THE TEN COMMANDMENTS. Exod. xx. GOD spake all these words, saying, I am the Lord thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. I. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. II. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them : for I the Lord thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; and shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. III. Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain; for the Lord will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. IV. Remember the sabbath-day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day is the sabbath of the Lord thy God in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy man-servant, nor thy maid-servant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates. For in six days the Lord made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the Lord blessed the sabbath-day and hallowed it. V. Honour thy father and thy mother; that thy days may be long upon the land which the Lord thy God giveth thee. VI. Thou shalt not kill. VII. Thou shalt not commit adultery. I IX. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. X. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour's wife, nor his man-servant, nor his maid-servant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour's. THE LORD'S PRAYER. Matt. vi. OUR Father which art in heaven, Hallowed be thy name. Thy kingdom come. Thy will be done in earth, as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. And forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors. And lead us not into temptation; but deliver us from evil : For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, for ever. Amen.. THE CREED. I BELIEVE in God the Father Almighty, maker of heaven and earth; and in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord, which was conceived by the Holy Ghost, born of the Virgin Mary, suffered under Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried: he descended into hell; the third day he arose again from the dead; he ascended into heaven, and sitteth on the right hand of God the Father Almighty, from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead. I believe in the Holy Ghost; the holy catholick church; the communion of saints; the forgiveness of sins; the resurrection of the body; and the life everlasting. Amen.† * i. e. Continued in the state of the dead, and under the power of death till the third day. + It is stated in a foot note in the Confession of Faith, that this creed is received by us not as if inspired or composed by the Apostles, but as a valuable summary of Christian truths received in the primitive church. PREFATORY NOTES TO EACH PSALM; ALSO THE NAMES OF APPROPRIATE TUNES, REFERENCES TO PARALLEL TEXTS, AND A GENERAL INDEX TO THE WHOLE, WITH SUPPLEMENT OF HYMNS AND ANTHEMS, FOR SPECIAL OCCASIONS. BY THE REV. JOHN CUMMING, D.D. MINISTER OF THE SCOTTISH NATIONAL CHURCH, CROWN COURT, RUSSELL STREET, COVENT GARDEN. THE PSALMS OF DAVID. PSALM I. THIS Psalm forms an appropriate Preface to the whole Book. It contrasts the opposite characters and destinies of those that are grafted in the true vine and planted by the river of living waters, and of those that are yet aliens and strangers to the common weal of Israel. In verse 1 the progressive career of the sinner is depicted; he first walks in the counsel of the ungodly-i. e. those who have many natural virtues, but no godliness or vital piety; he next stands in the way of sinners; and, at last, sits down in the seat of the scornful infidel. The pious man feels it his chief delight to meditate on the perfect law of liberty,-which is the gospel of Christ,—and experiences its quickening and transforming power. The expression stand, in verse 5, means, shall not be acquitted. The word known, in verse 6, means, approved. Sing this Psalm with earnest desires to be united more closely to Jesus, and to be delivered more completely from the ascendancy of sin, and with thanksgiving for Him in whom alone man can be "blessed" and his way " approved." [IRISH, BEDFORD.] 1 THAT man hath perfect blessedness 2 nor stands in sinners' way, Nor sitteth in the scorner's chair; Upon God's law, and meditates 3 He shall be like a tree that grows near planted by a river, |