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13 And the daughter of Tyre shall be there with a gift: like as the rich alfo among the people fhall make their fupplication before thee.

14 The Kings daughter is all glorious within: her clothing is of wrought gold.

15 She fhall be brought unto the King in raiment of needlework: the virgins that be her fellows, fhall bear her company, and fhall be brought unto thee.

16 With joy and gladness shall they be brought: and shall enter into the Kings palace.

17 Inftead of thy fathers thou fhalt have children: whom thou mayeft 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.

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|| Pfalm 46. Deus nofter refugium.

OD is our hope and strength: a very present help in trouble. 2 Therefore will we not fear though the earth be moved: and though the hills be carried into the midst of the fea.

3 Though the waters thereof rage and fwell; and though the mountains shake at the tempeft of the fame.

4 The rivers of the flood thereof fhall 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 fhall fhe not be removed: God fhall help her, and that right early.

Law of Mofes becaufe that was delivered by a mere Man, this by the Son of God; and that if any breaches of that were followed by a fevere punishment, a contempt of the Gospel would much more fo; be cause 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 thofe fignal victories which David gained over the Moabites, Syrians, &c. mentioned in 2 Sam. viii, and 3. Chron. xviii.

↑ God is our bape and frength, &c. This pious and

grateful acknowledgment of the Pfalmift is highly wor thy of our confideration and imitation. Since it is God alone, most certainly, that giveth fuccefs either to our temporal or fpiritual undertakings. How much then does it concern us to fecure his Friendship and Protection, who is able to help and fupport us when all worldly comforts forfake us! And how negligent are they of their real Intereft who, by their Iniquities, pot themselves out of the protection of their almighty defender.

6. The heathen make much ado, and the kingdoms are moved: but God hath fhewed his voice, and the earth fhall melt away. 7 The Lord of hofts is with us: the God of Jacob is our refuge.

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8 come hither, and behold the works of the Lord: what deftruction he hath brought upon the earth.

He maketh wars to ceafe in all the world: he breaketh the bow, and knappeth the fpear in funder, and burneth the chariots' in the fire.

10 Be ftill then, and know that I am God: I will be exalted the heathen, and I will be exalted in the earth. among

11 The Lord of hofts is with us: the God of Jacob is our refuge. EVENING

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§ Pfalm 47.

PRAYER.

Omnes gentes, plaudite.

CLAP your hands together, all ye people: O fing unto
God with the voice of melody.

2. For the Lord is high, and to be feared: he is the great King upon all the earth.

3 He fhall 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 praifés unto our God: O fing praises, fing praises unto our King.

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7 For God is the King of all the earth: figye praifes with understanding.

8 God reigneth over the heathen: God fitteth upon his holy feat.

This Pfalm was probably compofed in the reign of Solomon, at the publick folemrity, when the A was brought into the Temple after its building,

Kings viii.. And thereupon the infpired Author takes occalion to praise God for the future calling of the Gen is, which feems to have been revealed to him', r

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§ Pfalm 48. Magnus Dominus.

REAT is the Lord, and highly to be praised: in the city 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.

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4 They marvelled to fee fuch things: they were astonished, and fuddenly caft down.

5 Fear came there upon them, and forrow: as upon a woman in her travail.

6 Thou shalt break the fhips of the fea: through the east-wind. 7 Like as we have heard, fo have we feen in the city of the Lord of hofts; in the city of our God: ‡ God upholdeth the same for ever.

8 We wait for thy loving kindness, O God: in the midst of thy temple.

9 O God, according to thy Name, fo is thy praise unto the worlds end: thy right hand is full of righteoufnefs.

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, fet up her houses: that ye may tell them that come after.

The Princes of the People are joined, &c. This prophecy feems 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 reafon have we to rejoice in the completion of this pro

phecy who were once Gentiles, carried away to Idolstry, and without a due fenfe of the living and true God! And how inexcufable fhail we be if we live wickedly and unprofitably under the glorious light of the Gospel!

This Pfalm was compofed upon occafion of some great deliverance which God had granted to Jerufalem

13 For this God is our God for ever and ever: he fhall be our guide unto death.

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§ Pfalm 49. Audite hæc, omnes Hear ye this, all ye people: ponder it with your ears, all ye that dwell in the world.

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2 High and low, rich and poor: one with another.

3 My mouth' fhall speak of wisdom: 'and my heart fhall muse of understanding.

I will incline mine ear to the parable: and fhew my dark fpeech upon the harp.

5 Wherefore should I fear in the days of wickedness: and when the wickedness of my heels compaffeth 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 coft more to redeem their fouls: fo that he must let that alone for ever:

9 Yea, though he live long: and fee not the grave.

10 For he feeth that wife men alfo die, and perifh together: as well as the ignorant and foolish, and leave their riches for other.

And yet they think that their houses fhall continue for ever: and that their dwelling-places fhall endure from one generation to, another; and call the lands after their own names.

12 Nevertheless, man will not abide in honour: feeing he may be compared unto the beafts that perifh; this is the way of them. 13 This is their foolishness: and their posterity praise their faying.

God upholdeth the fame for ever, &c. This promife is ftill better fuited to the Chriftian, than to the Jewish Church; concerning which Chrift hath faid that the Gates of Hell shall not prevail against it; and ought ito convince us of our happiness in being members of it, and fill all fincere Believers with ftedfaft hope and confidence in God.

In this Pfalm which is doctrinal and inftructive,

the writer proves that the happinefs of Man' does not confift in the riches and honours of the World-and that thofe who purfue them as their chief good are fools and unwife; and therefore that we ought not to fet our Hearts upon them, nor fear nor eavy 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.

14. They lie in the hell like sheep, death ignaweth upon them, and the righteous fhall have domination over them in the morning: their beauty fhall confume in the fepulchre out of their dwelling.

15 But God hath delivered my foul from the place of hell : for he fhall 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 fo long as thou doeft well unto thyfelf, men will fpeak good of

thee.

19 He fhall follow the generation of his fathers; and fhall never fee light.

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20 Man being in honour hath no understanding: but is compared unto the beafts that perish.

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HE Lord, even the most mighty God hath fpoken: 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 fhall come, and shall not keep filence: there fhall go before him a confuming fire, and a mighty tempest shall be stirs red up round about him.

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4 He fhall call the heaven from above: and the earth, that he i may judge his people.

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