more II. Make Him your Song and of His Acts reherse Whose Word is like the God who spake it true And every day His constant praise renew Who is the Soveraign of the Universe Who the whole Earth with goodness fills With Flowers the valleys cloaths and crowns the hills Whose care to all His Works extends And the strait bounds of Time as well as Space transcends III. Beyond new Lands which undiscovered lye Beyond the Circuit of the Tractless Air Beyond those Heav'ns which first created were And in the skirts of His vast Empire bee His breath did all the Frame compose The Heav'nly Hosts by it from nothing rose Those sparkling fires we see above In which His power appears declare to us His love IV. He spake the Word and Seas obedient prove Stood up in heaps the Earth to overflow Till He their bounds set out plac'd some below And treasur'd others in His stores above The raging Deep in Prison laid And of its Jaylor bid it be afraid The sand which chains it to the shore With Law to over-look but never to pass o're V. Let the whole World before their Maker fall And of His Power the Nations stand in aw For He whose Spirit from nothing all did draw Has ruin no less ready at His Call His Counsels shall for ever stand Their plots though ne're so deep to countermand Making them know they are but Men And less than so when He His breath shall call again VI. Thrice happy Soul who here has fixt his joyes And on the Lord alone for help depends Such constant happiness His Love attends That even their land is so who are His choyce God who from Heav'n with curious eyes Sees every heart and all their actions tryes To whom all hearts are better known For He first made them than t' each single Man his own VII In vain Fond Kings expect sure Victories From numerous Armies and a mighty Host For Victory on airy wings is tost And only to the side He favours flies The greatest Champion cannot save His own head sentenc'd by Him to the grave And all the speed his horse can make In flying one is a worse ruin to o'retake VIII Those only are secure who have His eye On whom He looks for good who fear His Name And present hopes by ancient love can claim When they in need for help or mercy cry Their lives He from the pit brings back And what was once their fear their Song do's make In famine they by Him are fed Who is at once th' Eternal God and living bread IX On Thee O God we wait Thou art our shield Nor will we to another fortress flie There have we plac'd our trust resolv'd to die If the Almighty will no succour yield But He will help and send new joyes To fill our hearts and to employ our voyce And only as we trust in Thee So let Thy Mercy Lord and our Salvation bee Psalm XXXIIII Benedicam Dominum c. I. LORD I will bless Thee and Thy praise Shall up to Heav'n my Voice and numbers raise Of Thee my Soul all times shall boast Who save'dst me when I gave my self for lost And with us shall the humble joyn Hoping Thou wilt their refuge be as Thou wert mine II. Come ye blest Saints and let us rise Together with our Songs and reach the skies Praise Him who my first groans did hear Yet with His hand seem'd to prevent His ear And when like mine your troubles be But look to Him that hand shall save you which help'd me III. Tell Him the Wonders He has shown What for my sake He did and what for ' His own Say Lord. This poor man to Thee cry'd And Thou heard'st him why then am I deny'd I who no less am Thy great care Since equally round both encamp'd Thy Angels are IV. Trie Him but thus and thou shalt know Thine own as certain as my joyes are now How Good He is how happy they Who make His Power their hope His love their stay Dread Him for if He has Thy fear Thou may'st be confident Thy wants shall have His ear V. Hee 'll be himself Thy mighty store When savage Lions shall for hunger roar Whil'st those who glory in their Gold And in his own Chains would the Prisoner hold Spoylers themselves are Captives made And into suddain want which they least fear'd betray'd IV. But Children yield to me your ear I 'll tell you whom and how you ought to fear Would you have life and happy dayes Keep well your tongue and that will guide your wayes Do good and from all vice abstain No easier road than Peace and no way more plain VII On such God looks and to their cryes His ears are open to their griefs His eyes They for deliv'rance need but pray The hand which saves shall wipe their tears away But to the wicked He 's a flame Which shall consume their very Memories with their Name VIII Himself Hee 'll to the Just reveal The humble save and broken hearts will heal Their pains indeed are sharp and long Yet till deliverance comes He 'll make them strong And all the while they 're on the Rack Will see that those who torture them no bones shall break IX But as the wicked live they die The Just man's but their own worst Enemy Their own designs shall haste their death Kill'd by that poyson which themselves did breath Whil'st God redeems the Souls of His And shews His help more certain than their trouble is Psalm XXXV Judica Domine nocentes c. I. GReat God and Judge to hear my Cause arise And on my part just sentence give Subdue and scatter all my Enemies And only to be conquer'd let them live Go out and in the battell stand Thy Shield in one and glittering Sword in t'other hand II. Let it be drawn and with their blood all stain'd Make a Red Sea around to flow Let it maintain the passage it has gain'd And safely guard the way where I should go Say to my Soul that I am Thine And that for my defence Thou make'st Thy glory shine III. Those who dare still resist too stout to yield And with new heat my Soul pursue Let them with shame and infamy be fill'd And find the battell though they flye renew Upon Thee let them turn their back To be Thy Butt and all Thy poyson'd arrows take IV. Let them like chaff be driv'n before the Winde And by Thy Angels Lord be chas'd Let them i' th dark a way so slippery find That headlong ruin may attend their hast O'rewhelm them in the pits they made And take theirs in the net which for my feet they laid V. Let their destruction hasten unperceiv'd The same which they decreed for me Whil'st I for better dayes am still repriev'd And my deliv'rances ascribe to Thee That Thy Great Name may be my Song Who thus the weak and Poor save'st from the proud and strong VI. False Witnesses
hope who is my Fear Happy I shall hereafter be contented here Psalm LXXIV Ut quid repulisti in finem c. I. Shall We for ever then be cast off thus And will Our God no more remember Us Shall then His flock no longer be His Care But more His rage than once His love they were Forget not Lord Thy Purchace and Thy Choyce Sion which Thou hast made Thine own The Wonders Thou for Her and Us hast done And let Our Prayers be heard amidst Our Enemies noysel II. Arise and to their great destruction come Who to Thy Temple Gates have brought it home Thy Holy Place and its Divine Recess Instead of stopping do's their rage encrease Thither they break and thence profanely bear The Sacred Treasures of Thy House It 's Vessels set apart from Common Use And on Thy Captive Altars their proud Trophys rear III. Our sad complaints Axes and Hammars drown As if it were some grove they would hew down And all th' Adornments of Thy Dwelling place They or to powder beat or else deface And to compleat Our ruin when no more The Ax or weary hand can do They fire into Thy Sanctuary throw And what Thou so didst consecrate with fire devour IV. Them and their Seed let Us destroy they say And in one ruin with their Temple lay What more accepted Flame to Heaven can rise Than an whole Synagogue for Sacrifice And they shall follow This We see and hear But have no Signes or Prophet more To tell us when this Tempest will be o're Or How long what too long already we must bear V. How long Dear God shall Our Proud Enemy Not us alone but Thy Great Power defy Shall his vile mouth for ever thus defame Thy Sacred and Unutterable Name Or wilt Thou alwayes thus Thy hand recall That Hand where all Our succours lie And only lift it from our sight on high Let it return at length and heavier on them fall VI. Thou heretofore hast made Thy Strength be known And Wonders which none else could do hast done Dividing by th' Almighty Wand the Flood And mad'st it truly a Red Sea with blood When there the Chamian King by Thy Right Hand That great Leviathan of the Main Sunk in the deep which cast Him up again That what its glutted Hosts had left might feast the land VII 'T was Thou who mad'st the Rock in streames to flow And Floods stand still to let Thy Israel go The day and night with all its lamps are Thine Ligh't from that Sun which Thou mad'st first to shine By Thee the bounds of the Round World are cast Both where they shall begin and end Summer and Winter on Thy Word attend All for Thy Pleasure made and during it shall last VIII Thou who hast done all this to raise Thy Name Guard it from those whose lips would blast its Fame Let not Thy mourning Dove become a prey To Vulturs but take wing and fly away Deliver her and minde Thy ancient Care Thy Covenant with Our Fathers made For th' Enemy Our very Graves invade And where we thought to lie retir'd their Counsels are IX Some answer to Our Prayers at length return Least shame confound Us and we ever mourn Arise and Thine Own Cause Thy self defend And let Thy Enemies Malice have an end Forget them not their blasphemies and pride Now that their Sin for vengeance cryes For they their heads have rais'd above the skies And Heav'n with all its Thunders to the Assault defy'd Psalm LXXV Confitebimur Tibi Deus c. I. LOrd We will praise Thee and Our chearful Song Shall of Thy mighty Name reherse For all the Wonders which to it belong Are truly great and so shall make Our verse To it We 'll fly and rest us there Adore its Power and beg its care And make it both the Subject of Our Song and Prayer II. When the Time comes sayes God that I shall call The World to Judgement my Right hand Alike it s Justice shall dispence to all And none it s equal sentence shall withstand It shall reward it shall chastise Some lower cast and make some rise And as my Hand 's impartial so shall be my eyes III. The Earth shall melt and all that in it dwell To their first nothing turn again By its own weight it long o're this had fell But that its mighty Pillars I sustain Fond Man then said I what mean'st Thou No more in vain Just Heav'n pursue Too great to be oppos'd to be gainsaid too true IV. For shame desist and your weak plots give o're They cannot take Heav'n is so High Against your maker vilely speak no more For though His Face you see not He stands by His breath it is whereby you speak He with one frown your pride can check And though you hold it ne'r so stiff bow down your neck V. The Sun which every day the World surrounds Father of all the Mines below And with a careful eye surveys his grounds Cannot the Riches which he makes bestow Though he in purple set and rise And rides in Triumph o're the skies Can give nor wealth nor honour to his Votaries VI. His God at will disposes of his gold And all his honours gives away Whilst his chief Work is only to behold And brightest shine on them who share his prey The Poor he rayses to the Throne And from it throws the Mighty down Is Judge of all and knows no pleasure but His Own VII For in His hand there is a dreadful Cup Whose sparkling Wine is red with gore 'T is large and fill'd with mixture to the top So full the active liquor do's run o're Of it all drink and when 't is done The dreggs are for the Wicked wrung But ne'r shall quench their thirst or ever cool their tongue VIII But I to future ages will declare The praises of th' Eternall King And since so Wonderful His glories are Of none but Jacobs God the Praises sing The Wicked down to Hell Hce'l throw The Righteous up to Heaven shall grow And Heav'n to his exalted head shall seem but low Psalm LXXVI Notus in Judaea Dominus I. The True the Only God in Judah reigns There is His Temple there His Court To Salem all the Tribes resort And learn to sing His Name in lofty strains No place such tokens of His love do's bear His Chariot He has set up there There broke the Arrows and there burnt the shield Spear II. Sion more glorious than the Hills of Bey How excellent dost Thou appear How full of Majesty and Fear When from them the Besiegers steal away Away the valiant ran but knew not why Till a dead sleep said Death was nigh And chaining up their hands scarce left them Heels to fly III. At Thy rebuke O God a sleep they fell The Horse and chariot were o're took The Rider stopt at Thy Rebuke And bow'd adown to the All-conquering spell Thou art indeed
Our opposition higher only swell'd III. God on the banks in view did stand And when the floods did Lowdest rore Mov'd o're the floods His All-commanding hand They stood awhile and gaz'd then backwards bore And chid their fellow waves which came too slow before IV. The Lord Himself has made Our Way And from their snares has set us free The snares are broke which they for us did lay And when they look'd that we should taken be God who first loos'd the net did give us wings to flee V. God is Our refuge and in vain Frail Man against Him thinks to stand His Word made all things all things do's sustain And He deliverance for us will command Has past His Word to do it and will use his Hand Psalm CXXV Qui confidunt in Domino c. I. ALL those who on th' Almighty God rely On God who do's o're all command Unmov'd shall like Mount Sion stand Shall stand as firm and bear their heads as high And what Mount Sion's to Jerusalem The Rock of Ages shall Himself be made to Them II. Thrice happy City girt with Mountains round On whom acknowledging Thy state The lesser Hills rise up and wait By God Himself Queen of all Cities crown'd Impregnable and steep rocks defend Thy Coasts But would prove vain were not their guard The Lord of Hosts III. He only is Thy Strength and not those Hills Yet as those Hills girt Thee about The Lord surrounds and finds His out Is alwayes near since every Place He fills God shall fight for them make their Enemies fly Lest seeing them still prosper They should Him deny IV. Arise O God and shew Thy Mighty hand Let not the Righteous be oppres'd Do good to Them but for the rest Let them Thy Wrath by bearing understand On Israel Peace and Thy Chief Blessings shower But on their Enemies floods of Fire and Brimstone poure Psalm CXXVI In convertendo Dominus I. WHen God a Miracle for Sion wrought And home Her exil'd Captives brought Exiles whose long Captivity Made them forget they e're were free And almost wish but as they were to be Th' Almighty did the Work so fast We thought it but a pleasant dream Yet wisht that dream might ever last It did so pleasant to us seem A Dream which though we did not homewards go Made us believe we did and hope 't was so II. But when Fruition had Our hopes o'recome And we indeed awak'd at home A Dream Our sufferings then seem'd more Than Our deliverance did before A Dream we thought what we in bondage bore And cheer'd at Our arrivall there Like men rous'd by some suddain fright Who in suspence 'twixt joy and fear Wake and speak of it when 't is light We whom Our feares struck dumb His praises spoke Who first Our chains and then Our silence broke III. The very heathen as We past along Joyn'd with us in Our cheerful song The Lord has done great things they sai'd Great things for us we answer made The Lord has done great things whereof we 're glad Like us may He the Remnant bring Bring back the whole Captivity And since there 's Water in the Spring O may not long the streames be dry But Lord like Rivers in the parched South Make these o'reflow as Thou suppli'st their drougth IV. He who his future hopes in grief do's sow And makes them with his tears to grow With joy shall see a fruitfull spring With joy His harvest home shall bring And all his sheaves with showting carry in As when the Carefull Husbandman His seed into the ground has thrown Rejoyces at a soaking rain To water that which he has sown Plenty distills from Heav'n with every drop And a moyst Seed-Time makes the fairest crop Psalm CXXVII Nisi Dominus aedificaverit c. I. DOwn to the very Centre of the Earth Let the foundations sink as low As its proud Towers in height do go To Heav'n above and touch Hell underneath If God the Mighty Pile do's not sustain The weaker buttresses are all in vain Either an Earth-quake to the ground Shall overthrow and levell all Or God Himself the Babel shall confound And then the difference is but small Whether it stand a Babel or a Palace fall II. Bring all the Forces of the Citie out Guard every port and every street A double guard upon them set And girt the Walls as they girt you about Yet after all to Heav'n you open ly Heav'n the best friend but the worst Enemy No guarding against that can save But without help from thence is lost And those who would from Heav'n protection have Must keep their hearts more than their Coasts Must keep there what must them preserve the Lord of Hosts III. The Sun's already up and I must rise How soon the day has chas'd the night But when that has expell'd the light How soon 't is Night the painfull labourer cries With care he rises and with care lyes down Anothers makes the profit Care his Own This though unbid is his sure guest Unseen into his bed do's slide And alwayes hinders or else breaks his rest Poor Man who thinks by this false guide To find that Ease which God from all but His do's hide IV. God ease and Children to His Own do's give Crowns all their Cares with this encrease Makes their great care their greatest ease Children in whose Posterity they live For by these shafts beyond the grave they fly And triumph o're their greatest Enemy The Man whose quiver loaded is With such as these need fear no shame Some may reach home though some fall short or miss Happy Man who has to guard His Fame More than great Kings a life-guard of his blood and Name Psalm CXXVIII Beati omnes qui timent c. I. BLest is the Man whose fear do's prove Only his guide in the Right Way Whose fear makes him the Lord obey And is the best incentive to his love He of the Labour of his hands shall eat The Lord shall alwayes bless his store His blessings alwayes shall flow o're And God who makes him good will make them great II. His Wife like to a fruitful Vine Shall into breadth and clusters run To him shall look as to her Sun And still have fruit on which that Sun may shine Like Olive plants his children round his board With spreading branches garnished Shall with their blossoms crown his head And thus shall he be blest who fears the Lord. III. The Lord shall bless Thee shew Thee good And all Thy dayes shall let Thee see Jerusalems Prosperity And wonder how so long unmov'd it stood Thou into Childrens Children shalt increase Shalt see them into Children grow And what will make it Heaven below Shalt Israel all the while behold in Peace Psalm CXXIX Saepe expugnaverunt c. I. UP from my Youth may Israel say From my Youth up I have great troubles seen Trouble and life did at a time
our God of great renown Whose Wisdome's infinite To th' Earth He casts the Wicked down And raises the upright Sing Praises to His Name with thanks rejoice And make the Consort perfect with your Voice VI. The Heav'ns with clouds He covers o're And all their beauty hides Yet thence the Earth has its best store Rain which He there provides Whence Plenty comes but less from what is sown Than from the Faithful seasons He pours down VII Mountains those Pillars of the Air On which Heav'ns Fabrique lies Whose verdant Chapiters are fair And in mixt Orders rise With Frutages He covers and with showers Allaies their heat and crowns them all with flowers VIII To Him all Creatures look and live All at His Table eat He to bruit-beasts their food do's give And to young Ravens meat An horse to Him and all his strength is vain And in his sight as poor as this is Man IX In neither can He Pleasure take But do's in th' Just delight And they who Him their refuge make Shall flourish in His sight Then to Thy God Jerusalem sing praise Sion exalt Him who Thee first did raise X. 'T is He who do's Thy Walls defend And all Thy Gates make strong Who do's Thy Colonies extend And keeps Thee alwaies young Who with a numerous offspring do's Thee bless And gives Thy Land the Happy fruits of Peace XI And this because it is His Will Whose Pleasure all obey Both Heav'n and Earth His Word fulfill And at it haste away On the cold Rocks He His Frost-Mantle throwes And cloaths the naked Hills with woolly snows XII When on the streams He layes His Chain And Captive Floods do's bind What Power can set them free again Till He send out His Wind But when on them He causes it to blow The melted glass in streams begins to flow XIII These Works of His by all are seen But Jacob has His Word No Land beside so blest has been Or favour'd by the Lord For He to Israel has His Judgements shown When His displeasure all Lands else have known Hallelujah Psalm CXLVIII Laudate Dominum de Coelis I. YOu blessed Souls who stand before Th' Eternal King and so long see His glory that you changed bee Into that glory you adore Praise your great Founder and above Admire His Power and bless His Love II. You who when Lucifer did fall Kept your first standing and remain Commanders of that mighty Train Of which the Lord is Generall Angels extoll th' Almighty King And Songs of Triumph to Him sing III. Praise Him from whom Thy light do's flow Thou whom as God the World adore Renounce that honour and no more Usurp a service Thou dost ow Praise Him O Sun when Thou 'rt most bright Whose beams to darkness turn Thy light IV. Thou too who with a borrow'd ray When all the Lamps of Heav'n hang out In the Nights silence walk'st about And with Thy torch restor'st the day Fair Moon and Starrs exalt Gods Name And in your dance His Power proclaim V. Ye Heavens whom none can comprehend Infinite Waters where the sky As if beyond it self 't would fly Exceeds all thought yet findes no end Praise Him who farther do's out go Your height than you what ere 's below VI. He spake the Word and you were made His first Decree has bound you fast Appointed you how long to last Th' Almighty Word your wandrings stay'd Praise Him whose Word so much can do And as it made destroy you too VII Let from the Earth His Praises rise All Creatures whom He plac't below Let them their gratefull praises show And in that service reach the skies Dragons and Whales i' th' consort move A tunefull Bass to th' Quire above VIII Sea praise Him when Thy billows roar And mustring up the force of th' Main The once drown'd World assault again And seek i' th' Heav'ns alone a shoar Praise Him who when He moves His hand Both stills and chains Thy waves with sand IX All Meteors praise the Name of God Vapors and Winds that nothing spare But of His Wrath the Armies are Lightning's His Scepter and His Rod Ice praise Him who makes Thee a rein To curb swift streams and back the Main X. Mountains at His great Name rise up Who so ordain'd by His command All in your ranks and orders stand Like Piles Heav'ns Arch to underprop Praise Him who your rais'd heads did crown And low as Hell not throw you down XI Cedars who one loft higher go And Natures Vanes to Mountains are Knowing no other motion there Than what the amorous Zephyrs blow Plants and Fruit-trees the pride o' th' Field In generous stores your praises yield XII Beast and all Cattell creeping things Insects unminded the great care Of Him by whom you formed were And Birds who with your downy wings Cut the soft air your Presents bring And in wild notes His Praises sing XIII Kings to whom God His Name do's give And as Vice-gods has set on high True Portraicts of the Deity Praise Him in whom your selves do live And who though Homage is your due First made the Right then gave it you XIV Praise Him all People every state And Sex and Age Virgins and Youth With all the beauteous trains of both Or long since born or born of late Praise Him old Men and since agen Age speaks you Children shew y' are Men. XV. Let the whole World His Praise restore And lift above the Firmament That Name He counts so excellent And what none fully know adore For from the Deep it all things fills Up to the Everlasting Hills XVI Israel praise Him Israel for whom He made all these and greater things The Land subdu'd and Potent Kings Bringing them thousand Vict'ries home Such wonders wrought and more than this Whom He redeem'd and so made His. Hallelujah Psalm CXLIX Cantate Domino Canticum c. I. NEw Songs of Praise to Great Jehovah sing And in His Temple let His Name resound This small return his Saints may bring For all those favours wherewith they are crown'd Let Israel in His Makers Love rejoyce And Sion crown again Her Sovereign with Her Voyce II. In the High Dance His great Name let them praise And that it may approach His Throne above The service with shrill Trumpets raise And send up Theirs as He showers down His Love They are His Pleasure and His chiefest Prize And though in others mean yet beauteous in His eyes III. Let the Saints praise Him who their Glory is And on their beds when they no Comfort see Then let them sing for they are His And of salvation confident may bee Hee 'll raise them up and by His Powerfull Word Put in their mouths His Praise and in their hands a Sword IV. Thus shall they fight and conquer throw down all Who dare oppose and to resist them stand The Heathen shall before them fall And in that ruin feel His vengefull Hand Their Captive Kings they shall
Prayers may make amends for the defects of my Numbers To my dear Friend Mr. Samuel Woodford upon his Paraphrase of the Psalms I. HAppy the first and harmless dayes When the young World like Children bred at home Though froward still and troublesome Was by its careful Parent taught the ways Of easy Duty and of natural Praise When every cheap Delight and every pleasant Art And all that Wit and Fancy could impart Like the first Issues of each vital thing Of all the stock the Pledge and King Which the glad Owners either did redeem or bring Were freely given up and Consecrate The great Creator's Praise to Celebrate When the chast Numbers of the Pipe and Voice And all the Instruments that Art could show The very Musick of the Feet and Body too And whatsoever could delight And feast the various Appetite Were us'd as well to Worship as Rejoyce And every Mask and ev'ry Ball And ev'ry solemn Festival The publick Triumphs and the Holy days The very Pastimes and the Plays Were legal Rites of Honour and of Praise Of ev'ry clean and spotless Beast The most delicious and the best That Nature for man's use or Pleasure did afford Was at God's board One part was Sacrifice and all the rest a Feast II. So uncorrupted then so chaste and White Were all the Daughters of Delight But none of all the Family So innocent and so divinely bright As the fair Virgin Poesy The earliest and the strictest Votary Dwelt at the first in holy ground In sacred Groves and Temples only could be found Still at the Altar did appear Brought her First-fruits and Perfumes there Of all Gods Priests and without blame Her Office will allow the Name Though scarce her Sex 't was she alone That offered up to God Devotion Did the pure Incense of the Fathers praise And holy Vows to Heaven raise And like a faithful Vestal kept the Fire That did nor Day nor Night expire Whoever a true Worshipper would be Was taught his Duty first by Poesy Of Heman and of Asaph learnt the wayes Of Penitence and Praise By which Gods anger to appease and Glory raise III. This was her first Choice and Desire In Gods House to retire In which she took her Vow and solemnly Profest And happy had she been and blest If she had kept the rest As well as the least needful of the Three Unhappy Poverty But in the compass of this Privacy She was not alwaies at her Beads and Book But did her bended Thoughts with various Arts release Whether in Shepheards Guise with Reed and Hook The Nuptial Song she do's express Of mighty Solomon and by his side The comely black Egyptian Bride A wondrous Song but said to be Not for their fakes alone but holy Mysterie Or else with bold and skilfull hand Works the known Story of the promis'd Land How God the People went before And brought them from th' Egyptian shore By the two Brothers brought them thence That is by Power and by Eloquence Two things which seldom fail Over the mightiest Adversary to prevail Or when she pleases Nature draws and Wars Pens the Heroick Acts of famous Conquerers And Sayings of Philosophers Rich are the Works of Nuns but none so rich as Hers. IV. So grave and hopeful was her youth So dear a Friend she was to Piety and Truth That God himself who did bestow Number and Measure to each Thing And in whole Nature living Poetry did show Of Her took care from whom she first did spring And for her Guardians did assign The mighty Men of Valour and Renown Whom he had trusted first with Conquest and a Crown Or did in peaceful Arts and Wisedom shine All full of Vertue and of Power divine He would not such a ripe and vertuous Wit As Jacob would not Benjamin commit To any hand that was unfit Only to Judah did the Trust ascribe Judah the Royal and the Valiant Tribe To you saies God whom by my spirit I raise To fight my Battailes and my Works to praise Wonders to perform and see And publish Laws and Mysterie And find out Nature and Philosophy Princes and Prophets and the Sons of War To you this Charge I give and to your Care Commit this bright and beauteous Heire Bright and beauteous is she now And by your Guidance may improve If the vain show And Breeding of her Sex you not allow And keep her but from idleness and wanton Love V. So wise a Care one would have thought Might serve however to prevent the worst In one so well inclin'd at first Though by the powerfull'st Charms and Courtship sought But Oh the treacherous Arts of Wit Arts which upon the Sex too often gain To which even Poesy herself do's still submit And bear the pleasant Tyrannies of it Although sometimes in bitter language She complaine Wit was her Friend and her Companion still Did chalenge and imploy her skill But was so wanton and so wild With every painted Thing and every Shew beguil'd Did such pleasant Sports devise And such fantastick Resveries Bewitch't th' unwary Lovers Eyes Out of her Cell the Votaress then would go And loosly wandred into every Show Would needs herself resign Unto the Female Government of Nine And the mad Inspirations of the God of Wines To whose wild Revels She was born And did his Triumphs and his Groves adorn Did nor the Stage nor the Piazza scorn But like a wandring River flow That visits every Land and every City views But with the Travel do's th' impurer grow And the bright Nymph still more abuse She did no filthy Lust refuse Nor whatsoe're could come Or from th' Excess of Greece or Wantoness of Rome VI. But all along the time of this Apostacy Some mighty Men arose Whom God in mercy chose These wandring Follies to oppose And to redeem her Fame and native Liberty That fertil Land of all the rest With Pleasure and with Poets blest Where Wit and Nature still are fresh and green And Tiber's golden streams are seen Has to the world in every Age set forth Some Phoenix of immortal worth Whose Monuments of noble Verse Posterity shall still disperse Which the bold Fame of wanton Wit asswage And expiate the Follies of the looser Stage Nor is the Brittish glory less The Brittish Poets with a ripe success The weightest Arguments express Like a deep Chrystal stream Spread a pure spirit through the manly Theam One of each Sex this fruitful Age has shown And fruitful had she been if none But that immortal Paire were known Though she has many more to boast Cowley and bright Orinda do adorn it most VII Cowley and bright Orinda shall for ever live And you my Friend who with them strive Of best and greatest Things to write And the rich Monuments of Eastern wit revive Wit that does like the Sun there first in sight Serve the Worlds profit and delight And like the Sun too with the World shalllast Your Memory shall with theirs
Thou art Just And in my great escape consult Thy Name Least those who know it not Thy care should blame To my complaint and cries incline Thine ear And by Thy help make me assur'd that Thou dost hear II. Thou art my Rock where till the storm is past Above the floods I shall securely stand At Sea a Rock where all my safety 's plac'd And a strong Tower and Arsenall at land O bring me thither by Thine own Right hand Guide me my God who only art my strength And by the pleasures of the way deceive its length III. Remove the snares which for my feet are laid Thou to whose hands my spirit I resign Of all I am the purchase Thou hast made And so redeem'd I can be only Thine And what 's Thy love or Hatred shall be mine Lyars and their fond vanities I hate But trust in Thee who hast preserv'd my life and state IV. In Thee will I be glad in Thee rejoyce Who hast my troubles seen and heard my cryes To th' Songs my heart begins I 'll tune my Voice And count of all Thy glorious Victories And on their wings to Heav'n in Triumph rise I 'll sing how for me Thou mad'st bare Thy hand And set me in a place where round I might command V. This Thou hast done and these Thy Works I 'll praise But yet my troubles have not their full end Fears and continual snares surround my wayes And grief to th' Earth my soul so low do's bend That scarce in sighs I can to Heav'n ascend Consum'd with care my bones and life decay And in my wasted flesh unwillingly do stay VI. On my wing'd groans away my years do fly And for my sins my strength do's fail Nor am I only scorn'd by my ' Enemy But friends with whom my sorrows should prevail With scoffs he thought too sharp my life assail A Feast I 'm to my own and those who see My miseries afar off less fly the plague than mee VII Like a dead man forgotten in the grave An earthen Vessel all to shivers broke Which Art too late would or repair or save My old acquaintance strangely on me look And tremble as they see me at Thy stroke Traytor the Great ones call me and as so My life they have decreed shall for my treasons go VIII In this sad state to Thee my God I cry Knowing Thou all their Threats canst countermand Their malice by Thy strength I can defie For all my Times are measur'd by Thy hand And in Thy Sacred Roll recorded stand For my deliverance shew Thy Power Divine And for Thine Honours sake upon Thy Servant shine IX Guard me from shame for I have call'd on Thee And make it theirs to whom Thy Name 's unknown Let silence and the grave their portion bee And may all those who on the Just have thrown Reproach find it rewarded with their own Stop lying mouths which use proud things to speak And with their causless envy let them swell and break X. But who enough Thy Goodness can adore Or knows the treasures which thou up hast laid For them who fear Thee in Thy boundless store How glorious they hereafter shall be made O're whom Thy wings already are display'd There shalt Thou hide them from the strife of tongues And on their proudest Enemies return their wrongs XI So was I hid and thus His power have seen Blest be His Name when girt with Foes around He interpos'd Himself and came between In a strong City made me keep my ground And foes too potent for me did confound I 'm lost I said cut off and quite undone Yet when I cry'd was heard by Him I call'd upon XII By my example love Him all His Saints Who for the Faithfull do's so well provide But on the stubborn multiplies restraints His Face for ever from their suit do's hide And on them pours the vengeance they defy'd Chear up all you who on the Lord depend The present Storm in an Eternal Calm shall end Psalm XXXII Beati quorum remissae sunt c. I. HE whose iniquities are purg'd away And he alone indeed is blest Short of True Happiness all others stay And where they cannot have it seek for rest No other path the way to life do's show And only that which leads from sin do's thither go II. Blest is the Man whose faults remitted are To whom the Lord imputes no sin Whose hands are guiltless and Whose heart is clear Without all pure and all refin'd within Whose filthy spots of lust appear no more But now one Royall Purple dyes his Soul all o're III. This when I knew not nor what ease it gave My faults before Thee to confess My grief which could no certain measure have Daily increas'd instead of being less I griev'd indeed and mournfully complain'd Of sins effects ne're thinking that the Cause remain'd IV. Grief and Thy hand upon me night and day Low as the earth did beat me down And all the tears which I had thrown away But dryer left me when their flood was gone Dry as the thirsty earth for want of rain When all the moysture which it gave Heav'n takes again V. At length perceiving all my groans were vain I thought upon some other way To thee I did disclose my sin and pain Thou in return their fury didst allay No sooner I'll confess my sins I said But He who heard forgave them me e're I had pray'd VI. For this shall every Just man thee implore And call when Thou wilt surely hear The Seas which now against him proudly roar May spend their Mouths but never shall come near He is above their reach and shall despise Their greatest rage and scorn them when they highest rise VII Thou art my hiding place my life wilt save And teach me Songs of praise to sing Others who of Thy Wayes no knowledge have Guided my self by Thee I 'll to thee bring Then be not Man more brutish than thy Mule Which thou thy self hast broke and with a Curb canst rule VIII Perpetual sorrows Trouble without ease Is the whole portion of th' Unjust Whil'st thousand Mercies and eternal Peace Encompass those who on th' Almighty trust Mercies and Peace encompass them around With these their feet are stablisht their heads are crown'd IX Rejoyce ye Righteous and shout forth your praise Be glad in Him who is Your King In the Almighty God whose wondrous wayes Give life and spirit to the dullest string He is Your God and Him with praise adore If any to rejoyce have cause sure you much more Psalm XXXIII Exultate Justi in Domino c. I. REjoyce ye Righteous and to God sing praise With all the Numbers Musick can invent The Harp and Lute and ten-string'd instrument And with their sound to Heav'n your voices raise Express your thanks thus and your love And in the Consort joyn with Saints above In Anthems His great Name adore Nothing can please Him better or become you
always art bring mee That we may still together bee In Sion where Thy Presence makes it day Then with my Harp I 'll to Thy Altar go And what above shall never cease begin below IV. Why art Thou troubled Soul and restless grown As if forgotten through despair As if Thy God had left His care And lower than indeed Thou art cast down Trust in Him still for Thou His Name shalt praise And whom His absence has depress'd His sight shall raise Psalm XLIV Deus auribus nostris audivimus c. I. GReat God we oft have heard our Fathers tell The Mighty works which Thou of old hast done When to make room for them where they might dwell And in a Land of thine own choice sit down The Natives by Thy hand were overthrown How Egypt at Thy Signs admiring stood And thinking to pursue were drown'd i' th' flood II. 'T was not their Bow or Sword which forc'd their way Nor the weak aids their helpless arms could bring But Thou whose Word the Sacred Hosts obey Made'st certain Victory attend their string And as their arrows flew direct her wing Thy Light and Favour was their Arms and Guide And when they fought to conquer Thou did'st ride III. May'st Thou again do thus who art Our King And new deliv'rance for their Seed command Thou only canst such great Salvation bring As may again return us to Our Land And make us on our Enemies necks to stand And when Thy Power Thou on our side shalt show And beat them down through Thee wee 'll keep them so IV. T was not our Bow or Sword that helpt wee 'll say Northose weak aids our useless Arms did bring But He whose Word the Sacred Hosts obey Made certain Victory attend our string And as our arrows flew direct her wing He put our Enemies to flight and shame And His great Praise for ever wee 'll proclaim V. But we alas not they are forc'd to fly Since Thou who lead'st our Armies out of old Art now become Thy self an Enemy And make'st them more successfull grow and bold That what with wrong they got by force they hold Like one great flock of Sheep we scatt'red are And wolves devour those whom the Shambles spare VI. We openly are sold but 't is for nought Nor do's Thy treasure by our sale encrease By those who hate us we for slaves are bought Nor by our miseries do's their fury cease But wee in Warr less suff'red than in Peace A shame reproach and proverb wee are made In scorn to hands which were of ours afraid VII 'T is not our disappointments and disgrace That are the only causes of our shame Not these alone with blushes fill our face But the sad thoughts that Thou should'st bear our blame And have expos'd with us Thy Sacred Name For what 's our own we could with Patience bear But Blasphemies 'gainst Thee can never hear VIII Yet both Lord we have heard and both have born But in our suff'rings not forgotten Thee Resolv'd our steps from Thy Laws ne're to turn How rough and hard soe're the way may be Or in Thy Oath to deal perfidiously Though for our Masters we fierce Dragons have And all our service is in sight o' th' grave IX Had we forgotten His or to strange Names Of Idol-gods stretch'd out our suppliant hands Should not God know and visit this in flames Who the vast Empire of all hearts commands And thoughts more than we actions understands But for His sake alone all day we ' are slain Like Sheep and where we fed have dy'd the Plain X. Awake why sleep'st Thou Lord awake and rise And turn nor us nor Thy bright face away Let our distress find pity in Thine eyes Which see the weights they on our shoulders lay And how we prostrate for Thy succour pray Ah cause Thy face for Thy loves sake to shine And for our help arise who still are Thine Psalm XLV Eruct avit Cor meum verbum c. I. A Thousand fancies from my heart the Spring Like a swoln stream which banks can ne're control Increasing still as it along do's roll And grown impetuous scorns to be kept in Too great already in my Soul to stay They out will burst and by my tongue Flow in a swift and numerous Song Will there or find or force their way And make my hand which cannot stop to run as fast as they II. Dread Sov'reign when the argument is Thine And Thou art pleas'd to give me leave to sing Of all that grandure which enthrones my King No wonder if my Verse be gay and fine Thy beauty not my skill do's make it so Thou who in beauty dost excell The fairest Soul which best do's dwell From whose soft lips there ever flow That Grace and Blessing Heav'n till now on Man did ne're bestow III. Go on then Valiant Prince and gird Thy Sword Wherewith Thou hast so often Conquerer been Appear more glorious than Thou e're wert seen And let the whole world own Thee for their Lord Then mount Thy Chariot and in triumph ride With Meekness Truth and Equity And all the Virtues running by Whil'st Vict'ry do's Thy journeys guide And flies before new Conquests and fresh Laurels to provide IV. Then shall Thy arm for slaughter be made bare And Thy proud Enemies receive the darts Which Thou shalt throw and bury in their hearts Whil'st those that yield Thou dost as freely spare Nor Time nor place shall Thy Dominion bound The Justice of Thy Righteous sway Shall make all Lands all men obey And wheresoe're Thy Name shall sound Amids Thy foes new Subjects of Thy Kingdom shall be found V. That Righteousness Thou lov'st shall be Thy Crown And at Thy Feet Envy and Hate shall lie The Mighty God who rais'd Thee up so high Above Thy Fellows pour His Unction down With greater lustre make Thy Face to shine When He the Sacred Oyl shall shed Himself upon Thy Royall Head And to express the Love Divine Meekness with Majesty and to Thy Joys Thy Peoples joyn VI. They shall rejoyce when from the Iv'ry Throne Clad in Thy Robes of State Thou shalt appear When all the perfumes which the East do's bear And the bright Sun or makes or looks upon To Thine their Spirits and richest Odours add And breathing out their Souls shall say Thou hast more Sweets more Charms than they Thus near Thee to have come are glad That they may higher scents receive thence than at first they had VII Daughters of Kings make Thy illustrious train To do what e're Thy pleasure shall command And chain our eyes but that at Thy right hand The Queen with hers remands them back again Next Thee she stands Her Pall with Gold all wrought Where curious Art and Nature strive Which greater Ornament shall give Beyond Inventions barren thought Made of the richest Spoyls were e're from Ophirs treasure brought VIII And Thou O Queen incline Thy willing
ear Forget Thy Father and Thy Countrey too What was theirs once is now a Sovereigns due Who merits all Thy honour love and fear The Kings who shall no less make Thee to reign And to Thy Rule Himself submit To th' Empire of Thy Eyes and Wit Become their slave and take the Chain And what Thy hands presented Him to them resign again IX Tyre with a Present shall her daughters send To seek thy favour and thy love entreat 'T is thy Alliance which shall make them great And not their own wealth though it knows no end Not that their gifts and store can add to Thine The rich embroydery of Thy Vest Where all the Needles art 's exprest To Beauties which are more Divine And all within unseen by mortal eye far brighter shine X. Thus shalt Thou be conducted to the King Whil'st all the Virgins who Thy Pomp attend In shouts to Heav'n their acclamations send And as they follow to the Palace sing Hail Fairest Queen forget Thy Fathers land Nor let His Throne disturb thy mind For Thou instead of them shalt find Children who with the Soveraign Wand More Empires than He Cities govern'd shall the World command XI My Verse shall praise Thee too and Thy great Name Shall in its lasting Monument survive My Verse Eternity to Thee shall give And thus it self perpetuate in Thy Fame For when the Age to come by that shall know These wonders and renew Thy Praise In Altars which their Zeal shall raise Thou then shalt make my Verse to grow And what to Thee it gave Eternity on that bestow Psalm XLVI Deus noster Refugium c. I. TO Armies some for refuge fly Others to Walls which they must first defend But God's our help and when to Him we cry Or He our troubles soon will end Or to a City where they come not us will send II. We will not fear though tempests roar And one storm mingle Sea and Earth and all Though reall Mountains torn from the loose shoar To Heav'n be tost and Heav'n quite fall The God who is our help will then be near our call III. Fly ye swift winds tempests be gone Be still proud Seas there is no need of you We have a stream which though it softly run Can more than all your billows do Both cleanse the Holy City and refresh it too IV. Slow Siloah which so gently glides As if 't were unresolv'd to go away And passing where the Most High God resides To view the place so long do's stay The enamour'd River one would guess forgot its way V. It Sion views where God do's dwell Sion His Throne which like the Earth remains Heav'n is her guard and all the Powers of Hell Shall ne're move her for there He reigns Who is the God o' th' Hills and layes on Vales His Chains VI. The Heathen Kings began to rage And all their strength against her did command But God Himself to save her did engage Utt'red His Voyce and shew'd His hand And though the Earth did melt Sion unmov'd did stand VII The God of Battles fights for us On whom the Hosts of Heav'n and Earth attend Through Him our arms shall be Victorious And when our Prayers to Him ascend He that is Jacobs God His Israel will defend VIII Come and behold what He has done The mighty works which His right hand has wrought How on their Foes He turn'd destruction But to His own deliverance brought And made them Conquerours when He for them fought IX All the World o're He ends all Warrs And in their room brings plenty mirth and ease He hides with Laurel the Triumphers scarrs And all but in their Pomps makes cease The Trumpets noyse and turns the broken arms to Peace X. Be still said He and see my Power Only be still that 's all you need to do For on your Enemies I 'll vengeance shower Exalt your heads but lay their low And they as well as you That I am God shall know XI The God of Battles fights for us On whom the Hosts of Heaven and Earth attend Through Him our Arms shall be Victorious And when our Prayers to Him ascend He that is Jacobs God His Israel will defend Psalm XLVII Omnes gentes plaudite manibus c. I. REjoyce O World and you who dwell therein This Solemn day your mirth commands Rejoyce for the great Show will now begin And lift your voice up with your hands Let them both joyn whiles you His Praises sing Who only is the Universal King II. Mighty and terrible the Lord of all His entrance those who will not meet Too proud to kiss his hands shall lower fall And yield their necks unto His feet So Jacobs seed He will make glorious And what Himself has done ascribe to Us. III. God is gone up ascended with a shout With sound of Trumpets risen on high And having put His enemies to the rout Upon their Trophies up did fly Sing praise to God your Praises to Him sing Who only is the Universall King IV. God only is the Universall King His Name with understanding praise And in the Services you to Him sing Let that inspirit all your layes The World around His just Commands shall own For Holiness is the Throne He sits upon V. See how the Tributary Kings croud in And one united People make Their Crowns to deck His Victories they bring And from His hands all new ones take Each in His Temple Homage to Him yields And there hang up their Consecrated Shields Psalm XLVIII Magnus Dominus c. I. GReat is our God and greatly to be prais'd Upon that Hill which He himself has rais'd Sion which He His City made Beautifull Sion whom the World obey'd And for whose Peace as for their own all Countreys prayd Which on the North Jerusalem do's guard Safer than gates most surely barr'd Which on the North do's on Jerusalem shine So that around it has the Sun or Naturall or Divine II. Within her Palaces the Lord is known For not hers more He counts them than His own The Kings perceiv'd it marching by But thither they no sooner cast their eye But from the conquering sight as soon they strove to fly Away they hasted thence but all in vain Their fears pursu'd them with fresh pain Like Child-bed throes till there is born a Son A greater pang succeeds as soon as e're the present's gone III. In Ships they thought their Spoyls to carry home But Thou at Sea their Navy didst o'recome All this O Lord we heard before And now believe because we see Thy Power But who that had seen half so much would not do more God will establish Sion and command The Sacred Pile unmov'd to stand Thither wee 'll come for help in our distress And where he has bid us bless him expect he us should bless IV. Lord as Thy Name is so shall be Thy Praise And to adorn it wee 'll invent
God but smile Or He these doubts will reconcile Or make me scorn what Flesh can do the while V. Me and my words to wrest they never cease And make them most offend when meant to please Their thoughts for evil areagainst me set And when they are in Counsel met Contrive how by my fall they may be great VI. Shall they escape unpunish't in their wayes And in Prosperity spend all their dayes Lord in Thine Anger let them be o'rethrown Thou need'st but only on them frown Lower than me that look will cast them down VII Thou all my wand'rings every pace do'st know And not'st how many steps I from Thee go See'st my tears too what they were shed about And in thy bottle they are put Whence with a Sponge what 's in Thy Book blot out VIII When to my God in my distress I cry My very Prayers make all mine Enemies fly My sighs shall backwards turn them in the Rear They shall a greater Enemy fear And in that still voice know that God draws near IX On Gods Almighty Word I will depend On God I 'le trust who certain help will send There I will rest and if my God but smile Either these doubts he 'l reconcile Or make me scorn what Flesh can do the while X. Thy Vows are on me and I 'le give Thee praise The Field is Thine and Thine shall be the Bayes Thou hast preserv'd my Soul wilt Thou not bless My sliding feet with steadiness The greater's done and wilt not do the less Psalm LVII Miserere mei Deus miserere c. I. OThou on whom my Soul for help relyes Let my distress find pitty in Thine eyes Thou art my Trust on Thee I stay Under Thy Wings let me conceal'd abide And till these storms are past me hide Under their shade else on them let me fly away II. To my great Saviour who above do's reign Whose Mighty Power do's me and All sustain To Him I 'le cry who down shall send From Heav'n and save me by His own right hand From those who Him and me withstand His Truth shall slay them and His Mercy me defend III. Among fierce Lions Lord hid in their den With beasts more fierce than Lions Cruel Men Whose teeth be arrows and sharp Spears Their tongue a two edg'd Sword their eyes all fire As if in this they did conspire By several Torments to create me several fears IV. With these I live among these men I lye And hardly for my thoughts gain liberty Above the Clouds exalted be Lord set Thy glory far above the Skies And though so high I cannot rise From Heav'n do Thou descend when I look up to Thee V. I could not scape they had so girt me round My very Soul lay prostrate on the ground But as I look'd I saw them fall And though for me they had prepar'd the net That I might stumble digg'd the pit Into that pit they fell themselves their snare and all VI. I am resolv'd nor will I any more Distrust my God as I have done before No I will praise Him and my heart Which ha's so oft betray'd me into fear Its burden in the Song shall bear And when my Harp begins shall take the highest part VII Awake my Harp 't is time for thee to wake Prevent the day and thy great subject take Put all thy strâ—ngs on shew thy skill God and my Soul are ready be not slow For if we should before thee go Thy strings would never half way reach up Heav'ns High Hill VIII We Come O God and with us up will raise High as Thy Love and Truth to Heaven Thy Praise The World shall hear what Thou hast done How signally Thou hast appear'd for me By Thy great Power hast set me free And for His Works praise Him whose Name they have not known IX Then to the Clouds we will together fly And take new Wing to mount to the Most High Above the Clouds exalted be Lord set Thy glory far above the Skies And if so high We cannot rise Descend Thy self and bear us up along with Thee Psalm LVIII Si vere utique justitiam c. I. ARE you as by your place you ought to be True Judges of the Poor mans wrong Or rather do you not his suit prolong And then bind o're when you should set him free You would be thought both good and just And if not so at least Just though severe But when you personate it most Your mouth condemns that which your heart would spare For when bribes hold the Scale the lightest cause most weight do's bear II. The Wicked from the womb are gone astray Their wand'rings with their life begun And will no sooner than their life be done Nor seek they what they know not the right way Under their tongues conceal'd and close A deadlier poyson than the Serpents lyes Adders less cautiously expose Their ears to Charms than they to hear the Wise As deaf to Counsel as they greedy are of flatteries III. Break out the Lions teeth nor let them more The Innocent so proudly tear Let the young Lions Lord themselves in fear Not o're their prey but torn with famine roar And as the Sand though kind Heav'n poures The like streams there as on the fruitful Plain To Heav'n returns no thanks in flowers But only as it falls drinks up the rain Like rain by Sand drunk up let them be never rais'd again IV. When against me they throw their poyson'd darts And in their rage their bows do bend Or let them be too weak the shafts to send Or turn the Pykes into the Shooters hearts And as a Snail which leaves behind A silver film along the way she pass'd But if you follow it you find Both that and her in slime conclude at last So let them perish and from filthy slime to Nothing wast V. Like an Abortive which ne're saw the Sun But dy'd e're it had any birth Born only that it might be thrown to th' Earth Let their Race end e're it be well begun E're briars with the thorn can close And in their clasping Arms each other take Which grew acquainted as they rose And only forc't by fire their holds forsake Let their ends be as suddain as those their embraces make VI. The Just shall see 't and at the sight rejoyce And in their blood his Garments wash Without fear shall this Red Sea view and pass And with such Acclamations raise his voice Lo for the Just what Crown remains And what Reward God do's for Him provide There is a King who o're all reigns And He with Justice shall each cause decide By whose most Equal Laws judges themselves and Thrones are try'd Psalm LIX Eripe me de inimicis meis Deus c. I. PReserve me Lord and by Thy hand o'rethrown Let them who seek my ruine find their own From envious Men my honour save And to the cruel make me not a prey
Which shall from Sea to Sea extend As far as there is any ground And only where the World finds her's have end Then up to Heav'n His Fame shall fly And fill the Mighty Circle of the Sky VIII Black Ethiopia at His Feet shall bow Her neck for Him to tread upon Honour'd enough if thus He show Acceptance of the Footstool for His Throne Down in the dust His Foes shall lye With heads more low than once their thoughts were high IX The Western Continent and farthest Isles And both the Indies gifts shall bring To Him they shall present the spoyles Of Sea and Land as Universal King All Kings before Him shall bow down And do for Theirs Just Homage to His Crown X. Kingdoms Opprest shall His Protection crave And Needy States unto Him sue Th' Opprest He with His Arms shall save And with the Needy His Old League renew Redeem their Slaves defend their Right And shew their blood was precious in His sight XI Thus shall He live and reign and thus receive The Tributes which to Him are paid Some Myrrh some Frankincense shall give And Gold which shall like Stones be Common made And the due Service of each day Shall be to praise that King for whom we pray XII Then shall th' Earth produce her richest store And Mountain tops be safely plough'd Which though they barren were before With Libanus shall vye and shout as loud Nor shall the City flourish less Than Her parch'd Hills but like the fields encrease XIII And when to God he shall resign His breath Yet in His Name He still shall live Above the Pow'r of Grave or Death And to Immortal Verse a Subject give Which of His Happy Reign shall sing And count that Land so which ha's such a King XIV Bless Him whose Word these Miracles obey And who must all these gifts bestow To Israel's God let Israel pray That from His Spring such streams may ever flow For ever bless His Holy Name Nor bound with less than Heav'n His Mighty Fame The Prayers of David the Son of Jesse are ended The end of the Second Book of Psalms THE THIRD BOOK OF PSALMS Psalm LXXIII Quam bonus Israel Deus his c. I. IT is enough nor will I more distrust As I have done the Almighty Love I know Hee 's kind as well as Just And by my self this certain Truth can prove How cross so ' ere His Wayes may go At least seem cross to Us below Nor Him nor Them have Israel or the Just found so II. But e're I learn't this Lesson it was long And many a weary Stage I went My sliding feet were almost gone And I at last could hardly yield assent Whilst with these narrow steps of mine I thought to pace the wayes Divine Slipp'ry as glass they were though they with flowers did shine III. For when I saw the Wicked's Prosperous State And thousand Blessings He enjoyes Maintain'd by that which God do's hate In the Worlds glory and its greatest noyse My heart did at His honours rise And though I did the Beast despise In all his Trappings on him look'd with envyous eyes IV. Lusty and strong he laughs at those weak bands Which death on all the World do's lay And when the rest of Mankind stands With fear appall'd he dares the evil day Troubles which other Mortals fright He boldly challenges to fight And makes devouring plagues before him scape by flight V. Hence springs his pride with which the Violent Adorns his neck as with a Chain More for disgrace than Ornament And suited to his garments bloody stain Plump as the grape his face do's shine With eyes more sparkling than his Wine And to vast Wealth he do's unequal wishes joyne VI. Disdainfully he looks on all below As worthyer of his scorn than fear Him and themselves He 'll make them know And high as his proud minde his head do's bear But not content his mouth to spend Making it heard to the Worlds end He up on high to Heav'n his blasphemies do's send VII This as the Righteous see and thence return Their several Wayes to think upon In bitterness of heart they mourn And the Lords Councels measure by their own How is it possible say they That Justice thus provok'd can stay Her hands and the known Criminal forbear to slay VIII These are the Men yet being so they thrive Grow rich and wealthy dwell at ease Drones of repute it 'h Worlds great hive And feed on the industrous Bees increase Secure thy life from grief and care Calmy and smooth their faces are And could you see their hearts no storm came ever there IX In vain my heart to cleanse Thee have I strove And guiltless hands have wash'd in vain My Innocence nor can remove Nor tell how long I must endure my pain Then Fare well helpless Innocence With such a Friend I can dispence Who makes me suffer only with the greater sence X. But hold Fond Tongue consider who do's hear And whom Thy babling do's offend A seed who are th' Almighties Care And whom in love He do's afflictions send Therefore to search the Point again And how I might the cause maintain A-new to study I resolv'd but all in vain XI In vain I try'd for I ne're found it out Till to Thy Temple Lord I went Though I sought for it round about Till thither come I knew not what I meant There first I understood their end And what was Thyne thus to contend And poyson'd shafts of blessings through their hearts to send XII Surely for ruin they were set on high As men condemn'd in view of all And though the Scaffold touch the sky 'T is but that thence they may bee seen to fall Down they are fallen fled away As Phantasms at the approach of day Like their own dreams but more ridiculous are they XIII What a beast was I then Lord to repine A very fool to grieve my heart When all this while I have been Thine And though unknown secur'd my better part Thy Right hand has upholden me Thy Counsel shall my convoy be Unto that rest which I can only have with Thee XIV Thou art my Portion and from Thee alone My Peace and Happiness do flow In Heav'n besides Thee I have none And Heav'n it self Thy Presence Lord makes so And could I hoard up endless store Of that the World as God adore Without thy fulness I should empty be and Poor XV. Dry up then when you please Ye fayling Springs Or seek some other to deceive Who rest on such unstable things With you can quench their flames and on you live For I am only sick of love Nor can your streams my thirst remove For still my flesh and heart pant for the streams above XVI Confounded be all those whose sottish lust To senseless Idols bowes them down For when they most upon them trust Then they most surely shall be overthrown For my part I 'll to God draw near Make Him my
cannot reach so high stoop Thou to me II. Hear me my God for I am wondrous low And to the grave my life draws nigh Loaded with cares my Soul do's go And in the Pit is readie down to lie Already I am numbred with the Dead And that small strength I had Weakness at best is fled III. Free as the Dead and like one long since slain Who is forgotten in the Grave And never shall return again Or but upon his Tomb Memoriall have Low in the Pit I 'm lai'd down in the Deep And its rough waves my head do under water keep IV. Far from me Thou hast put my Nearest Friends Who as forsaken look on me Because my God no succour sends They think me hated or unknown to Thee As in a Pest-house quite given o're I 'm laid And those who pitty me are of my Sores afraid V. My eyes with teares o'recome yet look to Thee And for Thy help I daily cry When at night I cannot see With stretcht out armes I feel if Thou art nigh Wil t Thou say I to th'Dead Thy wonders show Let me but see them Lord and Thou do'st truly so VI. Shall the Dead rise and praise Thee or Thy love Be in the Land of Darkness seen Shall in the Grave Thy Praise improve Sung there where silence has for ever been Where dark oblivion uncontroll'd do's reign And dismal Horror riots o're the empty Plain VII And then again I new Petitions make And would prevent Thee with my Prayer With Thee the Morning do's partake And with my tears instead of dew looks fair But thou withdraw'st Thy self and out of sight Hid'st in thick Clouds that Face which gives me all my light VIII From my youth up I have Thy Terrors felt Ready with grief and pain to die Thy Wrath like fire my Soul do's melt And quite consumes what it should purifie Or like a troubled Sea do's o're me roll And thus by several Deaths or burns or drowns my Soul IX Far from me Thou hast put my Nearest Friend Whom Thou at first to me didst give Through Death Our Friendship cannot end For in the sad Survivour it shall live My Dear Acquaintance in the grave is laid And Two whom God made One Death again Two has made P.M.O.C. Psalm LXXXIX Misericordias Domini in aeternum c. IN flowing Numbers I resolve to sing The Truth and Mercies of th' Eternal King That late posterity His love may know Both what He did and what He 's sworn to do That Faithfullness which He has said shall stand Like Heav'n first made and stablisht by His hand When thus He spake I have to David past My Word and with an Oath have bound it fast Saying Thy seed I 'll bless upon Thy Throne And make its rule Eternal like my own Angels for this Thy Wonders must declare Such praises too sublime for Mortals are Who only can below admire Thy love Not joyn with but attend the Quire above For who in Heav'n with Thee can be compar'd Whom all adore as Thou by all art fear'd Or who among the mighty Sons of Earth Is like to Thee who gav'st their Mother Birth Before whose Throne Blest Saints and Angels bow And cast those Crowns which to Thy hand they owe. Whose great Commands the Heavenly Host obey And execute the charge which Thou dost lay So Just so True so full of Majesty Lord like Thy self Thou art and none like Thee The Sea when it to Heav'n in storms do's rise At Thy Rebuke in Humble Vallies lies Asunder Thou didst break the threatning Wave And in its bowels mad'st Proud Pharaohs grave The Heav'n with all its glorious Flames are Thine And with reflection from Thine eye they shine The Earth and all the stores the Earth containes Of Thy first fulness are the Mighty Dreins Thou bid'st it stand unmov'd above the Flood And saw'st what er'e Thy hand had done was good The North and South and all its coasts around Thou for Thy Pleasure first did'st make and bound Tabor and Hermon in Thy Name rejoyce And up to Thee the Vallies raise their Voice No Pow'r can Thy All-conqu'ring Arm with-stand So strong is that so high is Thy Right Hand Justice and Faithfulness uphold Thy Throne Mercie and Truth 's the Base it rests upon A thousand Graces round about Thee flie And take new life and vigor from Thine eye Thrice happy land whose Sovereign Lord Thou art Who hear Thy Law and to it yield their heart Who in Thy gracious Presence ever dwell And all the stories of Thy Power can tell Who have Thee for the subject of their Verse And every day can of Thy Truth reherse Thine Lord who art their strength their Fort and Tower And on their heads the Anointing Oyl dost poure Thou art Our God and we Thy Praise will sing Who in Thy stead o're us mad'st David King For thus His Will God to His Prophet told And in a Vision made Him it behold Saying I searcht the People all around And now to my Own Heart a Man have found David on whom the Burden shall be laid Of ruling Israel and their King be made I have anointed him with Him my Hand Shall both to conquer be and to command I from Conspiracies his Crown will guard And all his gates shall be most surely barr'd Before His Face his Enemies shall fall And unto me in vain for succour call For down I 'll tread them but his head will raise And with my Truth and Love make plain His Wayes His Empire to the River shall extend And only where the Earth finds hers have end All Lands and Seas to him shall tribute yield And of his conquests be the fruitful field By Name of Father to Him I 'll be known Of God and Rock and he shall be My Son My First-born higher than the Kings of th' Earth With Rule and Subjects worthy of his Birth My Oath and Covenant shall with him stand fast And I 'll that Promise keep which I have past Nor shall it be confin'd to him alone But his seed too shall have their Fathers Throne ' Which as the dayes of Heav'n shall constant be And know no bounds but vast Eternity If they my Statutes and my Laws forsake And break the Covenant which this day I make Then I their Sins will visit with a Rod But never cease to be their King and God ' My Mercie and my Truth will ne're remove Nor take away though I may hide My love My Promise and my Vow I 'll never break Nor change the Word which once my Mouth did speak For by my self I once to David swore And by My Holiness confirme't once more His seed and Throne like Heav'n shall constant be And know no bounds but Vast Eternity Witness ye Heav'ns which in my sight remain And you bright stars that in your Courses reign Both Sun and Moon against Me Witness be If Time it self endures so long as He This Thou hast
thâ—ir bodies ly And there 's as little hope as in their eye Chorus M. Then to the Lord in their distress they cry'd They cry'd aloud and he did hear And though His Face He seem'd to hide By His great hand declar'd that He was near For when in vain they had look'd all about And saw no help tow'rds Him they look'd were brought out Versus Resp. He broke their Chains asunder sett them free And made their Irons a new Bearing be From darkness freed them where they once did sit Not from Death only but the shade of it Chorus Omnium Let all the Earth th' Eternal Bounty praise And talk of all that He has done How Truth and Mercy are His Wayes To the whole World as well as to His Own For gates of Bars against Him could not stand But open fell Iron prov'd stubble to His Hand Versus III. Those Foolish sinners who in sottish Love Consume their Age neglecting that above Are justly punish'd for their fond disdain And have for all their love no love again How do they pine away and loath their meat Feeding their passion more the less they eat To sullen rocks lament as if the grones Which tear their breasts would pierce the sensless stones But all in vain those meanes but fruitless prove One Death alone can end their Lives and Love Chorus M. Then to the Lord in their distress they cry'd They cry'd aloud and he did hear And though His Face He seem'd to hide By His great hand declar'd that He was near For when in vain they had look'd all about And saw no help tow'rds Him they look'd were brought out Versus Resp. He sent His Word which did refine their love No more on Earth but plac'd it all above 'T was a disease no longer knew no pain But for the love it gave had love again Chorus Omnium Let all the Earth th' Almighty Bounty praise And talk of all that He has done How Truth and Mercy are His Wayes To the whole World as well as to His Own And let all those who by His Goodness live The hearts He thus has chang'd an Offering to Him give Versus IV. They who into the Sea in Ships go down And seek by Wayes they know not lands unknown Who make the untrac'd Ocean be their Road Which with their keels they tear and burdens load They in the Deep His dreadfull Wonders see Of which themselves as great as any bee How He commands the stormes and do's unbinde The airy fetters of the strugling Winde Out they all tumble and the rough Sea invade Which now their scorn as much as sport is made To Heav'n lift up its floods as if to call Help thence but e're 't is come down let them fall Low as their depth whiles the scar'd passingers Look every wave should drown them and their fears Stagger like drunken Men reel to and fro Their feet less steady than their Vessels go And in their teeth the Winds their sighs do send Making them e're the storms at their Witts end Chorus M. Then to the Lord in their distress they cry'd They cry'd aloud and He did hear His Face the Tempest could not hide Nor raging Seas or dull or stop His Eare For when in vain they had look'd round about And saw no help tow'rds Him they look'd were brought out Versus Resp. He bid the Sea be calm the Winds be still And only with brisk gales their canvass fill Then brought them smooth and calmy as the Sea To the wish'd Haven where they long'd to be Chorus Omnium Let all the Earth th' Eternal Bounty praise And talk of all that He has done How Truth and Mercy are His Wayes To the whole World as well as to His Own And let all those who on the Seas have been Sing in His Church His praise and tell what they have seen Versus When for their sin God do's chastize a land Their springs He turnes into a Parched sand A Wilderness which drinks their Rivers up And not a Rose budd yields to crown the Cup But barren as the salt which is sown there Nor herb for man nor grass for beast do's bear Resp. The Wilderness He turns into a Pool And fills the parched sand with springs brim full There for the hungry Soul provides His meat And for the Colonys He leads a seat With corn they sow their fields new Vineyards plant And neither Citizens nor Cities want He blesses them and makes them so increase Their very Cattle feel the fruits of Peace Versus Again to punish them they are brought low That hand destroys them which first made them grow For He on mighty Kings contempt do's lay And those who His forsake lose their own way Resp. But He the Poor from trouble sets on high Whence He may see His long Posterity Chorus Omnium Let all the Righteous in their God rejoice But the Unjust with envy break Those shew their triumph by their voice While these have neither Will nor power to speak Thrice happy Man who treasuring in his minde These several Mercies some one for his Use canfinde Psalm CVIII Paratum est Cor meum c. I. IT is resolv'd nor will I any more Distrust my God as I have done before No! I will praise Him and my heart Which has so oft betray'd me into fear Its burden in the song shall bear And when my Harp begins shall sing the highest Part. II. Awake my Harp 't is time for thee to'awake Prevent the day and Thy great subject take Put all Thy strings on shew Thy skill God and my soul are ready be not slow For if we should before Thee go Thy strings would never half way reach up Heav'ns high Hill III. We come O God and with us up will raise High as Thy Love and Truth to Heav'n Thy praise The World shall hear what Thou hast done How signally Thou hast appear'd for me By Thy great Power hast set me free And for Thy works praise Him whose Name they have not known IV. Then with Thy Mercy to the Clouds we 'll flie And take new wing to mount to the Most High Above the Clouds exalted be Lord set Thy gloryfar above the skies And if so high we cannot rise From Heav'n do Thou descend when we look up to Thee V. Descend and by the way Thy Name make known What Thou wilt do by what Thy hand has done Hear me My God has hear'd my Cry Has past His Word and in it I rejoice Has given me of all lands my Choice And on my Gods Almighty promise I rely VI. Sechem is Mine I will divide its Plain And o're the Vale of Succoth throw my Chain The Tribes of Israel shall obey Those which ly farthest off or nearer stand Shall yield themselves to my Command Shall serve whilst Judah gives them lawes holds the sway VII Moab's my Wash
pot and shall sue to be A vassal to my basest drudgery Philistia shall my Chariot meet Honourd enough if she may bear the yoke Proud Edom has so often broke And Edom shall submit her neck and take my Feet VIII But who to Edom will direct my course And entrance for Me into Bozra force God shall direct me to the Town God who of late has seem'd to disappear And when He comes viewing Him there The Walls to make Him Way shall open or fall down IX Help usO God for we in vain implore A forreign aid which wants Our succour more Thou art my help through Thee my head With Laurel shall be crown'd and in my Wayes Some Enemies necks the ground shall raise So that my feet shall triumph too and on them tread Psalm CIX Deus laudem meam ne tacueris c. I. Guard of my Life and God of all my Praise Who see'st the Outrage off'red me Thy self and Power for my just sentence raise Nor let the wrongs I bear reflect on Thee Thou hear'st what cruel Words the wicked speak Let not them only and not Thou Thy Silence break II. With words of hatred I am girt around And from all parts they with me fight So hard that I am all but one great wound And the whole cause I give them is my Right With prayers for them their malice would reprove But those with Scorn with hatred they reward my Love III. Let him some Tyrant serve be made a Slave And Satan place at his right hand No other pitty find than what he gave And at his Enemies tribunal stand Let him be judg'd condemn'd and all his prayers Be made in vain to deaf or else to stubborn eares IV. Let suddain death his wretched life attend His office to another give Let on his wife and seed the curse descend They Fatherless and she a Widdow live Let them be vagabonds and begg their bread And have have no certain place to hide or rest their head V. Let the Extortioner catch all he has And strangers to his labours come Let him find none who will resent his case But with new miseries encrease the summ None who will to him any Mercy show Or on his Fatherless one friendly look bestow VI. Let them be all cut off and their curst Name In the next age be quite forgot Or if they be remembred let their shame On their Atchievments be a constant blot Let his fore-Fathers Sins be in Thine ey And all his Mothers lusts afresh for vengeance cry VII Let silence or reproach upon him rest And as it ne're was in his minde Either to favour or relieve th' opprest Neither reliefe nor favour let him find But as the Needy he with wrongs persu'd On his own head Let them be all again renew'd VIII As he Lov'd cursing let him still be curst And hated blessing seek in vain With envy which first swel'd him let him burst And then like water on him turn ' it again Like Oyle let it to ' his very marrow pierce And like those flames which boyle it be but far more fierce IX Give him no other garment for his pride Than this with which he was array'd Close with his girdle let his loines be ty'd To all a terror of himself afraid And executed by the hand Divine Let this his ruine be who only plotted mine X. But Lord my God for thine own great Names sake And for I hy Mercy rescue me Thou who the poor mans cause do'st undertake As ready to assist the helpless be Look how I stooping go and bow'd to th' ground But there no herb can find to ease or heal my wound XI My dayes and age are like a shaddow gon That when the Sun withdraws is lost And as the locust driven up and down From field to field from land to land I 'm tost My knees and flesh of strength through fasting fayl And those who wounded me with scornes my life assail XII But Lord my God for Thine Own great Names sake And for Thy Mercy rescue me That all may know the care Thou ' art pleas'd to take And in my sure deliverance honour Thee Bless Thou and let them curse confound their noise And make them all asham'd whilst I in Thee rejoyce XIII Shame and confusion to my Enemies Let it their Vest and Portion be Whilst I to Heaven in tuneful Numbers rise And tell abroad what God has done for me How from Oppession he the Poor did save And what his judges had deny'd just sentence gave Psalm CX Dixit Dominus Domino meo c. I. THE Lord said to my Lord The Mighty God to the Eternal Word Sit Thou at my Right hand Till I Thine Enemies command To be the Foot-stool to Thy Throne And freely yield their necks for Thee to tread upon II. Sion's that glorious Throne Whence with disdain Thy foes Thou look'st upon Thence Thou around shalt reign And by Thy Power new subjects gain Thy Enemies shall They obey And once return'd none shall more Loyall be than they III. And as the Summer Sun When Winters past and all its rage is done Do's every Morning view His way all strew'd with pearly dew Whose Numbers cannot reck'ned be T is a faint Emblem of Thy long Posterity IV. His Oath God will not break But King and Priest Thou ' art like Melchisedoc The Lord at Thy Right hand Shall let no Proud Usurper stand But Kings shall bow and in Thy Train Be captive led whilst there 's made Trophies of the slain V. He the Great Head shall wound When it shall Queeen of all the World be crown'd Drink of the brook i' th' way And follow till He gives the day But when His Cross shall death strike Dead Th' Eternal God Himself shall raise and crown His head Psalm CXI Confitebor tibi Domine c. I. WIth my whole heart I 'll praise the Lord Word And where He chose to honour it exalt His In the Assemblies of the just There will I all His noble Works disclose His Famous Acts sought out of those Who them their pleasure make and Him their Trust. II. His glorious Works are great and high No more to be conceiv'd than seen by mortal eye And shall for ever so remain Eternity it self is scarce enough To praise His Mercy and His Love And what we now unknown admire make plain III. He for His People did provide And never broke His Word or Covenant deni'd They saw His Signes beheld His hand How for their sake He made His power appear Prepar'd them conquests by the fear Which He sent first into their Enemies land IV. Justice and Truth are all His Wayes And on Eternal Faithfulness His Promise staies Beyond all ages they shall last And when Old Time it self away shall flee Remain as firm as now they bee And on their own great Basis fixt stand fast V. Deliverance He for Israel wrought And to save them His greatest plagues on
But on Thy God O Israel trust He only is Thy help and shield O house of Aaron flee to Him that 's Just For He is Thine and help will yield All you who fear th' Almighty Lord Upon Him trust and flee unto His Word For He 's your help and He will be your shield And though you flee it is to gain the field VI. The Lord has mindful of us been And He will all Our joyes restore The house of Israel have His blessing seen And He will bless them more and more The house of Aaron He will bless And all who fear Him shall by ' His love encrease 'Twixt rich and poor He do's no difference know But by His blessing both in numbers grow VII Bless'd of that God who all things made Both Earth and Sea and glorious Heaven High Heav'n's His seat and of Him is afraid But He to Man the Earth has given 'T is there that we admire His Wayes Before the grave shut us up and His Praise There will we bless the God in whom we live And as He life to us Him praises give Hallelujah Psalm CXVI Delexi quoniam exaudivit c. I. I Love Thee Lord with my whole heart For Thou dost my petitions hear Because Thou to me hast inclin'd Thine ear And thus propitious to Thy servant art With new requests I 'll ever prove Thee And shew by that I love Thee II. The pains of death enclos'd me round Grief held my heart and teares my eyes My grave stood open and death thence did rise Trouble and Horror on all sides I found Death it self waited underneath Above the pains of Death III. Yet to the Lord I cry'd and said My God Thy help I now implore Deliver me as Thou hast done before When in my trouble I unto Thee pray'd Though I deserv'd to be deni'd Yet to the Lord I cry'd IV. To wrath He 's slow abounds in love Our sins most ready to forgive The Innocent upon His bounty live In Him they live who reigns their God above He help'd me when I was brought low For He to wrath is slow V. Then to Thy rest my Soul return For God has kindly dealt with Thee Thy feet from sliding life from death set free Nor shall Thy failing eyes in sorrow mourn Thy dayes to praise Him are increas'd Return Soul to Thy rest VI. Lord I believe and therefore speak I knew I should Thy Mercy praise Though when afflicted and in rugged wayes One sorrow did my heart and silence break Then I all flesh the ly did give And yet Lord I believe VII What shall I bring and yield the Lord For all His Favours shown to me A thankful heart my sacrifice shall be I 'll praise Him and rely upon His Word New songs of thanks I 'll to Him sing And this at least will bring VIII My Vowes which in distress I made Before His People will I pay His People shall rejoice that solemn day Whilst those who are His En'mies be afraid When He His plagues upon them throws And do's accept My Vowes IX Dear in His sight His servants are He will Himself repay their wrong Though in forbearing He may seem too long It is more deep to strike and not to spare Nor is the death of the upright Less pretious in His sight X. Lord I am Thine and thine will be Thy Handmaids Son whom Thou did'st save My God Himself a ransome for me gave And to a nobler service set me free Thou brake'st my bonds and made'st me mine And now Lord I am Thine XI This will I bring and yield the Lord For all His Favours shown to me A thankful heart my sacrifice shall be I 'll praise Him and rely upon His Word New songs of thanks I 'll to Him sing And this at least will bring XII My Vowes which in distress I made Before His People will I pay His People shall rejoice that solemn day And where I made them there shall see them pai'd Within the Courts of the Lord's House There will I pay my Vowes Hallelujah Psalm CXVII Laudate Dominum Omnes c. I. ALL you who to the Lord your Beings ow All Nations with His blessings crown'd All people through the World renown'd Sing praises to that God who made you so II. To God whose Mercy do's to all extend Is great to us and good to you And with His Truth do's still renew But like Himself knowes neither bound nor end Hallelujah Psalm CXVIII Confitemini Domino quoniam c. I. TO God's Almighty Name sing praise And you who know how good He is Resign to Him what 's truely His And Arches of His own great Mercies raise For like His Word they have been sure And to Eternity endure II. Israel the great Jehova's choice Who all His fearful Works have seen Who His great Care have alwayes been Let Israel now confess with thankful voice His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure III. Let those who by their place attend And at His Altar daily wait Their own experiences relate Sing as they see the sacred flame ascend His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure IV. And to advance the Blessed King Let all the Righteous with them join And in a service thus Divine Bear their part too and in the Chorus sing His Mercies have been ever sure And to Eternity endure V. To God on high for help I cri'd Who from His Temple answer'd me Both heard my prayers and set me free The Lord of Host Himself was on my side I will not fear what man can do Since I 've a God to flee unto VI. With those who help'd me He was seen His Presence brought my greatest aid Nothing shall make me now afraid He 'll be my sword who has my Buckler been And when my Foes shall be o'rethrowne I 'll boast of what His hand has done VII Those who their Care on God do cast And know no other will but His Of sure recruits shall never miss But as a Rock i' th' midst of stormes stand fast On God 't is more secure to trust Than man who must return to dust VIII He never yet did any fail Most sure when most reli'd upon And though His Power subscribes to none He lets weak prayers o're Heav'n and Him prevail On God 't is more secure to trust Than Princes who must turn to dust IX Let Barbarous Nations girt me round And for my ruine all engage My trust is plac'd above their rage And stands unshaken on the higher ground For on the Lord of Hosts I 'll call And in His Name destroy them all X. Round let them compass me and round And for my ruine all engage My Trust is plac'd above their rage And stands unshaken on the higher ground For on the Lord of Hosts I 'll call And in His Name destroy them all XI Let them
like Bees about me swarm And all to be my death engage Like fire in Thornes or stubble rage My head shall be defended by this Charm For on the Lord of Hosts I 'll call And in His Name destroy them all XII The bloody Man thrust at me hard And hop'd at length to see me fall But when I on the Lord did call That sword brought death to him which me had spar'd God who 's my strength shall be my song And whom I call'd I 'll stay upon XIII The voice of Triumph and of praise The just mans mouth do's ever fill His voice is like his trumpet shrill When up to Heav'n Thy Vict'ries he do's raise 'T was thou the Conquest did obtain And Thy Right hand the day did gain XIV The Lords right hand did mighty things No power before His power could stand For when He made bare His Right hand Armies before Him fled and Potent Kings 'T was That the Conquest did obtain And His Right hand the day did gain XV. Empty Thy Quiver Death else where Be gon and pierce some softer heart For I defie Thy sharpest dart Am both above Thy malice and Thy fear I know I shall not dy but live And praise Him who my Life did give XVI Low as the dust I was brought down To the dark Suburbs of the grave But He was pleas'd my life to save And what He up had rais'd my Head did crown Open the Gates of Righteousness For lo I am return'd in Peace XVII Blest gates of the Divine aboad Which to the Holy Place let in Where all the just their Offrings bring And haste into the Presence of their God There Lord I 'll praises sing to Thee For Thou hast bow'd Thine eare to mee XVIII The stone the Builders did refuse Had often tri'd oft thrown away Is now the Mighty Fabricks stay God chose it for the Noblest place and use This is His doing and when thus God builds His Work is marvellous XIX This is the day which He has made Hosannas now befit our voice Come let us in Our God rejoice And in the day which He has made be glad That He Prosperity may send And to Our troubles put an end XX. Sacred Embassador of God Who hither in His Name do's come We in His Temple make Thee room And bless Our King from His Divine aboade He is Our Saviour Come away The Victims at the Altar stay XXI Bind them with cords and tye them fast To th' Altars horns and make them bleed Then let the Flame upon them feed And in thick clouds to Heav'n ascend at last My God I will sing praise to Thee Who art my God and song shalt be XXII To God's Almightie Name sing praise And you who know how Good He is Resign to Him what 's truly His And Arches of His Own great Mercies raise For like His Word they have been sure And to Eternity endure Psalm CXIX I. Part. Beati immaculati in via c. Aleph I. THrice happy Men who pure and undefil'd By the great Rule direct their Way Walk where that points and never go astray But to Gods Law sincere obedience yield Who search for that with their whole heart And keep His Testimonies as their better part II. To no iniquity they turn aside So plain His Wayes before them ly And if through ignorance they step awry His spirit which guides will hold them when they slide That I Thy Praecepts Lord fulfill Is Thy desire and Mine but first to know Thy Will III. Teach me Thy Will the Way where I should go How I Thy Statutes may observe Order my paths that I may never swerve And what 's Thy Righteous Pleasure to me show That shame may blush to follow me Who Thy Commands persue and follow none but Thee IV. And when Thy Judgements I shall thus be taught With upright heart I 'll sing Thy Praise The dull thing I as yet can hardly raise So low with former griefs it has been brought Then all Thy Statutes I 'll obey And Thou with me for ever shalt delight to stay II. Part. Beth. In quo corriget c. I. BUT how shall Youth this Wisdom Lord attain Unbridled Youth to choose His Way Youth that persues new follies every day Will in Thy Word find both a bit and rein With all my heart I have sought Thee That I ne're stray make Thy Commandments known to me II. Within my Heart Thy sacred Word I lay'd I lay'd it up and hid it there And to its counsel gave my willing eare And thence took heart of Sin to be afraid Lord Thou art worthy of all praise Teach me Thy Statutes that I may Thy glory raise III. This my desire has been and still shall be Of all Thy Judgements to recount The summ to which Thy Testimonies mount Is infinite and only like to Thee Riches of which the World do's dream Are piercing cares and emptiness compar'd with Them IV. Of all Thy Praecepts will I meditate And have respect to all Thy Wayes Thy Statutes my delight and love shall raise And at Thy Oracle I 'll ever waite Within my heart Thy love shall gain Such conquests that the Trophies shall like Heav'n remain III. Part. Gimel Retribue Servo tuo c. I. O' May Thy Servant of Thy love partake And what Thou ' hast sworn of old fulfill That He may keep Thy Word and do Thy Will And pay the vowes He heretofore did make Yet nearer Lord unto Him draw And clear his sight to view the wonders of Thy Law II. I am a stranger and the rule I have O're Nations only comes from Thee I give them Lawes but Thou must give them me From Thy Commandments I assistance crave My Soul is wasted with desire And with the Love Thy Judgements kindled all a fire III. The proud who from Thy just Commandments err Are curs'd because from Thee they go Curse great enough if it were only so But all their wayes are girt around with fear Reproach which they for me have lay'd Send them for I Thy Testaments my guard have made IV. Kings too as they in judgement on me sat Derided me for that great Love I bore Thee Lord invisible above But on Thy Statutes I did meditate Thy Testimonies in my need Were my best Counsellors and taught me how to plead IV. Part Daleth Adhaesit pavimento c. I. DOwn to the Earth my humbled soul is cast Raise me according to Thy Word No power but Thine can any help afford For where 't is thrown it to the Earth cleaves fast My wayes I have declar'd to Thee Teach me Thy Statutes and shew Thine to me II. Make me Thy Wayes and Praecepts understand So shall I all Thy Works relate How Thou in me a new heart didst create And help'dst me do what Thou didst first command My Soul for grief do's melt away Strengthen me with Thy Word and bid the stream to stay III.
in fetters bind And make their stoutest Princes walk in Chains behind V. That Wrath which was denounc'd to execute And all the long since written Doom fulfill When their fierce Enemies all struck mute Shall yield their Lives to th' Pleasure of their Will Such Glorious Freedom follows Their Restraints And this great Honour after suffering have the Saints Hallelujah Psalm CL. Laudate Dominum c. I. THe Holy God in His Sanctuary praise There where He loves Himself to show And having sung His Praise below From thence to Heaven that and your voyce together raise II. In Heav'n He makes His Mighty Power be seen Praise Him who makes it there appear For if that Greatness awe us here What would it do came not so vast a space between III. Together strive who shall exalt Him most What Instruments the fittest are Whether of Love whether of Warr Shrill Trumpets or soft Harps to praise the Lord of Host IV. Trumpets and Harps shall in one Consort move The Cornet and the Amorous Lute The Cymbal and the Warlike Flute For He who is the Lord of Host is God of Love V. Let the whole Earth their praises to Him bring Whate're has being life or breath Angels above and Men beneath And all whom He has Voyces given His Praises sing S. Woodford At Albrook Hants 7 Martii 1665 6 Hallelujah FINIS A TABLE OF THE PSALMS Psalm   Page  A.   120 AD Dominum cum tribularer IN my distress unto the Lord 373 28 Ad te Domine clamabo To thee O Lord my Rock 69 25 Ad te Domine levavi To thee O God my 62 123 Ad te levavi oculos meos To thee O Lord I lift 376 29 Afferte Domino Filii Dei You whom your birth for 71 78 Attendite popule Israel Gods own inheritance 216 49 Audite haec omnes gentes Attend O World and bid 129  B.   119 Beati immaculati Thrice happy men who 351 128 Beati omnes qui Blest is the man whose 386 32 Beati quorum remissae He whose iniquities are 79 41 Beatus qui intelligit Blest is that man who 108 1 Beatus vir qui non Thrice happy man who 1 112 Beatus vir qui timet That man is truly blest 334 34 Benedicam Dominum Lord I will bless Thee 84 104 Benedic anima mea Arise my soul and to the 303 103 Benedic anima mea Arise my soul and to the 300 144 Benedictus Dominus Supream Commander of the 419 85 Benedixisti Domine terram At length O God thy People 236 92 Bonum est confiteri Domino What Saints in Heaven and 278  C   149 Cantate Domino New songs of Praise 433 96 Cantate Domino canticum New songs of Praise 285 98 Cantate Domino New songs of Praise 289 19 Caeli enarrant gloriam That boundless space 47 75 Confitebimur tibi Deus Lord we will praise thee 209 9 Confitebor tibi Domine Lord I will praise thee 17 111 Confitebor tibi Domine With my whole heart I 'le 332 138 Confitebor tibi Domine Lord I will bless thee 406 105 Confitemini Domino Give thanks unto our God 310 106 Confitemini Domino quoniam Sing to the Lord for 314 107 Confitemini Domino All you who on th' Almighty 319 118 Confitemini Domino To Gods Almighty Name 346 136 Confitemini Domino O praise the Lord for He 399 16 Conserva me Domine Preserve me Lord for 34 4 Cum invocarem exaudivit Thou who hast heard me 6  D   130 De profundis clamavi Out of the depths unto 389 44 Deus auribus nostris Great God we oft have 115 50 Deus Deorum Dominus 'T is past and by irrevocable 132 63 Deus Deus meus ad te Early my God before 167 22 Deus Deus meus quare My God My God why art 54 70 Deus in adjutorium My God why dos my 189 54 Deus in nomine tuo O Thou who Israels Saviour 148 72 Deus judicium tuum Great God thy judgements 196 109 Deus laudem meam ne Guard of my life and God 327 67 Deus misereatur nostri Save us O God and 178 46 Deus noster refugium To Armys some for 122 83 Deus quis similis erit tibi Enough my God Thou hast 231 60 Deus repulisti nos Lord thou hast smote us 162 82 Deus stetit in Synagoga You judges of the World 229 79 Deus venerunt gentes Lord see the miseries which 222 94 Deus ultionum Dominus Judge of the Universe 281 116 Dilexi quoniam exaudivit I love thee Lord 342 18 Diligam te Domine Lord I will love thee 39 39 Dixi custodiam vias Let him go on for me 101 110 Dixit Dominus Domino The Lord said to my Lord 330 36 Dixi injustus ut delinquat Base hypocrite thinkst 89 14 Dixit insipiens in corde There is no God the 30 53 Dixit insipiens There is no God the Fool 146 141 Domine clamavi ad te My God when in distress 413 7 Domine Deus meus in te Almighty God to thee for 12 88 Domine Deus salutis meae Great God whence my 243 8 Domine Dominus noster Sole Monarch of the World 15 102 Domine exaudi orationem My dearest God let my 296 143 Domine exaudi orationem Great Saviour to my 417 21 Domine in virtute tua Great God who wonders for 51 6 Domine ne in furore tuo Lord in thy wrath rebuke 10 38 Domine ne infurore tuo Lord in thy wrath 98 131 Domine non est exaltatum No Lord thou knowest 391 139 Domine probasti me In vain O God my 408 3 Domine quid multiplic Lord how are they increast 5 15 Domine quis habitabit My God who shall Thy Holy 32 90 Domine refugium factus Lord we have been Thy 251 24 Domini est terra The Earth and all the Earth 60 27 Dominus illuminatio mea When in the silence of the 66 23 Dominus regit me The Mighty God who all 58 93 Dominus regnavit decorem Submit your Crowns O Kings 280 97 Dominus regnavit exultet The Lord dos reign let the 287 99 Dominus regnavit irascantur The Lord dos reign let the 291  E.   134 Ecce num benedicite Praise him ye Servants 395 133 Ecce quam bonum Blest day wherein I live 394 59 Eripe me de inimicis Preserve me Lord and by 160 140 Eripe me Domine Lord from the evil 411 45 Eructavit Cor meum A thousand fancies from 118 145 Exaltabo te Deus My God my King I will 421 30 Exaltabote Domine My God I will to Thee 73 20 Exaudiat te Dominus So may thy God be 49 61 Exaudi Deus deprecationem Hear me my Saviour 164 55 Exaudi Deus orationem Lord to my Prayer 150 64 Exaudi Deus orationem Lord to my
new wayes To the wide Earths extreamest end From East it shall unto the West extend And when it has fill'd all below to Heav'n ascend That goodness which Thy hand around do's throw Like fruitfull seed shall upward grow Solyma to Thy Courts her gifts shall bring And all her Cities shout forth Acclamations to their King V. Walk about Sion all her Bulwarks count The humble Vallies and the Holy Mount Her lofty Towers up to the Skie To which the Heav'ns desire to be more nigh And their own heights to kiss her sacred Spires deny Round it again and her great Wonders see To tell the Age which is to bee And that Her God will Ours till death abide And through the Graves dark gloomy way to Heav'n our passage guide Psalm XLIX Audite haec omnes gentes auribus c. I. ATtend O World and bid thy Nations hear Those who ly furthest off and those more near Both rich and poor and high and low My Song no diff'rence makes and none do's know But those who serve and those who rule The Souldier Statesman and the Fool The young the old the great the small It do's without distinction call And like the grave alike concerns and equals All. II. With God my Song His Wisdom moves the Lyre And makes the chords in lofty sounds conspire With Him will I begin my Song His Wisdom shall conduct the strains along Shall life and breath and motion give Make them and they my Voice to live Then the stops chang'd on the same string I will in mighty Numbers sing Triumphant Death which next Him is the greatest King III. What profit's it to hoard up endless store Of wealth for others and my self be Poor Prevent my evil day with Cares To leave a Curse and sorrow to my Heirs Since he who has most chains of Gold The Pris'ner life can never hold Can never pay a ransom down For the fleet Soul away once gone And from the grave redeem his Brothers or his own IV. Death throwes an heavier Chain than that o're all And proudest Monarchs at His Footstool fall Look how the Wise the Brutish dye And in one Urn their lots and ashes lye The longest livers only have A tedious journey to the grave Whil'st most a short way thither find And have their Pass-ports sooner sign'd Whither all come at last and leave their wealth behind V. In vain by Monuments men hope to live And their fond Names to Lands and Houses give In vain they huge foundations lay For Tombs which have their Fate as well as they No Honours bayl in this arrest But the same death waits Man and Beast And though enough the Children know Their Fathers folly choose to go With them and count those greater fools who do not so VI. They follow close their steps their sayings hold Like Sheep they follow to th' Eternal fold Where till the Morning they are penn'd The Morning of that day which ne're shall end Which Titles shall again renew And diff'rences the Grave ne're knew From some all beauty take away In greater Iustre some display Raising them Gold who buryed were but only Clay VII Then shall I rise too and with glory shine From the Graves power kept by the power Divine It shall no longer trouble mee Nor know I why the Wise should troubled bee To see anothers stores encrease Since they disturb His present ease And must be left all when he dyes Then heavy gold begins to rise And with his breath away an empty Honour flies VIII His former pleasures then avail him not But are by him as he by his forgot Nothing remains of all he did When with his Fathers he in night lyes hid That Wisdom only do's abide Which for the future did provide 'T is Wisdom sets the Man on high Wisdom the badge to know him by Without which like a Beast he lives and all must die Psalm L. Deus Deorum Dominus c. I. 'T Is past and by irrevocable doom Decreed that all the World to Judgment come Out from the East let the great summons go Swifter than Morning light In it's first undisturb'd and lusty flight When on the Western Hills it hasts to show It's Conquests and drives thence the Captive Night Then let the West to th' voice give ear And all the scatt'red winds which ly between Be ready on the wing And o're the Earth the dreadfull Message bear Make the deaf North and South to hear Proclaim it in the open Sky That the last day is nigh A day which none e're yet did see And which but few till it comes believe will bee When God the hearts of all shall open lay And bid the World to make room for the Session hast away II. When Sion was the Residence Divine God empty'd all his glories there Sion did with refulgent beauty shine And only what was lovely durst appear The Air was calm Heav'n seem'd more bright As if from thence it had receiv'd new light Before hand would officiously come down And take the forward Sacrifice E're it began to rise And with a sacred flame the Victim crown Or if it gath'red in a Cloud 'T was but some greater Majesty to shroud No cryes were heard there or sad grones Nothing that could disturb the quiet of the place But joy and mirth were seen in every Face And left their traces on the stones The very walls were glad Mourn'd not in breaches nor in Yawns lookt sad But the bright Liveries of Peace did wear The walls look'd gay the Altars fair And with perpetual throngs Of those who came to worship there The Courts were ever fill'd with Incense or with Songs Nay God Himself attention seem'd to give And held His own the Homage of their Voices to receive III. But now that time is past nor as before Will he in love draw neer But all in Flames appear Will in the charming murmurs be no more But up Hee 'l lift His voyce and roar And those flames which the Victim burnt the Altar shall devour A tempest shall before Him ride And forward post the sluggish winde With thousand Captives running by His side Of Lands which he has empty made Clearing the way for Plagues which come behind And of the following Thunder be it self afraid Along the Heav'n the Thunder like a Sea shall roll And make its noyse be heard to either Pole With all the Fears which horror can invent With lightnings not to purge the Air And its decays repair But to make greater and disturb it sent To riot there without controll And synge what it e're long shal burn that beauteous Scroll IV. Then shall God come and with a dreadfull voyce Which layes those storms checks that Thunders noise Making the Dead who heard not them awake And Heav'n and Earth and Sea affrighted quake When thus He cites them to appear And bids them to the Barr draw near His Pleasure and their Charge to hear Return Hee 'l to