THE CHRISTIAN PSALMIST. PART I. ON SCRIPTURE SUBJECTS. 1. The Creation.-Gen. i. 1. 1 Now let a spacious world arise, At once the obedient earth and skies 2 Dark was the deep; the waters lay 3 He bade the clouds ascend on high; 4 The liquid element below Was gather'd by his hand; 5 With herbs and plants, a flowery birth, 6 Then He adorn'd the upper skies ;- The moon and stars in order rise, 7 Out of the deep the Almighty King The painted fowls of every wing, 8 He gave the lion and the worm 9 Adam was framed of equal clay, 10 Thus, glorious in the Maker's eye, 11 Lord, while the frame of nature stands, 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 But soon the co-eternal Son 2 Such is my soul, confused and void, Stripp'd of the living form of God, Fallen, emphatically dead, Till the eternal Spirit move, And raise again the spark of love. 3 Expand thy wings, celestial Dove! And, brooding o'er my nature's night, Call forth the ray of heavenly love; Let there in my dark soul be light, And fill the illustrated abyss With glorious beams of endless bliss. 4"Let there be light," again command, 5 6 And light there in our hearts shall be: Father, Son, and Holy Ghost, To restore thine image, lost Through faith begotten from above, And fill'd with perfect love! Father, see this living clod, 3. The Fall.-Gen. iii. 6. SHE saw; she took; she ate; And parleying, in a tempted state, |