Downame - BV209_D69_G6_1640_v1

of Publick proyer: nifhment he (hould be hid from Gods face.We fee the fame in the practice of David; Who when he wasin baniíhment defired nothing more then to have liber. tie to come into the aífembliesofthe faints:& when be had liberty he rejoyceed in nothing more.Por the firft, reade Pfal.27. and 42. and 84. In Pfal. 27. 4. One thing have I defiredofthe Lord, that mill I require, even that I may dwell in the houre of the Lord all the Bayes of my life, to beholdthe beauty of the Lord, and to vifit his temple. Pfal.42.1,2. As the hart brayeth for the rivers of waters, fo panteth my foul after thee,0 God. My foul thir fteth fir God , even for the living 'God: when Jhall I come and appear before theprefence of God? &c. And v.4.he faith that his foul languifhed when he confidered, that had it not been for the tyrannie of his oppreffours he might have gone with the tea of the aí%mnbly into the houfe of God. Pfal.84.1. o Lord of hafts, hors amiable are thy tabernacles ! My f ul longeth, yea and fainteth , that I might come to the courts of the Lord: my heart and myfefh cry out after the living God. In the third verte he feemeth to en- vie the fparrows and the fwallows which had liber- ty to lay their young ones there where he had no accefe : And then he cryeth out abruptly with a wonderfull patheticall exclamation, o thine altars, :ehovah, my King and my God ! In the three next vertes he pronounceth them happy not onely that dwell in the Lords houle to praife him, but allo thole who have liberty to corne to the Church, al- though it were by tedious and troublefome jour- neys, both in refpet of the way and the weather: thereby fignifying, that he would think hirnfelf L 4 happy 151