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Sacred POEMS:

PART I.

The Fortieth Chapter of ISAIAH.

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NOMFORT, ye Ministers of Grace, Comfort the People of your LORD, Oh! ft ye up the Fallen Race,

And chear them by the Gofpel-Word.

2. Go, into every Nation, go!

Speak to their trembling Hearts, and cry,
Glad Tidings unto All we fhew;
Jerufalem, thy God is nigh.

3. Accomplish'd is thy Legal War,
The Mantle o'er thy Sins is fpread;
Thy GoD the Punishment hath bore,
Thy GOD the Debt hath more than paid.

4. Punish'd Thou art, for He hath dy'd,
(The Merit of His Death is Thine)
Abfolv'd, and freely Juftify'd,

And cloath'd in Righteoufnefs Divine.

5. Hark

5. Hark in the Wilderness a Cry,
A Voice that loudly calls, Prepare!
Prepare your Hearts, for God is nigh,

And means to make His Entrance there.

6. The LORD your God fhall quickly come:
Sinners repent, the Call obey;
Open your Hearts to make Him Room,
Ye Defart-Souls, prepare His Way.

7. The LORD fhall clear His Way thro' All,
Whate'er obftructs, obftructs in vain ;
The Vale fhall rife, the Mountain fall,
Crooked be strait, and Rugged plain.

8. Nature perverse and rough fhall yield,
Th' Afpiring droop, the Abject dare;
Alike by Sovereign Grace compell'd
Defpair fhall hope, and Pride despair.

9. When All into Subjection brought
Level fhall lie, and humbly low,
Who captivated every Thought,
His Glory then the LORD fhall fhew.

10. The Glory of the LORD display'd
Together All Mankind fhall view;
And what His Mouth in Truth hath said,
His own Almighty Hand shall do.

PART II.

1. Withering as Grafs is Humankind, And fleeting as the short-liv'd Flowers The Goodliness to-day we find

To-morrow fades, and is no more.

2. Man, foolish Man his Vertue shews, Which for a Moment charms our Eyes,

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The Sin-convincing Spirit blows,

Withers the Flower, and fades, and dies.

3. Die the
gay
Flower of Human Pride:
The Word of GOD fhall stand fecure;
The Word of God shall still abide,
And firm from Age to Age endure.

4. Sion afcend the Mountain-Top,
Jerufalem, the Grace proclaim;
Herald of GoD, thy Voice lift up,

And strongly fhout the SAVIOUR's Name.

5. Good Tidings fhew to Judah's Race, Publish throughout the Earth abroad Good Tidings of Redeeming Grace,

And cry to All, Behold your GOD!

6. Behold the LORD your God shall come,
And bow the World to His Command;
His out-ftretch'd Arm shall make Him Room:
Who can His out-ftretch'd Arm withstand?

7.

Lo! an exceeding great Reward,

Himself, to Humbled Souls He gives; He fills whom first He hath prepar'd, And All in All for ever lives.

8. Shepherd of Souls, His tender Care
Shall kindly for His Flock provide
The Lambs He in His Arms shall bear,
And sweetly in His Bofom hide.

9. His Sheep He fhall protect, and feed,
Bind up the Maim'd, fupport the Weak;
The Great with Young fhall gently lead,
And seek the Loft, and heal the Sick.

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PART III.

1. Nor doth His Love eclipfe His Might,
Or leffen His Majestick Powers,
Though ftooping from His Glory's Heights
Who is fo Great a GoD as Ours!

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2. He in the Hollow of His Hand
Meafur'd the vast unbounded Main
The wide-extended Heavens He span'd:
Infinity His Arms contain.

3. He meeted out the Earth, and pois'd
The Mountains, hung on Empty Space,
When all the Morning-Stars rejoic'd,
And fhouted their Creator's Praife.

4. Creation's Line His Wisdom laid,
He grafp'd the Chaos with His Fift;
Sea, Air, and Earth, and Heaven He weigh'd,
And bad th' Exact Machine confift.

5. Who with the Great Omnifcient GOD,
Angel or Man in Council join'd,

To Him the Way of Judgment fhew'd,
Or taught that All-informing Mind?

6. He high enthron'd above All Height
A Partner in His Work difdains ;
In Power and Knowledge Infinite
The Self-directed Spirit reigns.

7. See the vaft Tribes that crowd the Face
Of Earth, the Iflands fcatter'd wide;

Survey the whole of Human-Race,

Their Wealth, their Number, and their Pride!

8. Light as the Balance-Duft, and small To Him as the Minutest Grain,

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