1

A

SELECTION

OF

PSALMS & HYMNS,

FOR THE

CHURCHES

IN

BLACKBURN,

AND THE

CHAPELS

OF

OVER DARWEN & TOCKHOLES:

TOGETHER WITH

A SUPPLEMENT,

CONTAINING

Additional Hymns.

Blackburn:

'RINTED AND SOLD BY T. ROGERSON, BOOKseller,
STATIONER AND BINDER, MARKET-PLACE.

M.DCCC.XXVIII.

SELECT PORTIONS

OF THE

PSALMS OF DAVID,

FROM THE

Metre of TATE and BRADY.

How

Psalm 1. C. M.

Verse 1, 2, 3, 4, 6.

OW blest is he who ne'er consents,
By ill advice to walk!

Nor stands in sinners' ways, nor sits
Where men profanely talk.

But makes the perfect law of God
His business and delight,
Devoutly reads therein by day,
And meditates by night.

Like some fair tree, which, fed by streams,
With timely fruit doth bend,

He still shall flourish, and success
All his designs attend.

Ungodly men and their attempts
No lasting root shall find;
Untimely blasted, and dispers'd
Like chaff before the wind.

For God approves the just man's ways,
To happiness they tend;

But sinners and the paths they tread,
Shall both in ruin end,