Eleventh Sunday after Trinity.

PSALM CXIV.

The fubject of this pfalm is the praife of God for delivering his people from the bondage in Egypt, which has been always fuppofed to be a type and earnest of the great deliverance from the bondage of fin, and of all our spiritual enemies. It has been fo understood by the Chriftian church, which has appointed it one of the proper pfalms for Easter Sunday, and which confidered it as treating of our redemption by the death of Chrift our paffover. All nature acknowleged the God of Jacob to be fovereign at the Exodus. So will all nature acknowlege the fovereignty of Chrift. Mountains will tremble, feas will flee at his prefence: Every thing fhall make way for his accomplishing the full redemption of his people. Let the redeemed of the Lord fay fo. Has he delivered us with a mighty hand from our fpiritual bondage? O let us give thanks unto him. Let us blefs him for what he has done, and expect he will go on doing wonders for us: He is our rock: Through him the water of life flows. May he refresh our hearts with it to day; and may its streams follow us all the way to the land of reft, till we come to Sion with fongs, and everlasting joy upon our

heads.

I.

WHEN Ifr'el out of Egypt came,

and did his dwelling change;

When Jacob's houfe came out from thofe, who were of language ftrange.

II.

He Judah did his holy place
his kingdom Ifr'el make:
The fea it faw and quickly fled,
Jordan was driven back.

III.

Like rams the mountains and like lambs
the hills skipt to and fro :
O fea why fledit thou? Jordan back
why waft thou driven fo?

IV.

2

Ye mountains great, wherefore was it
that ye did skip like rams?
And wherefore was it little hills.
that ye did leap like lambs?

V.

O earth, confefs thy fov'reign Lord and dread his mighty hand, Before the face of Jacob's God tremble both fea and land.

VI.

Who from the hardest marble rock did ftanding water bring,

And by his pow'r did turn the flint into a water spring.

PSALM CXV.

This is another of the Hallelujah hymns. The people of God here afcribe to him the glory of his mercy and truth, praying they may take none of it to themselves, nor give any of it to idols, but may be

ever afcribing it wholly to him, by placing their whole confidence in his gracious help and protection. O that we may do the fame. It is the great leffon of our religion to afcribe all the glory of faving us to the mere mercy of God. The old-teftament faints were all of this fpirit-" Not unto us, O Lord, not "unto us"-And one of the new shall speak for his brethren-"We rejoice in Chrift Jefus, and have "no confidence in the flesh.” May we rejoice with them, placing all the confidence of our hearts in him: And then we fhall fing in fweet concert with all in heaven and earth, who are giving glory to God and the Lamb.

I.

NOT unto us, Lord, not to us,

but do thou glory take

Unto thy name, ev'n for thy truth and for thy mercy's fake.

II.

O wherefore should the heathen say, where is their God now gone? Our God he is in heav'n, and what he will'd, that he hath done.

III.

Their idols filver are and gold,

work of mens hands they be, Mouths have they, but they do not speak, and eyes, but do not fee.

IV.

Like them their makers are, and all

on them their truft who build:

O Ifr'el trust thou in the Lord,

he is thy help and shield.

V.

O Aaron's houfe truft in the Lord, their help and fhield is he:

Ye that fear God, truft in the Lord their help and fhield he'll be.

AFTER N O O N.

PSALM CXV.

I.

THE Lord of us hath mindful been and will us blefs also,

On Ifrael and Aaron's house his bleffing will bestow.

Both small and great that fear the Lord he will them furely blefs:

The Lord will you, you and your feed ftill more and more increase.

III.

Ye are the bleffed of the Lord,

ev'n of the Lord most high,

Who both the heav'n and earth did make and fixt immoveably.

IV.

Then let us praise the Lord our God henceforth for evermore,

He only worthy is of praise, praise ye the Lord therefore.

Twelfth

Twelfth Sunday after Trinity.

PSALM CXVI.

This is a moft fweet pattern of thanksgiving. It was the divine breathing of Jefus, delivered from all his and our enemies, and it is the breathing of all his redeemed, when they are delivered by faith in him. These are their fentiments-trufting to the blood of the lamb, they look upon God as their reconciled Father, they love him, they devote themselves to him privately, and publicly in his courts they teítify their willing fubjection to him, and that in all things. Every believer has good reason to follow their example. O that our thankfulness may be as like theirs as poffible. Let us pray for it. Afk in faith, and he giveth liberally. The Lord increase in us a fpirit of praife, that he may receive more thanks and get greater glory from us to-day.

I.

I LOVE the Lord, because my voice, and my pray'rs he did hear,

I while I live will call on him, who bow'd to me his ear.

II.

Of death the cords and forrows did
about me compass round;
The pains of hell took hold on me
diftrefs and grief I found:

II.

Upon the name of God the Lord,
then did I call and say,

Deliver thou my foul, O Lord
I do thee humbly pray.

IV. God