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 Occajional Meditations. 1 1

��Here follow feverall occajionall meditations.

I.

T3 Y night when others foundly flept, ^^^ And had at once both eale and Rell, My waking eyes were open kept, And fo to lye I fovnd it beft.

II.

I Ibvght him whom my Soul did Love, With tears I fovght him earneftly; He bow'd his ear down from Above, In vain I did not feek or cry.

III.

My hungry Soul he fill'd with Good, He in his Bottle putt my teares,* My fmarting wounds waflit in his blood, And baniflit thence my Doubts and feares.

IV.

What to my Saviour fhall I giue. Who freely hath done this for me? Pie ferve him here whilft I fhall Hue, And Loue him to Eternity.

Psalm Ivi. 8.
 * "'Put thou mj tears into thy bottle: arc they not in thy book?'

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