and of the righteous.In your patience possess ye your souls.-St. Luke xxi.

19.

As an Evangelist,

I am set for the defence of the Gospel.-Philippians i.

17.

and Historian,— These things happened unto them for ensamples and they are written for our admonition, upon whom the ends of the world are come. -I Corinthians X. II.

he is inspired to write of

the Annunciation,Behold, thy King cometh unto thee.-Zechariah ix. 9. the Incarnation,—

But mine horn shall be exalted like the horn of an unicorn: for I am anointed with fresh oil.

Mine eye also shall see his lust of, mine enemies : and mine ear shall hear his desire of the wicked that arise up against me.—

Turn Thee again, O Lord, at the last : and be gracious unto Thy servants.—

Shew Thy servants Thy work and their children Thy glory.

And the glorious Majesty of the Lord our God be upon us prosper Thou the work of our hands upon us, O prosper Thou our handywork.

Thou hast set our misdeeds before Thee: and our secret sins in the light of Thy countenance.

Thy testimonies, O Lord, are very sure holiness becometh Thine house for ever.

Ever since the world began hath Thy seat been prepared Thou art from everlasting.

The Lord is King, and

He preaches to the hea

then,

The times of this ignorance God winked at; but now commandeth all men every where to repent:

Because He hath appointed a day, in the which He will judge the world in righteousness by that Man Whom He hath ordained.Acts xvii. 30, 31. not silenced by their human wisdom ;Thou art weighed in the balances, and art found wanting.-Daniel v. 27.

and the stranger and put the fatherless to death.

And yet they say, Tush, the Lord shall not see : neither shall the God of Jacob regard it.

Take heed, ye unwise among the people : O ye fools, when will ye understand?

He that planted the ear, shall He not hear or He that made the eye, shall He not see?

Or He that nurtureth the heathen: it is He that teacheth man knowledge, shall not He punish?

The Lord knoweth the thoughts of man that they are but vain.—

his gracious old age;— Even to your old age I am He; and even to hoar hairs will I carry you. — Isaiah xlvi. 4.

and death.

The last enemy that shall be destroyed is death.-1 Corinthians xv. 26.

For Thou, Lord, hast made me glad through Thy works and I will rejoice in giving praise for the operations of Thy hands.—

:

The righteous shall flourish like a palm-tree and shall spread abroad like a cedar in Libanus.

Such as are planted in the house of the Lord: shall flourish in the courts of the house of our God.

They also shall bring forth more fruit in their age and shall be fat and well-liking.

That they may shew how true the Lord my strength is and that there is no unrighteousness in Him.

The days of our age are threescore years and ten; be so and though men strong that they come to fourscore years: yet is their strength then but labour and sorrow; so soon passeth it away, and we are gone.

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

Comfort us again now after the time that Thou