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6 [Thy ways of proceeding with Men, and governing the World,

are as unfathomable as the deepest part of the Ocean.]

9 [Spring or Fountain. See Vocabulary. * of Life; that is, of Comfort. See Pfal. xxii. 26.

* Light] alfo fignifies the fame thing, Fob xxix. 3. Pf.xxviij.1. 'Tis only in thee and thy Service, that we can hope to enjoy any true and lafting Comfort.]

5 Thy mercy, O Lord, reacheth unto the heavens and thy faithfulness unto the clouds.

6 Thy righteoufnefs ftandeth like the strong mountains: [thy judgments are like the great deep.]

7 Thou, Lord, fhalt fave both man and beaft. How excellent is thy mercy, O God: and the children of men fhall put their truft under the shadow of thy wings.

8 They fhall be satisfied with the plenteousness of thy houfe: and thou fhalt give them drink of thy pleasures, as out of the river.

9 For with thee is the [well] *of life: and [in thy * light shall we fee light.]

10 O continue forth thy loving kindness unto them that know thee: and thy righteoufnefs unto them that are true of heart.

II Olet not the foot of pride come against me: and let not the hand of the ungodly caft me down.

12 There are they fallen, all that work wickedness: they are caft down, and shall not be able to stand.

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Evening Prayer.

A Pfalm of David, which contains a full Answer to that common Objection against Providence, the Profperity of the Wicked.

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Noli amulari. Pfal. XXXVII.

Ret not thy self because of the ungodly neither be thou envious against the evil doers..

2 For they fhall foon be cut down like the grafs and be withered even as the green herb.

3 Put thou thy truft in the Lord, and be doing good: [dwell in the land, and verily thou shalt be fed.]

4 Delight thou in the Lord: and he fhall give thee thy hearts defire.

5 Commit thy way unto the Lord, and put thy truft in him: and he fhall bring it to pafs.

6 He fhall make thy righteoufness as clear as the light: and thy juft dealing as the noon-day.

7 [Hold thee ftill] in the Lord, and abide patiently upon him: but grieve not thy felf at him whose way doth profper, against the man that doeth after evil counfels.

8 Leave off from wrath, and let go difpleafuret: fret not thy felf, elfe fhalt thou be moved [to do evil.]

preffion, by which thou feeft the wicked Great.]

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3 [Be content with your Native Country, and your prefent Condition, take heed that you don't rebel against forbid you to return to God's Law, who has Egypt, or to confort with Foreign Nations, and God's Providence will fo watch over you, that ye fhall not want a Subfiftence.]

7 [Reft fatisfied.]

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8 [To commit those Sins of Fraud and OpMan to grow Rich and

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II But the meek-spirited fhall poffefs the earth and fhall be refreshed in the multitude of peace.

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12 The ungodly feeketh counsel against the juft and gnafheth upon him with his teeth.

13 The Lord fhall laugh him to fcorn: for he hath feen

13 [The day of his that [his day] is coming.

Death.

17 [Power.]

18 [Takes a particular Care and Account

of good Mens Death.] See Pfal. 1. 7. and ver. 13. of this Pfalm.

14 The ungodly have drawn out the fword, and have bent their bow to caft down the poor and needy, and to flay fuch as are of a right converfation.

15 Their fword fhall go through their own heart and their bow fhall be broken! V

16 A finall thing that the righteous hath is better than great riches of the ungodly.

17 For the [arms] of the ungodly fhall be broken: and the Lord upholdeth the righteous.

18 The Lord [knoweth the days] of the godly: and their inheritance fhall endure for ever. 19 They fhall not be con-founded

founded in the perilous time: and in the days of dearth they have enough.

20 As for the ungodly, they fhall perish, and the enemies of the Lord fhall confume as the fat of lambst: yea, even as the fmoke fhall they confume away.

21 The ungodly borroweth and payeth not again but the righteous is merciful and liberal.

22 Such as are bleffed of God fhall poffefs the land: and they that are curfed of him, fhall be rooted out.

23 The Lord ordereth a good mans going and maketh his way acceptable to himself.

24 Though he fall, he fhall not be [caft away]: for the Lord upholdeth him with his hand.

25 I have been young, and now am old and yet faw I never the righteous forfaken, nor his feed begging their bread.

26 The righteous is ever merciful, and lendeth: and his feed is bleffed.

27 Flee from evil, and do the thing that is good and dwell for evermore.

28 For the Lord loveth the thing that is right: he forfaketh not his that be godly, but they are preferved for ever.

29 The unrighteous fhall be punished as for the feed of the

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24 [Dafh'd in pieces, utterly ruin'd.]

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31 The mouth of the rightecus is exercised in wifdom : and his tongue will be talking 31 [Juftice and of [judgment.]

Goodnels.

37 [I look'd about me, to fee what was become of him, and whether he might not be removed, as a Tree fometimes is, to another place; but there was no fuch Man, nor any remainder of him to be found.] Patr.

32 The law of his God is in his heart and his goings fhall 'not flide.'

33 The ungodly feeth the righteous and feeketh occafion to flay him.

34 The Lord will not leave him in his hand: nor condemn him when he is judged.

35 Hope thou in the Lord, and keep his way, and he shall promote thee, that thou fhalt poffefs the land: when the ungodly fhall perish, thou fhalt fee it.

36 I my felf have seen the ungodly in great power: and flourishing like a green bay-tree.

37 I went by, and lo, he was gone: [I fought him, but his place could no-where be found.

38 Keep innocency, and take heed unto the thing that is right for that shall bring a man peace at the laft.

39 As for the tranfgreffors, they fhall perish together: and the end of the ungodly is, They fhall be rooted out at the laft.

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