3 O Lord my God, consider well, and answer to me make:

Mine eyes enlighten, lest the sleep of death me overtake:

4 Lest that mine enemy should say, against him I prevail'd;

And those that trouble me rejoice,
when I am mov'd and fail'd.
5 But I have all my confidence
thy mercy set upon :

My heart within me shall rejoice
in thy salvation.

6 I will unto the Lord my God
sing praises cheerfully,
Because he hath his bounty shown
to me abundantly.

PSALM XIV.

This Psalm represents the fearful sinfulness and misery of mankind, and the marvellous method of deliverance therefrom. Behold here, (1.) All mankind, fearfully infected with the God-dishonouring, the soul-debasing and defiling, the world-disturbing, malady of sinful corruption in heart and life, ver. 1,-3. (2.) Warm expostulations for the conviction, awakening, and reclaiming, of wicked men, ver. 4,-6. (3.) Consolations exhibited to the righteous, from God's being among them, and being a refuge to them, and from his sending his Son to save and redeem them, ver. 5, -7. While I sing these lines, let me have a deep sense of my corruptions. Let me be ashamed of them before God. Let me with a broken heart and weeping eye, confess my filthiness and crimes. Let me groan after and flee to Jesus, the Saviour, the salvation of God. O wretched man that I am! who shall deliver me from this abominable life ;—from

this inward body of death!-Thanks to the Redeemer, who is come to Zion to turn away ungodliness from Jacob!-Let therefore Jacob rejoice, and the Gentiles sing.

To the chief Musician, a Psalm of David.

1 THAT there is not a God, the fool
doth in his heart conclude:
They are corrupt, their works are vile,
not one of them doth good.
2 Upon men's sons the Lord from heav'n
did cast his eyes abroad;
To see if any understood,
and did seek after God.

3 They altogether filthy are,

they all aside are gone; And there is none that doeth good, yea, sure there is not one.

4 These workers of iniquity,

do they not know at all,

That they my people eat as bread, and on God do not call?

5 There fear'd they much: for God is with the whole race of the just.

6 You shame the counsel of the poor; because God is his trust.

7 Let Isra'l's help from Zion come: when back the Lord shall bring His captives, Jacob shall rejoice, and Israel shall sing.

Here let me (1.) With wonder, observe the happy state of present fellowship with God, in his church on earth, and of everlasting fellowship with him, in the temple above; and, how fixed the saints are in this their new covenant state; ver. 1, 5. (2.) Let me with self examination, remark the discriminating characters of such as are admitted to that happy state. They are sincere, upright, and honest, in all their ways; they are kind to neighbours; they esteem others in proportion to the appearance of Christ's image on them; and they prefer a good conscience to every earthly advantage, ver. 2,-5.- While I sing, let me think of my perfect and all-sufficient Saviour, who is passed into the heavens ;is entered for me, as the fore-runner. And, having received him into my heart as my sanctifying furniture, let me walk in him as my way, and follow him as my pattern; denying ungodliness and worldly lusts, and living soberly, righteously and godly in this present world. Thus shall the Father and the Son come unto me on earth, and take up their abode with me: and so shall I in heaven be for ever with the Lord.

A Psalm of David.

1 WITHIN thy tabernacle, Lord,
who shall abide with thee?
And in thy high and holy hill
who shall a dweller be?
2 The man that walketh uprightly,
and worketh righteousness;
And as he thinketh in his heart,
so doth he truth express.

3 Who doth not slander with his tongue,
nor to his friend doth hurt:

Nor yet against his neighbonr deth
take up an ill report.

4 In whose eyes vile men are despis'd;
but those that God do fear
He honoureth and changeth not,
though to his hurt he swear.

5 His coin puts not to usury,
nor take reward will he
Against the guiltless. Who doth thus,
shall never moved be.

PSALM XVI.

Be

This Psalm is indeed a Michtam, a golden Psalm. hold the man according to God's heart, (1.) Committing himself to God as his Preserver, ver. 1. (2.) Avowing his endeared love to the people, and strict adherence to the worship of God, ver. 3, 4. (3.) With great confidence and joy claiming God for his satisfying portion, ver. 2, 5,-7. (4.) Comforting himself in and blessing God for his present intimacy with him, and granting direction to hin, and for his certain prospect of the eternal enjoyment of him, ver. 8,11. But chiefly behold! here, Jesus, the man of God's right hand, surrendering himself up to his Father's service, in room of, and for the everlasting advantage of his elect! Behold him, taking out his new-covenant claim to God, as his God and portion for ever; and as our God and portion in him! Behold, how, supported of God, in his holy manhood, he suffers unto a tremendous death, and debased burial; but being raised again, he is crowned with everlasting glory and honour! Behold! how the agonies of suffering, and the pains of death are succeeded, with fulness of joy, and rivers of life and pleasures at God's right hand for evermore. Looking to him, let me with patience run the race that is set before me, living on, and rejoicing in God, as my ALL and IN ALL; and looking for the blessed hope, and glorious appearing of the great God my Saviour. Through lim, neither sin, nor devils, nor death, nor hell, shall be able to prevent my immediate and everlasting enjoyment of JaHOVAH, as my infinite portion and exceeding joy.

Michtam of David.

1 LORD keep me; for I trust in thee. 2 To God thus was my speech; Thou art my Lord, and unto thee my goodness doth not reach:

3 To saints on earth, to th' excellent,
where my delights all plac'd.
4 Their sorrows shall be multiply'd,
to other gods that haste:

Of their drink-offerings of blood
I will no off'ring make;
Yea, neither I their very names
up in my lips will take.

5 God is of mine inheritance

and cup the portion:
The lot that fallen is to me,
thou dost maintain alone.

6 Unto me happily the lines
in pleasant places fell;
Yea, the inheritance I got,
in beauty doth excel.

7 I bless the Lord, because he doth by counsel me conduct:

And, in the seasons of the night,
my reins do me instruct.

8 Before me still the Lord I set:
sith it is so that he,

Doth ever stand at my right hand,
I shall not moved be.