eminently picturesque, and descriptive of the gradual progress and advancement of the Lord Jesus Christ, the Prince of Peace, the Captain of Salvation, going forwards, by the due degrees appointed of the Father, to the heavenly kingdom and glory.-Parallel to Psal. cxviii. &c.

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IN

The Lord of Life, the Prince of Peace,
Among his bitter foes sojourns—
How sad, how desp'rate is the case
Of him who at the Saviour spurns!

N my distress to God I cry'd,
And he gave ear to me.

2 From lying lips, and guileful tongue,
O Lord, my soul set free.

3 What shall be giv'n thee? or what shall Be done to thee, false tongue ?

4 Ev'n burning coals of juniper,
Sharp arrows of the strong.

5 Woe's me that I in Meshech am
A sojourner so long;
That I in tabernacles dwell
To Kedar that belong.

6 My soul with him that hateth peace
Hath long a dweller been.

7 I am for peace; but when I speak, For battle they are keen.

PSALM CXXI.

Spoken partly by, and partly of, the Prince Messiah, the Shepherd of Israel; whose state and safety, in connection with his followers, by the way of dialogue and chorus, are here declared and described.― Parallel to Psal. xvi. xci. &c.

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Iי

Our Shepherd, Father, Lord, and God,
Our Guide and Guardian evermore,
Shall lead us to his own abode;
For Christ our Captain goes before.

TO the hills will lift mine
eyes,
From whence doth come mine aid,
2 My safety cometh from the Lord,
Who heav'n and earth hath made.
3 Thy foot he'll not let slide, nor will
He slumber that thee keeps.

4 Behold, he that keeps Israel,

He slumbers not, nor sleeps.

5 The Lord thee keeps, the Lord thy shade On thy right hand doth stay:

6 The moon by night thee shall not smite, Nor yet the sun by day.

7 The Lord shall keep thy soul; he shall Preserve thee from all ill.

8 Henceforth thy going out and in God keep for ever will.

PSALM CXXII.

CHRIST is the speaker of this Psalm; and his angels express the spirit of it, while they sing, with glory shining all around, Glory to God in the highest! peace on earth! good-will towards men!'

O, glory, glory, glory sound,
Jerusalem, unto thy God!

Let heav'n and earth thy song rebound!
For grace and peace are thine abode.

JOY'D when to the house of God,
Go up, they said to me.

2 Jerusalem, within thy gates

Our feet shall standing be.

3 Jerus❜lem, as a city, is

Compactly built together:

4 Unto that place the tribes go up, The tribes of God go thither:

To Isr'el's testimony, there

To God's name thanks to pay. 5 For thrones of judgment, ev'n the thrones Of David's house, there stay.

6 Pray that Jerusalem may have
Peace and felicity:

Let them that love thee and thy peace
Have still prosperity.

7 Therefore I wish that peace may still
Within thy walls remain,

And ever may thy palaces

Prosperity retain.

8 Now, for my friends' and brethren's sakes, Peace be in thee, I'll say.

9 And for the house of God our Lord, I'll seek thy good alway.

PSALM CXXIII.

HERE the Lord, the alone speaker in this Psalm, intercedes for himself, and for all his followers, in whose afflictions he is afflicted, with the feeling of whose infirmities he is touched; leaving us an example, that we should follow his steps.

Lo, thus Messiah intercedes,

And acts the sympathising part:
His grieved heart for's brethren bleeds,'
And all their sorrows wound his heart.

10THOU that dwellest in the heav'ns,
I lift mine eyes to thee.

2 Behold, as servants eyes do look
Their master's hand to see,

As handmaid's eyes her mistress' hand;
So do our eyes attend

Upon the Lord our God, until

To us he mercy send.

3 O Lord, be gracious to us,
Unto us gracious be;
Because replenish'd with contempt
Exceedingly are we.

4 Our soul is fill'd with scorn of those
That at their ease abide,
And with the insolent contempt
Of those that swell in pride.

PSALM CXXIV.

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THE church delivered, and triumphing with her Lord.

1

Th' almighty Lord, upon our side,
(Avaunt ye, all malicious foes!)
Roll'd back again the swelling tide,
When death and hell against us rose.

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AD not the Lord been on our side,
May Israel now say;

2 Had not the Lord been on our side,
When men rose us to slay;

3 They had us swallow'd quick, when as Their wrath 'gainst us did flame:

4 Waters had cover'd us, our soul Had sunk beneath the stream.

5 Then had the waters, swelling high, Over our soul made way.

6 Bless'd be the Lord, who to their teeth

not for a prey.

7 Our soul's escaped, as a bird
Out of the fowler's snare;bas
The snare asunder broken is, sond
And we escaped are.

8 Our sure and all-sufficient help
Is in JEHOVAH's name;

His name who did the heav'n create,
And who the earth did frame.

Another of the same.

1 NOW Israel

May say, and that truly,

If that the Lord

Had not our cause maintain'd;
2 If that the Lord

Had not our right sustain'd,
When cruel men

Against us furiously.
Rose up in wrath,

To make of us their prey;

3 Then certainly

They had devour'd us all,
And swallow'd quick,

For ought that we could deem;
Such was their rage,

As we might well esteem.. 4 And as fierce floods

as

Before them all things drown,
So had they brought

Our soul to death quite down.

5 The raging streams,

With their proud swelling waves, Had then our soul

O'erwhelmed in the deep.

6 But bless'd be God,

Who doth us safely keep,