PSALM 98. First Part. (C. M.) Praise for the Gospel.
I
To our almighty Maker, God,
New honours be addrest;
His great salvation shines abroad,
And makes the nations blest.
II
He spake the word to Abraham first,
His truth fulfils the grace:
The gentiles make his name their trust,
And learn his righteousness.
III
Let the whole earth his love proclaim
With all her different tongues;
And spread the honours of his name
In melody and songs.
In these two hymns which I have formed out of the xcviiith
psalm, I have fully expressed what I esteem to be the first and chief
sense of the holy scriptures, both in this and the xcvith psalm, whose
conclusions are both alike.