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7 Ithin thy tabernacle, Lord, who thall abide with thee? And in thy high and holy hill.

who fhall a dweller be?

2. The man that walketh uprightly, and worketh righteouincis; And, as he thinketh in his heart, fo doth he truth exprels.

3. Who doth not flander with his tongue, nor to his friend doth hurt:

Nor yet against his neighbour doth take up an ill report.

4 In whofe eyes vile men are defpis'd; but thofe that God do fear.

He honoureth: and changeth not, though to his hurt he fwear..

5 His coin puts not to usury,

nor take reward will he

Againit the guiltlefs. Who doth thus,, flail nevér moved be.

PS AL M XVI..
Michtam of David.

This Pfalm is indeed a MICHTAM, a goiden Pfalm. Beholde the man according to God's heart (1) Committing himself to God as his Preferver, ver. 1. (2) Avowing his endeared-love: to the people, and strict adherence to the worthip of God, ver. 3, 4. (3) With great confidence and joy claiming God for his fatisfying portion, ver. 2, 5,7. (4) Comforting himself in and blefling God for his prefent intimacy with him, and grant. ing direction to him, and for his certain profpect of the eternal enjoyment of him, ver. 8{ Ì ‚· But chiefly Behold! here, Jefus, the man of God's right hand, furrendering himself up to his Eather's fervice, in room of, and for the everlasting advantage of his elect! Behold him, taking out his new-covenant claim to God as his God and portion for ever; and as our God. and portion in him! Behold, how, fupported of God, in his holy manhood, he fuffers unto a tremenduous death, and debaled burial; but being railed again, he is crowned with ever lafting glory and honour! Behold! how the agonies of fuffering, and the pains of death are fucceeded, with fulness of joy, and

rivers of life and pleafures at God's right hand for evermore. Looking to him, let me with patience, run the race that is fet before me, living on, and rejoicing in God, as my ALL and IN ALL; and looking for the bleed hope, and glorious appearing of the great God my Saviour. Through hin, neither fin, nor devils, nor death, nor hell, thalls be able to prevent my immediate and evertatting enjoyment of JEHOVAH, as my in finite portion and EXCEEDING JOY:

LORD, keep me; for I trust in thee,.

2 To God thus was my fpeech ;'
Thou art my Lord, and unto thee
my goodnei's doth not reach:
3 To faints on earth, to th' excellent,
where my delight's all plac'd.
4 Their forrows thall be multiply'd,
to other gods that halte:

Of their drink-offerings of blood..
I will no off'ring make;
Yea, neither I their very namès
up in my lips will take..

5 God is of mine inheritance
and cup the portion:

The lot that fallen is to me,
thou doft maintain alone.

6 Unto me happily the lines
in pleafant places fell;
Yea, the inheritance I got,
in beauty doth excel..

I blefs the Lord, because he doth
by counfel me conduct:

And, in the feafons of the night,
reins do me inftruct.

my

8 Before me ftill the Lord I fet:

fith it is fo, that he

Doth ever ftand at my right hand,
I fhall not moved be..

Because of this my heart is glad,
and joy fhall be expreft

Ev'n by my glory: and my flesh
in confidence fhall reft.

ro Because my foul in grave to dwell
fhall not be left by thee;

Nor wilt thou give thine holy One
corruption to fee..

I Thou wilt me fhew the path of life:
of joys there is full ftore
Before thy face, at thy right hand
are pleasures evermore.

PSALM XVII..
A Prayer of David.-

Here, in the depths of diitrefs, (1) David appeals to God, concerning the integrity of his heart, and the juftness of his caufe, ver. 1,—4. (2) He prays for ettablishment in grace within; for tokens of divine favour from above; and for prefervation from his carnal, malicious, and infolent, his reftlefs and powerful enemies, around, ver: 5,-14. (3) He triumphs in the affured faith of his everlafting enjoyment of, and con formity to God, ver. 15. Let me alfo here look after Jefus, in whose heart was no deceit, and in whofe mouth was no guile:Jefus, who fulfilled all righteoufnefs for me; and who notwithstanding all the rage of devils and men, hath fat down at the right hand of God, crowned with glory and honour. Let me remember, That he, as the fore-runner, is for me entered into the manfions of blifs; and hath left me an example;. that I fhould follow his fteps.

LORD, hear the right, attend my cry,

unto my pray'r give heed, That doth not in hypocrify

from feigned lips proceed..

2 And from before thy prefence forth my fentence do thou fend: Toward these things that equal are, do thou thine eyes intend..

3 Thou prov'dit mine heart, thou vifit'dft me,by night thou didit me try,

Yet nothing found'it; for that my mouth
fhall not in, purpos'd 1.

4 As for men's works, I, by the word!
that from thy lips doth flow,
Did me preferve out of the paths
wherein destroyers go.

5

Hold up my goings, Lord; me guide
in thofe thy paths divine,

So that my footsteps may not flide
out of thefe ways of thine.

6 I called have on thee, O God,
because thou wilt me hear :
That thou may'it hearken to my fpeech,
to me incline thine ear.

Thy wond'rous loving-kindness show,> thou that by thy right hand Sav'it them that truit in thee, from thofe that up against them ftand. 8 As th' apple of the eye me keep; in thy wings fhade me clofe,

9 From lewd oppreffors, compaffing me round as deadly foes.

10 In their own fat they are inclos'd, their mouth fpeaks loftily.

11 Our steps they compafs'd; and to ground down bowing fet their eye.

12 He like unto a lion is,

that's greedy of his prey;

Or lion young, which lurking doth
in fecret places ftay..

13 Arife, and difappoint my foe,
and caft him down, O Lord::

My foul fave from the wicked man,
the man which is thy fword.

34 From men which are thy hand, O Lord, from worldly men me fave,

Which only in this prefent life
their part and portion have:

Whofe belly with thy treasure hid
thou fill'it: they children have
In plenty, of their goods the rest
they to their children leave.
15 But as for me, I thine own face
in righteoufnefs will fee:

And, with thy likeness, when I wake,
I fatisfy'd fhall be.

To the chief Mufician. A Pfalm of David, the fervant of the Lord, who fpake unto the Lord the words of this fong, in the day that the Lord delivered him from the band of all bis enemies, and from the band of Saut And he faid.

In this Pfalm of thanksgiving for manifold deliverances, obferve (1) David's ardent love to God in Chrift, whom he believed to be HIS OWN, in every gracious and faving relation and whom he had experienced, his merciful, a mighty, and feafonable Deliverer, from depths of trouble, ver. 1,-19. (2) His comfortable reflections, on the integrity, which the Lord had enabled him to maintain, and on the gracious kindnels of God, confequential thereupon, ver. 20,-28. (3) is thankful afcription of all the glory of his noted exploits to God, as his director and ftrengthener, ver. 29,-42. (4) His triumphant faith and hope, of further affiftance and favour from God, to himself and to his feed, for evermore, ver. 43,-59.

But, let me not forget Jefus, to whom, JEHOVAH is fo clofely, fo marvellously, fo fweetly, related:Jefus, who fo ardently loveth his eternal Father, and for ever returns the grateful remembrance of his kindness, to him and to his chofen feed, in delivering him from distress, in raifing him from the dead; in rewarding his obedience unto death, in giving him glory at his own right hand, and in rendering all nations his obedient fubje&s.Let me fing this new fong, in the full afsurance of faith, that God in Chrift is my ALL and IN ALL; and with an heart ravished with the confolations of Christ, and in the fweet reviews of what he hath done, what he doth, and what he will for ever do, for my foul.

THEE will I love, O Lord, my strength,

2 My fortrefs is the Lord,

My rock, and he that doth to me
deliverance afford: