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2.1 am the Man who long have known
The Strength and Rage of Inbred Sin,
My Soul is dead, my Heart is Stone,
A Cage of Birds, and Beats unclean,
A Den of Thieves, a dire abode
Of Dragons, but no Houfe of GoD.

3. I dare not speak, I cannot fhew
The Depths of Satan harbour'd there,
The Horrors of Infernal Woe,

The black and Blafphemous Despair;
Who can conceive but Thofe that feel
Indwelling Sin, Indwelling Hell!

4. A Stranger intermedleth not
With our inexplicable Grief,
'Tis paft the Reach of Human Thought
The Torture of this Unbelief,

The strugling Groan, the Paffion load
The Heart that fays, There is no Go D.

5. But will He not at last appear,

And make His Power and Godhead known?

Surely he fhall the Mourner chear,

And make the Broken Heart His Throne,

Shall break it firft, and then bind up:

In Hope believe ye against Hope.

6. Comfort, ye Minifters of Grace,
Comfort my People, faith our GOD!
Ye foon fhall fee His fmiling Face,
His Golden Septre, not his Rod,
And own, when now the Cloud's remov'd,
He only chaften'd whom He lov'd.

7. Who fow in Tears in Joy fhall reap,
The LORD fhall comfort All that mourn,
Who now go on our Way and weep,
With Joy we doubtless shall return,
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And bring our Sheaves with vaft Increase,
And have our Fruit to Holiness.

8. Then let us patiently attend,

And wait the Leisure of our LORD, Surely we All shall in the End

Experience His Abiding Word, Shall All his Gracious Power declare, And Fruit unto Perfection bear.

My LORD and my

God.

THOM, whom fain my Soul wou'd love,
Whom I would gladly die to know,

This Veil of Unbelief remove,

And shew me, All Thy Goodness shew: JESU, Thyfelf in me reveal,

Tell me Thy Name, Thy Nature tell.

2. Haft Thou been with me, LORD, so long,
Yet Thee my LORD, have I not known?
I claim Thee with a faultring Tongue,
I pray Thee in a feeble Groan.
Tell me, O tell me who Thou art,
And speak Thy Name into my Heart.

3. If now Thou talkeft by the Way
With fuch an Abject Worm as Me,
Thy Mysteries of Grace difplay,

Open mine Eyes that I may fee, That I may understand Thy Word, And now cry out, It is the LORD!

4.

I know Him by thofe Prints of Love,
His bleeding Wounds are open wide,
Thro' Faith I handle Him, and prove,
I thrust my Hand into His Side,
I feel the sprinkling of His Blood
JESU, Thou art my LORD my GOD!

PART II.

The lii. Chapter of Ifaiah.

"No longer in Thy Sins lie down,

WAKE, Jerufalem, awake,

The Garment of Salvation take,
Thy Beauty, and Thy Strength put on."

2. By impious Feet no longer trod,..

Thy GoD fhall cleanse thy every Stain, O Holy City of thy God,

Thou shalt not bear His Name in vain,

3. Shake off the Duft that blinds thy Sight, And hides the Promife from thine Eyes, Arife, and struggle into Light,

Thy Great Deliverer calls, Arife! ;

4. Shake off, the Bands of fad Defpair,
Sion affert thy Liberty,

Look up, thy broken Heart prepare,
And GoD fhall fet the Captive free.

5. For thus the LORD your God hath faid, Ye all have fold yourfelves for Nought, A Ranfom (not by you) is paid,

Receive your Liberty unbought..

6. My People have been long oppreft,
No Glory thence redounds to me,
Long have I feen them fore diftreft,
Griev'd at my People's Mifery.

7. They

7. They groan'd beneath the Tyrant's Chain,
Sin rul'd them with an Iron Rod,
The fuffering Abjects howl'd for Pain,
They groan'd, but durft not groan to Gon.

8. Th' Oppreffors with infulting Boast,
My Truth and Saving Power contemn'd,
My Worship, and my Praise was loft,
My Name was every Day blafphem’d.

9. For This my Jealoufy is stir'd,

And shall a great Deliverance shew,
My People shall confefs their LORD,
My Faithfulnefs and Mercy know.

10. Surely they All fhall know my Name,
They all my Attributes fhall prove :
I am, what I am call'd; I am

Juftice, and Truth, and Power, and LovB.

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PART II.

Ow beautiful His Feet appear

High on the Mountain-tops, who brings

Glad Tidings of Salvation near,

Salvation from the King of Kings!

2. Whe publishes the joyful Sound,

Proclaims a Peace 'twixt Earth and Heaven, A Ranfom for the Sinner found,

GOD reconcil'd, and Man forgiven."

3. That fays to Ifrael's Mournful Race,
Awake, arife, fhake off thy Chains,
Believe the Word of Gofpel-Grace,
Thy Gop, thy great Redeemer reigns.

4. Thy Watchmen fhall the Voice lift up, Shall fing with gladsome Melody, Object of all their Joy and Hope,

When Eye to Eye their LORD they fee.

5. Him, Eye to Eye, fhall they behold, Shall fhout to fee the Saviour come, To fave a World redeem'd of old,

To bring the weary Captives home.

6. Break forth into Joy, Your Comforter fing, Ye Sinners employ Your All for your King, Rejoice ye wafte Places, Your Saviour proclaim, Bestow all your Praises, And Lives on His Name.

7. For JESUS the LORD Hath comforted Man, 'The Sinner reftor'd; Nor fuffer'd in vain, To bring us to Heaven When rais'd from our Fall, His Life he hath given A Ransom for All.

8. His Arm he hath bar'd, His Mercy and Grace
Hath Pardon prepar'd For all the Loft Race:
His Uttermoft Merit Display'd in our Sight,
We All may inherit, And claim as our Right.

49. The Gentiles fhall hear The Life-giving Call,
His Grace fhall appear, And vifit them All:
The Common Salvation To All doth belong,
To every Nation, And People, and Tongue.

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PART III.

EPART ye Ranfom'd Souls, depart, The Houfe of Bondage quit; be clean: Call'd to be Saints, be pure in Heart, Abhor the loathfome Touch of Sin.

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