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Though hell's my just reward for sin (d),
Heav'n as my just reward I'll win (e).
Both these my just rewards I know,
Yet truly neither of them so*.

Hell can't in justice be my lot,
Since justice satisfaction got (ƒ);
Nor heav'n in justice be my share,

Since mercy only brings me there (g).

with strong hand, and his arm shall rule for him; behold, his reward is with him, and his work before him.

(d) Rom. vi. 21. What fruit had ye then in those things, whereof ye are now ashamed? for the end of those things is death. v. 23. The wages of sin is death. EPH. v. 6. Let no man deceive you with vain words; for because of these things cometh the wrath of God upon the children of disobedience. GAL. iii. 10. For as many as are of the works of the law, are under the curse: for it is written, Cursed is every one that continueth not in all things, which are written in the book of the law to do them.

(e) GAL. iii. 13. 14. Christ hath redeemed us, from the curse of the law, being made a curse for us: for it is written, Cursed is every one that hangeth on a tree: that the blessing of Abraham might come on the Gentiles through Jesus Christ: that we might receive the promise of the Spirit through faith. EPH. i. 13. 14. In Christ also after that ye believed, ye were sealed with that holy Spirit of promise, which is the earnest of our inheritance, until the redemption of the purchased possession, unto the praise of his glory. Rom. v. 21. Grace reigns through righteousness unto eternal life, by Jesus Christ our Lord. Chap. vi. 23. The gift of God is eternal life, through Jesus Christ our Lord.

(f) Rom. iii. 25. 26. Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God; to declare, I say, at this time his righteousness: that he might be just, and the justifier of him which believeth in Jesus.

(g) Rɔm. ix. 15. 16. God saith to Moses, I will have mercy on whom I will have mercy, and I will have compassion on whom I will have compassion. So then it is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, but of God that sheweth mercy. TIT. iii. 4. 5. 6. 7. But after that the kindness and love of God our Saviour toward man appeared, not by works of righteousness, which we have done, but

* Through these opposite voices of law and gospel.

Yet heav'n is mine by solemn oath,
In justice and in mercy both (h);
And God in Christ is all my trust,
Because he's merciful and just (¿).

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CONCLUSION.

ERE is the riddle, where's the man
Of judgment to expound?

For masters fam'd that cannot scan,

In Isr'el may be found (a).

according to his mercy he saved us by the washing of regeneration, and renewing of the Holy Ghost: which he shed on us abundantly, through Jesus Christ our Saviour: that being justified by his grace, we should be made heirs according to the hope of eternal life.

(h) PSAL. lxxxix. 35. 36. Once have I sworn by my holiness, that I will not lye unto David. His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me. HEB. vi. 17. 18. Wherein, God willing, more abundantly to shew unto the heirs of promi-e the immutability of his counsel, confirmed it by a oath: that by two immutable things, in which it was impossible for God to lye, we might have a strong consolation, who have fled for refuge to lay hold upon the hope set before us. PSAL. lxxxix. 14. Justice and judgment are the habitation of thy throne; mercy and truth shall go before thy face. v. 16. In thy name shall they rejoice all the day: and in thy righteousness shall they be exalted. v. 24. But my faithfulness and my mercy shall be with him [David my servant]: and in my name shall his horn be exalted. My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant shall stand fast with him.

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(i) HEB. ii. 17. Wherefore in all things it behoved him to be made like unto his brethren; that he might be a merciful and faithful high priest, in things pertaining to God, to make reconciliation for the sins of the people. 1 JOHN i. 7. 8. 9. If we walk in the light, as God is in the light, we have fellowship one with another, and the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from all sin. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us. confess our sins, he is faithful, and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness.

If we

(a) JOHN iii. 10. Jesus answered and said unto Nicodemus, Art thou a master of Israel, and knowest not these things?

We justly those in wisdom's list
Establish'd saints may call,
Whose bitter-sweet experience blest
Can clearly grasp it all (b).

Some babes in grace may mint and mar,
Yet aiming right succeed (c);
But strangers they in Isr❜el are,

Who not at all can read (d).

(b) Matth. xi. 25. At that time Jesus answered and said, I thank thee, O Father, Lord of heaven and earth, because thou hast hid these things from the wise and prudent, and hast revealed them unto babes. Chap. xiii. 11. Jesus answered and said unto his disciples, Because it is given unto you to know the mysteries of the kingdom of heaven, but to them it is not given.

(c) 1 COR. iii. 1. 2. And I, brethren, could not speak unto you as unto spiritual, but as unto carnal, even as unto babes in Christ. I have fed you with milk, and not with meat: for hitherto ye were not able to bear it, neither yet now are ye able. HEB. v. 12. 13. 14. For when for the time ye ought to be teachers, ye have need that one teach you again which be the first principles of the oracles of God; and are become such as have need of milk, and not of strong meat. For every one that useth milk, is unskilful in the word of righteousness: for he is a babe. But strong meat belongeth to them that are of full age, even those who, by reason of use, have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil. Chap. vi. 1. Therefore leaving the principles of the doctrine of Christ, let us go on unto perfection; not laying again the foundation of repentance from dead works, and of faith towards God, &c. 1 JOHN ii. 12. 13. I write unto you, little children, because your sins are forgiven you for his name's sake-I write unto you, little children, because ye have known the Father.

(d) 2 Cor. iv. 3. 4. But if our gospel be hid, it is hid to them that are lost in whom the god of this world hath blinded the minds of them which believe not, lest the light of the glorious gospel of Christ, who is the image of God, should shine unto them.

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The Believer's Lodging and Inn while on Earth; or, a Poem and Paraphrase upon Psal. lxxxiv.

VERS. 1. How amiable are thy tabernacles, O Lord of hosts!

EHOVAH, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost,

JEHOV

Sole Monarch of the universal host,

Whom the attendant armies still revere.

Which in bright robes surround the higher sphere;
Whose sov'reign empire sways the hellish band
Of ranked legions in th' infernal land;
Who hold'st the earth at thy unrival'd beak,
And stay'st proud forces with a humbling check;
Ev'n thou whose name commands an awful dread,
Yet deigns to dwell with man in very deed :
O what refreshment fills the dwelling-place
Of thine exuberant unbounded grace!

Which with sweet pow'r does joy and praise extort,
In Zion's tents, thine ever-lov'd resort;

Where glad❜ning streams of mercy from abɔve
Make souls brim full of warm seraphic love.
Of sweetest odours all thy garment smells;
Thy dismal absence proves a thousand hells,
But heav'ns of joy are where thine honour dwells.

VERS. 2. My soul longeth, yea, even fainteth for the courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh crieth out for the living God.

Therefore on thee I centre my desire.
Which veh'mently bursts out in ardent fire.
Deprived, ah! I languish in my plaint,
My bones are feeble, and my spirit's faint,
My longing soul pants to behold again
Thy temple fill'd with thy majestic train;
Those palaces with heav'nly odour strew'd,
And regal courts, where Zion's King is view'd;
To see the beauty of the highest One,
Upon his holy mount, his lofty throne :
Whence virtue running from the living Head
Restores the dying, and revives the dead.
For him my heart with cries repeated sounds,
To which my flesh with echoes loud rebounds;
For him, for him, who life in death can give,
For him, for him, whose sole prerogative
Is from and to eternity to live.

VERS. 3. Yea, the sparrow hath found an house, and the swallow a nest for herself, where she may lay her young, even thine altars, O Lord of hosts, my King, and my God.

Alas! how from thy lovely dwellings I,
Long banish'd, do the happy birds envy;
Which choosing thy high altars for their nest,
On rafters of thy tabernacle rest!

Here dwells the sparrow of a cherping tongue,
And here the swallow lays her tender young:

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