6. We fuffer them for Sin to plead,
Still they promote the Devil's Caufe,
Deny that Thou for All haft bled,
And ftain the Glory of Thy Crofs.

7. Before Thy People's Face they caft
The Stumbling-block of Creature-love,
"The Power of Sin muft always last,
"The Power Thou never Canft remove."

8. They fpeak; and we to Ill inclin'd
Have gladly drank the Poifon in,
And gratified the Carnal Mind,
The Idol of Indwelling Sin.

9. But let us plead for Sin no more,
But let the Stumbling-block depart,
Our vile Idolatries be o'er,

Thine, only Thine be All our Heart、

10. LORD, we renounce who'er oppose, And fight against Thy Saving Power; Confume not us among Thy Foes,

Nor let Thy two-edg'd Sword devour.

11. O let us of Thy Strength take hold,
Thy utmoft Promifes embrace,
The Finisher of Faith behold,

The GoD of All-victorious Grace,

12. To Him, that conquers in Thy Might,
Thou wilt the Hidden Manna give,
Thou haft obtain'd it as Thy Right,

And He fhall Thy Deserts receive.

13. Thou, LORD, wilt give him a White Stone, A new, mysterious Name impart,

To none but the Receiver known,

CHRIST IN A PURE AND SINLESS HEART.

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Unto

Unto the Angel of the Church in
Thyatira. ver. 18, 19, &c.

SON of GOD, whofe flaming Eyes
A Sin-confuming Virtue dart,

To scatter all Thy Foes, arife

And fearch, and purify our Heart.

2. Lift up Thy Feet of burnifh'd Brafs, Satan, the World, and Sin tread down, Pity a froward, faithlefs Race,

And call us yet again Thine own.

3. The Service which our Fathers paid,
The Faith Thou didst in Them approve,
Of This we now have Shipwreck made,
And loft our Hope, and left our Love.

4. The Prophets of fmooth Things we hear,
Who All Thy Promises deny,
Entrap Thy Servants in their Snare,
And catch them with a foothing Lie.

5. They teach them Things unclean to eat,
To fold their Arms, and take their Ease,
Spiritual Whoredom to commit,

Mammon and GoD at once to please.

6. Darkness they make with Light agree, And Heaven with Hell, and CHRIST with Sin, They fay, the GoD of Purity

Dwells in a Cage of Birds unclean.

7. Great Searcher of the Heart and Reins,
Whofe Eyes our inmoft Substance fee,
Who doft to All Rewards and Pains
According to their Works decree;

8. Avert

8. Avert from Us the heavy Doom
Of fuch Deniers of their LORD;
(Whofe Wrath shall to the utmost come
On All that dare corrupt His Word.)

9. On Us no other Burthen lay,

On Us, and All who have not known.
What Satan, and his Patriarchs fay,
But ftill for full Redemption groan..

10. Our Knees confirm, our Hands lift up,
Our Hearts from Things of Earth remove,,
And guide into a Patient Hope,

And Looking for Thy Perfect Love.

I. Let us hold faft the Pledge of Good, The Grace Thou haft already given, Till all our Hearts are Thine Abode,

And find in Thee their prefent Heaven.

12. O let us conquer All our Foes,
And active to the End endure,
Maintain Thy Works whoe'er oppofe;
To Working Faith the Word is fure.

13. Power over Hell, and Earth, and Sin,
The lawful Conqueror fhall receive,
An Everlasting Power brought in,

Power, without Fear, or Sin to live..

14. Power to o'erturn, fubdue, controul The Nations with an Iron Rod, Implanted in the New-born Soul

The Wisdom, and the Power of Gon..

15. Power over Sins, to hew, and flay
Them All with a Continued Stroke,
And scatter as the Potter's Clay,
As Veffels into Shivers broke.

16. Power

16. Power to maintain his Victory, The perfect Life of Faith to live, Power as the Father gave to Thee,

Thou to the Conq'ring Soul wilt give.

17. Wilt give him the Bright Morning Star,
The Morning-ftar, OCHRIST, Thou art,
And lo! We fee Thee gleam from far,
And wait Thy Rifing in our Heart!

To the Angel of the Church in Sardius. Chap. iii. ver. 1, 2, &c.

1.

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THOU, whofe Eyes run too and fro,
Thro' Earth, and Every Creature fee,
What is it which Thou doft not know?
All Things are manifest to Thee.

2. Thou haft the Spirits, Seven and One,
Thou haft the Stars in Thy Right-Hand,
And all our Works to Thee are known;
How shall we in Thy Judgment stand?

3. Thou knowft we take in vain Thy Name,
While dead in Trefpaffes we live,
Thee for our LORD we falfely claim,
While to the World our Hearts we give.

4. A powerless Form, a lifeless Sonnd,
Our Works as Vanity are light,
Wanting, alas! they all are found,
And worse than Nothing in Thy Sight.

5. O that we now might turn again,

And cherish the Laft Spark of Grace, Strengthen the Things that yet remain,

And call to Mind the Antient Days.

6. Surely

6. Surely we did Thy Faith receive,
We heard with Joy the Gofpel-Word;
O let us now, repent and live,

And watch to apprehend our LORD;

7. Stir ourselves up, renounce our Ease,
Before Thy fudden Judgments come,
And watch, and pray, and never cease,
Till Thou repeal our threat'ning Doom.

8. A Few Thou ftill haft left, who stand
And deprecate th' impending Blow,
Protectors of a Guilty Land,

And Guardian Angels here below.

9. They, by Thy Mercy reconcil'd,
For our unhappy Sardis plead,
Harmlefs, and pure, and undefil'd,
They ever in Thy Footsteps tread..

10. Before they fee the Realms of Light,
Deferving here thro' Thy Desert,
Worthy they walk with Thee in White,
In fpotless Purity of Heart.

11. Partakers of the Life Divine,

Who in the Fight of Faith o'ercome, They All fhall in Thy Image shine, Made ready for their Heavenly Home.

12. They here fhall be redeem'd from Sin,
Shall here put on their Glorious Drefs,
Fine Linnen, pure, and white, and clean,
The Saints Inherent Righteoufnefs.

13. Love, perfect Love expels all Doubt, Love makes them to the End endure,. Their Names Thou never wilt blot out, Their Life is hid, their Heart is pure. Bb 2 14. Their