IV. To God the Father, Son, and Spirit, glory be, As 'twas, and is, and fhall be fo to all eternity. PSALM CXXXV. The fubject of this pfalm is the fame with the laft. It is a command to blefs God, and it is given to every one who draws near to him in his houfe. It is repeated again and again, with great vehemency, to enforce it the more upon us. It is faid to be good, to be pleafant, and it is fo to those whom God hath called to be his peculiar people: They find praifing him with their hearts, and expreffing it with their voices, a delightful exercife. All his works, and providences afford to them fresh matter of praife. The pfalm ends with calling upon the whole church to join in the praises of the Lord their God. O for a Spirit of praife, more, more ftill poured out upon us. The more we know of God in Chrift, the more reason we have to praise him. Our mercies are free, great, many, endless-God give us a deeper fenfe of our unworthiness of the leaft, and keep us in a right frame to ascribe to him all the praife of the greatest. May he receive it from us to day and for ever. I. OPRAISE the Lord, praise ye his name, praise him with one accord, O praise him still all ye that be the fervants of the Lord. II. O praise him, ye that stand and be in the house of the Lord, Ye of his court and of his house praise him with one accord. III. Praise III. Praise ye the Lord: For he is good, IV. For Jacob to himfelf the Lord AFTERNOON. PSALM CXXXV. I. HIS have I known affuredly, THIS the Lord is very great, And that our Lord above all Gods in glory hath his feat. II. What thing foever pleas'd the Lord, that in the heav'n did he, And in the earth, the feas, and all the places deep that be. III. Thy name shall still endure and thy memorial likewise, Throughout all generations, which are now, or fhall arise. Twentieth Twentieth Sunday after Trinity. PSALM CXXXV. I. ALL ye house of Ifrael, fee that ye praise the Lord, And ye that be of Aaron's houfe praise him with one accord. I. O praise the Lord of Levi's house, ye who his fervants are, And praise the holy name of God, all ye the Lord who fear. III. And out of Sion found his praife, the great praife of the Lord, Who dwelleth in Jerufalem, praise him with one accord. IV. To Father, Son, and holy Ghoft, PSALM CXXXVI. This pfalm is an exhortation to praise Jehovah for that mercy, which is over all his works of creation, prodence, and redemption, and which is over his people to bless them for ever. The burden of this fong is -" for his mercy endureth for ever" which is repeated in every verfe, to fhew that we cannot enough extol that mercy, to which we owe all our bleffings both in earth and heaven. May a fweet fenfe of it accompany our praifes this day, and may we fing in perfect harmony with the old teftament church, celebrating with thankful hearts the mercy of our God, which endureth for ever. PR I. RAISE God for he is kind, Give thanks and praises fing his mercies dure moft firm and fure II. The Lord of hosts praise ye, whose mercies still endure, Great wonders only he doth work by his great power: For certainly, &c. III. Who us remember'd when in our lowest degree, And from our fins and foes redeem'd, and fet us free. For certainly, &c. IV. Who doth all men with food abundantly supply: Wherefore let God most good be prais'd inceffantly. For certainly, &c. AFTER. AFTERNOON. PSALM CXXXVIII. This is a pfalm of praise for God's faithfulness to his word. He has magnified it above all his name. For he has fulfilled every promife made to Jefus Chrift the head of the church, and what has been made good to the head will infallibly be made good to all his members. In this faith we may use the words. They contain exceeding great and precious promises. May the Lord the Spirit apply them, and enable us to mix faith with them, that while we fing them we may be fatisfied all the bleffings here mentioned are ours. I. THEE will I praise with my whole heart, Ev'n in the presence of the gods II. Towards thy holy temple I will look and worship thee, And praised in my thankful mouth thy holy name shall be. III. Ev'n for thy mercy and thy truth, IV. Thou didst me answer in the day when I to thee did cry, And thou my fainting foul with strength didst strengthen inwardly. Twenty |