humble and thankful hearts than we ever did. May the holy Spirit enable us with growing gratitude to blefs our God for the wonders which he hath done for us, and for our falvation. This is the burden of the pfalm- "O that men would therefore "praife the Lord, &c." Glory be to him: Let all the people fay. Amen.

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I.

O God your thankful voices raise, Who does your daily patron prove, And let your never ceafing praise Attend on his eternal love.

II.

Let thofe give thanks whom he from bonds Of proud oppreffing foes releas'd,

And brought them back from distant lands,
From North and South, and West and East.
III.

Thro' lonely desert ways they went,
Nor could they any city find,

Till quite with thirst and hunger spent
Their fainting foul within them pin'd:

IV.

Then to the Lord's attentive ear
Did they their mournful cry addrefs,
Who graciously vouchfaf'd to hear,
And freed them from their deep distress.

AFTER

AFTERNOON.

PSALM CVII.

I.

HE by the way which was most right
Did lead them like a faithful guide,

That they might to a city go,
Wherein they fafely should abide.

H.

O then that all the earth with me
Would God for this his goodness praise,
And for the mighty works which he
Thro'out the wond'ring world displays:

HI.

For he from heav'n the fad estate
Of longing fouls with pity views,
To hungry fouls that pant for meat
His bounty daily food renews.

IV.

To Father, Son, and holy Ghost,
The God whom earth and heaven adore,
Be glory as it was of old,

Is now and fhall be evermore.

Ninth Sunday after Trinity.

PSALM CVII.

I.

FOOLS, for their fin and their offence

do fore affliction bear:

All kind of meat their foul abhors, they to death's gates draw near.

II.

In grief they cry to God, he faves

them from their miseries,

He fends his word, them heals, and them from their deftruction frees.

III.

O that men to the Lord would give
praise for his goodness then,
And for his works of wonder done

unto the fons of men.

IV.

And let them facrifice to him

off'rings of thankfulness,

And let them fhew abroad his works. with fongs of joyfulness.

PSALM

PSALM CVIII.

This is a pfalm of praife. The subject is thanksgiving to God for his faithfulness to all his promifes. His

mercy and truth fail not. What he spake, he fulfilled. "The Lord hath spoken," fays the prophet, and therefore he not only trufts in his word, but also rejoices as one that findeth great spoils. He was perfectly fatisfied, that whatever the Lord had spoken with his mouth he would make good with his arm : Therefore his heart is fixed, his inftruments are in tune early, he rifes before the fun to fing his pfalm of praife. O believers, why are you fo feldom at this fweet exercife? why are your hearts fo little in it? You have the fame promifes as the prophet had, why do you not put the fame honor upon them? May the Lord give you the fame fpirit of praise, that mixing faith with the pfalm, you may fing it with as much gratitude, as ever it was fang with upon earth.

I.

GOD, my heart prepared is,
my tongue is likewife fo;

I will advance my voice in pfalms,
that I thy praise may fhow.

II.

By me among the people, Lord,
ftill praised fhalt thou be,
And I among the nations will
fing pfalms of thanks to thee;

III.

Because thy mercy doth ascend above the heav'ns moft high,

Alfo thy truth doth reach the clouds within the lofty sky.

IV. Exalted

IV.

Exalted be thy majesty,
above the heav'ns, O God,
Display likewife throughout the earth
thy glory all abroad.

AFTERNOON.

PSALM CXI.

This hymn and the feven following are called the grand Hallelujah. The Jews ufed to fing them with great folemnity at their three yearly feftivals. The fubject of them all is praife. They contain the thankfgiving of the church to God for his mercies, which are defcribed not as peculiar to the Jewish difpenfation, but as belonging to believers in every place and age. The fubject of this pfalm is praise to God for his great works in redeeming, preserving, and bleffing his people. Happy people! they ought to fing his praife, whom he has brought to the knowlege of his love in Jefus. Through faith it is our happinefs: In him we may offer our facrifice of praise as acceptably to day as ever. If we can afcribe to him all the glory of faving us, we are then in tune to fing the grand Hallelujah. Our hearts are in harmony with the general affembly of the first born, which is now finging the praifes of God and the lamb: May we bear our part in this bleffed chorus, and in confort with all the hoft of heaven fing"Great and marvellous are thy works, O Lord God "Almighty, juft and true are thy ways, thou king "of faints."

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