Aug 100 PSALryIS.CVt[. 5 He cuts the bars of brass intwoç And lets the smiling uris'ners -thro' Takes off the load of guilt and grief, And gives the lab'ring soul relief. 6 O may the sons of men record The wondrous goodness of the Lord ! How great his works! how kind his ways! Let ev'ry tongue pronounce his praise. PSALM CVIL PARTII'. Intemperance punished and pardoned : or, apeabn for the glutton and the drunkard. 1 VAIN man on foolish pleasures bent, Prepares for his own punishment: What pains, what loathsome maladies, From luxury and lust arise! 2 The drunkard feels his vitals waste ; Yet drowns his health topleasehistaste; Till all'hieactive pow'rs: are lost, And fainting life draws near the dust. 3 The glutton groans, and loathestoeate His sooi abhors delicious meat ; Nature with heavy loads opprest, Would yield to death to be releas'd. 4 Then how the frighted sinners fly To God, for help, with earnest cry ! He hears- their groans, prolongs their breath, [death. And saves them from approaching 5 No med'cines could effect the cure Samna, so easy, or so sure The deadly sentence God repeals, He sends his sov'reign word and heals. 6 0 may the sons of men record The wondrousgoodness of the Lord! And tot their thankful off'rings prove How they adore their Maker's love. PSALM £VIL PART IV. [L. M.] Deliverancefronv storms and shipwreck : or, the seaman's song. t WOULD/you behold the works ofGod, His wonders in the world abroad, Go with the mariners, and trace The unknown regions of the seas. 2 They leave their native shores behind, And seize the favour of the wind Ti! f:od commands, and tempests rise, That heave the ocean to the skies. 3 Now to the heav'ns they mount amain, Now sink to dreadful deeps again What strange affrights young sailors feel, And like a stagg'risg drunkard reel. 4 When land is far, and death is nigh; Lost to all hope, to God they cry ;. Hismercy hears their loud address And sends salvation in distress. 5 He bids the winds their wrath assuage; The furious waves forget their rage ; 'Tis calm, and sailors smile to see The haven where they wish'd to be. 6 0 may the sons of men record The wondrous goodness of the Lord! Let them their private off'rings bring And in the church his glory sing. PSALM CVII. Paar IV. [C. M.] The mariner's psalm. 1 THY works of glory, mighty Lord, Thy wonders in the deeps, . The sons of courage shall record, Who trade in floating ships. 2 At thy command the winds arise, And swell the tow'ring waves; The men astonish'd mount the skies, And sink in gaping graves. 3 [Again they climb the wat'ry hills, And plunge in deeps again Each like a tott'ring drunkard reels, And finds his courage vain. 4 Frr hted -to hear the tempest roar, They pant with flutt'rmg- breath, And hopeless of the distant shore, Expect immediate death.] 5 Then to the Lordthey raise their cries, Ile hears the loud request, And orders silence thro' the skies, And lays the floods to rest. 6 Sailors rejoice to lose their fears, And see the storm allay'd: Now to their eyes the port appears ; There let their vows be paid. 7 'Tis God that brings them safeto land ; Let stupid mortals know That waves are under his command, And Al the winds that blow. 8 O that the sons of men would praise The goodness of the Lord ! And those that see thy wondrous ways,. Thy wondrous love record! PSALM CVII. PART V. Colonies planted ; or, Nations blessed and punished. A psalm for New England. I WHEN God, provok'd with daring crimes, Scourges the madness of the times, He- turns their fields to barren sand, And driesthe rivers from the land. 2 His word can raise the springs again, And makethewither'dmountains green, Send show'ry blessings from the skies, And harvests in the desert rise. 3 [Where nothing dwelt but beasts of prey, Or men as fierce and wild as they ; He bids th' opprest and poor repair, And builds them towns and cities there. 4 They now the fields, and trees they plant, Whose yearly fruit supplies their want: Their race grows up from fruitful stocks, Their wealth increases withtheir flocks.
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