DR. GIBBS.

No fears shall then my soul depress,*
Though thus my enemies increase:
[3] And therefore now arise, O Lord,*
And graciously thy help afford.

(3) He desires God's help be-
cause he is not afraid of his
enemies; others, I think, usu-
ally desire it when they are
afraid.

(4) The doctor has a mighty
affection for the particle thus:
he uses it four times in this (the
3d) Psalm, and one hundred
times in other places; and al-
ways wrong.

(5) That is as much as to say,
that he that can do all things
can defend a man; which I
take to be an undoubted truth.
(6) Are they malicious out
of fraility, or frail out of ma-
lice?

And flowing eyes decay;

While to my enemies I fear

Thus [9] to become a prey.

grown

If I've not spar'd him, though he's
My causeless [1] enemy;
Then let my life and fortune [2] crown
Become to him a prey.

But, Lord, thy kind assistance [3] lend;
Arise in my defence:
According to thy laws [4] contend
For injur❜d innocence,

(9) That is, he is afraid of
becoming a prey to his enemies
while his eyes are sore.

(1) If he be grown his cause-
less enemy, he is no longer
guiltless.

(2) He gives a thing before
he has it, and gives it to him
that has it already; for Saul
is the person meant.

(3) But why lend? does he
design to return it back when
he has done with it?

(4) Profane rascal! he makes it a struggle and contention between God and the wicked.

Thus, by God's gracious providence [4],

I'm still preserv'd secure,

Who all the good and just defends
With a resistless [5] power.

DR. SWIFT.

(1) Yet in the very verse be-
fore, he talks of nations that
oppose.

(2) because all nations sub-
mit to God, therefore God must
be merciful to Dr. Gibbs.
(3) Of what?

Poor David never could ac-
quit

A criminal like thee,
Against his Psalms who could
commit

Such wicked poetry.

(4) Observe the connexion.
(5) That's right, doctor; but
there will be no contending, as
you desired a while ago.
Tis wonderful that Providence
Should save thee from the
halter,

Who hast in numbers without