mine hafte, I am (4) cut off from before thine Eyes: thou heardeft the Voice of my Supplication, when I cried unto thee; therefore f will I rejoice in thee, O Lord, and fing Praises unto the Moft High. By thy (r) WORD were all the HEAVENS MADE, and all the HOST of them by the BREATH of thy MOUTH: Therefore let all the Earth fear thee, O Lord, let all the Inhabitants of the World ftand in AWE of thee; for thine Eye is upon them that fear thee, and hope in thy Mercy, to deliver their Souls from Death. (q) 2 Cor. Iv. 8,9. We are troubled on every fide, yet not diftreffed; we are perplexed, but not in Defpair; perfecuted, but not forfaken; caft down, but not destroyed. (r) John 1. 1. In the Beginning was the WORD, and the WORD was with God, and the WORD was God; all Things were MADE by Thing MADE that was MADE. Heb. 1. 10. For thou, Lord, in the Be- (s) Ifai. XL. 31. They that WAIT My Soul, WAIT (s) thou (x) Matt. XXIV. 35. Heaven and (z) Col. 1. 13, 14. Who hath de- 8 Pfalm XXXVI. h Pfalm XXXIV. 1 PS. IX. 2. f (t) John xvI. 22. And your HEART fhall REJOICE, and your Joy no Man taketh from you. (u) Heb. vi. 19,20. Which HOPE we have as an Anchor of the Soul, This probably alludes to the Covenant made with Noah, the Birds, and the Beafts, that they should perifh no more with the Waters of a Flood; of which Covenant the Bow in the Clouds is a Token, Gen. 1x. 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, &c. the the Souls of thy Servants, and none that truft in thee fhall be defolate. Therefore will I fear thee, O Lord, for there is no Want to them that fear thee: The Lions fhall fuffer Hunger; but they that feek thee, O Lord, (a) fhall want no good Thing; for thou heareft them that cry unto thee, and faveft them out of all their Troubles: For thine (b) ANGELS, O Lord, encamp round about them that fear thee, and thou delivereft them. Therefore will I blefs thee, O Lord, at all times; my Soul fhall make her Boaft in thee, O Lord. I will magnify thy glorious Name; for thou haft heard me, and delivered me from all my Fears: My Heart i fhall rejoice in thee, and I will truft in thy Holy Name. O Lord, let thy Mercy be upon me, according as I (c) hope in thee. Fowls of the Air, for they fow not, (a) Matt. vi. 26. Behold the neither do they reap, nor gather into Barns, yet your heavenly Father feedeth them: Are ye not much better than they? (b) Heb. 1. 14. And of the Angels he faith, Are they not all mi. niftring Spirits, fent forth to minifter to them who shall be the Heirs of Salvation? (c) Heb. 111. 6. Hold faft the Confidence and the Rejoicing of Hope firm unto the End. Ver. 14. For we are made Partakers of Chrift, if we hold the Beginning of our Confidence ftedfaft unto the End. i Pfalm XXXIII. 21, 22. I prefent not these my humble Supplications to thy Divine Majefty for my Righteoufnefs, but for thy great Mercies, and the infinite Merit of Chrift Jefus our Redeemer; who liveth and reigneth with Thee and the Holy Ghoft ever one God, World without end. Amen. Thus the Mountain was full of Horfes and Chariots of Fire round about Elifha, 2 Kings v1. 17. to preserve him from the Army of the Syrians, that compassed the City about, ver. 14, 18. A A Prayer for the Light of God's Countenance. PANTETH Sathe (a) HART after the Water-Brooks, fo panteth my Soul after thee, O God. My Soul thirfteth for God, for the living God. My Tears are my Meat Day and Night, while they fay, where is thy God? O God, b thou art my God, early will I feek thee: my (b) Soul thirfteth for thee, my Flefh longeth for thee in a dry and (c) thirfty Land where no Water is, that I may fee thy Power and thy Glory, (d) fo as I have feen thee in the Sanctuary. (e) Becaufe thy loving Kindnefs is better than Life, my Lips fhall praife thee. Why art thou then (f) caft down, O my Soul? why art (a) Fohn VII. 37, 38, 39. Fefus ftood and cried, faying, If any Man thirst, let him come unto me and drink: He that believeth on me, as the Scripture hath faid, out of his Belly fhall flow Rivers of living Water. (But this fpake he of the Spirit, which they that believe on him fhould receive) Cantic. 111.1. By night on my Bed I SOUGHT him whom my Soul loveth: 1 SOUGHT him, but I found him not. (b) Ifai. Lv. 1. Ho, every one that thirfteth, come ye to the Waters, and he that hath no Money; come ye, buy and eat; yea, come buy Wine and Milk without Money, and without Price. (c) Rev. xxI. 6. I am Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End: I will give unto him that is athirst of the Fountain of the Water of Life freely, Rev. XXII. 17. with open Face, beholding as in a Glafs the Glory of the Lord, are changed into the fame Image, from Glory to Glory, even as by the Spirit of the Lord. 2 Cor. 1v. 6. For God, who commanded the Light (d) 2 Cor. III. 18. But we all to fhine out of Darkness, hath fhined in our Hearts, to give the Light of the Knowledge of the Glory of God in the Face of Jefus Chrift. Matt. x1. 27. And no Man knoweth the Son, but the Father; neither knoweth any Man the Father, fave the Son, and he to whomfoever the Son will reveal him. (e) Phil. 111 8,9. I count all Things but Loss, for the Excellency of the Knowledge of Jefus Chrift my Lord; and do count them but Dung, that I may win Chrift, and be found in him, not having mine own Righteoufnefs, which is of the Law, but that which is through the Faith of may know Chrift, the Righteoufnefs which is of God by Faith: That I him, and the Power of his Refurrection, and the Fellowship of his Sufferings, being made conformable unto his Death; if by any Means I might attain unto the Refurrection of the Dead: not as though I had already attained, either were already perfect, but I follow after, if that I may apprehend that for which alfo I am apprehended of Chrift Fefus. (f) 2 Cor. Iv. 9, 10. Perfecuted, but not forfaken; caft down, but not deltroyed; always bearing about in the Body the dying of the Lord Fefus, that the Life of Jefus might be made manifest in our Body. Pfalm XLII. I, 2. b Pfalm LXIII. thou I thou difquieted within me? Hope (g) thou in God, for fhall yet praife him for the Help of his Countenance; for thou, O Lord, wilt command thy loving Kindness in the Day time, and in the (b) Night thy Songs fhall be with me, and my Prayer fhall be unto the God of my Life. I will fay unto God, my Rock, why haft thou (i) forgotten me? Why gol mourning becaufe of the Oppreffion of the Enemy, (k) which is as a Sword in my Bones, while they fay daily to me, Where is thy God? How () long, O Lord, wilt thou forget me, for ever? How long wilt thou hide thy Face from me? How (m) long fhall I take Counfel in my Soul, having Sorrow in my Heart daily? How long fhall mine Enemy be exalted over me? Confider and hear me, O Lord my God, (n) lighten my Eyes, left I fleep the Sleep of Death; (0) left mine Enemies fay, I have prevailed against him, and thofe that trouble me rejoice when I am moved; but I have trufted in thy Mercy, (p) my Heart fhall rejoice in thy Salvation. For I am continually with thee thou haft holden me by thy right Hand. Thou fhalt guide me with thy Counfel, and afterwards re • Pfalm X111. (g) Heb. vi. 9, 10. Which Hope we have as an Anchor of the Soul, entereth into that within the Veil, both fire and ftediait, and which whither the Fore-runner is for us entered, even Jefus, made an HighPriest for ever. Where is God my Maker, who giv(b) Fob xxxv. 10. But none faith, eth Songs in the Night? (i) John VI. 37. And him that cometh to me, I will in no wise cast out. (k) Rev. XII. 10. For the Accufer accufed them before our God Day of our Brethren is cast down, which and Night. (1) Rev. XIV. 12. Here is the Patience of the Saints, here are they God, and the Faith of Jesus. Fam. that keep the Commandments of 1. 3. Knowing that the trying of your Faith worketh Patience. in me, and I in him, the fame (m) John xv. 5. He that abideth bringeth forth much Fruit; for without me ye can do nothing. 2 cient of our felves to think any Cer. 111. 5. Not that we are luffithing as of our felves, but all our Sufficiency is of God, who hath Phil. 11. 12, 13. Work out your given unto us his Holy Spirit. own Salvation with fear and trembling, for it is God that worketh in us, both to will and to do of his good Pleafure. (n) John v111. 12. I am the Light of the World, he that followeth me fhall not walk in Darkness, but have the Light of Life. vigilant, for your Adverfary the De(0) 1 Pet. v. 7,8,9. Be fober, be vil goeth about like a roaring Lion, whom refift ftedfaft in the Faith. feeking whom he may devour; Chap. 1. 6. Wherein we greatly rejoice, though now for a Seafon through manifold Temptations, for (if need be) ye are in Heavinefs, the Trial of your Faith. (P) Phil. 111. 3. For we who Christ Jefus, and have no Confiworship God in Spirit, rejoice in dence in the Flefh. ceive me to Glory. Whom have I in Heaven but thee? and there is none upon the Earth I defire befides thee. My Flefh and my Heart faileth: but God is the Strength of my Heart, and my Portion for ever. I will a fing unto the Lord, because he hath dealt bountifully with me: My Soul follows hard after thee, thy right Hand upholdeth me. Hear, O God, my Cry, from attend unto my Prayer; the Ends of the Earth will I cry unto thee, when mine Heart is overwhelmed. O lead me to the (9)Rock that is higher than I. (r) My Soul wait thou only upon God, for my Expectation (s) Matt. XVI. 18. Upon this Rock will I build my Church. 1 Cor. x. 4. And that Rock was Chrift. (t) Ifai. XLI. 10. Fear thou not, for I am with thee; be not ditmay ed, for I am thy God: I will ftrengthen thee; yea, I will help thee, yea, I will uphold thee with is from him; he only is the right Hand of my Righteousmy Rock, my Salvation, nefs. God, is my Salvation and Glory: The (5) Rock of my (t) Strength and Refuge is in God; therefore will I truft in thee at all times, and Soul before pour out my thee. I will remember thee upon my Bed, and meditate upon thee in the Night-Watches: For in thy Prefence is fulness of Joy, and at thy right Hand Pleafures forevermore. Therefore fhall my Soul be (u) fatisfied as with Marrow and Fatnefs, and my Mouth fhall (u) Rev. xxi. 6. I will give unand Defence. In thee, O to him that is athirit of the Fountain of the Water of Life freely. Chap. XXII. 17. Let him that is athirit, come: and whofoever will, let him take the Water of Life freely. Ifai. xxv. 6. And in this Mountain fhall the Lord of Hofts make unto all People a Feast of fat Things, a Feaft of Wines on the Lees, of tat Things full of Marrow, of Wines on the Lees well refined. & Pfalm XIII. (q) Matt. x1.28. Come unto me all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you Reft. (r) Heb. x. 35, 35, 37, 38. Cast not away therefore your Confidence, which hath great recompenfe of Reward. For ye have need of Patience, that after ye have done the Will of God, ye might receive the Promife: For yet a little while, and he that fhall come will come, and will_not_tarry. Now the Juft fhall live by Faith; but if any Man draw back, my Soul fhall have no Pleasure in him. (x) 1 Tim. VI. 15, 16. Who is the bleffed and only Potentate, the King of Kings, and Lord of Lords; Amen. Rev. v. 13. to whom be Honour and Power everlasting. Bleffing, and Honour, and Glory, and Power, be unto him that fitteth upon the Throne, and unto the Lamb for ever and ever. • Pf. LXIII. 6. • Pfalm LXI. f Pf. LXI. i Pf. LVII. 17. |