3 His dying groans, his living songs,
Shall better please my God,

Than harp or trumpet's solemn sound,
Than goats' or bullocks' blood.

4 This shall his humble followers see,
And set their hearts at rest;

They by his death draw near to thee,
And live forever blest.

5 Let heaven, and all that dwell on high To God their voices raise,

While lands and seas assist the sky,
And join t' advance his praise.

6 Zion is thine, most holy God;
Thy Son shall bless her gates
And glory, purchas'd by his blood,
For thine own Israel waits.

PSALM 69.-1st Part. L. M. [b] "Christ's passion, and sinners' salvation." EEP in our hearts let us record

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The deeper sorrows of our Lord;

Behold the rising billows roll,

To overwhelm his holy soul !

2 In long complaints he spends his breath, While hosts of hell, and powers of death And all the sons of malice join,

To execute their curst design.

3 Yet, gracious God, thy power and love
Have made the curse a blessing prove;
Those dreadful sufferings of thy Son
Aton'd for sins which we had done.

4 The pangs of our expiring Lord
The honours of thy law restor❜d:
His sorrows made thy justice known,
And paid for follies not his own.

5 O! for his sake our guilt forgive,
And let the mourning sinner live;
The Lord will hear us in his name,
Nor shall our hope be turn'd to shame.

PSALM 69.—2d Part. L. M. [b] Ver. 7, &c. Christ's sufferings and zeal. 1 WAS for our sake, eternal God,

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Thy Son sustain'd that heavy load
Of base reproach and sore disgrace,
And shame defil'd his sacred face.

2 The Jews, his brethren and his kin,
Abus'd the man that check'd their sin;
While he fulfill'd thy holy laws,
They hate him, but without a cause.
3 ["My Father's house, (said he) was made
"A place for worship, not for trade;"
Then, scattering all their gold and brass,
He scourg'd the merchants from the place.]
A [Zeal for the temple of his God
Consum'd his life, expos'd his blood;
Reproaches at thy glory thrown

He felt, and mourn'd them as his own.] 5 [His friends forsook, his followers fled, While foes and arms surround his read; They curse him with a slanderous tongue, And the false judge maintains the wrong.}] His life they load with hateful lies, And charge his lips with blasphemies: They nail him to the shameful tree; There hung the man that dy'd for me!

7 [Wretches, with hearts as hard as stones, Insult his piety and groans;

Gall was the food they gave him there, And mock'd his thirst with vinegar.] 8 But God beheld, and from his throne Marks out the men that hate his Son; The hand that rais'd him from the dead Shall pour due vengeance on their head. PSALM 71.-1st Part. C. M. [b] Ver. 5-9. The aged saint's reflection and hope.

MY God, my everlasting hope,

I live upon thy truth;

Thine hands have held my childhood up,
And strengthen'd all my youth.

2 My flesh was fashion'd by thy power,
With all these limbs of mine;

And from my mother's painful hour
I've been entirely thine.

3 Still has my life new wonders seen,
Repeated every year:
Behold my days that yet remain,
I trust them to thy care.

4 Cast me not off when strength declines,
When boary hairs arise;
And round me let thy glory shine,
Whene'er thy servant dies.

5 Then in the history of my age,
When men review my days,
They'll read thy love in every page,
In every line, thy praise.

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PSALM 71.-2d Part. C. M. [*]
Ver. 15, 14, 16, 23, 22, 24.

Christ our strength and righteousness.
Saviour, my Almighty Friend,

M When I begin thy praise

Where will the growing numbers end,
The numbers of thy grace?

2 Thou art my everlasting trust,
Thy goodness I adore !

And since I knew thy graces first,
I speak thy glories more.

3 My feet shall travel all the length
Of the celestial road,

And march with courage in thy strength,
To see my Father God,

When I am fill'd with sore distress
For some surprising sin,
I'll plead thy perfect righteousness,
And mention none but thine.

5 How will my lips rejoice to tell
The victories of my King!

My soul, redeem'd from sin and hell,
Shall thy salvation sing.

6 [My tongue shall all the day proclaim
My Saviour and my God:

His death has brought my foes to shame,
And drown'd them in his blood.

7 Awake, awake, my tuneful powers:
With this delightful song,
I'll entertain the darkest hours,
Nor think the season long.]

PSALM 71.-3d Part. C. M. [b] Ver. 17-21. The aged Christian's prayer and ong; or, old age, death, and the resurrection. OD of my childhood and my youth, The guide of all my days,

I have declar'd thy heavenly truth
And told thy wondrous ways.

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2 Wilt thou forsake my hoary hairs,
And leave my fainting heart P
Who shall sustain my sinking years,
If God my strength depart ?

3 Let me thy power and truth proclaim
To the surviving age,
And leave a savour of thy name
When I shall quit the stage.

The land of silence and of death
Attends my next remove;
O may these poor remains of breath
Teach the wide world thy love!

PAUSE.

5 Thy righteousness is deep and high,
Unsearchable thy deeds;

Thy glory spreads beyond the sky,
And all my praise exceeds.

6 Oft have I heard thy threatenings roar, And oft endur'd the grief;

But when thy hand has press'd me sore,
Thy grace was my relief.

7 By long experience have I known
Thy sovereign power to save;
At thy command I venture down
Securely to the grave.

8 When I lie buried in the dust,
My flesh shall be thy care;
These withering limbs with thee I trust,
To raise them strong and fair.

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PSALM 72.-1st Part. L. M. [*]
The kingdom of Christ.

REAT God, whose universal sway

GThe known and unknown worlds obey

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