I.

HAVE mercy,
AVE mercy, Lord, on me I pray,
for man would me devour:

He fighteth with me day by day
and troubleth me each hour.

II.

My foes do daily enterprise
to fwallow me outright,
To fight against me many rife,
O thou most high of might.

When they would make me fore afraid with boafts and brags of pride,

I truft in thee alone for aid

by thee I will abide :

IV.

God's promife I do greatly praise,
O Lord, I trust to thee,

I do not care nor fear at all
what flesh can do to me.

Fifth Sunday in Lent.

PSALM LVI

I.

WHEN I do call upon thy name

my away do ftart,

From hence I plainly do perceive that God doth take my part.

11.

I glory in the word of God, to praise it I accord,

With joy I will declare abroad the promise of the Lord.

III.

I trust in God the Lord and fay

as I before began,

The Lord is my fure help and ftay,
I do not fear for man.

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PSALM LVI.

I.

WILL perform with heart moft free

my vows to God always,

And I, O Lord, all times to thee

will offer thanks and praise:

II.

For thou haft brought my foul from death,

and thou wilt ftill fecure

The life thou freely hast preserv'd,

and make my footsteps fure.

III. That

III.

That thus protected by thy pow'r
I may thy light enjoy,
And in the praises of my God
my endless days employ.

AFTERNOON.

PSALM LVII.

This pfalm is a prayer made in great trouble and in great faith. The prophet flees to the mercy and truth of God for fafety and finds it. He thereupon bleffes the Lord, and with enlarged heart praifes and magnifies his great deliverer. Man is born to trouble. There is no efcaping it. But Jefus changes its nature, and turns it into a bleffing. When fin, the cause of trouble, is pardoned, and the confcience is at peace with God, then all things work together for good. A fcriptural perfuafion of this fets the heart at liberty, and the experience of it excites inward and outward melody. May the Spirit of love enable us in faith to flee to our God for refuge in every time of need, and then we fhall fing of his mercy and truth to his glory and to our comfort. May thefe ends be answered by our fongs of praife this day.

I.

BE merciful to me, O God,.

thy mercy unto me

Do thou extend: Because my foul doth put her trust in thee:

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II. Yea,

II.

Yea, in the fhadow of thy wings
my refuge I will place,
Until thefe fad calamities
do wholly overpass.

III.

My prayer I will cause to afcend
unto the Lord most high,
To God, who doth all things for me
perform most perfectly.

IV.

From heav'n he shall send down, and me from their reproach defend,

Who would devour me; God his truth and mercy forth fhall fend.

V.

Be thou exalted very high above the heav'ns, O God, And let thy glory be advanc'd o'er all the earth abroad.

Sunday

Sunday next before Eafter.

PSALM. LVII.

I.

My heart is fet to bless the Lord in him to joy always,

My heart would ever well accord to fing his glorious praise.

II.

Among the people I will tell

the goodness of my God,

And fhew his praife that doth excell in heathen lands abroad.

III.

Thy mercy, Lord, is magnify'd as far as heav'n is high,

Thy truth as high as any star, that shineth in the sky.

IV.

Do thou exalt thyfelf, O God, above the heav'ns most bright, Exalted be thro' all the earth thy glory and thy might.

PSALM LIX.

The fubject is the fame with the foregoing pfalm. A prayer an answer-and thankfulness for the anfwer. Go, and do thou likewife. Pray in faith. Afk and it shall be given. The promise cannot fail.

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