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, With heart and mind and all my might 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, 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, III. O happy time may I well fay, 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, 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, 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 My fafety cometh from the Lord Thy foot he'll not let flide: nor will Behold he who keeps Ifrael III. The |