Wide as he reigns

His name be fung

By every tongue

In endless strains.

W.

PSALM IX.

Praife to God for the unequalled greatness and goodnefs of his nature and character.

1 YE that delight to ferve the Lord, The honors of his name record;

His facred name for ever blefs; Where'er the circling fun difplays His rifing beams or fetting rays

Let lands and feas his power confefs.

2 Not time, nor nature's narrow rounds, Can give his valt dominion bounds; Above the heavens his glories rife;

Let not or man or angel dare

Their little borrow'd power compare
With that which built the earth and skies.

3 His goodness, equal to his power,
Loads with his bleffings every hour;
And spreads the wide creation o'er :
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On

On the whole earth his bounties reft,
Thro' the whole earth his name be blest,

Since all receive, let all adore.

W.

PSALM X.

Univerfal praife due to God.

1 JEHOVAH's praife, in high immortal strains, The heavens refound on all their blissful plains: Adoring angels spread the rapturous lay, Wide thro' the manfions of eternal day: His glories all their fhining ranks proclaim, And teach to distant worlds their maker's name.

2 Adore, ye kings, ye monarchs of an hour,
The King eternal, source of all your power;
Ye judges, his impartial laws revere,
Be every fentence govern'd by his fear:
Let fenate, princes, people, join to raise
The grateful tribute of unweary'd praise.

3 In life's unfolding bloom, ye young and gay, While new-born pleasures ftrew your flowery

way,

Adore the bounteous hand which largely pours
Showers offweet bleffings on your vernal hours;
In your creator's praife, with duteous joy,
Your bloom of life, your active powers employ.

4 Let age, exulting o'er abolish'd death,

In praise respire its feebly-panting breath: And infants, in their dawn of reafon, join Their lifping voice, and learn the fong divine; But equal honors earth nor heaven can raise, Thy glories, Lord, tranfcend the noblest

praise.

S.

PSALM XI.

The vanity of worldly enjoyments.

I WHAT are the gaudy glories of the great, Poffeffions, empire, treasures, pomp, and state? If I enjoy them, will they fatisfy me?

Or, wanting life's beft gifts, can they fupply me?

2 When sense of fin fhall cut me to the heart,

Can they remove my pain or ease the smart? Can they atonement make to God offended? Atonement nothing makes but life amended.

3 Can they with love divine infpire my breast, Or form my spirit for the heavenly rest? With God's refemblance fair can they impress

me,

Or with the joys of his falvation bless me?

4 When I must struggle with disease and death, Can they relieve me or retain my breath? No: foon from this life's pleasing scenes I am banish'd,

And then these bleffings are for ever vanish'd.

5 Can they a guilty foul to God commend,
Or bribe that righteous judge to be my friend?
Or, should he in that dreadful day reject me,
Can they against his just award protect me?

6 My greatest wants they never can relieve,
Nor what I chiefly covet can they give:
Let thofe who choose them for their portion
take them:

For God and heaven, contented I'll forfake

them.

B.

PSALM XII.

Praife due to God and acceptable to him.

1 O COME, let us fing to the Lord a new fong, And praife him to whom all our praises be

long;

While we enter his temple with wonder and joy,

Let a pfalm of thanksgiving our voices em

ploy:

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2 Oh come, to his name let us cheerfully fing; For the Lord is a good and omnipotent king: By his word were the heavens and the hoft of them made

And of all this vaft world the foundations he laid.

3 Praise the Lord upon earth, all ye nations and

lands;

Ye feasons and times, that fulfill his com

mands;

Let his works, in all places, his goodness pro

claim,

And the people who fee them give thanks to his name;

4 For the good which he wills to communicate

brings

Into visible form his invifible things:

Their appearance may change, as his law fhall ordain,

But the goodness that forms them will ever remain.

5-How high is the Lord, far above all our thought! Oh how shall we worship him fo as we ought! What tongue can exprefs, or what words can fhew forth

The praife which is due to his excellent worth! Y 3

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