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A07789	Nyne songs collected out of the Holy Scriptures of Old and New Testament, drawne foorth of the pure fountaines of Hebreuu and Greeke ; translated, paraphrased in prose, summed, analysed, notted vpon, grounds for vse and doctrine observed in every one of them, and finally paraphrased in English meeter, by Mr. William Moray ...	Morray, William.	1634 (1634)	STC 18166; ESTC S1306	47,991	144

Esay and is doing accordingly I will never forget this heavie hand of God vpon mee 7. Vpon such meditations the godly shall be comforted in time of sicknesse death as I now hoping yet for life and health from thee O Lord. 8 In place of peace health which I had God layd vpon me sore sicknesse and trouble of Spirit yet hee loves mee because howbeit hee hath afflicted mee sore yet hath hee not delivered mee to death Psal 118. but hath forgiven my sinnes and set mee away with peace 9. And this thou hast done that yet I might worship thee in the land of the living which bodies dead and buried cannot doe 10. But man living as I am yet shall praise thee and one generation shall deliver thy trueth vnto another 11. The Lord was readie to saue mee Therefore my song shall bee sung even this song tuned played vpon musicall instrumēts in witnesse of mee and my peoples thankfulnesse to God for this my deliverance The argument and analysis of this song HEzechiah king of Iudah beeing sicke of a desperat disease which the learned thinke to haue bene a pestilentious fever because mention is made of Byle It was Gods will that the Prophet Esay should say to him hee should die be that disease This messenger did much commoue Hezechiah partly because hee was then a younge man and had no child partly because he beeing tormented both in body and spirit seared death But chiefely because hee having long before resolved to serve God and doe good to his Church this good intention would faile Being in this estate hee prayed and weeped sore and the Lord heard and pittied him Therfore he sent againe to him the Prophet Esay with another more comportable commission then the first namely that hee should not die at this time but haue fifteene yeares added to his yeares hee had lived alreadie hee being thus comforted beganne to recognosce his thoughts in time of his sicknesse and to consider Gods great mercie toward him for the which he promised to bee thankfull all the dayes of his life These things after hee had convalesced hee put in write and makes the argument of this song The parts of the song are three The 1. is a recognoscing of his thoghts and words in tyme of his sicknesse from the 1. verse to the 6. The 2. is the consolation wherewith he comforted himselfe from the 6. verse to the 11. The 3. is the conclusion of the song verse 11. As to the 1. part hee sayeth his thoughts and words were these 1. hee thought and said hee would die of this disease verse 1. Next hee thought and said hee would haue no more tyme place or occasion to serue GOD among men living vpon the earth verse 2. Thirdly hee repeats his thoughts of death in similitude taken from sheepe-heards and weavers verse 3 4. Fourthly by the similitude of Crane swallowes doues hee expresseth his paine prayer verse 5. As for the 2. part to wit his conclusion the grounds thereof are these 1. that GOD declared to him his will by the Prophet that he should die and it was GODS hand vpon him 2. his resolution to passe the rest of his time in humilitie and repentance verse 6. Thirdly he comforts himfelf with Gods promise verse 7. Fourthly he comforteth himself with Gods mercie set downe with the motive thereof that God may bee honoured by his servants living vpon earth verse 8.9.10 The conclusion is that hee wil praise God while he liveth verse 11. Annotations vpon this Song Verse 1. I said through impatience I thought with my selfe I shall goe a description of death Rest of my yeares which by the course of nature I might have looked for Verse 2. I shall not see I shall be deprived of Gods visible presence in his Church I AH I AH This doubling showeth his great loue to God and his worship Verse 3. My habitation hee compareth the life of man to a tent and webbe Verse 4. I resolved That is I layd my compt A Lyon the like Iob David Christ felt Verse 5. Chattered being weake in body wounded in Spirit I could not vtter many words in prayer Verse 6. What shall I say to wit to my Maker see the like chap. 39.8 Iob 1.21 Heli 1. Sam. 3.18 David Psal 39 9 murmuring the contrare condemned Verse 7. These he meaneth Gods word and works Verse 8. For the grave so David Psal 6. Observations of grounds for vse and doctrine Obs 1. HEZECHIAH left behinde him this song as a monument of Gods mercie towards him so did David many Psalmes and God honoured both with place in holy Scripture which shall not bee forgot or lost so long as the world shall last I will honour those that honour mee saith the LORD 1. Sam. 2.30 Obs 2. verse 1.2.3.4 Hee complaines not for feare of death as loving this life so well that hee had no knowledge faith or hope of a better life after this but heereby he showes what paines he had in his body what agony in his souse beeing sensible of his sins and of Gods anger yet there betwo things that make men willing to die some earthly thing whervnto their heart is teathered or want of knowledge of the joyes of Heaven Obs 3. vers 5. Hee could vtter few words in prayer for griefe and paine yet God saw his teares heard his pittifull sighs and groanes This should teach vs in greatest troubles yea in the midst of the shaddow of death to hold fast our confidence in God Ps 23.4 Heb. 10.35 Obs 4. vers 6. The grounds that Hezeckiah laid for his comfort wee should vse to the lyke end see the analysis Obs 5. The LORD wounds and heales againe kils giues life therefore wee should alwayes feare serue and trust in him 1. Sam. 2.6 Obs 6. The chiefe end of mans lyfe is to know God and serue him therefore this should bee the principall cause of our desire to liue Obs 7. Death is a web of our owne spinning because by sinne wee brought it on vs yet God is said to cut out the web of our life because he begins it promoves it ends it when hee pleases This may bee the moralitie of the Poets fable of the three weirdsisters Obs 8. When God forgiueth a man his sinne hee takes away the punishment also as Hezechiah testifieth by his experience and this refuteth the doctrine of Romanists of remission of sinne and reservation of punishment where vpon they build purgatorie Obs 9.7.8 9.10.11 verse When God hath afflicted vs and delivered vs againe we should be humble thankfull penitent praying for perseverence least wee fall againe with Hezechiah Es 3.9 This song paraphrased in English meeter to the tune of the 102. Psalme Verse 1. WHen that I thought my dayes were cut I said vnto the graue I 'me put My yeares are spent no moe remaine 2. GOD in this life to see againe No longer men I say behold Heere vpon earth

by CHRIST which Simeon looked for and saw more clearely and nearelie then his forbeares Vers 2. None holy no rocke This most true for holinesse and power are in GOD essentially and perfyte in the creature by communication onely and in part being compared with GOD. Iob. 4.18 Verse 5. Hath ceased To wit to bee hungrie and are filled Seven that is many Ruth 4.11 Set out themself to wit for hyred servants for want of food Verse 8. The pillars See Iob. 48. v. 4. Psal 124. v. 8. Psal 112.26 and 104. verse 5. Verse 10. To his KING that is to say to CHRIST IE SUS to whom hee was to giue all power in Heaven and earth as his appointed King Psal 2. Observations of grounds for vse and doctrine Obs 1. THis song is called a prayer because it is spoken to GOD and in end hath a prayer but the purpose of it is a thanksgiving and so these well joyned according to the precept of the Apostle Phi. 4.6 Obs 2. It is easie to GOD when hee will to make a heavie heart light and joyfull a dispysed person honorable one silenced to speake boldly These things and other benefites are obtained by humiliation prayer Obs 3. verse 1. Whatsoever benefite GOD bestows vpon vs wee should not so much thinke of it or vse it as looke to GOD the giver of it and praise him not being as the swyoe who feed vpon fallen fruit but looke not vp to the tree Obs 4. We should labour to know Gods attributes by his word and workes wee should meditate therevpon that wee may loue feare trust him and obey his will alwayes Obs 5. verse 2. It is easier to tell what God is not or to deny any creature to bee like him then to tell what hee is for God beeing alwayes infinit cannot be defyned affirmatiuelie so well as negatiuelie Obs 6. Pryde is a hereditarie sicknesse in men and women yet GOD resisteth the proude and giveth grace to the humble Iam. 4.6 Obs 7. verse 3. to the 8. The providence of GOD rules all things maks all mutations among men Ps 107. Obs 8. Wee should not look vpon things and judge of them by present apperance for the earth is as a stage wee are players there vpon everie one is not that hee seemeth to bee in the play for a beggar there may represent a King a wise man a foole a wicked man a good but wee should abide patiently the catastrophe of the play staying till the morning when everie man putteth on his owne coat that is the morning of the resurrection Psal 49.14 1. Iohn 3.1 Obs 9. verse 9.10 The godly of old tooke their deliverances particular and of the Kirk in generall as types of their great salvation by Christ which they looked for 1. Pet. 1.10 This song paraphrased in English meeter to the tune of the 103. Psalme Verse 1. MY heart rejoyceth in the Lord in him my horne is hie My mouth is open wyde and large against my enemie In thy salvation I joye 2. none holy like to thee For there is none but thou O Lord a God a rocke to mee 3. Speake thou no more words arrogant as thou was wont before For God knowes all things very well and doth both lesse and more 4. The strong mans Bow is broken quyte the weake hath put on strength 5. The full beginne to begge their bread the hungrie eate at length The barren hath her seven borne the mother of sonnes is weake 6. The Lord hee kills and giveth life casts downe and vp doth take 7. Hee makes men poore and hee makes rich hee humbles and raiseth hie 8. Ev'n poore men from the dung and dust Princes equalls to bee For to the Lord the pillars of the earth doe appertaine And therevpon hath hee set fast the world and all therein 9. The feete hee will keepe of his Saints that they may never swerve The wicked shall in darknesse dwell as they do well deserve No man shall by his owne strength stand 10. O Lord stoppe all their strife The Lord will shoot his thunderbolts at him from heaven right rife The ends of earth the Lord shal judge his King hee shall make strong And hee shall his Anoynteds horne lift vp ere it bee long The Song of Hezechiah King of Iudah Esay 38. Text. I Said in the cutting of my dayes I shall goe to the ports of the grave I am deprived of the rest of my yeares I said I shall not see IAH Iah in the land of the living I shall not behold man more with the inhabitants of the world My habitation is gone and flitted from me as a sheep-heards tent I haue cut off as a weaver my lyfe he wil cut me off from the thrum from the daye to the night thou will destroy mee I resolved vnto the morning as a Lyon hee so bruised all my bones from the daye to the night thou consumes me As a crane a swallow I chettered I sighed like a dove myne eyes were lifted vp to the hight IEHOVAH I am weake give me rest What shall I saye both hee said to mee and he himself hath done it I shall goe on all my yeeres with the bitternesse of my soule Lord vpon these they shall live in all wherein the lyfe of my spirit is and thou wilt heale me and give me life Behold for peace I had bitternesse and thou hast loved my soule from the pit of rottennesse because thou hast cast all my sinnes behind thy back For the graue shal not confesse vnto thee death praise thee neither shall they hope who goe downe to the pit to thy trueth The living the living hee shall confesse vnto thee as I this day the father to the sonnes shall make knowne thy trueth IEHOVAH to saue mee Therefore my songs shall we play all the dayes of our lyfe in the House of IEHOVAH Paraphrase 1. VVHen I thought God was cutting the threed of my life by deaths knife I thought and said within my selfe I shall now die young and child-lesse 2. Then my greatest griefe was that my bodily eyes should not see God for a long time and presentlie to be deprived of the sight of him in the mirrour of his workes word and Sacraments 3. My dwelling place leaves mee and I it as a sheep-herd leaveth his tent the web of my life is cut out as the weaver cutteth out a web out of his loome for I made it short by sins God hath made it short in his justice and gives to mee no rest daye or night 4. After the nights vnrest I looked for no better in the morning but that hee cruelly wold destroy mee 5. The cranes and swallows cannot speak in their pain yet they chatter and the dove cheeps so vnder so great griefe and paine I could doe nothing but mourne sigh lift vp my eyes and heart to God 6. It is the Lord I can neither say good nor euill he hath spoken to mee by his servant