PART VI.

THE BELIEVER'S PRINCIPLES,

CONCERNING

III. JUS

I. CREATION AND REDEMPTION; II. LAW AND GOSPEL;
TIFICATION AND SANCTIFICATION; IV. FAITH AND
SENSE; V. HEAVEN AND EARTH.

CHAPTER I.

THE BELIEVER'S PRINCIPLES CONCERNING CREATION

REDEMPTION; OR, SOME OF THE FIRST PRIN

CIPLES OF THE ORACLES OF GOD.

OF CREATION.

SECTION I.

THE FIRST CHAPTER OF GENESIS COMPEN

OR, THE FIRST SEVEN DAYS' WORK, FROM THE FOL
LOWING LATIN LINES, ENGLISHED.

PRIMA dies cælum, et terram, lucemque, creavit.
Altera distendit spatium, discrimen aquarum.
Tertia secernens undas, dat gramina terris.
Quarta creat solem et lunam, cælestiaque astra.

AND

DIZED;

Quinta dedit pisces, eadem genus omne volantum. Sexta tulit pecudes, hominem quoque quem Deus ipse Condidit; inde operis requies lux septima fulsit.

IN ENGLISH THUS:

1. The first day heav'n, earth, light, JEHOVAH sent. 2. The next, a water-sund'ring firmament.

3. The third made dry land spring with flow'ry pride. 4. The fourth set up bright lamps, time to divide. 5. The fifth brought swimming fish and flying fowl. 6. The sixth, earth's herds, and man to bear the rule. 7. The seventh brought forth no more, yet brought the

best

The lab'ring creatures' and Creator's rest.

OR THUS:

The first day, at JEHOVAH's word,

Did heav'n, and earth, and light afford.

The next, a firmament so wide

As might the waters' course divide.

The third, severing land from seas,

Made earth produce herbs, grass, and trees.

The fourth, sun, moon, and stars of light,
Set up to rule the day and night.

The fifth made fish in depths to move,
And fowls to fly in air above.

The sixth all earthly beasts did bring,
And man to be the creature's king.

The seventh of all these days the best,
Was made for God and man to rest.

Redemption-work doth bring again
The first of these to be the main,

Fetching new heav'ns and earth in sight,
And immortality to light.

Since then the first is now the best,

Keep well this pledge of endless rest.

THE SUM OF CREATION.

All things from nothing, to their Sov'reign Lord Obedient rose at his commanding word,

Fair in his eye the whole creation stood;

He saw the building, and pronounc'd it good.

And now each work (while nature's fabric stands)
Loud for its wise and mighty Lord demands
A rent of praise, a loud and lofty song,
From ev'ry rational beholder's tongue.

SECTION II.

OF DEDEMPTION. THE MYSTERY OF THE REDEEMER'S INCARNA

TION; OR, GOD MANIFESTED IN THE FLESH, 1 TIMOTHY, III. 16. JOHN I. 14.

WHAT though the waters, struck with dread,

Rise up and form a pyramid ?

Though floods should gush from rocks and stones,

Or living souls from wither'd bones?

To hear of an incarnate God,
Is yet more wonderful and odd;
Or to behold how God most high
Could in our nature breathe and die.

What though the bright angelic forms
Degraded were to crawling worms?
These creatures were but creatures still,
Transform'd at their Creator's will,

Though creatures change a thousand ways,
It cannot such amazement raise,

Nor such a scene as this display-
Th' eternal Word a piece of clay.

God-man a strange contexture fix'd;
Yet not confused nor commix'd;
Yet still a myst'ry great and fresh,
A Spirit infinite made flesh.

What though when nothing heard his call,
Nothing obeyed and brought forth all?
What though he nothing's brood maintain,
Or all annihilate again

Let nothing into being pass,
Or back again to what it was?
But, lo! the God of beings here,
As turn'd to nothing doth appear.

All heav'n's astonish'd at his form,
The mighty God became a worm.
Down Arian pride to him shall bow,
He's Jesus and JEHOVAH too.

THE SUM OF REDEMPTION.

With haughty mind to Godhead man aspir'd, With loving mind our manhood God desir'd: