It is our prefent fubject to blefs God for this diftinguishing favor. We have the light of his gofpel. Eternal thanks be to him, we have alfo the power of it. O that we may fing of it to day with thankful hearts. The words are ready to our hands, indited for the occafion by the eternal Spirit. May we use them in faith, rejoicing in hope, and afcribing in our fongs all the praise of this wonderful work to the God of our falvation. O ALL ye earth, in God rejoice, with praise fet forth his name, Extol his might, with heart and voice give glory to the fame. II. How wonderful, O Lord, fay ye HI. The men who dwell the earth throughout IV. All folk come forth,, behold and fee what things the Lord hath wrought, Mark well the wondrous works that he for men to pass hath brought.. PSALM PSALM LXVI. I. YE people give unto our God. due laud and thanks always, With joyful voice publish abroad and fing unto his praise, II. Who doth endue our foul with life and it preferve withall, He stays our feet, fo that no foe can make us flip or fall. III. For thou didst prove and try us, Lord, IV. Thou haft caus'd men ride o'er our heads and altho' we did pass Thro' fire and water, yet thou brought'ft us to a wealthy place. V. I'll bring mine off'rings to thy houfe, to thee my vows I'll pay, Which my lips utter'd, my mouth spake, when trouble on me lay. AFTER AFTERNOON. PSALM LXVI. I. COME forth and hearken unto me all ye that fear the Lord, What he for my poor foul hath done to you I will record. II. Often I call to mind his grace, this mouth to him doth cry, And thou my tongue make speedy pace. to praise him joyfully. III. But if I feel my heart within in wicked works rejoice, Or if I have delight in fin God will not hear my voice. IV. But furely God my voice hath heard, V. O let the Lord our gracious God for ever bleffed be, Who turned not my pray'r from him nor yet his grace from me. The The Second Sunday after the Epiphany. PSALM I. The firft pfalm treats of the fitness of Chrift for his work, and of his fuccefs in it. He was without fin, when he came to put away fin; and he was the tree of life, in whom believers live as branches, and by grace received from him they grow up into him in all things. This pfalm fhould be fung with faith that we are in him, and with a lively hope, that we fhall live on him, and to him for evermore, and then we shall make sweet melody in our hearts unto the Lord. J. THAT man hath perfect blessedness In counfel of ungodly men, Nor fitteth in the fcorners chair, III. He fhall be like a tree that is planted the rivers nigh, Which in due feafon bringeth forth its fruit abundantly. IV. Whose top shoot shall not fade nor fall, but flourishing shall stand, Juft fo all things fhall profper well, which this man takes in hand. PSALM PSALM III. The title is, A pfalm for David when he fled from the face of Abfalom, 2 Sam. xv. on which occafion he fpake by the Spirit concerning the beloved Jefus, who was in like manner to be driven by his own people out of Jerufalem, and was to fuffer without the gate. In this fituation he expreffes his perfect confidence in God, and prays for deliverance from all his enemies, which he found, and we fhall alfo find through him, whenever we ask in faith nothing wavering. We here fee how fafe they are, who live under the care of a covenant God; they may lie down in their beds, yea in their graves, and fear no evil. May we in finging experience fome of this humble confidence, and with all our hearts afcribe this and every other bleffing of falvation to the Lord Jefus Christ. I. O LORD, how are my foes increas'd 2Against me many rife: Many fay of my foul, for him. in God no fuccour lies.. II. But thou, O Lord, art my defence,, III. When with my voice unto the Lord I earnestly did cry, Then he out of his holy hill. did hear me speedily.. |