CCXLIV. I Y God fovereign fovereign and gracious. Pfal. cxiii. E fervants of th' Almighty king, In ev'ry age his praises sing; 2 Above rhe earth, beyond the sky, 3 Which of the fons of Adam dare, 4 5 Behold his love; he stoops to view From duft and cottages obfcure, His grace exalts the humble poor; Gives them the honour of his fons, And fits them for their heav'nly thrones. CCXLV. CCXLV. The Lord's Day; or Chrift's Resurrection, and our Salvation. Pfal. cxviii. v. 24, 25, 26. 'T HIS is the day the Lord hath made, 2 To-day he rofe and left the dead, To-day the faints his triumphs fpread, 3. Bleft be, the Lord, who comes to men Who comes in God his Father's name Help us, O Lord, defcend and bring, 5 Hofanna in the highest strains, The highest heav'ns in which he reigns CCXLVI. The Excellency the Chriftian Religion. 'L' ET everlasting glories crown Thy head, my Saviour, and my Lord: 'Thy hands have brought falvation down, [2 What if we trace the globe around, 3 In vain the trembling confcience feeks 4 How well thy bleffed truths agree! How firm our hope and comfort ftands! [5 Not the feign'd fields of beath'nifh blifs Could raife fuch pleasure in the mind': Nor does the Turkish paradife Pretend to joys fo well refin'd.] 6 Should all the forms that men devife, Affault my faith with treach'rous art, I'd call them vanity and lies, And bind the 'gofpel to my heart. of CCXLVII. CCXLVII. The End of the World. 1 W HY fhould this earth delight us fo? On these low grounds where forrows grow, 2 While time his fharpeft teeth prepares Our coinforts to devour, There is a land above the ftars 3 Nature shall be diffolv'd and die, The earth and fea for ever fly, 4 When will that glorious morning rife? When the laft trumpet found, And call the nations to the skies, From underneath the ground? The Creation of CCXLVIII. the World. "N OW let the fpacious earth arife," At once th' obedient earth and skies, [2 Dark [2 Dark was the deep; the waters lay 3 He bids the clouds ascend on high; 4 The liquid element below Was gather'd by his hand; The rolling feas together flow, And leave the solid land. With herbs, and plants, (a flow'ry birth) The naked globe he crown'd, E're there was rain to bless the earth, 6 Then he adorn'd the upper skies; The moon and ftars in order rife, 7 Out of the deep th' Almighty King 8 'He gave the lion and the worm, |