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My inward foes that me alarm,
Breed me much hurt, yet little-harm .
I get no good by them*, yet see
To my chief good they caufe me flee p.
They reach to me a deadly ftroke q,
Yet fend me to a living rock r.

They make me long for Canaan's banks s,
Yet fure I owe them little thanks.

membered not the multitude of thy mercies, but provoked him at the sea, even at the Redfea.

# Pfalm xx. II. Thou haft terned for me my mourning into dancing: thou haft put off my fackcloth, and girded me with gladnefs. Rom. viii. 28, See letter a.

• Jer. x. 19. Wo is me for my hurt, my wound is grievous! but I faid, Truly this is a grief, and I must bear it. 1 Pet. iii. 13. And who is he that will harm you; if ye be followers of that which is good?

* viz. in themselves, but much evil. 1 Pet. ii. 11. Dearly beloved, beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lufts, which war against the foul. James i. 14, 15. But every man is tempted, when he is drawn away by his own luft, and enticed. Then when luft hath conceived, it bringeth forth fin; and fin, when it is finifhed, bringeth forth death. Pfalm cxliii. 9. Deliver me, O Lord from mine enemies : I flee unto thee to hide me.

9 Rom. viii. 13.

If ye

live after the flesh, ye shall die. Pfalm xviii. 46, 47. The Lord liveth, and bleffed be my rock: and let the God of my falvation be exalted. It is God that avengeth me, and fubdueth the people under me.

s Pfalm lv. 6. And I faid, O that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at reft. And cxx. 5. Wo is me, that I fojourn in Mefech, that I dwell in the tents of Kedar. Rom. viii. 20-23. For the creature was made subjec to vanity, not willingly, but by reafon of him who hath fubjected the fame in hope: because the creature itself also shall be delivered from the bondage of corruption, into the glorious liberty of the children of God. For we know the whole creation groaneth, and travelleth in pain together until now : and not only they, but ourselves alfo, which have the firft

I travel t, yet stand firm and fast u;
I run v, but yet I make no hafte w.
I take away both old and new x,
Within my fight y, yet out of view z.
My way directs me in the way a,
And will not fuffer me to ftray b;
Though high and out of fight it be,
I'm in the way, the way's in me c.

fruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourfelves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body. Heb. xi. 13.-and confeffed that they were ftrangers and pilgrims on the earth.

1 Cor. xvi. 13. Watch ye, ftand faft in the faith; quit you like men, be strong.

Heb. xii. 1. Let us run with patience the race that is fet before us.

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w Ifa. xxviii. 16. He that believeth, shall not make haste. x Jer. vi. 16. Thus faith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways and fee, and afk for the old paths, where is the good way, and walk therein, and ye shall find rest for your fouls. Heb. x. 19, 20. Having therefore, brethren, boldness to enter into the holiest by the blood of Jefus, by a new and living way, which he hath confecrated for us, through the vail, that is to fay, his flesh.

Cor. xiii. 12. For we now fee through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as I also am known.

z John xvi. 10. I go to my Father, and ye fee me no more, a John xiv. 6. Jefus faith unto him I am the way:-no man cometh unto the Father, but by me.

Ifa. xliii. 15. And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things ftraight. These things will I do unto them, and not forfake them. Chap Iv. 4. Behold, I have given him to be a leader and commander to the people,

c Ifa. xxxv. 8. And an high way fhall be there, and a way, and it shall be called the way of holiness; the unclean shall not pass over it, but it fhall be for thofe : the wayfaring men, though fools, shall not err therein. John xv. 14. Abide i

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'Tis ftraight d, yet full of heighths and depths e;

I keep the way f, the way me keeps g..
And being that to which I tend,
My very way's my journey's end h.
When I'm in company I groan,
Because I then am moft alone i;

me, and I in you. Chap. xvii. 23. I in them, and thou in me, that they may be made perfect in one, and that the world may know that thou haft fent me, and haft loved them, as thos haft loved me v. 26. And I have declared unto them thy name, and will declare it : that the love wherewith thou haft loved me, may be in them, and I in them.

d Matth. iii. 3. This is he that was fpoken of by the pro. phet Efaias, faying, the voice of one crying in the wilderness, Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make his paths ftraight.

Ifa. xl. 3, 4. The voice of him that crieth in the wilder. nefs. Prepare ye the way of the Lord, make straight in the defart a highway for our God. Every valley fhall be exalted, and every mountain and hill shall be made low: and the crook ed fhall be made ftraight, and the rough places plain. Chap. xlii. 16. Sec letter b. Pfalm lxxvii. 13: Thy way, O God, is in the fanctuary. v. 19. Thy way is in the fea, and thy path in the great waters, and thy footsteps are not known.

f Pfalm xxxvii. 34. Wait on the Lord, and keep his way, and he fhall exalt thee to inherit the land.

g Pfalm cxxi. 3, 4. He will not fuffer thy foot to be mo ved he that keepeth thee will not flumber. Behold, he that, keepeth Ifrael, fhall neither flumber nor fleep.

Heb. xii. 22, 23, 24, But ye are come unto mount Si on, and unto the city of the living God, the heavenly Jerufa lem, and to an innumerable company of angels, to the gene. ral affembly and church of the first-born, which are written in heaven, and to God the judge of all, and to the fpirits of just men made perfect, and to Jefus the Mediator of the new covenant, and to the blood of fprinkling, that fpeaketh better things than the blood of Abel. 1 Theff. iv. 17. Then we which are alive and remain, fhall be caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the air; and fo fhall we ever be with the Lord.

Yet in my clofeft fecrecy,
I'm joyful in my company k.

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I'm heard afar, without a noife
I cry without a lifted voice m;
Still moving in devotions sphere n,
Yet feldom fteady perfevere 6.

I'm heard when anfwer'd foon or late p;
And heard when I no answer get q;

i Song i. . Tell me, O thou whom my foul loveth, where thou feedest, where thou make thy flock to rest at noon: for why fhould I be as one that turneth afide by the flocks of thy companions?

k Song vii. 11, 12. Come my beloved, let us go forth into the field, let us lodge in the villages. Let us get up early to the vineyards, let us fee if the vine flourish, whether the tender grape appear, and the pomegranates bud forth: for there will I give thee my loves.

1 Pfalm xx. 6. Now know I, that the Lord faveth his anointed he will hear him from his holy heaven, with the faving ftrength of his right hand.

in 1 Sam. i. 13, 149 15. Now Hannah, fhe fpake in her heart, only her lips moved, but her voice was not heard: therefore Eli thought he had been drunken. And Eli faid unto her, How long wilt thou be drunken? put away thy wine from thee. And Hannah anfwered and faid, No, my Lord, I am a woman of a forrowful spirit; I have drunken neither wine nor ftrong drink, but have poured out my foul before the Lord.

1 Theff. v. 17. Pray without ceafing

• Hof. vi. 4. O Ephraim, what fhall I do unto thee? O Judah, what shall I do unto thee? for your goodness is as a morning cloud, and as the early dew it goeth away.

p. Ifa. xlix. 8. Thus faith the Lord, in an acceptable time have I heard thee, and in a day of falvation have I helped thee.

q Matth. xxvi. 39. And Jefus went a little further, and fell on his face, and prayed, faying, O my Father, if it be poffible, let this cup pals from me, nevertheless, not as I will, but as thou wilt.

Yea, kindly anfwer'd when refus'd r,
And friendly treat when harshly us'd f.
My fervent pray'rs ne'er did prevail.s,
Nor e'er of prevalency fail t.

I wrestle till my ftrength be spent u,

Yet yield when ́ftrong recruits are fent v.

r Pfalm xxii. 1, 2, 3 My God, my God, why haft thou forfaken me? why art thou fo far from helping me, and from the words of my roaring? O my God, I cry in the day time, but thou heareft not; and in the night feafon, and am not filent. But thou art holy, O thou that inhabitest the praises of Ifrael.

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Heb xii. 10. And ye have forgotten the exhortar tion, which speaketh unto you as children, My, fon, defpife not thou the chaftening of the Lord, nor faint when thou art rebuked of him. For whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and feourg. eth every fon whom he receiveth. If ye endure chaftening, God dealeth with you as with fons; for what fon is he whom the father chafteneth not? But if ye be without chastisement, whereof all are partakers, then are ye baltards, and not fons. Furthermore, we have had fathers of our flesh, which cor rected us, and we gave them reverence: fhall we not much rather be in fubjection to the Father of fpirits, and live? For they verily for a few days chaftened us after their own plea. fure; but he for our profit, that we might be partakers of his holinefs.

Dan. ix. 18, 19. O my God, incline thine ear, and hear; open thine eyes, and behold our defolations, and the city which is called by thy name: for we do not prefent cur fupe plications before thee for our righteoufnefs, but for thy great: mercies. O Lord, hear; O Lord, forgive; O Lord, heark. en and do defer not, for thine own fake, O my God: for thy city, and thy people are called by thy nanie.,

James v. 16. The effectual fervent prayer of a righteous. man availeth much..

u Gen xxx, 24, 25. And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day And when he faw that he prevailed not against him, he touch ed the hollow of his thigh and the hollow of Jacob's thigh out of joint, as he wrestled with him.

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