8. That Mind complete of Chrift! One less and lefs is lax in't: Experience has advis'd,

Only to move the Accent; On Tasks which Faith fucceed, Th' Acute no more is plac'd, Since Faith itself's a deed,

Whose Pang makes light the reft.

9. Note therefore, that fince then,
This nobleft ethick Method,
Taught by Paul's Mafter-pen,
Has been to us bequeathed
Afresh two hundred Year;

Since Luther's heart and mouth
Kifs'd Jefu's Wounds, and there
Retriev'd the Chain of Truth.

10. Whose heart for Jefu's Loye Is chaftly turn'd, yet humbly; Is thus no lonely Dove!

A large deceas'd Affembly, And present Grace-choirs sweet, (Grace ftill doth, 'tis well known, 'Twixt Lands reciprocate,) Are with him unifon.

4. The Doctrine of the Unitas By Providence was meant, In Chriftendom's degen'rate days, That cold Lump to ferment; From Scripture Pearls to wipe the duft;

Give blood-bought Grace its Compafs juft;

In praxis, Truth from Shew to part, God's Pow'r from Ethic Art. 5. Therefore, (as in a limb be. numb'd

Returning Heat brings pain)

have,

And lukewarm Ufe would prove their

Graye

But ftop! this fenfe none can impart To any Neighbour's heart.

8. A chofen Flock muft, like the fun,

Here cherish, and there fcorch;
Diff'rently strike the Lookers-on.
Yet thofe, who trim the Torch,
And stand within the flaming Orb,
Till it them bleffedly abforb,
Can't help it, if their childlike Joy
Some eyes
far off annoy.

9. They, near the Center plac'd, and chear'd

With chamber-harmony,

In the ftill Grave of Chrift interr'd ;
Will scarce the havock fee
Which that fo fweet and needful
Blaze,

In minds averfe to Jefu's Face,

pray,

Throughout fuch Judgment-day. 10. Still they must preach Redemp. tion's theme,

And Holinefs thro' Blood,
(True foundness here lies in th' Ex-
treme)

Confefs th' incarnate God,
Their Congregation's pitch improve :
Some Hearts unto the end will love,

And the Existence of a Church
Helps thofe ev'n in the Porch.
1 Cor. ix. 16.

J. G.

F this Point fo divine, Thinking within is better, Than fpeaking e'er fo fine; My Flame is never greater,

Than

Than when I'm filent fo,

And, while the Lamb's Church dear

Falls down before him low,

A little weep with her.

2. It seems, in drier Times

As if I was more fervent;
But fince the Blood fo beams,
I give place as its Servant :
And while I now thus feel,
I gladly let it be,
And turn, amaz'd and still,

My face, dear Lamb! to Thee. 3. Should yet the Church abide

Some hundred Years and over;
She'd have in Chrift her Head
Enough ftill to discover;
"Tho' if to us were known

His dear Heart in few days,
Twould not be thought too foon
Amongst his Flock of grace.
4. For my part, things long Space
Or fhorter may continue;
If only our whole Race

To the Wounds Honour iffue. Then be Jerufalem

*

The mean time where it will, We have at Bethlehem,

Tho' poor, of Bliss our fill.
* Rev. xxi. 2.

5. I wish, we may live here,

Such happiness poffeffing, That none who comes us near, May go without fome bleffing. The Lamb his Spirit breathe,

Who himself for us gave To daily Taste of Death,

Ev'n till the Crofs and Grave!

Before the crucified Man

His heart has thro'-be-blooded; Will meet fuch knots, tho' he should be

Of but a plain capacity,

That he'll become an Atheist. 2. Hence all who unconverted are, Have been forbid with rigour, T'believe more than one God; and dare

Of this God form no Figure; Until thou first haft understood, The fame God put on Flesh and blood;

Then creature-like revere him. 3. Th' Old Teftament does well declare,

That us a Lord created,
By whom we predetermin'd are

In his Bed to be feated:
The New requires the Spirit's light;
And no heart lives, or thinks + aright,
Until known by this bi.

* Ifa. liv. 5. ↑ Matt. xi. 27. 4. But when thro' this God's pain. ful Death,

A heart new Life obtaineth; Then he a perfect freedom hath,

And nothing him restraineth,
To hear, what that great Lord and
God,

The Priest miniftring by his blood,
To let him hear is pleased.
5. He hears, a Father doth exift

Of Him who made all nature; And that when Man became that Christ,

He went in th' pow'r and nurture Of Thee, who Mother of all art, And didft breed under Mary's heart That Child, the Ages Father.

6. From that bleft moment he does

own:

I believe a troop revered,

Of

Of Spoufes wedded to the Son

Of th' Father and the Spirit;
I b'lieve, there will a Time exift,
When my Creator Jefus Chrift

Will have me foul and body.
7. Therefore fings the affembly bleft
Of Virgins undefiled,
Who've been, for fev'nteen Ages paft,
For Jefu's Marriage fealed:
Thou holy bleffed Trinity!
For our dear Lamb all praise to thee;
And glory to the Rock-hole!

8. When this GOD with five Wounds fo red,

Had call'd his own together;
His Farewell was, I go to God,
Who's mine and your dear Father.
Therefore cries out the Witness-
cloud,

Welcome among thy Flock, O God!
God! Abba of the Churches.

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the helm

6. When this bleft Flock of fouls fo weak,

Against the hoftile Squadron, (Of whom we many things could speak)

Does need a mighty Patron: Then does Jehova's Father there With his Omnipotence appear,

7. But when embracing is the cafe,

And greeting and careffing; The Son then like a load-ftone draws,

Love's pain on her impreffing, The Bride whom he for himself made, And for her endless Gain and aid

Himself join'd to her Nature. 8. And what the Sire and Spirit dear Do for the whole Seed human,

;

Is all done in our Lord's Name. Whoe'er to fpeak commiffion has, And speaks in that Man's Name and place,

The thing's as good as Amen.