3. "An ample Pardon here I give, And bid the fentenc'd rebel live; "Shew him my Father's fmiling Face, And lodge him in his dear embrace. 4. "I purge from fin's detefted Stain, "And make the crimson white again, "Lead to celestial Joys, refin'd "And lafting as the deathlefs mind. 5. "Sincere need I this Offer prove? "Witness myWords of melting love, "The gufhing Tears, the lab'ring "Breath "And all the Scars of bleeding "death." 6. Blefs'd Saviour, I can doubt no more; I hear, and wonder, ard adore: Panting I seek that Fountain-head, Whence waters fo divine proceed. 7. Clear Spring of Life! flow on and roll With growing Swell from pole to pole; Till flowers and fruits of Paradife Round all thy winding Current rise ! 8. Still near thy Stream may I be found, Long as I tread this earthly ground! Chear with thy Wave Death's gloomy fhade, Then thro' the Fields of Canaan spread. 581. Y foul (with all loft Adam's race) "MY Lay welt'ring in its blood; Cover'd with fhame, and deep difgrace, And banish'd far from God. 2. The loving Jefus paffing by, His Bowels yearn'd to fee Me wretch fo lamentably lie In deepest Mifery. 3. Inclined to me in tenderness, My foul he would relieve, My Heart by any means poffefs, He faid, Arife, and live. 4. He wash'd away my every stain And cleans'd me in his Blood; Deck'd me with righteoufnefs divine, And reconcil'd to God. 5. My heart no Condemnation fears, Nor hell, nor Satan dreads; Chrift at the Mercy-feat appears, His Blood my pardon pleads. 6. His Offices, his Names of grace, (Signs of eternal love) He bears for me with open Face,] While I his mercy prove. 7. Against the fierceft pow'rs of hell, He is my Sun and Shield; Within his Wounds I fafely dwell, He fights, I win the Field. 8. Making himself a Sacrifice, My Bonds and chains he broke ; Now to my willing Neck he ties His foft and eafy Yoke. 9. Arife, O happy foul, arise, Rejoice in endless blifs ; Open'd the gates of Paradife, Go in, and take thy Place. Y 4 10. Chrift 10. Christ bad my unbelief be gone ; 11. As Sin to Death did reign, opprefs And mock my useless strife; So Grace now reigns thro' Righteoufnefs Unto eternal Life. 12. No more with Lufts will I conteft, Much lefs their Captive be; Nor fhall wild Paffions break my reft, Faith is the Victory. 13. A happy Sinner I remain, But fin hath loft its Pow'r; Sin fill I have, but Grace doth reign, His wounds my Strength and Tow'r. 14. Simplicity (in joy and pains) His children's Brightness is; From the beguiling Serpent fcreens, And all his fubtilties. 15. A fimple heart (wild Reafoning's death) From fears and doubts fecures ! From Fears; Chrift dwells in me by faith: From Doubts; this Faith affures. 16. No heavy Yoke his Precepts prove, Nor tirefome load impofe; My heart now fill'd with facred Love, 1. According to my State on His Will with Pleasure does : 17. Rejoicing that my Groans were heard In his falvation's Day; Shouting that fince his Life appear'd, It henceforth can obey. 18. Lord Jefu, grant that every one Shall the decifive Sentence be; 2. But if from hence I take my flight 584. 5. True faith obeys her Author's Will, Ttend, while GOD's eternal As well as trufts his A1 Son, Doth his own glories fhew: "Behold, I fit upon my Throne, 2. "Creating all things new. "Nature and fin are paft away, "And the old Adam dies: "My Hands a new Foundation lay; "See a new World arife !" 3. Mighty Redeemer, fet me free, From my old State of sin : O make my Soul alive to thee, Create new pow`rs within. 4. Renew my Eyes, and form my Ears, And mold my Heart afresh; Give me new paffions, joys and fears, And turn the Stone to Flesh. 5. Far from the regions of the Dead, From fin, and earth and hell; In the new World thy Grace has made, May I for ever dwell! grace; A pard'ning God is jealous ftill 6. When from the Curfe he fets us free, He makes our Natures clean;. Nor would he fend his Son to be The minister of fin. 7. His Spirit purifies our Frame, BY things, Hid from all mortal eyes; Proud Reafon ftretching all its wings, Beneath me flutt'ring lies. 2. By faith I unfeen Being fee Forth lower Beings call, And fay to Nothing, Let it be! And lo! it hatches All. 3. By faith I build my lafting Hope On Righteoufnefs divine; Nor can I fink with fuch a Prop, Whatever forms combine. 4 By faith I overcome the World, And all its hurtful charms; 'I'm in the heav'nly Chariot hurl'd Thro' all oppofing harms. 5. By faith I can the Mountains vaft Of fin and guilt remove, And them into the Ocean cafl, The fea of Blood and Love. 7. By Faith, I walk, I run, I fly; By Faith I can do all. 8. By faith I hope to fee that Sun, Who Grace's light thus lent, His everlasting Circles run Mview: "MY Yet closely hid, * and known to few. Some know my Place, and whence I came ; Yet neither whence, nor where I am. * Col. iii. 3. 2. I live on Earth, (which is not odd ;) But lo! I alfo live in God. 3. I am no Capernaite rude, Tho' fed with human Flesh and But live fuperlatively fine, 1. 593. too, Sfure my Confcience of her To thy great Father's will refign'd. part In the Redeemer's Blood; And bear thy Witness with my heart, That I am born of God. 2. Thou art the Earnest of his love, The Pledge of joys to come: May thy bleft Wings, celeftial Dove, Safely convey me home. 4. Thus Penitents, who die to fin, With thee are bury'd in thy Grave; Thus quicken'd to a Life divine, Their Souls a Refurrection have. pure. |