thee: but thou delighteft not in burnt-offerings. 17 The facrifice of God is a troubled fpirit: a broken and contrite heart, O God, fhalt thou not despise. 18 O be favourable and gracious unto Sion: build thou the walls of Jerufalem. 18 David had begun to build them before this great Sin, 2 Sam. v. 9. but they were not finished till Solomon's Time, 1 Kings iii. I. 19 Then fhalt thou be plea fed with [the facrifice of righ 19 [The publick De teousness, with the burnt-of-votions of thy People offered with a pious ferings and oblations: then and obedient Heart.] fhall they offer young bullocks upon thine altar. A Pfalm of David, when Doeg the Edomite came and told Saul, and faid unto him, David is come to the Houfe of Ahimelech, 1 Sam. xxii. 9. W Quid gloriaris? Pfal. LII. [What a brutish Hy boafteft thou thy Pride is this of thine, felf, thou tyrant: that thou canst do mischief; ] O bloody Doeg, to boaft that thou hadft Inhu manity enough to kill thofe innocent Priests, with their Wives and Children, when all befides thee had more Conscience than to lay violent hands upon them,] 1 Sam xxii. 17, 19. 2 [Whereas the goodness of God endureth yet daily?] 3 Thy tongue imagineth wickedness: and with lies thou cutteft like a fharp rafour. 4 Thou haft loved unrighteousness more than goodness: and to talk of lies more than righteousness. Thou haft loved to speak all words that may do hurt Othou falfe tongue, 2 [To be of fo cruel a temper is an argument of the highest pitch of your being come to wickedness; for this is directly contrary to the Nature of God, who much, as in always dodelights in nothing fo ing good, and fhewing Mercy.] H 4 6 There 9That there were Trees growing in the Courts of the Taberna cle before the Sanctuary, fee Pfal. xcii. 12, So Bishop Patrick underfends this place. 'Tis true, the Law forbad Groves to be planted near the Altar, Deut. xvi. 21. but this was not underflood to forbid fingle Trees, 6 Therefore fhall God deftroy thee for ever: he fhall take thee, and pluck thee out of thy dwelling, and root thee out of the land of the living. 7 The righteous alfo fhall fee this, and fear and fhall laugh him to fcorn. 8 Lo, this is the man that took not God for his ftrength: but trufted unto the multitude of his riches, and ftrengthened himself in his wickedness. 9 As for me, I am like a green olive-tree in the houfe of Godt: my truft is in the tender mercy of God for ever and ever. 10 I will always give thanks unto thee for that thou haft done: and I will hope in thy Name, for thy faints like it well. ftanding here and there in that part of the Temple which had no + Always fresh and gay. Roof. Evening Prayer. mo4 Pfalm of David, much like the Fourteenth, men to fee if there were any that would underftand, and feek after God. 4 But they are all gone out of the way, they are altogether become abominable: there is also none that doth good, no not one. 5 Are not they without underftanding, that work wickednefs: eating up my people as if they would eat bread? they have not called upon God. 6 They were afraid where no fear was for God hath broken the bones of him that befieged thee; thou haft put them to confufion, because God hath despised them. 7 Oh that the falvation were given unto Ifrael out of Sion; Oh that the Lord would deliver his people out of captivity! 8 Then fhould Jacob rejoyce: and Ifrael fhould be right glad. A Pfalm of David when the Ziphites came and faid to Saul, does not David hide himself with us? Save Deus, in Nomine. Pfal. LIV. Ave me, O God, for thy me in thy ftrength. 2 Hear my prayer, O God: and hearken unto the words of my mouth. 3 For ftrangers are rifen up against me; and tyrants, have not God before their eyes, tyrants, which feek after my [foul.] 3 [Life.] 4 Be 4 Behold, God is my helper; the Lord is with them that uphold my foul. He fhall reward evil unto mine enemies: deftroy thou them in thy truth. 6 An offering of a free heart will I give thee, and praise thy Name, O Lord: because it is fo comfortable.... 7 For he hath delivered me out of all my trouble: and mine eye hath seen his defire upon mine enemies. A Pfalm of David, thought to have been penn'd on occafion of Ahitophel's falling off from David, 2 Sam, XV. 31. and raifing a Rebellion. Exaudi, Deus. Pfal. LV. Q H Ear my prayer, O God : and hide not thy felf from my petition. 2 Take heed unto me, and hear me how I mourn in my prayer, and am vexed. 3 The enemy [crieth fo,] and the ungodly cometh on fo faft: for they are minded to do me fome mischief, fo malicioufly are they fet against me. 4 My heart is difquieted within me and the fear of death is fallen upon me. 5 Fearfulness and trembling are come upon me and an horrible dread hath overwhelmed me. 6 And I faid, Oh that I had Bawings wings like a dove: for then would I flee away and be at reft. 7 Lo, then would I get me away far off: and remain in the wilderness. 8 [By reafon of that 8 I would make hafte to efcape: [because of the ftormy great difturbance which wind and tempeft.] 9 Destroy their [tongues,] O Lord, and divide them: for I have (pied unrighteousness, and ftrife in the city. 10 Day and night they go about within the walls thereof: mischief alfo, and forrow are in the midst of it. II Wickedness is therein: deceit and guile go not out of their streets. 12 For it is not an open enemy that hath done me this dishonour for then I could have born it. 13 Neither was it mine adverfary that did magnifie himfelf against me: for then peradventure I would have hid felf from him.. my 14 But it was even thou, my companion my guide, and mine own familiar friend. 15 [We took fweet counsel together] and walked in the houfe of God as friends. 16 Let death come hastily upon them, [and let them go down quick into hell:] for this Rebellion has oc cafion'd.] 9 [Counfels.] |