Not Zion's facred Mountain, where
His Temple glitter'd like a Star.

5 O'er Zion's Mount, o'er Canaan's Plains,
Oppreffion now, and Horror reigns;
And, where the Throne of David stood,
His ruin'd Sepulchre is view'd.

6 'Tis in the Heav'n of Heav'ns alone
Thou mak'ft thy wond'rous Friendship known;
A City there thy Hand prepares,

Fix'd as thy own eternal Years.

7 Long as they reign before thy Face,
The blissful Nations fhall confefs,
Thy fov'reign Love has there bestow'd
Salvation worthy of a God.

CCCXX. Mofes's wife Choice. Heb. xi. 26.

MY Soul, with all thy waken'd Pow'rs
Survey the heav'nly Prize;

Nor let thefe glitt'ring Toys of Earth
Allure thy wand'ring Eyes.

2 The fplendid Crown, which Mofes fought,
Still beams around his Brow;
Tho' foon great Pharoah's scepter'd' Pride,
Was taught by Death to bow.

3 The Joys and Treasures of a Day
I chearfully refign;

Rich in that large immortal Store,
Secur'd by Grace divine.

4 Let Fools my wifer Choice deride,
Angels and GoD approve;

Nor Scorn of Men, nor Rage of Hell
My ftedfaft Soul shall move.

5 With ardent Eye that bright Reward
I daily will furvey;

And in the blooming Profpect lofe
The Sorrows of the Way.

CCCXXI Acting, as feeing him, who is invifible. Heb. xi. -27..

ETERNAL and immortal King,

*

Thy peerless Splendors none can bear, But Darkness veils Seraphic Eyes,

When GoD with all his Luftre's there.

2 Yet Faith can pierce the awful Gloom,
The great Invifible can fee;

And with its Tremblings mingle Joy
In fix'd Regards, Great GoD, to Thee.
3 Then ev'ry tempting Form of Sin,
Sham'd in thy Prefence difappears;
And all the glowing raptur'd Soul
The Likeness it contemplates wears.
O Ever-conscious to my Heart,
Witness to its fupreme Defire,
Behold it preffeth on to Thee,
For it hath caught the heav'nly Fire..
5 This one Petition would it urge,
To bear Thee ever in its Sight;.
* Unequalled.

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In

In Life, in Death, in Worlds unknown,
Its only Portion and Delight.

CCCXXII. Subjection to GOD, the Father of our Spirits. Heb. xii. -9.

1 ETERNAL Source of Life and Thought, Be all beneath Thyfelf forgot;

Whilft 'l'hee, great Parent-Mind, we own
In proftrate Homage round thy Throne.

2 Whilft in themselves our Souls furvey
Of Thee fome faint reflected Ray,
They wond'ring to their Father rife;
His Pow'r how vaft! His Thoughts how wife!

3 Behold us as thine Offspring, LORD,
And do not caft us off abhorr'd ;.
Nor let thy Hand, fo long our Joy,
Be rais'd in Vengeance to destroy.

4 O may we live before thy Face,

The willing Subjects of thy Grace;
And thro' each Path of Duty move
With filial Awe, and filial Love.

CCCXXIII. The Immutability of CHRIST. Heb. xiii. 8.

WITH Tranfport, LORD, our Souls proclaim
Th' immortal Honours of thy Name:

Affembled round our Saviour's Throne,
We make his ceafelefs Glories known.

2. High

2 High on his Father's royal Seat
Our Jefus fhone divinely great,

Ere Adam's Clay with Life was warm'd,
Or Gabriel's nobler Spirit form'd.

3 Thro' all fucceeding Ages He

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5

The fame hath been, the fame fhall be:
Immortal Radiance gilds his Head,
While Stars and Suns wax old and fade.
The fame his Pow'r his Flock to guard;
The fame his Bounty to reward;

The fame his Faithfulness and Love
To Saints on Earth, and Saints above.

Let Nature change and fink and die ;
Jefus fhall raise his Chofen high,
And fix them near his stable Throne,
In Glory changeless as his own.

CCCXXIV. Watching for Souls in the View of the great Account. Hebrews xiii. -17.

For the Ordination of a Minifter.

LET Zion's Watchmen all awake,
And take th' Alarm they give;
Now let them from the Mouth of GoD
Their folemn Charge receive.

2 'Tis not a Caufe of finall Import

The Paftor's Care demands;

But what might fill an Angel's Heart,
And fill'd a Saviour's Hands.

3 They watch for Souls, for which the Lord
Did heav'nly Blifs forego*;
For Souls, which muft for ever live
In Raptures or in Woe.

4 All to the great Tribunal hafte,

Th' Account to render there;

And fhouldst thou ftrictly mark our Falts,
Lord, how fhould we appear? ·

5 May they that Jefus, whom they preach,
Their own Redeemer fee;

And watch Thou daily o'er their Souls,
That they may watch for Thee.
Forfake, lay afide.

CCCXXV. The Chriftian perfected by divine Grace through CHRIST. Heb. xiii. 20, 21.

1 FATHER of Peace, and GoD of Love,
We own thy Pow'r to save;

That Pow'r, by which our Shepherd rofe
Victorious o'er the Grave.

2 We triumph in that Shepherd's Name,
Still watchful for our Good;

Who brought th' eternal Cov'nant down,
And feal'd it with his Blood.

3 So may thy Spirit feal my Soul,
And mould it to thy Will;

That my fond Heart no more may ftray,
But keep thy Cov'nant ftill.

4 Still