2 If malice lurk'd within my heart,
Before thy piercing eyes;
I should not dare appeal to thee,
Nor afk my God to rise.
3 Impartial Judge of all the world,
I trust my cause to thee;
According to my righteousness
So let thy fentence be.

4 Let wicked arts of wicked men
Be wholly overthrown;

But guard the juft, O God, to whom
The hearts of both are known.

5 Then will I all the righteous ways
Of Providence proclaim;

I'll fing the praise of God most high,
And celebrate his name.

TATE and WATTS united.

Pfalm VIII. Comman Metre. [ or b

Divine Candefcenfion.

THOU, to whom all creatures bow,
Within this earthly frame,
Through all the world, how great art thou
How glorious is thy name!

2 When heaven, thy glorious work on high, Employs my wond'ring fight;

The moon that nightly rules the fky,
With ftars of feebler light;

3 Lord, what is man! that thou should'st chool To keep him in thy mind!

4

Or what his race, that thou fhould'st prove
To them fo wond'rous kind!

Him next in power thou didst create
To thy celeftial train;

Ordain'd with dignity and state
O'er all thy works to reign.

5 They jointly own his powerful sway,
The beasts that prey or graze ;
The bird that wings its airy way,
The fish that cuts the feas.

60 thou, to whom all creatures bow,
Within this earthly frame,

Thro' all the world, how great art thou!

L

How glorious is thy name!

Pfalm VIII.

TATE.

Long Metre. [b]

Adam and Chrift, or the old and new Creation.
ORD, what was man when made at first,
Adam, the offspring of the duft,
That thou fhould'ft fet him, and his race,
But just below an angel's place!

2 That thou should'st raise his nature so,
And make him Lord of all below;
Make ev'ry beast and bird submit,
And lay the fishes at his feet!

3 But what fublimer glories wait
To crown the second Adam's state!
What honours fhall thy fon adorn,
Who condefcended to be born!
4 See him below his angels made!
See him in duft among the dead!
To fave the world from death and fin:
But he fhall reign with power divine.
The world to come, redeem'd from all
The miferies that attend the fall,
New made and glorious fhall fubmit
At our exalted Saviour's feet.

5

Palm IX. ver. 10, 11.

ST

Encouragement to Faith.

L. M. I

ING to the Lord, who loud proclaims His various and his faving names; O may they not be heard alone, But by our fure experience known. 2 The great Jehovah be ador'd, Th' eternal, all fufficient Lord; Through all the world, most high confefs'd, By him 'twas form'd, and is poffefs'd. 3 Awake, our nobleft powers, to bless The God of Abra'm, God of peace; Now, by a dearer title known, Father and God of Christ his Son. 4 Through every age his gracious ear Is open to his fervant's prayer; Nor can one humble foul complain That he has fought his God in vain. 5 What unbelieving heart fhall dare. In whifpers to fuggeft a fear,

While ftill he owns his ancient name, The fame his power, his love the fame. 6 To thee our fouls in faith arife, To thee we lift expecting eyes, And boldly through the defart tread, For God will guard where God fhall lead.

DODDRIDGE.

X. Common Metre. [b]

Plaim X.

A Prayer for Deliverance from Oppression.
HY doth the Lord ftand off.fo far,
And why conceal his face,

WHY

When great calamities appear,
And times of deep diftrefs?

2 Lord, fhall the wicked still deride
Thy juftice and thy power?

Shall they erect their heads in pride,
And better men devour?

3 Arife, O God! lift up thy hand,
Attend our humble cry;
enemy shall dare to stand
When God our help is nigh.

No

4 Thou wilt prepare our hearts to pray, And ftill incline thine ear;

5

Thou knoweft what thy children fay
And thou their voice wilt hear.

Proud tyrants fhall no more opprefs,
No more defpife the juft;

And mighty finners fhall confefs
They are but earth and dust.

ON

Pfalm XI.

Long Metre.

The Juftice of Divine Providence.

N God my ftedfast hopes rely;
Why do my foes infulting cry,

WATTS.

"Fly like a timorous, trembling dove,

cr And feek the mountain's lonesome grove." 2 Behold the wicked aim their darts Against the men of upright hearts! If government be overthrown, Who then the injur'd caufe will own? 3 The Lord, enthron'd above the sky, On fuffering virtue cafts his eye; Tho' he afflicts his faints, to prove Their patience, and to try their love;

4 Yet lawléfs hands and hearts impure,
His frowns vindictive will endure;
His lightning wings its rapid way,
His thunder fills them with dismay.

5 Where truth and juftice hold their place,
God will reveal his gracious face;
Delighted in the upright mind

His own reflected beams to find.

MERRICK, varied.

Pfalm XII. Common Metre. [b]

Corruption of Manners.

ELP, Lord! for men of virtue fail,

H Religion lofes ground;

The fons of wickednefs prevail,
And treacheries abound.

2 Their oaths and promifes they break,
Yet act the flatterer's part;
With fair deceitful lips they fpeak,
And with a double heart.

3 Scoffers appear on every fide,
Where a vile race of men
Are rais'd to feats of power and pride,
And bear the fword in vain.

4 Lord, when iniquities abound,
And blafphemy grows bold;
When faith is hardly to be found,
And love is waxen cold;

5 Is not thy chariot haftening on ?
Haft thou not given the fign?
May we not truft and live upon
A promife fo divine ?