hunger-pin'd 2. Part. Argument Gods providence towards poor prisoners sick persons though incurring their miseries by their sins verse 10 SUch as in darkness have abode With shade of death ore-cast VVhom irons and afflictions load VVhich fetters bind them fast verse 11 Because Gods word was scornfully Rebell'd against by them The counsell of the Lord most high Because they did contem ' verse 12 With labour sore he tam'd their pride They fell quite succourless verse 13 In trouble then to God they cri'd He sav'd them from distress verse 14 From shade of death darksom night Which they were subject under He brought them out to life and light And brake their bonds asunder verse 15 O that the Lord might reap due praise For every wondrous deed And goodness show'd in all his waies To mans unworthy seed verse 16 The gates of brass he broke in two And iron bars divide verse 17 Fools for offences which they do Great miseries abide verse 18 Their soul abhors all kind of meat To gates of death draws near verse 19 They cry to God in troubles great He saves them from their fear verse 20 He sent his word and heal'd them then From ruines were they rais'd verse 21 O that the Lord so good to men Were for his goodness prais'd And for his wondrous works likewise To us that mortall are verse 22 And bring him thanks for sacrifice His works with joy declare 3. Part. Argument Gods rare providence over Seamen verse 23 THey that in ships go down to Seas And have affairs to do verse 24 In waters great such men as these Gods wonders see into His works in deeps discern do they verse 25 For he commandeth oft The storming wind to stir the Sea VVhich lifts her waves aloft verse 26 They mount to heav'n and back again Down to the deeps they roll The dangerous trouble they sustain Dissolves their very soul. verse 27 They stagger like to drunken men And reeling to and fro verse 28 Almost besides their senses then They cry to God in wo. He them from their distresses saves verse 29 And doth proud storms asswage Becalms the Seas tumultuous waves And stills their boist'rous rage verse 30 Then have they rest the tempest past And are most joyfull for 't And so he brings them at the last To their desired Port. verse 31 O that the Lord were duly prais'd For all his goodness then And for his mighty wonders rais'd To all the sons of men 4. Part. Argument All sorts exhorted to praise God that raiseth the poor and depresseth the proud the blessedness of such as observe Gods providence verse 32 AMong the people gathered Let them exalt his Name Among assembled Elders spread His most renowned fame verse 33 He springs of waters waterless And rivers deserts makes verse 34 A fruitfull land all barrenness For wicked dwellers sakes verse 35 Dry wilderness again he brings Into a standing VVell Dry desert ground to water-springs verse 36 Wherein the hungry dwell Inhabited Cities to prepare verse 37 To sow each neighb'ring field Plant vineyards with industrious care Increasing fruits to yeeld verse 38 Such blessings are on them confer'd That they are much increast Not suffering them of all the herd To lose a sory beast verse 39 Again they are diminished And brought to low estate Through great affliction suffered Distrest disconsolate verse 40 He on their Princes powres disgrace And causeth them to stray In solitary desert place Where is no beaten way verse 41 Yet saves the poor from misery sets him on safeties rock And makes him up a family Like to a num'rous flock verse 42 This thing the righteous shall behold Rejoycing in the same And all iniquitie controll'd Shall stop her mouth with shame verse 43 Who so hath wisdom from above These matters to record Ev'n they shall understand the love And kindness of the Lord. PSAL. CVIII London short tune David praises God and prays for the enlargement of his kingdom a type of Christs O God I fix my heart My glory bears a part And as my tongue So shall my song Praise thee with musicks art verse 2 VVake harp and psaltery Right early wake will I verse 3 Thy praises Lord Will I record The people standing by I 'l praise thee with my song The nations all among verse 4 To heavens high To clouds of skie His truth and mercies throng verse 5 Exalted be thy Name Above the heavens frame Let earth below The Trumpet blow Of thy renowned fame verse 6 That thy belov'd of thee Delivered may be Thy help command With thy right hand And kindly answer me 2. Part. Argument David hoping to enlarge his kingdom according to Gods promises depends wholly on Gods power verse 7 IN holiness God spake Which doth me joyfull make Shechem my share And Succoth are To measure out and take verse 8 Manasseh Gilead's mine And Ephraim I 'l assign VVhile Judahs tribe My laws prescribe To keep this head of mine verse 9 My washpot Moab shall be Edom I 'l tread on thee Philistia do Thou triumph too And that because of mee verse 10 But who will be my guide To Edom fortifi'd verse 11 Lord wilt not thou Assist us now That hast before deni'd O Lord wilt thou refrain 〈◊〉 Armies to maintain verse 12 Thy help afford In trouble Lord For mortall succour's vain verse 13 VVith Gods assistance crown'd VVe shall do acts renown'd For he it is The pow'r is his That shall our foes confound PSAL. CIX To new staffe tune David fearfully cursing Judas with a propheticall spirit leaves a dreadfull example to deter all false hypocrites and furious persecutors O God my praise my just cause plead verse 2 The lewd deceitfull throng Their mouths have open'd and inveigh'd Against me with false tongue verse 3 VVith words of spight And causless fight They compass me about verse 4 Even for my love My foes they prove But I ply pray'rs devout verse 5 Much hate for love to me they show And ill for good reward verse 6 Some wicked man set ore my so To be a Master hard Let Satan stand At his right hand verse 7 VVhen judgement shall begin Appoint that he Condemned be And turn his pray'r to sin verse 8 His office let another take Cut short his treach'rous life verse 9 His children wretched orphans make VVith widowhood vex his wife verse 10 Let 's children fly Continually Abroad as vagrants base And begging fed Seek out their bread In ev'ry desolate place verse 11 Let merciless extortioners Catch all he hath away And let some greedy foreiners Of 's labours make a prey verse 12 Stir up no friend That may extend Relief in his distress And let there no Man favour show Unto his fatherless 2. Part. Argument as before verse 13 CUt off the race that from him breeds With everlasting shame And in the age that next succeeds
6 Thou shalt destroy them that are prone To utter tales and lies God will abhorre the bloudy one And such as fraud devise verse 7 But to thy house will I draw neer In thine abundant grace And worship in thy sacred fear Towards thy holy place 2. Part. Argument He prays for Gods safe protection and sure direction lest he should fall into the power or practise of the wicked here described the sweet and safe condition of the godly verse 8 LOrd in thy justice be my guide Because of all my foes Thy paths lest I should goe aside Before my face disclose verse 9 For in their mouths no faithfulness Nor truth have any room Their inward parts meer wickedness Their throat an open tomb They flatter with dissembling tongue verse 10 O God destroy them all By their own counsels going wrong Let them be sure to fall Cast out in their iniquitie And multitudes of sin For lo they have rebelliously Offended thee therein verse 11 But let them all that trust in thee And love thy holy Name Since they by thee defended bee Be joyfull in the same For gladness let them ever shout verse 12 For thou wilt blessings yeeld And guard the Righteous round about With favour as a Shield PSAL. VI. To Davids tune David complains of his sicknes the impossibilitie to serve God in the state of Death the extremitie of his sorrows malignitie of his adversaries he getteth victory over his temptations O Lord my God rebuke me not When thou shalt angry bee When thy displeasure waxeth hot O do not chasten mee verse 2 O Lord have mercy on my soule For I am wondrous weak Lord I beseech thee make me whole My bones with anguish break verse 3 My soul is also vexed sore But Lord how long a space verse 4 Return ô Lord my soul restore O save mee of thy grace verse 5 For after death can no man have Remembrance Lord of thee Who hopes to thank thee in the grave verse 6 My groaning wearieth mee All night I make my bed to swimme My Couch with teares o're-flowes verse 7 Mine eye consum'd with griefe grows dimme Because of all my foes verse 8 From me yee sinners go away For lo my voice that wept The Lord hath heard the Lord I say verse 9 My prayer will accept God heard my suit at my desire verse 10 Let shame my foes confound With suddain shame let them retire And sore vexations wound PSAL. VII To Coventry tune 1. Part. Argument David being forced out of Jerusalem by Absoloms Conspiracy and rail'd upon by Shimei pleads his own innocency O Lord my God I do repose My confidence in thee From all my persecuting foes Save and deliver mee verse 2 Lest like a Lyon cruelly My soul he piece-meal rend And teare it while no Saviour's by To succour and defend verse 3 O Lord my God if I have done This treasonable act Or if my hands have ere begun So treacherous a fact verse 4 If I to him rewarded ill That was with me at peace Yea I did still by my good will My causlesse foe release verse 5 Then let my foe pursue my soul And take and tread it down Trampling my life with proud controul And bury my renown II. Part. Argument David prays for restauration to his Kingdom to minister just judgement to the people after the example of almightie God verse 6 RIse Lord in wrath lift up thy hand Because my foes so storm The Judgement which thou didst cōmand Awaking now perform verse 7 Then shall th' Assembly generally Themselves to me betake Return therefore and sit on high Even for this peoples sake verse 8 His peoples cause the Lord will trie O let my Judgement bee According to th' integritie And righteousnesse in mee verse 9 O put a finall period To lewd mens wickednesse As for the righteous men ô God Establish them no lesse The righteous God tries heart reins And every secret part verse 10 And my defence is by his means Who saves the upright heart 3. Part. Argument God tries the righteous with wise and just corrections plagues the wicked with dire and dreadfull punishments confounding them in their own cursed Counsells verse 11 WIth Judgement will the Lord be sure The righteous to repay And with the lewd and wicked doer God's angry every day verse 12 Unlesse he speedily repent His glittering sword is whet His angry bow the Lord hath bent And hath it ready set verse 13 He hath prepared deadly darts Determining to shoot Choice arrowes at the vip'rous hearts Of those that persecute verse 14 Behold how with iniquitie He travailes in his thought Conceiving mischief craftily And falshood forth hath brought verse 15 He made a pit in digging which Great pains himself did take And now is fall'n into the ditch Which he himself did make verse 16 Upon his own head shall reboun◠His mischiefe spite and hate His violent dealing shall come down And light upon his pate verse 17 Unto the Lord give thanks will I For all his righteous waies And to the Name of God most high Sing chearfull songs of praise PSAL. VIII To Coventry tune David admires God glory most glorious in weak instruments his goodnes to mankinde giving him dignitie and dominion over the inferiour world which Christ taking our nature subdues and sanctifies to us O Lord our Lord how excellent In all the earth 's thy Name Behold thou hast They glory plac't Above the heavens frame verse 2 Weak babes and sucklings thou hast sent To preach thy power and skill That thou might'st so Th' avengefull foe And adversary still verse 3 When I behold attentively The heavens thy fingers frame The Moon on high And starrie skie Which by thine ord'nance came verse 4 What 's man or mans posteritie Think I what wondrous love He should of thee Remembred bee Or visited from above verse 5 For thou hast made him little lower Then Angels in degree And didst him crown With great renown And glorious dignitie verse 6 Thou mad'st him have dominion ore The works which thou hast wrought Beneath his feet Subjection meet Thou hast all creatures taught verse 7 All oxen sheep and fowl with these And cattell him obey What e're the field verse 8 Or aire can yield And fishes of the Sea What ever 's in the paths of Seas Or passeth through the same O Lord our Lord All lands record The splendor of thy Name PSAL. IX To Davids tune Argument David praiseth God for defence of the Church and destruction of the enemies God the supream King and righteous Judge of the world in whom the faithfull happily conside O Lord I 'l praise thy holy Name With true and hearty zeal Thy wondrous works will I proclame And none of them conceal verse 2 In thee be glad in thee rejoyce And to thy Name will I In songs of praise lift up my voice O thou that art most high
verse 3 When as mine adversaries shall Be turned back with shame For in thy presence they shall fall And perish by the same verse 4 For thou ô Lord thou hast alone Maintain'd my righteous Cause Thou fatest in thy righteous Throne To judge by righteous Lawes verse 5 Thou hast rebuk't the heathen rude And made for ever void Their hatefull name so that the lewd Are utterly destroy'd verse 6 Destructions are accomplished O Enemie so it frames Thou hast destroy'd and ruined Great Cities and their names verse 7 But God the true Eternall one For ever shall abide He hath prepar'd his kingly throne Just Judgement to decide verse 8 From Judgement he will not decline Exactly just and true To judge the world and will assigne To every man his due verse 9 The Lord moreover will become A refuge for th' opprest In times extreamly troublesome Securest place of rest verse 10 In thee will all men trust repose That know thy faithfull Name For thou hast not forsaken those That duly seek the same 2. Part. Argument God is glorified in delivering the Church and taking the wicked in their own craftinesse verse 11 UNto the Lord our God sing praise That dwells in Zion mount And all his wondrous works and wayes Unto the Church recount verse 12 When he for blood inquiry makes Those he forgets not then But into his remembrance takes The cryes of humble men verse 13 From gates of death thou dost me rear Have mercy on my state Think on the troubles that I bear Of those that do me hate verse 14 That I in Zions daughters gates May all thy praise record For thy salvation consolates My thankfull heart ô Lord. verse 15 Sunk down the wicked Heathen are Into the pit they made Their foot is taken in the snare Which they themselves have laid verse 16 By doing Judgement God is known The wicked man is snar'd By that destruction which his own Mischievous hands prepar'd verse 17 The wicked shall be turn'd to Hell These God-forgetting men verse 18 For poor men shall not alwayes dwell In dark oblivions den The needies long expecting eyes For ever shall not fail verse 19 Up Lord against the Heathen rise And let not man prevail Let them be judged in thy sight verse 20 And all the Nations then With fear and dread be danted quite And know themselves but men PSAL. X. York tune The presumption and crueltie of the wicked WHy dost thou Lord stand off so farre And seem'st thy self to hide And see'st what troublous times here are And what oppressing pride verse 2 Wherewith the wicked hunt the poor O let them be surpris'd Caught in the snare they thought so sure And which themselves devis'd verse 3 He boasteth of his hearts desire And doth the covetous blesse Whom while the wicked doth admire The Lord abhorres no lesse verse 4 Not seeking after God a jot Such is his staring pride In all his thoughts God commeth not verse 5 His waies none can abide Thy Judgements Lord are far enough Above his purblind sight At 's enemies he makes a puff And by them all sets light verse 6 His heart hath said I know that I Shall never be displac't Nor of the least adversitie At any time shall tast verse 7 His mouth is full of blasphemie Of fraud deceit and wrong Mischievousness and vanitie Sit underneath his tongue verse 8 In lurking dens and od by-ways Of Villages he sits The innocent he takes and slays In secret holes and pits 2. Part. Argument The craft and crueltie of the wicked prayer prevails against their power verse 9 MOst privily against poor men He bends his murth'rous eyes And like a Lyon in his den In wait he closely lies That he the simple man may get He lies in secret wait When once he draws him to his net Then doth he catch him strait verse 10 He doth crouch down and lowly bend Humbling himself withall That so the poor man that 's his end By his strong Ones may fall verse 11 His heart hath said God hath forgot He hides away his eyes On purpose he beholds it not verse 12 O Lord ô God arise Forget not but thy hand forth-stretch For poor men undertrod verse 13 O wherefore should a wicked wretch Contemn all-mighty God It shall not be requir'd at all Thus hath he said in heart verse 14 But of their mischief spite and gall Thou Lord a witness art And wilt requite it with thy hand The poor man doth commend Himself to thee for thou dost stand The fatherless his friend 3. Part. Argument as before verse 15 THe arm of Tyrants merciless Lord break in sunder quite Search out his secret wickedness Till all be come to light verse 16 God reigneth an eternall King By whose revenging hand The heathen people perishing Are banished the land verse 17 Lord the desire of humble men Hath pierc't thine easie ear An heart thou wilt prepare us then And cause thine Eare to hear verse 18 To judge the poor and fatherlesse That are opprest so sore That earthly men may not oppresse Nor vex them any more PSAL. XI French 1. Tune Argument The Saints impregnable safety so long as God is in heaven his different dealing with the good and bad IN God I put my Confidence Why do yee utter such a word Why say you to my soul fly hence Unto your mountain as a bird verse 2 For lo the wicked bend their bowes Their arrows on their strings prepare In secret for to shoot at those That upright-hearted persons are verse 3 If the foundations be destroy'd What can the Righteous do they say verse 4 Heavens holy temple stands not void For God is present there for ay The Lord within the heavens high Hath stablished his royall throne His Eyes behold his Eye-lids try The sonnes of mortall men each one verse 5 The Lord the righteous throughly tries But he the wicked greatly hates And him that loveth cruelties His righteous soul abominates verse 6 Brimstone and fire and tangling snares Upon the wicked raine shall he An horrible tempest he prepares The portion of their cup to be verse 7 For God that is a righteous one Doth righteousnesse as much affect The upright man he looks upon With very singular respect PSAL. XII To new tune Argument The great corruption of the wicked world their prophane and presumptuous speeches The preservation of the Church O Lord put to thy helping hand For now the godly cease The faithfull people of the land Exceedingly decrease verse 2 Men generally Speak vanitie Unto their friends apart Their conference slips From flattering lips And from a double heart verse 3 The lips that utter flatterings The Lord will cut away And tongues that speak presumptuous things verse 4 For thus they boast and say We shall not fail But to prevail With tongue and lips most free They are in our Peculiar
voice With thine inheritance 2. Part. Argument Our disobedience and ingratitudo instanced and exemplifi'd by Israel and humbly confessed verse 6 WE into sins have run The father and the son Transgressing by INIQUITIE VVe wickedly have done verse 7 The wonders which thy hand Perform'd in Aegypt land Our fathers old Who did behold Yet did not understand Thy mercies many a one They did not think upon But at the Sea Provoke did they The red Sea scor'd it on verse 8 Yet letting them alone He sav'd them every one For his Name sake That he might make His mighty power known verse 9 The red Sea on each side At his rebuke was dri'd Through depths profound As desert ground He did his people guide verse 10 Their Saviour he did stand Against their haters hand Redeeming those From hand of foes That rul'd them at command verse 11 The waters drown'd their foes Not one was left of those verse 12 His words the men Beleeved then His praise their songs compose verse 13 His works they soon forgot For 's counsels waited not verse 14 In Wilderness Their lusts excess Restraining not a jot 3. part Argument The judgements of God upon Corah and shamefull Idolatry of Israel IN deserts God they tempt verse 15 At their requests content Quails to bestow With leanness tho Into their soul 't was sent verse 16 As they in camp abide Good Moses they envi'd On Aaron too They envie drew Whom God had sanctifi'd verse 17 The earth asunder clave Became a swallowing grave VVhere Dathan and Abiram stand And unto all they have verse 18 And in their company Fire kindled suddenly The flame caught then Those wicked men Which were burnt up thereby verse 19 In Horeb were they bold To make a calf of gold And worshipped An image dead Which they did melt and mould verse 20 Thus they their glory pass Into a molten mass Of Oxes rude Similitude A beast that eateth grass 4. Part. Argument Gods vehement wrath against Israel pacifi'd by Moses intercession their incredulitie and contempt of the promised land verse 21 OF God their Saviours might They were forgetfull quite VVhose pow'r and dread Accomplished Great things in Aegypts sight verse 22 He wrought with wondrous hand In Hams accursed land Dread things were they At that red Sea Perform'd by his command verse 23 Therefore he said that he Would their destruction be Had not alone His chosen one Good Moses been so free He stood to save them each Before him in the breach To turn away His wrath that day Lest them destruction reach verse 24 Yea they in careless wise That pleasant land despise And entertain His words as vain And deeming them but lies verse 25 But murmured in their tents And gave not their consents With willing ear The voice to hear Of his commandements verse 26 He lifted up his hand That he would them withstand To overthrow That people so Within the desert land verse 27 Their seed to overthrow And scatter them also In forein lands And tyrants hands To serve a heathen to 5. Part. Argument The corporall and spirituall adultery of Israel The zeal of Phinehas their provoking of Moses to passion and lenitie to the Canaanites verse 28 TO Baal the God of Peor Themselves adjoined were They are likewise The sacrifice Of those dead Idols there verse 29 Thus did they him provoke To fiercest angers stroke So hatefull their Inventions were The plague upon them broke verse 30 Then Phinehas rose to aid With justice he repaid Their foulest facts This part he acts And so the plague was stay'd verse 31 'T was deemed righteousness Which that act did express And ages all For ever shall Esteem it for no less verse 32 At Meribah they spake And him they angry make So discontent That ill it went With Moses for their sake verse 33 His Spirit they provoke Rash speeches from him broke Such errour slips From hasty lips So unadvis'd he spoke verse 34 They were advertised And charg'd to smite them dead Yet did not they Those Nations slay verse 35 But were among them spread The works which heath'nish are To learn they did not spare verse 36 And there they serv'd Their Idols carv'd Which were to them a snare 6. Part. Argument The horrid Idolatries of Israel the dreadfull judgement of God for the same verse 37 YEa they did sacrifice Their little girls and boyes Daughters nor Sons Their blind zeal shuns To Devill-Deities verse 38 And innocent bloud they shed Which sons and daughters bled Whom they likewise In sacrifice To Canaan Idols led verse 39 VVith bloud they stain'd the land VVith works of their own hand VVhich they invent A whoring went Defil'd with that foul brand verse 40 The wrath of God therefore Against them kindled sore So that the Lord His own abhor'd Such blame his her'tage bore verse 41 He left them in the hands And under the commands Of heathen men Whose hatred then They felt in forein lands verse 42 Their enemies also Opprest and brought them low His people were Subjected there Under a forein fo 7. Part. Argument Gods mercifull compassions to his distressed people he taketh heart to pray for deâ—â—erance from present calamities verse 43 HE sav'd them many times Yet their unjust designes Provok't him so They were brought low For their abhorred crimes verse 44 But never a whit the less Their pitifull distress He did regard When as he h'ard Their cry in bitterness And he to mind did call His cov'nant for them all verse 45 His mercies shew'd Their multitude For he repents their thrall verse 46 He made them pitied there Of all whose slaves they were verse 47 Lord God our stay Now save we pray Thy people ev'ry where Gather thy flock that strays 'Mong heathen now adays That we may fame Thy holy Name And triumph in thy praise verse 48 Bless Israels God most high To all eternitie And people then Say all Amen The Lord to magnifie PSAL. CVII To Dutch tune That God is magnifi'd for his admirable providence over captives and planters O Give ye thanks unto the Lord Who doth with goodness flow VVith everlasting mercies stor'd verse 2 Let Gods redeem'd say so VVhom he redeem'd from enemies hand verse 3 And gathered them to rest From North and South in every Land And from the East and West verse 4 No Citie they for dwelling found They wandred in the ways Of solitary desert ground verse 5 Where thirst and hunger slays Their weary souls did in them faint verse 6 When trouble on them seis'd Unto the Lord they made complaint Who their distresses eas'd verse 7 He led them forth by straitest ways To Cities of abode verse 8 O then that men would give God praise For all his mercies show'd And for his works and wondrous deeds To men of mortall kind verse 9 Who longing souls with goodness feeds And fills the