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COLLECTION

OUT OF THE

BOOK of PSALMS,

Suited to every SUNDAY in the YEAR.

Praise ye the Lord. Praise the Lord,
D my soul; while I live will I praife
the Lord, I will fing praises to
my God, while I have any being.
Pfal. cxlvi. 1, 2.

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The first Sunday in Advent.

PSALM XCV.

HIS is a proper pfalm for public worship, and therefore we always begin our daily fer

vice with it. Believers are here reminded to call upon one another, to join in finging the praises of Jehovah the rock of their falvation; in the Hebrew it is, Jehovah the rock their Jefus: And the arguments used to raise their thankfulnefs to him are taken from his greatnefs in creating all things, and from his goodness to his redeemed: For he is their Maker, by and in whom they are new created; their covenant God, who has all his people under his paftoral care, being engaged to keep, to feed, and to guide them, that they may not harden their hearts, nor fall short of his promifed reft.

O happy believer, to whom Jefus ftands thus related : May thy heart be now in tune to join in his praifes. Truft in him, and be not afraid. Exercife thy faith in glorifying him, that he may increase it. Rejoice in his holy name, that thy joy in him may grow and abound. Unite thy voice with the church, and fing with courage, as thou art here commanded, that we may teach and admonish one another in this heavenly fong, and that our Jefus may be exalted in the midit of us. This fhould be the end of all our church meetings: And the general affembly and church of the first born will meet to carry on the fame fubject of praife. Thou wilt never on earth be more like them, than while thou art afcribing to him all the glory of thy falvation. Do thy utmoft: Sing in

highest note of gratitude, he will ever be above all bleffing and praise.

I.

O COME let us lift up our voice

and fing unto the Lord,

In Jefus our strong rock rejoice let us with one accord.

II.

Yea let us come before his face to give him thanks and praise, In finging pfalms unto his grace let us be glad always.

III.

Come let us bow unto the Lord, before him let us fall,

And worship him with one accord the Maker of us all.

IV.

He is indeed the Lord our God,
for us he doth provide,
We are his flock, he doth us feed
his fheep, and he our guide.

PSALM XCVI.

The word Aavent fignifies coming, and these four Sundays before Christmas, were fet apart for our meditation upon the coming of Chrift in the flesh, and upon his coming at the laft day. The pfalms which I have chosen treat of both his advents: And they, who are partakers by faith of the benefit of his first ming, may look forward to his fecond, and fing oth with a hope full of glory and immortality.