Why do the proud infult the poor

Why do the wealthy wicked boaft

Why doth the Lord ftand off so far

Why doth the man of riches grow

Why has my God my soul forfook

Why fhould I vex my fou! and fret

Will God forever caft us off?

With all my pow'rs of heart and tongue
With earnent lohgings of the mind
With my whole heart I'll raise my song
With my whole heart l've sought thy face
With rev'rence let the faints appear
With fongs and honors founding loud
Would you behold the works of God

Yely fous of the Northern fea

E holy fouls in God rejoice

Ye nations round the earth, rejoice

Ye fervants of th' Almighty King

Ye fons of men, a feeblerace

Ye fons of pride, who hate the juft

Ye who delight to ferve the Lord

Ye who obey th' immortal King

Ye tribes of Adam join

Yet (faith the Lord) if David's race

THE

PSALMS

OF

D A VID,

IMITATED IN THE LANGUAGE OF THE

NEW TEST AMI

TÀMENT.

PSALM 1. Common metre.

The away and end of the Righteous and the Wicked.

BLEST is the man who fluns the place

finners love to meet; Who fears to tread their wicked ways, And hates the fcoffers feat:

2 Who in the ftatutes of the Lord
Has plac'd his chief delight;
By day he reads, or hears the word,
And meditates by night.

[3 He like a plant, of gen'rous kind,
By living waters let,

Safe from the ftorms and blafting wind,
Enjoys a peaceful state.

4 Green as the teaf, and ever fair
Shall his profession shine;
While fruits of holiness appear
Like clufters on the vine.

5 Not fo the impious and unjust;
What vain defigns they form!
Their hopes are blown away, like duft,
Orchaff, before the form.

6 Sinners in judgment fhall not ftand Among the fons of grace,

When Christ, the Judge, at his right hand! Appoints his faints a place.

7 His eye beholds the path they tread ;
His heart approves it well;

But crooked ways of finners, lead
Down to the gates of hell.

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PSALM I. Short metre. The faint happy-The finner miferable. THE man is ever bleft

The thuns the finner's ways, Among their councils never fands, Nor takes the corner's place:

2. Who makes the law of God
His ftudy and delight,
Amid the labors of the day,
And watches of the night.

3 He, like a tree shall thrive,

With waters near the root;
Fresh as the leaf his name hall live a
His works are heav'nly fruit.

4 But the ungodly race

Can no fuch bleffings find;

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

5 How will they bear to ftand
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 finpers, and their works, will meet
A dreadful overthrow.

PSALM I. Long metre.

The difference between the Righteous and Wicked.
APPY the man, whofe cautious feet

HP the broad way which finners go,
Who hates the place where atheifts meet,
And fears to talk as scoffers do.

4. He loves to pafs his morning light
Among the ftatutes of the Lord,
And spends the wakeful hours of night,
With pleasure pond'ring o'er the word.
He, like a plant, by gentle dreams,
Shail fourth in immortal green;
And heav'n will thine with kindeft beams
On ev'ry work his hands begin.
4 But finners find their counfels croft ;
As chaff before the tempeft flies;
So thail their hopes be blown and ioft,
When the last trumpet shakes the skies.
5 In vain the rebels feek to ftand
In judgment with the pious race;
The dreadful Judge, with fter command,
Divides them to a diff'rent place.

6" Straight is the way my faints have trod
I bleis'd the path, and drew it plain;
But you would choose the crooked road,
And down it leads to endlefspain.”

PSALM II. Short metre.
Tranflated according to the Divine pattern.
Ads, iv. 24, &c.

Chri's dying, rifing, interceeding and reigning.
AKER and fo'reign Lord

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Of heav'n, and earth and feas; Thy providence confirms thy word, And anfwers thy decrees.