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LORD, keep me: for I trust in thee.
To God thus was my speech,
Thou art my Lord; and unto thee
My goodness doth not reach :

3 To saints on earth, to th' excellent,
Where my delight's all plac'd.
4 Their sorrows shall be multiplied
To other gods that haste:

Of their drink-offerings of blood
I will no off'ring make ;
Yea, neither I their very names
Up in my lips will take.

5 God is of mine inheritance
And cup the portion;
The lot that fallen is to me

Thou dost maintain alone.

6 Unto me happily the lines
In pleasant places fell;
Yea, the inheritance I got
In beauty doth excel.

7 I bless the Lord, because he doth
By counsel me conduct;
And in the seasons of the night
My reins do me instruct.

8 Before me still the Lord I set:
Sith it is so that he

Doth ever stand at my right hand,
I shall not moved be.

9 Because of this my heart is glad,
And joy shall be exprest

Ev'n by my glory; and my flesh
In confidence shall rest.

10 Because my soul in grave to dwell
Shall not be left by thee;

Nor wilt thou give thine Holy One
Corruption to see.

11 Thou wilt me shew the path of life:
Of joys there is full store
Before thy face; at thy right hand
Are pleasures evermore.

PSALM XVII.

THE illustration the same as the last. Consult the parallels, especially those referred to in the last verse of this Psalm.

According to the perfect laws
That guard the heav'nly road,
The perfect justice of his cause,
Messiah pleads with God:
If he shall stand, his foes must fall-
And fall they must to hell;

For he, deliver'd from them all,

With God in heav'n shall dwell.

LORD,

ORD, hear the right, attend my cry,
Unto my pray'r give heed,

That doth not in hypocrisy

From feigned lips proceed,

2 And from before thy presence forth
My sentence do thou send :
Toward these things that equal are
Do thou thine eyes intend.

3 Thou prov'dst mine heart, thou visit❜dst me
By night, thou did'st me try,
Yet nothing found'st; for that my mouth
Shall not sin, purpos'd I.

4 As for men's works, I, by the word

That from thy lips doth flow,

Did me preserve out of the paths
Wherein destroyers go,

5 Hold up my goings, Lord, me guide
In those thy paths divine,
So that my footsteps may not slide
Out of those ways of thine.

6 I called have on thee, O God,
Because thou wilt me hear:

That thou may'st hearken to my speech,
To me incline thine ear.

7 Thy wond'rous loving-kindness show,
Thou that, by thy right hand,
Sav'st them that trust in thee from those
That up against them stand.

8 As th' apple of the eye me keep;
In thy wings shade me close

9 From lewd oppressors, compassing Me round, as deadly foes.

10 In their own fat they are enclos'd: Their mouth speaks loftily.

11 Our steps they compass'd, and to ground Down bowing set their eye.

12 He like unto a lion is

That's greedy of his prey,

Or lion young, which lurking doth
In secret places stay.

13 Arise, and disappoint my foe,

And cast him down, O Lord:
My soul save from the wicked man,
The man which is thy sword.

14 From men, which are thy hand, O Lord,
From worldly men me save,
Which only in this present life
Their part and portion have.

Whose belly with thy treasure hid
Thou fill'st: they children have
In plenty of their goods the rest
They to their children leave,

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15 But as for me, I thine own face,
In righteousness will see;

And with thy likeness, when I wake,
I satisfied shall be.

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PSALM XVIII.

THIS remarkable Psalm, which is, every syllable, spoken by one person, stands forth in a memorable manner, and in the first line of a multitude of others, rescued from the mercy of all the commentators, (who like the unbelieving Jews of old, seldom allow free speech, even to the Holy Ghost, concerning the patriarch David); as the honest and free-hearted reader will be convinced by consulting the apostolic interpretation thereof, (and surely that is genuine), which applies it absolutely as spoken by the Rock of Israel, even by David's Lord himself; in whom every article of it is fulfilled; as the promise of Abraham's being the heir of the world was fulfilled no more in the person even of Isaac, than it was in that of Ishmael, but only in Christ, the one seed, in whom all the nations are blessed, and all the promises and amen: For this cause I will con

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fess to thee among the nations,' &c. Psalm xviii. 49. Rom. xv. 8-13.

Behold the song that David sung,

From Saul, and all his foes made free-
Messiah's praises fill'd his tongue,
When he Messiah's day did see.
For David's wars, and battles won,
Were only present signs, from God,
Of David's Lord, and David's Son,
Upon the saints of old bestow'd.

THEE will I love, O Lord, my strength,
My fortress is the Lord,

My rock, and he that doth to me

Deliverance afford:

My God, my strength, whom I will trust,

A buckler unto me,

The horn of my salvation,
And my high tow'r, is he.

3 Upon the Lord, who worthy is
Of praises, will I cry :
And then shall I preserved be
Safe from mine enemy.

4 Floods of ill men affrighted me,
Death's pangs about me went;
5 Hell's sorrows me environed;

Death's snares did me prevent.

6 In my distress I call'd on God,
Cry to my God did I ;

He from his temple heard my voice,
To his ears came my cry.

7 Th' earth, as affrighted, then did shake,
Trembling upon it siez'd:
The hills' foundations moved were,
Because he was, displeas'd.

8 Up from his nostrils came a smoke,
And from his mouth there came
Devouring fire, and coals by it
Were turned into flame.

9 He also bowed down the heav'ns,
And thence he did descend;

And thickest clouds of darkness did
Under his feet attend.

10 And he upon a cherub rode,
And thereon he did fly;

Yea, on the swift wings of the wind
His flight was from on high.

11 He darkness made his secret place:
About him, for his tent,

Dark waters were, and thickest clouds
Of th' airy firmament.

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