A

COLLECTION

OF

PSALMS AND HYMNS,

CHIEFLY DESIGNED

FOR PUBLIC WORSHIP.

"Whoso offereth Praise, glorifieth me." Ps. I. 23.

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THE HONOURABLE AND RIGHT REVEREND

HENRY,

LORD BISHOP OF LICHFIELD

AND COVENTRY,

THIS COLLECTION

OF

PSALMS AND HYMNS

IS,

WITH HIS LORDSHIP'S PERMISSION,

INSCRIBED,

BY HIS MOST OBEDIENT

AND OBLIGED SERVANT,

THE EDITOR,

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PSALMS.

PSALM 1. (C. M.)

The difference between the righteous and the wicked.
LESS'D is the man, who shuns the place
Where sinners love to meet:

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Who fears to walk in wicked ways,
And dreads the scorner's seat.

2 The word of God is his delight:
There all his thoughts abide;

His solace through the glooms of night,
By day his constant guide.

3 As some fair tree, whose roots are spread
Where living streams abound,
Lifts up on high it's verdant head,
With fruitful clusters crown'd;

4 So shall the trees of righteousness,
The planting of the Lord,

Fed by continual streams of grace,
Their timely fruit.afford.

5 But sinners--they are driven away
Like chaff before the wind;
They stand not in the judgement day,
Nor slighted mercy find.

6 With favour God his saints discerns,"
And crowns with endless days:
But sinners to destruction turns;-
They perish in their ways.

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