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He who God's Son doth not poffefs, | 114. Yea we've in the right Person

Is wanting in fuch life no lefs.

107. These hints to all did Saint John give,

Who on God's Son's name do believe,

That they in fact Life endless have, And ever might to the i amb cleave.

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treats,

Him off from death perhaps he gets. 110. Death ipfo facto fome fins are, 'Bout fuch fort God Almighty fpare. 'Tis fin indeed, each little flip, Yet for death's rod + not straightway ripe.

t1 Cor. xi. 30. Heb. xii.

111. A child of God hath, as you know,

By right no more with fin to do, He watches therefore and keepsclear, Nor comes th' evil one to him near. 112. We know that we from God proceed;

On th' other hand 'tis found indeed, That the benighted world befide Does in th' Evil one's channel ‡ ride.

Eph. vi. 12.

113. And that the Son of God, the

Chrift,

Is truly come, we've recogniz'd :
In us that Intellect he too

Hath clear'd, which can that True one § know.

Jɔha xvij. 12.

gain'd

Our Home, and properly there ftand;
By name he Jefus Chrift is ftyl'd,
Who is our God's beloved Child.
[Conclufion.] 115. This is the God,

with whom ne'er mifs
Your Way you can; he likewife is
Th' eternal Life. Good children be;
God keep you from idolatry.

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He each will folace

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whiteft Garment,

Shall find his name in Book of
Life wrote down;

What gave, and juftifies this great
preferment,

Is, that the Lamb confefs'd him as his own :

He 'fore the Father

Rich gifts fhall gather,
Which not he, rather

The Son's Sweat earn'd.
6. Who overcometh, fhall abide a
Dweller

In our God's Temple, like the pillars there; And he will deep engrave upon fuch

7.

Pillar

The Name of God, and new fe-
rufalem dear:

Thofe Names whole meaning
He ftill attaining,
And fixt remaining,

Goes no more out.
Who overcometh, fhall fit down
hereafter

Upon Chrift's Throne, who alfo
overcame,

Who Pains endur'd, and was ex-
posed to laughter,

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4. When fwiftly carry'd in a cloud,
I faw an angel come from God;
His feet like fiery pillars fhone,
His face was brighter than the fun.
5. Between the earth and fea he stood,
View'd all the Earth, and all the
Flood :

I look'd, and thus beheld him ftand,
And saw him lift his awful hand.
6. By heav'ns almighty Sire he fware,
(That God whom Men and Angels
fear,

The First and Laft whom all adore)
That shortly Time shall be no more.
7. The Myft'ry of the Lord of hofts
Shall in Eternity be loft!

Nations fhall wail, and woes increase,
And days and months and years fhall
cease.

8. Where rivers of pure pleasure roll,

But triumphs now and has ob- Shall enter ev'ry faithful Soul;

tain'd his Aim:

While

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While guilty ghofts to hell retire,
To gloomy realms of wrath and fire.
9. Lord, ere that fearful Day be near,
My place in Paradise prepare :

Let me in perfect peace be found Before he dreadful Trumpet found.

HYMNS of the PRIMITIVE CHURCH.

I. Belonging to the Church Univerfal.

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'Mongft the Family of Faith.

He is clean, who ne'er becomes difjointed

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From the Altar and the Guides ap-They are baneful weeds, you hence

pointed.

But whoe'er fecedes from thefe, In his confcience has no peace. 3. Putting on then a divine longfuff ring,

Your own elements pursue; Faith in the Lord's holy Flesh and Off'ring,

Love in his Blood's flame, renew.

may gather,

Only Crofs's fprouts are by the Fa

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For your fake, by mild exinanition,
Into mortal Flesh and Bone:
Be ye therefore, with a zeal alternate,
Wholly God's; which will be hence
difcerned,

When no dark commotion more Can your faithful fouls make fore. 7. No minds carnal can hear Spirit's lectures,

And no fpiritual, theirs: Infidels (now walking graves, poor spectres

Hereafter) fhare not our affairs: But what ye, ev'n in concerns of body,

Do, plac'd to the Spirit's fcore already

Is, because ye do each Deed As in Jefus your new Head. 8. Ye are stones for the great Father's temple,

By the Crofs, as a machine, Rais'd aloft, (the Spirit's drawing

cable

Does around that pulley twine) Faith the guide, and Love's the path you move in ;

Ye are fellow-trav'lers, juftly loving, Juftly hon'ring your blest sect,

9.

With Chrift's mind and precepts deck'd.

Yet for other Men be interceffors!

They can ftill repent, be fav'd: Over-awe them by your Conduct's measures,

Seeing how meekly you behav'd; Pe ye modeft, at their idle vaunting; When they curfe, be for their welfare panting;

Firm, because the Truth
ye know;
Friendly, fince God's fo to you.

10. In all parts of Temperance continue :

Oft for Pray'r and Praises meet, (Your joint liturgy, as Chrift's retinue,

Rends in pieces Satan's net :)

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