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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A15659	The songs of the Old Testament translated into English measures, preseruing the naturall phrase and genuine sense of the holy text: and with as little circumlocution as in most prose translations. To euery song is added a new and easie tune, and a short prologue also, deliuering the effect and vse thereof, for this profit of vnlearned readers. By George Wither. Cum priuilegio permissu superiorum.	Wither, George, 1588-1667.	1621 (1621)	STC 25923; ESTC S120880	31,876	85

Isra'l through those Countries all In which they far or nigh dispersed be Because of that transgression wherewithall They haue transgressed and offended thee To vs our Kings our Dukes and Fathers doth Disgrace pertaine oh LORD for angring thee Yet mercy LORD our God and pardon both To thee belongs though we rebellious be For as for vs we sore haue disobey'd The Lord our God his voyce and would not heare To keepe his lawes which he before vs laid By those his seruants which his Prophet● were Yea all that of the race of Isra'l be Against thy law extreamely haue misdone And that they might not ●isten vnto thee They from thy voice oh LORD are backward gone Which makes both Curse and Oth on them descend That in the Law of Moses written was The seruant of that God whom we offend And now his speeches he hath brought to passe On vs and on our Iudges he doth bring That plague wherewith he threatned vs and them For vnder heau'n was neuer such a thing As now is acted on Ierusalem As Moses written Law doth beare record Now all this mischiefe is vpon vs brought And yet we prayed not before the LORD That leauing sinne we might his Truth be taught For this respect the LORD in wait hath laid That he inflict on vs this mischiefe might And seeing we his voyce haue disobay'd In all his workes the LORD our God's vpright But now oh LORD our God who from the land Of cruell Aegypt brought thy people hast And by the power of thine almighty hand Atchieu'd a name which to this day doth last Though we haue sinned and committed ill Yet LORD by all that righteousnesse in thee From thy Ierusalem thy holy hill Oh let thy wrath and anger turned be For by those wicked things which we haue don And through our fathers sinnes Ierusalem Yea thine owne people haue the hatred won And the reproach of all that neighbour them Now therefore to thy Seruant's suite encline His prayer heare our God and let thy face Eu'n for the LORDS deare sake vouchsafe to shine Vpon thy now forsaken holy place Thine eares encline thou oh my God and heare Lift vp thine eyes and vs oh looke vpon Vs who forsaken with thy Citty are The Citty where thy name is called on For we vpon our selues presume not thus Before thy presence our request to make For any righteousnesse that is in vs But for thy great and tender Mercies sake LORD heare forgiue oh LORD and weigh the same Oh LORD performe it and no more deferre For thine owne sake my God for by thy name Thy Citty and thy people called are THE Prayer of IONAH Ionah 2. The Argument and Vse AS Ionah fled from the presence of the LORD he was followed by a tempest whose furie would not be allayed vntil the offender was cast into the Sea where God had mercie on him and sent a Fish to preserue him Which in humane reason seemed a more terrible danger then that he was deliuered from But the safetie which at his first entrance hee found in so vnsafe a place made him sensible of Gods fauour and begat in him a firme beliefe that he should be totally deliuered And thereupon being yet in the Fishes belly made this Prayer to praise God for deliuering him in so great an extremity And he did it as speaking of a thing already done the better to shew vs the soundnesse of his faith The things remarkeable are these The place where he prayed the terrible and vnauiodable danger that compassed him the dispaire he was nigh falling into the timely application of Gods mercy the comfort it infused into him the occasions which draw men into these perils the vowe made vpon this deliuerance and lastly the reason of that vowe Now this buriall of Ionas in the fishes belly and his deliuery from thence was a signe of the buriall and resurrection of our blessed Sauiour Mat. 12.40 And therefore we must not thinke he made this Prayer onely in his owne person but in the misticall body of Iesus Christ also For by contemplating the circumstances of his danger and deliuerance and hauing the spirit of prophecie he apprehended the misteries of our Redemption By the ship ready to be sunke through that tempest in which he was cast away he conceiued the wrath of God against the world for sinne and that it would not be appeased without satisfaction By his owne offence he foresaw h●w Christ hauing taken our sinne vpon him should to bring peace vnto the world be deliuered ouer vnto the rage of Pilate and the Iewes By his being receiued into the fishes belly and there preserued aliue he foresaw how Christ should be swallowed vp of the graue and yet remaine vncorrupted And by the fore-sight he had of his owne comming safe to the shore againe he apprehended that ioyful resurrection of our Redeemer whose misticall body the Church lay all that while as it were in the very Jawes of death and hell These things Ionah apprehended through the spirit of prophecie and by the obiects aforesaid composed this Prayer to set forth the mercies of God and to expresse in what a fearefull estate mankinde was vntill Christ was risen againe in victory And therefore J thinke as it will become vs Christians often to sing it in memory thereof so especially vpon that day which we celebrate in memoriall of our Sauiours Resurrection The Song IN my distresse I cry'd to thee oh Lord And thou wert pleased my complaint to heare Out from the bowels of the grau● I roar'● and to my voyce thou didst encline thine eare For I amid the Sea was cast And to the bottome there thou plung'd me hast The flouds about me rowling circles made Thy waues and billowes ouer-flow'd me quite Wherewith alas vnto my selfe I said I am for euer-more depriu'd thy sight Yet once againe aduance shall I Vnto thy holy Temple-ward mine eye Eu'n to my soule the waters clos'd me had Or'e-swallow'd by the deepes I there was pent About my head the weedes a wreath had made Vnto the hils foundation downe I went And so that forth I could not get The earth an euer-lasting barre had set Then thou oh LORD my God oh thou wert he That from corruption didst my life defend For when my soule was like to faint in me Thou didst oh LORD into my thoughts descend My prayer vnto thee I sent And to thy holy Temple vp it went Those who giue trust to vaine and foolish lies Despisers of their owne good safetie be But I will offer vp a sacrifice Of singing praises with my voice to thee And will performe what vow'd I haue For it belongs to thee oh LORD to saue THE Song of HABAKKVK Habak 3. The Argument and Vse BEfore the following Song is vsually this TITLE A Prayer of the PROPHET Habakkuk vpon Sigionoth or as most Translations haue it For the ignorances that is for the comfort and better information of the people