Jesus! Thy blood and righteousness My beauty are my glorious dress; ’Midst flaming worlds, in these array’d, With joy shall I lift up my head. _Bold_ shall I stand in Thy great day; For who aught to my charge shall lay? Fully absolv’d through these I am From sin and fear, from guilt and shame. _Wesley._ The man is _bold_ who fronts the cannon’s mouth, And trembles not when danger leads the way; But _bolder_ far is he who speaks the truth Regardless who may stand around and hear, And with a kindly spirit dares reprove The fool that cavils at a world to come. _J. Burbidge._ BONDAGE. The _bondage_ was heavy upon this people.--Nehemiah, v. 18. They answered him, We be Abraham’s seed, and were never in _bondage_ to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free.--John, viii. 33. And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land: and that they should bring them into _bondage_, and entreat them evil four hundred years.--Acts, vii. 6. The creature itself also shall be delivered from the _bondage_ of corruption into the glorious liberty of the children of God.--Romans, viii. 21. Put on charity, which is the _bond_ of perfectness.--Colossians, iii. 14. Deliver them who through fear of death were all their lifetime subject to _bondage_.--Hebrews, ii. 15. Get up, my soul; redeem thy sluggish eyes From drowsy _bondage_: O beware; be wise: Thy foe’s before thee; thou must fight or fly: Life lies most open in a closed eye. _Quarles._ Lamb of God, for sinners slain, To thee I feebly pray; Heal me of my grief and pain, O take my sins away; From this _bondage_ Lord release; No longer let me be opprest; Jesus, Master, seal my peace, And take me to thy breast. _Wesley._ My God, what silken cords are thine! How soft, and yet how strong! While power, and truth, and love combine, To draw our souls along. Thou sawest us crushed beneath the yoke Of Satan and of sin: Thy hand the iron _bondage_ broke, Our worthless hearts to win. Drawn by such cords, we onward move, Till round thy throne we meet; And, captive in the chains of love, Embrace our conqueror’s feet. _Doddridge._ BOOK. And he took the _book_ of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people.--Exodus, xxiv. 7. Ezra opened the _book_ in the sight of all the people; (for he was above all the people;) and when he opened it, all the people stood up.--Nehemiah, viii. 5. Oh that my words were now written! oh that they were printed in a _book_!--Job, xix. 23.