.f^'iOW.^-'^ jr^^#i( f -> V ^^ n >?v\.^:.Y># ^^.:v 'iJ ^Av v'\.^';?^^%.cip;rF>v>^-^ ^.^ir:^.-^ i^^^? FROM THE LIBRARY OF REV. LOUIS FITZGERALD BENSON. D. D. BEQUEATHED BY HIM TO THE LIBRARY OF PRINCETON THEOLOGICAL SEMINARY 377S St^ticii \ ^SisJH :C^ i#J i •^ V V Y^ Digitized by tlie Internet Arcliive in 2011 witli funding from Princeton Tlieoiogica! Seminary Library Iittp://www.arcliive.or9/details/collectionofpsal00wall< m wa^^/^.j^ ^^/^^/^^'^'^^'--l 2At^) A COLLECTION OF PSA AND HYMN FOR PUBLIC WORSHIP, UNMlXEn WITH THE DISPUTED DOCTRINES ©F ANY SECT. Sing ye praifes 'with underJiandiiig,tP{. xlvii, 7. but not with doubtful dijputations, Rom. xlv. i. The contentions and diftingui(hing words of ftfls and parties ought to he fecluded, that whole affemhlies may afllft at the harmony, and different churches join in the fame worftiip without offence. WATTS. ...i...~...Ji quid no-vifii reSlius ijlis Candidas imperii ; Ji nan, his uters tnecum. Hor, ...^ lA/AJV^P WA R R IN GTO N, PKiNTED BY W. EYRES, FOR THE EDITOR. MDCCLXXXVII r. TO THE SOCIETY OF PROTESTANT DISSENTERS IN THE HIGH PAVEMENT, NOTTINGHAM, THIS COLLECTION OF PSALMS AND HYMNS RESPECTFULLV AND GRATEFULLY DEDICATED BY THEIR ERY AFFECTIONATE MINISTER AND SERVANT, GEORGE WALKER. PREFACE. THE great change in religious faith which has taken place in this ifland, fince the period in" which the differefit col- le(5lions of Pfalms or Hymns of moft general acceptation were firft introduced, has ren- dered it highly improper, if not abfolutejy criminal, to continue any longer in the ufe of what the mind at prefent revolts from. Whatever be the faith of any fociety, no wor- fhip ought to be prefented to God, which con- tradicts that faith. It had indeed been well, if the peculiarities of religious faith had ne- ver intruded into a part of worfhip, whofe charafleriftic features are gratitude, and .a virtuous conformity to the will of God. As our predecefTors however unhappily thought otherwife, it is the principal obje6b of this collection to remove the offence, which their dodtrinal zeal has occafioned to their fuc- ceflbrs. It was alfo in the view of the editor to improve the ftile, to reject all mean and low A 3 com- vi PREFACE. compofitions, and, if polTible, all mean and law lines. But neither of thefe views could be accomplifhed, without taking great li- berty with the compoficions of various au- thors. He hopes that none will be offended therewith, as no injury is done to any one. The exiftence of the originals is not affefled by the alterations which are introduced into a fingle copy, and whoever prefer the origi- nals, ftill may ufe them. It has been ob- jedled indeed, that Watf^s* facred poetry, has obtained fo high a repute, that it will be deemed almoft a facrilege to attempt to cor- real it. Few refpc6l the memory of Dr. Watts more than the editor ; but he has rea- fon to believe, tliat Dr. Watts meditated the correction of himfelf both as a divine and a poet. To adapt the facred poems of Dr. Watts to the principal objedl of the editor, it was abfolutely neceflary that every objec- tion in relpedl of do6trine fhould be removed. And it will be allowed by the warmeft friends of this refpe6led author, that whatever poe- tic fpirit he may difcover in many inftances, yet his belt compofitions are blemifhed by very low and groveling lines. Poetry is rather a novel attempt: of the editor, and whether he has or has not by nature the fmalleft talent therein, muft be left to the 1 iudsment of others. Fame was not inhis view, '■■ and PREFACE. vii and therefore a very temperate approbation will fully fatisfy him. The alterations are very confiderable, bear- ing no fmall proportion to the whole work, and in many of the pfalms and hymns the retaining the name of the original author muft be confidered as a mere acknowledg- ment of the fource from which the compofi- tion was derived. But in authors of a very high reputation, if he has varied in the leaft from the original, it has almoft always been from other motives than the idea of better- ing the expreflion. Thus two lines are in- ferted in the beautiful paftoral hymn of Ad- difon in order to reduce the original ftanza of fix lines to one of four. Again in his hymn on recovery from a bed of ficknefs, the three laft ftanzas are fubftituted inftead of the author's, becaufe the fentimcnts of the original could not be reconciled with the defign of the editor. Some of the devotional poems may be thought to be of too private and individual a charader for public worfhip. Thefe are not many, and there is no impropriety in having paid fome regard to domeftic and even individual worfhip. There will be found a choice of pfalms or hymns on many of the principal topics, as it was the defign of the editor to furnifh as large a fcope for variety . A 4 as viii PREFACE. as poflible. Too frequent repetition renders the beR- compofition infipid, and almoft dif- guftfiil ; and independent of this confidera- tion, variety provides a field for the indul- gence of various taltes. As far as was in the editor's power, he has annexed the names of the original authors, and where no intelligence of the author could be procured, he has fignified his acknow- ledgment by the word unknown. For all thofe pfalms or hymns, which have no mark annexed of known or unknown author, the editor himfelf muft anfwer. Vanity did not tempt him to infert them, nor has a falfe modefty induced him to withhold them. The editor takes this opportunity of ma- king his acknowledgment to Mr. Cappe, from whofe colleftion he has taken the liberty to borrow fome few lines and expref- fions, particularly in No. 353, the 9th, loth, 13th, and 14th lines with a little variation. Nottingham, GEORGE WALKER. March 8, 1788. If any congregation wilh to adopt this collection, they may be fupplied by writing to the Rev. George Walker, Nottingham, B OF INITIAL LINES. Note. The figures refer to the running number of the DEVOTIONAL POEMS, without diflin^ion of psalm* from HYMNS. A WORLDLY blifs ! 'tis but a name 203. A work of wondrous fklll I ftand 237. Abfurd and vain attempt to bind 373. Again the Lord of life and light 290. All pov/erful, felf-exIAent God 158. All feeing God, 'tis thine to know 344, Almighty Father, gracious Lord 238, Almighty God, thy powerful word 254. Almighty King, whofe wondrous hand 266. Almighty maker of my frame 77; Ambition, from my heart away 218, Among the princes, earthly Gods 127. And is the gofpel peace and love 301. Ancient of days, eternal king 276. Approach, ye virtuous, raife your fongs 248. Are health and eafe my portion here 140. Arife and hail the happy day 292. As floods whicli down the mountains fteep 137. As the good Hiepherd gently leads 49. As various as the moon 352. Awake my foul, awake my tongue 163. Awake my foul, awake mine eyes 369. Awake my foul, lift uj) thine eyes 338. Awake my foul, ftretch every nerve 360. Av^ake X TABLE OF INITIAL LINES. Awake ye faints, and ralfe your eyes oca. Awake ye faints to praife your king 225. B, FE rtrong my heart, ajid ftill adore 30. 15e thou exalted, O my God ,qq Begin, my foul, th' exalted lay 2C2. Begin, my tongue, the nobleft t emc jgo. Behold a wretch in woe - .g_ Behold, I come, the Saviour cries -g. Behold the gloomy vale ,q_ Behold the grace appear -g.^ Behold the lofty (ky ^ Behold the path which mortals tread ^,5_ Beliold where breathing love divine -.6_ Bethink, ye hcediefs youths, In time -,, Blefs, O my foul, the living God ,gQ_ Bleft are the fons of peace ^^^ Bleft are the undefiled in heart ,_, Bleft in the hope of thee, my God -g^^ Bleft is the man by mercy owned ^, Bleft is the man of humble mind Bleft is the man of kind regard Bleft is tlie man whofe bowels move 2o Bleft is the man who fhuns the place 2 Bleft who with generous pity glows ^o Bleft who their help m God alone 2^5 By thee, my God, my thoughts are read ^-ti 297. 179. V-IHARlTy, decent, modeft, eafy, kind 304. Clap your hands, rejoice and fmg gg. Come all who boaft the human name Come, children, learn to fear the Lord Come from yoiiifelf inftruftion learn (,2, Come let usfearch our ways and try - ^az. Come liither ye with care oppreft 28S Come found his praife abroad ,4^, Communion with a friend -00. Could I, my God, fo faitlikfs prove 233. DARE 146. 68. TABLE OF INITIAL LINES. Xl D. 'ARE pride, O God, poffefs my heart aig. Daring in crime, the finner cries j^* E, ^NOUGH of life's vain fcene I've trod 106. Enough, my God, I know thee here ^je. Ere the young dawn has ftreaked the flcy ' j^. Eternal God, almighty caufe ^kj. Eternal God, our years amount 152. Eternal power, ahnighty God - ^2j. Eternal Sire, enthroned on high 2^,^ Exalt, O Earth, thy heavenly king 251. Exalt the Lord our God jcj, J/ AR as thy name is known gg. Father of all in earth and heaven 298, Father of all in every age «8- Father of mercies, God of love 268. Father of mercies, in thy word ^ 286. Fatlier we fing thy wondrous grace Firm and unmoved are they Firm was my health, my day v/as bright rg. Forgive me, God, my God forgive nr. Forgive me, O my gracious God , 241. Fret not ihyfelf when wicked men prevail ,je. From all that dwell below the fkies igg^ From the firft davi^ning light G. 114. 211. 54- 'IVE me the wings of faith to rife -82, Give thanks to God mol't high 227. Give to our God immortal praife 2281 God is a fpirit juf> and wife 02. God is my portion, all my good 20, God, my ftrength, to thee I pray „. God of my life whofe tender care 236. God of my ftrength to thee I cry §2 God of the morning, at whofe voice , "gg, God, who o'er all creation rules ^jg. Great Xll TABLE OF INITIAL LINES. Great God, infp'ire each heart and tongoe 377, Great God, my joyful thanks to thee 272. Great God, the heaven's well ordered frame 38. Great God, this facred day of thine 295. Great God, vvhofe univerfal fway 118. Great Lord of fpirits, we adore 365. Great ruler of the earth and (kies 85. Great fource of life, our fouls confefs 186. H. -AIL, bleft inftruftor, taught by thee 191. Hail to the mcrn, and morning's Lord 7. Hail voice divine ! thus the Almighty faid 25S. Happy the man, who never treads 4. Happy the youth, whofe early years 330. Hark the glad found, the Saviour comes 279. Have mercy, Lord, on me 96. Hear, O my God, with pity hear 242. Hear wifdom's earned cry 331. Hence fuperftition from my foul 205. High In the heaven's, eternal God 73. Him praife, the everlafling King 224. How are thy fervants bleft, O Lord . 310. How beauteous are their feet 284, How dear to men and God the fight 220. How did my heart rejoice to hear 2c8. How eageily do men purfue 351. How foolifh to oppofe to God 335. How pleafant 'tis to fee zzz. How fhall we purify our hearts I94« How {sKCct to ev'ry virtuous heart 124. How vaft muft their advantage be ' 219. X BOV»' before that foverelgn power - 307. 1 grieve, my God, that 1 fliould be 305. I fing th' almighty power of God 277. Jf God his fav'rinp aid deny 213. Jf God the life he gave demand 159. If TABLE OF INITIAL LINES. Xfll If Providence to try my heart 321. If folid happinefs we prize 350. Impious to talk of peace with'beaven 326. Impofture (brinks from light 37Z. In all my vad: concerns with thee 434. In our profperlty we cry 340. In vain the erring world inquires 11, In vain the world's alluring fmile •^23, Indulgent Father, how divine ^47. Indulgent God, with pitying eye 202* 99. EHOVAH reigns, let ev'ry nation hear 273, Join all the glorious names 2S1. Joy to the world, the Lord is come ' 145. JL/ET children hear the mighty deeds 133, Let no event caft down ' 5>' Let not the fight thy heart dlfmay Sg. Let others on their flrength rely Let finners take their courfe Let thanks to thee, all fovereign pow'r aiife 3S4. Let thy various realms, O earth ig-r^ Life is the time to ferve the Lord 3--. Lift your voice, and joyful fing 226. Lo I my Shepherd is divine . ^-,. Lord, I am thine, and thou wilt prove -x. Lord, I eAeem thy judgments right ipg. Lord, 1 have made thy v/ord my choice lo-. Lord of the worlds above r, - Lord, how divinely bleft are they , 328, Lord, how fliall wretched finners dare -.^« Lord, thou art good, all nature fliews 260. Lord, thou haft fearched and feen me thro' s-.^. Lord, what a feeble piece i ^ e. Lord, where fliall guilty fouls retire 235. Lord, while iniquities abound ,y_ .AKER and fovereign Lord g^ Man at thy fummons, mighty Lord j,6^ Mark XIV TABLE OF INITIAL LINES. Mark when tempeftuous winds aiife 349. May all the vaiidTis tribes of men 40. My dear Redeemer and my Lord 285, My Father, Friend, to thee I raife 230. My God, how awful are my fears 8. My God, how perfed is thy word 131, My God, if wife and fit it be 411 My God, my beft, my deareft liope 119. My God, my everlafting hope ij6. My God, my Father, blifsful found 139. My God, my King, thy various praife 244. My God, my Saviour and my Friend ' J17. My God, permit my tongue 1051 My God, the fleps of pious men 75. My God, the vifits of thy love 32. My God, whofe all pervading eye 120. My gracious God, accept my prayer ^ 306. My grateful tongue,, immortal king 129, My heart and all my ways, O God 271. My heart does all thy will embrace 200. My maker and my king 265. My refuge is the God of love 20. My fhepherd's care fupplies my needs 45. My (hepherd is the living Lord 44, My foul infpired with facred love 319. My foul repeat his praife 162. My foul v»ith humblefl reverence fings 274. R AKED as from the earth we came 310. Night's difmal gloom once more is fled 367. Not different food or different drefs 302. Now be my heart infpired to fing 83. Now may the God of power and grace 39. Now fable night concludes the day . 370. o AZURE vaults ! O cryftal fky 3S5. O blefi the Lord, my foul 161, O bleft indeed are th.ey 64- O bl«(t TABLE OF INITIAL LINES. xy O bleft religion, beav'nly fair O clothed with majefty divine O God of mercy thou that heareft prayer O Cod, my beft, my deareft hope O God, my baft, my triieft friend O God, my grateful heart afpires O God, my Saviour and my king O God, on thee we all depend O happy nations where the Lord O happinefs where art thou hid O how bleft the man, whofc eac O liow I love tiiy holy law O Lord, how excellent thy hand O Lord our God how wondrous great O power fupremel O high above all height O praife ye the Lord, prepare a new fong O that the Lord would guide my ways O the immenfe amazing lieight O thou beft objed of my love O thouj the refuge of diftrefs O thou, the univerfal king O 'tis a lovely thing to fee O vanity, thou bai;^ of man O what a fandity, what grace O who (hall give me, thus my breaft Obferve, my foul, the narrow bounds On God all nature does rely On thee each morning, O my God On thee, great ruler of the (kies Our mercies and our forrows fpring Our fouls with pleafing wonder view Out of the depth of fad diftrefs 294. 164. 363. 81. 174. 347. 261. 3U. 195. = 55' 260U 2S3' 199. 204. 156. 343' ' 103. 2-33. 9S. t]i, 7i' 371. 24, 376, 70. 61. 215. X ARENT of all, omnipotent Permit me, Lord, to feek thy face Praife be to God, enthroned above Praifes from all to God beion^ 374. J 68. 169. 154- Praife XVI TABLE OF INITIAL LINES. Praife to God, Immortal praife ig- Praife ye the Lord, hoV rich the theme j^g. JlVEASON, the beft and nobleft gift .j. Kedeemer of loft man jjg2_ Religion is a generous cheerful flame ^u. Rejoice ye righteous in the Lord gs. Remark, rry foul, the narrow bounds ,64. Refcucd from the rude grafp of death 60. Return in mercy, Lord, return - ^i^^ Return my foul and feck thy red iSc. c k_/ACRED wifdom, he my guide jr^. Save me, O Lord, from evVy foe 28. Say (hould we fearch the globe around 375, Shine, mighty God, on Britain fhine m. Since I liave fixed my truft on God ig. So let our lips and lives exprefs 293, Songs of the higheft praife belong i^g. Sweet charity, long fufi'ering, meek and kind 303. Sweet is the memory of tliy grace 245. Sweet is the work, my God, my King 14.1. Sweet love, thy praifes claim my ftrain 3^5. Swift as the feathered arrow flies 354. T. EACI^ me, O teach me. Lord, thy v/ay 190. Teach me the meafure of my days 76. Th' Almighty fpake, and night and day 122. Th' Almighty reigns exalted high 14.8. ^Thee, Lord, I boafl my biifs fupreme x6. Thee, Lordj my thankful foul would blefs ^9. Thee we adore, eternal God 357. The bufy tribes of flefh and blood 133, The crofs was folly to the Greek " 175. The earth and all the heav'nly frame 262. The earth is thine, almighty Lord ' 51. The earth procl.'iims its Lcrd ^2, Th' eternal monarch from en high 97. The TABLE OF INITIAL LINES. Xyil The evening and the morn rejoice io8. The glorious worlds of light above 35. The God, whofe light thro' every age 150. The gracious Saviour bowed bis head zgi. The heathens with proud fcorn denw nd 184. The heavens proclaim thy glory. Lord 34, The hours of life, how fwift they fly 134, The joyful morn, my God, is come aog. The Lord attends my humble call 341. The Lord hinifelf, the mighty Lord 43. The Lord my fhepherd is 46. The Lord my fiiepherd and my guide 4S. The Lord my pafture rtiall prepare 47. The Lord of glory is my light ^6. The Lord of glory reigns fupremely great 1 10, The Lord of glory reigns ; he reigns on high 143. The Lord of glory fends his fummons forth ^gg, The Lord, the judge before his throne g,. The Lord, the Lord of glory reigns 143, The man is ever blefl j. The man of humble upright heart 12. The man whofe heart from vice is clear 308. The morn and eve thy praife refound iq-^ The night is paft, again my eye 368, The fifing morn, the clofing day jcg. The foul that glows with virtue's light 178. The fpacious firmament on high ^6. The ways of God the foul delight ,77. The weary traveller, loft in night jog. Th' uplifted eye and bended kn«c 04. There is a righteous God 121. They who in Ihips with courage bold tyz. Thine ear, my God, proprltious lend ^40, Thine is the throne, beneath thy reign 18. This is the day the Lord has made 381. Thou art and thou art Cod alone 72,. Thou art my portion, O my God 193. Thou great and facred Lord of all 217, Though ail of this material frame 361. b Though XVm TABLE OF IJJITJAL LINES. Though peevifh virtue may complain j^g. Thro' all the changing fcenes of life 67. Thro* all the various fhifting fcenc ly,. Thro* endlefs years thou art the fame 157. Thus far my God has led me on o. Thy laughing joys, young man, purfue jjj. Thy mercies fill the earth, O Lord 198. Thy name, almighty Lord 189. Thy facred precepts I adore 201. Thy wifdorn, power and goodnefs, Lord 264. 'Tis enough! the hour is come 296, 'Th religion that can give 314. To God above from all below 171. To God addrefs the pious ftrain J65. To God the great the ever bleft ^ jjq. To God we confecrate our zeal Sj, To thee I pay my early vows 239. To ihee, my God, my foul fhall rife 313. To thee, O God, my prayer afcends 318. Triumphant, Lord, thy goodnefs reigns 69. 'Tvvas God who hurled the rolling fpheres 259. u. w. P to the hills I lift mine eyes 206. Upward I lift mine eyes 207. £ blefs the Lord, the wife and good 113. Welcome, my God, thy facred day 104. Welcome the hope of Ifrael's race i26> When all thy mercies, O my God 115, When death its terrors round me threw 184, When fancy fpreads the boldeft wings 10. When overwhelmed with grief 102, When rifing from the bed of death 324. When the great God, the wife and juft 17. Whene'er, O God, with raptured eye 14. Where is your God? the heathen cry 183. Where fhall the man be found 55. Where'er I turn my raptured eyes 263. Wherewith TABLE OF IMITJAL LINES. XlX Wherewith (hall I approach the Lord 527. While Britain favoured of the fkies 380. While oft from clime to clime I go 309. While fome in folly's pleafures roll 329. Who amongft men, O holy God 24. Who may to thy chofen feat 23. Who of himfelf can find 337. Who fliall approach thy facred throne 25. Who (hall afcend thy heavenly place 26, Who (hall afcend to God above 27. Who truft in God's protefting hand aia. Why breathes my anxious heart the frequent figh 312. Why do the heathen nations rage 5. Why doth the man of riches grow 90. Why fliould I thus perplex 316. Why (hould I vex my foul, and fret 74. Why will ye wafte on trifling cares 334. With all my powers of heart and tongue 229. With dauntlefs head amidft the fkies 212. With joyful hearts thy people fing 147. With penitential grief 214. With reverence let the world appear 130, Wifdom repines not, though it meet 339- Wonderful God ! of all the fpring 256. Wretched deceit, to think of heaven 325. V X E nations of the earth draw near 91. Ye nations praife the Lord 267. Ye nations round the earth rejoice 153. Ye righteous of the earth rejoice 112. Ye fervants of th' almighty King iSi, 278. Ye fervants of th' eternal King 223. Ye fons of men in facred lays 166. Ye tribes of Adam join 250. Ye tribes of earth in God rejoice 152. Ye who delight to ferve the Lord 180. Ye wretched (laves of this world's blifs 33. You thai would my difciples be 289. A COL- COLLECTION O P PSALMS AND HYMNS. I. PSALM L Middle Metre. Merrick. The different CharaSfer and Fate of the Righteous and the Wtched, 1 X"^ HOW bleft the man, whofe ear B ■ Impious counfel fliuns to hear; V.-^ Who nor dares to tread the way Where the fons of folly ilray j 2 Nor their frantic mirth to fhare, Seated in derifion's chair : Frantic mirth, which fpares not God^ And affefts to brave his rod.' 3 But, poffefled with facred awe. Meditates, great God, thy law ^ This, by day, his beft employ, This, by night, his trueftjoy. B 4 Like 2 PSALMS. 4 Like the tree that fruitful grows Where the winding rivulet flows. He his verdant branch fhall fpread. Nor one fickening leaf Ihall Ihed. 5 But a fadly different fate Does the foes of God await j They fhall, in their proudeft hour, Perifh like the blafted flower. 6 When thy Judge, O earth, fliall come. And to each affign his doom, Will ye then, ye impious band, Unabaflicd before him ftiand ? 7 No ! my God, the juft alone Thou with all thy love wilt own ; While thy face the wicked fly. And o'erwhelmed in ruin lie. II. PSALM L Com. Met. Watts. The fame. 1 TJLEST is the man, who fhuns the place _|3 Where finners fpread their fnare j Who fears alluring pleafure's ways. And dreads the fcoffer's chair. 2 Who in the fl:atutes of the Lord Has placed his chief delight ; Daily he reads or hears the word. And meditates by night. 2 He like a plant of generous kind. In fome well-watered plain. With all the richeft fruits of mind In health and peace fhall reign. 4. Not PSALMS. 3 4 Not fo the impious and iinjuft j Vain the defigns they fornti ! Their hopes are fcattered like the duft. Or chafF before the ftorm. 5 God with delight the good furveys. And with his blefling crowns ; But on the finner's defperate ways All his difpleafure frowns. III. PSALM I. Short Met. Watts. The fame, 1 fTTMIE man is ever bleft, X Who fhuns the finner's w^ys; Who in their councils never Hands, Nor takes the fcoffer's place. 2 But makes the law of God His ftudy and delight. Amid the labours of the day, And watches of the night. 3 He like a tree fhall thrive. With waters near the root i Frelh as the leaf his name fhall live. And fair be all his fruit. 4 Not fo th' ungodly race. They no fuch bleflings find : Their hopes Ihall flee like empty chaff Before the driving wind. 5 Th' Almighty God approves The way the righteous go ; But finners and their works (hall meet A dreadful overthrow. B 2 PSALM 4 PSALMS. IV. PSALM L Long Met. The fame. 1 T T APPY the man, who never treads j[ J. The finncr's wide and beaten road; ■ Follows not where the fcoffer leads, Nor thinks it wit to brave his God. 2 The power that nnade him he reveres i The grace that bleflfes him he loves j And thus fecured, he nobly bears His part in all that God approves. 3 As the rich grain in cultured fields Spreads! a wide blefling thro' the land 5 So virtue's richer fruits he yields, And God accepts them at his hand. 4 But from the wafte no bleffings fpring; The fire confumes whate'er it grows. And fo fhall heaven's offended King Give to deftruflion all his foes-. V. PSALM II. Com. Met. Tats. Chjlist's univerfal Kingdom^ and Triumph over all Oppojition. I T T 7 H Y do the heathen nations rage ? y Y What means their rude alarm ? With heaven in impious war engage ! And raife the rebel arm. 1 The great in council and in might Their various forces bring, Againtt the Lord they all unite. And his anointed King. 3 And PSALMS. 5 3 And fliall we bow to their commands ? Their joylefs law obey ? No ! let us break their flavifh bands. And fpurn their rule away. 4 But God, who fits enthron'd on high, Amidft the powers divine. Does their confpiring hofts defy, And mock their vain defign. 5 Though madly you difpute my will. The Kino;, whom I ordain, Whofe throne is fixed on Sion's hill, Shall thence difi\ire his reign. 6 Guided by my unerring views. The earth fhall him obey; Nor Jew nor Gentile fhall refufe The bleflings of his fway. VI. PSALM IL Short Met. Watts. The fame. I Ti y^AKER and fovereign Lord XVjL ^^ heaven, and earth, and feas. Thy providence confirms thy word. And anfwers thy decrees. 1 Rulers and kings agree To form a vain defign ; Againft the Lord their powers unite, Againft his Chrift they join. 3 The Lord derides their rage. And will fupport his throne ; He hailed him his beloved Son, And God his Son will own. 4 He PSALMS. He afks, and God bellows A rich inheritance ; Far as the rational world extends. His kingdom fhall advance. While on each rebel mind Heavily falls his rod : The Son will vindicate the caufe Which he r^ceiv'd from God. VII. PSALM III. Long Met. Merrick. J Morning Pfalm. I f f AIL to the morn, and morning'sLord ! Jj_ Whofe recent mercy I record. My prayer afcended to his throne, My prayer return'd with blefling down. 1 Oppreft with toil, I fought repofe, I laid me down, I flept, I rofe ; For thou, my God, wert waking ftill. To guard my life from every ill. 3 Though terrors threaten all around. No terror e'er my peace fhall wound ; While thou art pleafcd thy aid to yield. And o'er me ftretch thy guardian fhield. 4 And thine it is alike to fave Thy fervants from th' expecting grave; To blefs them in the world above. And crown them with eternal love. PSALM il PSALMS. 7 VIII. PSALM in. Com. Met. Watts. Penitence acceptable to Mercy. 1 T^ fiY God, how awful are my fears ! J^YJ[ How my worfl foes increafe ! Arrayed againft my future hope They break my prefent peace. 2 And is my beft repentance vain ? And vain my new-born will ? And fhall no mercy, bleffed God, Defcend my fears to ftill ? 3 It did defcend, the grace that loves To fave and not deftroy. That welcomes the relenting heart. And fpreads thro' heaven a joy. ' 4. Then let the hofts of death and hell Arrayed aginft me be j Nor death nor hell Ihall fliake my foul. If mercy fmile on me. 5 But, O my God, thy aid impart My purpofe to fulfil ; To raife my thoughts, to heal my heart, And fix my better will. 6 Nor let me e'er by crime renew The fears that crime await ; Left mercy turn away her eye. And leave me to my fate. B 4 PS ALM 8 PSALMS. IX. PSALM IV. Long Met. Watts. Evening Pfalm. I ^T^HUS far. my God has led me on, J[ Thus far prolonged and bleft my davs; And every evening (hall make known My thankful memory of his grace. 2, Much of my time has run to wafte. And I am nearer to my home; But God remits the follies palt. And gives me hope of days to come. 3 I'll lay my body down to fleepj Peace is the pillow for my head. While fympathizing angels keep Their guardian ftations round my bed. 4 Faith in my God drives fear away ; Oh ! may thy prefence ne'er depart ! And ftill may each returning day To thee and duty wake my heart. 5 And when the hour of death fhall come. Still may I truft Almighty love j The love, that triumphs o'er the tornb, And leads to better blifs above. X. PSALM IV. Com. Met. Mrs. Steele. In God and his Favour is the only Happinefs. I TT THEN fancy fpreads the boldell wings, VV -^"^ wanders unconfined. Amid th' unbounded fcene of things. Which entertain the mind : 2 In I PSALMS. 9 2 In vain J trace creation o'er. In fearch of facred reftj The whole creation is too poor. Too mean, to make me bleft. 3 In vain would this low world employ Each flattering fpecious wile; For nought can yield a real joy. But my Creator's fmile. 4 Let earth, and all her charms depart. Unworthy of the mind ; In God alone, this reftlefs heart An equal blifs can find. 5 Great fpring of all felicity. To whom my wifhes tend, Thefe wifhes have their rife from thee. And in thy favour end ? xr. PSALM LV. Com. Met. Mrs. Steele. The fame ; or the Supj'erne Good. 1 TN vain the erring world inquires X. For fome fubftantial good; While earth confines their low defires. They live on airy food. 2 I.llufive dreams of happinefs Their eager thoughts employ; They wake, convinced their boafted blifs Was vifionary joy. 3 Begone ye gilded vanities; I feek fome folid good ; To real blifs my wifhes rife. The favour of my God. 4 Immortal lo PSALMS. 4 Immortal joy thy fmiles impart. Heaven dawns in every ray; One glimpfe of thee will cheer my heart. And turn my night to day. 5 Not all the good, which earth beftows. Can fill the craving mind^ Its higheft joys have mingled woes. And leave a fling behind. 6 Should boundlefs wealth increafe my ftore. Can wealth my cares beguile ? I fhould be wretched ftill, and poor, Without thy blifsful fmile. 7 Grant, O my God, this one requefl; O be thy love alone j My ample portion — here I refl. For heaven is in the boon. XII. PSALM IV. Com. Met. Steele. An Evening Song. I r¥^HE man of humble upright heart, jL As his peculiar care. The Lord himfelf has fet apart, And when he calls will hear. 1 With pious awe your hearts furvey. And every fin repent ; Let true contrition clofe the day. And future guilt prevent. 2 Your facrifice the Lord will own. If thus you feek his face ; Thus humbly bow before his throne. And trull his pardoning grace. 4 Vain PSALMS. II 4 Vain is the toilfome fearch of good In all things here below ; Thy fmile alone, nny gracious God, Can real blifs beftow. 5 Thy fmile, whence all my comfort fprings, With comfort fills my heart j No joy, increafing affluence brings. Such pleafure can impart. 6 Thus with my thoughts compofed to praife, I lay me down to reft -, Nor fear, while God protects my ways, And day and night is bleft. XIII. PSALM V. Long Met. Merrick. Pious Addrefi to God for his Guidance and BleJJing. 1 T]>'ER the young dawn has ftreaked the To thee, my God, I turn my eye ; And afk of thee, whate'er, O Lord, May with thy wifdom beft accord. 2 In peace do thou my path prepare. And guard me from each artful fnarej Grant me thro' life thy guiding ray. And level to my fteps thy way. 3 Let me not now, nor e'er begin To tread the downward path of fin : May thou and heaven my heart infpire. And warm it with their holy fire. 4 From luft and paffion's bafer rule. From guile and avarice, turn my foul ; Let me in all fupport the man, In all do all the good I can. c Thofc 12 PSALMS. 5 Thofe only who have tried do know From innocence what blefTings flow. Sweet innocence and goodnefs given. We tafte the peace and joy of heaven. XIV. PSALM VIII. Long Met. Merrick. Hymn ofPralfe to God, as eminently due from Man. I TT THene'er, O God, with raptur'd eye, Wl I view thy wonders in the fkys That glorious dome, which o'er our head In fiich magnificence is fpread j 1 The fun, the parent orb of day, "Walking in majefty his way; [ed. The moon and ftars, with [[^lendour crown- That nightly move their deftined round. 3 1 wonder, God, that in thy care Man, lowly man, fhould find a fhare ! And what is man ? amazed I cry. That God on him fhould turn his eye ? 4 Formed by his wife Creator's hand, Angels alone above him ftand j But time brings on a ripening plan. When angels fhall confort with man. 5 Subjefled to his will by thee This earth's creation bows the knee,; All do in him their Lord behold : The grazing herd, the bleating fold,. 6 The favage race, that fhun the day. And nightly prowl in fearch of prey. The birds, that mock the human eye. As thro' the pathlefs air they fly. 7 The PSALMS. 13 The finny tribes, the reptile kind. In rivers, feas, or earth confined. Subje6t to God alone is man ; Grand, wife, and good is all thy plan. XV. PSALM VIII. Com. Met. JVatts. The fame. I /^ LORD our God, how wond'rous great \^^ Is thine exalted name ! The glories, which Turround thy ftate. Angels and men proclaim.. 1 When I behold thy works on high : The moon that rules the night. The cluftered ftars that flud the fky. Thole moving worlds of light. 3 Lord, what is man, that thou fhouldft deign On him to turn thy eye ? The child of weaknefs and of pain, "1 As in thy bo.fom lie .? 4 That thy beloved Son fhould bear Our low and humbled form ; Subject to fcorn and death appear, To fave this earthly worm. 5 He is thy work, by thee defigned For nobler worth above. Oh may he, with a virtuous mind, Anfwer to all thy love. PSALM 14 PSALMS. XVI. PSALM IX. Long Met. Merrick. God the Friend of Piety and Virtue. I fTpHEE, Lord, I boaft my blifs fupreme, X Thy praife, my fong'sexhauftlefs theme. Thee, great and wife and good we hail i Thro' thee the wife and good prevail. 1 Juftice and truth fupport thy throne. All their decrees and thine are one ; Time and the world to ruin tend. But God and truth fliall never end. 3 Ye fons of God, who virtue love. Never from God and goodnefs move : For you is bleflfednefs defigned. While every ill with crime is twined. 4 Fearnot, though prefled with fufFering's woe. Virtue's hard trial you may know ; Your hope in God will God fuftain. Who feeks his God, feeks not in vain. XVII. PSALM IX. Com. Met. Watts. Providence finally jujHfied, and Righteoufnefs rewarded. I T T THEN the great God, the wife and jull, Y Y Shall judgment take of crime j The humble fouls, that mourn in dull. Shall raife their head fublime. 1 He from the dark ill-looking vale Shall fuffering virtue raife ; Its better hopes at length prevail. And God its faith repays. 3 The PSALMS. 15 3 The bad ten thoufand ills befet, Prefent and future dread : They die entangled in the net. Which their own hands had fpread. 4 Thus by thy judgments, mighty God, Thy righteous plan is known; O'er mifchief hangs th* avenging rod, And ruin's all its own. 5 Then let me ne'er from God divide. But bow to all his will : While God and goodnefs are allied, I fear no earthly ill. XVIII. PSALM X. Long Met. Merrick. The JVtfdom and Righteoufnefs of Providence ajferud. 1 rx^HINE is the throne, beneath thy reign, J[ Great King of kings, the tribes profane Behold their dream of conqueft o'er. And vanifh to be feen no more. 2 What eyes, like thine, eternal Sire, Through fin's dark mazes can inquire ? What hand, like thine, to virtue's foes Such awful judgments can oppofe ? ^ The meek obferver of thy laws To thee commits his injured caufe; In thee, each anxious fear refigned. The fatherlefs a father find. 4 Thou, Lord, thy fervants' wifli canft read. E'er from their lips the prayer proceed : 'Tis thine the drooping heart to rear. To wipe away the ftarring tear, 5 To i6 PSALMS. 5 To vindicate the fufferer's caufe, To refcue from opprefTion's jav/s. To curb the hell-born tyrant's will. And bid the fons of pride be ftill. XIX. PSALM XI. Com. Met. Tate. A virtuous Trufl in GoD fuperior to Fear, 1 OINCE I have fixed my trufl: on God, j^ A refuge always nigh ; Bid me not, like the frighted bird, To Iheltering mountains fly. 2 But let the wicked bend the bow, I And aim the barbed dart; iLurking in ambufh to deftroy The man of upright heart. 3 And let the firm affurance fail. Which public faith imparts. There is, who innocence proteds From all deflirudive arts. 4 Short is the triumph, poor the joy 1 For God abhors their caufe. Though he defer, he will defl:roy All who infult his laws. 4; If innocence, which much he loves. With fuflfering he corredlj What may the wicked, whom he hates. In their dread hour expeft ? 6 Ruin o'er their devoted head The Judge of crime fufpends; While blcfiednefs, in all its forms. On innocence attends. PSALM PSALMS. 17 XX. PSALM XL Long Met. Watts. God the Refuge in Trial. MY refuge is the God of love. Nor will I other refuge try j Nor like the hunted trembling dove To fheltering woods and mountains fly. i Though equal law fhould be deftroyed. That firm foundation of our peace; Though violence make juftice void. Still fhall the righteous find redrefs. I The Lord in heaven has fixed his throne, And thence furveys the world below ; To him all mortal things are known; His eye explores our fpirits through. [ If he afflift his fervants here. To prove the truth they bear their Lord : What may the bold tranfgreffor fear. By God and all good men abhorred. ; Then ne'er let one good man defpair. But calmly tread his onward way : Wrapped round by God's almighty care, Nor earth nor hell fhould him difmay. XXI. PSALM XIL Com. Met. Watts, ^Anticipation of God's judgment reproved. ORD, while iniquities abound. And blafphemy grows bold. While faith is hardly to be found. And love is waxing cold. c: 1 Is L i8 PSALMS. 2 Is now thy chariot haftening on ? Is this the promifed fign ? Is earth's poor triumph nearly gone ? And wilt thou challenge thine ? 3 Oh check, my foul, this prying eye Of bold prefumptuous man ! Nor let me my weak mind apply To fearch thy fecret plan ! 4 Whether or foon or late, I know ^,. That judgment's hour will come: Then let me all my care beftow To fit me for its doom. XXII. PSALM XIV. Com. Met. Reafon and Virtue welcome God ; Folly and Vice reje£f him, I |3EASON,the bed and nobleflgifc J[\ Of God, to man is given J And reafon's nobleft ufe is, when It lifts the foul to heaven. 1 When its creator it explores In all his glorious ways. In all the kinder forms of love That claim his creature's praife. 3 To live would be no good to man, Befet with hope and fear ^ If to conviction's cleareft eye His God did not appear. 4 The man that can renounce his God, Renounces reafon's voice. Renounces all the props of life. And makes defpair his choice. 5 But \ PSALMS, 19 5 But ne'er did this delufion fpring From horieft erring mind : 'Tis fin that gives to truth the lie. And dreads a God to find. XXIII. PSALM XV. Iamb. Met. Merrick. Chara^er of an accepted Worjhlpper. I T XT' HO may to thy chofen feat Y Y Turn with glad approach his feet ? Who, great God, a welcome gueft, In thy hallowed temple reft ? 1 He whofe heart thy love has warmed. He whofe will, to thine conformed, Bids his life unfullied run j He whofe word and thought are one. 3 He who ne'er with cruel aim, Seeks to wound an honeft fame ^ Nor with gloomy joy pofifefTed Can a brother's peace moleft. 4 Nor to flander's tongue fevere Stoops with eafy faith his ear : Who from fervile terror free Spurns at thofe who fpurn at thee. 5 And to each who thee obeys Love and virtuous reverence paysi Sacredly his word obferves, And from honour never fwerves. 6 Nor by avaricious loan Makes the poor man's bread his own j Nor can bribes his fentence guide 'Gainft the guiltlefs to decide, C a 7 He 20 PSALMS. 7 He who thus, with heart unftalned. Treads the path by thee ordained. He, great God, fliall own thy care. And thy conftant blefTing fhare. XXIV. PSALM XV. Com. M. Tate, The fame. 1 Tl /"HO amongft Men, O Holy God, W May converfe hold with thee ? Who at thy throne, with modeft hope. Prefer his humble plea ? 2 He, who in every thought and deed By rules of virtue moves ; Whofe tongue is fellow to his heart. And fpeaks as it approves. 3 Who by foul flanderous lies abhors A neighbour's fame to wound. Nor liftens to unkind report. By malice whifpered round. 4 Who vice, though dreft in pomp and power. Can treat with juft negle6t ; And piety in meaneft garb Religioufly refpedt. 5 Who to his plighted faith and trufi; Hath ever firmly ftood. And though he promife to his hurt, Still makes his promife good. 6 Who fcorns by bafe opprelTive means To reap a fordid gain ; Nor for a bribe will plead the caufe Of guilt, and juftice llain, 7 He, PSALMS. 21 7 He, who hath thus in virtue's courfe Secured his Maker's love, Though earth's foundation lhake,fhall fmile. And pafs to worlds above. XXV. PSALM XV. Com. M. Watts. The fame. 1 W 7HO {hall approach thy facred throne, VV OGodofholinefs? From whom wilt thou accept the prayer That fupplicates thy grace ? 2 The man who walks in pious ways. And works with righteous hands -, Who trufts his Maker's promifes. And follows his commands. 3 Who fpeaks the meaning of his heart. Nor flanders with his tongue ; Who fcarce believes an ill report. Nor does his neighbour wrong. 4 The wealthy finner-wtM* contemns. Loves all who love their Lord ; And though to his own hurt he fwear. Still he performs his word. 5 Whofe hand difdains the fordid bribe. Nor ever gripes the poor : This man fhall dwell with God on earth. And find his heaven fecure. C 3 PSALM 22 PSALMS. xxvr. PSALM XV. Long. M. Watts. The ^laUfications proper for Heaven. 1 TTTHO fliall afcend thy heavenly place, W Great God, and dwell before thy face ? The man who owns religion now. And humbly walks with God below. 2 Whofe hands are pure, whofe heart is clean ; Whofe lips fpeak what his heart does mean : No flander dwells upon his tongue. Nor dares he do his neighbour wrong. 3 With honeft fame who cannot fport. Who can be deaf to ill report. With noble mind proud fin defpife. And virtue love in humbled guife. 4 Firm to his word he ever (lands, Nor with foul guile 1iis honour brands : Who fwerves not from the thing he (wears, Whatever pain or lofs he bears. 5 Who traffics not in bribing gold. But grieves that juftice (hould be fold ; Let others gripe and grind the poor. Sweet charity attends his door. 6 Who pradifes to all the fame. That he would wi(h or hope from them : This is the man thy face (liall fee, And dwell for ever. Lord, with thee. •■ PSALM PSALMS. ,23 XXVII. PSALM XV. Long Met. The fame. 'HO fliall afcend to God above, In the blefl world of peace and love ? He that regards his nobler mind, Nor finks below what God defigned. 1 Who fcorns to join the fenfual herd. To feek the bUfs on brutes conferred : Who tempts not from its hallowed road Sweet innocence, the face of God. 3 Who ne'er did maiden faith beguile. Stealing in love's fweet form and fmile Into the dear and facred fold Which all the Father's hopes does hold. 4 Whom open honefly adorns j Who lies and mean evafion fcorns : Infamy, more than death, he fears ; And as his God his faith reveres. 5 Who knows not to betray a friend, Nor to one fordid aft defcend ; Whofe lips traduce no honeft name, Whofe ear devours no idle fame. 6 Who ne'er 'gainft facred juftice fins. Whom not the great one's flattery wins. Nor bribes feduce, nor terror awes To proltitute his country's laws. 7 Fellow to all, flies not the great ; Nor fliuns poor mifery's dark retreat. Where modefl: and ingenuous pride From the world's fcorn its griefs would hide. C 4 8 Wlio 24 PSALMS. 8 Who barter's not his foul's eileem, Whate'er proud fin its worth may deerrii But, frank to all, thofe only loves In whom a kindred fpirit moves, 9 A friend to all, the deareft joy Which wealth affords, is to employ His wealth in tempering fuffering's woe ; To give, is to be God below. 10 In hatred's trade he bears no part, Subdues with love ;th' unfriendly heart ; And crimes, which challenge mercy's frown, He leaves to God on judgment's throne. 1 1 This is the man of heavenly kind. Who bears thro' life a godlike mind j And he fhall rife to God above. In the bleft world of peace and love. XXVIII. PSALM XVI. Com. M. Watts. Blejfing from God, and perfeSi SatlsfaSiion in him. I O AVE me, O Lord, from every foe^ l5 In thee my trull I place; Though all the good that I can do. Is far beneath thy grace. 1 Yet if my God prolong my breath. My lengthened life I'll fpend In better ways, prepare for death. And make e'en death my friend. 3 Let heathens to their idols hafte. To things of wood or flone ; I thank thee, God, my lot is cafl Where all thy truth is known. 4 Thy PSALMS. 25 4 Thy hand provides my conftant food. And fills my daily cup ; Much am I pleafed with prefent good. But more rejoice in hope. 5 Thou art my portion, and my flay; Thou art my beft delight ; Thou art the fun that lights my day. The calm that ftills my night. 6 My foul would all her thoughts approve To thine all-leeing eye; Nor death nor hell my faith fliall move. While fuch a friend is nigh. XXIX. PSALM XVL Com. M. Patrick. The fame-t with SubmiJJton to Providence, 1 ^^ OD is my portion, all my good yjf From his rich mercy flows; And his kind providence fecures The bleffings he beftows. 2 I envy not the great man's ftate, I envy not his ftore ; Much am I pleafed with what I have. With what I hope for, more. 3 Yet, Lord, with wifdom I would bow To thy chaftifing rod; Chaftifement guards-me from the world. And turns my thoughts on God. 4 While thou art prefent to my mind. My mind to nobler views Than all of earth or fenfe, afpires ; And earth and fenfe fubdues, 5 And 26 PSALMS. 5 And whether profperous or adverfc My lot of life fnall be; Still may I guard my foul from ill. And ftill make fure of ihee. XXX. PSALM XVI. Long Met. Fortitude and Hope in Death. E ftrong, my heart ; and ftill adore Thy God, and ftill thy faith approve ; This is thy laft conPiifting hour, The laft dear proof of virtuous love. 1 Be ftrong my heart ; thy comfort this. Though death be awful, death's the road That leads to better life and blils, That muft condudt thee to thy God. 3 Then calmly to his will I bow ; That I have lived, my thanks demands ; That I muft die, is not my woe, While life and death are in his hands. XXXI. PSALM XVII. Long M. Watts. The ProfpeSfs of a good Man contrajled with the hopelefs State of the Sinner, 1 T ORD, I am thine j and diou wilt prove B J My faith, my patience, and my love ; Though worldly men to wound me join. They are the fword, the hand is thine. 2 Their hope and poftioA lies below i ' Tis all the happinefs they know, * Tis all they feek j they take their ftiares, And leave the reft among their heirs. What PSALMS. .27 What finners value, I refign ; Lord, 'tis enough that thou art mine; I fhall behold thee face to face. And ftand conaplete in righteoufnefv. This life's a dream, an empty fhow ; But the bright world, to which I go. Hath joys fubftantial and fincere -, When fhall I wake, and find me there ? t O glorious hour ! O bleft abode I- I fhall be near and like my God I And flefh and fin no more control The facred pleafures of my foul. XXXII. PSALM XVIL Com_. M. Steele. The BleJJednefs of the Divine Prefence with us. MY God, the vifits of thy love Afford a purer joy. Than all the flattering world can give. Without the v/orld's alloy. But clouds and darknefs intervene ; My brightefl joys decline. And earth's gay trifles oft enfnare This wandering heart of mine. Oh guide this wandering heart to thee ; Unfatisfied I flray : Break through the fhades of fenfe and fin With thy enlivening ray. May all thy glory round me fliine. And every cloud remove -, Renew my heart, and fit my foul For happier fcenes above. PSALM 28 PSALMS. XXXIII. PSALM XVII. Com. Met. The fame. I "XT* E wretched flaves of this world's blifs, X To brutal natures lowered. How mean your heft enjoyment is ! How poor is your reward ! 1 And thou, ambition's bloated fon, Thou thing of pride and power ! The joys, which thou haft dearly won. Fears and remorfe devour. 3 But many a bitter curfe ye fpread Amongft your fellow men ; And virtue fcarce can lift her head Beneath your cruel reign. 4 Yet though this life were all of man, And hope were but a dream ; Virtue would ftill reje6l your plan, And ftill her own efteem. 5 The wifdom, which this world defigned, Defigned no blifs for you ; While pleafures, proper to the mind. The path of virtue ftrew. 6 But this is not the whole of man, Nor is liis hope a dream ; He trufts in a well-ordered plan. Which tends to blifs fupreme. PSALM PSALMS. 29 XXXIV. PSALM XIX. LongM. Watts. The Book of Nature and of Revelation compared. 1 /T^HE heavens proclaim thy glory. Lord, j[ In every ftar thy wifdom fhines : But when our eyes behold thy word. We read thy name in fairer lines. 2 In all the glorious fcenes of light Thy wile defigning mind we trace : But this bleft volume to our fight Reveals a father's mildeft grace. 3 Sun, moon and ftars convey thy praile Round the whole earth, and never ftand : So when thy truth began its race. Its morning role on every land. 4 Nor fhall thy truth its progrefs reft, ' Till a full day in fplendour Ihine ; 'Till Chrift has all the nations bleft. And fhed on all his light divine. 5 Oh to thy noon-day gloiy rile, And blefs our world with heavenly light ! Through thee the fimple (hame the wiie. For all is pure, and all is right. XXXV. PSALM XIX. Com. Met. Tatjt. The fame. I ^ ■ ^HE glorious worlds of light above JJL Which heaven's vair concave fill. Do all to wondering man proclaim Their great Creator's fkill. •2 The 30 PSALMS. 2 The dawn of each awakened day Extended knowledge brings ; And from the cahn and folemn night A new inftru6lion fprings. 3 Their powerful language to no clime Or nation is confined ; 'Tis nature's voice, and ftrongly fpeaks Alike to all mankind. 4 But not fo clear and full it fpeaks, As thy revealed word ; The leflbns of thy Son to all An ampler light afford. 5 His teachings all are wife and pure. They yield fincere delight -, And, in the fearch of truth and good. Afford divineft light. XXXVI. PSALM XIX. LongM. Addison. Nature the Voice of GoD. I rx^HE fpacious firmament on high, X. With all the blue ethereal f^y. And fpangled heavens, a fliining frame, Their great original proclaim. • ■2 Th' unwearied fun, from day to day. Doth his Creator's power difplay ; And publifhes to every land The work of an Almighty hand. 3 Soon as the evening fhades prevail. The moon takes up the wondrous tale -, And nightly to the liftening earth Repeats the ftory of her birth. 4 While PSALMS. 31 4. While all the flars, that round her burn. And all the planets in their turn. Confirm the tidings as they roll. And fpread the truth from pole, to pole. 5 What though in folemri filence all Move round this dark terredrial ball ; What though nor real voice nor found Amidft their radiant orbs be found. 6 In reafon's ear they all rejoice. And utter forth a glorious voice i For ever finging, as they Ihine, " The hand that made us is divine." XXXVII. PSALM XIX. Short M. Watts. The fame. 1 y> EHOLD the lofty fky _|3 Proclaims its Maker God, And all his ftarry works on high Diffufe his truth abroad. 2 ' The darknefs and the light Still keep their courfe the fame j While night to day, and day to night Divinely teach the fame. 3 In every different land Thejr general voice is known; They fhew the wonders of his hand. And orders of his throne. 4 Ye chriftian lands rejoice ! To you his truth is given -, You are not left to nature's voice To teach the path to heaven. 5 But 32 PSALMS. 5 But fuch as is his grace, Let fuch be your return ; Never his holy truth debafe. Nor from his precepts turn. XXXVIII. PSALM XIX. Proper M. Watts, 'The fame. 1 f^ REAT God, the heaven's well-ordered Vjr frame ^ Declares the glories of thy name ; There thy rich works of wonder fhine : A thoufand ftarry beauties there, A thoufand radiant marks appear Of boundlefs power and Ikill divine. 2 From night to day, from day to night. The dawning and the dying light Lectures of heavenly wifdom read ; With filent eloquence they raife Our thoughts to our Creator's praife, And neither found nor language need. 3 Yet their divine inftruftions run Far as the journey of the fun, And every nation knows their voice : The fun, like fome young bridegroom dreft. Breaks from the chambers of the eafl. Rolls round, and makes the earth rejoice. 4 Where'er he fpreads his beams abroad, He liniles, and fpeaks his Maker God i - Ail nature joins to ihew thy praile. Thus God in evciy creaturtf fliines -, Fair is the book of nature's lines. And all may God in nature trace. PSALM PSALMS. 3S XXXIX. PSALM XX. Long Met. Watts. Praife and Prayer to God in Time of War. 1 T^T O W may the God of power and grace X\| Attend his people's humble cry ! Jehovah hears when Ifrael prays. And brings deliverance from on high. 2 Thy mercy pafles our deferts : Our foes are mercies, they chaftife Our fins, recall our wandering hearts j And God accepts the facrifice. 3 With theej our firft our beft ally. With thee, our reconciled God, Our troops fhall lift their banners high. Our navies Ipread their flags abroad. 4 Yet not in the proud trim of war. In armed fleets, which gird our coafl:s. Our fureft expectations are ; But thee, the Lord and God of hofts. 5 And as thy arm alone can fave. May we not dare our vows poftpone i But 'gainft the foe within be brave. And by repentance fin atone. XL. PSALM XXIL Com. Met. Tate. God the univerfal King^ and ExpeSfation of a Rejiora- tion to Righteoufnefs and Hapfinefs. I IV /FAY all the various tribes of men JLVi To God their homage pay ; And fcattered nations of the earth One fovereign Lord obey. D 2 'Tis 34 PSALMS. 2 'Tis his fupreme prerogative O'er fubjeft kings to reign j 'Tis juft that he the world (hould rule. Who does the world fultain. 3 And God the glorious time brings on, When all of reafon's race Shall welconne God in all his truth. And welcome all his grace. 4 When fin and fufFering jfhall end. And free from ftrife and gall, Brother of brother, friend of friend. And friend of God be all. xLi. PSALM XXn. Com. Met. Watts. Example c/' Christ, particularly in Suffering* I T\^Y God, if wife and fit it be, 2.yJ[ This bitter cup avert J But 1 refign my will to thee. To thee fubdue my heart. 1 Thus did our fuffering Saviour pray. With many a groan and tear; Nor did his God his hope betray. But chafed away his fear. 3 Tempted in all like mortal man. Through life to his lad breath j A painful virtuous race he ran, And finifhed it in death. 4 His life and death our leflbn is. We have our race to run : Be our obedience fuch as his. And God's high will be done. PSALM PSALMS. 3S xLii. PSALM XXIIL Mid. Met. Merrick, God our Shepherd. 1 T O ! my Ihepherd is divine, I ^ Want fhall never more be minej In a pafture fair and large He fhall feed his happy charge. 2 When I faint with fummer's heat. He fhall lead my weary feet To the ftreams, that ftill and flow Through the verdant meadows fiow. 3 When through devious paths I ftray. He fhall teach the better way. Kindle virtue's dying flame. And my erring foul reclaim. 4 Though the dreary vale I tread By the fhades of death o'erfpread. Still I walk from terror free While protefVed, Lord, by thee. 5 Thou doft round my favoured head All thy richefl: bounty fhed, All my life with good o'erflows. For thy love no limit knows. 6 Thus unto my lateft end Thou flialt be my guide, my friend j Nor fhall death my ruin be. Death fhall only lead to thee. xLiii. PSALM XXIIL Com. Met. Tate, God our Shepherd. I nr^HE Lord himfelf, the mighty Lord, X Vouchfafes to be my guide j D 2 The 26 PSALMS. The fhepherd, by whofe conftant care My wants are all fupplied. 2 He doth my wandering foul reclaim. And, loft in folly's maze, Inftruft anew with zeal to walk In his all perfeft ways. 3 I pafs the gloomy vale of death, - From fear and danger free ; For there his aiding rod and ftafF Defend and comfort me. 4 With liberal hand, unceafing care. He does my table fpread j He crowns my cup with cheerful wine. With oil anoints my head. 5 Since God doth thus his wondrous love Through all my life extend ; That life to him will I devote. And in his fervice fpend. xLiv. PSALM XXIII. Long Met. Watts. 1 "TV ^ Y Ihepherd is the living Lord ; 1\jL My wants fliall all be well fupplied; His providence and holy word Shall be my fafety and my guide. 2 In paftures, where falvation grows. He makes me feed, he makes me reft ; There living water gently flows. And all the food's divinely bleft. 3 My wandering feet his ways miftake. But he reftores my foul to peace. And leads me for his mercy's fake In the fair paths of righteoufnefs. 4 Though PSALMS. 37 4 Though I walk through the gloomy vale Where death and all its terrors are. My heart and hope fhall never fail. For God my Ihepherd's with me there. 5 Amid the darknefs and the deeps Thou art my comfort, thou my flay ; Thy ftaff fupports my feeble (leps. Thy rod direds my doubtful way. XLV. PSALM XXin. Com. Met. Watts. The fame, I ly /TY Shepherd's care fupplies my needs ^ J^YJ_ His praifes be my theme ! To paltures frefh my fteps he leads, Befide the cooling ftream. 1 My wandering heart his love reclaims. When flrayed in folly's road : Such love my bell afFe6lion claims, I yield my heart to God. 3 Wrapped in the gloomy fl:iades of death. His prefence is my (lay j A word of his almighty breath Re-animates my clay. 4 His hand ilill guards me from my foes, And ftill my table fpreads; My cup with blelTing overflows. And peace its fweetnefs fheds. 5 But with a richer hand my God Will crown my future daysj And heaven at length be my abode, And all my worfhip praife. D 3 PSALM 38 PSALMS. xLvi. PSALM XXIIL Short Met. Watts. The fame. 1 fTT^HE Lord my fliepherd is, JL I ftiall be well fupplied ; If he be mine, and I be his. What can I want befide ? 2 He leads me to the place Where heavenly pafture grows. Where living waters gently pafs. And full falvation flows. 3 If from his fold I ftray, My Shepherd's friendly voice Recalls my fteps from error's way ; ♦ And I again rejoice. 4 While he affords his aid, I cannot yield to fears Though 1 fhould walk through death's dark, fhade, My Shepherd's with me there. 5 No bound thy kindnefs knows. Thou doft my table fpread ; My cup with blelTing overflows. And joy exalts my head. 6 The bounties of thy love Shall crown my following daysj Never from thee will I remove. Nor ceafe to fpeak thy praife. PSALM PSALMS. 39 xLvii. PSALM XXIH. LongM. Addison. 1 rr^HE Lord my pafture fhall prepare, J[_ And feed me with a fhepherd's care : His prefence fhall my wants fupply. And guard me with a watchful eye. 2 My noon-day walks he fhall attend. And all my midnight hours defend. When in the fultry glebe I faint. Or on the thirily mountain pant; 3 To fertile vales and dewy meads My weary wandering fleps he leads. Where peaceful rivers, fofc and flow. Amid the verdant landikip flow. 4 Though, in a bare and rugged way. Through devious lonely wilds I flray. Thy bounty fhall my pains beguile. The barren wildernefs fhall fmile. 5 And though the paths of death I tread. With gloomy horrors overfpread. Which nature's dearefl feelings move. And all the flrength of virtue prove: 6 My fleadfaft heart fhall fear no ill. For thou, O Lord, art with me flill ; Thy friendly crook fhall give m.e aid. And guide me thro' the dreadful fhade. XLViii. PSALM XXIIL Com. Met. Steele. I f I SHE Lord, my fhepherd and my guide, X Will all my wants fupply j In fafety I fhall flill abide Beneath his guardian eye. D 4 2 Amid 40 PSALMS. 2 Amid the frefli and verdant meads My pafture he provides ; And pained with third, my fteps he leads Where the cool rivulet glides. 3 If from his fold I thoughtlefs ftray. He leads the wanderer home j And fhews my erring feet the way. Where dangers cannot come. 4 And, haftening to the filent tomb, Though death's (lern face appear ; His prefence cheers the folemn gloom. And chides weak nature's fear. xLix. PSALM XXIII. LongMet. Unknown. I /\ S the good fhepherd gently leads jfj^ His wandering flocks to verdant meads, Where cooling ilreams, in fportive play. Thro' the rich landfcape wind their way. a So God, the guardian of my foul, Does all my erring fteps controul ; When, loft in fin's perplexing maze. He leads me back to virtue's ways. 3 Though r fhould journey thro' the plains Where death in all its horror reigns. My fteadfaft heart no ill fliall fear. For thou, my God, art-with me there. 4 Thy kind paternal providence Is my fupply, and my defence ; With thee I am of all pofleft. To be with thee is to be bleft. 5 And PSALMS. 41 5 And thus fhall every future day Thy goodnefs more and more difplayj And when to future worlds I go, The blifs of angels I fhall know. L. PSALM XXIIL Short Met. Doddrtdge. Support in Death. 1 TJEHOLD the gloomy vale, JL) Which thou, my foul, mud tread, Belet with terrors, fierce and pale. That leads thee to the dead. 2 Ye pleafing fcenes, adieu ! Which I 16 long have known : My friends, a long farewel to you ! For I muil pafs alone. 3 And thou, beloved clay. Long partner of my cares. Thou canft not tread this rugged way. Thy frame it rudely tears. 4 But fee a ray of light. With fplendour all divine. Break thro' thefe direful realms of night. And make its horrors fnine. 5 Where death and darknefs reign. My God awakens day ; His rod my trembling feet fuftains. His ftafF defends my way. 6 Bleft Shepherd, lead me on ; My foul difdains to fear; Death's gloomy phantoms all are flown, Now life's great Lord is near. PSALM 42 PSALMS. LI. PSALM XXIV. Long Met. Watts. The Pure in Heart foall fee GoD, 1 ^T^HE earth is thine, Ahnighty Lord, J[ It fprang from thy creating word j Its beauteous furniture is thine. In all we own the hand divine. 2 Raifed on the floods at thy command Firm does the wondrous fabric ftand j And flored with good of various kind To man the dwelling thou afllgned. 3 But there's a brighter world on high. Thy palace^ Lord, above the flcy ; Who fhall afcend that bleft abode. And dwell fo near his Maker God ? 4 He that abhors the thought of fin, Whofe heart is pure, whofe hands are clean i In whom to form the foul divine. Fair piety and virtue join. 5 This is the man of heavenly kind. By God for heavenly blifs defigned : He lliall enjoy thy blifsful fight. And dwell in cverlafting light. Lii. PSALM XXIV. Short Met. Heaven referved for the Pure and Good, I rir^HE earth proclaims its Lord, J[ How beauteous is its plan ! With every rich provifion ftored. The fair abode of man. 1 But earth, with all its (lore. However fair and good. Is PSALMS. 43 Is but a dwelling mean and poor. Compared with God's abode. And may our hopes afpire To vifit this abode ? And what muft be the foul's attire To fit it for its God ? With truth it muft be graced. With love it muft be warmed. With holinefs fublimely raifed. With fortitude be armed. Then may our hopes afpire To vifit this abode j And this muft be the foul's attire To fit it for its God. Liii. PSALM XXV. Short Met. Patrick. A Pfalm of Penitence and virtuous Dejires. LET no event caft down Thofe who from evil flee. Nor difappointment fhame the hope Which waits, O Lord, on thee. Within this foul of mine Thy better light renew ; And aid me always to perform What thou art pleafed to view, [ Thy judgment enter not Againft my errors paft ; And as my errors I renounce. May I thy mercy tafte. L, From the ftraight paths of truth Again I would not ftray j On 44 PSALMS. On thee, my gracious God, I wait To learn, and keep thy way. 5 God, who is juft and good. Will thofe who err inllru6t ; And to the paths of righteoufnefs Their wandering fteps conduct. 6 The humble foul he guides. Teaches the meek his way ; Kindnefs and truth he fhews to all Who him in truth obey. 7 Give me the tender heart. That mixes fear with love ; And lead me thro' whatever path Thy wifdom fhall approve. 8 Oh ever keep my loul From error, Ihame, and guilt ; Nor fuffer the fair hope to fail, Whibh on th^ truth is built. Liv. PSALM XXV. Short Met. Watts. Supplication of Pardon and DireSIion. I T^ROM the firft dawning light, JP 'Till the calm evening rife, For thy falvation. Lord, I wait With ever longing eyes. 2 Oh grant me all thy grace. And lead me in thy truth ; Forgive the fins of earlier days. Of my unleflbned youth. 2 The Lord is good and kind, The meek fhall learn his ways. And PSALMS. 45 And every humble finner find The blefllngs of his grace. 4 For his own goodnefs' fake He wins my foul from fhame : His'love does all my love awake. And all my fervice claim. Lv. PSALM XXV. Short Met. Watts, Divine InJiru£fion. 1 TT THERE fhall the man be found, W That fears t' ofFend his God ; That loves the gofpel's joyful found. And trembles at the rod ? 2 The Lord fliall make him know The fecrets of his heart. The wonders of his covenant fhow. And all his love impart. 3 The dealings of his hand Are grace and mercy ftill, With fuch as to his covenant ftand. And love to do his will. 4 Their fouls fliall dwell at eafe Before their Maker's face ; And theirs be all the promifes In their extenfive grace. V- Lvi. PSALM XXVII. Com. Met. Watts. Religious Converfe our Delight and Safety, 1 fTT^HE Lord of glory is my light, X iAnd my falvation too ; God 46 PSALMS. God is my ftrength ; nor will I fear What mortal Men can do. 1 One privilege my heart defires ; Oh grant me an abode Within the churches of thy faints, " The temples of my God. 3 There fliall I offer my requefls. To guard my life from ill. Shall hear thy meffages of love. And there inquire thy will. 4 The beft fweet requiem of my foul. It yields a noble peace j My rude defires it does controul. And all my fears appeafe. Lvii. PSALM XXVIII. Mid. Met. Merrick. The humble Suppliant. 1 ^^OD, my ftrength, to thee I pray, \Jf Turn not thou thine ear away; Gracious to my prayer attend. While the fuppliant knee I bend. 2 Let me not thy judgments know. From my foul avert the woe. By thy juft decrees affigned To the men of impious mind. 3 On thy long experienced aid See my hope for ever ftayed ; While my heart, with awe polTeft, Leap3 within my throbbing breaft. 4 Give me, Lord, thy love to (hare. Feed me with a fhepherd's care^ Save PSALMS. 47 Save mc from foul fin and fhame. And in me thy grace proclaim. Lviii. PSALM XXX. Long Met. Watts* In S'tcknefsy and impending Death. JRM was my health, my day was bright. F And I prefumed 'twould ne'er be night; Fondly I faid within my heart, ** Pleafure and peace fhall ne'er depart." 2 Prefumptuous thought of foolifh man. Which takes not God into its plan ! His face my God was pleafed to hide. My health was gone, my comforts died. 3 Humbled, correfted by his rod, I raifed my fuppliant prayer to God. Again his fmiling face I view. And health and comforts bloom anew. 4 But ne'er fhall life's vain hopes again My heart of levity arraign ; Whate'er of life fhall hence be trod, I dedicate it all to God. Lix. PSALM XXX. Com, Met. Steele. The fame. 1 rriHEE, Lord, my thankful foul would J, blefs. Thee all my powers adore ; Thy hand has raifed me in diftrefs. In fuffering's trying hour. 2 Oppreft with fear, opprefl; with grief. To thee I breathed my cry ; Thy 48 PSALMS. Thy mercy brought divine relief, And wiped my tearful eye. 3 Thy mercy chafed the (hades of death. And fnatched me from the grave : may thy praife employ the breath. Which mercy deigned to fave. Lx. PSALM XXX. Long Mer. The fame. 1 ir\ Efciied from the rude grafp of death, X\^ And ahrioft in the grave entombed ; 1 fii udder at the awful fate Which o'er my foul in horror gloomed. 2 Offended juftice might have faid. Why cumbered thou thy Maker's ground ? And cut the idle trifler off, As loft to hope, by God difowned. 3 If mercy did the fate fufpend That hung o'er my devoted head ; May grateful love win all my heart, And all its virtuous fvveetnefs fhed. 4 Regained to hope, ne'er may I meet Death in this horrid form again ; But cheerfully to God devote Whate'er of life may yet remain. Lxi. PSALM XXXL C. M. Doddridge. The exceeding Goodnefs of God to his Servants invites to all Goodnefs in return, I /^UR fouls with pleafing wonder view \J The bounties of thy grace ; How PSALMS. 49 How much beftowed, how much referved For thofe who feek thy face ! 2 Thy liberal hand with w.orldly good Oft makes their cup run o'er ; While in the covenant of thy love They find a richer Itore. 3 But O ! whaftreafures yet unknown Wait them in worlds to come ! Such are th' enjoyments of the way. And fuch their final home. 4 And how fhall we our joy exprefs. Or how thy goodnefs own ? But 'tis our comfort, that to thee Our inmoft hearts are known. 5 And may the love that warms our hearts. In love's beft form appear j Endear to us what God approves, And us to God endear. Lxii. PSALM XXXII. LongMet. Merrick. The Obedience that fprings from Love. 1 ^^OME, from yourfelf inftruftion learn, \^ And felf-advifed from error turn ^ Let reafon's ufe proclaim thee man. Nor fink beneath thy Maker's plan. 2 Imitate not the deed and mule, Whofe ftubborn mouth, averfe to rule. To bend them to thy will, mull feel The powerful rein, and curbing fteel. 3 Though God by fear may fin controuj. Fear fpeaks no generous, virtuous foul. E Ths 50 PSALMS. The God of love that heart approves Which love to God and goodnefs moves. 4 Ye faints, who make your God your choice, Ye pure in mind, in him rejoice ; His likenefs on the foul imprefifed With virtuous tranfport fills the breafi:. Lxiii. PSALM XXXII. Long Met. Watts. The happy Fruits of true Repentance. I LEST is the man by mercy owned,. Who meets a reconciled God, Whofe fin repentance has atoned. Who treads anew the heavenly road. From guile his heart and lips are free ; His holy joy, his chartened fear > With true repentance well agree. And prove his new-born faith fincere. Lxiv. PSALM XXXII. Short Met. The joyful Welcome of Repentance, O BLEST indeed are they, Whom peace at length has owned! Divinely bleft, who mercy feek ' While mercy may be found ! God, how could my heart So long be turned from thee ! • So long refift the tender love. That ne'er was turned from me ! Recovered now to God, 1 grieve that e'er I (Irayed ; Mv PSALMS. 51 My wafted talents, fquandered hours Sorely my heart upbraid. 4 Cherifh this flame, my foul, With generous ardour burn ; And all thy love and zeal beftow, God's mercy to return. 5 Wound not the virtuous peace So happily poffeft; This is thy God's propitious hour, Secure it, and be bleft. Lxv. PSALM XXXIII. Com. Met. Watts. ^ Hymn ofjoy to the Creator and Governor of the World. 1 TJ EJOICE, ye righteous, in the Lord, J[\^ This work belongs to you : Be all his ways by you adored. In all their glorious view. 2 His mercy and his rlghteoufnefs Let heaven and earth proclaim; His works of nature and of grace Reveal his facred name. 3 His wifdom and almighty word The heavenly arches fpread ; And by the fpirit of the Lord Their lliining hofts were made. 4 He bade the raging waters flow To their appointed deepj Th' obedient feas their limits know, And their own ftation keep. 5 Ye tenants of the fpacious earth With awe before him ftand, E 2 Who 52 PSALMS. Who Ipake; and nature iffued forth. And refls on his command. 6 He fcorns the Tinner's idle rage, And breaks his vain defigns; His counfel (lands thro' every age, And in full glory fhines. Lxvr. PSALM XXXIIL Prop. Met. Watts. No Dependence but on God. I /^H happy nation, where the Lord \^ Reveals the treafure of his word. And builds his church, his earthly throne \ No eye to thee the heathens raifej Thou formed their hearts, thou knoweft their ways. But thou their Maker art unknown. 1 Let kings rely upon their hod, ■ His (kill or ftrength the champion boaft; In vain their fwelling boaft and pride: A worm may prove their deadlieft foe, Thefe earthly deities lay low. And all their flattering hopes deride. 3 Repofe on thy paternal care Exalts the foul, appeafes fear, When danger iliakes her threatning hand. Thy guardian eye purfues the juft. They truft in thee, nor vainly truft. Though war or ficknefs wafte the land. 4 In ficknefs, in the bloody field. Be thou my health, be thou my fliield. Thy providence around me throw. But PSALMS. 53 But more, O God, prote6l my foul From impious thoughts, from paffions foul. From fin, my mod dellruftive foe. Lxvii. PSALM XXXIV. Com. Met. Tate. Invitation to truji and love God. 1 ry^HRO' all the changing fcenes of life, J_ In trouble and in joy, The praifes of my God fhall ftill My heart and tongue employ. 2 Of his deliverance I will boaft. That all who are diftreft. From me may confolation take, And charm their griefs to reft. 3 The hofts of God encamp around The dwellings of the juft ; Protection he affords to all Who fix on him their truft. 4 Oh make but trial of his love ; Experience will decide How bleft are they, and only they. Who in his truth confide. 5 Fear him, ye faints, and you will then Have nothing elfe to fearj To him your beft affections give. Nor fhed one plaintive tear. Lxviii. PSALM XXXIV. C. M. Watts. Exhortation to Peace and HoUnefs. I ^^OME, children, learn to fear the Lord, V^ Join not the wicked throng j E 3 May 54 PSALMS. May no profane or lying word Be found upon your tongue. 2 Fly far from mifchief, cherifli love, Purfue the things that pleafe; So fliall your God your ways approve, And blefs your life with peace. 3 His eye awakes to guard the juft. His ear attends their cry j Who place on God their virtuous truft. Shall find that God is nigh. 4 And though of forrow they may tafte. Of lengthened forrow too i Their God, who bleffes them at lad. Bears them their trial through. Lxix. PSALM XXXIV. L. M. Doddridge. Divine Goodnefs celebrated. 1 rr^Riumphant, Lord, thy goodnefs reigns I Through all the wide etherial plains. And its full llreams redundant flow Down to th' abodes of men below. 2 O'er all the earth thy glories fhine, The cares of Providence are thine ; And thou haft raifed within our frame The faireft temple to thy name. 3 Oh give to every human heart To know and feel how good thou art j ' With grateful love thy love t' repay, And all thy will through life t' obey. 4 See nature burfts into a fong ! The echoing hills the notes prolong; Earth, 1 PSALMS. 55 Earth, feas and ftars their anthems raife, All vocal with their Maker's praife. 5 And join, my foul, this general fong. To thee its fweeteft notes belong : Bleft above all by love divine, To praife is eminently thine. Lxx. PSALM XXXV. Com. Met. The AffeSiion of Gon to HoUnefs. I /'"XUR mercies and our forrows fpring V^ From God's paternal love^ Whate'er may work our fours bell good. His wifdom does approve. 1 And when through earthly good and ill An equal courfe we fteerj > No curfe fo deadly hold as fin. No joy like virtue dear. 3 And thus to all the will of God With pure affe<5tion given, Cherilh his likcnefs, and afpire To find our blifs in heaven. 4 The eye of God, which comprehends All nature in its view. No objeft more complacent owns. Ye wife and good, than you. Lxxi. PSALM XXXVI. Long Met. Tate. Providence general to all, fmgular to good Men. I /'^N God all nature does relyj \^ Beyond the heavens his care extends; Nor with a lefs benignant eye To earth, to man, to all defcends. E4 2 If 56 PSALMS. 2 If thus thy goodnefs all partake. With what afliirance may the juft Thy fliekering wings their refuge make. And in thy love fecurely truft. 3 Thy providence the world fuftains, The whole creation is thy care: To mind alone thy love pertains, And where is goodnefs, God is there. 4 As all my hope is fixed on thee. Thy favour be my conftant aim j But only as from fin I flee, Thy favour may I dare to claim. Lxxii. PSALM XXXVL Com. Met. Watts. The fame. I ^"T^HOU art, and thou art God alone; jI. Ail nature leans on thee. Thy goodnefs is a world unknown, A deep unfathomed fea. 1 Beyond the heaven's outftretched round Thy providence extends, And, knowing no reftrifted bound. To earth and man defcends. 3 But not alike on all it fhines; The mind by wifdom dreft. Which purity with goodnefs twines. Is Angularly bleft. 4 Though f.iir and good be all thy world ; More fair and good is he. Who bears thy facre.d image, Lord, Who moft refembles thee. PSALM PSALMS. 57 Lxxiii. PSALM XXXVI. L. M. Watts. The natural and moral Providence of God. 1 TTIGH in the heavens, eternal God, Jfj_ Thy goodnefs in full glory fhinesj Thy truth fliall break thro' every cloud That veils and darkens thy defigns. 2 For ever firm thy juftice (lands, As mountains their foundations keep; Wife are the wonders of thy hands. Thy judgments are a mighty deep. 3 Thy providence is kind and large. Both man and beaft thy bounty fhare; The whole creation is thy charge. But faints are thy peculiar care. 4 My God ! how excellent thy grace. Whence all our hope and comfort fprings ! In all the trials of our race We feek the fhadow of thy wings. 5 Nor feek in vain, thy facred law. With wifdom and with mercy fraught. Such views unfolds as eye ne'er faw. Such truths as reafon never taught. Lxxiv. PSALM XXXVII. C. M. Watts. The Cure of Envy, Fretfulnefs, and Dijiruji. I TTr^Y fhould I vex my foul, and fret y Y To fee the wicked rife ? Or envy finners waxing great By violence and lies. 1 At 58 PSALMS. 2 At noon the laughing flowers rejoice. At night they droop and die : ' So perifh the prj:)ud finner's joys. And all his hopes belie. 3 Then let my foul on God repofe, All that is good purfue; His love will guard me from my foes, My path with bleflings ftrew. 4 Thou knoweft heft what's wife and meet i Cheerful I wait thy will. The hand, that guides my doubtful feet. Shall all my hope fulfil. 5 My innocence wilt thou difplay. My upright heart make known. Fair as the light of opening day, And glorious as the noon. 6 The meek fhall ftill thy love pofliefs. Such are the heirs of heaven : True riches, with abundant peace, To humble fouls are given. Lxxv. PSALM XXXVII. C. M. Watts. The Way and End of the Righteous and the Wicked. I A /TY God, the fteps of pious men J^JL Are ordered by thy will ; Though they fliould fall, they rife again. Thy hand fupports them ftill. 1 The Lord delights to fee their ways. Their virtue he approves; Still he attends them with his grace. Nor leaves the men he loves. 3 The PSALMS. 59 3 The heavenly heritage is theirs, Their portion and their homej Their guardian now, he makes them heirs Of better blifs to come. 4 Ne'er will I truft the world again. Whether it fmile or frown ; Deceitful fmiles, and terrors vain. In folly both are fown. 5 The haughty finner have I feen. Nor fearing man nor God, Like a tall bay tree, fair and green. Spreading his arms abroad. 6 I looked, he vanifhed from the ground, Deftroyed by hand unfeen ; Nor leaf, nor branch, nor root was found Where all that pride had been. 7 But mark the man of righteoufnefs. His feveral fteps attend; True pleafure runs through all his ways. And peaceful is his end. Lxxvi. PSALM XXXIX. C. M. Watts. The Vanity of Man as mortal. 1 rir^EACH me the meafure of my days, j^ Thou Maker of my frame j I would furvey life's narrow fpace. And learn how frail I am. 2 Our life, how idle is the boaft ! A point in moving time : Man is but vanity and dull. In all his flower and prime. 3 See So PSALM S. J See the vain race of mortals move. Like fhadows o'er the plain, They rage and ftrive, dcfire and love. But all the noife is vain. 4 Some v/alk in honour's gaudy fhow, Some dig for golden ore, They toil for heirs they know not who. And ftraight are feen no more. 5 What fliould I wifli or wait for then From creatures, earth or duft ? Their promifes at beft are vain. They cheat our deareft truft. 6 Return, my foul, to better things. Thy fond defires recall ; Rife above earth on hope's ftrong wings. And be thy God thy all. Lxxvii. PSALM XXXIX. L. M. Steele. The fame, 1 A LMIGHTY Maker of my frame, £\^ Teach me the meafure of my days, Teach me to know how frail I am, And fpend the remnant to thy praife. 2 My days are Ihorter than a fpan, A very point my life appears ^ How frail at beft is dying man ! How vain are all his hopes and fears ! 3 Vain his ambition, noife and (how ! Vain are the cares which rack his mind ! He heaps up treafures mixed with woe j He dies, and leaves them all behind. 4O be PSALMS. 6i 4 O be a nobler portion nnine : My God, I bow before thy throhe. Earth's fleeting treafures I refign. And fix my hope on thee alone. 5 Beneath the chaftening of thy hand Let not my heart or tongue repine j But filent and fubmilTive bend. And bear, becaufe the llroke is thine. 6 Save me by thy protedling arm From all my fins, my heart renew ; May fin no more my fears alarm. Nor hide thy mercy from my view. Lxxviii. PSALM XL. Com. Met. The Mljfton 5/Christ the Light of the World. I "TJEHOLD ! I come, the Saviour cries, _|3 To vifit man's abode ! 1 come, with healing on my wings, With truth and peace from God ! 1 Oh welcome, welcome to 6ur world. Thou friend of God and man ! With humble joyful hearts we hail Thy wife redeeming plan. 3 Thy truth illuminates our minds, Darknefs before thee flies ; Another face of things we view, A new creation rife. 4 Let there be light ; and light fprang forth^ Obedient to its Lord. Let there be light to reafon's eye, God fpake, and fent his word. P S A L Vi- 62 PSALMS. Lxxix. PSALM XLI. Long Met. Merrick. BleJJing on the charitable Man. 1 TJLEST, who with generous pity glows, J3 Who learns to feel another's woes. Bows to the poor man's wants his ear. And wipes the helplefs orphan's tear. 2 In every want, in every woe, Himfelf thy pity. Lord, fhall know ; Or blefiing fhall his fteps attend, Or forrow work to be his friend. 3 Affaulted by difeafe and pain. Thy aid his fpirit fhall fuftain, Raife on thy arm his finking head. And fmooth with gentlell: hand his bed. 4 So God to me his blefiing deal. As I have helped others' weal ; And in my hour of greatell need, . May mercy fhewn for mercy plead. Lxxx. PSALM XLL Long Met. Watts. The fame. 1 TjLEST is the man, whofe bowels move, J3 ■^"'^ mtXt with pity to the poor ; Whofe foul in fympathifing love Feels what his fellow-men endure. 2 His heart contrives for their relief More than his fingle hand effects j Adminiflering to every grief, He counfels, fooths, condoles, prote6ts. 3 That PSALMS. 63 3 That pity fhall his God afford To him with bleffings on his head; Though famine, pettilence or fword Around him multiply their dead. 4 Or if with human fuffering tried. Suffering ihall all his foul refine ; Sweet hope his refuge fliall provide. And minifter a blifs divine. Lxxxi. PSALM XLIL Long Met. Patrick. Communion with God, the Source of Confolation and I virtuous jfoy. 1 /^H God, my beft, my deareft hope, V^ To thee afcends my ardent prayer; No chafed hart e'er panted more For the cool ftream's refrefhing air. 2 Thy mercy and thy peace difplay; Guide me by thy unerring light ; Without thy prefence, O my God, All is a dark and cheerlefs night. 3 When I have fought thee, I have found My foul above its forrows rife ; And ffill I feek, and ftill fliall find Thy prefence all my fears chaftife. 4 Infpired by thee to higher views, I tread upon each low defire : Thou fittedfl me for nobler good ; To nobler good I will afpire. 5 Away then all my gloomy thoughts ! Who feeds them, cheriflies his foes ; They further not one good I wiQi, Nor fhall they trouble my repofe. 6 Though 64 P S A. L M S. 6 Though hard the leflbn, wife it is To keep our pafTions calm and ftiil ; The firft wife ftep to peace and God, Is refignation to his will. Lxxxii. PSALM XLIII. L. M. Merrick. Delight in public Worjhip, and Reliance on GoD. 1 A^ OD of my ftrength, to thee I cry, Vj" To thee, my fureft refuge fly : O may thy light attend my way. Thy truth afford its fteadfafl: ray. 2 Condud me to thy hallowed feat. Where wifdom, truth and mercy meet 5 And there, in all its befl: array. My heart its richeft gifts fhall pay. 3 Thy mercies, to my heart revealed, A theme of endlefs tranfport yield j Thy love does all my bofom fire, Thy praife does all my fong infpire. 4 In all our cares, in all our woes. On God our fleadfaft hopes repole ; To God our thanks fhall ftill be paid. Our fure defence, our conftant aid. Lxxxiii. PSALM XLV. L. M. Watts. The Redeemer praifed. I "IWTOW be my heart infpired to fing X^ The glories of my Saviour King : In him the well-attempered grace Of majcfty and love we trace. c In PSALMS. 6s 1 In all the dignity of mind He rifes above human kind ; Truth from his lips divinely flows. And bleflings all his ftate compofe. 3 Mercy with her refiftlefs plea Softens the rebel heart to thee; Or if fweet mercy fail to move. Thy very terrors mercy prove. 4 Thy kingdom fhall for ever (land. By God committed to thy hand. Though truth and right in all be feen, Thy mercy looks with lovelier mien. Lxxxiv. PSALM XLVL L. M. Merrick. In Time of general Defolation. 1 /^N thee, great ruler of the fkies, V^ On thee our only hope relies ; When horror all around we fee. Where can we find a friend but thee,? 2 No overwhelming fears we own. Though earth convulfed beneath us groan, Though tempefts o'er her furface fweep. And .whirl her hills into the deep. 3 The' armed with rage, before our eyes That deep in all its horrors rife. While as the tumult fpreads around. The mountains tremble at the found. 4 This dreadful conflidh who can quell ? This war of elements repel ? The God, whofe providence retains Thefe warring elements in chains. \ 5 He 'o 66 PSALMS. 5 He lets them loofe, that man may know What his almighty arm can do ; Uproar and order, good and ill, Are but the fervants of his will. 6 Earthquakes and thunders, winds and feas At thy command are hufhed in peace. We bowed to thy ehallifing rod ; We blefs the mercy of our God. Lxxxv. PSALM XLVI. Long Met. Steele. On the Return of Peace. 1 ^^REAT ruler of the earth and fkies, \^ A word of thy almighty breath Can fink the World, or bid it rife : Thy fmile is life, thy frown is death. 2 When angry nations rulh to arms. And rage, and noife, and tumult reign. And war refounds her dire alarms. And {laughter dyes the hoftile plain. 3 Thy fovereign eye looks calmly down, And marks their courfe, and bounds their power ; Thy law the angry nations own. And war her murders afts no more. 4 Then peace returns with balmy wing, Sweet peace ! with her what bleflings tied I Glad plenty laughs, the vallics fing, Reviving commerce lifts her head. r Thou good, and wife, and righteous Lord, All move fubfervient to thy will ; And peace and war await thy word. And thv fublime decrees fulfil. ' 6 To PSALMS. 67 6 To thee we pay our grateful fongs. Thy kind protedtion ftill implore. O may our hearts, and lives, and tongues Confefs thy goodnefs, and adore. Lxxxvi. PSALM XLVn. M.M. Unknown. A Pfalm of Pralfe. I y^LAP your hands, rejoice and fing, \^ All fhall blefs the heavenly king j With your hearts proclaim his praife, Blefs your God in all his ways. 1 He his fovereign fway maintains j King o'er all the world he reigns : All to him lift up their eye, He does every want fupply. 3 Sons of earth the triumph join, Praife him with the hoft divine. Emulate the heavenly powers j Their all gracious God is ours. 4 Happy who his laws obey. Them he rules with milder fway, Pure and holy hearts alone He hath chofen for his own. £ Him, whofejoy is to reftore, Him let all our hearts adore 3 Earth and Heaven repeat the cry. Glory be to God on high. Lxxxvii. PSALM XLVin. CM. Merrick, Praife to God, for his Truth and Mercy. I A I \0 God we confecrate our zeal, Jl His name be ever bleft ! F ■?, Witk 68 PSALMS. With lowly gratitude we kneel To God, in mercy dreft. 2 When proftrate at thy hallowed flirinc Thy goodncfs man fiirveys, TranTported with the view, we join In wonder, love and praife. 3 Thy truth, thro'earth's wide confines fpread. Eternal honours crown j The blelTing to our world decreed Sweet mercy (lamps her own. 4 To thee our thankful hearts iliall bow, Nor own a God befide; To life's laft period thee avow. Our ever faithful guide. Lxxxviii. PSALM XLVIII. S. M. Watts. The Excelletjce of public TVorJkip. 1 T^AR as thy name is known J^ The world proclaims thy praifej But faints, O Lord, before thy throne A nobler tribute raile. 2 With joy we cake our ftand In wildom's facred feat; ' * Proclaim the wonders of thy hand. And all thy love repeat. ^ Let ftrangers walk around The building where we dwell, Compafs and view the hallowed ground^ And all its blcflings tell. 4 The orders of thy houfe. The worfhip of thy court, The PSALMS. 69 The cheerful praife, the holy vows, And make a fair report. 5 How decent and how wife ! How glorious to behold ! - Beyond the pomp that charms the eyes, And rites adorned with gold. 6 The God \ve worfhip now Will guide us 'till we die ; Will be our God while here below. And ours above the fl^y. Lxxxix. PSALM XLIX. L. M. Merrick. The Pride of Man, and the foolijh Reverence of triumph- ant Vice chajiifed. I T ET not the fight thy heart difmay, I J If man's proud offspring thou furvey With growing wealth encircled round. His houfe with blufliing honours crowned. 1 Nor think his treafures, at his end, Shall with him to the grave defcend. Or the vain pon-^p that ftrikes thy view, Thro* death's dark fhade its Lord purfue, 3 While laughing pleafure crowns his days. With idiot reverence crowds may gaze ; And thou, untaught in wifdom's fchool. May envy this high pampered, fool. 4 But change and forrow round him lour. Satiety an^^ age devour His high fed fenfe, and he fhall know That happinefs is not below. 5 And he at laft the way fhall tread. Which one by one his fires have led 3 F 3 And 70 PSALMS. And, fhuddering at the awful gloom. Shall fink into the filent tomb. 6 Teach me, O God, the modeft ufe Of this life's good, but ne'er t' amufe My foul with dreams of idle joy, Which all its nobler powers deftroy. 7 Born in thy likenefs, I afpire To clothe myfelf in thy attire ; Then e'en in death I fhall be brave. And mock the terrors of the grave. xc. PSALM XLIX. Com. Met. Watts. Pride humbled by the Conftderation of Death, 1 T^ 7HY doth the man of riches grow Y Y To infolence and pride, Viewing his wealth and honours flow With every rifing tide. 2 Why doth he treat the poor with fcorn. Formed of an equal clay ; And boafb as though himfelf were born Of better dull than they. 3 He fees the brutifh and the wife. The timerous and the brave Quit their poffefBons, clofe their eyes. And fink into the grave. 4 Nor all his treafures can procure His foul one fhort reprieve. Redeem from dread one guilty hour. Or bid one comfort live. t Life is a blefiing can't be fold. The ranfom is too high; That PSALMS. 71 That wifdom is not bribed with gold, Which deftined man to die. xci. PSALM L. Long Met. Merrick. Obedience the bejl Sacrifiu, 1 XT'E nations of the earth draw near, j[ Your righteous judge with reverence hear ! " This is my will, my high record, " Receive the fentence of your Lord." 2 Still may thy goat his hills retain. Still may thy (leer unhurt remain Amidft his mates, thy Lord demands No goat nor bullock at thy hands. 3 Mine are the beafts that range the wood. Mine are the tame and favage brood. Mine are the tribes of air and fea, Subjefled by my will to thee. 4 Admit I hunger, fhall thy God Submit to aflc of thee his food ? Lord of the world, to thee defcend ? On thy capricious boon depend ? 5 Go ! other leffons learn of me. And other gifts thy tribute be. Prefent a pure and virtuous mind. And God propitious thou fhalt find. xcii. PSALM L. Com. Met. Watts. Sincerity and Hypocrify. I f^OT) is a fpirit, juft and wife, VJT He fees our inmoft mind i F 4 In 72 PSALMS. In vain to heaven we raife our cries. And leave our fouls behind. 2 Nothing but truth before his throne With honour can appear; The painted hypocrites are known Thro* the difguife they wear. 3 The lifted eye falutes the fkies. The bend-ed knee the ground; But God abhors the facrifice. Where not the heart is found. 4 Pure be my thoughts, holy my ways. And all my foul fincere ; Then may I (land before thy face, And find acceptance there. xciii. PSALM L. Com. Met. W.'vtts. The lajl 'Judgment, I ATT^HE Lord, the judge before his throne J|_ Bids the whole earth draw nigh. The nations from the rifing fun. And from the weftern fky. 1 No more fhall bold blafphemers fay " Judgment will ne'er begin j" No more abufe his long delay To impudence and fin. 3 Throned on a cloud the Judge fhall come; Bright flames prepare his way. Thunder and darkfiefs, fire and ftorm ' Lead on the dreadful day. 4 Heaven from above his call lliall hear. Attending angels come, And PSALMS. 73 And earth and hell fhall know, and fear His juftice, and their doom. 5 But come, ye friends of righteoufnefs, Friends of your God and Lord, Approach with triumph to poffefs The kingdom love prepared. 6 Your faith and works brought-forth to light Shall make the world confefs. The fentence of reward is right. And heaven extol the grace. xciv. PSALM L. Long Met. Unknownt. The Form of Godlinefs without real Piety dnd Virtue. 1 rr^H' uplifted eye and bended knee Ji Are but vain homage, Lord, to thee; In vain our lips thy praife prolong, The heart a ftranger to the fong. 2 Can rites and forms and flaming zeal The breaches of thy precept heal ? Or faft and penance reconcile Thy juftice, and invite thy fmile ? 3 The pure, the humble, contrite mind, Honeft, and to thy will refigned, To thee a nobler offering yields Than Shebi's groves, or Sharon's fields; 4 Than floods of oil, or floods of wine, A vain oblation on thy flirine; Or if, unto thine altar led, A firft-born fon the viftim bled. 5 Love God and man, this great command Doth on eternal pillars ftand : This 74 PSALMS. This did thine ancient prophets teach. And this thy well-beloved preach. xcv. PSALM LL Long Met. Watts. A penitential Supplication, ORGIVE me, God, my God forgive ; ■F Let a relenting finner live ; Are not thy mercies large and free ? May not repentance fly to thee ? 2 My fins are great, but Hot exceed The mercy which I lowly plead ; Great God, thy nature hath no bound. So may thy pardoning love be found. 3 Fain would I rife on hope fublime, But conscience flings me back my crime. Here at my heart the burden lies. With terror paft ofi^ences rife. 4 With fhame my erring life I trace. With fliame thy much indulgent grace ; And fliould thy judgment prove fevere, I am condemned, but thou art clear. 5 But v/here a heart renewed is found. Delighted mercy fmiles around. So be my heart renewed to thee. And fo may mercy fmile on me. xcvi. PSALM LL Short Met. Unknown. The fame. I T TAVE mercy, Lord, on me, X Jl Accept my better mind. And PSALMS. 75 And let me, touched with fenfe of guilt. Thy wonted mercy find. 2 Remit th' offence I've given, And refcue me from fin ; For painfully, at length, I wifli Thy forfeit grace to win. 3 My fpirit dreads to meet A God in angry view : . Oh work in me a heart that's clean. An uDris:ht mind renew. 4 The joy thy favour yields May I anew obtain -, And may 1 ne'er in ihought or deed Offend my God again. xcvii. PSALM LIII. LongMet. Merrick. Danger the Summons to Reformation. I rir^H' eternal monarch from on high \_ On Britain's children caft his eye. If haply fome he yet might fee From fin's contagious influence free. 1 Who midft infecftious times have flood Unftained, and obftinately good. He looked, but ah ! too few could find To virtue's heaven-taught rules inclined. 3 Each, led from wifdom's path aflray, Purfues the tenor of his way. What frenzy thus their foul could blind ? From God and goodnefs turn their mind .? But fee, their thoughts in tumult roll. Surrounding terrors fhake their foul. Such 76 PSALMS. Such is the doom that all mud prove. Whom God abandons from "his love. 5 Thou, Lord, alone to Britain's eyes Canft bid fwcet reformation rife j Religion's mild and healing ray Extend, and round us pour the day. 6 The bleil event to Britain's fhore Her fongs of triumph fhall reftore, And all her fons, thro' heaven's wide frame, Loud echoing, fhall her icy proclaim. xcviii. PSALM LV. Long Met. Merrick. Peev'ijh Difcontent at God'j Forbearance reproved. ^H who fliall give me, thus my breaft Its poor inquietude expreffed, The dove's light wing, that thro' the air A wretched fugitive may bear ? Remove me far from ill to dwell Within the rock's fequeftered cell ? Or in the defart's lone retreat Difgufted fix my lafting feat ? To crime each heart, and hand, and tongue Is given ; and tumult, flrife and wrong Where'er I turn, before my eyes In giant forms terrific rife. Within their walls' unhallowed bound. By day, by night, they take their round. And their polluted ftreets ftill hear The din of riot, guilt and fear. Thus, fired with feeming zeal for God, The path of difcontent I trod. Alas! PSALMS. 77 Alas ! if mercy bear with fin, S'hall peevilh righteoiifnefs repine ? 6 The ways of Providence innpeach? And wifdona to my Maker teach ? 'Tis mine to tread in duty's road. And leave the fate of fin to God. xcrx, PSALM LV. Short Met. Acquiefcence in God'j Forbearance towards Sinners. 1 T ET finners take their courfe, I J And chufe the path of ill ; Mine be the part to pleafe my God, And anfwer all his will. 2 I leave events to God, The world with temper view. Bear with the ills I cannot mend, And all the good purfue. 3 This is the finners' hour. The future one is mine; They have their choice,, and fo have I, Then let me not repine. c. PSALM LVIL Long Met. Watts. Praife to God. [ TJE thou exalted, O my God, j3 Above the heavens where angels dwell ? Thy power on earth be known abroad. And land to land thy wonders tell ! i My heart is fixtj my fong ihall raifc Deferved honours to thy name \ Awake 8 PSALMS. Awake my tongue to found his praife. My tongue, the glory of nny frame. In thee, my God, are all the fprings Of boundlefs love, and grace unknown; All the rich gifts that nature brines, Are gifts defcending from thy throne. Wide o'er the earth thy goodnefs reigns. And reaches to the utmofl ficy ; Thy truth to endlefs years remains When lower worlds diffolve and die. Be thou exalted, O my God, Above the heavens where angels dwell j Thy power on earth be known abroad. And land to land thy wonders tell. cr. ESALM LVII. Long Met. No Friend/hip but with God and good Men. GOD, my beft, my trueft friend. o Thy guardian prefence ftill extend ; Prote