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The Second Sunday after Eafter.

PSALM LXIII.

This pfalm contains the holy breathings of the prophet after God and his ordinances. He thirfts for the means of communion with God, remembering what he had formerly found in them, and efpecially being now deprived of them, he longs the more. May this appetite be ever keen in our fouls. May we hunger and thirft night and day after growing fellowship with God. If ever we had any taft of its sweetness, we shall then have a key to the pfalm. Our experience will open it to us. And may we find the defires here expreffed in our own breafts. May we feel what the prophet did when he spake the words, and may we use them to day to quicken the fame defires in all our hearts.

Τ.

GOD, my God, I early feek
to come to thee in haft,

My foul and body both do long
and thirst of thee to taft:

II.

And in this barren wilderness

where waters there are none,

My flesh is parcht for thought of thee, for thee I wish alone:

III.

That I thy pow'r may now behold, and brightness of thy face,

As I have feen thee heretofore

within thy holy place.

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IV. Because

IV.

Because thy mercies far furmount
this life and wretched days,
My lips therefore fhall give to thee
thine honor and thy praise.

PSALM LXIII.

I.

LORD, while I live I will not fail to worship thee alway,

And in thy name I will lift up my hands when I do pray.

II.

Ev'n as with marrow and with fat my mouth fhall filled be,

Then fhall my mouth with joyful lips fing praises unto thee.

III.

When I do thee upon my bed remember with delight,

And when on thee I meditate in watches of the night:

IV.

In fhadow of thy wings I'll joy,
for thou my help haft been;
My foul thee follows hard, and me
thy right hand doth sustain.

AFTERNOON.

PSALM LXV.

The fubject of this divine hymn is praife. It waiteth for God in his Sion. The church will always praise him

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for pardoning fin, for bringing the pardoned finner near to him, and for fatisfying him with loving kindnefs. He will ever be glorified for his power to protect his church, and for his blefings conferred upon her, which are in the latter part of the pfalm compared to the fruitful influences of the rain and fhining of the heavens upon the earth. The redeemed of the Lord know how to fing this hymn. Their praise is always due, and they wish to pay it: They wait to do it at all times, but especially when called upon in the great congregation. May we offer up our facrifice acceptably to day, even the fruit of our lips, giving thanks unto his name.

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I.

RAISE waits for thee in Sion, Lord, to thee vows paid fhall be,

O thou that hearer art of prayer,

all flesh shall come to thee.

II.

Iniquities I must confefs

against me do prevail, But as for our rebellious fins

thou shalt forgive them all.

III.

Bleft is the man whom thou doft choofe,
and mak'it approach to thee,
That he within thy courts, O Lord,
a dweller still may be.

IV.

We furely shall be satisfy'd

with thine abundant grace,

And with the goodness of thy house

ev'n thy most holy place.

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GOD our mighty Saviour
thou in thy righteoufnefs,

By fearful works unto our prayers
thine answer doft exprefs:

II.

Therefore the ends of all the earth

and those afar that be Upon the fea, their confidence will wholly place in thee.

III.

Who being girt with pow'r fets faft
by his great ftrength the hills,
Who noife of feas, noife of their waves,
and people's tumults ftills.

IV.

The folk that dwell throughout the earth
fhall fear thy figns to fee,
Morning and ev'ning with great mirth
fhall praises give to thee.

PSALM LXXI.

This is the prayer of a perfon in great diftrefs, nevertheless he places his perfect faith and hope in God, yea he rejoices in the promises of deliverance. Some take this pfalm to be a plain prophecy of Christ, in

which his humiliation, and his exaltation are treated of. Jerom and Auguftine are of this opinion. The Syriac verfion calls it, "A prophecy of the paffion " and refurrection of Chrift." Through faith in him we see our intereft in this pfalm, and can fing of what he did and fuffered, of what he was, and is, and is to us. The promises already fulfilled to him, are in him yea, and in him amen to all his members. May we fing with believing hearts, loving and bleffing him for all that he has done for us, and waiting in joyful hope for the glory that is to be revealed at the coming of our Lord Jefus Chrift.

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I.

LORD, my God, in all diftrefs
my hope is whole in thee,

Then let no fhame my foul opprefs
nor once take hold on me :

II.

And let me in thy righteousness from thee deliv'rance have, Cause me escape, incline thine ear unto me, and me fave.

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Be thou my dwelling rock, to which
I ever may refort,

Thou gav❜ft commandment me to save,
for thou'rt my rock and fort.

IV.

Free me my God from wicked hands, hands cruel and unjust;

For thou, O Lord God, art my hope and from my youth my trust.

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