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caufe of thy figns, .which are every day withlis, and be- 
caufc of thy wonders, and marvellous loving-kindneffes, 
which are morning and evening and night continually 
before us... Thou art good, for thy mercies are not con- 
fumed ; thou art merciful, for thy loving-kindnelfes fail 
not. For ever we.hope in thee. And for all thefe mer¬ 
cies be thy name,. O King., blelfed and exalted, and lifted 
lip on high for ever and ever ; and let all that live give 
thanks unto thee. Selah. And let them in truth and fin- 
cerity praife thy name, O God of our falvation, and our 
help. Selah. Blelfed art thou, O Lord, whofe name is 
good, and whom it is fitting always.to-give thanks unto. 
19, Give peace, beneficence, and benediction, grace, 
benignity, and mercy, unto us, and to Ifrael thy people. 
Blefs us, O our Father, even all of us together as one 
man, with the light of thy countenance. For in the light 
of thy countenance haft thou given unto us, O Lord our 
God, the law of life, and love, and benignity, and righ- 
teoufnefs, and bl'efling, and mercy, and life, and peace-. 
And let it feem good in thine eyes to blefs thy people 
Ifrael with thy peace at all times, and in every moment. 
Blelfed art thou, O Lord, who bleffeft thy people Ifrael 
with peace. Amen. 
DEVO'TIONAL, adj. Pertaining to devotion; an¬ 
nexed to \vorftiip ; religious.—Nor are the fobereft of 
them fo apt for that devotional compliance and juncture 
of hearts, which I defire to bear in holy offices, to be 
performed with me. King Charles. 
DEVO'TIONIST, or Devotiona list, f. A man 
aealous without knowledge ; fuperftitioufly devout. 
To DEVOUR', v. a. \_dcvoro, Lat.] To eat up raven- 
oufly, as a wild beaft or animal of prey.—We will fay 
fome evil beaft hath, devoured him. Gencfis. 
So looks the pent up lion o’er the wretch 
That trembles under his devourihg paw. Shakefpcare. 
To deftroy or confume with rapidity and violence.—A 
fire devoureth before them, and behind them a flame 
burneth. Joel, ii. 3. 
How dire a tempeft from Mycenae pour’d, 
Our plains, our temples, and our town, devour'd ; 
It was the wafte of war. Dryden. 
To fwallow up ; to annihilate.—He Seem’d in fwiftnefs 
to devour the way. Shakefpeare. 
Death ftalks behind thee, and each flying hour 
Does fome loofe remnant of thy life devour. Dryden. 
To enjoy with avidity : 
Longing they look, and gaping at the fight, 
Devour her o’er and o’er with vaft delight. Dryden. 
DEVOUR'ER,/. A confumer; he that devours ; he 
that preys upon.—Sinpe thofe leviathans are withdrawn, 
the lelfer devourers fupply their place : fraud fucceeds to 
violence. Decay of Piety. 
Rome is but a wildernefs of tygers; , 
Tygers mtift prey, and Rome affords no prey 
But me and mine : how happy art thou, then, 
From thefe devourers to be banilhed ! Shakefpeare. 
DEVOUT', adj. [devetus, Lat.] Pious; religious; de¬ 
voted to holy duties.—We mull be conftant and devout 
in the worfhip of our God, and ready in all a£ts of be¬ 
nevolence to our neighbour. Rogers. —Filled with pious 
thoughts: 
For this, with foul devout, he thank’d the god ; 
And, of fuccefs fee are, return’d to his abode, Dryden, 
Expreffive of devotion or piety : 
Anon dry ground appears, and from his ark 
The ancient fire defeends with all his train ; 
Then with uplifted hands, and eyes devout , 
Grateful to heav’n. Milton, 
DEVOUT'LY, adv. Pioufly ; with ardent devotion; 
jreligioufly.—To Second caufes we feem to truft, without 
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expreffmg, fo devoutly as we ought to do, our dependance 
on the firft. Atterbury. 
Think, O my foul, devoutly think, 
How, with affrighted eyes, 
Thou favv’ft the wide extended deep 
In all its horrors rife ! AJdifon. 
DEU'PR AG, a town in the country of Thibet: fifteen 
miles fouth of Sirinagur. 
DEV'RON, a river of Scotland, which runs into the 
Forth three miles e. It of Stirling. 
DEUSE, f. [more properly than deuce ., Junius, from 
Dujius, the name of a certain fpecies of evil fpirits.] The. 
devil : a ludicrous word : 
’Twas the prettied; prologue, as Ire wrote it; 
Well, the deuce take me if I ha’n’t forgot it. Congreve. 
DEUTE'PTA, /. [from o£VTEfiov, Gr. the fecundines.] 
A term with phyftcians for an adhefion of the placenta. 
DEUTE'RION,/. [from Gr. fecond, becaufe 
it is difeharged next after the feetus. ] The fecundines or 
after-birth. 
DEUTEROCANO'NICAL, adj. This word is de¬ 
rived from (hurt.ro<;, fecond, and vavany.oc, canonical, and 
it is applied to thofe writings in the Old and New Tefta- 
rnents refpedtively, which were not admitted into the 
canon of {acred books as firjl fettled, but were added 
afterwards when a f.cond canon was fixed. That fome 
books (liould have been deuterocanonic al arofe from 
two circumftances, viz. either from having been written 
after the firfl canon was fettled ; or elfe, from that delay 
of admiflion into the canon, which was occafioned through 
their not being univerfaily known, or univerfally ac¬ 
knowledged as authentic. When Ezra, in conjunction 
with the great Synagogue, received into the canon fuch 
books as they could diftinguifh to be of divine infpira- 
tion, his own writings, and thofe of Nehemiah and Ma- 
lachi, did not exift. By Simon the Juft were probably 
inferted in the complete canon, not thofe books only, 
but alfo the two books of Chronicles, and Either. And 
thus the books of Ezra, Nehemiah, Chronicles, and 
Efther, are deuterocanonical in the Old Teftament. 
The Four Gofpels, the A£ts of the Apoftles, Thirteen 
Epiftles of St. Paul, the Firft Epiftle of St. Peter, and the 
Firft of St. John, were univerfally received by the early 
Chriftians, and therefore may be termed, by way of diftinc- 
tion, Protocanonical, i. e. books admitted in the firjl 
canon of the New Teftament. The Epiftle to the Hebrews, 
that of St. James, the Second of St. Peter, the Second 
and Third of St. John, and St. Jude’s Epiftle, though all 
received at a period early, yet it was at a period lei's 
early than that, in which the other writings were deemed 
canonical. And the reafons, which impeded the recep¬ 
tion of them, were obvioufly thefe, viz. they were not 
fo generally, nor fo foon known : the originals of them 
could not be fo eafily viewed and examined : they com¬ 
bated fome errors, which were beginning to prevail, and 
therefore party zeal was interefted in fupprefling them if 
poffible ; or, if that could not be done, at lead: it would 
endeavour to render the authority of fuch works dis¬ 
putable. When, however, thefe Several epiftles had 
been examined, with all that Scrupulous anxiety which 
the Chriftians in primitive times fhewed on a queftion of 
fuch importance.as the originality, authenticity, and in¬ 
spiration, of the books to be received as rules of faith 
and conduct, they were found to be genuine ; were con¬ 
sidered with equal regard as the other epifties ; were in 
the fourth century received in the Greek church, at the 
council of Laodicea; forty years after, in the Latin 
church ; and eighteen years fubfequent in the council at 
Carthage. Thus they were eftabliflied as canonical ; 
hut, as they were admitted univerfally at an age lower 
than the other books of the New Teftament Canon, they 
are, comparatively Speaking, Deuterocakonical. 
There is yet another description of writings called 
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