. Gospel sonnets: . fect, &c. c Pfalm xl. 17, But I am poor and needy, yet the Lord thinkethupon me. d Pfa. xxiii. 1, The Lord is my {hepherd, I fhall not want; 10, The young lions do lack and do fufFer hunger ; but theythat feek the Lord fliall not want any good tiling. e Exod. xxxiii. 20, And he fuid, Thou canfl not fee my face; forthere fliall no man fee me, and live. f John vi. 4av, And this, is the will of him that fent me, thatevery one which feeth the Son, and believeth on him, may haveeverlafting life. Chap. xx. 30, Then were the difciples glad whenthey faw the Lord. g 2 Cor


. Gospel sonnets: . fect, &c. c Pfalm xl. 17, But I am poor and needy, yet the Lord thinkethupon me. d Pfa. xxiii. 1, The Lord is my {hepherd, I fhall not want; 10, The young lions do lack and do fufFer hunger ; but theythat feek the Lord fliall not want any good tiling. e Exod. xxxiii. 20, And he fuid, Thou canfl not fee my face; forthere fliall no man fee me, and live. f John vi. 4av, And this, is the will of him that fent me, thatevery one which feeth the Son, and believeth on him, may haveeverlafting life. Chap. xx. 30, Then were the difciples glad whenthey faw the Lord. g 2 Cor. iii. 18, But we all with open face beholding as in aglafs the glory of the Lord, are changed into the fame image, fromglory to glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. Chap. iv. 6, ForGod who commanded the light to fhine out of darknefs, hath Aim-ed in our hearts, to give the light of the knowledge of the gloryof God in the face of Jefus Chrifl. b Gal. ii, 20,1 am crucified with Chrifl; neverthekfs I live,yet. THE BELIEVERS RIDDLE. 153 m libral,/ yet have nought to fpare ;/?oft richly clothd,/ yet ilript and bare, m ck Is ri fen by my fail ; n aving nothing, I have all. 0 m finful,/ yet I have no fin ; qfpotted oer, r yet wholly and beauty both I fhare ;hellifh black, a heavenly fair, s not I, but Chrift liveth in me; and the life which I now live in thefleih, I live by the faith of the Son of God, who loved me, and gavehimfelf for me. % Cor. v. 7, For we walk by faith, not by fight. i Pfa. xxvii. 31, The wicked borroweth, and payeth not again;but the righteous fhoweth mercy, and giveth. k Zeph. iii. 12, I will alfo leave in the midft of thee an afflictedand poor people, and they fhall truft in the asUBae of the Lord. / Ifa. lxi. 10, I will greatly rejoice in the Lord, my foul £hall bejoyful in my God, for he hath clothed me with the garments offalvation, he hath covered me with the robe of righteoufnefs, as abridegroom decketh himfelf with ornaments, and a


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