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I'm fomething that from nothing came f
Yet fure it is, I nothing am g.

Once I was dead, and blind, and lame h,
Yea, I continue ftill the fame i;

Yet what I was, I am no more k,
Nor ever shall be as before 1.

My Father lives m, my father's gone n,
My vital head both loft and won o.

f Gen. i. 1. In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth. Heb. xi. 3. Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, fo that things which are feen were not made of things which do appear.

g Ifa. xl. 17. All nations before him are as nothing, and` they are accounted to him lefs than nothing, and vanity. Dan., iv. 35. All the inhabitants of the earth are reputed as nothing.

h Eph. ii. 1. And you hath he quickened, who were dead in trefpaffes and fins. Rev. iii. 17. Because thou fayeft, I am rich, and increased in goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked. Ifa xxxv. 6. Then fhall the lame man leap as an hart, and the tongue of the dumb fing; for in the wilderness shall waters break out, and ftreams in the defart.

i Rom. vii. 14. For we know that the law is fpiritual: but I am carnal, fold under fin. v. 24: O wretched man that I am, who shall deliver me from the body of this death?

k Rom. vii. 17. Now then, it is no more I that do it, but fin that dwelleth in me. v. 20. Now, if I do that I would not, it is no more I that do it, but fin that dwelleth in me. John ix. 23. He [the blind inan] anfwered and faid, Whether he be a finner, or no, I know not; one thing I know, that whereas I was blind, now I fee.

Rom. xi. 29. For the gifts and calling of God are without repentance. Jer. xxxii. 40. And I will make an everlastting 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 fhall not depart from me.

m Ifa. ix. 6. His name fhall be called-The everlasting

My parents cruel are and kind p,
Of one, and of a diff'rent mind q.

My father poifon'd me to death r,

My mother's hand will stop my breath s; Her womb, that once my fubftance gave, Will very quickly be my grave s.

My fifters all my flesh will eat i,

My brethren tread me under feet u ;

Father. Rev. i. 18. I am he that liveth, and was dead; and behold, I am alive for evermore.

Amen.

n Hof. xiv. 3. In thee the fatherlefs findeth mercy. Zech. i. 5. Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?

• 1 Cor. xv. 45. It is written, The first man Adam was made a living foul, the laft Adam was made a quickening fpirit. p Pfalm ciii. 13. Like as a father pitieth his children`; fo the Lord pitieth them that fear him. Ifa. xliii. 27. Thy first fa ther hath finned, and thy teachers have trangressed against me.

9 Job xxiii. 13. But he is in one mind, and who can turn him? and what his foul defireth, even that he doth. Rom. viii. I For they that are after the flesh, do mind the things of the flesh; but they that are after the Spirit, the things of the Spirit. 7. Because the carnal mind is enmity against God: for it is not fubject to the law of God, neither indeed can be.

r Rom. v. 12. Wherefore, as by one man fin entered into the world, and death by fin; and fo death paffed-upon all men, for that all have finned.

Gen. i 16. Unto the woman he said, I will greatly multiply 'thy forrow, and thy conception: in forrow thou shalt bring forth children, &c.

s Pfalm cxlvi 4. His breath goeth forth, he returneth to his earth; in that very day his thoughts perifh. Eccl. iii. 20. All go unto one place, and all are of the duft, and all turn to duft again.

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t Job xvii. 14. I have faid to corruption, Thou art my ther; to the worm, Thou art my mother, and my fifter. Chap. xix. 26. And though after my skin worms deftroy this body, yet in my flesh shall I fee God.

u Even in a moral fenfe, Jer. xii. 10. Many paftors have

My nearest friends are most unkind v,
My greateft foe's my greatest friend w.
He could from feud to friendfhip pass,
Yet never change from what he was x.
He is my Father, he alone,

Who is my Father's only Son y.

I am his mother's fon z, yet more,
A fon his mother a never bore,

deftroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness. Ezek. xxxiv. 18. Seemeth it a small thing unto you, to have eaten up the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the refidue of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet?

v Pfalm lv. 12. 13. For it was not an enemy that reproached me, then I could have borne it; neither was it he that hated me, that did magnify himself against me, then I would have hid myself from him. But it was thou, a man, mine equal, my guide, and mine acquaintance. Mic. vii. 5, 6. Truit ye not in a friend, put ye not confidence in a guide : keep the doors of thy mouth from her that lieth in thy bofom. For the fon dishonoureth the father, the daughter rifeth up against the mother, the daughter in-law against her mother inlaw; a man's enemies are the men of his own house.

w Pf. vii. 11. God is angry with the wicked every day. 2 Cor. v. 19. God was in Chrift, reconciling the world unto himself, not imputing their trefpaffes unto them.

Mal iii. 16. For I am the Lord, I change not; there. fore ye fons of Jacob are not confumed. Hof. xiv. 4. I will heal their backsliding, I will love them freely; for mine an ger is turned away from him.

John xx. 17. Jefus faith unto her [Mary], Touch me not: for I am not yet afcended unto my Father: but go to my brethren, and say unto them, I afcend unto my Father and your Father, and to my God and your God. Ifa. ix. 6. Unto us a fon is given: and his name fhall be called-the everlasting Father. John i. 14. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the father, full of grace and truth.

But born of him b, and yet aver
His Father's fons my mother's were c.
I am divorc'd, yet marry'd ftill d,
With full confent against my will e
My husband present isf, yet gone g,
We differ much, yet ftill are one b.
He is the first, the laft, the all i,
Yet number'd up with infects fmall k.
The firft of all things /, yet alone
The fecond of the great Three-one m.

* Song iii. 4. It was but a little that I paffed from them, but I found him, whom my foul loveth: I held him and would not let him go, until I had brought him into my mother's houfe, and into the chamber of her that conceived me. v. 1. Go forth, O ye daughters of Zion, and behold king Solomon with the crown wherewith his mother crowned him in the day of his efpoufals, and in the day of the gladness of his heart. a viz. His natural mother according to the flesh. b 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. c Gal. iv. 26. But Jerufalem which is above, is free, which is the mother of us all.

d Rom. vii. 4. Wherefore my brethren, ye are also become dead to the law by the body of Christ; and that ye should be married to another, even to him who is raised from the dead.

e Pfalm cx 3. Thy people fhall be willing in the day of thy power.

f Matth. xxviii. 20. Lo, I am with you alway, even unto the end of the world.

g John xiv. 2. I go to prepare a place for you.

h John xvii. 21. That they all may be one, as thou, Father, art in me, and I in thee; that they also may be one in us. Rev. i. . I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the ·laft-Col. iii, 11. Chrift is all, and in all.

k Pfalm xxii. 6.

But I am a worm, and no man.

/ Col. i. 15, 16. Who is the image of the invifible God. the first born of every creature: for by him were all things created that are in heaven, and that are in earth, vifible and invifible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or pracipali.

A creature never could, he be,

Yet is a creature ftrange I fee n;
And own this uncreated one,
The fon of man, yet no man's fon ò.
He's omniprefent all may know ;.
Yet never could be wholly fo 9.
His manhood is not here and there r,
Yet he is God-man ev'ry where s.

ties, or powers all things were created by him and for him. m 1 John v. 7. For there are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Holy Ghoft: and these three are one. Matth. xxviii. 19. Go ye therefore and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost.

n John i. 2, 3. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. The fame was in the beginning with God. All things were made by him; and without him was not any thing made that was made. v. 14. And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father) full of grace and truth.

o Matth. i. 23. Behold a virgin fhall be with child, and fhall bring forth a fon, and they shall call his name Emmanu el, which being interpreted is, God with us. Luke i. 34, 35Then faid Mary unto t gel, How fhall this be, feeing I know not a man? And the angel answered and said unto her, The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee, and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee; therefore also that holy thing which fhall be born of thee, shall be called the Son of God.

Pfalm cxxxix. 7, 8, 9, 10. Whither fhall I go from thy Spirit? or, whither fhall I flee from thy prefence? If I afcend up into heaven, thou art there: if I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning, and dwell in the uttermost parts of the fea: even there shall thy hand lead me, and thy right hand shail hold me.

q Luke xxiv. 6. He is not here, but is rifen.

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r John xvi. 16. A little while, and ye fhall not fee me: and again, a little while, and ye fhall fee me, because I go to the Father.

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