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Pfalm 28. Ad te, Domine.

TO thee will I cry, O Lord my ftrength: think no fcorn of me, left if thou make as though thou hearest not, I become like them that go down into the pit.

2 Hear the voice of my humble petitions, when I cry unto thee: when I hold up my hands towards the mercy-feat of thy: holy temple.

3 O pluck me not away, neither deftroy me with the ungodly and wicked doers: which fpeak friendly to their neighbours, but imagine mischief in their hearts.

4 Reward them according to their deeds: and according to the wickedness of their own inventions.

5 Recompenfe them after the works of their hands: pay them that they have deserved.

6 *For they regard not in their mind the works of the Lord, nor the operation of his hands: therefore fhall he break them down, and not build them up.

7 Praised be the Lord: for he hath heard the voice of my hum-: ble petitions.

8 The Lord is my ftrength, and my fhield, my heart hath trusted in him, and I am helped: therefore my heart danceth for joy, and in my fong will I praife him.

9. The Lord is my ftrength: and he is the wholfome defence of his Anointed.

10 O fave thy people, and give thy bleffing unto thine inhe-ritance: feed them, and fet them up for ever.

§ Pfalm 29.

Afferte Domino

RING unto the Lord, O ye mighty, bring young rams unto the Lord: afcribe unto the Lord worship and ftrength.

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2 Give the Lord the honour due unto his name: worship the Lord with holy worship.

3. It is the Lord that commandeth the waters: it is the glorious God that maketh the thunder.

It is the Lord that ruleth the fea; the voice of the Lord is mighty in operation: the voice of the Lord is a glorious voice. 5 The voice of the Lord breaketh the cedar-trees: yea, the Lord breaketh the cedars of Libanus.

6 He maketh them also to skip like a calf: Libanus also, and Sirion like a young unicorn.

7 The voice of the Lord divideth the flames of fire, the voice of the Lord fhaketh the wildernefs: yea, the Lord shaketh the wilderness of Cades.

8 The voice of the Lord maketh the hinds to bring forth young, and discoverth the thick bushes: in his temple doth every man fpeak of his honour.

9 The Lord fitteth above the water-flood: and the Lord remaineth a King for ever.

10 The Lord fhall give ftrength unto his people: the Lord shall give his people the bleffing of peace.

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MORNING PRAYER.

|| Pfalm 30.

Exaltabo te, Domine.

Will magnify thee, O Lord, for thou haft fet me up: and not made my foes to triumph over me.

2 O Lord my God, I cried unto thee: and thou haft healed me. 3 Thou, Lord, haft brought my foul out of hell: thou haft kept my life from them that go down to the pit.

This Pfalm is fuppofed to have been occafioned by a violent form. From the terrible noife and wonderful force of the Thunder David proves the fupreme dominion and infinite power of God.

The voice of the Lord maketh the Hinds to bring forth, &c. This might have been full as properly tranflated, the voice of the Lord, i. e. the Thunder Battereth the Oaks. See Dr. Lowth on the Hebrew

Poetry. Præl 27. p. 363. Deservedly was a Thunder ftorm made here a fubject of facred Poetry. For either he must be more than Man, or less than Brute who can be entirely unaffected on fuch an occafion. But we are affected to fmall purpose if it do not infpire us with an awful fenfe of God's power and majesty.

This Pfalm is fuppofed to have been fung upon the dedication of David's House which had been pol

4 Sing praises unto the Lord, O ye faints of his: and give thanks unto him for a remembrance of his holiness...

5 For his wrath endureth but the twinkling of an eye, and in his pleasure is life: heaviness may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning.

6 And in my profperity I faid, I fhall never be removed: thou, Lord, of thy goodness hadit made my hill so ftrong.

7 Thou didst turn thy face from me: and I was troubled.

8 Then cried I unto thee, O Lord: and gat me to my Lord right humbly.

9 What profit is there in my blood: when I go down to the pit? 10 Shall the dust give thanks unto thee: or shall it declare thy truth?

11 Hear, O Lord, and have mercy upon me: Lord, be thou my helper.

12 Thou haft turned my heaviness into joy: thou hast put off my fackloth, and girded me with gladness.

13 Therefore fhall every good man fing of thy praise without ceafing: O my God, I will give thanks unto thee for ever.

§ Pfalm 31. In te, Domine, Speravi.

N thee, O Lord, have I put my truft: let me never be put to confufion, deliver me in thy righteousness.

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2 Bow down thine ear to me: make hafte to deliver me.

3 And be thou my ftrong rock, and house of defence: that thou mayest save me.

Jited by the crimes of Aljalom, 2 Sam. xvi. 21, 22. and xvii. 1. &c. and xx. 3. And he therefore returns folemn Thanks to God that he had delivered him and in Wrath remembered Mercy. He acknowledges that he had in profperity forgot himself, and therefore God had chaftened him to bring him to a fenfe of his duty, and to remind him of his dependence upon him; and he vows he will praise God for ever, because he had heard him.

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4 For thou art my ftrong rock, and my caftle: be thou alfo my guide, and lead me for thy Names fake.

5 Draw me out of the net that they have laid privily for me: for thou art my ftrength.

6 Into thy hands I commend my fpirit: for thou haft redeemd me, O Lord, thou God of truth.

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I have hated them that hold of superftitious vanities: and my

truft hath been in the Lord.

8 I will be glad and rejoice in thy mercy: for thou haft confidered my trouble, and haft known my foul in adversities.

9 Thou haft not fhut me up into the hand of the enemy: but haft fet my feet in a large room.

10 Have mercy upon me, O Lord, for I am in trouble: and mine eye is confumed for very heavinefs; yea, my foul and my body. 11 For my life is waxen old with heaviness: and my years with mourning.

12 My ftrength faileth me, because of mine iniquity: and my bones are confumed.

13 I became a reproof among all mine enemies, but especially among my neighbours: and they of mine acquaintance were afraid of me, and they that did fee me without, conveyed themselves from me.

14 I am clean forgotten as a dead man out of mind: I am become like a broken veffel.

15 For I have heard the blafphemy of the multitude: and fear is on every fide, while they confpire together against me, and take their counsel to take away my life.

16 But my hope hath been in thee, O Lord: I have faid, Thou art my God.

17 My time is in thy hand, deliver me from the hand of mine enemies: and from them that perfecute me.

18 Shew thy fervant the light of thy countenance: and fave me for thy mercies fake.

David appears to have compofed this 'falm upon his flight from Saul: and it feems to be well adapted to the ufe of all good People who are in extreme danger

and diftrefs; as it affords a lively defcription of afflic tion, anxiety, earneft. defire and humble confidence in God.

19 Let me not be confounded, O Lord, for I have called upon thee: let the ungodly be put to confufion, and be put to filence

in the grave.

20 Let the lying lips be put to filence: which cruelly, disdainfully, and defpitefully fpeak against the righteous.

21 O how plentiful is thy goodness which thou haft laid up for them that fear thee: and that thou haft prepared for them that put their trust in thee, even before the fons of men!

22 Thou fhalt hide them privily by thine own presence from the provoking of all men: thou fhalt keep them fecretly in thy tabernacle from the ftrife of tongues.

23 Thanks be to the Lord: for he hath fhewed me marvellous great kindness in a strong city.

24 And when I made hafte, I said: I am caft out of the fight of thine eyes.

25 Nevertheless, thou heardest the voice of my prayer: when I cried unto thee.

26 ‡ O love the Lord, all ye his faints: for the Lord preserveth them that are faithful, and plenteoufly rewardeth the proud doer. 27 Be ftrong, and he shall establish heart: all your that put your truft in the Lord.

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PRAYER.

Pfalm 32. Beati, quorum.

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Leffed is he, whose unrighteousness is forgiven: and whose

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

O love the Lord, all ye bis Saints, &c. If David found reafon for fuch an affectionate exclamation on account of fome temporal deliverance: then how much ought it to be the fentiment of every Chriftian who enjoys the light of the bleffed Gospel; in which God hath declared that he will reward every Man according to his works, in the Day when he shall judge the fecrets of Men by Chrift Jefus.

Pfalms; and teaches us that Man's true happines confifts in the pardon of his Sins, and in the purity of his Confcience which is to be obtained by fincerely confelling, and forfaking our Iniquities: and concludes with an earnest Exhortation to Repentance, and Ho linefs of Life.

Bleed is he whole Unrighteousness, &c. This paf age is quoted by St. Paul in the fourth chapter of the Epiftle to the Romans with a design to fhew that re

This is the fecond in the number of the penitential

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