CVIII. CHRIST unfeen and beloved, 1 Pet. i. 8.

OT with our mortal Eyes

NOT

Have we beheld the LORD,

Yet we rejoice to hear his Name,
And love him in his Word.

2 On Earth we want the Sight
Of our Redeemer's Face,
Yet, LORD, our inmost Thoughts delight
To dwell upon thy Grace.

3 And when we tafte thy Love,
Our Joys divinely grow
Unfpeakable, like those above,
And Heav'n begins below.

CIX. The Value of CHRIST and his
Righteousness, Phil. iii. 7—9,

O more, my God, I boast no more
Of all the Duties I have done;
I quit the Hopes I held before,
To truft the Merits of thy Son.
2 Now for the Love I bear his Name,
What was my Gain I count my Lofs:
My former Pride I call my Shame,
And nail my Glory to his Crofs.

3 Yes, and I must and will effeem
All Things but Lofs for Jesus' Sake:
O may my Soul be found in him,
And of his Righteousness partake !

4 The best Obedience of my Hands,

Dares not appear before thy Throne ;
But Faith can anfwer thy Demands,
By pleading what my LORD has done.

CX. Death and immediate Glory,

2 Cor. V. 1,

,5-8.

Here is a Houfe not made with Hands,

Eternal, and on high; as i

And here my Spirit waiting ftands,

Till GOD fhall bid it fly.

2 Shortly this Prifon of my Clayb vill oz

Muft be diffolv'd and fall;

Then, O my Soul with Joy obey
Thy heav'nly Father's Call.

3 "Tis He, by his Almighty, Grace}}
That forms Thee fit for Heav'n
And, as an Earneft of the Place,

Has his own Spirit giv'n.

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mogu pred ed 4 We walk by Faith of Joys to come; Faith lives upon his Word; But while the Body is our Home, We're abfent from the LORD.

5 'Tis pleasant to believe thy Grace, But we had rather fee;

We wou'd be absent from the Flesh,
And prefent, LORD, with Thee.

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CXI. Salvation by Grace, Titus iii. 3—7.

[LORD, we confefs our num'rous Faults, How great our Guilt has been ;

Foolish and vain were all our Thoughts,
And all our Lives were Sin.

2 But, O my Soul, for ever praise,
For ever love his Name,

Who turns thy Feet from dang'rous Ways
Of Folly, Sin and Shame.]

3 ['Tis not by Works of Righteousness
Which our own Hands have done;
But we are fav'd by fov'reign Grace
Abounding thro' his Son.]

4 'Tis from the Mercy of our GoD
That all our Hopes begin ;"
'Tis by the Water and the Blood,
Our Souls are wash'd from Sin.

5 'Tis thro' the Purchase of his Death,
Who hung upon the Tree,
The Spirit is fent down to breathe
On fuch dry Bones as we.

6 Rais'd from the Dead we live anew;
And justify'd by Grace,

We shall appear in Glory too,

And fee our Father's Face.

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CXII. The Brazen Serpent: or, Looking to
JESUS, John iii. 14-16.

S O did the Hebrew Prophet raise

The brazen Serpent high;
The Wounded felt immediate Ease,
The Camp forbore to die.

2" Look upward in the dying Hour,
"And live," the Prophet cries;
But CHRIST performs a nobler Cure,
When Faith lifts up her Eyes.

3 High on the Crofs the Saviour hung,
High in the Heav'ns he reigns;
Here Sinners, by th' old Serpent ftung,
Look, and forget their Pains.

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When God's own Son is lifted up,

A dying World revives :

The Jew beholds the glorious Hope,

Th' expiring Gentile lives.

CXIII. Abraham's Bleffing on the Gentiles,
Gen. xvii. 7. Rom. xv. 8. Mark x. 14.

HOW large the Promife! how Divine,ĩ

To Abra'm and his Seed!,

"I'll be a GOD to thee and thine, "Supplying all their Need."

2 The Words of his extenfive Love From Age to Age endure;

The Angel of the Cov❜nant proves,
And feals the Bleffing fure.

3 JESUS the ancient Faith confirms,
To our great Fathers giv❜n;
He takes young Children to his Arms,
And calls them Heirs of Heav'n.

4 Our GoD! how faithful are his Ways!
His Love endures the fame :

Nor from the Promife of his Grace
Blots out his Children's Name,

CXIV. The fame, Rom. xi. 16, 17 • {~~~

1 Gentiles by Nature, we belong

To the wild Olive Wood;

Grace takes us from the barren Tree,

And grafts us in the good.

2 With the fame Blefling Grace endows[ed

The Gentile and the Jew;

If pure and holy be the Root,

Such are the Branches too.

3 Then let the Children of the Saints
Be dedicate to God;

Pour out thy Spirit on them, LORD!
And wash them in thy Blood.

4 Thus to the Parents and their Seed
Shall thy Salvation come,

And num'rous Houtholds meet at last
In one eternal Home.