No low polluting luft arife Within this foul of mine. 4 Order my footsteps by thy word, 5 Too apt, my God, from thee to stray, Thy erring fheep restore. 6 Ne'er may I fwerve from thy commands, 'Tis a delightful road; I Nor let my head, or heart, or hands cc. PSALM CXIX. Com. Met. WATTS. Holy Fear, and Tenderness of Confcience. MY Y heart does all thy will embrace; From thee, my God, misuse thy grace, 2 I cherish in my heart thy word, 3 The fcoffer, impotent and vain, I feel a reverent awe. 4 With low fubmiffion do I hear The threatnings of thy word, With holy trembling do I fear 5 My God, I pray, I hope, I wait And with a mind compofed, fedate, CCI PSALM CXIX. Com. Met. WATTS. Holy Refolutions. HY facred precepts I adore, TH Thence I derive a conqueror's power, 2 To meditate thy precepts, Lord, 3 I fly from fin and folly's race, I love my God, I love his ways, CCII. PSALM CXIX. C. M. DODDRIDGE. ссі. I Scripture the best Guard of erring Youth. NDULGENT God, with pitying eye. IND Alas! how youthful finners fport In their deftructive way. 2 Ten thousand dangers lurk around, To bear them to the tomb, How How foon the hour they think not of 3 Recal, O Lord, their wandering minds, 4 With holy caution may they walk, cc. PSALM CXIX. C. M. DODDRIDGE. I A Happiness fprings from Religion alone. WORLDLY blifs! 'tis but a name, 3 With all his mind's capacious powers, 4 From public to domeftic fcenes The friend, the husband, and the fire 5 At length thy law, eternal God, He thro' his tears defcries, And And taught to rife above the world, I 2 3 4 5 CCIV. PSALM CXIX. Long Met. THOU, beft object of my love, approve, May love of thee my foul poffefs, The world, with her feducing art, Then did my God, my wifeft friend, The monitor, affliction fend, Which stayed me in the dangerous road, That leads from virtue's calm abode. I bless the chastisement of God: Thy mercies all my heart have won, PSALM I 2 3 4 ccv. PSALM CXIX. Long Met. H ENCE fuperftition from my foul ! Nor me amongft thy fools enroll! The voice without, and voice within Condemn the faith that flatters fin. Oh much to answer for have they, From all perverfion of thy word, May this eternal rule be mine, win. That then religion is defiled, CCVI. PSALM CXXI. Long Met. WATTS. I U The protecting Providence of God. P to the hills I lift mine eyes, 'Th' eternal hills beyond the skies; Thence all her ftrength my foul derives, There my almighty helper lives. 2 He lives; the everlasting God, Who built the world, who spread the flood; The heavens with all their hofts he made, And the dark regions of the dead. |