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7. Whate'er I afk, I fhall receive :
I ask the Perfect Power,
That Sin no more in me may live
And it shall live no more..

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And fervently defire:
JESU, take all my Sins away,

Baptize me with Thy Fire.

9. I afk, that I may do Thy Will,
As Angels do above,

I ask Thee All my Soul to fill
With pure, Seraphick Love.

10. Whate'er I afk in Faith I have,

As fure as GOD is true:

From all my Sins Thou foon fhalt fave,
And all my Soul renew.

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11. Things moft Impoffible fhall Be, .: As fure as GoD is Power:

And 1 fhall quickly be in Thee,

And I fhall fin no more.

12. Tho' Heaven and Earth away fhall pass,

Thy Promife cannot move :

And I fhall tafte the Perfect Grace,
As fure as GoD is Love!

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Romans iv. 16, &c.

ATHER of JESUS CHRIST my LORD,
My Saviour, and my Head,

I truft in Thee, whofe powerful Word
Hath rais'd Him from the Dead.

2. Thou

2. Thou know'ft for my Offence Ile died,

And role again for Me, Fully and freely Juftified,

That I might live to Thce.

3. Eternal Life to All Mankind
Thou haft in JESUS given,

And All who feek, in Him fhall find
The Happiness of Heaven.

4. All Nations of the Earth are blest
In Him, who would restore,
And take them All into His Reft,
And bid them fin no more.

5. O GOD, Thy Record I receive, In Abraham's Footsteps tread, And wait, expecting to receive

The CHRIST, the Promis'd Seed.

6. The Word is now gone forth from Thee,

It muft, it must be done,

My JESUS fhall be form'd in me,

And I fhall have a Son.

7. Faith in Thy Power Thou feeft I have,
For Thou this Faith haft wrought,
Dead Souls Thou callest from their Grave,
And fpeakeft Worlds from Nought.

8. Things that are not as tho' they were,
Thou calleft by their Name,

Prefent with Thee the future are,
With Thee the Great I AM.

9. In Hope against all human Hope
Self-defp'rate I believe,

Thy quick'ning Word shall raise me up,
Thou shalt Thy Spirit give.

10. Accord

10. According to Thy faithful Word
It fhall to me be done,

And I fhall foon receive my LORD,
And I fhall have a Son.

11. Regardless now of Flesh and Blood,
Of my forlorn Eftate,

I own my Soul is dead to Gov,
Yet for the Word I wait.

12. I count not now the tedious Years
I have been dead in Sin,

But calmly wait till CHRIST appears,
Till JESUS lives within.

13. The Thing furpaffes all my Thought,
But faithful is my LORD,

Thro' Unbelief I stagger not,

For God hath spoke the Word.

14. Faith, mighty Faith the Promife fees,

And looks to that alone,

Laughs at Impoffibilities,

And cries, It shall be done.

15. To Thee the Glory of Thy Power,
And Faithfulness I give,

I fhall in CHRIST, at that glad Hour,
And CHRIST in me shall live.

16. Before Thee I my Heart perfuade,
I know that Thou art true,

Fully affur'd what Thou haft faid,
Thou able art to do.

17. Thy Truth, and Power, and Love I plead,

On This I reft fecure,

To all of Faithful Abraham's Seed

The gracious Word is fure.

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18. Thy Son Thou haft on All bestow'd,
That all who Him receive

Might die to Sin, and live to Gou,
To GOD alone might live.

19. I, even I believe in Him,
Him with my Mouth confefs,
And Faith I know in Thy Efteem
Is counted Righteousness.

20. Obedient Faith that waits on Thee
Thou never wilt reprove,
But Thou wilt form Thy Son in me,
And perfect me in Love.

1.

Fight the Good Fight of Faith.

JE Enlifted under Thy Command,

Esu, my King, to Thee I bow,

Captain of my Salvation Thou

Shalt lead me to the Promis'd Land.

2. Thou haft a Great Deliverance wrought,
The Staff from off my Shoulder broke,
Out of the House of Bondage brought,
And freed me from the Egyptian Yoke.

3. Thy outftretch'd Arm was bar'd for me,
For me by Earth and Hell purfu'd,
Thy outftrech'd Arm thro' the Red-Sea
Brought, and baptiz'd me in Thy Blood.

4. O'er the vast howling Wilderness
To Canaan's Bounds Thou haft me led,
Thou bidft me now the Land poffefs,
And on Thy Milk and Honey feed.

5. I fee

5. I fee an open Door of Hope,
(Legions of Sins in vain oppofe)
Bold I with Thee, my Head, march up,
And triumph o'er a World of Foes.

6. Gigantick Foes come forth to fight,.
I mark, difdain, and all fubdue,
I'tread them down in JESU's Might,
Thro' JESUS I can all Things do.

7. Lo! the tall Sons of Anak rife!

Who can the Sons of Anak meet? Captain, to Thee I lift mine Eyes,

And lo! they fall beneath my Feet.

8. Paffion, and Appetite, and Pride,
(Pride, my old, dreadful, Tyrant-Foe)
I fee caft down on every Side,

And conquering I to conquer go.

9. My LORD, in my Behalf appears:
Captain, Thy Strength-infpiring Eye-
Scatters my Doubts, difpels my Fears,
And makes the Hoft of Aliens fly.

10. Who can before my Captain stand ?
Who is fo great a King as Mine?
High over All is Thy Right-Hand,
And Might, and Majefty are Thine.

11. JESU, my Soul takes hold on Thee,
I arm me with Thy Spirit's Might,
Humbly affur'd of Victory,

I underneath Thy Banner fight.

12. Thy Spirit lifts the Standard up,
When as a Flood the Foe pours in,
I fee the Crofs, hold faft my Hope,
Believe, and more than conquer Sin.

13. With

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