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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A11472	Sacred hymns Consisting of fifti select psalms of David and others, paraphrastically turned into English verse. And by Robert Tailour, set to be sung in five parts, as also to the viole, and lute or orph-arion. Published for the vse of such as delight in the exercise of music in hir original honour.	Sandys, Edwin, Sir, 1561-1629.; Tailour, Robert, fl. 1614.	1615 (1615)	STC 21723; ESTC S110824	61,097	158

with speed and tender ey reflect Thou Goodnes pure thy servants not neglect In case extreme who mercies hand implore O spring of grace I mercies those adore Then Lord be neer yea for my ' insulting foes To free my soule once heavĕnli aid discloze AH see and iudge thou knowĕst my sad reproach Fore thee my foes my shames who shameles broach Stand all in sight Their wrongs have worn my hart Full chargĕd with grief I lookt if yet som part My frends would bere no frend condoling found If comfort speak but none least comfort sound For strengthning meat yea poizŏning gall they sent And vinĕger tart my thirst to quench prezent THERFORE iust Lord their owne them home repay Their pleazing boord where ioys before them play Let turn a snare to catch them in their woords And that which foli ' as lot to fools affoords Their wishes hurt good fortunes bee their bane Mynds sight obscure their loins rough valure lame AND as in furi man laith lode of blowes So let revenge which from thyn anger flowes Ad stripe to stripe and seaze with raging ire Their hated heads which mischief sole dezire Void stand their castles dweller none be found To grace the tents where graceles facts abound FOR thow whom Lord with hand severe hast smit They fierce persue and inhumanely sit With grievous woords t' encrease thy woundeds pain Let sin so sin so plague to plague enchain Thy righteŏusnes that still they wretched miss Nor way e're fynd that leads to heavĕnli bliss Devowd to death from book of life efface Ne write their names where iust mens names have place NOW I stil poor sole rich in griefs remain Help saving Lord and raize me once again That raiz'd thy grace my song may thankful praize And blisful name to heavĕns fair arches raize This sacrifice more pleazing God shal bee Then cleft-hoov'd steer at Altars horns to see THE myld of mynd great comfort hence shal take This sight shal ioy them O let harts awake To seek the Lord and so your harts shal live Nor wynds nor seas can from his anchor drive For ey of care who towărd mans wants reflects His prisŏners crys sure nevĕr at need neglects THEN heavĕns and earth then seas and all your gests Which spatiate there conform to supreme hests Ay laud our King who Sion fair wil save And Iudahs touns repair There shall they have A seat and lasting state Thus God shal bless His folks true seed who love towărd him address PSALM 79. This Psalm which seemeth to have been compozed in the time of Antiochus the persecutour by som descendant of the famous ASAPH and who bare also his name which in that Tribe was frequent conteineth a most lamentable complaint unto God of the ruins of Ierusalem the defilements of the Temple and massacre of Gods faithful servants Then praying first for propitiation for the sins of the people the true cause of that calamiti he presseth on with most fervent suit for speedi deliverance and large revenge upon their Hethen enimies THE Hethĕn ô God who fear not no nor knowe Thy glorious name into thy land are com And in thyn House whence blessings pure did flowe With hands impure polluting facts haue doon DEFYLD thy sacred seat thy rites profanĕd Thy treasures robd thy Citti set on fire Ierusalem earths ioy which earst was namĕd Throwne doun on heaps sits now in lothed mire THY servants slain for loial love to thee Their bodies dead heăvens fouls cast out to feed And flesh of Saints whose faith thyn eys did see To earths wyld beasts ingluvious throats decreed THEIR bloud as torrent streams about the wals Of sad Ierusalem no burriĕr found Opprobrious scorn us grievous lot befals And laughings proud in neighbours mouths abound HOW long ô Lord shal ever flame thyn ire Can no distress once moove to pitti take Thy iealous wrath and shal it rage like fire Which water none no tears may e're asslake AH turn it first gainst those who nor invoke Thy name great Lord nor knowe or seeke thy face Gainst Hethen kingdoms who with mortal stroke Thy Iacob wound lay wast h s resting place REDUCE not Lord to thyn offended eys Those falts forepast which still unthankful wee And fathers our have doon let grace arize Our soules from gilt of sorroed sins to free AND thou arize and with thy mercies deer Prevent our instant deaths Ah case extreme Denys delay Help source of goodnes meer And save vs thow whence safeties all doo stream RESPECT great Lord the glori of thy name Which wee revere our enimies proud despize Insulting Hethĕn to say they doo not shame Where 's now the God on whom their hope relys BVT let our God make noble in our sight To Hethen eys his high revenging hand That giltles bloud pourd out and not in fight Of servants thyn may full revenged stand AND let the sighs and moornings of thy Saints Who grone in chains to thee access obtain And mighti arm excited by their plaints Them rescue ' who now to death consignd remain THUS neighbours scorns wherewith they thee reproach Sevĕnfold to them in bosom Lord restore We then thy folk and flock thyn acts shal broach With thanks and praise will evĕr our God adore PSALM 73. The Prophet ASAPH by the sence of his owne afflictions and by contrari vieu of the exulting prosperiti of godles persons who pass on a pleasant time blaspheming God and oppressing his servants having endured like as other of the people of God a sore temptation of calling into question the veri Omniscience of God and his government over this loweër world at length getting the victori by Gods especial assistance he sheweth that out of the Sanctuari of God where his Oracles were delivered he had learned that it was not the condition of this transitori life but the end it self whereby the state of the good and bad was to be esteemed Seeing then the end of the wicked to be utter destruction and everlasting happines to attend the righteous he betaketh himself wholy to the conduct of divine direction with great assurance to be guided by Gods counseil in this life and afterward to be received by God into eternal glori In expectance whereof his soule repozeth YET surely God benign to Israĕl stands To pure in hart But I was sore declynd Griev'd vieu of fools of wicked prospering hands Had welnigh sapt my weak unwari mynd FROM bands of death by sicnes force or snare They free pass on live lusti puft with ioy With humane toils and cares untroubled are Yea publick plagues them least and last annoy THIS makes with pride their out-stretcht necks like chein With violence fierce as robe they lims attire Their plentĕous fare red strouting eys proclaim While heaping wealth surmounts evĕn harts desire FROM poizŏning filth their lothsom talk they change Oppressions proud with lofti stile to sound Their tongs through earth in wronging men doo range And hellish

who thee attend abasing shame depress Depress it those thy law who causeles ah transgress INLIGHTEN Lord my soule so with thy guiding grace That I thy trueth may fynd and found may firm embrace Revele thy paths divine ô thow my Saviŏur deer To thee perennal hope eternal love adhere THOSE gracioŭs mercies Lord which from thy goodnes spring And ay thy woorks orespred to myndful presence bring And from thy sight remoove the wyldnes of my youth The sins age more mature with sad remorse presŭeth O thow who goodnes art evĕn for that goodnes sake With merci mee behold so soules iust grief asslake MOST righteŏus gracious Lord He sinners shew'th his way To humble mynds myld spir̆its his iustice will display All trueth yea merci all his paths to them remain His witnest will who seek and covĕnant great maintain Then for thy gracious name propitiŏus mee behold My sin ah Lord how great in merci great upfold THRISE happi man whose hart Gods sacred fear endues For him shal grace direct to bliss right way to chooze And here his soule at ease midst blessings rich shal sit And goods wel got secure to childrens seed transmit These heavĕnli leaug partake yea misteries high conceald From worldli wits to them from heavĕn shal be reveald O THEN my waiting eys on God stil fixed bee For hee from snaring net my feet wil rightĕous free Turn then at length thy face in bliss who sitst on high Since poor abandond wretch to onli thee dooth fly Ah Lord as wave dooth wave so wo dooth wo pursue As day dooth day fresh griefs so griefs forepast renue But thow my streits my pain my labours Lord respect And on my sins their cause ah merci Lord reflect BEHOLD my raging foes how thick their musters growe Whose poisĕned gals uncausd with bittĕrest hate oreflowe But thow Preserver great my soule from force uniust My face from shame protect who livĕst my onli trust My onli trust and hope on safegard none I build Save what myn upright cause and goodnes thyn shal yield These then my gardiăns stand And thow benign with mee Thyn Israĕl deer great Lord from pressures all enfree PSALM 32. DAVID here out of the sence of his owne experience teacheth that he is happi to whom God in merci imputeth not his sins which merci is obteined by seazonable confessing them must be continued by thankfully reforming our lifes which shall be accompanied with true ioy of spirit THE blessed man whom spring of boundles grace With mercies ey a Father-iudge dooth vieu Whose crimes and guilt with pardon free efface Foul stains orehele so pristin shape renue Yea thrice he blest whom who Creatour kynd All perfect framĕd declynd dooth not forsake Dooth not his sins impute and darkned mynd Dischargĕd of guile to iustice dooth awake I WHILST my sin in silent brest conceald Benumbd asham'd at length with sicnes scurgĕd My bones consum'd and roars sharp grief reveald Which tiring pain my strength now tired urgĕd Thy grievous hand stil presd me day and night Nor Sun could cheer nor darknes rest prezent On faded face deaths name seemd palenes write So native iuice unnative heat had spent ADVIS'D I then to thee my sins confesd In vain conceald bade idle vail adieu I said Be now to God my falts expresd Who guilt from soule strait plague from corps withdrew OGRACIOVS Lord therfore our hopes abound And godli men excited by these fruits In time accepted when thou maist be found With faithful harts shal bring their needful suits And thow benign from worlds tempestŭous seas Wilt them remoove and mee my hiding place Preservĕd from wrack dischargĕd of streit unease Withioious crys of freedom round embrace THEN I who e're Gods service doost profess Wil make thee sciĕnt what paths thou must ascend What dounfals shun how errors to redress And guiding ey thy cariage shall attend BVT men by kynd transform not into guise Of sturdi horse or more unthankful mule Whose brutish brests no mutŭal duties prize Sole sharpest bits their mouths from mischief rule THE wicked hart whole swarms of woes shal seaze Of help without within of rest deprivĕd While faithful soule who gracious Lord shal pleaze With mercies fencĕd with ioys shal be revivĕd THEN rightĕous mynds divorce your careful fear Gods woord who trust shout out with sounds of ioy His ways who walk your hopeful heads vprear Your light appears sad darknes to destroy PSALM 34. The Prophet DAVID to escape the cruel hands of King Saul beeing forced to fly to a neighbour King of the Philistims where the qualiti and woorth of his person beeing to his great danger discovered he counterfeited himself distract and so was driven from thence and closely returned to the confines of his countri whether his frends and other distressed persons assembled to him here he yieldeth to God solemn thanks for this strange deliveri encouraging withal and instructing his associats to serve God who never faileth to protect his Righteous servants from mischief neither yet to destroy their persecutours By the way is interlaced a proph●…ci of the not breaking of ani one Bone of our Sauiours who was the veri pattern and perfection of Righteousnes THE Lord for evĕr with humblest ioy my thankfulst thoughts shalbless In him my soule triumph my mouth his glorious praise express Let myld righteŏus mynds earths Saints with gladnes hear this praise Yea all vnite harts spir̆its and sounds to heăvens his name to raize When chasĕd from home in strangers land midst Hethen crue I moornd And sought my God my sighs he heard and safely mee returnd That mee his Saints example great shal cheerful ay recite This poore man cryd the Lord him heard and freed from hostile spite O THOUGHT-surmounting grace to earth from heăvenli host descends Gods Angel great and servants his as rampire round defends Then tast and see how good the Lord how sweet his merci flowes How blest the man who trusts in him on him vow'd love bestowes And ye Gods Saints his fear maintain when liŏns through hunger wast Yet scarsenes none of no thing good sour want his servants tast O COM deer children listen well while Gods true fear I teach How life to win how length of days in happiĕst state to reach Thy tong from venŏmed woords refrain thy lips let shun deceipt Decline from evĭl doo good seek peace this this be thy retreit The eys of God with pleazing vieu the rightĕous race behold Their suits his gracious ears attend ful deer their lifes are sold But countĕnance stern the mighti Lord gainst proud malfactors bends And cursed names corrupted seed from earths fair bosom rends TRUE servants plaints ●…ust Lord dooth hear their tears and fears dicharge Their contrite harts enanguisht spi●…its from pressures streit enlarge Afflictions great it 's true ful oft most righteŏus Man endures God rids them all and in their midst his bones from brack assures No bone of His shal broken be