THE

PSALMS OF DAVID,

IMITATED IN THE LANGUAGE OF THE

NEW TESTAMENT.

PSALM 1. C. M. York. Canterbury. [*] The Way and End of the Righteous and of the Wicked. LEST is the man who shuns the place,

1

Bwhere sinners love to meet;

Who fears to tread their wicked ways,
And hates the scoffer's seat.

2 But in the statutes of the Lord,
Has plac'd his chief delight;
By day he reads or hears the word,
And meditates by night.

b 3 [He, like a plant of generous kind,
By living waters set,

Safe from the storms and blasting wind,
Enjoys a peaceful state.]

o 4 Green as the leaf, and ever fair,
Shall his profession shine;

While fruits of holiness appear,
Like clusters on the vine.

p 5 Not so the impious and unjust,
What vain designs they form!

d Their hopes are blown away like dust, Or chaff, before the storm.

g 6 Sinners in judgment shall not stand
Amongst the sons of grace,

When Christ the Judge, at his right hand,
Appoints his saints a place.

[7 His eye beholds the path they tread,
His heart approves it well;

But crooked ways of sinners lead
Down to the gates of hell.]

THE

PSALMS OF DAVID,

IMITATED IN THE LANGUAGE OF THE

NEW TESTAMENT.

PSALM 1. C. M. York. Canterbury. [*] The Way and End of the Righteous and of the Wicked. 1 LEST is the man who shuns the place,

BLES

Where sinners love to meet;

Who fears to tread their wicked ways,
And hates the scoffer's seat.

2 But in the statutes of the Lord,
Has plac'd his chief delight;
By day he reads or hears the word,
And meditates by night.

b 3 [He, like a plant of generous kind,
By living waters set,

Safe from the storms and blasting wind,
Enjoys a peaceful state.]

o 4 Green as the leaf, and ever fair,
Shall his profession shine;

While fruits of holiness appear,
Like clusters on the vine.

p 5 Not so the impious and unjust,
What vain designs they form!

d Their hopes are blown away like dust, Or chaff, before the storm.

g 6 Sinners in judgment shall not stand
Amongst the sons of grace,

When Christ the Judge, at his right hand,
Appoints his saints a place.

[7 His eye beholds the path they tread,
His heart approves it well;

But crooked ways of sinners lead
Down to the gates of hell.] ·

The Saint happy, the Sinner miserable.

1 [T Who shuns the sinner's ways;

HE man is ever blest,

Among their councils never stands,
Nor takes the scorner's place:-
2 But makes the law of God,
His study and delight,
Amidst the labours of the day,
And watches of the night.

3. He like a tree shall thrive,
With waters near the root:
Fresh as the leaf his name shall live,
His works are heavenly fruit.

4 Not so th' ungodly race;

They no such blessings find:

Their hopes shall flee, like empty chaff
Before the driving wind.

5 How will they bear to stand
Before that judgment seat;

Where all the saints, at Christ's right hand,
In full assembly meet.

6 He knows, and he approves,

The way the righteous go:

But sinners and their works shall meet

A dreadful overthrow.]

L. M. Quercy. Bath. [*]

The Difference between the Righteous and the Wicked..

[APPY the man whose cautious feet,

1 HA

Shun the broad way that sinners go; Who hates the place where atheists meet, And fears to talk as scoffers do.

2 He loves t' employ his morning light
Amongst the statutes of the Lord;
And spends the wakeful hours of night,
With pleasure pondering o'er the word.
e 3 He, like a plant by gentle streams,
Shall flourish in immortal green;

And heav'n will shine with kindest beams,
On every work his hands begin.

e 4 But sinners find their counsels cross'd: As chaff before the tempest flies,

So shall their hopes be blown and lostg When the last trumpet shakes the skies. -[5 In vain the rebel seeks to stand, In judgment with the pious race; e The dreadful judge, with stern command, Divides him to a different place.

d 6 'Straight is the way my saints have trod, 'I bless'd the path and drew it plain; 'But you would choose the crooked road; 'And down it leads to endless pain.']

PSALM 2. S. M. Dover. Sutton. [*] Christ dying, rising, interceding, and reigning. [AKER, and sovʼreign Lord,

1 Mof heaven and earth and seas,

Thy providence confirms thy word,
And answers thy decrees.

2 The things, so long foretold
By David, are fulfill'd;

p When Jews and Gentiles rose to slay
Jesus, thy holy child.

[3 Why did the Gentiles rage,
And Jews, with one accord,
Bend all their counsels, to destroy
Th' anointed of the Lord?

4 Rulers and kings agree,
To form a vain design;

Against the Lord their pow'rs unite,
Against his Christ they join.

5 The Lord derides their rage,
And will support his throne:

He who hath rais'd him from the dead

Hath own'd him for his son.]

PAUSE,

6 Now he's ascended high,
And asks to rule the earth;

The merit of his blood he pleads,

And pleads his heavenly birth,