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The bond on my part cannot laft, 1
Yet on both fides ftands firm and faft. 2
I break my bands at ev'ry fhock,
Yet never is the bargain broke. 3
Daily, alas! I difobey, 4

Yet yield obedience ev'ry day, 5
I'm an imperfect perfect man, 6
That can do all, yet nothing can. 7
I'm from beneath 8, and from above, 9
A child of wrath 10, a child of love. II
A ftranger e'en where all me know;
A pilgrim, yet I no-where go. 12

1 Pfalm 1xxxix. 30, 31, 32. If his children forfake my law, and walk not in my judgments; if they break my ftatutes, and keep not my commandments : then will I vifit their tranfgreffion with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes.

2 Pfalm lxxxix. 2, 3, 4. For I have faid, Mercy fhall be built up for ever: thy faithfulness fhalt thou eftablish in the very heavens. I have made a covenant with my chofen; I have fworn unto David, my fervant. Thy feed will I eftablish for ever, and build up thy throne to all generations. Ver. 28, 29. My mercy will I keep for him for evermore, and my covenant fhall stand faft with him. His feed alfo will I make to endure for ever, and his throne as the days of heaven. Jer. xxxii. 40. And I will make an everlasting covenant with them, that I will not turn away from them, to do them good; but I will put my fear in their hearts, that they shall not depart from me.

3 Pfalm lxxviii. 37. Their heart was not right with him, neither were they ftedfaft in his covenant. Ifa. liv. 10. The mountains fhali depart, and the hills be removed; but my kindness fhall not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed, faith the Lord, that hath mercy on thee. 4 James iii. 2. In many things we offend all. 3 Pfalm lxi. 8. So will fing praifes unto thy name for ever, that I may daily perform my vows. Heb. ii. 13. But exhort one-another daily while it is called, To-day; left any of you be hardened through the deceitfulness of fin.

6 Pfalm xxxvii. 37. Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright; for the end of that man is peace. Rev. iii. 2. Be watchful, and strengthen the things which remain, that are ready to die: for I have not found thy works perfect before God.

Phil. iv. 13. I can do all things through Chrift which ftrengtheneth me. John xv. 5. I am the vine, ye are the branches: he that abideth in me, and I in him, the fame bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing.. 8 Johu viii. 23. And Jefus faith unto the Jews, Ye are from beneath :-ye are of this world, &c.

9 Gal. iv. 26. Jerufalem which is above, is free, which is the mother of us all. Verse 28. Now we, brethren, as Ifaac was, are the children of promife. John i. 13. Which were born, not of blood, nor of the will of the flesh, nor of the will of man, but of God. And iii. 5, 6. Jefus answered, Verily, verily, 1 fay unto thee (viz. Nicodemus) Except a man be born of water, and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.-That which is born of the Spirit, is fpirit.

10 Eph. ii. 3. We-were by nature the children of wrath, even as others. 11 Rom. ix. 8.-The children of the promife are counted for the feed. 12 Heb. xi, 11. These all-confeffed that they were strangers and pilgrims

I trade abroad, yet ftay at home I ;
My tabernacle is my tomb. 2

I can be prifon'd, yet abroad;

Bound hand and foot, yet walk with God. 3

SECT. IX.

The Mystery of various NAMES given to Saints and the Church of Chrift; or, the Flesh and Spirit defcribed from inanimate Things, Vegetables and Senfitives.

tell the world my proper name,

To te

Is both my glory and my fhame; 4
For like my black and comely face,
My name is fin, my name is grace. 5
Moft fitly I'm affimilate

To various things inanimate.

A ftanding lake 6, a running flood, 7
A fixed ftar 8, a paffing cloud. 9

on the earth.

1 Pet. ii. 21. Dearly beloved, I beseech you as ftrangers and pilgrims, &c.

Phil. iii. 20. For our converfation is in heaven, from whence also we look for the Saviour, the Lord Jefus Chrift.

2 2 Cor. v. 1, 2. For we know, that if our earthly houfe of this tabernacle were diffolved, we have a building of God, an houfe not made with hands, eternal in the heavens. For in this we groan earnestly, defiring to be clothed upon with our houfe which is from heaven. Ver. 4. For we in this tabernacle do groan, being burdened: not for that we fhould be unclothed, but clothed upon, that mortality might be fwallowed up of life.

3 A&ts xvi. 24, 25. The jailor having received fuch a charge, thrust them into the inner prison, and made their feet fast in the stocks. And at midnight Paul and Silas prayed, and fang praises unto God. 2 Tim. ii. 9. Wherein I`

fuffer trouble as an evil doer, even unto bonds; but the word is not bound. 2 Cor. vi. 4, 5. But in all things approving ourselves as the minifters of God, in much patience, in afflictions, in neceffities, in diftreffes, in ftripes, in imprisonments, in tumults, in labours, in watchings, in fastings.

4 Hofea i. 9. Then faid God, Call his name, Lo-ammi; for ye are not my people, and I will not be your God. Chap. ii. 1. Say ye unto your brethren, Ammi, and to your fifters, Ruhamah. Ver. 23. And I will have mercy upon her, that had not obtained mercy; and I will fay to them which were not my people, Thou art my people; and they shall fay, Thou art my God.

5 Song i. 5. I am black, but comely, O ye daughters of Jerufalem, as the tents of Kedar, as the curtains of Solomon. 1 Tim. i. 14. This is a faithful faying, and worthy of all acceptation, that Chrift Jefus came into the world to fave finners; of whom I am chief. Ifa. Ixii. 2, 3. And the Gentiles shall fee thy righteousness, and all kings thy glory: and thou shalt be called by a new name, which the mouth of the Lord thall name. Thou shalt also be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God. 6 Jer. xlviii. 11. Moab hath been at ease from his youth, and he hath settled on his lees, and hath not been emptied fren veffel to veffel, neither hath he gone into captivity; therefore his tafte remained in him, and his fcent is not changed. 7 Ifa. xlix. 3. I will pour water upon him that is thirsty, and floods upon

A cake unturn'd, nor cold, nor hot; 1
A veffel found 2, a broken pot: 3
A rifing fun 4, a drooping wing: 5
A flinty rock 6, a flowing spring. 7
A rotten beam 8, a virid ftem; 9
A menftr'ous cloth 10, a royal gem: 11
A garden barr'd 12, an open field; 13

A gliding ftream 14, a fountain feal'd. 15

the dry ground: I will pour my Spirit upon thy feed, and my bleffing upon thine offspring.

8 Dan. xii. 3. And they that be wife, fhall fhine as the brightness of the firmament; and they that turn many to righteoufnefs, as the ftars for ever and ever: And in opposition to those called wandering stars, Jude 13.

9 Hofea vi 4. O Ephraim, what fhall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning-cloud, and as the early dew, it goeth away.

1 Hofea viii. 8. Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people; Ephraim is a cake not turned. Rev. iii. 15 I know thy works, that thou art neither cold nor hot: I would thou wert cold or hot.

2 Rom. ix. 21. Hath not the potter power over the clay, of the same lump 'to make one veffel unto honour, and another unto dishonour?

3 Pfalm xxxi. 12. I am forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am like a broken veffel.

4 Matth. xiii 43. Then shall the righteous fhine forth as the fun in the kingdom of their Father.

5 Pfalm lv. 6. And I said, O that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest.

6 Zech. vii. 12. They made their hearts as an adamant stone, left they fhould hear the law, and the words which the Lord of hofts hath fent in his Spirit by the former prophets

7 John iv. 13, 14. Jefus answered and faid unto her,-Whofoever drinketh of the water that I fhall give him, shall never thirst: but the water that I shall give him, fhall be in him a well of water fpringing up into everlasting life.

8 Ifa xvii. 9, 10. In that day fhall his ftrong cities be as a forsaken bough, and an uppermost branch, which they left, because of the children of Ifrael: and there shall be defolation. Because thou haft forgotten the God of thy falvation, and haft not been mindful of the rock of thy ftrength; therefore fhalt thou plant pleasant plants, aud fhalt fet it with strange flips. Chap. xxvii. 11. When the boughs thereof are withered, they fhall be broken off: the women come and fet them on fire; for it is a people of no understanding: therefore he that made them, will not have mercy on them; and he that formed them, will fhew them no favour.

9 Prov. xi. 28. The righteous fhall flourish as a branch. Pfalm xcii. 12, 13. The righteous fhall flourish like the palm-tree: he fhall grow like a cedar in Lebanon. Thofe that be planted in the house of the Lord, fhall flourish in the courts of our God.

10 Ia. XXX. 22. Ye fhall defile alfo the covering of thy graven images of filver. and the ornament of thy molten images of gold: thou fhalt cast them away as a menftruous cloth; thou fhalt fay unto it, Get thee hence. Chap. lxiv. 6. But we are all as an unclean thing, and all our righteousnesses are as filthy rags.

11 Ifa. lxii. 3. Thou shalt alfo be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand of thy God.

12 Song iv. 12. A garden inclosed is my fifter, my spouse.

13 Mat. xiii. 14, 15. Another parable Jefus put forth unto them, saying'

Of various vegetables see

A fair and lively map in me.

A fragrant rofe 1, a noifom weed; 2
A rotting 3, yet immortal feed. 4

I'm with'ring grass 5, and growing corn; 6
A pleasant plant 7, an irkfom thorn; 8
An empty vine 9, a fruitful tree; 10
An humble fhrub 11, a cedar high. 12

A noxious brier 13, a harmless pine; 14
A faplefs twig 15, a bleeding vine: 16

The kingdom of heaven is likened unto a man which fowed good feed in his field: but while his men flept, his enemy came, and fowed tares among the wheat, and went his way.

14 Song iv. 13. (My lifter is) a fountain of gardens, a well of living waters, and streams from Lebanon.

15 Song iv. 12. A fpring fhut up, a fountain fealed, is my fifter, my spouse. r Ila. xxxv. 1. The wilderness and the folitary place fhall be glad for them: and the defart fhall rejoice, and bloffom as the rofe.

2 Ifa. v. 4. What could have been done more to my vineyard, that I have not done in it? Wherefore when I looked that it should bring forth grapes, brought it forth wild grapes?

3 Gen. iii. 19. In the fweat of thy face fhalt thou eat thy bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it thou wait taken: for duit thou art, and unto duft thou shalt return.

4 1 Pet. i. 23. Being born again, not of corruptible feed, but of incorrup tible, by the word of God which liveth and abideth for ever.

5 Ifa. xl. 7. The grafs withereth, the flower fadeth; becaufe the Spirit of the Lord bloweth upon it: furely the people is grass.

6 Hofea xiv. 7. They that dwell under his fhadow fhall return, they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine; the fcent thereof shall be as the wine of Lebanon.

7 Ifa. v. 7. The vineyard of the Lord of hosts is the houfe of Ifrael, and the men of Judah is his pleasant plant.

8 Micah vii. 4. The best of them is a brier: the most upright is fharper than a thorn-hedge.

9 Hofea x. 1. Ifrael is an empty vine, he bringeth forth fruit unto himself. 10 Pfalm i. 3. And he thall be like a tree planted by the rivers of water, that bringeth forth fruit in his fealon; his leaf alfo ihall not wither, and whatfoever he doth fhall profper.

11 Ezek. xvii. 5, 6. He (viz. a great eagle) took also of the feed of the land, and planted it in a fruitful field, he placed it by great waters, and fet it as a willow-tree. And it grew, and became a spreading vine of low stature, whofe branches turned toward him, and the roots thereof were under him: fo it became a vine, and brought forth branches, and thot forth fprigs. Ver. 24. And all the trees of the field fhall know that I the Lord have brought down the high-tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the Lord have spoken and have done it. Mark iv. 30, 31. And Jelus faid, Whereunto thail we liken the kingdom of God? or with what comparison thall we compare it? It is like a grain of muftard feed, which when it is fown in the earth, is lefs than all the feeds that be in the earth.

12 Pfalm xcii. 12. The righteous fhall grow like a cedar in Lebanon.

13 Micah vii. 4. The best of them is as a brier; the most upright is sharper than a thorn-hedge.

14 Ifa. xlii. 19. I will fet in the defart the fir-tree, and the pine, and the box-tree together.

A ftable fir 1, a pliant bush; 2

A noble oak 3, a naughty rufh. 4
With fenfitives I may compare,
While I their various natures fhare :
Their diftinct names may juftly fuit
A ftrange, a reasonable brute. 5
The facred page my ftate defcribes
From volatile and reptile tribes;
From ugly vipers 6, beauteous birds; 7
From foaring hofts 8, and fwinifh herds. 9
I'm rank'd with beafts of diff'rent kinds,
With fpiteful tygars 10, loving hynds; II

1 John xv. 4. Abide in me, and I in you. As the branch cannot bear fruit of itself, except it abide in the vine; no more can ye, except ye abide in me. Ver. 6. If a man abide not in me, he is caft forth as a branch, and is withered.

2 John xv. 5. I am the vine, ye are the branches: he that abideth in me, and I in him, the fame bringeth forth much fruit: for without me ye can do nothing. Song ii. 13. The fig-tree putteth forth her green figs, and the vines with the tender grape give a good fmell. Ver. 15. Take us the foxes, the little foxes that spoil the vines: for our vines have tender grapes.

3 Ifa. lv. 13. Instead of the thorn fhall come up the fir-tree; and instead of the brier fhall come up the myrtle-tree: and it fhall be to the Lord for a name, for an everlasting fign that thall not be cut off. And Ix. 13. The glory of Lebanon fhall come unto thee, the fir-tree, the pine-tree, and the box together, to beautify the place of my fanctuary; and I will make the place of my feet glorious.

4 Mat. xii. 7. And as they departed, Jefus began to fay unto the multitudes concerning John, What went ye into the wilderness to fee? A reed fhaken with the wind ?

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Ifa. vi 13. But yet in it fhall be a tenth, and it fhall return, and it fhall be eaten as a teil-tree, and as an oak whofe fubftance is in them, when they caft their leaves: fo the holy feed fhall be the fubftance thereof.

6 Ifa. lviii. 5. Is it fuch a falt that I have chosen? a day for a man to afflict his foul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrufh, and to spread fackcloth and alhes under him? Wilt thou call this a faft and an acceptable day to the Lord?

7 Pfalm lxxiii. 22. So foolish was I (viz. Asaph), and ignorant; I was as a beast before thee. Prov. xxx. 2. Surely 1 (viz. Agur) am more brutish than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.

8 Mat. iii. 7. But when John faw many of the Pharifees and Sadducees come to his baptifm, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, &c.

9 Song ii. 12. The time of the finging of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land.

10 Ifa. lx. 8. Who are thefe that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows.

11 Mat. vii. 6. Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither caft ye your pearls before fwine, left they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rent you. 2 Pet. ii. 22. But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and, The fow that was washed, to her wallowing in the mire.

12 Pfalm xxii. 16. For dogs have compaffed me, the affembly of the wicked have inclofed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. Phil. iii. 2. Beware

of dogs, beware of evil-workers, beware of the concifion.

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Pfalm xviii. 33. God maketh my feet like hinds feet, and fetteth me upon

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