Give me leave here to mention several Passages which were hardly made for Christian Lips to assume without some Alteration: Psal. 68. 13, 14, 15, 16. _Tho ye have lain among the Pots, yet shall ye be as the Wings of a Dove cover'd with Silver, and her Feathers with yellow Gold: When the Almighty scatter'd Kings in it, it was white as Snow in_ Salmon. _The Hill of God is as the Hill of Bashan, &c. Why leap ye, ye Hills, &c; ver. 25. {249} The Singers went before, the Players on Instruments followed after, amongst them were the Damsels playing with Timbrels: Bless ye God in the Congregation, even the Lord from the Fountain of_ Israel: _There is little_ Benjamin _with their Ruler, the Princes of_ Judah _and their Council, the Princes of_ Zebulun, _and the Princes of_ Naphtali. _Because of thy Temple at_ Jerusalem _Kings shall bring Presents unto thee. Rebuke the Company of Spearmen, the Multitude of Bulls, with the Calves of the People, till every one submit himself with Pieces of Silver._ Psal. 71. 2, 3, &c. _Take a Psalm, and bring hither the Timbrel, the pleasant Harp with the Psaltery, blow up the Trumpet in the New Moon, in the Time appointed on our solemn Feast-Day, &c._ Psal. 84. 3, 6. _The Sparrow hath found an House, and the Swallow a Nest for her self, where she may lay her Young, even thine Altars, O Lord of Hosts, &c. Blessed is the Man whose Strength is in thee, in whose Heart are the Ways of them, who passing thro the Valley of_ Bacha _make it a Well, the Rain also filleth the Pools._ Psal: 108. 2, 7, 8, 9. _Awake Psaltery and Harp, I my self will awake early. God hath spoken in his Holiness; I will rejoyce, I will divide_ Shechem_, and mete out the Vally of_ Succoth; Gilead _is mine,_ Manasseh _is mine,_ Ephraim _also is the Strength of mine Head,_ Judah _is my Lawgiver,_ Moab _is my Washpot, over_ Edom _will I cast out my Shoe, over_ Philistia _will I triumph; Who will bring me into the strong City, who will lead me into_ Edom _Psal. 69, 8 & 109._ are so full of Cursings {250} that they hardly become the Tongue of a Follower of the blessed _Jesus_, who dying pray'd for his own Enemies; _Father forgive them, for they know not what they do._ Psal. 134. is suited to the Temple or Tabernacle-Worship; the Title is, _A Song of Degrees_, that is, as Interpreters believe, to be sung as the Kings of _Israel_ went up by Steps or Degrees to the House of God; In the _two first Verses_ the King calls upon the Levites, _which by Night stand in the House of the Lord, to lift up their Hands in the Sanctuary, and to bless the Lord_; the _3d Verse_ is an Antiphona or Reply of the Levites to the King; _the Lord that made Heaven and Earth bless thee out of_ Zion. 'Twould be endless to give an Account of all the Paragraphs of ancient Songs, which can scarce ever be accommodated to Gospel-Worship.