8 And _thus_ (6) to grant a sure defence, (6) The doctor hath a Belongs to God's (7) omnipotence; mighty affection for the particle _thus_: he uses it four times in this Psalm, and 100 times in other places, and always wrong. (7) That is as much as to say, he that can do all things can defend a man; which I take to be an undoubted truth. IV. PSALM OF DAVID. _Reproving and admonishing his enemies_. Not to burlesque his Psalms. 1 As Thou hast always taken care A pretty phrase! My sufferings to remove. 2 But you, my frail (1) malicious foes, (1) Are they malicious Who do my power despise; out of frailty, or frail Vainly how long will ye oppose, out of malice? And (2) falsely calumnize! (2) That is, they say _false_ things _falsely_. I will discover the doctor's secret of making the coherence and connection, in the Psalms that he brags of in his title and preface: he lays violent hands on certain particles,(such as _and, when, since, for, but, thus, so_, &c.) and presses them to his service on all occasions sore against their wills, and without any regard whether the sense will admit them or no. 3 Since those alone the Lord has blest, (3) 'Tis plain the doctor That do from sin refrain; never requested to be a He therefore grants what I request, (3) poet. And hears when I (4) complain: