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Divine hymns.
[I.] The Song of the Pardoned.
Luke VII. 4.7.
THE Sin of my First Father is
Mine, the Just Law doth say,
The Sin of a Vile Nature, This
Doth unto me Convey.
Mine, the Just Law doth say,
The Sin of a Vile Nature, This
Doth unto me Convey.
Innumerable Sins I do
Hence madly Perpetrate;
Sins, which the Good I Have and Know;
Doth sadly aggravate.
Hence madly Perpetrate;
Sins, which the Good I Have and Know;
Doth sadly aggravate.
But, O my Precious CHRIST, I see,
THOU art my Surety made:
A Full Obedience was by Thee
To Thy Great Father Paid.
THOU art my Surety made:
A Full Obedience was by Thee
To Thy Great Father Paid.
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Thy Vast Obedience is by Him
Now freely Reckon'd mine;
And me doth unto Life Redeem
That Righteousness of Thine.
Now freely Reckon'd mine;
And me doth unto Life Redeem
That Righteousness of Thine.
O may I Love that Glorious One:
Lord, Thou deserv'st my Love;
Such Things Thy Love hath for me done,
Things all my Thoughts above!
Lord, Thou deserv'st my Love;
Such Things Thy Love hath for me done,
Things all my Thoughts above!
My God, I Love Thee; And I Grieve
That I Love Thee no more:
I Love Thee, and that I may Live
Thy Praises, I Implore.
That I Love Thee no more:
I Love Thee, and that I may Live
Thy Praises, I Implore.
[II.] Good Inferences.
Rom. VIII. 32,33,34,39.
GOD, in His Love to man, don't spare
His own Beloved Son;
But gives Him up, the Curse to bear,
For mans Redemption.
His own Beloved Son;
But gives Him up, the Curse to bear,
For mans Redemption.
Since He hath now for Sinners done
That Greatest Thing, we know,
On us, He won't count any One
Too Great, for to bestow.
That Greatest Thing, we know,
On us, He won't count any One
Too Great, for to bestow.
Gods chosen who now can Arraign
Whom God hath Justify'd?
And who shall dare Those to Condemn,
For whom His Christ hath Dy'd?
Whom God hath Justify'd?
And who shall dare Those to Condemn,
For whom His Christ hath Dy'd?
Dy'd! Yea, and Rising from the Dead,
At the Right-Hand of God,
He Sits in Glorious Pow'r, to Plead
The Merits of His Blood.
At the Right-Hand of God,
He Sits in Glorious Pow'r, to Plead
The Merits of His Blood.
Us from such Love of God as This,
A Love so Free and Great,
In our Lord Jesus Christ, there is
Nothing shall Separate.
A Love so Free and Great,
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Nothing shall Separate.
[III.] The Lessons of the Gospel.
From Tit. 2,11,12,13,14.
The Gospel of Gods Glorious Grace,
Which with News of Salvation
Shines every where, Ungodliness
And Worldly Lusts, bids us to shun.
Which with News of Salvation
Shines every where, Ungodliness
And Worldly Lusts, bids us to shun.
It bids and binds us, all to take,
A Sober, Righteous, Godly Way,
And Conscience of all Duty make,
While in this present World we stay:
A Sober, Righteous, Godly Way,
And Conscience of all Duty make,
While in this present World we stay:
Hoping and Looking daily for
The Blessed Promise of this Word,
That the Great God our Savior,
Shall come in Glory: Come O Lord!
The Blessed Promise of this Word,
That the Great God our Savior,
Shall come in Glory: Come O Lord!
Even JESUS CHRIST, who freely gave
Himself to Death, for us, that we
Might through Him Redemption have
From that Worse Thing Iniquitie:
Himself to Death, for us, that we
Might through Him Redemption have
From that Worse Thing Iniquitie:
And He Himself, so Purifie
A People, His own Choice, and Rare,
Who Zealous of Good Works shall be,
And in that Zeal peculiar.
A People, His own Choice, and Rare,
Who Zealous of Good Works shall be,
And in that Zeal peculiar.
[IV.] Evening Thoughts.
Phil. I. 21.
Thy CHRIST is now my Life: I flyTo CHRIST with an Enliven'd Faith.
And now 'twill be my Gain to Dy,
To CHRIST fetch'd by a Stingless Death.
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