it, in order to glorify God for his mercy, to do good to men, and to exercise and to improve their graces and gifts. Upon this plan they can fing the pfalm before us. It is then a sweet subject of prayer and praife. Every word tends to ftir up love to the holy will of God, and defires to keep it with growing delight. May the finging of it now anfwer thofe purposes.

O

I.

THAT thy ftatutes to obferve thou would'st my ways direct: Then fhall I have no fhame, when I thy precepts all respect.

II.

Thy teftimonies and thy ways

much more my heart rejoice, Than all the treafures of the earth, which worldlings make their choice.

III.

Upon thy precepts I will mufe,

and thereto frame my talk,

As at a mark fo will I aim, in thy ways how to walk.

IV.

Upon thy ftatutes my delight fhall conftantly be fet,

And by thy grace I never will thy holy word forget.

Fourteenth

Fourteenth Sunday after Trinity.

PSALM CXIX.

I.

NSTRUCT me, Lord, in the right way

IN

of thy ftatutes divine,

That them to keep unto the end

my heart I may incline.

II.

Grant me the knowlege of thy law,
that I may it obey,

With heart and mind and all my might
I may it keep alway.

III.

From vain defires and worldly lufts turn back mine eyes and fight, And with thy Spirit ftrengthen me to walk thy ways aright.

IV.

Confirm thy gracious promife, Lord,
which thou haft made to me,
Who am thy fervant, and would love
and nothing fear but thee.

PSALM CXIX.

I.

BEFORE that I afflicted was,

I err'd and went aftray,

But now I keep thy holy word and make it all my stay.

II.

Thou Lord art good, and doeft good,
thy gifts of grace are free,
Thine ordinances how to keep
therefore, O Lord teach me.

III.

O happy time may I well fay,
when thou didst me correct,
That I thereby might learn thy laws.
and never them reject.

IV.

O Lord, thy word and law to me

is dearer manifold,

Than gold and filver in great fums, or ought that can be told.

PSALM

AFTERNOON.

PSALM CXIX.

IN heav'n, O Lord, where thou doft dwell thy word is ftablish❜d sure,

And fhall to all eternity

faft fettled there endure.

II

From age to age thy truth abides,
as doth the earth witnefs,
Whofe groundwork thou haft laid so sure,
as no tongue can express.

III,

Ev'n to this day we may well fee how thou doft them preferve According to thine ordinance: for all things do thee serve.

IV.

For nothing in this world I fee,
which hath at length no end,
But thy commandments and thy word
beyond all time extend.

Fifteenth Sunday after Trinity.

PSALM CXXI.

The fifteen pfalms following the cxixth are entitled Songs, as fome are called hymns, and others pfalms, and fongs of degrees, or of afcenfions, defcribing the goings up of Jefus, ftep by step to his highest exaltation. He expreffes here in the two first verses, his dependence upon Jehovah for help to carry him through his work, and in the following part of the pfalm receives a gracious answer from Jehovah containing a full promife of continual fupport. The promife made to Jefus the head will be made good to every believer in him, who is rifen with Chrift, and is growing up into Chrift. If our affections be, and our converfation be, where he is at the right hand of God, then we shall by faith reft upon him to fulfill this pfalm to us. And waiting on him for it we hall lift up our hearts and voices in this high fong of praife. May we now fing it to his glory and to our mutual edification.

I

I.

TO the hills will lift mine eyes
from whence doth come mine aid;

My fafety cometh from the Lord
who heav'n and earth hath made.

Thy foot he'll not let flide: nor will
he flumber who thee keeps;

Behold he who keeps Ifrael
he flumbers not, nor fleeps.

III. The