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With fenfitives I may compare,
While I their various natures fhare :
Their diftinct names may juftly fuit
A strange, a reasonable brute
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The facred page my ftate defcribes
From volatile and reptile tribes ;

From ugly vipers r, beauteous birds /; From foaring hofts s, and fwinish herds t.

shall not be cut off. And Ix. 13. The glory of Lebanon shall come unto thee, the fir-tree, the pine tree, and the box togeth er, to beautify the place of my fanctuary, and I will make the place of my feet glorious.

# Matth. xi. 7. And as they departed, Jefus began to fay unto the multitudes concerning John, What went ye out into the wilderness to fee? A reed fhaken with the wind?

• Ifa. vi. 13. But yet in it fhall be a tenth, and it shall return, and fhall be eaten as a teil tree, and as an cak whofe fubftance is in them, when they caft their leaves: fo the holy feed fhall be the fubftance thereof.

p Ifa. Iviii. 5. Is it fuch a faft that I have chofen? a day for a man to afflict his foul? is it to bow down his head as a bulrufh, and to spread fackcloth and afhes under him? wilt thou call this a fast, and an acceptable day to the Lord?

9 Pfalm Ixxiii. 22. So foolish was I [Afaph], and igno. rant: I was a beast before thee. Prov. xxx. 2. Surely I [A gur] am more bratifh than any man, and have not the understanding of a man.

Matth. in. 7. But when John faw many of the Pharifees and Sac ducees come to his baptifm, he faid unto them, O gene eration of vipers, &c.

Song i. 12. The time of the finging of birds is come, and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land.

Ifa. Ix. 8. Who are these that fly as a cloud, and as the doves to their windows?

Matth. vii. 6. Give not that which is holy unto the dogs, neither caft ye your pearls before fwine, left they trample them under their feet, and turn again and rent you. 2 Pet. ii. 22. But it is happened to them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again: and the fow that wafhed to her wallowing in the mire.

I'm rank'd with beafts of diff'rent kinds,
With fpiteful tygers u, loving hinds v;
And creatures of diftinguifh'd forms,
With mounting eagles w, creeping worms x.
A mixture of each fort I am;
A hurtful snake y, a harmless lamb
A tardy afs a, a fpeedy roe b;
A lion bold c, a tin'rous doe d.

A flothful owl e, a bufy ant f;

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A dove to mourn g, a lark to chant b:

u Pfalm xxii. 16. For dogs have compaffed me, the affem bly of the wicked have inclofed me: they pierced my hands and my feet. Phil. iii. 2. Beware of dogs, beware of evil workers, beware of the concifion.

v Pfalm xviii. 3 God maketh my feet like hinds feet, and fetteth me upon my high places. Prov. v. 19. Let her the wife of thy youth] be as the loving hind, and pleasant roe; let he breafts fatisfy thee at all times, and be thou ra. vished always with her love.

w Ifa. xl. 1.— -They fhall mount up with wings as eagles.

* Pfalm xxii. 6. But I am a worm, and no man. Ifa. xli, 14. Fear not, thou worm Jacob, and ye men of Ifrael, &c.. Pfalm lviii. 4. Their poifon is like the poifon of a ser pent; they are like the deaf adder that stoppeth her ear.

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z John xxi. 15. So when they had dined, Jefus faith to Si mon Peter, Simon Son of Jonas, loveft thou me more than thefe? He faith unto him, Yea, Lord; thou knowest that I love thee. He faith unto him, Feed my lambs..

a Job xi. 12. Vain man would be wife, though man be born like a wild afs's colt

6 Prov. vi. 5. Deliver thyfelf [my fon] as a roe from the hand of the hunter.

c Prov. xxviii. I. The righteous are bold as a lion.

d Ifa. ii. 19. And they shall go into the holes of the rocks, and into the caves of the earth, for fear of the Lord, and for the glory of his Majesty, when he arifeth to shake terribly the earth.

e Pfal. cii. 6. I am like an owl of the defart.

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And with lefs equals to compare,.

An ugly toad i, an angel fair k.

SECT. X.

The mystery of the faints old and new man further
defcribed; and the means of their spiritual life.
Emptations breed me much annoy a
Yet divers fuch I count all joy bɩ

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On earth I fee confufions reel a,

Yet wisdom ord'ring all things well d

Prov. vi. 6. Go to to the ant, thou fluggard, confider her ways, and be wise, &c.

& Ifa. xxxviii. 14. Like a crane or a fwallow fo did I chat ter: I did mourn as a dove; mine eyes fail with looking up ward: O Lord,. I am oppreffed, undertake for me. Ezek. vii. 16. But they that escape of them [Ifrael], fhall efcape, and fhall be or the mountains like doves of the valleys, all of them mourning every one for his iniquity..

b Song ii. 2. The time of the finging of birds is come; and the voice of the turtle is heard in our land.

Rom. iii...-The poifon of afps is under their lips. Job xl. 4. Behold, I am vile, what fhall I answer thee! I will lay mine hand upon my mouth.

k A&s vi. 15. And all that fat in the council, looking fted. faftly on him [Stephen], faw his face as it had been the face of an angel.. 2 Cor. iii. 18. But we all with open face, be holding as in a glafs, the glory of the Lord, are changed into the fame image, from glory to glory, even as by the Spirit of

the Lord.

a Heb xii. 11. Now no chaftening for the prefent feemeth to be joyous, but grievous, &c. Pet. i. o. Wherein ye greatly rejoice, though now for a feafon (if need be) ye are in heaviness through manifold temptations.

b James i. 2. My brethren, count it all joy when ye fallin

to divers temptations.

c Pfal. Jxxxii. ¡. They know not, neither will they under ftand; they walk on in darkness: all the foundations of the earth are out of course.

d Pfal. xxix. 10. The Lord fitteth upon the flood: yea,

I fleep, yet have a waking ear e
I'm blind and deaf, yet fee and hear ƒ:
Dumb, yet cry, Abba, Father, plain g,
Born only once, yet born again h.

My heart's a mirror dim and bright i,
A compound ftrange of day and night :

the Lord fitteth King for ever. And Ixxxix. 9. Thou ruleft the raging of the fea: when the waves thereof arife, thou Atilleft them. Rom. viii. 28. And we know that all things work together for good, to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

e Song v. 2. I fleep, but my heart waketh: it is the voice of my Beloved that knocketh, faying, Open to me, my sister, my love, my dove, my undefiled: for my head is filled with dew, and my locks with the drops of the night.

f Ifa. xlii. 18, 19. Hear, ye deaf, and look, ye blind, that ye may fee. Who is blind, but my fervant? or deaf, as my meffenger that I fent? who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the Lord's fervant? And xxxv. 5. Then the eyes of the blind fhall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unftopped.

Ifa. xxxv. 6. Then fhall-the tongue of the dumb fing: for in the wilderness, fhall waters break out, and streams in the defart. Rom. viii. 15. For ye have not received the fpirit of bondage again to fear; but ye have received the Spirit of adoption, whereby we cry, Abba Father.

h John iii. 3,-6. Jefus anfwered and faid unto him, [Nicodemus], Verily, verily I fay unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God. Nicodemus faith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the fecond time into his mother's womb, and be born? Jefus answered, Verily, verily I fay unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh, is flesh : and that which is born of the Spirit, is fpirit.

i Lam. v. 17. For this our heart is faint, for these things. our eyes are dim. Ifa. xxxii. 3. And the eyes of them that fee, fhall not be dim, &c. k Zech. xiv. 7.

But it fhall be one day, which shall be

Of dung and di'mond's, drofs and gold. I;
Of fummer heat, and winter cold m.

Down like a ftone I fink and dive n,
Yet daily upward foar and thrive o
To heav'n I fly, to earth I tend p;
Still better grow, yet never mend q.

known to the Lord, not day, nor night: but it shall come to pafs, that at evening time it shall be light.

/ Mal. ii. 3. Behold I will corrupt your feed, and fpread dung upon your faces, even the dung of your folemn feats, and one thall take you away with it. Phil. iii. 8. Yea doubt

lefs and I count all things but lofs, for the excellency of the knowledge of Chrift Jefus my Lord: for whom I have fuffer ed the loss of all things, and do count them but dung that I may win Chrift. Ifa. Ixii. 3. Thou shalt alfo be a crown of glory in the hand of the Lord, and a royal diadem in the hand c thy God. Ifa. i, 25. And I will turn my hand upon the and purely purge away thy drofs, and take away all thy tin Job xxiii. 10. God knoweth the way that I take : when he hath tried me, 1 fhall come forth as gold.

m Pfalm xxxix 3. My heart was hot within me, while! was mufing the fire burned. Luke xxiv. 32. And they fail one to another, Did not our hearts burn within us, while he talked with us by the way, and while he opened to us the fcriptures? Matth. xxiv. 12. And because iniquity shall & bound, the love of many fhall wax cold. Rev. ii. 4. Never thelefs, I have fomewhat against thee, because thou hast left thy first love.

n Pfal. xlii. 6, 7. O my God, my foul is caft down within me: therefore will I remember thee from the land of Jordan and of the Hermonites, from the hill Mizar. Deep called unto deep, at the noife of thy water spouts: all thy waves and thy billows are gone over me.

o Pfal. xlii. 8, 9. Yet the Lord will command his loving kindness in the day time, and in the night his fong shall be with me, and my prayer unto the God of my life. I will fay unto God my rock, Why haft thou forgotten me? why go mourning because of the oppreffion of the enemy? 11. Why art thou caft down, O my foul? and why art thou difquieted within me? hope thou-in God, for I will yet praife him, who is

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