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Ver. Still working in us by his might
That purity alone,

Which is well-pleafing in his fight,
Through Jefus Chrift his Son :
To whom be glory evermore,
For peace and grace fo free;
Let heav'n and earth his name adore,
Amen; fo let it be.

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A Song of Praife to GOD for Regeneration to a lively
Hope of eternal Life. 1 Pet. i. 3, 4, 5.

3 BLESS'D be th' eternal God of peace,

The Father of our Lord;

Let his abundant mercy, grace
And love, be flill ador'd;

Who from the dead his Son brought up,

And rais'd him to the fky,

To breed in us a lively hope
That we fhould never die.
Though fin inherent juflly throws
Our bodies to the duft;
Yet, as the Head victorious rofe,
So all the members muft.

4 To an inheritance divine,

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Which, uncorrupt for ay,
And unpolluted, pure, and fine,
Can never fade away.

'Tis fafe referv'd in heav'n for all,

Who fafe are kept for it,

By pow'r divine, through faith that shall

To grace divine fubmit.

Saints wait by faith this glory vast,

Which waits as well as they,

Prepar'd, and ready for the laft,
The revelation-day.

SONG XXI.

A Doxology, prefaced with a Precept and Prayer;
or, the Devil defeated by Faith, wel fixed and
furnished.
Pet. v. 8, II.

E fober, vigilant, and ftout;

Ver. BE

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For ev'ry day and hour,

Your foe, the devil, walks about.
Still feeking to devour.

9 Whom, by a fteady faith, refist,
In Christ the Captain's name;
Knowing your fellow-foldiers bleft,
Your warfare is the fame.

10 But may the God, and fource of all
Your grace and warlike flore,
Who did by Jefus Christ you call
To his eternal glorė ;

After your short while's fuff'ring now,
May he perfect you all,
Establish, frengthen, fettle you,

Firm like a brazen wall.

II To him whofe all-fufficiency
Alone can thus fuftain,
All glory and dominion be
For evermore, Amen.

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Growth in Grace, with a Doxology. 2 Pet. iii. 18.

HAT error and apoftafy

THAT

May have in faints no place,

The heav'nly precept is, that we..
Should daily grow in grace.

And therein all that would be ftor'd,
And fill with increase bleft,
Should grow in knowledge of the Lord,
And Saviour Jefus Chrift.

To him, (the more of whom we know,
The more of grace we gain,)

All glory be afcrib'd, both now,
And evermore, Amen.

Ver.

SONG XXIII.

The World's three great Temptations.
2 John ii. 15, 16.

AVOID this world's most dangerous three,
Vain pleafures, pomp, and pelf:

Not thefe, but God thy portion be,

Elfe thou'lt deftroy thy felf.

Son, tell them when they court thine ear,

And thine affection woo,

"I cannot buy your blifs fo dear,

Nor part with Heav'n for you."

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The Doxology of the Apostle JUDE: Or, a Song of Praife for the Ground and Hope of Perfeverance and Perfection. Ver. 24, 25.

24 TO him that's able to preferve

Your feet from falling quite,

When tempted from the truth to fwerve

By hellish guile and spite:

That's able to present you fair

And faultlefs at his feat,
Before his glorious prefence there
With joy exceeding great:

25 Ev'n unto God, the only wife,
Yea, infinitely fo;

And who alone our Saviour is,

And our falvation too:

To him be glory, majefty,
Authority, and pow'r,
So be it, and fo fhall it be,

Both now and evermore.

PART

III.

POEMS felected from the REVELATION.

INTRODUCTION.

The APOCALYPS, or the Book of the Revelation of JOHN the Divine, contains a discovery of the deep things of GOD, which no man knows, but the Spirit of God, and these to whom he reveals them: which things were before hidden and fecret, and could never have been fearched out, by the reasoning of human minds; but are now maniteited for the common good of the church of Christ. The matter and scope of this book is a prediction of the most important events that should happen till the end of time, relative both to the prefent and future ftate of the church, the things which are, and shall be hereafter. From the beginning, the church of God has been blessed with Prophecy, and feveral Vilions. The glorious prediction of the breaking of the ferpent's head, was the fupport of the patriarchal age: and the many prophecies that were concerning the MESSIAH to come, were the Gofpelof the Old Teftament. CHRIST himself, concerning whom all the prophets bear witnefs, prophefied concerning the destruction of Jerufalem; and, about the time in which it was accomplished, he intrusted the Apostle JOHN with the Book of the Revelation, for the fupport of the faith of his people, and the direction of their hope. Particular Vifions were also fometimes made unto iome of the Lord's peculiar favourites; as Ifaiah, Ezekiel, Daniel, &c.; and tend mightily to the good and comfort of the Church.

The first three chapters of this Book are plain, and the most easily understood of any part of it; and, among other things, contain the Epiftles to the feven different churches of Afia: the other parts of it are more myfterious and difficult to comprehend. We have many Visions intersperfed, fhewn to the Apostle JOHN, who was wafted, as it were, within the vail, and heard and faw great and glorious things: he was favoured with a view not only of the glorious Perfon of the Son of God, but of the great GOD himself, on his throne; a display of the heavenly glory, the splendor of the New Jerufalem, and the magnificence of the celeftial throne, &c. and alfo, to hear what was the employment of the glorious affembly, even their celebrating the high praises of God; and likewife to know what was the subject-matter of thefe heavenly anthems, viz. the bleffed REDEEMER, his glorious excellencies, wonderful works, and great exploits; and the amazing events that should hereafter take place.

That the faints themselves may join in the chorus of thefe celestial worshippers, and attempt to accent the notes of the heavenly anthems, the fong of Mofes and the Lamb, even while in this embodied itate, the following hymns are felected from this book.

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Song to the REDEEMER. Rev. ii. 5,—8.
SECT. I. His Redeeming Love.

Ver. To him that loved us to death,

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And wafh'd us in his blood

From fin, that we, the heirs of wrath,
Might 'fcape the threat'ning flood: 1
6 To him that made us kings and priests,
Ev'n unto God most high,

His Father; who, at his request,
Admits the rebels nigh:

S.

Ver. To our atoning Prieft be praise,
To our exalted King,

Let the redeem'd, with lofty lays,
Immortal honours fing.

SECT. II. His fecond Coming, and glorious Nañre.

7 Behold, he comes, with flying clouds,
Whom ev'ry eye thall fee!

A piercing fight, alas! to crouds,
Who now his piercers be.

The wicked world fhall weep and wail:
But faints fhall blefs the dav,
Who wait his coming without fail,
And wifh't without delay.

8 I am, of all the times that pass,
The first, the laft, the fum,

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Th' almighty God, which is, and was,
And ever is to come.

SO N G. II.

The Song of the Church to the LAMB, upon the opening of the fealed Book. Rev. v. 1,-10.

OD's book of dark and deep defigns,

Clos'd with a feven-fold feal,

3, 4 No man could loofe, not read the lines, His counfel to reveal.

5 But David's reot, of Judah's tribe
The Lion, has prevail'd;

To take, and open, and defcribe
The facred volume feal'd.

6,7 Seven feals to loofe, the Lamb in view
Enthron'd, as flain before,

Prefents feven eyes, feven horns, to fhew
His wifdom and his pow'r.

8 The elders, worship at his feet,
The church adores around,
With vials full of odours fweet,
And harps of joyful found.

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Thofe odours are the pray'rs of faints;
Thefe harps the hymns they raife:
New to the Lamb they pay their rents,
New is their fong of praife:

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