Almighty vengeance frowns on high,

And flames array the throne;

While thunder murmurs round the sky,
Impatient to be gone.

Where fhall I hide this noxious head:
Can rocks or mountains fave?

Or fhall I wrap me in the shade
Of midnight and the grave?

Is there no fhelter from the eye
Of a revenging God?

Jefus, to thy dear wounds I fly,
Bedew me with thy blood.

Thofe guardian drops my foul fecure,
And wash away my sin;
Eternal juftice frowns no more,
And confcience fmiles within.

I bless that wondrous purple stream
That whitens every stain;

Yet is my foul but half redeem'd,

If fin the tyrant reign.

Lord, blaft his empire with thy breath,

That curfed throne must fall;

Ye flattering plagues, that work my death, Fly, for I hate you all.

SOVEREIGNTY and GRACE.

HE Lord! how fearful is his name!

THE How wide is his command!

Nature, with all her moving frame,
Refts on his mighty hand.

Immortal glory forms his throne,
And light his awful robe;

Whilft with a fmile, or with a frown,
He manages the globe.

A word of his Almighty breath
Can fwell or fink the feas ;
Build the vaft empires of the earth,
Or break them as he please.

Adoring angels round him fall
In all their fhining forms,

His fovereign eye looks through them all,
And pities mortal worms.

His bowels, to our worthless race,

In fweet compassion move;

He cloathes his looks with fofteft

And takes his title, Love.

Now let the Lord for ever reign,

And fway us as he will,

grace,

Sick, or in health, in eafe, or pain,

We are his favourites ftill.

No

No more fhall peevish paffion rife,

The tongue no more complain;

'Tis fovereign love that lends our joys,

And love refumes again.

The LAW and GOSPEL.

CURS

URST be the man, for ever curst, "That doth one wilful fin commit; "Death and damnation for the first, "Without relief and infinite."

Thus Sinai roars; and round the earth
Thunder, and fire, and vengeance flings;
But, Jefus, thy dear gafping breath,
And Calvary, fay gentler things.

"Pardon, and grace, and boundless love,
Streaming along a Saviour's blood,

"And life, and joys, and crowns above,
"Dear-purchas'd by a bleeding God."

Hark, how he prays, (the charming found
Dwells on his dying lips) "Forgive!"
And every groan, and gaping wound,
Cries, "Father, let the rebels live."

Go, you that reft upon the law,
And toil, and feek falvation there,
Look to the flames that Mofes faw,
And fhrink, and tremble, and defpair.

But I'll retire beneath the cross:

Saviour, at thy dear feet I lie;

And the keen fword that juftice draws,
Flaming and red, fhall pass me by.

Seeking a divine Calm in a restless World.

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"O Mens, quæ ftabili fata Regis vice, &c.”, Cafimire, Book III. Od. 28.

TERNAL mind, who rul'ft the fates

Of dying realms, and rifing ftates,

With one unchang'd decree;

While we admire thy vaft affairs,
Say, can our little trifling cares
Afford a fimile to thee?

Thou scattereft honours, crowns,
We fly to feize, and fight to hold

The bubbles and the oar:
So emmets ftruggle for a grain;
So boys their petty wars maintain
For fhells upon the fhore.

Here a vain man his fceptre breaks,
The next a broken fceptre takes,

And warriors win and lofe;

and gold:

This rolling world will never ftand,

Plunder'd and fnatch'd from hand to hand,

As power decays or grows.

Earth's but an atom: Greedy fwords

Carve it amongst a thousand lords,
And yet they can't agree:

Let greedy fwords still fight and flay,
I can be poor; but, Lord, I pray
To fit and fmile with thee.

HAPPY FRAILT Y.

HOW meanly dwells th' immortal mind!

"How vile thefe bodies are !

"Why was a clod of earth defign'd "T'enclofe a heavenly star?

"Weak cottage where our fouls refide!

"This flesh a tottering wall;

"With frightful breaches gaping wide "The building bends to fall.

"All round it storms of trouble blow,

"And waves of forrow roll;

"Cold waves and winter storms beat through,

"And pain the tenant-foul.

"Alas! how frail our state!" said I:

And thus went mourning on,

Till fudden from the cleaving iky
A gleam of glory fhone.

My foul all felt the glory come,

And breath'd her native air;

Then the remember'd heaven her home,

And the a prifoner here.

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