1 2 LORD, keep me: for I trust in thee. 3 To saints on earth, to th' excellent, Of their drink-offerings of blood 5 God is of mine inheritance Thou dost maintain alone. 6 Unto me happily the lines 7 I bless the Lord, because he doth 8 Before me still the Lord I set: Doth ever stand at my right hand, 9 Because of this my heart is glad, Ev'n by my glory; and my flesh 10 Because my soul in grave to dwell Nor wilt thou give thine Holy One 11 Thou wilt me shew the path of life: 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 For he, deliver'd from them all, With God in heav'n shall dwell. LORD, ORD, hear the right, attend my cry, That doth not in hypocrisy From feigned lips proceed, 2 And from before thy presence forth 3 Thou prov'dst mine heart, thou visit❜dst me 4 As for men's works, I, by the word That from thy lips doth flow, Did me preserve out of the paths 5 Hold up my goings, Lord, me guide 6 I called have on thee, O God, That thou may'st hearken to my speech, 7 Thy wond'rous loving-kindness show, 8 As th' apple of the eye me keep; 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 13 Arise, and disappoint my foe, And cast him down, O Lord: 14 From men, which are thy hand, O Lord, Whose belly with thy treasure hid : 15 But as for me, I thine own face, And with thy likeness, when I wake, 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 yea 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- THEE will I love, O Lord, my strength, 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, 3 Upon the Lord, who worthy is 4 Floods of ill men affrighted me, Death's snares did me prevent. 6 In my distress I call'd on God, He from his temple heard my voice, 7 Th' earth, as affrighted, then did shake, 8 Up from his nostrils came a smoke, 9 He also bowed down the heav'ns, And thickest clouds of darkness did 10 And he upon a cherub rode, Yea, on the swift wings of the wind 11 He darkness made his secret place: Dark waters were, and thickest clouds |