awake I am still with thee.Blessed be thou, Lord God of Israel our Father, for ever and ever. Thine, O Lord, is the greatness, and the power, and the glory, and the victory, and the majesty : for all that is in the heaven and in the earth is thine; thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all; and in thine hand is power and might; and in thine hand it is to make great, and to give strength unto all. Thou hast in love to my soul delivered it from the pit of corruption for thou hast cast all my sins behind thy back.-O Lord I will praise thee: though thou wast angry with me, thine anger is

Ps. cxxxix. 17, 18. 1 Chron. xxix. 10-13.
Isa. xxxviii. 17.

turned away, and thou comfortest me,-For thou hast been a strength to the poor, a strength to the needy in his distress, a refuge from the storm, a shadow from the heat, when the blast of the terrible ones is as a storm against the wall. Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us this is the Lord; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation.-Great and marvellous are thy works, Lord God Almighty just and true are thy ways, thou King of saints. Who shall not fear thee, O Lord, and glorify thy name? For thou only art holy for all nations shall come and worship before thee.

Isa. xii. 1. Isa. xxv. 4---9. Rev. xv. 3, 4.

CHAP. IX.

PROMISES TO THOSE UNDER DISCOURAGEMENT, PRINCIPALLY THROUGH AFFLIC TION OF THE BODY.

ALTHOUGH affliction cometh not forth of the dust, neither doth trouble spring out of the ground: yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.-Behold, happy is the man whom God correcteth therefore despise not' thou the chastening of the Almighty : for he maketh sore, and bindeth up: he woundeth, and his hands make whole. He shall deliver thee in six troubles: yea, in seven there shall no evil touch thee.-The Lord trieth the righteous.-I waited pa

Job, v. 6, 7. Job, v. 17-19. Ps. xi. 5.

tiently for the Lord, and he inclined unto me, and heard my cry. -He heareth the cry of the afflicted.-The Lord will strengthen him upon the bed of languishing; thou wilt make all his bed in his sickness. Before I was afflicted I went astray but now have I kept thy word. It is good for me that I have been afflicted; that I might learn thy statutes. I know, O Lord, that thy judgments are right, and that thou in faithfulness hast afflicted me. Let, I pray thee, thy merciful kindness be for my comfort, according to thy word unto thy servant. Unless thy law had been my delight, I should then have perished in mine affliction. Thou art my hiding place and my shield;

Ps. xl. 1. Job, xxxiv. 28. Ps. xli. 3.

I hope in thy word. Uphold me according unto thy word, that I may live and let me not be ashamed of my hope.-Though he cause grief, yet will he have compassion according to the multitude of his mercies. For he doth not afflict willingly nor grieve the children of men. In all their affliction he was afflicted, and the angel of his presence saved them.-My son despise not thou the chastening of the Lord; nor faint when thou art rebuked of him: for whom the Lord loveth he chasteneth, and scourgeth every son whom he receiveth. If ye endure chastening, God dealeth with 'you as with sons; for what son is he whom the Father chasteneth not? But if ye be without Ps. cxix. 71-116. Lam. iii, 32, 33. Isa. Ixiii. 9.