Will His Thunder makes them fear And those who get most off yet think they are too near VIII From the bright East Thou mak'st Thy Sun to go Before him creeps in Chains the Captive night And in the West when he from us draws low 'T is but to spread his Conquests with his Light And till he comes again Bids the Moon fill his place and in his stead to raign IX Thou visitest the Earth and giv'st it rain Of Thy rich blessing it do's freely spend The Earth returns its thanks to Heav'n again In flowers which thither their sweet Odours send As Customs which they pay To Thy dread Throne who dost their Mothers heat allay X. The Flood of God whose Spring-head's in the clouds When on the weary ground it showers distills The softned ridge unto its furrow crowds And all it's clots the quick'ning moysture fills Thou by degrees dost bring The Tillage on and Harvest to succeed the Spring XI Plenty with every shower from Heav'n pours down The Earth do's by thy constant bounty grow Thy goodness do's the year with blessings crown And all Thy steps drop fatness where they go They on the Deserts drop Whose parched Sands drink deep of Thy o'reflowing Cup. XII The little Hills drink deep and look more fair The Valleys pledge till they can drink no more The Shepheards and their flocks both merry are And all the Plains with Corn are cover'd o're With peace and fruits abound And make the distant Mountains with their Songs resound Psalm LXVI Jubilate Deo omnis terra c. I. REjoyce O World and to Thy God sing praise Let Seas and Isles and Lands His Name resound Together with His Sun your voices raise And in Eternal Jubilees go round For if that rise His mighty Power to show Much more should you on whom it shines do so II. Say to the Lord How mighty is Thy Power Which even Thy Enemies must unforc't confess To th' Earth they bow themselves and would fall lower But that instead Thou tak'st this poor address Th' Earth shall worship Thee and their loud same Shall fill her Trumpet only with Thy Name III. See what He did to raise it how His hand At once declar'd Him Terrible and Good When raging Seas were turn'd to firm dry land And Israel past through th' admiring Flood Then 't was we view'd and troad His secret Wayes And roaring Deeps stood lift'ning to His Praise IV. He rules o're all Him Heav'n and Earth obey The Universall and Eternall King His eyes the Wicked and the Good survey And under chains His Hand the Proud do's bring Raise not Thy self too high proud dust for fear The Wind which fills thy sayles should overbear V. Rejoyce ye Nations and to God sing praise Let Seas and Isles and Lands his Name resound Together with His Sun your voices raise And in Eternal Jubilees go round For He from falls our sliding feet do's save And with new Life returns us from the grave VI. Like Silver in the Furnace we were try'd And felt unusual flames rage all about But thence as Silver throughly purify'd We only left our dross when we came out The purer metall had no base alloy And all our griefs made way for greater joy VII Low were we brought the net upon us cast And on our loyns prodigious weights were laid Through Water tryal and through fire we past And a derision to our foes were made But He who there upheld us by His hand Brought us Himself at last to'th' Promis'd Land VIII With praises to Thy House my King I 'le go And make my thanks in clouds of Incense rise There solemnly I 'le pay the willing Vow Which my lips off'red in my Miseries Bullocks and Ramms I 'le on Thy Altar lay And thence with Flames renew the Wasted day IX You who have known th' Almighty Love draw near And to my Speech your ready minds incline Attend to that just witness which I bear And to your own experiences take Mine When I in sighs to God my voyce did raise And pray'd in groans He turn'd them into praise X. Had I kept some reserve within my Heart In hope to hide it He had stop't His Ear But I unbowel'd my most secret part And then He did not only see but hear Praise Him who thus His glory did display Nor turn'd His own Face nor my Prayers away Psalm LXVII Deus misereatur nostri c. I. SAve us O God and Thy poor Servants bless Thy Goodness and Thy Pow'r declare In Mercy help us in Our great distress And We no more will doubt Thy Love or Care Let through the World Thy Mighty Name be known And what We praise may the whole Earth with Rev'rence own II. Rejoyce ye Nations for your God is here Who by His Wisdom rules o're all The Kings and Kingdoms governs and that fear They strike in you He makes on them to fall Let through the World His Mighty Name be known And what we praise may the whole Earth with Rev'rence own III. Then shall the Lord our Land both save and bless His Goodness and His Power declare And then Our fields shall give their full increase And with His blessing look more gay and faire The Lord shall bless us and His Name make known And what We praise the whole Earth shall with Rev'rence own Psalm LXVIII Exurgat Deus dissipentur c. I. GRreat Leader of the Sacred Hosts arise And scatt'ring Thy Proud Enemies Encrease Our Triumphs with Thy Victories Let those who hate Thy Name before it flye Like Clouds of Smoke chas'd by the Wind Which vanish as they mount on high And undistinguish't from the Common Skie No more in strange Fantastick figures lye But without mark to know them by Leave not the smallest stain behind That in the air one may their empty traces find Let their destruction suddain be Sooner than Wax do's melt When once the flames are felt And in Thine eye may they the fire which burns them see But let the Righteous in Thy Pow'r rejoyce With Flutes and Trumpets make a cheerful noise And the whole Consort joyn and perfect with their voice II. Make God your Song Ye Just and from His Wayes Which are in Heav'n take theam your Verse to raise In Heav'n where He in glory rides And with His rein the Winds which bear them guides And by His Name Jehovah celebrate His Praise Above He rules but His great Pow'r extends To what soe're is done below The Cares of all His Creatures He do's know And visits the wide Earth's extremest ends Is a kind Father to the Fatherless The Widdows Counsel and do's bless Desparing Nuptials with a large increase Making dead Wombs His voice to hear And her that barren was a numerous seed to bear And when to Him poor Captives cry Their tears move pitty in His eye And with His Arm He gives them Liberty Again returns them
our God of great renown Whose Wisdome's infinite To th' Earth He casts the Wicked down And raises the upright Sing Praises to His Name with thanks rejoice And make the Consort perfect with your Voice VI. The Heav'ns with clouds He covers o're And all their beauty hides Yet thence the Earth has its best store Rain which He there provides Whence Plenty comes but less from what is sown Than from the Faithful seasons He pours down VII Mountains those Pillars of the Air On which Heav'ns Fabrique lies Whose verdant Chapiters are fair And in mixt Orders rise With Frutages He covers and with showers Allaies their heat and crowns them all with flowers VIII To Him all Creatures look and live All at His Table eat He to bruit-beasts their food do's give And to young Ravens meat An horse to Him and all his strength is vain And in his sight as poor as this is Man IX In neither can He Pleasure take But do's in th' Just delight And they who Him their refuge make Shall flourish in His sight Then to Thy God Jerusalem sing praise Sion exalt Him who Thee first did raise X. 'T is He who do's Thy Walls defend And all Thy Gates make strong Who do's Thy Colonies extend And keeps Thee alwaies young Who with a numerous offspring do's Thee bless And gives Thy Land the Happy fruits of Peace XI And this because it is His Will Whose Pleasure all obey Both Heav'n and Earth His Word fulfill And at it haste away On the cold Rocks He His Frost-Mantle throwes And cloaths the naked Hills with woolly snows XII When on the streams He layes His Chain And Captive Floods do's bind What Power can set them free again Till He send out His Wind But when on them He causes it to blow The melted glass in streams begins to flow XIII These Works of His by all are seen But Jacob has His Word No Land beside so blest has been Or favour'd by the Lord For He to Israel has His Judgements shown When His displeasure all Lands else have known Hallelujah Psalm CXLVIII Laudate Dominum de Coelis I. YOu blessed Souls who stand before Th' Eternal King and so long see His glory that you changed bee Into that glory you adore Praise your great Founder and above Admire His Power and bless His Love II. You who when Lucifer did fall Kept your first standing and remain Commanders of that mighty Train Of which the Lord is Generall Angels extoll th' Almighty King And Songs of Triumph to Him sing III. Praise Him from whom Thy light do's flow Thou whom as God the World adore Renounce that honour and no more Usurp a service Thou dost ow Praise Him O Sun when Thou 'rt most bright Whose beams to darkness turn Thy light IV. Thou too who with a borrow'd ray When all the Lamps of Heav'n hang out In the Nights silence walk'st about And with Thy torch restor'st the day Fair Moon and Starrs exalt Gods Name And in your dance His Power proclaim V. Ye Heavens whom none can comprehend Infinite Waters where the sky As if beyond it self 't would fly Exceeds all thought yet findes no end Praise Him who farther do's out go Your height than you what ere 's below VI. He spake the Word and you were made His first Decree has bound you fast Appointed you how long to last Th' Almighty Word your wandrings stay'd Praise Him whose Word so much can do And as it made destroy you too VII Let from the Earth His Praises rise All Creatures whom He plac't below Let them their gratefull praises show And in that service reach the skies Dragons and Whales i' th' consort move A tunefull Bass to th' Quire above VIII Sea praise Him when Thy billows roar And mustring up the force of th' Main The once drown'd World assault again And seek i' th' Heav'ns alone a shoar Praise Him who when He moves His hand Both stills and chains Thy waves with sand IX All Meteors praise the Name of God Vapors and Winds that nothing spare But of His Wrath the Armies are Lightning's His Scepter and His Rod Ice praise Him who makes Thee a rein To curb swift streams and back the Main X. Mountains at His great Name rise up Who so ordain'd by His command All in your ranks and orders stand Like Piles Heav'ns Arch to underprop Praise Him who your rais'd heads did crown And low as Hell not throw you down XI Cedars who one loft higher go And Natures Vanes to Mountains are Knowing no other motion there Than what the amorous Zephyrs blow Plants and Fruit-trees the pride o' th' Field In generous stores your praises yield XII Beast and all Cattell creeping things Insects unminded the great care Of Him by whom you formed were And Birds who with your downy wings Cut the soft air your Presents bring And in wild notes His Praises sing XIII Kings to whom God His Name do's give And as Vice-gods has set on high True Portraicts of the Deity Praise Him in whom your selves do live And who though Homage is your due First made the Right then gave it you XIV Praise Him all People every state And Sex and Age Virgins and Youth With all the beauteous trains of both Or long since born or born of late Praise Him old Men and since agen Age speaks you Children shew y' are Men. XV. Let the whole World His Praise restore And lift above the Firmament That Name He counts so excellent And what none fully know adore For from the Deep it all things fills Up to the Everlasting Hills XVI Israel praise Him Israel for whom He made all these and greater things The Land subdu'd and Potent Kings Bringing them thousand Vict'ries home Such wonders wrought and more than this Whom He redeem'd and so made His. Hallelujah Psalm CXLIX Cantate Domino Canticum c. I. NEw Songs of Praise to Great Jehovah sing And in His Temple let His Name resound This small return his Saints may bring For all those favours wherewith they are crown'd Let Israel in His Makers Love rejoyce And Sion crown again Her Sovereign with Her Voyce II. In the High Dance His great Name let them praise And that it may approach His Throne above The service with shrill Trumpets raise And send up Theirs as He showers down His Love They are His Pleasure and His chiefest Prize And though in others mean yet beauteous in His eyes III. Let the Saints praise Him who their Glory is And on their beds when they no Comfort see Then let them sing for they are His And of salvation confident may bee Hee 'll raise them up and by His Powerfull Word Put in their mouths His Praise and in their hands a Sword IV. Thus shall they fight and conquer throw down all Who dare oppose and to resist them stand The Heathen shall before them fall And in that ruin feel His vengefull Hand Their Captive Kings they shall
that he To the All-seeing eye conceal'd shall be X. Arise O God to strike lift up Thy hand And on Thy En'mies let it fall That those who daily for Thy mercy call May thence Thy pitty understand That Thou do'st not their miseries forget But that their helps shall like their pains be great XI Why should the Wicked man Thy Power despise Or whilest Thou only dost forbear Think that indeed Thou canst not see or hear Deaf as himself to th' poor mans cryes For Thou hast seen and wilt his rage requite That by Thy hand he shall confess Thy sight XII With Thee the Poor entrusted has his wayes And Thou preserv'st the Fatherless To Thee he makes his suppliant address And on Thy mighty goodness stayes Therefore appear and by one fatall blow The wicked and his wickedness o'rethrow XIII Then as Sole Monarch Thou o're all shalt reign When thus Thou hast secur'd Thy land When thus they fall who slighted Thy command And all their spoils resign again When on the heathen Thou Thy chain shalt lay And make their proud Usurpers to obey XIV For this the humble and opprest do pray With groans that God delights to hear Though not to see the mis'ries which they bear For them He feels as well as they Arise then Lord to help the Fatherless Nor let the Sons of Earth Heav'ns seed oppress Psalm XI In Domino confido c. I. I Know my trust on whom I have believ'd So certain that I cannot be deceiv'd God is my rock and all in vain You like a bird to th' hills would have me fly For he who can this rock but gain His En'mies arrows may defie The bird whose feathers wing them never soar'd so high II. I saw the wicked draw the fatall bow And from the string I saw the arrow go It level'd was at the upright And had assur'dly sunk into his heart His Innocence had been the White Had not th' Almighty took his part And on his head who shot it turn'd the vengeful dart III. Th' Almighty God whose power all things sustains Heav'ns dreadful King who in His Temple reigns And with a look all hearts do's try Sentencing every work and word and thought There as they all unform'd do lye E're they are to perfection brought And into all their several shapes and fashions wrought IV. He sees the Righteous and the Wicked too Without His help what can the Righteous do They are His love but fire and rain And floods of Brimstone on th' unjust He 'l poure Fire which shall ne're be quench'd again But light those rivers with its shower Whose burning gulf at once shall both drown and devour V. Such is the mixture fills the wickeds Cup A brimfull bowle and he shall drink it up Darkness without one gleam of light Torments which have no measure or allay And after all Eternal night Whil'st God from heav'n shall dart a ray Upon the Just man and be both his Sun and day Psalm XII Salvum me fac Domine c. I. A Rise O God and save 't is time to rise And with Thee bring all Thy supplyes Help for the Faithful man no more Has either place reserv'd or power Is not at all and was but only scorn'd before II. There 's not a just man left they flatter all And Prudence what God hates miscall To one another lye and feign And what they least intend maintain And as their tongue is false their daring heart is vain III. But God such tongues shall cut out and such hearts Wound and strike through with their darts 'Gainst Him and Heav'n they up were thrown But on themselves are all hurl'd down And by the wounds they make they find they are their own IV. Who 's Lord o're us with dev'lish mouth they say Or who is He we should obey That 's I says God now I 'll arise And since my Kingdom you despise And subjects scorn to be you shall be Enemies V. I 'll rise now and in safety set the Poor From all the storms you raise secure That word has said it which is try'd Like Silver seven times purifi'd Pure without any dross too great to be deni'd VI. Thou shalt preserve them Lord by Thy Right hand I' th' midst of a rebellious land Where basest men most honour'd are Some on the Throne some in the Chair And they as Criminalls stand sentenc'd at the Bar. Psalm XIII Usque quo Domine c. I. HOw long my God wilt Thou thus hide Thy face And thus withdraw the presence of Thy grace How long shall I forgotten be As if indeed it were in vain Of all my mis'ries to complain And I might sooner mount the rocks than Thee I look and sigh and wait O come away Why should my En'my triumph when Thou dost but stay II. Arise O God and with Thee bring fresh aid Thy very sight will make my Foes afraid By it o'recome they 'll fall asleep Too weak to bear Thy glorious sight Will here begin their endless night Whil'st Thou my eyes shalt ever waking keep Let them not on Thy servants ruine stand Least what Thine only did they challenge to their hand III. Thou art my confidence in Thee I trust And though I am afflicted God is just I in His mercy shall rejoice In that Salvation He has brought In that deliverance He has wrought Something my heart shall do something my voice Both heart and voice in songs of praise shall move And since I am Thy Care Lord Thou shalt be my Love Another Version of the same By M. M. B. I. HOw long O God shall I forgottenly As one cast from Thy memory Wilt Thou from me Thy face for ever hide For so that time which nothing is to Thee Seems an Eternity to mee Who only on Thy favour have rely'd II. Wilt Thou no period to my griefs allow But fresh afflictions on me throw Which I as little as Thy wrath can bear To see my Enemies triumphing stand And my self stoop to their command Who only Thee and Thy command should fear III. In mercy Lord again remember mee And from Oppressors set me free Unto Thy servants prayers attention give Revive his hopes and let Thy glorious light His joys renew that in Thy sight Though now cast out he may for ever live IV. Why should my Enemy encrease his pride With Thee and conquest on his side And those who trouble me in this rejoice That I am exil'd from Thy resting place The sacred presence of Thy grace Who oft have glori'd that I was Thy choice V. But I have trusted in Thy power and love That Thou wilt all my fears remove And this sure hope with joy so fill my mind That I will now Thy mighty praises sing From whom my happiness shall spring Whose bounty like Thy self is unconfin'd Psalm XIV Dixitinsipiens in corde c. I. THere is no God the fool in 's heart do's say And that his life may
not his heart betray He like one that believes it lives Do's with blasphemous mouth deny The very Being of the Deity And in his works that lye Which he to man dares not to Heav'n profanely gives II. From heav'n th' Almighty God came down to view What He there saw and there could punish too Yet down He came and look'd around He search'd if He might any see Any of His least they should numbred bee To th' Common misery He search'd but not a Just man in the Number found III. Are they all thus O God all gone aside As if from Thee they could their follies hide Are all thus greedy to devour And eat Thy People up like bread Thankless for that and not some judgement dread Like those by quailes once fed Tempting that Heav'n which Manna down before did shower IV. Amids their jollity in fears they were Their meat a trap their table prov'd a snare But God himself defends the Poor Will both their cause and right maintain And though the proud their Innocence would stain The spot shall out again And God who sends them help shall with it that restore V. From Sion Lord may Israels help appear Thence come since all his confidence is there Bring back their long Captivity That Israel may adore Thy wayes And Jacob to Thy Name give all the praise Together strive to raise Thy Honour and admire Thee as thou ought'st to be Psalm XV. Domine quis habitabit c. I. MY God who shall Thy Holy Mount ascend And in Thy House his life and praises spend Blest Soul who always shall be near Nearer than any other can When he his God may see his God may hear And where his God is still be there O tell me who it is or let me see the Man II. 'T is one who from his heart the Truth do's speak Whose company and laws he n'ere do's break His Heart 's the wheel which first do's play And all the other wheels commands Whose motion all the other wheels obey All go when that first leads the way Truth and his heart first move and then his feet and hands III. He dares not his just Neighbour vilifie Nor give his conscience with his mouth the lie Dares not speak fair before his face And once withdrawn retract his fear Sinning to bring another in disgrace But thinks what if 't were his own case And against him less than against himself will hear IV. Whose heart against a wicked man do's rise And shewes true scorn yet pitty by his eyes The good he honours counts them dear Worthy his love and favour too All who in truth my Sacred Name do fear And when he to his Word do's swear What he has sworn though he is sure to lose will do V. He puts not out his Gold to Usury Nor by Extortion into wealth do's flye No bribes will take against the Just Or ballance with those weights his hand Which there inclines where the cause merits most And having thus discharg'd his trust He on my Holy Mount shall dwell and like it stand Psalm XVI Conserva me Domine c. I. PReserve me Lord for unto Thee I flee I who upon thee heretofore have staid And when I saw Thee not have said Thou art my God and though my Good to Thee Can never come yet Thine may reach to mee II. My good like gold to Thee can ne're extend Though it to airy thinness I should beat The distance still would be too great Nor will it's dross let it to Heav'n ascend O may it spread below and know no end III. Spread to the Saints in whom is Thy delight And who as they Thy pleasure be are mine Let others to dumb Idols joyn Their very Idols once shall do them right And though they could not help against them fight IV. I 'l not approach them Lord least for their sake I share the sorrows which on them are laid I of their Offrings am afraid For all who to them sacrifices make Are their own Victims and i' th flames partake V. God is my Portion and maintains my Lot My lines are in a pleasant Country cast My Heritage shall fall at last And in a time when I expect it not God has both given and will secure the Spot VI. His Name I 'l therefore bless who counsel'd me Make Him my meditation every night Till the young Sun brings back the Light As I in His He in my sight shall be Nor shall the Darkness hide His face from me VII Unmov'd I 'l stand His mighty praise to tell My very flesh in certain hope shall rest Of th' Resurrection of the Blest For Lord Thou shalt not leave my Soul in Hell Nor let Thy Holy One with Corruption dwell VIII To the safe paths of Life direct my way Thy Presence where perpetual joyes flow o're Whose Pleasures spring for evermore By those clear streams let me delighted stay And melt away in love as well as they Psalm XVII Exaudi Domine justitiam c. I. GReat God of all th' Earth to Thee I fly And to thy just Tribunals Barr appeal Thou know'st my cause Thou shalt hear my cry And what Thy pleasure on it is reveal Upon Thy sentence I depend Let that my suit and troubles end For Thyne own sake my right maintain Heart did ne're closer joyn with lips nor they less feign II. Lord Thou hast search'd me and my heart hast known Then when conceal'd from all the World but thee The silent Night had left me all alone By Thee examin'd mine own Judge to be In thousand flames I have been try'd But as gold throughly purify'd From thousand flames I came more bright For I before had past Thyne All-discerning sight III. As my heart thought so my lips alwayes spake And with them both my hands did freely joyn With the Destroyer I did ne're partake But alwayes left his paths to follow Thyne Thou wert my rule and Thou my guide When I or slipt or turn'd aside Thus guarded let me ever go For as Thy ways are certain my steps shall be so IV. Lord Thou hast answer'd me when heretofore In my distress I made my Prayers to Thee Incline Thyne ear to my desires once more And as then let me now Thy mercy see Thou whose Almighty hand do's save All those who its protection crave Thy mighty hand for me extend No power but Thyne can to my miseries put an end V. And as the Eye around with guards is sett And safely compass'd in on every side To keep off dangers which may hazard it Display its glory or its beautys hide Under Thy wings so let me lye Secure as under those my Eye For as those guards my eye enclose For safety I am girt for ruin by my foes VI. Riches to them are Shield and Coat of Mayle Whil'st with vile mouth they basely God defie They more than Innocence are their Brazen Wall Which as their own proud thoughts
who hast defended me I flie And on Thy power alone for help relie Be not farr off to save since trouble is so nigh VI. Around with Bulls I fiercely was beset Basans wilde Bulls whom none but Thou couldst tame And with their hoofs the ground they beat And open mouth'd upon me bellowing came Like ravening Lions hasting to the prey That roar and call their fellow beasts away Such was their noyse and haste but savager were they VII My blood and spirits like water are pour'd out And all my bones are from their joynts remov'd My heart it self to th' fire is brought And melted down like Silver to be prov'd A Potsheard from the fornace is less dry My shriv'led tongue close to my jaws do's ly And I bear all th' effects of death before I die VIII Dogs hunted me nay worse than dogs those men I came to save in judgment on me sate My Good deeds were forgotten then Nor could my innocence their rage abate But sentence given lots for my Coat they cast And on a rack my naked body plac'd Whose staring bones only by them could be out-fac'd IX On me they star'd and furious through their pride With cruel nails pierc'd through my hands and feet Then open'd with a Spear my side To see my heart where all those wounds did meet But mighty Saviour be not farr away Rise to my help and make no longer stay Least to their bloody Sword my Soul be made a prey X. Thou who hast sav'd me from strong Unicorns Now from the Lions mouth Lord rescue me These hungry Dogs and fierce Bulls horns Nor to their rage let me deliver'd be Then to my Brethren I 'l Thy power declare And Trophies to Thy mighty conquest rear And with the Captive Spoyls Thy Courts shall look more fair XI All you who fear the Lord recount His praise And you blest Jacobs seed His Honour sing Who though most fearfull in His ways And the Worlds Judge is both your God and King Who never has the poor mans suit deny'd Nor from my tears His glorious face did hide But heard and answer'd me as soon as e're I cry'd XII Of Him alone my numerous Song shall bee To whose great hand I all my safety ow And in Thy Church I 'l pay to Thee Whatever there I in my fears did vow Then shall the poor with famine long opprest Eat and be full the weary be at rest And those who fear Thy Name with peace and joy be blest XIII The worlds wide ends when they Thy power shal know Again to their Allegiance shall return Their Kings shall to Thy Footstool bow And now in love for their Rebellions burn Acknowledge Thee the Universal King Who on their Princes do'st confusion bring And make Heav'ns Vault with their loud acclamations ring XIV My seed shall serve Him for they shall be His And tell the wondrous works which He has done How Righteous and how Good He is And to the Age to come His Name make known That those who long hence shall a People bee When they the Records of these times shall see May trust in Him who did all this as well as Wee Psalm XXIII Dominus regit me nihil c. I. THE Mighty God who all things do's sustain That God who nothing made in vain Who nothing that He made did e're disdain The Mighty God my Shepherd is He is my Shepherd I His sheep Both He is mine and I am His About His Flock He alwaies watch do's keep When God provides Poor Man can nothing need And He who hears young Ravens cry His Sheep will feed II. And as His Flock the Faithful Shepherd leads To purling Brooks and flowry Meads And by soft streams in pleasant Pastures feeds So do's the Mighty God with me Conduct's me to the bubling springs Himself is pleas'd my Guide to be And when I stray again me homewards brings Making His love in thousand favours known Not for my goodness sake but only for His own III. Secur'd by Him I will no danger fear Not death it self if it were near And should in its most horrid shape appear Death's gloomy shadow by His Sun Shall chearfull grow as morning light And at the day His eye ha's sprung The grave it self shall with new beams look bright Thy Staff shall bear me up My Way O God Not by my Scepter shall be guarded but Thy Rod. IV. 'T is Thou who all times dost my Table spread Both fill'st my Cup and crown'st my head And by the same hand I am sav'd and fed My Enemies see it and repine And when they look that I should fall Behold me with more glory shine And that Almighty Hosts are at my call Lord since Thy mercies thus to me extend My life thou best know'st when let my Praise never end Psalm XXIV Domini est terra plenitudo c. I. THE Earth and all the Earth contains Infinite Hills innumerable Plains With all their Riches are that Gods who o're them reigns II. The Universe is His and all Those glorious Beings which compleat this Ball The Hand which holds it and them first from nought did call III. God founded it upon the Flood First made the world then saw that it was good And on unstable waves unmov'd it since has stood IV. He all things made but Sion chose Before all places for His own repose Sion His Palace who no other builder knows V. But who shall Sion's Mount ascend Be counted worthy there his life to spend And undisturb'd may at thy Altar Lord attend VI. He whose pure hands no stains defile Whose heart is innocent and free from guile And tongue blasphemes not God nor do's the Truth revile VII This is the Man who shall receive Blessings from Him who do's all blessings give Both seeks His Face and on His Hill shall ever live VIII Lift up your heads O Gates make room Open ye everlasting Doors for home The King of Glory to His Rest through you will come IX Ask you who is this Glorious King The Lord of Hosts is He. His Triumphs sing Who Vict'ry that you gain'd not to your Gates do's bring X. Lift up your heads O Gates make room Open ye everlasting Doors for home The King of Glory to His Rest through you will come XI Ask you who is this Glorious King The Lord of Host is He. His Triumphs sing And whom you cannot shut out open and let in Psalm XXV Ad te Domine levavi c. I. TO Thee O God my troubled soul I raise Who hast been heretofore my Trust And shalt be still for Thou art ever just Let not my Enemies reproach Thy Waies Nor me count that my shame which is my chiefest Praise II. To follow Thee my God let them do so Who sin and no reward can gain But find too late that all their plots are vain When those who wait on Thee still bolder grow And through Thy
did up against me rise With charge of Crimes I never knew My good deeds answer'd with indignities And to the death my Soul did close pursue Those for whose griefs I truly mourn'd And pray'd for sick though on my self the prayers return'd VII For my best Friend I could have done no more Nor more had he my Brother been I did as heartily his loss deplore As if I then my Mothers grave had seen Though in my troubles they rejoyce And all my griefs outbrave with their insulting voice VIII Basest of men against me make an head And unawares my Name did tear Scoffs spent on me was all they pay'd for bread And gnashing teeth for their delicious fare And shall it thus for ever be Lord from these Lions save my Soul redeem'd by Thee IX Let not my causless enemies rejoyce Nor me with scornfull looks upbraid Whose hearts are viler than the common voyce And seem for discord only to be made Then I Thy fame to Heaven will raise And in Thy Peoples sight return Thee all the Praise X. On mee with open mouth they railing came And this said they we wisht to see My God behold it too and let a flame Dart from thy sight that they consum'd may be Arise great Judge and come away Stand up nor longer e're Thou pass the sentence stay XI Be Thou our Judge who art my Advocate Nor let my Enemies thus boast So we would have it and 't is now too late For God to help though he in God should trust But let them be to ruin brought Who thus have rais'd themselves thus low of Thee have thought XII But let all those who favour my Just cause Continually with shouting say Blest be Our God who with such equal Laws Peace on His flock chains on His foes do's lay His Righteousness shall be my Song And all my life to praise Him shall not seem too long Psalm XXXVI Dixit injustus ut delinquat c. I. BAse hypocrite think'st thou by this disguise To ' impose on Him who sees thy heart And more than thou its guiles descries Both knows it whole and searches every part Thy wicked words thy thoughts declare And like them both thy actions are Speaking aloud what once to think thou should'st not dare II. They tell me thou dost not th' Almighty fear Though thou would'st have me think thou dost But God do's all thy whisperings hear And could'st thou Him deceive thou then mightst boast At length like fire sin will break out With vengeance which thou shalt not doubt When it like fire shall burn and scatter all about III. To wrong the easie is his chief design Mindless of doing any good This takes up all his thoughts and time And every night he lays new trains for blood But Lord Thy Mercy far extends And the close bounds of Heav'n transcends Without beginning ever was and never ends IV. Thy Righteousness my God do's stand secure Fixt like the everlasting hills Deep as the Sea yet flowes more sure Though nothing its unfathom'd Ocean fills Full from it self no Ebb it knows But into thousand channels flowes And to this deep both Man and Beast its Being owes V. And as Thy Righteousness such is Thy Love Therefore to Thee for help we fly On Thine own wings we tow'rds Thee move And cover'd under them in safety ly This is our comfort while below That we beyond our fears can go And what we shall enjoy in part before hand know VI. For when this wretched life an end shall have And our unpinion'd Souls fly home When freedom shall spring from the grave And death the fertile womb of life become No sorrows then our joy shall spoyl Nor shall we need the day beguile Eternity it self shall seem a little while VII Pleasures and joy eternally shall flow For Thou their Spring shalt ne're decay That Region do's no darkness know For Thou the Suns Sun art Thy self its day A Sun which makes all objects light Without the least allay of night A Sun whereby we may see Thee it is so bright VIII Till Thou art thus enjoy'd some glimps bestow Let from above Thy glory shine Dart but one ray that I may know Though yet I see Thee not that I am Thine Thy Righteousness assign the just Thy Mercy those who on Thee trust And let the proud though rais'd be driven like the dust IX Against Thy servant let him not prevail Nor to offend him raise his foot Let all his Toyls and Engins fail And his hands prove too weak to stir my root But lo hee 's fallen to the ground The Earth did with the shock resound And opening made a way whose tract shall ne're be found Psalm XXXVII Noli aemulari in malignantib c. I. FRet not thy self to see the prosperous state Of him who dearly buyes it with his sin Nor thy content for his abundance hate Thou know'st not how hee 's lasht and torn within The Worm which at the root do's ly And though the Flower look ne're so fair Though hand or Scythe its life should spare By this intestine Enemy Which first assails the heart through all its guards 't will dy II. Ne're envy him but all thy Confidence There only place where it secur'd may be On God who blessings do's around dispense Yet what He gives expects again from Thee Like His Thy goodness must extend For thus Thou shalt the Land possess Thy Land enjoy the fruits of Peace On its ne're-failing stock shalt spend Till there 's no further need and thou to Heav'n ascend III. Let the Almighty be thy love and care Thy Counsellor to whom thou may'st commit All thy distrusts thy troubles griefs and fear And judge that always best which He thinks fit Then to thy prayers shall he incline Grant thy desires and bring about Affairs whose end thou most didst doubt Make thee to His thy will resign That having done His Pleasure thou may'st say'tis thine IV. Then shall thy Justice like the day appear First breaking through the dungeon of the night Backward it looks and sees behind all clear And bids the Sun close follow with his light Thy Righteousness shall be that Sun Which all the Mines of night displayes And all its treasons open layes Clear as his own fair beams at Noon When he has reacht Heav'ns top and half his course has run V. What though thy forward prayers his help outgo And that the time thou hadst prefixt is past Wait still for God the fittest time do's know And what 's deferr'd a while shall come at last Thy murmuring do's but feed thy pain For envy rage and guilt makes way And vice which in no bounds will stay Indulge thy self but to complain Thy hand e're long as much as mouth will need a rein VI. Why should'st thou envy him whose great estate Prepares him only for the greater blow Which shall be swift and certain as his fate And his vast riches to another go They
with the ground And when he surely thought to conquer let him fly XVI Let him be backward forc'd and for the scorn His cursed malice threw on me Let on his head that scorn return And be himself as low as he wisht I should be XVII Whil'st those who on the Almighty's Arm do trust In Thee who their Salvation art Always rejoyce that Thou art Just And have their mouths as full of praises as their heart XVIII May I my God one of that number bee For though at present I am low Thou know'st I still belong to Thee And only for my sins till they are purg'd am so XIX Then help me Lord O do not ever stay But to my rescue come at last My troubles call Thee now away Let not Thy help be slow when they come on so fast Psalm XLI Beatus Vir qui intelligit c. I. BLest is that man who do's the poor relieve And feels the miseries which he sees them bear The Lord will sure deliverance to him give And alway to his Prayers incline His ear Will set him from his troubles free And his past griefs with pleasure let him see II. God will preserve him from the rotting grave And here on earth let him behold His face His life from all his Enemies will save And grant him now the presence of His grace His Enemies Wills shall stoop to His And here he shall begin his endless bliss III. When on the bed of sickness he shall ly His bed that God which holds him up will make Will give him strength though able scarce to cry And faithfull hands which Heav'n by force shall take That Mercy then which he has shown And all he gave shall truly be his own IV. Dear God said I on whom all things depend Though I have thus by Thy commandment done I merit nothing Lord for I have sinn'd And what I gave Thee was before Thine own Yet grant it mine Lord heal my Soul For Silver streams cleanse not what Sin makes foul V. My Enemies Thou know'st assault my Fame When will he die say they and leave behinde That which wee 'll look shall not bide long his Name But to it given be quickly turn'd to winde And when one comes to visit me Instead of Comfort he speaks Vanity VI. Notice of every groan he seems to take And weeps and sighs to bear me company But gone a sport of all my grief do's make And laughs to think how he impos'd on me Abroad he tells where he has been And lies invents of what he there has seen VII A base disease sayes he to him cleaves fast Thus Lord Thou know'st they still against me speak This sickness cannot choose but be his last His bodies pain his heart will doubtless break He cannot scape as heretofore But this time fallen he shall rise no more VIII Then to encrease my miseries my Friend Whom I till then more than my self could trust Who of my bread did eat new cares did send And then most fail'd when he was wanted most Against me has lift up his heel And for my love made me his malice feel IX But Thou O God to me be mercifull And raise him up whom Thou hast cast thus low Vengeance may I upon my Enemies pull And up to Heav'n my self more freely grow Hence 't is I know Thy love to mee That from their hands by Thine I am set free X. Thou art my stay and Thou dost me uphold Else my integrity would quickly fail In Thy warm Sun I never shall be cold Nor in Thy sight my darkness Lord prevail To Jacobs God let all sing praise And to His Name Eternall Arches raise Amen and Amen The End of the First Book of Psalms THE SECOND BOOK OF PSALMS Psalm XLII Quemadmodum desiderat c. I. LOok as the Hart by dogs and men pursu'd Seeing his heels betray their flight When he of both had lost the sight Pants for the streams and takes at last the flood With hopes by changing thus the Element To cool his heat and in its streams to drown the scent II. After my God so pants my chased Soul My Soul so thirsts for Thee my King When wilt Thou me to Sion bring Where I may serve Thee Lord without controll Thou know'st my grief how tears have been my food When my insulting Foes have cry'd Now where's your God III. I grieve but when I think the time will come That I shall to Thy Temple go And on my Harp Thy wonders show How I again in triumph shall come home These happy thoughts dispell my darkest fears And what grief did before my joy dissolves in tears IV. Why art Thou troubled Soul and restless grown As if forgotten through despair As if Thy God had left His care And lower than indeed Thou art cast down Trust in Him still for Thou His Name shalt praise And whom His absence has depress'd His sight shall raise V. Down to the Earth my troubled Soul is cast Yet will I Lord remember Thee The whole World is Thy Royalty Missar and Hermon part of Zions Waste Whither from thence my eyes delight to stray And though they cannot see it love to gaze that way VI. Deeps upon Deeps in lowder tempests call The Seas above to them bâ—low Together o're my head they go And on they bid the conquering billows fall In troops they come as to divide the prey And hollow to their fellow waves to haste away VII Fall on proud waves on me spend all your rage I can withstand your roughest shock Fall on and break against this Rock Which dares your pride and for me do's engage My God will still your noyse your fury lay And change this dismal night into a glorious day IX But where 's my God that I to him may sing Let me not ever suffer thus But to me be propitious Break forth O Sun and healing with Thee bring Pierc'd to the Heart Thou know'st I could weep blood When my insulting foes say daily Where 's your God IX Why art Thou troubled Soul and restless grown As if forgotten through despair As if Thy God had left His Care And lower than indeed Thou art cast down Trust in Him still for Thou His Name shalt praise And whom His absence has depress'd His sight shall raise Psalm XLIII Judica me Deus discerne c. I. THou who art Judge of all the World be mine Be both my Judge and Advocate My Cause both sentence and debate And let the issue prove that I am Thine From the deceitfull Man deliver mee Others he may deceive but ne're impose on Thee II. Thou art my strength and on Thee I rely Why do's my God this distance keep Whil'st I ly buryed in the Deep And only with my sighs can upward fly Pitty my Darkness Lord dispell this night And from Thy sacred Hill send forth Thy Truth and Light III. That gloâ—ious Light which may direct my way And where Thou
new wayes To the wide Earths extreamest end From East it shall unto the West extend And when it has fill'd all below to Heav'n ascend That goodness which Thy hand around do's throw Like fruitfull seed shall upward grow Solyma to Thy Courts her gifts shall bring And all her Cities shout forth Acclamations to their King V. Walk about Sion all her Bulwarks count The humble Vallies and the Holy Mount Her lofty Towers up to the Skie To which the Heav'ns desire to be more nigh And their own heights to kiss her sacred Spires deny Round it again and her great Wonders see To tell the Age which is to bee And that Her God will Ours till death abide And through the Graves dark gloomy way to Heav'n our passage guide Psalm XLIX Audite haec omnes gentes auribus c. I. ATtend O World and bid thy Nations hear Those who ly furthest off and those more near Both rich and poor and high and low My Song no diff'rence makes and none do's know But those who serve and those who rule The Souldier Statesman and the Fool The young the old the great the small It do's without distinction call And like the grave alike concerns and equals All. II. With God my Song His Wisdom moves the Lyre And makes the chords in lofty sounds conspire With Him will I begin my Song His Wisdom shall conduct the strains along Shall life and breath and motion give Make them and they my Voice to live Then the stops chang'd on the same string I will in mighty Numbers sing Triumphant Death which next Him is the greatest King III. What profit's it to hoard up endless store Of wealth for others and my self be Poor Prevent my evil day with Cares To leave a Curse and sorrow to my Heirs Since he who has most chains of Gold The Pris'ner life can never hold Can never pay a ransom down For the fleet Soul away once gone And from the grave redeem his Brothers or his own IV. Death throwes an heavier Chain than that o're all And proudest Monarchs at His Footstool fall Look how the Wise the Brutish dye And in one Urn their lots and ashes lye The longest livers only have A tedious journey to the grave Whil'st most a short way thither find And have their Pass-ports sooner sign'd Whither all come at last and leave their wealth behind V. In vain by Monuments men hope to live And their fond Names to Lands and Houses give In vain they huge foundations lay For Tombs which have their Fate as well as they No Honours bayl in this arrest But the same death waits Man and Beast And though enough the Children know Their Fathers folly choose to go With them and count those greater fools who do not so VI. They follow close their steps their sayings hold Like Sheep they follow to th' Eternal fold Where till the Morning they are penn'd The Morning of that day which ne're shall end Which Titles shall again renew And diff'rences the Grave ne're knew From some all beauty take away In greater Iustre some display Raising them Gold who buryed were but only Clay VII Then shall I rise too and with glory shine From the Graves power kept by the power Divine It shall no longer trouble mee Nor know I why the Wise should troubled bee To see anothers stores encrease Since they disturb His present ease And must be left all when he dyes Then heavy gold begins to rise And with his breath away an empty Honour flies VIII His former pleasures then avail him not But are by him as he by his forgot Nothing remains of all he did When with his Fathers he in night lyes hid That Wisdom only do's abide Which for the future did provide 'T is Wisdom sets the Man on high Wisdom the badge to know him by Without which like a Beast he lives and all must die Psalm L. Deus Deorum Dominus c. I. 'T Is past and by irrevocable doom Decreed that all the World to Judgment come Out from the East let the great summons go Swifter than Morning light In it's first undisturb'd and lusty flight When on the Western Hills it hasts to show It's Conquests and drives thence the Captive Night Then let the West to th' voice give ear And all the scatt'red winds which ly between Be ready on the wing And o're the Earth the dreadfull Message bear Make the deaf North and South to hear Proclaim it in the open Sky That the last day is nigh A day which none e're yet did see And which but few till it comes believe will bee When God the hearts of all shall open lay And bid the World to make room for the Session hast away II. When Sion was the Residence Divine God empty'd all his glories there Sion did with refulgent beauty shine And only what was lovely durst appear The Air was calm Heav'n seem'd more bright As if from thence it had receiv'd new light Before hand would officiously come down And take the forward Sacrifice E're it began to rise And with a sacred flame the Victim crown Or if it gath'red in a Cloud 'T was but some greater Majesty to shroud No cryes were heard there or sad grones Nothing that could disturb the quiet of the place But joy and mirth were seen in every Face And left their traces on the stones The very walls were glad Mourn'd not in breaches nor in Yawns lookt sad But the bright Liveries of Peace did wear The walls look'd gay the Altars fair And with perpetual throngs Of those who came to worship there The Courts were ever fill'd with Incense or with Songs Nay God Himself attention seem'd to give And held His own the Homage of their Voices to receive III. But now that time is past nor as before Will he in love draw neer But all in Flames appear Will in the charming murmurs be no more But up Hee 'l lift His voyce and roar And those flames which the Victim burnt the Altar shall devour A tempest shall before Him ride And forward post the sluggish winde With thousand Captives running by His side Of Lands which he has empty made Clearing the way for Plagues which come behind And of the following Thunder be it self afraid Along the Heav'n the Thunder like a Sea shall roll And make its noyse be heard to either Pole With all the Fears which horror can invent With lightnings not to purge the Air And its decays repair But to make greater and disturb it sent To riot there without controll And synge what it e're long shal burn that beauteous Scroll IV. Then shall God come and with a dreadfull voyce Which layes those storms checks that Thunders noise Making the Dead who heard not them awake And Heav'n and Earth and Sea affrighted quake When thus He cites them to appear And bids them to the Barr draw near His Pleasure and their Charge to hear Return Hee 'l to
God but smile Or He these doubts will reconcile Or make me scorn what Flesh can do the while V. Me and my words to wrest they never cease And make them most offend when meant to please Their thoughts for evil areagainst me set And when they are in Counsel met Contrive how by my fall they may be great VI. Shall they escape unpunish't in their wayes And in Prosperity spend all their dayes Lord in Thine Anger let them be o'rethrown Thou need'st but only on them frown Lower than me that look will cast them down VII Thou all my wand'rings every pace do'st know And not'st how many steps I from Thee go See'st my tears too what they were shed about And in thy bottle they are put Whence with a Sponge what 's in Thy Book blot out VIII When to my God in my distress I cry My very Prayers make all mine Enemies fly My sighs shall backwards turn them in the Rear They shall a greater Enemy fear And in that still voice know that God draws near IX On Gods Almighty Word I will depend On God I 'le trust who certain help will send There I will rest and if my God but smile Either these doubts he 'l reconcile Or make me scorn what Flesh can do the while X. Thy Vows are on me and I 'le give Thee praise The Field is Thine and Thine shall be the Bayes Thou hast preserv'd my Soul wilt Thou not bless My sliding feet with steadiness The greater's done and wilt not do the less Psalm LVII Miserere mei Deus miserere c. I. OThou on whom my Soul for help relyes Let my distress find pitty in Thine eyes Thou art my Trust on Thee I stay Under Thy Wings let me conceal'd abide And till these storms are past me hide Under their shade else on them let me fly away II. To my great Saviour who above do's reign Whose Mighty Power do's me and All sustain To Him I 'le cry who down shall send From Heav'n and save me by His own right hand From those who Him and me withstand His Truth shall slay them and His Mercy me defend III. Among fierce Lions Lord hid in their den With beasts more fierce than Lions Cruel Men Whose teeth be arrows and sharp Spears Their tongue a two edg'd Sword their eyes all fire As if in this they did conspire By several Torments to create me several fears IV. With these I live among these men I lye And hardly for my thoughts gain liberty Above the Clouds exalted be Lord set Thy glory far above the Skies And though so high I cannot rise From Heav'n do Thou descend when I look up to Thee V. I could not scape they had so girt me round My very Soul lay prostrate on the ground But as I look'd I saw them fall And though for me they had prepar'd the net That I might stumble digg'd the pit Into that pit they fell themselves their snare and all VI. I am resolv'd nor will I any more Distrust my God as I have done before No I will praise Him and my heart Which ha's so oft betray'd me into fear Its burden in the Song shall bear And when my Harp begins shall take the highest part VII Awake my Harp 't is time for thee to wake Prevent the day and thy great subject take Put all thy strâ—ngs on shew thy skill God and my Soul are ready be not slow For if we should before thee go Thy strings would never half way reach up Heav'ns High Hill VIII We Come O God and with us up will raise High as Thy Love and Truth to Heaven Thy Praise The World shall hear what Thou hast done How signally Thou hast appear'd for me By Thy great Power hast set me free And for His Works praise Him whose Name they have not known IX Then to the Clouds we will together fly And take new Wing to mount to the Most High Above the Clouds exalted be Lord set Thy glory far above the Skies And if so high We cannot rise Descend Thy self and bear us up along with Thee Psalm LVIII Si vere utique justitiam c. I. ARE you as by your place you ought to be True Judges of the Poor mans wrong Or rather do you not his suit prolong And then bind o're when you should set him free You would be thought both good and just And if not so at least Just though severe But when you personate it most Your mouth condemns that which your heart would spare For when bribes hold the Scale the lightest cause most weight do's bear II. The Wicked from the womb are gone astray Their wand'rings with their life begun And will no sooner than their life be done Nor seek they what they know not the right way Under their tongues conceal'd and close A deadlier poyson than the Serpents lyes Adders less cautiously expose Their ears to Charms than they to hear the Wise As deaf to Counsel as they greedy are of flatteries III. Break out the Lions teeth nor let them more The Innocent so proudly tear Let the young Lions Lord themselves in fear Not o're their prey but torn with famine roar And as the Sand though kind Heav'n poures The like streams there as on the fruitful Plain To Heav'n returns no thanks in flowers But only as it falls drinks up the rain Like rain by Sand drunk up let them be never rais'd again IV. When against me they throw their poyson'd darts And in their rage their bows do bend Or let them be too weak the shafts to send Or turn the Pykes into the Shooters hearts And as a Snail which leaves behind A silver film along the way she pass'd But if you follow it you find Both that and her in slime conclude at last So let them perish and from filthy slime to Nothing wast V. Like an Abortive which ne're saw the Sun But dy'd e're it had any birth Born only that it might be thrown to th' Earth Let their Race end e're it be well begun E're briars with the thorn can close And in their clasping Arms each other take Which grew acquainted as they rose And only forc't by fire their holds forsake Let their ends be as suddain as those their embraces make VI. The Just shall see 't and at the sight rejoyce And in their blood his Garments wash Without fear shall this Red Sea view and pass And with such Acclamations raise his voice Lo for the Just what Crown remains And what Reward God do's for Him provide There is a King who o're all reigns And He with Justice shall each cause decide By whose most Equal Laws judges themselves and Thrones are try'd Psalm LIX Eripe me de inimicis meis Deus c. I. PReserve me Lord and by Thy hand o'rethrown Let them who seek my ruine find their own From envious Men my honour save And to the cruel make me not a prey
to their Land Made fruitful by His plenteous rain When on the Proud He throws the Chain And turns their Pastures to a dry and barren Sand. III. Lord when Thou through the Wilderness did'st go And their great Journeis to thy Israel show And though Thou fill'dst the Heav'ns confind'st Thy self to'a Cloud below Sinai did at Thy Presence quake The Rocks bow'd down and the whole Earth did shake And stubborn Israel in their horrors did partake Thou thundred'st and to own Thy Power The Heav'ns let fall a mighty shower With whose cool drops Thou did'st restore The fully'd beauties of the shriv'led Earth Giving its fruits and flowers new birth And made'st it fairer than it was before The desert with Thy blessing did abound New streams refresh't the weary ground And Jacob there a safe retreat from bondage found There He securely dwelt And all th' effects of mighty goodness fâ—lt There for His poor Thou did'st prepare And of His Armies took'st the care Still guiding them by Thine own hand Till by safe Conduct Thou hadst brought them to th' Promis'd Land IV. Before the Camp God march't and Victory Follow'd Him close in view of all Our Wives who saw the Enemy fall To meet our triumphs laid their distaffs by And took the Cymbal and the Lute And sang to them that praise we shouted to the Flute They sang of Armies and of Kings How soon their troops were put to flight E're they had well resolv'd to fight With all the Mirth which certain conquest brings Now God abroad did overcome And they divided the rich spoil at home And though amongst the Pots they long had lain Condemn'd to Brickilns and the Mine How all the flames did but their Oar refine And made them with more Lustre shine When all their former beauties it had first restor'd again Like spotless Doves in their most glorious flight Reflecting from their wings the tremb'ling light In thousand colours which the eye both dazle and invite V. And so look'd Palestine when th' Heathen fell And spoils of Kings were scat'red there The Land which was before as dark as Hell Receiv'd fresh verdure and became with Trophies fair On high its head did bear As if with snowy Salmon 't would compare Basan's high Hill God did with blessings crown And on it show'rd such plenty down One would have thought that God had chose it for His own But hold O Hill raise not Thy self too high For Sion yet shall o're Thee reign With Her compar'd Thou must fall down again And flat as Thine own Vallies lye For God in Sion to reside intends There must His House and Altar be His dwelling place to all Eternity And the whole World to Her shall bow And yield their necks as well as Thou To Sion whose Vast sway all bounds transcends Beyond the boundless space wherefurthest Nature ends VI. On Herth ' Eternal will erect His Throne God whom the Powers of Heav'n and Earth obey At whose dread Presence Sinai fled away When thither He to Israel all in fire came down Smoke and thick Light'ning did the mountain bound With twenty thousand flaming Chariots girt around The Guard Divine whose wheels in Thunder did resound And when He thence arose and up on high Ascended with His glorious trains He lead Captivity in Chains And gifts on men bestow'd as well as liberty To Traytors pardon granted and a Land Which was the purchase of His Own right hand And if no more they would rebell With promise there to make His Court and ever dwell To Him alone be all the Praise Who thus His Name and Us can raise And with ten thousand Blessings crowns Our dayes VII 'T is He who saves Us and to Him belong The keyes of th ' Adamantine Gates of Death He opens and none shuts gives and recalls Our breath Whose Name is Our Salvation Great and Strong Who will the Wicked tumble to the ground And make His Soul a passage through His Wound But to His People sayes I will again Repeat the Wonders which I heretofore have shown And greater do than e're I yet have done On Basan get my self a Name Bow down His neck and raise in Mounts the liquid Plain The Sea once more divide to make you way Now truly Red with purple streams which flow From your fierce En'mies veins and my great blow That Sea as well as Aegypt's trembling shall obey And there you shall securely pass And there your feet and garments wash Your very dogs shall drink the blood And gorg'd with humane flesh shall sport alone the scarlet Flood VIII And so they did and then Thy paths O God were seen And all Thy goings nothing came between How Thou didst both their way and Armies lead Before the Singers went and then the Flutes The Maidens follow'd with their Lutes And fearful Women heard shrill Trumpets without dread Bless ye said they the Mighty God! Ye streams which from Old Jacob's spring procced The Faithfull Jacob's happy seed And with you stablish His Divine Aboad Let little Benjamin be there and there The Governours of Judah fam'd for War Whil'st Learned Napthali and Zabulon For the great day and solemn pomp compose a Song And with their Numbers all the Tribes conduct along Let God Himself new strength command And since He ha's such wonders done Perfect what is so well begun And as we all before His Temple stand Those heads which he ha's sav'd exalt with His own hand IX There Lord Our spoils to Thee We 'll consecrate And Princes thither shall their Tribute bring And swear Alleg'ance to Thee as their King Thy Peace and Friendship supplicate And on their knees receive new Titles to their State Those who refuse and think their Pow'r so great That it or can resist or vye with Thine And Heav'n with open blasphemies dare threat Against their Spears Lord make Thy Light'ning shine And or o'rethrow or force them to a base retreat And to those roaring Bulls presumptuous noise And bleating of their Calves oppose the Thunder of Thy voice Till they for pardon sue and all submit And as Thou on Thy Throne do'st sit Their necks and gifts lay humbly at Thy Feet Till Aegypt and the Lybian Nations come And leaving all the Gods they had at home In Sion only seek the True and Holy One X. Praise Him all Kingdoms and all Lands That God who ha's in Heav'n set fast His Throne And all its Armies with His voice commands And makes them trembling His Dominion own His Mighty Voice abroad He sends That Voice which tallest Cedars rends And makes His Thunder heard to th'Worlds utmost ends Wisdom and Strength and Majesty To Israels Strength and Wisdom give Honour and Praise to the Most High And endless Rule to Him who doth for ever Live To Thee O God most Worthy to be prais'd And in Thy Temple to be fear'd of all Who Jacob from the dust hast rais'd And so uphold'st that He shall never fall Whose Sacred and
Eternal Name That for Him conquer'd thus thus overcame Can only sounded be by an Immortal Fame Psalm LXIX Salvum me fac Deus quoniam c. I. SAve me O God for thousand billows roul And mighty Floods come tumb'ling o're my Soul Th' unstable Wave no certain footing yields And when within my depth I reach the ground The Quick-sands draw and in those wat'ry fields Where Mounts of Seas are cast up there 's no standing found II. So tir'd I am that I no more can cry My Throat i' th' midst of all these Seas is dry My eyes and heart with expectation fail Whil'st all around I am with foes beset Which daily grow and as they grow prevail More numerous than my hairs like their own Numbers great III. Uninjur'd Lord they are my Enemies And causlesly for my destruction rise For though from them I never ought did take And what I had was all my own before For wrongs ne're done I satisfaction make And as a thief convict they force me to restore IV. All this Thou know'st For what is hid from Thee Who dost my secret Sins and Follies see But with them too my Innocence is known For my sake then let those receive no shame Who have beside the guards which are their own A guiltless mind for their defence Thy Mighty Name V. 'T is true for that Affection which I 've born To Thee I 'm made my self the Common scorn My Brethren as a stranger on me look And though one blood alike fills all Our veins And all our streams we from one Fountain took Like streams divided once we never meet again VI. Yet neither this shall make me from Thee turn But in a Sacred Flame my Zeal shall burn I 'le slight the Scorns which they have on me thrown Though all the tempest break upon my head And in a thousand deaths comes pouring down For 't is no more than what against Thee first was said VII I wept and with an holy Discipline Chast'ned that Soul which abstinence did pine In mournful Sackcloth did my beauties hide Which from reproach could not secure me long But those who saw it did my grief deride I was the Aged's By-word and the Drunkard's Song VIII But all the while to Thee I made my Prayers Which even then found admittance to Thine Ears Lord as Thou heard'st me then defend me now Now for Thy Mercy sake deliver me Thou could'st not in a fitter time bestow Thy Favours nor could they I think more welcome be IX Save me My God for thousand billows roul And mighty Floods come tumb'ling o're my Soul Th' unstable Wave no certain footing yields And where within my depth I touch the ground The Quicksands draw and in those wat'ry fields Where Mounts of Seas are cast up there 's no standing found X. From my insulting Foes deliver me Who worse than all these Floods and Quick-sands be Let not their Waves my shipwrack't Soul o'reflow Nor in their deep Abyss convey me down Let not the silent grave Thy anger show Nor shut me up where Thy great Name 's unknown XI But for Thy mercy sake incline Thine ear And Thine own Pitty and compassions hear Hear me betimes nor from Thy servant hide Thy glorious sight or take Thy hand away But save Thou Him from his Oppressors pride Who know'st them all and all the snares they for him lay XII Reproach and shame have torn my very heart When none of all that saw me took my Part For some kind soul I look'd but all in vain No Comforter or pitty could be found But such who striving to encrease my pain Gall with my meat my drink with Vinegar compound XIII May their own table Lord be made a snare A trap their dainty and luxurious fare With constant tremb'ling make their loins to shake And let them see no more the joyful light But may Thy wrath sure vengeance on them take And close attended be with an Eternal night XIV Let utter desolation on them seize And savage beasts defile their Palaces No more for men let them possessions be But dark repairs of Solitude and fears For as if all which I had born from Thee Was not enough to Thy sharp stroke they added theirs XV. Let in repeated Sin their age be spent And make their crime become their punishment Let them th' effects of Mercy never feel But in Thy Book draw o're their Names a blot And when they suddenly descend to Hell Let their Memorial by the Righteous be forgot XVI But I am poor my God and prostrate lye By Thy Salvation to be rear'd on high That in my Songs I may Thy Name reherse And up to Heav'n in grateful Anthems rise To Thee who dost more kindly take a Verse Than a young Bullocks blood or horn-hoof'd Sacrifice XVII The humble shall behold it and rejoyce To Thee incline their hearts and raise their voice For to the Poor God do's bend down His Ear And their requests nor slights nor disregards But when to Him they cry He stoops to hear And to His Pris'ners gives both freedom and rewards XVIII Let Heav'n and Earth and Sea to God sing praise And Angels on their Wings His honour raise For He will Sion save her walls rebuild And Israel to their Land again restore The wasted Cities shall with Men be fill'd Confirm'd with Charters to their Seed for evermore Psalm LXX Deus in adjutorium meum c. I. MY God why do's my God thus ever stay And to my rescue make no hast My Trouble calls Thee now away Let not my help be slow when that comes on so fast II. Now come and with Thy Presence Lord confound My proud and cruel Enemy Level his greatness with the ground And when he surely thought to conquer make him fly III. Let him be backward forc't and for the scorn He in his malice threw on me Let on his head that scorn return And be Himself as low as he wish't I should be IV. Whil'st those who in th' Almighties succours trust In Thee who their Salvation art Rejoyce because their God is just And have their mouths as full of praises as their heart V. May I my God one of that Number be For though I am at present low Thou know'st I still belong to Thee And only for my sins till they are purg'd am so VI. Help me my God O do not ever stay But to my rescue come at last My troubles call Thee now away Let not my help be slow when they come in so fast Another Version of the same by M. M. B. I. ALmighty God whose Pow'r is infinite Who with a Word ' did'st all things make So great that when Thou speak'st the Mountains quake Let my deliverance also shew Thy might And by its certain speed make that appear more bright II. The Proud when he is from his greatness thrown And do's with shame and horror find Nothing of all his glory left behind
Who when Thou Lord in wrath do'st on him frown His very Soul is with the heavy weight press'd down III. Make his the Portion of my Enemies Who in their cursed rage contrive To slay my Soul when Thou would'st have it live That they may see by this their sad surprise It was not only me but Thee they did despise IV. Let those who wish my hurt and would rejoyce As senseless of my misery Be like to conquer'd troops which scatt'red fly And with confusion tremble at the noise That 's rais'd by their own fear and mighty Enemies voice V. For a reward let such be driven away And quite astonish'd may they find No hopes of comfort to relieve their mind Who at my griefs in sport triumphing say This is as we would have it be Aha! Aha! VI. But on Thy People make Thy Face to shine Let them from fears be alwayes free Except it be fears of offending Thee The sacred Flame their heart shall so refine That now their joy shall only be that they are Thine VII Such as to Thy Salvation burn in love Let them perpetual praises sing And with rejoycing this their Off'ring bring With such Expressions let them forward move Our God be magnify'd on Earth and Heav'n above VIII But I am poor and needy much distress'd Wherefore O Lord make haste to me For all the Springs of Mercy are in Thee And can I want while I upon Thee rest Whose Word alone commands deliv'rance to th' Opprest IX Thou in whom all my confidence do's lye My help and hope in my distress Let not my Misery make Thy Pow'r be less On Thee I wait to Thee O God I fly Make haste and be Thou on the Wing as well as I Psalm LXXI In te Domine speravi non eonfundar c. I. THou art my hope O God in whom I trust Let not my Confidence procure me shame But save me in Thy Truth for Thou art Just And in my great escape consult Thy Name Lest those who know Thee not its care should blame To my Complaints and cryes incline Thine Ear And by Thy Help make me assur'd that Thou dost hear II. Be Thou my Rock where till the Storm is past Above the Floods I may securely stand Thy promis'd aids for me send out at last Who art my Rock at Sea my Fort at Land And by Thine save me from my Enemies hand The bloody hands of fierce and cruel Men And all their shafts on their own heads return again III. For Thou O Lord my ancient hope hast been And from my youth I have Thy Mercies known Thy Power was in my first conception seen When from the Womb Thou did'st Thy Servant own And thence He into Thy great arms was thrown Praise is the least that I can offer Thee For all the care which then and since Thou took'st of me IV. But Lord despis'd I 'me made the scorn of all A greater Wonder Now than heretofore Yet still Thou art my God on whom I call My Magazeen where 's laid up all my store Nor till Thou sav'st me will I give Thee o're And then my Song shall glory in Thy Praise And I 'll both honour and admire Thee all my dayes V. Now that I 'm Old my God and feeble grown And both my eyes and strength together fail Leave me not now by them to be o'rethrown Who with continuall plots my life assail And or to dye resolve or to prevail Who say We 'll fight o'recome pursue and take And him whom God ha's left Our Slave Captive make VI. Thou who all this and more then this dost hear Make haste to help me and no longer stay Let those who thought Thee farr off find Thee near When in consuming flames they melt away And to Eternal Wrath are made a prey Let shame Reproach and Scorn their Portion be And all the snares their malice had design'd for me VII Then to Thy Name I 'll make new Songs of Praise By this experience taught to doubt no more Recount of Thy great Wonders all my dayes And of Thy Righteous Mercies boundless store Which I sufficiently can ne'r adore By Thine own Power I 'll of Thy Power rehearse And make Thy Righteousness the subject of my Verse VIII Thou from my Infancy hast made me see Thy Wond'rous Works which I abroad have shown Now that I 'm Old continue them to me That I may perfect what I have begun And tell Posterity what Thou hast done How great Thy Bounty is How great Thy Love Like whom there 's none below like whom there 's none above IX Great and sore troubles for Thy hand I 've born But know Thou wilt restore my joyes again And when from death Thou shalt my Soul return Thy Comforts shall exceed my present pain And on my Throne I shall be fixt again Shall to my Harp of all Thy Favours sing Who art the Holy God my Hope and Israel's King X. The joy that 's in my heart my mouth shall speak And all my Life be one continu'd Song My Soul whose wringing fetters Thou did'st break Shall find or make its passage by my tongue And think no time for Thy great praise too long For Thou to th' Earth my Enemies hast thrown And in Thy Wrath on them Thy Care of me made known Psalm LXXII Deus Judicium tuum Regi c. I. GReat God Thy Judgements to Our Soveraign give And let His Throne like Thine abide May the Young Prince before Thee live And on His Enemies necks in Triumph ride Put on His head Thy Righteous Crown And to His Fathers glorys add Thy own II. Then shall He judge the People and dispense That Justice which He has receiv'd To Him the Poor shall look and thence Have both their miseries pitty'd and reliev'd The Needys Cause He shall maintain And on their Enemies turn their wrongs again III. So shall the barren Clifts with shouts resound And all the little Hills rejoyce The Valleys from the lower ground Shall thence receive the Image of the Voice Sweet Peace on every Hill shall raign And Justice once more guide the humble Plain IV. Whilst time can measure it His Rule shall last And when even that shall be no more When Time it self expir'd is cast I' th' Urn that had all dust but his before No Ages left to count it by It shall be measur'd by Eternity V. And as soft rains on the mow'd grass come down And give the Meads a second Spring As show'rs are to a Land new sown Which swell the Seed and help it forth to bring Making the Fields all fresh and gay Such shall his Gover'ment do but more than they VI. Peace and Her fruits shall prosper in His dayes And under His Auspicious Raign The Palm shall flourish and the Bayes And Justice to the Earth return'd again To Heav'n no more be forc't to go But with Him keep Her Residence below VII His far stretch'd sway Nature alone can bound
pierc'd Rock should yield But living Honey from the Flinty Hive should flow Psalm LXXXII Deus stetit in Synagoga c. I. YOU Judges of the World and Gods below Who at your pleasure sentence all And never think to whom that Power you owe By whose Decree your selves must stand or fall The Mighty God do's all your Counsels view And as you others judge He judges you II. He sees how partially you sentence pass And will you alwayes wrong your trust By looking through a false and flattering glass Acquit the Wicked and condemn the Just In your own scales those rise and these sink low But whom their virtue weighs down you keep so III. Rather defend the Poor and Fatherless And hearken to the Orphans cry Instead of helping do not more oppress Least God himself bestow what you deny Deliverance for the Needy Soul command And give them not your Ear alone but hand IV. But all in vain their duty they 'll not know Nor what they might will understand Hating the day in darkness love to go And bring to ruine with themselves their Land If its Foundations shake and totter thus No wonder if the World be ruinous V. Y' are Gods I said and Sons of the Most High His Child'ren who in Heav'n do's reign Who therefore cloath'd you thus with Majesty That among Men you should His Pow'r maintain Y' are Gods but must to death your Scepters bow Nor of your Titles will the grave allow VI. Immortall only is the God above That equall Judge and glorious King Like whom none is so just or full of Love Who to the Barr shall every secret bring Arise O God The World to Judgement call No Judge so fit as Thou who'art Lord of All. Psalm LXXXIII Deus quis similis erit tibi ne taceas c. I. ENough My God Thou hast been still Now give the Word and raise Thy Voice Their Ears with the amazing Thunder fill Who think they have o'recome Thine with their noise See how they rise and lift their heads on high Make tumults and deep plots contrive To ruine those Thou hid'st to save alive And not Heav'ns seed alone but Heav'n it self defie II. Come say they on them let us fall We are too easie thus to spare Let the whole Nation perish Name and all And make Our purple with their blood more fair The Motion all embrace and to the Al-arm With one consent together come Some Troops from Edom and from Moab some All whom or rapine can perswade or envy arm III. With them are joyn'd the Ishmaelites Ammon and Amaleck and Tyre The bold Assyrian in the Quarrell fights And executes the Treasons they conspire But let them plot and fight and conquer'd fly By their own fears like Midian fall Let Jabyn's Fate and Sisera's wait them all And by a Womans hand first routed be then dye IV. At Kisons Brook the Army fell And with their slaughter stain'd the Flood The torrent did with crimson waters swell And Earth's great body had true veins of blood Endors fat fields became more fresh and gay And its crown'd head aloft did bear Proud of the Canaanitish Spoils and there In living Monuments of grace th'Unburied lay V. Oreb and Zeb Thy hand did feel And could not save their lives by flight Zeba and Salmana scap'd not his steel Who fought Thine and whose Battles Thou didst fight So let them fly and so be overthrown They who have said Come let 's oppress The Holy Seed Our Fathers Lands possess And what from us they took make once again our own VI. But like a wheel Lord turn them round And giddy made lend them no stay Then with a whirlwind snatch them from the ground And having rais'd it blow the dust away Make them a Wood on fire chac'd by the Wind Whose Flame above the Hills do's rise Leaping from tree to tree and grows as 't flies Before pursuing storms which follow close behind VII Be Thou that Wind and make them fear Till every Face with dread and shame Till they to expiate their sin draw near And what before they curst adore Thy Name That when the World their change or ruine see It may look higher and above Find the First Cause at whose great Will they move And know One God rules Heav'n Earth Thou art He. Psalm LXXXIV Quà m dilecta Tabernacula tua c. I. TRriumphant General of the Sacred Host Whom all the strength of Heav'n and Earth obey Who hast a Thund ring Legion in each Coast And Mighty Armies listed and in pay How fearfull art Thou in their head above Yet in Thy Temple Lord how full of Love II. So lovely is Thy Temple and so fair So like Thy self that with desire I faint My heart and flesh cry out to see Thee there And could bear any thing but this restraint My Soul do's on its old Remembrance feed And new desires by my long absence breed III. The Sparrows there have found themselves a nest And there their untun'd notes the Swallows sing A place where undisturb'd they all may rest And have some gift which they to Thee may bring Their young ones which they on Thy Altar lay And may not I as happy be as they IV. Thrice happy Man who in Thy House resides For He Thy glorious Name shall ever praise For whose necessities my God provides And is the Faithfull Guide of all his Wayes Though through the Vale of Baca he do's go My King who guides his Way will bless it too V. That thirsty Vale where scorching drought do's reign Shall in New streams and Rivers overflow Their tears shall help to water the sad Plain And make the Mulberies more fruitfull grow See how in troops they march till all at length To Sion come and there renew their strength VI. Triumphant Generall of the Sacred Host Whom all the Pow'rs of Heav'n and Earth obey Who hast a Thund'ring Legion in each Coast And mighty Armies listed and in pay Let not the noise of War so fill Thine Ear But that Thy Love through it my Prayers may hear VII Great God of Battles Thou who art my Shield Jacob's strong God on Thy Anointed shine If Thou encamp'st I 'me sure to gain the field And overcome because the Vict'ry's Thine I long to see Thy Glory as before And by this Absence learn to prize it more VIII For one day in Thy Temple to attend Before an age of Pleasure I preferr And might I in that Place my Life but spend The meanest Office is advancement there There should I count I had more honour won Charg'd with a Dore than here to wear a Crown IX My God would there upon His Servant shine And when that Sun is or too hot or bright Become a shield against the rayes Divine And on Himself reflect the glorious light Himself would interpose and be my Screen And nothing but Himself should come between X. Grace Now hereafter Glory
One Be joyn'd with them who set up mischief by a Law Shall Justice and Oppression share the Throne Or rapine to its party conquer'd virtue draw Against the Just together to conspire And doom the Innocent and guilty to one fire IX But God's my help the Rock whereto I fly My Fortress and high Tower where darts in vain are sent Their feathers cannot bear them up so high But on the Caster they shall turn in punishment And falling thus in wrath be so hurl'd down That wounded every man shall say the Dart's his Own Psalm XCV Venite exultemus Domino c. I. COme let us sing unto the Lord And all His deeds with thankfulness record Unto Our God Come let us sing And to His Courts with shouts Our Presents bring He is Our Rock to Him Our Verse we 'll raise And He who heard Our Prayers shall now attend Our Praise II. Great is Our God and rules o're all Above all gods who at His Footstool fall The Earth is His and all its Deeps His Word the Hills on their Foundation keeps He made the Sea and bounded it with Sand And bid the heavy earth above the waters stand III. Come let us worship and fall down And as we ought Our Great Creator own He is Our God His Flock we are The Sheep of 's hand the People of his Court Look how He calls look how He bends His ear Thus by inclining His to see if Ours will hear IV. To day let 's hear nor be like them Who in the desert did His Power contemn That hardened there did God provoke And though He still kept His their Covenant's broke 'T was then saies God they prov'd and tempted me When all around I had my Wonders made them see V. Forty years long their sins I bore And from destroying them as long forbore Fond People said I thus to stray And when I shew'd it not to know my way Therefore in wrath I did against them swear Since they despis'd my Rest they never should come there Psalm XCVI Cantate Domino Canticum c. I. NEw Songs of Praise to the Almighty sing And to Him let the World their Offerings bring Sing to Our God and bless His Holy Name From day to day His Acts declare How wondrous and how great they are And let the Nations joyn to celebrate His Fame II. Great is the Lord and worthy of all Praise Above the Trophys we can to Him raise No Pow'r like His we can adore or fear For those to whom the Gentiles bow Are Idols and an empty show But He made Heav'n and all the Hosts which serve Him there III. Honour and Majesty attend His Throne Beauty and Strength His Temple 's built upon Therefore to Him alone ye People bow His Praise with daily thanks renew Restore to Him what is His due And at His Altar pay what there you first did vow IV. Let the Earth tremble and its Kingdoms fear And all unto the Mighty Word give ear Among the Heathen say That God do's reign Who made the World and bid it stand Till He shall judge it whose Command To its first Nothing shall return it back again V. Be glad O Heav'ns and Thou O Earth rejoyce And to your Consort take the Seas Deep Voice Let the huge Sea in dancing billows rise And though confin'd within its Shore By Sands which barr the Mighty Door Send up to Heav'n its shouts and force the yielding Skyes VI. Let joyfull Songs be heard in every Plain And Hills reflect the Voices Face again Then let the Trees the Glories of the Wood In mutual Murmurs all conspire And joyn with Birds to fill the Quire As if like Men they Parts and Musick understood VII At their Own Numbers let them come away And where their God shall pass lead on the way He comes But who His Presence can abide That the Great Judge of all shall be Yet who would not His Entrance see When He with equal Justice shall each cause decide Psalm XCVII Dominus regnavit exultet Terra c. THe Lord do's reign let the whole Earth rejoyce The Isles be glad and lift on high their voice Louder than Seas which all around them roar And with their shouts shake Heav'n and rend the Shore In the thick darkness God His Glory shrouds And o're His Brightness throws a veil of clouds Justice and Righteousness uphold His Throne And their firm Basis it do's rest upon In vain for Him their Toils His Enemies lay That Fire consumes them which prepares His Way For on the Nations He His Lightning threw And o're the World the swift-wing'd Terrour flew The Earth beheld it and began to fear The Hills complain'd that Heav'n approach'd too near And melted with the heat like Wax flow'd down Whilst in the Plains ran streams of burning Stone At the Almighty Presence they did flow Whose breath the Fire His eye had made did blow The Heav'ns His Justice and His Power declare And to His Truth the Earth do's witness bear May then all perish who to Idols bow And boast of Gods which they make only so Worship Him all ye Gods Angels fall down And at His Feet cast every One His Crown Sion with joy shall hear Jerusalem Shall send her Daughters to improve the Theam For He above all Gods is rais'd so high To Him we only by Our Praise can fly Praise Him ye Righteous who advanc't above Would have you thus express and send your Love Your Love upon Himself alone bestow And Hatred only to what 's evil show So with deliverance He shall surely come And having here preserv'd you take you home To Heav'n in whose large fields refined Light Sown for the Just looks against Harvest white Harvests which as they reap the Righteous sing And with Eternal shoutings carry in Be glad ye Righteous and in God rejoyce For what His hands have done deserves your Voice Psalm XCVIII Cantate Domino Canticum novum c. I. NEw Songs of Praise to the Almighty sing Triumphall Songs to our Victorious King Whos 's own right Hand ha's got Him Victory And for us mighty Wonders done Has mighty En'mies overthrown And by its Holiness has made the Wicked flye II. The Lord ha's sav'd us and His Power display'd His Righteousness made all the World afraid Th' amazed World stood and admir'd His hand And when poor Israel seem'd to be Hopeless of ever getting free Wondred how He could then such miracles command III. Praise Him O World and fear His Mighty Name From whence all that at which Thou wondrest came Call all Thy forces up the Song to raise With Trumpets and with Harps rejoice The Sackbut Clarion and the voice And with shrill Cornets up to Heav'n send all Thy praise IV. Let the Sea roar and all that dwells therein Joyn in His praise when thus the Shores begin Let the Floods too their parts in answering bear Lift up their heads and clap their hands Rise and
look o're their bounding sands And see what 's done at Land though they cannot come there V. Let them see how the Mountains glad as they Look from their tops when God will come away He comes But who His Presence can abide That the Great Judge of all shall be Yet who would not His entrance see When He with equall Justice shall each cause decide Psalm XCIX Dominus regnavit irascantur c. I. THE Lord do's reign let the Earth fear And tremble till its old Foundations shake For though Mount Sion He His Court do's make His Empire reaches every where Let the whole World before His Name fall low For it is Holy and most rais'd when they do so II. He Righteousness and Truth do's love Is the Kings strength as they His glory are Jacob His Judgements had and was His Care Exalt our God who reigns above The Holy God and at His Footstool bow For then you raise Him most when there you fall most low III. Moses and Aaron and the Quire Of Priests which alwayes in His Court attend Samuel with those whose praises there ascend And from His Altar have their fire In their distress when they did to Him fly He who their troubles saw as freely heard their cry IV. He heard them and that very Flame Which to His Presence did their Prayers conveigh No less for His return prepar'd the way Which through the Cloudy Pillar came He answer'd them and as He heard forgave And though reveng'd the sin yet did the sinner save V. Thus He of old their Faith did prove And unseen by them through the darkness saw How they observ'd His Word and kept His Law Exalt our God who reigns above The Holy God and in His Temple bow For then you raise Him most when there you fall most low Psalm C. Jubilate Deo omnis terra I. YOU who thrâ—ughout the World that Power adore Which first made it and then made you Give to the Lord what is His due And what Man ha's usurpt His Praise restore II. 'T is God alone who by His Word made All And by His Word that All sustains And Nothing by the Wonder gains Except to save and hear us when we call III. We are His People He Our Maker is Our Shepheard He and we His sheep Whom He secure do's ever keep And praise is all that He expects for this IV. Approach His Courts and enter them with praise And of His Mighty Power rehearse Make that the subject of your Verse And up to Heav'n with it His Goodness raise V. Who most shalt bless Him let 's together strive His Mercies have been ever sure His Truth for ever shall endure What can we less when He so much do's give Psalm CI. Misericordiam Justitiam c. I. I Will of Judgement and of mercy sing The greatest Praises of the greatest King And since mine 's nothing worth His own unto Him bring II. 'T was He discover'd to me first the Way I 'll follow where He shew'd the passage lay O come and lead me Lord that I may never stray III. With my integrity I 'll never part But be my Seed's as Thou my Pattern art And as Thy Way is perfect so shall be my Heart IV. No wicked thing will I with pleasure see My Innocent eyes no more shall guilty be Or look so low since they have once been rais'd to Thee V. I 'll hate the work of him who turns aside His way from life and happiness lyes wide And as he shuns me from him I my face will hide VI. The Privy slanderer I will ore'throw Reject the Proud nor with the froward go Their great heights when they fall shall make them sink more low VII But he in mine shall be as in Thy sight Whose heart and wayes Thy Laws have made upright To Thee a Servant but my Friend and chief delight VIII He in my house shall dwell but never there Shall the deceitful or false Man appear Destruction cannot be far of when they are near IX Early I will destroy them and my hand Shall cut them off and guiltless make the Land And on their spoils Gods City shall triumphing stand Psalm CII Domine exaudi orationem c. I. MY dearest God let my Pray'r come to Thee Nor at my sighes and cry offended be Dart through these pitchy clouds one ray Divine And make Thy glorious Face appear If Thou art pleas'd again to shine I will no longer fear But hope that He who sees my Pain will bend His ear II. But hear me then and answer speedily ' Ere 't is too late and I no more can cry For as dry wood do's in the fornace burn And vanishes in smoak away So all my strength to smoak do's turn And feels its own decay Whil'st on my bones and heart a fire unseen do's prey III. So fierce it rages that I quite forget Through pain and grief my very bread to eat The tears I shed do but the flame encrease My bones and flesh become more dry And all the while I held my peace Less burnt then now I cry And grass the Sun ha's toucht is not so scorch't as I. IV. And as the solitary Pelican And widdow'd Turtle for their mates complain Just like the Owle which do's in desarts dwell Hating and hated of the light That to the Rocks her moans do's tell So shun I every sight By day and weary with my mournfull cryes the night V. Both night and day I 'm made the common scorn And those who hate me are against me sworn Ashes and Tears have been my meat and drink Whil'st I continually did grieve Of Thy Just wrath and hand to think What mortal wounds they give Lifting me up a greater fall but to receive VI. And as the shaddow with the Sun declines And disappears when that no longer shines As with the Summer heat flowers pine away So pass my years e're well begun But an Eternal Now do's tay On Thyne ne're to be done When thousand Ages shall their several Race have run VII The mis'ries of Thy Sion Thou hast seen How great Her Sorrows what her Cares have been To save Thy Sion Lord at length arise Her mighty Jubilee is come And now her very dust we prize Her rubbish and Her lome And humbly begg Thou would'st return her captives home VIII So shall the heathen fear Thy Holy Name And all their Kings Thy Kingdomes rule proclaim When thus again Thou Sion shalt rebuild And in Thy glory there appear When all Her Courts with Vowes are fill'd And Thou inclin'st Thine Ear The Prayer of the Forsaken and their groans to hear IX For the next age this story we 'll record That they as well as We may praise the Lord Who from the height of Heav'n His Throne look'd down And did from thence the Earth behold Thence heard the dying Pris'ners grone Saw Justice chain'd with gold And sav'd both Her and them for
it broken there in peices lay Gods secret path was Israels Great High Way Through which as through the Wilderness they pass Only these sands were wall'd about with glass Thus from their Enemies He set them free Whilst the admiring waves stood up to see But when the sacred Army was gon o're The seas no longer own'd their new made shore But o're it leapt as friends return'd to greet And in their old embraces hast to meet Th' Egyptian Troops which scattred lay between And thought to tell at home what they had seen Swift as that thought were buried in the waves And not one left to shew their empty Graves Then Israel fear'd His Word and sang His Praise But soon forgot that and His Wondrous wayes Did in the Wilderness His Power distrust And for full Tables in the Desert lust He gave it them but therewith leaness sent Into their very Souls the Poyson went Next against Moses they in tumults rise And Aaron the Almightys choyce despise But God Himself from Heaven His Choice approv'd And from His sight the Murmurers remov'd The Sea before the Earth do's now obey And frighted at His presence ran away Loosned its hold and as apart it fell Let Dathan and Abiran quick to Hell And those who to the Priesthood did aspire And off'red Incense were consum'd by Fire At Horeb they had griev'd him long before When there they did their molton god adore At Horeb where they that great Voice did hear Which fill'd the most rebellious breast with fear And strook the Soul as it surpriz'd the Eare. Thus to an Ox their glory they compare And these cry they Thy Gods O Israel are Not because they the true one did not know But their old love to Egypt thus would show Forgetting what in Egypt He had done Both for their Nations honour and His own And all His Wonders in the Mighty Deep Making a Causey there that they their way might keep Wherefore about destroying them He spake And that He Moses a great Name would make Moses who in the breach before Him stood And would have given His Own to save their blood That pass'd the Happy Canaan they contemn But more the God who promis'd it to them To Egypt they again had rather go Than serve new Masters whom they did not know Therefore in wrath He rais'd His vengefull Hand To Strike and swear they should not see the Land And that all those who fell not by His own Should by their En'mies swords be overthrown Sure they will try it and to Peor turn'd Before dumb Idols ate and Incense burn'd Thus were they only constant in their sin And knew no measure till the Plague brake in Had some new solly to enflame His Ire And set the Mine He lay'd so deep a fire Till Phineas stood up and with dextrous skill Three En'mies at one happy blow did kill Zimri and Cosbi and the Plague did stay Which weltring in their gore and breathless lay An Act whose Memory God Himself would save And for reward to His House the Priest-hood gave Another time at Meriba they strove And their meek Guide did with their murmurings prove Full ill it went with Moses for their sake Who unadvis'dly in His Passion spake And with them both in sin and judgement did partake The Nations of which God in charge did give Should be destroy'd they were resolv'd should live And come to Canaan to preserve their seed Were mingled with them and did by them breed Learn'd all their works their Idols did adore Curs'd to Them now though for their sakes before Idols that Devils were yet unto whom All smear'd they in their Childrens blood must come No other Sacrifice but that will please Nor any blood but the Innocent appease Their childrens blood with which their Gods were stain'd They and their Gods and with their own the land Thus justly plagu'd for their impiety That Gods of their own making should so cruel bee This blew the Heav'nly wrath up to a Flame Turn'd love to hatred Mercy rage became Up to the Heathen He His People gave And Israel in His own land was a slave Those who most hated them for Lords did reign And those they conquer'd conquer'd them again When God delivered them they yet sinn'd more Tempting new plagues they never felt before Yet to their cry He gently bow'd His Ear And though they would not Him their grones did hear According to His Cov'nant Mercy sent And taught them by His oft once to Repent Made their proud Lords resent their Miseries And shew less cruel hands and more indulgent eyes Save us O God and bring Thy Captives home That we with prayse may to Thy Temple come To Israels King let thanks be ever pay'd And let Amen by all the World be say'd Hallelujah The end of the Fourth Book of Psalms THE FIFTH BOOK OF PSALMS Psalm CVII Confitemini Domino quoniam c. Chorus Omnium ALL you who on th' Almighty Love depend And by His liberal hand improve Let with your voice your thanks ascend And here begin what you shall do above His Mercy like His Truth is ever sure And so your Praise should be as constant and as pure Versus I. Let His Redeem'd say so that Israel whom Their Enemys Captive led but He brought home Then brought them home when from the farthest East They were dispers'd and scattred to the West When North and South their weary steps did know But they nor where they went nor where to go Now in the Desart an untrodden way Where they could hardly pass yet durst not stay Where they no City found and none to tell Which road to take or in what Place to dwell Hungry and thirsty doubtful in their mind Scarce knowing what they sought or what they 'd wish to find Chorus Minor Then to the Lord in their distress they cry'd They cry'd aloud and He did hear And though His Face He seem'd to hide By His great Hand declar'd that He was near For when in vain they had look'd round about And saw no help tow'rds Him they look'd were brought out Versus Respondens He led them forth Himself by the right way Their passage made as their great journey lay And City founded for them and did tell Not only where but made them in it dwell Chorus Omnium Let all the Earth th' Eternal Bounty praise And talk of all that He has done How Truth and Mercy are His wayes To the whole World as well as to His Own For to the longing Soul He grants His Will And with that Goodness which He is do's th' hungry fill Versus II. Those who in darkness and in Horror sit And so near death 't is in the shade of it Bound in Affliction and in heavy chaines In prison where there noyse and silence reignes Feeling their sins in all they suffer there Whose weight more rings â—han th' Irons which they bear Their hearts sink lower than
thâ—ir bodies ly And there 's as little hope as in their eye Chorus M. Then to the Lord in their distress they cry'd They cry'd aloud and he did hear And though His Face He seem'd to hide By His great hand declar'd that He was near For when in vain they had look'd all about And saw no help tow'rds Him they look'd were brought out Versus Resp. He broke their Chains asunder sett them free And made their Irons a new Bearing be From darkness freed them where they once did sit Not from Death only but the shade of it Chorus Omnium Let all the Earth th' Eternal Bounty praise And talk of all that He has done How Truth and Mercy are His Wayes To the whole World as well as to His Own For gates of Bars against Him could not stand But open fell Iron prov'd stubble to His Hand Versus III. Those Foolish sinners who in sottish Love Consume their Age neglecting that above Are justly punish'd for their fond disdain And have for all their love no love again How do they pine away and loath their meat Feeding their passion more the less they eat To sullen rocks lament as if the grones Which tear their breasts would pierce the sensless stones But all in vain those meanes but fruitless prove One Death alone can end their Lives and Love Chorus M. Then to the Lord in their distress they cry'd They cry'd aloud and he did hear And though His Face He seem'd to hide By His great hand declar'd that He was near For when in vain they had look'd all about And saw no help tow'rds Him they look'd were brought out Versus Resp. He sent His Word which did refine their love No more on Earth but plac'd it all above 'T was a disease no longer knew no pain But for the love it gave had love again Chorus Omnium Let all the Earth th' Almighty Bounty praise And talk of all that He has done How Truth and Mercy are His Wayes To the whole World as well as to His Own And let all those who by His Goodness live The hearts He thus has chang'd an Offering to Him give Versus IV. They who into the Sea in Ships go down And seek by Wayes they know not lands unknown Who make the untrac'd Ocean be their Road Which with their keels they tear and burdens load They in the Deep His dreadfull Wonders see Of which themselves as great as any bee How He commands the stormes and do's unbinde The airy fetters of the strugling Winde Out they all tumble and the rough Sea invade Which now their scorn as much as sport is made To Heav'n lift up its floods as if to call Help thence but e're 't is come down let them fall Low as their depth whiles the scar'd passingers Look every wave should drown them and their fears Stagger like drunken Men reel to and fro Their feet less steady than their Vessels go And in their teeth the Winds their sighs do send Making them e're the storms at their Witts end Chorus M. Then to the Lord in their distress they cry'd They cry'd aloud and He did hear His Face the Tempest could not hide Nor raging Seas or dull or stop His Eare For when in vain they had look'd round about And saw no help tow'rds Him they look'd were brought out Versus Resp. He bid the Sea be calm the Winds be still And only with brisk gales their canvass fill Then brought them smooth and calmy as the Sea To the wish'd Haven where they long'd to be Chorus Omnium Let all the Earth th' Eternal Bounty praise And talk of all that He has done How Truth and Mercy are His Wayes To the whole World as well as to His Own And let all those who on the Seas have been Sing in His Church His praise and tell what they have seen Versus When for their sin God do's chastize a land Their springs He turnes into a Parched sand A Wilderness which drinks their Rivers up And not a Rose budd yields to crown the Cup But barren as the salt which is sown there Nor herb for man nor grass for beast do's bear Resp. The Wilderness He turns into a Pool And fills the parched sand with springs brim full There for the hungry Soul provides His meat And for the Colonys He leads a seat With corn they sow their fields new Vineyards plant And neither Citizens nor Cities want He blesses them and makes them so increase Their very Cattle feel the fruits of Peace Versus Again to punish them they are brought low That hand destroys them which first made them grow For He on mighty Kings contempt do's lay And those who His forsake lose their own way Resp. But He the Poor from trouble sets on high Whence He may see His long Posterity Chorus Omnium Let all the Righteous in their God rejoice But the Unjust with envy break Those shew their triumph by their voice While these have neither Will nor power to speak Thrice happy Man who treasuring in his minde These several Mercies some one for his Use canfinde Psalm CVIII Paratum est Cor meum c. I. IT is resolv'd nor will I any more Distrust my God as I have done before No! I will praise Him and my heart Which has so oft betray'd me into fear Its burden in the song shall bear And when my Harp begins shall sing the highest Part. II. Awake my Harp 't is time for thee to'awake Prevent the day and Thy great subject take Put all Thy strings on shew Thy skill God and my soul are ready be not slow For if we should before Thee go Thy strings would never half way reach up Heav'ns high Hill III. We come O God and with us up will raise High as Thy Love and Truth to Heav'n Thy praise The World shall hear what Thou hast done How signally Thou hast appear'd for me By Thy great Power hast set me free And for Thy works praise Him whose Name they have not known IV. Then with Thy Mercy to the Clouds we 'll flie And take new wing to mount to the Most High Above the Clouds exalted be Lord set Thy gloryfar above the skies And if so high we cannot rise From Heav'n do Thou descend when we look up to Thee V. Descend and by the way Thy Name make known What Thou wilt do by what Thy hand has done Hear me My God has hear'd my Cry Has past His Word and in it I rejoice Has given me of all lands my Choice And on my Gods Almighty promise I rely VI. Sechem is Mine I will divide its Plain And o're the Vale of Succoth throw my Chain The Tribes of Israel shall obey Those which ly farthest off or nearer stand Shall yield themselves to my Command Shall serve whilst Judah gives them lawes holds the sway VII Moab's my Wash
Faithfull be And keep the Laws transmitted here to Thee Their Throne like Thine shall stand and be as Great VII For I have Sion made my Rest The place which I of all the World love best My house for ever where I choose to dwell All Her Provisions I will bless And thence Her poor shall look for their increase And when they see it wonder how it fell VIII There shall her Priests my Praises sing And with Loud Shouts My Saints their Offrings bring The Horn of David there I 'll make to bud An Horn of Plenty full and green Where some New blossoms ever shall be seen Whose fruit's as generous as the root is good IX There for my King I 'll set a light My eye shall make it burn and keep it bright Obscurity shall on His Foes be cast Cover'd with shame they shall ly down But on His head I 'll put a glorious Crown And I who put it on will hold it fast Psalm CXXXIII Ecce quam bonum quam c. I. BLest day wherein I live to see The Tribes like Brethren all agree Like Brethren striving who shall my best Subjects be II. God has by them restor'd my Crown And they secur'd what was their Own For what on me they pour'd upon themselves fell down III. Th' Annointing Oyl they on me spent On them in Acts of Favour went As if for them as much as me the Oyl was meant IV. Like that which on the High-Priest shed At first it only wet His head But then o're beard and cloaths and all was quickly spred V. Or like those mists which from the Main The sun draws up to send again In dews first on the Hills and then the humble Plain VI. With such th' Almighty loves to dwell And Souls agreed His Praise can tell How on them blessings when on others vengeance fell Psalm CXXXIV Ecce nunc benedicite c. I. PRaise Him Ye Servants of th' Eternal King Who alwayes in His Temple stay Till your loud songs the cheerful Morning bring And having chas'd the Night away Call to attend your Sacrifice the rising day II. And as you praise Him let your thankfull hands Their part in all the Service bear They have their language which He understands Though none beside their voice do's hear For them reserves His eye and for your lips His Ear III. The Lord from Sion on Thy Borders reign Showers like that Heav'n which sends them free Return Thy Blessings on Thee back again Let them Thine own and greater be That Gods who Heav'n and Earth did make all for Thee Psalm CXXXV Laudate nomen Domini c. I. YE Servants of th' Immortal King His Masters of request below To whom when We our just Petitions bring Immediately to Heav'n they go And by your means who there attend I' th' flames which burn the Sacrifice ascend To His Great Name which He delights to raise Though far above your reach direct your Praise II. There 's none like Him so full of love On whom you can your praise bestow And if great Goodness can affection move Then praise His Name for that is so For Jacobs seed He gave His voice And plac'd His Treasure where He made His choice So great that none can contradict His will But when they most resist it most fulfill III. His Pleasure Heav'n and Earth obey And Laws which He first gave them keep He chains the Sea and bounding sands do's lay For mighty fetters on the Deep Causes thick vapours to ascend And in one cloud moist Hail and fire do's blend Out of His Treasures brings th' unruly wind And Captive Tempests with strong Cords do's bind IV. In Egypt when He did begin Thus He their First Born would not spare The Beasts were punisht for their Masters sin Under the Curse because they were His Wonders God before Him sent And thither afterwards in Person went Egypt Thou saw'st His hand i' th mid'st of Thee When Pharaoh who did bear it Would not see V. He mighty Kingdoms overthrew Scattred their Forces slew their Kings And Victory which abroad at Pleasure flew Made serve at home without her wings Sehon and Ogg before Him fell In whose Possessions Faithfull Israel dwell That Promised Land which He their Fathers gave Who from that gift their surest Title have VI. Eternal God like Thee Thy Name Endures to all Eternity And as Its Power is constantly the same So shall Its just Memorial be For Thou wilt for Thy People rise Subdue and Scatter all their Enemies That under yoaks they shall no more remain But to Thy House and City be restor'd again VII Dumb Idols shall not Thee withstand Nor thousand Gods fond men adore For all though fashion'd by the Workmans hand Remain the Clay they were before Dull Clay which neither sees nor hears Though Art has given them eyes and made them ears Most Easy Gods to whom when any cry They therefore grant because they can't deny VIII Without or Speech or breath or sense Though they of All the Organs have In vain is help to be expected thence Where 's not enough themselves to save Blind Deities but blinder they Who knowing it to their own Work will pray Ne're thinking that it cannot to them turn And that one fire will god and Incense burn IX But Thou O Israel Bless Thy Lord O House of Aaron bless His Name And you who serve at th' Altar by His Word With coales from thence encrease your Flame Let joy in every Face appear And bless the Lord whom you have made your Fear From Sion bless Him who reigns King above But at Jerusalem is The God of Love Psalm CXXXVI Consitemini Domino Quoniam c. I. OPraise The Lord for He is Good And let the World His love adore For though His Power may aw them more His Love guards those who are by that withstood His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure II. Praise Him who o're all gods do's reign The God of Gods of Kings the King To whom all Thrones this Homage bring What He first gave them to resign again His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure III. All that We see His hand has done Who makes His Mighty Power appear With wonder strikes us and with fear For His own sake He did it and alone His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure IV. He made the Heav'ns that glorious space Which has no bound and knows no end Whose greatness man can comprehend As little as that God who made the Place His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure V. The Flood at first hid all the Land Till He rais'd it above the Flood Where it unmov'd e're since has stood He stretcht it out by reaching out His hand His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure VI. The Lamps of Heav'n ow all their light To Him who caus'd them first to shine He on them
at Thy Feet their Scepters down And do their homage to Thee as their King V. God over all whose Throne is set on high Above the Circle of the sky The humble and their proud Oppressors knowes The difference only lies in this Though well known to Him either is When He delivers those He these o'rethrows VI. No! I 'll ne're fear though trouble me surround Most fixt when I shall feel no ground Thou wilt revive me and with Thy Right hand Thy poor afflicted Creature save My Enemies wrath an end shall have And on his ruin I shall firmer stand VII The Lord will perfect what He has begun And finish what is yet undone Thou whose Compassions all Thy Works transcend Care of the Issue also take Nor me Thy handy-Work forsake But with eternal Triumphs crown the end Psalm CXXXIX Domine probasti me c. I. IN vain O God my folly and my pride Make me in vain persume to be By all my shifts conceal'd from Thee When from my self my self I cannot hide Thy day still breaks into my night Still gives me of my self the sight For Thee to see me by shall it not be more bright II. Thou ' hast search'd me Lord and all my life hast known Know'st every Action of my life When with my self or Thee at strife Thou know'st my rising up and lying down My thoughts and heart to Thee are clear Thou art their Judge and alwayes near Do'st see and sentence both before I know what 's there III. Where e're I go in what place e're I stay Whether I wake whether I sleep Thy Spirit by me watch do's keep Is my Companion in the closest way If I but whisper that stands by And though unseen by Mortall eye Takes from my Lips the word and to Thine ear do's fly IV. There 's no avoiding Thee behind before On all sides Thou hast girt me round My God Thy Wisdom's too profound Too deep to fathom higher than I can soar Thy hand first made and fashion'd me Thy Will commands me now to be Being or life I cannot have unless in Thee V. Then whither shall I from Thy Presence fly If up to Heav'n my Way I take Thou Heav'n Thy Residence dost make And to get further off I come more nigh If down to Hell the Devils there Tell me Thou 'rt present by their fear They tell me what I merit by the pains they bear VI. Quick as my thought could I remove me hence And in the furthest East remain Below the Sea some covert gain Thy Sun would shew me as he rises thence If I say darkness and the night Which shut out all shall barr Thy sight That Darkness which is so to me to Thee is light VII Thou art within me too close as my heart Within my heart unknown to me For when that first was made by Thee Thy breath Lord was my best and chiefest part Thou threw'st Thy self in and in vain To fly from Thee my self I pain For ever since Thou dost within my heart remain VIII I know I am Thy Master-piece and all I in the greater World admire Find in my self and something higher Am Heav'n in Perspective and Earth in small By Thee was wonderfully made Nor is Thine Image so decay'd But when I view my self I am of Thee afraid IX Nothing of me not my least part 's unknown Then when I first was wrought below Thy eyes and hands dispos'd me so My Members in Thy book were entred down Entred before all time they were When none of them did yet appear And what Thou then design'dst them now in time they are X. This as I thinkof and what Thou hast done The wondrous pledges of Thy love By whom I live in whom I move My heart is struck as silent as my tongue They pass the Sands upon the Shore And had I told their Number o're Those would more numerous seem than they appear'd before XI But as Thou 'rt gracious Thou art also just And wilt the Wicked Man o'rethrow Teaching him by Thy Power to know How great that God is which he would not trust Down with them Lord destroy them all Let their own Curses on them fall Who on Thy Name but in their Oaths did never call XII Do not I hate them Lord those who hate Thee And are not they my Enemies Who in their rage against Thee rise Thou know'st I hate them and they 're so to me Search me and try me sound my heart It s most retir'd and deepest part And lead me to that life whose Way and Guide Thou art Psalm CXL Eripe me Domine ab c. I. LOrd from the evil man my life defend Nor let his Treasons or his violence His open force or close pretence Work ill to him who do's on Thee depend His thoughts Thou know'st are ever set on Warr And now to give me battle ralli'd are II. Instead of sword he sharpens a false tongue More venemous than that which serpents bear The poyson from an Adders spear Wounds not so mortally nor kills so long O by Thy Power may I his plots withstand For if his tongue 's thus cruel what 's his hand III. The ginns are lai'd and all the toiles are set They are resolv'd my Footsteps to o'rethrow And where they guess I needs must go In the mid-way the proud have spread their net Most Holy Lord Thou art my God I said And now 's Thy time to help since I have pray'd IV. When thousand dangers had begirt me round And all my Foes were ready in the field Thou wer 't my helmet and my shield And sav'dst that head which Thou before hadst crown'd May the desires of all the Wicked fail Lest when I slip they think their hand prevail V. Let them not by my ruin higher rise And judge by the success their cause is good But stain their swords with their own blood And be aveng'd on Thy false Enemies Let burning coals fall on them in Thine Ire And let their own lips help to blow the Fire VI. Then throw them down into the Flame nor more Unless it be to Judgement may they rise And after bear fresh miseries Sharper than all which they endur'd before Let vengeance hunt the violent man to ' his grave And so much earth may he for ' his portion have VII I know the Lord will to the poor do right And plead Himself as well as judge their cause Trying them by such equal laws That their clear'd Innocence shall look more bright So that the Righteous on their God shall stay And in His sight enjoy Eternal Day Psalm CXLI Domine clamavi ad te c. I. MY God when in distress I cry And on my long-wing'd sighes unto Thee fly Make haste to meet me Come away Ah do no longer from me stay But by Thy Presence shew Thou hearst me when I pray II. Let my requests like incense rise Not to o're-cloud but to perfume the skies And when the
in fetters bind And make their stoutest Princes walk in Chains behind V. That Wrath which was denounc'd to execute And all the long since written Doom fulfill When their fierce Enemies all struck mute Shall yield their Lives to th' Pleasure of their Will Such Glorious Freedom follows Their Restraints And this great Honour after suffering have the Saints Hallelujah Psalm CL. Laudate Dominum c. I. THe Holy God in His Sanctuary praise There where He loves Himself to show And having sung His Praise below From thence to Heaven that and your voyce together raise II. In Heav'n He makes His Mighty Power be seen Praise Him who makes it there appear For if that Greatness awe us here What would it do came not so vast a space between III. Together strive who shall exalt Him most What Instruments the fittest are Whether of Love whether of Warr Shrill Trumpets or soft Harps to praise the Lord of Host IV. Trumpets and Harps shall in one Consort move The Cornet and the Amorous Lute The Cymbal and the Warlike Flute For He who is the Lord of Host is God of Love V. Let the whole Earth their praises to Him bring Whate're has being life or breath Angels above and Men beneath And all whom He has Voyces given His Praises sing S. Woodford At Albrook Hants 7 Martii 1665 6 Hallelujah FINIS A TABLE OF THE PSALMS Psalm   Page  A.   120 AD Dominum cum tribularer IN my distress unto the Lord 373 28 Ad te Domine clamabo To thee O Lord my Rock 69 25 Ad te Domine levavi To thee O God my 62 123 Ad te levavi oculos meos To thee O Lord I lift 376 29 Afferte Domino Filii Dei You whom your birth for 71 78 Attendite popule Israel Gods own inheritance 216 49 Audite haec omnes gentes Attend O World and bid 129  B.   119 Beati immaculati Thrice happy men who 351 128 Beati omnes qui Blest is the man whose 386 32 Beati quorum remissae He whose iniquities are 79 41 Beatus qui intelligit Blest is that man who 108 1 Beatus vir qui non Thrice happy man who 1 112 Beatus vir qui timet That man is truly blest 334 34 Benedicam Dominum Lord I will bless Thee 84 104 Benedic anima mea Arise my soul and to the 303 103 Benedic anima mea Arise my soul and to the 300 144 Benedictus Dominus Supream Commander of the 419 85 Benedixisti Domine terram At length O God thy People 236 92 Bonum est confiteri Domino What Saints in Heaven and 278  C   149 Cantate Domino New songs of Praise 433 96 Cantate Domino canticum New songs of Praise 285 98 Cantate Domino New songs of Praise 289 19 Caeli enarrant gloriam That boundless space 47 75 Confitebimur tibi Deus Lord we will praise thee 209 9 Confitebor tibi Domine Lord I will praise thee 17 111 Confitebor tibi Domine With my whole heart I 'le 332 138 Confitebor tibi Domine Lord I will bless thee 406 105 Confitemini Domino Give thanks unto our God 310 106 Confitemini Domino quoniam Sing to the Lord for 314 107 Confitemini Domino All you who on th' Almighty 319 118 Confitemini Domino To Gods Almighty Name 346 136 Confitemini Domino O praise the Lord for He 399 16 Conserva me Domine Preserve me Lord for 34 4 Cum invocarem exaudivit Thou who hast heard me 6  D   130 De profundis clamavi Out of the depths unto 389 44 Deus auribus nostris Great God we oft have 115 50 Deus Deorum Dominus 'T is past and by irrevocable 132 63 Deus Deus meus ad te Early my God before 167 22 Deus Deus meus quare My God My God why art 54 70 Deus in adjutorium My God why dos my 189 54 Deus in nomine tuo O Thou who Israels Saviour 148 72 Deus judicium tuum Great God thy judgements 196 109 Deus laudem meam ne Guard of my life and God 327 67 Deus misereatur nostri Save us O God and 178 46 Deus noster refugium To Armys some for 122 83 Deus quis similis erit tibi Enough my God Thou hast 231 60 Deus repulisti nos Lord thou hast smote us 162 82 Deus stetit in Synagoga You judges of the World 229 79 Deus venerunt gentes Lord see the miseries which 222 94 Deus ultionum Dominus Judge of the Universe 281 116 Dilexi quoniam exaudivit I love thee Lord 342 18 Diligam te Domine Lord I will love thee 39 39 Dixi custodiam vias Let him go on for me 101 110 Dixit Dominus Domino The Lord said to my Lord 330 36 Dixi injustus ut delinquat Base hypocrite thinkst 89 14 Dixit insipiens in corde There is no God the 30 53 Dixit insipiens There is no God the Fool 146 141 Domine clamavi ad te My God when in distress 413 7 Domine Deus meus in te Almighty God to thee for 12 88 Domine Deus salutis meae Great God whence my 243 8 Domine Dominus noster Sole Monarch of the World 15 102 Domine exaudi orationem My dearest God let my 296 143 Domine exaudi orationem Great Saviour to my 417 21 Domine in virtute tua Great God who wonders for 51 6 Domine ne in furore tuo Lord in thy wrath rebuke 10 38 Domine ne infurore tuo Lord in thy wrath 98 131 Domine non est exaltatum No Lord thou knowest 391 139 Domine probasti me In vain O God my 408 3 Domine quid multiplic Lord how are they increast 5 15 Domine quis habitabit My God who shall Thy Holy 32 90 Domine refugium factus Lord we have been Thy 251 24 Domini est terra The Earth and all the Earth 60 27 Dominus illuminatio mea When in the silence of the 66 23 Dominus regit me The Mighty God who all 58 93 Dominus regnavit decorem Submit your Crowns O Kings 280 97 Dominus regnavit exultet The Lord dos reign let the 287 99 Dominus regnavit irascantur The Lord dos reign let the 291  E.   134 Ecce num benedicite Praise him ye Servants 395 133 Ecce quam bonum Blest day wherein I live 394 59 Eripe me de inimicis Preserve me Lord and by 160 140 Eripe me Domine Lord from the evil 411 45 Eructavit Cor meum A thousand fancies from 118 145 Exaltabo te Deus My God my King I will 421 30 Exaltabote Domine My God I will to Thee 73 20 Exaudiat te Dominus So may thy God be 49 61 Exaudi Deus deprecationem Hear me my Saviour 164 55 Exaudi Deus orationem Lord to my Prayer 150 64 Exaudi Deus orationem Lord to my