. The Baptistery, or, The way of eternal life. the Seraphic chimeUnutterable groanings tell her needs;Burning with love, compassed with awe sublime,She prays her Lord to haste the blissful dreadful time. G2 THE PREPARATIONS OF PRAYER. There by her side the Poor in spirit by despair, yet hoping through despair,Till fear new hope, and hope new love reveals:He as he knows himself of graces bare,The more is clothed thereby, and bowd in lowly still on right-hand of the Bride,The Penitent is kneeling on that stair;Unmeet to be admitted to her side,Bowd down in sense of sin,

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. The Baptistery, or, The way of eternal life. the Seraphic chimeUnutterable groanings tell her needs;Burning with love, compassed with awe sublime,She prays her Lord to haste the blissful dreadful time. G2 THE PREPARATIONS OF PRAYER. There by her side the Poor in spirit by despair, yet hoping through despair,Till fear new hope, and hope new love reveals:He as he knows himself of graces bare,The more is clothed thereby, and bowd in lowly still on right-hand of the Bride,The Penitent is kneeling on that stair;Unmeet to be admitted to her side,Bowd down in sense of sin, and as a captive tied. These suppliants, while they seem to walk on earth,Are thus in Heavenly places when they kneel,Mid bands Angelic which in Heaven have birth,Which haply hear their prayers, and with them feel,So vast th electric chain, such the appeal!Start we to hear the overwhelming claim ?Yea, more than words the covenanted seal,For there are Three in Heaven, one dreadful Name,Which come to dwell on earth in spirits free from

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