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That heav'nly Teacher, fent from God, fhall your whole foul inspire, Your minds fhall fill with facred truth, your hearts with facred fire.

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Peace is the gift I leave with you, my peace to you bequeath; Peace that fhall comfort you through life, and cheer your fouls in death.

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I give not, as the world beftows, with promise false and vain

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Nor cares, nor fears, fhall wound the heart in which my words remain.

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XLIV.

JOHN, xix. 30.

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Ehold the Saviour on the cross,
a fpectacle of woe!

See from his agonizing wounds
the blood inceffant flow,

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Till death's pale enfigns o'er his cheek and trembling lips were spread; Till light forfook his clofing eyes, and life his drooping head.

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'Tis finifh'd-was his lateft voice; thefe facred accents o'er, He bow'd his head, gave up the ghost, and fuffer'd pain no more.

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'Tis finifh'd-The Meffiah dies
for fins, but not his own;
The great redemption is complete,
and Satan's pow'r o'erthrown.

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"Tis finifh'd-All his groans are past; his blood, his pain, and toils, Have fully vanquifhed our foes,

and crown'd him with their fpoils..

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"Tis finifh'd-Legal worship ends, and gospel ages run;

All old things now are past away, and a new world begun.

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ROMANS, ii. 4.-8

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Ngrateful finners! whence this fcorn of God's long-fuff'ring grace?

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And whence this madness that infults th' Almighty to his face?

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Is it because his patience waits,
and pitying bowels move,
You multiply tranfgreffions more,
and fcorn his offer'd love?

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Doft thou not know, felf-blinded man! his goodness is defign'd

To wake repentance in thy foul, and melt thy harden'd mind?

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And wilt thou rather choose to meet

th' Almighty as thy foe,

And treasure up his wrath in store against the day of woe?

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Soon fhall that fatal day approach, that must thy fentence feal,

And righteous judgments now unknown, in awful pomp reveal;

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While they who full of holy deeds
to glory feek to rife,
Continuing patient to the end,
fhall gain th' immortal prize.

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XLVI.

ROMANS, iii. 19.-22.

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Ain are the hopes the fons of men upon their works have built;

Their hearts by nature are unclean. their actions full of guilt.

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Silent let Jew and Gentile stand, without one vaunting word;

And, humbled low, confefs their guilt before heav'ns righteous Lord.

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No hope can on the law be built of justifying grace;

The law, that fhows the finner's guilt, condemns him to his face.

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Jefus! how glorious is thy grace! when in thy name we trust, Our faith receives a righteousness that makes the finner just.

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ND fhall we then go on to fin, that grace may more abound? Great God, forbid that fuch a thought fhould in our breaft be found!

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When to the facred fount we came, did not the rite proclaim,

That, wafh'd from fin, and all its stains, new creatures we became ?

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