HAPPY is the man whos Trespasse is forgiuen and his Sinn concealed whom the ETERNALL chargeth not with Iniquity and in whos minde is no deceipt I CRYED dayly till I was hoarse and my bones Withered for thy hand was heavy vpon mee and my Moisture is overthrouwn as with a great Sommers drought surely I shewed thee my Sinnes and concealed not mine Iniquities I meant to confesse my Sinnes vnto the ETERNALL and thou forgavest the Iniquity and my Sinne surely Therefore let every Godly-One pray vnto thee when thou mayest be found lesse when Trobles arise they cannot com at him ô thou that art my Skonse and Hideing-place preserve mee from Destresse rescue them that CRY and gard mee suâ—ely I vvill vvise thee and teach thee vvhat VVAY to goe and vvill tend on thee vvith mine eyes if yee be not like a Horse and Asse voyd of all vnderstanding to be tyed vvith bitts in their mouthes and bridles on their heads to keep them from thee For the Sorrowes of the Wiâ—ked are great and many but he that TRVSTETH in the ETERNALL GRACE and LOVEING-KINDENES shall environ him Now reioyce and be glad in the ETERNALL yee IVST-ONES and Tâ—iumph all yee that be of an vpright minde XXXIII TRIVMPH in the ETERNALL all yee that be IVST for the PRAYSE of Vpright men is goodly sing to the ETERNALL with the Harp play vnto him with ten-stringed Viols sing a New song vnto him and play your loudest Musicque For the WORD of the ETERNALL is moste certain and all his WORKES are sure The ETERNALL loveth IVSTICE and RIGHTE and all the erth is full of his GRACIOVS GOODNES By the VVORD of the ETERNALL the Heavens vvere made and by his Breth all their Host he heaped vp the vvaters of the Sea and layed vp the bottomlesse Deeps in Treasures Stand in aw of the ETERNALL and feare him all people of the world for what hee sayth that shall bee and what soever hee Appointeth that shall stand The ETERNALL frustrateth the counsell of the Hethen and bringeth the peoples devises to nothing But the Counsel of the ETERNALL standeâ—h for ever and his Devises indure still from one age to another and happy is the Nation that hath the ETERNALL their GOD and the People whom hee chuseâ—h for his Inheritance The ETERNALL LOOKETH out of Heaven from his dweâ—ling Seat vpon all the Children of men that dwell in the world hee that both formed their hartes and is cunning in all their WORKES and Loe A King is not saved by the greatnes of his Army nor a Strong-man deliuered by his great strength A Horse is a vain thing for Salvation and cannot free for all his great Might But the EYE of the ETERNALL is vpon them that feare him and vvait for his LOVING-KINDENES To deliuer them from Death and releeve them in Famine Our Soul waiteth for â—he ETERN hee is our Help and Shield of Defence and because our Hart is delighted in him and our whole TRVST is in his holly NAME let thy mercy ô ETERNALL be vpon vs as our hope is in thee XXXIV A Psalme of David vpon his changing of his Behaviour before Abimelek or Achish King of Gath then when hee banished him hee went his way I Will ever thank the ETERN and allways PRAIS him with my mouth I my selfe will glory in him that the Lowly may be glad to heare it come magnify the ETERN with mee let vs extoll his NAME together for I sought out for the ETERN and hee answered mee and deliuered mee from all my Terrors Therefore let them look cheerfully vpon him and not be ashamed for this poore oppressed one in his affliction CRYED and the ETERN hard him and saved him out of all his Destresses The Angel of the ETERN will pitch about them that FEAR him and release them Now consider and mark how GOOD the ETERNALL is and how HAPPY is the MAN that relyeth on him Feare the ETERNALL all his Saintes For they shall vvant nothing that FEARE him the Lions vvhelps shall goe lean for vvant of meat and pine avvay for hunger but they that SEEK the ETERN shall not vvant any thing that is good Com then my Children and harken to mee and lett mee TEACH you the FEARE of the ETERNALL If you loue to liue long and loue to see many dayes Keep your Tonges from ill communication and your lips from speaking Deceipt medle vvith nothing that is ill but doe that vvhich is good seek after Peace and pursue it For the ETERN looketh tenderly to the IVST and hath a tender eare to their shouting VVhen they Crye hee heereth them and deliuereth them from all their Destresses But hee will look angry toward them that doe ill and will cutt off their Remembrance out of the Earth The ETERN is neer to them that be broken-harted and will save them of oppressed mindes for many are the Woes of the IVST-ONE but the ETER will deliuer him from them all and will keep him that not a bone of him shall be broken Som Mischeeff shall make an end of the Wicked and slay him and they that hate the IVST shall waste away but the ETERNALL will redeem his Servants life and none that relye on him shall be waste-ed XXXV Of DAVID DOE thou maintaine my Quarell ô ETERNALL and fight thou my Battell ô take vp thy Shield and Buckler and com and help mee draw out thy Speare and arme thee to meet my Pursuers Say to my life I will be thy SALVATION Let them be ashamed that seek my life and retire with sharp reproche that thinke mee ill and be like dust before the winde and the Angel of the ETERN driveing them let their WAY be in dark and slippery Place-es and the Angel of the ETERN to pursue them at the heeles Because they haue hid a Net in the Pitt for mee vndeserved and vndermined for my Life without a Cause Bring a RVINE on them that they be not ware of and let their owne Net that they have layed take themselues and by it let them fall into the same Ruine So my Soul shall be glad and reioyce in the SALVATION of the ETERNALL All my bones shall coÌ„fesse There is none like
ouer all Godes VVho hath the discoueryes of the Earth in his hand and the Excellencyes of the Hilles are his VVho ovveth the Sea for hee made it the Dry-land vvhich his handes formed O come let vs bow down and prostrat our selues and kneel before the ETERNALL that hath made vs for hee is our GOD and wee the PEOPLE and SHEEP of his owne hand feeding To day when you hear his VOYCE harden not your hartes as in the PROVOCATION and as in the day of TEMPTATION in the Wildernes VVhich your Fathers tempted mee and tryed mee though they savv my VVORKES Forty yeers was I vexed with a Generation which I SAYED were a people that erred in their hart and knew not my WAYES Which in my Anger I swore should not enter into my REST. XCVI O SING yee to the ETERNALL a NEW SONG Sing yee to the ETERN all the Earth Sing yee to the ETERN and blesse his NAME and Preach his SALVATION from day to day Tell out his GLORY among the Hethen and his Wondeâ—full WORKS among all people Because the ETERN is great and very much to be PRAYSED and to be Reverenced aboue all GODS For all the GODS of the Nations are Idle-Idoles but the ETERN Made the Heavens Worship and Honour is in his Presence and in his Sanctuary STRENGTH MAJESTY Yeeld vnto the ETERNALL yee Nation-familyes yeeld vnto the ETERNALL GLORY and STRENGTH yeeld GLORY vnto the NAME of the ETERNALL Take vp Presents and com into his Courtes prostrate your selues to the ETERNALL in his stately Sanctuary and tremble at his Presence all the Earth TELL among the Heathen The ETERNALL RAIGNETH KING and the whole world shall bee established and not be moved that SENTENCETH Nations vprightely Let the Heavens reioyce and the Earth be glad the Sea his fullnes roare the field leap and all that is in it and the Trees of the wood TRIVMPH SING when hee cometh when hee cometh to IVDGE the Earth that with RIGHTEOVSNES Iudgeth the World and with his FAYTHFVLLNES the Nations thereof XCVII THE ETERNALL RAIGNETH KING let the Earth be glad and the multitude of Ilandes reioyce with a dark cloud round about him RIGHTEOVS IVDGEMENT beeing the Firmnes of his Throne fire shall goe before him and shall flame round about his foes His Lightenings lighten the world that the Earth trembleth to see it Mountaines melt like wax at PRESENCE of the ETERN before the LORD of the whole Earth The Heavens set foorth his IVSTICE that all Nations may see his GLORY let all them that serue Sculptures and glory in Idle-Idoles bee abashed bow your selues downe to him all yee GODS That Sion when shee heareth it may reioyce and all the Townes of Iudah bee glad because of the IVDGEMENT of the ETER Because thou ô ETERNALL art SOVERAIGNE over all the Kinges of the Earth and greatly surmountest overall GODS Yee that loue the ETERN that keepeth the lives of his GRATIOVS ones and delivereth them from the hand of the Wicked hate euill Ther is sown to the IVST and VPRIGHTE minded man a JOYFVLL LIGHT ô yee JVST ONES reioyce in the ETERNALL and celebrate his holly Remembrance XCVIII A PSALME O Sing yee to the ETERNALL a NEW SONG for that hee hath don Wonderfull Works Hee whom his RIGHT HAND and HOLLY ARME hath holpen The ETER that hath made his SALVATION knovvn and reuealed his RIGHTEOVSNES in the sight of the Heathen That hath remembred his Lov Kindenes and Faythfullnes to the House of Jsrael that all the Endes of the Earth haue seen the Salvation of our GOD. TRIVMPH to the ETERNALL breake out aloud and chaunt out Psalmes play vnto the ETERNALL on the Harp vpon the Harp with an inchaunting voice With the shrill soundes of the Trumpet Triumph to the KING ETERNALL Let the Sea and his fullnes roare and the WORLD and all that dwell therin make anoyse and Riuers clap their handes and Hilles also sound out Triumphes before the ETERNALL when hee cometh to Iudge the Earth That Iudgeth the world Iustly and the Nations vprightly XCIX THE ETERNALL RAIGNETH KING inhabiting the Cherubs Let the Nations and the Earth tremble and stoop The ETERNALL that is great in Sion that is highe aboue all Nations let them celebrate his great and reverend NAME which is holly Because thou the KING that loueth JVDGEMENT and STRENGTH confirmest Righte and dost Just JVDGMENT in Iacob Exalt yee the ETERNALL our GOD and prostrate your selues at his Holly foot-stoole Moses and Aaron and Samuel among his Priests and them that call vpon his NAME called vpon the ETERNALL and hee Answered them He spake vnto them in a CLOVDY STILE and they kept his TESTIMONYES and PRESCRIPTS which hee gaue them Thou O ETERNALL our GOD didst answer them and wast a GOD of Pardon to them beeing about to revenge their Heynous workes Exalt the ETERNALL our GOD and prostrate your selues at his holly Hill For the ETERNALL our GOD is holly C. A Psalm of Thanksgiuing SING yee Triumphes to the ETERNALL all the Earth serue the ETERNALL with REIOYCEING and com before him with a cheerfull SONET Knovv yee the ETERNALL is GOD and Hee that hath made vs and vvee are his his PEOPLE and Sheep of his PASTVRE Com vvithin his Gates vvith THANKS and into his Courtes vvith PRAYSE and SET FORTH and BLESSE his NAME because the LOV KINDENES of the ETERNALL is bountifull for euer and his FAYTHFVLLNES vntill all Generations CI. Of DAVID A Psalm I Will sing a Psalme of KINDENES and IVDGEMENT vnto thee ô ETERNALL that when thou shalt come vnto mee I may instruct in the perfect WAY and walk in the soundnes of my hart with in my House I will haue noe naughty thing in my sight to make declineings I hate and with mee it shall not steek A froward hart shall depart from mee and an euill hart I will not know Hee that accuseth his neighbour privily him will I put away who is of high lookes wyde of hart him I cannot abide Mine eyes are vpon the FAYTHFVLL of the Earth to dvvell vvith mee hee that vvalketh in a perfect VVaye he shall serue mee Hee that worketh deceipt shall not within my House and hee that
vpholder of all that are falling a setter vpright of all that are declineing The eyes of all vvaite vpon thee and thou givest them their meat in his Season opening thy hand and satisfying every Living Creature freely The ETERNALL is Iust in all his Wayes and Kinde in all his Workes The ETERNALL is Neer to them that call on him to all that call vpon him Faythfully Hee vvill doe the Will of them that feare him and hear their Shouting and save them The ETERN that keepeth all that love him and destroyeth all the wicked let my mouth speak the PRAISE of the ETERNALL and all flesh blesse his holly NAME forevermore CXLVI PRAISE yee the ETERNALL my SOVL praise thou the ETERN I will praise the ETERN and sing Psalmes to my GOD as long as J live Trust yee not in Prince-es nor in any childe of man in whom ther is noe Salvation whose breth goeth out and hee returnes to his owne earth in that day his thoughtes perish Happy is hee whose Help is the GOD of Iacob and his Hope is vpon the ETERN his GOD the make-er of Heaven and Earth and the Sea all that is in them And that keepeth Faythfullnes for ever That doth right the oppressed and give bread to the Hungry The ETERN that looseth them that are bound The ETERNALL that openeth the eyes of the blinde and setteth vpright them that are bowed down the ETERNALL that loveth the Just. The ETERNALL that keepeth the Strangers and mainteineth the Fatherles and the Widow and overâ—hroweth the way of the Wicked The ETERNALL thy GOD ô Zion raigne for ever for all Generations The ETERNALL bee praised CXLVII PRAISE yee the ETERNALL and chaunt thou out our GOD because hee is good pleasant and his PRAISE is comely The ETERNALL that built Jerusalem and gathered together the Scatered of Jsrael that healeth the broken harted and bindeth vp their sores that Telleth the Number of the Starrs and calleth the Names to them all Great is our LORD and of great Power and of his Vnderstanding ther is noe declareing The ETERNALL that advaunceth the Lowly and humbleth the Wicked to the ground Sing yee Psalmes of Thanks Offering to the ETERNALL our GOD vpon the Harp Which Covereth the Heavens with cloudes and prepare-eth rain for the Earth That make-eth the Hilles to Spirt out grasse giveth the bease their food and the young Ravens which call Hee hath not delight in the Valiantnes of a Horse nor hath liking in the Legs of a man The ETERNALL like-eth them that fear him and Waite for his Kindenes ô Ierusalem commend the ETERN and praise thou thy GOD ô Zion Because hee strengtheneth the bars of thy Gates and blesseth thy children vvithin thee and setteth Peace in thy borders satisfyeth thee vvith vvheaten flovver that sendeth his Saying to the Earth and his Word runneth moste speedily That giveth Snovv like vvhite vvool and scatereth hore-frost like Ashes That casteth out his hard Ice like morsells and vvho can abide for the cold thereof hee sendeth out his Word and Thavveth them hee maketh his vvinde to turne and they drop vvater That telleth his Word to Jacob his Prescripts and Iudgements to Israel He hath not done so to any Nation that they should not know his Iudgements The ETERN bee praised CXLVIII PRAISE the ETERNALL praise the ETERNALL out of the Heavens Praise him in the Highthes Praise him all his Angels Praise him all his Hostes. Praise him Sunn Moon praise him all Starrs of Light Praise him yee Heavens of Heavens and yee Waters which are above the Heavens Let them praise the NAME of the ETERN for hee commanded and they wer created And hee made them stand for an everlasting Statute hee gave a Prescript which should not passe Praise the ETERN Things of the EARTH Yee great VVhales and all Deepthes Fire and Haile Snovv Vapours vvhirlvvinde that doth his Commande The Mountaines and all Hilles Fruit-trees and all Ceders Cattell and all Bease Creeping things and fethered fovvle Kinges of the Earth and all Nations Prince-es and all Iudge-es of the Earth Yong-men and Maydes Oldmen and Children Let them praise the Name of the ETERN because his Name onely is to be exalted and his Worship both by the Earth the Heavens Which holdeth vp the Horne of his People the Prayse of his Gratious Ones of the Children of Israel his Proper People The ETERNALL be praised CXLIX PRAISE the ETERNALL sing yee a NEW SONG to the ETERN of his PRAYSE in the Congregation of his GRATIOVS-ONES Let Israel rejoyce in his MAKE-ER the Children of Zion triumph in their KING Let them praise his NAME vvith Pipes and sing Psalmes to him vvith Tabret and Harp Because the ETERNALL hath alikeing to his People and glorifyeth the lowly with SALVATION Let the Gratious Ones triumph Gloriously and Sing aloud vpon their beds vvith Exaltationes of the ALL MIGHTY in their Throates and a tvvo edged svvord in their handes For working Revenge among the Heathen Chastisment among the Nations for bindeing their Kinges in Manicles and their Noble-men in Iron-Chaines for fullfilling among them the SENTENCE that is written Hee is an ornament to all his Saintes The ETERNALL be praised CL PRAISE the ETERNALL praise the ALLMIGHTY in his Sanctuary Praise him in the Firmament of his Strength Praise him for his Valiant Actes praise him according to his Mighty Greatnes Praise him with the sound of the Trumpet Praise him with the Viol and Harp Praise him with Taber and Pipe praise him with Timbrels and Fife Praise him with Loude Bells praise him with loud-sounding Cymballs Let every breath praise the ETERNALL The ETERNALL be praised ARGVMENTS VPON THE PSALMS PSALM I. AS the Law is the touch-stone of the lives of men so this work of Psalmes is to bring them to it Psal. 26 and this Psalme the formost to shew the way Heer the judgement and justice therof is layed to the rule and weighed And seeing all that men would haue is but happines of their liues and Eternity hee sheweth by a short description the way to it To avoyde the Enimyes and all impediments therof the wicked counsell of transgressers to leaue the known way of Sinn Psa. 36 and not to skorn instruction And this person hee
invadeers Like the frozen and setled ones Zeph. 1. The despisers and deriders Iob. 12. Ne. 4. Mat. 6. Luc. 16. Pro. 30. Caph of Caphaph the second letter to bow oppressed made to stoop bowed Ghimel the third letter reward the giveing of grace and countinance for their waiting as fit gifts for children And this as it is the work of the eye Prov. 30. So hee that dwelleth in the heavens the great regarder and great derideer is prayed unto Psal. 2. Maâ—k the repetition through out agreeing Deuteronomy Hee that prayeth unto God doth glorifye God Psal. 50. hee that commeth unto God confesseth that God is his praying for countenance is as much as confessing and publishing of his grace and repeating of his eternall life and everlasting way and wonderfull work of salvation Thes 15 Psalmes have a figurative excellence in them Is. 38. returning and reciteing and climeing higher and higher to heaven and understanding by words PSALM CXXIV MOnt Sion was the glory of Ierusalem and the Musitians the glory of Sion as Psal. 87. and thes Psalmes the glory of the Musitians The mery songs of Sion which they so much longed to hear and inquireed for in Babilon Ps. 137 by which men are sung alive again from death every Psalme beeing a step from misery and a step to honour and that of the Kingdom of heaven from the greatest ignorance and darknes to the greatest knowledge and light Heerby the Apostles sing open the prison doores and sing off the bandes of their feet for the word of God is not bound Psal. 68. Act. 16. 2. Tim. 2. and take the keeper prisoner For heer is a new earth a new citty and a new Sion and a new tabernacle of God with men and a new and a heavenly knowledge in man a new man which captiveeth all power and can not bee captiveed The fruit of the spirit beeing in all goodnes righteousnes and truthe sendeth out such hymnes and Psalmes and spirituall songes of thanks of melody in their hartes for salvation that maketh all manner of subjection captivity and bonds and imprisonment tolerable God is ever good unto his people and ever neer his elect as Ps. 73 to glorify his chosen as Psal. 84.86 when all the troubles and malice and anger in the world aros and kindled against them And hee cracketh all the building and plots of the Enimye by his goodnes kindenes when hee is called upon as Ps. 118. After long waiting as Ps. 40. and great affliction as Ps. 90.109 when the people of God bee even eaten up alive with reproche and scornful biteing and defamation at the handes of the proud at last God useeth to bee good and gratious and mercyfull and comfortable unto them by takeing theÌ„ out of thos lions jawes which in long gapeing get the cramp and neuer close again And though a world of nations like stoods of Enimyes set upon them yet ther is that dullnes in their understanding and sottery in proceeding dissention and division and imperfection in the manifacture of their cordes which they lay that they are soon brokeen for the devill beeing author of confusion of discord they no better agree one with another then they agree with the Church and their work is soon destroyed For the works of discord are not stâ—ong nor durable And thus ofteÌ„ times by the muteny of the Enimye the Church is safe as in Aegypt Assur Babilon c. Absolom c. wher the salvation of the Godly is out of the sight of the wicked and they have a miraculous deliverance and all by their invocation and calling upon the Name of God and serving of their Creator as 92. which in due time heareth yf they faint not And this is the Experience and hope which they have by patience wherby this Psalme suiteth with the former Construction Quoph of Jaquaph to inviâ—on is of the compassing of the Eâ—imy by the abundance and inundation of them compared to the swelling of Iordan and the proud warrs of the men of Adam their invasion Ios. 3. of the Church Iob 22. Ps. 42.116 Ier. 12. Ion. 1. The opposition is Gods present assistance and standing to them and with them by his existens and name Iehovah And about them in helping Rom. 8. Consider the first and last wordes doubled Caph for bowing down and pressing of the Enimye in captivity by snares and waters to wit the 70 of Babel See the affecting of Iod with Zain in Azza and in Zedonim to be multiplyed for 70. as Zain Gnain Ps. 25.34 Daleth a door is Gods discipline and remedy as the Medes and Persians to dissolve the captivity of the Babylonians Mark the repetition to all Deuteronomy Thes songes of return bee sufficient confâ—ssion of Gods mercyfull and miraculous deliverance which hee would have the Church still in minde of and to use them for repetitions as beeing so much bound for their salvation to him PSALM CXXV THey that beleeve not shall not bee established Righteousnes and God and the Kingdom of God is the same thing for other gifts of government are conteined in it Ther is no stedfastnes but in justice nor any trust or beleeff or assurance but in the everlastingnes therof becaus for this are Gods people immutable and immovable haveing the light of the Law and the glory therof shineing about them to guard them for ever That ther shall no wicked dominion Lordship or punishment rest wher the righteous dwell becaus they doo not wrong as Psal. 15. and that the wicked doo overgripe themselves that medle with them and are forceed to loos their hold and releas their captivityes Therfor hee that seeketh righteousnes seeketh all and hee that seeketh it findeeth all It is found in the Law called the face of God as Psal. 24. that pure Israel only seeketh and is blessed therwith The Church now prayeth for judgement favour to the upright strait and plain mindeed men and condemnation to the variable and crooked and declineers in hell with the mischevous and evill dooers as Ps. 5. That Israel may once have peace and the Ark have rest and the Church never faile Mat. 16. Construction Quoph the compassing heer is in the term about as the hills and the eternall Existence God doth guard his people by his providence the wicked shall not rest among them for fear of corrupting them the confident and faithfull shall not miscarry no more then hills or rockes Mat. 16. and this is the Eternall presence of God the faithfull according to the third letter He behold and the absence of the wicked that must not com nighe the Righteous The faithfull are defineâ—d good and upright strait and direct in their harts against declineers and benders and wrong and crooked wayes and this for Caph to bend or crook also So the cherishing of the good and the banishing of molesters is the way of peace Caph a hand or a shaft or rod as of the wicked Mark the
thy Lipes are povvred full of Grace therfore thy GOD hath blessed thee for euer Gird on thy Svvord vpon thy thigh like a valiant man gird on thy VVorship and thine Honour Ride thou vpon the VVord of Truth and meek Iustice increase thine honour thy right hand shall teach thee terrible things For by thy sharp Arrovvs in the hart of the Kings Enimyes the people shall fall dovvn vnder thee Evermore thy THRONE is GOD and the Septer of VPRIGHTNES is the Septer of thy KINGDOM Thou lovest RIGHTEOVSNES and hate-est WICKEDNES therfor thine own GOD hath annoynted thee with the Oyle of Ioy above thy fellows The edges of all thy Garments don with Myrrh and Aloes out of the Ivory closets of Minni doe delighte thee Kings Daughters are in thy dignityes and at thy right hand doth stand thy Bedfellow all in fine gold of Ophir O Daughter hearken well consider and turne thine Eare and forget thy Nation and thy Fathers House the King shall be in Love with thy Bewty be thou Lowly to him for hee is thy Lord the rich men of Tyre shal intreat thee with Presents The Kings Daughter is moste Glorious vvithin vvith her clothes of golden Imbrodery of Needlevvork shall shee be brought to the King after her the virgines that be her companions shal be brought vnto thee vvith ioy Mirth shall they be brought flovving into the Kings Court. In steed of thy Fathers thou shalt haue sonnes to set Princees in all Countryes Therfore I will make thy Name a Memoriall in all Generations for the people to Publish confesse thee for evermore XLVI A Song for the Cheeff of the Sonnes of Corah vpon Alamoth GOD is our stronge RELYE ready Helpe in distresses Therfore wee fear not at the CHANGE of the erth At the mooveing of Mountaines into the midle of the Sea at the Rorering and boyling of the VVaters nor at the Shakeing of Mountaines vvith the Pride thereof Surely His holly chanells doe cheer the Citty of GOD and delighterh the Dwellings of the HIGHE GOD is in the middest of it it can not be stirred GOD will help it betimes before the morninge springs The Hethen raged and the Kingdomes weare in a commotion Hee vttered his VOICE and the Earth melted The warlike ET is with vs the GOD of Iacob is our RELEEF surely Com and behold the miraculous ACTS of the ETERN what Desolations hee hath made in the earth Ceasing tho wars vnto the end of the erth that Shivereth the bowes and cutteth the speares in peeces and burneth the chariots ìn the fire Hold your handes know that I am GOD and will be exalted in all Nations of the worlde The warlike ETERNALL is with vs the GOD of Iacob is our RELEEFF surely XLVII A Psalm for the Cheeff of the Sonnes of Corah ALL people clap your handes triumph vnto GOD with a loude voice for the ETERN is a dread SOVERAIGNE and a great KINGE over all the earth Hee hath subdued Diverse people vnder vs and Nations vnder our feet and chose vs our INHERITANCE the very Pride of Iacob surely GOD the ET is gon vp with the shrill sound of the Trumpet ô sing Psalmes to GOD ô sing Psalmes to our KING because GOD is KING of all the Earth sing a MASCIL Palme GOD SITTETH vpon his holly Throne and Raigneeth over the Heathen the Principall people are gathered together but because the DEFENSES of the earth are GODES The People of Abrahams GOD is much preferred XLVIII A psalm-Psalm-Song by the Sonnes of Corah GREAT is the ETERNALL in the CITTY of our GOD his Holly HILL very renowmed Mount Sion the Citty of the great KING on the North side standing faire and lofty the Ioy of all the earth GOD is certainly her DEFENSE in her Battelments For behold VVhen Kings vvere assembled they passed by at once vvhen they Savv they mervilled they vver terrifyed and astonied ther a trembling took them and a Paine as of a vvoman in travaile of child vvith an East vvinde thou brakest the Ships of TarShish According as wee have heard and SEEN in the Citty of our GOD the warlike ETERNALL GOD will establish it for ever surely Wee think thy LOVEING KINDNES is with in thy Temple ô GOD thy NAME and thy PRAYSE is over the endes of the worlde for thy Righte hand is full of IVSTICE Let Mount Sion reioyce and all the Townes of Iudah be glad for thy JVDGEMENTS Goe round about Sion and compasse it and tell her Towers think vpon her Trenches consider her Platformes that you may tell it to another Generation for this shall be our ONELY GOD for evermore Hee hath brought vs over Death XLIX For the Cheeff of the Sonnes of Corah A Psalme HEARKEN hither all yee Nations and hear this all yee that inhabit the Continent Every Human wighte aswell rich as poore my mouth shall speak WISDOM and my hart think of VNDERSTANDING I will turn mine eares to a PARABLE and open my RIDLE vpon the Harp VVhy should I FEAR in dayes of Misery vvhen the Iniquity of my heeles is round about mee Men trust in their vvelth and glory in their great riches no man shall redeeme his Brother nor giue a price to God for him the Redemption of their liues is so deer that hee should stay for ever and liue continually and and not see the Pitt Hee see-eth that VVisemen dye and that Bruteish Sots doe perish together and leave their vvelth to others They think theire Houses shall indure for ever and their Dvvellings for all Generations and call them by their Names vpon their Landes but Man lodge-eth not in Honour and is ouercom like vnto Dumb Beastes This their VVAY is a Sottery to them and they that com after them vvill vvellcom it vvith their mouthes Surely They shall lye like Sheep in the Pitt Death shall devoure them straightvvay they shall haue Dominion over them And the Pitt shall vveare out their shape as soone as they be from their dvvelling house in it But GOD vvill redeem my life from the Brinck of hell because hee hath accepted mee surely FEARE not when a man goeth rich and the Glory of his house groweth great for
winges when I remember and think on thee vpon my bed in the Waches how thou hast been my HELPE My SOVLE cleeveth after thee thy righte hand holdeth mee while they that seek my LIFE are vnder the Earth and are shaken and com to nothing they that prouoke the KING by the sword are becom meat for foxes and let the KING reioyce in GOD and every Devout man glory in him because the mouth of them that speak Treason is stopped LXIV For the Cheeff A Psalm of DAVID O GOD in my Complaining hear my VOYCE Preserue my Life from Dread of the Enimyes hide me from the secret counsell of Naughty men and from the Conuent of them that be vvorkers of Greeff vvhich vvhet their Tonges like Svvordes dravve their Arrovves BITTER vvords priuily to hit the PERFECT man they shoot at him on a Suddain and fear not VVhich comfort themselues in an ill matter vvhich reckon to hide Snares and SAY Noe man shall see them they make a vvonderfull serche to finde out VVronges and the Invvard Thoughtes of a Man and the Bottom of his Hart and so let GOD shoot them and Soudain Arrovves be their strokes And let their ovvne Tonges that offend him fall vpon themselues that all may start that look vpon them and all men be afrayd and declare GODS VVORKE and consider and Lerne his DOING That the IVST man may REIOYCE in the ETERNALL relyeing in him and they Glory that are of an vpright minde LXV A Psalm for the Cheeff A Song of David FOR thee ô GOD abideth PRAYSE in Sion to thee be all Vowes performed ô thou that hearest PRAYER euen to thee let all flesh com for thou reconcile-est our Trespasses and pardonest the Iniquityes that ouercame mee HAPPY is hee whom thou chuse-est and entertainest to dwell in thy Courtes to satisfye vs with the GOODNES of thy House and Closet O Holly one Fearefull things shouldest thou Answer vs in IVSTICE O GOD of our SALVATION the TRVST of all the endes and Longinquityes of Land and Sea With the Girdle of his Power and EXCELLENCE which fasteneth the Hills and stilleth the proude waves of the Seas and Roaring of the Nations and the Inhabitants of the Endes and Issues of Morning Evening which are afrayed of thy Signes thou make-est to Triumph Thou lookest on the Erth and makest it runn full of water O GOD thou greatly inrichest it with Rivers thou prepare-est their corn for to that end thou ordeynedst it O wet her furrowes break her clodes dissolv it with Showers bless her Chisming crown the yeer with thy GOODNES that thy cart routes may flow with fatnes and drop Dwellings in the Wildernes and the Hills gird on Gladnes and the Plaines put on sheep and the Vales be clad with corne that they may triumph and Sing LXVI For the Cheeff A Psalm Song SHOVT vnto GOD all the Eearth SING PSALMES of his Glorious NAME set out his Glorious PRAYSE SAYE vnto GOD How fearfull is thy doing by thy great STRENGTH are thine Enimyes subdued vnto thee all the erth doe worship thee and make Hymnes vnto thee they chaunt out thy NAME surely Com and beholde the WORKES of GOD hee hath terrible INVENTION for the Children of men hee turneth the Sea into Dry Land that they went over the River on foot wher wee reioyced in him Hee rulle-eth the World by his EXELLENCE his Eyes wach over the People and let not the Rebellious exalt themselue Surely Blesse our GOD yee People Sound out the VOICE of his PRAYS that hath put our Soules in LIFE and not suffered our feet to slipp For thou hast prooved vs ô GOD and tryed vs like Silver thou hast brought vs into the Toyle and pressed our Loynes thou hast made men ride ouer our Heades vvee haue gon through fire vvater and thou broughtest vs out to a REFRESHING and I vvill goe into thy House vvith OFFERINGS I vvill pay the my Vovves vvhich my Lips opened and my mouth SPAKE in my Distresse I vvill offer Offerings of Rams fat and Incense vnto thee and I vvill Sacrifice Bullocks and Buck-Goates surely Com hearken all yee that fear GOD and I vvill TELL you vvhat hee hath don for mee I Cryed vnto him with my Mouth and he was much exalted vnder my tonge If I see any molestation in my hart the LORD hear mee not J assure you GOD hearkened to mee and hard the VOICE of my PRAYER Blessed be GOD vvhich put not avvaye my PRAYER nor hath taken avvay his KINDENES from mee LXVII For the Cheeff in Song Musicque A Psalme Song GOD be gratious vnto vs and blesse vs and LIGHTEN vs with his COVNTENANCE surely that they may knowe the WAYE of SALVATION among all Nations of the world that the People may confesse thee O GOD that all People may confesse thee That all Nations may Reioyce Triumph that thou Iudgest the People and leadest the folke rightely and discreetly surely That the People may confesse thee ô GOD that all People may confesse thee Our own GOD blesse vs that the Earth may giue her Abundance of increase GOD blesse vs that all out-coastes of the Earth may fear him LXVIII For the Cheeff of DAVID A Psalm Song LET GOD arise and let his Enimyes be skatered and they that hate him flee before him Drive them away like smoke and as wax melteth before the fire so let the WICKED perish before GOD. That the RIGHTEOVS may reioyce that they may leap before GOD and REIOYCE with ioy ô SING vnto GOD CHAVNT out his NAME strew vnto him that ride-eth in the Deserts and in his NAME ETERNALL vawnt and skip before him A father of the fatherles and a Husband of the Widowes is GOD in his holly MANSION hee teacheth to keep house alone hee bringeth out the Restrained in to commodious places but the wayward ones abide still in Droughth O GOD when thou wentest out before thy People when thou marchedst in the Wildernes surely the Earth shook in Sinai and the Heavens dropped from the very GOD of Israel thou droppedst liberall showers ô GOD thou confirmedst thine Inheritance when it was weery thy Congregation dwelt ther ô GOD and thou didest PROVIDE for the Oppressed My LORD gaue his word and ther
haue made the carcases of thy Servants meat for the fowles of Heaven and the flesh of thy Gratious ones food for the beasts of the erth They haue shed their blood like water round about Ierusalem and ther is none that buiryeth them and wee are a Reproche a Laughing stock and a Mocking stock to all our Neighbours round about vs. O ETERNALL wher to wilt thou be angry for euer how lōg shall thy Ialousy burn like fire ô powre out thy hot Wrath vpon the Hethen which know thee not and vpon the Kingdoms that call not vpon thy NAME Because it hath eatē vp Iacob and they haue made his goodly dwelling desolate Remember not our former Iniquityes but set thy mercyes quickly before vs for wee are greatly waste-ed Help vs ô GOD for the GLORY of thy NAME and deliuer vs and make reconciliation for our sinnes for thy Names sake Why shall the Hethen SAY Wher is their GOD Let him be known manifestly among the Hethen before our eyes a Revenge of the blood of his Servantes that is shed Let the Prisoners groneing come before thee and according to the greatnes of thine ARME restore thou them that are condemned to dye And to our Neighbours turn into their bosomes seven times ô Lord their Reproche which they have reproched thee and wee thy People and the sheep of thy pasture will publish and tell out thy PRAYSE for ever yea for all Generations LXXX For the Cheeff vpon Shoshannim Edbuth A Psalm of ASAPH O Sheephard of Israel hear vs thou that conductest Ioseph like a flock of sheep Inhabitest the Cherubs SHINE out Rouse vp thy STRENGTH before Ephraim Benjamin and Manasses and come and help vs. Guide vs O GOD by the Shineing of thy COVNTENANCE we may be safe O ETERNALL GOD of hostes How long wilt thou FVME against the PRAYERS of thy People thou feedest them with bred of weeping and make-est them drink with abundance of Teares Thou settest vs a Taunt for our Neighbours and our Enimyes make a Mock at them O GOD of Hostes Conduct vs by the Shineing of thy COVNTENANCE wee may bee safe Thou remoovedst a VINE out of Egypt and expelledst the Hethen and plantedst it thou madest a clean riddance before it and madest her rootes take root fill the Land and the hilles wear covered with her Shadow her branches beeing like mighty Ceders her short bowes and sucking shoots shee reached out to the Sea and to the Rivers Why hast thou broke-en down her hedgees that all Travailers doe curss her The Savage Swine out of the wood and the wilde beestes of the feeld waste it and devoure it ô GOD of Warr com look vpon I pray thee out of Heauen and behold and visit this Vine the Stock which thy right hand hath planted and vpon the SONNE which thou hast confirmed to thy self which are burnt with fire as of a purgeing and perish with thy chideing Countenance Let thy Hand bee vpon all human men of thy Right hand which thou hast confirmed vnto thee that wee may not slip back from thee quicken vs to call vpon thy NAME ô ETERNALL GOD of Hostes Guid vs with the Shineing of thy COVNTENANCE that wee may be safe LXXXI For the Cheeff vpon the Git Instrument A Psalm of ASAPH SOVND out to our MIGHTY GOD of STRENGTH Sing aloud to the GOD of Jacob take vp the Psaltery and take the taber the sweet harp and the Viol and at our feast-dayes in the new-moones appointed blow the Trumpet for that was a prescribe-ed custom of the GOD of Iacob vnto Israel hee set it a TESTIMONY in Ioseph of his going out against the Land of Egypt I heard Lips that I knew not hee whos shoulders I took from the burden and his handes went from the basket in distresse thou didst call J released thee I answered thee in secret thunder tryed thee at the waters of Meribah surely Hear O thou my People of Israel and I will protest of thee if thou wilt hear mee that ther bee no strange GOD within thee neither wilt fall down to worship any forain GOD I the ETERNALL thy GOD which brought thee out of the Land of Egypt open thy mouth wide and I will fill it But my People Israel would not hearken to my VOYCE nor consent vnto mee and I let them goe in the torment of their mindes and walk in their own counsells If Israel had hearkened to mee and had walked in my wayes J would had soon abased their Enimyes and layed my hand on their foes The Haters of the ETERNALL had been devoteed to him and their time should had lasted for Ever and hee would had fed him with wheaten flower and I would had satisfyed thee from the Hony rock LXXXII A Psalm of ASAPH GOD standeth cheeff in the Assembly of GOD and is IVDGE among the Godes themselves Why will you doe wrong JVDGEMENT and accept the face of the vvicked ones Surely Iudge yee the Empty and the fatherlesse the oppressed and poor-man with Iust IVDGEMENT Free and deliuer the Empty and Needy out of the handes of the VVicked But they know nothing nor vnderstand any thing they walk in darknes that all the foundations of the Erth are moved I sayd Yee are Godes and I call yee all the Children of the Most Highe but like men shall yee dye and fall like any one of the Prince-es Vp thou O GOD and Iudge the Earth for thou hast inheritance in all Nations LXXXIII A Psalm Song of ASAPH O GOD bee not thou silent hold not thy peace nor sit thou still ô ALLMIGHTY one For behold thine ENIMYES that hate thee make a noyse and hold vp the head they take crafty counsell against thy People and consult against thy Preserved They say Come let vs cut them off from a Nation that the NAME of Israel bee never remembred more for they consult in their mindes together and make a Covenant against thee The Tabernacles of Edom and Moab and the Ismaelites and them of Hagar Gebal and Ammon and Amalek and Phelistia with the Inhabitantes of Tyre yea Assur also is ioyned with them and wear a helping Arme to the Children of Lot surely Doe thou to them as thou didst to Midian as thou
I decline not from thy TESTIMONY When I saw Transgressors which kept not thy Saying I was exceedingly greeved ô mark how I love thy PRECEPTS and according to thy LOVEING KINDENES revive mee The beginning of thy WORD is TRVTH and every one of thy IVST DECREES is for ever SH When Prince-es persecuted mee for nothing and my hart was afrayed because of thy WORD I ioyed concerning thy SAYING as a man that had found a great Booty I hate and abhore falshood and I love thy LAW Seven times a day I praise thee for thy RIGHTEOVS IVDGEMENTS ther is great PEACE to them that love thy LAW And ther is nothing shall offend them I hope for thy SALVATION because J doe thy COMMANDEMENTS My Soul keepeth thy TESTIMONYES and I love them exceedingly I keep thy COMMISSIONS and thy TESTIMONYS because all my wayes are before thee T. O ETERNALL let my SOVND com before thee and according to thy WORD giue mee VNDERSTANDING let my Request com before thee and according to thy Saying deliver mee And that my lips may vtter Prayse ô teach mee thy PRESCRIPTIONS and my tonge report thy SAYING for all thy COMMANDEMENTS are IVST Let thy hand be to help mee for J make choise of thy PRECEPTS J long for thy SALVATION O ETERNALL thy LAW being my cheeff Respect That my Soul may PRAYSE thee as long as it liueth because thy IVDGEMENTS have holpen mee J goe astray like a lost sheep ô seek out thy Servant for J forget not thy COMMANDEMENTS CXX A Song of Gradations IN my Affliction I CALLED vnto the ETERNALL to hear mee ô ETERNALL deliver my Soul from false Lippes and a deceiptfull Tong. What shall it giue vnto thee and what shall it bring vnto thee a deceiptfull Tong sharp Arrovves of a strong man vvith hot Juniper coles VVoe is mee that I have sojourned in Meshek and dvvelt vvith the Tentes of Kedar my Soul hath dvvelt her ther to long vvith him that hate-eth PEACE For vvhen J speake of PEACE they are for vvarr CXXI A Song of Gradations SHALL I lift vp mine eyes to the Hilles from whence shall my HELP com My Help is from the ETERNALL maker of Heaven and Earth O let him not suffer thy foot to slip nor let him slomber that keepeth thee Behold hee vvill neither slombe◠nor sleep that keepeth Jsrael The ETERNALL that keepeth thee vvill be a Shadovv at thy Right hand that the Sunn smite thee not by day nor the moon by night The ETERNALL vvill Keep thee and preserue thy life from all evill the ETERNALL vvill preserue thy going out and thy comming in from this time and for euer CXXII A Song of Gradations of DAVID I Reioyce-ed when they SAYD to mee Let vs goe to the House of the ETERNALL and our feet shall stand in thy gates ô Jerusalem Jerusalem that is built like a Citty vvell pack together vvith it self Because thither goe vp the Tribes the Tribes of the ETERN and the whole Testimony of Israel to worship the NAME of the Eternall for ther they sit in Trones for Iudgement the THRONES of the House of David wish PEACE with Ierusalem that they may prosper that love thee Let PEACE be in thy Trenches and Prosperity in thy Palaces for my Bretheren and friends sakes I vvish PEACE in thee for the House of the ETERNALL our GOD his sake J vvish thee vvell CXXIII A Song of Gradations VNTO thee I lift vp mine eyes ô thou Dweller in the Heavens Behold as the eyes of men Servantes are to the hand of their maisters as the eyes of a maide to the hand of her Mistresse so are our eyes to the ETER our GOD vntill hee shall Pitty vs. Pitty vs pitty vs O ETERN for wee are very full of Contempt our Soul is to full to it self of the skornfull Contempt of Idle and haughty men CXXIV A Song of Gradations of DAVID NOT for the ETERNALL that was with vs may Israel now SAY not for the ETERNALL that was with vs when men rose vp against vs even then they had swellowed vs vp alive when their Anger burned against vs. Then the waters had overflowed vs and the Current runn over our Soules then had a stream of swelling waters gon clean over our Soules Blessed be the ETERNALL that hath not given vs a prey to their teeth Our Soul is escape-ed like a bird from the fowlers Snare The Snare is broken and wee are escape-ed Our HELP is in the NAME of the ETERNALL the make-er of Heaven and Earth CXXV A Song of Gradations THEY that trust in the ETERNALL are like Mount Sion that shall not be moved but abide for ever The Hills are round about Jerusalem and the ETERNALL is round about his People from this time and for euer For ther shall noe vvicked shaft rest by the Lot of the RIGHTEOVS Because the Righteous set not their hands to any wrong Be good O ETERN to the good and vpright in their hartes and they that turn their crooked wayes let the ETERN make them walke with them that work the sorrow that Peace may bee vpon Israel CXXVI A Song of Gradations WHEN the ETERN brought again the captivity of Sion wee wear like men in a Dream Then wear our mouthes full of LAVGHTER and our tongs with SONETS Then SAYD they among the Hethen The ETERN hath don much among these men The ETERNALL hath don great things with vs and wee reioyce-ed ô ETERNALL bring our captivity again like the Rivers in the South That they that sowe with teares may reap with Songs that hee that went out weeping bearing his seedleep may com againe with SONETS bringing his sheaves CXXVII A Song of Gradations of Salomon IF the ETERNALL build not the house in vaine doe the builders therof labour in it If the ETERNALL keep not the Citty in vain doe the Warders wach It is in vain to you that yee rise vp early and sit down late and eat your meat with cares seeing hee giveth his BELOVED rest Behold children and the fruit of the womb are an hereditary reward of the ETERNALL As arrovves in a strongmans hand so are the Children of youth Happy is the man that hath his quiver full of them they shall not be abashed vvhen they talk vvith their enimyes in the gate
Iudgement and wholely just and lighteneth all by his Law and must needs require attendance of brutish and heathenish men To turn him from the way of destruction to the way of salvation from the bad way to the good way from the way of death to the way of life by the Scriptures and confirm him And this likewise is a wonderfull benefit of the Sabbath Now in the greatest distress that can com by the Molesters of the church that might even break a mans hart to think on Ps. 115. when they see their feet are gone from under them and they are about to despaire of life and safety then the repetitions of Gods great workes and kindenesses doe releeve them and set them up again with this comfort within them that no corrupt estate or government can indure or reigne check by jowl with him or any Corregnum of such as plot and decree Mischeeff against the just and harmless Therfor now the church prayeth for a cleer revenge a due retribution and a treble reward upon their oppressours and that their God the Eternall their trust and relye would unweave their mischeeff and unplot their devisees and render their own sorrow upon them and destroy them Construction Tsade Food which is the light and understanding of the word the first of all creatures Gen. 1. Io. 1. and it yeeldeth all contentment and satiety help and succour Heer in this peece the brute and foolish are opposed to the lerned and the vexers wicked and ungodly to the Godly and just and quiet ones answerable to the 92. as it were the same and the greevers ther are Iudged heer A great dore is opened c. Daleth an entrance or dore for instruction Mark the repetition destroy c. workers of Greeff c. brute and foolish c. correction teaching omnipotencey of the Eternall in knowledge and power to revenge by paying every one according to their works as Iudges of the earth Ps. 62. That the unquiet and disquieters may have no quiet rest nor Sabbath at all but end with greeff and mischeeff of their own And this according to the letter Ghimel in the last peece for reward or right or judgement or revenge as yf it were still the same psalme observing the A B C for verses with one over to shew Ghimel in the second vers Numbers The wildernes heer is the proud the wicked the disquieters the bruteish the foolish insulters the vaunters the arrogant oppressors sleyers murtherers naughty and mischeevous ones ill Rulers that hunt for the life of the just and condemners of innocents c. The word giveth rest from such and safety and defens but to such is no peace rest nor Sabbath at all Is. 54.48 Iude c. PSALM XCV THer is no peace to the wicked so ther is no rest but to them of understanding and how great a benefit is it then to be brought unto it In this psalme it is by way of their behaviour in the church and Sabbath service They must beginn with triumph to the Everlasting their righteousnes and accord to the rock of their salvation the Scriptures from whence they were digged and formed with psalmes of thanks offering for deliverance for the greatnes of God and his kingdom who hath in his handes all unaccessible places by power of creation putting off the shoos of fowl wayes and unclean lives for the holynes of the place by the feet of the saintes They must doo all manner of reverence to their makeer their God for their induement of Grace and Manners for their Education and fostering them with his own hand by his Law and not with hard and stony hartes full of strife and infidelity and devilish temptation to hear his word but without any wrath or murmuring as Ps. 4. with all contentment to hearken to him and consider his work That they bee not wicked and greeve God and err still in their harts ignorant of his wayes notwithstanding their instructions and bee depriveed of their rest Ps. 81. Consider the great work of the third day Gen. 1. Com. 4. wher it is to bee noteed that the weightynes of the work is still to bee admireed for the necessity of rest and for greater sanctification and blessing of the Sabbath ever som part of the creation is recorded and the Great Creator to be magnifyed extolled and worshiped Construction Tsade for meat or food and that is the makeing and creating of us by the word by the comming together of the words made and formed and feeding and handes c. And hee biddeth prepare gentle and soft harts for instruction at the time of hearing the word that the meat may doo them good that they may beleeve and relent and repent at the comming of the Kingdom When they see the word to raigne and rule see their harts are mislead and hardned and cannot repent nor receive the food at Meribah and Massah Exod. 16. He behold for the greatnes of the Creator they must present themselves in songes gratefullnes in prayers of humblenes with all reverence for the deep serchings out of sight and the steep hills in sight by the abounding and defect of He in divers words and rareity of construction It is also apparent by Hem the demonstrative they comming twise together Numbers Ther is nothing but the word and the wildernes Government and no Government docible and tractable and quiet people and hard harted and disquiet and molesters tempters and provokers Which have no benefit of the word and cannot obtein the rest of the Kingdom but to the troublesom is tribulation and anguish PSALM XCVI THe Everlasting the God of righteousnes is greater and more commendable and far more reverend then all the Gods of the Heathen for makeing and confirming the heavens of his sanctuary wherall worship Majesty strength and decencey is taught before him out of his word wher hee raigneth and setleth all the world as Ps. 29. so sure by his doctrine that it can never bee mooved or carryed away again by any winde And this is likewise to bee reckoned a great benefit of the Sabbath service to all nations and thought worthy of a new song of triumph to his Name and the glory therof His kingdom of righteousnes as Ps. 4. and his miraculous salvation heerby to bee preached and told every day among the Heathen That all Nations famylyes of all the earth may ascribe all glory and strength to his Name and offer and bow unto him with holy fear and trembling before him That thâ— Heavens and the earth the sea and all that is in it may thunder out joy and gladnes all plants feeld-herbs and trees of the wood leap and triumph and keep Sabbath for the Iustice constancey and faythfullnes of their king at his comming to judgement now by his word and secureity of their kingdom for evermore Consider the second dayes work Gen. 1. with the Commandement Construction Tsade for meat or food this is joy in
and commendation with his inheritance also and thank him for the same Construction Quoph of Jaquaph to compass or inviron you must consider the largenes and the bountifullness of Gods loveing kindenes and his exceeding mercyes and the wide compass of his grace and the greatnes of his good will that entertaineth all that observ him The contrary heerunto is the rebellion wrathfullnes of the people as Children of wrath Eph. 2. Col. 3. Ia. 1. following all ungodlines putting on a contrary habit meerly to anger him and tempt him Therto belong the doubling of the words Chosen inheritance Virtue over-cover overwhelm people as Psal. 117. Kindenes goodnes mercy favorable refuse overthrow Anger freat vex rebell prais worship in the first and last wordes Vav a hook or crook to pull them out of the fire and out of the water to save and deliver them By the doubling of the words saveed Salvation quit delivered Sauiour The contrary overthrow scatter captivers Both the letters make Quav of Quavah to expect or gather together Heerto they expect not nor wait but are impatient of all Gods Counsell and fall on lusting Ia. 1. Mark the repetition murmur beleeved and word counsell assembly gather scatter c. Numbers The word and parts of the kingdom of God which is fayth and patience Apo. 1. Which the people fayled of and could not abide such spirituall dyet They could not beleev the covenant nor wait for the promiss but lust murmur and repine and grew all abroad and out of rule and out of all obedience and at havok like a wildernes See the repetition word hear hearken beleev wait counsell Covenant c. Heer particular Name they put on the manners of the Hethen See the Petaroth Phineas Nu. 25. For the word of atonement and mediation the kingdom of Priesthood c. THE FIFTH BOOK PSALM CVII FOOles will not understand but they that bee wise will understand That this book may bee no foreiner to the rest it hath his Text and foundation from the former to wit beeing hanged and coupled to the 92. like the rest of that book and to express the glorious Instruments of this Service the divers kindes of misery and the meanes the sundry manners and the causes of them and the duty and necessity of thanks and declaration of kindenes By famous prayers from the skill of the sweet singer of Israel the harps and viols of the saintes and sweet odours and sacrificees of thanks that men may learn and mark well the way to distress and beware therof The Church beeing scattered over all the world without any certain dwelling with great wandring and great scarceity and much oppression by pilgrimage and error the obscurity and their dark imprisonment for stubborn ignorance against the word of God what horrible sorrows they fall into to affict them by transgressing the word for want of knowledge therof The highe dangeer of sea-buissines as yf they sought to oppose God for deliverance yet by faith they crying for help the word and knowledge therof is sent still to save them Mar 13. Ps. 56. Which by shewing them their mighty and often deliverancees and blessings and teaching them the way to beleev their salvation and building their faith upon a ground of former deliverancees and cherishing the just and stopping the mouthes of the wicked now for the inestimable goodnes and price of this wonderfull and everlasting kindenes and redemption hee would have the Church still to bee minde-full of and make allwayes confession of the same with continuall thanks and the best and worst in the congregation to exalt him and worship him beeing sure that they that bee wise will remember it and not neglect the same but observe that the wisedom of the word shall bee still their deliverance and the faith theron shall save them Construction Quoph of Iaquaph to compass or goe about intended by thes words tormentor wandered distress streits prisoners in iron bands afflicted streit troubles cōstreint run about reeling gidy storm dwelling citty a walled town ransom save deliver bring out c. doubled And they signify the stretines of affliction Zain to hear They cry and they are heard and saved c. hee dealeth by the subject Mark the word cry in hebrew spelt twise with Zain and twise other wise as Neh. 9. also Zain seven for sevenfold judgement and also sevenfold kindenes Mark the repetition wrong calling for judgement can not be heard for repentance and crying for mercy is so loud Deuteronomy Elle ha debharim these are the wordes or Acts or things c. a running over the other books of the Law a recitation Neh. 9. and a coronation of them by an infinit confession and publication of all the wonderfull works of God Iob. 37. his deliverances out of all kinde of affliction and his perpetuall kindenes to them intended by the repetition of the words worship confess declare workes wonderfull works of kindenes thanks exalt observe understand for to reckon c. PSALM CVIII IN this Psalme hee brings part of the 57 for his readines to sing after his calamities and the 60 for ioy of victory and prosperity and word of comfort out of the word of God for inlargeing the Church and all for the kindenes of God Psal. 92. that when hee hath handled the other partes of that Psalme hee maketh this the last Therfor now beeing ready to sing hee taketh up his Instruments which are as well the Skill of his hart Psal. 78. By which hee led the people as the forme of materiall Instruments Of which he handleeth the 10 stringed viol by 10 countryes the Church and holy land of Canaan which hee makeeth to sing by setting and tuneing of them Vpon thes 10 countryes the song is skoreed out as upon ten cordes by all the cliffs all which beeing instruments of the prais of God are heer made musicall strings and concord of the Church and keyes of David This is the quire and lute and harp and singers that carry the partes play them and the song is all upon the decachord decalogne the ten commandements his Theme and Tex◠and glory That notwithstanding this great strength and power and officious readines of all parts of the Church hee giveth all strength to the Law and the righteousnes and holynes therof and all prosperity to God as Ps. 60. This righteousnes beeing his glory and his God as Psal. 4. Hee calleth up betime to invent and sing as Ps. 92. And to set him out in all nations for the greatnes of his kindenes and faithfullnes of his promiss And because the same is infinite and reacheth up to heaven and over all the earth that with songs of prais and Psalmes of exposition hee might exalt him and glorify him over all the world That the cloudes and glory and the understanding and the substance therof may bee zealously revealed unto all and thanks for all Construction Quoph of Iaquaph to inviron or compass which