4. Back, the fcourges plowed!
Side, whence blood-ftreams flowed!
Hands and Feet and Head,
Lips, where death fo hover'd,
Now with paleness cover'd!
Cheeks depriv'd of red!
Broken eyes, rack'd arms and thighs!
On you all I gaze ashamed,
Weep whene'er ye're named.
5. O most loving Saviour,
Grant me but one Favour,
Give me leave t' abide

In thy fweet embraces,
Yea, in those torn Places

Of thy Hands and Side.
O my Love, ne'er bid me move,
Till thy Sign to all the faved
Shines, O Son of David.

6. Lord, make no long tarrying,
Haften thine appearing,

And the happy hour Of thy fecond Advent! When thou com'ft to judgment, Girt about with pow'r; Then from far in flaming Air We and all shall fee thy Pleura: * Come Lord! Hallelujah.

* Side.

And now would have his Spouse rejoice;

He loves to hear her chearful voice. 4. Let us then join th' angelick throng

In finging to our Lamb a fong: Salvation to our God and King, Whofe Death did our Salvation bring.

5. Bleffing and praise we give to thee, That thou from death haft fet us free; Thy Refurrection from the grave Shews plain, that thou haft pow'r to fave.

6. Thy Blood fhall wash our garments white,

Thy blood shall make our faces bright,

And chearfully we'll meet our Head,
We know for us his Blood was shed!

7. Astonish'd, at thy Footstool low
With humble thankful fouls we bow!
Our words can never fully tell
What in our melted hearts we feel!

+ 175.

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ING of our hearts, and of all pow'rs

Bride!

All griefs and tears now lay afide: With chearful hearts now let us fing The Refurrection of our King.

Hallelujah. 2. He, having triumph'd over Death, Now re-affumes his vital breath : The Angels wait with watchful eyes, And joy to fee their God arife. 3. Our inly-near beloved Lord Has well perform'd his promis'd Word;

moved

This motion 'fore thee be approved! To thee, O let in these bleft hours Thy Subjects, who here in thy tent Thro' thy kind care have peace regained,

They offer Gifts, they thee prefent With standards from the fiend obtained.

The Prefent which we give

Is

poor; thou dost receive

+ Ecclefia.

By

be named.

mandeth ;

He knows all that exceeding well, (Of which we now will fay but little) What there one must go thro' and feel

Where many of God's Children fettle.

And he who minds the stress Of what th'Apoftle fays, Divifions cannot be avoided, t Thinks it miraculous, When all unanimous To true and folid ground are guided. + 1 Cor. xi. 19.

3. The World, in wickednefs funk deep,

And in corruption's dungeon lying, I's rock'd and lull'd into Death's Sleep,

And hath no need of a new ‡ dying. But when the hour does ftrike, in which

The Word of Jefu's operation Turns th'Heart (as Luther us'd to teach)

And makes a thorough tranfmutation; When't breaks through all the knots,

Thro' ridge and furrow cuts; Tears up and ploughs the ground with vi'lence,

And to the quick does hit:
Then does th' old Venom fret,

own,

To take them on his Arms is willing; Yet things must here unforc'd go on, Methods won't do that are compelling.

The Foe of fouls hath ftill fome

herd's care

filence.

Of the New Earth and the new

Rom. vi. 9.

d'ring.

So one that was erroneous,

And would the right Way be directed, Finds that one part does him expofe, And by the other he's afflicted.

This fires with Zeal and fmart A Man, who knows Chrift's Heart; He must on both Sides be contending! And what muft ftrangers fay, Whom fuch a divers Way Of Jefu's Servants is offending? 8. And, Jefu! who can, that reflects, But tremble at Man's cafe fo wretch. ed,

When thinking what a fwarm of Sects Upon Truth's Bottom have been

hatched?

9.

We blefs and praise thee evermore, Thou most adorable dear Saviour! That thou unto this day and hour Haft giv'n us the clear Fountain's favour,

The genuine Meffage of free Grace; And many to thy fervice guideft, And look'ft on our Lamp with kind face,

Nor it beneath a bufhel hideft;

Nor wilt remove it hence,
But rather giv'ft a glance

To all, who with thy House are num ber'd:

Yea, doft e'en others fpur, That to the light they turn, Who hitherto in shadows flumber'd. 10. Here finks down under thy kind

care

The prefent bleffed Congregation,
And all, who with her fettled are
On th' Apoftolic Truth's foundation,
Where Jefus is the Corner-fione ;
We kifs thy feet for our Election;
And as thou art our All in one,
Thou must now bring us to Perfection
Grant alfo fpecially,
(What at this bleft time we
From our heart's ground thee are
beseeching ;)

Faith without FAITHFULNESS,
Or Piety without GRACE,

fouls,

Who ignorantly are deceived!

One muft, while one their fate con

And Worlds where human thought

can't pry, Himfelf to order and devife;

Who

Who in th Old Teftament allow'd The feer him on his Throne to view;

(The coal-touch'd mouth then to this

God,

From whom the Godhead's brightnefs beams,

Who does all things uphold and move :)

Not quite fo as he is indeed,

do :)

* Ifaiah vi.

Than in the Prophets one can read, Or any feer had leave to fpy.

kind, Children corrupt, an impious rout; A Crofs's Church collects and binds, Of finners loft and fpoil'd throughout. First, thro' the great Redemption's worth,

He Righteoufnefs restores again:
Then by his Spirit, he fends forth
True Holiness on earth to reign.
3. His holy Hoft does honour him
With deep and reverential fear;
The wisdom of all Seraphim
Knows fcarcely fit expreffions here:
While they in his high Prefence ftand.
They gladly veil both feet and face,
Tho' elfe, when charg'd with fome

command,

They're us'd to fly with boldeft pace. 4. His Prefence-chamber to conceive On Earth, his Sinners view when they Pow'r in their Temple's ftillness have, 'Fore him in fpirit stand and pray ; And when the Lamb's majestic Rays Do in their 'midit affume the throne: To this Folk fuch peculiar grace Is not unusual nor unknown. 5. Mofes, how choice a Man of God! Hath in his times that Splendor feen, As at a meafur'd diftance fhew'd; He faw it, with much space between: It was the Glory of the LORD! And to inure mankind thereto, This was the whole that period fhar'd, Veil'd o'er with darkness it to view, 6. We fee him, (who, as him beseems,

On the Right hand doth fit above:

and known,

Referv'd is for us there at Home,
Eternally continues our's,
We find it when to him we come ;
Altho' it does not yet appear,
The whole he'll give us to poffefs;
Then fhall be feen, a Christian here
(In his poor life) what Man he was!
9. And could indeed the sinner train
But fully utter to men's ears,
What of the Lamb to them hath been
Reveal'd ev'n in thefe Pilgrim years;
And how that Head fo inly near,
Knows oft to make his glory fhine:
No credit the Account would share,
They're things too great, and too
divine.

10. But unto us they truth fhall prove,

Ev'n when before his glorious throne.
We, with the perfect Church above,
To God's and Man's beloved Son,
On the great day of Jubilee,
(As Mofes formerly did fing,
His People O how much loves he? *)
Shall of Lamb's fong + the echo bring.

Deut. xxxiii. 3. + Rev. xv. 3. Iiz

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