Gratitude for Gods benefits.
The 7. key.
Thankes to God for priuate, 6. and publike benefites. 17. His mercie, iustice, and other proprieties are immutable. 20. Angels, and al other creatures are inuited to praise him.
1 To Dauid himself. MY soule blesse thou our Lord: and al thinges, that are within me, his holie name.
2 My soule blesse thou our Lord: and forget not al his retributions.
3 Who is propitious to al thine iniquities: who healeth al thine infirmities.
4 Who redemeth thy life from deadly falling: who crowneth thee in mercie and commiserations.
5 Who replenisheth thy desire in good thinges: thy youth shal be rewed as the eagles.
6 Our Lord doth mercies: and iudgement to al that suffer wrong.
7 He made his waies knowne to Moyses, his willes to the children of Israel.
8 Our Lord is pitieful, and merciful: long suffering, and very merciful.
9 He wil not be angrie alwayes: neither wil he threaten for euer.
10 He hath not done to vs according to our sinnes: neither according to our iniquities hath he rewarded vs.
11 For according to the height of heauen from the earth: hath he strengthned his mercie vpon them that feare him.
12 As far as the East is distant from the West: hath he made our iniquities far from vs.
13 As a father hath compassion of his children, so hath our Lord compassion on them that feare him:
14 because he hath knowen our making. He remembred that we are dust:
15 man, his daies are as grasse, as the floure of the filde so shal he florish.
16 Because the spirit shal passe in him, and he shal not stand: and he shal know his place no more.
17 But the mercie of our Lord from euerlasting, and vnto euerlasting vpon them that feare him. And his iustice is vpon the childrens children, to them that keepe his testament.
18 And are mindful of his commandmentes, to doe them.
19 Our Lord hath prepared his seate in heauen: and his kindom shal haue dominion ouer al.
20 Blesse our Lord al ye his Angels: mightie in powre, doing his word, that feare the voice of his wordes.
21 Blesse our Lord al ye his hoastes: you his ministers, that doe his wil.
22 Blesse ye our Lord al his workes: in euerie place of his dominion, my soule blesse thou our Lord.