And God in Chrift is all my trust, Because he's merciful and juft. 1 CONCLUSION. HERE is the Riddle, where's the man For mafters fain'd that cannot fcan, We juftly thofe in wifdom's lift Some babes in grace may mint and mar, Who not at all can read. 5 (viz David my fervant): and in my name fhall his horn be exalted. Ver. 28: My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant fhall stand faft with him. 1 Heb. 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. 1 John i. 7.-9. If we walk in the light, as God is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jefus Chrift, his Son, cleanfeth us from all fin. If we say that we have no fin, we deceive ourfelves, and the truth is not in us. If we confefs our fins, he is faithful and jult to forgive us our fins, and to cleante us from all unrighteousness. 2 John iii. 10. Jefus anfwered and faid unto Nicodemus, Art thou a master of Ifrael, and knoweft not these things? 3 Mat. xi 25. At that time Jefus aufwered and faid, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wife and prudent, and haft revealed them unto babes. Chap. xiii. 11. Jefus anfwered and faid unto his difciples, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given. 4 1 Cor. iii. 1, 2. And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Chrift. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. Heb. v. 12,-14. For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become fuch as have need of milk, and not of ftrong meat. For every one that ufeth milk, is unfkilful in the word of righ teousness: for he is a babe. But ftrong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who, by reason of ufe, have their fenfes exercifed to dif cern both good and evil. Chap. vi. 1. Therefore, leaving the principles of the doctrine of Chrift, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith towards God, &c. 1 John ii. 12, 13. I write unto you, little children, because your fins are forgiven you for his name's fake.-I write unto you, little children, becaufe ye have known the Father. 5 2 Cor. iv. 3, 4. But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are loft; in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, left the light of the glorious gospel of Chrift, who is the image of God, fhould fhine unto them, PART IV. The BELIEVER'S LODGING and INN, While on Earth: or, A POEM AND PARAPHRASE ON PSALM lxxxiv. Ver. 1. How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of bosts! Who hold'st the earth at thy unrivall'd beck, Which with sweet pow'r does joy and praise extort, } Ver. 2. My foul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord: my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God. Therefore on thee I centre my defire, Which veh'mently bursts out in ardent fire, My longing foul pants to behold again Thy temple fill'd with thy majenic train; } Ver. 3. Yea, the Sparrow bath found an boufe, and the Here dwells the fparrow of a chirping tongue, My King to rule my heart, and quell my foes, } Ver. 4. Bleffed are they that dwell in thy boufe: they will be ftill praising thee. O happy they that haunt thy house below, And to thy royal fanctuary flow; Not for itfelf, but for the glorious One, Who there inhabits his erected throne! Others pafs by, but here their dwelling is; Biefs'd with the fplendid luftre of his face, Ver. 5. Bleffed is the man whofe ftrength is in thee:- Makes faints to own him worthy of their truft. } Ver. 6. In whofe hearts are the ways of them. Wha paffing through the valley of Baca, make it a well: the rain alfo filleth the pools. Such heav'n born fouls are not to earth confin'd, Truth's high-way fills their elevated mind: Their holy path lies through a parched land, They digging wells on this Gilboa top, } Ver. 7. They go from Strength to strength, every one of them in Zion appeareth before God. Thus they, refreshed by fuperior aid, Before the Lamb's high throne adoring ftand, } Ver. 8. O Lord God of bofts, bear my prayer: give ear, O God of facob. Great God of num'rous hofts, who reigns alone The fole poffeffor of th' imperial throne; Since mental taftes of thy delicious grace So fweetly relifh in thy holy place, |