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God is a Spirit, seems it odd
To fing aloud the blood of God x.
Yea, hence my peace and joy refult,
And here my lafting hope is built y.
Love through his blood a vent has fought,
Yet divine love was never bought :
Mercy could never purchas'd be,
Yet ev'ry mercy purchas'd he z.

His triple station brought my peace,
The Altar, Prieft, and Sacrifice a;

w Rom. v. 20, 21. But where fin abounded, grace did much more abound: that as fin hath reigned unto death, even fo might grace reign through righteousness unto eternal life, by Jefus Chrift our Lord. Pfal. lxxxv. to. Mercy and truth are met together: righteoufnefs and peace have kiffed each other.

x John iv. 24. God is a Spirit, and they that worship him, must worship him in spirit and in truth. Acts xx. 28. Feed the church of God, which he hath purchased with his own blood.

Rom. v. 1. Therefore being justified by faith, we have peace with God, through our Lord Jefus Christ. V. 10 For if when we were enemies, we were reconciled to God by the death of his Son; much more being reconciled, we shall be faved by his life. Pet. iii. 15. Be ready always to give an answer to every man that afketh you a reason of the hope that is in you, with meeknefs and fear. 18. For Chrift hath alfo once offered for fins, the just for the unjust, (that he might bring us to God), being put to death in the flesh, but quickened by the Spirit.

z Rom. v. 9. Much more than being now juftified by his blood, we shall be faved from wrath through him. v. 21. See letter w. John iii. 16. God fo loved the world, that he' gave his only begotten Son, that whofoever believeth in him, fhould not perish, but have everlasting life. Rom. ix. 15. God faith to Mofes, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compaffion on whom I will have compaffion. Eph. i. 3. Bleffed be the God and Father of our Lord Jefus Chrift, who hath bleffed us with all fpiritual bleflings in heav enly places in Chrift.

a Heb. xiii. 10. We have an altar whereof they have no

His triple office ev'ry thing,
My Prieft, my Prophet is, and King b.
This King, who only nran became,

Is both the Lion and the Lamb c:
A King of kings, and kingdoms broad d;
A fervant both to man and God e.

right to eat, which ferve the tabernacle. And ii. 17. Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren; that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest, in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the fins of the people. And ix. 26. But now once in the end of the world, hath Chrift appeared to put away fin by the facrifice of himfelf.

b Acts vii. 37. This is that Mofes which faid unto the chif dren of Ifrael, A prophet shall the Lord your God raise up unto you of your brethren, like unto me; him shall ye hear. Ifa. xxxiii. 22. The Lord is our judge, the Lord is our lawgiver, the Lord is our King, he will fave us.

1 Tim. iii. 16. And without controverfy, great is the mystery of godlinefs: God was manifeft in the ftefh, &c. Rev. V. 5, 6. And one of the elders faid unto me [John,] Weep not: behold the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the root of David, hath prevailed to open the book, and to loose the feven feals thereof. And I beheld, and lo, in the midst of the throne, and of the four beafts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been flain, having feven horns, and feven eyes, which are the feven Spirits of God fent forth into all the earth. v. 2. Worthy is the Lamb that was flain, to receive power, and riches, and wifdom, and strength, and honour, and glory, and bleffing.

d Rev. xix. 16. And he [the Word of God] hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS. . xxxvii. £59 16. And Hezekiah prayed unto the Lord, faying, O Lord of hofts, God of Ifrael, that dwelleft between the cherubims, thou art the God, even thou alone, of all the kingdoms of the earth, thou haft made heaven and earth. Rev. xi. 15.

And the feventh angel founded, and there were great voices in heaven, faying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Chrift, and he shall reign for ever and ever.

This Prophet kind himself has set
To be my book and alphabet,
And ev'ry needful letter plain,
Alpha, Omega, and Amen f.

SECT. XII.

The mystery of the Believer's fixed ftate further enlarged; and his getting forth out of evil.

EHOLD, I'm all defil'd with fin a,

Bet lo, all glorious am within b.

In Egypt and in Gofhen dwell c;
Still movelefs, and in motion still d.

é Matth. xv. 28. The Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister, and to give his life a ransom for many. Phil. ii. 7. Ch.ift Jefus made himself of no reputation, and took upon him the form of a fervant, and was made in the likeness of men. Ifa. xlii. 1. Behold my fervant whom I uphold, mine elect in whom my foul delighteth. And liii. I. By his knowledge, fhall my righteous fervant juftify many.

f Rev. i. 8. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, faith the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty. v. 11. I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the laft: and, What thou [John] feest, write in a book, and send it unto the feven churches which are in Afia. And xxi. 6. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end I will give unto him that is athirst, of the fountain of the water of life freely. And xxii. 13. I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the laft. And iii. 14. And unto the angel of the church of the Laodiceans, write, Thefe things faith the Amen, the the faithful and true witness, the beginning of the creation of God, &c.

a Ifa. Ixiv. 6. But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteoufneffes are as filthy rags.

6 Pfalm xlv. 13. The King's daughter is all glorious within her clothing is of wrought gold.

c Pfalm cxx. 5, 6. Wo is me that I fojourn in Melech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar. My foul hath long dwelt

Unto the name that moft I dread,
I flee with joyful wings and speed e.
My daily hope does moft depend
On him I daily moft offend f.

All things against me are combin❜d,
Yet working for my good, I find g.
I'm rich in midft of poverties h,

And happy in my miseries i.

with him that hateth peace. And xvi. 5, 6. The Lord is the portion of mine inheritance, and of my cup: thou maintaineft my lot. The lines are fallen unto me in pleasant places : yea, I have a goodly heritage.

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[ Cor. xv. 58. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye ftedfaft, unmoveable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, for as much as you know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord.

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e Pfalm cxliii. 2. O Lord enter not into judgment with thy fervant for in thy fight fhall no man living be justified. v. 9. Deliver me, O Lord, from mine enemies: I flee unto thee to hide me.

f Pfalm xxv. 11. For thy name's fake, O Lord, pardon mine iniquity; for it is great. Jer. xiv. 7. O Lord, though our iniquities teftify against us, do thou it for thy name's fake: for our backflidings are many; we have finned against thee.

g Gen. xlii. 36. And Jacob their father said unto them, Me have ye bereaved of my children: Jofeph is not, and Simeon is not, and ye will take Benjamin away: all these things are against me. Rom. viii. 28. And we know that all things work together for good, to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

b Rev. 28, 9. And unto the angel of the church in Smyrna, write, Thefe things faith the firft and the laft, which was dead, and is alive; I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich.)

Rom. v. 3, 4, 5. And not only fo, but we glory in tribulations alfo, knowing that tribulation worketh patience; and patience, experience; and experience, hope; and hope maketh not ashamed, because the love of God is fhed abroad in our hearts, by the Holy Ghoft which was given unto us. 2 Cor. xii. 10. Therefore I [Paul] take pleasure in infirmi.

Oft my Comforter fends me grief,
My Helper fends me no relief k.
Yet herein my advantage lies,
That help and comfort he denies 7.
As feamsters into pieces cut

The cloth they into form would put,
He cuts me down to make me up,
And empties me to fill my cup m.
I never can myself enjoy,
Till he my woful felf deftroy;
And most of all myself I am,

When most I do myself disclaim n.

ties, in reproaches, in neceffities, in perfecutions, in distresses for Chrift's fake for when I am weak, than am I ftrong.

k Lam. i. 16. For these things I weep, mine eye, mine eye runneth down with water, because the comforter, that fhould relieve my foul, is far from me. Ifa. xlv. 15. Verily thou art a God that hidest thyself, O God of Ifrael the Saviour.

Ifa. xxx. 18. And therefore will the Lord wait, that he may be gracious unto you, and therefore will he be exalted, that he may have mercy upon you; for the Lord is a God of judgment; bleffed are all they that wait for him.

Come and let us reand he will heal us: After two days will us up, and we hall

m Hof. v. 15. I will go and return unto my place, till they acknowledge their offence, and feek my face: in their affliction they will feek me early. And vi. 1, 2. turn unto the Lord: for he hath torn, be hath smitten, and he will bind us. he revive us, in the third day he will raife live in his fight. Pfalm cvii. 9. God fatisfieth the longing foul, and filleth the hungry foul with goodnefs. Luke i. 53. And Mary faid, He hath filled the hungry with good things, and the rich he hath fent empty away.

» Luke ix. 29, 24. And Jefus faid to them all, if any man will come after me, let him deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow me. For whofoever will fave his life, fhall lofe it but whofoever will lofe his life for my fake, the fame hall fave it. Rom. viii. 13. If ye live after the flesh, ye shall

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