A Pfalm of thanksgiving. See Pfal. xcv. and margin. I The Holy Ghoft constrains us all WITH ITH one confent, and one accord, Let all the people praise the Lord: 2 Come, ferve the Lord with joy, and fing, Soaring to God on lofty wing. 3 Know ye, the Lord is God indeed, The Son of God, and David's feed: And gave us grace that ne'er fhall move: PSALM CI. CHRIST's undertaking and vow. See Pfal. Lxxv. I A fong of God's beloved Son, Which he to David did impart, To be fulfill'd in Chrift's own heart. Mercy will and judgment sing; Within my church, my house, my home; 3 I will endure no Belial thing 4 To be at all before mine eyes:. Nor hear the wicked when they pray. Whofo fhall flander privily His neighbour, I will cut him off: Unknown by me, shall stand aloof. 6 Upon the faithful of the land... Mine eye fhall look, and always fmile: 8 I will deftroy the curfed tares, As faft as they fhall fill the ground; My zeal no evil-doers bears To be within God's city found. PSALM CII. In this Pfalm we behold the fufferings of Chrift, as expreffed in his own perfon, by the Holy Ghoft, from the beginning to verfe 12. contrafted with the following glory, as declared by the fame Spirit in the perfon of the Father, from verfe 12. to 23. Then, from the 23. to the middle of verfe 24. the dialogue is again renewed, as at the beginning of the Pfalm, in the perfon of the Son-to whom, from the middle of ver. 24. to the end of the Pfalm, the Father is again represented, as replying according to the former manner, mentioned from ver. 12 to 23.: for fo this Pfalm, ver. 25, &c. is exprefsly applied and interpreted by the Holy Ghoft, Heb. i.Unto the Son he faith, Thy throne, O God, is for ever and ever-And thou, Lord, in the beginning, haft laid the foundation of the earth; and the heavens are the works of thine hands,' &c. 1 And they fhall be changed: but thou art the fame, and thy years fhall not fail." A pray'r of God's afflicted Son, LORD hear my pray'r, and let my cry Afcend into thine ear and heart; For by thine arrows pierc'd I lie; Mourn, Lord, to thee; O speedily ག 3 My days are all confum'd to smoke, My bones are burnt up as an hearth; 7 I like a mateless sparrow am, That watches on houfe-top alone; 9 I've eaten afhes for my bread, And mingled all my drink with tears; 10 But 'tis thine anger makes me bleed; Thine anger fills my heart with fears: For thou haft lifted me on high, And dafh'd me fiercely down again; My heavy fetters, Lord, untie, And loofe me from my weighty chain. 11 My days are as a vapour flown, I'm wither'd like the grafs, and blown 1.2 But 12 But thou, O Lord, when this thy day Of fad calamity and tears 13 Is wholly spent, and blown away, Shall, like the fun, be bright and pure, Thou fhalt arife, and mercy have When thou fhalt triumph o'er the grave, Zion, thy God is at thy gate. 14 Thy fons take pleasure in thy stones, O thou belov'd Jerufalem: 15 Zion, thy God hath heard thy groans, So fhall the nations round thee fear With all their off'rings, to thee bring.. 16 When thou, O Lord, fhalt Zion build, Thou in thy glory fhalt appear; C And be thyself their Sun and Shield, A Sun and Shield for ever near. 1 The pray'rs of all the deftitute 17 Their High-prieft never will defpife; 1 With all the like infirmities. 18 This fhall be wrote for future times, Thro' generations all to come; For people in remoteft climes, Whom their Creator shall bring home. 19 They |