The believer's confidence in Divine protection as

given in answer to sincere prayer

The Priesthood and Sovereignty of Christ

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The fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom
The temporal blessings attendant on Piety

A thanksgiving on deliverance from imminent peril
An invitation to join in songs of praise to God
The Christian Sanctuary and Sabbath tend to perpe-
tuate the believer's joy

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The paramount desire of a sincere believer is to be
blessed with Heavenly direction

The importance and course of early piety

The more mature believer's experience and entreaty
The confession of a soul tried and purified through

Praises suggested by the unchangeable nature of
Jehovah's promises and Providence

The prayer of experienced piety

A prayer to be exempted from the lot of the ungodly
The anxious prayer of a soul sorrowing over its
failings

A real faith knows no fear
Ancient Israel, joyfully journeying to Zion for pur-
poses of worship, should read a lesson to Christ-
endom
They, who trust in God, have every reason to be
confident

Exertion, if not combined with piety, is unproductive
of true happiness

Christ a fountain of spiritual life to the heart that

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Humility, being blest with increase, suggests a prayer
that the whole Church may enjoy the like blessing
The believer's anxiety to erect a becoming sanctuary
for the worship and praise of God

The advantage and duty of preserving unity in the
Church

A song of praise

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The joy of the renewed mind in recounting God's
works of love
The sorrows of captive Israel truly express the
feelings of a soul; that has fallen indeed from grace
given, but longs for restoration to a peaceful com-
munion with God
Reflections on the Omnipresence and Omniscience
of the Almighty

The tempted believer, conscious of his own insuffi-

ciency, implores Divine support

A thanksgiving for plenty

A celebration of the Divine goodness

The folly of placing our dependence elsewhere than
on God ..

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An acknowledgment of our obligation to praise God's
Holy Name

Hymn of the Church risen and victorious in Church

ERRATUM.

At page 38, the 7th and 9th verses of Psalm lxxvii. should read

thus:

Has God for ever cast us off?

Withdrawn His favour quite ?
Are both His mercy and His truth
Retir'd to endless night?

Can His long-practis'd love forget
Its wonted aids to bring?

Has He in wrath shut up and seal'd
His mercy's healing spring?

A SELECTION

FROM THE

OLD AND NEW VERSIONS OF PSALMS.

PSALM 1.

Verses 1, 2, 6.

The Blessedness of a Holy Life.

How blest is he who ne'er consents
By ill advice to walk;

Nor stands in sinners' ways, nor sits
Where men profanely talk.

But makes the perfect law of God
His business and delight;
Devoutly reads therein by day,
And meditates by night.

For God approves the just man's ways,

To happiness they tend;

While sinners, and the paths they tread,
Shall both in ruin end.

A

PSALM II.

Verses 1, 2, 3, 4, 10, 13.

The Supreme Dominion of Messiah.
WITH restless and ungovern'd rage
Why do the Heathen storm?
Why in such rash attempts engage,
As they can ne'er perform?
The great in counsel and in might
Their various forces bring;
Against the Lord they all unite,
And His anointed King.

"Must we submit to their commands?" Presumptuously they say:

"No, let us break their slavish bands,
And cast their chains away."
But God, who sits enthron'd on high,
And sees how they combine,
Does their conspiring strength defy,
And mocks their vain design.

Learn then, ye Princes; and give ear,
Ye Judges of the earth;
Worship the Lord with holy fear ;
Rejoice with awful mirth.

If but in part His anger rise,

Who can endure the flame?

Then blest are they whose hope relies On His most holy Name.