From the high mount of truth and majesty
Those (k) cedar beams were all divinely brought;
From deep (1) recesses of impervious shade

Inscrutable by finite intellect—

From heights, from depths, of love that passes thought.
Plant of renown! (m) Eternal Word! in thee
The mighty fabric was (n) develop'd here,
In thee alone had full (o) accomplishment.
Our glorious edifice of joy and rest,

No

props, (p) no pillars, no foundation hath, But thine unchanging, boundless attributes— Thy power, thy wisdom, faithfulness, and loveThy proper Godhead, (q) thine almighty truth.

But rafters taken from the lowlier (r) stock
Of human weakness, poverty and grief,
Thy "fir-tree" state of deep humility,
So interweave (s) with that essential strength
And self-existing dignity of thine-

So blends with God, the Man of Nazareth-
So dwells in Jesus, God unlimited-

That, as they gaze upon the structure fair
And indestructible, with glad surprise,
Adoring (t) seraphs veil their dazzled sight;

(k) Ezek. xvii. 22, 24.

(m) Ezek. xxxiv. 29; Jer. xxxiii. (n) Isa. xxviii. 16; 1 Cor. iii. 11. (p) Col. ii. 3, 9, 10.

Heb. ii. 10, 14, 17, 18.

(1) Rom. xi. 33.
15, 16.

(0) 2 Cor. i. 20; Col. i. 16, 17. (9) Col. ii. 3, 9, 10.

Phil. ii. 6, 7.

2 Cor. v. 18-21; Rom. ix. 5;
Eph. iii. 10, 11; 1 Pet. i. 12 (last clause).

While Zion's (u) mourners groan with strong desire To be themselves where now their (x) treasure is, In mansions everlasting, (y) perfect, safe,

(z) Hidden in Christ, to be (a) revealed with Him!

(u) 2 Cor. v. 2, 4.
(y) 1 Pet. i. 4.
(a) 1 Pet. i. 13.

(x) Matt. vi. 19, 21. (z) Col. i. 3.

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MEDITATIONS

ON

CHAPTER II.

"THE testimony of Jesus is the spirit of prophecy."

REV. xix. 10.

Thy testimonies are wonderful: therefore doth my soul keep them."-PSALM cxix. 129.

"The Spirit and the bride say, Come. And let him that heareth say, Come."-REV. xxii. 17.

MEDITATIONS.

CHAPTER II.

VER. 1.-"I am the Rose of Sharon, and the Lily of the valleys."

YES! there are roses on this guilty earth!
God in his rough wind stays the rougher East, (a)
And lets them cheer this land of banishment,
Bright, beautiful, and fragrant as they are;
Relics of Paradise!-Types, too, no doubt,
How in our moral desert still remain
Some sweet alleviations, (b) Eden buds
Graciously rescued, when terrific blast
Fell on its bowers of holy happiness,
And made to germinate in ruder earth,—
Sons of affliction bending under toil,
Daughters of anguish fainting on your way,
Thorny and difficult, and full of woe-
Yea, almost tempted in some painful hour,
Impatient of home-distance, to lie down
"Beneath the junipers," and wish to die; (c)

(a) Isa. xxvii. 8.

(b) Prov. xvii. 6, 17; xix. 14. (c) 1 Kings xix. 4.