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I languifh for my Hufband's charms w.
Yet faint away when in his arms x.
My sweetest health doth fickness. prove;
When love me heals, I'm fick of love y.
I am moft merry when I'm fad z;
Moft full of forrow when I'm glad a;
Moft precious when I'm moft vile b,
And moft at home when in exile c

v Pfalm cxxxviii. ·3.. In the day when I cried, thou an fweredft me: and ftrengthenedft me with ftrength in my foul Gen. xviii. 32, 33. And he faid, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And the Lord went his way, as foon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place..

w Pfal. Ixiii. 2. My flesh longeth to fee thy power and thy glo. ry, fo as I have seen thee in the fanctuary. And xxvii. 4..Öne thing have I defred of the Lord, that will I feek after, that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the beauty of the Lord, and to enquire in his temple. Rev i 17. And when I faw him, I fell at his feet as dead and he laid his right hand upon me, faying unto me, Fear not; I am the firft and the laft.

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y Song ii. 4, 5. He brought me to the banqueting-house, and his banner over me was love. Stay me with flaggons, comfort me with apples: for I am sick of love.

Z 2 Cor. vii. fo. For godly forrow worketh repentance unto falvation, not to be repented of. Eccl. vii. 5. Sorrow is better than laughter; for by the sadness of the countenance the heart is made better..

a Prov. xiv. 13.. Even in laughter the heart is forrowful;

and the end of that mirth is heaviness..

b Job xl. 4. Behold I am vile what fhall I answer thee? I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.. Chap. xlii. 5, 6. I have heard of thee by the hearing of the ear; but now mine eyes feeth thee. Wherefore I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes. Jer. xxxi. 18, 19, 20. I have furely heard Ephy raim bemoaning himfelf thus, Thou haft chaftifed me, and I was chaftifed, as a bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thon me, and I fhall be turned; for thou art the Lord my God

My bafe and honourable birth,

Excites my mourning and my mirth d;
I'm poor, yet ftock'd with untold rent e;
Moft weak, and yet omnipotent f

Surely after that I was turned, I repented; and after that I was inftructed, I fmote upon my thigh: I was afhamed; yea, even confounded, becaufe I did bear the reproach of my youth. Is Ephraim my dear fon? is he a pleasant child? for fince I fpake against him, I do earneftly remember him ftill: therefore my bowels are troubled for him; I will surely have mercý "pon him, faith the Lord.

c Ezek. i. 1. Now it came to pafs in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the montlr, (as I was a mong the captives by the river of Chebar), that the heavens were opened, and 1 faw vilions of God. Rev. i. 9, 10.

I John, who alfo am your brother and companion in tribula tion, and in the kingdom and patience of Jefus Chrift, was in the ifle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the teftimony of Jefus Chrift. I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day, and heard behind me a great voice as of a trum. pet, &c. John xvi. 32. Behold the hour cometh, yea, is now come, that ye thall be scattered, every man to his own, and hall leave me alone: and yet I am not alone, becanfe the Father is with me.

d Ezek xvi. 3, 4 Thus faith the Lord God unto Fernfa lem, Thy birth and thy nativity is of the land of Canaan; thy father was an Amorite, and thy mother an Hittite. And as for thy nativity in the day thou waft born, thy navel was not cut, neither wast thou washed in water to fupple thee: thou walt not fakted at all, nor fwaddled at all. John i. 13. Which were born not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God.Pfalm li. 5. Behold I was fhapen in iniquity and in fin did my mother conceive me. 2 Pet. i. 3 Blaffed be the God and Father of our Lord Jefus Chrift, which according to his abundant mercy, hath begotten us again unto à lively hope, by the refurrection of Jefus Chrift from the dead. • Rev. iii. 17. Because thou fayeft, I am rich, and increaf ed with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked. I counfel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayeft be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayeft be

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On earth there's none fo great and high g,
Nor yet fo low and mean as I b;

None or fo foolish i, or fo wise k;
So often fall, fo often rife ..

I seeing him I never faw m,

Serve without fear, and yet with awe n.

clothed, and that the shame of thy nakednefs do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eye falve, that thou mayelt fee. Eph iii. 8. Unto me who am less than the least of all faints, is this grace given, that I fhould preach among the Gentiles the unfearchable riches of Christ.

John xv. 5. Without me ye can do nothing. Phil. iv. 13. I can do all things, through Chrift, which strengtheneth me. g Pfalm xvi. 3. But to the faints. that are in the earth, and to the excellent in whom is all my delight Ifa. xliii. 4. Since thou waft precious in my fight, thou hast been honourable, and I have loved thee: therefore will I give men for thee, and people for thy life.

b Eph. iii. 8. fee letter e. 1 Tim. i. 15. This is a faithful faying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Chrift Jefus came into the world to fave finners; of whom I am chief.

Pfalm Ixxiii. 22. So foolifh was I, and ignorant: I was as a beaft before thee. Prov. xxx. 2, 3., Surely I am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man. I neither learned wifdom, nor have the knowledge of the holy. ki Cor. i. 39. But of him are ye in Chrift Jefus, who of God is made unto us wifdom, &c. Matth. xi. 25, 26. At that time Jefus answered and faid, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth,, because thou haft hid these things 1 from the wife and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes. Even fo, Father, for fo it feemed good in thy fight. Chap. xiii. 11. Jefus apfwered and faid unto them, Because it is giv en unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.

/ Prov. xxiv. 16. A juft man falleth feven times, and rifeth up again.

mi Pet. i. 8. Whom having not feen, ye love; in whom tho' now ye fee him not, yet believing, ye rejoice with joy unfpeakable, and full of glory. Heb. xi. 1. Now faith is the fubitance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen.

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Though love, when perfect, fear remove 6;
Yet moft I fear when moft I love p.
All things are lawful unto me q,
Yet many things unlawful beř
To fome I perfect hatred bear s,
Yet keep the law of love entire s:
I'm bound to love my friends t, but yet
I fin unless I do them hate :

Luke i. 74. That he would grant unto us, that we being delivered out of the hands of our enemies, might ferve him without fear. Heb. xii. 28. Wherefore we receiving a king. dom which cannot be moved, let us have grace, whereby we may ferve God acceptably, with reverence and godly fear.

ot John iv. 18. There is no feat in love; but perfect love casteth out fear, because fear hath torment: he that feareth is not made perfect in love.

p Jer. xxxiii. 9. And it fhall be to me a name and joy, a praife and an honour before all the nations of the earth, which thall hear all the good that I do unto them; and they shall fear and tremble for all the goodnefs, and for all the profperis ty that I procure unto it. Hof. iii. 5. Afterwards fhall the children of Ifrael return, and seek the Lord their God, and David their king, and fhall fear the Lord, and his goodness in the latter days.

q 1 Cor. vi. 12. All things are lawful unto me, but all things are not expedient: all things are lawful for me, but I will not be brought under the power of any.

↑ Exod. xx. 1, 2, 3. &c. And God fpake all these words faying, I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the houfe of bondage. Thou fhalt have no other gods before me, &c.

/ Pfalm cxxxix. 21, 22. Do not I hate them, O Lord, that hate thee? and am not I grieved with those that rife up against thee? I hate thêm with perfect hatred: I count them

mine enemies.

s 2 Chron. xix. 2. And Jehu the fon of Hanani the feer, went out to meet him, and faid to king Jehoshaphat, Shouldst thou help the ungodly, and love them that hate the Lord? therefore is wrath upon thee from before the Lord.

Lev. xix. 18. Thou shalt not avenge, nor bear any

I am oblig'd to hate my foes o,
Yet bound to love and pray for thofe w.
Heart-love to men I'm call'd to impart,
Yet God ftill calls for all my heart x,
I do him and his fervice both

By nature love y, by nature lothe z.

SECT. V.

Myfteries about Flesh and fpirit, liberty and bondage, life and death:

UCH like my heart both falfe true a,
I have a name both old and new b.

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grudge, against the children of thy people, but thou fhalt love thy neighbour as thyfelf; I am the Lord.

u Luke xiv. 26. If any man come to me, and hate not his father and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and fifters, yea, and his own life alfo, he cannot be my difciple.

v As they are the foes of God, Judg. v. 31. So let all thine enemies perish, O Lord; but let them that love him, be as the fun when he goeth forth in his might. Pfalm xvii. 139 14. Arife, O Lord, difappoint him, caft him down: deliver my foul from the wicked, which is thy fword; from men which are thy hand, O Lord, from men of the world, which have their portion in this life, and whose belly thou filleft with thy hid treasure they are full of children, and leave the reft of their fubftance to their babes.

w Matth. v. 44. But I fay unto you, Love your enemies, blefs them that curfe you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which defpitefully use you, and perfecute you.

* Matth. xix. 19. Jefus faid unto him, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyfelf. Chap. xxii. 37. Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy foul, and with all thy mind.

John v. 2. By this we know that we love the children of God, when we love God and keep his commandaients. z Rom, viii. 7. The carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not fubject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

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