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Wash out my old orig'nal stain: Tell me no more, it cannot be, Demons or men! The Lamb was slain, His blood was all pour'd out for me.
Sprinkle it, Jesu, on my heart! One drop of thy all-cleansing blood Shall make my sinfulness depart, And fill me with the life of God.
Father, supply my every need: Sustain the life thyself hast giv'n; Call for the corn, the living bread, The manna that comes down from heav'n.
The gracious fruits of righteousness, Thy blessing's unexhausted store, In me abundantly increase: Nor never let me hunger more.
Let me no more in deep complaint "My leanness, O my leanness," cry! Alone consum'd with pining want, Of all my Father's children I!
The painful thirst, the fond desire Thy joyous presence shall remove, While my full soul doth still require The whole eternity of love.
Holy, and true, and righteous Lord, I wait to prove thy perfect will: Be mindful of thy gracious word, And stamp me with thy Spirit's seal.
Thy faithful mercies let me find In which thou causest me to trust; Give me thy meek and lowly mind, And lay my spirit in the dust.
Shew me how foul my heart hath been When all renew'd by grace I am; When thou hast emptied me of sin, Shew me the fulness of my shame.
Open my faith's interior eye, Display thy glory from above; And all I am shall sink and die, Lost in astonishment and love.
Confound, o'erpower me with thy grace: I would be by myself abhor'd, All glory be to Christ my Lord!
Now let me gain perfection's height! Now let me into nothing fall! Be less than nothing in my sight, And feel that Christ is all in all!
WANDERING THOUGHTS. 2 COR. x. 4.
"While men, like fiends, each other tear In all the hellish rage of war?
?2. With regard to the latter sort of wandering thoughts, the case is widely different. 'Till the cause is removed, we cannot in reason expect the effect should cease. But the causes or occasions of these will remain, as long as we remain in the body. So long therefore we have all reason to believe, the effects will remain also.
SATAN'S DEVICES. 2 COR. ii. 11.
THE SCRIPTURE WAY OF SALVATION. EPH. ii. 8.
So it has been roundly and vehemently affirmed, for these five and twenty years. But I have constantly declared just the contrary: and that in all manner of ways. I have continually testified in private and in public, that we are sanctified, as well as justified, by faith. And indeed the one of those great truths does exceedingly illustrate the other. Exactly as we are justified by faith, so are we sanctified by faith. Faith is the condition, and the only condition of sanctification, exactly as it is of justification. It is the condition; none is sanctified but he that believes; without faith no man is sanctified. And it is the only condition: this alone is sufficient for sanctification. Every one that believes is sanctified, whatever else he has, ?or has not. In other words: no man is sanctified till he believes: every man when he believes is sanctified.
What is the inference we must draw herefrom? Why, that both repentance, rightly understood, and the practice of all good works, works of piety, as well as works of mercy, are in some sense necessary to sanctification.
"Come in, come in, thou heavenly guest! Nor hence again remove; But sup with me, and let the feast Be everlasting love."
ORIGINAL SIN. GEN. vi. 5.
"Once in a season, beasts too taste of love: Only the beast of reason is its slave, And in that folly drudges all the year."
"The hoary fool, who many days Has struggled with continued sorrow, Renews his hope, and fondly lays The desperate bet upon to-morrow!
"To-morrow comes! 'Tis noon! 'Tis night! This day like all the former flies: Yet on he goes, to seek delight To-morrow, till to-night he dies!"
THE NEW BIRTH. JOHN iii. 7.
But indeed the reason of the thing is so clear and evident, as not to need any other authority. For what can be more plain, than that the one is an external, the other an internal work? That the one is a visible, the other an invisible thing, and therefore wholly different from each other: the one being an act of man, purifying the body; the other, a change wrought by God in the soul. So that the former is just as distinguishable from the latter, as the soul from the body, or water from the Holy Ghost.
THE WILDERNESS STATE. JOHN xvi. 22.
"The day of evil would return no more."
That "Pain is perfect misery, and extreme Quite overturns all patience."
"Nature unreprov'd may drop a tear:"
There may be sorrow without sin.
The End of the Third VOLUME.
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