2 It fets Times paft in present View,
Brings diftant Profpects home,
Of Things a thousand Years ago,
Or thousand Years to come.

3 By Faith we know the Worlds were made
By GoD's Almighty Word;
Abra'm, to unknown Countries led,
By Faith obey'd the LORD.

4 He fought a City fair and high,
Built by th' eternal Hands;
And Faith affures us, tho' we die,
That heav'nly Building ftands.

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CXXI.

Children devoted to GOD, Gen. xvii.
Acts xvi. 14, 15, 33.

7, 10.

(For those who practise Infant Baptism.)

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HUS faith the Mercy of the LORD,
"I'll be a GOD to thee;

"I'll bless thy num'rous Race, and they
"Shall be a Seed for me."

2 Abra'm believ'd the promis'd Grace,
And gave his Son to GOD;
But Water feals the Bleffing now,
That once was feal'd with Blood.

3 Thus Lydia fanctify'd her Houfe,
When the receiv'd the Word;
Thus the believing Jailor gave
His Houfhold to the LORD.

4 Thus later Saints, Eternal King!
Thine ancient Truths embrace;

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To thee their Infant Offspring bring,
And humbly claim the Grace.

CXXII. Believers buried with CHRIST in
Baptifm, Rom. vi. 3, &c.

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O we not know that folemn Word,
That we are bury'd with the LORD;
Baptiz'd into his Death, and then
Put off the Body of our Sin.

2 Our Souls receive diviner Breath,

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Rais'd from Corruption, Guilt, and Death:
So from the Grave did CHRIST arise,
And lives to GOD above the Skies.

No more let Sin or Satan reign
Over our mortal Flesh again;

The various Lufts we ferv'd before,
Shall have Dominion now no more.

CXXIII. The repenting Prodigal.
Luke xv. 13, &c.

Ehold the Wretch whofe Luft and Wine

BEhold

Had wafted his Eftate,..

He begs a Share amongft the Swine,

To tafle the Hufks they eat!

2" I die with Hunger here," he cries;
"I ftarve in foreign Lands;

"My Father's Houte has large Supplies,
And bounteous are his Hands.

3 "I'll go and with a mournful Tongue,
"Fall down betore his Face;
"Father, I've done thy Juftice wrong,
"Nor can deferve thy Grace."

4 He faid, and haften'd to his Home,
To feek his Father's Love;

The Father faw the Rebel come,

And all his Bowels move.

5 He ran,

and fell upon

his Neck,

Embrac'd and kifs'd his Son;

The Rebel's Heart with Sorrow brake,

For Follies he had done.

6" Take off his Clothes of Shame and Sin, (The Father gives Command)

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"Drefs him in Garments white and clean, "With Rings adorn his Hand.

"A Day of Feafting I ordain;

"Let Mirth and Joy abound;

My Son was dead, and lives again,
"Was loft, and now is found."

CXXIV. The firft and second Adam,
Rom. v. 12, &c.

DEEP in the Duft before thy Throne,

Our Guilt and our Difgrace we own;

Great GOD! we own th' unhappy Name, Whence fprung our Nature and our Shame. z Adam the Sinner: At his Fall, Death, like a Conqu'ror, feiz'd us all;

A thoufand new-born Babes are dead,
By fatal Union to their Head.

3 But whilft our Spirits, fill'd with Awe,
Behold the Terrors of thy Law,
We fing the Honours of thy Grace,
That fent to fave our ruin'd Race.

4 We fing thine everlasting Son,
Who join'd our Nature to his own;
Adam the Second, from the Duft
Raifes the Ruins of the First.

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5 [By the Rebellion of one Man
Thro' all his Seed the Mifchief ran;
And by one Man's Obedience now
Are all his Seed made righteous too.

6 Where Sin did reign and Death abound,
There have the Sons of Adam found
Abounding Life; there glorious Grace
Reigns thro' the LORD our Righteoufnefs.]

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CXXV. CHRIST's Compaffion to the Weak and Tempted, Heb. iv. 15, 16. and v. 7. Matt. xxii. 2o.

WITH Joy we meditate the Grace

Of our High-Priest above;

His Heart is made of Tenderness

His Bowels melt with Love.

2 Touch'd with a Sympathy within,
He knows our feeble Frame;

He knows what fore Temptations mean,
For he has felt the fame.

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But fpotlefs, innocent and pure,
The great Redeemer stood,
While Satan's fiery Darts he bore,
And did refift to Blood.

4 He in the Days of feeble Flesh
Pour'd out his Cries and Tears,
And in his Measure feels afresh
What ev'ry Member bears.

5 [He'll never quench the fmoking Flax,
But raise it to a Flame ;
The bruifed Reed he never breaks,
Nor fcorns the meaneft Name.]

6 Then let our humble Faith address
His Mercy and his Pow'r,
We shall obtain deliv'ring Grace
In the diftreffing Hour.

CXXVI. Charity and Uncharitableness,
Rom. xiv. 17, 19. 1 Cor. x. 32.

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[OT diff'rent Food nor diff'rent Drefs, Compofe the Kingdom of our LORD; But Peace and Joy and Righteousness, Faith, and Obedience to his Word. 2 When weaker Chriftians we despise, We do the Gofpel mighty Wrong: For GoD the gracious and the wife, Receives the Fecble with the Strong. 3 Let Pride and Wrath be banish'd hence, Meeknefs and Love our Souls pursue ; Nor fhall our Practice give Offence To Saints, the Gentile or the jew.