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Their Priesthood ran thro' fev'ral Hands,

For mortal was their Race: Thy never-changing Office ftands, Eternal as thy Days.

5 Once in the Circuit of a Year With Blood, but not his own, Aaron within the Vail

appears

Before the Golden Throne.

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6 But CHRIST by his own pow'rful Blood
Afcends above the Skies,

And in the Prefence of our GoD
Shews his own Sacrifice.

7 Jesus, the King of Glory, reigns
On Sion's heav'nly Hill;

Looks like a Lamb that has been flain,
And wears his Priesthood ftill.

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He ever lives to intercede

Before his Father's Face:

Give him, my Soul, thy Caufe to plead,
Nor doubt the Father's Grace.

CXLVI. Characters of CHRIST borrowed from inanimate Things in Scripture.

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O worship at IMMANUEL'S Feet,

See in his Face what Wonders meet!
Earth is too narrow to exprefs

His Worth, his Glory, or his Grace.

2 [The whole Creation can afford

But fome faint Shadows of my LORD

Nature, to make his Beauties known,
Muft mingle Colours not her own.]

3 [Is he compar'd with Wine or Bread?
Dear LORD our Souls would thus be fed :
That Flesh, that dying Blood of thine,
Is Bread of Life, is heav'nly Wine.]

4 [Is he a Tree? The World receives
Salvation from his healing Leaves :
That righteous Branch, that fruitful Bough,
Is David's Root and Offspring too.]
5 [Is he a Rofe? Not Sharon yields
Such Fragrancy in all her Fields:
Or if the Lily he affume,

The Vallies blefs the rich Perfume.]
6 [Is he a Vine? His heav'nly Root
Supplies the Boughs with Life and Fruit.
O let a lafting Union join

My Soul to CHRIST the living Vine !]
7 [Is he a Head! Each Member lives,
And owns the vital Pow'rs he gives;
The Saints below and Saints above,
Join'd by his Spirit and his Love.]
8 [Is he a Fountain ? There I bathe,
And heal the Plague of Sin and Death:
Thefe Waters all my Soul renew,
And cleanse my fpotted Garments too.]

9 [Is he a Fire? He'll purge my Drofs:
But the true Gold fuftains no Lofs:
Like a Refiner shall he fit,

And tread the Refufe with his Feet.]

10 [Is he a Rock? How firm he proves ? The Rock of Ages never moves;

Yet the sweet Streams that from him flow Attends us all the Defert thro'.]

11 [Is he a Way?

He leads to God;

The Path is drawn in Lines of Blood;
There would I walk with Hope and Zeal,
Till I arrive at Sion's Hill.]

12 [Is he a Door? I'll enter in :
Behold the Paftures large and green ;
A Paradife divinely fair,

None but the Sheep have Freedom there.]

13 [Is he defign'd the Corner-Stone,

upon

For Men to build their Heav'n
I'll make him my Foundation too,
Nor fear the Plots of Hell below.]
14 [Is he a Temple? I adore
Th' indwelling Majefty and Pow'r :
And ftill to his most holy Place,
Whene'er I pray, I'll turn my Face.]
15 [Is he a Star? He breaks the Night,
Piercing the Shades with dawning Light;
I know his Glories from afar,

I know the bright, the Morning Star.]

16 [Is he a Sun? His Beams are Grace, His Courfe is Joy and Righteoufness: Nations rejoice when he appears

To chafe their Clouds and dry their Tears.]

17 O let me climb thofe higher Skies, Where Storms and Darknefs never rife!

There he displays his Pow'rs abroad,

And fhines and reigns th' Incarnate GoD.]

18 Nor Earth, nor Seas, nor Sun, nor Stars, Nor Heav'n his full Refemblance bears; His Beauties we can never trace,

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Till we behold him Face to Face.

CXLVII. The Names and Tities of CHRIST, from feveral Scriptures.

יידי

IS from the Treasures of his Word
I borrow Titles for my LORD;
Nor Art nor Nature can supply
Sufficient Forms of Majefty.

2 Bright Image of the Father's Face,
Shining with undiminish'd Rays;
Th' eternal GOD's eternal Son,
The Heir and Partner of his Throne.

3 The King of Kings, the LORD moft High,
Writes his own Name upon his Thigh :
He wears a Garment dipp'd in Blood,
And breaks the Nations with his Rod.
Where Grace can neither melt nor move,
The LAMB refents his injur'd Love,
Awakes his Wrath without Delay,
And JUDAH'S Lion tears the Prey.

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5 But when for Works of Peace he comes,

What winning Titles he affumes!

"LIGHT of the World and LIFE of Men;" Nor bear thofe Characters in vain.

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6 With tender Pity in his Heart He acts the MEDIATOR'S Part; A FRIEND and BROTHER he

appears,

And well, fulfils the Names he wears.

7 As length the JUDGE his Throne afcends,
Divides the Rebels from his Friends,
And Saints in full Fruition prove
His rich Variety of Love.

CXLVIII. The fame as the cxlviiith Pfalm.

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WITH cheerful Voice I fing

The Titles of my LORD,

And borrow all the Names

Of Honour from his Word.

Nature nor Art

Can e'er fupply
Sufficient Forms
Of Majetty.

2 In JESUS we behold

His Father's glorious Face,
Shining for ever bright
With mild and lovely Rays.
Th' eternal GOD'S
Eternal SON

Inherits and

Partakes the Throne.]

3 The fov'reign KING of Kings,
The LORD of Lords most High,
Writes his own Name upon
His Garment and his Thigh