5 Ye tenants of the fpacious earth,
With fear before him ftand:
He fpake, and nature took its birth,
And refts on his command.

6 He fcorns the angry nations' rage,
And breaks their vain defigns:
His counfel ftands through every age,
And in full glory fhines.

PSALM XXXIII. 2d Part. Com. Metre. [*]
Creatures vain, and God all-fufficient.

1

LEST is the nation, where the Lord Hath fix'd his gracious throne; Where he reveals his heavenly word, And calls their tribes his own.

2 His eye with infinite furvey

Does the whole world behold;
He form'd us all of equal clay,
And knows our feeble mould.
3 Kings are not refcu'd by the force
Of armies from the grave;

Nor fpeed, nor courage of an horfe
Can the bold rider fave.

4 Vain is the ftrength of beafts or men,
To hope for fafety thence:
But holy fouls from God obtain
A ftrong and fure defence.

5 God is their fear and God their trust,
When plagues or famine fpread ;
His watchful eye fecures the just,
Amongst ten thousand dead.

6 Lord, let our hearts in thee rejoice,
And bless us from thy throne;

For we have made thy word our choice,
And truft thy grace alone.

PSALM XXXIII. 1ft Part. Partic. Met. [*]
Works of creation and providence.

1

E holy fouls, in God rejoice,

YE

Your Maker's praife becomes your voice;
Great is your theme, your fongs be new:

Sing of his name, his word, his ways,
His works of nature, and of grace,

How wife and holy, juft and true!

2 Juftice and truth he ever loves,

And the whole earth his goodness proves:
His word the heavenly arches fpread;
How wide they fhine from north to fouth!
And by the fpirit of his mouth

Were all the ftarry armies made.
3 He gathers the wide flowing feas,
(Thofe watery treasures know their place)
In the vaft ftorehouse of the deep:
He fpake, and gave all nature birth,
And fires and feas, and heaven and earth
His everlasting orders keep.

4 Let mortals tremble, and adore
A God of fuch refistless power,

Nor dare indulge their feeble rage:
Vain are your thoughts, and weak your hands,
But his eternal counfel ftands,

And rules the world from age to age.

PSALM XXXIII. 2d Part. Partic. Met. [*]
Creatures vain, and God all-fufficient.
HAPPY nation, where the Lord

1

Reveals the treasure of his word,

And builds his church, his earthly throne!
His eye the heathen world furveys,

He form'd their hearts, he knows their ways;
But God their maker is unknown.

2 Let kings rely upon their host,

And of his ftrength the champion boast;
In vain they boaft, in vain rely:
In vain we truft the brutal force,
Or fpeed, or courage of an horse
To guard his rider, or to fly.

3 The eye of thy compaffion, Lord,
Doth more fecure defence afford,

When death or dangers threatening ftand:
Thy watchful eye preferves the juft,
Who make thy name their fear and truft,
When wars or famine wafte the land.

4 In fickness or the bloody field,
Thou our phyfician, thou our fhield,
Send us falvation from thy throne:
We wait to fee thy goodness fhine;
Let us rejoice in help divine,

For all our hope is God alone.

3

PSALM XXXIV. 1ft Part. Long Metre. [*]
God's care of the faints; or, deliverance by prayer.
ORD, I will blefs thee all my days,
Thy praife fhall dwell upon my tongue;
My foul fhall glory in thy grace,
While faints rejoice to hear the fong.
2 Come, magnify the Lord with me;
Come, let us all exalt his name:
I fought th' eternal God, and he
Has not expos'd my hope to fhame.
I told him all my fecret grief,
My fecret groaning reach'd his ears;
He gave my inward pains relief,
And calm'd the tumult of my fears.
4 To him the poor lift up their eyes,
Their faces feel the heavenly fhine;
A beam of mercy from the fkies
Fills them with light and joy divine.
5 His holy angels pitch their tents
Around the men that ferve the Lord:
O fear and love him, all ye faints,
Taste of his grace, and trust his word!
6 The wild young lions, pinch'd with pain
And hunger, roar through all the wood;
But none fhall feek the Lord in vain,
Nor want fupplies of real good.

PSALM XXXIV. 2d Part. Long Metre. [b]

1

CH

Ver. 11-22.

Religious education; or, inftructions of piety. HILDREN, in years and knowledge young, Your parents' hope, your parents' joy, Attend the counfels of my tongue; Let pious thoughts your minds employ. 2 If you defire a length of days, And peace to crown your mortal flate, Reftrain your feet from impious ways, Your lips from flander and deceit.

3 The eyes

of God regard his faints,
His ears are open to their cries;
He fets his frowning face against
The fons of violence and lies.

To humble fouls and broken hearts,
God with his grace is ever nigh;
Pardon and hope his love imparts,
When men in deep contrition lie.

5 He tells their tears, he counts their groans,
His Son redeems their fouls from death;
His Spirit heals their broken bones:

They in his praise employ their breath.

PSALM XXXIV. 1ft Part. Com. Metre. [x]

1

Ver. 1-10.

Prayer, and praise for eminent deliverance.
'LL blefs the Lord from day to day :
How good are all his ways!

I'LL

Ye humble fouls that ufe to pray,
Come, help my lips to praife.

2 Sing to the honour of his name,
How a poor finner cry'd;

Nor was his hope expos'd to fhame,
Nor was his fuit deny'd.

3 When threatening forrows round me flood,
And endless fears arose,

Like the loud billows of a flood,
Redoubling all my woes;

4 I told the Lord my fore diftrefs,
With heavy groans and tears;
He gave my fharpeft torments ease,
And filenc'd all my fears.

PAUSE.

5 [O finners! come and tafte his love,
Come, learn his pleasant ways;
And let your own experience prove
The fweetnefs of his grace.

6 He bids his angels pitch their tents
Round where his children dwell
What ills their heavenly care prevents
No earthly tongue can tell.]

7 [O love the Lord, ye faints of his!
His eye regards the just :

How rich'y blefs'd their portion is,
Who make the Lord their truft

8 Young lions, pinch'd with hunger, roar,
And famifh in the wood;

But God fupplies his holy poor
With every needful good.]

PSALM XXXIV. 2d Part. Com. Metre. [b]

1

Ver. 11-22.

Exhortations to peace and holiness.

SOME, children, learn to fear the Lord;
And, that your days be long,

Let not a falfe or spiteful word

Be found upon your tongue.
2 Depart from mischief, practise love,
Rurfue the works of peace;

So fhall the Lord your ways approve,
And fet your fouls at ease.

3 His eyes awake to guard the juft,
His ears attend their cry;
When broken fpirits dwell in duft,
The God of grace is nigh.

4 What though the forrows here they tafte
Are fharp and tedious too,

The Lord, who faves them all at last,
Is their fupporter now.

5 Evil fhall fmite the wicked dead,
But God fecures his own,
Prevents the mifchief when they flide,
Or heals the broken bone.

6 When defolation, like a flood,

O'er the proud finner rolls,
Saints find a refuge in their God,
For he redeem'd their fouls.

PSALM XXXV. 1ft Part. Com. Metre. [b] Ver. 1--9. Prayer and faith of perfecuted faints; or, imprecations mixed with charity.

OW plead my caufe, Almighty God,
With all the fons of ftrife;

And fight againft the men of blood,
Who fight against my life.

2 Draw out thy fpear, and flop their way,
Lift thy avenging rod;

But to my foul in mercy fay,

"I am thy Saviour God."

They plant their fnares to catch my feet,

And nets of mifchief fpread;