2 Make forrow to ceafe,
And true faith increase,

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That I may, through Jefus, find comfort and peace.

3 For, bow'd to the earth,

I ftruggle in birth";

Nor can I take pleasure in folly and mirth.

4 O when fhall I fee

That bleft Jubilee°,

The time of my pardonP, and fonfhips with thee.

5 Give ear from above,

And Lord let thy love

My troublefome inmates' entirely remove.

6 Arifes now, and fhine With luftre divine,

And witnefst that I by adoption" am thine.

With love, the pure nature of God in my breaft.

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Prayer with Self-abafement..

ITH pity, gracious God, draw near,
And to my plaintive cry give ear;

Condemn'd' I in confufion lie,
Afham'd to live, nor fit2 to die.

2 For fin I mourn, and long to be
From its deftructive pow'r fet free:
Lord, take away the galling yoke,
And let my fetters all be broke.

(n) Ifa. lxvi. 9.
(9) John i. 12. (r) Matt.
(s) Ifa. lx. 1.-Mal. iv. 2.
(v) John iv. 7. (w) 2 Pet. i. 4.

(m) Rom. v. I.-vi. 23. (p) Neh. ix. 17. (f) Jam. i. 4. (u) Gal. iv. 5, 6. -Jam. iv. 8.

(0) Lev. XXV. 9. xv. 18, 19, 20. (t) Rom. viii. 16. (x) Pfal. Ixix. 18.

(y) Gal. iii. 10. (z) Luke ix. 62.—John iii. (1) Nah, i 18---Gal v, 1、

3 Propitious God! proclaim my peace,
That guilt may now entirely cease:
O feal, O make my pardon known,
And henceforth claim me for thine own"..

4 Till with these promis'df bleflings bleft,
My weary foul can never reft;
Speak, Lord, and let a finner prove
The pow'r of Chrift's redeemings love..

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A forrowful Complaint, with Prayer for Salvation,

EJECTED, forrowful, caft down,

Well nigh o'erwhelm'd in deep distress,
My weakness, withouth God, I own,-
O Lord, thy waiting fervant blefs.

2 Thou know'ft the cause of all this grief,
My wants, and whereof I am made:
How curfed pride1, and unbelief;
Deceiv'd, and hath my peace betray'd..

3 Regard the troubles of my foul,
And manifeft thy glorious pow'r :
Stay thou the waves of guilt that roll;
Now make them calm to rage no more.
4 My gloomy night turn into day,
For mourning give me peace and joy:
This great falvation", Lord, display,
And all the devil's" works deftroy.

5 Give me to fhare that promis'd rest°,
Which for thy people doth remain;
And view, where nothing can moleft,
Grim death", that ghaftly monster flain!

(f) Luke i. (h) John xv. (k) Col. i. 11. i John iii. 8.

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The might, equity, and love of God in the Work of

Redemption.

Thou God of matchless might!
All thy ways are true and juft:

Thou in mercy doth delight,-
In the fame I put my truft.
Shew thyfelf my only friends,
For on thee my hopes depend.

2 If thou wilt, thou canft give grace,
Therefore fave a worm" like me:
I thine image did deface,

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By rebelling against thee;
Who my forrows can relate,
Or defcribe my wretched ftate?

Human efforts are but vain
To redeem my foul from fin:
If I favour may obtain,

Bring thy heav'nly nature in:
Caft out fin by Jefu'sa love,
And its crimfon" ftains remove.

4 Dear Redeemer of my life,
Now the fting of death deftroy;
And instead of guilt and ftrife
Fill my foul with peaced and joy:
Make me walk in thy good ways
All my refidue of days.

(q) Ifa. xl. 26. 24.-Cant. v. 16.

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(r) Rev. xv. 3. (1) Mic. vii. 18. (s) Prov. xviii. (t) Mark i. 40. (u) Ifa. xli. 14. (v) Gen. i. 10. (x) Rev. iii. 17. (y) Gal. ii. 16 & 21. (a) I John iv. 17, 18. (b) Ifa, i. 18. (d) Rom. xiv, 17.

2.7. (w) Ifa. Ixiii.
(z) 2 Pet. i. 4.
(c) 1 Cor. xv. 56.

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Penitential Breathings of the Mind for acceptance with God.

GOD accept this humble fong,
The tribute of my heart and tongue,
And let the breathings of my mind
A kind reception with thee find.
2 For felf-condemn'd, in great diftrefs,
I grieve, and do my fins confefs :
Help me, O Lord, in faith to pray,
And take, O take my guilt away.

3 Thy gracious arms around me spread,
To fave my poor defenceless head,
And under thy pavilions hide
My foul to keep it free from pride.
4 O captivate me thus with love,
And raife my heart to things above,
That perfect freedom I may find,
And ferve thee with a willing mind..
5 Against my lufts' thy pow'r employ,
The works of Satan quite destroy;
And make me like thyfelf divinem,
That all my ways with truth may shine".

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XVII.

For Prefervation and Deliverence from Sin.

LORD, preferve° me while I pray,
And with thy ftrength my weakness stay,

Left I to unbelief give place,

And fin against the light of grace.

(e) Lam. iii. 56. (f) Eph. ii. 8. (g) Pfal. xxvii. (i) John viii. 32.2 Cor. iii. 17. (j) Gal. v. 17. (1) Heb. x. 16.-1 Cor.iii. 9. (m) 2 Pet. i. 3, 4. Phil. ii, 15. (0) Pfal, cxlv. 18, 19, 20.

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(h) John vi. 44.

(k) 1 John iii. 8. (n) Frov. iv. 18.

2 For from my youth", my heart has been
In thought, and word, and deed' unclean;
Nor can I yet towards thee move,
Till drawn by cords of fov'reign love.

3 Then, O thou lover of mankind,
Whofe love is free" and unconfin'd;
To me thy Holy Spirit give,
That I may to thy glory live..

4 From this fad, dark, and gloomy state-
Into thy kingdom*, Lord, translate:
My fong' fhall then for ever be
Of what thy grace has done for me! :

XVIII.

Prayer for true Baptism.".

I NOME, Holy Ghoft, my heart infpire
With love, and dwell therein;

Baptize* me with this living fire,
And purge me from all fin.

(p) Gen. viii. (f) John vi. 44. (v) Luke xi. 13. (z) As i. 5. (c) Mal. iii. 3.

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lix. 13. (r) John iii. 19, 20, 21.
(t) John iii. 16.

(s) Hof. xi. 4.
(w) Joel ii. 2. (x) Col. i. 13.
(a) Gal. v. 22.-Rom. v. 5.

(u) Rom. v. 18. (y) Rev. v. 9. (b) Ifa. vi. 6.

* From the earliest ages of Christianity great mistakes and numberlefs difputes have happened in moft, if not in all parts of Chriftendom, about Outward Baptifm. Some from misinterpreting the latter clause of Matt. iii. 11. be fhall baptize you with the Holy Ghoft, and with fire, have with an bot iron actually fet a Crofs upon the face or arm of their children (Brerewood's Enquiries, page 153.) Multitudes equally erroneous have spent much fruitless labour in ftriving to prove the neceffity of being baptized with Elementary Water; alfo to fhew the proper time and manner of ufing it: But it is eafy to prove from Scripture, that the greatest part of these difputants have contended far more earnestly for what belonged to the difpenfation of John the Baptift, and was only a fhadow of good things to come, than to convince men of the infufficiency of outward elements, which are all rejected for being too weak and beggarly in themfelves, to have any power or virtue to adminifter falvation, either in whole or in part. It is likewife evident, that most of those who pafs under the denomination of Diffenters, do in fubftance agree with these called Church-men; for both infer, that in