Part of PSALM CVII.

By Joseph Bryan.

23. The daring offspring of mankind,

Who forreign stronds and gain to find,
'Gainst waves and wind

Launch out in ships into the deep,

(Two inches' distance from Death's sleep,)
And traffick in the watery regions.

24. These men, God's works and wonders see In the huge depths, and what they be Apparently.

25. For at his word, if he but say

Arise; the stormy winds obey,

Lifting up their waves in legions.

26. The whirling puff bears them so high,

That they do seem to meet the sky,
And by and by

They tumble headlong down amain

Into the briny deeps again,

So that their soul dissolves with anguish.

PSALM CXII.

By Joseph Bryan.

1. THRICE blessed is the man that fears the Lord, Whose soul's delight and study's in his word.

Shall be exalted high;

And blessing after blessing shall light on,

And still attend his generation.

3. Wealth, with content, and plenty still shall dwell Within his house, and crown his happy cell;

And God shall bear in mind

His pious deeds in kind.

4. The light of comfort rising shines upon
The good, eclipsed by affliction:

For God, who is both merciful and just,
Is loving unto such as in him trust.

5.

The good man of his store

Lends part unto the poor;

Guides his affairs with such discretion,

That he may pleasure all, endamage none.

6. Therefore, though Satan and the world conspire Against his life, God frustrates their desire, And makes his memory

Still live, although he die.

7. No daunting news of misery at hand
Startles his settled heart, though all the land
Seem therewithal appall'd, for his defence

Is in God's power, and his providence.

8.

His heart is not dismay'd,

But on God's promised aid

Is anchored sure, and will not shrink till he
Upon his foes God's hoped-for vengeance see.

9. Upon the waters hath he cast his bread; Dispersed his goods, the needy succoured, His God still bears in mind

His pious deeds in kind.

His horn, as was his charity, shall be
Extoll'd with glory in a high degree.

10. The wicked man shall see the godly's good, More to enrage his soul, and vex his blood, And sorrow at the sight,

And gnash his teeth in spite,

And gnashing, pine with envy: and his thought
Shall perish, like himself, and come to naught.

PSALM CXIII.

By Joseph Bryan.

1. GIVE praise to the Lord, O praise his name, Ye saints his servants, glorify the same.

2. Blessed be his great name and majesty, From age to age to all eternity.

3. Let him be prais'd, O let his name be blest From th' early East, to the declining West.

4. The Lord is high, and doth alone command The heathen, and the nations of each land.

His glory's higher, and doth far excel

The heavens which he made, where he doth dwell.

5. What, or who is, or may presume to be

Like to our God, so high in dignity?

Yet deignes to behold, and care for all

In heaven and earth that humbly on him call.

6. Dejected ones he raiseth from the dust,
And from the dunghill them that in him trust;

7. Associating them with princes, to advise
And counsel them, lest they should tyrannize;
To rule, not under Ethnic kings, but such
As rule his people, and to rule them much.

8. The barren womb, contemned as a curse, He doth unlock, and makes her mother, nurse, And mistress, of a copious family,

And joyfully to see her long-liv'd progeny.

PSALM CXIV.

By Joseph Bryan.

1. WHEN from Egypt's servile land,

(From the hand

Of proud Pharoah, flinty-hearted)

Israel, old Jacob's seed,

Being freed

From the barbarous rout, departed;

2. God in Judah shewed forth

His great worth,

And his holiness, sure grounded,