Ye fervants of the almighty king

Ye fervants of the almighty Lord
Ye fervants of the eternal king

Ye that obey the immortal king
Ye nations praise the Lord
Ye fervants of the eternal king
Ye faints and fervants of the Lord
Ye that delight to ferve the Lord

PSALMS

PSALMS

FOR

SOCIAL WORSHIP.

FIRST BOOK. LONG METRE.

PSALM I.

Godliness, its nature and reward.

I BLEST is the man whofe virtuous steps
No wicked counfels lead afide;

Who shuns the finner's ways, nor fits
Where God and goodness men deride;

2 Who in the perfect law of God
Hath plac'd his foul's entire delight;
On this his mind is fix'd by day,
On this his wakeful thoughts by night,

3 He flourishes like fome fair tree
With living waters near the root,
Whose leaves are ever fresh and green,
Whose branches bend with timely fruit.

4 Safe fhall his dearest hopes remai.,
And the best pleasures of his mind
When all the joys the wicked know
Shall flee like chaff before the wind.

5

God will reward the juft man's work,
For he approves the path he treads;
But that which thoughtless finners choose
To fure and swift deftruction leads.

P.

PSALM II.

Hope and confidence in God our shepherd.
1 GOD is my fhepherd who will fee
That all my wants be well supply'd;
In dangerous and in doubtful ways
He is my guard, and he my guide.

2 His comforts, which revive my foul,
My life's whole journey pleasant make:
And in the peaceful paths of grace
He leads me, for his goodness fake.

3 Tho' I fhould walk where black despair
And forrow caft a difmal fhade;

Thy power, O Lord, thy tender care
Would chafe my fears, and make me glad.

4 Surely thy goodnefs, O my God,
Shall ftill furround me all my days:
Thy houfe I will frequent, and there
Difplay thy love, and fing thy praise.

P.

PSALM III.

PSALM III.

God our confolation.

IO GOD, the fpring of all my joys,
For thee I long, to thee I look:
No chafed hart e'er panted more
To reach the cooling water-brook.

2 Thy mercy and thy truth difplay;
That, by the conduct of thy light,.
Thy courts above I may attain,
And have of thee a fuller fight..

3. Oft have I found thy worship here
My foul above it's forrows raife;.
And thence again I'll feek relief,
Till my fad heart fhall learn to praise.

4 Why fhou'd I cherish gloomy thoughts,
Whence nothing but difquiet flows?
They can't procure me what I wish,
Why should they hinder my repofe?

5

I have learnt, at laft, a remedy
To keep my paffions calm and ftill;
I am nearer help by hope in God,
And refignation to his will.

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P.

PSALM IV.

PSALM IV.

Stability of God's government.

I JEHOVAH reigns; this King of Kings
Affumes his robes of glorious light;
Tremble, thou Earth, when he appears
Array'd in majefty and might.

2 He reigns, and the unquiet world
Shall gain ftability and peace:
His empire did of old begin,
And, like himself, shall never cease.

3 In vain the world's rebellious powers
In tumults and commotions rife,
Like troubled waters of the fea,
To bid defiance to the skies.

4 Oppofe not his refiftlefs fway;
He is far above your angry noise;
And even the fea's unruly waves
Do calmly liften to his voice.

5 Lord, as thy power can never fail,
So all thy promises are fure:

'Tis thy perfection to be true,

And their's that ferve thee to be pure.

P.

PSALM V.