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Their Millions into Nothing fall,
• Or fwell to be difcern'd in vain.”

9. The Nations with their GoD compare
(A Drop with the unfathom'd Sea)
They vanish All, diffolv'd in Air,
And loft in His Immensity.

10. Lighter than Vanity, and lefs

Than Nothing, He on All looks down; Nor can their Services appease

His Wrath, or mitigate His Frown.

1. Lebanon brings her Stores in vain,
Nor All her Cedars can afford,
Not all her Beafts for Sinners flain,
An Offering worthy of their LORD.

1.2. Nothing the Creature Adds to Him,
From whom their borrow'd Being flow'd,
Who Self-fufficient and Supream

Exifts, the One Eternal GOD.

PART IV.

1. Say then, Ye Worms of Earth, to whom Will Ye your glorious GoD compare! Vainly thro' all His Works ye roam,

To find JEHOVAH's Likeness there.

2. The vile Idolater belies

His Image with a Golden Shrine, To counterfeit the Godhead tries;

And Stocks and Stones become Divine.

3. Man his own Deity reveres
By Self delight, and Self-esteem,
Whate'er the Sinner hopes, or fears,
Defires, or loves, is GOD to Him..

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4. But have ye not His Being known,
And clearly seen by Nature's Light;
Have not the Antient Fathers fhewn,
And You confefs'd The Infinite!

5. The Heavens His Glorious Power proclaim, Th' Invifible on Earth is fhew'd, Nature is written with His Name,

And All Things speak their Builder GoD.

6. Creation to His Law fubmits,

His Rule He over All maintains, High on the Globe of Heaven He fits, And undisturb'd for ever reigns.

7. Th' Inhabitants of Earth from thence,
As Grafhoppers His Eye beholds;
His Hand, and Power, and Providence

The Curtain of the Heavens, unfolds.

8. "Tis He who ftretch'd them out, 'tis He
Who ftill the wide Pavilion fpreads,
That blue Etherial Canopy,

And draws it o'er His Creatures Heads.

Princes, and Kings, that dare withstand
Their uncontroul'd Creator's Sway,
Shall fink beneath His Mighty Hand,
And fall, and fade, and die away.

10. Planted awhile, or fown below,

Their Stock accurft fhall ne'er take Root; The LORD upon their Pride shall blow, Wither the Flower, and blast the Fruit.

1. Say then, ye abject Worms, to whom Will ye your Glorious GoD compare? Who fhall His Holiness prefame

To match, or who His Power shall dare?
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12. Lift up your Eyes to Things on high, Nor fix on Earth your groveling Thought, Who built yon azure vaulted Sky?

Who spoke those beauteous Orbs from Nought?

13. GOD only Wife, and Great, and Strong, Made them to run their Heavenly Race; (Knowledge, and Might to GOD belong,. Honour, and Majelty, and Praife.).

14. Their radiant Hofts He marfhals right, Their Nature, Names, and Number knows ; He bids them in their Courses fight,

And blast their Great Creator's Foes.

15. They hear; and Each His Will performs, And lo! to Man they ever call,

Lift up your Eyes, ye abject Worms,
Adore the Glorious Caufe of All!

PART V.

1. The World He made He ftill fuftains.
Why then doft Thou, O Ifrael, fay,
My GOD forgets His People's Pains,
His Jacob is a Castaway.

2. Repent Thee of thy peevish Haffe,
Recall the rash desponding Word,
No more complain, The Hour is past,
And I have wearied out my LORD.

3. Haft Thou not heard, haft Thou not known The Everlafting Go», that laid

The Earth's Foundations, rules alone,

Nor faints to bear the World He made?

4. JEHOVAH is Unchangeable,
His Ways, and Thought, are not as Ours,

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He chears the languid Souls that fail,
And quickens all their drooping Powers.

5. Gently He lifts the Fallen up,

He gives them Faith, and Faith's Increase, Revives their feeble, dying Hope,

And fills with Love, and Joy, and Peace..

6. Blafted the Vigour of the Young
Shall fade, and fuddenly decay;
The Bold, and Confident, and Strong,
Shall fear, defpair, and die away.

7. But They, who wait upon the LORD,
Shall furely find His Promife true,
Receive the Quickning Powerful Word,

And born of GOD their Strength renew..

8. Their willing Souls from Sin fet free, Shall fwiftly in His Statutes move, Shall walk in Glorious Liberty,

Shall fly upon the Wings of Love.

9. With Eagle's Wings their Souls fhall rife;
Steady and ftrong to Heaven foar,

Regain on Earth their Native Skies,
And faint, and fall, and fin no more.

The Sixty-third Chapter of ISAIAH.

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O Common Vifion This I fee,
In more than Human Majefty,
Who is this Mighty Hero, who
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2. His deep-dy'd crimson Robes outvie
The Blushes of the Morning-Sky,
Lo! how Triumphant He appears,
And Victory in His Vifage wears!

3. How strong, how ftately does He go!
Pompous, and folemn is his Pace,
And full of Majesty his Face:
Who is this Mighty Hero, who?

4.

'Tis I, who to my Promise ftand;

I, who Sin, Death, Hell, and the Grave Have foil'd with this All-conquering Hand: 'Tis I, the LORD, mighty to fave.

5. Why wear'ft Thou then this crimson Die, Say, Thou All-conquering Hero, why? Why do thy Garments look all red,

Like them that in the Wine-fat tread?

6. The Wineprefs I alone have trod, That pondrous Mafs I ply'd alone, And with me to affift was none,

A Task worthy the Son of GoD

7. Angels flood trembling at the Sight,
Enrag'd I put forth all my Might,
And down the Engine prefs'd; the Force
Put frighted Nature out of Course;

8. The Blood gufh'd out, and chequer'd o're
My Garments with its deepest Gore,
With glorious Stains bedeck'd I ftood,
And writ my Victory in Blood.

9. The Day, the Signal Day is come,
Vengeance on all my Foes to take,
The Day, when Death fhall have its Doom,.
And the dark Kingdom's Powers fhall flake.

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