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The Pious Soul longing for Heaven.

ORD! how have I loved the habitation of thy houfe,

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and the place where thine honour dwelleth. O glorious feat; the refidence and the workmanship of the great, the mighty GoD: let me continue, let me increase in this love of thee more and more.

Let this weary pilgrimage be spent in advancing daily toward thee, and may the breathing of my foul after thee, fanctify and comfort the labours of each day, and refresh my waking thoughts by night.

Let my heart be always where my treasure is already; and in this dry and defolate wilderness, may I feel no other thirst, than that of arriving at my heavenly Canaan, and partaking in the fociety and the joys of that happy people, who have the LORD for their GOD.

O may that God who made me, poffefs me in his holy temple! Not that I dare prefume to hope for thy beauty and bliss upon the account of any deferts of my own; but yet, the humblest sense of my own unworthinefs will not fink me into defpair of it, when I reflect upon the blood of Him who died to purchase this manfion for me. Let but his merits be applied to me; let his interceffions affift my want of worth, and then I am safe; for those merits cannot be overbalanced by my fins, nor were, or can those prayers be ever offered up to GOD in vain.

For my own part, I confefs with fhame and forrow, that I have gone aftray like a fheep that is loft, drawn out my wandrings and my miferies to a great length, and am caft out of the fight of my GoD, into the blindness and darkness of a spiritual banishment. In this forlorn estate I fadly bewail the wretchednefs of my captivity, and fing mournful fongs when I remember thee, O Jerufalem. As yet I am at an uncomfortable diftance, and at þeft my feet ftand only in the outer courts of Sion. The beauties of the fanctuary are behind the veil, and kept hid from my longing eyes; but I am full of hope, that the builder of this fanctuary, and the

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gracious fhepherd of fouls, will carry me in upon his fhoulders, that I may there rejoice with that gladness unspeakable, which all thofe happy faints feel, who are already admitted' into the presence of their GoD and Saviour; the Saviour who hath opened his royal palace to all believers, by abolishing the enmity in his flesh, and reconciling all things in heaven and earth by his own blood.

He is our peace, who hath made both one, and broken down the middle wall of partition, promifing to give us the fame degree of happiness in his own due time, which is already enjoyed in thee. For thus he hath declared, that they who are worthy to obtain that world and the refurrection from the dead, fhall be equal unto the angels. O Jerufalem, the eternal habitation of the eternal GOD! may'st thou be the fecond darling of my foul, and only he be preferred before thee in my affection, who shed his blood to make me worthy of thee. Be thou the joy and comfort of my languifhing mind,, my great fupport in hardships and diftreffes; may the remembrance of thee be ever sweet, and the mention of thy name a holy means to drive away all forrow from my foul.

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An Act of Praife.

LESS the LORD, O my foul, and all that is within me bless his holy name. Bless the LORD, O my foul, and forget not all his benefits. O praise the LORD, all ye works of his, in all places of his dominions; praise the LORD, O my foul.

Let us magnify that great GOD, whom angels praise, whom dominions adore, whom powers fall down and tremble before; whofe excellent glory cherubim and feraphim proclaim with loud inceffant voices: let us bear a part in this heavenly fong, and together with angels and archangels, and all the company of heaven, laud and magnify that glorious name; let us tune our voices with theirs, and though we cannot reach their pitch, yet will we exert the utmost of our fkill and power, in this tribute to the fame common LORD; and fay with them, as poor mortals are able, Holy, holy, holy, LORD GOD of Hofts; heaven and earth are full of thy glory; glory be to thee, O LORD most high. H h 4

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exalted, and, like the eagle, builds its neft in the top of the rocks, and keeps its eye fteady upon the Sun of righteousness; for no beauty is so charming, no pleasure so tranfporting, as that with which our eyes and mind are feafted, when our greedy fight and eager affections are determined to our God and Saviour, as to their only proper center; when, by a wondrous myftical, but true and spiritual act of vifion, we fee him who is invifible; behold a light far different from this which chears our fenfes, and tafte a pleafure infinitely fweeter than any this world and its joys can afford; for this is a fhort and infincere pleasure; this is a dim and feeble light, confined to a narrow space, always in motion from us, and in few hours put out by constant returns of darkness: these are enjoyments which the great Creator hath distributed to brutes, nay, to the vileft of infects, in common with mankind; and therefore let us thirst and afpire after fuch as are truly divine; for what even fwine and worms fhare with us, cannot deserve the name of light and pleasure, but, in comparison of those more refined, are to be efteemed no better than pain and night.

Now to God the Father, &c.

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ANSWER
NSWER to the Bishop of London's Laft Paftoral Letter.

A Letter to the Religious Societies of England,

page 5.

p. 23

A Letter to the Inhabitants of Maryland, Virginia, North and South-Carolina.

P: 37

A Letter to fome Church-Members of the Prefbyterian Perfuafion, in Answer to certain Scruples lately propofed, in proper Queries raifed on each Remark.

P. 45

A Letter to the Rev. Mr. John Wesley: In Anfwer to his Sermon, entitled, Free-Grace.

P. 53

A Vindication and Confirmation of the Remarkable Work of GOD in New-England, Being fame Remarks on a late Pamphlet, entitled, “The State of Religion in New-England, fince the Rev. Mr. George Whitefield's Arrival there. In a Letter to a Minister of the Church of Scotland. P.-77

A brief Account of the Occafion, Process, and Iffue, of a late Trial at the Affize held at Gloucefter, March 3, 1743. between

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Some of the People called Methodists, Plaintiffs, and certain
Perfons of the Town of Minchin-Hampton, in the faid County,
Defendants.

P. 101

p. 113

An Answer to the First Part of an Anonymous Pamphlet, entitled,
Obfervations upon the Conduct and Behaviour of a certain
"Sect, ufually distinguished by the Name of Methodists." In
a Letter to the Right Reverend the Bishop of London, and the
other Right Reverend the Bishops concerned in the Publication
thereof.
A Letter to the Reverend Thomas Church, M. A. Vicar of
Battersea, and Prebendary of St. Paul's; in Answer to his Se-
rious and Expoftulatory Letter to the Rev. George Whitefield,
on Occafion of his late Letter to the Bishop of London, and
other Bishops.
p. 125

An Anfwer to the Second Part of an Anonymous Pamphlet, en=
titled, "Obfervations upon the Conduct and Behaviour of a
"certain Sect, ufually distinguished by the Name of Metho-
difts." "In a fecond Letter to the Right Reverend the Bishop
of London, and the other the Right Reverend the Bishops con-
cerned in the Publication thereof.

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P. 143

Some Remarks upon a late Charge against Enthusiasm, delivered
by the Right Reverend Father in GOD, Richard, Lord Bishop
of Litchfield and Coventry, to the Reverend the Clergy in the
feveral Parts of the Diocese of Litchfield and Coventry, in a
Triennial Vifitation of the fame in 1741; and published at their
Request in the present Year, 1744. In a Letter to the Reverend
the Clergy of that Diocefe.
P. 173

A Letter to the Reverend the Prefident and Profeffors, Tutors and
Hebrew-Inftructor, of Harvard-College, in Cambridge. In
Answer to a Testimony published by them against the Reverend
Mr. George Whitefield, and his Conduct.

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Remarks

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