O Saviour, mighty to redeem ! From the Fall restores us. 2. Th' uncommon Child what Name will fuit ? View in the Prophets mirror, Those Seers of th'ancient Inftitute: (Ourselves are to him nearer, But yet the Records of that Space We find in them, which nearest was T'Eternity ab ante.) Jaiah fpeaks a Sentence full In the ninth section of his Roll, 'Tis on this head not fcanty. 3. That Cradle-Child obferve! (fo cries Efay to each beholder) He looks as if his Dynafties He ftill had on his Shoulder: How fhall one call him? Wonderful; (What follows, fhocks man's Reason dull) A Seer, like thofe at Siloh; The Mighty God, from heav'n come down; Of Ages all the Sire well-known; And Ifrael's great Shiloh. 4. In things created there occur Certain Turns and changes: And Seafons a great diff'rence make To God's, the Inference is lame, Still who his Steps can fathom? 5. The whole Philofophy of Man, Which loves to find out Causes, (And oft within our narrow span, There's truth in the gloffes) Has yet no heav'nly intellect, To fit her, God's Things to correct, Or them precisely guess at: 6. Help me then, Holy Spirit mild! In each Bible-fection. What do the two Codes mention ? The Old; Thy Hufband bath thee made; * And in the New, the Work's por tray'd Of th' Hufband's Redemption. * Ifaiah liv. 5. 7. When I all this together count, It was my Bridegroom, I conclude, So I apprehend 'em : And in this wondrous Way of his, To be one Sp'rit with thee; In fpirit might I, led by thee, Should't thou affume the Angel-12. 'Specially where the shadows e'er fire, * We'd fain fuch angels be. • Pfalm civ. 4. 4. Grows fome man's heart so chaste and clear, That Flesh to it's a fmart? 'Fore th' Body in Thee * fled : O Jefus Chrift! hear thou my pray's, Let me be thither led! * Col. ii. 17. 13. O might I fee thee ev'ry where In ev'ry Attitude; Scarce it, that CHRIST's in Flef, Might I fee thy moft nat'ral Air, How Mind and Body ftood. 14. How would that deep Memorial, 15. When Faith's eye, O Lord Chrift, my Blifs! But takes thee in, 'tis done; Who God the Father's Mirror is, What may not there be known? 16. Whose mouth is that † fo pale and wan In thy Embrace, my God? Like a Man's Corpfe to look upon; What is't? an earthly Clod. † Gen. ii. 7. 17. It has the look, which to this day Prefents itself in all, Who on Chrift's Mouth and bolom may Turn for a feafon pale. grant,18. "Twas the first piece of Porcelain From the prepared Mass; (Ev'n when in the Lord's Joy,) And does not quick, upon the Fetch her Corpfe awfully. 9. In this bleft Heart's-Connection With Thee, where'er thou'ft trod, Since thou'st stepp'd forth from off the Throne, The fov'reign throne of God; 10. O, ftep for step, let my foul bear Thy dear Soul Company; And take her with thee ev'ry where, To thy whole Liturgy! 11. Thou, who Time and Eternity So easily can't combine! O might thefe eyes a fight obtain How fair the Maker was! 19. It now perceptibly refpires From God's Breath, life's Wind mild; My Sire begetteth, and infpires His first dear human Child. 20. Now here stands the Original, From which Men all commence i But down doth fink at once and fall Like one bereav'd of sense. 21. Him a deep Slumber steals upon; 22. From earth whatever Adam is, 23. The Man, who flipt from hu- Once unexpectedly, 'Cause he familiar walk'd in Light, My other Self! with thee; *Enoch. 24. O might he fay, (not what Paul there In the third Heaven employ'd; 25. O might he tell what he in thee Meet most familiarly; Snatch'd in thy Arms away. When he, times o'er and o'er, Receiv'd fuch Vifits from his God, And Company him bore. 28. But how with me would it have been Should I, in Abr'ham's place, That Foot within these hands have seen, Which he once washed has ? 29. And David! fay, what was that Look, + Which ravished thy heart; Which thee no moment e'er forfook, Nor did thy Eyes depart? Pfalm xvi. 8. 30. Was it like that Isaiah faw, So dazzling and fo bright, *Ifaiah vi. 31. Or what tranfports Ezekiel, 32. Was it the Form, as Abiad On Mary's Lap has lain? Whom Sweat and Blood did stain? As our most wife Bridegroom? 34. Or that High-prieft the Prophet fpies Standing before God's throne; How he there cries, and prays, weeps, As Satan's plea comes on ; Zech. iii. and 35. And how he doth the Law-fuit win, Makes his and's Folk's defence; Appears forever without fin, Array'd with innocence ? 36. But what, Lord Jefus, was 't that In Figures faw, tho' good? Luke xvii. 22. Matt. xiii. 17. Shall now no longer ftay, § 1 John iii. 2. 309; The more t'wards our Birth-place we feel, As fouls, a Longing-pain. 2. Indeed if we review and scan The Saviour's Life throughout, Which favour found with God and Man, And was in God's-felf wrought; 3. What was it other, (Lord, thou know'ft) But daily Death indeed? Comfort and Strength of th' Holy Ghoft, Checquer'd with Grief and need?" 4. From his firft Childhood, till he is Stretch'd as a manly Corse, What a large pool of tears his Eyes Sent from their tender fource! 5. Mortality, while it did laft, What Weeping did o'erfpread! From a Babe's cares about the breast, Till those of th' hoary Head. 6. None walks this Vale of Woes and night, And carries precious Seed, 9. What Blushes then the cheek inflame ? What Tears do it bedew ? And if no Peace's-Angel came, And bid us Jefus view; 10. Proving out of that Book, whereto Our hearts glad Credit give, That he Sin and its Curfe doth now Atone for, and forth drive; 11. On Sin's fcore would a tender Heart Itself to death foon weep. Faith on the Lamb and on his Smart, Doth footh this Trouble deep. 12. But when one has that Pitch attain'd, To be Immanuel's 13. Then weep they for each other's The Sinner-heart for Him; In whom that Beauty has been feen, │' Cant. vi. 7. 15. What power there the Saviour's Eye Hath on a human Heart, Who in fome Grief of Chrift not By Peter's weeping each may spy, might Pattern and Comfort read. 7. Therefore among the lift of Things Which Soul or Body grieve, So formidable Smart none brings, As that Sins to us cleave. 8. When fhews the Spirit's Difcipline The Members wantonnefs, The Soul's falfe Nature ferpentine, Which we as Men poffefs, Till he too feels the Dart. 16. So is our Make, that to Chrift's Soul 311. On all his Wounds, fo bloody bright, And its infatuation : Talie schoen leuchtet der Wunden- Yea one bruis'd Bone Stern. Of dear Jefus, can so seize us, That Earth's treasure TOW bright appeareth the Can give no more any pleasure. Wounds-ftar In Heaven's firmament from far, And round the happy Places Of the true Wound-Church here below! In at each window they shine so, On the Crofs's awful Story. 2. E'er fince the Witnefs of our God, By the Feet, Hands, and Side's wound's blood Obtain'd its radiation : And fince by this, tho' much oppos'd, The Cov'nant-records are disclos'd The fruition, and nutrition Is urg'd by the Congregation. The heav'nly Realm to enter! 津 Into those things, which we efpy, For this great Blifs Is familiar and peculiar As in earthen Tents bear treasures. * 1 Pet. i. 12. 4. The Wounds to us great joy im part, Moft pow'rfully they draw our heart; And in the Meditation 5. Thou Gate of grace now open'd wide, Thro' which burft forth that bloody Tide Which all the World baptized! Thou art the richest Treasury. The Lamb hath us from Tyranny With bloody Sums released. Eden be then Watch'd; Chrift's Kindred can't be hinder'd By the Centry:` Thro' the Wicket is their entry. 6. That, which his Church of Sin ners has, Whom his own Heart's wound nourishes, No Monarch can procure it. So cemented, that contented To think all else despicable. 7. And tho' the world no Church did know, Into which Jefu's Flock could go; Yet for his Congregation Th' adorable Heart's Cleft will be Manifefted Church existed: His own rib difclaims he never. |