Trinity Sunday.

PSALM XLV. ver. 6. 7.

The pfalmift in thefe words gives us a plain teftimony for the perfonality in the Godhead. The Father fpeaks to the Son, and calls him God, yea, when he bringeth his firft-begotten into the world in our nature, upon whom the holy Spirit is poured: For the oil of gladness here mentioned is the unction of the holy One, which Jefus had without measure. This oil was poured upon the head of our great high priest, that it might flow down to the skirts of his cloathing, and that the lowest of his members might partake of it. May we partake of this unction to day. May the Spirit of wisdom teach us the faving knowlege of the Father and of the Son, that by trufting to the Son's falvation we may experience the Father's love, and may have fellowship with the eternal Three in grace and glory. Of this may we fing to day with ftedfaft faith, and with rejoicing hope.

I.

OR ever and for ever is

FOR

O God, thy throne of might: The fceptre of thy kingdom is a fceptre that is right:

IL

Thou loveft right, and hateft ill, thee, God, thy God therefore Anointed hath with oil of joy thy fellows far before.

III. To

To Father, Son, and holy Ghost,
the God whom we adore,
Be glory as it was, is now,
and shall be evermore.

PSALM CX.

See what was faid of this pfalm on the Sunday after Christmas. The two firft verfes give clear proof of the perfonality in the Godhead, and of the divinity of Jefus Chrift. "Jehovah faid to my Lord," the Father to the Son, as Chrift himself explains it, Matt. xxii. and this David fpake by the Spirit, as Chrift there afferts. Here are the three perfons in their covenant characters-the Father ordaining the Son to be head over all things to the church, and the holy Spirit fanctifying the manhood of Chrift for this office. Thus he was every way qualified for it being perfect God and perfect man. He was David's fon, and alfo David's Lord. His fon as man; his Lord as God-man-God over all bleffed for ever. Thanks be to him, he has been, according to the fcriptures, born of the house and lineage of David— he has lived and died for his people-and he is now upon his throne, the object of worship for faints and angels. They are now adoring and bleffing God and the Lamb. O for a fong of praise fomething like theirs. Come holy Ghoft, testify to us of Jefus. Enable us to fubmit to the Father's decree concerning him. Let us willingly take Jefus for our Lord, and live fafe and happy under his government, not doubting but that as he has fulfilled this pfalm in his own perfon he will alfo fulfill it in ours, and to his eternal glory he will put all our enemies under our feet.

I.

EHOVAH faid unto my Lord, fit thou at my right hand Till I have made thy foes a ftool whereon thy feet shall stand.

II.

The Lord fhall out of Sion fend
the fceptre of thy might,
Amidft thy greatest foes fhalt thou
be ruler in their fight.

III.

To Father, Son, and holy Ghoit
the God whom we adore,
Be glory as it was, is now,
and fhall be evermore.

AFTERNOON.
PSALM CIV.

The pfalmift here calls upon his own foul to praise God for his great works of creation and providence. He made, he fupports all nature: He gives the breath of life, and food, and every thing needful to all his creatures. In the verfes before us the Spirit of God is confidered as the breath of fpiritual life, the giver of fpiritual food, and of every thing needful to the new creature in Chrift Jefus. What the air and elements of this world are to animal, that is he to fpiritual life. Whoever is born of the Spirit is his new creation. The Spirit of God hath made him, and the breath of the Almighty hath given him life. And the Lord and giver of this life is in the Godhead, uncreate, incomprehenfible, eternal, almighty, Lord and God, equal in every perfection with the Father, and the Son, and as fuch the object of prayer and praife, and of every act of worship.

If he has indeed quickened us, and given us the faculties of the new man, may we use them to his glory this day. If we have through him fellowship with the Father and the Son, everlafting praife be to him for those wonders, which he hath done for us.

I.

ALL things on thee wait,

thou doft them relieve,

And thou in due time

full well doft them feed. And when it doth please thee the fame for to give, They gather full gladly

those things which they need.

II.

Thou open'st thy hand

and they find fuch grace, That they with good things are filled we fee,

But fore they are troubled if thou hide thy face,

For if thou their breath take vile duft then they be:

III.

Again when thy Spirit
from thee doth proceed
All things to appoint
and what fhall enfue,
Then are they created

as thou haft decreed, And doft by thy goodness thine image renew.

N 3

The

The first Sunday after Trinity.

PSALM LXXXVI.

The prophet, perfuaded he should be heard, prays for grace to bring him to the knowlege of the truth, and to keep his heart always influenced by the fear of God, and he declares his readiness to thank him for the fame. May we trufting to his love and power now afk for the fame grace. "Afk, and ye fhall

have" encouraged by this promife, let us afk to be guided into all truth, and to act according to it with an holy fear of offending our good God. This prayer of faith cannot be in vain. Our petitions will be followed with praise.

I.

O LORD, to thee when I do pray,

regard and give an ear,

Mark well the words which I do fay, all my petitions hear.

II.

O teach me, Lord, thy way, and I fhall in thy truth proceed,

Unite my heart to thee fo nigh, that I thy name may dread.

III.

To thee will I give thanks and praise,
O Lord, with my whole heart,

And glorify thy name always,
because my God thou art.

PSALM