6.

They reach to me a deadly Stroke,
Yet fend me to my living Rock.
They make me long for Canaan's Banks,
Yet fure I owe them little Thanks.

7.

I travel, yet ftand firm and faft ;
I run, but yet I make no Haste.
I take a Way both old and new,
Within my Sight, yet out of View.

8.

My Way directs me in the Way,
And will not fuffer me to ftray:
Tho' high and out of Sight it be,
I'm in the Way, the Way's in me.

9.

'Tis ftraight, yet full of Heights and Depths,
I keep the Way, the Way me keeps.
And being that to which I tend,

My very Way's my Journey's End.

10.

When I'm in Company I groan,
Because I then am moft alone;
Yet in my closeft Secrecy,
I'm joyful in my Company.

II.

I'm heard afar without a Noife,

I

cry without a lifted Voice:

Still moving in Devotion's Sphere,
Yet feldom fteady persevere.

12.

I'm heard when anfwer'd foon or late,
And heard when I no Answer get;
Yea, kindly anfwer'd, when refus'd,
And friendly treat when harfhly us’d.

My

13.

My fervent Pray'rs ne'er did prevail,
Nor e'er of Prevalency fail.

I wrestle 'till my Strength be spent,
Yet yield when ftrong Recruits are fént.

14.

I languifh for my Husband's Charms,
Yet faint away when in his Arms.

My sweetest Health does Sicknefs prove;
When Love me heals, I'm fick of Love.

15.

I am moft merry when I'm fad;
Moft full of Sorrow when I'm glad:
Moft precious when I am moft vile,
And moft at Home when in Exile.

16.
My bafe and honourable Birth
Excites my Mourning and my Mirth.
I'm poor, yet ftock'd with untold Rent,
Moft weak and yet omnipotent.

17.

On Earth there's none fo great and high,
Nor yet fo low and mean as I :
None or fo foolish, or fo wife;
So often fall, so often rife.

I feeing him I never faw,

18.

Serve without Fear, and yet with Awe: Tho' Love when perfect, Fear remove; Yet moft I fear when most I love.

20.

I'm bound to love my Friends, but yet
I fin unless I do them hate :

I am oblig'd to hate my Foes,
Yet bound to love, and pray for those.

21.

Heart-Love to Man I'm call'd t'impart,
Yet God ftill calls for all my Heart.
I do him and his Service both,
By Nature love, by Nature loath.

Mysteries about Flesh and Spirit, Liberty and Bondage, Life and Death.

I.

UCH like my Heart both falfe and true,
I have a Name both old and new,

Μ'

No new Thing is beneath the Sun,

Yet all is new, and old Things gone.

2.

Tho' in my Flesh dwells no good Thing,
Yet Chrift in me I joyful fing.

Sin I confefs, and I deny,

For tho' I fin it is not I.

3.

I fin against, and with my Will,
I'm innocent, yet guilty ftill,
Tho' fain I'd be the greateft Saint,
To be the leaft I'd be content.

4.

My Lowness may my Height evince,
I'm both, a Feggar and a Prince.
With meaneft Subjects I appear,
With Kings a Royal Sceptre bear.

5.

I'm both unfetter'd and involv'd,
By Law condemn'd, by Law abfolv'd:
My Guilt condignly punish'd fee,
Yet I the guilty Wretch go free.

6.

My Gain did by my Lofs begin;
My Righteoufnefs commenc'd by Sin
My perfect Peace by bloody Strife:
Life is my Death, and Death

7.

;

my Life.

I'm (in this prefent Life I know)
A Captive and a Freeman too;
And tho' my Death can't fet me free,
It will perfect my Liberty.

8.

am not worth one dufty Grain,

Yet more than Worlds of golden Gain;
Tho' worthless I myself indite,

Yet fhall as worthy walk in white.

The Mystery of free Juftification thro' CHRIST's Obe dience and Satisfaction.

N

I.

O Creature ever could or will For Sin yield Satisfaction full; Yet Juftice from the Creature's Hand, Both fought and got its full Demand.

2.

Hence tho' I am, as well I know,
A Debtor, yet I nothing owe.
My Creditor has nought to fay,
Yet never had I aught to pay.

3.

He freely pardon'd every Mite,
Yet would no fingle Farthing quit.
Hence every Blifs that falls to me,
Is dearly bought, yet wholly free.

4.

All Pardon that I need, I have,
Yet daily Pardon need to crave.
The Law's Arrest keeps me in awe,
But yet 'gainst me there is no Law.

5. Tho' Truth my juft Damnation crave, Yet Truth's engag'd my Soul to fave. My whole Salvation comes by this, Fair Truth and Mercy's mutual Kiss. 6.

Law-Breakers ne'er its Curfe have mist,
But I ne'er kept it, yet am bleft.
I can't be justify'd by it,

And yet it can't but me acquit.

7.

I'm not oblig'd to keep it more,
Yet more oblig'd than e'er before.
By perfect doing Life I find,

Yet do and live no more me bind.

8.

These Terms no Change can undergo, Yet fweetly chang'd they are; for lo My Doings caus'd my Life, but now My Life's the Cause that makes me do.

9.

Tho' Works of Righteoufnefs I ftore,
Yet Righteousness of Works abhor;
For Righteoufnefs without a Flaw,
Is Righteousness without the Law.*

Rom. iii. 20, 21, 2.