CXVI. Love to GOD and our Neighbour, 1 'HUS faith the firft, the great Command, "To love thy Maker and thy God, 2 "Then fhall thy Neighbour next in Place 4 CXVII. Election Sovereign and Free, I now I bbversiob tomDE [B. He forms his Veffels as he please j Ehold the Potter and the Clay, Such is our GOD, and fuch are we, 2 Doth not the Workman's Pow'r extend And mould it for a nobler End, Choose fome to Life, while others die, lets [4 What, if to make his Terror known, He lets his Patience long endure, Suff'ring vile Rebels to go on And feal their own Destruction furer 5 What, If He means to fhew his Grace, And his electing Love employs, Lims To mark out fome of mortal Race, T And form them fit for heav'nly Joys?] 6 Shall Man reply against the LORD, And call his Maker's Ways unjuft, The Thunder of whose dreadful Word Can crush a thoufand Worlds to Duft? 7 But, Omy Soul, if Truths fo bright Should dazzle and confound thy Sight, Yet ftill his written Will obey, And wait the great decifive Dayal 8 Then fhall he make his Juftiqe known, And the whole Word before his Throne, With Joy or Terror fhall confefs. The Glory of his Righteousness. .7 CXVIII: Mofes and CHRISTA Or, Sins against the Law and Gofpel, John il 17. Heb. iii. 3,567 and x. 28, 29. HE Law by Mofes came, Were brought by CHRIST (a nobler Name) posto ain well of ensomt all I POTM a 2 Amidft, the House of GOD Their diff'rent Works were done 3 Then to his new Commands ilsɔ-baA Be ftri& Obedience paid; I SHT O'er all his Father s/House he ftands m The Sov'reign and the Head. ་་ 4 The Man that durft defpifere ‛? 5 But forer Vengeance fails On that rebellious Race, CXIX. The different Succefs of the Goffel, HRIST and his Crofs is all our Theme Are Scandal in the Jews Efteem, And Folly to the Greek. 2 But Souls enlighten'd from above With Joy receive the Word; 3 The vital Savour of his Name 4 CXX. Faith of Things unfeen, 1 AITH is the brighteft Evidence F 2 It fets Times paft in prefent View, Brings diftant Profpects home, Of Things a thousand Years ago, Or thoufand Years to come. : 3 By Faith we know the Worlds were made By GoD's Almighty Word; Abram, to unknown Countries led, By Faith obey'd the LORD. 4 He fought a City fair and high, Built by th' eternal Hands; (For thofe who practife Infant-Baptifm.) T1 "I'll blefs thy num'rous Race, and they 2 Abra'm believ'd the promis'd Grace, 4 Thus leter Saints, Eternal King! |