PSALM 95. v. 1, 2, 3, 6–11. (L. M.) Canaan lost through unbelief; or, a Warning to delaying Sinners.
I
Come, let our voices join to raise
A sacred song of solemn praise;
God is a sovereign King; rehearse
His honours in exalted verse.
II
Come, let our souls address the Lord,
Who fram'd our natures with his word;
He is our shepherd; we the sheep
His mercy chose, his pastures keep.
III
Come, let us hear his voice to-day,
The counsels of his love obey;
Nor let our harden'd hearts renew
The sins and plagues that Israel knew.
IV
Israel, that saw his works of grace,
Yet tempt their Maker to his face;
A faithless unbelieving brood
That tir'd the patience of their God.
V
Thus saith the Lord, ‘How false they prove!
‘Forget my power, abuse my love;
‘Since they despise my rest, I swear,
‘Their feet shall never enter there.’
VI
Look back, my soul, with holy dread,
And view those ancient rebels dead;
Attend the offer'd grace to-day,
Nor lose the blessing by delay.
VII
Seize the kind promise while it waits,
And march to Zion's heavenly gates;
Believe, and take the promis'd rest;
Obey, and be for ever blest.
In the third and fourth chapter to the Hebrews several verses of
this psalm are cited, and given for a caution to christians. I have
applied them the same way in the two last stanzas.
