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The Twenty Fourth Day.

Morning Prayer.

A Thanksgiving for fome great deliverance from imminent Death and Destruction.

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Dilexi, quoniam. Pfal. CXVI.

Am well pleased: that the
Lord hath heard the voice

of my prayer.

2 That he hath inclined his ear unto me: therefore will I call upon him as long as I live. 3 The fnares of * death compaffed me round about: and the pains of *hell gat hold upon

me.

4 I fhall find trouble and heaviness, and I will call upon the Name of the Lord: O Lord, I beseech thee, deliver my foul. 5 Gracious is the the Lord and righteous: yea, our God is merciful.

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6 The Lord preferveth [the fimple: ] I was in mifery, and flicted, who cannot help

he helped me.

7 Turn again then unto thy reft, O my foul: for the Lord hath [rewarded thee.]

8 And why: thou haft delivered my foul from death: mine eyes from tears, and my feet from falling.

9 I will walk before the Lord † in the land of the living.

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themselves by their own Strength or Policy.]

amends for all thy Suf ferings.]

7 [Made thee ample

9 † By doing him the beft Service I am able.

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10 [I was always fully perfwaded of what I now do, and al

ways will profefs, that thou waft able to deli

10 [Ibelieved, and therefore will I fpeak, but I was fore troubled: I faid in my haste, All men are liars.]

ver me; but in the great agony and diforder of my Mind, I could fcarce perfwade myfelf, that thou wouldst fhew thy Power and Mercy in faving me, and I was ready to call all Men Liars, that went about to give me any hopes of escaping the danger I was in.] II [What reward fhall Ī give unto the Lord for all the benefits that he hath done unto me?.

II [What return fhall I make?

12 The Jews used a Cup of Bleffing, Deliverance, or Salvation,. after their Peace-Offerings, and Solemn Feafts.

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See Grotius on Mat. xxvi. 27. which our Saviour fanctified and made the Sacrament of his Blood.

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This Pfalm fummons all Nations to Praife the Lord for the Benefits they were to receive by the Meffias, Rom. XV. II.

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Laudate Dominum. Pfal. CXVII.

Praise the Lord, all ye
heathen: praise him, all

ye nations.

2 For his merciful kindness is ever more and more towards us: and the [truth] of the Lord endureth for ever. Praise the Lord.

2 [Faithfulness.]

This Pfalm feems to have been compofed by David, after all the Twelve Tribes were reduced to his Obedience: The latter part of it is a Prophecy of Chrift Jefus, in the Perfon of David. It may be divided into feveral parts: as for Inftance; from the 1st Verfe to the 22d was David's part, and fung by him, as he went to Worship at the Tabernacle. The four following Verfes may probably have been the Peoples part: the Priests meeting David at the Doors of the inner part of the Tabernacle which belonged to them, pronounce their Bleffing on David in the former part of the 26th Verfe. Then David and the People return the Priests Bleffing on them again, in the latter part of the 26th Verfe, The rest feems to belong to David, and was, I fuppofe, fung or faid by him.

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Confitemini Domino. Pfal. CXVIII,

Give thanks unto the Lord, for he is gracious: because his mercy endureth for ever.

2 Let Ifrael now confefs, that he is gracious: and that his mercy endureth for ever.

Let the houfe of Aaron

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5 [Whilft I particularly, and in words at length, rehearsed to him all my Wants and Difficulties, and earneftly prayed for relief.]

10 [The Philistines, and all the neighbouring Kings and States.]

2 Sam. v, vii.

12 [Eut all their Rage and Fury was but like a fudden blaze

made of Thorns, which is foon quenched.}

130 Country of the Philistines,

now confess: that his mercy endureth for ever.

4 Yea, let them now that fear the Lord, confefs : that his mercy endureth for ever.

5 I called upon the Lord in trouble: and the Lord heard me [at large.]

6 The Lord is on my fide: I will not fear what man doth

unto me.

7 The Lord taketh my part with them that help me: therefore fhall I fee my defire upon mine enemies.

8 It is better to truft in the Lord than to put any confidence in man.

9 It is better to truft in the Lord than to put any confidence in princes.

10 [All Nations] compaffed me round about: but in the Name of the Lord will I destroy them.

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They kept me in on every fide, they kept me in, I fay, on every fide: but in the Name of the Lord will I destroy them.

12 They came about me like bees, [and are extinct even as the fire among the thorns:] for in the Name of the Lord I will deftroy them.

13 Thout haft thruft fore at me that I might fall: but the Lord was my help.

14 The Lord is my ftrength and my fong: and is become my falvation.

15* Health, that

Safety or Delive

rance. See Vocabulary.

15 [The voice of joy and is, *health is in the dwellings of the righteous]: the right hand of the Lord bringeth mighty things to pass.

16 The right hand of the Lord hath the preeminence : the right hand of the Lord bringeth mighty things to pafs.

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17 I fhall not die, but live: and declare the works of the Lord.

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18 The Lord hath chaftened and corrected me: but he hath not given me over unto death. 19 Open me the gates of

The Houses of good Men found with Songs and Rejoycings for God's Mercies toward me.]

19 Here David be

righteousness: that I may go in- ing come to the Doors to them, and give thanks unto the Lord.

of the Tabernacle, feems to call to them who were within, to

open to him. He calls the Doors of the Tabernacle, the Gates of Righteousness, because they are frequented by good and righteous Men, ver. 20.

20 This is the gate of the Lord: the righteous fhall enter into it.

21 I will thank thee, for thou haft heard me and art become my falvation.

The Peoples part. 22 [This David, whom the great Men of Ifrael, who adhered to

22 [The fame stone which the builders refused: is become the head-ftone in the corner.] the Houfe of Saul, would not admit of for their King, 2 Sam. iii. is now become Sovereign of all the Twelve Tribes; and he is in this refpect a Figure of the Meffias; who, altho' he be fet at nought by the Politic Builders, the Chief Priefts, and Rulers of the People, Ads iv. 11. yet fhall, by God, be exalted to be the Prince of the World, and the foundation of all Mens Happiness.]

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