rules above the Sky verse 5 Thy Promises dear Lord are true And all thy Testimonies sure Thy Flocks pure Holiness pursue And ever like thy Self endure Another Metre As the 111th proper Tune verse 1 THE Lord a King remains The great Jehovah reigns With Awful Glories crown'd As with a Robe of Light The Lord with wondrous Might And Strength is girt around By his Divine Commands The World securely stands From Alterations free verse 2 Thy Throne was fix'd of old Thy Deity extoll'd From all Eternity verse 3 Great God th' uncertain Croud Against thy Kingdom loud Like mighty Waters roar And with a surly Spite As breaking Billows fight And shock the neighb'ring Shoar verse 4 But let tempestuous Rage Their furious Hearts engage And Heav'n it self defy His stern Command alone Can beat their Madness down Who ever rules on high verse 5 Thy Testimonies true Thy Promises renew Both faithful both secure Thy Saints with Holiness Shall tow'rds thine A'tars press And ever bless'd endure PSAL. xciv verse 1 GReat God to whom Revenge belongs Great God of Vengeance rise verse 2 The Proud thou mighty Judge of Wrongs With just Rewards surprize verse 3 How long shall wicked Workers Lord Uncheck'd triumphant reign verse 4 Their impious Words and Pride abhorr'd With haughty Boasts maintain verse 5 Lord shall they crush thy People still Afflict thine Heritage verse 6 Their Widows and their Strangers kill Nor spare their Orphans Age verse 7 Yet thus they do and thus they cry Can God our Actions see We Jacob's unknown God defy From his Observance free verse 8 But think ye stupid Fools a while Think well ye senseless Crew verse 9 Can you his sacred Ears beguile Who Ears bestow'd on you What can't he see whose Hands the Eyes Those Orbs of Wonders made verse 10 He whose Hand the World chastise From Your Correction stay'd Can't He who Sense on Man bestows Their secret Thoughts descry verse 11 Men's Hearts alas He throughly knows And knows their Vanity verse 12 Lord happy 's he who taught by Thee Has all thy Laws obey'd verse 13 He in ill Times at Rest shall see The Pit for Sinners made Part 2. verse 14 Our God his Servants can't desert Nor his Inheritance verse 15 But Judgment will to Right convert And upright Souls advance verse 16 who 'll me from wicked Workers save Or my Assistant be verse 17 God only help'd me or the Grave Had quickly silenc'd me verse 18 My Foot ô Lord which seem'd to slide Thy Mercy 's He'p ensur'd verse 19 In Cares and Fears thy Comforts try'd My Soul's Delight procur'd verse 20 Wilt thou support the Tyrant-Crew Who settle Sin by Law verse 21 Whose Armies righteous Souls pursue And Blood of Martyrs draw verse 22 Though such their cruel Practice be My God will raise my State My solid Rock my Refuge He Whose Loves my Faith create verse 23 Our God observes their Wickedness Their Malice He 'll repay With sudden Strokes their Pride repress And cut their Hopes away PSAL. XCV verse 1 O Come your chearful Voices raise To our Eternal King The Lord our strong Salvation praise His Goodness loudly sing verse 2 With Thanks approach his awful sight And pleasant Anthems sing verse 3 The Lord's a God of boundless Might O're all the Gods a King verse 4 Earth's secret Deeps and Mountains high His powerful Hand commands verse 5 The Seas were made by Him and dry He laid the rising Lands verse 6 O come let us our Lord adore And at his Foot-stool low Our humbly bending Knees before Our great Creator show verse 7 For he 's our God his People we And in his Pastures feed Those wandring sheep which kindly He From Death and Darkness freed To day ô hear his Voice to day verse 8 For thus th' Almighty spoke No more your own false Thoughts obey My Wrath no more provoke No more with hardned Hearts refuse My necessary Grace Nor as in former times abuse My Word or Holy Place verse 9 Such Arts your Fathers us'd of old Who all my Wonders saw And many Years perversly bold Despis'd my righteous Law verse 10 At last thus by my self I swore With just Displeasure mov'd This wretched Nation sin the more The more by Goodness prov'd They neither know my self nor know Those Rules to them addrest Nor will I e're their Souls bestow In my Eternal Rest Another Metre As Mr. Sandys's 15th verse 1 COme ô come and let us sing To our Lord and to our King Let us make a joyful Noise To that God whose Love employs All his saving Health and Grace To protect his faithful Race verse 2 Let us all with Thanks and Praise Come before his Glorious Face And our Psalms and cheerful Airs Join with Vows and humble Prayers verse 3 For the Lord our God is great Lofty his Eternal Seat Every God to Him submits He a King above them sits verse 4 All the Earths Foundations deep Solid Rocks and Mountains steep All their strength 's by Him possest And by his Protection blest verse 5 Him the rolling Seas regard By his mighty Hands prepar'd Earth to Him submissly bows And his forming Power avows verse 6 Come ô come let 's all adore And his Footstool kneel before Let us kneel and prostrate all To our Lord and Maker fall verse 7 Hee 's our God our Lord alone We are all his People known Us His Hands securely keep Hee 's the Sheepheard we the Sheep Hear ô hear his voice to Day And that sacred Voice obey verse 8 Humble let your Hearts appear Let no Hardness center there As of o'd your Father's pride All my kindest Cares defy'd When their wandring Armies past Tho' the Deserts sandy waste verse 9 Oft they tempted oft they try'd me Often to Believe deny'd me Tho' my Wonders all they saw Knew my Power and heard my Law verse 10 All their Follies large Arrears Forty tedious rolling Years I with wondrous patience bore But at last in Fury swore 11 These a wretched People are All involv'd in Error 's snare Soon they have my Laws forgot Seen my Works but know them not By my Self my Self alone That 's the greatest Oath that 's known These shall never never blest Enter my Eternal Rest PSAL. xcvj verse 1 NEw Songs to great Jehovah sing Sing all the Earths around Your Blessings to his Altars bring His saving Health resound verse 2 Each Day your active Tongues employ To spread his glorious Name verse 3 Thro' all the Nations round with Joy His wondrous Acts proclaim verse 4 Our Lord is great and greatly prais'd More to be feard then those verse 5-6 Who by Vain Men to Godhead rais'd On Vainer Fools impose Our God stretch'd out the lofty Syes How glorious Majesty How strength with lovely Beauty vyes We in his Temple see verse 7 O give to God ye Nations all Give strength and Glorys due verse 8 On his great Name with Honour call To him with Offering's fue verse
Off soon the Shadow flies And both with Beams Divine More bright and strongly shine So all the Nations round Have our Salvation found How God about us waits And all our Health creates verse 4 Let all the Nations round Their Maker's Praises sound O let the Earth rejoice And raise its chearful Voice And all the World combine In Thanks and Songs Divine verse 5 Sing to the Lord ô sing To our Eternal King To well-tun'd Harps ô raise Your Notes of Heav'nly Praise verse 6 O let the Trumpets found Let Cornets Notes rebound And with them loudly sing To our Eternal King verse 7 Let the loud Ocean roar Its Joys from Shoar to Shoar Let Angels bless'd on high With Earth in Praises vye verse 8 O let the Waters sound The ecchoing Hills rebound And with a chearful Noise Express their boundless Joys verse 9 Let All their Joy fulness Before the Lord express For loe He comes with Haste And Awful Glories grac'd His dreadful Summons all To his Tribunal call His Judgment then shall bless The World with Righteousness Truth from his Lips shall flow And all the World shall know Their glorious Judge and see His Love and Equity PSAL. xcix verse 1 CHrist reigns Let all the People round Beneath his Empire quake He sits above the Cherubs crown'd Let Earth's Foundations shake verse 2 The Lord in Sion's great and high Above the People rais'd verse 3 O may his dreadful Majesty His holy Name be prais'd verse 4 Judgment our mighty Monarch loves And Equity prepares And Judgment with his Justice moves In Jacob's bless'd Affairs verse 5 O then exalt the Lord our God Before his Foot-stool bow And spread his wond'rous Works abroad His holy Nature show verse 6 So Moses once and Aaron so Among his Priests appear'd And Samue ' with his Prophets who The God of Jacob fear'd These at his Footstool bow'd and there To him devoutly pray'd And always found his Answers near And all their Faith repaid verse 7 They kept his Testimonies sure His Statute-Laws obey'd And He to Them from Clouds obscure His gentle Answers made verse 8 Sometimes indeed his Wrath severe Their Follies would pursue Yet oft their Cries He 'd kindly hear His Mercies oft renew verse 9 O praise our God's exalted Name Before his A'tars bow Our God our holy Lord proclaim With Praise his Glory show PSAL. c. verse 1 YE who enjoy Salvation's Light To God your Voices raise verse 2 Appear with Gladness in His Sight And Sing your Saviour's Praise verse 3 Our Lord is God indeed it 's He Not We our selves have made Our Shepherd He his People we And in his Pastures laid verse 4 O then approach his Courts his Gates With Thanks and hearty Praise For Praise on his Assembly waits On all his holy Days verse 5 O b'ess his Name for God is good And all his Mercies sure His Truth from Age to Age has stood And shall unchang'd endure Another Metre As the old 100th verse 1-2 O Ye enlighten'd Souls with Praise Before our mighty Lord appear To Him your chearful Voices raise Adore his Name with humblest Fear verse 3 He 's our Almighty God not we But He to us our Substance gave He 's ours we His those Sheep which He Di'd by his own pure Blood to save verse 4 O then approach his Gates with praise And in his Courts his Glories sing On all his own appointed Days Your Sacrisice of Praises sing verse 5 He 's always kind and always good His Favour great his Mercy sure His Truth has ever firmly stood And shall from Age to Age endure PSAL. cj. verse 1 MErcy I 'll sing and Judgment praise And sing my God to Thee verse 2 And wisely walk in perfect Ways O come dear Lord to Me Then with an undissembling Heart I'â—l ever justly move And in my Court in every part Thy sacred Rules improve verse 3 No wicked Actions shall mine Eyes With Satisfaction see And those who things perverse devise Shall ne're be great With Me. verse 4 From Me all froward Fools shall part I 'll none that 's wicked own verse 5 But cut off those whose sland'rous Art Against their Neighbour's shown verse 6 The Heart that 's proud the Look that 's high I 'll ne're at Court endure Eut through the Land my searching Eye Shall faithful Friends procure That Man who treads a perfect Path My Favourite shall be verse 7 But Cheats and those who break their Faith Shall never dwell with Me I 'll bear no Liar in my fight The wicked I 'll destroy verse 8 Till Salem freed from Sinners quite Shall perfect Peace enjoy PSAL. cij A Soul with mighty Woes opprest May thus complaining pray And in deep Sorrows Language drest His weighty Griefs display verse 1 Hear Lord O hear my Prayers and Cries To Me thy Face disclose verse 2 My Soul lost in Affliction dies O heart O ease my Woes verse 3 Grief wasts my Days like Smoke and dries My Bones like Hearths with heat verse 4 My Heart like Grass quite wither'd lies And I forget my Meat verse 5 My Bones break through my shriveling Skin Through my unceasing Groans verse 6 I'm like those doleful Birds which in Wild Desents vent their moans verse 7 Like little Birds which spent with Grief Aboat their Nestlings mourn verse 8 While taunting Foes against my Life With bloody Oaths are sworn verse 9 Ashes my Bread my Drink was Tears While I endur'd thy frown verse 10 Thy I ove once rais'd me up from Fears Thy Wrath now hurts me down verse 11 The Shaddow falls my Life 's weak Flame So sinks like Grass it wains verse 12 But still thou ant thy glorious Name From Age to Age remains verse 13 Rise Lord for Sions help return In time her Woes relieve verse 14 Thy Servants o're her Ruins mourn And for her Ashes grieve verse 15 All Nations then thy Name shall fear All Kings thy Glory see verse 16 When Sions Walls new built appear And Glory springs from thee Part 2. verse 17 God hears the silent Mourner's Prayer O write his Goodness down verse 18 So shall Posterity declare Their mighty God's renown verse 19 God from his Holy Throne his Eye Turn'd down on Earth below verse 20 To save the Men condemn'd to die And let the Prisoners go verse 21 That they in Sions Walls might show His Praise his Name record verse 22 When thither Kings and Kingdoms flow To serve their Mighty Lord verse 23 My Strength my shortned Days he broke Then spare me Lord I pray'd verse 24 Suspend dear Lord thy deadly stroke Thy Years can never fade verse 25 Thy Hands this Earth's Foundations cast And stretch'd the lofty Skies verse 26 They perish but thy Nature lasts And Time it self defies They like a worn-out Garment fail And shall be chang'd for new verse 27 Thou' rt still the same Age can't prevail Nor time thy Steps pursue verse 28 Our Lands shall quickly be suppli'd With
Counts verse 5 But his great Might and Actions wise All numbring Art surmounts verse 6 The Lord exalts the lowly Heart But casts the Sinner down verse 7 Then Sing to God a grateful part Your Harps with Praises Crown verse 8 With Clouds He covers all the Skies Which Rains as duely bring And makes the buried Plants to rise The Sun burnt Hills to spring verse 9 He feeds the Beasts and at their Cries For Birds of Prey provides verse 10 But strength of Horse and brawny thighs Of mighty Men derides verse 11 But Loves the Men who fear his Name And for his Mercies wait verse 12 O Sion Salem ô proclaim Thy God's Majestic State Part 2. verse 13 He strengthens all thy Gates and Bars And blesses all thy Seeds verse 14 Thro' Him thy Borders freed from Wars On Wheats pure fatness feed verse 15 He sends his Word his Word on Earth With wondrous swiftness flies verse 16 And gives the Snow its Flaky Birth Which all in Fleeces lies His heavy Frosts like Ashes you Spread o're the Fields behold verse 17 His Ice like Morsels lies and who Can stand his pierceing Cold verse 18 He sends his Word again and streight His Ice his Frosts and Snow Before his Warmer gusts abate And all in Waters flow verse 19 The Lord to Jacobs chosen Race His Sacred Writings gave His Laws his Judgments by his Grace His Israel only have verse 20 So well no other Nation far'd Nor of his sacred Word Nor of his Righteous Judgments heard Praise ye ô praise the Lord PSAL. cxlviij verse 1 PRaise ye the Lord ô Praise the Lord On High his Glories raise verse 2 Ye Angel Armys all record His Name with Joyful Praise verse 3 Sun Moon and lightsome Stars consent To praise his glorious Name verse 4 And Heavens high Throne the Firmament Of Waters praise the same verse 5 Let these advance his Name which He Made by his great Command verse 6 And fix'd 'um by a sure Decree Unmov'd unchang'd to stand verse 7 Him all ye Earth born Dragons praise And each unfathom'd Deep verse 8 Fire Hail Snow Winds which Tempests raise Yet still his Orders keep verse 9 Vast Hills small Hillocks Cedars high And every Fruitful Tree verse 10 Wild Beasts and Tame and Birds which fly And Insects each Degree verse 11 Kings Princes Nations Judges those Who rule the World below verse 12 Youths Virgins such as strength disclose And Heads adorn'd with Snow verse 13 Let all advance their Maker's Name Whose Name excells alone Whose Name is o're the Worlds vast frame On Winds of Glory blown verse 14 He only makes his People great His Saints his Praise record His Israel his near Friends repeat Praise ye ô praise the Lord Another Metre Proper Tune verse 1 PRaise ye the Lord Above The Skies his Praises sing Let Heaven the Seat of Love With Heavenly Praises ring Of his great Name Ye Angel Host With Reverence boast His Praise proclaim Bright Sun whose Golden Rays Fill all the World with Light Pale Moon bright Stars which blaze Thro' the dark Fields of Night Heavens outmost Frame Vast Deeps which lie Above the Sky His Praise proclaim Let these their Maker Praise By whose Command Divine The Sky its Wealth displays And all those Beautys shine Fix'd by his Will They all stand fast And Orders past With Joy fulfil Ye Dragons Earth-born Race And all ye Deeps profound With every Natural Grace Your Masters Praises sound In Praise agree Fire Clouds Hail Snow And Storms which blow At His Decree Let Soaring Mountains now And smaller Hills descend Fruit Trees before Him bow And stately Cedars bend verse 10 Beasts Wild and Tame Birds airy wings And creeping Things His Praise proclaim verse 11 His Praise all Kings on Earth And Subject Nations show Great Men of Princely Birth And such as Judgment know verse 12 Each-Youthful Tribe Each Virgin Throng With Old and Young His Praise describe verse 13 Let them with one consent Exalt their Maker's Name And various Ways invent To spread his glorious Fame His Name shall rise With Beams divine Thro Earth to Shine And reach the Skyes verse 14 He makes his Israel great And Praise is comely where Before his Mercy Seat His grateful Tribes appear O all accord Who Worship near His Presence there To praise the Lord PSAL. cxlix verse 1 PRaise ye the Lord with Anthems new The great Jehoviah praise His Praise in his Assemblys shew On all his Holy Days verse 2 With Joy let Israel's Faithful Race Their Maker's Power adore And Sion's Heirs with humble Grace Their Monarchs Smiles implore verse 3 Where Harp and Timbrel tun'd invites Let all his Praises sing To th' Meek in whom the Lord Delights Beauty and Safety spring verse 4 Let then each Pious Soul rejoice With lightsom Glories blest And Praise their God whose happy choice Secur'd their Downy Rest verse 5 To them let God's high Praises yield A Ground for all their Joys Then They a two edg'd Sword shall wield Whose very weight destroys verse 6 A Sword whose Point just Vengeance bears To all the Nations round Whose glittering brandish'd Edge with Fears Will all their Hearts confound verse 7 Till They their daunted Kings shall bind With Ease in Slavish Chains And till their Noblest Youth confin'd Strong Fetters weight restrains verse 8 To execute that Ancient Doom Which Holy Books record Such Honour all his Saints assume Praise ye ô praise the Lord PSAL. cl verse 1 O Praise the mighty Lord His Holyness proclaim His wondrous Acts record And praise his awful Name His dreadful might O celebrate His Power and State In Songs recite verse 3 Praise Him with Trumpets sound With sweet Tun'd Harp and Lute Sing all the Chorus round To cheerful Pipe and Flute verse 4 Your Voices raise The King of Kings With sounding Strings And Organs praise verse 5 Wind up the Cymbals high Till with a Shriller sound Wide as the vaulted Sky Your cheerful Notes rebound verse 6 With Spritely Flame Each living thing His Glories sing And Praise his Name Another Metre verse 1 PRaise ye the Lord ô praise the Lord His strength his Holiness adore verse 2 His Name his Might with praise record His Majesty with praise implore verse 3 Praise him with Trumpets Martial sound With Lute and Harp his praise advance verse 4 With Organs and with Timbrels round And Viols and a cheerful Dance verse 5 With high tun'd Cymbals praise his Name His Name to loudest Cymbals Sing And all whom Vital Spirits enflame O praise the World 's Eternal King To Father Holy Ghost and Son One blest one glorious Trinity As is as was e're Time begun So endless praise and Glory be The End of the PSALMS DOXOLOGIES For the 1st Metre of the 1st Psalm c. TO Father Son and Holy Ghost Immense Eternal Three in One By Us and all the Heavenly Host Be Glory pay'd and Homage done For the 2d Metre and all of 8 and
you More Courage still shall send Whose Hearts are to his Service true And on his Truth depend PSAL. xxxij verse 1 THrice happy 's he whose Sin 's past o'er Whose Errours Mercies hide verse 2 Whose Crimes his God imputes no more Whose Soul 's sincere and try'd verse 3 But I unpardon'd speechless lay My aking Bones decay'd And through long Night and tedious Day One dismal Roaring made verse 4 Me thy severe asslicting Hand All Day all Night chastis'd My fainting Spirits were at a stand Like Brooks by Drought surpriz'd At last I all my Crimes display'd My wretched Sins confess'd To God I 'll own my Guilt I said And God my Guilt releas'd verse 6 Now Saints to thee when thou 'lt be found shall in their Pray'rs complain And though Woes deluge all around Themselves untouch'd remain verse 7 By thee I 'm hid from mighty Woes From pressing Ills secur'd And all my chearful Musick flows From Liberty assur'd verse 8 Come to me all who 'd sain be bless'd And I 'll your Souls instruct And in the blissful Ways of Rest With careful Eyes conduct verse 9 O don't like Mules or Horses move Whose Brutish Furies will Unreign'd uncurb'd unruly prove And balk their Riders Skill verse 10 Great Sorrows on the Wicked fall The Just with Mercy 's crown'd verse 11 Ye Just in God rejoice and all Whose Hearts are right and sound PSAL. xxxiij As the 100th verse 1 YE Righteous in the Lord rejoice From you how comely Praise appears verse 2 With Lute and Harp's melodious Voice O reach the Great Jehovah's Ears verse 3 Sing to his Praise a Song that 's new His Praise with Art and Courage sing verse 4 For all his sacred Words are true His Faith approv'd in ev'ry thing verse 5 Judgment and Jistice gain his Love O'er Earth his wondrous Mercies slow verse 6 The Skies and all the Hosts above His Active Word and Spirit show verse 7 He makes the Seas like Mountains swell And sinks unfathom'd Deeps below verse 8 Let Earth it self and all who dwell On Earth their mighty Maker know verse 9 He spoke and streight this mighty All Broke from vast Nothing 's fruitful Womb And did at his commanding Call Shape Order Beauty Strength assume verse 10 God makes the Gentiles Counsels vain And breaks the Nations fond Designs verse 11 But firm his own Resolves remain And pass all Time 's extended Lines Part 2. verse 12 O bless'd thrice bless'd that happy Land Where God has Fix'd his glorious Name Where He affumes the chief Command And lays his own peculiar Claim verse 13 God from his holy Heav'n look'd down And Man's weak Race and Actions view'd verse 14 His Eyes from his Imperial Throne Survey'd the careless Multitude verse 15 He forms their Hearts their Tempers guides And all their various Actions weighs verse 16 No prudent Prince in Crouds confides Or mighty Hosts or empty Praise verse 17 In vain for Courage Strength or Flight He on his foaming Steed relies verse 18 The Good a'one God's guarding Sight With Help and Mercy both supplies verse 19 From Death's strong Arms He sets them free In Famine He their Wants relieves verse 20 On Him our Souls attend and He To us his Shield's Assistance gives verse 21 His Name 's our Confidence and Fear By which We all our Hopes excite verse 22 O as our Faith 's in Thee sincere On us Lord let thy Mercy light Another Metre As Mr. Sandys's 34th verse 1 Ye Righteous in the Lord rejoice It s sweet when with a chearful Voice The Just his Praises sing verse 2 O let no Tongue or Hand be mute But with Voice and Harp and Lute Praise our Immortal King verse 3 With skilful Notes advance his Praise With loudest Joys his Glory raise Let all your Songs be new verse 4 For all God's Promises are right Performance is his whole Delight And all his Works are true verse 5 He Righteousness and Judgment loves With spreading Wings his Mercy moves O'er all the spacious Earth verse 6 God by his Word stretch'd out the Skies And bade their num'rous Armies rise That Word was all their Birth verse 7 At his Command those Waters rose Which now the rolling Seas compose And Heaps on Heaps were thrown Unfathom'd Whirl-pools dang'rous Deeps His Subterraneous Treasure keeps In hollow Vaults unknown verse 8 His Name let all the Nations fear With Awe let all the World appear Before its Maker's Face verse 9 He spoke the solid Earth was made He gave the Word it fix'd and stay'd In its appointed Place verse 10 God baffles all the deep Designs The subtile Plots and crafty Mines Which Heathens closely frame verse 11 But all his own Designs are sure His Thoughts and all his Ways endure From Age to Age the same part 2. verse 12 Happy 's the Nation happy sure Which God will to himself secure His own Inheritance verse 13 He sits above the lofty Skies From thence o'er all Mankind his Eyes His piercing Eyes advance verse 14 All Men He from his Throne surveys verse 15 He frames their Hearts and all their Ways His Thoughts severely try verse 16 No prudent Kings on Crouds depend The Men who mighty Strength pretend On Strength in vain rely verse 17 A Horse though sleeter than the Wind And by his Make for War design'd His Rider can't secure verse 18 God views his Saints with gentler Eyes And all his Mercy 's kind Supplies Are to the Faithful sure verse 19 From Death the fainting Souls he saves In Famine what their Hunger craves His careful Hands provide verse 20 Our Souls on Him with Patience wait He as a Shield secures our State And is our Help and Guide verse 21 In Him shall all our Hearts rejoice His holy Name 's our happy Choice On which our Hopes may rest verse 22 O Father as we trust in Thee So let thy faithful Servants be With thy Compassion bless'd PSAL. xxxiv verse 1 I 'LL ever bless God's mighty Name My Mouth shall sound his Praise verse 2 In God my Soul its Boast proclaim His Love in Anthems raise The meek and humble Souls shall hear Of my exalted State Thy Loves which so immense appear Shall all their Joys create verse 3 O hear my Lot rejoice with me My Saviour magnifie Let 's to exalt his Name agree And raise his Glories high verse 4 I sought the Lord He heard my Case And all my Fears redress'd verse 5 And others too without Disgrace With Love and Life were bless'd verse 6 I in my deep Affliction pray'd And God receiv'd my Pray'r And free from all Afflictions made And all perplexing Care verse 7 Bright Angels happy Saints surround And threat'ning Ills divert verse 8 See taste how good the Lord how crown'd With Bliss the faithful Heart verse 9 O fear ô fear the Lord ye Saints For such no Wants surprize verse 10 The Lion's Whelp with Hunger faints And spent with fasting dies But those who seek the
love thy Beauties more And thou his Deity adore And to his Heav'nly Will submit verse 12 Nor shall thy Beauties slighted lie Thy Service in Oblivion die But through the farthest Regions fam'd To thee shall Tyrian Dames resort And wealthy Princes make their Court To thee by thy Renown inflam'd verse 13 Fair are thy Eyes but fairer far Thy Soul a Thousand Beauties there Thy Diamonds and Rubies stain verse 14 When in Embroider'd Robes they bring Thy Majesty to meet thy King Attended with thy Virgin-Train verse 15 Bless'd by the ravish'd Croud they 'll move Bless'd by thy King 's exalted Love Thou 'lt in his Starry Palace reign verse 16 For thy old Stock a lovely Race Of Princely Youths thy Marriage grace And Royal Crowns and Empires gain verse 17 The Name great King I 'll Celebrate Thy Majesty and glorious State I 'll sing in never-dying Verse The World shall thy bright Throne adore The Suppliant World thy Grace implore Thy Spousals bless and praise rehearse PSAL. Xlvj. verse 1 GOD is our Hope our Strength our Aid When greatest Danger 's near verse 2 Whence for those dreadful Changes made On Earth we scorn to fear Though Mountains torn from ev'ry Shoar Into the Seas be hurl'd verse 3 And swelling Waves with threatning Roar Assault the trembling World verse 4 Yet near God's House and those fair Walls Which round his City go Refreshing Springs with gentler Falls And easie Windings flow verse 5 God in his House resides no Force No Strength his Walls can move God guards it Malice can't divorce It from his earliest Love verse 6 When he in dreadful Thunder spoke The frighted Nations heard The Kingdoms felt the fatal Stroke And Earth dissolv'd appear'd verse 7 With us the Lord of Hosts remains To us his Care extends With us the God of Jacob reigns And all our Coast defends verse 8 Come see the mighty Works which He Through all the World has wrought What wondrous Desolations He On ev'ry Land has brought verse 9 He makes the Noise of Battels cease And breaks the Spears and Bows And to the Flames to keep the Peace The ratling Chariot throws verse 10 Be still with humble Silence know I 'm God and only I To me the Nations round shall bow And raise my Glories high verse 11 With us the Lord of Hosts remains His Care to us extends With us the God of Jacob reigns And us from Ills defends PSAL. xlvij verse 1 WIth Hands and Hearts accod All People praise the Lord With Triumph's Voice in him rejoice His wondrous Name record verse 2 For He the Lord most High With dreadful Majesty A Monarch reigns and Earth restrains With his commanding Eye verse 3 He makes the People all Beneath our Empire fall The Nations meet to kiss our Feet And us their Masters call verse 4 But us He chose that we His Heritage might be His Favours grace the faithful Race Whose Wealth He loves to see verse 5 Our Lord 's gone up on high With Trumpets toward the Sky verse 6 Sing Praises sing to our great King With Songs and Praises vye verse 7 With Understanding raise Earth's mighty Monarch's Praise verse 8 Whose sacred Throne the Nations own Whose Will the VVorld obeys verse 9 To God his Servants now VVith neighb'ring Princes bow While He though high continually Defends our Earth below PSAL. xlviij verse 1 GReat is our Lord and greatly prais'd In Sion's sacred Hill On which immortal Buildings rais'd That glorious Mountain fill verse 2 Fair is its Sight the Pleasures vast It gives to distant Lands And on its Northern Quarters plac'd God's holy Temple stands verse 3 God in her Palaces is great A certain Refuge known verse 4 And angry Kings who fiercely met Are off as swiftly gone They saw admir'd and terrify'd From thence distracted flew Fear seiz'd 'em all and o'er their Pride Pangs as of Child-birth drew Though mighty Navies close combin'd For our Destruction meet He breaks them with his stormy VVind And scatters all the Fleet. Oft have we heard and oft have seen In thy bless'd Residence How Thou great God of Hosts hast been Thy City's strong Defence Secur'd by Thee it ne'er decays And in thy Temple we Thy Everlasting Mercies praise And sing dear Lord to Thee Great is thy Name thy Praises great Through all the VVorld resound Thy Name with Righteousness compleat Thy Hand with Justice crown'd verse 1 Let Sion's Mount rejoice and sing And Judah's Daughters dance Such Blessings Lord thy Judgments bring So much their Peace advance verse 2 VValk Sion round quite round her go Her Bulwark's Numbers find Her Battlements and Ramparts know Her stately Buildings mind Then let unborn Posterity Your wondrous Records have For God's our God for ever He Our Souls from Death shall save Another Metre As the 112th verse 1 OUR Lord is great and greatly prais'd From Salem's Walls and Sion's Hills verse 2 That sacred Mount which nobly rais'd Our happy Land with Glory fills That Temple guilds her Northern sides Where God the King of Kings resides verse 3 God in her Palaces is known A strong Defence and Refuge sure verse 4 See how th' assembling Kings are flown Nor could the glorious Sight endure verse 5 They saw and what they saw admir'd But off on Terrour's Wings retir'd verse 6 They felt such horrid Pangs and Throws As Women in their Child-birth feel By Land they met God's angry Blows verse 7 By Sea their shatter'd Navies reel By furious Eastern Tempests toss'd Till all their Strength and Pride are lost verse 8 Within God's holy City we Have seen what oft we'd heard of old The Lord of Hosts her Strength will be His Hand her lasting Walls uphold verse 9 Thy ancient Love and Kindness Lord We in thy holy House record Thy Name Earth's utmost Borders know As far great God thy Praises fly Thy Hands Eternal Justice show Let Sion's Mount then cheerfully Let Judah's Virgin-Daughters sing The Judgments of their glorious King verse 12 Walk Sion's Rounds her Towers describe Observe how strong her Bulwarks are The Palaces of Judah's Tribe Let those to come with theirs compare They 'll read God here and only He So good so sure a Guide could be PSAL. xlix verse 1 ALL People Nations all which o'er The World your Tribes extend verse 2 The High the Low the Rich the Poor My sacred Songs attend verse 3 My Mouth shall Wisdom speak my Heart Of Knowledge meditate verse 4 My Harp mysterious Truths impart And Things of ancient weight verse 5 Why should I fear in dangerous days By sinful Men distress'd verse 6 Who on their Lands and crafty Ways And mighty Treasures rest verse 7 Yet all their Wealth and all their Store Can't one lost Soul redeem Nor God to bate their sinful Score Their largest Gifts esteem verse 8-9 Nay though they live a Thousand Years The Grave 's expected Prey Such Price a Soul's Redemption bears As they can ne'er repay verse 10
9 Before his Seat of Holiness Let all devoutly bow And Fear before his Face express And to his service vow verse 10 Among the Nations round proclaim The great Jehovah reigns Through Him the World's establish'd frame Unmov'd and Firm remains Hee 'l Judge the People righteously verse 11 Then let the Skys rejoice Let Earth be glad the Ocean high Exalt its roaring Voice verse 12 Let all the Flocks and Fields their Joys Express in various ways And Forrests with a murmuring Noise Their great Creator praise verse 13 He flys to judge the Earth He slies To make the World confess All Justice in His Bosom lies And Truth and Righteosness PSAL xcvij. As the 100th verse 1 THE Lord the Great Messiah reigns No more to Jewish Bounds confin'd Since all the World the Blessing gains Let all express a grateful Mind O let that spacious Continent Which Adam's num'rous Heirs possess And all the Isles with sweet Consent Their Saviour's wond'rous Love consess verse 2 Thick Clouds and gloomy Darkness hide The God from Faithless curious Eyes On Judgment too by Justice try'd His Throne 's Eternal Pillars rise verse 3 Bright Flames before his Prefence fly And melt the Hearts of angry Foes verse 4 His Beams the World with Light supply And trembling Earch its Master knows verse 5 Vain Men blown up with lofty Pride Like Wax before his Flames appear And those whose Thoughts their God defy'd The mighty God of Nature fear verse 6 His Righteousness the bending Skies Aloud with wond'rous Signs declare His glorious Works before the Eyes Of all th' astonish'd Nations are verse 7 Shame be their Lot who Images Adore and in their Idols boast Our God with humblest Worship please Bow to Him all ye Heav'nly Host verse 8 Ziou's and Judah's Daughters true With Joys thy Judgment Lord embrac'd verse 9 The Earth her mighty Maker knew With more than Angel-Glorys grac'd verse 10 O ye who love our Saviour hate All Sin for Him in each Degree He 'll Safety for his Saints create And from the Wicked set them free verse 11 Light 's largely for the Righteous sown And Joys for upright Hearts prepar'd In Him ô let our Joys be shown His Holiness with Thanks declar'd Another Metre verse 1 THE Lord the great Jehovah reigns Let all the Earth rejoice Let all those Isles the Sea contains Exalt a chearful Voice verse 2 Thick Clouds and heavy Darkness hide Our God from Humane Eyes On Righteousness by Justice try'd His Throne 's Supporters rise verse 3 Fierce Flames before his dreadful Face Consume his angry Foes verse 4 His Lightnings fright the World His Place The Earth with trembling shows verse 5 The Hills before Earth's mighty Lord Like Wax dissolving flow verse 6 The Heav'ns declare his righteous Word And All his Glory know verse 7 Shame be their Lot who Gods can make And in their Idols boast But for your God our Saviour take Ye bright Angelick Host verse 8 Zion's and Judah's Daughters heard Thy Judgments Lord with Joy verse 9 For Thou above the Gods art fear'd O'er Earth exalted high verse 10 O ye who love the Lord with Hate All wicked Works pursue For He 'll secure his Servants State From all the sinful Crew verse 11 For upright Hearts true Joys and Light Are sown Ye Righteous all Rejoice and God's All-sacred Might With grateful Thoughts re-call Another Metre to the Notes of the 114 th as translated by Mr. Cowley verse 1 THE Lord a King triumphant reigns Let all the Earth around The Isles with Joys resound God alone a King remains verse 2 Thick Clouds and heavy Darkness round him fly Justice severe and Judgment waiting by His glorious Throne prepare verse 3 Bright Flames before his Face With dreadful Flashes rake the Air And all his Foes malignant Race With all their impious Works one burning Pile embrace verse 4 See how the pointed Lightnings roll With what a dismal Glare They fill the glowing Air Soaring tow'rd the frighted Pole Shock'd with the Vision trembling Nature quakes The shatter'd Earth a strong Convulsion shakes verse 5 The lofty Mountains melt Like Wax before the Fires Whate'er his scorching Fury felt Before the World's great Lord retires And by his awful Frown dissolv'd at once expires verse 6 The Heav'ns his Righteousness declare And all the People see His glorious Majesty How it fills the Purpled Air. verse 7 May Shame deserv'd and dark Confusion seize Those Fools whose Thoughts their empty Idols Fools who absurdly boast In Gods themselves can frame please But ô ye bright Angelick Hosts Adore our Great jehovah's Name And on your bended Knees the God of Gods proclaim verse 8 His Condescensions Sion heard And judah's Daughters too And at the wondrous Shew Extasy'd with Joys appear'd Thy Goodness then before the Nations shone Thy sacred Judgments through the World were known verse 9 But though so lowly now Thy glorious Godhead still Makes all the World submisly bow Bless'd Angels thy Commands fulfil And All Subjection yield to thy Immortal Will verse 10 Ye who the Great Jehovah love With God-like Hatred due All wicked Works pursue Fix your happy Souls above He like a Father guards his faithful Souls And all their Foes and all their Force controls verse 11 But Mirth and Light to all The Just and Good shall shine verse 12 O then your ancient Joys re-call In your Jehovah's Praise combine And all his holy Acts record in Songs Divine PSAL. xcviij verse 1 THE Lord who wondrous Works hath wrought With Anthems new proclaim His Hand his holy Arm hath brought Himself the Conqu'ror's Name verse 2 He makes his great Salvation known To give the Nations Light His Righteousness the Lord hath shown In all the People's Sight verse 3 His Mercies he hath call'd to mind His Truth to Israel's Race And all those Bounds which Earth consin'd His Saving Health embrace verse 4 Sing to the Lord ô Earth aloud Sing chearful Notes around The Lord among the grateful Croud The Lord 's just Praise resound verse 5-6 To God with Harps your Voices raise And Trumpets Martial Sound With ecchoing Cornets let the Praise Of God the King be crown'd verse 7 Let Seas with all their Fulness roar The World and all its Host verse 8 In Him each River's sounding Shoar And lofty Mountain boast verse 9 For now the Lord to Judgment 's near And Earth its Doom shall know His Righteousness the World shall hear His Truth and Justice show Another Metres as Mr. Sandys's 13th verse 1 O Sing to God the Lord His wond'rous Works record Sing sing an Anthem new Return his Praises due Whose Hand whose holy Arm Dissolv'd Hell's fatal Charm Whom we triumphant see And crown'd with Victorie verse 2 The Lord's Salvation Is now more clearly known His Truth and Justice He Makes all the Nations see verse 3 But with his Israel His Mercies ever dwell And though a while a Cloud His Truth and Mercy shroud From their expecting Eyes
thy obedient Race And their well-settled Heirs abide Secure before thy Face PSAL. ciij. As the 100th verse 1 O Praise the Lord with grateful Joy My Tongue my Soul his Praises sing verse 2 O let his Praise thy Powers employ His Loves to kind Remembrance bring verse 3 'T is He forgives thy Sins 't is He Thy Weakness heals thy Plagues removes verse 4 Redeems thy Life from Misery And crowns thee with his tenderest Loves verse 5 With good He fills the Youth and Age Thy Age with vigorous Youth renews verse 6 His Arms for Saints opprest engage His just Revenge their Foes pursues verse 7 He to his Israels Race of old By Moses made his Precepts known He by our Jesus still unfolds His Will and Goodness towards his own verse 8 Our Lord is kind his Mercies great His Vengance not his Mercy slow verse 9 He 'll not too oft his Strokes repeat Nor let his Anger alway glow verse 10 So with our se'ves He dealt our Crimes Though foul with Rods he gently lasht His pittying Eyes a thousand times Our still repeated Follies past verse 11 His Goodness so surrounds his own As Skies enclose our humb'er Earth verse 12 From us our Sins are farther thrown Then Sun-set's from the Mornings Birth Part 2. verse 13 More love to pious Souls he shows Then Fathers to their Darling Heirs verse 14 Our frailer Constitution knows Our mouldring Dust as gently spares verse 15 Weak Man like early Birds may rise Or Grass which shades the cheerful Plains verse 16 But struck with blasting Winds he dies And neither House nor Name remains verse 17 But Gods unfailing Grace pursues The Just and all their faithful Seed verse 18 Who on his Sacred Covenant muse And all his righteous Precepts heed verse 19 On high our God has fixt his Throne And thence his boundless Empire guides And o're the Subject World alone His Arbitrary Will presides verse 20 Praise Him ye Angel-flames whose Might Does in compleat Obedience shine verse 21 O praise Him all ye Sons of Light Bless'd Ministers of Love Divine verse 22 O all his Works your Maker praise Praise through his spacious Empire sing While I with grateful Anthems raise New Honours to my Glorious King PSAL. civ As the 100th verse 1 O Praise the Lord my tuneful Soul How great blest God how wondrous great What Majesty what Glories roll About thy Everlasting Seat verse 2 Light robes Thee with her Radiant Streams Thy Curtains are th' expanded Skies verse 2 Floods bear thy Chambers weighty Beams On humble Clouds thy Chariot flies God walks on groaning Winds in State verse 4 Attended with his Angel-Bands And Scrvant-Flames around him wait And fly to bear his great Commands verse 5 He Earth's Foundations strongly laid A well-pois'd never moving Load verse 6 A wavy Deep its Covering made Which o're the highest Mountains flow'd verse 7 But off the head-long Waters flew When his commanding Thunders roar'd verse 8 They took their place and strait in view Sweet Plains appear'd and Mountains soard verse 9 The Floods their Bounds appointed know Earth fears no more th' encroaching Deep verse 10 Through Valleys Crystal Fountains flow And round the Mountains softly creep verse 11 To Them the Savage Creatures fly And kindly cool their thirsty Flame verse 12 The Birds above them sing on high And there their curious Buildings frame Part 2. verse 13 His Rains refresh the parching Hills And make our Earth with Fruits abound verse 14 Thence Grass the hungry Cattel fills And Herbs for Men are useful found Through Him rich Corn o're-spreads the Fields verse 15 And Wine to chear our ' drooping Hearts Fat shining Juice his Olive yields His Bread a Vital Strength imparts verse 16 Sap feeds the lofty Cedar-Groves verse 17 Where Birds of Prey their Eieries raise verse 18 The Goat on Rocky Mountains roves Through Rocks the Coney breaks her Ways verse 19 The Moon the Sun their Seasons know And when to rise and when to fall verse 20 Nights gloomy clouds our World o'reflow And out the Forrest-Rangers crawl verse 21 The Wolves the Tygers howl for prey And loud the hungry Lions roar God for their Diet finds a way And feeds them with his secret Store verse 22 But when the Sun appears they fly And to their unknown Dens repare verse 23 And Men their business safely ply Till Night again o're-clouds the Air. verse 24 How various Lord how wisely fram'd Great God thy Works of Wonder are Thy Riches are through Earth proiclaim'd verse 25 Thy Wealth th' unfathom'd Seas declare Part 3. There Fishes great and small in strange Unnumber'd Numbers cut their Way verse 26 There Navies float and Monsters range And Whales in boundless Oceans Play verse 27 These All blest God depend on Thee Of Thee they beg their timely Food verse 28 Thy Gifts they catch thy Hands are free And All are fill'd with needful Good verse 29 Thou hid'st thy Face affrighted They Sink down to Dust and Dust remain verse 30 Thy Spirit commands the Dead obey And rise and fill the World again verse 31 God's Glory lasts He pleas'd reviews His Works his Looks his dreadful Stroke verse 32 Convulsions through the World diffuse And make the trembling Mountains smoak verse 33 To God my mighty Lord I 'll sing While Health or Life or Breath remains verse 34 My Heart in Him with Joys shall spring I 'll praise his Name in lofty Strains verse 35 He 'll soon confound the Sinner's Race And impious plotting Fools control And all their Stock on Earth deface O bless Ô praise the Lord my Soul PSAL. CV as the 100th or Mr. Sandys's 8th verse 1 O Praise the Lord invoke his Name His Acts through ev'ry Tribe proclaim verse 2 Sing sing aloud your Anthems raise Through all the World his Wonders praise verse 3 Him and his holy Name adpre His Smiles with chearful Hearts implore verse 4 And seek the Lord his Strength embrace And ever seek his glorious Face verse 5 O ye of Abr'ham's faithful Seed O ye of Jacob's chosen Breed verse 6 His strange his dreadful Acts relate And on his Judgments meditate verse 7 He 's our great God our Lord alone His Judgments through the World are known verse 8 His Covenant his Word of old Shall through a Thousand Ages hold verse 9 What He to Abraham spoke before What He to Isaac firmly swore verse 10 And as law on Israel laid And thus his lasting Cov'nant made verse 11 To you rich Canaan's Land I 'll give Where you its lawfal Heirs shall live verse 12 Though then their Seed were weak and small Add despicable Strangers all verse 13 When they a Thousand Movements made And round the neighb'ring Countries stray'd verse 14 He them against the World maintain'd And Ill-designing Kings restrain'd verse 15 From Wrongs be my Anointed free Let no malicious Injurie My Prophets or my Friends approach Or on my chosen Sons encroach Part 2. verse 16 Sharp
That we may sing thy Praise and fall With Thanks before thy Glorious Face verse 48 The God of Israel's Name record His Piaise from Age to Age refound And let the joyful Tribes around Sing out Amen ô praise Lord PSAL. cvij. Part 1. Metre 1. verse 1 O Praise the Lord Exa't his Name His Goodness celebrate Let Age to Age resound his Fame His bounteous Acts relate verse 2 Sing to His Name ye whom from Chains His peaceful Arm redeem'd O be his Praise in grateful Streins His glorious Works esteem'd verse 3 He from Earth's utmost Quarters drew His lsrael's scatter'd Race verse 4 And the wild Desarts wandring thro' They found no Resting-place verse 5 Tho'pinch'd with Hunger scorch'd with Thirst Their wasting Spirits fail'd Yet with their pittying God at first Their humble Cries prevail'd verse 6 Thro'all their Streights his careful Hand Was their unfailing Guide verse 7 And smooth'd their Ways and made their Bands In well-built Towns reside verse 8 O praise his Goodness Praise his Name His wond'rous Mercies praise Thro' all the World his Acts proclaim His boundless Glories raise Part 2. Metre 2. verse 9 Praise God! His Springs we see Relieve the thirsty Soul The hungry Wretch revives when He Bestows his plenteous Dole verse 10 But when they foolish all his gracious Laws abus'd Despis'd their Maker's gentlest Call And Love's soft Voice refus'd verse 11 Then he the stubborn Crew In weighty Fetters chain'd Death's Chains around the Rebels flew And Woes their Souls restrain'd verse 12 Yet when oppress'd they bow'd Beneath the dismal Weight And when in vain they begg'd aloud For Men to ease their State verse 13 When to their God they cry'd And at his-Footstool laid Their pressing Griefs and mortify'd The softhing Rebe's pray'd verse 14 He cleared the Skies above And every Slave unchain'd And with warm Beams of gentlest Love The Sufferers entertained verse 15 O praise O praise his Name His bounteous Acts declare Let all Mankind with Thanks proclaim How great his Mercies are Part 3. Metre 3. As the 100th verse 16 Praise God! At his Command the Gates Of massive Brass their Leaves unfold No Bars of Steel nor sturdy Grates Against his powerful Words can hold verse 17 When Fools ' for Sins afflicted griev'd And with their Sins their Judge provok'd verse 18 No Meats their Appetites reliev'd Nor cas'd their Hungers stickly Stroke Their Stomachs loath'd bless'd Angels Food Sweet Manna dropping from the Skies And Quails disturb'd their curdling Blood Till Nature sunk without Supplies verse 19 Yet when the fainting Sinners pray'd He heard and heard them when they cry'd God's Word their dying Swoons allay'd And Appetites and Food supply'd verse 20 New Life new Spirits he bestow'd Where fading Nature's Force declin'd To them his healthful Favours show'd And their distemper'd Blood refin'd verse 21 O praise our God! Exalt his Name Above the Skies exalt his Name verse 22 Your Thanks with Sacrifice proclaim And Trophies to his Goodness raise Part 4. Metre 4. as the 148th verse 23 Such whose bold Courage o're The restless Ocean flies And fail from Shore to Shore For wealthy Merchandise verse 24 Such Men may fee How wondrous there God's Works appear How powerful He. verse 25 For if in Storms he speak The swelling Tempest roars And foaming Billows break And lash the bounding Shores While Wind and Tide On rolling Seas Where-e'er they please Triumphant ride verse 26 Now high the towring Fleet On Watry Mountains rise As if the Clouds they 'd meet Or brave the threatning Skies Now down they come Steep tumbling all With dreadful Fall To meet their Doom verse 27 Strait every shatter'd Sail. Reels here and staggers there While horrid Storms prevail And Courage yields to fear All Hopes are lost And in Black Night Ships guideless quite At random toss'd verse 28 But when on God they call He hears their mournful Cries verse 29 Loud Storms in Silence fall And Light remounts the Skies Rough Billows slake And gentle Gales Swell all their Sails Their Port to make verse 30 There with Delights unseign'd The wearied Sailers rest New Life and Safety gain'd Warms every fainting Breast Joys sweeter tast And the dear Shore Is va'u'd more For Dangers past verse 31 O praise O praise the Lord His Bounteous Actions praise Let all the World record His Mercy 's wond'rous Ways verse 32 In thickest Throngs Where Princes are His Loves declare With grateful Songs Part 4. Metre 4 As the 113th verse 33 O praise the Lord At his Commands Fair Streams desert the hirsty Lands And Springs no more their Waters yield verse 34 His Curse for Humane Crimes destroys Their blooming Hopes and ripening Joys And sows with barren Salt the Field verse 35 Yet for his own dear Servant's sakes He turns vast Lands to standing Lakes And makes the Sands with Waters flow verse 36 And then their hungry Troops he guides And thro' the new-rais'd Fields divides And makes new Towns and Cities grow verse 37 With noblest Grains they sow their Fields Rich Wines the grateful Vineyard yields Their Crops are full profound their Peace verse 38 God's Blessing on their Labours waits Their crowding Offspring throng their Gates And all their pregnant Flocks encrease verse 39 But when his ancient Love 's abus'd His Counsels his Commands refus'd A suddain Change o'returns their State Down falls their haughty Pride their Race Incessant Wars And Plagues desace Expos'd to every Neighbour's Hare verse 40 Their Princes with Contempt he treats Confounds them in their proud Conceits And lets their Hopes bewildred fall verse 41 Then to the Poor despis'd before Transfers his favouring Mercies store And feeds and multiplies them all verse 42 Admire ye living Saints with Joy While silent impious Atheists ly Admire his Providential Ways verse 43 Let wise Men all their Thoughts confine To meditare on Works Divine And sing their great Protector 's praise PSAL. cviij As the 110th verse 1 MY Heart is fix'd ô God my Heart Is fix'd thy losty Praise to sing I 'me ready with my noblest part To praise my everlasting King verse 2 Awake my Harp awake my Lute While I prevent the Morning's light verse 3 And thy dear Praises prosecute In all the wondring Nations fight verse 4 Swist are the Clouds and high the Skies Above our Thoughts and Measures far But higher Lord thy Mercies rise More swift thy Truths vast Conguests are verse 5 Lord o're the Skies thy Brightness show Let all the Earth thy Glories see verse 6 O hear ô save thy Servant so I 'le rescue those belov'd by Theo. verse 7 God swore once by his Holiness And by his Oath my Joy maintains I 'le quick Shichcm's Fields possess And measure Succoth's fruitful Plains verse 8 Fair Gileads mine Manasses too My Head on Ephraim's strength relies The Scepter 's Royal Indah's due My Kingdom He with Laws supplies verse 9 Moab my meanest Slave shall be And Edom prostrate at my Feet And conquere'd Palestina
to Thee verse 3 Thy wond'rous Art curious Hand My private Path displays By Thee my very Sleeps are scann'd And all my various Ways verse 4 What e'r my serious Thought produce Before the Words are fram'd Before my Tongue can find its use Is in thy Ears proclaim'd verse 5 When I my Shape so clean so fair Behind Before survey I know thy Hand thy ski ful Care Thus built my humble Clay verse 6 Would I into thy Secrets pry This Forming Wisdom know verse 7 For me such Skill is far to high And I alas too low Whither O whither then should I Go from thy piercing sight O whither from thy Spirit 's Eye Direct my secret flight verse 8 If I climb high above the sky Thy Throne of Glory 's there If in Hell's gloomy Deeps I lie In Hell thy Powers appear verse 9 If I on Morning's purple Wings Out-strip the fleeting Day And toward the Ocean 's Western Springs Find out an unknown way verse 10 Yet there thy far extended Hand Would lead me out at last And thy Right Hand my Steps command And ever hold me fast verse 11 Nay should I say the gloomy Night Shall sure my Steps conceal Around me soon a glorious Light Would all my Walks reveal verse 12 Should Night condense its darkest Steams One dismal Gloom to frame That Gloom with more than Mid-days Beams Would Night it self enflame Part 2. verse 13 For in my Mother's Womb of old Thy Hand my Reins possest And in a wondrous Covering roll'd Did all my Limbs invest verse 14 Since in my Shape and round me all Thy dreadful Wonders shine My Thoughts shall all my Works recall And in thy Praise combine verse 15 When in the lower Womb embrac'd My curious Texture grew Thy Wisdom all that Darkness trac'd And all my Substance knew verse 16 The Lord my formless Substance view'd And in His Book enroll'd And as each Day with Shape endu'd My growing Members told verse 17 How dear thy Counsels Lord to me How vast their Numbers are The Sands we round the Ocean see Can't with their Summs compare verse 18 On then all Day I closely muse And in my Nightly Dreams They through my Soul themselves diffuse And are my waking Themes verse 19 The Lord shall wicked Men destroy Begone Blood-thirsty Crew verse 20 Who against God your Tongues employ His Name with Lyes pursue verse 21 I with a perfect rage at those Who hate my maker fly verse 22 And such as if my deadly Foes With deadly hate defie verse 23 O search me Try my Heart and see Which way my Thoughts encline verse 24 And all ill Thoughts remove and me Conduct in Paths divine PSAL. cxl verse 1 FRom vile from godless Men Dear Lord O save O rescue me verse 2 Whose Hearts in wicked Plots accord And quarrel constantly verse 3 Their Tongues more pointed much than those Of angry Serpents are Their Lips more Venome far disclose Than fretted Asps prepare verse 4 From Sinners and the Violent Me Lord in peace bestow Whose spite against my ways is bent And would my Steps o'erthrow verse 5 Their Nets their Snares their Ginns they lay With unsuspected Arts And when they quite surround my Way They please their scornful Hearts verse 6 Thou art my God my Lord aâ—one Then to the Lord I said The Prayers the Supplications own By me thy Servant made verse 7 Thou art my strength alone from Thee My safety Lord descends When furious Battels compass me Thy Hand my Head defends verse 8 Lord let not wicked Workers thrive Nor gain their base Design Lest they their Hearts if thou connive To haughty Pride resign verse 9 But as for all that impious Crew Who now my Path surround Let the malicious Lyes they brew Themselves at last confound verse 10 On them let burning Sulphur rain Hot Flames about them fly And they O never rais'd again In dismal Darkness lie verse 11 Ne'er let the dismal Wordy Tool On Earth continue long Let mischief hurt the Griping Fool Who still delights in Wrong verse 12 I know th' afflicted Poor Man's Claim The Lord will still maintain verse 13 The Righteous then shall praise thy Name And in thy Sight remain PSAL. cxli. verse 1 I Call'd on Thee Lord haste and hear And let my Voice my Cries verse 2 As Incense prove my Hands appear As Ev'ning Sacrifice verse 3 Lord by thy Grace my Mouth secure My Lips with Wisdom close verse 4 And let my Heart from Sin be pure And wicked Works oppose Lest I associate with those Who only Sin pursue And feast where luscious Plenty flows Amongst the scornful Crew verse 5 Whene'er I sin with pity may The Good my Sins reprove Their Wounds are kinder far than they Who feign deceitful Love Let those Lord heal my Head as Oil Which heals and molliflies And though my Foes attempt my spoil For them my Pray'rs shall rise verse 6 May their Great Men in rocky Ways Be trampled under so That they my prudent Words may praise And Wisdom's sweetness know verse 7 As Chips from falling Timber fly Or Ploughs tear up the Ground So Lord our Bones unbury'd lie Our emptied Graves around verse 8 To Thee I lift my faithful Eyes O don't my Soul reject But from those Snares my Foes devise My Innocence protect verse 9 Let not the Sinner's crafty Snare Dear Lord entangle me verse 10 But while I ' scape O let his Care His own Confusion be PSAL. clxij verse 1 LOrd from a dismal Place I pray'd I cry'd to Thee verse 2 With earnest Prayers before thy Face I lay'd my Misery verse 3 My Spirits fainted quite But Lord thou know it my Way And how my Foes with active spite Their Snares about it lay verse 4 Where e're I cast my Eyes I stand alass unknown Where e're my Soul for Refuge flies It 's left forlorn alone verse 5 Yet to the Lord I cry'd And said My Hope's in Three Thou Lord while I on Earth abide Shalt all my Portion be verse 6 Lord hear my Cries my Woes My lost Condition view Save me from those too mighty Foes Who now my Life pursue verse 7 O let my Soul be free Thy holy Name to praise The Just with Songs shall compass me When Thou my Head shalt raise Another Metre verse 1 I to the Lord devoutly pray'd To him I cry'd aloud verse 2 And in his sight my Sorrows laid And all my Sufferings show'd verse 3 When my faint Spirit slowly mov'd Thou knewst my certain way How Snares by cruel Arts improv'd About my Footsteps lay verse 4 I look'd for some Assistance round But was alass unknown My wretched Soul no shelter found And was esteem'd by none verse 5 Then I in Prayer to God confest In Thee my Hope 's secure Thou art since I my Life possest My Lot my Portion sure verse 6 O let my Cries thy Ears engage My groaning weakness see Save me from Persecutor's rage Too strong alass
Service can stay That Man in thy Sight And Temple may dwell Thy Altars draw near Thy Favours enjoy And in Thee delight And be satisfy'd well With Goodness and there All his Service employ verse 5 By terrible Things In Righteousness shown Thou ' It answer our Cares Our Saviour to be Our Confidence springs From thy Goodness alone Whence Strangers make Pray'rs And rough Sailers to Thee verse 6 The Mountains stand fast Fix'd strongly by Thee Thy powerful Arm Has girt'em secure verse 7 Loud Storms are soon past For thy Fury we see Mad People can charm And their Quiet procure verse 8 Thy Wonders and Signs All Nations afright Where Comets e'er blaze Or Earth-quakes can tear The Morning which shine And the dark gloomy Night Rejoice in thy Praise And thy Glories declare verse 9 Thou visit'st the Earth Its Waters abound Vast Rivers with Wealth The Countries o'erflow Thence Corn has its Birth And the Fie'ds With it crown'd New Vigour and Health On the Nations bestow verse 10 The highest ridg'd Field Thy Water partakes The Furrows Jaid low Are drench'd with the same The Clods quickly yield Earth its Hardness forsakes The Crops which they show Then God's Blessing proclaim verse 11 By Thee the rich Year With Goodness is crown'd And all thy bless'd Ways Pure Fatness distil verse 12 Rich Pastures appear All the Desarts around All ecchoing Praise From each neighbouring Hill verse 13 With Thousands of Sheep The Pastures are clad The Valleys with Corn Are cover'd quite o'r Hence Nature may keep Now its Revels and glad With Praises adorn Both her Lord and her Store PSAL. lxvj as the 113th verse 1 IN God ô all ye Lands rejoice verse 2 Let ev'ry Man's triumphant Voice Advance his Name his Glories sing verse 3 How dreadful Lord thy Works appear Thy Terrours make thy Foes with Fear To Thee their forc'd Submissions bring verse 4 To Thee the Nations round shall bend Thy Name shall in their Songs ascend Above the Clouds above the Skies verse 5 Come see God's Operations here How when his dreadful Works appear Their Terrours Humane Hearts surprize verse 6 When from Egyption Bondage He His Israel's happy Race set free God through the Seas contriv'd a Road Where fenc'd by Watry Walls they went Safe o'er a spacious Continent And all their Hearts with Joys o'erslow'd verse 7 God by his Pow'r Eternal reigns His Look the Rebel-World restrains And beats their swelling Humours down verse 8 O all ye serious People bâ—ess That God whose Name our Tongues confess His Name with losty Praises crown verse 9 The Lord our Souls in Safety keeps He never slumbers never sleeps He ne'er permits our Feet to slide verse 10 Yet as the Silver 's oft refin'd When for the noblest Works design'd Our Sou s as oft his Hands have try'd verse 11 We fell in strong perplexing Snares Our Strength funk down with weighty Cares Our Heads we bow'd to conqu'ring Foes verse 12 But through Affliction 's scorching Heat Through Floods of Tears thy Mercies great Convey'd us to a sweet Repose Part 2. verse 13 My Thanks his Temple now shall see verse 14 I 'll pay my Vows dear Lord to Thee My Vows in Times of Danger sign'd verse 15 My upright Mind my Heart sincere My guiltless Hands shall Favour there More than a Thousand Oxen find verse 16 Come hear me all that fear the Lord O hear while I with Praise record What for my Soul his Hands have wrought verse 17 I cry'd his Name I rais'd on high verse 18 Yet had my Heart been faulty I His Smiles alas had vainly sought God reads the inward Parts and views What Ways the righteous Soul pursues And hears his earnest Pray'rs and Cries But Hypocrites whose various Arts Divide their glosing Tongues and Hearts Are odious to his piercing Eyes verse 19 But God has heard my Pray'rs and He With Favour gently answer'd me His Ears to my Petitions bow'd verse 20 O bless'd be He whose gracious Ear His suppliant Servant's pray'rs would hear And Mercy to his Pray'rs allow'd PSAL. lxvij verse 1 TO us with Mercy free Lord shew thy glorious Face O let thy happy Servants see Thy Blessing and thy Grace verse 2 That all the Earth may know Salvation's certain Way Thy Truth to all the Nations show Thy saving Health display verse 3 Let all the World ô God Exalt thy glorious Name O let the Nations all abroad Thy wondrous Praise proclaim verse 4 To Thee with loud Applause The govern'd World shall sing When Thou shalt all by equal Laws To righteous Judgment bring verse 5 Let all the World ô God Exa't thy glorious Name O let the Nations all abroad Thy wondrous Praise proclaim verse 6 Then shall the fruitful Land It s ancient Burthen show And on our selves from God's free Hand Shall endless Blssings flow verse 7 Then God shall bless us all And at his awful Feet With Fear the farthest Tribes shall fall And to his Laws submit PSAL. lxviij As the 100th verse 1 LET God arise his angry Foes Will quickly turn themselves to Flight Their Malice can't his Wrath oppose Nor bear the Terrours of his Sight verse 2 But as Smoak flies before the Wind As Wax dissolves before the Fire So Impious Men their Weakness find And by his Frowns consum'd expire verse 3 But holy Men with joyful Hearts Before their God shall Praises sing Sing then ye Saints sing all your Parts Exalt the great Celestial King verse 5 See where your God triumphant rides His Name with boundless Glory shines In Him each raptur'd Soul confides And gladly in his Praise combines verse 6 For Widows Tears and Orphans Cries God like a Judge and Father cares Starves Rebels makes the Captives rise And fills the lonesom House with Heirs verse 7 Lord when thou led'st thy People o'er The barren Wilds and Defart-Lands Earth's Bosom strong Convulsions tore And Heav'n dissolv'd at thy Commands verse 8 A Thousand Dewy Sweats distill'd Nay Sinai too supreamly bless'd Great Israel's God with Terrours fill'd With Light 's immoderate Beams Oppress'd verse 9 But cooling Dews and fruitful Rains On thy exhausted Canaan flow'd verse 10 which now thy People entertains Thy Goodness on thy Flock bestow'd Part 2. God gave the Word and out in haste All Nature's ready Armies flew And spoke God's Will and as they pass'd Did all opposing Force subdue God's Houshold then with Spoils grew fair Of routed Hosts and flying Kings As Doves which feem to cut the Air With Silver Plumes and Golden Wings verse 13 On that great Day though back before Among the Brick-Kilns newly laid verse 14 They more than Sal'men's Whiteness bore When in his Snowy Robes array'd verse 15 God's Sion Bashan's Pride our-vies And God in Sion's Hill delights verse 16 Why then should other Hills despise What God 's own Residence invites verse 17 A Thousand Thousand Chariots steer'd By fiery Angels round Him wait As once in Sâ—nai's Mount appear'd When there
enthron'd his Glory fare verse 18 Lord when thou took'st thy Seat on high Both Death and Hell were Captives led Thy Gifts made stubborn Hearts comply And Rebels own their sacred Head verse 19 O bless'd be God from Day to Day Who us with bounteous Goodness loads verse 20 Our Saving Health our Lord our Stay Our Guide from Death's obscure Abodes verse 21 But finful Fools his thoughtless Foes God in their Heads their Vitals wounds verse 22 I too says God will rescue those Whom Bashan or the Sea surrounds My Friends shall live at large and free Ill us'd restrain'd oppress'd no more verse 23 Their Steps o'er bleeding Foes shall be Where Dogs shall lick the streaming Gore Part 3. verse 24 My God my King thy glorious Ways Are oft with awful Wonder view'd When in thy House on Holy Days Thou meet'st the suppliant Multitude verse 25 First all the charming Voices move Then those who touch the tuneful Strings The Damsels next their Fingers prove And loud the merry Timbrel rings verse 26 Praise God in all Assemblies praise Your God ô all of Israel's Race verse 27 Let Benjamin his Anthems raise Whom first the Regal Ensigns grace verse 28 With Him let Judah's Head combine And all the Tribes their Leaders bring Till Mid-land Tribes and Coasters join And All then Maker's Glories sing verse 29 Strength Lord on us thy Hand bestows O let our Graces stronger be While Strength from Salem's Temple flows Great Kings shall offer Gifts to Thee verse 30 Rebuke th' Egyptians Force confound The Brutes in Idol-worship strong Those who in Pride and Wealth abound And who for Wars and Tumults long verse 31 To God then mighty Kings shall fly From Egypt and Arabian Lands And cast their Crowns and Sceptres by And raise to him their suppliant Hands verse 32 Sing sing to God his Praise unfold His Name yee Earthly Kings adore verse 33 He rides above the Skies of old And speaks in Thunders dreadful roar verse 34 Ascribe to God all Strength and Might VVho o're his Israel's Lot presides VVhose Power and whose Majestic light Above the highest Orb resides verse 35 VVhat Terrours in that secred Place Israel's Eternal God surround The Saints his Might and Courage grace His Name be still with Praises crown'd PSAL. lxix verse 1 O Save me Lord Thy Floods prevail The Floods my Strength controul verse 2 The Mud the rugged VVaves assail And sink my fainting Soul verse 3 To Thee till weary'd quite I cry My Throat grows hoarse and dry My very Ey strings Crack while I On Thee for Help rely verse 4 More than my Hairs my Foes increase And they whose causeless Hate Pursue my Soul and break my Peace Are strong and Fortunate To lay their Spite I paid with Care VVhat ne'er was due from me verse 5 Thou Lord my Follies know'st nor are My Faults conceal'd from Thee verse 6 Thro the let none endure Disgrace VVho on thy Love depend None blush thro' me who seek thy Face Or for thy Grace attend verse 7 For thy Name 's sake I suffer scorn To all Reproach confin'd verse 8 My Mother's Sons my Brethren born To me are grown unkind Part 2. verse 9 Lord for thy House with zealous Flame My Soul consumes and dies And those who dare affront thy Name My Heart with grief surprize verse 10 I fast my falling Tears succeed But I 'me reproach'd for all verse 11 I Sack-cloth wear my Sack-cloth weeds Among their Proverbs fall verse 12 Where all the senseless Rabble sit I 'me made their constant Theme Each Drunkard tries his brutish Wit My Glories to blaspheme verse 13 In thy accepted Time dear Lord Receive my Soul's address With Mercy by thy faithful Word My cruel Foes repress verse 14 From miry Deeps Lord raise my Head From mighty Waters save verse 15 And from the stormy Tempests dread And from the gaping Grave Let not the Floods devour me quite Nor Whirlpools swallow me verse 16 But in thy Mercies Lord delight And hear my Prayers to Tnee Part 3. With Pitty view my mournful Case And ease my dismal Woes verse 17 From me ô never hide thy Face When Sorrows round me close verse 18 Draw near redeem my Soul from those Who in my Fall delight verse 19 My shame reproach and all my Foes Are ever in thy sight verse 20 Shame breaks my Heart my panting Soul For Comfort looks in vain No Friends my mournful State condole Nor feel my dreadful Pain verse 21 They gave me bitter Gall to eat Sharp Vinegar to drink verse 22 But let thy Wrath their Joys defeat Their spiteful Pleasures sink O let thy Curse a deadly snare Of all their Plenty make And when their Souls for Mirth prepare All Mirth their Souls forsake verse 23 O let their Eyes be dark their Loins With strange Diseases shake verse 24 Till Wrath with utmost Fury joins And they of both partake Part 4. verse 25 Let all their lofty Palaces Their Tents deserted ly verse 26 For they on thy Afflicted press And Wounds to Wounds apply verse 27 Punish their Sins with Sins nor let Them Righteousness behold verse 28 Their Names i' th' Book of Life unset Nor with the Just enroll'd verse 29 But me oppress'd with mighty Woes Thy Health dear God shall raise verse 30 And Songs I 'll to thy Name compose And ever sing thy Praise verse 31 And these shall Thee my God much more Than Firstling Bul'ocks please verse 32 The Humble who thy Face implore Shall see 't and live at Ease Joys shall their happy Hearts possess At this triumphant Sight Their Souls shall wondrous Mirth express Their Lives supream Delight verse 33 God hears the Poor and Bond-men call And sends Deliverance verse 34 Then let Heav'n Earth and Seas and all Their Hosts his Praise advance verse 35 God saves his own and they in Peace Within their Countries rest verse 36 And there their happy Heirs increase Who love their Maker best PSAL. lxx verse 1 HAst'e Lord ô haste to aid And set thy Servant free verse 2 Asham'd let all those Fools be made Who seek to ruin me With Shame confound them all Who would my Life destroy verse 3 And when they think I 'm like to fall Express unmanly Joy verse 4 But where Men seek thy Face Let constant Joys reside Let those who love thy saying Grace Say God be magnify'd verse 5 But I am weak and poor O haste to help me Lord And as thou oft hast done before Thy speedy Aids afford PSAL. lxxj verse 1 IN Thee dear Lord I only trust From Shame ô keep me free verse 2 And as thy Promises are just Hear help and rescue me verse 3 Be thou my mighty Fortress where I when oppress'd may fly Thou art my Rock my Fort in Fear I on thy Word rely verse 4 Save me my God from impious Hands From Fraud and Violence verse 5 In Thee my Hope my Safety stands My Lord my Youth's Defence verse 6 I
unfathom'd Night Thou throw'st my trembling Soul verse 7 On me thy angry Judgments light And all thy Tempests roul verse 8 Thou mak'st my Friends aloof remain And less than Strangers kind Nor can I Liberty obtain By Chains of Hate confind verse 9 Whole Seas of Tears my mournful Eyes Thro' deep afflictions shed To thee I send my daily Cryes My Hands submissely spread Part 2. verse 10 What Shall thy mighty Works be shown Where Death triumphant Reigns The Dead to make thy Wonders known Shake off their Icy Chains verse 11 What shall the Grave the silent Tomb. Advance thy Mercies Fame Or shall Destructions utmost Doom Thy Faithfulness proclaim verse 12 Or shall thy wordrous Works appear Where all thick Darkness hides Thy Righteousness be publish'd where Forgetfulness presides verse 13 To Thee dear Lord I cry to Thee My morning Prayers are made verse 14 O why 's my Soul cast off to me Thy Beams no more displaid verse 15 From my first Youth afflicted I With constant weakness prest Have born thy Terrors constantly In my Distracted Breast verse 16 Like breaking Seas with mighty Force Thy Terrours bear me down verse 17 And with a vast united Course My baffled Comforts drown verse 18 Thou mak'st my Friends who lov'd me too To mighty Distance fly And those I intimately knew In unknown Darkness ly PSAL. lxxxix Metre first as the 113th verse 1 I 'Le ever sing thy Mercy Lord Thy Truth from Age to Age record My Lips shall praise thy glorious Name verse 2 Thy Mercies everlasting are Thy Truths with Heaven it self compare Thy Faithful Promise I 'le proclaim verse 3 A Covenant long since I made And to my Servant David said My chosen King and firmly swore verse 4 Thy seed Eternally shall stand Thy Royal Scepter'd Heirs command Till Sea and Earth and Times no more verse 5 The Heaven's thy Wonders Lord shall praise Thy Holy Congregation raise Thy Faithful Works above the Skys verse 6 For who above 's compar'd with Thee What God-like Man thy Mate can be What Lord to equal Glories rise verse 7 Gods Presence srikes a reverend Fear Where his Assembling Saints appear And his attending Angels aws verse 8 Great God of Hosts whole strenth like Thine Whose Truth so breaks with Beams divine Receiv'd by every Worlds applause Part 2. verse 9 Thy Hands the mighty Ocean sway And make its angry Waves obey Thy Word its stormy Tempest quells verse 10 By that th' Egyptians wounded dy'd Thy dreadful Arm the gathering Pride Of all thy fiercest Foes dispells verse 11 Thy Hands Heaven's vaulted Arches made Thy Hands this Earth's Foundations laid And all the World with Plenty stor'd verse 12 The North and South thy Creatures are Tabor and Hermon both declare Thy Name and Thee their mighty Lord. verse 13 Thy Arm All-mighty strength endues Thy Hand resistless vigor shews Thy glorious Hand 's exalted high verse 14 Justice and Judgment make thy Throne Thy truth and ancient mercy Known Thy Steps to all the World desory verse 15 Thrice happy they whose Souls are warm'd By holy Trumpets sounds alarm'd And live enlightned Lord by Thee verse 16 They'j always in thy Name rejoice With solemn Musicks moving voice Thy Righteousness their strength shall be verse 17 Such happy Men securely stand And with a settled strength Command But God is still their Strength and Pride Thy Goodness and thy boundless Love Has rais'd our happy Strength above Since thou hast own'd out sinking side verse 18 The Lord is our Defensive shield That Holy One can shelter yield Who 's Israel's God and Israel's King verse 19 But that thou might'st our Hearts uphold A smiling Vision rais'd of old Did thus of thy Anointed sing Part 3 Metre 2. As the 100th verse 20 Help on a pow'rful Arm I 've laid A Man above the Vulgar plac'd My King my Servant David made His Head with holy Unction grac'd verse 21 Him shall my strength'ning Hand secure My Arm his strong support shall be verse 22 No En'my shall his Hurt procure No Sinner his Destruction see verse 23 I 'll dash his Foes before his Face And batter those who hate him down verse 24 With him my Truth and Mercy place And in my Name exalt his Crown verse 25 No Rivers Bank no Ocean's Wall Shall his unbounded Reign confine verse 26 He 'll me his God his Father call His Saving Health his Rock Divine verse 27 And him my First-born Son I 'll make Above Earth's Kings exalted high verse 28 With him my Mercy ne'er shall slake Nor my immortal Cov'nant die verse 29 His Seed shall ever last his Throne Out-shine out-wear the Rolling Skies verse 30 But if his Sons my Laws disown Or e'er against my Judgments rise verse 31 If they my stated Laws prophane My Precepts or Injunctions slight verse 32 With Rods their Follies I 'll restrain Their Sins with Strokes deserv'd requite verse 33 Yet not my Mercies quite remove Nor break my faithful Word of old verse 34 Expose my Covenanted Love Nor change what Prophets once foretold verse 35 Once by my Holiness I 've sworn And can't my David's Hopes deceive verse 36 His Seed to Crowns and Scepters born No Time shall of their Rights bereave verse 37 The Sun the Moon which guild the Skies Those faithful Signs to Mortals known May cease to set and cease to rise But nothing shock his glorious Throne Part 4. Metre 3. verse 38 Such was thy Promise Lord of old But at a distance now Terrours thy dear Anointed hold From thy contracted Brow verse 39 Thou 'st thrown thy sacred Cov'nant by Defil'd his trampled Crown verse 40 Let all his Walls in Ruins lie And trod his Fences down verse 41 Him all who pass may spoil and all His neighb'ring Foes despise verse 42 On him their Troops insulting fall And high their Forces rise verse 43 No Wounds his Edgeless Sword bestows He flies the Martial Field verse 44 His Throne 's cast down nor can his Brows Their former Lustre yield verse 45 His youthful Bloom now fades With Woes And he 's o'erw helm'd with Shame verse 46 How long shall We thy Favour lose And seel thy Fury's Flame verse 47 Think Lord how vain is Man How I Have but a While to live verse 48 What Man now breaths but once must die What Art can Lives retrieve verse 49 Where are thy Mercies Lord of old By Oath to David due verse 50 Think how our Lives to Shame are sold What Scorns thy Friends pursue verse 51 Think how thy Foes black Scandals raise On thy Anointed King verse 52 While we to thy immortal Praise Amens devoutly sing PSAL. xc verse 1 THou Lord from Age to Age hast been Our certain Resting-place verse 2 Before the lofty Hills were seen On Earth's extended Face Before this Earth to Shape was grown Before the World was fram'd Thee Lord the mighty God alone Eternity proclaim'd verse 3 When Man fix'd in a glorious State With thriving