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With meat and drink indeed I'm bleft;r,
Yet feed on hunger, drink on thirst s
My hunger brings a plenteous ftores,
My plenty makes me hunger more t.
Strange is the place of my abode,
I dwell at home, I dwell abroad u.

xxvi. 8. 9. Yea in the way of thy judgments, O Lord, have we waited for thee; the defire of our fouls is to thy name, and to the remembrance of thee. With my foul have I defired thee in the night, yea, with my spirit within me will I seek thee early.

↑ John vi. 55. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed.

Job xxix. 2, 3, 4. Oh that I were as months past, as in in the days when God preferved me; when his candle fhined upon my head, and when by his light I walked through darknefs as I was in the days of my youth, when the secret of God was upon my tabernacle. Pfalm lxxvii. 10, 11, 12. I will remember the years of the right hand of the Most High, I will remember the works of the Lord: furely I will remem. ber thy wonders of old. I will meditate also of all thy work, and talk of thy doings. Song v. 8. I charge you, O daughdaughters of Jerufalem, if ye find my Beloved, that ye tell him that I am fick of love. Chap. viii, 1. O that thou wert as my brother, that fucked the breasts of my mother! when I fhould find thee without, I would kifs thee, yea, I should not be defpifed.

s Matth. v. 6. Bleffed are they which do hunger and thirst after righteoufnefs, for they fhall be filled.

2 Cor. v. 2. For in this we groan earnestly, defiring to be clothed upon with our house which is from heaven. Phil. i. 23. For I am in a strait betwixt two, having a desire to depart, and to be with Christ; which is far better. &c. Song ii. 3, 4, 5. I fat down under his fhadow with great delight, and his fruit was fweet to my taste. He brought me to the banqueting-houfe, and his banner over me was love. Stay me with flaggons, comfort me with apples; for I am fick of love.

u Job iv. 19. How much less them that dwell in houses of clay, whofe foundation is in the duft, which are crushed before the moth? Pfal. xc. 1. Lord thou hast been our dwellin

I am not where all men may fee,

But where I never yet could be v.
I'm full of hell w, yet full of heav'n x;
I'm ftill upright y, yet ftill unev'n ;
Imperfect a, yet a perfect faint b;
I'm ever poor c, yet never want d.

No mortal eyes fees God and lives e,
Yet fight of him my foul revives f.

place in all generations. And xci. 1. He that dwelleth in the fecret place of the Moft High, fhall abide under the shadow of the Almighty. 1 John iv. 16. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love, dwelleth in God, and God in him.

v Ifa. xxxiii. 16. He fhall dwell on high: his place of defence fhall be the munition of rocks. Eph. ii. 6. And hath raifed us up together, and made us fit together in heavenly places in Chrift Jefus.

w Eccl. ix. 3. The heart of the fons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

* Eph. iii. 19. And to know the love of Chrift, which paffeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. y Pfalm xviii. 23. I was also upright before him: and I kept myself from mine iniquity.

Ezek. xviii. 25. Hear now, O house of Ifrael, are not your ways unequal.

a Rev. iii. 2. Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.

b 1 Cor. ii. 6. Howbeit we speak wisdom among them that are perfect, &c.

c Pfalm xl. 17. But I am poor and needy, yet the Lord thinketh upon me.

d Pfalm xxiii. The Lord is my fhepherd, I fhall not want. And xxxiv. 10. The young lions do lack, and fuffer hunger; but they that seek the Lord fhall not want any good thing. e Exod. xxxiii. 20. And he faid, Thou canst not fee my face for there fhall no man fee me, and live.

f John vi. 40. And this is the will of him that fent me, that every one which feeth the Son, and believeth on him, may

I live beft when I fee moft bright g;

Yet live by faith, and not by fight b.
I'm lib'rali, yet have nought to spare k;
Moft richly cloth'd I, yet ftript and bare m.
My ftock is rifen by my fall n;

For, having nothing, I have all o.

have everlasting lief. Chap. xx. 20. Then were the disciples glad when they faw the Lord.

g 2 Cor. iii. 18. But we all with open face beholding as in a glafs the glory of the Lord, are changed into the fame image, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. Chap. iv 6. For God who commanded the light to fhine out of darkness, bath fhined in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jefus Chrift.

b Gal. ii. 20. I am crucified with Chrift: Nevertheless I live yet not 1, but Chrift liveth in me; and the life which' I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me. 2 Cor. v. 7. For we walk by faith, not by fight.

i Pfalm xxvii. ar. The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again; but the righteous fheweth mercy, and giveth.

k Zeph. iii. 12. I will alfo leave in the midst of thee an afficted and poor people, and they shall truft in the name of the Lord.

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/ Ifa. Ixi. fo. I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my foul shall be joyful in my God, for he hath clothed me with the garments of falvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteoufnefs, as a bridegroom decketh himself with ornaments, and as a bride adorneth herfelf with her jewels.

m Ezek. xvi. 7. I have caufed thee to multiply as the bud of the field, and thou haft increafed and waxen great, and thon art come to excellent ornaments: thy breafts are fashioned and thine hair is grown, whereas thou was naked and bare. Rey, iii. 17. Because thou fayeft, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miferable, and poor, and blind, and naked.

Rom. viii. 28. And we know that all things work toge. ther for good, to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

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I'm finfulp, yet I have no fin q ;
All spotted o'er r, yet wholly clean f
Blackness and beauty both I share.
A hellish black, a heav'nly fair s.

The're of the dev'l, who fin amain t,
But I'm of God, yet fin retain u:
This traitor vile the throne affumes v,
Prevails, yet never overcomes w.
I'm without guile, an Ifra'lite x,
Yet like a guileful hypocrite y;

• 2 Cor. vi. 1o.-as having nothing, and yet poffeffing all things.

Rom. vii. 14. For we know that the law is fpiritual; but I am carnal, fold under fin. v. 24 .O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

9 Numb. xxiii. 21. He hath not beheld iniquity in Jacob, neither hath he seen perverfeness in Ifrael. 1 John iii. 9. Whosoever is born of God, doth not commit fin; for his feed remaineth in him: and he cannot fin, because he is born of God. r Pfalm xiv. 3. They are all gone afide, they are altogeth er become filthy; there is none that doth good, no not one. Song iv. 7. Thou art all fair, my love, there is no fpot in

thee.

s Song i. 5. I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerufalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon. v. 15. Behold thou art fair, my love; behold thou art fair, thou haft doves eyes.

1 John iii. 8. He that committeth fin, is of the devil; for the devil finneth from the beginning.

u John i. 8. If we fay that we have no fin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.

v Rom. vii. 23. But, I fee another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into cap. tivity to the law of fin, which is in my members.

w Pfalm lxv. 3. Iniquities prevail against me: as for our tranfgreffions, thou shalt purge them away. Rom. vi. 14. For fin fhall not have dominion over you; for ye are not under the law, but under grace.

x John i. 47. Jefus faw Nathanael coming to him, and faith

Maintaining truth in th' inward part 2,
With falfehood rooted in my heart a.
Two masters, fure, I cannot serve b,
But muft from one regardless fwerve;
Yet felf is for my mafter known c,
And Jefus is my Lord alone d.
I feek myself inceffantly e,
Yet daily do myfelf deny f.

of him, Behold an Ifraelite indeed, in whom is no guile." Pfal. xxxii. 2. Bleffed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whofe fpirit there is no guile.

y Pfalm xix. 1.2. Who can understand his errors? cleanse thou me from fecret faults.

z Pfalm li. 6. Behold thou defireft truth in the inward parts ; and in the hidden part thou shalt make me to know wisdom. a Matth. xv. 19. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, falfe-witnefs, blafphemies.

6-Matth. vi. 24. No man can ferve two masters: for either he will hate the one, and love the other; or else he will hold to the one, and despise the other. Ye cannot ferve God and

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c Hof. x. 1. Ifrael is an empty vine, he bringth forth fruit unto himself: according to the multitude of his fruit, he hath increased the altars; according to the goodness of his land, they have made goodly images.. Matth xvi. 24. Then faid Jefus unto his difciples, If any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross, and follow me.

-d Ifa. xxvi. 13. O Lord our God, other lords befides thee have had dominion over us; but by thee only will we make mention of thy name. John xx. 28. And Thomas answered and faid unto him, my Lord, and my God.

e Jam. iv. Ye afk and receive not, because ye ask amiss, that ye may confume it upon your lufts. Jer. xlv. 2, 5. Thus faith the Lord the God of Ifrael unto thee, O Baruch, And seekest thou great things for thyfelf? Seek them not; for behold, I will bring evil upon all flesh, faith the Lord: but thy life will I give unto thee for a prey, in all places whither thou goeft.

Matth. xvi. 24. See letter c.

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