back my Folk as once frō thēce they came That thou maist wash thy feet in thy foes bloud And that thy dogs may come lick the same For they oh God my king thy goengs heeded They saw how in thy house thou hast proceeded 9 The singers first the minstrells next had place With whom the maids on timbrels plaieng wēt And then the Choire of Isr'els blessed race Did all in one to praise the Lord concent There went young Beniamin's Iudah's Guiders And Zabulon's Nepthalies Providers Oh Lord whoe bid'st that we should courage take Cōfirm thi work which thou for vs hast wrought At Salem then and for thy Temple sake To thee by kings shal guifts of price be brouht Their brutish troupes that armes do love to carrie Rebuke disperse make them tributarie 11 Then Egipts kings will seek vnto the Lord And Chush will then to God advance her hands His praise therfore yee kingdomes all record And sing aloud his praises all yee Lands For whē he rides the sphears his horse he maketh And lo his voice is thunder when he speaketh 12 All powre praise ascribe to God alone For his renowne is through all Isr'ell spread God is in heav'n the great Almighty-one And in his holy-place is full of dread His peoples powre by God is much encreased By Isr'els God let him therefore he blessed Eternal Sonn of God who art ascended vnto the right-hand of thy Father shalt come againe with maiestie to be our Vniversall Iudge Deliver vs from the thraldome of Sinn by the powre of thy Righteousnes And though wee have yet our conversations among Dragons in defiled habitions make us innocent as Doves as vnpoluted as the mountaine snowe Encrease the meanes of publishing thy Gospel and preserve Vnitie order good discipline in thy Church that the comelines thereof may allure all beholders to desire fellowship in thy Congregation that hereticks hirelings contentious persons may be reprooved reformed or cutt of that they who are yet without may be received into the Covenant that wee who are admitted may be confirmed without waveringe that the God head may be feared praised blessed now for ever more Amen Psa 69. To the cheef Musitian Shosannim a Psalme of David It personates Christ taking vpon him our sinns infirmities humbling himself before his Father declaring the Condition of his Adversaries shewing the bitternes of his passion signifieng the iudgments prepared for Sinners prayeng for his Elect c. Christs members may vse it to those purposes HEalp Lord for Flouds enclose my Soul In groundles depths I am bemir'd Above my head great waters rowle My parched throate with cries is tir'de Mine eyes are dim'd in seeking thee Moe then my haires my Foes are growne My spoilers are too strong for me And take as theirs what is mine owne 2 Thou knowest how I am too blame But for my sake let none of those Lord God of Isr'el suffer blame Who do in thee their trust repose For I sustaine reprochfull scorne And am disgraced for thy sake My brethren of my mother borne Of mee likewise a stranger make 3 Zeal to thy house hath worne mee out Thy scorners my reprochers be My Fastings my teares they flout And when I mourne they laugh at mee Of mee the Rulers evill spake The Drunckerds made of mee their songs But Lord my moane I timelie make In Mercie mark therefore my wrongs 4 Mee by thy Truth 's protection keep That miry-depths nor spightfull-foes Devouring-Flouds nor whirl-pooles deep Nor Dungeons Mouth my soul enclose But Lord of thy abounding grace For thy Love-sake returne hear To mee thy servant shew thy face And in my need incline thine ear 5 Drawe nigh save sett thou free My soul from those who bear me spight For all my wrongs are knowne to thee And all my Foes are in thy sight Rebukes scornes my hart nigh broke With greefs opprest I made my mone But where I did for pittie looke They would alas afford me none 6 They for my meat did gall prepare Sharp Vineger to quench my thirst Their Bourd therfore shall them ensnare And Blessings be to them accurst Their eye shall be depriv'd of sight A cure-les greef their back shall shake God's heavie wrath shall on them light His Vengance them shall overtake 7 None shall in their abiding-place Or in their Tent be dwelling found For whome thou smot'st those they did chase And greeved him whome thou didst wound More sinnfull still they shall become And in God's Iustice have no share Nor in that book of life have roome Wherein the Iust enrowled are 8 But I that pore scorned am Shall by thyne ayde oh Lord be raisd For which I 'le magnify thy Name And in my songs thou shalt be praisd And that oh Lord more pleases thee Then horn'd hoofed Oxe to give Which when the Meek thee seeking see It shall with ioye their hart revive 9 God's praise yee heav'ns earth declare Him praise thou sea all in thee For to the pore he lends his ear And hee doth sett the pris'ner free He Syon saves in time of need And Iudah's Townes he will erect To be for those for their seed Who serving him his Name affect Oh Lambe of God! which takest away the sinns of the world have mercie vpon vs. Thou that hast taken on thee our sinns felt our infirmities suffred all which wee deserved have mercie vpon vs. Thou who for our salvation didest bear the vnkindnesses of kindred familiers the reproches of Neighbours the scornes oppressions of strangers the reproofs of Magistrates the contempt of the basest people have mercy vpon vs. Thou who for cursakes hast endured insufferable torments of the bodie the vnspeakable agonies of the soul tasted the gall vineger of everie bitter passion have mercie vpon vs. Deliver us from them who seek to crucifie thee againe in thy members Raise us by thy Resurrection whome thou hast redeemed by thy passiō Glorifie us by thy Ascentiō in life eternall whome thou hast secured frō Damnation by thy Death Buriall And for that which thou hast done prepared for thine Elect let heaven earth praise thee world without end Amen Psa 70. To the cheef Musitian a Psalme of David to bring to Remembrance The Church praies for deliverance from her persecutors prophetically imprecates their confusion desires the prosperitie of the Godlie c. It may be sung when oppressors insult over vs. c. DEferr not Lord thy succours longe But bring my Foes to shame Ev'n those who plott my soul to wronge Bring back with losse blame On them who skoffe flout at mee Bestowe the Scorners hire But make them glad ioye in thee Who after thee enquire 2 Still God be prais'd let all men say Who on his ayde relie And make oh Lord no more delay For in great want am
thy grace did then vphold 7 When many thoughts opprest me much Thy comforts did my soul delight For thou partakest not with such Whoe sentence give against the right Or such as have the Iust withstood To death condemning guiltles blood 8 But thou oh Lord shalt me defend Thou art my God my Rock my Fort And all the harmes my Foes intend Thou shalt vpon themselves retort Yea for the guilt of their offence Thou Lord our God shalt root them hence Oh thou supream Iudge of the world severe Avenger of all wrongs Behold the fury the despight insolent Cruelties of our Adversaries and deliver the pore the widdowe the Fatherles all thy Oppressed Children out of their wicked hands Thy forbearance hath made the perverters of Iustice seeme to conceive that thou either see'st not or els regardest not their impieties Yea those oppressers are growne so powrfull so many that wee scarce finde any to take part with vs against their Iniuries but that wee have assurance of thy Assistance wee should be vtterly without hope Oh! continue our hopes in thee Sett thou in order all that is amisse destroy all the Favourers of Iniustice keep vs alway harmles both in soul body through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Psa 95. This Psalme exhorts to praise God and warnes to harken to his voice whilst wee have tyme lest like our fore-Fathers wee be deprived of his Rest for our obstinacie It should be often sung to remember vs that wee embrace God's free grace whilst it is offred TO God our Saviour lett 's renewe Our songs with chearfull voice Our thanckfulnes before him shewe With Psalmes in him rejoice For God the Lord most powrfull is The King of Gods is hee The earth's obscurest vales are his And his high mountaines be 2 The seas he made they are his owne Drie land his Creature was Come serve him then fall wee downe Before our Makers face He is our God his flock wee are His pasture-sheep are wee That you his voice may therfor heare More tender-harted be 3 Not like your Fathers when that in The Desert proov'd they were And tempted him though they had seene His works of wonder there Full forty years they moov'd his wrath And therfor thus sayd hee A wandring hart this people hath My waies they will see 4 And I to them in my iust rage Did by mine Oath protest That none of all that froward age Should come within my rest Oh God! the Creator preserver governour of all things UUee give thee thancks for making vs after thine owne Image for sending thy Eternal-word to regenerate vs when wee were made worse then nothing So far wee ought to be from arrogating the powre either of our Beeing or Well-beeing that wee must confesse to vndoe our selves is all which wee are able of our selves do Like our fore Fathers our harts are wandring from thy waies all our life long wee do more mere harden them by custome in sinn Yet oh Lord seeing wee are the sheep of thy pasture bring us home to thy Fo de seeing we are thy People soften our harts givs us grace so to harken to thy voice in this Day of our Trial that in the Day of thy Iudgment wee may enter into thy Rest through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen Psa 96. UUee are herein exhorted to sing preach the New-songs of the Gospell to the praise of Christ our King And in regard other Gods are but vanities all nations are provoked to ioyne in praising him c. We should sing it to glorify Christ for his powre his Truth c. COme now in some New-indighting Blesse God the world's Almightie King His Name 's due praise in songs reciting Of his Salvation daylie sing His Fame works of admiration Yee people heed yee Nations hear His powre deserves high exaltation For all the Gods lesse dreadfull are 2 The Gentiles Gods are foolish fictions But our great God did heav'n creat Powr glory praise all perfections Attend him in his holy-seat To him due praise yee kindreds render Extoll his powre his glory sing To God's great Name fitt honours tender Approach his Courts offrings bring 3 Within his house with praise professe him And let him be adored there Let all the world their God confesse him And serve him with a holy feare Yea to the Gentiles let them publish The Lord their King that his might The wav'ring earth shall fast establish And do the wronged people right 4 Let heav'n earth with joy-excelling Reioice before him ever more The seas all things in them dwelling The feilds the woods all their store For lo the Lord approcheth nearlie Behold to judge the world he comes The wicked he will judge serverely And give the people righteous doomes Honour wisdome powre praise be ascribed vnto thee oh king of the world by all thy Creatures according to the severall faculties which thou hast bestowed vpon them Be thou glorified in thy selfe also according to that which thy In comprehensiblenes deserveth beyond what thy creatures are able to ascribe Let all heathenish deities all those Idolls which carnall men have set vp in their harts appear such vanities as they are let thy Soveraignty be acknow ledged thy worship truely celebrated by Iewes Gentiles all Nations throughout the world Let vs especially who are of thy visible Church performe this duty let our harts be so established so filled with Holines filial awe that wee may expect thy comming to Iudgment with comefort wellcome thy opproach with shouts of tryvmphs songs of exvltation Amen Psa 97. The soveraignty of Christ with his comming to Iudgment the Ioy which the faithfull shall conceive thereby the confusion which will fall on the wicked is here foretold c. It may be mystically applied also to our Saviours first coramling And may be sung to stir vp our spirituall reioicing in both his Advents THe Lord is king be therfor glad Yee Lands Iles now this is known With Clouds darknes he is cladd And Truth Iustice gard his throne A burning flame before him goes Wherewith he shall consume his foes 2 He to the world his Glory shew'd And earth beheld the same with fear Like waxe hills melted when they vew'd The Lord the world's great Lord appear His Righteousnes the heav'ns have showne His glories are to all men knowne 3 All Idoll servers he destroies And of all Gods will honor'd be It Syon gladds Iacob ioyes His righteous doomes to hear see Above the highest hills he dwells And all the Gods he farr excells 4 Hate sinn yee Lovers of the Lord For he his holie-ones will save And light Truth to those afford That harts vpright faithfull have Yee saints therefore record confesse And praise with Ioy God's holines Oh Christ the everlasting sonn of the Father Thou
I will those wonders thou hast done That men from age to age may speak of thee Ev'n of thy Fame glories I will treat And shewe how rare thy wondrous workings are For when thy dreadfull Acts I shall repeat Then other men their largnes will declare Great speach of thy great goodnes they shal make And singing of thy Iustice they shalt showe How apt thou art compassion still to take How prone to pitty to wrath how slowe In doeng good to all thou Lord art free Thy Mercies are vpon thy Creatures all Kept glorious by thy deeds thy praises bee And therfor all thy Saints confesse thee shall Lord of thy kingdome 's glorie they shall tell And shewing ev'ry where what powre thou hast Make knowne how much thy mighty Acts excell And with what state thy royall Throne is plac't Not as a king that 's only temporall For endles eternall is thy throne On thee who e're depends though he should fall Thou Lord wilt lift him vp when he is down Plac'd are on thee all creatures eyes oh God! And thou dost give them food in season still Quite open thou dost reach thy hand abrode Each living Creatures longing to fulfill Right just thou art oh Lord in all thy wayes And as in all thy works thou holy art So thou art near to ev'ry one that praies To all that seek to thee with honest hart To thē that fear thy Name their wish thou giv'st And such as call vpon thee thou wilt save Vngodly men of safety thou depriv'st But all thy Lovers thy protection have Wherefore oh Lord to publish out thy fame In praisefull wise my mouth shall still endeaver Yea all flesh shall blesse thy holy Name And praise the same for ever for ever Oh Lord thy spirit hath said thou art good to all that thy Mercie is over all thy Works Stop the mouthes therfore of all those perverters of thy Truth and blaspheamers of thy most glorious Attribute who dare affirme that thou hast eternally Dereed purpossely Created irrevocably necessitated that the greatest number of soules should be vessells of wrath condemnation without any respect vnto Sinn Good God let this damnable blasphemy spread no further Give all men grace to perceave that they who pretend to honour thee by this doctrine do consequently vnavoydably impute vnto thy sacred Majestie all the wickednes both of men Devills contrary to all piety contrarie to thy expresse Word which is perverted to maintaine this heresy contrarie to that which naturall Reason hath written in our harts Lord these are they which have made thousands hide their Talent by sayeng that thou expectest to reap where thou sowedst not they have soe corrupted their owne iudgments most of their hearers that there is no meanes to prevent this pestilence of the soul but by prayer Vnto thee therfor wee pray Oh hear us even for thine owne honor sake for thy Mercie sake in Iesus Christ our Lord Amen Psa 146. Haleluiah It stirreth vp the soul to perpetuall thanksgiving to depēdance vpon God alone giving reasons for the same c. Wee may sing it to minde vs of those duties MY soul praise thou the Lord As long as thou hast breath In song his praise record And honour him till death No credit place In earthlie kings or such vaine things As humane race 2 Breath failes dust they be One day their pompe destroies Right blest therefore is hee That Iacob's God enioyes And hopes in him Who framed these heav'n earth seas And all in them 3 For God is faithfull still Men wrong'd assist will hee The hungry he doth fill And setts the pris'ner free He Sight bestowes Loves men vpright maketh streight What crooked growes 4 The stranger he receives To Orphanes help imparts The widdowe he releives And Sinners paths subvarts The Lord therefore Oh Syon shall be king of all For evermore Haleluiah Almightie God Creator of heav'n earth the sure healper of all who trust in thee pitty our oppressions satisfy our spirituall hunger free vs from the bondage of sinn cure the blindnes of our Understandings be mercifull to vs in all the rest of our necessities infirmities Grant also that renouncinge all other Confidence depending only on thy favour wee may praise thee for these all thy Mercies in Christ Iesus Amen Psalme 147. It exhorts to praise God for encreasing building his Church typyfied by Ierusalem for many particuler mercies to his people for overthrowing the proud c. The vse is apparant OH glorifie the Lord For of God's praise to sing With justice doth accord Yea 't is a pleasant thing Ierusalem Hee will erect and recollect His Flock to him 2 The Contrite hart hee heales Hee cures their bruises all The Starrs he also tells And them by Name cann call This Lord of our In wise foresight is infinite And great in powre 3 The Lord the Meek doth raise The proud he brings to ground Oh therfor sing his praise Let Harps his praise resound He Clouds doth bring And shewres distills which on the hills Makes grasse to spring 4 Ev'n Beasts Ravens yonge He feedeth when they call In horse or footmen strong He ioyeth nought at all God loves all them Who in his grace their hopes doe place And honor him 5 Syon Salem blesse The Lord your God in song Who doth your seed encrease And hath your Gates made strong His Peace hath yet Your bounds vphild you he fild With flowre of wheat 6 Through earth his Mandates goe His word with swiftnes flies Like wooll he giveth snowe His frost like Ashes lies And then beside He forth doth slice cold flakes of Ice Which who cann bide 7 He speakes streight it thawes He breaths water flowes His statutes his Lawes He to his people showes No nation els His Iudgments know therfore soe With none he deals Haleluiah Most mercifull God who buildest vp thy heavenly Ierusalem by the gathering together of all the faithfull Not only taking notise of them who have starr-like perfections but even of vs also whoe are of those Blind and Lame whome thou hast caused to be called to thy banquet Nay though wee are as brute Beasts or vncleane Birds thou art ready to extend thy Mercy whensoever wee seek thee Oh make vs thanckfull for thy great Bounty Send out thy word to compell us by Stormes or to allure by Calmes according as it shal finde vs disposed let the graces of thy Spirit so thawe our congealed harts that the teares of true penitence may flow from vs produce all such other effects as may cause vs to know thy Iudgments to be of those people whome thou lovest in Iesus Christ Amen Psa 148. Halelujah All Creatures are here in a Poetical manner exhorted to glorify their Creator Wee should vse it to remember vs that God requireth all his Creatures
grow more more But they finde grace who trust in God Let just righteous men therfore With Shouts proclaime theyr joye abrode It is not oh gratious Redeemer our Innocencie or any good which of our selves we can performe that iustifies vs in thy sight but thy free grace thy hiding thy not-imputing our sinns That which thou expect est acceptest from vs toward the procuring of this favour is nothing els but humbled soules contrite spirits vnfaigned harts sincere confessions which thou thy self also must prepare help perfect in vs or we shall never perform them no though all the dangers torments of the world were before our eies Take therfor from vs our brutish ignorance curb our head-strong wilfulnes Rain our vnbridled appetites instruct vs by thy favorable aspect so guide vs by the bridle of reason religeous awe that we being governed according to thy will thou mayst be found of vs in all troubles at all seasons we reioice in thy mercy for ever ever Amen Psa 33. It exhorts to praise God declares who are most obliged therevnto In what manner we should performe this dutie for what principall causes c. We should often vse it to put vs in minde how much we are obliged to praise God c. YE Righteous in the Lord reioice For praise with Godly men doth sute Praise God with Psaltry Harpe Voice And on the twice-five-stringed Lute To him new ditties sing play And tune them to the loudest kay 2 For God is righteous in his word His Actions ful of truth appear His Bounty all the world hath storde His Darlings Truth Iustice are The Heav'ns were form'd when he but spake His breath did all their Armies make 3 The seas huge waves aloft he rear'd The Deeps as vp in store he layd Oh! let him through the world be fear'd And make Earths-dwellers all afraide For his Commandings are fulfill'd And all is done as he hath will'd 4 God makes the Gentiles proiects vaine And brings the Peoples plotts to nought But his decrees for aye remaine And everlasting is his thought Most surely blest therefore are those Whome for his owne the Lord hath chose 5 For God from heav'n doth cast his eye The Sonn 's of men to veiwe knowe Yea from his dwelling-place on high He marketh all on earth belowe Their hearts alike he shapeth to And heeds ev'n ev'ry work they do 6 Great Armies cannot save a kinge No strong-mans powre his life preserves The strength of horse vaine succours bringe But those who fear him God observes And whosoe're on him depends From dearth death he them defends 7 Our soul vpon the Lord shall waite Who hath our sheild shelter binn And he shall be our harts delight Because his Name we trusted in Oh! let vs Lord still succour'd be As we repose our trust in thee Blessed God! at thy word allthings were created by thy providence they are stil governed Thou hast fashioned the harts of all men to be in some measure capable of thy grace observest how they emploie that Talent Thy eternal decree remaines firme therfor theie whome thou chusest shall be blessed for ever Neither their owne strength nor any powre but thine is able to keep them safe Thou therfor on whome their soul waiteth shalt prevent the famine of that which is the meanes of their preservation therby keep them from totall or final-falling Lord make vs to reioice in this vnspeakable mercie Encrease our faith continue vs in the meanes whereby we are to make our Election sure VVe beleeve it is alreadie granted yet we praie for it because it is our dutie because we cannot chuse but praie for that which we beleeve hope to obtaine through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen Psa 34. A Psalme of David when he changed his behaviour before Abimeleck who drove him away he departed It seems to typefy Christ who being as it were disguised by taking our nature infirmities became therby contemptible to the great-ones of the world We should sing it to praise God for discovering to vs what is hid from the wordly wise c. NOw shall the Lords eternal praise The subiect of my song be made My Soul shall sing it all her daies The meek shall hear it be glad Let others come ready be To ioine in praising of his Name For when I cti'de he helped me And kept away my feared blame 2 He lightneth such as him observe And no disgrace vpon them falls He heares the pore will preserve From all his troubles when he calls His Angell-gards will them enclose Who of his God head awfull be Therfor his goodnes vnto those Who trust in him come Tast See 3 Yea fear the Lord yee Saints of his For he to such will al things grant The Lions whelps their food may misse But they that serve him nothing want Yee Children come attention give And I will teach th' Almighties feare How yee long time on earth may live And gaine a blessed-being here 4 Your tongues from slandrous words preserve Dissembling let your lipps eschewe Ill deeds avoid good works observe Seek peace after it persue For God beholdeth such as those And heares the Righteous when they pray But wicked men he doth oppose And roots their Name Fame away 5 The Lord will hear the Righteous crie From dangers he will them assure He to the broken hart is nigh And wounded Spirits he will cure Although the Iust hath many greeves The Lord so helps that they are gone In all his troubles him releeves And keeps him sound in ev'rie bone 6 By sinn the sinners death is wrought He shall not thrive that hates the Iust But God his servants lives hath bought And faileth none that in him trust Hear vs oh merciful God in cur present necessities and preserve vs from those future evills which we may iustlie fear Enlighten our vnderstandings rectifie our affections guide our tongues sanctifie our actions cure our deseased bodies heal our wounded soules Let thine Angells gard vs let thine owne eyes watch over vs and let vs be so instructed in thy fear that when our lion-like adversaries are emptie we maie be filled with thy goodnes delighted in thy sweetnes Grant also that when their memorial perisheth we being preserved sound both in soul body may â—nicie the promised blessing os long-life even of life-eternall in thy heavenlie kingdom for ever ever Amen Another of the same AT al tymes with my tongue I 'le blesse the Lord To sing of him I never will forbear But in my Soul his praise with mirth record And publish what the meek shall ioy to hear Come therfor helpe his praises to declare To magnify his Name let vs agree Discharg'd I was by him of all my fear And when his ayde I sought he ayded me Enlightned are their eyes that look
all shall one day be disclosed c. THe Lord our God th'Almightie-one Hath spoke summon'd all That are bewixt the rising Sunn And places of his fall God's glorie Syon first will showe With noise approch will hee Before him burning fire shall goe A storme shall round him be 2 Through heav'n earth he shall aloud His folke to iudgment call His Saints that Sacrisizes vow'd Appear before him shall His Iustice heav'n shall shewe abrode For God the Iudge will be Hark Isr'el for ev'n I thy God Will thee accuse saith hee 3 I for thine Offrings blame thee not Which were my due of olde Nor Bullock ask I neither Goate Out of thy Stall or Folde For I more heards of Cattell owne Then all the Mountaines yeald To mee all Beasts Birds are known That live in wood or feild 4 If I were hungrie dost thou thinck Since all the world is mine Thy Goates bloud I would ask to drinck Or feed on Bulls of thine No rather pay in thanckfulnes Thy Vowes and call on me So I shall pittie thy destresse And have due praise from thee 5 But to the wicked saies the Lord How darest thou to prate Of my commands of my word Whilst thou dost Counsell hate For when thou dost a Theef perceive A share with him thou tak'st Thou in Adulterie dost live And wicked words thou speak'st 6 Thy Brother thine owne Mothers sonn Thou causles dost revile I silent was thou hast done These wicked things the while Yea thou hast therevpon suppos'd That I was like to thee But all thy folly shall disclos'd And now apparant be 7 Yee that of God forgetfull are Of this Remembrance have Els I shall you in peeces tear When there is none to save For I am glorifide of those That give due praise to mee And such as well their lives dispose My saving-health shall see Allmighty God who with maiestic terror shalt come to iudge the world require an Account of everie one according to the Talent receaved especially of vs who are Saints by an ordinarie visible Callinge give vs grace to offer the acceptable Sacrifize of Righteousnes true obedience Let not our Religion be meerly formall without the fruites of good life Let vs not be of those hypocriticall talkers professers of thy word whoe hate reformation vncharitably censure their owne Brethren neither let thy long forbearance of our Sinns cause vs any way to abuse thy mercies But grant rather that we may so vnfaignedly embrace thee in our harts so truly serve thee in our lives that thou maist be glorified by vs wee saved by thee in the last Iudgment Amen Psa 51. To the cheef Musitian a Psalme of David when Nathan the prophet came vnto him after he had gone into Bethsheba It personates a man trulie penitent and a true confession contrition purpose of amendment is the subiect of this Psalme Everie true penitentiarie may sing it in his humiliation c. OH Lord of thy abounding Love To my offence remissive be My Follies Purge my Sinn remove And of thy grace daigne grace to me For still my fault before me lies Yea by my selfe I am accus'd Thee thee alone my conscience cries Ev'n to thy face I have abus'd 2 Which here I do confesse oh Lord That when to censure thou art brought Men true my finde thy Truthfull word And judge thy Iudgments as they ought For sinnfull though my parents made My Beeing my Birth to bee From thee a secret grace I had To forme the Truth thou seek'st in mee 3 And if I purg'd with hysope were Mee thou shouldst make more white then snowe Yea thy Glad-message when I heare The bones thou brak'st will healthfull growe Then from my faults thy face divart Blot all my follies out of sight Creat in me a spotles hart And make my Spirit Lord vpright 4 Oh! let me not rejected be Take not thy Holie-ghost away To joiefull health restore thou mee Let thy free Spirit be my stay So I will other Sinners guide To seek thy grace walk thy waies And if my bloudie sinn thou hide Thy Iustice oh my God I 'le praise 5 Which praises that my tongue may sing My lipps oh Lord my God vnclose For Burnt-oblations I would bring But thou hast quite reiected those A greeved Soul a contrite hart Is God's best-liked Sacrifize With such oh God! thou pleased art And such thou never shalt despise 6 As thou art pleas'd Mount Syon blesse And wall about Ierusalem The Sacrifize of Righteousnes Shall then obtaine thy good esteem Yea thou shalt then their Guifts receive And they shall all their Offrings pay Ev'n whole Burnt-offrings they shall give And Oxen on thine Altar slay Oh Lord our owne Consciences accuse vs will pronounce thee iust if thou condemn vs for though it might somewhat moove thy compassion to consider our disabilities by Original Polution yet knowing what grace thou hast secretly infused both to resist that naturall corruption and to forme also within vs that Righteousnes which thou requirest wee have no excuse no hope but to appeal to thy mercie To thy Mercie therfor wee appeal beleeving to be perfectly purified by the sprinckling of thy dear Sonns bloud Oh! forgive vs for his sake Restore vs to thy favour repaire what is decaied in soul or bodie so comfort renue guide strengthen vs by the continuall presence of the Holy-ghost that our conversation may be more vpright all our future endeavours become acceptable to thy glorie to the saving of our Soules to the consolation of other penitent Sinners through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen Psal 52. To the cheef Musitian Maschil a Psalm of David when Doeg the Edomite came told Saul said vnto him David is come vnto the house of Abhimelech It mistically personates the Elect vpraiding their persecutors foretelling their shamfull ruine reicicing in their owne deliverances c. It is vsefull in persecutions WHy vaunt'st thou Tiraunt of thy wrong God's love will still the same appear Although thy mischeef-working tongue Faines lies as keen as Razors are Thou evill more then Good respect'st Thou lovest falshood more then right Selah All harmfull speaches thou affect'st And tongues which publish forth deceit 2 But thee from hence the Lord shall tear And from the Land thy dwelling take Selah The Iust shall see the same with feare And sport at thy destruction make Yea they shall say Loe this was hee Who sought not God to make him stronge But labour'd how he great might be By getting wealth doeng wrong 3 Then as for mee I prosper shall As Olive trees that have their place Within Gods holie temple wall And still depend vpon his grace There Lord I 'le spread abrode thy fame Yea then I 'le praise thee for thy love And trust for ever in thy Name Which all thy Saints will well approve Deliver vs oh gratious Lord from the
Foes acknowledging Gods regard of her suffrings professing assurance in him promising to be thanckfull c. It is vsefull to those ends c. HAve Mercie Lord for man hath sought To swallowe vp mischeeve mee My Foes with mee have daylie fought And Lord most high they many bee Thou art my hope when doubts arise Thy word hath brought me comforts to On thee alone my hart relies And fearles is what Flesh cann do 2 They wrest my words Lord ev'rie day To worke me harme they still devise They meet vnseene they mark my way And how they might my Soul surprise Therfore in thy just wrath oh God! Correct them for this Crime of theirs And as thou dost my Faults record Recorde botle vp my teares 3 For thou wilt save me Lord I knowe When thee I seek my Foes flie back Thy promise makes mee joyfull growe And of thy word my songs I make My trust oh God! is all in thee And of man's powre I fearles am Thy vowes are all perform'd on mee And I will praise thee for the same 4 For thou hast freed my Soul from death From falls thou dost my footing stay To walke by thee within that Path Which leads to Life a lightsome way Oh thou faithfull preserver of all who put their trust in thee Our visible invisible Adversaries do continually seek the destruction of our soules bodies by many secret mischeevous devises But our trust being placed vpon thee wee need not fear the malice of any Adversarie Grant vs grace therfore so to depend on thy promises so to lament our errors with teares of true Repentance that as our enimies mark our wayes to entrap vs wee our selves may mark them to prevent ensnarings that thou observing their hatred our penitence mayst cause vs to walke ioyfully in the way of eternal life through Iesus Christ Amen Psal 57. To the cheef Musitian Altaschith A Psalm of David when he fledd from Saul in the Cave It mystically expressed the Iewes persecutinge Christ even vnto his Grave wee that are his members partake in his suffrings may sing it to declare our iniuries to pray praise God for deliverances c. LOrd grant oh grant me thy compassion For I in thee my trust have placed Display thy wings for my Salvation Vntill my greefs are over-passed To thee I sue oh God most high To thee that canst all want supplie 2 From their despights who seek to rend mee Let help oh Lord from heav'n be daigned And let thy Truth Love defend me For I with Lions am detained With men inflam'd whose biting words Are shafts spears naked swords 3 Let over heav'n God's praise be reared And through the world his glorie showed For they who netts for mee prepared They who my soul to ground had bowed Ev'n they with in those trapps are caught Which for my fall their hāds had wrought Selah 4 Oh God! my hart now ready maketh My hart is for thy praise preparing My Tongue my Harpe my Lute awaketh And I my selfe betimes vprearing Will speake sing in praise of thee Where greatest throngs of people be 5 For Lord thy Mercies forth are stretched As farr as are the Sphears extended Thy Truth vnto the Clouds hath reached And thou thy self art high ascended Let still thy Fame praise oh God! Through heav'n earth be spread abrode Oh Lord to whome Mercy belongeth have mercy vpon vs let the Wings of thy protection be gratiously spread over vs vntill the Stormes of this life be overpast For so great so manyfold are those dangers those Miseries wherewith wee are alwaies enclosed by spirituall temporal foes that they have brought our bodies to the Grave our seules near vnto Hell Oh! let thy Truth Love defend vs from our Lion-like persecuters that our Harts being timely cheared our Thoughts Words Actions may harmoniously agree in manifesting thy praises And seeing thy holy Spirit hath plainely declared the Vniversality of thy proffered Grace let not vs presume to sett Limmits there vnto but publish thy glorie as vniversaly as thou hast extended thy Mercies through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Psa 58. To the cheef Musitian Altaschith Michtam of David It reprehends characters that Serpentine generation whoe are obstinate enimies to the Gospell of Christ prophecies illustrates their destruction c. It is vsefull to encourage vs against their malice c. YEe congregation said yee right Yee Mortalls are your Doomes vpright No for you muse on works of Sinn Your hands with mischeevs filled are You from your Births vntoward were And from the wombe have liers binn 1 Your poyson like the serpents flowes Deaf-Adder-like your eares you close Though powrfull Charmes are wisely sung Oh God! their mouthes of teeth disarme And that their Fangs may do no harme Make tootheles Lord the Lion's young 3 Like sudden Flouds their furie slale When they would shoot their arrowes breake Yea make them quite consume away Like snailes consume them from the earth Or els like some vntimely birth Destroy them er'e they see the day 4 Before wee feel them prick or burne Them whirle-winde-like Lord overturne And sweep them hence in wrath alive Which Vengance when the Righteous vewe And vewing Sinn receive her due They joyfull thancks to thee shall give 5 Yea they shall trample on their bloud Who have bene Foes to doeng good And ev'rie man shall say see That Righteous men shall have their meed And that there is a God indeed By whome the world shall iudged be Keep vs oh Lord from having fellowship in the Congregations of those who are perverted in their Iudgment mischeevous in their Conversation Draf to good Instructions Obstinate in their heresies willfull continuers in all their natural Corruptions Deliver us from their malice Breake their Instruments of mischeef and let their deserved confusion fall suddenly vpon them That the Faithfull Congregation may vewe it that all men may see confesse thee to be the Righteous Iudge of the world the rewarder of all those who put their trust in thee Amen Psa 59. To the cheef Musitian Altaschith Michtam a Psalm of David when Saul sent they watched the house to kill him It cheefly prophecied the Iewes dogged crueltie to Christ that they should be preserved to wander in a vagabond Condition as wee see at this day for an example to others c. It serves to warne vs that wee resist not God's grace once offred c. MY God protect mee from my Foes From them who strive with mee From Sinners gard mee from those That bloodie-minded be For loe the mightie do combine They waite my soul to teare And without cause or fault of mine With speed there to prepare 2 Lord God of Hoasts Isr'el wake To heed succour mee The Gentiles Curbe vengance take Where sinns malitious be Selah At
thy holy name beseeching thee so to moisten the clodds of our harts with dewes from above that wee whome thou hast planted in thy visible Garden may not be lesse fruitfull then those to whome thou hast not yet vouchsafed the same priveledges But grant that both wee they according to what we have received may bring forth fruites acceptable vnto thee through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Psa 66. A song a Psalme It praiseth God both for temporall spirituall blessings especially for the great benifit of our vniversall Redēption which is typically expressed by allusion to the Iewes deliverance from the Egiptian bondage c. It may be sung to praise God for our deliverances from sinn the Devil c. YEe kingdomes all God's praise expresse In songs exalt land his Name To him his dreadfull Acts confesse And how his Arme his foes doth tame Let all the world before him bowe With singing to his Name him Selah And let all men more heedfull growe What dreadfull things he did for them 2 The sea he dri'de through the Maine Wee walk'd on foote him praising there He hath obtain'd a boundles raigne And of all Nations he hath care He will not let the Rebells thrive Selah Oh! blesse our God sing his praise For he preserves our soul alive And he from slipps our footing staies 3 By thee oh God! wee prooved were Like silver tried refin'de Thou didst entrap vs in a snare And round our loines affllictions binde Above our heads thou mad'st men ride And through both Flouds fires we came But thou didst rest at last provide And I will praise thee for the same 4 Ev'n in thy house those vowes I 'le pay Which in destresse were sworne by mee Fatt Rams Bullocks I will slay And burne sweet incense vnto thee Selah Come hither yee that fear the Lord And hear what for my soule he wrought When his assistance I emplor'd And him with praise-full voice besought 5 If any sinn my hart affects The Lord will then withdraw his eare But surelie God my suite affects For he my vocall moane did hear Oh! let him ever praised be For not reiecting my request And for his Mercie shew'd to me Oh! let him be for ever blest Blessed be thy Name oh gratious God for all thy benifitts especially for our many spiritual deliverances which are everie day as wonderfull now as when the Redd-sea was dried up For through Seas of terrors Deserts of tribulations wee passe many Dangers many trialls many enterchanges of Adversitie prosperitie in this life to refine prepare us for a blessed habitation that without impeachment to thy Iustice wee may be made capable of thy free-Mercie Oh! root out of our harts that affection to sinn which interrupts thy hearing of our prayers and grant that by sacrifizinge our brutish affections offring vp the sweet Incense of a Faith fruitfull in Good works wee may declare our selves thanckfull vnto thee and that wee our Oblation may be made acceptable through the Merrits of Iesus Christ Amen Psa 67. To the cheef Musitian vpon Neginoth a Psalme a song It expresseth a longing for the vniversall spreading of that saving grace which is offred to Iewes Gentiles shewes the blessednes which will succeed the same It is daylie sung in our Liturgie for the enlargment of the Catholick Faith THy blessing Lord bestowe Shewe vs thy glorious Face Selah That all the world thy waies may knowe And see thy saving-grace 2 Let all men give thee praise Let all sing praise to thee Let nations all sing out thy praise For thou their Iudge must be 3 God is the Nations kinge Selah Let Nations all therefore Let Nations all vnto him sing And praise him ever more 4 Then earth shall give encrease And God whose Folke wee are That God shall vs vouchsafe to blesse And him the world shall fear Allmighty God vouchsafe that wee whome thou hast alreadie enlightned with a gratious measure of thy Saving-knowledge may so evidently enioy also thy protection the continuall brightnes of thy Favour that all the Nations of the world beholding the benifit of thy Service may be allured to ioyne with us in magnifienge of thee Let also a due consideration that thou art Vniversall king makes vs beleeve that thou hast provided means of salvation for all thy Subiects and let the remembrance that thou art vniversall Iudge make vs all so fruitfull that thou maist be vniversally feared glorified wee blessed world without end Amen Psa 68. To the cheef Musitian a Psalme or song of David It is a Prophecie of Christ Heb. 4. 8. Herein by allusion to some passages in the olde Testament many Evangelical mysteries are shaddowed out to witt the Resurrection Ascention sending of the holy-ghost Callinge of the Gentiles c. It is vsefull to commemorate those mysteries c. LEt God arise all his Foes affright Let those that hate him be despers'd flie Let Sinners passe like smoke out of his sight And melt like wax which in the fire doth lie But from the Iust let him expel their sadnes And make them glad in him with perfect gladnes 2 Oh! prais Gods name who rides above the sphear His Name Eternal in your Songs commend For in his holy-place he still appeares The Orphanes Father the widdowes freind He captives frees he strangers entertaineth And for the proud a fruitles land ordaineth 3 Whē thou didst Lord thy peoples passage make And waies for thē through deserts vast prepare At sight of thee both heav'n earth did shake Yea Sinai shook when Isr'els God was there Thou gav'st thy flock sweet raines as need required And mad'st thē strōg whē they were weak tired 4 There dwelleth now thy Congregation Lord Where for the pore thy goodnes roō had made Whē thou thy self hadst first proclaim'd the word Great Armies thē of Preachers there they had Kings troupes did flie shee the spoile divided Who came not forth but in her tent resided 5 Ye shal be made tho lodg'd with pots ye were As fair as doves with gold silver wings As white as snowe in Salmon did appeare When there the Lord dispersed mighty Kings Like Bashan hill God's holy mountaine sheweth And Bashan-like all other hills or'e veweth 6 This hill is God's hee inhabits here Then why insult yee soe yee meaner hills God's charrets twice ten thousand Augells are And he by them in holy Sinai dwells Ascending high ev'n thraldome he enthralled And bought vs guifts whē we his foes were called 7 Thus God hath done that he might dwel in vs. Oh! let this God our saviour blessed be Selah For with good things he dailie lodeth vs And God of Life Lord of death is hee He breaks the heads of those that him receive not And wounds the crown of him that sinning leavs 8 From Bashan the Deeps I wil saith God Bring
continued in the Land Support those whome thou hast raised to be as it were pillers in thy Church or Commonwealth keep them from being so impudent or vaine glorious in their preferment as if it came either causuallie or by their owne Industrie or deservings But so cause theÌ„ us to perceive thy purpose thy providence both in our severall advancements humiliations that we may the better discharge our perticuler duties And when thou shalt fill out the redwine of thy wrath to all obstinate malefactors let us be refreshed by taking the Cupp of Salvation which thou hast prepared for all them who shall be iustified through the merrits of Iesus Christ our Lord Amen Psa 76. To the cheef Musitian a Psalme or song for Asaph It is a Triumph-song to praise God for that knowledge of him which he hath vouchsafed vnto his Church typified by Iudah Ierusalem Syon It glorifieth Christ also for his conquests over sinn Death the Devill The vse is manyfest IN Iurie God is knowne full well His Name 's in Isr'el great He in Ierusalem doth dwell And Syon is his seat Shaft sword sheild he battred there Yea there he wonn the Feild Selah And more his powrs and honors are Then spoilers Burroughts yeald 2 The strong are foilde their dream is flowne Their strength hath not prevaild For at the God of Iacob's frowne Both horse Charret faild Thou dreadfull art none oh Lord Thine angry looks cann bear For when thy voice from heav'n is heard The Earth is dumbe with fear 3 The meek on earth when thou to save And judge them Lord shalt please Selah Thou by man's wrath shalt honour have And his hot rage appease To God make vowes presents give All yee that round him are For he doth kings of breath deprive And makes great princes fear Glorify thy self oh Lord God! in thy holy Catholick Church by the final overthrowe of all her enimies Let thy powre break all their Instruments of mischeef Let the preaching of thy Gospell the thundring of thy Iudgments which have already destroyed the powre made frustrate the Dreames of the old heathnish Idolaters their false Philosophie vtterly overthrowe the strength of that carnal wisdome which at this day standeth in opposition to thy Truth Let our furious dissentions be appeased let the frowardnes rage blind zeal of all men become a meanes of encreasing thy glory to the confusion of thy stoutest opposers to the Salvation of the meekeharted through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Psal 77. To the cheef Musitian to Iduthun a Psalm for Asaph It expresseth those interchanges of Doubts Hopes Feares Comforts Assurances through which wee work out salvation with fear trembling It serves to minde vs of our fraile condition shewes how to order our throughts in spiritual combats TO God ev'n to the Lord I prayd And hee did hear my moanes Both day night I sought his aide With never-ceasing groanes My hart no comforts entertain'd But fixt on him her thought Selah And so I greev'd so complain'd That lowe my soul was brought 2 Mine eyes from sleep hee did with holde With paine I lost my tongue I mus'd on daies yeares of olde And what was once my song Yea all alone at night I lay Thus musing in my minde Lord wilt thou cast mee quite away And never more bee kinde 3 Is thy compassion lost out right Shall thy sirme promise faile Hast thou for got thy Mercie quite O're Love shall hate prevaile No this my frailtie is quoth I And these but changes are Wrought by the powre of God most high Which I in minde will bear 4 Thy works wonders past oh Lord I 'le therfor muse vpon Thy former Acts I will record And shewe what thou hast done Thy walkings in thy house declare That there 's no God like thee And what thy powre marvailes are Thou mak'st all people see 5 For Iacob's for Ioseph's race Thine arme did purchase aide Selah And seas Flouds to vewe thy face Were troubled afraide The Clouds did melt the Vapours crasht Thine Arrowes forth were shott Thy thunders roar'd the lightnings flasht And Earth a trembling got 6 Thou wentst through seas with steps vn-eide Thy paths were in the Deep And Moses did with Aron guide Thy people there like sheep Father of mercy God of all consolation who hast often tymes gloriously miraculously hertofore delivered thy Children made safe passage for them through horrible Feares troubles perills temptations be mercifull vnto us wee beseech thee in all our inward outward offlictions especially when our sinns cause thee to exercise us with such chaunges as may make us fearfull wee have lost thy favour UUee deserve to be deprived of thy compassion of all those comforts protections which wee have long enioyed by thy free grace Nevertheles grant that wee never fall quite away from thy regard but may so returne alwaies vnto thee that our frailties may be pitied our peni tence accepted our petitions entertained wee continued in a full fruition of all thy mercies gratious promises in Christ Iesus Amen Psa 78. Maschil for Asaph It commemorates the Iewes obstinate increduliâ—itie with God's plagues Mercies interchangeably sent among them vntill the tyme of David Wee should vse it to warne vs of God's long-suffring toward the whole humane Nature whose perversenes is here mistically set forth as also the sending of the true David Iesus Christ NOw to my Law my people give thine eare wel observ what weighty things are tolde For lo my lipps a problem shal declare And plainely sing grave sayengs dark old That nether what our Fathers have revealed Nor what we know be from our babes concealed 2 God's powr praisfull wonders I wil blaze His Testaments to Iacob I will showe How he likwise in Isr'el setled lawes Which they were bound to let their childreÌ„ know That so they might to their next ages teach them And Age to age for ever after preach them 3 That they in God a faithful hope might place And not forget his works or his command As heretofore their Fathers head strong race Whose hart with God vprightly did not stand Like Ephr'ims brood who bows weapoÌ„s bearing Forsook the Feild the day of hattell fearing 4 Gods law they brak his cov'nant they did slite And on his works or marvailes never thought Yet many signes wonders in their sight In Zoan feildes Egipt-land he wrought To make their way the sea in twaine he cleaved And high on heaps the rowling waters heaved 5 A pillerd-Cloud by day he made their guide A Column-fir'd to clear the night he sent More over he the Rocks did then divide And streams like seas along the Desert went From craggy flints sweet waters forth he brused And springs from theÌ„ce like Rivers were diffused 6 But they went on to move his anger
Selah Thine anger thou hast quite appeas'd And thy just wrath for borne Oh Lord of Hoasts now thou art pleas'd Let vs to thee returne 2 For why shouldst thou still wroth remaine And vexed rather be Then chear thy people's harts againe That they may joy in thee To save vs Lord thy favour showe And let vs hear in peace Thy word among vs preached soe That wee from sinn may cease 3 Then shall thy saving-health abide Near those who fear thy Name And in our Land shall still reside Thy glories thy fame Then Truth Love shall meet kisse And Iustice Peace embrace Yea Truth on earth Righteousnes From heav'n shal shew her face 4 The Lord with ev'rie needfull store Shall make our Kingdome flowe And send his Righteousnes before That wee his way may know Oh Lord wee acknowledge that from tyme to tyme thou hast bene exceeding gratious to thy whole Church to this parte thereof in perticuler For when thy Blessings made us wanton thou didst alwaies humble us by thy fatherly corrections when thou hadst worthilie afflicted us according as thy wisdome sawe cōvenient thou didst ever mercifully comfort restore us againe to thy favour Continue oh God wee pray thee this thy gratious respect vnto our infirmities grant wee may so repent of our sinns so vnfainedly professe thy Truth so diligently practise the works of righteousnes that Honestie Religeon Faith Good-works may inseperably be vnited in every one of vs that the abundance of thy temporal spiritual blessings may be powred forth on this Kingdome on thy whole Church for ever ever Amen Psa 86. A prayer of David It personates Christ in his humiliation prayeng in the behalfe of his mystical body for several necessities thereof intermixing some vowes of praise acknowledgments of Gods Attributes c. It is an vsefull forme of prayer in many temptations afflictions LOrd hear me for great wants I have My soules defender be My God! thy Saint servant save Who puts his trust in thee That thou thy grace to me afford My daylie crie requires Thy servants hart revive oh Lord Which vp to thee aspires 2 For thou good Lord soone pard'nest all Who seek thy grace to finde Oh! hear me now to thee I call And bear my suite in minde My dangers I to thee will show That thou mayst healp assigne For there is no such God as thou Nor any works like thine 3 All nations whome thou dist creat Shall praise worship thee For thou alone oh God art great And great thy wonders be Teach me thy waies in thy fear My soul to thee vnite So never shall my hart forbear Thy praises to indight 4 I scap'd the grave by thy large grace When proud cruel foes Who set not thee before their face To take my soul arose Oh God! thou art a gratious Lord Long-suffring kinde free With Truth Love most largly stor'd Now therefore pitty mee 5 Return oh Lord mee revive Let mee thy favour have Thy strength to me thy servant give Thy Handmaids of-spring save Yea for my good vouchsafe some signe That all my foes may know I am a Favorite of thine And blush they wrong'd me soe Almighty most mercifull Father have pitty vpon us according to thine infinite goodnes compassion Let vs not alwayes wander after our owne imaginations nor be continually exercised with such Afflictions as may make vs the scorne of all that hate vs but according to thy infinite mercy vnparaleld goodnes Have mercy vpon vs And not on vs only but on all those people whome thou hast created that according to thy promise they may all serve praise thee Setle them vs in thy Truth guide vs in thy waies so restore confirme vs in thy favour by some apparant signes of thy love speciall grace that our adversaries may be ashamed of their hatred we thanckfull for al thy Mercies through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen Psa 87. A Psalm or song for the sonns of Chorah It describes the scituation glorie of the Church typified by Syon prophetically declareth that all Kingdomes shall be incorporated into that Citty of God that all Nations shall there obtaine their New-birth c. It serves among other vses to informe that God's Church excludeth no Nation c. THe Lord hath his Foundations plac'd Above the heighest mountaines crownes Yea Syons ports he more hath grac't Then all the rest of Iacob's Townes And glorious things are fam'd abrode Of thee oh Cittie lov'd of God Selah 2 For God accounts as borne in thee Egiptians if they him desire Nay though from Babell sprung they be From Chush Philistia or from Tyre For he hath sayd that all on earth In Syon may renew their Birth 3 The God most high will strengthen her And shall record each faithful soul As having had first-beeing there Selah When hee his people doth enrowl For there are all that play or sing And thence proceeds each blessed thing Thou oh Lord art no accepter of persons but every one that feares thee worketh righteousnes of what place soever he be or from whom soever he were descended hath promise of admission into thy Church to be regestred as a free-borne Citizen of thy spiritual Syon Make vs thanckfull Oh God for this large priveledge And seeing none are exempted but such as willfully exclude themselves seing also it is manifest to thee only who they are let us hope charitably of all men whilst there is time of grace and repentance endeavoureng by our prayers instructions freindly reproofs good examples as much as wee are able to bring them to become the Members of this Corporation to enioy a Christian fellowship with vs in Christ Iesu our Lord. Amen Psal 88. A song or Psalm for the Sonns of Chorah to the cheef Musitian vpon Mahalath Leanoth Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite It personates Christ his members complaining of his their sorrowes contempts suffrings c. And it is full of passionate petitions expostulations We may vse it in private or Publike afflicctions LOrd of whose assisting might I was never yet denied All the day all the night I to thee have call'd cried Now regard my wofull plight 2 Let thine Ear thy Minde thine Eyes To the dropping pleading eryeng Of my Teares my Cause my Cries Grant me hearing weighing eyeng For my soul afflicted lies 3 I to Death am drawing nigh And am priz'd as one interred Like a strengthles man I lye As algeady slaine and buried Free among the dead am I. 4 Yea as one forgot of thee Or as from thy hand Abiected Darksome pitts my lodging be And in Dungeons deep afflicted Thy strict hand oppresseth mee 5 All thy wayes I doe sustaine Thou dost make my Lovers flee mee Selah And my freinds fro me restarine Shutt I am where none cann free me Then
hast cut short his youthful daies And him with shame thou dost confound Good Lord in thy enflamed rage Shall still thy face obscur'd remaine Oh minde the shortnes of mine age Why shouldst thy make mankind in vanie 14 Who lives whome Death shal not remove Or who from Death is ever free Selah Oh Lord where now is all that Love To David vow'd of old by thee Thy servants great reproach record And in my breast what scornes I bear Among those mightie Nations Lord Who likewise thy blaspheamers are 15 Oh God! ev'n thy Anointed-one They have derided in his waies But Lord what ever they have done To thee for evermore be praise Most gratious God thou hast not only promised thy mercifull assistance to all true beleevers but with an Oath also confirmed the same for the better strengthning of our weak faith Grant we pray thee that we neither become distrustfull of so gratious an Assurance neither discouraged by those Afflictions persecutions where withal thou shalt please to purg our corruptions nor be overcome by those tēptatiōs whereby our faith is exercised in the day of triall but cause us to depend on thy promise to be couragious victorious in all our battailes Give us wisdome likewise so to descern who are the true seed of David to whom the performāce of thy Covenant doth cheefly appertaine that wee deceave not our selves by a false application of thy spiritual promises nor delude our soules with temporarie hopes or fears But make vs ever constant both in that which wee ought to beleeve on thy part in that which is to be performed on our parts through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Psa 90. The prayer of Moses the man of God In this Psalme the humane Nature which as the word Moses signifieth was Drawne out ev'n from the waters of perdition praiseth God for his eternal decree of her Restauration confesseth her vanity mortality c. To the same purpose wee should vse it LOrd thou art alwaies our abode Before the world beginning had Thou wer't eternally our God Yea long e're heav'n earth were made Thou say'st yee sonns of men returne And streight return'd to dust they be As one nights watch or day outworne So are a thousand yeares to thee 2 Thou like a Floud as in a dream Shalt sweep them suddenly away For like the flowring grasse they seem That springs fadeth in a day One frowne of thine consumes vs quite Thy wrath our troubles doth renewe Thou set'st our sinns before thy sight And bring'st our secret faults to vewe 3 Our tyme through thy displeasure wears And like a Tale that 's told are wee Our life is done at seaventie years Or eighty when wee strongest be For all the rest wee spend in woe And vanish e're wee be aware Thine Anger 's force Lord who doth knowe As is thy wrath such is thy fear 4 Instruct vs how to count our dayes That so our harts may wisdome learne And make thou Lord no long delaies But pleased now to me returne To vs betimes thy favour daigne That wee may all our life be glad And dayes years of joye obtaine For those of greef which wee have had 5 Thy workings let thy servants vewe Thy glories let their Children see Oh Lord our God! thy Beautie shewe Still shining on vs let it bee And all our works oh God we pray Establish thou so direct That well our labours prosper may And blessed be with good effect Instruct vs oh blessed God so to consider our vanities our errors the vncertainty of our short lives that wee may redeem the time by true Faith ioind with Christian prudence so order our Conversations that thy wrath may be appeased our sinns blotted away all our sorrowes turned into Ioyes Moreover during our short abiding here vouchsafe vs thy favour so assist our weak endeavours that wee may to thy glory finish the worke for which thou hast placed vs in this world And though our works be vnprofitable or such as like stuble will not abide the Fiery-triall yet let that which we shall build vp be at least grounded on the right Foundation that wee our selves may be safe through the free mercies of Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Psa 91. This Psalme shewes that such as abide beleeve in Christ shal be secured from publike private calamities by an especiall protection of what nature soever their perills be at least the mischeef of them shall be prevented life eternal vouchsafed c. It is vsefull to strengthen Faith in great plagues general dangers WHo in the Closet the shade Of God almighty still resides Is by his Highnes fearles made And alway safe with him abides For I confesse the Lord hath binn A Fortresse a Rock to mee My God alone I trusted in And he my trust shall all waies be 2 He will no doubt secure thee from The Fowlers traps noysome Pest His wings thy shelter shall become Thou shalt beneath his feathers rest Thou for thy Sheild his Truth shalt bear And nothing then shall thee dismay Not that which wee at Midnight fear Nor any shaft that flies by day 3 No secret plague offend thee shall Nor what in publike wasts the Land Though at thy side a thousand fall And tenn tymes more at thy right-hand But thou shalt live to mark see The due reward of men vniust For God most high will favour thee Because in him thou putst thy trust 4 No mischeef shall to thee betide Nor any plague thy house infect For he doth Angell-gards provide Which in thy waies will thee protect Their hands will thee vprightly lead And from thy Paths all harmes expell Thou shalt on Aspes Lions tread On Lions younge on Dragons fell 5 For seeing his delight I am I will saith God be still his garde And since he knowes my holy Name To honours high he shall be rear'd When he doth call an ear I 'le give In troubles I with him will be On earth he longe shall honor'd live And he my saving-health shall see Blessed God giue us such assured confidence in thee that wee may be secured in those publike calamities for which our publike sinns have deserved thy scourge be delivered also from the mischeef of those perticuler punishments which our personal offences may iustly bring vpon vs. But how soever thou dealest with our bodies in this life let our soules be saved from the plauge of everlasting Death Let thy holy Angells keep vs in all our waies give vs thy grace to keep the waies in which thou hast appointed vs to walk VVhatsoever perills or terrors affront vs give courage to passe through them in the execution of our lawfull Callings without dismay or distrust And though they bring some smart let them not hinder but rather further the accomplishment of our eternal safety through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen Another of the same
only art the Catholick king it is no lesse then blasphemy for any other to assume that Title Rule thou therfor in thine owne Kingdome cast all Vsurpers out of thy Throne Publish thy glories to the world Let thy Truth Iustice terrify thy Foes consume all Ungodlines out of the land Root out all Idolatries that Iacob Syon thy Church her Children may reioice Enthrone thy self also in our harts let thy presence consume thence the Mountaines of our presumption with every thing which there exalts it self against thee that the hatred of Sinn the Love of thy presence the light of thy Truth the Ioye of the holy-ghost may be there established for ever ever Amen Psa 98. A Psalm The whole world is exhorted to sing the new songs of the Gospell the great powre Victories of Christ It showes also how we ought to praise him To these ends we should vse it c. NEw songs vnto the Lord indite For mighty marvailes he hath done His Right-hand hath prevaild in fight His holy Arme the conquest wonn The Gentiles have in publike vew'd Howiust healpfull he hath beene To Isr'el Truth Love he shew'd His Mercies all the world hath seene 2 Then through the world his glory sing Sing praises with triumphant voice To praise the Lord the Psalt'rie bringe And on the Harp with Psalmes reioice The Lord the King with mirth adore With Trump Flute this Ioye beginn Yee seas with all your fullnes roare Thou earth be glad all therein 3 Before the Lord your ioyes expresse Yee Flouds hills for lo he comes To judge the world with equalnes And give the people righteous doomes Almighty Sonn of God wee blesse praise thee for the manifestation of thy Mercy to the whole world in the miraculous work of our Redemption Thou didst come to us in despised weaknes Yet hast thou therein showne such vnresistable powre that it prevailed against the wisdome of the worldly-wise magnified thy derided Crosse above all the most renowned Deities of the Gentiles This thou didst by appearing in a contemptible estate Oh! how glorious how powrfull wilt thou be in thy second comming It now draweth nigh Oh! let it not come vpon vs as a theef in the night but as the Travaile vpon a womam who keepeth a iust reconing ioyeth in the hopes of her Birth more then shee feares the paines of her Travaile So according to the counsell of thy holy spirit wee may expect receive thee with praises Triumphs reioicings Amen Psa 99. It magnifieth the royall dignity of Christ exhorts to feare serve praise him according to the example of Moses Aron Samuel UUe may vse this to informe vs that wee the Patriarks have but one the same Christ our saviour THe Lord is King he doth make Betwixt the Cherubins his throne Yee people fear yee Kingdomes quake For great in Syon he is growne Or'e Nations all himself he rais'd His Name is fear'd holy to Oh! let this powrfull king be prais'd For he vprightly loves to do 2 His powre delights in righteous waies With Iacob he will justly deal The Lord our God oh therfore praise And at his holy footstool kneel His Preist with Moses A'ron was And Samuel did invoke his Name These humbly sought the Lord for grace And they from him obtaind the same 3 Hee from the Cloudie-piller spake And on his words those men relide They of his lawes did conscience make And God therfore to them replide Yea though their errors he did blame To them he did his grace afford Oh serve our God praise his Name For sacred is our God the Lord. Oh Christ who sittest betweene the Cherubims rulest both in heaven earth wee thy subiects do humbly tender our homage to thy royall Maiestie magnifieng thy Iustice thy Mercy thy powre Thou art the same yesterday to day for ever VVee beseech thee therfor to make vs both followers of the Patriarks thy servants in their faithfull obedience partakers also of those mercies which thou hast vouchsafed them Though iustly thou correc test our errors yet in pitty regard our infirmities accept our penitence hear our prayers even for the sake of thy bitter passion sweet Iesus Amen Psa 100. A Psalme of praise It commemorates two great Benifits our Creation which is common to all that Free Election which is peculier to the Chosen Flock of Christ whereby they have the Freedom of his pasturage and of his protection It is therfore vsefull to praise God for the same REioyce in God yee Nations In chearfulnes adore him With ioyfull acclamations Present your Selves before him For God the Lord did make vs No hand therein had wee He for his flock doth take vs His Pasture-sheep wee be 2 His Gates Courts possesse yee To thanck him goe yee thither His Name with gladnes blesse yee And sing his praise togither For God is kinde for ever His grace he freely daignes His Truth will faile vs never For endles it remaines Thy hands oh Lord did make vs therfor we praise thee for our Creation for all the naturall Faculties where with it pleased thee to endowe our soules bodies Thou hast also redeemed us wee therfor likwise praise thee for our Election Vocation Iustification Sanctification Illumination Preservation hope of Glorification for all the pretious Lincks of that golden Chaine wherein are ioyned together the meanes of our Salvation Thou hast wee confesse done already so much for vs that we have almost nothing to pray for but thanckfulnes the cōtinuatiō of thy free Mercies hitherto vouchsafed for which wee humbly beseech thee that wee may truly praise thee for thē for ever ever Amen Another of the same OH all yee Kingdomes praise the Lord Before him let your Ioy be showne With singing let him be ador'd And for your God let him be knowne 2 He made vs his owne wee be His Flock pasture-sheep wee are His Gates Courts then enter yee And give him thancks praises there 3 Yea praise him his Name confesse For in the Lord all good resides His Mercies his Faithfulnes Throughout all Ages firme abides Psa 101. A Psalme of David It personates Christ proposing the divine morrall political Oeconomical dutie of good Princes promising the execution there of in his Kingdome Famely This is indeed the right singing of Mercy Iudgmēt this Psalme is vsefull at the Coronatiō of Kings or when Magistrates are admitted into their places OF Iudgment of Love to thee Now Lord a song I will indite Oh come vnite thy selfe to me And I will keep my waies vpright With perfect hart my house I 'le guide No wicked thinge shall please mine eyes I 'le those detest who turne aside And all their deeds I will despise 2 No froward hart with me shall
stay I will elect no wicked mate The slandrous tongue I 'le cutt away High-lookes I shun proude mindes I hate But through the land to dwell with mee I will equire for men vpright And those men shall my servants be Whose harts in perfect waies delight 3 No Cheater shall with mee have place No Liers in my sight shall stay And from God's Land I soone will chase And root all wicked men away Oh Lord God! all Authoritie is from thee and thou placest good Magistrates Governours both in church Commōwealth for a blessinge or permittest Tirants Fooles corrupt persons for the punishment of a wicked people Defend us wee pray thee from this plague and grant that they whome thou settest over us may be suppressers of all vices protectors of al virtues favourers of true Pietie be alwaies good examples in life conversation both to their Equalls Inferiors Let us also be the same in our severall places Callings that walking with good consciences vpright harts in an vndefiled way wee may as well sing of thy Iudgments as of thy mercios Amen Psa 102. A prayer of the Afflicted when he is overwhelmed and poureth out his complaint before the Lord. The Title shewes it may properly be sung by the pore in spirit who are afflicted by the sight of their owne vnworthines c. It containes a confession with a prediction of the benifits of the Gospell shewes the eternity of Christ's Kingdome LOrd mark my suite receive my crie Be present at my need Thine eares to my complaints apply And hear my suite with speed For smoke-like fumes my tyme away My bones are parcht with heat My wounded hart dries vp like hay And I forgoe my meat 2 My panifull groanes have made me leane And nought but skinn bone I fare ev'n like a Pelicane In deserts left alone Yea like the desert owle am I And watching I have sate As when alone on buildings high A Sparrow wants her mate 3 Mee all day long my foes revile At mee they frett swear And Ashes are my bread the while My drinck my Weepings are For thou in wrath advanced'st me That vile I might be made My dayes like shades declininge be Like new-sprung grasse I fade 4 But Lord thy tymes are without end All Ages thee record Now then arise thou befreind Afflicted Sion Lord. For now the tyme to favour her Fullfilled is outright And greeved all thy servants are To vewe her wofull plight 5 That Earthlie Kings may stand in feare And Princes dread thy Fame Build Syon's wall shew thou there The glorie of thy Name Then thou shalt hear all those that mourne Then thou shalt healp the pore Which I 'le record that men vn-borne May praise thee Lord therefore 6 For from thy holy-place on high The world survayeng then Thou Lord shalt hear the pris'ners cry And save condemned men Thy Name in Syon to declare And in Ierusalem Where Nations all Assembled are To shewe thy praise to them 7 Short-liv'd weak ful of greefe Thou mad'st me in my way But Lord at noonetyde of my life Remove me not I pray Thy yeares through ages all extend Thy hands long since did frame Both heav'n and earth yet when they end Thou shalt remaine the same 8 They old shall growe as garments do And be renew'd by thee Yea thou oh Lord shalt change them so And they shall changed But from all Changes thou art free'd Thy yeares for aye endure And all thy servants their seed Shall bide in thee secure Oh Lord the sole comforter of all destressed soules pittie the sighes complaints of thy pore afflicted Childrē whome thy displeasure for Sinn hath worthily deseased both in minde Body Open vnto us the Armes of thy compassion grant that what we have lost by our Offenses wee may recover by thy Bounty vpon our true repentance amendment of life which amendment wee beseech thee to hasten lest wee be cut short in the midst of our hopes Repaire alsoe the Decayes of thy Church in thy tyme appointed that her children may praise thee for it before mē during their short abiding here that when thou hast changed our Corruption into incorruption we may glorify thee among thy blessed Angels world without end Amen Psa 103. A Psalme of David The Prophet praiseth exhorts to praise God for many perticuler Benifits magnifieng his Compassion longsuffring Iustice c. declares the frailty of man c. It is vsefull to magnify the manifold Mercyes which wee have receaved by Iesus Christ COme praise the Lord come praise his Name My soul all that is in mee My soul come praise his holy Name And of his favours mindfull be For all thine errors he forgave He cur'd thy greefs he clos'd thy wound Thy Life he saved from the grave And thee with tender mercies crown'd 2 With Goodnes he thy mouth doth fill He like on Eagle makes thee younge And righteous Doomes he giveth still To ev'ry one that suffers wrong His waies to Moses he declar'd His deeds to Isr'el he did showe And kinde gratious is our Lord To mercy prone to Anger slowe 2 He will not alwaies vs vprayd Nor evermore displeasd is hee Nor hath he soe our sinns repaid As justly they deserve to be For they that fear him finde his grace Out-reach the spreadings of the skye And he from vs our sinns doth place As farr as East from West doth lie 4 He pitties them who fear his Name As fathers pitty their owne seed For well he knowes our britle frame And that from dust wee did proceed Our tyme is like the feild-bred-flowres Which now doe make a goodly shewe Anon some blast their forme devours And leaves no token where they grewe 5 But still there 's mercy in the Lord For them that awfull of him bee To them that keep minde his word His righteousnes imputeth hee His Throne aboue the heav'ns is rais'd And over all he beareth sway Of powrfull Angells he is prais'd They hear his voice him obay 6 Let all his hoasts his servants to Performe his will and praise his name Yea soe let all his creatures doe And oh my soul do thou the same Father of all pittie who art slowe to anger ready to forgive Looke vpon our infirmities consider our frailties in thy abundant compassion forgive our trespasses and deal not with us according to our deserts Cause us to be renewed like Eagles by casting of the old Man Fill our Mouths with songs of thy praise our harts with thine owne selfe that vnmatchable sweetnes that vnspeakable goodnos Cure all our infirmities healp in all our weaknesses by thy fatherly care Preserve vs in thy feare in the remenbrance of thy Covenant and in the wayes of thy Commandements to our lives end That wee honouring thee by thy Creatures here may glorifie thee among thy Angells Saints hereafter world
UVill That they may be converted vnto mee And in thy Lawes my hart confirme thou still That from disgrace I may preserved bee Lord wee are the workmanship of thy hands Soe instruct vs therfor in the vnderstanding and performance of thy Lawe that wee may accomplish the end of our Creation Make our knowledge of thy Statutes our Faith in thee our conformity to thy Will soe evident that thy Servants may reioice our foes become ashamed our corrections appear tokens of thy Love our shame be prevented our harts cheared life eternal obtayned Amen Caph. 11. MY soul for succour panting lies Yet is thy word my stay I seek thy Truth with longing eyes Oh Comfort mee they say I like a smoke-dride botle seeme Yet on thy Lawe I thought Summ vp my dayes iudge all them That have my ruine sought 2 For mee the Proud sunck pitts which be Forbidden by thy Lawes Thy VVords are true oh save thou mee Persu'de without a Cause Quite from the Land they drove me nigh Yet to thy Lawes I cleave Oh chear mee by thy grace that I Thy VVord may never leave Another of the same LOrd for thy healp my longing soul doth pant And on thy Promise al my hopes do lye Mynes eies do faile because thy VVord I want Come comfort mee with speaking looks they crie Like botles in the smoke I do appear Yet still thy Statutes minded are of mee How long shall I thy servant suffer hece Thy Iudgments on my foes oh let mee see Lo for my life the proud deep pitts have made Such as thy Lawe forbiddeth to prepare They mee persued though no cause they had Oh helpe for all thy Precepts faithfull are Long since my ruine they had nigh contriv'd I naitheles thy Statutes did not leave Let mee by thy compassion be reviv'd And to thy Testimonies I will cleave Oh Lord wee have Adversaries continually digging pitts for our soules VVee are sensible of great Afflictions our life daylie wears out by vnperceaved infirmities Yet wee feel not that longing to obtaine an incorruptible estate as to continue our present vanities Oh let that experience which wee have of miseries here that Faith which vve ought to have of vvhat thou hast promised hereafter make our harts pant vvith longing after the accomplishment of thy Truth for our full fruition of thee through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Lamed 12. THy VVord in heav'n remaines for aye Thy Truth shall still abide The earth so firmely thou didst lay It cannot swarve aside Thy Lawes keep ev'ry thing vpright For all thy servants be But that thy VVorde was my delight My Cares had ruin'de mee 2 I will not from thy Truth decline For life to mee it brought Oh save thou mee for I am thine And thy Decrees have sought Though sinners do my spoile intend Thy VVord in minde I bear Of all good works I see an end But large thy precepts are Another of the same MAde firme in heav'n thy promise is oh Lord And shall for ever for ever last Thy Faith fullnes all ages will record For as earths globe the same thou fixed hast Most firme to thy Decrees thy works do stand And all things as thy servants wait on thee But that I pleasure take in thy Command My sorrowes long e're this had ruin'd mee My hart shall never from thy Lavves decline For I by them to life againe was brought Vouchsafe to succour mee for I am thine And after thy Commandements have sought Much waiting hath among the wicked bene My fall to see but I thy Statutes minde Of all perfections I an end have seene Save of thy Lawe which cannot be confinde Almighty God by being obedient vnto the Lawe of their Creation thy other Creatures are preserved in order cōtinue thy faithfull servants Man-kinde only is rebellious yet wee have had often experience that a litle delight in thy Lawe is rewarded with great Blessings Soe encrease therfor our beleef of thy Truth our love to thy Lawe that wee may be more more conformable to thy Will at last be saved through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Mem. 13. IN thy Commands I pleasure take My dayly thoughts they bee Mee wiser then my foes they make And still remaine with mee More learne I from thy Statutes then My Teachers vnderstand And wiser am then aged men By keeping thy Command 2 My feet from evill waies I kept That keep thy Lawe I might I from thy Iudgments have not stept For mee thou holdst vpright Though hony to the mouth be sweet Thy VVord more sweetnes hath Through thy Commands I grewe discreet And shun'd the Liers Path. Another of the same NO parte of all the day I cann forbear To minde thy Lawe because I love the same It makes me wiser then my haters are For my companion still thy Lawe became Nay more then all my teachers I conceave Because my Musings are vpon thy VVill. And more then aged men I do perceave Because they Testimonies I fulfill No wicked pase or Path my feet shall vse That so thy UUord the better keep I might And I thy Iudgments never will refuse Because thou hast instructed mee aright Not halfe so sweet is honie to my mouth As are thy VVords for perfect sweet are they Thou hast encreast my knowledge by thy Truth And therfor I abhorr each evill way The wisdome oh Lord of this world is but foolishnes in respect of that which is learned by thy Word For nothing is see profitable or pleasant as that if it be meditated aright Give us grace therfor wee pray thee so to love it so to meditate thereon that wee may crack the shell which hides the sweet kernell thereof from the world by help of thy spirit thereby attaine that wisdome which our Ordinary Teacher the bare Letter hath not powre to discover let it guide us out of all error both in life doctrine though Iesus Christ Amen Nun. 14. THy word is to my feet a light A Lampe my way to showe I vow'd thy Doomes to keep aright And I will keep my Vowe I sore am greev'd Lord me revive According to thy Truth Teach mee thy Iudgments receive The Praises of my mouth 2 Although my soul in danger be Thy Statutes I obay And keep thy Lawes although for mee The wicked snares do lay Thy Cov'nants are mine Heritage They much reioice my minde And thy Decrees from age to age To keep I am inclinde Another of the same OH God thy VVord like Lāps my way doth show And to my feet it is a shining flame To keep thy righteous Iudgments I did vowe And I resolve that I will keep the same Opprest I am Me therefor Lord revive As by thy UUord thy promise is to do Accept that praise which I shall freely give And in thy Iudgments Lord instruct me to On thy Commands my thoughts are alway sett And lo my soul is alwaies in
hear And save thou mee according to thy vvord Yea save thou mee I thy praise will preach When thou shalt thy Commands to mee declare Thy vvord likewise to others I will teach For all thy Precepts true righteous are Yeald me thy hand my saftie to assure For thy Commands my chosen part I make Thy Saving-health I labour to procure And in thy Lavve oh Lord I pleasure take Yet longer let me live to sing thy praise And let thy Iudgments Lord my helpers be Now mee thy servāt seek who sheep-like straies For never is thy Lawe forgot of mee Most mercifull Father wee have all erred strayed from thy waies like lost sheep give us therefore that Lawe of Faith by which wee may be brought home to thy Folde UUhen wee have obtained this Grace let us truely esteeme it hartly praise thee for it diligently preach it to others Oh spare our lives vntill the New-man shall be fully perfected in vs that wee may accomplish the work for which wee were created glorify thy Name world without end Amen Psa 120. A song of Degrees VVhy these Psalmes are so called it is vncertaine for Iewish fancies are not vvorth heeding but perhaps our Degrees tovvard the spirituall Temple are here mystically included for the first degree thithervvard is to have a sight of our misery a detestatiō of the worlds vanities figured by Mesech Kedar in this Psalme It is vsefull when wee are constrained to live among false worshippers or wearied by our owne corruptions c. I Call'd on God in my destresse Who heard mee when I prayd From lieng deceitfulnes Lord save my Soul I said What hire oh thou deceitfull tongue Prepared is for thee But arrowes that are sharp strong And coales that burning be 2 Ah! woe is mee that I so long In Mesech must reside And that perforce I must among The Tents of Kedar bide My soul hath beene too long alas With such as wranglers are For when I speake to them of peace For warr they do prepare Father of Mercie Keep vs from the lieng deceits of the Devill his Members reward them according to their malice Vouchsafe to us also such a sight loathing of our naturall estate that wee may have an earnest longinge to be translated from the Tents of Vngodlines be incorporated into thy heavenly Ierusalem through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Psa 121. A song of Degrees Another Degree is to fixe the eye of our soul on God acknowledging him only the meanes of our deliverance our defence c. It directs vs to whome wee should seek encourageth to depend on God in all our waies MIne eyes above the hills I reare And thence of healp I hopefull am For from the Lord my succours are From him that heav'n earth did frame My feet vnmoov'd he alway keeps He is my garde that ever wakes For he nor slumbers neither sleeps Who charge of Isr'el vndertakes 2 The Lord ev'n as thy shade will stay On thy righthand for thy defence Nor Moone by night nor Sunne by day Shall harme thee by their Influence For God will save thee from all woe Hee will thy soul from dangers free And whether in or out thou goe Thy gard at all times he will bee Gratious Protector Cause us to expect all our deliverances from thee with a constant dependance vpon thy savegard in all proceedings Keep us without slavish fear or wavering in our Faith And be thou all way soe watchfull over us so near vnto vs that neither those dangers whereto wee are commonly subiect nor the extraordinarie Influences of the heavens nor any other vnexpectede Evēts harme our bodies endanger our soules or interrupt our lawfull callings either now or hereafter Amen Psa 122. A song of Degrees Another Stepp is a delight in the pietie of others ioined with love to God's worship accompanied with harty wellwishing to his Church The Elect are here personated reioicing on this Degree Wee should vse it to provoke vs vnto the same I Ioyed when they said to mee God's house let vs ascend vnto For now Ierusalem to thee And through thy Ports our feet shall goe Ierusalem is fairly Scited A Towne well-built well-vnited 2 There meet the Tribes God's Tribes alone Hus name in Isr'el to declare There placed is the Iudgment Throne The Thrones of Davids house are there Oh seek her peare for they are blessed That have to Salem love expressed 3 Let Peace a Bullworke round her make Let Plenties in her Turrets be This Peace wee wish ev'n for their sake Who mates Brethren are to mee Yea God our Lord 's faire habitation Thus makes mee pray for thy Salvation Inspire us oh Lord with a delight mutuall desires to further each other in thy service Let us take pleasure in thy Sanctuarie be alwaies to our powre healpfull zealous to effect continue the Peace of Syon even for the sakes of our brethren for our owne sakes for thy glory sake oh Father that wee may reap the benifit of her Peace Plenties through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen Psa 123. A song of Degrees Another Stepp is obedient attendance on God's will in all suffrings with assured faith in him vvhich is here professed by the faithfull soul It is vsefull to advance vs to this Degree OH Lord that in the heav'ns remainest Lo wee advance our eyes to thee And Lord our God till healp thou daignest They shall on the affixed bee As men or Maides that waiting stand Vpon their Lord or Ladie 's hand 2 Oh grant vs Lord thy dear compassion For wee extream contempts have borne Vouchsafe vs Lord thy Consolation For why our harts are greev'd with scorne Ev'n by the scornes pride of them Who live at ease vs contemn Hovv ever thou shalt please to afflict vs oh Lord or hovv longsoever thou deferr any desired Blessing let vs be contented to attend thy Pleasure watchfull to performe what thou shalt require further at our hands soe our suffrings shall the sooner be redressed our dutiful obedience be rewarded through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen Psa 124. A song of Degrees Another Staire is acknowledgment of former deliverances of the beginnings of Gods graces already obtained as in this Psalme Wee may vse it after any Deliverances but especially such as are most publike BUt that the Lord our part did please to take But that God holpe vs Isr'el now may say When men did their Assaults against vs make Wee to their throtes had bene a living-prey For wroth at vs with spighfull rage were they 2 Wee by the Flouds had then bene closed round Ev'n quite above our soul the streames had gone The swelling flouds our soul had surely drownd Wee therfor blesse praise the Lord alone That by their teeth wee were not ceaz'd vpon 3 For as a bird out of a fouling snare Ev'n so our
attempts of our Adversaries enable us to sustaine with Christian patience that part of thy Crosse which thou appointest us to bear that being chearfull partakers of thy suffrings we may partake also thy victorious Trivmphs in the Kingdome of heaven Amen Psa 130. A song of Degrees Another Ascent is earnest prayer VVhich the Faithfull soul here powreth forth for assistance c. It may serve as a forme of prayer in great extremities LOrd from the depths to thee I sue My vocall prayer hear And when my Voice my wants doth shewe Encline to mee thine ear Lord who cann bear it if severe To mark our faults thou be But that wee faint not in thy fear Compassion waites on thee 2 On God I waite on his word My soul her hopes doth lay My soul more waiteth for the Lord Then watchmen for the day Oh Isr'ell trust in God for hee Hath gratious help in store And from thy sinns delivers thee Both now evermore Gratiously hear our prayers oh Lord in all our troubles enter not into iudgment with us thy servants vnles thou overshaddowe us by the wings of thy Mercy for our iustice is vnrighteousnes in thy sight Give us grace to hope in thee with patient expectation of thy good pleasure soe enable vs at least in our true desire to fufill our promises to thee that without infringment of thy Justice we may be delivered both from the guilt punishment of our sinns through thy Mercie in Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Psa 131. A song of Degrees Another Degree is vnfained humilitie For such as humble them selves shall be exalted Here all arrogance ambition selftrust is disclaimed a sole dependance on God professed and others exhorted to the same It is vsefull to beget humility OH Lord I have no scornefull eie Nor proud nor loftie minde I seek not things that are too high But humbly am inclinde My soul is like an infant wean'd Ev'n from his mothers brest And Isr'el so to be sustaind On God should alway rest None of thy Creatures oh God have made them selves to be so vile as wee yet none are more proud or selfeconceited none more presumptiously inquifitive into thy forbidden Seacrets Oh give us more humility lesse desire to those curiosities which are above vs pertinent to advance the Kingdome of Sathan rather then the Kingdome of Heaven which is to be entred which a Childlike Obedience humiliation This Humiliation wee againe beseech thee to grant vs for Iesus Christ his sake Amen Psa 132 A song of Degrees Another Degree is a hartie purpose to prepare a Temple for God in our harts to endeavour the setling of his outward worship which is here mistically implied It is vsefull to stirr vs to this Degree REmember Lord what David's troubles be And what to Iacob's mightie God he swore In house or bedd I will not rest said he Nor shall mine eyes or sleep or slumber more Vntill a place be found of my providing For Iacob's God the mighty Lord's abiding 2 Lo Ephrata wee heard the place should be And in the forrest-feilds wee found the same Thy house therefore to enter purpose wee And at thy footstoole will adore thy Name Arise oh Lord ascend thy resting bowre Thou the Arck of thy Almightie powre 3 Let righteousnes thy sacred Preists aray And. let thy saints a ioyfull tryvmph make Oh turne not thy Messiah's face away For thy beloved Servant David's sake To whome thou swar'st thy promise vnrecalled That on his Throne his Seed should be installed 4 If they saidst thou my League word respect Thy Children on thy Throne shall ever sitt For I the Lord did Syon hill elect And for my dwelling I have chosen it My setled rest is there I 'le possesse it I love it with plenties I will blesse it 5 The pore thereof with bread I will sustaine Her Preists I 'le clothe will health her saints shal A Lamp for mine Anointed I 'le ordaine sing And I will make the horne of David spring I those will shame that for is harme endeavor But on himself his Crowne shall flourish ever Suffer vs not oh Lord to take rest in any thing vntill wee have provided thee a dwelling in our seules then let vs entertaine there nought els but that which may be serviceable vnto thee Take thou possession of vs furnish vs as becommeth Temples for thy presence Remember all thy promises to the Faithfull for they only are that seed of David to whome thy Covenants belong they are those Elected-ones whome thou hast promised never to forsake Give vs all outward meanes of this invisible grace Continue among vs the succession of holy faithfull Pastors The Bread of thy Word the Clothings of Righteousnes the Lampe of Illumination the Horne of good Government the Ioye of the Holy-ghost that the enimies of thy Church may be ashamed shee crowned with honour blessednes for ever Amen Psa 133. A song of Degrees Another Step is that which the preposterous Zeal of Schismaticks hath much defaced to wit Charitie brotherly Vnitie which is here excellenly Illustrated to moove vs to ascend it Wee should sing it to encrease Vnitie Love SEe Breth'ren see how sweet a blisse It is our lives in love to lead It like that pretious Oyntment is Which once anointed Aron's head And on his heard from thence did flowe Ev'n to his garment skirts belowe 2 It like refreshing dewe doth prove Which downe on Hermon's topp distills Ev'n like the dewe which from above Descendeth downe on Syon hills For there God promisd heretofore To blesse with life for ever more Oh God! so deare to thee is brotherly Love that all Faith yea Martirdome wanting that Uirtue is of no esteeme So profitable is it vnto vs That like pretious oyntment on the head or like shewres falling on high mountaines it descends spreads vntill every member be refreshed therewith Encrease therfor wee beseech thee this Virtue among vs without which all others are counterfeits let vs so preserve Vnity brotherly kindnes in this life that wee may enioy thy eternall Love Vniō in the life to come through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Psa 134. A song of Degrees This is the last Degree For the highest Ascent is the glorifieng of God Note that the first last Degrees only are placed according to their Order because necessarily our first step to Godward must be the fight of our Misery The highest is to praise him The rest are not ascended by all in one and the same order therefore no precise order is observed in their placing Wee should sing it to provoke to this Dutie COme now praise the Lord all yee That his attendants are Ev'n you that in God's temple be And praise him nightly there Your hands within Gods holy-place Advance praise his Name And yov from Syon he shall blesse That heav'n
earth did frame Lord wee were created for thy Glorie All the time of our Pilgrimage on earth is to fitt vs for thy praise the highest Degree which wee cann attaine to either in this life or the next is to sing Halelujah vnto thy Name Oh grant wee may so honour thee in these Temples of our Bodies here vpon the Way on whome the Nights of affliction the Dayes of consolation doe interchangably succeed that in thy Ierusalem wee may sing praises vnto thee in that spirituall Temple wherein the presence of the Lambe maketh a continuation of Day of Ioy of all happines for ever more Amen Psa 135. Halelujah It exhorts to praise God in regard of his greatnes for our election for his omnipotency Mercy Iustice eternitie because other Gods are but ridiculons fictions c. To this end wee who are mistically the Sonns of Aron Levy should sing it c. OH all yee servants of the Lord His Name with praise confesse Ev'n you that of our God the Lord The house Courts possesse Oh praise God's Name for sweet it is To sing of his renowne For Iacob he hath chose for his And Isr'el for his owne 2 God is I knowe a powrfull-one He doth all Gods excell In heav'n his pleasure he hath done In earth in sea in hell He maketh vapours to arise Ev'n from Earth's farthest ends And he out of his Treasuries Winde raine lighting sends 3 The first-borne through the Egiptian coast Of man beast he slewe And on king Pharoh his hoast Rare wonders hee did shewe Great kings kingdomes downe he brought Ev'n Sehon Heshbon's king And Og of Bashan yea to nought All Can'an's Realmes did bring 4 Then for his Isr'els heritage Their lands he did bestowe For which hee 's fam'd from age to age And still shall famous growe When he to judge them doth appeare His people shall be sav'd But heathen God's man's makings were Of gold silver grav'd 5 Their carved mouthes are speachles found Their eyes no light cann see Though they have eares they heare no sound Their throates quite breathles be Much like to these their Makers are And they that serve them toe The Lord therefore let Isr'el fear And so let Aron doe 6 The Lord let Levie's houshould blesse In Syon let all them Who fear the Lord the Lord confesse That keeps Ierusalem Haleluiah Oh Lord our God wee hartely thanck thee for our creation preservation VVee magnify thy wisdom thy powre thy providence thy Iudgments thy Mercies and we acknowledge that the Deities of heathenish and carnall men yea all other things in which wee trust are but vanities false Gods fashioned by our owne wicked fancies Grant therfore that all of us even preist people who in Word professe thee may in hart fear thee in deed faithfully serve thee now for ever Amen Psa 136. This Psalme exhorts to praise God both for generall and perticuler benifits shewes that all are bestowed for his meer mercy-sake which is eternall It may be sung literally to commemorate what God did for the Patriarks or mistically as a thancksgivinge for the spirituall deliverances which these typified THe Lord is Good him therfore blesse And for his Grace that lasteth ever The God of Gods let vs confesse Because his Mercie faileth never The Lord of Lords with praise extoll For where he loves he alway loveth His Acts alone are wonderfull Because his Favour endles proveth 2 His Wisdome did creat the spheares For to all times his Kindnes lasteth And earth above the seas he rears Because his Pittie never wasteth He did the greater Lights provide For through each Age his Grace extendeth He made the Sunn the day to guide Because his Goodnes never endeth 3 He fram'd the Moone starrs for night For without bound is his Compassion And Egipts eldest-borne did smite Because his grace hath no cessation He brought forth Isr'el from their land For soe his endles grace procured With stretcht-out Arme powrfull hand Because his Mercie still endured 4 Hee did the Red sea then divide For. still his Kindnes he retaineth And Isr'el through the same did guide Because his Favour still remaineth There he did Pharoh's Army drowne For Love hee freely still bestoweth And through the Deserts brought his owne Because eternall Grace he showeth 5 Both huge powrfull kings he slewe For everlasting are his Graces Yea famous kings he overthrewe Because his Love times date surpasses Great Sehon king of th' Amorites For his Affection never faileth And Og that ruld the Bashamites Because his Mercy still prevaileth 6 Their heritage bestow'd hath he For so his endles Love required His Isr'el's heritage to be Because his Grace is vnexpired He did exalt vs from belowe For he to Pittie still enclineth And hee redeem'd vs from our foe Because no time his Grace confineth 7 Hee to all flesh their food hath given For his great Mercy faileth never Oh glorify the God of heav'n Because his Grace abideth ever VVhen wee looke back oh Lord vnto the beginning of thy visible workings pondering the never interrupted succession of thy Mercies vnto this day therewithall observe the performance of all thy promises to thy Church heretofore the continuance of thy abundant Loving-kindnes to us at this present UUee are assured that thy Goodnes Compassion is eternall VVee therfore beseech thee to give vs true thanckfulnes for the same that wee may confesse it aswell in deed as word praise magnify thy Name for ever ever Amen Psa 137. This Elegiacal Hymne mistically expresseth the Zeal love of the Faithfull to the Citty of God And Prophecies the fall of the spirituall Babilon Wee may sing it to comfort vs during the continuance of our Naturall bondage the tirranies of Antichrist AS wee nigh Babel River sate Wee overcharg'd with weepings were To thinck on Syon's pore estate And hung our harpes on willowes there For they to whome wee were inthralled On vs for songs of Syon called 2 Come sing they sayd a Syon-hymne Lord cann wee sing thy songs in thrall Vnles Oh dear Ierusalem Thee in my mirth preferr I shall Or if the thought of thee forgoe mee Let hand tongue prove vseles to me 3 Oh Lord remember Edom's brood And how whilst they Ierusalem Vnsackt vndefaced stood Her spoile was hast'ned on by them For loud thy cryed race it race it And to the groundwork downe deface it 4 Oh daughter of proud Babilon Thou shalt likewise destroyed be And he will prove a blessed-one Who shall avenge our Cause on thee Ev'n hee that payes thee our disgraces And braines thy babes in stony-places Oh Lord many of thy people suffer the scornes insultings of that Babilon which was typified by the Chaldean Citty And the Mysticall Edomites labour the vtter defacing of thy Church But deliver us oh Lord reward them according to their
He gloriously hath freed And everlasting mercie shown To David his seed Vouchsafe most gratious Lord according to thy accustomed mercie to be still our Protector let thy Name be alwaies glorified for the miraculous deliverances of thy Church now in al Ages especially for the great worke of mans generall redemption Instruct vs in the spiritual warfar enable vs against all our visible invisible foes subdue vnto vs all our owne rebellious Affections deliver vs out of all our suffrings Give vs victorie over everie temptation Encrease thy kingdome by the calling of those who are not yet thy People And make vs vnfainedlie thanckful vnto thee for these all the rest of thy mercies through Iesus Christ our Lord Amen Psal 19. To the cheef Musitian a Psalme of David It declares the vniversal preaching of Gods Divinity by the book of his Creatures it is a prophecie of the generall pubâ—iation of the Gospel Rom. 10. It sheweth a so the properties of the divine word It may be used to praise God for the priveledges which we have by his word as a prayer for sanctification c. GOds glorie shines among the Sphears The heav'ns his handle-works disclose Their daylie speach his powre declares And e'vry night his wisdome showes Their language in al tongues is found Their Line about Earths globe doth runn Through-out the world their words do sound And there 's the Pallace of the Sunn 2 He Bride-groome-like refresh'd appears When he forgoes his lodging place Or gyant-like when vp he rears And chears himself to runn a Race His Iornâ—ies are from thence begun Ev'n where the bounds of heav'n are sett And he quite round the world doth runn Refreshing all things with his heat 3 God's Rule is plaine soules convarts His witnes firme maketh wise His lawes are just glad our harts His Precepts pure clear our eyes His blamles Feare is vn-confin'de Both true right are all his doomes More worth then gold ev'n gold refin'de More sweet then hony in the combes 4 Moreover they thy servant warne By keeping them he profit winns But Lord his guilt who cann descerne Oh! therfor purge my secreat sinns From daring Crimes thy sarvant save And let them bear no sway in me So I the lesse rebuke shall have And from the great-offence be free 5 Oh! when I speake let ev'ry word And ev'rie muzing of my hart Be pleasing in thy sight oh Lord For thou my strength saviour art No excuse is lest oh mercifull Father if we be ignorant of thee or vnconformable to thy will for by the book of thy Creatures it was long-since declared vnto the whole world which Text being corrupted by humane Inventions thou didst explaine it againe in the volumes of the Prophets Since then it was more illustrated by the writings of the Apostles And the prime scope of all these Bookes thy blessed Spirit daylie preacheth interpreteth throughout the world by ordinarie or extraordinarie meanes The powre truth puritie sweetnes profitabelnes of this divine word wee do or must confesse also to be evident Nevertheles because wee have much wilful ignorance many secret corruptions we humbly pray thee so extraordinarilie to enlighten our darknes to purge our concealed polutions that we being illuminated sanctified by the holie-ghost the vnpardonable Sinn may be avoided we made acceptable to thee in Christ Iesus Amen Psa 20. To the cheef Musitian A Psalme of David It is a prayer for spirituall graces with a protestation of affiance in God it mistically toucheth the Prest-hood royal dignity of Christ c. It may be vsed to desire Gods acceptance of vs in his Sonn may serve in some cases as a prayer for christian princes and pastors c. THe Lord at need vouchsafe thee grace Let Jacobs God thy cause defend Protect thee from his holy-place And strength to thee from Syon send Thy guifts let him remember still Let him accept thy Sacrifize Selah Thy harts request let him fulfill And prosper all thou shalt devise 2 We wil reioice thy peace to see And in Gods name our Ensignes wave When al thy suites are granted thee For God I know his Christ will save By his right-hand's almightie force God hears vs from his holy-hill Some trust in charrets or in horse But we Gods Name remember still 3 In that regard we raised are And stand vpright when they do fal Oh! let the king our prayers hear And save vs Lord when we do call Assist vs mercifully oh God in all our Aflictions Accept the Sacrifise offred for vs by Christ Iesus the high-preist of our seules in his Mediations grant vnto vs all our faithful petitions That so renouncing al temporall Assurances trustinge only in thy defence we may arise from those sinns into which many fall without repentance and that we may be made partakers of thy Salvation with our kinglie Mediatour who liveth raighneth with thee oh father thy holy-spirit world without end Amen Psa 21. To the cheef Musitian a Psalm of David It is a literal prophecie of the kingly dignitie of Christ mentioninge some of his royall prerogatives c. It may be vsed as a thanckfull commemoration of the preheminence of our spirituall king c. LOrd in thy strength how joies the king And of thine aide how glad is he His harts desires in ev'rie thing Have bene bestow'd on him by thee Selah With blessings thou didst him prevent With purest gold thou cowud'st his head To ask for life was his intent And he of endles life hath sped 2 Through thy defence he famous growes And is to high preferment reard On him thy blisse-evernal flowes Thy gratious lookes his hart have chear'd Through thy meer love the king shal stand Still firme if he on thee tepose And Lord thy hand ev'n thy right-hand Shall serch finde out all thy foes 3 As ovens hot with flames will do So thou shalt scorch them in thyne yre And in thy wrath consume them so As if they burned in the fire Yea thou shalt from the race of man Root out their fruite pluck their seed Because to wrong thee they begann Although they could not act the deed 4 Thou shalt expose them as it were A Marke within thy shooting-place Thy stringed shafts thou shalt prepare And stick thine Arrowes in their face Thus be thou still exalted Lord By thine owne powre thy trophies raise And then with joye wee will record Thy Matchles might in songs of praise Blessed be thy Name oh God for that high preferment which thou hast ouchsafed the Manhood by assuming the same to thy Deitie by bestowing theron a soveraigntie over al the rest of thy Creatures Give vs humility to ascribe al the glorie therof to Christ Iesus Hear all our petitions in him Teach vs by his example so to trust in thee that we may obtaine the priveledges of his glorious
I. I will no other aide emplore Then what thou shalt afford To bring me succours now therfore Thy healp defer not Lord. Healp vs oh Lord for thou only art our healper wee have no other hopes but in thee Make us not the spoile or scorne of those who desire practise the destruction of our soules But grant rather oh God! that all they who fear thee may be comforted in our speedy deliverances Reioice in thy Mercies relie on thee in their necessities ascribe all thancks honour glorie to thy blessed Name for ever more Amen Psa 71. The Church acknowledgeth God's preservation of her in her severall Ages from her manyfold Oppressers desiring to be preserved also in her last worst age c. wee on whome the worst Age is come should vse it as a prayer to be delivered from the same KEep me from shame for Lord in thee I trust Incline thine ear to healp set mee free Yea save thou mee oh Lord as thou art iust My Rock my Fort my Refuge daigne to be For Lord my strēgth thou help dost promise me 2 Mee from the powre of sinnful men defend And from their hands oh Lord that cruel are My soul on thee did in the wombe depend And since my birth thou hast of mee had care For which my tongue shal stil thy praise declare 3 Thou art my hope though wondred at I be And I will fing thy praises all the day When I am weake old Lord leave not mee For with despight my haters mee gainsay And for my soul they plotts engines lay 4 God leaves him quite say these persue take He now hath none to rescue him from thral But come oh God! speed to healp me make Oh come smite my soules Oppressors all Bring scorn shame on those who seek my fal 5 Thē still I 'le hope thy love I 'le still commend Yea still relate what favours thou hast done And of thy grace since I perceave no end Thy strength Lord God I will depend vpon And magnifie thy Righteousnes alone 6 Till now oh God! thy Marvailes I have told As from my youth I have bin taught by thee Oh leave me not when I am gray olde Till Ages all thy powre have learn'd of mee And then extold thy Iustice Lord shall be 7 None ever did such works as thou hast wrought And though my soul thou keptst awhile in paine At last as one who from the grave was brought Me to my ioyes thou didst restore againe For which my harpe to praise thy Name I strain 8 My tongue likewise in setting out thy prais Oh thou cheef saint of Isr'el part shal bear So shal my soul whose price thy bountie paies And ev'rie day thy Iustice I 'le declare Because my foes defam'd ruin'de are Oh Lord in the wombe wee had extraordinarie nourishmēt breathing for our bodies no doubt our seules had there a due nourishment by thy Spirit Being borne wee are brought into thy visible Church by Baptisine long time after sustained by thee both in soul body without having any outward work required at our hands when we are capable of the outward Covenant al thou requirest is but to give thee that hart which thou hast prepared so to doe Yet helps vs oh God in this dutie never leave us in our own hands And as thou hast in all her former ages preserved thy Church both from the rage of Iewes Gentiles Heriticks so in this her old worst age preserve her from those Hypocrites lukewarme professors who have added seacret mischeeves to publike oppressions Yea preserve her us oh God from those all other Adversaries that thy Truth may be continued to all ages the ioye of her Children restored thy blessed Name glorified for ever end ever Amen Psa 72. A Psalm for Solomon It setts forth the maiestie of Christ his kingdome for only of that Salomon are many passages of this Psalme verified it declares his Universal iudicature The Churches happines therein His marvailous Incarnation The extent Riches peaceablenes of his Kingdome c. Wee should sing it to glorify God for those things c. THe King oh God! with judgment blesse And give thy Iustice to his Sonn That to thy people in destresse With judgment Iustice may be done Then Truth Iustice florish will On ev'rie great litle hill 2 Then poorest men shall be secure For he will all Oppressors tear And whilst the sunn Moone endure From age to age they him shall fear On Earth like dropps descend he shall Like those which on the Fleece did fall 3 The Iust shall whilst he rules have peace So long as doth the moone remaine He from the River to the seas And quite throughout the world shal raigne The salvages adore him shall And all his foes before him fall 4 Arabia's prince Saba's Kinge The Lords of Seas Ilands to Shal guifts to him with homage bring So shall all Kings people doe For when they crie he setteth free The pore meek that helples be 5 The pore humble he respects He saves their soules that healples are From fraud force he them protects For in his eye their bloud is dear To him they Sheba's gold shall give And he shall prais'd prayd for live 6 His Corne shall from a handfull growe To cover all the mountaines topps Like Libanon his fruit shall showe And fill the Citties with his cropps His Fame through Ages all shall runn As everlasting as thee sunn 7 In him the Nations all abrode Shall blessed be praise him to Oh praise the Lord ev'n Isr'els God For he alone cann wonders do Still blessed be his glorious Name And earth still filled with his Flame Amē Amē Sweet Iesu who being invisible in thy Deitie didst become visible in thy humanitie by descending miraculously into the Virgines wombe like raine into Gideons fleece Grant wee beseech thee thy divine spirit may so infuse it selfe into our harts that Iustice Peace Charitie encreasing continueng vpon the earth all thy afllicted Children may be comforted secured the barbarous Nations converted thy Kingdome enlarged thyne enimies be brought into subiection thy feilds become abundantly fruitfull heaven earth be filled with thy glorie world without end Amen Psa 73. A Psalm for Asaph It expresseth how the faithfull are sometime discouraged by the prosperities of the wicked is an excellent description of such conflicts as are between the Flesh the spirit in everie Christian c. We may vse it to comfort vs in such tēptations to remember vs whither to repaire in such conflicts NO doubt God counts his Isr'el dear And loves the righteous man Yet was my foot quite gone wel-near And I to fall begann For when I fooles did honor'd vewe And Sinners lifted high And that nor sick nor weak they grewe Their weal I
did envie 2 From greefs like ours they seemed free Their pride Cruelties To them as clothes or bracelets be And fatt stuffs out their eyes They have their wills are so base To boast of Sinns wrongs And neither earth nor heav'nly place Escapes their evill tongues 3 To such Ful-springs as wel as they God's Children seek to goe For God the God most high they say Regards not what wee do Lo wicked men the world possesse And wealth honors gaine But wee have cleans'd in righteousnes Our harts hands in vaine 4 Yea wee still pininge goe say they Lamenting all day long Yet thus I speak not lest I may Thy weaker Children wrong I sought a reason for the same But I no cause descern'd Till to the house of God I came And there their end I learn'd 5 On slipp'rie seats them sett thou hast From whence with shame feare Ev'n suddainly they downe are cast And never more appeare For as a dream when thou dost wake Thou dost their Forme deface At such therefore offence to take Thou seest how fond I was 6 But still with mee thou dost abide Thou hold'st my Right-hand fast And by thy Counsells mee shalt guide To Glory's throne at last In heav'n or Earth account I make Of nothing but of thee And though my soul Flesh be weake Thou alway strengthnest mee 7 For thou oh God! my portion art And thou shalt them destroy Who runn a whooring in their hart Another to enioy Because right good the same doth seem To God approaching near And placing all my trust in him His works I will declare Direct thou so oh Lord all our works words thoughts that wee neither murmur at any afliction where with wee are exercised nor be discouraged in thy service because the wicked are more flourishing for a time VVee confesse it is oft our frailty to iudg of thy love by outward prosperities that great Adversities have tempted some to call into question thy providence to the shaking endangering of their Faith But grant wee pray thee that by frequenting thy house vsing the meanes of Perseverance wee may be so informed touching the fickle estate of wicked men in prosperitie of that happines which thou preparest for constant professors of thy Truth that wee never commit spiritual fornication against thee But that chusing thee for our portion supporting our weakenes by thy strength wee may continue in thy Fear Favour protection to our lives end Amen Psa 74. A Psalm for Asaph It mysticallie prophecied what havoke should be made in the Church by aluding to the destruction of the material Temple God is desired to vouchsafe his wonted Mercie in regard of the Foes outrage but especially for his owne honour sake It is a prayer for the Church in perseeution OH God! for ever why despis'd are wee Why is in rage thy pasturage laid wast Oh minde thy Flock redeem'd of old by thee That heritage which dearly bought thou hast Ev'n Syon mount whereon thy Name is plac't 2 Come Lord oh come destroy for evermore The Foe that on thy holy-place hath preyd Thy foes that in thy Congregation roare Who there for signes their ensignes have displaid And on the carved works their axes laid 3 For as if they some grove were hewing downe With Axe Maul the costly works they breake They flaming fires into thy house have throwne Thy name 's cheef seat a place prophane they make And in their harts of spoiling all they speake 4 Troughout the Land thy houses burned be Yet to declare the date of this our woe Nor visions now nor Prophets word have wee Lord when shall end these ragings of the Foe Shall he blaspheam thy Name for ever so 5 No more thy hād thy right-hād Lord withhold Within thy brest the same no longer hide For thou oh God! thou art our king of old And here on earth for vs thou didst provide When by thy powre thou didst the Sea divide 6 The Dragons Heads thou woundedst in the floud Leviathan's vast heads thou didst prepare In places wilde to be thy peoples food Yea frō dry rocks thou hewdst out fountains there And ma'dst firm land where mighty waters were 7 Thine is the day the night is also thine Thou ma'dst the light thou did'st form the sunn The world within her Zones thou didst confine shewdst what cours times hot cold should run Lord mind those things what the foe hath don 8 Observe how fools blaspheā thy name oh Lord Thy Turtles life defend from Sinners wrongs Observe our greefs thinck vpon thy word For to the world a darksome denn belongs Which harbors fraud inhumane deeds wrōgs 9 That so the pore vnsham'd may praise thy name To plead thy cause thine owne just cause arise Observe how fooles thee daylie do defame Yea bear in minde thy Foes malitious cries And to what height their shouts against vs rise Oh Lord God dreadful in iudgmēts infinit in mercies the devastation typified in thy Material Temple is fulfilled vpon thy spirituall Sanctuary Thy open Adversaries batter the maine Fabrick without whilst Schysmaticks Hypocrites break downe the Ornaments within betwixt both terrors confusions dissentions are so encreased that thy Church is indangered Have mercie vpon the people whome thou hast bought as heretofore shew thy selfe the King protector of thine Inheritance to the confusion of thy blaspheamers Though not for ours yet for thine honour sake let neither the temporall enimies of thy visible Church make spoile thereof nor our spirituall Destroier deface those Temples of thy holy-spirit which are erected in our harts But keep them alwaies vndefaced vnpoluted fitting receptacles for thee thy Graces through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Psa 75. To the cheef Musitian Altaschith a Psalme or song for Asaph God is praised for his ready healp Christ promiseth to support iudge his Church Oppressors are reprooved the different portion of them of the Godly is declared It is vsefull to comfort against the insolencies of spiritual foes THee Lord wee praise magnifie To thee wee thanckfull are For that thy Name approcheth nigh Thy wondrous works declare When I the people have assum'd I Iustice will maintaine For when Earth's dwellers are consum'd Her pillers I sustaine Selah 2 To Fooles I said more prudent growe To Sinners thus I spake Your horne your horne advance not soe Nor such proud boasting make Nor East nor west advancements come Nor from the Mountaines flowe But God him self preferreth some And some doth overthrowe 3 From his full Cupp within his hand He mixt redd-wine doth poure Which ev'rie Sinner in the land Shall dreggs all devoure But I of Iacob's God will speak And alway sing his praise The hornes of Sinners I will break And high the Righteous raise Oh Christ the Sonn of God! so establish thy Kingdome in our harts that Righteousnes may be
how cann I tears refraine 6 Lord my greefs to thee I showe With my hands to thee vp-raised Cann the dead thy wonders knowe Or thy Love or truth be praised By the Sonns of Death belowe Selah 7 Cann thy Marvailes they vnfold Who in darknes quite are blinded Or thy Ius tice there be tolde Where is nothing said or minded Which was done in times of olde 8 Vnto thee oh Lord I crie And my suites prevent the Morninge Oh! why dost thou cast me by Still fro mee thy presence turninge Who am greev'd like to dy 9 Fro my youth oh Lord till now Mee thy terror hath destressed Nigh distract it makes me grow For thy wrath hath mee oppressed And thy feares have brought me lowe 10 They besett me ev'rie day Floud-like flowing alltogether And no freinds to help me stay Lovers nor Familiers neither For thou driv'st them all away Help us oh gratious Redeemer so to bear the manifold infirmities afflictions of our flesh so to endure the contempts neglects iniuries of the world so constantly to sustaine all the Assaults of our spiritual Adversaries that though we be deprived of all outward Freindships consolations wee may be inwardly satisfied comforted against every terror in every temptation Let us seek soe earnestly so early for thy assistance that escaping the spiritual blindnes which makes vncapable of thy praise that dungeon of vtter Darknes in which thy Righteousnes is obscured that everlasting Death from which there is no Resurrection we may enioy thy blessed presence where we shall magnify thy Mercies for ever ever Amen Another of the same LOrd God my healper day night To thee my moanings are Admit my suites vnto thy sight And my complainings hear For in my soul great sorrowes be My life drawes nigh the grave As one inter'd they count of mee And litle strength I have 2 As hee that 's dead buried long Death's free-man I became As one out of thy presence flung I quite forgotten am Thou laidst mee in the lowest ward Where darksome Dungeons are On mee thine Anger presseth hard And all thy stormes I bear Selah 3 Thou hast my freinds fro me restraind My Lovers mee despize I fast in prison am detain'd And sorrow dimms mine eyes Oh Lord all day to thee I sue My hands I meekly raise Thy wonders cann men buried shewe Or wake to sing thy praise Selah 4 Lord cann the grave thy Love expresse Thy Faith cann ruines teach Thy wonders or thy righteousnes Cann dumb Oblivion preach Betimes oh Lord I will erect My suites cries to thee Why shouldst thou then my soul reject And hide thy face fro mee 5 My soul is pain'd ev'n to the death And all my life I bear The heavy burthens of thy wrath Thy terrors thy fear They clos'd mee round like waters deep Where whilst begirt I lay Fro me my Lovers thou didst keep And hidst my freinds away Psa 89. Maschil of Ethan the Ezrahite It celebrates the mercy Goodnes Iustice power of God c. Mentioneth his League with David mystically declares that those covenants belong to his spiritual seed in the cheef place c. It instructs vs who are the right heyres of the promises c. NOw in a song of endles praise Thy Mercies I will sing oh Lord And vnto all succeeding dayes Thy faithfulnes I will record For I have sayd that thy great Love And Mercy shal be raised high And that thou shalt in heav'n above Thy Faith confirm magnify 2 Thou hast both vowed decreed To David thine Elected-one To multiply his faithful seed And build him vp an endles throne Selah Which heav'n shall to thy praise declare In works to be admired at And where thy Saints assembled are Thy Faithfulnes they shall relate 3 For whome like thee doth heav'n afford What earthly Kings thy equalls be Who art among they Saints ador'd And fear'd of all that wait on thee Oh Lord of Hoasts what Lord is found So faithful or so strong as thou Who setts the raging seas their bound And calm'st them when thy furious grow 4 Thou didst afflict all Egipt-land As one made weake by wounds blowes And by the powre of thy strong hand Thou hast dispersed all thy foes Thine heav'n earth all things be For thou alone didst all things frame The North South were made by thee And East West extoll thy Name 5 Strong armes thou hast with powrful hands And where thou dost thy Throne prepare With Iudgment Iustice alway stands And Truth Love thy Vshers are Oh! blest are they who know thy voice Thy look shall chear them in their waies They in thy Name shall still reioice And them thy Iustice high shal raise 6 For thou art Lord our strengths renowne Our horne shall by thy favour spring Thou art our strong defensive Towne The Saint of Isr'el our King By vision thou didst once declare And to thy Holy-one disclose That thou a healper wouldst prepare Among thy people to be chose 7 I have saidst thou my David found My holy oyle on shall flowe By mine owne Arme he shall be crown'd My hand shal strength on him bestowe His Foe shall do him no disgrace The Sonn of sinn he shall not fear For I will smite before his face All them that his Opposers are 8 My faith love on him shal stay My Name his honour shall mainetaine His hand shall make the seas obay His right-hand shall the flouds restraine His Father he shall knowledg me His God his Rock his defence For he my eldest borne shal be And King of ev'ry earthly Prince 9 To him I still will mercy grant He shall enioy my promise given Successors he shall never want His Throne shall stand as firme as heav'n And if my Lawes his Children break If they shall fro my precepts flye My statutes if they shall forsake Or from my Iudgments walk awry 10 Their sinns with stripes I wil correct And scourg them when amisse they do But those whome I do well-affect My Love will never quite forgoe For once ev'n by my self I swore I would no lye to David make My League I will not break therfore Nor change a word of that I spake 11 Lord thus thou saydst that a Throne Vnto his yssue should be given As lasting as the Sunn Moone Or as the witnesses of heav'n Selah But now as if he were abhor'd Thou dost on thyne Anointed frowne Thou makest voyd thy league oh Lord And on the ground hast hurld his crowne 12 His Fences thou didst rend away His warlike forts thou downe dost race All passers-by on him do prey His Neighbours flout at his disgrace His foes thou hast Victorious made Whereat his haters ioyfull be Thou dull'st the sharpnes of his blade And in the fight made faint was he 13 Thou hast obscur'd his glories raies His Throne thou castest on the ground Selah Thou
without end Amen Psal 104. The Majestie wisdome powre of God in the Creation preservation of all his Creatures is here described by excellent Metaphors We may sing it to praise him for making preserving all things to his owne glorie for our confortable vse c. The Title is Halelujah NOw shall my soul to praise the Lord assay For Lord my God! vnbounded is thy might With glories beames thy self thou dost aray And as with Robes art cloth'd about with Light Thou curtaine-like the heav'ns abrode displayest And in great flouds thy chābers roofs thou layest 2 The rowling Clouds thy speedy Charrets are And winged windes thy swift-pasd Coursers be Thy Messages the glorious Angells beare And burning fires like servants waite on thee The Globe of Earth so firmly thou hast grounded That none can shake the structur thou hast foūded 3 As with a robe wth flouds thou clothdst the same And then the waves above the hills aspir'd But at thy Check soone downe againe they came And when thy voice did thunder back retir'd From lofty heights by winding Vallies tracinge They thither fel where first they had their placing 4 And strongly there thou boundest them about That they no more the world should overflowe Among the Dales clear springs thou sendest out Which run between the mountaines to fro Thou drink from thence to forrest heards convaiest And there the thirst of Asses wilde alayest 5 Then by the Bancks of all those running Rills Among the boughs the birdes make melodies Thou from above with shewres bedew'st the hills And giv'st enough all Creatures to suffice For Cattell grasse for man thou herbs ordainest And him with food out of the earth sustainest 6 From thence proceeds the hart-reioicing-wine Refreshing oyle from thence doth also flowe That pretious oyle which makes the face to shine bread wherby man's hart more strōg may grow Thy Cedars tall due moysture have not wanted Not they which high on Libanon are planted 7 The feather'd foules their nests on thē do build The lofty Firrs are dwellings for the storke For clyming goats the mountains refuge yeald In craggy Rocks the fearfull connies lurke The changing Moon the tymes apointed showeth The constant Sunn his howr of setting knoweth 8 Thou Darknes cal'st so night shutts vp the day And then abrode the Forresters do roame With roarings loud the Lions hunt theyr prey And vnto thee oh God for meat they come The rising sunn anon returneth hither And in their denns they couch againe togither 9 Then man till night afresh his labour plies How many be thy wondrous works oh Lord In ev'ry thing thou art exceeding wise The spatious Earth by thee is fully stor'd And in the sea are many creatures dwelling Both great small whose number passeth telling 10 There sail the shipps there thou didst creat Leviathan to sport vpon the Floud Thy Creatures all from thee expect their meat And that thou shouldst in season give them food Which thou bestow'st they the same receiving Are filld with Goodnes of thy bounteous giving 11 Thou hid'st thy face loe they troubled are Thou stopt'st their breath lifeles dust they bee Againe thou breath'st they reviv'd appear And all the earth is new arayd by thee Oh! let the Lord with honour still be named And let him joy in that which he hath framed 12 If with his eye the earth he but survay The fearfull earth doth tremble at his look If on the hills he but a singer lay His very touch doth make the hills to smoke And whil'st my Life or beeing is enioyed To praise my God my tongue shall be employed 13 Sweet thoughts of him conceaved are in me And in the Lord my hart shal ever ioye For from his Land the wicked rooted be And he will them perpetually destroy Oh let his praise for ever be confessed Praise God my soul say The Lord be blessed Most glorious Lord God! thy admirable powre wisdome created the world which having once overflowed for Sinn thou didst againe replenish the same continueng the maine Fabrick ever since therein mainetaining a succession of innumerable different Creatures by a wonderfull providenee with a speciall regard vnto mankinde above them all Give us therfore grace wee beseech thee so to meditate thy workmanship thy wisdome thy great mercies herein that our harts beeing regenerated revived by the breathings of thy holy spirit wee may be thanckfull for thy great Favours that when our wickednes is rooted out wee perceaving all to be good which thou hast created or ordained may praise thy wisdome thy goodnes thy bountie for ever ever Amen Psa 105. Halelujah It typically expresseth by God's deliverances of the Iewes his Covenant with them the spiritual League graces vouchsafed to us c. We should therfor sing it not only historically but with a respect also to the Covenant of grace his mercies by Christ Iesus COme praise the Lord invoke his Name To all men make his actions knowne In Psalmes of praise sing forth his fame And speak what wonders he hath done Let them who seek the Lord be glad Let of his Name their boast be made 2 Oh search God's powre seek his face Still minde what wonders he hath done Let all that are of Abraham's race And Iacob's his elected-one God's wondrous works record with heed And minde what he hath fore-decreed 3 He is our God our mighty Lord His Iudgments through the world are spread He beares in minde his promis'd word Vnto a thousand Ages made Ev'n that which he to Abr'ham swore And vow'd to Isa'ck heretofore 4 To Iacob came the same decree In Isr'el to continue still To thee all thy seed sayd hee The Land of Can'an give I will Yea thus he spake when fewe they were And they themselves meer strangers there 5 When forraigners they liv'd among And oft from place to place remoov'd He suffred none to do them wrong But for their sakes ev'n kings reproov'd My prophets harme yee not sayd hee Vntouch'd let my Anointed be 6 Then he by dearth their Land made pore And did the staff of bread withhold But Ioseph he first sent before Eu'n him whome for a Slave they solde With fetters there his feet they pain'd And him in irons they detain'd 7 But when his Triall was decreed God's word his innocence disclos'd The king did send to have him freed And by the prince he was vnlos'd His cheef commander he was made To rule his house all he had 8 Of all his Lords he had command That he his Counsellers might guide Then Isr'el came to Egipt land And Iacob did with Cham reside And so his Children thrived there That stronger then his foes they were 9 Whose hate fraudulent intent When to his Folk he well made knowne His servant Moses then he sent And A'ron his Elected-one Who wrought great marvailes in his Name And
thou hast alured vs vnto thy love by many extraordinario blessings Oh God! let us no longer abuse thy patience but make us now soe to mind our part of the covenant which is betwixt us that wee may be seperated from our heathenish conversations be remembrend among thy people behold the good of thy Chosen reioice in the gladnes of thy Nation be pertakers in the glory of thine Inheritance for ever ever Amen Psa 107. Halelujah It exhorts to praise God for his vniversall Grace Acknowledgeth him the deliverer of all men in all places and in all troubles Confesseth him the Corrector Orderer and disposer of kingdomes persons famelies c. It is vsefull both for temporall spirituall belssings for by bodiey suffrings spirituall miseries are mystically signified COme praise the Lord thanckfully confesse That he is good gratious without end Let those whome God redeem'd his praise expers Ev'n those whome he did from their foes defend Collecting them from East westerne Nations From Northern Clymes southern habitations 2 In deserts wilde where no dwellings were They wandred on with drought hunger faint And them he freed from all destresses there When they to him had vttred their complaint He ledd them on in paths directly guiding To Citties faire whear they had safe abiding 3 Oh! let men praise the goodnes of the Lord And publish out his wonders to their seed For he to hungry men doth meat afford And with good things the longing soul doth feed He those vnbinds that are in fetters chained And in the bands shades of death detained 4 The word of God most high they did reject And small account of his advise they made With heat toile he therfor did afflict And cast them downe when they no helper had But in their need when they againe complained He tooke away the greef which they sustained 5 Frō deaths black shades he shew'd thē light some And all their bands did quite asunder break wais Let all mankinde therfore his wonders praise And of his works among their Children speake The brazen Gates he crakt open sett them Their yron barrs he broke forth he fett them 6 He plaugeth fooles because they have transgrest And for their sinns they much afflicted are Their fainting soules doe pleasant meats detest They to the gates of death approached near But seeking God when they were so oppressed From all their paines feares he them released 7 He sent his word which did their greevāce heal Preventing so their fall which hastned on Oh let all men God's goodnes therfore tell And shewe their seed what wonders he hath done Let them declare his works with joyfull singing The sacrifize of thanckfull praises bringing 8 They that in shipps at sea employed are And for their gaine to crosse the waves are bold May vewe the works of God-almighty there And in the deepes his wondrous deeds behold For he but breaths streight a storm appeareth Which vp aloft the rowling billowes beareth 9 Now mounts to heav'n anon descēds the keel And they grow faint with labour with fear As druncken men they stagger they reel And of their skill they quite deprived are Then to the Lord they cry who them releases From all their feares their dangers destresses 10 For he the stormes to gentle calmes cōvarts And quiet then the raging sea becomes Then they are joy'd Then eased are their harts And them he brings to their desired homes Of these his works let all men make relations And shewe his deeds to future generations 11 Oh sing his praise where great Assemblies are And him among your elders glorify He deserts makes where once great waters were He draines the springs of mighty Rivers drie And from rich Lands their fatnes oft he taketh When by their sinn her dwellers him forsaketh 12 The Deserts vast he turnes to standing Lakes And springs convaies to lands which barren were For hungry soules a dwelling there he makes Who for themselues do build a Citty there They sowe plant reap the hoped blessing Both of their seed of their Vines encreasing 13 He prospers them lo they are encreast Their flocks heards do fatt fruitfull grow Yet otherwhile he letts them be opprest low And with great plagues he sometime brings thē He takes from kings their princely estimation And makes them stray in pathles desolation 14 But frō all greefs the meek he still doth raise And makes like flocks his housholds to appear At sight thereof the Iust will sing his praise And they shall dumbe be strook that wicked are All this they mark that have true wisdom learned And God's great love by them is well descerned Most mercifull God! what Affliction is there from which wee are not howrely delivered or preserved by thee Nay what necessarie benifitts are there which wee have not in the best season receaved from thee in what place soever or of what Nation or condition soever wee are In our wandrings in our poverty in our sicknesses in our imprisonments in our Iournyes at sea land in our labours in our goods in our children in our sorrowes in our prosperities in our persons in our famelies in life in death yea in everie thing wee have continuall experience of thy Mercies insomuch that we may confesse thou delightest in nothing but in shewing Mercy vnles our sinns compel thy Iustice to afflict us that thy Mercies may not be despised and there is great Mercy even in that also Oh good God! make us ever mindful hereof give us wisdome so to mark consider these things that both wee our posteritie may magnifie thy vnspeakable bounty declare thy wonderful workings for ever ever Amen Psa 108. A song or Psalme of David This is composed of the later parts of the 57. 60 Psalmes yet differs from both for those beginn with lamentations end with reioieings but this is wholy triumphant personates the Church praising God for her enlargment c. Wee may sing it when the Church is released from some persecution or her limitts extended farther c. MY hart is sixt I oh Lord Will in my songs thy fame record And with my tongue sing praise to thee My Harp Psaltry are awake And I my selfe will readie make To praise thee where Assemblies be 2 For through the heav'ns thy Truth doth stretch Above the Sphears thy mercies reach Oh God! be still exalted high Thy praise through heav'n earth extend Let thy righthand thy Dear defend And still vouchsafe me thy replie 3 For as thy holy Voice declard With trivmphs Shechem I have sharde And I have measur'd Succoth Vale. Mine Gilead Manasseth are My head mount Ephraim high doth bear In Iudah stands my judgment Stall 4 Proud Moab is my drugding slave My foot in Edom fixt I have And Palestine doth ioye in me For who to Edom was my guide Or to the
Ev'n of his people to be King And he a joyfull mother made Of her that erst no children had Vnto the Lord oh therefor sing To God the Father To the Sonn And holy-Ghost those three in one And that eternall One in three All glory bee for ever more All powre praise as heretofore Ascribed now ever be Psa 114. By alluding to the deliverance from Egipt to the driving back of Iordan the Redsea to the trembling of Sinay forcing waters from hard rocks our spirituall deliverances Reformations are typified Therfore our Church vseth this Psalme as proper for Easterday WHen Isr'el brought from Egipt was And Iacob from a forraigne tongue In Iudah was his holy place To him did Isre'ls rule belong The Sea saw that fledd away Ev'n Iordan also backward slipt The mountaines then like Rams did play Like Lambes the lesser hillocks tript 2 Thou sea what made thee so to fly Why didst thou Iordan backward goe Why daunc't like Rams the mountaines hye Yee hills like Lambs why tript yee so Shake earth at presence of the Lord When Iacob's God is present shake For he from Rocks a standing Ford And fountaines in the flints doth make Almighty God the deliverer of all pore destressed Captives wee are hy Nature the slaves of Sinn Death the Devill who do labour to hold us in eternall bondage But wee praise thee thou hast made a miraculous passage for our escape Oh! grant therfor that thy presēce may so startle us out of our securitie soe mollifie our flintie nature that the teares of true penitence may flowe plentifully from vs that we thanckfully walking in that way which thou hast prepared for our entrance into the Land of the living may be quite freed from our servitude enioy peace rest in thy Kingdome for ever ever Amen Psal 115. The Faithfull desire that al honor may be ascribed to God alone that their foes may not blaspheamously question his powre Then in the name of heathen Idolls their worshippers reprooves the vanity of all those assistances whereon carnall men rely c. It is vsefull when false worshippers blaspheame God by reason of our affliction c. NOt ours the glory make Lord give not vs the fame But for thy Truth Mercy sake Ascribe it to thy Name 2 To say where is their God! Why should the Gentiles dare Since he in heav'n hath his abode And works his pleasure there 3 Men's hands their Idolls make They gold silver be Possessing mouthes that cannot speake And eyes that cannot see 4 Their eares are senseles to Their nostril smelleth not Their hands feet nor feel nor goe No breath is in their throte 5 All they whoe those adore Or forme them like them be In God let Isr'el trust therefore For their defence is he 6 On God preserving them Let Aron's house depend Let those who feare him trust in him For he will such defend 7 God will remember vs And on vs Mercy showe On Isr'el on Aron's house He blessings will bestowe 8 He prospers great small That fear of him professe You your seed likewise he shall Still more more encrease 9 Of God you blessed be Who made both earth heav'n The heav'n of heav'ns inhabits he And earth to men hath given 10 Lord none cann thee adore Who dead silenc't are But I both now evermore Thy praises will declare Not for our owne deservings cann wee claime any thing oh Lord God neither for our owne sakes or our owne glorie ought wee to desire any deliverances or benifits from thy Maiestie As much therfor as our self-love will permit wee desire meerly for thine owne honour sake that publike Idolaters carnall minded men who serve Gods of their owne making may not scandalize thee or thy Truth by Occasion of such Miseries or Disgraces as fall on vs who professe the same But make vs oh God to love thee thy glory so farr above our owne lives reputations That whether wee be delivered or no wee may submit our selves to thy pleasure be truly comforted hartely pleased reioyce vnfainedly that wee are counted worthie to suffer for thy glory Amen Psa 116. The Faithfull professe affection to Christ Acknowledg their condition both by Nature Grace encourage others to trust in Gods favour resolve the same in them selves We may sing it when after some great Affliction or temptation wee are comforted sensible of our present passed estate c. I love the Lord for hee an eare To my complaints doth give And since he pleaseth me to hear I 'le seek him whil'st I live The feares of death enclosd me round Hell torments mee enthrald But still when paind my self I found On God's great Name I cal'd 2 Preserve my soul oh Lord I sayd For thou art full of grace Iust kinde ev'ry pore man's ayde My healp when greev'd I was My soul to this thy refuge fly For God is thy larg meed From death my soul from teares mine eye From falls my feet he freed 3 I shall with God enioy my life Where livinge men abide This I professe with firme beleif Though I was terrifide Yea though in rashnes I did say That all men liers were What for thy guifts I should repay Now Lord my questions are 4 Thy Cupp of saving-health I 'le take Vpon thy name I 'le call And of my vowes I 'le payment make Before thy servants all Thy saints their deaths suffrings be Right pretious in thine eye Oh Lord thy servant serving thee Thy handmayds Childe am I. 5 My fetters all thou brak'st away And I oh Lord therfore The sacrifize of thancks will pay And thy great Name adore To thee oh Lord I 'le pay my vowes Where thy Assemblies be Ev'n in the Courts of Gods owne house Ierusalem in thee Haleluiah Hear our prayers oh Lord God deliver our soules from the Death of Sinn For we are compassed with many perills fearfull Temptations Insomuch that wee are sometime almost ready to despaire distrust that there is noe Truth in any of our hopes Oh keep us by thy speciall grace from falling into those whirlpooles out of which there is no returning VVhen the guilt of Sinn the fears of Death the torments of hell the sugestions of the Devill conspiring with our frailties have once enclosed vs. UUee have then no powre of resistance in our selves it is thy great Mercy if the litle spark of our faith be not wholy quenched Help vs therfore in our extremityes Break the chaines of our Sinns vnlose the snares of Sathan give us grace to praise thee in thy Ierusalem to magnify thy Mercy in the Land of the living world without end Amen Psa 117. This is the least Psalme but it hath respect vnto the greatest Mysterie For it provokes all Nations to praise God for extending his grace to the whole
soul escaped from the ginn The nett is broke wee deliver'd are And God whose work the heav'ns earth have binn Is hee whose Name our healp consisteth in Many times oh Lord wee are delivered by thy Mercy from evident vnavoidable perills But there is no moment in which wee are not compassed about with invisible foes vnthought of Dangers far more fearfull more impossible to be avoyded vnles thou didst gratiously defēd us Grāt therfor that a filiall awe of thy Iudgmēts a true esteeme of thy Mercies may make us hartily thanckfull vnto thee for them now for ever Amen Psa 125. A song of Degrees Another Ascent is firme Beleef in God The safetie of such is here alluded to the impregnability of Mount-Syon Ierusalem the punishment of wavering Apostates is threatned c. It is vsefull to raise vs to this Degree c. MOunt-Syon like for ever fixt are those Whose hopefull trust vpon the Lord is founded For he his faithfull People will enclose Ev'n as with hills Ierusalem is rounded As long as Time's perpetuall motion goes 2 The Rod of wicked men shall not alight Where God the Lot of righteousnes bestoweth Lest righteous men pertake in evill might For to the Good the Lord his mercy showeth And favours all that are in hart vpright 3 But Sliders-back such as wander wide In their owne crooked paths waies vneven Shall by the Lord be thither ledd aside Where portions due to hypocrites are given But Isr'el shall in endles peace abide Oh God many ignorances errors both in Iudgment Manners wee are naturally subiect vnto Teach us therfore what wee ought to Beleeve or practise then preserve vs vnwavering in our Faith so sincerely constant in a holy Life That wee may not have our portion with Apostates or Hypocrites but be pertakers in the true Peace of Isr'el through Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Psa 126. A song of Degrees another Degree is a reioicing in our Electiō spirituall freedome which is here typically expressed with a prophetical prayer for that ioye promised by Christ vnto the true Mourners Ioh. 16. 20. Wee may sing it as a thancksgiving for our Redemption to comfort in spirituall mournings WHen God made Syon free And her from thrall did bring It seemed as a Dreame to be And wee did laugh sing 2 The Lord the heathen sedd Great Marvailes wrought for vs. Great marvailes he hath wrought indeed And therfor sing wee thus 3 Lord back our Captives bringe As Flouds to sea-ward flowe So they shall then reioice sing Who did in sorrowe sowe 4 Who outward-bound doth mourne If he good seed employ Shall doubtles back againe returne And bring home sheaves with ioy Let our greatest reioicings oh Lord be in thy redeeming us from the Bondage of Sinn that our Names are in the Book of life for marvailous was this deliverance Let our greatest sorrowes be for our Offences and for the losse of thy favour which are indeed Causes of the greatest Lamentation soe our short sorrowe shall be turned in to everlasting Ioyes glorious Trivmphs world without end Amen Psa 127. A song of Degrees for Solomon Another Staire is to ascribe our beeing well-being to the Mercie providence of God It may be sung to acknowledge the same in all our works endeavours c. IF God the Pallace build not The workmen loose their paine If God the Cittie sheild not The watchman wakes in vaine In vaine is early stirring In vaine late watch wee keep Or eat the bread of caringe But those God loves may sleep 2 A fruithfull wombes possessing At God's disposing stands And Children are a blessing Like shafts in Giants hands Right blest is he that beareth His Quiver ful of those For in the Gate he dareth To meet smite his foes Grant almighty God that whether wee endeavour for our soules or bodies we never glory or trust in our owne workings For thou must blesse the beginning proceeding conlusion of every endeavour or all our industry is lost Nay wee have not so much as powre over our bodie or the fruite therof Let us therfor neither forget thee in the vse of the meanes nor neglect the meanes which thou hast appointed That what ever the events be our vndertakings may bring profit to us glory to thy holy Name So be it Psa 128. A song of Degrees Another Stepp is filiall feare of God to which many temporall blessings are here promised It is vsed at the solemnization of mariages serves to encrease in vs the feare of God IF God thou feare keep his way He blessings will bestowe Thy labour shall thy food purvay And happie thou shalt growe Like fruit-full vines vpon thy house Thy wife shall proove to thee Thy Children like faire olive-boughes Shall round thy Table be 2 Thus thon that fearest God shalt thrive From Syon he shall blesse And thou shalt see whilst thou dost live Ierusalem in peace He shall prolong thy life till thou Thy Childrens Children see And that thy ioye may greater growe In Isr'ell rest shall bee Oh Lord of thy abundant Mercy thou hast promised not only the blessings of the next life But alsoe all those which are most comfortable in this world so far forth as shall conduce to their happines who truly serve seare thee Oh teach us that filiall fear that obedience for which thou hast made those promises that wee may performe what thou requirest Yet not for the outward blessing sake but meerly for the love of Iesus Christ our Lord. Amen Psa 129. A song of Degrees Another Step is a patient susstaining of the Crosse VVhich patience of the saints is here mentioned both the tiranny condition of their oppressors breefly illustrated Wee may vse it to increase continue Christian Patience FUll often since my youth may Isr'el say Full often since my youth they mee assailed And still without successe they went away trailed Yea on my back their ploughs the ploughers And on the same long furrowes ploughed they 2 The Lord who is a perfect Righteous-one The Cords of wicked men in peeces breaketh And Syons foes shall quite be overthrowne Ev'n like that grasse which root on houses taketh And fades away before it ripe is growne 3 For nor his Armefull nor his handful there Remaines for him that bindes or him that moweth Nor is there any high-way Passenger Who there is blessing in God's Name bestoweth Or doth so much as bidd them well to fare Sweet Iesu who wert persecuted even from thy cradle to thy grave on whose back the sharpe stripes ploughed long furrowes for our Sinns worthelie have wee deserved to be whipped with reproches to our face to be furrowed with slanders behinde our backs and to suffer all other indignities Nevertheles since by thy suffrings thou hast as well prevailed for us as for thy self make voyd the
vs especially to praise him according to their natures THe Lord of heav'n confesse On high his glories raise Him let all Angells blesse And all his Armies praise Him glorifie Sunn moone starrs yee higher Sphears And Cloudie skie 2 From God your Beeings are Him therefore famous make You all Created were When he the word but spake And from that place Where fixt you be by his Decree You cannot passe 3 Praise God from Earth belowe Yee Dragons yee Deeps Fire haile Clouds winde snowe Whome in Command he keeps Praise yee his Name Hills great small Trees low tall Beasts wilde tame 4 All things that creep or flye Yee Kings yee vulger Throng All Princes meane or hye Both men Virgines yonge Ev'n yong old Exalt his Name For much his fame Should be extold 5 Oh let God's Name be praisd Above both earth skye For he his Saints hath raisd And sett their horne on hye Yea they that are Of Isr'els race are in his grace And ever dear Haleluiah Almightie God worthie to be praised of all Creatures both in heaven earth vouchsafe that thy whole Creation may ioyne in ascribing to thee that glorie for which it was ordained And let vs whome thou hast exalted above the rest of thy workmanship advance the highest Trophtes to thy glorie At lest grant this that wee who have dishonored thee in all thy Creatures may some way in some degree magnify thee also in every thing which thou hast made That so wee may be yet more exalted continue to be of those people whome thou hast elected lovest eternally in Christ Iesus Amen Psa 149. Halelujah This Psalme exhorts to praise God in the New songs of the Gospell declares the powre which shall be given thereby both to conviâ—ce the Consciences of heathen Idolators to chaine vp our unperious Affections c. Wee should vse it to provoke vs to praise God for the many priveledges given vnto his Saints c. IN songs-newe made your voice employ God's praise among his Saints to sing Let Isr'el in his maker ioye And Syon tryvmph in her king The praises of his Name advance With Harpe Tymbrell in the dance 2 The Lord his people doth respect And with his healp the meek arayes Then let the Saints his praise affect And on their bedds gladd Voices raise Let in their mouths his praise remaine And two-edg'd blades their hands retaine 3 Vpon the heathen people then They shall inflict avenging paines And binde their kings noblemen In yron Fetters in Chaines For to fulfill the written doome The Saints thus honor'd shall become Haleiulah Grant Almighty God that wee may sing vnto thy Glorie the New-songs of the Gospell to the tennstringed Instrument of thy Lawe by thy grace attaine that meeknes that holines which becommeth such as are thy Saints by their Visible Callinge Replenish our harts with ioyes of the holy-ghost fill our mouthes with songs of thy praise StrengtheÌ„ our handes to execute Iustice without partialitie give vs powre to chaine vp those heathenish Affections those noble-seeming Passions which had the Soveraigntie over vs heretofore so enable vs to fullfill all Righteousnes which thou hast commanded in thy word that wee may enioy all the Priveledges honours pertaining to thy Saints in Christ Iesus Amen Psa 150. Halelujah It exhorts all Creatures to praise God shewes in what manner wee should praise him mistically expressing the same by Instruments of Musick Wee should vse it to stirr vs vp to glorify God with every facultie which he hath bestowed on vs. COme praise the Lord come praise him With in his holy-seat In all his glories praise him And his great Acts repeat As he excelleth praise him With Trumpet and with Flute With Harp Psaltry praise him With Viol with Lute 2 Vpon the Tymbrel praise him In Song his praise advance Vpon the Organs praise him And praise him in the Dance On tingling Cimballs praise him On Cymballs loud that sound And let all creatures praise him In whome life-breath is found Haleluiah Oh blessed God thou bestowest all things necessary requirest nothing back againe but thanckfulnes Grant therfor wee pray thee that our soul every faculty thereof our body every member of the same our sighs our teares our grones our ioyes our paines our prosperities our Adversities our Virtues which wee have by thy grace our very sinns which wee have committed by out owne corruption our lives our deaths our salvations the condemnations of the vnrepentant all other things which in vs in thy whole Creation have either Beinge or possibility to bee or to be thought vpon may altogether severally both in their Discordes AgreemeÌ„ts make vp a pleasant harmony to the glorifieng of thy Maiesty for ever ever Amen FINIS A concluding HYMNE YEt among those many Creatures UUhich for living-breath are debters Though vnworthy I am one But not many weekes are passed Since the Blast that 's now possessed VV as in danger to be gone 2 They that prayd for my Salvation Far beyond their expectation My desired presence have And I sing among Livinge Songs of Thancks praises-givinge VVhome they look'd for in my Grave 3 Hee oh Friends for whome yee mourned From thee Pitt is back returned Ioie with him in God therefore Hee my Foes whome you oppressed Lives praies you may be blessed VVish him evill now no more 4 Come imagine I were lieng In my Grave let envieng Spight evill Censures goe VVee shall all er'e long come thither And be quiet there togither Let us whil'st wee live be soe 5 Or though God hath so permitted That wee must for him be fitted By each others wounding blowes Naitheles his praise endeavour And Assent in whatsoever Any way his glorie showes 6 VVhen I sawe life's Taper wasting And my end by sicknes hasting Many things to minde it brought And among my Meditations Musings Expostulations These were often in my thought 7 Lord are all those hopes bereaved VVhich I formerly conceaved That I should have here enioy'd Shall as well my good intentions As my vaine fond Inventions Now be frustrate destroi'd 8 I haved looked everie Morrowe For an ending of may sorrowe And once thought an end I had But perceaving newe Afflictions God sayd I whoe gives Corrections May yet one day make mee glad 2 He hath seene such Follies in mee That his Mercies cannot winn mee Therefor he his Rodd extends But when that hath purer made me Peradventure he will glad mee And declare that wee are freinds 10 Thus from tyme to tyme I eased My nigh fainting hart pleased My Desires which did rebell And I strongly Lord beleived I some Good should have received Till this deadlie Arrow fell 11 But I finde my great Corruption Hath bene such an Interruption To my Earthlie hopes in mee That ther 's now no expectation