III.

Age fhall thy works praife unto age,
The mighty works fhew done by thee,
I will fpeak of the glorious grace
And honor of thy majesty:

IV.

Thy wondrous works I will record.
By men the might fhall be extoll'd
Of all thy fearful acts, O Lord,
And I thy greatnefs will unfold.

PSALM CXLV.

I.

THY kingdom, Lord, fhall never end,
It doth thro' ages all remain ;

The Lord upholdeth all that fall,
The caft-down raiseth up again :

II.

The eyes of all things, Lord, attend,.
And on thee wait that here do live,.
And thou in feafon due doft fend
Sufficient food them to relieve.

III.

Yea thou thy hand doft open wide

And ev'ry thing doft fatisfy

That lives, and does on earth abide
Of thy great liberality:

IV. The

IV.

The Lord is just in all his ways
And holy in his works each one :
He's 'near to all who on him call,
Who call in truth on him alone.

AFTERNOON.

PSALM CXLV.

I.

GOD will accomplish the defire

of those who do him fear,

He also will deliver them

and he their cry will hear.

II.

The Lord preferves all who him love,
that nought can them annoy,
But he all those who wicked are
will utterly destroy.

III.

My thankful mouth fhall gladly speak the praises of the Lord:

All flesh to praise his holy name

for ever fhall accord.

IV.

To Father, Son, and holy Ghost,

the God whom we adore,

Be glory as it was, is now, and fhall be evermore.

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Twenty-third Sunday after Trinity.

PSALM CXLVI.

This is a pfalm of praife. It begins and ends with Hallelujah. Every word tends to lead us so to truft in God, as to find reafon to love him, and to praise him. To this end we are required to put no truft in any man or thing, which may draw away our hearts from God, but in every difficulty to reft entirely upon God as our loving Father in Jefus with perfect confidence, and then we fhall always find in him matter of praife. Several inftances are here given of his faving his people in their greateft diftreffes: From whence we are encouraged to depend upon his all-fufficiency, his truth, and his mercy, and we fhall experience the fame falvation. O. for a heart to thank the Lord according to the spirit of this. hymn. It calls for much thankfulnefs. May we mix faith with it, and fing rejoicing: So that our God may be exalted, and our fouls comforted..

I.

PRAISE the Lord: Praise him, O my foul, I'll praise God while I live,.

While I have being, to my God in pfalms I'll praises give.

II.

Truft not in worldly princes then
tho' they abound in wealth,
Nor in the fons of mortal men.
in whom there is no health...

III. For

III.

For when their breath from them departs to earth anon they fall,

And then the counfels of their hearts. decay and perish all.

PSALM CXLVI.

HAPPY is that man and bleft
whom Jacob's God doth aid,

Whofe hope upon the Lord doth reft
and on his God is stay'd.

́II.

Who made the earth and highest heav'ns, who made the swelling deep; And all that is within the fame, who truth doth ever keep.

HI.

Who righteous judgment executes
for those oppreft that be,
Who to the hungry giveth food,,
God fets the pris'ners free.

IV.

The Lord fhall reign for evermore,,

thy God, O Sion, he

Shall reign from age to age alone :: praise to the Lord give ye..

AFTER

AFTERNOON.

PSALM CXLVII.

Here the pfalmift ftill fings the praises of God for his great love to, and care over his church. He is very particular in his defcription, fetting forth the perfections of God, which are difplayed in all his dealings with his people. May his Spirit teach us the true fenfe of this hymn, and if he enable us to fee all the bleffings here mentioned our own, then we fhall fing it with grateful hearts unto the praise of our God.

I.

PRAISE ye the Lord, for it is good unto our God to fing,

For it is pleasant, and to praife is a moft comely thing.

II.

The Lord his own Jerufalem
he buildeth up alone,
And the difpers'd of Ifrael
doth gather into one.

III.

He heals the broken in their heart,
their wounds up doth he bind,
He counts the number of the ftars,
and names them in their kind,

IV.

In all of them who do him fear the Lord doth pleasure take,

In those that to his mercy do. by hope themselves betake.

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