And from thy true church here, all darkness remove. II 2 Come, Lord, and attefta In every breast, That from condemnation we now fhall find rest. 3 With eager defire Thy help we require, To make our affections towards thee afpire. 4 More fully display Thy goodness, we pray, That we may with vigour prefs on in thy way. 5 For love is our choice Wherein we rejoice, And thereof we'll gladly fing with heart and voice. (y) Rev. iii. 4, 5. (b) Rom. viii. 1. (z) Matt. iii. 16. (c) Phil. iii. 14. (a) Rom. viii. 16. 6 In fongs evermore Thee we will adore, Thou ocean of loved, without bottom or shore! CXCVI. Praise and Prayer. E meet in thy ways' I WE Thy name for to praife, Yet Lord we fall fhort in our loftieft lays. 2 But wilt thou defpife This small facrifice, Which from thine own altar through Jefus doth rife? 3 Far from the most High! Himself to denyf, And not bless his creatures when to him they cry. 4 It never can be! Therefore we agree To pray for falvation, which cometh from thee. 5 We ask for the fame In Jefus's name h; With love let thy Spirit our cold hearts inflame. 6 Now kindle the fire*, And therewith infpire, Enlarge ev'ry heart and grant all we defire1. (e) Pfal. li. 17. (f) Num. xxiii. 19.— (i) Prov. x. (d) I John iv. 8, 16. 24.-Mar. xi. 24. * See the note on Divine Love, page 75, &ci CXCVII. Solemn Reflections and Prayer. EAR after year rolls round apace, Nor can the fons of Adam's race, 2 The generations that are dead, 3 And who a moment's space can boaft*, Like them we muft yield up the ghoft, 4 Swiftly we haften to that hour, 50 thou in whom we live and move, 6 With folemn weight upon each mind Salvation may we seek and find, And joy and peace poffefs. 7 That when the laft great trump fhall found", Ye dead in Chrift arife! Our fouls light as an hart fhall bound, To meet him in thee skies. 806006 CXCVIII. On the last Judgment. E faints who love and fear the Lord, 2 How awful that tremendous day! With confternation each will dread 3 Much diff'rent then will be the states 4 Be faithful then, and stand your ground, In (p) 1 Cor. xv. 52. (r) Ifa. lix. 17, 18.(s) Matt. xxv. 31,f- - - - 46. I CXCIX. Praife for the Bleffings received through the interceffion of Chrift. EHOVAH" great I AM! And praise unto the flaughter'd LAMB To thee belongs all might, 2 Should'st thou destroy our land, And fuffer by thy mighty hand, But Chrift, our great high Prieft, (u) Exod. iii. 14. 24.-Mic. vii. 18. * K 6694668 4 vi. 3. (v) Rev. v. 12, 13. (w) Jer. ix. (x) Heb. iv. 14. (y) Heb. ix. 5, - - - 12. *Jefus faid, I am the bread of life: be that cometh to me, shall never bunger; and he that believeth on me, shall never thirst.-Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you-for my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed, &c. However it appears from the History of many ages, that these sayings have always been (as they are now). but very little understood by the greatest part of mankind; and all the while the great whore that fitteth upon the waters, has been making berfelf drunk with the blood of the faints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jefus. And to this very day fhe ftill prevails upon the kings of the earth to commit fornication, and the inhabitants of the earth to drink the wine of her fornication. But blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jefus Chrift; bis eye is upon the righteous and bis ear is open to their cry; and while they look unto him, be appoints falvation for walls and bulwarks around them. He also gives |