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fence with thanksgiving : and As for all the gods of the fhew our felves glad in him heathen, they are but idols: with pfalms. but it is the Lord that made the heavens.

3 For the Lord is a great God and a great King above all gods.

6 Glory and worship are before him power and honour 4 In his hand are all the cor- are in his fanctuary. ners of the earth and the7 Afcribe unto the Lord, O ftrength of the hills is his allo. 5 The fea is his, and he made it: and his hands prepared the dry land.

6 O come, let us worship and fall down and kneel before the Lord our Maker...

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ye kindreds of the people: afcribe unto the Lord worship and power.

8 Afcribe unto the Lord the honour due unto his Name : bring prefents, and come into his courts.

7 For he is the Lord our 9 O worship the Lord in the God and we are the people of beauty of holiness: let the whole his pafture, and the sheep of earth ftand in awe of him. his hand.

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all the whole earth.

2 Sing unto the Lord, and

praise his Name: be telling of
his falvation from day to day.
3 Declare his honour unto
the heathen and his wonders
unto all people.

4 For the Lord is great, and cannot worthily be praifed: he is more to be feared than all gods.

10 Tell it out among the heathen, that the Lord is King: and that it is he who hath made the round world so fast that it cannot be moved, and how that he fhall judge the people righteously.

II Let the heavens rejoyce, and let the earth be glad : let the fea make a noise, and all that therein is.

12 Let the field be joyful, and all that is in it: then shall all the trees of the wood rejoyce before the Lord.

13 For he cometh, for he cometh to judge the earth: and with righteousness to judge the world, and the people with his truth...gi

Pfalm 97. Dominus regnavit. He The Lord is King, the earth may be glad thereof; yea, the multitude of the ifles may be glad thereof.

2 Clouds and darkness are round about him righteousnefs and judgment are the habitation of his feat.

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5 The hills melted like wax at the prefence of the Lord at the prefence of the Lord of the whole earth.

s Shew your felves joyful unto the Lord, all ye lands fing, rejoyce and give thanks. 6 Praife the Lord upon the 6 The heavens have declared harp fing to the harp with a his righteoufnels and all the psalm of thanksgiving.vo vadi people have feen his glory.7 With trumpets alfo and 7 Confounded be all they fhawms: O fhew your felves that worship carved images, joyful before the Lord the and that delight in vain gods: King. worship him, all ye gods.

S. Sion heard of it, and rejoyced and the daughters of Juda were glad, because of thy judgments, O Lord.

9 For thou, Lord, art high er than all that are in the earth thou art exalted far above all gods.

TO O ye that love the Lord, fee that ye hate the thing which is evil: the Lord preferveth the fouls of his faints; he fhall deliver them from the hand ofthe ungodly.

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11 There is fprung up a light for the righteous and joyful Cherubims, be the earth never gladness for fuch as are true- fo unquiet. hearted.

12 Rejoyce in the Lord, ye righteous and give thanks for a remembrance of his holiness. Evening Prayer. Pfalm 98. Cantate Domino. unto the Lord a fong for he hath done marvellous things.

2 With his own right hand, and with his holy arm: hath he gotten himself the victory.

3 The Lord declared his falvation: his righteousness hath he openly fhewed in the fight of the heathen.

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5 O magnifie the Lord our God and fall down before his footstool, for he is holy.

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7 He fpake unto them out of 6 Whofo privily flandereth the cloudy pillar: for they kept his neighbour: him will I dehis teftimonies, and the law ftroy. that he gave them.

8 Thou heardeft them, O Lord our God: thou forgaveft them, O God, and punishedst their own inventions.

9 O magnifie the Lord our God, and worship him upon his holy hill: for the Lord our God is holy.

Pfalm 100. Jubilate Deo. Be joyful in the Lord, ad ye lands: ferve the Lord with gladness, and come before his prefence with a fong.

2 Be ye fure that the Lord he is God; it is he that hath made us, and not we our felves: we are his people, and the fleep of his pafture.

3 O go your way into his

167 whofo hath affo a proud high ftomach: I will not fuffer him.

8 Mine eyes look upon fuch as are faithful in the lant: that they may dwell with me.

9 Whofo leadeth a godly life: he fhall be my fervant.

10 There fall no deceitful perfon dwell in my houfe: he that telleth lies fhall not tarry in my fight.

III fhall foon deftroy all the ungodly that are in the land that I may root out alf wicked doers from the city of the Lord.

Morning Prayer. Pfalm 102. Domine, exaudi. Ear my prayer, Lord:

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8 Mine enemies revile me all the day long and they that are mad upon me, are fworn together against mesov s

9 For I have eaten afhes as it were bread and mingled my drink with weeping s 10 And that because of thine indignation and wrath for thou haft taken me up, and caft me down.

11 My days are gone like a fhadow and I am withered like grafs.

12 But thou, O Lord, fhalt endure for ever and thy remembrance throughout all ge nerations.

13 Thou fhalt arife, and have mercy upon Sion: for it is time that thou have mercy upon her, yea, the time is come.

14 And why? thy fervants think upon her ftones and it pitieth them to fee her in the dun

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15 The heathen fall fear thy Name, O Lord and all the kings of the earth thy Majefty; 16When the Lord fhall build up Sion: and when his glory

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17 When he turneth him unto the prayer of the poor deftitute and defpifeth not their defire

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18 This fhall be written for thofe that come after and the people which fhall be born fhall praife the Lord.

19 For he hath looked down from his fanctuary: out of the heaven did the Lord behold the earth;

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21 That they may declare the Name of the Lord in Sion : and his worship at Jerufalem;

22 When the people are gathered together:Land the kingdoms alfo to ferve the Lord. 23 He brought down my ftrength in my journey and fhortned my days.

24 But I faid, O my God, take me not away in the midft · of mine age as for thy years they endure throughout all generations.

25 Thou, Lord, in the begin ning haft laid the foundation of the earth and the heavens are the work of thy hands.

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26 They fhall perish, but thou fhalt endure they all fhall wax old as doth a garment,

27 And as a vefture fhalt thou change them, and they fhall be changed: but thou art the fame, and thy years fall not fail,

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28 The children of thy fervants fhall continue and their feed fhall ftand faft in thy fight. Pfalm 103. Benedic, anima mea. Raife the Lord, O my foul: and a

and all that is within me praise his holy Name,

2 Praise the Lord, my foul and forget not all his benefits,

3 Who forgiveth all thy fin: and healeth all thine infirmities; merman 35

4 Who faveth thy life from deftruction and crowneth thee with mercy and loving kindnefs;

5 Who fatisfieth thy mouth with good things: making thee young and lufty as an eagle

16 The Lord executeth righ his feat in heaven: and his teousness and judgment: for all kingdom ruleth over all."· them that care oppreffed with 200 the Lord, ye an. Wrongest vor ad. 13 e that excel in

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To He hath not dealt with us after our fins: nor rewarded us according to our wickedantara nelles. For look how high the

heaven is in comparison of the earth: fo great is his mercy alfe toward them that fear him.

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13 Yea, like as a father pitieth his own children: even fo is the Lord merciful unto them that fear him.

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ry The days of man are but as grafs: for he flourisheth as flower of the field.

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7 But the merciful good hefs of the Lord endureth for ever and ever upon them that

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the voice of his words.
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his hofts ye fervants of his
that do his pleasure.
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all ye works of his, in all places
of his dominion: praife thou
the Lord, O my foul.

Evening Prayer.
Pfalm ro4. Benedic, anima mea.
Lord my God, thou art
Raife the Lord, O my foul:

become exceeding glorious, thou
art clothed with majesty and
honour."

2 Thou deckeft thy felf with light as it were with a garment : and spreadeft out the heavens like a curtain.

Who layeth the beams of his chambers in the waters: and maketh the clouds his chariot, and walketh upon the wings of the wind.

4 He maketh his angels fpi rits: and his minifters a flaming

fire.

s He laid the foundations of the earth: that it never fhould move at any time.

6 Thou coveredit it with the deep like as with a garment : the waters ftand in the hills. 7 At thy rebuke they flee: at fear him and his righteoufness the voice of thy thunder they upon childrens children; are afraid.

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18 Even upon fuch as keep his covenant: and think up on his commandments to do them.

8 They go up as high as the hill, and down to the vallies beneath even unto the place which thou haft appointed for M 6 9 Thou

19 The Lord hath prepared them.

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