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14 Thou haft a mighty arm: strong is thy hand, an♂ high is thy right hand.

15 Righteoufaefs and equity are the habitation of thy feat mercy and truth fhall go before thy face.

16 Bleffed is the people, O Lord, that can rejoice in thee : they fhall walk in the light of thy countenance.

17 Their delight fhall be daily in thy Name: and in thy righteoufnefs fhall they make their boaft.

18 For thou art the glory of their ftrength and in thy loving kindness thou shalt lift up our horns.

19 For the Lord is our defence: the holy one of Ifrael is our King.

20 Thou fpakeft sometime in vifions unto thy faints, and faidft: I have laid help upon one that is mighty, I have exalted one chofen out of the people.

21 I have found David my fervant: with my holy oil have I anointed him.

22 My hand fhall hold him faft: and my arm fhail ftrengthen him.

23 The enemy fhall not be able to do him violence: the fon of wickednefs fhall not hurt him.

24 I will fmite down his foes before his face: and plague them that hate him.

25 My truth alfo and my mercy fhall be with him and in my Name fhall his horn be exalted.

26 I will fet his dominion alfo in the fea: and his right hand in the floods.

27 He fhall call me, Thou art my Father: my God, and my ftrong falvation.

28 And I will make him my firft born: higher than the kings of the earth.

29 My mercy will I keep for him for evermore and my covenant fhall it and faft with him.

30 His feed alfo will I make to endure for ever: and his throne as the days of heaven.

31 But if his children forfake my law: and walk not in my judgments.

32 If they break my ftatutes, and keep not my commandments: I will vifit their offences with the rod, and their fin with fcourges.

33 Never

33 Nevertheless, my loving kindness will I not utterly take from him nor fuffer my truth to fail.

34 My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone out of my lips: I have fworn once by my holinefs, that I will not fail David.

35 His feed fhall endure for ever: and his feat is like as the fun before me.

36 He fhall ftand fast for evermore as the moon and as the faithful witnefs in heaven.

37 But thou haft abhorred, and forfaken thine Anointed: and art displeased at him.

38 Thou hast broken the covenant of thy fervant: and' caft his crown to the ground.

39 Thou haft overthrown all his hedges; and broken down his ftrong holds.

40 All they that go by, fpoil him: and he is become a reproach to his neighbours.

41 Thou haft fet up the right hand of his enemies and made all his adverfaries to rejoice.

42 Thou haft taken away the edge of his fword: and giveft him not victory in the battle.

43 Thou haft put out his glory and caft his throne down to the ground.

44 The days of his youth haft thou fhortned: and covered him with dishonour.

45 Lord, how long wilt thou hide thy felf, for ever: and fhall thy wrath burn like fire?

46 O remember how fhort my time is: wherefore haft thou made all men for nought?

47 What man is he that liveth, and fhall not fee death: and fhall he deliver his foul from the hand of hell?

48 Lord, where are thy old loving kindneffes: which thou fwareft unto David in thy truth?

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Pfalm lxxxix.] 1. The reading of this pfalm fhould animate us with an holy zeal to declare the loving kindness of the Lord, his power and faithfulness, which appear in the creation and government of the world, and in the wonders he has done, not only for the children of Ifracl, but

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49 Remember, Lord, the rebuke that thy fervants have: and how I do bear in my bofom the rebukes of many people." 50 Wherewith thine enemies have blafphemed thee, and flandered the footsteps of thine Anointed: praised be the Lord for evermore. Amen, and Amen.

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MORNING PRAYER.

Pfalm xc, Domine, refugium.

ORD, thou hait been our refuge from one generation. to another.

2 Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever the earth and the world were made: thou art God from everlafting; and world without end.

3 Thou turnest man to deftruction: again, thou fayeft, Come again, ye children of men.

4 For a thousand years in thy fight are but as yesterday: feeing that is past as a watch in the night.

5 As foon as thou scattereft them, they are even as a sleep : and fade away fuddenly like the grass.

6 In the morning it is green, and groweth up: but in the evening it is cut down, dried up, and withered.

7 For we confume away in thy difpleasure: and are afraid at thy wrathful indignation.

8 Thou haft fet our misdeeds before thee: and our secret fins in the light of thy countenance.

9 For when thou art angry, all our days are gone: we bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told:

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OBSERVATION S. alfo in behalf of the Christian church. 2. What is here faid of the promifes made to David and his pofterity, and the deplorable condition which the defcendants of that prince were reduced to, thews, that God protects kings and nations whilft they continue faithful to him; but when they break his covenant, he withdraws his protection from them; that, nevertheless, he does not forfake them entirely, and chaftifes them only for their converfion, and to bring them to himself. 3. We must remember, that the covenant which God had made with David, and the promifer with which he had engaged to establish his throne and pofterity for ever, related to the Meffiah; and that it was verified in the kingdom of our Lord Jefus Chrift, which will fubfift to all eternity.

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10 The days of our age are threefcore years and ten; and though men be fo ftrong, that they come to fourfcore years: yet is their strength then but labour and forrow; fo foon paffeth it away, and we are gone.

11 But who regardeth the power of thy wrath: for even thereafter as a man feareth, fo is thy displeasure.

12 So teach us to number our days; that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom,

13 Turn thee again, O Lord, at the laft: and be gracious unto thy fervants.

14 O fatify us with thy mercy, and that foon: fo fhall we rejoice and be glad all the days of our life,

15 Comfort us again, now after the time that thou hast plagued us and for the years wherein we have fuffered adverfity.

16 Shew thy fervants thy work: and their children thy glory,

17 And the glorious Majefty of the Lord our God be upon us: profper thou the work of our hands upon us; O profper thou our handy-work.

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Pfalm xci. Qui habitat.

HOSO dwelleth under the defence of the moft High: fhall abide under the fhadow of the Almighty.

PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS.

Pfalm xc.] 1. We here learn, that God, who is the Creator of the world, and has given men life, makes them, when he pleases, return to duft; that life is fhort, and is foon passed away, and is moreover attended with many troubles and afflictions. 2. We are to confider, that as the rebellion of the Ifraelites expofed them to the wrath of God, and to death in the wilderness; fo the miferies of this life, and death itself, are the confequences of fin; but to the children of God, death is an effect of his love, and a means which he makes ufe of to procure their happiness. 3. Mofes teaches us, that the ufe we ought to make of our knowledge of the thortness of this life, is to learn from hence to become wife, and fear God, and by prayer to apply to him, that whilft we remain in this world he would be pleafed always to grant us his grace, and make us at all times feel the effects of his bounty, that we may pass this life in peace and happiness. Lastly, The confideration of the vanities of the prefent life, hould raise our thoughts to the expectation of a better, and make us afpire after that immortality which is prepared for us in the heavens, and has been purchased for us by Jefus Christ our Lord.

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2 I will fay unto the Lord, Thou art my hope, and my frong hold my God, in him will I truft.

3 For he fhall deliver thee from the fnare of the hunter: and from the noifome peftilence.

4 He fhall defend thee under his wings, and thou fhalt be fafe under his feathers: his faithfulness and truth fhall be thy fhield and buckler.

5 Thou shalt not be afraid for any terror by night: nor for the arrow that flieth by day;

6 For the peftilence that walketh in darkness: nor for the fickness that deftroyeth in the noon-day.

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

8 Yea, with thine eyes fhalt thou behold

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

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

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

12 They shall bear thee in their hands that thou hurt not thy foot against a ftone.

13 Thou shalt 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, becaufe 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 my falvation.

and fhew him

PRACTICAL OBSERVATIONS.

Pfalm xci.] We may fee in this pfalm how happy thofe are that tru in God, and draw near to him. God commands his angels to keep them from all dangers; he loves them tenderly; he preferves them from every thing that might hurt them, delivers them when they call upon him in

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