray'd  j 
 
P  S  A  L  M    XXII.  355 
 
 He  rode  upon  a  fiery  cloud, 
 And  fhew'd  himfelf  th'  avenging  God ; 
 My  foes  away  he  fray'd. 
 
 2 5  My  Praifes  therefore  fliall  afcend 
 To  thee,  until  the  world  fhall  end, 
 
 And  through  eternity. 
 My  whole  affembly  {hall  aloud, 
 To  God  exprefs  my  gratitude ; 
 
 I'll  lift  their  fong  on  high. 
 
 26  I'll  pay  my  vows  before  them  all. 
 And  lowed  in  fubmiffion  fall, 
 
 Being  lifted  up  fo  high  ; 
 My  praife*fball  no  remiflion  know^ 
 My  bofom  never  ceafe  to  glow, 
 
 My  ardors  never  die. 
 
 27  The  meek  mall  feaft  upon  my  love, 
 And  they  who  tafle  fliall  never  move, 
 
 Being  ravifh'd  in  their  foul ; 
 They  fliall  rejoice  before  my  God, 
 And  blefs  his  name,  and  praife  their  food^ 
 
 Their  cup  being  ever  full. 
 
 28  They  feaft  upon  my  flefli  and  blood; 
 And  filled  with  my  Spirit  good, 
 
 They  live  for  evermore. 
 Sweet  mufic  runs  the  table  round, 
 And  heaven  fwells  in  every  found, 
 Re-echoing  o'er  and  o'er. 
 
 29  All  ends  cf  th'  earth  remember  fhall, 
 And  turn  obedient  to  my  call, 
 
 Jehovah,  in  thine  hour; 
 And  every  nation,  kindred,  tongue, 
 ■\t  my  levee  fabmiflive  throng, 
 
 Jehovah  by  thy  power.  • 
 
 2 
 
35<$  P  S  A  L  M    XXIII. 
 
 30  For  thine,  Jehovah,  is  th'  empire; 
 Thou  ruleft  them  at  thy  defire ; 
 
 The  Gentiles  bow  them  low ; 
 All  that  are  fat  and  over-grown, 
 Shall  worfhip,  and  thy  kingdom  own. 
 
 And  eat  what  thou'lt  beftow  ; 
 
 3 1  If  they  refufe  to  join  thy  faints, 
 Defpifmg  what  thy  bounty  grants, 
 
 Still  hankering  after  luft  ; 
 Not  one  of  them  ihall  keep  alive 
 His  foul  by  all  they  can  contrive ; 
 
 Thou'lt  write  them  in  the  dulL 
 
 32  For  ftill  thy  purpofe  mall  obtain, 
 Till  thou  have  finifli'd  every  fcene    - 
 
 Decree-ed  in  thy  breall. 
 Thy  feed  mail  ferve  thee  evermore, 
 Obey  thee,  love  thee,  and  adore, 
 
 In  thee  fupremely  bleft. 
 
 33  Thy  generation's  pure  as  gold  ; 
 But  all  the  reft  like  drofs  are  fold, 
 
 To  Satan,  fin,  and  (hame. 
 But  thine  mall  come,  and  found  aloud, 
 To  all  the  following  race,  that  God 
 
 Hath  glorify'd  his  name. 
 
 PSALM    XXIIL 
 
 THE  Lord's  my  Shepherd;  I'll  not  want, 
 Nor  any  one  elected  faint. 
 My  faint-fhip  and  election,   1, 
 Do  know  his  love  will  juftify. 
 His  Spirit  jultifies  his  love, 
 And  gives  me  peace  and  joy  to  prove. 
 His  peace  and  joy,  a  flowing  well, 
 With  heaven  make  all  my  bofom  (well. 
 
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PSALM    XXIII.  357 
 
 2  He  makes  me  down  to  ly  in  peace 
 Among  the  frefh  and  blooming  grafs, 
 Fill'd  with  the  choiceft  buds  of  grace, 
 In  fafety,  come  what  will  to  pafs. 
 
 No  blighting  dews  (hall  fpoil  the  plains, 
 "Where  everlafiing  verdure  reigns. 
 The  world  may  wear  away  to  dud, 
 But  ne'er  an  atpm  harm'd  the  juft. 
 
 3  By  the  dill  waters  leads  he  me, 
 Smooth  as  they  were  a  chrydal-fea; 
 The  waters  fwell  up  to  the  brim, 
 And  offer  me  the  pleafant  dream ; 
 
 I  drink,  but  Oh !  the  wonders  wrought 
 In  fatisfying  of  my  drought ; 
 A  heaven  goes  down  at  every  draught ; 
 "With  perfect  love  I'm  fully  fraught. 
 
 4  The  waters  too  as  chrydal  clear, 
 
 To  reprefent  the  peerlefs  fun ; 
 In  them  his  glories  all  appear, 
 
 Bright  fparkling  from  his  heavenly  crown. 
 His  Image  I  reflected  fee, 
 And  the  reflection  changeth  me, 
 Till  I  in  the  fame  glory  fliine, 
 As  he,  my  glory,  all  divine. 
 
 PSALM    XXIII.  s. 
 
 IF  any  time  I  go  adray, 
 My  Shepherd  meets  me  on  my  way, 
 Then  he  brings  back  my  foul  again, 
 And  bids  his  Spirit  in  me  reign. 
 He  binds  me  in  his  chain  of  love, 
 And  fays,  "  Thou  mud  not  hence  remove ; 
 "  But  fled  fad  keep  thine  eyes  on  me, 
 "  My  foot  {hall  thy  direction  be. 
 
 2  "  Within 
 
358  PSALM    XXIII. 
 
 2  "  "Within  the  pafhs  of  righteoufnefs, 
 "  I  have  enclos'd  thy  happinefs ; 
 
 »  "  And  therein  that  thou  may'ft  abide, 
 5 «  Walk  with  thy  Shepherd  fide-by-fide." 
 So  was  his  tender  pafloral  charge  ; 
 My  flrength  was  fmall,  his  love  was  large  j 
 For  he  himfelf  perform'd  the  whole, 
 In  kind  compaflion  to  my  foul. 
 
 3  Nor  need  I  marvel  now  at  him, 
 Remembering  that  critic  time, 
 When  he  efpied  me  in  the  jaws 
 
 Of  death,  he  then  efpous'd  my  caufe  ; 
 And  boldly  leaping  down  his  throat, 
 He  chockt  and  Hew  death  on  the  fpotj 
 Then  fprung  aloft  with  me  along, 
 And  fill'd  my  mouth  with  this  new  fong, 
 
 PSALM     XXIII.  4.  to  the  end. 
 
 YEA,  though  I  walk  in  death's  dark  vale! 
 Though  every  deadly  thing  aflail, 
 Yet  will  I  fear  no  ill  from  them, 
 Jehovah  is  my  Shepherd's  name. 
 My  Shepherd  knows  me  perfect  well, 
 And  all  the  (late  wherein  I  dwell. 
 He  fympathizeth  tenderly, 
 And  while  he  lives,  I  cannot  die. 
 i  How  can  I  die  !  how  can  I  fear! 
 Since  thou  my  Lord  art  with  me  here. 
 There's  not  a  title  of  thy  name, 
 
 But  big  with  joy  to  me  it  goes; 
 Thy  ways  are  all  a  living  ftream 
 
 Of  love,  which  thro?  my  fpirit  flows ; 
 I  drink  the  waters  as  they  run, 
 A  nd  find  a  heaven  in  me  begun. 
 
PSALM    XXIIL  559 
 
 3  I  glory  not  in  heaven  alone, 
 
 And  all  the  pleafures  round  the  throne; 
 
 But  I  in  tribulations  ling, 
 
 For  therein  I  do  pledge  my  King; 
 
 He  drank  the  brook,  and  rais'd  the  head. 
 
 And  me  a  fweet  example  led. 
 
 He  gloried  in  the  bittereft  fliame, 
 
 That  I  might  glory  in  his  name. 
 
 4  The  rod  and  Spirit  ever  fince, 
 The  rod  and  Spirit  of  my  Prince, 
 When  I  am  fainting,  wan,  and  pale, 
 To  bring  me  comfort  never  fail ; 
 When  Efther-like,  in  day  of  trial, 
 
 I  cannot  live  with  a  denial, 
 I  boldly  take  my  life  in  hand, 
 And  live  or  die  by  his  command.     * 
 
 5  When  I  am  onward  drawing  nigh, 
 He  will  not  fuffer  me  to  die; 
 But  mildly  holds  the  fceptre  out, 
 And  bids  me  banifh  every  doubt  j 
 "  Now  thy  petition  and  requefl, 
 
 "  Give  thou  to  me,  and  be  thou  blefl :" 
 If  any  time  my  mouth  replies, 
 "  Thou  fee-eft  their  con/piracies  /" 
 
 6  No  fooner  faid,  than  lo,  at  once, 
 Big  terrors  to  his  face  advance ; 
 
 He  gives  the  high  commandment  forth. 
 To  banifh  all  my  foes  from  earth: 
 Yea,  now  triumphant,  lo,  I  fing, 
 Triumphant  in  my  God,  my  King. 
 My  table  thou  hail  furnifhed, 
 And  every  foe  haft  banifhed. 
 
 7  The  fiery  torrent  o'er  them  flows, 
 Their  anguilh  no  relenting  knows ; 
 
 For 
 
3&  PSALM    XXIII. 
 
 For  thou  haft  filled  high  their  cup, 
 With  black  defpair,  inflead  of  hope  ; 
 But  thou  hall  given  to  me  the  palm, 
 And  heal'd  my  wounds  with  Gilead-balm- : 
 They  fee  me  drinking  from  afar, 
 The  triumphs  of  the  finiuVd  war. 
 8  I  drink  the  flowing  bowls  of  peace, 
 The  precious  fruits  of  fovereign  grace. 
 My  head  by  thee  anointed  flows ; 
 The  ointment  o'er  my  body  goes, 
 Goodnefs  and  Mercy  all  my  days 
 
 Of  life,  fhall  furely  follow  me. 
 And  in  God's  houle,  with  endlefs  praife, 
 
 In  thee  my  dwelling-place  fliall  be. 
 
 Another  of  the  'Same. 
 
 YE  foxes,  and  lions,  and  leopards,  and  wolves* 
 And  dogs  as  mifchievous  as  yon, 
 For  lack  of  your  prey,  ye  may  worry  yourfelves; 
 For  Jehovah's  my  Shepherd,  I  trow ! 
 
 2  Tho'  I  were  remov'd  to  the  defarts  in  hafte, 
 
 Green- paftures  around  me  would  grow, 
 And  give  me  to  fmile  at  the  wildernefs  wafte; 
 For  Jehovah's  my  Shepherd,  I  trow  ! 
 
 3  Tho'  thirfly  I  were  in  the  thirftieft  land, 
 
 Where  never  a  flreamlet  doth  flow, 
 Even  there,  I  would  find  the  flill  waters  at  hand ; 
 For  Jehovah's  my  Shepherd,  I  trow ! 
 
 4  Tho'  Satan  fliou Id  carry  me  off  thro'  the  air, 
 
 And  threaten  me  headlong  to  throw, 
 Surpriz'd,  I  would  find  my  Preferver  were  there 
 For  Jehovah's  my  Shepherd,  I  trow ! 
 
 5  If  any  time  walking,  I  happen  to  ftray. 
 
 And  krfbw  not  welt  whither  I  go, 
 
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PSALM    XXIV.  361 
 
 Ere  I'm  well  aware  Fm  reftor'd  to  my  way ; 
 For  Jehovah's  my  Shepherd,  I  trow! 
 
 6  Yea  now,  though  I  walk  in  the  valley  of  death  ; 
 
 With  fhadows,  and  darknefs,  and  wo, 
 
 No  evil  {hall  hurt  me,  nor  fill  up  my  path ; 
 
 For  Jehovah's  my  Shepherd,  I  trow! 
 
 7  Every  flep  that  I  move  is  a  mark  to  my  foul, 
 
 Tho'  from  forrow  to  forrow  I  go, 
 That  falvation's  the  nearer  to  me  on  the  whole ; 
 For  Jehovah's  my  Shepherd,  I  trow !  5 
 
 8  Lo,  my  battle  is  over,  and  vi&ory  gain'd, 
 
 My  foes  they  ly  howling  below  ; 
 But  I  have  my  kingdom  and  glory  obrain'd ; 
 For  Jehovah's  my  Shepherd,  I  trow ! 
 
 9  My  table  is  furnifli'd  with  heavenly  wines, 
 
 My  joys,  fee  how  they  overflow  ! 
 But  this  is  not  all  that  my  Shepherd  defigns ; 
 For  Jehovah's  my  Shepherd,  I  trow ! 
 
 10  For  life  everlafting  to  me  he  affures, 
 
 In  his  houfe,  where  his  pleafures  do  flow ; 
 Who  is  it  will  (hut  me  now  out  of  his  doors  f 
 Since  Jehovah's  my  Shepherd,  I  trow  ! 
 
 PSALM     XXIV. 
 
 JEHOVAH  claims  each  fpacious  world, 
 Which,  roll'd  and  rounded  in  his  palm, 
 He  thro'  the  vafl  expanfes  hurl'd; 
 Self-balanc'd  on  their  centres,  flew 
 
 They,  round  and  round,  with  motion  calm, 
 Compos'd  and  fleady,  drongly  whirl'd  j 
 All  fhining,  to  their  orbits  true, 
 They  man's  exorbitances  fhame. 
 2  Of  all  his  orbs,  in  this  terreflrial  ball', 
 Expreffeth  mod:  peculiar  joys 
 
 Z  z  Jdhovah, 
 
362  PSALM    XXIV. 
 
 Jehovah,  fovereign  Lord  of  all, 
 Who  holds  creation  in  a  band, 
 
 And  o'er  the  whole  his  eye  employs; 
 No  atom  can  aftraying  fall, 
 
 But  he  replaceth  with  his  hand  ; 
 Or,  if  rebellious,  quite  deftroys. 
 
 3  The  earth  he  founded  on  the  feas, 
 
 And  well  eftabliih'd  on  the  flood ; 
 He  dpth  whate'er  his  counfels  pleafe, 
 
 With  freedom,  on  the  moid  and  dry  ; 
 Ke  form'd  their  fulnefs,  form'd  them  good, 
 But  man  was  glorious  in  his  eyes, 
 Till  man  rebel  I'd  in  point  of  food ; 
 Upright  before,  now  all  awry! 
 
 4  Where  is  the  man  ?  O  fay  ye,  where, 
 
 That  mall  afcend  Jehovah's  hill, 
 And  dwell  a  welcome  flranger  there, 
 Among  the  mining  hofts  above, 
 And  drink  of  pleafure  pure  his  fill, 
 Blooming  as  they,  a  glory  fair, 
 A  living  praife,  a  living  love, 
 Delighting  in  Jehovah's  will  ? 
 
 5  Find  out  the  man,  the  clean,  the  pure, 
 
 Whofe  hands  are  fair  as  God  the  Lord, 
 Who  in  his  purpofe  doth  endure, 
 An  abfolute  perfection  flill, 
 Obedient  to  Jehovah's  word, 
 In  heart,  in  life,  with  all  his  power, 
 In  doing,  fuffering  all  his  will, 
 
 Tho'  pierced  with  Jehovah's  fword. 
 
 6  Find  out  the  man  who  fhall  remain, 
 
 Unmov'd  and  fleady  as  the  pole; 
 Nor  lift  his  foul  to  what  is  vain, 
 
 Though  earth  and  hell  combin'd,  at  once 
 
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PSALM    XXIV.  s6y 
 
 Should  fall  in  tempefh  on  his  foul, 
 O'erwhelming  him  with  horrid  pain, 
 
 While  through  his  heart  God's  arrows  glance; 
 Becaufe  he  fcorns  to  be  a  fool. 
 
 7  Find  out  the  man  who  took  an  oath, 
 
 And  fwore  on  all  the  pains  of  death, 
 That  he  to  break  it  would  be  loth ; 
 Jehovah  took  him  at  his  word, 
 
 Yea,  for  his  oath  he  took  his  breath, 
 Arrefting  foul  and  body  both; 
 He  for  a  breach  of  faith  explor'd, 
 
 Yet  finding  none,  he  pour'd  his  wrath. 
 
 8  Behold  the  man !  for  this  is  he, 
 
 The  man  approv'd  of  God's  own  heart, 
 The  Lord  and  Son  of  David  fee, 
 The  end  and  glory  of  the  law, 
 Which  he  fulfill'd  in  every  part ; 
 O  generation  pure,  for  thee, 
 
 In  faith  who  mine  without  a  flaw, 
 O  God  of  Jacob,  by  thine  art. 
 
 9  Draw  up,  ye  everlafting  gates, 
 
 Draw  up  your  heads,  and  lift  them  high  ; 
 For  lo,  the  King  of  Glory  waits, 
 Lift  up,  ye  everlafting  doors, 
 
 Difplay,  difplay  an  open  fky ; 
 Behold  the  King  with  all  his  dates, 
 .    To  day  through  all  your  entrance  pours, 
 
 See,  fee  his  royal  banners  fly  ! 
 
 I  o  WTho  is  this  King  of  glory  ?  Who  ? 
 Say,  who  this  King  of  glory  is, 
 That  enters  here  with  fuch  ado  ? 
 Jehovah  fee,  the  Mighty  King, 
 
 With  all  the  thousands  tbnt  are  his; 
 Adore,  znd  know,  adore,  and  bow, 
 
 Z  Z    2 
 
364  PSALM    XXV, 
 
 To  him  the  ftrength  and  vi&ory  fing, 
 And  hail  him  into  paradife. 
 1 1  Who  is  this  King  of  glory  ?  Who  ? 
 
 That  with  his  armies  fills  the  ikies, 
 Vi&orious  over  every  foe, 
 
 With  ftrength  and  majesty  fo  high, 
 
 In  triumph  entering  paradife  ? 
 
 Defcend,  ye  heavens,  and  bend  ye  low, 
 
 Jems,  the  Lord  of  hods,  is  nigh, 
 
 Lo,  he  the  King  of  glory  is ! 
 
 PSALM    XXV.  i- — & 
 
 MY  Lord,  my  God,  arife ; 
 To  thee  my  Spirit  flies ; 
 Look  down  on  me  with  pleafant  eyes, 
 And  do  not  thou  my  fuit  defpife. 
 
 2  Jehovah,  thee  I  love ; 
 My  foot  fliall  not  remove, 
 
 Till  1  thy  confolations  prove, 
 High  raifed  up  my  foes  above. 
 
 3  And  for  thy  Darling's  caufe, 
 Who  kept  thy  darling  laws, 
 
 No  mortal  e'er  afhamed  was, 
 Who  gave  to  me  my  juit  applaufe. 
 
 4  But  fons  of  haughty  pride, 
 Thy  Chofen  who  deride, 
 
 And  do  not  in  the  Rock  confide, 
 Like  water  from  the  rock  fliall  glide. 
 5.  O  fend  thy  Spirit  out, 
 
 To  banifh  every  doubt, 
 That  I  may  bring  thy  will  about, 
 And  make  thy  faints  with  gladnefs  ihout, 
 
 6  Thy  Spirit  knows 'thy  ways, 
 Thy  Spirit  wings  thy  praife, 
 
 Thy 
 
PSALM    XXV.  363 
 
 Thy  children's  heart  doth  heaven-ward  raife ; 
 And  teacheth  them  to  know  thy  phrafe, 
 
 7  O  lead  me  by  thy  truth ; 
 I  hang  upon  thy  mouth ; 
 
 Thy  word  dire&eth  all  my  youth, 
 Thy  worj}  my  fpirit  all  reneweth. 
 
 8  Thou  art  my  God  alone  ; 
 I  pray  before  thy  throne, 
 
 Till  thou  with  thy  falvation  crown 
 Thy  own  Beloved  Faithful  Son. 
 
 9  Jehovah,  O  do  thou, 
 Remember  mercy  now, 
 
 In  kind  compaflion  downward  bow, 
 And  all  thy  tenderneffes  fliew. 
 
 I  o  Thou  Faithful,  Juft,  and  True, 
 
 Thy  glory  let  me  view, 
 Thy  fweet  refrefhments,  ever  new, 
 On  me  diftil  as  evening-dew. 
 
 I I  Behold  my  body  clean, 
 My  church,  I  bear  her  fin ; 
 
 As  me  had  ne'er  defiled  been, 
 Behold  my  church  my  Elecl-queen. 
 
 12  On  me  be  all  her  wrong, 
 Nor  let  me  labour  long, 
 
 Beneath  the  load  fo  heavy,  fore,  and  ftrong ; 
 O  fill  my  mouth  with  joy  and  fong. 
 
 1 3  Difperfe  thou  far  away, 
 My  burdens  which  me  flay, 
 
 Anal  bring  deliverance  in  my  day, 
 My  forrows  buried  in  the  fea ; 
 
 14  And  give  my  Fair,  my  Dove> 
 To  fhine  in  all  thy  love, 
 
 And 
 
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 And  all  her  blame,  and  fhame  remove, 
 And  raife  her  to  thy  joys  above. 
 
 15  Let  all  my  righteoufnefs, 
 My  Spirit,  Grace,  and  Peace, 
 
 Adorn  her  round,  and  fill  her  face, 
 With  holy  boldnefs  in  thy  place. 
 
 1 6  My  God,  for  thy  own  Name, 
 This  goodnefs  I  do  claim, 
 
 Even  I,  thy  unpolluted  Lamb, 
 
 Who  to  Thee  come,  and  from  Thee  cameP 
 
 PSALM    XXV.  8 12. 
 
 HOW  great  the  goodnefs  of  the  Lord? 
 The  Lord  of  all  ray  glory  ! 
 He'll  fmners  teach  his  holy  Word  j 
 
 All  humbly  O  adore  ye. 
 The  meek  and  lowlv  he  will  guide? 
 
 In  all  the  ways  of  purenefs ; 
 In  all  he  fays  ye  may  confide, 
 For  all  his  words  are  furenefs. 
 
 2  His  footfteps  all  are  perfecl  peace, 
 
 And  to  the  Faithful  pleafant, 
 Who  love  his  covenant  of  grace, 
 
 And  Me,  his  matchlefs  prefent. 
 For  his  own  fake  he  pardon  {hall 
 
 The  fcandalous  tranfgreffton ; 
 For  his  demands  I  anfwer  all, 
 
 And  make  the  good  confeffion. 
 
 PSALM     XXV.  1 2-— 14. 
 
 WH  O  is  the  man  that  feareth 
 The  Lord,  and  his  word  heareth, 
 And  as  the  cafe  appeareth, 
 Doth  therein  acquiefce  P 
 
 Tiu 
 
PSALM    XXV.  367 
 
 The  Spirit  ever  chufeth, 
 Nor  ever  once  refufeth, 
 To  blefs  the  man  who  ufeth 
 
 Aright  the  words  of  peace. 
 Who  is  the  man  but  Jefus, 
 The  Prince  who  came  to  fave  us, 
 Whofe  blood  and  merits  eafe  us  ? 
 
 Jehovah  loves  him  well. 
 His  feed  (hall  dwell  in  pleafure, 
 And  know  his  hidden  treafure, 
 No  robber  make  a  feizure; 
 
 In  God  they  ever  dwell, 
 
 PSALM     XXV.  14.  to  the  end. 
 
 'THE  Spirit  of  the  Lord  indwelling, 
 
 Every  fecret  fear  repelling, 
 
 Is  the  glory  of  the  Saint ; 
 Making  all  his  motions  fteady, 
 Strong,  and  found,  compleat,  and  ready, 
 
 In  thy  holy  covenant. 
 
 Turn  thee  now,  and  blefs  me,  Lord  j 
 All  my  heart  is  in  thy  word  ; 
 
 Difentangle  thou  my  feet. 
 How  difconfolate  my  flate ! 
 Help  me  ere  it  be  too  late  ; 
 
 See  their  nets  about  me  meet. 
 
 Straitened  I  am  more  and  more, 
 For  my  troubles  prefs  me  fore, 
 
 Swarming  eager  on  my  heart ; 
 Fox-like  preying  on  a  lamb, 
 That  has  flrayed  from  its  dam, 
 
 They  with  blood  and  life  depart. 
 See,  Jehovah  !  fee  thy  Son, 
 How  I'm  prey'd  and  worried  on ! 
 
 My  diftreffers  reprimand.  Lift 
 
368  PSALM    XXV. 
 
 Lift  away  the  mighty  load, 
 Of  my  fins,  O  Mighty  God, 
 
 Laid  upon  me  by  thine  hand. 
 
 5  Oh  confider  all  my  foes, 
 Driving  on  their  furious  blows, 
 
 All  their  foul  defcends  alon?. 
 Fierce  and  cruel  is  their  fpite, 
 Ceafe  they  neither  day  nor  night, 
 
 Wafp-like  hiving  round  me  throng. 
 
 6  Every  one  a  deadly  pert, 
 
 Of  my  foul  they  make  their  neft, 
 
 Fixing  in  their  fiery  flings. 
 Pour  on  them  thy  fcalding  flood ; 
 Let  them  perifli  with  my  blood ; 
 
 Choke  their  wrath,  and  burn  their  wings; 
 
 7  Send  deliverance  from  on  high, 
 By  the  hands  of  charity, 
 
 Speedy,  fpeedy,  to  my  foul  j 
 So  afliamed  never  fhall 
 Be  thy  fervant  for  his  fall ; 
 
 I  my  caufe  upon  thee  roll. 
 
 8  Let  Integrity  of  thine, 
 Truth,  and  Faithfulnefs  incline, 
 
 To  preferve  thy  Prieft  and  King. 
 Lo,  behold  my  ranfom-blood  ! 
 Let  redemption  now  be  (hew'd ! 
 
 And  thy  Ifrael  fliout  and  fing  I 
 
 PSALM    XXVI. 
 
 JUDGE  me,  Jehovah,  I  requeft, 
 And  try  me  in  thy  fire ; 
 Thy  fterling  gold  will  ftand  the  teft, 
 And  anfwer  thy  defire. 
 
 2  Thcu'it 
 
PSALM    XXVI.  -36a 
 
 2  Thou'lt  find  me  innocent,  and  free 
 
 Of  any  bafe  alloy. 
 Strict  Juftice,  I  appeal  to  thee, 
 To  fave  me,  or  deftroy. 
 
 3  Let  mine  integrity  maintain, 
 
 And  advocate  my  caufe ; 
 According  as  my  ways  have  been, 
 Give,  or  deny  applaufe. 
 
 4  Nay,  lay  thy  plummet  to  my  mind, 
 
 And  view  it  o'er  and  o'er ; 
 If  thou  an  aberration  find, 
 No  mercy  I  implore. 
 
 5  For  all  my  working,  and  defign, 
 
 I  by  thy  level  prov'd; 
 So,  even  by  thy  faithful  line, 
 My  work  fliall  ftand  unmov'd. 
 
 6  Explore  me,  God,  explore  me  round, 
 
 My  fpirit,  heart,  and  reins ; 
 I  know  before,  there  will  be  found 
 No  blemifli,  flaws,  or  flains. 
 
 7  Thy  loving-kindnefs,  Lord,  always, 
 
 Within  my  bofom  glows. 
 Thy  truth  upon  my  fpirit  plays, 
 As  fun- beams  on  the  rofe  \ 
 
 8  Evolved  to  the  blowing  air, 
 
 Difplay'd  my  leaves  appear ; 
 With  flavor  fweet,  and  beauty  fair, 
 They  lad:  through  all  the  year. 
 
 9  I  will  not  (hine  to  perfons  vain, 
 
 Nor  bloom  upon  their  breaft. 
 The  bafe  and  lewd  difTembling  train, 
 OGodhowldeteft! 
 
 1 0  I  never  will  th'  affembly  grace, 
 
 Of  men  defigning  ill ; 
 
 Aaa  Nor 
 
,7o  "PSALM    XXVI. 
 
 Nor  flowering,  fmile  upon  their  face, 
 Who  do  not  love  thy  will, 
 i  i  I'll  wafli  my  hands  in  mnjcence, 
 All  purged  pure  and  cSan; 
 And  then  receive  thy  benifons, 
 Around  thine  altar  feen. 
 
 12  I'll  ilied  abroad  my  dreaming  blood, 
 
 And  fprinkle  all  my  faints ; 
 And  fill  them  with  my  Spirit  good, 
 And  leave  them  no  complaints. 
 
 1 3  So  (hall  they  puhlifh  with  their  voic^, 
 
 And  found  aloud  with  me, 
 
 The  fulnefs  of  their  given  joys, 
 
 In  grateful  flrains  to  thee. 
 
 14  We'll  glory  in  the  wond'rous  themes, 
 
 And  wonder  at  thy  ways ; 
 More  glorious  than  the  funny-beams, 
 More  numerous  than  their  rays, 
 
 15  For  I  do  love,  and  they  do  love 
 
 The  manfions  of  thy  grace, 
 Where  all  thine  honour  mines  above, 
 And  fills  thy  holy  place. 
 
 1 6  I  cried  therefore  in  my  day, 
 
 O  gather  not  my  foul, 
 With  men  of  bloody-minded  way, 
 Of  fallhood  dire  and  foul ; 
 
 1 7  Who  by  the  cunning  fubtile  thief 
 
 Are  cozen'd  with  a  bribe, 
 Till  down  they  go,  with  their  mifchief, 
 To  his  infernal  tribe. 
 
 1 8  But  as  for  me  I  wrap  me  up 
 In  mine  integrity  j 
 
PSALM    XXVII.  g7r 
 
 And  they  who  pledge  me  in  my  cup, 
 
 Shall  live,  and  never  die. 
 '1.9  I  die,  their  own  Rakemer,  lo ! 
 
 I  die  at. thy  commlncl. 
 Eternal  life  through  me  beftow, 
 
 To  all  the  felecl  band. 
 20  Welcome,  Jehovah,  to  thy  love, 
 
 I  ftand  on  even  ground ; 
 Nor  fhall  my  glad  aiTembly  move, 
 
 Who  hear  the  joyful  found. 
 
 P  S  A  L  M    XXVII.   !——<$, 
 
 JEHOVAH  is  a  fun  to  me, 
 In  fhades  I  cannot  mourn ; 
 Revolving  round  me  him  I  fee, 
 From  for  row's  far  reft  bourne. 
 
 2  Jehovah's  my  falvation-tower, 
 
 I  dwell  within  his  heart ; 
 My  raging  foes  may  round  me  pour, 
 With  all  their  warlike  art ; 
 
 3  May  raife  their  batteries  to  the  Ikies, 
 
 And  plant  their  engines  fure, 
 My  fpirit  all  their  (form  defies, 
 And  counts  it  a  May-fhower. 
 
 4  What  are  they  all  but  bufy  flies, 
 
 That  buz  and  play  an  hour  I 
 Tho'  myriads,  myriads,  myriads  rife, 
 They  have  no  fling  nor  power. 
 
 5  I  will  not  fear  their  multitude, 
 
 When  fwarming  in  the  breeze ; 
 Jehovah  is  my  fortitude, 
 And  they  but  forry  flies. 
 
 6  O'er  me  Jehovah  fpreads  his  wings, 
 
 And  watches  o'er  my  life ; 
 
 A  a  a  2  I Umh 
 
372  PSALM    XXVIL 
 
 I  laugh  at  the  infulting  things, 
 That  move  an  idle  ftrife. 
 
 7  The  locufts  came,  indeed,  like  clouds, 
 
 And  hiving  on  the  green, 
 They  clean  devour'd  the  flowery  buds, 
 As  they  had  never  been. 
 
 8  Jehovah  fent  a  mighty  wind, 
 
 And  fwept  them  to  the  feas; 
 Nor  left  a  fingle  one  behind 
 A-ftraggling  in  the  breeze. 
 
 9  Thus  fhall  my  fquadron'd  enemies, 
 
 Combined  clofe  and  ftrong, 
 Be  as  the  mifly  vapor  flies, 
 On  winged  winds  along. 
 
 io  They  meant  to  make  a  fudden  pufli, 
 And  pufh  me  to  the  ground  j 
 But  like  a  furious  water-rufh, 
 Themfelves  themfelves  confound. 
 
 1 1  In  confidence  my  heart  is  glad, 
 
 And  fhall  be  evermore ; 
 That  all  their  blafts  are  mere  bravade, 
 No  fooner  heard  than  o'er. 
 
 12  Thus  they  fhall  vanifh  in  their  fhout, 
 
 A  diftant  thunder-florin ; 
 And  fpend  their  forces  in  their  rout, 
 Nor  even  fmite  a  worm. 
 
 13  But  I  have  made  a  folemn  vow, 
 
 And  fworn  by  the  Lord, 
 My  Spirit  ftill  adhereth  true, 
 And  voucheth  to  my  word  j 
 
 14  That  I  will  bear  the  greateft  ill, 
 
 Before  I  lofe  my  claim, 
 
 "       ''   ■  That 
 
PSALM    XXVIL  373 
 
 That  I  may  dwell  on  Zion-hill, 
 And  glory  in  his  name ; 
 
 15  A  dweller  in  his  holy  place, 
 
 A  dweller  evermore, 
 In  all  the  beauties  of  his  face, 
 Away  from  the  uproar. 
 
 1 6  My  heart  (hall  hang  upon  his  eye, 
 
 My  motions  on  his  hand ; 
 For  I  mail  reign  with  him  on  high. 
 The  Prince  of  all  the  land. 
 
 1 7  In  times  of  perilous  diftrefs, 
 
 When  wars  outrageous  roar, 
 
 As  mad  tumultuous  fwelling  feas, 
 
 Laftiing  the  founding  fhoar, 
 
 1 8  (Secure  in  his  pavilion,  I, 
 
 Unmoved  as  his  throne,) 
 Above  the  hurricanes  that  fly, 
 Refembling  the  fun, 
 
 19  Within  his  tabernacle  gay 
 
 Shines  He,  in  glorious  Light  j 
 His  prefence  is  the  joyful  day, 
 His  abfence  i^the  night. 
 
 20  He  (hews  abroad  his  lofty  face, 
 
 Away  the  tempefts  run ; 
 So  to  the  tumults  he  fays,  Peace; 
 .  They  end  as  they  begun. 
 
 PSALM    XXVIL^ 
 
 JEHOVAH  is  a  Rock  to  me, 
 He  (lands  my  bulwark  in  the  fea, 
 When  mad  the  billows  roar  j 
 My  enemies  the  billows  ride, 
 By  thoufands  on  the  foaming  tide, 
 And  all  their  fury  pour. 
 
 2  Againft 
 
374  PSALM    XXVIL 
 
 2  Againfl  my  Rock  they  fwell  and  dafli, 
 The  Rock-fide  doth  their  fury  quafti, 
 
 They  fpend  their  ftrength  in  vain ; 
 They  flink  away  with  howling  cries, 
 And  then  again  like  mountains  rife, 
 
 And  die  away  again. 
 
 3  At  length  remanded  to  the  deep, 
 They  pafs  away,  and  with  them  fweep 
 
 My  fears  away  to  hell. 
 My  head  is  lifted  to  the  fkies, 
 Being  now  the  head  of  paradife, 
 
 I  mock  them  who  rebel. 
 
 4  My  facrifice  of  blood  is  paft, 
 But  that  of  Joy  mall  ever  laft. 
 
 My  harp  1  will  employ, 
 In  finging  praifes  to  my  King  ; 
 And  all  my  faints  along  fhall  fmg, 
 
 "  Jehovah  is  our  joy !" 
 
 PSALM    XXVIL  9.  to  the  end. 
 
 JEHOVAH  thou  wilt  hear  my  voice, 
 When  I  to  thee  do  cry ; 
 And  thro*  thy  love  I  will  rejoice, 
 For  ever  in  thine  eye, 
 
 2  Come  boldly  forward  to  my  face, 
 
 I  heard  my  Father  fay  ; 
 HI  flied  on  thee  my  choiceft-grace, 
 
 And  change  thy  night  to  day.  v 
 
 3  Amen,  behold  thy  Son  advance, 
 
 My  heart  unto  thee  faid ; 
 Lift  up  on  me  Thy  countenance. 
 And  do  away  the  fhade. 
 
 4  Let  my  Redeemer  on  me  fmile, 
 
 And  I  will  fmile  with  joy, 
 
 At 
 
PSALM    XXVIL  375 
 
 At  all  my  perfecutors  vile, 
 Who  would  my  foul  deftroy. 
 
 5  Thou  never  wilt  thy  fervant  leave, 
 
 Whom  thou  haft  raifed  high, 
 And  drawn  up  from  the  darkfome  grave, 
 Unto  the  lightfome  iky. 
 
 6  When  my  own  brethren  calPd  me  mad, 
 
 And  fought  to  bind  my  hands  j 
 And  all  my  foes  encompafs'd  had 
 Around  with  hoftile  bands : 
 
 7  Fled  daftardly  my  friends  away, 
 
 In  terrors  for  their  blood ; 
 My  trembling  mother  faw  the  fray, 
 And  pour'd  her  foul  to  God. 
 
 B  But  tho"  my  friends  had  lions  been, 
 And  had  a  mother's  heart, 
 They  could  not,  rufliing  in  between, 
 Have  fav'd  me  from  the  dart. 
 
 9  But  lo,  Jehovah  gathered, 
 And  bundled  up  my  foul ; 
 And  all  the  tumult  fcattered, 
 Upon  me  which  did  roll. 
 
 i  o  Jehovah  taught  me  in  the  way, 
 And  led  me  to  his  throne ; 
 Becaufe  of  all  the  frightful  fray, 
 That  had  me  overgone. 
 
 1 1  He  faw  their  cruelty  and  fpite, 
 
 And  dauVd  them  in  the  mouth  ; 
 They  tried,  but  they  could  not  bite 
 Me  with  their  broken  tooth. 
 
 1 2  Then  they  effay'd  to  blow  me  dead, 
 
 With  their  envenom'd  breath ; 
 As  falfhood  makes  the  truth  to  fade ; 
 But  I  efcap'd  the  death.  13  My 
 
376  PSALM    XXVII! 
 
 1 3  My  foul  had  fainted  in  the  way, 
 
 Unlefs  I  had  believ'd 
 The  words  my  God  to  me  did  fay  -t 
 By  them  I  was  reliev'd. 
 
 14  Advance  ye  boldly  to  his  throne* 
 
 My  Father  bids  you  come  : 
 All  ye  who  glory  in  his  Son, 
 My  Father's  is  your  home. 
 
 PSALM    XXvfiL 
 
 JEHOVAH,  Jehovah,  give  ear, 
 My  fpirit  within  me  is  troubled ; 
 Except  thou  fhall  quickly  appear, 
 
 My  for  rows  fhall  quickly  be  doubled. 
 For  if  thou,  my  Redeemer  and  Rock, 
 
 Shall  anfwer  my  prayers  with  filence  j 
 Behold,  my  infulters  will  mock, 
 
 And  fend  me  to  filence  with  violence. 
 
 2  But  why  do  I  mourn  in  the  duft, 
 
 Arrayed  in  humiliation ; 
 The  Lofty,  the  Holy,  the  Juft, 
 
 Surrounded  with  mere  defolation  ? 
 If  thou  fhall  rebuff  my  requeft, 
 
 And  laugh  at  my  expostulations, 
 Who  fhall  in  thy  favour  be  bleft, 
 
 And  rejoice  in  thy  fweet  confoiations  ? 
 
 3  If  I  am  rejected  with  blood, 
 
 Blood-fprinkling  the  way  to  thy  temple, 
 When  thy  wrath  carries  off  as  a  flood 
 
 The  children  of  evii  example 
 
 But  lo !  I  have  glorify'd  thee, 
 
 And  finifh'd  the  office  required  \ 
 And  lo !  thou  haft  glorify'd  me, 
 
 And  granted  me  ail  I  defired. 
 
PSALM    XXVIII.  377 
 
 4  Thou  haft  me  delivered  from  thofe, 
 
 Who  glory  in  ftrife  and  contention ; 
 Deftru&ion  is  all  they  propofe, 
 
 And  fubtiie  is  their  invention. 
 As  a  dog  they  approach  you,  and  fawn, 
 
 As  if  nothing  but  kindnefs  they  bring  you ; 
 But  ere  you  ftiall  find  them  withdrawn, 
 
 You  (hall  find,  as  a  ferpent  they  fting  you. 
 
 5  Loofe  on  them  thine  angels  of  death. 
 
 And  fpeedily  let  them  purfue  them, 
 Their  wrath  recompenfing  with  wrath, 
 
 Until  thou  ftiall  wholly  undo  them. 
 Becaufe  they  regarded  not  thee, 
 
 Nor  any  of  thine  operations, 
 Away  to  the  dungeon  they  flee, 
 
 O'erwhelmed  with  dire  execrations. 
 
 6  O  bleffed  for  ever  be  thou, 
 
 Who  gave  ear  unto  my  fupplication  ; 
 For  thou  art  the  ftrength  of  my  bow, 
 
 My  Shield,  and  my  certain  Salvation. 
 My  heart  on  Jehovah  relied, 
 
 Relied  upon  him  with  pleafure ; 
 For  he  is  a  Saviour  tried, 
 
 My  very  peculiar  treafure. 
 
 7  With  me  alleluias  found, 
 
 My  people  to  him  in  a  fong ; 
 For  he  is  my  Saviour  found, 
 
 And  he  is  my  Saviour  ftrong. 
 1  am  his  Salvation  to  you, 
 
 For  fo  hath  Jehovah  appointed ; 
 He  glorify'd  me,  and  he  glorify'd  you, 
 
 In  the  perfon  of  me  his  Anointed. 
 
 8  Jehovah,  my  portion,  and  glory  alone, 
 
 Give  ear  to  my  fervent  defire  j 
 
 B  b  b  According 
 
378  PSALM    XXIX. 
 
 According  as  on  me  thy  favour  has  fhone, 
 And  my  foes  are  confum'd  in  thine  ire. 
 
 Thou  faveft  the  Shepherd,  and  faveft  the  flockr 
 Lead  them  to  the  cool  living  fountains ; 
 
 And  feed  them,  thy  own  dear  peculiar  flock, 
 With  fafety  upon  thy  high  mountains. 
 
 PSALM    XXIX. 
 
 SING  high  the  praifes  of  the  Word, 
 The  mighty  Word  of  God  the  Lord. 
 The  wonders  of  his  perfon  tell, 
 Ye  angels  that  in  power  excel ; 
 Diffufe  your  energetic  fires, 
 Upon  your  heavenly  founding  lyres ; 
 And  when  you  have  your  utmoft  (hown> 
 Declare  the  fubjecl:  flill  unknown. 
 
 2  Hark !  hear  1  not  loud  echoes  fwelf, 
 From  high  eft  heaven  to  lowed  hell, 
 Crowding  his  glories  in  the  gale  ? 
 
 "  Lo  ftrength  and  majefty  prevail, 
 "  Afcribe  ye  victory  to  the  King," 
 The  lofty  hierarchies  fing, 
 "  In  holy  beauties,  all  adore, 
 "  His  glad  creation,  evermore." 
 
 3  In  doing  all  you  e'er  can  do, 
 
 You  cannot  give  the  Lord  his  due ; 
 His  voice  upon  the  waters  flies, 
 In  wild  confufion  thro'  the  ikies ; 
 The  heaving  clouds  from  all  the  fea 
 Cry,  Lord,  "  Behold  thy  fervants  we, 
 "  With  circumvolving  forces  driven, 
 4<  O'erfpreading  all  thy  fpacious  heaven !" 
 
 4  His  founding  voice  rebounds  again, 
 And  blows  abroad  the  rufhing  rain: 
 
 Or 
 
PSALM    XXIX.  379 
 
 Or  dewy-mild-delightful  fhowers, 
 Cloud-fifted  on  the  young-ey'd  flowers. 
 Sweet  playing  on  their  glowing  lips, 
 In  kind  falutes,  with  tender  tips ; 
 Their  blowing  beauties  gently  fwell, 
 And  gayly  wanton  in  the  gale. 
 ^  The  God  of  glory's  thunder  rolls, 
 And  rocks  the  world  to  both  her  poles ; 
 Tumultuous-fwellmg,  upwards  rife 
 The  floods,  (tremendous !)  to  the"  ikies ; 
 The  voice  that  rais'd  them  makes  them  fall. 
 They  flirink  and  tremble  at  his  call  • 
 Sunk  in  their  deep  capacious  beds, 
 They  ikulk  in  fear,  and  hide  their  heads, 
 
 $  The  ftorm  of  God  the  world  devours, 
 Through  all  the  blaft  the  Godhead  pours. 
 Sweeping  along  with  awful  force, 
 O'erturning  nations  in  its  courfe, 
 Majeflic  rides  th'  impetuous  fpirit  j 
 Wo  to  the  thing  that  does  not  fear  it, 
 And  by  fubmiffion  falling  low, 
 Prevents  its  breaking  by  a  bow. 
 
 7  He  Blows  aloud ;  the  forefts  bend ; 
 Their  mountains  can  no  more  defend ; 
 Harfh-crafhing,  rifted  to  their  roots, 
 They  kifs  the  rocks  with  fierce  falutes  \ 
 The  rocks  and  they  up-torn  fly, 
 Promifcuous-rowling  through  the  Iky  : 
 Whole  Lebannon  goes  off  along, 
 With  all  her  cedars  in  the  throng. 
 
 8  The  hinds  and  herds,  with  all  the  droves, 
 That  dane'd  among,  or  round  the  groves, 
 Together  whirled  in  the  air, 
 
 Are  dafh'd  to  pieces  here  and  there^ 
 
 B  b  b  2  The 
 
38o  PSALM    XXX. 
 
 The  dams  aborting  with  their  young, 
 Upon  (harp-pointed  rocks  are  flung, 
 Expired  ere  they  felt  the  fhock ; 
 The  following  horrors  only  mock. 
 
 9  If  any  eye  furvives  the  fcene, 
 
 What  mingling  carnage  is  their  feen9 
 
 Of  men,  and  cattle,  winged  fowl, 
 
 And  thofe  which  in  the  defart  howl, 
 
 Conglomerated  in  a  heap! 
 
 The  flames  of  fire  upon  them  leap ;        , 
 
 No  atom  can  efcape  their  fway, 
 
 In  direful  defolation-day. 
 
 i  o  Jehovah  fends  his  lightenings  out, 
 That,  flafhing  on  the  mountains,  fcout, 
 And  penetrate  their  inmoft  wombs; 
 They  bounce,  they  burfl:  like  charged  bombs; 
 The  fplintered  rocks  fly  in  the  air, 
 And  leave  deep  gulphs  where  erfi  they  were; 
 The  gulphs,  difcharging  water-floods, 
 Purfue  the  mountains  thro'  the  clouds. 
 
 1 1  Thefe  are  the  thunders  of  his  voice, 
 In  days  of  dreadful  war  and  noife ; 
 But  in  his  temple  every  one 
 Proclaims  the  glories  of  the  Son. 
 The  nations  all  as  feas  may  roar, 
 The  Son  reigns  King  for  evermore, 
 The  Strength,  the  Joy,  the  Life,  the  Peace, 
 Of  all  the  faithful  loyal  race. 
 
 PSALM    XXX.  1-4. 
 
 MY  Spirit  fhall  raife  a  fong  to  thy  praife, 
 Jehovah,  my  glory,  and  portion  for  ever; 
 J'll  dwell  on  thy  name,  exalting  my  theme, 
 •    Thy  praife  and  my  Spirit  no  longer  fhall  fever. 
 
 2  Becaufe 
 
PSALM    XXX.  381 
 
 2  J3ecaufe  thou  extolled,  when  foes  on  me  rolled, 
 
 And  lifted  thy  Servant  fublime  up  to  heaven ; 
 They  meant  to  rejoice,  on  fpoil  of  my  joys, 
 But  quickly  by  thee  to  deftru&ion  were  driven, 
 
 3  O  Jehovah,  I  cried,  and  warmly  applied, 
 
 In  tender  compaflion,  my  God,  do  thou  heal  me, 
 Nor  was  I  aftiamed,  whenever  I  named 
 My  God,  I  perceived,  my  God  would  not  fail  me. 
 
 4  By  the  flrength  of  thine  arm,  thou  fa  v'd  me  frqm  harm, 
 
 When  I  was  deep  funk  in  the  depth  of  the  dungeon, 
 The  dungeon  of  death,  the  heart  of  the  earth, 
 Where  I  for  my  brethren  a  victim  was  plung'd-in. 
 
 PSALM    XXX.  4— 6. 
 
 SWEETLY  tip  the  willing  firings, 
 Rapture  trilling  thro'  the  foul : 
 All  above  you  heaven  fings ; 
 
 Sing,  O  earth  from  pole  to  pole. 
 
 2  Sing,  ye  faints,  and  glory  give, 
 
 To  the  God  of  all  your  peace ; 
 To  my  God  by  whom  I  live, 
 'Mufing  on  his  Holinefs. 
 
 3  Live  I  now  your  quickening  Head, 
 
 Live  the  mirror  of  his  love ; 
 Died  I  in  your  room  and  {lead ; 
 Dying  love  (hall  never  move. 
 
 4  Like  the  fun  beneath  the  fea, 
 
 Sunk  a  while,  I  rofe  again, 
 Sowing  light  o'er  hill  and  plain, 
 All  my  faints  (hall  mine  with  Me. 
 
 5  But  a  little  lads  the  cloud, 
 
 Shadowing  Jehovah's  face, 
 When  his  glory  mines  abroad, 
 On  the  children  of  his  grace. 
 
 6  Life 
 
382  PSALM    XXX. 
 
 6  Life  doth  in  his  favor  ly, 
 
 Life  eternal  to  his  faints ; 
 Heaven  dwelleth  in  his  eye, 
 Heaven  will  flrine  away  your  wants, 
 
 7  Weeping  like  the  night  endures, 
 
 Sad  and  lowring  on  the  plains ; 
 Harfhly  pouring  cold  bleak  fliowers, 
 Oh  !  how  grievous  are  the  rains ! 
 
 8  But  the  morn  advancing  on, 
 
 Diffipates  the  grievous  things  j 
 Shedding  light  and  joy  anon, 
 Thrown  from  her  rofy  wings. 
 
 9  Darknefs  is  the  womb  of  light ; 
 
 Sorrow  is  the  womb  of  joy  ; 
 'Groan  thy  laft ;  and  take  thy  flight, 
 Where  no  weeping  (hall  annoy. 
 
 io  Would  the  mother  fee  her  fon, 
 
 Let  her  welcome  then  her  throws ; 
 Would  you  have  your  warfare  done, 
 Fight  your  way  to  peace  thro'  blows. 
 
 PSALM    XXX.  6.  to  the  end, 
 
 LO,  your  Lord  and  Saviour,  I 
 Said  in  my  profperity, 
 I  fhall  never  moved  be, 
 For  the  deaths  that  come  on  me. 
 %  Thou,  Jehovah,  in  thy  love, 
 Built  me  up,  I  could  not  move ; 
 Stood  I  like  a  mountain  ftrong, 
 When  the  lions  round  did  throng ; 
 
 j  Hoped  they  amid  the  fray, 
 On  my  trembling  foul  to  prey ; 
 But  they'd  eafier  mov'd  the  rocks, 
 Than  have  mov'd  me  with  their  (hocks, 
 
 4  Thou 
 
PSALM    XXXI.  383 
 
 4  Thou  indeed  didft  hide  thy  face, 
 And  the  trouble  reft  my  peace ; 
 But  I  cry'd,  O  Lord,  to  thee, 
 Lowly  bending  on  my  knee. 
 
 5  Where's  the  profit  of  my  blood, 
 If  I  fink  beneath  the  flood  ? 
 Where  fliall  thy  redeemed  fit, 
 Their  Redeemer  in  the  pit  ? 
 
 6  Would  the  duft  of  me,  or  mine, 
 Sing  thy  praifes  all  divine  ? 
 
 If  beneath  the  earth  we  lie, 
 
 Who  lhall  found  thy  truth  on  high  ? 
 
 7  O  Jehovah,  bow  thine  ear, 
 My  impaflion'd  prayer  hear. 
 In  compafiion  unto  me, 
 
 Let  me  now  thy  glory  fee. 
 
 8  Lo,  behold,  thy  glory  comes, 
 Diflipation  to  the  glooms ; 
 Mourning  all  away  is  fled, 
 Gladnefs  danceth  in  her  ftead. 
 
 9  Thou  for  me  my  fackcloth  haft 
 Torn  away  from  loins  and  breafl  j 
 And  begirt  with  joy  around, 
 Healed  every  former  wound. 
 
 10  Therefore  evermore  FJJ  fing 
 Praife  to  Thee,  my  God  and  King^ 
 All  my  foul  to  glory  turns, 
 
 In  thy  praifes  all  it  burns. 
 
 PSALM    XXXI.  1 -«---<$. 
 
 HELP,  Jehovah,  help  me  foon, 
 Lo,  I  fink  into  the  pit ; 
 Reach  thine  arm  unto  me  down, 
 Draw  me,  draw  me  up  from  it. 
 
 2  Hangs 
 
384  PSALM    XXXI 
 
 2  Hangs  mine  eye  upon  thine  arm, 
 
 Waiting  for  the  motions  of  it; 
 To  refcue  my  foul  from  harm. 
 To  exchange  my  lofs  for  profit. 
 
 3  Lofs  to  profit  thou  wilt  turn, 
 
 For  the  Darling  of  thine  heart; 
 Metals  in  the  furnace  burn ; 
 Gold  and  drofs  in  furnace  part. 
 
 4  Drofs  no  portion  is  of  gold, 
 
 Tho'  commingled  for  a  while ; 
 Only  gold  ftiall  fill  my  mould;* 
 And  thine  image  on  me  fmiko 
 
 5  In  thine  image  I  fhall  fhine 
 
 Glorious,  by  thy  fmiling  love ; 
 AH  my  glory  bright,  divine ; 
 Righteoufnefs  fhall  never  move. 
 
 6  In  thy  righteoufnefs  unmof'd, 
 
 I  (hall  never  be  afham'd, 
 Gaufe  of  mine  be  unapproved, 
 Or  deny'd  a  thing  I  claim'd. 
 
 7  Bend  thine  ear,  Jehovah,  bend, 
 
 Bend  thine  heavens,  and  come  down ; 
 Speedily  deliverance  fend, 
 See,  my  foes  are  rulhing  on; 
 
 8  Rufliing  on  with  furious  rage, 
 
 Lions  roaring  all  around ; 
 Meet  them,  God,  on  thy  fword's  e&ge, 
 Dafti  them,  hew  them  to  the  ground, 
 
 9  Write  their  names  among  the  duft, 
 
 Write  them  in  their  own  heart-blood, 
 After  my  heart-blood  who  luft, 
 Proud,  flubborn,  fierce,  and  lewd. 
 
 xo  But 
 
PSALM    XXXL  385 
 
 10  But  be  Thou  my  Rock  of  ftrength, 
 
 Let  me  lodge  within  thy  heart ; 
 Glorying  o'er  my  foes  at  length,* 
 Turn'd  on  them  their  every  dart. 
 
 1 1  Vi&ory  !  victory  to  my  King ! 
 
 Thou  my  Rock,  and  Fortrefs  art; 
 My  Redeem'd  with  me  (hall  fmg, 
 Sing  aloud  with  joyful  heart. 
 
 1 2  Thou  wilt  glorify  thy  name, 
 
 Lead  me,  guide  me  in  thy  love  5 
 Extricate  my  foul  from  them, 
 And  their  ftratagems  remove. 
 
 1 3  For  they  tryvthe  fubtile  way, 
 
 Failing  in  their  proud  affault ; 
 Privily  their  fnares  they  lay, 
 
 Looking  when  my  foot  fliall  halt. 
 
 14  But,  Jehovah,  in  thine  eye, 
 
 All  their  fubtleties  are  bare, 
 Thou'rt  my  ftrength,  to  thee  I  cry, 
 Let  them  vanifh  into  air. 
 
 1.5  Into  thine  hands  I  recommend, 
 O  Jehovah,  God  of  Truth, 
 My  fpirit ;  Io  !  my  head  I  bend, 
 Dying  in  my  prime  of  youth. 
 
 16  Finifli'd  now  I  fee  my  caufe, 
 
 Thou  art  my  redemption,  God ; 
 I  have  glorify'd  thy  laws, 
 Glorify'd  them  in  my  blood ! 
 
 PSALM    XXXL  6— 9. 
 
 I  HAVE  abhorred  them  who  love 
 Their  lying  vanities,  O  Lord, 
 The  idols  of  the  hill  and  grove, 
 
 To  whom  they  have  libations  pour'd, 
 
 Ccc  Their 
 
386  PSALM    XXXI. 
 
 Their  own  blood  thou  wilt  pour  in  ftreams, 
 The  drink  of  their  own  offerings  vile, 
 
 Who  dare  to  mention  filthy  names, 
 And  glory  in  their  fliame  the  while. 
 
 2  Btit  I  will  glory  in  thy  name, 
 
 And  build  my  faith  upon  thy  word ; 
 The  floods  that  fwell  againft  the  fame, 
 
 Shall  fall  again  of  their  accord ; 
 As  winds  and  waves  that  rage  and  roar, 
 
 And  dafh  themfelves  on  huge  fea-rocks, 
 They  fhew  their  weaknefs,  and  no  more, 
 
 Difperft  to  foam  with  their  own  (hocks. 
 
 3  But  I,  efcaped  from  the  feas 
 
 Of  trouble  on  my  foul  that  rolPd, 
 Will  drown  the  noify  waves  with  praife, 
 
 My  God  above  the  ikies  extoll'd  -f 
 Extoll'd  by  me  for  evermore, 
 
 By  me  and  all  my  ranfom'd  ones, 
 For  thou  haft  burft  my  prifon-door, 
 
 And  braffy  chains  from  off  my  loins. 
 
 4  For  I  was  deep  enclofed  in 
 
 The  middle  of  the  deadly  pit, 
 A  facrifice  for  human  fin ; 
 
 My  God,  thou  knoweft,  I'm  free  from  it 
 Thou  kneweft  my  foul  in  tender  love, 
 
 And  pour'd  thy  confolations  in ; 
 And  drew  me  to  thy  heaven  above, 
 
 As  free  from  fuffering  as  from  fin. 
 
 PSALM     XXXI.  9 19. 
 
 COMPASSION,  Lord!  companion  Lord ! 
 For  I  am  fore  diftreft ; 
 Mine  eyes,  and  eye-lids  are  all  blurr'd 
 With  tears,  and  want  of  reft. 
 
 2  My 
 
PSALM    XXXI.  3g7 
 
 2  My  fight  is  quite  confum'd  away, 
 
 The  fun  but  fhines  in  vain ; 
 In  vain  to  me,  for  all  the  day 
 I  fee  but  fights  of  pain. 
 
 3  And  when  the  evening-ihades  advance^ 
 
 They  bring  me  no  relief. 
 Ten  thoufand  horrors  round  me  dance, 
 As  fporting  at  my  grief. 
 
 4  Mine  ears  are  flunn'd  with  hideous  fcreams, 
 
 Gf  cruel  flaring  fprights. 
 I'm  torn  to  pieces  in  my  dreams ; 
 My  night's  one  fcene  of  frights. 
 
 5  My  foul  is  all  a,fea  of  wrath, 
 
 Where  fiery  furges  roll, 
 Which  tofs  my  thoughts  from  death  to  death, 
 And  rage  without  control ; 
 
 6  My  body  as  a  floating  wreck, 
 
 Is  carried  to  and  fro, 
 According  as  the  billows  break, 
 With  an  impetuous  flow. 
 
 7  My  life  is  like  the  broken  reed, 
 
 Before  the  rufliing  hail ; 
 My  joys  are  knocked  on  the  head. 
 And  griefs  for  joy  prevail. 
 
 8  My  years  are  like  the  mifty  rain, 
 
 That  flies  before  the  wind, 
 My  fighs  have  drifted  them  amain 
 And  left  my  woes  behind. 
 
 9  My  ftrength  is  poured  with  my  blood, 
 
 In  circumfluent  dreams ; 
 With  blood  my  vefture's  all  imbru'd. 
 To  wafli  away  my  crimes. 
 
 Ccc  2  to  My 
 
388  PSALM    XXXL 
 
 i  o  My  crimes  they  are,  but  not  by  me, 
 I  know  no  guilt  at  all ; 
 Imputed  crimes  they  are  by  Thee, 
 And  dear,  for  which  I  fall. 
 
 1 1  By  thee,  my  God,  in  thy  decree, 
 
 I  bear  the  fins  of  men ;  - 
 Becaufe  of  their  iniquity, 
 My  bones  away  do  wane.    - 
 
 1 2  I  am  reproach  of  all  my  foes, 
 
 My  foes  as  hell  comhin'd  ; 
 But  foes  are  friends,  compared  with  thofe, 
 Efteem'd  my  neighbours  kind. 
 
 1 3  My  neighbours  and  my  kindred-blood, 
 
 Efteem  me  worfe  than  mad ; 
 As  if  with  Beelzebub  I  flood, 
 And  God  forfworn  had. 
 
 14  I  am  a  terror  to  my  own, 
 
 My  own  approven  few ; 
 They  faw  me  in  the  toils  o'erthrown. 
 Away  like  wind  they  flew. 
 
 1 5  I  am  forgotten  as  the  dead, 
 
 Who  perifh'd  in  their  blood, 
 Being  cleft  afunder  thro'  the  head, 
 On  fields  before  the  flood. 
 
 1 6  I  am  no  more  regarded  now, 
 
 Than  even  a  potfherd  vile, 
 
 Can1  forth  upon  a  dunghil  brow, 
 
 Whofe  very  touch  doth  foil. 
 
 1 7  I'm  fhunned  like  a  thing  unclean ; 
 
 No  one  will  plead  for  me ; 
 Nor  even  own  with  me  they've  been, 
 Itot  ftraight  away  they  flee ; 
 
 1 8  They 
 
PSALM    XXXI.  389 
 
 1 8  They  flee  as  from  a  ferpent's  hifs, 
 
 And  tremble  all  like  reeds, 
 For  crime  of  being  witneffes 
 Unto  my  holy  deeds. 
 
 1 9  But  all  my  foes  cleave  faft  to  me, 
 
 And  mock  my  bitterer!  woe ; 
 Enjoying,  with  a  vaft  of  glee, 
 
 The  things  which  pierce  me  thro'. 
 
 20  They  brought  a  multitude  of  men, 
 
 With  flanders  in  their  mouth  ; 
 And  though  they  found  them  (landers  vain. 
 They  feal'd  the  flanders  truth. 
 
 2 1  But  oh  !  my  very  hope  and  faith, 
 
 By  which  I  clave  to  Thee, 
 My  good  confeflion  was  the  path, 
 
 Which  led  me  to  the  tree ! 
 2  2  New  terrors  darted  round  my  foul, 
 
 Their  garments  when  they  tore ; 
 Becaufe  1  kept  thy  glory  whole, 
 
 My  God,  whom  I  adore. 
 
 23  In  clofe  cabal  they  plot  my  death, 
 
 Their  heart  is  in  my  blood ; 
 No  lefs  will  fatisfy  their  wrath  ; 
 Nor  thine,  my  Lord  and  God. 
 
 24  They  meant  me  ill ;  Thou  meant  me  good ; 
 
 I  therefore  chearfuily, 
 Prepare  to  lofe  my  precious  blood ; 
 Jehovah  fees  me  die. 
 
 25  My  times  *re  wholly  in  thy  power, 
 
 My  life,  my  death,  my  joy ; 
 Save  me,  in  thy  appointed  hour. 
 From  monflers  that  deftroy. 
 
 2$  They  pour  on  me  their  cruelties, 
 
 And  riot  ia  my  pain.  Pour- 
 
39©  PSALM    XXXI. 
 
 Pour  thou  thy  tempefl:  in  their  eyes, 
 
 And  raife  me  up  again.  - 
 2  7  Pour  all  thy  glories  on  my  foul, 
 
 And  make  my  face  to  mine ; 
 Anointing  me  with  thy  own  oil 
 
 Of  gladnefs  all  divine. 
 2  8  According  to  thy  mercy,  I, 
 
 My.  caufe  before  Thee  plead, 
 With  my  own  blood,  O  thou  Moft  High ; 
 
 For  mercy  was  decree'd. 
 
 29  Then  let  me  never  be  afham'd; 
 
 O  Lord,  the  fhame  were  thine ; 
 If  I  in  vain  for  mercy  claim'd, 
 When  Jullice  holds  the  line. 
 
 30  Thy  mercy  and  thy  juftice  join 
 
 With  one  united  voice ; 
 Now  let  Jehovah's  glory  mine, 
 And  make  his  King  rejoice. 
 
 3 1  But  let  the  proud  malicious  ones 
 
 Be  prifoned  up  in  hell, 
 Who  fill'd  his  foul  with  fighs  and  groans ; 
 Let  Satan  ring  their  knell. 
 
 32  Let  anguifli  overcome  their  voice  ; 
 
 God,  burn  them  in  thy  fire, 
 Againft  the  Juft  who  rais'd  their  noife ; 
 And  flew  Him  in  their  ire. 
 
 PSALM     XXXI.   19.  to  the  end. 
 T.JIGH,  high  jubilations  be  rais'd  to  my  God, 
 
 How  high  is  the  goodnefs  my  God  to  me  fliow'd  ! 
 A  channel  for  mercy  thro'  juftice  he  hew'd ; 
 He  fmote  on  the  rock,  and  the  waters  enfu'd. 
 2-  The  waters  have  warned  his  Ifrael  pure, 
 And  pure  as  the  waters  his  Ifrael  endure  j 
 
 They 
 
PSALM    XXXI.  39i 
 
 They  drink  of  the  dreams,  and  they  glory  in  God, 
 And  glory  in  me,  for  the  ftreams  thro'  me  flow'd. 
 
 3  They  triumph  for  ever  in  plenty  and  peace, 
 Thy  river,  O  God,  is  the  heaven  of  the  place ; 
 For  ever  they  fhine  in  the  light  of  thine  eye, 
 For  ever  they  fmile  at  their  foes,  and  defy. 
 
 4  Pavilioned  round  in  the  love  of  their  King, 
 
 All  palmed,  and  crowned,  his  victories  they  fing; 
 With  bold  emulations,  the  ftrife  of  their  tongue, 
 Is,  who  the  mod  glorious  (hall  rife  in  the  fong, 
 
 5  O  blefs'd  be  Jehovah,  for  ever,  amen ; 
 His  kindnefs  extol  to  the  children  of  men ; 
 He  gave  his  Beloved,  and  gave  him  to  die, 
 But  rais'd  him  again  to  his  mountain  on  high. 
 
 6  Impaled  a-while  with  the  flames  of  his  wrath, 
 I  fhew'd  to  offend  him  was  abfolute  death ; 
 
 I  mourn'd  in  the  bittereft  anguifh  of  foul, 
 When  all  his  dread  terrors  within  me  did  rowl. 
 
 7  I  cry'd,  when  his  fury  was  drinking  me  up, 
 
 "  My  God,  I  am  gone,  if  I  drink  up  this  cup ! 
 
 "  Thine  eyes  ftiall  behold  me  fink  down  on  the  fpot  !n 
 
 I  funk,  and  I  dy'd,  yea,  and  victory  got. 
 
 8  By  yielding  to  death,  I  extirpated  death  ; 
 
 I  entered  death's  palace,  and  flew  him  in  wrath ; 
 I  fuffered  for  fin,  and  deflroyed  the  fame  ; 
 I  was  curs'd  by  the  law,  and  I  raifed  its  fame. 
 
 9  Jehovah  return'd  my  captivity  foon ; 
 
 My  groanings  as  lightening  flew  flraight  to  his  throne, 
 I  made  interceflion  for  vileft  of  men ; 
 And  obtain'd  their  remiflion  fubfcrib'd  with  amen. 
 io  O  love  ye  Jehovah,  and  praife  him  with  me, 
 His  faints  of  election  by  Sovereign  decree  j 
 
 Jeho- 
 
39 
 
 PSALM    XXXII. 
 
 Jehovah  preferveth  the  children  of  faith, 
 But,  to  the  rebellious,  "  Be  damned,"  he  faith, 
 
 1 1  Be  filent,  and  humble,  and  boldly  rejoice, 
 "Who  hope  in  Jehovah's,  and  no  other's  voice  ; 
 Your  Shepherd  will  feed  you  in  fine  flowery  plains. 
 And  fill  you  with  paradifaical  (trains. 
 
 PSALM    XXXII. 
 
 O!  HE's  a  bleffed,  bleffed  man, 
 Whofe  vile  tranfgreffions  every  one, 
 His  fins  againft  Jehovah's  pla£, 
 Are  buried  in  oblivion ; 
 To  whom  the  Lord  will  not  impute 
 Iniquity,  nor  yet  difpute 
 With  him  his  trefpaffes  about, 
 
 They  being  all  forgiven ; 
 In  whofe  fpirit  there's  no  guile, 
 
 A  Nathaniel,  a  Nathaniel, 
 
 He  (hall  fee  his  God,  and  fmile, 
 
 £        Lov'd  as  Daniel,  lov'd  as  Daniel ! 
 
 2  I  your  Lord  and  Saviour  am, 
 Spotlefs,  blamelefs,  God's  own  Lamb, 
 Pure  as  he  from  whom  I  came, 
 
 Being  repute  a  finner ; 
 Behov'd  to  bear  the  fliame  for  you, 
 The  burden  made  me  earth-wards  bow, 
 According  to  my  furety-vow, 
 
 Elfe  heaven  had  been  the  thinner. 
 Well  I  know  the  miferies, 
 
 O  my  children,  O  my  children, 
 Suffered  for  iniquities, 
 
 When  ang  angry  God  is  thund'ring. 
 
 3  Poffets'd  me  filence  all  the  while^ 
 
 I  mourn'd  in  ftiades  without  a  fmile, 
 
 Propi* 
 
PSALM    XXXII.  393 
 
 Propitiating  for  your  guile, 
 
 My  bones  fcorch'd  to  a  cinder. 
 I  roared  out  in  agonies, 
 And-pierc'd  the  heavens  with  my  cries, 
 New  fires  of  wrath  within  me  rife, 
 
 And  burn  my  foul  like  tinder. 
 Night  and  day  thy  hand,  O  God, 
 
 Heavy  on  me,  heavy  on  me, 
 Heaping  mountains  on  my  load, 
 
 Threatened  quite  to  have  undone  me. 
 
 4  Erft  while  1  bloom'd  a  pleafant  flower, 
 The  glory  of  my  Father's  bower, 
 
 .   Defying  every  florin  could  pour, 
 
 Till  he  himfelf  did  finite  me ; 
 My  glory  then  was  turn'd  to  lhame, 
 My  moifture  feized  by  the  flame, 
 For  flaming  fires  upon  me  came, 
 
 Their  fiercenefs  overfet  me ; 
 Then  I  acknowledged  to  thee 
 
 My  tranfgreflion,  my  tranfgreffion, 
 Which  thyfelf  had  charg'd  on  me,  m 
 
 Lo,  I  made  a  good  confeflion. 
 
 5  For  I  had  faid,  I  would  confcfs, 
 And  would  perfect  thy  righteoufnefs, 
 And  full  difplay  thy  holinefs, 
 
 So  thou,  my  God,  commanded. 
 In  faith  I  opened  my  mouth, 
 And  pra&is'd  nothing  but  the  truth* 
 According  as  thy  precept  fheweth, 
 Nor  was  I  reprimanded. 
 Thou  Jehovah  faid  to  me, 
 
 I  do  fet  thee,  I  do  fet  thee 
 Free  from  thine  iniquity, 
 Free  from  all  thy  foes  who  hate;  thee. 
 
 D  d  d  6  Lo 
 
394  PSALM    XXXII. 
 
 6  Lo,  therefore  every  godly  one, 
 Rejoicing  in  what  1  have  done, 
 Shall  come,  rejoicing,  to  thy  throne, 
 
 And  boldly  cry,  "  My  Father !" 
 He  fhall  be  heard  in  peaceful  hour, 
 And  be  relieved  by  thy  power, 
 From  floods  of  wrath  that  would  devour. 
 To  triumph  in  thy  favour. 
 Bluftering  billows  (hall  no  more 
 Overbear  him,  overbear  him, 
 Seas  of  fire  in  vain  may  roar, 
 Never  fhall  a  fpark  come  near  him, 
 
 7  Jehovah  is  my  hiding-place ; 
 Eftabliih'd  fully  in  his  grace, 
 I  reign  the  Prince  of  endlefs  peace, 
 
 O  linners,  your  Phyfician  ; 
 Your  kind  Phyfician,  and  your  Friend  ; 
 Tho'  thoufand  tortures  fhould  you  rend, 
 They  only  will  my  fkill  commend, 
 And  tender  difpofition. 
 Look  to  me,  and  be  ye  fav'd, 
 
 Every  nation,  every  nation  ; 
 You  fhall  find  yourfelves  relieved, 
 
 And  round  me  fing  my  fweet  falvation* 
 
 8  Behold  ye  me  with  fteady  eye, 
 Behold  me  ft  ill,  and  never  die ; 
 I'll  give  you  immortality, 
 
 And  diftipate  your  fadnefs.  . 
 I  will  inftrucl:  you  in  the  way, 
 That  leads  to  everlafting  day, 
 Where  you  fhall  fhine  in  bright  array. 
 Your  fpirit  fill'd  with  gladnefs. 
 You  fhall  join  my  angels  then, 
 Sweetly  finging,  fweetly  finging ; 
 
 Angels 
 
PSALM    XXXIIL  395 
 
 Angels  then  (hall  vie  with  men, 
 
 Thro'  all  ray  heavens  your  mufic  ringing, 
 
 9  I  will  guide  you  by  mine  eye, 
 
 And  make  you  mine  like  me  on  high ; 
 But  only  this  let  none  deny, 
 
 Be  ruled  by  me  wholly. 
 Then  be  not  of  a  flubborn  foul*- 
 Refembling  the  horfe  or  mule, 
 Whom  your  bridling  bits  muft  rule, 
 
 Left  they  fall,  and  over-roll  ye0 
 O  my  fons,  directed  be 
 
 By  my  Spirit,  by  my  Spirit ; 
 He  is  poured  down  by  me, 
 That  ye  may  my  love  inherit. 
 
 10  Full  many  forrows  mail  abound, 
 
 To  grovelling  fouls  who  love  the  ground, 
 But  mercy  fhall  encompafs  round 
 
 That  man  the  Lord  who  trufteth. 
 He  takes  a  flight  above  the  earth, 
 And  Ycapes  away  from  fin  and  death, 
 Jehovah  is  his  light  and  breath, 
 
 And  all  his  caufe  adjufteth. 
 Glory,  glory  in  your*King, 
 Shout  for  joy,  fhout  for  joy ; 
 Clap  your  hands,  ye  faints,  and  fing; 
 Sorrow  flaall  no  more  annoy. 
 
 PSALM     XXXIIL  i 5. 
 
 LIFT  the  voice  of  high  rejoicine, 
 While  the  breath  of  God  is  hoifing 
 Up  your  fails,  and  vefTels  poizing, 
 
 O  ye  favorites  of  Jehovah. 
 In  Jehovah  living  gladly, 
 Touch  not  ye  the  hateful  medley. 
 
 D  d  d  2  That 
 
596  PSALM    XXXIII. 
 
 That  would  make  you  mourn  full  fadly ; 
 Praife  is  comely  to  Jehovah. 
 
 2  Harp  his  praifes  harp  excelling, 
 Breathe  them  thro'  the  organs  fwelling ; 
 Every  chord  of  mufic  telling, 
 
 "  O  how  far  below  Jehovah !" 
 But  diffide  in  mufic  idle, 
 Harp,  and  organ,  pfaltery,  fiddle, 
 Save  the  Spirit  intermeddle 
 
 With  the  praifes  of  Jehovah. 
 
 3  Where  He  is  not,  praife  is  odious ; 
 He  will  make  the  fong  melodious, 
 Which  well-pleafing  unto  God  is, 
 
 Sweetly  fmging  to  Jehovah  ; 
 Sing  ye  with  him  loud  and  pleafant, 
 Sing  new  fongs,  new  fongs  are  decent. 
 From  new  men  for  the  new  prefent 
 
 Of  the  Spirit  from  Jehovah. 
 
 4  Sing,  the  Word  of  God  abideth, 
 Happy  who  therein  confideth, 
 Firm  his  footftep  never  flideth, 
 
 Well  efhblifiVd  by  Jehovah  ; 
 For  his  Word  is  pure  and  fingle, 
 Falfehood  therewith  cannot  mingle, 
 Nor  a  work,  or  purpofe  dwindle, 
 
 That  proceedeth  from  Jehovah. 
 
 PSALM    XXXIII.  5~~Q. 
 
 JEHOVAH's  love  is  righteoufnefs, 
 And  his  determinations  peace, 
 The  world  is  filled  with  his  grace, 
 
 The  world,  and  all  therein. 
 The  heavens  into  being  rofe, 
 With  all  the  armies  they  enclofe, 
 
 Accord- 
 
PSALM    XXX1IL  397 
 
 According  as  Jehovah  chofe, 
 Who  bade  them  all  begin. 
 
 2  He  blew  abroad  the  boifterous  flood, 
 And  lo,  the  heapy  waters  flow'd 
 Rough-roaring  all  around  him  loud  ; 
 
 They  praife  him  every  ft  ream. 
 And  (hall  there  be  a  living  foul, 
 Where- e'er  the  praifing  waters  roll, 
 Between  the  South  and  Northern  pole, 
 
 That  ftiall  not  praife  with  them ! 
 
 PSALM    XXXIII.  7 io. 
 
 JEHOVAH  fpoke;  and  lo,  the  waters  round  him 
 flow,  [keep, 
 
 They  gather  in  a  heap,  and  their  own  boundings 
 The  deep  their  refervoir,  wherein  they  roll  and  roar. 
 
 2  Nor  is  the  raging  fea,  attached  more  to  thee, 
 Than  the  eftablim'd  earth,  eftablifh'd  by  thy  breath; 
 AH  ye  who  therein  live,  your  humble  homage  give. 
 
 3  Tremble,  and  ftand  in  awe,  fubmiffive  to  his  law, 
 And  bring  your  tribute  in,  an  offering  pure  and  clean ; 
 And  fing  unto  your  King,  let  all  creation  fing, 
 
 4  For  lo,  he  fpoke;  anon  the  thing  he  fpoke  was  done. 
 He  gave  his  word  of  might,  the  world  heard  him 
 
 ftraight, 
 And  ftarting  into  view,  gave  him  the  glory  due. 
 
 PSALM    XXXIII.  1 0-14. 
 
 THEY  (hall  repent  it  evermore, 
 Againft  the  Lord  who  rage  and  roar, 
 The  Lord  will  make  their  counfels  void ; 
 The  Lord  of  judgment  is  the  God. 
 They  may  dig  deep  and  hide  their  plot, 
 The  Lord  will  damn  them  on  the  fpot. 
 
 Obut 
 
393  PSALM    XXXIII. 
 
 O  but  the  counfel  of  the  Lord 
 Is  throughly  weighed  and  explor'd ! 
 2  His  thoughts  eternity  endure, 
 In  full  perfection  pure  and  lure. 
 O  bleffed,  blefled,  are  the  men 
 In  whom  the  Lord  their  God  doth  reign ! 
 Yea  verily  compleatly  bleft ; 
 His  chofen  heirs,  ordain'd  to  reft 
 Upon  the  bofom  of  his  love  ! 
 His  love,  their  kingdom,  cannot  move. 
 
 PSALM    XXXIII.  15.  to  the  end. 
 
 JEHOVAH  call  his  eyes,  abroad  beneath  the  ikies, 
 Upon  the  fons  of  men  ; 
 He  fee-eth  where  they  dweil,  from  Zion  his  own  hill 
 All  full  within  his  ken. 
 
 2  He  fafhioneth  their  heart,  alike  in  every  part, 
 
 The  Juage  of  all  their  ways ; 
 No  fecret  ever  lurks,  unknown  among  their  works, 
 But  he  will  blame  or  praife. 
 
 3  There  is  not  any  king,  the  victory  can  fing, 
 
 Becaufe  his  hofls  are  great ; 
 Though  he  ftiould  number  men,  like  grafs  upon  the 
 It  would  not  change  the  flate.  [plain, 
 
 4  Nor  can  there  any  one,  tho'  Sampfon  wrere  the  one, 
 
 Deliver  his  own  foul ; 
 He's  holden  with  a  hair,  if  God  has  left  him  there; 
 A  fly  might  feize  the  fpoil. 
 
 5  The  general  on  the  field,  mud  be  oblig'd  to  yield, 
 
 And  run  away  at  length,  [horfe, 
 
 Who  trufteth  in  the  force,  of  numerous  quadron'd 
 Being  weakened  by  their  ftrength. 
 
 $  Nor  can  they  by  their  flight,  tho'  nimble  they  and 
 Bear  off  their  riders  fafe  ;  [wight, 
 
 An 
 
PSALM    XXXIV.  399 
 
 An  arrow  fhall  purfue,  full-winged  from  the  yew, 
 And  beat  them  both  to  chaff. 
 
 7  But  lo,  Jehovah's  eye,  is  beaming  from  on  high, 
 
 Upon  the  humble  ones. 
 Their  eyes  fhall  not  grow  dim,  whofe  eyes  are  fix'd 
 He's  grieved  at  their  groans.  [on  him  ; 
 
 8  His  gladnefs  he  will  pour,  in  his  appointed  hour, 
 
 Into  their  painful  wounds ; 
 To  fave  alive  their  fouls,  when  death  upon  them  fcowls, 
 And  hell  her  trumpet  founds. 
 
 9  When  deftitute  of  food,  they  feed  upon  their  God, 
 
 And  fing  aloud  for  joy  ; 
 His  river  is  their  drink,  they  dwell  upon  the  brink, 
 And  drink  without  annoy. 
 
 10  Our  eyes  are  on  the  Lord,  our  foul  hangs  on  his 
 
 He  is  our  help  and  Ihield ;  [Word, 
 
 Nor  (hall  we  come  to  mame,  who  love  his  holy  name, 
 He'll  crown  us  on  the  field. 
 
 1 1  Jehovah,  let  thy  love,  which  never  {hall  remove, 
 
 On  us  be  poured  down  ; 
 According  as  we  hope  in  thee,  and  looking  up, 
 Expect,  the  victory  foon. 
 
 1 2  We  do  expect  thy  day,  and  vehemently  do  pray, 
 
 O  do  thou  haften  on, 
 When  thou  mall  {hine  abroad,  and  raifeus  from  the 
 To  mine  with  thee  our  Sun.  [clod, 
 
 PSALM    XXXIV.  i  —-8. 
 
 SINK,  fink  away,  ye  humble  things, 
 A  higher  flight  my  fpirit  fprings  j 
 I'll  fing  Jehovah  evermore, 
 I'll  fing  thy  love,  I'll  fing  and  foar, 
 
 I'll 
 
oo  PSALM    XXXIV, 
 
 I'll  make  &e  dawning  hear  my  voice, 
 And  all  day  long  proclaim  my  joys. 
 The  live-long  night  mall  feel  no  reft, 
 Till  me  fhallfing  how  ^  am  bleft. 
 The  world  fliall  hear  from^pole  to  pole, 
 And  know  the  boaflings  of  my  foul, 
 The  boaftings  of  my  foul  in  God  j 
 The  humble  hearing  ftiall  be  glad. 
 
 0  praife  the  Lord  with  me  for  ever. 
 Let  us  exalt  his  name  together : 
 
 1  cry'd  to  him ;  he  gave  relief, 
 And  fet  me  free  from  all  my  grief. 
 Lift  up  your  voice,  and  pitch  it  high, 
 Declare  to  all  below  the  iky, 
 
 Let  every  child  of  guilt  and  wrath, 
 Triumph  o'er  guilt,  triumph  o'er  death,, 
 For  men  of  as  accurfed  ways, 
 Believ'd,  and  liv'd,  and  fung  his  praife. 
 They  look'd  to  him,  and  were  not  fham'd, 
 Being  fav'd  as  foon  as  God  they  nam'd. 
 
 Their  Advocate,  before  the  throne, 
 Has  pled  the  caufe  of  every  one ; 
 He  pled  his  blood,  and  was  accepted, 
 And  they  in  him,  no  one  excepted. 
 He  laid  his  robes  of  glory  by, 
 And  riches,  for  deep  poverty ; 
 He  travailed  in  the  pangs  of  death  ; 
 That  they  might  joy  in  the  new  birth, 
 
 He  roared  out  for  very  pain, 
 He  funk  to  hell,  and  rofe  again 
 Emergent  from  the  feas  of  blood, 
 That  had  his  body  overflow'd  ; 
 He  {hook  away  the  drops  of  wrath, 
 And  pour'd  a  prayer  in  every  breath  ; 
 
 Accept 
 
PSALM    XXXIV.  401 
 
 Accept  my  children,  O  my  God, 
 Behold,  I  wafh  them  in  my  blood ! 
 Jehovah  lent  a  willing  ear, 
 And  for  the  children  heard  his  prayer* 
 He  faved  him,  he  fave<Vthem, 
 From  every  trouble,  fin,  and  fliame. 
 The  angels  of  the  Lord  are  given 
 To  him,  the  Heir  of  earth  and  heaven  j 
 He  fends  them  fcouting  all  abroad, 
 The  life-guards  of  the  fons  of  God. 
 
 PSALM    XXXIV.  8—1 1. 
 
 OT  A  S  T  E  with  me,  believe,  and  fee 
 The  fweetnefs  God  is  pouring, 
 Like  honey-bees,  on  apple-trees, 
 With  pleafant  bloffoms  flowering ; 
 
 They  fill  their  cells,  from  blooms  and  bells, 
 
 Pure  honey  in  their  bofoms ; 
 They  fuck  the  pith,  and  live  therewith, 
 
 Sweet  fpoil  of  all  the  blolfoms  ! 
 
 So  bled  are  they,  by  night  and  day, 
 
 Who  glory  in  Jehovah  ; 
 He  loveth  them,  and  they  love  him, 
 
 For  mutually  they  love  aye. 
 
 O  blefs  the  Lord,  believe  his  Word, 
 
 Ye  children  of  his  favour; 
 He  will  not  leave  your  heart  to  grieve, 
 
 Who  gave  for  you  the  Saviour. 
 
 Young  lions  may  roar  for  their  prey, 
 
 And  make  the  forefts  yell  all, 
 Nor  ever  find,  in  all  the  wind, 
 
 Their  hunger  to  repell  all. 
 
 But  they  who  pray  to  God  alway, 
 Believing  what  they  pray  for, 
 
 E  e  e  Shall 
 
4o2  PSALM    XXXIV. 
 
 Shall  have  the  thing,  from  God  their  Kingy 
 Who  hears  before  they  fay  more. 
 
 7  He  knows  at  once,  and  will  advance, 
 
 To  meet  them  with  his  bleffings ; 
 He'll  give  them  food,  and  every  good, 
 Preventing  all  their  wifhings. 
 
 8  For  God  is  love ;  and  fo  he'll  prove, 
 
 Your  foot  fliall  never  (tumble ; 
 Exalt  your  voice,  and  flag  your  joys, 
 Singr  fmg  to  God,  ye  humble  ! 
 
 PSALM    XXXIV.  1 1.  to  the  end, 
 
 HARK,  my  children,  Jefus  cries, 
 1  defcended  from  the  fides, 
 And  became  a  child  like  you ; 
 Give  your  cars  unto  me  now. 
 
 2  I  came  down  to  lowefl  hell, 
 That  my  children  all  might  dwell, 
 Up  with  me  in  highefl  heaven  ; 
 Let  your  hearts  to  me  be  given. 
 
 3  I  will  teach  you  how  to  fear 
 God,  the  Lord,  if  you  will  hear ; 
 "Who's  the  man  that  would  incline 
 Long  to  live  ?  in  heaven  to  fhine  ? 
 
 4  Joyful  in  the  day  of  trial, 
 Joyful  in  his  felf-denial, 
 He  fliall  live  for  evermore, 
 When  his  day  of  trial's  o'er. 
 
 5  Only  let  him  now  be  wife, 
 And  behave  in  following  guifej 
 Keep  his  tongue  from  evil  word, 
 And  his  lips  for  God  the  Lord. 
 
 6  Let  no  guile  proceed  from  him, 
 
 So  his  crown  fliall  ne'er  grow  dim ; 
 
 Ceafe 
 
PSALM    XXXIV.  403 
 
 Ceafe  from  evil,  and  do  good, 
 Soheftiallbe  lov'dof  God; 
 
 7  Follow  peace  in  keen  purfuit, 
 Running  with  a  fteady  foot : 
 So  he  fhall  inherit  peace, 
 Reigning  with  the  God  of  grace, 
 
 8  Jehovah's  eyes  are  ever  on 
 Every  wife  obedient  fon, 
 
 To  behold  and  guide  their  caufe, 
 Who  behold  and  love  his  laws. 
 
 9  Jehovah's  ears  are  open  ftill 
 All  their  prayers  to  fulfil, 
 Who  have  opened  their  hearts, 
 To  receive  what  he  imparts. 
 
 I  o  Jehovah  fets  his  fierceft  eyes 
 
 Againfl  the  children  who  defpife 
 All  thofe  holy  ways  of  his ; 
 He  will  fend  them  to  th'  abyfs ; 
 
 I I  Burn  them  up,  both  root  and  branch. 
 In  the  flames  that  will  not  quench  ; 
 Name  and  perfon,  from  the  earth, 
 Damned  in  eternal  wrath. 
 
 1 2  But  the  righteous,  to  the  Lord 
 Cry,  believing  in  his  word ; 
 He  delivereth  them  from  all 
 Tribulations  that  befal. 
 
 1 3  For  Jehovah  is  all  ear, 
 
 Unto  thofe  who  draw  him  near, 
 And  Jehovah  is  all  eye, 
 Over  thofe  who  humble  ly, 
 
 14  O  !  Jehovah  he  is  kind, 
 
 To  the  men  of  humble  mind  ; 
 
 E  e  e  2  He 
 
r 
 
 404  PSALM    XXXIV. 
 
 He  is  ever  nigh  to  thofe 
 Spirits  where  contrition  flows. 
 
 15  Will  he  ever  break  the  reed, 
 Bruifed  with  the  awful  dread 
 Of  his  glorious  majefty, 
 Thundering  from  his  heavens  high  ? 
 
 1 6  Will  he  ever  quench  the  flax, 
 Smoking  like  the  fmitten  wax, 
 Smitten  by  the  touchy  flame, 
 Flame  of  love  to  his  own  name  ? 
 
 1 7  Such  the  flame  that  burned  up 
 Jefus,  when  he  drunk  the  cup ; 
 Many  borrows  him  befel, 
 
 But  Jehovah  lov'd  him  well ; 
 
 1 8  ^Loy'd  him  well,  and  fav'd  his  Lamb  5 
 
 But  devoted  to  the  flame 
 
 All  his  foes  who  blew  the  fire ; 
 
 He  confum'd  them  in  his  ire, 
 .     10  But  he  faved  every  bone 
 
 Of  his  own  beloved  Son, 
 
 Sav'd  unbroken  in  the  ft  rife, 
 f         Till  he  rofe  the  Prince  of  Life* 
 
 20  And  delivering  him  the  Head, 
 
 He  delivered  all  his  feed,  > 
 
 Every  member  of  his  body, 
 By  his  facrifice  fo  bloody. 
 
 2 1  They,  redeemed  from  fin  and  wrath,      , 
 Rofe  triumphant  over  death  ; 
 
 ^         Rofe  in  him  to  endlefs  life  ; 
 He  abolifhed  the  ftrife. 
 
 2  2  Took  he  out  the  fting  of  guilt, 
 When  the  fword  of  juftice  fpilt 
 His  pure  confecrated  blood, 
 For  the  eietf  fons  of  God,  23  Evil 
 
 t 
 
PSALM    CXLIX.  405 
 
 23  Evil  fliall  the  wicked  flay, 
 And  in  defolations  lay 
 
 Thofe  who  hate  the  godly  One  ; 
 Hear  I  not  their  doleful  groan  ? 
 
 24  Mourning  in  the  pit  they  ly, 
 Dying,  yet  they  never  die ; 
 Everlaftir.g  vipers  gnaw 
 
 At  their  hearts  who  fcorn  the  law. 
 
 25  But  Jehovah  loves  the  foul, 
 That  delights  in  the  control 
 Of  his  tender-loving  Spirit ; 
 Such  the  kingdom  (hall  inherit. 
 
 26  They,  redeem'd  from  all  their  forrow, 
 Sing  to  day,  and  fmg  to-morrow ; 
 Defolation  know  they  never, 
 Reigning  with  their  Lord  for  ever. 
 
 PSALM    CXLIX. 
 
 WE  will  be  joyful  in  our  King, 
 And  with  the  voice  of  triumph  fmg, 
 For  he  will  our  redemption  bring, 
 And  make  us  fing  full  gladly. 
 He'll  fend  his  Spirit  in  his  love, 
 And  lead  us  to  himfelf  above ; 
 From  whence  no  fiend  fliall  us  remove, 
 NTho'  raging  for  us  madly. 
 2  Our  King  will  quell  them  who  rebel, 
 And  banifh  them  away  to  hell ; 
 And  there  imprifoned  they  dwell, 
 Who  have  defign'd  our  ruin. 
 They  digged  deep  a  pit  to  keep 
 Themfelves,  from  whence  they  fliall  not  creep, 
 But  evermore  in  darknefs  weep  ; 
 The  frjiits  of  their  own  doing ! 
 
 3  For 
 
4c6  PSALM    CXLIX. 
 
 3  For  lo,  the  Spirit  is  our  (hield, 
 Our  guard  on  the  embattled  nVd, 
 Who  makes  our  enemies  to  yield, 
 
 And  flee  away  like  vapor. 
 The  Spirit  is  our  Advocate, 
 "Who  manages  our  whole  eftate, 
 And  pleads  our  caufe  with  light  and  heat, 
 
 Bright  fhining  as  a  taper. 
 
 4  The  Spirit  is  our  Light  divine  ; 
 And  we  by  Him  in  glory  fliine ; 
 
 For  why,  O  Lord,  the  kingdom's  thine, 
 
 The  glory,  and  falvation. 
 Lift  up  your  voice,  ye  faints,  on  high, 
 Sing  to  the  Lord  thro'  all  the  fky, 
 And  make  your  ulleluiah's  fly 
 
 With  burning  emulation. 
 
 5  Sing  to  the  Lord  his  fong  fo  new ; 
 For  he  hath  now  difplayed  to  view 
 His  everlafting  love  to  you, 
 
 And  cloath'd  you  with  falvation. 
 Let  happy  [frael  fmg  aloud 
 The  founding  praifes  of  their  God, 
 From  whcfe  creating  hand  they  flow'd ; 
 
 Sing  all  the  new  creation. 
 
 6  Let  Zion's  fons  and  daughters  all, 
 Before  the  Lord  in  Zion  fall 
 With  joy,  obedient  to  his  call, 
 
 Who  reigns  their  King  in  Zion. 
 Jehovah  is  their  King  on  high ; 
 And  he  the  meek  will  beautify, 
 Adorning  them  mofl  glorioufly 
 
 With  all  his  love  in  Zion. 
 
 7  O  glory,  glory  give  with  fpecd, 
 Unto  the  Lord,  ye  glorify'd ; 
 
 And 
 
A  Song  to  Chrift  Jefus,  who  is  all  in  ell         407 
 
 And  fing  aloud  upon  your  bed, 
 
 Shining  in  pureft  glory. 
 For  you  are  lifted  heaven-high, 
 And  on  his  bofom  ever  ly, 
 Like  flaming  funs,  vi&orioufly 
 
 Triumphing  in  his  glory. 
 
 8  How  high  the  King !  how  high  his  praife ! 
 How  glorious  He,  and  all  his  ways, 
 Who  makes  to  fhine  in  his  own  rays 
 
 The  princes  of  his  glory  ! 
 In  blazing  glory  how  they  mine! 
 Every  faint  in  light  divine  i 
 For  lo,  Jehovah,  all  is  thine, 
 
 The  kingdom,  power,  and  glory. 
 
 CXCVII.    A  Song    to  Christ    Jesus,  who 
 is  All  in  All. 
 
 the  Head  over  all  things  to  the  Church,  which  is 
 
 his  Body,    the  Fulnefs  of  Him  who  filleth  All  in 
 All   Eph.  i.  22,  23. 
 
 CReation  hangs  on  thee,  and  waits  for  thy  nod, 
 O  Jefus  Omnipotent,  hailing  thee  God  : 
 For  from  thy  creating  hands,  all  things  have  flowM, 
 
 Good,  pleafant,  and  perfect  before  thee : 
 Thou  fpreadft  out  the  heavens,  and  foundeft  the  earth, 
 And  fpoke  unto  being  their  hods  with  thy  breath  j 
 The  Head  of  all  beings  above  and  beneath, 
 Thou  reigned,  and  mined  in  glory ; 
 Sang  to  thy  glory  bright, 
 Stars  of  the  morning  light  j 
 Joining  in  chorus  right, 
 Highly  ador'd  thy  might, 
 
 OGod 
 
408        A  Song  to  Chrift  fejiis,  who  is  All  in  All 
 
 O  God,  all  thy  fons,  while  yet  fair  fliining  ones ; 
 Ere  Satan  diflurbed  thy  kingdom. 
 
 2  Proud  Satan  down  headlong,  thou  hurldfl  in  thine  ire, 
 With  all  his  rebellious,  to  fwelter  in  fire ; 
 
 For  fo  did  thine  awful  deep  judgments  require ; 
 
 Becaufe  they  diflurbed  thy  kingdom. 
 Peace,  thou  mad'ft.  in  heaven ;  but  Satan  below 
 Made  tempefls  and  horrors  around  him  to  flow  \ 
 O'er  Adam  prevailing,  he  made  him  thy  foe, 
 A  vafTal  of  Satan's  own  kingdom : 
 Sinning  in  Adam,  we 
 Fell  down  by  thy  decree, 
 From  our  own  high  degree, 
 
 To  deepen1  mifery 
 
 Ador'd  be  thy  name !  for  this  doom  on  us  came, 
 That  we  might  be  lifted  the  higher. 
 
 3  That  We  might  be  rais'd,  dear  Redeemer,  thou  fell ; 
 To  poize  us  to  heaven,  thy  foul  funk  to  hell ; 
 Then  fprung  to  thy  kingdom ;  there  ever  to  dwell, 
 
 In  bright  human  bodily  glory. 
 O  haflen  thy  kingdom ;  that  we  may  behold 
 Thee,  Lord,  as  thou  art ;  fee,  our  eyes  become  old, 
 With  looking  till  thou  all  thy  purpofe  unfold  j 
 And  fhew  us  thy  vifible  glory. 
 Majefty  dwells  in  thee, 
 Glory,  excellency; 
 Shining  in  brilliancy, 
 We  fhall  thy  dwelling  fee : 
 Nor  fhall  we  remove  from  thy  raptures  of  love, 
 O  thou  Pattern  and  Head  of  our  glory. 
 
 THE 
 
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 THE 
 
 SONG    of     SOLOMON 
 
 Paraphrafed  in  a  literal  Manner. 
 
 G  H  A  P.    I. 
 
 THE  Song  of  fongs,  which  Solomon 
 Received  from  above, 
 Of  Prince  Meffiah  and  his  Fair  One, 
 Who  burn  with  mutual  love. 
 
 2  O  let  him  kifs  me  with  his  mouth, 
 
 His  mouth  is  all  divine  : 
 Thy  kiffes  do  renew  my  youth ; 
 Thy  love  excelleth  wine. 
 
 3  The  favour  of  thy  ointment  flows, 
 
 Like  Eden,  all  abroad ; 
 The  breath  of  God  the  ointment  blows, 
 Sweet-favouring  all  of  God. 
 
 4  As  clouds  of  incenfe  from  the  groves 
 
 Arifing  o-'er  the  hills, 
 Thy  name  o'er  all  my  fpirit  flows, 
 And  all  my  bofom  fills. 
 
 5  The  virgins  feel  their  fouls  oppreft, 
 
 Being  ravifti'd  with  thy  loves; 
 Save  in  thy  name  they  find  no  red, 
 But  figh  like  widowed  doves ; 
 6  The  folitary  wanderers  mourn, 
 And  wail  an  abfent  mate : 
 Thy  virgins  fo,  till  thou  return, 
 "With  earned  longings  wait. 
 
 F  £  f  7   O 
 
410  Song  of  Solomon.  Chap.  I, 
 
 7  O  draw  thou  me,  and  we  will  run, 
 
 We'll  run  with  joy  to  thee, 
 As  morning  dews,  to  hail  the  fun  ; 
 The  virgins  run  with  me. 
 
 8  The  King  hath  introduced  me, 
 
 Within  his  palace-walls; ' 
 We  will  folaee  ourfelves  in  thee, 
 And  triumph  thro'  thy  halls, 
 
 9  We'll  lead  the  chorus  round  thy  courts. 
 
 And  make  the  galleries  ring ; 
 While  royal  love,  their  heart  tranfports, 
 Thy  royal  virgins  fing. 
 
 io  Where  mufic,  wine,  and  dancing  reign, 
 We  only  think  of  love ; 
 And  call  their  higheft  glories  vain ; 
 In  love  we  live,  we  move. 
 
 1 1  Thy  love  poffleffeth  all  our  frame 
 
 And  changeth  us  to  love ; 
 We  think,  we  fpeak,  we  aft  our  flame  j 
 Nor  (hall  our  flame  remove. 
 
 1 2  The  upright  love  my  Prince,  the  King ; 
 
 I'm  black  compar'd  to  him : 
 "  Fm  black !  I'm  black  !"  ye  daughters,  fing. 
 Of  fair  Jerufalem. 
 
 13  I'm  black,  yet  comely  thro'  his  love ; 
 
 His  love  arrays  me  round : 
 Within  his  flowing  robes  I  move, 
 Light-ftreaming  to  the  ground  -T 
 
 1 4  As  Kedar-tents  on  funny  hills 
 
 Refleft  the  luftrous  beam ; 
 The  glittering  glory  fpreads,  and  fills 
 The  eye  that  fees  the  fame  j 
 
 15  Or,  as  the  royal  curtains  fhine, 
 
 Pavilioning,  that  flow,  When 
 
Chap.  I.  Song  of  Solomon.  4 1 1 
 
 When  Solomon  doth  choofe  to  dine 
 Upon  mount  Zion's  brow  j 
 
 1 6  Mount  Zion  blazes  like  the  day, 
 
 And  (nines  o'er  all  the  land ; 
 Her  gilded  flags  in  circles  play, 
 Where  marftialled  armies  ftand : 
 
 1 7  My  glory  (hines  above  them  all, 
 
 And  wantons  in  the  gale  ; 
 His  fkirts  of  love  around  me  fall, 
 And  all  my  blacknefs  vail. 
 
 1 8  Look  not  on  me,  becaufe  I'm  black, 
 
 The  fun  hath  lookt  before  ; 
 (But  let  my  Lord  your  eyes  attract) 
 The  fun  hath  hurt  me  fore. 
 
 19  My  mother's  children,  angry  ones! 
 
 Made  me  the  vineyards  watch  ; 
 But  ah  !  my  own  vineyard  expos'd 
 I  left,  the  harm  to  catch  ! 
 
 20  Tell  me,  O  thou  who  dwell'ft  in  love, 
 
 And  in  my  foul  alone, 
 Where  doft  thou  make  thy  flocks  to  move  ? 
 Where  reft  thy  flocks  at  noon  ? 
 
 2 1  For  why  fliould  I  a  ftranger  ftand, 
 
 As  one  that  turns  afide, 
 By  thy  companions  with  their  flocks  ? 
 Does  this  befeem  thy  Bride  ? 
 
 22  O  thou,  the  faireft  of  the  fair, 
 
 If  yet  thou  doft  not  know, 
 Go  thou  thy  way,  and  mark  the  flock ; 
 Forth  by  their  footfteps  go. 
 
 23  Behold  the  fhepherds  with  their  tents, 
 
 Spread  on  the  flowery  green, 
 
 F  f  f  2  There 
 
4i2  Song  ef  Solomon.  Chap.  I. 
 
 There,  feed  thy  kids,  and  feed  thy  loves, 
 In  raptures  burning  keen. 
 
 24  I  have  compar'd  thee,  O  my  Love, 
 
 To  Pharaoh's  chariot-fteeds ; 
 Thy  comely  cheeks,  with  rows  of  jewels, 
 Their  comelinefs  exceeds. 
 
 25  By  chains  of  circling  gold,  thy  neck 
 
 With  glittering  taflels  hings : 
 We'll  make  thy  borders  all  of  gold, 
 Imbofs'd  with  filver-rings. 
 
 26  While  my  Beloved  (Its  and  dines, 
 
 My  melting  fpirit  glows ; 
 My  fpikenards  fend  abroad  their  fmells, 
 The  fragrance  round  him  goes. 
 
 2  7  My  well-beloved  is  to  me 
 A  bundlet  of  myrrh  ; 
 All  night,  the  myrrh  between  my  breafts 
 Shall  ly,  nor  ever  ftir. 
 
 28  The  vineyards  of  Engedi  bloom, 
 
 The  fouth-winds  foftly  blow ; 
 There  walks  my  King,  camphire  to  mc, 
 Where  clufteririg  camphires  grow. 
 
 29  Behold,  behold,  how  fair  my  Love, 
 
 Thou  c[oft  in  beauty  rife ; 
 Above  the  daughters  lifted  high, 
 Like  to  a  dove's  thine  eyes ! 
 
 30  Lo,  thou  art  fair,  all  fair  my  Love, 
 
 Yea  pleafant,  O  my  Queen  : 
 My  Queen  to  me  is  my  empire, 
 Lo,  fee,  our  bed  is  green. 
 
 3 1  The  cedar  is  a  lafl  ing  tree, 
 
 The  fir-tree  mighty  ltrong ; 
 With  cedar-beams,  we  beam  our  hpu.fe, 
 
 With  fir,  our  galleries  long.  C  H  A  J?. 
 
Chap.  II.  Song  of  Solomon. 
 
 CHAP.      II. 
 
 OF  Sharon's  field  I  am  the  rofe, 
 I  am  the  lily  of  the  vale ; 
 Among  the  thorns  the  lily  glows  5 
 As  fun-beams  gliiler  thro'  the  hail : 
 %  So  doth  my  Love  in  glory  mine, 
 
 Among  the  daughters  every  where : 
 My  Love,  enrob'd  in  light  divine, 
 Turns  night  to  day,  if  he  be  there. 
 
 3  Wide  is  the  defart,  wild  and  bare, 
 
 Rough  grows  the  barren  wood-land  tree ; 
 I've  roam'd  the  forefls,  far  and  near ; 
 None  but  the  apple-tree  for  me ! 
 
 4  As  th'  apple-tree  among  the  trees, 
 
 So  is  my  Love  among  the  fons  : 
 His  flavour  wafted  in  the  breeze, 
 My  eager  foul  before  me  runs, 
 
 5  And  from  the  high  embowering  bough, 
 
 All  trembling,  plucks  the  balmy  prize ; 
 O'erpowering  joys,  and  fruit  fo  new, 
 My  foul  in  heavenly  trance  furprife. 
 
 6  Intranc'd,  he  brought  me  to  the  bower, 
 
 His  royal  bower  of  banquet-love, 
 Into  my  heart  more  love  to  pour, 
 Love's  banners  waving  all  above. 
 
 7  Hold !  hold !  I  die  !  bring  flaggon'd  wine ! 
 
 With  apples  flay  my  finking  foul ! 
 Ten  thoufand  loves  in  one  combine ! 
 Who  will  my  love-fick  heart  confole  ? 
 
 8  My  Lord,  I  know  him  by  thefe  figns, 
 
 Hi>  left  hand  underneath  my  head, 
 As  th'  elm  enwreath'd  by  circling  vines, 
 His  right  infolds  his  happy  maid, 
 
4 1 4  Song  of  Solomon,  Chap,  II. 
 
 9  I  charge  yom  by  the  roes  and  hinds, 
 
 The  roes  and  hinds  that  prance  the  fields, 
 Out-flripping  far  the  fpeedy  winds ; 
 I  charge  by  all  that  pleafure  yields; 
 io  O  daughters  of  Jerufalem, 
 
 That  you  will  fhew  your  friendly  love, 
 And  filent  {land  in  watch  folemn, 
 
 Nor  flir,  nor  wake  him,  till  he  more, 
 
 I  r  My  Love  doth  like  a  pleafant  roe, 
 
 A  pleafant  roe,  or  fallow-deer, 
 Leaping  upon  the  mountain's  brow, 
 Or  fkipping  o'er  the  hills,  appear. 
 1 2  His  voice !  my  well-beloved's  voice  ! 
 Behold,  he  flands  beyond  our  wall  j 
 I'm  all  a  fire  !  my  bowels  rejoice ! 
 I  fee  him  from  the  palace-hall. 
 
 I I  Is  that  ray  Love,  that  (lands  aloof  ? 
 
 That  flourifties  behind  the  grate  ? 
 What  have  I  done  for  this  reproof? 
 
 He  glances  by  the  lattice-gate  !  • 
 
 14  Why  thus  confume  with  cruel  pain, 
 
 The  foul  that  only  lives  in  Thee  ? 
 All  hail !  my  Love,  return'd  again  ! 
 
 Welcome,  my  Love !  come  dwell  with  me ! 
 
 15  My  eye  did  dwell  upon  his  face, 
 
 My  ear  did  dwell  upon  his  tongue ; 
 For  my  Beloved  fpake  in  peace, 
 
 Sweet  odours  from  his  lips  were  flung. 
 t  6  Rife  up,  my  Love,  he  to  me  faid, 
 
 My  Fair  One,  rife,  and  come  away ; 
 For  lo,  the  winter  fable-clad, 
 
 And  rains  are  chas'd  by  joyful  May. 
 17  The  flowers  are  blown  on  all  the  lawns, 
 
 And  fummer  laughs  in  every  plain  j  The 
 
Chap.  II.  Song  of  Solomon.  415 
 
 The  woods  are  full  of  playful  fawns, 
 And  mirth  and  beauty  round  you  reign ; 
 
 18  The  tuneful  daughters  of  the  grove, 
 
 Keen  emulations  1  pour  their  throats ; 
 They  feel  their  flames,  they  fing  their  loves, 
 And  joy  prolongs  their  trilling  notes ; 
 
 19  Thou  too  be  tun'd  to  joy,  my  Love, 
 
 For  lo,  behold,  in  all  our  land 
 Is  heard  the  emblematic  Dove ; 
 He  cooes  and  perches  on  my  hand. 
 
 20  The  period  now  advanced  well, 
 
 The  fig-tree  hangs  all  green  with  figs ; 
 The  vines  fend  forth  a  pleafant  fmell, 
 With  tender  grapes  on  all  their  fprigs. 
 
 21  Arife,  my  Love,  O  do  not  ftay, 
 
 Thy  Prince  he  names  thee  by  his  love, 
 Arife,  my  Fair,  and  come  away, 
 Away  with  me  my  Turtle-dove. 
 
 22  O  thou  my  Dove,  whofe  hidings  rare 
 
 In  fecret  cliftings  of  thy  rock, 
 Or  coy-like  ikulkings  by  the  ftair, 
 So  flyly  do  thy  Mate  provoke, 
 
 23  Let  me  be  blefs'd  and  hear  thy  voice; 
 
 Let  me  efpy  thy  countenance ; 
 Sweet  is  thy  voice,  comely  thy  face, 
 My  joy  to  rapture  both  advance. 
 
 24  Take  us  the  foxes,  ah  the  vermin  ! 
 
 The  little  foxes  fpoil  the  vine ; 
 Of  their  browfings,  fee,  what  harming  ! 
 Our  vines  have  tender  grapes  and  fine. 
 
 25  Rejoice  with  me,  O  my  Beloved, 
 
 For  you  are  mine,  and  I  am  yours ; 
 
 Like 
 
41 6  Song  of  Solomon.  Chap,  III, 
 
 Like  hart  and  doe,  we  love  unmoved  j 
 We  feed  among  the  lily-flowers. 
 26  Blow  on,  O  day,  O  fwiftly  blow, 
 Until  the  morning  dawn  arife, 
 Till  all  away  the  fhadows  flow, 
 And  Sun  of  glory  blefs  our  eyes. 
 
 2  7  Wafte  are  the  mountains,  wide  and  black, 
 That  ly  between  me  and  my  Love ; 
 Is  yon  my  Love,  that's  coming  back  ? 
 Fly  to  my  breaft,  my  holy  Dove, 
 
 28  O  why,  my  Dove,  fo  long  away  ? 
 
 My  founding  bowels  all  melt  and  burn. 
 Impatient  of  fo  long  delay ; 
 
 Hafle,  O  my  Love,  O  quickly  turn. 
 
 29  Turn  to  thy  Love,  divide  no  more ; 
 
 I  can  no  more  divifions  bear  : 
 Come,  prancing  Bether's  mountains  o'er. 
 As  pleafant  roe,  or  fallow-deer. 
 
 CHAP.    III. 
 
 BY  night,  I  fought  him  on  my  bed, 
 I  cry'd,  I  long'd,  I  wifli'd,  I  pray'd; 
 He  all  my  foul  pofleft  : 
 I  fought  him,  but  1  found  him  not  ; 
 Save  him  alone  I  all  forgot : 
 I  could  not  find  my  reft. 
 
 2  Now  will  I  rife,  and  walk  the  ftreet, 
 Walk  to  and  fro  where  broad-ways  meet; 
 
 And  fearch  the  city  round, 
 Ail-where,  to  feek  my  Love,  I'll  rove ; 
 Ail-where  I  rov'd,  I  fought  my  Love; 
 My  Love  could  not  be  found. 
 
 3  Betrayed  by  my  treading  founds, 
 The  watchmen  in  their  nightly  rounds 
 
 Found  me  all  trembling  o'er.  "  O 
 
Chap.  III.  Song  of  Solomon*  417 
 
 "  O  fpare  a  joylefs  helplefs  maid, 
 u  And  faw  ye  him,"  (I  faintly  faid) 
 
 *  Whom  only  I  adore  P* 
 
 4  They  let  me  pafs,  but  fcarcely  pan1, 
 When  lo,  I  met  in  running  hade, 
 
 Who  reigns  within  my  heart. 
 All  breathlefs  on  his  breaft  I  fell. 
 u  Of  all  my  joys  thou  flowing  well, 
 
 u  From  hence  I'll  never  part." 
 
 5  I  held,  and  would  not  let  him  move, 
 Until  I  prov'd  his  ftedfaft  love ; 
 
 My  praife  he  mail  employ. 
 I  led  him  to  my  mother's  tent ; 
 My  fmothering  anguifh  found  a  venr, 
 
 He  fill'd  me  full  with  joy. 
 
 6  O  how  I  love  that  ancient  fpot, 
 Where  once  from  him  my  breath  I  got, 
 
 Where  firft  I  was  conceiv'd  ! 
 My  mother  bare  me  in  her  pangs, 
 And  death,  he  caught  me  in  his  fangs, 
 
 But  lo,  my  Lord  reliev'd. 
 
 7  I  pointed  to  the  ruined  bower, 
 Where  fin  and  death,  all  to  devour, 
 
 Broke  loofe  with  bridle-lefs  rage. 
 My  Lord  beheld  the  havoc  made, 
 Then  paufing,  groan'd,  and  fhook  his  head, 
 
 *  I'll  fin  and  death  aflwage." 
 
 8  Nor  flopt  he  here,  but  fmiling  faid, 
 
 "  Take  heart  and  ling,  my  lovely  maid, 
 
 "  All  fears  I  will  difpel ; 
 "  Thou  art  my  reft,  hear  will  I  flay, 
 "  Nor  ever  hence  depart  away, 
 
 For  I  do  love  thee  well" 
 
 G  g  g  9  O 
 
4i 8  Song  of  Solomon.  Chap.  III. 
 
 9  O  daughters  of  Jerufalem, 
 
 I  charge  you,  keep  your  watch  folemn, 
 
 And  do  not  ftir  my  Love  j 
 By  roes  and  hinds,  and  all  that's  pure, 
 I  ftraitly  charge  you,  and  adjure 
 Not  to  awake,  nor  move. 
 i  o  The  roes  and  hinds  are  fwift  of  feet,  - 
 They,  like  the  fouth-winds,  foftly  greet, 
 
 No  fooner  come  than  gone ; 
 So  might  my  Love,  if  you  difpleafe, 
 Fly  fwiftly  with  the  fouth-land  breeze  ; 
 And  leave  his  Bride  to  moan. 
 
 1 1  Who's  this  that  comes  like  pillaring  clouds. 
 Of  fmoking  incenfe  from  the  woods, 
 
 With  gums  perfumed  high  ? 
 The  winds  abroad  his  odours  blow, 
 My  heart  his  odours  overflow, 
 
 And  lo,  Himfelf  is  nigh. 
 
 1 2  Behold  his  love  and  valour  won, 
 This  bed,  which  is  for  Solomon, 
 
 The  Son  of  all  my  peace. 
 In  loyal  duty  keep  the  wards 
 Threefcore  of  trufty  feleft-guards, 
 
 All  Ifrael's  valiant  race ; 
 
 13  All  well-prepar'd  expert  in  war, 
 Can  meet  the  tempeft  from  afar, 
 
 And  drive  it  on  the  foe. 
 They  all  can  wield  the  beamy  fword, 
 Their  hands  can  mighty  deeds  afford, 
 
 Their  Prince  hath  taught  them  fo. 
 
 14  They  hold  their  fwords  upon  their  thigh, 
 From  fcabbard's  mouth  in  acl  to  fly, 
 
 Becaufe  of  fear  by  night. 
 
 The 
 
Chap.  III.  Song  of  Solomon.  419 
 
 The  Bride  (hall  fing,  "  My  Lord  is  ftrong, 
 No  fon  of  mifchief  dare  me  wrong ; 
 My  Lord  is  Lord  of  might." 
 
 15  Of  cedar-wood,  King  Solomon 
 Made  for  himfelf  a  glorious  throne, 
 
 A  glorious  throne  and  high. 
 The  tapering  pillars,  polifh'd  fine, 
 All  of  the  pureft  filver  mine, 
 
 None  fuch  below  the  iky, 
 
 1 6  The  bottom's  wrought  of  pureft  gold, 
 So  beautiful  cannot  be  told, 
 
 All-gliftering  like  the  ftars, 
 The  covering's  all  a  purple  glow, 
 And  round  the  circling  ftreamlets  flow, 
 
 Upheld  by  golden  bars. 
 
 1 7  But  O  the  midft,  being  nicely  wove, 
 
 In  heavenly  looms,  and  pav'd  with  love, 
 
 Defcription  all  excels ! 
 The  love  is  given  for  your  tranfport, 
 Ye  maids  who  bloom  in  Zion's  court, 
 
 Sweet  flowers  with  blowing  bells ! 
 
 1 8  Go  forth  with  joy,  ye  virgins,  fing, 
 Behold,  our  Solomon,  the  King, 
 
 O  Zion's  daughters  gay. 
 Behold  him  wear  th'  imperial  crown ; 
 Th'  imperial  crown  is  for  the  Son, 
 
 On  his  efpoufal-day. 
 
 19  His  mother  well  his  temples  bound, 
 She  wreath'd  them  all  with  glory  round, 
 
 Adorning  curioufly. 
 And  now  the  day  is  fully  come, 
 The  day  of  joy  to  my  Bridegroom, 
 
 To  my  Bridegroom  and  Me  ! 
 
 G  g  g  2  CHAP. 
 
 ' 
 
420  Song  of  Solomon*  Chap.  IV. 
 
 C  H  A  P.    IV. 
 
 MY  Love  does  all  in  glory  fliine, 
 Ten  thoufand  fweets  in  her  combine* 
 My  Love  (he  wears  diflievelled  hair, 
 To  vail  her  eyes  fhe  wears  it  there ; 
 And  yet  flie  has,  her  locks  within, 
 Eyes  of  a  dove,  dove-like  her  mien; 
 The  dove  is  chafte,  and  loving  too, 
 And  fo  my  Love,  even  fo  art  thou. 
 
 2  Thy  hair  is  like  a  flock  of  goats 
 
 On  Gilead-mount  that  browfe  the  roots, 
 
 The  goats  are  pleafant  all  the  day, 
 
 The  hearty  kidlings  leap  and  play ; 
 
 So  play  the  ringlets  of  thy  hair, 
 
 All  wanton  waving  to  the  air, 
 
 Thy  linty  locks,  thy  dangling  cues, 
 
 And  that  which  fhades  thy  polifli'd  brows, 
 
 3  Thy  teeth  are  like  two  rows  of  ftieep, 
 New-fhorn,  and  wafhen,  from  the  deep; 
 All  fmoking  rang'd  in  fair  array, 
 
 The  fun-beams  on  them  brightly  play; 
 The  lambkins  bleat  unto  their  dams, 
 And  they  again  unto  their  lambs. 
 The  kingly  rams  are  big  and  bold, 
 No  female  barren  in  all  the  fold ; 
 
 4  They  all  bear  twins ;  the  twins  fo  gay 
 Do  pleafant  feed,  and  pleafant  play ; 
 So  play  the  double  ivory  rows, 
 Which  thy  fweet  opening  lips  difclofe. 
 Thy  lips  are  like  a  fcarlet  cord, 
 The  cord  encircling  binds  thy  Lord. 
 Thy  fpeech  is  comely,  breathing  loves; 
 Thy  breathing  like  the  orange-groves. 
 
 5  Like 
 
Chap.  IV.  Song  of  Solomon.  421 
 
 5  Like  pomegranates,  fo  round,  fo  large, 
 "Beneath  thy  locks  thy  temples  verge. 
 Big  grows  the  pomegranate,  and  fwells, 
 The  bloom  refembling  Aaron's  bells; 
 The  pomegranate's  a  juicy  fruit, 
 How  foft,  how  fmooth  all  round  about ! 
 But  all  within  the  treafure  lies ; 
 
 The  kernel  is  a  mighty  prize : 
 
 6  So  polifli'd  fnine  thy  temple's  fides, 
 And  deep  within  the  glory  hides. 
 Thy  neck  is  like  King  David's  tower, 
 The  tower  was  built  for  warlike  power ; 
 There  hang  a  thoufand  fcutchioned  fhields, 
 Won  on  a  thoufand  glorious  fields, 
 
 All  fhields  emblazon'd  with  mighty  names ; 
 No  blot  their  loyal  honour  blames. 
 
 7  Bright  are  the  fhields,  high  is  the  tower, 
 Mighty  the  men,  their  honour  pure ; 
 So  towers  thy  high  commanding  mien  j 
 Thy  neck's  with  love  and  terror  feen. 
 Fire  lightens  in  your  fparkling  eye, 
 You  make  your  darting  bolts  to  fly, 
 Your  darting  bolts  have  made  me  fmart ; 
 Lo,  I  furrender  all  my  heart. 
 
 8  Thy  breads  are  like  two  kidling  roes, 
 Twins,  feeding  where  the  lily  glows, 
 How  fine  they  feed  !  how  fine  behave 
 From  morning  to  the  dewy  eve ! 
 The  lilies  feed  the  tender  roes, 
 
 So  to  thy  babes  thy  bofom  flows, 
 Until  the  breathing  day  appear, 
 And  fliadows  leave  the  morning  clear. 
 
 9  I'll  hie  me  to  the  incenfe-hill, 
 With  balmy  fpoils  my  bofom  fill, 
 
 The 
 
422  Song  of  Solomon.  Chap.  IV. 
 
 The  myrrhy  mountains  hold  my  heart, 
 For  there,  my  Love  did  firft  impart, 
 Did  firfl  impart  to  me  her  ioves, 
 A  joy  which  evermore  improves! 
 As  bloomy  bells  to  balmy  bee, 
 So  is  my  Love,  my  Dove,  to  me. 
 
 10  Sweet  bloom  the  bells,  fpotlefs  the  Dove, 
 All  fweet,  all  bloom,  all  fair  my  Love. 
 From  Lebanon  with  me,  my  Spoufe 
 From  Lebanon,  and  dampy  dews ; 
 
 For  dampy  dews  in  forefts  dwell, 
 And  fpiry  trees  the  view  conceal, 
 Yea,  they  conceal  the  lions  way, 
 And  leopards  panting  for  their  prey. 
 
 1 1  The  lions  roaring  wade  the  lawns, 
 The  leopards  tear  the  trembling  fawns; 
 From  lions  dens  away  with  me, 
 
 From  leopards  mountains  quickly  flee. 
 Come  mount  Amana's  pleafant  brow, 
 See,  how  the  fields  with  beauty  glow ! 
 From  Shenir-top  the  glory  view, 
 From  Hermon,  wet  with  heavenly  dew. 
 
 1 2  For  heavenly  dew  the  fky  diftils 
 
 On  Hermon's  fides,  and  fwells  the  rills  j 
 The  rills  defcending  form  a  pool, 
 To  bathe  you  till  the  day  grow  cool : 
 Jehovah  fends  the  bleiTing  down, 
 My  Love  with  all  his  loves  to  crown  ; 
 •  His  Spirit  falls,  a  heavy  dew, 
 And  falls,  my  Love,  falls  all  on  you. 
 
 1 3  The  dew  becomes  a  flowing  well, 
 The  well  does  to  a  river  fwell, 
 The  river  fpreading  far  and  wide, 
 Flows  to  the  ocean  for  a  bed, 
 
 The 
 
Chap.  IV.  Song  of  Solomon.  423 
 
 The  ocean  overflows  the  ball ; 
 So  God,  my  Love,  inwraps  you  all, 
 Inwraps  you  now  and  evermore ; 
 For  loves  a  fea  without  a  fhore. — 
 
 14  Ah!  why  this  hollow  in  my  heart?  * 
 I'm  wounded  in  a  tender  part ! 
 Was't  thou,  my  fifler,  and  my  fpoufe  ? 
 How  wilt  thou  now  the  theft  refufe  ? 
 You've  robb'd,  and  quite  unhearted  me; 
 Unhearted  quite !  and  robb'd  by  thee ! 
 
 I  faw  you  ftalking  for  your  prey, 
 And  gazing  wondered  at  your  way. 
 
 15  You  bent  your  rod  into  a  bow, 
 
 But  where  the  firing  and  arrows  now  ? 
 You  loofed  from  your  neck  one  chain, 
 And  made  it  o'er  the  bow  to' reign ; 
 I  faw  you  clofe,  and  aim,  one  eye. 
 But  ah!  how  fimple  then  was  1 1 
 1  little  thought- — an  arrow  flew, 
 And  piere'd  my  bofom  thro'  and  thro'. 
 
 16  The  arrow  lightened  from  your  eye, 
 And  of  a  glance,  you  made  me  die ; 
 Yet  tho'  I  charge,  I  free  you  too, 
 And  dying,  die  for  love  of  you. 
 For  fo  my  purpofe  I- fulfil, 
 
 And  chearfully  my  blood  I  fpih\ 
 To  wafh  you  in  the  flowing  ftream, 
 And  make  you  pure  as  my  own  name. 
 
 1 7  I  aikt  the  fair  creation  round, 
 
 In  all  her  (lores,  if  there  be  found 
 A  likenefs  to  compare  with  thee, 
 My  Dove,  my  Spoufe  fo  dear  to  me  ? 
 She  told  me  of  fweet-flavoured  wine, 
 She  told  me  of  her  fpices  fine ; 
 
 Sweet 
 
424  Song  of  Solomon.  Chap.  IV. 
 
 Sweet  are  the  wines,  the  fpices  fweet, 
 Bat  none  of  thefe  for  thee  are  meet. 
 
 18  Thy  love  excels  them  all  as  far 
 As  lowed  deeps  the  highefl  ftar. 
 How  fair  my  Spoufe,  my  Sifter  mows, 
 None  but  her  Lord  and  Brother  knows* 
 Thy  Lord  and  Brother  knows  thee  well* 
 For  we  in  one  another  dwell. 
 Whatever  way  my  paffions  move, 
 
 With  joy,  or  grief,  or  painful  love; 
 
 19  My  Spoufe  fhe  a£te  the  tender  part, 
 She  quells  the  tumult  of  my  heart; 
 As  honey  melting  from  the  combs, 
 Thy  fpeech  into  my  bofom  comes  j 
 The  honey  pure  and  precious  taftes, 
 Well-lockt  within  its  comby  chefts; 
 Thy  lips  are  my  two  honey  cells ; 
 And  milk  within  the  border  dwells* 
 
 20  Milk  is  a  mild  and  eafy  food, 
 And  thine  is  all  fupremely  good; 
 I'll  drain-up  all  the  flowing  bowl, 
 And  in  the  draught,  peace  to  my  foul. 
 Oh  me !  what  fragrance  do  I  feel  .p 
 Like  Lebanon  thy  garments  fmell ; 
 
 In  Lebanon  are  fpicy  groves, 
 
 The  rambling  wind  among  them  roves ; 
 
 2 1  He  blows,  and  fpoils  from  every  tree ; 
 And  has  he  blown  the  fpoils  to  thee  ? 
 Whate'er  is  thine,  to  me  is  due, 
 Whate'er  is  mine  I  give  to  you. 
 
 A  garden-wall  with  ramparts  high, 
 My  Spoufe  and  Sifter  fmg  do  I ; 
 A  ciftern  lockt,  a  fountain  feal'd, 
 To  none  but  her  own  Love  reveaPd. 
 
 22  The 
 
Chap.  IV.  Song  of  Solomon,  425 
 
 22  The  garden's  full  of  pleafant  fruits, 
 No  foxes  browfe  the  budding  fprouts ; 
 The  banking  beds  ly  to  the  fun, 
 And  winding  alleys  round  them  run ; 
 Sweet  flowering  fhrubs,  thro'  all  the  year, 
 And  blowing  flowers  blow  every  where ; 
 The  walls  and  planted  cedar-rows, 
 Defend  from  every  florm  that  blows. 
 
 23  No  direful  mildew,  wing'd  with  death, 
 Upon  the  bloifoms  moves  a  breath ; 
 The  bloifoms  blow,  the  bloffoms  fall, 
 And  fined  fruits  fucceed  them  all ; 
 No  barren  tree  is  ever  found 
 Within  the  whole  environs  round; 
 No  infects  blaft  the  little  pulp, 
 
 No  vermin  at  the  roots  do  fkulk. 
 
 ^4  Forth  from  a  rock,  canaling  flows 
 
 A  channelled  itream,  which  winding  goes 
 Broad  thro'  a  wildernefs  of  fweets, 
 And  falls  cafcading  down  in  fheets ; 
 Then  murmuring  frets  itfelf  away 
 Within  the  wildernefs ;  fo  gay, 
 The  blithefome  birds  of  every  wing 
 Thro'  all  the  grove  by  millions  fing. 
 
 25  No  bird  of  prey  is  heard  to  fcream ; 
 For  here  no  place  is  found  for  them. 
 Of  fleep  advance  there  (lands  a  rock, 
 
 And  on  the  rock  a  pleafant  bower, 
 Of  which  thy  Lord  referves  the  lock, 
 
 And  all  within  is  at  his  power ; 
 In  midfl  there  fprings  a  living  well, 
 The  waters  come  from  Zion-hill; 
 
 26  Of  them  thy  Lord  his  fill  (hall  take, 
 And  feal  the  fountain  for  thy  fake. 
 
 H  h  h  My 
 
az6  Song  of  Solomon.  Chap.  V. 
 
 My  Love,  my  Sifter,  what  art  thou  ? 
 
 A  garden  full  of  pleafant  plants, 
 A  grove  where  chiefeft  fpices  grow, 
 
 A  well  that  water  never  wants. 
 Oh  me  i  what  high  excefs  of  blifs ! 
 My  Love  is  all  a  paradife. 
 27  Awake,  O  North,  a  breezy  wind, 
 
 Come  thou,  O  South,  foft-fanning,  blow 
 Upon  my  garden  both  combin'd, 
 
 Make  all  my  fpices  forth  to  flow. 
 Into  my  garden  with  his  friends, 
 
 To  eat  his  pleafant  fruits  at  home, 
 All  flying  with  the  winged  winds, 
 
 Let  my  Beloved  fwiftly  come. 
 
 CHAP.    V. 
 
 I'M  come  within  my  garden  mounds,  my  Spoufe, 
 I'm  come,  and  all  my  friends  along  are  come ; 
 My  Sifter  call'd,  O  how  could  I  refufe? 
 I  flew  like  lightening  to  my  garden  home. 
 
 2  I've, gathered  myrrh,  with  all  my  fpicy  names; 
 
 On  honey,  with  my  honey-combs,  I've  fed, 
 I've  fed  on  juicy  grapes  with  flowering  creams, 
 Feafting  rejoicing  on  my  violet-bed. 
 
 3  Feaft  and  rejoice,  O  friends,  rejoice  with  me, 
 
 Drink  all  my  wines,  hand  round  the  flowing  bowl; 
 Let  none  reftrain  ;  the  banquet-table's  free ; 
 With  draughted  loves  be  drunken  every  foul. 
 
 4  "Who's  that  I  hear  (o  ch earful  with  his  friends? 
 
 Or  do  1  dream  I  hear  ?  for  heavy  {lumbers  fall ; 
 I  fleep,  yet  ftill  my  working  heart  attends. 
 
 0  was  not  yon  my  own  Beloved's  call  ? 
 
 5  It  was,  it  wras  my  own  Beloved's  voice  ; 
 
 1  know  it  well:  He  knockt,  I  know  his  knock ; 
 
 He's 
 
Chap.  V.  Song  of  Solomon.  427 
 
 He's  gone  away,  he's  turn'd,  he  knocked  thrice; 
 He  fpeaks,  O  what  has  my  Beloved  fpoke  ? 
 
 6  #  Unbolt,  unbolt,  my  Love,  my  Dove,  my  Spoufe, 
 
 "  Unbolt  to  me,  my  Sifter  undefiTd; 
 "  My  locks  hing  dropping,  dangling  wet  with  dews, 
 "  My  head  all  o'er  with  night-fallen  moi (lure  filPd." 
 
 7  Ah  me!  my  loofely  flowing  chamber-vail, 
 
 In  folds  upon  my  dreffing-table  lies, 
 Alas !   what  mail  I  do  ?  fhall  love  prevail, 
 
 And  force  your  heavy  drowfy  Spoufe  to  rife  ? 
 
 8  Oh  no!  I've  bath'd,  and  wafti'd  my  feet  fo  pure, 
 
 How  can  I  now  defile  their  tender  foles  ? 
 But  lo,  for  him  my  bowels  were  moved  fore ; 
 I  Jiflening  heard  him  touch  the  key-lock  holes. 
 
 9  He  fmote  my  heart,  1  quickly  rofe,  I  flew, 
 
 All  trembling  at  my  bold  undue  delays; 
 I  fought  the  lock,  and  lo,  fweet  myrrhy  dew 
 All  flowing  flavorous  dropped  from  the  keys. 
 
 10  My  fingers  dropt,  my  eager  hands  were  filFd, 
 
 And  ah  !  my  breaft  was  alfo  fill'd- — with  wo  ; 
 For  my  Beloved  fpoke,  my  fpirit  fail'd, 
 He  glanc'd  away,  as  arrow  from  the  bended  bow. 
 
 11  The  opening  leaves  I  from  me  furious  threw; 
 
 0  where's  my  Love  ?  where  has  he  left  me  now  ? 
 Wild  roving  every  where  I  ran,  I  rav'd, 
 
 1  call'd  aloud,  no  anfwer  I  receiv'd. 
 
 12  The  city-watchmen  going  their  ufual  round, 
 
 Did  find,  fufpect,  and  finite  me  with  a  grievous 
 I  fled  from  them,  I  fled  towards  the  wall ;     [wound ; 
 .  The  guards  were  rude,  they  tore  away  my  vail. 
 J  3  O  daughters  of  Jerufalem,  hear  my  folemn  charge  ; 
 •    So  may  you  flill  in  fp  rightly  dances  move. 
 
 H  h  h  2  If 
 
428  Sotig  of  Solomon.  Chap.  V.  % 
 
 If  from  this  deep  my  Love  fhall  to  your  eyes  emerge, 
 
 Tell  him,  I'm  fick,  I  burn,  I  die  with  fevery  love. 
 14  Andfcvhat,  we  pray,  is  thy  Beloved  more, 
 
 O  thou  the  faired  among  women  fair, 
 What  more  than  others  he  whom  you  adore, 
 
 What  more  is  he  than  other  lovers  are ; 
 ^5  O  my  Beloved  !  concerning  whom  I  charge, 
 
 All  lily-white  in  innocence  he  blooms ; 
 His  rofy-cheeks  vermilioned-high  and  large, 
 
 All  flufht  with  blufhing  foves,  he  well  becomes, 
 
 16  On  warlike  fields  where  bannered  hods  convene, 
 
 The  royal  flandard  whirls  unfurling  in  the  winds; 
 The  high  commanders  walk  with  lofty  mien, 
 But  O  my  Prince  above  them  all  mod  glorious 
 fhines. 
 
 17  The  royal  flag  high-waving  flies  aloft, 
 
 The  high  commanders,  O  how  mighty  high  ! 
 But  flag,  nor  they,  nor  thoufands  ten  are  worth  a 
 thought ;  [iky. 
 
 My  Prince  is  paramount  up-towering  through  the 
 
 18  His  head  and  brows  fine  as  the  fineft  gold, 
 
 Were  caft  and  finiflit  in  a  heavenly  mold. 
 His  locks  are  black,  and  of  the  bufhy  kind, 
 Pure  raven-black,  full  curling  in  the  wind. 
 
 19  His  eyes  refembling  eyes  of  dove  that  dwells 
 
 On  banky  braes  to  fip  the  river-ftreams, 
 Are  fitly  kt,  as  fparkling  diamond-feals ; 
 
 And  wafli'd  with  miik,  the  border  mildly  gleams. 
 
 20  His  cheeks  are  like  a  fpicy  bed  in  flower  ; 
 The  fmoky  vapour  rifeth  like  a  tower; 
 His  lips  perfumed  as  two  lilies  meet, 
 Down-dropping  myrrh,  pure  eflence.  fmelling  fweet. 
 
 20  His 
 
Chap.  VI.  Song  of  Solomon.  429 
 
 2 1  His  fingers  finely  jointed  every  one, 
 
 As  gold-rings  comely  fet  with  beryl  true. 
 His  belly  (nines  as  the  bright  ivory  bone,  * 
 All  over-laid  around  with  faphires  blue. 
 2  2  His  legs  as  marble  gloffy  pillars  fine, 
 
 Long,  firm  and  large,  on  golden  fockets  fliine, 
 Upright  he  walks,  the  glory  of  the  plains, 
 He  over  all  my  fpirit  glorious  reigns. 
 .23  The  glory  of  his  countenance  excels, 
 Before  his  face  all  other  glory  flees ; 
 As  Lebanon  o'er-tops  furrounding  hills, 
 As  cedars  mount  above  furrounding  trees. 
 
 24  His  mouth,  his  mouth's  a  paradife  of  fweets! 
 
 What  raptures  flow  from  his  diftilling  tongue ! 
 What  love,  what  mildnefs,  when  he  turns  and  greets! 
 All  mufic  melts,  difgraced  every  fong. 
 
 25  A  bundle  he  of  blooming  breathing  loves, 
 
 No  baleful  weed,  to  blaft  their  beauteous  glow} 
 O  how  he  fhines !  he  looks !  he  a£te  !  he  moves  ! 
 O  life  !  O  light !  O  love  !  O  rapture  !  O ! 
 
 26  He  is — he  is — he — ftrange  !  O  what  is  he  ? 
 
 There  is,  I  fee,  no  parallel  to  him  ; 
 He's  my  Belov'd,  my  friend,  whate'er  he  be! 
 Behold  him,  daughters  of  Jerufalem. 
 
 CHAP.     VL 
 
 H !  is  thy  Beloved,  fweet  Princefs,  from  home  ? 
 Thou  fairefl  of  all  that  do  carry  the  womb ; 
 Thy  fweetly  Beloved,  O  whither's  he  gone  ? 
 That  we  all  may  feek  him,  may  feek  him  along. 
 My  fweetly  Beloved  is  down  by  the  wall, 
 Among  fweet-flowing  fpices,  to  rayiili  them  all ; 
 He  feeds  in  the  gardens,  he  drinks  of  the  ftreams, 
 He  plays  among  lilies  with  fun-playing  beams. 
 
 ?  I  cm 
 
 A1 
 
43°  Song  of  Solomon.  Chap.  VJ 
 
 3  I  am  my  Beloved's,  and  dearly  belov'd ; 
 
 My  Beloved  is  mine,  I  fliall  never  be  mov'd ; 
 lie  feeds  among  lilies,  a  light  {kipping  roe, 
 And  lo,  how  he  jfcippeth  my  bofom  into. 
 
 4  My  Love,  thou  art  beautiful,  beautiful  all, 
 As  fields  about  Tirzah's  blue  columned  wall ; 
 Jerufalem's  glorious,  more  glorious  thou, 
 
 As  marfhalled  armies,  more  terrible  too. 
 
 5  Jerufalem  kindnefs  to  votaries  fhows, 
 
 And  marfhalled  armies  deftroy  up  their  foes; 
 
 Your  kindnefs  has  flain  me,  what  more  can  you  do  ? 
 
 If  fuch  be  your  kindnefs,  your  terrors  be  few. 
 
 6  May  your  terrors  be  few,  and  O  take  off  your  eyes, 
 For  your  eyes  overthrow  me,  I  cannot  arife ; 
 
 Your  hair  too  entangles,  and  round  my  heart  twirls, 
 In  ringlets,  like  goats  fpread  on  Gilead-hills. 
 
 7  Thy  teeth  are  like  flocks  well  arranged  in  rows; 
 The  fhepherd  he  whiftles,  before  them  he  goes ; 
 New-fleeced,  new-wafhed,  they  graze  on  the  blooms; 
 And  yean'd  of  a  thoufand,  two  thoufand  there  comes. 
 
 8  As  pomegranates  fwelled  and  poliihed  fine,         « 
 Within  thy  fair  locks,  how  thy  temples  do  fhine! 
 All  nobly  defcended,  are  threefcore  of  queens, 
 Lefs  nobly  attended  fourfcore  concubines  ; 
 
 9  The  virgins  unnumbered  do  fparkle  as  ftars, 
 
 But,  compar'd  with  thy  beauty,  they're  nothing  but 
 At  beft,  they  appear  but  as  fcattered  rays,         [fears; 
 But  thou  art  of  light  all  a  glorious  blaze. 
 to  My  Dove,  my  Beloved,  no  fpot  there  defiles; 
 Her  mother  upon  her,  her  only  one  fmiles, 
 The  child  of  her  vows,  and  the  child  of  her  heart; 
 Even  fo  mv  Beloved,  my  darling  thou  art, 
 
 it   The 
 
i  Chap.  VII.  Song  of  Solomon.  431 
 
 1 1  The  daughters  they  faw  her,  and  praifed  her  much, 
 The  queens  and  the  concubines  cry 'd  "  a  none  fuch!" 
 Who  is  ihe  that  mildly  comes  on  like  the  dawn  ? 
 See,  at  her  appearance  the  fhadows  withdrawn. 
 
 12  The  moon  faintly  looketh,  my  Love  looks  fo  fair, 
 Yea  the  fun  fcarcely  glimmers,  thou  fhineft  fo  clear  j 
 Thou  fhineft  fo  clear,  in  fuch  dreadful  array, 
 
 As  a  bannered  hoft,  that  my  heart  giveth  way. 
 
 13  I  went  to  my  garden,  and  down  to  the  nuts, 
 To  fee  in  the  vale  my  delicious  fruits ; 
 
 To  fee  if  the  vineyards  were  flourifhing  well, 
 And  how  my  pomegranates  were  offering  to  fwell ; 
 
 14  Before  I  well  knew  what  my  purpofe  defign'd, 
 My  foul  was  all  moved,  and  flew  like  the  wind ; 
 Thus  flew  Prince  Aminadab,  leaving  them  all, 
 With  charioted  horfes  when  glory  did  call. 
 
 1 5  O  turn  thee  my  Shulamite,  turn  and  advance, 
 And  caufe  thy  fteeds  royal  before  us  to  prance. 
 O  what  will  you  fee  in  your  Shulamite  now  ? 
 Her  Heeds,  and  her  chariots,  behold  in  a  row ! 
 
 16  Two  armies  advancing  with  ihadowing  wing, 
 Have  caught  me  your  captive,  have  chained  your 
 His  body  and  fpirit,  behold,  at  your  beck ;     [King, 
 For  Love  is  my  chain  which  no  living  can  break. 
 
 CHAP.    vn. 
 
 HOW  beautiful,  flamming  and  gay, 
 Are  thy  feet  filling  fitly  thy  Sides ! 
 My  heart  they  have  ravilht  away, 
 
 My  Princefs,  my  Sifter,  my  Spoufe. 
 The  joints  of  thy  thighs  are  like  jewels, 
 
 Well-polifhed,  pleafant,  and  fine ; 
 Suftaining  the  weight  of  thy  bowels, 
 The  fifterly  columns  conioin. 
 
 2  Thy 
 
432  Song  af  Solomon.  Ghap.  VII 
 
 2  Thy  navel's  a  goblet  of  milk, 
 
 With  creams  overflowing  around. 
 Thy  belly's  an  heap  of  fine  wheat, 
 
 Wuh  lilies  all  bordering  round. 
 How  pleafant  to  me  are  the  fields, 
 
 The  fields,  whofe  kind  nourilhing  womb, 
 My  bountiful  rreafure  me  yields ! 
 
 My  bleflings,  behold,  how  they  bloom  ! 
 
 3  Thy  breads  like  two  young  playing  roes, 
 
 My  eyes  they  have  captivate  led, 
 Being  the  center  of  all  my  repofe, 
 
 O  thou  my  dear  innocent  maid. 
 The  neck's  like  an  ivory  tower; 
 
 So  glofly,  fo  lofty,  fo  flieen. 
 Thine  eyes  like  to  diamonds  are  pure, 
 
 All  pleafant,  all  fparkling  and  keen ; 
 
 4  Like  fifh-pools^of  Hefhbon,  they  rowl, 
 
 All  glittering,  reflecting  the  beams  ; 
 The  fifh-pools  of  Hefhbon  are  full, 
 
 From  thine  eyes  flooding  glory  there  ftreams. 
 ■  Thy  nofe  like  a  citadel  ftands, 
 
 A  citadel  plac'd  on  a  hill,  'a    ,„ 
 
 The  hill  which  Damafcus  commands; 
 
 Thy  noftrils  like  Lebanon  fmell. 
 
 5  Like  paramount  Carmel  thy  head, 
 
 Bright  fhining  with  dazzling  jewels ; 
 On  Carmel  the  roes  go  to  bed ; 
 
 Thy  head,  it  encaptivates  fouls. 
 Thy  hair  is  like  purple  difplay'd 
 
 In  places  pavilioned  for  kings ; 
 Thy  King's  in  the  galleries  ftay'd 
 
 By  thy  purple  encircling  firings. 
 
 6  How  fair,  and  how  pleafant  to  fee, 
 
 Art  thou  for  delights  to  thy  Lord ! 
 
 Thy 
 
whap.  VII.  Song  of  Solomon.  433 
 
 Thy  ftature  is  like  the  palm-tree, 
 Thy  breafts  do  fweet  clufters  afford ; 
 
 And  now  on  my  palm  I'll  go  up, 
 
 My  hand  (hall  take  hold  of  the  boughs; 
 
 I  have  faid  I  will  mount  to  the  top, 
 My  palm-tree,  thou  wilt  not  refufe. 
 
 7  And  lo,  now  like  clufters  thy  breafts, 
 
 The  clufters  that  grow  on  the  vine; 
 Thy  mouth  all  a  pine-apple  taftes, 
 
 The  apples  and  clufters  are  mine; 
 The  breath  of  thy  mouth,  my  Belov'd, 
 
 Goes  fweetly  down  like  the  beft  wine ; 
 Makes  the  lips  of  the  ancient  be  mov'd, 
 
 And  thofe  who're  afleep  to  divine. 
 
 8  I  am  my  Beloved's  defire, 
 
 And  my  Beloved  is  mine. 
 We  burn  with  reciprocal  fire, 
 
 But  I  by  his  glory  do  fhine. 
 Come,  come,  my  Beloved,  let's  go, 
 
 Let's  go  to  the  fields  all  alone ; 
 We'll  lodge  on  fome  hill's  funny  brow, 
 
 Where  villages  thinly  are  ftrown. 
 
 9  From  thence  we'll  come  fcouting  with  joy, 
 
 And  fee  how  the  pomegranates  fpring, 
 If  the  vineyards  no  evil  annoy ; 
 
 And  there,  will  I  blefs  thee,  my  King ; 
 I'll  blefs  thee,  and  give  thee  my  loves, 
 
 Where  our  mandrakes  do  give  a  fweet  fmell ; 
 All  hail  to  my  King,  he  approves, 
 
 Approves  with  me  ever  to  dwell. 
 
 10  Amen  to  his  purpofe  fo  good ; 
 
 Nor  fhall  my  King  ever  repent* 
 Our  fweet  flowery  loves  aye  in  bud, 
 The  robes  of  our  gladnefs  unrent. 
 
 4  I i  i  By 
 
434  SonS  °f  Solomon.  Chap.  VIII 
 
 By  our  gates  ly  all  manner  of  ftores, 
 All  fulnefs  of  fruirs  new  and  old, 
 For  thee,  whom  my  fpirit  adores ; 
 To  embrace  thee  my  fpirit  is  bold, 
 
 CHAR    VIIL 
 
 OWERT  thou  as  my  brother, 
 Who  fuckt  with  me  the  bread* 
 Soft  dandled  by  our  mother, 
 
 0  how  would  I  be  bleft ! 
 If  any  time  I  mifs  thee, 
 
 1  mould  not  Long  be  croft ; 
 Fd  find  thee  out,  and  kifs  thee  : 
 
 No  love  between  us  loft. 
 
 2  The  eye  that  might  efpy  us, 
 
 All  in  our  blamelefs  play,  - 
 It  fhould  not  even  envy  us, 
 
 But  pleafed  turn  away. 
 Soft  by  the  hand  I'll  lead  thee 
 
 Into  my  mother's  houfe ; 
 With  fineft  things  I'll  feed  thee, 
 
 We'll  fip  the  fineft  juice. 
 
 3  My  mother  will  inftruc"t  me, 
 
 O  we  will  ufe  the  well ! 
 My  hand  fliall  gently  ftroak  thee; 
 
 My  heart  fliall  on.  thee  dwell. 
 His  right  hand  doth  embrace  me, 
 
 His  left  below  my  head ; 
 His  glories  all  do  grace  me ; 
 
 Behold  I  am  his  Bride. 
 
 4  Ye  daughters  fair  of  Zion, 
 
 O  take  a  charge  from  me, 
 And  ftir  not  up  my  High  One, 
 But  let  his  reft  be  free. 
 
 Who's 
 
!hap.  VIII.  Song  of  Solomon.  435 
 
 Who's  this  that  comes  and  lhineth, 
 
 Up  from  the  wildernefs  ? 
 On  her  Belov'd  fhe  leaneth, 
 
 Love  gleaming  on  her  face. 
 
 ;  From  the  apple  tree  I  rais'd  her, 
 
 My  Love,  1  know  her  well ; 
 For  there,  her  mother  bare  her; 
 
 I  wafh'd  her  in  my  well. 
 My  Prince,  to  me  efpoufed, 
 
 Behold,  thy  love  I  know; 
 Thy  loves  on  me  were  ufed, 
 
 Before  the  air  did  blow. 
 
 6  Thy  love's  all  now  revealed, 
 
 O  fet  me  as  a  feal ; 
 Upon  thine  arm  well  fealed, 
 
 Thy  ibul  mall  on  me  dwell. 
 For  love  as  ftrong  as  death  is, 
 
 Cruel  jealoufy,  the  grave, 
 In  whom  the  living  breath  is, 
 
 No  one  alive  will  fave. 
 
 7  The  coals  of  love  are  vehement, 
 
 And  have  a  vehement  flame ; 
 They  burn  up  houfe  and  pavement, 
 
 No  ftone  efcapes  the  fame. 
 On  love  tho'  you  pour  oceans, 
 
 Love  never  burns  the  lefs ; 
 Nor  mountains  flop  love's  motions, 
 
 Tho'  mountains  mould  opprefs. 
 
 8  No  man  alive  is  bribed, 
 
 When  injur'd  love  complains; 
 His  rage  unci rcumfcri bed, 
 
 All  lawlefs,  fury  reigns. 
 My  Love  faw  whelming  oceans 
 
 Of  jealoufies  3 rife, 
 
 I i  i  2  To 
 
43  6  Song  of  Solomon,  Chap.  VIII. 
 
 To  quench  his  warm  devotions ; 
 Flafht  terrors  from  his  eyes ! 
 9  All  dreadful  my  Beloved, 
 
 The  billows  on  him  daftit ; 
 He  flood,  a  rock  unmoved, 
 
 And  all  their  boundings  quafltt. 
 Lo,  now,  my  Love  is  fixed; 
 
 No  jealoufie§  arife ; 
 He  death  and  hell  transfixed* 
 All  curft  below  the  Ikies. 
 io  Down  deep  within  the  dungeon, 
 With  fin  they  howl  and  pine ; 
 The  brimflone-lake  they  plunge  in  ; 
 
 But  my  Beloved's  mine. 
 We  have  a  little  fifter, 
 
 But  yet  fhe  Jiath%no  breaft  j 
 
 0  how  (hall  we  affift  her ! 
 Wherein  {hall  fhe  be  bleu:  ? 
 
 1 1  Her  days  of  love  are  coming ; 
 
 Her  beauty  buds  to  bloom  ; 
 The  houfe  me  dwells  at  home  in 
 
 Begins  to  grudge  her  room. 
 We  greatly  will  enlarge  her ; 
 
 If  fhe  (ball  be  a  wall ; 
 With  filver  towers  we'll  charge  her, 
 
 And  make  her  glorious  all. 
 
 12  If  fhe  fhall  be  a  palace, 
 
 We'll  make  her  cedar-ports, 
 To  guard  her  well  from  malice ; 
 The  cedar  never  rots. 
 
 1  am  a  wall,  all  towering, 
 
 My  breafts  mount  to  the  iky ; 
 His  loves  on  me  a-re  fliowering. 
 My  peace  is  in  his  eye. 
 
 "13  King 
 
Chap.  VIIL  Song  of  Solomon.  437 
 
 13  King  Solomon,  a  garden, 
 
 He  had  at  Hamon-baal, 
 Commanded  to  keep  guard  on, 
 
 "Without  the  garden-wall ; 
 Of  filverlings  a  thoufand, 
 
 He  gave  to  every  one  ; 
 For  He  to  all  bellows,  and 
 
 Yet  He  receives  of  none. 
 
 H  My  vineyard  is  before  me, 
 
 My  vineyard  which  rs  mine  ; 
 O  who  will  keep  it  for  me  ? 
 
 My  Love,  the  vineyard's  thine ; 
 Thou  wilt  not  fee  it  plundered, 
 
 I'll  thee  a  thoufand  give ; 
 The  guards  mail  have  two  hundred ; 
 
 But  thou  in  it  fhalt  live. 
 
 15  O  thou  that  dwell'ft  in  gardens, 
 
 Companions  hear  thy  voice ; 
 Give  me  thy  fweet  rewardings, 
 
 And  let  thy  Bride  rejoice. 
 Make  hafte,  my  Well-Beloved, 
 
 And  be  thou  like  a  roe ; 
 For  thee,  my  bowels  are  moved, 
 
 For  thee,  my  fpirits  glow. 
 
 1 6  Behold  thy  fpicy  mountains, 
 
 Behold  thy  flowery  vales, 
 Behold  thy  chryftal  fountains, 
 
 Behold  my  fpirit  fails 
 
 Come  leaping  o'er  the  mountains, 
 
 Come  fkipping  o'er  the  hills ; 
 Come  drink  the  chryftal  fountains, 
 
 Come  bathe  thee  in  the  rills. 
 
 THE      END, 
 
An  Explanation  of  Difficult  Words. 
 
 Aberration,  wandering,  or  miiling 
 Aborting,  mifcarrying.  [the  mark . 
 Abrupt,  the  face  of  a  fteep  rock. 
 Adhereth,  fticketh  clofe  to. 
 Aggregate,  gathers  together. 
 Alert,  lively. 
 yJloof,  at  a  diftance. 
 Alte-nate,  by  turns. 
 •Animate,  having  life. 
 Appal,  difcourage. 
 Ardor,  vehemence,  burning  heat. 
 Ajfiduous,  diligent. 
 AJlounded,  aftoniflied. 
 Ajfume,  to  take  upon  one's  felf. 
 Attracl,  draw  to. 
 Audacious,  bold. 
 Aurora  northern,  the  ftreamers. 
 Awning,  a  vail. 
 Ball,  the  earth. 
 Bartered,  exchanged. 
 Bays,  a  crown  of  bay  leaves. 
 Bafe,  the  foundation. 
 Benifons,  bleffings. 
 Beverage,  drink. 
 Blandient,  foothing. 
 Blandijhments,  flatteries. 
 Bloated,  disfigured  as  a  toad. 
 Boon,  a  favour. 
 Bourne,  boundary,  or  mark. 
 Bravade,  vain  glorious  boaiting. 
 Buoy,  thaf  which  floats  a  net,  or 
 Buoyant,  floating,  [anchor. 
 
 Burlejk,  mockery. 
 Cabals,  plotting  councils. 
 Cafcading,  water  falling  from  a 
 Cavern,  a  cave.  [heighth. 
 
 Chaos*  the  earth  without  form  and 
 Champ  ainry,  plain  ground,  [void. 
 Characlsrif.ic,         diftinguifhing 
 mark. 
 
 Choir,  a  company  of  fingers,  or    J 
 dancers. 
 
 Chorus,  the  burden  of  a  fong. 
 
 Circumambient,  compafling  about 
 
 Circumftowy  flow  around,  [as  air. 
 
 Cirbumfluerit,  flowing  around. 
 
 Circumvolve,  roll  round. 
 
 6y/>//<?,climate,or  part  of  theworld . 
 
 Cogitations,  thoughts. 
 
 Combuflion,  burning. 
 
 Complacent,  delighting  in  a  thing. 
 
 Concaves,  the  heavens. 
 
 Conglomerated,  heaped  together. 
 
 Confole,  comfort. 
 
 Contagious,  infecting  as  a  difeafe. 
 
 Contufion,  a  bruife.     [the  neck. 
 
 Cues,  plaits  of  hair  hanging  down 
 
 Courfers,  racers. 
 
 Cozened,  cheated. 
 
 Curtailed,  cut  fliort.  Dn£* 
 
 Z>£<r/^r^/,difcovered  the  mean- 
 
 Decoy,  entice. 
 
 Deity,  Godhead,         [the  king. 
 
 Denifon,  a  man  made  free  by 
 
 DeJ cants,  dwells  upon  with  plea- 
 fure. 
 
 Defpotic,  abfolute  in  government. 
 
 Devafiation,  abfolute  ruin. 
 
 Devolve,  roll  over  upon. 
 
 Diclion,  fpeech. 
 '  Diffide,  diftruft. 
 
 Diffufe,  fpread  abroad. 
 
 Difgorge,  vomit  up  again. 
 
 Dilapidation,  ruin  of  a  building 
 by  fcattering  the  (tones. 
 
 Diflended,  ftretched  out. 
 
 Di/lraining, fazing  one's  proper- 
 ty by  dilrrefs  of  Jaw. 
 
 Dire,  terrible. 
 
 ^Diffipdte, 
 
ALPHABETI 
 
 Diffipate,  fcatter. 
 Dome,  houfe.  [on  a  ftage. 
 
 Drama,  that  which  is  acted  up- 
 Embarrafs,  perplex,  or  trouble. 
 -Emerge,  rife  above  water,  [fairs. 
 Emergencies,  fudden  turns  of  a/- 
 Emulous,  defirous  to  excel. 
 Energetic,  full  of  force. 
 Enhanced,  fet  off  to  advantage. 
 Environing*  bordering  around. 
 Era,  remarkable  period  of  time. 
 Erjl,  fome  while  ago. 
 Ether,  the  air. 
 Evangel,  gofpel. 
 Evolve,  unfold.  [bittering. 
 
 Exafperating,  enraging,  or  era- 
 Exeem,  to  free  one  from  diftrefs. 
 Exile,  a banifhed  perfon. [and  try. 
 Explore,  carefully  to  fearch  out 
 Exoner  or  Exonerate, to  eafe,  free, 
 
 disburden. 
 Explofion,  burfting  out  of  found. 
 Expunged,  blotted  out. 
 Expand,  open  wide. 
 Extricate,  bring  out  of  trouble. 
 Extajy,  very  great  joy. 
 Faulchion,  a  fword.       [venant. 
 Federal,  of  or  belonging  to  a  co- 
 
 Flambeau,  a  blazing  torch. 
 
 Fire-refolved,  melted  by  the  fire, 
 
 Fr  unifying,  making  fruitful. 
 
 Foil,  to  defeat,     [to  advantage. 
 
 Foil,  what  fets  off  another  thing 
 
 Fraternity,  brotherhood. 
 
 Genial,    kindly,   nourishing  and 
 
 QJobe,  the  earth.       [cherifhing. 
 
 Goal,  the  limit  of  a  race. 
 
 Grijly,  frightfully  grim,  [thing. 
 
 Guife,  faihion  or  manner  of  a 
 
 Harpies,  ravenous  birds. 
 
 Hight,  to  make  a  vaunting  vow. 
 
 Hierarchies,  heavenly  hods. 
 
 Hoftile,  as,  an  enemy. 
 
 Hlujion,  a.fham. 
 
 CAL    TABLE, 
 
 Imminent,     hanging    over    our 
 
 heads. 
 Impaled,  run  through  the  body. 
 Impafioned,  full   of  affectionate 
 feeling.  [in  paradife. 
 
 Imparadifed,  perfectly  bleffed,  as 
 Impregnate,  fruitful,  made  full. 
 Impregns,  makes  fruitful. 
 Impugn,  to  oppofe  an  argument. 
 Incrufiating,  encJofing  in  a  cruft 
 
 or  (hell. 
 Incarnate,  cloathed  in  flefh. 
 Inceffant,  without  ceafling. 
 Inhale,  to  breathe-in  the  air. 
 Ineffable,  unfpeakable. 
 Infringement,  breach. 
 Inveigled,  intangled. 
 Irremediably,  without  remedy. 
 Inundation,  an  overflowing  flood. 
 Lays,  (trains of  mufic.  [theftorm. 
 Lee-Jhoared,  beat  againft  a  rock  by 
 Lenitive,  what  allays  pain. 
 
 Levee,  the  rifing  of  a  great  perfon, 
 
 when  he  mews  himfelfto  his  court. 
 
 Libation?  drink  offering. 
 
 Luminous,  full  of  light. 
 
 Lurch,  a  fnare. 
 
 Lyre,  a  mufical  inftrument.  [ces. 
 
 Machinations,  fubtile  contrivan- 
 
 Mandates,  peremptory  commands 
 
 Manumijfion,  difmiffion  from  the 
 hand,  as  a  bird  or  captive  allow- 
 ed to  efcape.  [array. 
 
 Marfnalled,  drawn  up  in  battle 
 
 Maugre,  in  fpite  of  one's  teeth. 
 
 Medium,  the  element  in  which  a 
 thing  is,  as  water  or  air. 
 
 Medley,  a  confufed  mafs.  [body. 
 
 Mien,  ones  air,  or  carriage  of  their 
 
 Minuteft,  fmalleft. 
 
 Mollify,  foften. 
 
 Moody,  peevifti  or  fullen. 
 
 Myriads,  ten  thoufands. 
 
 Nufance, 
 
A L P  H  A  BETI 
 
 ling. 
 
 ,'  forfgetfulnefs. 
 
 wishing  crooked  way. 
 neaventy  bodies.  [heavens. 
 
 r    path  thro'  the 
 U,  explained  and  opened  up. 
 fuprtsne,  above  all. 
 ur,  a  lover.  [birth. 
 
 turicnt,  travailing,  or  labouring  in 
 Paflvral,  belonging  to  a  fliepherd. 
 'efs,  xvhich  hath  no  peer  or  equal. 
 t,  hurtful. 
 Pre-ordained,  fore -appointed, 
 Perennial,  lafting  aU  the  feafon  round. 
 Peals,  loud  founds  of  many  th' 
 Pervade,  to  pafs  tlirough. 
 Perch,  to  fit  as  a  bird  or 
 Perturbation,  disturbance. 
 Plebeian,  common  people,  [aut!    rity. 
 Plenipotentiary,  having  full  power  and 
 Phantom,  imaginary'  appearan 
 Pnbatn^i.  tried  and  approven.    [dole. 
 To  ly  nibufh  filenc  and 
 
 Tomet,  an  ointment. 
 
 eighty, 
 horn  after  theFather's  death. 
 Pomegranate,  a  fruit  foft  and  juicy  with-, 
 out,  with  pleafant  kernels  within. 
 
 lings   ordered  by   the 
 doclor  for  the  Tick. 
 
 Primeval,  of  ^es. 
 
 cthei 
 Pupilage,  our  nme  of  childhc 
 Igty-fj,  to  flop,  overthr 
 
 the  prey  of  a  ravenous 
 
 effence,  the  marrow  or  effence  of 
 Recoil,  fall  lack.  [a  thing. 
 
 f's,  returning.        .    "       £  mutual. 
 Reciprocal] ^c(X\x\g  two<pWties  equally, 
 Regal;  to  feaft  royally. 
 Remands,  fends^back  e,g. 
 Rcmorfe  fr/i.with'out  check,of  cenfeit n 
 RerMtion,  removal. 
 Reprefs,  keep  back. 
 
 voir,  places  where  wati 
 baions 
 
 cal  table; 
 
 Re^hvallows,  fwallowa  up  agani. 
 Reverfion,  the  Coming  of  ar  eftate  atte; 
 
 .  a  certain  time  to  its  proper  owner. 
 Ruthlefs,  cruel,  mercilefs. 
 Rcpulfed,  beat  back.- 
 Sanguine,  zealous  and  Full  of  hope. 
 Sediment,  dreggy  fluff  that  finks  dowc 
 Shark,  a  devouring  fea-monfter. 
 Sheen,  fhining.  [they  fhall  or  not 
 
 Shillx  Shally,  hovering  in  doubt  whethei 
 Sole,  only,  or  alone,  fmgle. 
 Soliloquy,  a  difcourfe  with  one's  felf, 
 Spcftre,  an  apparition. 
 Sulfide,  fink  to  the  bottom,  [of  another 
 Subjlitutir.g,  putting  one  thing  in  place 
 Sublimated,  raifed  and  refined  to  the 
 
 high  eft  degree  by  fire. 
 Supermcufhlent,  refling  upon. 
 Surges,  waves.  [founds. 
 
 Symphony,  harmony,  or  agreement  of 
 Taper,  a  finall  wax-candle. 
 Tabouring,  beating  as  on  a  drum. 
 Teeming,  full,  pouring  out. 
 The/is,  pofition,  argument,  or  propoil  • 
 Theme,  a  fubjecT:  of  difcourfe. 
 Tragic,  mournful. 
 
 Transfixed,  pierced  through  the  body 
 Trepidant,  cutting.         "[fant  motion. 
 Trilling,  running  with  a  gentle  plea- 
 Toils,  fnares  [field  of  battle. 
 
 Trophies,    rich   fpoils  won   from   the 
 Turrets,  towers. 
 
 ure,  frame,  or  confiitution . 
 vain  or  lifted  up. 
 ■g,  introducing, 
 of  the  fpring,  or  belonging  to  it. 
 Vic,  contend  or  drive  with., 
 Vilifie,  to  make  contemptible. 
 Verge,  fpread  out. 
 
 d,  defpife. 
 Vindicate,  defend,  juflify  or  clear. 
 Volly,  great  noife,  or  ihout. 
 Votaries,  friends  and  dependents. 
 ViBhn,  a  facrifice. 
 Wafted,  carried  as  by  water  or  air. 
 « »  the  fign  of  what  is  quoted,  or 
 
 fet  down,  in  a  perfon's  own  wordr. 
 
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