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PSALM 14. DIXIT INSIPIENS, by                    
First Line: The foolish man, by flesh and fancy led
Last Line: And israel full of comfort?


The foolish man, by flesh and fancy led,
His guilty heart with this fond thought hath fed,
There is no God that reigneth.
And so thereafter he and all his mates
Do works which earth corrupt and heaven hates,
Not one that good remaineth.

Even God Himself sent down His piercing eye
If of this clayey race He could espy
One that His wisdom learneth.
And, lo, He finds that all astraying went,
And plunged in stinking filth, not one well bent,
Not one, that God discerneth.

O madness of these folks, thus loosely led,
These cannibals, who as if they were bread
God's people do devouer,
Nor ever call on God, but they shall quake
More than they now do brag when He shall take
The just into His power.

Indeed the poor oppressed by you, you mock,
Their councils are your common jesting stock,
But God is their recomfort.
Ah, when from Sion shall the saver come,
That Jacob, freed by Thee, may glad become,
And Israel full of comfort?





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