art to give To those that love thy Name 133 Let all my steps by thy just word Exactly ordered be That no iniquity may have Dominion over me 134 Save me from mine oppressours all And I will keep thy word 135 O let thy face upon me shine Thy Statutes teach me Lord. 136 Rivers of water from mine eyes Ran down when as I saw How wicked men go on in sin And will not keep thy Law TZADDI 18. 137 Righteous art thou O Lord and all Thy judgments upright be 138 Righteous and faithful are thy Laws Which thou commandest me 139 My zeal hath even consumed me Because mine enemies Thy holy Word forgotten have And thy just Laws despise 140 Because thy word is try'd and pure Thy Servant loveth it 141 Small and despis'd I am but yet Thy Laws do not forget 142 Thy righteousness most steadfast is And ever doth endure Thy holy Law is truth it self Confirmed truth and sure 143 Trouble and anguish have me found And taken hold on me Yet in this trouble my delight Thy just Commandments be 144 Thy testimonies righteousness Even everlasting is Cause me to know them that they may Bring me to life and bliss KOPH 19. 145 With my whole heart I poured forth My cries to thee O Lord Hear and deliver me that I May keep thy holy word 146 In trouble I do cry to thee Thy Servant hear and save And then to keep thy testimonies Fully resolv'd I have 147 The dawning of the morning I Prevented with my cry For on thy true and faithful word My hope did all rely 148 My waking eyes betime prevent The watches of the night That in thy comfortable word Then meditate I might 149 After thy loving kindness hear My voice and answer give In mercy great with quick'ning grace Do thou my Soul revive 150 The wicked hunters do draw nigh Who after mischief run Thy holy Law they do forsake And far from it are gone 151 But thou O Lord art alway nigh Their mischiefs to repel And all thy word thou wilt make good Which doth in truth excel 152 As for thy testimonies all Of old I know full sure That thou hast firmly founded them For ever to endure RESH 20. 153 Consider my affliction great And me in safety set By thy deliverance for I Thy Law do not forget 154 Plead my just cause and it defend Deliver me O Lord Revive and comfort me again According to thy word 155 Salvation's far from wicked men It 's far from their intents To seek it in the only way Of thy Commandements 156 Many and very great O Lord Thy tender mercies be According to thy Judgments just Restore and quicken me 157 Many my persecutors are And foes who do combine Yet from thy testimonies pure My soul doth not decline 158 When I beheld transgressors ways I grieved and abhorr'd Their opposition to thy Laws Who would not keep thy word 159 Consider how on thy Precepts My heart with love is set Quicken me Lord according to Thy loving kindness great 160 From the beginning all thy word Hath been most true and sure And all thy righteous judgments shall For evermore endure SCHIN 21. 161 Princes have persecuted me Unjustly without cause But thy authority and word My heart and Conscience awes 162 I in thy word rejoice as one That findeth riches great 163 I love thy Laws but Lying all I do abhor and hate 164 Seven times a day in holy praise My Soul ascends to thee Because thy judgments and thy ways All good and righteous be 165 Great peace have these confirmed Souls Thy Laws who truly love No fears or scandal shall these men From God and Truth remove 166 For thy Salvation I have hop'd And thy Commandments done 167 My Soul thy Testimonies kept And lov'd them every one 168 Thy Testimonies and Commands I kept with constant care For all my ways and works I know Before thee open are TAU 22. 169 O Let my daily suit and cry Before thee come O Lord To me sound understanding give According to thy word 170 And let my supplication Before thee daily come My fears according to thy word Deliver thou me from 171 From a full heart my thankful lips Shall utter joyful praise When thou hast made me know and keep Thy statutes and thy ways 172 My tongue shall of thy word discourse Its goodness I 'll express Because all thy Commandements Are truth and righteousness 173 In all streights let thy mighty hand With succour me relieve For I by choice have made thy Laws The Rule by which I live 174 Lord for thy sure salvation My soul doth daily long Thy Law is still my heart's delight Its praises are my song 175 O let my drooping soul yet live And it shall give thee praise And let thy judgments succour me And be my help always 176 I like a lost sheep went astray Thy servant seek and find I yet forget not thy Commands Still print them on my mind PSALM CXX 1 IN my distress unto the Lord I poured out my mournful cry His ear attended my request He heard and help'd me speedily 2 From lying lips deliver me Lord and from the deceitful tongue 3 What shall be given and done to thee False mouth that causeth others wrong 4 Sharp arrows from a mighty hand With burning coals of Juniper 5 Woe 's me that I in Meshech stay And dwell in the Tents of Kedar 6 My soul hath too long dwelt with them That haters are of quiet peace 7 I am for peace but when I speak To war they soon themselves address PSALM CXXI 1 UNto the hills from whence my help Doth come I will lift up mine eyes 2 In God who made both heaven and earth My only help and succour lies 3 He will not let thy foot be mov'd Nor slumbers who thee always keeps 4 Behold he that keeps Israel He slumbers not nor ever sleeps 5 The mighty Lord thy keeper is And he doth always by thee stand To be a shade and a defence Daily to thee at thy right hand 6 The scorching Sun in Summer heat Shall not by day thee hurt or smite Nor the Moon 's hurtful influence Annoy thee in the darksome night 7 The Lord shall keep thee from all ill Thy soul he shall keep safe and sure 8 Thy going out and coming in The Lord shall still to thee secure PSALM CXXII 1 WHen in the willing crouding flock I heard that pleasant welcome voice Come let us go up to God's house It made my longing heart rejoyce 2 Our feet in God's Jerusalem Shall stand even in her Gates and Courts When those who were dispers'd by men Shall thither flock in great resorts 3 God's City is not a rude heap But built in comely form exact In great diversity of parts In order all are well compact 4 Thither the several Tribes go up The Tribes in Covenant with the Lord With thanks to celebrate his Name His Mysteries and holy
Mr. Richard Baxter 's PARAPHRASE ON THE Psalms of DAVID In METRE With other HYMNS Left fitted for the Press under his own Hand Licensed June 2d 1692. LONDON Printed for Thomas Parkhurst at the Bible and Three Crowns in Cheapside near Mercers-Chappel And Jonathan Robinson at the Golden Lion in St. Paul's Church-yard 1692. An Advertisement THese are to assure the Reader That that this Paraphrastical Translation of the Psalms is the genuine Work and Product of the late Reverend Mr. Richard Baxter and left together with the Preface and the annexed Hymns compleated by him and written with his own hand fairly and accurately for the Press The Author was well known to multitudes and famed deservedly for his eminent Knowledge Judgment Godliness and Utterance and for all things constituent of an exemplary Christian and for the extraordinariness of his Ministerial Unction Diligence Faithfulness and Success Singing of Psalms he called and used as his Recreation When his sleep was intermitted or removed in the Night he then sang much and relished this course and practice greatly well And on the Lord's days whilst with me in the free-will Offerings of his Ministerial assistance in Charter-house-Yard for betwixt four and five Years where at my House he preached his last Sermon and in his own House near to mine he breathed his last breath he thought the Lord's-day's Service very defective without some considerable time 's being spent in this Divine Melodious Exercise of singing Psalms wherein his heart was warm and chearful And I have heard him say in sence equivalent unto the import of these words That he believingly expected that his Angelical Convoy would conduct him through all the intermediate Regions to his determined Mansion in his Heavenly Father's House with most melodious Hallelujahs or with something equally delightful For what Angels are how they appear to separated Souls and after what manner they express their Joys and Praises are things as yet beyond our reach and knowledge But that there are such things as Publick Solemn and Harmonious Praises offered unto the Great Jehovah and the enthroned Lamb by the whole Heavenly Chorus I see no cause to doubt But at the manner of this great Performance I have not confidence enough to guess much less dare I dogmatically or magisterially determine For I forget not what Mr. B. said repeatedly to me and with great accents of a pathetical concern upon his heart We know nothing We know nothing And this when near his end As to the Work it self when I press'd him to the Publication of it he modestly replyed that others had done so well as that he thought his own Work thence less needful and acceptable But after that he committed it to my perusal telling me that his great solicitousness was about reaching and representing David's inspired sence aright And he told me that he was most for that wherein there was least of Man and most of God So that if he be out-done in Poetry by others yet perhaps none will be found in an Essay of this kind more genuinely breathing David's sence and spirit nor any thing more fitted to the genuine gravity and decorum of this chearing and edifying Ordinance than what here is offered And I hope it will not fare the worse for being a part of that useful Mantle which he left when God remomoved him hence As to his other Works and particularly his Life did those who earnestly expect it know its bulk and worth as I do as on the one hand their Appetites would be sharper because of the Rational and Judicious Accounts he gives of God's gracious dealing with his Soul with the stupendious instances and methods of his peculiar Providence towards that with much more that I could pertinently hint So on the other hand none would severely censure me as delatory or neglectful that knew my pressing hindrances and the greatness of the Work But I assure the Reader that all meet care and hast and faithfulness in this Affair and in the seasonable production of his other Works in all observance of his own Orders and Directions communicated to me by his own word and writing shall be pursued by London August 2. 1692. Matthew Sylvester THE PREFACE 1. POetry as all inferiour things hath its conveniences and its inconveniences The inconveniences are that matter is oft forc'd too much to stoop to words and syllables and that conciseness keeps the matter from a full perception with any but well-prepared understandings The conveniences are that is spareth words avoiding the redundancies and repetitions which Oratory is usually guilty of and teacheth exactness of expression And that the delight of Harmony except in persons whose phantasie is herein impotent and maimed or minds diseased by Prejudice or Melancholy doth make the phantasie helpful to the mind and as it expresseth affections so doth it raise them § 2. The Tempter knowing this hath made great use of lascivitus vain and foolish Poetry yea and malignant to corrupt more the minds that are already corrupt and vain and to prepossess them against better things And God knowing it hath by his Spirit indited sacred Hymns and Psalms both for his publick and private Worship and excitation of holy desires and delights Which of old was done with the greatest helps that the Musical and Vocal melody could give The singing of Morning Hymns to Christ was the Note by which Pliny describeth to Trajan the persecuted Christians in his time in their Houses and their Meetings then called Conventicles of which see the Apology of the Church of England Chap. 1. and specially Justin's and Tertullian's Apologies And Godly Families have still been differenced from the ungodly by open singing the Praises of God when the other sing wanton and idle Songs Good Christians will not among Christians at least be ashamed that such Psalms of Praise be heard by their Neighbours into the Streets when Players or Ballad-singers are not ashamed more openly to sing amorous foolish ungodly or abusive Songs Our Psalms in Metre were set forth by Authority to be used both in Church and House laying apart all ungodly Songs and Ballads c. § 3. Some stumble at the singing of David's Psalms because there are many words not suited to their case But 1. May they not as well scruple reading or saying them in Prose Singing them in Metre is no more an owning of all we say as our case than saying or reading them is And by that reason they must not say the Songs of Moses the Book of Job Canticles Lamentations or the Gospel-Hymns or Scripture-Prayers 2. That may be recited as the common case of the Church yea or as a Narration of his case that wrote them which is not spoken as of our selves 3. And if this satisfie not such may choose at home Psalms suitable to them and in the Church be silent at the words which they dare not speak § 4. Some are stumbled that David's Psalms have so little about the Life
tongue and lips That they no quite or falshood speak 14 Depart from evil and do good Seek and pursue peace faithfully 15 The eyes of God are on the just His ears attend their plaint and cry 16 The face of God is set against All them that do live wickedly That he may cut off from the earth Their very name and memory 17 The righteous cry unto the Lord And them in mercy he doth hear And them deliver out of all The troubles which they feel or fear 18 To them that are of broken hearts The Lord with healing grace is near And surely saveth such whose spirits Are contrlte and him truly fear 19 The just mens sufferings many are But God in time doth out of all 20 Deliver them He keeps their bones None of them 's broken by their fall 21 As for the wicked enemies Who do God's righteous servants hate Their sin by its own dire effects Shall stay and make them desolate 22 But the Lord doth his servants souls Redeem and fully set them free And of all them that trust in him None cast off desolate shall be PSALM XXXV 1 LOrd plead my righteous cause with them Who trouble me with envious strife Fight against them that causelesly Do fight to take away my life 2 Of shield and buckler take thou hold Stand up defend and help thou me 3 Draw out the spear and stop their way That causeless persecutors be Say to my soul I will thee save 4 Let them to utter shame be brought Who seek my life and plot my hurt Them foil confound and bring to nought 5 Make them like chaff before the wind And let God's Angel chase them all 6 Make their way dark and slippery God's Angel hunt and make them fall 7 They hid for me a snaring net In malice without a just cause They dig'd a pit to take my soul In cruel craft against thy Laws 8 Let him be ruin'd unawares And caught in his own hidden net Let him fall in that pit and snare Which his own hands have dig'd and set 9 In God and his salvation then My soul shall glad and joyful be 10 My very flesh and bones shall say Lord who or what is like to thee Who sav'st the poor and weak from them That for him are too great and strong The poor and needy from the men Who him oppress by spoil and wrong 11 False witness rose they to my charge Things false of which I knew not laid 12 To spoil my soul unthankful men Evil for good to me repaid 13 But as for me when they were sick In sackcloth clad for them I mourn'd With fasting I humbled my soul My prayer home to me return'd 14 For him I sadly walk'd as for A real friend or loving brother I heavily bow'd down as one That mourneth for his dying mother 15 But they rejoyced in my woe Combin'd vile abjects met to plot Unknown to me they gathered were And they to tear me ceased not 16 And not unlike Stage-hypocrites My cruel adversaries be And in their feasts with scoffing jeasts They grind and gnash their teeth on me 17 But Lord how long wilt thou look on From contriv'd ruin rescue me And let my soul my darling be From greedy Lions kept by thee 18 Then I will render thanks to thee Even in the Congregations great And I will celebrate thy praise Where the strong multitudes do meet 19 Let not them over me rejoyce Who hate and hurt me wrongfully Let not my causeless foes triumph And wink with scornful scoffing eye 20 Their heart and talk is not for peace They false and crafty plots prepare Against all those that in the land Hurt none but to all quite are 21 Yea their malicious lying mouths They widely opened against me And with triumphing scorn did say His crime his fall our eyes did see 22 All this O Lord thine eye hath seen O do not longer silent stand Against these false malicious men For help be thou still near at hand 23 Stir up thy self and shew thy power To judge my cause do thou awake My righteous cause well known to thee My Lord my God do not forsake 24 O Lord my God do thou me judge After thy perfect righteousness And suffer not them over me Their boasting triumph to express 25 Let them not say insultingly Aha so we would have it be Let them not proudly boast and say That they have wholly swallowed me 26 Shame and confusion come to them Who at my hurt and fall are glad They that against me vaunt themselves With shame cast down let them be clad 27 Let all that love my righteous cause Gladly their joy with shouts express And say The Lord be magnify'd Who loves his faithful servants peace 28 To speak thy righteousness shall be The glad employment of my tongue And thy high praises to set forth With joy and gladness all day long PSALM XXXVI 1 BY wicked mens ungodly lives My heart hath surely understood What ere he says before his eyes There is no serious fear of God 2 By flattery he deceives himself As safe and just in his own eyes Till God make known how hateful are His many foul iniquities 3 His prophane mouth in his discourse Doth daily speak deceit and sin For to be wise and to do good This shews he wants a heart within 4 Even on his bed iniquity Is his device and busie thought He sets himself in ways not good And hates not what is vain and naught 5 Thy mercies Lord are very great And do the highest heav'ns transcend Thy truth and constant faithfulness Do to the rowring clouds extend 6 Thy Justice is like mountains great Thy judgments are like a great deep Thy bounty and good providence Both man and beast doth feed and keep 7 O God how precious is thy love Because that thou art good and just Under the shadow of thy wings The sons of men do put their trust 8 With the rich fatness of thy house They sweetly nourished shall be And of thy streams of holy joys They shall be made to drink by thee 9 For of desired endless life The flowing fountain is with thee And in thy light thy holy ones The true and glorious light shall see 10 Thy loving kindness still draw out To faithful men that do thee know And unto men of upright heart Thy love and righteousness still show 11 Stop thou the foot of furious pride That would in rage against me come Let not the hand of wicked men Thee and my safety move me from 12 Dreadfully there are thy all fallen The men that work iniquities Cast down by God and never shall Henceforth be able more to rise PSALM XXXVII 1 FRet not thy self at wicked men For their present prosperity Not be thou envious at those That now do work iniquity 2 For like the grass which flourished Quickly cut down and gone are they And like the green and tender herb They wither and must die
world In wealth and riches do increase 13 Then surely I have cleans'd my heart And wash'd my hands from sin in vain 14 For all day long have I been plagu'd And thy sharp rod each day sustain 15 But if these tempted sinful thoughts I own and utter with my tongue Thy Childrens generation all I should offend and greatly wrong 16 When this I thought to understand It was too high and hard for me 17 Till to God's holy place I went Then I their later end did see 18 Surely it is a slippery place In which these worldly men are set From whence thy hand doth cast them down At last into destruction great 19 How in a moment suddenly To utter ruine brought are they And with just terrors utterly From earth they are consum'd away 20 Even as a transient dream of men Who waking do from sleep arise So thou O Lord when thou awak'st Their lifeless Image wilt despise 21 Thus grieved was my tempted heart And me my pierced Reins opprest 22 So rude and ignorant was I And in thy sight too like a beast 22 Nevertheless continually O Lord with thee I do remain And the support of thy right hand Doth me always help and sustain 24 Thou with thy Counsel in thy way Wilt me direct and surely guide And unto Glory afterwards Thou wil t receive me to abide 25 Whom have I in the heav'ns above To trust but thee my God alone And whom on earth do I desire And seek besides thee there is none 26 My flesh and heart do faint and fail But God upholds my sinking heart God is my Rock of strength and he For ever is my chosen part 27 For they shall surely perish all That are gone far away from thee They that from thee a whoring go Shall all at last destroyed be 28 I know that it is best for me My God still to draw and dwell near I trust in thee Lord God that I May all thy wondrous works declare PSALM LXXIV 1 O God why hast thou cast us off Shall it be thus for evermore Against thy pasture-sheep why doth Thy heavy anger smoak so sore 2 Think on thine ancient flock which thou Hast purchas'd for thy chosen lot Mount Sion where thou dwelled'st so long By thee redeem'd forsake thou not 3 The desolations long repair Arise and do not longer tarry All that thy wicked foes have done Within thy chosen sanctuary 4 Amidst the Congregations Cruel foes roar outragiously And their Ensigns they have set up As signs of prophane Victory 5 This sacred building formerly Did skilful workmen famous make 6 But now with axes and hammers The carved work they down do break 7 Thy Temple they have burnt with fire And it defil'd by casting down Unto the ground the dwelling place Where thy great Name and praise was known 8 They said Now let us break them all With our destroying potent hand They burn up all the Synagogues Of God that were throughout the Land 9 Our signs and all our Prophets cease Now there is none left us among That can the end of this fore-see And tell thy suffering flock how long 10 How long Lord shall the enemy Thee by reproach scorn and prophane And shall the adversaries thus Always blaspheme thy holy name 11 Pluck out and shew forth thy right hand Why dost thou it so long with-hold 12 Salvation in the earth was wrought By God our glorious King of old 13 The flowing Sea divided was By force of thy potent command The heads of Dragons in the floods Thou also brakest by thy hand 14 The heads thou didst in pieces break Of the Leviathan so great To them that in the desart dwell Thou gav'st him also to be meat 15 Fountains out of the cloven rocks Thou brought'st forth for us plenteously The mighty stream of Jordon flood For us thou caused'st to be dry 16 Thine and in thy hand only is The day and so is the dark night It 's thou alone that hast prepar'd The Sun and its clear daily light 17 Thou all the borders of the earth Hast set by thy potent decree The Summer and the Winter's course Made and distinguish'd are by thee 18 O Lord let it remembred be How great prophane reproach and shame Thy foes have dar'd to cast on thee And fools blaspheme thy holy name 19 Thy turtle-dove's soul do not thou Unto the wicked croud deliver The Congregation of thy poor O do not thou forget for ever 20 Unto thy Covenant have respect For now the earth 's dark places be Full of the habitations Of wicked mens great cruelty 21 O let not those that are opprest Return again with grief and shame But let the poor and men distress'd Give praises to thy holy name 22 Arise O Lord plead and maintain The Cause that is indeed thine own Remember how thou art reproach'd Even daily by the foolish one 23 Forget not thou the voice of those That are thy wicked enemies Their rage and tumults do increase Who do as foes against thee rise PSALM LXXV 1 ACcept O God the thanks we give To thee we truly thankful are For that thy name to us is near Thy wondrous works do all declare 2 When I th' Assembly do receive An upright Judge to all I 'le be 3 The earth and dwellers are dissolv'd Her shaken Pillars rest on me 4 To the unquiet fools I said Deal not stilt thus so foolshly And to malignant wicked men Lift not your threatning horn on high 5 Do not presumptuous horns advance Speak not stiff-neck'd with haughty mouth 6 Promotion doth not come by chance From East or West or from the South 7 But God is judge he puts down one And he doth set another up 8 In the revenging hand of God Of blood-red wine there is a cup. It 's full of mixture he pours out The same and makes the wicked all Wring out the bitter dregs thereof And they all surely drink it shall 9 But I for ever will declare With Psalms I Jacob's God will praise 10 The wicked's horns will I cut off But just mens heads and power will raise PSALM LXXVI 1 IN Judah God is known his name In his own Israel is great In Salem is his Tabernacle In Sion is his dwelling seat 3 There he the hurtful arrows brake The shield the sword and bloody war 4 More glorious than the hills of prey And excellent art thou by far 5 The stout and valiant men are spoil'd And by the sleep of death they fall No men of might could find their hands In need to help themselves withal 6 When thy rebuke O Jacob's God Had once against them spoke and past With them both Horse and Chariot were Into a fatal dead sleep cast 7 Thou and thou only glorious God Art he that all should greatly fear And who can stand before thy face If once but angry thou appear 8 Thou didst make Judgment heard from heaven The subject earth was still with fear 9
PSALM CXI 1 PRaise ye the Lord with my whole heart With joy I will God's praise declare Where upright men assembled be And holy Congregations are 2 The works of God are very great And manifest his glorious might The fruitful study of all them Who do therein place their delight 3 All his work honourable is All glorious steadfast and sure His truth and perfect righteousness Unchang'd for ever do endure 4 His wondrous works he made for man To mind and meditate upon The Lord is very gracious Full he is of compassion 5 To all that do him fear and serve He daily gives convenient food He always true and mindful is His holy Covenant to make good 6 The power of his wondrous works He did unto his people show That heathens land and heritage As his he might on them bestow 7 His hand-work Truth and Judgment are All his Commands are just and sure 8 All done in truth and uprightness They shall from age to age endure 9 His people he redemption sent His Covenant ever is the same Which he commanded which declares To us his holy reverend Name 10 God's fear Wisdom's beginning is Their understanding's sound and sure Who his Commandments truly keep His glorious praise doth still endure PSALM CXII 1 PRaise ye the Lord Blest is that man Who lives in fear as in God's sight To know and practice his Commands Who always greatly doth delight 2 His seed on earth shall be advanc'd The upright Off-spring God will bless 3 His house shall have sufficient store Endless shall be his righteousness 4 In their dark state rejoycing light God to just upright men will raise Gracious and pitiful are such Righteous and true in all their ways 5 A good man's ready to do good And kindly lends to him that needs And he with wise discretion doth Manage affairs and guide his deeds 6 His standing's sure He never shall Be mov'd and brought to misery His precious name shall be preserv'd In sweet and endless memory 7 Whatever evil tidings come He shall not greatly be afraid His steadfast heart by fixed trust Upon the mighty Lord is slay'd 8 His heart is firmly stablished And shall not sink and be dismay'd Till his malignant enemies He sees God's Justice hath repay'd 9 He hath abroad dispers'd his seed And largely given to the poor God shall with honour him advance His righteousness shall ever dure 10 This shall the wicked see and grieve Gnash with his teeth for grief he shall His wealth and he shall melt away His flat'ring hopes shall perish all PSALM CXIII 1 PRaise ye the Lord his servants all Praise our great God with one acoord With joyful hearts and chearful voice Praise the name of the world 's great Lord. 2 Blest be the Lord's renowned name Ever his praise continue shall 3 From East to West through all the world God's Name is to be prais'd of all 4 The Lord in Glory dwells on high And over all the Nations reigns His glory is above the heav'ns No place no limits him contains 5 O who is like to our great God Who from high Glory looketh forth 6 To heav'n and its inhabitants And minds what 's done below on earth 7 He from the dust doth raise the poor And needy from the dunghill brings 8 That he like Princes may them make Even Princes with his people's Kings 9 He to the barren woman doth A numerous family afford A joyful mother maketh her Of many Children Praise the Lord. PSALM CXIV 1 WHen Israel out of Egypt went And Jacob's House by God's strong hand From under those strange Task-masters Whose speech they did not understand 2 Judah he did his Sanctuary And Israel his Dominion make 3 The Sea did see and fled away And Jordan's stream was driven back 4 Like Rams the mountains and like Lambs The little hills skipt to and fro 5 O Sea what made thee thus to flee Jordan why didst thou backward go 6 Ye mountains great what was the cause That made you thus to skip like Rams Ye little hills wherefore was it That you did skip like playing Lambs 7 Tremble O earth before the Lord When Jacob's God his presence shows 8 Which turn'd the Rock to water-pools By whom the flint like fountains flows PSALM CXV 1 NOt unto us Lord not to us But do thou all the glory take To thy great name for thy own truth And for thy saving mercies sake 2 Why should the heathen people say To us where is their mighty God 3 But our God is in heav'n and doth What ever to him seemeth good 4 Their Idols are silver and gold The work of workmen's hands they be 5 They have mouths but they do not speak 6 And eyes have they but do not see Ears have they but they do not hear Noses but smell or savour not 7 Hands feet but handle not nor walk Nor speak they through their mouth or throat 8 Their makers are like them and all Their trust for help on them that build 9 O Israel trust in the Lord He is their only help and shield 10 O house of Aaron trust in God He only is their help and shield 11 You that fear God trust in the Lord Your shield who certain help will yield 12 The Lord hath mindful been of us And he will surely bless us still The house of Israel he will bless Aaron's house also bless he will 13 Both small and great that fear the Lord The Lord will always surely bless 14 You and your Children more and more The Lord will bless and still increase 15 You are the blessed of the Lord Who made both all the earth and heav'n 16 The heav'n of heav'ns is his but earth He to the sons of men hath given 17 The dead who down to silence go Do not in dust God's praise record 18 But we henceforth for ever will Bless our great God Praise ye the Lord. PSALM CXVI 1 I Love the Lord who did my voice And earnest supplication hear 2 While I have life I 'le call on him Who bow'd to me his gracious ear 3 The sorrows of expected death My flesh and heart did compass round The pains of Hell took hold on me Trouble and grievous pain I found 4 Upon the name of God my help Then did I daily call and say Deliver thou my grieved soul O Lord I do thee humbly pray 5 Our God is merciful and just Yea very gracious is the Lord 6 He saves the meek I was brought low And he did speedy help afford 7 My soul distrust thy God no more Return by faith to him thy Rest Who largely in thy great distress To thee his bounty hath exprest 8 For my afflicted soul from death Safely delivered was by thee Thou didst mine eyes from mourning tears My feet from dangerous falling free 9 Among the living I will walk By faith as still before the Lord 10 When greatly I afflicted was I did believe and spake this word 11