mercies and thy love

y mercies, Lord, shall be my song y mercy, O our God..

y Name, Almighty Lord

y Word is a lamp to my feet. by Word, O Lord, though often tried bless thy chosen race....... God I cried when troubles rose

to God I cried with mournful voice.

to God, in power supreme...

To God, our Strength, your voice, aloud

To Thee, Eternal God, we raise

To Zion's hills I lift mine eyes..

To thy pastures fair and large

Twas from thy hand, my God, I came
United zeal be shewn...

Up to the hills I lift mine eyes.

Upward I lift mine eyes

Vain is the builders' toil and care ......

We all, O Lord, have gone astray

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Ye saints of the Lord, as round him ye stand
Ye servants of God, your Master proclaim
Ye sinners, stand in awe

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The Psalms are placed in their Numerical Order, but an Alphabetical List of the First Lines is prefixed. The Hymns are printed in Alphabetical Order, and an Index of Texts on which they are chiefly founded is subjoined: the Editor has never been able to satisfy himself with any classification of Hymns; but conceives that the Alphabetical Order is attended with the advantage of ready reference, while the Index of Subjects with which the Collection closes will furnish an easy direction to every principal topic.

N.B. This Edition varies from the first three thousand copies in the following instance

The Version of Psalm CXVII, beginning With cheerful notes let all the earth, is now omitted; and that beginning From all that dwell below the skies is here printed in its stead.

PSALMS.

PSALM I.

This Psaim, which is generally looked upon as a Preface or Introduction to the rest, describes the blessedness of the Righteous, and the opposite state of the Unbelieving and Ungodly; with the final issue of things, with respect to both good and bad men, at the Great Day.

The Righteous and the Wicked. SEVENS.

OH how blest the man, whose ear
Impious counsel shuns to hear;
Who nor loves nor treads the way
Where the sons of folly stray :
2 But, possess'd with sacred awe,
Meditates, Great God, thy law;
This by day his fix'd employ,
This by night his constant joy.
3 Like the tree, that taught to grow
Where the streams refreshing flow,
He his fruitful branch shall spread,
Prosperous, he no leaf shall shed.
4 See, ah! see a different fate
God's obdurate foes await!
See them, to his wrath consign'd,
Fly like chaff before the wind!

5 When thy Judge, O Earth, shall come,
And to each assign his doom;
Say, shall then the impious band
With the just assembled stand?
6 These th' Almighty, these alone,
Objects of his love shall own;
While his vengeance who defy,
Whelm'd in endless ruin lie.

David, seated upon the throne of Israel, notwithstanding the opposition made against him, and now about to carry his victorious arms among the neighbouring Heathen Nations, may be supposed to have penned this, as a kind of Inauguration Psalm. But, that a Greater than David is here, appears from the citation, Acts iv. 24-28. It treats, therefore, of the opposition raised against the Kingdom of Christ, of his victory and the consequent confusion of his enemies, and of the blessedness of those who accept his merey. This

Psalm is appointed to be read on Easter Day.

FIRST PART. (vv. 1-6.) L. M.
Christ seated on the Throne.

1 WH

WHY do the Jews and Gentiles join
To execute a vain design;

Idly their utmost power engage,
And storm with unavailing rage?

2 Earth's haughty kings their Lord oppose,
The Rulers list themselves his foes;
To fight against their God agree,
And slay th' Incarnate Deity!—

3 As sworn their Maker to dethrone,
And Jesus, his Anointed Son;
To rise, from all subjection freed,
And reign Almighty in his stead!
4 The Lord, who calmly sits above
Enthron'd in everlasting love,

Shall all their feeble threats deride,
And laugh to scorn their furious pride.
5 Then shall he in his wrath address
And vex his baffled enemies:
"Yet have I glorified my Son,

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And plac'd him on his Father's throne:
Conq'ror of sin, and death, and hell,
He reigns a Prince invincible:
All power is now to Jesus given,
Triumphant on the hill of Heaven!"

SECOND PART. (vv. 6-8.) P. M.
The Saviour's Exaltation and Reign.

1 JESUS the Saviour reigns!

On Zion is his throne:

The Lord's decree sustains

His Own Begotten Son:

Up from the grave

He bids him rise,

And mount the skies, With power to save.

2 His kingdom is complete,
This day exalts his Name:
Before his Father's seat

He makes his righteous claim:
His power confess :

Gentiles adore,

His hands possess From shore to shore.

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THIRD PART. (vv. 8-12.) 8. M.

Christ interceding and reigning.

CHRIST is ascended high,

And asks to rule the earth:
The merit of his blood he pleads,
And pleads his heavenly birth.
2 He asks, and God bestows
A large inheritance :

Far as the world's remotest ends
His kingdom shall advance.

3 The nations that rebel
Must feel his iron rod:
He'll vindicate those honours well
Which he receiv'd from God.

4 Be wise, ye Rulers, now,

And worship at his throne:
With trembling joy, ye people, bow
To God's exalted Son.

5 If once his wrath arise,

Ye perish on the place:
Then blessed is the soul that flies
For refuge to his grace.

PSALM III.

This Psalm is said to have been composed by David, when he fled from his Son Absalom. Thus circumstanced, he expresses himself in terms well adapted to the parallel case of the Son of David, persecuted by rebellious Israel; as also to that of His Church, suffering tribulation in the world.

First Version. L. M.
A Morning Psalm.

10 LORD, how many are my foes!

In this weak state of flesh and blood,

My peace they daily discompose:
Thou my Defence and Hope, O God!
2 Tir'd with the burdens of the day,
To Thee I rais'd my evening cry:
Thou heard'st when I began to pray,
And thine Almighty help was nigh.