IV.

God merciful and righteous is, yea gracious is our Lord:

God faves the meek: I was brought low he did me help afford.

PSALM CXVI.

I.

THE wholfom cup of faving health
I thankfully will take,

And on the name of God will call
when I my pray'rs do make.

II.

Thy fervant, Lord, thy fervant, lo myself I do confess,

Son of thy handmaid, thou haft broke the bonds of my distress:

III.

Therefore I'll offer up to thee a facrifice of praise,

And I will call upon the name of God the Lord always :

IV.

Yea in the courts of God's own house

and in the midst of thee, O thou Jerufalem: Therefore the Lord our God praise ye.

AFTERNOON.

PSALM CXVII.

This is the shortest pfalm in words, but not in matter: It is a moft bleffed prophecy, and this day fulfilled

in our hearts. The Lord is here praised for calling the gentiles to the knowlege of his mercy and truth in Jefus. This is the highest favor God has to give, and it demands our highest thanks. The apostle has cited this pfalm in Rom. xv. 11. "Praife the Lord "all ye Gentiles, and laud him" that is, try to praise him better, "all ye people"-the duty is enforced again and again, intimating, that we fhould do it with redoubled diligence. And leaft we should remit or forget, it is once more repeated, as the burden of all-Hallelujah-Afcribe ye all the good in earth and heaven to the felf-exiftent Jefus. May the Lord, who requires this praife, give us grace, now to offer it up acceptably. May we fing the words with their fpirit, of whom the Lord fays"This people have I formed for myself, they shall "fhew forth my praise."

O ye

I.

ALL nations of the world
praise ye the Lord always,

And all ye people ev'ry where
fet forth his noble praise.

II.

For great his mercy is to us

his truth doth not decay, Wherefore praife ye the Lord our God, praife ye the Lord alway.

III.

To Father, Son, and holy Ghost,

the God whom we adore,

Be glory as it was, is now,

and fhall be evermore.

Thirteenth

Thirteenth Sunday after Trinity.

PSALM CXVIII.

See what was said of this pfalm on Eafter Sunday. It treats of the perfon of Chrift, his fufferings, death, refurrection, and of his becoming the head stone of the corner: For which bleffings we are called upon to praise his holy name. This is the laft of the grand Hallelujah hymns. The subject of it requires our warmeft thanks. May the Spirit of Jefus glorify him in our hearts to day, and help us to fing with fuch gratitude as the words require.

I.

O GIVE ye thanks to God the Lord, for very kind is he,

Because his mercy doth endure unto eternity.

II.

Let all that fear the Lord our God freely confefs and fay,

The mercy of the Lord our God endureth still alway.

III.

I in diftrefs call'd on the Lord,
the Lord did answer me,
He in a large place did me fet,
from trouble made me free.
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IV.

The mighty Lord is on my fide,
I will not be afraid;

For any thing that man can do
I fhall not be dismaid.

V.

The Lord doth take my part with them,
who help to fuccor me;
Therefore on those who do me hate
I my defire shall fee.

THE

PSALM CXVIII.

I.

HE Lord is my mighty defence,
of whom I make my fong,

He is become for me indeed
a Saviour great and strong.

II.

The right hand of the Lord our God doth bring to pafs great things, He caufeth voice of joy and health in righteous mens dwellings.

III.

The right hand of the mighty Lord exalted is on high,

The right hand of the mighty Lord doth ever valiantly.

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IV.

I will give thanks to thee, O Lord, and ever will praise thee,

Who haft me heard, and art become a Saviour unto me.

was.

AFTERNOON.

PSALM CXIX.

This pfalm is made up of prayer and praife: Prayer for ftrength to keep the law, and praife for having kept it. There are twenty-two parts of the pfalm according to the Hebrew alphabet, each part has eight verfes beginning with the fame letter: In every verfe the prophet fpeaks of the revealed will of God under a variety of names to exprefs his faith in it, his love to it, and his perfect fulfillment of it. Jerom fays it contains a great mystery: And Auguftine declares, that though it feemed plain, yet the more he studied it, the deeper he found the fenfe I fuppofe they fpake of it in this manner, be cause they knew it belonged to Chrift, and was ftrictly and literally true of him, and of believers only as interested in him. He was their law-fulfiller: Through his atenement they are faved from its penalties, through his obedience they are made righteous, as the law requires. When the holy Spirit • enables them to believe in the blood and righteoufnefs of Immanuel, then he alfo puts the law into their inward parts, and writes it in their hearts, fweetly conftraining them to walk in his ftatutes and to keep his commandments, and do them. Then they can declare their hearty attachment to the law of God, and their fixt purpofe to walk according to

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