THE

CHRISTIAN PSALMIST.

PART I.

ON SCRIPTURE SUBJECTS.

1.

The Creation.-Gen. i. 1.

1 Now let a spacious world arise,
Said the Creator-Lord:

At once the' obedient earth and skies
Rose at his sovereign word.

2 Dark was the deep; the waters lay
Confused, and drown'd the land:
He call'd the light; the new-born day
Attends on his command.

3 He bade the clouds ascend on high;
The clouds ascend, and bear
A watery treasure to the sky,
And float on softer air.

4 The liquid element below

Was gather'd by his hand;
The rolling seas together flow,
And leave the solid land.

5 With herbs and plants, a flowery birth,
The naked globe He crown'd,

Ere there was rain to bless the earth,
Or sun to warm the ground.

6 Then He adorn'd the upper skies ;-
Behold the sun appears,

The moon and stars in order rise,
To make our months and years.

7 Out of the deep the' Almighty King
Did vital beings frame,
The painted fowls of every wing,
And fish of every name.

8 He gave the lion and the worm
At once their wondrous birth,
And grazing beasts, of various form,
Rose from the teeming earth.

9 Adam was framed of equal clay,
Though sovereign of the rest;
Design'd for nobler ends than they,
With God's own image bless'd.

10 Thus, glorious in the Maker's eye,
The young creation stood;
He saw the building from on high,
His word pronounced it good.

11 Lord, while the frame of nature stands,
Thy praise shall fill my tongue;
But the new world of grace demands
A more exalted song.

2.

Creation, Dissolution, and Renovation of all things. –
Gen. i. 1, &c.

1 By faith we know, the world was made
Formless at first and void:

We know, the universe decay'd
Shall be by fire destroy'd:
But soon the co-eternal Son
We shall in glory view,
Jehovah sitting on his throne,
Creating all things new.

2 Such is my soul, confused and void,
With darkness palpable o'erspread,