and feare 64. Through earth O Lord Thy mercies reach Me in Thy statutes teach TETH 65. Thoust hast dealt well with me O Lord According to Thy word 66. Good judgment and true knowledge give For I Thy Lawes believe 67. Before I troubled was I stray'd But now Thy word obey'd 68 All good doth from Thy bounty flow Let me Thy statutes know 69. The proud by Lies would me supplant Who keep Thy Covenant 70. Their heart is swoll'n with fat and ease But me Thy statutes please 71. T is good that by affliction taught To know Thee I am brought 72. Whose Law I in more value hold Then thousand heaps of Gold IOD 73. I have been fashion'd by Thy hand Teach me to understand 74 Who feare Thee shall be glad to see My setled hope in Thee 75. I know Thy judgments Lord are true And my affliction due 76. Yet let Thy comfort I Thee pray Thy servants grief allay 77. In tender mercy me forgive That I with Thee may live 78. Shame them whose pride without a cause Hates me who love Thy Lawes 79. Let those conjoyn'd to me be neare Thy truth who know and feare 80. My heart keep in Thy statutes sound That me no shame confound CAPH 81. My soule for Thy salvation faint Trusts on Thy gratious grant 82. Mine eyes with expectation faile When shall my hopes prevaile 83. Though like a bottle in the smoake Yet Thee I not forsook 84. Shall my short daies of life have end Ere Thou Thy judgment send 85. The proud for me against all right Have digged pits in spight 86. As Thou art faithfull send redresse 'Gainst them who me oppresse 87. They me on earth almost consum'd But I on Thee presum'd 88. O quicken me as Thou art kind So I Thy word shall mind LAMED 89. Thy promise Lord doth ever last In heaven setled fast 90. Thy faith through all successions try'd Doth fixt as earth abide 91. Thou for Thy service did'st ordaine That all things should remaine 92. But that Thy Law was my releif I perisht had through greif 93. Thy precepts in my thought shall live For they my soule revive 94. Save me O Lord for I am Thine And to Thy Law encline 95. Though wicked men would me destroy I make Thy word my joy 96. Which to eternall blisse extends When earth's perfection ends MEM. 97. Thy Law how dearely do I rate All day to meditate 98. Which still before me makes me wise Above mine enemies 99. For studying this I knowledge have More then my teachers gave 100. I understand more then the old 'Cause I Thy precepts hold 101. My feet from evill waies refrain'd Are by Thy word restrain'd 102. I from Thy judgments not depart For Thou hast taught my heart 103. Then hony bred from flowry fields Thy word more sweetnesse yields 104. Through this I understanding gat And waies of falsehood hate NVN. 105. Thy word a lamp is shining bright And to my path a light 106. I in my solemne vowes have sworne Thy statutes to performe 107. I ly perplext with greif and paine Lord quicken me againe 108. O let my Pray'rs Thy audience reach And me Thy judgments teach 109. My soul though death dangers threat Can never Thee forget 110. And though the wicked snares have lay'd From Thee I never stray'd 111. Thy statutes are my chosen part The comfort of my heart 112. And to performe Them I intend Untill my life shall end SAMECH 113. I hate vaine thoughts ill men neglect But I Thy Law affect 114. Thou art my refuge and my shield Whose word doth safety yield 115. Depart ye wicked ones away I will my God obey 116. Uphold me in a life unblam'd Nor let my hope be sham'd 117. Sustaine me Lord so shall my faith Resting on Thee be safe 118. Thou tread'st them downe whose guilefull heart Doth from Thy Lawes depart 119. And like the drosse that 's cast away Mak'st them on earth decay 120. My trembling flesh is full of feare When I these judgments heare AIN 121. Lord leave me not who love the right To my oppressors might 122. Be Thou my surety 'gainst their pride Who have my waies decry'd 123. Mine eyes for Thy salvation faile Untill my hopes prevaile 124. In mercy with Thy servant deale Thy statutes Lord reveale 125. Give me an understanding heart Thy sacred will impart 126. T is time for Thee to bring Thy aid For voyd Thy Law is made 127. I Thy Commandments prâ—tious hold Above refined gold 128 And all Thy precepts justly prize But hate deceit and lyes PE. 129 Thy testimonies wond'rous are My soules delight and care 130. Thy words like beams of light arise To make the simple wise 131. Panting and breathlesse in desire I to Thy lawes aspire 132. Such mercy Lord upon me powre As those who Thee adore 133. Order my steps no sins may staine Nor vices or'e me reigne 134 From man's oppression me redeeme Thy precepts who esteeme 135. Make Thy blest face on me to shine Teach me Thy Lawes divine 136. Rivers of Teares run down mine eyes When men Thy Law despise TSADDI 137. Thou righteous art O Lord my might Thy judgments are upright 138. The Statutes which Thou do'st command Unchang'd and faithfull stand 139. My zeale consumes me when I find Thy Law not kept in mind 140. Thy word is very pure and try'd By me most magnify'd 141. I though despis'd and lightly set Thy precepts not forget 142. Thy righteousnesse no period knew And Thy Commands are true 143. Though troubles me or anguish seize Yet I delight in these 144. Lord in Thy statutes knowledge give And I shall ever live COPH. 145. I cry'd with my whole heart Lord heare Through whom I persevere 146. O save me when to Thee I call So keep Thy Lawes I shall 147. My cryes prevent the dawning light 148. My eyes outwatch the night That I Thy word might meditate My hope and safe Retreit 149. O Lord my voice in mercy heare Me quicken in Thy feare 150. Men bent to mischeif nigh me draw Contemners of thy Law 151. Yet Thou O Lord art neare at hand And true is Thy command 152. For on eternall bases plac't Thy testimonies last RESCH. 153. Consider me in my distresse For I Thy Law confesse 154. Plead Thou my cause and life afford According to Thy word 155. Salvation far from sinners flies For they Thy Lawes despise 156. Thy tender mercies Lord exceed O quicken me with speed 157. Though many foes 'gainst me combine From Thee I not decline 158. With sorrow I transgressors saw Who have not kept Thy Law 159. Lord think how I Thy precepts love Inspire me from above 160. Thy word is true Thy Judgments pure And ever shall endure SCHIN 161. Princes pursue me without cause Yet still I feare Thy Lawes 162. Whose sacred word more glads my mind Then those that treasures find 163. I falshood hate abhorre all lyes But Thy Commandments prize 164. Sev'n
my imperfect frame By daily growth to figure came 17. O Lord how pretious O how deare Thy purposes and thoughts appeare 18. Which were they summ'd in my account They would the num'rous sands surmount These wonders alwaies present ly Fixt in my thankfull memory And whil'st of them surveies I take My contemplation still must wake 19. O God! Thou shalt the wicked slay Ye bloody men depart away 20. For their fowle tongues Thy honour staine And take Thy sacred Name in vaine 21. Do not I hate and grieve at those Whose proud despight against thee rose 22. With perfect hate I them despise Accounting them mine enemies 23. Search me O Lord and prove my heart Who Judg of all my actions art Do Thou my faith to tryall bring My hidden thoughts examining 24. Look well and all my motions view If I persist in waies untrue And when Thou find'st my feet to stray Reduce me to Thy lasting way PSAL. CXL 1. SAve me from men to evill bent And from the violent 2. Which mischeif in their hearts devise In war and tumult rise 3. Their tongues are like a Serpents whet Their lips in poyson set 4. Lord keep me from the raging foe That would my feet orethrow 5. The proud have hidden nets prepar'd To take my life ensnar'd 6. But I Thou art my God have said O heare and send me aid 7. O God my Lord the strength alone Of my salvation In day of battaile Thou my head Hast safely covered 8. Grant not O Lord their bad desire Least then their pride aspire 9. Let suddaine mischeif cover those Who would my life enclose 10. Let quenchless fire upon them raine Nor let them rise againe 11. No violent man nor evill tongue On earth be stablish'd long 12. I know the Lord will them maintaine Who have afflicted lay'n Their cause regards and doth delight To help the poor to right 13. For this unto Thy Name the just Their thanks acknowledg must And those who live upright and well Shall in Thy presence dwell PSAL. CXLI 1. TO Thee I cry O Lord make hast To heare my voice at last 2. Let my request like Incense rise Or ev'ning sacrifice 3. Set Thou a watch my mouth before And keep my speeches doore 4. Incline not unto ill my heart With sinners to take part Let me not eat of that delights Their wicked appetites 5. But let the righteous me reprove And smite me in his love Like pretious balmes or odours shed Such stroaks not break my head And in my pray'rs I shall them bless In midst of their distress 6 When wicked Judges overthrow'n Ly dash'd against the stone They shall with much contentment heare My words which comfort beare 7. Disperst and scatter'd on the grave Our bones no value have As fallen trees cut downe and cleft Are in their splinters left 8. But though in darknes clos'd I ly On Thee I fix mine eye Thou wilt not leave me in the dust In whom my soul doth trust 9. O keep me from the cruell net Which wicked men have set 10. Let them be snar'd in their own trap But let my soul escape PSAL. CXLII 1. WIth low'd-voic'd cries to God I came And my request did frame 2. I powred out my sad complaint And shew'd Him my restraint 3. Thou when my soul was drown'd in woe My way and path did'st know Yet in that walk my feet did tread Close snares for me were spread 4. I did upon my right hand look But no man knowledg took My soul of help was quite bereft And had no refuge left 5. I therefore cry'd to Thee O Lord And said this faithfull word Thou do'st my Help and Portion stand In the Eternall Land 6. Consider then my great distress Brought low with heaviness From persecuters me defend Unable to contend 7. My soule out of the prison bring That I Thy praise may sing And for this bounty shew'd to me The just shall honour Thee PSAL. CXLIII As Psalme 25. 1. O Lord my Prayer heare Presented in Thy feare With mercy answer my request In humblest words exprest 2. Weigh not in judgments scales Thy servants daily failes For no man living in Thine eye Himself shall justify 3. My foes which do pursue My soule by waies undue Make me in darkness hide my head Like those have long been dead 4. My Spirit faint and worne Is by my griefes oreborne My heart within me desolate Through my dejected state 5. Yet I the daies of old In my remembrance hold Thy wonders past I meditate And all Thy works of late 6. To Thee I stretch my hands Like as the thirsty Lands The fruitfull raines desire to see So thirsts my soul for Thee 7. Heare me O Lord with speed My fainting spirit heed Least if Thou frowne I prove like those The pit of Death doth close 8. O let my longing eare Betimes Thy kindnes heare In Thee I trust reveale that Path Thy truth prescribed hath 9. Lord save me from their spight Who in my wrongs delight To Thee my soul for shelter flies Against hir enemies 10. Teach me to do Thy will That I may please Thee still Let Thy good spirit me direct To live with Thine elect 11. Lord quicken me againe Cleanse Thou my sinfull staine For Thy great Name and justice sake My soul from trouble take 12. I am Thy servant Lord My comfort is Thy word Then of Thy goodnes those destroy Who in my sorrowes joy PSAL. CXLIV 1. BLest be the Lord my strength my might Who taught my hands to fight 2. My rock my shield and helper true My people to subdue 3. Lord what is man or what his race Thy notice should him grace 4. Who is so vaine his daies do fade Like to the passing shade 5. O Lord the arched Heavens bow Come downe to earth below Touch their proud tops and then thy stroak Shall make the mountains smoak 6. From Thy full clouds quick lightning cast And them by scatt'ring wast Let Thy sharparrowes 'gainst them shot Destruction make their lot 7. Send from above Thine hand to save Me from the swelling wave 8. From children strange whose mouth speaks hate Whose right hand acts deceit 9. Then I new Songs will sing to Thee Upon the Psalterie And on the ten-string'd Instrument Ditties of praise invent 10. For God salvation gives to Kings His help to David brings From perill of the Sword and grave He doth His servant save 11. Deliver me from strangers hands Whose mouth against Thee bands Whose right hand falshood doth defend Whose deeds in rapine end 12. Our Sons like plants then fresh in growth Shall flourish in their youth Our daughters like faire columnes be Which we in Temples see 13. Our garners shall be fill'd with store Our sheep bring thousands more 14. Our Oxen strong nor shall restraint Cause in our streets complaint 15. Happy that people and that place Which is in such a case Yea blessed are and happy they Who God their
my hands and feet 17. My bones stick out consum'd and bare Whil'st they remorselesse on me stare 18. They now to part my garments hast And Lots upon my vesture cast 19. But be not far from me O Lord 20. My soule deliver from the sword 21 My darling save from rav'ning jawes Of dogs and from the Lions pawes For thou hast heard me from the hornes Of fierce assayling Unicornes 22. I to my brethren will proclaime The Praises due to Thy great Name 23. Yee that fear God all Iacobs line And Israëls seed in Prayses joyne 24. Th' afflicted He did nere despise Nor hid His face but heard their cries 25. My praise and vowes devout to Thee Shall in thy Church performed be 26 He to the meeke will plenty give The hearts that seek Him ever live 27. Far as the world extends it 's bound Religious Converts shall be found They shall remember and implore And ev'ry Kindred Him adore 28 For God's the Kingdome is whose sway All Nations of the Earth obay 29. The rich who on Earth's fatnesse feed Ev'n to the Soule that dies for need All from the throne unto the dust Before Him bow and worship must 30. All these shall serve Him in their seed And sons to God adopted breed 31. Who to succession shall proclaime His righteousnesse and awfull Name PSAL. XXIII 1. THe Lord my Shepheard is and guide I shall no want abide 2. He makes me lye in fruitfull meads And by stil waters leads 3. My Soule to danger given ore He doth againe restore And guides me in the righteous path His Name elected hath 4. Yea though in vale of darknesse lay'd Or death's more ghastly shade I feare no ill Thy rod and staffe Direct and keep me safe 5. Thou dost for me a plenteous fare Before my foes prepare Thou dost with oyle annoint my head My flowing Cup doth shed 6. Thy mercy sure shall me attend Untill my Life doth end And in the House of God will I Remaine Eternally PSAL XXIV 1. EArth is the Lords with hir encrease And all that there have place 2. He founded it upon the Seas And made the floods hir base 3. Who in God's Holy Place shall stand Or on His Hill appeare 4. He who is pure in Heart and hand Nor to deceive doth sweare 5. He blessings shall from God receive And righteousnesse from high 6. This is their race who God believe And to His sight are nigh 7. Lift up yee Gates lift up your head Yee Doores Eternall spread The King of Glory shall come in And his approach begin 8. Who is the Great and Glorious King Of whom our Praises sing The Lord in Battaile mighty This The King of Glory is 9. Lift up yee Gates lift up your Head Yee Doores Eternall spread The King of Glory shall come in And his approach begin 10. Who is the Great and Glorious King Of whom our Praises sing The Lord in Battell mighty This The King of Glory is PSAL. XXV 1. WIth Thoughts lift up to Thee O God my Soule doth flee 2. To shame O never me expose Nor triumph of my foes 3. Let those be free from shame Who wait upon Thy Name But let them feele it who Thy Lawes Transgresse without a cause 4. Thy wayes unto me shew Teach me Thy truth to know 5. Thon art the God do'st me defend On Thee I still depend 6. Thinke on Thy mercies Lord Thy ancient love record 7. Remember not my sins of youth But save me in Thy truth 8. Good is the Lord His ways To sinners He displaies 9. The meek He will in judgment guide Who in His precepts bide 10. His paths with truth abound Great mercies there are found Which He unto all such doth grant Who keep his Covenant 11. O for Thy Names sake Lord Pardon to me afford And with my heinous crime dispense For great is mine offence 12. To him that feares He shewes The way which he shall chuse 13. His Soule shall dwell at ease his race Shall long on earth have place 14. To them who God do feare His secret shall appeare He will His Covenant declare To such as faithfull are 15. Mine eyes on God are set Who plucks me from the net 16. O Lord to we in mercy turne Afflicted forlorne 17. My heart's distresse is large O Thou my woes discharge 18. Looke on the paine wherein I live And all my sins forgive 19. Thinke on my many foes Whose hate most cruell growes 20. O keep my soule from scandall free Who put my trust in Thee 21. Let Justice me defend Who on Thy grace attend 22. Thy Israël O God release And all his troubles ease PSAL. XXVI 1. IUdge me O God for in Thy path My foot insisted hath My trust hath on Thee Lord rely'd Therefore I shall not slide 2. Examine me O Lord and try My reines and heart descry 3. Thy mercy still is in my sight Thy truth hath kept me right 4. I have not with vaine persons sate Or those that use deceit 5. Ill congregations I detest Nor am the sinners guest 6. In innocence I le wash my hand So at Thine Altar stand 7. That I may publish in my Song What thankes to Thee belong 8 O Lord devoutly I affect The House Thou dost Elect. I Love the honour of that Place Thy presence deignes to grace 9. Shut not my soule nor judge my life With men of blood and strife 10. Whose arme it selfe in mischiefe lifts Whose hand is fill'd with gifts 11. In mine integrity I goe Save me and mercy show 12. So will I Praise Thee when my feet Within Thy Temple meet PSAL. XXVII Sing this as Psalme 51. 1. GOd my Salvation is and Light What terrour then shall me affright My life 's sole strength He is and aid Of whom then shall I be afraid 2. When wicked men mine enemies Conspiring did against me rise When they approach'd my flesh to eat They stumbling fell in their retreat 3. Although an host encamped were My heart their numbers shall not feare And though a War against me rise My confidence shall them despise 4. One thing of God I have desir'd That I unto His House retir'd Might spend my dayes there grow old His Temples beauty to behold 5. For He when times of trouble threat Will me in his Pavilion seat Within His Tabernacle hide And safety on a rock provide 6. And now my head up-lifted shall Behold my foes encircling fall Therefore glad Songs and sacrifice With praises to Thy throne shall rise 7. Heare O my Lord and when I cry In mercy to my voyce reply 8. When Thou command'st Seek ye my face My heart O Lord I seek Thee saies 9. Hide not Thy face from me in ire Nor leave me helplesse I desire 10. Who when my Parents me forsake Wilt me unto Thy favour take 11. Teach me O Lord Thy wayes to tread In pathes of truth and plainnesse lead 12. Nor leave me to their cruell will
tide With Songs of Thy delivery I shall encompast ly 8. I will enforme thy life and teach How thou this blisse shalt reach And with mine eye I thee will guide Least thou should'st tread aside 9. Be ye not like the horse or mule Whom reason cannot rule Whose stubborne mouths the bit and reine From fury must restreine 10. Great plagues and paines that never end For wicked men attend But those in God their trust who place Sure mercies shall embrace Be glad ye righteous and rejoyce Who make the Lord your choice With shouts alowd your joy impart All ye upright in heart PSAL. XXXIII 1. YEe righteous in the Lord delight For praise becomes th'upright 2. Let Harpe and Psaltery's consent The ten-string'd instrument 3. New Songs record unto the voyce With their melodious noise 4. For just Gods promise is to you And all His workes are true 5. He righteousnesse and judgment wills All earth his goodnesse fills 6. The Heav'ns bright host and all beneath He formed with His breath 7. He doth the waters of the deep Heap'd in His store-house keep 8. Let men and all which earth doth beare Of Him then stand in feare 9. He spake and at His free commands The world unmoved stands 10. Mens counsailes and devises wrought The Lord will bring to nought 11. Yet through all ages His decree And thoughts unchanged be 12. Blest is the People He protects And for His Lot elects 13. The Lord from Heav'n His dwelling place 14. Beheld all humane race 15. Their hearts He fashion'd whose each thought And worke to light is brought 16. No King is sav'd by multitude Nor man with might endu'd 17. As vaine for safety is the horse To reskue by his force 18. Who feare and on Gods love relye Are ever in his Eye 19. Their Soule to reskue from the grave And life from famine save 20. Our soule doth wait for God our sheild 21. Glad hopes on Him we build 22. Lord let Thy mercy on us be As we beleive in Thee PSAL. XXXIV 1. I Will at all times blesse the Lord His praises still record 2 And whilst my soule of God makes choice The humble shall rejoyce 3. The Lord with me O magnifie Exalt His Name on high I sought Him who my prayer heard And sav'd from all I fear'd 5. They look'd to Him and light'ned were No shame their faces beare 6. For God did at the poor man's cry Relieve his misery 7. His Angell those environs round Who in His fear are sound 8. O tast and see how good is Hee To such as faithfull be 9. O fear the Lord yee Saints of His For such no blessings misse 10. Young Lions often lacking prey With hunger pine away But those that seek His Covenant No good thing ever want 11. Come children hearken to my speech I you His feare will teach 12. What man is he long life doth crave Or happy dayes would have 13. Keep thou thy tongue from wicked wile Thy lips from speaking guile 14. Depart from ill in good encrease Pursue and seek for peace 15. For on the just God casts His eyes His eares admit their cryes 16. Against the bad He sets his face To cut them from their place 17. The righteous cry and God attends In trouble safety sends 18. He doth in broken hearts delight And saveth soules contrite 19. Great troubles on the righteous fall But He releives in all 20. He keeps the number of each bone Nor broken shall be one 21. Transgressors their own mischeifs slay And with just vengeance pay All such as doe the righteous hate Shall soone be desolate 22. For God His servants soules redeems And deare their faith esteems PSAL. XXXV As Psalme 51. 1. PLead Lord my cause with striving foes Against them fight who me oppose 2. The shield for my Protection weare Draw out Thy all-subduing speare Stop Thou my persecutors way Soule I am thy salvation say 4. Let them drove back with shame retire Who to procure my hurt conspire 5. Like chaffe before the Whirlwinds blast Let them be by God's Angell chas'd 6. Darke be their way their steps untrue And let His Angel them pursue 7. For without cause they hid their snare And for my soule did pits prepare 8. But let themselves surprised all In their contriv'd destruction fall 9. My soule in God shall joyfull be 10. My bones all say who 's like to Thee Who keep'st the poor from suff'ring wrong And help'st the needy 'gainst the strong 11. False witnesse did against me rise And things unknowne to me devise 12. For good they me reward with ill To spoile my soule and life to spill 13. Yet when they lay in sicknesse cast I did for them both pray and fast 14. As for my friend or brother borne Or for my Mother did I mourne 15. But of my trouble glad they joyn'd Yea abjects in my scorne combin'd 16. The mocking hypocrites at feasts By flowting me delight the guests 17. How long wilt Thou looke on O Lord Nor reskue to my soule afford O save me from destructions jawes My darling from the Lions pawes 18. Then in the great assembly I Will thanks and praises multiply 19. Let not insulting foes despise Or wink upon me with their eyes 20. They speake not peace but practise strife Disturbing those of quiet life 21. Their mouth 'gainst me they opened wide Ha ha our eye hath seene it cry'd 22. O Lord Thou their despight dost see Nor silence keep nor absent be 23. Stirre up Thy selfe to judgment wake My cause to Thy protection take 24. O judge me in Thy truth least they 25. With joy We have him swallow'd say 26. But let confounding shame them cloath Who love my hurt my quiet loath 27. Let them that favour my just cause Extoll the Lord with lowd applause Whose goodnes doth his servant raise 28. And still my tongue shall speake Thy praise PSAL. XXXVI 1. MY heart of the transgressor saith No fear of God he hath 2. Himselfe he flatters in conceit Becomming all mens hate 3. His mouth doth fraud and sin devise He is nor good nor wise 4. He mischeife on his bed contrives By wayes abhorred thrives 5. Up to the clouds Thy mercies reach The hills Thy justice teach 6. Thy judgments Lord who all dost keep Are like th'un-fathom'd deep 7. How doth Thy love excell Thy wing Man-kind ore-shadowing 8. Thy house to them full plenty brings Who drinke of Thy pure springs 9. Thou hast lifes springs and in Thy sight We shall behold the light 10. Thy kindnesse Lord and grace impart To the upright in heart 11. Let not the foot of pride prevaile Nor wicked hands assaile 12. Downe are they fall'n who ills devise And never shall arise PSAL. XXXVII Sing this as Psalme 51. 1 FRet not thy selfe nor envious be At those that work iniquity 2. For they shall soon to nothing passe Cut downe and wither'd like the grasse 3. Trust in the Lord be doing good
talk Their tongue through earth doth walk 10. Therefore Gods people when they see How prosp'rous sinners be And vexed with their sorrowes sense Incline to their defense 11. So words like these their passion throwes How should we thinke God knowes 12. Who lets the wicked live in health And daily grow in wealth 13. Why vertue then should I retaine I cleanse my heart in vaine In vaine my hands held from offense I wash in innocence 14. For all the daies my life hath seen I have afflicted been My Soule with wants and sorrowes worne Was chast'ned every morne 15. Yet should I not these murmurs check But thus disturbed speak I might thy Children so offend And Thee blaspheming end Second Part. 16. But this I found by flesh and blood Hard to be understood 17. Nor till I to Thy Temple went Could know what these things meant Then I discern'd what they portend And how the wicked end 18. Whom Thou in slippery fortunes plac't Do'st unto ruin cast 19. How are their glories quick as thought To desolation brought They in a moment turn'd to teares Consume by their own feares 20. God as a dreame when one awakes Their Image vanish makes Causing their late admirers eyes Them now as much despise 21. Thus was my heart perplex'd with paines And anguish prick'd my reines 22. So foolish in my thoughts disrest Am I so like a beast 23. Yet I by Thee am still sustain'd Held up by Thy Right hand 24. Thy counsail here shall me direct Then crown with Thine Elect. 25. Whom have I in the heav'ns but Thee Who can my Saviour be And through the spatious earth I none Desire but Thee alone 26. My drooping heart doth daily faile My flesh corrupt and fraile But Thou the strength'ner of my heart And lasting portion art 27. Who far from Thee revolting fly Shall perish utterly For Thou destroy'st and castest low Such as to Idols bow 28. But it is good with holy feare That I to God draw neare To Thee my hopes entrusted are Who will Thy works declare PSAL. LXXIV Sing this as the Lamentation 1. WHy art Thou absent Lord so long Regardlesse of Thy Servants wrong Or wherefore doth Thy kindled ire Thy sheep and Pastures burne like fire 2 O think upon Thy chosen Lot Nor let Mount Sion be forgot And may the tribe thou did'st redeeme Be ever deare in Thy esteeme 3. Lift up Thy feet bring those to nought Who 'gainst Thy Church have evill wrought 4. Thine adversaries roar and shout They hang in scorne their banners out 5. The carved workes whose art and cost Thy Temples building once did boast 6. Are into pitty'd ruin throw'n And with their hammers broken down 7. Thy Holy Place they turne to flame Defile the dwelling of Thy Name And in their wicked hearts designe Hir glories quite to undermine 8. With generall havock let us rase The Sanctuaries hallow'd place Gods Houses thus in ashes lay'd Are wofull heaps of rubbish made 9. We see no Signe nor Miracle No Prophet have who can foretell Not one hath knowledge to forecast How long these miseries shall last 10. O God! still shall the foe blaspheme And make Thy Name dishonours theme 11. Thy vengefull hand no longer hide But stretch it forth to strike their pride 12. For God is my all pow'rfull King From whom earths help safety spring 13. Thou did'st restraine the rising tide And with Thy strength the Sea divide Thou brak'st th' Aegyptian Dragons head And left'st him on the waters dead 14. Leviathan that sports the flood Thou gavest for Thy peoples food 15. Thou from the rock mad'st fountaines flow And swelling Seas dry land to grow 16. Thine is the day the Suns faire light Thine are the courses of the night 17. The borders which the earth confine Are set and bounded by Thy line The Summers heat and winters cold From Thee their yearly seasons hold 18 Remember Lord Thy House defil'd Thy Name by blasphemies revil'd 19 O give not up Thy Turtles life A spoile to adversaries strife Let not Thy Congregation mourne Reproach'd by Them of Thee forlorne 20. Look on the Covenant and see Earth dark'ned by their crueltie 21. Let not th' opprest returne with shame But let the needy praise Thy Name 22. Arise O God! maintaine Thy cause Thy Temples honour and Thy Lawes Remember their blaspheming noise Thine enemies insulting voice 23. Their insolence who Thee despise Doth still encrease and higher rise PSAL. LXXV 1. TO Thee O God with gratefull heart To Thee we thanks impart How neare and helpfull is Thy Name Thy wond'rous works proclaime 2. When I advanc'd to Judah's throne Shall rule the Nation In justice will I take delight And judge the peoples right 3. The earth with hir inhabitants Through feare dissolves and faints Yet of hir loose declining frame The Pillars I sustain 4. I said unto the foolish men Deale not so madly then And unto those Gods precepts scorne Exalt not you the horne 5. Lift not your selves against His check Nor speak with a stiffe neck 6. Promotion comes not from the east Nor South nor from the West 7. But God as Judge our fortune guides Our lot of life divides He one man lifts unto the Crowne And puts another downe 8. He holds a cup whose wine is red Full mixt and tempered For wicked ones the dreg and lee Wrong out to drink shall be 9. I will in Songs of praise declare The God of Iacobs care 10. The hornes of Pride cut off will I But lift the Just on high PSAL. LXXVI Sing this as the Prayer after the Commandements 1. IN Iudah God is know'n His Name The Israelites for Great proclaime 2. His Tabernacles Salem grace And Sion is His dwelling place 3. There He the Bow and arrowes broke And Battailes to confusion shooke The glittering sword the guarding shield Could not resist nor safety yield 4. Thou of more honour art then they Who rove upon the Hills of prey 5. For They whose pride did us embroile Are now themselves become a spoile A lasting sleep shuts up their eyes And all their strength in weaknes dyes 6. At Thy rebuke the barbed horse And armed Chariots loose their force 7. Thou Lord art fear'd who may withstand The fury of Thy pow'rfull hand 8. From Heaven we Thy Judgments heard The trembling earth was still and fear'd 9. When God the meek and humble saves But gives the proud untimely graves 10. He on their fall his fame doth raise And turnes their malice to His praise 11. Vow to the Lord your God and bring To Him your promis'd offering 12. He Princes spirits can restraine And Kings of earth with terrour chaine PSAL. LXXVII Sing this as the Lamentation 1. I Cry'd to God with accents shrill To God that heares my prayer still 2. When into times of trouble brought I unto Him for succour sought All night my anguish did not cease My soule no comfort found nor ease 3. I think on God amidst