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6 The Lord is on my fide: I will not fear what man doeth unto me.

7 The Lord taketh my part with them that help me : therefore fhall I fee my defire upon mine enemies.

8 It is better to trust in the Lord: than to put any confidence in man.

9 It is better to truft in the Lord: than to put any confidence in princes.

10 All nations compaffed me round about: but in the Name of the Lord will I deftroy them.

11 They kept me in on every fide, they kept me in, I fay, on every fide: but in the Name of the Lord will I deftroy them.

12 They came about me like bees, and are extinct even as the fire among the thorns: for in the Name of the Lord I will destroy them.

13 Thou haft thruft fore at me, that I might fall: but the Lord was my help.

14 The Lord is my ftrength and my fong: and is become my falvation.

15 The voice of joy and health is in the dwellings of the righteous: the right hand of the Lord bringeth mighty things to pass.

16 The right hand of the Lord hath the pre-eminence : the right hand of the Lord bringeth mighty things to país. I fhall not die, but live: and declare the works of the Lord...

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18 The Lord hath chaftened and corrected me: but he hath not given me over unto death.

19 Open me the gates of righteoufnefs: that I may go into them, and give thanks unto the Lord.

20 This is the gate of the Lord: the righteous fhall enter into it.

21 I will thank thee, for thou haft heard me and art become my falvation.

22 The fame ftone which the builders refufed: is become the head stone in the corner.

23 This is the Lords doing: and it is marvellous in our eyes.

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24 This is the day which the Lord hath made: we will rejoice and be glad in it.

25 Help me now, O Lord: O Lord, fend us now profperity.

26 Bleffed be he that cometh in the Name of the Lord: we have wished you good luck, ye that are of the house of the Lord.

27 God is the Lord, who hath fhewed us light: bind the facrifice with cords, yea, even unto the horns of the altar.

28 Thou art my God, and I will thank thee: thou art my God, and I will praife thee.

29 O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is gracious: and his mercy endureth for ever.

EVENING PRAYER.

Pfalm cxix. Beati immaculati.

Leffed are those that are undefiled in the way and walk in the law of the Lord.

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2 Bleffed are they that keep his teftimonies: and feek him with their whole heart.

3 For they who do no wickedness: walk in his ways. 4 Thou haft charged that we fhall diligently keep thy commandments.

5 O that my ways were made fo direct: that I might keep thy ftatutes!

6 Sɔ fhall I not be confounded: while I have respect unto all thy commandments.

PRACTICAL

OBSERVATIONS.

Pfalm cxviii.] This pfalm, which the Jews fung at their feafts, should be made ufe of by Chriftians in giving thanks to God, not only for the favours and deliverances, whether public or private, which he grants them; but above all, for the coming of our Lord Jefus Chrift. The Spirit of God fignifies in this pfalm, that the Meffiah fhould be rejected by the chief of the Jews; and that, notwithstanding, he should become the king and head of the church, which was fulfilled when Jefus Chrift was crucified, and when, after his refurrection, he afcended into heaven, and his kingdom was established in the world.

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7 I will thank thee with an unfeigned heart: when I fhail have learned the judgments of thy righteousness.

8 I will keep thy ceremonies: O forfake me not utterly. In quo corriget?

Herewithal fhall a young man cleanse his way: even by ruling himself after thy word.

2 With my whole heart have I fought thee: O let me not go wrong out of thy commandments.

3 Thy words have I hid within my heart: that I should not fin against thee.

4 Bleffed art thou, O Lord: O teach me thy ftatutes. 5 With my lips have I been telling: of all the judgments of thy mouth.

6 I have had as great delight in the way of thy teftimo, nies as in all manner of riches.

71 will talk of thy commandments: and have respect unto thy ways..

8 My delight fhall be in thy ftatutes and I will not forget thy word.

Retribue fervo tuo,

Do well unto thy fervant that I may live, and keep thy word.

2 Open thou mine eyes: that I may fee the wonderous things of thy law.

3 I am a stranger upon earth: O hide not thy commandments from me.

4 My foul breaketh out for the very fervent defire: that it hath alway unto thy judgments.

5 Thou haft rebuked the proud and curfed are they that do err from thy commandments.

60 turn from me fharne and rebuke: for I have kept thy teftimonies.

7 Princes alfo did fit and fpeak against me: but thy fervant is occupied in thy ftatutes.

8 For thy teftimonies are my delight: and my councellors.

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Adbafit pavimento.

foul cleaveth to the duft: O quicken thou me according to thy word.

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2 I have acknowledged my ways, and thou heardeft me: O teach me thy ftatutes.

3 Make me to understand the way of thy commandments: and fo fhall I talk of thy wonderous works.

4 My foul melteth away for very heaviness: comfort thou me according unto thy word.

5 Take from me the way of lying: and cause thou me to make much of thy law.

6 I have chofen the way of truth; and thy judgments have I laid before me.

7 I have ftuck unto thy teftimonies: O Lord, confound

me not.

8 I will run the way of thy commandments: when thou haft fet my heart at liberty.

MORNING PRAYER.

Legem pone.

EACH me, O Lord, the way of thy ftatutes: and
I fhall keep it unto the end.

2 Give me understanding, and I fhall keep thy law: yea, I shall keep it with my whole heart.

3 Make me to go in the path of thy commandments: for therein is my defire.

4 Incline my heart unto thy teftimonies and not to covetousness.

5 O turn away mine eyes, left they behold vanity and quicken thou me in thy way.

6 O ftablish thy word in thy fervant: that I may fear thee.

7 Take away the rebuke that I am afraid of: for thy judgments are good.

8 Behold, my delight is in thy commandments: O quicken me in thy righteousness.

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Et veniat fuper me.

ET thy loving mercy come alfo unto me, O Lord: even thy falvation, according unto thy word. 2 So fhall I make anfwer unto my blafphemers: for my truft is in thy word.

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3 O take not the word of thy truth utterly out of my mouth for my hope is in thy judgments.

4 So fhall I alway keep thy law: yea, for ever and ever. 5 And I will walk at liberty: for I feek thy command

ments.

6 I will speak of thy teftimonies alfo, even before kings: and will not be afhamed.

7 And my delight fhall be in thy commandments: which I have loved.

8 My hands alfo will I lift up unto thy commandments, which I have loved: and my ftudy fhall be in thy statutes. Memor efto fervi tui.

Think upon thy fervant, as concerning thy word : wherein thou haft caufed me to put my trust.

2 The fame is my comfort in my trouble: for thy word hath quickened me.

3 The proud have had me exceedingly in derifion: yet have I not fhrinked from thy law.

4 For I remembered thine everlafting judgments, O Lord and received comfort.

5 I am horribly afraid: for the ungodly that forfake thy

law.

6 Thy ftatutes have been my fongs: in the house of my pilgrimage.

7 I have thought upon thy name, O Lord, in the nightfeafon and have kept thy law.

8 This I had because I kept thy commandments.

Portio mea, Domine.

HOU art my portion, O Lord: I have promised to

T keep thy law.

2 I made my humble petition in thy prefence with my whole heart: O be merciful unto me according to thy word. 3 I called mine own ways to remembrance: and turned my feet unto thy teftimonies.

4 I made hafte, and prolonged not the time to keep thy commandments.

5 The congregation of the ungodly have robbed me: but I have not forgotten thy law.

6 At midnight I will rife to give thanks unto thee: becaufe of thy righteous judgments.

7 I am