4. Not fo th' ungodly race;

They no fuch bleflings find:

Their hopes fhall fly like empty chaff
Before the driving wind.

5. How will they bear to stand

Before that judgment-feat

Where all the faints at Chrift's right hand

In full affembly meet?

6. He knows and he approves

The way the righteous go,

But finners and their works shall meet

A dreadful overthrow.

PSALM 1. Long Metre.

The difference between the righteous and the wicked.

HAPPY the man whofe cautious feet

Shun the broad way that finners go,

Who hates the place where Atheists meet,
And fears to talk as fcoffers do.

2. He loves t' employ his morning-light
Among the ftatutes of the Lord,
And spends the wakeful hours of night
With pleasure, pond'ring o'er the Word.
3. He like a plant by gentle streams
Shall flourish in immortal green,
And Heav'n will thine with kindeft beams

On ev'ry work his hands begin.

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4. But finners find their counfels crofs'd: As chaff before the tempeft flies,

So fhall their hopes be blown and loft
When the last trumpet shakes the skies.

5. In vain the rebel feeks to ftand

In judgment with the pious race,
The dreadful Judge with ftern command
Divides him to a diff'rent place.

6. "Straight is the way my faints have trod,
"I blefs'd the path and drew it plain,
"But you would chufe the crooked road,
"And down it leads to endlefs pain +."

PSALM 11. Short Metre.

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Tranflat.according to the divine pattern,Ac.iv.24,&c. Cbrif dying, rifing, interceding, and reigning.

[MAKER and fov'reign Lord

Of heav'n, and earth, and feas,

Thy providence confirms thy word

And answers thy decrees.

2. The things fo long foretold

By David are fulfill'd,

When Jews and Gentiles join to flay

Jefus thine holy child.]

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3. Why did the Gentiles rage,
And Jews with one accord
Bend all their counsels to destroy
Th' Anointed of the Lord?

4. Rulers and kings agree To form a vain defign;

Against the Lord their pow'rs unite,
Against his Christ they join.

5. The Lord derides their rage, And will fupport his throne;

He that hath rais'd him from the dead
Hath own'd him for his Son.

PAUSE.

6. Now he's afcended high,
And asks to rule the earth,
The merit of his blood he pleads,
And pleads his heav'nly birth.

7. He asks, and God bestows

A large inheritance;

Far as the world's remotest ends
His kingdom fhall advance.

8. The nations that rebel

Muft feel his iron rod;

He 'll vindicate thofe honours well
Which he receiv'd from God.

[9. Be wife, ye Rulers! now,

And worship at his throne;
With trembling joy ye People! bow
To God's exalted Son.

10. If once his wrath arise

Ye perifh on the place;

Then bleffed is the foul that flies

For refuge to his grace +.]

PSALM II. Common Metre.

WHY did the nations join to flay

The Lord's anointed Son?

Why did they caft his laws away
And tread his gofpel down?

2. The Lord that fits above the skies Derides their rage below,

He fpeaks with vengeance in his eyes
And ftrikes their spirits thro'.

3. "I call him my Eternal Son,
"And raife him from the dead;
"I make my holy hill his throne,
"And wide his kingdom spread.

4. "Afk me, my Son, and then enjoy

"The utmoft Heathen lands:

"Thy rod of iron shall destroy

"The rebel that withftands."

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5. Be wife ye Rulers of the earth, Obey th' anointed Lord,

Adore the King of heav'nly birth,

And tremble at his word.

6. With humble love addrefs his throne,

PSALM 11. Long Metre.

Chrift's death, refurre&ion, and afcenfion.
WHY did the Jews proclaim their rage?
The Romans why their fwords employ
Against the Lord? their pow'rs engage
His dear Anointed to destroy?

2. "Come, let us break his bands," they say,
"This man fhall never give us laws:"
And thus they caft his yoke away,
And nail'd the Monarch to the cross.

3. But God, who high in glory reigns, Laughs at their pride, their rage controls; He'll vex their hearts with inward pains, And speak in thunder to their fouls.

4. "I will maintain the King I made "On Zion's everlasting hill;

"My hand shall bring him from the dead, "And he shall stand your Sov'reign ftill.”