fon fhall live, and in thy feed,
That fall of Ifaac fpring,
All nations fhall be bleft indeed;
And death fhall lofe its fling.
Juft in the laft diftreffing hour,
When quite we feem undone,
The Lord difplays deliv'ring pow'r
And makes his mercy known.
The mount of danger is the place
Where God in pomp appears,
To fhew us his furprising grace,
And diffipate our fears.

SONG VII.

The Propbetical Song of Moses, fetting forth GOD'S Mercy and Vengeance. Deut. xxii. 1,-43.

SECT. I.

GOD and ISRAEL characterized.

Ver. LOFTY heav'ns! give ear, I'll speak;
O ftupid earth! attend;

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To the inftructions of my mouth

An ear devoutly lend.

My doctrine down like rain fhall drop,

My fpeech diftil like dew;

As fmall rain chears the tender herb

And fhow'rs the grafs renew.

Becaufe aloud I publifh will
Jehovah's name abroad,
Afcribe ye glory to the Lord,

And greatnefs to our God.

4 The Rock whofe work moft perfect is,
His ways all judgment be!

A God of truth, and without fin,
Both juft and right is he.

5 But they have ftain'd themfelves, their spot
Is not the fpot of fons ;

For they a crooked nation are,

A race of perverse ones.

Ver. O! do you thus requite the Lord,

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Unwife and foolifh ye?

Is not the Lord thy Father kind,

That bought, made, fettled thee?

SECT. II.

The great Things GoD bad done for ISRAEL.

7 Mind days of old, mark what the years
From age to age befel:

Thy father afk, he will thee fhow;
Thy elders, they will tell:

8 That when the Higheft did divide
To nations all their lot,
When Adam's fons he fet apart,
To each their proper fpot,
He wifely fet the people's bounds,
Juft to the number'd race
Of Ifrael's feed, whom he defign'd
To occupy their place.
9 Becaufe Jehovah's portion is
His people, whom he found;
The lot of his inheritance
Is Jacob's feed renown'd.

10 He found him in a defart waste,
In howling defarts dry:

He led him round, him taught, him kept,
As th' apple of his eye.

II As th' eagle fond ftirs up her nest,
And flutters o'er her young,

Spreads out, and then upon her wings,
Them takes and bears along:

12 Ev'n fo the Lord along him led,
No helper elle was nigh;

As an afliftant, join'd with him,
No foreign god could vie.

13 On earth's high places, forts, and holds,
He made him ride in ftate,

That of the increase of the fields,

He might with pleasure eat.

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honey sweet, for him to fuck,
He made the rock to foil;

And made, for him, the flinty rock
Produce the finest oil.

14 Butter of kine, and milk of fheep,
Were ready thee to feed;

With fat of lambs, and goats, and rams,
That were of Bafhan's breed:

With fat of wheaten kidneys fine,
So plump and large the fhapes;
And for thy drink unmixed wine,
The pureft blood of grapes.

SECT. III.

JESHURUN'S Ingratitude and Sin.

15 But, ah! Jefhurun when poffeft
Of plenty, foon withdrew
From God; and like a pamper'd beast,
Both fat and vicious grew.
Ungrateful he forfook the God

Did make and him redeem;
The rock of his falvation, thus,
He lightly did efteem.

16 Yea, with strange gods they stirred up His jealoufy like fire:

And with abominations great
Provoked him to ire.

17 Altars to devils, not to God,
For facrifice they rear'd:

To gods unknown, new upstart gods,
Their fathers never fear'd.

18 The mighty Rock, that thee begat,
Is from thy mind remote;

Thou haft the God, that formed thee,
Ungratefully forgot.

19 When this JEHOVAH's eye beheld,
He did them flight and lothe,
For the provoking of his fons,
And of his daughtars both.

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Ver. He faid, I'll hide from them my face,
See what their end fhall be,
For they're a very froward race,
A faithlefs progeny.

21 They have me mov'd to jealousy,
With that which is no god ;

To wrath they have provoked me,
With idols vain and odd:

So them to wrath I'll move with these
That are no people now;

And, with a foolish nation, will

Provoke and vex them too.

SECT. IV.

GOD's Indignation against ISRAEL for their Sins.

22 For in my indignation hot Enkindled is a fire,

Which to the loweft hell fhall burn,

With unappeafed ire:

It fhall confume the earth, with all
The increase the diftills;

And, flaming fierce, fhall fet on fire
The bottoms of the hills.

23 Mischiefs I will upon them heap,
Mine arrows on them fpend.

24 With hunger burn, with heat devour,
With ruin fharp contend.

I'll fend on them the cruel teeth
Of beafts, with greedy guft;
The poifon likewife of the fnakes,
That lurk among the duft.

25 The fword without, and dread within
Shall youths and maids defroy;
The fucking children alfo reave,
And hoary heads annoy.

26 Thus faid I, I will fcatter them
To corners out of ken;

And make their whole remembrance cease

Among the fons of men :

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Ver. But that I fear'd their wrathful foes,
To ftrange behaviour prone,
Would proudly fay, Our hand is high,
Not JAH all this hath done.

28 For they a foolish nation are,
So void of counfel found;
No understanding is in them,
Nor knowledge to be found.

29 But, O that they were wife in heart,
That this they understood,

That they would mind their latter end,
To their eternal good!

30 For, how fhall one a thoufand chafe,
And two a thousand rout,

Had not the Lord, their rock, them fuld,
And thut up round about?

31 For their rock cannot equal ours,
Whofe pow'r fuperior known,

Our foes themfelves are, to their coft,
As judges, forc'd to own.

32 For, lo! their vines of Sodom are
And of Gomorrah's fields;

Their grapes are loathfome,
That bitter clufters yield.

are leathfome, grapes of gall,

33 Like to the dragon's poifon is
The wine which they produce,
And like the cruel gall of afps,
For killing, not for ufe.

34 And is not this laid up in ftare,
Recorded in my mind,

Seal'd up among my treafures hid,
Until the time defign'd?

35 To me belongeth vengeance juft,
And recompenfe of wrong;

Their foot fhall therefore furely flide
In feafon due ere long:

The day of their calamity
Is very near at hand;

The woful things to come on them,
Make hale at my command.