Part 14

14. I need not give additional proofs of this, by multiplying quotations from the volume itself. It may suffice, to cite part of one hymn only the last in that volume: -- Lord, I believe a rest remains, To all thy people known; A rest where pure enjoyment reigns, And thou art loved alone; A rest where all our soul’s desire Is fix’d on things above; Where doubt and pain and fear expire, Cast out by perfect love. From every evil motion freed, (The Son hath made us free,) On all the powers of hell we tread, In glorious liberty.

Safe in the way of life, above Death, earth, and hell we rise;

We find, when perfected in love, Our long-sought paradise.

O that I now the rest might know, Believe, and enter in!

Now, Saviour, now the power bestow, And let me cease from sin!

Remove this hardness from my heart, This unbelief remove: To me the rest of faith impart, The sabbath of thy love.

Come, O my Saviour, come away Into my soul descend! No longer from thy creature stay, My author and my end. The bliss thou hast for me prepared, No longer be delay’d:

Come, my exceeding great reward, For whom I first was made.

Come, Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, And seal me thine abode!

Let all I am in thee be lost: Let all be lost in God! Can anything be more clear, than, (1.) That here also is as full and high a salvation as we have ever spoken of? (2.) That this is spoken of as receivable by mere faith, and as hindered only by unbelief? (3.) That this faith, and consequently the salvation which it brings, is spoken of as given in aninstant? (4.) That it is supposed that instant may be now? that we need not stay another moment? that "now," the very "now, is the accepted time? now is the day of" this full "salvation?" And, Lastly, that, if any speak otherwise, he is the person that brings new doctrine among us?