PSALM LXXXIX. This pfalm is the fum and fubftance of the bible. It contains a lively description of the covenant of the Father and of the Son. The holy Ghoft by the mouth of David proposes the fubject in the two first verfes. The Father fpeaks to the Son 3d and 4th verfes: Then the prophet to the 19th. The Father to the Son from the 19th to the 38th, and then the prophet to the end. These are the fure mercies of David, to which the apoftle refers, Acts xiii. and these are the burden of all our fongs of praife-the Father's covenant engagement with his Son, and ratified with his oath, as ver. 3. and his unchangeable purposes concerning Chrift, and all his: For when these mercies are applied by the holy Spirit and made ours by believing, then we have the new fong put into our hearts, and mouths, which the church militant and triumphant is ufing. May the holy Spirit explain this pfalm to day, and for the confirmation of our faith teach us what is here faid of the power and faithfulness of God to fulfill his promifes, even when outward providences would lead one to doubt, whether his covenant was ordered in all things and fure. The words require much faith and gratitude. To be fung aright the heart fhould be duly affected with a fenfe of God's mercy and truth. May we fing with David's fpirit, afcribing all the glory of covenant bleffings to free grace and fovereign love. I. TO fing the mercies of the Lord my tongue shall never spare, My mouth from age to age accords thy truth for to declare. N 4 II. For II. For mercy fhall be built, faid I, for ever to endure, Thy faithfulness ev'n in the heav'ns thou wilt establish fure. III. With mine elect, faith God, have I IV. I will thy feed establish fure And will to generations all THE AFTERNOON. PSALM LXXXIX. I. HE heav'ns do fhew with joy and mirth thy wond'rous works, O Lord, Thy faints within thy church on earth thy faithfulness record. II. For who in heav'n may with the Lord at all himself compare, Who is like God among the fons of those that mighty are? III. Great III. Great fear in meeting of the faints is due unto the Lord: And he of all about him should with rev'rence be ador'd. IV.. Lord God of hofts in all the world IF The fecond Sunday after Trinity. PSALM LXXXIX. I. F that his fons forfake my law and do begin to fwerve, And of my judgments have no awe,, and will them not observe; Then with the rod will I begin their doings to amend; And fo will fcourge them from their fin whenever they offend.. III. But yet my mercy and goodness. 1 will not take away From him, nor let my faithfulness in any wife decay. IV. But fure my cov❜nant I will hold with all that I have spoke, No word the which my lips have told fhall alter'd be or broke. V. For this all praise be unto thee, PSALM PSALM XC. This is a pfalm of Mofes the man of God, in whofe days finging was in ufe in the church, and has been ever fince. He defcribes the fhortnefs of life and prays for wifdom from above to teach him how to redeem the time, becaufe the days were fhort and evil. This fhould be our daily prayer. The Lord give us grace fo to ufe thofe flying moments, that we may be prepared to die. This is our one great leffon. We have lived to no purpose, till we have learnt it. If we have not yet begun, may the Lord. now fet us about it in earneft. And if he has made us wife unto falvation, then we shall afcribe all the praife to our divine teacher, who will be our guide in life and death, and our God for ever. I. LORD, a thousand years appear Than yesterday, when it is paft, II. For in thine anger all our days do pass unto an end, And as a tale that hath been told, fo we our years do fpend. IL. Threefcore and ten years do fum up IV. Yet |