Chapter 8

God is magnified & praised for his marvelous work of creatures, ℣.5 but especially of mankind, singularly exalted by the Incarnation of Christ.

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   Unto the end for presses, the Psalm of David. is thy name in the whole earth! Because

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   O Lord our Lord, how marvelous thy magnificence is elevated above the heavens.

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   Out of the mouth of infants & sucklings, thou hast perfected praise because of thine enemies, that thou mayest destroy the enemy & revenger.

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   Because I shall see thy heavens, the works of thy fingers: the moon and the stars, which thou hast founded.

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   What is man, that thou art mindful of him? Or the son of man, that thou visitest him?

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   Thou hast minished him a little less than Angels; with glory and honour thou hast crowned him:

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   And hast appointed him over the works of thy hands.

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   Thou hast subjected all things under his feet, all sheep and oxen: moreover also the beasts of the field.

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   The birds of the air, & fishes of the sea; that walk the paths of the sea.

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    O Lord our Lord, how marvelous is thy name in the whole earth!