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Not for your sakes: 'tis my free grace
That grants you pardon, life, and peace;
And works a change on all your frame,
And binds you to adore my name.

Not for my sake!-I bail the sound!
Let pow'r of grace my pride confound;
Salvation is a work divine;

Confusion, and the shame, be mine.

Not for my sake!-did I but trust
To weakness, vanity, and dust;
I ne'er could reach the heav'nly prize,
Nor hope a mansion in the skies.

Not for my sake!-yet save and call;
Let Jesus be my all in all :

When glory comes, I'll self disown,

And Grace, free Grace, shall wear the crown.

PSALM Civ. Praise. ye the Lord, O give thanks unto the Lord for he is good, for his mercy endureth for ever. PSALM cvi. Remember me, O Lord, with the favour that thou bearest unto thy people; O visit me with thy salvation: that I may see the good of thy chosen; that I may rejoice in the gladness of thy nation; that I glory with thine inheritance.

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EPH. ii. At that time, ye were without Christ, being aliens from the commonwealth of Israel, and strangers to the Covenant of promise; having no hope, and without God in the world: but now in Christ Jesus, ye who sometime were afar off, are made nigh by the blood of his cross.

PSALM X. 17. Lord, thou hast heard the desire of the humble; thou wilt prepare their heart; thou wilt cause thine ear to hear; to judge the fatherless and the oppressed, that the men of the earth may no more oppress.

DEUT. viii. Thou shalt remember all the way that the Lord thy God led thee this forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, to prove thee, to know what was in thy heart: whether thou wouldest keep my commandments or no. And he humbled thee, and suffered thee to hunger, and fed thee with manna which thou knewest not, neither did your fathers know, that he might make thee know that man doth not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of the Lord, doth man live-Thy raiment waxed not old upon thee, neither did thy foot swell these forly years.

Thou shalt also consider in thine heart, that as a man chasteneth his son, so the Lord thy God chasteneth thee. Therefore thou shalt keep the commandments of the Lord thy God, to walk in his ways and to fear him.

Thou, God, seest me.

EPH. i. Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ, according as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love having predestinated us to the adoption of sons, by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he hath made us accepted in the beloved; in whom we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins according to the riches of his grace, wherein he hath abounded towards us in all wisdom and prudence: having made known unto us the mystery of his will according to his good pleasure which he purposed in himself, that in the dispensation of the fulness of time, he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth, even in him, in whom also we have obtained an inheritance, being predestinated

according to the purpose of him who worketh all things after the counsel of his own will, that we should be to the praise of his glory, who first trusted in Christ.

Chapter ii. and iv. God who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us: even when we were dead in sins, hath quickened us together with Christ. (By Grace ye are saved,) and hath raised us up together, and made us sit together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, that in the ages to come, he might shew the exceeding riches of his Grace, in his kindness towards us through Christ Jesus: for by Grace are ye saved, through faith, and that not of yourselves, it is the gift of God: not of works, lest any man should boast; for we are his workmanship, created in Christ Jesus unto good works, which God hath before ordained, that we should walk in them. Now therefore, ye Gentiles are no more strangers and foreigners, but fellow-citizens with the Saints, and of the household of God, and are built upon the foundation of the apostles and prophets, Jesus Christ himself being the chief corner stone: in whom all the building, fitly framed together, groweth into an holy temple in the Lord: in whom ye also are builded together for an habitation of God through the Spirit. Chapter iii. I Paul bow my knees unto the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, of whom the whole family in heaven and earth is named, that he would grant you according to the riches of his glory, to be strengthened with might by his Spirit in the inner man : that Christ may dwell in your hearts by faith; that ус being rooted and grounded in love, may be able to comprehend with all Saints, what is the breadth, and length, and height, and depth, and to know the love of Christ, which passeth knowledge, that ye might be filled with all the fulness of God. Now unto him that is able to do execeding abundantly above all that we can ask or think

according to the power that worketh in us: unto him be glory in the Church by Jesus Christ, throughout all ages, world without end. Amen.

Chapter iv. I therefore, the prisoner of the Lord, beseech you, that ye walk worthy of the vocation wherewith ye are called: with all lowliness and meekness, with long-suffering, forbearing one another in love, endeavouring to keep the unity of the Spirit in the bond of peace. There is one body and one Spirit, even as ye are called in one hope of your calling: One Lord, one faith, one baptism, one God and Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all. But unto every one of us is given Grace according to the measure of the gift of Christ. That we may grow up into him in all things which is the head, even Christ: From whom the whole body fitly joined together and compacted by that which every joint supplieth.-(Ministers and people in the use of all appointed means,)—according to the effectual working in the measure of every part, maketh increase of the body to the edifying of itself in love.

JOHN XV. I am the vine, ye are the branches; he that abideth in me and I in him, the same bringeth forth much fruit, for without me ye can do nothing.

EXODUS xvi. And Moses said, The Lord heareth your murmurings that ye murmur against him; and what are we? your murmurings are not against us, but against the Lord. And Moses said, This is the bread which the Lord giveth you to eat. And the children of Israel did eat manna antil they came unto the borders of the land of Canaan.

JouN vi. I am the living bread which came down from heaven: if any man cat of this bread, he shall live for ever and the bread that I will give is my flesh, which I will give for the life of the world. He that eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, dwelleth in me, and I in him.

The words which I speak unto you, they are Spirit, and they are life.

1 COR. i. For of him are ye in Christ Jesus, who of God is made unto us wisdom, and righteousness, and sanctification, and redemption.

HEB. iv. Seeing then that we have a great High Priest who is passed into the heavens, Jesus the Son of God, let us hold fast our profession. For we have not a High Priest who cannot be touched with the feeling of our infirmities; but was in all points tempted like as we are, yet without sin. Let us therefore come boldly to the throne of Grace, that we may obtain mercy, and find Grace to help in time of need. Chapter viii. For

this is the Covenant that I will make with the house of Israel after those days, saith the Lord. I will put my laws into their mind, and write them on their hearts, and I will be to them a God, and they shall be to me a people; and they shall not teach every man his neighbour, and every man his brother, saying, Know the Lord, for all shall know me, from the least to the greatest; for I will be merciful to their unrighteousness, and their sins and their iniquities will I remember no more. In that he saith, a new Covenant, he hath made the first old: now that which decayeth, and waxeth old, is ready to vanish away.

1 JOHN V. This is the record, that God has given to us eternal life, and this life is in his Son. He that hath the Son hath life, and he that hath not the Son, hath not life. Thanks be to God for his unspeakable gift.

PSALM Ixii. Truly my soul waiteth upon God; from him cometh my salvation; he is my defence, I shall not be greatly moved. My soul, wait thou only upon God, my expectation is from him; he only is my rock and my salvation; he is my defence, I shall not be moved. In God is my salvation and my glory: the rock of my strength, and my refuge is in God.

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