myfelf for I went with the Put thy truft in God; for I will yet give him thanks for the help of his countenance. The Lord hath granted his loving-kindness in the daytime; and in the night-feafon did fing of him, and made my prayer unto the God of my life. I will fay unto the God of my strength, Why haft thou forgotten me? Why go I thus heavily, while the enemy oppreffeth me? Namely, while they fay daily unto me, Where is now thy God? Why art thou so vexed, O my foul? and why art thou fo difquleted within me? O put thy truft in God; for Pwill yet thank him, who is the help of my countenance and my God. Th Sheil 30 9ɔndingsda yon SELECTION IV. Plalm xxxvii. Noli emulari. PRET not thyself because of the ungodly neither be thou envious against the evil-doets: F For For they fhall foon be cut down like the grafs, and be withered even as the green herb. Put thou thy truft in the Lord, and be doing good; dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed. Delight thou in the Lord, and he fhall give thee thy heart's defire. Commit thy way unto the Lord, and put thy truft in him, and he fhall bring it to país. He fhall make thy righteoufnefs as clear as the light; and thy juft dealing as the noon-day. Hold thee ftill in the Lord, and abide patiently upon him; but grieve not thyfelf at him whose way doth profper, against the man that doeth after evil counfels. Leave off from wrath, and let go difpleasure; fret not thyfelf, elle fhalt thou be moved to do evil. Wicked doers fhall be rooted out; and they that patiently abide the Lord, thofe fhall inherit the land. Yet a little while, and the ungodly shall be clean gone: thou fhalt look after his place, and he fhall be away.1 But the meek fpirited shall poffels the earth, and shall be refreshed in the multitude of peace. Tu The He will not suffer thy foot to be moved; and he that keepeth thee will not fleep. Behold, he that keepeth Ifrael fhall neither flumber nor fleep. The Lord himself is thy keeper; the Lord is thy defence upon thy right hand: So that the fun fhall not burn thee by day, neither the moon by night. The Lord fhall preserve thee from all evil; yea, it is even he that shall keep thy foul. The Lord fhall preferve thy going out and thy coming in, from this time forth for evermore. SELECTION VII. Pfalm xxiii. Dominus regit me. THE HE Lord is my fhepherd; therefore can I lack nothing. He shall feed me in a green pasture, and lead me forth befide the waters of comfort. He shall convert my foul, and bring me forth in the paths of righteousness for his Name's fake. Yea, though I walk through the valley of the fhadow of death, I will fear no evil; for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff comfort me. Thou shalt prepare a table before me against them that trouble me; thou haft anointed my head with oil, and my cup fhall be full. But thy loving kindness and mercy fhall follow me all the days of my life; and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever. I Pfalm xxxiv, Benedicam Domino. Will alway give thanks unto the Lord; his praife: fhall ever be in my mouth. My foul fhall make her boaft in the Lord; the humble shall hear thereof, and be glad. O praife the Lord with me; and let us magnify his Name together. I fought the Lord, and he heard me; yea, he delivered me out of all my fear. They had an eye unto him, and were lightened; and their faces were not ashamed. Lo, the poor crieth, and the Lord heareth him; yea, and faveth him out of all his troubles. The Angel of the Lord tarrieth round about them that fear him, and delivereth them. O tafte, and fee, how gracious the Lord is: bleffed is the man that trusteth in him. O fear the Lord, ye that hate the righteous fhall be are his Saints; for they that defolate. fear him lack nothing. The lions do lack, and fuffer hunger; but they who The Lord delivereth the fouls of his fervants; and all they that put their trust in feek the Lord fhall want no him fhall not be destitute. manner of thing that is good. Come, ye children, and hearken unto me; I will teach you the fear of the Lord. What man is he that lufteth to live, and would fain fee good days? Keep thy tongue from evil, and thy lips, that they speak no guile. Elchew evil, and do good; feek peace, and enfue it. The of the Lord are eyes over the righteous, and his ears are open unto their prayers. The countenance of the Lord is against them that do evil, to root out the remembrance of them from the earth. The righteous cry, and the Lord heareth them, and delivereth them out of all their troubles. The Lord is nigh unto those who are of a contrite heart, and will fave fuch as are of an humble fpirit. Great are the troubles of the righteous; but the Lord delivereth him out of all. He keepeth all his bones, fo hat none of them is broken. But misfortune fhall flay the ungodly; and they that T Pfalm lxv. Te decet hymnus. TH HOU, O God, art praised in Sion ; and unto thee fhall the vow be performed in Jerufalem. Thou that heareft the prayer, unto thee fhall all flesh come. My misdeeds prevail against me: O be thou merciful unto our fins. Bleffed is the man whom thou chooseft, and receivest unto thee: he fhall dwell in thy court, and fhall be fatisfied with the pleasures of thy house, even of thy holy temple. Thou shalt fhow us wonderful things in thy righteoufnefs, O God of our falvation; thou that art the hope of all the ends of the earth, and of them that remain in the broad fea. Who in his ftrength setteth faft the mountains, and is girded about with power. Who ftilleth the raging of the fea, and the noise of his waves, and the madness of the people. They also that dwell in the uttermoft parts of the earth fhall fhall be afraid at thy tokens, thou that makeft the outgoings of the morning and evening to praise thee. Thou vifiteft the earth, and bleffeft it; thou makeft it very plenteous. The river of God is full of water thou preparest their corn, for fo thou provideft for the earth. Thou watereft her furrows; thou fendeft rain into the little vallies thereof; thou makeft it soft with the drops of rain, and bleffeft the increase of it. Thou crowneft the year with thy goodness, and thy clouds drop fatness. They fhall drop upon the dwellings of the wilderness, and the little hills fhall rejoice on every fide. The folds fhall be full of fheep; the vallies also shall ftand fo thick with corn, that they shall laugh and fing. SELECTION VIII. From Pfalm lxxxiv. dilecta ! courts of the Lord; my heart and my flesh rejoice in the living God. Yea, the fparrow hath found her an house, and the swallow a neft, where the may lay her young; even thy altars, O Lord of hofts, my King and my God. Bleffed are they that dwell in thy house, they will be alway praifing thee. Bleffed is the man whofe ftrength is in thee; in whose heart are thy ways. Who going through the vale of mifery, use it for a well; and the pools are filled with water. They will go from ftrength to ftrength, and unto the God of gods appeareth every one of them in Sion. O Lord God of hofts, hear my prayer; hearken, O God of Jacob. For one day in thy courts is better than a thousand. I had rather be a doorkeeper in the house of my God, than to dwell in the tents of ungodliness. For the Lord God is a light Quam and defence; the Lord will give grace and worship, and no good thing fhall he with How amiable are thy hold from them that live a Odwellings, thou Lord godly life. of hofts! O Lord God of hofts, bleff My foul hath a defire and ed is the man that putteth his longing to enter into the truft in thee. Pfalm Thou haft taken away all thy difpleasure, and turned ven. Yea, the Lord shall show loving-kindness; and our land fhall give her increase. Righteousness fhall go before him; and he fhall direct his going in the way. Pfalm xciii. Dominus regnavit. thyfelf from thy wrathful T indignation. Turn us then, O God our Saviour, and let thine anger * cease from us. Wilt thou be difpleafed at us for ever? and wilt thou ftretch out thy wrath from one generation to ano ther? Wilt thou not turn again, and quicken us, that thy people may rejoice in thee? Show us thy mercy, O Lord, and grant us thy falvation. I will hearken what the Lord God will fay concerning me; for he shall speak peace unto his people, and to his faints, that they turn not again. For his falvation is nigh them that fear him; that glory may dwell in our land. Mercy and truth are met together; righteoufnefs and peace have kiffed each other. HE Lord is King, and hath put on glorious apparel; the Lord hath put himfelf with ftrength. on his apparel, and girded He hath made the round world fo fure, that it cannot be moved. Ever fince the world began, hath thy feat been prepared: Thou art from everlasting. The floods are rifen, O Lord, the floods have lift up their voice; the floods lift up their waves. The waves of the fea are mighty, and rage horribly; leth on high, is mightier. but yet the Lord, who dwel Thy teftimonies, O Lord, are very fure: holiness becometh thine house for ever. Pfalm xcvii. Dominus regnavit. THE HE Lord is King, the earth may be glad thereof: yea, the multitude of the ifles may be glad thereof. Clouds and darkness are Truth fhall flourish out of the earth, and righteoufnefs round about him: righteouf T 2 nefs |