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ADVERTISEMENT.

Ar the meeting of the General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church, in May, 1830, the Committee on Psalmody, presented the following amended and improved book of Psalms and Hymns, which was approved by the Assembly; and its use, in the worship of God, authorised in all the churches under their care.

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PSALMS.

PSALM 1. FIRST PART. C. M.

LEST is the man who shuns the place

BLEST

Where sinners love to meet;

Who fears to tread their wicked ways,
And hates the scoffer's seat:

2 But in the statutes of the Lord
Has placed his chief delight;
By day he reads or hears the word,
And meditates by night.

3 He, like a plant of generous kind
By living waters set,

Safe from the storms and blasting wind,
Enjoys a peaceful state.

4 Green as the leaf, and ever fair
Shall his profession shine;
While fruits of holiness appear
Like clusters on the vine.

5 Not so the impious and unjust;
What vain designs they form!
Their hopes are blown away like dust,
Or chaff before the storm.

6 Sinners in judgment shall not stand
Among 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 1. SECOND PART. S. M.
HE man is ever blest,

TH

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 heavenly fruit.

4 Not so th' ungodly race;

They no such blessings find;
Their hopes shall flee 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 1. THIRD PART. L. M.

HAPPY the man whose cautious feet

Shun the broad way where sinners go,
Who hates the place where atheists meet,
And fears to talk as scoffers do.

2 He loves t' employ his morning light,
Among the statutes of the Lord;
And spends the wakeful hours of night,
With pleasure pondering o'er the word.

3 He, like a plant by gentle streams,
Shall flourish in immortal green;

And heaven will shine with kindest beams,
On every work his hands begin.

4 But sinners find their counsels crossed
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 different place.

6 "Straight is the way my saints have trod;
I blessed the path, and drew it plain;
But you would choose the crooked road;
And down it leads to endless pain."

PSALM 2. FIRST PART. S. M.

AKER and sovereign Lord

MAK

Of heaven, and earth, and seas,
Thy providence confirms thy word,
And answers thy decrees.

2 The things so long foretold
By David, are fulfilled;

When Jews and Gentiles join to slay
Jesus, thine Holy Child.

3 Why did the Gentiles rage,
And Jews with one accord
Bend all their counsels to destroy

Th' anointed of the Lord?

4 Rulers and kings agree

To form a vain design;

Against the Lord their powers unite,
Against his Christ they join.