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"Earth was to us a feat of war;

"In thrones of triumph how we are. "We long'd to see our Jefus dear,

"And fought him there, but find him here.
"We walk in white without annoy,
"In glorious galleries of joy;

"And crown'd with everlafting bays,
"We rival Cherubs in their praife.
"No longer we complain of wants,
"We fee the glorious King of faints,
"Amidft his joyful holts around,
"With all the divine glory crown'd.
"We fee him at his table-head
"With living water, living bread,
"His chearful guefts inceffant load
"With all the plenitude of God.
"We fee the holy flaming fires,
"Cherubic and feraphic quires;
"And gladly join with thofe on high,
"To warble praise eternally.

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Glory to God that here we came, "And glory to the glorious Lamb: "Our light, our life, our joy, our all "Is in our arms, and ever fhall.

Our Lord is ours, and we are his: "Yea, now we fee him as he is: "And hence we like unto him are, "And full his glorious image fhare. "No dakness now, no difmal night; "No vapour intercepts the lights "We fee for ever face to face "The highest Prince in highest place.

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This, this does heav'n enough afford, "We are for ever with the Lord: "We want no more, for all is giv'n; "His prefence is the heart of heav'n." While thus I laid my lift'ning ear Clofe to the door of heav'n to hear; And then the facred page did view, Which told me all I heard was true;

Yet fhew'd me that the heav'nly fong
Surpaffes ev'ry mortal tongue,
With fuch unutterable firains
As none in fett'ring flesh attains:
Then faid I, "O to mount away,
"And leave this heavy clog of clay!
"Let wings of time more hafty fly,
"That I may join the fongs on high."

GOSPEL-SONNETS.

PART VI.

The BELIEVER's PRINCIPLES.

CONCERNING,

I. CREATION and, REDEMPTION.

2. Law and GOSPEL.

3. JUSTIFICATION and SANCTIFICATION.

4. FAITH and SENSE.

5. HEAVEN and EARTH.

CHA P. I.

The BELIEVER'S PRINCIPLES concerning Creation and Redemption: or, Some of the firft Principles of the Oracles of GOD.

SECT. I.

Of CREATION.

The first chapter of Genefis compendized; or the first Seven days Work, from the following Latin lines Englished.

PRIMA dies cœlum, & terram, lucemque, creavit.
Altera diftendit fpatium, difcrimen acquarum.

Tertia fecernens undas, dat gramina terris.
Quarta creat folem & lunam, cœleftiaque aftra.
Quinta dedit pifces, eadem genus omne volantum.
Sexta tulit pecudes, hominem quoque quem Deus ipfe
Condidit; inde operis requies lux feptima fulfit.

In English tbus.

1. The first day, heav'n, earth, light, JEHOVAH fent. 2. The next, a water-fund'ring firmament.

3. The third made dry land fpring with flow'ry pride. 4. The fourth fet up bright lamps, times to divide. 5. The fifth brought fwimming fifh and flying fowl. 6. The fixth, earth's herds, and man to bear the rule. 7. The feventh brought forth no more, yet brought the best, The lab'ring creature's and Creator's reft.

Or thus.

The first day, at JEHOVAH's word,
Did heav'n, and earth, and light afford.
The next, a firmament fo wide
As might the water's courfe divide.
The third, fevering lands from feas,
Made earth produce herbs, grass, and trees.
The fourth, fun, moon, and flars of light
Set up to rule the day and night.

The fifth made fish in depths to move,
And fowls to fly in air above.

The fixth all earthly beafts did bring,
And man to be the creatures king.
The feventh, of all thefe days the beft,
Was made for God and man to reft.

Redemption-work doth bring again
The firit of thefe to be the main.

Fetching new heav'ns and earths in fight,
And immortality to light.

Since then the firft is now the beft,
Keep well this pledge of endless reft.

The Sum of CREATION.

All things from nothing, to their fov'reign Lord
Obedient rofe, at his commanding word.

Fair in his eye the whole creation flood;
He faw the building, and pronounc'd it good.

And now each work (while nature's fabric ftands)
Loud for its wife and mighty Lord demands
A rent of praife, a loud and lofty fong
From ev'ry rational beholder's tongue.

SECT. II.

of REDEMPTIÒN.

The Mystery of the Redeemer's Incarnation; or, God manifested in the fiefb, 1 Tim. iii. 16. John i. 14.

HAT though the waters, ftruck with dread,
Rife up and form a pyramid?

Though floods fhould gufh from rocks and ftones,
Or living fouls from wither'd bones?

To hear of an incarnate God,
Is yet more wonderful and odd;
Or to behold how God moft high
Could in our nature breath and die.
What though the bright angelic forms
Degraded were to crawling worms?
These creatures were but creatures ftill,
Transform'd at their Creator's will.
Though creatures change a thoufand ways,
It cannot fuch amazement raise,
Nor such a scene as this display,
Th' eternal Word a piece of clay.
God-man a ftrange contexture fix'd,
Yet not confufed nor commix'd;
Yet ftill a myft'ry great and fresh,
A Spirit infinite made flesh.

What though, when nothing heard his call,
Nothing obey'd and brought forth all?
What though he nothing's brood maintain,
Or all annihilate again?

Let nothing into being pafs,
Or back again to what it was?
But, lo! the God of beings here,
As turn'd to nothing doth appear.
All heav'n's aftonifh'd at his form,
The mighty God became a worm.

Down Arian pride to him fhould bow,
He's Jefus and JEHOVAH too.

The Sum of REDEMPTION.

With haughty mind to Godhead man aspir'd,
With loving mind our manhood God defir'd:
Man was by pride from place of pleafure chas'd,
God man by love in greater pleasure plac'd.
Man feeking to afcend procur'd our fall;
God yielding to defcend remov'd our thrall:
The Judge was caft, the guilty to acquit;
The fun defac'd to lend the fhades the light.

SECT. III.

The REDEEMER'S WORK; Or, CHRIST all in all, and our complete Redemption.

A Gofpel-Catechifm for Young Chriftians.

KIN

QUESTION.

IND teacher, may I come to learn
In this abrupt addrefs,

By framing queftions that concern,

My endless happiness?

ANSWER.

Yea, child; but if you'd learn to run
The great falvation-race,
Know that the name of Chrift alone,
Can answer ev'ry cafe.

2. By fin my God and all is loft,
O where may God be found?
A. In Chrift; for fo the Holy Ghost
Shews by the joyful found.

2. But how will God with finful me
Again be reconcil'd?

4. In Chrift, in whom his grace to thee And favour is reveal'd.

2. O how fhall I a fharer prove,
And fee his glorious grace?

A. In Chrift, the image of his love,
And brightness of his face.

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