With olive branches ftrew the road,
And bow the knee before your God:
25 Hofanna to our King most high; -..
Jehovah, fend profperity;

Let peace with heav'n attend his reign,
And glory in the highest ftrain.

26 He comes! he comes! in God's great name, Our fouls to fave! found loud his fame:

We, from the house of God the Lord,
Pronounce you bleffed by his word.
27 God hath made light to us arife;
To th' altar bind the facrifice.

28 Thou art my God, thy name I'll raise;
Thou art my God, I'll fpread thy praife;
29. Thy goodness found on ev'ry firing,
And thy eternal mercy fing.

PSALM CXIX.

THAT this glorious Pfalm is all spoken in one perfon, is evident from the bare reading of it; and that the SON OF GOD, made of the woman, • made under the law,' is the fpeaker, appears equally plain from the whole ftrain and complexion thereof. To pafs by the evidences fupporting this affertion, contained in every one of the other verses of the Pfalm befides, confider impartially ver. 115. Depart from me, ye evil-doers' and ver. 139. My zeal hath confumed me'-(the He brew, according to the margin, reads, hath cat The off-compared with the. New-Teftament application of these remarkable paffages in Matt. vii. 43. John ii. 17.-See alfo Pfal. i. with all its parallels, and the marginal references.-N. B. As to the interpretation given in the following paraphrafe, particularly of ver. 9. 67. and 167 of this Pfalm, the univerfe of God is hereby challenged

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to overturn the fame, if it can be overturned,
while the analogy of faith is allowed to stand.

The exercises, hopes, and fears,
Expoftulations, pray'rs, and tears,
Confeffions, thanksgivings, and praife,
In various views, and various phrafe,
OF JESUS CHRIST, THE SON OF GODI
Bending beneath the heavy load,
Which God his Father laid on bim
Under the law for human crime!

ALEPH.

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PART L

LESSED are they who undefil'd,
In femblance as a little child,
Abtaining perfectly from fin;
Who to the law's perfection win:
Bleffed are they who walk fecure;
Who keep his teftimonies pure;
Who feek the Lord with their whole heart;
Who never from his ways depart:

3 They no iniquity must do,

But muft the perfect path purfee:
4. So thou commandeft us to keep

Thy perfect ways, though ftrait and steep.
5. O then direct my heart and ways,
To keep thy ftatutes all my days!
For, lo, thy fervant, Lord, fhall be:
Subjected wholly unto thee:

6. And then I fhall not be afham'd,
When I my due reward have claim'd,.
Eternal life and happiness,

When I have done thy righteoufness:
Then I will praife thee uprightly,
When I have learned faithfully
To yield obedience to thy word
By fuff'ring all thy judgments, Lord:

& For I determine in my heart,
That from thy yoke I will not start,
Till I perform thy ftatutes all:
My God, uphold me left I fall:

And, though thou frown on me a while,
Again revive me with thy fmile;
And do not utterly defert

The man who for thy love doth fmart.

BETH. PART II.

9 By what means fhall that chofen Son,
Who comes his Father's ways to run,
Direct his fteps, and keep his path ?----
By hearing what his Father faith:

The words which from thy mouth proceed,
My Father, wing my feet with speed;
They alfo keep me in the way,

And point my fteps by night and day.

10 With my whole heart I've fearch'd for thee, O fly not thou away from me; I'll trace thee in thy beaten path, And liften to thy word of faith. 11 Within my heart I've hid thy word, That I offend not thee, my Lord: 12 Bleffed art thou, O Lord my God: O teach me with thy word and rod. 13 I've with my lips declared all

The judgments from thy mouth that fall: 14 I've in thy ways rejoiced more Than milers do in hoarded store. 15 I'll in thy precepts meditate,: And all thy ways before me fet: 16 I'll in thy ftatutes greatly joy,

And make thy word my whole employ:

Thy words, thy ways, thy judgments all,
For my whole foul and spirit call,

And

And I will ever perfevere

To lend my God mine heart, mine ear.

17 Thy bounty to thy fervant fhow,
That I may live and pay my vow:
I vow to keep thy holy word;
And fhew perfection to my Lord.
18 Unfeal mine eyes, and I fhall fee
The wonders in thy law that be:
19 I am a pilgrim in the land;

Hide not from me thy just command.
20 My foul within me melts away,
With veh❜ment longing, night and day,
Which love unto thy judgments pure,
O Lord, constrains me to endure!
21 The curfed proud thou hast chastis'd,
Who all thy precepts have defpis'd :.
22 Roll thou away reproach and fhame
From me, for I have lov'd thy name.
23 The princes all affembled round,"
From ev'ry mouth against me found;
But I, thy Servant, evermore,
Unmov'd, thy ftatutes, Lord, explore.
24 Thy teftimonies, Lord, I fhall
For ever to my counfel call:

They always counfel, me aright;
They only are my heart's delight.

DALET H. PART IV.

25 My foul unto the duft adheres,
For love unto thy word it bears:
According to thy pledged word,
Raife from the dead thy Servant, Lord.
26 I have declared my delire,

With all my ways, before my SIRE

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And thou haft heard me in my day: Teach me thy ftatutes, Lord, I pray. 27 The way of all thy precepts make Thy Servant know, for thy name's fake: On that fole theme my heart fhall dwell, And all thy glorious wonders tell. 28 My foul diffolves, and falls as fnow, If flaming fire, for wind, fhould blow, Beneath thy flaming wrath, O God, With floods of death and hell o'erflow'd: Be thou my ftrength and fortitude, That I at length may ftem this flood, And turn away thy wrath from men, Reftored by thy word again.

29 Remove from me the way of lies," And grant thy law before mine eyes: 30 I've chofen, Lord, the way of truth, T'explore the judgments of thy mouth. 31 I to thy, teftimonies cleave;.

To fhame, O Lord, do not me leave:: 32 I'll run the way of thy commands, When thou haft loos'd my heart and bands

HE. PART V.

33 Teach me, O Lord, thy holy ways,
And I'll obferve them for thy praife:

34 Give me to understand thy law,
Which I regard with perfect awe:
I'll keep it in a perfect way;
My heart fhall never go aftray:
35 Give me to tread-in thy foot-path,
Wherein my foul her pleasure hath.
36 My heart, O Lord, incline unto"
Thy teftimonies pure and true;
For fin, in ev'ry form and guife,
Is the averfion of mine eyes.