I 2 3 4 5 This did thine ancient prophets teach, xcv. PSALM LI. Long Met. WATTS. A penitential Supplication. ORGIVE me, God, my God forgive; FO Are not thy mercies large and free? My fins are great, but not exceed Fain would I rise on hope fublime, With fhame my erring life I trace, With fhame thy much indulgent grace; And should thy judgment prove severe, I am condemned, but thou art clear. But where a heart renewed is found, So be my heart renewed to thee, XCVI. PSALM LI. Short Met. UNKNOWN. The fame. AVE mercy, Lord, on me, I HA And 2 3 4 And let me, touched with sense of guilt, Remit th' offence I've given, Thy forfeit grace to win. My fpirit dreads to meet A God in angry view: Oh work in me a heart that's clean, The joy thy favour yields May I anew obtain ; And may I ne'er in thought or deed XCVII. PSALM LIII. Long Met. MERRICK. Danger the Summons to Reformation. 2 3 4 H' eternal monarch from on high TH If haply fome he yet might fee Who midst infectious times have stood Unftained, and obftinately good. He looked, but ah! too few could find To virtue's heaven-taught rules inclined. Each, led from wifdom's path aftray, Purfues the tenor of his way. What frenzy thus their foul could blind? From God and goodness turn their mind? But fee, their thoughts in tumult roll, Surrounding terrors fhake their foul. Such 5 6 Such is the doom that all must prove, Thou, Lord, alone to Britain's eyes The bleft event to Britain's fhore Her fongs of triumph fhall restore, And all her fons, thro' heaven's wide frame, Loud echoing, fhall her joy proclaim. XCVIII. PSALM LV. Long Met. MERRICK. Peevish Difcontent at GOD's Forbearance reproved. OH H who fhall give me, thus my breast Its poor inquietude expreffed, The dove's light wing, that thro' the air A wretched fugitive may bear? Remove me far from ill to dwell Within the rock's fequeftered cell? Or in the defart's lone retreat Difgufted fix my lafting feat? To crime each heart, and hand, and tongue Is given; and tumult, ftrife and wrong Where'er I turn, before my eyes In giant forms terrific rife. Within their walls' unhallowed bound, By day, by night, they take their round, And their polluted streets still hear The din of riot, guilt and fear. Thus, fired with feeming zeal for God, The path of discontent I trod. Alas! 6 I 2 Alas! if mercy bear with fin, The ways of Providence impeach? XCIX. PSALM LV. Short Met. Acquiefcence in GOD's Forbearance towards Sinners. L ET finners take their course, And chuse the path of ill; Mine be the part to please my God, And anfwer all his will. I leave events to God, The world with temper view, Bear with the ills I cannot mend, And all the good pursue. I They have their choice, and fo have I, Then let me not repine. c. PSALM LVII. Long Met. WATTS. Praife to GOD. E thou exalted, O my God, BE Above the heavens where angels dwell! Thy power on earth be known abroad, And land to land thy wonders tell! 2 My heart is fixt; my fong fhall raise Deserved honours to thy name; Awake 3 4 5 2 3 Awake my tongue to found his praise, In thee, my God, are all the fprings Thy truth to endless years remains Be thou exalted, O my God, CI. PSALM LVII. Long Met. What fnares have in my way been ftrewed, In guise of friendship they defigned 4 Give me the man to God allied, Cemented |