Chapter 83

Devout persons fervently desire eternal glory, ℣.6 accounting it in the mean time, a happy state to be in the militant Church, ℣.12 where God first giving grace, will give glory in the triumphant.

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   Unto the end, for wine presses, to the children of Core, a Psalm. are thy tabernacles, o Lord of hosts!

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   How beloved

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   my soul coveteth and fainteth unto the courts of our Lord. My heart and my flesh have rejoiced toward the living God.

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   For the sparrow also hath found her an house: and the turtle-dove a nest for herself, where she may lay her young ones. Thine altars, o Lord of hosts: my King, and my God.

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   Blessed are they that dwell in thy house, o Lord: for ever and ever they shall praise thee.

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   Blessed is the man, whose help is from thee: he hath disposed ascensions in his heart,

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   in the vale of tears, in the place which he hath appointed.

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   For the law-giver shall give blessing, they shall go from virtue into virtue: the God of gods shall be seen in Sion.

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   Lord God of hosts hear my prayer: receive with thine ear, o God of Jacob.

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    Behold, o God our protector: and look upon the face of thy Christ.

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    Because better is one day in thy courts, above thousands. I have chosen to be an abject in the house of my God: rather than to dwell in the tabernacles of sinners.

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    Because God loveth mercy and truth: our Lord will give grace and glory.

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    He will not deprive them of good things, that walk in innocency: o Lord of hosts, blessed is the man that hopeth in thee.