5 But ne'er did this delufion spring From honeft erring mind:

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And dreads a God to find.

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Character of an accepted Worshipper.

HO may to thy chofen feat

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Turn with glad approach his feet?

Who, great God, a welcome guest,
In thy hallowed temple rest?

He whose heart thy love has warmed,
He whose will, to thine conformed,
Bids his life unfullied run;

He whose word and thought are one.

He who ne'er with cruel aim,
Seeks to wound an honeft fame;
Nor with gloomy joy poffeffed
Can a brother's peace moleft.

Nor to flander's tongue fevere
Stoops with easy faith his ear:
Who from fervile terror free
Spurns at those who spurn at thee.
And to each who thee obeys

Love and virtuous reverence pays;
Sacredly his word obferves,

And from honour never fwerves.

Nor by avaricious loan.

Makes the poor man's bread his own;
Nor can bribes his fentence guide
'Gainft the guiltless to decide.

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Treads the path by thee ordained,
He, great God, fhall own thy care,
And thy conftant bleffing fhare.

XXIV. PSALM XV. Com. M. TATE.

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The fame.

HO amongit Men, O Holy God, May converse hold with thee? Who at thy throne, with modest hope, Prefer his humble plea?

2 He, who in every thought and deed. By rules of virtue moves;

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Whofe tongue is fellow to his heart,
And speaks as it approves.

Who by foul flanderous lies abhors
A neighbour's fame to wound,
Nor liftens to unkind report,

By malice whispered round.

4 Who vice, though dreft in pomp and power, Can treat with juft neglect;

And piety in meanest garb

Religiously respect.

5 Who to his plighted faith and trust
Hath ever firmly stood,

And though he promise to his hurt,
Still makes his promise good.

6 Who fcorns by base oppreffive means
To reap a fordid gain;

Nor for a bribe will plead the cause
Of guilt, and juftice ftain.

7 He, who hath thus in virtue's course Secured his Maker's love,

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And pafs to worlds above.

xxv. PSALM XV. Com. M. WATTS.

The fame.

HO shall approach thy facred throne,
O God of holiness?

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From whom wilt thou accept the prayer
That fupplicates thy grace?

2 The man who walks in pious ways,
And works with righteous hands;
Who trufts his Maker's promises,
And follows his commands.

3 Who fpeaks the meaning of his heart,
Nor flanders with his tongue;
Who scarce believes an ill report,
Nor does his neighbour wrong.

4 The wealthy finner who contemns,
Loves all who love their Lord;
And though to his own hurt he fwear,
Still he performs his word.

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Nor ever gripes the poor :

This man fhall dwell with God on earth, And find his heaven fecure,

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The Qualifications proper for Heaven.

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HO fhall afcend thy heavenly place, Great God, and dwell before thy face?

The man who owns religion now,

And humbly walks with God below.

Whose hands are pure, whose heart is
clean;

Whofe lips fpeak what his heart does mean:
No flander dwells upon his tongue,
Nor dares he do his, neighbour wrong.

With honeft fame who cannot fport,
Who can be deaf to ill report,
With noble mind proud fin despise,
And virtue love in humbleft guise.

Firm to his word he ever stands,
Nor with foul guile his honour brands:
Who fwerves not from the thing he fwears,
Whatever pain or lofs he bears.

Who traffics not in bribing gold,

But grieves that justice should be fold;
Let others gripe and grind the poor,
Sweet charity attends his door.

Who practises to all the fame,

That he would wish or hope from them :
This is the man thy face fhall fee,
And dwell for ever, Lord, with thee.

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PSALM XV. Long Met.

The fame.

HO fhall afcend to God above,

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He that regards his nobler mind,

Nor finks below what God defigned.

Who fcorns to join the fenfual herd, To feek the blifs on brutes conferred: Who tempts not from its hallowed road Sweet innocence, the face of God.

Who ne'er did maiden faith beguile, Stealing in love's fweet form and fmile Into the dear and facred fold

Which all the Father's hopes does hold.

Whom open honesty adorns ;

Who lies and mean evafion fcorns :
Infamy, more than death, he fears;
And as his God his faith reveres.

Who knows not to betray a friend,
Nor to one fordid act defcend;
Whofe lips traduce no honeft name,
Whofe ear devours no idle fame.

Who ne'er 'gainst facred juftice fins,
Whom not the great one's flattery wins,
Nor bribes feduce, nor terror awes
To prostitute his country's laws.

Fellow to all, flies not the great ;

Nor fhuns poor mifery's dark retreat,
Where modeft and ingenuous pride

From the world's fcorn its griefs would hide.

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