T R U*E 
 
 KRISTIAN 
 
 
 O V E 
 
 
 be Tung with any of the common Tunes 
 of the Pfalms 
 
 Coloss, iii 16. 
 
 Let the word of Cbrifi dwell in you richly, in all 
 Wifdom, teaching and admonishing one another 
 in 'Pfalms and Hymns, and fpiritual Songs, 
 fin ging with grace in your Hearts to the 
 
 Lord. 
 
 i Pet. i. 8 . Whom having not feen , ye love ; 
 in whom though now ye fee him not,yet believ¬ 
 ing, ye rejoice with joy unfpeakable, and full 
 
 L of Glory .. 
 
 'ritten by the late Reverend and learned Mr. 
 D avid Dickson, fometime Mlnifler of the 
 Gofpel atlRviNE, afterwards ProfefTor of Di¬ 
 vinity in the Univerlity of Edinburgh. 
 
 To which is added, Hony Drops, or, Chryjlal 
 Streams flowing from Chrift the fountain and 
 Head thereof. 
 
 G L A S G 0 W: 
 Printed in the Year, M, D C C, L I. 
 
*»V*V**»VAV***V*V*V 
 
 TO THE 
 
 c • • r X * * ' > % V 
 
 READER. 
 
 S ince Christ’* fair truth craves no mans a 
 Take this rude fong in better part. 
 
 
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flUSTIAN LOVE. 
 
 \e a Heart for Love, <o then 
 cannot choole but have 
 .Zove that can give full content, 
 
 * the lead a? I can enve, 
 want not Suitors and they all ^fal. 4. 6, 7 
 have agents dill with me. 
 
 Who pronpife that which I do feek, 1. John z.. 
 but lure I know they lie. 1 5, i< 5 , 17 
 
 Though Honour heght to lift me up, 
 and Mammon me to lerv^j 
 fer their Attendants skar* rre not, 1 Jim. 6. 7. 
 
 nor makes my Heart to fwerve. 
 
 3 ale Fear, dusk Envy, Care and Toil, 
 with other ill hew’d Wights, 
 
 1 jVait for mv lervice if I need, 
 their Matters, O what fights. 
 
 The only thing like to prevail, 
 was match’d unto my mind ; 
 
 When Fancy buskt my party with Ecclef. 1. 1. 
 i Perfections of each Kind. 
 
 But now t lee that Fancy is 
 not real as it Teems : 
 
 No earthly Love can give content: 
 all Loves but Chrift are Dreams. 
 
 Then whv want I contenting Love, 
 fince Chrift’s love may be had : 
 
 In whom is all that I do feek, 
 or can be thought or faid ? 
 
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 Cant. 
 
 ' True ChrlJUan love. - 
 
 What other’Loves do feem 
 is truly in him found : 
 io. The Icattered beauties of thei 
 in him are jointly bound. 
 
 "What they do lack and cannot 
 hecaufe they finite be: 
 
 ’Tis infinite, in him it ftands 
 for ever ftill : O he, 
 
 He, he is only worthy Love, 
 and nothing tile but he : 
 
 Alls •, that Vanity fo long 
 hath 1 o bewitched me. 
 
 Why heard 1 flart’ring Idols Words 3 
 why did I parly keep? 
 
 Why buffered 1 Affii&ion 
 to fing me fo afleep? 
 
 22. How went I on fo foolifhly, 
 and kept lo oft their tryft, 
 
 As if falle loves could be found true,. 
 and had no mind of Chrift ? 
 
 No, r.ot when Chrift was fuiting me, 
 and they found oft untrue.: 
 
 I ftuck ft ill in the bonds, and could, 
 mylelf no ways refeue. 
 
 . 23. Yet good and wile Lord Jefus Chrift, 
 did ftill pnrfue my Love : 
 
 He kacw, tho* 1 refus’d, my Heart 
 was his, he could me move. 
 
 3 . 4. Apd now ’tis done my love is thine, 
 Lord Jefus, come receive 
 
 This whorifh Heart, and buffer not 
 my foul hence to deceive. 
 
 There fhJl my luiter* all me ferve, 
 but thou my Love ihalt be. 
 
 The) 
 
True CkriJHm Love. j 
 
 all be mine, not I theirs, elfe 
 (hall not follow me. 
 
 /fliall I have Advantage twice, 
 id bleft /hall be my lot: 
 
 ^•t my Love.rs Goods and Love 
 ive theirs, well I wot. 
 ivc that wili not me defpife, 
 mough 1 unworthy be. 
 
 4mo* vjle and loathsome, yet will he Can. 15. i* 
 not loath, but pity me. Ezek. 16* 
 
 Tho’ fickle I, he will not change, 
 
 his conftancy is known : Mai. 3. 6 . 
 
 Of change no fhadow is with him, James 1. 
 he loves for av his own. 17. 
 
 When I for want of wit and flrength JFoh. 13. 15. 
 offend, and do cornels: c JPfal. 103. 
 
 He will not chide, but pardon me 8, 9. 
 my Faults both more and lels. 
 
 He will no charge upon me lay, 1 Co ?• 
 more than T may well bear; . 16. 
 
 But will my Burthens, as I need 
 fupport; l do not fear. 
 
 No wrath at others will cau/e him Hah. 3. 25 
 ynpleaLnt be to me: • » 
 
 No flanderer will get his Ear, 
 to heat of me a Lie. 
 
 He will not mifconfirufl my Words, Jfa. 17.45. 
 he will not angrv he: 
 
 Nor fret without a cau r e, nor frown, ‘JPf. 103 5. 
 nor fitch a Fault f^flv : 
 
 Nor mark my wavs fo narrowly, i JPtt. 4* 9. 
 
 as nothing to pall by, 
 
 His Love will hide mv Sin, in Lovf, 
 
 . Faith fafely may rely. 
 
* 
 
 PJ. 89.22. 
 
 John 13. 
 
 Jfa . 30. 21. 
 Aey. 2. 19. 
 
 TVtte Chriflinn Love. 
 
 He will not yvafte his Hen 
 nor will himlelf d Igrace : 
 
 No Foes cun hurt him, and th£* 
 he turns upon their Face. 
 
 His Love to other Saints /hall t 
 work prejudice to me, 
 
 More than the Suns light untof 
 doth hinder me to lee. 
 
 No caufelds jealoufie will vex 
 at anv Time his Mind: 
 
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 But if he fee my heart go wrong, 
 I know he is lo kind, 
 
 As to admonifh and rebuke, 
 and chaften if it need; 
 
 And lo me fave from pe<ifhing, 
 too oft dderv’d indeed. 
 
 Gen. 12. $1 H I he lad, he will be loath 5 
 yet more to vex my Heart; 
 
 2 $um. 24. 9. If any other will do lb, 
 
 'gainld them he’ll take mv Part. 
 
 And thole thatgrieve me,he will grieve, 
 and curie them more and lels 
 * That curleth me, lo w'li he thofc 
 that bid's me lurely blels. 
 
 N Job. 5. 29. If Trouble let about me round, 
 
 PJ. Ci. 15. he will not me fbrfake, 
 
 Nor leave me comfnrtlefs alone, 
 but pity on me take. 
 
 Pet. 15.17. And if he hide his face a while, 
 as Wifdom oft requires, 
 
 Jam. i, 2. He doth but exercife my Faith, 
 and fharpen my Defires. 
 
 And if he feem to Itay well long, 
 that I become fo dead. 
 
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 ''true Chriftian Love. 
 
 neither fay nor ling, 
 meditate nor read: 
 bought the that might affwage, 
 
 /rrs pangs in luch a cafe ; 
 feoh and droop, and hang my Head, 
 
 Jjg looking (or his Grace. 
 
 ring hut broken Words or none, 
 perplrxr with thoughts confus’d 3 
 
 Suggrmons whifper all the while, 
 as if l were refus’d. 
 
 Yet (fill his gracious Hand doth me John 5.14. 
 lupport with fecret Strength, 
 
 And makes me in thefe deeps not drown Jf.i 3. 2. 
 but brings me thro’ at length. 
 
 Mean time he keeps my fcatter’dWords, iP/. 56. 8* 
 and failing thole my Tears: 
 
 In Books and Bottles, and takes courfc 
 to rid me out of feard. 
 
 And failing both my Words and Tears, 
 he marks each woful Groan : 
 
 And failing thole my fighs and all 
 the Parcels of my Moan. 
 
 Yea when I fit aftonifhed, IP/. 120. z» 
 
 my lifted Hands and Looks 
 
 Speaks all my Mind to him, as if 
 it written were in books. 
 
 'For he doth fearch the Heart and knows 
 what is the Spirits mind ; 
 
 And as its fit gives Anfwer to 
 need’s cry in every kind. 
 
 And look how fharp thefe Tryals are, 
 their fruit is far more fweet: 
 
 His Countenance compenleth all, Rom. 8. 17. 
 
 with one blink when wc meet. ‘i/ 20. 5. 
 
 For 
 
8 
 
 &[• 4 - 7 . 
 <Pf. 94 - aI - 
 Tf. -16. 
 
 *Pro. 13.12 
 fP/ 22. 42. 
 jP/. 11. 6,3. 
 24. and 7.8. 
 
 True Chr Milan Love. 
 
 For he doth make my Heart t. 
 
 then any Tongue can tell, 
 
 Tho’ grief was great, yet joy is 
 more lweet than Grief was 
 
 Forjudge ye whofoever felt 
 what weight in Sin, what G 
 In Mind oppreft what Anguifh 
 when Soul lees no relief. 
 
 What Torments in perplexity, 
 what horror in God’s Wrath 5 
 What Hell is fear’d Eternity, 
 at lofing of his Breath. 
 
 And prefuppone a Soul were fure 
 to dwell at laft above 
 InHcaven withChrift,yet know ye not 
 what languor is in Love: 
 
 What Sicknels in deferred Hopes, 
 what Battle without Foe ? 
 
 What trouble whcnGod hides his face* 
 and leems us to forgo. 
 
 Now judge again,when weights are lift 
 Grief, Anguifh, Torments gone: 
 For Wrath, Death, Hell, Eternity, 
 of Fear now there is none. 
 
 But in their Place the Heart lift up, 
 Life, Light arid reft is come : 
 
 Felt love, peace,vi&ory,hearts-health, 
 and Chrift’s Sp’rit all in Sum. 
 
 Judge when our muchprovokedLord, 
 himlelf (hows reconcil’d, 
 
 If with the joy that then is felt, 
 
 * a Heart may not be fill’d. 
 
 Now what can others Love do here, 
 to Souls in fuch a Cale. 
 
 But 
 
 
True Christian Love. p 
 
 .re Grief and make theVail Jo. 15.13* 
 iick to hide Chrift’s Face : 
 
 itr Loves, all get you gone, 
 
 . take Servants Place : 
 
 :d Conditions were to me, 
 
 »u to quite liis Face. 
 
 1 Hours joy in him is more, Df. 64 10. 
 ,jugh mixtwith dreary Tears, 
 xnal Earth’s Honour, Pleasure, Wealth, 
 can ieldinmany Years. 
 
 0 w lr me reft and roule my Love, Tf. 116. 7. 
 wh<firft me lov’d and chus’d, 
 
 ng call’d for my worthless Love, Gal.2.20. 
 ould not be refus’d. 
 
 (his Love as he fought mine, 
 rn of him to Love, 
 vires I cannot mil's, 
 
 .whiles he (hall me prove. 
 
 My I 0 f his Fathers eldeft Son, 
 
 his c ihcr, King of Kings: John 2. 1 8. 
 
 His Heritage i* Heaven and Earth, 
 
 and in them both all Things. Dan. 2. 47. 
 
 His Wifdom 1 id the World all round, Tf. 2. 8. 
 and parted Sea and Land, Heb. 1. 2. 
 
 Earth’s Body thro’, as Veins, he drew Trov. 8. 22. 
 the Waters with his Hand. £5?. 
 
 He made the Sun and Stars fo fwift, 
 yet not be leen to move, 
 
 Left Man on Earth had vexed been 
 with Motions from above. 
 
 His Strength upholds this weighty Globe, 
 and yet which is fir more, 
 
 He bare our Sins and heavy Wrath, 
 deferv’d of us therefore. 
 
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 Deut. 
 
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 AIar.11.z9. 
 
 Mql. 3.2. 
 spy. 1 
 
 7 , 10.1 1 , 12 . 
 
 22f?<V. 4. 7. 
 J/ctf. 2,8.20, 
 
 *1* hi l.i.6. 
 John. 5.7. 
 
 Gen."‘Zi. 
 ibid - 4 - 
 
 7 r#e Chriftian Love. 
 
 For Truth Gocis promifcs 1 
 are all, yea, and Amen: | 
 
 For I ove, his Death for us a 
 fufficient hath been. 
 
 For Juftice, he can do no wroi 
 for Mercy, there is none, in 
 Or /hall in Hell e, whoharej 
 for Grace thro’ him atone, dk 
 
 Moft lofty and molt IctWty Mhd, a 
 aioft good and mod: ievere. i 
 Mod lovely, and meft terrible,] ’ 
 do all in him co here. 1 • 
 
 The merkeft Lamb to all his F 
 a Lion to his Foes. 
 
 He gives his peace to all that 
 wrath follows all that j*. 
 
 No Foe can hand before if. 
 
 no Fugitive can flee, 
 
 No lurking Hole can hide rc 
 his Eyes do ail rhings fee. 
 Almighty all where prelent, though 
 his Body Heaven contain. 
 
 Eternal God, tho’ he as Man, 
 
 Man’s property retain. 
 
 No robb’ry for his Majefty 
 his Father’s March to be, 
 
 The Father’s God head & theSp’rit’s, 
 and his are one all three. 
 Therefore when I do love the Son, 
 
 I love the Father too, 
 
 And lb the Sp’rir, who dwells in him, 
 to all 1 wor/hipdo. 
 
 He is the Tree of Life to me, 
 and lb to all his own. 
 
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