8 For, when th’ ungodly meet success, Here the author separates
     The wicked more and more increase,(1) the wicked from
   And proudly all their foes defy. the ungodly.

(1) Incr_ess_.

XIII.  PSALM OF DAVID: 

1 How long wilt Thou neglect, A civil question that! 
     O Lord, to hear me pray!

3 Attend, and hear my cries, Mind me, Sir! 
     Some comfort now disclose,
   E’er grief has shut my weeping eyes Which would be nonsense,
     In death’s obscure repose:  put in prose.

4 Lest my proud enemy,
     If now my trust should fail,
   And those that persecute me cry;
     See, thus we still prevail:  A pretty speech that!

XIV.  PSALM OF DAVID: 

1 Hence virtue in the world declines, Without question virtue
     And all men vicious grow. declines with a vengeance
                                               when all men
                                               grow vicious.

2 And see who would His being own, What other way is
     And Him, as God, adore:  there of adoring?

3 (2) But they were all perverted grown, (2) But they were all
     Polluted all with blood, perverted grown,
   And other impious crimes; not one In spite of Dr. Gibbs
     Was either just (3) or good. his blood: 
                                               Of all his impious
                                                     rhimes not one
                                               Was either just or good.

(3) For a man (it seems)
may be good and not
just.

4 Are they so stupid (4) then, said (5) God, (4) The fault was not_
     Who thus My (6) saints devour! that they devoured__
   These (7) crimes have they not understood, saints,_ but that they
     Nor thought upon My power! were stupid. 
                                               Qu:  Whether stupidity
                                               makes men devour saints,
                                               or devouring saints
                                               makes a man stupid?  I
                                               believe the latter,
                                               because they may be apt
                                               to lie heavy in one’s
          
                                     stomach.

(5) Clod.

(6) Strains.

(7) Rhimes.