6. Sinners in judgment shall not stand Amongst the sons of grace,

When Christ the Judge at his right hand
Appoints his saints a place.

7. His eye beholds the path they tread, His heart approves it well,

But crooked ways of sinners lead
Down to the gates of hell. *

PSALM I. SHORT METRE.
The saint happy, the sinner miserable

THE man is ever bless'd

Who shuns the sinner's ways,
Among their councils never stands,
Nor takes the scorner's place.
2. But makes the law of God
His study and delight
Amidst the labours of the day
And watches of the night.

3. He like a tree shall thrive

With waters near the root:

Fresh as the leaf his name shall live;

His works are heav'nly fruit.

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In this Work I have often borrowed a line or two from The New Testament, that the excellent and inspired composures of the Jewish Psalmist may be brightened by the clearer discoveries of the Gospel.--Stanza vi. He shall set the sheep at bis right band, &c. Matt. xxv. 33.

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4. Not so th' ungodly race;

They no such blessings find:

Their hopes shall fly like empty chaff
Before the driving wind.

5. How will they bear to stand

Before that judgment-seat

Where all the saints at Christ's right hand

In full assembly meet?

6. He knows and he approves

The way the righteous go,

But sinners and their works shall meet

A dreadful overthrow.

PSALM I. LONG METRE.

The difference between the righteous and the wicked.

HAPPY the man whose cautious feet
Shun the broad way that sinners go,
Who hates the place where Atheists meet
And fears to talk as scoffers do.

2. Le loves t'employ his morning-light
Amongst the statutes of the Lord,
And spends the wakeful hours of night
With pleasure, pond'ring o'er the Word.

3. He like a plant by gentle streams
Shall flourish in immortal green,
And Heav'n will shine with kindest beams
On ev'ry work his hands begin.

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4. But sinners find their counsels cross'd: As chaff before the tempest flies,

So shall their hopes be blown and lost
When the last trumpet shakes the skies.
5. In vain the rebel seeks to stand
In judgment with the pious race,
The dreadful Judge with stern command
Divides him to a diff'rent place.

6. "Straight is the way my saints have trod,
"I bless'd the path and drew it plain,
"But you would chuse the crooked road,
"And down it leads to endless pain."*

PSALM II. SHORT METRE.

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Translated according to the divine pattern, Act. iv. 24. &c. Christ dying, rising, interceding, and reigning.

[MAKER and sov'reign Lord

Of heav'n, and earth, and seas,
Thy providence confirms thy word

And answers thy decrees.

2. The things so long foretold

By David are fulfill'd,

When Jews and Gentiles join to slay

Jesus thine holy child.]

Stanza i. line 2. and Stanza vi.line 4. Broad is the way that leads to destruction, Matt. vii. 13. 14.--Stanza iv. I. 4. tthe last trump, &c. 1 Cor. xv. 51.

3. Why did the Gentiles rage,
And Jews with one accord
Bead all their counsels to destroy
Th' Anointed of the Lord!

4. Rulers and kings agree To form a vain design;

Against the Lord their pow'rs unite,
Against his Christ they join.

5. The Lord derides their rage,

And will support his throne;

He that hath rais'd him from the dead

Hath own'd him for his Son,

PAUSE.

6. Now he's ascended high,
And asks to rule the earth,
The merit of his blood he pleads,
And pleads his heav'nly birth.

7. He asks, and God bestows

A large inheritance;

Far as the world's remotest ends
His kingdom shall advance.

8. The nations that rebel

Must feel his iron rod;

He'll vindicate those honours well
Which he receiv'd from God.

[9. Be wise, ye Rulers! now,
And worship at his throne;
With trembling joy ye People! bow
To God's exalted Son.

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10. If once his wrath arise

Ye perish on the place;

Then blessed is the soul that flies

For refuge to his grace.]*

PSALM II. COMMON METRE.

WHY did the nations join to slay

The Lord's anointed Son?
Why did they cast his laws away
And tread his gospel down?

2. The Lord that sits above the skies Derides their rage below,

He speaks with vengeance in his eyes
And strikes their spirits thro'.

3. "I call him my Eternal Son,
"And raise him from the dead;
"I make my holy hill his throne,
"And wide his kingdom spread.

4.

"Ask me, my Son, and then enjoy

"The utmost Heathen lands:

"Thy rod of iron shall destroy

"The rebel that withstands."

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* Stanza i. I. 1. Lerd, thou art God who bast made Heaven' Who by the mouth of thy servant David bast said, Why did the Heathen rage, &c. Acts iv. 44, &c.---Stanza i. l. 3. To do whatsoever thy band and thy counsel determined to be done, &c. ver. 28. And several other lines of this version are evidently borrowed from the fuller discoveries of Christ in The New Testament.---Stanza viii. Shall rule the nations with a rod of iron, even as I received of my father, Rev. ii. 27.