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auspleasure, and turned thyself 5 For thou, Lord, art good and from thy wrathful indignation. gracious, and of great mercy unto 4 Turn us then, O God our all them that call upon thee. Saviour, and let thine anger cease 6 Give ear, Lord, unto my prayer, and ponder the voice of 5 Wilt thou be displeased at my humble desires. us for ever? and wilt thou stretch out thy wrath from one genera-I tion to another?

from us.

6 Wilt thou not turn again, and quicken us, that thy people may rejoice in thee?

7 Show us thy mercy, O Lord, and grant us thy salvation.

7 In the time of my trouble will call upon thee; for thou hearest me.

8 Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord; there is not one that can do as thou doest.

9 All nations whom thou hast made, shall come and worship 8 I will hearken what the Lord thee, O Lord; and shall glorify God will say concerning me; for thy name.

be shall speak peace unto his 10 For thou art great, and people, and to his saints, that they doest wondrous things: thou art turn not again. God alone.

9 For his salvation is nigh them 11 Teach me thy way, O Lord, that fear him; that glory may and I will walk in thy truth: 0 dwell in our land. knit my heart unto thee, that I 10 Mercy and truth are met may fear thy name. together: righteousness and peace 12 I will thank thee, O Lord have kissed each other. my God, with all my heart; and 11 Truth shall flourish out of will praise thy name for everthe earth, and righteousness hath more. looked down from heaven.

12 Yea, the Lord shall show loving-kindness, and our land shall give her incrcesc.

13 Righteousness shall go before him, and he shall direct his going in the way.

The seventeenth Day.
MORNING PRAYER.
Psalm 36. Inclina, Domine.

13 For great is thy mercy toward me; and thou hast delivered my soul from the nethermost hell.

14 O God, the proud are risen against me; and the congrega tions of naughty men have sought after my soul, and have not set thee before their eyes.

15 But thou, O Lord God, art full of compassion and mercy,

BOW down thine ear, O Lord, long-suffering, plenteous in good and hear me; for I am poor,ness and truth. and in misery.

16 O turn thee then unto me 2 Preserve thon my soul; for and have mercy upon me; give I am holy my God, save thy ser-thy strength unto thy servant, and vant that putteth his trust in thee. help the son of thine hand-maid.

3 Be merciful unto me, O Lord; 17 Show some token upon me for I will call daily upon thee. for good; that they who hate me 4 Comfort the soul of thy ser- may see it, and be ashamed, be. vant; for unto thee, O Lord, do cause thon, Lord, hast holpsa I lift up my soul. Ime, and comforted me.

Psalm 87. Fundamenta ejus,

HER foundations are upon the holy hills: the Lord loveth the gates of Sion more than all the dwellings of Jacob.

2 Very excellent things are spoken of thee, thou city of God. 3 I will think upon Rahab and Babylon, with them that know me. 4 Behold ye the Philistines also, and they of Tyre, with the Morians; lo there was he born.

Imade me to be abhorred of them. 7 I am so fast in prison, that I cannot get forth.

9 My sight faileth for very trouble; Lord, I have called daily upon thee, I have stretched forth my hands unto thee.

10 Dost thou show wonders among the dead? or shall the dead rise up again and praise thee?

11 Shall thy loving-kindness be showed in the grave? or thy faith

fulness in destruction?

12 Shall thy wondrous works

5 And of Sion it shall be reported, that he was born in her; and the Most High shall stablish be known in the dark? and thy righteousness in the land where 6 The Lord shall rehearse it, all things are forgotten? when he writeth up the people,] 13 Unto thee have I cried, O Lord; and early shall my prayer

ber.

that he was born there.

7 The singers also and trum-come before thee. peters shall he rehearse: All my fresh springs shall be in thee.

Psalm 28 Domine, Deus.

14 Lord, why abhorrest thou my soul, and hidest thou thy face from me?

15 I am in misery, and like Lord, God of my salvation, unto him that is at the point to I have cried day and night be- die; even from my youth up, thy fore thee: O let my prayer enter terrors have I suffered with a into thy presence; incline thine troubled mind.

ear unto my calling;

16 Thy wrathful displeasure 2 For my soul is full of trouble, goeth over me, and the fear of and my life draweth nigh unto hell. thee hath undone me. 3 I am counted as one of them 17 They came round about me that go down into the pit, and I daily like water, and compassed have been even as a man that hath me together on every side. no strength. 18 My lovers and friends hast

4 Free among the dead, like thou put away from me, and hid unto them that are wounded, and mine acquaintance out of my lie in the grave, who are out of sight. remembrance, and are cut away

from thy hand.

EVENING PRAYER.

5 Thou hast laid me in the Psalm 89. Misericordias Domini.

lowest pit, in a place of darkness, MY song shall be alway of the and in the deep. loving-kindness of the Lord;

6 Thine indignation lieth hard with my mouth will I ever be upon me, and thou hast vexed showing thy truth from one geneme with all thy storms. ration to another.

Thou hast put away mine acquaintance far from me, and be

2 For I have said, Mercy shall set up for ever thy truth

shalt thou stablish in the heavens. 17 Their delight shall be daily in 3 I have made a covenant with thy name; and in thy righteousmy chosen; I have sworn unto ness shall they make their boast. David my servant. 18 For thou art the glory of their 4 Thy seed will I stablish for strength, and in thy loving-kindever, and set up thy throne from ness thou shall lift up our horns: one generation to another. 19 For the Lord is our de5 O Lord, the very heavens fence; the Holy One of Israel is shall praise thy wondrous works; our King. and thy truth in the congrega

tion of the saints.

20 Thou spakest sometime in visions unto thy saints, and saidst, 6 For who is he among the I have laid help upon one that clouds, that shall be compared is mighty, I have exalted one unto the Lord? chosen out of the people. 7 And what is he among the 21 I have found David my ser gods, that shall be like unto the vant; with my holy oil have 1 Janointed him.

Lord?

8 God is very greatly to be feared in the council of the saints, and to be had in reverence of all them that are round about him.

9 O Lord God of hosts, who is like unto thee? thy truth, most mighty Lord, is on every side.

10 Thou rulest the raging of the sea; thou stillest the waves thereof when they arise.

11 Thou hast subdued Egypt, and destroyed it; thou hast scattered thine enemies abroad with thy mighty arm.

22 My hand shall hold him fast, and my arm shall strengthen him.

23 The enemy shall not be able to do him violence; the son of wickedness shall not hurt him.

24 I will smite down his foes before his face, and plague them that hate him.

25 My truth also and my mercy shall be with him; and in my name shall his horn be exalted.

26 I will set his dominion also in the sea, and his right hand in the floods.

12 The heavens are thine, the 27 He shall call me, Thou art earth also is thine; thou hast laid my Father, my God, and my the foundation of the round world, streng salvation.

and all that therein is.

28 And I will make him my 13 Thou hast made the north first-born, higher than the kings and the south; Tabor and Her- of the earth.

mon shall rejoice in thy name.

29 My mercy will I keep for 14 Thou hast a mighty arm; him for evermore, and my covestrong is thy hand, and high is nant shall stand fast with him. thy right hand. 30 His seed also will I make to

15 Righteousness and equity are endure for ever, and his throne the habitation of thy seat; mercy as the days of heaven. and truth shall go before thy face. 31 But if his children forsake 16 Blessed is the people, O my law, and walk not in my judg Lord, that can rejoice in thee;ments; they shall walk in the light of thy

countenance.

32 If they break my statutes. and keep not my commandments

I will visit their offences with the and shall not see death? and shall rod, and their sin with scourges. he deliver his soul from the hand 33 Nevertheless, my loving-of hell? kindness will I not utterly take 48 Lord, where are thy old lovfrom him, nor suffer my truth to ing-kindnesses, which thou swar fail. est unto David in thy truth? 49 Remember, Lord, the re

34 My covenant will I not break, nor alter the thing that is gone buke that thy servants have, and out of my lips: I have sworn once how I do bear in my bosom the by my holiness, that I will not rebukes of many people; 50 Wherewith thine enemies

fail David.

35 His seed shall endure for have blasphemed thee, and slanever, and his seat is like as the dered the footsteps of thine Anointed: Praised be the Lord

sun before me.

36 He shall stand fast for ever-for evermore. Amen and Amen. more as the moon, and as the faithful witness in heaven.

37 But thou hast abhorred and forsaken thine Anointed, and art displeased at him.

38 Thou hast broken the covenant of thy servant, and cast his crown to the ground.

The eighteenth Day.
MORNING PRAYER.
Psalm 90. Domine, refugium.

LORD, thou hast been our re-
fuge, from one generation to

another.

2 Before the mountains were 39 Thou hast overthrown all brought forth, or ever the earth his hedges, and broken down his and the world were made, thou strong holds. art God from everlasting, and world without end.

40 All they that go by spoil him, and he is become a reproach to his neighbours.

41 Thou hast set up the right hand of his enemies, and made all his adversaries to rejoice.

42 Thou hast taken away the edge of his sword, and givest him not victory in the battle.

3 Thou turnest man to destruction; again thou sayest, Come again, ye children of men.

4. For a thousand years in thy sight are but as yesterday, seeing that is past as a watch in the night.

5 As soon as thou scatterest them, they are even as asleep, and 43 Thou hast put out his glory, fade away suddenly like the and cast his throne down to the grass. ground.

6 In the morning it is green,

44 The days of his youth hast and groweth up; but in the eventhou shortened, and covered him ing it is cut down, dried up, and with dishonour. withered.

45 Lord, how long wilt thou hide thyself? for ever? and shall thy wrath burn like fire?

46 O remember how short my time is; wherefore hast thou mado all men for nought?

47 What man is he that liveth!

7 For we consume away in thy displeasure, and are afraid at thy wrathful indignation.

8 Thou hast set our misdeeds before thee, and our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. 9 For when thou art angry, all

our days are gone; we bring our ness and truth shall be thy shield years to an end, as it were a tale and buckler.

that is told.

5 Thou shalt not be afraid for 10 The days of our age are any terror by night, nor for the threescore years and ten; and arrow that flieth by day; though men be so strong that they 6 For the pestilence that walkcome to fourscore years, yet is eth in darkness, nor for the sicktheir strength then but labour and ness that destroyeth in the noonsorrow; so soon passeth it away, day.

and we are gone.

7 A thousand shall fall beside 11 But who regardeth the thee, and ten thousand at thy power of thy wrath? for even right hand; but it shall not come thereafter as a man feareth, so is nigh thee.

thy displeasure.

8 Yea, with thine eyes shalt 12 So teach us to number our thou behold, and see the reward days, that we may apply our of the ungodly. hearts unto wisdom.

9 For thou, Lord, art my hope; 13 Turn thee again, O Lord, thou hast set thine house of de at the last, and be gracious unto fence very high. thy servants.

14 O satisfy us with thy mercy, and that soon: so shall we rejoice and be glad all the days of our life.

15 Comfort us again now after the time that thou hast plagued us; and for the years wherein we have suffer adversity.

16 Show thy servants thy work, and their children thy glory.

10 There shall no evil happen unto thee, neither shall any plague come nigh thy dwelling.

il For he shall give his angels charge over thee, to keep thee in all thy ways.

12 They shall bear thee in their hands, that thou hurt not thy foot against a stone.

13 Thou shalt go upon the lion 17 And the glorious Majesty of and adder; the young lion and the the Lord our God be upon us : dragon shalt thou tread under thy prosper thou the work of our feet. hands upon us; 0 prosper thou our handy work.

Psalm 91. Qui habitat.

WHOSO dwelleth under the

defence of the Most High, shall abide under the shadow of the Almighty.

2 I will say unto the Lord, Thou art my hope and my strong hold, my God, in nim will I trust.

3 For he shall deliver thee from

14 Because he hath set his love upon me, therefore will I deliver him; I will set him up, because hath known my name.

he

15 He shall call upon me, and I will hear him; yea, I am with him in trouble; I will deliver him. and bring him to honour.

16 With long life will I satisfy him, and show him my salvation Psalm 92. Bonum est confiteri.

the snare of the hunter, and from IT is a good thing to give thanks the noisome pestilence. unto the Lord, and to sing 4 He shall defend thee under praises unto thy name, O Most his wings, and thou shalt be safe Highest;

under his feathers; his faithful-" 2 To tell of thy loving-kindness

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