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lege. Blessed
Enoch
!
Who could
walk
with
God
in
the
midst
of
all
the
busy
and
vicious scenes
of
the
old
world
!
and
he was
translated
to
heaven, without calling
dt
the gates
of death,
that, he
might
give
a
glorious tes-
timony
to
men how well
God
was
pleased
with .him.
Happy
soul
!
that
could
keep
near
to
.
God, and main-
tain .a
holy
and humble converse
with
him,.
when
all
flesh
had
corrupted
its
way,
and the
earth
Was
full
of
iniquity and violence!
Blessed
man
!
who knew
not
what
it
was
to die,
but
he knew
what it
was to be
near
to
God
;
and
his
faith and
his
devotion
were
changed the
shortest
way
into sight and
enjoyment
!
Happy
spirit+
who,
without
being
absent
at
all
from the
body, was
brought near
to
the
seat of
divine majesty,
and
in
the
fullest manner
present
with the
Lord
!
HYMN
FOR
SERMON
P:.
THE
SOUL
DRAWING NEAR
TO GOD
.IN
PRAYER.
MY
God,
I
bow before
thy
feet,
When shall
my soul
get near
thy seat?
When
shall
I
see
thy glorioni
face,
With
mingled majesty and grace?
How should
I
love
thee, and adore,
With
hopes and
joys
unknown before
!
And bid
this trifling world be gone,
Nor
teaze my
heart
so
near
thy
throne!
Creatures
with
all their
charms should fly,
The presence of
a God
so
nigh
:
My
darling
sins
should lose
their
name,
And
grow my
hatred,
and
my shame.
My
soul
shall pour ont all her cares,
In
flowing
words, or
flowing.tears;
Thy
smiles would
ease
my
sharpest paia,
Nor should
I
seek
my
God
in
vain.
SERMON
VI.
SINS
AND
SORROWS
SPREAD BEFORE GOD.
JOB
xxiii.
5,
4.
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that
I
knew
where I
:might find him!
that
I
might
come even
to his
seat;
I
would
order my
cause before
him, and
fill
my mouth
with arguments.
THE
SECOND
PART.
THERE,is
such
a thing
as
converse
with,
God
in
prayer,
and
it
is
the
life
and pleasure
of
a pious
soul
:
without
it
we
are
no
christians;
and
he
that practises
it
most,. is