Confounded fhall the atheist fly,
And all the proud oppreffors die;
In bell their open'd eyes fhall fee,
MESSIAH was the King on high!'

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LORD GOD, in just vindictive wrath,
For vengeance unto thee belongs,

Arife, inflict deferved death

On those who load thy folk with wrongs. 2 Shine forth, and diffipate our fears,

Thou Judge of all the world abroad;
Preferve thy wheat, burn up the tares,
And manifeft thyself our God. ·
3 How long, how long fhall wickednefs
Triumphantly advance her reign?
How long fhall infolence opprefs
Thy loyal ones in thy domain?

4 How long fhall they pour forth their gall, i
And boast themselves against the Lord?
5 Like rav'ning wolves, on us who fail,
And give thy children to the fword?

6 In widows and in ftrangers blood,

How they imbrue their butch'ring hand; While murder, like a raging flood, O'erwhelms the orphans in the land! 7 Themfelves they flatter ne'ertheless, And fay, Jehovah fhall not fee; Nor Jacob's God e'er think of this, Nor of our actions confcious be..

8 Ye brutish people! understand;

Fools, when will ye fee wifdom clear?
The Lord did plant with his own hand

The ear-and fhall himfelf not hear?
9 The Lord himself did form the eye;
Shall he himself not clearly fee?
He unto man brings knowledge nigh,
And fhall himself not conscious be?

10 He that the nations doth correct,
Shall he not forely chaftife you;
And on your heads his vengeance wreak,
That ye may then your folly rue?
II Man's thoughts, but froth and vanity,
The Lord doth well difcern and fee:
12 Bleft is the man whom thou dost try,

And fcourge, to learn, O Lord, of thee.. 13 Thou'lt give him, in the rushing stream. Of fad calamity, to reft,

Until the pit be digg'd for them

Who have thine heritage oppreft.

14 For thou, O Lord, wilt not caft off
Thy people, nor thy flock forfake;
Nor ftand aloof and fee the wolf
Fierce inroads on thy paftures make..

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But judgment fhall to righteousness, My righteousness divine, return, When all my foes have fled my face,

And all my brethren ceas'd to mourn : Then thou in juftice fhalt reward.

The work, O God, which I have done ::
And when thy love fhall be declar'd,
The nations after it fhall run.

16 O who will now rife up for me,
To stem the tide of wicked men?
When roaring pride rolls like the sea,
O who will turn the floods again?
17 Unless the Lord had been my help,.
My foul had foon to filence fled,
When lions fierce and lion's whelp
Their mad affaults upon me made.

18 When I had faid, My foot is gone,
Thy mercy, Lord, fupported me:
19 And when a flood of thoughts had flown
Along my foul, Ljoy'd in thee.

20 But fhall the throne of fin and fhame,

The throne that's built in guilt and blood,
Which mifchief by a law doth frame,
Have fellowship with thee, O God?:

21 In counfel they affemble clofe,

And plot against my righteous foul,
To fpill my blood on yonder cross;

But thou, my Father, feeft the whole. 22 The Lord is my Defence, and King,

My God, my Rock, my Refuge ftrong;
To me he fhall falvation bring,

And raise me to my throne ere long.i
23 But God shall bring the wicked down,
And on them lay their heavy fin:
He'll make their glory vanish foon,
And lay them low the pit within.

PSALM XCV.

INTERPRETED and improved by its Author, Heb. iii. 4. concerning Christ and the gospel-day-And fo, for the fame reafon, its parallels must be applied.

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To-day, to-day, the HOLY GHOST
Upon the faints doth loudly call,
In CHRIST alone to make their boast,
And lowly at his footflool fall:
For unbelievers evermore,

Who fin against the HOLY GHOST,
In outer darkness hawl and roar,
And wail God's reft for ever left!

Come, let us fing to the Lord;

And make a fweet melodious found

Unto our Rock, which doth afford
Salvation when our foes furround.

2 Let us before his prefence joy,

With thanksgiving and founding Pfalm; 3 For God the Lord is God most high,

The mighty King, whofe name's I AM. 4 The depths of earth are in his hand, The heights of hills are also his; The fea is his, and his the land;

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His word has form'd the vaft abyss. 6 O come, and let us worship him

And bow before our Maker all;
For he's the Lord, our King fublime:
Proftrate before him let us fall:

7 For he's our God, the people we'
Of his own pafture furely are,
And of his hand the fheep; if ye
To-day his voice will duly hear
8 Then harden not your hearts, as in
The provocation, on the day,
Of the temptation, and your fin,
When ye blafphem'd at Meribah:

9 When me your fathers try'd and prov'd,
And grievously did strive with me;
Full forty years my wrath they mov'd,
And fully did my working fee:
10 I faid, This people err in heart,
My ways they never yer do know:
I fware in wrath, and faid, Depart;
Into my rest ye ne'er fhall go.

PSALM XCVI

SIMILAR to Pfal. ii. See the margin.

Advance, advance the voice of praife!
Let heav'n and earth refound our lays!
Meffiah reigns for evermore!

Let all the world their Judge adore!

To the Lord Meffiah fing 3

Sing new fongs to the Lord our King; Let all the world, with joy and mirth, Sing to the Lord of all the earth. 2 Sing to the Lord, and blefs his name, From day to day his praife proclaim; His glory to the nations fhew,

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His tidings glad, and ever new.

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3 Great is the Lord, and greatly he, Above the gods, muft feared be: 4 For all the gods are idols dumb,

To which the blinded nations come. 5 The Lord hath made the earth and skies: Above them both his glory flies: 6 The glory of his face doth fhine With ftrength and majefty divine : The beauty of his holiness With glory fills his holy place; And nought but glory fhall appear, Before the Lord, for ever here. 7 Afcribe to Chrift, the Lord your God, All kindreds of the world abroad, Afcribe to Chrift the glory due,

Who gives his glorious ftrength to you.

8 Give to the Lord his glorious fame,
And all aloud proclaim his name:
Come, come into his courts, and bring
Yourselves your offering to your King.
9 In beauty of his holiness,

Unto the Lord your God confefs:
Worship and fear before him, all
Ye fons of this terrestrial ball.

10 From pole to pole the tidings found,
Meffiah reigns the world around:
The world is fix'd, and fhall not move,
Till all the world his judgment prove.