5.

In every place!

Thine innocent Childhood
And meek behaviour,
Teach me to be a little Child for ever
Before thy face.

6. Thy wond'rous Obedience
And true fubjection
Unto thy Parents, melt to like af-
fection

My stubborn Heart.

7. Thy Carpenter's Labour,
Thy work and travel;
Daily preferve my Handy-work from
evil,

And blefs my Toil.

8. Thy Good-will to all Men
By thee created,
Teach me to honour all, and tender-
hearted

Behave to all.

9. Thy forty days Fafting,
Thy Self denial,
Thy being forely try'd, in ev'ry Trial
Deliver me.

I.

JES

149.

ESU, how truly hidden call'd!
Thou in thy Father's glory.
bright,

The Fullness of his pow'r and love,
Yet hid in his pure beams of light:
For who can fearch thy wond'rous
mind,

Ah! depth of Mystery divine!
Who thy sweet refidence can find,
But they who lofe their Will in thine?

2. Difpers'd the clouds of hopes and
fears,

That brood around th' unhallow'd
breast;

How clearly then thy Love appears,
And in full characters exprefs'd?`
And peacefully the Soul reclines.
Her ev'ry wand'ring thought in thee;
Still in refigning confidence
From all affaulting terrors free!
3. Thus Adam in his Eden blefs'd,
E'er curious thought had learn'd to

rove,

Felt in his heart this heav'nly reft,
And only knew that God was love.
The envy then of spirits loft,
A calm of Peace and joy ferene
Fed him with pleasantest repast,
And sweetly thrill'd thro' ev'ry vein.
4. O Jefu! give me thus to be,
Suppreffing ev'ry Wish of mine;
No other Friend to know but thee,
No other Choice to have, but thine.

Thrice happy Adam ne'er had fall'n,
But by fubmitting to defire;
Bold If, and an inferring Then,
Prefum'd, and made his God a liar.

5.

But we the Saviour's jewels are, A treafure which his blood has bought;

How is it then, that we should fear One moment's abfence from his thought?

Gg

Flames not, tho' it feems as if it Tofpare herself, by felf love moved,

shone, a

But fmokes, and is intolerable.

Thus dead is ev'ry Bone,

'Till Grace's Wind hath blown Upon them, and they from their

deadness

Awake in Jefu's Form,

And kill the bestial swarm b

Thence clad in humble plight:
True Poverty does fight,

Yet in the Arms of her Beloved, d
d Cant. 8. 6.

8. Faith's fixth ftrong pow'r ftands by her fide

Directly, and with bread and weapons,

Which round dead Adam roves in Vict'ry and booty does provide

madness.

@ Hofea 7. 6. b Gal. 5. 24. 6. Then Faith brings Righteoufnefs of Life (a)

The Warriors, fo that no want hap

pens.

This power is call'd Pray'r: it does Pant ftrongly without intermiffion (a) un-Tow'rd his Couch, who the fouls all knows;

One of his pow'rs of weight
doubted.
Nature's Remains were by the ftrife
Of moral Soberness ne'er routed ;
But opens fcarce the Child of light
His eyes in fpirit, in his measure,
But all now feems extreamly flight,
Which flesh and blood esteem'd a
Pleasure.

He will no enemy bear,
Who does as fuch appear;
And if a Foe to fly not chufes,
But by degrees would rife,
He muft crawl in Difguife, b
Elfe dafheth him the pow'r in pieces.
a 1 John 3. 6,-9. b2 Cor. 11, 3.
Eph. 4. 14.

7. Prefumption (a) is the firft falfe

friend!

He tells the Soul, whom fly he
flatters,

She's good enough, and may depend
And lean on fome praife-worthy
Matters.

But Spirit's-Poverty b does rush
Upon him, guards Sanctification,
Pride's fkull he merciless does crush;
As likewife that of fimulation,

Which, drefs'd like Poverty,
Is mean Effeminacy e

a Rev. 3. 17, 6 ch. 2. 9. Efther 2. 15. lake 5. 8. sh. 7à 6. c Rev. 21. 8.

It gives Faith's Chain its due co

hefion.

The Foe lays here a fnare,
And fain would have the Pray'r
From wonted fervency abated:
And if this don't fucceed,
He does to babbling lead,
By Chrift and us abhorr'd and hated.
a Pf. 25. 15.

9.Now the couragious lion (a)ftraight
Moves on, keeps hourly watching

constant:

Proves Laziness b an heavy weight? He throws her headlong in an inftant; c

Yet keeps out all Inquietude, d
Which fome, for want of better
knowing,

Miftake for watchful Fortitude.
He likes foft breezes gently blowing:

Is danger fear'd? he stands
And lends to Faith his hands
Omnipotence by Pray'r to vanquish ;
Should this fay, Let me go,
The Heroe won't do fo; e
For can one hold? who would re-
linquish !

a Numb. 24. 9. b Cant. 5. 3. c ibid. verfe 4, 5. da Pct. 1. 8, 9. Exod. 32.

10, II.

ertented

15. This how la fometimes critical, The ever so long sold b
1 vs lacinefs the Hands to longer
Am When sp, (a) Self-will b withall!
kealoms, forfooth, would make
Grice Stronger:

But the Aponge views Chrit in Faith,
And if his warlike trumpet, rattie,
Inen fhe keps the heroic Path;
Her noftris love the fmell of narde . d
The Fiend is feiz d with fright,
And quickly put to fight:
Attempts his weaknefs are betraying,
As he to yield don't care,
He fights and beats the air,
When there's no enemy worth Lay.
ing.f

# V4, 17, 11, 12. 2 Kings 13, 13, 19.
Numb, 20, 15, 12. Like 13. 24.

Hebr. 12. 12. d Job 39. 25. Rom. 9. 16. /* Sam. 2. 14. Mark 4. 7. Matin 25. 51 11. With Wrestling, Patience (a) joins and links,

Which waits till the King's help peareth,

And reaching offer Life, does bold,
And in a moment apprehend it.

Tho' Feh and since sometimes
Tikes courage, aut it leems
To grafo, it graips an empty viñon,
And foon gives up the tool
If it must wait a while;
It hath no frength for cere cohesion.
61 T. 6. 11. I to 8 d. Jo
sa 2. 5. Rev. 1. 3. Like 9 62-
13. Together with the taking hold,
The genuine Strengte (4) gets its ex-

idence.

Faith's Champions all of them can bold

And fafe rely on its affilance; For here 'tis but a word and blow; She cuts away without compaffion The very laft detaining Claw ap-That would presume to keep pof. feffion.

Juft as in love he proper thinks;
Till then in Fight the perfevereth:
She conquers fullen Peevishness, b
Which, if not help'd with expedition,
Is tir'd of life and fpiritlefs:
Hates too a liftiefs Refignation, c
To whom it is the fame
Whether it overcame
Or loft; for tho' 'tis not notorious
When one fhall win the day,
Yet that Fight is mad play,
Which don't at laft turn out victorious.
a James 1, 3, 4. Rom. 2. 7. b 1 Kings
19.4. Jonah 4. 3. c If. 39. 2, 8. Rev. 2.
20. chap. 3. 15.

All felf-fprung Bravery b
Is routed totally:

If it would mimick Pow'r, it faileth,
And firengthless tumbles down, c
With fcorn 'tis look'd upon;
But true Pow'r lafteth and prevail-
eth. d

a 1 Cor. 1. 18. c Math. 17. 16.

b Acts 19. 13. di John 5. 18. 14. The Pow'r lays on By Thought a curse, a

It will no Feebleness be pleading: b The Breaker c here must fhew his force,

Whose Steps we afterward proceed
in

All gulfs are fill'd, all rocks deftroy
All is pull'd down, which elevated,
Rear'd its proud head; the foe's an-
noy'd,

And all his troops are diffipated.
a Gal. I. 8, 9, b Ifa. 33. 24. che49.
31.
Micah-2. 13.
Here

Your Motto strikes the eye: The Lord's Sword here and I; His fiery Vessels each is bearing. *Judges vii. 20.

2. Soon as the heroes found th'alarm, And fpread their conqu'ring flames