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Corrall of +38 Charing Cross, London. + +The Index and the Table of First Lines have been omitted for +the following reasons: +1. They refer to page numbers that are here expunged; and +2. In this electronic version key words, etc., can be easily +located via searches. + +Separate numbers have been added to Psalms that have more than +one part or version, for example: Psalm 51:1; Psalm 51:2; etc. + + + +The Life of Isaac Watts, D.D. + +by + +Dr. Johnson. + + +From his lives of the most eminent English Poets. + + +The Poems of Dr. Watts were by my recommendation inserted in the +late Collection; the readers of which are to impute to me whatever +pleasure or weariness they may find in the perusal of Blackmore, +Watts, Pomfret, and Yealden. + +ISAAC WATTS was born July 17, 1674, at Southampton, where his +father of the same name, kept a boarding-school for young gentlemen, +though common report makes him a shoe-maker. He appears, from the +narrative of Dr. Gibbons, to have been neither indigent nor +illiterate. + +Isaac, the eldest of nine children, was given to books from his +infancy; and began, we are told, to learn Latin when he was four +years old, I suppose at home. He was afterwards taught Latin, +Greek, and Hebrew, by Mr. Pinhorne, a clergyman, master of the +freeschool at Southampton, to whom the gratitude of his scholar +afterwards inscribed a Latin ode. + +His proficiency at school was so conspicuous, that a subscription +was proposed for his support at the University; but he declared +his resolution to take his lot with the Dissenters. Such he was, +as every Christian Church would rejoice to have adopted. + +He therefore repaired in 1690 to an academy taught by Mr. Rowe, +where he had for his companions and fellow-students Mr. Hughes +the poet, and Dr. Horte, afterwards Archbishop of Tuam. Some Latin +essays, supposed to have been written as exercises at this academy, +shew a degree of knowledge, both philosophical and theological, +such as very few attain by a much longer course of study. + +He was, as he hints in his Miscellanies, a maker of verses from +fifteen to fifty, and in his youth he appears to have paid attention +to Latin poetry. His verses to his brother, in the _glyconic_ +measure, written when he was seventeen, are remarkably easy and +elegant. Some of his other odes are deformed by the Pindaric folly +then prevailing, and are written with such neglect of all metrical +rules as is without example among the ancients; but his diction, +though perhaps not always exactly pure, has such copiousness and +splendour, as shews that he was but at a very little distance +from excellence. + +His method of study was to impress the contents of his books upon +his memory by abridging them, and by interleaving them, to amplify +one system with supplements from another. + +With the congregation of his tutor Mr. Rowe, who were, I believe, +independents, he communicated in his nineteenth year. + +At the age of twenty he left the academy, and spent two years in +study and devotion at the house of his father, who treated him +with great tenderness; and had the happiness, indulged to few +parents, of living to see his son eminent for literature and +venerable for piety. + +He was then entertained by Sir John Hartopp five years, as domestic +tutor to his son: and in that time particularly devoted himself +to the Study of the Holy Scriptures; and being chosen assistant +to Dr. Chauncey, preached the first time on the birth-day that +completed his twenty-fourth year; probably considering that as +the day of a second nativity, by which he entered on a new period +of existence. + +In about three years he succeeded Dr. Chauncey; but soon after his +entrance on his charge, he was seized by a dangerous illness, which +sunk him to such weakness, that the congregation thought an assistant +necessary, and appointed Mr. Price. His health then returned +gradually, and he performed his duty, till (1712) he was seized +by a fever of such violence and continuance, that from the feebleness +which it brought upon him, he never perfectly recovered. + +This calamitous state made the compassion of his friends necessary, +and drew upon him the attention of Sir Thomas Abney, who received +him into his house; where with a constancy of friendship and +uniformity of conduct not often to be found, he was treated for +thirty-six years with all the kindness that friendship could +prompt, and all the attention that respect could dictate. Sir +Thomas died about eight years afterwards; but he continued with +the lady and her daughters to the end of his life. The lady died +about a year after him. + +A coalition like this, a state in which the notions of patronage +And dependence were overpowered by the perception of reciprocal +benefits, deserves a particular memorial; and I will not withhold +from the reader Dr. Gibbons's representation, to which regard is +to be paid as to the narrative of one who writes what he knows, +and what is known likewise to multitudes besides. + +"Our next observation shall be made upon that remarkably kind +providence which brought the doctor into Sir Thomas Abney's family, +and continued him there till his death, a period of no less than +thirty-six years. In the midst of his sacred labours for the glory +of God, and good of his generation he is seized with a most violent +and threatening fever, which leaves him oppressed with great +weakness, and puts a stop at least to his public services for four +years. In this distressing season, doubly so to his active and +pious spirit, he is invited to Sir Thomas Abney's family, nor ever +removes from it till he had finished his days. Here he enjoyed the +uninterrupted demonstrations of the truest friendship. Here, without +any care of his own, he had everything which could contribute to +the enjoyment of life, and favour the unwearied pursuits of his +studies. Here he dwelt in a family, which, for piety, order, +harmony, and every virtue, was an house of God. Here he had the +privilege of a country recess, the fragrant bower, the spreading +lawn, the flowery garden, and other advantages to sooth his mind +and aid his restoration to health; to yield him, whenever he chose +them, most grateful intervals from his laborious studies, and +enable him to return to them with redoubled vigour and delight. +Had it not been for this most happy event, he might as to outward +view, have feebly, it may be painfully, dragged on through many +more years of languor and inability for public service, and even +for profitable study, or perhaps might have sunk into his grave +under the overwhelming load of infirmities, in the midst of his +days; and thus the church and world would have been deprived of +those many excellent sermons and works which he drew up and +published during his long residence in this family. In a few years +after his coming hither, Sir Thomas Abney dies; but his amiable +consort survives, who shows the Doctor the same respect and +friendship as before, and most happily for him and great numbers +besides; for, as her riches were great her generosity and munificence +were in full proportion; her thread of life was drawn out to a +great age, even beyond that of the Doctor's; and thus this excellent +man, through her kindness, and that of her daughter, the present +Mrs. Elizabeth Abney, who in a like degree esteemed and honoured +him, enjoyed all the benefits and felicities he experienced at +his first entrance into this family, till his days were numbered +and finished, and, like a shock of corn in its season, he ascended +into the regions of perfect and immortal life and joy." + +If this quotation has appeared long, let it be considered, that +it comprises an account of six-and-thirty years, and those the +years of Dr. Watts. + +From the time of his reception into this family, his life was no +Otherwise diversified than by successive publications. The series +of his works I am not able to deduce; their number, and their +variety, show the intenseness of his industry, and the extent of +his capacity. + +He was one of the first authors that taught the Dissenters to +court attention by the graces of language. Whatever they had among +them before, whether of learning or acuteness, was commonly obscured +and blunted by coarseness and inelegance of style. He shewed them, +that zeal and purity might be expressed and enforced by polished +diction. + +He continued to the end of his life the teacher of a congregation, +and no reader of his works can doubt his fidelity or diligence. In +the pulpit, though his low stature, which very little exceeded five +feet, graced him with no advantages of appearance, yet the gravity +and propriety of his utterance made his discourses very efficacious. +I once mentioned the reputation which Mr. Foster had gained by his +proper delivery to my friend Dr. Hawkesworth, who told me, that +in the art of pronunciation he was far inferior to Dr. Watts. + +Such was his flow of thoughts, and such his promptitude of language, +that in the latter part of his life he did not precompose his +cursory sermons; but having adjusted the heads, and sketched +out some particulars, trusted for success to his extemporary powers. + +He did not endeavour to assist his eloquence by any gesticulations; +for, as no corporeal actions have any correspondence with theological +truth, he did not see how they could enforce it. + +At the conclusion of weighty sentences he gave time, by a short +pause, for the proper impression. + +To stated and public instruction, he added familiar visits and +Personal application, and was careful to improve the opportunities +which conversation offered of diffusing and increasing the influence +of religion. + +By his natural temper he was quick of resentment; but by his +established and habitual practice, he was gentle, modest, and +inoffensive. His tenderness appeared in his attention to children, +and to the poor. To the poor, while he lived in the family of his +friend, he allowed the third part of his annual revenue, though +the whole was not a hundred a year; and for children, he condescended +to lay aside the scholar, the philosopher, and the wit, to write +little poems of devotion, and systems of instruction adapted to +their wants and capacities, from the dawn of reason through its +gradations of advance in the morning of life. Every man, acquainted +with the common principles of human action, will look with veneration +on the writer who is at one time combating Locke, and at another +making a catechism for children in their fourth year. A voluntary +descent from the dignity of science is perhaps the hardest lesson +that humility can teach. + +As his mind was capacious, his curiosity excursive, and his industry +continual, his writings are very numerous, and his subjects various. +With his theological works I am only enough acquainted to admire +his meekness of opposition, and his mildness of censure. It was +not only in his book but in his mind that _orthodoxy_ was _united_ +with _charity_. + +Of his philosophical pieces, his Logic has been received into the +universities, and therefore wants no private recommendation: if +he owes part of it to Le Clerc, it must he considered that no man +who undertakes merely to methodize or illustrate a system, pretends +to be its author. + +In his metaphysical disquisitions, it was observed by the late +learned Dr. Dyer, that he confounded the idea of _space_ with that +of _empty space_, and did not consider that though space might be +without matter, yet matter being extended, could not be without +space. + +Few books have been perused by me with greater pleasure than his +_Improvement of the Mind_, of which the radical principles may +indeed be found in _Locke's Conduct of the Understanding_, but +they are so expanded and ramified by Watts, as to confer upon him +the merit of a work in the highest degree useful and pleasing. +Whoever has the care of instructing others, may be charged with +deficience in his duty if this book is not recommended. + +I have mentioned his treatises of Theology as distinct from his +other productions: but the truth is, that whatever he took in +hand was, by his incessant solicitude for souls, converted to +Theology. As piety predominated in his mind, it is diffused over +his works: under his direction it may be truly said, _Theologiae +Philosophia ancillatur_, philosophy is subservient to evangelical +instruction; it is difficult to read a page without learning, or +at least wishing to be better. The attention is caught by indirect +instruction, and he that sat down only to reason, is on a sudden +compelled to pray. + +It was therefore with great propriety that, in 1728, he received +From Edinburgh and Aberdeen an unsolicited diploma, by which he +became a Doctor of Divinity. Academical honours would have more +value, if they were always bestowed with equal judgement. + +He continued many years to study and to preach, and to do good by +His instruction and example: till at last the infirmities of age +disabled him from the more laborious part of his ministerial +functions, and being no longer capable of public duty, he offered +to remit the salary appendant to it; but his congregation would +not accept the resignation. + +By degrees his weakness increased, and at last confined him to +his chamber and his bed; where he was worn gradually away without +pain, till he expired, Nov. 25, 1748, in the seventy-fifth year +of his age. + +Few men have left behind such purity of character, or such monuments +of laborious piety. He has provided instruction for all ages, from +those who are lisping their first lessons, to the enlightened readers +of Malbranche and Locke; he has left neither corporeal nor spiritual +nature unexamined; he has taught the art of reasoning, and the +science of the stars. + +His character, therefore, must be formed from the multiplicity +and diversity of his attainments, rather than from any single +performance; for it would not be safe to claim for him the highest +rank in any single denomination of literary dignity; yet perhaps +there was nothing in which he would not have excelled, if he had +not divided his powers to different pursuits. + +As a poet, had he been only a poet, he would probably have stood +high among the authors with whom he is now associated. For his +judgement was exact, and he noted beauties and faults with very +nice discernment; his imagination, as the _Dacian Battle_ proves, +was vigorous and active, and the stores of knowledge were large +by which his fancy was to be supplied. His ear was well-tuned, and +his diction was elegant and copious. But his devotional poetry is, +like that of others, unsatisfactory. The paucity of its topics +enforces perpetual repetition, and the sanctity of the matter +rejects the ornaments of figurative diction. It is sufficient +for Watts to have done better than others what no man has done +well. + +His poems on other subjects seldom rise higher than might be +expected from the amusements of a Man of Letters, and have different +degrees of value as they are more or less laboured, or as the +occasion was more or less favourable to invention. + +He writes too often without regular measures, and too often in +blank verse; the rhymes are not always sufficiently correspondent. +He is particularly unhappy in coining names expressive of characters. +His lines are commonly smooth and easy, and his thoughts always +religiously pure; but who is there that, to so much piety and +innocence, does not wish for a greater measure of sprightliness +and vigour? He is at least one of the few poets with whom youth +and ignorance may be safely pleased; and happy will be that reader +whose mind is disposed by his verses, or his prose, to imitate him +in all but his non-conformity, to copy his benevolence to man, and +his reverence to God. + + + +PREFACE. + +THE following extract from the Doctor's Preface, as it contains +the plan of his version of the Psalms, may be found useful: + +"I come therefore to explain my own design, which is this, To +accommodate the book of Psalms to Christian worship. And in order +to do this, it is necessary to divest David and Asaph, &c. of every +other character but that of a psalmist and a saint, and to make +them always speak the common sense, and language of a Christian. + +"Attempting the work with this view, I have entirely omitted several +whole psalms, and large pieces of many others; and have chosen out +of all of them, such parts only as might easily and naturally be +accommodated to the various occasions of the Christian life, or +at least might afford us some beautiful allusion to Christian +affairs. These I have copied and explained in the general style +of the gospel; nor have I confined my expressions to any particular +party or opinion; that in words prepared for public worship, and +for the lips of multitudes, there might not be a syllable offensive +to sincere Christians, whose judgments may differ in the lesser +matters of religion. + +"Where the Psalmist uses sharp invectives against his personal +enemies, I have endeavoured to turn the edge of them against our +spiritual adversaries, sin, Satan, and temptation. Where the +flights of his faith and love are sublime, I have often sunk the +expressions within the reach of an ordinary Christian: where the +words imply some peculiar wants or distresses, joys, or blessings, +I have used words of greater latitude and comprehension, suited +to the general circumstances of men. + +"Where the original runs in the form of prophecy concerning Christ +and his salvation, I have given an historical turn to the sense: +there is no necessity that we should always sing in the obscure +and doubtful style of prediction, when the things foretold are +brought into open light by a full accomplishment. Where the writers +of the New Testament have cited or alluded to any part the Psalms, +I have often indulged the liberty of paraphrase, according to the +words of Christ, or his Apostles. And surely this may be esteemed +the word of God still, though borrowed from several parts of the +Holy Scripture. Where the Psalmist describes religion by the fear +of God, I have often joined faith and love to it. Where he +speaks of the pardon of sin, through the mercies of God, I have +added the merits of a Saviour. Where he talks of sacrificing goats +or bullocks, I rather chuse to mention the sacrifice of Christ, +the Lamb of God. When he attends the ark with shouting into Zion, +I sing the ascension of my Saviour into heaven, or his presence +in his church on earth. Where he promises abundance of wealth, +honour, and long life, I have changed some of these typical +blessings for grace, glory, and life eternal, which are brought +to light by the gospel, and promised in the New Testament. And I +am fully satisfied, that more honor is done to our blessed Saviour, +by speaking his name, his graces, and actions, in his own language, +according to the brighter discoveries he hath now made, than by +going back again to the Jewish forms of worship, and the language +of types and figures." + + +Of chusing or finding the Psalm. + +By consulting the Index at the end, any one may find hymns very +proper for many occasions of the Christian life and worship; though +no copy of David's Psalter can provide for all, as I have shewn in +the Preface to the large edition. + +Or, if he remembers the first line of any Psalm, the Table of the +first lines will direct where to find it. + +[NOTE: the Index and the Table of First Lines are omitted from +this Project Gutenberg electronic version.] + + +Of singing in course. + +If any shall think it best to sing the Psalms in order in churches +or families, it may be done with profit, provided those Psalms be +omitted that refer to special occurrences of nations, churches, +or single Christians. + +Of dividing the Psalms. + +If the Psalm be too long for the time or custom of singing, there +are pauses in many of them at which you may properly rest; or you +may leave out those verses which are inclued with crotchets [ ], +without disturbing the sense: or, in some places you may begin to +sing at the pause. + + + + +THE Psalms of David, +In Metre. + + +Psalm 1:1. Common Metre, +The way and end of the righteous and the wicked. + +1 Blest is the man who shuns the place +Where sinners love to meet; +Who fears to tread their wicked ways, +And hates the scoffer's seat: + +2 But in the statutes of the Lord +Has plac'd his chief delight; +By day he reads or hears the word, +And meditates by night. + +3 [He like a plant of generous kind, +By living waters set, +Safe from the storms and blasting wind, +Enjoys a peaceful state.] + +4 Green as the leaf and ever fair +Shall his profession shine, +While fruits of holiness appear +Like clusters on the vine. + +5 Not so the impious and unjust; +What vain designs they form! +Their hopes are blown away like dust, +Or chaff before the storm. + +6 Sinners in judgment shall not stand +Amongst the sons of grace, +When Christ the Judge, at his right hand, +Appoints his saints a place. + +7 His eye beholds the path they tread, +His heart approves it well; +But crooked ways of sinners lead +Down to the gates of hell. + + +Psalm 1:2. S. M. +The saint happy, the sinner miserable. + +1 The man is ever blest +Who shuns the sinner's ways, +Among their counsels never stands, +Nor takes the scorner's place; + +2 But makes the Law of God +His study and delight, +Amidst the labours of the day, +And watches of the night. + +3 He like a tree shall thrive, +With waters near the root: +Fresh as the leaf his name shall live, +His works are heavenly fruit. + +4 Not so th' ungodly race, +They no such blessings find; +Their hopes shall flee like empty chaff +Before the driving wind. + +5 How will they bear to stand +Before that judgment-seat, +Where all the saints at Christ's right hand +In full assembly meet? + +6 He knows, and he approves +The way the righteous go; +But sinners and their works shall meet +A dreadful overthrow. + + +Psalm 1:3. L. M. +The difference between the righteous and the wicked. + +1 Happy the man whose cautious feet +Shun the broad way that sinners go, +Who hates the place where atheists meet, +And fears to talk as scoffers do. + +2 He loves t' employ his morning light +Amongst the statutes of the Lord: +And spends the wakeful hours at night, +With pleasure pondering o'er the word. + +3 He like a plant by gentle streams, +Shall flourish in immortal green; +And heaven will shine with kindest beams +On every work his hands begin. + +4 But sinners find their counsels crost; +As chaff before the tempest flies, +So shall their hopes be blown and lost, +When the last trumpet shakes the skies. + +5 In vain the rebel seeks to stand +In judgment with the pious race; +The dreadful Judge with stern command +Divides him to a different place. + +6 "Straight is the way my saints have trod, +"I blest the path and drew it plain; +"But you would choose the crooked road, +"And down it leads to endless pain. + + +Psalm 2:1. S. M. +Translated according to the divine pattern, +Acts iv. 24 &c. + +Christ dying, rising, interceding, and reigning. + +1 [Maker and sovereign Lord +Of heaven, and earth, and seas, +Thy providence confirms thy word, +And answers thy decrees. + +2 The things so long foretold +By David are fulfill'd, +When Jews and Gentiles join to slay +Jesus, thine holy child.] + +3 Why did the Gentiles rage, +And Jews with one accord +Bend all their counsels to destroy +Th' anointed of the Lord? + +4 Rulers and kings agree +To form a vain design; +Against the Lord their powers unite, +Against his Christ they join. + +5 The Lord derides their rage, +And will support his throne; +He that hath rais'd him from the dead +Hath own'd him for his Son. + +PAUSE. + +6 Now he's ascended high, +And asks to rule the earth; +The merit of his blood be pleads, +And pleads his heavenly birth. + +7 He asks, and God bestows +A large inheritance; +Far as the world's remotest ends +His kingdom shall advance. + +8 The nations that rebel +Must feel his iron rod; +He'll vindicate those honours well +Which he receiv'd from God. + +9 [Be wise, ye rulers, now, +And worship at his throne; +With trembling joy, ye people, bow +To God's exalted Son. + +10 If once his wrath arise, +Ye perish on the place; +Then blessed is the soul that flies +For refuge to his grace.] + +Psalm 2:2. C. M. +The same. + +1 Why did the nations join to slay +The Lord's anointed Son? +Why did they cast his laws away, +And tread his gospel down? + +2 The Lord that sits above the skies, +Derides their rage below, +He speaks with vengeance in his eyes, +And strikes their spirits thro'. + +3 "I call him my Eternal Son, +"And raise him from the dead; +"I make my holy hill his throne, +"And wide his kingdom spread. + +4 "Ask me, my Son, and then enjoy +"The utmost heathen lands: +"Thy rod of iron shall destroy +"The rebel that withstands." + +5 Be wise, ye rulers of the earth, +Obey th' anointed Lord, +Adore the king of heavenly birth, +And tremble at his word. + +6 With humble love address his throne, +For if he frown ye die; +Those are secure, and those alone, +Who on his grace rely. + + +Psalm 2:3. L. M. +Christ's death, resurrection, and ascension. + +1 Why did the Jews proclaim their rage? +The Romans why their swords employ? +Against the Lord their powers engage +His dear anointed to destroy? + +2 "Come, let us break his bands," they say, +"This man shall never give us laws ;" +And thus they cast his yoke away, +And nail'd the monarch to the cross. + +3 But God, who high in glory reigns, +Laughs at their pride, their rage controls; +He'll vex their hearts with inward pains, +And speak in thunder to their souls. + +4 "I will maintain the King I made +"On Zion's everlasting hill, +"My hand shall bring him from the dead, +"And he shall stand your sovereign still." + +5 [His wondrous rising from the earth +Makes his eternal Godhead known! +The Lord declares his heavenly birth, +"This day have I begot my Son. + +6 "Ascend, my Son, to my right hand, +"There thou shalt ask, and I bestow +"The utmost bounds of heathen lands; +"To thee the northern isles shall bow."] + +7 But nations that resist his grace +Shall fall beneath his iron stroke; +His rod shall crush his foes with ease +As potters' earthen work is broke. + +PAUSE. + +8 Now, ye that sit on earthly thrones, +Be wise, and serve the Lord, the Lamb; +at his feet submit your crowns, +Rejoice and tremble at his name. + +9 With humble love address the Son, +Lest he grow angry and ye die; +His wrath will burn to worlds unknown +If ye provoke his jealousy. + +10 His storms shall drive you quick to hell: +He is a God, and ye but dust: +Happy the souls that know him well, +And make his grace their only trust. + + +Psalm 3:1. C. M. +Doubts and fears supprest; or, God +our defence from sin and Satan. + +1 My God, how many are my fears! +How fast my foes increase! +Conspiring my eternal death, +They break my present peace. + +2 The lying tempter would persuade +There's no relief in heaven; +And all my swelling sins appear +Too big to be forgiven. + +3 But thou, my glory and my strength, +Shalt on the tempter tread, +Shalt silence all my threatening guilt, +And raise my drooping head. + +4 [I cry'd, and from his holy hill +He bow'd a listening ear, +I call'd my Father, and my God, +And he subdu'd my fear. + +5 He shed soft slumbers on mine eyes, +In spite of all my foes; +I woke, and wonder'd at the grace +That guarded my repose.] + +6 What though the hosts of death and hell +All arm'd against me stood, +Terrors no more shall shake my soul, +My refuge is my God. + +7 Arise, O Lord, fulfil thy grace, +While I thy glory sing: +My God has broke the serpent's teeth, +And death has lost his sting. + +8 Salvation to the Lord belongs, +His arm alone can save; +Blessings attend thy people here, +And reach beyond the grave. + + +Psalm 3:2. 1 2 3 4 5 8. L. M. +A morning Psalm. + +1 O Lord, how many are my foes, +In this weak state of flesh and blood! +My peace they daily discompose, +But my defence and hope is God. + +2 Tir'd with the burdens of the day, +To thee I rais'd an evening cry; +Thou heardst when I began to pray, +And thine almighty help was nigh. + +3 Supported by thine heavenly aid, +I laid me down and slept secure; +Not death should make my heart afraid, +Tho' I should wake and rise no more. + +4 But God sustain'd me all the night; +Salvation doth to God belong; +He rais'd my head to see the light, +And make his praise my morning song. + + +Psalm 4:1. 1 2 3 5 6 7. L. M. +Hearing prayer; or, God our +portion, and Christ our hope. + +1 O God of grace and righteousness, +Hear and attend when I complain; +Thou hast enlarg'd me in distress, +Bow down a gracious ear again. + +2 Ye sons of men, in vain ye try +To turn my glory into shame; +How long will scoffers love to lie, +And dare reproach my Saviour's name! + +3 Know that the Lord divides his saints +From all the tribes of men beside; +He hears the cry of penitents +For the dear sake of Christ that dy'd. + +4 When our obedient hands have done +A thousand works of righteousness, +We put our trust in God alone, +And glory in his pardoning grace. + +5 Let the unthinking many say, +"Who will bestow some earthly good?" +But, Lord, thy light and love we pray, +Our souls desire this heavenly food. + +6 Then shall my cheerful powers rejoice +At grace and favour so divine; +Nor will I change my happy choice +For all their corn and all their wine. + + +Psalm 4:2. 3 4 5 8. C. M. +An evening Psalm. + +1 Lord, thou wilt hear me when I pray +I am for ever thine: +I fear before thee all the day, +Nor would I dare to sin. + +2 And while I rest my weary head +From cares and business free, +'Tis sweet conversing on my bed +With my own heart and thee. + +3 I pay this evening sacrifice; +And when my work is done, +Great God, my faith and hope relies +Upon thy grace alone. + +4 Thus with my thoughts compos'd to peace +I'll give mine eyes to sleep; +Thy hand in safety keeps my days, +And will my slumbers keep. + + +Psalm 5. +For the Lord's day morning. + +1 Lord, in the morning thou shalt hear +My voice ascending high; +To thee will I direct my prayer, +To thee lift up mine eye; + +2 Up to the hills where Christ is gone +To plead for all his saints, +Presenting at his Father's throne +Our songs and our complaints. + +3 Thou art a God before whose sight +The wicked shall not stand; +Sinners shall ne'er be thy delight, +Nor dwell at thy right hand. + +4 But to thy house will I resort, +To taste thy mercies there; +I will frequent thine holy court, +And worship in thy fear. + +5 O may thy Spirit guide my feet +In ways of righteousness! +Make every path of duty straight +And plain before my face. + +PAUSE. + +6 My watchful enemies combine +To tempt my feet astray; +They flatter with a base design +To make my soul their prey. + +7 Lord, crush the serpent in the dust, +And all his plots destroy; +While those that in thy mercy trust +For ever shout for joy. + +8 The men that love and fear thy name +Shall see their hopes fulfill'd; +The mighty God will compass them +With favour as a shield. + + +Psalm 6:1. C. M. +Complaint in sickness; +or, diseases healed. + +1 In anger, Lord, rebuke me not, +Withdraw the dreadful storm; +Nor let thy fury grow so hot +Against a feeble worm. + +2 My soul's bow'd down with heavy cares, +My flesh with pain oppress'd; +My couch is witness to my tears, +My tears forbid my rest. + +3 Sorrow and pain wear out my days; +I waste the night with cries, +Counting the minutes as they pass, +Till the slow morning rise. + +4 Shall I be still tormented more? +Mine eye consum'd with grief? +How long, my God, how long before +Thine hand afford relief? + +5 He hears when dust and ashes speak, +He pities all our groans, +He saves us for his mercy's sake +And heals our broken bones. + +6 The virtue of his sovereign word +Restores our fainting breath; +For silent graves praise not the Lord, +Nor is he known in death. + + +Psalm 6:2. L. M. +Temptations in sickness overcome. + +1 Lord, I can suffer thy rebukes, +When thou with kindness dost chastise +But thy fierce wrath I cannot bear, +O let it not against me rise! + +2 Pity my languishing estate, +And ease the sorrows that I feel; +The wounds thine heavy hand hath made, +O let thy gentler touches heal. + +3 See how I pass my weary days +In sighs and groans; and when 'tis night +My bed is water'd with my tears; +My grief consumes and dims my sight. + +4 Look how the powers of nature mourn! +How long, almighty God, how long? +When shall thine hour of grace return? +When shall I make thy grace my song? + +5 I feel my flesh so near the grave, +My thoughts are tempted to despair; +But graves can never praise the Lord, +For all is dust and silence there. + +6 Depart, ye tempters, from my soul, +And all despairing thoughts depart; +My God, who hears my humble moan, +Will ease my flesh, and cheer my heart. + + +Psalm 7. +God's care of his people and +punishment of persecutors. + +1 My trust is in my heavenly Friend, +My hope in thee, my God; +Rise and my helpless life defend +From those that seek my blood. + +2 With insolence and fury they +My soul in pieces tear, +As hungry lions rend the prey +When no deliverer's near. + +3 If I had e'er provok'd them first, +Or once abus'd my foe, +Then let him tread my life to dust, +And lay mine honour low. + +4 If there be malice found in me, +I know thy piercing eyes; +I should not dare appeal to thee, +Nor ask my God to rise. + +5 Arise, my God, lift up thy hand, +Their pride and power control; +Awake to judgment and command +Deliverance for my soul. + +PAUSE. + +6 [Let sinners and their wicked rage +Be humbled to the dust; +Shall not the God of truth engage +To vindicate the just? + +7 He knows the heart, he tries the reins, +He will defend th' upright: +His sharpest arrows he ordains +Against the sons of spite. + +8 For me their malice digg'd a pit, +But there themselves are cast; +My God makes all their mischief light +On their own heads at last.] + +9 That cruel persecuting race +Must feel his dreadful sword; +Awake, my soul, and praise the grace +And justice of the Lord. + + +Psalm 8:1. S. M. +God's sovereignty and goodness; and +man's dominion over the creatures. + +1 O Lord, our heavenly King, +Thy name is all divine; +Thy glories round the earth are spread, +And o'er the heavens they shine. + +2 When to thy works on high +I raise my wondering eyes, +And see the moon complete in light +Adorn the darksome skies: + +3 When I survey the stars, +And all their shining forms, +Lord, what is man, that worthless thing, +Akin to dust and worms? + +4 Lord, what is worthless man, +That thou shouldst love him so? +Next to thine angels he is plac'd, +And lord of all below. + +5 Thine honours crown his head, +While beasts like slaves obey, +And birds that cut the air with wings, +And fish that cleave the sea. + +6 How rich thy bounties are! +And wondrous are thy ways: +Of dust and worms thy power can frame +A monument of praise. + +7 [Out of the mouths of babes +And sucklings thou canst draw +Surprising honours to thy name, +And strike the world with awe.] + +8 O Lord, our heavenly King, +Thy name is all divine: +Thy glories round the earth are spread, +And o'er the heavens they shine. + + +Psalm 8:2. C. M. +Christ's condescension and +glorification; or, God made man. + +1 O Lord, our Lord, how wondrous great +Is thine exalted name! +The glories of thy heavenly state +Let men and babes proclaim. + +2 When I behold thy works on high, +The moon that rules the night, +And stars that well adorn the sky, +Those moving worlds of light; + +3 Lord, what is man, or all his race, +Who dwells so far below, +That thou shouldst visit him with grace, +And love his nature so? + +4 That thine eternal Son should bear +To take a mortal form, +Made lower than his angels are, +To save a dying worm! + +5 [Yet while he liv'd on earth unknown, +And men would not adore, +Th' obedient seas and fishes own +His Godhead and his power. + +6 The waves lay spread beneath his feet; +And fish, at his command, +Bring their large shoals to Peter's net, +Bring tribute to his hand. + +7 These lesser glories of the Son +Shone thro' the fleshly cloud; +Now we behold him on his throne, +And men confess him God.] + +8 Let him be crown'd with majesty, +Who bow'd his head to death; +And be his honours sounded high, +By all things that have breath. + +9 Jesus, our Lord, how wondrous great +Is thine exalted name! +The glories of thy heavenly state +Let the whole earth proclaim. + + +Psalm 8:3. 1 2. paraphrased. +First Part. L. M. +The Hosanna of the children; +or, Infants praising God. + +1 Almighty Ruler of the skies, +Thro' the wide earth thy name is spread, +And thine eternal glories rise +O'er all the heavens thy hands have made. + +2 To thee the voices of the young +A monument of honour raise; +And babes, with uninstructed tongue, +Declare the wonders of thy praise. + +3 Thy power assists their tender age +To bring proud rebels to the ground, +To still the bold blasphemer's rage, +And all their policies confound. + +4 Children amidst thy temple throng +To see their great Redeemer's face; +The Son of David is their song, +And young hosannas fill the place. + +3 The frowning scribes and angry priests +In vain their impious cavils bring; +Revenge sits silent in their breasts, +While Jewish babes proclaim their king. + + +Psalm 8:4. 3 &c. paraphrased. +Second Part. L. M. +Adam and Christ, lords of +the old and the new creation. + +1 Lord, what was man, when made at first, +Adam the offspring of the dust, +That thou shouldst set him and his race +But just below an angel's place? + +2 That thou shouldst raise his nature so +And make him lord of all below; +Make every beast and bird submit, +And lay the fishes at his feet? + +3 But O, what brighter glories wait +To crown the second Adam's state! +What honours shall thy Son adorn +Who condescended to be born! + +4 See him below his angels made, +See him in dust amongst the dead, +To save a ruin'd world from sin; +But he shall reign with power divine. + +5 The world to come, redeem'd from all +The miseries that attend the fall, +New made, and glorious, shall submit +At our exalted Saviour's feet. + + +Psalm 9:1. First Part. +Wrath and mercy from the judgment-seat. + +1 With my whole heart I'll raise my song, +Thy wonders I'll proclaim; +Thou sov'reign judge of right and wrong +Wilt put my foes to shame. + +2 I'll sing thy majesty and grace; +My God prepares his throne +To judge the world in righteousness +And make his vengeance known. + +3 Then shall the Lord a refuge prove +For all the poor opprest, +To save the people of his love, +And give the weary rest. + +4 The men, that know thy name will trust +In thy abundant grace; +For thou hast ne'er forsook the just, +Who humbly seek thy face. + +5 Sing praises to the righteous Lord, +Who dwells on Zion's hill, +Who executes his threatening word, +And doth his grace fulfil. + + +Psalm 9:2. 10. Second Part. +The wisdom and equity of providence. + +1 When the great Judge, supreme and just, +Shall once inquire for blood, +The humble souls, that mourn in dust, +Shall find a faithful God. + +2 He from the dreadful gates of death +Does his own children raise: +In Zion's gates, with cheerful breath, +They sing their Father's praise. + +3 His foes shall fail with heedless feet +Into the pit they made; +And sinners perish in the net +That their own hands had spread. + +4 Thus by thy judgments, mighty God! +Are thy deep counsels known; +When men of mischief are destroy'd, +The snare must be their own. + +PAUSE. + +5 The wicked shall sink down to hell; +Thy wrath devour the lands +That dare forget thee, or rebel +Against thy known commands. + +6 Tho' saints to sore distress are brought, +And wait and long complain, +Their cries shall not be still forgot, +Nor shall their hopes be vain. + +7 [Rise, great Redeemer, from thy seat, +To judge and save the poor; +Let nations tremble at thy feet, +And man prevail no more. + +8 Thy thunder shall affright the proud, +And put their hearts to pain, +Make them confess that thou art God, +And they but feeble men.] + + +Psalm 10. +Prayer heard, and saints saved; or, Pride, +atheism, and oppression punished. + +For a humiliation day. + +1 Why doth the Lord stand off so far, +And why conceal his face, +When great calamities appear, +And times of deep distress? + +2 Lord, shall the wicked still deride +Thy justice and thy pow'r? +Shall they advance their heads in pride, +And still thy saints devour? + +3 They put thy judgments from their sight, +And then insult the poor; +They boast in their exalted height +That they shall fall no more. + +4 Arise, O God, lift up thine hand, +Attend our humble cry; +No enemy shall dare to stand +When God ascends on high. + +PAUSE. + +5 Why do the men of malice rage, +And say with foolish pride, +"The God of heaven will ne'er engage +To fight on Zion's side?" + +6 But thou for ever art our Lord; +And pow'rful is thine hand, +As when the heathens felt thy sword, +And perish'd from thy land. + +7 Thou wilt prepare our hearts to pray, +And cause thine ear to hear; +He hearkens what his children say, +And puts the world in fear. + +8 Proud tyrants shall no more oppress, +No more despise the just; +And mighty sinners shall confess +They are but earth and dust. + + +Psalm 11. +God loves the righteous and hates the wicked. + +1 My refuge is the God of love; +Why do my foes insult and cry, +"Fly like a timorous trembling dove, +"To distant woods or mountains fly"? + +2 If government be all destroy'd +(That firm foundation of our peace) +And violence make justice void, +Where shall the righteous seek redress? + +3 The Lord in heaven has fix'd his throne, +His eye surveys the world below; +To him all mortal things are known, +His eyelids search our spirits thro'. + +4 If he afflicts his saints so far +To prove their love, and try their grace, +What may the bold transgressors fear? +His very soul abhors their ways. + +5 On impious wretches he shall rain +Tempests of brimstone, fire, and death, +Such as he kindled on the plain +Of Sodom with his angry breath. + +6 The righteous Lord loves righteous souls, +Whose thoughts and actions are sincere; +And with a gracious eye beholds +The men that his own image bear. + + +Psalm 12:1. L. M. +The saint's safety and hope in evil times; +or, Sins of the tongue complained of, +viz, blasphemy, falsehood, &c. + +1 Lord, if thou dost not soon appear, +Virtue and truth will fly away; +A faithful man, amongst us here, +Will scarce be found if thou delay. + +2 The whole discourse, when neighbours meet, +Is fill'd with trifles loose and vain; +Their lips are flattery and deceit, +And their proud language is profane. + +3 But lips, that with deceit abound, +Shall not maintain their triumph long; +The God of vengeance will confound +The flattering and blaspheming tongue. + +4 "Yet shall our words be free," they cry, +"Our tongue shall be controll'd by none: +"Where is the Lord will ask us why? +"Or say, our lips are not our own?" + +5 The Lord who sees the poor opprest, +And hears th' oppressor's haughty strain, +Will rise to give his children rest, +Nor shall they trust his word in vain. + +6 Thy word, O Lord, tho' often try'd, +Void of deceit shall still appear +Not silver, seven times purify'd +From dross and mixture, shines so clear. + +7 Thy grace shall in the darkest hour +Defend the holy soul from harm; +Tho' when the vilest men have power +On every side will sinners swarm. + + +Psalm 12:2. C. M. +Complaint of a general corruption of manners; or, +The promise and signs of Christ's coming to judgment. + +1 Help, Lord, for men of virtue fail, +Religion loses ground, +The sons of violence prevail, +And treacheries abound. + +2 Their oaths and promises they break, +Yet act the flatterer's part; +With fair deceitful lips they speak, +And with a double heart. + +3 If we reprove some hateful lie, +How is their fury stirr'd! +"Are not our lips our own" they cry, +"And who shall be our lord?" + +4 Scoffers appear on every side, +Where a vile race of men +Is rais'd to seats of power and pride, +And bears the sword in vain. + +PAUSE. + +5 Lord, when iniquities abound, +And blasphemy grows bold, +When faith is hardly to be found, +And love is waxing cold, + +6 Is not thy chariot hastening on? +Hast thou not given this sign? +May we not trust and live upon +A promise so divine? + +7 "Yes," saith the Lord, "now will I rise, +"And make oppressors flee; +"I shall appear to their surprise, +"And set my servants free." + +8 Thy word, like silver seven times try'd, +Thro' ages shall endure; +The men that in thy truth confide, +Shall find thy promise sure. + + +Psalm 13:1. L. M. +Pleading with God under desertion; +or, Hope, in darkness. + +1 How long, 0 Lord, shall I complain +Like one that seeks his God in vain? +Canst thou thy face for ever hide? +And I still pray and be deny'd? + +2 Shall I for ever be forgot +As one whom thou regardest not? +Still shall my soul thine absence mourn? +And still despair of thy return? + +3 How long shall my poor troubled breast +Be with these anxious thoughts opprest? +And Satan, my malicious foe, +Rejoice to see me sunk so low. + +4 Hear, Lord, and grant me quick relief, +Before my death conclude my grief; +If thou withhold thy heavenly light, +I sleep in everlasting night. + +5 How will the powers of darkness boast, +If but one praying soul be lost! +But I have trusted in thy grace, +And shall again behold thy face. + +6 Whate'er my fears or foes suggest, +Thou art my hope, my joy, my rest; +My heart shall feel thy love, and raise +My cheerful voice to songs of praise. + + +Psalm 13:2. C. M. +Complaint under temptations of the devil. + +1 How long wilt thou conceal thy face? +My God, how long delay? +When shall I feel those heavenly rays +That chase my fears away? + +2 How long shall my poor labouring soul +Wrestle and toil in vain? +Thy word can all my foes control, +And ease my raging pain. + +3 See how the prince of darkness tries +All his malicious arts, +He spreads a mist around my eyes, +And throws his fiery darts. + +4 Be thou my sun and thou my shield, +My soul in safety keep; +Make haste before mine eyes are seal'd +In death's eternal sleep. + +5 How would the tempter boast aloud +If I become his prey! +Behold the sons of hell grow proud +At thy so long delay. + +6 But they shall fly at thy rebuke, +And Satan hide his head; +He knows the terrors of thy look +And hears thy voice with dread. + +7 Thou wilt display that sovereign grace, +Where all my hopes have hung; +I shall employ my lips in praise, +And victory shall be sung. + + +Psalm 14:1. First Part. +By nature all men are sinners. + +1 Fools in their hearts believe and say, +"That all religion's vain, +"There is no God that reigns on high, +"Or minds th' affairs of men." + +2 From thoughts so dreadful and profane +Corrupt discourse proceeds; +And in their impious hands are found +Abominable deeds. + +3 The Lord, from his celestial throne +Look'd down on things below, +To find the man that sought his grace, +Or did his justice know. + +4 By nature all are gone astray, +Their practice all the same; +There's none that fears his Maker's hand, +There's none that loves his name. + +5 Their tongues are us'd to speak deceit, +Their slanders never cease; +How swift to mischief are their feet, +Nor knew the paths of peace. + +6 Such seeds of sin (that bitter root) +In every heart are found; +Nor can they bear diviner fruit, +Till grace refine the ground. + + +Psalm 14:2. Second Part. +The folly of persecutors. + +1 Are sinners now so senseless grown +That they thy saints devour? +And never worship at thy throne, +Nor fear thine awful power? + +2 Great God appear to their surprise, +Reveal thy dreadful name; +Let them no more thy wrath despise, +Nor turn our hope to shame. + +3 Dost thou not dwell among the just? +And yet our foes deride, +That we should make thy name our trust; +Great God, confound their pride. + +4 O that the joyful day were come +To finish our distress! +When God shall bring his children home, +Our songs shall never cease. + + +Psalm 15:1. C. M. +Characters of a saint; or, a citizen of Zion; +or, The qualifications of a Christian. + +1 Who shall inhabit in thy hill, +O God of holiness? +Whom will the Lord admit to dwell +So near his throne of grace? + +2 The man that walks in pious ways, +And works with righteous hands; +That trusts his Maker's promises, +And follows his commands. + +3 He speaks the meaning of his heart, +Nor slanders with his tongue; +Will scarce believe an ill report, +Nor do his neighbour wrong. + +4 The wealthy sinner he contemns, +Loves all that fear the Lord: +And tho' to his own hurt he swears, +Still he performs his word. + +5 His hands disdain a golden bribe, +And never gripe the poor; +This man shall dwell with God on earth, +And find his heaven secure. + + +Psalm 15:2. L. M. +Religion and justice, goodness and truth; +or, Duties to God and man; +or, The qualifications of a Christian. + +1 Who shall ascend thy heavenly place, +Great God, and dwell before thy face? +The man that minds religion now, +And humbly walks with God below: + +2 Whose hands are pure, whose heart is clean, +Whose lips still speak the thing they mean; +No slanders dwell upon his tongue; +He hates to do his neighbour wrong. + +3 [Scarce will he trust an ill report, +Nor vents it to his neighbour's hurt: +Sinners of state he can despise, +But saints are honour'd in his eyes.] + +4 [Firm to his word he ever stood, +And always makes his promise good; +Nor dares to change the thing he swears, +Whatever pain or loss he bears.] + +5 [He never deals in bribing gold, +And mourns that justice should be sold: +While others gripe and grind the poor, +Sweet charity attends his door.] + +6 [He loves his enemies, and prays +For those that curse him to his face; +And doth to all men still the same +That he would hope or wish from them.] + +7 Yet when his holiest works are done, +His soul depends on grace alone; +This is the man thy face shall see, +And dwell for ever Lord, with thee. + + +Psalm 16:1. First Part. L. M. +Confession of our poverty, and saints the best +company; or, Good works profit men, not God. + +1 Preserve me, Lord, in time of need +For succour to thy throne I flee, +But have no merits there to plead; +My goodness cannot reach to thee. + +2 Oft have my heart and tongue confest +How empty and how poor I am; +My praise can never make thee blest, +Nor add new glories to thy name. + +3 Yet, Lord, thy saints on earth may reap +Some profit by the good we do; +These are the company I keep, +These are the choicest friends I know. + +4 Let others choose the sons of mirth +To give a relish to their wine, +I love the men of heavenly birth, +Whose thoughts and language are divine. + + +Psalm 16:2. Second Part. L. M. +Christ's all-sufficiency. + +1 How fast their guilt and sorrows rise +Who haste to seek some idol god! +I will not taste their sacrifice, +Their offerings of forbidden blood. + +2 My God provides a richer cup, +And nobler food to live upon; +He for my life has offer'd up +Jesus, his best beloved Son. + +3 His love is my perpetual feast; +By day his counsels guide me right; +And be his name for ever blest, +Who gives me sweet advice by night. + +4 I set him still before mine eyes; +At my right hand he stands prepar'd +To keep my soul from all surprise, +And be my everlasting guard. + + +Psalm 16:3. Third Part. L. M. +Courage in death, and hope of the resurrection. + +1 When God is nigh, my faith is strong, +His arm is my almighty prop: +Be glad, my heart; rejoice, my tongue, +My dying flesh shall rest in hope. + +2 Tho' in the dust I lay my head, +Yet, gracious God, thou wilt not leave +My soul for ever with the dead, +Nor lose thy children in the grave. + +3 My flesh shall thy first call obey, +Shake off the dust, and rise on high; +Then shalt thou lead the wondrous way, +Up to thy throne above the sky. + +4 There streams of endless pleasure flow; +And full discoveries of thy grace +(Which we but tasted here below) +Spread heavenly joys thro' all the place. + + +Psalm 16:4. First Part. C. M. +Support and counsel from God without merit. + +1 Save me, O Lord, from every foe; +In thee my trust I place, +Tho' all the good that I can do +Can ne'er deserve thy grace. + +2 Yet if my God prolong my breath +The saints may profit by't; +The saints, the glory of the earth, +The men of my delight. + +3 Let heathens to their idols haste, +And worship wood or stone; +But my delightful lot is cast +Where the true God is known. + +4 His hand provides my constant food, +He fills my daily cup; +Much am I pleas'd with present good, +But more rejoice in hope. + +5 God is my portion and my joy, +His counsels are my light; +He gives me sweet advice by day, +And gentle hints by night. + +6 My soul would all her thoughts approve +To his all-seeing eye; +Not death, nor hell my hope shall move, +While such a friend is nigh. + + +Psalm 16:5. Second Part. C. M. +The death and resurrection of Christ. + +1 I Set the Lord before my face, +"He bears my courage up; +"My heart, and tongue, their joys express, +"My flesh shall rest in hope. + +2 "My spirit, Lord, thou wilt not leave +"Where souls departed are; +"Nor quit my body to the grave +"To see corruption there. + +3 "Thou wilt reveal the path of life, +"And raise me to thy throne; +"Thy courts immortal pleasure give, +"Thy presence joys unknown." + +4 [Thus in the name of Christ, the Lord, +The holy David sung, +And Providence fulfils the word +Of his prophetic tongue. + +5 Jesus, whom every saint adores, +Was crucify'd and slain; +Behold the tomb its prey restores, +Behold, he lives again! + +6 When shall my feet arise and stand +On heaven's eternal hills? +There sits the Son at God's right hand, +And there the Father smiles.] + + +Psalm 17:1. 13 &c. S. M. +Portion of saints and sinners; +or, Hope and despair in death. + +1 Arise, my gracious God, +And make the wicked flee; +They are but thy chastising rod +To drive thy saints to thee. + +2 Behold the sinner dies, +His haughty words are vain; +Here in this life his pleasure lies, +And all beyond is pain. + +3 Then let his pride advance, +And boast of all his store: +The Lord is my inheritance, +My soul can wish no more. + +4 I shall behold the face +Of my forgiving God, +And stand complete in righteousness, +Wash'd in my Saviour's blood. + +5 There's a new heaven begun, +When I awake from death, +Drest in the likeness of thy Son, +And draw immortal breath. + + +Psalm 17:2. L. M. +The sinner's portion, and saint's hope; or, The +heaven of separate souls, and the resurrection. + +1 Lord, I am thine; but thou wilt prove +My faith, my patience, and my love; +When men of spite against me join, +They are the sword, the hand is thine. + +2 Their hope and portion lies below; +'Tis all the happiness they know, +'Tis all they seek; they take their shares, +And leave the rest among their heirs. + +3 What sinners value, I resign; +Lord, 'tis enough that thou art mine; +I shall behold thy blissful face, +And stand complete in righteousness. + +4 This life's a dream, an empty show; +But the bright world to which I go +Hath joys substantial and sincere; +When shall I wake, and find me there? + +5 O glorious hour! O blest abode! +I shall be near and like my God! +And flesh and sin no more control +The sacred pleasures of the soul. + +6 My flesh shall slumber in the ground, +Till the last trumpet's joyful sound; +Then burst the chains with sweet surprise, +And in my Saviour's image rise. + + +Psalm 18:1. 1-6 15-18. First Part. L. M. +Deliverance from despair; or, Temptations overcome. + +1 Thee will I love, O Lord, my strength, +My rock, my tower, my high defence, +Thy mighty arm shall be my trust, +For I have found salvation thence. + +2 Death, and the terrors of the grave +Stood round me with their dismal shade; +While floods of high temptations rose, +And made my sinking soul afraid. + +3 I saw the opening gates of hell, +With endless pains and sorrows there, +Which none but they that feel can tell, +While I was hurried to despair. + +4 In my distress I call'd 'my God,' +When I could scarce believe him mine; +He bow'd his ear to my complaint, +Then did his grace appear divine. + +5 [With speed he flew to my relief, +As on a cherub's wing he rode; +Awful and bright as lightning shone +The face of my deliverer, God. + +6 Temptations fled at his rebuke, +The blast of his almighty breath; +He sent salvation from on high, +And drew me from the deeps of death.] + +7 Great were my fears, my foes were great, +Much was their strength, and more their rage; +But Christ, my Lord, is conqueror still, +In all the wars that devils wage. + +8 My song for ever shall record +That terrible, that joyful hour; +And give the glory to the Lord +Due to his mercy and his power. + + +Psalm 18:2. 20-26. Second Part. L. M. +Sincerity proved and rewarded. + +1 Lord, thou hast seen my soul sincere, +Hast made thy truth and love appear; +Before mine eyes I set thy laws, +And thou hast own'd my righteous cause. + +2 Since I have learnt thy holy ways, +I've walk'd upright before thy face; +Or if my feet did e'er depart, +'Twas never with a wicked heart. + +3 What sore temptations broke my rest! +What wars and strugglings in my breast! +But thro' thy grace that reigns within, +I guard against my darling sin: + +4 That sin which close besets me still, +That works and strives against my will; +When shall thy Spirit's sovereign power +Destroy it that it rise no more? + +5 [With an impartial hand, the Lord +Deals out to mortals their reward; +The kind and faithful souls shall find +A God as faithful, and as kind. + +6 The just and pure shall ever say, +Thou art more pure, more just than they; +And men that love revenge shall know, +God hath an arm of vengeance too.] + + +Psalm 18:3. 30 31 34 35 46. 3d Part. L. M. +Rejoicing in God; or, Salvation and triumph. + +1 Just are thy ways, and true thy word, +Great rock of my secure abode; +Who is a God beside the Lord? +Or where's a refuge like our God? + +2 'Tis he that girds me with his might, +Gives me his holy sword to wield; +And while with sin and hell I fight, +Spreads his salvation for my shield. + +3 He lives (and blessed be my rock!) +The God of my salvation lives, +The dark designs of hell are broke; +Sweet is the peace my Father gives. + +4 Before the scoffers of the age, +I will exalt my Father's name, +Nor tremble at their mighty rage, +But meet reproach and bear the shame. + +5 To David and his royal seed +Thy grace for ever shall extend; +Thy love to saints in Christ their head +Knows not a limit, nor an end. + + +Psalm 18:4. First Part. C. M. +Victory and triumph over temporal enemies. + +1 We love thee, Lord, and we adore, +Now is thine arm reveal'd; +Thou art our strength, our heavenly tower, +Our bulwark and our shield. + +2 We fly to our eternal rock, +And find a sure defence; +His holy name our lips invoke, +And draw salvation thence. + +3 When God, our leader, shines in arms, +What mortal heart can bear +The thunder of his loud alarms? +The lightning of his spear? + +4 He rides upon the winged wind, +And angels in array +In millions wait to know his mind, +And swift as flames obey. + +5 He speaks, and at his fierce rebuke, +Whole armies are dismay'd; +His voice, his frown, his angry look +Strikes all their courage dead. + +6 He forms our generals for the field, +With all their dreadful skill; +Gives them his awful sword to wield, +And makes their hearts of steel. + +7 [He arms our captains to the fight, +Tho' there his name's forgot: +He girded Cyrus with his might, +But Cyrus knew him not. + +8 Oft has the Lord whole nations blest +For his own church's sake: +The powers that give his people rest, +Shall of his care partake.] + +Psalm 18:5. Second Part. C. M. +The conqueror's song. + +1 To thine almighty arm we owe +The triumphs of the day +Thy terrors, Lord, confound the foe, +And melt their strength away. + +2 'Tis by thine aid our troops prevail, +And break united powers, +Or burn their boasted fleets, or scale +The proudest of their towers. + +3 How have we chas'd them thro' the field, +And trod them to the ground, +While thy salvation was our shield, +But they no shelter found! + +4 In vain to idol-saints they cry, +And perish in their blood; +Where is a rock so great, so high, +So powerful as our God? + +5 The Rock of Israel ever lives, +His name be ever blest; +'Tis his own arm the victory gives, +And gives his people rest. + +6 On kings that reign as David did, +He pours his blessings down; +Secures their honours to their seed, +And well supports the crown. + + +Psalm 19:1. First Part. S. M. +The book of nature and scripture. + +For a Lord's-day morning. + +1 Behold the lofty sky +Declares its maker God, +And all his starry works on high +Proclaim his power abroad. + +2 The darkness and the light +Still keep their course the same; +While night to day, and day to night +Divinely teach his name. + +3 In every different land +Their general voice is known +They shew the wonders of his hand, +And orders of his throne. + +4 Ye British lands, rejoice, +Here he reveals his word, +We are not left to nature's voice +To bid us know the Lord. + +5 His statutes and commands +Are set before our eyes; +He puts his gospel in our hands, +Where our salvation lies. + +6 His laws are just and pure, +His truth without deceit, +His promises for ever sure, +And his rewards are great. + +7 [Not honey to the taste +Affords so much delight, +Nor gold that has the furnace past +So much allures the sight. + +8 While of thy works I sing, +Thy glory to proclaim, +Accept the praise, my God, my King, +In my Redeemer's name.] + + +Psalm 19:2. Second Part. S. M. +God's word most excellent; or, +Sincerity and watchfulness. + +For a Lord's-day morning. + +1 Behold the morning sun +Begins his glorious way; +His beams thro' all the nations run, +And life and light convey. + +2 But where the gospel comes, +It spreads diviner light, +It calls dead sinners from their tombs, +And gives the blind their sight. + +3 How perfect is thy word! +And all thy judgments just! +For ever sure thy promise, Lord, +And men securely trust. + +4 My gracious God, how plain +Are thy directions given! +O! may I never read in vain, +But find the path to heaven! + +PAUSE. + +5 I hear thy word with love, +And I would fain obey; +Send thy good Spirit from above +To guide me, lest I stray. + +6 O who can ever find +The errors of his ways? +Yet, with a bold presumptuous mind, +I would not dare transgress. + +7 Warn me of every sin, +Forgive my secret faults, +And cleanse this guilty soul of mine, +Whose crimes exceed my thoughts. + +8 While with my heart and tongue +I spread thy praise abroad, +Accept the worship and the song, +My Saviour and my God. + + +Psalm 19:3. L. M. +The books of nature and of scripture compared; +or, The glory and success of the gospel. + +1 The heavens declare thy glory, Lord, +In every star thy wisdom shines; +But when our eyes behold thy word +We read thy name in fairer lines. + +2 The rolling sun, the changing light, +And nights and days thy power confess; +But the blest volume thou hast writ +Reveals thy justice and thy grace. + +3 Sun, moon, and stars convey thy praise +Round the whole earth, and never stand; +So when thy truth begun its race, +It touch'd and glanc'd on every land. + +4 Nor shall thy spreading gospel rest, +Till thro' the world thy truth has run; +Till Christ has all the nations blest, +That see the light, or feel the sun. + +5 Great Sun of Righteousness, arise, +Bless the dark world with heavenly light; +Thy gospel makes the simple wise, +Thy laws are pure, thy judgments right. + +6 Thy noblest wonders here we view +In souls renew'd and sins forgiven: +Lord, cleanse my sins, my soul renew, +And make thy word my guide to heaven. + + +Psalm 19:4. +To the tune of the 113th Psalm. +The book of nature and scripture. + +1 Great God, the heaven's well-order'd frame +Declares the glories of thy name; +There thy rich works of wonder shine: +A thousand starry beauties there, +A thousand radiant marks appear +Of boundless power and skill divine. + +2 From night to day, from day to night, +The dawning and the dying light +Lectures of heavenly wisdom read; +With silent eloquence they raise +Our thoughts to our Creator's praise, +And neither sound nor language need. + +3 Yet their divine instructions run +Far as the journies of the sun, +And every nation knows their voice; +The sun, like some young bridegroom drest, +Breaks from the chambers of the east, +Rolls round, and makes the earth rejoice. + +4 Where'er he spreads his beams abroad, +He smiles and speaks his maker God; +All nature joins to shew thy praise: +Thus God, in every creature shines; +Fair is the book of nature's lines, +But fairer is thy book of grace. + +PAUSE. + +5 I love the volumes of thy word; +What light and joy those leaves afford +To souls benighted and distrest! +Thy precepts guide my doubtful way, +Thy fear forbids my feet to stray; +Thy promise leads my heart to rest. + +6 From the discoveries of thy law +The perfect rules of life I draw, +These are my study and delight: +Not honey so invites the taste, +Nor gold, that hath the furnace past, +Appears so pleasing to the sight. + +7 Thy threatenings wake my slumbering eyes, +And warn me where my danger lies; +But 'tis thy blessed gospel, Lord, +That makes my guilty conscience clean, +Converts my soul, subdues my sin, +And gives a free but large reward. + +8 Who knows the errors of his thoughts? +My God, forgive my secret faults, +And from presumptuous sins restrain; +Accept my poor attempts of praise +That I have read thy book of grace, +And book of nature, not in vain. + + +Psalm 20. +Prayer and hope of victory. +For a day of prayer in time of war. + +1 Now may the God of power and grace +Attend his people's humble cry! +Jehovah hears when Israel prays, +And brings deliverance from on high. + +2 The name of Jacob's God defends +Better than shields or brazen walls; +He from his sanctuary sends +Succour and strength, when Zion calls. + +3 Well he remembers all our sighs, +His love exceeds our best deserts, +His love accepts the sacrifice +Of humble groans and broken hearts. + +4 In his salvation is our hope, +And, in the name of Israel's God, +Our troops shall lift their banners up, +Our navies spread their flags abroad. + +5 Some trust in horses train'd for war, +And some of chariots make their boast; +Our surest expectations are +From thee, the Lord of heavenly hosts. + +6 [O! may the memory of thy name +Inspire our armies for the fight! +Our foes shall fall and die with shame, +Or quit the field with shameful flight.] + +7 Now save us, Lord, from slavish fear; +Now let our hopes be firm and strong, +Till the salvation shall appear, +And joy and triumph raise the song. + + +Psalm 21:1. C. M. +Our king is the care of heaven. + +1 The king, O Lord, with songs of praise, +Shall in thy strength rejoice; +And, blest with thy salvation, raise +To heaven his cheerful voice. + +2 Thy sure defence, thro' nations round, +Has spread his glorious name; +And his successful actions crown'd +With majesty and fame. + +3 Then let the king on God alone +For timely aid rely; +His mercy shall support the throne, +And all our wants supply. + +4 But, righteous Lord, his stubborn foes +Shall feel thy dreadful hand +Thy vengeful arm shall find out those +That hate his mild command. + +5 When thou against them dost engage, +Thy just but dreadful doom +Shall, like a fiery oven's rage, +Their hopes and them consume. + +6 Thus, Lord, thy wondrous power declare, +And thus exalt thy fame; +Whilst we glad songs of praise prepare +For thine almighty name. + + +Psalm 21:2. 1-9. L. M. +Christ exalted to the kingdom. + +1 David rejoic'd in God his strength, +Rais'd to the throne by special grace; +But Christ, the Son, appears at length, +Fulfils the triumph and the praise. + +2 How great is the Messiah's joy +In the salvation of thy hand! +Lord, thou hast rais'd his kingdom high, +And given the world to his command. + +3 Thy goodness grants whate'er he will, +Nor doth the least request withhold; +Blessings of love prevent him still, +And crowns of glory, not of gold. + +4 Honour and majesty divine +Around his sacred temples shine; +Blest with the favour of thy face, +And length of everlasting days. + +5 Thy hand shall find out all his foes; +And as a fiery oven glows +With raging heat and living coals, +So shall thy wrath devour their souls. + + +Psalm 22:1. 1-16. First Part. C. M, +The sufferings and death of Christ. + +1 "Why has my God my soul forsook, +"Nor will a smile afford?" +(Thus David once in anguish spoke, +And thus our dying Lord.) + +2 Tho' 'tis thy chief delight to dwell +Among thy praising saints, +Yet thou canst hear a groan as well, +And pity our complaints. + +3 Our fathers trusted in thy name, +And great deliverance found; +But I'm a worm, despis'd of men, +And trodden to the ground. + +4 Shaking the head they pass me by, +And laugh my soul to scorn; +"In vain he trusts in God" they cry, +"Neglected and forlorn." + +5 But thou art he who form'd my flesh +By thine almighty word, +And since I hung upon the breast, +My hope is in the Lord. + +6 Why will my Father hide his face, +When foes stand threatening round, +In the dark hour of deep distress, +And not an helper found? + +PAUSE. + +7 Behold thy darling left among +The cruel and the proud, +As bulls of Bashan fierce and strong, +As lions roaring loud. + +8 From earth and hell my sorrows meet +To multiply the smart; +They nail my hands, they pierce my feet +And try to vex my heart. + +9 Yet if thy sovereign hand let loose +The rage of earth and hell, +Why will my heavenly Father bruise +The Son he loves so well? + +10 My God, if possible it be, +Withhold this bitter cup; +But I resign my will to thee, +And drink the sorrows up. + +11 My heart dissolves with pangs unknown +In groans I waste my breath; +Thy heavy hand has brought me down +Low as the dust of death. + +12 Father, I give my spirit up; +And trust it in thy hand; +My dying flesh shall rest in hope, +And rise at thy command. + + +Psalm 22:2. 20 21 27-31. 2d Part. C. M. +Christ's sufferings and kingdom. + +1 "Now from the roaring lion's rage, +"O Lord, protect thy Son; +"Nor leave thy darling to engage, +"The powers of hell alone." + +2 Thus did our suffering Saviour pray, +With mighty cries and tears; +God heard him in that dreadful day, +And chas'd away his fears. + +3 Great was the victory of his death, +His throne exalted high; +And all the kindreds of the earth +Shall worship or shall die. + +4 A numerous offspring must arise +From his expiring groans; +They shall be reckon'd in his eyes +For daughters and for sons. + +5 The meek and humble soul shall see +His table richly spread; +And all that seek the Lord shall be +With joys immortal fed. + +6 The isles shall know the righteousness +Of our incarnate God; +And nations yet unborn profess +Salvation in his blood. + + +Psalm 22:3. L. M. +Christ's sufferings and exaltation. + +1 Now let our mournful songs record +The dying sorrows of our Lord; +When he complain'd in tears and blood +As one forsaken of his God. + +2 The Jews beheld him thus forlorn, +And shake their heads, and laugh in scorn; +"He rescu'd others from the grave, +"Now let him try himself to save. + +3 "This is the man did once pretend +"God was his father and his friend; +"If God the blessed lov'd him so, +"Why doth he fail to help him now?" + +4 Barbarous people! cruel priests! +How they stood round like savage beasts! +Like lions gaping to devour, +When God had left him in their power. + +5 They wound his head, his hands, his feet, +Till streams of blood each other meet; +By lot his garments they divide +And mock the pangs in which he dy'd. + +6 But God, his Father, heard his cry: +Rais'd from the dead he reigns on high. +The nations learn his righteousness, +And humble sinners taste his grace. + + +Psalm 23:1. L. M. +God our Shepherd. + +1 My shepherd is the living Lord; +Now shall my wants be well supply'd +His providence and holy word +Become my safety and my guide. + +2 In pastures where salvation grows +He makes me feed, he makes me rest; +There living water gently flows, +And all the food's divinely blest. + +3 My wandering feet his ways mistake, +But he restores my soul to peace, +And leads me for his mercy's sake, +In the fair paths of righteousness. + +4 Tho' I walk thro' the gloomy vale, +Where death and all its terrors are, +My heart and hope shall never fail, +For God my shepherd's with me there. + +5 Amidst the darkness and the deeps +Thou art my comfort, thou my stay; +Thy staff supports my feeble steps, +Thy rod directs my doubtful way. + +6 The sons of earth and sons of hell +Gaze at thy goodness and repine +To see my table spread so well +With living bread and cheerful wine. + +7 [How I rejoice when on my head +Thy Spirit condescends to rest! +'Tis a divine anointing shed +Like oil of gladness at a feast. + +8 Surely the mercies of the Lord +Attend his household all their days; +There will I dwell to hear his word, +To seek his face, and sing his praise.] + + +Psalm 23:2. C. M. +The same. + +1. My Shepherd will supply my need, +Jehovah is his name; +In pastures fresh he makes me feed +Beside the living stream. + +2 He brings my wandering spirit back, +When I forsake his ways; +And leads me for his mercy's sake, +In paths of truth and grace. + +3 When I walk thro' the shades of death, +Thy presence is my stay; +A word of thy supporting breath +Drives all my fears away. + +4 Thy hand, in spite of all my foes, +Doth still my table spread; +My cup with blessings overflows, +Thine oil anoints my head. + +5 The sure provisions of my God +Attend me all my days; +O may thy house be mine abode, +And all my work be praise! + +6 There would I find a settled rest, +(While others go and come) +No more a stranger or a guest, +But like a child at home. + + +Psalm 23:3. S. M. +The same. + +1 The Lord my shepherd is, +I shall be well supply'd; +Since he is mine, and I am his, +What can I want beside? + +2 He leads me to the place +Where heavenly pasture grows, +Where living waters gently pass, +And full salvation flows. + +3 If e'er I go astray, +He doth my soul reclaim, +And guides me in his own right way, +For his most holy name. + +4 While he affords his aid, +I cannot yield to fear; +Tho' I should walk thro' death's dark shade +My Shepherd's with me there. + +5 In spite of all my foes, +Thou dost my table spread, +My cup with blessings overflows, +And joy exalts my head. + +6 The bounties of thy love +Shall crown my following days; +Nor from thy house will I remove, +Nor cease to speak thy praise. + + +Psalm 24:1. C. M. +Dwelling with God. + +1 The earth for ever is the Lord's, +With Adam's numerous race; +He rais'd its arches o'er the floods, +And built it on the seas. + +2 But who among the sons of men +May visit thine abode? +He that has hands from mischief clean, +Whose heart is right with God. + +3 This is the man may rise, and take +The blessings of his grace; +This is the lot of those that seek +The God of Jacob's face. + +4 Now let our soul's immortal powers +To meet the Lord prepare, +Lift up their everlasting doors, +The King of glory's near. + +5 The King of glory! who can tell +The wonders of his might! +He rules the nations; but to dwell +With saints is his delight. + + +Psalm 24:2. L. M. +Saints dwell in heaven; or, Christ's ascension. + +1 This spacious earth is all the Lord's, +And men, and worms, and beasts, and birds: +He rais'd the building on the seas, +And gave it for their dwelling-place. + +2 But there's a brighter world on high, +Thy palace, Lord, above the sky: +Who shall ascend that blest abode, +And dwell so near his Maker God? + +3 He that abhors and fears to sin, +Whose heart is pure whose hands are clean, +Him shall the Lord the Saviour bless, +And clothe his soul with righteousness. + +4 These are the men, the pious race +That seek the God of Jacob's face; +These shall enjoy the blissful sight, +And dwell in everlasting light. + +PAUSE. + +5 Rejoice, ye shining worlds on high, +Behold the King of glory nigh! +Who can this King of glory be? +The mighty Lord, the Saviour's he. + +6 Ye heavenly gates, your leaves display +To make the Lord the Saviour way: +Laden with spoils from earth and hell, +The conqueror comes with God to dwell. + +7 Rais'd from the dead he goes before, +He opens heaven's eternal door, +To give his saints a blest abode +Near their Redeemer, and their God. + + +Psalm 25:1. 1-11. First Part. +Waiting for pardon and direction. + +1 I Lift my soul to God, +My trust is in his name; +Let not my foes that seek my blood +Still triumph in my shame. + +2 Sin and the powers of hell +Persuade me to despair; +Lord, make me know thy covenant well, +That I may 'scape the snare. + +3 From the first dawning light +Till the dark evening rise, +For thy salvation, Lord, I wait +With ever-longing eyes. + +4 Remember all thy grace, +And lead me in thy truth; +Forgive the sins of riper days, +And follies of my youth. + +5 The Lord is just and kind, +The meek shall learn his ways; +And every humble sinner find +The methods of his grace. + +6 For his own goodness' sake +He saves my soul from shame; +He pardons (tho' my guilt be great) +Thro' my Redeemer's name. + + +Psalm 25:2. 12 14 10 13. Second Part. +Divine instruction. + +1 Where shall the man be found +That fears t' offend his God, +That loves the gospel's joyful sound, +And trembles at the rod? + +2 The Lord shall make him know +The secrets of his heart, +The wonders of his covenant show, +And all his love impart. + +3 The dealings of his hand +Are truth and mercy still +With such as to his covenant stand, +And love to do his will. + +4 Their souls shall dwell at ease +Before their Maker's face, +Their seed shall taste the promises, +In their extensive grace. + + +Psalm 25:3. 15-22. Third Part. +Distress of soul; or, Backsliding and desertion. + +1 Mine eyes and my desire +Are ever to the Lord; +I love to plead his promises, +And rest upon his word. + +2 Turn, turn thee to my soul, +Bring thy salvation near: +When will thy hand release my feet +Out of the deadly snare? + +3 When shall the sovereign grace +Of my forgiving God +Restore me from those dangerous ways +My wandering feet have trod? + +4 The tumult of my thoughts +Doth but enlarge my woe; +My spirit languishes, my heart +Is desolate and low. + +5 With every morning light +My sorrow new begins; +Look on my anguish and my pain, +And pardon all my sins. + +PAUSE. + +6 Behold the hosts of hell +How cruel is their hate! +Against my life they rise, and join +Their fury with deceit. + +7 O keep my soul from death, +Nor put my hope to shame, +For I have plac'd my only trust +In my Redeemer's name. + +8 With humble faith I wait +To see thy face again; +Of Israel it shall ne'er be said, +"He sought the Lord in vain." + + +Psalm 26. +Self-examination; or, Evidences of grace. + +1 Judge me, O Lord, and prove my ways, +And try my reins, and try my heart; +My faith upon thy promise stays, +Nor from thy law my feet depart. + +2 I hate to walk, I hate to sit, +With men of vanity and lies; +The scoffer and the hypocrite +Are the abhorrence of mine eyes. + +3 Amongst thy saints will I appear, +With hands well wash'd in innocence; +But when I stand before thy bar, +The blood of Christ is my defence. + +4 I love thy habitation, Lord, +The temple where thine honours dwell; +There shall I hear thine holy word, +And there thy works of wonder tell. + +5 Let not my soul be join'd at last +With men of treachery and blood, +Since I my days on earth have past +Among the saints, and near my God. + + +Psalm 27:1. 1-6. First Part. +The church is our delight and safety. + +1 The Lord of glory is my light, +And my salvation too; +God is my strength, nor will I fear +What all my foes can do. + +2 One privilege my heart desires; +O grant me an abode +Among the churches of thy saints, +The temples of my God! + +3 There shall I offer my requests, +And see thy beauty still, +Shall hear thy messages of love, +And there enquire thy will. + +4 When troubles rise, and storms appear, +There may his children hide: +God has a strong pavilion where +He makes my soul abide. + +5 Now shall my head be lifted high +Above my foes around, +And songs of joy and victory +Within thy temple sound. + + +Psalm 27:2. 8 9 13 14. Second Part. + +Prayer and Hope. + +1 Soon as I heard my Father say, +"Ye children, seek my grace;" +My heart reply'd without delay, +"I'll seek my Father's face." + +2 Let not thy face be hid from me, +Nor frown my soul away; +God of my life, I fly to thee +In a distressing day. + +3 Should friends and kindred near and dear +Leave me to want, or die, +My God would make my life his care +And all my need supply. + +4 My fainting flesh had dy'd with grief, +Had not my soul believ'd +To see thy grace provide relief, +Nor was my hope deceiv'd. + +5 Wait on the Lord, ye trembling saints, +And keep your courage up; +He'll raise your spirit when it faints, +And far exceed your hope. + + +Psalm 29. L. M. +Storm and thunder. + +1 Give to the Lord, ye sons of fame, +Give to the Lord renown and power, +Ascribe due honours to his name, +And his eternal might adore. + +2 The Lord proclaims his power aloud +Over the ocean and the land; +His voice divides the watery cloud, +And lightnings blaze at his command. + +3 He speaks, and tempest, hail, and wind, +Lay the wide forests bare around; +The fearful hart, and frighted hind, +Leap at the terror of the sound. + +4 To Lebanon he turns his voice, +And, lo, the stately cedars break; +The mountains tremble at the noise, +The vallies roar, the deserts quake. + +5 The Lord sits sovereign on the flood, +The thunderer reigns for ever king; +But makes his church his blest abode, +Where we his awful glories sing. + +6 In gentler language there the Lord +The counsels of his grace imparts; +Amidst the raging storm his word +Speaks peace and courage to our hearts. + + +Psalm 30:1. First Part. +Sickness healed, and sorrow removed. + +1 I will extol thee, Lord, on high, +At thy command, diseases fly; +Who but a God can speak and save +From the dark borders of the grave? + +2 Sing to the Lord, ye saints of his, +And tell how large his goodness is; +Let all your powers rejoice and bless, +While you record his holiness. + +3 His anger but a moment stays +His love is life and length of days; +Tho' grief and tears the night employ, +The morning-star restores the joy. + + +Psalm 30:2. 6. Second Part. +Health, sickness, and recovery. + +1 Firm was my health, my day was bright, +And I presum'd 'twould ne'er be night; +Fondly I said within my heart, +"Pleasure and peace shall ne'er depart." + +2 But I forgot thine arm was strong, +Which made my mountain stand so long; +Soon as thy face began to hide, +My health was gone, my comforts dy'd. + +3 I cry'd aloud to thee, my God, +"What canst thou profit by my blood? +"Deep in the dust can I declare +"Thy truth, or sing thy goodness there? + +4 "Hear me, O God of grace," I said, +"And bring me from among the dead:" +Thy word rebuk'd the pains I felt, +Thy pardoning love remov'd my guilt. + +5 My groans, and tears, and forms of woe, +Are turn'd to joy and praises now; +I throw my sackcloth on the ground, +And ease and gladness gird me round. + +6 My tongue, the glory of my frame, +Shall ne'er be silent of thy name +Thy praise shall sound thro' earth and heaven, +For sickness heal'd, and sins forgiven. + + +Psalm 31:1. 5 13-19 22 23. First Part. +Deliverance from death. + +1 Into thine hand, 0 God of truth, +My spirit I commit; +Thou hast redeem'd my soul from death, +And sav'd me from the pit. + +2 The passions of my hope and fear +Maintain'd a doubtful strife, +While sorrow, pain, and sin conspir'd +To take away my life. + +3 "My times are in thine hand," I cry'd, +"Tho' I draw near the dust ;" +Thou art the refuge where I hide, +The God in whom I trust. + +4 O make thy reconciled face +Upon thy servant shine, +And save me for thy mercy's sake, +For I'm entirely thine. + +PAUSE. + +5 ['Twas in my haste, my spirit said, +"I must despair and die, +"I am cut off before thine eyes;" +But thou hast heard me cry.] + +6 Thy goodness how divinely free! +How wondrous is thy grace +To those that fear thy majesty, +And trust thy promises! + +7 O love the Lord, all ye his saints, +And sing his praises loud; +He'll bend his ear to your complaints, +And recompense the proud. + + +Psalm 31:2. 7-13 18-21. Second Part. +Deliverance from slander and reproach. + +1 My heart rejoices in thy name, +My God, my help, my trust; +Thou hast preserv'd my face from shame, +Mine honour from the dust. + +2 "My life is spent with grief," I cry'd, +"My years consum'd in groans, +"My strength decays, mine eyes are dry'd, +"And sorrow wastes my bones." + +3 Among mine enemies my name +Was a mere proverb grown, +While to my neighbours I became +Forgotten and unknown. + +4 Slander and fear on every side, +Seiz'd and beset me round; +I to the throne of grace apply'd, +And speedy rescue found. + +PAUSE. + +5 How great deliverance thou hast wrought +Before the sons of men! +The lying lips to silence brought, +And made their boastings vain! + +6 Thy children, from the strife of tongues, +Shall thy pavilion hide, +Guard them from infamy and wrongs, +And crush the sons of pride. + +7 Within thy secret presence, Lord, +Let me for ever dwell; +No fenced city, wall'd and barr'd, +Secures a saint so well. + + +Psalm 32:1. S. M. +Forgiveness of sins upon confession. + +1 O blessed souls are they +Whose sins are cover'd o'er! +Divinely blest, to whom the Lord +imputes their guilt no more. + +2 They mourn their follies past, +And keep their hearts with care; +Their lips and lives without deceit, +Shall prove their faith sincere. + +3 While I conceal'd my guilt +I felt the festering wound, +Till I confess'd my sins to thee, +And ready pardon found. + +4 Let sinners learn to pray, +Let saints keep near the throne; +Our help in times of deep distress, +Is found in God alone. + + +Psalm 32:2. First Part. L. M. +Free pardon and sincere obedience; +or, Confession and forgiveness. + +1 Happy the man to whom his God +No more imputes his sin, +But wash'd in the Redeemer's blood, +Hath made his garments clean! + +2 Happy, beyond expression, he +Whose debts are thus discharg'd; +And from the guilty bondage free, +He feels his soul enlarg'd. + +3 His spirit hates deceit and lies, +His words are all sincere; +He guards his heart, he guards his eyes, +To keep his conscience clear. + +4 While I my inward guilt supprest, +No quiet could I find; +Thy wrath lay burning in my breast, +And rack'd my tortur'd mind. + +5 Then I confess'd my troubled thoughts, +My secret sins reveal'd; +Thy pardoning grace forgave my faults, +Thy grace my pardon seal'd. + +6 This shall invite thy saints to pray, +When, like a raging flood, +Temptations rise, our strength and stay +Is a forgiving God. + + +Psalm 32:3. L. M. +Repentance and free pardon; +or, Justification and sanctification. + +1 Blest is the man, for ever blest, +Whose guilt is pardon'd by his God, +Whose sins with sorrow are confess'd, +And cover'd with his Saviour's blood. + +2 Blest is the man to whom the Lord +Imputes not his iniquities, +He pleads no merit of reward, +And not on works, but grace relies. + +3 From guile his heart and lips are free, +His humble joy, his holy fear, +With deep repentance well agree, +And join to prove his faith sincere. + +4 How glorious is that righteousness +That hides and cancels all his sins! +While a bright evidence of grace +Thro' his whole life appears and shines. + + +Psalm 32:4. Second Part. L. M. +A guilty conscience eased by confession and pardon. + +1 While I keep silence, and conceal +My heavy guilt within my heart, +What torments doth my conscience feel! +What agonies of inward smart! + +2 I spread my sins before the Lord, +And all my secret faults confess; +Thy gospel speaks a pard'ning word +Thine Holy Spirit seals the grace. + +3 For this shall every humble soul +Make swift addresses to thy seat; +When floods of huge temptations roll, +There shall they find a blest retreat. + +4 How safe beneath thy wings I lie, +When days grow dark, and storms appear! +And when I walk, thy watchful eye +Shall guide me safe from every snare. + + +Psalm 33:1. First Part. C. M. +Works of creation and providence. + +1 Rejoice, ye righteous, in the Lord, +This work belongs to you: +Sing of his name, his ways, his word, +How holy, just, and true! + +2 His mercy and his righteousness +Let heaven and earth proclaim; +His works of nature and of grace +Reveal his wondrous name. + +3 His wisdom and almighty word +The heavenly arches spread; +And by the Spirit of the Lord +Their shining hosts were made. + +4 He bid the liquid waters flow +To their appointed deep; +The flowing seas their limits know, +And their own station keep. + +5 Ye tenants of the spacious earth, +With fear before him stand; +He spake, and nature took its birth, +And rests on his command. + +6 He scorns the angry nations' rage, +And breaks their vain designs; +His counsel stands thro' every age, +And in full glory shines. + + +Psalm 33:2. Second Part. C. M. +Creatures vain, and God all-sufficient. + +1 Blest is the nation where the Lord +Hath fix'd his gracious throne; +Where he reveals his heavenly word, +And calls their tribes his own. + +2 His eye, with infinite survey, +Does the whole world behold; +He form'd us all of equal clay, +And knows our feeble mould. + +3 Kings are not rescu'd by the force +Of armies from the grave; +Nor speed nor courage of an horse +Can the bold rider save, + +4 Vain is the strength of beasts or men +To hope for safety thence; +But holy souls from God obtain +A strong and sure defence. + +5 God is their fear, and God their trust, +When plagues or famine spread, +His watchful eye secures the just +Amongst ten thousand dead. + +6 Lord, let our hearts in thee rejoice, +And bless us from thy throne; +For we have made thy word our choice, +And trust thy grace alone. + + +Psalm 33:3. First Part. As the 113th Psalm. +Works of creation and providence. + +1 Ye holy souls, in God rejoice, +Your Maker's praise becomes your voice; +Great is your theme, your songs be new: +Sing of his name, his word, his ways, +His works of nature and of grace, +How wise and holy, just and true. + +2 Justice and truth he ever loves, +And the whole earth his goodness proves, +His word the heavenly arches spread; +How wide they shine from north to south! +And by the Spirit of his mouth +Were all the starry armies made. + +3 He gathers the wide-flowing seas, +Those watery treasures know their place, +In the vast storehouse of the deep: +He spake, and gave all nature birth; +And fires, and seas, and heaven, and earth, +His everlasting orders keep. + +4 Let mortals tremble and adore +A God of such resistless power, +Nor dare indulge their feeble rage: +Vain are your thoughts, and weak your hands; +But his eternal counsel stands, +And rules the world from age to age. + + +Psalm 33:4. Second Part. As the 113th Psalm. +Creatures vain, and God all-sufficient. + +1 O Happy nation, where the Lord +Reveals the treasure of his word, +And builds his church his earthly throne! +His eye the heathen world surveys, +He form'd their hearts, he knows their ways; +But God their Maker is unknown. + +2 Let kings rely upon their host, +And of his strength the champion boast; +In vain they boast, in vain rely; +In vain we trust the brutal force, +Or speed, or courage of an horse, +To guard his rider, or to fly. + +3 The eye of thy compassion, Lord, +Doth more secure defence afford +When death or dangers threatening stand; +Thy watchful eye preserves the just, +Who make thy name their fear and trust, +When wars or famine waste the land. + +4 In sickness or the bloody field, +Thou our physician, thou our shield, +Send us salvation from thy throne; +We wait to see thy goodness shine; +Let us rejoice in help divine, +For all our hope is God alone. + + +Psalm 34:1. First Part. L. M. +God's care of the saints; or, Deliverance by prayer. + +1 Lord, I will bless thee all my days, +Thy praise shall dwell upon my tongue; +My soul shall glory in thy grace, +While saints rejoice to hear the song. + +2 Come, magnify the Lord with me, +Come, let us all exalt his name; +I sought th' eternal God, and he +Has not expos'd my hope to shame. + +3 I told him all my secret grief, +My secret groaning reach'd his ears; +He gave my inward pains relief, +And calm'd the tumult of my fears. + +4 To him the poor lift up their eyes, +Their faces feel the heavenly shine; +A beam of mercy from the skies +Fills them with light and joy divine. + +6 His holy angels pitch their tents +Around the men that serve the Lord; +O fear and love him, all his saints, +Taste of his grace and trust his word. + +6 The wild young lions, pinch'd with pain +And hunger, roar thro' all the wood; +But none shall seek the Lord in vain, +Nor want supplies of real good. + + +Psalm 34:2. 11-22. Second Part. L. M. +Religious education; or, Instructions of piety. + +1 Children in years and knowledge young, +Your parents' hope, your parents' joy, +Attend the counsels of my tongue, +Let pious thoughts your minds employ. + +2 If you desire a length of days, +And peace to crown your mortal state, +Restrain your feet from impious ways, +Your lips from slander and deceit. + +3 The eyes of God regard his saints, +His ears are open to their cries; +He sets his frowning face against +The sons of violence and lies. + +4 To humble souls and broken hearts +God with his grace is ever nigh; +Pardon and hope his love imparts +When men in deep contrition lie. + +5 He tell their tears, he counts their groans, +His Son redeems their souls from death; +His Spirit heals their broken bones, +They in his praise employ their breath. + + +Psalm 34:3. 1-10. First Part. C. M. +Prayer and Praise for eminent deliverance. + +1 I'll bless the Lord from day to day; +How good are all his ways! +Ye humble souls that use to pray, +Come, help my lips to praise. + +2 Sing to the honour of his name, +How a poor sufferer cry'd, +Nor was his hope expos'd to shame, +Nor was his suit deny'd. + +3 When threatening sorrows round me stood, +And endless fears arose, +Like the loud billows of a flood, +Redoubling all my woes; + +4 I told the Lord my sore distress +With heavy groans and tears, +He gave my sharpest torments ease, +And silenc'd all my fears. + +PAUSE. + +5 [O sinners, come and taste his love, +Come, learn his pleasant ways, +And let your own experience prove +The sweetness of his grace. + +6 He bids his angels pitch their tents +Round where his children dwell +What ills their heavenly care prevents +No earthly tongue can tell.] + +7 [O love the Lord, ye saints of his; +His eye regards the just; +How richly blest their portion is +Who make the Lord their trust! + +8 Young lions pinch'd with hunger roar, +And famish in the wood; +But God supplies his holy poor +With every needful good.] + + +Psalm 34:4. 11-22. Second Part. C. M. +Exhortations to peace and Holiness. + +1 Come, children, learn to fear the Lord; +And that your days be long, +Let not a false or spiteful word +Be found upon your tongue. + +2 Depart from mischief, practise love, +Pursue the works of peace; +So shall the Lord your ways approve, +And set your souls at ease. + +3 His eyes awake to guard the just, +His ears attend their cry; +When broken spirits dwell in dust, +The God of grace is nigh. + +4 What tho' the sorrows here they taste +Are sharp and tedious too, +The Lord, who saves them all at last, +Is their supporter now. + +5 Evil shall smite the wicked dead; +But God secures his own, +Prevents the mischief when they slide, +Or heals the broken bone. + +6 When desolation like a flood, +O'er the proud sinner rolls, +Saints find a refuge in their God, +For he redeem'd their souls. + + +Psalm 35:1. 1-9. First Part. +Prayer and faith of persecuted saints; +or, Imprecations mixed with charity. + +1 Now plead my cause, almighty God, +With all the Sons of strife; +And fight against the men of blood, +Who fight against my life. + +2 Draw out thy spear and stop their way, +Lift thine avenging rod; +But to my soul in mercy say, +"I am thy Saviour God." + +3 They plant their snares to catch my feet, +And nets of mischief spread; +Plunge the destroyers in the pit +That their own hands have made. + +4 Let fogs and darkness hide their way, +And slippery be their ground; +Thy wrath shall make their lives a prey, +And all their rage confound. + +5 They fly like chaff before the wind, +Before thine angry breath; +The angel of the Lord behind +Pursues them down to death. + +6 They love the road that leads to hell; +Then let the rebels die +Whose malice is implacable +Against the Lord on high. + +7 But if thou hast a chosen few +Amongst that impious race, +Divide them from the bloody crew +By thy surprising grace. + +8 Then will I raise my tuneful voice +To make thy wonders known; +In their salvation I'll rejoice, +And bless thee for my own. + + +Psalm 35:2. 12-14. Second Part. +Love to enemies; or, The love of +Christ to sinners typified in David. + +1 Behold the love, the generous love +That holy David shows; +Hark, how his sounding bowels move +To his afflicted foes! + +2 When they are sick his soul complains, +And seems to feel the smart; +The spirit of the gospel reigns, +And melts his pious heart. + +3 How did his flowing tears condole +As for a brother dead! +And fasting mortify'd his soul, +While for their life he pray'd. + +4 They groan'd; and curs'd him on their bed, +Yet still he pleads and mourns; +And double blessings on his head +The righteous God returns. + +5 O glorious type of heavenly grace! +Thus Christ the Lord appears; +While sinners curse, the Saviour prays, +And pities them with tears. + +6 He, the true David, Israel's king, +Blest and belov'd of God, +To save us rebels dead in sin, +Paid his own dearest blood. + + +Psalm 36:1. 5-9. L. M. +The perfections and providence of God; +or, General providence and special grace. + +1 High in the heavens, eternal God, +Thy goodness in full glory shines; +Thy truth shall break thro' every cloud +That veils and darkens thy designs. + +2 For ever firm thy justice stands, +As mountains their foundations keep; +Wise are the wonders of thy hands; +Thy judgments are a mighty deep. + +3 Thy providence is kind and large, +Both man and beast thy bounty share; +The whole creation is thy charge, +But saints are thy peculiar care. + +4 My God! how excellent thy grace, +Whence all our hope and comfort springs! +The sons of Adam in distress +Fly to the shadow of thy wings. + +5 From the provisions of thy house +We shall be fed with sweet repast; +There mercy like a river flows, +And brings salvation to our taste. + +6 Life, like a fountain rich and free +Springs from the presence of the Lord; +And in thy light our souls shall see +The glories promis'd in thy word. + + +Psalm 36:2. 1 2 5 6 7 9 C. M. +Practical atheism exposed; or, +The being and attributes of God asserted. + +1 While men grow bold in wicked ways! +And yet a God they own, +My heart within me often says, +"Their thoughts believe there's none." + +2 Their thoughts and ways at once declare +(Whate'er their lips profess) +God hath no wrath for them to fear, +Nor will they seek his grace. + +3 What strange self-flattery blinds their eyes! +But there's an hastening hour +When they shall see with sore surprise +The terrors of thy power. + +4 Thy justice shall maintain its throne, +Tho' mountains melt away; +Thy judgments are a world unknown, +A deep unfathom'd sea. + +5 Above the heavens' created rounds, +Thy mercies, Lord, extend; +Thy truth outlives the narrow bounds, +Where time and nature end. + +6 Safety to man thy goodness brings, +Nor overlooks the beast; +Beneath the shadow of thy wings +Thy children choose to rest. + +7 [From thee, when creature-streams run low, +And mortal comforts die, +Perpetual springs of life shall flow, +And raise our pleasures high. + +8 Tho' all created light decay, +And death close up our eyes +Thy presence makes eternal day +Where clouds can never rise.] + + +Psalm 36:3. 1-7. S. M. +The wickedness of man, and the majesty of God; +or. Practical atheism exposed. + +1 When man grows bold in sin +My heart within me cries, +"He hath no faith of God within, +Nor fear before his eyes." + +2 [He walks awhile conceal'd +In a self-flattering dream, +Till his dark crimes at once reveal'd +Expose his hateful name.] + +3 His heart is false and foul, +His words are smooth and fair; +Wisdom is banish'd from his soul, +And leaves no goodness there. + +4 He plots upon his bed +New mischiefs to fulfil; +He sets his heart, and hand, and head, +To practise all that's ill. + +5 But there's a dreadful God, +Tho' men renounce his fear; +His justice hid behind the cloud +Shall one great day appear. + +6 His truth transcends the sky; +In heaven his mercies dwell; +Deep as the sea his judgments lie, +His anger burns to hell. + +7 How excellent his love, +Whence all our safety springs! +O never let my soul remove +From underneath his wings. + + +Psalm 37:1. 1-15. First Part. +The cure of envy, fretfulness, and unbelief; +or, The rewards of the righteous, and the wicked; +or, The world's hatred, and the saint's patience. + +1 Why should I vex my soul and fret +To see the wicked rise? +Or envy sinners waxing great, +By violence and lies. + +2 As flowery grass cut down at noon, +Before the evening fades +So shall their glories vanish soon +In everlasting shades. + +3 Then let me make the Lord my trust, +And practise all that's good; +So shall I dwell among the just, +And he'll provide me food. + +4 I to my God my ways commit, +And cheerful wait his will; +Thy hand, which guides my doubtful feet, +Shall my desires fulfil. + +3 Mine innocence shalt thou display, +And make thy judgments known, +Fair as the light of dawning day, +And glorious as the noon. + +6 The meek at last the earth possess, +And are the heirs of heav'n; +True riches with abundant peace, +To humble souls are given. + +PAUSE. + +7 Rest in the Lord and keep his way, +Nor let your anger rise, +Tho' providence should long delay +To punish haughty vice. + +8 Let sinners join to break your peace, +And plot, and rage, and foam; +The Lord derides them, for he sees +Their day of vengeance come. + +9 They have drawn out the threatening sword, +Have bent the murderous bow, +To slay the men that fear the Lord, +And bring the righteous low. + +10 My God shall break their bows, and burn +Their persecuting darts, +Shall their own swords against them turn, +And pain surprise their hearts. + + +Psalm 37:2. 16 21 26-31. Second Part. +Charity to the poor; or, Religion in words and deeds. + +1 Why do the wealthy wicked boast, +And grow profanely bold? +The meanest portion of the just +Excels the sinner's gold. + +2 The wicked borrows of his friends, +But ne'er designs to pay; +The saint is merciful and lends, +Nor turns the poor away. + +3 His alms with liberal heart he gives +Amongst the sons of need; +His memory to long ages lives, +And blessed is his seed. + +4 His lips abhor to talk profane, +To slander or defraud; +His ready tongue declares to men +What he has learn'd of God. + +5 The law and gospel of the Lord +Deep in his heart abide; +Led by the Spirit and the word, +His feet shall never slide. + +6 When sinners fall, the righteous stand, +Preserv'd from every snare; +They shall possess the promis'd land, +And dwell for ever there. + + +Psalm 37:3. 23-27. Third Part. +The way and end of the righteous and the wicked. + +1 My God, the steps of pious men +Are order'd by thy will; +Tho' they should fall, they rise again, +Thy hand supports them still. + +2 The Lord delights to see their ways, +Their virtue he approves; +He'll ne'er deprive them of his grace, +Nor leave the men he loves. + +3 The heavenly heritage is theirs, +Their portion and their home; +He feeds them now, and makes them heirs +Of blessings long to come. + +4 Wait on the Lord, ye sons of men, +Nor fear when tyrants frown; +Ye shall confess their pride was vain, +When justice casts them down. + +PAUSE. + +5 The haughty sinner have I seen, +Nor fearing man nor God, +Like a tall bay-tree fair and green, +Spreading his arms abroad. + +6 And lo! he vanish'd from the ground, +Destroy'd by hands unseen: +Nor root, nor branch, nor leaf was found +Where all that pride had been. + +7 But mark the man of righteousness, +His several steps attend; +True pleasure runs thro' all his ways, +And peaceful is his end. + + +Psalm 38. +Guilt of conscience and relief; or, Repentance, +and prayer for pardon and health. + +1 Amidst thy wrath remember love, +Restore thy servant, Lord; +Nor let a father's chastening prove +Like an avenger's sword. + +2 Thine arrows stick within my heart, +My flesh is sorely prest; +Between the sorrow and the smart +My spirit finds no rest. + +3 My sins a heavy load appear, +And o'er my head are gone; +Too heavy they for me to bear, +Too hard for me t' atone. + +4 My thoughts are like a troubled sea, +My head still bending down; +And I go mourning all the day +Beneath my Father's frown. + +5 Lord, I am weak, and broken sore, +None of my powers are whole; +The inward anguish makes me roar, +The anguish of my soul. + +6 All my desire to thee is known, +Thine eye counts every tear, +And every sigh, and every groan +Is notic'd by thine ear. + +7 Thou art my God, my only hope; +My God will hear my cry; +My God will bear my spirit up +When Satan bids me die. + +8 [My foot is ever apt to slide, +My foes rejoice to see't; +They raise their pleasure and their pride +When they supplant my feet. + +9 But I'll confess my guilt to thee, +And grieve for all my sin, +I'll mourn how weak my graces be, +And beg support divine. + +10 My God, forgive my follies past, +And be for ever nigh; +O Lord of my salvation, haste, +Before thy servant die.] + + +Psalm 39:1. 1 2 3. First Part. +Watchfulness over the tongue; +or, Prudence and zeal. + +1 Thus I resolv'd before the Lord, +"Now will I watch my tongue, +"Lest I let slip one sinful word, +"Or do my neighbour wrong." + +2 And if I'm e'er constrain'd to stay +With men of lives profane +I'll set a double guard that day, +Nor let my talk be vain. + +3 I'll scarce allow my lips to speak +The pious thoughts I feel, +Lest scoffers should th' occasion take +To mock my holy zeal. + +4 Yet if some proper hour appear, +I'll not be overaw'd, +But let the scoffing sinners hear +That I can speak for God. + + +Psalm 39:2. 4-7. Second Part. +The vanity of man as mortal. + +1 Teach me the measure of my days, +Thou maker of my frame; +I would survey life's narrow space, +And learn' how frail I am. + +2 A span is all that we can boast, +An inch or two of time; +Man is but vanity and dust +In all his flower and prime. + +3 See the vain race of mortals move +Like shadows o'er the plain; +They rage and strive, desire and love, +But all the noise is vain. + +4 Some walk in honour's gaudy show, +Some dig for golden ore, +They toil for heirs, they know not who, +And straight are seen no more. + +5 What should I wish or wait for then +From creatures, earth and dust? +They make our expectations vain, +And disappoint our trust. + +6 Now I forbid my carnal hope, +My fond desires recall; +I give my mortal interest up, +And make my God my all. + + +Psalm 39:3. 9-13. Third Part. +Sick-bed devotion; or, Pleading without repining. + +1 God of my life, look gently down, +Behold the pains I feel; +But I am dumb before thy throne, +Nor dare dispute thy will. + +2 Diseases are thy servants, Lord, +They come at thy command; +I'll not attempt a murmuring word +Against thy chastening hand. + +3 Yet I may plead with humble cries, +Remove thy sharp rebukes; +My strength consumes, my spirit dies +Thro' thy repeated strokes. + +4 Crush'd as a moth beneath thy hand, +We moulder to the dust; +Our feeble powers can ne'er withstand, +And all our beauty's lost. + +5 [This mortal life decays apace, +How soon the bubble's broke! +Adam and all his numerous race +Are vanity and smoke.] + +6 I'm but a sojourner below, +As all my fathers were, +May I be well prepar'd to go +When I the summons hear. + +7 But if my life be spar'd awhile, +Before my last remove, +Thy praise shall be my business still, +And I'll declare thy love. + + +Psalm 40:1. 1 3 5 17. First Part. C. M. +A song of deliverance from great distress. + +1 I waited patient for the Lord, +He bow'd to hear my cry; +He saw me resting on his word, +And brought salvation nigh. + +2 He rais'd me from a horrid pit +Where mourning long I lay, +And from my bonds releas'd my feet, +Deep bonds of miry clay. + +3 Firm on a rock he made me stand, +And taught my cheerful tongue +To praise the wonders of his hand, +In a new thankful song. + +4 I'll spread his works of grace abroad; +The saints with joy shall hear, +And sinners learn to make my God +Their only hope and fear. + +5 How many are thy thoughts of love! +Thy mercies, Lord, how great! +We have not words nor hours enough +Their numbers to repeat. + +6 When I'm afflicted, poor and low, +And light and peace depart, +My God beholds my heavy woe, +And bears me on his heart. + + +Psalm 40:2. 6-9. Second Part. C. M. +The incarnation and sacrifice of Christ. + +1 Thus saith the Lord, +"Your work is vain, +"Give your burnt offerings o'er, +"In dying goats and bullocks slain +"My soul delights no more." + +2 Then spake the Saviour, "Lo, I'm here, +"My God, to do thy will; +"'Whate'er thy sacred books declare, +"Thy servant shall fulfil. + +3 "Thy law is ever in my sight, +"I keep it near my heart; +"Mine ears are open'd with delight +"To what thy lips impart." + +4 And see the bless'd Redeemer comes, +Th' eternal Son appears, +And at th' appointed time assumes +The body God prepares. + +5 Much he reveal'd his Father's grace, +And much his truth he shew'd, +And preach'd the way of righteousness, +Where great assemblies stood. + +6 His Father's honour touch'd his heart, +He pity'd sinners' cries, +And, to fulfil a Saviour's part, +Was made a sacrifice, + +PAUSE. + +7 No blood of beasts on altars shed +Could wash the conscience clean, +But the rich sacrifice he paid +Atones for all our sin. + +8 Then was the great salvation spread, +And Satan's kingdom shook; +Thus by the woman's promis'd seed +The serpent's head was broke. + + +Psalm 40:3. 5-10. L. M. +Christ our sacrifice. + +1 The wonders, Lord, thy love has wrought, +Exceed our praise, surmount our thought; +Should I attempt the long detail, +My speech would faint, my numbers fail. + +2 No blood of beasts on altars spilt, +Can cleanse the souls of men from guilt, +But thou hast set before our eyes +An all-sufficient sacrifice. + +3 Lo! thine eternal Son appears, +To thy designs he bows his ears, +Assumes a body, well prepar'd, +And well performs a work so hard. + +4 "Behold, I come," (the Saviour cries, +With love and duty in his eyes) +"I come to bear the heavy load +"Of sins, and do thy will, my God. + +5 "'Tis written in thy great decree, +"'Tis in thy book foretold of me, +"I must fulfil the Saviour's part, +"And, lo! thy law is in my heart! + +6 "I'll magnify thy holy law, +"And rebels to obedience draw, +"'When on my cross I'm lifted high, +"Or to my crown above the sky. + +7 "The Spirit shall descend, and show +"What thou hast done, and what I do; +"The wond'ring world shall learn thy grace, +"Thy wisdom and thy righteousness." + + +Psalm 41. 1 2 3. +Charity to the poor; or, Pity to the afflicted. + +1 Blest is the man whose bowels move, +And melt with pity to the poor, +Whose soul, by sympathising love, +Feels what his fellow-saints endure. + +2 His heart contrives for their relief +More good than his own hands can do; +He, in the time of general grief, +Shall find the Lord has bowels too. + +3 His soul shall live secure on earth, +With secret blessings on his head, +When drought, and pestilence, and dearth +Around him multiply their dead. + +4 Or if he languish on his couch, +God will pronounce his sins forgiv'n, +Will save him with a healing touch, +Or take his willing soul to heaven. + + +Psalm 42:1. 1-5. First Part. +Desertion and hope; or, Complaint +of absence from public worship. + +1 With earnest longings of the mind, +My God, to thee I look; +So pants the hunted hart to find +And taste the cooling brook. + +2 When shall I see thy courts of grace, +And meet my God again? +So long an absence from thy face +My heart endures with pain. + +3 Temptations vex my weary soul, +And tears are my repast; +The foe insults without control, +"And where's your God at last?" + +4 'Tis with a mournful pleasure now +I think on ancient days; +Then to thy house did numbers go, +And all our work was praise. + +5 But why, my soul, sunk down so far +Beneath this heavy load? +Why do my thoughts indulge despair, +And sin against my God? + +6 Hope in the Lord, whose mighty hand +Can all thy woes remove; +For I shall yet before him stand, +And sing restoring love. + + +Psalm 42:2. 6-11. Second Part. +Melancholy thoughts reproved; +or, Hope in afflictions. + +1 My spirit sinks within me, Lord, +But I will call thy name to mind, +And times of past distress record, +When I have found my God was kind. + +2 Huge troubles, with tumultuous noise, +Swell like a sea, and round me spread; +Thy water-spouts drown all my joys, +And rising waves roll o'er my head. + +3 Yet will the Lord command his love, +When I address his throne by day, +Nor in the night his grace remove; +The night shall hear me sing and pray. + +4 I'll cast myself before his feet, +And say "My God, my heavenly Rock, +"Why doth thy love so long forget +"The soul that groans beneath thy stroke?" + +5 I'll chide my heart that sinks so low, +Why should my soul indulge her grief? +Hope in the Lord, and praise him too, +He is my rest, my sure relief. + +6 Thy light and truth shall guide me still, +Thy word shall my best thoughts employ, +And lead me to thine heavenly hill, +My God, my most exceeding Joy. + + +Psalm 44. 1 2 3 8 15-26. +The church's complaint in persecution. + +1 Lord, we have heard thy works of old, +Thy works of power and grace, +When to our ears our fathers told +The wonders of their days: + +2 How thou didst build thy churches here, +And make thy gospel known; +Amongst them did thine arm appear, +Thy light and glory shone. + +3 In God they boasted all the day, +And in a cheerful throng +Did thousands meet to praise and pray, +And grace was all their song. + +4 But now our souls are seiz'd with shame, +Confusion fills our face, +To hear the enemy blaspheme, +And fools reproach thy grace. + +5 Yet have we not forgot our God, +Nor falsely dealt with heaven, +Nor have our steps declin'd the road +Of duty thou hast given. + +6 Tho' dragons all around us roar +With their destructive breath, +And thine own hand has bruis'd us sore +Hard by the gates of death. + +PAUSE. + +7 We are expos'd all day to die +As martyrs for thy cause, +As sheep for slaughter bound we lie +By sharp and bloody laws. + +8 Awake, arise, almighty Lord, +Why sleeps thy wonted grace? +Why should we look like men abhorr'd, +Or banish'd from thy face? + +9 Wilt thou for ever cast us off +And still neglect our cries? +For ever hide thine heavenly love +From our afflicted eyes? + +10 Down to the dust our soul is bow'd, +And dies upon the ground; +Rise for our help, rebuke the proud, +And all their powers confound. + +11 Redeem us from perpetual shame, +Our Saviour and our God; +We plead the honours of thy Name, +The merits of thy blood. + + +Psalm 45:1. S. M. +The glory of Christ; the success of +the gospel; and the Gentile church. + +1 My Saviour and my King, +Thy beauties are divine; +Thy lips with blessings overflow, +And every grace is thine. + +2 Now make thy glory known, +Gird on thy dreadful sword, +And ride in majesty to spread +The conquests of thy word. + +Strike thro' thy stubborn foes, +Or melt their hearts t'obey, +While justice, meekness, grace, and truth, +Attend thy glorious way. + +4 Thy laws, O God, are right; +Thy throne shall ever end; +And thy victorious gospel proves +A sceptre in thy hand. + +5 [Thy Father and thy God +Hath without measure shed +His Spirit, like a joyful oil, +T'anoint thy sacred head.] + +6 [Behold, at thy right hand +The Gentile church is seen, +Like a fair bride in rich attire, +And princes guard the queen.] + +7 Fair bride, receive his love, +Forget thy father's house; +Forsake thy gods, thy idol gods, +And pay thy Lord thy vows. + +8 O let thy God and King +Thy sweetest thoughts employ; +Thy children shall his honours sing +In palaces of joy. + + +Psalm 45:2. C. M. +The personal glories and government of Christ. + +1 I'll speak the honours of my King, +His form divinely fair; +None of the sons of mortal race +May with the Lord compare. + +2 Sweet is thy speech and heavenly grace +Upon thy lips is shed; +Thy God, with blessings infinite, +Hath crown'd thy sacred head. + +3 Gird on thy sword, victorious Prince, +Ride with majestic sway; +Thy terrors shall strike thro' thy foes, +And make the world obey. + +4 Thy throne, O God, for ever stands; +Thy word of grace shall prove +A peaceful sceptre in thy hands, +To rule the saints by love. + +5 Justice and truth attend thee still +But mercy is thy choice; +And God, thy God, thy soul shall fill +With most peculiar joys. + + +Psalm 45:3. First Part. L. M. +The glory of Christ, and power of his gospel. + +1 Now be my heart inspir'd to sing +The glories of my Saviour-king, +Jesus the Lord; how heavenly fair +His form! how 'bright his beauties are! + +2 O'er all the sons of human race +He shines with a superior grace, +Love from his lips divinely flows, +And blessings all his state compose. + +3 Dress thee in arms, most mighty Lord, +Gird on the terror of thy sword, +In majesty and glory ride +With truth and meekness at thy side. + + 4 Thine anger, like a pointed dart, +Shall pierce the foes of stubborn heart; +Or words of mercy kind and sweet +Shall melt the rebels at thy feet. + +5 Thy throne, O God, for ever stands, +Grace is the sceptre in thy hands; +Thy laws and works are just and right, +Justice and grace are thy delight. + +6 God, thine own God, has richly shed +His oil of gladness on thy head, +And with his sacred Spirit blest +His first-born Son above the rest. + + +Psalm 45:4. Second Part. L. M. +Christ and his church; or, The mystical marriage. + +1 The king of saints, how fair his face, +Adorn'd with majesty and grace! +He comes with blessings from above, +And wins the nations to his love. + +2 At his right hand our eyes behold +The queen array'd in purest gold; +The world admires her heavenly dress, +Her robe of joy and righteousness. + +3 He forms her beauties like his own; +He calls and seats her near his throne: +Fair stranger, let thine heart forget +The idols of thy native state. + +4 So shall the King the more rejoice +In thee, the favourite of his choice; +Let him be lov'd and yet ador'd, +For he's thy Maker and thy Lord. + +5 O happy hour, when thou shalt rise +To his fair palace in the skies, +And all thy Sons (a numerous train) +Each like a prince in glory reign! + +6 Let endless honours crown his head; +Let every age his praises spread; +While we with cheerful songs approve +The condescensions of his love. + + +Psalm 46:1. First Part. +The church's safety and triumph +among national desolations. + +1 God is the refuge of his saints, +When storms of sharp distress invade; +Ere we can offer our complaints +Behold him present with his aid. + +2 Let mountains from their seats be hurl'd +Down to the deep, and buried there; +Convulsions shake the solid world, +Our faith shall never yield to fear. + +3 Loud may the troubled ocean roar, +In sacred peace our souls abide, +While every nation, every shore, +Trembles, and dreads the swelling tide. + +4 There is a stream whose gentle flow +Supplies the city of our God; +Life, love, and joy still gliding thro', +And watering our divine abode. + +5 That sacred stream, thine holy word, +That all our raging fear controls: +Sweet peace thy promises afford, +And give new strength to fainting souls. + +6 Sion enjoys her monarch's love, +Secure against a threatening hour; +Nor can her firm foundations move, +Built on his truth, and arm'd with pow'r. + + +Psalm 46:2. Second Part. +God fights for his church. + +1 Let Sion in her King rejoice, +Tho' tyrants rage and kingdoms rise; +He utters his almighty voice, +The nations melt, the tumult dies. + +2 The Lord of old for Jacob fought, +And Jacob's God is still our aid; +Behold the works his hand has wrought, +What desolations he has made! + +3 From sea to sea, thro' all the shores, +He makes the noise of battle cease; +When from on high his thunder roars, +He awes the trembling world to peace. + +4 He breaks the bow, he cuts the spear, +Chariots he burns with heavenly flame; +Keep silence all the earth, and hear +The sound and glory of his Name. + +5 "Be still, and learn that I am God, +"I'll be exalted o'er the lands, +"I will be known and fear'd abroad, +"But still my throne in Sion stands." + +6 O Lord of hosts, almighty King, +While we so near thy presence dwell, +Our faith shall sit secure, and sing +Defiance to the gates of hell. + + +Psalm 47. +Christ ascending and reigning. + +1 O for a shout of sacred joy +To God the sovereign King! +Let every land their tongues employ, +And hymns of triumph sing. + +2 Jesus our God ascends on high, +His heavenly guards around +Attend him rising thro' the sky, +With trumpet's joyful sound. + +3 While angels shout and praise their King, +Let mortals learn their strains; +Let all the earth his honour sing; +O'er all the earth he reigns. + +4 Rehearse his praise with awe profound, +Let knowledge lead the song, +Nor mock him with a solemn sound +Upon a thoughtless tongue. + +5 In Israel stood his ancient throne, +He lov'd that chosen race; +But now he calls the world his own, +And heathens taste his grace. + +6 The British islands are the Lord's, +There Abraham's God is known, +While powers and princes, shields and swords, +Submit before his throne. + + +Psalm 48:1. 1-8. First Part. +The church is the honour and safety of a nation. + +1 [Great is the Lord our God, +And let his praise be great; +He makes his churches his abode, +His most delightful seat. + +2 These temples of his grace, +How beautiful they stand! +The honours of our native place, +And bulwarks of our land.] + +3 In Sion God is known +A refuge in distress; +How bright has his salvation shone +Thro' all her palaces! + +4 When kings against her join'd, +And saw the Lord was there, +In wild confusion of the mind +They fled with hasty tear. + +5 When navies tall and proud +Attempt to spoil our peace, +He sends his tempests roaring loud, +And sinks them in the seas. + +6 Oft have our fathers told, +Our eyes have often seen, +How well our God secures the fold +Where his own sheep have been. + +7 In every new distress +We'll to his house repair. +We'll think upon his wondrous grace, +And seek deliverance there. + + +Psalm 48:2. 10-14. Second Part. +The beauty of the church; or, +Gospel worship and order. + +1 Far as thy name is known +The world declares thy praise; +Thy saints, O Lord, before thy throne +Their songs of honour raise. + +2 With joy let Judah stand +On Sion's chosen hill, +Proclaim the wonders of thy hand, +And counsels of thy will. + +3 Let strangers walk around +The city where we dwell, +Compass and view thine holy ground, +And mark the building well. + +4 The orders of thy house, +The worship of thy court, +The cheerful songs, the solemn vows; +And make a fair report. + +5 How decent and how wise! +How glorious to behold! +Beyond the pomp that charms the eyes, +And rites adorn'd with gold. + +6 The God we worship now +Will guide us till we die, +Will be our God while here below, +And ours above the sky. + + +Psalm 49:1. 8-14. First Part. C. M. +Pride and death; or, The vanity of life and riches. + +1 Why doth the man of riches grow +To insolence and pride, +To see his wealth and honours flow +With every rising tide? + +2 [Why doth he treat the poor with scorn, +Made of the self-same clay, +And boast as tho' his flesh was born +Of better dust than they?] + +3 Not all his treasures can procure +His soul a short reprieve, +Redeem from death one guilty hour, +Or make his brother live. + +4 [Life is a blessing can't be sold, +The ransom is too high; +Justice will ne'er be brib'd with gold +That man may never die.] + +5 He sees the brutish and the wise, +The timorous and the brave, +Quit their possessions, close their eyes, +And hasten to the grave. + +6 Yet 'tis his inward thought and pride,-- +"My house shall ever stand; +"And that my name may long abide, +"I'll give it to my land." + +7 Vain are his thoughts, his hopes are lost, +How soon his memory dies! +His name is written in the dust +Where his own carcase lies. + +PAUSE. + +8 This is the folly of their way; +And yet their sons, as vain, +Approve the words their fathers say, +And act their works again. + +9 Men void of wisdom and of grace, +If honour raise them high. +Live like the beast, a thoughtless race, +And like the beast they die. + +10 Laid in the grave like silly sheep, +Death feeds upon them there, +Till the last trumpet break their sleep +In terror and despair. + + +Psalm 49:2. 14 15. Second Part. C. M. +Death and the resurrection. + +1 Ye sons of pride, that hate the just, +And trample on the poor, +When death has brought you down to dust, +Your pomp shall rise no more, + +2 The last great day shall change the scene; +When will that hour appear? +When shall the just revive, and reign +O'er all that scorn'd them here? + +3 God will my naked soul receive, +When sep'rate from the flesh; +And break the prison of the grave +To raise my bones afresh. + +4 Heaven is my everlasting home, +Th' inheritance is sure; +Let men of pride their rage resume, +But I'll repine no more. + + +Psalm 49:3. L. M. +The rich sinner's death, and the saint's resurrection. + +1 Why do the proud insult the poor, +And boast the large estates they have? +How vain are riches to secure +Their haughty owners from the grave! + +2 They can't redeem one hour from death, +With all the wealth in which they trust; +Nor give a dying brother breath, +When God commands him down to dust. + +3 There the dark earth and dismal shade +Shall clasp their naked bodies round; +That flesh, so delicately fed, +Lies cold, and moulders in the ground. + +4 Like thoughtless sheep the sinner dies, +Laid in the grave for worms to eat; +The saints shall in the morning rise, +And find th' oppressor at their feet. + +5 His honours perish in the dust, +And pomp and beauty, birth and blood: +That glorious day exalts the just +To full dominion o'er the proud. + +6 My Saviour shall my life restore, +And raise me from my dark abode; +My flesh and soul shall part no more, +But dwell for ever near my God. + + +Psalm 50:1. 1-6. First Part. C. M. +The last judgment; or, The saints rewarded. + +1 The Lord, the Judge, before his throne, +Bids the whole earth draw nigh, +The nations near the rising sun, +And near the western sky. + +2 No more shall bold blasphemers say, +"Judgment will ne'er begin," +No more abuse his long delay +To impudence and sin. + +3 Thron'd on a cloud our God shall come, +Bright flames prepare his way, +Thunder and darkness, fire and storm, +Lead on the dreadful day. + +4 Heaven from above his call shall hear, +Attending angels come, +And earth and hell shall know and fear +His justice and their doom. + +5 "But gather all my saints," he cries, +"That made their peace with God, +"By the Redeemer's sacrifice, +"And seal'd it with his blood. + +6 "Their faith and works brought forth to light +"Shall make the world confess +"My sentence of reward is right, +"And heaven adore my grace." + + +Psalm 50:2. 8 10 11 14 15 23. +Second Part. C. M. +Obedience is better than sacrifice. + +1 Thus saith the Lord, "the spacious fields +"And flocks and herds are mine +"O'er all the cattle of the hills +"I claim a right divine. + +2 "I ask no sheep for sacrifice, +"Nor bullocks burnt with fire; +"To hope and love, to pray and praise, +"Is all that I require. + +3 "Call upon me when trouble's near, +"My hand shall set thee free; +"Then shall thy thankful lips declare +"The honour due to me. + +4 "The man that offers humble praise, +"He glorifies me best; +"And those that tread my holy ways +"Shall my salvation taste." + + +Psalm 50:3. 1 5 8 16 21 22. 3d Part. C. M. +The judgement of hypocrites. + +1 When Christ to judgment shall descend +And saints surround their Lord, +He calls the nations to attend, +And hear his awful word. + +2 "Not for the want of bullocks slain +"Will I the world reprove; +"Altars and rites and forms are vain, +"Without the fire of love. + +3 "And what have hypocrites to do +"To bring their sacrifice? +"They call my statutes just and true, +"But deal in theft and lies. + +4 "Could you expect to 'scape my sight, +"And sin without control? +"But I shall bring your crimes to light, +"With anguish in your soul." + +5 Consider, ye that slight the Lord, +Before his wrath appear; +If once you fall beneath his sword, +There's no deliverer there. + + +Psalm 50:4. L. M. +Hypocrisy exposed. + +1 The Lord, the Judge, his churches warns, +Let hypocrites attend and fear, +Who place their hope in rites and forms, +But make not faith nor love their care. + +2 Vile wretches dare rehearse his name +With lips of falsehood and deceit; +A friend or brother they defame, +And soothe and flatter those they hate. + +3 They watch to do their neighbours wrong; +Yet dare to seek their Maker's face; +They take his covenant on their tongue, +But break his laws, abuse his grace. + +4 To heaven they lift their hands unclean, +Defil'd with lust, defil'd with blood; +By night they practise every sin, +By day their mouths draw near to God. + +5 And while his judgments long delay, +They grow secure and sin the more; +They think he sleeps as well as they, +And put far off the dreadful hour. + +6 O dreadful hour! when God draws near, +And sets their crimes before their eyes! +His wrath their guilty souls shall tear, +And no deliverer dare to rise. + + +Psalm 50:5. To a new Tune. +The last judgment. + +1 The Lord the Sovereign sends his summons forth, +Calls the south nations, and awakes the north; +From east to west the sounding orders spread +Thro' distant worlds and regions of the dead: +No more shall atheists mock his long delay; +His vengeance sleeps no more: behold the day! + +2 Behold the Judge descends; his guards are nigh; +Tempest and fire attend him down the sky: +Heaven, earth and hell draw near; let all things come +To hear his justice and the sinners doom: +But gather first my saints (the Judge commands) +Bring them, ye angels, from their distant lands. + +3 Behold! my covenant stands for ever good, +Seal'd by the eternal sacrifice in blood, +And sign'd with all their names; the Greek, the Jew, +That paid the ancient worship or the new. +There's no distinction here: come spread their thrones, +And near me seat my favorites and my sons. + +4 I their almighty Saviour and their God, +I am their Judge: ye heavens, proclaim abroad +My just eternal sentence, and declare +Those awful truths that sinners dread to hear: +Sinners in Zion, tremble and retire; +I doom the painted hypocrite to fire. + +5 Not for the want of goats or bullocks slain +Do I condemn thee; bulls and goats are vain +Without the flames of love: in vain the store +Of brutal offerings that were mine before; +Mine are the tamer beasts and savage breed, +Flocks, herds, and fields, and forests where they feed. + +6 If I were hungry would I ask thee food? +When did I thirst, or drink thy bullocks blood? +Can I be flatter'd with thy cringing bows, +Thy solemn chatterings and fantastic vows? +Are my eyes charm'd thy vestments to behold, +Glaring in gems, and gay in woven gold? + +7 Unthinking wretch! how couldst thou hope to please +A God, a spirit, with such toys as these? +While with my grace and statutes on thy tongue, +Thou lov'st deceit, and dost thy brother wrong; +In vain to pious forms thy zeal pretends, +Thieves and adulterers are thy chosen friends. + +8 Silent I waited with lone-suffering love, +But didst thou hope that I should ne'er reprove? +And cherish such an impious thought within, +That God the righteous would indulge thy sin? +Behold my terrors now: my thunders roll, +And thy own crimes affright thy guilty soul. + +9 Sinners, awake betimes; ye fools, be wise; +Awake, before this dreadful morning rise; +Change your vain thoughts, your crooked works amend, +Fly to the Saviour, make the Judge your friend; +Lest like a lion his last vengeance tear +Your trembling souls, and no deliverer near. + + +Psalm 50:6. To the old proper Tune. +The last judgment. + +1 The God of glory sends his summons forth, +Calls the south nations, and awakes the north; +From east to west the sov'reign orders spread, +Thro' distant worlds, and regions of the dead: +The trumpet sounds; hell trembles; heaven rejoices; +Lift up your heads, ye saints, with cheerful voices. + +2 No more shall atheists mock his long delay; +His vengeance sleeps no more; behold the day; +Behold the Judge descends; his guards are nigh; +Tempests and fire attend him down the sky. +When God appears, all nature shall adore him; +While sinners tremble, saints rejoice before him, + +3 "Heaven, earth, and hell, draw near; let all things come +"To hear my justice and the sinner's doom; +"But gather first my saints," the Judge commands, +"Bring them, ye angels from their distant lands:" +When Christ returns, wake every cheerful passion, +And shout, ye saints; he comes for your salvation. + +4 "Behold my covenant stands for ever good, +"Seal'd by th' eternal sacrifice in blood, +"And sign'd with all their names, the Greek, the Jew, +"That paid the ancient worship or the new." +There's no distinction here: join all your voices, +And raise your heads, ye saints, for heaven rejoices. + +5 "Here (saith the Lord) ye angels, spread their thrones: +"And near me seat my favorites and my sons: +"Come, my redeem'd, possess the joys prepar'd +"Ere time began! 'tis your divine reward:" +When Christ returns, wake every cheerful passion, +And shout, ye saints; he comes for your salvation. + +PAUSE THE FIRST. + +6 "I am the Saviour, I th' almighty God, +"I am the Judge: ye heavens, proclaim abroad +"My just eternal sentence, and declare +"Those awful truths that sinners dread to hear," +When God appears all nature shall adore him; +While sinners tremble, saints rejoice before him. + +7 "Stand forth, thou bold blasphemer and profane, +"Now feel my wrath, nor call my threatenings vain, +"Thou hypocrite, once drest in saint's attire, +"I doom the painted hypocrite to fire." +Judgment proceeds; hell trembles; heaven rejoices; +Lift up your heads, ye saints, with cheerful voices. + +8 "Not for the want of goats or bullocks slain +"Do I condemn thee; bulls and goats are vain +"Without the flames of love; in vain the store +"Of brutal offerings that were mine before:" +Earth is the Lord's; all nature shall adore him; +While sinners tremble, saints rejoice before him. + +9 "If I were hungry, would I ask thee food? +"When did I thirst, or drink thy bullocks blood? +"Mine are the tamer beasts and savage breed, +"Flocks, herds, and fields, and forests where they feed:" +All is the Lord's; he rules the wide creation: +Gives sinners vengeance, and the saints salvation. + +10 "Can I be flatter'd with thy cringing bows, +"Thy solemn chatterings and fantastic vows? +"Are my eyes charm'd thy vestments to behold, +"Glaring in gems, and gay in woven gold?" +God is the judge of hearts; no fair disguises +Can screen the guilty when his vengeance rises. + +PAUSE THE SECOND. + +11 "Unthinking wretch! how couldst thou hope to please +"A God, a spirit with such toys as these! +"While with my grace and statutes on thy tongue, +"Thou lov'st deceit, and dost thy brother wrong!" +Judgment proceeds; hell trembles; heaven rejoices: +Lift up your heads, ye saints, with cheerful voices. + +12 "In vain to pious forms thy zeal pretends, +"Thieves and adulterers are thy chosen friends; +"While the false flatterer at my altar waits, +"His harden'd soul divine instruction hates." +God is the judge of hearts; no fair disguises +Can screen the guilty when his vengeance rises. + +13 "Silent I waited with long suffering love; +"But didst thou hope that I should ne'er reprove? +"And cherish such an impious thought within, +"That the All-Holy would indulge thy sin?" +See, God appears; all nature joins t' adore him; +Judgment proceeds, and sinners fall before him. + +14 "Behold my terrors now; my thunders roll, +"And thy own crimes affright thy guilty soul; +"Now like a lion shall my vengeance tear +"Thy bleeding heart, and no deliverer near:" +Judgment concludes; hell trembles; heaven rejoices; +Lift up your heads, ye saints, with cheerful voices.. + +EPIPHONEMA. + +15 Sinners, awake betimes; ye fools, be wise; +Awake before this dreadful morning rise: +Change your vain thoughts, your crooked works amend, +Fly to the Saviour, make the Judge your friend: +Then join the saints: wake every cheerful passion; +When Christ returns, he comes for your salvation. + + +Psalm 51:1. First Part. L. M. +A penitent pleading for pardon. + +1 Shew pity, Lord, O Lord, forgive, +Let a repenting rebel live: +Are not thy mercies large and free? +May not a sinner trust in thee? + +2 My crimes are great, but not surpass +The power and glory of thy grace; +Great God, thy nature hath no bound, +So let thy pardoning love be found. + +3 O wash my Soul from every sin, +And make my guilty conscience clean; +Here on my heart the burden lies, +And past offences pain my eyes. + +4 My lips with shame my sins confess +Against thy law, against thy grace: +Lord, should thy judgment grow severe, +I am condemn'd, but thou art clear. + +5 Should sudden vengeance seize my breath, +I must pronounce thee just in death; +And if my soul were sent to hell, +Thy righteous law approves it well. + +6 Yet save a trembling sinner, Lord, +Whose hope, still hovering round thy word, +Would light on some sweet promise there, +Some sure support against despair. + + +Psalms 51:2. Second Part. L. M. +Original and actual sin confessed. + +1 Lord, I am vile, conceiv'd in sin; +And born unholy and unclean; +Sprung from the man whose guilty fall +Corrupts the race, and taints us all. + +2 Soon as we draw our infant-breath, +The seeds of sin grow up for death; +Thy law demands a perfect heart, +But we're defil'd in every part. + +3 [Great God, create my heart anew, +And form my spirit pure and true: +O make me wise betimes to spy +My danger, and my remedy.] + +4 Behold I fall before thy face; +My only refuge is thy grace: +No outward forms can make me clean; +The leprosy lies deep within. + +5 No bleeding bird, nor bleeding beast, +Nor hyssop branch, nor sprinkling priest, +Nor running brook, nor flood, nor sea, +Can wash the dismal stain away. + +6 Jesus, my God, thy blood alone +Hath power sufficient to atone; +Thy blood can make me white as snow; +No Jewish types could cleanse me so. + +7 While guilt disturbs and breaks my peace, +Nor flesh, nor soul hath rest or ease; +Lord, let me hear thy pardoning voice, +And make my broken bones rejoice. + + +Psalm 51:3. Third Part. L. M. +The backslider restored; or, Repentance +and faith in the blood of Christ. + +1 O thou that hear'st when sinners cry, +Tho' all my crimes before thee lie, +Behold them not with angry look, +But blot their memory from thy book. + +2 Create my nature pure within, +And form my soul averse to sin; +Let thy good Spirit ne'er depart, +Nor hide thy presence from my heart. + +3 I cannot live without thy light, +Cast out and banish'd from thy sight: +Thine holy joys, my God, restore, +And guard me that I fall no more. + +4 Tho' I have griev'd thy Spirit, Lord, +His help and comfort still afford: +And let a wretch come near thy throne +To plead the merits of thy Son. + +5 A broken heart, my God, my King, +Is all the sacrifice I bring; +The God of grace will ne'er despise +A broken heart for sacrifice. + +6 My soul lies humbled in the dust, +And owns thy dreadful sentence just; +Look down, O Lord, with pitying eye, +And save the soul condemn'd to die. + +7 Then will I teach the world thy ways; +Sinners shall learn thy sovereign grace; +I'll lead them to my Saviour's blood, +And they shall praise a pardoning God. + +8 O may thy love inspire my tongue! +Salvation shall be all my song; +And all my powers shall join to bless +The Lord, my strength and righteousness. + + +Psalm 51:4. 3-13. First Part. C. M. +Original and actual sin confessed and pardoned. + +1 Lord, I would spread my sore distress +And guilt before thine eyes; +Against thy laws, against thy grace, +How high my crimes arise. + +2 Shouldst thou condemn my soul to hell, +And crush my flesh to dust, +Heaven would approve thy vengeance well, +And earth must own it just. + +3 I from the stock of Adam came, +Unholy and unclean; +All my original is shame, +And all my nature sin. + +4 Born in a world of guilt, I drew +Contagion with my breath; +And, as my days advanc'd, I grew +A juster prey for death. + +5 Cleanse me, O Lord, and cheer my soul +With thy forgiving love; +O, make my broken spirit whole, +And bid my pains remove. + +6 Let not thy Spirit quite depart, +Nor drive me from thy face; +Create anew my vicious heart, +And fill it with thy grace. + +7 Then will I make thy mercy known +Before the sons of men; +Backsliders shall address thy throne, +And turn to God again. + + +Psalm 51:5. 14-17. Second Part. C. M. +Repentance and faith in the blood of Christ. + +1 O God of mercy! hear my call, +My loads of guilt remove; +Break down this separating wall +That bars me from thy love. + +2 Give me the presence of thy grace, +Then my rejoicing tongue +Shall speak aloud thy righteousness, +And make thy praise my song. + +3 No blood of goats, nor heifers slain, +For sin could e'er atone; +The death of Christ shall still remain +Sufficient and alone. + +4 A soul opprest with sin's desert, +My God will ne'er despise; +A humble groan, a broken heart +Is our best sacrifice. + + +Psalm 53. 4-6. +Victory and deliverance from persecution. + +1 Are all the foes of Sion fools, +Who thus devour her saints? +Do they not know her Saviour rules, +And pities her complaints? + +2 They shall be seiz'd with sad surprise; +For God's revenging arm +Scatters the bones of them that rise +To do his children harm. + +3 In vain the sons of Satan boast +Of armies in array: +When God has first despis'd their host, +They fall an easy prey. + +4 O for a word from Sion's King +Her captives to restore! +Jacob with all his tribes shall sing, +And Judah weep no more. + + +Psalm 55:1. 1-8 16-18 22. C. M. +Support for the afflicted and tempted soul. + +1 O God, my refuge, hear my cries, +Behold my flowing tears, +For earth and hell my hurt devise, +And triumph in my fears. + +2 Their rage is levell'd at my life, +My soul with guilt they load, +And fill my thoughts with inward strife +To shake my hope in God. + +3 With inward pain my heart-strings sound, +I groan with every breath; +Horror and fear beset me round +Amongst the shades of death, + +4 O were I like a feather'd dove, +And innocence had wings, +I'd fly, and make a long remove, +From all these restless things. + +5 Let me to some wild desert go, +And find a peaceful home, +Where storms of malice never blow, +Temptations never come. + +6 Vain hopes, and vain inventions all +To 'scape the rage of hell! +The mighty God on whom I call +Can save me here as well. + +PAUSE. + +7 By morning light I'll seek his face, +At noon repeat my cry, +The night shall hear me ask his grace, +Nor will he long deny. + +8 God shall preserve my soul from fear, +Or shield me when afraid; +Ten thousand angels must appear +If he command their aid. + +9 I cast my burdens on the Lord, +The Lord sustains them all; +My courage rests upon his word +That saints shall never fall. + +10 My highest hopes shall not be vain, +My lips shall spread his praise; +While cruel and deceitful men +Scarce live out half their days. + + +Psalm 55:2. 15-17 19 22. S. M. +Dangerous prosperity; or, +Daily devotions encouraged. + +1 Let sinners take their course, +And choose the road to death; +But in the worship of my God +I'll spend my daily breath. + +2 My thoughts address his throne +When morning brings the light; +I seek his blessing every noon, +And pay my vows at night. + +3 Thou wilt regard my cries, +O my eternal God, +While sinners perish in surprise +Beneath thine angry rod. + +4 Because they dwell at ease, +And no sad changes feel, +They neither fear nor trust thy Name, +Nor learn to do thy will. + +5 But I with all my cares +Will call upon the Lord, +I'll cast my burdens on his arm, +And rest upon his word, + +6 His arm shall well sustain +The children of his love; +The ground on which their safety stands +No earthly power can move. + + +Psalm 56. +Deliverance from oppression and falsehood; or, +God's care of his people, in answer to faith and prayer. + +1 Thou, whose justice reigns on high, +And makes th' oppressor cease, +Behold how envious sinners try +To vex and break my peace! + +2 The Sons of violence and lies +Join to devour me, Lord; +But as my hourly dangers rise, +My refuge is thy word. + +3 In God most holy, just, and true, +I have repos'd my trust; +Nor will I fear what flesh can do, +The offspring of the dust. + +4 They wrest my words to mischief still, +Charge me with unknown faults; +Mischief doth all their councils fill, +And malice all their thoughts. + +5 Shall they escape without thy frown? +Must their devices stand? +O cast the haughty sinner down, +And let him know thy hand! + +PAUSE. + +6 God counts the sorrows of his saints, +Their groans affect his ears; +Thou hast a book for my complaints, +A bottle for my tears. + +7 When to thy throne I raise my cry +The wicked fear and flee; +So swift is prayer to reach the sky, +So near is God to me. + +8 In thee, most holy, just, and true, +I have repos'd my trust; +Nor will I fear what man can do, +The offspring of the dust. + +9 Thy solemn vows are on me, Lord, +Thou shalt receive my praise; +I'll sing, "how faithful is thy word, +"How righteous all thy ways!" + +10 Thou hast secur'd my soul from death; +O set thy prisoner free, +That heart and hand, and life and breath +May be employ'd for thee. + + +Psalm 57. +Praise for protection, grace, and truth. + +1 My God, in whom are all the springs +Of boundless love and grace unknown, +Hide me beneath thy spreading wings +Till the dark cloud is overblown. + +2 Up to the heavens I send my cry, +The Lord will my desires perform; +He sends his angel from the sky, +And saves me from the threatening storm. + +3 Be thou exalted, O my God, +Above the heavens where angels dwell: +Thy power on earth be known abroad, +And land to land thy wonders tell. + +4 My heart is fix'd; my song shall raise +Immortal honours to thy Name; +Awake, my tongue, to sound his praise, +My tongue, the glory of my frame. + +5 High o'er the earth his mercy reigns, +And reaches to the utmost sky; +His truth to endless years remains, +When lower worlds dissolve and die. + +6 Be thou exalted, O my God, +Above the heavens where angels dwell; +Thy power on earth be known abroad, +And land to land thy wonders tell. + + +Psalm 58. As the 113th Psalm. +Warning to magistrates. + +1 Judges, who rule the world by laws, +Will ye despise the righteous cause, +When th' injur'd poor before you stands? +Dare ye condemn the righteous poor, +And let rich sinners 'scape secure, +While gold and greatness bribe your hands? + +2 Have ye forgot, or never knew, +That God will judge the judges too? +High in the heavens his justice reigns? +Yet you invade the rights of God, +And send your bold decrees abroad, +To bind the conscience in your chains. + +3 A poison'd arrow is your tongue, +The arrow sharp, the poison strong, +And death attends where'er it wounds: +You hear no counsels, cries or tears; +So the deaf adder stops her ears +Against the power of charming sounds. + +4 Break out their teeth, eternal God, +Those teeth of lions dy'd in blood; +And crush the serpents in the dust: +As empty chaff when whirlwinds rise, +Before the sweeping tempest flies, +So let their hopes and names be lost. + +5 Th' Almighty thunders from the sky, +Their grandeur melts, their titles die, +As hills of snow dissolve and run, +Or snails that perish in their slime, +Or births that come before their time, +Vain births, that never see the sun. + +6 Thus shall the vengeance of the Lord +Safety and joy to saints afford; +And all that hear shall join and say, +"Sure there's a God that rules on high, +"A God that hears his children cry, +"And will their sufferings well repay." + + +Psalm 60. 1-5 10-12. +On a day of humiliation for disappointments in war. + +1 Lord, hast thou cast the nation off? +Must we for ever mourn? +Wilt thou indulge immortal wrath? +Shall mercy ne'er return? + +2 The terror of one frown of thine +Melts all our strength away; +Like men that totter drunk with wine, +We tremble in dismay. + +3 Great Britain shakes beneath thy stroke, +And dreads thy threatening hand; +O heal the island thou hast broke, +Confirm the wavering land. + +4 Lift up a banner in the field, +For those that fear thy Name; +Save thy beloved with thy shield, +And put our foes to shame. + +5 Go with our armies to the fight, +Like a confederate God; +In vain confederate powers unite +Against thy lifted rod. + +6 Our troops shall gain a wide renown +By thine assisting hand; +'Tis God that treads the mighty down, +And makes the feeble stand. + + +Psalm 61. 1-6. +Safety in God. + +1 When overwhelm'd with grief +My heart within me dies, +Helpless and far from all relief +To heaven I lift mine eyes. + +2 O lead me to the rock +That's high above my head, +And make the covert of thy wings +My shelter and my shade. + +3 Within thy presence, Lord, +For ever I'll abide; +Thou art the tower of my defence, +The refuge where I hide. + +4 Thou givest me the lot +Of those that fear thy Name; +If endless life be their reward, +I shall possess the same. + + +Psalm 62. 5-12. +No trust in the creatures; or, +Faith in divine grace and power. + +1 My spirit looks to God alone; +My rock and refuge is his throne; +In all my fears, in all my straits, +My soul on his salvation waits. + +2 Trust him, ye saints, in all your ways, +Pour out your hearts before his face: +When helpers fail, and foes invade, +God is our all-sufficient aid. + +3 False are the men of high degree, +The baser sort are vanity; +Laid in the balance both appear +Light as a puff of empty air. + +4 Make not increasing gold your trust, +Nor set your heart on glittering dust; +Why will you grasp the fleeting smoke; +And not believe what God hath spoke? + +5 Once has his awful voice declar'd, +Once and again my ears have heard, +"All power is his eternal due; +"He must be fear'd and trusted too." + +6 For sovereign power reigns not alone, +Grace is a partner of the throne: +Thy grace and justice, mighty Lord, +Shall well divide our last reward. + + +Psalm 63:1. 1 2 5 34. First Part. C. M. +The morning of a Lord's day. + +1 Early, my God, without delay +I haste to seek thy face; +My thirsty spirit faints away, +Without thy cheering grace. + +2 So pilgrims on the scorching sand, +Beneath a burning sky, +Long for a cooling stream at hand, +And they must drink or die. + +3 I've seen thy glory and thy power +Thro' all thy temple shine; +My God, repeat that heavenly hour, +That vision so divine. + +4 Not all the blessings of a feast +Can please my soul so well, +As when thy richer grace I taste, +And in thy presence dwell. + +5 Not life itself with all her joys, +Can my best passions move, +Or raise so high my cheerful voice +As thy forgiving love. + +6 Thus till my last expiring day +I'll bless my God and King; +Thus will I lift my hands to pray, +And tune my lips to sing. + + +Psalm 63:2. 6-10. Second Part. +Midnight thoughts recollected. + +1 'Twas in the watches of the night +I thought upon thy power, +I kept thy lovely face in sight +Amidst the darkest hour. + +2 My flesh lay resting on my bed, +My soul arose on high; +"My God, my life, my hope," I said, +"Bring thy salvation nigh." + +3 My spirit labours up thine hill, +And climbs the heavenly road; +But thy right hand upholds me still, +While I pursue my God. + +4 Thy mercy stretches o'er my head +The shadow of thy wings; +My heart rejoices in thine aid, +My tongue awakes and sings. + +5 But the destroyers of my peace +Shall fret and rage in vain; +The tempter shall for ever cease, +And all my sins be slain. + +6 Thy sword shall give my foes to death, +And send them down to dwell +In the dark caverns of the earth, +Or to the deeps of hell. + + +Psalm 63:3. L. M. +Longing after God; or, The +love of God better than life. + +1 Great God, indulge my humble claim +Thou art my hope, my joy, my rest; +The glories that compose thy Name +Stand all engag'd to make me blest. + +2 Thou great and good, thou just and wise, +Thou art my Father and my God; +And I am thine by sacred ties; +Thy son, thy servant bought with blood. + +3 With heart, and eyes and lifted hands, +For thee I long, to thee I look, +As travellers in thirsty lands +Pant for the cooling water-brook. + +4 With early feet I love t' appear +Among thy saints and seek thy face; +Oft have I seen thy glory there, +And felt the power of sovereign grace. + +5 Not fruits nor wines that tempt our taste, +Not all the joys our senses know, +Could make me so divinely blest +Or raise my cheerful passions so. + +6 My life itself without thy love +No taste of pleasure could afford; +'Twould but a tiresome burden prove, +If I were banish'd from the Lord. + +7 Amidst the wakeful hours of night, +When busy cares afflict my head +One thought of thee gives new delight, +And adds refreshment to my bed. + +8 I'll lift my hands, I'll raise my voice, +While I have breath to pray or praise; +This work shall make my heart rejoice, +And spend the remnant of my days. + + +Psalm 63:4. S. M. +Seeking God. + +1 My God, permit my tongue +This joy, to call thee mine, +And let my early cries prevail +To taste thy love divine. + +2 My thirsty fainting soul +Thy mercy doth implore; +Not travellers in desert lands +Can pant for water more. + +3 Within thy churches, Lord, +I long to find my place, +Thy power and glory to behold, +And feel thy quickening grace. + +4 For life without thy love +No relish can afford; +No joy can be compar'd to this, +To serve and please the Lord. + +5 To thee I'll lift my hands, +And praise thee while I live; +Not the rich dainties of a feast +Such food or pleasure give. + +6 In wakeful hours at night +I call my God to mind; +I think how wise thy counsels are, +And all thy dealings kind. + +7 Since thou hast been my help, +To thee my spirit flies, +And on thy watchful providence +My cheerful hope relies. + +8 The shadow of thy wings +My soul in safety keeps; +I follow where my Father leads, +And he supports my steps. + + +Psalm 65:1. 1-5. First Part. L. M. +Public prayer and praise. + +1 The praise of Sion waits for thee, +My God; and praise becomes thy house; +There shall thy saints thy glory see, +And there perform their public vows. + +2 O thou, whose mercy bends the skies +To save when humble sinners pray, +All lands to thee shall lift their eyes +And islands of the northern sea. + +3 Against my will my sins prevail, +But grace shall purge away their stain; +The blood of Christ will never fail +To wash my garments white again. + +4 Blest is the man whom thou shalt choose, +And give him kind access to thee, +Give him a place within thy house, +To taste thy love divinely free. + +PAUSE. + +5 Let Babel fear when Sion prays; +Babel, prepare for long distress +When Sion's God himself arrays +In terror, and in righteousness. + +6 With dreadful glory God fulfils +What his afflicted saints request; +And with almighty wrath reveals +His love to give his churches rest. + +7 Then shall the flocking nations run +To Sion's hill, and own their Lord; +The rising and the setting sun +Shall see their Saviour's name ador'd. + + +Psalm 65:2. 5-13. Second Part. L. M. +Divine providence in air, earth, and sea; +or, The God of nature and grace. + +1 The God of our salvation hears +The groans of Sion mix'd with tears; +Yet when he comes with kind designs, +Thro' all the way his terror shines. + +2 On him the race of man depends, +Far as the earth's remotest ends, +Where the Creator's Name is known +By nature's feeble light alone. + +3 Sailors, that travel o'er the flood, +Address their frighted souls to God; +When tempests rage and billows roar +At dreadful distance from the shore. + +4 He bids the noisy tempest cease; +He calms the raging crowd to peace, +When a tumultuous nation raves +Wild as the winds, and loud as waves. + +5 Whole kingdoms shaken by the storm +He settles in a peaceful form; +Mountains establish'd by his hand, +Firm on their old foundations stand. + +6 Behold his ensigns sweep the sky, +New comets blaze and lightnings fly, +The heathen lands, with swift surprise, +From the bright horrors turn their eyes. + +7 At his command the morning-ray +Smiles in the east, and leads the day; +He guides the sun's declining wheels +Over the tops of western hills. + +8 Seasons and times obey his voice; +The evening and the morn rejoice +To see the earth made soft with showers, +Laden with fruit and drest in flowers. + +9 'Tis from his watery stores on high +He gives the thirsty ground supply; +He walks upon the clouds, and thence +Doth his enriching drops dispense. + +10 The desert grows a fruitful field, +Abundant food the vallies yield; +The vallies shout with cheerful voice, +And neighb'ring hills repeat their joys. + +11 The pastures smile in green array; +There lambs and larger cattle play; +The larger cattle and the lamb +Each in his language speaks thy Name. + +12 Thy works pronounce thy power divine, +O'er every field thy glories shine; +Thro' every month thy gifts appear; +Great God! thy goodness crowns the year. + + +Psalm 65:3. First Part. C. M. +A prayer-hearing God, and the Gentiles called. + +1 Praise waits in Sion, Lord, for thee; +There shall our vows be paid: +Thou hast an ear when sinners pray, +All flesh shall seek thine aid. + +2 Lord, our iniquities prevail, +But pardoning grace is thine, +And thou wilt grant us power and skill +To conquer every sin. + +3 Bless'd are the men whom thou wilt choose +To bring them near thy face, +Give them a dwelling in thine house +To feast upon thy grace. + +4 In answering what thy church requests +Thy truth and terror shine, +And works of dreadful righteousness +Fulfil thy kind design. + +5 Thus shall the wondering nations see +The Lord is good and just; +And distant islands fly to thee, +And make thy Name their trust. + +6 They dread thy glittering tokens, Lord, +When signs in heaven appear; +But they shall learn thy holy word, +And love as well as fear. + + +Psalm 65:4. Second Part. C. M. +The providence of God in air, earth, +and sea; or, The blessing of rain. + +1 'Tis by thy strength the mountains stand, +God of eternal power; +The sea grows calm at thy command, +And tempests cease to roar. + +2 Thy morning light and evening shade +Successive comforts bring; +Thy plenteous fruits make harvest glad, +Thy flowers adorn the spring. + +3 Seasons and times, and moons and hours, +Heaven, earth, and air are thine; +When clouds distil in fruitful showers, +The author is divine. + +4 Those wandering cisterns in the sky, +Borne by the winds around, +With watery treasures well supply +The furrows of the ground. + +5 The thirsty ridges drink their fill, +And ranks of corn appear; +Thy ways abound with blessings still, +Thy goodness crowns the year. + + +Psalm 65:5. Third Part. C. M. +The blessing: of the spring; or, God gives +rain. A psalm for the husbandman. + +1 Good is the Lord, the heavenly King, +Who makes the earth his care, +Visits the pastures every spring, +And bids the grass appear. + +2 The clouds, like rivers rais'd on high, +Pour out, at thy command, +Their watery blessings from the sky, +To cheer the thirsty land. + +3 The soften'd ridges of the field +Permit the corn to spring; +The vallies rich provision yield, +And the poor labourers sing. + +4 The little hills on every side +Rejoice at falling showers; +The meadows, drest in all their pride, +Perfume the air with flowers. + +5 The barren clods, refresh'd with rain, +Promise a joyful crop; +The parching grounds look green again, +And raise the reaper's hope. + +6 The various months thy goodness crowns; +How bounteous are thy ways; +The bleating flocks spread o'er the downs, +And shepherds shout thy praise. + + +Psalm 66:1. First Part. +Governing power and goodness; +or, Our graces tried by afflictions. + +1 Sing, all ye nations, to the Lord, +Sing with a joyful noise; +With melody of sound record +His honours, and your joys. + +2 Say to the power that shakes the sky, +"How terrible art thou! +"Sinners before thy presence fly, +"Or at thy feet they bow." + +3 [Come, see the wonders of our God, +How glorious are his ways: +In Moses' hand he puts his rod, +And cleaves the frighted seas. + +4 He made the ebbing channel dry, +While Israel pass'd the flood; +There did the church begin their joy, +And triumph in their God.] + +5 He rules by his resistless might: +Will rebel mortals dare +Provoke th' Eternal to the fight, +And tempt that dreadful war? + +6 O bless our God and never cease; +Ye saints, fulfil his praise; +He keeps our life, maintains our peace, +And guides our doubtful ways. + +7 Lord, thou hast prov'd our suffering souls, +To make our graces shine; +So silver bears the burning coals +The metal to refine. + +8 Thro' watery deeps and fiery ways +We march at thy command, +Led to possess the promis'd place +By thine unerring hand. + + +Psalm 66:2. 13-20. Second Part. +Praise to God for hearing prayer. + +1 Now shall my solemn vows be paid +To that Almighty power, +That heard the long requests I made +In my distressful hour. + +2 My lips and cheerful heart prepare +To make his mercies known; +Come, ye that fear my God, and hear +The wonders he has done. + +3 When on my head huge sorrows fell, +I sought his heavenly aid, +He sav'd my sinking soul from hell, +And death's eternal shade. + +4 If sin lay cover'd in my heart, +While prayer employ'd my tongue, +The Lord had shewn me no regard, +Nor I his praises sung. + + +5 But God, (his Name be ever blest) +Hath set my spirit free, +Nor turn'd from him my poor request, +Nor turn'd his heart from me. + + +Psalm 67. +The nation's prosperity and the church's increase. + +1 Shine, mighty God, on Britain shine +With beams of heavenly grace; +Reveal thy power thro' all our coasts, +And shew thy smiling face. + +2 [Amidst our isle, exalted high, +Do thou our glory stand, +And like a wall of guardian fire +Surround the favourite land.] + +3 When shall thy Name, from shore to shore, +Sound all the earth abroad, +And distant nations know and love +Their Saviour and their God? + +4 Sing to the Lord, ye distant lands, +Sing loud with solemn voice; +While British tongues exalt his praise, +And British hearts rejoice. + +5 He the great Lord, the sovereign Judge, +That sits enthron'd above, +Wisely commands the worlds he made +In justice and in love. + +6 Earth shall obey her Maker's will, +And yield a full increase; +Our God will crown his chosen isle +With fruitfulness and peace. + +7 God the Redeemer scatters round +His choicest favours here, +While the creation's utmost bound +Shall see, adore, and fear. + + +Psalm 68:1. 1-6 32-35. First Part. +The vengeance and compassion of God. + +1 Let God arise in all his might, +And put the troops of hell to flight, +As smoke that sought to cloud the skies +Before the rising tempest flies. + +2 [He comes array'd in burning flames; +Justice and vengeance are his names: +Behold his fainting foes expire +Like melting wax before the fire.] + +3 He rides and thunders thro' the sky; +His name Jehovah sounds on high: +Sing to his Name, ye sons of grace; +Ye saints, rejoice before his face. + +4 The widow and the fatherless +Fly to his aid in sharp distress; +In him the poor and helpless find +A Judge that's just, a Father kind. + +5 He breaks the captive's heavy chain, +And prisoners see the light again; +But rebels that dispute his will, +Shall dwell in chains and darkness still. + +PAUSE. + +6 Kingdoms and thrones to God belong; +Crown him, ye nations, in your song; +His wondrous names and powers rehearse; +His honours shall enrich your verse. + +7 He shakes the heavens with loud alarms; +How terrible is God in arms! +In Israel are his mercies known, +Israel is his peculiar throne. + +8 Proclaim him King, pronounce him blest! +He's your defence, your joy, your rest: +When terrors rise and nations faint, +God is the strength of every saint. + + +Psalm 68:2. 17 18. Second Part. +Christ's ascension, and the gift of the Spirit. + +1 Lord, when thou didst ascend on high, +Ten thousand angels fill'd the sky; +Those heavenly guards around thee wait, +Like chariots that attend thy state. + +2 Not Sinai's mountain could appear +More glorious when the Lord was there; +While he pronounc'd his dreadful law, +And struck the chosen tribes with awe. + +3 How bright the triumph none can tell, +When the rebellious powers of hell +That thousand souls had captive made, +Were all in chains like captives led. + +4 Rais'd by his Father to the throne, +He sent the promis'd Spirit down, +With gifts and grace for rebel men, +That God might dwell on earth again. + + +Psalm 68:3. 19 9 20-2. Third Part. +Praise for temporal blessings; or, +Common and special mercies. + +1 We bless the Lord, the just, the good, +Who fills our hearts with joy and food; +Who pours his blessings from the skies, +And loads our days with rich supplies. + +2 He sends the sun his circuit round, +To cheer the fruits, to warm the ground; +He bids the clouds with plenteous rain +Refresh the thirsty earth again. + +3 'Tis to his care we owe our breath, +And all our near escapes from death; +Safety and health to God belong; +He heals the weak, and guards the strong. + +4 He makes the saint and sinner prove +The common blessings of his love; +But the wide difference that remains, +Is endless joy, or endless pains. + +5 The Lord, that bruis'd the serpent's head, +On all the serpent's seed shall tread; +The stubborn sinner's hope confound, +And smite him with a lasting wound. + +6 But his right hand his saints shall raise +From the deep earth, or deeper seas, +And bring them to his courts above, +There shall they taste his special love. + + +Psalm 69:1. 1-14. First Part. C. M. +The sufferings of Christ for our salvation. + +1 "Save me, O God, the swelling floods +"Break in upon my soul: +"I sink, and sorrows o'er my head +"Like mighty waters roll. + +2 "I cry till all my voice be gone, +"In tears I waste the day: +"My God behold my longing eyes, +"And shorten thy delay. + +3 "They hate my soul without a cause, +"And still their number grows +"More than the hairs around my head, +"And mighty are my foes. + +4 "'Twas then I paid that dreadful debt +"That men could never pay, +"And gave those honours to thy law +"Which sinners took away." + +5 Thus in the great Messiah's name, +The royal prophet mourns; +Thus he awakes our hearts to grief, +And gives us joy by turns. + +6 "Now shall the saints rejoice and find +"Salvation in my Name: +"For I have borne their heavy load +Of sorrow, pain, and shame. + + +7 "Grief, like a garment, cloth'd me round, +"And sackcloth was my dress, +"While I procur'd for naked souls +"A robe of righteousness. + +8 "Amongst my brethren and the Jews +"I like a stranger stood, +"And bore their vile reproach to bring +"The Gentiles near to God. + +9 "I came in sinful mortals' stead, +"To do my Father's will; +"Yet when I cleans'd my father's house +"They scandaliz'd my zeal. + +10 "My fasting and my holy groans +"Were made the drunkard's song; +"But God, from his celestial throne, +"Heard my complaining tongue. + +11 "He sav'd me from the dreadful deep, +"Nor let my soul be drown'd; +"He rais'd and fix'd my sinking feet +"On well establish'd ground. + +12 "'Twas in a most accepted hour +"My prayer arose on high, +"And for my sake my God shall hear +"The dying sinner's cry." + + +Psalm 69:2. 14-21 26 29 32. 2d Part. C. M. +The passion and exaltation of Christ. + +1 Now let our lips with holy fear +And mournful pleasure sing +The sufferings of our great High-Priest, +The sorrows of our King. + +2 He sinks in floods of deep distress: +How high the waters rise! +While to his heavenly Father's ear +He sends perpetual cries. + +3 "Hear me, O Lord, and save thy Son, +"Nor hide thy shining face; +"Why should thy favorite look like one +"Forsaken of thy grace? + +4 "With rage they persecute the man +"That groans beneath thy wound, +"While for a sacrifice I pour +"My life upon the ground. + +5 "They tread my honour to the dust, +"And laugh when I complain +"Their sharp insulting slanders add +"Fresh anguish to my pain. + +6 "All my reproach is known to thee, +"The scandal and the shame; +"Reproach has broke my bleeding heart, +"And lies defil'd my Name. + +7 "I look'd for pity, but in vain; +"My kindred are my grief! +"I ask my friends for comfort round, +"But meet with no relief. + +8 "With vinegar they mock my thirst; +"They give me gall for food; +"And sporting with my dying groans, +"They triumph in my blood. + +9 "Shine into my distressed soul, +"Let thy compassion save; +"And tho' my flesh sink down to death, +"Redeem it from the grave. + +10 "I shall arise to praise thy Name, +"Shall reign in worlds unknown; +"And thy salvation, O my God, +"Shall seat me on thy throne." + + +Psalm 69:3. Third Part. C. M. +Christ's obedience and death; or, +God glorified and sinners saved. + +1 Father, I sing thy wondrous grace, +I bless my Saviour's Name, +He bought salvation for the poor, +And bore the sinner's shame. + +2 His deep distress has rais'd us high, +His duty and his zeal +Fulfill'd the law which mortals broke, +And finish'd all thy will. + +3 His dying groans, his living songs +Shall better please my God +Than harp or trumpet's solemn sound, +Than goats' or bullocks' blood. + +4 This shall his humble followers see, +And set their hearts at rest; +They by his death draw near to thee, +And live for ever blest. + +5 Let heaven, and all that dwell on high, +To God their voices raise, +While lands and seas assist the sky, +And join t' advance the praise. + +6 Zion is thine, most holy God; +Thy Son shall bless her gates; +And glory purchas'd by his blood +For thine own Israel waits. + + +Psalm 69:4. First Part. L. M. +Christ's passion, and sinners' salvation. + +1 Deep in our hearts let us record +The deeper sorrows of our Lord; +Behold the rising billows roll +To overwhelm his holy soul. + +2 In long complaints he spends his breath, +While hosts of hell, and powers of death, +And all the sons of malice join +To execute their curst design. + +3 Yet, gracious God, thy power and love +Has made the curse a blessing prove; +Those dreadful sufferings of thy Son +Aton'd for sins which we had done. + +4 The pangs of our expiring Lord +The honours of thy law restor'd; +His sorrows made thy justice known, +And paid for follies not his own. + +6 O for his sake our guilt forgive, +And let the mourning sinner live; +The Lord will hear us in his Name, +Nor shall our hope be turn'd to shame. + + +Psalm 69:5. 7 &c. Second Part. L. M. +Christ's sufferings and zeal. + +1 'Twas for thy sake, eternal God, +Thy son sustain'd that heavy load +Of base reproach and sore disgrace, +And shame defil'd his sacred face. + +2 The Jews, his brethren and his kin, +Abus'd the man that check'd their sin: +While he fulfill'd thy holy laws, +They hate him, but without a cause. + +3 ["My Father's house, said he, was made +"A place for worship, not for trade;" +Then scattering all their gold and brass, +He scourg'd the merchants from the place.] + +4 [Zeal for the temple of his God +Consum'd his life, expos'd his blood: +Reproaches at thy glory thrown +He felt, and mourn'd them as his own.] + +5 [His friends forsook, his followers fled, +While foes and arms surround his head; +They curse him with a slanderous tongue, +And the false judge maintains the wrong.] + +6 His life they load with hateful lies, +And charge his lips with blasphemies; +They nail him to the shameful tree: +There hung the man that dy'd for me. + +7 [Wretches with hearts as hard as stones, +Insult his piety and groans; +Gall was the food they gave him there, +And mock'd his thirst with vinegar.] + +8 But God beheld; and from his throne +Marks out the men that hate his Son; +The hand that rais'd him from the dead +Shall pour the vengeance on their head. + + +Psalm 71:1. 5-9. First Part. +The aged saint's reflection and hope. + +1 My God, my everlasting hope, +I live upon thy truth; +Thine hands have held my childhood up, +And strengthen'd all my youth. + +2 My flesh was fashion'd by thy power, +With all these limbs of mine; +And from my mother's painful hour +I've been entirely thine. + +3 Still has my life new wonders seen +Repeated every year; +Behold my days that yet remain, +I trust them to thy care. + +4 Cast me not off when strength declines, +When hoary hairs arise; +And round me let thy glories shine +Whene'er thy servant dies. + +5 Then in the history of my age, +When men review my days, +They'll read thy love in every page, +In every line thy praise. + + +Psalm 71:2. 15 14 16 23 22 24. 2d Part. +Christ our strength and righteousness. + +1 My Saviour, my almighty Friend, +When I begin thy praise, +Where will the growing numbers end, +The numbers of thy grace? + +2 Thou art my everlasting trust, +Thy goodness I adore; +And since I knew thy graces first +I speak thy glories more. + +3 My feet shall travel all the length +Of the celestial road, +And march with courage in thy strength +To see my Father God. + +4 When I am fill'd with sore distress +For some surprising sin, +I'll plead thy perfect righteousness, +And mention none but thine. + +5 How will my lips rejoice to tell +The victories of my King! +My soul redeem'd from sin and hell +Shall thy salvation sing. + +6 [My tongue shall all the day proclaim +My Saviour and my God; +His death has brought my foes to shame, +And drown'd them in his blood. + +7 Awake, awake my tuneful powers; +With this delightful song +I'll entertain the darkest hours, +Nor think the season long.] + + +Psalm 71:3. 17-21. Third Part. +The aged Christian's prayer and song; or, +Old age, death, and the resurrection. + +1 God of my childhood and my youth, +The guide of all my days, +I have declar'd thy heavenly truth, +And told thy wondrous ways. + +2 Wilt thou forsake my hoary hairs, +And leave my fainting heart? +Who shall sustain my sinking years +If God my strength depart? + +3 Let me thy power and truth proclaim +To the surviving age, +And leave a savour of thy Name +When I shall quit the stage. + +4 The land of silence and of death +Attends my next remove; +O may these poor remains of breath +Teach the wide world thy love. + +PAUSE. + +5 Thy righteousness is deep and high, +Unsearchable thy deeds; +Thy glory spreads beyond the sky, +And all my praise exceeds. + +6 Oft have I heard thy threatenings roar, +And oft endur'd the grief; +But when thy hand has press'd me sore, +Thy grace was my relief. + +7 By long experience have I known +Thy sovereign power to save; +At thy command I venture down +Securely to the grave. + +8 When I lie buried deep in dust, +My flesh shall be thy care +These withering limbs with thee I trust +To raise them strong and fair. + + +Psalm 72:1. First Part. +The kingdom of Christ. + +1 Great God, whose universal sway +The known and unknown worlds obey, +Now give the kingdom to thy Son, +Extend his power, exalt his throne. + +2 Thy sceptre well becomes his hands, +All heaven submits to his commands; +His justice shall avenge the poor, +And pride and rage prevail no more. + +3 With power he vindicates the just, +And treads th' oppressor in the dust; +His worship and his fear shall last +Till hours and years and time be past. + +4 As rain on meadows newly mown +So shall he send his influence down; +His grace on fainting souls distils +Like heavenly dew on thirsty hills. + +5 The heathen lands that lie beneath +The shades of overspreading death, +Revive at his first dawning light, +And deserts blossom at the sight. + +6 The saints shall flourish in his days, +Drest in the robes of joy and praise; +Peace like a river from his throne +Shall flow to nations yet unknown. + + +Psalm 72:2. Second Part. +Christ's kingdom among the Gentiles. + +1 Jesus shall reign where'er the sun +Does his successive journies run; +His kingdom stretch from shore to shore, +Till moons shall wax and wane no more. + +2 [Behold the islands with their kings, +And Europe her best tribute brings; +From north to south the princes meet +To pay their homage at his feet. + +3 There Persia glorious to behold, +There India shines in eastern gold: +And barbarous nations at his word +Submit, and bow, and own their Lord.] + +4 For him shall endless prayer be made +And princes throng to crown his head; +His Name like sweet perfume shall rise +With every morning sacrifice. + +5 People and realms of every tongue +Dwell on his love with sweetest song: +And infant voices shall proclaim +Their early blessings on his Name. + +6 Blessings abound where'er he reigns, +The prisoner leaps to lose his chains, +The weary find eternal rest, +And all the sons of want are blest. + +7 [Where he displays his healing power, +Death and the curse are known no more; +In him the tribes of Adam boast +More blessings than their father lost. + +8 Let every creature rise, and bring +Peculiar honours to our King; +Angels descend with songs again, +And earth repeat the long Amen.] + + +Psalm 73:1. First Part. C. M. +Afflicted saints happy, and +prosperous sinners cursed. + +1 Now I'm convinc'd the Lord is kind +To men of heart sincere, +Yet once my foolish thoughts repin'd +And border'd on despair. + +2 I griev'd to see the wicked thrive, +And spoke with angry breath, +"How pleasant and profane they live! +"How peaceful is their death! + +3 "With well-fed flesh and haughty eyes +"They lay their fears to sleep; +"Against the heavens their slanders rise, +"While saints in silence weep. + +4 "In vain I lift my hands to pray, +"And cleanse my heart in vain, +"For I am chasten'd all the day, +"The night renews my pain.' + +5 Yet while my tongue indulg'd complaints, +I felt my heart reprove; +"Sure I shall thus offend thy saints, +"And grieve the men I love." + +6 But still I found my doubts too hard, +The conflict too severe, +Till I retir'd to search thy word, +And learn thy secrets there. + +7 There, as in some prophetic glass, +I saw the sinner's feet +High mounted on a slippery place, +Beside a fiery pit. + +8 I heard the wretch profanely boast, +Till at thy frown he fell; +His honours in a dream were lost, +And he awakes in hell. + +9 Lord, what an envious fool I was! +How like a thoughtless beast! +Thus to suspect thy promis'd grace, +And think the wicked blest. + +10 Yet I was kept from full despair, +Upheld by power unknown; +That blessed hand that broke the snare +Shall guide me to thy throne. + + +Psalm 73:2. 23-8. Second Part. +God our portion here and hereafter. + +1 God my supporter and my hope, +My help for ever near, +Thine arm of mercy held me up +When sinking in despair. + +2 Thy counsels, Lord, shall guide my feet +Thro' this dark wilderness; +Thine hand conduct me near thy seat +To dwell before thy face. + +3 Were I in heaven without my God, +'Twould be no joy to me; +And whilst this earth is my abode, +I long for none but thee. + +4 What if the springs of life were broke, +And flesh and heart should faint! +God is my soul's eternal rock, +The strength of every saint. + +5 Behold the sinners that remove +Far from thy presence die; +Not all the idol gods they love +Can save them when they cry. + +6 But to draw near to thee, my God, +Shall be my sweet employ; +My tongue shall sound thy works abroad, +And tell the world my joy. + + +Psalm 73:3. 22 3 6 17-20. L. M. +The prosperity of sinners cursed. + +1 Lord, what a thoughtless wretch was I, +To mourn, and murmur, and repine +To see the wicked plac'd on high, +In pride and robes of honour shine! + +2 But O their end, their dreadful end! +Thy sanctuary taught me so: +On slippery rocks I see them stand, +And fiery billows roll below. + +3 Now let them boast how tall they rise, +I'll never envy them again; +There they may stand with haughty eyes, +Till they plunge deep in endless pain. + +4 Their fancy'd joys, how fast they flee! +Just like a dream when man awakes; +Their songs of softest harmony +Are but a preface to their plagues. + +5 Now I esteem their mirth and wine +Too dear to purchase with my blood; +Lord, 'tis enough that thou art mine, +My life, my portion, and my God. + + +Psalm 73:4. S. M. +The mystery of providence unfolded. + +1 Sure there's a righteous God, +Nor is religion vain, +Tho' men of vice may boast aloud, +And men of grace complain. + +2 I saw the wicked rise, +And felt my heart repine, +While haughty fools with scornful eyes +In robes of honour shine. + +3 [Pamper'd with wanton ease, +Their flesh looks full and fair, +Their wealth rolls in like flowing seas, +And grows without their care. + +4 Free from the plagues and pains +That pious souls endure, +Thro' all their life oppression reigns +And racks the humble poor. + +5 Their impious tongues blaspheme +The everlasting God; +Their malice blasts the good man's name, +And spreads their lies abroad. + +6 But I with flowing tears +Indulge my doubts to rise +"Is there a God that sees or hears +"The things below the skies?"] + +7 The tumults of my thought +Held me in hard suspense, +Till to thy house my feet were brought +To learn thy justice thence. + +8 Thy word with light and power +Did my mistakes attend; +I view'd the sinners' life before, +But here I learnt their end. + +9 On what a slippery steep +The thoughtless wretches go; +And O that dreadful fiery deep +That waits their fall below. + +10 Lord, at thy feet I bow, +My thoughts no more repine; +I call my God my portion now, +And all my powers are thine. + + +Psalm 74. +The church pleading with God +under sore persecutions. + +1 Will God for ever cast us off? +His wrath for ever smoke +Against the people of his love, +His little chosen flock? + +2 Think of the tribes so dearly bought +With their Redeemer's blood; +Nor let thy Sion be forgot, +Where once thy glory stood. + +3 Lift up thy feet and march in haste, +Aloud our ruin calls; +See what a wide and fearful waste +Is made within thy walls. + +4 Where once thy churches pray'd and sang +Thy foes profanely roar; +Over thy gates their ensigns hang, +Sad tokens of their power. + +5 How are the seats of worship broke! +They tear the buildings down, +And he that deals the heaviest stroke +Procures the chief renown. + +6 With flames they threaten to destroy +Thy children in their nest; +"Come let us burn at once (they cry) +The temple and the priest." + +7 And still to heighten our distress +Thy presence is withdrawn; +Thy wonted signs of power and grace, +Thy power and grace are gone. + +8 No prophet speaks to calm our woes, +But all the seers mourn; +There's not a soul amongst us knows +The time of thy return. + +PAUSE. + +9 How long, eternal God, how long +Shall men of pride blaspheme? +Shall saints be made their endless song, +And bear immortal shame? + +10 Canst thou for ever sit and hear +Thine holy Name profan'd? +And still thy jealousy forbear, +And still withhold thine hand? + +11 What strange deliverance hast thou shown +In ages long before! +And now no other God we own, +No other God adore. + +12 Thou didst divide the raging sea +By thy resistless might, +To make thy tribes a wondrous way, +And then secure their flight. + +13 Is not the world of nature thine, +The darkness and the day? +Didst thou not bid the morning shine, +And mark the sun his way? + +14 Hath not thy power form'd every coast, +And set the earth its bounds, +With summer's heat and winter's frost, +In their perpetual rounds? + +15 And shall the sons of earth and dust +That sacred power blaspheme? +Will not thy hand that form'd them first +Avenge thine injur'd Name? + +16 Think on the covenant thou hast made, +And all thy words of love; +Nor let the birds of prey invade +And vex thy mourning dove. + +17 Our foes would triumph in our blood, +And make our hope their jest; +Plead thy own cause, almighty God! +And give thy children rest. + + +Psalm 75. +Power and government from God alone. +Applied to the glorious Revolution by King William, or +the happy Accession of King George to the Throne. + +1 To thee, most holy, and most high, +To thee, we bring our thankful praise; +Thy works declare thy name is nigh, +Thy works of wonder and of grace. + +2 Britain was doom'd to be a slave, +Her frame dissolv'd, her fears were great; +When God a new supporter gave +To bear the pillars of the state. + +3 He from thy hand receiv'd his crown, +And sware to rule by wholesome laws +His foot shall tread th' oppressor down, +His arm defend the righteous cause. + +4 Let haughty sinners sink their pride, +Nor lift so high their scornful head; +But lay their foolish thoughts aside, +And own the king that God hath made. + +5 Such honours never come by chance, +Nor do the winds promotion blow; +'Tis God the judge doth one advance, +'Tis God that lays another low. + +6 No vain pretence to royal birth +Shall fix a tyrant on the throne: +God the great sovereign of the earth +Will rise and make his justice known. + +7 [His hand holds out the dreadful cup +Of vengeance, mix'd with various plagues, +To make the wicked drink them up, +Wring out and taste the bitter dregs. + +8 Now shall the Lord exalt the just, +And while he tramples on the proud, +And lays their glory in the dust, +My lips shall sing his praise aloud.] + + +Psalm 76. +Israel saved, and the Assyrians destroyed; or, God's +vengeance against his enemies proceeds from his church. + +1 In Judah God of old was known; +His Name in Israel great; +In Salem stood his holy throne, +And Sion was his seat. + +2 Among the praises of his saints +His dwelling there he chose; +There he receiv'd their just complaints +Against their haughty foes. + +3 From Sion went his dreadful word, +And broke the threatening spear; +The bow, the arrows, and the sword, +And crush'd th' Assyrian war. + +4 What are the earth's wide kingdoms else +But mighty hills of prey? +The hill on which Jehovah dwells +Is glorious more than they. + +5 'Twas Sion's King that stopt the breath +Of captains and their bands: +The men of might slept fast in death, +And never found their hands. + +6 At thy rebuke, O Jacob's God, +Both horse and chariot fell; +Who knows the terrors of thy rod? +Thy vengeance who can tell? + +7 What power can stand before thy sight +When once thy wrath appears? +When heaven shines round with dreadful light, +The earth lies still and fears. + +8 When God in his own sovereign ways +Comes down to save th' opprest, +The wrath of man shall work his praise, +And he'll restrain the rest. + +9 [Vow to the Lord, and tribute bring, +Ye princes, fear his frown: +His terror shakes the proudest king, +And cuts an army down. + +10 The thunder of his sharp rebuke +Our haughty foes shall feel: +For Jacob's God hath not forsook, +But dwells in Sion still.] + + +Psalm 77:1. First Part. +Melancholy assaulting, and hope prevailing. + +1 To God I cry'd with mournful voice, +I sought his gracious ear, +In the sad day when troubles rose, +And fill'd the night with fear. + +2 Sad were my days, and dark my nights, +My soul refus'd relief; +I thought on God the just and wise, +But thoughts increas'd my grief. + +3 Still I complain'd, and still opprest, +My heart began to break; +My God, thy wrath forbid my rest, +And kept my eyes awake. + +4 My overwhelming sorrows grew +Till I could speak no more; +Then I within myself withdrew, +And call'd thy judgments o'er. + +5 I call'd back years and ancient times, +When I beheld thy face; +My spirit search'd for secret crimes +That might withhold thy grace. + +6 I call'd thy mercies to my mind +Which I enjoy'd before; +And will the Lord no more be kind? +His face appear no more? + +7 Will he for ever cast me off? +His promise ever fail? +Has he forgot his tender love? +Shall anger still prevail? + +8 But I forbid this hopeless thought, +This dark despairing frame, +Rememb'ring what thy hand hath wrought, +Thy hand is still the same. + +9 I'll think again of all thy ways, +And talk thy wonders o'er; +Thy wonders of recovering grace, +When flesh could hope no more. + +10 Grace dwells with justice on the throne; +And men that love thy word +Have in thy sanctuary known +The counsels of the Lord. + + +Psalm 77:2. Second Part. +Comfort derived from ancient providences; or, +Israel delivered from Egypt, and brought to Canaan. + +1 "How awful is thy chastening rod!" +(May thine own children say) +"The great, the wise, the dreadful God! +"How holy is his way!" + +2 I'll meditate his works of old; +The King that reigns above; +I'll hear his ancient wonders told, +And learn to trust his love. + +3 Long did the house of Joseph lie +With Egypt's yoke opprest: +Long he delay'd to hear their cry, +Nor gave his people rest. + +4 The sons of good old Jacob seem'd +Abandon'd to their foes; +But his almighty arm redeem'd +The nation that he chose. + +5 Israel, his people, and his sheep, +Must follow where he calls; +He bid them venture thro' the deep, +And made the waves their walls. + +6 The waters saw thee, mighty God! +The waters saw thee come; +Backward they fled, and frighted stood, +To make thine armies room. + +7 Strange was thy journey thro' the sea, +Thy footsteps, Lord, unknown, +Terrors attend the wondrous way +That brings thy mercies down. + +8 [Thy voice with terror in the sound +Thro' clouds and darkness broke; +All heaven in lightning shone around, +And earth with thunder shook. + +9 Thine arrows thro' the skies were hurl'd; +How glorious is the Lord! +Surprise and trembling seiz'd the world, +And his own saints ador'd. + +10 He gave them water from the rock; +And safe by Moses' hand +Thro' a dry desert led his flock +Home to the promis'd land.] + + +Psalm 78:1. First Part. +Providence of God recorded; or, Pious +education and instruction of children. + +1 Let children hear the mighty deeds, +Which God perform'd of old, +Which in our younger years we saw, +And which our fathers told. + +2 He bids us make his glories known, +His works of power and grace; +And we'll convey his wonders down +Thro' every rising race. + +3 Our lips shall tell them to our Sons, +And they again to theirs, +That generations yet unborn +May teach them to their heirs. + +4 Thus shall they learn in God alone +Their hope securely stands, +That they may ne'er forget his works, +But practise his commands. + + +Psalm 78:2. Second Part. +Israel's rebellion and punishment; or, The +sins and chastisements of God's people. + +1 What a stiff rebellious house +Was Jacob's ancient race! +False to their own most solemn vows, +And to their Maker's grace. + +2 They broke the covenant of his love, +And did his laws despise, +Forgot the works he wrought to prove +His power before their eyes. + +3 They saw the plagues on Egypt light, +From his revenging hand: +What dreadful tokens of his might +Spread o'er the stubborn land! + +4 They saw him cleave the mighty sea, +And march'd in safety thro', +With watery walls to guard their way, +Till they had 'scap'd the foe. + +5 A wondrous pillar mark'd the road, +Compos'd of shade and light; +By day it prov'd a sheltering cloud, +A leading fire by night. + +6 He from the rock their thirst supply'd; +The gushing waters fell, +And ran in rivers by their side, +A constant miracle. + +7 Yet they provok'd the Lord most high, +And dar'd distrust his hand; +"Can he with bread our host supply +"Amidst this desert land?" + +8 The Lord with indignation heard, +And caus'd his wrath to flame +His terrors ever stand prepar'd +To vindicate his Name. + + +Psalm 78:3. Third Part. +The punishment of luxury and intemperance; +or, Chastisement and salvation. + +1 When Israel sins, the Lord reproves, +And fills their hearts with dread; +Yet he forgives the men he loves, +And sends them heavenly bread. + +2 He fed them with a liberal hand, +And made his treasures known; +He gave the midnight clouds command +To pour provision down. + +3 The manna, like a morning shower, +Lay thick around their feet; +The corn of heaven, so light, so pure, +As tho' 'twere angels' meat. + +4 But they in murmuring language said, +"Manna is all our feast; +"We loathe this light, this airy bread; +"We must have flesh to taste." + +5 "Ye shall have flesh to please your lust;" +The Lord in wrath reply'd, +And sent them quails like sand or dust, +Heap'd up from side to side. + +6 He gave them all their own desire; +And greedy as they fed, +His vengeance burnt with secret fire, +And smote the rebels dead. + +7 When some were slain, the rest return'd, +And sought the Lord with tears; +Under the rod they fear'd and mourn'd, +But soon forgot their fears. + +8 Oft he chastis'd and still forgave, +Till by his gracious hand +The nation he resolv'd to save, +Possess'd the promis'd land. + + +Psalm 78:4. 32 &c. Fourth Part. +Backsliding and forgiveness; or, +Sin punished, and saints saved. + +1 Great God, how oft did Israel prove +By turns thine anger and thy love! +There in a glass our hearts may see +How fickle and how false they be. + +2 How soon the faithless Jews forgot +The dreadful wonders God had wrought! +Then they provoke him to his face, +Nor fear his power, nor trust his grace. + +3 The Lord consum'd their years in pain, +And made their travels long and vain; +A tedious march thro' unknown ways +Wore out their strength and spent their days. + +4 Oft when they saw their brethren slain, +They mourn'd and sought the Lord again; +Call'd him the Rock of their abode, +Their high Redeemer and their God. + +5 Their prayers and vows before him rise +As flattering words or solemn lies, +While their rebellious tempers prove +False to his covenant and his love. + +6 Yet did his sovereign grace forgive +The men who not deserv'd to live; +His anger oft away he turn'd, +Or else with gentle flame it burn'd. + +7 He saw their flesh was weak and frail, +He saw temptation still prevail +The God of Abraham lov'd them still, +And led them to his holy hill. + + +Psalm 80. +The church's prayer under affliction; +or, The vineyard of God wasted. + +1 Great Shepherd of thine Israel, +Who didst between the cherubs dwell, +And led the tribes, thy chosen sheep, +Safe thro' the desert and the deep. + +2 Thy church is in the desert now, +Shine from on high and guide us thro'; +Turn us to thee, thy love restore, +We shall be sav'd, and sigh no more. + +3 Great God, whom heavenly hosts obey, +How long shall we lament and pray, +And wait in vain thy kind return? +How long shall thy fierce anger burn? + +4 Instead of wine and cheerful bread, +Thy saints with their own tears are fed; +Turn us to thee, thy love restore, +We shall be sav'd, and sigh no more. + +PAUSE I. + +5 Hast thou not planted with thy hands +A lovely vine in heathen lands? +Did not thy power defend it round, +And heavenly dews enrich the ground? + +6 How did the spreading branches shoot, +And bless the nations with the fruit! +But now, dear Lord, look down and see +Thy mourning vine, that lovely tree. + +7 Why is its beauty thus defac'd? +Why hast thou laid her fences waste? +Strangers and foes against her join, +And every beast devours the vine. + +8 Return, almighty God, return, +Nor let thy bleeding vineyard mourn; +Turn us to thee, thy love restore, +We shall be sav'd, and sigh no more. + +PAUSE II. + +9 Lord, when this vine in Canaan grew +Thou wast its strength and glory too; +Attack'd in vain by all its foes, +Till the fair Branch of Promise rose; + +10 Fair Branch, ordain'd of old to shoot +From David's stock, from Jacob's root; +Himself a noble vine, and we +The lesser branches of the tree. + +11 'Tis thy own Son, and he shall stand +Girt with thy strength at thy right hand; +Thy first-born Son, adorn'd and blest +With power and grace above the rest. + +12 O! for his sake attend our cry, +Shine on thy churches lest they die; +Turn us to thee, thy love restore, +We shall be sav'd, and sigh no more. + + +Psalm 81. 1 8 16. +The warnings of God to his people; or, +Spiritual blessings and punishments. + +1 Sing to the Lord aloud, +And make a joyful noise; +God is our strength, our Saviour God; +Let Israel hear his voice. + +2 "From vile idolatry +"Preserve my worship clean; +"I am the Lord who set thee free +"From slavery and sin. + +3 "Stretch thy desires abroad, +"And I'll supply them well +"But if ye will refuse your God, +"If Israel will rebel, + +4 "I'll leave them," saith the Lord, +"To their own lusts a prey, +"And let them run the dangerous road, +"'Tis their own chosen way. + +5 "Yet O! that all my saints +"Would hearken to my voice! +"Soon I would ease their sore complaints, +"And bid their hearts rejoice. + +6 "While I destroy their foes, +"I'd richly feed my flock, +"And they should taste the stream that flows +"From their eternal Rock." + + +Psalm 82. +God the supreme Governor; +or, Magistrates warned. + +1 Among th' assemblies of the great, +A greater Ruler takes his seat; +The God of heaven, as Judge, surveys +Those gods on earth and all their ways. + +2 Why will ye then frame wicked laws? +Or why support th' unrighteous cause? +When will ye once defend the poor, +That sinners vex the saints no more? + +3 They know not, Lord, nor will they know, +Dark are the ways in which they go; +Their name of earthly gods is vain, +For they shall fall and die like men. + +4 Arise, O Lord, and let thy Son +Possess his universal throne, +And rule the nations with his rod; +He is our judge, and he our God. + + +Psalm 83. +A complaint against persecutors. + +1 And will the God of grace +Perpetual silence keep? +The God of justice hold his peace, +And let his vengeance sleep? + +2 Behold what cursed snares +The men of mischief spread; +The men that hate thy saints and thee +Lift up their threatening head. + +3 Against thy hidden ones +Their counsels they employ, +And malice with her watchful eye, +Pursues them to destroy. + +4 The noble and the base +Into thy pastures leap; +The lion and the stupid ass +Conspire to vex thy sheep. + +5 "Come, let us join," they cry, +"To root them from the ground, +"Till not the name of saints remain, +"Nor memory shall be found." + +6 Awake, almighty God, +And call thy wrath to mind; +Give them like forests to the fire, +Or stubble to the wind. + +7 Convince their madness, Lord, +And make them seek thy Name +Or else their stubborn rage confound, +That they may die in shame. + +8 Then shall the nations know +That glorious dreadful word, +Jehovah is thy name alone, +And thou the sovereign Lord. + + +Psalm 84:1. First Part. L. M. +The pleasure of public worship. + +1 How pleasant, how divinely fair, +O Lord of hosts, thy dwellings are! +With long desire my spirit faints +To meet th' assemblies of thy saints. + +2 My flesh would rest in thine abode, +My panting heart cries out for God; +My God! my King! why should I be +So far from all my joys and thee? + +3 The sparrow chuses where to rest, +And for her young provides her nest: +But will my God to sparrows grant +That pleasure which his children want? + +4 Blest are the saints who sit on high, +Around thy throne of majesty; +Thy brightest glories shine above, +And all their work is praise and love. + +5 Blest are the souls that find a place +Within the temple of thy grace; +There they behold thy gentler rays, +And seek thy face, and learn thy praise. + +6 Blest are the men whose hearts are set +To find the way to Sion's gate; +God is their strength, and thro' the road +They lean upon their helper God. + +7 Cheerful they walk with growing strength, +Till all shall meet in heaven at length, +Till all before thy face appear, +And join in nobler worship there. + + +Psalm 84:2. Second Part. L. M. +God and his church; or, Grace and glory. + +1 Great God, attend, while Sion sings +The joy that from thy presence springs +To spend one day with thee on earth +Exceeds a thousand days of mirth. + +2 Might I enjoy the meanest place +Within thine house, O God of grace, +Not tents of ease, nor thrones of power, +Should tempt my feet to leave thy door. + +3 God is our sun, he makes our day; +God is our shield, he guards our way +From all th' assaults of hell and sin, +From foes without, and foes within. + +4 All needful grace will God bestow, +And crown that grace with glory too: +He gives us all things, and withholds +No real good from upright souls. + +5 O God, our King, whose sovereign sway +The glorious hosts of heaven obey, +And devils at thy presence flee, +Blest is the man that trusts in thee. + + +Psalm 84:3. 14 2 3 10. Paraphrased. C. M. +Delight in ordinances of worship; +or, God present in his churches. + +1 My soul, how lovely is the place +To which thy God resorts! +'Tis heaven to see his smiling face, +Tho' in his earthly courts. + +2 There the great Monarch of the skies +His saving power displays, +And light breaks in upon our eyes +With kind and quickening rays. + +3 With his rich gifts the heavenly Dove +Descends and fills the place, +While Christ reveals his wondrous love, +And sheds abroad his grace. + +4 There, mighty God, thy words declare +The secrets of thy will; +And still we seek thy mercy there, +And sing thy praises still. + +PAUSE. + +5 My heart and flesh cry out for thee, +While far from thine abode: +When shall I tread thy courts, and see +My Saviour and my God? + +6 The sparrow builds herself a nest, +And suffers no remove; +O make me like the sparrows, blest, +To dwell but where I love. + +7 To sit one day beneath thine eye, +And hear thy gracious voice, +Exceeds a whole eternity +Employ'd in carnal joys. + +8 Lord, at thy threshold I would wait, +While Jesus is within, +Rather than fill a throne of state, +Or live in tents of sin. + +9 Could I command the spacious land, +And the more boundless sea, +For one blest hour at thy right hand +I'd give them both away. + + +Psalm 84:4. As the 148th Psalm. +Longing for the house of God. + +1 Lord of the worlds above, +How pleasant and how fair +The dwellings of thy love, +Thy earthly temples are! +To thine abode +My heart aspires, +With warm desires +To see my God. + +2 The sparrow, for her young, +With pleasure seeks her nest; +And wandering swallows long +To find their wonted rest: +My spirit faints +With equal zeal +To rise and dwell +Among thy saints. + +3 O happy souls that pray +Where God appoints to hear! +O happy men that pay +Their constant service there! +They praise thee still; +And happy they +That love the way +To Zion's hill. + +4 They go from strength to strength, +Thro' this dark vale of tears, +Till each arrives at length, +Till each in heaven appears: +O glorious seat, +When God our king +Shall thither bring +Our willing feet! + +PAUSE. + +5 To spend one sacred day +Where God and saints abide, +Affords diviner joy +Than thousand days beside; +Where God resorts, +I love it more +To keep the door +Than shine in courts. + +6 God is our sun and shield, +Our light and our defence +With gifts his hands are fill'd, +We draw our blessings thence; +He shall bestow +On Jacob's race +Peculiar grace +And glory too. + +7 The Lord his people loves; +His hand no good withholds +From those his heart approves, +From pure and pious souls: +Thrice happy he, +O God of hosts, +Whose spirit trusts +Alone in thee. + + +Psalm 85:1. 1-8. First Part. +Waiting for an answer to prayer; or, +Deliverance begun and completed. + +1 Lord, thou hast call'd thy grace to mind, +Thou hast revers'd our heavy doom: +So God forgave when Israel sinn'd, +And brought his wandering captives home. + +2 Thou hast begun to set us free, +And made thy fiercest wrath abate; +Now let our hearts be turn'd to thee, +And thy salvation be complete. + +3 Revive our dying graces, Lord, +And let thy saints in thee rejoice; +Make known thy truth, fulfil thy word, +We wait for praise to tune our voice. + +4 We wait to hear what God will say; +He'll speak, and give his people peace; +But let them run no more astray, +Lest his returning wrath increase. + + +Psalm 85:2. 9 &c. Second Part. +Salvation by Christ. + +1 Salvation is for ever nigh +The souls that fear and trust the Lord; +And grace descending from on high, +Fresh hopes of glory shall afford. + +2 Mercy and truth on earth are met, +Since Christ the Lord came down from heaven; +By his obedience, so complete, +Justice is pleas'd, and peace is given. + +3 Now truth and honour shall abound, +Religion dwell on earth again, +And heavenly influence bless the ground +In our Redeemer's gentle reign. + +4 His righteousness is gone before +To give us free access to God; +Our wandering feet shall stray no more, +But mark his steps and keep the road. + + +Psalm 86. 8-13. +A general song of praise to God. + +1 Among the princes, earthly gods, +There's none hath power divine; +Nor is their nature, mighty Lord, +Nor are their works like thine. + +2 The nations thou hast made shall bring +Their offerings round thy throne; +For thou alone dost wondrous things, +For thou art God alone. + +3 Lord, I would walk with holy feet; +Teach me thine heavenly ways, +And my poor scatter'd thoughts unite +In God my Father's praise. + +4 Great is thy mercy, and my tongue +Shall those sweet wonders tell, +How by thy grace my sinking soul +Rose from the deeps of hell. + + +Psalm 87. +The church the birth-place of the saints; or, +Jews and Gentiles united in the Christian Church. + +1 God in his earthly temple lays +Foundations for his heavenly praise: +He likes the tents of Jacob well, +But still in Zion loves to dwell. + +2 His mercy visits every house +That pay their night and morning vows; +But makes a more delightful stay +Where churches meet to praise and pray. + +3 What glories were describ'd of old! +What wonders are of Zion told! +Thou city of our God below, +Thy fame shall Tyre and Egypt know. + +4 Egypt and Tyre, and Greek and Jew, +Shall there begin their lives anew: +Angels and men shall join to sing +The hill where living waters spring. + +5. When God makes up his last account +Of natives in his holy mount, +'Twill be an honour to appear +As one new-born or nourish'd there. + + +Psalm 89:1. First Part. L. M. +The covenant made with Christ; or, the true David. + +1 For ever shall my song record +The truth and mercy of the Lord; +Mercy and truth for ever stand, +Like heaven, establish'd by his hand. + +2 Thus to his Son he sware, and said, +"With thee my covenant first is made; +"In thee shall dying sinners live, +"Glory and grace are thine to give. + +3 "Be thou my prophet, thou my priest; +"Thy children shall be ever blest; +"Thou art my chosen king; thy throne +"Shall stand eternal like my own. + +4 "There's none of all my sons above, +"So much my image or my love; +"Celestial powers thy subjects are, +"Then what can earth to thee compare? + +5 "David, my servant, whom I chose +"To guard my flock, to crush my foes, +"And rais'd him to the Jewish throne, +"Was but a shadow of my Son." + +6 Now let the church rejoice and sing +Jesus her Saviour and her King: +Angels his heavenly wonders show, +And saints declare his works below. + + +Psalm 89:2. First Part. C. M. +The faithfulness of God. + +1 My never-ceasing songs shall show +The mercies of the Lord, +And make succeeding ages know +How faithful is his word. + +2 The sacred truths his lips pronounce +Shall firm as heaven endure; +And if he speak a promise once, +Th' eternal grace is sure. + +3 How long the race of David held +The promis'd Jewish throne! +But there's a nobler covenant seal'd +To David's greater Son. + +4 His seed for ever shall possess +A throne above the skies; +The meanest subject of his grace +Shall to that glory rise. + +5 Lord God of hosts, thy wondrous ways +Are sung by saints above; +And saints on earth their honours raise +To thine unchanging love. + + +Psalm 89:3. 7 &c. Second Part. +The power and majesty of God; +or, Reverential worship. + +1 With reverence let the saints appear +And bow before the Lord, +His high commands with reverence hear, +And tremble at his word. + +2 How terrible thy glories be! +How bright thine armies shine! +Where is the power that vies with thee? +Or truth compar'd to thine? + +3 The northern pole and southern rest +On thy supporting hand; +Darkness and day from east to west +Move round at thy command. + +4 Thy words the raging wind control, +And rule the boisterous deep; +Thou mak'st the sleeping billows roll, +The rolling billows sleep. + +5 Heaven, earth, and air, and sea are thine, +And the dark world of hell: +How did thine arm in vengeance shine +When Egypt durst rebel! + +6 Justice and judgment are thy throne, +Yet wondrous is thy grace; +While truth and mercy join'd in one +Invite us near thy face. + + +Psalm 89:4. 15 &c. Third Part. +A blessed gospel. + +1 Blest are the souls that hear and know +The gospel's joyful sound; +Peace shall attend the path they go, +And light their steps surround. + +2 Their joy shall bear their spirits up +Thro' their Redeemer's Name; +His righteousness exalts their hope, +Nor Satan dares condemn. + +3 The Lord, our glory and defence, +Strength and salvation gives; +Israel, thy king for ever reigns, +Thy God for ever lives. + + +Psalm 89:5. 19 &c. Fourth Part. +Christ's mediatorial kingdom; or, +His divine and human nature. + +1 Hear what the Lord in vision said, +And made his mercy known: +"Sinners, behold your help is laid +"On my almighty Son. + +2 "Behold the man my wisdom chose +"Among your mortal race; +"His head my holy oil o'erflows, +"The Spirit of my grace. + +3 "High shall he reign on David's throne, +"My people's better King; +"My arm shall beat his rivals down, +"And still new subjects bring. + +4 "My truth shall guard him in his way, +"With mercy by his side, +"While, in my name thro' earth and sea +"He shall in triumph ride. + +5 "Me for his Father and his God +"He shall for ever own, +"Call me his rock, his high abode; +"And I'll support my Son. + +6 "My first-born Son array'd in grace +"At my right-hand shall sit; +"Beneath him angels know their place, +"And monarchs at his feet. + +7 "My covenant stands for ever fast, +"My promises are strong; +"Firm as the heavens his throne shall last, +"His seed endure as long." + + +Psalm 89:6. 30 &c. Fifth Part. +The covenant of grace unchangeable; +or, Afflictions without rejection. + +1 "Yet (saith the Lord) if David's race, +"The children of my Son, +"Should break my laws, abuse my grace, +"And tempt mine anger down; + +2 "Their sins I'll visit with the rod, +"And make their folly smart; +"But I'll not cease to be their God, +"Nor from my truth depart. + +3 "My covenant I will ne'er revoke, +"But keep my grace in mind; +"And what eternal love hath spoke +"Eternal truth shall bind. + +4 "Once have I sworn (I need no more) +"And pledg'd my holiness +"To seal the sacred promise sure +"To David and his race. + +5 "The sun shall see his offspring rise +"And spread from sea to sea, +"Long as he travels round the skies +"To give the nations day. + +6 "Sure as the moon that rules the night +"His kingdom shall endure, +"Till the fix'd laws of shade and light +"Shall be observ'd no more." + + +Psalm 89:7. 47 &c. Sixth Part. +Mortality and hope. +A funeral psalm. + +1 Remember, Lord, our mortal state, +How frail our life, how short the date! +Where is the man that draws his breath +Safe from disease, secure from death? + +2 Lord, while we see whole nations die, +Our flesh and sense repine and cry, +"Must death for ever rage and reign? +"Or hast thou made mankind in vain? + +3 "Where is thy promise to the just? +"Are not thy servants turn'd to dust?" +But faith forbids these mournful sighs, +And sees the sleeping dust arise. + +4 That glorious hour, that dreadful day +Wipes the reproach of saints away, +And clears the honour of thy word; +Awake our souls, and bless the Lord. + + +Psalm 89:8. 47 &c. Last Part. +As the 113th Psalm. +Life, death, and the resurrection. + +1 Think, mighty God, on feeble man, +How few his hours, how short his span! +Short from the cradle to the grave: +Who can secure his vital breath +Against the bold demands of death, +With skill to fly, or power to save? + +2 Lord, shall it be for ever said, +"The race of man was only made +"For sickness, sorrow, and the dust?" +Are not thy servants day by day +Sent to their graves, and turn'd to clay? +Lord, where's thy kindness to the just? + +3 Hast thou not promis'd to thy Son +And all his seed a heavenly crown? +But flesh and sense indulge despair; +For ever blessed be the Lord, +That faith can read his holy word, +And find a resurrection there. + +4 For ever blessed be the Lord, +Who gives his saints a long reward +For all their toil, reproach and pain; +Let all below and all above +Join to proclaim thy wondrous love, +And each repeat their loud Amen. + + +Psalm 90:1. L. M. +Man mortal, and God eternal. +A mournful song at a funeral. + +1 Thro' every age, eternal God, +Thou art our rest, our safe abode; +High was thy throne ere heaven was made, +Or earth thy humble footstool laid. + +2 Long hadst thou reign'd ere time began, +Or dust was fashion'd to a man; +And long thy kingdom shall endure +When earth and time shall be no more. + +3 But man, weak man, is born to die, +Made up of guilt and vanity; +Thy dreadful sentence, Lord, was just, +"Return, ye sinners, to your dust." + +4 [A thousand of our years amount +Scarce to a day in thine account; +Like yesterday's departed light, +Or the last watch of ending night.] + +PAUSE. + +5 Death like an overflowing stream +Sweeps us away; our life's a dream; +An empty tale; a morning flower +Cut down and wither'd in an hour. + +6 [Our age to seventy years is set; +How short the term! how frail the state! +And if to eighty we arrive, +We rather sigh and groan than live. + +7 But O how oft thy wrath appears, +And cuts off our expected years! +Thy wrath awakes our humble dread; +We fear the power that strikes us dead.] + +8 Teach us, O Lord, how frail is man; +And kindly lengthen out our span, +Till a wise care of piety +Fit us to die, and dwell with thee. + + +Psalm 90:2. 1-5. First Part. C. M. +Man frail, and God eternal. + +1 Our God, our help in ages past, +Our hope for years to come, +Our shelter from the stormy blast, +And our eternal home. + +2 Under the shadow of thy throne +Thy saints have dwelt secure; +Sufficient is thine arm alone, +And our defence is sure. + +3 Before the hills in order stood, +Or earth receiv'd her frame, +From everlasting thou art God, +To endless years the same. + +4 Thy word commands our flesh to dust, +"Return, ye sons of men:" +All nations rose from earth at first, +And turn to earth again. + +5 A thousand ages in thy sight +Are like an evening gone; +Short as the watch that ends the night +Before the rising sun. + +6 [The busy tribes of flesh and blood, +With all their lives and cares, +Are carried downwards by thy flood, +And lost in following years. + +7 Time like an ever-rolling stream +Bears all its Sons away; +They fly forgotten as a dream +Dies at the opening day. + +8 Like flowery fields the nations stand +Pleas'd with the morning light; +The flowers beneath the mower's hand +Lie withering ere 'tis night.] + +9 Our God, our help in ages past, +Our hope for years to come, +Be thou our guard while troubles last, +And our eternal home. + + +Psalm 90:3. 8 11 9 10 12. 2d Part. C. M. +Infirmities and mortality the effect of sin; or, +Life, old age, and preparation for death. + +1 Lord, if thine eyes survey our faults, +And justice grow severe, +Thy dreadful wrath exceeds our thoughts, +And burns beyond our fear. + +2 Thine anger turns our frame to dust; +By one offence to thee +Adam with all his sons have lost +Their immortality. + +3 Life like a vain amusement flies, +A fable or a song; +By swift degrees our nature dies, +Nor can our joys be long. + +4 'Tis but a few whose days amount +To threescore years and ten, +And all beyond that short account +is sorrow, toil, and pain. + +5 [Our vitals with laborious strife +Bear up the crazy load, +And drag those poor remains of life +Along the tiresome road.] + +6 Almighty God, reveal thy love, +And not thy wrath alone; +O let our sweet experience prove +The mercies of thy throne! + +7 Our souls would learn the heavenly art +T' improve the hours we have, +That we may act the wiser part, +And live beyond the grave. + + +Psalm 90:4. 13 &c. Third Part. C. M. +Breathing after heaven. + +1 Return, O God of love, return; +Earth is a tiresome place: +How long shall we thy children mourn +Our absence from thy face! + +2 Let heaven succeed our painful years, +Let sin and sorrow cease, +And in proportion to our tears +So make our joys increase. + +3 Thy wonders to thy servants show, +Make thy own work complete, +Then shall our souls thy glory know, +And own thy love was great. + +4 Then shall we shine before thy throne +In all thy beauty, Lord; +And the poor service we have done +Meet a divine reward. + + +Psalm 90:5. 5 10 12. S. M. +The frailty and shortness of life. + +1 Lord what a feeble piece +Is this our mortal frame! +Our life how poor a trifle 'tis, +That scarce deserves the name! + +2 Alas the brittle clay +That built our body first! +And every month, and every day +'Tis mouldering back to dust. + +3 Our moments fly apace, +Nor will our minutes stay; +Just like a flood our hasty days +Are sweeping us away. + +4 Well if our days must fly, +We'll keep their end in sight, +We'll spend them all in wisdom's way, +And let them speed their flight. + +5 They'll waft us sooner o'er +This life's tempestuous sea: +Soon we shall reach the peaceful shore +Of blest eternity. + + +Psalm 91:1. 1-7. First Part. +Safety in public diseases and dangers. + +1 He that hath made his refuge God, +Shall find a most secure abode, +Shall walk all day beneath his shade, +And there at night shall rest his head. + +2 Then will I say, "My God, thy power +"Shall be my fortress and my tower; +"I that am form'd of feeble dust +"Make thine almighty arm my trust." + +3 Thrice happy man! thy Maker's care +Shall keep thee from the fowler's snare, +Satan, the fowler, who betrays +Unguarded souls a thousand ways. + +4 Just as a hen protects her brood +From birds of prey that seek their blood, +Under her feathers, so the Lord +Makes his own arm his people's guard. + +5 If burning beams of noon conspire +To dart a pestilential fire, +God is their life; his wings are spread +To shield them with an healthful shade. + +6 If vapours with malignant breath +Rise thick and scatter midnight death, +Israel is safe; the poison'd air +Grows pure if Israel's God be there. + +PAUSE. + +7 What though a thousand at thy side, +At thy right hand ten thousand dy'd, +Thy God his chosen people saves +Amongst the dead, amidst the graves. + +8 So when he sent his angel down +To make his wrath in Egypt known, +And slew their sons, his careful eye +Pass'd all the doors of Jacob by. + +9 But if the fire, or plague, or sword, +Receive commission from the Lord +To strike his saints among the rest, +Their very pains and deaths are blest. + +10 The sword, the pestilence or fire +Shall but fulfil their best desire, +From sins and sorrows set them free, +And bring thy children, Lord, to thee. + + +Psalm 91:2. 1-16. Second Part. +Protection from death, guard of +angels, victory and deliverance. + +1 Ye sons of men, a feeble race, +Expos'd to every snare, +Come make the Lord your dwelling-place, +And try and trust his care. + +2 No ill shall enter where you dwell; +Or if the plague come nigh, +And sweep the wicked down to hell, +'Twill raise his saints on high. + +3 He'll give his angels charge to keep +Your feet in all their ways; +To watch your pillow while you sleep, +And guard your happy days. + +4 Their hands shall bear you, lest you fall +And dash against the stones: +Are they not servants at his call, +And sent t' attend his sons? + +5 Adders and lions ye shall tread; +The tempter's wiles defeat; +He that hath broke the serpent's head +Puts him beneath your feet. + +6 "Because on me they set their love +"I'll save them," saith the Lord; +"I'll bear their joyful souls above +"Destruction and the sword. + +7 "My grace shall answer when they call; +"In trouble I'll be nigh; +"My power shall help them when they fall, +"And raise them when they die. + +8 "Those that on earth my Name have known, +"I'll honour them in heaven; +"There my salvation shall be shown, +"And endless life be given." + + +Psalm 92:1. First Part. +A psalm for the Lord's day. + +1 Sweet is the work, my God my King, +To praise thy Name, give thanks and sing, +To shew thy love by morning light, +And talk of all thy truth at night. + +2 Sweet is the day of sacred rest, +No mortal cares shall seize my breast; +O may my heart in tune be found +Like David's harp of solemn sound! + +3 My heart shall triumph in my Lord, +And bless his works, and bless his word; +Thy works of grace, how bright they shine! +How deep thy counsels! how divine! + +4 Fools never raise their thoughts so high; +Like brutes they live, like brutes they die; +Like grass they flourish, till thy breath +Blast them in everlasting death. + +5 But I shall share a glorious part +When grace hath well refin'd my heart, +And fresh supplies of joy are shed +Like holy oil, to cheer my head. + +6 Sin, (my worst enemy before) +Shall vex my eyes and ears no more; +My inward foes shall all be slain, +Nor Satan break my peace again. + +7 Then shall I see, and hear, and know, +All I desir'd or wish'd below; +And every power find sweet employ +In that eternal world of joy. + + +Psalm 92:2. 12 &c. Second Part. +The church is the garden of God. + +1 Lord, 'tis a pleasant thing to stand +In gardens planted by thine hand; +Let me within thy courts be seen +Like a young cedar fresh and green. + +2 There grow thy saints in faith and love, +Blest with thine influence from above; +Not Lebanon with all its trees +Yields such a comely sight as these. + +3 The plants of grace shall ever live; +(Nature decays but grace must thrive) +Time, that doth all things else impair, +Still makes them flourish strong and fair. + +4 Laden with fruits of age, they shew +The Lord is holy, just, and true; +None that attend his gates shall find +A God unfaithful or unkind. + + +Psalm 93:1. 1st Metre. As 100th Psalm. +The eternal and sovereign God. + +1 Jehovah reigns; he dwells in light, +Girded with majesty and might: +The world created by his hands +Still on its first foundation stands. + +2 But ere this spacious world was made, +Or had its first foundations laid, +Thy throne eternal ages stood, +Thyself the ever-living God. + +3 Like floods the angry nations rise +And aim their rage against the skies; +Vain floods that aim their rage so high! +At thy rebuke the billows die. + +4 For ever shall thy throne endure; +Thy promise stands for ever sure; +And everlasting holiness +Becomes the dwellings of thy grace. + + +Psalm 93:2. 2d M. As the old 50th Psalm. +The same. + +1 The Lord of glory reigns; he reigns on high; +His robes of state are strength and majesty: +This wide creation rose at his command, +Built by his word, and 'stablish'd by his hand: +Long stood his throne ere he began creation, +And his own Godhead is the firm foundation. + +2 God is th' eternal King: thy foes in vain +Raise their rebellions to confound thy reign: +In vain the storms, in vain the floods arise, +And roar and toss their waves against the skies; +Foaming at heaven, they rage with wild commotion, +But heaven's high arches scorn the swelling ocean. + +3 Ye tempests, rage no more; ye floods, be still; +And the mad world submissive to his will: +Built on his truth, his church must ever stand; +Firm are his promises, and strong his hand: +See his own sons, when they appear before him, +Bow at his footstool, and with fear adore him. + + +Psalm 93:3. 3d M. As the old 122d Psalm. +The same. + +1 The Lord Jehovah reigns +And royal state maintains, +His head with awful glories crown'd; +Array'd in robes of light, +Begirt with sovereign might, +And rays of majesty around. + +2 Upheld by thy commands +The world securely stands; +And skies and stars obey thy word: +Thy throne was fix'd on high +Before the starry sky; +Eternal is thy kingdom, Lord. + +3 In vain the noisy crowd, +Like billows fierce and loud, +Against thine empire rage and roar; +In vain, with angry spite, +The surly nations fight, +And dash like waves against the shore. + +4 Let floods and nations rage, +And all their powers engage, +Let swelling tides assault the sky; +The terrors of thy frown +Shall beat their madness down; +Thy throne for ever stands on high. + +5 Thy promises are true, +Thy grace is ever new; +There fix'd thy church shall ne'er remove: +Thy saints with holy fear +Shall in thy courts appear, +And sing thine everlasting love. + +Repeat the fourth stanza to complete the old tune. + + +Psalm 94:1. 1 2 7-14. First Part. +Saints chastised, and sinners destroyed; +or, Instructive afflictions. + +1 God, to whom revenge belongs, +Proclaim thy truth aloud +Let Sovereign Power redress our wrongs, +Let justice smite the proud. + +2 They say, "The Lord nor sees nor hears;" +When will the fools be wise! +Can he be deaf who form'd their ears? +Or blind, who made their eyes? + +3 He knows their impious thoughts are vain, +And they shall feel his power; +His wrath shall pierce their souls with pain +In some surprising hour. + +4 But if thy saints deserve rebuke, +Thou hast a gentler rod; +Thy providences and thy book +Shall make them know their God. + +5 Blest is the man thy hands chastise, +And to his duty draw; +Thy scourges make thy children wise +When they forget thy law. + +6 But God will ne'er cast off his saints, +Nor his own promise break; +He pardons his inheritance +For their Redeemer's sake. + + +Psalm 94:2. 16-23. Second Part. +God our support and comfort; or, Deliverance +from temptation and persecution. + +1 Who will arise and plead my right +Against my numerous foes, +While earth and hell their force unite, +And all my hopes oppose? + +2 Had not the Lord, my rock, my help, +Sustain'd my fainting head, +My life had now in silence dwelt, +My soul amongst the dead. + +3 "Alas! my sliding feet," I cry'd; +Thy promise was my prop; +Thy grace stood constant by my side, +Thy Spirit bore me up. + +4 While multitudes of mournful thoughts +Within my bosom roll, +Thy boundless love forgives my faults, +Thy comforts cheer my soul. + +5 Powers of iniquity may rise, +And frame pernicious laws; +But God, my refuge, rules the skies, +He will defend my cause. + +6 Let malice vent her rage aloud, +Let bold blasphemers scoff; +The Lord our God shall judge the proud, +And cut the sinners off. + + +Psalm 95:1. C. M. +A psalm before prayer. + +1 Sing to the Lord Jehovah's Name, +And in his strength rejoice; +When his salvation is our theme, +Exalted be our voice. + +2 With thanks approach his awful sight, +And psalms of honour sing; +The Lord's a God of boundless might, +The whole creation's King. + +3 Let princes hear, let angels know, +How mean their natures seem, +Those gods on high, and gods below, +When once compar'd with him. + +4 Earth with its caverns dark and deep +Lies in his spacious hand, +He fix'd the seas what bounds to keep, +And where the hills must stand. + +5 Come, and with humble souls adore, +Come, kneel before his face; +O may the creatures of his power +Be children of his grace! + +6 Now is the time: he bends his ear, +And waits for your request; +Come, lest he rouse his wrath and swear +"Ye shall not see my rest." + + +Psalm 95:2. S. M. +A psalm before sermon. + +1 Come, sound his praise abroad, +And hymns of glory sing; +Jehovah is the sovereign God, +The universal King. + +He form'd the deeps unknown; +He gave the seas their bound; +The watery worlds are all his own, +And all the solid ground. + +3 Come, worship at his throne, +Come bow before the Lord: +We are his works and not our own; +He form'd us by his word. + +4 To-day attend his voice, +Nor dare provoke his rod; +Come like the people of his choice, +And own your gracious God. + +5 But if your ears refuse +The language of his grace, +And hearts grow hard, like stubborn Jews, +That unbelieving race; + +6 The Lord in vengeance drest +Will lift his hand and swear, +"You that despise my promis'd rest, +"Shall have no portion there." + + +Psalm 95:3. 1 2 3 6-11. L. M. +Canaan lost through unbelief; or, +A warning to delaying sinners. + +1 Come, let our voices join to raise +A sacred song of solemn praise; +God is a sovereign King; rehearse +his honours in exalted verse. + +2 Come, let our souls address the Lord, +Who fram'd our natures with his word; +He is our Shepherd; we the sheep +His mercy chose, his pastures keep. + +3 Come, let us hear his voice to-day, +The counsels of his love obey; +Nor let our harden'd hearts renew +The sins and plagues that Israel knew. + +4 Israel, that saw his works of grace, +Yet tempt their Maker to his face; +A faithless unbelieving brood +That tir'd the patience of their God. + +5 Thus saith the Lord, "how false they prove; +"Forget my power, abuse my love; +"Since they despise my rest, I swear, +"Their feet shall never enter there." + +6 [Look back my soul, with holy dread, +And view those ancient rebels dead; +Attend the offer'd grace to-day, +Nor lose the blessing by delay. + +7 Seize the kind promise while it waits, +And march to Zion's heavenly gates; +Believe, and take the promis'd rest; +Obey, and be for ever blest.] + + +Psalm 96:1. 1-10. &c. C. M. +Christ's first and second coming. + +1 Sing to the Lord, ye distant lands, +Ye tribes of every tongue; +His new discover'd grace demands +A new and nobler song. + +2 Say to the nations, Jesus reigns, +God's own almighty Son; +His power the sinking world sustains, +And grace surrounds his throne. + +3 Let heaven proclaim the joyful day, +Joy thro' the earth be seen; +Let cities shine in bright array, +And fields in cheerful green. + +4 Let an unusual joy surprise +The islands of the sea; +Ye mountains, sink, ye vallies, rise, +Prepare the Lord his way. + +5 Behold he comes, he comes to bless +The nations as their God; +To shew the world his righteousness, +And send his truth abroad. + +6 But when his voice shall raise the dead, +And bid the world draw near, +How will the guilty nations dread +To see their Judge appear! + + +Psalm 96:2. As the 113th Psalm. +The God of the Gentiles. + +1 Let all the earth their voices raise +To sing the choicest psalm of praise, +To sing and bless Jehovah's name: +His glory let the heathens know, +His wonders to the nations show, +And all his saving works proclaim. + +2 The heathens know thy glory, Lord; +The wondering nations read thy word, +In Britain is Jehovah known: +Our worship shall no more be paid +To gods which mortal hands have made; +Our Maker is our God alone. + +3 He fram'd the globe, he built the sky, +He made the shining worlds on high, +And reigns complete in glory there: +His beams are majesty and light; +His beauties how divinely bright! +His temple how divinely fair! + +4 Come the great day, the glorious hour, +When earth shall feel his saving power, +And barbarous nations fear his name; +Then shall the race of man confess +The beauty of his holiness, +And in his courts his grace proclaim. + + +Psalm 97:1. 1-5. First Part. +Christ reigning in heaven, and coming to judgment. + +1 He reigns; the Lord, the Saviour reigns; +Praise him in evangelic strains; +Let the whole earth in songs rejoice, +And distant islands join their voice. + +2 Deep are his counsels and unknown; +But grace and truth support his throne: +Tho' gloomy clouds his ways surround, +Justice is their eternal ground. + +3 In robes of judgment, lo! he comes, +Shakes the wide earth, and cleaves the tombs; +Before him burns devouring fire, +The mountains melt, the seas retire. + +4 His enemies, with sore dismay, +Fly from the sight, and shun the day; +Then lift your heads, ye saints, on high, +And sing, for your redemption's nigh. + + +Psalm 97:2. 6-9. Second Part. +Christ's incarnation. + +1 The Lord is come, the heavens proclaim +His birth; the nations learn his Name; +An unknown star directs the road +Of eastern sages to their God. + +2 All ye bright armies of the skies, +Go, worship where the Saviour lies: +Angels and kings before him bow, +Those gods on high, and gods below. + +3 Let idols totter to the ground, +And their own worshippers confound; +But Judah shout, but Zion sing, +And earth confess her sovereign King. + + +Psalm 97:3. Third Part. +Grace and glory. + + +1 Th' Almighty reigns exalted high +O'er all the earth, o'er all the sky, +Tho' clouds and darkness veil his feet, +His dwelling is the mercy-seat. + +2 O ye that love his holy Name, +Hate every work of sin and shame; +He guards the souls of all his friends, +And from the snares of hell defends. + +3 Immortal light and joys unknown +Are for the saints in darkness sown; +Those glorious seeds shall spring and rise, +And the bright harvest bless our eyes. + +4 Rejoice, ye righteous, and record +The sacred honours of the Lord; +None but the soul that feels his grace +Can triumph in his holiness. + + +Psalm 97:4. 1 3 5-7 11. C. M. +Christ's incarnation, and the last judgment. + +1 Ye islands of the northern sea, +Rejoice, the Saviour reigns; +His word like fire, prepares his way, +And mountains melt to plains. + +2 His presence sinks the proudest hills, +And makes the vallies rise +The humble soul enjoys his smiles, +The haughty sinner dies. + +3 The heavens his rightful power proclaim +The idol-gods around +Fill their own worshippers with shame, +And totter to the ground. + +4 Adoring angels at his birth +Make the Redeemer known; +Thus shall he come to judge the earth, +And angels guard his throne. + +5 His foes shall tremble at his sight, +And hills and seas retire +His children take their unknown flight, +And leave the world in fire. + +6 The seeds of joy and glory sown +For saints in darkness here +Shall rise and spring in worlds unknown, +And a rich harvest bear. + + +Psalm 98:1. First Part. +Praise for the gospel. + +1 To our almighty Maker, God, +New honours be address'd; +his great salvation shines abroad, +And makes the nations blest. + +2 He spake the word to Abraham first, +His truth fulfils the grace: +The Gentiles make his Name their trust, +And learn his righteousness. + +3 Let the whole earth his love proclaim +With all her different tongues; +And spread the honours of his Name +In melody and songs. + + +Psalm 98:2. Second Part. +The Messiah's coming and kingdom. + +1 Joy to the world; the Lord is come; +Let earth receive her King; +Let every heart prepare him room, +And heaven and nature sing. + +2 Joy to the earth, the Saviour reigns; +Let men their songs employ; +While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains, +Repeat the sounding joy. + +3 No more let sins and sorrows grow, +Nor thorns infest the ground; +He comes to make his blessings flow +Far as the curse is found. + +4 He rules the world with truth and grace, +And makes the nations prove +The glories of his righteousness, +And wonders of his love. + + +Psalm 99:1. First Part. +Christ's kingdom and majesty. + +1 The God Jehovah reigns, +Let all the nations fear, +Let sinners tremble at his throne, +And saints be humble there. + +2 Jesus the Saviour reigns, +Let earth adore its Lord; +Bright cherubs his attendants stand, +Swift to fulfil his word. + +3 In Zion is his throne, +His honours are divine; +His church shall make his wonders known, +For there his glories shine. + +4 How holy is his Name! +How terrible his praise! +Justice, and truth, and judgment join +In all his works of grace. + + +Psalm 99:2. Second Part. +A holy God worshipped with reverence. + +1 Exalt the Lord our God, +And worship at his feet; +His nature is all holiness, +And mercy is his seat. + +2 When Israel was his church, +When Aaron was his priest, +When Moses cry'd, when Samuel pray'd, +He gave his people rest. + +3 Oft he forgave their sins, +Nor would destroy their race; +And oft he made his vengeance known, +When they abus'd his grace. + +4 Exalt the Lord our God, +Whose grace is still time same; +Still he's a God of holiness, +And jealous for his Name. + + +Psalm 100:1. 1st M. A plain translation. +Praise to our Creator. + +1 Ye nations round the earth rejoice +Before the Lord, your sovereign King; +Serve him with cheerful heart and voice, +With all your tongues his glory sing. + +2 The Lord is God; 'tis he alone +Doth life, and breath, and being give: +We are his work, and not our own; +The sheep that on his pastures live. + + +3 Enter his gates with songs of joy, +With praises to his courts repair, +And make it your divine employ +To pay your thanks and honours there. + +4 The Lord is good, the Lord is kind; +Great is his grace, his mercy sure; +And the whole race of man shall find +His truth from age to age endure. + + +Psalm 100:2. 2d M. A Paraphrase. + +1 Sing to the Lord with joyful voice; +Let every land his name adore; +The British isles shall send the noise +Across the ocean to the shore. + +2 Nations, attend before his throne +With solemn fear, with sacred joy; +Know that the Lord is God alone; +He can create, and he destroy. + +3 His sovereign power, without our aid, +Made us of clay, and form'd us men; +And when like wandering sheep we stray'd, +He brought us to his fold again. + +4 We are his people, we his care, +Our souls and all our mortal frame: +What lasting honours shall we rear, +Almighty Maker, to thy Name! + +5 We'll crowd thy gates with thankful songs, +High as the heavens our voices raise; +And earth with her ten thousand tongues +Shall fill thy courts with sounding praise. + +6 Wide as the world is thy command, +Vast as eternity thy love; +Firm as a rock thy truth must stand +When rolling years shall cease to move. + + +Psalm 101:1. L. M. +The Magistrate's psalm. + +1 Mercy and judgment are my song; +And since they both to thee belong, +My gracious God, my righteous King, +To thee my songs and vows I bring. + +2 If I am rais'd to bear the sword, +I'll take my counsels from thy word; +Thy justice and thy heavenly grace +Shall be the pattern of my ways. + +3 Let wisdom all my actions guide, +And let my God with me reside; +No wicked thing shall dwell with me, +Which may provoke thy jealousy. + +4 No sons of slander, rage and strife +Shall be companions of my life; +The haughty look, the heart of pride +Within my doors shall ne'er abide. + +5 [I'll search the land, and raise the just +To posts of honour, wealth and trust: +The men that work thy holy will, +Shall be my friends and favourites still.] + +6 In vain shall sinners hope to rise +By flattering or malicious lies; +And while the innocent I guard, +The bold offender shan't be spar'd. + +7 The impious crew (that factious band) +Shall hide their heads, or quit the land; +And all that break the public rest, +Where I have power shall be supprest. + + +Psalm 101:2. C. M. +A psalm for a master of a family. + +1 Of justice and of grace I sing, +And pay my God my vows; +Thy grace and justice, heavenly King, +Teach me to rule my house. + +2 Now to my tent, O God, repair, +And make thy servant wise; +I'll suffer nothing near me there +That shall offend thine eyes. + +3 The man that doth his neighbour wrong, +By falsehood or by force; +The scornful eye, the slanderous tongue, +I'll thrust them from my doors. + +4 I'll seek the faithful and the just +And will their help enjoy; +These are the friends that I shall trust, +The servants I'll employ. + +5 The wretch that deals in sly deceit, +I'll not endure a night; +The liar's tongue I ever hate, +And banish from my sight. + +6 I'll purge my family around, +And make the wicked flee; +So shall my house be ever found +A dwelling fit for thee. + + +Psalm 102:1. 1-13 20 21. First Part. +A prayer of the afflicted. + +1 Hear me, O God, nor hide thy face, +But answer lest I die; +Hast thou not built a throne of grace +To hear when sinners cry? + +2 My days are wasted like the smoke +Dissolving in the air; +My strength is dry'd, my heart is broke, +And sinking in despair. + +3 My spirits flag like withering grass +Burnt with excessive heat; +In secret groans my minutes pass, +And I forget to eat. + +4 As on some lonely building's top +The sparrow tells her moan, +Far from the tents of joy and hope +I sit and grieve alone. + +5 My soul is like a wilderness, +Where beasts of midnight howl; +There the sad raven finds her place, +And there the screaming owl. + +6 Dark dismal thoughts and boding fears +Dwell in my troubled breast; +While sharp reproaches wound my ears, +Nor give my spirit rest. + +7 My cup is mingled with my woes, +And tears are my repast; +My daily bread like ashes grows +Unpleasant to my taste. + +8 Sense can afford no real joy +To souls that feel thy frown; +Lord, 'twas thy hand advanc'd me high, +Thy hand hath cast me down. + +9 My looks like wither'd leaves appear, +And life's declining light +Grows faint as evening shadows are, +That vanish into night. + +10 But thou for ever art the same, +O my eternal God: +Ages to come shall know thy Name, +And spread thy works abroad. + +11 Thou wilt arise and shew thy face, +Nor will my Lord delay +Beyond th' appointed hour of grace, +That long expected day. + +12 He hears his saints, he knows their cry, +And by mysterious ways +Redeems the prisoners doom'd to die, +And fills their tongues with praise. + + +Psalm 102:2. 13-21. Second Part. +Prayer heard and Zion restored. + +1 Let Zion and her sons rejoice, +Behold the promis'd hour; +Her God hath heard her mourning voice, +And comes t' exalt his power. + +2 Her dust and ruins that remain +Are precious in our eyes; +Those ruins shall be built again, +And all that dust shall rise. + +3 The Lord will raise Jerusalem, +And stand in glory there; +Nations shall bow before has name, +And kings attend with fear. + +4 He sits a sovereign on his throne, +With pity in his eyes; +He hears the dying prisoners groan, +And sees their sighs arise. + +5 He frees the souls condemn'd to death, +And when his saints complain, +It shan't be said 'That praying breath +'Was ever spent in vain.' + +6 This shall be known when we are dead, +And left on long record, +That ages yet unborn may read, +And trust, and praise the Lord. + + +Psalm 102:3. 25-28. Third Part. +Man's mortality and Christ's eternity; or, +Saints die, but Christ and the church live. + +1 It is the Lord our Saviour's hand +Weakens our strength amidst the race; +Disease and death at his command +Arrest us, and cut short our days. + +2 Spare us, O Lord, aloud we pray, +Nor let our sun go down at noon: +Thy years are one eternal day, +And must thy children die so soon? + +3 Yet in the midst of death and grief +This thought our sorrow shall assuage, +"Our Father and our Saviour live; +"Christ is the same thro' every age." + +4 'Twas he this earth's foundation laid; +Heaven is the building of his hand: +This earth grows old, these heavens shall fade, +And all be chang'd at his command. + +5 The starry curtains of the sky +Like garments shall be laid aside; +But still thy throne stands firm and high; +Thy church for ever must abide. + +6 Before thy face thy church shall live, +And on thy throne thy children reign; +This dying world shall they survive, +And the dead saints be rais'd again. + + +Psalm 103:1. 1-7. First Part. L. M. +Blessing God for his goodness to soul and body. + +1 Bless, O my soul, the living God, +Call home thy thoughts that rove abroad; +Let all the powers within me join +In work and worship so divine. + +2 Bless, O my soul, the God of grace; +His favours claim thy highest praise; +Why should the wonders he hath wrought +Be lost in silence and forgot? + +3 'Tis he, my soul, that sent his Son +To die for crimes which thou hast done; +He owns the ransom; and forgives +The hourly follies of our lives. + +4 The vices of the mind he heals, +And cures the pains that nature feels; +Redeems the soul from hell, and saves +Our wasting life from threat'ning graves. + +5 Our youth decay'd his power repairs; +His mercy crowns our growing years; +He satisfies our mouth with good, +And fills our hopes with heavenly food. + +6 He sees th' oppressor and th' opprest, +And often gives the sufferers rest; +But will his justice more display +In the last great rewarding day. + +7 [His power he shew'd by Moses' hands, +And gave to Israel his commands; +But sent his truth and mercy down +To all the nations by his Son. + +8 Let the whole earth his power confess, +Let the whole earth adore his grace; +The Gentile with the Jew shall join +In work and worship so divine.] + + +Psalm 103:2. 8-18. Second Part. L. M. +God's gentle chastisement; or, +His tender mercy to his people. + +1. The Lord, how wondrous are his ways: +How firm his truth how large his grace; +He takes his mercy for his throne, +And thence he makes his glories known. + +2 Not half so high his power hath spread +The starry heavens above our head, +As his rich love exceeds our praise, +Exceeds the highest hopes we raise. + +3 Not half so far hath nature plac'd +The rising morning from the west, +As his forgiving grace removes +The daily guilt of those he loves. + +4 How slowly doth his wrath arise! +On swifter wings salvation flies; +And if he lets his anger burn, +How soon his frowns to pity turn! + +5 Amidst his wrath compassion shines; +His strokes are lighter than our sins; +And while his rod corrects his saints, +His ear indulges their complaints. + +6 So fathers their young sons chastise, +With gentle hand and melting eyes; +The children weep beneath the smart, +And move the pity of their heart. + +PAUSE. + +7 The mighty God, the wise, and just, +Knows that our frame is feeble dust; +And will no heavy loads impose +Beyond the strength that he bestows. + +8 He knows how soon our nature dies, +Blasted by every wind that flies; +Like grass we spring, and die as soon, +Or morning flowers that fade at noon. + +9 But his eternal love is sure +To all the saints, and shall endure: +From age to age his truth shall reign, +Nor children's children hope in vain. + + +Psalm 103:3. 1-7. First Part, S. M. +Praise for spiritual and temporal mercies. + +1 O Bless the Lord, my soul; +Let all within me join, +And aid my tongue to bless his Name, +Whose favours are divine. + +2 O bless the Lord, my soul; +Nor let his mercies lie +Forgotten in unthankfulness, +And without praises die. + +3 'Tis he forgives thy sins, +'Tis he relieves thy pain, +'Tis he that heals thy sicknesses, +And makes thee young again. + +4 He crowns thy life with love, +When ransom'd from the grave; +He that redeem'd my soul from hell +Hath sovereign power to save. + +5 He fills the poor with good; +He gives the sufferers rest; +The Lord hath judgments for the proud, +And justice for th' opprest. + +6 His wondrous works and ways +He made by Moses known; +But sent the world his truth and grace +By his beloved Son. + + +Psalm 103:4. 8-18. Second Part. S. M. +Abounding compassion of God; or, +Mercy in the midst of judgment. + +1 My soul, repeat his praise +Whose mercies are so great, +Whose anger is so slow to rise, +So ready to abate. + +2 God will not always chide; +And when his strokes are felt, +His strokes are fewer than our crimes, +And lighter than our guilt. + +3 High as the heavens are rais'd +Above the ground we tread, +So far the riches of his grace +Our highest thoughts exceed. + +4 His power subdues our sins; +And his forgiving love, +Far as the east is from the west, +Doth all our guilt remove. + +5 The pity of the Lord +To those that fear his Name, +Is such as tender parents feel; +He knows our feeble frame. + +6 He knows we are but dust, +Scatter'd with every breath; +His anger, like a rising wind, +Can send us swift to death. + +7 Our days are as the grass, +Or like the morning flower; +If one sharp blast sweep o'er the field, +It withers in an hour. + +8 But thy compassions, Lord, +To endless years endure; +And children's children ever find +Thy words of promise sure. + + +Psalm 103:5. 19-22. Third Part. S. M. +God's universal dominion; +or, Angels praise the Lord. + +1 The lord, the sovereign King, +Hath fix'd his throne on high; +O'er all the heavenly world he rules, +And all beneath the sky. + +2 Ye angels great in might, +And swift to do his will, +Bless ye the Lord, whose voice ye hear, +Whose pleasure ye fulfil. + +3 Let the bright hosts who wait +The orders of their King, +And guard his churches when they pray, +Join in the praise they sing. + +4 While all his wondrous works, +Thro' his vast kingdoms shew +Their Maker's glory, thou, my soul, +Shalt sing his graces too. + + +Psalm 104. +The glory of God in creation and providence. + +1 My soul, thy great Creator praise; +When cloth'd in his celestial rays +He in full Majesty appears, +And, like a robe, his glory wears. + +Note, This psalm may be sung to the tune of the old 112th or 127th +Psalm, by adding the two following lines to every stanza, viz. + +Great is the Lord; what tongue can frame +An equal honour to his Name? + +Otherwise it must be sung as the 100th psalm. + +2 The heavens are for his curtains spread, +Th' unfathom'd deep he makes his bed; +Clouds are his chariot, when he flies +On winged storms across the skies. + +3 Angels, whom his own breath inspires, +His ministers are flaming fires; +And swift as thought their armies move +To bear his vengeance, or his love. + +4 The world's foundations by his hand +Are pois'd, and shall for ever stand; +He binds the ocean in his chain, +Lest it should drown the earth again. + +5 When earth was cover'd with the flood, +Which high above the mountains stood, +He thunder'd, and the ocean fled, +Confin'd to its appointed bed. + +6 The swelling billows know their bound, +And in their channels walk their round; +Yet thence convey'd by secret veins, +They spring on hills, and drench the plains. + +7 He bids the crystal fountains flow, +And cheer the vallies as they go; +Tame heifers there their thirst allay, +And for the stream wild asses bray. + +8 From pleasant trees which shade the brink +The lark and linnet light to drink; +Their songs the lark and linnet raise; +And chide our silence in his praise. + +PAUSE I. + +9 God from his cloudy cistern, pours +On the parch'd earth enriching showers; +The grove, the garden, and the field +A thousand joyful blessings yield. + +10 He makes the grassy food arise, +And gives the cattle large supplies; +With herbs for man of various power, +To nourish nature, or to cure. + +11 What noble fruit the vines produce! +The olive yields a shining juice; +Our hearts are cheer'd with gen'rous wine, +With inward joy our faces shine. + +12 O bless his Name ye Britons, fed +With nature's chief supporter, bread; +While bread your vital strength imparts, +Serve him with vigour in your hearts. + +PAUSE II. + +13 Behold the stately cedar stands, +Rais'd in the forest by his hands: +Birds to the boughs for shelter fly +And build their nests secure on high. + +14 To craggy hills ascends the goat; +And at the airy mountain's foot +The feebler creatures make their cell; +He gives them wisdom where to dwell. + +15 He sets the sun his circling race, +Appoints the moon to change her face; +And when thick darkness veils the day, +Calls out wild beasts to hunt their prey. + +16 Fierce lions lead their young abroad, +And roaring ask their meat from God; +But when the morning beams arise, +The savage beast to covert flies. + +17 Then man to daily labour goes; +The night was made for his repose: +Sleep is thy gift; that sweet relief +From tiresome toil and wasting grief. + +18 How strange thy works! how great thy skill! +And every land thy riches fill: +Thy wisdom round the world we see, +This spacious earth is full of thee. + +19 Nor less thy glories in the deep, +Where fish in millions swim and creep, +With wondrous motions, swift or slow, +Still wandering in the paths below. + +20 There ships divide their watery way, +And flocks of scaly monsters play; +There dwells the huge Leviathan, +And foams and sports in spite of man. + +PAUSE III. + +21 Vast are thy works, almighty Lord, +All nature rests upon thy word, +And the whole race of creatures stands, +Waiting their portion from thy hands. + +22 While each receives his different food, +Their cheerful looks pronounce it good; +Eagles and bears, and whales and worms, +Rejoice and praise in different forms. + +23 But when thy face is hid, they mourn, +And dying to their dust return; +Both man and beast their souls resign, +Life, breath, and spirit, all is thine. + +24 Yet thou canst breathe on dust again, +And fill the world with beasts and men; +A word of thy creating breath +Repairs the wastes of time and death. + +25 His works, the wonders of his might, +Are honour'd with his own delight: +How awful are his glorious ways! +The Lord is dreadful in his praise. + +26 The earth stands trembling at thy stroke, +And at thy touch the mountains smoke; +Yet humble souls may see thy face, +And tell their wants to sovereign grace. + +27 In thee my hopes and wishes meet, +And make my meditations sweet: +Thy praises shall my breath employ, +Till it expire in endless joy. + +28 While haughty sinners die accurst, +Their glory bury'd with their dust, +I, to my God, my heavenly King, +Immortal hallelujahs sing. + + +Psalm 105. Abridged. +God's conduct of Israel, and the plagues of Egypt. + +1 Give thanks to God, invoke his Name, +And tell the world his grace; +Sound thro' the earth his deeds of fame, +That all may seek his face. + +2 His covenant, which he kept in mind +For numerous ages past, +To numerous ages yet behind, +In equal force shall last. + +3 He sware to Abraham and his seed, +And made the blessing sure: +Gentiles the ancient promise read, +And find his truths endure. + +4 "Thy seed shall make all nations blest," +(Said the Almighty voice) +"And Canaan's land shall be their rest, +"The type of heavenly joys." + +5 [How large the grant! how rich the grace! +To give them Canaan's land, +When they were strangers in the place, +A little feeble band! + +6 Like pilgrims thro' the countries round +Securely they remov'd; +And haughty kings that on them frown'd, +Severely he reprov'd. + +7 "Touch mine anointed, and my arm +"Shall soon revenge the wrong: +"The man that does my prophets harm +Shall know their God is strong." + +8 Then let the world forbear its rage, +Nor put the church in fear: +Israel must live thro' every age, +And be th' Almighty's care.] + +PAUSE I. + +9 When Pharaoh dar'd to vex the saints, +And thus provok'd their God, +Moses was sent at their complaints, +Arm'd with his dreadful rod. + +10 He call'd for darkness; darkness came +Like an o'erwhelming flood; +He turn'd each lake and every stream +To lakes and streams of blood. + +11 He gave the sign, and noisome flies +Thro' the whole country spread; +And frogs, in croaking armies, rise +About the monarch's bed. + +12 Thro' fields, and towns, and palaces, +The tenfold vengeance flew; +Locusts in swarms devour'd their trees, +And hail their cattle slew. + +13 Then by an angel's midnight stroke, +The flower of Egypt dy'd; +The strength of every house was broke, +Their glory and their pride. + +14 Now let the world forbear its rage, +Nor put the church in fear; +Israel must live thro' every age, +And be th' Almighty's care. + +PAUSE II. + +15 Thus were the tribes from bondage brought, +And left the hated ground; +Each some Egyptian spoils had got, +And not one feeble found. + +16 The Lord himself chose out their way, +And mark'd their journies right, +Gave them a leading cloud by day, +A fiery guide by night. + +17 They thirst; and waters from the rock +In rich abundance flow, +And following still the course they took, +Ran all the desert thro'. + +18 O wondrous stream O blessed type +Of ever-flowing grace! +So Christ our rock maintains our life +Thro' all this wilderness. + +19 Thus guarded by th' Almighty hand +The chosen tribes possest +Canaan the rich, the promis'd land, +And there enjoy'd their rest. + +20 Then let the world forbear its rage, +The church renounce her fear; +Israel must live thro' every age, +And be th' Almighty's care. + + +Psalm 106:1. 1-5. First Part. +Praise to God; or, Communion with saints. + +1 To God, the great, the ever blest, +Let songs of honour be addrest: +His mercy firm for ever stands; +Give him the thanks his love demands. + +2 Who knows the wonders of thy ways? +Who shall fulfil thy boundless praise? +Blest are the souls that fear thee still, +And pay their duty to thy will. + +3 Remember what thy mercy did +For Jacob's race, thy chosen seed; +And with the same salvation bless +The meanest suppliant of thy grace. + +4 O may I see thy tribes rejoice, +And aid their triumphs with my voice! +This is my glory, Lord, to be +Join'd to thy saints, and near to thee. + + +Psalm 106:2. 7 8 12-14 43-48. 2d Part. +Israel punished and pardoned; +or, God's unchangeable love. + +1 God of eternal love, +How fickle are our ways! +And yet how oft did Israel prove +Thy constancy of grace! + +2 They saw thy wonders wrought, +And then thy praise they sung; +But soon thy works of power forgot, +And murmur'd with their tongue. + +3 Now they believe his word, +While rocks with rivers flow; +Now with their lusts provoke the Lord, +And he reduc'd them low. + +4 Yet when they mourn'd their faults, +He hearken'd to their groans, +Brought his own covenant to his thoughts, +And call'd them still his sons. + +5 Their names were in his book, +He sav'd them from their foes; +Oft he chastis'd, but ne'er forsook +The people that he chose. + +6 Let Israel bless the Lord, +Who lov'd their ancient race; +And Christians join the solemn word +Amen, to all the praise. + + +Psalm 107:1. First Part. +Israel led to Canaan, +and Christians to Heaven. + +1 Give thanks to God; he reigns above, +Kind are his thoughts, his Name is love; +His mercy ages past have known, +And ages long to come shall own. + +2 Let the redeemed of the Lord +The wonders of his grace record; +Israel, the nation whom he chose, +And rescu'd from their mighty foes. + +3 [When God's almighty arm had broke +Their fetters and th' Egyptian yoke, +They trac'd the desert, wandering round +A wild and solitary ground. + +4 There they could find no leading road, +Nor city for a fix'd abode; +Nor food, nor fountain to assuage +Their burning thirst, or hunger's rage.] + +5 In their distress to God they cry'd, +God was their Saviour and their Guide; +He led their march far wandering round, +'Twas the right path to Canaan's ground. + +6 Thus when our first release we gain +From sin's old yoke, and Satan's chain, +We have this desert world to pass, +A dangerous and a tiresome place. + +7 He feeds and clothes us all the way, +He guides our footsteps lest we stray, +He guards us with a powerful hand +And brings us to the heavenly land. + +8 O let the saints with joy record +The truth and goodness of the Lord! +How great his works! how kind his ways! +Let every tongue pronounce his praise. + + +Psalm 107:2. Second Part. +Correction for sin, and release by prayer. + +1 From age to age exalt his Name, +God and his grace are still the same; +He fills the hungry soul with food, +And feeds the poor with every good. + +2 But if their hearts rebel and rise +Against the God that rules the skies, +If they reject his heavenly word, +And slight the counsels of the Lord, + +3 He'll bring their spirits to the ground, +And no deliverer shall be found; +Laden with grief they waste their breath +In darkness and the shades of death, + +4 Then to the Lord they raise their cries, +He makes the dawning light arise, +And scatters all that dismal shade, +That hung so heavy round their head. + +5 He cuts the bars of brass in two, +And lets the smiling prisoners thro'; +Takes off the load of guilt and grief, +And gives the labouring soul relief. + +6 O may the sons of men record +The wondrous goodness of the Lord! +How great his works! how kind his ways! +Let every tongue pronounce his praise. + + +Psalm 107:3. Third Part. +Intemperance punished and pardoned; or, +A psalm for the glutton and the drunkard. + +1 Vain man, on foolish pleasures bent, +Prepares for his own punishment; +What pains, what loathsome maladies +From luxury and lust arise! + +2 The drunkard feels his vitals waste, +Yet drowns his health to please his taste; +Till all his active powers are lost, +And fainting life draws near the dust. + +3 The glutton groans and loathes to eat, +His soul abhors delicious meat; +Nature, with heavy loads opprest, +Would yield to death to be releas'd. + +4 Then how the frighted sinners fly +To God for help with earnest cry! +He hears their groans, prolongs their breath, +And saves them from approaching death, + +5 No med'cines could effect the cure +So quick, so easy, or so sure: +The deadly sentence God repeals, +He sends his sovereign word, and heals, + +6 O may the sons of men record +The wondrous goodness of the Lord! +And let their thankful offerings prove +How they adore their Maker's love. + + +Psalm 107:4. Fourth Part. L. M. +Deliverance from storms, and +shipwreck; or, The Seaman's song. + +1 Would you behold the works of God, +His wonders in the world abroad, +Go with the mariners, and trace +The unknown regions of the seas. + +2 They leave their native shores behind, +And seize the favour of the wind, +Till God command, and tempests rise +That heave the ocean to the skies. + +3 Now to the heavens they mount amain, +Now sink to dreadful deeps again; +What strange affrights young sailors feel, +And like a staggering drunkard reel! + +4 When land is far, and death is nigh, +Lost to all hope, to God they cry; +His mercy hears the loud address, +And sends salvation in distress. + +5 He bids the winds their wrath assuage; +The furious waves forget their rage; +'Tis calm; and sailors smile to see +The haven where they wish'd to be. + +6 O may the sons of men record +The wondrous goodness of the Lord! +Let them their private offerings bring, +And in the church his glory sing. + + +Psalm 107:5. Fourth Part. C. M. +The Mariner's psalm. + +1 Thy works of glory, mighty Lord, +Thy wonders in the deeps, +The sons of courage shall record +Who trade in floating ships. + +2 At thy command the winds arise, +And swell the towering waves; +The men astonish'd mount the skies +And sink in gaping graves. + +3 [Again they climb the watery hills, +And plunge in deeps again; +Each like a tottering drunkard reels, +And finds his courage vain. + +4 Frighted to hear the tempest roar, +They pant with fluttering breath, +And, hopeless of the distant shore, +Expect immediate death.] + +5 Then to the Lord they raise their cries, +He hears the loud request, +And orders silence thro' the skies, +And lays the floods to rest. + +6 Sailors rejoice to lose their fears, +And see the storm allay'd: +Now to their eyes the port appears; +There let their vows be paid. + +7 'Tis God that brings them safe to land; +Let stupid mortals know +That waves are under his command, +And all the winds that blow, + +8 O that the sons of men would praise +The goodness of the Lord! +And those that see thy wondrous ways, +Thy wondrous love record. + + +Psalm 107:6. Last Part. +Colonies planted; or, +Nations blest and punished. + +A psalm for New England. + +1 When God, provok'd with daring crimes, +Scourges the madness of the times, +He turns their fields to barren sand, +And dries the rivers from the land. + +2 His word can raise the springs again, +And make the wither'd mountains green, +Send showery blessings from the skies, +And harvests in the desert rise. + +3 [Where nothing dwelt but beasts of prey, +Or men as fierce and wild as they; +He bids th' opprest and poor repair, +And builds them towns and cities there. + +4 They sow the fields, and trees they plant, +Whose yearly fruit supplies their want: +Their race grows up from fruitful stocks, +Their wealth increases with their flocks. + +5 Thus they are blest; but if they sin, +He lets the heathen nations in, +A savage crew invades their lands, +Their princes die by barbarous hands. + +6 Their captive sons, expos'd to scorn, +Wander unpity'd and forlorn; +The country lies unfenc'd, untill'd, +And desolation spreads the field. + +7 Yet if the humbled nation mourns, +Again his dreadful hand he turns; +Again he makes their cities thrive, +And bids the dying churches live.] + +8 The righteous, with a joyful sense, +Admire the works of providence; +And tongues of atheists shall no more +Blaspheme the God that saints adore. + +9 How few, with pious care, record +The wondrous dealings of the Lord! +But wise observers still shall find +The Lord is holy, just, and kind. + + +Psalm 109. 1-5 31. +Love to enemies, from the example of Christ. + +1 God of my mercy and my praise, +Thy glory is my song; +The sinners speak against thy grace +With a blaspheming tongue. + +2 When in the form of mortal man +Thy Son on earth was found, +With cruel slanders, false and vain, +They compass'd him around. + +3 Their miseries his compassion move, +Their peace he still pursu'd; +They render hatred for his love, +And evil for his good. + +4 Their malice rag'd without a cause, +Yet, with his dying breath, +He pray'd for murderers on his cross, +And blest his foes in death. + +5 Lord, shall thy bright example shine +In vain before my eyes? +Give me a soul a-kin to thine +To love mine enemies. + +6 The Lord shall on my side engage, +And, in my Saviour's name, +I shall defeat their pride and rage +Who slander and condemn. + + +Psalm 110:1. First Part. +Christ exalted, and multitudes converted; +or, The success of the gospel. + +1 Thus the eternal Father spake +To Christ the Son, "Ascend and sit +"At my right hand, till I shall make +"Thy foes submissive at thy feet. + +2 "From Zion shall thy word proceed, +"Thy word, the sceptre in thy hand, +"Shall make the hearts of rebels bleed, +"And bow their wills to thy command. + +3 "That day shall shew thy power is great, +"When saints shall flock with willing minds, +"And sinners crowd thy temple gate, +"Where holiness in beauty shines." + +4 O blessed power! 0 glorious day! +What a large victory shall ensue! +And converts, who thy grace obey, +Exceed the drops of morning dew. + + +Psalm 110:2. Second Part. +The kingdom and priesthood of Christ. + +1 Thus the great Lord of earth and sea +Spake to his Son, and thus he swore; +"Eternal shall thy priesthood be, +"And change from hand to hand no more. + +2 "Aaron and all his sons must die; +"But everlasting life is thine, +"To save for ever those that fly +"For refuge from the wrath divine. + +3 "By me Melchisedek was made +"On earth a king and priest at once; +"And thou, my heavenly priest, shalt plead, +"And thou, my king, shalt rule my sons." + +4 Jesus the priest ascends his throne, +While counsels of eternal peace, +Between the Father and the Son, +Proceed with honour and success. + +5 Thro' the whole earth his reign shall spread, +And crush the powers that dare rebel; +Then shall he judge the rising dead, +And send the guilty world to hell. + +6 Tho' while he treads his glorious way, +He drink the cup of tears and blood, +The sufferings of that dreadful day +Shall but advance him near to God. + + +Psalm 110:3. C. M. +Christ's kingdom and priesthood. + +1 Jesus, our Lord, ascend thy throne, +And near the Father sit; +In Zion shall thy power be known, +And make thy foes submit. + +2 What wonders shall thy gospel do! +Thy converts shall surpass +The numerous drops of morning dew, +And own thy sovereign grace. + +3 God hath pronounc'd a firm decree, +Nor changes what he swore; +"Eternal shall thy priesthood be, +"When Aaron is no more. + +4 "Melchisedek, that wondrous priest, +"That king of high degree, +"That holy man who Abr'am blest, +"Was but a type of thee." + +5 Jesus our priest for ever lives +To plead for us above; +Jesus our king for ever gives +The blessings of his love. + +6 God shall exalt his glorious head, +And his high throne maintain, +Shall strike the powers and princes dead +Who dare oppose his reign. + + +Psalm 111:1. First Part. +The wisdom of God in his works. + +1 Songs of immortal praise belong +To my almighty God; +He has my heart, and he my tongue +To spread his Name abroad. + +2 How great the works his hand has wrought! +How glorious in our sight! +And men in every age have sought +His wonders with delight. + +3 How most exact is nature's frame! +How wise th' Eternal mind! +His counsels never change the scheme +That his first thoughts design'd. + +4 When he redeem'd his chosen Son, +He fix'd his covenant sure: +The orders that his lips pronounce +To endless years endure. + +5 Nature and time, and earth and skies, +Thy heavenly skill proclaim: +What shall we do to make us wise, +But learn to read thy Name? + +6 To fear thy power, to trust thy grace +Is our divinest skill; +And he's the wisest of our race, +That best obeys thy will. + + +Psalm 111:2. Second Part. +The perfections of God. + +1 Great is the Lord; his works of might +Demand our noblest songs; +Let his assembled saints unite +Their harmony of tongues. + +2 Great is the mercy of the Lord, +He gives his children food; +And ever mindful of his word, +He makes his promise good. + +3 His Son, the great Redeemer, came +To seal his covenant sure: +Holy and reverend is his Name, +His ways are just and pure. + +4 They that would grow divinely wise +Must with his fear begin; +Our fairest proof of knowledge lies +In hating every sin. + + +Psalm 112:1. As the 113th Psalm. +The blessings of the liberal man. + +1 That man is blest who stands in awe +Of God, and loves his sacred law: +His seed on earth shall be renown'd; +His house the seat of wealth shall be, +An inexhausted treasury, +And with successive honours crown'd. + +2 His liberal favours he extends, +To some he gives, to others lends; +A generous pity fills his mind: +Yet what his charity impairs +He saves by prudence in affairs, +And thus he's just to all mankind. + +3 His hands, while they his alms bestow'd, +His glory's future harvest sow'd; +The sweet remembrance of the just, +Like a green root, revives and bears +A train of blessings for his heirs, +When dying nature sleeps in dust. + +4 Beset with threatening dangers round, +Unmov'd shall he maintain his ground; +His conscience holds his courage up: +The soul that's fill'd with virtue's light, +Shines brightest in affliction's night, +And sees in darkness beams of hope. + +PAUSE. + +5 [Ill tidings never can surprise +His heart that fix'd on God relies, +Tho' waves and tempests roar around: +Safe on the rock he sits, and sees +The shipwreck of his enemies, +And all their hope and glory drown'd. + +6 The wicked shall his triumph see, +And gnash their teeth in agony +To find their expectations crost: +They and their envy, pride and spite, +Sink down to everlasting night, +And all their names in darkness lost.] + + +Psalm 112:2. L. M. +The blessings of the pious and charitable. + +1 Thrice happy man who fears the Lord, +Loves his commands, and trusts his word; +Honour and peace his days attend, +And blessings to his seed descend. + +2 Compassion dwells upon his mind, +To works of mercy still inclin'd: +He lends the poor some present aid, +Or gives them, not to be repaid. + +3 When times grow dark, and tidings spread +That fill his neighbours round with dread, +His heart is arm'd against the fear, +For God with all his power is there. + +4 His soul, well fix'd upon the Lord, +Draws heavenly courage from his word; +Amidst the darkness light shall rise, +To cheer his heart, and bless his eyes. + +5 He hath dispers'd his alms abroad, +His works are still before his God; +His name on earth shall long remain, +While envious sinners fret in vain. + + +Psalm 112:3. C. M, +Liberality rewarded. + +1 Happy is he that fears the Lord, +And follows his commands, +Who lends the poor without reward, +Or gives with liberal hands. + +2 As pity dwells within his breast +To all the sons of need; +So God shall answer his request +With blessings on his seed, + +3 No evil tidings shall surprise +His well-establish'd mind; +His soul to God his refuge flies, +And leaves his fears behind. + +4 In times of general distress, +Some beams of light shall shine +To shew the world his righteousness, +And give him peace divine. + +5 His works of piety and love +Remain before the Lord; +Honour on earth and joys above +Shall be his sure reward. + + +Psalm 113:1. Proper Time. +The majesty and condescension of God. + +1 Ye that delight to serve the Lord, +The honours of his Name record, +His sacred Name for ever bless: +Where'er the circling sun displays +His rising beams, or setting rays, +Let lands and seas his power confess. + +2 Not time, nor nature's narrow rounds, +Can give his vast dominion bounds, +The heavens are far below his height: +Let no created greatness dare +With our eternal God compare, +Arm'd with his uncreated might. + +3 He bows his glorious head to view +What the bright hosts of angels do, +And bends his care to mortal things; +His sovereign hand exalts the poor, +He takes the needy from the door, +And makes them company for kings. + +4 When childless families despair, +He sends the blessings of an heir +To rescue their expiring name: +The mother with a thankful voice +Proclaims his praises and her joys: +Let every age advance his fame. + + +Psalm 113:2. L. M. +God sovereign and gracious. + +1 Ye servants of th' Almighty King, +In every age his praises sing; +Where'er the sun shall rise or set, +The nations shall his praise repeat. + +2 Above the earth, beyond the sky, +Stands his high throne of majesty: +Nor time, nor place, his power restrain, +Nor bound his universal reign. + +3 Which of the sons of Adam dare, +Or angels, with their God compare? +His glories how divinely bright, +Who dwells in uncreated light! + +4 Behold his love: he stoops to view +What saints above and angels do; +And condescends yet more to know +The mean affairs of men below. + +5 From dust and cottages obscure +His grace exalts the humble poor; +Gives them the honour of his sons, +And fits them for their heavenly thrones. + +6 [A word of his creating voice +Can make the barren house rejoice: +Tho' Sarah's ninety years were past, +The promis'd seed is born at last. + +7 With joy the mother views her son, +And tells the wonders God has done: +Faith may grow strong when sense despairs, +If nature fails, the promise bears.] + + +Psalm 114. +Miracles attending Israel's journey. + +1 When Israel, freed from Pharaoh's hand, +Left the proud tyrant and his land, +The tribes with cheerful homage own +Their King, and Judah was his throne. + +2 Across the deep their journey lay; +The deep divides to make them way: +Jordan beheld their march, and fled +With backward current to his head. + +3 The mountains shook like frighted sheep, +Like lambs the little hillocks leap; +Not Sinai on her base could stand, +Conscious of sovereign power at hand. + +4 What power could make the deep divide? +Make Jordan backward roll his tide? +Why did ye leap, ye little hills? +And whence the fright that Sinai feels? + +5 Let every mountain, every flood, +Retire and know th' approaching God, +The king of Israel: see him here; +Tremble, thou earth, adore and fear. + +6 He thunders, and all nature mourns, +The rock to standing pools he turns; +Flints spring with fountains at his word, +And fires and seas confess the Lord. + + +Psalm 115:1. First Metre. +The true God our refuge; +or, Idolatry reproved. + +1 Not to ourselves, who are but dust, +Not to ourselves is glory due, +Eternal God, thou only just, +Thou only gracious, wise, and true. + +2 Shine forth in all thy dreadful Name; +Why should a heathen's haughty tongue +Insult us, and to raise our shame +Say, "Where's the God you've serv'd so long?" + +3 The God we serve maintains his throne +Above the clouds, beyond the skies, +Thro' all the earth his will is done, +He knows our groans, he hears our cries. + +4 But the vain idols they adore +Are senseless shapes of stone and wood; +At best a mass of glittering ore, +A silver saint, or golden god. + +5 [With eyes, and ears they carve their head, +Deaf are their ears, their eyes are blind; +In vain are costly offerings made, +And vows are scatter'd in the wind. + +6 Their feet were never made to move, +Nor hands to save when mortals pray; +Mortals that pay them fear or love +Seem to be blind and deaf as they.] + +7 O Israel, make the Lord thy hope, +Thy help, thy refuge, and thy rest; +The Lord shall build thy ruins up, +And bless the people and the priest. + +8 The dead no more can speak thy praise, +They dwell in silence and the grave; +But we shall live to sing thy grace, +And tell the world thy power to save. + + +Psalm 115:2. Second Metre. +As the new tune of the 50th Psalm. +Popish idolatry reproved. + +A psalm for the 5th of November. + +1 Not to our names, thou only Just and True, +Not to our worthless names is glory due; +Thy power and grace, thy truth and justice claim +Immortal honours to thy sovereign Name: +Shine thro' the earth from heaven, thy blest abode, +Nor let the heathens say, "And where's your God?" + +2 Heaven is thine higher court; there stands thy throne, +And thro' the lower worlds thy will is done: +Our God fram'd all this earth, these heavens he spread, +But fools adore the gods their hands have made: +The kneeling crowd, with looks devout, behold +Their silver saviours, and their saints of gold. + +3 [Vain are those artful shapes of eyes and ears; +The molten image neither sees nor hears: +Their hands are helpless, nor their feet can move, +They have no speech, nor thought, nor power, nor love; +Yet sottish mortals make their long complaints +To their deaf idols, and their moveless saints. + +4 The rich have statues well adorn'd with gold; +The poor, content with gods of coarser mould, +With tools of iron carve the senseless stock, +Lopt from a tree, or broken from a rock: +People and priest drive on the solemn trade, +And trust the gods that saws and hammers made.] + +5 Be heaven and earth amaz'd! 'Tis hard to say +Which is more stupid, or their gods or they: +O Israel, trust the Lord, he hears and sees, +He knows thy sorrows, and restores thy peace: +His worship does a thousand comforts yield, +He is thy help, and he thy heavenly shield. + +6 O Britain, trust the Lord: thy foes in vain +Attempt thy ruin, and oppose his reign; +Had they prevail'd, darkness had clos'd our days, +And death and silence had forbid his praise; +But we are sav'd, and live: let songs arise, +And Britain bless the God that built the skies. + + +Psalm 116:1. First Part. +Recovery from sickness. + +1 I love the Lord; he heard my cries, +And pity'd every groan: +Long as I live, when troubles rise, +I'll hasten to his throne. + +2 I love the Lord; he bow'd his ear, +And chas'd my griefs away; +O let my heart no more despair, +While I have breath to pray! + +3 My flesh declin'd, my spirits fell, +And I drew near the dead, +While inward pangs, and fears of hell +Perplex'd my wakeful head. + +4 "My God," I cry'd "thy servant save, +"Thou ever good and just; +"Thy power can rescue from the grave, +"Thy power is all my trust." + +5 The Lord beheld me sore distrest, +He bid my pains remove: +Return, my soul, to God thy rest, +For thou hast known his love. + +6 My God hath sav'd my soul from death, +And dry'd my failing tears; +Now to his praise I'll spend my breath, +And my remaining years. + + +Psalm 116:2. 12 &c. Second Part. +Vows made in trouble paid in the church; +or, Public thanks for private deliverance. + +1 What shall I render to my God +For all his kindness shown? +My feet shall visit thine abode, +My songs address thy throne. + +2 Among the saints that fill thine house, +My offerings shall be paid; +There shall my zeal perform the vows +My soul in anguish made. + +3 How much is mercy thy delight, +Thou ever blessed God! +How dear thy servants in thy sight! +How precious is their blood! + +4 How happy all thy servants are! +How great thy grace to me! +My life which thou hast made thy care, +Lord, I devote to thee. + +5 Now I am thine, for ever thine, +Nor shall my purpose move; +Thy hand hath loos'd my bonds of pain, +And bound me with thy love. + +6 Here in thy courts I leave my vow, +And thy rich grace record; +Witness, ye saints, who hear me now, +If I forsake the Lord. + + +Psalm 117:1. C. M. +Praise to God from all nations. + +1 O all ye nations, praise the Lord, +Each with a different tongue; +In every language learn his word, +And let his Name be sung. + +2 His mercy reigns thro' every land; +Proclaim his grace abroad; +For ever firm his truth shall stand, +Praise ye the faithful God. + + +Psalm 117:2. L. M. + +1 From all that dwell below the skies, +Let the Creator's praise arise! +Let the Redeemer's name be sung +Thro' every land, by every tongue. + +2 Eternal are thy mercies, Lord; +Eternal truth attends thy word: +Thy praise shall sound from shore to shore, +Till suns shall rise and set no more. + + +Psalm 117:3. S. M. + +1 Thy Name, almighty Lord, +Shall sound thro' distant lands; +Great is thy grace, and sure thy word, +Thy truth for ever stands. + +2 Far be thine honour spread, +And long thy praise endure, +Till morning light and evening shade +Shall be exchang'd no more. + + +Psalm 118:1. 6-15. First Part. +Deliverance from a tumult. + +1 The Lord appears my helper now, +Nor is my faith afraid +What all the sons of earth can do, +Since heaven affords its aid. + +2 'Tis safer, Lord, to hope in thee, +And have my God my friend, +Than trust in men of high degree, +And on their truth depend. + +3 Like bees my foes beset me round, +A large and angry swarm; +But I shall all their rage confound +By thine almighty arm. + +4 'Tis thro' the Lord my heart is strong, +In him my lips rejoice; +While his salvation is my song, +How cheerful is my voice! + +5 Like angry bees they girt me round; +When God appears they fly: +So burning thorns, with crackling sound, +Make a fierce blaze and die. + +6 Joy to the saints and peace belongs; +The Lord protects their days: +Let Israel tune immortal songs +To his almighty grace. + + +Psalm 118:2. 17-21. Second Part. +Public praise for deliverance from death. + +1 Lord, thou hast heard thy servant cry, +And rescu'd from the grave; +Now shall he live: (and none can die +If God resolve to save.) + +2 Thy praise, more constant than before, +Shall fill his daily breath; +Thy hand that hath chastis'd him sore, +Defends him still from death. + +3 Open the gates of Zion now, +For we shall worship there, +The house where all the righteous go +Thy mercy to declare. + +4 Among th' assemblies of thy saints +Our thankful voice we raise! +There we have told thee our complaints, +And there we speak thy praise. + + +Psalm 118:3. 22 23. Third Part. +Christ the foundation of his church. + +1 Behold the sure foundation-stone +Which God in Zion lays +To build our heavenly hopes upon, +And his eternal praise. + +2 Chosen of God, to sinners dear, +And saints adore the Name, +They trust their whole salvation here, +Nor shall they suffer shame. + +3 The foolish builders, scribe and priest, +Reject it with disdain; +Yet on this rock the church shall rest, +And envy rage in vain. + +4 What tho' the gates of hell withstood, +Yet must this building rise: +'Tis thy own work, almighty God, +And wondrous in our eyes. + + +Psalm 118:4. 24 25 26. Fourth Part. +Hosanna; the Lord's day; or, Christ's +resurrection and our salvation. + +1 This is the day the Lord hath made, +He calls the hours his own; +Let heaven rejoice, let earth be glad, +And praise surround the throne. + +2 To-day he rose and left the dead, +And Satan's empire fell; +To-day the saints his triumphs spread, +And all his wonders tell. + +3 Hosanna to th' anointed King, +To David's holy Son: +Help us, O Lord; descend and bring +Salvation from the throne. + +4 Blest be the Lord, who comes to men +With messages of grace; +Who comes in God his Father's Name +To save our sinful race. + +5 Hosanna in the highest strains +The church on earth can raise; +The highest heavens, in which he reigns, +Shall give him nobler praise. + + +Psalm 118:5. 22-27. S. M. +An hosanna for the Lord's day; or, +A new song of salvation by Christ. + +1 See what a living-stone +The builders did refuse; +Yet God hath built his church thereon +In spite of envious Jews. + +2 The scribe and angry priest +Reject thine only Son; +Yet on this rock shall Zion rest, +As the chief corner-stone. + +3 The work, O Lord, is thine, +And wondrous in our eyes; +This day declares it all divine, +This day did Jesus rise. + +4 This is the glorious day +That our Redeemer made; +Let us rejoice, and sing, and pray, +Let all the church be glad. + +5 Hosanna to the King +Of David's royal blood: +Bless him, ye saints; he comes to bring +Salvation from your God. + +6 We bless thine holy word, +Which all this grace displays; +And offer on thine altar, Lord, +Our sacrifice of praise. + + +Psalm 118:6. 22-27. L. M. +An hosanna for the Lord's day; or, +A new song of salvation by Christ. + +1 Lo! what a glorious corner-stone +The Jewish builders did refuse; +But God hath built his church thereon, +In spite of envy and the Jews. + +2 Great God, the work is all divine, +The joy and wonder of our eyes; +This is the day that proves it thine, +The day that saw our Saviour rise. + +3 Sinners rejoice, and saints be glad: +Hosanna, let his Name be blest: +A thousand honours on his head, +With peace, and light, and glory, rest. + +4 In God's own name he comes to bring +Salvation to our dying race: +Let the whole church address their King +With hearts of joy, and songs of praise. + + +Psalm 119. +I have collected and disposed the most useful +verses of this psalm under eighteen different heads, and +formed a divine song upon each of them. But the verses +are much transposed to attain some degree of connection. + +In some places, among the words "law," "commands," +"judgments," "testimonies," I have used "gospel," "word," +"grace," "truth," "promises," &c. as more agreeable to the +language of the New Testament, and the common language +of Christians, and it equally answers the design of the +Psalmist, which was to recommend the holy scripture. + + +Psalm 119:01. First Part. +The blessedness of saints, and misery of sinners. + +Ver. 1 2 3. +1 Blest are the undefil'd in heart, +Whose ways are right and clean; +Who never from thy law depart, +But fly front every sin. + +2 Blest are the men that keep thy word, +And practise thy commands; +With their whole heart they seek the Lord, +And serve thee with their hands. + +Ver. 165. +3 Great is their peace who love thy law; +How firm their souls abide! +Nor can a bold temptation draw +Their steady feet aside. + +Ver. 6. +4 Then shall my heart have inward joy, +And keep my face from shame, +When all thy statutes I obey, +And honour all thy name. + +Ver. 21 118. +5 But haughty sinners God will hate, +The proud shall die accurst; +The sons of falsehood and deceit +Are trodden to the dust. + +Ver. 119 155. +6 Vile as the dross the wicked are; +And those that leave thy ways +Shall see salvation from afar, +But never taste thy grace. + + +Psalm 119:02. Second Part. +Secret devotion and spiritual mindedness; +or, Constant converse with God. + +Ver. 147 55. +1 TO thee, before the dawning light, +My gracious God, I pray; +I meditate thy Name by night, +And keep thy law by day. + +Ver. 81. +2 My spirit faints to see thy grace, +Thy promise bears me up; +And while salvation long delays, +Thy word supports my hope. + +Ver. 164. +3 Seven times a day I lift my hands, +And pay my thanks to thee; +Thy righteous providence demands +Repeated praise from me. + +Ver. 62. +4 When midnight darkness veils the skies, +I call thy works to mind; +My thoughts in warm devotion rise, +And sweet acceptance find. + + +Psalm 119:03. Third Part. +Profession: of sincerity, repentance, and obedience. + +Ver. 57 60. +1 Thou art my portion, O my God; +Soon as I know thy way, +My heart makes haste t' obey thy word, +And suffers no delay. + +Ver. 30 14. +2 I choose the path of heavenly truth, +And glory in my choice: +Not all the riches of the earth +Could make me so rejoice. + +3 The testimonies of thy grace +I set before my eyes; +Thence I derive my daily strength, +And there my comfort lies. + +Ver. 59. +4 If once I wander from thy path, +I think upon my ways, +Then turn my feet to thy commands, +And trust thy pardoning grace. + +Ver. 94 114. +5 Now I am thine, for ever thine, +O save thy servant, Lord; +Thou art my shield, my hiding-place, +My hope is in thy word. + +Ver. 112. +6 Thou hast inclin'd this heart of mine, +Thy statutes to fulfil; +And thus till mortal life shall end +Would I perform thy will. + + +Psalm 119:04. Fourth Part. +Instruction from scripture. + +Ver. 9. +1 How shall the young secure their hearts, +And guard their lives from sin? +Thy word the choicest rules imparts +To keep the conscience clean. + +Ver. 130. +2 When once it enters to the mind, +It spreads such light abroad, +The meanest souls instruction find, +And raise their thoughts to God. + +Ver. 105. +3 'Tis like the sun, a heavenly light, +That guides us all the day; +And thro' the dangers of the night, +A lamp to lead our way. + +Ver. 99 100. +4 The men that keep thy law with care, +And meditate thy word, +Grow wiser than their teachers are, +And better know the Lord. + +Ver. 104 113. +5 Thy precepts make me truly wise: +I hate the sinner's road; +I hate my own vain thoughts that rise, +But love thy law, my God. + +Ver. 89 90 91. +6 [The starry heavens thy rule obey, +The earth maintains her place; +And these thy servants night and day +Thy skill and power express! + +7 But still thy law and gospel, Lord, +Have lessons more divine; +Not earth stands firmer than thy word, +Nor stars so nobly shine.] + +Ver. 160 140 9 116. +8 Thy word is everlasting truth; +How pure is every page! +That holy book shall guide our youth, +And well support our age. + + +Psalm 119:05. Fifth Part. +Delight in scripture; or, The +word of God dwelling in us. + +Ver. 97. +1 O How I love thy holy law! +'Tis daily my delight; +And thence my meditations draw +Divine advice by night. + +Ver. 148. +2 My waking eyes prevent the day +To meditate thy word; +My soul with longing melts away +To hear thy gospel, Lord. + +Ver. 3 13 54. +3 How doth thy word my heart engage! +How well employ my tongue! +And, in my tiresome pilgrimage, +Yields me a heavenly song. + +Ver. 19 103. +4 Am I a stranger, or at home, +'Tis my perpetual feast; +Not honey dropping from the comb +So much allures the taste. + +Ver. 72 127. +5 No treasures so enrich the mind; +Nor shall thy word be sold +For loads of silver well refin'd, +Nor heaps of choicest gold. + +Ver. 28 49 175. +6 When nature sinks, and spirits droop, +Thy promises of grace +Are pillars to support my hope, +And there I write thy praise. + + +Psalm 119:06. Sixth Part. +Holiness and comfort from the word. + +Ver. 128. +1 Lord, I esteem thy judgments right, +And all thy statutes just; +Thence I maintain a constant fight +With every flattering lust. + +Ver. 97 9. +2 Thy precepts often I survey; +I keep thy law in sight, +Thro' all the business of the day, +To form my actions right. + +Ver. 62. +3 My heart in midnight silence cries, +"How sweet thy comforts be!" +My thoughts in holy wonder rise, +And bring their thanks to thee. + +Ver. 162. +4 And when my spirit drinks her fill +At some good word of thine, +Not mighty men that share the spoil +Have joys compar'd to mine. + + +Psalm 119:07. Seventh Part. +Imperfection of nature, +and perfection of scripture. + +Ver. 96. paraphrased. +1 Let all the heathen writers join +To form one perfect book, +Great God, if once compar'd with thine, +How mean their writings look! + +2 Not the most perfect rules they gave +Could shew one sin forgiven, +Nor lead a step beyond the grave; +But thine conduct to heaven. + +3 I've seen an end of what we call +Perfection here below; +How short the powers of nature fall, +And can no farther go! + +4 Yet men would fain be just with God +By works their hands have wrought; +But thy commands, exceeding broad, +Extend to every thought. + +5 In vain we boast perfection here, +While sin defiles our frame, +And sinks our virtues down so far, +They scarce deserve the name. + +6 Our faith and love, and every grace, +Fall far below thy word; +But perfect truth and righteousness +Dwell only with the Lord. + + +Psalm 119:08. Eighth Part. +The word of God is the saint's portion; or, +The excellency and variety of scripture. + +Ver. 111. paraphrased. +1 Lord, I have made thy word my choice, +My lasting heritage; +There shall my noblest powers rejoice, +My warmest thoughts engage. + +2 I'll read the histories of thy love, +And keep thy laws in sight, +While thro' the promises I rove, +With ever fresh delight. + +3 'Tis a broad land of wealth unknown +Where springs of life arise, +Seeds of immortal bliss are sown, +And hidden glory lies. + +4 The best relief that mourners have, +It makes our sorrows blest; +Our fairest hope beyond the grave, +And our eternal rest. + + +Psalm 119:09. Ninth Part. +Desire of knowledge; or, The +teachings of the Spirit with the word. + +Ver. 64 66 18. +1 Thy mercies fill the earth, O Lord, +How good thy works appear! +Open mine eyes to read thy word, +And see thy wonders there. + +Ver. 73 125. +2 My heart was fashion'd by thy hand, +My service is thy due: +O make thy servant understand +The duties he must do. + +Ver. 19. +3 Since I'm a stranger here below, +Let not thy path be hid; +But mark the road my feet should go, +And be my constant guide. + +Ver. 26. +4 When I confess'd my wandering ways, +Thou heardst my soul complain; +Grant me the teachings of thy grace, +Or I shall stray again. + +Ver. 33 34. +5 If God to me his statutes shew, +And heavenly truth impart, +His work for ever I'll pursue, +His laws shall rule my heart. + +Ver. 50 71. +6 This was my comfort when I bore +Variety of grief; +It made me learn thy word the more, +And fly to that relief. + +Ver. 51. +7 [In vain the proud deride me now; +I'll ne'er forget thy law, +Nor let that blessed gospel go +Whence all my hopes I draw. + +Ver. 27 121. +8 When I have learn'd my Father's will +I'll teach the world his ways; +My thankful lips inspir'd with zeal +Shall loud pronounce his praise.] + + +Psalm 119:10. Tenth Part. +Pleading the promises. + +Ver. 38 49. +1 Behold thy waiting servant, Lord, +Devoted to thy fear; +Remember and confirm thy word, +For all my hopes are there. + +Ver. 41 58 107. +2 Hast thou not writ salvation down, +And promis'd quickening grace? +Doth not my heart address thy throne? +And yet thy love delays. + +Ver. 132 42. +3 Mine eyes for thy salvation fail; +O bear thy servant up; +Nor let the scoffing lips prevail, +Who dare reproach my hope. + +Ver. 49 74. +4 Didst thou not raise my faith, O Lord? +Then let thy truth appear: +Saints shall rejoice in my reward, +And trust as well as fear. + + +Psalm 119:11. Eleventh Part. +Breathing after holiness. + +Ver. 5 33. +1 O that the Lord would guide my ways +To keep his statutes still! +O that my God would grant me grace +To know and do his will! + +Ver. 29. +2 O send thy Spirit down to write +Thy law upon my heart! +Nor let my tongue indulge deceit, +Nor act the liar's part. + +Ver. 37 36. +3 From vanity turn off my eyes: +Let no corrupt design, +Nor covetous desires arise +Within this soul of mine. + +Ver. 133. +4 Order my footsteps by thy word, +And make my heart sincere, +Let sin have no dominion, Lord, +But keep my conscience clear. + +Ver. 176. +5 My soul hath gone too far astray, +My feet too often slip; +Yet since I've not forgot thy way, +Restore thy wandering sheep. + +Ver. 35. +6 Make me to walk in thy commands, +'Tis a delightful road; +Nor let my head, or heart, or hands, +Offend against my God. + + +Psalm 119:12. Twelfth Part. +Breathing after comfort and deliverance. + +Ver. 153. +1 My God, consider my distress, +Let mercy plead my cause; +Tho' I have sinn'd against thy grace, +I can't forget thy laws. + +Ver. 39 116. +1 Forbid, forbid the sharp reproach +Which I so justly fear; +Uphold my life, uphold my hopes, +Nor let my shame appear. + +Ver. 122 135. +3 Be thou a surety, Lord, for me, +Nor let the proud oppress; +But make thy waiting servant see +The shinings of thy face. + +Ver. 82. +4 My eyes with expectation fail, +My heart within me cries, +"When will the Lord his truth fulfil, +"And make my comforts rise?" + +Ver. 132. +5 Look down upon my sorrows, Lord, +And shew thy grace the same +As thou art ever wont t' afford +To those that love thy Name. + + +Psalm 119:13. Thirteenth Part. +Holy fear, and tenderness of conscience. + +Ver. 10. +1 With my whole heart I've sought thy face, +O let me never stray +From thy commands, O God of grace, +Nor tread the sinner's way. + +Ver. 11. +2 Thy word I've hid within my heart +To keep my conscience clean, +And be an everlasting guard +From every rising sin. + +Ver. 63 53 158. +3 I'm a companion of the saints +Who fear and love the Lord; +My sorrows rise, my nature faints, +When men transgress thy word. + +Ver. 161 163. +4 While sinners do thy gospel wrong, +My spirit stands in awe; +My soul abhors a lying tongue, +But loves thy righteous law. + +Ver. 161 120. +5 My heart with sacred reverence hears +The threatenings of thy word: +My flesh with holy trembling fears +The judgments of the Lord. + +Ver. 166 174. +6 My God, I long, I hope, I wait +For thy salvation still; +While thy whole law is my delight, +And I obey thy will. + + +Psalm 119:14. Fourteenth Part. +Benefit of afflictions, and support under them. + +Ver. 153 81 82. +1 Consider all my sorrows, Lord, +And thy deliverance send; +My soul for thy salvation faints, +When will my troubles end? + +Ver. 71. +2 Yet I have found, 'tis good for me +To bear my Father's rod; +Afflictions make me learn thy law, +And live upon my God. + +Ver. 50. +3 This is the comfort I enjoy +When new distress begins, +I read thy word, I run thy way, +And hate my former sins. + +Ver. 92. +4 Had not thy word been my delight +When earthly joys were fled, +My soul opprest with sorrow's weight +Had sunk amongst the dead. + +Ver. 75. +5 I know thy judgments, Lord, are right, +Tho' they may seem severe; +The sharpest sufferings I endure +Flow from thy faithful care. + +Ver. 67. +6 Before I knew thy chastening rod +My feet were apt to stray; +But now I learn to keep thy word, +Nor wander from thy way. + + +Psalm 119:15. Fifteenth Part. +Holy resolutions. + +Ver. 93. +That thy statutes every hour +Might dwell upon my mind! +Thence I derive a quickening power, +And daily peace I find. + +Ver. 15 16. +2 To meditate thy precepts, Lord, +Shall be my sweet employ; +My soul shall ne'er forget thy word, +Thy word is all my joy. + +Ver. 32. +3 How would I run in thy commands, +If thou my heart discharge +From sin and Satan's hateful chains, +And set my feet at large! + +Ver. 13 46. +4 My lips with courage shall declare +Thy statutes and thy Name; +I'll speak thy word, tho' kings should hear +Nor yield to sinful shame. + +Ver. 61 69 70. +5 Let bands of persecutors rise +To rob me of my right, +Let pride and malice forge their lies, +Thy law is my delight. + +Ver. 115. +6 Depart from me, ye wicked race, +Whose hands and hearts are ill; +I love my God, I love his ways, +And must obey his will. + + +Psalm 119:16. Sixteenth Part. +Prayer for quickening grace. + +Ver. 25 37. +1 My soul lies cleaving to the dust; +Lord, give me life divine; +From vain desires and every lust +Turn off these eyes of mine. + +2 I need the influence of thy grace +To speed me in thy way, +Lest I should loiter in my race, +Or turn my feet astray. + +Ver. 107. +3 When sore afflictions press me down, +I need thy quickening powers; +Thy word that I have rested on +shall help my heaviest hours. + +Ver. 156 140. +4 Are not thy mercies sovereign still? +And thou a faithful God? +Wilt thou not grant me warmer zeal +To run the heavenly road? + +Ver. 159 40. +5 Does not my heart thy precepts love, +And long to see thy face? +And yet how slow my spirits move +Without enlivening grace! + +Ver. 93. +6 Then shall I love thy gospel more, +And ne'er forget thy word, +When I have felt its quickening power +To draw me near the Lord. + + +Psalm 119:17. Seventeenth Part. +Courage and perseverance under persecution; +or, Grace shining in difficulties and trials. + +Ver. 143 28. +1 When pain and anguish seize me, Lord, +All my support is from thy word: +My soul dissolves for heaviness, +Uphold me with thy strengthening grace. + +Ver. 51 69 110. +2 The proud have fram'd their scoffs and lies, +They watch my feet with envious eyes, +And tempt my soul to snares and sin, +Yet thy commands I ne'er decline. + +Ver. 161 78. +3 They hate me, Lord, without a cause, +They hate to see me love thy laws: +But I will trust and fear thy Name, +Till pride and malice die with shame. + + +Psalm 119:18. Last Part. +Sanctified afflictions; or, +Delight in the word of God. + +Ver. 67 59. +1 Father, I bless thy gentle hand; +How kind was thy chastising rod, +That forc'd my conscience to a stand, +And brought my wandering soul to God! + +2 Foolish and vain I went astray +Ere I had felt thy scourges, Lord, +I left my guide, and lost my way; +But now I love and keep thy word. + +Ver. 71. +3 'Tis good for me to wear the yoke, +For pride is apt to rise and swell; +'Tis good to bear my Father's stroke, +That I might learn his statutes well. + +Ver. 72. +4 The law that issues from thy mouth +Shall raise my cheerful passions more +Than all the treasures of the south, +Or western hills of golden ore. + +Ver. 73. +5 Thy hands have made my mortal frame, +Thy spirit form'd my soul within; +Teach me to know thy wondrous Name, +And guard me safe from death and sin. + +Ver. 74. +6 Then all that love and fear the Lord +At my salvation shall rejoice; +For I have hoped in thy word, +And made thy grace my only choice. + + +Psalm 120. +Complaint of quarrelsome neighbours; +or, A devout wish for peace. + +1 Thou God of love, thou ever blest, +Pity my suffering state; +When wilt thou set my soul at rest +From lips that love deceit? + +2 Hard lot of mine! my days are cast +Among the sons of strife, +Whose never-ceasing brawlings waste +My golden hours of life. + +3 O might I fly to change my place, +How would I chuse to dwell +In some wide lonesome wilderness, +And leave these gates of hell. + +4 Peace is the blessing that I seek, +How lovely are its charms; +I am for peace; but when I speak, +They all declare for arms. + +6 New passions still their souls engage, +And keep their malice strong: +What shall be done to curb thy rage, +O thou devouring tongue! + +6 Should burning arrows smite thee thro', +Strict justice would approve; +But I had rather spare my foe, +And melt his heart with love. + + +Psalm 121:1. 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M. +Divine protection. + +1 Up to the hills I lift mine eyes, +Th' eternal hills beyond the skies; +Thence all her help my soul derives; +There my Almighty refuge lives. + +2 He lives, the everlasting God, +That built the world, that spread the flood; +The heavens with all their hosts he made, +And the dark regions of the dead. + +3 He guides our feet, he guards our way; +His morning-smiles bless all the day; +He spreads the evening veil, and keeps +The silent hours while Israel sleeps. + +4 Israel, a name divinely blest, +May rise secure, securely rest; +Thy holy Guardian's wakeful eyes +Admit no slumber nor surprise. + +5 No sun shall smite thy head by day, +Nor the pale moon with sickly ray +Shall blast thy couch; no baleful star +Dart his malignant fire so far. + +6 Should earth and hell with malice burn, +Still thou shalt go and still return +Safe in the Lord his heavenly care +Defends thy life from every snare. + +7 On thee foul spirits have no power; +And in thy last departing hour +Angels, that trace the airy road, +Shall bear thee homeward to thy God. + + +Psalm 121:2. C. M. +Preservation by day and night. + +1 To heaven I lift my waiting eyes, +There all my hopes are laid: +The Lord that built the earth and skies +Is my perpetual aid. + +2 Their feet shall never slide to fall +Whom he designs to keep; +His ear attends the softest call, +His eyes can never sleep. + +3 He will sustain our weakest powers +With his almighty arm, +And watch our most unguarded hours +Against surprising harm. + +4 Israel, rejoice and rest secure, +Thy keeper is the Lord; +His wakeful eyes employ his power +For thine eternal guard. + +5 Nor scorching sun, nor sickly moon, +Shall have his leave to smite; +He shields thy head from burning noon, +From blasting damps at night. + +6 He guards thy soul, he keeps thy breath +Where thickest dangers come; +Go and return, secure from death, +Till God commands thee home. + + +Psalm 121:3. As the 148th Psalm. +God our preserver. + +1 Upward I lift mine eyes, +From God is all my aid; +The God that built the skies, +And earth and nature made: +God is the tow'r +To which I fly: +His grace is nigh +In every hour. + +2 My feet shall never slide +And fall in fatal snares, +Since God, my guard and guide, +Defends me from my fears: +Those wakeful eyes +That never sleep +Shall Israel keep +When dangers rise. + +3 No burning heats by day, +Nor blasts of evening air, +Shall take my health away, +If God be with me there. +Thou art my sun, +And thou my shade, +To guard my head +By night or noon. + +4 Hast thou not given thy word +To save my soul from death? +And I can trust my Lord +To keep my mortal breath; +I'll go and come, +Nor fear to die, +Till from on high +Thou call me home. + + +Psalm 122:1. +Going to church. +1 How did my heart rejoice to hear +My friends devoutly say, +"In Zion let us all appear, +"And keep the solemn day!" + +2 I love her gates, I love the road: +The church adorn'd with grace +Stands like a palace built for God, +To shew his milder face. + +3 Up to her courts with joys unknown +The holy tribes repair; +The Son of David holds his throne, +And sits in judgment there. + +4 He hears our praises and complaints; +And while his awful voice +Divides the sinners from the saints, +We tremble and rejoice. + +5 Peace be within this sacred place, +And joy a constant guest! +With holy gifts, and heavenly grace +Be her attendants blest! + +6 My soul shall pray for Zion still, +While life or breath remains; +There my best friends, my kindred dwell, +There God my Saviour reigns. + + +Psalm 122:2. Proper Tune. +Going to church. + +1 How pleas'd and blest was I +To hear the people cry, +"Come, let us seek our God to-day!" +Yes, with a cheerful zeal, +We haste to Zion's hill, +And there our vows and honours pay. + +2 Zion, thrice happy place, +Adorn'd with wondrous grace, +And walls of strength embrace thee round; +In thee our tribes appear +To pray, and praise, and hear +The sacred gospel's joyful sound. + +3 There David's greater Son +Has fix'd his royal throne, +He sits for grace and judgment there; +He bids the saint be glad, +He makes the sinner sad, +And humble souls rejoice with fear. + +4 May peace attend thy gate, +And joy within thee wait +To bless the soul of every guest! +The man that seeks thy peace, +And wishes thine increase, +A thousand blessings on him rest! + +5 My tongue repeats her vows +"Peace to this sacred house!" +For there my friends and kindred dwell; +And since my glorious God +Makes thee his blest abode, +My soul shall ever love thee well. + +Repeat the fourth stanza to complete the Tune. + + +Psalm 123. +Pleading with submission. + +1 O thou whose grace and justice reign +Enthron'd above the skies, +To thee our hearts would tell their pain, +To thee we lift our eyes. + +2 As Servants watch their master's hand, +And fear the angry stroke; +Or maids before their mistress stand, +And wait a peaceful look; + +3 So for our sins we justly feel +Thy discipline, O God; +Yet wait the gracious moment still, +Till thou remove thy rod. + +4 Those that in wealth and pleasure live +Our daily groans deride, +And thy delays of mercy give +Fresh courage to their pride. + +5 Our foes insult us, but our hope +In thy compassion lies; +This thought shall bear our spirits up, +That God will not despise. + + +Psalm 124. +A song for the fifth of November. + +1 Had not the Lord, may Israel say, +Had not the Lord maintain'd our side, +When men to make our lives a prey, +Rose like the swelling of the tide; + +2 The swelling tide had stopt our breath, +So fiercely did the waters roll, +We had been swallow'd deep in death; +Proud waters had o'erwhelm'd our soul. + +3 We leap for joy, we shout and sing, +Who just escap'd the fatal stroke; +So flies the bird with cheerful wing, +When once the fowler's snare is broke. + +4 For ever blessed be the Lord, +Who broke the fowler's cursed snare, +Who sav'd us from the murdering sword, +And made our lives and souls his care. + +5 Our help is in Jehovah's Name, +Who form'd the earth and built the skies; +He that upholds that wondrous frame +Guards his own church with watchful eyes. + + +Psalm 125:1. C. M. +The saint's trial and safely. + +1 Unshaken as the sacred hill, +And firm as mountains be, +Firm as a rock the soul shall rest +That leans, O Lord, on thee. + +2 Not walls nor hills could guard so well +Old Salem's happy ground, +As those eternal arms of love +That every saint surround. + +3 While tyrants are a smarting scourge +To drive them near to God, +Divine compassion does allay +The fury of the rod. + +4 Deal gently, Lord, with souls sincere, +And lead them safely on +To the bright gates of Paradise, +Where Christ their Lord is gone. + +5 But if we trace those crooked ways +That the old serpent drew, +The wrath that drove him first to hell +Shall smite his followers too. + + +Psalm 125:2. S. M. +The saints' trial and safety; +or, Moderated afflictions. + +1 Firm and unmov'd are they +That rest their souls on God; +Firm as the mount where David dwelt +Or where the ark abode. + +2 As mountains stood to guard +The city's sacred ground, +So God and his almighty love +Embrace his saints around. + +3 What tho' the Father's rod +Drop a chastising stroke, +Yet, lest it wound their souls too deep, +Its fury shall be broke. + +4 Deal gently, Lord, with those +Whose faith and pious fear, +Whose hope, and love, and every grace +Proclaim their hearts sincere. + +5 Nor shall the tyrant's rage +Too long oppress the saint; +The God of Israel will support +His children lest they faint. + +6 But if our slavish fear +Will chuse the road to hell, +We must expect our portion there +Where bolder sinners dwell. + + +Psalm 126:1. L. M. +Surprising deliverance. + +1 When God restor'd our captive state, +Joy was our song, and grace our theme; +The grace beyond our hopes so great, +That joy appear'd a painted dream. + +2 The scoffer owns thy hand, and pays +Unwilling honours to thy Name; +While we with pleasure shout thy praise, +With cheerful notes thy love proclaim. + +3 When we review our dismal fears, +'Twas hard to think they'd vanish so; +With God we left our flowing tears, +He makes our joys like rivers flow. + +4 The man that in his furrow'd field +His scatter'd seed with sadness leaves, +Will shout to see the harvest yield +A welcome load of joyful sheaves. + + +Psalm 126:2. C. M. +The joy of a remarkable conversion; +or, Melancholy removed. + +1 When God reveal'd his gracious Name, +And chang'd my mournful state, +My rapture seem'd a pleasing dream, +The grace appear'd so great. + +2 The world beheld the glorious change, +And did thy hand confess; +My tongue broke out in unknown strains, +And sung surprising grace: + +3 "Great is the work," my neighbours cry'd, +And own'd the power divine; +"Great is the work," my heart reply'd, +"And be the glory thine." + +4 The Lord can clear the darkest skies, +Can give us day for night, +Make drops of sacred sorrow rise +To rivers of delight. + +5 Let those that sow in sadness wait +Till the fair harvest come, +They shall confess their sheaves are great, +And shout the blessings home. + +6 Tho' seed lie bury'd long in dust, +It shan't deceive their hope; +The precious grain can ne'er be lost, +For grace insures the crop. + + +Psalm 127:1. L. M. +The blessing of God on the +business and comforts of life. + +1 If God succeed not, all the cost +And pains to build the house are lost: +If God the city will not keep, +The watchful guards as well may sleep. + +3 What if you rise before the sun, +And work and toil when day is done, +Careful and sparing eat your bread, +To shun that poverty you dread; + +3 'Tis all in vain, till God hath blest; +He can make rich, yet give us rest: +Children and friends are blessings too, +If God our sovereign make them so. + +4 Happy the man to whom he sends +Obedient children, faithful friends: +How sweet our daily comforts prove +When they are season'd with his love! + + +Psalm 127:2. C. M. +God all in all. + +1 If God to build the house deny, +The builders work in vain; +And towns, without his wakeful eye, +An useless watch maintain. + +2 Before the morning beams arise, +Your painful work renew, +And till the stars ascend the skies +Your tiresome toil pursue. + +3 Short be your sleep, and coarse your fare; +In vain, till God has blest; +But if his smiles attend your care, +You shall have food and rest. + +4 Nor children, relatives, nor friends +Shall real blessings prove, +Nor all the earthly joys he sends, +If sent without his love. + + +Psalm 128. +Family blessings. + +1 O happy man, whose soul is fill'd +With zeal and reverend awe; +His lips to God their honours yield, +His life adorns the law. + +2 A careful providence shall stand +And ever guard thy head, +Shall on the labours of thy hand +Its kindly blessings shed. + +3 [Thy wife shall be a fruitful vine; +Thy children round thy board, +Each like a plant of honour shine, +And learn to fear the Lord.] + +4 The Lord shall thy best hopes fulfil +For months and years to come; +The Lord who dwells on Zion's hill, +Shall send thee blessings home. + +5 This is the man whose happy eyes +Shall see his house increase, +Shall see the sinking church arise, +Then leave the world in peace. + + +Psalm 129. +Persecutors punished. + +1 Up from my youth, may Israel say, +Have I been nurs'd in tears; +My griefs were constant as the day, +And tedious as the years. + +2 Up from my youth I bore the rage +Of all the sons of strife; +Oft they assail'd my riper age, +But not destroy'd my life. + +3 Their cruel plough had torn my flesh +With furrows long and deep, +Hourly they vex my wounds afresh, +Nor let my sorrows sleep. + +4 The Lord grew angry on his throne, +And with impartial eye +Measur'd the mischiefs they had done +Then let his arrows fly. + +5 How was their insolence surpris'd +To hear his thunders roll! +And all the foes of Zion seiz'd +With horror to the soul. + +6 Thus shall the men that hate the saints +Be blasted from the sky; +Their glory fades, their courage faints, +And all their projects die. + +7 [What tho' they flourish tall and fair, +They have no root beneath; +Their growth shall perish in despair, +And lie despis'd in death.] + +8 [So corn that on the house-top stands +No hope of harvest gives; +The reaper ne'er shall fill his hands, +Nor binder fold the sheaves. + +9 It springs and withers on the place: +No traveller bestows +A word of blessing on the grass, +Nor minds it as he goes.] + + +Psalm 130:1. C. M. +Pardoning grace. + +1 Out of the deeps of long distress, +The borders of despair, +I sent my cries to seek thy grace, +My groans to move thine ear. + +2 Great God, should thy severer eye, +And thine impartial hand, +Mark and revenge iniquity, +No mortal flesh could stand. + +3 But there are pardons with my God +For crimes of high degree; +Thy Son has bought them with his blood +To draw us near to thee. + +4 [I wait for thy salvation, Lord, +With strong desires I wait; +My soul, invited by thy word, +Stands watching at thy gate.] + +5 [Just as the guards that keep the night +Long for the morning skies, +Watch the first beams of breaking light, +And meet them with their eyes; + +6 So waits my soul to see thy grace, +And more intent than they, +Meets the first openings of thy face, +And finds a brighter day.] + +7 [Then in the Lord let Israel trust, +Let Israel seek his face; +The Lord is good as well as just, +And plenteous is his grace. + +8 There's full redemption at his throne +For sinners long enslav'd; +The great Redeemer is his Son, +And Israel shall be sav'd.] + + +Psalm 130:2. L. M. +Pardoning grace. + +1 From deep distress and troubled thoughts, +To thee, my God, I rais'd my cries; +If thou severely mark our faults, +No flesh can stand before thine eyes. + +2 But thou hast built thy throne of grace, +Free to dispense thy pardons there, +That sinners may approach thy face, +And hope and love, as well as fear. + +3 As the benighted pilgrims wait, +And long, and wish for breaking day, +So waits my soul before thy gate; +When will my God his face display? + +4 My trust is fix'd upon thy word, +Nor shall I trust thy word in vain: +Let mourning souls address the Lord, +And find relief from all their pain. + +5 Great is his love, and large his grace, +Thro' the redemption of his Son: +He turns our feet from sinful ways, +And pardons what our hands have done. + + +Psalm 131. +Humility and submission. + +1 Is there ambition in my heart? +Search, gracious God, and see; +Or do I act a haughty part? +Lord, I appeal to thee. + +2 I charge my thoughts, be humble still, +And all my carriage mild, +Content, my Father, with thy will, +And quiet as a child. + +3 The patient soul, the lowly mind +Shall have a large reward: +Let saints in sorrow lie resign'd, +And trust a faithful Lord. + + +Psalm 132:1. 5 13-18. L. M. +At the settlement of a church; +or, The ordination of a Minister. + +1 Where shall we go to seek and find +An habitation for our God, +A dwelling for th' Eternal Mind +Amongst the sons of flesh and blood? + +2 The God of Jacob chose the hill +Of Zion for his ancient rest; +And Zion is his dwelling still, +His church is with his presence blest. + +3 Here will I fix my gracious throne, +And reign for ever, saith the Lord; +Here shall my power, and love be known, +And blessings shall attend my word. + +4 Here will I meet the hungry poor, +And fill their souls with living bread; +Sinners that wait before my door, +With sweet provision shall be fed. + +5 Girded with truth and cloth'd with grace, +My priests, my ministers shall shine: +Not Aaron, in his costly dress, +Made an appearance so divine. + +6 The saints, unable to contain +Their inward joys shall shout and sing; +The Son of David here shall reign, +And Zion triumph in her King. + +7 [Jesus shall see a numerous seed +Born here, t' uphold his glorious Name; +His crown shall flourish on his head, +While all his foes are cloth'd with shame!] + + +Psalm 132:2. 4 5 7 8 15-17. C. M. +A church established. + +1 [No sleep nor slumber to his eyes +Good David would afford, +Till he had found below the skies +A dwelling for the Lord. + +2 The Lord in Zion plac'd his Name, +His ark was settled there; +To Zion the whole nation came, +To worship thrice a year. + +3 But we have no such lengths to go, +Nor wander far abroad; +Where'er thy saints assemble now, +There is a house for God.] + +PAUSE. + +4 Arise, O King of Grace, arise, +And enter to thy rest! +Lo! thy church waits, with longing eyes, +Thus to be own'd and blest. + +5 Enter with all thy glorious train, +Thy Spirit and thy word; +All that the ark did once contain +Could no such grace afford. + +6 Here, mighty God, accept our vows, +Here let thy praise be spread; +Bless the provisions of thy house, +And fill thy poor with bread. + +7 Here let the Son of David reign, +Let God's Anointed shine; +Justice and truth his court maintain, +With love and power divine. + +8 Here let him hold a lasting throne; +And as his kingdom grows, +Fresh honours shall adorn his crown, +And shame confound his foes. + + +Psalm 133:1. C. M. +Brotherly love. + +1 Lo! what an entertaining sight +Are brethren that agree, +Brethren, whose cheerful hearts unite +In bands of piety! + +2 When streams of love from Christ the spring +Descend to every soul, +And heavenly peace, with balmy wing, +Shades and bedews the whole; + +3 'Tis like the oil divinely sweet, +On Aaron's reverend head, +The trickling drops perfum'd his feet, +And o'er his garments spread. + +4 'Tis pleasant as the morning dews +That fall on Zion's hill, +Where God his mildest glory shews, +And makes his grace distil. + + +Psalm 133:2. S. M. +Communion of saints; or, Love +and worship in a family. + +1 Blest are the sons of peace, +Whose hearts and hopes are one, +Whose kind designs to serve and please +Thro' all their actions run. + +2 Blest is the pious house +Where seat and friendship meet, +Their songs of praise, their mingled vows +Make their communion sweet. + +3 Thus when on Aaron's head +They pour'd the rich perfume, +The oil thro' all his raiment spread, +And pleasure fill'd the room. + +4 Thus on the heavenly hills +The saints are blest above, +Where joy like morning dew distils, +And all the air is love. + + +Psalm 133:3. As the 122nd Psalm. +The blessings of friendship. + +1 How pleasant 'tis to see +Kindred and friends agree, +Each in their proper station move, +And each fulfil their part +With sympathizing heart, +In all the cares of life and love! + +2 'Tis like the ointment shed +On Aaron's sacred head, +Divinely rich, divinely sweet; +The oil, thro' all the room, +Diffus'd a choice perfume, +Ran thro' his robes, and blest his feet. + +3 Like fruitful showers of rain, +That water all the plain, +Descending from the neighbouring hills; +Such streams of pleasure roll +Thro' every friendly soul, +Where love like heavenly dew distils. + +Repeat the first stanza to complete the tune. + + +Psalm 134. +Daily and nightly devotion. + +1 Ye that obey th' immortal King, +Attend his holy place, +Bow to the glories of his power, +And bless his wondrous grace; + +2 Lift up your hands by morning-light, +And send your souls on high; +Raise your admiring thoughts by night +Above the starry sky. + +3 The God of Zion cheers our hearts +With rays of quickening grace; +The God that spread the heavens abroad, +And rules the swelling seas. + + +Psalm 135:1. 1-4 14 19 21. First Part. L. M. +The church is God's house and care. + +1 Praise ye the Lord, exalt his Name, +While in his holy courts ye wait, +Ye saints, that to his house belong, +Or stand attending at his gate. + +2 Praise ye the Lord; the Lord is good; +To praise his Name is sweet employ; +Israel he chose of old, and still +His church is his peculiar joy. + +3 The Lord himself will judge his saints; +He treats his servants as his friends; +And when he hears their sore complaints, +Repents the sorrows that he sends. + +4 Thro' every age the Lord declares +His Name and breaks th' oppressor's rod; +He gives his suffering servants rest, +And will be known th' almighty God. + +6 Bless ye the Lord, who taste his love, +People and priests exalt his Name: +Amongst his saints he ever dwells; +His church is his Jerusalem. + + +Psalm 135:2. 5-12. Second Part. L. M. +The works of creation, providence, redemption +of Israel, and destruction of enemies. + +1 Great is the Lord, exalted high +Above all powers and every throne; +Whate'er he please in earth or sea, +Or heaven, or hell, his hand hath done. + +2 At his command the vapours rise, +The lightnings flash, the thunders roar; +He pours the rain, he brings the wind, +And tempest from his airy store. + +3 'Twas he those dreadful tokens sent, +O Egypt thro' thy stubborn land; +When all thy first-born beasts and men +Fell dead by his avenging hand. + +4 What mighty nations, mighty kings, +He slew, and their whole country gave +To Israel, whom his hand redeem'd, +No more to be proud Pharaoh's slave! + +5 His power the same, the same his grace, +That saves us from the hosts of hell; +And heaven he gives us to possess, +Whence those apostate angels fell. + + +Psalm 135:3. C. M. +Praise due to God, not to idols. + +1 Awake, ye saints; to praise your King, +Your sweetest passions raise, +Your pious pleasure, while you sing, +Increasing with the praise. + +2 Great is the Lord; and works unknown +Are his divine employ; +But still his saints are near his throne, +His treasure and his joy. + +3 Heaven, earth, and sea, confess his hand; +He bids the vapours rise; +Lightning and storm at his command +Sweep thro' the sounding skies. + +4 All power, that gods or kings have claim'd +Is found with him alone; +But heathen gods should ne'er be nam'd +Where our Jehovah's known. + +5 Which of the stocks or stones they trust +Can give them showers of rain? +In vain they worship glittering dust, +And pray to gold in vain. + +6 [Their gods have tongues that cannot talk, +Such as their makers gave: +Their feet were ne'er design'd to walk, +Nor hands have power to save. + +7 Blind are their eyes, their ears are deaf, +Nor hear when mortals pray; +Mortals, that wait for their relief, +Are blind, and deaf as they.] + +8 O Britain, know thy living God, +Serve him with faith and fear; +He makes thy churches his abode, +And claims thine honours there. + + +Psalm 136:1. C. M. +God's wonders of creation, providence, redemption +of Israel, and salvation of his people. + +1 Give thanks to God the sovereign Lord; +His mercies still endure! +And be the King of kings ador'd; +His truth is ever sure. + +2 What wonders hath his wisdom done! +How mighty is his hand! +Heaven, earth, and sea, he fram'd alone: +How wide is his command! + +3 The sun supplies the day with light; +How bright his counsels shine! +The moon and stars adorn the night; +His works are all divine! + +4 [He struck the sons of Egypt dead; +How dreadful is his rod! +And thence with joy his people led: +How gracious is our God! + +5 He cleft the swelling sea in two; +His arm is great in might, +And gave the tribes a passage thro'; +His power and grace unite. + +6 But Pharaoh's army there he drown'd; +How glorious are his ways! +And brought his saints thro' desert ground; +Eternal be his praise. + +7 Great monarchs fell beneath his hand, +Victorious is his sword; +While Israel took the promis'd land; +And faithful is his word.] + +8 He saw the nations dead in sin; +He felt his pity move: +How sad the state the world was in! +How boundless was his love! + +9 He sent to save us from our woe; +His goodness never fails; +From death, and hell, and every foe; +And still his grace prevails. + +10 Give thanks to God the heavenly King; +His mercies still endure! +Let the whole earth his praises sing; +His truth is ever sure. + + +Psalm 136:2. As the 148th Psalm. +God's wonders of creation, providence, redemption +of Israel, and salvation of his people. + +1 Give thanks to God most high, +The universal Lord; +The sovereign King of kings; +And be his grace ador'd. +His power and grace +Are still the same; +And let his Name +Have endless praise. + +2 How mighty is his hand! +What wonders hath he done! +He form'd the earth and seas, +And spread the heavens alone. +Thy mercy, Lord, +Shall still endure; +And ever sure +Abides thy word. + +3 His wisdom fram'd the sun +To crown the day with light; +The moon and twinkling stars +To cheer the darksome night. +His power and grace +Are still the same; +And let his Name +Have endless praise. + +4 [He smote the first-born Sons, +The flower of Egypt, dead: +And thence his chosen tribes +With joy and glory led. +Thy mercy, Lord, +Shall still endure; +And ever sure +Abides thy word. + +5 His power and lifted rod +Cleft the Red-sea in two: +And for his people made +A wondrous passage thro'. +His power and grace +Are still the same; +And let his Name +Have endless praise. + +6 But cruel Pharaoh there +With all his host he drown'd; +And brought his Israel safe +Thro' a long desert ground. +Thy mercy, Lord, +Shall still endure; +And ever sure +Abides thy word. + +PAUSE. + +The kings of Canaan fell +Beneath his dreadful hand: +While his own servants took +Possession of their land. +His power and grace +Are still the same; +And let his name +Have endless praise.] + +8 He saw the nations lie +All perishing in sin, +And pity'd the sad state +The ruin'd world was in. +Thy mercy, Lord, +Shall still endure; +And ever sure +Abides thy word. + +9 He sent his only Son +To save us from our woe, +From Satan sin and death, +And every hurtful foe. +His power and grace +Are still the same; +And let his Name +Have endless praise. + +10 Give thanks aloud to God, +To God the heavenly King; +And let the spacious earth +His works and glories sing. +Thy mercy, Lord, +Shall still endure; +And ever sure +Abides thy word. + + +Psalm 136:3. Abridged. L. M. +God's wonders of creation, providence, +redemption and salvation. + +1 Give to our God immortal praise; +Mercy and truth are all his ways: +'Wonders of grace to God belong, +'Repeat his mercies in your song.' + +2 Give to the Lord of lords renown, +The King of kings with glory crown: +'His mercies ever shall endure, +'When' lords and kings are known 'no more.' + +3 He built the earth, he spread the sky, +And fix'd the starry lights on high; +'Wonders of grace to God belong, +'Repeat his mercies in your song.' + +4 He fills the sun with morning light, +He bids the moon direct the night: +'His mercies ever shall endure, +'When' suns and moons shall shine 'no more.' + +5 The Jews he freed from Pharaoh's hand, +And brought them to the promis'd land; +'Wonders of grace to God belong, +'Repeat his mercies in your song.' + +6 He saw the Gentiles dead in sin, +And felt his pity work within: +'His mercies ever shall endure, +'When' death and sin shall reign 'no more.' + +7 He sent his Son with power to save +From guilt, and darkness, and the grave: +'Wonders of grace to God belong, +'Repeat his mercies in your song.' + +8 Thro' this vain world he guides our feet, +And leads us to his heavenly seat: +'His mercies ever shall endure, +'When' this vain world shall be 'no more.' + + +Psalm 138. +Restoring and preserving grace. + +1 [With all my powers of heart and tongue +I'll praise my Maker in my song: +Angels shall hear the notes I raise, +Approve the song, and join the praise. + +2 Angels that make thy church their care +Shall witness my devotions there, +While holy zeal directs my eyes +To thy fair temple in the skies.] + +3 I'll sing thy truth and mercy, Lord, +I'll sing the wonders of thy word; +Not all thy works and names below +So much thy power and glory show. + +4 To God I cry'd when troubles rose; +He heard me, and subdu'd my foes, +He did my rising fears control, +And strength diffus'd thro' all my soul. + +5 The God of heaven maintains his state, +Frowns on the proud and scorns the great; +But from his throne descends to see +The sons of humble poverty. + +6 Amidst a thousand snares I stand +Upheld and guarded by thy hand; +Thy words my fainting soul revive, +And keep my dying faith alive. + +7 Grace will complete what grace begins, +To save from sorrows or from sins; +The work that wisdom undertakes +Eternal mercy ne'er forsakes. + + +Psalm 139:1. First Part. L. M. +The all-seeing God. + +1 Lord, thou hast search'd and seen me thro'; +Thine eye commands with piercing view +My rising and my resting hours, +My heart and flesh with all their powers. + +2 My thoughts, before they are my own, +Are to my God distinctly known; +He knows the words I mean to speak +Ere from my opening lips they break. + +3 Within thy circling power I stand; +On every side I find thy hand: +Awake, asleep, at home, abroad, +I am surrounded still with God. + +4 Amazing knowledge, vast and great! +What large extent! what lofty height! +My soul, with all the powers I boast, +Is in the boundless prospect lost. + +5 "O may these thoughts possess my breast, +"Where'er I rove where'er I rest! +"Nor let my weaker passions dare +"Consent to sin, for God is there." + +PAUSE I. + +6 Could I so false, so faithless prove, +To quit thy service and thy love, +Where, Lord, could I thy presence shun, +Or from thy dreadful glory run? + +7 If up to heaven I take my flight, +'Tis there thou dwell'st enthron'd in light; +Or dive to hell, there vengeance reigns, +And Satan groans beneath thy chains. + +8 If mounted on a morning ray, +I fly beyond the western sea, +Thy swifter hand would first arrive, +And there arrest thy fugitive. + +9 Or should I try to shun thy sight +Beneath the spreading veil of night, +One glance of thine, one piercing ray, +Would kindle darkness into day. + +10 "O may these thoughts possess my breast, +"Where'er I rove, where'er I rest! +"Nor let my weaker passions dare +"Consent to sin, for God is there." + +PAUSE II. + +11 The veil of night is no disguise, +No screen from thy all-searching eyes; +Thy hand can seize thy foes as soon, +Thro' midnight shades as blazing noon. + +12 Midnight and noon in this agree, +Great God, they're both alike to thee: +Not death can hide what God will spy, +And hell lies naked to his eye. + +13 "O may these thoughts possess my breast, +"Where'er I rove where'er I rest! +"Nor let my weaker passions dare +"Consent to sin, for God is there." + + +Psalm 139:2. Second Part. L. M. +The wonderful formation of man. + +1 'Twas from thy hand, my God, I came, +A work of such a curious frame; +In me thy fearful wonders shine, +And each proclaims thy skill divine. + +2 Thine eyes did all my limbs survey, +Which yet in dark confusion lay; +Thou saw'st the daily growth they took, +Form'd by the model of thy book. + +3 By thee my growing parts were nam'd, +And what thy sovereign counsels fram'd, +(The breathing lungs, the beating heart) +Was copy'd with unerring art. + +4 At last, to shew my Maker's name, +God stamp'd his image on my frame, +And in some unknown moment join'd +The finish'd members to the mind. + +5 There the young seeds of thought began +And all the passions of the man: +Great God, our infant nature pays +Immortal tribute to thy praise. + +PAUSE. + +6 Lord, since in my advancing age +I've acted on life's busy stage, +Thy thoughts of love to me surmount +The power of numbers to recount. + +7 I could survey the ocean o'er, +And count each sand that makes the shore, +Before my swiftest thoughts could trace +The numerous wonders of thy grace. + +8 These on my heart are still impress'd, +With these I give my eyes to rest; +And at my waking hour I find +God and his love possess my mind. + + +Psalm 139:3. Third Part. L. M. +Sincerity professed, and grace tried; or, The heart- +searching of God. + +1 My God, what inward grief I feel +When impious men transgress thy will! +I mourn to hear their lips profane +Take thy tremendous Name in vain. + +2 Does not my soul detest and hate +The sons of malice and deceit? +Those that oppose thy laws and thee +I count them enemies to me. + +3 Lord, search my soul, try every thought; +Tho' my own heart accuse me not +Of walking in a false disguise, +I beg the trial of thine eyes. + +4 Doth secret mischief lurk within? +Do I indulge some unknown sin? +O turn my feet whene'er I stray, +And lead me in thy perfect way. + + +Psalm 139:4. First Part. C. M. +God is every where. + +1 In all my vast concerns with thee +In vain my soul would try +To shun thy presence, Lord, or flee +The notice of thine eye. + +2 Thy all-surrounding sight surveys +My rising and my rest, +My public walks, my private ways, +And secrets of my breast. + +3 My thoughts lie open to the Lord +Before they're form'd within: +And ere my lips pronounce the word, +He knows the sense I mean. + +4 O wondrous knowledge, deep and high! +Where can a creature hide? +Within thy circling arms I lie, +Beset on every side. + +5 So let thy grace surround me still, +And like a bulwark prove, +To guard my soul from every ill, +Secur'd by sovereign love. + +PAUSE. + +6 Lord, where shall guilty souls retire, +Forgotten and unknown? +In hell they meet thy dreadful fire, +In heaven thy glorious throne. + +7 Should I suppress my vital breath +To 'scape the wrath divine, +Thy voice would break the bars of death, +And make the grave resign. + +8 If wing'd with beams of morning light, +I fly beyond the west, +Thy hand, which must support my flight, +Would soon betray my rest. + +9 If o'er my sins I think to draw +The curtains of the night, +Those flaming eyes that guard thy law +Would turn the shades to light. + +10 The beams of noon, the midnight hour, +Are both alike to thee: +O may I ne'er provoke that power +From which I cannot flee! + + +Psalm 139:5. Second Part. C. M. +The wisdom of God in the formation of man. + +1 When I with pleasing wonder stand, +And all my frame survey, +Lord, 'tis thy work; I own thy hand +Thus built my humble clay. + +2 Thy hand my heart and reins possest +Where unborn nature grew, +Thy wisdom all my features trac'd, +And all my members drew. + +3 Thine eye with nicest care survey'd +The growth of every part; +Till the whole scheme thy thoughts had laid +Was copied by thy art. + +4 Heaven, earth, and sea, and fire, and wind, +Shew me thy wondrous skill; +But I review myself, and find +Diviner wonders still. + +5 Thy awful glories round me shine, +My flesh proclaims thy praise; +Lord, to thy works of nature join +Thy miracles of grace. + + +Psalm 139:6. 14 17 18. Third Part. C. M. +The mercies of God innumerable. + +An evening psalm. + +1 Lord, when I count thy mercies o'er, +They strike me with surprise; +Not all the sands that spread the shore +To equal numbers rise. + +2 My flesh with fear and wonder stands, +The product of thy skill, +And hourly blessings from thy hands, +Thy thoughts of love reveal. + +3 These on my heart by night I keep; +How kind, how dear to me! +O may the hour that ends my sleep +Still find my thoughts with thee. + + +Psalm 141. 2-5. +Watchfulness, and brotherly reproof. + +A morning or evening psalm. + +1 My God, accept my early vows, +Like morning incense in thine house, +And let my nightly worship rise +Sweet as the evening sacrifice. + +2 Watch o'er my lips, and guard them, Lord, +From every rash and heedless word; +Nor let my feet incline to tread +The guilty path where sinners lead. + +3 O may the righteous, when I stray, +Smite, and reprove my wandering way! +Their gentle words, like ointment shed, +Shall never bruise, but cheer my head. + +4 When I behold them prest with grief, +I'll cry to heaven for their relief; +And by my warm petitions prove +how much I prize their faithful love. + + +Psalm 142. +God is the hope of the helpless. + +1 To God I made my sorrows known, +From God I sought relief; +In long complaints before his throne +I pour'd out all my grief. + +2 My soul was overwhelm'd with woes, +My heart began to break; +My God, who all my burdens knows, +He knows the way I take. + +3 On every side I cast mine eye, +And found my helpers gone, +While friends and strangers pass'd me by +Neglected or unknown. + +4 Then did I raise a louder cry, +And call'd thy mercy near, +"Thou art my portion when I die, +"Be thou my refuge here." + +5 Lord, I am brought exceeding low, +Now let thine ear attend, +And make my foes who vex me know +I've an almighty Friend. + +6 From my sad prison set me free, +Then shall I praise thy Name, +And holy men shall join with me +Thy kindness to proclaim. + + +Psalm 143. +Complaint of heavy afflictions in mind and body. + +1 My righteous Judge, my gracious God, +Hear when I spread my hands abroad +And cry for succour from thy throne, +O make thy truth and mercy known. + +2 Let judgment not against me pass; +Behold thy servant pleads thy grace: +Should justice call us to thy bar, +No man alive is guiltless there. + +3 Look down in pity, Lord, and see +The mighty woes that burden me; +Down to the dust my life is brought, +Like one long bury'd and forgot. + +4 I dwell in darkness and unseen, +My heart is desolate within; +My thoughts in musing silence trace +The ancient wonders of thy grace. + +5 Thence I derive a glimpse of hope +To bear my sinking spirits up; +I stretch my hands to God again, +And thirst like parched lands for rain. + +6 For thee I thirst, I pray, I mourn; +When will thy smiling face return? +Shall all my joys on earth remove? +And God for ever hide his love? + +7 My God, thy long delay to save +Will sink thy prisoner to the grave; +My heart grows faint, and dim mine eye; +Make haste to help before I die. + +8 The night is witness to my tears, +Distressing pains, distressing fears; +O might I hear thy morning voice, +How would my weary'd powers rejoice! + +9 In thee I trust, to thee I sigh, +And lift my heavy soul on high, +For thee sit waiting all the day, +And wear the tiresome hours away. + +10 Break off my fetters, Lord, and show +Which is the path my feet should go; +If snares and foes beset the road, +I flee to hide me near my God. + +11 Teach me to do thy holy will, +And lead me to thy heavenly hill; +Let the good Spirit of thy love +Conduct me to thy courts above. + +12 Then shall my soul no more complain, +The tempter then shall rage in vain; +And flesh that was my foe before, +Shall never vex my spirit more. + + +Psalm 144:1. 1 2. First Part. +Assistance and victory in the spiritual warfare. + +1 For ever blessed be the Lord, +My Saviour and my shield; +He sends his Spirit with his word +To arm me for the field. + +2 When sin and hell their force unite, +He makes my soul his care, +Instructs me to the heavenly fight, +And guards me thro' the war. + +3 A friend and helper so divine +Doth my weak courage raise; +He makes the glorious victory mine, +And his shall be the praise. + + +Psalm 144:2. 3 4 5 6. Second Part. +The vanity of man, and condescension of God. + +1 Lord, what is man, poor feeble man, +Born of the earth at first! +His life a shadow, light and vain, +Still hasting to the dust. + +2 O what is feeble dying man +Or any of his race, +That God should make it his concern +To visit him with grace! + +3 That God who darts his lightnings down, +Who shakes the worlds above, +And mountains tremble at his frown, +How wondrous is his love. + + +Psalm 144:3. 12-15. Third Part. +Grace above riches; or, The happy nation. + +1 Happy the city, where their sons +Like pillars round a palace set, +And daughters bright as polish'd stones +Give strength and beauty to the state. + +2 Happy the country, where the sheep, +Cattle, and corn, have large increase; +Where men securely work or sleep, +Nor sons of plunder break the peace. + +3 Happy the nation thus endow'd, +But more divinely blest are those +On whom the all-sufficient God +Himself with all his grace bestows. + + +Psalm 145:1. L. M. +The greatness of God. + +1 My God, my King, thy various praise +Shall fill the remnant of my days; +Thy grace employ my humble tongue +Till death and glory raise the song. + +2 The wings of every hour shall bear +Some thankful tribute to thine ear; +And every setting sun shall see +New works of duty done for thee. + +3 Thy truth and justice I'll proclaim; +Thy bounty flows, an endless stream, +Thy mercy swift, thine anger slow, +But dreadful to the stubborn foe. + +4 Thy works with sovereign glory shine, +And speak thy majesty divine; +Let Britain round her shores proclaim +The sound and honour of thy Name. + +5 Let distant times and nations raise +The long succession of thy praise; +And unborn ages make my song +The joy and labour of their tongue. + +6 But who can speak thy wondrous deeds? +Thy greatness all our thoughts exceeds! +Vast and unsearchable thy ways! +Vast and immortal be thy praise! + + +Psalm 145:2. 1-7 11-13. First Part. +The greatness of God. + +1 Long as I live I'll bless thy Name, +My King, my God of love; +My work and joy shall be the same +In the bright world above. + +2 Great is the Lord, his power unknown, +And let his praise be great: +I'll sing the honours of thy throne, +Thy works of grace repeat. + +3 Thy grace shall dwell upon my tongue; +And while my lips rejoice, +The men that hear my sacred song +Shall join their cheerful voice. + +4 Fathers to Sons shall teach thy Name, +And children learn thy ways; +Ages to come thy truth proclaim, +And nations sound thy praise. + +5 Thy glorious deeds of ancient date +Shall thro' the world be known; +Thine arm of power, thy heavenly state, +With public splendor shown. + +6 The world is manag'd by thy hands, +Thy saints are rul'd by love; +And thine eternal kingdom stands, +Tho' rocks and hills remove. + + +Psalm 145:3. 7 &c. Second Part. +The goodness of God. + +1 Sweet is the memory of thy grace, +My God, my heavenly king; +Let age to age thy righteousness +In sounds of glory sing. + +2 God reigns on high, but not confines +His goodness to the skies; +Thro' the whole earth his bounty shines, +And every want supplies. + +3 With longing eyes thy creatures wait +On thee for daily food, +Thy liberal hand provides their meat +And fills their mouths with good. + +4 How kind are thy compassions, Lord! +How slow thine anger moves! +But soon he sends his pardoning word +To cheer the souls he loves. + +5 Creatures, with all their endless race, +Thy power and praise proclaim; +But saints that taste thy richer grace +Delight to bless thy Name. + + +Psalm 145:4. 14 17 &c. Third Part. +Mercy to sufferers; or, God hearing prayer. + +1 Let every tongue thy goodness speak, +Thou sovereign Lord of all; +Thy strengthening hands uphold the weak, +And raise the poor that fall. + +2 When sorrow bows the spirit down, +Or virtue lies distrest +Beneath some proud oppressor's frown, +Thou giv'st the mourners rest. + +3 The Lord supports our tottering days, +And guides our giddy youth; +Holy and just are all his ways, +And all his words are truth. + +4 He knows the pains his servants feel, +He hears his children cry, +And their best wishes to fulfil +His grace is ever nigh. + +5 His mercy never shall remove +From men of heart sincere; +He saves the souls whose humble love +Is join'd with holy fear. + +6 [His stubborn foes his sword shall slay, +And pierce their hearts with pain; +But none that serve the Lord shall say, +"They sought his aid in vain."] + +7 [My lips shall dwell upon his praise, +And spread his fame abroad; +Let all the sons of Adam raise +The honours of their God.] + + +Psalm 146:1. L. M. +Praise to God for his goodness and truth. + +1 Praise ye the Lord, my heart shall join +In work so pleasant, so divine, +Now, while the flesh is mine abode, +And when my soul ascends to God. + +2 Praise shall employ my noblest powers, +While immortality endures; +My days of praise shall ne'er be past, +While life and thought and being last. + +3 Why should I make a man my trust? +Princes must die and turn to dust; +Their breath departs, their pomp and power +And thoughts, all vanish in an hour. + +4 Happy the man whose hopes rely +On Israel's God: he made the sky, +And earth and seas with all their train, +And none shall find his promise vain. + +5 His truth for ever stands secure; +He saves th' opprest, he feeds the poor; +He sends the labouring conscience peace, +And grants the prisoner sweet release. + +6 The Lord hath eyes to give the blind; +The Lord supports the sinking mind; +He helps the stranger in distress, +The widow and the fatherless. + +7 He loves his saints, he knows them well, +But turns the wicked down to hell: +Thy God, O Zion, ever reigns; +Praise him in everlasting strains. + + +Psalm 146:2. As the 113th Psalm. +Praise to God for his goodness and truth. + +1 I'll praise my Maker with my breath; +And when my voice is lost in death +Praise shall employ my nobler powers: +My days of praise shall ne'er he past +While life and thought and being last, +Or immortality endures. + +2 Why should I make a man my trust? +Princes must die and turn to dust; +Vain is the help of flesh and blood: +Their breath departs, their pomp and power, +And thoughts all vanish in an hour, +Nor can they make their promise good. + +3 Happy the man whose hopes rely +On Israel's God: he made the sky, +And earth and seas with all their train; +His truth for ever stands secure; +He saves th' opprest, he feeds the poor, +And none shall find his promise vain. + +4 The Lord hath eyes to give the blind; +The Lord supports the sinking mind; +He sends the labouring conscience peace: +He helps the stranger in distress, +The widow and the fatherless, +And grants the prisoner sweet release. + +5 He loves his saints; he knows them well, +But turns the wicked down to hell; +Thy God, O Zion, ever reigns: +Let every tongue, let every age, +In this exalted work engage; +Praise him in everlasting strains. + +6 I'll praise him while he lends me breath, +And when my voice is lost in death +Praise shall employ my nobler powers: +My days of praise shall ne'er be past +While life and thought and being last, +Or immortality endures. + + +Psalm 147:1. First Part. +The divine nature, providence and grace. + +1 Praise ye the Lord; 'tis good to raise +Our hearts and voices in his praise; +His nature and his works invite +To make this duty our delight. + +2 The Lord builds up Jerusalem, +And gathers nations to his Name: +His mercy melts the stubborn soul, +And makes the broken spirit whole. + +3 He form'd the stars, those heavenly flames, +He counts their numbers, calls their names: +His wisdom's vast, and knows no bound, +A deep where all our thoughts are drown'd. + +4 Great is our Lord, and great his might; +And all his glories infinite: +He crowns the meek, rewards the just, +And treads the wicked to the dust. + +PAUSE. + +5 Sing to the Lord, exalt him high, +Who spreads his cloud all round the sky, +There he prepares the fruitful rain, +Nor lets the drops descend in vain. + +6 He makes the grass the hills adorn, +And clothes the smiling fields with corn, +The beasts with food his hands supply, +And the young ravens when they cry. + +7 What is the creature's skill or force, +The sprightly man, the warlike horse, +The nimble wit, the active limb? +All are too mean delights for him. + +8 But saints are lovely in his sight; +He views his children with delight: +He sees their hope, he knows their fear, +And looks and loves his image there. + + +Psalm 147:2. Second Part. +Summer and winter. + +A song for Great Britain. + +1 O Britain, praise thy mighty God, +And make his honours known abroad, +He bid the ocean round thee flow; +Not bars of brass could guard thee so. + +2 Thy children are secure and blest; +Thy shores have peace, thy cities rest; +He feeds thy sons with finest wheat, +And adds his blessing to their meat. + +3 Thy changing season he ordains, +Thine early and thy later rains: +His flakes of snow like wool he sends, +And thus the springing corn defends. + +4 With hoary frost he strews the ground; +His hail descends with clattering sound: +Where is the man so vainly bold +That dares defy his dreadful cold? + +5 He bids the southern breezes blow, +The ice dissolves, the waters flow; +But he hath nobler works and ways +To call the Britons to his praise. + +6 To all the Isle his laws are shown, +His gospel thro' the nation known; +He hath not thus reveal'd his word +To every land: Praise ye the Lord. + + +Psalm 147:3. 7-9 13-18. C. M. +The seasons of the year. + +1 With songs and honours sounding loud +Address the Lord on high; +Over the heavens he spreads his cloud, +And waters veil the sky. + +2 He sends his showers of blessing down +To cheer the plains below; +He makes the grass the mountains crown, +And corn in vallies grow. + +3 He gives the grazing ox his meat, +He hears the ravens cry; +But man, who tastes his finest wheat, +Should raise his honours high. + +4 His steady counsels change the face +Of the declining year; +He bids the sun cut short his race, +And wintry days appear. + +5 His hoary frost, his fleecy snow +Descend and clothe the ground; +The liquid streams forbear to flow, +In icy fetters bound. + +6 When from his dreadful stores on high +He pours the rattling hail, +The wretch that dares this God defy +Shall find his courage fail. + +7 He sends his word and melts the snow, +The fields no longer mourn; +He calls the warmer gales to blow, +And bids the spring return. + +8 The changing wind, the flying cloud, +Obey his mighty word: +With songs and honours sounding loud, +Praise ye the sovereign Lord. + + +Psalm 148:1. P. M. +Praise to God from all creatures. + +1 Ye tribes of Adam, join +With heaven, and earth, and seas, +And offer notes divine +To your Creator's praise: +Ye holy throng +Of angels bright, +In worlds of light, +Begin the song. + +2 Thou sun with dazzling rays, +And moon that rules the night, +Shine to your Maker's praise, +With stars of twinkling light: +His power declare, +Ye floods on high, +And clouds that fly +In empty air. + +3 The shining worlds above +In glorious order stand, +Or in swift courses move +By his supreme command: +He spake the word, +And all their frame +From nothing came +To praise the Lord. + +4 He mov'd their mighty wheels +In unknown ages past, +And each his word fulfils +While time and nature last: +In different ways +His works proclaim +His wondrous Name, +And speak his praise. + +PAUSE. + +5 Let all the earth-born race, +And monsters of the deep, +The fish that cleave the seas, +Or in their bosom sleep, +From sea and shore +Their tribute pay, +And still display +Their Maker's power. + +6 Ye vapours, hail, and snow, +Praise ye Th' almighty Lord, +And stormy winds that blow +To execute his word: +When lightnings shine, +Or thunders roar, +Let earth adore +His hand divine. + +7 Ye mountains near the skies, +With lofty cedars there, +And trees of humbler size, +That fruit in plenty bear; +Beasts wild and tame, +Birds, flies, and worms, +In various forms +Exalt his Name. + +8 Ye kings and judges, fear +The Lord, the sovereign King; +And while you rule us here, +His heavenly honours sing: +Nor let the dream +Of power and state +Make you forget +His power supreme. + +9 Virgins, and youths, engage +To sound his praise divine, +While infancy and age +Their feebler voices join: +Wide as he reigns +His Name be sung +By every tongue +In endless strains. + +10 Let all the nations fear +The God that rules above; +He brings his people near, +And makes them taste his love: +While earth and sky +Attempt his praise, +His saints shall raise +His honours high. + + +Psalm 148:2. Paraphrased. L. M. +Universal praise to God. + +1 Loud hallelujahs to the Lord, +From distant worlds where creatures dwell: +Let heaven begin the solemn word, +And sound it dreadful down to hell. + +Note. This psalm may be sung to the tune of the old 112th or +127th Psalm, if these two lines be added to every stanza, viz. + +Each of his works his Name displays, +But they can ne'er fulfil the praise. + +Otherwise it must be sung to the usual tunes of the Long Metre. + +2 The Lord! how absolute he reigns! +Let every angel bend the knee; +Sing of his love in heavenly strains, +And speak how fierce his terrors be. + +3 High on a throne his glories dwell, +An awful throne of shining bliss: +Fly thro' the world, O sun, and tell +How dark thy beams compar'd to his. + +4 Awake, ye tempests, and his fame +In sounds of dreadful praise declare; +And the sweet whisper of his Name +Fill every gentler breeze of air. + +5 Let clouds, and winds, and waves agree +To join their praise with blazing fire; +Let the firm earth, and rolling sea, +In this eternal song conspire. + +6 Ye flowery plains, proclaim his skill; +Vallies, lie low before his eye; +And let his praise from every hill +Rise tuneful to the neighbouring sky. + +7 Ye stubborn oaks, and stately pines, +Bend your high branches and adore: +Praise him, ye beasts, in different strains; +The lamb must bleat, the lion roar. + +8 Birds, ye must make his praise your theme, +Nature demands a song from you; +While the dumb fish that cut the stream +Leap up, and mean his praises too. + +9 Mortals, can you refrain your tongue, +When nature all around you sings? +O for a shout from old and young, +From humble swains, and lofty kings! + +10 Wide as his vast dominion lies +Make the Creator's name be known; +Loud as his thunder shout his praise, +And sound it lofty as his throne. + +11 Jehovah! 'tis a glorious word, +O may it dwell on every tongue! +But saints who best have known the Lord +Are bound to raise the noblest song. + +12 Speak of the wonders of that love +Which Gabriel plays on every chord: +From all below and all above, +Loud hallelujahs to the Lord! + + +Psalm 148:3. S. M. +Universal praise. + +1 Let every creature join +To praise th' eternal God; +Ye heavenly hosts, the song begin, +And sound his Name abroad. + +2 Thou sun with golden beams, +And moon with paler rays; +Ye starry lights, ye twinkling flames, +Shine to your Maker's praise. + +3 He built those worlds above, +And fix'd their wondrous frame; +By his command they stand or move, +And ever speak his Name. + +4 Ye vapours, when ye rise, +Or fall in showers, or snow, +Ye thunders, murmuring round the skies, +His power and glory show. + +5 Wind, hail, and flashing fire, +Agree to praise the Lord, +When ye in dreadful storms conspire +To execute his word. + +6 By all his works above +His honours be exprest; +But saints that taste his saving love +Should sing his praises best. + +PAUSE I. + +7 Let earth and ocean know +They owe their Maker praise; +Praise him, ye watery worlds below, +And monsters of the seas. + +8 From mountains near the sky +Let his high praise resound, +From humble shrubs and cedars high, +And vales and fields around. + +9 Ye lions of the wood, +And tamer beasts that graze, +Ye live upon his daily food, +And he expects your praise. + +10 Ye birds of lofty wing, +On high his praises bear; +Or sit on flowery boughs, and sing +Your Maker's glory there. + +11 Ye creeping ants and worms, +His various wisdom show, +And flies, in all your shining swarms, +Praise him that drest you so. + +12 By all the earth-born race +His honours be exprest; +But saints that know his heavenly grace +Should learn to praise him best. + +PAUSE II. + +13 Monarchs of wide command, +Praise ye th' eternal King; +Judges, adore that sovereign hand +Whence all your honours spring. + +14 Let vigorous youth engage +To sound his praises high; +While growing babes, and withering age, +Their feebler voices try. + +15 United zeal be shown, +His wondrous fame to raise; +God is the Lord: his name alone +Deserves our endless praise. + +16 Let nature join with art, +And all pronounce him blest; +But saints that dwell so near his heart, +Should sing his praises best. + + +Psalm 149. +Praise God, all his saints; or, +The saints judging the world. + +1 All ye that love the Lord, rejoice, +And let your songs be new; +Amidst the church with cheerful voice +His later wonders shew. + +2 The Jews, the people of his grace, +Shall their Redeemer sing; +And Gentile nations join the praise, +While Zion owns her King. + +3 The Lord takes pleasure in the just, +Whom sinners treat with scorn; +The meek that lie despis'd in dust +Salvation shall adorn. + +4 Saints should be joyful in their King, +Ev'n on a dying bed; +And like the souls in glory sing, +For God shall raise the dead. + +5 Then his high praise shall fill their tongues, +Their hands shall wield the sword; +And vengeance shall attend their songs, +The vengeance of the Lord. + +6 When Christ his judgment-seat ascends, +And bids the world appear, +Thrones are prepar'd for all his friends, +Who humbly lov'd him here. + +7 Then shall they rule with iron rod +Nations that dar'd rebel; +And join the sentence of their God +On tyrants doom'd to hell. + +8 The royal sinners bound in chains +New triumphs shall afford; +Such honour for the saints remains: +Praise ye, and love the Lord. + + +Psalm 150. 1 2 6. + +A song of praise. + +1 In God's own house pronounce his praise, +His grace he there reveals; +To heaven your joy and wonder raise, +For there his glory dwells. + +2 Let all your sacred passions move, +While you rehearse his deeds; +But the great work of saving love +Your highest praise exceeds. + +3 All that have motion, life, and breath, +Proclaim your Maker blest; +Yet when my voice expires in death, +My soul shall praise him best. + + +Doxology. + +The Christian Doxology. + + +Long Metre. + +To God the Father, God the Son, +And God the Spirit, Three in One, +Be honour, praise, and glory given, +By all on earth, and all in heaven. + + +Common Metre. + +Let God the Father, and the Son, +And Spirit be ador'd, +Where there are works to make him known, +Or saints to love the Lord. + + +Common Metre. + +Where the tune includes two stanzas. + +1 The God of mercy be ador'd, +Who calls our souls from death, +Who saves by his redeeming word, +And new-creating breath. + +2 To praise the Father and the Son +And Spirit all divine, +The One in Three, and Three in One, +Let saints and angels join. + + +Short Metre. + +Ye angels round the throne, +And saints that dwell below, +Worship the Father, love the Son, +And bless the Spirit too. + + +As the 113th Psalm. + +Now to the great and sacred Three, +The Father, Son, and Spirit be +Eternal praise and glory given, +Thro' all the worlds where God is known, +By all the angels near the throne, +And all the saints in earth and heaven. + + +As the 148th Psalm. + +To God the Father's throne +Perpetual honours raise, +Glory to God the Son, +To God the Spirit praise: +With all our powers, +Eternal King, +Thy Name we sing, +While faith adores. + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Psalms of David, by Isaac Watts + +*** END OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK 13166 *** diff --git a/LICENSE.txt b/LICENSE.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6312041 --- /dev/null +++ b/LICENSE.txt @@ -0,0 +1,11 @@ +This eBook, including all associated images, markup, improvements, +metadata, and any other content or labor, has been confirmed to be +in the PUBLIC DOMAIN IN THE UNITED STATES. + +Procedures for determining public domain status are described in +the "Copyright How-To" at https://www.gutenberg.org. + +No investigation has been made concerning possible copyrights in +jurisdictions other than the United States. 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The first generation of this Project +Gutenberg file was from an 1818 printing by C. Corrall of +38 Charing Cross, London. + +The Index and the Table of First Lines have been omitted for +the following reasons: +1. They refer to page numbers that are here expunged; and +2. In this electronic version key words, etc., can be easily +located via searches. + +Separate numbers have been added to Psalms that have more than +one part or version, for example: Psalm 51:1; Psalm 51:2; etc. + + + +The Life of Isaac Watts, D.D. + +by + +Dr. Johnson. + + +From his lives of the most eminent English Poets. + + +The Poems of Dr. Watts were by my recommendation inserted in the +late Collection; the readers of which are to impute to me whatever +pleasure or weariness they may find in the perusal of Blackmore, +Watts, Pomfret, and Yealden. + +ISAAC WATTS was born July 17, 1674, at Southampton, where his +father of the same name, kept a boarding-school for young gentlemen, +though common report makes him a shoe-maker. He appears, from the +narrative of Dr. Gibbons, to have been neither indigent nor +illiterate. + +Isaac, the eldest of nine children, was given to books from his +infancy; and began, we are told, to learn Latin when he was four +years old, I suppose at home. He was afterwards taught Latin, +Greek, and Hebrew, by Mr. Pinhorne, a clergyman, master of the +freeschool at Southampton, to whom the gratitude of his scholar +afterwards inscribed a Latin ode. + +His proficiency at school was so conspicuous, that a subscription +was proposed for his support at the University; but he declared +his resolution to take his lot with the Dissenters. Such he was, +as every Christian Church would rejoice to have adopted. + +He therefore repaired in 1690 to an academy taught by Mr. Rowe, +where he had for his companions and fellow-students Mr. Hughes +the poet, and Dr. Horte, afterwards Archbishop of Tuam. Some Latin +essays, supposed to have been written as exercises at this academy, +shew a degree of knowledge, both philosophical and theological, +such as very few attain by a much longer course of study. + +He was, as he hints in his Miscellanies, a maker of verses from +fifteen to fifty, and in his youth he appears to have paid attention +to Latin poetry. His verses to his brother, in the _glyconic_ +measure, written when he was seventeen, are remarkably easy and +elegant. Some of his other odes are deformed by the Pindaric folly +then prevailing, and are written with such neglect of all metrical +rules as is without example among the ancients; but his diction, +though perhaps not always exactly pure, has such copiousness and +splendour, as shews that he was but at a very little distance +from excellence. + +His method of study was to impress the contents of his books upon +his memory by abridging them, and by interleaving them, to amplify +one system with supplements from another. + +With the congregation of his tutor Mr. Rowe, who were, I believe, +independents, he communicated in his nineteenth year. + +At the age of twenty he left the academy, and spent two years in +study and devotion at the house of his father, who treated him +with great tenderness; and had the happiness, indulged to few +parents, of living to see his son eminent for literature and +venerable for piety. + +He was then entertained by Sir John Hartopp five years, as domestic +tutor to his son: and in that time particularly devoted himself +to the Study of the Holy Scriptures; and being chosen assistant +to Dr. Chauncey, preached the first time on the birth-day that +completed his twenty-fourth year; probably considering that as +the day of a second nativity, by which he entered on a new period +of existence. + +In about three years he succeeded Dr. Chauncey; but soon after his +entrance on his charge, he was seized by a dangerous illness, which +sunk him to such weakness, that the congregation thought an assistant +necessary, and appointed Mr. Price. His health then returned +gradually, and he performed his duty, till (1712) he was seized +by a fever of such violence and continuance, that from the feebleness +which it brought upon him, he never perfectly recovered. + +This calamitous state made the compassion of his friends necessary, +and drew upon him the attention of Sir Thomas Abney, who received +him into his house; where with a constancy of friendship and +uniformity of conduct not often to be found, he was treated for +thirty-six years with all the kindness that friendship could +prompt, and all the attention that respect could dictate. Sir +Thomas died about eight years afterwards; but he continued with +the lady and her daughters to the end of his life. The lady died +about a year after him. + +A coalition like this, a state in which the notions of patronage +And dependence were overpowered by the perception of reciprocal +benefits, deserves a particular memorial; and I will not withhold +from the reader Dr. Gibbons's representation, to which regard is +to be paid as to the narrative of one who writes what he knows, +and what is known likewise to multitudes besides. + +"Our next observation shall be made upon that remarkably kind +providence which brought the doctor into Sir Thomas Abney's family, +and continued him there till his death, a period of no less than +thirty-six years. In the midst of his sacred labours for the glory +of God, and good of his generation he is seized with a most violent +and threatening fever, which leaves him oppressed with great +weakness, and puts a stop at least to his public services for four +years. In this distressing season, doubly so to his active and +pious spirit, he is invited to Sir Thomas Abney's family, nor ever +removes from it till he had finished his days. Here he enjoyed the +uninterrupted demonstrations of the truest friendship. Here, without +any care of his own, he had everything which could contribute to +the enjoyment of life, and favour the unwearied pursuits of his +studies. Here he dwelt in a family, which, for piety, order, +harmony, and every virtue, was an house of God. Here he had the +privilege of a country recess, the fragrant bower, the spreading +lawn, the flowery garden, and other advantages to sooth his mind +and aid his restoration to health; to yield him, whenever he chose +them, most grateful intervals from his laborious studies, and +enable him to return to them with redoubled vigour and delight. +Had it not been for this most happy event, he might as to outward +view, have feebly, it may be painfully, dragged on through many +more years of languor and inability for public service, and even +for profitable study, or perhaps might have sunk into his grave +under the overwhelming load of infirmities, in the midst of his +days; and thus the church and world would have been deprived of +those many excellent sermons and works which he drew up and +published during his long residence in this family. In a few years +after his coming hither, Sir Thomas Abney dies; but his amiable +consort survives, who shows the Doctor the same respect and +friendship as before, and most happily for him and great numbers +besides; for, as her riches were great her generosity and munificence +were in full proportion; her thread of life was drawn out to a +great age, even beyond that of the Doctor's; and thus this excellent +man, through her kindness, and that of her daughter, the present +Mrs. Elizabeth Abney, who in a like degree esteemed and honoured +him, enjoyed all the benefits and felicities he experienced at +his first entrance into this family, till his days were numbered +and finished, and, like a shock of corn in its season, he ascended +into the regions of perfect and immortal life and joy." + +If this quotation has appeared long, let it be considered, that +it comprises an account of six-and-thirty years, and those the +years of Dr. Watts. + +From the time of his reception into this family, his life was no +Otherwise diversified than by successive publications. The series +of his works I am not able to deduce; their number, and their +variety, show the intenseness of his industry, and the extent of +his capacity. + +He was one of the first authors that taught the Dissenters to +court attention by the graces of language. Whatever they had among +them before, whether of learning or acuteness, was commonly obscured +and blunted by coarseness and inelegance of style. He shewed them, +that zeal and purity might be expressed and enforced by polished +diction. + +He continued to the end of his life the teacher of a congregation, +and no reader of his works can doubt his fidelity or diligence. In +the pulpit, though his low stature, which very little exceeded five +feet, graced him with no advantages of appearance, yet the gravity +and propriety of his utterance made his discourses very efficacious. +I once mentioned the reputation which Mr. Foster had gained by his +proper delivery to my friend Dr. Hawkesworth, who told me, that +in the art of pronunciation he was far inferior to Dr. Watts. + +Such was his flow of thoughts, and such his promptitude of language, +that in the latter part of his life he did not precompose his +cursory sermons; but having adjusted the heads, and sketched +out some particulars, trusted for success to his extemporary powers. + +He did not endeavour to assist his eloquence by any gesticulations; +for, as no corporeal actions have any correspondence with theological +truth, he did not see how they could enforce it. + +At the conclusion of weighty sentences he gave time, by a short +pause, for the proper impression. + +To stated and public instruction, he added familiar visits and +Personal application, and was careful to improve the opportunities +which conversation offered of diffusing and increasing the influence +of religion. + +By his natural temper he was quick of resentment; but by his +established and habitual practice, he was gentle, modest, and +inoffensive. His tenderness appeared in his attention to children, +and to the poor. To the poor, while he lived in the family of his +friend, he allowed the third part of his annual revenue, though +the whole was not a hundred a year; and for children, he condescended +to lay aside the scholar, the philosopher, and the wit, to write +little poems of devotion, and systems of instruction adapted to +their wants and capacities, from the dawn of reason through its +gradations of advance in the morning of life. Every man, acquainted +with the common principles of human action, will look with veneration +on the writer who is at one time combating Locke, and at another +making a catechism for children in their fourth year. A voluntary +descent from the dignity of science is perhaps the hardest lesson +that humility can teach. + +As his mind was capacious, his curiosity excursive, and his industry +continual, his writings are very numerous, and his subjects various. +With his theological works I am only enough acquainted to admire +his meekness of opposition, and his mildness of censure. It was +not only in his book but in his mind that _orthodoxy_ was _united_ +with _charity_. + +Of his philosophical pieces, his Logic has been received into the +universities, and therefore wants no private recommendation: if +he owes part of it to Le Clerc, it must he considered that no man +who undertakes merely to methodize or illustrate a system, pretends +to be its author. + +In his metaphysical disquisitions, it was observed by the late +learned Dr. Dyer, that he confounded the idea of _space_ with that +of _empty space_, and did not consider that though space might be +without matter, yet matter being extended, could not be without +space. + +Few books have been perused by me with greater pleasure than his +_Improvement of the Mind_, of which the radical principles may +indeed be found in _Locke's Conduct of the Understanding_, but +they are so expanded and ramified by Watts, as to confer upon him +the merit of a work in the highest degree useful and pleasing. +Whoever has the care of instructing others, may be charged with +deficience in his duty if this book is not recommended. + +I have mentioned his treatises of Theology as distinct from his +other productions: but the truth is, that whatever he took in +hand was, by his incessant solicitude for souls, converted to +Theology. As piety predominated in his mind, it is diffused over +his works: under his direction it may be truly said, _Theologiae +Philosophia ancillatur_, philosophy is subservient to evangelical +instruction; it is difficult to read a page without learning, or +at least wishing to be better. The attention is caught by indirect +instruction, and he that sat down only to reason, is on a sudden +compelled to pray. + +It was therefore with great propriety that, in 1728, he received +From Edinburgh and Aberdeen an unsolicited diploma, by which he +became a Doctor of Divinity. Academical honours would have more +value, if they were always bestowed with equal judgement. + +He continued many years to study and to preach, and to do good by +His instruction and example: till at last the infirmities of age +disabled him from the more laborious part of his ministerial +functions, and being no longer capable of public duty, he offered +to remit the salary appendant to it; but his congregation would +not accept the resignation. + +By degrees his weakness increased, and at last confined him to +his chamber and his bed; where he was worn gradually away without +pain, till he expired, Nov. 25, 1748, in the seventy-fifth year +of his age. + +Few men have left behind such purity of character, or such monuments +of laborious piety. He has provided instruction for all ages, from +those who are lisping their first lessons, to the enlightened readers +of Malbranche and Locke; he has left neither corporeal nor spiritual +nature unexamined; he has taught the art of reasoning, and the +science of the stars. + +His character, therefore, must be formed from the multiplicity +and diversity of his attainments, rather than from any single +performance; for it would not be safe to claim for him the highest +rank in any single denomination of literary dignity; yet perhaps +there was nothing in which he would not have excelled, if he had +not divided his powers to different pursuits. + +As a poet, had he been only a poet, he would probably have stood +high among the authors with whom he is now associated. For his +judgement was exact, and he noted beauties and faults with very +nice discernment; his imagination, as the _Dacian Battle_ proves, +was vigorous and active, and the stores of knowledge were large +by which his fancy was to be supplied. His ear was well-tuned, and +his diction was elegant and copious. But his devotional poetry is, +like that of others, unsatisfactory. The paucity of its topics +enforces perpetual repetition, and the sanctity of the matter +rejects the ornaments of figurative diction. It is sufficient +for Watts to have done better than others what no man has done +well. + +His poems on other subjects seldom rise higher than might be +expected from the amusements of a Man of Letters, and have different +degrees of value as they are more or less laboured, or as the +occasion was more or less favourable to invention. + +He writes too often without regular measures, and too often in +blank verse; the rhymes are not always sufficiently correspondent. +He is particularly unhappy in coining names expressive of characters. +His lines are commonly smooth and easy, and his thoughts always +religiously pure; but who is there that, to so much piety and +innocence, does not wish for a greater measure of sprightliness +and vigour? He is at least one of the few poets with whom youth +and ignorance may be safely pleased; and happy will be that reader +whose mind is disposed by his verses, or his prose, to imitate him +in all but his non-conformity, to copy his benevolence to man, and +his reverence to God. + + + +PREFACE. + +THE following extract from the Doctor's Preface, as it contains +the plan of his version of the Psalms, may be found useful: + +"I come therefore to explain my own design, which is this, To +accommodate the book of Psalms to Christian worship. And in order +to do this, it is necessary to divest David and Asaph, &c. of every +other character but that of a psalmist and a saint, and to make +them always speak the common sense, and language of a Christian. + +"Attempting the work with this view, I have entirely omitted several +whole psalms, and large pieces of many others; and have chosen out +of all of them, such parts only as might easily and naturally be +accommodated to the various occasions of the Christian life, or +at least might afford us some beautiful allusion to Christian +affairs. These I have copied and explained in the general style +of the gospel; nor have I confined my expressions to any particular +party or opinion; that in words prepared for public worship, and +for the lips of multitudes, there might not be a syllable offensive +to sincere Christians, whose judgments may differ in the lesser +matters of religion. + +"Where the Psalmist uses sharp invectives against his personal +enemies, I have endeavoured to turn the edge of them against our +spiritual adversaries, sin, Satan, and temptation. Where the +flights of his faith and love are sublime, I have often sunk the +expressions within the reach of an ordinary Christian: where the +words imply some peculiar wants or distresses, joys, or blessings, +I have used words of greater latitude and comprehension, suited +to the general circumstances of men. + +"Where the original runs in the form of prophecy concerning Christ +and his salvation, I have given an historical turn to the sense: +there is no necessity that we should always sing in the obscure +and doubtful style of prediction, when the things foretold are +brought into open light by a full accomplishment. Where the writers +of the New Testament have cited or alluded to any part the Psalms, +I have often indulged the liberty of paraphrase, according to the +words of Christ, or his Apostles. And surely this may be esteemed +the word of God still, though borrowed from several parts of the +Holy Scripture. Where the Psalmist describes religion by the fear +of God, I have often joined faith and love to it. Where he +speaks of the pardon of sin, through the mercies of God, I have +added the merits of a Saviour. Where he talks of sacrificing goats +or bullocks, I rather chuse to mention the sacrifice of Christ, +the Lamb of God. When he attends the ark with shouting into Zion, +I sing the ascension of my Saviour into heaven, or his presence +in his church on earth. Where he promises abundance of wealth, +honour, and long life, I have changed some of these typical +blessings for grace, glory, and life eternal, which are brought +to light by the gospel, and promised in the New Testament. And I +am fully satisfied, that more honor is done to our blessed Saviour, +by speaking his name, his graces, and actions, in his own language, +according to the brighter discoveries he hath now made, than by +going back again to the Jewish forms of worship, and the language +of types and figures." + + +Of chusing or finding the Psalm. + +By consulting the Index at the end, any one may find hymns very +proper for many occasions of the Christian life and worship; though +no copy of David's Psalter can provide for all, as I have shewn in +the Preface to the large edition. + +Or, if he remembers the first line of any Psalm, the Table of the +first lines will direct where to find it. + +[NOTE: the Index and the Table of First Lines are omitted from +this Project Gutenberg electronic version.] + + +Of singing in course. + +If any shall think it best to sing the Psalms in order in churches +or families, it may be done with profit, provided those Psalms be +omitted that refer to special occurrences of nations, churches, +or single Christians. + +Of dividing the Psalms. + +If the Psalm be too long for the time or custom of singing, there +are pauses in many of them at which you may properly rest; or you +may leave out those verses which are inclued with crotchets [ ], +without disturbing the sense: or, in some places you may begin to +sing at the pause. + + + + +THE Psalms of David, +In Metre. + + +Psalm 1:1. Common Metre, +The way and end of the righteous and the wicked. + +1 Blest is the man who shuns the place +Where sinners love to meet; +Who fears to tread their wicked ways, +And hates the scoffer's seat: + +2 But in the statutes of the Lord +Has plac'd his chief delight; +By day he reads or hears the word, +And meditates by night. + +3 [He like a plant of generous kind, +By living waters set, +Safe from the storms and blasting wind, +Enjoys a peaceful state.] + +4 Green as the leaf and ever fair +Shall his profession shine, +While fruits of holiness appear +Like clusters on the vine. + +5 Not so the impious and unjust; +What vain designs they form! +Their hopes are blown away like dust, +Or chaff before the storm. + +6 Sinners in judgment shall not stand +Amongst the sons of grace, +When Christ the Judge, at his right hand, +Appoints his saints a place. + +7 His eye beholds the path they tread, +His heart approves it well; +But crooked ways of sinners lead +Down to the gates of hell. + + +Psalm 1:2. S. M. +The saint happy, the sinner miserable. + +1 The man is ever blest +Who shuns the sinner's ways, +Among their counsels never stands, +Nor takes the scorner's place; + +2 But makes the Law of God +His study and delight, +Amidst the labours of the day, +And watches of the night. + +3 He like a tree shall thrive, +With waters near the root: +Fresh as the leaf his name shall live, +His works are heavenly fruit. + +4 Not so th' ungodly race, +They no such blessings find; +Their hopes shall flee like empty chaff +Before the driving wind. + +5 How will they bear to stand +Before that judgment-seat, +Where all the saints at Christ's right hand +In full assembly meet? + +6 He knows, and he approves +The way the righteous go; +But sinners and their works shall meet +A dreadful overthrow. + + +Psalm 1:3. L. M. +The difference between the righteous and the wicked. + +1 Happy the man whose cautious feet +Shun the broad way that sinners go, +Who hates the place where atheists meet, +And fears to talk as scoffers do. + +2 He loves t' employ his morning light +Amongst the statutes of the Lord: +And spends the wakeful hours at night, +With pleasure pondering o'er the word. + +3 He like a plant by gentle streams, +Shall flourish in immortal green; +And heaven will shine with kindest beams +On every work his hands begin. + +4 But sinners find their counsels crost; +As chaff before the tempest flies, +So shall their hopes be blown and lost, +When the last trumpet shakes the skies. + +5 In vain the rebel seeks to stand +In judgment with the pious race; +The dreadful Judge with stern command +Divides him to a different place. + +6 "Straight is the way my saints have trod, +"I blest the path and drew it plain; +"But you would choose the crooked road, +"And down it leads to endless pain. + + +Psalm 2:1. S. M. +Translated according to the divine pattern, +Acts iv. 24 &c. + +Christ dying, rising, interceding, and reigning. + +1 [Maker and sovereign Lord +Of heaven, and earth, and seas, +Thy providence confirms thy word, +And answers thy decrees. + +2 The things so long foretold +By David are fulfill'd, +When Jews and Gentiles join to slay +Jesus, thine holy child.] + +3 Why did the Gentiles rage, +And Jews with one accord +Bend all their counsels to destroy +Th' anointed of the Lord? + +4 Rulers and kings agree +To form a vain design; +Against the Lord their powers unite, +Against his Christ they join. + +5 The Lord derides their rage, +And will support his throne; +He that hath rais'd him from the dead +Hath own'd him for his Son. + +PAUSE. + +6 Now he's ascended high, +And asks to rule the earth; +The merit of his blood be pleads, +And pleads his heavenly birth. + +7 He asks, and God bestows +A large inheritance; +Far as the world's remotest ends +His kingdom shall advance. + +8 The nations that rebel +Must feel his iron rod; +He'll vindicate those honours well +Which he receiv'd from God. + +9 [Be wise, ye rulers, now, +And worship at his throne; +With trembling joy, ye people, bow +To God's exalted Son. + +10 If once his wrath arise, +Ye perish on the place; +Then blessed is the soul that flies +For refuge to his grace.] + +Psalm 2:2. C. M. +The same. + +1 Why did the nations join to slay +The Lord's anointed Son? +Why did they cast his laws away, +And tread his gospel down? + +2 The Lord that sits above the skies, +Derides their rage below, +He speaks with vengeance in his eyes, +And strikes their spirits thro'. + +3 "I call him my Eternal Son, +"And raise him from the dead; +"I make my holy hill his throne, +"And wide his kingdom spread. + +4 "Ask me, my Son, and then enjoy +"The utmost heathen lands: +"Thy rod of iron shall destroy +"The rebel that withstands." + +5 Be wise, ye rulers of the earth, +Obey th' anointed Lord, +Adore the king of heavenly birth, +And tremble at his word. + +6 With humble love address his throne, +For if he frown ye die; +Those are secure, and those alone, +Who on his grace rely. + + +Psalm 2:3. L. M. +Christ's death, resurrection, and ascension. + +1 Why did the Jews proclaim their rage? +The Romans why their swords employ? +Against the Lord their powers engage +His dear anointed to destroy? + +2 "Come, let us break his bands," they say, +"This man shall never give us laws ;" +And thus they cast his yoke away, +And nail'd the monarch to the cross. + +3 But God, who high in glory reigns, +Laughs at their pride, their rage controls; +He'll vex their hearts with inward pains, +And speak in thunder to their souls. + +4 "I will maintain the King I made +"On Zion's everlasting hill, +"My hand shall bring him from the dead, +"And he shall stand your sovereign still." + +5 [His wondrous rising from the earth +Makes his eternal Godhead known! +The Lord declares his heavenly birth, +"This day have I begot my Son. + +6 "Ascend, my Son, to my right hand, +"There thou shalt ask, and I bestow +"The utmost bounds of heathen lands; +"To thee the northern isles shall bow."] + +7 But nations that resist his grace +Shall fall beneath his iron stroke; +His rod shall crush his foes with ease +As potters' earthen work is broke. + +PAUSE. + +8 Now, ye that sit on earthly thrones, +Be wise, and serve the Lord, the Lamb; +at his feet submit your crowns, +Rejoice and tremble at his name. + +9 With humble love address the Son, +Lest he grow angry and ye die; +His wrath will burn to worlds unknown +If ye provoke his jealousy. + +10 His storms shall drive you quick to hell: +He is a God, and ye but dust: +Happy the souls that know him well, +And make his grace their only trust. + + +Psalm 3:1. C. M. +Doubts and fears supprest; or, God +our defence from sin and Satan. + +1 My God, how many are my fears! +How fast my foes increase! +Conspiring my eternal death, +They break my present peace. + +2 The lying tempter would persuade +There's no relief in heaven; +And all my swelling sins appear +Too big to be forgiven. + +3 But thou, my glory and my strength, +Shalt on the tempter tread, +Shalt silence all my threatening guilt, +And raise my drooping head. + +4 [I cry'd, and from his holy hill +He bow'd a listening ear, +I call'd my Father, and my God, +And he subdu'd my fear. + +5 He shed soft slumbers on mine eyes, +In spite of all my foes; +I woke, and wonder'd at the grace +That guarded my repose.] + +6 What though the hosts of death and hell +All arm'd against me stood, +Terrors no more shall shake my soul, +My refuge is my God. + +7 Arise, O Lord, fulfil thy grace, +While I thy glory sing: +My God has broke the serpent's teeth, +And death has lost his sting. + +8 Salvation to the Lord belongs, +His arm alone can save; +Blessings attend thy people here, +And reach beyond the grave. + + +Psalm 3:2. 1 2 3 4 5 8. L. M. +A morning Psalm. + +1 O Lord, how many are my foes, +In this weak state of flesh and blood! +My peace they daily discompose, +But my defence and hope is God. + +2 Tir'd with the burdens of the day, +To thee I rais'd an evening cry; +Thou heardst when I began to pray, +And thine almighty help was nigh. + +3 Supported by thine heavenly aid, +I laid me down and slept secure; +Not death should make my heart afraid, +Tho' I should wake and rise no more. + +4 But God sustain'd me all the night; +Salvation doth to God belong; +He rais'd my head to see the light, +And make his praise my morning song. + + +Psalm 4:1. 1 2 3 5 6 7. L. M. +Hearing prayer; or, God our +portion, and Christ our hope. + +1 O God of grace and righteousness, +Hear and attend when I complain; +Thou hast enlarg'd me in distress, +Bow down a gracious ear again. + +2 Ye sons of men, in vain ye try +To turn my glory into shame; +How long will scoffers love to lie, +And dare reproach my Saviour's name! + +3 Know that the Lord divides his saints +From all the tribes of men beside; +He hears the cry of penitents +For the dear sake of Christ that dy'd. + +4 When our obedient hands have done +A thousand works of righteousness, +We put our trust in God alone, +And glory in his pardoning grace. + +5 Let the unthinking many say, +"Who will bestow some earthly good?" +But, Lord, thy light and love we pray, +Our souls desire this heavenly food. + +6 Then shall my cheerful powers rejoice +At grace and favour so divine; +Nor will I change my happy choice +For all their corn and all their wine. + + +Psalm 4:2. 3 4 5 8. C. M. +An evening Psalm. + +1 Lord, thou wilt hear me when I pray +I am for ever thine: +I fear before thee all the day, +Nor would I dare to sin. + +2 And while I rest my weary head +From cares and business free, +'Tis sweet conversing on my bed +With my own heart and thee. + +3 I pay this evening sacrifice; +And when my work is done, +Great God, my faith and hope relies +Upon thy grace alone. + +4 Thus with my thoughts compos'd to peace +I'll give mine eyes to sleep; +Thy hand in safety keeps my days, +And will my slumbers keep. + + +Psalm 5. +For the Lord's day morning. + +1 Lord, in the morning thou shalt hear +My voice ascending high; +To thee will I direct my prayer, +To thee lift up mine eye; + +2 Up to the hills where Christ is gone +To plead for all his saints, +Presenting at his Father's throne +Our songs and our complaints. + +3 Thou art a God before whose sight +The wicked shall not stand; +Sinners shall ne'er be thy delight, +Nor dwell at thy right hand. + +4 But to thy house will I resort, +To taste thy mercies there; +I will frequent thine holy court, +And worship in thy fear. + +5 O may thy Spirit guide my feet +In ways of righteousness! +Make every path of duty straight +And plain before my face. + +PAUSE. + +6 My watchful enemies combine +To tempt my feet astray; +They flatter with a base design +To make my soul their prey. + +7 Lord, crush the serpent in the dust, +And all his plots destroy; +While those that in thy mercy trust +For ever shout for joy. + +8 The men that love and fear thy name +Shall see their hopes fulfill'd; +The mighty God will compass them +With favour as a shield. + + +Psalm 6:1. C. M. +Complaint in sickness; +or, diseases healed. + +1 In anger, Lord, rebuke me not, +Withdraw the dreadful storm; +Nor let thy fury grow so hot +Against a feeble worm. + +2 My soul's bow'd down with heavy cares, +My flesh with pain oppress'd; +My couch is witness to my tears, +My tears forbid my rest. + +3 Sorrow and pain wear out my days; +I waste the night with cries, +Counting the minutes as they pass, +Till the slow morning rise. + +4 Shall I be still tormented more? +Mine eye consum'd with grief? +How long, my God, how long before +Thine hand afford relief? + +5 He hears when dust and ashes speak, +He pities all our groans, +He saves us for his mercy's sake +And heals our broken bones. + +6 The virtue of his sovereign word +Restores our fainting breath; +For silent graves praise not the Lord, +Nor is he known in death. + + +Psalm 6:2. L. M. +Temptations in sickness overcome. + +1 Lord, I can suffer thy rebukes, +When thou with kindness dost chastise +But thy fierce wrath I cannot bear, +O let it not against me rise! + +2 Pity my languishing estate, +And ease the sorrows that I feel; +The wounds thine heavy hand hath made, +O let thy gentler touches heal. + +3 See how I pass my weary days +In sighs and groans; and when 'tis night +My bed is water'd with my tears; +My grief consumes and dims my sight. + +4 Look how the powers of nature mourn! +How long, almighty God, how long? +When shall thine hour of grace return? +When shall I make thy grace my song? + +5 I feel my flesh so near the grave, +My thoughts are tempted to despair; +But graves can never praise the Lord, +For all is dust and silence there. + +6 Depart, ye tempters, from my soul, +And all despairing thoughts depart; +My God, who hears my humble moan, +Will ease my flesh, and cheer my heart. + + +Psalm 7. +God's care of his people and +punishment of persecutors. + +1 My trust is in my heavenly Friend, +My hope in thee, my God; +Rise and my helpless life defend +From those that seek my blood. + +2 With insolence and fury they +My soul in pieces tear, +As hungry lions rend the prey +When no deliverer's near. + +3 If I had e'er provok'd them first, +Or once abus'd my foe, +Then let him tread my life to dust, +And lay mine honour low. + +4 If there be malice found in me, +I know thy piercing eyes; +I should not dare appeal to thee, +Nor ask my God to rise. + +5 Arise, my God, lift up thy hand, +Their pride and power control; +Awake to judgment and command +Deliverance for my soul. + +PAUSE. + +6 [Let sinners and their wicked rage +Be humbled to the dust; +Shall not the God of truth engage +To vindicate the just? + +7 He knows the heart, he tries the reins, +He will defend th' upright: +His sharpest arrows he ordains +Against the sons of spite. + +8 For me their malice digg'd a pit, +But there themselves are cast; +My God makes all their mischief light +On their own heads at last.] + +9 That cruel persecuting race +Must feel his dreadful sword; +Awake, my soul, and praise the grace +And justice of the Lord. + + +Psalm 8:1. S. M. +God's sovereignty and goodness; and +man's dominion over the creatures. + +1 O Lord, our heavenly King, +Thy name is all divine; +Thy glories round the earth are spread, +And o'er the heavens they shine. + +2 When to thy works on high +I raise my wondering eyes, +And see the moon complete in light +Adorn the darksome skies: + +3 When I survey the stars, +And all their shining forms, +Lord, what is man, that worthless thing, +Akin to dust and worms? + +4 Lord, what is worthless man, +That thou shouldst love him so? +Next to thine angels he is plac'd, +And lord of all below. + +5 Thine honours crown his head, +While beasts like slaves obey, +And birds that cut the air with wings, +And fish that cleave the sea. + +6 How rich thy bounties are! +And wondrous are thy ways: +Of dust and worms thy power can frame +A monument of praise. + +7 [Out of the mouths of babes +And sucklings thou canst draw +Surprising honours to thy name, +And strike the world with awe.] + +8 O Lord, our heavenly King, +Thy name is all divine: +Thy glories round the earth are spread, +And o'er the heavens they shine. + + +Psalm 8:2. C. M. +Christ's condescension and +glorification; or, God made man. + +1 O Lord, our Lord, how wondrous great +Is thine exalted name! +The glories of thy heavenly state +Let men and babes proclaim. + +2 When I behold thy works on high, +The moon that rules the night, +And stars that well adorn the sky, +Those moving worlds of light; + +3 Lord, what is man, or all his race, +Who dwells so far below, +That thou shouldst visit him with grace, +And love his nature so? + +4 That thine eternal Son should bear +To take a mortal form, +Made lower than his angels are, +To save a dying worm! + +5 [Yet while he liv'd on earth unknown, +And men would not adore, +Th' obedient seas and fishes own +His Godhead and his power. + +6 The waves lay spread beneath his feet; +And fish, at his command, +Bring their large shoals to Peter's net, +Bring tribute to his hand. + +7 These lesser glories of the Son +Shone thro' the fleshly cloud; +Now we behold him on his throne, +And men confess him God.] + +8 Let him be crown'd with majesty, +Who bow'd his head to death; +And be his honours sounded high, +By all things that have breath. + +9 Jesus, our Lord, how wondrous great +Is thine exalted name! +The glories of thy heavenly state +Let the whole earth proclaim. + + +Psalm 8:3. 1 2. paraphrased. +First Part. L. M. +The Hosanna of the children; +or, Infants praising God. + +1 Almighty Ruler of the skies, +Thro' the wide earth thy name is spread, +And thine eternal glories rise +O'er all the heavens thy hands have made. + +2 To thee the voices of the young +A monument of honour raise; +And babes, with uninstructed tongue, +Declare the wonders of thy praise. + +3 Thy power assists their tender age +To bring proud rebels to the ground, +To still the bold blasphemer's rage, +And all their policies confound. + +4 Children amidst thy temple throng +To see their great Redeemer's face; +The Son of David is their song, +And young hosannas fill the place. + +3 The frowning scribes and angry priests +In vain their impious cavils bring; +Revenge sits silent in their breasts, +While Jewish babes proclaim their king. + + +Psalm 8:4. 3 &c. paraphrased. +Second Part. L. M. +Adam and Christ, lords of +the old and the new creation. + +1 Lord, what was man, when made at first, +Adam the offspring of the dust, +That thou shouldst set him and his race +But just below an angel's place? + +2 That thou shouldst raise his nature so +And make him lord of all below; +Make every beast and bird submit, +And lay the fishes at his feet? + +3 But O, what brighter glories wait +To crown the second Adam's state! +What honours shall thy Son adorn +Who condescended to be born! + +4 See him below his angels made, +See him in dust amongst the dead, +To save a ruin'd world from sin; +But he shall reign with power divine. + +5 The world to come, redeem'd from all +The miseries that attend the fall, +New made, and glorious, shall submit +At our exalted Saviour's feet. + + +Psalm 9:1. First Part. +Wrath and mercy from the judgment-seat. + +1 With my whole heart I'll raise my song, +Thy wonders I'll proclaim; +Thou sov'reign judge of right and wrong +Wilt put my foes to shame. + +2 I'll sing thy majesty and grace; +My God prepares his throne +To judge the world in righteousness +And make his vengeance known. + +3 Then shall the Lord a refuge prove +For all the poor opprest, +To save the people of his love, +And give the weary rest. + +4 The men, that know thy name will trust +In thy abundant grace; +For thou hast ne'er forsook the just, +Who humbly seek thy face. + +5 Sing praises to the righteous Lord, +Who dwells on Zion's hill, +Who executes his threatening word, +And doth his grace fulfil. + + +Psalm 9:2. 10. Second Part. +The wisdom and equity of providence. + +1 When the great Judge, supreme and just, +Shall once inquire for blood, +The humble souls, that mourn in dust, +Shall find a faithful God. + +2 He from the dreadful gates of death +Does his own children raise: +In Zion's gates, with cheerful breath, +They sing their Father's praise. + +3 His foes shall fail with heedless feet +Into the pit they made; +And sinners perish in the net +That their own hands had spread. + +4 Thus by thy judgments, mighty God! +Are thy deep counsels known; +When men of mischief are destroy'd, +The snare must be their own. + +PAUSE. + +5 The wicked shall sink down to hell; +Thy wrath devour the lands +That dare forget thee, or rebel +Against thy known commands. + +6 Tho' saints to sore distress are brought, +And wait and long complain, +Their cries shall not be still forgot, +Nor shall their hopes be vain. + +7 [Rise, great Redeemer, from thy seat, +To judge and save the poor; +Let nations tremble at thy feet, +And man prevail no more. + +8 Thy thunder shall affright the proud, +And put their hearts to pain, +Make them confess that thou art God, +And they but feeble men.] + + +Psalm 10. +Prayer heard, and saints saved; or, Pride, +atheism, and oppression punished. + +For a humiliation day. + +1 Why doth the Lord stand off so far, +And why conceal his face, +When great calamities appear, +And times of deep distress? + +2 Lord, shall the wicked still deride +Thy justice and thy pow'r? +Shall they advance their heads in pride, +And still thy saints devour? + +3 They put thy judgments from their sight, +And then insult the poor; +They boast in their exalted height +That they shall fall no more. + +4 Arise, O God, lift up thine hand, +Attend our humble cry; +No enemy shall dare to stand +When God ascends on high. + +PAUSE. + +5 Why do the men of malice rage, +And say with foolish pride, +"The God of heaven will ne'er engage +To fight on Zion's side?" + +6 But thou for ever art our Lord; +And pow'rful is thine hand, +As when the heathens felt thy sword, +And perish'd from thy land. + +7 Thou wilt prepare our hearts to pray, +And cause thine ear to hear; +He hearkens what his children say, +And puts the world in fear. + +8 Proud tyrants shall no more oppress, +No more despise the just; +And mighty sinners shall confess +They are but earth and dust. + + +Psalm 11. +God loves the righteous and hates the wicked. + +1 My refuge is the God of love; +Why do my foes insult and cry, +"Fly like a timorous trembling dove, +"To distant woods or mountains fly"? + +2 If government be all destroy'd +(That firm foundation of our peace) +And violence make justice void, +Where shall the righteous seek redress? + +3 The Lord in heaven has fix'd his throne, +His eye surveys the world below; +To him all mortal things are known, +His eyelids search our spirits thro'. + +4 If he afflicts his saints so far +To prove their love, and try their grace, +What may the bold transgressors fear? +His very soul abhors their ways. + +5 On impious wretches he shall rain +Tempests of brimstone, fire, and death, +Such as he kindled on the plain +Of Sodom with his angry breath. + +6 The righteous Lord loves righteous souls, +Whose thoughts and actions are sincere; +And with a gracious eye beholds +The men that his own image bear. + + +Psalm 12:1. L. M. +The saint's safety and hope in evil times; +or, Sins of the tongue complained of, +viz, blasphemy, falsehood, &c. + +1 Lord, if thou dost not soon appear, +Virtue and truth will fly away; +A faithful man, amongst us here, +Will scarce be found if thou delay. + +2 The whole discourse, when neighbours meet, +Is fill'd with trifles loose and vain; +Their lips are flattery and deceit, +And their proud language is profane. + +3 But lips, that with deceit abound, +Shall not maintain their triumph long; +The God of vengeance will confound +The flattering and blaspheming tongue. + +4 "Yet shall our words be free," they cry, +"Our tongue shall be controll'd by none: +"Where is the Lord will ask us why? +"Or say, our lips are not our own?" + +5 The Lord who sees the poor opprest, +And hears th' oppressor's haughty strain, +Will rise to give his children rest, +Nor shall they trust his word in vain. + +6 Thy word, O Lord, tho' often try'd, +Void of deceit shall still appear +Not silver, seven times purify'd +From dross and mixture, shines so clear. + +7 Thy grace shall in the darkest hour +Defend the holy soul from harm; +Tho' when the vilest men have power +On every side will sinners swarm. + + +Psalm 12:2. C. M. +Complaint of a general corruption of manners; or, +The promise and signs of Christ's coming to judgment. + +1 Help, Lord, for men of virtue fail, +Religion loses ground, +The sons of violence prevail, +And treacheries abound. + +2 Their oaths and promises they break, +Yet act the flatterer's part; +With fair deceitful lips they speak, +And with a double heart. + +3 If we reprove some hateful lie, +How is their fury stirr'd! +"Are not our lips our own" they cry, +"And who shall be our lord?" + +4 Scoffers appear on every side, +Where a vile race of men +Is rais'd to seats of power and pride, +And bears the sword in vain. + +PAUSE. + +5 Lord, when iniquities abound, +And blasphemy grows bold, +When faith is hardly to be found, +And love is waxing cold, + +6 Is not thy chariot hastening on? +Hast thou not given this sign? +May we not trust and live upon +A promise so divine? + +7 "Yes," saith the Lord, "now will I rise, +"And make oppressors flee; +"I shall appear to their surprise, +"And set my servants free." + +8 Thy word, like silver seven times try'd, +Thro' ages shall endure; +The men that in thy truth confide, +Shall find thy promise sure. + + +Psalm 13:1. L. M. +Pleading with God under desertion; +or, Hope, in darkness. + +1 How long, 0 Lord, shall I complain +Like one that seeks his God in vain? +Canst thou thy face for ever hide? +And I still pray and be deny'd? + +2 Shall I for ever be forgot +As one whom thou regardest not? +Still shall my soul thine absence mourn? +And still despair of thy return? + +3 How long shall my poor troubled breast +Be with these anxious thoughts opprest? +And Satan, my malicious foe, +Rejoice to see me sunk so low. + +4 Hear, Lord, and grant me quick relief, +Before my death conclude my grief; +If thou withhold thy heavenly light, +I sleep in everlasting night. + +5 How will the powers of darkness boast, +If but one praying soul be lost! +But I have trusted in thy grace, +And shall again behold thy face. + +6 Whate'er my fears or foes suggest, +Thou art my hope, my joy, my rest; +My heart shall feel thy love, and raise +My cheerful voice to songs of praise. + + +Psalm 13:2. C. M. +Complaint under temptations of the devil. + +1 How long wilt thou conceal thy face? +My God, how long delay? +When shall I feel those heavenly rays +That chase my fears away? + +2 How long shall my poor labouring soul +Wrestle and toil in vain? +Thy word can all my foes control, +And ease my raging pain. + +3 See how the prince of darkness tries +All his malicious arts, +He spreads a mist around my eyes, +And throws his fiery darts. + +4 Be thou my sun and thou my shield, +My soul in safety keep; +Make haste before mine eyes are seal'd +In death's eternal sleep. + +5 How would the tempter boast aloud +If I become his prey! +Behold the sons of hell grow proud +At thy so long delay. + +6 But they shall fly at thy rebuke, +And Satan hide his head; +He knows the terrors of thy look +And hears thy voice with dread. + +7 Thou wilt display that sovereign grace, +Where all my hopes have hung; +I shall employ my lips in praise, +And victory shall be sung. + + +Psalm 14:1. First Part. +By nature all men are sinners. + +1 Fools in their hearts believe and say, +"That all religion's vain, +"There is no God that reigns on high, +"Or minds th' affairs of men." + +2 From thoughts so dreadful and profane +Corrupt discourse proceeds; +And in their impious hands are found +Abominable deeds. + +3 The Lord, from his celestial throne +Look'd down on things below, +To find the man that sought his grace, +Or did his justice know. + +4 By nature all are gone astray, +Their practice all the same; +There's none that fears his Maker's hand, +There's none that loves his name. + +5 Their tongues are us'd to speak deceit, +Their slanders never cease; +How swift to mischief are their feet, +Nor knew the paths of peace. + +6 Such seeds of sin (that bitter root) +In every heart are found; +Nor can they bear diviner fruit, +Till grace refine the ground. + + +Psalm 14:2. Second Part. +The folly of persecutors. + +1 Are sinners now so senseless grown +That they thy saints devour? +And never worship at thy throne, +Nor fear thine awful power? + +2 Great God appear to their surprise, +Reveal thy dreadful name; +Let them no more thy wrath despise, +Nor turn our hope to shame. + +3 Dost thou not dwell among the just? +And yet our foes deride, +That we should make thy name our trust; +Great God, confound their pride. + +4 O that the joyful day were come +To finish our distress! +When God shall bring his children home, +Our songs shall never cease. + + +Psalm 15:1. C. M. +Characters of a saint; or, a citizen of Zion; +or, The qualifications of a Christian. + +1 Who shall inhabit in thy hill, +O God of holiness? +Whom will the Lord admit to dwell +So near his throne of grace? + +2 The man that walks in pious ways, +And works with righteous hands; +That trusts his Maker's promises, +And follows his commands. + +3 He speaks the meaning of his heart, +Nor slanders with his tongue; +Will scarce believe an ill report, +Nor do his neighbour wrong. + +4 The wealthy sinner he contemns, +Loves all that fear the Lord: +And tho' to his own hurt he swears, +Still he performs his word. + +5 His hands disdain a golden bribe, +And never gripe the poor; +This man shall dwell with God on earth, +And find his heaven secure. + + +Psalm 15:2. L. M. +Religion and justice, goodness and truth; +or, Duties to God and man; +or, The qualifications of a Christian. + +1 Who shall ascend thy heavenly place, +Great God, and dwell before thy face? +The man that minds religion now, +And humbly walks with God below: + +2 Whose hands are pure, whose heart is clean, +Whose lips still speak the thing they mean; +No slanders dwell upon his tongue; +He hates to do his neighbour wrong. + +3 [Scarce will he trust an ill report, +Nor vents it to his neighbour's hurt: +Sinners of state he can despise, +But saints are honour'd in his eyes.] + +4 [Firm to his word he ever stood, +And always makes his promise good; +Nor dares to change the thing he swears, +Whatever pain or loss he bears.] + +5 [He never deals in bribing gold, +And mourns that justice should be sold: +While others gripe and grind the poor, +Sweet charity attends his door.] + +6 [He loves his enemies, and prays +For those that curse him to his face; +And doth to all men still the same +That he would hope or wish from them.] + +7 Yet when his holiest works are done, +His soul depends on grace alone; +This is the man thy face shall see, +And dwell for ever Lord, with thee. + + +Psalm 16:1. First Part. L. M. +Confession of our poverty, and saints the best +company; or, Good works profit men, not God. + +1 Preserve me, Lord, in time of need +For succour to thy throne I flee, +But have no merits there to plead; +My goodness cannot reach to thee. + +2 Oft have my heart and tongue confest +How empty and how poor I am; +My praise can never make thee blest, +Nor add new glories to thy name. + +3 Yet, Lord, thy saints on earth may reap +Some profit by the good we do; +These are the company I keep, +These are the choicest friends I know. + +4 Let others choose the sons of mirth +To give a relish to their wine, +I love the men of heavenly birth, +Whose thoughts and language are divine. + + +Psalm 16:2. Second Part. L. M. +Christ's all-sufficiency. + +1 How fast their guilt and sorrows rise +Who haste to seek some idol god! +I will not taste their sacrifice, +Their offerings of forbidden blood. + +2 My God provides a richer cup, +And nobler food to live upon; +He for my life has offer'd up +Jesus, his best beloved Son. + +3 His love is my perpetual feast; +By day his counsels guide me right; +And be his name for ever blest, +Who gives me sweet advice by night. + +4 I set him still before mine eyes; +At my right hand he stands prepar'd +To keep my soul from all surprise, +And be my everlasting guard. + + +Psalm 16:3. Third Part. L. M. +Courage in death, and hope of the resurrection. + +1 When God is nigh, my faith is strong, +His arm is my almighty prop: +Be glad, my heart; rejoice, my tongue, +My dying flesh shall rest in hope. + +2 Tho' in the dust I lay my head, +Yet, gracious God, thou wilt not leave +My soul for ever with the dead, +Nor lose thy children in the grave. + +3 My flesh shall thy first call obey, +Shake off the dust, and rise on high; +Then shalt thou lead the wondrous way, +Up to thy throne above the sky. + +4 There streams of endless pleasure flow; +And full discoveries of thy grace +(Which we but tasted here below) +Spread heavenly joys thro' all the place. + + +Psalm 16:4. First Part. C. M. +Support and counsel from God without merit. + +1 Save me, O Lord, from every foe; +In thee my trust I place, +Tho' all the good that I can do +Can ne'er deserve thy grace. + +2 Yet if my God prolong my breath +The saints may profit by't; +The saints, the glory of the earth, +The men of my delight. + +3 Let heathens to their idols haste, +And worship wood or stone; +But my delightful lot is cast +Where the true God is known. + +4 His hand provides my constant food, +He fills my daily cup; +Much am I pleas'd with present good, +But more rejoice in hope. + +5 God is my portion and my joy, +His counsels are my light; +He gives me sweet advice by day, +And gentle hints by night. + +6 My soul would all her thoughts approve +To his all-seeing eye; +Not death, nor hell my hope shall move, +While such a friend is nigh. + + +Psalm 16:5. Second Part. C. M. +The death and resurrection of Christ. + +1 I Set the Lord before my face, +"He bears my courage up; +"My heart, and tongue, their joys express, +"My flesh shall rest in hope. + +2 "My spirit, Lord, thou wilt not leave +"Where souls departed are; +"Nor quit my body to the grave +"To see corruption there. + +3 "Thou wilt reveal the path of life, +"And raise me to thy throne; +"Thy courts immortal pleasure give, +"Thy presence joys unknown." + +4 [Thus in the name of Christ, the Lord, +The holy David sung, +And Providence fulfils the word +Of his prophetic tongue. + +5 Jesus, whom every saint adores, +Was crucify'd and slain; +Behold the tomb its prey restores, +Behold, he lives again! + +6 When shall my feet arise and stand +On heaven's eternal hills? +There sits the Son at God's right hand, +And there the Father smiles.] + + +Psalm 17:1. 13 &c. S. M. +Portion of saints and sinners; +or, Hope and despair in death. + +1 Arise, my gracious God, +And make the wicked flee; +They are but thy chastising rod +To drive thy saints to thee. + +2 Behold the sinner dies, +His haughty words are vain; +Here in this life his pleasure lies, +And all beyond is pain. + +3 Then let his pride advance, +And boast of all his store: +The Lord is my inheritance, +My soul can wish no more. + +4 I shall behold the face +Of my forgiving God, +And stand complete in righteousness, +Wash'd in my Saviour's blood. + +5 There's a new heaven begun, +When I awake from death, +Drest in the likeness of thy Son, +And draw immortal breath. + + +Psalm 17:2. L. M. +The sinner's portion, and saint's hope; or, The +heaven of separate souls, and the resurrection. + +1 Lord, I am thine; but thou wilt prove +My faith, my patience, and my love; +When men of spite against me join, +They are the sword, the hand is thine. + +2 Their hope and portion lies below; +'Tis all the happiness they know, +'Tis all they seek; they take their shares, +And leave the rest among their heirs. + +3 What sinners value, I resign; +Lord, 'tis enough that thou art mine; +I shall behold thy blissful face, +And stand complete in righteousness. + +4 This life's a dream, an empty show; +But the bright world to which I go +Hath joys substantial and sincere; +When shall I wake, and find me there? + +5 O glorious hour! O blest abode! +I shall be near and like my God! +And flesh and sin no more control +The sacred pleasures of the soul. + +6 My flesh shall slumber in the ground, +Till the last trumpet's joyful sound; +Then burst the chains with sweet surprise, +And in my Saviour's image rise. + + +Psalm 18:1. 1-6 15-18. First Part. L. M. +Deliverance from despair; or, Temptations overcome. + +1 Thee will I love, O Lord, my strength, +My rock, my tower, my high defence, +Thy mighty arm shall be my trust, +For I have found salvation thence. + +2 Death, and the terrors of the grave +Stood round me with their dismal shade; +While floods of high temptations rose, +And made my sinking soul afraid. + +3 I saw the opening gates of hell, +With endless pains and sorrows there, +Which none but they that feel can tell, +While I was hurried to despair. + +4 In my distress I call'd 'my God,' +When I could scarce believe him mine; +He bow'd his ear to my complaint, +Then did his grace appear divine. + +5 [With speed he flew to my relief, +As on a cherub's wing he rode; +Awful and bright as lightning shone +The face of my deliverer, God. + +6 Temptations fled at his rebuke, +The blast of his almighty breath; +He sent salvation from on high, +And drew me from the deeps of death.] + +7 Great were my fears, my foes were great, +Much was their strength, and more their rage; +But Christ, my Lord, is conqueror still, +In all the wars that devils wage. + +8 My song for ever shall record +That terrible, that joyful hour; +And give the glory to the Lord +Due to his mercy and his power. + + +Psalm 18:2. 20-26. Second Part. L. M. +Sincerity proved and rewarded. + +1 Lord, thou hast seen my soul sincere, +Hast made thy truth and love appear; +Before mine eyes I set thy laws, +And thou hast own'd my righteous cause. + +2 Since I have learnt thy holy ways, +I've walk'd upright before thy face; +Or if my feet did e'er depart, +'Twas never with a wicked heart. + +3 What sore temptations broke my rest! +What wars and strugglings in my breast! +But thro' thy grace that reigns within, +I guard against my darling sin: + +4 That sin which close besets me still, +That works and strives against my will; +When shall thy Spirit's sovereign power +Destroy it that it rise no more? + +5 [With an impartial hand, the Lord +Deals out to mortals their reward; +The kind and faithful souls shall find +A God as faithful, and as kind. + +6 The just and pure shall ever say, +Thou art more pure, more just than they; +And men that love revenge shall know, +God hath an arm of vengeance too.] + + +Psalm 18:3. 30 31 34 35 46. 3d Part. L. M. +Rejoicing in God; or, Salvation and triumph. + +1 Just are thy ways, and true thy word, +Great rock of my secure abode; +Who is a God beside the Lord? +Or where's a refuge like our God? + +2 'Tis he that girds me with his might, +Gives me his holy sword to wield; +And while with sin and hell I fight, +Spreads his salvation for my shield. + +3 He lives (and blessed be my rock!) +The God of my salvation lives, +The dark designs of hell are broke; +Sweet is the peace my Father gives. + +4 Before the scoffers of the age, +I will exalt my Father's name, +Nor tremble at their mighty rage, +But meet reproach and bear the shame. + +5 To David and his royal seed +Thy grace for ever shall extend; +Thy love to saints in Christ their head +Knows not a limit, nor an end. + + +Psalm 18:4. First Part. C. M. +Victory and triumph over temporal enemies. + +1 We love thee, Lord, and we adore, +Now is thine arm reveal'd; +Thou art our strength, our heavenly tower, +Our bulwark and our shield. + +2 We fly to our eternal rock, +And find a sure defence; +His holy name our lips invoke, +And draw salvation thence. + +3 When God, our leader, shines in arms, +What mortal heart can bear +The thunder of his loud alarms? +The lightning of his spear? + +4 He rides upon the winged wind, +And angels in array +In millions wait to know his mind, +And swift as flames obey. + +5 He speaks, and at his fierce rebuke, +Whole armies are dismay'd; +His voice, his frown, his angry look +Strikes all their courage dead. + +6 He forms our generals for the field, +With all their dreadful skill; +Gives them his awful sword to wield, +And makes their hearts of steel. + +7 [He arms our captains to the fight, +Tho' there his name's forgot: +He girded Cyrus with his might, +But Cyrus knew him not. + +8 Oft has the Lord whole nations blest +For his own church's sake: +The powers that give his people rest, +Shall of his care partake.] + +Psalm 18:5. Second Part. C. M. +The conqueror's song. + +1 To thine almighty arm we owe +The triumphs of the day +Thy terrors, Lord, confound the foe, +And melt their strength away. + +2 'Tis by thine aid our troops prevail, +And break united powers, +Or burn their boasted fleets, or scale +The proudest of their towers. + +3 How have we chas'd them thro' the field, +And trod them to the ground, +While thy salvation was our shield, +But they no shelter found! + +4 In vain to idol-saints they cry, +And perish in their blood; +Where is a rock so great, so high, +So powerful as our God? + +5 The Rock of Israel ever lives, +His name be ever blest; +'Tis his own arm the victory gives, +And gives his people rest. + +6 On kings that reign as David did, +He pours his blessings down; +Secures their honours to their seed, +And well supports the crown. + + +Psalm 19:1. First Part. S. M. +The book of nature and scripture. + +For a Lord's-day morning. + +1 Behold the lofty sky +Declares its maker God, +And all his starry works on high +Proclaim his power abroad. + +2 The darkness and the light +Still keep their course the same; +While night to day, and day to night +Divinely teach his name. + +3 In every different land +Their general voice is known +They shew the wonders of his hand, +And orders of his throne. + +4 Ye British lands, rejoice, +Here he reveals his word, +We are not left to nature's voice +To bid us know the Lord. + +5 His statutes and commands +Are set before our eyes; +He puts his gospel in our hands, +Where our salvation lies. + +6 His laws are just and pure, +His truth without deceit, +His promises for ever sure, +And his rewards are great. + +7 [Not honey to the taste +Affords so much delight, +Nor gold that has the furnace past +So much allures the sight. + +8 While of thy works I sing, +Thy glory to proclaim, +Accept the praise, my God, my King, +In my Redeemer's name.] + + +Psalm 19:2. Second Part. S. M. +God's word most excellent; or, +Sincerity and watchfulness. + +For a Lord's-day morning. + +1 Behold the morning sun +Begins his glorious way; +His beams thro' all the nations run, +And life and light convey. + +2 But where the gospel comes, +It spreads diviner light, +It calls dead sinners from their tombs, +And gives the blind their sight. + +3 How perfect is thy word! +And all thy judgments just! +For ever sure thy promise, Lord, +And men securely trust. + +4 My gracious God, how plain +Are thy directions given! +O! may I never read in vain, +But find the path to heaven! + +PAUSE. + +5 I hear thy word with love, +And I would fain obey; +Send thy good Spirit from above +To guide me, lest I stray. + +6 O who can ever find +The errors of his ways? +Yet, with a bold presumptuous mind, +I would not dare transgress. + +7 Warn me of every sin, +Forgive my secret faults, +And cleanse this guilty soul of mine, +Whose crimes exceed my thoughts. + +8 While with my heart and tongue +I spread thy praise abroad, +Accept the worship and the song, +My Saviour and my God. + + +Psalm 19:3. L. M. +The books of nature and of scripture compared; +or, The glory and success of the gospel. + +1 The heavens declare thy glory, Lord, +In every star thy wisdom shines; +But when our eyes behold thy word +We read thy name in fairer lines. + +2 The rolling sun, the changing light, +And nights and days thy power confess; +But the blest volume thou hast writ +Reveals thy justice and thy grace. + +3 Sun, moon, and stars convey thy praise +Round the whole earth, and never stand; +So when thy truth begun its race, +It touch'd and glanc'd on every land. + +4 Nor shall thy spreading gospel rest, +Till thro' the world thy truth has run; +Till Christ has all the nations blest, +That see the light, or feel the sun. + +5 Great Sun of Righteousness, arise, +Bless the dark world with heavenly light; +Thy gospel makes the simple wise, +Thy laws are pure, thy judgments right. + +6 Thy noblest wonders here we view +In souls renew'd and sins forgiven: +Lord, cleanse my sins, my soul renew, +And make thy word my guide to heaven. + + +Psalm 19:4. +To the tune of the 113th Psalm. +The book of nature and scripture. + +1 Great God, the heaven's well-order'd frame +Declares the glories of thy name; +There thy rich works of wonder shine: +A thousand starry beauties there, +A thousand radiant marks appear +Of boundless power and skill divine. + +2 From night to day, from day to night, +The dawning and the dying light +Lectures of heavenly wisdom read; +With silent eloquence they raise +Our thoughts to our Creator's praise, +And neither sound nor language need. + +3 Yet their divine instructions run +Far as the journies of the sun, +And every nation knows their voice; +The sun, like some young bridegroom drest, +Breaks from the chambers of the east, +Rolls round, and makes the earth rejoice. + +4 Where'er he spreads his beams abroad, +He smiles and speaks his maker God; +All nature joins to shew thy praise: +Thus God, in every creature shines; +Fair is the book of nature's lines, +But fairer is thy book of grace. + +PAUSE. + +5 I love the volumes of thy word; +What light and joy those leaves afford +To souls benighted and distrest! +Thy precepts guide my doubtful way, +Thy fear forbids my feet to stray; +Thy promise leads my heart to rest. + +6 From the discoveries of thy law +The perfect rules of life I draw, +These are my study and delight: +Not honey so invites the taste, +Nor gold, that hath the furnace past, +Appears so pleasing to the sight. + +7 Thy threatenings wake my slumbering eyes, +And warn me where my danger lies; +But 'tis thy blessed gospel, Lord, +That makes my guilty conscience clean, +Converts my soul, subdues my sin, +And gives a free but large reward. + +8 Who knows the errors of his thoughts? +My God, forgive my secret faults, +And from presumptuous sins restrain; +Accept my poor attempts of praise +That I have read thy book of grace, +And book of nature, not in vain. + + +Psalm 20. +Prayer and hope of victory. +For a day of prayer in time of war. + +1 Now may the God of power and grace +Attend his people's humble cry! +Jehovah hears when Israel prays, +And brings deliverance from on high. + +2 The name of Jacob's God defends +Better than shields or brazen walls; +He from his sanctuary sends +Succour and strength, when Zion calls. + +3 Well he remembers all our sighs, +His love exceeds our best deserts, +His love accepts the sacrifice +Of humble groans and broken hearts. + +4 In his salvation is our hope, +And, in the name of Israel's God, +Our troops shall lift their banners up, +Our navies spread their flags abroad. + +5 Some trust in horses train'd for war, +And some of chariots make their boast; +Our surest expectations are +From thee, the Lord of heavenly hosts. + +6 [O! may the memory of thy name +Inspire our armies for the fight! +Our foes shall fall and die with shame, +Or quit the field with shameful flight.] + +7 Now save us, Lord, from slavish fear; +Now let our hopes be firm and strong, +Till the salvation shall appear, +And joy and triumph raise the song. + + +Psalm 21:1. C. M. +Our king is the care of heaven. + +1 The king, O Lord, with songs of praise, +Shall in thy strength rejoice; +And, blest with thy salvation, raise +To heaven his cheerful voice. + +2 Thy sure defence, thro' nations round, +Has spread his glorious name; +And his successful actions crown'd +With majesty and fame. + +3 Then let the king on God alone +For timely aid rely; +His mercy shall support the throne, +And all our wants supply. + +4 But, righteous Lord, his stubborn foes +Shall feel thy dreadful hand +Thy vengeful arm shall find out those +That hate his mild command. + +5 When thou against them dost engage, +Thy just but dreadful doom +Shall, like a fiery oven's rage, +Their hopes and them consume. + +6 Thus, Lord, thy wondrous power declare, +And thus exalt thy fame; +Whilst we glad songs of praise prepare +For thine almighty name. + + +Psalm 21:2. 1-9. L. M. +Christ exalted to the kingdom. + +1 David rejoic'd in God his strength, +Rais'd to the throne by special grace; +But Christ, the Son, appears at length, +Fulfils the triumph and the praise. + +2 How great is the Messiah's joy +In the salvation of thy hand! +Lord, thou hast rais'd his kingdom high, +And given the world to his command. + +3 Thy goodness grants whate'er he will, +Nor doth the least request withhold; +Blessings of love prevent him still, +And crowns of glory, not of gold. + +4 Honour and majesty divine +Around his sacred temples shine; +Blest with the favour of thy face, +And length of everlasting days. + +5 Thy hand shall find out all his foes; +And as a fiery oven glows +With raging heat and living coals, +So shall thy wrath devour their souls. + + +Psalm 22:1. 1-16. First Part. C. M, +The sufferings and death of Christ. + +1 "Why has my God my soul forsook, +"Nor will a smile afford?" +(Thus David once in anguish spoke, +And thus our dying Lord.) + +2 Tho' 'tis thy chief delight to dwell +Among thy praising saints, +Yet thou canst hear a groan as well, +And pity our complaints. + +3 Our fathers trusted in thy name, +And great deliverance found; +But I'm a worm, despis'd of men, +And trodden to the ground. + +4 Shaking the head they pass me by, +And laugh my soul to scorn; +"In vain he trusts in God" they cry, +"Neglected and forlorn." + +5 But thou art he who form'd my flesh +By thine almighty word, +And since I hung upon the breast, +My hope is in the Lord. + +6 Why will my Father hide his face, +When foes stand threatening round, +In the dark hour of deep distress, +And not an helper found? + +PAUSE. + +7 Behold thy darling left among +The cruel and the proud, +As bulls of Bashan fierce and strong, +As lions roaring loud. + +8 From earth and hell my sorrows meet +To multiply the smart; +They nail my hands, they pierce my feet +And try to vex my heart. + +9 Yet if thy sovereign hand let loose +The rage of earth and hell, +Why will my heavenly Father bruise +The Son he loves so well? + +10 My God, if possible it be, +Withhold this bitter cup; +But I resign my will to thee, +And drink the sorrows up. + +11 My heart dissolves with pangs unknown +In groans I waste my breath; +Thy heavy hand has brought me down +Low as the dust of death. + +12 Father, I give my spirit up; +And trust it in thy hand; +My dying flesh shall rest in hope, +And rise at thy command. + + +Psalm 22:2. 20 21 27-31. 2d Part. C. M. +Christ's sufferings and kingdom. + +1 "Now from the roaring lion's rage, +"O Lord, protect thy Son; +"Nor leave thy darling to engage, +"The powers of hell alone." + +2 Thus did our suffering Saviour pray, +With mighty cries and tears; +God heard him in that dreadful day, +And chas'd away his fears. + +3 Great was the victory of his death, +His throne exalted high; +And all the kindreds of the earth +Shall worship or shall die. + +4 A numerous offspring must arise +From his expiring groans; +They shall be reckon'd in his eyes +For daughters and for sons. + +5 The meek and humble soul shall see +His table richly spread; +And all that seek the Lord shall be +With joys immortal fed. + +6 The isles shall know the righteousness +Of our incarnate God; +And nations yet unborn profess +Salvation in his blood. + + +Psalm 22:3. L. M. +Christ's sufferings and exaltation. + +1 Now let our mournful songs record +The dying sorrows of our Lord; +When he complain'd in tears and blood +As one forsaken of his God. + +2 The Jews beheld him thus forlorn, +And shake their heads, and laugh in scorn; +"He rescu'd others from the grave, +"Now let him try himself to save. + +3 "This is the man did once pretend +"God was his father and his friend; +"If God the blessed lov'd him so, +"Why doth he fail to help him now?" + +4 Barbarous people! cruel priests! +How they stood round like savage beasts! +Like lions gaping to devour, +When God had left him in their power. + +5 They wound his head, his hands, his feet, +Till streams of blood each other meet; +By lot his garments they divide +And mock the pangs in which he dy'd. + +6 But God, his Father, heard his cry: +Rais'd from the dead he reigns on high. +The nations learn his righteousness, +And humble sinners taste his grace. + + +Psalm 23:1. L. M. +God our Shepherd. + +1 My shepherd is the living Lord; +Now shall my wants be well supply'd +His providence and holy word +Become my safety and my guide. + +2 In pastures where salvation grows +He makes me feed, he makes me rest; +There living water gently flows, +And all the food's divinely blest. + +3 My wandering feet his ways mistake, +But he restores my soul to peace, +And leads me for his mercy's sake, +In the fair paths of righteousness. + +4 Tho' I walk thro' the gloomy vale, +Where death and all its terrors are, +My heart and hope shall never fail, +For God my shepherd's with me there. + +5 Amidst the darkness and the deeps +Thou art my comfort, thou my stay; +Thy staff supports my feeble steps, +Thy rod directs my doubtful way. + +6 The sons of earth and sons of hell +Gaze at thy goodness and repine +To see my table spread so well +With living bread and cheerful wine. + +7 [How I rejoice when on my head +Thy Spirit condescends to rest! +'Tis a divine anointing shed +Like oil of gladness at a feast. + +8 Surely the mercies of the Lord +Attend his household all their days; +There will I dwell to hear his word, +To seek his face, and sing his praise.] + + +Psalm 23:2. C. M. +The same. + +1. My Shepherd will supply my need, +Jehovah is his name; +In pastures fresh he makes me feed +Beside the living stream. + +2 He brings my wandering spirit back, +When I forsake his ways; +And leads me for his mercy's sake, +In paths of truth and grace. + +3 When I walk thro' the shades of death, +Thy presence is my stay; +A word of thy supporting breath +Drives all my fears away. + +4 Thy hand, in spite of all my foes, +Doth still my table spread; +My cup with blessings overflows, +Thine oil anoints my head. + +5 The sure provisions of my God +Attend me all my days; +O may thy house be mine abode, +And all my work be praise! + +6 There would I find a settled rest, +(While others go and come) +No more a stranger or a guest, +But like a child at home. + + +Psalm 23:3. S. M. +The same. + +1 The Lord my shepherd is, +I shall be well supply'd; +Since he is mine, and I am his, +What can I want beside? + +2 He leads me to the place +Where heavenly pasture grows, +Where living waters gently pass, +And full salvation flows. + +3 If e'er I go astray, +He doth my soul reclaim, +And guides me in his own right way, +For his most holy name. + +4 While he affords his aid, +I cannot yield to fear; +Tho' I should walk thro' death's dark shade +My Shepherd's with me there. + +5 In spite of all my foes, +Thou dost my table spread, +My cup with blessings overflows, +And joy exalts my head. + +6 The bounties of thy love +Shall crown my following days; +Nor from thy house will I remove, +Nor cease to speak thy praise. + + +Psalm 24:1. C. M. +Dwelling with God. + +1 The earth for ever is the Lord's, +With Adam's numerous race; +He rais'd its arches o'er the floods, +And built it on the seas. + +2 But who among the sons of men +May visit thine abode? +He that has hands from mischief clean, +Whose heart is right with God. + +3 This is the man may rise, and take +The blessings of his grace; +This is the lot of those that seek +The God of Jacob's face. + +4 Now let our soul's immortal powers +To meet the Lord prepare, +Lift up their everlasting doors, +The King of glory's near. + +5 The King of glory! who can tell +The wonders of his might! +He rules the nations; but to dwell +With saints is his delight. + + +Psalm 24:2. L. M. +Saints dwell in heaven; or, Christ's ascension. + +1 This spacious earth is all the Lord's, +And men, and worms, and beasts, and birds: +He rais'd the building on the seas, +And gave it for their dwelling-place. + +2 But there's a brighter world on high, +Thy palace, Lord, above the sky: +Who shall ascend that blest abode, +And dwell so near his Maker God? + +3 He that abhors and fears to sin, +Whose heart is pure whose hands are clean, +Him shall the Lord the Saviour bless, +And clothe his soul with righteousness. + +4 These are the men, the pious race +That seek the God of Jacob's face; +These shall enjoy the blissful sight, +And dwell in everlasting light. + +PAUSE. + +5 Rejoice, ye shining worlds on high, +Behold the King of glory nigh! +Who can this King of glory be? +The mighty Lord, the Saviour's he. + +6 Ye heavenly gates, your leaves display +To make the Lord the Saviour way: +Laden with spoils from earth and hell, +The conqueror comes with God to dwell. + +7 Rais'd from the dead he goes before, +He opens heaven's eternal door, +To give his saints a blest abode +Near their Redeemer, and their God. + + +Psalm 25:1. 1-11. First Part. +Waiting for pardon and direction. + +1 I Lift my soul to God, +My trust is in his name; +Let not my foes that seek my blood +Still triumph in my shame. + +2 Sin and the powers of hell +Persuade me to despair; +Lord, make me know thy covenant well, +That I may 'scape the snare. + +3 From the first dawning light +Till the dark evening rise, +For thy salvation, Lord, I wait +With ever-longing eyes. + +4 Remember all thy grace, +And lead me in thy truth; +Forgive the sins of riper days, +And follies of my youth. + +5 The Lord is just and kind, +The meek shall learn his ways; +And every humble sinner find +The methods of his grace. + +6 For his own goodness' sake +He saves my soul from shame; +He pardons (tho' my guilt be great) +Thro' my Redeemer's name. + + +Psalm 25:2. 12 14 10 13. Second Part. +Divine instruction. + +1 Where shall the man be found +That fears t' offend his God, +That loves the gospel's joyful sound, +And trembles at the rod? + +2 The Lord shall make him know +The secrets of his heart, +The wonders of his covenant show, +And all his love impart. + +3 The dealings of his hand +Are truth and mercy still +With such as to his covenant stand, +And love to do his will. + +4 Their souls shall dwell at ease +Before their Maker's face, +Their seed shall taste the promises, +In their extensive grace. + + +Psalm 25:3. 15-22. Third Part. +Distress of soul; or, Backsliding and desertion. + +1 Mine eyes and my desire +Are ever to the Lord; +I love to plead his promises, +And rest upon his word. + +2 Turn, turn thee to my soul, +Bring thy salvation near: +When will thy hand release my feet +Out of the deadly snare? + +3 When shall the sovereign grace +Of my forgiving God +Restore me from those dangerous ways +My wandering feet have trod? + +4 The tumult of my thoughts +Doth but enlarge my woe; +My spirit languishes, my heart +Is desolate and low. + +5 With every morning light +My sorrow new begins; +Look on my anguish and my pain, +And pardon all my sins. + +PAUSE. + +6 Behold the hosts of hell +How cruel is their hate! +Against my life they rise, and join +Their fury with deceit. + +7 O keep my soul from death, +Nor put my hope to shame, +For I have plac'd my only trust +In my Redeemer's name. + +8 With humble faith I wait +To see thy face again; +Of Israel it shall ne'er be said, +"He sought the Lord in vain." + + +Psalm 26. +Self-examination; or, Evidences of grace. + +1 Judge me, O Lord, and prove my ways, +And try my reins, and try my heart; +My faith upon thy promise stays, +Nor from thy law my feet depart. + +2 I hate to walk, I hate to sit, +With men of vanity and lies; +The scoffer and the hypocrite +Are the abhorrence of mine eyes. + +3 Amongst thy saints will I appear, +With hands well wash'd in innocence; +But when I stand before thy bar, +The blood of Christ is my defence. + +4 I love thy habitation, Lord, +The temple where thine honours dwell; +There shall I hear thine holy word, +And there thy works of wonder tell. + +5 Let not my soul be join'd at last +With men of treachery and blood, +Since I my days on earth have past +Among the saints, and near my God. + + +Psalm 27:1. 1-6. First Part. +The church is our delight and safety. + +1 The Lord of glory is my light, +And my salvation too; +God is my strength, nor will I fear +What all my foes can do. + +2 One privilege my heart desires; +O grant me an abode +Among the churches of thy saints, +The temples of my God! + +3 There shall I offer my requests, +And see thy beauty still, +Shall hear thy messages of love, +And there enquire thy will. + +4 When troubles rise, and storms appear, +There may his children hide: +God has a strong pavilion where +He makes my soul abide. + +5 Now shall my head be lifted high +Above my foes around, +And songs of joy and victory +Within thy temple sound. + + +Psalm 27:2. 8 9 13 14. Second Part. + +Prayer and Hope. + +1 Soon as I heard my Father say, +"Ye children, seek my grace;" +My heart reply'd without delay, +"I'll seek my Father's face." + +2 Let not thy face be hid from me, +Nor frown my soul away; +God of my life, I fly to thee +In a distressing day. + +3 Should friends and kindred near and dear +Leave me to want, or die, +My God would make my life his care +And all my need supply. + +4 My fainting flesh had dy'd with grief, +Had not my soul believ'd +To see thy grace provide relief, +Nor was my hope deceiv'd. + +5 Wait on the Lord, ye trembling saints, +And keep your courage up; +He'll raise your spirit when it faints, +And far exceed your hope. + + +Psalm 29. L. M. +Storm and thunder. + +1 Give to the Lord, ye sons of fame, +Give to the Lord renown and power, +Ascribe due honours to his name, +And his eternal might adore. + +2 The Lord proclaims his power aloud +Over the ocean and the land; +His voice divides the watery cloud, +And lightnings blaze at his command. + +3 He speaks, and tempest, hail, and wind, +Lay the wide forests bare around; +The fearful hart, and frighted hind, +Leap at the terror of the sound. + +4 To Lebanon he turns his voice, +And, lo, the stately cedars break; +The mountains tremble at the noise, +The vallies roar, the deserts quake. + +5 The Lord sits sovereign on the flood, +The thunderer reigns for ever king; +But makes his church his blest abode, +Where we his awful glories sing. + +6 In gentler language there the Lord +The counsels of his grace imparts; +Amidst the raging storm his word +Speaks peace and courage to our hearts. + + +Psalm 30:1. First Part. +Sickness healed, and sorrow removed. + +1 I will extol thee, Lord, on high, +At thy command, diseases fly; +Who but a God can speak and save +From the dark borders of the grave? + +2 Sing to the Lord, ye saints of his, +And tell how large his goodness is; +Let all your powers rejoice and bless, +While you record his holiness. + +3 His anger but a moment stays +His love is life and length of days; +Tho' grief and tears the night employ, +The morning-star restores the joy. + + +Psalm 30:2. 6. Second Part. +Health, sickness, and recovery. + +1 Firm was my health, my day was bright, +And I presum'd 'twould ne'er be night; +Fondly I said within my heart, +"Pleasure and peace shall ne'er depart." + +2 But I forgot thine arm was strong, +Which made my mountain stand so long; +Soon as thy face began to hide, +My health was gone, my comforts dy'd. + +3 I cry'd aloud to thee, my God, +"What canst thou profit by my blood? +"Deep in the dust can I declare +"Thy truth, or sing thy goodness there? + +4 "Hear me, O God of grace," I said, +"And bring me from among the dead:" +Thy word rebuk'd the pains I felt, +Thy pardoning love remov'd my guilt. + +5 My groans, and tears, and forms of woe, +Are turn'd to joy and praises now; +I throw my sackcloth on the ground, +And ease and gladness gird me round. + +6 My tongue, the glory of my frame, +Shall ne'er be silent of thy name +Thy praise shall sound thro' earth and heaven, +For sickness heal'd, and sins forgiven. + + +Psalm 31:1. 5 13-19 22 23. First Part. +Deliverance from death. + +1 Into thine hand, 0 God of truth, +My spirit I commit; +Thou hast redeem'd my soul from death, +And sav'd me from the pit. + +2 The passions of my hope and fear +Maintain'd a doubtful strife, +While sorrow, pain, and sin conspir'd +To take away my life. + +3 "My times are in thine hand," I cry'd, +"Tho' I draw near the dust ;" +Thou art the refuge where I hide, +The God in whom I trust. + +4 O make thy reconciled face +Upon thy servant shine, +And save me for thy mercy's sake, +For I'm entirely thine. + +PAUSE. + +5 ['Twas in my haste, my spirit said, +"I must despair and die, +"I am cut off before thine eyes;" +But thou hast heard me cry.] + +6 Thy goodness how divinely free! +How wondrous is thy grace +To those that fear thy majesty, +And trust thy promises! + +7 O love the Lord, all ye his saints, +And sing his praises loud; +He'll bend his ear to your complaints, +And recompense the proud. + + +Psalm 31:2. 7-13 18-21. Second Part. +Deliverance from slander and reproach. + +1 My heart rejoices in thy name, +My God, my help, my trust; +Thou hast preserv'd my face from shame, +Mine honour from the dust. + +2 "My life is spent with grief," I cry'd, +"My years consum'd in groans, +"My strength decays, mine eyes are dry'd, +"And sorrow wastes my bones." + +3 Among mine enemies my name +Was a mere proverb grown, +While to my neighbours I became +Forgotten and unknown. + +4 Slander and fear on every side, +Seiz'd and beset me round; +I to the throne of grace apply'd, +And speedy rescue found. + +PAUSE. + +5 How great deliverance thou hast wrought +Before the sons of men! +The lying lips to silence brought, +And made their boastings vain! + +6 Thy children, from the strife of tongues, +Shall thy pavilion hide, +Guard them from infamy and wrongs, +And crush the sons of pride. + +7 Within thy secret presence, Lord, +Let me for ever dwell; +No fenced city, wall'd and barr'd, +Secures a saint so well. + + +Psalm 32:1. S. M. +Forgiveness of sins upon confession. + +1 O blessed souls are they +Whose sins are cover'd o'er! +Divinely blest, to whom the Lord +imputes their guilt no more. + +2 They mourn their follies past, +And keep their hearts with care; +Their lips and lives without deceit, +Shall prove their faith sincere. + +3 While I conceal'd my guilt +I felt the festering wound, +Till I confess'd my sins to thee, +And ready pardon found. + +4 Let sinners learn to pray, +Let saints keep near the throne; +Our help in times of deep distress, +Is found in God alone. + + +Psalm 32:2. First Part. L. M. +Free pardon and sincere obedience; +or, Confession and forgiveness. + +1 Happy the man to whom his God +No more imputes his sin, +But wash'd in the Redeemer's blood, +Hath made his garments clean! + +2 Happy, beyond expression, he +Whose debts are thus discharg'd; +And from the guilty bondage free, +He feels his soul enlarg'd. + +3 His spirit hates deceit and lies, +His words are all sincere; +He guards his heart, he guards his eyes, +To keep his conscience clear. + +4 While I my inward guilt supprest, +No quiet could I find; +Thy wrath lay burning in my breast, +And rack'd my tortur'd mind. + +5 Then I confess'd my troubled thoughts, +My secret sins reveal'd; +Thy pardoning grace forgave my faults, +Thy grace my pardon seal'd. + +6 This shall invite thy saints to pray, +When, like a raging flood, +Temptations rise, our strength and stay +Is a forgiving God. + + +Psalm 32:3. L. M. +Repentance and free pardon; +or, Justification and sanctification. + +1 Blest is the man, for ever blest, +Whose guilt is pardon'd by his God, +Whose sins with sorrow are confess'd, +And cover'd with his Saviour's blood. + +2 Blest is the man to whom the Lord +Imputes not his iniquities, +He pleads no merit of reward, +And not on works, but grace relies. + +3 From guile his heart and lips are free, +His humble joy, his holy fear, +With deep repentance well agree, +And join to prove his faith sincere. + +4 How glorious is that righteousness +That hides and cancels all his sins! +While a bright evidence of grace +Thro' his whole life appears and shines. + + +Psalm 32:4. Second Part. L. M. +A guilty conscience eased by confession and pardon. + +1 While I keep silence, and conceal +My heavy guilt within my heart, +What torments doth my conscience feel! +What agonies of inward smart! + +2 I spread my sins before the Lord, +And all my secret faults confess; +Thy gospel speaks a pard'ning word +Thine Holy Spirit seals the grace. + +3 For this shall every humble soul +Make swift addresses to thy seat; +When floods of huge temptations roll, +There shall they find a blest retreat. + +4 How safe beneath thy wings I lie, +When days grow dark, and storms appear! +And when I walk, thy watchful eye +Shall guide me safe from every snare. + + +Psalm 33:1. First Part. C. M. +Works of creation and providence. + +1 Rejoice, ye righteous, in the Lord, +This work belongs to you: +Sing of his name, his ways, his word, +How holy, just, and true! + +2 His mercy and his righteousness +Let heaven and earth proclaim; +His works of nature and of grace +Reveal his wondrous name. + +3 His wisdom and almighty word +The heavenly arches spread; +And by the Spirit of the Lord +Their shining hosts were made. + +4 He bid the liquid waters flow +To their appointed deep; +The flowing seas their limits know, +And their own station keep. + +5 Ye tenants of the spacious earth, +With fear before him stand; +He spake, and nature took its birth, +And rests on his command. + +6 He scorns the angry nations' rage, +And breaks their vain designs; +His counsel stands thro' every age, +And in full glory shines. + + +Psalm 33:2. Second Part. C. M. +Creatures vain, and God all-sufficient. + +1 Blest is the nation where the Lord +Hath fix'd his gracious throne; +Where he reveals his heavenly word, +And calls their tribes his own. + +2 His eye, with infinite survey, +Does the whole world behold; +He form'd us all of equal clay, +And knows our feeble mould. + +3 Kings are not rescu'd by the force +Of armies from the grave; +Nor speed nor courage of an horse +Can the bold rider save, + +4 Vain is the strength of beasts or men +To hope for safety thence; +But holy souls from God obtain +A strong and sure defence. + +5 God is their fear, and God their trust, +When plagues or famine spread, +His watchful eye secures the just +Amongst ten thousand dead. + +6 Lord, let our hearts in thee rejoice, +And bless us from thy throne; +For we have made thy word our choice, +And trust thy grace alone. + + +Psalm 33:3. First Part. As the 113th Psalm. +Works of creation and providence. + +1 Ye holy souls, in God rejoice, +Your Maker's praise becomes your voice; +Great is your theme, your songs be new: +Sing of his name, his word, his ways, +His works of nature and of grace, +How wise and holy, just and true. + +2 Justice and truth he ever loves, +And the whole earth his goodness proves, +His word the heavenly arches spread; +How wide they shine from north to south! +And by the Spirit of his mouth +Were all the starry armies made. + +3 He gathers the wide-flowing seas, +Those watery treasures know their place, +In the vast storehouse of the deep: +He spake, and gave all nature birth; +And fires, and seas, and heaven, and earth, +His everlasting orders keep. + +4 Let mortals tremble and adore +A God of such resistless power, +Nor dare indulge their feeble rage: +Vain are your thoughts, and weak your hands; +But his eternal counsel stands, +And rules the world from age to age. + + +Psalm 33:4. Second Part. As the 113th Psalm. +Creatures vain, and God all-sufficient. + +1 O Happy nation, where the Lord +Reveals the treasure of his word, +And builds his church his earthly throne! +His eye the heathen world surveys, +He form'd their hearts, he knows their ways; +But God their Maker is unknown. + +2 Let kings rely upon their host, +And of his strength the champion boast; +In vain they boast, in vain rely; +In vain we trust the brutal force, +Or speed, or courage of an horse, +To guard his rider, or to fly. + +3 The eye of thy compassion, Lord, +Doth more secure defence afford +When death or dangers threatening stand; +Thy watchful eye preserves the just, +Who make thy name their fear and trust, +When wars or famine waste the land. + +4 In sickness or the bloody field, +Thou our physician, thou our shield, +Send us salvation from thy throne; +We wait to see thy goodness shine; +Let us rejoice in help divine, +For all our hope is God alone. + + +Psalm 34:1. First Part. L. M. +God's care of the saints; or, Deliverance by prayer. + +1 Lord, I will bless thee all my days, +Thy praise shall dwell upon my tongue; +My soul shall glory in thy grace, +While saints rejoice to hear the song. + +2 Come, magnify the Lord with me, +Come, let us all exalt his name; +I sought th' eternal God, and he +Has not expos'd my hope to shame. + +3 I told him all my secret grief, +My secret groaning reach'd his ears; +He gave my inward pains relief, +And calm'd the tumult of my fears. + +4 To him the poor lift up their eyes, +Their faces feel the heavenly shine; +A beam of mercy from the skies +Fills them with light and joy divine. + +6 His holy angels pitch their tents +Around the men that serve the Lord; +O fear and love him, all his saints, +Taste of his grace and trust his word. + +6 The wild young lions, pinch'd with pain +And hunger, roar thro' all the wood; +But none shall seek the Lord in vain, +Nor want supplies of real good. + + +Psalm 34:2. 11-22. Second Part. L. M. +Religious education; or, Instructions of piety. + +1 Children in years and knowledge young, +Your parents' hope, your parents' joy, +Attend the counsels of my tongue, +Let pious thoughts your minds employ. + +2 If you desire a length of days, +And peace to crown your mortal state, +Restrain your feet from impious ways, +Your lips from slander and deceit. + +3 The eyes of God regard his saints, +His ears are open to their cries; +He sets his frowning face against +The sons of violence and lies. + +4 To humble souls and broken hearts +God with his grace is ever nigh; +Pardon and hope his love imparts +When men in deep contrition lie. + +5 He tell their tears, he counts their groans, +His Son redeems their souls from death; +His Spirit heals their broken bones, +They in his praise employ their breath. + + +Psalm 34:3. 1-10. First Part. C. M. +Prayer and Praise for eminent deliverance. + +1 I'll bless the Lord from day to day; +How good are all his ways! +Ye humble souls that use to pray, +Come, help my lips to praise. + +2 Sing to the honour of his name, +How a poor sufferer cry'd, +Nor was his hope expos'd to shame, +Nor was his suit deny'd. + +3 When threatening sorrows round me stood, +And endless fears arose, +Like the loud billows of a flood, +Redoubling all my woes; + +4 I told the Lord my sore distress +With heavy groans and tears, +He gave my sharpest torments ease, +And silenc'd all my fears. + +PAUSE. + +5 [O sinners, come and taste his love, +Come, learn his pleasant ways, +And let your own experience prove +The sweetness of his grace. + +6 He bids his angels pitch their tents +Round where his children dwell +What ills their heavenly care prevents +No earthly tongue can tell.] + +7 [O love the Lord, ye saints of his; +His eye regards the just; +How richly blest their portion is +Who make the Lord their trust! + +8 Young lions pinch'd with hunger roar, +And famish in the wood; +But God supplies his holy poor +With every needful good.] + + +Psalm 34:4. 11-22. Second Part. C. M. +Exhortations to peace and Holiness. + +1 Come, children, learn to fear the Lord; +And that your days be long, +Let not a false or spiteful word +Be found upon your tongue. + +2 Depart from mischief, practise love, +Pursue the works of peace; +So shall the Lord your ways approve, +And set your souls at ease. + +3 His eyes awake to guard the just, +His ears attend their cry; +When broken spirits dwell in dust, +The God of grace is nigh. + +4 What tho' the sorrows here they taste +Are sharp and tedious too, +The Lord, who saves them all at last, +Is their supporter now. + +5 Evil shall smite the wicked dead; +But God secures his own, +Prevents the mischief when they slide, +Or heals the broken bone. + +6 When desolation like a flood, +O'er the proud sinner rolls, +Saints find a refuge in their God, +For he redeem'd their souls. + + +Psalm 35:1. 1-9. First Part. +Prayer and faith of persecuted saints; +or, Imprecations mixed with charity. + +1 Now plead my cause, almighty God, +With all the Sons of strife; +And fight against the men of blood, +Who fight against my life. + +2 Draw out thy spear and stop their way, +Lift thine avenging rod; +But to my soul in mercy say, +"I am thy Saviour God." + +3 They plant their snares to catch my feet, +And nets of mischief spread; +Plunge the destroyers in the pit +That their own hands have made. + +4 Let fogs and darkness hide their way, +And slippery be their ground; +Thy wrath shall make their lives a prey, +And all their rage confound. + +5 They fly like chaff before the wind, +Before thine angry breath; +The angel of the Lord behind +Pursues them down to death. + +6 They love the road that leads to hell; +Then let the rebels die +Whose malice is implacable +Against the Lord on high. + +7 But if thou hast a chosen few +Amongst that impious race, +Divide them from the bloody crew +By thy surprising grace. + +8 Then will I raise my tuneful voice +To make thy wonders known; +In their salvation I'll rejoice, +And bless thee for my own. + + +Psalm 35:2. 12-14. Second Part. +Love to enemies; or, The love of +Christ to sinners typified in David. + +1 Behold the love, the generous love +That holy David shows; +Hark, how his sounding bowels move +To his afflicted foes! + +2 When they are sick his soul complains, +And seems to feel the smart; +The spirit of the gospel reigns, +And melts his pious heart. + +3 How did his flowing tears condole +As for a brother dead! +And fasting mortify'd his soul, +While for their life he pray'd. + +4 They groan'd; and curs'd him on their bed, +Yet still he pleads and mourns; +And double blessings on his head +The righteous God returns. + +5 O glorious type of heavenly grace! +Thus Christ the Lord appears; +While sinners curse, the Saviour prays, +And pities them with tears. + +6 He, the true David, Israel's king, +Blest and belov'd of God, +To save us rebels dead in sin, +Paid his own dearest blood. + + +Psalm 36:1. 5-9. L. M. +The perfections and providence of God; +or, General providence and special grace. + +1 High in the heavens, eternal God, +Thy goodness in full glory shines; +Thy truth shall break thro' every cloud +That veils and darkens thy designs. + +2 For ever firm thy justice stands, +As mountains their foundations keep; +Wise are the wonders of thy hands; +Thy judgments are a mighty deep. + +3 Thy providence is kind and large, +Both man and beast thy bounty share; +The whole creation is thy charge, +But saints are thy peculiar care. + +4 My God! how excellent thy grace, +Whence all our hope and comfort springs! +The sons of Adam in distress +Fly to the shadow of thy wings. + +5 From the provisions of thy house +We shall be fed with sweet repast; +There mercy like a river flows, +And brings salvation to our taste. + +6 Life, like a fountain rich and free +Springs from the presence of the Lord; +And in thy light our souls shall see +The glories promis'd in thy word. + + +Psalm 36:2. 1 2 5 6 7 9 C. M. +Practical atheism exposed; or, +The being and attributes of God asserted. + +1 While men grow bold in wicked ways! +And yet a God they own, +My heart within me often says, +"Their thoughts believe there's none." + +2 Their thoughts and ways at once declare +(Whate'er their lips profess) +God hath no wrath for them to fear, +Nor will they seek his grace. + +3 What strange self-flattery blinds their eyes! +But there's an hastening hour +When they shall see with sore surprise +The terrors of thy power. + +4 Thy justice shall maintain its throne, +Tho' mountains melt away; +Thy judgments are a world unknown, +A deep unfathom'd sea. + +5 Above the heavens' created rounds, +Thy mercies, Lord, extend; +Thy truth outlives the narrow bounds, +Where time and nature end. + +6 Safety to man thy goodness brings, +Nor overlooks the beast; +Beneath the shadow of thy wings +Thy children choose to rest. + +7 [From thee, when creature-streams run low, +And mortal comforts die, +Perpetual springs of life shall flow, +And raise our pleasures high. + +8 Tho' all created light decay, +And death close up our eyes +Thy presence makes eternal day +Where clouds can never rise.] + + +Psalm 36:3. 1-7. S. M. +The wickedness of man, and the majesty of God; +or. Practical atheism exposed. + +1 When man grows bold in sin +My heart within me cries, +"He hath no faith of God within, +Nor fear before his eyes." + +2 [He walks awhile conceal'd +In a self-flattering dream, +Till his dark crimes at once reveal'd +Expose his hateful name.] + +3 His heart is false and foul, +His words are smooth and fair; +Wisdom is banish'd from his soul, +And leaves no goodness there. + +4 He plots upon his bed +New mischiefs to fulfil; +He sets his heart, and hand, and head, +To practise all that's ill. + +5 But there's a dreadful God, +Tho' men renounce his fear; +His justice hid behind the cloud +Shall one great day appear. + +6 His truth transcends the sky; +In heaven his mercies dwell; +Deep as the sea his judgments lie, +His anger burns to hell. + +7 How excellent his love, +Whence all our safety springs! +O never let my soul remove +From underneath his wings. + + +Psalm 37:1. 1-15. First Part. +The cure of envy, fretfulness, and unbelief; +or, The rewards of the righteous, and the wicked; +or, The world's hatred, and the saint's patience. + +1 Why should I vex my soul and fret +To see the wicked rise? +Or envy sinners waxing great, +By violence and lies. + +2 As flowery grass cut down at noon, +Before the evening fades +So shall their glories vanish soon +In everlasting shades. + +3 Then let me make the Lord my trust, +And practise all that's good; +So shall I dwell among the just, +And he'll provide me food. + +4 I to my God my ways commit, +And cheerful wait his will; +Thy hand, which guides my doubtful feet, +Shall my desires fulfil. + +3 Mine innocence shalt thou display, +And make thy judgments known, +Fair as the light of dawning day, +And glorious as the noon. + +6 The meek at last the earth possess, +And are the heirs of heav'n; +True riches with abundant peace, +To humble souls are given. + +PAUSE. + +7 Rest in the Lord and keep his way, +Nor let your anger rise, +Tho' providence should long delay +To punish haughty vice. + +8 Let sinners join to break your peace, +And plot, and rage, and foam; +The Lord derides them, for he sees +Their day of vengeance come. + +9 They have drawn out the threatening sword, +Have bent the murderous bow, +To slay the men that fear the Lord, +And bring the righteous low. + +10 My God shall break their bows, and burn +Their persecuting darts, +Shall their own swords against them turn, +And pain surprise their hearts. + + +Psalm 37:2. 16 21 26-31. Second Part. +Charity to the poor; or, Religion in words and deeds. + +1 Why do the wealthy wicked boast, +And grow profanely bold? +The meanest portion of the just +Excels the sinner's gold. + +2 The wicked borrows of his friends, +But ne'er designs to pay; +The saint is merciful and lends, +Nor turns the poor away. + +3 His alms with liberal heart he gives +Amongst the sons of need; +His memory to long ages lives, +And blessed is his seed. + +4 His lips abhor to talk profane, +To slander or defraud; +His ready tongue declares to men +What he has learn'd of God. + +5 The law and gospel of the Lord +Deep in his heart abide; +Led by the Spirit and the word, +His feet shall never slide. + +6 When sinners fall, the righteous stand, +Preserv'd from every snare; +They shall possess the promis'd land, +And dwell for ever there. + + +Psalm 37:3. 23-27. Third Part. +The way and end of the righteous and the wicked. + +1 My God, the steps of pious men +Are order'd by thy will; +Tho' they should fall, they rise again, +Thy hand supports them still. + +2 The Lord delights to see their ways, +Their virtue he approves; +He'll ne'er deprive them of his grace, +Nor leave the men he loves. + +3 The heavenly heritage is theirs, +Their portion and their home; +He feeds them now, and makes them heirs +Of blessings long to come. + +4 Wait on the Lord, ye sons of men, +Nor fear when tyrants frown; +Ye shall confess their pride was vain, +When justice casts them down. + +PAUSE. + +5 The haughty sinner have I seen, +Nor fearing man nor God, +Like a tall bay-tree fair and green, +Spreading his arms abroad. + +6 And lo! he vanish'd from the ground, +Destroy'd by hands unseen: +Nor root, nor branch, nor leaf was found +Where all that pride had been. + +7 But mark the man of righteousness, +His several steps attend; +True pleasure runs thro' all his ways, +And peaceful is his end. + + +Psalm 38. +Guilt of conscience and relief; or, Repentance, +and prayer for pardon and health. + +1 Amidst thy wrath remember love, +Restore thy servant, Lord; +Nor let a father's chastening prove +Like an avenger's sword. + +2 Thine arrows stick within my heart, +My flesh is sorely prest; +Between the sorrow and the smart +My spirit finds no rest. + +3 My sins a heavy load appear, +And o'er my head are gone; +Too heavy they for me to bear, +Too hard for me t' atone. + +4 My thoughts are like a troubled sea, +My head still bending down; +And I go mourning all the day +Beneath my Father's frown. + +5 Lord, I am weak, and broken sore, +None of my powers are whole; +The inward anguish makes me roar, +The anguish of my soul. + +6 All my desire to thee is known, +Thine eye counts every tear, +And every sigh, and every groan +Is notic'd by thine ear. + +7 Thou art my God, my only hope; +My God will hear my cry; +My God will bear my spirit up +When Satan bids me die. + +8 [My foot is ever apt to slide, +My foes rejoice to see't; +They raise their pleasure and their pride +When they supplant my feet. + +9 But I'll confess my guilt to thee, +And grieve for all my sin, +I'll mourn how weak my graces be, +And beg support divine. + +10 My God, forgive my follies past, +And be for ever nigh; +O Lord of my salvation, haste, +Before thy servant die.] + + +Psalm 39:1. 1 2 3. First Part. +Watchfulness over the tongue; +or, Prudence and zeal. + +1 Thus I resolv'd before the Lord, +"Now will I watch my tongue, +"Lest I let slip one sinful word, +"Or do my neighbour wrong." + +2 And if I'm e'er constrain'd to stay +With men of lives profane +I'll set a double guard that day, +Nor let my talk be vain. + +3 I'll scarce allow my lips to speak +The pious thoughts I feel, +Lest scoffers should th' occasion take +To mock my holy zeal. + +4 Yet if some proper hour appear, +I'll not be overaw'd, +But let the scoffing sinners hear +That I can speak for God. + + +Psalm 39:2. 4-7. Second Part. +The vanity of man as mortal. + +1 Teach me the measure of my days, +Thou maker of my frame; +I would survey life's narrow space, +And learn' how frail I am. + +2 A span is all that we can boast, +An inch or two of time; +Man is but vanity and dust +In all his flower and prime. + +3 See the vain race of mortals move +Like shadows o'er the plain; +They rage and strive, desire and love, +But all the noise is vain. + +4 Some walk in honour's gaudy show, +Some dig for golden ore, +They toil for heirs, they know not who, +And straight are seen no more. + +5 What should I wish or wait for then +From creatures, earth and dust? +They make our expectations vain, +And disappoint our trust. + +6 Now I forbid my carnal hope, +My fond desires recall; +I give my mortal interest up, +And make my God my all. + + +Psalm 39:3. 9-13. Third Part. +Sick-bed devotion; or, Pleading without repining. + +1 God of my life, look gently down, +Behold the pains I feel; +But I am dumb before thy throne, +Nor dare dispute thy will. + +2 Diseases are thy servants, Lord, +They come at thy command; +I'll not attempt a murmuring word +Against thy chastening hand. + +3 Yet I may plead with humble cries, +Remove thy sharp rebukes; +My strength consumes, my spirit dies +Thro' thy repeated strokes. + +4 Crush'd as a moth beneath thy hand, +We moulder to the dust; +Our feeble powers can ne'er withstand, +And all our beauty's lost. + +5 [This mortal life decays apace, +How soon the bubble's broke! +Adam and all his numerous race +Are vanity and smoke.] + +6 I'm but a sojourner below, +As all my fathers were, +May I be well prepar'd to go +When I the summons hear. + +7 But if my life be spar'd awhile, +Before my last remove, +Thy praise shall be my business still, +And I'll declare thy love. + + +Psalm 40:1. 1 3 5 17. First Part. C. M. +A song of deliverance from great distress. + +1 I waited patient for the Lord, +He bow'd to hear my cry; +He saw me resting on his word, +And brought salvation nigh. + +2 He rais'd me from a horrid pit +Where mourning long I lay, +And from my bonds releas'd my feet, +Deep bonds of miry clay. + +3 Firm on a rock he made me stand, +And taught my cheerful tongue +To praise the wonders of his hand, +In a new thankful song. + +4 I'll spread his works of grace abroad; +The saints with joy shall hear, +And sinners learn to make my God +Their only hope and fear. + +5 How many are thy thoughts of love! +Thy mercies, Lord, how great! +We have not words nor hours enough +Their numbers to repeat. + +6 When I'm afflicted, poor and low, +And light and peace depart, +My God beholds my heavy woe, +And bears me on his heart. + + +Psalm 40:2. 6-9. Second Part. C. M. +The incarnation and sacrifice of Christ. + +1 Thus saith the Lord, +"Your work is vain, +"Give your burnt offerings o'er, +"In dying goats and bullocks slain +"My soul delights no more." + +2 Then spake the Saviour, "Lo, I'm here, +"My God, to do thy will; +"'Whate'er thy sacred books declare, +"Thy servant shall fulfil. + +3 "Thy law is ever in my sight, +"I keep it near my heart; +"Mine ears are open'd with delight +"To what thy lips impart." + +4 And see the bless'd Redeemer comes, +Th' eternal Son appears, +And at th' appointed time assumes +The body God prepares. + +5 Much he reveal'd his Father's grace, +And much his truth he shew'd, +And preach'd the way of righteousness, +Where great assemblies stood. + +6 His Father's honour touch'd his heart, +He pity'd sinners' cries, +And, to fulfil a Saviour's part, +Was made a sacrifice, + +PAUSE. + +7 No blood of beasts on altars shed +Could wash the conscience clean, +But the rich sacrifice he paid +Atones for all our sin. + +8 Then was the great salvation spread, +And Satan's kingdom shook; +Thus by the woman's promis'd seed +The serpent's head was broke. + + +Psalm 40:3. 5-10. L. M. +Christ our sacrifice. + +1 The wonders, Lord, thy love has wrought, +Exceed our praise, surmount our thought; +Should I attempt the long detail, +My speech would faint, my numbers fail. + +2 No blood of beasts on altars spilt, +Can cleanse the souls of men from guilt, +But thou hast set before our eyes +An all-sufficient sacrifice. + +3 Lo! thine eternal Son appears, +To thy designs he bows his ears, +Assumes a body, well prepar'd, +And well performs a work so hard. + +4 "Behold, I come," (the Saviour cries, +With love and duty in his eyes) +"I come to bear the heavy load +"Of sins, and do thy will, my God. + +5 "'Tis written in thy great decree, +"'Tis in thy book foretold of me, +"I must fulfil the Saviour's part, +"And, lo! thy law is in my heart! + +6 "I'll magnify thy holy law, +"And rebels to obedience draw, +"'When on my cross I'm lifted high, +"Or to my crown above the sky. + +7 "The Spirit shall descend, and show +"What thou hast done, and what I do; +"The wond'ring world shall learn thy grace, +"Thy wisdom and thy righteousness." + + +Psalm 41. 1 2 3. +Charity to the poor; or, Pity to the afflicted. + +1 Blest is the man whose bowels move, +And melt with pity to the poor, +Whose soul, by sympathising love, +Feels what his fellow-saints endure. + +2 His heart contrives for their relief +More good than his own hands can do; +He, in the time of general grief, +Shall find the Lord has bowels too. + +3 His soul shall live secure on earth, +With secret blessings on his head, +When drought, and pestilence, and dearth +Around him multiply their dead. + +4 Or if he languish on his couch, +God will pronounce his sins forgiv'n, +Will save him with a healing touch, +Or take his willing soul to heaven. + + +Psalm 42:1. 1-5. First Part. +Desertion and hope; or, Complaint +of absence from public worship. + +1 With earnest longings of the mind, +My God, to thee I look; +So pants the hunted hart to find +And taste the cooling brook. + +2 When shall I see thy courts of grace, +And meet my God again? +So long an absence from thy face +My heart endures with pain. + +3 Temptations vex my weary soul, +And tears are my repast; +The foe insults without control, +"And where's your God at last?" + +4 'Tis with a mournful pleasure now +I think on ancient days; +Then to thy house did numbers go, +And all our work was praise. + +5 But why, my soul, sunk down so far +Beneath this heavy load? +Why do my thoughts indulge despair, +And sin against my God? + +6 Hope in the Lord, whose mighty hand +Can all thy woes remove; +For I shall yet before him stand, +And sing restoring love. + + +Psalm 42:2. 6-11. Second Part. +Melancholy thoughts reproved; +or, Hope in afflictions. + +1 My spirit sinks within me, Lord, +But I will call thy name to mind, +And times of past distress record, +When I have found my God was kind. + +2 Huge troubles, with tumultuous noise, +Swell like a sea, and round me spread; +Thy water-spouts drown all my joys, +And rising waves roll o'er my head. + +3 Yet will the Lord command his love, +When I address his throne by day, +Nor in the night his grace remove; +The night shall hear me sing and pray. + +4 I'll cast myself before his feet, +And say "My God, my heavenly Rock, +"Why doth thy love so long forget +"The soul that groans beneath thy stroke?" + +5 I'll chide my heart that sinks so low, +Why should my soul indulge her grief? +Hope in the Lord, and praise him too, +He is my rest, my sure relief. + +6 Thy light and truth shall guide me still, +Thy word shall my best thoughts employ, +And lead me to thine heavenly hill, +My God, my most exceeding Joy. + + +Psalm 44. 1 2 3 8 15-26. +The church's complaint in persecution. + +1 Lord, we have heard thy works of old, +Thy works of power and grace, +When to our ears our fathers told +The wonders of their days: + +2 How thou didst build thy churches here, +And make thy gospel known; +Amongst them did thine arm appear, +Thy light and glory shone. + +3 In God they boasted all the day, +And in a cheerful throng +Did thousands meet to praise and pray, +And grace was all their song. + +4 But now our souls are seiz'd with shame, +Confusion fills our face, +To hear the enemy blaspheme, +And fools reproach thy grace. + +5 Yet have we not forgot our God, +Nor falsely dealt with heaven, +Nor have our steps declin'd the road +Of duty thou hast given. + +6 Tho' dragons all around us roar +With their destructive breath, +And thine own hand has bruis'd us sore +Hard by the gates of death. + +PAUSE. + +7 We are expos'd all day to die +As martyrs for thy cause, +As sheep for slaughter bound we lie +By sharp and bloody laws. + +8 Awake, arise, almighty Lord, +Why sleeps thy wonted grace? +Why should we look like men abhorr'd, +Or banish'd from thy face? + +9 Wilt thou for ever cast us off +And still neglect our cries? +For ever hide thine heavenly love +From our afflicted eyes? + +10 Down to the dust our soul is bow'd, +And dies upon the ground; +Rise for our help, rebuke the proud, +And all their powers confound. + +11 Redeem us from perpetual shame, +Our Saviour and our God; +We plead the honours of thy Name, +The merits of thy blood. + + +Psalm 45:1. S. M. +The glory of Christ; the success of +the gospel; and the Gentile church. + +1 My Saviour and my King, +Thy beauties are divine; +Thy lips with blessings overflow, +And every grace is thine. + +2 Now make thy glory known, +Gird on thy dreadful sword, +And ride in majesty to spread +The conquests of thy word. + +Strike thro' thy stubborn foes, +Or melt their hearts t'obey, +While justice, meekness, grace, and truth, +Attend thy glorious way. + +4 Thy laws, O God, are right; +Thy throne shall ever end; +And thy victorious gospel proves +A sceptre in thy hand. + +5 [Thy Father and thy God +Hath without measure shed +His Spirit, like a joyful oil, +T'anoint thy sacred head.] + +6 [Behold, at thy right hand +The Gentile church is seen, +Like a fair bride in rich attire, +And princes guard the queen.] + +7 Fair bride, receive his love, +Forget thy father's house; +Forsake thy gods, thy idol gods, +And pay thy Lord thy vows. + +8 O let thy God and King +Thy sweetest thoughts employ; +Thy children shall his honours sing +In palaces of joy. + + +Psalm 45:2. C. M. +The personal glories and government of Christ. + +1 I'll speak the honours of my King, +His form divinely fair; +None of the sons of mortal race +May with the Lord compare. + +2 Sweet is thy speech and heavenly grace +Upon thy lips is shed; +Thy God, with blessings infinite, +Hath crown'd thy sacred head. + +3 Gird on thy sword, victorious Prince, +Ride with majestic sway; +Thy terrors shall strike thro' thy foes, +And make the world obey. + +4 Thy throne, O God, for ever stands; +Thy word of grace shall prove +A peaceful sceptre in thy hands, +To rule the saints by love. + +5 Justice and truth attend thee still +But mercy is thy choice; +And God, thy God, thy soul shall fill +With most peculiar joys. + + +Psalm 45:3. First Part. L. M. +The glory of Christ, and power of his gospel. + +1 Now be my heart inspir'd to sing +The glories of my Saviour-king, +Jesus the Lord; how heavenly fair +His form! how 'bright his beauties are! + +2 O'er all the sons of human race +He shines with a superior grace, +Love from his lips divinely flows, +And blessings all his state compose. + +3 Dress thee in arms, most mighty Lord, +Gird on the terror of thy sword, +In majesty and glory ride +With truth and meekness at thy side. + + 4 Thine anger, like a pointed dart, +Shall pierce the foes of stubborn heart; +Or words of mercy kind and sweet +Shall melt the rebels at thy feet. + +5 Thy throne, O God, for ever stands, +Grace is the sceptre in thy hands; +Thy laws and works are just and right, +Justice and grace are thy delight. + +6 God, thine own God, has richly shed +His oil of gladness on thy head, +And with his sacred Spirit blest +His first-born Son above the rest. + + +Psalm 45:4. Second Part. L. M. +Christ and his church; or, The mystical marriage. + +1 The king of saints, how fair his face, +Adorn'd with majesty and grace! +He comes with blessings from above, +And wins the nations to his love. + +2 At his right hand our eyes behold +The queen array'd in purest gold; +The world admires her heavenly dress, +Her robe of joy and righteousness. + +3 He forms her beauties like his own; +He calls and seats her near his throne: +Fair stranger, let thine heart forget +The idols of thy native state. + +4 So shall the King the more rejoice +In thee, the favourite of his choice; +Let him be lov'd and yet ador'd, +For he's thy Maker and thy Lord. + +5 O happy hour, when thou shalt rise +To his fair palace in the skies, +And all thy Sons (a numerous train) +Each like a prince in glory reign! + +6 Let endless honours crown his head; +Let every age his praises spread; +While we with cheerful songs approve +The condescensions of his love. + + +Psalm 46:1. First Part. +The church's safety and triumph +among national desolations. + +1 God is the refuge of his saints, +When storms of sharp distress invade; +Ere we can offer our complaints +Behold him present with his aid. + +2 Let mountains from their seats be hurl'd +Down to the deep, and buried there; +Convulsions shake the solid world, +Our faith shall never yield to fear. + +3 Loud may the troubled ocean roar, +In sacred peace our souls abide, +While every nation, every shore, +Trembles, and dreads the swelling tide. + +4 There is a stream whose gentle flow +Supplies the city of our God; +Life, love, and joy still gliding thro', +And watering our divine abode. + +5 That sacred stream, thine holy word, +That all our raging fear controls: +Sweet peace thy promises afford, +And give new strength to fainting souls. + +6 Sion enjoys her monarch's love, +Secure against a threatening hour; +Nor can her firm foundations move, +Built on his truth, and arm'd with pow'r. + + +Psalm 46:2. Second Part. +God fights for his church. + +1 Let Sion in her King rejoice, +Tho' tyrants rage and kingdoms rise; +He utters his almighty voice, +The nations melt, the tumult dies. + +2 The Lord of old for Jacob fought, +And Jacob's God is still our aid; +Behold the works his hand has wrought, +What desolations he has made! + +3 From sea to sea, thro' all the shores, +He makes the noise of battle cease; +When from on high his thunder roars, +He awes the trembling world to peace. + +4 He breaks the bow, he cuts the spear, +Chariots he burns with heavenly flame; +Keep silence all the earth, and hear +The sound and glory of his Name. + +5 "Be still, and learn that I am God, +"I'll be exalted o'er the lands, +"I will be known and fear'd abroad, +"But still my throne in Sion stands." + +6 O Lord of hosts, almighty King, +While we so near thy presence dwell, +Our faith shall sit secure, and sing +Defiance to the gates of hell. + + +Psalm 47. +Christ ascending and reigning. + +1 O for a shout of sacred joy +To God the sovereign King! +Let every land their tongues employ, +And hymns of triumph sing. + +2 Jesus our God ascends on high, +His heavenly guards around +Attend him rising thro' the sky, +With trumpet's joyful sound. + +3 While angels shout and praise their King, +Let mortals learn their strains; +Let all the earth his honour sing; +O'er all the earth he reigns. + +4 Rehearse his praise with awe profound, +Let knowledge lead the song, +Nor mock him with a solemn sound +Upon a thoughtless tongue. + +5 In Israel stood his ancient throne, +He lov'd that chosen race; +But now he calls the world his own, +And heathens taste his grace. + +6 The British islands are the Lord's, +There Abraham's God is known, +While powers and princes, shields and swords, +Submit before his throne. + + +Psalm 48:1. 1-8. First Part. +The church is the honour and safety of a nation. + +1 [Great is the Lord our God, +And let his praise be great; +He makes his churches his abode, +His most delightful seat. + +2 These temples of his grace, +How beautiful they stand! +The honours of our native place, +And bulwarks of our land.] + +3 In Sion God is known +A refuge in distress; +How bright has his salvation shone +Thro' all her palaces! + +4 When kings against her join'd, +And saw the Lord was there, +In wild confusion of the mind +They fled with hasty tear. + +5 When navies tall and proud +Attempt to spoil our peace, +He sends his tempests roaring loud, +And sinks them in the seas. + +6 Oft have our fathers told, +Our eyes have often seen, +How well our God secures the fold +Where his own sheep have been. + +7 In every new distress +We'll to his house repair. +We'll think upon his wondrous grace, +And seek deliverance there. + + +Psalm 48:2. 10-14. Second Part. +The beauty of the church; or, +Gospel worship and order. + +1 Far as thy name is known +The world declares thy praise; +Thy saints, O Lord, before thy throne +Their songs of honour raise. + +2 With joy let Judah stand +On Sion's chosen hill, +Proclaim the wonders of thy hand, +And counsels of thy will. + +3 Let strangers walk around +The city where we dwell, +Compass and view thine holy ground, +And mark the building well. + +4 The orders of thy house, +The worship of thy court, +The cheerful songs, the solemn vows; +And make a fair report. + +5 How decent and how wise! +How glorious to behold! +Beyond the pomp that charms the eyes, +And rites adorn'd with gold. + +6 The God we worship now +Will guide us till we die, +Will be our God while here below, +And ours above the sky. + + +Psalm 49:1. 8-14. First Part. C. M. +Pride and death; or, The vanity of life and riches. + +1 Why doth the man of riches grow +To insolence and pride, +To see his wealth and honours flow +With every rising tide? + +2 [Why doth he treat the poor with scorn, +Made of the self-same clay, +And boast as tho' his flesh was born +Of better dust than they?] + +3 Not all his treasures can procure +His soul a short reprieve, +Redeem from death one guilty hour, +Or make his brother live. + +4 [Life is a blessing can't be sold, +The ransom is too high; +Justice will ne'er be brib'd with gold +That man may never die.] + +5 He sees the brutish and the wise, +The timorous and the brave, +Quit their possessions, close their eyes, +And hasten to the grave. + +6 Yet 'tis his inward thought and pride,-- +"My house shall ever stand; +"And that my name may long abide, +"I'll give it to my land." + +7 Vain are his thoughts, his hopes are lost, +How soon his memory dies! +His name is written in the dust +Where his own carcase lies. + +PAUSE. + +8 This is the folly of their way; +And yet their sons, as vain, +Approve the words their fathers say, +And act their works again. + +9 Men void of wisdom and of grace, +If honour raise them high. +Live like the beast, a thoughtless race, +And like the beast they die. + +10 Laid in the grave like silly sheep, +Death feeds upon them there, +Till the last trumpet break their sleep +In terror and despair. + + +Psalm 49:2. 14 15. Second Part. C. M. +Death and the resurrection. + +1 Ye sons of pride, that hate the just, +And trample on the poor, +When death has brought you down to dust, +Your pomp shall rise no more, + +2 The last great day shall change the scene; +When will that hour appear? +When shall the just revive, and reign +O'er all that scorn'd them here? + +3 God will my naked soul receive, +When sep'rate from the flesh; +And break the prison of the grave +To raise my bones afresh. + +4 Heaven is my everlasting home, +Th' inheritance is sure; +Let men of pride their rage resume, +But I'll repine no more. + + +Psalm 49:3. L. M. +The rich sinner's death, and the saint's resurrection. + +1 Why do the proud insult the poor, +And boast the large estates they have? +How vain are riches to secure +Their haughty owners from the grave! + +2 They can't redeem one hour from death, +With all the wealth in which they trust; +Nor give a dying brother breath, +When God commands him down to dust. + +3 There the dark earth and dismal shade +Shall clasp their naked bodies round; +That flesh, so delicately fed, +Lies cold, and moulders in the ground. + +4 Like thoughtless sheep the sinner dies, +Laid in the grave for worms to eat; +The saints shall in the morning rise, +And find th' oppressor at their feet. + +5 His honours perish in the dust, +And pomp and beauty, birth and blood: +That glorious day exalts the just +To full dominion o'er the proud. + +6 My Saviour shall my life restore, +And raise me from my dark abode; +My flesh and soul shall part no more, +But dwell for ever near my God. + + +Psalm 50:1. 1-6. First Part. C. M. +The last judgment; or, The saints rewarded. + +1 The Lord, the Judge, before his throne, +Bids the whole earth draw nigh, +The nations near the rising sun, +And near the western sky. + +2 No more shall bold blasphemers say, +"Judgment will ne'er begin," +No more abuse his long delay +To impudence and sin. + +3 Thron'd on a cloud our God shall come, +Bright flames prepare his way, +Thunder and darkness, fire and storm, +Lead on the dreadful day. + +4 Heaven from above his call shall hear, +Attending angels come, +And earth and hell shall know and fear +His justice and their doom. + +5 "But gather all my saints," he cries, +"That made their peace with God, +"By the Redeemer's sacrifice, +"And seal'd it with his blood. + +6 "Their faith and works brought forth to light +"Shall make the world confess +"My sentence of reward is right, +"And heaven adore my grace." + + +Psalm 50:2. 8 10 11 14 15 23. +Second Part. C. M. +Obedience is better than sacrifice. + +1 Thus saith the Lord, "the spacious fields +"And flocks and herds are mine +"O'er all the cattle of the hills +"I claim a right divine. + +2 "I ask no sheep for sacrifice, +"Nor bullocks burnt with fire; +"To hope and love, to pray and praise, +"Is all that I require. + +3 "Call upon me when trouble's near, +"My hand shall set thee free; +"Then shall thy thankful lips declare +"The honour due to me. + +4 "The man that offers humble praise, +"He glorifies me best; +"And those that tread my holy ways +"Shall my salvation taste." + + +Psalm 50:3. 1 5 8 16 21 22. 3d Part. C. M. +The judgement of hypocrites. + +1 When Christ to judgment shall descend +And saints surround their Lord, +He calls the nations to attend, +And hear his awful word. + +2 "Not for the want of bullocks slain +"Will I the world reprove; +"Altars and rites and forms are vain, +"Without the fire of love. + +3 "And what have hypocrites to do +"To bring their sacrifice? +"They call my statutes just and true, +"But deal in theft and lies. + +4 "Could you expect to 'scape my sight, +"And sin without control? +"But I shall bring your crimes to light, +"With anguish in your soul." + +5 Consider, ye that slight the Lord, +Before his wrath appear; +If once you fall beneath his sword, +There's no deliverer there. + + +Psalm 50:4. L. M. +Hypocrisy exposed. + +1 The Lord, the Judge, his churches warns, +Let hypocrites attend and fear, +Who place their hope in rites and forms, +But make not faith nor love their care. + +2 Vile wretches dare rehearse his name +With lips of falsehood and deceit; +A friend or brother they defame, +And soothe and flatter those they hate. + +3 They watch to do their neighbours wrong; +Yet dare to seek their Maker's face; +They take his covenant on their tongue, +But break his laws, abuse his grace. + +4 To heaven they lift their hands unclean, +Defil'd with lust, defil'd with blood; +By night they practise every sin, +By day their mouths draw near to God. + +5 And while his judgments long delay, +They grow secure and sin the more; +They think he sleeps as well as they, +And put far off the dreadful hour. + +6 O dreadful hour! when God draws near, +And sets their crimes before their eyes! +His wrath their guilty souls shall tear, +And no deliverer dare to rise. + + +Psalm 50:5. To a new Tune. +The last judgment. + +1 The Lord the Sovereign sends his summons forth, +Calls the south nations, and awakes the north; +From east to west the sounding orders spread +Thro' distant worlds and regions of the dead: +No more shall atheists mock his long delay; +His vengeance sleeps no more: behold the day! + +2 Behold the Judge descends; his guards are nigh; +Tempest and fire attend him down the sky: +Heaven, earth and hell draw near; let all things come +To hear his justice and the sinners doom: +But gather first my saints (the Judge commands) +Bring them, ye angels, from their distant lands. + +3 Behold! my covenant stands for ever good, +Seal'd by the eternal sacrifice in blood, +And sign'd with all their names; the Greek, the Jew, +That paid the ancient worship or the new. +There's no distinction here: come spread their thrones, +And near me seat my favorites and my sons. + +4 I their almighty Saviour and their God, +I am their Judge: ye heavens, proclaim abroad +My just eternal sentence, and declare +Those awful truths that sinners dread to hear: +Sinners in Zion, tremble and retire; +I doom the painted hypocrite to fire. + +5 Not for the want of goats or bullocks slain +Do I condemn thee; bulls and goats are vain +Without the flames of love: in vain the store +Of brutal offerings that were mine before; +Mine are the tamer beasts and savage breed, +Flocks, herds, and fields, and forests where they feed. + +6 If I were hungry would I ask thee food? +When did I thirst, or drink thy bullocks blood? +Can I be flatter'd with thy cringing bows, +Thy solemn chatterings and fantastic vows? +Are my eyes charm'd thy vestments to behold, +Glaring in gems, and gay in woven gold? + +7 Unthinking wretch! how couldst thou hope to please +A God, a spirit, with such toys as these? +While with my grace and statutes on thy tongue, +Thou lov'st deceit, and dost thy brother wrong; +In vain to pious forms thy zeal pretends, +Thieves and adulterers are thy chosen friends. + +8 Silent I waited with lone-suffering love, +But didst thou hope that I should ne'er reprove? +And cherish such an impious thought within, +That God the righteous would indulge thy sin? +Behold my terrors now: my thunders roll, +And thy own crimes affright thy guilty soul. + +9 Sinners, awake betimes; ye fools, be wise; +Awake, before this dreadful morning rise; +Change your vain thoughts, your crooked works amend, +Fly to the Saviour, make the Judge your friend; +Lest like a lion his last vengeance tear +Your trembling souls, and no deliverer near. + + +Psalm 50:6. To the old proper Tune. +The last judgment. + +1 The God of glory sends his summons forth, +Calls the south nations, and awakes the north; +From east to west the sov'reign orders spread, +Thro' distant worlds, and regions of the dead: +The trumpet sounds; hell trembles; heaven rejoices; +Lift up your heads, ye saints, with cheerful voices. + +2 No more shall atheists mock his long delay; +His vengeance sleeps no more; behold the day; +Behold the Judge descends; his guards are nigh; +Tempests and fire attend him down the sky. +When God appears, all nature shall adore him; +While sinners tremble, saints rejoice before him, + +3 "Heaven, earth, and hell, draw near; let all things come +"To hear my justice and the sinner's doom; +"But gather first my saints," the Judge commands, +"Bring them, ye angels from their distant lands:" +When Christ returns, wake every cheerful passion, +And shout, ye saints; he comes for your salvation. + +4 "Behold my covenant stands for ever good, +"Seal'd by th' eternal sacrifice in blood, +"And sign'd with all their names, the Greek, the Jew, +"That paid the ancient worship or the new." +There's no distinction here: join all your voices, +And raise your heads, ye saints, for heaven rejoices. + +5 "Here (saith the Lord) ye angels, spread their thrones: +"And near me seat my favorites and my sons: +"Come, my redeem'd, possess the joys prepar'd +"Ere time began! 'tis your divine reward:" +When Christ returns, wake every cheerful passion, +And shout, ye saints; he comes for your salvation. + +PAUSE THE FIRST. + +6 "I am the Saviour, I th' almighty God, +"I am the Judge: ye heavens, proclaim abroad +"My just eternal sentence, and declare +"Those awful truths that sinners dread to hear," +When God appears all nature shall adore him; +While sinners tremble, saints rejoice before him. + +7 "Stand forth, thou bold blasphemer and profane, +"Now feel my wrath, nor call my threatenings vain, +"Thou hypocrite, once drest in saint's attire, +"I doom the painted hypocrite to fire." +Judgment proceeds; hell trembles; heaven rejoices; +Lift up your heads, ye saints, with cheerful voices. + +8 "Not for the want of goats or bullocks slain +"Do I condemn thee; bulls and goats are vain +"Without the flames of love; in vain the store +"Of brutal offerings that were mine before:" +Earth is the Lord's; all nature shall adore him; +While sinners tremble, saints rejoice before him. + +9 "If I were hungry, would I ask thee food? +"When did I thirst, or drink thy bullocks blood? +"Mine are the tamer beasts and savage breed, +"Flocks, herds, and fields, and forests where they feed:" +All is the Lord's; he rules the wide creation: +Gives sinners vengeance, and the saints salvation. + +10 "Can I be flatter'd with thy cringing bows, +"Thy solemn chatterings and fantastic vows? +"Are my eyes charm'd thy vestments to behold, +"Glaring in gems, and gay in woven gold?" +God is the judge of hearts; no fair disguises +Can screen the guilty when his vengeance rises. + +PAUSE THE SECOND. + +11 "Unthinking wretch! how couldst thou hope to please +"A God, a spirit with such toys as these! +"While with my grace and statutes on thy tongue, +"Thou lov'st deceit, and dost thy brother wrong!" +Judgment proceeds; hell trembles; heaven rejoices: +Lift up your heads, ye saints, with cheerful voices. + +12 "In vain to pious forms thy zeal pretends, +"Thieves and adulterers are thy chosen friends; +"While the false flatterer at my altar waits, +"His harden'd soul divine instruction hates." +God is the judge of hearts; no fair disguises +Can screen the guilty when his vengeance rises. + +13 "Silent I waited with long suffering love; +"But didst thou hope that I should ne'er reprove? +"And cherish such an impious thought within, +"That the All-Holy would indulge thy sin?" +See, God appears; all nature joins t' adore him; +Judgment proceeds, and sinners fall before him. + +14 "Behold my terrors now; my thunders roll, +"And thy own crimes affright thy guilty soul; +"Now like a lion shall my vengeance tear +"Thy bleeding heart, and no deliverer near:" +Judgment concludes; hell trembles; heaven rejoices; +Lift up your heads, ye saints, with cheerful voices.. + +EPIPHONEMA. + +15 Sinners, awake betimes; ye fools, be wise; +Awake before this dreadful morning rise: +Change your vain thoughts, your crooked works amend, +Fly to the Saviour, make the Judge your friend: +Then join the saints: wake every cheerful passion; +When Christ returns, he comes for your salvation. + + +Psalm 51:1. First Part. L. M. +A penitent pleading for pardon. + +1 Shew pity, Lord, O Lord, forgive, +Let a repenting rebel live: +Are not thy mercies large and free? +May not a sinner trust in thee? + +2 My crimes are great, but not surpass +The power and glory of thy grace; +Great God, thy nature hath no bound, +So let thy pardoning love be found. + +3 O wash my Soul from every sin, +And make my guilty conscience clean; +Here on my heart the burden lies, +And past offences pain my eyes. + +4 My lips with shame my sins confess +Against thy law, against thy grace: +Lord, should thy judgment grow severe, +I am condemn'd, but thou art clear. + +5 Should sudden vengeance seize my breath, +I must pronounce thee just in death; +And if my soul were sent to hell, +Thy righteous law approves it well. + +6 Yet save a trembling sinner, Lord, +Whose hope, still hovering round thy word, +Would light on some sweet promise there, +Some sure support against despair. + + +Psalms 51:2. Second Part. L. M. +Original and actual sin confessed. + +1 Lord, I am vile, conceiv'd in sin; +And born unholy and unclean; +Sprung from the man whose guilty fall +Corrupts the race, and taints us all. + +2 Soon as we draw our infant-breath, +The seeds of sin grow up for death; +Thy law demands a perfect heart, +But we're defil'd in every part. + +3 [Great God, create my heart anew, +And form my spirit pure and true: +O make me wise betimes to spy +My danger, and my remedy.] + +4 Behold I fall before thy face; +My only refuge is thy grace: +No outward forms can make me clean; +The leprosy lies deep within. + +5 No bleeding bird, nor bleeding beast, +Nor hyssop branch, nor sprinkling priest, +Nor running brook, nor flood, nor sea, +Can wash the dismal stain away. + +6 Jesus, my God, thy blood alone +Hath power sufficient to atone; +Thy blood can make me white as snow; +No Jewish types could cleanse me so. + +7 While guilt disturbs and breaks my peace, +Nor flesh, nor soul hath rest or ease; +Lord, let me hear thy pardoning voice, +And make my broken bones rejoice. + + +Psalm 51:3. Third Part. L. M. +The backslider restored; or, Repentance +and faith in the blood of Christ. + +1 O thou that hear'st when sinners cry, +Tho' all my crimes before thee lie, +Behold them not with angry look, +But blot their memory from thy book. + +2 Create my nature pure within, +And form my soul averse to sin; +Let thy good Spirit ne'er depart, +Nor hide thy presence from my heart. + +3 I cannot live without thy light, +Cast out and banish'd from thy sight: +Thine holy joys, my God, restore, +And guard me that I fall no more. + +4 Tho' I have griev'd thy Spirit, Lord, +His help and comfort still afford: +And let a wretch come near thy throne +To plead the merits of thy Son. + +5 A broken heart, my God, my King, +Is all the sacrifice I bring; +The God of grace will ne'er despise +A broken heart for sacrifice. + +6 My soul lies humbled in the dust, +And owns thy dreadful sentence just; +Look down, O Lord, with pitying eye, +And save the soul condemn'd to die. + +7 Then will I teach the world thy ways; +Sinners shall learn thy sovereign grace; +I'll lead them to my Saviour's blood, +And they shall praise a pardoning God. + +8 O may thy love inspire my tongue! +Salvation shall be all my song; +And all my powers shall join to bless +The Lord, my strength and righteousness. + + +Psalm 51:4. 3-13. First Part. C. M. +Original and actual sin confessed and pardoned. + +1 Lord, I would spread my sore distress +And guilt before thine eyes; +Against thy laws, against thy grace, +How high my crimes arise. + +2 Shouldst thou condemn my soul to hell, +And crush my flesh to dust, +Heaven would approve thy vengeance well, +And earth must own it just. + +3 I from the stock of Adam came, +Unholy and unclean; +All my original is shame, +And all my nature sin. + +4 Born in a world of guilt, I drew +Contagion with my breath; +And, as my days advanc'd, I grew +A juster prey for death. + +5 Cleanse me, O Lord, and cheer my soul +With thy forgiving love; +O, make my broken spirit whole, +And bid my pains remove. + +6 Let not thy Spirit quite depart, +Nor drive me from thy face; +Create anew my vicious heart, +And fill it with thy grace. + +7 Then will I make thy mercy known +Before the sons of men; +Backsliders shall address thy throne, +And turn to God again. + + +Psalm 51:5. 14-17. Second Part. C. M. +Repentance and faith in the blood of Christ. + +1 O God of mercy! hear my call, +My loads of guilt remove; +Break down this separating wall +That bars me from thy love. + +2 Give me the presence of thy grace, +Then my rejoicing tongue +Shall speak aloud thy righteousness, +And make thy praise my song. + +3 No blood of goats, nor heifers slain, +For sin could e'er atone; +The death of Christ shall still remain +Sufficient and alone. + +4 A soul opprest with sin's desert, +My God will ne'er despise; +A humble groan, a broken heart +Is our best sacrifice. + + +Psalm 53. 4-6. +Victory and deliverance from persecution. + +1 Are all the foes of Sion fools, +Who thus devour her saints? +Do they not know her Saviour rules, +And pities her complaints? + +2 They shall be seiz'd with sad surprise; +For God's revenging arm +Scatters the bones of them that rise +To do his children harm. + +3 In vain the sons of Satan boast +Of armies in array: +When God has first despis'd their host, +They fall an easy prey. + +4 O for a word from Sion's King +Her captives to restore! +Jacob with all his tribes shall sing, +And Judah weep no more. + + +Psalm 55:1. 1-8 16-18 22. C. M. +Support for the afflicted and tempted soul. + +1 O God, my refuge, hear my cries, +Behold my flowing tears, +For earth and hell my hurt devise, +And triumph in my fears. + +2 Their rage is levell'd at my life, +My soul with guilt they load, +And fill my thoughts with inward strife +To shake my hope in God. + +3 With inward pain my heart-strings sound, +I groan with every breath; +Horror and fear beset me round +Amongst the shades of death, + +4 O were I like a feather'd dove, +And innocence had wings, +I'd fly, and make a long remove, +From all these restless things. + +5 Let me to some wild desert go, +And find a peaceful home, +Where storms of malice never blow, +Temptations never come. + +6 Vain hopes, and vain inventions all +To 'scape the rage of hell! +The mighty God on whom I call +Can save me here as well. + +PAUSE. + +7 By morning light I'll seek his face, +At noon repeat my cry, +The night shall hear me ask his grace, +Nor will he long deny. + +8 God shall preserve my soul from fear, +Or shield me when afraid; +Ten thousand angels must appear +If he command their aid. + +9 I cast my burdens on the Lord, +The Lord sustains them all; +My courage rests upon his word +That saints shall never fall. + +10 My highest hopes shall not be vain, +My lips shall spread his praise; +While cruel and deceitful men +Scarce live out half their days. + + +Psalm 55:2. 15-17 19 22. S. M. +Dangerous prosperity; or, +Daily devotions encouraged. + +1 Let sinners take their course, +And choose the road to death; +But in the worship of my God +I'll spend my daily breath. + +2 My thoughts address his throne +When morning brings the light; +I seek his blessing every noon, +And pay my vows at night. + +3 Thou wilt regard my cries, +O my eternal God, +While sinners perish in surprise +Beneath thine angry rod. + +4 Because they dwell at ease, +And no sad changes feel, +They neither fear nor trust thy Name, +Nor learn to do thy will. + +5 But I with all my cares +Will call upon the Lord, +I'll cast my burdens on his arm, +And rest upon his word, + +6 His arm shall well sustain +The children of his love; +The ground on which their safety stands +No earthly power can move. + + +Psalm 56. +Deliverance from oppression and falsehood; or, +God's care of his people, in answer to faith and prayer. + +1 Thou, whose justice reigns on high, +And makes th' oppressor cease, +Behold how envious sinners try +To vex and break my peace! + +2 The Sons of violence and lies +Join to devour me, Lord; +But as my hourly dangers rise, +My refuge is thy word. + +3 In God most holy, just, and true, +I have repos'd my trust; +Nor will I fear what flesh can do, +The offspring of the dust. + +4 They wrest my words to mischief still, +Charge me with unknown faults; +Mischief doth all their councils fill, +And malice all their thoughts. + +5 Shall they escape without thy frown? +Must their devices stand? +O cast the haughty sinner down, +And let him know thy hand! + +PAUSE. + +6 God counts the sorrows of his saints, +Their groans affect his ears; +Thou hast a book for my complaints, +A bottle for my tears. + +7 When to thy throne I raise my cry +The wicked fear and flee; +So swift is prayer to reach the sky, +So near is God to me. + +8 In thee, most holy, just, and true, +I have repos'd my trust; +Nor will I fear what man can do, +The offspring of the dust. + +9 Thy solemn vows are on me, Lord, +Thou shalt receive my praise; +I'll sing, "how faithful is thy word, +"How righteous all thy ways!" + +10 Thou hast secur'd my soul from death; +O set thy prisoner free, +That heart and hand, and life and breath +May be employ'd for thee. + + +Psalm 57. +Praise for protection, grace, and truth. + +1 My God, in whom are all the springs +Of boundless love and grace unknown, +Hide me beneath thy spreading wings +Till the dark cloud is overblown. + +2 Up to the heavens I send my cry, +The Lord will my desires perform; +He sends his angel from the sky, +And saves me from the threatening storm. + +3 Be thou exalted, O my God, +Above the heavens where angels dwell: +Thy power on earth be known abroad, +And land to land thy wonders tell. + +4 My heart is fix'd; my song shall raise +Immortal honours to thy Name; +Awake, my tongue, to sound his praise, +My tongue, the glory of my frame. + +5 High o'er the earth his mercy reigns, +And reaches to the utmost sky; +His truth to endless years remains, +When lower worlds dissolve and die. + +6 Be thou exalted, O my God, +Above the heavens where angels dwell; +Thy power on earth be known abroad, +And land to land thy wonders tell. + + +Psalm 58. As the 113th Psalm. +Warning to magistrates. + +1 Judges, who rule the world by laws, +Will ye despise the righteous cause, +When th' injur'd poor before you stands? +Dare ye condemn the righteous poor, +And let rich sinners 'scape secure, +While gold and greatness bribe your hands? + +2 Have ye forgot, or never knew, +That God will judge the judges too? +High in the heavens his justice reigns? +Yet you invade the rights of God, +And send your bold decrees abroad, +To bind the conscience in your chains. + +3 A poison'd arrow is your tongue, +The arrow sharp, the poison strong, +And death attends where'er it wounds: +You hear no counsels, cries or tears; +So the deaf adder stops her ears +Against the power of charming sounds. + +4 Break out their teeth, eternal God, +Those teeth of lions dy'd in blood; +And crush the serpents in the dust: +As empty chaff when whirlwinds rise, +Before the sweeping tempest flies, +So let their hopes and names be lost. + +5 Th' Almighty thunders from the sky, +Their grandeur melts, their titles die, +As hills of snow dissolve and run, +Or snails that perish in their slime, +Or births that come before their time, +Vain births, that never see the sun. + +6 Thus shall the vengeance of the Lord +Safety and joy to saints afford; +And all that hear shall join and say, +"Sure there's a God that rules on high, +"A God that hears his children cry, +"And will their sufferings well repay." + + +Psalm 60. 1-5 10-12. +On a day of humiliation for disappointments in war. + +1 Lord, hast thou cast the nation off? +Must we for ever mourn? +Wilt thou indulge immortal wrath? +Shall mercy ne'er return? + +2 The terror of one frown of thine +Melts all our strength away; +Like men that totter drunk with wine, +We tremble in dismay. + +3 Great Britain shakes beneath thy stroke, +And dreads thy threatening hand; +O heal the island thou hast broke, +Confirm the wavering land. + +4 Lift up a banner in the field, +For those that fear thy Name; +Save thy beloved with thy shield, +And put our foes to shame. + +5 Go with our armies to the fight, +Like a confederate God; +In vain confederate powers unite +Against thy lifted rod. + +6 Our troops shall gain a wide renown +By thine assisting hand; +'Tis God that treads the mighty down, +And makes the feeble stand. + + +Psalm 61. 1-6. +Safety in God. + +1 When overwhelm'd with grief +My heart within me dies, +Helpless and far from all relief +To heaven I lift mine eyes. + +2 O lead me to the rock +That's high above my head, +And make the covert of thy wings +My shelter and my shade. + +3 Within thy presence, Lord, +For ever I'll abide; +Thou art the tower of my defence, +The refuge where I hide. + +4 Thou givest me the lot +Of those that fear thy Name; +If endless life be their reward, +I shall possess the same. + + +Psalm 62. 5-12. +No trust in the creatures; or, +Faith in divine grace and power. + +1 My spirit looks to God alone; +My rock and refuge is his throne; +In all my fears, in all my straits, +My soul on his salvation waits. + +2 Trust him, ye saints, in all your ways, +Pour out your hearts before his face: +When helpers fail, and foes invade, +God is our all-sufficient aid. + +3 False are the men of high degree, +The baser sort are vanity; +Laid in the balance both appear +Light as a puff of empty air. + +4 Make not increasing gold your trust, +Nor set your heart on glittering dust; +Why will you grasp the fleeting smoke; +And not believe what God hath spoke? + +5 Once has his awful voice declar'd, +Once and again my ears have heard, +"All power is his eternal due; +"He must be fear'd and trusted too." + +6 For sovereign power reigns not alone, +Grace is a partner of the throne: +Thy grace and justice, mighty Lord, +Shall well divide our last reward. + + +Psalm 63:1. 1 2 5 34. First Part. C. M. +The morning of a Lord's day. + +1 Early, my God, without delay +I haste to seek thy face; +My thirsty spirit faints away, +Without thy cheering grace. + +2 So pilgrims on the scorching sand, +Beneath a burning sky, +Long for a cooling stream at hand, +And they must drink or die. + +3 I've seen thy glory and thy power +Thro' all thy temple shine; +My God, repeat that heavenly hour, +That vision so divine. + +4 Not all the blessings of a feast +Can please my soul so well, +As when thy richer grace I taste, +And in thy presence dwell. + +5 Not life itself with all her joys, +Can my best passions move, +Or raise so high my cheerful voice +As thy forgiving love. + +6 Thus till my last expiring day +I'll bless my God and King; +Thus will I lift my hands to pray, +And tune my lips to sing. + + +Psalm 63:2. 6-10. Second Part. +Midnight thoughts recollected. + +1 'Twas in the watches of the night +I thought upon thy power, +I kept thy lovely face in sight +Amidst the darkest hour. + +2 My flesh lay resting on my bed, +My soul arose on high; +"My God, my life, my hope," I said, +"Bring thy salvation nigh." + +3 My spirit labours up thine hill, +And climbs the heavenly road; +But thy right hand upholds me still, +While I pursue my God. + +4 Thy mercy stretches o'er my head +The shadow of thy wings; +My heart rejoices in thine aid, +My tongue awakes and sings. + +5 But the destroyers of my peace +Shall fret and rage in vain; +The tempter shall for ever cease, +And all my sins be slain. + +6 Thy sword shall give my foes to death, +And send them down to dwell +In the dark caverns of the earth, +Or to the deeps of hell. + + +Psalm 63:3. L. M. +Longing after God; or, The +love of God better than life. + +1 Great God, indulge my humble claim +Thou art my hope, my joy, my rest; +The glories that compose thy Name +Stand all engag'd to make me blest. + +2 Thou great and good, thou just and wise, +Thou art my Father and my God; +And I am thine by sacred ties; +Thy son, thy servant bought with blood. + +3 With heart, and eyes and lifted hands, +For thee I long, to thee I look, +As travellers in thirsty lands +Pant for the cooling water-brook. + +4 With early feet I love t' appear +Among thy saints and seek thy face; +Oft have I seen thy glory there, +And felt the power of sovereign grace. + +5 Not fruits nor wines that tempt our taste, +Not all the joys our senses know, +Could make me so divinely blest +Or raise my cheerful passions so. + +6 My life itself without thy love +No taste of pleasure could afford; +'Twould but a tiresome burden prove, +If I were banish'd from the Lord. + +7 Amidst the wakeful hours of night, +When busy cares afflict my head +One thought of thee gives new delight, +And adds refreshment to my bed. + +8 I'll lift my hands, I'll raise my voice, +While I have breath to pray or praise; +This work shall make my heart rejoice, +And spend the remnant of my days. + + +Psalm 63:4. S. M. +Seeking God. + +1 My God, permit my tongue +This joy, to call thee mine, +And let my early cries prevail +To taste thy love divine. + +2 My thirsty fainting soul +Thy mercy doth implore; +Not travellers in desert lands +Can pant for water more. + +3 Within thy churches, Lord, +I long to find my place, +Thy power and glory to behold, +And feel thy quickening grace. + +4 For life without thy love +No relish can afford; +No joy can be compar'd to this, +To serve and please the Lord. + +5 To thee I'll lift my hands, +And praise thee while I live; +Not the rich dainties of a feast +Such food or pleasure give. + +6 In wakeful hours at night +I call my God to mind; +I think how wise thy counsels are, +And all thy dealings kind. + +7 Since thou hast been my help, +To thee my spirit flies, +And on thy watchful providence +My cheerful hope relies. + +8 The shadow of thy wings +My soul in safety keeps; +I follow where my Father leads, +And he supports my steps. + + +Psalm 65:1. 1-5. First Part. L. M. +Public prayer and praise. + +1 The praise of Sion waits for thee, +My God; and praise becomes thy house; +There shall thy saints thy glory see, +And there perform their public vows. + +2 O thou, whose mercy bends the skies +To save when humble sinners pray, +All lands to thee shall lift their eyes +And islands of the northern sea. + +3 Against my will my sins prevail, +But grace shall purge away their stain; +The blood of Christ will never fail +To wash my garments white again. + +4 Blest is the man whom thou shalt choose, +And give him kind access to thee, +Give him a place within thy house, +To taste thy love divinely free. + +PAUSE. + +5 Let Babel fear when Sion prays; +Babel, prepare for long distress +When Sion's God himself arrays +In terror, and in righteousness. + +6 With dreadful glory God fulfils +What his afflicted saints request; +And with almighty wrath reveals +His love to give his churches rest. + +7 Then shall the flocking nations run +To Sion's hill, and own their Lord; +The rising and the setting sun +Shall see their Saviour's name ador'd. + + +Psalm 65:2. 5-13. Second Part. L. M. +Divine providence in air, earth, and sea; +or, The God of nature and grace. + +1 The God of our salvation hears +The groans of Sion mix'd with tears; +Yet when he comes with kind designs, +Thro' all the way his terror shines. + +2 On him the race of man depends, +Far as the earth's remotest ends, +Where the Creator's Name is known +By nature's feeble light alone. + +3 Sailors, that travel o'er the flood, +Address their frighted souls to God; +When tempests rage and billows roar +At dreadful distance from the shore. + +4 He bids the noisy tempest cease; +He calms the raging crowd to peace, +When a tumultuous nation raves +Wild as the winds, and loud as waves. + +5 Whole kingdoms shaken by the storm +He settles in a peaceful form; +Mountains establish'd by his hand, +Firm on their old foundations stand. + +6 Behold his ensigns sweep the sky, +New comets blaze and lightnings fly, +The heathen lands, with swift surprise, +From the bright horrors turn their eyes. + +7 At his command the morning-ray +Smiles in the east, and leads the day; +He guides the sun's declining wheels +Over the tops of western hills. + +8 Seasons and times obey his voice; +The evening and the morn rejoice +To see the earth made soft with showers, +Laden with fruit and drest in flowers. + +9 'Tis from his watery stores on high +He gives the thirsty ground supply; +He walks upon the clouds, and thence +Doth his enriching drops dispense. + +10 The desert grows a fruitful field, +Abundant food the vallies yield; +The vallies shout with cheerful voice, +And neighb'ring hills repeat their joys. + +11 The pastures smile in green array; +There lambs and larger cattle play; +The larger cattle and the lamb +Each in his language speaks thy Name. + +12 Thy works pronounce thy power divine, +O'er every field thy glories shine; +Thro' every month thy gifts appear; +Great God! thy goodness crowns the year. + + +Psalm 65:3. First Part. C. M. +A prayer-hearing God, and the Gentiles called. + +1 Praise waits in Sion, Lord, for thee; +There shall our vows be paid: +Thou hast an ear when sinners pray, +All flesh shall seek thine aid. + +2 Lord, our iniquities prevail, +But pardoning grace is thine, +And thou wilt grant us power and skill +To conquer every sin. + +3 Bless'd are the men whom thou wilt choose +To bring them near thy face, +Give them a dwelling in thine house +To feast upon thy grace. + +4 In answering what thy church requests +Thy truth and terror shine, +And works of dreadful righteousness +Fulfil thy kind design. + +5 Thus shall the wondering nations see +The Lord is good and just; +And distant islands fly to thee, +And make thy Name their trust. + +6 They dread thy glittering tokens, Lord, +When signs in heaven appear; +But they shall learn thy holy word, +And love as well as fear. + + +Psalm 65:4. Second Part. C. M. +The providence of God in air, earth, +and sea; or, The blessing of rain. + +1 'Tis by thy strength the mountains stand, +God of eternal power; +The sea grows calm at thy command, +And tempests cease to roar. + +2 Thy morning light and evening shade +Successive comforts bring; +Thy plenteous fruits make harvest glad, +Thy flowers adorn the spring. + +3 Seasons and times, and moons and hours, +Heaven, earth, and air are thine; +When clouds distil in fruitful showers, +The author is divine. + +4 Those wandering cisterns in the sky, +Borne by the winds around, +With watery treasures well supply +The furrows of the ground. + +5 The thirsty ridges drink their fill, +And ranks of corn appear; +Thy ways abound with blessings still, +Thy goodness crowns the year. + + +Psalm 65:5. Third Part. C. M. +The blessing: of the spring; or, God gives +rain. A psalm for the husbandman. + +1 Good is the Lord, the heavenly King, +Who makes the earth his care, +Visits the pastures every spring, +And bids the grass appear. + +2 The clouds, like rivers rais'd on high, +Pour out, at thy command, +Their watery blessings from the sky, +To cheer the thirsty land. + +3 The soften'd ridges of the field +Permit the corn to spring; +The vallies rich provision yield, +And the poor labourers sing. + +4 The little hills on every side +Rejoice at falling showers; +The meadows, drest in all their pride, +Perfume the air with flowers. + +5 The barren clods, refresh'd with rain, +Promise a joyful crop; +The parching grounds look green again, +And raise the reaper's hope. + +6 The various months thy goodness crowns; +How bounteous are thy ways; +The bleating flocks spread o'er the downs, +And shepherds shout thy praise. + + +Psalm 66:1. First Part. +Governing power and goodness; +or, Our graces tried by afflictions. + +1 Sing, all ye nations, to the Lord, +Sing with a joyful noise; +With melody of sound record +His honours, and your joys. + +2 Say to the power that shakes the sky, +"How terrible art thou! +"Sinners before thy presence fly, +"Or at thy feet they bow." + +3 [Come, see the wonders of our God, +How glorious are his ways: +In Moses' hand he puts his rod, +And cleaves the frighted seas. + +4 He made the ebbing channel dry, +While Israel pass'd the flood; +There did the church begin their joy, +And triumph in their God.] + +5 He rules by his resistless might: +Will rebel mortals dare +Provoke th' Eternal to the fight, +And tempt that dreadful war? + +6 O bless our God and never cease; +Ye saints, fulfil his praise; +He keeps our life, maintains our peace, +And guides our doubtful ways. + +7 Lord, thou hast prov'd our suffering souls, +To make our graces shine; +So silver bears the burning coals +The metal to refine. + +8 Thro' watery deeps and fiery ways +We march at thy command, +Led to possess the promis'd place +By thine unerring hand. + + +Psalm 66:2. 13-20. Second Part. +Praise to God for hearing prayer. + +1 Now shall my solemn vows be paid +To that Almighty power, +That heard the long requests I made +In my distressful hour. + +2 My lips and cheerful heart prepare +To make his mercies known; +Come, ye that fear my God, and hear +The wonders he has done. + +3 When on my head huge sorrows fell, +I sought his heavenly aid, +He sav'd my sinking soul from hell, +And death's eternal shade. + +4 If sin lay cover'd in my heart, +While prayer employ'd my tongue, +The Lord had shewn me no regard, +Nor I his praises sung. + + +5 But God, (his Name be ever blest) +Hath set my spirit free, +Nor turn'd from him my poor request, +Nor turn'd his heart from me. + + +Psalm 67. +The nation's prosperity and the church's increase. + +1 Shine, mighty God, on Britain shine +With beams of heavenly grace; +Reveal thy power thro' all our coasts, +And shew thy smiling face. + +2 [Amidst our isle, exalted high, +Do thou our glory stand, +And like a wall of guardian fire +Surround the favourite land.] + +3 When shall thy Name, from shore to shore, +Sound all the earth abroad, +And distant nations know and love +Their Saviour and their God? + +4 Sing to the Lord, ye distant lands, +Sing loud with solemn voice; +While British tongues exalt his praise, +And British hearts rejoice. + +5 He the great Lord, the sovereign Judge, +That sits enthron'd above, +Wisely commands the worlds he made +In justice and in love. + +6 Earth shall obey her Maker's will, +And yield a full increase; +Our God will crown his chosen isle +With fruitfulness and peace. + +7 God the Redeemer scatters round +His choicest favours here, +While the creation's utmost bound +Shall see, adore, and fear. + + +Psalm 68:1. 1-6 32-35. First Part. +The vengeance and compassion of God. + +1 Let God arise in all his might, +And put the troops of hell to flight, +As smoke that sought to cloud the skies +Before the rising tempest flies. + +2 [He comes array'd in burning flames; +Justice and vengeance are his names: +Behold his fainting foes expire +Like melting wax before the fire.] + +3 He rides and thunders thro' the sky; +His name Jehovah sounds on high: +Sing to his Name, ye sons of grace; +Ye saints, rejoice before his face. + +4 The widow and the fatherless +Fly to his aid in sharp distress; +In him the poor and helpless find +A Judge that's just, a Father kind. + +5 He breaks the captive's heavy chain, +And prisoners see the light again; +But rebels that dispute his will, +Shall dwell in chains and darkness still. + +PAUSE. + +6 Kingdoms and thrones to God belong; +Crown him, ye nations, in your song; +His wondrous names and powers rehearse; +His honours shall enrich your verse. + +7 He shakes the heavens with loud alarms; +How terrible is God in arms! +In Israel are his mercies known, +Israel is his peculiar throne. + +8 Proclaim him King, pronounce him blest! +He's your defence, your joy, your rest: +When terrors rise and nations faint, +God is the strength of every saint. + + +Psalm 68:2. 17 18. Second Part. +Christ's ascension, and the gift of the Spirit. + +1 Lord, when thou didst ascend on high, +Ten thousand angels fill'd the sky; +Those heavenly guards around thee wait, +Like chariots that attend thy state. + +2 Not Sinai's mountain could appear +More glorious when the Lord was there; +While he pronounc'd his dreadful law, +And struck the chosen tribes with awe. + +3 How bright the triumph none can tell, +When the rebellious powers of hell +That thousand souls had captive made, +Were all in chains like captives led. + +4 Rais'd by his Father to the throne, +He sent the promis'd Spirit down, +With gifts and grace for rebel men, +That God might dwell on earth again. + + +Psalm 68:3. 19 9 20-2. Third Part. +Praise for temporal blessings; or, +Common and special mercies. + +1 We bless the Lord, the just, the good, +Who fills our hearts with joy and food; +Who pours his blessings from the skies, +And loads our days with rich supplies. + +2 He sends the sun his circuit round, +To cheer the fruits, to warm the ground; +He bids the clouds with plenteous rain +Refresh the thirsty earth again. + +3 'Tis to his care we owe our breath, +And all our near escapes from death; +Safety and health to God belong; +He heals the weak, and guards the strong. + +4 He makes the saint and sinner prove +The common blessings of his love; +But the wide difference that remains, +Is endless joy, or endless pains. + +5 The Lord, that bruis'd the serpent's head, +On all the serpent's seed shall tread; +The stubborn sinner's hope confound, +And smite him with a lasting wound. + +6 But his right hand his saints shall raise +From the deep earth, or deeper seas, +And bring them to his courts above, +There shall they taste his special love. + + +Psalm 69:1. 1-14. First Part. C. M. +The sufferings of Christ for our salvation. + +1 "Save me, O God, the swelling floods +"Break in upon my soul: +"I sink, and sorrows o'er my head +"Like mighty waters roll. + +2 "I cry till all my voice be gone, +"In tears I waste the day: +"My God behold my longing eyes, +"And shorten thy delay. + +3 "They hate my soul without a cause, +"And still their number grows +"More than the hairs around my head, +"And mighty are my foes. + +4 "'Twas then I paid that dreadful debt +"That men could never pay, +"And gave those honours to thy law +"Which sinners took away." + +5 Thus in the great Messiah's name, +The royal prophet mourns; +Thus he awakes our hearts to grief, +And gives us joy by turns. + +6 "Now shall the saints rejoice and find +"Salvation in my Name: +"For I have borne their heavy load +Of sorrow, pain, and shame. + + +7 "Grief, like a garment, cloth'd me round, +"And sackcloth was my dress, +"While I procur'd for naked souls +"A robe of righteousness. + +8 "Amongst my brethren and the Jews +"I like a stranger stood, +"And bore their vile reproach to bring +"The Gentiles near to God. + +9 "I came in sinful mortals' stead, +"To do my Father's will; +"Yet when I cleans'd my father's house +"They scandaliz'd my zeal. + +10 "My fasting and my holy groans +"Were made the drunkard's song; +"But God, from his celestial throne, +"Heard my complaining tongue. + +11 "He sav'd me from the dreadful deep, +"Nor let my soul be drown'd; +"He rais'd and fix'd my sinking feet +"On well establish'd ground. + +12 "'Twas in a most accepted hour +"My prayer arose on high, +"And for my sake my God shall hear +"The dying sinner's cry." + + +Psalm 69:2. 14-21 26 29 32. 2d Part. C. M. +The passion and exaltation of Christ. + +1 Now let our lips with holy fear +And mournful pleasure sing +The sufferings of our great High-Priest, +The sorrows of our King. + +2 He sinks in floods of deep distress: +How high the waters rise! +While to his heavenly Father's ear +He sends perpetual cries. + +3 "Hear me, O Lord, and save thy Son, +"Nor hide thy shining face; +"Why should thy favorite look like one +"Forsaken of thy grace? + +4 "With rage they persecute the man +"That groans beneath thy wound, +"While for a sacrifice I pour +"My life upon the ground. + +5 "They tread my honour to the dust, +"And laugh when I complain +"Their sharp insulting slanders add +"Fresh anguish to my pain. + +6 "All my reproach is known to thee, +"The scandal and the shame; +"Reproach has broke my bleeding heart, +"And lies defil'd my Name. + +7 "I look'd for pity, but in vain; +"My kindred are my grief! +"I ask my friends for comfort round, +"But meet with no relief. + +8 "With vinegar they mock my thirst; +"They give me gall for food; +"And sporting with my dying groans, +"They triumph in my blood. + +9 "Shine into my distressed soul, +"Let thy compassion save; +"And tho' my flesh sink down to death, +"Redeem it from the grave. + +10 "I shall arise to praise thy Name, +"Shall reign in worlds unknown; +"And thy salvation, O my God, +"Shall seat me on thy throne." + + +Psalm 69:3. Third Part. C. M. +Christ's obedience and death; or, +God glorified and sinners saved. + +1 Father, I sing thy wondrous grace, +I bless my Saviour's Name, +He bought salvation for the poor, +And bore the sinner's shame. + +2 His deep distress has rais'd us high, +His duty and his zeal +Fulfill'd the law which mortals broke, +And finish'd all thy will. + +3 His dying groans, his living songs +Shall better please my God +Than harp or trumpet's solemn sound, +Than goats' or bullocks' blood. + +4 This shall his humble followers see, +And set their hearts at rest; +They by his death draw near to thee, +And live for ever blest. + +5 Let heaven, and all that dwell on high, +To God their voices raise, +While lands and seas assist the sky, +And join t' advance the praise. + +6 Zion is thine, most holy God; +Thy Son shall bless her gates; +And glory purchas'd by his blood +For thine own Israel waits. + + +Psalm 69:4. First Part. L. M. +Christ's passion, and sinners' salvation. + +1 Deep in our hearts let us record +The deeper sorrows of our Lord; +Behold the rising billows roll +To overwhelm his holy soul. + +2 In long complaints he spends his breath, +While hosts of hell, and powers of death, +And all the sons of malice join +To execute their curst design. + +3 Yet, gracious God, thy power and love +Has made the curse a blessing prove; +Those dreadful sufferings of thy Son +Aton'd for sins which we had done. + +4 The pangs of our expiring Lord +The honours of thy law restor'd; +His sorrows made thy justice known, +And paid for follies not his own. + +6 O for his sake our guilt forgive, +And let the mourning sinner live; +The Lord will hear us in his Name, +Nor shall our hope be turn'd to shame. + + +Psalm 69:5. 7 &c. Second Part. L. M. +Christ's sufferings and zeal. + +1 'Twas for thy sake, eternal God, +Thy son sustain'd that heavy load +Of base reproach and sore disgrace, +And shame defil'd his sacred face. + +2 The Jews, his brethren and his kin, +Abus'd the man that check'd their sin: +While he fulfill'd thy holy laws, +They hate him, but without a cause. + +3 ["My Father's house, said he, was made +"A place for worship, not for trade;" +Then scattering all their gold and brass, +He scourg'd the merchants from the place.] + +4 [Zeal for the temple of his God +Consum'd his life, expos'd his blood: +Reproaches at thy glory thrown +He felt, and mourn'd them as his own.] + +5 [His friends forsook, his followers fled, +While foes and arms surround his head; +They curse him with a slanderous tongue, +And the false judge maintains the wrong.] + +6 His life they load with hateful lies, +And charge his lips with blasphemies; +They nail him to the shameful tree: +There hung the man that dy'd for me. + +7 [Wretches with hearts as hard as stones, +Insult his piety and groans; +Gall was the food they gave him there, +And mock'd his thirst with vinegar.] + +8 But God beheld; and from his throne +Marks out the men that hate his Son; +The hand that rais'd him from the dead +Shall pour the vengeance on their head. + + +Psalm 71:1. 5-9. First Part. +The aged saint's reflection and hope. + +1 My God, my everlasting hope, +I live upon thy truth; +Thine hands have held my childhood up, +And strengthen'd all my youth. + +2 My flesh was fashion'd by thy power, +With all these limbs of mine; +And from my mother's painful hour +I've been entirely thine. + +3 Still has my life new wonders seen +Repeated every year; +Behold my days that yet remain, +I trust them to thy care. + +4 Cast me not off when strength declines, +When hoary hairs arise; +And round me let thy glories shine +Whene'er thy servant dies. + +5 Then in the history of my age, +When men review my days, +They'll read thy love in every page, +In every line thy praise. + + +Psalm 71:2. 15 14 16 23 22 24. 2d Part. +Christ our strength and righteousness. + +1 My Saviour, my almighty Friend, +When I begin thy praise, +Where will the growing numbers end, +The numbers of thy grace? + +2 Thou art my everlasting trust, +Thy goodness I adore; +And since I knew thy graces first +I speak thy glories more. + +3 My feet shall travel all the length +Of the celestial road, +And march with courage in thy strength +To see my Father God. + +4 When I am fill'd with sore distress +For some surprising sin, +I'll plead thy perfect righteousness, +And mention none but thine. + +5 How will my lips rejoice to tell +The victories of my King! +My soul redeem'd from sin and hell +Shall thy salvation sing. + +6 [My tongue shall all the day proclaim +My Saviour and my God; +His death has brought my foes to shame, +And drown'd them in his blood. + +7 Awake, awake my tuneful powers; +With this delightful song +I'll entertain the darkest hours, +Nor think the season long.] + + +Psalm 71:3. 17-21. Third Part. +The aged Christian's prayer and song; or, +Old age, death, and the resurrection. + +1 God of my childhood and my youth, +The guide of all my days, +I have declar'd thy heavenly truth, +And told thy wondrous ways. + +2 Wilt thou forsake my hoary hairs, +And leave my fainting heart? +Who shall sustain my sinking years +If God my strength depart? + +3 Let me thy power and truth proclaim +To the surviving age, +And leave a savour of thy Name +When I shall quit the stage. + +4 The land of silence and of death +Attends my next remove; +O may these poor remains of breath +Teach the wide world thy love. + +PAUSE. + +5 Thy righteousness is deep and high, +Unsearchable thy deeds; +Thy glory spreads beyond the sky, +And all my praise exceeds. + +6 Oft have I heard thy threatenings roar, +And oft endur'd the grief; +But when thy hand has press'd me sore, +Thy grace was my relief. + +7 By long experience have I known +Thy sovereign power to save; +At thy command I venture down +Securely to the grave. + +8 When I lie buried deep in dust, +My flesh shall be thy care +These withering limbs with thee I trust +To raise them strong and fair. + + +Psalm 72:1. First Part. +The kingdom of Christ. + +1 Great God, whose universal sway +The known and unknown worlds obey, +Now give the kingdom to thy Son, +Extend his power, exalt his throne. + +2 Thy sceptre well becomes his hands, +All heaven submits to his commands; +His justice shall avenge the poor, +And pride and rage prevail no more. + +3 With power he vindicates the just, +And treads th' oppressor in the dust; +His worship and his fear shall last +Till hours and years and time be past. + +4 As rain on meadows newly mown +So shall he send his influence down; +His grace on fainting souls distils +Like heavenly dew on thirsty hills. + +5 The heathen lands that lie beneath +The shades of overspreading death, +Revive at his first dawning light, +And deserts blossom at the sight. + +6 The saints shall flourish in his days, +Drest in the robes of joy and praise; +Peace like a river from his throne +Shall flow to nations yet unknown. + + +Psalm 72:2. Second Part. +Christ's kingdom among the Gentiles. + +1 Jesus shall reign where'er the sun +Does his successive journies run; +His kingdom stretch from shore to shore, +Till moons shall wax and wane no more. + +2 [Behold the islands with their kings, +And Europe her best tribute brings; +From north to south the princes meet +To pay their homage at his feet. + +3 There Persia glorious to behold, +There India shines in eastern gold: +And barbarous nations at his word +Submit, and bow, and own their Lord.] + +4 For him shall endless prayer be made +And princes throng to crown his head; +His Name like sweet perfume shall rise +With every morning sacrifice. + +5 People and realms of every tongue +Dwell on his love with sweetest song: +And infant voices shall proclaim +Their early blessings on his Name. + +6 Blessings abound where'er he reigns, +The prisoner leaps to lose his chains, +The weary find eternal rest, +And all the sons of want are blest. + +7 [Where he displays his healing power, +Death and the curse are known no more; +In him the tribes of Adam boast +More blessings than their father lost. + +8 Let every creature rise, and bring +Peculiar honours to our King; +Angels descend with songs again, +And earth repeat the long Amen.] + + +Psalm 73:1. First Part. C. M. +Afflicted saints happy, and +prosperous sinners cursed. + +1 Now I'm convinc'd the Lord is kind +To men of heart sincere, +Yet once my foolish thoughts repin'd +And border'd on despair. + +2 I griev'd to see the wicked thrive, +And spoke with angry breath, +"How pleasant and profane they live! +"How peaceful is their death! + +3 "With well-fed flesh and haughty eyes +"They lay their fears to sleep; +"Against the heavens their slanders rise, +"While saints in silence weep. + +4 "In vain I lift my hands to pray, +"And cleanse my heart in vain, +"For I am chasten'd all the day, +"The night renews my pain.' + +5 Yet while my tongue indulg'd complaints, +I felt my heart reprove; +"Sure I shall thus offend thy saints, +"And grieve the men I love." + +6 But still I found my doubts too hard, +The conflict too severe, +Till I retir'd to search thy word, +And learn thy secrets there. + +7 There, as in some prophetic glass, +I saw the sinner's feet +High mounted on a slippery place, +Beside a fiery pit. + +8 I heard the wretch profanely boast, +Till at thy frown he fell; +His honours in a dream were lost, +And he awakes in hell. + +9 Lord, what an envious fool I was! +How like a thoughtless beast! +Thus to suspect thy promis'd grace, +And think the wicked blest. + +10 Yet I was kept from full despair, +Upheld by power unknown; +That blessed hand that broke the snare +Shall guide me to thy throne. + + +Psalm 73:2. 23-8. Second Part. +God our portion here and hereafter. + +1 God my supporter and my hope, +My help for ever near, +Thine arm of mercy held me up +When sinking in despair. + +2 Thy counsels, Lord, shall guide my feet +Thro' this dark wilderness; +Thine hand conduct me near thy seat +To dwell before thy face. + +3 Were I in heaven without my God, +'Twould be no joy to me; +And whilst this earth is my abode, +I long for none but thee. + +4 What if the springs of life were broke, +And flesh and heart should faint! +God is my soul's eternal rock, +The strength of every saint. + +5 Behold the sinners that remove +Far from thy presence die; +Not all the idol gods they love +Can save them when they cry. + +6 But to draw near to thee, my God, +Shall be my sweet employ; +My tongue shall sound thy works abroad, +And tell the world my joy. + + +Psalm 73:3. 22 3 6 17-20. L. M. +The prosperity of sinners cursed. + +1 Lord, what a thoughtless wretch was I, +To mourn, and murmur, and repine +To see the wicked plac'd on high, +In pride and robes of honour shine! + +2 But O their end, their dreadful end! +Thy sanctuary taught me so: +On slippery rocks I see them stand, +And fiery billows roll below. + +3 Now let them boast how tall they rise, +I'll never envy them again; +There they may stand with haughty eyes, +Till they plunge deep in endless pain. + +4 Their fancy'd joys, how fast they flee! +Just like a dream when man awakes; +Their songs of softest harmony +Are but a preface to their plagues. + +5 Now I esteem their mirth and wine +Too dear to purchase with my blood; +Lord, 'tis enough that thou art mine, +My life, my portion, and my God. + + +Psalm 73:4. S. M. +The mystery of providence unfolded. + +1 Sure there's a righteous God, +Nor is religion vain, +Tho' men of vice may boast aloud, +And men of grace complain. + +2 I saw the wicked rise, +And felt my heart repine, +While haughty fools with scornful eyes +In robes of honour shine. + +3 [Pamper'd with wanton ease, +Their flesh looks full and fair, +Their wealth rolls in like flowing seas, +And grows without their care. + +4 Free from the plagues and pains +That pious souls endure, +Thro' all their life oppression reigns +And racks the humble poor. + +5 Their impious tongues blaspheme +The everlasting God; +Their malice blasts the good man's name, +And spreads their lies abroad. + +6 But I with flowing tears +Indulge my doubts to rise +"Is there a God that sees or hears +"The things below the skies?"] + +7 The tumults of my thought +Held me in hard suspense, +Till to thy house my feet were brought +To learn thy justice thence. + +8 Thy word with light and power +Did my mistakes attend; +I view'd the sinners' life before, +But here I learnt their end. + +9 On what a slippery steep +The thoughtless wretches go; +And O that dreadful fiery deep +That waits their fall below. + +10 Lord, at thy feet I bow, +My thoughts no more repine; +I call my God my portion now, +And all my powers are thine. + + +Psalm 74. +The church pleading with God +under sore persecutions. + +1 Will God for ever cast us off? +His wrath for ever smoke +Against the people of his love, +His little chosen flock? + +2 Think of the tribes so dearly bought +With their Redeemer's blood; +Nor let thy Sion be forgot, +Where once thy glory stood. + +3 Lift up thy feet and march in haste, +Aloud our ruin calls; +See what a wide and fearful waste +Is made within thy walls. + +4 Where once thy churches pray'd and sang +Thy foes profanely roar; +Over thy gates their ensigns hang, +Sad tokens of their power. + +5 How are the seats of worship broke! +They tear the buildings down, +And he that deals the heaviest stroke +Procures the chief renown. + +6 With flames they threaten to destroy +Thy children in their nest; +"Come let us burn at once (they cry) +The temple and the priest." + +7 And still to heighten our distress +Thy presence is withdrawn; +Thy wonted signs of power and grace, +Thy power and grace are gone. + +8 No prophet speaks to calm our woes, +But all the seers mourn; +There's not a soul amongst us knows +The time of thy return. + +PAUSE. + +9 How long, eternal God, how long +Shall men of pride blaspheme? +Shall saints be made their endless song, +And bear immortal shame? + +10 Canst thou for ever sit and hear +Thine holy Name profan'd? +And still thy jealousy forbear, +And still withhold thine hand? + +11 What strange deliverance hast thou shown +In ages long before! +And now no other God we own, +No other God adore. + +12 Thou didst divide the raging sea +By thy resistless might, +To make thy tribes a wondrous way, +And then secure their flight. + +13 Is not the world of nature thine, +The darkness and the day? +Didst thou not bid the morning shine, +And mark the sun his way? + +14 Hath not thy power form'd every coast, +And set the earth its bounds, +With summer's heat and winter's frost, +In their perpetual rounds? + +15 And shall the sons of earth and dust +That sacred power blaspheme? +Will not thy hand that form'd them first +Avenge thine injur'd Name? + +16 Think on the covenant thou hast made, +And all thy words of love; +Nor let the birds of prey invade +And vex thy mourning dove. + +17 Our foes would triumph in our blood, +And make our hope their jest; +Plead thy own cause, almighty God! +And give thy children rest. + + +Psalm 75. +Power and government from God alone. +Applied to the glorious Revolution by King William, or +the happy Accession of King George to the Throne. + +1 To thee, most holy, and most high, +To thee, we bring our thankful praise; +Thy works declare thy name is nigh, +Thy works of wonder and of grace. + +2 Britain was doom'd to be a slave, +Her frame dissolv'd, her fears were great; +When God a new supporter gave +To bear the pillars of the state. + +3 He from thy hand receiv'd his crown, +And sware to rule by wholesome laws +His foot shall tread th' oppressor down, +His arm defend the righteous cause. + +4 Let haughty sinners sink their pride, +Nor lift so high their scornful head; +But lay their foolish thoughts aside, +And own the king that God hath made. + +5 Such honours never come by chance, +Nor do the winds promotion blow; +'Tis God the judge doth one advance, +'Tis God that lays another low. + +6 No vain pretence to royal birth +Shall fix a tyrant on the throne: +God the great sovereign of the earth +Will rise and make his justice known. + +7 [His hand holds out the dreadful cup +Of vengeance, mix'd with various plagues, +To make the wicked drink them up, +Wring out and taste the bitter dregs. + +8 Now shall the Lord exalt the just, +And while he tramples on the proud, +And lays their glory in the dust, +My lips shall sing his praise aloud.] + + +Psalm 76. +Israel saved, and the Assyrians destroyed; or, God's +vengeance against his enemies proceeds from his church. + +1 In Judah God of old was known; +His Name in Israel great; +In Salem stood his holy throne, +And Sion was his seat. + +2 Among the praises of his saints +His dwelling there he chose; +There he receiv'd their just complaints +Against their haughty foes. + +3 From Sion went his dreadful word, +And broke the threatening spear; +The bow, the arrows, and the sword, +And crush'd th' Assyrian war. + +4 What are the earth's wide kingdoms else +But mighty hills of prey? +The hill on which Jehovah dwells +Is glorious more than they. + +5 'Twas Sion's King that stopt the breath +Of captains and their bands: +The men of might slept fast in death, +And never found their hands. + +6 At thy rebuke, O Jacob's God, +Both horse and chariot fell; +Who knows the terrors of thy rod? +Thy vengeance who can tell? + +7 What power can stand before thy sight +When once thy wrath appears? +When heaven shines round with dreadful light, +The earth lies still and fears. + +8 When God in his own sovereign ways +Comes down to save th' opprest, +The wrath of man shall work his praise, +And he'll restrain the rest. + +9 [Vow to the Lord, and tribute bring, +Ye princes, fear his frown: +His terror shakes the proudest king, +And cuts an army down. + +10 The thunder of his sharp rebuke +Our haughty foes shall feel: +For Jacob's God hath not forsook, +But dwells in Sion still.] + + +Psalm 77:1. First Part. +Melancholy assaulting, and hope prevailing. + +1 To God I cry'd with mournful voice, +I sought his gracious ear, +In the sad day when troubles rose, +And fill'd the night with fear. + +2 Sad were my days, and dark my nights, +My soul refus'd relief; +I thought on God the just and wise, +But thoughts increas'd my grief. + +3 Still I complain'd, and still opprest, +My heart began to break; +My God, thy wrath forbid my rest, +And kept my eyes awake. + +4 My overwhelming sorrows grew +Till I could speak no more; +Then I within myself withdrew, +And call'd thy judgments o'er. + +5 I call'd back years and ancient times, +When I beheld thy face; +My spirit search'd for secret crimes +That might withhold thy grace. + +6 I call'd thy mercies to my mind +Which I enjoy'd before; +And will the Lord no more be kind? +His face appear no more? + +7 Will he for ever cast me off? +His promise ever fail? +Has he forgot his tender love? +Shall anger still prevail? + +8 But I forbid this hopeless thought, +This dark despairing frame, +Rememb'ring what thy hand hath wrought, +Thy hand is still the same. + +9 I'll think again of all thy ways, +And talk thy wonders o'er; +Thy wonders of recovering grace, +When flesh could hope no more. + +10 Grace dwells with justice on the throne; +And men that love thy word +Have in thy sanctuary known +The counsels of the Lord. + + +Psalm 77:2. Second Part. +Comfort derived from ancient providences; or, +Israel delivered from Egypt, and brought to Canaan. + +1 "How awful is thy chastening rod!" +(May thine own children say) +"The great, the wise, the dreadful God! +"How holy is his way!" + +2 I'll meditate his works of old; +The King that reigns above; +I'll hear his ancient wonders told, +And learn to trust his love. + +3 Long did the house of Joseph lie +With Egypt's yoke opprest: +Long he delay'd to hear their cry, +Nor gave his people rest. + +4 The sons of good old Jacob seem'd +Abandon'd to their foes; +But his almighty arm redeem'd +The nation that he chose. + +5 Israel, his people, and his sheep, +Must follow where he calls; +He bid them venture thro' the deep, +And made the waves their walls. + +6 The waters saw thee, mighty God! +The waters saw thee come; +Backward they fled, and frighted stood, +To make thine armies room. + +7 Strange was thy journey thro' the sea, +Thy footsteps, Lord, unknown, +Terrors attend the wondrous way +That brings thy mercies down. + +8 [Thy voice with terror in the sound +Thro' clouds and darkness broke; +All heaven in lightning shone around, +And earth with thunder shook. + +9 Thine arrows thro' the skies were hurl'd; +How glorious is the Lord! +Surprise and trembling seiz'd the world, +And his own saints ador'd. + +10 He gave them water from the rock; +And safe by Moses' hand +Thro' a dry desert led his flock +Home to the promis'd land.] + + +Psalm 78:1. First Part. +Providence of God recorded; or, Pious +education and instruction of children. + +1 Let children hear the mighty deeds, +Which God perform'd of old, +Which in our younger years we saw, +And which our fathers told. + +2 He bids us make his glories known, +His works of power and grace; +And we'll convey his wonders down +Thro' every rising race. + +3 Our lips shall tell them to our Sons, +And they again to theirs, +That generations yet unborn +May teach them to their heirs. + +4 Thus shall they learn in God alone +Their hope securely stands, +That they may ne'er forget his works, +But practise his commands. + + +Psalm 78:2. Second Part. +Israel's rebellion and punishment; or, The +sins and chastisements of God's people. + +1 What a stiff rebellious house +Was Jacob's ancient race! +False to their own most solemn vows, +And to their Maker's grace. + +2 They broke the covenant of his love, +And did his laws despise, +Forgot the works he wrought to prove +His power before their eyes. + +3 They saw the plagues on Egypt light, +From his revenging hand: +What dreadful tokens of his might +Spread o'er the stubborn land! + +4 They saw him cleave the mighty sea, +And march'd in safety thro', +With watery walls to guard their way, +Till they had 'scap'd the foe. + +5 A wondrous pillar mark'd the road, +Compos'd of shade and light; +By day it prov'd a sheltering cloud, +A leading fire by night. + +6 He from the rock their thirst supply'd; +The gushing waters fell, +And ran in rivers by their side, +A constant miracle. + +7 Yet they provok'd the Lord most high, +And dar'd distrust his hand; +"Can he with bread our host supply +"Amidst this desert land?" + +8 The Lord with indignation heard, +And caus'd his wrath to flame +His terrors ever stand prepar'd +To vindicate his Name. + + +Psalm 78:3. Third Part. +The punishment of luxury and intemperance; +or, Chastisement and salvation. + +1 When Israel sins, the Lord reproves, +And fills their hearts with dread; +Yet he forgives the men he loves, +And sends them heavenly bread. + +2 He fed them with a liberal hand, +And made his treasures known; +He gave the midnight clouds command +To pour provision down. + +3 The manna, like a morning shower, +Lay thick around their feet; +The corn of heaven, so light, so pure, +As tho' 'twere angels' meat. + +4 But they in murmuring language said, +"Manna is all our feast; +"We loathe this light, this airy bread; +"We must have flesh to taste." + +5 "Ye shall have flesh to please your lust;" +The Lord in wrath reply'd, +And sent them quails like sand or dust, +Heap'd up from side to side. + +6 He gave them all their own desire; +And greedy as they fed, +His vengeance burnt with secret fire, +And smote the rebels dead. + +7 When some were slain, the rest return'd, +And sought the Lord with tears; +Under the rod they fear'd and mourn'd, +But soon forgot their fears. + +8 Oft he chastis'd and still forgave, +Till by his gracious hand +The nation he resolv'd to save, +Possess'd the promis'd land. + + +Psalm 78:4. 32 &c. Fourth Part. +Backsliding and forgiveness; or, +Sin punished, and saints saved. + +1 Great God, how oft did Israel prove +By turns thine anger and thy love! +There in a glass our hearts may see +How fickle and how false they be. + +2 How soon the faithless Jews forgot +The dreadful wonders God had wrought! +Then they provoke him to his face, +Nor fear his power, nor trust his grace. + +3 The Lord consum'd their years in pain, +And made their travels long and vain; +A tedious march thro' unknown ways +Wore out their strength and spent their days. + +4 Oft when they saw their brethren slain, +They mourn'd and sought the Lord again; +Call'd him the Rock of their abode, +Their high Redeemer and their God. + +5 Their prayers and vows before him rise +As flattering words or solemn lies, +While their rebellious tempers prove +False to his covenant and his love. + +6 Yet did his sovereign grace forgive +The men who not deserv'd to live; +His anger oft away he turn'd, +Or else with gentle flame it burn'd. + +7 He saw their flesh was weak and frail, +He saw temptation still prevail +The God of Abraham lov'd them still, +And led them to his holy hill. + + +Psalm 80. +The church's prayer under affliction; +or, The vineyard of God wasted. + +1 Great Shepherd of thine Israel, +Who didst between the cherubs dwell, +And led the tribes, thy chosen sheep, +Safe thro' the desert and the deep. + +2 Thy church is in the desert now, +Shine from on high and guide us thro'; +Turn us to thee, thy love restore, +We shall be sav'd, and sigh no more. + +3 Great God, whom heavenly hosts obey, +How long shall we lament and pray, +And wait in vain thy kind return? +How long shall thy fierce anger burn? + +4 Instead of wine and cheerful bread, +Thy saints with their own tears are fed; +Turn us to thee, thy love restore, +We shall be sav'd, and sigh no more. + +PAUSE I. + +5 Hast thou not planted with thy hands +A lovely vine in heathen lands? +Did not thy power defend it round, +And heavenly dews enrich the ground? + +6 How did the spreading branches shoot, +And bless the nations with the fruit! +But now, dear Lord, look down and see +Thy mourning vine, that lovely tree. + +7 Why is its beauty thus defac'd? +Why hast thou laid her fences waste? +Strangers and foes against her join, +And every beast devours the vine. + +8 Return, almighty God, return, +Nor let thy bleeding vineyard mourn; +Turn us to thee, thy love restore, +We shall be sav'd, and sigh no more. + +PAUSE II. + +9 Lord, when this vine in Canaan grew +Thou wast its strength and glory too; +Attack'd in vain by all its foes, +Till the fair Branch of Promise rose; + +10 Fair Branch, ordain'd of old to shoot +From David's stock, from Jacob's root; +Himself a noble vine, and we +The lesser branches of the tree. + +11 'Tis thy own Son, and he shall stand +Girt with thy strength at thy right hand; +Thy first-born Son, adorn'd and blest +With power and grace above the rest. + +12 O! for his sake attend our cry, +Shine on thy churches lest they die; +Turn us to thee, thy love restore, +We shall be sav'd, and sigh no more. + + +Psalm 81. 1 8 16. +The warnings of God to his people; or, +Spiritual blessings and punishments. + +1 Sing to the Lord aloud, +And make a joyful noise; +God is our strength, our Saviour God; +Let Israel hear his voice. + +2 "From vile idolatry +"Preserve my worship clean; +"I am the Lord who set thee free +"From slavery and sin. + +3 "Stretch thy desires abroad, +"And I'll supply them well +"But if ye will refuse your God, +"If Israel will rebel, + +4 "I'll leave them," saith the Lord, +"To their own lusts a prey, +"And let them run the dangerous road, +"'Tis their own chosen way. + +5 "Yet O! that all my saints +"Would hearken to my voice! +"Soon I would ease their sore complaints, +"And bid their hearts rejoice. + +6 "While I destroy their foes, +"I'd richly feed my flock, +"And they should taste the stream that flows +"From their eternal Rock." + + +Psalm 82. +God the supreme Governor; +or, Magistrates warned. + +1 Among th' assemblies of the great, +A greater Ruler takes his seat; +The God of heaven, as Judge, surveys +Those gods on earth and all their ways. + +2 Why will ye then frame wicked laws? +Or why support th' unrighteous cause? +When will ye once defend the poor, +That sinners vex the saints no more? + +3 They know not, Lord, nor will they know, +Dark are the ways in which they go; +Their name of earthly gods is vain, +For they shall fall and die like men. + +4 Arise, O Lord, and let thy Son +Possess his universal throne, +And rule the nations with his rod; +He is our judge, and he our God. + + +Psalm 83. +A complaint against persecutors. + +1 And will the God of grace +Perpetual silence keep? +The God of justice hold his peace, +And let his vengeance sleep? + +2 Behold what cursed snares +The men of mischief spread; +The men that hate thy saints and thee +Lift up their threatening head. + +3 Against thy hidden ones +Their counsels they employ, +And malice with her watchful eye, +Pursues them to destroy. + +4 The noble and the base +Into thy pastures leap; +The lion and the stupid ass +Conspire to vex thy sheep. + +5 "Come, let us join," they cry, +"To root them from the ground, +"Till not the name of saints remain, +"Nor memory shall be found." + +6 Awake, almighty God, +And call thy wrath to mind; +Give them like forests to the fire, +Or stubble to the wind. + +7 Convince their madness, Lord, +And make them seek thy Name +Or else their stubborn rage confound, +That they may die in shame. + +8 Then shall the nations know +That glorious dreadful word, +Jehovah is thy name alone, +And thou the sovereign Lord. + + +Psalm 84:1. First Part. L. M. +The pleasure of public worship. + +1 How pleasant, how divinely fair, +O Lord of hosts, thy dwellings are! +With long desire my spirit faints +To meet th' assemblies of thy saints. + +2 My flesh would rest in thine abode, +My panting heart cries out for God; +My God! my King! why should I be +So far from all my joys and thee? + +3 The sparrow chuses where to rest, +And for her young provides her nest: +But will my God to sparrows grant +That pleasure which his children want? + +4 Blest are the saints who sit on high, +Around thy throne of majesty; +Thy brightest glories shine above, +And all their work is praise and love. + +5 Blest are the souls that find a place +Within the temple of thy grace; +There they behold thy gentler rays, +And seek thy face, and learn thy praise. + +6 Blest are the men whose hearts are set +To find the way to Sion's gate; +God is their strength, and thro' the road +They lean upon their helper God. + +7 Cheerful they walk with growing strength, +Till all shall meet in heaven at length, +Till all before thy face appear, +And join in nobler worship there. + + +Psalm 84:2. Second Part. L. M. +God and his church; or, Grace and glory. + +1 Great God, attend, while Sion sings +The joy that from thy presence springs +To spend one day with thee on earth +Exceeds a thousand days of mirth. + +2 Might I enjoy the meanest place +Within thine house, O God of grace, +Not tents of ease, nor thrones of power, +Should tempt my feet to leave thy door. + +3 God is our sun, he makes our day; +God is our shield, he guards our way +From all th' assaults of hell and sin, +From foes without, and foes within. + +4 All needful grace will God bestow, +And crown that grace with glory too: +He gives us all things, and withholds +No real good from upright souls. + +5 O God, our King, whose sovereign sway +The glorious hosts of heaven obey, +And devils at thy presence flee, +Blest is the man that trusts in thee. + + +Psalm 84:3. 14 2 3 10. Paraphrased. C. M. +Delight in ordinances of worship; +or, God present in his churches. + +1 My soul, how lovely is the place +To which thy God resorts! +'Tis heaven to see his smiling face, +Tho' in his earthly courts. + +2 There the great Monarch of the skies +His saving power displays, +And light breaks in upon our eyes +With kind and quickening rays. + +3 With his rich gifts the heavenly Dove +Descends and fills the place, +While Christ reveals his wondrous love, +And sheds abroad his grace. + +4 There, mighty God, thy words declare +The secrets of thy will; +And still we seek thy mercy there, +And sing thy praises still. + +PAUSE. + +5 My heart and flesh cry out for thee, +While far from thine abode: +When shall I tread thy courts, and see +My Saviour and my God? + +6 The sparrow builds herself a nest, +And suffers no remove; +O make me like the sparrows, blest, +To dwell but where I love. + +7 To sit one day beneath thine eye, +And hear thy gracious voice, +Exceeds a whole eternity +Employ'd in carnal joys. + +8 Lord, at thy threshold I would wait, +While Jesus is within, +Rather than fill a throne of state, +Or live in tents of sin. + +9 Could I command the spacious land, +And the more boundless sea, +For one blest hour at thy right hand +I'd give them both away. + + +Psalm 84:4. As the 148th Psalm. +Longing for the house of God. + +1 Lord of the worlds above, +How pleasant and how fair +The dwellings of thy love, +Thy earthly temples are! +To thine abode +My heart aspires, +With warm desires +To see my God. + +2 The sparrow, for her young, +With pleasure seeks her nest; +And wandering swallows long +To find their wonted rest: +My spirit faints +With equal zeal +To rise and dwell +Among thy saints. + +3 O happy souls that pray +Where God appoints to hear! +O happy men that pay +Their constant service there! +They praise thee still; +And happy they +That love the way +To Zion's hill. + +4 They go from strength to strength, +Thro' this dark vale of tears, +Till each arrives at length, +Till each in heaven appears: +O glorious seat, +When God our king +Shall thither bring +Our willing feet! + +PAUSE. + +5 To spend one sacred day +Where God and saints abide, +Affords diviner joy +Than thousand days beside; +Where God resorts, +I love it more +To keep the door +Than shine in courts. + +6 God is our sun and shield, +Our light and our defence +With gifts his hands are fill'd, +We draw our blessings thence; +He shall bestow +On Jacob's race +Peculiar grace +And glory too. + +7 The Lord his people loves; +His hand no good withholds +From those his heart approves, +From pure and pious souls: +Thrice happy he, +O God of hosts, +Whose spirit trusts +Alone in thee. + + +Psalm 85:1. 1-8. First Part. +Waiting for an answer to prayer; or, +Deliverance begun and completed. + +1 Lord, thou hast call'd thy grace to mind, +Thou hast revers'd our heavy doom: +So God forgave when Israel sinn'd, +And brought his wandering captives home. + +2 Thou hast begun to set us free, +And made thy fiercest wrath abate; +Now let our hearts be turn'd to thee, +And thy salvation be complete. + +3 Revive our dying graces, Lord, +And let thy saints in thee rejoice; +Make known thy truth, fulfil thy word, +We wait for praise to tune our voice. + +4 We wait to hear what God will say; +He'll speak, and give his people peace; +But let them run no more astray, +Lest his returning wrath increase. + + +Psalm 85:2. 9 &c. Second Part. +Salvation by Christ. + +1 Salvation is for ever nigh +The souls that fear and trust the Lord; +And grace descending from on high, +Fresh hopes of glory shall afford. + +2 Mercy and truth on earth are met, +Since Christ the Lord came down from heaven; +By his obedience, so complete, +Justice is pleas'd, and peace is given. + +3 Now truth and honour shall abound, +Religion dwell on earth again, +And heavenly influence bless the ground +In our Redeemer's gentle reign. + +4 His righteousness is gone before +To give us free access to God; +Our wandering feet shall stray no more, +But mark his steps and keep the road. + + +Psalm 86. 8-13. +A general song of praise to God. + +1 Among the princes, earthly gods, +There's none hath power divine; +Nor is their nature, mighty Lord, +Nor are their works like thine. + +2 The nations thou hast made shall bring +Their offerings round thy throne; +For thou alone dost wondrous things, +For thou art God alone. + +3 Lord, I would walk with holy feet; +Teach me thine heavenly ways, +And my poor scatter'd thoughts unite +In God my Father's praise. + +4 Great is thy mercy, and my tongue +Shall those sweet wonders tell, +How by thy grace my sinking soul +Rose from the deeps of hell. + + +Psalm 87. +The church the birth-place of the saints; or, +Jews and Gentiles united in the Christian Church. + +1 God in his earthly temple lays +Foundations for his heavenly praise: +He likes the tents of Jacob well, +But still in Zion loves to dwell. + +2 His mercy visits every house +That pay their night and morning vows; +But makes a more delightful stay +Where churches meet to praise and pray. + +3 What glories were describ'd of old! +What wonders are of Zion told! +Thou city of our God below, +Thy fame shall Tyre and Egypt know. + +4 Egypt and Tyre, and Greek and Jew, +Shall there begin their lives anew: +Angels and men shall join to sing +The hill where living waters spring. + +5. When God makes up his last account +Of natives in his holy mount, +'Twill be an honour to appear +As one new-born or nourish'd there. + + +Psalm 89:1. First Part. L. M. +The covenant made with Christ; or, the true David. + +1 For ever shall my song record +The truth and mercy of the Lord; +Mercy and truth for ever stand, +Like heaven, establish'd by his hand. + +2 Thus to his Son he sware, and said, +"With thee my covenant first is made; +"In thee shall dying sinners live, +"Glory and grace are thine to give. + +3 "Be thou my prophet, thou my priest; +"Thy children shall be ever blest; +"Thou art my chosen king; thy throne +"Shall stand eternal like my own. + +4 "There's none of all my sons above, +"So much my image or my love; +"Celestial powers thy subjects are, +"Then what can earth to thee compare? + +5 "David, my servant, whom I chose +"To guard my flock, to crush my foes, +"And rais'd him to the Jewish throne, +"Was but a shadow of my Son." + +6 Now let the church rejoice and sing +Jesus her Saviour and her King: +Angels his heavenly wonders show, +And saints declare his works below. + + +Psalm 89:2. First Part. C. M. +The faithfulness of God. + +1 My never-ceasing songs shall show +The mercies of the Lord, +And make succeeding ages know +How faithful is his word. + +2 The sacred truths his lips pronounce +Shall firm as heaven endure; +And if he speak a promise once, +Th' eternal grace is sure. + +3 How long the race of David held +The promis'd Jewish throne! +But there's a nobler covenant seal'd +To David's greater Son. + +4 His seed for ever shall possess +A throne above the skies; +The meanest subject of his grace +Shall to that glory rise. + +5 Lord God of hosts, thy wondrous ways +Are sung by saints above; +And saints on earth their honours raise +To thine unchanging love. + + +Psalm 89:3. 7 &c. Second Part. +The power and majesty of God; +or, Reverential worship. + +1 With reverence let the saints appear +And bow before the Lord, +His high commands with reverence hear, +And tremble at his word. + +2 How terrible thy glories be! +How bright thine armies shine! +Where is the power that vies with thee? +Or truth compar'd to thine? + +3 The northern pole and southern rest +On thy supporting hand; +Darkness and day from east to west +Move round at thy command. + +4 Thy words the raging wind control, +And rule the boisterous deep; +Thou mak'st the sleeping billows roll, +The rolling billows sleep. + +5 Heaven, earth, and air, and sea are thine, +And the dark world of hell: +How did thine arm in vengeance shine +When Egypt durst rebel! + +6 Justice and judgment are thy throne, +Yet wondrous is thy grace; +While truth and mercy join'd in one +Invite us near thy face. + + +Psalm 89:4. 15 &c. Third Part. +A blessed gospel. + +1 Blest are the souls that hear and know +The gospel's joyful sound; +Peace shall attend the path they go, +And light their steps surround. + +2 Their joy shall bear their spirits up +Thro' their Redeemer's Name; +His righteousness exalts their hope, +Nor Satan dares condemn. + +3 The Lord, our glory and defence, +Strength and salvation gives; +Israel, thy king for ever reigns, +Thy God for ever lives. + + +Psalm 89:5. 19 &c. Fourth Part. +Christ's mediatorial kingdom; or, +His divine and human nature. + +1 Hear what the Lord in vision said, +And made his mercy known: +"Sinners, behold your help is laid +"On my almighty Son. + +2 "Behold the man my wisdom chose +"Among your mortal race; +"His head my holy oil o'erflows, +"The Spirit of my grace. + +3 "High shall he reign on David's throne, +"My people's better King; +"My arm shall beat his rivals down, +"And still new subjects bring. + +4 "My truth shall guard him in his way, +"With mercy by his side, +"While, in my name thro' earth and sea +"He shall in triumph ride. + +5 "Me for his Father and his God +"He shall for ever own, +"Call me his rock, his high abode; +"And I'll support my Son. + +6 "My first-born Son array'd in grace +"At my right-hand shall sit; +"Beneath him angels know their place, +"And monarchs at his feet. + +7 "My covenant stands for ever fast, +"My promises are strong; +"Firm as the heavens his throne shall last, +"His seed endure as long." + + +Psalm 89:6. 30 &c. Fifth Part. +The covenant of grace unchangeable; +or, Afflictions without rejection. + +1 "Yet (saith the Lord) if David's race, +"The children of my Son, +"Should break my laws, abuse my grace, +"And tempt mine anger down; + +2 "Their sins I'll visit with the rod, +"And make their folly smart; +"But I'll not cease to be their God, +"Nor from my truth depart. + +3 "My covenant I will ne'er revoke, +"But keep my grace in mind; +"And what eternal love hath spoke +"Eternal truth shall bind. + +4 "Once have I sworn (I need no more) +"And pledg'd my holiness +"To seal the sacred promise sure +"To David and his race. + +5 "The sun shall see his offspring rise +"And spread from sea to sea, +"Long as he travels round the skies +"To give the nations day. + +6 "Sure as the moon that rules the night +"His kingdom shall endure, +"Till the fix'd laws of shade and light +"Shall be observ'd no more." + + +Psalm 89:7. 47 &c. Sixth Part. +Mortality and hope. +A funeral psalm. + +1 Remember, Lord, our mortal state, +How frail our life, how short the date! +Where is the man that draws his breath +Safe from disease, secure from death? + +2 Lord, while we see whole nations die, +Our flesh and sense repine and cry, +"Must death for ever rage and reign? +"Or hast thou made mankind in vain? + +3 "Where is thy promise to the just? +"Are not thy servants turn'd to dust?" +But faith forbids these mournful sighs, +And sees the sleeping dust arise. + +4 That glorious hour, that dreadful day +Wipes the reproach of saints away, +And clears the honour of thy word; +Awake our souls, and bless the Lord. + + +Psalm 89:8. 47 &c. Last Part. +As the 113th Psalm. +Life, death, and the resurrection. + +1 Think, mighty God, on feeble man, +How few his hours, how short his span! +Short from the cradle to the grave: +Who can secure his vital breath +Against the bold demands of death, +With skill to fly, or power to save? + +2 Lord, shall it be for ever said, +"The race of man was only made +"For sickness, sorrow, and the dust?" +Are not thy servants day by day +Sent to their graves, and turn'd to clay? +Lord, where's thy kindness to the just? + +3 Hast thou not promis'd to thy Son +And all his seed a heavenly crown? +But flesh and sense indulge despair; +For ever blessed be the Lord, +That faith can read his holy word, +And find a resurrection there. + +4 For ever blessed be the Lord, +Who gives his saints a long reward +For all their toil, reproach and pain; +Let all below and all above +Join to proclaim thy wondrous love, +And each repeat their loud Amen. + + +Psalm 90:1. L. M. +Man mortal, and God eternal. +A mournful song at a funeral. + +1 Thro' every age, eternal God, +Thou art our rest, our safe abode; +High was thy throne ere heaven was made, +Or earth thy humble footstool laid. + +2 Long hadst thou reign'd ere time began, +Or dust was fashion'd to a man; +And long thy kingdom shall endure +When earth and time shall be no more. + +3 But man, weak man, is born to die, +Made up of guilt and vanity; +Thy dreadful sentence, Lord, was just, +"Return, ye sinners, to your dust." + +4 [A thousand of our years amount +Scarce to a day in thine account; +Like yesterday's departed light, +Or the last watch of ending night.] + +PAUSE. + +5 Death like an overflowing stream +Sweeps us away; our life's a dream; +An empty tale; a morning flower +Cut down and wither'd in an hour. + +6 [Our age to seventy years is set; +How short the term! how frail the state! +And if to eighty we arrive, +We rather sigh and groan than live. + +7 But O how oft thy wrath appears, +And cuts off our expected years! +Thy wrath awakes our humble dread; +We fear the power that strikes us dead.] + +8 Teach us, O Lord, how frail is man; +And kindly lengthen out our span, +Till a wise care of piety +Fit us to die, and dwell with thee. + + +Psalm 90:2. 1-5. First Part. C. M. +Man frail, and God eternal. + +1 Our God, our help in ages past, +Our hope for years to come, +Our shelter from the stormy blast, +And our eternal home. + +2 Under the shadow of thy throne +Thy saints have dwelt secure; +Sufficient is thine arm alone, +And our defence is sure. + +3 Before the hills in order stood, +Or earth receiv'd her frame, +From everlasting thou art God, +To endless years the same. + +4 Thy word commands our flesh to dust, +"Return, ye sons of men:" +All nations rose from earth at first, +And turn to earth again. + +5 A thousand ages in thy sight +Are like an evening gone; +Short as the watch that ends the night +Before the rising sun. + +6 [The busy tribes of flesh and blood, +With all their lives and cares, +Are carried downwards by thy flood, +And lost in following years. + +7 Time like an ever-rolling stream +Bears all its Sons away; +They fly forgotten as a dream +Dies at the opening day. + +8 Like flowery fields the nations stand +Pleas'd with the morning light; +The flowers beneath the mower's hand +Lie withering ere 'tis night.] + +9 Our God, our help in ages past, +Our hope for years to come, +Be thou our guard while troubles last, +And our eternal home. + + +Psalm 90:3. 8 11 9 10 12. 2d Part. C. M. +Infirmities and mortality the effect of sin; or, +Life, old age, and preparation for death. + +1 Lord, if thine eyes survey our faults, +And justice grow severe, +Thy dreadful wrath exceeds our thoughts, +And burns beyond our fear. + +2 Thine anger turns our frame to dust; +By one offence to thee +Adam with all his sons have lost +Their immortality. + +3 Life like a vain amusement flies, +A fable or a song; +By swift degrees our nature dies, +Nor can our joys be long. + +4 'Tis but a few whose days amount +To threescore years and ten, +And all beyond that short account +is sorrow, toil, and pain. + +5 [Our vitals with laborious strife +Bear up the crazy load, +And drag those poor remains of life +Along the tiresome road.] + +6 Almighty God, reveal thy love, +And not thy wrath alone; +O let our sweet experience prove +The mercies of thy throne! + +7 Our souls would learn the heavenly art +T' improve the hours we have, +That we may act the wiser part, +And live beyond the grave. + + +Psalm 90:4. 13 &c. Third Part. C. M. +Breathing after heaven. + +1 Return, O God of love, return; +Earth is a tiresome place: +How long shall we thy children mourn +Our absence from thy face! + +2 Let heaven succeed our painful years, +Let sin and sorrow cease, +And in proportion to our tears +So make our joys increase. + +3 Thy wonders to thy servants show, +Make thy own work complete, +Then shall our souls thy glory know, +And own thy love was great. + +4 Then shall we shine before thy throne +In all thy beauty, Lord; +And the poor service we have done +Meet a divine reward. + + +Psalm 90:5. 5 10 12. S. M. +The frailty and shortness of life. + +1 Lord what a feeble piece +Is this our mortal frame! +Our life how poor a trifle 'tis, +That scarce deserves the name! + +2 Alas the brittle clay +That built our body first! +And every month, and every day +'Tis mouldering back to dust. + +3 Our moments fly apace, +Nor will our minutes stay; +Just like a flood our hasty days +Are sweeping us away. + +4 Well if our days must fly, +We'll keep their end in sight, +We'll spend them all in wisdom's way, +And let them speed their flight. + +5 They'll waft us sooner o'er +This life's tempestuous sea: +Soon we shall reach the peaceful shore +Of blest eternity. + + +Psalm 91:1. 1-7. First Part. +Safety in public diseases and dangers. + +1 He that hath made his refuge God, +Shall find a most secure abode, +Shall walk all day beneath his shade, +And there at night shall rest his head. + +2 Then will I say, "My God, thy power +"Shall be my fortress and my tower; +"I that am form'd of feeble dust +"Make thine almighty arm my trust." + +3 Thrice happy man! thy Maker's care +Shall keep thee from the fowler's snare, +Satan, the fowler, who betrays +Unguarded souls a thousand ways. + +4 Just as a hen protects her brood +From birds of prey that seek their blood, +Under her feathers, so the Lord +Makes his own arm his people's guard. + +5 If burning beams of noon conspire +To dart a pestilential fire, +God is their life; his wings are spread +To shield them with an healthful shade. + +6 If vapours with malignant breath +Rise thick and scatter midnight death, +Israel is safe; the poison'd air +Grows pure if Israel's God be there. + +PAUSE. + +7 What though a thousand at thy side, +At thy right hand ten thousand dy'd, +Thy God his chosen people saves +Amongst the dead, amidst the graves. + +8 So when he sent his angel down +To make his wrath in Egypt known, +And slew their sons, his careful eye +Pass'd all the doors of Jacob by. + +9 But if the fire, or plague, or sword, +Receive commission from the Lord +To strike his saints among the rest, +Their very pains and deaths are blest. + +10 The sword, the pestilence or fire +Shall but fulfil their best desire, +From sins and sorrows set them free, +And bring thy children, Lord, to thee. + + +Psalm 91:2. 1-16. Second Part. +Protection from death, guard of +angels, victory and deliverance. + +1 Ye sons of men, a feeble race, +Expos'd to every snare, +Come make the Lord your dwelling-place, +And try and trust his care. + +2 No ill shall enter where you dwell; +Or if the plague come nigh, +And sweep the wicked down to hell, +'Twill raise his saints on high. + +3 He'll give his angels charge to keep +Your feet in all their ways; +To watch your pillow while you sleep, +And guard your happy days. + +4 Their hands shall bear you, lest you fall +And dash against the stones: +Are they not servants at his call, +And sent t' attend his sons? + +5 Adders and lions ye shall tread; +The tempter's wiles defeat; +He that hath broke the serpent's head +Puts him beneath your feet. + +6 "Because on me they set their love +"I'll save them," saith the Lord; +"I'll bear their joyful souls above +"Destruction and the sword. + +7 "My grace shall answer when they call; +"In trouble I'll be nigh; +"My power shall help them when they fall, +"And raise them when they die. + +8 "Those that on earth my Name have known, +"I'll honour them in heaven; +"There my salvation shall be shown, +"And endless life be given." + + +Psalm 92:1. First Part. +A psalm for the Lord's day. + +1 Sweet is the work, my God my King, +To praise thy Name, give thanks and sing, +To shew thy love by morning light, +And talk of all thy truth at night. + +2 Sweet is the day of sacred rest, +No mortal cares shall seize my breast; +O may my heart in tune be found +Like David's harp of solemn sound! + +3 My heart shall triumph in my Lord, +And bless his works, and bless his word; +Thy works of grace, how bright they shine! +How deep thy counsels! how divine! + +4 Fools never raise their thoughts so high; +Like brutes they live, like brutes they die; +Like grass they flourish, till thy breath +Blast them in everlasting death. + +5 But I shall share a glorious part +When grace hath well refin'd my heart, +And fresh supplies of joy are shed +Like holy oil, to cheer my head. + +6 Sin, (my worst enemy before) +Shall vex my eyes and ears no more; +My inward foes shall all be slain, +Nor Satan break my peace again. + +7 Then shall I see, and hear, and know, +All I desir'd or wish'd below; +And every power find sweet employ +In that eternal world of joy. + + +Psalm 92:2. 12 &c. Second Part. +The church is the garden of God. + +1 Lord, 'tis a pleasant thing to stand +In gardens planted by thine hand; +Let me within thy courts be seen +Like a young cedar fresh and green. + +2 There grow thy saints in faith and love, +Blest with thine influence from above; +Not Lebanon with all its trees +Yields such a comely sight as these. + +3 The plants of grace shall ever live; +(Nature decays but grace must thrive) +Time, that doth all things else impair, +Still makes them flourish strong and fair. + +4 Laden with fruits of age, they shew +The Lord is holy, just, and true; +None that attend his gates shall find +A God unfaithful or unkind. + + +Psalm 93:1. 1st Metre. As 100th Psalm. +The eternal and sovereign God. + +1 Jehovah reigns; he dwells in light, +Girded with majesty and might: +The world created by his hands +Still on its first foundation stands. + +2 But ere this spacious world was made, +Or had its first foundations laid, +Thy throne eternal ages stood, +Thyself the ever-living God. + +3 Like floods the angry nations rise +And aim their rage against the skies; +Vain floods that aim their rage so high! +At thy rebuke the billows die. + +4 For ever shall thy throne endure; +Thy promise stands for ever sure; +And everlasting holiness +Becomes the dwellings of thy grace. + + +Psalm 93:2. 2d M. As the old 50th Psalm. +The same. + +1 The Lord of glory reigns; he reigns on high; +His robes of state are strength and majesty: +This wide creation rose at his command, +Built by his word, and 'stablish'd by his hand: +Long stood his throne ere he began creation, +And his own Godhead is the firm foundation. + +2 God is th' eternal King: thy foes in vain +Raise their rebellions to confound thy reign: +In vain the storms, in vain the floods arise, +And roar and toss their waves against the skies; +Foaming at heaven, they rage with wild commotion, +But heaven's high arches scorn the swelling ocean. + +3 Ye tempests, rage no more; ye floods, be still; +And the mad world submissive to his will: +Built on his truth, his church must ever stand; +Firm are his promises, and strong his hand: +See his own sons, when they appear before him, +Bow at his footstool, and with fear adore him. + + +Psalm 93:3. 3d M. As the old 122d Psalm. +The same. + +1 The Lord Jehovah reigns +And royal state maintains, +His head with awful glories crown'd; +Array'd in robes of light, +Begirt with sovereign might, +And rays of majesty around. + +2 Upheld by thy commands +The world securely stands; +And skies and stars obey thy word: +Thy throne was fix'd on high +Before the starry sky; +Eternal is thy kingdom, Lord. + +3 In vain the noisy crowd, +Like billows fierce and loud, +Against thine empire rage and roar; +In vain, with angry spite, +The surly nations fight, +And dash like waves against the shore. + +4 Let floods and nations rage, +And all their powers engage, +Let swelling tides assault the sky; +The terrors of thy frown +Shall beat their madness down; +Thy throne for ever stands on high. + +5 Thy promises are true, +Thy grace is ever new; +There fix'd thy church shall ne'er remove: +Thy saints with holy fear +Shall in thy courts appear, +And sing thine everlasting love. + +Repeat the fourth stanza to complete the old tune. + + +Psalm 94:1. 1 2 7-14. First Part. +Saints chastised, and sinners destroyed; +or, Instructive afflictions. + +1 God, to whom revenge belongs, +Proclaim thy truth aloud +Let Sovereign Power redress our wrongs, +Let justice smite the proud. + +2 They say, "The Lord nor sees nor hears;" +When will the fools be wise! +Can he be deaf who form'd their ears? +Or blind, who made their eyes? + +3 He knows their impious thoughts are vain, +And they shall feel his power; +His wrath shall pierce their souls with pain +In some surprising hour. + +4 But if thy saints deserve rebuke, +Thou hast a gentler rod; +Thy providences and thy book +Shall make them know their God. + +5 Blest is the man thy hands chastise, +And to his duty draw; +Thy scourges make thy children wise +When they forget thy law. + +6 But God will ne'er cast off his saints, +Nor his own promise break; +He pardons his inheritance +For their Redeemer's sake. + + +Psalm 94:2. 16-23. Second Part. +God our support and comfort; or, Deliverance +from temptation and persecution. + +1 Who will arise and plead my right +Against my numerous foes, +While earth and hell their force unite, +And all my hopes oppose? + +2 Had not the Lord, my rock, my help, +Sustain'd my fainting head, +My life had now in silence dwelt, +My soul amongst the dead. + +3 "Alas! my sliding feet," I cry'd; +Thy promise was my prop; +Thy grace stood constant by my side, +Thy Spirit bore me up. + +4 While multitudes of mournful thoughts +Within my bosom roll, +Thy boundless love forgives my faults, +Thy comforts cheer my soul. + +5 Powers of iniquity may rise, +And frame pernicious laws; +But God, my refuge, rules the skies, +He will defend my cause. + +6 Let malice vent her rage aloud, +Let bold blasphemers scoff; +The Lord our God shall judge the proud, +And cut the sinners off. + + +Psalm 95:1. C. M. +A psalm before prayer. + +1 Sing to the Lord Jehovah's Name, +And in his strength rejoice; +When his salvation is our theme, +Exalted be our voice. + +2 With thanks approach his awful sight, +And psalms of honour sing; +The Lord's a God of boundless might, +The whole creation's King. + +3 Let princes hear, let angels know, +How mean their natures seem, +Those gods on high, and gods below, +When once compar'd with him. + +4 Earth with its caverns dark and deep +Lies in his spacious hand, +He fix'd the seas what bounds to keep, +And where the hills must stand. + +5 Come, and with humble souls adore, +Come, kneel before his face; +O may the creatures of his power +Be children of his grace! + +6 Now is the time: he bends his ear, +And waits for your request; +Come, lest he rouse his wrath and swear +"Ye shall not see my rest." + + +Psalm 95:2. S. M. +A psalm before sermon. + +1 Come, sound his praise abroad, +And hymns of glory sing; +Jehovah is the sovereign God, +The universal King. + +He form'd the deeps unknown; +He gave the seas their bound; +The watery worlds are all his own, +And all the solid ground. + +3 Come, worship at his throne, +Come bow before the Lord: +We are his works and not our own; +He form'd us by his word. + +4 To-day attend his voice, +Nor dare provoke his rod; +Come like the people of his choice, +And own your gracious God. + +5 But if your ears refuse +The language of his grace, +And hearts grow hard, like stubborn Jews, +That unbelieving race; + +6 The Lord in vengeance drest +Will lift his hand and swear, +"You that despise my promis'd rest, +"Shall have no portion there." + + +Psalm 95:3. 1 2 3 6-11. L. M. +Canaan lost through unbelief; or, +A warning to delaying sinners. + +1 Come, let our voices join to raise +A sacred song of solemn praise; +God is a sovereign King; rehearse +his honours in exalted verse. + +2 Come, let our souls address the Lord, +Who fram'd our natures with his word; +He is our Shepherd; we the sheep +His mercy chose, his pastures keep. + +3 Come, let us hear his voice to-day, +The counsels of his love obey; +Nor let our harden'd hearts renew +The sins and plagues that Israel knew. + +4 Israel, that saw his works of grace, +Yet tempt their Maker to his face; +A faithless unbelieving brood +That tir'd the patience of their God. + +5 Thus saith the Lord, "how false they prove; +"Forget my power, abuse my love; +"Since they despise my rest, I swear, +"Their feet shall never enter there." + +6 [Look back my soul, with holy dread, +And view those ancient rebels dead; +Attend the offer'd grace to-day, +Nor lose the blessing by delay. + +7 Seize the kind promise while it waits, +And march to Zion's heavenly gates; +Believe, and take the promis'd rest; +Obey, and be for ever blest.] + + +Psalm 96:1. 1-10. &c. C. M. +Christ's first and second coming. + +1 Sing to the Lord, ye distant lands, +Ye tribes of every tongue; +His new discover'd grace demands +A new and nobler song. + +2 Say to the nations, Jesus reigns, +God's own almighty Son; +His power the sinking world sustains, +And grace surrounds his throne. + +3 Let heaven proclaim the joyful day, +Joy thro' the earth be seen; +Let cities shine in bright array, +And fields in cheerful green. + +4 Let an unusual joy surprise +The islands of the sea; +Ye mountains, sink, ye vallies, rise, +Prepare the Lord his way. + +5 Behold he comes, he comes to bless +The nations as their God; +To shew the world his righteousness, +And send his truth abroad. + +6 But when his voice shall raise the dead, +And bid the world draw near, +How will the guilty nations dread +To see their Judge appear! + + +Psalm 96:2. As the 113th Psalm. +The God of the Gentiles. + +1 Let all the earth their voices raise +To sing the choicest psalm of praise, +To sing and bless Jehovah's name: +His glory let the heathens know, +His wonders to the nations show, +And all his saving works proclaim. + +2 The heathens know thy glory, Lord; +The wondering nations read thy word, +In Britain is Jehovah known: +Our worship shall no more be paid +To gods which mortal hands have made; +Our Maker is our God alone. + +3 He fram'd the globe, he built the sky, +He made the shining worlds on high, +And reigns complete in glory there: +His beams are majesty and light; +His beauties how divinely bright! +His temple how divinely fair! + +4 Come the great day, the glorious hour, +When earth shall feel his saving power, +And barbarous nations fear his name; +Then shall the race of man confess +The beauty of his holiness, +And in his courts his grace proclaim. + + +Psalm 97:1. 1-5. First Part. +Christ reigning in heaven, and coming to judgment. + +1 He reigns; the Lord, the Saviour reigns; +Praise him in evangelic strains; +Let the whole earth in songs rejoice, +And distant islands join their voice. + +2 Deep are his counsels and unknown; +But grace and truth support his throne: +Tho' gloomy clouds his ways surround, +Justice is their eternal ground. + +3 In robes of judgment, lo! he comes, +Shakes the wide earth, and cleaves the tombs; +Before him burns devouring fire, +The mountains melt, the seas retire. + +4 His enemies, with sore dismay, +Fly from the sight, and shun the day; +Then lift your heads, ye saints, on high, +And sing, for your redemption's nigh. + + +Psalm 97:2. 6-9. Second Part. +Christ's incarnation. + +1 The Lord is come, the heavens proclaim +His birth; the nations learn his Name; +An unknown star directs the road +Of eastern sages to their God. + +2 All ye bright armies of the skies, +Go, worship where the Saviour lies: +Angels and kings before him bow, +Those gods on high, and gods below. + +3 Let idols totter to the ground, +And their own worshippers confound; +But Judah shout, but Zion sing, +And earth confess her sovereign King. + + +Psalm 97:3. Third Part. +Grace and glory. + + +1 Th' Almighty reigns exalted high +O'er all the earth, o'er all the sky, +Tho' clouds and darkness veil his feet, +His dwelling is the mercy-seat. + +2 O ye that love his holy Name, +Hate every work of sin and shame; +He guards the souls of all his friends, +And from the snares of hell defends. + +3 Immortal light and joys unknown +Are for the saints in darkness sown; +Those glorious seeds shall spring and rise, +And the bright harvest bless our eyes. + +4 Rejoice, ye righteous, and record +The sacred honours of the Lord; +None but the soul that feels his grace +Can triumph in his holiness. + + +Psalm 97:4. 1 3 5-7 11. C. M. +Christ's incarnation, and the last judgment. + +1 Ye islands of the northern sea, +Rejoice, the Saviour reigns; +His word like fire, prepares his way, +And mountains melt to plains. + +2 His presence sinks the proudest hills, +And makes the vallies rise +The humble soul enjoys his smiles, +The haughty sinner dies. + +3 The heavens his rightful power proclaim +The idol-gods around +Fill their own worshippers with shame, +And totter to the ground. + +4 Adoring angels at his birth +Make the Redeemer known; +Thus shall he come to judge the earth, +And angels guard his throne. + +5 His foes shall tremble at his sight, +And hills and seas retire +His children take their unknown flight, +And leave the world in fire. + +6 The seeds of joy and glory sown +For saints in darkness here +Shall rise and spring in worlds unknown, +And a rich harvest bear. + + +Psalm 98:1. First Part. +Praise for the gospel. + +1 To our almighty Maker, God, +New honours be address'd; +his great salvation shines abroad, +And makes the nations blest. + +2 He spake the word to Abraham first, +His truth fulfils the grace: +The Gentiles make his Name their trust, +And learn his righteousness. + +3 Let the whole earth his love proclaim +With all her different tongues; +And spread the honours of his Name +In melody and songs. + + +Psalm 98:2. Second Part. +The Messiah's coming and kingdom. + +1 Joy to the world; the Lord is come; +Let earth receive her King; +Let every heart prepare him room, +And heaven and nature sing. + +2 Joy to the earth, the Saviour reigns; +Let men their songs employ; +While fields and floods, rocks, hills and plains, +Repeat the sounding joy. + +3 No more let sins and sorrows grow, +Nor thorns infest the ground; +He comes to make his blessings flow +Far as the curse is found. + +4 He rules the world with truth and grace, +And makes the nations prove +The glories of his righteousness, +And wonders of his love. + + +Psalm 99:1. First Part. +Christ's kingdom and majesty. + +1 The God Jehovah reigns, +Let all the nations fear, +Let sinners tremble at his throne, +And saints be humble there. + +2 Jesus the Saviour reigns, +Let earth adore its Lord; +Bright cherubs his attendants stand, +Swift to fulfil his word. + +3 In Zion is his throne, +His honours are divine; +His church shall make his wonders known, +For there his glories shine. + +4 How holy is his Name! +How terrible his praise! +Justice, and truth, and judgment join +In all his works of grace. + + +Psalm 99:2. Second Part. +A holy God worshipped with reverence. + +1 Exalt the Lord our God, +And worship at his feet; +His nature is all holiness, +And mercy is his seat. + +2 When Israel was his church, +When Aaron was his priest, +When Moses cry'd, when Samuel pray'd, +He gave his people rest. + +3 Oft he forgave their sins, +Nor would destroy their race; +And oft he made his vengeance known, +When they abus'd his grace. + +4 Exalt the Lord our God, +Whose grace is still time same; +Still he's a God of holiness, +And jealous for his Name. + + +Psalm 100:1. 1st M. A plain translation. +Praise to our Creator. + +1 Ye nations round the earth rejoice +Before the Lord, your sovereign King; +Serve him with cheerful heart and voice, +With all your tongues his glory sing. + +2 The Lord is God; 'tis he alone +Doth life, and breath, and being give: +We are his work, and not our own; +The sheep that on his pastures live. + + +3 Enter his gates with songs of joy, +With praises to his courts repair, +And make it your divine employ +To pay your thanks and honours there. + +4 The Lord is good, the Lord is kind; +Great is his grace, his mercy sure; +And the whole race of man shall find +His truth from age to age endure. + + +Psalm 100:2. 2d M. A Paraphrase. + +1 Sing to the Lord with joyful voice; +Let every land his name adore; +The British isles shall send the noise +Across the ocean to the shore. + +2 Nations, attend before his throne +With solemn fear, with sacred joy; +Know that the Lord is God alone; +He can create, and he destroy. + +3 His sovereign power, without our aid, +Made us of clay, and form'd us men; +And when like wandering sheep we stray'd, +He brought us to his fold again. + +4 We are his people, we his care, +Our souls and all our mortal frame: +What lasting honours shall we rear, +Almighty Maker, to thy Name! + +5 We'll crowd thy gates with thankful songs, +High as the heavens our voices raise; +And earth with her ten thousand tongues +Shall fill thy courts with sounding praise. + +6 Wide as the world is thy command, +Vast as eternity thy love; +Firm as a rock thy truth must stand +When rolling years shall cease to move. + + +Psalm 101:1. L. M. +The Magistrate's psalm. + +1 Mercy and judgment are my song; +And since they both to thee belong, +My gracious God, my righteous King, +To thee my songs and vows I bring. + +2 If I am rais'd to bear the sword, +I'll take my counsels from thy word; +Thy justice and thy heavenly grace +Shall be the pattern of my ways. + +3 Let wisdom all my actions guide, +And let my God with me reside; +No wicked thing shall dwell with me, +Which may provoke thy jealousy. + +4 No sons of slander, rage and strife +Shall be companions of my life; +The haughty look, the heart of pride +Within my doors shall ne'er abide. + +5 [I'll search the land, and raise the just +To posts of honour, wealth and trust: +The men that work thy holy will, +Shall be my friends and favourites still.] + +6 In vain shall sinners hope to rise +By flattering or malicious lies; +And while the innocent I guard, +The bold offender shan't be spar'd. + +7 The impious crew (that factious band) +Shall hide their heads, or quit the land; +And all that break the public rest, +Where I have power shall be supprest. + + +Psalm 101:2. C. M. +A psalm for a master of a family. + +1 Of justice and of grace I sing, +And pay my God my vows; +Thy grace and justice, heavenly King, +Teach me to rule my house. + +2 Now to my tent, O God, repair, +And make thy servant wise; +I'll suffer nothing near me there +That shall offend thine eyes. + +3 The man that doth his neighbour wrong, +By falsehood or by force; +The scornful eye, the slanderous tongue, +I'll thrust them from my doors. + +4 I'll seek the faithful and the just +And will their help enjoy; +These are the friends that I shall trust, +The servants I'll employ. + +5 The wretch that deals in sly deceit, +I'll not endure a night; +The liar's tongue I ever hate, +And banish from my sight. + +6 I'll purge my family around, +And make the wicked flee; +So shall my house be ever found +A dwelling fit for thee. + + +Psalm 102:1. 1-13 20 21. First Part. +A prayer of the afflicted. + +1 Hear me, O God, nor hide thy face, +But answer lest I die; +Hast thou not built a throne of grace +To hear when sinners cry? + +2 My days are wasted like the smoke +Dissolving in the air; +My strength is dry'd, my heart is broke, +And sinking in despair. + +3 My spirits flag like withering grass +Burnt with excessive heat; +In secret groans my minutes pass, +And I forget to eat. + +4 As on some lonely building's top +The sparrow tells her moan, +Far from the tents of joy and hope +I sit and grieve alone. + +5 My soul is like a wilderness, +Where beasts of midnight howl; +There the sad raven finds her place, +And there the screaming owl. + +6 Dark dismal thoughts and boding fears +Dwell in my troubled breast; +While sharp reproaches wound my ears, +Nor give my spirit rest. + +7 My cup is mingled with my woes, +And tears are my repast; +My daily bread like ashes grows +Unpleasant to my taste. + +8 Sense can afford no real joy +To souls that feel thy frown; +Lord, 'twas thy hand advanc'd me high, +Thy hand hath cast me down. + +9 My looks like wither'd leaves appear, +And life's declining light +Grows faint as evening shadows are, +That vanish into night. + +10 But thou for ever art the same, +O my eternal God: +Ages to come shall know thy Name, +And spread thy works abroad. + +11 Thou wilt arise and shew thy face, +Nor will my Lord delay +Beyond th' appointed hour of grace, +That long expected day. + +12 He hears his saints, he knows their cry, +And by mysterious ways +Redeems the prisoners doom'd to die, +And fills their tongues with praise. + + +Psalm 102:2. 13-21. Second Part. +Prayer heard and Zion restored. + +1 Let Zion and her sons rejoice, +Behold the promis'd hour; +Her God hath heard her mourning voice, +And comes t' exalt his power. + +2 Her dust and ruins that remain +Are precious in our eyes; +Those ruins shall be built again, +And all that dust shall rise. + +3 The Lord will raise Jerusalem, +And stand in glory there; +Nations shall bow before has name, +And kings attend with fear. + +4 He sits a sovereign on his throne, +With pity in his eyes; +He hears the dying prisoners groan, +And sees their sighs arise. + +5 He frees the souls condemn'd to death, +And when his saints complain, +It shan't be said 'That praying breath +'Was ever spent in vain.' + +6 This shall be known when we are dead, +And left on long record, +That ages yet unborn may read, +And trust, and praise the Lord. + + +Psalm 102:3. 25-28. Third Part. +Man's mortality and Christ's eternity; or, +Saints die, but Christ and the church live. + +1 It is the Lord our Saviour's hand +Weakens our strength amidst the race; +Disease and death at his command +Arrest us, and cut short our days. + +2 Spare us, O Lord, aloud we pray, +Nor let our sun go down at noon: +Thy years are one eternal day, +And must thy children die so soon? + +3 Yet in the midst of death and grief +This thought our sorrow shall assuage, +"Our Father and our Saviour live; +"Christ is the same thro' every age." + +4 'Twas he this earth's foundation laid; +Heaven is the building of his hand: +This earth grows old, these heavens shall fade, +And all be chang'd at his command. + +5 The starry curtains of the sky +Like garments shall be laid aside; +But still thy throne stands firm and high; +Thy church for ever must abide. + +6 Before thy face thy church shall live, +And on thy throne thy children reign; +This dying world shall they survive, +And the dead saints be rais'd again. + + +Psalm 103:1. 1-7. First Part. L. M. +Blessing God for his goodness to soul and body. + +1 Bless, O my soul, the living God, +Call home thy thoughts that rove abroad; +Let all the powers within me join +In work and worship so divine. + +2 Bless, O my soul, the God of grace; +His favours claim thy highest praise; +Why should the wonders he hath wrought +Be lost in silence and forgot? + +3 'Tis he, my soul, that sent his Son +To die for crimes which thou hast done; +He owns the ransom; and forgives +The hourly follies of our lives. + +4 The vices of the mind he heals, +And cures the pains that nature feels; +Redeems the soul from hell, and saves +Our wasting life from threat'ning graves. + +5 Our youth decay'd his power repairs; +His mercy crowns our growing years; +He satisfies our mouth with good, +And fills our hopes with heavenly food. + +6 He sees th' oppressor and th' opprest, +And often gives the sufferers rest; +But will his justice more display +In the last great rewarding day. + +7 [His power he shew'd by Moses' hands, +And gave to Israel his commands; +But sent his truth and mercy down +To all the nations by his Son. + +8 Let the whole earth his power confess, +Let the whole earth adore his grace; +The Gentile with the Jew shall join +In work and worship so divine.] + + +Psalm 103:2. 8-18. Second Part. L. M. +God's gentle chastisement; or, +His tender mercy to his people. + +1. The Lord, how wondrous are his ways: +How firm his truth how large his grace; +He takes his mercy for his throne, +And thence he makes his glories known. + +2 Not half so high his power hath spread +The starry heavens above our head, +As his rich love exceeds our praise, +Exceeds the highest hopes we raise. + +3 Not half so far hath nature plac'd +The rising morning from the west, +As his forgiving grace removes +The daily guilt of those he loves. + +4 How slowly doth his wrath arise! +On swifter wings salvation flies; +And if he lets his anger burn, +How soon his frowns to pity turn! + +5 Amidst his wrath compassion shines; +His strokes are lighter than our sins; +And while his rod corrects his saints, +His ear indulges their complaints. + +6 So fathers their young sons chastise, +With gentle hand and melting eyes; +The children weep beneath the smart, +And move the pity of their heart. + +PAUSE. + +7 The mighty God, the wise, and just, +Knows that our frame is feeble dust; +And will no heavy loads impose +Beyond the strength that he bestows. + +8 He knows how soon our nature dies, +Blasted by every wind that flies; +Like grass we spring, and die as soon, +Or morning flowers that fade at noon. + +9 But his eternal love is sure +To all the saints, and shall endure: +From age to age his truth shall reign, +Nor children's children hope in vain. + + +Psalm 103:3. 1-7. First Part, S. M. +Praise for spiritual and temporal mercies. + +1 O Bless the Lord, my soul; +Let all within me join, +And aid my tongue to bless his Name, +Whose favours are divine. + +2 O bless the Lord, my soul; +Nor let his mercies lie +Forgotten in unthankfulness, +And without praises die. + +3 'Tis he forgives thy sins, +'Tis he relieves thy pain, +'Tis he that heals thy sicknesses, +And makes thee young again. + +4 He crowns thy life with love, +When ransom'd from the grave; +He that redeem'd my soul from hell +Hath sovereign power to save. + +5 He fills the poor with good; +He gives the sufferers rest; +The Lord hath judgments for the proud, +And justice for th' opprest. + +6 His wondrous works and ways +He made by Moses known; +But sent the world his truth and grace +By his beloved Son. + + +Psalm 103:4. 8-18. Second Part. S. M. +Abounding compassion of God; or, +Mercy in the midst of judgment. + +1 My soul, repeat his praise +Whose mercies are so great, +Whose anger is so slow to rise, +So ready to abate. + +2 God will not always chide; +And when his strokes are felt, +His strokes are fewer than our crimes, +And lighter than our guilt. + +3 High as the heavens are rais'd +Above the ground we tread, +So far the riches of his grace +Our highest thoughts exceed. + +4 His power subdues our sins; +And his forgiving love, +Far as the east is from the west, +Doth all our guilt remove. + +5 The pity of the Lord +To those that fear his Name, +Is such as tender parents feel; +He knows our feeble frame. + +6 He knows we are but dust, +Scatter'd with every breath; +His anger, like a rising wind, +Can send us swift to death. + +7 Our days are as the grass, +Or like the morning flower; +If one sharp blast sweep o'er the field, +It withers in an hour. + +8 But thy compassions, Lord, +To endless years endure; +And children's children ever find +Thy words of promise sure. + + +Psalm 103:5. 19-22. Third Part. S. M. +God's universal dominion; +or, Angels praise the Lord. + +1 The lord, the sovereign King, +Hath fix'd his throne on high; +O'er all the heavenly world he rules, +And all beneath the sky. + +2 Ye angels great in might, +And swift to do his will, +Bless ye the Lord, whose voice ye hear, +Whose pleasure ye fulfil. + +3 Let the bright hosts who wait +The orders of their King, +And guard his churches when they pray, +Join in the praise they sing. + +4 While all his wondrous works, +Thro' his vast kingdoms shew +Their Maker's glory, thou, my soul, +Shalt sing his graces too. + + +Psalm 104. +The glory of God in creation and providence. + +1 My soul, thy great Creator praise; +When cloth'd in his celestial rays +He in full Majesty appears, +And, like a robe, his glory wears. + +Note, This psalm may be sung to the tune of the old 112th or 127th +Psalm, by adding the two following lines to every stanza, viz. + +Great is the Lord; what tongue can frame +An equal honour to his Name? + +Otherwise it must be sung as the 100th psalm. + +2 The heavens are for his curtains spread, +Th' unfathom'd deep he makes his bed; +Clouds are his chariot, when he flies +On winged storms across the skies. + +3 Angels, whom his own breath inspires, +His ministers are flaming fires; +And swift as thought their armies move +To bear his vengeance, or his love. + +4 The world's foundations by his hand +Are pois'd, and shall for ever stand; +He binds the ocean in his chain, +Lest it should drown the earth again. + +5 When earth was cover'd with the flood, +Which high above the mountains stood, +He thunder'd, and the ocean fled, +Confin'd to its appointed bed. + +6 The swelling billows know their bound, +And in their channels walk their round; +Yet thence convey'd by secret veins, +They spring on hills, and drench the plains. + +7 He bids the crystal fountains flow, +And cheer the vallies as they go; +Tame heifers there their thirst allay, +And for the stream wild asses bray. + +8 From pleasant trees which shade the brink +The lark and linnet light to drink; +Their songs the lark and linnet raise; +And chide our silence in his praise. + +PAUSE I. + +9 God from his cloudy cistern, pours +On the parch'd earth enriching showers; +The grove, the garden, and the field +A thousand joyful blessings yield. + +10 He makes the grassy food arise, +And gives the cattle large supplies; +With herbs for man of various power, +To nourish nature, or to cure. + +11 What noble fruit the vines produce! +The olive yields a shining juice; +Our hearts are cheer'd with gen'rous wine, +With inward joy our faces shine. + +12 O bless his Name ye Britons, fed +With nature's chief supporter, bread; +While bread your vital strength imparts, +Serve him with vigour in your hearts. + +PAUSE II. + +13 Behold the stately cedar stands, +Rais'd in the forest by his hands: +Birds to the boughs for shelter fly +And build their nests secure on high. + +14 To craggy hills ascends the goat; +And at the airy mountain's foot +The feebler creatures make their cell; +He gives them wisdom where to dwell. + +15 He sets the sun his circling race, +Appoints the moon to change her face; +And when thick darkness veils the day, +Calls out wild beasts to hunt their prey. + +16 Fierce lions lead their young abroad, +And roaring ask their meat from God; +But when the morning beams arise, +The savage beast to covert flies. + +17 Then man to daily labour goes; +The night was made for his repose: +Sleep is thy gift; that sweet relief +From tiresome toil and wasting grief. + +18 How strange thy works! how great thy skill! +And every land thy riches fill: +Thy wisdom round the world we see, +This spacious earth is full of thee. + +19 Nor less thy glories in the deep, +Where fish in millions swim and creep, +With wondrous motions, swift or slow, +Still wandering in the paths below. + +20 There ships divide their watery way, +And flocks of scaly monsters play; +There dwells the huge Leviathan, +And foams and sports in spite of man. + +PAUSE III. + +21 Vast are thy works, almighty Lord, +All nature rests upon thy word, +And the whole race of creatures stands, +Waiting their portion from thy hands. + +22 While each receives his different food, +Their cheerful looks pronounce it good; +Eagles and bears, and whales and worms, +Rejoice and praise in different forms. + +23 But when thy face is hid, they mourn, +And dying to their dust return; +Both man and beast their souls resign, +Life, breath, and spirit, all is thine. + +24 Yet thou canst breathe on dust again, +And fill the world with beasts and men; +A word of thy creating breath +Repairs the wastes of time and death. + +25 His works, the wonders of his might, +Are honour'd with his own delight: +How awful are his glorious ways! +The Lord is dreadful in his praise. + +26 The earth stands trembling at thy stroke, +And at thy touch the mountains smoke; +Yet humble souls may see thy face, +And tell their wants to sovereign grace. + +27 In thee my hopes and wishes meet, +And make my meditations sweet: +Thy praises shall my breath employ, +Till it expire in endless joy. + +28 While haughty sinners die accurst, +Their glory bury'd with their dust, +I, to my God, my heavenly King, +Immortal hallelujahs sing. + + +Psalm 105. Abridged. +God's conduct of Israel, and the plagues of Egypt. + +1 Give thanks to God, invoke his Name, +And tell the world his grace; +Sound thro' the earth his deeds of fame, +That all may seek his face. + +2 His covenant, which he kept in mind +For numerous ages past, +To numerous ages yet behind, +In equal force shall last. + +3 He sware to Abraham and his seed, +And made the blessing sure: +Gentiles the ancient promise read, +And find his truths endure. + +4 "Thy seed shall make all nations blest," +(Said the Almighty voice) +"And Canaan's land shall be their rest, +"The type of heavenly joys." + +5 [How large the grant! how rich the grace! +To give them Canaan's land, +When they were strangers in the place, +A little feeble band! + +6 Like pilgrims thro' the countries round +Securely they remov'd; +And haughty kings that on them frown'd, +Severely he reprov'd. + +7 "Touch mine anointed, and my arm +"Shall soon revenge the wrong: +"The man that does my prophets harm +Shall know their God is strong." + +8 Then let the world forbear its rage, +Nor put the church in fear: +Israel must live thro' every age, +And be th' Almighty's care.] + +PAUSE I. + +9 When Pharaoh dar'd to vex the saints, +And thus provok'd their God, +Moses was sent at their complaints, +Arm'd with his dreadful rod. + +10 He call'd for darkness; darkness came +Like an o'erwhelming flood; +He turn'd each lake and every stream +To lakes and streams of blood. + +11 He gave the sign, and noisome flies +Thro' the whole country spread; +And frogs, in croaking armies, rise +About the monarch's bed. + +12 Thro' fields, and towns, and palaces, +The tenfold vengeance flew; +Locusts in swarms devour'd their trees, +And hail their cattle slew. + +13 Then by an angel's midnight stroke, +The flower of Egypt dy'd; +The strength of every house was broke, +Their glory and their pride. + +14 Now let the world forbear its rage, +Nor put the church in fear; +Israel must live thro' every age, +And be th' Almighty's care. + +PAUSE II. + +15 Thus were the tribes from bondage brought, +And left the hated ground; +Each some Egyptian spoils had got, +And not one feeble found. + +16 The Lord himself chose out their way, +And mark'd their journies right, +Gave them a leading cloud by day, +A fiery guide by night. + +17 They thirst; and waters from the rock +In rich abundance flow, +And following still the course they took, +Ran all the desert thro'. + +18 O wondrous stream O blessed type +Of ever-flowing grace! +So Christ our rock maintains our life +Thro' all this wilderness. + +19 Thus guarded by th' Almighty hand +The chosen tribes possest +Canaan the rich, the promis'd land, +And there enjoy'd their rest. + +20 Then let the world forbear its rage, +The church renounce her fear; +Israel must live thro' every age, +And be th' Almighty's care. + + +Psalm 106:1. 1-5. First Part. +Praise to God; or, Communion with saints. + +1 To God, the great, the ever blest, +Let songs of honour be addrest: +His mercy firm for ever stands; +Give him the thanks his love demands. + +2 Who knows the wonders of thy ways? +Who shall fulfil thy boundless praise? +Blest are the souls that fear thee still, +And pay their duty to thy will. + +3 Remember what thy mercy did +For Jacob's race, thy chosen seed; +And with the same salvation bless +The meanest suppliant of thy grace. + +4 O may I see thy tribes rejoice, +And aid their triumphs with my voice! +This is my glory, Lord, to be +Join'd to thy saints, and near to thee. + + +Psalm 106:2. 7 8 12-14 43-48. 2d Part. +Israel punished and pardoned; +or, God's unchangeable love. + +1 God of eternal love, +How fickle are our ways! +And yet how oft did Israel prove +Thy constancy of grace! + +2 They saw thy wonders wrought, +And then thy praise they sung; +But soon thy works of power forgot, +And murmur'd with their tongue. + +3 Now they believe his word, +While rocks with rivers flow; +Now with their lusts provoke the Lord, +And he reduc'd them low. + +4 Yet when they mourn'd their faults, +He hearken'd to their groans, +Brought his own covenant to his thoughts, +And call'd them still his sons. + +5 Their names were in his book, +He sav'd them from their foes; +Oft he chastis'd, but ne'er forsook +The people that he chose. + +6 Let Israel bless the Lord, +Who lov'd their ancient race; +And Christians join the solemn word +Amen, to all the praise. + + +Psalm 107:1. First Part. +Israel led to Canaan, +and Christians to Heaven. + +1 Give thanks to God; he reigns above, +Kind are his thoughts, his Name is love; +His mercy ages past have known, +And ages long to come shall own. + +2 Let the redeemed of the Lord +The wonders of his grace record; +Israel, the nation whom he chose, +And rescu'd from their mighty foes. + +3 [When God's almighty arm had broke +Their fetters and th' Egyptian yoke, +They trac'd the desert, wandering round +A wild and solitary ground. + +4 There they could find no leading road, +Nor city for a fix'd abode; +Nor food, nor fountain to assuage +Their burning thirst, or hunger's rage.] + +5 In their distress to God they cry'd, +God was their Saviour and their Guide; +He led their march far wandering round, +'Twas the right path to Canaan's ground. + +6 Thus when our first release we gain +From sin's old yoke, and Satan's chain, +We have this desert world to pass, +A dangerous and a tiresome place. + +7 He feeds and clothes us all the way, +He guides our footsteps lest we stray, +He guards us with a powerful hand +And brings us to the heavenly land. + +8 O let the saints with joy record +The truth and goodness of the Lord! +How great his works! how kind his ways! +Let every tongue pronounce his praise. + + +Psalm 107:2. Second Part. +Correction for sin, and release by prayer. + +1 From age to age exalt his Name, +God and his grace are still the same; +He fills the hungry soul with food, +And feeds the poor with every good. + +2 But if their hearts rebel and rise +Against the God that rules the skies, +If they reject his heavenly word, +And slight the counsels of the Lord, + +3 He'll bring their spirits to the ground, +And no deliverer shall be found; +Laden with grief they waste their breath +In darkness and the shades of death, + +4 Then to the Lord they raise their cries, +He makes the dawning light arise, +And scatters all that dismal shade, +That hung so heavy round their head. + +5 He cuts the bars of brass in two, +And lets the smiling prisoners thro'; +Takes off the load of guilt and grief, +And gives the labouring soul relief. + +6 O may the sons of men record +The wondrous goodness of the Lord! +How great his works! how kind his ways! +Let every tongue pronounce his praise. + + +Psalm 107:3. Third Part. +Intemperance punished and pardoned; or, +A psalm for the glutton and the drunkard. + +1 Vain man, on foolish pleasures bent, +Prepares for his own punishment; +What pains, what loathsome maladies +From luxury and lust arise! + +2 The drunkard feels his vitals waste, +Yet drowns his health to please his taste; +Till all his active powers are lost, +And fainting life draws near the dust. + +3 The glutton groans and loathes to eat, +His soul abhors delicious meat; +Nature, with heavy loads opprest, +Would yield to death to be releas'd. + +4 Then how the frighted sinners fly +To God for help with earnest cry! +He hears their groans, prolongs their breath, +And saves them from approaching death, + +5 No med'cines could effect the cure +So quick, so easy, or so sure: +The deadly sentence God repeals, +He sends his sovereign word, and heals, + +6 O may the sons of men record +The wondrous goodness of the Lord! +And let their thankful offerings prove +How they adore their Maker's love. + + +Psalm 107:4. Fourth Part. L. M. +Deliverance from storms, and +shipwreck; or, The Seaman's song. + +1 Would you behold the works of God, +His wonders in the world abroad, +Go with the mariners, and trace +The unknown regions of the seas. + +2 They leave their native shores behind, +And seize the favour of the wind, +Till God command, and tempests rise +That heave the ocean to the skies. + +3 Now to the heavens they mount amain, +Now sink to dreadful deeps again; +What strange affrights young sailors feel, +And like a staggering drunkard reel! + +4 When land is far, and death is nigh, +Lost to all hope, to God they cry; +His mercy hears the loud address, +And sends salvation in distress. + +5 He bids the winds their wrath assuage; +The furious waves forget their rage; +'Tis calm; and sailors smile to see +The haven where they wish'd to be. + +6 O may the sons of men record +The wondrous goodness of the Lord! +Let them their private offerings bring, +And in the church his glory sing. + + +Psalm 107:5. Fourth Part. C. M. +The Mariner's psalm. + +1 Thy works of glory, mighty Lord, +Thy wonders in the deeps, +The sons of courage shall record +Who trade in floating ships. + +2 At thy command the winds arise, +And swell the towering waves; +The men astonish'd mount the skies +And sink in gaping graves. + +3 [Again they climb the watery hills, +And plunge in deeps again; +Each like a tottering drunkard reels, +And finds his courage vain. + +4 Frighted to hear the tempest roar, +They pant with fluttering breath, +And, hopeless of the distant shore, +Expect immediate death.] + +5 Then to the Lord they raise their cries, +He hears the loud request, +And orders silence thro' the skies, +And lays the floods to rest. + +6 Sailors rejoice to lose their fears, +And see the storm allay'd: +Now to their eyes the port appears; +There let their vows be paid. + +7 'Tis God that brings them safe to land; +Let stupid mortals know +That waves are under his command, +And all the winds that blow, + +8 O that the sons of men would praise +The goodness of the Lord! +And those that see thy wondrous ways, +Thy wondrous love record. + + +Psalm 107:6. Last Part. +Colonies planted; or, +Nations blest and punished. + +A psalm for New England. + +1 When God, provok'd with daring crimes, +Scourges the madness of the times, +He turns their fields to barren sand, +And dries the rivers from the land. + +2 His word can raise the springs again, +And make the wither'd mountains green, +Send showery blessings from the skies, +And harvests in the desert rise. + +3 [Where nothing dwelt but beasts of prey, +Or men as fierce and wild as they; +He bids th' opprest and poor repair, +And builds them towns and cities there. + +4 They sow the fields, and trees they plant, +Whose yearly fruit supplies their want: +Their race grows up from fruitful stocks, +Their wealth increases with their flocks. + +5 Thus they are blest; but if they sin, +He lets the heathen nations in, +A savage crew invades their lands, +Their princes die by barbarous hands. + +6 Their captive sons, expos'd to scorn, +Wander unpity'd and forlorn; +The country lies unfenc'd, untill'd, +And desolation spreads the field. + +7 Yet if the humbled nation mourns, +Again his dreadful hand he turns; +Again he makes their cities thrive, +And bids the dying churches live.] + +8 The righteous, with a joyful sense, +Admire the works of providence; +And tongues of atheists shall no more +Blaspheme the God that saints adore. + +9 How few, with pious care, record +The wondrous dealings of the Lord! +But wise observers still shall find +The Lord is holy, just, and kind. + + +Psalm 109. 1-5 31. +Love to enemies, from the example of Christ. + +1 God of my mercy and my praise, +Thy glory is my song; +The sinners speak against thy grace +With a blaspheming tongue. + +2 When in the form of mortal man +Thy Son on earth was found, +With cruel slanders, false and vain, +They compass'd him around. + +3 Their miseries his compassion move, +Their peace he still pursu'd; +They render hatred for his love, +And evil for his good. + +4 Their malice rag'd without a cause, +Yet, with his dying breath, +He pray'd for murderers on his cross, +And blest his foes in death. + +5 Lord, shall thy bright example shine +In vain before my eyes? +Give me a soul a-kin to thine +To love mine enemies. + +6 The Lord shall on my side engage, +And, in my Saviour's name, +I shall defeat their pride and rage +Who slander and condemn. + + +Psalm 110:1. First Part. +Christ exalted, and multitudes converted; +or, The success of the gospel. + +1 Thus the eternal Father spake +To Christ the Son, "Ascend and sit +"At my right hand, till I shall make +"Thy foes submissive at thy feet. + +2 "From Zion shall thy word proceed, +"Thy word, the sceptre in thy hand, +"Shall make the hearts of rebels bleed, +"And bow their wills to thy command. + +3 "That day shall shew thy power is great, +"When saints shall flock with willing minds, +"And sinners crowd thy temple gate, +"Where holiness in beauty shines." + +4 O blessed power! 0 glorious day! +What a large victory shall ensue! +And converts, who thy grace obey, +Exceed the drops of morning dew. + + +Psalm 110:2. Second Part. +The kingdom and priesthood of Christ. + +1 Thus the great Lord of earth and sea +Spake to his Son, and thus he swore; +"Eternal shall thy priesthood be, +"And change from hand to hand no more. + +2 "Aaron and all his sons must die; +"But everlasting life is thine, +"To save for ever those that fly +"For refuge from the wrath divine. + +3 "By me Melchisedek was made +"On earth a king and priest at once; +"And thou, my heavenly priest, shalt plead, +"And thou, my king, shalt rule my sons." + +4 Jesus the priest ascends his throne, +While counsels of eternal peace, +Between the Father and the Son, +Proceed with honour and success. + +5 Thro' the whole earth his reign shall spread, +And crush the powers that dare rebel; +Then shall he judge the rising dead, +And send the guilty world to hell. + +6 Tho' while he treads his glorious way, +He drink the cup of tears and blood, +The sufferings of that dreadful day +Shall but advance him near to God. + + +Psalm 110:3. C. M. +Christ's kingdom and priesthood. + +1 Jesus, our Lord, ascend thy throne, +And near the Father sit; +In Zion shall thy power be known, +And make thy foes submit. + +2 What wonders shall thy gospel do! +Thy converts shall surpass +The numerous drops of morning dew, +And own thy sovereign grace. + +3 God hath pronounc'd a firm decree, +Nor changes what he swore; +"Eternal shall thy priesthood be, +"When Aaron is no more. + +4 "Melchisedek, that wondrous priest, +"That king of high degree, +"That holy man who Abr'am blest, +"Was but a type of thee." + +5 Jesus our priest for ever lives +To plead for us above; +Jesus our king for ever gives +The blessings of his love. + +6 God shall exalt his glorious head, +And his high throne maintain, +Shall strike the powers and princes dead +Who dare oppose his reign. + + +Psalm 111:1. First Part. +The wisdom of God in his works. + +1 Songs of immortal praise belong +To my almighty God; +He has my heart, and he my tongue +To spread his Name abroad. + +2 How great the works his hand has wrought! +How glorious in our sight! +And men in every age have sought +His wonders with delight. + +3 How most exact is nature's frame! +How wise th' Eternal mind! +His counsels never change the scheme +That his first thoughts design'd. + +4 When he redeem'd his chosen Son, +He fix'd his covenant sure: +The orders that his lips pronounce +To endless years endure. + +5 Nature and time, and earth and skies, +Thy heavenly skill proclaim: +What shall we do to make us wise, +But learn to read thy Name? + +6 To fear thy power, to trust thy grace +Is our divinest skill; +And he's the wisest of our race, +That best obeys thy will. + + +Psalm 111:2. Second Part. +The perfections of God. + +1 Great is the Lord; his works of might +Demand our noblest songs; +Let his assembled saints unite +Their harmony of tongues. + +2 Great is the mercy of the Lord, +He gives his children food; +And ever mindful of his word, +He makes his promise good. + +3 His Son, the great Redeemer, came +To seal his covenant sure: +Holy and reverend is his Name, +His ways are just and pure. + +4 They that would grow divinely wise +Must with his fear begin; +Our fairest proof of knowledge lies +In hating every sin. + + +Psalm 112:1. As the 113th Psalm. +The blessings of the liberal man. + +1 That man is blest who stands in awe +Of God, and loves his sacred law: +His seed on earth shall be renown'd; +His house the seat of wealth shall be, +An inexhausted treasury, +And with successive honours crown'd. + +2 His liberal favours he extends, +To some he gives, to others lends; +A generous pity fills his mind: +Yet what his charity impairs +He saves by prudence in affairs, +And thus he's just to all mankind. + +3 His hands, while they his alms bestow'd, +His glory's future harvest sow'd; +The sweet remembrance of the just, +Like a green root, revives and bears +A train of blessings for his heirs, +When dying nature sleeps in dust. + +4 Beset with threatening dangers round, +Unmov'd shall he maintain his ground; +His conscience holds his courage up: +The soul that's fill'd with virtue's light, +Shines brightest in affliction's night, +And sees in darkness beams of hope. + +PAUSE. + +5 [Ill tidings never can surprise +His heart that fix'd on God relies, +Tho' waves and tempests roar around: +Safe on the rock he sits, and sees +The shipwreck of his enemies, +And all their hope and glory drown'd. + +6 The wicked shall his triumph see, +And gnash their teeth in agony +To find their expectations crost: +They and their envy, pride and spite, +Sink down to everlasting night, +And all their names in darkness lost.] + + +Psalm 112:2. L. M. +The blessings of the pious and charitable. + +1 Thrice happy man who fears the Lord, +Loves his commands, and trusts his word; +Honour and peace his days attend, +And blessings to his seed descend. + +2 Compassion dwells upon his mind, +To works of mercy still inclin'd: +He lends the poor some present aid, +Or gives them, not to be repaid. + +3 When times grow dark, and tidings spread +That fill his neighbours round with dread, +His heart is arm'd against the fear, +For God with all his power is there. + +4 His soul, well fix'd upon the Lord, +Draws heavenly courage from his word; +Amidst the darkness light shall rise, +To cheer his heart, and bless his eyes. + +5 He hath dispers'd his alms abroad, +His works are still before his God; +His name on earth shall long remain, +While envious sinners fret in vain. + + +Psalm 112:3. C. M, +Liberality rewarded. + +1 Happy is he that fears the Lord, +And follows his commands, +Who lends the poor without reward, +Or gives with liberal hands. + +2 As pity dwells within his breast +To all the sons of need; +So God shall answer his request +With blessings on his seed, + +3 No evil tidings shall surprise +His well-establish'd mind; +His soul to God his refuge flies, +And leaves his fears behind. + +4 In times of general distress, +Some beams of light shall shine +To shew the world his righteousness, +And give him peace divine. + +5 His works of piety and love +Remain before the Lord; +Honour on earth and joys above +Shall be his sure reward. + + +Psalm 113:1. Proper Time. +The majesty and condescension of God. + +1 Ye that delight to serve the Lord, +The honours of his Name record, +His sacred Name for ever bless: +Where'er the circling sun displays +His rising beams, or setting rays, +Let lands and seas his power confess. + +2 Not time, nor nature's narrow rounds, +Can give his vast dominion bounds, +The heavens are far below his height: +Let no created greatness dare +With our eternal God compare, +Arm'd with his uncreated might. + +3 He bows his glorious head to view +What the bright hosts of angels do, +And bends his care to mortal things; +His sovereign hand exalts the poor, +He takes the needy from the door, +And makes them company for kings. + +4 When childless families despair, +He sends the blessings of an heir +To rescue their expiring name: +The mother with a thankful voice +Proclaims his praises and her joys: +Let every age advance his fame. + + +Psalm 113:2. L. M. +God sovereign and gracious. + +1 Ye servants of th' Almighty King, +In every age his praises sing; +Where'er the sun shall rise or set, +The nations shall his praise repeat. + +2 Above the earth, beyond the sky, +Stands his high throne of majesty: +Nor time, nor place, his power restrain, +Nor bound his universal reign. + +3 Which of the sons of Adam dare, +Or angels, with their God compare? +His glories how divinely bright, +Who dwells in uncreated light! + +4 Behold his love: he stoops to view +What saints above and angels do; +And condescends yet more to know +The mean affairs of men below. + +5 From dust and cottages obscure +His grace exalts the humble poor; +Gives them the honour of his sons, +And fits them for their heavenly thrones. + +6 [A word of his creating voice +Can make the barren house rejoice: +Tho' Sarah's ninety years were past, +The promis'd seed is born at last. + +7 With joy the mother views her son, +And tells the wonders God has done: +Faith may grow strong when sense despairs, +If nature fails, the promise bears.] + + +Psalm 114. +Miracles attending Israel's journey. + +1 When Israel, freed from Pharaoh's hand, +Left the proud tyrant and his land, +The tribes with cheerful homage own +Their King, and Judah was his throne. + +2 Across the deep their journey lay; +The deep divides to make them way: +Jordan beheld their march, and fled +With backward current to his head. + +3 The mountains shook like frighted sheep, +Like lambs the little hillocks leap; +Not Sinai on her base could stand, +Conscious of sovereign power at hand. + +4 What power could make the deep divide? +Make Jordan backward roll his tide? +Why did ye leap, ye little hills? +And whence the fright that Sinai feels? + +5 Let every mountain, every flood, +Retire and know th' approaching God, +The king of Israel: see him here; +Tremble, thou earth, adore and fear. + +6 He thunders, and all nature mourns, +The rock to standing pools he turns; +Flints spring with fountains at his word, +And fires and seas confess the Lord. + + +Psalm 115:1. First Metre. +The true God our refuge; +or, Idolatry reproved. + +1 Not to ourselves, who are but dust, +Not to ourselves is glory due, +Eternal God, thou only just, +Thou only gracious, wise, and true. + +2 Shine forth in all thy dreadful Name; +Why should a heathen's haughty tongue +Insult us, and to raise our shame +Say, "Where's the God you've serv'd so long?" + +3 The God we serve maintains his throne +Above the clouds, beyond the skies, +Thro' all the earth his will is done, +He knows our groans, he hears our cries. + +4 But the vain idols they adore +Are senseless shapes of stone and wood; +At best a mass of glittering ore, +A silver saint, or golden god. + +5 [With eyes, and ears they carve their head, +Deaf are their ears, their eyes are blind; +In vain are costly offerings made, +And vows are scatter'd in the wind. + +6 Their feet were never made to move, +Nor hands to save when mortals pray; +Mortals that pay them fear or love +Seem to be blind and deaf as they.] + +7 O Israel, make the Lord thy hope, +Thy help, thy refuge, and thy rest; +The Lord shall build thy ruins up, +And bless the people and the priest. + +8 The dead no more can speak thy praise, +They dwell in silence and the grave; +But we shall live to sing thy grace, +And tell the world thy power to save. + + +Psalm 115:2. Second Metre. +As the new tune of the 50th Psalm. +Popish idolatry reproved. + +A psalm for the 5th of November. + +1 Not to our names, thou only Just and True, +Not to our worthless names is glory due; +Thy power and grace, thy truth and justice claim +Immortal honours to thy sovereign Name: +Shine thro' the earth from heaven, thy blest abode, +Nor let the heathens say, "And where's your God?" + +2 Heaven is thine higher court; there stands thy throne, +And thro' the lower worlds thy will is done: +Our God fram'd all this earth, these heavens he spread, +But fools adore the gods their hands have made: +The kneeling crowd, with looks devout, behold +Their silver saviours, and their saints of gold. + +3 [Vain are those artful shapes of eyes and ears; +The molten image neither sees nor hears: +Their hands are helpless, nor their feet can move, +They have no speech, nor thought, nor power, nor love; +Yet sottish mortals make their long complaints +To their deaf idols, and their moveless saints. + +4 The rich have statues well adorn'd with gold; +The poor, content with gods of coarser mould, +With tools of iron carve the senseless stock, +Lopt from a tree, or broken from a rock: +People and priest drive on the solemn trade, +And trust the gods that saws and hammers made.] + +5 Be heaven and earth amaz'd! 'Tis hard to say +Which is more stupid, or their gods or they: +O Israel, trust the Lord, he hears and sees, +He knows thy sorrows, and restores thy peace: +His worship does a thousand comforts yield, +He is thy help, and he thy heavenly shield. + +6 O Britain, trust the Lord: thy foes in vain +Attempt thy ruin, and oppose his reign; +Had they prevail'd, darkness had clos'd our days, +And death and silence had forbid his praise; +But we are sav'd, and live: let songs arise, +And Britain bless the God that built the skies. + + +Psalm 116:1. First Part. +Recovery from sickness. + +1 I love the Lord; he heard my cries, +And pity'd every groan: +Long as I live, when troubles rise, +I'll hasten to his throne. + +2 I love the Lord; he bow'd his ear, +And chas'd my griefs away; +O let my heart no more despair, +While I have breath to pray! + +3 My flesh declin'd, my spirits fell, +And I drew near the dead, +While inward pangs, and fears of hell +Perplex'd my wakeful head. + +4 "My God," I cry'd "thy servant save, +"Thou ever good and just; +"Thy power can rescue from the grave, +"Thy power is all my trust." + +5 The Lord beheld me sore distrest, +He bid my pains remove: +Return, my soul, to God thy rest, +For thou hast known his love. + +6 My God hath sav'd my soul from death, +And dry'd my failing tears; +Now to his praise I'll spend my breath, +And my remaining years. + + +Psalm 116:2. 12 &c. Second Part. +Vows made in trouble paid in the church; +or, Public thanks for private deliverance. + +1 What shall I render to my God +For all his kindness shown? +My feet shall visit thine abode, +My songs address thy throne. + +2 Among the saints that fill thine house, +My offerings shall be paid; +There shall my zeal perform the vows +My soul in anguish made. + +3 How much is mercy thy delight, +Thou ever blessed God! +How dear thy servants in thy sight! +How precious is their blood! + +4 How happy all thy servants are! +How great thy grace to me! +My life which thou hast made thy care, +Lord, I devote to thee. + +5 Now I am thine, for ever thine, +Nor shall my purpose move; +Thy hand hath loos'd my bonds of pain, +And bound me with thy love. + +6 Here in thy courts I leave my vow, +And thy rich grace record; +Witness, ye saints, who hear me now, +If I forsake the Lord. + + +Psalm 117:1. C. M. +Praise to God from all nations. + +1 O all ye nations, praise the Lord, +Each with a different tongue; +In every language learn his word, +And let his Name be sung. + +2 His mercy reigns thro' every land; +Proclaim his grace abroad; +For ever firm his truth shall stand, +Praise ye the faithful God. + + +Psalm 117:2. L. M. + +1 From all that dwell below the skies, +Let the Creator's praise arise! +Let the Redeemer's name be sung +Thro' every land, by every tongue. + +2 Eternal are thy mercies, Lord; +Eternal truth attends thy word: +Thy praise shall sound from shore to shore, +Till suns shall rise and set no more. + + +Psalm 117:3. S. M. + +1 Thy Name, almighty Lord, +Shall sound thro' distant lands; +Great is thy grace, and sure thy word, +Thy truth for ever stands. + +2 Far be thine honour spread, +And long thy praise endure, +Till morning light and evening shade +Shall be exchang'd no more. + + +Psalm 118:1. 6-15. First Part. +Deliverance from a tumult. + +1 The Lord appears my helper now, +Nor is my faith afraid +What all the sons of earth can do, +Since heaven affords its aid. + +2 'Tis safer, Lord, to hope in thee, +And have my God my friend, +Than trust in men of high degree, +And on their truth depend. + +3 Like bees my foes beset me round, +A large and angry swarm; +But I shall all their rage confound +By thine almighty arm. + +4 'Tis thro' the Lord my heart is strong, +In him my lips rejoice; +While his salvation is my song, +How cheerful is my voice! + +5 Like angry bees they girt me round; +When God appears they fly: +So burning thorns, with crackling sound, +Make a fierce blaze and die. + +6 Joy to the saints and peace belongs; +The Lord protects their days: +Let Israel tune immortal songs +To his almighty grace. + + +Psalm 118:2. 17-21. Second Part. +Public praise for deliverance from death. + +1 Lord, thou hast heard thy servant cry, +And rescu'd from the grave; +Now shall he live: (and none can die +If God resolve to save.) + +2 Thy praise, more constant than before, +Shall fill his daily breath; +Thy hand that hath chastis'd him sore, +Defends him still from death. + +3 Open the gates of Zion now, +For we shall worship there, +The house where all the righteous go +Thy mercy to declare. + +4 Among th' assemblies of thy saints +Our thankful voice we raise! +There we have told thee our complaints, +And there we speak thy praise. + + +Psalm 118:3. 22 23. Third Part. +Christ the foundation of his church. + +1 Behold the sure foundation-stone +Which God in Zion lays +To build our heavenly hopes upon, +And his eternal praise. + +2 Chosen of God, to sinners dear, +And saints adore the Name, +They trust their whole salvation here, +Nor shall they suffer shame. + +3 The foolish builders, scribe and priest, +Reject it with disdain; +Yet on this rock the church shall rest, +And envy rage in vain. + +4 What tho' the gates of hell withstood, +Yet must this building rise: +'Tis thy own work, almighty God, +And wondrous in our eyes. + + +Psalm 118:4. 24 25 26. Fourth Part. +Hosanna; the Lord's day; or, Christ's +resurrection and our salvation. + +1 This is the day the Lord hath made, +He calls the hours his own; +Let heaven rejoice, let earth be glad, +And praise surround the throne. + +2 To-day he rose and left the dead, +And Satan's empire fell; +To-day the saints his triumphs spread, +And all his wonders tell. + +3 Hosanna to th' anointed King, +To David's holy Son: +Help us, O Lord; descend and bring +Salvation from the throne. + +4 Blest be the Lord, who comes to men +With messages of grace; +Who comes in God his Father's Name +To save our sinful race. + +5 Hosanna in the highest strains +The church on earth can raise; +The highest heavens, in which he reigns, +Shall give him nobler praise. + + +Psalm 118:5. 22-27. S. M. +An hosanna for the Lord's day; or, +A new song of salvation by Christ. + +1 See what a living-stone +The builders did refuse; +Yet God hath built his church thereon +In spite of envious Jews. + +2 The scribe and angry priest +Reject thine only Son; +Yet on this rock shall Zion rest, +As the chief corner-stone. + +3 The work, O Lord, is thine, +And wondrous in our eyes; +This day declares it all divine, +This day did Jesus rise. + +4 This is the glorious day +That our Redeemer made; +Let us rejoice, and sing, and pray, +Let all the church be glad. + +5 Hosanna to the King +Of David's royal blood: +Bless him, ye saints; he comes to bring +Salvation from your God. + +6 We bless thine holy word, +Which all this grace displays; +And offer on thine altar, Lord, +Our sacrifice of praise. + + +Psalm 118:6. 22-27. L. M. +An hosanna for the Lord's day; or, +A new song of salvation by Christ. + +1 Lo! what a glorious corner-stone +The Jewish builders did refuse; +But God hath built his church thereon, +In spite of envy and the Jews. + +2 Great God, the work is all divine, +The joy and wonder of our eyes; +This is the day that proves it thine, +The day that saw our Saviour rise. + +3 Sinners rejoice, and saints be glad: +Hosanna, let his Name be blest: +A thousand honours on his head, +With peace, and light, and glory, rest. + +4 In God's own name he comes to bring +Salvation to our dying race: +Let the whole church address their King +With hearts of joy, and songs of praise. + + +Psalm 119. +I have collected and disposed the most useful +verses of this psalm under eighteen different heads, and +formed a divine song upon each of them. But the verses +are much transposed to attain some degree of connection. + +In some places, among the words "law," "commands," +"judgments," "testimonies," I have used "gospel," "word," +"grace," "truth," "promises," &c. as more agreeable to the +language of the New Testament, and the common language +of Christians, and it equally answers the design of the +Psalmist, which was to recommend the holy scripture. + + +Psalm 119:01. First Part. +The blessedness of saints, and misery of sinners. + +Ver. 1 2 3. +1 Blest are the undefil'd in heart, +Whose ways are right and clean; +Who never from thy law depart, +But fly front every sin. + +2 Blest are the men that keep thy word, +And practise thy commands; +With their whole heart they seek the Lord, +And serve thee with their hands. + +Ver. 165. +3 Great is their peace who love thy law; +How firm their souls abide! +Nor can a bold temptation draw +Their steady feet aside. + +Ver. 6. +4 Then shall my heart have inward joy, +And keep my face from shame, +When all thy statutes I obey, +And honour all thy name. + +Ver. 21 118. +5 But haughty sinners God will hate, +The proud shall die accurst; +The sons of falsehood and deceit +Are trodden to the dust. + +Ver. 119 155. +6 Vile as the dross the wicked are; +And those that leave thy ways +Shall see salvation from afar, +But never taste thy grace. + + +Psalm 119:02. Second Part. +Secret devotion and spiritual mindedness; +or, Constant converse with God. + +Ver. 147 55. +1 TO thee, before the dawning light, +My gracious God, I pray; +I meditate thy Name by night, +And keep thy law by day. + +Ver. 81. +2 My spirit faints to see thy grace, +Thy promise bears me up; +And while salvation long delays, +Thy word supports my hope. + +Ver. 164. +3 Seven times a day I lift my hands, +And pay my thanks to thee; +Thy righteous providence demands +Repeated praise from me. + +Ver. 62. +4 When midnight darkness veils the skies, +I call thy works to mind; +My thoughts in warm devotion rise, +And sweet acceptance find. + + +Psalm 119:03. Third Part. +Profession: of sincerity, repentance, and obedience. + +Ver. 57 60. +1 Thou art my portion, O my God; +Soon as I know thy way, +My heart makes haste t' obey thy word, +And suffers no delay. + +Ver. 30 14. +2 I choose the path of heavenly truth, +And glory in my choice: +Not all the riches of the earth +Could make me so rejoice. + +3 The testimonies of thy grace +I set before my eyes; +Thence I derive my daily strength, +And there my comfort lies. + +Ver. 59. +4 If once I wander from thy path, +I think upon my ways, +Then turn my feet to thy commands, +And trust thy pardoning grace. + +Ver. 94 114. +5 Now I am thine, for ever thine, +O save thy servant, Lord; +Thou art my shield, my hiding-place, +My hope is in thy word. + +Ver. 112. +6 Thou hast inclin'd this heart of mine, +Thy statutes to fulfil; +And thus till mortal life shall end +Would I perform thy will. + + +Psalm 119:04. Fourth Part. +Instruction from scripture. + +Ver. 9. +1 How shall the young secure their hearts, +And guard their lives from sin? +Thy word the choicest rules imparts +To keep the conscience clean. + +Ver. 130. +2 When once it enters to the mind, +It spreads such light abroad, +The meanest souls instruction find, +And raise their thoughts to God. + +Ver. 105. +3 'Tis like the sun, a heavenly light, +That guides us all the day; +And thro' the dangers of the night, +A lamp to lead our way. + +Ver. 99 100. +4 The men that keep thy law with care, +And meditate thy word, +Grow wiser than their teachers are, +And better know the Lord. + +Ver. 104 113. +5 Thy precepts make me truly wise: +I hate the sinner's road; +I hate my own vain thoughts that rise, +But love thy law, my God. + +Ver. 89 90 91. +6 [The starry heavens thy rule obey, +The earth maintains her place; +And these thy servants night and day +Thy skill and power express! + +7 But still thy law and gospel, Lord, +Have lessons more divine; +Not earth stands firmer than thy word, +Nor stars so nobly shine.] + +Ver. 160 140 9 116. +8 Thy word is everlasting truth; +How pure is every page! +That holy book shall guide our youth, +And well support our age. + + +Psalm 119:05. Fifth Part. +Delight in scripture; or, The +word of God dwelling in us. + +Ver. 97. +1 O How I love thy holy law! +'Tis daily my delight; +And thence my meditations draw +Divine advice by night. + +Ver. 148. +2 My waking eyes prevent the day +To meditate thy word; +My soul with longing melts away +To hear thy gospel, Lord. + +Ver. 3 13 54. +3 How doth thy word my heart engage! +How well employ my tongue! +And, in my tiresome pilgrimage, +Yields me a heavenly song. + +Ver. 19 103. +4 Am I a stranger, or at home, +'Tis my perpetual feast; +Not honey dropping from the comb +So much allures the taste. + +Ver. 72 127. +5 No treasures so enrich the mind; +Nor shall thy word be sold +For loads of silver well refin'd, +Nor heaps of choicest gold. + +Ver. 28 49 175. +6 When nature sinks, and spirits droop, +Thy promises of grace +Are pillars to support my hope, +And there I write thy praise. + + +Psalm 119:06. Sixth Part. +Holiness and comfort from the word. + +Ver. 128. +1 Lord, I esteem thy judgments right, +And all thy statutes just; +Thence I maintain a constant fight +With every flattering lust. + +Ver. 97 9. +2 Thy precepts often I survey; +I keep thy law in sight, +Thro' all the business of the day, +To form my actions right. + +Ver. 62. +3 My heart in midnight silence cries, +"How sweet thy comforts be!" +My thoughts in holy wonder rise, +And bring their thanks to thee. + +Ver. 162. +4 And when my spirit drinks her fill +At some good word of thine, +Not mighty men that share the spoil +Have joys compar'd to mine. + + +Psalm 119:07. Seventh Part. +Imperfection of nature, +and perfection of scripture. + +Ver. 96. paraphrased. +1 Let all the heathen writers join +To form one perfect book, +Great God, if once compar'd with thine, +How mean their writings look! + +2 Not the most perfect rules they gave +Could shew one sin forgiven, +Nor lead a step beyond the grave; +But thine conduct to heaven. + +3 I've seen an end of what we call +Perfection here below; +How short the powers of nature fall, +And can no farther go! + +4 Yet men would fain be just with God +By works their hands have wrought; +But thy commands, exceeding broad, +Extend to every thought. + +5 In vain we boast perfection here, +While sin defiles our frame, +And sinks our virtues down so far, +They scarce deserve the name. + +6 Our faith and love, and every grace, +Fall far below thy word; +But perfect truth and righteousness +Dwell only with the Lord. + + +Psalm 119:08. Eighth Part. +The word of God is the saint's portion; or, +The excellency and variety of scripture. + +Ver. 111. paraphrased. +1 Lord, I have made thy word my choice, +My lasting heritage; +There shall my noblest powers rejoice, +My warmest thoughts engage. + +2 I'll read the histories of thy love, +And keep thy laws in sight, +While thro' the promises I rove, +With ever fresh delight. + +3 'Tis a broad land of wealth unknown +Where springs of life arise, +Seeds of immortal bliss are sown, +And hidden glory lies. + +4 The best relief that mourners have, +It makes our sorrows blest; +Our fairest hope beyond the grave, +And our eternal rest. + + +Psalm 119:09. Ninth Part. +Desire of knowledge; or, The +teachings of the Spirit with the word. + +Ver. 64 66 18. +1 Thy mercies fill the earth, O Lord, +How good thy works appear! +Open mine eyes to read thy word, +And see thy wonders there. + +Ver. 73 125. +2 My heart was fashion'd by thy hand, +My service is thy due: +O make thy servant understand +The duties he must do. + +Ver. 19. +3 Since I'm a stranger here below, +Let not thy path be hid; +But mark the road my feet should go, +And be my constant guide. + +Ver. 26. +4 When I confess'd my wandering ways, +Thou heardst my soul complain; +Grant me the teachings of thy grace, +Or I shall stray again. + +Ver. 33 34. +5 If God to me his statutes shew, +And heavenly truth impart, +His work for ever I'll pursue, +His laws shall rule my heart. + +Ver. 50 71. +6 This was my comfort when I bore +Variety of grief; +It made me learn thy word the more, +And fly to that relief. + +Ver. 51. +7 [In vain the proud deride me now; +I'll ne'er forget thy law, +Nor let that blessed gospel go +Whence all my hopes I draw. + +Ver. 27 121. +8 When I have learn'd my Father's will +I'll teach the world his ways; +My thankful lips inspir'd with zeal +Shall loud pronounce his praise.] + + +Psalm 119:10. Tenth Part. +Pleading the promises. + +Ver. 38 49. +1 Behold thy waiting servant, Lord, +Devoted to thy fear; +Remember and confirm thy word, +For all my hopes are there. + +Ver. 41 58 107. +2 Hast thou not writ salvation down, +And promis'd quickening grace? +Doth not my heart address thy throne? +And yet thy love delays. + +Ver. 132 42. +3 Mine eyes for thy salvation fail; +O bear thy servant up; +Nor let the scoffing lips prevail, +Who dare reproach my hope. + +Ver. 49 74. +4 Didst thou not raise my faith, O Lord? +Then let thy truth appear: +Saints shall rejoice in my reward, +And trust as well as fear. + + +Psalm 119:11. Eleventh Part. +Breathing after holiness. + +Ver. 5 33. +1 O that the Lord would guide my ways +To keep his statutes still! +O that my God would grant me grace +To know and do his will! + +Ver. 29. +2 O send thy Spirit down to write +Thy law upon my heart! +Nor let my tongue indulge deceit, +Nor act the liar's part. + +Ver. 37 36. +3 From vanity turn off my eyes: +Let no corrupt design, +Nor covetous desires arise +Within this soul of mine. + +Ver. 133. +4 Order my footsteps by thy word, +And make my heart sincere, +Let sin have no dominion, Lord, +But keep my conscience clear. + +Ver. 176. +5 My soul hath gone too far astray, +My feet too often slip; +Yet since I've not forgot thy way, +Restore thy wandering sheep. + +Ver. 35. +6 Make me to walk in thy commands, +'Tis a delightful road; +Nor let my head, or heart, or hands, +Offend against my God. + + +Psalm 119:12. Twelfth Part. +Breathing after comfort and deliverance. + +Ver. 153. +1 My God, consider my distress, +Let mercy plead my cause; +Tho' I have sinn'd against thy grace, +I can't forget thy laws. + +Ver. 39 116. +1 Forbid, forbid the sharp reproach +Which I so justly fear; +Uphold my life, uphold my hopes, +Nor let my shame appear. + +Ver. 122 135. +3 Be thou a surety, Lord, for me, +Nor let the proud oppress; +But make thy waiting servant see +The shinings of thy face. + +Ver. 82. +4 My eyes with expectation fail, +My heart within me cries, +"When will the Lord his truth fulfil, +"And make my comforts rise?" + +Ver. 132. +5 Look down upon my sorrows, Lord, +And shew thy grace the same +As thou art ever wont t' afford +To those that love thy Name. + + +Psalm 119:13. Thirteenth Part. +Holy fear, and tenderness of conscience. + +Ver. 10. +1 With my whole heart I've sought thy face, +O let me never stray +From thy commands, O God of grace, +Nor tread the sinner's way. + +Ver. 11. +2 Thy word I've hid within my heart +To keep my conscience clean, +And be an everlasting guard +From every rising sin. + +Ver. 63 53 158. +3 I'm a companion of the saints +Who fear and love the Lord; +My sorrows rise, my nature faints, +When men transgress thy word. + +Ver. 161 163. +4 While sinners do thy gospel wrong, +My spirit stands in awe; +My soul abhors a lying tongue, +But loves thy righteous law. + +Ver. 161 120. +5 My heart with sacred reverence hears +The threatenings of thy word: +My flesh with holy trembling fears +The judgments of the Lord. + +Ver. 166 174. +6 My God, I long, I hope, I wait +For thy salvation still; +While thy whole law is my delight, +And I obey thy will. + + +Psalm 119:14. Fourteenth Part. +Benefit of afflictions, and support under them. + +Ver. 153 81 82. +1 Consider all my sorrows, Lord, +And thy deliverance send; +My soul for thy salvation faints, +When will my troubles end? + +Ver. 71. +2 Yet I have found, 'tis good for me +To bear my Father's rod; +Afflictions make me learn thy law, +And live upon my God. + +Ver. 50. +3 This is the comfort I enjoy +When new distress begins, +I read thy word, I run thy way, +And hate my former sins. + +Ver. 92. +4 Had not thy word been my delight +When earthly joys were fled, +My soul opprest with sorrow's weight +Had sunk amongst the dead. + +Ver. 75. +5 I know thy judgments, Lord, are right, +Tho' they may seem severe; +The sharpest sufferings I endure +Flow from thy faithful care. + +Ver. 67. +6 Before I knew thy chastening rod +My feet were apt to stray; +But now I learn to keep thy word, +Nor wander from thy way. + + +Psalm 119:15. Fifteenth Part. +Holy resolutions. + +Ver. 93. +That thy statutes every hour +Might dwell upon my mind! +Thence I derive a quickening power, +And daily peace I find. + +Ver. 15 16. +2 To meditate thy precepts, Lord, +Shall be my sweet employ; +My soul shall ne'er forget thy word, +Thy word is all my joy. + +Ver. 32. +3 How would I run in thy commands, +If thou my heart discharge +From sin and Satan's hateful chains, +And set my feet at large! + +Ver. 13 46. +4 My lips with courage shall declare +Thy statutes and thy Name; +I'll speak thy word, tho' kings should hear +Nor yield to sinful shame. + +Ver. 61 69 70. +5 Let bands of persecutors rise +To rob me of my right, +Let pride and malice forge their lies, +Thy law is my delight. + +Ver. 115. +6 Depart from me, ye wicked race, +Whose hands and hearts are ill; +I love my God, I love his ways, +And must obey his will. + + +Psalm 119:16. Sixteenth Part. +Prayer for quickening grace. + +Ver. 25 37. +1 My soul lies cleaving to the dust; +Lord, give me life divine; +From vain desires and every lust +Turn off these eyes of mine. + +2 I need the influence of thy grace +To speed me in thy way, +Lest I should loiter in my race, +Or turn my feet astray. + +Ver. 107. +3 When sore afflictions press me down, +I need thy quickening powers; +Thy word that I have rested on +shall help my heaviest hours. + +Ver. 156 140. +4 Are not thy mercies sovereign still? +And thou a faithful God? +Wilt thou not grant me warmer zeal +To run the heavenly road? + +Ver. 159 40. +5 Does not my heart thy precepts love, +And long to see thy face? +And yet how slow my spirits move +Without enlivening grace! + +Ver. 93. +6 Then shall I love thy gospel more, +And ne'er forget thy word, +When I have felt its quickening power +To draw me near the Lord. + + +Psalm 119:17. Seventeenth Part. +Courage and perseverance under persecution; +or, Grace shining in difficulties and trials. + +Ver. 143 28. +1 When pain and anguish seize me, Lord, +All my support is from thy word: +My soul dissolves for heaviness, +Uphold me with thy strengthening grace. + +Ver. 51 69 110. +2 The proud have fram'd their scoffs and lies, +They watch my feet with envious eyes, +And tempt my soul to snares and sin, +Yet thy commands I ne'er decline. + +Ver. 161 78. +3 They hate me, Lord, without a cause, +They hate to see me love thy laws: +But I will trust and fear thy Name, +Till pride and malice die with shame. + + +Psalm 119:18. Last Part. +Sanctified afflictions; or, +Delight in the word of God. + +Ver. 67 59. +1 Father, I bless thy gentle hand; +How kind was thy chastising rod, +That forc'd my conscience to a stand, +And brought my wandering soul to God! + +2 Foolish and vain I went astray +Ere I had felt thy scourges, Lord, +I left my guide, and lost my way; +But now I love and keep thy word. + +Ver. 71. +3 'Tis good for me to wear the yoke, +For pride is apt to rise and swell; +'Tis good to bear my Father's stroke, +That I might learn his statutes well. + +Ver. 72. +4 The law that issues from thy mouth +Shall raise my cheerful passions more +Than all the treasures of the south, +Or western hills of golden ore. + +Ver. 73. +5 Thy hands have made my mortal frame, +Thy spirit form'd my soul within; +Teach me to know thy wondrous Name, +And guard me safe from death and sin. + +Ver. 74. +6 Then all that love and fear the Lord +At my salvation shall rejoice; +For I have hoped in thy word, +And made thy grace my only choice. + + +Psalm 120. +Complaint of quarrelsome neighbours; +or, A devout wish for peace. + +1 Thou God of love, thou ever blest, +Pity my suffering state; +When wilt thou set my soul at rest +From lips that love deceit? + +2 Hard lot of mine! my days are cast +Among the sons of strife, +Whose never-ceasing brawlings waste +My golden hours of life. + +3 O might I fly to change my place, +How would I chuse to dwell +In some wide lonesome wilderness, +And leave these gates of hell. + +4 Peace is the blessing that I seek, +How lovely are its charms; +I am for peace; but when I speak, +They all declare for arms. + +6 New passions still their souls engage, +And keep their malice strong: +What shall be done to curb thy rage, +O thou devouring tongue! + +6 Should burning arrows smite thee thro', +Strict justice would approve; +But I had rather spare my foe, +And melt his heart with love. + + +Psalm 121:1. L. M. +Divine protection. + +1 Up to the hills I lift mine eyes, +Th' eternal hills beyond the skies; +Thence all her help my soul derives; +There my Almighty refuge lives. + +2 He lives, the everlasting God, +That built the world, that spread the flood; +The heavens with all their hosts he made, +And the dark regions of the dead. + +3 He guides our feet, he guards our way; +His morning-smiles bless all the day; +He spreads the evening veil, and keeps +The silent hours while Israel sleeps. + +4 Israel, a name divinely blest, +May rise secure, securely rest; +Thy holy Guardian's wakeful eyes +Admit no slumber nor surprise. + +5 No sun shall smite thy head by day, +Nor the pale moon with sickly ray +Shall blast thy couch; no baleful star +Dart his malignant fire so far. + +6 Should earth and hell with malice burn, +Still thou shalt go and still return +Safe in the Lord his heavenly care +Defends thy life from every snare. + +7 On thee foul spirits have no power; +And in thy last departing hour +Angels, that trace the airy road, +Shall bear thee homeward to thy God. + + +Psalm 121:2. C. M. +Preservation by day and night. + +1 To heaven I lift my waiting eyes, +There all my hopes are laid: +The Lord that built the earth and skies +Is my perpetual aid. + +2 Their feet shall never slide to fall +Whom he designs to keep; +His ear attends the softest call, +His eyes can never sleep. + +3 He will sustain our weakest powers +With his almighty arm, +And watch our most unguarded hours +Against surprising harm. + +4 Israel, rejoice and rest secure, +Thy keeper is the Lord; +His wakeful eyes employ his power +For thine eternal guard. + +5 Nor scorching sun, nor sickly moon, +Shall have his leave to smite; +He shields thy head from burning noon, +From blasting damps at night. + +6 He guards thy soul, he keeps thy breath +Where thickest dangers come; +Go and return, secure from death, +Till God commands thee home. + + +Psalm 121:3. As the 148th Psalm. +God our preserver. + +1 Upward I lift mine eyes, +From God is all my aid; +The God that built the skies, +And earth and nature made: +God is the tow'r +To which I fly: +His grace is nigh +In every hour. + +2 My feet shall never slide +And fall in fatal snares, +Since God, my guard and guide, +Defends me from my fears: +Those wakeful eyes +That never sleep +Shall Israel keep +When dangers rise. + +3 No burning heats by day, +Nor blasts of evening air, +Shall take my health away, +If God be with me there. +Thou art my sun, +And thou my shade, +To guard my head +By night or noon. + +4 Hast thou not given thy word +To save my soul from death? +And I can trust my Lord +To keep my mortal breath; +I'll go and come, +Nor fear to die, +Till from on high +Thou call me home. + + +Psalm 122:1. +Going to church. +1 How did my heart rejoice to hear +My friends devoutly say, +"In Zion let us all appear, +"And keep the solemn day!" + +2 I love her gates, I love the road: +The church adorn'd with grace +Stands like a palace built for God, +To shew his milder face. + +3 Up to her courts with joys unknown +The holy tribes repair; +The Son of David holds his throne, +And sits in judgment there. + +4 He hears our praises and complaints; +And while his awful voice +Divides the sinners from the saints, +We tremble and rejoice. + +5 Peace be within this sacred place, +And joy a constant guest! +With holy gifts, and heavenly grace +Be her attendants blest! + +6 My soul shall pray for Zion still, +While life or breath remains; +There my best friends, my kindred dwell, +There God my Saviour reigns. + + +Psalm 122:2. Proper Tune. +Going to church. + +1 How pleas'd and blest was I +To hear the people cry, +"Come, let us seek our God to-day!" +Yes, with a cheerful zeal, +We haste to Zion's hill, +And there our vows and honours pay. + +2 Zion, thrice happy place, +Adorn'd with wondrous grace, +And walls of strength embrace thee round; +In thee our tribes appear +To pray, and praise, and hear +The sacred gospel's joyful sound. + +3 There David's greater Son +Has fix'd his royal throne, +He sits for grace and judgment there; +He bids the saint be glad, +He makes the sinner sad, +And humble souls rejoice with fear. + +4 May peace attend thy gate, +And joy within thee wait +To bless the soul of every guest! +The man that seeks thy peace, +And wishes thine increase, +A thousand blessings on him rest! + +5 My tongue repeats her vows +"Peace to this sacred house!" +For there my friends and kindred dwell; +And since my glorious God +Makes thee his blest abode, +My soul shall ever love thee well. + +Repeat the fourth stanza to complete the Tune. + + +Psalm 123. +Pleading with submission. + +1 O thou whose grace and justice reign +Enthron'd above the skies, +To thee our hearts would tell their pain, +To thee we lift our eyes. + +2 As Servants watch their master's hand, +And fear the angry stroke; +Or maids before their mistress stand, +And wait a peaceful look; + +3 So for our sins we justly feel +Thy discipline, O God; +Yet wait the gracious moment still, +Till thou remove thy rod. + +4 Those that in wealth and pleasure live +Our daily groans deride, +And thy delays of mercy give +Fresh courage to their pride. + +5 Our foes insult us, but our hope +In thy compassion lies; +This thought shall bear our spirits up, +That God will not despise. + + +Psalm 124. +A song for the fifth of November. + +1 Had not the Lord, may Israel say, +Had not the Lord maintain'd our side, +When men to make our lives a prey, +Rose like the swelling of the tide; + +2 The swelling tide had stopt our breath, +So fiercely did the waters roll, +We had been swallow'd deep in death; +Proud waters had o'erwhelm'd our soul. + +3 We leap for joy, we shout and sing, +Who just escap'd the fatal stroke; +So flies the bird with cheerful wing, +When once the fowler's snare is broke. + +4 For ever blessed be the Lord, +Who broke the fowler's cursed snare, +Who sav'd us from the murdering sword, +And made our lives and souls his care. + +5 Our help is in Jehovah's Name, +Who form'd the earth and built the skies; +He that upholds that wondrous frame +Guards his own church with watchful eyes. + + +Psalm 125:1. C. M. +The saint's trial and safely. + +1 Unshaken as the sacred hill, +And firm as mountains be, +Firm as a rock the soul shall rest +That leans, O Lord, on thee. + +2 Not walls nor hills could guard so well +Old Salem's happy ground, +As those eternal arms of love +That every saint surround. + +3 While tyrants are a smarting scourge +To drive them near to God, +Divine compassion does allay +The fury of the rod. + +4 Deal gently, Lord, with souls sincere, +And lead them safely on +To the bright gates of Paradise, +Where Christ their Lord is gone. + +5 But if we trace those crooked ways +That the old serpent drew, +The wrath that drove him first to hell +Shall smite his followers too. + + +Psalm 125:2. S. M. +The saints' trial and safety; +or, Moderated afflictions. + +1 Firm and unmov'd are they +That rest their souls on God; +Firm as the mount where David dwelt +Or where the ark abode. + +2 As mountains stood to guard +The city's sacred ground, +So God and his almighty love +Embrace his saints around. + +3 What tho' the Father's rod +Drop a chastising stroke, +Yet, lest it wound their souls too deep, +Its fury shall be broke. + +4 Deal gently, Lord, with those +Whose faith and pious fear, +Whose hope, and love, and every grace +Proclaim their hearts sincere. + +5 Nor shall the tyrant's rage +Too long oppress the saint; +The God of Israel will support +His children lest they faint. + +6 But if our slavish fear +Will chuse the road to hell, +We must expect our portion there +Where bolder sinners dwell. + + +Psalm 126:1. L. M. +Surprising deliverance. + +1 When God restor'd our captive state, +Joy was our song, and grace our theme; +The grace beyond our hopes so great, +That joy appear'd a painted dream. + +2 The scoffer owns thy hand, and pays +Unwilling honours to thy Name; +While we with pleasure shout thy praise, +With cheerful notes thy love proclaim. + +3 When we review our dismal fears, +'Twas hard to think they'd vanish so; +With God we left our flowing tears, +He makes our joys like rivers flow. + +4 The man that in his furrow'd field +His scatter'd seed with sadness leaves, +Will shout to see the harvest yield +A welcome load of joyful sheaves. + + +Psalm 126:2. C. M. +The joy of a remarkable conversion; +or, Melancholy removed. + +1 When God reveal'd his gracious Name, +And chang'd my mournful state, +My rapture seem'd a pleasing dream, +The grace appear'd so great. + +2 The world beheld the glorious change, +And did thy hand confess; +My tongue broke out in unknown strains, +And sung surprising grace: + +3 "Great is the work," my neighbours cry'd, +And own'd the power divine; +"Great is the work," my heart reply'd, +"And be the glory thine." + +4 The Lord can clear the darkest skies, +Can give us day for night, +Make drops of sacred sorrow rise +To rivers of delight. + +5 Let those that sow in sadness wait +Till the fair harvest come, +They shall confess their sheaves are great, +And shout the blessings home. + +6 Tho' seed lie bury'd long in dust, +It shan't deceive their hope; +The precious grain can ne'er be lost, +For grace insures the crop. + + +Psalm 127:1. L. M. +The blessing of God on the +business and comforts of life. + +1 If God succeed not, all the cost +And pains to build the house are lost: +If God the city will not keep, +The watchful guards as well may sleep. + +3 What if you rise before the sun, +And work and toil when day is done, +Careful and sparing eat your bread, +To shun that poverty you dread; + +3 'Tis all in vain, till God hath blest; +He can make rich, yet give us rest: +Children and friends are blessings too, +If God our sovereign make them so. + +4 Happy the man to whom he sends +Obedient children, faithful friends: +How sweet our daily comforts prove +When they are season'd with his love! + + +Psalm 127:2. C. M. +God all in all. + +1 If God to build the house deny, +The builders work in vain; +And towns, without his wakeful eye, +An useless watch maintain. + +2 Before the morning beams arise, +Your painful work renew, +And till the stars ascend the skies +Your tiresome toil pursue. + +3 Short be your sleep, and coarse your fare; +In vain, till God has blest; +But if his smiles attend your care, +You shall have food and rest. + +4 Nor children, relatives, nor friends +Shall real blessings prove, +Nor all the earthly joys he sends, +If sent without his love. + + +Psalm 128. +Family blessings. + +1 O happy man, whose soul is fill'd +With zeal and reverend awe; +His lips to God their honours yield, +His life adorns the law. + +2 A careful providence shall stand +And ever guard thy head, +Shall on the labours of thy hand +Its kindly blessings shed. + +3 [Thy wife shall be a fruitful vine; +Thy children round thy board, +Each like a plant of honour shine, +And learn to fear the Lord.] + +4 The Lord shall thy best hopes fulfil +For months and years to come; +The Lord who dwells on Zion's hill, +Shall send thee blessings home. + +5 This is the man whose happy eyes +Shall see his house increase, +Shall see the sinking church arise, +Then leave the world in peace. + + +Psalm 129. +Persecutors punished. + +1 Up from my youth, may Israel say, +Have I been nurs'd in tears; +My griefs were constant as the day, +And tedious as the years. + +2 Up from my youth I bore the rage +Of all the sons of strife; +Oft they assail'd my riper age, +But not destroy'd my life. + +3 Their cruel plough had torn my flesh +With furrows long and deep, +Hourly they vex my wounds afresh, +Nor let my sorrows sleep. + +4 The Lord grew angry on his throne, +And with impartial eye +Measur'd the mischiefs they had done +Then let his arrows fly. + +5 How was their insolence surpris'd +To hear his thunders roll! +And all the foes of Zion seiz'd +With horror to the soul. + +6 Thus shall the men that hate the saints +Be blasted from the sky; +Their glory fades, their courage faints, +And all their projects die. + +7 [What tho' they flourish tall and fair, +They have no root beneath; +Their growth shall perish in despair, +And lie despis'd in death.] + +8 [So corn that on the house-top stands +No hope of harvest gives; +The reaper ne'er shall fill his hands, +Nor binder fold the sheaves. + +9 It springs and withers on the place: +No traveller bestows +A word of blessing on the grass, +Nor minds it as he goes.] + + +Psalm 130:1. C. M. +Pardoning grace. + +1 Out of the deeps of long distress, +The borders of despair, +I sent my cries to seek thy grace, +My groans to move thine ear. + +2 Great God, should thy severer eye, +And thine impartial hand, +Mark and revenge iniquity, +No mortal flesh could stand. + +3 But there are pardons with my God +For crimes of high degree; +Thy Son has bought them with his blood +To draw us near to thee. + +4 [I wait for thy salvation, Lord, +With strong desires I wait; +My soul, invited by thy word, +Stands watching at thy gate.] + +5 [Just as the guards that keep the night +Long for the morning skies, +Watch the first beams of breaking light, +And meet them with their eyes; + +6 So waits my soul to see thy grace, +And more intent than they, +Meets the first openings of thy face, +And finds a brighter day.] + +7 [Then in the Lord let Israel trust, +Let Israel seek his face; +The Lord is good as well as just, +And plenteous is his grace. + +8 There's full redemption at his throne +For sinners long enslav'd; +The great Redeemer is his Son, +And Israel shall be sav'd.] + + +Psalm 130:2. L. M. +Pardoning grace. + +1 From deep distress and troubled thoughts, +To thee, my God, I rais'd my cries; +If thou severely mark our faults, +No flesh can stand before thine eyes. + +2 But thou hast built thy throne of grace, +Free to dispense thy pardons there, +That sinners may approach thy face, +And hope and love, as well as fear. + +3 As the benighted pilgrims wait, +And long, and wish for breaking day, +So waits my soul before thy gate; +When will my God his face display? + +4 My trust is fix'd upon thy word, +Nor shall I trust thy word in vain: +Let mourning souls address the Lord, +And find relief from all their pain. + +5 Great is his love, and large his grace, +Thro' the redemption of his Son: +He turns our feet from sinful ways, +And pardons what our hands have done. + + +Psalm 131. +Humility and submission. + +1 Is there ambition in my heart? +Search, gracious God, and see; +Or do I act a haughty part? +Lord, I appeal to thee. + +2 I charge my thoughts, be humble still, +And all my carriage mild, +Content, my Father, with thy will, +And quiet as a child. + +3 The patient soul, the lowly mind +Shall have a large reward: +Let saints in sorrow lie resign'd, +And trust a faithful Lord. + + +Psalm 132:1. 5 13-18. L. M. +At the settlement of a church; +or, The ordination of a Minister. + +1 Where shall we go to seek and find +An habitation for our God, +A dwelling for th' Eternal Mind +Amongst the sons of flesh and blood? + +2 The God of Jacob chose the hill +Of Zion for his ancient rest; +And Zion is his dwelling still, +His church is with his presence blest. + +3 Here will I fix my gracious throne, +And reign for ever, saith the Lord; +Here shall my power, and love be known, +And blessings shall attend my word. + +4 Here will I meet the hungry poor, +And fill their souls with living bread; +Sinners that wait before my door, +With sweet provision shall be fed. + +5 Girded with truth and cloth'd with grace, +My priests, my ministers shall shine: +Not Aaron, in his costly dress, +Made an appearance so divine. + +6 The saints, unable to contain +Their inward joys shall shout and sing; +The Son of David here shall reign, +And Zion triumph in her King. + +7 [Jesus shall see a numerous seed +Born here, t' uphold his glorious Name; +His crown shall flourish on his head, +While all his foes are cloth'd with shame!] + + +Psalm 132:2. 4 5 7 8 15-17. C. M. +A church established. + +1 [No sleep nor slumber to his eyes +Good David would afford, +Till he had found below the skies +A dwelling for the Lord. + +2 The Lord in Zion plac'd his Name, +His ark was settled there; +To Zion the whole nation came, +To worship thrice a year. + +3 But we have no such lengths to go, +Nor wander far abroad; +Where'er thy saints assemble now, +There is a house for God.] + +PAUSE. + +4 Arise, O King of Grace, arise, +And enter to thy rest! +Lo! thy church waits, with longing eyes, +Thus to be own'd and blest. + +5 Enter with all thy glorious train, +Thy Spirit and thy word; +All that the ark did once contain +Could no such grace afford. + +6 Here, mighty God, accept our vows, +Here let thy praise be spread; +Bless the provisions of thy house, +And fill thy poor with bread. + +7 Here let the Son of David reign, +Let God's Anointed shine; +Justice and truth his court maintain, +With love and power divine. + +8 Here let him hold a lasting throne; +And as his kingdom grows, +Fresh honours shall adorn his crown, +And shame confound his foes. + + +Psalm 133:1. C. M. +Brotherly love. + +1 Lo! what an entertaining sight +Are brethren that agree, +Brethren, whose cheerful hearts unite +In bands of piety! + +2 When streams of love from Christ the spring +Descend to every soul, +And heavenly peace, with balmy wing, +Shades and bedews the whole; + +3 'Tis like the oil divinely sweet, +On Aaron's reverend head, +The trickling drops perfum'd his feet, +And o'er his garments spread. + +4 'Tis pleasant as the morning dews +That fall on Zion's hill, +Where God his mildest glory shews, +And makes his grace distil. + + +Psalm 133:2. S. M. +Communion of saints; or, Love +and worship in a family. + +1 Blest are the sons of peace, +Whose hearts and hopes are one, +Whose kind designs to serve and please +Thro' all their actions run. + +2 Blest is the pious house +Where seat and friendship meet, +Their songs of praise, their mingled vows +Make their communion sweet. + +3 Thus when on Aaron's head +They pour'd the rich perfume, +The oil thro' all his raiment spread, +And pleasure fill'd the room. + +4 Thus on the heavenly hills +The saints are blest above, +Where joy like morning dew distils, +And all the air is love. + + +Psalm 133:3. As the 122nd Psalm. +The blessings of friendship. + +1 How pleasant 'tis to see +Kindred and friends agree, +Each in their proper station move, +And each fulfil their part +With sympathizing heart, +In all the cares of life and love! + +2 'Tis like the ointment shed +On Aaron's sacred head, +Divinely rich, divinely sweet; +The oil, thro' all the room, +Diffus'd a choice perfume, +Ran thro' his robes, and blest his feet. + +3 Like fruitful showers of rain, +That water all the plain, +Descending from the neighbouring hills; +Such streams of pleasure roll +Thro' every friendly soul, +Where love like heavenly dew distils. + +Repeat the first stanza to complete the tune. + + +Psalm 134. +Daily and nightly devotion. + +1 Ye that obey th' immortal King, +Attend his holy place, +Bow to the glories of his power, +And bless his wondrous grace; + +2 Lift up your hands by morning-light, +And send your souls on high; +Raise your admiring thoughts by night +Above the starry sky. + +3 The God of Zion cheers our hearts +With rays of quickening grace; +The God that spread the heavens abroad, +And rules the swelling seas. + + +Psalm 135:1. 1-4 14 19 21. First Part. L. M. +The church is God's house and care. + +1 Praise ye the Lord, exalt his Name, +While in his holy courts ye wait, +Ye saints, that to his house belong, +Or stand attending at his gate. + +2 Praise ye the Lord; the Lord is good; +To praise his Name is sweet employ; +Israel he chose of old, and still +His church is his peculiar joy. + +3 The Lord himself will judge his saints; +He treats his servants as his friends; +And when he hears their sore complaints, +Repents the sorrows that he sends. + +4 Thro' every age the Lord declares +His Name and breaks th' oppressor's rod; +He gives his suffering servants rest, +And will be known th' almighty God. + +6 Bless ye the Lord, who taste his love, +People and priests exalt his Name: +Amongst his saints he ever dwells; +His church is his Jerusalem. + + +Psalm 135:2. 5-12. Second Part. L. M. +The works of creation, providence, redemption +of Israel, and destruction of enemies. + +1 Great is the Lord, exalted high +Above all powers and every throne; +Whate'er he please in earth or sea, +Or heaven, or hell, his hand hath done. + +2 At his command the vapours rise, +The lightnings flash, the thunders roar; +He pours the rain, he brings the wind, +And tempest from his airy store. + +3 'Twas he those dreadful tokens sent, +O Egypt thro' thy stubborn land; +When all thy first-born beasts and men +Fell dead by his avenging hand. + +4 What mighty nations, mighty kings, +He slew, and their whole country gave +To Israel, whom his hand redeem'd, +No more to be proud Pharaoh's slave! + +5 His power the same, the same his grace, +That saves us from the hosts of hell; +And heaven he gives us to possess, +Whence those apostate angels fell. + + +Psalm 135:3. C. M. +Praise due to God, not to idols. + +1 Awake, ye saints; to praise your King, +Your sweetest passions raise, +Your pious pleasure, while you sing, +Increasing with the praise. + +2 Great is the Lord; and works unknown +Are his divine employ; +But still his saints are near his throne, +His treasure and his joy. + +3 Heaven, earth, and sea, confess his hand; +He bids the vapours rise; +Lightning and storm at his command +Sweep thro' the sounding skies. + +4 All power, that gods or kings have claim'd +Is found with him alone; +But heathen gods should ne'er be nam'd +Where our Jehovah's known. + +5 Which of the stocks or stones they trust +Can give them showers of rain? +In vain they worship glittering dust, +And pray to gold in vain. + +6 [Their gods have tongues that cannot talk, +Such as their makers gave: +Their feet were ne'er design'd to walk, +Nor hands have power to save. + +7 Blind are their eyes, their ears are deaf, +Nor hear when mortals pray; +Mortals, that wait for their relief, +Are blind, and deaf as they.] + +8 O Britain, know thy living God, +Serve him with faith and fear; +He makes thy churches his abode, +And claims thine honours there. + + +Psalm 136:1. C. M. +God's wonders of creation, providence, redemption +of Israel, and salvation of his people. + +1 Give thanks to God the sovereign Lord; +His mercies still endure! +And be the King of kings ador'd; +His truth is ever sure. + +2 What wonders hath his wisdom done! +How mighty is his hand! +Heaven, earth, and sea, he fram'd alone: +How wide is his command! + +3 The sun supplies the day with light; +How bright his counsels shine! +The moon and stars adorn the night; +His works are all divine! + +4 [He struck the sons of Egypt dead; +How dreadful is his rod! +And thence with joy his people led: +How gracious is our God! + +5 He cleft the swelling sea in two; +His arm is great in might, +And gave the tribes a passage thro'; +His power and grace unite. + +6 But Pharaoh's army there he drown'd; +How glorious are his ways! +And brought his saints thro' desert ground; +Eternal be his praise. + +7 Great monarchs fell beneath his hand, +Victorious is his sword; +While Israel took the promis'd land; +And faithful is his word.] + +8 He saw the nations dead in sin; +He felt his pity move: +How sad the state the world was in! +How boundless was his love! + +9 He sent to save us from our woe; +His goodness never fails; +From death, and hell, and every foe; +And still his grace prevails. + +10 Give thanks to God the heavenly King; +His mercies still endure! +Let the whole earth his praises sing; +His truth is ever sure. + + +Psalm 136:2. As the 148th Psalm. +God's wonders of creation, providence, redemption +of Israel, and salvation of his people. + +1 Give thanks to God most high, +The universal Lord; +The sovereign King of kings; +And be his grace ador'd. +His power and grace +Are still the same; +And let his Name +Have endless praise. + +2 How mighty is his hand! +What wonders hath he done! +He form'd the earth and seas, +And spread the heavens alone. +Thy mercy, Lord, +Shall still endure; +And ever sure +Abides thy word. + +3 His wisdom fram'd the sun +To crown the day with light; +The moon and twinkling stars +To cheer the darksome night. +His power and grace +Are still the same; +And let his Name +Have endless praise. + +4 [He smote the first-born Sons, +The flower of Egypt, dead: +And thence his chosen tribes +With joy and glory led. +Thy mercy, Lord, +Shall still endure; +And ever sure +Abides thy word. + +5 His power and lifted rod +Cleft the Red-sea in two: +And for his people made +A wondrous passage thro'. +His power and grace +Are still the same; +And let his Name +Have endless praise. + +6 But cruel Pharaoh there +With all his host he drown'd; +And brought his Israel safe +Thro' a long desert ground. +Thy mercy, Lord, +Shall still endure; +And ever sure +Abides thy word. + +PAUSE. + +The kings of Canaan fell +Beneath his dreadful hand: +While his own servants took +Possession of their land. +His power and grace +Are still the same; +And let his name +Have endless praise.] + +8 He saw the nations lie +All perishing in sin, +And pity'd the sad state +The ruin'd world was in. +Thy mercy, Lord, +Shall still endure; +And ever sure +Abides thy word. + +9 He sent his only Son +To save us from our woe, +From Satan sin and death, +And every hurtful foe. +His power and grace +Are still the same; +And let his Name +Have endless praise. + +10 Give thanks aloud to God, +To God the heavenly King; +And let the spacious earth +His works and glories sing. +Thy mercy, Lord, +Shall still endure; +And ever sure +Abides thy word. + + +Psalm 136:3. Abridged. L. M. +God's wonders of creation, providence, +redemption and salvation. + +1 Give to our God immortal praise; +Mercy and truth are all his ways: +'Wonders of grace to God belong, +'Repeat his mercies in your song.' + +2 Give to the Lord of lords renown, +The King of kings with glory crown: +'His mercies ever shall endure, +'When' lords and kings are known 'no more.' + +3 He built the earth, he spread the sky, +And fix'd the starry lights on high; +'Wonders of grace to God belong, +'Repeat his mercies in your song.' + +4 He fills the sun with morning light, +He bids the moon direct the night: +'His mercies ever shall endure, +'When' suns and moons shall shine 'no more.' + +5 The Jews he freed from Pharaoh's hand, +And brought them to the promis'd land; +'Wonders of grace to God belong, +'Repeat his mercies in your song.' + +6 He saw the Gentiles dead in sin, +And felt his pity work within: +'His mercies ever shall endure, +'When' death and sin shall reign 'no more.' + +7 He sent his Son with power to save +From guilt, and darkness, and the grave: +'Wonders of grace to God belong, +'Repeat his mercies in your song.' + +8 Thro' this vain world he guides our feet, +And leads us to his heavenly seat: +'His mercies ever shall endure, +'When' this vain world shall be 'no more.' + + +Psalm 138. +Restoring and preserving grace. + +1 [With all my powers of heart and tongue +I'll praise my Maker in my song: +Angels shall hear the notes I raise, +Approve the song, and join the praise. + +2 Angels that make thy church their care +Shall witness my devotions there, +While holy zeal directs my eyes +To thy fair temple in the skies.] + +3 I'll sing thy truth and mercy, Lord, +I'll sing the wonders of thy word; +Not all thy works and names below +So much thy power and glory show. + +4 To God I cry'd when troubles rose; +He heard me, and subdu'd my foes, +He did my rising fears control, +And strength diffus'd thro' all my soul. + +5 The God of heaven maintains his state, +Frowns on the proud and scorns the great; +But from his throne descends to see +The sons of humble poverty. + +6 Amidst a thousand snares I stand +Upheld and guarded by thy hand; +Thy words my fainting soul revive, +And keep my dying faith alive. + +7 Grace will complete what grace begins, +To save from sorrows or from sins; +The work that wisdom undertakes +Eternal mercy ne'er forsakes. + + +Psalm 139:1. First Part. L. M. +The all-seeing God. + +1 Lord, thou hast search'd and seen me thro'; +Thine eye commands with piercing view +My rising and my resting hours, +My heart and flesh with all their powers. + +2 My thoughts, before they are my own, +Are to my God distinctly known; +He knows the words I mean to speak +Ere from my opening lips they break. + +3 Within thy circling power I stand; +On every side I find thy hand: +Awake, asleep, at home, abroad, +I am surrounded still with God. + +4 Amazing knowledge, vast and great! +What large extent! what lofty height! +My soul, with all the powers I boast, +Is in the boundless prospect lost. + +5 "O may these thoughts possess my breast, +"Where'er I rove where'er I rest! +"Nor let my weaker passions dare +"Consent to sin, for God is there." + +PAUSE I. + +6 Could I so false, so faithless prove, +To quit thy service and thy love, +Where, Lord, could I thy presence shun, +Or from thy dreadful glory run? + +7 If up to heaven I take my flight, +'Tis there thou dwell'st enthron'd in light; +Or dive to hell, there vengeance reigns, +And Satan groans beneath thy chains. + +8 If mounted on a morning ray, +I fly beyond the western sea, +Thy swifter hand would first arrive, +And there arrest thy fugitive. + +9 Or should I try to shun thy sight +Beneath the spreading veil of night, +One glance of thine, one piercing ray, +Would kindle darkness into day. + +10 "O may these thoughts possess my breast, +"Where'er I rove, where'er I rest! +"Nor let my weaker passions dare +"Consent to sin, for God is there." + +PAUSE II. + +11 The veil of night is no disguise, +No screen from thy all-searching eyes; +Thy hand can seize thy foes as soon, +Thro' midnight shades as blazing noon. + +12 Midnight and noon in this agree, +Great God, they're both alike to thee: +Not death can hide what God will spy, +And hell lies naked to his eye. + +13 "O may these thoughts possess my breast, +"Where'er I rove where'er I rest! +"Nor let my weaker passions dare +"Consent to sin, for God is there." + + +Psalm 139:2. Second Part. L. M. +The wonderful formation of man. + +1 'Twas from thy hand, my God, I came, +A work of such a curious frame; +In me thy fearful wonders shine, +And each proclaims thy skill divine. + +2 Thine eyes did all my limbs survey, +Which yet in dark confusion lay; +Thou saw'st the daily growth they took, +Form'd by the model of thy book. + +3 By thee my growing parts were nam'd, +And what thy sovereign counsels fram'd, +(The breathing lungs, the beating heart) +Was copy'd with unerring art. + +4 At last, to shew my Maker's name, +God stamp'd his image on my frame, +And in some unknown moment join'd +The finish'd members to the mind. + +5 There the young seeds of thought began +And all the passions of the man: +Great God, our infant nature pays +Immortal tribute to thy praise. + +PAUSE. + +6 Lord, since in my advancing age +I've acted on life's busy stage, +Thy thoughts of love to me surmount +The power of numbers to recount. + +7 I could survey the ocean o'er, +And count each sand that makes the shore, +Before my swiftest thoughts could trace +The numerous wonders of thy grace. + +8 These on my heart are still impress'd, +With these I give my eyes to rest; +And at my waking hour I find +God and his love possess my mind. + + +Psalm 139:3. Third Part. L. M. +Sincerity professed, and grace tried; or, The heart- +searching of God. + +1 My God, what inward grief I feel +When impious men transgress thy will! +I mourn to hear their lips profane +Take thy tremendous Name in vain. + +2 Does not my soul detest and hate +The sons of malice and deceit? +Those that oppose thy laws and thee +I count them enemies to me. + +3 Lord, search my soul, try every thought; +Tho' my own heart accuse me not +Of walking in a false disguise, +I beg the trial of thine eyes. + +4 Doth secret mischief lurk within? +Do I indulge some unknown sin? +O turn my feet whene'er I stray, +And lead me in thy perfect way. + + +Psalm 139:4. First Part. C. M. +God is every where. + +1 In all my vast concerns with thee +In vain my soul would try +To shun thy presence, Lord, or flee +The notice of thine eye. + +2 Thy all-surrounding sight surveys +My rising and my rest, +My public walks, my private ways, +And secrets of my breast. + +3 My thoughts lie open to the Lord +Before they're form'd within: +And ere my lips pronounce the word, +He knows the sense I mean. + +4 O wondrous knowledge, deep and high! +Where can a creature hide? +Within thy circling arms I lie, +Beset on every side. + +5 So let thy grace surround me still, +And like a bulwark prove, +To guard my soul from every ill, +Secur'd by sovereign love. + +PAUSE. + +6 Lord, where shall guilty souls retire, +Forgotten and unknown? +In hell they meet thy dreadful fire, +In heaven thy glorious throne. + +7 Should I suppress my vital breath +To 'scape the wrath divine, +Thy voice would break the bars of death, +And make the grave resign. + +8 If wing'd with beams of morning light, +I fly beyond the west, +Thy hand, which must support my flight, +Would soon betray my rest. + +9 If o'er my sins I think to draw +The curtains of the night, +Those flaming eyes that guard thy law +Would turn the shades to light. + +10 The beams of noon, the midnight hour, +Are both alike to thee: +O may I ne'er provoke that power +From which I cannot flee! + + +Psalm 139:5. Second Part. C. M. +The wisdom of God in the formation of man. + +1 When I with pleasing wonder stand, +And all my frame survey, +Lord, 'tis thy work; I own thy hand +Thus built my humble clay. + +2 Thy hand my heart and reins possest +Where unborn nature grew, +Thy wisdom all my features trac'd, +And all my members drew. + +3 Thine eye with nicest care survey'd +The growth of every part; +Till the whole scheme thy thoughts had laid +Was copied by thy art. + +4 Heaven, earth, and sea, and fire, and wind, +Shew me thy wondrous skill; +But I review myself, and find +Diviner wonders still. + +5 Thy awful glories round me shine, +My flesh proclaims thy praise; +Lord, to thy works of nature join +Thy miracles of grace. + + +Psalm 139:6. 14 17 18. Third Part. C. M. +The mercies of God innumerable. + +An evening psalm. + +1 Lord, when I count thy mercies o'er, +They strike me with surprise; +Not all the sands that spread the shore +To equal numbers rise. + +2 My flesh with fear and wonder stands, +The product of thy skill, +And hourly blessings from thy hands, +Thy thoughts of love reveal. + +3 These on my heart by night I keep; +How kind, how dear to me! +O may the hour that ends my sleep +Still find my thoughts with thee. + + +Psalm 141. 2-5. +Watchfulness, and brotherly reproof. + +A morning or evening psalm. + +1 My God, accept my early vows, +Like morning incense in thine house, +And let my nightly worship rise +Sweet as the evening sacrifice. + +2 Watch o'er my lips, and guard them, Lord, +From every rash and heedless word; +Nor let my feet incline to tread +The guilty path where sinners lead. + +3 O may the righteous, when I stray, +Smite, and reprove my wandering way! +Their gentle words, like ointment shed, +Shall never bruise, but cheer my head. + +4 When I behold them prest with grief, +I'll cry to heaven for their relief; +And by my warm petitions prove +how much I prize their faithful love. + + +Psalm 142. +God is the hope of the helpless. + +1 To God I made my sorrows known, +From God I sought relief; +In long complaints before his throne +I pour'd out all my grief. + +2 My soul was overwhelm'd with woes, +My heart began to break; +My God, who all my burdens knows, +He knows the way I take. + +3 On every side I cast mine eye, +And found my helpers gone, +While friends and strangers pass'd me by +Neglected or unknown. + +4 Then did I raise a louder cry, +And call'd thy mercy near, +"Thou art my portion when I die, +"Be thou my refuge here." + +5 Lord, I am brought exceeding low, +Now let thine ear attend, +And make my foes who vex me know +I've an almighty Friend. + +6 From my sad prison set me free, +Then shall I praise thy Name, +And holy men shall join with me +Thy kindness to proclaim. + + +Psalm 143. +Complaint of heavy afflictions in mind and body. + +1 My righteous Judge, my gracious God, +Hear when I spread my hands abroad +And cry for succour from thy throne, +O make thy truth and mercy known. + +2 Let judgment not against me pass; +Behold thy servant pleads thy grace: +Should justice call us to thy bar, +No man alive is guiltless there. + +3 Look down in pity, Lord, and see +The mighty woes that burden me; +Down to the dust my life is brought, +Like one long bury'd and forgot. + +4 I dwell in darkness and unseen, +My heart is desolate within; +My thoughts in musing silence trace +The ancient wonders of thy grace. + +5 Thence I derive a glimpse of hope +To bear my sinking spirits up; +I stretch my hands to God again, +And thirst like parched lands for rain. + +6 For thee I thirst, I pray, I mourn; +When will thy smiling face return? +Shall all my joys on earth remove? +And God for ever hide his love? + +7 My God, thy long delay to save +Will sink thy prisoner to the grave; +My heart grows faint, and dim mine eye; +Make haste to help before I die. + +8 The night is witness to my tears, +Distressing pains, distressing fears; +O might I hear thy morning voice, +How would my weary'd powers rejoice! + +9 In thee I trust, to thee I sigh, +And lift my heavy soul on high, +For thee sit waiting all the day, +And wear the tiresome hours away. + +10 Break off my fetters, Lord, and show +Which is the path my feet should go; +If snares and foes beset the road, +I flee to hide me near my God. + +11 Teach me to do thy holy will, +And lead me to thy heavenly hill; +Let the good Spirit of thy love +Conduct me to thy courts above. + +12 Then shall my soul no more complain, +The tempter then shall rage in vain; +And flesh that was my foe before, +Shall never vex my spirit more. + + +Psalm 144:1. 1 2. First Part. +Assistance and victory in the spiritual warfare. + +1 For ever blessed be the Lord, +My Saviour and my shield; +He sends his Spirit with his word +To arm me for the field. + +2 When sin and hell their force unite, +He makes my soul his care, +Instructs me to the heavenly fight, +And guards me thro' the war. + +3 A friend and helper so divine +Doth my weak courage raise; +He makes the glorious victory mine, +And his shall be the praise. + + +Psalm 144:2. 3 4 5 6. Second Part. +The vanity of man, and condescension of God. + +1 Lord, what is man, poor feeble man, +Born of the earth at first! +His life a shadow, light and vain, +Still hasting to the dust. + +2 O what is feeble dying man +Or any of his race, +That God should make it his concern +To visit him with grace! + +3 That God who darts his lightnings down, +Who shakes the worlds above, +And mountains tremble at his frown, +How wondrous is his love. + + +Psalm 144:3. 12-15. Third Part. +Grace above riches; or, The happy nation. + +1 Happy the city, where their sons +Like pillars round a palace set, +And daughters bright as polish'd stones +Give strength and beauty to the state. + +2 Happy the country, where the sheep, +Cattle, and corn, have large increase; +Where men securely work or sleep, +Nor sons of plunder break the peace. + +3 Happy the nation thus endow'd, +But more divinely blest are those +On whom the all-sufficient God +Himself with all his grace bestows. + + +Psalm 145:1. L. M. +The greatness of God. + +1 My God, my King, thy various praise +Shall fill the remnant of my days; +Thy grace employ my humble tongue +Till death and glory raise the song. + +2 The wings of every hour shall bear +Some thankful tribute to thine ear; +And every setting sun shall see +New works of duty done for thee. + +3 Thy truth and justice I'll proclaim; +Thy bounty flows, an endless stream, +Thy mercy swift, thine anger slow, +But dreadful to the stubborn foe. + +4 Thy works with sovereign glory shine, +And speak thy majesty divine; +Let Britain round her shores proclaim +The sound and honour of thy Name. + +5 Let distant times and nations raise +The long succession of thy praise; +And unborn ages make my song +The joy and labour of their tongue. + +6 But who can speak thy wondrous deeds? +Thy greatness all our thoughts exceeds! +Vast and unsearchable thy ways! +Vast and immortal be thy praise! + + +Psalm 145:2. 1-7 11-13. First Part. +The greatness of God. + +1 Long as I live I'll bless thy Name, +My King, my God of love; +My work and joy shall be the same +In the bright world above. + +2 Great is the Lord, his power unknown, +And let his praise be great: +I'll sing the honours of thy throne, +Thy works of grace repeat. + +3 Thy grace shall dwell upon my tongue; +And while my lips rejoice, +The men that hear my sacred song +Shall join their cheerful voice. + +4 Fathers to Sons shall teach thy Name, +And children learn thy ways; +Ages to come thy truth proclaim, +And nations sound thy praise. + +5 Thy glorious deeds of ancient date +Shall thro' the world be known; +Thine arm of power, thy heavenly state, +With public splendor shown. + +6 The world is manag'd by thy hands, +Thy saints are rul'd by love; +And thine eternal kingdom stands, +Tho' rocks and hills remove. + + +Psalm 145:3. 7 &c. Second Part. +The goodness of God. + +1 Sweet is the memory of thy grace, +My God, my heavenly king; +Let age to age thy righteousness +In sounds of glory sing. + +2 God reigns on high, but not confines +His goodness to the skies; +Thro' the whole earth his bounty shines, +And every want supplies. + +3 With longing eyes thy creatures wait +On thee for daily food, +Thy liberal hand provides their meat +And fills their mouths with good. + +4 How kind are thy compassions, Lord! +How slow thine anger moves! +But soon he sends his pardoning word +To cheer the souls he loves. + +5 Creatures, with all their endless race, +Thy power and praise proclaim; +But saints that taste thy richer grace +Delight to bless thy Name. + + +Psalm 145:4. 14 17 &c. Third Part. +Mercy to sufferers; or, God hearing prayer. + +1 Let every tongue thy goodness speak, +Thou sovereign Lord of all; +Thy strengthening hands uphold the weak, +And raise the poor that fall. + +2 When sorrow bows the spirit down, +Or virtue lies distrest +Beneath some proud oppressor's frown, +Thou giv'st the mourners rest. + +3 The Lord supports our tottering days, +And guides our giddy youth; +Holy and just are all his ways, +And all his words are truth. + +4 He knows the pains his servants feel, +He hears his children cry, +And their best wishes to fulfil +His grace is ever nigh. + +5 His mercy never shall remove +From men of heart sincere; +He saves the souls whose humble love +Is join'd with holy fear. + +6 [His stubborn foes his sword shall slay, +And pierce their hearts with pain; +But none that serve the Lord shall say, +"They sought his aid in vain."] + +7 [My lips shall dwell upon his praise, +And spread his fame abroad; +Let all the sons of Adam raise +The honours of their God.] + + +Psalm 146:1. L. M. +Praise to God for his goodness and truth. + +1 Praise ye the Lord, my heart shall join +In work so pleasant, so divine, +Now, while the flesh is mine abode, +And when my soul ascends to God. + +2 Praise shall employ my noblest powers, +While immortality endures; +My days of praise shall ne'er be past, +While life and thought and being last. + +3 Why should I make a man my trust? +Princes must die and turn to dust; +Their breath departs, their pomp and power +And thoughts, all vanish in an hour. + +4 Happy the man whose hopes rely +On Israel's God: he made the sky, +And earth and seas with all their train, +And none shall find his promise vain. + +5 His truth for ever stands secure; +He saves th' opprest, he feeds the poor; +He sends the labouring conscience peace, +And grants the prisoner sweet release. + +6 The Lord hath eyes to give the blind; +The Lord supports the sinking mind; +He helps the stranger in distress, +The widow and the fatherless. + +7 He loves his saints, he knows them well, +But turns the wicked down to hell: +Thy God, O Zion, ever reigns; +Praise him in everlasting strains. + + +Psalm 146:2. As the 113th Psalm. +Praise to God for his goodness and truth. + +1 I'll praise my Maker with my breath; +And when my voice is lost in death +Praise shall employ my nobler powers: +My days of praise shall ne'er he past +While life and thought and being last, +Or immortality endures. + +2 Why should I make a man my trust? +Princes must die and turn to dust; +Vain is the help of flesh and blood: +Their breath departs, their pomp and power, +And thoughts all vanish in an hour, +Nor can they make their promise good. + +3 Happy the man whose hopes rely +On Israel's God: he made the sky, +And earth and seas with all their train; +His truth for ever stands secure; +He saves th' opprest, he feeds the poor, +And none shall find his promise vain. + +4 The Lord hath eyes to give the blind; +The Lord supports the sinking mind; +He sends the labouring conscience peace: +He helps the stranger in distress, +The widow and the fatherless, +And grants the prisoner sweet release. + +5 He loves his saints; he knows them well, +But turns the wicked down to hell; +Thy God, O Zion, ever reigns: +Let every tongue, let every age, +In this exalted work engage; +Praise him in everlasting strains. + +6 I'll praise him while he lends me breath, +And when my voice is lost in death +Praise shall employ my nobler powers: +My days of praise shall ne'er be past +While life and thought and being last, +Or immortality endures. + + +Psalm 147:1. First Part. +The divine nature, providence and grace. + +1 Praise ye the Lord; 'tis good to raise +Our hearts and voices in his praise; +His nature and his works invite +To make this duty our delight. + +2 The Lord builds up Jerusalem, +And gathers nations to his Name: +His mercy melts the stubborn soul, +And makes the broken spirit whole. + +3 He form'd the stars, those heavenly flames, +He counts their numbers, calls their names: +His wisdom's vast, and knows no bound, +A deep where all our thoughts are drown'd. + +4 Great is our Lord, and great his might; +And all his glories infinite: +He crowns the meek, rewards the just, +And treads the wicked to the dust. + +PAUSE. + +5 Sing to the Lord, exalt him high, +Who spreads his cloud all round the sky, +There he prepares the fruitful rain, +Nor lets the drops descend in vain. + +6 He makes the grass the hills adorn, +And clothes the smiling fields with corn, +The beasts with food his hands supply, +And the young ravens when they cry. + +7 What is the creature's skill or force, +The sprightly man, the warlike horse, +The nimble wit, the active limb? +All are too mean delights for him. + +8 But saints are lovely in his sight; +He views his children with delight: +He sees their hope, he knows their fear, +And looks and loves his image there. + + +Psalm 147:2. Second Part. +Summer and winter. + +A song for Great Britain. + +1 O Britain, praise thy mighty God, +And make his honours known abroad, +He bid the ocean round thee flow; +Not bars of brass could guard thee so. + +2 Thy children are secure and blest; +Thy shores have peace, thy cities rest; +He feeds thy sons with finest wheat, +And adds his blessing to their meat. + +3 Thy changing season he ordains, +Thine early and thy later rains: +His flakes of snow like wool he sends, +And thus the springing corn defends. + +4 With hoary frost he strews the ground; +His hail descends with clattering sound: +Where is the man so vainly bold +That dares defy his dreadful cold? + +5 He bids the southern breezes blow, +The ice dissolves, the waters flow; +But he hath nobler works and ways +To call the Britons to his praise. + +6 To all the Isle his laws are shown, +His gospel thro' the nation known; +He hath not thus reveal'd his word +To every land: Praise ye the Lord. + + +Psalm 147:3. 7-9 13-18. C. M. +The seasons of the year. + +1 With songs and honours sounding loud +Address the Lord on high; +Over the heavens he spreads his cloud, +And waters veil the sky. + +2 He sends his showers of blessing down +To cheer the plains below; +He makes the grass the mountains crown, +And corn in vallies grow. + +3 He gives the grazing ox his meat, +He hears the ravens cry; +But man, who tastes his finest wheat, +Should raise his honours high. + +4 His steady counsels change the face +Of the declining year; +He bids the sun cut short his race, +And wintry days appear. + +5 His hoary frost, his fleecy snow +Descend and clothe the ground; +The liquid streams forbear to flow, +In icy fetters bound. + +6 When from his dreadful stores on high +He pours the rattling hail, +The wretch that dares this God defy +Shall find his courage fail. + +7 He sends his word and melts the snow, +The fields no longer mourn; +He calls the warmer gales to blow, +And bids the spring return. + +8 The changing wind, the flying cloud, +Obey his mighty word: +With songs and honours sounding loud, +Praise ye the sovereign Lord. + + +Psalm 148:1. P. M. +Praise to God from all creatures. + +1 Ye tribes of Adam, join +With heaven, and earth, and seas, +And offer notes divine +To your Creator's praise: +Ye holy throng +Of angels bright, +In worlds of light, +Begin the song. + +2 Thou sun with dazzling rays, +And moon that rules the night, +Shine to your Maker's praise, +With stars of twinkling light: +His power declare, +Ye floods on high, +And clouds that fly +In empty air. + +3 The shining worlds above +In glorious order stand, +Or in swift courses move +By his supreme command: +He spake the word, +And all their frame +From nothing came +To praise the Lord. + +4 He mov'd their mighty wheels +In unknown ages past, +And each his word fulfils +While time and nature last: +In different ways +His works proclaim +His wondrous Name, +And speak his praise. + +PAUSE. + +5 Let all the earth-born race, +And monsters of the deep, +The fish that cleave the seas, +Or in their bosom sleep, +From sea and shore +Their tribute pay, +And still display +Their Maker's power. + +6 Ye vapours, hail, and snow, +Praise ye Th' almighty Lord, +And stormy winds that blow +To execute his word: +When lightnings shine, +Or thunders roar, +Let earth adore +His hand divine. + +7 Ye mountains near the skies, +With lofty cedars there, +And trees of humbler size, +That fruit in plenty bear; +Beasts wild and tame, +Birds, flies, and worms, +In various forms +Exalt his Name. + +8 Ye kings and judges, fear +The Lord, the sovereign King; +And while you rule us here, +His heavenly honours sing: +Nor let the dream +Of power and state +Make you forget +His power supreme. + +9 Virgins, and youths, engage +To sound his praise divine, +While infancy and age +Their feebler voices join: +Wide as he reigns +His Name be sung +By every tongue +In endless strains. + +10 Let all the nations fear +The God that rules above; +He brings his people near, +And makes them taste his love: +While earth and sky +Attempt his praise, +His saints shall raise +His honours high. + + +Psalm 148:2. Paraphrased. L. M. +Universal praise to God. + +1 Loud hallelujahs to the Lord, +From distant worlds where creatures dwell: +Let heaven begin the solemn word, +And sound it dreadful down to hell. + +Note. This psalm may be sung to the tune of the old 112th or +127th Psalm, if these two lines be added to every stanza, viz. + +Each of his works his Name displays, +But they can ne'er fulfil the praise. + +Otherwise it must be sung to the usual tunes of the Long Metre. + +2 The Lord! how absolute he reigns! +Let every angel bend the knee; +Sing of his love in heavenly strains, +And speak how fierce his terrors be. + +3 High on a throne his glories dwell, +An awful throne of shining bliss: +Fly thro' the world, O sun, and tell +How dark thy beams compar'd to his. + +4 Awake, ye tempests, and his fame +In sounds of dreadful praise declare; +And the sweet whisper of his Name +Fill every gentler breeze of air. + +5 Let clouds, and winds, and waves agree +To join their praise with blazing fire; +Let the firm earth, and rolling sea, +In this eternal song conspire. + +6 Ye flowery plains, proclaim his skill; +Vallies, lie low before his eye; +And let his praise from every hill +Rise tuneful to the neighbouring sky. + +7 Ye stubborn oaks, and stately pines, +Bend your high branches and adore: +Praise him, ye beasts, in different strains; +The lamb must bleat, the lion roar. + +8 Birds, ye must make his praise your theme, +Nature demands a song from you; +While the dumb fish that cut the stream +Leap up, and mean his praises too. + +9 Mortals, can you refrain your tongue, +When nature all around you sings? +O for a shout from old and young, +From humble swains, and lofty kings! + +10 Wide as his vast dominion lies +Make the Creator's name be known; +Loud as his thunder shout his praise, +And sound it lofty as his throne. + +11 Jehovah! 'tis a glorious word, +O may it dwell on every tongue! +But saints who best have known the Lord +Are bound to raise the noblest song. + +12 Speak of the wonders of that love +Which Gabriel plays on every chord: +From all below and all above, +Loud hallelujahs to the Lord! + + +Psalm 148:3. S. M. +Universal praise. + +1 Let every creature join +To praise th' eternal God; +Ye heavenly hosts, the song begin, +And sound his Name abroad. + +2 Thou sun with golden beams, +And moon with paler rays; +Ye starry lights, ye twinkling flames, +Shine to your Maker's praise. + +3 He built those worlds above, +And fix'd their wondrous frame; +By his command they stand or move, +And ever speak his Name. + +4 Ye vapours, when ye rise, +Or fall in showers, or snow, +Ye thunders, murmuring round the skies, +His power and glory show. + +5 Wind, hail, and flashing fire, +Agree to praise the Lord, +When ye in dreadful storms conspire +To execute his word. + +6 By all his works above +His honours be exprest; +But saints that taste his saving love +Should sing his praises best. + +PAUSE I. + +7 Let earth and ocean know +They owe their Maker praise; +Praise him, ye watery worlds below, +And monsters of the seas. + +8 From mountains near the sky +Let his high praise resound, +From humble shrubs and cedars high, +And vales and fields around. + +9 Ye lions of the wood, +And tamer beasts that graze, +Ye live upon his daily food, +And he expects your praise. + +10 Ye birds of lofty wing, +On high his praises bear; +Or sit on flowery boughs, and sing +Your Maker's glory there. + +11 Ye creeping ants and worms, +His various wisdom show, +And flies, in all your shining swarms, +Praise him that drest you so. + +12 By all the earth-born race +His honours be exprest; +But saints that know his heavenly grace +Should learn to praise him best. + +PAUSE II. + +13 Monarchs of wide command, +Praise ye th' eternal King; +Judges, adore that sovereign hand +Whence all your honours spring. + +14 Let vigorous youth engage +To sound his praises high; +While growing babes, and withering age, +Their feebler voices try. + +15 United zeal be shown, +His wondrous fame to raise; +God is the Lord: his name alone +Deserves our endless praise. + +16 Let nature join with art, +And all pronounce him blest; +But saints that dwell so near his heart, +Should sing his praises best. + + +Psalm 149. +Praise God, all his saints; or, +The saints judging the world. + +1 All ye that love the Lord, rejoice, +And let your songs be new; +Amidst the church with cheerful voice +His later wonders shew. + +2 The Jews, the people of his grace, +Shall their Redeemer sing; +And Gentile nations join the praise, +While Zion owns her King. + +3 The Lord takes pleasure in the just, +Whom sinners treat with scorn; +The meek that lie despis'd in dust +Salvation shall adorn. + +4 Saints should be joyful in their King, +Ev'n on a dying bed; +And like the souls in glory sing, +For God shall raise the dead. + +5 Then his high praise shall fill their tongues, +Their hands shall wield the sword; +And vengeance shall attend their songs, +The vengeance of the Lord. + +6 When Christ his judgment-seat ascends, +And bids the world appear, +Thrones are prepar'd for all his friends, +Who humbly lov'd him here. + +7 Then shall they rule with iron rod +Nations that dar'd rebel; +And join the sentence of their God +On tyrants doom'd to hell. + +8 The royal sinners bound in chains +New triumphs shall afford; +Such honour for the saints remains: +Praise ye, and love the Lord. + + +Psalm 150. 1 2 6. + +A song of praise. + +1 In God's own house pronounce his praise, +His grace he there reveals; +To heaven your joy and wonder raise, +For there his glory dwells. + +2 Let all your sacred passions move, +While you rehearse his deeds; +But the great work of saving love +Your highest praise exceeds. + +3 All that have motion, life, and breath, +Proclaim your Maker blest; +Yet when my voice expires in death, +My soul shall praise him best. + + +Doxology. + +The Christian Doxology. + + +Long Metre. + +To God the Father, God the Son, +And God the Spirit, Three in One, +Be honour, praise, and glory given, +By all on earth, and all in heaven. + + +Common Metre. + +Let God the Father, and the Son, +And Spirit be ador'd, +Where there are works to make him known, +Or saints to love the Lord. + + +Common Metre. + +Where the tune includes two stanzas. + +1 The God of mercy be ador'd, +Who calls our souls from death, +Who saves by his redeeming word, +And new-creating breath. + +2 To praise the Father and the Son +And Spirit all divine, +The One in Three, and Three in One, +Let saints and angels join. + + +Short Metre. + +Ye angels round the throne, +And saints that dwell below, +Worship the Father, love the Son, +And bless the Spirit too. + + +As the 113th Psalm. + +Now to the great and sacred Three, +The Father, Son, and Spirit be +Eternal praise and glory given, +Thro' all the worlds where God is known, +By all the angels near the throne, +And all the saints in earth and heaven. + + +As the 148th Psalm. + +To God the Father's throne +Perpetual honours raise, +Glory to God the Son, +To God the Spirit praise: +With all our powers, +Eternal King, +Thy Name we sing, +While faith adores. + + + + + +End of the Project Gutenberg EBook of The Psalms of David, by Isaac Watts + +*** END OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE PSALMS OF DAVID *** + +***** This file should be named 13166.txt or 13166.zip ***** +This and all associated files of various formats will be found in: + https://www.gutenberg.org/1/3/1/6/13166/ + +Produced by Lewis Jones. + +Updated editions will replace the previous one--the old editions +will be renamed. + +Creating the works from public domain print editions means that no +one owns a United States copyright in these works, so the Foundation +(and you!) can copy and distribute it in the United States without +permission and without paying copyright royalties. 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