shall not fall.

10. Wherefore my heart was glad, and my glory rejoiced :

my flesh also shall rest in hope.

11. For why? thou shalt not leave my soul

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in hell neither shalt thou suffer thy Holy One to see corruption. :

12. Thou

shalt shew me the path of life; in thy presence is the fulness of joy and at

now, and ever shall be world without end. Amen.

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PSALM 17. Exaudi, Domine.

EAR the right, O Lord, consider my complaint and hearken unto

my prayer, that goeth not out of feigned lips. 2. Let my sentence come forth

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from thy presence and let thine eyes look upon the thing that is equal.

3. Thou hast proved and visited mine heart in the night season; thou hast

tried me, and shalt find no wickedness in me: for I am utterly purposed that

my mouth shall not offend. 4. Because of men's works, that are done

against the words of thy lips: I have kept me from the ways of the destroyer.

5. O hold thou up my goings in thy paths that my footsteps slip not.

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6. I have called upon thee, O God, for thou shalt hear me : incline thine ear

to me, and hearken unto my words.

7. Shew thy marvellous loving

kindness, thou that art the Saviour of them which put their trust in thee:

from such as resist thy right hand. 8. Keep me as the apple of an eye:

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hide me under the shadow of thy wings, 9. From the ungodly that

trouble me mine enemies compass me round about to take away my soul.

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10. They are inclosed in their own fat and their mouth speaketh proud

things.

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11. They lie waiting in our way on every side turning their

eyes down to the ground; 12. Like as a lion that is greedy of his

prey and as it were a lion's whelp, lurking in secret places.

13. Up,

Lord, disappoint him, and cast him down : deliver my soul from the ungodly,

which is a sword of thine; 14. From the men of thy hand, O Lord,

from the men, I say, and from the evil world which have their portion

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in this life, whose bellies thou fillest with thy hid treasure.

have children at their desire and leave the rest of their substance for their

babes. 16. But as for me, I will behold thy presence in righteousness:

and when I awake up after thy likeness, I shall be satisfied with it.

Glory be to the Father, and to the Son and to the Holy Ghost;

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was in the beginning, is now, and ever shall be: world without end. Amen.

EVENING PRAYER.

PSALM 18. Diligam te, Domine.

8TH TONE,

(1ST ENDING.)

WILL love thee, O Lord, my strength; the Lord is my stony rock,

and my defence my Saviour, my God, and my might, in whom I will

trust, my buckler, the horn also of my salvation, and my refuge. 2. I

will call upon the Lord, which is worthy to be praised so shall I be safe

call upon the Lord and complain unto my God. 6. So shall he hear

my voice out of his holy temple and my complaint shall come before

him, it shall enter even into his ears.

7. The earth trembled and quaked:

the very foundations also of the hills shook, and were removed, because

8. There went a smoke out in his presence and a

consuming fire out of his mouth, so that coals were kindled at it.

9. He bowed the heavens also, and came down and it was dark under

his feet. 10. He rode upon the cherubim, and did fly: he came flying

upon the wings of the wind. 11. He made darkness his secret place :

his pavilion round about him with dark water, and thick clouds to cover

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him. 12. At the brightness of his presence his clouds removed: hail

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stones, and coals of fire. 13. The Lord also thundered out of heaven,

and the Highest gave his thunder hail-stones and coals of fire. 14. He

sent out his arrows, and scattered them he cast forth lightnings, and

destroyed them. 15. The springs of waters were seen, and the foundations

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of the round world were discovered, at thy chiding, O Lord at the blasting of the breath of thy displeasure. 16. He shall send down from

on high to fetch me and shall take me out of many waters. 17. He

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shall deliver me from my strongest enemy, and from them which hate

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me for they are too mighty for me. 18. They prevented me in the

day of my trouble but the Lord was my upholder.

19. He brought

me forth also into a place of liberty he brought me forth, even bene

righteous dealing: according to the cleanness of my hands shall he recom

pense me.

21. Because I have kept the ways of the Lord and have not

forsaken my God, as the wicked doth.

22. For I have an eye unto all

23. I was

his laws and will not cast out his commandments from me.

also uncorrupt before him: and eschewed mine own wickedness.

24. There

fore shall the Lord reward me after my righteous dealing and according

unto the cleanness of my hands in his eye sight. 25. With the holy thou

shalt be holy and with a perfect man thou shalt be perfect.

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26. With

the clean thou shalt be clean and with the froward thou shalt learn froward

ness. 27. For thou shalt save the people that are in adversity and shalt

bring down the high looks of the proud. 28. Thou also shalt light my

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candle the Lord my God shall make my darkness to be light. 29. For

in thee I shall discomfit an host of men and with the help of my God

I shall leap over the wall. 30. The way of God is an undefiled way :

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the word of the Lord also is tried in the fire; he is the defender of all

them that put their trust in him. 31. For who is God, but the Lord :