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by mine affliction mourns; Lord, I have daily call'd on thee;

Yet ftill my out-ftretch'd hand returns,

Without a wave of love, to me.
10 Wilt thou fhew wonders to the dead?
Or fhall the dead arife and praife?
Yea, verily, thou wilt indeed:
My body dead thou yet wilt raife.
11 Thy loving-kindness in the grave
Shall be difplay'd in its full ftrength;
Thy faithfulness I trufted have;
Nor fhall I be afham'd at length.
12 Deftruction fhall, indeed, afham'd,
Into eternal darkness fly,

When all thy wonders have proclaim'd
Thy righteoufnefs for ever nigh.

13 For unto thee I' cry'd, O Lord;
And unto thee I'll ever cry,
14 Until thou shalt me help afford,
And bring thy mercy to me nigh.
15 I am afflicted very fore,

Doom'd from my very birth to die;
Thy terrors, Lord, do make me roar,
While all afunder torn am I!

16 The dreadful fiercenefs of thy wrath.
Quite over me doth daily go;
Thy terrors prefs me unto death,
They fearfully pursue me fo:
17 For round about me ev'ry day,

Like roaring waters they do roll;
And, gathering together, they

Have compaffed around my foul.
18 My friends thou doft put far from me,
And him that doth me dearly love;
And those that mine acquaintance be
To darkness thou doft far remove:

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But thou art ever near, O Lord,

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And draw'ft thy Servant near to thee; For, lo, according to thy word,

From death, by death, I fhall be free.

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PSALM LXXXIX.

PRECISELY parallel to Pfal. ii. See ver. 27. I will make him, my Firft-born, higher than the kings of the earth,' &c.

Defcriptive of THE SON OF GOD,
Whofe empire's all the world abroad,
And of the glory of his reign,
Which lafts for evermore: amen
This fong of high triumphant praife,
Let faith and love for ever raife!
Come, all ye faints, adore and fing!
Our covenant is Chrift our King!

OD's mercies I will ever fing;
From God alone fweet mercies fpring;

Thy faithfulness declar'd shall be

To generations all by me.

2 For mercy fhall be built, faid I,

From age to age, eternally:

Thy faithfulnefs, ev'n in the heav'n, Thou shalt build up; thy word is giv'n, 3 I with my Chofen, my FIRST-BORN, A covenant of love have sworn; 4 That I thy feed establish fhall,

And build thy throne to ages all.

5 The heav'ns fhall praise thy wonders, Lord, Thy faithfulness thy faints record; In all their congregations, they

Thy pow'r and wisdom fhall display.

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6 For, whoni in heav'n fhall I compare.
Unto the Lord? and who is there
Among the mighty ones to be,
O JESUS, liken'd unto thee?

7 Thou, God, art great; and greatly thou
Art to be fear'd-to thee fhall bow,
With reverence and awe profound,
Thy faints, on év'ry fide around.
8 O Lord, the God of armies, who
Doth reign fo great a God as thou?
Encircled in thine holiness

With pure and perfect faithfulness?
9 Ev'n in the raging of the fea,
When high fea-billows roaring be,
Thou over it and them doft reign;
And fill'ft them with thy word again.
10 Lo, Rahab thou haft overthrown,
And from thee flung her like a stone;
And all her Pharaohs laid at length,
Subdu'd by thine high arm of ftrength
I The heav'ns are thine, and thine the earth,
With ev'ry creature breathing breath;
The world is thine, her fulnefs thine,
All founded by thy hand divine.

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12 The north, the fouth, were made by thee;
And both in thee fhall joyful be:
Tabor and Hermon both fhall fing,
And bound for joy to hail their King.
13 Thou haft an arm of mighty pow'r,.
The proud oppreffors to devour;
Strong is thy hand, thy right-hand high,
To fave the lowly when they cry.

14 Justice and judgment are thy throne,
Thy habitation, Lord, alone:

Mercy and truth before thee thine,
The brightnefs of thy face divine.

15 O greatly bleft the people be,

Who know the joyful found from thee!
They ftill fhall walk before thy face,
O Lord, in glory of thy grace:

16 They, in thy name, fhall all the day
Their banners joyfully difplay;

And, in thy righteoufnefs, they fhall
For ever be exalted all:

17 Because the glory of their might
Doth only ftand in thy delight;
And by thy favour shall our horn,
And profp'rous pow'r, be ftill upborn.
18 The Lord is our Defence and Shield,
Who fhall to us protection yield:
The Holy One of Ifra'l fing:

The Chrift of God is Chrift our King.

19 In vifion to thy Holy One,

Thou fpakeft then, and faidft, Upon
A mighty Saviour I have laid
My people's everlasting aid;

A chofen One, whom I have found, Out of the people call'd, and crown'd; 20 Ev'n David's Son, whom I have lov'd, And with mine holy oil approv'd. 21 With him my hand shall stablish'd be ; Mine arm and strength shall set him free: 22 On him no foe fhall e'er exact,

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Nor fon of malice turn him back:

I'll beat down his malicious foes, Before his face, with plagues and blows: 24 But I from him will ne'er remove My pledged faithfulnefs and love; And, in my name exalted high, His horn fhall flourish glorioufly. - 25 His hand and pow'r fhall reach afar, And turn-again the tide of war;

His right-hand fhall controul the fea;
The rivers thall his, vaffals be.

26 Thou art my Father, he shall cry,
My Rock, my God, my Saviour high;
And I to him will bow mine ear,
And, ere he cry, will bend to hear.
27 I'll make him, my FIRST-BORN, more high
Than all the kings, afar or nigh.

28 I'll ever keep my love for him:
My covenant remaineth firm.
29 His feed I will establish sure,

And make them by my pow'r endure;
And, as the days of heav'n, the throne
I will establish of my Son.

30 But if his children go aftray,

And from my precepts burst away;

And in my judgments shall not walk, But, wand'ring from my ways, go back; 31 If they my ftatutes fhall profane,

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And count my high commandments vain:
Then will I vifit with my rod,

And mark their fin with ftripes and blood: 33 Yet I'll not take my love from him, Nor will I make his glory dim.

My faithfulness shall never fail : And who my purpose shall repeal? 34 My covenant I will not break,

Nor will I void my promife make; 35 Once by my holinefs I fwore

To David-I'll repent no more:
36 His Seed for ever thall endure,
And his dominion firm and fure :
Like yonder fun, for evermore,
In brightest glory me before,
The Sun of Righteousness shall shine,
In light and glory all divine:

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