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A meditation of the great works of God in the de∣struction of the wicked, and the pre∣servation of the godly.
IT is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord: and to sing praises unto thy name, O most Highest.
2 To tell of thy loving kindnesse earely in the morning: and of thy truth in the night season.
3 Upon an instrument of ten strings, and up∣on the lute: upon a loud instrument, and upon the harp.
4 For thou Lord hast made me glad through
thy works: and I will rejoyce in giving praise for the operations of thy hands.
5 O Lord, how glorious are thy works: and thy thoughts are very deep.
6 An unwise man doth not well consider this: and a foole doth not understand it.
7 When the ungodly are green as the grasse, and when all the workers of wickednesse do flou∣rist: then shall they be destroyed for ever, but thou Lord art the most highest for evermore.
8 For lo, thine enemies (O Lord) lo thine e∣nemies shall perish: and all the workers of wicked∣nesse shall be destroyed.
9 But mine horne shall be exalted like the horne of an unicorn: for I am anoynted with fresh oyle.
10 Mine eye also shall see his lust of mine e∣nemies: and mine eare shall heare his desire of the wlcked that rise up against me.
11 The righteous shall flourish like a palm∣tree: and shall spread abroad like a cedar in Leba∣nus.
12 Such as be planted in the house of the Lord: shall flourish in the courts of the house of our God.
13 They also shall bring forth more fruit in their age: and shall be fat and well liking.
14 That they may shew how true the Lord
my strength is: and that there is no unrighteous∣nesse in him.
O Lord God, thou art the most highest for e∣vermore, thy workes are glorious, and thy thoughts are very deep, make our hearts and tongues loud instruments of thy prayses, that we may tell of thy mercy in the morning, of thy truth in the night, and that we may rejoyce in giving thee thankes for the operations of thy hands all the dayes and nights of our life. Let thy mercifull kindnesse descend evermore upon the righteous, that they may flourish like a palm tree being con∣tinually watered with the dew of temporall and spirituall blessings, and may bring forth fruits of a holy conversation; and grant that we thy ser∣vants, being planted in the house of God and firm∣ly fixed in the blessed communion of Saints, may flourish in the Courts of thy house, thy celestiall temple to all eternity. O let not our portion be a∣mongst the ungodly and unrighteous: make us, not to communicate in their wickednesse, so much as by consent or approbation, that we may never pe∣rish and be destroyed in the furiousnesse of thine anger, which thou treasurest up against the day of vengeance, & righteous judgement, even the day of the appearing of our Lord and Saviour Iesus Christ. Amen.