A Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practically resolvedA Continuation of morning-exercise questions and cases of conscience practicaly resolved

5. And what says King David to this? Methinks I hear him say,¹ Come, my dear People: Come, and let us sing aloud unto God our strength, and make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. 2. Take a Psalm, and bring hither the Timbrel, the pleasant Harp with the Psaltery. 3. Blow up the Trumpet, as in the new Moon, as on a solemn feast day. 4. Let this be a Statute for Israel, for this is the day that the Lord hath made, we will rejoice and triumph in it. The King shall joy in thy strength, and greatly rejoice in thy Salvation. The Lord is known by the judgment, that he hath executed; the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion-Selah. Is this the Jo Triumph, wherewith he makes the Earth to ring again? No, but, on the contrary, the poor Father being as it were Thunder-struck with the words of his Blackmore, forgets that he was a King, and Father of his Country, looks like Jephthah when he met his devoted Daughter, and as if bereaved of all Comfort, breaks out into a flood of tears, and into such an indecent Lamentation, as no Records either Sacred or Humane can parallel. The King was much moved, and wept, v. 33. and as he went he said, O my Son, Absalom, my Son, my Son Absalom, would God I had died for thee! O Absalom, my Son, my Son! My just Indignation at this more than Womanish Transport forbids me to descant on it. I shall barely lay before you Joab's smart Repartee, whereby, he endeavoured to stop this Deluge, 2 Sam. 29.5, 6. Joab said to the King, Thou hast this day shamed the faces of all thy Servants, which this day have saved thy Life, and the Lives of thy Sons, and of thy Daughters, and the Lives of thy Wives. 6. In that thou lovest thine Enemies, and hatest thy Friends: For thou hast declared this day, that thou regardest ⟨p. 176⟩neither Princes, nor Servants: For this day I perceive, that if Absalom had lived, and all we had died this day, then it had pleased thee well.

5. And what sayes King David to this? Methinks I hear him say,¹ Come, my dear People: Come, and let us sing aloud unto God our strength, and make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. 2. Take a Psalm, and bring hither the Timbrel, the pleasant Harp with the Psaltery. 3. Blow up the Trumpet, as in the new Moon, as on a solemn feast day. 4. Let this be a Statute for Israel, for this is the day that the Lord hath made, we will rejoice and triumph in it. The King shall joy in thy strength, and greatly rejoice in thy Salvation. The Lord is known by the judgment, that he hath executed; the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands. Higgaion-Selah. Is this the Io Triumphe, wherewith he makes the Earth to ring again? No, but, on the contrary, the poor Father being as it were Thunder-struck with the words of his Blackmore, forgets that he was a King, and Father of his Countrey, looks like Jephthah when he met his devoted Daughter, and as if bereav'd of all Comfort, breaks out into a flood of tears, and into such an indecent Lamentation, as no Records either Sacred or Humane can parallel. The King was much moved, and wept, v. 33. and as he went he said, O my Son, Absalom, my Son, my Son Absalom, would God I had died for thee! O Absalom, my Son, my Son! My just Indignation at this more than Womanish Transport forbids me to descant on it. I shall barely lay before you Joab's smart Repartee, whereby, he endeavour'd to stop this Deluge, 2 Sam. 29.5, 6. Joab said to the King, Thou hast this day shamed the faces of all thy Servants, which this day have saved thy Life, and the Lives of thy Sons, and of thy Daughters, and the Lives of thy Wives. 6. In that thou lovest thine Enemies, and hatest thy Friends: For thou hast declared this day, that thou regardest