thou fhalt endure they all fhall wax old as doth a garment, 27 And as a vefture fhalt thou change them, and they fhall be changed: but thou art the fame, and thy years fhall not fail.

28 The children of thy fervants fhall continue: and their feed fhall ftand fast in thy fight.

A Pfalm of David, upon his recovery from a dangerous

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fit of Sickness.

Benedic, anima mea. Pfal. CIII.

Raife the Lord, O my foul: and all that is within me, praise his holy Name.

2 Praife the Lord, O my foul: and forget not all his benefits; 3 Who forgiveth all thy fin: and healeth all thine infirmities; 4. Who faveth thy life from deftruction: and crowneth thee with mercy and loving-kindnefs;

5 Who fatisfieth thy mouth

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with good things: making thee gorous old Age of the young and lufty as an eagle.

6 The Lord executeth rightequfnefs and judgment: for all them that are oppreffed with wrong.

7 He fhewed his ways unto Mofes: his works unto the children of Ifrael.

8 The Lord is full of compaffion and mercy: long-fuf fering and of great goodness.

Eagle was Proverbial among the Ancients.

chiding

neither keepeth he

his anger for ever.

ro He hath not dealt with us after our fins: nor rewarded us according to our wickedneffes.

II For look how high the heaven is in comparison of the earth: fo great is his mercy alfo toward them that fear him.

12 Look how wide alfo the eaft is from the weft: fo far hath he fet our fins from us.

13 Yea, like as a father pitieth his own children: even fo is the Lord merciful unto them that fear him.

14 For he knoweth whereof we are made: he remembreth :that we are but duft.

15 The days of man are but as grafs: for he flourisheth as a flower of the field.

16 For as foon as the wind goeth over it, it is gone: and the place thereof fhall know it

18 Even upon fuch as keep his covenant: and think upon his commandments to do them. 19 The Lord hath prepared -his [feat] in heaven: and his kingdom ruleth over all.

[Throne.]

20 O praife the Lord, ye angels of his, ye that excel in ftrength: ye that fulfil his com→ mandment, and hearken unto the voice of his words.

This Pfalm is generally thought to be David's, wherein is fet forth the Wisdom and Power of God in creating the World.

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Benedic, anima mea.

Raise the Lord, O my foul: O Lord my God, thou art become exceeding glorious, thou art clothed with majefty and honour.

2 [Thou deckeft thy self with light as it were with a garment: and spreadeft out the heavens like a curtain.]

3 [Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the *waters: and maketh the clouds his chariot, and walketh upon the wings of the wind.]

Pfal. CIV.

2 [The Light is thy Robe, the Heaven thy Сапору,]

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[He hath laid as 'twere the Floors of

his Palace Chambers in those middle Regions, which confift of Air and Water; and when he vouchfafes to vifit Mankind he ufes a Cloud for his Carriage, Exod. xiii. 21, 22. Luke xxi. 27. and makes the Wind to ferve as Wings to convey this his Chariot whereever he pleafes.

Heb. i. 7.

4 [He maketh his angels fpirits: and his minifters a flaming fire seni

4 ['Tis He who made the Angels, thofe quick piercing (piritual Sub

tances; 'tis He that ufes thefe Angels as his Attendants, or Minifters, who are like a flame of Fire, which nothing can withstand; and who execute his Commands with the utmost vigour and ex, pedition, whether it be for the protecting, and doing Honour to his Friends, or for the deftroying his Enemies.] 2 King.ii.11.vi.17. s [Be unfettled, pur 5 He laid the foundations out of that pofture, of the earth that it never ftate, or condition, in which God at firft fhould [move] at any time. placed it.] See Pfal. xciii. 2.

Gen. i. 2.

6 [Thou didst at first cover the earth all over with a deep Water, fo

6 [Thou coveredft it with the deep like as with a garment: the waters ftand in the hills.]

deep that those parts of the Earth, which now make our highest Mountains, were then under Water.]

Gen. i. 9.

7 [Atthy commanding Voice thefe Waters ftart, and fhrink away,

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7 [At thy rebuke they flee: at the voice of thy thunder they are afraid.]

they retreat like a Slave when he hears the Thunder of his Master's Tongue.] Mem. Thunder is not here taken in its most proper and natural fenfe, but as in this Paraphrase.

8 [Thefe Waters, by fecret tracks and means creep up to the tops of the highest Mountains,

from whence they defcend in Streams and

8 They go up as high as the hills, and down to the valleys beneath: even unto the place which thou haft appointed for them.

Rivers into the Valleys, and from thence into that vaft Channel the Ocean, which thou didft make for this very purpose.]

Thefe Waters of:

the Sea.]

10 FIn ftead of permitting the Sea to overflow the Land, he conveys its Waters, by

9 Thou haft fet [them their bounds which they fhall not pass: neither turn again to cover the earth,

10 [He fendeth the springs into the rivers: which run among the hills.]

fecret Paffages, into feveral parts of the Earth, where they break

out