3. He fhall fend from Heaven and faye me; God shall fend forth his Mercy and Truth.

4. Be Thou exalted, O God, above the Heavens ; let thy Glory be above all the Earth.

5. My Heart is fixed, O God, my Heart is fixed; I will fing and give Praife.

6. Awake up, my Glory, awake Lute and Harp; I myfelf will awake right early.

7. I will praife Thee, O Lord, among the People; and I will fing unto Thee among the Nations.

8. For the Greatness of thy Mercy reacheth unto the Heavens, and thy Truth unto the Clouds.

9. Be Thou exalted, O God, above the Heavens, and thy Glory above all the Earth.

10. WE HAVE heard with our Ears, O God, our Fathers have told us, what Works Thou didst in their Times of old. (P xliv.)

II. How Thou didst drive out the Heathen with thy Hand, and plantedst them in; how Thou didst destroy the Nations and caft them out.

12. For they gat not the Land in Poffeffion through their own Sword; neither was it their own Arm that helped them but thy right Hand and thine Arm, and the Light of thy Countenance; becaufe Thou hadst a Favor unto them.

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13. Thou art my King, O God; fend help unto Ja

14. Through Thee will we overthrow our Enemies ; and in thy Name will we tread them under, that rife up against us.

15. For I will not truft in my Bow; it is not my Sword that shall help me but it is Thou that faveft us from our Enemies, and putteft them to Confufion that hate us.

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16. In God we make our Boaft all the Day long, and will praise thy Name for ever.

17. If we have forgotten the Name, of our God, and Holden up our Hands to any ftrange God; fhall not God fearch it out? for He knoweth the for He knoweth the very Secrets of the

Heart.

18. Arife, O Lord, and help us, and deliver us for thy Mercies-fake.

19. GREAT IS the Lord, and highly to be praised, in the City of our God, even upon his holy Hill. (P. xlviii.) 20. The Hill of Sion is a fair Place, and the Joy of the whole Earth; upon the North-fide lieth the City of the great King; God is well known in her Palaces as a fure Refuge.

21. For lo, the Kings of the Earth were affembled, and paffed by together; they marveled to fee fuch Things; they were astonished, and fuddenly caft down.

22. Fear came there upon them, and Sorrow, as upon a Woman in Travail.

23. Thou breakeft the Ships of the Sea, through the Eaft'Wind.

24. Like as We have heard, fo have We feen in the City of the Lord of Hofts, in the City of our God; God will eftablifh the fame for ever.

25. We wait for thy loving Kindness, O God, in the Midft of thy Temple.

26. O God, according to thy Name, fo is thy Praise unto the World's End: thy right Hand is full of Righteousnefs.

27. Let Mount Sion rejoice, and let the Daughter of Judah be glad, becaufe of thy Judgements.

28. Walk about Sion, and go round about her, and tell the Towers thereof.

29... Mark Ye well her Bulwarks, confider her Palaces, ye may tell them that come after.

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For this God is our God for ever and ever; He shall be our Guide unto Death.

31. Now UNTO the King eternal, immortal, invifible, the only wife God, be Honor and Glory, for ever and ever. (1 Timot. i. 17.) Amen.

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HYMN XXII. Evening.

EAR MY Crying, O God, give Ear unto my

H Prayer: from the Ends of the Earth will I call up

on Thee, when my Heart is in heaviness. (P. Ixi.). 2. O fet me upon the Rock that is higher than I; for Thou hast been my Hope and my Shelter.

3. I will dwell in thy Tabernacle for ever; and my Truft fhall be under the Covering of thy Wings.

4. For Thou, O Lord, haft heard my Defires, and hast given an Heritage unto thofe that fear thy Name.

5. Thou fhalt grant the King a long Life, that his Years may endure through many Generations.

6. He fhall dwell before God for ever: O prepare thy loving Mercy and Faithfulness, that they may preferve him.

7. So will I always fing Praife unto thy Name, that I may daily perform my Vows.

8. TRULY MY Soul waiteth ftill upon God; from Him cometh my Salvation. (P. lxii.)

9. He only is my Strength and my Salvation; He is my Defence, fo that I fhall not be greatly moved.

10. The Righteous fhall rejoice in the Lord, and put his Truft in him; and All they, that are upright in Heart, fhall be glad.

II. My Soul, wait thou ftill upon God; for my Hope is in Him.

12. In God is my Salvation and my Glory, the Rock of my Strength, and in God is my Truft.

13. O put your Truft in Him at all Times, ye People; pour out your Hearts before him; for God is a Refuge for

us.

14. As for the Children of Men of low degree, they are but Vanity; the Children of Men of high degree are a Lie; to be laid upon the Balance, they are altogether lighter than Vanity itself,

15. Give not yourselves unto Vanity if Riches encreafe, fet not your Heart upon them.

16. God fpake once, yea twice I have alfo heard the fame; that Power belongeth unto God.

17. And that Thou, Lord, art merciful; for Thou rendereft to every Man according to his Work.

18. Gop is OUR Hope and Strength; a very present Help in Trouble: therefore will We not fear, though the Earth be moved; and though the Mountains be carried into the midst of the Sea. (P. xlvi.)

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19. Though the Waters thereof roar and fwell; and though the Mountains fhake at the Tempeft of the fame.

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20. The Rivers of the Flood thereof fhall make glad the City of God; the holy Place of the Tabernacle of the most High.

21. God is in the Midft of her, therefore fhall she not be removed; God fhall keep her, and that right early.

22. The Heathen raged, and the Kingdoms were moved; but God hath uttered his Voice, and the Earth fhall melt away.

23. The Lord of Hofts is with us, the God of Jacob is our Refuge.

24. O come hither, and behold the Works of the Lord; what Defolations He hath made upon the Earth.

25. He maketh Wars to ceafe in all the World; He breaketh the Bow, and knappeth the Spear in funder, and burneth the Chariots in the Fire.

26. Be ftill then, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the Heathen, and I will be exalted in the Earth.

27. The Lord of Hofts is with us; the God of Jacob is our Refuge.

28. SALVATION, and Glory, and Honor and Power be unto the Lord our God; for true and righteous are his Judgements. (Rev. xix. 1.) Amen.

Alleluiah.

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HYMN XXIII.

Morning.

GOD, THOU art my God; early will I feek Thee ; my Soul thirfteth for Thee, my Flesh alfo longeth after Thee; in a barren and dry Land where no Water is. (Pf. lxiii.)

2. Thus have I looked for Thee, that I might behold thy Power and thy Glory, as I have feen Thee in the Sanctuary.

3. For thy loving Kindness is better than Life itfelf; my Lips fhall praife Thee.

4. As long as I live will I magnifie Thee on this manner; 1 will lift up my Hands in thy Name.

5. My Soul fhall be fatisfied, even as it were with Marrow and Fatnefs; and my Mouth fhall praise Thee with joyful Lips; when I remember Thee upon my Bed, and meditate upon Thee when I am waking.

6. Because Thou haft been my Helper; therefore under the Shadow of thy Wings will I rejoice.

... 7. My Soul hangeth upon Thee; thy right Hand hath upholden me.

8. LIKE AS THE Hart panteth after the Water-Brooks, fo longeth my Soul after Thee, O God. (PJ. xlii.)

9. My Soul is athirft for God, yea, even for the living God; when fhall I come to appear before the Prefence of God? 10. My Tears have been my Meat Day and Night while they daily fay unto me, where is now thy God?

JI. Now when I think thereupon, I pour out my Heart by myself; for I had gone with the Multitude, and went with them into the House of God; with the Voice of Praife and Thanksgiving, with a Multitude of fuch as keep holy-Day.

12. Why art thou fo full of Heaviness, O my Soul; and why art thou difquieted within me? Put thy Truft in God, for I fhall yet praife Him, for the Help of his Counte

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13. The Lord will grant his loving-Kindnefs in the Daytime and in the Night-feafon will I fing of Him, and make my Prayer unto the God of my Life.

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14. I will fay unto the God of my Strength, why haft Thou forgotten me? why go I thus heavily, while the Enemy opprefleth me?

15. Why art thou caft down, O my Soul, and why art thou fo difquieted within me? O put thy Trust in God; for I fhall yet praife Him, who is the Health of my Countenance and my God.

16. O SEND Our thy Light and thy Truth, that they may lead me; and let them bring me unto thy holy Hill, and to thy Tabernacle. (P. xliii.)

17. And then I will go unto the Altar of God, even unto the God of my Joy and Gladness: yea, upon the Harp will I praife Thee, O God, my God.

18. Why art thou fo heavy, O my Soul, and why art thou fo difquieted within me? O put thy Truft in God;

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