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5 Their faith and patience, love and zeal, Should make their mem'ry dear; And Lord, do thou the pray'rs fulfil, They offer'd for us here.

6 While they have gain'd, we losers are, We miss them day by day; But thou cannot ev'ry breach repair, And wipe our tears away.

7 We pray as in Elisha's case, When great Elijah went; May double portions of thy grace, To us who stay, be sent.

Newton.

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1. There is a land of pure delight, Where Saints immortal reign, Infinite day excludes the night, And pleasures banish pain.

2. There everlasting spring abides, And never withering flow'rs; Death like a narrow sea divides This heav'nly land from ours.

3. [Sweet feilds beyond the swelling flood, Stand dress'd in living green; So to the Jews, old Canaan stood, While Jordan roll'd between.

4. But tim'rous mortals start & shrink, To cross this narrow Sea, And linger, shiv'ring on the brink, Thro' fear to launch away.]

5. Oh, could we make our doubts remove There gloomy doubts which rise, And see the Canaan which we love, With unbeclouded eyes!

6. Could we but climb where Moses stood, And view the landscape o'er, Not Jordan's stream, nor death's cold flood, Should fright us from the shore.

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1. We must believe that all affliction, comes from God: "Shall there be evil in the City, and the Lord hath not done it? I form the light, and I create darkness; I make peace, and I create evil: I the Lord do those things. I know O Lord, (saith David) that thy Judgements are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me."

2. That as God [s??ds] it, so none can deliver us out of it but God alone: "O our God wilt not thou Judge them? we have no might against the great company that cometh against us, neither know we what to do, but our eyes are upon thee. This meditation draws the heart from carnal repose, in means or [Friends?]; it expells vexations and distracting cases and estrangeth from the use of unlawful means of deliverance: "The Horse is prepared against the day of battle, but Safety is of the Lord."

3. That the causes of all miseries & sorrow is Sin, and therefore it is time for us to examine our ways, to humble ourselves and to set upon Reformation. "I thought on my ways (said David) and turned my feet into thy testimonies:" when Manasseh was in affliction, He besought the Lord his God, and humbled himself greatly before the God of his Fathers: Surely it is meet to be said unto God. I have borne chastisement, I will not offend any more: That which I see not teach thou me: If I have done iniquity, I will do no more:" The end of chastisement is amendment of life, whence it recieves the name of correction, which signifieth, to set aright or strait.

4. That --now God trieth our faith, patience, contention, and meekness of spirit, He hath said unto Crosses

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Crosser, Go ye to such a man, not to weaken his faith or to [??ct ar?] grace of the Spirit, but to purge him, refine him, try him, exercise him, to breed the quiet fruits of Righteousness, to confirm his patience support his hope &c---Hence the Serv'nts of God by their faith have been enabled to say, "I will hear the indignation of the Lord, because I have sinned against him, until he plead my cause, and execute Judgement for me: "and if he says thus -- "I have no pleasure in thee: Behold here am I -- let him do to me what seemeth good to him." This meditaion makes the heart willinhly freely and constantly to reighn itself to the good pleasure of God in all things.

5 - That - is God's will after we have gone to the promise to me all lawful means of help which God in his Providence affords; but in point of dependence, that we [soberly?] rest on God's promises: Faith [coupleth?] the means and the end, but looketh to the promises (whose truth and wisdom and power & mercy never fails) and not to the [profitability?] of the thing promised Abraham against hope believed in hope -that what God had promised, he was able to perform.

6 That the promises are in Christ yea & Amen and therefore set it down and concluded, that God will do whatsoever he hath promised, and we shall receive it in the ways of his Providence; it may be not yet, what then? "He that believeth will not make [hast?]" but wait patiently Gods will & pleasure as to time.

Ambrose

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1 Faith in prosperity, keeps the heart in a holy temper and disposition, in humility, meekness, tenderness, and compassion towards others, in thankfulness, obedience, and in the fear of the Lord. Satan himself [w??'d] reply to the Lord, "Doth Job fear God for nought? hast thou not set a hedge about him?" in this case faith will remember man of his duty, and persuade him to be so much. The more serviceable, as God's mercies are more plentiful upon him. 2 Faith makes a man heavenly-minded in the use and possession of a prosperous estate; as it receives all earthly blessings from God, so it winds up the soul to God again: and, if it be rightly considered, prosperity is the fittest reason for heavenly contemplation; the less trouble lies upon the estate, the more liberty we have to think of heavenly things: however, faith considers these things as pledges of God's love, as part of our child's -portion, and so it makes us look at the better part, those never-fading riches which God hath reserved in heaven for all that fear him. 3 Faith breeds a Godly jealosy and suspicion, lest the heart should be drawn away with the pleasing delights of things transitory, for by grace it is, that we are made conscious of our own weakness, and of the snare that is in every creature to take, & entangle us: Prosperity is pleasing but dangerous; a man may quickly [s??ict] of sweetmeats. This makes the wakeing believer circumspect and watchful, and jealous, and suspicious of his own heart, lest he miscarry in prosperity, considering there is a snare in it. 4 Faith minds a change, even when our mountain Season

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