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confounded, and driven backward, as many as 

 have evil w^ill at Sion. 



To furnish out an office for such daily devotions, 

 it is but to take your Psalter along with you in 

 your hand, which is full of them. But especially 

 let me commend to you that decad of Psalms, 

 which begins with the 54th, and so on : which 

 may seem to have been put together on purpose 

 for such an occasion. This would be indeed ef- 

 fectually to transcribe holy David's copy, in this 

 his exemplary and ardent devotion : which is the 

 second duty required in the text, to prepare us 

 for the protection of God's wing. There is but 

 one more behind ; and that is 



3. Constant perseverance in both the former. 



In the two former you have seen holy David 

 putting himself under the shadow of God's wings, 

 and making good his refuge there, by acts of faith 

 and devotion. And being once there, no storm 

 shall beat him off, no discouragement shall drive 

 him away, no delay shall weary him out. If God 

 kills him, it is all one, he will trust in him still, 

 and die in his arms ; for here he hath set up his 

 rest, and donee transierint, he is steadily resolved ; 

 his refuge is, and shall be, here, till these calami- 

 ties are over-past. 



But here we must take heed of a great mistake. 

 There are, that hold the donee in the text too 

 hard and stiff; are too punctual and precise with 

 God in it : who will trust in him, it may be, and 

 ply their devotions just so long, as till the eala- 



