Chrißke, der du bift tag und licht. 1.C. of light, CHR HRIST, everlasting Source All things lie naked in thy fight; Thou Splendor of thy Father's face, Teach us to tread the paths of grace. 2. We come t'implore thy fov'reign might, To keep thy Flock this inftant night 3. Remove our finful drowsiness ; Shield us, when Satan would opprefs; -The fleeble flesh keep chafte and pure, And let us reft in Thee fecure. 4. And when our eyes are bound in fleep, The lamp of faith ftill burning keep; Thy prefence be our faving rock; 6. Forget not, Lord, the pain and woe, That faft purfue us here below: 9 thou didst bleed : This was thy Father's firm decree, When all our fouls he gave to thee. 2. So we in thy bleft Name now fleep, Because the Angels the watch keep. 5. See we the body lie a while Senfelefs and void of honour; The fame in fparkling Life will fmile, Beyond the former tenour. 6. Ages will come, when warmth again Shall fill the Tent deferted; A glow and strength, which no more can Be by Decays fubverted. 7.Why then. furvivors! do you moan With unbelieving Dirges? What wifely is contriv'd and done, Your Grief with error charges. 8. Let therefore all repinings ceafe; Why should to blind refentment Ev'n Mothers o'er their Babes give place, Since death is life's Amendment? 9. Thus fhrivel'd feeds, dead and forgot, Break thro' the ground with Verdure, Exhibiting upon the spot Their Plant in priftine order. 10. Now, Earth! receive, and in thy lap What's here intrufted, cherish: It is a precious human Shape, Relicks that fhall not perish. 11. The house of fuch a Soul 't has been, Breath'd by the great Creator; Wisdom and Flame have dwelt therein Of Chrift th'Illuminator. 12. Thou cover the committed clay! The Potter's mild remembrance Will fure require another day What bore his own Resemblance. 13. But whilft the mould'ring Body thou, Lord, art to Honour shaping, Whither doft thou appoint to go The Soul from thence efcaping? 14. In thy Words, Chrift! we place belief, Who, when thou death o'erthrew- In thy retinue took'st the Thief, * In canendi ftudio nefcio annon Ecclefiæ fratrum Bobemicorum fuperent reliquas omnes. Neque enim fcio, qui plus, aut tantum etiam, canant laudum, gratiarum, precum, & doctrinæ : addam, qui meliùs, Efrom Rudiger in proœmio lib, 2. Paraph. Pfalm. God does a Work, no angel can 6. What is Man, and what are his deeds, That God for him his Son will needs Give up; what ground had we or claim Thus t'intereft the God fupreme ? 7.Unhappy folk! who flighting thee, Scorn thy Good-will continually, Nor listen to the Son his Voice; The rod divine is but their choice. 8. Man, why fo void of fenfe doft prove, Tow'rds thy King's Entry not to move, When he comes with humility, And ferveth thee fo faithfully! 9. Receive him well this very day, Yield him to thy Heart a free way, So will he come to take his Place, And let thy heart enjoy his grace. 10. Submit t'his Wifdom reafon's pow'r In this fo precious Grace's hour; Thy righteous works fubmit and thee To his primeval Sanctity. 11. To the Lord God in Father's throne, And likewife to his only Son, 247. Lalst uns froelich und einträchtig,&c. "LE ET us fing joyful and unan'moufly, And pafs our time right happily, With Things divine us edify. 2. God's Word hath been in the divine Effence, Before any thing did commence ; Of which John gives intelligence. 3. This Word is the true God and God's 's own Son, Th'only begotten in th'highest throne, This teftifies the third Perfon; 4. Firft by the Prophets dear and the Pfalmifts, Then alfo by th'Evangelifts Elected, whofe Word ftill exifts. 5. Let us truft the Father and the Spirit, And on their Word ground our Faith right, Till there we have it all in fight. It cannot fuch deep matters take, 7. Now God's Son is come, whom they did expect, Took a Body and Soul perfect Without leff 'ning by't his Godhead, How to him with deep lowliness Angels their reverence exprefs. 10. The heav'nly Hoft do terve him and obey, His word's obey'd by wind and sea, He's dreaded much by th'Enemy. 11. He tafted forrow and great po- | Set him open all Gates, verty, But did it all to favour thee, And to damp Satan's tyranny. 12. His witneffes declare him unto thee, That thou may'ft find out, it is he Who pardons thy Iniquity. 13. Tho' he may feem to thee quite meanly now, Yet is he very pow'rful too With many Gifts thee to endow. 14.O Jefu! who haft been from Mary born, By thee now thine elect are borne, That they may never be forlorn. 15. Grant that they be renewed inwardly, That they by faith betroth'd to thee, May joy here and eternally. 248. enfchen-kind, merk eben. FAN, give due attention Follow Chrift his dictates, Always for thy Lord's fake, In princely Attire "M What was God's Intention, Thout outline the Sun-fire. When he did his only Son 2. He should, by thee once heard, 9. Happy he whom God takes, 10. Well then, come dear Master ! 249 249. Gottes Bohn if kommen. G Od's Son once defcending, 2. He comes ev'n at prefent, 7. From whence he moreover 8. Now we beg, Lord Jefus, 250. Freu dich heut o Jerufalem, &c. "REjoice this day, Jerufalem, Church chofen by God and the Lamb (Hallelujah) Joy in God thy Lord his name! And fent his well beloved Son 4. Whereby thou, cleans'd and bleft indeed, And from the evil Conscience freed, Mightest in his work proceed. 5. So hearken, O Jerufalem, Vifiting to thee does come. 7. He will be thine intirely, And thou his faithful Bride fhalt be Quite without hypocrify. 8. He'll tell thee of great Myfteries, He will let thee behold his Face, And quite friendly thee embrace. 9. O take him, O receive him now, In thy heart to him reft allow, And that which he bids thee, do. 10. If thou his cov'nant right doft hold, And doft in his Love not grow cold; He'll give thee gifts manifold, 11. Give |