Bloom, full of faith, and full of hope, As pillars in thy houfe, O God, 14 Let thousands and ten thousands go, In going out, or coming in ; 15 Thus bleffed fhall the people be With everlasting truth and grace, Whofe God Jehovah is-for he Shall make Meffiah's blood their peace! MESSIAH, glorified, fings to God, with all his faints around. See Pfal. civ. cviii. &c. The triumph of the Son of God, Mm 3 I I'LL I I'LL thee extol, my God, O King, And all my faints with me fhall fing: I'll praife thy name for evermore, And all thy glorious ways explore. 2 I'll blefs thee, Lord, and, all day long, Thy, name fhall ever fwell my fong : 3 The Lord is great, and greatly he Is to be praised ftill by me: His greatnefs far all fearch exceeds, And like himself are all his deeds: 'Th' expreffions of Jehovah's love, Jehovah like, fhall never move. 4 Race unto race fhall fhew thy ways, And.fing the glory of thy praife; They fhall declare each work of thine,, And praife the joys of love divine. 5 Thy glorious Majefty I'll tell, And on thine honour ever dwell; Thy works of wonder. I'll difplay,. And mufe upon them night and day. 6 My faints around me catch the theme, And fing the glories of thy name, Thy terrible tremendous ways Became the fubject of their praife:. For, while thy greatness I describe, 8 The Lord is very gracious, In mercy he is plenteous, And unto wrath and anger flows The Lord our God is good to all, But, oh! the myft'ries of his love, The chofen few alone fhall prove : His mercies are fo great and high, They fill the earth and fill the fky. no Lord, all thy works thy praife proclaim, And all thy faints fhall blefs thy name :: 11 They fhall thy kingdom's glory tell, And on thy pow'r and love fhall dwell: r2 To make the fons of men to know The mighty actions he fhall fhow, And all the glorious majesty Of his Meffiah's kingdom high. 13 Thy kingdom, Lord, thro' ages all, With thy dominion, ever fhall 15 Remain the fame, the Lord before- 14 The Lord alone upholdeth all, That call on him, in truth that call. 19 He will tulfil the Juft's defire, And grant them, ere they can require,, 20 The Lord preferveth in his joy Your Father and your God adore! PSALM CXLVI. THE fpirit and fubject of this, and the four following Palms, may molt concifely be expreffed in that one word, wherewith they both begin and end, viz. HALLELUJAH, rendered, Praise ye the Lord; which may be called their illustration or title. See Pfalm xxxiii. &c. Come, celebrate, with raptures great, The reign of grace, truth, mercy, peace, TO God let hallelujahs rise; My foul, O praise him thou: 2 For, while I live, I'll praifes give Unto my God, I vow:. I'll praises fing unto my King, And, while I live, I will contrive 3 Truft not in kings, nor earthly things; In man there is no help nor blefs; 4 For man fhall die, his breath fhall fly; 5 That very day his thoughts decay; His friend who trufts him mourns. Whofe hope is on the Lord alone! 6 His God, who doth delight in truth, 7 That he will do the judgment true And will fupply the poor who cry, 8 The Lord the blind, in eyes and mind, But all their foes he fills with woes, 9 The Lord obferves, and ftill preserves, The widows too, and all who do Delight in holinefs; But |