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True Christian Love
| For he doth make my Heart more glad, | Pſal. 4. 7. |
| then any Tongue can tell. | Pſal. 34. 21. |
| Though Grief was great,yet joy is now | Pſal. 76. |
| more ſweet than Grief was fell | to verſe. |
| For judge ye whoſoever felt | |
| what weight in Sin, what Grief, | |
| In mind oppreſt what anguiſh is, | |
| when Soul ſees no Relief. | |
| What Torments in perplexity, | |
| what horror in Gon's wrath; | |
| What Hell is fear'd Eternity, | |
| at looſing of his Breath. | |
| And preſuppone a Soul were ſure | |
| to dwell at laſt above | |
| In Heaven with Chriſt, yet know ye not | Prov. 13. 12. |
| what langor is in Love: | Pſal. 22. 42. |
| What Sickneſs in deferred Hopes, | Pſal, 11. 63. |
| what Battle without Foe? | 24. and 7. 8. |
| What trouble when God hides his face | |
| and ſeems us to forgo. | |
| Now judge again, when weights are lift | |
| Grief, anguiſh, torments gone: | |
| For Wrath, Death, Hell, Eternity, | |
| of Fear now there is none. | |
| But in their Place the Heart lift up, | |
| Life, Light and Reſt is come: | |
| Felt love, peace, victory, hearts-health, | |
| and Chriſt's Sp'rit all in Sum. | |
| Judge when our much provoked Lord, | |
| himſelf ſhows reconcil'd, | |
| If with the joy that then is felt, | |
| a Heart may not be fill'd. | |
| Now what can others Love do here, | |
| to Souls in ſuch a Caſe. |
