"I do't, that each may fhew
"Hence orward true Repentance:"
But you I've now appriz'd,
That ye fhall fpeedily
With Spirit's flood baptis'd,
The Lamb's Apostles be.
57. He with his family
Thus Conferences keeping,
Goes out to Bethany,

Where all fet.up a weeping.
He blefs'd his People there
With the thro'-pierced Hand,
Till up a cloud did bear

Him from where he did ftand.
58. Lo heaven-ward they fee
His paffage bleft commences;
In his own lovely way,
Not hurrying the Senfes :
Yet were fome Angels tho',
Attendants of his train;
Of whom he gave to two
A meffage now again.
59. For, as the issue so,

After a little paufe, is,
Th' Elev'n (with deepeft Awe
For him as Caufe of Causes)
Within their hearts imprefs
The Houfe's Sire and Head,
With red and watry eyes

In duft before him laid: 60. Then these two Witneffes

Give filent approbation ('Cause in it Fitness lies)

To this their Adoration:
But add, when longer they
Standing and looking were,
Ye men of Galilee!

Why ftand ye gazing here?
61. This Jefus, to th' high Place
Now from you feparated,
Has for Return in peace
A day predeftinated:
Juft as you've feen him climb,

So you'll him yet attend,
When he'll from heav'n one time
Still likehimfelf, defcend.

62 Go up with fhouts of praife!

Go up, thou Angel dearest !
High-prieft, who Sinners race
Upon thy Breaft-plate weareft
Go! we'll compute no Times,

Thou Eldest Brother-heart!
Only by thy Wounds gleams
A lock oft upwards dart.

I.

W

170.

Acts ii.

Hen Jefus Chrift the Son of
God
Now in his human perfon wou'd
Unto his Father return back,
He thus to his Difciples fpake:
2. I into glory muft afcend,
You in this city fill attend,
Nor 'ftir, till heavenly ftrength and
grace

Shall arm you for your work and race.
3.What he fo promis'd, they believ'd
And in one place together liv'd,
With love (obferve the Chriftian
mode!)

And conftant prayer unto God.
4. From Eafter fifty days being past,
When Pentecoft was now the feast,
And Jefus nine days had been gone,
A wond'rous thing unto them shone.
5. About the third hour from fun-rife,
Whilft they did pray in fervent wife,
The Holy Ghoft like mighty Wind
Amongst them his rich prefence
deign'd.

6. On ev'ry one of them he fate,
Did judgment right in them create,
And them with fpecial Gifts endue,
God's late great Acts abroad to fhew.
7. When crowds, upon their preach-
ing, cry'd,

Tell us, how we from Wrath may hide?

Our

6. Aftonifh'd each his neighbour view'd,

And argu'd, as they liftning ftood, Are thefe not Galileans? they Speak as we do in Parthia! 7. 'Tis Elamitif, one reply'd; Nay Median, they of Media cry'd; Mefopotamian, fome averr'd: Some, we have Cappadocian heard : 8. We Pontick; we th`lonic clear; Pamphylian we; we Phrygian hear. Egyptian! nay, the Lybians cry, may. 'Tis (faid the profelytes of Rome) ""Tis Cyrenean certainly.

Pure Latin; no, 'tis Cretib, fome,
Arabs affirm, 'tis Arabick.

"Tis all but folly, the Jews fpeak.

10. When one furprized turn'd him round,

A The affembly being in fome And God almighty's finger own'd,

In th' latter days (faith God) I'll blefs,, Unto God's holy Prefence

And pour my Spirit on your Race.
16. On ev'ry creature fhall it flow;
Your children, fons and daughters too,
Shall Seers and prophets then com-

Tho' I am daily dying,
My Heaven withers not.
Perhaps with eyes still dropping
I here may walk my Way,
But Jefus is me propping,

Gilds all with his Wounds ray.
11. Each Heart to him attached,
By Satan hated, fear'd,
Shall find in this world wretched
A life opprefs'd and hard;
So 'tis by Scripture's tenor!
Abufe and Infamy,
Maugre his juft Demeanor,
His daily bread shall be.
12. All this I have digested,
Yet keep my chearfulness:
On God my Care is rested,
In him I acquiefce.
To him I give my treasure,
And all I am and have :
His Love tranfcends all pleasure
Here and beyond the Grave.
13. Should Earth lose its foundation,
Tho ftand'ft my lafting Rock:
No temp'ral defolation

Shall give my love a shock:
Sword, poverty and famine
Shall not thy Love outweigh;
When Tyrants me examine,
It shall me not dismay.
14. Bright angel or dark spectre,
Applaufe, or Eafe, or Pain,
Heights, deeps, beyond conjecture,
All Incidents to Man,
Things e'er fo great or little,
Whatever elfe we prove,

They shall me not a tittle
From thy dear Heart remove.

15. My heart's within me leaping,
And cannot be down-cast:
In fun-fhine bright, 'tis keeping
Its never-ending Feast:

The Sun, which fmiling lights me,
Is Jefus Chrift alone;
And what to fing invites me,
Is Heav'n on Earth begun.

Built on the fure foundation
Laid down in holy Writ,
And Chrift himself head Corner
stone,

Who makes the Building knit :
4. In whom together built ye grow
Into an holy place,
An habitation of the Lord,
Byhis sweet spirit of grace.

But others to themfelves each one

Preferring in his Thought.
3. And look not ev'ry one of you
On his own things alone,
But on the things of others too,
To comfort ev'ry one.

t.

175.

Phil. iii. 20.

2.That your whole Spirit regenerate,
Body, and Soul, alway
May be preferv'd immaculate
Till Chrift our Saviour's Day.

179.

The first Epistle of John.

T

Hat which from the beginning was,

UR converfation is in Heav'n,This the Difciples heard ; the grace From whence we do expect They had with their own Eyes to The Lord our Saviour Chrift to come, And gather his elect.

2.And he shall change our Body vile, How vile foe'er it is,

For to be fafhion'd in a while

- A glorious one like his;

view;

And closely they look'd at it too;
2. Yea they did handle with the hand
That, wherein life's word was con-
tain'd:

Chor.

3.His mighty working pow'r to fhew, (The whole world's Maker fovereign

Whereby the Holy one

Is able all things to fubdue

Unto himself alone.

177.

Phil. iv. 6.

1.BE E careful for no worldly thing;
But ftill, in all distress,
Your Pray'rs and Supplications bring
To God with Thankfulness.

2. And then the Peace which God
imparts,

Paft all that can be known,

Affum'd a fervant's body mean.)

3. The Life was manifefted then,
It bodily by them was feen ;

And they've to us made known the
fame,

As what they durft eternal name.'
4. As that which with his Father was,
And was reveal'd before their face;
For all the things which they did
preach,

They'd feen and heard them all and
each..

5. And why did they this Fact aver? That we might be, ev'n as they were;

Shall fweetly keep your minds and Since God the Father and his Chrift

ND now the very God of 7. And this the Apoftles Doctrine was,

peace

Sanctify you throughout,

And grant that fuch a rich increase
Of grace may be pour'd out,

Which they from his own mouth did

trace:

That God was Light, and certainly
No darkness found in him could be.