Supreme, eternal ages past; I reign
Thro' time, and shall extend my potent sway,
While everlasting ages roll along :

Th' Almighty, who was dead, but live again,
And live forever: lo! my hands contain
The adamantine keys of hell and death.
One with the eternal father ever blest;
In all the grand essential dignities
And independence of the deity.

My name is King of kings, and Lord of lords.
On my white horse I ride triumphant forth,
Conqu❜ring, to conquer all my enemies,
By the vindictive terrors of my hand;

Or the sweet sceptre of victorious love.
Great shepherd of my sheep, with my strong arm

I snatch them from the jaws of death and hell.
And from the east and west; from north and south,
Gather my lambs with condescending grace,

And in my gentle bosom foster them,
With all the kind compassions of a God!

Yet on my great white throne I shall appear,
My throne of judgment; from before my face

The heav'ns and earth shall flee, my voice shall shake
Hell from its deep foundation....shall unloose
The bands of death, and call his pris'ners up,
To hear their final sentence from my mouth!
To own my great determinations just,
And feel and know that God is judge himself,
The mighty God, Jehovah: then to me
All knees shall bow, and ev'ry tongue confess
That I am Lord, to God the Father's praise.

He loves the Son, and to his hand commits
All judgment, that his creatures may adore,
And equal homage, equal honors pay,
As to the Father: he that honors ME,
Honors the Father; he that disobeys,
Shall feel the vengeance of a triune God.
The sinner who believes not that I AM,
Dies in his sins, sinks to the depths of hell,
To endless night and everlasting fire.

While in my kingdom, shall my saints rejoice,
And see in their Redeemer's person shine
The fulness of unclouded deity."

Thus speaks the lips of truth, can doubt arise Against a testimony so divine!

'Tis written, in the mouth of two or three,
Whose witness harmonize, shall every word
Establish'd, in public credit, stand,

Nor scrup'lous unbelief dare wag her tongue.
Here then, Lothario, is th' eternal three,
The undivided God, in essence one,

Bearing united evidence to prove

The native grandeur of the sinners' friend;
The babe at Bethlehem; the man who groan'd
In sad Gethsemane, who bled and died

A sacrifice for sin on Calvary.

The God whose arm supports an universe;

The king supreme, who reigns o'er earth and heav'n,
And stretches forth his empire over hell.

Jehovah Jesus, bright with all the rays
Of the eternal Father's majesty,
His own essential, independent right.

And is Lothario deaf to all the proof
A God can give of his divinity?

And is Lothario blind to all the beams

Of light divine that revelation pours
On the grand mystery of godliness?
How would Lothario smile, should he behold
An idiot shutting out the light of day,
Refusing the bright glories of the sun,
To cheer him with a taper's feeble beam.
Yet such thy folly, O thou man of parts!
Deep read in science, nurtur'd in the schools
Of lit'rature, thou with maturest thought,
Rejectst the glorious beams of light divine,
The unerring testimony of a God;

To walk by the false glimm'ring of thine own
Depraved, beclouded reason. Reason cries,
(Right reason, reason sanctified by grace)
Cries with loud voice, sinner obey thy God!
Receive his mandates, and believe his word!
'Tis reason's triumph to fall lowly down,
And bow to revelation's grand display

Of sacred truth; and where its pow'rs, o'ercome
By splendors all divine, must sink and fail;
Believe and acquiesce with humble awe,
Silent, adore the heights it cannot climb,
Ascribing truth and wisdom to its God.

Does the Redeemer to himself assume

All the grand titles due to deity,
And is he not the deity supreme?
Is he a virtuous, high exalted man,
Humble and lowly while he dwelt below,

Now ruling all things by deputed pow'r?
Where is his virtue, if he utter lies?
Where is his goodness, if he can deceive?
Where's his humility if he presume
To arrogate the style of deity?

The glorions characters, and awful names
Of heav'ns Jehovah, this were blasphemy;
Pride, horrid pride; no virtuous, holy man
Dare so presume, t' would stamp his character
The worst of beings: can Lothario's faith
Commit his soul to such a saviour's hands?
Nay, be consistent; if he be not God,
As he asserts, say not he is a man
Pessess'd of every virtue, good and great.
Reject him as a cheat, impostor vile;
Commit thy erring bible to the flames,
And seek salvation by some other way
Than that reveals; that knows no other name
Than Jesus Christ, the ever-living God.

Say he is holy, then his word is true;

For truth and holiness can never part;

If true his word, the titles he assumes,
The glorious attributes he calls his own,
Must be his native right....Grant this....He shines
In the full splendors of the deity,

The uncreate, the ever blest I AM.

No cheat, no impostor, but the great God,

The righteous judge, who comes in flaming fire, pour his wrath upon his enemies.

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O, may Lothario, by his grace subdu'd,
Fall at his feet in time, and kiss the Son,
That when that day arrives, he may appear

The God of his salvation; angels then

Shall tune their golden harp, and sweetly sing
The prodigal restored to life and peace,

Their master honored, and a sinner sav'd:
And while joy echoes thro' the courts of heav'n,
The distant earth shall catch the pleasing sound,
Saints shall delight to hear the news, to see
Triumphant truth prevail, and error fall,
Jesus exalted, and Lothario blest.*

* It was appointed by the Mosaic law, that in the mouth of two or three witnesses, every word should be established: now, if the witness of men is to be received, as to the things of men, the witness of God is greater, and certainly ought to be received as to the things of God. There are three that bear record in heaven, the Father, the Word, and the Spirit, and these three not only are one in essence, but bear one united testimony of the divinity of the Lord Jesus Christ. The declarations of God the Father upon this grand subject are noticed in the former note. The witness of the Holy Spirit runs throughout the Scriptures of the Old and New Testaments. Both prophets and apostles proclaim this illustrious truth, and the Redeemer, who assumes to himself the character of essential truth, John xiv. 6, assumes to himself also, all the other characters, perfections and titles, which peculiarly belong to the deity....One of the grand characteristics of Jehovah, is that of being the searcher of the heart, and the trier of the reins of the children of men, 1 Kings viii. 39. "Then hear thou in heaven thy dwelling place: and forgive, and do, and give to every man according to his work, whose heart thou knowest; for thou, even thou only, knowest the hearts of all the children of men," Psalm vii. 9. "For the righteous God trieth the heart and reins," Jer. xi. 20. "O Lord of Hosts that judgest righteously, that triest the reins and the heart," Jer. xvii. 10. "I the Lord search the heart, I try the reins." Now, the Lord Jesus, speaking