East wind sinke 9 As we have heard what deeds have been done in our fathers coasts Like have we in the Citie seen thy Citie Lord of Hosts The Citie which our God hath chose and cleer'd from hostile hand Will God establish and dispose eternally to stand 10 In silence we O God attend thy faithfulnesse to find And when thy mercy thou wilt send amidst thy Temple mind 11 Thy praise O God as farre extends as doth thy Names command Thy praise of earth fills all the ends and Justice thy right hand 12 Rejoyce Mount Sion most of all be Judahs daughters glad Because thy Judgements made them fall that made her faces sad 13 Goe compasse stately Sion Mount her walls walke round about The number of her Towers account observe her strength throughout 14 Set ye your heart upon her fort view her high places well And to your nephewes make report that they to theirs may tell 15 That this is God our God whose power for ever and beyond Will be our guide and governour and us till death defend PSAL. 49. Audite haec Ad Praestantem filiis Coreh Psalmus HEare O ye people all this lore all in the world that dwell Earth-borne and noble rich and poore together hearken well 2 Of my discourse in every part my mouth shall wisedomes teach The meditation of my heart to understanding reach 3 To heare a Parable propos'd mine eare will I encline Darke mysteries and undisclos'd upon my Harp divine 4 I see no cause why I should dread or day of evill doubt When on my heeles the sins that tread shall compasse me about 5 Of them whose hopes their heaps esteem and of their riches boast His brother no man may redeem nor cleare to God that coast 6 For precious is their soule of price and dearer to release Than whereunto may ransome rise so that must ever cease 7 That he may yet for ever live and not to death submit Nor to the earth his ashes give nor see corruptions pit 8 The wise the foole the brutish sot he sees together die And leave the wealth that they have got on others wings to flie 9 And yet they hold their houses sure their shields unsoil'd with shames Shall so from sire to sonne endure and give their lands their names 10 But man in honour bearing place the night of death arrests His brutish life by sinne made base is silenc't like the beasts 11 This is the foolish way they love unconstant constant end Which their posterity approve and from their mouth commend Selah 12 They in the grave lie pent like sheep where death on them shall feed Who when the morning calls from sleep obey the righteous seed 13 Their image shall the grave bereave and waste from where they dwell But God shall ransome and receive my soule from hand of Hell Selah 14 Though one thou seest of riches seaz'd yet be thou not affraid With glory of his house encreas'd though he thy wants upbraid 15 For nothing with him when he dies conveigh from hence he must His windy-glory from him flies when he descends the dust 16 For while on earth his daies did dwell his soule he seem'd to blesse And to thy selfe when thou dost well of thee will men confesse 17 His dwelling with his fathers all shall be the house of Night This brood of darknesse never shall behold eternall Light 18 Man in this honour bearing place of understanding void Like brutish in his life and base is like the beasts destroi'd PSAL. 50. Deus Deorum Psalmus Asaph THe God of Gods the Lord hath spoke and earth to heare did call From where the Eastern Sun-beames smoake to where the Westerne fall 2 From Sion Beauties perfect prize a Beauty more divine That Sions beauties beautifies did God in brightnesse shine 3 Our God shall come and silence cease a fire before him eate A vehement tempest shall encrease and round about him beat 4 Heaven from above earth from below his dreadfull voice will call What Judgements weight that they may know shall on his people fall 5 My Saints to mee assemble now whose pledges I have tooke My Covenant that by solemne vow with sacrifice have strooke 6 His righteousnesse heavens shall declare where his decrees are writ Where kept his Courts of Justice are where God the Judge doth sit 7 Heare O my people what I say and I will testifie Against thee Israel this day God even thy God am I. 8 For not thy sacrifices want in thee will I reprove Before mee thy burnt-offrings scant mine anger never move 9 I take no Bullocke from thy stall nor Buck-goat from thy fold 10 Mine are the Beasts that forrests all or thousand mountaines hold 11 I know all Fowles on every hill the fields wild Beasts with mee 12 If hungry mine the worlds whole fill I take and tell not thee 13 Eate I Bulls flesh or drinke the bloud of rancid Goates will I 14 Sacrifice praise thy vowes make good to God to God Most-Hie 15 And in thy trouble call on me that day upon me crie And thy delivereâ— will I be whom thou shalt glorifie 16 But God to man ungodly saith My Law why dost thou preach My Covenant failing in thy faith affirming in thy speech 17 Where thou to be reform'd dost hate of all thy faults fore-past And of my words the weight abate and backe behind thee cast 18 Saw'st thou a Thieâ—e it was thy care with him to hold consent And with Adulterers for thy share thy feet fore-runners went 19 Thy mouth thou turn'st to evill talke thy evill thoughts to joyne Thy tongue the hammer that doth walke deceitfull slips to coine 20 Thou sitt'st and what was never done against thy brother speak'st And slandring so thy mothers sonne thine in-bred malice wreak'st 21 I held my peace when thou hadst done thy wicked thought suppos'd Me like thy selfe another one as wickedly dispos'd 22 But I shall thee reprove eftsoone and set before thine eâ—es The evill deeds that thou hast done the thoughts thou didst devise 23 Forgetfull ye and â—low of sense of God unmindfull minds Consider lest I rend you hence where guilt no rescue finds 24 He honours me that praises paies for sacrifices due And I to him that rights his waies will Gods salvation shew PSAL. 51. Miserere mei Deus Ad Praestantem Psalmus David cùm venit ad eum Nathan Propheta postquam ingressus est ad Bathsabagh THy mercy great O God to me as graciously expresse As thy compassions many be blot out my trespasses 2 Much deeper my defections lie my soulnesse farther in Wash throughly mine iniquitie and cleanse me from my sin 3 For of my crimes I know the cries acknowledge every one Continually before me lies the sinne that I have done 4 To thee thee only sinn'd have I done evill in thine eies Thy Word of truth to justifie how cleere thy judgement tries 5 Behold my shape when I receiv'd did wickednesse begin My mother
thee that rebell 11 So shall they aye that trust in thee shout all with joyfull voice And thy Names-lovers they that be for covering them rejoyce 12 For thou O Lord thy blessing downe upon the Just shalt yeeld And with thy gracious favour crowne his head as with a shield PSAL. 6. Domine ne in furore Ad Praestantem in Neghinoth super Octavam Psalmus David MY faults let no reproofe of thine Lord in thy wrath repeat Nor chastise any crime of mine in thy displeasures heat 2 Have mercy Lord for I am weake Lord heale me else in vaine My boneâ— with horrour shook shall speake the language of my paine 3 My soule is also troubled sore and though my pangs be strong My soule-sicke sorrow paines me more but Thou O Lord how long 4 Returne O Lord and at thy cost my soules deliverance cleere O save my life that am but lost but for thy mercie meere 5 For none in death remembrance have upon thy Name to dwell And who so thankfull in the grave as of thy praise to tell 6 The languor that my groanes have bred my melting spirits out-weares To swimme all night I make my bed and drowne my couch in teares 7 Mine eye gnawne out with anguish dies my beautie to behold Because of all mine enemies growne wanne and waxen old 8 From mee ye wicked doers all with all your deeds forbeare The Lord hath heard my voices call my teares have touch't his eare 9 The Lord hath heard how I complain'd and with my praier is pleas'd My suit the Lord hath entertain'd my painfull suffrings eas'd 10 Shame and confusion out of hand on all my haters light And on their backes entrench the brand of their reproachfull flight PSAL. 7. Domine Dem. Shiggajon David qui cecinit Domino super verba Chus filii Iemini MY confidence doe I repose O Lord my God in thee From all my persecuting foes save and deliver mee 2 Lest like a Lion he devoure and no Redeemer neere To rescue me that hath the power my soule in pieces teare 3 O Lord my God if I have done this crime that they object Or wickednesse if any one my guilty palmes infect 4 If evill I to him have paid that was with mee at peace Yea him that causlesse me betrai'd I freely did release 5 Let then my foe pursue and take my soule to sate his lust Tread downe my life on earth and make my glorie dwell in dust Selah 6 Rise up Lord in thy wrath up rise for my distressors rage Command thy judgement to surprize or their proud heat asswage 7 So shall the peoples many a one in flockes about thee flie For their sakes to thy powerfull Throne returne thy selfe on hie 8 The Lord shall judge the peoples right judge Lord of my desert How just my hands are in thy sight and how sincere my heart 9 Of wicked men the malice bound the just establisht keep For thou of hearts and reines dost sound just God the deepest deep 10 My shield on God their Saviour that are in heart upright Just Judge is God Gods angry power threats every day to light 11 For him that turnes not to repent whom no remorse will bring His sword he whets his bow stands bent his arrowes on the string 12 And them for him he hath prepar'd dire instruments of death Among the persecutors shar'd to stop their fierie breath 13 Behold his wombe with mischiefe swells with sorrow breeds he sin Now brought to bed of nothing else but of a lie lies-in 14 He digg'd a pit with painfull care to delve it deep withall Where others earning to ensnare himselfe into did fall 15 His mischiefe on his head shall light that mischiefe first did frame On his owne pate shall spend his spight the forge from whence it came 16 Confesse unto the Lord will I so just in all his waies And of the Lord that is Most-Hie the Name my song shall praise PSAL. 8. Domine Dominus Ad Praestantem super Gittith Psalmus David O Lord our Lord the earth about how glorious is thy Name Which hast thy Majestie given out above the Heavens high frame 2 Strength from the mouth of babes to goe from sucklings tender age Thou foundedst to confound the foe and still th' avengers rage 3 As oft as on thy Heav'ns I looke worke of thy fingers rote The Moon the Starres Heav'ns Musick-book by thee in Volumes wrote 4 What is fraile man O say I now remembred thus by thee Or what is Adams sonne that thou his Visitor shouldst be 5 A little hast thou rank't beneath the Angels Crest his Crowne His head empal'd within a wreathe of glorie and renowne 6 A Soveraigne hast thou set him meet thy handy-workes to sway And all things underneath his feet made usefull to obey 7 Sheep Oxen all the Beasts that field or desert-soile containe Fowle Fish that aire or salt-sea yeeld whose pathes are in the Maine 8 O Lord our Lord how excellent throughout this earthly frame How boundlesse is the beames extent of thy resplendent Name PSAL. 9. Confitâ—bor tibi â—d Praestantem super Muth-Labben Psal. David TO render thankes to thee O Lord my heart is wholly bent Of all thy marvells to record my tongue the instrument 2 I will be glad I will rejoyce in thee with melodie And to thy Name sing Numbers choice O thou that art Most-Hie 3 When backward fled mine enemies were hard pursu'd in chace They stumbled never more to rise but perish from thy face 4 For thou my judgements doome hast done or else my right had fail'd Thou satest Judge upon the Throne where Justice hath prevail'd 5 The Heathen routs hast thou reprov'd the wicked one destroi'd From men among their name remov'd for evermore maid void 6 My foe see desolations done the Cities raz'd to ground With them is their memoriall gone and in their dust lies drown'd 7 But Soveraigne on his Throne declar'd the Lord shall ever sit Which for himselfe he hath prepar'd and made for judgement fit 8 And he with justice will proceed to judge the world so wide And of his peoples every deed with righteous doome decide 9 The Lord to him that is opprest will be a refuge high A refuge high the poore distrest when times of trouble trie 10 And they that know thy Name alone their trust on thee will ground For thou art Lord forsaking none of them that seeke thee found 11 Sing to the Lord on Sion Mount whose pleasure is to dwell With praise his deeds of high account among the peoples tell 12 For when the Quest of his Assise for blouds inquirie makes â—nmindfull he the meeke that cries forgets not nor forsakes 13 My suffrings Lord in mercie see through mine oppressors hates â—f death O thou the onely He that lifts me from the gates 14 That all thy praises I may spread in Sions daughters ports â—nd in thy saving health be glad in all my songs reports 15 The
confusion set Beneath the vaile that on mee lies my face and shame are met 16 The loud reproachers voice I heare the proud blasphemer brooke To see thy face my foe I feare and for th' Avenger looke 17 All this upon us have we felt yet have not thee forgot Nor falsly with thy Covenant dealt therein we fail'd thee not 18 Our heart is backward turn'd to none revolt is not our fault Our steps out of thy pathes not gone nor in thy pathes did halt 19 In dens where Dragons draw their breath though thou hast crush't us neere And covered with the shade of death our heads thou heldst so deare 20 If of our God at any time the Name we have forgot Or of a stranger god the crime our hands up-lifted blot 21 Where-ever selfe this sinne bestowes shall God not search it out For he the very secrets knowes in heart un-brought about 22 For thy sake all day are we kill'd whom else no crime could staine On this account our bloud is spill'd like sheep in shambles slaine 23 Awake why sleep'st thou all this space for ever leave us not 24 Rise Lord why hidest thou thy face our wants our woes forgot 25 Our soule is humbled to the dust our belly glew'd to ground Rise help redeem us of whose trust thy mercy is the bound PSAL. 45. Eructavit cor meum Ad Praestantem super Shoshannim filiis Corâ—h Canticum Amorum MIne heart is working out a piece of peerlesse skill Mine argument the King my tongue a speedy writers quill 2 Than Adams sonnes more faire grace from thy lips doth flow His blessings therefore God on thee for ever did bestow 3 Gird on thy thigh thy sword great Champion as thou art 4 With glory arm'd and high renowne faire prosper thy desert 5 Ride on the word of Truth and Meeknesse reigne thy Steeds With Justice manag'd thy right hand shall teach thee dreadfull deeds 6 Whole Nations under thee thine arrowes sharp shall bring Shall of thy foes subdue the heads and pierce the hearts O King 7 Thy Throne O God out-lasts the longest ages light Thy Kingdomes Scepter as the hand that holds the Scepter right 8 Just as thy hate thy love with Justice loves to goe Thy hate against injustice just holds wickednesse thy foe Thee therefore God thy God so to himselfe endeers As to annoint thee with the oile of joy above thy Peers 9 In robes perfum'd with teares of Myrrhe and Aloë clad With Cassia from the Ivory roofes more than thy Makers glad 10 Kings daughters in thy Traine of thee their honour hold Upon thy right hand sits the Queen attir'd in Ophir gold 11 O daughter heare and see hereto encline thine eare Thy people and thy fathers house forget that thine they were 12 So covet shall the King thy beauty his desire He is thy Lord him serve observe adore with heart entire 13 Tyres daughter with a gift shall there beseech thy face The wealthy Sydons peopled shores with presents sue for grace 14 The daughter of the King all-glorious is within Her robes of gold her fairer face her fairest soules faire Inne 15 So comes she to the King in vesture needle-wrought With Virgin-Ladies of her traine to thee shall she be brought 16 This Royall Troup along shall joy and gladnesse bring And enter shall they in this pomp the Palace of the King 17 Sonnes in thy fathers stead of thee shall he beget Sonnes whom thou maist in all the earth for soveraigne Princes set 18 Thy Name to age and age shall my remembrance sing The people therefore on thy praise shall ever dwell O King PSAL. 46. Deus noster refugium Ad Praestantem siliis Choreh super Gnalamoth Cantiâ—um ON God our stay and strength we ground that refuge else have none Aboundantly in trouble found when other helps are gone 2 Though earth should change we would not feare although the mountaines steep Were rent and hurri'd here and there dis-bowell'd in the deep 3 Should waves of waters roare and swell or should the mountaines shake When seas against the rockes rebell and billowes batt'rie make Selah 4 There is a river streaming by makes glad Gods Citie walls The holy Torrent O most-Hie that from thy Mansion falls 5 Amidst her God this care hath tooke remov'd she shall not be Which forth before the morning looke will God her keeper see 6 The Heath'ns enrag'd these tumults felt mov'd Kingdomes made a noise He thundred and the earth did melt when God gave forth his voice 7 The Lord of Hosts is on our side our hosts to fortifie The God of Jacob shall abide for us a refuge hie Selah 8 O come but hither and behold what workes the Lord hath wrought What desolations late and old his hand on earth hath brought 9 Unto the earths extremest ends he maketh warre expire The bow he breakes the speare he rends the chariots burnes with fire 10 That I am God surcease and know among the Heath'ns will I Exalted be by high and low and in the earth made hie 11 The Lord of Hosts is on our side our hosts to fortifie The God of Jacob shall abide for us a refuge hie PSAL. 47. Omnes Gentes plaudite Ad Praestantem filiis Choreh Psalmus YE people all the Quire to fill come clap your hands on hie With joyfull voice to God shout shrill triumphant melodie 2 For dreadfull is the Lord most-High through earth a mighty King 3 That Tribes and Nations farre and nigh beneath our feet did bring 4 An heritage for us he chose right not to be remov'd The excellency to dispose of Jacob his belov'd 5 In triumph with applauding noise is God himselfe gone by The Lord is with the Trumpets voice ascended up on hie 6 Sing make the praise of God your mirth sing praises to our King 7 For God is King of all the earth a Psalme instructive sing 8 Above the Heath'ns God raignes alone co-equall none admits Above the Heav'ns upon his Throne of Holinesse he sits 9 The Nations Princes feed among the God of Abrahams flocke For earths great shields to God belong their high-exalted Rocke PSAL. 48. Magnus Dominus Canticum Psalmi filiorum Coreh GReat is the Lord prais'd all abroad but chiefly to be prais'd Where in the Citie of our God his holy Mount is rais'd 2 Mount Sion beauteous is in site besides the Northern lands Of all the earth the glad delight the great Kings Citie stands 3 God in her Palaces is knowne for her a refuge hie 4 For Kings behold oppugnants grow'n are gone together by 5 This wondrous sight strook suddenly such terrour in their mind No heart to stay scarce feet to flie could feare confounded find 6 Upon them feare strong hold did build and paine the racke of feare 7 As when a woman bigge with childe her burthen throwes to beare 8 So tempest-beaten at their leake the ships salt water drinke The ships of Tarshish dost thou breake and with an
6 In field and furrow then the land shall yeeld her fruits increase And God our God with gracious hand to blesse us shall not cease 7 His blessing God on us shall send all Nations far and neere The earth throughout from end to end of him shall stand in feare PSAL. 68. Exurgat Deus Ad Praestantem Davidis Psalmus Cantici LEt God arise and disarai'd his scattred foes give place And let his haters all dismai'd flie from before his face 2 Driven as the smoake before the wind as waxe at fire doth melt So perish let the wicked kind Gods awefull presence felt 3 But let the Just in him rejoyce before Gods face expresse Their joy of heart with gladsome voice shout out their joyes excesse 4 Sing sing to God his Name on hye that rides through Deserts raise Make JAH'S Name way and joyfully before his face sing praise 5 The Father of the fatherlesse Judge of the widowes crie Is God whose Throne of Holinesse whose Mansion is on hie 6 God into housholds doth dispose the solitarie Cell The prisoners lock't in chaines sets loose in drought lets Rebells dwell 7 O God when through the Desert-sands thou went'st before thy flockes And taught'st their clay-worne feet and hands to climbe Arabian rockes Selah 8 Earth shooke Heav'ns swet Mount Sinai fell and shrunke to give God place When God the God of Israel shew'd forth his face His face 9 Thou shedd'st O God a gracious Raine and thine Inheritance Long languishing in thirsty paine thy deawes did re-advance 10 Therein the Congregation dwelt this coast thy creatures shar'd Thus hath O God thy goodnesse dealt thus for the poore prepar'd 11 The Lord gave word by women spread through that great Army they Sung Kings with Armies fled they fled the Hoâ—â—e-Dove shar'd the prey 12 Your beauty though the pots have spilt where sooty ye have line With silver wings neckes parcell-gilt your Dove-like plumes shall shine 13 When God Almighty gave the blow where Kings confounded fell Our Sion shady-Tsalmons snow for whitenesse did excell 14 Gods Mountaine as Mount Basan stands Mount Basan fertile hie Whose crest so many crests commands to Sion comes not nie 15 Insulting Hills so high so great this Mountaine God loves well The Lord desires to make his seat for ever here to dwell 16 Myriads of Angels Mighty Names Gods Chariots Millions fill In them the Lord as Sinai's flames on Sions holy Hill 17 Thou art ascended up on hie above the fiery heaven Hast captive led captivitie and gifts in man hast given With them the more ingratefull they that faithlesse did rebell And but compell'd would not obey that thou Lord God mightst dwell 18 The Lord be blest throughout our land whose boundlesse mynes of wealth With bounty daily load our hand the God our saving health Selah 19 God our salvations is become our God that gives us breath Eternall is the Lord to whom the issues are of death 20 Sure God will smite his haters heads and wound the hairie skull Of him that life ungodly leads and sinne on sinne doth pull 21 The Lord said I will bring againe from Basans slaughtred King Thee from the gulfes amid the Maine againe my people bring 22 Deep in the bloud of Tyrants shed thy trampling foot to staine And of thy dogs the tongue die red where all thy foes lie slaine 23 What triumphs thee O God did bring they saw it face to face Thy goings O my God my King within thy holy place 24 Before went singers afte they on Instruments that plai'd Among them Damsels held their way that hand on Timbrell laid 25 In thine assembly let not thankes from God the Lord depart O Fountaine clos'd in Israels bankes from fountaine of thy heart 26 There little Benjamin set hie with Judahs Royall race Of Zebulun and Nephthali the Princes crown'd the place 27 Strength from his strength forth-issuing thy Gods command hath brought Establish thou O God the thing that thou for us hast wrought 28 And for Jerusalems deare sake and for thy Temple there To thee shall Kings their homage make and humbly presents beare 29 Rebuke the wild beasts of the reed the Bulls incursions barre Whose calves on silver fragments feed disperse the friends of warre 30 Sultans shall from Canôpus come Cush from Cassumo's Sunne To God on glad Ambassage home with hands out-stretch't shall runne 31 To God on earth ye Kingdomes nie to God like praises bring In Psalmes sing to the Lord Most-Hie your highest praises sing Selah 32 To him that on the Heavens doth ride the Heav'ns that were of old Loe what he is his voice hath tri'd a voice of strength hath told 33 To God give strength that doth excell from whom all strengths arise Whose glory over Israel whose strength is in the skies 34 How dreadfull is O God thy sight thy Sanctuaries tell Blesse God that gives his people might the God of Israel PSAL. 69. Salvum me fac Ad Praestantem super Sosannim Davidis SAve me O God the waters rise so fast the flouds come on That even unto my soules surprize the swallowing gulfe is gone 2 Downe in the mud I sinke so low to stand I find no ground So high the waves above me slow so deep the surge to sound 3 My weary spirit is spent with cries my throat with scorching strait My sight attentive failes mine eies while for my God I wait 4 My head hath haters moe than haires whom wrong upon me throwes And power that in my right impaires in mine oppressors growes 5 I paid them that I never tooke what follies are in mee What faults when thou art pleas'd to looke are knowne O God to thee 6 Let not Lord God of Hosts my blame abash thy servants care O God of Israel in my shame let none that seeke thee share 7 For thy sake have I borne reproach in me this blot thou hast No covering else could shame encroach upon my face to cast 8 My brethren no such brother know no fremme befriended lesse My mothers children none such owe none more unwelcome guest 9 Out-eaten with thy Houses zeale mine earning heart is rent And their reproaches on me steale that at thy face were bent 10 Mine eyes to weep my soule to fast was my reproach and shame 11 And sackcloth on my shoulders cast their jesting-stocke became 12 Within the gate did they that sit against me set their tongue Their tipling-talke my troubles fit I was the Drunkards song 13 But Lord a gracious time assigne to answer me with ruth Thy mercies beames O God let shine and thy salvations truth 14 Deliver me out of the mire my feet from sinking keep Redeem me from my haters ire and from these waters deep 15 Let not the gulfie-mountaines tombe her crest above me put Let not the pits insatiate wombe her mouth upon me shut 16 Lord answer me for thou art kind and gracious evermore O turne thy face that I may find thy tender
heaps divided throwne Thy pathes through many waters guide thy footsteps are not knowne 20 Thou leadst thy people through the Land as Shepheard leads his sheep By Moses and by Aarons hand thy flocke ordain'd to keep PSAL. 78. Attendite Popule Admonitio Asaphi MY Law that I shall give in charge O ye my people heare To what my lips shall speake at large incline your heedfull eare 2 A Parable my mouth shall shew darke mysteries of old 3 What we have heard and knowne renew as have our fathers told 4 Which of the Ages sons un-borne we will conceale from none What Crownes of praise the Lord hath worne what powerfull wonders done 5 A Covenant he with Jacob strooke gave Israel a Law Wherein strait charge our fathers tooke to hold their sons in awe 6 That their Posteritie might know and learne by them alive From seed to seed rise up and sowe from sonne to sonne derive 7 On God their hopes that they might set Gods acts charactred deep Within their breast might not forget and his Commandments keep 8 Not as their fathers disobey'd a race that did rebell A race from God whose heart un-stai'd whose spirit unfaithfull fell 9 Such as the sons of Ephraim were that arm'd and bearing bow Flung downe their armes and fled for feare before the signall-blow 10 Of God the Covenant kept they not his Precepts pathes eschew'd 11 What deeds he did for them forgot what wondrous workes he shew'd 12 What wonders in their fathers sight sad proofe can Egypt yeeld Whereto though Misraim all had right most right had Zoan field 13 The sea for them did he divide and made them passage all He heap't the waters side by side to stand as wall by wall 14 A cloud all day their course to keep all night a light of fire 15 From Desert-rockes as from the Deep gave drinke at their desire 16 Swift streames out of the Rocke he brought that forth like rivers flie 17 Their sinne on sinne in Desert wrought provok't yet God Most-Hie 18 And tempting God with grudging hearts their soule requiring meat 19 Shall God said they in Desert parts on tables set to eate 20 Behold he smote the stony Rocke whence flow'd those streames afresh But can he for his peopled flocke find bread or furnish flesh 21 This heard the Lord but heard with wrath the fire that Jacob blew For this ingratefull breach of troth on faithlesse Israel slew 22 For they to God no faith had given nor his salvation trust 23 Though clouds enjoyn'd doors of Heaven lay open to their lust 24 He Manna downe on them did raine their hunger to suffice And gave them of that Heavenly graine from Garners of the skies 25 That man the Mighties Bread might eate it was his Makers will Who sent them this Celestiall meate of Angels food their fill 26 He from Heavens Nabathean mouth his East wind made to blow His power brought from Sabean South a softer gale to glow 27 He rain'd downe flesh the Desert dust to number is not more And feathred-fowle to fill their lust as sand on sea-driv'n shore 28 He made it fall his Camp throughout so bigge the cloud did swell His habitations round about the feathred-tempest fell 29 So they did eate and had their fill their lust so highly priz'd Had what they would yet not their will were cloi'd but not suffic'd 30 While yet the meat was in their mouth Gods wrath upon them came And slew the fat of all their youth the hopes of Israels name 31 This done yet sinn'd they more and more the more their God to grieve His wonders slighting as before nor would they yet beleeve 32 He therefore did consume their daies in vanitie their yeeres Not close with Ages kind decaies but crosse with hasty feares 33 On them when slaughters hand he brought then home to him retir'd Then sought him early then him sought then after God enquir'd 34 That God was then their Rocke of strength they could remember well And that the Highest God at length was their Redeemer tell 35 Yet did their mouth but faigne the while this was but flatâ—'ries gloze Their tongue fram'd this alluring stile these lies with him to close 36 Their heart with him was wrong within his Covenants faith forgot His mercy covered yet their sin and them corrupted not 37 How often his compassions wing could wind his wrath aside And on their heads forbeare to bring his whole displeasures tide 38 Remembring that they were but flesh a vapour whift away Whose flower may never spring refresh but once and soon decay 39 How often did they him provoke the Wildernesse can speake How often his displeasures stroke the Deserts saw him breake 40 Yet turning backe to sinne they fell and tempting God againe The Holy-One of Israel their limits would containe 41 Nor minded they his Mighty hand nor their Redemption-day When he them freed from Pharaoh's Land from bondage sent away 42 What strange designes in Egypt done what wonders Zoan-plaines All Ages wonder equall none and Memphis yet complaines 43 He turn'd their rivers into bloud that thirst it selfe did shrinke In plenty poore of Nilus floud when Egypt could not drinke 44 Devouring flies promiscuous swarmes to eate them up he sent And fenny frogs importune charmes corrupting where they went 45 He let the Caterpiller eate the fruit of all their soile And gave their labours hopefull sweat to be the Locusts spoile 46 Their Vines with haile-stones he destroi'd their Sycamores with frost 47 With haile their heards their flocks annoi'd in flames of lightning lost 48 His indignations fi'rie stripes his fury on them spent And guilty-soules tormenting gripes by evill Angels sent 49 He spared not their soule from death to weigh his angers way Made man and beast give up their breath the Pestilences prey 50 The first of all in Egypt borne unequall death prevents The Principall of strength the Horne where Cham had pitch't his Tents 51 But sorth like sheep from tempest fled he made his people passe And like a flocke in Deserts led as in deep pasture grasse 52 He led them safe and free from feare their walkes were through the waves But drown'd their foes that here and there had made the sea their graves 53 And them he to his Rocke of rest his holy Border brought This Mountaine lov'd above the best and with his right hand bought 54 Before them out the Heath'ns he cast and shar'd their lot by line Where Anak raign'd in Ages past the shields of Jacob shine 55 Ingratefull they their God Most-Hie yet tempt afresh provoke His Testimonies naught set by with them can beare no stroke 56 They turne their backes disloyall grow and flie their fathers flight So starts aside the warping bow the Archer aiming right 57 And now to grate his angry gall Hill-Altars Idoll-Groves Grav'n-Imagery whereto they fall his jealous fury moves 58 This hearing God his wrath grew hot so foule revolt to heare
none be nor worship shalt thou spend To any other God but me thine humbled knee to bend 10 I that from Egypt up thee brought the Lord thy God am still Whom land nor sea can fill thy throat wide open I shall fill 11 But this my people would not heare my voice could not attone Of me for favour nor for feare my Israel would none 12 On this revolt and breach of trust did I from him depart And sent them to pursue their lust the counsels of their heart 13 O had their eare my people bent in their declining daies Had Israel his wandrings spent in walking in my waies 14 Their foes I should have soon put downe that now against them stand On their distressors heads have throwne my wraths directed hand 15 The haters of the Lord with lies confounded had been found But of their favour in his eies had boundlesse been the bound 16 With fat of wheat would I have fed his hunger highly priz'd And from the Rocke with honey shed would I have thee suffic'd PSAL. 82. Deus stetit in Synagoga Psalmus Asaphi WIth Princes peoples heads the head of Princes God doth stand Great Judge amidst the gods to plead with Judges of the land 2 How long will ye Judge evill good in wrongs no measure kept Of wicked heads preferre the hood the faces well accept 3 The weake and fatherlesse befriend that Justice judge them right The needy and distrest defend from over-bearing might 4 The weakling and the poore discharge that they may live un-harm'd Them from the powerfull hand enlarge which wickednesse hath arm'd 5 They know not neither understand their walkes in darknesse end Move all foundations of the Land it moves them not to mend 6 That ye are Gods so said have I sons of the Highest all 7 Yet sure ye Gods like men shall die and one with Princes fall 8 Great Judge on earth of Kingdomes King thy selfe O God advance For all the Nations shalt thou bring to thine Inheritance PSAL. 83. Deus quis Canticum Psalmi Asaph CEase nor as deafe O God so long so long hold not thy peace In silence still keep not thy tongue O God thy ceasing cease 2 For loe thy foes a tumult make rheir troupes against us lead And they that hate thee for our sake have lifted up their head 3 Against thy people they discourse in consultations Contriving fraud with open force against thy secret ones 4 Come Let us cut them off they said that Nation never more Nor name of Israel decal'd remembring Age restore 5 For they have cast with one consent and strooke a league in heart Their powerfull armes against thee bent against us to convert 6 The Tents of Edom Ismaelites with Moabs mis-borne breed The Hagarens the Gebalites and peopled Ammons seed 7 With them doth Amalek conspire with them Pelesheth runs Ashur with them that dwell at Tyre arme Lots rebellious sons Selah 8 Such end doe thou upon them bring as Madian Princes tooke Like Sisara like Jabin King that fell at Kishon brooke 9 Which perished on Endor plaine where monuments of shame In dust and bloud their bodies slaine as dung on earth became 10 Let Oreb and let Zeeb fore-tell theirs and their Princes fall As Zebach and Zalmunnah fell so fall their Princes all 11 Which said Our Houses to advance Gods Houses let us take And heires of his Inheritance our heires succeeding make 12 Make like a wheele my God the race of their outragious lives Or as the winds distemp'red face the withered stubble drives 13 As fire that burneth up the wood and bares the thickest hold Or as the flame devoures for food the Mountaines sulphur-mold 14 So with thy tempests wrath dismai'd pursue them to the death And make them with thy storme afraid to draw their guilty breath 15 Their brazen faces brands of shame their soules of sorrow beare That they O Lord may seeke thy Name if not for love for feare 16 Confusion sudden evermore and trouble them torment And give their sinfull lives before a shamefull deaths event 17 That they may know that thou alone whose name is ETERNALL On earth thy foot-stoole Heaven thy Throne Most-Hie art over all PSAL. 84. Quà m dilecta Ad Praestantem super Gittith Filiorum Choreh Psalmus HOw amiable Lord of Hosts thy dwelling places are How farre above all other coasts thy Tents exceed compare 2 Lord of thy Courts to joy the sight my longing soule suspires My flesh my heart above delight the living God desires 3 The Sparrow finds a roome to rest from reach of common wrong The Swallow builds a curious nest where she may couch her young 4 They Lord of Hosts within thy roofe even to thine Altars home My King my God without reproofe O me excluded come 5 With them what blessings dwellers are that in thy dwellings dwell A house for thee their hearts prepare thy praises shall they tell Selah 6 They through the vale of Baca goe where teares find comforts spring And showers to quench the sighes of woe in cisterns blessings bring 7 So marching on from strength to strength them shall their vigour beare Till to the God of Gods at length in Sion they appeare 8 Lord God of Hosts from Heaven thy seat my supplication heare To what my praiers of thee entreat O Jacobs God give â—are 9 See who it is that sues for grace see whom thou hast forsooke O God our shield upon the face of thine annointed looke 10 For in thy Courts the sweet content that one day spent commends Is better than a thousand spent that elsewhere any spends More in thine House love I their roome that at thy threshold sit Than in their Tents my God to come that wickednesse commit 11 For God the Lord our Sun and Shield will grace and glory give And no good thing withhold to yeeld to them that perfect live 12 O Lord of Hosts thy Arme of Power that Armies powers doth bend Shall on the man thy blessings powre whose hopes on thee depend PSAL. 85. Benedixisli Domine Ad Praestantem filiis Choreb Psalmus NOw art thou gracious Lord become unto thy chosen Land Thou hast return'd thy Jacob home redeem'd from captive hand 2 Thy peoples faults hast thou forgiven and covered all their sin Thy furious wrath away hast driven and call'd thine anger in 3 O God of our salvation see our former cares encrease Turne thou to us turne us to thee thine indignation cease 4 For ever wilt thou be displeas'd with us and never end Wilt thou thine anger un-appeas'd to Age and Age extend 5 Wilt thou not once returne againe and us to life restore That we thy peoples poore remaine may joy in thee therefore 6 Severely Lord as thou hast dealt to us thy mercy shew Thy heavie hand as we have felt thy saving health bestow 7 To heare what God the Lord will speake with heed will I attend Whose promise he will never breake but with performance end
shine 9 Thou rul'st the swelling of the Seas proud billowes of the Maine Their waves high-rising to appease and still their stormes againe 10 The Pharian Rahab didst thou smite as one that wounded lies Thou scatt'redst with thine arme of might thy mighty enemies 11 Thine are the Heav'ns the earth is thine the world thy Word did found And all within the vast Machine the plenty of this Round 12 Thee North and South Creatour call to sing thy Name they run From Westerne Tabors shady fall from Chermons rising Sun 13 Thou hast a Mighty Armes command extended farre and nie Of strength resistlesse is thy hand and thy right hand is hie 14 With Justice Judgement Bases stand supporters of thy Throne And Truth with Mercy hand in hand before thy face are gone 15 O people blest that know aright the Trumpets joyfull sound Still walking in thy faces light shall they O Lord be found 16 For in thy Name shall they delight all day remembring thee And in thy Justice made upright shall they exalted be 17 The glory of their strength thou art to us thy favour borne Shall be the strengthner of our heart up-lifter of our Horne 18 Suffice it that the Lord alone in our defence we bring Our shield is of the Holy One of Israel our King 19 In Vision to thy Holy One then spake thy Spirit and said My help have I to hold the Throne on one made Mighty laid 20 One of the people rais'd to lead my flocke did I appoint My servant David and his head my holy oile annoint 21 With whom my hand shall be so strong that strengthned with my arme Him nor exacting foe shall wrong nor sonne of evill harme 22 And his distressors from his face with strokes will I beat downe And give my plague a lighting place upon his haters crowne 23 My faithfulnesse shall be the same with him my mercy rest His Horne shall flourish in my Name with high-exalted crest 24 From shore to shore from land to land enrich't with unbought goods I in the sea will set his hand his right hand in the floods 25 Himselfe the issue of my stocke my sonne and me lie shall My father thou my God the Rocke of my salvation call 26 And him the first-borne will I give the Kings of earth above With him my love shall ever live my Covenant faithfull prove 27 And in their changes to succeed when times and times are done For ever will I set his seed as daies of Heav'n his Throne 28 But if my Law his sons forsake my Judgements walke beside Profane my Statutes faile to take my Precepts for their guide 29 To visit their misdeeds will I then with the rod begin Lay stripes on their iniquitie and scourge them for their sin 30 My mercy yet shall no repeale to part from him prevaile Nor I with him will falsly deale against my faith nor faile 31 My covenant shall no change profane what league my lips did tye My Holinesse once swore in vaine if I to David lye 32 His seed shall ever be His Throne before me shall appeare Like Heav'ns bright paire the Sun the Moone that faithfull witnesse beare 34 But thine Annointed left forsooke thy wrath hath beaten downe The Covenant of thy servant broke profan'd on earth his Crowne 35 His hedges all hath overthrowne wide open flung his folds Where any fort of his was knowne to ruine brought his holds 36 All passengers of him make prey to neighbours neerer home An object he of scorne and play a loud reproach become 37 His foes right hand hast thou up-set his hands successe to crosse Their joy his joyes from him to get their laughter made his losse 38 His swords keen edge didst thou abate his hand in battell bound Hast made to cease his glories date and throwne his throne to ground 39 His daies of youth hast thou made short cut off before they came Un-ripened reapt but to abort and wrapt him up with shame Selah 40 For ever Lord and no returne how long selfe absent How long wilt thou thy wrath shall burne like fire and not relent 41 Remember O how swift my time how short my ages span In vaine why all the sons of slime hast thou created man 42 What strong man lives and sees not death or who his soule shall save And stop the hand that stops his breath the hand of Hell the Grave Selah 43 Where Lord where are those loves of old thy former favours borne So long forborne so quencht so cold thy faith to David sworne 44 Remember Lord thy servants shames what foule reproach they heare How many all great peoples blames I in my bosome beare 45 Wherewith thy foes Lord have reproach't wherewith reproach't they have Of thine Annointed scandals broach't the footsteps to deprave To Age and Age as heretofore among the sons of men Blest be the Lord for evermore Amen say we Amen Finis Libri tortii LIB IIII. PSAL. 90. Domine refugium Oratio Mosis Viri Dei THou Lord hast bin our dwelling place nor other refuge wee Nor other found our fathers race from Age to Age but thee 2 Before the Mountaines borne were nam'd of mother earth a part Before the earth or world were fram'd eternall God thou ART 3 Man to his mold dissolv'd thou laist in dust of death and then To fraile and contrite earth thou saist Returne ye sons of men 4 For yeeres a thousand in thine eies are but as yesterday When past it is by night so flies the wing'd-foot watch away 5 Thou bearst them as a floud of sleep that slides along the sand As morning deaws on Meddowes weep that wait the Mowers hand 6 Whose grasse the rising Sun sees green and flowring fresh as day Which downe at evening mowne is seen a withered locke of hay 7 For as thine anger waxeth great so we consume withall And troubled at thy furies heat how sudden is our fall 8 Our faults that feare or shame would hide before thee hast thou set And at thy faces light descri'd our secret sins are met 9 For when thy wrath on us is brought then all our daies decline Our yeeres consume we as a thought our blast of breath resigne 10 Our daies are threescore yeeres and ten fourscore if strength supply Pride reapt with paine and wretched men how soon away we flie 11 Who knowes what power thine anger hath who hath the power to beare Sure best the fury of thy wrath is measur'd by thy feare 12 O teach us then to know our daies their number so to try That taught by thee to wisedomes waies our hearts we may apply 13 Returne O Lord how long at last O let it thee repent Of thy displeasures bitter blast against thy servants bent 14 And let thy mercies morning deaw upon us downe distill So all our daies of life a few shall joy and gladnesse fill 15 Like joyfull daies as while by thee afflicted we have been Good yeeres
wherein thy seed shall live 12 When few of number meanes bereft they strangers in the land 13 One Nation for another left as Kingdomes came to band 14 To doe them wrong he suffred none even Kings for them he charm'd 15 Of mine Annointed touch not one nor see my Prophets harm'd 16 He call'd a famine on the Land so long with plenty fed To weaken their ingratefull hand brake all the staffe of bread 17 Before them for the dearth fore-told he sent a man at last Young Joseph for a servant sold and into prison cast 18 His se et in setters fast they pent where wrung and wrested long His soule into the iron went into his soule the wrong 19 Untill his cause for sentence cri'd his innocence to scan Untill by word the Lord had tri'd what worth was in the man 20 The King would his discharger be for his deliverance sent The peoples Ruler set him free from fault from punishment 21 Lord of his house he him assign'd his substance to assise 22 His Princes to his soule to bind and make his Elders wise 23 So Israel into Egypt came from Cana'ns better clime And Jacob in the land of Cham did sojourne for a time 24 His people mightily encrease then their oppressors made A Nation more secure for peace and stronger to invade 25 Yet Egypts heart averse was felt his people they did hate And doubly with his servants dealt unjustly held debate 26 His servant Moses then he sent and Aarons chosen head 27 Words of his signes among them spent in Cham his wonders spread 28 His Word in darknesse cloth'd the light three daies continued they In darknesse darker than the night and did not disobey 28 He turn'd their waters into bloud their fiâ—h flung dead on shore Chang'd Nilus to a noisome flood her silver streames to gore 30 Their land in legions brought forth frogs in field in house in hall In Kings bed-chambers as in bogs the loathsome Paddockes crawle 31 He spake the word and in a trice a cloud of Vermine arm'd Wing'd-Flies and Infantries of Lice in all their quarters swarm'd 32 For showers of raine from gentler hand he flung them stones of haile And flames of fire that made their land of flocke and fruit to faile 33 With storme their Vine their Fig-tree strook most fruitfull most of all Of Trees throughout their border broke the highest soonest fall 34 Of Grashoppers a mighty presse his word inspir'd with pow'r And Caterpiller numberlesse 35 All herbes and fruit devoure 36 In Egypt all their eldest borne with hand of death he smote The prime of all their fleece was shorne their strongest men of noâ—e 37 He brought them forth these wonders done with silver and with gold Among their Tribes there was not one a feeble person told 38 At their departure Egypt glad was of their stay affraid So lately to forsake them sad now loth to see them stai'd 39 A covering of a cloud he spread to shade the heat of day Of fire by night a lamp to lead and light them on their way 40 Of Quaile he brought at their request a showre that downe did raine And with the bread of Heaven them blest suffic'd with Angels graine 41 The Rocke of stone made open flie with waters stor'd the land That rivers ran in places drie â—â—here late lay Desert sand 42 His holy promise held so fast from time it first began To Abraham his servant past in his remembrance ran 43 With joy his people forth he brought his chosen with a shout 44 And gave them lands and labours wrought of Heath'ns for them cast out 45 Observe his statutes that they might and of his holy Word The Lawes obey and learne aright to practise Praise the Lord. Halelu-jah PSAL. 106. Confitemint Halelu-jah THe Lord is good with thankes confesse his Mercy hath no end 2 The Lords great powers who can expresse who all his praise commend 3 What blessings kept for them remaine that Judgements keepers are For him that Justice to maintaine at all times sets his care 4 Remember Lord I numbred be with them thou tak'st to grace With thy Salvation visit me with thy choice people place 5 To see what blessings by thy choice thy chosen flocke have got And with thy Nations joy rejoyce and glory in their lot 6 We with our fathers sinfully transgrest have every one Committed like iniquitie as wickedly have done 7 Thy wonder-passing wonders past which Egypts plagues could find Our fathers did not wisely cast nor compasse in their mind Thy many Mercies held no plea from their remembrance fell But they revolters at the sea the red sea did rebell 8 Yet for his Names sake not the lesse was he their Saviour His Mercy as they must confesse to make them know his power 9 The red seas course he backe did keep and with rebuke represse He led them dry-foot through the deep as through the wildernesse 10 And so he set them all on land in safety from the foe And from their haters harmfull hand redeem'd and let them goe 11 Their troublers by the waters fall were all of life bereft The waters overwhelm'd them all not one of them was left 12 With them his words then credit got they sung his praise to height 13 But all in haste his workes forgot his counsells would not wait 14 So in the wildernesse at last upon them came their lust And in â—he Desert Gods fore-cast they tempted with distrust 15 And food he gave them at their call above their lusts content But loathing leannesse therewithall into their soule he sent 15 They weari'd Moses with complaint in their envious mood And Aaron of the Lord the Saint within the Camp withstood 17 The mother-earth that Rebells hates an open grave did rive Where Dathan and Abirams Mates were swallowed up alive 18 And fire from Heaven that kindled came on their rebellious crew Burnt up the wicked in the flame their furious treasons due 19 They made a Calfe in Choreb Mount ador'd a molten Masse 20 Their glories type to base account turn'd Oxe that eateth grasse 21 And God their Saviour they forgate his Armes remembrance gone That had so mighty things of late for them in Egypt done 22 Workes wondrous for a world of graves in Chams un-peopled coast And fearfull for the red sea waves that sav'd that drown'd an host 23 And to destroy them in his mood flew out his wrathfull speech Had not his chosen Moses stood before him in the breach 24 His milder temper mixt with zeale Gods wrath so hot that burn'd With hard entreaty did congeale and from corrupting turn'd 25 They of desire despis'd the land beleeving not his word But in their tents in tumult stand and will not heare the Lord. 26 Against them therefore urg'd aloft he lifted up his hand To overthrow them threatned oft in that forsaken land 27 Among the Nations not their owne to fell their rootlesse seed And in the lands