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CXVI. Love to GOD and our Neighbour,
Matt. xxii. 8740.

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'HUS faith the firft, the great Command,
"Let all thy inward Pow is unite

"To love thy Maker and thy God,
"With utmost Vigour and Delight. I

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2 "Then fhall thy Neighbour next in Place
Share thine Affections and Efteem,
And let thy Kindness to thyfelf
"Measure and rule thy Love to him."'./
3 This is the Senfe that Moses spoke,
This did the Prophets preach and prove
For want of this the Law is broke,
And the whole Law's fulfill'd by Love.
But O! how bafe our Paffions are!
How cold our Charity and Zeala
LORD, fill our Souls with heav'nly Fire,
Or we fhall ne'er perform thy Will.

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CXVII. Election Sovereign and Free,
Rom. ix. 2124dt robe: J

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Ehold the Potter and the Clay,

Such is our GOD, and fuch are we,
The Subjects of his high Decrees.

2 Doth not the Workman's Pow'r extend
O'er all the Mafs, which Part to choose,

And mould it for a nobler End,
And which to leave for viler Ufe?]
8 May not the Sov'reign LORD on high
Difpenfe his Favours as he will

Choose fome to Life, while others die,
And yet be just and gracious ftill?

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[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.

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CXVIII: Mofes and CHRISTA Or, Sins against the Law and Gofpel, John il 17. Heb.

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iii. 3,567 and x. 28, 29.

HE Law by Mofes came,
But Peace and Truth and Love,

Were brought by CHRIST (a nobler Name)
Defcending from above.

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Their diff'rent Works were done
Mofes a faithful Servant ftood,
But CHRIST a faithful Son.

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.

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4 The Man that durft defpifere
The Law that Mofes brought,
Behold! how terribly he dies'
For his sprefumptuous Fault

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On that rebellious Race,
Who hate to hear when JESUS calls,
And dare refift his Grace.

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CXIX. The different Succefs of the Goffel,
1 Cor. i. 23, 24, 2 Cor. ii. 16.
1 Cor. iii. 6, 7.

HRIST and his Crofs is all our Theme
The Myft'ries that we speak

Are Scandal in the Jews Efteem,

And Folly to the Greek.

2 But Souls enlighten'd from above

With Joy receive the Word;
They see what Wisdom, Pow'r, and Love,
Shines in their dying LORD.

3 The vital Savour of his Name
Reftores their fainting Breath;
But Unbelief perverts the fame
To Guilt, Defpair, and Death.
Till GOD diffuse his Graces down,
Like Show'rs of heav'nly Rain,
In vain Apollos fows the Ground,
And Paul may plant in vain..

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CXX. Faith of Things unfeen,
Heb. xi. 1, 3, 8, 10.

1 AITH is the brighteft Evidence
Of Things beyond our Sight,
Breaks thro' the Clouds of Flesh and Senfe,
And dwells in heav'nly Light,

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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;
And Faith affures us, tho' we die,...
That heav'nly Building ftands.toos
CXXI. Children devoted to God, Gen. xvii.
7, 16. Acts xvi. 14, 15, 33.

(For thofe who practife Infant-Baptifm.)
HUS faith the Mercy of the LORD,
"I'll be a GOD to thee;

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"I'll blefs thy num'rous Race, and they
"Shall be a Seed for me.'

2 Abra'm believ'd the promis'd Grace,
And gave his Son to God;
But Water feals the Eleffing now,
That once was feal'd with Blood.
3 Thus Lydia fanctify'd her Houfe,
When the receiv'd the Word;
Thus the believing Jailor gave
His Houfhold to the LORD.

4 Thus leter Saints, Eternal King!
Thine ancient Truths embrace!

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