IX. CHRISTIAN DUTIES.

Dedication......... 334, 335

Missionary occasions 2, 13, 48, 442-444

→ Old and new year, and seasons 424—433

Page 347, verse 4, line

ERRATA.

for "faith is" read "faith in."

Page 348, verse 2, line 1, for "burden" read "bursting

Psalms.

Psalm I.

Character and end of the righteous and wicked-evil company-reading the Scriptures.

1 BLEST is the man resolv'd to stand
Aloof where impious men repair;
Who shrinks to take the Atheist's hand,
And views with dread the scorner's chair:

2 Far other joy his heart retains ;

Thy law's his mind's divinest store:
What truths his day's perusal gains,
By night he sweetly ponders o'er.
3 He, like the tree, where streamlet flows,
Beneath his timely fruit shall bend;
Unfading foliage grace his boughs,
And blessings all his steps attend.

4 But oh! the dread reverse of those

Thy law who neither love nor fear!— Dispers'd, like chaff the whirlwind blows, In judgment where shall they appear?

5 But-all His saints the SAVIOUR knows:
Their path to life eternal tends;
While the broad road the sinner goes
In fierce destruction always ends.

6 Write in our hearts Thy gracious Word;
With ev'ry fruit adorn us here;
And in heav'n's congregation, Lord!
May we with all Thy saints appear.

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Psalm II.

Vanity of opposition to Messiah's kingdom.
THE schemes and rage of men-how vain
Against the LORD's anointed King!
How rash, to say, 'We'll break His chain,
'And all His cords we'll from us fling!'

2 When Heav'n's dread Majesty looks down,
He scorns to view their vain array;
JEHOVAH'S look-tremendous frown-
Sweeps all their powerless ranks away.

3 Hear My decree, ye sons of earth! I've set my King on Zion's hill; This day He's mine, by royal birth, 'And all my counsels shall fulfil.

4 'He asks dominion at my hands,

Nor shall my SON, in vain, implore; 'My CHRIST shall reign o'er ev'ry land, His kingdom reach to ev'ry shore.'

5 With kings and princes of the earth,
May we our timely homage pay,
Serve now with fear and holy mirth,
Lest we be lost by dread delay.