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Ver. Yea, double vengeance on them lies

Who 'gainst the light rebel;
Who God's eternal Son defpife,
Shall have the hottest hell.

SONG XV.

CHRIST prefent to Faith upon the Gospel-Table, and is the facramental Supper. John vi. 35. Luke xxii. 19.

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ESUS is gone above the fkies,

JESUS

Where now we fee him not;

And carnal objects court our eyes,

To thruft him from our thought.

He knows what wand'ring hearts we have,
Forgetful of his face;

And, to refresh our minds, he gave
Memorials of his grace.

He oft the gofpel-table fpreads
With his own flefh and blood;
Faith on the rich provifion feeds,
And taftes the love of God.
While he is abfent from our fight,
'Tis to prepare a place,
Where we may dwell in heav'nly light,
For ever near his face.

SONG XVI.

CHRIST the Way. John xiv. 1,-6.

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ET not your hearts within you grieve,
Nor greatly troubled be;

Ye truft in God, ev'n fo believe,

In, by, and thorough me.

2 Home to my Father's houfe I go,
Where many manfions are
Of blifs; and if it were not fo,
I would have told you fair.

3 I go before, and in your name
Prepare a place for you;

I'll come again, and where I am
There take you with me too.

4 Thus where I'm bound you know; and may

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CHRIST'S Miracles, wrought by bim, to prove bis
Godbead and divine Miffion.

Recorded by Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

HE miracles divine of old,

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Wrought to confirm the law,

Were fuch, as all who did behold

Were ftruck with dread and awe :

Witness the signs in Egypt fhown,
That men with terror fill'd;
Destructive plagues, nay, wrath unknown,
That man and cattle kill'd. *

But now the wonders Jefus wrought,
To fhow that from above

His peaceful embaffy was brought,
Are miracles of love.

Mofes turn'd water firft to blood,
Of dreadful scenes a fign:

Mir. But Chrift, intending finners good,
Turn'd water into wine.

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2 He, doing good, went up and down,
And carry'd, as he past,

His heav'nly gifts from town to town,
And round him bleffings caft.

To win th' obdurate Jews in vain
With profer'd blifs he ftrove:
His future glories they difdain,
And flight his Father's love.
If worldly pomp without annoy,
And empire he had giv'n;
'Twas that they wanted to enjoy,
And not his unfeen heav'n.

Yet with good-will, in every place,
Salvation he reveal'd;

3 Dark minds enlighten'd by his
Difeafed bodies heal'd.

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Mir. Impetuous winds were by him flack'd, And waves his will obey'd;

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The ftormy tempefts, by him check'd,
Afide their fury laid.

He made the raging ocean plain
And fmooth at his command;
6 And walked on the liquid main,
As on the folid land.

7 He, with a word, did cure the lame,
And quickly heal the fick;

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9 10 The lepers cleanfe, reftore the maim; And made the dumb to fpeak.

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12 He dæmons difpoffefs'd, who knew
This heav'nly ftranger's pow'rs:
They from his awful prefence flew
Affrighted to their bow'rs.

13 He to the blind gave open eyes,
To fee the light that fhone:

14 He bad the mould'ring dead arife,
The dead arofe anon.

15 He fed the multitudes when faint,
With new-created meat;
And fafter did the food augment
Than all the croud could eat.
His care that diflributed doles,
To do their bodies good,

16 Was more in feeding precious fouls
With everlasting food.

To feed with manna from above

Was chiefly his employ;

His royal fare, a feast of love,

Of pardon, peace, and joy.

His miracles corporeal

Were but his pawns, in place

Of miracles fpiritual,

And pledges of his grace.

17 With majefty he fpoke, whom all
His audience did adore;

No man, (they did aloud propale,)
E'er fpoke like him before.

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Mir. The crew, whofe fwords did him furround,
He could have cruth'd to death,
With equal eafe as to the ground
He threw them with his breath.
19 But ev'n among the bloody band
That feiz'd him did appear

His loving heart, his healing hand,
Reftoring Malchus' ear.

20 What was in man he fully knew;
The heart of friends and foes

He fearch'd, and pictur'd in their view
The thoughts he would difclose.

21 He fhew'd Nathanael's heart, and faid,
"Ere Philip called thee,

"I faw thee underneath the shade,
"The leaves of yonder tree;
"I all thy holy motions fpy'd,
"In yon retir'd abode :"

On which Nathanael, "Rabbi, cry'd,
“Thou art the Son of God.”

22 He to th' amaz'd Samaritan,
Her wicked life reveal'd,

Which from the view of mortal man
She thought had been conceal'd.
Hence, "O come fee a man," fhe faid,
"With perfect knowledge bless'd,

"He told me all that e'er I did;

"And is not this the Christ ?” 23 When Judas bafe had but his vile. And wicked scheme defign'd; Then Jefus told him all the guile And treafon of his mind.

What lives and lies within the deep,
Lay open to his view,

24 Who bad the fish the tribute keep
Till fought as Cæfar's due.

When nought in fishing caught had been
By toilers all the night;

25 He caus'd the finny tribe conveen,
And fill their net on fight.

Mir. Nor were his mighty works confin'd

To felect friends he chofe,

But, like his love to human kind,
Laid open to his foes.

No hidden corner Jefus fought,
Like forgers bafe of lies,

But in the light his wonders wrought,
Before a thousand eyes.

Nor were his miracles of love
Wrought in a fcanty way;
He prov'd his miffion from above
By wounders ev'ry day.

Bright at his birth the comet blaz'd,
That flraight the wife-men led:
Dark, at his death, the fun, amaz'd,
With blushes vail'd its head.

Of heav'n and earth the Rector blefs'd,
Did thus, in fignals giv'n,

His miracles on earth atteft,
By miracles in heav'n. "

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