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10 For one day in thy courts 9 For his salvation is nigh is better than a thousand. them that fear him; that glory 11 I had rather be a door-may dwell in our land. keeper in the house of my God, 10 Mercy and truth are than to dwell in the tents of un-met together; righteousness godliness. and peace have kissed each

12 For the Lord God is alother. light and defence; the Lord 11 Truth shall flourish out will give grace and worship; of the earth, and righteousand no good thing shall helness hath looked down from withhold from them that live heaven.

a godly life.

12 Yea, the Lord shall show 13 O Lord God of hosts. loving kindness, and our land blessed is the man that putteth shall give her increase.

his trust in thee.

Psalm lxxxv. Benedixisti,
Domine.

LORD, thou art become

gracious unto thy land; thou hast turned away the captivity of Jacob.

2 Thou hast forgiven the offence of thy people, and covered all their sins.

13 Righteousness shall go before him, and he shall di rect his going in the way.

The Seventeenth day. MORNING PRAYER.

Psalm lxxxvi. Inclina, Do

mine.

OW down thine ear, O

Thou hast taken away all B Lord, and hear me,

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for

3 thy displeasure, and turned I am poor, and in misery. thyself from thy wrathful in-l 2 Preserve thou my soul; dignation. for I am holy my God, save 4 Turn us then, O God our thy servant that putteth his Saviour, and let thine anger trust in thee. cease from us, 3 Be merciful unto me, O

5 Wilt thou be displeased Lord; for I will call daily upon at us forever? and wilt thou thee.

stretch out thy wrath from one 4 Comfort the soul of thy generation to another? servant; for unto thee, O 6 Wilt thou not turn again, Lord, do I lift up my soul. and quicken us, that thy peo- 5 For thou, Lord, art good ple may rejoice in thee? and gracious, and of great 7 Show us thy mercy, Omercy unto all them that call Lord, and grant us thy salva-upon thee.

tion.

6 Give ear, Lord, unto my 8 I will hearken what the prayer, and ponder the voice Lord God will say concerning of my humble desires. me; for he shall speak peace 7 In the time of my trouble unto his people, and to his will call upon thee; for thou saints, that they turn not again.hearest me.

Fundamenta

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8 Among the gods there is Psalm lxxxvii. none like unto thee, O Lord;

there is not one that can do

as thou doest.

9 All nations whom thou HER foundations are upon the holy hills: the Lord hast made, shall come and loveth the gates of Sion more worship thee, O Lord, and than all the dwellings of Jacob. shall glorify thy Name. 2 Very excellent things are 10 For thou art great, and spoken of thee, thou city of doest wondrous things: thou God.

art God alone.

3 I will think upon Rahab 11 Teach me thy way, Oand Babylon, with them that Lord, and I will walk in thy know me.

truth: O knit my heart unto 4 Behold ye the Philistires thee, that I may fear thy also, and they of Tyre, with Name. the Morians; lo there was he

12 I will thank thee, O Lord born. my God, with all my heart; 5 And of Sion it shall be and will praise thy Name for-reported, that he was born in her; and the Most High shall

ever more.

13 For great is thy mercy establish her. toward me; and thou hast de- 6 The Lord shall rehearse livered my soul from the ne-it, when he writeth up the peothermost hell. ple, that he was born there.

14 O God, the proud are 7 The singers also and risen against me; and the trumpeters shall he rehearse : congregations of naughty men All my fresh springs shall be have sought after my soul, in thee.

and have not set thee before

their eyes.

Psalm lxxxviii. Domine,

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LORD, God of my salvation, I have cried day

15 But thou, O Lord God, art full of compassion and mercy, long-suffering, plenteous in goodness and truth. and night before thee: O let 16 O turn thee then unto my prayer enter into thy preme, and have mercy upon me ;sence; incline thine ear unto give thy strength unto thy ser-my calling;

vant, and help the son of 2 For my soul is full of thine hand-maid, trouble, and my life draweth

17 Show some token upon nigh unto hell. me for good; that they who 3 I am counted as one of hate me may see it, and be them that go down into the ashamed, because thou, Lord, pit, and I have been even as a hast holpen ine, and comfort-man that hath no strength.

ed me.

4 Free among the dead unto them that are

and lie in the grave, who are passed me together on every out of remembrance, and are side.

cut away from thy hand.

18 My lovers and friends 5 Thou hast laid me in the hast thou put away from me, lowest pit, in a place of dark- and hid mine acquaintance ness, and in the deep. out of my sight.

6 Thine indignation leth

hard upon me, and thou hast

EVENING PRAYER.

Misericordias

Domini.

vexed me with all thy storms. Psalm lxxxix.
7 Thou hast put away mine
acquaintance far from me,
and made me to be abhorred
of them.

MY song shall be alway of the loving-kindness of

the Lord; with my mouth

8 I am so fast in prison, will I ever be showing thy truth from one generation to

that I cannot get forth.

9 My sight faileth for very another. trouble; Lord, I have called 2 For I have said, Mercy daily upon thee, I have stretch-shall be set up for ever, thy ed forth my hands unto thee. truth shalt thou stablish in the 10 Dost thou show wonders heavens. among the dead? or shall the dead rise up again and praise thee?

3 I have made a covenant with my chosen ; I have sworn Junto David my servant.

11 Shall thy loving-kindness 4 Thy seed will I stablish be showed in the grave? or thy for ever, and set up thy throne faithfulness in destruction? from one generation to ano

12 Shall thy wondrous works ther.

be known in the dark? and 5 O Lord, the very heavens thy righteousness in the land shall praise thy wondrous where all things are forgotten? works; and thy truth in the 13 Unto thee have I cried, congregation of the saints. O Lord; and early shall my 6 For who is he among the prayer come before thee. clouds, that shall be compared 14 Lord, why abborrest thou unto the Lord? my soul, and hidest thou thy face from me?

7 And what is he among the gods, that shall be like

15 I am in misery, and like unto the Lord?

unto him that is at the point 8 God is very greatly to be to die; even from my youth feared in the council of the up, thy terrors have I suffer-saints, and to be had in rever ed with a troubled mind. ence of all them that are

16 Thy wrathful displeasure round about him. goeth over me, and the fear 9 O Lord God of hosts, of thee hath undone me. who is like unto thee? thy 17 They came round about truth, most mighty Lord, is we daily like water, and com-lon every side.

22 My hand shall hold him and my arm shall

strengthen him.

10 Thou rulest the raging of the sea; thou stillest the waves fast, thereof when they arise. 11 Thou hast subdued Egypt. and destroyed; it thou hast able to do him violence; the scattered thine enemies abroad son of wickedness shall not with thy mighty arm.

23 The enemy shall not be

hurt him.

12 The heavens are thine, 24 I will smite down his foes the earth also is thine; thou before his face, and plague hast laid the foundation of the them that hate him.

round world, and all that 25 My truth also and my therein is. mercy shall be with him; and 13 Thou hast made the north in my Name shall his horn be and the south; Tabor and Her-exalted.

mon shall rejoice in thy Name. 26 I will set his dominion 14 Thou hast a mighty arm; also in the sea, and his right strong is thy hand, and high hand in the floods.

is thy right hand.

27 He shall call me, Thou 15 Righteousness and equity art my Father, my God, and are the habitation of thy seat; my strong salvation.

mercy and truth shall go be- 28 And I will make him fore thy face. my first-born, higher than the 16 Blessed is the people, O kings of the earth. Lord, that can rejoice in thee; 29 My mercy will I keep they shall walk in the light of for him for evermore, and my thy countenance. covenant shall stand fast with

17 Their delight shall be him. daily in thy name; and in thy 30 His seed also will I make righteousness shall they make to endure for ever, and his their boast. throne as the days of hea

18 For thou art the glory of ven.

their strength, and in thy lov- 31 But if his children foring-kindness thou shalt lift up sake my law, and walk not in our horns: my judgments; 19 For the Lord is our de- 32 If they break my sta fence; the Holy One of Israel tutes, and keep not my com is our King. mandments; I will visit their 20 Thou spakest sometime offences with the rod, and in visions unto thy saints, and their sin with scourges. saids, I have laid help upon 33 Nevertheless, my lor one that is mighty, I have ex-ing-kindness will I not utterly alted one chosen out of the take from him, nor suffer my people. truth to fail.

21 I have found David my 34 My covenant will I not servant with my holy oil have break, nor alter the thing that

I anointed bim.

is gone out of my lips: I

sworn once by my holiness,jloving-kindnesses, which thou that I will not fail David. swarest unto David in thy 35 His seed shall endure truth?

for ever, and his seat is like 49 Remember, Lord, the as the sun before me. rebuke that thy servants have,

36 He shall stand fast for and how I do bear in my boevermore as the moon, and som the rebukes of many peoas the faithful witness in hea-ple;

ven.

50 Wherewith thine ene

$7 But thou hast abhorred mies have blasphemed thee, and forsaken thine Anointed, and slandered the footsteps of and art displeased at him. til. Anointed: Praised be the 38 Thou hast broke the Lord for evermore. Amen covenant of thy servant, and and Amen.

cast his crown to the ground.

39 Thou hast overthrown all his hedges, and broken down his strong holds.

40 All they that go by spoil him, and he is become a reproach to his neighbours.

The Eighteenth Day.

MORNING PRAYER.

Psalm xc. Domine, refugium.

41 Thou hast set up the LORD, thou hast been our

refuge, from one genera

right hand of his enemies, and tion to another.

made all his adversaries to re- 2 Before the mountains were joice. brought forth, or ever the 42 Thou hast taken away earth and the world were the edge of his sword, and made, thou art God from givest him not victory in the everlasting, and world withbattle. out end.

48 Thou hast put out his 3 Thou turnest man to deglory, and cast his throne down struction; again thou savest,. to the ground. Come again, ye childre.. of

44 The days of his youth men. hast thou shortened, and co- 4 For a thousand years in vered him with dishonour. thy sight are but as yesterday,

45 Lord, how long wilt thou seeing that is past as a watch hide thyself? for ever? and in the night.

shall thy wrath burn like fire? 5 As soon as thou scatterest

46 remember how short them, they are even as a sleep, my time is; wherefore hast and fade away suddenly like thou made all men for nought? the grass.

47 What man is he that liv- 6 In the morning it is green, eth, and shall not see death and groweth up; but in the and shall he deliver his soul evening it is cut-down, dried from the hand of hell? up, and withered.

48 Lord, where are thy old

7 For we consume away

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