By A Collection of Hymns

      C.M. Psalm i.
      1 HOW blest is he who ne'er consents
      By ill advice to walk;
      Nor stands in sinners' ways, nor sits
      Where men profanely talk.

      2 But makes the perfect law of God
      His study and delight;
      Devoutly reads therein by day,
      And meditates by night.

      3 Like some fair tree which, fed by streams,
      With timely fruit doth bend,
      He still shall flourish, and success
      All his designs attend.

      4 Ungodly men and their attempts
      No lasting root shall find,
      Untimely withered, and dispersed
      Like chaff before the wind.

      5 Their guilt shall strike the wicked dumb
      Before their Judge's face;
      No formal hypocrite shall then
      Among the saints have place.

      6 For God approves the just man's ways,
      To happiness they tend;
      But sinners and the paths they tread
      Shall both in ruin end.