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 Upon that text, Thy prisoners

I brought out of the pit;

There he did shew to us at large

the blackness of our state:

He said that Satan sinners had

all linked in a chain,

And he was leading them to hell

till grace stept in between;

But then as soon as he had turned

the bright side of the cloud,

He said, belivers were brought out

by their Redeemer's blood

When he did preach upon that text,

My son give me thy heart ;

He many noble truths that day

at Coldstream did impart;

He said, that Christ did make the heart,

and he did it redeem,

And claimed it his prerogative

to make it new again.

When he to Simpron came to preach

the Merse was all on foot

To fee the good old prophet's son

supply his father's feat.

He said, God's goodness was laid up

in Christ our cov'nant head,

Where it is safely kept brought out

to help in time of need.

That kirk is now laid desolate

with nettless overgrown,

But yet they say some seed remains