A mixture of each sort I am;

A hurtful snake, y a harmless lamb: z

A tardy ass, a a speedy roe; b

A lion bold, c a tim'rous doe: d

A slothful owl, e a busy ant;ƒ

A dove to mourn, g a lark to chant: h

w Isa. xl. 31. They shall mount up with wings as eagles. z Psalm xxii. 6. But I am a worm, and no man. Isa. xli. 14. Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Israel, &c.

y Psalm lviii. 4. Their poison is like the poison of a serpent; they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear.

z John xxi. 15. So when they had dined, Jesus saith to Simon Peter, Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these? He saith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He saith unto him, Feed my lambs.

a Job xi. 12. Vain man would be wise, though man be born like a wild ass's colt.

b Prov. vi. 5. Deliver thyself [my son] as a roe from the hand of the hunter.

c Prov. xxviii. 1. The righteous are bold as a lion.

d Isa. ii. 19. And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his majesty, when he ariseth to shake terribly the earth.

e Psalm cii. 6. I am like an owl of the desert.

f Prov. vi. 6. Go to the ant, thou sluggard, consider her ways, and be wise, &c.

g Isa. xxxviii. 14. Like a crane or a swallow, so did I chatter: I did mourn as a dove; mine eyes fail with looking upward: O

And with less equals to compare,

An ugly toad, i an angel fair.j

SECTION X.

THE MYSTERY OF THE SAINTS' OLD AND NEW MAN FURTHER DESCRIBED; AND THE MEANS OF THEIR SPIRITUAL LIFE.

TEMPTATIONS breed me much annoy, a

Yet divers such I count all joy. b

Ezek. vii. 16. But they

Lord, I am oppressed, undertake for me. that escape of them [Israel], shall escape, and shall be on the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning, every one for his iniquity.

h Song ii. 12. The time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land.

i Rom. iii. 13. The poison of asps is under their lips. Job. xl. 4. Behold, I am vile, what shall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.

j Acts vi. 15. And all that sat in the council, looking stedfastly on him [Stephen], saw his face as it had been the face of an angel. 2 Cor. iii. 18. But we all with open face, beholding as in a glass, the glory of the Lord, are changed into the same image, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord.

a Heb. xii. 11. Now no chastening for the present seemeth to be joyous, but grievous, &c. 1 Pet. i. 6. Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a season (if need be) ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations.

b James i. 2. My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations.

On earth I see confusions reel, c

Yet wisdom ord'ring all things well. d

I sleep, yet have a waking ear; e
I'm blind and deaf, yet see and hear:ƒ
Dumb, yet cry, Abba, Father, plain, g
Born only once, yet born again. h

c Psalm. lxxxii. 5. They know not, neither will they understand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.

d Psalm xxix. 10. The Lord sitteth upon the flood: yea, the Lord sitteth King forever. And lxxxix. 9. Thou rulest the raging of the sea when the waves thereof arise, thou stillest them. Rom. viii. 23. And we know that all things work together for good, to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

e Song v. 2. I sleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my beloved that knocketh, saying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.

f Isa. xlii. 18, 19. Hear, ye deaf, and look, ye blind, that ye may see. Who is blind, but my servant? or deaf, as my messenger that I sent ? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the Lord's servant? And xxxv. 5. Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.

g Isa. xxxv. 6. Then shall-the tongue of the dumb sing: for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and streams in the desert. Rom. viii. 15. For ye have not received the spirit of bon

My heart's a mirror dim and bright, i
A compound strange of day and night:j
Of dung and di'monds, dross and gold; k
Of summer heat, and winter cold. I

dage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba, Father.

h John iii. 3-6. Jesus answered and said unto him, [Nicodemus], Verily, verily I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother's womb, and be born? Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh, is flesh: and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.

i Lam. v. 17. For this our heart is faint, for these things our eyes are dim. Isa. xxxii. 3. And the eyes of them that see, shall not be dim, &c.

j Zech. xiv. 7. But it shall be one day, which shall be known to the Lord, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pass, that at evening-time it shall be light.

k Mal. ii. 3. Behold, I will corrupt your seed, and spread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your solemn feasts, and one shall take you away with it. Phil. iii. 8. Yea, doubtless, and I count all things but loss, for the excellency of the knowledge of Christ Jesus my Lord; for whom I have suffered the loss of all things, and do count them but dung that I may win Christ. Isa. lxii. 3. Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God. Isa. i. 25.

Down like a stone I sink and dive, m
Yet daily upward soar and thrive. n
To heav'n I fly, to earth I tend; o
Still better grow, yet never mend. p

And I will turn my hand upon thee, and purely purge away thy dross, and take away all thy tin. Job. xxiii. 10. God knoweth the way that I take: when he hath tried me, I shall come forth as gold.

1 Psalm xxxix. 3. My heart was hot within me, while I was musing the fire burned. Luke xxiv. 32. And they said one to another, Did not our hearts burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the scriptures? Matt. xxiv. 12. And because iniquity shall abound, the love of many shall wax cold. Rev. ii. 4. Nevertheless, I have somewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.

m Psalm. xlii. 6, 7. O my God, my soul is cast down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan, and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar. Deep calleth unto deep, at the noise of thy water-spouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.

n Psalm xlii. 8, 9. Yet the Lord will command his loving kindness in the day-time, and in the night his song shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life. I will say unto God my rock, Why hast thou forgotten me? why go I mourning because of the oppression of the enemy? Ver. 11. Why art thou cast down, O my soul? and why art thou disquieted within me ? hope thou in God, for I will yet praise him, who is the health of my countenance, and my God.

o Col. iii. 1, 2. If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things