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VII. The Body of Divinity Versifyed.

[1.]

A GOD there is, a GOD of boundless Might,
In Wisdom, Justice, Goodness Infinite.

[Heb. XI.6. Psal. CXLVII.5. CXLV.9,17.]

2.

God is but ONE, & yet in Persons Three
The Father, Son, & Spirit, One God we see.

[1 Job. V. 7.]

3.

Our God, by His Great Name JEHOVAH Known
HE the World Made, and Keeps, and Rules Alone.

[Neh. IX.6.]

4.

To Glorify the Glorious GOD, is That
For which He did all Men, & me Create.

[Isai. XLI. 21.]

5.

God a Just Rule doth in our Bible give,
A Rule, both what to Think, and how to Live.

[2 Tim. III. 15,16,17]

6.

Holy & Happy our First Parents came
From Gods Hand, with Gods Image in our Frame.

[Gen. I. 27.]

7.

Tasting Forbidden Fruit our Parents fell;
This Taste has plung'd Mankind all down to Hell.

[Rom. V. 12]

8.

Our Blest Lord JESUS CHRIST, in our Distress,

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Comes to fetch us from Hell to Blessedness.

[Luk. XIX.10.]

9.

Into His Person, the Bright Son of God
A Virgins Son took; There he makes Abode.

[Isa. VII. 14.]

10.

Life as a Priest CHRIST will His People bring,
Light as a Prophet, and Law as a King.

[Psal. CX.4. Acts III.22. Isa. XXXIII.22.]

11.

For us our Surety Liv'd, for us He Dy'd,
And Rising did to Heav'n in Triumph Ride.

[Phil. II. 7, 8, 9.]

12.

By Faith to CHRIST we for Salvation go;
Faith too, as well as That must He bestow.

[Eph. II.8.]

13.

For Sin will the renew'd Believer Mourn,
And from all Sin, hee'l by Repentance Turn.

[Acts XX.21.]

14.

Sinners receiving of Gods Pardon, they
Gods Precept will, made Saints, with Love Obey.

[Tit. II. 12,13,14.]

15.

All Homage we must yield unto the Lord;
In all Directed, by his Heavenly Word.
His Works and Names, we may not use in Vain;
Nor by our Works thereon His Days profane.
With Honours due we must our Neighbours treat;
And sweetly wish them Lives both Long and Sweet.
With Chastity we must our selves Behave;
And do no Wrong in what we get or Save.
Truth we must utter, and Abhor to Lye;
And be Content, tho' in Adversity.

[Exod. XX 3–17. Matth. XXI 1.37,38,39]

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16.

Them who to be in CHRIST thro' Grace, Consent,
God brings into His Gracious Covenant.

[Isa. LV. 3.]

17.

The Baptism of the Lord, assures that we
Both Wash'd from Sin and Rais'd from Death, shall be.

[Rom. V. 4,5.]

18.

To See the Lord, we at His Table Sitt,
And show that we shall in His Kingdom eat.

[1 Cor. XI. 26.]

19.

Gods Children His Good Promises Enjoy;
And Good comes of what Ill may them annoy.

[2 Pet. I.4; Rom. VIII.28.]

20.

His Angels he to them does Guardians make,
And these their Souls, at their Departure take.

[Heb. I.14.]

21.

To Judge the World, CHRIST will descend at Last;
A Righteous Doom shall by that Judge be past.

[Acts XVI. 31.]

22.

The Wicked shall bear bitter Pain and Shame,
With Wicked Spirits in Eternal Flame.
The Godly shall, with their Great GOD, on High,
Reap Joyes, High Joyes, to all Eternity.

[Matth. XXV. 46.]