SOME Collections of Scripture WITH Private Meditations As an help in PRAYER WITH Some Hymns and Psalms of DAVID 2 Chro 6. 19. Have respect therefore to the Prayer of thy Servant and to his Supplication c. Jer. 29. 12 13. Then shall ye call upon me and ye shall go and Pray unto me and I will hearken unto you And ye shall seek me c. Collos 3. 16. Let the word of Christ dwell in you richly in all wisdom c. Cum Humilitatis Reverentia By G. M. London Printed for the Author 1695. A Form of Prayer in Scripture-Phrase O GOD the God of the Spirits of all Flesh who hath Created the Heavens and stretched them out and the Earth with the Fruits thereof and Breath and Spirit to them that walk herein who art clothed with Honour and Majesty who coverest thy self with Light as with a Garment Look down from Heaven â—hy holy Habitation and have respect unto the Prayers of thy Servants and let our Prayers â—ome before thee as Incense and the lifting up of our hands as the Morning Sacrifice We â—onfess O Lord thou didst Create our first Parents in thy own Image and beathedst into â—hem the Breath of Life but they have eaten of the forbidden Fruit all mankind from their Loyns have sinned and come short of the Glory of God And yet O Lord to fill up the Measure of our Condemnation we have â—dded actual Sins for who can say he hath made his Heart clean We have sinned in thought opur Souls which should have been seasoned with the sweet Meditations of thy Goodness Mercy and Grace have been prostrated and assailed with black and hollish thoughts of Atheism and Dispair Blasphemy and all manner of Soul-vexing fears O! what a world of Ignorance Vanity of Mâ— and disesteem of thy mercy and unbâ—â— have seated themselves in our Hearts confess O Lord we have sinned in our woâ— oâ—r Tongues that should have been as Trâ—pets to sound thy praise have been deâ—guilty of Blasphemy Swearing Lying Sâ—dering Reviling Rayling Brawling Scosâ— Boasting Sowing Seeds of Discord amoâ— our Neighbours The Tongue is a Firâ— World of Iniquity and hath defiled whole Bodies and is set on Fire of Hell confess Lord we have sinned indeed witâ— our worldliness covetousness pride lust â—â— lice lukewarmness impatiency vain glory self love O the wrongs we have done the Goods we have ill-gotten and the time have mispent and O the Sabbath we have pâ—phaned Oh! the pollutions the distempâ— and estrangedness from God in our Souâ— Oh the Villanies and the Vanities of â—â— who le Life O Lord we may as well numâ— the Stars as our sins But dear Father thou pleased to translate us from darkness light and from the Power of Satan into â—â— Kingdom of thy dear Son Let us no lonâ— abuse the good gifts of our God and turn Grace into wantonntss And let us not griâ— the Holy Spirit of God whereby we are seaâ— unto the day of Redemption O help a keep us that we do not wrong the blesâ— Name of God his Word Religiopn and Pâ—â—fession of Godliness We confess Lord have sinned against thy Law and have 〈◊〉 all thy Commandments O Lord we confess we have sinned against the Gospel we are ashamed of the Gospel of Christ tho it be the power of God unto Salvation to every one that believeth We have not thirsted after Christ our Souls have not panted after him as the Hart panteth after the water-brooks We have not loved the Lord Jesus in Sincerity nor considered him as the Life of our Souls We have not counted all things loss and dung for the knowledg of Christ Jesus our Lord we take no pains to know him and the power of his Resurrection and the Fellowship of his Sufferings we hide as it were our Faces from him and will not have him to Reign over us we have not relied upon Christ for Justification Sanctification and Salvation O Christ there is not one of us that stireth up himself to take hold on thee And yet Lord thou hast given us space to repent of all our Abominations which we have committed yet we have not repented but have made our faces harder than a Rock and have refused to return But above all Oh the insolencies and accesses and tyrannies of our bosom sins our darling delights which we cannot part withal And for all these sins thou O God hast Punished us less than our Iniquities have deserved It is of the Lord's Mercy we are not consumed because his compassions fail not If thou shouldst lay Judgment to the line and righteousness to the plumeâ— thou mightest make thy Jealousy to smoke against us and the Curses that are written in thy book thâ— mightest lay upon us and blot out our Namâ— from under Heaven Thou mightest maâ—thine Arrows Drunk with Blood and tâ—â— Sword devour Flesh from the beginning of râ—venges and give us our Portion with tâ—â— wicked that are turned into Hell and all tâ—â— Nations that forget God But thou O Lorâ— hast said If we confess our Sins thou art faitâ—ful and just to forgive us our sins and cleanse uâ— from all our unrighteousness Thou hast proâ—mised That he that covereth his sins shall noâ— prosper but he that confesseth his sins anâ— forsaketh them shall have Mercy Thou haâ— proclaimed Return thou back-sliding Israel saith the Lord and I will not cause mine anâ—ger to fall upon thee for I am Merciful saith the Lord only acknowledg thy Iniquity that thou hast transgressed against the Lord thy God Thou hast threatened I will return toâ— my place till they acknowledg their Offences in their Afflictions they will seek me early Thou hast sweetly encouraged us if any man say I have sinned and pâ—rverted that which was right and it profitted me not thou wilt deliver his Soul from the Pit and his Life shall see the Light And O Lord in reference to these thy sayings promises and proclamations threats and encouragments we do embolden our selves to come before thee to acknowledg our Wickedness and our iniquities O Lord we lie down in our shame and â—ur confusion covereth us We cannot but say we have sinned against the Lord our God we â—nd our Fathers from our youth have not oâ—eyed the voice of the Lord our God And â—oh that we could seek the Lord as the Children of Israel and Judah together going and weepâ—ng asking the way to Zion with our Faces thither-ward This is a time of Mourning our sins have given us an occasion of sorrow Oh that we were on the Mountains like the Doves of the Vallies every one of us mourning for our Iniquities Why Lord it is thy own promise A new Heart will I give you and a new Spirit will I put within you and I will take away thy stony Heart out of your Flesh and I will give you an Heart of Flesh Oh let us take to us words and say to the Lord take away all iniquity from us and receive
give us all other Graces a lively hope that may save us yea in those times let us with Abraham against hope believe in hope and give us joy in the Holy Ghost Thou hast said Joy is sown for the Righteous and gladness for the upright in heart O give us a filial Fear because thou takest pleasure in those that fear thee For in that day that thou makest up â—â—y Jewels they shall be thine and thou wilt spare them as a man spareth his own Son that serveth him O give t is humility and lowliness of Spirit casting down imaginations and every thing that exalteth it self against the Knowledg of God O give us meekness of mind that the Wolf may dwell with the Lamb and the Leopard may lie down with the Kid the Calf and young Lion and the Fatling together whilst a little Child may lead them O give us peace of conscience and the peaco of God that may guide guard and garison our whole souls And for our further assurance o give an increase and growth to all these Graces and do thou guide us continually and satisfie our souls in drought O make Fat Our Bones that we may be like a watered Garden and like a Spring of water whose waters fail not O let the Sun of Righteousness arise with healing under his wings that we may go forth and grow up as the Calves of the Stall O that thopu would'st be pleased to make our path as the path of the just even as the shining light that shineth more and more unto the perfect day O that thou wouldest be unto us as dew unto Israel that we might grow as the Lilly and cast forth our Root as Lebanon that our branches might spread and our beauty be as the Olive-tree and our smell as Lebanon O Lord hast not thou said I will pour water upon him that is thirsty and floods upon the dry ground and I will pour my Spirit upon thy Seed and my blessing upon thy Off-spring O put into our hearts their ways who go from strength to strength every one of them in Zion appearing before God Nor pray we only for Remission but for cleansing not only for Pardon but for purifying and power against sin and deliverance from sin Holy God thou hast promised That he that is left in Zion and he that is left in Jerusalem shall be called holy when the Lord shall have washed away the filth of the Daughters of Zion and shall have purged the blood of Jerusalem from the midst thereof by the Spirit of Judgment and by the Spirit of burning Holy God thou hast said thou wilt put thy law in our hearts and write it in our inward parts Holy God it is thy promise the first promise and the Foundation of all other promises that the Seed of the woman should bruise the Serpents head that Christ should break the Power and Dominion of Satan O that having those Promises we could live by Faith that we could rest upon God and believe that God of his Free Grace in Christ will purge us from the filthy Remainders of sin and renew us more and more after his Own Image in Righteousness and true holiness Surely Lord thoâ— hast said it and therefore no Presumption buâ— true Obedience to assure our selves of whatsoever thou hast promised and entred into bond and covenant Freely to give us He that believeth on thee as the Scripture saith Out of his belly shall flow Rivers of living waters Christ is a Fountain of Grace ever flowing and ever Full and of his fulness we all receive grace for grace There is no grace but from Christ nor no communion with Christ but by Faith O therefore that we could embtace him by Faith for our sanctification that so we might be filled with the gifts of his grace in our measure 'T is Christ that is our Wisdom and Sanctification as well as Righteousness and Redemption O that our Jesus would justifie our Persons and sanctifie our Natures and enable us to those duties of holiness that he requires and that he would make us unto himself a Kingdom of Priests an holy Nation O Lord we have many potent Enemies that daily war against us the World the Flesh and the Devil and Our strength is too weak to vanquish the Allurements of this World and to repress the Lusts of our rebellious hearts or to defeat the Polices of Satan much more to cleanse our own hearts But O Lord thou hast promised O help us to believe that God who is rich in mercy will aid and assist and bless our Endeavours yea and do the whole work for us and in us according to his good pleasure O grant we may not love the world nor the things of the world that our hearts be not over-charged with surfeiting and drunkenness and the cares of this life to neglect â—uâ— immortal souls O do thou be pleased to rouze us and lift us up from the death of sin unto a life of righteousness And good Lord grant that we may not suffer sin to reign in our mortal bodies that we should obey it in the lust â—hereof Neither suffer us to yeild our Members as â—nstruments of unrighteousness unto sin but unto God as those that are alive from the dead that being made free from sin and become the Servants of God we may have our fruit unto holiness and the end everlasting life And dear Father grant that we may be sober and vigilant because our Advetsary the Devil as a roaring Lion walketh about seeking whom he may devour O make us strong in the Lord and in the power of his might that we may be able to stand against all the wilds of Satan Why Lord we wrestle not against flesh and blood only but against principalities and powers against thr Rulers of the darkness of this world and against spiritual wickedness in high places O therefore strengthen us that we may stand having the girdle of truth about our Loins the Breastplate of Righteousness and the shield of Faith wherewith we may be able to quench all the fiery darts of the wicked We confess and acknowledg O Lord to thy glory that all our strength is in thee and in the power of thy might And dear Father we humbly beg that thou wilt be pleased to stand and stay by us by thy blessed Spirit of Grace the remaining part of our days that we may live righteously and godly in this present world so that we may be able to stand when the secrets of all hearts shall be laid open and may hear that joyful call thy blessed Son shall then pronounce Come ye blessed inherit the Kingdom prepared for you That then we may enter into those Joys that the Living God hath provided for such as Fear and Love and delight in him and for ever enjoy that glory our blessed Saviour speaketh of that he had with thee before the Foundation of the world O help us to draw near unto thee in
hâ—â— chastised us and we were chastised turn thâ— us and we shall be turned thou art the Loâ—â— our God O! that remembring our ways arâ— all our doings wherein we have been defileâ— we could loath our selves in our own sighâ— for our iniquities and for our abominations O! give us saving knowledg give us tâ—â— spirit of Truth who will guide us into â— truth incline our Ears to wisdom and oâ— Hearts to understanding that we may cry aâ—ter knowledg and lift up our Voice for uâ—derstanding that we may understand the feâ—â— of the Lord and find the knowledg of oâ— God that we may be able to cry unto thee â— our God we know thee hast thou not promâ—ed saying I will put my law into their Hearâ— and write it in their inward parts and I wâ— be their God and they shall be my Peopâ—â— O! that thou would'st give us this Knowledâ— that thou would'st fill our Hearts with tâ—â— knowledg as the Waters cover the Sea â— give us the Spirit of Wisdom and Revelatiâ—â— in the Knowledg of Christ that the Eyes â— our Understandings being inlightned we mâ— know what is the hope of his Calling aâ—â— what is the riches of the Glory of his Inherâ—tance in the Saints Dear FAther is not thâ— secret with the Righteous is not the secret the Lord Revealed to them that fear him â— give us a love of God and of Christ and all things that belong to him Thou hast said I will Circumcise their Hearts and the Hearts of our seed to love the Lord our God with all our Hearts and with all our Souls that we may live and not die Oh set us on fire burn us make us new and Transform us that nothing besides thee may live in us O! wound very deeply our Hearts with the Dart of thy Love and that because of our sins which are many are forgiven us we may love thee not a little but much Oh! that we were sick of Love that our understandings will and affections were all overcome and amazed and that our faintings were enflamed towards thee and even â—melted into thee O sweet Jesu touch our Souls with thy Spirit that Vertue may come out of thee into us draw us unto thy self Oh let the savors of thy Oyntments whose very Breath is love be ever in our Nostrils O give us the Flagons of the New Wine of thy Kingdom which may lift up our Souls above our selves in our Loves that we may forget the low and base Loves of this World and by an Heavenly access may be Transported into an Heavenly Love and Embrace Jesus Christ who is the Lord from Heaven with a love like himself Oh! let us desire Union with thee and help us to bring forth fruit unto thee O give us the fruit of the Spirit that may resemble thee and be pledges to us of thy Union with us O burn and consume whatsoever would grow one with our Souls besides thee O let the fire of thy Spirit so turn our Souls into a Spiritual Fire that the dross of the Flesh and the World being wholly consumed we may be Spirituaâ— and so bring forth Fruits only to the Spirit O sweet Saviour look upon us in mercy orâ— look of thine will awaken our loves and makâ— us to weep bitterly that we loved thee so little whom to love sufficiently our best and mightâ—est Loves are most insufficient Prevent ouâ— seeking with thy seeking be thou present witâ— us in thy Providence and Power when thoâ— seemest to be far off us in the tast of thy sweetness and fruition of thy Loves and then wheâ— we have regained thy Love we will hold morâ— hardly and keep more Fastly and love thee morâ— vehemently and provide a Stock of Loves in thâ— Summer against the Winter if it return any more O help us to love one another as Christ hath loved us and make Our Love to abound more more towards all men especially to them that arâ— of the houshold of Faith And good Lord cause us to love our Enemies to bless them that curse us and to pray for them that despightfully use us and persecute us O give us a zeal after God and his Truth good Causes and good men O let us not rest concented with a lukewarm Profession being neither cold nor hot but make Our Souls to break for the Longings they have for thy Judgments at all times O that we were Fervent in the Spirit zealous always in every good thing O that the zeal of thy house might even eat us up And that Our zeal might provoke Others unto thee O that thy Word were in Our Hearts like a burning fire that we were weary with forbearing and that we could not stay O give us the Grace of Patience Thou hast told us in the world we shall have Tribulation and thro' much tribulation we must enter into the Kingdom of God O make us to run with patience the Race that is ses before us looking unto Jesus the author and finisher of our Faith who for the joy that was set before him endured the Cross despised the shame and is set down at the right hand of the Throne of God O help us to consider him that endured such contradictions of sinners against himself lest we be wearied and Faint in Our Minds Let us not think it strange concerning the fiery Trial but rather rejoiâ—e in as much as we are made parâ—akers of Christs Sufferings that when his glory shall be revealed we may be glad also with exceeding joy O teach us to reckon with our selves that the sufferings of this present life are not worthy to be compared to that glory which shall be revealed in us Hast thou not said that if we be reproached for the Name of Christ happy are we O therefore that it may be given to us in the behalf of Christ not only to believe in him but also to suffer for his sake O help us to deny our selves and to take up our Cross daily and follow our Saviour Give us perseverance and to this end make us to build on thy promises Thou hast said that the steps of a good man are ordered by the Lord tho he fall he shall not be utterly cast down for the Lord upholdeth him with his right hand Thou hast said to your Old Age I am he and even to hoary hairs will I carry you and I will deliver you for this God is our God for ever and he will be our Guide even unto death O give us One Way and One Heart that we may Fear thee for ever And make thou an evetlasting covenant with us That thâ—n wilt not turn away from us to do us good O put thy Fear into our hearts that we may not depart from thee And dear Lord help us to hold fast the profession of our Faith without wavering confirm us unto the end that we may be blameless unto the coming and day of our Lord Jesus Christ And dear Father
full assurance of Faith having our consciences sprinkled with clean water and our souls purged and rinsed in the blood of the Lamb that we may be as Vessels fitted for the Masters use O that we could but seriously think of that abundant Love wherewith the Lord Jesus loved us in that he took upon himself our Nature and to leave the bosom of his Father for the redeeming of our lost souls and yet we cannot leave our bosom sins our darling delights which have put him to those grievous Pains and Sufferings O when shall it Once be that the Love of Christ might constrain us and bring us into an holy Admiration of liking and loving and delighting in him O that we had but hearts to remember those Passion-crys our dear Saviour uttered on the Cross saying My God my God why hast thou forsaken me that so we might forsake our daily sins that made him thus cry out And dear Father do thou enable us to clear up our Evidences for another world for this is transitory and passing away O let us think often of that great Account we must One Day make before the Just Judg of all the Eaoth O let it make us weep when our Hourglass is standing by us to see how â—ast one sand followeth each other And who knoweth whether this day may not be the Sun-set of our Lives But O and alas who would defer to be upon his 〈◊〉 that knows not how soon he may be called â—o judgment Why should we be such enemies to our own souls as not to be prepared to welcome Death The best Counsel and the surest and safest care we can take is to be still in a readiness with our Lamps trim'd that we may be Furnished with those Graces and fitted and prepared to enter into those Joys with the Bridegroom at his coming and seriously to think with our selves that every day we rise to be the day of our death and every night we go to our beds that we are laid down in our Graves Who can Forget his Grave that lays himself down in his Bed And who would not so provide for himself as every night to think he went to his Grave Our days are but Few and the night will come e're long that we must die indeed howsoever we peice and patch up this poor Cottage of the flesh it will at the last fall into the Lords hand and as time leaves us so will Judgment and Eternity certainly find us It was Davids saying and oh that it might be our practice every night to wash our Beds and to water our Couches with our Tears O let us not slip over one night without repentance nor go to our beds but beat upon our breasts and say with the Publican from our very hearts Lord be merciful unto me a sinner How sweet a rest will that night bring forth whose sleep is prevented with the consideration of sin O therefore do thou help us and teach and instruct us to order our Conversation aright that so we may see the salvation of our God O do thou keep up in our memories a serious remembrance of those storms that have already gone over our heads as Wars Sores Sicknesses Plagues and Burnings as we have seen with our Eyes and many seasons unseasonable because we could find no season to repent and weep and mourn for our sins and for that precious time we have so often mispent Our Springs have rather been our Graves than our Cradles our Summers have not shoot up but withered our Grass our Autumns have took away our flocks of sheep and for our late Harvests the Heavens themselves have not ceased weeping for us that could never yet find time to weep for our selves O the miserable miseries that have fallen upon us were not our houses infected and our City depopulated and many Graves made a bed wheâ—ein to lodge a whole Family O and alas what a hideous noise was heard about us In every Church Bells tolling in every Ward some dying in every street men watching in every place even every where wringing of hands wailing and weeping groaning and dying These are the evils that have been and how should we forget them that have seen them with our eyes And what better Rule have we to square our Lives by than the remembrance of those evils our Lives have suffered Let us look back with good Old Jacoh and see the great reason we have to redeem the time past and that to come because our days are evil It is meer presumption to boast of the time to come Can any man say he will live till to morrow Look back you that trust in the staff of Egypt there is no man can assure you of one day as near as 't is to night some of us may be dead before the evening and stiff with cold more fit to lodg in our graves under Earth than in our beds above it Nay let us assure our selves our Life is of no long continuance What speak we of to morrow or this day when we are not sure of the least part of times division a very hour nay less Watch therefore saith our Saviour for ye neither know the day nor the hour when the Son of Man will come What is our Life but a Few hours and in one of them death must on necessity come For 't is appointed for all men once to die and after that the Judgment O let us watch then for the hour is at hand and we do not know how soon it will seize upon us this very hour the breath we draw may be our infection this very hour the bread we eat may be our poyson this very hour the cup we drink of may be that bitter cup that may never pass from us this very night may our souls be required of us But thou O Lord give us a gracious visitation that we may highly prize this moment of time with most serious watchfulness O let those Considerations of Death and Judgment work effectually on our Hearts and Consciences that they might make our very hearts to bleed within us nay to break and fall asunder in our breasts like drops of water O with what enflamed attention should we hear and pray with what insatiable graspings should we lay hold on the Lord Jesus Christ O that streams of tears might run down our cheeks for this precious time we have lost a day will come we know not how soon that we shall be past it and cannot recover it no not so much as one hour if we could give a thousand nay ten thousand worlds for it But O the Losses of Losses the Loss of our immortal souls the Spouse of our well-beloved Christ How many tears did he shed to save it what groans crys prayers and his dearest Hearts Blood did he pour out before God to redeem our poor souls from the Jaws of Satan O sweet Jesuâ— what a Loss is this call to mind this O my soul and tremble
commune with God You shall With his delights be fed Offer the sacrifice Of Righteousness alway And cast our care upon the Lord To be our only stay Many there be that say Who will shew us a Glance But thou O Lord lift up the Light Of thy Kind Countenance Thou hast put in my heart More gladness in my time Than they had from their great incroâ—se Of all their Corn and Wine I will now lay me down In peace to take my sleep For thou O Lord assuredly Wilt me in safety keep Psalm 18. I Will love thee O Lord my strength He is my Rock in all distress My God my stay on whom I trust He 's my Buckler and my Fortress The Lord he is my high Tower And the Horn of my salvation On him I 'le trust all times for aid For he is a sure Foundation Upon the Lord God I will call His Name is worthy of all praise He saves us from our Enemies And preserves us in all his ways Sorrows of death beset me round With Armies of Ungodly Men A fear of death encompass'd me With snares of death prevented then In my distress I call'd on God My Cry came even into his Ear. O Lord be pleased to hear my voice For the sake of my Saviour dear On him alone still I will trust For succour at all times in need For he alone is my Relief And he will plentifully feed All those that truly on him wait In Faithfulness to do his will He will preserve them to the Last And bring them to his holy hill Where we with joy for ever shall Behold the glory of his Face To all Eternity and sit With him within his heavenly place Psal 23. THe living Lord my Shepherd is For me he doth take care To Pastures green he leadeth me Where his still Waters are 'T is he restoreth my poor Soul His Right-hand doth me take Into the Paths of Righteousness Even for his own name sake When through the Vale of Death's cold Shade I walk and nothing fear Thy Rod and Staff do comfort me For thou art with me there Thou hast prepar'd my Table Lord In presence of my Foes My head with oyl thou dost anoint My cup still overflows Surely the goodness of the Lord Shall crown my future days And I will dwell within thy house Ever to sing thy praise Psalm 27. first part THE Lord he is my salvation My light my strength and aid Whom shall I fear the Lords my Life I will not be afraid The wicked men like Troops encamp And up against me rise Coming on me to eat my flesh As Foes and Enemies In this I will be confident My Enemies shall fall Before the presence of thy Face They fell and stumbled all One thing have I desir'd of God And after that will seek To dwell within thy house O Lord And in thy presence keep For to behold thy beauty Lord All the days of my Life And in his Temple to enquire Where to be Free from strife For in the time of trouble thou Shalt be my hiding place O set me up upon that Rock Where I may see thy Face Then shall my head be lifted up Above mine Enemies Therefore will I offer to thee A Joyful Sacrifice O Lord to thee I will sing praise Yea to thee I will sing For in thy mercy thou wilt keep My soul from perishing The second part HEar me O Lord when I Cry with my voice to thee Some succour send to my poor soul In mercy answer me When thou saist seek my Face My heart shall â—hen reply Thy Face O Lord still I will seek And on thy Grace rely Hide not thy Face from me O God forsake me not For thou hast been my help alway When Parents me forgot Teach mâ— thy way O Lord In a plain path lead me In anger cast me not away But take me up to thee Deliver me O Lord From all mine Enemies And such as breathe out Cruelty Which falsly they devise I had fainted unless I had believed on thee Lord in the land of the living Thy goodness let me see O wait upon the Lord Wait on the Lord I say With Courage strong he will support Thy drooping soul alway Psalm 42. AS the pursued Hart doth pant After the water-brook So pants my soul for thee O God For a most gracious look My soul still thirsteth for my God O when shall I appear Before the living God who is My loving Father dear My Tears have been my meat by day And sighings in the night While they continually do say Where is thy God of might I had gone with the multitude But I remembred thee And went unto thy house O God In true sincerity I poured out my soul with them That kept holy thy day Rejoicing with that multitude Which do praise thee alway Why art thou cast down O my soul O do not thus repine Trust still on God his countenance On me shall ever shine Within me Lord my soul is low Therefore remember me From the Hill of the Hermonites And Jordan let me see Deep calleth unto deep O Lord Thy water spouts aloud Thy Waves and all thy Billows have Wrapt me in as a Shrowd G Lord by day and night I call With prayers unto thee Command thy loving kindness Lord And then my song shall be Unto my God who is my Rock Thou hast forgotten me And I go mourning all the day Oppress'd with misery As with a sword within my boneâ— Mine Enemies prevail While they say daily unto me VVhat doth thy God avail Chear up my countenance O God Support my drooping mind Hoping in God for him to praise Who gracious is and kind Psal 56. BE merciful to me O Lord For Man would me Devour He fighting daily pressing on To swallow me each Hour But O! thou high and mighty God In thee I trust for aid And on thy word will I depend What time I am afraid I will not fear what flesh can do In thee I put my trust Tho every day they wrest my words And turn them to the worst They gather themselves together They mark my steps and hide Themselves to catch my soul O God But thou art on my side O God in thy anger east down All those that in wait lie Let not that people so escape By their iniquity Psalm 59. DEliver me O God From all my Enemies Defend me from the hands of them That up against me rise Deliver me from them That work deceitfully O save my soul from bloody mâ—n For lo in wait they lie Not for my sins O God Can the mighty combine Against me for my Transgressions No Error can they find Yet they run and prepare Themselves without my Fault A wake to help me and behold How they against me talk O God of my mercies Scatter them by thy power And bring them down O Lord our shield That seek for to devour I will sing of thy power Yea I aloud will sing