3 His dying groans, his living songs, Than harp or trumpet's solemn sound, 4 This shall his humble followers see, They by his death draw near to thee, 5 Let heaven, and all that dwell on high To God their voices raise, While lands and seas assist the sky, 6 Zion is thine, most holy God; PSALM 69.-1st Part. L. M. [b] "Christ's passion, and sinners' salvation." EEP in our hearts let us record DEE The deeper sorrows of our Lord; Behold the rising billows roll, To overwhelm his holy soul ! 2 In long complaints he spends his breath, While hosts of hell, and powers of death And all the sons of malice join, To execute their curst design. 3 Yet, gracious God, thy power and love 4 The pangs of our expiring Lord 5 O! for his sake our guilt forgive, PSALM 69.—2d Part. L. M. [b] Ver. 7, &c. Christ's sufferings and zeal. 1 WAS for our sake, eternal God, "T" Thy Son sustain'd that heavy load 2 The Jews, his brethren and his kin, He felt, and mourn'd them as his own.] 5 [His friends forsook, his followers fled, While foes and arms surround his read; They curse him with a slanderous tongue, And the false judge maintains the wrong.}] His life they load with hateful lies, And charge his lips with blasphemies: They nail him to the shameful tree; There hung the man that dy'd for me! 7 [Wretches, with hearts as hard as stones, Insult his piety and groans; Gall was the food they gave him there, And mock'd his thirst with vinegar.] 8 But God beheld, and from his throne Marks out the men that hate his Son; The hand that rais'd him from the dead Shall pour due vengeance on their head. PSALM 71.-1st Part. C. M. [b] Ver. 5-9. The aged saint's reflection and hope. MY God, my everlasting hope, I live upon thy truth; Thine hands have held my childhood up, 2 My flesh was fashion'd by thy power, And from my mother's painful hour 3 Still has my life new wonders seen, 4 Cast me not off when strength declines, 5 Then in the history of my age, 1 PSALM 71.-2d Part. C. M. [*] Christ our strength and righteousness. M When I begin thy praise Where will the growing numbers end, 2 Thou art my everlasting trust, And since I knew thy graces first, 3 My feet shall travel all the length And march with courage in thy strength, When I am fill'd with sore distress 5 How will my lips rejoice to tell My soul, redeem'd from sin and hell, 6 [My tongue shall all the day proclaim His death has brought my foes to shame, 7 Awake, awake, my tuneful powers: PSALM 71.-3d Part. C. M. [b] Ver. 17-21. The aged Christian's prayer and ong; or, old age, death, and the resurrection. OD of my childhood and my youth, The guide of all my days, I have declar'd thy heavenly truth wm 2 Wilt thou forsake my hoary hairs, 3 Let me thy power and truth proclaim The land of silence and of death PAUSE. 5 Thy righteousness is deep and high, Thy glory spreads beyond the sky, 6 Oft have I heard thy threatenings roar, And oft endur'd the grief; But when thy hand has press'd me sore, 7 By long experience have I known 8 When I lie buried in the dust, 1 PSALM 72.-1st Part. L. M. [*] REAT God, whose universal sway GThe known and unknown worlds obey K |