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S. Day xviii. 5 Thou shalt not be afraid for any terror by night: nor for the arrow that flleth by day;

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6 For the peftilence that walketh in darknefs: nor for the fick nefs that deftroyeth in the noon-day.

7 A thousand shall fall befide thee, and ten thousand at thy right hand: but it fhall not come nigh thee.

78 Yea, with thine eye fhalt thou behold: and fee the reward of the ungodly.

9 For thou, Lord, art my hope: thou haft fet thine houfe of defence very high.

to There fhall no evil happen unto thee: neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.

- II *For he fhall give his angels charge over thee: to keep thee in all thy ways.

12 They fhall bear thee in their hands: that thou hurt not thy foot against a stone.

13. Thou fhalt go upon the lion and adder: the young lion and the dragon fhalt thou tread under thy feet.

14 Because he hath fet his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him: I will fet him up, because he hath known my Name. 15 He fhall call upon me, and I will hear him: yea, I am with him in trouble; I will deliver him, and bring him to honour. 16 With long life will I fatisfy him: and fhew him my salva

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§ Pfalm 92. Bonum eft confiteri.

HT is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord: and to fing praises unto thy Name, O most Higheft;

For he shall give his Angels charge over thee, &c. This paffage Satan quoted in order to induce our Saviour to caft himself down from a Pinnacle of the

Temple, Mat. iii. And tho' our Lord very properly repulfed the Temptation by another quotation: yet ve y good Chriftian may juftly hope for the fupport and protection of God and his Angels amidst dangers and diftreffes that are not of his own procuring. But if we rafhly and unneceffarily expofe ourselves to troubles and difficulties in conndence of a fupernatu

ral deliverance; we thereby tempt God, and muft expect to reap the fruits of our Fait,"

§ This Pfalm was par.icularly compofed to be fung upon the Sabbath Day. The Ffa mit her in joyfully celebrates the wonderful works of God; but especially the wife conduct of his Providence towards the Wiesed and the Righteous: reprefenting that though the Wicked may flourish fo. a time, yet they are rooted. out at the last; whereas the Righteous partak conti nually and abundantly in God's favour and protection.

2 To tell of thy loving kindness early in the morning: and of thy truth in the night-feafon;

3 Upon an inftrument of ten ftrings, and upon the lute: upon a loud inftrument, and upon the harp.

4 For thou, Lord, haft made me glad through thy works: and I will rejoice in giving praife for the operations of thy hands.;

5 O Lord, how glorious are thy works: thy thoughts are very deep. 6 An unwife man doth not well confider this: and a fool doth not underftandit.

7 When the ungodly are green as the grafs, and when all the workers of wickedness do flourish: then fhall they be destroyed for ever; but thou, Lord, art moft Higheft for evermore..

8 For lo, thine enemies, O Lord, lo, thine enemies fhall perish: and all the workers of wickednefs fhall be destroyed.,

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But mine horn fhall be exalted like the horn of an unicorn: for I am anointed with fresh oil.

10 Mine eye also shall fee his luft of mine enemies: and mine ear fhall hear his defire of the wicked that arise up against me.

II The righteous fhall flourish like a palm-tree: and fhall fpread abroad like a cedar in Libanus.

13 Such as be planted in the house of the Lord: fhall flourish in the courts of the houfe of our God.

14 They alfo fhall bring forth more fruit in their age: and fhall be fat and well liking.

15 That they may fhew how true the Lord my ftrength is: and that there is no unrighteousness in him.

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EVENING PRAYER.

‡ Pfalm 93. Dominus regnavit.

HE Lord is King, and hath put on glorious apparel: the
Lord hath put on his apparel, and girded himself withstrength.

It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, Sc. To celebrate the praises of God ought deservedly to be a part of every Days employment; but especially of the Lord's Day: which was defigne. not fo much to afford a fluggish eafe to the Body, as an enlivening

reft to the Mind, that Man being detached from all worldly Bufinefs, might collect all his faculties to me▾ ditate upon and celebrate the works of Ged.

The removal of the Ak to Mount Sien is fuppofed to have been the occafion of this Pfalm; in which the

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2. He hath made the round world fo fure: that it cannot be moved.

3 Ever fince the world began hath thy feat been prepared: thou art from everlasting.

4 The floods are rifen, O Lord, the floods have lift up their voice: the floods lift up their waves.

5 The waves of the fea are mighty, and rage horribly: but yet the Lord, who dwelleth on high, is mightier.

6 Thy teftimonies, O Lord, are very fure: holiness becometh thine houfe for ever.

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Pfalm 94. Deus ultionum.

Lord God, to whom vengeance belongeth: thou God, to whom vengeance belongeth, fhew thyself.

2 Arife, thou Judge of the world: and reward the proud after their deferving.

3 Lord, how long fhall the ungodly: how long fhall the ungodly triumph?

4 How long fhall all wicked doers fpeak fo difdainfully: and make fuch proud boasting?

5 They fmite down thy people, O Lord: and trouble thine heritage.

6 They murder the widow, and the ftranger: and put the fa

therlefs to death.

7 And yet they fay, Tufh, the Lord fhall not fee: neither fhall the God of Jacob regard it.

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8 Take heed, ye unwife among the people: O ye fools, when will understand?

Prophet celebrates the Majesty of God, and the Sovereign power by which he governs the World, and particularly his People

From the nature of this Pfalm it feems to have been compofed in the Babylonifh captivity, or under fome other grievous oppreffion. The Pfalmift here defcribing the distress to which the Ifraelites were

reduced by the cruelty of their Enemies; whofe in folence, impiety and blafphemies he represents i and goodness of God in the chaftifements he had invery ftriking light. He however adores the wildom flicted upon his People; and foretels their deliverance and the deftruction of their Enemies.

9 He that planted the ear, fhall he not hear or he that made the eye, fhall he not fee?

To Or he that nurtureth the heathen: it is he that teacheth man knowledge, fhall not he punish?

II The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man: that they are but

vain.

12 B'effed is the man whom thou chaftnest, O Lord: and teachest him in thy law.

13 That thou mayeft give him patience in time of adverfity: until the pit be digged up for the ungodly.

14 For the Lord will not fail his people: neither will he forfake his inheritance;

15 Until righteousness turn again unto judgment: all fuch as are true in heart, fhall follow it.

16 Who will rise up with me against the wicked: or who will take my part against the evil doers?

17 If the Lord had not helped me: it had not failed, but my foul had been put to filence.

18 But when I faid, My foot hath flipped: thy mercy, O Lord, held me up.

19 In the multitude of the forrows that I had in my heart: thy comforts have refreshed my foul.

20 Wilt thou have any thing to do with the stool of wickednefs: which imagineth mischief as a law?

21 They gather them together against the foul of the righteous: and condemn the innocent blood.

22 But the Lord is my refuge: and my God is the ftrength of my confidence.

23 He fhall recompence them their wickednefs, and destroy them in their own malice: yea, the Lord our God fhall destroy them.

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PRAYER,

Pfalm 95. Venite, exultemus..

Come, let us fing unto the Lord; let us heartily rejoice in the ftrength of our falvation.`)

2 Let us come before his prefence with thanksgiving: and fhew ourfelves glad in him with pfalms."

3 For the Lord is a great God: and a great King above all gods. 4 In his hand are all the corners of the earth: and the strength of the hills is his alfo.

5 The fea is his, and he made it: and his hands prepared the dry land.

6. O come, let us worship, and fall down: and kneel before the Lord our Maker.

7 For he is the Lord our God: and we are the people of his paf ture, and the sheep of his hand.

18. To day if ye will hear his voice harden not your hearts: as in the provocation, and as in the day of temptation in the wildernefedt

9 When your fathers tempted me: proved me, and faw my works.

10 Forty years long was I grieved with this generation, and faid: It is a people that do err in their hearts, for they have not known my ways;

11. Unto whom I fware in my wrath: *that they should not enter into my reft.

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|| Pfalm 96. Cantate Domino. Sing unto the Lord a new fong:

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Land of Canaan. The Apoftle to the Hebrews explains, with refpect to Chriftians, of Heaven, Heb. iv. And as the Ifraelites through their Unbelief came fhort of Canaan: So the Apeitle fays, let us labour to enter into that Reft (of Heaven) left any Man fall after the Jane example of Unbelief.

|| David compofed this Pfalm upon the removal of the Ark to Sion. It is thought to contain an illuf

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