3 While its riches I explore
My exulting foul expands!
And, as upon wings", doth foar
To yon blood-befprinkled bands a:
Who will kings and priests remain
When the monfter death is flain!

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XCII.

Faith relying on the promise in the time of Afflicton.

WHAT are my light afflictions here,

Or momentary grief and pain,
Compar'd to glory which is near?
To that vaft weight of folid gain,
Which is prepar'de for ev'ry one
Who loves the Lord and him alone.

2 I in Mount Zionf foon fhall be,

Where God will wipes away my tears:
There Chrift in glorious grandeur fee1,
When all this world on fire appears!
Secure from harm3, I then shall prove
His pow'r and everlafting love'.

3 Welcome eternity! how fweet
And pleasant are my thoughts of thee?
O how I long thy joys" to meet,—
And they are all made fure to me;
For on the promise I rely

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Of God who cannot change or lie!

(a) Heb. xii. (d) 2 Cor. iv. (g) Ifa. xxv. 8.. (j) 1 Pet. iii. 13. (m) Ifa. lvii. 15.

John ii. 25.

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Faith beholding invifible Realities.

OOK forth, my foul, beyond the grave
To what God hath prepar'd above:
A kind releases thou foon must have
And feaft on everlasting love.

2 This mortal frame", like brittle clay,
Will moulder fast and crumble down;
Then thy glad wings fhall tow'r away,
And fieze yon never-fading crown.
3 O what do I by w faith behold!
The promis'd city draweth near,
That's built of jafper and pure gold,-
And Chrift, my loving Saviour there!
4 The brightnefs of his fmiling face-
Doth far furpass the fun for light,
And fhews the glory of that place.
Of harmony and fweet delight.

5. Thither my happy foul fhall fly,
And proftrate bow before the throne;
There holy, holy, holy cry,

All thanks and praife to God alone!

XCIV.

Holy Afpirations after Celestial Bleffings.

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Y foul breaks forth with ftrong defire
To join the bright celeftial choir:
When fhall I leave this clay to find
The crown of life for me defign'd?

(s) 1 Cor. xv. 53, 54.

() John xiv. 2, 3. (1) Pfal. ciii. 14, 15, 16. (v) I Pet. v. 4.

(x) Rev. xxi. 2, --- 27.-xxii. 14. (y) Rev. iv. -xxxiii. 6. (a) Rev. ii. 10.

2 To thee, my God, refign'd I wait
Till fit for an immortalb ftate:
When fit, let me not stay, but share
The manfions Chrift went to prepare.
3 Lo, there fulness of joy is found,
And ev'ry bleffing doth abound:
With winged hope I thither fly,
Till hope fhall in fruition die.

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Pleafing Profpects beyond the Grave.

REAT God, how fhall I ftand and gaze 8
When thy dread voices the dead fhall raife, S

And I my grave in triumph leave

A crown of glory to receive?:
All the ranfom'di I fhall view,
Jefus thronging,

And adoring,

In glad fongs for ever new!

2. There angels and archangels join
With all thy faints, who do combine
To laud and magnify, thy name,
And echo my Redeemer's fame!
I fhall join this holy ftrife,
Praifing Jefus,

Who to fave us,

For our ranfom" gave his life!

3 My foul exults the crown to wear,
And in thy prefence to appear:
Lord, haften that thrice happy day,
Or grant me patienceP here to ftay,

(b) Rom. ii. 7. (c) 2. (f) Tit. ii. 13. (i) Ifa. xxxv. 10.

John xiv. 2. (d) Pfal. xvi.
(g) John v. 25, 28, 29.
(j) Rev. v. 9, 13.
(m) Pfal. xix. 14.

(1) Pfal. xxxiv. 3.
(0) 1 Chron, xvi, 27.-Col. iii. 4.

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(e) Rom. v.

(h) 1 Pet. v. 4.` (k) Rom. xv. 11. (n) 1 Tim. ii. 6.

(p) Heb. x. 36.

All thy righteous will to do;
Then in Zion's
Happy regions

Never-ending wonders' fhew.

4 The thoughts of such amazing joy,
And pleasures that can never cloy,
Tranfport my ravish'd heart away,
Which longs and pants to fee the day:
Come, Lord Jefus", quickly come";
O my Saviour,

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Grant this favour,

Take me to my Father's home.

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A longing defire to be dissolved and to be with Chrift.

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Long before the God of gods

In Zion to appear,

Who hath redcemeda finful clods

From fin and fervile fear.

2 When shall my longing foul depart, And leave this houfe of clay?

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To be with Chrift, no more to partd,.
Where pleasure can't decay!

3 Lord, fully fraught my foul with love,
And let a convoy come,

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Of glorious angels from above,
To guard thy fervant home.

I wait with joy the wish'd-for-hour,
Nor murmur at thy stay;

For lo, I reft on thee for pow'rs
'Gainst fin to watch and pray.

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(q) Rev. xiv. I. (r) Luke i. 33. (f) Job ix. 10. (s) Ifa. xxxv.

IC. (t) Pfal. xvi. 11.

(u) Ats vii. 59. (v) Rev. xxii.

12, 17, 20. (w) 1 Tim. iv. 10. (x) John xx. 17. (y) Pfal. cxxxvi.

2.-Dan. ii. 47.

(b) Job iv. 19. (e) jude 21.

(z) Pfal. lxxxiv. 7.-Rev. xiv. I.

(c) Phil. i. 23. (1) Luke xvi. 22,

(a) Eph. i. 7. (d) Rom. vi. 35, 38, 39,

(g) John xv. 5.

5 O make me faithful to that graceh,
Which is through Jefus giv'n,
That I may run with even pace
Through lofs and gain to heav'n.

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Holy Contemplation, Prayer, and Faith in the Promife.
HEN fhall I hear the trumpet found,
Ye dead in Chrift, arife?

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Or fee the Judge, with glory crown'd,
Defcending from the fkies!

2 O Lord, how glorious muft the fight
Of thine appearing be?

How full of comfort and delight
To all eternity1!

3 With joy my foul would leave this clay,
If I might fhare thy throne";
Yet I'm refign'd a while to ftay,.

Till I thy will have done.

4 Then let me hear thy facred voice
Proclaiming my releafe;

And make me with thy faints rejoice,.
Where praife fhall never cease.

5 With Cherubims, and Seraphims',
And all the hoft on high;

Then I'll unite in endless hymns,
Thy name to magnify.

6 There, when the great Millennium's‡ paft,.

Unutterable joy

Shall ftill increafe and always laft,
Which nothing can destroy!

(h) Rom. v. 1, 2. - Thef. iv. 16. (m) Job xxxiii. 6. (p) Rev. xix. 7, 8. (f) Luke ii. 13.

(i) Heb. xii. 1, 2, 3..

(k) Tit. ii. 13.

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(j) 1 Cor. xv. 52, Rev. xxi. 3, 4, 5. (0) Col. iv. 12.

(n) Rev. iii. 21.
(q) Ezek. x. 1, - - - 22.
(s) i Cor. ii. 9.-2 Cor. xii. 4.

(r) Ifa. vi. 2, 6.

"The Millennium, or Chrift's reign on this earth before its "diffolution, is five times exprefsly limited to a thousand years in "Rev. xx. during which time Satan is to be bound and confined in