13 And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift: like as the rich also among the people shall make their fupplication before thee. 14 The Kings daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold. 15 She shall be brought unto the King in raiment of needlework: the virgins that be her fellows, shall bear her company, and shall be brought unto thee. 16 With joy and gladness shall they be brought: and shall enter into the Kings palace. : 17 Instead of thy fathers thou shalt have children: whom thou mayest make princes in all lands. 18 I will remember thy Name from one generation to another: therefore shall the people give thanks unto thee, world without end. * || Psalm 46. Deus nofter refugium. YOD is our hope and strength: a very present help in trouble. 2 Therefore will we not fear though the earth be moved: GOD and though the hills be carried into the midst of the fea. 3 Though the waters thereof rage and swell; and though the mountains thake at the tempest of the same. 4 The rivers of the flood thereof shall make glad the city of God: the holy place of the tabernacle of the most Highest. 5 God is in the midst of her, therefore shall she not be removed: God shall help her, and that right early. Law of Mofes: because that was delivered by a mere Man, this by the Son of God; and that if any breaches of that were followed by a severe punishment, a contempt of the Gospel would much more fo; because it was the most glorious and exalted revelation that ever had been made to Mankind. This is a Pfalm of Thanksgiving which was probably wrote after those signal victories which David gained over the Moabites, Syrians, &c. mentioned in 2 Sam. viii, and 3. Chron. xviii. God is our boge and trength, &c. This pious and grateful acknowledgment of the Pfalmist is highly worthy of our confideration and imitation. Since it is God alone, most certainly, that giveth success either to our temporal or spiritual undertakings. How much then does it concern us to secure his Friendship and Protection, who is able to help and support us when all worldly comforts forsake tus! And how negligent are they of their real Interest who, by their Iniquities, put themselves out of the protection of their almighty defender. 6. The heathen make much ado, and the kingdoms are moved: but God hath shewed his woice, and the earth shall melt away. 7 The Lord of hosts is with us: the God of Jacob is our refuge. ? 8 O come hither, and behold the works of the Lord: what destruction he hath brought upon the earth. 9 He maketh wars to cease in all the world: he breaketh the bow, and knappeth the spear in sunder, and burneth the chariots in the fire. : 10 Be still then, and know that I am God: I will be exalted among the heathen, and I will be exalted in the earth. 1 11 The Lord of hofts is with us: the God of Jacob is our refuge. EVENING PRAYER. § Pfalm 47. Omnes gentes, plaudite. CLAP your hands together, all ye people: O fing unto 2. For the Lord is high, and to be feared: he is the great King upon all the earth. 3 He shall fubdue the people under us: and the nations under our feet. 4 He shall choose out an heritage for us: even the worship of Jacob, whom he loved. 5: God is gone up with a merry noife: and the Lord with the found of the trump. 6. O fing praifes, fing praises unto our God: O fing praises, fing praises unto our King. 7 For God is the King of all the earth: figye praises with understanding. 8 God reigneth over the heathen: God fitteth upon his holy feat. : This Pfalm was probably composed in the reign of Solomon, at the publick folemrity, when the Ak was brought into the Temple after its building, 1. Kings viii.. And thereupon the infpired Author takes 9* The princes of the people are joined unto the people of the God of Abraham: for God, which is very high exalted, doth defend the earth, as it were with a shield G § Pfalm 48. Magnus Dominus. REAT is the Lord, and highly to be praised: in the dy of our God, even upon his holy hill. 2 The hill of Sion is a fair place, and the joy of the whole earth: upon the north-fide lieth the city of the great King; God is well known in her palaces as a fure refuge. 3 For lo, the kings of the earth: are gathered, and gone by together. 4 They marvelled to fee such things: they were astonished, and fuddenly cast down. 5 Fear came there upon them, and forrow: as upon a woman in her travail. 6 Thou shalt break the ships of the fea: through the east-wind. 7 Like as we have heard, so have we seen in the city of the Lord of hofts; in the city of our God: God upholdeth the fame for ever. 8 We wait for thy loving kindness, O God: in the midst of thy temple. 9 O God, according to thy Name, so is thy praise unto the worlds end: thy right thy right hand is full of righteousness. 10 Let the mount Sion rejoice, and the daughter of Judah be glad: because of thy judgments. II Walk about Sion, and go round about her: and tell the towers. thereof. 12 Mark well her bulwarks, set up her houses: that ye may tell them that come after. * The Princes of the People are joined, &c. This prophecy seems to have been eminently fulfilled when the Gentiles were equally with the Jews admitted into the number of the People of God, by their em bracing the Gofpel; and, like true Ifraelites, became the Children of Abraham through Faith. How much reason have we to rejoice in the completion of this pro phecy who were once Gentiles, carried away to luolatry, and without a due sense of the living and true God! And how inexcufable shail we be if we live wickedly and unprofitably under the glorious light of the Gofpel! great deliverance which God had granted to Jerujaless This Pfalm was compofed upon occafion of fome 3. For this God is our God for ever and ever: he shall be our hide unto death. D 1 § Pfalm 49. Audite hæc, omnes. 1 La Hear ye this, all ye people: ponder it with your ears, all ye that dwell in the world. 2 High and low, rich and poor: one with another. 3 My mouth shall fpeak of wisdom and my heart shall muse of understanding. 1: 4 I will incline mine ear to the parable: and shew my dark peech upon the harp. : 5 Wherefore should I fear in the days of wickedness: and when the wickedness of my heels compasseth me round about?... 6 There be some that put their trust in their goods: and boast themselves in the multitude of their riches. 7 But no man may deliver his brother: nor make agreement unto God for him; 8 For it cost more to redeem their fouls: so that he must let that alone for ever: 9 Yea, though he live long: and see not the grave. 10 For he seeth that wife men alfo die, and perish together: as well as the ignorant and foolish, and leave their riches for other. 11 And yet they think that their houses shall continue for ever: and that their dwelling-places shall endure from one generation to another; and call the lands after their own names. : 1.2 Nevertheless, man will not abide in honour: feeing he may be compared unto the beasts that perish; this is the way of them. 13 This is their foolishness: and their pofterity praise their faying... I God upholdeth the same for ever, &c. This promise is still better fuited to the Chriftian, than to the Jewish Church; concerning which Christ hath said that the Gates of Heli hall not prevail against it: and ought ato convince us of our happiness in being members of it, and fill all fincere Believers with stedfatt hope and confidence in God. In this Pfalm which is doctrinal and instructive, 1 the writer proves that the happiness of Man does not consist in the riches and honours of the World-and that those who pursue them as their chief good are fools and unwife; and (therefore that we ought not to fet our Hearts upon them, nor fear nor envy those that poffefs them, but that we should trust in God alone, who can render happy, even after death, those who fear, and firmly confide in him. H 2 : 14. They lie in the hell like theep, death gnaweth upon them, and the righteous shall have domination over them in the morning: their beauty shall confume in the fepulchre out of their dwelling. : 15 But God hath delivered my foul from the place of hell: for he shall receive me. 16 Be not thou afraid, though one be made rich: or if the glo ry of his house be increased; : 17 For he shall carry nothing away with him when he dieth: neither shall his pomp follow him. 18 For while he lived, he counted himself an happy man: and so long as thou douft well unto thyself, men will speak good of thee... 19 He shall follow the generation of his fathers: and shall : : 1 never fee light. * Man being in honour hath no understanding: but is com 20 pared unto the beasts that perish. T : MORNING : PRAYER. || Pfalm 50. Deus deorum. 1 13??? ???? 13? ?????? ?? HE Lord, even the most mighty God hath spoken: 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 shall come, and shall not keep filence: there shall go before him a confuming fire, and a mighty tempest shall be stirred up round about him. 4 He shall call the heaven from above: and the earth, that he may judge his people. * Man being in honour hath no understanding, &c. This deems to be more properly translated in the Bible verfin. Man that is in bonour and understandeth not, is like the Beasts that perish. From hence we may difcern how dangerous riches and worldly advancement are to our eternal interests: and especially where their poffeflors 1 : || This Ptalm is of a moral instructive nature: and is designed to shew that God is not plated with the : 1 |