7 Cheerful they walk with growing strength,
Till all fhall meet in heav'n at length;
Till all before thy face appear,
And join in nobler worship there.
PSALM LXXXIV. 2d Part. Long Met.
God and his church; or, grace and glory.

I

REAT God, attend, while Zion fings

GThe joy that from thy prefence springs;

To spend one day with thee on earth
Exceeds a thousand days of mirth.
2 Might I enjoy the meaneft place
Within thy houfe, O God of grace,
Not tents of eafe, nor thrones of pow'r,
Should tempt my feet to leave thy door.
3 God is our fun, he makes our day :
God is our fhield; he guards our way
From all th' affaults of hell and fin,
From foes without, and foes within.
4 All needful grace will God bestow,
And crown that grace with glory too :
He gives us all things, and withholds
No real good from upright fouls.

5 O God, our King, whose fov'reign sway
The glorious hofts of heav'n obey;
And devils at thy prefence flee;
Bleft is the man that trufts in thee.

PSALM LXXXIV. I, 4, 2, 3, 10.
Paraphrased in Common Metre.

Delight in ordinances of worship; or, God prefent in his churches.

'M' To which thy God reforts! ΜΥ

Y foul, how lovely is the place

'Tis heav'n to fee his fmiling face, Though in his earthly courts.

2 There the great Monarch of the kies His faving pow'r difplays,

And light breaks in upon our eyes
With kind and quick'ning rays.

3 With his rich gifts the heav'nly dove Defcends and fills the place,

While Chrift reveals his wond'rous love, And fheds abroad his

grace.

4 There, mighty God, thy words declare The fecrets of thy will;

And still we seek thy mercy there,
And fing thy praises still.

PAUSE.

5 My heart and flesh cry out for thee, While far from thine abode ; ; When fhall I tread thy courts, and fee My Saviour and my God?

6 The fparrow builds herfelf a neft,
And fuffers no remove;

O make me, like the fparrows, bleft,
To dwell but where I love.

7 To fit one day beneath thine eye,
And hear thy gracious voice,
Exceeds a whole eternity

Employ'd in carnal joys.

8 Lord, at thy threshold I would wait, While Jefus is within,

Rather than fill a throne of state,
Or live in tents of fin

9 Could I command the fpacious land,
And the more boundless sea,
For one bleft hour at thy right hand,
I'd give them both away.

PSALM LXXXIV. Particular Metre.
Longing for the house of God.
ORD of the worlds above,
How pleafant and how fair

The dwellings of thy love,
Thine earthly temples are!
To thine abode

My heart afpires,
With warm defires,
To fee my God.

2 The fparrow for her young
With pleafure feeks a neft,
And wand'ring fwallows long
To find their wonted reft:
My fpirit faints,

With equal zeal,

To rife and dwell
Among thy faints.

3 O happy fouls that pray,
Where God appoints to hear!
O happy men that pay
Their conftant fervice there !
They praise thee ftill;

And happy they

That love the way

To Zion's hill!

4 They go from ftrength to strength, Through this dark vale of tears, Till each arrives at length,

Till each in heav'n appears:

O glorious feat,
When God our King
Shall thither bring
Our willing feet!

PAUSE.

5 To fpend one facred day
Where God and faints abide,
Affords diviner joy

Than thousand days befide:
Where God reforts,

I love it more

To keep the door,

Than fhine in courts.

6 God is our fun and fhield,
Our light and our defence;
With gifts his hands are fill'd,
We draw our bleffings thence :
He fhall beftow

On Jacob's race
Peculiar grace
And glory too.

7 The Lord his people loves;
His hand no good withholds
From thofe his heart approves,
From pure and pious fouls:
Thrice happy he,

O God of hosts,
Whofe fpirit trusts
Alone in thee!

PSALM LXXXV. ift Part. Long Metre. Ver. 1-8. Waiting for an answer to prayer; or, deliverance begun and completed.

1

L

ORD, thou haft call'd thy grace to mind,
Thou haft revers'd our heavy doem “

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So God forgave when Ifr'el finn'd, And brought his wand'ring captives home. 2 Thou haft begun to fet us free, And made thy fierceft wrath abate ; Now let our hearts be turn'd to thee, And thy falvation be complete. 3 Revive our dying graces, Lord, And let thy faints in thee rejoice; Make known thy truth, fulfil thy word; We wait for praise to tune our voice. 4 We wait to hear what God will fay; He'll fpeak and give his people peace : But let them run no more aftray, Left his returning wrath increafe. PSALM LXXXV. 2d Part. Long Metre.

3

Vér. 9. &c.

Salvation by Christ.

ALVATION is for ever nigh

SA

The fouls that fear and truft the Lord; And grace, defcending from on high, Fresh hopes of glory fhall afford.

2 Mercy and truth on earth are met,
SinceChrift the Lord came down from heav'n:
By his obedience, fo complete,
Juftice is pleas'd, and peace is giv'n.

3 Now truth and honour fhall abound,
Religion dwell on earth again,

And heav'nly influence, blefs the ground, In our Redeemer's gentle reign.

4 His righteoufnefs is gone before, To give us free access to God:

Our wand'ring feet fhall fray no more, But mark his steps and keep the road.