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My heav'n and glory's fure to me,
Though thereof feldom fure 1 be r:
Yet what makes me the furer is,,
God is my glory, 1 am his s.

the health of my countenance, and my God.

p Col. iii. 1, 2. If ye then be risen with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ sitteth on the right hand of God. Set your affections on things above, not on things on the earth. Pfal. xliv. 25. Our foul is bowed down to the duft our belly cleaveth unto the earth.

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q Hof. xiv. f. I will be as the dew unto Ifrael; he shall grow as the lily, and caft forth his roots as Lebanon. They that dwell under his shadow fhall return, they shall revive as the corn, and grow as the vine: the scent thereof fhall be as the wine of Lebanon. Phil. iii. 12, 13, 14. Not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect: but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which also I am apprehended of Chrift Jefus. Brethren, I count not myfelf to have apprehended: but this one thing I do, forgetting thofe things which are behind, and reaching forth unto those things which are before, I prefs toward the mark, for the prize of the high calling of God in Chrift Jefus. Rom. vii. 23, 24. But I fee another law in my members, warring against the law of my mind, and bringing me into captivity to the law of fin, which is in my members. O wretched man that Lam, who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

John xiv. 2, 3. In my Father's house are many manfions; if it were not fo, I would have told you: I go to prepare a place for you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again, and receive you unto myself, that where I am, there ye may be alfo. 2 Pet. i. 10. Wherefore

the rather brethren, give diligence to make your calling and election fure. Heb. iv. 1. Let us therefore fear, left a promife being left us of entering into his reft, any of you should feem to come short of it.

Pfal. iii. 3. But thou, O Lord, art a fhield for me; my glory, and the lifter up of mine head. Ifa. lx. 19. The fun fhall be no more thy light by day, neither for brightness shall the moon give light unto thee, but the Lord fhall be unto thee an everlafting light, and thy God thy glory.

♪ Ifa. xlvi. 13. I will place falvation in Zion for Ifrael

My life's expos'd to open view t,

Yet closely hid and known to few u.
Some know my place, and whence I came,
Yet neither whence, nor where I am v.

I live in earth, which is not odd;
But lo, I alfo live in God w

A Spirit without flesh and blood,
Yet with them both to yield me food x.
I leave what others live upon,
Yet live I not on bread alone;
But food adapted to my mind,

Bare words, yet not on empty wind y.

my glory. 2 Cor. viii. 23. Whether do any enquire of Titus, he is my partner, and fellow-helper concerning you: or our brethren be inquired of, they are the meffengers of the churches, and the glory of Christ.

t Pfal. xliv. 13. Thou makeft us a reproach to our neighbours, a fcorn and a derision to them that are round about us. u Col. iii. 3. Your life is hid with Chrift in God.

v John iii. 9, 10. Nicodemus anfwered and faid unto him, How can these things be? Jefus answered and faid unto him, Art thou a master of Ifrael, and knoweft not these things? Prov. xiv. 1o. The heart knoweth his own bitternefs; and a ftranger doth not intermeddle with his joy. 1 John iv. 16. And we have known and believed the love that God hath to us. God is love; and he that dwelleth in love, dwelleth in God, and God in him.

w Gal. ii. 20. I am crucified with Chrift: Nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Chrift liveth in me and the life which I now live in the flesh, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gave himself for me.

x John iv. 24. God is a Spirit, and they that worship him, must worship him in Spirit and in truth. And vi. 53, 54, 55. Then Jefus faid unto them, [the Jews], Verily, verily I fay unto you, Except ye eat the flesh of the Son of man, and drink his blood, ye have no life in you. Whofo eateth my flesh, and drinketh my blood, hath eternal life, and I will raife him up at the laft day. For my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed,

I'm no Anthropopagite rude,

Though fed with human flesh and blood;
But live fuperlatively fine,

My food's all fpirit, all divine z.
I feast on fulness night and day a,
Yet pinch'd for want I pine away b,
My leanness, leannefs, ah! I cry c;
Yet fat and full of fap am I d...

y Matth. iv. 4. But Jefus anfwered and faid [unto the tempter], It is written, Man fhall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the mouth of God. Jer. xv. 16. Thy words were found, and I did eat them; and thy word was unto me the joy and rejoicing of mine heart, for I am called by thy name, O Lord God of hofts.

z John vi. 57, 58. As the living Father hath fent me, and I live by the Father: fo he that eateth me, even he shall live by me. This is that bread which came down from heaven : not as your fathers did cat manna, and are dead: he that eateth of this bread fhall live for ever. v. 63. It is the Spirit that quickeneth, the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I fpeak unto you, they are spirit and they are life.

a Ifa. xxv. 6. And in this mountain fhall the Lord of hofts make unto all people a feast of fat things, a feast of wines on the lees, of fat things full of marrow, of wines on the lees well refined. Pfal. i. 2. But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in his law doth he meditate day and night.

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6 Ifa. xli. 17. When the poor and needy feek water, and there is none, and their tongue faileth for thirft, 1 the Lord will hear them, I the God of Ifrael will not forfake them. Pfal. xl. 17. But I am poor and needy, yet the Lord thinketh upon me: thou art my help and my deliverer, make no tarrying, O my God.

Ifa. xxiv. 16. From the uttermost part of the earth have we heard fongs, even glory to the righteous: but I faid, My Jeannefs, my leannefs, wo unto me: the treacherous dealers have dealt treacheroufly; yea, the treacherous dealers have dealt very treacherously.

d Pfal. xcii. 13, 14. Those that be planted in the house of the Lord, fhall flourish in the courts of our God. They shall

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As all amphibious creatures do,
I live in land and water too e:
To good and evil equal bent ƒ,
I'm both a devil g, and a faint h.

While fome men who on earth are gods i,
Are with the God of heav'n at odds k,
My heart, where hellifh legions are 1,
Is with the hofts of hell at war m.

ftill bring forth fruit in old age: they fhall be fat and flourishing. And civ. 16. The trees of the Lord are full of fap: the cedars of Lebanon which he hath planted.

e Pfal. cxvi. 9. I will walk before the Lord in the land of the living. And Ixix. 1, 2. Save me, O God, for the waters are come in unto my foul. 1 fink in deep mire, where there is no standing: I am come into deep waters where the floods overflow me. And lxxxviii. 17. Thy terrors come round ar bout me daily like water, they compaffed me about together. f Rom. vii. 21. I find then a law, that when I would do good, evil is prefent with me.

g John vi. 70. Jefus anfwered them, Have not I chosen you twelve, and one of you is a devil? And viii. 44. Ye are of your father the devil, and the luft of your Father ye will do. James iii. 15. This wisdom defcendeth not from above, but is earthly, fenfual, devilish.

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h1 Cor. vi. L. And fuch were fome of you; but ye are washed, but ye are fanctified, but ye are juftified in the name of the Lord Jefus, and by the Spirit of our God.

i Pfal. lxxxii. 6. I have faid, Ye are gods: and all of you are children of the Most High.

k Pfal. lxxxii. 1, 2. God ftandeth in the congregation of -the mighty: he judgeth among the Gods. How long will ye judge unjustly, and accept the perfons of the wicked? Selah.

5. They know not, neither will they understand: they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.

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/Matth. xv. 19. For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders, adulteries, fornications, thefts, falfe-witness, blafphe mies. Luke viii. 30. And Jefus afked him, faying, What is thy name? and he faid, Legion; becaufe many devils wene entered into him....

My will fulfils what's hard to tell,

The counsel both of Heav'n n and hello:
Heav'n, without fin, will'd fin to be p;
Yet will to fin, is fin in me q.

To duty feldom I adhere r,
Yet to the end I perfevere f

m Eph. vi. 12. For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darknefs of this world, againft fpiritual wickednefs, in high places.

n Rev. xvii. 17. For God hath put in their hearts to fulfil his will, and to agree, and give their kingdom unto the beast, until the words of God fhall be fulfilled.

o Eph. ii. 3. Among whom alfo we all had our converfation in times paft, in the lufts of our flesh, fulfilling the defires of the flesh, and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.

James i. 13 Let no man fay when he is tempted, I an tempted of God: for God cannot be tempted with evil, nei ther tempteth he any man. Acts i. 15, 16. And in those days Peter ftood up in the midst of the difciples, and faid, Men and brethren, this fcripture must needs have been fulfil led, which the Holy Ghoft by the mouth of David fpake before concerning Judas, which was guide to them that took Jefus. And ii. 23. Jefus of Nazareth, being delivered by the determinate counfel and foreknowledge of God, ye have taken, and by wicked hands have crucified and flain. And iv. 27, 23. For of a truth, againít thy holy child Jefus, whom thou haft anointed, both Herod and Pontius Pilate, with the Gentiles, and the people of Ifrael were gathered together, for to do whatsoever thy hand and thy counsel détermined before to

be done.

q Hof. v. Ephraim is oppreffed, and broken in judg. ment, because he willingly walked after the commandment. 2 Cor. viii. 11, 12. Now therefore perform the doing of it; that as there was a readiness to will, fo there may be a performance alfo out of that which you have. For if there be firft a willing mind, it is accepted according to that a man hath, and not according to that he hath not.

r Pfal. cxix. 176. I have gone aftray like a loft sheep, feck

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