23 Whoso doth offer praise,
me glorifies, and I

Will shew him God's salvation,
that orders right his way.

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SECOND VERSION.

(HE mighty God the Lord hath spoke, and call'd the earth upon,

Ev'n from the rising of the sun,

unto his going down.

2 From out of Zion his own hill,
where the perfection high

Of beauty is, from thence the Lord,
hath shined gloriously.

3 Our God shall come, and shall no more
be silent, but speak out:
Before him fire shall waste, great storms
shall compass him about.

4 He, to the heavens from above,
and to the earth below,

Shall call, that he his judgments may
before his people show.

5 Let all my saints together be,
unto me gathered :

Those that by sacrifice with me

a covenant have made.

6 And then the heavens shall declare
his righteousness abroad

Because the Lord himself doth come,
none else is judge but God.

Hear, O my people, and I'll speak ;
O Israel by name,

Against thee I will testify,
God, ev'n thy God, I am.

8 I, for thy sacrifices few,
reprove thee never will;

Nor for burnt-off'rings to have been
before me offer'd still.

9 I'll take no bullock, nor he-goats,
from house nor fold of thine.
10 For beasts of forests, cattle all
on thousand hills, are mine.

11 The fowls are all to me well known that mountains high do yield : And I do challenge as mine own the wild beasts of the field.

12 If I were hungry, I would not
to thee for need complain;

For earth, and all its fulness, doth
to me of right pertain.

13 That I to eat the flesh of bulls
take pleasure, dost thou think?
Or that I need, to quench my thirst,
the blood of goats to drink?

14 Nay rather unto me, thy God, thanksgiving offer thou;

To the most High perform thy word, and fully pay thy vow.

15 And in the day of trouble great,
see that thou call on me ;

I will deliver thee, and thou
my name shalt glorify.

16 But God unto the wicked saith,

why should'st thou mention make Of my commands? how dars't thou in thy mouth my cov'nant take?

17 Sith it is so that thou dost hate all good instruction;

And sith thou cast'st behind thy back,
and slights my words each one.

18 When thou a thief didst see, then straight
thou joind'st with him in sin;
And with the vile adulterers
thou hast partaker been.

19 Thy mouth to evil thou dost give, thy tongue deceit doth frame.

20 Thou sitt'st, and 'gainst thy brother speak'st thy mother's son to shame.

21 These things thou wickedly hast done, and I have silent been;

Thou thought'st that I was like thyself,' and did approve thy sin:

But I will sharply thee reprove,

and I will order right

Thy sins and thy transgressions,
in presence of thy sight.

22 Consider this, and be afraid,
ye that forget the Lord,
Lest I in pieces tear you all,
when none can help afford.
23 Who off'reth praise, me glorifies:
I will shew God's salvation
To him that ordereth aright
his life and conversation.

PSALM LI.

To the chief Musician. A Psalm of DAVID, when Nathan the Prophet came unto him, after he had gone in unto BATHSHEBA.

This Psalm was penned by David, when reproved by Nathan for his adultery with Bathsheba, and for his murder of Uriah, 2 Sam. xii. We have in it, (1) David's

Candid and truly sorrowful acknowledgments of his sin, particularly his adultery and murder, as highly dishonourable to God; and of his original sin, as the source there> of; ver. 1-5, 17. (2) His earnest supplications for par don of his offences, and for heart-purifying, and renewing grace; for renewed influences of the Holy Ghost; for peace of conscience, and comfortable fellowship with God for himself; ver. 1, 2, 6-15. and for reformation of, and prosperity to the church, which had been hurt by his sin; ver. 18, 19. (3) His sincere purposes of heart, to improve God's favours to himself, in promoting the instruction of others, and in giving them an honourable pattern of an exact celebration of God's public worship; ver. 13, 14, 15, 16, 19.

While I sing this penetential Psalm, let my heart be filled with clear but evangelic views of my aggravated, my unnumbered transgressions; and with deep sorrow and remorse for them. Let me pour forth supplications, strong cries and tears to him who is able to forgive all mine iniquities, and to deliver me from every corruption. Let me wash myself in Jesus' blood, as the fountain opened to men for sin and for uncleanness.

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FTER thy loving-kindness, Lord,
have mercy upon me;

For thy compassions great, blot out
all mine iniquity.

2 Me cleanse from sin, and throughly wash from mine iniquity.

3 For my transgressions I confess, my sin I ever see.

4 'Gainst thee, thee only, have I sinn'd; in thy sight done this ill :

That when thou speak'st, thou mayst be just and clear in judging still,

5 Behold, I in iniquity

was form'd the womb within; My mother also me conceiv'd in guiltiness and sin,

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6 Behold, thou, in the inward parts, with truth delighted art;

And wisdom thou shalt make me know within the hidden part.

7 Do thou with hyssop sprinkle me, I shall be cleansed so :

Yea, wash thou me, and then I shall be whiter than the snow. 8 Of gladness and of joyfulness make me to hear the voice;

That so these very bones, which thou hast broken, may rejoice.

9 All mine iniquities blot out;

thy face hide from my sin.

10 Create a clean heart, Lord renew a right sp❜rit me within.

11 Cast me not from thy sight, nor take thy holy Spirit away.

12 Restore me thy salvation's joy, with thy free Sp'rit me stay.

13 Then will I teach thy ways unto those that trangressors be ;

And those that sinners are shall then

be turned unto thee.

14 O God, of my salvation God, me from blood-guiltiness

Set free: then shall my tongue aloud sing of thy righteousness.

15 My closed lips, O Lord, by thee let them be opened;

Then shall thy praises by my mouth abroad be published.

16 For thou desir'st not sacrifice, else would I give it thee: