2 With the fame bieffings, grace endows The Gentile and the Jew;

If pure and holy be the root,

3

Such are the branches too.

Then let the children of the faints
Be dedicate to God;

Pour out thy Spirit on them, Lord,
And wash them in thy blood.

4 Thus to the parents and their feed,
Shall thy falvation come,

And num'rous househoids meet at laft
In one cternal home.

CXV.Conviction of Sin, by the Lew, Ro.. vii. 8, &c.

LORD, how fecure my confcience was,

And felt no inward dread;

1 was alive, without the law,

And thought my fins were dead.

My hopes of heav'n were firm and bright,
But fince the precept came,

With a convincing pow'r and light,
I find how vile I am..

13 My guilt appear'd but fmall before,
'Til, terribly, I faw

How perfect holy, juft and pure,
Was thiné Eternal Law.

4 Then felt my foul the heavy load;
My fins reviv'd again;

I had provok'd a dreadful God,
And all my hopes were flain.]

s'm like a helplefs captive, fold,
Under the pow'r of fin;

I cannot do the good would,
Nor keep my confince clean.

6 My God, I'll cry with ev'ry breating
For fome kind pow'r to fave,

To break the yoke of fin and death,
And thus redeem the flave.

CXVI. Love to God and our neighbour, Mat. xxii ̧

TH

37 40.

HUS faith the firft and great command,
"Let all thy inward pow'rs unite

"To love thy Maker, and thy God,"
With utmoft vigor and delight.

2 "Then fhail thy neighbour, next in place,
Share thine affections and efteem,
"And let thy kindness to thyfelf

3

Measure and rule thy love to him."

This is the fenfe which Mofes spoke,
This did the prophets teach and prove:
For want of this, the law is broke,
And the whole law's fulfil'd by love.

4 But Oh! how base our paffions are !
How cold our charity and zeal;
Lord, fill our foals with heav'nly fire,
Or we thall ne'er perform thy will.

CXVII. Eledion, fovereign and free, Ro.ix. 21.
BEHOLD the potter and the claxe

He forms his veffels as he please ;

Such is our God, and fuch are we,
The fubjects of his high decrees.

2 Doth not the workman's pow'r extend
O'er all the mafs, which part to choose,
And mould it for a nobler end,

And which to leave for viler use?

3 May not the fov're ign Lord on high
Difpenfe his favors as he will,

Choose fome to life, while others die,
And yet be juft and gracious ftill?
[4 What if, to make his terror known,
He lets his patience long endure,

Suff'ring vile rebels to go on,

And feal their own deftruction fure ?
5 What if he means to fhew his grace,
And his electing love employs
To mark out fome of mortal race,
And form them fit for heav'nly joys?
6 Shall man reply against the Lord,
And call his Maker's ways unjuft,
The thunder of whofe dreadful word
Can crafh a thousand worlds to duft?
But, O my foul, if truth fo bright
Should dazzle and confound thy fight,
Yet ftill his written will obey,
And wait the great decifive day.

8 Then shall he make his juftice known,
And the whole world, before his throne,
With joy or terror, fhall confefs

The glory of his righteousness.

CXVIII. Mofes & Chrift; or, Sins against the Law and Gofpel. John, i. 17. Heb. iii. 3, 5, 6. X. 28.

HE law by

But exce, and truth and love.

Were brought by Chrift (a nobler name)
Defcending from above.

Amidst the house of God

Their diff'rent works were done!
Mofes a faithful fervant ftood,
But Chrifta faithful Son.-
3 Then to his new commands
Be ftrict obed'ence paid;
O'er all his Father's houte he ftande
The Sov'reign and the Head.

4 The man who durft defpife
The law which Moses brought,

Behold! how teribly he dies For bis prefumpt'ous fault; s But forer vengeance falls

Oa that rebellious race,

Who hate to hear when Jefus calls
And dare refift his grace.

CXIX. The different fuceefs of the Go pel, 1 Cor. i. 23, 24—2 Cor. ii. 15—1 Cor. iii. 6. 7.

HRIST and his crofs are all our theme;

C. The mandries that we play

Are fcandal in the Jews' eftcem,
And folly to the Greek:

2 But fouis enlight'ned from above,
With joy receive the word!
They fee what wisdom, pow'r and love,
Shine in their dying Lord.

The vital favor of his name
Reftores their fainting breath;
But unbelief perverts the fame
To guilt, defpair and death.

4 'Till God diffufe his graces down,
Like fhow'rs of heav'nly rain,
In vain Apollos fows the ground..

And Paul may plant in vai.

CXX. Faith of things unfeen, Heb. xi. 1, 3, &c.

Ffthings beyond our fight,

AITH is the brightest evidence

Breaks through the clouds of flesh and fenfe,
And dwells in heav'nly light.

3 It fets time past in prefent view,
Brings diftant prospects home,
Of things a thousand years ago,
Or thousand years to come.

3 By faith we know the worlds were made
By God's Almighty Word ;

Abra'm, to unknown countries led,
By faith obey'd the Lord.

4 He fought a city fair, and high,
Built by th' Eternal Hands;
And faith affures us, though we die,
That heav'nly building flands.

CXXI. Children devoted to God, Gen. xvii. 7,10.. Acts, xvi, 14, 15, 33.

(For thofe auho practice Infant Baptifm.)

THUS

HUS faith the mercy of the Lord,
"I'll be a God to thee;

I'll blefs thy num'rous race
"Shall be a feed for me."

and they

2 Abra'm believ'd the promis'd grace,
And gave his forts to God;
But water feals the bleffing now,
Which once was feal'd with blood.

3 Thus Lydia fanctify'd her house,
When the receiv'd the word;
Thus the believing jailor gave
His houthold to the Lord.

4 Thsu later faints, Eternal King,
Thine ancient truth embrace;
To Thee, their infant offspring' bring
And humbly claim thy grace.

CXXII. Believers buried with Christ in Babtism;
Rom. vi. 3.4, &C.

Do

O we not know that folemn word-
That we are buri'd with the Lord;

Baptis'd into his death and then

Put off the body of our fin?

2.Our fouls receive diviner breath, Rais'd from corruption guilt and death; Hh