The Lord of glory dedicates

Himself, with all his house, to God,
Acknowledging, in both estates,

The mercy that his Father show'd :
His anger lasted but a while;

For, when the night of death was o'er,
The rising morn began to smile
With mercy, lasting evermore.

1LORD, I will thee extol, for thou
Hast lifted me on high,

And over me thou to rejoice
Mad'st not mine enemy.

2 0 thou who art the Lord my God,
I in distress to thee,

With loud cries lifted up my voice,
And thou hast healed me.

30 Lord, my soul thou hast brought up,
And rescu'd from the grave;
That I to pit should not go down,
Alive thou didst me save.

4 O ye that are his holy ones,
Sing praise unto the Lord;
And give unto him thanks, when
His holiness record.

5 For but a moment lasts his wrath;
Life in his favour lies:
Weeping may for a night endure,
At morn doth joy arise.

6 In my prosperity I said

That nothing shall me move.

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7 O Lord, thou hast my mountain made To stand strong by thy love.

But when that thou, O gracious God,
Did'st hide thy face from me,

Then quickly was my prosp'rous state
Turn'd into misery.

8 Wherefore unto the Lord my cry

I caused to ascend:

My humble supplication

I to the Lord did send.

9 What profit is there in my blood,
When I go down to pit?

Shall unto thee the dust give praise?
Thy truth declare shall it?"

10 Hear, Lord, have mercy; help me Lord. Thou turned hast my sadness

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To dancing; yea, my sackcloth loos'd,
And girded me with gladness;

12 That sing thy praise my glory may,
And never silent be.

O Lord my God, for evermore
I will give thanks to thee.

PSALM XXXI.

Of all the memorable things, testified beforehand concerning Christ in the Psalms, there is none recorded in the New Testament, as more remarkably and literally fulfilled than his last words upon the cross, crying with a loud voice, Luke xxiii. 46.

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ther, into thy hands 1 commend my spirit:' which words are evidently taken from the prophetic record in the 5th verse of this Psalm. Now, this Psalm being all spoken in one person, this undeniable application of one conspicuous part thereof must infallibly determine the sense of the whole, and consequently, for the same reason, of all the parallels thereof; for which the reader is referred to his own sagacity and taste in such matters, and to the marginal refer

ences.

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* Prose Psalms of the Bible.

Messiah, trusting in his God
Unto his last expiring breath,
Bold through his sin-atoning blood,
Rejoices in the pangs of death;
And loudly cries, (let sinners hear!)
My God, my spirit I commend
'Into thine hands:-Thy servant dear
Returns to thee, the sinner's friend !"

1. TN thee, O Lord, I put my trust,
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Sham'd let me never be;

According to thy righteousness
Do thou deliver me.

2 Bow down thine ear to me with speed
Send me deliverance :

To save me, my strong rock be thou,
And my house of defence.

3 Because thou art my rock, and thee
I for my fortress take;

Therefore do thou me lead and guide,
Ev'n for thine own name's sake.

4 And sith thou art my strength, therefore
Pull me out of the net,
Which they in subtilty for me
So privily have set.

5 Into thine hands I do commit
My sp'rit for thou art he,

O thou, JEHOVAH, God of truth,
Thou hast redeemed me.

6 Those that do lying vanities
Regard, I have abhorr'd:

But as for me, my

confidence

Is fixed on the Lord.

7 I'll in thy mercy gladly joy :

For thou my miseries

Consider'd hast; thou hast my soul
Known in adversities :

8 And thou hast not inclosed me
Within the en❜my's hand;

And by thee have my feet been made
In a large room to stand.

9 O Lord, upon me mercy have,
For trouble is on me:

Mine eye, my belly, and my soul,
With grief consumed be.

10 Because my life with grief is spent,
My years with sighs and groans:
My strength doth fail; and for my sin
Consumed are my bones.

11 I was a scorn to all my foes,

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And to my friends a fear;

And specially reproach'd of those
That were my neighbours near:
When they me saw they from me fled,
Ev'n so I am forgot,

As men are out of mind when dead:
I'm like a broken pot.

13 For slanders I of many heard;
Fear compass'd me, while they
Against me did consult, and plot
To take my life away.

14 But as for me, O Lord, my trust
Upon thee I did lay;

And I to thee, Thou art my God,
Did confidently say.

15 My times are wholly in thine hand :
Do thou deliver me

From their hands that mine enemies
And persecutors be.

16 Thy countenance to shine do thou
Upon thy servant make:

Unto me give salvation,

For thy great mercies' sake.

17 Let me not be asham'd, O Lord,
For on thee call'd I have;

Let wicked men be sham'd, let them
Be silent in the grave.

18 To silence put the lying lips,

That grievous things do say,
And hard reports, in pride and scorn,
On righteous men do lay.

19 How great's the goodness thou for them
That fear thee keep'st in store,

And wrought'st for them that trust in thee
The sons of men before!

20 In secret of thy presence thou

Shalt hide them from man's pride : From strife of tongues thou closely shalt, As in a tent, them hide.

21 All praise and thanks be to the Lord; For he hath magnify'd

His wondrous love to me within 'A city fortify'd.

22. For from thine eyes cut off I am,

I in my haste had said;

My voice yet heard'st thou, when to thee
With cries my moan I made.

30 love the Lord, all ye his saints;
Because the Lord doth guard
The faithful, and he plenteously
Proud doers doth reward.

4 Be of good courage, and he strength
Unto your heart shall send,
All ye whose hope and confidence
Doth on the Lord depend.