[5 Wild and unwholfome as the Root
Will all the Branches be;
How can we hope for living Fruit
From fuch a deadly Tree?
6 What mortal Pow'r from Things unclean
Can pure Productions bring?
Who can command a vital Stream
From an infected Spring?]
7 Yet, mighty GoD! thy wond'rous Love
Can make our Nature clean,
While CHRIST and Grace prevail above
The Tempter, Death and Sin,
8 The fecond Adam fhall reftore
The Ruins of the Firft:
Hofanná to that Sov'reign Pow'r
That new-creates our Duft!
LVIII. The Devil vanquished: or, Michael's War with the Dragon, Rev. xii. 7.
Chief General of th' Eternal King,
And fought the Battles of our GOD.
2 Against the Dragon and his Hoft
The Armies of the LORD prevail :
In vain they rage, in vain they boaft;
Their Courage finks, their Weapons fail.
3 Down to the Earth was Satan thrown; Down to the Earth his Legions fell;' Then was the Trump of Triumph blown, And fhook the dreadful Deeps of Hell. 4 Now is the Hour of Darkness paft, CHRIST has affum'd his reigning Pow'r Behold the great Accuser caft
Down from the Skies, to rise no more.
'Twas by thy Blood, immortal Lamb!
Thine Armies trod the Tempter down;
'Twas by thy Word, and pow'rful Name,
They gain'd the Battle and Renown.
6 Rejoice, ye Heav'ns; let ev'ry Star
Shine with new Glories round the Sky;
Saints, while ye fing the heav'nly War,
Raile your Deliv'ref's Name on High.
LIX. Babylon fallen, Rev. kviii, 20, 211
IN Gabriel's Hand a mighty Stone
Lies, a fair Type of Babylon:
"Prophets rejoice, and all ye Saints,
"GOD fhall avenge your long Complaints:"
* He said, and dreadful as he flood,
He funk the Mill-ftone in the Flood:
"Thus terribly fhall Babel fall,
"Thus, and no more be found at all.”
LX. The Virgin Mary's Song: or, The promifed Mefhah born, Luke i. 46, &c.
UR Souls fhall magnify the LORD;
In GOD the Saviour we rejoice:
While we repeat the Virgin's Song
May the fame Spirit tune our Voice!
[2 The Highest saw her low Eftate,
And mighty Things his Hand hath done:
His over-fhadowing Pow'r and Grace
Makes her the Mother of his Son.
3 Let ev'ry Nation call her bless'd,
And endless Years prolong her Fame;
But God alone must be ador'd;
Holy and Reverend is his Name.]
4 To thofe that fear and truft the LORD,
His Mercy ftands for ever fure:
From Age to Age his Promife lives,
And the Performance is fecure.
5 Hefpake to Abra'm and his Seed,
"In thee fhall all the Earth be bless'd;"
The Mem'ry of that ancient Word
Lay long in his eternal Breast.
6 But now no more fhall Ifr'el wait,
No more the Gentiles lie forlorn:
Lo, the Defire of Nations comes,
Behold, the promis'd Seed is born!
LXI. CHRIST our High Priest and King; and
CHRIST Coming to Judgment,
Rev. i. 5-7.
WOW to the LORD, that makes us know
The Wonders of his dying Love,
Be humble Honours paid below,
And Strains of nobler Praise above.
2 'Twas he that cleans'd our fouleft Sins,
And wash'd us in his richest Blood;
Tis he that makes us Priefts and Kings,
And brings us Rebels near to GOD.
3 TO JESUS our atoning Prieft,
To JESUS our fuperior King,
Be everlasting Pow'r confefs d,
And ev'ry Tongue his Glory fing.
4 Behold on flying Clouds he comes,
And ev'ry Eye fhall fee him move;
Tho' with our Sins we pierc'd him once;
Then he displays his part'ning Love.
5 The unbelieving World fhall wail,
While we rejoice to fee the Day:
Come, LORD! nor let thy Promise fail,
Nor let thy Chariots long delay.
LXII. CHRIST JESUS the Lamb of GoD worshipped by all the Creation,
OM E let us join our chearful Songs
With Angels round the Throne;
Ten thousand thousand are their Tongues,
But all their Joys are one.
2 "Worthy the Lamb that dy'd," they cry, "To be exalted thus:"
"Worthy the Lamb," our Lips reply,
For he was flain for us.
3 JESUS is worthy to receive
Honour and Pow'r Divine;
And Bleffings more than we can give,
Be, LORD, for ever thine.
4 Let all that dwell above the Sky,
And Air, and Earth, and Seas;
Confpire to lift thy Glories high,
And fpeak thine endless Praise.
The whole Creation join in one,
To bless the facted Name
Of Him that fits upon the Throne,
And to adore the Lamb.
LXII. CHRIST's Humiliation and Exaltation,
WHAT equal Honours fhall we bring
To thee, O LORD our GOD, the Lamb,
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