petitions at a throne of grace, he prayed for so many vials of
wrath to be poured on the head of some particular sinner that the
hearers trembled, and stopped their ears. But that he might not
proceed with so violent a measure, amounting to
excommunication, without due scripture warrant, he began the
exercise of the evening by singing the following verses, which it
is a pity should ever have been admitted into a Christian
psalmody, being so adverse to all its mild and benevolent
principles:


Set thou the wicked over him,
And upon his right hand
Give thou his greatest enemy,
Even Satan, leave to stand.

And, when by thee he shall be judged,
Let him remembered be;
And let his prayer be turned to sin
When he shall call on thee.

Few be his days; and in his room
His charge another take;
His children let be fatherless;
His wife a widow make:

Let God his father's wickedness
Still to remembrance call;
And never let his mother's sin
Be blotted out at all.