16 for concerned.

18 [For indeed he ought to think it fuffieient, that while he lived he was happy in his own Conceit, pleafed himself, and had

16 Be not thou afraid t though one be made rich: or if the glory of his house be increased;

17 For he fhall carry nothing away with him when he dieth neither thall his pomp follow him.

18 [For while he lived he counted himself an happy man: and fo long as thou doft well unto thy felf, men will speak good of thee.]

his own good word: But, on the other fide, if you would be a true Friend to your felf, and have the commendations of others, efpecially of competent Judges, confult your own real and eternal Good, make Vertue your bufinefs and enjoyment.]

19 [He fhall go the way his Fathers have gone before him, and fare as they have done, and never partake, of any true Joy or Com, fort.]

19 [He fhall follow the generation of his Fathers fhall never fee light.]

and

20 Man being in honour hath no understanding: but is compared unto the beafts that perish.

The Tenth Day. Morning Prayer.

A Pfalm of Afaph, probably him who is called the Seer, 2 Chron. xxix. 30. wherein God is reprefented as a King coming in State out of bis Palace, to call bis Pegple to a strict Account, especially those who placed all Religion in Sacrifices and Ceremonies, and thofe who pretended to teach Religion before they had learn'd it. Deus deorum. Pfal. L. O

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Tmighty God, hath fpoken:

He Lord, even the moft

and called the world, from the rifing up of the fun, unto the going down thereof.

2 Out of Sion hath God appeared: [in perfect beauty.]

3 Our God fhall come, and fhall not keep filence: there fhall go before him a confuming fire, and a mighty tempeft fhall be stirred up round about him.

4 He fhall call [the heaven from above and the earth,] that he may judge his people. [Gather my faints together unto me: thofe that have made a covenant with me with facrifice.]

2 [In the moft folemn and fplendid man¬ ner.]

4 [Both Angels and Men.]

s [Bring thofe Men before me, who have with me, by offering *Sacrifice, Jer. xxxiv.

enter'd into Covenant

18, 19. as their Father Abraham formerly did, Gen. xv. 9, 18. and are thereby become a holy and peculiar People.].

6 [And the heavens fhall declare his righteoufnefs]: for God is Judge himself.

7 Hear, O my people, and I will fpeak: I my felf will teftifie against thee, O Ifrael; for I am God, even thy God.

8 I will not reprove thee beeause of thy facrifices, or for thy burnt-offerings: [because they were not alway before me.] 9 I will take no bullock out of thine houfe: nor he-goat out of thy folds.

10 For all the beafts of the foreft are mine and fo are the cattel upon a thoufand hills.

III know all the fowls upon the mountains: and the wild beafts of the field are in my fight.

6 [And all the Inha bitants of Heaven,Saints and Angels,fhall declare the Juftice of his proceedings, Rev. v. 11,

&c.]

8*[Because they were Travels in the Wildernot always, during your nefs, or in any fuch like exigence,prefented before me in the Sanctuary: So far from this, that]

H 2

12 If I be hungry, I will not tell thee: for the whole world is mine, and all that is therein.

13 Thinkeft thou that I will eat bulls flesh: and drink the blood of goats?

14 Offer unto God thankf giving and pay thy vows unto the moft Highest.

15 And call upon me in the time of trouble: fo will I hear thee, and thou shalt praise me. 16 But unto the ungodly faid God: Why doft thou preach my laws, and takeft my covenant in thy mouth;

17 Whereas thou hateft to be reformed: and haft caft my words behind thee?

18 When thou faweft a thief, thou confentedft unto him: and haft been partaker with the adulterers.

19 Thou haft let thy mouth fpeak wickedness and with 19 Drefs'd up a thy tongue thou haft [fet forth

Lye.]

deceit.]

20 Thou fateft, and spakeft against thy brother; yea, and haft flandered thine own mothers fon.

21 These things haft thou done, and I held my tongue, and thou thoughteft wickedly, that I am even fuch a one as thy felf: but I will reprove thee, and fet before thee the things that thou haft done.

22 O confider this, ye that forget God: left I pluck you away, and there be none to deliver you.

23 Whofo offereth me thanks and praife, he honoureth me: and to him that ordereth his conversation right, will I fhew the falvation of God.

Fourth Penitential Pfalm.

A Pfalm of David, when Nathan the Prophet came unte him, after he had gone in to Bathfheba, 2 Sam. xii. Miferere mei, Deus. Pfal. LI.

H God, after thy great

Ave mercy upon me, O

goodness: according to the multitude of thy mercies, do away mine offences.

2 Wash me throughly from my wickedness; and cleanfe me from my fin.

3 For I knowledge my faults: and my fin is ever before me. 4 Against thee only have I finned, and done this evil in thy fight [that thou mighteft be juftified in thy faying, and clear when thou art judged.]

4 [That thou may'st be own'd and acknow

ledged to be true, and juft in all that thou haft faid to me by the mouth

of Nathan, and be fully clear'd when Men fhall

call in queftion the reasonableness and equity of thy proceeding with me.]

5 Behold, I was shapen in wickednefs and in fin hath my mother conceived me.

6 But lo, thou requireft [truth in the inward parts]

6 [Sincerity in the Heart.]

and

Ceremonies of fprink ling the Leper with a bunch of Hyffop, Lev. xix. 6. and washing unclean