of him that is most high and shall forthwith appear All they to sure Salvation whose works are good and right And they to condemnation in evil that delight Prov. 12.28 Rom. 6.23 Gal. 6.8 For life is found in righteous ways no death can be therein But death the certain wages pays of all unpardon'd sin All they that sow to sinfull flesh corruption shall inherit But endless life shall them refresh that sow unto the Spirit 1 Cor. 15.58 Be stedfast Brethren now therefore and alwaies be unmov'd Abounding now and evermore in works of God approv'd Because ye know his Holy Word doth make the Promise plain So that your labour in the Lord can never be in vain 2. PART Luke 21.34 Be carefull lest at any time you should by your excess Surcharge your souls with surfeiting or shamefull drunkenness And lest your heart be overcome with weight of worldly cares And so that day the day of Doom o'retake you unawares 1 Thes. 5.2 3. Luke 12.47 Because the day of Christ will come like as a Thief by night And when they say Peace Peace will be shall suddain vengeance light He that did know his Masters will and not himself prepare To do according to his skill full many a stripe shall bear 37 38 44. But blessed are those Servants all that watch with wakefull mind Whom Christ shall at his coming call and in this posture find He shall come forth assuredly and set them at his board And make them partners in the Joy of their advanced Lord. HYMN 145. Justification Rom. 8.33 34. IT is the Lord that justifies who therefore shall condemn It is our Saviour Christ that dy'd or rather rose agen Who also is at God's right hand ascended up on high And maketh intercession there for us continually Heb. 4.16 Col 3.17 Now therefore let us boldly come in certain hope to speed Unto the Throne of grace for grace to help in time of need And let all things we speak or do be in the name of one To God the Father giving thanks through Christ our Lord alone HYMN 146. Laud and Praise for God's Judgments or the Lambs Song Rev. 15.3 4. THY works are great and marvellous Lord God th' Almighty one Thy ways are true and righteous thou King of Saints alone Who shall not fear thee O most high and glorifie thy Name For thou alone for sanctity deservest laud and fame For all the Nations of the earth shall come and worship thee Because thy judgments are set forth so plain for us to see HYMN 147. Longing after Christ. Ye Children c. Joh. 6.32 35. Chap. 7.38 THE bread of God so truly callâ—d That giveth life unto the world is he that down from Heaven came And with this sweet celestial bread Lord let us be replenished and give us ever of the same For he that as the Scripture saith Laies hold on Christ by lively Faith shall never thirst or hunger more For by that Faith and feeding so Out of his belly there shall flow of living waters plenteous store Rev. 22.17 20. Cant. 8.14 Jam. 5.8 Come say the Spirit and the Bride And so of all let be reply'd that hear the Lamb and his dear Wife Come all that thirst and take your fill Take freely whosoever will the water of eternal life Make hast my love and be not slow Be like the nimble Hart or Row tracing upon the Mountains spic'd And I behold come speedily The coming of the Lord draws nigh Amen so come Lord Jesus Christ. HYMN 148. Love of God. Joh. 3.16 1 Joh 4 9. Joh. 3.17 SO greatly God did love the world that freely he did give His onely and begotten Son that we through him might live God sent him not into the world the world for to condemn But that he might be manifest a Saviour unto men Rev. 1.5 Joh. 3.16 Rev. 21.24 Who loved us and gave himself for our eternal good And washt away our scarlet sins in his own precious blood And whosoever trusts in him shall never perish quite But he shall have eternal life and live in endless light Luke 2.24 To God therefore that dwells on high be praise and glory still On earth be true tranquillity and unto men good will. 2. PART 1 Joh. 2.3 c. 5.3 Hereby we know undoubtedly that we do love the Lord By keeping with fidelity the Precepts of his Word And this is sure God's love in us that we his Laws fulfill Nor do we count them burdenous but do them with good will. 4.19 Eph. 1.4 1 Joh. 4.10 19. The perfect Love of God most high is manifested thus And we love him so perfectly because He first lov'd us Herein is love not ours it is but his for our dear sake In sending that sweet son of his our debts to undertake Rev. 5.13 To him that sits upon the Throne and to the Lamb therefore Be glory strength dominion and honour evermore HYMN 149. Love of the World forbidden Mat. 16.26 Col. 3.2 WHAT shall it profit any man the world to purchase whole And thereby miss the certain bliss of his immortal soul Oh set your strong affections then on things that are above And let no worth of things on earth be motives of your Love. 1 Joh. 2.16.15 All in the world is pride of Life and lusts of flesh and eyes Which do not from the Father come but from the world they rise Love not the world nor things thereof if any love so low The perfect Love of God above in him can never flow 17. These worldly things all pass away and periâ—h altogether But to fulfill God's holy will makes to abide for ever HYMN 150. Marriage Heb. 13.4 THE due estate of Marriage as Scripture doth assure Is honourable every where the bed preserved pure But Harlots and Adulterers that violate this thing By practice of unchastity will God to Judgment bring 1 Thes. 4.4 Col. 3.19 20. Then let us every one know how his vessel to possess In honourable dignity and spotless holiness And Husbands dearly love your Wives giving no bitter word And Wives submit obediently to them as to the Lord. 1 Pet. 3.3 4. And your adorning let not be in any pompous way Of plâ—ited hair and wearing gold or putting on aray But of the heart and hidden man where no corruption lies And of a meek and quiet soul which God doth highly prize 1 Cor. 7.39 1 Pet. 3.7 And be not yoakt unequally but joyned in the Lord Honouring the Wife the weaker Sex according to the Word And live together lovingly as heirs of Grace of Life That disagreements hinder not the prayers of Man and Wife Mat. 22.30 And in the Resurrection where none are in Marriage given Ye shall be like the Angels there Triumphant Saints in Heaven HYMN 151. Mediator All People c. 1 Tim. 2.5 ONE God there is and one alone and Mediator none but one The man whom we Christ Jesus call who gave himself full price for all 1 Joh. 2.1 3.
and stir'd To keep the way from all access To th' tree of Life and Blessedness Rom. 5.12 And thus by one man entred sin Into the World so Death came in And Death hath passed over all Since all have sinned by the fall And as from Adam all along Death reigned over old and young Rom. 5.18 So by one man's obedience Are many cleared from offence That as sin reign'd to Death and pain So grace to righteousness might reign Through Jesus Christ our onely Lord Wherefore praise him with one accord HYMN 12. The World degenerate To the tune of the Ten Commandments Or All People c. Gen. 6.1 IT came to pass when men began to multiply upon the Earth And Daughters born to many a man were fair and beauteous from their birth That then the Sons of godly seed did see the Daughters sprung from those That practic'd many a wicked Deed and took them Wives of all they chose Then said the Lord my spirit no more shall strive with man that is but flesh Yet shall his years be twice threescore to wait repentance and redress And God did see Mans works were nought and full of foul Iniquity Each motion of his heart and thought was onely ill continually And God repented for his part for making man upon the ground And lo it griev'd him at his heart that man so monstrous should be found I will destroy the Lord then said both man and beast and creeping thing And fowl and all that I have made for I repent their fashioning HYMN 13. The Ark Ordered Gen. 6.8 BUT Noah with the Lord found grace a perfect man without offence While all the Earth before his face was fill'd with fraud and violence And unto Noah God said thus make thee an Ark of Gopher Wood For th' Earth is most flagitious and I will drown it with a floud But thou into the Ark shalt come thou and thy Wife thy Sons their Wives Two of each sort of Creatures dumb thou shalt bring in to save their lives Of clean ones thou shalt take thee seven and likewise food for them and thee Both beasts and fowl from under heaven both male and female shall they be Heb. 11.7 Thus faithfull Noah mov'd with fear prepar'd an Ark as Scripture saith To save his House and prov'd an heir of righteousness which is by faith To God the Father and the Son and to the Holy Ghost therefore Be Glory done as first begun is now and shall be evermore HYMN 14. The Floud rising IN the six hundreth year it was of Noah's life the seventeenth Day And second Month it came to pass that Noah's Floud swept all away Then all the Fountains of the Deep were broken up beneath the Sky And Windows in the Clouds that keep were opened universally The Rain unmeasurably fell full forty Days and forty Nights The Waters did prevail and swell unto the most excessive heights The Ark was born above the Earth no less than fifteen cubits high And all the Hills which now stand forth did underneath the Waters lie And all that mov'd upon the Ground all Fowl and Beasts name what you can And every living thing was drown'd whatever breath'd and every man. HYMN 15. Eight Souls saved in the Ark. 1 Pet. 3.20 ONELY was Noah sav'd alive and those few souls that did imbark With Noah whiles the Floud let drive and were preserved in the Ark. All were destroy'd save such as sail'd in Noah's Ark which scap'd however And still the Watry Flouds prevail'd for almost half a year together Let Israel's God be prais'd therefore a God of Judgment sure is he And let the whole Earth evermore give praise to him Amen say we HYMN 16. The Floud falling AND God remembred Noah then and every living thing with him The Cattel also and the Men that to the Ark were entred in And God did make a drying Wind pass o're the Earth where flouds had rag'd Which for that purpose was design'd and so the Waters were asswag'd The Fountains also of the Deep and Heavens Windows whence it rain'd Were stopt and made all close to keep and Rain from Heaven was restrain'd And waters from the Earth always were going off to leave it dry And in an hundred fifty days they were abated wondrously And in the seventh Month that Year and on the seventeenth Day of that The Ark did rest and plain appear upon the Hills of ARARAT And still the waters did decay untill the tenth Month did ensue And in that Month on its first Day the tops of mountains were in view HYMN 17. The Raven and Dove sent out Then Noah sent a Raven out which went and passed to and fro Untill the waters all about were dryed from the Earth below Then also sent he forth a Dove to see if waters did abate From off the Earth and all above but they were still at too much height And the poor Dove could find no place whereon her weary foot might stand So she return'd to th' Ark apace and he receiv'd her with his hand Let Israel's God be prais'd therefore and with his glory Earth be fill'd And let the People evermore to him all praise and glory yield HYMN 18. The Dove with the Olive leaf Gen 8. AND seven Days more did Noah stay then sends the Dove from th' Ark again Thereby to make a fresh assay how clear the Earth was of the rain And in the Evening cometh she brings in her mouth good news to tell An Olive-leaf plukt off the tree so Noah knew the waters fell Then staid he yet seven other Days and freshly sends the Dove a-shore And finding place the Dove there stays and came not at him any more Then Noah did remove strait way the covering of the Ark to spy And lo that Year first Month and Day the face of all the Earth was dry Let Israel's God the King of Kings be ever blest and praised then Whose mercies are above all things and let all people say Amen HYMN 19. The Covenant signed by the Rainbow Gen. 8.15 c. Chap. 9.11 c. God spake to Noah then and said Thy house and harbour now resign And let the Creatures be convey'd Out of the Ark with thee and thine And let them breed abundantly In all the Earth and fruitfull be And ye shall greatly multiply And I will covenant with thee And I will make my Covenant sure And there shall never more be floud To drown the Earth while Days endure For I will make my Covenant good And when I bring a Cloud on Earth Therein there shall be seen my Bow And that shall set my Covenant forth And I will look upon it so That I may call to mind afresh The Everlasting Covenant made Between the Lord and mortal flesh In all the Earth as I have said O let the God of Israel Be prais'd and magnifi'd therefore And people all on Earth that dwell Give thanks to him for evermore Noah's Sacrifice The Mighty God
high And sin is a reproach no less to any Family Psal. 107.34 A fruitfull Land doth God expose to barrenness for sin And for the wickedness of those that live and dwell therein Job 22. ult But God doth save the smallest Land of th' innocent and pure And by the pureness of thy hand it is delivered sure HYMN 41. Excellent Counsel of Wisedom Prov. 8.1.33.1 32 33. WIsdom puts forth her voice and cries and such like words doth use Hear ye instruction and be wise and do not now refuse For ease shall slay those simple souls that let devotion dye And the prosperity of fools destroys them utterly But whoso hearkneth unto me shall dwell in safety still And shall be quiet safe and free from fear of any ill 2. PART 8.34 35 36. Blessed is he that heareth me saith Wisedom to her friends That at my Gate doth daily wait and at my door attends For surely he that findeth me finds life and shall obtain The favour of the Lord above to his eternal gain But he that sins against such things wrongs his own soul thereby And all that hate on me to wait love death and so shall dye HYMN 42. Fallow Ground to be dressed Hos. 10.12 SOW to your selves in righteousness and reap in mercy sweet Your fallow ground break up and dress for seed to make it meet For it is time to seek the Lord till he descending on you Shall come and of his own accord rain righteousness upon you HYMN 43. Gods Covenant for us with the Creatures Hos. 2.18 19 21. THUS saith the Lord above I have betrothed thee In mercy truth and tender love for ever unto me And in that day will I a faithfull Covenant make With all my Creatures generally for thy sweet safeties sake The heavens shall hear the earth the earth shall hear the corn The corn and wine that thence come forth shall hear my Church new born HYMN 44. Gods Jealousie for Jerusalem Zach 1.14 THUS saith the Lord of Hosts a Jealous God am I For Sion and for Salems Coasts with eager Jealousie 15. And I am unappeas'd towards Heathens yet unscourg'd For I was but a while displeas'd and they th' affliction urg'd 16. Therefore saith God I am return'd for all their sin With mercies to Jerusalem to build my house therein HYMN 45. Humble Supplications and Confessions All People c. Deut. 32.4 Rom. 7.12 14. O Thou most just and righteous God! Thy Law is holy just and good But we are carnal of our selves As sold to sin and nothing else Rom. 3.23 Psal. 15.5 For all have sinn'd of every sort And of thy glory are come short Our shape in sin we did assume And are transgressors from the womb Rom. 7.18 19. We from polluted Parents spring And in our flesh dwells no good thing The good we would do that we bate And do the evil that we hate Hos. 14.2 Take off all our iniquity And Lord receive us graciously So shall we sacrifice to thee The Fatlings of our lips most free HYMN 46. Humble Supplications in time of Drought All People c. Jer. 14.20 LORD we acknowledge and confess Our grievous sins and wickedness Our Fathers faults we do deplore For we have sinn'd against thee sore 21. For thy Name sake loath not thine own Do not disgrace thy glorious Throne Remember and do not infringe Thy Covenant with us for our sins 22. Can any of the Idol Powers Cause rain or can the heavens give showers O Lord our God art not thou he And therefore will we wait on thee Chron. 6.27 Send rain O Lord upon this Land Put here into thy peoples hand Lest Britain be one dried Strand And all our Earth be turn'd to Sand. And teach us that good way to know Wherein we alwaies ought to go HYMN 47. Humble Supplications in time of Sickness All People c. Jer. 10.24 COrrect us but in Judgment Lord Not in thy wrath with sharpened Sword Lest thou should'st bring us down thereby To dust and ruin utterly 9.21 Death climbs our windows by disease Enters into our PALACES Cuts off the Children from without And from the streets the young and stout 14.7 Isa. 38.9 O Lord though our Iniquities As witness-clouds against us rise Our help and healing undertake And do it for thine own Names sake HYMN 48. Humble Supplications in times of Tempest All People c. Psal. 103.19 Isa. 64.6 O Thou that dost in Heaven Reign We all are as a thing unclean And all our righteousnesses are As filthy rags unfit to wear And therefore are we justly made Like as a Leaf to fall and fade And our transgressions bearing sway As wind have taken us away Psal. 107.25.77.17 18. At thy command big storms arise Thunder and lightning fill the Skies The Clouds pour down their watry load Thy flaming Arrows fly abroad Joel 2.17 Isa. 64.9 Hab. 3.2 O spare thy People gracious God! Redeemed with thy precious Blood Keep not our sins upon record In wrath remember mercy Lord. HYMN 49. Humble Supplication in times of Transgression and Revolt All People c. Isa. 43.27 OUR Father Our first Father Lord Hath sinn'd and disobey'd thy Word And all our Teachers at the best Against thee greatly have transgress'd Isa. 64.9 Lord be not angry very sore Nor mind our faults for evermore See we beseech thee and behold How we are all thy Flock and Fold 8. Thou art our Father at this day Thou art the Potter we the Clay And we are all and every one Thy handy-work O Lord alone HYMN 50. Humble Supplication in time of War. All People c. Isa. 64.1 O That thou would'st the Heavens rend And in thy Glorious power descend And that the mountains might flow down At presence of thy face and frown 2. As when the melting fire doth flame It makes the waters boil a main To make thine enemies know thy might And Nations tremble at thy sight 3. When dreadfull things were done by thee Such as we never look'd to see Then at thy presence and thy frown The mighty Mountains flowed down Lam. 3.42 Isa. 64.5 But we have sinn'd and for our crimes Thou hast not spar'd but scourg'd the times But in thy mercies is ingrav'd CONTINVANCE and we shall be sav'd HYMN 51. Judgment waited for Luke 21.19 Jam. 5 7. Hab. 2.3 Heb. 10.37 POssess your Souls with patience and wait unweariedly Untill the coming of the Lord for lo the day draws â—â—gh For yet a little while endure Th' account shall not miscarry And he that shall come will be sure to come and will not tarry Heb. 10.38 39. Hab. 2.4 Now then the Just shall live by Faith but if a man draw back My soul shall have no joy in him that true belief doth lack But we are not of those that do draw back to condemnation But those that do believe unto the Souls assur'd Salvation HYMN 52. Judgment upon the Proud and Scornfull All People c. Prov. 8.13 THE fear of
near To worship God with reverence and Godly filial fear And for the food that perisheth be not at any Strife But for the food that doth indure to everlasting life Mat. 6.33 And seek God's Kingdom first of all his righteousness pursue And then shall all the other things be added unto you HYMN 157. Mortality and Immortality Isa. 40.6 7. All flesh is grass and soon must yield for all the goodly show Which is but as a flower in field that some short time doth grow The grass doth wither and is gone the flower doth fade and pass Because God's Spirit blows thereon the people sure is grass 8. 1 Cor. 15.53 The grass doth change the flower doth fade at one rebuking blast But loe the word our Lord hath said for ever standeth fast The corruptible must put on a state that cannot die The mortal must be cloath'd upon with immortality 54 56 57. The Scriptures sayings then shall be fulfil'd for Saints to sing O Grave where is thy Victory O Death where is thy Sting The Sting of Death Sin needs must be the Law the strength of Sin But thanks to God for Victory through Christ our Lord herein HYMN 158. Mortification Col. 3.5 Rom. 6.12 c. 8.13 YOUR earthly members mortifie and let no sin bear sway Or in your mortal body reign while ye the lusts obey For if ye serve the flesh ye dye but if that by the Spirit The bodies lusts ye mortifie then shall ye life inherit Chap. 6.16 Chap. 13.14 For his ye are whom ye obey whether of sin to death Or else of righteousness to life after this mortal breath Put on then Jesus Christ the Lord and for the fleshes ease Make no provision nor regard the lusts thereof to please 2. PART Rom. 8 7. Chap. 12.2 The carnal mind is enmity against the living Lord Not subject neither can it be to his revealed word Be chang'd therefore by minds renew'd that ye may understand What pleasing good and perfect things the Lord doth here command Chap. 8.6 Chap. 6.11 8. Because to be of carnal mind is death without release But if Spiritually inclin'd it savours Life and Peace Then count your selves as dead to sin to God in Christ alive Because if we be dead with him we trust we shall revive Mose's Song All People c. Exod. 15.1 NOw sing unto the Lord will I for he hath triumph'd gloriously The Horse and Rider both of these his hand hath cast into the Seas 5 6. The depths devour'd them every one they sank to th' bottom as a stone Lord thy right hand with power shines bright thy right hand crusht the enemy quite 7 In thy great excellence O God thou hast those Rebels under-trod Thou sentâ—â—t forth thy wrath whereby they were consum'd as stubble dry 9 The enemy thus proudly spake I will pursue and overtake The spoil â—saith he I will divide my Lust shall so be satisfi'd 10 Then didst thou blow with blustring force the Sea returned to its course And covering them became their graves they sank as Lead in mighty Waves 11. Among the Gods who 's like to thee who like thee shines in sanctity Fearfull in praises as exceeds and doing rare and wondrous deeds HYMN 160. Oppression and Rapine disswaded Prov. 4.14 15 16. GO not with wicked men my Son go not with them I say Their crooked paths avoid and shun and come not near their way For if they do no wicked deed they take no rest at all Their sleep departs unless they speed of making some to fall Mic. 22. Prov. 4.17.2.13 They covet fields and violently they take them for a prey Oppressing Town and Family because they bear the sway They eat the bread of wickedness and drink the wine of strife They leave the paths of Righteousness to lead a brutish life Isa. 59.7 8. Destruction and unhappiness are ever in their waies Nor do they know the way of peace for still their Judgment straies They make them crooked paths of sin form which they cannot cease And whosoever walks therein shall never know true peace 2. PART Prov. 1.10 11 13. My Son let sinners ticing thee be constantly withstood If they say come let us agree let us lay wait for blood All precious substance we shall find to make us rich and great And with the spoil of every kind shall fill our house compleat 14 15 16 18. Cast in thy Lot among us now let us have all one purse Refrain my Son and go not thou with them in this lewd course For unto rapine they run fast but loe their laying wait Shall be for their own lives at last and their own bloud the bait 19 31. The projects which they prosecute shall pay them home one day And they shall eat the bitter fruit of their own cursed way Such ways are his whoever strives his hands with bloud to stain To take away the owners lives for greediness of gain HYMN 161. Passion and Compassion of Christ. 1 Pet. 3.18 Chap. 2.24 LO Christ hath suffered once for sin the Just for wicked men That he might bring us unto God now reconcil'd agen Who bare our sins in his own flesh upon that cursed Tree That we should live to righteousness and dead to sin should be Isa. 53.6.3 All we like sheep have gone astray each took his course to fall And God hath laid the Load on him to answer for us all A man of sorrows sure he was and he hath born our grief Mean while we hid our face from him And gave him no relief Joh. 10.11 Lo this is that sweet Shepherd then so infinitely good That for his sheep laid down his Life and spilt his pretious bloud 2 PART Joh. 15.13 Rom. 5.7 A greater Love than this hath none to act or apprehend Than that a man should stake his life and lose it for his friend For scarce will any dye for him that lives most righteously Yet haply for a special friend some one might dare to dye 18. Chap. 14.9 But God commends his tender Love to us ward in this wise In that Christ Jesus dy'd for us when we were enemies And therefore did our Saviour die recover and revive To be the Lord both of the dead and those that are alive Heb. 13.15 By him therefore give we to God the sacrifice of praise The gratefull fruit of thankfull lips blessing his name alwaies HYMN 162. Patience Jam. 1.4 Heb. 10.36 LET Patience have her perfect work that ye may be intire And nothing wanting in your grace which God doth here require For ye have need of Patience that having done his Will Ye may receive the Promises which God shall then fulfill Chap. 6.19 Rom. 5.4 5. 2 Co. 4.17 For Patience works experience experience hope doth gain And hope shall never make asham'd whatever we sustain And lo our light affliction which is but transitory Works for us a more excellent eternal weight of glory 2 Tim. 2.12 Jam. 5.72 For they that suffer with the
shall say no more but that if these twenty short Hymns following prefix'd for Preface being supernumerary to the Centuries and consisting most-what of History and Crimination be thought by some not so suitable for Song yet for Apology-sake I would have the Judicious consider that some Psalms consist of the same Subjects The 104th Psalm as learned Dr. Roberts saith is a Narrative of the first five days Creation and of Man for whom all things were made as is shewed throughout the Psalm The 105th and 106th Psalms are Narrative and Criminatory also as some other Psalms are as Psalm 50. and Psalm 78. and many others Neither are such Psalms without great use for Edification and Edification is a matter of such importance that the Apostle saith 1 Cor. 15.5.26 Let all things be done to edifying and Greater is he that prophesies than he that speaks with tongues that the Church may receive edifying So that if these twenty following Hymns touching the Creation c. were but frequently read though not sung it might by imprinting in the memory conduce much to Edification which is the design of the whole By Thy Servant For Jesus sake William Barton The Author has finished all that ever he intended both Hymns and Psalm-Book AN ADVERTISEMENT Concerning this Posthumous Edition OF THE HYMN-BOOK Courteous Reader BE pleased to understand that the Author of these Hymns having a natural Propensity to Divine Poesie and being conversant in the Hebrew Tongue took great delight in the study and frequent Meditation of David's Psalms which at last did incline him to set upon a new Translation thereof into English Metre finding withall that the ancient usage of our Speech in Sternhold and Hopkins Translation was become obsoletely contemptuous to many people of this Age which pious and laborious undertaking he having happily effected caused it to be published in the year of our Lord 1644. which Impression selling off quickly he set forth a second Edition in the year 1645. and it was again reprinted An. 1654. in 12o. besides the Piracies which some committed upon him afterwards finding himself at leisure in his Meditations upon several parts of Sacred Scripture he collected 100 Hymns and published them under the Title of a Century of Select Hymns collected out of S. Scripture and Printed Anno 1659. in 12o. and finding in a little time that this single Century was very acceptable to the people it did much encourage him to proceed as he did in collecting another Century of Chapter-Hymns for so he called them to distinguish them from the Psalm-Hymns which he afterwards published for after he had finished his second Century of Chapter-Hymns he took occasion to overlook the multiplicity of Aliters which he had made in his Translation of the Psalms wherein he found that many of those which he had refused at first were not inferiour to those which he had published in his Psalm-Book but were far too many to insert in that Book therefore not willing that any of his Labours should be lost he composed out of them two Centuries more of Psalm-Hymns which four Centuries unpollished and as yet not Methodized to use the Author 's own words in his Epistle to the Reader before the Psalm-Hymns Section 5. Because these Centuries were formerly put forth Anno Dom. 1668 against my will by an imperfect Copy and in great disorder I have put them into a handsome method passing by no Psalm of common use but have in whole or in part inserted it and have put the whole Psalms together in double Metres and having reviewed the four Centuries which were surreptitiously printed without the knowledge or consent of the Author but after that he did then methodize and polish them at his leisure to render them as near the Hebrew and yet as smooth and acceptable as was possible to mean Capacities and in the year 1670. he published the two Centuries of Chapter-Hymns and in the year 1672. he set forth the two Centuries of Psalm-Hymns at his own proper cost and charges and all in order according to his own desire and design but since that time it pleasing God to prolong his days he collected a third Century more out of the Chapters of the Old and New Testament and another out of the Psalms which he compleated together with a Catechism the Book of Canticles and a Catalogue of the Vertuous Women mentioned in Holy Writ all in Metre with the last Additions and Corrections of the Author 's own hand writing and his twenty Prefatory Hymns besides his Replenishings with various Metres as also compleating it with divers excellent Aliters with his last supervising and then declared to his Children Relations and Friends that he had finished all he designed returning thanks to Almighty God that had spared him to finish his Work and hoped he should survive to see both his Psalm-book and Hymn-book so at large compleated to be printed but within a short time after he sickened and upon the 14th day of May 1678. it pleased God to call him out of this life to his Heavenly Kingdom being aged about 74 or 75 and since his death his last Revise of the Psalm-book was printed Anno 1682. and Now this present year 1688. is published the rest of his Works carefully preserved ever since his death viz. The Compleat Hymn-Book in Six Centuries besides Aliters double Metres and distinct Parts which together with the Prefatory Hymns amounts to the number of 778 Hymns besides the Catechism the Book of Canticles and a Catalogue of Vertuous Women enlarged all in Metre and thoroughly corrected by his own hand a little before his Death The Third Century of Chapter-Hymns are wholly New and the last Century that he made of Psalm-Hymns which though mixed for Method sake are distinguishable by the Poetical Arguments were never before printed And though the Psalm-Hymns in this Edition follow in order yet you may not expect here a Psalm-Book for here is never a Hymn composed upon any of these 29 following Psalms viz. the 5.10.13.17.18.22.26.27.28.35.38.40.56.57.58.59.60.64.71.75.76.78.88.94.109.116.118.140.143 for these you may see his Psalm-Book printed 1682. in 12o. which with this Hymn-Book makes up the Author's Divine Works compleat I need say no more concerning this Posthumous Edition of the Hymn-Book it will sufficiently manifest its excellency in the perusal but this only I do assure the Reader that all the care imaginable has been taken that no Injustice might be done to the Memory of the Worthy Author through any considerable Errata's not only by the Circumspection of the Printer and Corrector but by sending the Sheets of the whole Work to be Corrected by his Son And Your Servant in Christ Jesus Edward Barton Minister of Welford in Northamptonshire Justin Martyr of the use and Excellency of Spiritual Songs in the Church In his 107. Answer to the Orthodox IT moves the mind and makes affections strong To that which is so taking in the SONG The fleshly motions are by it supprest
Ghost therefore Be glory as at first was done and shall be evermore 2. PART On the Birth Kingdom and Conquests of CHRIST Isa. 9.3 4. NOW Lord before thee we rejoyce as men in Harvest-while As Conquerors lift up their voice when they divide the spoil For thou hast broke the burd'nous yoke the Staff that bare the sway The Rod of our Oppressors Power as once in Midian's day For every battel generally of Warriours prime and good Is with confused noise and cry and Garments roll'd in bloud But this of Christ's against his Foes that spightfully conspire Shall be with burning where it goes and Fuel mixt with Fire The day doth come as God assures that like an Oven shall burn And all the proud and wicked doers that day shall overturn But unto them that fear my Name there shall arise and spring The Sun of Peace and Righteousness with healing in his wing To God the Father and the Son and Holy Ghost therefore Be glory done as first begun and shall be evermore Hymn XII At FVNERALS to mitigate Mourning Job 1.21 NAked we go unto the Grave as from the womb we came God gives and takes but what he gave and blessed be his Name For he shall wipe off tears one day and make all faces free And our rebuke quite take away and no more death shall be No sorrow shall nor crying last nor any further pain Because the former things are past and never come again Hymn XIII At Funerals to press Patience 1 Tim. 6.7 Job 1.21 NOthing we brought into this world and it is out of doubt That we from hence when-ever call'd can carry nothing out The Lord of his good pleasure gave the Lord doth take away And let his Name the honour have and bless him day by day Hymn XIV At Funerals touching the preciousness of the Saints death Psal. 116.15 Rom. 14.8 A Thing of price unparallell'd in God our Soviour's eyes The death of all his Saints is held when any of them dies For while we live we live to God to God we also die And live or die we are indeed the Lords peculiarly Hymn XV. At Funerals touching the Resurrection Job 19.25 I Know that my Redemeer lives I know he lives alway And shall appear and stand up here on earth at Judgment day And though my skin and next to that my body turn to dust Yet in my flesh restor'd afresh I shall see God I trust Whom I shall perfectly behold when I from dust recover Not otherwise but with these eyes my self and not another Hymn 16. At Funerals touching the Saints safety in Death John 11.25 26. THE Resurrection and the Life saith Christ our Lord am I And he that hath in me belief shall live although he die And whosoever here he be that draws this mortal breath And stedfastly believes in Me shall never more see death Hymn 17. At Funerals touching the Saints sweet Rest. Rev. 14.13 I Heard a voice that spake and said to me from Heaven on high Write blessed henceforth are the dead that in the Lord do die Yea saith the Spirit that such men may leave their labours hard Their works likewise do follow them to reap a full reward Hymn 18. A Thanksgiving at or after the Sacrament All People c. Luke 2.13 GLory to God in Highest Place On Earth be peace to Men free grace We praise we bless thee we adore And glorifie thee evermore Rom. 11.17 We thank thee for thy glory great Lord God that hast the Sovereign seat O heavenly King and God alone The Father the Almighty One. John 1.14 29. Acts 2.36 O God the true begotten Word Son of the Father Christ and Lord O Lamb of God that tak'st away The worlds great sin thy grace display 2 Cor. 5.21 1 Pet. 2.24 Thou that wast made sin for our sake Who knew'st no sin some pity take Thou that did'st in thy body bear The sins of all receive our prayer Eph. 1.20 21. Job 10.30 Thou that dost sit at God's right hand One with the Father in Command Above all Angels having place Have mercy on us and shew grace Acts 2.27 33 36. For Thou art Christ the Holy One The onely LORD and Thou alone Art with the Holy Ghost most high In God the Father's Dignity Hymn 19. Attonement sought upon Humiliation or a woefull bewailing of our Corruptions and Calamities Dan. 9.4 5. O God that great and dreadfull art who keepest truth and grace To them that love thee in their heart and do thy Laws embrace O we have sinned we confess we have done wickedly We have rebell'd by wickedness and great Apostasie 6 7 9. Not hearkning to thy Messengers who spake by thy command To Princes Kings and Ancestors and People of our Land. But Lord to thee belongeth grace to us contrary way Belongs confusion of the face as at this present day 14.12 Therefore the Lord hath watch'd the stroke and brought it on us all And hath confirm'd the Word he spoke against us so to fall Our Judges too that judged us on them the Lord hath brought The evil so prodigious for sins which we have wrought 12 13. For under the whole Heav'ns of God among all sorts of men The like hath not been done abroad as to Jerusalem Yet sought we not to know the truth nor for repentance pray'd But God is just in all he doth for we have not obey'd 2. PART Dan 9.8 11. Confusion of the face pertains to us and to our Kings Our Peers and Parents for our pains in doing wicked things For all have broke thy Law O Lord revolting worse and worse That we might not obey thy Word which pours out all this curse 9.16 But mercy and forgivenesses belong O Lord to thee Though our rebellious Trespasses grow to a high degree O Lord according unto all thy righteousness we pray Let not thy dreadfull fury fall but turn thy wrath away 18.19 For we present not our address before thy Mercy-Seat For any of our righteousness but for thy mercies great Lord hear forgive and pity take hearken O Lord and do Defer not for thine own dear sake now thou art pray'd unto 18.17 Incline thine ear O Lord and hear open thine eyes and see Our desolations and the place relating unto thee And let thy face behold with grace thy Sanctuaries seat Whose present state is desolate for Christ's sake we intreat Hymn 20. A wofull Lamentation or David's Elegy for Saul and Jonathan 2 Sam 1.19 THY beauty is O Israel in thy high places slain O how those mighty Champions fell and we the loss sustain O tell it not to any one nor publish it in Gath Nor in the streets of Askalon that Israel bears such wrath 20.21 The Daughters of the Philistins lest they therein rejoyce And those uncircumcised ones lest they lift up their voice Ye mountains great of Gilboa let neither Rain nor Dew Nor fields of Offrings from that day for ever fall on you 21. For there the
in vain For when long times accomplished it shall be found again Prov. 19.17 For he that giveth to the poor doth lend unto the Lord And trusting him he shall be sure to have it all restor'd HYMN 104. Blessed Death Rev. 14.13 BLessed O blessed are the dead that in the Lord do die Thus hath the Spirit witnessed and most assuredly For from their toils that were extream they are in quiet reâ—â— Their works likewise do follow them to make them truly blest Isa 57.2 Thus shall they enter into peace and quiet rest possess In blessed beds each one of these that walk in uprightness HYMN 105. Blessings of Obedience Prov. 3.1 2 3. MY Son keep my Commandements forget not my decree For length of daies long life and peace shall these things add to thee Then let not truth and mercy kind forsake thee and depart About thy neck my Precepts bind and write them in thy heart 4. Chap. 2.5 6. So shalt thou find a good respect and understanding then Approved in the sight of God and in the sight of men Then shalt thou understand and know his wisedom and his fear For from his mouth doth wisedom flow and he gives knowledge clear 10 11.9 When Wisedom enters in thy heart and is thy souls delight Discretion shall preserve thee then and knowledge keep thee right Then righteousness shall readily by thee be understood Judgment likewise and equity and every path that 's good Mat. 25.29 Prov. 4.18 For unto every one that hath there shall be given more And he shall have abundant grace still to encrease his store For like unto the shining light is every good man's way Which more and more shines clear and bright unto the perfect day 2. PART Deut. 28.1 2 3 4. If thou shalt hearken diligently To all that God commands The Lord thy God shall set thee high above all other Lands And all these blessings shall come on and overtake thee soon The blessings of the Town and Field and blessings of the Womb. 5 6 27. The Lord shall bless thee mightily with Fruits upon thy Ground Thy Flocks of Sheep shall multiply thy Cattel shall abound The Lord shall take away from thee all sickness and disease And lay upon thee no such Plague as did on Egypt seize 7 12. The Lord shall smite thine enemies that rise up in thy sight One way against thee shall they rise and seven ways take their flight The Lord shall make the Heavens give rain in season on thy Land And prosper thee in all thy works which thou shalt take in hand 9. 1 Sam. 15.22 The Lord shall then establish thee A people of his praise If thou shalt keep to his decree and walk in all his waies For better is Obedience than Bullocks Goats and Lambs And hearkning to the will of God than all the fat of Rams HYMN 106. Blessings on the Mount or Blessed Qualifications Mat. 5.3 to the 10. BLessed O blessed are the poor the poor I say in spirit For they shall have the Kingdom sure of Heaven to inherit And blessed they that mourn and weep for they shall meet with mirth And blessed also are the meek for theirs is all the earth Blessed are they that hunger much and thirst for righteousness For God shall satisfie all such with comforts that refresh And blessed are the mercifull for God will shew them Grace And blessed are the pure in soul for they shall see his face Blessed are they that strive for peace to make men to accord For we must call all such as these the Children of the Lord. And blessed are the sufferers for love of righteousness Because a Kingdom shall be theirs in Heaven to possess HYMN 107. Call out of Babylon Have mercy c. Rev. 18.4 8. COme out of Babylon my people at my Call Lest for her sake ye should partake her sins and plagues withall Because her sins have reach'd unto the Heavens high And God doth find and call to mind all her iniquity Reward her to the full as she rewarded you And fill her cup twice double up as she was wont to do Look how much she hath been a proud Luxurious Liver So much inflict her torments strict and so much sorrow give her For thus within her heart I sit a Queen saith she No desolate poor widows state nor sorrow shall I see And therefore shall her plagues come on her in one day Famine and death and mournfull breath to make her pine away And she shall utterly be burnt with fire at length For God the Lord that doth reward and judge her hath such strength HYMN 108. Charities Qualifications 1 Cor. 13.4 5. LOng-suffering is Charity and most exceeding kind It envies not nor vaunts it self nor is puff'd up in mind Doth not unseemly bear it self it seeketh not its own Is not provoked easily and evil it thinks none 6 7 8. It Joys not in iniquity but in the truth takes joy Believes and bears indures and hopes in all things patiently And Charity fails not at all but Prophecies shall fail And Tongues shall cease and Knowledge fade but Love shall still prevail 13. And now do Faith and Hope abide and Charity these three But that which is most magnifi'd is Love and Charity HYMN 109. Chastisement Heb. 12.5 6. THE castigation of thy God my Son do not despise And when rebuked by his Rod faint not in any wise For whom he loves he never leaves without chastisement fit And every Son whom he receives must to his scourge submit 7 8. By his chastisement if he bleed Son-lâ—ke you have your lot For what Son is there whom indeed the Father chast'neth not But if ye no chastisement bear which all partake of here Then Bastards verily ye are and not his Children dear 11. And now indeed no chastening doth for the present seem A joyouâ— but a grievous thing as usually we deem But afterward it ne'rtheless doth yield us evidently The peacefull fruits of righteousness when exercis'd thereby HYMN 110. Christ his Benefits Eph 1.3 1 Cor. 1.30 BLessed be God that of his grace hath us so richly stor'd With spiritual gifts in heavenly place through Jesus Christ our Lord. Made to us wisedom righteousness and sanctifying grace Redemption also to possess the purchas'd heavenly place 2 Cor. 5.21 Joh. 14.6 Eph. 2.18 Made also to be sin for us who from all sin was free That we the perfect righteousness of God in Christ might be The way the truth and life he is and thoâ—ow him alone We by one Spirit have access unto the Holy One. Col. 3.11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew nor Sex of great or small Barbarian Scythian bond or free but Christ is all in all 2 PART Rom. 8.1 2. There is no condemnation now to them that are in Christ Who by the Spirit walk with God not as by flesh entiâ—'d Because the Law of Spirit and Life which is in Christ our Lord Hath made us free from force of sin
one 27. My Spirit I will place within you and will cause That you shall by my grace walk in my Statute-Laws so that ye shall Observe with trust my judgments just and do them all 3. PART Give laud c. Heb. 10 11. And this shall be in sum the Cov'nant of my word Made good in daies to come to Isr'el saith the Lord My Laws will I Put in their hearts and inward parts effectually 12. And they shall all know me together great and small And gratious I will be to their offences all Their sins therefore And doings ill I never will remember more Jer. 32.40 My people then shall they be stil'd and I their God Nor will I turn away from doing of them good My fear shall be In them so put that they shall not depart from me 4. PART Jer. 50.5 They shall enquire the way with faces Sion-ward Come joyn ye shall they say in Covenant with the Lord such as shall bind Perpetually and never be put out of mind 32 39. And I will give them all one heart and way saith God And fear me then they shall for ever for their good Their good alwaies And of their Sons and little ones in after daies Ezek. 34.23 Zech. 14.9 One Shepherd I will place over my pasture stock A King of David's race and he shall feed my Flock Then shall there be One Lord alone and his name one in midst of thee HYMN 120. Counsel of Christ. Rev. 3.18 I Counsel thee to buy of me Gold tryed in the fire And white array to make thee rich and trim in thine attire That in this dress thy nakedness and shame may not appear With eye salve then anoint thine eyes to make thy eye-sight clear 19 20. All whom I love I do reprove with wholsome chastisement Be zealous therefore in my way and of thy sloth repent Behold how I most graciously stand at the door and knock If any man attend to me and will the door unlock 21 22. I will come in and sup with him and he with me alone And he that overcomes with me shall sit upon my Throne Who hath an ear now let him hear what things the Spirit saith Unto the Churches every where to keep them in their Faith. HYMN 121. CREED All People c. Or O Lord consider Gal. 1.8 1 Cor. 3.11 Eph. 2.20 SHould we another Gospel preach or if a glorious Angel durst Contrary to our Doctrine teach let him be holden as accurst Other foundation none can lay than what is laid to build upon Namely what Holy Scriptures say Christ that is made chief corner-stone Eph. 4.4 5. 1 Co. 8.7 Eph. 1.7 Ro. 4. ult 25. One Body and one Spirit free one hope whereto we have our Call One Lord one Faith one Baptism one God and Father of us all One Jesus Christ in whom we have redemption through his precious bloud Who dy'd for us from sin to save and rose to make th' assurance good Ro. 8.34 Jo. 2.3 Luk. 24.47 Act. 26.18 Heb. 1.3 Who by the word of his command made and upholds whatever is Who sits enthron'd at God's right hand and intercedeth there for his Repentance preached in his Name and free remission of our sin That we thâ— inheritance might claim among the Saints by faith in him Heb. 6.1 Act. 3.19 Mat. 24.35 Luk 1.45 The Resurrection of the Flesh and the eternal Judgment Day When Christ his Presence shall refresh and Heaven and Earth shall pass away Blessed are they that have believ'd for every thing and every word Shall be accomplish'd and atchiev'd that hath been spoken by the Lord. Deborah's Song Judg. 5.2 3. SIng praise O Israel to the Lord that hath avenged thee When as the people went to fight offering themselves so free Ye Kings give ear ye Princes hear I even I will sing And sweetly raise my voice in praise to Israel's mighty King. 8.6 7 10. My heart is towards the Governours that did their help afford Offering themselves so willingly wherefore bless ye the Lord. Ye travellers and passengers and ye that ride in state And ye that yet in judgment sit now speak it in the Gate 11.6 7. They that are freed from frightfull noise of Archers at the Well Shall oft rehearse God's righteous Acts his Acts to Israel The Passengers were wanderers in by-paths up and down And none could dwell in Israel but in a walled Town 2. PART 12 19. Awake awake O Deborah rise Barak sing a Song Abinoam's Son thy captives lead thy captives lead along There fought the Kings hard by the springs of great Megiddoes plain But brought away no prize nor prey to glory of their gain 30 20. Curse Meroz said God's Angel then curse Meroz bitterly That would not help the Lord against a potent Enemy But there were those against our foes that fought from Heaven that day The Stars in course did fight with force against keen Sisera 27 31. At Jael's feet he bow'd he fell he bow'd and fell down dead She smote and pierc'd his temples through and then cut off his head So perish those that are thy foes but Lord let all thy Lovers Be like the Sun when he at noon his brightest beams discovers HYMN 123. Diligence in Duties Phil. 2.12 2 Pet. 1.8 10. WORK out your own salvation with trembling and with fear That barren ye may neither be nor fruitless plants appear But use all circumspection that ye may so find out Your Calling and Election to make it out of doubt 5 6. Add to your Faith the Vertuous Path to Vertue Knowledge knit With this advance sweet Temperance and Patience joyn to it To Patience add true Piety with Piety express The Kindness that is Brotherly and Charitableness 5 10 11. Besides all this ye may not miss of Diligence in all For if ye do these things pursue then can ye never fall Opening a door of large extent by this devout behaviour Into the Kingdom permanent of Christ our Lord and Saviour HYMN 124. Dragon's Downfall Ye Children c. Rev. 12.10 11. NOW is salvation come abroad The strength and Kingdom of our God now hath his Christ extoll'd his might For the Accusers made to fall He that accus'd our Brethren all before our God both day and night And him they quell'd and overcame By the pure blood of Christ the Lamb and by their testimony true For by that double-edged Sword The witness of their faithfull word this enemy they overthrew 12. Nor did they spare their utmost breath Nor love their lives unto the death but boldly laid down all at stake Therefore ye Heavens lift up your voice And ye that dwell in them rejoyce in this Salvation to partake But woe to you to you O Sirs The Earth and Seas inhabiters guilty of our Accuser's Crime For Satan is come down to you Having great wrath because he knew he now must have but little time 11.17.7.10 12. We give thee thanks with one consent O Lord our God
flesh no breaking in where dread and danger meets No going out to wars begun afresh no sad complaining uttered in our streets Happy the people blest so for their bodies Yea happy people whose protector God is HYMN 570. Out of Psalm 145. Argument Perpetual praises to the Lord are vow'd And Saints enjoyn'd to set them out aloud David's Psalm of praise I Will extoll thee Lord my King and bless thy Name for ever Each day will I be honouring thy Name neglecting never Great is the Lord and great in praise his greatness none can search One age shall praise thy works and ways to thy succeeding Church Thy mighty acts they shall proclaim and I will here discuss The glorious fame of thy great Name and works miraculous And men shall shew the mightiness of all thy dreadfull deeds And I 'll express with readiness thy greatness which exceeds The mem'ry of thy goodness great they largely shall express Thy righteousness they shall repeat in Songs of thankfulness HYMN 571. 2. PART Argument God's slow to anger prone to grace His mercy shines in every place Psalm 145. verse 8 THE Lord 's a very gracious one whom kind compassions fill To anger slow to mercy prone and bears us great good will. verse 9 The Lord is very good to all as all his creatures find And all his works in general taste of his mercies kind verse 10 Thee Lord shall all thy works renown and thee thy Saints shall bless verse 11 They shall renown thy Kingly Crown and thy great power express verse 12 To make the Sons of men to know God's mighty acts and great His Kingdoms gloriousness to show and his majestick Seat. verse 13 Thy Kingdom 's an eternal one and stands forever fast And thy alone Dominion from age to age shall last verse 21 Therefore my mouth shall speak his praise and universal flesh His holy Name 's renown shall raise and ever sound afresh HYMN 572. 3. PART Argument The weak upheld all Creatures are supply'd With timely food and God is magnifi'd Psalm 145. v. 20. THE Lord preserveth faithfully all those that do him love But all the wicked he 'll destroy with vengeance from above verse 15 The eyes of all do wait on thee and thou dost give them meat In fitting opportunity that all may have to eat verse 16 Thy opened hand O Lord of might doth great abundance bring To satisfie the appetite of every living thing Psalm 145. 4. PART Argument God just and holy takes delight To hear the Prayers of men upright He quite subverts lewd sinners ways And claims our universal praise verse 17 THE Lord is just in all his ways holy in all he doth verse 18 And nigh to every one that prays and calls on him in truth verse 19 He will fulfill the just desires of all the holy seed He hears their cry what that requires and helps them at their need verse 21 Let Israel's God the Lord therefore be prais'd of all together From first to last for evermore Amen Amen for ever HYMN 573. Trust in God blessed Psalm 146.1 2. 1. METRE GReat praise to God Almighty give my soul praise thou the Lord Yea whilst I have a day to live his praises I 'll record I will give praises â—o my God my soul and song agreeing Whilst here on earth I have abode whilst I have any being 3 4. Trust not in Princes mortal seed nor in the Son of man For help you in your greatest need be sure they never can His breath goes forth and he is dead he turneth to his clay And all his thoughts are perished in that same very day 5 6. But happy happy man is he whom Jacob's God doth own Whose help the Lord his God will be who hopes in him alone Which did the Heaven and Earth begin creating both together The Sea and all that is therein which keepeth truth for ever 7 8. Which executeth judgment good for men that are opprest Which to the hungry giveth food and prisoners sets at rest The Lord doth open blind mens eyes and raiseth from the dust The bowed down the Lord likewise doth greatly love the just 9. He keeps the stranger safe and sure in their forlorn estate The Lord relieves the Orphans poor and Widows desolate But as for men that disobey the Lord on them doth frown And their ungodly wicked way he turneth upside down 10. The Lord throughout all ages still shall reign for evermore Even thy God O Sion hill praise ye the Lord therefore HYMN 574. Trust in God immortal powerfull faithfull Give laud c. Psal. 146. v. 1 to 9. 2. METRE MY soul praise thou the Lord as long as thou hast breath In Songs his praise record and honour him till death trust not in Kings Nor humane seed which are indeed vain helpless things Breath fails and dust they be there all their thoughts are laid But happy happy he whom Jacobâ—s â—s God doth aid that hopes in him Who made all these Heav'n Earth and Seas and all therein That keepeth Covenant still that helps the wrong'd to right That doth the hungry fill that gives the blind their sight sets prisoners free Loves upright men and raiseth them bow'd down that be HYMN 575. Trust in the preserver viz. of Srangers Widows and Fatherless Give laud c. Psalm 146.9 3. METRE THE Lord 's Almighty hand preserveth evermore The Strangers in the Land the Widows and the poor and doth relieve The Fatherless in their distress that mourn and grieve As for the sinners way he turns it upside down But he shall reign for aye and wear th' Eternal Crown thy God thy Lord O Sion-hill shall govern still his praise record HYMN 576. 4. METRE Argument Never in Kings or Princes trust For they quickly fall to dust All People c. Psalm 146.1 to 5. THE Lord 's deserved praise proclaim my soul do thou extoll his fame I while I live will praises give unto the Lord 's Almighty Name Unto my God will I sing praise while breath prolongs my life and days Trust in no King nor mortal thing they can no help nor succour raise For lo there passeth out his breath and he returns to dust of death That very day his thoughts decay and every project perisheth HYMN 577. 5. METRE Argument Happy he that trusts alone In the high and holy one That made Heaven Seas and Shore And keeps Covenant evermore Psa. 146. O Happy happy happy one whoever Jacob's God hath known To be his aid whose hope is staid upon the Lord his God alone That made the Heavens Seas and Shore the Earth and all the num'rous store In liquid Seas he made all these and keepeth truth for evermore In judgment he for us proceeds for to avenge oppressors deeds From bondage he sets prisoners free the Lord likewise the hungry feeds HYMN 578. 6. METRE Argument God loves the Just helps the distrest For ever reigns his Name is blest Psal. 146. THE Lord doth
and us from death restor'd 3. Gal. 4.4 1 Pet. 1.8 For when the Law was weak through Flesh and had no strength to save God sent his Son of Virgin-seed and him to us he gave Whom having never seen we love and through belâ—ef no less Rejoyce with joy unsâ—eakable and full of gloriousness Jude 25. Rev. 4.13 God onely wise our Saviour that on the Throne doth sit Have honour glory praise and power for ever so be it HYMN 111. Christ's Commission Mat. 10.1 8. WHenas our Lord had call'd his twelve he gave them power at large Against all Devils and Disease and thus he gave them charge Go heal the sick the Leaprous cleanse the dead men cause to live Cast Devils out your grant is free and therefore freely give 14 15 16. Whoso receives or heâ—rs you not it shall be far more ease For Sodom and Gomorrah's Land at judgment than for these Behold as Sheep in midst of Wolves I send you forth saith he The Serpents wisedom therefore use and Doves simplicity 2. PART Mat 28.18 19. Behold all power is given me in Heaven and Earth likewise Go therefore into all the world and Nations gospeâ—ize Baptize them in the Fathers Name in every Land and Coast And in the Name of God the Son and of the Holy Ghost 20. Rev. 19.16 Gal. 1.5 And teach them to observe and do whatever I command And I behold am now with you and while the world doth stand To Christ the King of Kings therefore and Lord of Lords most high Be praise and glory evermore to all eternity HYMN 112. Communion of Saints Heb. 12.22 23. NOW are we come to Sion Mount the City of abode The Heavenly Jerusalem where dwells the living God. To Hosts of Angels numberless and to th' assembly there The General Church of God's first born whose names in Heaven appear 24. Mat. 25.32 And unto God the Judge of all on whom the world must wait And to the Spirits of all just men made perfect in that State. To Jesus Mediatour of the covenant now made new Whoâ—e sprinkled blood speaks better things than Abelâ—s â—s blood could do Rev. 5.13 Blessing and glory and renown then give we altogether To him that on the Throne sits down and to the Lamb for ever HYMN 113. Confession of Christ. Mat. 10.32 Rom. 10.10 HIM that confesseth me to men will I saith Christ record And will acknowledge him agen before my heavenly Lord. For man believes to righteousness with humble heart alone And with the tongue doth man confess unto Salvation 1 Tim 3.16 This Mystery of Godliness is very great and high God manifested in the flesh the Spirit did justifie The blessed Angels saw his face his word the Gentiles heard Believ'd on in the world he was to God's right hand preferr'd HYMN 114. Confession of Sin. All People c. Heb. 1.13 Dan. 9.6 O Lord that art of purer eye than to behold iniquity We all have sinned we confess and have committed wickedness Isa. 59.12 Ezr. 9.6 Our trespasses against us show our sins we cannot chuse but know For they are swollen above our head and are unto the Heavens spread Luke 15.18 O Father we have grievously offended Thee that dwell'st on high Unworthy to be own'd therefore as thy dear Children any more Ezra 9.13 Ezek. 18.32 Yet hast thou never punish'd sin so much as our deserts have been Nor is the death of him that dies a matter pleasing in thine eyes Neh. 9.27 Ezek. 13.32 For thou art unto anger slow and dost with grace and mercy flow Thou art most ready to forgive therefore let us return and live HYMN 115. Confidence in God. O Lord consider c. Hab. 3.17 18. ALthough the fig-tree shall not spring although the Vine no grape shall yield The Olive fail her fruit to bring nor any food be in the field The flock be cut off from the fold no beasts can in the stalls be had Yet in the Lord my joyes shall hold in God my Saviour Iâ—le be glad HYMN 116. The Conquest All People c. Deut. 33.26 to the end THere is not one 'tis truly said like Jeshurun's great God on high Who rides on heaven for thy aid with excellency on the sky Th' eternal God thy refuge is his everlasting Arms thy stay He will thrust out thine enemies before thee saying kill and slay Then Isr'el shall dwell safe unmixt and on a Land of Corn and Wine There Jacob's Fountain shall he fixt the Heavens dropping on his Vine O happy Isr'el we record whom like to thee doth God advance O people saved by the Lord the shield of thy deliverance Thy excellency's Sword is he and all thy foes of forreign Powers Shall be found lyers unto thee and thou shalt tread on their high Towers HYMN 117. Conscience 2 Tim. 1.5 Prov. 4.23 Act. 21.16 THE end of all the Law is Love out of an heart unstain'd A conscience that we can approve and out of Faith unfeign'd Keep then your heart with diligence with all the care you can A Conscience void of all offence both towards God and Man. Heb. 10.22 2 Cor. 1.12 1 Joh. 3.21 And so draw near with upright heart with faith both full and sure Our Conscience cleans'd our Bodies wash'd with Baptism-water pure And our rejoycing shall be this our consciences attest For if our hearts condemn us not on God we boldly rest HYMN 118. Contentation Prov. 30.8 9. LORD give me neither poverty nor too abundant store Give me to live conveniently and I desire no more Not riches Lord too largely deal lest pride should be my bane Nor poverty lest I should steal and take God's Name in vain Phil. 4.11 12. Heb. 13.5 And teach me if my state be scant or if I fulness find To know how to abound or want with a contented mind And let my conversation still be void of covetousness For God hath said I never will forsake thee in distress HYMN 119. Covenant-Grace Give laud c. Isa. 55.1 2 3. HO all that thirst and pine come to the waters here And ye that have no coyn Come buy and eat good chear O Come I say Buy milk and wine without your coyn without your pay Why do ye money spend for that which is not bread And labour to no end not bâ—ing fill'd or fed Heark diligently And eat ye food both fat and good to your souls joy Incline your ear and come hear and your soul shall live And I will make you room and I to you will give My Covenant-grace The mercies sure which shall indure to David's race 2. PART Give laud c. Ezek. 36.25 Besprinkle you will I wiâ—h water that shall cleanse And I will purifie your conscience by this means from Idols then And all excess of filthiness I 'le make you clean 26. I will in you create a heart with grace refin'd I will regenerate the Spirit of your mind your heart of stone I will remove and make it prove a tender