LIttle Children keep your felves from Idols; Amen. 1 John v. 21. We have but little Occafion to keep ourselves from Idols of Wood and Stone: but how many are there in our Hearts, to which we are but too much devoted? Every Thing which we love more than God, is an Idol which we worship. Wherever we seek our Happinefs there is our God. Grant, O true God, that we may defire to be happy in Thee and of Thee alone. Father of all we truft in Thee Left with our God we part, In Pity to thy Children, blaft Our Nature to remove, In Depths of pureft Love. A ND the Spirit and the Bride fay, Come, and let him that heareth, fay, Come. And let him that is athirft, Come, and whofoever will, let him take theWater of Life freely. Rev. xxii. 17. Lord, kindle in me this Defire, inflame my Heart with this Thirst. Caufe my Soul to speak this Word fincerely, and speak it thy felf to my Soul, Come: Lord I refign up my Will to Thee, that of captive, blind, corrupt, fick, fenflefs, and rebellious as it is, thou mayest make it a Will truly free, inlightened, upright, found, prudent, and obedient to all thy Operations. The Word received into the Heart kindles therein holy Defires; thefe Defires ftrengthened and confirmed become a full and perfect Will; and God fills this Will with the Water of eternal Life. The Church, in her militant State, Is Her heavenly Lord to defcend, The News of his Coming I hear, Appear on the Clouds of the Sky! HE which teftifieth thefe Things faith, Surely I come quickly. Amen. Even fo, come, Lord Jefus. Rev. xxii. 20. Jefus Chrift leaves us under the Hope and Expectation of his Coming. This is his laft Word delivered from Heaven, the lait Truth of the Gospel of his Glory, the laft Information which he gives to his beloved Difciple. That he will come, that he will come furely, that he will come quickly. Grant Lord, that this Word may fill my Heart, keep it always lifted up towards Thee, and be the Rule of all its Motions and of all its Defires. Form in it by thy Spirit this Amen of a faithful Adherence to all thy Words, of a perfect Dependance upon thy Will, of a true Submiffion to thy Difpenfations, of a fincere Reverence toward thy Designs, of an ardent Defire of thy Kingdom, of a continual Afpiration toward Thee, and of a perfect Confummation with thy Church in God. Come King of Saints, fo long conceal'd, With glorious Pomp and heav'nly Pow'r! And reign when Time shall be no more. THE Grace of our Lord Jefus Chrift be with you all, Amen. Rev. xxii. 21. Yes, Lord Jefus, come, and 'till thou comeft in thy Glory, vouchfafe to come, to live, to reign, to work in us by thy Almighty Grace, by the Perfection of thy Ways, by the Holinefs of thy Spirit. --- Come and fhew thy felf victorious in us, over all the hoftile Powers of Darkness, of the World, of the Flesh, and of Sin. Come by thy Spirit, for the Glory of thy Father, Amen. JESUS, thou dear redeeming Lord! In perfect Holiness and Love: WE Herefore laying afide all Malice, and all Guile, and Hypocrifies, and Envies, and all evil Speaking, 1 Pet. ii. 1. The new Birth requires new Manners. The Vices of the old Man ought by no Means to be found in the new. How can the Members of one and the fame Body deceive, hate, and envy one another, c. --- The Chriftian Infancy is nothing but Meeknefs, Simplicity, Sincerity, Freedom from Envy. It has no Tongue, but to blefs God, and to fpeak well of others: It has none either for Lying, or for Evil-speaking. Great Spirit of immortal Love, Let every Heart and every Hand The smiling Bleffings on thy Wing; |