XCVIII.

St. LUKE Chap. XVIII. Ver. 10, to 13.

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10. Two men went up into the temple to pray; the one a Pharifee, and the other a Publican.

11. The Pharifee ftood and prayed thus with himJelf, God, I thank thee, that I am not as other men are, extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this Publican.

12. I fafte twice in the week, I give tithes of all that I poffefs.

13. And the Publican standing afar off, would not lift up fo much as his eyes unto heaven, but fmote upon bis breaft, faying, God be merciful to me a finner.

XCIX.

The blind Man receives his Sight.

AS lab'ring Bees a doubtful murmur make,

Whose num'rous Troops their waxen Towns forfake;

With fuch a Noise vaft Crowds our Lord attend,
When he to Jericho his steps did bend.

This heard, a Wretch depriv'd of Sight, who fate,
To ask an Alms of those who pass'd the Gate;
At whofe Requeft the Standers-by declare
The Caufe, and tell him that our Lord was
there:

O Son of David, help! aloud he cry'd;
His clam'rous Importunity they chide,
Yet he perfifts, till him our Lord did hear,
And bids 'em bring him; whom approaching near,
He asks, what wilt thou? he again replies,
Lord, fince thou canft, reftore me my dear Eyes:
'Tis granted, Jefus faid, receive thy Sight,
When ftrait his Eye-balls feel the cheerful Light;
Our Lord he follow'd, who had him reftor'd,
And he and all that faw, prais'd, wonder'd, and
ador'd.

XCIX.

St. LUKE Chap. XVIII. Ver. 35, to

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the End.

35. A blind man fat by the way-fide begging. 38. And he cried, faying, Fefus, thou Son of David, have mercy on me.

42. Fefus faid unto him, Receive thy fight: thy faith bath faved thee.

43. And immediately he received his fight, and followed him, glorifying God: and all the people when they faw it, gave praife unto God.

C.

Zaccheus the believing Publican.

OF Stature low, Zaccheus cou'd not fee

Our Lord amidft the Prefs, but climbs a Tree That grac'd the Road; as near it Jefus paft, He saw him there, and bids descend with haft, This day he at his House must be a Gueft. With Joy and Speed he comes and him receives, The envious Crowd around repines and grieves: Why shou'd a Prophet with his prefence grace A Sinner, of the Gentiles faithless Race! When to our Lord Zaccheus thus begins, Struck with a deep remorfe of all his Sins:

To those I've wrong'd, I more than Thrice restore,

And half my Goods I give to feed the Poor.

To whom our Lord--- Ev'n thou of Abraham's Line,

Salvation's offer'd to thy felf and thine;

For this I came, those whom my Father gave, Loft in a finful World to ransom, seek and fave.

C.

St. LUKE Chap. XIX. Ver. 3, to 6.

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3. Zaccheus fought to see Jefus who he was, and could not for the prefs, because he was little of ftature. 4. And he ran before, and climbed up into a ficomore-tree to fee him; for he was to pass that

way.

5. And when Fefus came to the place, he looked up and faw him, and faid unto Zaccheus, Make hafte, and come down; for to day I must abide at thy boufe.

6. And he made hafte, and came down, and received him joyfully.