THE illuftration the fame as the laft. Confult the parallels, especially thofe referred to in the last verfe of this Pfalm. According to the perfect laws JEHOVA EHOVAH, hear my just request, And, to relieve me, come in haste : My plea is not a feigned one; Give judgment for me, Lord, anon, Thine eyes have feen my perfect way; Nor fhalt thou ever find in mé But what thou shalt applaud. When I behold the ways of men, But all my paths are straight and plain, For For I determin'd in mine heart, Nor from thy law a hair-breadth part, 5 Uphold me, Lord, uphold my way; I hate their paths who go aftray, 7 Thy loving-kindness, marvellous, Ó how my So high! fo free! fo glorious! 8 In fhadow of thy wings, fo bland! Mine enemies aloof fhall ftand, 9 Thus, too, my wife adherents fhall. By thee, my God, preferved all, Shall under-lie thy heavy curfe, Their horns how proudly have they push'd! How bellow'd with their tongues!How they, with fanguine wishes flush'd, Are darted through the lungs ! 11 How madly compass'd they our way, And fet their eyes for blood, 12 Like rav'ning lions, for their prey, Clofe-lurking through the wood! E 13 But 13 But God arofe, and refcu'd me, With all my faithful train; From his own fword he fet me free: His fword is bloody men. 14 From men, thy hand, O Lord, from men For ever keep me free, Men of this world, who fill their den Whose only portion is their lives, 15 But as for me, when I awake, I'll wing my way unto thy throne, And on my throne their places take, THIS remarkable Pfalm, which is, every fyllable, fpoken by one perfon, ftands forth in a memorable manner, and in the first line of a multitude of others, rescued from the mercy of all the commentators, (who, like the unbelieving Jews of old, feldom allow free fpeech, even to the Holy Ghoft, concerning the patriarch David); as the honeft and free-hearted reader will be convinced by confulting the apoftolic intepretation thereof, (and furely that is genuine), which applies it abfolutely folutely as fpoken by the Rock of Ifrael, even by David's Lord himself; in whom every article of it is fulfilled; as the promife of Abraham's being the heir of the world was fulfilled no more in the perfon even of Ifaac, than it was in that of Hhmael, but only in Chrift, the one feed, in whom all the nations are bleffed, and all the promises yea and amen: For this caufe I will confefs to thee among the nations,' &c. Pfalm xviii. 49. Rom. xv. 8-13. Behold the fong that David fang, From Saul, and all his fies, made free- I'LL found the vict'ry now at length, 2 I'll fing Jehovah: he's my Strength, I And he my whole defire fulfils. was befet upon the field By thousands of furrounding foes; I cry'd, My God, be thou my fhield; Defend me from their deadly blows." He bore upon them in his ire, And made them from his horns to fly; He fpurn'd and trod them in the mire, And left them in their blood to lie. 3 I'll fing, in elevated firains, The Lord who elevated me: From all my foes to fet me free: ; 4 The cords of death begirt me round, 5 My anguifh made my heart to roar; He ftamp'd-and bade me mourn no more. 7 Then, lo, the earth in pangs was found; The folia hills began to fhake; The mountains from their bases bound; Which roll'd before him as he came; |