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CXI.

He bleffes his Difciples, and afcends imo

Heaven.

To well-known Bethany our Saviour goes, And led the little faithful Flock he chofe;

With lifted Hands he bleffes firft his Friends, And then to Heav'n from whence he came, a fcends.

They faw the Gates of Blifs unfolding wide,
They faw Cherubic-Guards on either fide :
Low on the Ground they fell, his Aid implore,
And him, th' Eternal Lord of Life adore:
Then down the Olive-bearing Mounts descent,
Back to the facred Town with Joy they went.
To God's High Temple daily did repair,

And mix their Hymns with Saints and Angels there:

His Praifes, who's above all Praife, confefs'd,

And proftrate at his Throne, they Bless'd the EverBlefs'd.

CXI.

St. LUKE Chap. XXIV. Ver. 50, to

the End.

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50. He led them out as far as to Bethany: and be lift up his bands, and blessed them.

51. And it came to pass, while he blessed them, he was parted from them, and carried up into heaven. 52. And they worshipped him, and returned to Jerufalem with great joy:

53. And were continually in the temple, praifing God. Amen.

CXII.

The GOSPEL according to
St. JOHN.

CONTENTS referring to the Chapters.

B

Ehold the Lov'd Difciple's heav'nly Face!
What Beams of Light! what Glory, and what
Grace!

Laft of the four Evangelifts he writes,
And what the other Three omit, recites.
With more than Eagle's Wings he foars on high,
Confounds abhorr'd Blafphemers, who deny
With Mouths impure, the Son's Divinity.

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The wond'rous Marriage next, and then the Sage, With whom our Lord did in Difcourfe engage. Sychar: The long infirm his Limbs does find, The Loaves: the Feaft: the Adult'rous; and the Blind 9.

Chrift is the Door 10: His Friend" from Death he rais'd,

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And Mary 12, who his Feet anointed, prais'd.
Th' Apoftles Feet he wash'd 3, his Death foreshows,
And comforts 14 and inftructs is 'em e're " he goes:
He prays": Is by his own betray'd 18, deny'd,
By others fcourg'd, condemn'd, and crucify'd 1:
Is rais'd, and fhews his wounded Hands and
fide:

Saint Peter thrice he trys, and then enjoyn'd,
To feed with Care the Sheep and Lambs he left

behind.

CXII.

St. JOHN the Evangelift.

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Matth. iv. 21. He faw other two brethren, James the fon of Zebedee, and John his brother, in a ship with Zebedee their father, mending their nets: and be called them.

22. And they immediatly left the ship and their father, and followed him.

Mark iii, 17. And be furnamed them Boanerges, which is, the fons of thunder.

John xxi. 20. Peter feeth the difciple whom Jefus loved, following, which alfo leaned on his breaft at fupper; and faith to Jefus, Lord, which is ke that betrayeth thee?

CXIII.

The Divinity and Humanity of Chrift.

IN the Beginning was th' Eternal Word,
Before all Time by heav'nly Minds ador'd.
There never was when he began to be,
Coequal with th' Eternal Father He,

Equal in Substance, Pow'r, and Deitie.
True God of God: By him were all things made,
By him the vaft Expanse above display'd :
Each glitt ring Orb that rolls in liquid Air,
Each brighter Mind that keeps his Station there:
By him the Earth with various Beauties drefs'd,
And Man,by whom his Maker's prais'd and bless'd.
That unexhaufted Spring of Life and Light,
Gilding the waft unlovely Realms of Night,
The Word made Flesh, did in the World appear,
Left his own Heav'n and Tabernacl'd here:
we saw him, full of Glory, full of Grace,
We faw his Father's Image in his Face:
The Lines of Truth and Goodness plain express'd,

Which claim'd his heav'nly Sire, and all the God confefs'd.

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