Who fhall afcend to God above Who truft in God's protecting hand Why breathes my anxious heart the frequent figh Why do the heathen nations rage 27. 210. 322. 5. The different Character and Fate of the Righteous and the Wicked. Ό HOW bleft the man, whofe ear Where the fons of folly stray; 2 Nor their frantic mirth to share, Frantic mirth, which spares not God, B 4 Like 4 Like the tree that fruitful grows Does the foes of God await; 6 When thy Judge, O earth, fhall come, I II. PSALM I. Com. Met. WATTS. B The fame. LEST is the man, who fhuns the place 2 Who in the ftatutes of the Lord 3 He like a plant of generous kind, 4 Not fo the impious and unjuft; Their hopes are scattered like the duft, 5 God with delight the good furveys, I 2 3 4 5 III. PSALM I. Short Met. WATTS. T The fame. HE man is ever bleft, Who fhuns the finner's ways; Who in their councils never ftands, But makes the law of God Amid the labours of the day, And watches of the night. He like a tree shall thrive, With waters near the root; Fresh as the leaf his name fhall live, And fair be all his fruit. Not fo th' ungodly race, They no fuch bleffings find: Their hopes fhall flee like empty chaff Before the driving wind. Th' Almighty God approves The way the righteous go; But finners and their works fhall meet A dreadful overthrow. |