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THE HAPPY SAINT AND Cursed Sinner.

PSALM I.

I.
1 BLEST is the Man, whose cautious Feet
2 Shun the broad Path which Sinners chuse,
3 Who hates the House where Atheists meet,
4 And dreads the Words that Scoffers use.
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II.
5 He loves t' employ his Morning Light
6 Reading the Statutes of the Lord,
7 And spends the wakeful Hours of Night
8 With Pleasure pond'ring o're the Word.
III.
9 He like a Plant by gentle Streams
10 Shall Flourish in Immortal Green;
11 And Heav'n will shine with Kindest Beams
12 On every Work his Hands begin.
IV.
13 But Sinners find their Counsels cross'd:
14 As Chaff before the Tempest flies,
15 So shall their Hopes be blown and lost
16 When the last Trumpet shakes the Skies.
V.
17 In vain the Rebel crouds to stand
18 In Judgment with the Pious Race;
19 The dreadful Judge with Stern Command
20 Divides him to a different Place.
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VI.
21 "Strait is the Way my Saints have trod,
22 " I blest the Path and drew it plain:
23 "But you would chuse the crooked Road,
24 " And it leads down t' Eternal Pain.

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Title (in Source Edition): THE HAPPY SAINT AND Cursed Sinner. PSALM I.
Author: Isaac Watts
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Watts, Isaac, 1674-1748. Horæ lyricæ: Poems, chiefly of the lyric kind. In two books. ... By I. Watts. London: Printed by S. and D. Bridge, for John Lawrence at the Sign of the Angel in the Poultrey. MDCCVI., 1706, pp. 54-56. [20],267,[1]p.; 8⁰. (ESTC T82397; OTA K067329.000) (Page images digitized from a copy in the Princeton Theological Seminary Library.)

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