no powÄ•r can stand SOME charrets make their strength and grace In horses som proud glori place Fond ioy false strength at thundring call Horse charrets men to ground doo fall We then to heăvens address our ey Where surer trust faiths eys descry A trust which whilÄ•st they doun are brought Our standing strength and triÅmph hath wrought Then hear vs Lord let heavÄ•ns great king Our king on earth home safely bring â—…ALM 21. King DAVID yieldeth solemn Thanks unto God at his return with Uictori over Gods enimies and farther foresheweth their utter extermination THE King Lord towărd thy glorious face Victorious eys dooth ioyful rear His strength thy spir̆it his health thy grace With doubled triÅmphs his soule dooth chear What hart could wish what lips did crave Thy bountÄ•ous hand him strangely gave YEA whÄ•ther his thoughts had nÄ•ver aspyr'd Thy blessing roial him prevents Of purest gold croun undesyr'd To humble head rich hand prezents Then lire he ask'd thou long to live Yea life eternal didst him give WHAT maiesti on earth can shine What woorship mortal man may grace What glori only not diuine Thy goodnes all on him dooth place That him all ages pattern rare Of matchles bliss shal ay declare THEN ioy his thankful hart hath fraught Which from thy face serene derives Which firm affiănce hath likewise wrought Which ioy again stil fresh revives For sith the King in th'HighÄ•st dooth trust Thou' rt safe ô King ô HighÄ•st thou' rt iust FOR as on thyn thy love is sign'd So powrful hand those monsters dire Which hate the sovÄ•rain good shal fynd And found confound in day of ire As firi furnace they shal fume Which kindled once dooth self consume WITH cursed sires corrupted seed From face of earth thou shalt destroy For spite gainst thee their brains doo breed Vain spite which woorks but self-annoy As mark their faces thou shalt lay On which thy winged shafts may play OTHOW who euerlasting reins Of world almighti Guid doost sway Advance thy strength and proud disdains Of miscrÄ•ants vyld great Lord repay So we thy powÄ•r shal sing and praize Which foes dooth quell thy servants raize TREBLE THe King Lord towărd thy glorious face Victorious eys dooth ioy-ful rear His strength thy spÄrit his health thy grace With doubled triumphs his soule dooth chear What hart could wish what lips did crave Thy bountÄ•ous hand him strangely gave MEANE COVNTERTENOR TENOR BASE LUTE PSALM 22. Our Saviours complaint vpon the Cross thanks giuing for deliuerance and propheci touching the great encrease and perpetuiti of his Church foretold by DAVID MY God my God why doost thou me forsake Why to my plaints thyn ear a stranger make By day I cry but thou far off art gone By night deer Lord but audience fynd I none YET Holi Lord thou same doost stil endure Thyn Israels ioy their song of praises pure Our Fathers Lord in thee did faithful trust On thee they hopÄ•d Thou to their hopes wert iust They cry'd and tears did not shour doun in vain Their crys thou heard'st and freedst them from their pain BVTI a worm not man but mans reproach Where abiects vyld their basest scornings broach What ey me vieuth same ey dooth me deride They wag proud heads false lips they wryth aside He trusts in God Let God from heăven above Make good this trust and now declare his love TRVETH Lord my hope from mothers brest thou wast Then hopes sure ground thy gracious promise past From mothers womb I rest bequeathd to thee Thence me receiv'dst my Saviour Lord to bee THEN saving Lord sith troÅble dooth press so neer Ah troÅble vntryd and no where help appear Be thow not far See Lord what buls are met Huge buls of Basan round haue me beset With gaping iaws much lion-like they play Which ramps to seaze and roars to rend his pray SEE vital iuice to watri stream distild My bones disioint my hart with anguish fild Like melting wax consumes as fire-burnt clay My spir̆its being dryd lifes vigours all decay Yea withÄ•ring tong to parched chops dooth cleve Thus me my Lord in dust of death doost leve FOR dogs have mee besiegÄ•d A savage rout Of vyld malfactors mee envir̆on about Hands Feet they 'ue pierc'd my bones may all be told Which gazing eyâ—… from flinted harts behold My robe vnript amongst them they divide And seamles cote by chancing lot decide BVT thow my Lord in weakest state my strength My hope in death look doun release at length From heavÄ•ns award my life from swoord discharge From powÄ•r of dog my desolate soule enlarge From lions mouth from unÄcorns horns with speed Now hearÄ•st ô save in soules extremest need THY glorious name I 'le preach to brethren deer And faithful Church in midst thy praise shal hear From thankful voice resound Ye sons of grace Who fear your Lord and thow great IsraÄ•ls race LovÄ•d Iacobs seed your revÄ•rend ioys enhance His praise through earth his name to heavÄ•ns advance FOR not with scorning mynd or loathing ey Th' afflicted wight he careles passed by Ne helpful face from rueful sight did hide But gracious ear to iust complaint applyd Then vows I 'le pay before them which thee fear And sacred praise assembli great shal hear THE spirits myld whom dews celestial bless Shal fruits of earth in plentÄ•ous rest possess Their gracious zele Gods glorious praise shal sing Your ended life shal life unending bring YEA natiÅns all which earth 's great globe doo fill EvÄ•n kindreds which hir bounds extremest till At length themselves remember shal and mourn Till whom they left to him again they turn To mighti king whose woord whole world dooth wield Thus worship due shal world united yield FOR him all states shal serve On earths great store The rich shal feed and heavÄ•ns great Lord adore And poorest wretch who doun in dust doth ly To him shal bow and dying death defy This course great ages run Their poster̆ous race In worlds cleer vieu his service shal embrace And so transmit that childrens children ay His iustice learn his sacred will obay PSALM 25. DAVID as it seemeth upon his last farewel and flight from the Coort of Saul understanding perhaps of the great levi of forces to persue him and entring in that distress of state as well into a revieu of sins of his coortli life past as into a forevieu of troubles which in this banishment he must endure wholy casteth himself upon the merci and favour of God Whom he praieth for Protection from his wrongful enimies for Remission of his sins and for Direction in the best coorse of life Withall he celebrateth Gods graciousnes toward his faithful servants and concludeth with a petition in behalf also of the people TO THEE his faithful soule thy servant Lord dooth rear My God my trust ô dain hir humblest suits to hear And let not black disgrace my lifes pure light obscure And frustrate hope proud foes insulting ioys alure Let none
But those who hate the iust Shal perish all the wicked harts owne malice grynds to dust Their owne desires them plague But God shal rightÄ•ous souls redeem And none shal quail to him that trust who him their life esteem PSALM 36. DAVID here entituled the servant of God having described first the reprobate sence of the wicked breaketh out into admiration of the divine infinitnes in all perfections in the participation and fruition of which consisteth the final beatitude of Gods true Servants when the rebellious shal ly under euerlasting destruction THE bestiăl mynd forsaking God resolv'd to ioy in sin To shun remorse first natures light t' extinguish dooth begin Then cheers himself in blyndest ways no vyld desire refrains Til in my hart no dread of God before his eys remains At length evÄ•n gloriÄ•th in his shame and ioith ah wretched state Inventing ill which well adviz'd his trembling soule would hate DEFYLD distuned soule His lips which ought Gods praises sound And world with trueth assist in leud and lying woords abound His mynd of vnderstanding pure good thoughts it self deprives And nought but mischief fraud and wrong on silent bed contrives In sum estrangÄ•d from goodnes all enthral'd to ill he bends His steps towărd death where vengeance due rebelliÅus soules attends O LORD what highth what depth what bredth thy greatnes may profess What hart can goodnes thyn conceive what tong thy praise express Thy bounteÅus grace from heavÄ•ns to earth thy creatures all comprends Thy iustice mountains huge surmounts thy trueth yond clouds extends A deep abiss thy iudgements rest O thow doost all protect Thou man doost save ne simplest beast in needful things neglect BVT ô how precious towărd mankynd thy mercies Lord redound Whence servants thyn thy shadÅing wings their sure retrait have found And when at last through ended toils they at thyn House arrive There pleasantst food there sweetest streams ay pure delights revive For thow ô fountain great of life their life doost still refresh And beams from thee deriv'd their eys with sight al-gloriÅus bless THEN Lord hold on thy kyndnes deer towărd those that knowe thy name And iustice thyn array the soules whom sacred loves enflame And let not proud oppressing foot my gracious ways deface Nor sinning hand misdraw my soule thoughts sinful to embrace Lo sinners proud defecting soules throwne doun in dreadful guise In dead destruction ay involv'd to life shall never rize PSALM 37. King DAVID now full of years and experience remooueth here those great and difficult scandals of wicked mens prosperiti and good mens afflictions He sheweth that the godli who delight in the law of God and exercize themselves in heavenli wisdom live alwaies in the favour of God and under divine protection that God maketh them partakers even of the temporal blessings of this life though not alwaies in the largest yet in a sufficient and contenâ—…ful proportion and such as is for their greatest good which blessings are to them also more constant and permanent and that Gods holi hand both delivereth them from the malignant practises of the wicked and preserveth them in times of publick plagues and calamities furnishing them with abiliti to be helpful also to others yea that though they fall he raizeth them up again and what troubles soever they pass thorough in this life that their end yet is assured peace Wherein they have also this pleazing comfort that God will continue his blessings even to their seed and posteriti Contrarily he intermixeth a discoveri of the truly calamitous state of the wicked who beeing the enimies of God and deprived of his protection though they flourish for a while yeâ—… have no stabiliti but are sodainly cut off yea in the midst of their wealth and pomp they are not only uncontent and restles but endure also much want through inordinate desires and misgovernment As for their attempts against the good they return upon themselves beaten back upon them to their owne confusion And lastly their end is assured destruction involving with it often the ruine of their unblest posteriti Upon these grounds and reasons he exhorteth the good not to fret at the wickeds so false and fading prosperiti but to be careful to avoid sin to delight in God and to employ themselves wholy in dooing that which is good So trusting in God and waiting patiently upon him committing also their ways unto him they shal be both safe under his protection and happi by his blessing LET not unpleazing vieu of bad mens flouring state Through indignation sour thy ioious thoughts abate For doun like withering grass they quicly shall be mowne As bloom of tenderst herb their flour away be blowne BUT thow Gods servant true on him thy Lord rely In him delight and thoughts to rightÄ•ous woorks apply Inhabite then the land thou by thy land shalt live Yea God thy godli hart his full desires shal give IF troubles thee assail to God thy ways commit And trust to him who them to happiÄ•st end shal fit No shame shal thee attaint thy iustnes fair as light And cleer as shining noon he shall produce thy right THEN rest on God his will with patient hope attend And let not woorthles man who brings leud thoughts to end And prospers in his coorse thy discontent imbreed Shun wrath fierce choler rein great sins from rage proceed For proud misdoÅer shal rot while root they lasting take Who humbly wait on God his law their mirrour make BVT yet a while and lo the wicked shall not bee His stateli seat no place for him or his shal see When as the myld with ioy shal pleasant land possess Where length of plentÄ•ous peace shal thankful ioy rebless I'TS true the rightÄ•ous man whose life ill lifes reprooves His sight alone ill mynds to deep distemper mooves That him as publique foe the godles crues beset And practise vyld apply to wrap in snaring net Yea teeth through felnes gnash But God shal them deride Who seeth their day approach black night to all their pride Let swoords be drawn bend bowes the poor and iust to kill Bent bowes shal break drawn swoords the drawÄ•rs best bloud shal spill AND though som iust be poor th'uniust with plenti swell Yet in that one poor house more true content dooth dwel Then all their pomps can yield For God shal him maintain When pride and powÄ•r uniust with shivÄ•red arms remain OUR gracious Lord fit times for all his servants knowes And now he more now less but still their best bestowes ContinÅance is their bliss In perilous time from wrack In plague them shields from death in famin bare from lack WhilÄ• evÄ•n as tenderst faâ—… meer force of smoke consumes So impious wretch Gods foe soon spent to vapour fumes FOR though th'uniust by fraud by force have much purloind Yet nothing thrives leud gain hath vain expence adioin'd That still a borroÄ•r bare on neighbours goods he feeds And none repays The iust still rich in vertuÅus deeds
Thus did thy goodnes shine thy goodnes which their foes With conquÄ•rous arm subduing round large matter did discloze For damÅsels at return with ioying note to sound Kings armies fly they fly and spoils wee home-left soules haue found FOR though in servile state like scullions mongst the pots With soot ye long have lain begrymd yet now your happiÄ•r lots As dove shal make you shine who with hir lustring wings Now silver̆i hieu now golden light to ey delighted brings For when th'Almighti Lord those Kinglets strawd on ground Like snowe on Salmon black dark woes bright ioy so then had cround NOW Sion draws myn eys whom Bashans peer account Nor Bashans soil nor stateli clifts fair Sions praise surmount For why should worldli hils the earths huge towÄ•rs so rize And vant their might why hill of God with surli brows despize Here Gods dezired rest thus ay shal it excell Celestiăl squadrons here attend here Sinais glories dwell Twise thousands ten and more brave host of heavÄ•nli Knights Gods will observe receiv'd perform hee midst their love requites BUT thow victorious Lord ascended art on high In triumph great lead'st thraldom thrald and there great gest of sky Hast gifts of grace receiv'd mongst men which doost divide Yea race rebellious so doost win with thyn to thyn abide Be blest then Lord our God With saving graces hee Us daily loads For God's the God that brings salvation free Hath issuÄng ways from death but enÄmies head shal smite Yea hairi scalp of him in sin who still shal take delight BUT to his people saith I thâ—…m wil bring again From tyrants yoke from strangers coasts from land and Sea amain As once from Aegypts rod from deapth of sea and pride Of Bashans Giănt I them reducè'd made ancient fields divide That thow thy foot maist dip thy dog his tong embrue In smoking streams of fomi bloud which enÄmies brests out-spue AND now Gods march proceeds thy march ô God my King Who in thy Sanctuări residÄ•st there blessings man doâ—…st bring A â—…ight of ioy Before the singers hold their way Them instruments ensue in midst yong maids on timbrels play All cry with ioy Bless God Praize in assembli high Ye Isrăels stream the Lord. Here first smal Beniamin stands nigh Late Prince here Iudahs Lords their troops and here appear Naphthaliăn Lords from far with Lords who ZebÅlons honour rear AND now since gracious Lord commanded hath our strength Maintain from sacred house placÄ•d o're Ierusalem at length What thow great God for us what hast for fathers wrought So from subiected Kings to thee shal prezents due be brought RATE doun the reed-shafts beast the buls and heards so bold With peoples calf-like Lords who vain in silver plates have rold So woork thy peoples peace securÄ•d from Hethen spite O thow who scattrest them on war who set their fierce delight And then Aegyptiăn peers then Aethiopiăn lands Soon humbly shall with gifts to thee stretch foorth their suppliănt hands YE kings and kingdoms all o're earths fair face disspred With songs and sounds of ioy adore your God and supreme head Whence all your powÄ•rs derive Hee then on th'heavÄ•ns rides On heavÄ•ns of heavÄ•ns of old and rocks with thundring voice divides Ascribe all might to God whose glorious beauti shines On Isrăels head whose peerles strength the matchles sky designs O God thyn Israels strength what venerable fear Thy sanctuaries strike Be blest Our soules to thee we rear PSALM 69. The Prophet King DAVID in the time of Absaloms rebellion for then it should seem this Psalm was made by iniurious persecution of his enimies beeing reduced to extreme distress and miseri though happi that he was therein a type of our Saviour who was then also in him as a Son in his Ancester together with the historical narration of his owne wrongs and griefs prophetically also describeth and that more fully and properly the passions of Christ through the envi and malice of the Iues who cruelly constrained him to pay at a deer ransom the price of that whereof himself in his owne person was not gilti Thus oppressed reproached and scorned by his enimies and by his neerest frends abandoned for no other crime then for his zele toward the service and glori of God he flieth by a most fervent and argumentative praier to God for succour devoteth his enimies amongst whom first Achitophel then Iudas had their parts to utter destruction and lastly in his deliveri sheweth his owne particular thankfulnes the great comfort of Gods people and a general propension of all the creatures of God to praise him for his goodnes toward his chozen Church consisting of all his loving and faithful servants HELP Lord and save a poor distressed wight Not tost with waves though seas against me fight And beat my soule but sinking in the mud Where bottom none and where the surging flud With furious stream beres doun and whelms my life Ah save me Lord and end my bootles strife I strive though spent I cry when voice is quailÄ•d For God I look when eys have looking failÄ•d TH'iniurious spir̆its my not-deserved foes Who hunt my life with numbers me encloze That pass myn hair and rizing still in strength Press on til mee ô wrong they force at length What nevÄ•r I took as taken to restore Ah thee my falts my folies ly before BUT not for mee Eternal Lord of hosts Great Israèls God let those whose humble boasts Of thee have been confounded rest in mynd Nor shame in face when him forlorn they fynd Who thee with them in patient hope hath sought For thy sake Lord to this I lo am brought For thee I scorns and sour rebuke endure May service thyn great Lord such shame procure WHAT should I speak of frends unfrendli face My brethren deer same mothers home-born race A stranger mee an alien mere esteem And why The zele of which I worthi deem Thy sacred hests thy House and glorious name Which godles crues stil grieving mee prophane Hath eăten me up Reproaches throwne at thee From mouths infernal light have all on mee IN grief I wept and fasting fed on care My ioyles lims rough sacweb clothÄ•d on bare My weed they proverb mocks on fasting pour And laugh the tears which vexed hart dooth shour In iudgement place gainst mee the ancients spake Yea balads base vyld drunkards of me make AND I my Lord to thee now praying bend In needfulst time Let ô my crys ascend And time accepted fynd O God my trust If right thou seest and if my plaints be iust In plentÄ•ous merci ' and for thy saving trueth Send ô that help which life in death renuÄ•th OH free me Lord from sinking in this mire This groundles mire and from their fierce desire Whose hate my life persuÄ•th Draw from these waves Th' orewhelmed soule thy hand who drouning craves And prays Forbid this gulf my life t' inglut Devouring pit on me hir mouth to shut HEAR Lord
with speed and tender ey reflect Thou Goodnes pure thy servants not neglect In case extreme who mercies hand implore O spring of grace I mercies those adore Then Lord be neer yea for my ' insulting foes To free my soule once heavÄ•nli aid discloze AH see and iudge thou knowÄ•st my sad reproach Fore thee my foes my shames who shameles broach Stand all in sight Their wrongs have worn my hart Full chargÄ•d with grief I lookt if yet som part My frends would bere no frend condoling found If comfort speak but none least comfort sound For strengthning meat yea poizÅning gall they sent And vinÄ•ger tart my thirst to quench prezent THERFORE iust Lord their owne them home repay Their pleazing boord where ioys before them play Let turn a snare to catch them in their woords And that which foli ' as lot to fools affoords Their wishes hurt good fortunes bee their bane Mynds sight obscure their loins rough valure lame AND as in furi man laith lode of blowes So let revenge which from thyn anger flowes Ad stripe to stripe and seaze with raging ire Their hated heads which mischief sole dezire Void stand their castles dweller none be found To grace the tents where graceles facts abound FOR thow whom Lord with hand severe hast smit They fierce persue and inhumanely sit With grievous woords t' encrease thy woundeds pain Let sin so sin so plague to plague enchain Thy righteÅusnes that still they wretched miss Nor way e're fynd that leads to heavÄ•nli bliss Devowd to death from book of life efface Ne write their names where iust mens names have place NOW I stil poor sole rich in griefs remain Help saving Lord and raize me once again That raiz'd thy grace my song may thankful praize And blisful name to heavÄ•ns fair arches raize This sacrifice more pleazing God shal bee Then cleft-hoov'd steer at Altars horns to see THE myld of mynd great comfort hence shal take This sight shal ioy them O let harts awake To seek the Lord and so your harts shal live Nor wynds nor seas can from his anchor drive For ey of care who towărd mans wants reflects His prisÅners crys sure nevÄ•r at need neglects THEN heavÄ•ns and earth then seas and all your gests Which spatiate there conform to supreme hests Ay laud our King who Sion fair wil save And Iudahs touns repair There shall they have A seat and lasting state Thus God shal bless His folks true seed who love towărd him address PSALM 79. This Psalm which seemeth to have been compozed in the time of Antiochus the persecutour by som descendant of the famous ASAPH and who bare also his name which in that Tribe was frequent conteineth a most lamentable complaint unto God of the ruins of Ierusalem the defilements of the Temple and massacre of Gods faithful servants Then praying first for propitiation for the sins of the people the true cause of that calamiti he presseth on with most fervent suit for speedi deliverance and large revenge upon their Hethen enimies THE HethÄ•n ô God who fear not no nor knowe Thy glorious name into thy land are com And in thyn House whence blessings pure did flowe With hands impure polluting facts haue doon DEFYLD thy sacred seat thy rites profanÄ•d Thy treasures robd thy Citti set on fire Ierusalem earths ioy which earst was namÄ•d Throwne doun on heaps sits now in lothed mire THY servants slain for loial love to thee Their bodies dead heăvens fouls cast out to feed And flesh of Saints whose faith thyn eys did see To earths wyld beasts ingluvious throats decreed THEIR bloud as torrent streams about the wals Of sad Ierusalem no burriÄ•r found Opprobrious scorn us grievous lot befals And laughings proud in neighbours mouths abound HOW long ô Lord shal ever flame thyn ire Can no distress once moove to pitti take Thy iealous wrath and shal it rage like fire Which water none no tears may e're asslake AH turn it first gainst those who nor invoke Thy name great Lord nor knowe or seeke thy face Gainst Hethen kingdoms who with mortal stroke Thy Iacob wound lay wast h s resting place REDUCE not Lord to thyn offended eys Those falts forepast which still unthankful wee And fathers our have doon let grace arize Our soules from gilt of sorroed sins to free AND thou arize and with thy mercies deer Prevent our instant deaths Ah case extreme Denys delay Help source of goodnes meer And save vs thow whence safeties all doo stream RESPECT great Lord the glori of thy name Which wee revere our enimies proud despize Insulting HethÄ•n to say they doo not shame Where 's now the God on whom their hope relys BVT let our God make noble in our sight To Hethen eys his high revenging hand That giltles bloud pourd out and not in fight Of servants thyn may full revenged stand AND let the sighs and moornings of thy Saints Who grone in chains to thee access obtain And mighti arm excited by their plaints Them rescue ' who now to death consignd remain THUS neighbours scorns wherewith they thee reproach SevÄ•nfold to them in bosom Lord restore We then thy folk and flock thyn acts shal broach With thanks and praise will evÄ•r our God adore PSALM 73. The Prophet ASAPH by the sence of his owne afflictions and by contrari vieu of the exulting prosperiti of godles persons who pass on a pleasant time blaspheming God and oppressing his servants having endured like as other of the people of God a sore temptation of calling into question the veri Omniscience of God and his government over this loweër world at length getting the victori by Gods especial assistance he sheweth that out of the Sanctuari of God where his Oracles were delivered he had learned that it was not the condition of this transitori life but the end it self whereby the state of the good and bad was to be esteemed Seeing then the end of the wicked to be utter destruction and everlasting happines to attend the righteous he betaketh himself wholy to the conduct of divine direction with great assurance to be guided by Gods counseil in this life and afterward to be received by God into eternal glori In expectance whereof his soule repozeth YET surely God benign to IsraÄ•l stands To pure in hart But I was sore declynd Griev'd vieu of fools of wicked prospering hands Had welnigh sapt my weak unwari mynd FROM bands of death by sicnes force or snare They free pass on live lusti puft with ioy With humane toils and cares untroubled are Yea publick plagues them least and last annoy THIS makes with pride their out-stretcht necks like chein With violence fierce as robe they lims attire Their plentÄ•ous fare red strouting eys proclaim While heaping wealth surmounts evÄ•n harts desire FROM poizÅning filth their lothsom talk they change Oppressions proud with lofti stile to sound Their tongs through earth in wronging men doo range And hellish
Governours whence much mischief ensueth or by ani other evil or sorro whatsoever are all brought upon them by their sins and that odious unthankfulnes to God who yet even in publick miseries preserveth and prospereth his humble servants and when Nations apply themselfs faithfully to his service poureth upon them all blessings opposite to those former punishments Which things wise men will consider and make use of especially so as to knowe and acknowlege the Crëatours goodnes YE woorthi mynds in whom Gods gifts excell Whose persons walk on earth high thoughts in heavÄ•ns doo dwell Renoum our Lord ring foorth his glorious name Whose goodnes no time fails sweet mercies still the same OBLAZE his acts ye now at rest that stand From hostile powÄ•r redeemd redeemd from strangers land Ye late dispersd now gathered by his grace From East from West from North yea from great Oceăns place In deserts wyld through uncouth invious ways All tired all forlorn they wandred nights and days With fainting spir̆its through thirst and hunger pin'd And no relief no steps towărd cultivÄ•d place could fynd IN need extreme when lo to God they cry He gracious hears their mone and help from heavÄ•n makes fly So strength renues so straying feet directs To peopled wals and safe from perils all protects O thankful then to God his grace confess His mervÄ•ilous woork to men with ioious tongs express Who thirsting soule with waters sweet refreshd The empti fild and pace towărd longed home addresd IN darknes sad in shade of grisli death With irÅn and anguish bound who sighd their servile breath Il-ruled mynds that this and more deserv'd That Highests woord despysd from Gods advise that swarv'd When hart-burst clean they grovÄ•ling rold in pain Ne hope of better saw nor place for worse remain IN need extreme to God their suit they bent Who pityÄng rueful plight from heavÄ•n sweet comfort sent He darknes dire grim shade of death dispels he cords from hands from feet he fetters burst repels O thankful then to God his grace confess His wondrous act to men with ioious tongs express Who brazen gates made all to fragments flee Brake bars of irÅn strong Lord and prison̆ers did enfree UNGOVERND fools transported by their lust From vertuÅus ways to vice when God severely iust Their wicked ioys afflicts such sicnes sends That soule abhorring meat at deaths pale door attends IN hour extreme to God then lo they cry Who gracious hears their grones and ease from heavÄ•n bids hy Doun comÄ•th his woord the per̆ishing soule to save And hasting life retracts from neer approached grave O thankful then to God his grace confess His mercies great to men with ioious tongs express And clensd in hart iust sacrifice of praise Let grateful hands yield vp renoum him all your days TO Seas in ships who Arts chief woork descend Adventrous harts by trade penurious state to mend Or spatious lakes who pass what wondrous sight Strange woorks of God in deep their staring looks affright Lo strait his woord tempestuÅus wynd dooth rear And roughest frouns on seas late smiling face appear Anon towărd heavÄ•ns on back of arched wave They mount dismount in trise towărd hels unloveli cave As drunk they reel then melting harts gin fail Nought toil nought careful coorse of Masters skil avail IN case extreme when lo to God they cry Who gracious hears griev'd voice and help from heavÄ•n bids hy Strait wynds repose smooth hieu calmd seas regain Harts ioy woorks cheer til safe they long longd havÄ•n attain Then thankful ô to God his grace confess His merveils great to men with ioious tongs express And let Gods Church let faithful people hear Vowd praise in senat grave his mercies rare endeer HEE bubling springs chokes up with thirsti sand Yea rivers rich accursd dry desert makes to stand And fertile soil in plague of owners sin To saltnes damns whence fruit nor skil nor toil can win AGAIN his grace dry desert stores with pools Sends springs and bare burnt earth with fruitful moisture cools There hungri soules their citti sets to place Who sowe their grains plant vines years sweet return embrace Abounding food then blest with restful peace To numbers huge themselves their flocks and heards encrease BUT harts puft up soon spurning heavÄ•nli law Ah fools in chains of sin enchained tortures draw Oppression foul sad days unthriving care Their ioyles mynds abase their branching numbers bare He vyld contempt on woorthles Nobles pours And wayles wasts makes walk chasÄ•d out from lordli towÄ•rs Yet godli poor raizd up from pressing need As tree makes branch as flock his branched race to breed THESE things the iust with reverend ioy shal see And wicked mynds and mouths appald and stopt shal bee Who then is wise these sights to hart to lay Gods goodnes they shal learn Gods praises they display PSALM 110. The Prophet DAVID foresheweth the everlasting Kingdom and Priesthood of Christ who after his Ascension sitting at the Right hand of God should send out his forces from Sion and Ierusalem to reduce the world unto him Which spiritual warfare should take so wonderful effect that not onli at the veri beginning infinite multitudes should adioin themselfs to the Church but in short time also the Empire of Rome it self then Head of mani Nations with other great kingdoms should be conquered and subdued unto the obedience of Christ and his law The proof whereof to the later ages did manifestly appear THE Lord said to my Lord Thow at my right-hand sit While foes their necks I to thy feet as foot-stool make submit From Sion seat of Grace the Lord thy scepters might Through world shal send midst all thy foes bear rule thou Prince of light What day thy warli ranks shal high exploit begin The people prest with cheerful strife to serve thee shal com in Anon as prime of morn with silvÄ•ri perls of dew Al-spreds the world like troops thy youth in sacred house shal shew THE Lord who will not change hath sworn fair Prince to thee A Priest thou art MelchÄsedek like and ay that Priest shal bee This Prince who ' on thy right hand great King of heavÄ•n thus shines Each earthli King in ire shal crush that gainst his rule repines He HÄ•then with swoord shall iudge fields streets with corps shal straw Imperiăl Head whom Nations serve assubiect to his law As lightning swift shal run in way of torrent drink Thus gloriÅus head triumphant raize while danted foes doo shrink PSALM III. The Psalmist here sings the praises of God both for his glorious woorks and for his gracious acts toward the Israelites in mercifully conducting them from the serviliti of Aegypt to the happi land of Canaan and therein chiefly for establishing to their everlasting good his sacred Law and Covenant In observance whereof true wisdom consisteth ALLELV-IA MY hart dooth heavÄ•nli heat enflame To sound high praise to glorious name Th'alglorious Lord midst rightÄ•ous press In sacred senate
soule purge out corrupted vse And safe through worldli waves to thy sweet rest conduce PSALM 141. This Psalm of DAVID seemeth by the matter thereof to have been made upon som occasion of an accident hapned out in Sauls third expedition against David when persuing him with three thousand of his choisest men up in the rocks of Engedi and having there withdrawn himself a side into a cave he had a skirt of his robe secretly cut off by David without offer of ani violence to his person At which time Saul in shew reconciling himself to righteous David yet afterward renued sharp persuit against him hoping how vainly and from how blynd desire at som time or other to effect his destruction whom God had declared successour in the kingdom David therfore in this Psalm prezenting his humble praiers as a sacrifice to Almighti God beseecheth him to preserve him in woord thought and deed from sin preferring the severe reproofs of a iust man before the delicacies and pleasures of the wicked Then closely intimating how kyndly he had dealt with Saul and how cruelly he was requited he praieth God to continue still his gracious protectour and that the snares laid by his enimies might entrap their owne gilti selfs whilest he with his innocenci did happily escape them TO thee ô Lord to thee my humbled mynd Hir humblest voice prezents ô let me favour fynd And hast my God let ear benign be lent To pitious cry to suit from grieffull hart upsent O let my praiÄ•r perfumÄ•d with heavÄ•nli grace So stand and sweetly smoke before thy pleazed face As incense pure midst holiÄ•st altars fire And hands let stretcht to thee like eevÄ•nings gift aspire MY speach so Lord my thoughts and deeds compoze That nothing thee offend A watch assign to cloze My mouth on woords unmeet the gate to heed That two-leafd gate of lips whence life and death proceed Retire my hart from poizÅned baits of sin Renforce my mynd that no provokements mee may win Untrue to thee with men that mischief breed To ioin their coorse to run on dainties their to feed LET iust mans zele me yea severely beat I kyndnes shall it deem let his religious heat Reproove my life as precious balm my head Not break it shall perfume And thankful hart imbred When change of times with sorroes him may press For comfort his to thee shal fervent suit address NOW these mens Iudges who with chozen bands My harmles life persue withdrawn were left in hands Of horrent rock where terrour none from mee But pleazing woords they heard from dout their soules to free BUT not they so requite When wee again Into their claws are light nought cruel they refrain But as in woods when stateli trees to ground Are hewÄ•d the chips and stics ly sparst on all sides round So bones of men devoured by their ire At graves sad mouth ly strawd and earths first womb dezire NOW then ô Lord myn eys since look to thee In thee I trust alone and succour none else see My God my Lord ô not my suit reiect Nor bare my soule of shield that sole can it protect My chased life from snaring net withdraw Which men who love their lusts not love thy sacred law For it have pitcht destroy deceiptful grin Which men compact of fraud have set t' entrap me in AND thow iust Iudge whose ey our mortal ways With right esteem beholds and snare with snare repays Let impious heads owne tangling nets infold While I with myn break through of thee who safeti hold PSALM 145. King DAVID now flourishing as it seemeth with prosperiti applieth most woorthily his thankful soule to sound out the high praises of the Author thereof He celebrateth therfore most excellently in this Psalm the incomprehensible Greatnes and glorious Maiesti of the Eternal King Then he singeth Gods Goodnes his Iustice and Merci embracing all his woorks with all favorable benigniti All which therfore he exciteth to return praise to their Lord and Maker And chiefly the true servants and Saints of God that by their menes the glori of the kingdom of God may be made knowne over all the world Himself then in example describeth the boundles extent and amplitude of Gods everlasting kingdom his assistance where need is his fatherls providence ministring food duely to all things whose lifes are therby susteined his iustice and holines in all his ways and actions especially in his gracious attentivenes to the iust petitions of his servants ever saving all those that love him as contrarily in his provoked severitie toward the wicked retributing to them their iust and deserved destruction For which he inviteth all men to ioin with him in ever praizing God GREAT Lord my God and glorious King My soule triumphs thy bliss to sing While heavÄ•ns shal last with grateful praise Bove heavÄ•n of heavÄ•ns thy name I 'le raize When Sun with Eastern rays up-springs And when doun West his flames he brings In toils of day at nightli rest Ay praiz'd and ay shalt thow be blest THY Greatnes first my mynd admires Whose right like praises great requires Thy boundles beÄ•ing which gulf to thought In bounds each creature fit hath wrought Thy woorks each age with praise recounts And powÄ•r which puÄsance all surmounts And I with wondrous acts that light Of glorious state will glad indite They prowÄ•s and valures strange confess I beautÄ•ous MaiÄ•sti would express THY Goodnes next prezents sweet vieu Where bounties rich stil gifts renue Glad hands receive and thankful tongs Shal sound what praise such grace belongs Here who thy Iustice can forget Where hymns where ioys are sweetly met Thy iustice fair with merci cround Of glorious bliss th'al-gracious ground O LORD benign of best desires To piti ay prone unprone to ires Towărd all thou good thou full of grace Thy Mercies all thy woorks embrace THERFORE Great Sire shal all thy woorks In heavÄ•n what shines midst earth what lurks What e're disperst through worlds great frame Ay blaze ay bless thy gracious name THEY chief who deer of thee esteemd Live Saints on earth from earth redeemd Thy kingdoms glories they shal teach Thy peerles strength they fearles preach That powÄ•r magnÄficent bliss divine And beauties there which glorious shine May sons of men to all made knowne All win to love and serve thy throne THY Kingdom Lord nought Kingles leves Nor mÄ•sure of things nor times receives DominÄon boundles evÄ•ri place Each time all things dooth round embrace Here reigns our Lord our bliss to breed Stil true of woord stil iust of deed Who gracious fallen man erects The sliding stays the staid protects HERE eys of all thy care attend Thy care due food which still dooth send Thou plentÄ•ous hand o're world doost spred Whence each thing livÄng rests largely fed Thus all thy pleasure Lord partake Thy pleasure still to good awake In righteÅus ways thus ay doost raign Ay kynd in all thy woorks remain AND lastly Lord