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Bodies bend under heavy Burdens.] R0.11.10.

26 [Let all Men renounce their Society, let them have neither Friend nor Servant to dwell under the fame Roof, and let all Men fhun their neighbourhood.] A&. 1. 20.

28 [Permit them to heap one Sin upon another, fo as never to return to amendment of Life, or procure thy 29 God's especial Care and Providence over his People, is in

ed that they fee not: and ever bow thou down their backs.]

25 Pour out thine indignation upon them: and let thy wrathful displeasure take hold

of them.

26 [Let their habitation be void: and no man to dwell in their tents.]

27 For they perfecute him whom thou haft fmitten: and they talk how they may vex them whom thou haft wounded.

28 Let them fall from one wickedness to another: and not come into thy righteousness. pardon.]

29 Let them be wiped out of the book of the living: and Scripture reprefented not be written among the righby his keeping a Book teous.

or Register of their Conception, Pfal. CXXXIX. 15. their Birth, Pfal. LXXXVII. 6. their Sufferings, Pfal. LVI. This is called the Writing of the House of Ifrael, Ezek. xiii. 9. To be blotted out of this Book fignifies the being put out of the number of his People, the lofing his Favour, Ezek. xxxii. 32. See also Ifai. iv. 3. 30 As for me, when I am poor and in heavinefs: thy help, O God, fhalt lift me up.

31 I will praife the Name of God with a fong: and magnifie it with thanksgiving.

32 This alfo fhall please the

32 † To Sacrifice to Lord: better than † a bullock that hath horns and hoofs.

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33 The humble fhall confider this and be glad feek ye after God, and your foul fhall live. 34 For the Lord heareth the poor:

poor and despiseth not [his prifoners.]

35 Let heaven and earth praise him: the fea and all that moveth therein.

36 For God will fave Sion, and build the cities of Juda: that men may dwell there, and have it in poffeffion.

37 The pofterity alfo of his fervants fhall inherit it: and they that love his Name, fhall dwell therein.

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34 [Thofe who are under Confinement, and Difficulties for his fake]

A Pfalm of David.

Deus in adjutorium. Pfal. LXX.

Halte thee, O God, to de

liver me: make hafte to

help me, O Lord.

2 Let them be ashamed and confounded, that feek after my foul: let them be turned backward and put to confufion, that with me evil.

3 Let them, for their reward, be foon brought to fhame: that cry over me, There, there.

4 But let all thofe that feek thee, be joyful and glad in thee: and let all [fuch as delight in thy falvation,] fay alway, The Lord be praised.

5 As for me, I am poor and
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in mifery: hafte thee unto me,
O God.

6 Thou art my helper and
my Redeemer: O Lord, make
no long tarrying.

4 [Expect, and delight to fee thy Provi

dence interpofe for the good and fafety of thy People.]

The Fourteenth Day. Morning Prayer. This Pfalm contains Prayers, and Prefages of Deliverance from fome Diftrefs, which befel the Pfalmift in his old Age, toward the latter end of his Life. See ver.8.16.

In te, Domine, fperavi.

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Pfal. LXXI.

N thee, O Lord, have I put

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my truft, let me never be put to confufion: but rid me, and deliver me in thy righteoufnefs; incline thine ear unto me, and fave me.

2 Be thou my ftrong-hold, whereunto I may alway refort: thou haft promised to help me, for thou art my houfe of defence and my caftle..

3 Deliver me, O my God, out of the hand of the ungodly: out of the hand of the unrighof the teous and cruel man.

4 For thou, O Lord God, art the thing that I long for: thou art my hope, even from my youth.

5 Through thee have I been holden up ever fince I was born: thou art he that took me out of my mothers womb, my praife Thall be always of thee.

6 I am become as it were a monfter unto many †: but my fure truft is in thee.

7 O let my mouth be filled with thy praife: that I may fing of thy glory and honour all the day long.

8 Caft me not away in the time of age: forfake me not when my ftrength faileth me.

9 For mine enemies speak against me, and they that lay wait for my foul, take their counsel together, faying: God hath forfaken him, perfecute him and take him, for there is none to deliver him.

10 Go not far from me, O God: my God, hafte thee to help me.

II Let them be confounded and perish, that are against my foul let them be covered with fhame and dishonour, that seek to do me evil.

12 As for me, I will patient ly abide alway: and will praise thee more and more.

13 My mouth fhall daily fpeak of thy righteousness and falvation: for I know no end thereof.

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14 [I will go forth in the ftrength of the Lord God: and will make mention of thy righteousness only.]

14 Togo forth, or out, in Scripture, fignifies to undertake any

great Affair, Num.xxvii.

16,17. Deut. xxviii. 6.

[I will not confide in my own ftrength, but Gods, when I undertake any bufinefs of moment. I will not talk of any security, but what I have from thy Mercy and Favour.]

15 Thou, O God, haft taught me from my youth up until now therefore will I tell of thy wondrous works.

16 Forfake me not, O God, in mine old age, when I am

16 Till I have publickly declared the great

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ftrength thou haft ufed in faving me to the Men of this Age, and effectually recorded it in Writing, for the information of Pofterity.] 17 Mercy and Good nefs. See ver. 14. Pfal. xxiv. s.

18 [The most de plorable and difconfolate Condition.]

21 [Glad, joyful.] See Vocabulary:

22 Mercy and Goodnels.] See ver. 17

gray-headed: [until I have fhewed thy ftrength unto this generation, and thy power to all them that are yet for to come. 17 Thy [righteousness,] O God, is very high: and great things are they that thou haft done; O God, who is like unto thee?

18 O what great troubles and adverfities haft thou fhewed me and yet didft thou turn and refresh me: yea, and broughteft me from [the deep of the earth] again.

19 Thou haft brought me to great honour; and comforted me on every fide.

20 Therefore will I praife thee and thy faithfulness, O God, playing upon an inftrument of mufick: unto thee will I fing upon the harp, O thou holy One of Ifrael.

21 My lips will be [fain] when I fing unto thee: and fo will my foul, whom thou haft delivered.

22 My tongue alfo fhall talk of thy [righteousness] all the day long for they are confounded and brought unto fhame, that seek to do me evil.

A Pfalm

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