3 Sinners rejoice, and faints be glad:
Hofanna; let his name be bleft:
A thousand honours on his head,
With peace and light and glory reft!
In God's own name he comes to bring
Salvation to our dying race;

4

Let the whole church addrefs their King
With hearts of joy, and fongs of praife.

PSALM CXIX.

I have collected and difpofed the most useful verfes of this Pfalm under eighteen different heads, and formed a divine fong upon each of them. But the verses are much tranfpofed, to attain fome degree of connection.

In fome places among the words, law, commands, judgments, teftimonies, I have used gospel, word, grace, truth, promifes, &c. as more agreeable to the New Teftament, and the common language of Chriftians; and it equally anfwers the defign of the Pfalmift, which was to recommend the holy fcripture,

I

PSALM CXIX. First Part.

The bleffedness of faints, and misery of finners.

Ver. 1, 2, 3.

LEST are the undefil'd in heart,

B Whole ways are right and clean;

Who never from thy law depart,
But fly from ev'ry fin.

2 Bleft are the men that keep thy word,
And practise thy commands;

With their whole heart they feek the Lord,
And ferve thee with their hands.

Ver. 165.

3 Great is their peace who love thy law;
How firm their fouls abide;
Nor can a bold temptation draw
Their steady feet afide.

Ver. 6.

4 Then fhall my heart have inward joy,
And keep my face from shame,
When all thy ftatutes I obey,
And honour all thy name.
Ver. 21, 118.

5 But haughty finners God will hate,
The proud fhall die accurft;
The fons of falfhood and deceit
Are trodden to the duft.

Ver. 119, 115.

6 Vile as the drofs the wicked are;
And thofe that leave thy ways
Shall fee falvation from afar,
But never taste thy grace.

PSALM CXIX. Second part.

Secret devotion and Spiritual mindedness; or, Con-
ftant converfe with God.
Ver. 147, 55
I O thee, before the dawning light,
My gracious God, I pray;

I meditate thy name by night,
And keep thy law by day.
Ver 81.

2 My fpirit faints to fee thy grace,
Thy promife bears me up;
And while falvation long delays,
Thy word fupports my hope.
Ver. 164.

3

Seven times a day I lift my hands,
And pay my thanks to thee:

Thy righteous providence demands
Repeated praife from me.
Ver. 62.

4 When midnight-darkness veils the skies,
I call thy works to mind;
My thoughts in warm devotion rife,
And fweet acceptance find.

PSALM CXIX. Third Part.

Profeffions of fincerity, repentance, and obedience.

T

Ver. 57, 60.

HOU art my portion, O my God:
Soon as I know thy way,

My heart makes hafte t' obey thy word,
And fuffers no delay.

Ver. 30, 14.

2 I chufe the path of heav'nly truth,
And glory in my choice:
Not all the riches of the earth
Could make me fo rejoice.

3 The teftimonies of thy grace,
I fet before my eyes;

Thence I derive my daily ftrength,
And there my comfort lyes.

Ver. 59.

4 If once I wander from thy path,

5

I think upon my ways,

Then turn my feet to thy commands,
And truft thy pard'ning grace.

Ver. 94, 114.

Now I am thine, for ever thine,
O fave thy fervant, Lord:

Thou art my field, my hiding-place,
My hope is in thy word.

Ver. 112.

6 Thou haft inclin'd this heart of mine

Thy ftatutes to fulfil:

And thus till mortal life fhall end

Would I perform thy will.

H

PSALM CXIX. Fourth part.

Inftruction from feripture.
Ver. 9.

OW fhall the young fecure their hearts,
And guard their lives from fin;

Thy word the choiceft rules imparts
To keep the confcience clean.
Ver. 130.

2 When once it enters to the mind,
It fpreads fuch light abroad,
The meanest fouls inftruction find,
And raise their thoughts to God.
Ver. 105.

3 'Tis like the fun, a heav'nly light
That guides us all the day;
And through the dangers of the night,
A lamp to lead our way.

Ver. 99, 100.

4 The men that keep thy law with care,
And meditate thy word,

Grow wifer than their teachers are,,
And better know the Lord.”

Ver. 104, 113.

5 Thy precepts make me truly wife;
I hate the finner's road;

I hate my own vain thoughts that rife,
But love thy law, my God.

Ver. 89, 90, 91.
6 [The ftarry heav'ns thy rule obey,
The earth maintains her place;
And thefe thy fervants night and day
Thy fkill and pow'r exprefs.

7 But ftill thy law and gofpel, Lord,
Have leffons more divine;

Not earth ftands firmer than thy word,
Nor ftars fo nobly fhine.]

Ver. 160, 140, 9, 116.

8 Thy word is everlasting truth;
How pure is ev'ry page!

That holy book shall guide our youth,
And well fupport our age.

PSALM CXIX. Fifth Part.

Delight in fcripture; or, The word of God dwelling

Ο

in us.

Ver. 97.

How I love thy holy law!
'Tis daily my delights

And thence my meditations draw
Divine advice by night.

Ver. 148.

2 My waking eyes prevent the day
To meditate thy word:
My foul with longing melts away
To hear thy golpel, Lord.

Ver. 3, 13, 5"

3 How doth thy word my heart eagage!
How well employ my tongue
And in my tirefome pilgrimage
Yields me a heav'nly fong.

Ver. 19, 103.

4 Am I a stranger, or at home,

'Tis my perpetual feaft;

Not honey dropping from the comb

So much allures the tafte.

Ver. 72, 127.

5 No treasures fo enrich the mind; Nor fhall thy word be fold