night 8. Nothing I know can lie conceal'd From his All-seeing Eye And my firm hope has never fail'd Because he still is nigh 9. Therefore my heart all grief defies My glory does rejoyce My flesh shall rest in hope to rise Wak'd by his pow'rful voice 10. Thou Lord when I resign my breath My soul from hell wilt free Nor let thy Holy One in death The least corruption see 11. Thou shalt the paths of Life display Which to thy presence lead Where pleasures dwell without allay And joys that never fade PSALM XVII 1. HEar my just plea to my complaint Attend O Righteous Lord And to my pray'r as 't is unfeign'd A gracious Ear afford 2. As in thy presence I 'm approv'd So let my sentence be And with impartial Eyes O Lord My upright dealing see 3. For thou hast prov'd my heart by day And visited by night And on the strictest tryal found Its secret motions right Nor shall thy Justice Lord alone My hearts designs acquit For I have purpos'd that my Tongue Shall no offence commit 4. I know what wicked men would do Their safety to maintain But me thy just and mild commands From bloody Paths restrain 5. That I may still in spite of wrongs My innocence secure O! Guide me in thy Righteous Ways And make my footsteps sure 6. Since heretofore I ne'er in vain To thee my pray'r address'd O! now my God incline thine Ear To this my just request 7. The wonders of thy love and care In my defence engage Thou whose right Hand preserves thy Saints From their oppressors rage PART II. 8 9. O! keep me in thy tend'rest care With shelt'ring wings stretch'd out From cruel and oppressing Foes That compass me about 10. O'ergrown with luxury enclos'd In their own fat they lie And with a proud blaspheming Mouth Both God and Man defie 11. Well may they boast for they have now My path encompass'd round Their eyes at watch their bodies bow'd And couching to the ground 12. In posture of a Lion set When greedy of his prey Or a young Lion when he lurks Within a covert way 13. Arise O Lord defeat their plots Their swelling rage controul From the ungodly man thy Sword Deliver thou my Soul 14. From worldly Men thy sharpest scourge Whose portion 's here below Who fill'd with earthly stores aspire No other bliss to know 15. Pleas'd with a num'rous Race to share Their substance while they live Successive heirs to whom they may The vast remainder give 16. But Lord for me I only crave The treasure of thy Grace And waking in my Soul to find The Image of thy Face PSALM XVIII 1 2. NO change of times shall ever shock My firm affection Lord to Thee For thou hast always been a rock A fortress and defence to me Thou my deliv'rer art my God My trust is in thy mighty Pow'r Thou art my shield from foes abroad At home my safeguard and my tow'r 3. To thee I 'll still address my pray'r To whom my praise I justly owe So shall I by thy watchful care Be guarded from my treach'rous Foe 4 5. By floods of wicked Men distress'd With deadly sorrows compass'd round With dire infernal Pangs oppress'd In deaths unwieldy fetters bound 6. To Heav'n I make my mournful pray'r To God address my humble moan Who graciously inclines his Ear And hears me from his lofty Throne PART II. 7. When God arose to take my part The trembling Earth did quake for fear From their firm posts the Hills did start Nor durst his dreadful fury bear 8. Thick clouds of smoak disperst abroad Ensigns of wrath before him came Devouring fire around him glow'd That coals were kindled at its flame 9. He left the beauteous Realms of Light Whilst Heav'n bow'd down its awful head Beneath his feet substantial Night Was like a sable carpet spread 10. The Chariot of the King of Kings Which troops of harness'd Angels drew On a strong tempest 's rapid wings With most amazing swiftness flew 11 12. Black watry mists and clouds conspir'd With thickest shades his face to veil But at his brightness soon retir'd And fell in show'rs of fire and hail 13. Thro' Heav'ns wide Arch a thund'ring peal Gods angry voice did loudly roar While earths sad face with heaps of hail And flakes of fire was cover'd o'er 14. His sharpen'd arrows round he threw Which made his scatter'd foes retreat Like darts his nimble Light'nings flew And quickly finish'd their defeat 15. The deep its secret stores disclos'd The worlds Foundations naked lay By his avenging Wrath expos'd Which fiercely rag'd that dreadful day PART III. 16. The Lord did on my side engage From Heav'n his Throne my cause upheld And snatch'd me from the furious rage Of threat'ning waves that proudly swell'd 17. God his resistless Pow'r employ'd My strongest Foes attempts to break Who else with ease had soon destroy'd The weak defence that I could make 18. Their subtle rage had near prevail'd When I distress'd and friendless lay But still when other succours fail'd God was my firm support and stay 19. From dangers that enclos'd me round He brought me forth and set me free For some just cause his goodness found That mov'd him to delight in me 20. Because in me no guilt remains God does his gracious help extend My hands are free from bloody stains Therefore the Lord is still my Friend 21 22. For I his Judgments kept in sight In his just Ways I always trod I never did his Statutes slight Nor vainly wander'd from my God 23 24. But still my Soul sincere and pure Did ev'n from darling sins refrain His favours therefore yet endure Because my heart and hands are clean PART IV. 25 26. Thou suit'st O Lord thy righteous Ways To various paths of human kind They who for mercy merit praise With thee shall wond'rous mercy find Thou to the Just shalt Justice shew Thy purity the pure shall see Such as perversly chuse to go Shall meet perverse returns from thee 27 28. That he the humble Soul will save And crush the haughty's boasted might In me the Lord an instance gave Whose darkness he has turn'd to light 29. On his firm succour I rely'd And did o'er num'rous Foes prevail Nor fear'd whilst he was on my side The best defended walls to scale 30. For Gods designs shall still succeed His Word will bear the strictest Test He 's a strong shield to all that need And on his sure protection rest 31. Who then deserves to be ador'd But God on whom my hopes depend Or who except the mighty Lord Can with resistless pow'r defend PART V. 32 33. 'T is God that girds my armour on And all my just designs fulfils Through him my feet can swiftly run And nimbly climb the steepest hills 34. Lessons of war from him I take And manly weapons learn to wield Strong bows of steel with ease I break Forc'd to my stronger Arms to yield 35. The buckler of
Imprimatur Humf. Hody Reverend in Christ Pat. ac D.D. Johanni Archiep. Cant. à Sacris Dom. Nov. 7. 1694. AN ESSAY OF A New Version OF THE PSALMS OF DAVID CONSISTING Of the first Twenty Fitted to the Tunes used in Churches Cor. I.XV. And I will sing with the Understanding also LONDON Printed for the Company of Stationers MDCXCV A New Version of the PSALMS c. PSALM I. 1. HAppy the Man whom ill advice From Virtue ne're withdrew Who ne're with Sinners stood nor sat Amongst the scoffing Crew 2. But always makes the Law of God His bus'ness and delight Devoutly reads therein by day And meditates by night 3. He like a Tree by Rivers fed With timely Fruit shall bend His Leaf shall flourish and Success All his Designs attend 4. Ungodly Men and their attempts No lasting Root shall find Untimely blasted and dispers'd Like Chaff before the wind 5. The Wicked therefore shall not stand Before their Judges face Nor Hypocrites who past for Saints Amongst the Just have place 6. God knows the ways of righteous Men To happiness they tend But Sinners and their vain designs Shall both in ruin end PSALM II. 1. WIth restless and ungovern'd Rage Why do the Heathen storm Why in such fond attempts engage As they can ne're perform 2. The Great in Council and in Might Their various Forces bring Against the Lord they all unite And his anointed King 3. Must we submit to their commands Blinded with pride they say No let us break their slavish bands And cast their chains away 4. But God who sits inthron'd on high Whose Wisdom all things guides Does their conspiring strength defie Their empty plots derides 5. Thick clouds of wrath Divine shall break On his Rebellious Foes And in loud Thunder thus he 'll speak To all that dare oppose 6. In spight of those who thwart my Will The King that I approve Whose Throne is fix'd on Sion's hill Like that shall never move 7. Listen O Earth whilst I declare My firm unchang'd Decree Thou art my Son this day my Heir Have Ibegotten thee 8. Ask and receive thy just Commands The Heathen World shall sway The utmost Limits of the Lands Shall thy dread Will obey 9. Thy pow'rful Scepter thou shalt shake And crush them ev'ry where As massy bars of Iron break The Potters brittle ware 10. Learn then ye Princes and give ear Ye Judges of the Earth 11. Worship the Lord with holy Fear Rejoyce with awful mirth 12. Appease the Son with due respect Your humble homage pay Lest he revenge the cold neglect Incens'd by your delay 13. If but in part his anger rise Who can endure its flame Then bless'd are they whose hope relies On his most holy Name PSALM III. 1. LOrd how of late are multiply'd The Troublers of my Peace And as their Factious number grows So does their Rage increase 2. Insulting they my Soul upbraid And him that I adore The God in whom he trusts say they Shall rescue him no more 3. But thou O Lord art my Defence On thee my hopes rely Thou art my Glory and shalt yet Lift up my head on high 4. Since whensoe're in like distress To God I made my pray'r He heard me from his holy Hill Why should I now despair 5. Guarded by him I laid me down My sweet repose to take For I through him securely sleep Through him in safety wake 6. No force nor fury of my foes My courage shall confound Were they as many Hosts as Men That have beset me round 7. Arise and save me O my God Who oft hast own'd my Cause And scatter'd oft these foes to me And to thy righteous Laws 8. Salvation to the Lord belongs He only can defend His Blessing he extends to all That on his pow'r depend PSALM IV. 1. OLord that art my righteous Judge To my complaint give ear Thou that still free'st me from distress Have mercy Lord and hear 2. How long will ye O Sons of Men To blot my fame devise How long your vain designs pursue And spread malicious lies 3. Consider that the righteous Man Is Gods peculiar choice And when to him I make my pray'r He always hears my voice 4. Then stand in awe of his commands Flee ev'ry thing that 's ill Commune in private with your hearts And bend them to his will 5. The place of other Sacrifice Let Righteousness supply And let your hope securely fix'd On God alone rely 6. Whilst worldly Minds impatient grow More prosp'rous Times to see Still let the glories of thy Face Shine brightly Lord on me 7. So shall my heart o'erflow with joy More lasting and more true Than theirs who stores of Corn and Wine Successively renew 8. Then down in peace I 'll lay my head And take my needful rest No other guard O Lord I crave Of thy Defence possest PSALM V. 1. LOrd hear the voice of my complaint Accept my secret pray'r 2. To thee alone my King my God Will I for help repair 3. Thou in the morn my voice shalt hear And with the dawning day To thee devoutly I 'll look up To thee devoutly pray 4. For thou the wrongs that I sustain Canst never Lord approve Who from thy sacred Dwelling-place All evil dost remove 5. Not long shall hardn'd fools remain Unpunish'd in thy sight All such as act unrighteous things Thy vengeance shall requite 6. The sland'ring Tongue O God of Truth By thee shall be destroy'd Who hat'st alike the man in blood And in deceit imploy'd 7. Bùt when thy boundless Grace shall me To thy lov'd Courts restore On thee I 'll fix my longing eyes And humbly there adore 8. Conduct me in thy righteous Paths For watchful is my foe Therefore O Lord make plain the way Wherein I ought to go 9. Their mouth vents nothing but deceit Their heart is set on wrong Their throat is a devouring grave They flatter with their tongue 10. By their own counsels let them fall Opprest with loads of sin For they against thy righteous Laws Have harden'd rebels been 11. But let all those who trust in thee With shouts their joy proclaim Let them rejoyce whom thou preserv'st And all that love thy Name 12. To righteous Men the righteous Lord His Blessing will extend And with his favour from their foes As with a Shield defend PSALM VI. 1. THY dreadful anger Lord restrain And spare a wretch forlorn Correct me not in thy fierce wrath Too heavy to be born 2. Have mercy Lord my strength decays Unable to endure The anguish of my aking bones Which thou alone canst cure 3. My tortur'd flesh infects my mind And sills my Soul with grief But Lord how long wilt thou delay To grant me thy relief 4. Thy wonted goodness Lord repeat And ease my troubled Soul Lord for thy wond'rous mercy's sake Vouchsafe to make me whole 5. For after death no more can I Thy glorious Acts proclaim No pris'ner of the silent grave Can
magnifie thy Name 6. Quite tir'd with pain with groaning faint No hope of ease I see The night that quiets common griefs Is spent in tears by me 7. My beauty fades my sight grows dim My eyes with weakness close Old age o'ertakes me whilst I think On my insulting Foes 8. But those that triumph in my harms No longer shall rejoyce For God I find accepts my tears And listens to my voice 9. 10. God hears and grants my humble pray'r And they that wish my fall Shall blush and rage to see that God Protects me from them all PSALM VII 1. OLord my God as I have plac'd My trust alone in thee From all my persecutors rage Do thou deliver me 2. Save me from my remorseless Foe Lord interpose thy pow'r Lest like a Savage Lyon he My helpless Soul devour 3 4. If I am guilty or did e're Against his peace combine Nay If I have not spar'd his life Who sought unjustly mine 5. Let then to persecuting Foes My Soul become a prey Let them to earth tread down my life In dust my honour lay 6. Arise and let thine anger Lord In my defence engage Exalt thy self above my foes And their insulting rage Awake awake in my behalf The Judgment to dispence Which thou hast righteously ordain'd For injur'd Innocence 7. So to thy Throne adoring crouds Shall still for Justice fly O! therefore for their suffering sakes Do thou return on high 8. Impartial Judge of all the world I trust my cause to thee O! judge me by my Righteousness And hearts Integrity 9. Let wickedness and wicked Men Together be o'erthrown But six the just thou God to whom The hearts of both are known 10 11. God me protects nor only me But all of upright Heart And daily lays up wrath for those Who from his Laws depart 12 If they persist he whets his sword His bow stands always bent 13. Ev'n now with swift destruction wing'd His pointed shafts are sent 14. Those treach'rous plots my foe conceiv'd Abortive are and vain 15. The pit he digg'd has prov'd a grave His ruins to contain 16. On his malicious head returns The mischief he contriv'd The violence for me design'd Is to himself arriv'd 17. Therefore of providence Divine The Justice I 'll proclaim I 'll sing the praise of God most high And celebrate his Name PSALM VIII 1. O Thou to whom all Creatures bow Within this earthly frame Thro' all the world how great art Thou How glorious is thy Name In Heav'n thy wond'rous Acts are sung Nor fully reckon'd there 2. And yet thou mak'st the infant Tongue Thy boundless Praise declare Through thee the weak confound the strong And crush their haughty Foes And so thou quell'st the wicked throng That thee and thine oppose 3. When Heav'n thy beauteous work on high Employs my wond'ring sight The Moon that nightly gilds the sky With Stars of feebler light 4. Lord what is man that still thou lov'st To keep him in thy mind Or what his offspring that thou prov'st To them so wond'rous kind 5. Him next in pow'r thou didst create To thy celestial train 6. Ordain'd with dignity and state O'er all thy works to reign 7. They jointly own his potent sway The Beasts that prey or graze 8. The Bird that wings its airy way The Fish that cuts the Seas 9. O thou to whom all Creatures bow Within this earthly frame Through all the world how great art Thou How glorious is thy Name PSALM IX 1. TO celebrate thy praise O Lord I will my heart prepare To all the list'ning world thy Works Thy wond'rous Works declare 2. The thought of them shall to my Soul Exalted raptures bring Whilst to thy Name O thou most High Triumphant Praise I sing 3. Thou mad'st my haughty Foes to turn Their backs in shameful flight Struck with thy presence down they fell They perish'd at thy sight 4. Against insulting Foes advanc'd Thou didst my cause maintain My Right asserting from thy Throne Where Truth and Justice reign 5. The insolence of heathen pride Thou hast reduc'd to shame Their wicked offspring quite destroy'd And blotted out their name 6. Mistaken Foes your threats and you Are to a period come Our Cities stand design'd by you Their slaughter'd owners Tomb. 7 8. The Lord endures who has on high His Righteous Throne prepar'd Impartial Justice to dispense To punish or reward 9. His kindness is a sure defence Against oppressing rage As troubles rise his needful aids In our behalf engage 10. All those who have his Goodness prov'd Will in his Truth confide Whose mercy ne'er forsook the man That on his help rely'd 11. Sing Praises therefore to the Lord From Sion his abode Proclaim his Deeds till all the world Confess no other God PART II. 12. When he enquiry makes for blood He 'll call their guilt to mind The injur'd humble man's complaint Relief from him shall find 13. Compassion on my troubles take That spiteful Foes create Thou that hast rescu'd me so oft From deaths devouring gate 14. In Sion then I 'll sing thy Praise To all that love thy Name And with loud shouts of grateful joy Thy saving Pow'r proclaim 15. Deep in the pit they digg'd for me The heathen pride is laid Their guilty feet to their own snare Insensibly betray'd 16. Thus by the just returns he makes The mighty Lord is known While wicked Men by their own plots Are shamefully o'erthrown 17. His injur'd Saints when most distrest He ne'er forgets to aid Their expectation shall be crown'd Tho for a time delay'd 18. No single Sinner shall escape By privacy obscur'd Nor Nations from his just Revenge By numbers be secur'd 19. Arise O Lord assert thy pow'r And let not man o'ercome Descend to Judgement and pronounce The guilty Heathens doom 20. Strike terrour through the Nations round Till by consenting fear They to each other and themselves But mortal Men appear PSALM X. 1. THy presence why withdraw'st thou Lord Why hid'st thou now thy Face When dismal Times of deep distress Call for thy wonted Grace 2. The wicked swell'd with lawless pride Have made the poor their prey O! let them fall by those designs Which they for others lay 3. For strait they triumph if success Their thriving crimes attend And sordid wretches whom God hates In his despite commend 4. To own a pow'r above themselves Their haughty pride disdains And therefore in their stubborn mind No thought of God remains 5. Oppressive methods they pursue And all their Foes they slight Because thy Judgments unobserv'd Are far above their sight 6. They fondly think their prosp'rous state Shall unmolested be They think their vain designs shall thrive From all misfortunes free 7. Vain and deceitful is their Speech With curses fill'd and lies By which the mischief they intend They study to disguise 8. Near publick Roads they lie conceal'd And all their art employ The innocent and poor at once To rifle and destroy 9. Not