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SOUL
DRAWING NEAR
.TO
GOD.
[SEAM.
V.
Then
shall
our
flesh
and
our spiritjoin
sweetly
together,
and each
of
them
fulfil
and enjoy
their
part,
in the busi-
ness
and
blessedness
provided for
them in regions
of
unknown
pleasure.
Amen.
HYMN
FOR
SERMON
IV.
FLESH AND
SPIRIT;
OR,
THE PRINCIPLES
OF
SIN AND HOLINESS.
WHAT
vain,desires, and passions vain, My spirit holds perpetual war,
Attend
this mortal clay
!
"And wrestles and complains,
Oft
have they
pierc'd
my soul
with
pain,
And views
the happy
moment
near,
Clod
drawn my heart
astray.
That
shall dissolve its chains.
How
have
I
wandet'd
from
my -God,
And following
sin
and shame,
In
this vile world of
flesh
and
blood
Defil'd
my
nobler frame
!
For ever
blessed be
thy
grace
That form'd
my
spirit new,
And made it
of
an heaven -born race,
Thy glory to
pursue.
Cheerful;in death
I
close my
eyes,
To
part
with
every
lust;
And charge
my flesh
whene'er
it
rise,
To
leave
them
in
the
dust.
How would my
purer
spirit
fear'
To
put
this
body on,
If
its old
tempting
powers were
there,
-
Nor
lusts, nor passions gone
!
SERMON
V.
THE
SOUL
DRAWING NEAR TO GOD
IN
PRAYER.
.ton xxiii. 3,
4.
O
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
FIRST
PART.
THIS
book
of
Job
might,
perhaps,
be
the
first
and
earliest
part
of
all
the written word
of
God;
for learned
.
men,
upon good
ground,
suppose
that
this
history
was
elder
than
the
days
of
Moses,
and yet
it
hath
many a sweet lesson
of
experimental
religion
in
it,
to
teach the
disciples
of
Christ;
we
may
learn
many
duties and comforts
from
it
in
our
day,
upon
whom the
ends
of
the world
are
come.
The
style
-of
it
in
some
parts
is
so
magnificent and
solemn,
in
others
so
tender
and affectionate,
that
we
must
feel
something
of
devout
passion when
we
read this
history,