But on Thy God O Israel trust He only is Thy help and shield O house of Aaron flee to Him that 's Just For He is Thine and help will yield All you who fear th' Almighty Lord Upon Him trust and flee unto His Word For He 's your help and He will be your shield And though you flee it is to gain the field VI. The Lord has mindful of us been And He will all Our joyes restore The house of Israel have His blessing seen And He will bless them more and more The house of Aaron He will bless And all who fear Him shall by ' His love encrease 'Twixt rich and poor He do's no difference know But by His blessing both in numbers grow VII Bless'd of that God who all things made Both Earth and Sea and glorious Heaven High Heav'n's His seat and of Him is afraid But He to Man the Earth has given 'T is there that we admire His Wayes Before the grave shut us up and His Praise There will we bless the God in whom we live And as He life to us Him praises give Hallelujah Psalm CXVI Delexi quoniam exaudivit c. I. I Love Thee Lord with my whole heart For Thou dost my petitions hear Because Thou to me hast inclin'd Thine ear And thus propitious to Thy servant art With new requests I 'll ever prove Thee And shew by that I love Thee II. The pains of death enclos'd me round Grief held my heart and teares my eyes My grave stood open and death thence did rise Trouble and Horror on all sides I found Death it self waited underneath Above the pains of Death III. Yet to the Lord I cry'd and said My God Thy help I now implore Deliver me as Thou hast done before When in my trouble I unto Thee pray'd Though I deserv'd to be deni'd Yet to the Lord I cry'd IV. To wrath He 's slow abounds in love Our sins most ready to forgive The Innocent upon His bounty live In Him they live who reigns their God above He help'd me when I was brought low For He to wrath is slow V. Then to Thy rest my Soul return For God has kindly dealt with Thee Thy feet from sliding life from death set free Nor shall Thy failing eyes in sorrow mourn Thy dayes to praise Him are increas'd Return Soul to Thy rest VI. Lord I believe and therefore speak I knew I should Thy Mercy praise Though when afflicted and in rugged wayes One sorrow did my heart and silence break Then I all flesh the ly did give And yet Lord I believe VII What shall I bring and yield the Lord For all His Favours shown to me A thankful heart my sacrifice shall be I 'll praise Him and rely upon His Word New songs of thanks I 'll to Him sing And this at least will bring VIII My Vowes which in distress I made Before His People will I pay His People shall rejoice that solemn day Whilst those who are His En'mies be afraid When He His plagues upon them throws And do's accept My Vowes IX Dear in His sight His servants are He will Himself repay their wrong Though in forbearing He may seem too long It is more deep to strike and not to spare Nor is the death of the upright Less pretious in His sight X. Lord I am Thine and thine will be Thy Handmaids Son whom Thou did'st save My God Himself a ransome for me gave And to a nobler service set me free Thou brake'st my bonds and made'st me mine And now Lord I am Thine XI This will I bring and yield the Lord For all His Favours shown to me A thankful heart my sacrifice shall be I 'll praise Him and rely upon His Word New songs of thanks I 'll to Him sing And this at least will bring XII My Vowes which in distress I made Before His People will I pay His People shall rejoice that solemn day And where I made them there shall see them pai'd Within the Courts of the Lord's House There will I pay my Vowes Hallelujah Psalm CXVII Laudate Dominum Omnes c. I. ALL you who to the Lord your Beings ow All Nations with His blessings crown'd All people through the World renown'd Sing praises to that God who made you so II. To God whose Mercy do's to all extend Is great to us and good to you And with His Truth do's still renew But like Himself knowes neither bound nor end Hallelujah Psalm CXVIII Confitemini Domino quoniam c. I. TO God's Almighty Name sing praise And you who know how good He is Resign to Him what 's truely His And Arches of His own great Mercies raise For like His Word they have been sure And to Eternity endure II. Israel the great Jehova's choice Who all His fearful Works have seen Who His great Care have alwayes been Let Israel now confess with thankful voice His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure III. Let those who by their place attend And at His Altar daily wait Their own experiences relate Sing as they see the sacred flame ascend His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure IV. And to advance the Blessed King Let all the Righteous with them join And in a service thus Divine Bear their part too and in the Chorus sing His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure V. To God on high for help I cri'd Who from His Temple answer'd me Both heard my prayers and set me free The Lord of Host Himself was on my side I will not fear what man can do Since I 've a God to flee unto VI. With those who help'd me He was seen His Presence brought my greatest aid Nothing shall make me now afraid He 'll be my sword who has my Buckler been And when my Foes shall be o'rethrowne I 'll boast of what His hand has done VII Those who their Care on God do cast And know no other will but His Of sure recruits shall never miss But as a Rock i' th' midst of stormes stand fast On God 't is more secure to trust Than man who must return to dust VIII He never yet did any fail Most sure when most reli'd upon And though His Power subscribes to none He lets weak prayers o're Heav'n and Him prevail On God 't is more secure to trust Than Princes who must turn to dust IX Let Barbarous Nations girt me round And for my ruine all engage My trust is plac'd above their rage And stands unshaken on the higher ground For on the Lord of Hosts I 'll call And in His Name destroy them all X. Round let them compass me and round And for my ruine all engage My Trust is plac'd above their rage And stands unshaken on the higher ground For on the Lord of Hosts I 'll call And in His Name destroy them all XI Let them
it broken there in peices lay Gods secret path was Israels Great High Way Through which as through the Wilderness they pass Only these sands were wall'd about with glass Thus from their Enemies He set them free Whilst the admiring waves stood up to see But when the sacred Army was gon o're The seas no longer own'd their new made shore But o're it leapt as friends return'd to greet And in their old embraces hast to meet Th' Egyptian Troops which scattred lay between And thought to tell at home what they had seen Swift as that thought were buried in the waves And not one left to shew their empty Graves Then Israel fear'd His Word and sang His Praise But soon forgot that and His Wondrous wayes Did in the Wilderness His Power distrust And for full Tables in the Desert lust He gave it them but therewith leaness sent Into their very Souls the Poyson went Next against Moses they in tumults rise And Aaron the Almightys choyce despise But God Himself from Heaven His Choice approv'd And from His sight the Murmurers remov'd The Sea before the Earth do's now obey And frighted at His presence ran away Loosned its hold and as apart it fell Let Dathan and Abiran quick to Hell And those who to the Priesthood did aspire And off'red Incense were consum'd by Fire At Horeb they had griev'd him long before When there they did their molton god adore At Horeb where they that great Voice did hear Which fill'd the most rebellious breast with fear And strook the Soul as it surpriz'd the Eare. Thus to an Ox their glory they compare And these cry they Thy Gods O Israel are Not because they the true one did not know But their old love to Egypt thus would show Forgetting what in Egypt He had done Both for their Nations honour and His own And all His Wonders in the Mighty Deep Making a Causey there that they their way might keep Wherefore about destroying them He spake And that He Moses a great Name would make Moses who in the breach before Him stood And would have given His Own to save their blood That pass'd the Happy Canaan they contemn But more the God who promis'd it to them To Egypt they again had rather go Than serve new Masters whom they did not know Therefore in wrath He rais'd His vengefull Hand To Strike and swear they should not see the Land And that all those who fell not by His own Should by their En'mies swords be overthrown Sure they will try it and to Peor turn'd Before dumb Idols ate and Incense burn'd Thus were they only constant in their sin And knew no measure till the Plague brake in Had some new solly to enflame His Ire And set the Mine He lay'd so deep a fire Till Phineas stood up and with dextrous skill Three En'mies at one happy blow did kill Zimri and Cosbi and the Plague did stay Which weltring in their gore and breathless lay An Act whose Memory God Himself would save And for reward to His House the Priest-hood gave Another time at Meriba they strove And their meek Guide did with their murmurings prove Full ill it went with Moses for their sake Who unadvis'dly in His Passion spake And with them both in sin and judgement did partake The Nations of which God in charge did give Should be destroy'd they were resolv'd should live And come to Canaan to preserve their seed Were mingled with them and did by them breed Learn'd all their works their Idols did adore Curs'd to Them now though for their sakes before Idols that Devils were yet unto whom All smear'd they in their Childrens blood must come No other Sacrifice but that will please Nor any blood but the Innocent appease Their childrens blood with which their Gods were stain'd They and their Gods and with their own the land Thus justly plagu'd for their impiety That Gods of their own making should so cruel bee This blew the Heav'nly wrath up to a Flame Turn'd love to hatred Mercy rage became Up to the Heathen He His People gave And Israel in His own land was a slave Those who most hated them for Lords did reign And those they conquer'd conquer'd them again When God delivered them they yet sinn'd more Tempting new plagues they never felt before Yet to their cry He gently bow'd His Ear And though they would not Him their grones did hear According to His Cov'nant Mercy sent And taught them by His oft once to Repent Made their proud Lords resent their Miseries And shew less cruel hands and more indulgent eyes Save us O God and bring Thy Captives home That we with prayse may to Thy Temple come To Israels King let thanks be ever pay'd And let Amen by all the World be say'd Hallelujah The end of the Fourth Book of Psalms THE FIFTH BOOK OF PSALMS Psalm CVII Confitemini Domino quoniam c. Chorus Omnium ALL you who on th' Almighty Love depend And by His liberal hand improve Let with your voice your thanks ascend And here begin what you shall do above His Mercy like His Truth is ever sure And so your Praise should be as constant and as pure Versus I. Let His Redeem'd say so that Israel whom Their Enemys Captive led but He brought home Then brought them home when from the farthest East They were dispers'd and scattred to the West When North and South their weary steps did know But they nor where they went nor where to go Now in the Desart an untrodden way Where they could hardly pass yet durst not stay Where they no City found and none to tell Which road to take or in what Place to dwell Hungry and thirsty doubtful in their mind Scarce knowing what they sought or what they 'd wish to find Chorus Minor Then to the Lord in their distress they cry'd They cry'd aloud and He did hear And though His Face He seem'd to hide By His great Hand declar'd that He was near For when in vain they had look'd round about And saw no help tow'rds Him they look'd were brought out Versus Respondens He led them forth Himself by the right way Their passage made as their great journey lay And City founded for them and did tell Not only where but made them in it dwell Chorus Omnium Let all the Earth th' Eternal Bounty praise And talk of all that He has done How Truth and Mercy are His wayes To the whole World as well as to His Own For to the longing Soul He grants His Will And with that Goodness which He is do's th' hungry fill Versus II. Those who in darkness and in Horror sit And so near death 't is in the shade of it Bound in Affliction and in heavy chaines In prison where there noyse and silence reignes Feeling their sins in all they suffer there Whose weight more rings â—han th' Irons which they bear Their hearts sink lower than
Thou art Just And in my great escape consult Thy Name Least those who know it not Thy care should blame To my complaint and cries incline Thine ear And by Thy help make me assur'd that Thou dost hear II. Thou art my Rock where till the storm is past Above the floods I shall securely stand At Sea a Rock where all my safety 's plac'd And a strong Tower and Arsenall at land O bring me thither by Thine own Right hand Guide me my God who only art my strength And by the pleasures of the way deceive its length III. Remove the snares which for my feet are laid Thou to whose hands my spirit I resign Of all I am the purchase Thou hast made And so redeem'd I can be only Thine And what 's Thy love or Hatred shall be mine Lyars and their fond vanities I hate But trust in Thee who hast preserv'd my life and state IV. In Thee will I be glad in Thee rejoyce Who hast my troubles seen and heard my cryes To th' Songs my heart begins I 'll tune my Voice And count of all Thy glorious Victories And on their wings to Heav'n in Triumph rise I 'll sing how for me Thou mad'st bare Thy hand And set me in a place where round I might command V. This Thou hast done and these Thy Works I 'll praise But yet my troubles have not their full end Fears and continual snares surround my wayes And grief to th' Earth my soul so low do's bend That scarce in sighs I can to Heav'n ascend Consum'd with care my bones and life decay And in my wasted flesh unwillingly do stay VI. On my wing'd groans away my years do fly And for my sins my strength do's fail Nor am I only scorn'd by my ' Enemy But friends with whom my sorrows should prevail With scoffs he thought too sharp my life assail A Feast I 'm to my own and those who see My miseries afar off less fly the plague than mee VII Like a dead man forgotten in the grave An earthen Vessel all to shivers broke Which Art too late would or repair or save My old acquaintance strangely on me look And tremble as they see me at Thy stroke Traytor the Great ones call me and as so My life they have decreed shall for my treasons go VIII In this sad state to Thee my God I cry Knowing Thou all their Threats canst countermand Their malice by Thy strength I can defie For all my Times are measur'd by Thy hand And in Thy Sacred Roll recorded stand For my deliverance shew Thy Power Divine And for Thine Honours sake upon Thy Servant shine IX Guard me from shame for I have call'd on Thee And make it theirs to whom Thy Name 's unknown Let silence and the grave their portion bee And may all those who on the Just have thrown Reproach find it rewarded with their own Stop lying mouths which use proud things to speak And with their causless envy let them swell and break X. But who enough Thy Goodness can adore Or knows the treasures which thou up hast laid For them who fear Thee in Thy boundless store How glorious they hereafter shall be made O're whom Thy wings already are display'd There shalt Thou hide them from the strife of tongues And on their proudest Enemies return their wrongs XI So was I hid and thus His power have seen Blest be His Name when girt with Foes around He interpos'd Himself and came between In a strong City made me keep my ground And foes too potent for me did confound I 'm lost I said cut off and quite undone Yet when I cry'd was heard by Him I call'd upon XII By my example love Him all His Saints Who for the Faithfull do's so well provide But on the stubborn multiplies restraints His Face for ever from their suit do's hide And on them pours the vengeance they defy'd Chear up all you who on the Lord depend The present Storm in an Eternal Calm shall end Psalm XXXII Beati quorum remissae sunt c. I. HE whose iniquities are purg'd away And he alone indeed is blest Short of True Happiness all others stay And where they cannot have it seek for rest No other path the way to life do's show And only that which leads from sin do's thither go II. Blest is the Man whose faults remitted are To whom the Lord imputes no sin Whose hands are guiltless and Whose heart is clear Without all pure and all refin'd within Whose filthy spots of lust appear no more But now one Royall Purple dyes his Soul all o're III. This when I knew not nor what ease it gave My faults before Thee to confess My grief which could no certain measure have Daily increas'd instead of being less I griev'd indeed and mournfully complain'd Of sins effects ne're thinking that the Cause remain'd IV. Grief and Thy hand upon me night and day Low as the earth did beat me down And all the tears which I had thrown away But dryer left me when their flood was gone Dry as the thirsty earth for want of rain When all the moysture which it gave Heav'n takes again V. At length perceiving all my groans were vain I thought upon some other way To thee I did disclose my sin and pain Thou in return their fury didst allay No sooner I'll confess my sins I said But He who heard forgave them me e're I had pray'd VI. For this shall every Just man thee implore And call when Thou wilt surely hear The Seas which now against him proudly roar May spend their Mouths but never shall come near He is above their reach and shall despise Their greatest rage and scorn them when they highest rise VII Thou art my hiding place my life wilt save And teach me Songs of praise to sing Others who of Thy Wayes no knowledge have Guided my self by Thee I 'll to thee bring Then be not Man more brutish than thy Mule Which thou thy self hast broke and with a Curb canst rule VIII Perpetual sorrows Trouble without ease Is the whole portion of th' Unjust Whil'st thousand Mercies and eternal Peace Encompass those who on th' Almighty trust Mercies and Peace encompass them around With these their feet are stablisht their heads are crown'd IX Rejoyce ye Righteous and shout forth your praise Be glad in Him who is Your King In the Almighty God whose wondrous wayes Give life and spirit to the dullest string He is Your God and Him with praise adore If any to rejoyce have cause sure you much more Psalm XXXIII Exultate Justi in Domino c. I. REjoyce ye Righteous and to God sing praise With all the Numbers Musick can invent The Harp and Lute and ten-string'd instrument And with their sound to Heav'n your voices raise Express your thanks thus and your love And in the Consort joyn with Saints above In Anthems His great Name adore Nothing can please Him better or become you
did up against me rise With charge of Crimes I never knew My good deeds answer'd with indignities And to the death my Soul did close pursue Those for whose griefs I truly mourn'd And pray'd for sick though on my self the prayers return'd VII For my best Friend I could have done no more Nor more had he my Brother been I did as heartily his loss deplore As if I then my Mothers grave had seen Though in my troubles they rejoyce And all my griefs outbrave with their insulting voice VIII Basest of men against me make an head And unawares my Name did tear Scoffs spent on me was all they pay'd for bread And gnashing teeth for their delicious fare And shall it thus for ever be Lord from these Lions save my Soul redeem'd by Thee IX Let not my causless enemies rejoyce Nor me with scornfull looks upbraid Whose hearts are viler than the common voyce And seem for discord only to be made Then I Thy fame to Heaven will raise And in Thy Peoples sight return Thee all the Praise X. On mee with open mouth they railing came And this said they we wisht to see My God behold it too and let a flame Dart from thy sight that they consum'd may be Arise great Judge and come away Stand up nor longer e're Thou pass the sentence stay XI Be Thou our Judge who art my Advocate Nor let my Enemies thus boast So we would have it and 't is now too late For God to help though he in God should trust But let them be to ruin brought Who thus have rais'd themselves thus low of Thee have thought XII But let all those who favour my Just cause Continually with shouting say Blest be Our God who with such equal Laws Peace on His flock chains on His foes do's lay His Righteousness shall be my Song And all my life to praise Him shall not seem too long Psalm XXXVI Dixit injustus ut delinquat c. I. BAse hypocrite think'st thou by this disguise To ' impose on Him who sees thy heart And more than thou its guiles descries Both knows it whole and searches every part Thy wicked words thy thoughts declare And like them both thy actions are Speaking aloud what once to think thou should'st not dare II. They tell me thou dost not th' Almighty fear Though thou would'st have me think thou dost But God do's all thy whisperings hear And could'st thou Him deceive thou then mightst boast At length like fire sin will break out With vengeance which thou shalt not doubt When it like fire shall burn and scatter all about III. To wrong the easie is his chief design Mindless of doing any good This takes up all his thoughts and time And every night he lays new trains for blood But Lord Thy Mercy far extends And the close bounds of Heav'n transcends Without beginning ever was and never ends IV. Thy Righteousness my God do's stand secure Fixt like the everlasting hills Deep as the Sea yet flowes more sure Though nothing its unfathom'd Ocean fills Full from it self no Ebb it knows But into thousand channels flowes And to this deep both Man and Beast its Being owes V. And as Thy Righteousness such is Thy Love Therefore to Thee for help we fly On Thine own wings we tow'rds Thee move And cover'd under them in safety ly This is our comfort while below That we beyond our fears can go And what we shall enjoy in part before hand know VI. For when this wretched life an end shall have And our unpinion'd Souls fly home When freedom shall spring from the grave And death the fertile womb of life become No sorrows then our joy shall spoyl Nor shall we need the day beguile Eternity it self shall seem a little while VII Pleasures and joy eternally shall flow For Thou their Spring shalt ne're decay That Region do's no darkness know For Thou the Suns Sun art Thy self its day A Sun which makes all objects light Without the least allay of night A Sun whereby we may see Thee it is so bright VIII Till Thou art thus enjoy'd some glimps bestow Let from above Thy glory shine Dart but one ray that I may know Though yet I see Thee not that I am Thine Thy Righteousness assign the just Thy Mercy those who on Thee trust And let the proud though rais'd be driven like the dust IX Against Thy servant let him not prevail Nor to offend him raise his foot Let all his Toyls and Engins fail And his hands prove too weak to stir my root But lo hee 's fallen to the ground The Earth did with the shock resound And opening made a way whose tract shall ne're be found Psalm XXXVII Noli aemulari in malignantib c. I. FRet not thy self to see the prosperous state Of him who dearly buyes it with his sin Nor thy content for his abundance hate Thou know'st not how hee 's lasht and torn within The Worm which at the root do's ly And though the Flower look ne're so fair Though hand or Scythe its life should spare By this intestine Enemy Which first assails the heart through all its guards 't will dy II. Ne're envy him but all thy Confidence There only place where it secur'd may be On God who blessings do's around dispense Yet what He gives expects again from Thee Like His Thy goodness must extend For thus Thou shalt the Land possess Thy Land enjoy the fruits of Peace On its ne're-failing stock shalt spend Till there 's no further need and thou to Heav'n ascend III. Let the Almighty be thy love and care Thy Counsellor to whom thou may'st commit All thy distrusts thy troubles griefs and fear And judge that always best which He thinks fit Then to thy prayers shall he incline Grant thy desires and bring about Affairs whose end thou most didst doubt Make thee to His thy will resign That having done His Pleasure thou may'st say'tis thine IV. Then shall thy Justice like the day appear First breaking through the dungeon of the night Backward it looks and sees behind all clear And bids the Sun close follow with his light Thy Righteousness shall be that Sun Which all the Mines of night displayes And all its treasons open layes Clear as his own fair beams at Noon When he has reacht Heav'ns top and half his course has run V. What though thy forward prayers his help outgo And that the time thou hadst prefixt is past Wait still for God the fittest time do's know And what 's deferr'd a while shall come at last Thy murmuring do's but feed thy pain For envy rage and guilt makes way And vice which in no bounds will stay Indulge thy self but to complain Thy hand e're long as much as mouth will need a rein VI. Why should'st thou envy him whose great estate Prepares him only for the greater blow Which shall be swift and certain as his fate And his vast riches to another go They
with the ground And when he surely thought to conquer let him fly XVI Let him be backward forc'd and for the scorn His cursed malice threw on me Let on his head that scorn return And be himself as low as he wisht I should be XVII Whil'st those who on the Almighty's Arm do trust In Thee who their Salvation art Always rejoyce that Thou art Just And have their mouths as full of praises as their heart XVIII May I my God one of that number bee For though at present I am low Thou know'st I still belong to Thee And only for my sins till they are purg'd am so XIX Then help me Lord O do not ever stay But to my rescue come at last My troubles call Thee now away Let not Thy help be slow when they come on so fast Psalm XLI Beatus Vir qui intelligit c. I. BLest is that man who do's the poor relieve And feels the miseries which he sees them bear The Lord will sure deliverance to him give And alway to his Prayers incline His ear Will set him from his troubles free And his past griefs with pleasure let him see II. God will preserve him from the rotting grave And here on earth let him behold His face His life from all his Enemies will save And grant him now the presence of His grace His Enemies Wills shall stoop to His And here he shall begin his endless bliss III. When on the bed of sickness he shall ly His bed that God which holds him up will make Will give him strength though able scarce to cry And faithfull hands which Heav'n by force shall take That Mercy then which he has shown And all he gave shall truly be his own IV. Dear God said I on whom all things depend Though I have thus by Thy commandment done I merit nothing Lord for I have sinn'd And what I gave Thee was before Thine own Yet grant it mine Lord heal my Soul For Silver streams cleanse not what Sin makes foul V. My Enemies Thou know'st assault my Fame When will he die say they and leave behinde That which wee 'll look shall not bide long his Name But to it given be quickly turn'd to winde And when one comes to visit me Instead of Comfort he speaks Vanity VI. Notice of every groan he seems to take And weeps and sighs to bear me company But gone a sport of all my grief do's make And laughs to think how he impos'd on me Abroad he tells where he has been And lies invents of what he there has seen VII A base disease sayes he to him cleaves fast Thus Lord Thou know'st they still against me speak This sickness cannot choose but be his last His bodies pain his heart will doubtless break He cannot scape as heretofore But this time fallen he shall rise no more VIII Then to encrease my miseries my Friend Whom I till then more than my self could trust Who of my bread did eat new cares did send And then most fail'd when he was wanted most Against me has lift up his heel And for my love made me his malice feel IX But Thou O God to me be mercifull And raise him up whom Thou hast cast thus low Vengeance may I upon my Enemies pull And up to Heav'n my self more freely grow Hence 't is I know Thy love to mee That from their hands by Thine I am set free X. Thou art my stay and Thou dost me uphold Else my integrity would quickly fail In Thy warm Sun I never shall be cold Nor in Thy sight my darkness Lord prevail To Jacobs God let all sing praise And to His Name Eternall Arches raise Amen and Amen The End of the First Book of Psalms THE SECOND BOOK OF PSALMS Psalm XLII Quemadmodum desiderat c. I. LOok as the Hart by dogs and men pursu'd Seeing his heels betray their flight When he of both had lost the sight Pants for the streams and takes at last the flood With hopes by changing thus the Element To cool his heat and in its streams to drown the scent II. After my God so pants my chased Soul My Soul so thirsts for Thee my King When wilt Thou me to Sion bring Where I may serve Thee Lord without controll Thou know'st my grief how tears have been my food When my insulting Foes have cry'd Now where's your God III. I grieve but when I think the time will come That I shall to Thy Temple go And on my Harp Thy wonders show How I again in triumph shall come home These happy thoughts dispell my darkest fears And what grief did before my joy dissolves in tears IV. Why art Thou troubled Soul and restless grown As if forgotten through despair As if Thy God had left His care And lower than indeed Thou art cast down Trust in Him still for Thou His Name shalt praise And whom His absence has depress'd His sight shall raise V. Down to the Earth my troubled Soul is cast Yet will I Lord remember Thee The whole World is Thy Royalty Missar and Hermon part of Zions Waste Whither from thence my eyes delight to stray And though they cannot see it love to gaze that way VI. Deeps upon Deeps in lowder tempests call The Seas above to them bâ—low Together o're my head they go And on they bid the conquering billows fall In troops they come as to divide the prey And hollow to their fellow waves to haste away VII Fall on proud waves on me spend all your rage I can withstand your roughest shock Fall on and break against this Rock Which dares your pride and for me do's engage My God will still your noyse your fury lay And change this dismal night into a glorious day IX But where 's my God that I to him may sing Let me not ever suffer thus But to me be propitious Break forth O Sun and healing with Thee bring Pierc'd to the Heart Thou know'st I could weep blood When my insulting foes say daily Where 's your God IX Why art Thou troubled Soul and restless grown As if forgotten through despair As if Thy God had left His Care And lower than indeed Thou art cast down Trust in Him still for Thou His Name shalt praise And whom His absence has depress'd His sight shall raise Psalm XLIII Judica me Deus discerne c. I. THou who art Judge of all the World be mine Be both my Judge and Advocate My Cause both sentence and debate And let the issue prove that I am Thine From the deceitfull Man deliver mee Others he may deceive but ne're impose on Thee II. Thou art my strength and on Thee I rely Why do's my God this distance keep Whil'st I ly buryed in the Deep And only with my sighs can upward fly Pitty my Darkness Lord dispell this night And from Thy sacred Hill send forth Thy Truth and Light III. That gloâ—ious Light which may direct my way And where Thou
to be ador'd in fight Who thus canst arm Thy self with light But Lord what are Thy Hands if thus Thou kill'st at sight IV. When from above Thou mak'st Thy voice be heard The Sea stands still and Earth do's shake Even Heav'n it self unloos'd do's quake God thundred from above and they all fear'd The Clouds to make Him way asunder rent An hideous shriek the Mountains sent When God to judge the Meek by them in person went V. Nor do these only Lord Thy Power declare But the fierce wrath of Wicked Man Which Thou dost punish or restrain Whence to get praise amongst thy Wonders are Vow to the Lord and what you vow see pai'd For Vows are debts when once they ' are made And none deserves your praise like Him to whom you prai'd VI. Adore Him all ye lands and tongues around And to Our God your praises sing To Him alone your presents bring And thus with fear seek Him whom Wee have found With God the greatest Kings cannot compare They Crowns but at His pleasure wear And when He Frowns they and their Honours turn to air Psalm LXXVII Voce mea ad Dominum c. I. IN my great trouble to the Lord I cried I cri'd aloud And He was pleas'd to hear And when the night His Face did hide With stretch'd out hands I felt it He was near I prai'd and was resolv'd to pray Refus'd all Comfort but my tears Whose streames I thought my Feavour might allay And as they forc't my heart for passage move His Ears II. Sometimes in groans sometimes in Words I pray'd And fluent as my griefs my sorrows spake But suddenly my speech was stay'd And interrupting sights its order brake And then I could nor speak nor sleep Thou Lord didst hold my eyes and tongue Only my mind its even frame did keep And with weak hands and muttering lips became more strong III. Then of Thy Wonders did I meditate Our Fathers dayes and what their age did see How Thou upheld'st the Tottering State And in their troubles mad'st them trust in Thee Fresh to my mind then came a Song Which heretofore I did reherse An Anthem which had been forgotten long Where my Soul with me joyn'd and thus began the Verse IV. And can it be that God will thus reject Be always angry and ne'r pleas'd again Will He His Flock no more protect But let us ever as this day complain Has He forgotten to be good Or shall His Promise ever cease Who has His Pleasure or His Power withstood That where He shuts up Warr He should imprison Peace V. Hold Soul I said 't is Thy infirmity Makes Thee thus judge of God whose Will shall stand Immovable as it is High Where Thou Thy wings should'st guide to his right Hand Of that think with me and His Power The Wondrous Works which He has done They shall my talk and study be each hour To shew Our children what Our Fathers Us have shown VI. Thy Wayes O God are far above my sight And where Thou hid'st Thy self in Heav'n lie hid Ther 's none like Thee so full of might Whose Power I fear by what Thy hand once did When from above Thou mad'st it bare Israel and Josephs Seed to save When their Redemption did Thy strength declare And Egypt took the Chain to be her Captives slave VII The Waters saw Thee and the Waters fled The Depths were troubled and ran back for fear The Clouds rain'd Seas Heav'n Darkness spread From whence there came a voyce which rocks did tear Th' Earth trembled and the Mountains shook Egypt it self abhor'd the light Which from the flashes came and horror strook More terrible than when three days they felt their night VIII Thou for Thy People didst prepare the way And through those Floods a safe retreat they have Which Thou Thy Glory to display Resolvd'st should after be proud Pharaohs grave Along they went by Thy Command Who of the Sacred Flock took'st Care Moses and Aaron only shew'd Thy Hand For the Great Shepherd Thou and they Thy Heards-men were Psalm LXXVIII Attendite Populus meus c. I. ISrael Gods own Inheritance draw near And what He did to make Thee so now hear Of Ages long since past and armes I sing And to Thy dayes their ancient glories bring Acts which with sound belief would never stand But that all done by the Almighty Hand Our Fathers witness to their Truth did bear And what we hear with wonder saw with fear They told them Us that we might publish down To Childrens Children how His Power was known Such was His charge that late Posterity And Generations which should after be People as yet unborn might know His Wayes And what they learnt their children teach His Prayse That they in Him their Hope might alwayes place His statutes keep and alwayes seek His Face Never forget His Works but still improve His former Favours and His present love That like their Fathers they rebel no more Unless they 'd feel the Wrath their Fathers bore Base stubborn Nation who their God withstood Most cross to Him who alwayes did them good His Wrath this kindled first then made it burn Th' enraged fire on Ephraims Tribe did turn Ephraim which durst the stoutest Foe assail And never of the certain conquest fail But us'd to Come and See and so Prevail So terrible His bow so sure his hand Th' unerring shaft did death at will command Ephraim turn'd back but strove in vain to flie By His own shafts o'retook did wounded lie Worthy thus signally in Warr to fall Whom Peace with all Her Charms could ne'r recall The law they brake that Covenant which they took And without cause that and their God forsook Forgot His Works and their own Worthy Stemm Their Fathers Trust and what He did for them Marvellous things He did in Pharaohs land Zoan still witness of His Plagues do's stand When Israel saw His Wonders all about How He preserv'd them there and brought them out When He no Common Road did make them keep But like His Own their wayes were in the Deep The Deep amaz'd stood up as they pass'd o're Admir'd their suddain fix'd-ness and new shore How in a moment they were rais'd so high And fell not when they saw no storm was nigh By day a Cloud did their great journies hide At night a Sacred Flame the Host did guide Before them pass'd and where their passage lay Not only shew'd but also made their Way Hard Rocks as they went by pierc'd through did groan That fire which dri'd the Deep did melt the stone Out gusht new streams so constant and so strong They made their Channels as they ran along Yet still they sinn'd and tempted Him the more Lack'd meat who only Water begg'd before Nor did they closely think but speak their Sins And with vile Mouth the Murmurer thus begins Can He give Bread too sure if He be God That may as well as streams obey
keep And in Eternal Calms ly fast asleep There God the Piles for this huge World has lay'd And on their firm supporters bid it stand Immoveable unmov'd it rests at His command And one Vast Island of th' whole Earth is made The Sea about it hov'ring stood As though it knew not what to do Would have some shoare yet would be wider too At last became a Mantle to the World And o're its shoulders hurld Let its head stand secure above the Flood Secure it stands by the Almighty Word By Him who spake it the Eternal Lord The Deep is to its service held Both to enrich and to defend And though some times to Hills the strugling Billows Sweld Higher than steepest Hills to Heav'n their rage extend Let Him but speak away they fly Affrighted at his Thunders noyse Roaring Seas hearken to a Louder voyce And husht into a Calm with murmuring dy IV. Thou gates and barrs hast to the Ocean plac'd Thus far to go and at this bound Since move it must again go round One foot beyond it cannot wast No though it fome and the next wave Press'd forward by a greater force That by an inexhausted source Threatning to make the Earth one watry grave Let thousands then on one another croud And of their Empire proud Exalt their Thrones above the Land When here Thy Hand Moves a retreat Hills into plains are tost And mounts of Seas in humble Vallies lost To their own place they go their rage give o're And silent as they were before Only with trembling pay their Tribute to the shore V. The other springs those many veines Which thou hast scattred here and there Over the Earth fresh nutriment prepare And in perpetual Circulation Into the Sea their mighty Cistern run Whence they refunded are again With new supply Alwayes to flow and ne're be dry And in their streames have store of drink to give The Beasts which in the desart Live There the wild Asses their hot thirst allay By them the Fowles of Heav'n delighted stay Making by every Rivers side Sure habitations for their young Where all the Quire intend their Song And tune their notes to th' bubling of the tyde The craggy rocks which have not equal need Thou dost by other Conduits feed Rayning down showers and with his dew God do's the dry'd up moysture of the Hills renew VI. He the whole Earth do's satisfie and food For all that live do's from its bowels bring Causing the herbs to grow and grass to spring Roots of all sorts which have the Name of Good And from this Common Parent gives us Life Lively-hood No short allowance and what may suffice Barely to keep up Life but great Varieties Wine that makes glad the heart and gives New Spirits and lost powers retrives The grape with which a nobler dy Staines all our cares and makes them undistinguist ly And Oyl to make Our faces shine And be without as gay as we are smooth within Bread Wine and Oyl without all measure Th' Earth brings from her never failing Treasure VII Such is Our Mother Earth on whose fair brow The tall and long-liv'd Cedars grow Trees which are full of Sap whose heads defy The Heav'ns and near-approaching sky Cedars the glory of all Woods and King of Trees In whose fair boughes the Eagle has her nest And undisturb'd can rest None but the Sun her Airy Sees When in his purer flames she tryes How her young brood can dare the Light And had they wings in'his beames directly rise Able to blind anothers sight And hazard more their plumes than eyes The Stork a Story Lower takes her place And for an house the Firr-tree has Till an appointed Time Recall her to some other Clime Whilst underneath the craggy clift A Refuge for the Goat is left And weaker Conys by Gods Providence Have from strong rocks more than their heels a sure defence VIII I' th' Sky above the Power of God is seen Whether we view one single light The Empress of the silent night Or those innumerable flames between Which Heav'n in one continu'd flame unite The Moon whether a World or Star Or only as we judge the other Luminaries are For times and seasons set to tell the day Now it must spring now it must post away The Sun no less the minute knows When to set and when to rise When to withdraw and when to cheer Our eyes Giving by his retreat the darkness way To rule the Night as he doth guide the day Then from their denns the Savage Beasts walk out Fierce Lions roar and for their prey beat all about Till at Cock-Crow Lions that men and weapons scorn Alarm'd at the approach of Morn Through some undiscover'd Plain Steal to their Caves again And or for Work or Pleasure leave the day to Man IX Eternal Minde should we each Act of Thine Recount and mention every thing At which of Thy Great works should we begin Or what Almighty Numbers can confine The Love and Providence Divine Thy Works are like Thy Self sublime and high The Power and Wisdom of the Deity More numerous than the sand Embracing in its Armes the Sea Though every sand should reckoned be And all in one long row like Cyphers stand The Sea at head for a great figure to command I' th' Sea His mighty aids appear In all the Armes and armies there The Gyant and the Pigmee fry Which in the Sounds and Shallowsly And at His will or fight or fly Where Great Leviathan Leads up the Vann Leviathan whom He made to play In that great Waste in that great Waste bear sway Scorning the rage of silly Man Leviathan whom Seas as He do's Thee obey X. There go the Ships those floting Isles Proud with the Lands and Oceans spoiles Advancing to Our Shore The Silver Mine and Golden Oare And in their passage through the deep their God adore On Him all Creatures wayt And at that Common Table which His hands have spred With Providence and plenty all are fed A Table to which none can ever come too late Thou feed'st the Wicked and the Good To Thee they look Thou giv'st them food From Thine Own self art full and ne're drawn dry Caust all alone as thou dost all supply Hide but Thy Face and then this World Has Horror and confusion o're it hurld They dye and hasten to their dust They dye and make one Common rust In which when they have Ages buried lain Thy Spirit bestows another birth Breath's a new life new stocks the Earth And to the World the World returns again XI So shall alternate life and death Make way for them who must hereafter live Leave one and give another breath And from its Fate the Aged World reprieve Till God enough have liv'd shall see Till for His Glory God command an end to be 'T is Come See how the Earth do's shake The Rocks bow down and Mountains quake See how the Hills all set on fire Are beacons to
thâ—ir bodies ly And there 's as little hope as in their eye Chorus M. Then to the Lord in their distress they cry'd They cry'd aloud and he did hear And though His Face He seem'd to hide By His great hand declar'd that He was near For when in vain they had look'd all about And saw no help tow'rds Him they look'd were brought out Versus Resp. He broke their Chains asunder sett them free And made their Irons a new Bearing be From darkness freed them where they once did sit Not from Death only but the shade of it Chorus Omnium Let all the Earth th' Eternal Bounty praise And talk of all that He has done How Truth and Mercy are His Wayes To the whole World as well as to His Own For gates of Bars against Him could not stand But open fell Iron prov'd stubble to His Hand Versus III. Those Foolish sinners who in sottish Love Consume their Age neglecting that above Are justly punish'd for their fond disdain And have for all their love no love again How do they pine away and loath their meat Feeding their passion more the less they eat To sullen rocks lament as if the grones Which tear their breasts would pierce the sensless stones But all in vain those meanes but fruitless prove One Death alone can end their Lives and Love Chorus M. Then to the Lord in their distress they cry'd They cry'd aloud and he did hear And though His Face He seem'd to hide By His great hand declar'd that He was near For when in vain they had look'd all about And saw no help tow'rds Him they look'd were brought out Versus Resp. He sent His Word which did refine their love No more on Earth but plac'd it all above 'T was a disease no longer knew no pain But for the love it gave had love again Chorus Omnium Let all the Earth th' Almighty Bounty praise And talk of all that He has done How Truth and Mercy are His Wayes To the whole World as well as to His Own And let all those who by His Goodness live The hearts He thus has chang'd an Offering to Him give Versus IV. They who into the Sea in Ships go down And seek by Wayes they know not lands unknown Who make the untrac'd Ocean be their Road Which with their keels they tear and burdens load They in the Deep His dreadfull Wonders see Of which themselves as great as any bee How He commands the stormes and do's unbinde The airy fetters of the strugling Winde Out they all tumble and the rough Sea invade Which now their scorn as much as sport is made To Heav'n lift up its floods as if to call Help thence but e're 't is come down let them fall Low as their depth whiles the scar'd passingers Look every wave should drown them and their fears Stagger like drunken Men reel to and fro Their feet less steady than their Vessels go And in their teeth the Winds their sighs do send Making them e're the storms at their Witts end Chorus M. Then to the Lord in their distress they cry'd They cry'd aloud and He did hear His Face the Tempest could not hide Nor raging Seas or dull or stop His Eare For when in vain they had look'd round about And saw no help tow'rds Him they look'd were brought out Versus Resp. He bid the Sea be calm the Winds be still And only with brisk gales their canvass fill Then brought them smooth and calmy as the Sea To the wish'd Haven where they long'd to be Chorus Omnium Let all the Earth th' Eternal Bounty praise And talk of all that He has done How Truth and Mercy are His Wayes To the whole World as well as to His Own And let all those who on the Seas have been Sing in His Church His praise and tell what they have seen Versus When for their sin God do's chastize a land Their springs He turnes into a Parched sand A Wilderness which drinks their Rivers up And not a Rose budd yields to crown the Cup But barren as the salt which is sown there Nor herb for man nor grass for beast do's bear Resp. The Wilderness He turns into a Pool And fills the parched sand with springs brim full There for the hungry Soul provides His meat And for the Colonys He leads a seat With corn they sow their fields new Vineyards plant And neither Citizens nor Cities want He blesses them and makes them so increase Their very Cattle feel the fruits of Peace Versus Again to punish them they are brought low That hand destroys them which first made them grow For He on mighty Kings contempt do's lay And those who His forsake lose their own way Resp. But He the Poor from trouble sets on high Whence He may see His long Posterity Chorus Omnium Let all the Righteous in their God rejoice But the Unjust with envy break Those shew their triumph by their voice While these have neither Will nor power to speak Thrice happy Man who treasuring in his minde These several Mercies some one for his Use canfinde Psalm CVIII Paratum est Cor meum c. I. IT is resolv'd nor will I any more Distrust my God as I have done before No! I will praise Him and my heart Which has so oft betray'd me into fear Its burden in the song shall bear And when my Harp begins shall sing the highest Part. II. Awake my Harp 't is time for thee to'awake Prevent the day and Thy great subject take Put all Thy strings on shew Thy skill God and my soul are ready be not slow For if we should before Thee go Thy strings would never half way reach up Heav'ns high Hill III. We come O God and with us up will raise High as Thy Love and Truth to Heav'n Thy praise The World shall hear what Thou hast done How signally Thou hast appear'd for me By Thy great Power hast set me free And for Thy works praise Him whose Name they have not known IV. Then with Thy Mercy to the Clouds we 'll flie And take new wing to mount to the Most High Above the Clouds exalted be Lord set Thy gloryfar above the skies And if so high we cannot rise From Heav'n do Thou descend when we look up to Thee V. Descend and by the way Thy Name make known What Thou wilt do by what Thy hand has done Hear me My God has hear'd my Cry Has past His Word and in it I rejoice Has given me of all lands my Choice And on my Gods Almighty promise I rely VI. Sechem is Mine I will divide its Plain And o're the Vale of Succoth throw my Chain The Tribes of Israel shall obey Those which ly farthest off or nearer stand Shall yield themselves to my Command Shall serve whilst Judah gives them lawes holds the sway VII Moab's my Wash
like Bees about me swarm And all to be my death engage Like fire in Thornes or stubble rage My head shall be defended by this Charm For on the Lord of Hosts I 'll call And in His Name destroy them all XII The bloody Man thrust at me hard And hop'd at length to see me fall But when I on the Lord did call That sword brought death to him which me had spar'd God who 's my strength shall be my song And whom I call'd I 'll stay upon XIII The voice of Triumph and of praise The just mans mouth do's ever fill His voice is like his trumpet shrill When up to Heav'n Thy Vict'ries he do's raise 'T was thou the Conquest did obtain And Thy Right hand the day did gain XIV The Lords right hand did mighty things No power before His power could stand For when He made bare His Right hand Armies before Him fled and Potent Kings 'T was That the Conquest did obtain And His Right hand the day did gain XV. Empty Thy Quiver Death else where Be gon and pierce some softer heart For I defie Thy sharpest dart Am both above Thy malice and Thy fear I know I shall not dy but live And praise Him who my Life did give XVI Low as the dust I was brought down To the dark Suburbs of the grave But He was pleas'd my life to save And what He up had rais'd my Head did crown Open the Gates of Righteousness For lo I am return'd in Peace XVII Blest gates of the Divine aboad Which to the Holy Place let in Where all the just their Offrings bring And haste into the Presence of their God There Lord I 'll praises sing to Thee For Thou hast bow'd Thine eare to mee XVIII The stone the Builders did refuse Had often tri'd oft thrown away Is now the Mighty Fabricks stay God chose it for the Noblest place and use This is His doing and when thus God builds His Work is marvellous XIX This is the day which He has made Hosannas now befit our voice Come let us in Our God rejoice And in the day which He has made be glad That He Prosperity may send And to Our troubles put an end XX. Sacred Embassador of God Who hither in His Name do's come We in His Temple make Thee room And bless Our King from His Divine aboade He is Our Saviour Come away The Victims at the Altar stay XXI Bind them with cords and tye them fast To th' Altars horns and make them bleed Then let the Flame upon them feed And in thick clouds to Heav'n ascend at last My God I will sing praise to Thee Who art my God and song shalt be XXII To God's Almightie Name sing praise And you who know how Good He is Resign to Him what 's truly His And Arches of His Own great Mercies raise For like His Word they have been sure And to Eternity endure Psalm CXIX I. Part. Beati immaculati in via c. Aleph I. THrice happy Men who pure and undefil'd By the great Rule direct their Way Walk where that points and never go astray But to Gods Law sincere obedience yield Who search for that with their whole heart And keep His Testimonies as their better part II. To no iniquity they turn aside So plain His Wayes before them ly And if through ignorance they step awry His spirit which guides will hold them when they slide That I Thy Praecepts Lord fulfill Is Thy desire and Mine but first to know Thy Will III. Teach me Thy Will the Way where I should go How I Thy Statutes may observe Order my paths that I may never swerve And what 's Thy Righteous Pleasure to me show That shame may blush to follow me Who Thy Commands persue and follow none but Thee IV. And when Thy Judgements I shall thus be taught With upright heart I 'll sing Thy Praise The dull thing I as yet can hardly raise So low with former griefs it has been brought Then all Thy Statutes I 'll obey And Thou with me for ever shalt delight to stay II. Part. Beth. In quo corriget c. I. BUT how shall Youth this Wisdom Lord attain Unbridled Youth to choose His Way Youth that persues new follies every day Will in Thy Word find both a bit and rein With all my heart I have sought Thee That I ne're stray make Thy Commandments known to me II. Within my Heart Thy sacred Word I lay'd I lay'd it up and hid it there And to its counsel gave my willing eare And thence took heart of Sin to be afraid Lord Thou art worthy of all praise Teach me Thy Statutes that I may Thy glory raise III. This my desire has been and still shall be Of all Thy Judgements to recount The summ to which Thy Testimonies mount Is infinite and only like to Thee Riches of which the World do's dream Are piercing cares and emptiness compar'd with Them IV. Of all Thy Praecepts will I meditate And have respect to all Thy Wayes Thy Statutes my delight and love shall raise And at Thy Oracle I 'll ever waite Within my heart Thy love shall gain Such conquests that the Trophies shall like Heav'n remain III. Part. Gimel Retribue Servo tuo c. I. O' May Thy Servant of Thy love partake And what Thou ' hast sworn of old fulfill That He may keep Thy Word and do Thy Will And pay the vowes He heretofore did make Yet nearer Lord unto Him draw And clear his sight to view the wonders of Thy Law II. I am a stranger and the rule I have O're Nations only comes from Thee I give them Lawes but Thou must give them me From Thy Commandments I assistance crave My Soul is wasted with desire And with the Love Thy Judgements kindled all a fire III. The proud who from Thy just Commandments err Are curs'd because from Thee they go Curse great enough if it were only so But all their wayes are girt around with fear Reproach which they for me have lay'd Send them for I Thy Testaments my guard have made IV. Kings too as they in judgement on me sat Derided me for that great Love I bore Thee Lord invisible above But on Thy Statutes I did meditate Thy Testimonies in my need Were my best Counsellors and taught me how to plead IV. Part Daleth Adhaesit pavimento c. I. DOwn to the Earth my humbled soul is cast Raise me according to Thy Word No power but Thine can any help afford For where 't is thrown it to the Earth cleaves fast My wayes I have declar'd to Thee Teach me Thy Statutes and shew Thine to me II. Make me Thy Wayes and Praecepts understand So shall I all Thy Works relate How Thou in me a new heart didst create And help'dst me do what Thou didst first command My Soul for grief do's melt away Strengthen me with Thy Word and bid the stream to stay III.
Lying and every false desire remove And freely to me grant Thy law Thus my Affections Thou wilt to Thee draw And keep them in that Way of Truth I love Thy Judgements I before me lay'd And what 's Thy Pleasure the just rule of mine have made IV. Close to Thy Testimonies have I cleav'd And there to rest resolv'd I am O let me never Lord be put to shame Or when to Thee I fly not be receiv'd Thus when Thy Will is on me done The Wayes of Thy Commandments I 'll delight to run V. Part. He. Legem pone mihi c. I. TEach me my God and shew me how I may Up to Thy Sacred height ascend How all Thy Statutes I may keep to th' end Direct me with Thy Spirit and point the Way Let me Thy Lawes but understand My heart as firmly shall obey them as my hand II. I' th' paths of Thy Commandments make me go For there is plac'd my chief delight Since 't will conduct me to Thy glorious sight Where constant joyes and lasting pleasures flow And to Thy Testaments incline My heart which covets nothing more than to be Thine III. From Vanity and Folly turn my eyes Let them be only fix'd on Thee And in Thy wayes such beauteous objects see That I my race may quicken by the prize Perform Thy Word which Thou hast past And let it like Thine Own Love and my fear stand fast IV. My fear of Thee for which I 'll ever pray Though I by it reproach should gain Thy Righteous Judgements shall its rage restrain Or turn the Fatall pile some other way Look how Thy Praecepts I desire O let the Righteousness which made it stirr the Fire VI. Part. Vau. Ut veniat super me c. I. LOrd Let Thy Mercies on my Soul shower down And as Thy Word my hope has fed May Thy Salvation rest upon my head And be the fairest Jewell in my crown So when I shall derided be That Word I trust shall with an Answer furnish me II. Then take not Lord the Word of Truth away But let Thy Promise rest secure Firm and unshaken like the World endure For I have made Thy Judgements all my stay And when the graving is thus deep Thy Lawes which are so plain I shall for ever keep III. Then will I feareless walk at liberty And for Thy Praecepts Waves enquire Follow them hard and i' th' persuit expire When by their Conduct I am brought to Thee Thy Testaments I will proclaime Send them for I Thy Testaments my guard have made IV. Then in Thy great Commandments I 'll delight For they have been my dearest Love By keeping them my fear of I hee I 'll prove And thus before Thee walk and be upright Will of Thy Statutes meditate And Them the more I love the deadlier Sin will hate VII Part. Zain Memor esto Verbi tui c. I. REmember Lord Thy Word of old to me Which hitherto has been my Trust Wherein I hope though humbled to the dust And in my griefs let it my comfort be On that alone my Soul relies And fetches thence in all its troubles fresh supplies II. A By-word to the Proud and scorn I 'm made Yet I 'll nor break nor leave Thy Law But from Thy Judgements will new arg'ments draw To make me more of Thy great hand afraid Nor shall this interrupt my joyes But make them greater since that fear has been my Choice III. For them I 'll tremble who Thy Lawes despise And leave the pleasant roads of Peace Their surer condemnation to encrease Nor thither will be guided by their eyes But Lord Thy Statutes are my song And make that journy short which else would seem too long IV. And when the night do's the whole Earth enfold And all but I enjoy their rest At thought of Thee new day springs in my breast And up I rise of Thy Law to take hold Which may direct my Way to Thee For whilst I keep Thy Precepts 't is still day with me Part. VIII Cheth Portio mea Domine c. I. LET who 's will take the World for me I say'd Thou only art my Portion Lord Above all riches let me keep Thy Word Who that before all wealth my love have made 'T is for Thy Favour that I sue And hastning of that Promise which Thy Word makes due II. On my past wandrings I with horror thought And for their stains in secret mourn'd But into joy my tears were quickly turn'd And by Thy Testaments I home was brought Then did I grieve my former waste Of Time and Thy Commandments to observe made hast III. Thy Wayes scarce entred bands of theives I met And to their rage became a prey Yet spoil'd of all I still would keep my way Thy Lawes made me account the loss not great Thy Judgments it to mind did bring And of Thy Mercies I at midnight rose to sing IV. Those who love Thee my God are my delight And more my boasting than my Crown For to Thy Praecepts we subjection own And seek a greater Kingdom in Thy sight Thou who the Earth with good dost fill Teach me Thy Statutes that I may perform Thy Will Part. IX Teth. Bonitatem fecisti cum c. I. THou for Thy Servant wondrous things hast done And all the effects of love I' have felt To my sins just desert Thou hast not dealt But after Thine own Word to me made known Sound Judgement to these blessings give Those just Commands to keep which now Lord I believe II. In my Prosperity I went astray And to By-paths was turn'd aside But when Affliction came to be my guide I kept Thy Word and found again Thy Way With goodness Thou dost ever flow That I may do so too Thy Statutes to me show III. The proud against my fame have forg'd base lyes But I Thy Praecepts will obey A plenteous state has made them lose their way As it did me and all Thy Lawes despise 'Gainst them and Heav'n they boldly fight Whilst I reclaim'd have treasur'd there my best delight IV. I am the Man who have afflictions seen And happy me who thus was taught Thy Statutes and from all my wandrings brought Mercy to me not judgements have they been Thy Lawes they taught me to esteem And think that gold no luster has compar'd with Them X. Part. Jod Manus tuae fecerunt c. I. THY hands O God first made and fashion'd me And by Thy Power it is I live Good Understanding to Thy Servant give That by Him Thy Commands observ'd may be That those who fear Thee may rejoice To see Thy Word perform'd and add to mine their voice II. I know my God Thy Judgements all are right And that my felf I must condemn E're I Unfaithfulness can charge on them My sorrows with my sins compar'd are light But as Thou thus hast wounded me According to Thy Word let me Thy Comforts see III. Upon me let Thy Grace and love descend That