I' th' morning I to thee with choice

Will rank my pray'rs, and watch till thou appear.

For thou art not a God that takes

In wickedness delight,

Evil with thee no biding makes,

Fools or mad men stand not within thy fight.

All workers of iniquity

Thou hat'ft; and them unblest

Thou wilt destroy that speak a ly;

The bloody' and guileful man God doth deteft.

But I will in thy mercies dear

Thy numerous mercies go

Into thy house; I in thy fear

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Will tow'rds thy holy temple worship low. 20 Lord lead me in thy righteousness,

Lead me because of those

That do observe if I transgress,

Set thy ways right before, where my step goes.
For in his faltring mouth unstable

No word is firm or fmooth;

Their infide, troubles miferable;

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Anopen grave their throat, their tongue they smooth.

God, find them guilty, let them fall

By their own counsels quell'd;

Push them in their rebellions all

Still on; for against thee they have rebell'd.
Then all who truft in thee shall bring

Their joy, while thou from blame

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Defend'ft them, they fhall ever fing

And shall triumph in thee, who love thy name.
For thou Jehovah wilt be found

To blefs the just man still,

As with a fhield thou wilt furround

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PSA L. VI. Aug. 13. 1653.

ORD in thine anger do not reprehend me,
Nor in thy hot displeasure me correct;
Pity me, Lord, for I am much deject,

very weak and faint; heal and amend me:
For all my bones, that ev'n with anguish ake, 5
Are troubled, yea my foul is troubled fore,
And thou, O Lord, how long? turn Lord, reflore
My foul, O fave me for thy goodness fake:
For in death no remembrance is of thee;

Who in the grave can celebrate thy praise? 10 Wearied I am with fighing out my days, Nightly my couch I make a kind of sea; My bed I water with my tears; mine eye

Through grief confumes, is waxen old and dark I' th' midft of all mine enemies that mark. 15 Depart all ye that work iniquity,

Depart from me, for the voice of

for the voice of my weeping

The Lord hath heard, the Lord hath heard my My fupplication with acceptance fair (pray'r, The Lord will own, and have me in his keeping. 20

Mine enemies fhall all be blank and dafh'd
With much confufion; then grown red with shame,
They shall return in haste the way they came,
And in a moment shall be quite abash'd.

PSAL. VII. Aug. 14. 1653.

Upon the words of Chufh the Benjamite against him.

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ORD my God to thee I fly,

Save me and fecure me under
Thy protection while I cry,
Left as a lion (and no wonder)
He hafte to tear my foul afunder,
Tearing and no rescue nigh.

Lord my God if I have thought
Or done this, if wickedness

Be in my hands, if I have wrought

Ill to him that meant me peace,
Or to him have render'd lefs,
And not free'd my foe for nought;

Let th' enemy pursue my foul

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And overtake it, let him tread

My life down to the earth, and roll

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In the duft my glory dead,

In the duft and there out-fpread

Lodge it with dishonor foul.

Rise Jehovah in thine ire,

Rouse thyself amidst the rage

Of my foes that urge like fire;

And wake for me, their fury' affwage;
Judgment here thou didst engage
And command which I defire.

So th' affemblies of each nation
Will furround thee, feeking right,
Thence to thy glorious habitation
Return on high and in their fight.

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Jehovah judgeth most upright

All people from the world's foundation.

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Judge me Lord, be judge in this
According to my righteousness,
And the innocence which is

God is a juft judge and fevere,

And God is every day offended;

If the unjust will not forbear,

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His fword he whets, his bow hath bended

Already, and for him intended

The tools of death, that waits him near.

(His arrows purposely made he

For them that perfecute.)

He travels big with vanity,

Behold

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Trouble he hath conceiv'd of old
As in a womb, and from that mold
Hath at length brought forth a lie.

He digg'd a pit, and delv'd it deep,

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And fell into the pit he made;

His mischief that due course doth keep,

Turns on his head, and his ill trade

Of violence will undelay'd

Fall on his crown with ruin steep.

Then will I Jehovah's praise
According to his justice raise,
And fing the Name and Deity
Of Jehovah the most high.

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