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All workers of iniquity

Thou hat'st; and them unbleft

Thou wilt destroy that speak a ly;

The bloody' and guileful man God doth detest.

But I will in thy mercies dear,

Thy numerous mercies, go

Into thy house; I in thy fear

Will tow'rds thy holy temple worship low.

Lord, lead me in thy righteousness,

Lead me because of thofe

That do obferve if I tranfgrefs:

Set thy ways right before, where my step goes;

For in his faltring mouth unstable

No word is firm or footh;

Their infide, troubles miferable;

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An open grave their throat, their tongue they fmooth.

God, find them guilty; let them fall

By their own counfels quell'd;

Push them in their rebellions all

Still on; for against thee they have rebell'd.
Then all who truft in thee shall bring

Their joy, while thou from blame

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Defend'ft them, they fhall ever fing

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And shall triumph in thee, who love thy name.

For thou, Jehovah, wilt be found

To bless the juft man still,

As with a fhield thou wilt furround

Him with thy lafting favor and good-will.

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PSAL. VI.

PSA L. VI. Aug. 13, 1653..

LORD, in thine anger do not reprehend me,

Nor in thy hot displeasure me correct;

Pity me, Lord, for I am much deject,

And very weak and faint; heal and amend me:
For all my bones, that ev'n with anguish ake,
Are troubled, yea my foul is troubled fore,
And thou, O Lord, how long? turn, Lord, restore
My foul, O fave me for thy goodness' fake :
For in death no remembrance is of thee;

Who in the grave can celebrate thy praise?
Wearied I am with fighing out my days,
Nightly my couch I make a kind of fea;
My bed I water with my tears; mine eye
Through grief confumes, is waxen old and dark

I' th' midft of all mine enemies that mark.

Depart all ye that work iniquity,

Depart from me, for the voice of my weeping

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The Lord hath heard, the Lord hath heard my

prayer,

My fupplication with acceptance fair

The Lord will own, and have me in his keeping. 20 Mine enemies fhall all be blank and dafh'd

With much confufion; then grown red with fhame, They shall return in hafte the way they came, And in a moment shall be quite abash'd.

PSA L. VII.

PSA L. VII. Aug. 14, 1653.

Upon the words of Cufh the Benjamite against him.

LORD, my God, to thee I fly,

Save me and fecure me under

Thy protection while I cry,
Left as a lion (and no wonder)
He hafte to tear my foul afunder,
Tearing and no rescue nigh.

Lord, my God, if I have thought
Or done this, if wickedness

Be in my hands, if I have wrought
Ill to him that meant me peace,
Or to him have render'd lefs,
And not free'd my foe for nought;

Let th' enemy pursue my foul
And overtake it, let him tread
My life down to the earth, and roll
In the duft my glory dead,

In the duft, and there out-fpread
Lodge it with dishonor foul.

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Rife, Jehovah, in thine ire,

Roufe thyself amidst the rage

Of my foes that urge like fire;
And wake for me, their fury' affwage;

Judgment here thou didst engage
And command, which I defire.

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But the just establish fast,

Since thou art the just God that tries
Hearts and reins. On God is caft
My defence, and in him lies,
In him who, both just and wife,
Saves th' upright of heart at last.

God is a juft judge and severe,
And God is every day offended;

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If th' unjust will not forbear,

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His fword he whets, his bow hath bended

Already, and for him intended

The tools of death, that waits him near.

VOL. III.

(His

(His arrows purposely made he
For them that perfecute.) Behold
He travels big with vanity,
Trouble he hath conceiv'd of old
As in a womb, and from that mold
Hath at length brought forth a lie.

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Jehovah our Lord, how wondrous great

And glorious is thy name through all the earth!

So as above the Heav'ns thy praise to set

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Out of the tender mouths of latest birth.

Out of the mouths of babes and fucklings thou
Haft founded strength because of all thy foes,
To ftint th' enemy, and flack th' avenger's brow,
That bends his rage thy providence to' oppose.

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