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not be broken.

Praise the Lord upon earth, ye dragons, and all deeps; Fire and hail, fnow and vapours, wind and storm, ful'filling his word;

Mountains and all hills; fruitful trees and all cedars; Beafts and all cattle; worms and feathered fowls; Kings of the earth and all people; princes and all judges of the world;

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Young men and maidens, old men and children, praife the Name of the Lord; for his Name only is excellent, and his praise above heaven and earth.

Praise God in his holi

nefs; praife him in the firmament of his power. Praife him in his noble acts; praise him according to his excellent greatness.

Praise him in the found of the trumpet ; praise him upon the lute and harp.

Praise him in the cymbals and dances; praise him upon the strings and pipe.

Praise him upon the well-, tuned cymbals; praife him upon the loud cymbals.

Let every thing that hath breath praise the Lord.

He shall exalt the horn of ¶
his people: all his faints shall
praise him; even the children
of Ifrael, even the people that
ferveth him.

From Pfalm cxlix. Cantate
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Sing unto the Lord a new fong; let the congregation of faints praise him. Let Ifrael rejoice in him that made him; and let the children of Sion be joyful in their King.

Let them praise his Name in the dance; let them fing praises unto him with tabret and harp.

For the Lord hath pleasure in his people, and helpeth the meek-hearted.

Portions of Pfalms, to be fung or faid, at Morning Prayer, on certain Feafts and Fafts, inftead of the Venite Exultemus, when any of the foregoing felections are to follow inftead of the Pfalms, as in the Table.

CHRISTMAS-DAY. From Pfalms xlv. lxxxix. cx. HY feat, O God, endureth for ever; the fceptre of thy kingdom is a right fceptre.

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Thou haft loved righteoufnefs, and hated iniquity. wherefore God, even thy God, hath anointed thee with the oil of gladnefs above thy fellows.

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My fong fhall be alway of

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the loving-kindness of the

Lord; with my mouth will I From Pfalms xxxii. xxxviii. ever be showing thy truth,

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For I have faid, mercy fhall Brighteous work en

forgiven,

be fet up for ever; thy truth and whofe fin is covered. fhalt thou eftablish in the hea

vens.

The Lord is our defence; the holy One of Ifrael is our king. Thou fpakeft fome time in vifions unto thy faints, and faidft, I have laid help upon one that is mighty, I have exalted one chofen out of the people.

I will fet his dominion in the fea, and his right hand in the floods.

And I will make him my firft-born, higher than the kings of the earth.

The Lord faid unto my Lord, Sit thou on my right hand, until I make thine enemies thy footstool.

The Lord fhall fend the rod of thy power out of Sion; be thou ruler, even in the midft among thine enemies.

In the day of thy power fhall the people offer thee freewill offerings with an holy worship: the dew of thy birth is of the womb of the morning.

The Lord fware, and will not repent, Thou art a prieft for ever, after the order of Melchizedech.

Bleffed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth no fin, and in whose spirit there is no guile.

Put me not to rebuke, O Lord, in thine anger; neither chaften me in thy heavy difpleasure:

For thine arrows ftick faft in me, and thine hand preffet h me fore..

My wickedneffes are gone over my head, and are like a fore burden, too heavy for me to bear.

I will confefs my wickednefs, and be forry for my fin.

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Hafte thee to help me, O Lord God of my salvation.

Out of the deep have I called unto thee, O Lord; Lord, hear my voice.

Let thine ears be attentive to the voice of my fupplications.

If thou, Lord, shouldest be extreme to mark what is done amifs, O Lord, whom shall stand?

But there is forgiveness with thee, that thou mayeft be feared.

GOOD

'GOOD FRIDAY.

From Pfalms xxii. lxix. xl.

thou wouldest not but mine
ears haft thou opened.
Burnt-offerings and facri
fice for fin haft thou not re-
quired: Then faid I, Lo, I
come;

Y God, my God, look upon me; why haft thou forfaken me ? and art fo far from my health, and from In the volume of the book the words of my complaint? it is written of me, that I But thou art holy, O thou fhould fulfil thy will, O my that inhabiteft the praises of God: I am content to do it; Ifrael.

I am a worm, and no man a reproach of men, and defpifed of the people.

All they that fee me laugh me to fcorn; they shoot out the lip, they shake the head, Laying, He intrufted in God, that he would deliver him; let him deliver him, if he will have him.

The counsel of the wicked layeth fiege against me; they pierced my hands and my feet.

yea, thy law is within my heart. ;

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They part my garments Lift up your heads, O ye among them, and caft lots gates; and be ye lift up, ye upon my vesture. everlasting doors, and the King of glory fhall come in.

But be not thou far from me, O Lord: O my ftrength, hafte thee to help me.

Thy rebuke hath broken my heart; I am full of heaviness; I looked for fome to have pity on me, but there was no man, neither found I any to com fort me.

They gave me gall to eat and when I was thirsty, they gave me vinegar to drink.

Sacrifice and meat-offering

Who is the King of glory? even the Lord of hofts, he is the King of glory...

O clap your hands together, all ye people; fhout unto God with the voice of triumph. v

For the Lord most high is terrible he is a great King over all the earth. I

God is gone up with a fhout; the Lord with the found of a trumpet.solǝM

Sing praises to God, fing heritance, and refreshedft it praises; fing praifes unto our when it was weary. King, fing prafes The Lord gave the word ; praises. God reigneth over the hea- great was the company of then God fitteth upon the thofe that published it. throne of his holiness. The princes of the people the pots, yet hall ye be as of the people the Though ye have lain among are gathered together, even the wings of a dove, covered the people of the God of with filver, and her feathers Abraham; for the shields of with yellow gold. the earth belong unto God: He is greatly exalted.

WHITSUNDAY.

From Pfalms ii, lxviii.

the Lord hath faid unto me, Thou art my fon, this day have I begotten thee.

Defire of me, and I fhall give thee the heathen for thine inheritance, and the utmoft parts of the earth for thy poffeffion.

Be wife now, therefore, O ye kings; be inftructed, ye judges of the earth.

Serve the Lord with fear, and rejoice with trembling.

Sing unto God, fing praises to his Name: extol him that rideth upon the heavens by his name Jah, and rejoice before him.

Thou, O God, fenteft a gracious rain upon thine in

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Thou haft afcended on high; thou haft led captivity captive; thou haft received gifts for men; yea, for the rebellious also, that the Lord God might dwell among them.

daily loadeth us with benefits; even the God of our falvation.

Sing unto God, ye king doms of the earth: 10 fing praises unto the Lord;

To him that rideth upon the heaven of heavens, which were of old: Lo, he doth send out his voice, and that a mighty voice. HA

Afcribe the ftrength unto God; his excellency is over Ifrael, and his ftrength is in the clouds.

O God thou art terrible out of thy holy places; the God of Ifrael is he that giveth ftrength and power unto his people: Bleffèd be God.

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The First Day.
MORNING PRAYER.

Pfalm i. Beatus vir, qui non abiit.

LESSED is the man that hath not walked in

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7 But the Lord knoweth the way of the righteous; and the way of the ungodly fhall perish.

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nor ftood in the way of finners, and hath not fat in the feat of the fcornful:

2 But his delight is in the law of the Lord, and in his law will he exercife himself day and night.

3 And he fhall be like a tree planted by the water-fide, that will bring forth his fruit in due feason :

4 His leaf also shall not wither; and look, whatfoever he doeth, it fhall profper.

5 As for the ungodly, it is not fo with them; but they are like the chaff, which the wind scattereth away from the face of the earth.

6 Therefore the ungodly fhall not be able to ftand in the judgment; neither the finners in the congregation of the righteous.

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ther? and why do the people imagine a vain thing?

2 The kings of the earth ftand up, and the rulers take counsel together against the Lord, and against his Anointed:

3 Let us break their bonds afunder, and caft away their cords from us.

4 He that dwelleth in hea ven fhall laugh them to scorn: the Lord fhall have them in derision.

5 Then fhall he fpeak unto them in his wrath, and vext them in his fore displeasure.

6 Yet have I fet my King upon my holy hill of Sion.

7 I will preach the law, whereof the Lord hath said unto me, Thou art my Son, this day have I begotten thee. 8 Defire

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