4 Tho' wicked men, like blooming flowers, A while look fresh and gay;

Soon must their short-liv'd beauties fade,
Their glory pass away.

5 But those who keep the laws of God,
And love his courts fhall thrive;
Their holy joys, their fruitfulness
Still, in old-age, fhall live.

PSALM XXV.

T.

Obedience and worship due to God from all men of all conditions.

LET all the various tribes of men

To God their homage pay, And scatter'd nations of the earth One fovereign Lord obey.

2 'Tis his fupreme prerogative O'er fubject-kings to reign:

'Tis juft that he should rule the world, Who doth the world fuftain.

3 The rich, that are with plenty fed,
His bounty fhould confess;

The fons of want, by him reliev'd,.
Their kind fupporter blefs.

4 With humble worship to his throne
Let all for aid refort:

He, only, who their being gave,
That being can support.

PSALM XXVI.

T.

Comfort of an uniform and confcientious conformity to
the will of God.

1 HOW bleft are they who always keep
The pure and perfect way,
Who never from the facred paths
Óf God's commandments ftray!

2 Oh, ever let thy holy will

O'er all my ways prefide; And all the conduct of my life Let thy direction guide.

3 Then with affurance fhall I walk,
And from confufion free;

Convinc'd, with joy, that all my ways
With thy commands agree.

PSALM XXVII.

Inftruction from the works and word of God. I THE heavens declare thy glory, Lord,

While they perform thy will;

T.

Sun,

1

Sun, moon, and twinkling ftars express

Their great creator's skill.

2 The dawn of every opening day

Fresh beams of knowledge brings;
And from the dark returns of night
Divine inftruction fprings.

3 Their powerful language to no clime
Or region is confin'd;

'Tis nature's voice, and understood
Alike by all mankind.

4 God's perfect law converts the foul,
Reclaims from falfe defires;
With facred wifdom his fure word
The ignorant inspires.

5 The ftatutes of the Lord are juft,
And yield fincere delight;
His pure commands, in fearch of truth,
Will ferve the feebleft fight.

6 My faithful counsellors they are,
And friendly warnings give:
Divine rewards attend on those
Who by thy precepts live.

7

But what frail man observes how oft
He doth from virtue fall?

O, cleanse me from my fecret faults,

Thou God who know'ft them all.

PSALM XXVIII.

Submiffion to afflictions.

1 NAKED as from the earth we came
To this life's fleeting day,
We to the earth return again,
And mingle with our clay.

2 The dear delights we here enjoy,
And call our own in vain,
Are bleffings only lent us now,
Soon to be claim'd again.

3 'Tis God that lifts our comforts high,
Or finks them in the grave;
He gives and, bleffed be his name,
He takes but what he gave.

4 Peace then, ye fretful paffions, peace; Let each repining figh

Be filent at his fovereign will,
And every murmur die.

T.

5 If fmiling mercy crown our lives,

Its praises shall be spread;

And we'll adore the wisdom too

That ftrikes our comforts dead.

W.

PSALM XXIX.

The chriftian's triumph over death.

I OH for a firm and lively faith
To cheer the dying hour,
To trust in all the gospel faith
Of death's abolish'd power!

2 Joyful, with all the ftrength we have, Our quiv'ring lips fhould fing,

.

3

Where is thy boafted victory, Grave?
O Death, where is thy fting?

So to the God of victory,

Shall endless thanks be paid,

Who makes us conquerors, tho' we die,
Through Chrift our living head.

PSALM XXX.

Blefedness of the pious dead.

I HEAR what the words of Chrift reveal

Of all the pious dead;

W.

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