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'Twixt the Serpent's Seed and me
Prevalently interpofe,
Break the fatal Amity,

Make us everlasting Foes.

2. Sin hath poifon'd All my Soul,
Sin the Serpent's Curfed Seed:
No one Part in me is whole;
Yet will I the Promife plead,
Promise of All-faving Grace,
Promife of an Inward Power,
Able to redeem the Race,
Me, and all Men to restore.

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3. Breath the Breath of Simple Life,
Oh! be Abel born in me
Previous to the Legal Strife,.
Innocent Simplicity:
Give me Childishnefs t'oppofe

To the Subtle Serpent's Art;
Childifhnefs no Evil knows,

Give me, LORD, a Simple Heart.

4. Or if Pride hath This deftroy'd
Turn'd into Self-Righteoufnefs,
Let the Law fupply the Void,
Seth (a) fucceed in Abel's Place.
Deeply root Thy Law within
Parent of the Wretched Man: (b)
Check my Forwardness to Sin,
Forcibly by Fear reftrain.

5. Bind in me the Strong-Man bind
With the Fetters of the Law,
Curb, and thwart the Carnal Mind,
Keep the Man of Sin in Awe,

Enemy to all that's Good,

Never will He quite give place;

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(a) A Pofitive Law. (b) Enos. i. e. Miferable.

He can only be fubdu'd,
By the Sense of Pard'ning Grace.

6. Tell me, JESUS died for Me,
Shew fome Token of His Love;
Love and Sin can ne'er agree,

Love fhall ftill the ftronger prove
Love in the First Measure give,
Sin fhall then no longer fway,
Flesh may for a Season strive,
I the Spirit fhall obey.

7. Patiently I then shall wait

For the Woman's Nobleft Seed,
JESUS CHRIST the MIGHTY HATE,
Bruifer of the Serpent's Head;

O reveal Thy Son in me,

Bring the Perfect Nature in,

Now destroy the Enmity,

Now confume the Man of Sin.

8. Adam, Flesh, and Self, and Pride, Antichrift, Perdition's Son,

Let him not in me abide,

Caft him out, and reign alone; Slay the Dragon in the Sea,

Make my Soul Thy pure Abode, Fill'd with all the Deity,

Swallow'd up, and loft in Gov.

Moriar ut Te videam!

Let me die that I may fee Thee!

"Thou, who know'it what is in Man, Who fearcheft out the Reins and Heart,

Me, JESU, to Myfelf explain,

A Ray of Heavenly Light impart ;

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Impart Thyfelf, Thou Real Light,
And manifeft my Nature's Night.

2. Cause me, O Gop, Myfelf to know,
The Depth of Wickednels within,
Shew me, my inmoft Subftance fhew,
Th' exceeding Sinfulnefs of Sin:
Such Power belongs to Thee alone;
Shew me, that Sin and I are One.

3. Senfelefs alike of Sin and Thee,
My unawaken'd Soul remains,
Faft bound in Sin, and Mifery

I flumber on, nor feel my Chains,
Nor tafte nor fee how Good Thou art,
For ftill the Veil is on my Heart.

4. Oh! might my Heart at least relent,
And feel the Guilty Mountain Load.
Oh! that Thy powerful Word might rent
The Veil, and let me into God;
The Glories of Thy Face difplay,
The Brightness of Eternal Day!

-in Sin:

5. I know the Terms: I cannot fee
Thy blissful Face, and live
A Flaming Sword preferves the Tree
Of Life, leaft Self should enter in ;
It keeps out Self, and every Way
It turns, the Man of Sin to flay. -

6. Be it according to Thy Word,
Ready to meet my Doom I am.
Oh! let me rufh upon that Sword,
And feel the Sin confuming Flame;
Live only, CHRIST in me, not I;
O let me fee 1 hy Face and die!

7. Die All of Self to live no more, Die the Old Man no more to rife;

Me to Thine Image here restore,
Receive me to Thy Paradice,
(Whence I may never more remove)
The Paradice of Perfect Love.

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A Paffion-Hymn.

E that pafs by, behold the Man!
The Man of Griefs condemn'd for You!
The Lamb of GOD for Sinners flain
Weeping to Calvary purfue."

2. See how His Back the Scourges tear,
While to the bloody Pillar bound!
The Ploughers make long Furrows there,
Till all His Body is one Wound.

3. The Abjects fpit upon That Face
Which Prophets wifh'd in vain to fee,
On which the Angels lov'd to gaze,
Pleas'd with His Milder Majefty.

4. Ador'd by Angels, mock'd by Men,
Speechlefs the Form of Guilt He wears,
Revil'd He anfwers not again,

But meekly all their Infults bears.

5. Nor can He thus their Hate affwage,
His Innocence to Death purfu'd,”
Muft fully glue their utmoft Rage
Hark how they clamour for His Blood!

6. To us our own Barabbas give,
Away with Him (they loudly cry)
Away with Him, not fit to live,
The vile Seducer crucify.

7. Against

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7. Against his GOD the Creature calls:
Accus'd and fentenc'd by the Breath
Himself infpir'd, their Maker falls;

The LORD of Life is doom'd to Death.

8. His facred Limbs they ftretch, they tear,
With Nails they faften to the Wood
His facred Limbs-expos'd, and bare,
Or only cover'd with his Blood.

9. See there! His Temples crown'd with Thorns!
His bleeding Hands extended wide,
His ftreaming Feet, transfixt and torn!
The Fountain gufhing from His Side!

10. Where is the King of Glory now!
The Everlasting Son of God!
Th' Immortal hangs His languid Brow,
Th' Almighty faints beneath His Load!

11. Beneath my Load He faints, and dies:
I fill'd His Soul with Pangs unknown;
I caus'd thofe Mortal Groans, and Cries,
I kill'd the Father's Only Son.

12. Oh! Thou dear fuffering Son of God,
How doth Thy Heart to Sinners move'!
Help me to catch Thy precious Blood,
Help me to tafte Thy Dying Love.

13. Give me to feel Thy Agonies,
One Drop of Thy fad Cup afford:
I fain with Thee wou'd fimpathife,
And Thare the Sufferings of my LORD.

14. The Earth could to her Centre quake,
Convuls'd, while her Creator died;

O let my inmoft Nature fhake,
And bow with JESUS Crucified.

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