2.1 am the Man who long have known 3. I dare not speak, I cannot fhew The black and Blafphemous Despair; 4. A Stranger intermedleth not The strugling Groan, the Paffion load 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, 7. Who fow in Tears in Joy fhall reap, And And bring our Sheaves with vaft Increase, 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, 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, 3. If now Thou talkeft by the Way 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, PART II. The lii. Chapter of Ifaiah. "No longer in Thy Sins lie down, WAKE, Jerufalem, awake, The Garment of Salvation take, 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, Look up, thy broken Heart prepare, 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, 7. They 7. They groan'd beneath the Tyrant's Chain, 8. Th' Oppreffors with infulting Boast, 9. For This my Jealoufy is stir'd, And shall a great Deliverance shew, 10. Surely they All fhall know my Name, Juftice, and Truth, and Power, and LovB. H 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, 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 49. The Gentiles fhall hear The Life-giving Call, 1. "D 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. |