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Hymn 78. With glory clad, with strength arrayed. TATE and BRADY (17).

Psalm xciii. A New Version of the Psalms, 1696. In ver. 2 the original reading ( King is now restored.

Hymn 79. High in the heavens, eternal God.

ISAAC WATTS, D.D. (3).

Psalm xxxvi., from the Psalms of David, 1719. Headed The Perfections and Providence of God ; or, General Providence and Special Grace. Ver. 5 is omitted

From the provisions of Thy house, We shall be fed with sweet repast ;

There mercy like a river flows, And brings salvation to our taste.

Hymn 80. Sweet is the memory of Thy grace. ISAAC WATTS, D.D. (3).

Psalm cxlv., from The Psalms of David, 1719. Headed The Goodness of God.

Hymn 81. You, who dwell above the skies. GEORGE SANDYS.

George Sandys, second son of the Archbishop of York, was born in 1577, educated at Oxford, and for some years travelled widely in Europe and Asia. In 1615 he published a curious account of his travels. On his return to England he became a gentleman of the Privy Chamber of Charles I. He died at Bexley Abbey, Kent, in 1643. His translation of Ovid s Meta morphoses was very popular. He published three volumes of paraphrases, on the Psalms in 1637 ; Psalms and Other Books, 1638 ; Song of Solomon, 1642. His versions of the Psalms were set to music by Henry Lawes, and intended for private devotion. Dryden called him the best versifier of the former age. Baxter laments that Sandys seraphic strain was useless to the vulgar, because not in the ordinary metres. He says, I must confess after all that, next to the Scripture poems,

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