iust are all thy Lavves and lore That I may liue to vnderstand them make me 19. KOPH Thee haue I call'd vpon vvith my vvhole heart Vouchsafe O LORD an ansvver soon to giue me Thy statutes I vvill keep from them nere part verse 146 Yea euen on thee I call vvhen troubles grieue me Preserue me safe and then obserue vvill I Thy precepts lust O saue thou and relieue me The early day preuenting I did cry To thee my hope vpon thy vvord depended My trust vpon thy promise doth rely verse 148 More vigilant then vvatchmen I attended To meditate vpon thy holy vvord To exercise therein I haue intended Thy gracious eare in mercy me afford Reuiue thou me restore my life decayed According to thy custom gracious Lord. verse 150 Hovv near they are vvho dangerous plots haue layed Thou seest and knovvst them giuen to vvickednes And hovv far from thy doctrine they haue strayed Thou Lord art near to help in all distres And on firm truth all thy commands are grounded And thou hast them ordaind in righteousnes verse 152 I knovv thy lavves antiquity vnbounded Of thy Decrees yeares shall be numberles For euermore to last thou hast them founded 20. RESH Vexations of my heart do thou behold Free me for I thy lavv haue not neglected But stedfastly in minde I do it hold verse 154 Plead thou my cause and let me be protected O saue me by thy sacred vvord alone Reuiue thou me and let me be erected Vain is the vvay that vvicked men haue gone From safety far off far from their saluation Because of thy iust Statutes they keep none verse 156 Thy mercies mild vvith thy commiseration Are manifold O Lord and very great Reuiue me by thy Iudgments declaration Vngodly men my foes in vvrathfull heat Are many strong still seeking to confound me Yet from thy vvayes my steps I do not set verse 158 Transgressors I did vievv vvhich did surround me Their sins against thee I vvith grief behold Because thy lavv they keep not vvoe doth vvound me Vieâ— Lord my loue hovv I myself vnfold Vnto thy lavv most vvorthily beloued Reâ—iue me by thy mercies manifold verse 160 Thy vvord is truth originall approued Thy Iudgments iust eternally entold Do all endure for euermore vnmoued 21. SCHIN VVithout a cause though Princes hatred beare Against me vvhom they cruelly pursued Yet still my heart of thy lavv stands in feare verse 162 I vvith more ioy by thy vvord am endevved Then they vvho vvith great spoils enriched be Thy Sayings haue my ioyes much more renevved VVho lying vse most odious are to me Deceit and fraud abhorring I haue hated But dearly loue the lavves ordain'd by thee verse 164 Seau'n times a day thy praise is celebrated For Iudgments thine most righteous and thy grace Thy Name to laud my layes are consecrated VVho loue thy lavv and thy vvord do embrace Are blessed vvith great peace by them enioyed And no affront shall their content deface verse 166 I trust thou vvilt not let me be destroyed Lord I for thy saluation hope and craue Thy Statutes I to do am still employed VVholly to keep thy lavves my self I gaue Them to obserue I haue my self applyed I loue them best by them thou vvilt me saue â—68 All thy Decrees vvhich thou hast testified Thy Precepts and thy Statutes kept I haue For all my vvayes to thee are knovvn and tryed TAV YEeld me such grace that my cryes may ascend Before thy face O Lord let them come neare thee Me by thy Word true vnderstanding send verse 170 O let my prayr approach thine eare O heare me According to thy gracious sauing Word Deliuer me that I may loue and feare thee Yeeld laud my lips shall and to thee afford Due thanks and praise most vvorthily deserued VVhen thou thy lavves to teach me shalt accord verse 172 My tong shall sound thy sayings iust obserued For iustice all is vvhich thou dost command Most vvorthy still in minde to be preserued Yeeld me thy ayd reach me thy helping hand For I haue of thy Precepts made election VVhich I desire to knovv and vnderstand verse 174 Thy grace to gaine O Lord giue me direction For I haue longd thy sauing health to see Thy Lavv delights me vvins my hearts affection Yet let my soul liue that it may praise thee And let thy lavves vvhich neuer haue decayed Be still my ayd and helpfull vnto me verse 176 Though like a lost sheep somtime I haue strayed Thy seruant seek restored let me be For in my heart thy Word hath euer stayed Psalme 120. Prayer Complaint WHen sharp afflictions me oppressed I to the Lord my prayr addressed He heard me vvhen to him I cryed And me vvith timely ayd supplyed verse 2 Novv also Lord my soul deliuer From lying lips of the deceiuer Preserue my life safe from the vvrong And harm of the deceitfull tong verse 3 Deceitfull tong tell me vvhat profit Or vvhat exceeding gain comes of it Hovv canst thou get so great aduantage By this thy soothing smoothing language verse 4 Thy vvords like svvords pierce bone and marrovv As vvhen the strong shoots his sharp arrovv The vvounds of thy inuenom'd tong Like coles of Iuniper burne long verse 5 O vvoe is me vvho am constrained To stay in Mesechs tents detained O painfull long peregrination In cruell Kedars habitation verse 6 My soul vvith them hath irksom byding VVhich hate to loue loue to be chiding Imbracing strife and enmity Abhorring peace and amity verse 7 Them seeking to haue pacified The more their rage is multiplied VVhen I my minde for peace declared Then they themselues for vvar prepared Psalme 121. Comfort VP to the hils I lift mine eyes From vvhence comes help to me verse 2 My help Lord comes from thee VVhose povvr hath made the earth and skyes He hath them surely founded On him my hope is grounded verse 3 He vvill not let thy footing slide For he that doth thee keep Nor slumber vvill nor sleep verse 4 Behold vvho Israel doth guide VVith vvatchfull eye him keepeth He slumbers not nor sleepeth verse 5 The Lord doth keep thee from all harm The Lord at thy right hand Thy shade thy shield doth stand verse 6 And gard thee safe vvith his right arm Nor Sun nor Moon shall smite thee Nor day nor night afright thee verse 7 The Lord vvill keep thy soul from ill VVhen thou comst in or out verse 8 What ere thou goest about Shall by his blessing prosper still And all thou dost indeuer The Lord vvill bles for euer Psalme 122. Consolation WHen I did hear the peoples voyce Say let vs goe vvith one accord Into the Temple of the Lord O hovv my heart it did reioyce verse 2 Our vvilling feet novv vvalk the vvay VVithin thy gates vvhere vve shall stay Ierusalem thou city blessed verse 3 Ierusalem novv built doth seem A city of most high esteeme VVithin it self of peace possessed verse 4 The people thither bend
guide VVhom I alone rely on And he as alvvay neare Vouchsaft my voyce to hear Out of his sacred Sion verse 5 Therfore of peace possest I vvill ly dovvn and rest And take my timely sleeping And vvithout fear likevvise Avvake again and rise For God hath me in keeping verse 6 Should millions strong and stout Besiege me round about It nothing should affray me Their numbers and their force Of charrets and of horse Should not a vvhit dismay me verse 7 Arise O Lord my God And saue me vvith thy rod For thou hast deepely vvounded The cheeks of all my foes That vp against me rose Their very teeth are pounded verse 8 But from thee Lord alone And thy supernall throne Is ay to be expected All ayd and all defence VVhich thou dost free dispence To all thy ovvn elected Psalme iiij Prayer O Lord my God my rights defender Ah hearken to me vvhen I call As thou my liberty didst render verse 2 Deny me not thy pitty tender But hear my earnest prayer vvithall verse 3 Hovv long O sonnes of mortals mighty My glory to disgrace disguise And turn to shame and scandall fight ye Hovv long vvill ye in sinne delight ye In levvd designes and seek for lyes verse 4 Knovv ye vvho me haue disrespected The Lord himself ahoue the rest Him that is godly hath selected And louingly to me affected VVill hear from heau'n vvhat I request verse 5 Tremble therfore and see ye sin not Striue not against his sacred vvill Consider if as yet ye see not VVhen busy toild abroad ye be not But in your chamber sole and still verse 6 Then daily offer to him duly Iust sacrifice his proper right And broken hearted humbled truly Before his presence vvalking nevvly Trust in the Lord his gratious might verse 7 The most part only this inquire VVho is it that vvill shevv vs vvealth But shevv vs Lord I thee desire Thy face vvithout thy frovvns of ire Thy smiling grace thy sauing health verse 8 For only that shall more content me And make me much more to reioyce Then all their store in time of plenty VVhen they haue thousands reapt for tvventy Of corne and vvine and other choyce verse 9 In safety therfore and secured VVill I ly dovvn and soundly sleep For thou O Lord I rest assured Me vvith thy grace hast round immured Me in thy kingdome safe vvilt keep Psalme v. Prayer VNto the vvords of my complaining O Lord incline thy gratious ear Vouchsafe to vnderstand and hear O thou that in the heau'ns art raigning My cause of plaining verse 2 Hear thou and that vvith expedition My crying voyce my God my King For only vnto thee I bring And offer vp vvith all submission This my petition verse 3 Lord in the morn my prayer ascending If it may please thee thou shalt hear My voice vvhen morning doth appear VVill I to thee address attending Thy grace descending verse 4 Thou art a God all Gods excelling VVho art not pleasd vvith vvickednes Nor vvinkest at vngodlines Ill doers haue not any dealing VVith thee nor dvvelling verse 5 The foolish rash the proud dare neuer Thy dreadfull presence come before For thou abhorrest euermore The vvicked all that still perseuer In bad indeuer verse 6 The smooth deceiuer and the lyer That make good euill euill good The murderer the man of blood Thou vvilt in fine confound in fire In thy fierce ire verse 7 But I for mercy vvill implore thee Thy mercyes great and many be In reuerence and feare to thee Tovvard thy sacred house before thee I vvill adore thee verse 8 Guide me my God safe protect me According to thy righteous guise From ambush of my enemies And in thy vvay made plaine direct me Vpright erect me Pause verse 9 For in their mouth no truth remaineth Their heart is double vvickeder Their throte an open sepulcher Their tong by smoothing soothing gaineth And alvvaies faineth verse 10 Lord let them euer quite be quelled Confound them in their ovvne deuice Disperse them for their hainous vice For they against thee haue rebelled And proudly svvelled verse 11 But let all those vvhose expectation Is fixt on thee in thee reioyce And ioy they ay in heart and voyce That haue thy Name in admiration For their saluation verse 12 For Lord the iust thou ay dost tender And them thou couerst vvith thy grace As vvith a shield in euery place Thou free from danger them dost render As their defender Psalme vj. Prayer LOrd in thy furies terror Reproue thou not my error Though I thee high incense Nor in thy dread displeasure Correct me to the measure Of my extreme offence verse 2 Lord haue commiseration On me shevv thy compassion For grief me vveak doth make Heal me O Lord recure me Release from pain procure me For all my bones do ake verse 3 My soul vvithin perplexed Is also greatly vexed In agony grief O Lord my God vvhy stayest thou Alas hovv long delayst thou VVhen vvilt thou send relief verse 4 Return O Lord in fauer Of my soul be the sauer From danger safe me make Though I cannot deserue it Yet saue my life preserue it For thy ovvn mercy sake verse 5 For vvith the dead and buried In darknes deep interred None do record thy Name Amid the fields infernall VVho shall extoll th' Eternall Or magnifie thy Fame Pause verse 6 In vveary toyl and anguish VVith sighs grones I languish The tedious night out-vveares All restles vvithout sleeping My bed I bathe vvith vveeping My couch doth svvim vvith teares verse 7 Through my incessant sorrovv VVhich ay doth pierce me thorough Mine eyes vvax dim and ould My countenance doth vvither It sinks and shrinks together To see my foes so bould verse 8 Avvay ye vvicked vanish You from my sight I banish VVho vvork iniquity Because the Lord hath daigned To hear vvhen I complained And vvaild my misery verse 9 The Lord hath not reiected The prayer I erected But heard it from on high He hath not only heard me But also did regard me And ansvverd graciously verse 10 Let all my foes be vexed And blush vvith shame perplexed Ezceedingly disgrac'd Let them turn backvvard vvounded VVith sudden shame confounded And vtterly defac'd Psalme 7. Prayer IN thee my God my trust is euer Then saue me Lord and me deliuer From all that me pursue vvith hate And from the cruell Potentate verse 2 Lest like a Lyon in his povver He tear my soul and me devovver VVhile succorles I seem to be And ther is none to rescue me verse 3 O Lord my God my hopes foundation If I deserue this imputation If I haue done him vvrong in ought In deed or vvord or but in thought verse 4 If I haue him vvith ill requited VVho vvas at peace vvith me vnited Nay if I haue not done him good VVho vvithout cause hath sought my bloud verse 5 Then let my eager foe pursue me Till he oretake and quite
subdue me Yea let him cast my life avvay And in the dust my honour lay verse 6 Arise O Lord vvith expedition In vvrath to vvorke my foes perdition And vvatch for me both day and night Till I obtain my promis'd right verse 7 So multitudes of people pressing Shall come to thee freely confessing Thee Lord and King and Iudg supreme Then rouse thy self for loue of them verse 8 And thou of all men Iudg supernall Novv iudg thou me my God eternall According to my innocence Sincere and cleer free from offence Pause verse 9 The vvickeds rage to cease constrain thou The righteous iust confirm sustain thou For God most iust the reins doth try All thoughts all hearts he doth discry verse 10 The Lord is my defence assured My shield vvherby I am secured VVho saueth by his povver and might All those that are in heart vpright verse 11 The Lord is iust and iustice giueth To euery one that iustly liueth God threatens them that disobey To vvrath prouoked euery day verse 12 But if hard hearted not relenting He vvil not turn Gods vvrath preuenting Then he his svvord vvill sharper vvher His bovv is bent and ready set verse 13 His instruments of death destroying Prepared are his shafts imploying Against them vvho inflam'd vvith spight In persecuting take delight verse 14 Behold iniquity he vveaued VVith mischief great vvhich he conceiued In trauell painfull he brought forth A lying issue nothing vvorth verse 15 A pit he digged darke and deeply A bloudy caue descending steeply To haue intrapt my harmles foot But he himself is faln intoo'r verse 16 The euill that he hath proiected Vpon himself shall be reflected His cruelty and fell despight On his ovvn head shall surely light verse 17 Therfore vvill I extoll the iustice Of God the Lord in vvhom my trust is Him vvill I praise and magnifie The glorious Name of God most high Psalme 8. Thanksgiuing ETernall God our Lord incomparable Hovv excellent is thy Name admirable Ore all the vvorld thy glory manifold Is far aboue the highest heau'ns extold verse 2 Euen by the mouthes of babes and sucklings tender Thou hast confirmd thy mighty povver to render Thy enemies confounded and by those To stop the mouthes of thy reuengefull foes verse 3 VVhen I behold in sacred contemplation The heau'ns the vvorks of thy high hands creation The Sun the Moon and all the Stars about In their due place so orderly set out verse 4 Lord think I then as in my self amazed O vvhat is man that thou O Lord art pleased To visit him or vvhat is all mankinde That thou vouchsafâ—st to keep them in thy minde Pause verse 5 For thou hast made him but a little vnder Thy Angels bright thy ministers of vvonder Thou hast vvith vvealth and honor girt him round And thou hast him vvith glory richly crovvnd verse 6 Thou hast ordaind him Lord and ruler ouer Thy handy vvorks vvhich all the vvorld doth couer And all therin as to thee seemed meet Thou hast subdevvd beneath his regall feeâ— verse 7 Both Oxen Sheep and euery kinde of cattell VVhich on the hils or on the playns imbattell The sauage beasts vvhich in the forrests breed And vvhich in fields or in the foulds do feed verse 8 The vvinged fovvls through ayrie regions flying Fish in the Seas and riuers multiplying Through vvatry paths vvhat passeth great or small Thou vnto man hast them subiected all verse 9 Eternall God our Lord incomparable Hovv excellent and O hovv admirable Is thy great Name vvith praises most deuout To be extold the spacious vvorld throughout Psalme 9. Thanksgiuing WIth all my heart O Lord most high I vvill extoll and magnifie All thy great vvorks incomparable VVhich vvondrous are and admirable verse 2 In thee O Lord I vvill reioyce VVith chearfull heart and chearfull voyce O thou most high thy Name relating I le sing and praise it celebrating verse 3 Because by thy almighty might Mine enemies are put to flight Dovvn shall they fall vvith fear surrounded And at thy presence all confounded verse 4 For thou hast daignd my friend to stand Thou hast vouchsaft to take in hand My guiltles cause thy Throne ascending As righteous Iudg my cause defending verse 5 Thou hast rebukt the heathen rout The vvicked ruind raced out Their fame their name extinct for euer Repriued or reuiued neuer Pause verse 6 Proud foe vvhers novv our threatned spoil Our cities leueld vvith the soil And are their names vvith them consumed Hast thou preuaild as vvas presumed verse 7 No no the Lord on high doth raign VVhose kingdom euer shall remain His regall throne he hath prepared VVhere iudgment iust shall be declared verse 8 Loe he vvill iudge and iustly too The vvorld and all that vvorldlings doe Yea he vvith equall doome vvill duly All people censure iust and truly verse 9 God vvill the refuge be and ayd Of the opprest and ouerlaid Their refuge and sure consolation Euen in the midst of tribulation verse 10 And they that knovv thy holy Name VVill put their vvhose trust in the same For vvho himself to thee betaketh Thy mercy Lord neuer forsaketh Pause verse 11 Sing thankfull praises to the Lord Who dvvels in Sion and record His high exploits to nations telling His great and glorious acts excelling verse 12 When he of guiltles bloud inquires Remembring them he it requires And neuer doth forget the crying Of the opprest on him relying verse 13 Haue mercy Lord on me distrest Consider hovv I am opprest By those that hate me thou that euer From gates of death dost me deliuer verse 14 That I in Sion may declare Thy praises all past all compare Reioycing vvith intire affection In thy saluation and protection verse 15 The heathen folk into the pit Are faln themselues that digged it Yea their ovvn feet are fast insnared In hidden nets themselues prepared verse 16 And therby hath the Lord bin knovvn For hauing such a iudgment shovvn In that the vvicked are surprised Euen in the snare themselues deuised Pause verse 17 The vvicked all shall suffer vvrack And headlong into hell fall back And all the nations God forgetting Their mindes vpon him neuer setting verse 18 For th' humble hearted poor shall not Be euerlastingly forgot Nor shall the meek in tribulation For euer lose their expectation verse 19 Arise O Lord and let not still The proud preuail and haue their vvill But vnto iudgment bring before thee The Gentiles vvhich do not adore thee verse 20 O Lord vvhose povvr is euery vvhere Strike thou the nations all vvith fear And make them knovv O God immortall They are but men but mould but mortall Psalme x. Of prayer and comfort WHy dost thou Lord vvithdravv from vs thy grace Why standest thou from vs departed far Why hidest thou the fauor of thy face In troublous times of need and grieuous care verse 2 Inflam'd vvith rage and pride the vvicked are To vex the poor but let them