there we in him rejoyc'd HYMN 414. 2. PART Argument God's Soveraign Rule He keeps our Soul alive Though we with tryals and afflictions strive Psal. 66. v. 7. verse 7 GOD'S power still rules the world abroad his eyes all Lands descry O let not then rebellious men exalt themselves on high verse 8 O all ye people bless our God with earnest voices strive To sound the fame of his great Name verse 9 who keeps our souls alive And suffers not on any side our feet to be remov'd verse 10 Yet thou O God hast us'd thy rod and us thy servants prov'd As silver in a furnace try'd so througly try'd were we verse 11 Our feet were set within the net and therein brought by thee HYMN 415. 3. PART Argument Afflictions great imposed and allay'd The vows of gratitude are sworn and pay'd Psalm 66. v. 11. Afflictions sore and violent thou mad'st our loyns abide verse 12 Yea thou didst then cause furious men over our heads to ride Through flames of fire O Lord we went and through the watry flouds But surely thou hast brought us now to places stor'd with goods verse 13 Burnt offerings to thy house I 'll bear those very vows to pay verse 14 Which I did make and which I spake in my distressfull day verse 15 Burnt Sacrifice of Fatlings there my sould to thee devotes With Incense too of Rams enough with Bullocks offering Goats HYMN 416. Release from Afflictions 4. PART Psalm 66.11 LORD thou hast brought us oftentimes into a tangling strait And laid afflictions on our loins with an oppressing weight verse 12 Over our head fierce men did ride by thee on purpose sent And we distrest on every side through fire and water went. But when we were thus under-trod and hopeless seem'd our case Even then thou brought'st us out O God into a wealthy place verse 13 Therefore will I come to thy house burnt offerings to bestow And I will pay thee all the vows which my engagements owe. HYMN 417. 5. PART Argument Experience told stirs up to prayer and praise Sins kept withhold true blessings in our ways 2. METRE Psalm 66.16 verse 16 COme hearken all that fear the Lord and I will let you know What special Love the Lord above to my dear Soul did shew verse 17 My mouth did his renown record my tongue his praise preferr'd verse 18 But if within I harbour'd sin my prayer should not be heard verse 19 But God hath heard me verily and hath been well content With willing ear my voice to hear and what I did present verse 20 The Lord I bless and magnifie who turned not away Nor held from me his mercy free when I to him did pray HYMN 418. Revelation of the Gospel 1. METRE Have mercy c. Psalm 67. verse 2 SHEW Grace to us O God and bless us every one Thy face Divine on us let shine thy way on Earth make known verse 3 Let Nations see thy light let people praise thy Name O let them all in general thus see thus spread thy fame verse 4 Let Nations shout and sing because thou art set forth A righteous King in governing and judging all the Earth verse 5 Let People praise thy Name let all of them praise thee verse 6 Then shall the Earth her fruits bring forth and great increase shall be verse 7 God our own God shall then abundant blessings send And men shall fear him every where to Earths remotest end HYMN 419. Revelation and Riches of the Gospel 2. METRE Give laud c. Psalm 67. BE good O God to thine and pour thy blessings forth Thy face on us let shine and shew thy way on Earth With such success That Nations all may see their call To blessedness O let the people then give praise O God to thee And let all sorts of men in thy sweet praise agree Let them confess Thy Holy Name and spread thy fame With thankfulness O make the Nations glad and let them sing for joy For thou shalt judge O God the people righteously Thy Rule shall bless The Nations all in general With happiness O let the people then give praise to thee O God And let all sorts of men proclaim thy praise abroad Let all confess Thy Holy Name and spread thy fame With cheerfulness Then shall the earth afford a plentifull encrease And our own God the Lord to bless us shall not cease God shall us bless Earth far and near his Name shall fear With awfulness HYMN 420. Rising of the Ark or Exurgat Deus The mighty God c. Psalm 68.1 2. LET God arise and dissipate his foes Let those that hate him flee before his face As smoke is driven away just so let those Be driven away and God pursue the chase As fire doth melt the wax and makes it liquid So perish in God's presence let the wicked 3 4. But let the just their joys in God proclaim And let them glory in the Lord most high Sing to the Lord sing praises to his Name Exalt ye him that rideth on the sky By JAH his Name exalt him and adore him And most exceedingly rejoyce before him 5 6. A tender Father of the Fatherless A Judge of Widows is Almighty God And so indeed he doth himself express From 's holy habitation and abode He sets the desolate in habitations To dwell with their own housholds and relations 6. Psalm 106.48 He bringeth out those that are bound with chains And frees the Pris'ners with a powerfull hand But the rebellious people he restrains And makes their dwelling in a barren Land. Let Israel's God be ever blest therefore And People say Amen for evermore HYMN 421. Sanctuary Songs for the wonderfull works of God. Psal. 68.32 SING unto God with one accord ye Kingdoms of the earth O sing ye praises to the Lord and set his honour forth verse 33 To him that mounts the highest sphere of Heavens fram'd of old And sendeth out his thunder there most mighty to behold verse 34 Ascribe to God Omnipotence for that to him pertains O're Israel is his excellence and in the clouds he reigns verse 35 O God thou art a dreadfull God and so thou mak'st it known From Heaven which is thy blest abode and Sion's sacred throne The God of Israel is our tower and it is onely he That gives his people strength and power and blest his Name shall be Sion's Reparations To the Tune of the old 130. Psalm Psalm 69.34 LET the Heavens praise begin let the Earth pursue it Let the Sea and all therein joyn their suffrage to it verse 35 For the Lord will Sion save Judah's Cities rear Houses new that men may have and possessions there Psalm 106.48 verse 36 There his Servants seed shall claim th' heritage excelling There shall they that love his Name have perpetual dwelling Let the God of Israel then have the praise for ever And the People say Amen joyning all together HYMN 423. Speedy deliverance pray'd for
But forgiveness is with thee that thou may'st be feared I am waiting for the Lord yea my soul attendeth And on his most holy Word all my hopes dependeth My soul waits for God I say more than men for morning More than Watch-men for the day for the days returning Hope thou Israel in the Lord with an apprehension How with him is richly stor'd mercy and redemption And he shall his Church redeem from their vast offences Though they do past pardon seem and cry loud against us O give thanks to God therefore for the Lord is gracious And his mercies evermore kindly do embrace us HYMN 549. Pride mortified Psalm 131. 1. METRE NO haughty heart O Lord have I in great affairs to deal verse 1 Nor do mine eyes look loftily to thee I dare appeal I have not sought nor entertain'd the things for me too high verse 2 But as a child an infant wean'd so meek and mild am I. The weaned childs behaviour my soul hath altogether verse 3 Thus Israel in his saviour must hope henceforth for ever HYMN 550. Pride to be mortified A Praxis for the proper Tune of the old 50. Psalm The mighty God c. Psalm 131. 2. METRE NOT self-high-pris'd but meek and mild am I Not exercis'd in things too great and high But as a Child wean'd from his mothers breast So am I mild and set my heart at rest And in this way must Israel endeavour To trust and stay on God henceforth for ever HYMN 551. Promotion of the Church and State. Psalm 132.8 9. ARise O God into thy rest and settle us now at length As when thy Ark did once invest the Temple of thy strength O let thy Priests perpetually with righteousness be clad And make thy Saints to shout for joy and be exceeding glad 13 14 16. Because the Lord hath Sion chose desiring there to dwell This is for ever my repose I love and like it well My saving health shall cloath throughout his Priests perpetually And I will make her Saints to shout and shout aloud for joy 15.17 And I will in abundance spread provisions for her store And I will satisfie with bread the numbers of her poor There will I make the horn to bud of David on his Throne I have ordain'd a lamp so good for mine anointed one 18. As for his enemies that combine I 'll cloath them all with shame But on himself his Crown shall shine and flourish with his fame HYMN 552. Promotion of Vnity Psalm 133. 1. METRE verse 1 BEhold how sweet it is to see how happy a thing to find When Brethren live in amity and unity of mind verse 2 It 's like the precious unction which was pour'd out and spread Upon the Priestly function on Aaron's honour'd head It wet not onely head and hair but on his beard ran down And wet the garments which he ware and border of his gown As dew distill'd upon the tops of Hermon's fragrant hill Or Sion with his silver drops the fields with fruits doth fill So plentiously the blessing flows commanded from above With everlasting life on those that live in peace and love HYMN 553. 2. METRE Argument Vnity and Christian Love Bring great blessings from above Have mercy c. Psalm 133. BEhold how good a thing and pleasant 't is to find That Brethren where cohabiting firm unity should bind 'T is like the Oyntment shed and by command conferr'd On Holy Aaron's Priestly head which wet both head and beard And did from thence distill his Garment skirt to wet 'T is like the lovely Hermon hill with drops of dew beset Like Sion's silver showers descending on the dales For there the Lord the blessing powers of life that never fails HYMN 554. Promotion of Vnity The mighty God c. Psalm 133. 3. METRE BEhold how good how sweet it is to see when Brethren by the laws of love are led Dwelling together all in unity 't is like the Oyntment that perfum'd the head The head and beard of Aarons Priestly Order And wet his Garments to the skirt and border It 's like the fruitfull showers of morning dew that did upon the Hill of Hermon fall Or that which doth descend in drops not few on Sion Mountain fruitfullest of all For there the Lord commands the happy blessing Of life so sweet and endless in possessing HYMN 555. Protection out of Sion or the Levites Blessing Psalm 134. 1. METRE BEhold bless ye the Lord O ye his servants all That in his house by night keep guard according to your call Lift up your humble hands within his holy place And bless the Lord as he commands and humbly beg his grace The Lord shall ye say stiâ—â— that made both Heaven and Earth Accomplish thee from Sion-hill with blessings thence powr'd forth HYMN 556. Protection out of Sion or the Levites Blessing A Praxis for the proper Tune of the 124 Psal. Now Israel c. Psalm 134. 2. METRE LO ye his servants praise the Lord most high Ye that by night within his Temple stand There bless the Lord and us with raised hand The Lord say ye that made both Earth and Sky Out of his Temple bless thee bounteously HYMN 557. Providences to Israel God's peculiar treasure Ye Children c. Psalm 135.1 to 5. PRaise ye the Lord and spread his fame O ye his servants still proclaim the praises of his holy Name Ye that do stand within his gate And at the Sacred Altar wait of our great God his praise relate Praise ye the Lord for good he is Sing praises to that Name of his for a most pleasant work it is For God hath chosen and foreknown Jacob and Israel as his own for his peculiar wealth alone 5 6 7 8. For that the Lord is great I know And infinitely doth outgo all gods and great ones high and low For whatsoever doth him please In heaven in earth in deeps in seas he acts in all in each of these Vapours he draws from earths far ends Lightnings for Rain from Clouds he rends and Winds out of his treasury sends Who smote all Egypts first increast The first of Man the first of Beast all from the greatest to the least 9 10 11 12. Wonders and Sines send forth did he O Egypt in the midst of thee on Pharaoh and his Family Who did the mighty Nations smite And slew the Kings of potent might as Sion that strong Amorite And Og who sate on Bashan Throne He also slew nor him alone but Canaans Kingdoms every one And to his People gave their Land He gave it into Israels hand an heritage at their command HYMN 558. Pureness of God's Worship and derision of Idols Ye Children c. Psalm 135 13. to 17. 2. PART THY Name O Lord shall never die And thy memorial O most high endures to all posterity For God to Judgment will awake His peoples cause to undertake repenting for his servants sake The Heathens Idol-Gods behold They are of
c. Gen. 8.20 AND Noah built an Altar to the Lord And of clean beasts and fowl he offered two And with these Offrings was Gods Altar stor'd And God well pleas'd that Noah so should do And so the Lord resented a sweet savour And Noah for this Act was in his favour And thus said God whose bowels yern'd within I will no more for mans sake curse the ground For mans imaginations are but sin And such by Nature from his youth are found Neither will I for ever any more Smite all things living as I did before And while the Earth and Mountains shall remain Seeds-time and Harvest ever shall abide And cold and heat shall never fail again Summer and winter shall retain their tide And Day and Night increasing or decreasing Shall keep their seasons without fail or ceasing Gen. 9.12 And this shall be the Covenant which I make And this the Seal betwixt my self and you And every living Creature for your sake And all the Generations that ensue I 'll set my Bow i' th' Cloud to be a token Between me and the Earth as I have spoken Doxology Rev. 1.4 5. Chap. 4.8 1 John 5.7 To him that was and is and is to come To God Almighty the most Holy One And unto Jesus Christ his onely Son And to the seven Spirits before the Throne To Father Son and Holy Ghost together Be Kingdom Glory Power and Praise for ever The Table of the Prefatory Hymns Hymn 1. CReation The First Day i. The Second Day ii The Third Day Ibid. The Fourth Day iii. The Fifth Day iv The Sixth Day Ibid. 2. The Sabbath vi 3. Marriage vii 4. Paradise viii 5. The Covenant of Works ix 6. Man's shamefull Fall. Ibid. Adam's Arraignment and Excuse xi Eve's Arraignment and Excuse Ibid. 9. The Serpents Censure and the Covenant in Christ intimated xii 10. The Womans Censure and the Man's Ibid. 11. Mans Expulsion from Paradise xiii 12. The World degenerate xv 13. The Ark ordered xvi 14. The Deluge or Flood rising xvii 15. Eight Souls saved in the Ark. Ibid. 16. The Deluge ceasing xviii 17. The Raven sent forth and the Dove xix 18. The Dove with the Olive-leaf xx 19. Noah Coming out of the Ark and the Covenant of the Rainbow Ibid. Noah's Sacrifice xxii The First Century Hymn I. Access to the Throne of Grace at our awaking 1 Tim. 4.10 2 Cor. 1.10 Psal. 119.133 Jude 21. Psal. 73.24 Rev. 22.8 Tune Ye Children c. O God the Saviour of all men And most especially of them That faithfully believe in thee Who hast preserv'd us all times past And wilt preserve us to the last As still our trust and hope shall be Order our steps in thy good word And let no sin reign in us Lord But keep us ever in thy love And let thy Counsels be our guide Till thou receiv'st us to abide In glory with thy Saints above Psal. 28.9.115 1. Mat. 6.13 Psal. 123.3.33.22.31.1 Lord save thy Church in every Age Govern and bless thine Heritage And lift them up for evermore We daily magnifie thy fame And thy most high and holy Name World without end we still adore Vouchsafe us Lord thy grace herein To keep us clear this day from sin Shew mercy Lord shew mercy free Shew mercy Lord as we confide On thee O Lord have I reli'd Confounded let me never be The second Metre The Mighty God. O God the Saviour of all sorts of men Especially of them that do believe Author finisher of the faith of them Whose sure salvation Loâ—d thou wilt atchieve Who hast preserv'd us always heretofore And wilt we trust preserve us evermore Order our steps in thy good word O God And let no wickedness in us bear sway But Sin and Satan let be under-trod And all our steps upholden in thy way And let thy Counsels guide and never leave us Till to thy glory Lord thou shalt receive us Hymn II. Acclamations of Praise or Te Deum Laudamus Exemplifi'd with proofs of Holy Scripture Rom. 15.6 Rev. 11.17 All people c. WE praise thee O God with one accord We acknowledge thee to be the Lord All the whole Earth adores thy Name Father of everlasting fame Rev. 7.11.5.11 Isa. 6.2 To Thee aloud all Angels cry The Heav'ns and all the Powers on high Both Cherubin and Seraphin bright Continual cries of praise recite Isa. 6.3 Rev. 5.11.4.8 O Holy Holy Holy LORD Great God of Sabbaoth they record With splendor of thy glory spread In Heav'n and Earth replenished 2. Part. Rev. 4.10 Th' Apostles glorious Company Praise Thee O God perpetually The Prophets goodly fellowship Praise Thee and let no moment slip Rev. 7.7 9 10. The noble and victorious Host Of Martyrs do thy praises boast The Holy Church throughout the Earth Acknowledge and extoll thy Worth. Isa. 9.6 Joh. 14.36 The Father of boundless Majesty Thy true and only Son most high Also that sweet Remembrancer The Holy Ghost the Comforter 3. Part. Psal. 34.10.2.7 Thou art O Christ King of renown Invested with a Glorious Crown Thou art before all time begun The Fathers everlasting Son. 1 Pet. 3.18 Gal. 4.4 Heb. 9.15 Thou undertaking in our room Didst not abhor the Virgins Womb. The pains of Death orecome by Thee Made Heav'n to all Believers free Heb. 1.3 John 5.22 At God's right hand Thou hast thy Seat And in the Fathers glory great We do believe that Thou shalt come To judge us at the Day of Doom 4. Part. Rev. 5.9 Mat. 8.11 Lord help thy Servants whom when lost Thy bloud redeem'd at so great cost Place them on Everlasting Thrones Of glory with thy Holy Ones Psal. 28.9 Thy People Lord do Thou protect And bless thine Heritage Elect Govern thy Church and Lord advance For ever thine Inheritance Psal. 145.1 2. From day to day O Lord do We Highly exalt and honour Thee Thy Name we worship and adore World without end for evermore 5. Part. Mat. 6.13 Psal. 123.3 Vouchsafe O Lord we humbly pray To keep us safe from sin this day O Lord have mercy on us all Have mercy on us when we call Psal 33.22 31.1 Thy mercy Lord to us dispence According to our confidence Lord I have put my trust in Thee Confounded let me never be The second Metre Rom. 15.6 Rev. 11.17.7.11 Ye Children c. O God we praise thy Holy Name Thy Sovereign Lordship we proclaim Confessing Thee the Lord alone All the whole Earth doth worship Thee The Father from ETERNITY The true and Everlasting One. Angels loud voices joyn with ours The Heavens and all the Heavenly Powers do ever magnifie thy fame To thee the winged Cherubim And the bright burnâ—ng Seraphim Continual acclamations frame 2. Part. Isa. 6.3 Rev. 5.11.4.10.7.7 Thrice Holy Lord they joyntly say Whose royal Power all Hosts obey thy glory bright fills Heav'n and Earth Th' Apostles glorious Company And Prophets sweet SOCIETY perpetual praises do pour forth The Noble Host of Martyrs stout The
Holy Church the World throughout thy power profess thy praise prefer The Father of endless Majesty Thine only Son most true most high with th' Holy Ghost the Comforter 3. Part. Psal. 24.10.2.7 Gal. 4.4 Heb. 9.15 Thou art the King of glory O Christ The King of glory in the high'st the Fathers everlasting Son. Thou freely didst our flesh assume And not abhor the Virgins Womb for Mans redemption to be done When thou hadst overcome the pains Of sharpest death which sadly reigns o're all mankind because of sin Thou didst set open in thy Love The Kingdom there of Heav'n above that all Believers might come in 4. Part. Heb. 1.3 Joh. 5.22 Mat. 8.11.19.28 O Saviour Christ Thou art set down At God's right hand in high renown and in thy Fathers glory bright We do believe it Lord of thee That thou shalt come our judge to be who hast the sole and Sovereign right We humbly pray Thee Lord therefore Assist thy servants evermore those whom thy precious blood did buy Make them be numbred on the Thrones Of glory with the Holy Ones in Everlasting dignity 5. Part. Psal. 28.9.115.1 Mat. 6.13 Psal. 123.3.33.22.31.1 Thy people Lord thine heritage Preserve and bless from age to age govern and lift them up for ever We dayly magnifie thy Name We worship and adore the same World without end surceasing never Thy grace and favour Lord give in To keep us safe this day from sin Shew mercy Lord shew mercy free Shew mercy Lord as we confide On thee O Lord have I rely'd confounded let me never be The third Metre To the Common-Tune WE praise thee God we acknowledge thee the only Lord to be O Father the Eternal One the whole Earth worships Thee To thee all Angels cry aloud the Heavens and all therein Continually to thee do cry Cherube and Seraphin O Holy Holy Holy Lord the Lord the God of Hosts In Heaven and Earth thy praise is spread throughout the Skie and Coasts The Apostles glorious Company and Prophets goodly train And Noble Host of Martyrs blest thy praises do proclaim The Holy Church confesseth Thee throughout the spacious Earth The Father of a Majesty that cannot be set forth Also thine Honourable true thy dear and only Son And Holy Ghost the Comforter of every faithfull one Of glory thou O Christ art King that Title is thy due Thou art the Everlasting Son Of God the Father true When sinfull mans deliverance was that thou camest for To be inclos'd in Virgins Womb Thou diddest not abhor The sharp and cruel pains of death when thou had'st conquer'd whole Thou didst set open Heavens gate to every faithfull soul. Thou in thy Fathers glory great at God's right hand dost sit We trust that thou shalt come to be our Judge to set us quit Help then thy servants whom Thou hast bought with thy precious blood In endless glory reckon them among thy Saints so good Do thou O Lord thy people save bless thine inheritance Govern them Lord by thy good grace and ever them advance We magnifie thee day by day thy Name we do adore World without end continually vouchsafe thy grace therefore And keep us Lord this day from sin lest we offend and fall Have mercy on us O good Lord have mercy on us all Lord let thy mercy light on us as we do trust in thee In thee I trust Lord let me not confounded ever be Fourth Metre To the Tune of the 50th Psalm The mighty God c. WE give thee praise O God with one accord We all acknowledge thee to be the Lord All the whole Earth adores thee O most high The blessed Father from Eternity Angels loud Voices joyn their praise with ours The Heav'ns on high and all the Heavenly Powers Both Cherubin and Seraphin so bright Continual cries of praise to thee recite O Holy Holy Holy Lord they say Lord God of Sabbaoth whom all Hosts obey Both Heav'n and Earth are filled every where With thy Majestick glory shining there The blest Apostles glorious Company Do praise thy Holy Name harmoniously The Prophets goodly fellowship proclaim The constant praises of thy glorious Name The Noble Hosts of Martyrs also bless thee The Holy Church through all the Earth confess thee The Father of a Majesty unknown Thine Honourable true and only Son Also the Holy Ghost they do confess The Comforter of thine in their distress The King of Glory thou O Christ art Crowned The Fathers everlasting Son renowned When thou took'st on thee what none other can Namely to work deliverance for man The Virgins Womb thou diddest not abhor To enter on the Work thou camest for When thou hadst quell'd the pains of death so grievous Thou openedst Heaven gate to all Believers At God's right hand thou hast thy seat on high And in the Fathers glorious dignity We do believe that thou shalt have the Throne And one day come to judge us every one O therefore help thy servants so esteemed That them when lost thy precious blood redeemed O make them to be numbred with thy Saints In endless Glory where no fulness wants Lord save thy people bless thine Heritage Govern and lift them up from age to age We magnifie Thee daily evermore World without end Thy Name we do adore Vouchsafe to keep us Lord this day from sin Have mercy on us and thy grace give in O Let thy mercy Lord upon us light As we have ever trusted in thy might O Lord in Thee my confidence is grounded O therefore let me never be confounded Hymn III. Adventus Christi or Accomplishment of the first Promise Joh. 1.14 THe eternal word took humane flesh and dwelt amongst us here And men beheld his gloriousness most plainly to appear As of th' alone begotten one of God the Father true So also full of grace He sho'n and glorious in our view And of his fulness from on high we have in every place Received Universally and richly grace for grace For lo the Law Man 's bound unto by Moses was made known But grace and truth to know and do by Jesus Christ alone To Father Son and Holy Ghost all glory be therefore As was and is to th' uttermost and shall be evermore Hymn IV. A faithfull saying 1 Tim. 1.15 John 11.25.5.24 THIS is a saying verify'd and worthy all esteem That Jesus Christ came down and di'd poor sinners to redeem His Name whoever trusts upon shall live although he die And free from Condemnation shall live Eternally To him that thus hath loved us and cancell'd all our score With that pure flood of his own blood be praise for evermore Hymn V. A joyfull Death or the Song of Holy Simeon Luke 2.29 NOW lettest thou thy servant Lord depart in perfect peace According to thy faithfull Word concerning his decease For now mine eyes have seen declar'd ere death shall end my race The saving health Thou hast prepar'd before all peoples face 31. Rev. 1.4 A light to lighten clear enough the
high And sin is a reproach no less to any Family Psal. 107.34 A fruitfull Land doth God expose to barrenness for sin And for the wickedness of those that live and dwell therein Job 22. ult But God doth save the smallest Land of th' innocent and pure And by the pureness of thy hand it is delivered sure HYMN 41. Excellent Counsel of Wisedom Prov. 8.1.33.1 32 33. WIsdom puts forth her voice and cries and such like words doth use Hear ye instruction and be wise and do not now refuse For ease shall slay those simple souls that let devotion dye And the prosperity of fools destroys them utterly But whoso hearkneth unto me shall dwell in safety still And shall be quiet safe and free from fear of any ill 2. PART 8.34 35 36. Blessed is he that heareth me saith Wisedom to her friends That at my Gate doth daily wait and at my door attends For surely he that findeth me finds life and shall obtain The favour of the Lord above to his eternal gain But he that sins against such things wrongs his own soul thereby And all that hate on me to wait love death and so shall dye HYMN 42. Fallow Ground to be dressed Hos. 10.12 SOW to your selves in righteousness and reap in mercy sweet Your fallow ground break up and dress for seed to make it meet For it is time to seek the Lord till he descending on you Shall come and of his own accord rain righteousness upon you HYMN 43. Gods Covenant for us with the Creatures Hos. 2.18 19 21. THUS saith the Lord above I have betrothed thee In mercy truth and tender love for ever unto me And in that day will I a faithfull Covenant make With all my Creatures generally for thy sweet safeties sake The heavens shall hear the earth the earth shall hear the corn The corn and wine that thence come forth shall hear my Church new born HYMN 44. Gods Jealousie for Jerusalem Zach 1.14 THUS saith the Lord of Hosts a Jealous God am I For Sion and for Salems Coasts with eager Jealousie 15. And I am unappeas'd towards Heathens yet unscourg'd For I was but a while displeas'd and they th' affliction urg'd 16. Therefore saith God I am return'd for all their sin With mercies to Jerusalem to build my house therein HYMN 45. Humble Supplications and Confessions All People c. Deut. 32.4 Rom. 7.12 14. O Thou most just and righteous God! Thy Law is holy just and good But we are carnal of our selves As sold to sin and nothing else Rom. 3.23 Psal. 15.5 For all have sinn'd of every sort And of thy glory are come short Our shape in sin we did assume And are transgressors from the womb Rom. 7.18 19. We from polluted Parents spring And in our flesh dwells no good thing The good we would do that we bate And do the evil that we hate Hos. 14.2 Take off all our iniquity And Lord receive us graciously So shall we sacrifice to thee The Fatlings of our lips most free HYMN 46. Humble Supplications in time of Drought All People c. Jer. 14.20 LORD we acknowledge and confess Our grievous sins and wickedness Our Fathers faults we do deplore For we have sinn'd against thee sore 21. For thy Name sake loath not thine own Do not disgrace thy glorious Throne Remember and do not infringe Thy Covenant with us for our sins 22. Can any of the Idol Powers Cause rain or can the heavens give showers O Lord our God art not thou he And therefore will we wait on thee Chron. 6.27 Send rain O Lord upon this Land Put here into thy peoples hand Lest Britain be one dried Strand And all our Earth be turn'd to Sand. And teach us that good way to know Wherein we alwaies ought to go HYMN 47. Humble Supplications in time of Sickness All People c. Jer. 10.24 COrrect us but in Judgment Lord Not in thy wrath with sharpened Sword Lest thou should'st bring us down thereby To dust and ruin utterly 9.21 Death climbs our windows by disease Enters into our PALACES Cuts off the Children from without And from the streets the young and stout 14.7 Isa. 38.9 O Lord though our Iniquities As witness-clouds against us rise Our help and healing undertake And do it for thine own Names sake HYMN 48. Humble Supplications in times of Tempest All People c. Psal. 103.19 Isa. 64.6 O Thou that dost in Heaven Reign We all are as a thing unclean And all our righteousnesses are As filthy rags unfit to wear And therefore are we justly made Like as a Leaf to fall and fade And our transgressions bearing sway As wind have taken us away Psal. 107.25.77.17 18. At thy command big storms arise Thunder and lightning fill the Skies The Clouds pour down their watry load Thy flaming Arrows fly abroad Joel 2.17 Isa. 64.9 Hab. 3.2 O spare thy People gracious God! Redeemed with thy precious Blood Keep not our sins upon record In wrath remember mercy Lord. HYMN 49. Humble Supplication in times of Transgression and Revolt All People c. Isa. 43.27 OUR Father Our first Father Lord Hath sinn'd and disobey'd thy Word And all our Teachers at the best Against thee greatly have transgress'd Isa. 64.9 Lord be not angry very sore Nor mind our faults for evermore See we beseech thee and behold How we are all thy Flock and Fold 8. Thou art our Father at this day Thou art the Potter we the Clay And we are all and every one Thy handy-work O Lord alone HYMN 50. Humble Supplication in time of War. All People c. Isa. 64.1 O That thou would'st the Heavens rend And in thy Glorious power descend And that the mountains might flow down At presence of thy face and frown 2. As when the melting fire doth flame It makes the waters boil a main To make thine enemies know thy might And Nations tremble at thy sight 3. When dreadfull things were done by thee Such as we never look'd to see Then at thy presence and thy frown The mighty Mountains flowed down Lam. 3.42 Isa. 64.5 But we have sinn'd and for our crimes Thou hast not spar'd but scourg'd the times But in thy mercies is ingrav'd CONTINVANCE and we shall be sav'd HYMN 51. Judgment waited for Luke 21.19 Jam. 5 7. Hab. 2.3 Heb. 10.37 POssess your Souls with patience and wait unweariedly Untill the coming of the Lord for lo the day draws â—â—gh For yet a little while endure Th' account shall not miscarry And he that shall come will be sure to come and will not tarry Heb. 10.38 39. Hab. 2.4 Now then the Just shall live by Faith but if a man draw back My soul shall have no joy in him that true belief doth lack But we are not of those that do draw back to condemnation But those that do believe unto the Souls assur'd Salvation HYMN 52. Judgment upon the Proud and Scornfull All People c. Prov. 8.13 THE fear of
the Lord spake oft to one another And God gave ear and heard What each man told his brother A Book then of record was written of the same For them that fear'd the Lord and thought upon his Name And they shall then be mine in that appointed day When I shall new refine my Jewels as I say And I will spare each one of them as some kind man Spares his obedient Son that serves him all he can And then shall ye return and difference shall be had That ye may well discern betwixt the good and bad And â—t will be seen abroad how different is the Lot 'Twixt him that serveth God and him that serves him not 2. METRE Have mercy c. Then they that fear'd the Lord spake oft to one another And God gave ear and kindly heard what each man told his brother A Book then of record was written of the same For them that truly fear'd the Lord and thought upon his Name And they shall then be mine in that appointed day When I shall make up and refine my Jewels as I say And I will spare each one of them as some kind man Spares his obedient humble son that serves him all he can And then shall ye return and difference shall be had That ye may well and soon discern betwixt the good and bad And 't will be seen abroad how different is the lot 'Twixt him that truly serveth God and him that serves him not HYMN 260. The Son of Righteousness arising Mal. 4.1 BEhold the day shall come saith God that like an Oven shall burn And all the Wicked and the Proud shall God to Stubble turn And them into that Oven put his justice to advance The day that comes shall burn them up not leaving root nor branch But unto you that fear my Name the blessed Son shall spring Of righteousness with shining flame and healing in his Wing And ye like fatlings of the stall shall go forth with renown And have the power wherewithall to tread the Wicked down And they beneath your feet shall be as ashes undertrod When this thing shall be done by Me saith your Almighty God. Let Israel's God the Lord most High have all the praise therefore From first to last perpetually Amen for evermore Finis Hymnorum Veteris Testamenti HYMNS Out of the NEW TESTAMENT HYMN 261. The Fan of Judgment Mat. 3.12 THE Lord whose fan is in his hand shall one day purge his floor And he will purge it thoroughly that it shall need no more Into his glorious granary gathering his wheat together But then will He burn up the chaff with fire that burns for ever HYMN 262. The Agreement necessary Mat. 5.25 AGree thou with thy ENEMY while with him in the way Lest he should hale thee to the judge that will compell to pay The Judge unto the Officer commit thee by command And thou be made a Prisoner under the Serjeants hand For verily I tell thee right from thence thou shalt not get Till thou hast pay'd the utmost mite of all thy dreadfull debt 2. METRE All People c. Agree thou with thy Creditor In dues that he contendeth for Agree with him betimes I say While thou art with him in the way Lest thou be haled by the foe Before th' impartial Judge to go The Judge by his severe command Commit thee to the Serjeants hand And then the Serjeant that doth wait Shall cast thee into Prison straight I tell thee thou shalt not get thence Till thou hast pay'd both pounds and pence HYMN 263. The Cabinet Mat. 6.19 LAY not your treasures upon Earth where worldlings love to deal And where the moth and rust corrupt and thieves break through and steal But heap in heaven treasures pure from all corruption free For where your treasure is be sure your hearts will also be HYMN 264. The wise builder Mat. 7.24 WHoever hears these Words of mine and doth them saith the holy one Is like a wise man in 's design that built his house on rocky stone And Rain and Floods and Winds in course Did beat upon that House with force And it fell not for all the shock For it was founded on a Rock But he that hears without regard of doing that which I command To a foolish man shall be compar'd that built his House upon the Sand Then Flouds of Rain and Tempests great Upon that House did fiercely beat And down it fell unto the ground And great the fall thereof was found HYMN 265. Our Saviour's Rapture Our Father c. Mat. 11.2 25. Luk. 10.20 John. 5.23 WHen John the Baptist free from doubt Sent two of his Disciples out To ask our Saviour and to know If he were very Christ or no Tell John said Christ what things they be Which ye your selves do hear and see The Blind receive their cheerfull sight The Lame are heal'd and walk upright Deaf hear and Lepers cleansed are The Dead rais'd up these things declare And while by Worldly-Wise despis'd The poor are taught and gospeliz'd I thank thee Father from my heart The Lord of Heaven and Earth that art Because thy wisdom hath seen good These things should not be understood But hid from wise and prudent men And hast to babes revealed them Even so O Father let it be Since so it seemed good to Thee For what so seemeth in thy sight Must needs be holy just and right God onely wise have praise therefore From first to last for evermore HYMN 266. The Mustard-seed All People c. Mat. 11.31 THE Kingdom of our Lord indeed Is like a grain of Mustard-seed Which sown of all seeds is the least But when 't is grown the most increast So grant us Lord in every place That we may richly grow in grace And in the Knowledge of our Lord Whose name we praise with one accord HYMN 267. The Leaven All People c. Mat. 13.33 THE Kingdom of God's Word from heaven Is like unto a piece of Leaven Which in a mass of meal was hid Untill the whole was leavened So grant our Body Lord and Soul May be preserv'd entire and whole In holiness untill the day Of Christ our Lord Amen we pray HYMN 268. The wise Merchant Mat. 13.45 Prov. 2.6 GOD'S Kingdom in a Christian Is like unto a Merchant-man that sought rich pearls of wealth Who having found a pearl of price Sold all he had and did rejoice to buy it for himself So grant us Lord the truth to buy And not to sell it foolishly for wisdom flows from thee Instruction understanding too Grant we may carefully pursue and rich to God may be 2. METRE To the Tune of the 113. Psalm God's Kingdom in a Christian Is like unto a Merchant-man that sought rich pearls of worldly wealth Who having found a pearl of price Sold all he had and did rejoice to buy it wholly for himself So grant us Lord the truth to buy And not to sell it foolishly for purer wisdom flows from Thee
full of sanctity This mighty King loves Judgmenâ— well thou dost establish right Thou execut'st in Israel just Judgment by thy might O then applaud the Lord our God extoll his Name alone And falling at his foot-stool flat adore the holy one Moses and Aaron with his Priests and Samuel anciently Among his suppliants made requests and he did make reply To them aloud he in the Cloud and fiery pillar spake They kept with trust his Judgments just and laws which he did make Thou didst them hear O Lord our God a pardoning God wast thou Though thou didst scourge them with thy rod and not their sins allow O then applaud the Lord our God and at his holy Throne His Name adore for evermore for he 's a holy One. HYMN 475. Zeal in publick Worship 1. METRE Psal. 100. Deut. 32.18 SHout to the Lord in every place O all ye lands and tongues verse 2 Serve him and come before his face with Gladness and with Songs verse 3 Know that the Lord is God our Rock he made us every one Not we our selves we are his flock and pasture people known verse 4 Enter his Gates with Gratitude praise in his Courts proclaim Be thankfull to him and speak good of his most holy Name verse 5 For good and gracious is the Lord his mercy never fades The truth of his eternal word endures from age to age Rev. 1.5 To God the Father and the Son and holy Ghost therefore Be Glory as at first was done and shall be evermore HYMN 476. Zeal in the publick Worship 2. METRE Psal. 100. MAKE joyfull noises to the Lord O all ye Nations of the Earth Serve him with joy his praise record come in his sight with Songs of mirth Know that the Lord is God alone we are the flock which he doth keep His workmanship and not our own his people and his Pasture-sheep Enter his Gates with thankfulness and come with joy into his Courts Great gratitude to him express and bless his Name in fullâ—resorts For lo the Lord is good and kind his mercy everlasting is His truth all Generations find for evermore assur'd to his HYMN 477. A Pattern of Princely Government 1. METRE Psal. 101. LORD I will sing of mercy sweet and judgment to thy praise verse 2 And wisely guide my wary feet in all thy perfect ways When wilt thou Lord fulfill thy word and I shall do my part To order my whole Family with uprightness of heart verse 3 I will no wicked thing abide before mine eyes to be I hate their work that turn aside it shall not cleave to me verse 4 The froward heart from me shall part and have no more access And I will no such persons know as practice wickedness verse 5 The man that slandereth privily I will cut off be sure The stout in heart whose looks are high I will not once endure verse 6 I 'll look out then the faithfull men that they may dwell with me And they that press for perfectness my servants then shall be verse 7 None guilefull will I entertain within my house to dwell Nor shall he in my sight remain that loveth lies to tell verse 8 I 'll soon cut short the wicked sort and evil-doers condemn And quite suppress ungodliness From God's Jerusalem HYMN 478. A Pious Prince described The mighty God c. 2. METRE Psalm 101. OF Mercy and of Judgment I will sing and Lord my Song I dedicate to thee And Wisely will I walk in every thing when wilt thou come Lord and establish me I will not set before me a Temptation To any ill but ever shun th' occasion I hate the work of them that turn aside there shall no such corruption cleave to me The froward heart with me shall not abide no wicked man my favourite shall be The secret sland'rer I will quite cashier Nor will permit proud men to domineer Mine eyes shall note the faithfull of the Land my house and house-Communion to enjoy And he that walketh after God's command shall be my servant whom I will employ My house shall harbour none that craft conspire Nor will I suffer in my fight a Lyar. I will destroy the wicked of the Land and take a care to cut them off betimes And I will cleanse my Kingdom out of hand of persons that commit notorious crimes Chiefly Jerusalem God's City pure Shall soon be purg'd of every evil doer HYMN 479. Appearing of Hope or Sion'â— Reparation Psalm 102.13 THOU wilt arise in mercy yet and Grace to Sion send Because the time for favour set is now come to an end verse 14 For even in the stones thereof thy servants take delight Her very dust is cause enough of favour in their sight verse 15 And then the Heathen far and near shall fear thy holy Name And all the kings on Earth shall fear thy Glory and thy fame verse 16 Whenas the Lord shall once repair poor Sion's broken wall His Glory then shall shine so fair it shall appear to all verse 17 He will regard the destitute and not despise their prayer He will regard their humble suit with tender love and care verse 18 This shall be found in holy writ for ages that succeed The people not created yet shall praise him for this deed verse 19 O let the God of Israel then be prais'd with one accord Henceforth for evermore Amen Amen praise ye the Lord. HYMN 480. Stability of the Church All People c. Psalm 102.25 OF old O Lord thou hast laid forth The strong foundations of the earth The Heavens o're our head that stand Are all the works of thine own hand 26. And they shall perish to be sure But thou O Lord shalt still endure And all these Orbs which we behold Like to a Garment shall wax old And as a Vesture old and worn Thou shalt invest them with new form And from their former state estrang'd Shalt change them and they shall be chang'd 27. But thou O God art still the same Though Heaven and Earth do change their Frame And lo Thy years shall have no end Though all things to corruption tend 28. And Lord thy faithfull servants seed Shall still remain as 't is decreed And fixt before thee they shall stay When Heaven and Earth shall pass away Psal. 72.19 Let Israel's God be blest therefore From first to last for evermore And let the whole Earth ring agen With his renown Amen Amen HYMN 481. Applause of God's Mercies All People c. Or O Lord Consider c. 1. METRE Psal. 103. O Praise the Lord O praise his Name my soul and all that in me is verse 2 My soul do thou set forth his fame and mind those benefits of his verse 3 Who all thy trespasses forgave who cur'd thy grief and clos'd thy wound verse 4 Thy life that saved from the Grave and thee with loving kindness crown'd verse 5 Thy mouth with good things he doth fill and Eagle-like he makes thee young
8. PART God's several dealings with good and bad men to be regarded Psalm 107.39 40. AGain they minish and grow less Through grief oppression and distress He pours on great ones great contempt From Dens and Desarts not exempt 41 42. Yet sets the poor upon a rock And makes his family like a flock The just shall joy to see the sight And it shall silence envy quite 43. Whoso is wise and will observe The things that so much heed deserve Shall understand and well record The loving kindness of the Lord. Psalm 106.48 Let Israel's God be blest therefore From first to last for evermore And let all faithfull people then Say cheerfully Amen Amen HYMN 510. Gratulations to God and supplications for the Church Have mercy c. Psalm 108.1 2. MY heart O God most high is fixed stedfastly Now will I raise my voice in praise with songs of melody My Glory now awake thy Harp and Psaltery take And I likewise will early rise sweet melody to make 3 4. I 'll praise thee with my Songs amidst the thickest throngs That every Land may understand what praise to thee belongs Because thy mercy great doth reach the Heaven's high seat Thy truth O Lord which we record is to the Clouds compleat 5. Then Lord exalt thy fame above the Heavens frame And O set forth o're all the Earth thy Glory and thy fame 2. PART Have mercy c. Psalm 108.8 11 12. THAT thy belov'd may be delivered and set free Lord save our Land by thy right hand and kindly answer me For wilt not thou again lead out our martial train Thy help afford in trouble Lord for man's help is but vain 13. Psalm 106.48 With God's assistance crown'd we shall do acts renown'd The power is his and he it is that shall our foes confound To Israel's God most high be praise perpetually Ye people then say all Amen the Lord to magnifie HYMN 511. Greatness of Christ's Kingdom 1. METRE Psalm 110. THE Lord unto my Lord thus said here at my right hand sit Untill thine enemies be made a foot-stool for thy feet verse 2 The Lord shall out of Sion bring the Scepter of thy power Rule thou amidst thy foes O King in that successfull hour verse 3 The people at first call shall come submitting to thy Grace As drops of dew from mornings womb in beauties holy place verse 4 He sware that never Oath will break thou art ordain'd O Christ By order of Melchizedeck an everlasting Priest. verse 5 in th' day of his fierce anger then the Lord at thy right hand Shall strike through Kings and wound chief men in many a Heathen-Land verse 6 Filling the places where he struck with bodies of the dead verse 7 And in the way drink of the Brook and so lift up the head HYMN 511. Greatness of Christ's Kingdom expressed and explained 2. METRE Psalm 110. THE Lord unto my Lord thus said sit thou at my right hand Till I thy foes a stool have made whereon thy feet shall stand The Lord shall out of Sion bring the Scepter of his might Amidst thy foes be thou the King and ruler in their sight The people shall come willingly submitting to thy truth Yielding a fruitfull progeny of Converts in thy youth Thy beautious spouse shall bring to thee to fill the sacred room As fruitfull births as dews can be that drops from mornings womb This word God sware and will not break thou art the sacred one A Priest like to Melchisedech whose lineage was not known The Lord that is at thy right hand for thy support and stay Shall strike through Kings that dare withstand in his most wrathfull day Among the Heathen he shall judge and all the places fill With limbs of men that bare thee grudge whom thou shalt slay and kill And as the war with fury spreads to multiply the slain He shall proceed and wound the heads o're many Lands that reign Then shall he drink that bitter cup the torrent in the way Therefore shall he the head lift up at 's Resurrection day The God of Israel therefore be praised altogether From first to last for evermore Amen Amen for ever HYMN 512. Priesthood and power of Christ. 3. METRE THE Lord unto my Lord thus said here at my right hand sit Until thine Enemies be made a foot-stool for thy feet verse 2 The Lord shall out of Sion bring the Scepter of thy power Rule thou amidst thy foes O King in that successfull hour verse 3 The people at first call shall come submitting to thy Grace As drops of dew from mornings womb in beauties holy place verse 4 He sware that never Oath will break thou art ordain'd O Christ By order of Melchisedeck an everlasting Priest. verse 5 In th' day of his fierce anger then the Lord at thy right-hand Shall strike through Kings and wound chief men in many a Heathen Land. verse 6 Filling the places where he struck with bodies of the dead verse 7 And in the way drink of the brook and so lift up the head HYMN 513. Great works of God celebrated 1. METRE Psalm 111. PRaise ye the Lord whom I record and praise with all my might In meetings where the just appear and in the Churches sight verse 2 The works of God must all applaud so great they still have been Sought out of all in general that take delight therein verse 3 His works renown'd with honour crown'd a glorious work therefore His righteousness renown'd no less indures for evermore verse 4 His wonders he hath made to be retain'd in thankfull mind The Lord is known a gracious one compassionate and kind verse 5 He giveth meat for them to eat that fear his holy Name He will record his faithfull word still to perform the same verse 6 He shew'd his might in Israel's sight and did his power ingage That he might so on them bestow the Heathens Heritage verse 7 The works he doth are full of truth his Laws are just and sure verse 8 They all stand fast and ever last accomplish'd true and pure verse 9 Redemption is sent down to his by him who did proclaim His Covenant sure so very pure and reverend is his Name Psalm 106.48 verse 10 God's fear and dread is fountain-head of Wisedom in our ways They want no skill that do his will perpetual is his praise Let all proclaim the blessed Name of Israel's God therefore From first to last till time be past Amen for evermore HYMN 514. Great works of God for his Church 2. METRE All People c. Psalm 111. PRaise ye the Lord I for my part Will praise the Lord with all my heart In the Assembly of th' upright And in the Congregations sight God's works are great and as 't is meet Sought out of all that find them sweet His work is glorious and renown'd His righteousness for ever crown'd His works of wonder he hath wrought To be for ever in our thought The Lord 's a
very gracious one And full of kind compassion He hath in plenty given meat To all that fear him small and great And he will ever bear in mind The Covenant which he hath sign'd Unto his people he hath shew'd The power of his works abroad That he might freely give to them The Heritage of Heathen men His works are truth and judgment pure All his Commandements are sure They all stand fast perpetually All done in truth and equity He sent redemption to his own His Covenant he to his made known He binds it still to be the same Holy and reverend is his Name The fear of God is wisedoms Spring Good understanding doth it bring To all that act as he commands His praise for ever firmly stands HYMN 515. Honour and happiness and vertues of the Saints 1. METRE Psalm 112. PRaise ye the Lord for blest are they that truly fear the Lord Delighting greatly to obey the precepts of his word verse 2 His seed on Earth successively shall be in great request The righteous mans posterity for ever shall be blest verse 3 Riches and wealth his house shall fill and fill it in great store His righteousness continueth still and lasts for evermore verse 4 Unto the man immaculate in darkness riseth light Gracious he is compassionate in justice exquisite verse 5 A good man still is mercifull and freely lends and spares And with discretion sutable he guideth his affairs verse 6 He shall not of a certainty be mov'd though times prove bad In everlasting memory the righteous shall be had verse 7 Ill tidings shall not trouble him to make his heart affraid His heart is fix'd by faith within trusting in God's good aid verse 8 His heart is well established and fear he shall forgo Untill he see accomplished his will upon his foe verse 9 He hath dispers'd and fed the poor his righteousness is prais'd For ever and for evermore his horn with honour rais'd verse 10 Sinners shall grieve to see the sight and fret and pine away And his desire shall perish quite the wicked mans I say HYMN 516. Honour and Vertue of the Saints 2. METRE The mighty God c. Psalm 112. PRaise ye the Lord he 's blest that fears the Lord Greatly delighting in his holy word His seed on Earth shall be among the best The just mans generation shall be blest Riches and wealth he to his house procureth His righteousness for evermore endureth Unto the upright there doth light arise In darkest night of his adversities He is a gracious one you may be sure full of compassion and a righteous doer A good man freely lends and sheweth favour And all his actions of discretion savour He never shall be mov'd undoubtedly But had in everlasting memory With evil tidings he shall not be stirr'd His heart is fixed trusting in the Lord. His heart is fix'd he shall not be affrayed Untill he see his Enemies dismayed He hath disperst and given to the poor His righteousness indures for evermore His horn shall be exalted with renown The wicked seeing that shall be cast down His teeth shall grate his heart no joy shall cherish But pine away and all his hopes shall perish HYMN 517. Lovers of Liberality 3. METRE All People c. Psalm 112.5.37 A Good man favour shews and lends And with discretion spares and spends He freely lends to them that need And leaves a Blessing to his seed verse 6 Surely he never shall be mov'd That hath his wealth so well improv'd The righteous shall be had thereby In everlasting memory verse 7 He hath dispersed of his store And given plenty to the poor His righteousness is ever prais'd His horn with honour shall be rais'd verse 8 His heart is fix'd his fear is past Untill he see his enemies cast The God of Israel therefore Be blessed now and evermore HYMN 518. Honours and promotions of the poor 1. METRE Psalm 113. PRaise ye the Lord praise him I say ye servants of the Lord verse 2 Now from this day for ever may his greatness be ador'd verse 3 Of all men universally must his great Name be prais'd verse 4 Whose dignity surmounts the sky above all Nations rais'd verse 5 With God the Lord who may compare whose dwells in Heaven high verse 6 Yet stoops to care for things that are both in the Earth and Sky verse 7 The poor and needy he doth grace whom from the dust he brings verse 8 From dunghill base to Princes place to sit inthron'd with Kings The barren to keep house makes he that having Children store A Parent she full glad may be praise ye the Lord therefore HYMN 519. Honours and promotions of the poor 2. METRE Give Laud c. Psalm 113. YE Servants of the Lord praise ye the Lord most high His blessed Name record with praise perpetually from Sun to Sun And from the East unto the West must this be done All Nations he excells his glory mounts the skie And what God is there else what other Lord so high yet stoops to know The things that move in Heaven above and Earth below He lifts and raiseth high the needy poor and base That in the dust did lie on dunghills of disgrace and them he brings To sit in seat with Princes great with Israel's Kings The barren women he doth wonderfully bless A Parent glad to be and housholds to possess and to be stor'd With many Sons and little ones praise ye the Lord. Jacob's safe Conduct 1. METRE Psalm 114. WHEN Israel Aegypts bounds forsook and safely march'd along And Jacob's house their journey took from people strange of tongue verse 2 In Judah was his holy place in Israel he reign'd verse 3 The Sea saw that and fled apace and Jordan was restrain'd verse 4 The Mountains like to Rams did start the Hillocks as young Sheep O Sea what drove thee to depart why fled the liquid deep verse 54 What forc'd thee Jordan on a heap to rear thy water dams verse 65 Ye mountains great as Rams do leap ye little Hills as Lambs Tremble O Earth so justly aw'd at presence of the Lord At presence of the mighty God whom Jacob there ador'd Who turns the Rock that takes no dint into a standing Pool And flinty stones the fiery flint to Springs of water cool Jacob's safe Conduct from Aegypt 2. METRE Ye Children c. Psalm 114. WHEN Israel out of Aegypt went And Jacob's house with great content From them that us'd a tongue unknown Judah was then when thus restor'd The Sanctuary of the Lord And Israel his Dominion The Sea saw that and quickly fled And Jordan to his fountain-head Was quickly turned back again The frighted Mountains skip'd like Rams The little Hills like little Lambs Such awfull terrour did constrain What ail'd thee O thou Sea to fly O Jordan what so hastily Did force thy fleeting current back Ye Mountains that ye skip'd like Rams Ye little Hills like little Lambs Some cause cumpulsive could
not lack Tremble O Earth and quake for fear When God in presence doth appear The mighty God Of Jacob's Race Who made the Rock a standing pool And fiery Flint a Fountain cool For Israel in the Desart place HYMN 522. Idols derided Psalm 115.1 2. LORD not to us Lord not to us do thou the Glory take Yea for thy truth we praise thee thus and for thy mercies sake Why then O Lord endurest thou the Heathen thus to say Where is your God O Israel now where is he now say they 3 4. But our God be it known to you he is in Heaven on high And what it pleaseth him to do he doth continually The Idol Gods of Heathen Lands are Silver Brass and Gold They are the work of work-mens hands and such as men did mold 5 6. They have indeed both mouths and eyes such take them as they be But blind and speechless Deities and neither speak nor see Ears have they for the greater grace yet hear not what we tell And they have Noses on their Face but want the sense to smell 7 8. On either side they have a hand and yet they handle not And they have feet whereon they stand but never stir a jot Their hollow throats no breath goes through their makers like them are The truster's like the trusted to the work-man like the ware HYMN 523. Liberty of the Gospel 1. METRE Have mercy c. Psalm 117. PRaise God ye Nations all let all the praise be his For great to us and marvellous his loving kindness is The Gospel-truth of God endures for evermore In time to call the Nations all praise ye the Lord therefore HYMN 524. Liberty and latitude of the Gospel 2. METRE To the New Tune PRaise God all Nations and all Lands Great mercy have we at his hands His praise record His truth is sure still to endure Praise ye the Lord. HYMN 525. Liberty and latitude of the Gospel 3. METRE The mighty God c. Psalm 117. YE Nations all O praise the Lord above O praise him all ye people here below For great towards us is his tender love and greatly ratifi'd let all men know The Gospel truth of God endures for ever Praise ye the Lord and praise him altogether HYMN 526. Life of Religion Psalm 119. 1. PART O Blessed are the innocent and perfect in the way Who from the Lord's Commandement do Never go astray 2. Blessed are they that care to keep his Testaments entire And such as for the Lord do seek with all their hearts desire 3 4. They practice no iniquity but in God's ways they go And we must serve thee diligently for thou hast charg'd us so 5 6. O that my ways were made direct and to thy Statutes fram'd Which when I generally respect I shall not be asham'd With upright heart I 'll give thee praise and keep thy Laws aright When I have learn'd thy righteous ways O do not leave me quite 2. METRE Psalm 119.1 All People c. BLessed O blessed are the pure that never from God's Laws depart That keep his Testimonies sure and seek him with a perfect heart They also do no wickedness but keep his Laws and never swerve So strict a precept thou dost press that we with care thy Laws observe O that my ways were made direct and to thy Statutes rightly fram'd Which when I wholly do respect doubtless I shall not be asham'd With upright heart I 'll give thee praise when I have learn'd thy judgments right And I will surely keep thy ways O do not Lord forsake me quite The Corruption of youth bridled 2. PART Psalm 119. v. 9 to 16. HOW may a young man cleanse his way and curb the lusts of youth If that he mark what thou dost say and keep the word of truth Lord I have sought thee all my days with heart unfeign'd and free Let me not wander from thy ways through ignorance in me I hid thy word within my heart that I might not transgress A blessed one O Lord thou art thy laws to me express The righteous Judgments of thy mouth My lips have spoke with pleasure Rejoycing more to keep thy truth than get the greatest treasure And I will study of thy Name and thereof frame my talk As at a mark so will I aim thy ways how I may walk And my delight upon thy Laws shall be so surely set That I will not for any cause thy holy word forget The Devotion of pious Pilgrims Psalm 119. from v. 17 to 24. 3. PART DEAL largely with thy Servant Lord That I may live and keep thy word Open mine eyes that I may see What wonders in thy Laws there be I am a stranger here below Hide not the Laws which I should know My soul doth break with longing sore After thy Statutes evermore Thou hast rebuk'd the proud that durst Err from thy Laws and are accurst Remove from me reproach and shame For I have walkt as free from blame Princes that sat condemnâ—d my cause Yet did thy Servant mind thy Laws Thy Testaments are my delight And Counsellors to set me right The dull and drooping Saints quickened Psalm 119. from v. 25 to 32. 4. PART MY Spirit cleaveth to the dust Lord quicken me as thou art just I have declar'd my ways to thee And thou hast hearkened unto me Teach me thy Statutes I thee pray And let me know thy Precepts way So my discourse shall wholly tend Thy works and wonders to commend My heart doth melt for very grief Lord for thy Word-sake send relief The way of lies from me withdraw And grant me gratiously thy Law. Lord I have chosen prudently The way of truth and verity I laid thy judgments in my sight That I might always do aright Thy Testaments I stuck unto Lord shame me not for what I do I 'll run the way thou giv'st in charge When as thou shalt my heart enlarge 5. PART 1. METRE The faithfulness of Saints to the end Psalm 119. v. 33 to 40. LORD teach me in thy Statutes way and I shall keep it to the end O give me knowledge that I may with all my heart thy Law attend Yea I shall keep and keep them sure make me therefore to go aright In paths of thy Commandments pure for therein onely I delight Incline my heart unto thy Law and not to avarice I pray From vain delights mine eyes withdraw and quicken me in thy good way Thy promise to thy Servant prove who is devoted to thy fear My fear'd reproach from me remove for Lord thy judgments are sincere Lord I have long'd with earnestness thy blessed Laws to know and do Vouchsafe then in thy righteousness to move and quicken me thereto 5. PART 2. METRE Life of Religion in practice Psalm 119. v. 33 34. TEach me O Lord the way whereto thy Statutes tend So shall I never stray but keep it to the end Give me to understand and then shall I endeavour To act by thy
anew by thy kind love restor'd Because thy word is true from the beginning Lord it faileth never And every clause of thy just laws abide for ever Psalm 119. v. 161 to 168. 21. PART The watchfulness of Saints PRinces have persecuted me without a cause O Lord Yet stands my heart in awe of thee and trembles at thy word And in that word Lord all the while I did as much rejoyce As he that finds the greatest spoil and bears away the choice But lying Doctrines of deceit I ever have abhorr'd While my affection is full great unto thy Law O Lord And surely seven times a day I will give thanks to thee Because thy judgments do display such righteousness to me All they that love thy Law to find such great content and peace That nothing shall offend their mind to make their comforts cease And for thy sweet salvation Lord I have waited still And led my conversation according to thy will. My soul hath kept with constancy thy laws in every part I love them so exceedingly and from my very heart Thy Testimonies I have kept thy precepts I pursue For thou beholdst me every step and seest what ' ere I do Psalm 119. v. 169 to 172. 22. PART The work of Grace permanent UNto the Lord let my cry come and near approach to thee Of understanding give me some as with thy words agree My humble supplication before thee let appear For thou art my salvation my God my Lord most dear Then shall my lips applaud thy name in holy Songs of praise And to thy Statutes my heart frame when I am taught thy ways My tongue shall thy true word declare thy righteousness unfold Thy Commandments that are so rare shall to the Saints be told O help me Lord by thy right hand because I trust in thee Thy chosen precepts shall command me with humility For thy salvation Lord I sought and longed very much Thy laws delight me wisedom taught I never pains did grutch Long live my soul the Lord to praise his Name to glorifie And by thy judgments guide my ways to all eternity Lord like a sheep thy servant stray'd in pity Lord seek me For of thy law I 'm not affraid forgot ne're let me be HYMN 527. Living in quietness longed for Psal. 120. 1. METRE I Cry'd to God in all my wrongs who heard me when I pray'd verse 2 From lying lips and crafty tongues Lord save my soul I said verse 3 What shalt thou have O slandrous tongue and what shall be thy hire verse 4 Sharp Arrows of a Champion strong and burning coals of fire verse 5 Ah wo is me that am constrain'd in Meshech still to dwell And that I have so long remain'd in Tents of Ishmael verse 6 Too long a time my soul hath sate with them that peace oppose verse 7 I am for peace and speak for that but they contention chose 2. METRE To the proper Tune IN my distressfull day I to the Lord did pray and he redrest my wrong Lord save my soul say I From lips inur'd to lie and from a double tongue O false tongue what shall be Awarded unto thee or what shall be thy hire Sharp Arrows such as go Out of a Giants bow and burning coals of fire O wo is me that I Sojourn constrainedly with men contentious And am enforc'd to dwell So far from Israel among the barbarous My soul hath dwelt too long With him that likes of wrong and hates a quiet life I am to peace inclind But when I speak my mind they are for war and strife HYMN 528. Looking up to God. Psalm 121. 1. METRE UP to the hills I lift mine eye whence comes my help at need verse 2 From him that made both earth and sky doth all my help proceed He will not let thy foot be mov'd for still thy keeper wakes verse 4 Lo he that keepeth his belov'd no sleep nor slumber takes verse 5 The Lord at thy right hand shall be thy shadow of defence verse 6 The Sun and Moon shall shed on thee no harmfull influence From evils all he keeps thee sure and guards thy soul about Henceforth for ever to secure thy goings in and out 2. METRE Give laud c. I Will lift up mine eyes unto the hills on high From whence my sure supplies do come continually my help comes forth From God the Lord whose powerfull word made heaven and earth And suffer he will not thy foot once mov'd to be Nor slumbers he a jot that watcheth over thee lo he that keeps His Saints each one he slumbers none nor ever sleeps The Lord thy Keeper is the Lord 's the shady Boweâ— At the right hand of his by his right hand of power that neither shall The Sun by light nor Moon by night hurt thee at all To keep thee safe from harm the Lord shall still provide The Lord thy soul shall arm and all thy goings guide thou hast therefore The guard of Heaven henceforth and even for evermore HYMN 529. Lovers of Sion Have mercy c. Psalm 122. 1. METRE I Joy'd to hear them say to Sion take your way verse 2 Behold our feet shall shortly meet in God's own house to pray verse 3 Jerusalems buildings are like to a City fair verse 4 For form exact and close compact whereto the Tribes repair To it God's people went to Israel's Testament That every Tribe might there ascribe his praise with joynt assent verse 5 The judgment throne 's for them are there for David's stem verse 6 O pray that peace may never cease from fair Jerusalem verse 7 Thy lovers God shall bless thy walls let peace possess Thy palaces the Lord shall please to crown with happiness verse 8 For my companions sake and brethren that partake verse 9 For Sion's good and neighbour-hood these constant prayers I make HYMN 530. Lovers of Sion blessed The mighty God c. Psalm 122. 2. METRE FULL glad was I when as they said to me Come let us hasten to the house of God Our feet shall stand where we desire to be Within thy Gates O Salem's safe abode Jerusalem is built up most compleatly Like to a City joyn'd together neatly Whither go up the tribes whereof we tell The tribes of God unto that stately frame Unto the Testament of Israel To render thanks to God's most holy Name For there are set the thrones with grace engraved The thrones of Judgment for the house of David Pray for the peace of sweet Jerusalem Pray that its peace may bear a lasting date For they shall prosper ev'ry one of them That love the good of Sion's good estate Peace be within thy walls with double blessing Prosperity thy palaces possessing Yea for my Brethrens sake that shall have part And my Companions every one of them Now will I say and say it from my heart Peace be within thee O Jerusalem And for the Lord our God's most holy dwelling Iâ—ll seek thy good as of a
place excelling HYMN 531. Meekness of Captives Psalm 123. 1. METRE O Thou that dwell'st above the skies I lift mine eyes to thee verse 2 Behold as servants bend their eyes the Masters hands to see As hand-maids on their Mistresses so do our eyes attend Untill the Lord our God shall please his succouring Grace to send verse 3 Thy mercy Lord to us apply and pity our sad case For we are fill'd exceedingly with hatred and disgrace verse 4 Exceeding great contempt and scorn our souls do now abide Of such as have lift up the horn with pamper'd ease and pride HYMN 532. Meekness and mourning of Captives 2. METRE To the new Tune O Thou that dwell'st above the spheres To thee thy humble servant rears A meek and mournfull eye Behold as servants mark the hands Of Masters under whose commands They serve submissively And as a Maidens eyes erect Upon her mistress with respect Compassion crave and love So on our God our eyes do wait Till he shall us commiserate With favour from above Have mercy on us O good Lord Have mercy on us here abhorr'd And under miseries bow'd Our soul is fill'd even while they please With insolence of men at ease And scorning of the proud HYMN 533. Miracles of Mercy or the snare broken Have mercy c. Psalm 124. 1. METRE HAD not the Lord this day now Israel may say Had it not been that God came in to be our strength and stay verse 2 Had not our God so good on our side firmly stood When cruel foes against us rose like some impetuous floud verse 3 They had let none survive but swallowed up alive When in such heat of fury great they did against us strive verse 4 Then then without controll the waters that did roll With boisterous waves had been our graves and gone quite o're our soul. verse 5 Blessed be God alway that gave us not a prey Into their teeth to be therewith devoured that same day verse 6 Our souls escaped fair as from the fowlers snare When broke in two the bird gets through so we escaped are Our help we now proclaim to be in that great Name Of God the Lord whose powerfull word did Earth and Heaven frame HYMN 534. Miracles of Mercy or the snare broken To the proper Tune Psalm 124. 2. METRE NOW may we say of Israel's Heritage Had not the Lord himself been on our side Had not the Lord himself oppos'd their pride When wicked men against us did ingage They had devour'd us quick in their fierce rage Like foaming flouds our foes incensed thus Had overwhelm'd our Souls without controul Then the proud waters had gone o're our soul Blessed be God that hath not given us To be a prey for cruel teeth to crush Our soul 's escaped just as doth a bird Just as a bird out of the fowlers snare The snare is broke and we delivered are Our help is in the Name of God the Lord Who made both Earth and Heaven by his Word HYMN 535. Mount Sion's sure standing Psalm 125. 1. METRE WHoever on the Lord rely like Sion Mount are sure To stand with all stability and ever to endure verse 2 Environ'd as Jerusalem is with mountains huge and high So doth the Lord environ his henceforth perpetually verse 3 God will not leave the sinners rod on just mens lot to rest Lest righteous men should fall from God when overmuch opprest verse 4 Do good O Lord to all good men and graciously impart Thy love and favour unto them that are upright in heart But wicked men that turn aside perverseness to encrease To share with sinners God shall guide but Israel shall have peace HYMN 536. Mount Sion's sure standing Give Laud c. Psalm 125. 2. METRE ALL they that do confide and trust in God above So firmly shall abide that nothing can remove their station sure But stedfast still like Sion hill they shall endure And as high mountains do enclose Jerusalem So have God's people too a safeguard sheltring them they have therefore The God of Heaven henceforth and even for evermore Because the righteous God will not permit too long The sinners scourge and rod to do the righteous wrong lest it should force Most righteous men to follow then some wicked course Do good Lord to the good and to the pure in heart But those that to their lewd and sinfull ways depart God casts to hell With evil doers but peace assures to Israel HYMN 537. Mourning turn'd to rejoycing for Israel's deliverance from Babylon Psalm 126. 1. METRE WHEN from his sad captivity the Lord did Sion bring Like to a dream it seem'd to be but prov'd a real thing Our mouth and tongue were sweetly fill'd with joy and laughter then verse 2 And such like speeches past along among the Heathen men Great things the Lord hath done for them great things we do confess verse 3 Great things to glad Jerusalem and stir up thankfulness verse 4 Lord perfect our deliverance and make a full return As flowing streams do change the soil which parching heat did burn verse 5 They that iâ— dearth and time of tears their seed do sadly sow The crops of Corn with full grown ears shall gladly reap and mow verse 6 Though carrying forth his costly seed it made the seeds-man mourn He shall no doubt bring whom his sheaves and make a glad return HYMN 538. Mourning turn'd to rejoycing or the dream made real Give laud c. Psalm 126. 2. METRE WHEN God had turn'd the stream of our Captivity We were like them that dream affected doubtfully but when it prov'd Our mouths and tongues with joyfull songs were sweetly mov'd Thus also did they say among the Gentiles then The Lord hath done this day great things for those poor men yea God hath done Great things for us which ravish us to think upon Turn our Captivity as Rivers in the South Which help the Desarts dry against the parching drouth who sows in tears Through scarcity shall reap in joy their full grown ears He that goes weeping out and bears forth precious seed Returns with joy no doubt and happily shall speed for he receives A pledge to come well laden home and brings his sheaves HYMN 539. Nativities blessed or Blessings of the Womb. 1. METRE Psalm 127. UNless the Lord the house do build vain pains the builder takes Unless the Lord the City shield in vain the watchman wakes verse 2 'T is all in vain to watch and wait and eat of sorrows bread While God's belov'd in their estate sleep quietly in bed verse 3 A fruitfull womb and children sweet God onely can bestow verse 4 Which are in youth as Arrows fleet shot from a Giants Bow. verse 5 The quiver herewithall repleat imports a happy state Such shall not be affraid to treat with enemies in the Gate HYMN 540. Nativities blessed or Blessings of the Womb. All People c. Psalm 127. 2. METRE UNless the Lord the house sustain
righteous men affect The bowed down he doth erect Opening likewise the blind mans eyes and strangers doth the Lord protect The Lord relieves the fatherless and helps the Widow in distress But in his Wrath the sinners path the Lord doth utterly suppress The Lord shall reign continually thy God O Sion rules on high And so he shall to ages all his Name do ye still magnifie HYMN 579. 7. METRE Argument Creation-works demands our praise And all the Churches all our days Three Children c. Psalm 136. verse 1 GIVE thanks to God ye Saints of his for good he is For his mercies sure for ever do endure verse 2 Unto the God of Gods give praise his honour raise For his mercies c. verse 3 Give thanks to God the Sovereign Lord with one accord For his mercies c. verse 4 To him that doth such wondrous deeds whose fame exceeds For his mercies c. verse 5 To him whose wisedom skilfully made Heaven on high For his mercies c. verse 6 To him that set the solid Ground the Seas to bound For his mercies c. HYMN 580. 8. METRE Argument Creation works and wonders wrought of old Require thanksgiving great and manifold Psalm 136. verse 7 Praise him that made by power Divine great lights to shine For his mercies c. verse 8 The Sun that hath the brightest ray to rule the Day For his mercies c. verse 9 The moon and stars of lesser light to rule the night For his mercies c. verse 10 That smote all Egypt's first increase of man and beast For his mercies c. verse 11 And brought out Israel from among the barbarous throng For his mercies c. verse 12 With his strong Arm and stretcht-out hand of high command For his mercies c. HYMN 581. 9. METRE Argument God's greatness and his goodness past our search Are celebrated by his faithfull Church Psalm 136. verse 1 O Render thanks to our great God for he is good For his mercies c. verse 2 The God of gods give thanks unto as ye should do For his mercies c. verse 3 Unto the Lord of lords confess with thankfulness For his mercies c. verse 13 To him that parted the Red Sea for Israel's way For his mercies c. verse 14 And Israel through the midst of it he did transmit For his mercies c. verse 15 But overthrew Pharaoh and his host on that Sea Coast. For his mercies c. verse 16 That led his people past the bounds of desart Grounds For his mercies c. HYMN 582. 10. METRE Argument God's wondrous works of judgments wrought of old Require thanksgiving great and manifold Psalm 136. verse 17 PRaise him that wrought such wondrous things Who smote great Kings For his mercies c. verse 18 And famous Kings and not a few he overthrew For his mercies c. verse 19 King Sion that strong Amorite his power did smite For his mercies c. verse 20 And Og the King of Bashan too he overthrew For his mercies c. verse 21 And gave their Land an heritage to th' after age For his mercies c. verse 23 Who thought on us in low estate and desolate For his mercies c. verse 24 And hath redeemed us from those that were our foes For his mercies c. verse 25 Who giveth food for to refresh all mortal flesh For his mercies c. verse 26 All thanks and praise be therefore given to th' God of Heaven For his mercies c. HYMN 583. Variety of mercies magnified Psalm 147. 1. METRE PRaise ye the Lord sing to the Lord for very good it is Pleasant and comely to record and praise that Name of his The Lord builds up Jerusalem his repossessed throne And Israel's outcasts all of them he gathereth into one 3 4 5. The wounds of every broken heart he heals with gentle hand He numbers all the Stars apart and names them as they stand Great is our Lord of Israel and of great power and might His understanding doth excell for it is infinite 6. The Lord lifts up the meek on high But doth the proud confound And casts the wicked scornfully down to the very ground 1. METRE 2. PART Ver. 7 8. SING to the Lord with thanksgiving sing praise with one accord Upon the solemn Harp O sing unto our God the Lord. Who makes thick Clouds o'respread the Skie to feed the Earth with rain And Grass to grow on Mountains high as on the fertile plain 9 10. He giveth to the beast his food with plentifull supply And feeds the Ravens callow brood when hunger makes them cry God takes no joy in any horse nor in a Champions limb Nor can their courage strength or force delight or pleasure him 11. But lo the Lord doth take delight in them that fear his Name And in his mercies infinite their confidence proclaim HYMN 584. Variety of mercies magnified 1. METRE 3. PART Psalm 147.12 13 14. O Praise the Lord Jerusalem thy God O Sion praise For lo thy gates and bars of them he very strongly staies Thy Children in thee he hath blest thy peace he makes full great And fills thee with the very best and finest of the Wheat 15 16. He sends out his commandement on all the Earth so vast No sooner can his word be sent but runs exceeding fast He giveth snow like gentle wool and scatters all abroad His hoary frost most plentifull like ashes that are strow'd 4. PART 1. METRE 17 18. THE Lord casts out his Icy hail like morsels to behold And who can stand and shall not quail to feel his pinching cold He sendeth out his word and lo it melteth them again He causeth then his winds to blow and waters flow amain 19 20. God shews his word to Jacob's house that they may know it well His Laws and judgments righteous he shews to Israel He hath not dealt so large a lot to any Land beside As for his Laws they know them not the Lord be magnifi'd HYMN 585. Variety of Providences praised 2. METRE Give laud c. Psalm 147.1 GIVE laud unto the Lord it is a pleasant thing His praises to record and his sweet songs to sing who on a rock His Church erects and recollects his scatter'd flock He heals the heart contrite and binds up all their wounds He tells the Stars of light whose number so abounds and he can call Each shining flame of them by name he knows them all Great is this God of ours yea most exceeding great His power above all powers and hath the sovereign seat and as his might So likewise his pure wisedom is most infinite The Lord lifts up the meek the wicked throws to ground Praise him with songs most sweet and harps harmonious sound the Heav'ns he fills With Clouds for showers makes Grass and flowers to grow on hills The beasts and ravens young he feedeth when they call In horse or Champion strong he joyeth
not at all but God above Delights in them that fear his Name and trust in 's love HYMN 586. Variety of Providences praised 2. PART 2. METRE Psal. 147.12 O Salem praise the Lord praise him O Sion-hill Who hath thy Gates well barr'd and doth thy Cities fill thy peace full great He makes to be and filleth thee with flower of wheat Through th' Earth his mandats go his word most swiftly flies Like wool he giveth snow his frost as ashes lies his Ice is roll'd As morsels and O who can stand before his cold He speaks and straight it thaws he breaths and water flows To Israel his Laws and to none else he shows as for his word No heathen land doth understand praise ye the Lord. HYMN 587. 3. METRE Argument Praise suits with Saints for God his Grace imparts To Israel's outcasts and to broken hearts He tells the Stars his power and skill abounds He cheers the meek and lewd men he confounds Psalm 147. verse 1 PRaise ye the Lord for it is good his praises to forth-tell And to sing praises to our God for it becomes us well verse 2 The Lord builds up Jerusalem's Walls to bring his people thither And Israel's outcasts he recalls and gathers them together verse 3 He heals the broken in their heart where sense of sin abounds And taking pity of their smart binds up their bleeding wounds verse 4 He tells the number of the Stars and calls them all by Name Superiour of Superiours must we our God proclaim verse 5 So very great is God indeed So great in power and might His understanding doth exceed for it is infinite verse 6 The Lord doth save poor humble souls whom sharp afflictions wound But all the wicked he controlls and casts them to the Ground HYMN 588. 3. METRE Argument He praiseth God who gives to all their food But he takes pleasure onely in the good 2. PART verse 7 SING to the Lord with thankfulness and spread his praise abroad With solemn harp his praise express and sing unto our God. Who covers Heaven with Clouds of Rain t' inrich the Earth below And on the hills as on the plain he makes the Grass to grow verse 9 Both beasts and birds he kindly feeds young Ravens cry to him verse 10 He takes no joy in strength of steeds nor in a strong mans limb verse 11 But lo the Lord's delight and joy is ever in the just In them that fear him faithfully and in his mercy trust HYMN 589. 3. METRE Argument He praiseth God that sendeth peace And plenty in the fields increase 3. PART Psalm 147. verse 12 O Praise and magnifie the Lord O Salem praise him still The praises of thy God record O Sion's sacred hill verse 13 For he hath strengthened the bars which to thy Gates pertain And blesseth the inhabiters within thee that remain verse 14 He makes abundant peace to be within thy borders spread And plenteously he filleth thee with finest of the bread verse 15 He sendeth out on Earth below his word which runneth swift Like locks of wool he sends the snow that also is his gift HYMN 590. 3. METRE Argument God sends the Seasons from above In token of his tender love But the chief Glory's Israel's In freedom of God's Oracles 4. PART verse 16 THE hoary frost he spreads about as ashes on each side His Ice as morsels he casts out his cold who can abide He sendeth out his word in course and melts the Ice and snow He makes his wind to blow with force and then the waters flow He shews his word to Jacob's Land and shews it for this cause That Israel may understand his judgments and his laws The tokens of such tender love no heathens can record His judgments they know nothing of wherefore praise ye the Lord. HYMN 591. Vniversal thanksgiving or Benedicite c. 1. METRE Psalm 148. PRaise ye the Lord praise ye the Lord from Heavens lofty frame Him from on high O magnifie all Angels praise his Name O all his hosts his praise record O praise him moon and sun Ye stars of light that shine so bright the like of you be done Ye Heav'ns of Heav'ns that are so high praise him with one consent And water ye on high that be above the firmament O let them praise and magnifie the Lord's Almighty Name For lo they were created there when his commandment came He likewise did contrive it so to stablish them for ever So firm Decree ordained he that pass it they shall never Praise ye the Lord from Earth below ye Dragons and each deep Fire Vapour Snow Hall-storms that blow his word that firmly keep All Mountains high and fruitfull trees All hills and Cedars tall Ye Fowl with wings and creeping things ye Beasts and Cattel all Kings Princes People all degrees ye Judges praise his Name Young men and Maids Children and Babes and old men do the same The Lord 's great Name still praised be for that alone excells And far more high than Earth or Sky his glittering Glory dwells The praise of all his Saints is he and he the horn doth raise Of Israel's Sons his dearest ones O give the Lord his praise HYMN 592. Vniversal thanksgiving or Benedicite c. 2. METRE To the proper Tune Psalm 148. GIVE Laud unto the Lord from the Celestial Coasts All ye his praise record his Angels and his hosts him glorifie Sun Moon and Stars ye higher Spheres and cloudy Skie O let them praise his Name since made by his command Who stablish'd all the frame perpetually to stand He also made A firm decree which needs must be by them obey'd Praise God from Earth below ye Dragons and ye deeps Fire hail clouds wind and snow whom in command he keeps hills low and high Trees all that grow Beasts swift or slow fowl all that fly Kings and the vulgar throng Princes and Judges all Ye men and maidens young old men and Children small praise ye his Name Whose Name alone as th' onely one excells in fame Whose Glory bright doth blaze above the Earth and Sky Of all his Saints the praise he sets their horn on high Even their 's that spring Of Israels race much in his grace his praises sing HYMN 593. Works of grace to the Church Psalm 149.1 PRaise ye the Lord sing to the Lord a new-composed Song His memorable praise record where all his Saints do throng verse 2 Let joyfull Israel shout and sing in their Creatour's Name Let Sion's Children in their King triumphant joys proclaim verse 3 In dances let them praise his Name the Harp before him bring And joyn the Timbrel to the same with these his praises sing verse 4 For lo the Lord exceedingly in Israel doth delight The humble he will beautifie with robes of saving might verse 5 In glory let the Saints be joy'd sing loud upon their bed And their Religious mouths imploy'd verse 6 the Lord 's high praise to spread And with a
double edged Sword put here into their hands verse 7 Inflict the vengeance of the Lord upon the heathen lands Impose the peoples punishments verse 8 bind Kings and kingly trains The Noble Peers and Presidents in iron bands and chains verse 9 To execute upon them all the judgment on record Such honour to the Saints doth fall praise ye praise ye the Lord. HYMN 594 Works of Grace to the Church 2. METRE The mighty God c. Psalm 149. PRaise God with new made Songs and cheerfull Voice his praises in the Saints assemblies sing Let Israel in his maker much rejoice let Sion's Sons be joyfull in their King. O let them praise his Name with comely dancing With harp and timbrel his sweet praise advancing For in his people God takes much delight the meek with saving health I 'll beautify Let Saints be joyfull in his Glory bright and sing aloud as on their beds they lie The Lord 's high praises with their mouths unfolding And in their hands a sword two-edged holding To execute his wrath on heathen Lands with punishments the people to condemn To bind their Kings in chains their Lords in bands the written judgment to fulfill on them For with such honour all the Saints are crowned Praise ye the Lord who is to be renowned HYMN 595. Yielding Vniversal Praises Psalm 150. 1. METRE PRaise ye the Lord with one consent in Sion's sacred Tower O praise him in the firmament of his Almighty power verse 2 The Acts of his Omnipotence in gratefull Songs recite According to the excellence of his adored might verse 3 With Trumpets Psalteries Harpsicals with Timbrel and with Dance verse 4 With Viols Lutes and Virginals his Noble praise advance verse 5 On Cymbals sounding loud and high his Glorious Praise record verse 6 Let all that breaths make melody and praise O praise the Lord. HYMN 596. Yielding Vniversal Praises All People c. Psalm 150. 2. METRE PRaise praise the Lord in 's holy Tower Praise him i' th spreading of his power Praise him for his great miracles Praise him as his great power excells Praise him with Trumpets melody Praise him with Harp and Psaltery Praise him with Timbrel Pipe and Flute Praise him with Organ and with Lute Praise him O praise him zealously With Cymbals sounding loud and high Let all that breath his praise record O praise and magnifie the Lord. HYMN 597. 3. METRE Argument Heaven must God's praise begin Then must all the Earth come in Art and Nature Strength and Skill Instruments both loud and shrill Things above and all beneath All must praise him while they breath Psalm 150. PRaise God in 's Sanctuary bright and powerfull Firmament O praise him for his Acts of might and greatness excellent With sound of Trumpet spread his fame with Psalteries Harps and Flutes With Timbrels also praise his Name with Organs and with Lutes With Cymbals loud his praises sing and Cymbals sounding high O praise him ev'ry breathing thing praise him perpetually HYMN 598. 4. METRE All People c. Psalm 150. PRaise ye the Lord his praise repeat Within his Sanctuaries seat O praise him in the Firmament That shews his power Omnipotent O praise him for his mighty deeds And for his greatness which exceeds Praise him with sound of Trumpet sharp And with the Psaltery and Harp. Your Timbrels in his praise employ And let your hearts ev'n leap for joy Praise him with Instruments well strung And quavering Organs sounding long Praise him O praise him cheerfully With Cymbals sounding loud and high Let every thing inspir'd with breath Applaud and praise the Lord till death HYMN 599. 5. METRE Argument Heaven must God's Praise begin Then must all the Earth come in Art and Nature Strength and Skill Instruments both loud and shrill Things above and all beneath All must praise him while they breath To the First New Tune Psalm 150. PRaise ye the Lord with all your might Within the Sanctuary bright and that high Tower Of large extent the Firmament of his great power Praise him for those great Acts of his According as his greatness is therein is he Most excellent so eminent his praise must be With sound of Trumpets pierce the Skies Praise him with Harps and Psalteries his Name advance Take in your hand the Timbrel and strike up the Dance Praise him with instruments well strung With lovely Organs sounding long sweet Cymbals sound Both loud and shrill that his Name still may be renown'd Let every thing inspir'd with breath Sing forth his solemn praise till death let all accord To spread the Fame of his great Name praise ye the Lord. HYMN 600. 6. METRE The Mighty God c. PRaise ye the Lord praise him in 's holy Tower Praise him i' th firmament of his great power Praise him for his great Acts and eminent According to his greatness excellent O praise him with the Trumpet sweetly sounding With Harp and Psaltery and Joys abounding O praise him with the timbrel and the dance With stringed Instruments his praise advance Praise him with Organs reaching to the cloud Praise him with Cymbals sounding high and loud Let every thing that breaths his praise endeavour Praise ye the Lord O praise the Lord for ever The End of the Psalm Hymns THE CANTICLES OR THE SONG OF SOLOMON PARAPHRASED By William Barton late Minister of St. Martins in Leicester The Song of Songs The Church JOYN thy life-breathing lips to mine Thy love excells the joy of Wine Thy Odors oh how redolent Attract me with their pleasing scent These sweetly flowing from thy Name Our Virgins with desire enflame O draw me my belov'd and we With winged feet will follow thee Thy loving Spouse at length great King Into thy royal chamber bring Then shall our Souls entranc'd with joy In thy due praise their zeal employ Thy celebrated loves recite With more than crowned cups delight Who truth and sacred justice prize To thee their hearts shall sacrifice You Daughters of Jerusalem You branches of that holy stem Though black in favour I excell Black as the Tents of Ishmael Yet gracefull as the burnish'd Throne And Ornaments of Solomon Despise not my discoloured look This tawny from the Sun I took My mothers Sons envy'd my worth And swoln in malice thrust me forth To keep their vines in heat of day While ah mine own neglected lay More lov'd than all of humane seed O tell me where thy sheep do feed Where rest they in what gracefull shade When scorching beams the fields invade Why should I stray and turn to those Who though companions are thy foes Christ. O thou the fairest of thy kind I will inform thy troubled mind Follow the way my flock has led And in their steps securely tread Thy kids feed on the fruitfull plains Besides the sheep-coat of our swains Thou love art like those generous steeds Which Pharaoh for his Chariot breeds Tric'kt in their rich Caparisons How shine thy cheeks like sparkling stones That
And vitious thoughts which foes unseen suggest The mind it moistens as a fruitfull field Abundance of divine good things to yield It makes Religious men such power it brings Champions for patience in all adverse things It cures the Godly man of worldly cares It is the Spirits Sword as Paul declares Which acts and arms a Christian Souldier so That he may grapple with his ghostly foe For 't is the word of God which while revolv'd And sung aloud the Devils are dissolv'd And driven away yea it hath power so great The mind to perfect and to make compleat With Christian vertues whiles in sacred throngs The Saints set on with these spiritual Songs ERRATA PAge 214. Line 10. for stock reade flock p. 244. l. 20. for mensounder r. each founder p. 246. l. 9. for breaketh r. baketh p. 300. l. 1. for known r. know p. 423. l. 4. for blessed r. blasted p. 428. l. 13. after right add hand p. 447. for Psalm 23. r. Psalm 50.14 15 23. 1. M. p. 477. l. 11. for fruit r. bruit p. 500. l. 10. for the r. thy p. 583. l. 11. for he r. be p. 627. l. 13. after and add that p. 637. l. 26. after griev'd add because TWENTY Prefatory Hymns HYMN 1. Creation First Day All People c. Gen. 1.1 IN the beginning is set forth How God created Heaven and Earth Earth did lie void and darkness keep Upon the face of all the Deep Then said the Lord of sovereign might Let there be light and there was light And God saw light a glorious spark And God divided light from dark And for the light he call'd it day And darkness night thus nam'd were they Evening and Morning set and rose And these the First Day did compose Rev. 4.11 Lord thou art worthy of the Crown Of Glory Honour and Renown For Thou O Lord did'st all things make And made they were for thy Will sake 2. PART Second Day v. 6 7. A Firmament did God provide Waters from Waters to divide The Firmament which God had fram'd He called Heaven and so 't was nam'd And let said God the Firmament Divide the Watry Element Waters above from these below Let be distinct and it was so Evening and Morning set and rose And did the Second Day compose Let Israel's God be prais'd therefore From first to last for evermore 3. PART Third Day v. 9. And this Command from God was given Touching the Waters under Heaven That all should gather to a place And the dry Land should shew her face v. 10. And God did call the dry Land Earth The Waters Seas which he set forth And God beheld that heaped Floud And saw that it was very good Then was the Earth of God enjoyn'd To bring forth Herbs of every kind The Grass and Trees to yield their Fruit And Seed which in it self had Root And God commanded all to grow Upon the Earth and it was so Evening and Morning set and rose And these the Third Day did compose Let Israel's God be prais'd therefore From first to last for evermore And let all faithfull people then Say cheerfully Amen Amen 4. PART Fourth Day v. 14 15. And said the Lord let there be lights Distinguishing the Days and Nights And let them shine within the Spheres For signs for seasons days and years And God made two for greater light The Son for Day the Moon for Night All sorts of Stars he made beside The light from darkness to divide And God beheld that all was good Which he had made and so it stood Evening and Morning set and rose And these the Fourth Day did compose Let Israel's God be prais'd therefore From first to last for evermore And blessed be the King of Kings Who doth alone such wonderous things 5. PART Fifth Day v. 20. And God did give the Waters charge To bring forth moving things at large The living Creatures Works most rare And Fowl to fly 'i th open air And God created mighty Whales And living Creatures that had Scales And winged Fowl of every kind And all was good and to his mind And then God blessed them and said A great encrease by you be made Let Fishes fill the Sea so wide And Fowl on Earth be multiply'd Evening and Morning set and rose And these the Fifth day did compose Let Israel's God be prais'd therefore From first to last for evermore 6. PART Sixth Day v. 24. And God enjoyn'd the Earth to bring And to produce each kind of thing Cattell and creeping things and Beasts Each in his kind to make encrease Then said the Lord now let us make Man in his kind for our own sake And let us make and form him thus In our own Image like to us And let them have Dominion or'e The Fish the Fowl the Sea the Shore And every Creature that is found To swim in Sea or go on Ground So God made Mans original Stem Both Male and Female made he them And blessing them said God most high Be fruitfull now and multiply And fill the Earth and it subdue I give the Lordship all to you And ye shall rule as Sovereign king O're Fish and Fowl and every thing And lo said God I give you meat The Herbs and Fruits of Trees to eat To Birds and Beasts the Herbs that grow I give for food and it was so And God beheld how all things stood And all he made was very good Evening and Morning set and rose And these the Sixth Day did compose Lord thou art worthy of the Crown Of Glory Honour and Renown For thou O Lord didst all things make For thine own will and pleasure sake HYMN 2. The Sabbath Our Father c. Gen. 2.1 THUS Heaven and Earth were set in place With all their Hosts in six days space The Seventh Day the Lord did rest Which day he sanctifi'd and blest Because thereon the Lord had stay'd From all the Work which he had made Heb. 11.3 And thus by faith we understand The Worlds were made by God's command So that the things which now we see Were not compos'd of things that be Something of nothing God did call And of that something God made all Thus also we are put in mind That there 's a Rest remains behind An Everlasting Heavenly Rest Whereof God's people are possest And we that do believe in him At th' hour of death shall enter in Let Israel's God be prais'd therefore From first to last for evermore And let the People all proclaim The praises of his holy Name And all of us with one accord Say here Amen praise ye the Lord. HYMN 3. Marriage Our Father c. Gen 2.7.18 21. c. AND God the Lord did man compound Of Dust he gathered off the Ground Breath'd in his breast a lively flame So man a living Soul-became Yet 't is not good said th' Holy One Not good that man should be alone Now will I make a helper meet For him as his companion sweet
Gentiles where they dwell And to be made the glory of thy People Israel To God the Father and the Son and Holy Ghost therefore Be glory done as first begun and shall be evermore Hymn VI. A Morning Exercise All People c. Lam. 3.22 'T IS of God's mercies infinite That we are not consumed quite Because indeed they still prevail And his compassions never fail 23 24. Each morning brings a fresh supply So great is God's fidelity The Lord 's my portion saith my soul Therefore my hopes on him shall roll 26. The Lord is very nigh to those That wait on him at his dispose Good to the Soul impowr'd with grace Unfainedly to seek his face 27. And it is good in every strait Both quietly to hope and wait For that salvation to attend Which God in his good time shall send Hymn VII A Promise of sending the Holy Ghost and of the Miracles at Pentecost Luke 24.49 THUS spake our Saviour Christ to his behold I send said he To you my Father's PROMISES which ye have heard of me Luke 24.49 But stay ye at Jerusalem untill the day draw nigh And ye shall be indued then with power from on high Acts 2.1 And when full fifty days were come thus hinted by our Lord They all were gather'd in a room and all with one accord And suddenly a sound from Heaven like mighty rustling wind Fill'd all the house where sate the Eleven with other Brethren joyn'd And there appeared to the men tongues cloven as of fire And sate upon each one of them and did their hearts inspire And then began they to advance their speech in Languages The Spirit giving utterance as He himself did please And Jews were present there in throngs from Nations all abroad And heard them speak in several tongues the wondrous works of God. Rev. 1.4 To Father Son and Holy Ghost all Glory be therefore As was and is to thâ— uttermost and shall be evermore Hymn VIII Arraignment of Ambition Covetousness and Cruelty Hab. 2.9 to 12. WOE be to him must all confess that with a greedy eye Covets an evil covetousness unto his Family That he may set his nest on high and there to keep him warm And sit with great security from fear of future harm Thou hast consulted shame enough unto thy house this day And cutting many people off hast sinn'd thy soul away For lo the very stone shall cry out of the wall to Me And thereto shall the Beam reply out of the Timber tree Wo be to him to him be wo that builds a Town with blood And stablisheth a City so by ways abhorr'd of God. Hymn IX A Song to celebrate the restauration of the CHVRCH Have mercy c. Isa. 54.11 O Thou afflicted Church and tost with tempest great Left comfortless in thy distress while all those storms did beat Behold I lay thy stones with colours very fair Thy corner stones most curious ones with Saphyres to compare 13 14. And great shall be the peace thy Children are to see And thou no less in righteousness established shalt be Oppression shall be far because thou shalt not fear No Tyranny shall terrifie nor unto thee come near 7. Rev. 15.6 Though for a little while I hid from thee my face My care shall be to gather thee with everlasting Grace To God in Trinity all glory be therefore As hath been done since time begun and shall be evermore 2. PART Isa. 60.15 16. Arise O Church and shine thy light comes in and springs Thy Saviour now hath said that thou shalt suck the breast of Kings And they shall be design'd for nursing Fathers kind And unto thee their Queens shall be for nursing Mothers joyn'd ch 33.17.65.16 Thine eyes shall see the King in all his beauty bright And God shall crown thee with Renown and everlasting Light. That such as bless themselves and each man that so doth May bless themselves in nothing else but in the God of truth Because the former times of trouble are forgot And what men did is past and hid mine eyes behold it not To God in Trinity all glory be therefore As was and is and shall be his henceforth for evermore Hymn X. Astonishing Judgments or AEGYPTS ten PLAGVES for Nov. 5. Psal. 135.9 THE Lord sent tokens most severe and let great Judgments fall On Egypt Upon Pharaoh there and on his Servants all PLAGVE I. Exod. 7.20 21. He turn'd their waters into blood so that they could not drink Their fishes dy'd within the flood and made the River stink PLAGVE II. Exod. 8.6 Psal. 105.30 Their Land brought forth from Brooks hard-by from Rivers Ponds and Springs A brood of Frogs Abundantly in Chambers of their Kings PLAGVE III. Exod. 8.17 19. He smote the dust of Aegypt-Land and loathsom vermine crawl'd On man and beast 'T was God's own hand and so confess'd and call'd PLAGVE IV. Exod. 8.24 He sent them divers sort of flies in Pharaoh's house to swarm Which sore annoy'd all Families and did the Land much harm PLAGVE V. Exod. 9.3 6. A grievous Murrain he design'd their Cattel to betide That sundry beasts of several kind of this strange Murrain dy'd 2. PART PLAGVE VI. Exod. 9.10 Handfuls of Ashes He ordains whereby their Plagues increast By breaking forth in Boils and Blains both upon Man and Beast PLAGVE VII Psal. 78.47 48. The Hail destroy'd their tender Vines and wealth of their quick stocks The Frost destroy'd their Sycamines hot Thunder-bolts their Flocks PLAGVE VIII Exod. 10.14 15. Locusts went over all the Land such as were never seen And spoil'd the trees that yet did stand and all things that were green PLAGVE IX Exod. 10.21 A darkness such as might be felt for three whole days did cover The Land where Lordly Pharaoh dwelt they saw not one another PLAGVE X. Psal. 78.51 All the first-born which Aegypt bore He smote with dreadfull hand The chief of all their strength and store in Cham's accursed Land. Exod. 12.13 Then was there a most dolefull cry in Aegypt heard with dread For there was not a Family where some One was not dead Ps. 72.18 Rev. 19.16 Let Israel's God the King of Kings be magnifi'd therefore Who only doth such wondrous things Praise him for evermore Hymn XI A Testimony Prophetical of the Birth and Kingdom of CHRIST Isa. 9.3 6. NOW Lord before thee we rejoyce as in a Harvest-day As Conquerors lift up their voice when they divide the prey For unto us a Child is born to us a Son is given And on his shoulder shall be worn the badge of power from Heaven His Name entit'led Wonderfull shall faithfull Saints so call Our Counsellour our Oracle God mighty over all The Everlasting Father and the Sovereign Prince of Peace Of whose sweet peace and sole command shall endless be th' increase Thâ— Throne of David to possess and order it full sure With Judgment and with Righteousness for ever to endure To God the Father and the Son and Holy
Ghost therefore Be glory as at first was done and shall be evermore 2. PART On the Birth Kingdom and Conquests of CHRIST Isa. 9.3 4. NOW Lord before thee we rejoyce as men in Harvest-while As Conquerors lift up their voice when they divide the spoil For thou hast broke the burd'nous yoke the Staff that bare the sway The Rod of our Oppressors Power as once in Midian's day For every battel generally of Warriours prime and good Is with confused noise and cry and Garments roll'd in bloud But this of Christ's against his Foes that spightfully conspire Shall be with burning where it goes and Fuel mixt with Fire The day doth come as God assures that like an Oven shall burn And all the proud and wicked doers that day shall overturn But unto them that fear my Name there shall arise and spring The Sun of Peace and Righteousness with healing in his wing To God the Father and the Son and Holy Ghost therefore Be glory done as first begun and shall be evermore Hymn XII At FVNERALS to mitigate Mourning Job 1.21 NAked we go unto the Grave as from the womb we came God gives and takes but what he gave and blessed be his Name For he shall wipe off tears one day and make all faces free And our rebuke quite take away and no more death shall be No sorrow shall nor crying last nor any further pain Because the former things are past and never come again Hymn XIII At Funerals to press Patience 1 Tim. 6.7 Job 1.21 NOthing we brought into this world and it is out of doubt That we from hence when-ever call'd can carry nothing out The Lord of his good pleasure gave the Lord doth take away And let his Name the honour have and bless him day by day Hymn XIV At Funerals touching the preciousness of the Saints death Psal. 116.15 Rom. 14.8 A Thing of price unparallell'd in God our Soviour's eyes The death of all his Saints is held when any of them dies For while we live we live to God to God we also die And live or die we are indeed the Lords peculiarly Hymn XV. At Funerals touching the Resurrection Job 19.25 I Know that my Redemeer lives I know he lives alway And shall appear and stand up here on earth at Judgment day And though my skin and next to that my body turn to dust Yet in my flesh restor'd afresh I shall see God I trust Whom I shall perfectly behold when I from dust recover Not otherwise but with these eyes my self and not another Hymn 16. At Funerals touching the Saints safety in Death John 11.25 26. THE Resurrection and the Life saith Christ our Lord am I And he that hath in me belief shall live although he die And whosoever here he be that draws this mortal breath And stedfastly believes in Me shall never more see death Hymn 17. At Funerals touching the Saints sweet Rest. Rev. 14.13 I Heard a voice that spake and said to me from Heaven on high Write blessed henceforth are the dead that in the Lord do die Yea saith the Spirit that such men may leave their labours hard Their works likewise do follow them to reap a full reward Hymn 18. A Thanksgiving at or after the Sacrament All People c. Luke 2.13 GLory to God in Highest Place On Earth be peace to Men free grace We praise we bless thee we adore And glorifie thee evermore Rom. 11.17 We thank thee for thy glory great Lord God that hast the Sovereign seat O heavenly King and God alone The Father the Almighty One. John 1.14 29. Acts 2.36 O God the true begotten Word Son of the Father Christ and Lord O Lamb of God that tak'st away The worlds great sin thy grace display 2 Cor. 5.21 1 Pet. 2.24 Thou that wast made sin for our sake Who knew'st no sin some pity take Thou that did'st in thy body bear The sins of all receive our prayer Eph. 1.20 21. Job 10.30 Thou that dost sit at God's right hand One with the Father in Command Above all Angels having place Have mercy on us and shew grace Acts 2.27 33 36. For Thou art Christ the Holy One The onely LORD and Thou alone Art with the Holy Ghost most high In God the Father's Dignity Hymn 19. Attonement sought upon Humiliation or a woefull bewailing of our Corruptions and Calamities Dan. 9.4 5. O God that great and dreadfull art who keepest truth and grace To them that love thee in their heart and do thy Laws embrace O we have sinned we confess we have done wickedly We have rebell'd by wickedness and great Apostasie 6 7 9. Not hearkning to thy Messengers who spake by thy command To Princes Kings and Ancestors and People of our Land. But Lord to thee belongeth grace to us contrary way Belongs confusion of the face as at this present day 14.12 Therefore the Lord hath watch'd the stroke and brought it on us all And hath confirm'd the Word he spoke against us so to fall Our Judges too that judged us on them the Lord hath brought The evil so prodigious for sins which we have wrought 12 13. For under the whole Heav'ns of God among all sorts of men The like hath not been done abroad as to Jerusalem Yet sought we not to know the truth nor for repentance pray'd But God is just in all he doth for we have not obey'd 2. PART Dan 9.8 11. Confusion of the face pertains to us and to our Kings Our Peers and Parents for our pains in doing wicked things For all have broke thy Law O Lord revolting worse and worse That we might not obey thy Word which pours out all this curse 9.16 But mercy and forgivenesses belong O Lord to thee Though our rebellious Trespasses grow to a high degree O Lord according unto all thy righteousness we pray Let not thy dreadfull fury fall but turn thy wrath away 18.19 For we present not our address before thy Mercy-Seat For any of our righteousness but for thy mercies great Lord hear forgive and pity take hearken O Lord and do Defer not for thine own dear sake now thou art pray'd unto 18.17 Incline thine ear O Lord and hear open thine eyes and see Our desolations and the place relating unto thee And let thy face behold with grace thy Sanctuaries seat Whose present state is desolate for Christ's sake we intreat Hymn 20. A wofull Lamentation or David's Elegy for Saul and Jonathan 2 Sam 1.19 THY beauty is O Israel in thy high places slain O how those mighty Champions fell and we the loss sustain O tell it not to any one nor publish it in Gath Nor in the streets of Askalon that Israel bears such wrath 20.21 The Daughters of the Philistins lest they therein rejoyce And those uncircumcised ones lest they lift up their voice Ye mountains great of Gilboa let neither Rain nor Dew Nor fields of Offrings from that day for ever fall on you 21. For there the
26. Charity and Piety extended Prov. 3.9 10. 2 Cor. 9.7 HOnour the Lord with all thy store give thy first-fruits to him So shall thy Barns be fill'd with more the Press with Wine shall swim Let each man give as mov'd in mind not grudgingly however Nor of constraint for this we find God loves a cheerfull giver Mat. 1.14 But cursed the Deceiver is that hath in 's flock a Male And yet doth vow and sacrifice a thing corrupt and stale For I 'm a King most highly crown'd saith God the Lord of Hosts And dreadfully my Name doth sound in all the Heathen coasts Hymn 27. Circumcision of the Heart Jer. 9.25 BEhold saith God the time draws nigh that I will punish aâ—l Th' uncircumcised generally and circumcis'd shall fall 26. For just as all the Gentiles were uncircumcis'd in skin So all the house of Israel are uncircumcis'd within Deut. 10.16 The fore-skin of your hearts therefore be sure to Circumcise And be not henceforth any more stiff-neck'd in any wise Hymn 28. Confession of Sin. All People c. Joh. 7.20 Isa. 3.8 O Thou Preserver of mankind what shall we say or do to thee Or what excuse Lord can we find for we have sinn'd in great degree Our ways and doings still have been Against the Lord by grievous sin So to provoke the glorious eyes Of God by our Iniquities Job 40.4.42.5 Isa. 55.9 O we are vile in every part with self abhorring we relent And from the bottom of our heart in dust and ashes we repent But Lord thy ways and thoughts of grace Are not as ours of narrow space Thy thoughts transcend our thoughts as far As Heaven and Earth in distance are Hymn 29. Constant seeking of God by the Meek Have mercy c. Zeph. 2.3 SEEK seek the Lord most high O all ye meek on earth Ye that have wrought most faithfully the Judgments he set forth Seek Righteousness I say seek meekness it may be Ye shall be hid i' th evil day and from God's Wrath go free Hymn 30. Correction of Anger Jam. 1.19 20. LET every man be swift to hear but slow to speech and wrath Because man's wrath goes nothing near to God's most righteous path 3.16 For wheresoever strife takes place and lusts of envy lurk There is confusion in such case and every evil work Prov. 21.24 Eccles. 7.9 Proud haughty scorner is his Name in whom proud passion rules And anger rests not in the flame but in the breast of fools 16.32 Whereas the slow to wrath excell a Champion in renown And he that rules his spirit well the man that takes a Town 1 Pet. 3.4 Put on therefore the Ornament of meek and quiet minds Which in God's sight is eminent and great acceptance finds Hymn 31. Danger of heinous Sins and dehortation from them 2. Pet. 2.9 THE Lord of our Salvation knows well how to deliver The godly from Temptation how perilous soever And to reserve ungodly men unto the dreadfull day Of Judgment to be punish'd then for their ungodly way And those men more especially that wickedly transgress By practice of impurity and fleshly filthiness Acts. 3.19 Repent and be ye all therefore converted from your crimes To get your sins wip'd off the score against refreshing times Rev. 21.7 He that o'recomes this world impure shall gain the world to come And God will be his God be sure and he shall be his Son. 8. Heb. 6.8 But faithless ones and fool'd with fears vile persons thorns and briers Whoremongers Murd'rers Sorcerers Idolaters and Lyars Shall have their portion in the Lake that burns with sulph'rous breath Of fire and brimstone for their sake which is the second death 2. PART The Adulterers Peril and Penance Prov. 6.32 Whoso commits Adultery with women is not wise For he that doth so wickedly his own dear soul destroys 33. A wound he gets a brand of shame that 's sure to stick and stay And the dishonour of his Name is never done away 23.27.22.14 He falls as in some narâ—ow pit or in a ditch most deep Design'd for him to fall in it whom God abhors to keep 6.26 It brings a man of good estate unto a bit of bread And the Adultress lies in wait the precious blood to shed 2.18.5.18 Her house inclines to theirs that dye her paths to death's dark shade Yea it goes down to hell hard by and there her guests are laid 2.19 They seldom turn that are so bold as to go in to her Nor on the paths of life take hold who e're so lewdly err 7.24 25. Hearken therefore to my advice attend to what I say Let not her paths thy heart entice to wander in her way 3. PART The seven Abominations Prov. 6.16 Six things there are and here exprest which God almighty hates Yea seven things are manifest which he abominates A lofty look a lying tongue are both abhord of God And hands that act so great a wrong as shedding guiltless blood A heart that harbours Wickedness lewd projects to pursue And feet that press with eagerness mischievous deeds to do A slanderous witness speaking lies and Him that discord sows To make kind Brethren Enemies and feiends to be as foes 1 Pet. 3.10 Let him that loveth life therefore and longs to see good days Eschew all evil evermore and follow all good ways Let him refrain his tongue from ill his lips from speaking guile Let him seek peace with great good will and follow it all the while For th' eyes of God are bent with care the righteous to secure His ears He openeth to their prayer but frowns on th' evil doer 4. PART The flying Roll for Swearers and Cursers James 5.12 But above all things this I say my Brethren do not swear But let your words be yea and nay And every Oath forbear Because a Curse prodigious shall pass on every side And seise upon the Swearers house and there it shall abide And from that house shall not depart the Curse the Flying-Roll Till Stone and Timber it subvert and so consume it whole Yea Swearing makes a Land to Mourn and pleasant places dry When Men to such ill courses turn and so impetuously Be carefull that thou do not then God's Holy Name prophane For God will not acquit such Men as take his Name in vain Rom. 3.16.14 Destruction too and misery do all their paths possess Whose mouths are full of blasphemy Cursing and bitterness Col. 3.8 Cease anger then and wrath likewise and put off altogether Oaths Cursing and Scurrilities out of your Mouths for ever Hymn 32. Deceitfulness of the Heart Jer. 17.9 10. DEceitfull is the heart of man above all things that are And desperately carryed on to sin who knows how far I saith the Lord do search the heart and try the reins within And deal to each man his due part just as his works have been Hymn 33. Deliverance from shipwrack or of the Prophet Jonah All People c. Jonah 2. BY reason of our
106.48 Let Israel's God the Lord most high be magnifi'd therefore And people then say all Amen Amen for evermore HYMN 87. The day of grace proclaimed 2 Cor. 6.2 Rom. 10.10 11. LO I have heard thee saith the Lord in an accepted time And in the day which doth display Salvation unto mine Behold saith he I succour'd thee when Gospel-time took place This is that prime appointed time this is that day of grace And every one that calls upon the Name of God most high And call's in faith as Scripture saith shall sure be sav'd thereby To God the Father and the Son and Holy Ghost therefore Be glory done as first begun and shall be evermore HYMN 88. The great Condemnation 1 John 3.19 Eph. 5.13 THIS is the Condemnation great that light to men is brought And men lov'd darkness more than light because their deeds were nought For evil doers hate the light nor come they thereunto Lest that their deeds should be reprov'd which light is sure to do But he that doth the works of truth comes to the light abroad Whereby his deeds are manifest that they are wrought in God. HYMN 89. The Lively Hope Give laud c. 1 Pet. 1.3 BLessed be God above the Father of Christ our Lord Who in abundant love begat us by his Word To ' a lively hope By Christ our head rais'd from the dead to raise us up To an inheritance new pure endless uncorrupt Reserv'd in Heaven for you who by his power are kept Through faith t' ascend God's blest abode sure to be show'd when time shall end Wherein ye much rejoyce though now if need so press The season be for sighs and groans of heaviness Which sighs and groans On you take hold through manifold temptations The tryal of your faith which is of price far higher Than gold that perisheth though it be try'd with fire That then it may Great glory praise and honour raise at Christ his day HYMN 90. The Sluggard rouzâ—d Prov. 6.6.10.4 5. GO to the Ant thou slothfull one learn of her and be wise Who having Guide or Ruler none to order or advise Provides her meat in Summers heat in harvest stores her food While thou art deep in sloth and sleep and still in that dull mood Whereby thy want and poverty comes fast and fiercely on As travaylers come suddainly or like an armed man. For he is sure to grow full poor that lets his business slack But understand the diligent hand makes rich and feels no lack A prudent son is he therefore and that shall be his stile That labours hard and lays up store in heat and harvestâ— while But he that keeps his bed and sleeps in harvest is to blame And fitly shall be stil'd of all a son that causeth shame HYMN 91. The true fast Isa. 58.6 THIS is the fast and none but this chosen saith God by me To loose the bands of wickedness and let th' opprest go free The heavy burdens to unbind all injuries to redress To deal thy bread to th' hunger-pind and house the harbourless To cloth the naked when thou seest in what great need he â—â—ood And not to hide thy self i' th least from thine own flesh and blood Then shall thy light break forth as day thy health shall soon appear Thy righteousness shall lead the way God's glory be thy rear And thou unto the Lord shalt pray and answer shall be made And thou shalt cry and he shall say Lo here am I thine aid If thou shalt take away from thee the yoke of Tyranny The beckning fingers mockery and speaking vanity 2. PART 10 11 12. If thou draw out thy tender soul the hungry to relieve And with th' afflicted dost condole to satiate souls that grieve Then shall thy light arise to thee in thine obscurest night And all thy darkness then shall be as noontide shining bright The Lord shall guide thee evermore suffice thy soul in drought And make thee fat with plenteous store of blessings poured out Thou shalt be like the watred soil within the garden pale And as a spring whose waters boil break forth and never fail And they that be produc'd of thee shall build the old decays And ground-works laid for many an age thy buildings shall up-raise And thou shalt then be call'd of men repairer of the breach Restorer of the dwelling-paths so far thy fame shall reach HYMN 92. The vile bodies change Phil. 3.20 Mat. 24.31 OUR Conversation is in Heav'n from whence we do expect The Lord our Saviour Christ to come and gather his elect And he shall change our body vile how vile soever it is For to be fashion'd in a while a glorious one like his His mighty working power to shew whereby the Holy One Is able all things to subdue unto himself alone HYMN 93. Warning of Judgment by beginning at God's house 1 Pet. 4.17 THE time is come that Judgment must at God's own house begin And if it first attack the just what case are sinners in And if the righteous scarce go free from judgment so severe What shall the end of sinners be or where shall they appear Let him therefore that bears distress according to God's will Commit his soul in uprightness to God's protection still As knowing that he doth commit his Soul to him alone Who by his power created it and is the faithfull One. HYMN 94. Warning of the general dissolution 2 Pet. 3.9 THE Lord is not of promise slack as some men slackness call But is indeed long-suffering and patient towards all Not willing any should be lost but all should turn and live Because the day of Christ shall come and shall no warning give When Heaven shall pass away with noise the Elements melt with heat The Earth and all its works likewise burn up with fire so great Since all things then must be dissolv'd what manner of men should we With grace and godliness resolv'd in all points aim to be HYMN 95. Well approved hearers Jam. 1.25 vers 22. THE perfect law of liberty whoever looks into Continuing in it constantly the same to know and do Not being a forgetfull one but hearing with good heed To do the work that man alone is blessed in his deed Be doers of the word therefore and not as nothing else But hearers meerly and no more deceiving your own selves HYMN 96. Whirlwind of God's Wrath. Jer. 23.19 Rom. 1.18 BEhold a whirlwind of the Lord with fury over spread A grievous whirlwind falling hard upon the sinners head Because the wrath of God most high from Heaven is reveal'd Against lewd mens Iniquity that truth have so conceal'd Rom. 1.19 25. For that which may be known of God is manifest in them For God hath made it understood theâ—r doings to condemn Who chang'd the truth of God to lies and creatures did adore And the Creatour did despise who 's blest for evermore 26.28.32 The lusts therefore of vilest kind God gave them up unto And to
a Reprobated mind unseemly things to do Who knowing well God's Judgment just what death such men deserve Both do such things and please their lust in liking those that swerve To Father Son and Holy Ghost all glory be therefore As was and is to th' uttermost and shall be evermore HYMN 97. Winking at the times of ignorance Act. 17.30.1.7 Mat. 24.36 GOD winked at the times that were in former blindness spent But now are all men every where commanded to repent Because the Lord whose power 's no less hath set the day unknown To judg the world in righteousness by his appointed one Act. 17.31 Rom. 6.9 Whereof he hath sufficiently inform'd us all before By raising him miraculously from death to die no more To Father Son and Holy One be all the glory then As hath been done since time begun World without end Amen HYMN 98. Works Words and Thoughts for the Lord's-day All People c. Mark 2.27 Rev. 1.10 THIS is the day God made for man To Spiritualize a Christian This is the day upon record Whereof the Son of Man is Lord. Isa. 58.13.48.17 Lord make thy day my dear delight To think and speak and act aright For Thou alone art God most high That teachest us to edifie Ibidem Psal. 139. ult Thou art our guide and thou dost show The way wherein we ought to go Cause us to take the path most blest That leads to everlasting rest Heb. 4.9.3 For such a rest there doth remain For God's own People to obtain And all that are believers true Are sure to enter thereinto Rev. 4.13 All glory to the Holy One That sits upon the Sovereign Throne And to the Lamb of God therefore Be Praise and Honour evermore 2. PART 2 Thes. 3.1 Psal. 51.13 LORD give thy Gospel a free course And crown it with effectual force That converts may come in to Thee And Saints this day built up may be Col. 4.3 Rev. 3.8 John 5.25 A door of Utterance open Lord To him that speaks thy Holy Word A door of Entrance also give That thy dead men may hear and live Rev. 3.7 O thou that hast at thy command The Keys of David in thy hand Thou onely openest or canst shut Into whose hands those Keys are put Luke 24.45 Psal. 51.15 Open our hearts to apprehend The Scriptures which thy Prophets penn'd And open Lord our lips alwaies To make our mouth shew forth thy praise Rev. 4.13 All glory to the Holy One That sits upon the Sovereign Throne And to the Lamb of God most high Be given praise perpetually HYMN 99. Wrongs to be remitted or a Lesson of true Charity Mat. 18.21 Heb. 12.25 THUS Peter to our Saviour spake How oft O Lord said he Must I forgive my Brothers faults Till seven times must it be Our Saviour made him this reply I that do speak from Heaven Say not to thee till seven times but times full seventy seven For if ye pardon faults to men this Charity assures That God your heavenly Father then will also pardon yours But if ye do not from your heart forgive as ye should do Your heavenly Father will impart no pardon unto you Rev. 1.4 To God the Father and the Son and Holy Ghost therefore Be glory done as first begun and shall be evermore HYMN 100. Worldly CARES forbidden Mat. 6.31 25 32. O Take no thought solicitous what you shall eat or drink And wherewithall you should be cloth'd be never toyl'd to think Is not the life much more than meat the body than the cloaths And that your need of these is great your heavenly Father knows 26 28 29. The fowls that neither sow nor reap nor into Barns do gather Consider how they are supply'd by your celestial Father Think how in fields the Lilies grow that neither toyl nor spin Yet made that glory no such shew that Solomon liv'd in 30 25. And sure if God so cloath the grass cut down when at the heighth Shall he not then much more cloath you O ye of little faith Take ye therefore no thoughtfull care for present life I say What ye should eat or drink or wear for bodily array 32. 1 Pet. 5.7 Jude 25. For after all these things abroad the Gentiles do pursue But cast ye all your care on God for he takes care for you God onely wise our Saviour have all the glory then Dominion Majesty and Power both now and ever Amen 2. PART Phil. 4.6 Be carefull for no worldly thing but still in all distress Your Prayers and Supplications bring to God with thankfulness 7. And then the peace which God imparts past all that can be known Shall sweetly keep your minds and hearts through Christ the Holy One. Jude 25. God onely wise our Saviour have all the glory then Dominion Majesty and Power world without end Amen The end of the First Century The Second Century Hymn CI. Acclamations of Praise for Babylon's Fall. Rev. 14.8.16.5 NOW Babylon is fall'n and sunk drunk that City great in state Because she made the Nations with wine adulterate And Thou O Lord art righteous who art and alwaies wast And art to come most glorious for judging as thou hast 6 7. For thy Saints bloud hangs on the score thy Prophets bloud they shed And bloud to drink thou gav'st them store as they have merited Even so Lord God omnipotent we gladly do confess Thy Judgments are most eminent for truth and righteousness 19.3 1 7. Now Allelujah sing aloud Salvation Glory Fame Be given to the Lord our God and Honour to his Name Be glad in God for this just doom rejoyce and honour Him The Marriage of the Lamb is come his Wife hath made her trim HYMN 102. ALLELVJAH for the same Give laud c. Rev. 19.5 6. PRaise to our God proclaim O ye his Servants all And ye that fear his Name together great and small Allelu-jah For God supream with power doth reign and bears the sway 9.1 O they be ever blest that shall be call'd unto The Lambs great Marriage Feast These are God's words most true Allelu-jah Strength Glory Power and Fame to our Lord God alway 2. For thou hast powred forth thy wrath on that great whore That did corrupt the earth with all her acts impure And hast this day Aveng'd the flood of thy Saints bloâ—d Allelu-jah 11.15 The Kingdoms of this world are every one become The Kingdoms of our Lord and of his Christ his Son And he alway Shall reign on high with Majesty Allelu-jah HYMN 103. ALMS-DEEDS Isa. 32.8 Psal. 112.9 THE Just deviseth liberal things and by such things shall stand He hath disperst his Charity and with a liberal hand With honour and with dignity his horn shall sure be rais'd And these his deeds of piety for ever shall be prais'd 2 Cor. 9.6 Ecc. 11.1 For he that soweth liberally shall gather many a heap And he that soweth sparingly but sparingly shall reap Then on the waters cast thy bread it shall not be
in vain For when long times accomplished it shall be found again Prov. 19.17 For he that giveth to the poor doth lend unto the Lord And trusting him he shall be sure to have it all restor'd HYMN 104. Blessed Death Rev. 14.13 BLessed O blessed are the dead that in the Lord do die Thus hath the Spirit witnessed and most assuredly For from their toils that were extream they are in quiet reâ—â— Their works likewise do follow them to make them truly blest Isa 57.2 Thus shall they enter into peace and quiet rest possess In blessed beds each one of these that walk in uprightness HYMN 105. Blessings of Obedience Prov. 3.1 2 3. MY Son keep my Commandements forget not my decree For length of daies long life and peace shall these things add to thee Then let not truth and mercy kind forsake thee and depart About thy neck my Precepts bind and write them in thy heart 4. Chap. 2.5 6. So shalt thou find a good respect and understanding then Approved in the sight of God and in the sight of men Then shalt thou understand and know his wisedom and his fear For from his mouth doth wisedom flow and he gives knowledge clear 10 11.9 When Wisedom enters in thy heart and is thy souls delight Discretion shall preserve thee then and knowledge keep thee right Then righteousness shall readily by thee be understood Judgment likewise and equity and every path that 's good Mat. 25.29 Prov. 4.18 For unto every one that hath there shall be given more And he shall have abundant grace still to encrease his store For like unto the shining light is every good man's way Which more and more shines clear and bright unto the perfect day 2. PART Deut. 28.1 2 3 4. If thou shalt hearken diligently To all that God commands The Lord thy God shall set thee high above all other Lands And all these blessings shall come on and overtake thee soon The blessings of the Town and Field and blessings of the Womb. 5 6 27. The Lord shall bless thee mightily with Fruits upon thy Ground Thy Flocks of Sheep shall multiply thy Cattel shall abound The Lord shall take away from thee all sickness and disease And lay upon thee no such Plague as did on Egypt seize 7 12. The Lord shall smite thine enemies that rise up in thy sight One way against thee shall they rise and seven ways take their flight The Lord shall make the Heavens give rain in season on thy Land And prosper thee in all thy works which thou shalt take in hand 9. 1 Sam. 15.22 The Lord shall then establish thee A people of his praise If thou shalt keep to his decree and walk in all his waies For better is Obedience than Bullocks Goats and Lambs And hearkning to the will of God than all the fat of Rams HYMN 106. Blessings on the Mount or Blessed Qualifications Mat. 5.3 to the 10. BLessed O blessed are the poor the poor I say in spirit For they shall have the Kingdom sure of Heaven to inherit And blessed they that mourn and weep for they shall meet with mirth And blessed also are the meek for theirs is all the earth Blessed are they that hunger much and thirst for righteousness For God shall satisfie all such with comforts that refresh And blessed are the mercifull for God will shew them Grace And blessed are the pure in soul for they shall see his face Blessed are they that strive for peace to make men to accord For we must call all such as these the Children of the Lord. And blessed are the sufferers for love of righteousness Because a Kingdom shall be theirs in Heaven to possess HYMN 107. Call out of Babylon Have mercy c. Rev. 18.4 8. COme out of Babylon my people at my Call Lest for her sake ye should partake her sins and plagues withall Because her sins have reach'd unto the Heavens high And God doth find and call to mind all her iniquity Reward her to the full as she rewarded you And fill her cup twice double up as she was wont to do Look how much she hath been a proud Luxurious Liver So much inflict her torments strict and so much sorrow give her For thus within her heart I sit a Queen saith she No desolate poor widows state nor sorrow shall I see And therefore shall her plagues come on her in one day Famine and death and mournfull breath to make her pine away And she shall utterly be burnt with fire at length For God the Lord that doth reward and judge her hath such strength HYMN 108. Charities Qualifications 1 Cor. 13.4 5. LOng-suffering is Charity and most exceeding kind It envies not nor vaunts it self nor is puff'd up in mind Doth not unseemly bear it self it seeketh not its own Is not provoked easily and evil it thinks none 6 7 8. It Joys not in iniquity but in the truth takes joy Believes and bears indures and hopes in all things patiently And Charity fails not at all but Prophecies shall fail And Tongues shall cease and Knowledge fade but Love shall still prevail 13. And now do Faith and Hope abide and Charity these three But that which is most magnifi'd is Love and Charity HYMN 109. Chastisement Heb. 12.5 6. THE castigation of thy God my Son do not despise And when rebuked by his Rod faint not in any wise For whom he loves he never leaves without chastisement fit And every Son whom he receives must to his scourge submit 7 8. By his chastisement if he bleed Son-lâ—ke you have your lot For what Son is there whom indeed the Father chast'neth not But if ye no chastisement bear which all partake of here Then Bastards verily ye are and not his Children dear 11. And now indeed no chastening doth for the present seem A joyouâ— but a grievous thing as usually we deem But afterward it ne'rtheless doth yield us evidently The peacefull fruits of righteousness when exercis'd thereby HYMN 110. Christ his Benefits Eph 1.3 1 Cor. 1.30 BLessed be God that of his grace hath us so richly stor'd With spiritual gifts in heavenly place through Jesus Christ our Lord. Made to us wisedom righteousness and sanctifying grace Redemption also to possess the purchas'd heavenly place 2 Cor. 5.21 Joh. 14.6 Eph. 2.18 Made also to be sin for us who from all sin was free That we the perfect righteousness of God in Christ might be The way the truth and life he is and thoâ—ow him alone We by one Spirit have access unto the Holy One. Col. 3.11 Where there is neither Greek nor Jew nor Sex of great or small Barbarian Scythian bond or free but Christ is all in all 2 PART Rom. 8.1 2. There is no condemnation now to them that are in Christ Who by the Spirit walk with God not as by flesh entiâ—'d Because the Law of Spirit and Life which is in Christ our Lord Hath made us free from force of sin
and us from death restor'd 3. Gal. 4.4 1 Pet. 1.8 For when the Law was weak through Flesh and had no strength to save God sent his Son of Virgin-seed and him to us he gave Whom having never seen we love and through belâ—ef no less Rejoyce with joy unsâ—eakable and full of gloriousness Jude 25. Rev. 4.13 God onely wise our Saviour that on the Throne doth sit Have honour glory praise and power for ever so be it HYMN 111. Christ's Commission Mat. 10.1 8. WHenas our Lord had call'd his twelve he gave them power at large Against all Devils and Disease and thus he gave them charge Go heal the sick the Leaprous cleanse the dead men cause to live Cast Devils out your grant is free and therefore freely give 14 15 16. Whoso receives or heâ—rs you not it shall be far more ease For Sodom and Gomorrah's Land at judgment than for these Behold as Sheep in midst of Wolves I send you forth saith he The Serpents wisedom therefore use and Doves simplicity 2. PART Mat 28.18 19. Behold all power is given me in Heaven and Earth likewise Go therefore into all the world and Nations gospeâ—ize Baptize them in the Fathers Name in every Land and Coast And in the Name of God the Son and of the Holy Ghost 20. Rev. 19.16 Gal. 1.5 And teach them to observe and do whatever I command And I behold am now with you and while the world doth stand To Christ the King of Kings therefore and Lord of Lords most high Be praise and glory evermore to all eternity HYMN 112. Communion of Saints Heb. 12.22 23. NOW are we come to Sion Mount the City of abode The Heavenly Jerusalem where dwells the living God. To Hosts of Angels numberless and to th' assembly there The General Church of God's first born whose names in Heaven appear 24. Mat. 25.32 And unto God the Judge of all on whom the world must wait And to the Spirits of all just men made perfect in that State. To Jesus Mediatour of the covenant now made new Whoâ—e sprinkled blood speaks better things than Abelâ—s â—s blood could do Rev. 5.13 Blessing and glory and renown then give we altogether To him that on the Throne sits down and to the Lamb for ever HYMN 113. Confession of Christ. Mat. 10.32 Rom. 10.10 HIM that confesseth me to men will I saith Christ record And will acknowledge him agen before my heavenly Lord. For man believes to righteousness with humble heart alone And with the tongue doth man confess unto Salvation 1 Tim 3.16 This Mystery of Godliness is very great and high God manifested in the flesh the Spirit did justifie The blessed Angels saw his face his word the Gentiles heard Believ'd on in the world he was to God's right hand preferr'd HYMN 114. Confession of Sin. All People c. Heb. 1.13 Dan. 9.6 O Lord that art of purer eye than to behold iniquity We all have sinned we confess and have committed wickedness Isa. 59.12 Ezr. 9.6 Our trespasses against us show our sins we cannot chuse but know For they are swollen above our head and are unto the Heavens spread Luke 15.18 O Father we have grievously offended Thee that dwell'st on high Unworthy to be own'd therefore as thy dear Children any more Ezra 9.13 Ezek. 18.32 Yet hast thou never punish'd sin so much as our deserts have been Nor is the death of him that dies a matter pleasing in thine eyes Neh. 9.27 Ezek. 13.32 For thou art unto anger slow and dost with grace and mercy flow Thou art most ready to forgive therefore let us return and live HYMN 115. Confidence in God. O Lord consider c. Hab. 3.17 18. ALthough the fig-tree shall not spring although the Vine no grape shall yield The Olive fail her fruit to bring nor any food be in the field The flock be cut off from the fold no beasts can in the stalls be had Yet in the Lord my joyes shall hold in God my Saviour Iâ—le be glad HYMN 116. The Conquest All People c. Deut. 33.26 to the end THere is not one 'tis truly said like Jeshurun's great God on high Who rides on heaven for thy aid with excellency on the sky Th' eternal God thy refuge is his everlasting Arms thy stay He will thrust out thine enemies before thee saying kill and slay Then Isr'el shall dwell safe unmixt and on a Land of Corn and Wine There Jacob's Fountain shall he fixt the Heavens dropping on his Vine O happy Isr'el we record whom like to thee doth God advance O people saved by the Lord the shield of thy deliverance Thy excellency's Sword is he and all thy foes of forreign Powers Shall be found lyers unto thee and thou shalt tread on their high Towers HYMN 117. Conscience 2 Tim. 1.5 Prov. 4.23 Act. 21.16 THE end of all the Law is Love out of an heart unstain'd A conscience that we can approve and out of Faith unfeign'd Keep then your heart with diligence with all the care you can A Conscience void of all offence both towards God and Man. Heb. 10.22 2 Cor. 1.12 1 Joh. 3.21 And so draw near with upright heart with faith both full and sure Our Conscience cleans'd our Bodies wash'd with Baptism-water pure And our rejoycing shall be this our consciences attest For if our hearts condemn us not on God we boldly rest HYMN 118. Contentation Prov. 30.8 9. LORD give me neither poverty nor too abundant store Give me to live conveniently and I desire no more Not riches Lord too largely deal lest pride should be my bane Nor poverty lest I should steal and take God's Name in vain Phil. 4.11 12. Heb. 13.5 And teach me if my state be scant or if I fulness find To know how to abound or want with a contented mind And let my conversation still be void of covetousness For God hath said I never will forsake thee in distress HYMN 119. Covenant-Grace Give laud c. Isa. 55.1 2 3. HO all that thirst and pine come to the waters here And ye that have no coyn Come buy and eat good chear O Come I say Buy milk and wine without your coyn without your pay Why do ye money spend for that which is not bread And labour to no end not bâ—ing fill'd or fed Heark diligently And eat ye food both fat and good to your souls joy Incline your ear and come hear and your soul shall live And I will make you room and I to you will give My Covenant-grace The mercies sure which shall indure to David's race 2. PART Give laud c. Ezek. 36.25 Besprinkle you will I wiâ—h water that shall cleanse And I will purifie your conscience by this means from Idols then And all excess of filthiness I 'le make you clean 26. I will in you create a heart with grace refin'd I will regenerate the Spirit of your mind your heart of stone I will remove and make it prove a tender
one 27. My Spirit I will place within you and will cause That you shall by my grace walk in my Statute-Laws so that ye shall Observe with trust my judgments just and do them all 3. PART Give laud c. Heb. 10 11. And this shall be in sum the Cov'nant of my word Made good in daies to come to Isr'el saith the Lord My Laws will I Put in their hearts and inward parts effectually 12. And they shall all know me together great and small And gratious I will be to their offences all Their sins therefore And doings ill I never will remember more Jer. 32.40 My people then shall they be stil'd and I their God Nor will I turn away from doing of them good My fear shall be In them so put that they shall not depart from me 4. PART Jer. 50.5 They shall enquire the way with faces Sion-ward Come joyn ye shall they say in Covenant with the Lord such as shall bind Perpetually and never be put out of mind 32 39. And I will give them all one heart and way saith God And fear me then they shall for ever for their good Their good alwaies And of their Sons and little ones in after daies Ezek. 34.23 Zech. 14.9 One Shepherd I will place over my pasture stock A King of David's race and he shall feed my Flock Then shall there be One Lord alone and his name one in midst of thee HYMN 120. Counsel of Christ. Rev. 3.18 I Counsel thee to buy of me Gold tryed in the fire And white array to make thee rich and trim in thine attire That in this dress thy nakedness and shame may not appear With eye salve then anoint thine eyes to make thy eye-sight clear 19 20. All whom I love I do reprove with wholsome chastisement Be zealous therefore in my way and of thy sloth repent Behold how I most graciously stand at the door and knock If any man attend to me and will the door unlock 21 22. I will come in and sup with him and he with me alone And he that overcomes with me shall sit upon my Throne Who hath an ear now let him hear what things the Spirit saith Unto the Churches every where to keep them in their Faith. HYMN 121. CREED All People c. Or O Lord consider Gal. 1.8 1 Cor. 3.11 Eph. 2.20 SHould we another Gospel preach or if a glorious Angel durst Contrary to our Doctrine teach let him be holden as accurst Other foundation none can lay than what is laid to build upon Namely what Holy Scriptures say Christ that is made chief corner-stone Eph. 4.4 5. 1 Co. 8.7 Eph. 1.7 Ro. 4. ult 25. One Body and one Spirit free one hope whereto we have our Call One Lord one Faith one Baptism one God and Father of us all One Jesus Christ in whom we have redemption through his precious bloud Who dy'd for us from sin to save and rose to make th' assurance good Ro. 8.34 Jo. 2.3 Luk. 24.47 Act. 26.18 Heb. 1.3 Who by the word of his command made and upholds whatever is Who sits enthron'd at God's right hand and intercedeth there for his Repentance preached in his Name and free remission of our sin That we thâ— inheritance might claim among the Saints by faith in him Heb. 6.1 Act. 3.19 Mat. 24.35 Luk 1.45 The Resurrection of the Flesh and the eternal Judgment Day When Christ his Presence shall refresh and Heaven and Earth shall pass away Blessed are they that have believ'd for every thing and every word Shall be accomplish'd and atchiev'd that hath been spoken by the Lord. Deborah's Song Judg. 5.2 3. SIng praise O Israel to the Lord that hath avenged thee When as the people went to fight offering themselves so free Ye Kings give ear ye Princes hear I even I will sing And sweetly raise my voice in praise to Israel's mighty King. 8.6 7 10. My heart is towards the Governours that did their help afford Offering themselves so willingly wherefore bless ye the Lord. Ye travellers and passengers and ye that ride in state And ye that yet in judgment sit now speak it in the Gate 11.6 7. They that are freed from frightfull noise of Archers at the Well Shall oft rehearse God's righteous Acts his Acts to Israel The Passengers were wanderers in by-paths up and down And none could dwell in Israel but in a walled Town 2. PART 12 19. Awake awake O Deborah rise Barak sing a Song Abinoam's Son thy captives lead thy captives lead along There fought the Kings hard by the springs of great Megiddoes plain But brought away no prize nor prey to glory of their gain 30 20. Curse Meroz said God's Angel then curse Meroz bitterly That would not help the Lord against a potent Enemy But there were those against our foes that fought from Heaven that day The Stars in course did fight with force against keen Sisera 27 31. At Jael's feet he bow'd he fell he bow'd and fell down dead She smote and pierc'd his temples through and then cut off his head So perish those that are thy foes but Lord let all thy Lovers Be like the Sun when he at noon his brightest beams discovers HYMN 123. Diligence in Duties Phil. 2.12 2 Pet. 1.8 10. WORK out your own salvation with trembling and with fear That barren ye may neither be nor fruitless plants appear But use all circumspection that ye may so find out Your Calling and Election to make it out of doubt 5 6. Add to your Faith the Vertuous Path to Vertue Knowledge knit With this advance sweet Temperance and Patience joyn to it To Patience add true Piety with Piety express The Kindness that is Brotherly and Charitableness 5 10 11. Besides all this ye may not miss of Diligence in all For if ye do these things pursue then can ye never fall Opening a door of large extent by this devout behaviour Into the Kingdom permanent of Christ our Lord and Saviour HYMN 124. Dragon's Downfall Ye Children c. Rev. 12.10 11. NOW is salvation come abroad The strength and Kingdom of our God now hath his Christ extoll'd his might For the Accusers made to fall He that accus'd our Brethren all before our God both day and night And him they quell'd and overcame By the pure blood of Christ the Lamb and by their testimony true For by that double-edged Sword The witness of their faithfull word this enemy they overthrew 12. Nor did they spare their utmost breath Nor love their lives unto the death but boldly laid down all at stake Therefore ye Heavens lift up your voice And ye that dwell in them rejoyce in this Salvation to partake But woe to you to you O Sirs The Earth and Seas inhabiters guilty of our Accuser's Crime For Satan is come down to you Having great wrath because he knew he now must have but little time 11.17.7.10 12. We give thee thanks with one consent O Lord our God
If any sin we have on high an Advocate to qualifie Jesus the Just whose bloud was spilt to expiate our hainous guilt Rev. 5.13 Blessing and glory and renown to him that on the Throne sits down And to the Lamb of God therefore be praise and honour evermore HYMN 152. Mercies All People c. Mic. 6.18 to the end WHO is a God like unto thee that pardons all Iniquity And from their sins doth disengage the remnant of his heritage This wrath he doth not long excite for mercy is his dear delight He will return again he will and have compassion on us still Isa. 43.25 He will subdue our trespasses as drowned in the deepest Seas And for his own Name sake on high he blots them out of memory Thou wilt perform thy Truth and Grace to Abraham and Jacob's race As thou hast to our Fathers told and sworn it from the daies of old HYMN 153. Mercy and Terror mixt All People c. Nah. 1.2 JEalous is God's avenging eye the Lord avengeth furiously He will take vengeance on his foes and he reserveth wrath for those 3 Yet is the Lord to anger slow but of great power to overthrow And he will not at all acquit the wicked that repent no whit 6. Hab. 3.5 Before his fury who can stand who can abide his angry hand The Pestilence before him rolls beneath his feet are burning coals Nah. 1.5 The Mountains quake the Hills do melt when as his presence is but felt The earth is burnt at sight of him the world and all that dwell therein Isa. 14.27 Neh. 9.17 His judgments none can disanul but yet our God is mercifull Thine anger Lord is slow of pace thy kindness great and rich thy grace 2 PART All People c. Nah. 1.7 8. The Lord is good a Tower to his when as the day of trouble is And them that trust in him he knows but darkness shall pursue his foes 8.6 He will with over-running floud consume the Palaces that stood Like fire his fury poureth down the rocks by him are overthrown 9. Against him what do ye intend the Lord will make an utter end Affliction for so great a crime shall not rise up the second time 10. Folden as thorns although they be and drunken with prosperity They shall be very suddenly devour'd as stubble fully dry 15. O Judah keep thy solemn feasts thy Mountains bring good news of peace No more shall sinners pass through thee but utterly cut off shall be HYMN 154. Merit disclaimed Luk. 17.10 Phil. 2.13 WHen you have done the best ye can say thus with humble thought Unprofitable Servants all we do but what we ought For it is God that works in you he works both will and deed And of his meer good pleasure too doth all your power proceed Eph. 2.8 9. Chap. 3.21 And ye are sav'd by grace through faith wrought by the Holy Ghost Not of your selves nor of your works lest any man should boast To him let all the Church therefore ascribe with one accord All praise and honour evermore through Jesus Christ our Lord. HYMN 155. Moral Precepts Prest with Arguments Mic. 6.8 Psal. 37.28 Col. 3.25 THe Lord hath shewed thee O man what God requires as good Do justly love compassion walk humbly with thy God. Because the Lord loves equity his Saints he will not leave And he that deals injuriously shall suitably receive Mat. 5.7 Jam. 2.13 Luk. 14.11 And mercy to the mercifull the Lord will still express But Judgment shall with rigour fall upon the merciless And God doth still resist the proud but gives the humble grace Self-humbling then shall honour men self-honouring shall abase 2. PART Jam. 5.12 Eph. 4.25 Rev. 21.8 Swear not by heaven nor by earth nor any oath at all Lest into condemnation by such offence ye fall Put Lyes away and speak the Truth for every wilfull Lyer Must sure partake of that broad Lake which burns with brimstone-fire Rom. 13.13 Heb. 12.14 Shun surfeiting and drunkenness and do not lead your Life In chambering and wantonness in envy or in strife And ever follow peace withall and holiness together Without which grace there 's no man shall behold God's face for ever 3. PART Eph. 4.31 29. Rom. 12.21 All malice wrath and bitterness and clamour put away And be not overcome with ill but let the good bear sway And let no talk come from your mouthâ— corrupt in any case But such as serves to edifie and teach the hearers grace Eph. 5.3 4. But fornication avarice and what pollutes or taints Amongst you let not once be nam'd as it becometh Saints Nor filthiness nor foolish talk nor unbeseeming jests Which things are not convenient but rather thankfulness 4. PART Rom. 12.10 15. Eph. 2.4 Gal. 6. By kind affection mutually the Love of Brethren keep Rejoyce with them that do rejoyce and weep with them that weep And heed not your own things alone but each for other care And to fulfill the Law of Christ each others burden bear Rom. 12.16 Mat. 7.1 2. Mind not high things but condescend to men of low estate And be not wise in your own eyes puff'd up with self-conceit And judge not that you be not judg'd for as you mete to men Accordingly shall God reply and deal to you agen 5. PART Mat. 7.12 Rom. 13.7 Chap. 12.17 T. 3.2 1 Thes. 4.7 Do as you would be done unto and give to all their right Of no man ever speak amiss not ill with ill requite Let none defraud or go beyond his brother any way For God avengeth all such things and will the wrong repay Jam. 5.9 Joh. 7.24 Phil. 4.5 Rom. 14.4 And Brethren let no one of you against another grudge Nor judge ye by appearances but righteous judgment judge And let your moderation be manifest to all The Lord our Master is at hand to whom we stand or fall 6. PART Eccles. 5.4 5. Heb. 13.16 When thou hast vow'd a vow to God defer not then to pay For God hath no delight in Fools that mock him with delay And to do good and distribute forget ye in no wise For God is pleas'd exceedingly with such like sacrifice Phil. 4.8 1 Cor. 4.5 And all things honest just and true and such as sweetly please For vertue praise and good report think on such things as these Until the secrets of all hearts be publish'd all abroad And then shall every one of us have his due praise of God. HYMN 156. More spiritual Precepts Prov. 3.5 6. Mat. 22.37 1 Thes. 5.15 16. TRust in the Lord with all thy heart love him with all thy might In all thy ways acknowledge him and make him thy delight Pursue good things rejoycing still and pray continually Quench not the Spirit any way despise not prophecy Walk after God's Commandements fear him obey his Voice Rejoyce in him continually and still I say rejoyce Rom. 12.11 Heb. 12.28 Joh. 6.27 With fervent spirit serve the Lord and having grace draw
THUS saith the Lord of Hosts but yet a little while And I will shake all Coasts yea every Land and Isle Yet once again I shake all these heav'n earth and seas and all the main 7. All Nations I will shake the Long desired day Which doth all Nations take loe that shall come I say And for all Coasts This house I will with glory fill saith God of Hoasts 9. The glory of this last far greater shall it grow Than of the Temple past the Lord of Hosts saith so And in this place Will I the Lord of Hosts afford sweet peace and grace Zach 4.6 7. H. 2.22 Yet not by might nor power but by my Spirit alone Saith God of Hosts our Tower The strength of all in one For who art thou O Mountain great the Empires seat to hinder now Zach. 4.7 Before Zerubbabel thou shalt become a plain The stone that doth excell The head-stone of the same His hand shall fit And bring it out with general shout grace grace to it 9. Hag. 2.22 The hand of that same Man that laid the ground-work low Shall end what he began and I will overthrow The Heathen Kings Who then are they that slight the day of smaller things HYMN 172. Regeneration Joh. 3.5 Gal. 6.15 EXcept a man be born again of water and the spirit He cannot any way attain salvation to inherit For circumcision serveth none the priviledge is small Nor serves uncircumcision but a new creature 's all 2 Cor. 5.17 Jam. 1.18 Behold a man in Christ therefore and a new creature view Old things are past and come no more and all things are made new By his own will and word hath he wrought our regeneration A kind of first ripe fruit to be of all his whole Creation HYMN 173. Repentance Isa. 59.1 2. GOD's arm is never shortened but it can reach to save His ear not dull or wearied to hear us what we crave But from you do your sins divide your God that was so near And cause the Lord his face to hide so that he will not hear Ezek. 18.13 2 Cor. 30.9 Lay therefore your transgressions by repent and turn saith he And so your great iniquity your ruin shall not be Because the Lord is full of grace ready to pardon sin And will not hide away his face if ye return to him Luke 15.7 10. One sinner that returns agen makes Angels joy exceed More than do ninety nine just men that no repentance need 2. PART Jer. 3.13 1 Joh. 1.9 Acknowledge how ye have transgrest against the Lord your God And only let it be confest what by-paths ye have trod For if we do our sins confess faithfull and just is he From sin and all unrighteousness to cleanse and set us free Prov 28.13 Joel 2.13 Neh. 9.17 Ez. 18.32 For he that hides his sins shall fall they prosper but a space But to confess and leave them all shall with the Lord find grace For he is unto anger slow and ready to forgive And doth abundant kindness show wherefore return and live Exod. 34.7 For he reserves compassion for thousands that come in Remitting all transgression iniquity and sin 3. PART Isa. 55.6 7. Seek ye the Lord unfeignedly now while he may be found Oh call on him while he is nigh with mercies that abound Oh let the wicked leave his Lusts the way that sinners take And let the man unrighteous his sinfull thoughts forsake Chap. 1.18 And turn again unto the Lord while mercy now takes place And to our God so richly stor'd with guifts ef pardoning Grace For though your sins were crimson-like as red as scarlet full I saith the Lord will make them white as white as snow or wool Rev. 1.5 6. To him that thus hath loved us and washt off all our score With that pure floud of his own bloud be praise for evermore HYMN 174. Reproach for Christ and Imitation of him 1 Pet. 4.14 16. IF that ye be reproacht for Christ happy are ye and blest The Spirit of God and glory great upon your souls shall rest On their parts he 's ill spoken of but glorifi'd on yours Therefore let no man be asham'd that Christianly endures Mat. 5.11 12. Blessed are ye when men revile and speak each evil word Against you falsly for the sake of Christ your Sovereign Lord. Rejoyce and be exceeding glad considering the reward How great it is in heaven above for suffering Saints prepar'd 2. PART Phil. 2.5 7. Let that good mind be in you all that was in Christ our Lord Who being in the form of God the true eternal Word Yet made himself of no repute to death did condescend And came not to be tended on but to observe and tend Phil. 2.9 10. Heb. 9.28 Therefore God gave to him a Name above all Names most high That every knee should bow to him and every tongue comply Who came to take our sins away once by his own oblation And shall appear the second time without sin to salvation HYMN 175. Resurrection All People c. or O Lord consider c. 1 Cor. 15.20 21 22. NOW Christ is risen from the dead as whom no bands of death could keep And is to be acknowledged as the first fruits of those that sleep For as by man came death to raign so by a man to rise again And as by Adam all men die by Christ came immortality Col. 3.1 2 3 4 If ye be risen then with Christ set all your heart on things above And be not any way intic'd on earthly things to set your love For ye are dead to things abroad and your life hid with Christ in God When Christ who is our Life appears ye must shine with him in the Spheres HYMN 176. Revenge forbidden Rom. 12.19 Luke 6.27 Mat. 5.44 DEAR Saints avenge not your own selves nor let fierce wrath incense For vengeance saith the Lord is mine and I will recompense Love ye your very enemies and them that curse you bless Do good to them that use you ill with hate and spightfulness 45. And people persecuting you curse not but bless them rather That ye may be the children true of your celestial Father For he doth cause his rain to fall and lets his Sun to rise On good and bad in general just and unjust likewise HYMN 177. Sabbath Isa. 58.13 IF from my holy Sabbath-day thou turn away thy foot And do not by thy pleasures stray my Sabbath to pollute But call the Sabbath a delight the holy of the Lord And thine own carnal pleasure slight in thought in deed and word 14. Then shalt thou joy in God alone with sweet and sacred mirth And he shall make thee ride upon high places of the earth With Father Jacob's heritage the Lord shall feed thee fat For thus doth God's own mouth engage and thou mayst trust to that HYMN 178. Sacrament of the Supper Cant. 1.1 2. Chap. 2.5 LET those life-breathing lips of thine be joyn'd O Christ to me
Because thy love excelleth wine and all thy Saints love thee With flagons of refreshing joy and comforts from above Stay me O stay me powerfully for I am sick of Love 2.4.3 Into the house of Banqueting he brought me to be fed Love was his banner flourishing with honour o're my head Beneath his shadow I was plac'd with very great content His fruit was sweet unto my tast his Word and Sacrament 5.1 O friends said he preferr'd on high eat well of my good chear And drink yea drink abundantly my guests to me most dear 2 PART Cant. 5.16 2 Cor. 5.20 My Saviour my beloved one is mine and I am his Chief of Ten Thousand he alone pure red and white he is Made sin for us that knew no sin that so we might be made The righteousness of God in him by whom the price was paid Cant. 8.7 Chap. 1.4 Stronger than death his love is found not to be bought with goods Nor quench'd with waters nor be drown'd with whatsoever floods O draw me my dear Saviour with those strong cords of Love And then will we go after thee as fast as we can move 2 3. We will record thy Love O Lord above the joy of Wine The Virgins fair that spotless are do love thy Name Divine 3 PART 1 Cor. 5.7.11 Loe Christ is sacrific'd for us our Passeover from Heaven Now therefore let us keep the feast not with old lumps of Leaven Not with the Leaven of wickedness or Leaven of malice led But keep it with sincerity and truths unleavened bread Chap. 11.29 28. Who eat and drink unworthily their own damnation earn Because they want a spiritual eye his body to discern Our hearts with care examined let us be stirred up To eat of this coelestial bread and drink this sacred cup. 26. To eat this bread and drink this cup holds forth a Saviour slain So often as we celebrate until he come again 4 PART 1 Cor. 10.16 The cup of blessing which we bless is it not understood The sweet communion to express of Christ our Saviour's blood The bread we break the Holy Loaf do we not all accord To call it the Communion of the body of our Lord 17. For we though many are one bread and in one body joyn For all of us are joyntly fed with that one bread divine The living bread is he on high that down from heaven came And he shall live and never dye that eateth of the same Mat. 26.28 The bloud of the new Testament we sweetly tast herein Which was for us and many spent for pardon of our sin 5. PART 1 Joh. 4.10 Chap. 5.6 Herein is love not ours to God but his to us most large In sending down his onely Son our great debts to discharge Lo this is he that came to us by water and by bloud And not by one of them alone but both waies to our good Joh. 17.17 Acts 13.39 Therefore he sanctified himself to lead us into truth That he thereby might sanctifie us also as he doth By whom we may be justify'd from sins both great and small From which set free we could not be by Moses Laws at all 1 Thes. 1.10 He sav'd us from the wrath to come at that most dreadfull day And was so good to shed his bloud to wash our sins away 6. PART Mat. 21.9 Rev. 5.9 Hosanna to King David's Son Hosanna to the Christ That in th' Almighty's Name doth come Hosanna in the High'st For thou wast slain and art alive redeeming us to God From every Nation Kingdom Tongue by thy most precious bloud 1 Pet. 1.18 1 Thes. 1.10 Rev. 1.5 Corruptive things as silver is and gold redeem'd us not But the dear bloud of Christ our Lord a Lamb without a spot Even Jesus Christ who saved us from storms of future wrath Whose love to wash our sins away made his own bloud the bath 5.13 To him that on the Throne sits down and Christ the Lamb therefore Be blessing glory and renown and power for evermore HYMN 179. Salvation Shining Tit. 2.11 12. GOD's grace that brings salvation hath shone to every eye Teaching us worldly lusts to shun and all impiety And that we should live soberly and in a godly way With righteousness and equity while in this world we stay 13 14. That blessed hope still looking for and glorious drawing near When that great God our Saviour Christ Jesus shall appear Who freely gave himself for us for our dear sakes to dye That we might be redeemed thus from all iniquity 1 T. 6.17 Rev. 5.13 To purifie to his own Name from whom this grace proceeds A people of peculiar claim and zealous of good deeds Unto the King of Kings therefore that on the Throne doth sit Be honour glory praise and power for ever so be it HYMN 180. Sanctification Eph. 5.14 Chap 4.17 18. AWaken thou that sleep'st in sin and stand up from the dead And Christ shall let his light break in whereby thou shalt be led Then walk not as some Gentiles walk in vanity of mind Estranged from the life of God because their hearts were blind 19 20 21. Who being past the sense of sin let loose to all excess Of wanton and unclean desires and that with greediness But ye have not so learned Christ if ye by him were taught And as the truth in Jesus is have learnt him as ye ought 22. Chap. 5.11 The old man that ye do put off which is corrupt and vile In sinfull Lusts of former life which did your souls beguile And have no fellowship at all with works that shun the light But rather such unfruitfull works reprove in open sight 2 PART Eph. 4.24 23. Chap. 5.8.11 Cast off the old man with his deeds and put ye on the new Made after God in righteousness and holiness most true And be renew'd in heart and soul and walk as sons of light And prove what things the Lord allows as pleasing in his sight 2 Tim. 2 19 22 21. Rom. And as 't is meet let every one that names the Name of Christ Depart from all iniquity and by no lust be tic'd The purging of our selves from these will evidently produce Vessels to honour sanctify'd meet for the Masters use Rom. 6.22 1 Tim. 1.17 And being thus from sin made free God's Service to attend The fruit to holiness shall be eternal Life the end Now to the true eternal King not seen with humane eye Th' immortal onely wise true God be praise perpetually HYMN 181. Scriptures Joh. 5.39 SEarch Scriptures for ye hope thereby eternal Life to have And those are they that testifie of him that came to save Rom. 15.4 For what of old is registred was for our learning penn'd That we by Scriptures comforted might hope unto the end 2 Pet. 1.21 The prophesie came not of old by mans own private will But holy men of God foretold by Heaven-inspired skill Isa. 8.20 Then to the Law and Testament for they that speak not right And
as this word doth represent in them there is no light 2 Tim. 3.16 17. For Scriptures sacred verities came all by inspiration Able to perfect and make wise in all things to salvation HYMN 182. Secret reveal'd 1 Cor. 2.7 8 14. GOD's wisedom in a mystery we speak to perfect men But not the wisedom of this world nor what is known to them For man while merely natural receives not what we press The things of God spiritual he counteth foolishness Prov. 24.7 Mark 4.11 Too hard for him to know or learn for natural men too high And such as nothing can discern but a spiritual eye But unto you dear Saints it is touching the things of heaven To know that Kingdom 's Mysteries to them it is not given 2 PART John 1.18 No man hath seen Almighty God since first the world began He that in heaven hath blest abode declar'd him unto man The onely and begotten Son of God the Holy One Did from the Fathers bosome come to make this Doctrine known John 3.32 Jude 25. Attesting what he saw and heard yet faith appear'd in few But whosoever believes his Word hath seal'd that God is true To God our Saviour onely wise be all the praise therefore Dominions Thrones and Dignities Amen for evermore HYMN 183. Secrets unreveal'd Rom. 12.3 Deut. 29 29. BE wise unto sobriety as God hath given faith And dealt to each man diversly the measure that he hath The secret things that are decreed belong to God alone But to our selves and to our seed the things that are made known 1 Tim. 6.17 Now to the blessed Prince of might the chief of Kings and Lords Who onely dwells in endless light which no access affords Whom no man can behold and see nor ever did see yet To him all praise and glory be for ever so be it HYMN 184. Souls under the Altar Give laud c. Rev. 6.10 HOw long O Lord how long thou holy one and true Ere thou avenge our wrong and judge with judgment due Them that have spilt Our blood on earth and pouâ—'d it forth with hainous guilt Luke 18.7 8. And shall not the most High avenge his own Elect Which night and day do câ—y and pray to that effect Though he bear long I tell you he will speedily avenge their wrong Rom. 8.36 Psal. 44.23 24. But we are killed thus all day for thy dear sake As sheep they count of us which they for slaughter take O God arise Why dost thou yet our griefs forgeâ— and our sad cries 2 Thes. 1.6 7. But with the Lord ye know the thing is just and due To render wrath and woe to them that trouble you But ye that thus Afflicted are shall surely share sweet peace with us 8. When Christ shall come abroad in flaming fire from Heaven And they that know not God shall have their portion given Of Vengeance meet Because that they would not obey his Gospel sweet HYMN 185. Spiritual Shepherds Acts 20.28 1 Pet. 5.4 TAKE heed you Shepherds to your charge to feed with wholsome food The flock which God hath purchased with his own precious bloud And the chief Shepherd coming down from heaven at his great day Shall crown you with a glorious Crown that never fades away Zach. 11.17 But to the Idol Shepherd woe a Sword will God assign To cleave his arm and his right eye that leaves the flock to pine 〈◊〉 arm to nothing withered â—lean dryed up shall be And his right eye so darkened as not at all to see HYMN 186. Strait Gate Mat. 7.13 14. O Enter at the narrow Gate for wide is that of sin And broad the way that leads astray and many go therein Because the Gate to life is strait and all the way thereto Is as I say a narrow way and they that find it few Luke 13 24 30. Strive then to hit the narrow Gate the right way to attain For not a few I say to you shall seek and seek in vain And there are first that prove the worst and last that first prepare For in this world are many call'd but few elected are HYMN 187. Suffering and Self-denial Mat 10.34 21. THink not saith Christ that I am come to send all peace on earth But through malicious minds of some a Sword must I send forth The Father shall the Son betray the Daughter her own Mother Brethren shall Brethren seek to slay set one against another 26 30 28. Yet fear not men in these affairs nor have them in such dread For God hath numbred all the hairs that grow upon your head Who kill the body fear not them that then no more can do But him that can to Hell condemn both soul and body too 2. PART Mat. 10.39 38. Luke 14.27 33. He that doth find his life shall be at loss of it thereby And he that loseth it for me shall find it gainfully And he that leaves not all to loss to follow after me Nor for my sake takes up his Cross my follower cannot be Mark 10.29 30. But whoso laies down all at stake forsaking Friends and Lands For me and for my Gospel sake to follow my commands An hundred fold shall he regain although with persecution And afterwards a life obtain that fears no dissolution HYMN 188. Temptations succoured Heb. 4 15. SUCH an High Priest we have not now as is not touch'd at all With sense of such infirmities as on his Saints do fall But suffered such temptations as we our selves fall in And was in all points like to us but yet excepting sin Chap. 2.18 1 Cor. 12.13 Isa. 40.31 In suffering such temptations the tempted he can aid And no temptation taketh you But what on Saints is laid But God is faithfull verily who will not suffer you To be assail'd above the strength which ye shall still renew But will in all temptations provide and order so That ye may have a way to scape and strength to undergo HYMN 189. The Tree good Prov. 21.27 Mat. 7.16 18. THE sacrifice of wicked men is hatefull to the Lord And offred with a wicked mind is then much more abhor'd For figs of thistles cannot grow nor grapes of thorns be had A bad tree cannot bear good fruit nor yet a good tree bad Chap. 12.35 33. From the good treasure of the heart good men bring forth good things And from the evil treasury bad fruit the bad man brings Now therefore let the tree be good the fruit will then be so And make the tree an evil one the fruit the same will show 3.10 And now 's the Ax laid to the root and therefore every tree That brings not forth good wholsome fruit cut down for fire shall be HYMN 190. Trinity 1 Joh. 1.7 Joh. 6.57 Luke 11.13 THree witnesses there are above and all these three are one The Father Son and sacred Dove one Deity alone The living Father sent the Son who by the Father lives And unto them that ask of him the Holy Ghost
canst She is of all things principal and most to be advanc'd Of greater price than pearls and all desired treasure Her paths and ways have all the praise of perfect peace and pleasure 18 14 16 18. A tree of life to them upon her that lay hold Her Merchandise of greater price than silver or than gold Her right hand length of days her left bears wealth and honour And happy he who e're he be that lays fast hold upon her HYMN 197. Word preached All people c. 2 Cor. 10.4 Heb. 4.12 THe weapons of our warfare here have nothing carnal plac'd therein But mighty thorow God they are to pull down all strong holds of sin God's Word is such a powerfull one sharper than any two-edg'd sword It parts the marrow from the bone and is an heart-discerning Word 1 Pet. 2.2 Jam. 1.20 Then shunning guile and malice lewd envy reproach hypocrisie As babes new born desire the food of God's pure Word to grow thereby And let us set all sins apart with meekness to receive and have God's Word ingrafted in our heart which is of power our souls to save 2. PART Work of mercy magnifi'd or The second part of mercies forgot to be inserted in its due place 2 Cor. 7.13 If I shut heaven saith the Lord or leave the Land to be devour'd By Locusts or if I dispence some drought or dreadfull pestilence If then my People whom I grace with my great name shall seek my face Humble themselves and joyntly pray And turn them from their evil way Then will I hear in heaven high and pardon their Iniquity Most graciously I will forgive and heal the land wherein they live Jam. 2.13 Psal. 136.1 Thus mercy with triumphant voice against strict judgment doth rejoyce O thank the Lord of Heav'n therefore whose mercies last for evermore HYMN 198. Worker of Grace 2 Cor. 3.5 Phil. 2.12 WE have not the sufficiency and power of our own To think so much as one good thought as of our selves alone But all our whole sufficiency doth of the Lord proceed Who works in us most graciously both the desire and deed Jam. 1.17 Rom. 9.16 For every good and perfect gift proceeds from God above With whom there is no varying nor shadow of remove It is not then of him that wills nor him that runs the race But all our good on us distils from God that sheweth Grace Jude 24 25. To God therefore the only wise our Saviour strength and stay Be Thrones Dominions Dignities for evermore we pray HYMN 199. World and the Church 1 John 5.19 WE know we are of God most high for we are born of him And this whole world most generally lies soaking in their sin And lo the Son of God is come and we the same have known And he hath thus instructed us to know the faithfull one 20. Rev. 5.13 And we are in him that is true in Jesus Christ his Son This is the true God known to you and endless life begun Blessing and power and praise therefore to him be altogether That sits upon the sacred Throne and to the Lamb for ever HYMN 200. Zealous Ejaculations at Evening or Bed-time Give laud c. Psal. 31.6 Rev. 1.5 MY spirit O God do I into thy hands commit Lord God of Verity Thou hast redeemed it Thy grace so good Washt off our sin and bath'd us in our Saviour's blood Psal. 141.2.51.12 Mic. 7.19 Now let my prayers be as incense in thine eyes And hands up-lift to Thee as th' evening Sacrifice O cleanse my heart My sins subdue and still renew my inward part Rom. 14.8 That whiles I draw this breath I may live up to Thee And when I die the death to Thee Lord it may be That live or die Whatever time I may be thine perpetually Psal. 4.8 Rev. 1.4 And now my lying down shall be both sweet and sure For thou O Lord alone my dwelling dost secure All glory then To Father Son and Holy one forever Amen The End of the Second Century THE Third and Last Century OF CHAPT HYMNS Newly Translated HYMN 201. The Covenant of Grace entred to Abraham All people or O Lord consider c. Gen. 17.1.15.5 THus said the Lord to Abraham Lo I the Lord Almighty am Walk thou before me for thy part Sincere and with a perfect heart And covenant with thee will I And with thy seed successively Number the Stars and thou shalt tell The Summ whereto thy seed shall swell And he believed in the Lord Relying on his faithfull Word And it was counted unto him For Righteousness to trust therein So all that are of faith indeed Are blest with Abraham as his seed To Abraham's God be praise therefore From first to last for evermore HYMN 202. The Test to the Covenant All people c. Deut. 26.16 THis day the Lord commandeth thee Obedient to his Laws to be Keep them therefore in every part With all thy soul and all thy heart Thou hast avoucht the Lord this day To be thy God To keep his way His Statutes Laws and Judgments choice And still to hearken to his voice And God this day avoucheth thee His own peculiar stock to be As his most gracious promise stands That thou shouldst keep all his commands To Israel's God be praise therefore From first to last for evermore And let all faithfull people then Say cheerfully Amen Amen HYMN 203. The Song of Moses the man of God commanded to be learnt by heart of all Israel Deut. 32. to 44. v. Moses's Title Psalm 90. To the Tune of the Ten Commandments GIve ear O heavens from on high and I will speak this present day And hear O Earth attentively the awfull words which I shall say My doctrine shall drop down as showers my speech as dew shall gently pass And as small rain on herbs and flowers and as the showers upon the grass Because I will this day proclaim and publish fully all abroad The Lord our God's Almighty Name ascribe ye greatness to our God. He is the Rock his work 's compleat and all his ways just judgment be A God of truth without deceit exactly just and right is He. 2. PART v. 5. They are corrupt they bring a blot upon themselves of foul disgrace Their spot is not his Childrens spot they are a cross and crooked race Requite ye thus the Lord most high ye foolish people Is not He Thy Father dear that did thee buy hath he not made and stablisht thee Remember now the days of old the years of ages long ago Thy Father ask thou shalt be told and ask thine Elders they shall show When the most high did first divide inheritances unto men And separated far and wide all Adam's Sons as he did then He set the people bounds compleat but chiefly one that did excell According to the Number great of all his people Israel 3. PART v. 9. For lo the Portion of the Lord is Israel whom he doth advance And Jacob's house
the dust and lifts the beggar from the dungil base Sets them with Princes in high place of trust t' inherit thrones of glory in their place For Earths strong Pillars God alone doth own them And He hath stablisht all the World upon them He will preserve the feet of all his Saints as for the wicked silent they shall be In utter darkness where are sad restraints from light and comfort in the least degree For by the strength of man mans sole indeavour Shall no man in the World prevail for ever The Adversaries of the Lord shall be broken in peices by his power put forth Thunder upon them out of heaven shall He the Lord shall judge the ends of all the Earth He shall give strength unto his king appointed And will exalt the Horn of his anointed Let Israel's God that is the Lord most high be ever blest and magnifi'd therefore And let the whole Earth universally be fill'd with his renown for evermore And let the people rich and poor together Say all Amen and praise the Lord for ever HYMN 205. The Change. Job 14.1 MAN that is of a woman born hath but few daies on Earth And with continual trouble worn even from his very birth He comes up as a flower that dies and is cut down freightway And shadow-like he flits and flies and keeps no constant stay Untill therefore the utmost date and full appointed summ Of all my daies here will I wait untill my change shall come HYMN 206. Seeking God betimes All People c. Job 8.5.22 23. IF thou wouldst seek to God betimes and to th' Almighty prayers would'st make If thou wert pure and free from crimes then would the Lord for thee awake Prosperity should still befall thy Habitation blest with peace Though thy beginning were but small thy latter end should much increase Return thou then to God most high and He shall build thee up full sure And put away INIQUITIE far from thy House and be secure HYMN 207. God's expostulation with Job All People c. Job 40.6 THEN unto Job God answer made Out of the Whirl-Wind and He said Gird up thy Loyns now like a man And answer my demands who can Wilt thou my judgment disanull Wilt thou condemn me as more full More full of righteousness than I Hast thou a stem like God most high Or canst thou thunder all allowd Like Him that rules the ratling Cloud Deck now thy self with Eminence Of Majesty and Excellence Array thy self in glory bright And beauty which is exquisite Cast thou abroad in every path Cast thou the tokens of thy wrath Look upon every man that 's proud And mask him with a dreadfull Cloud Blast all the proud with foul disgrace Tread down the wicked in their place Hide them in dust at once to dye And bind their faces secretly And then will I confess to thee Thine own right hand thy help can be HYMN 208. Job's Answer To the Tune of the Ten Commandments Job 42.1 THen answered Job to God and said I know thou canst do every thing And there 's no thought can be convey'd Or hid from thy DISCOVERING Who 's this that doth his counsel hide and void of knowledge as do I I utter'd words exceeding wide things that I knew not and too high Lord I beseech thee hear thou me and I will speak with awfull care Instruction I must ask of thee and unto me do thou declare I heard of thee by hear-say Lord but now I see thee and relent Yea and I have my self abhorr'd in dust and ashes I repent HYMN 209. Man's mortality minded To the Tune of the Ten Commandments Isa. 2. ult CEase ye from man whose fading breath Is in his Nostrils near to death For wherein is he since the fall To be accounted of at all Psal. 39.9.144.3 Man flourishing in all his wealth Is like to vanity it self His days are as a slitting shade Which dayly doth decline and fade Psal. 90.12 Eccl. 11.8.12.1 Lord teach us how to count aright Our days that have so long a night That we thereby may bring our heart To wisdom and betimes convert HYMN 210. A Vine-yard of Red Wine Isa. 27.2 A Vineyard of red sparkling wine Sing to her in that day I saith the Lord do keep that Vine I water it alway Lest any hurt it I stand by to keep it day and night And there is in me verily no fury to affright But who would set the thorns and briers against Me in aray I would go through with flames and fires and burn them up streightway Or let him on my strength take hold and make his peace with Me And if he seek it as he should we surely shall agree And God shall cause all Jacob's Race to take effectual root Blossome and bud and fill the face of all the world with fruit Let Israel's God the Lord most high be ever blest therefore From first to last perpetually Amen for evermore HYMN 211. Debate in measure Isa. 27.7 DID ever God smite Israel as He hath smote his foes Or hath it been with slaughter keen as God hath smitten those In measure when it shooteth forth He shall therewith debate He staies th' unkind rough Eastern Winde when storms are at the height By this therefore shall Jacob's House be purg'd and cleans'd within And all the fruit of this pursuit to take away his sin Let Israel's God the Lord most high be ever blest therefore And people then say all Amen Amen for evermore HYMN 212. Commands for comfort Where righteousness c. Isa. 40.1 O Comfort Comfort Ye my people all of them Speak comfortably as may be unto Jerusalem Say to her saith your God now ends her Warfare here Her sins are as a darksome cloud which God doth fully clear For now receiv'd hath she in Gods so kind account A payment double in degree to what her sins amount And I will saith the Lord take off her heavy score And never at all will I record her trespass any more Jacob's sadness cheer'd All People c. Isa. 40.27 WHY do'st thou Jacob speak and say Hid from the Lord is my sad way My judgment also undertrod Is passed over from my God Hast thou not heard hast thou not known That God the everlasting one Creator of the Earths far ends No weariness nor fainting spends His understanding none can search He giveth power to his faint Church And unto them that have no might He raiseth strength unto the height The youths shall faint as wearied all The young men utterly shall fall But they that on the Lord do wait Shall have their strength renewed streight They shall mount up on Eagles wings And run as do the nimblest things Of weariness make no complaint But they shall walk and shall not faint HYMN 214. Love engraven Isa. 49.14 BUT Sion said so sad was she The Lord hath quite forsaken me And now the Lord hath me forgot As one whom he remembreth not What can
above I surely will record According to his gifts most free and loving kindness show'd With love and liberalitie on Jacob's house bestow'd According to his grace renew'd which at his hands we find According to the multitude of his compassions kind For sure said he they are my flock children that will not lie Therefore he was their saving Rock in their adversity In all their grievances that were himself was grieved sore And th' Angel of his presence there preserv'd them evermore He in his love and pity then redeem'd his flock and fold He bare them and he carried them even all the daies of old 2. PART v. 10. But they rebell'd and vexed so his holy Spirit of might That he was turn'd to be their foe and did against them fight Then thought he on those ancient days Moses and Israel's stock Where 's He that brought them from the Seas with Shepherds of his flock O where is He said God most high that did within him place In ancient times so powerfully his holy Spirit of grace By Moses's hand that led them right with glorious Arm and Name Dividing Waters in their sight to get eternal fame That led them through the deeper Seas untill to Land they got As Horses in the Wilderness that stumble they might not As Beasts go down into the dale God's Spirit made them rest Thou led'st thy people not to fail Thy Great Name to attest 3. PART v. 15. Look down from Heaven and behold from that thy dwelling seat Of Holiness prepar'd of old and of thy glory great Where is the zeal and strength in Thee thy bowels mov'd and pain'd And of thy mercies towards me are they O Lord restrain'd Doubtless thou art our Father dear though Abraham hath forgot Or ignorant of us appear and Israel knows us not Thou art our Father still the same thou didst us Lord redeem From Everlasting is thy Name a stranger do not seem O Lord why hast thou made us err from thy most holy path Hardning our hearts from thy true fear in thy provoked wrath Return and have rememberance for thy dear servants sake The Tribes of thine Inheritance which thou did'st chuse and take HYMN 222. Idolatry exploded Jer. 2.11.5.23.16.20 HATH ever any Nation chang'd their Gods which yet were none Yet have my people been estrang'd from me and wholly gone And they have chang'd their glory great for Gods which they have got Meer Idols that are all deceit and things that profit not O Heavens be amaz'd hereat and horribly affraid And be ye very desolate as God the Lord hath said For lo my people Israel have these two evils done Forsaking Me who am the Well whence Living Waters run And hew'd out Cisterns to themselves too shamefull to be told Meer broken Cisterns and none else that can no water hold HYMN 223. Backsliders called back All people c. Jer. 3.22 REturn backsliding Israel And I will your backslidings heal Behold we come with one accord To Thee that art our God the Lord. Truly in vain do men expect Salvation for the hills t' effect And from the mountains multitude No safety sure can we conclude But truly in the Lord our God Is sure Salvation to be had The saving health of Israel Is all of Him we know full well Let Israel's God be blest therefore From first to last for evermore And let all faithfull people then Give praise to God and say Amen HYMN 224. The old good way Have mercy c. Jer. 6.16 THus saith the Holy One stand in the ways and see Inquire I say for th' old good way the paths that ancient be And walk ye all therein and ye shall surely find A very blest Estate of rest contenting to your mind To Israel's God most high be all the praise therefore And people then say all Amen Amen for evermore HYMN 225. False fears and false Deities derided Our Father c. Jer. 10.1 HEar ye the Word which God doth say to you O house of Israel Learn not saith He the heathens way nor fear what they count terrible At signs of Heaven be not dismay'd For so the Heathens are afraid For peoples Customs are but vain one from the Forrest cuts a tree The work of workmen are they plain which with the Ax cut down must be Then deckt with silver and with gold The nails and hammer make it hold Like a Palm-tree they stand upright but never can they speak a word And needs they must be born by might that go no farther than they 're stirr'd Let no man fear these Logs of Wood For they can do nor ill nor good Since there is none like thee O Lord for very great indeed thou art â—reat is thy Name upon record who would not fear thee from their heart The King of Nations thou dost reign And fear to thee doth appertain 2. PART v. 8 10 11. But they that err and Idolize are altogether brutes and fools The stock 's a Book of vanities but the true God for ever rules He is the Lord the Living One The King with everlasting Throne His Wrath shall cause the Earth to quake the Nations cannot bear his blow Tell them that Gods which did not make the Heavens above and Earth below Even they shall perish from this Earth And from these Heavens which God set forth Each man is brutish in his skill men founder is confounded quite His graven Image fools him still his molten Image gives no light They have no breath they are but vain The work of errors are they plain The workmen and these works of his shall perish at God's visiting Unlike them Jacob's portion is for he hath formed every thing Israel's the lot which he doth claim The Lord of Hosts is his great Name 3. PART Isa. 44.9 They that make graven Images are all of them meer vanity They profit not howe're they please as they themselves can testifie They see not neither do they know But may be sham'd it should be so Who makes a God or who hath fram'd a molten Image good for nought Lo all his fellows shall be sham'd they are but men that have them wrought Let all stand up and gather near They shall be strook with shame and fear The Smith with Tongs doth work it warm with Hammers doth he fashion it He works it with his strength of arm he labours and is hunger-bit His strength must fail upon constraint He drinks no Water and is faint The Carpenter extends his rule with lines he makes it as he please He fits it with his plaining tool he marks it out with compasses He forms it like a man compleat To make a household God most neat 4. PART He hews him down the Cedar-trees he takes the Cypress and the Oke He glories in the choice of these which through the forrest bear the stroak He plants an Ash as also fit And leaves the rain to nourish it With part thereof the fire is fed he warms his body at the flames
He kindles it He breaketh bread yea and a God thereof he frames A graven Image makes he new He worships and falls down thereto A part he burneth in the fire with part thereof he eateth flesh He rosteth rost to his desire and doth with warmth himself refresh Aha saith he well warm'd am I I saw the fire burn cheerfully He maketh of the residue his God his graven Image dear He worships it and prays thereto he falleth down with awfull fear He saith to it Deliver me I for my God acknowledge thee 5. PART v. 18.20 They have not known nor understood for God hath closed up their eyes They can not see their Gods are wood yea he hath shut their heart likewise So that they can not understand That there 's a lye in their right hand And none considers in his heart nor hath he wit or skill to say I in the fire have burned part yea I have baked bread this day Upon its Coals I bak'd my loaf I rosted flesh and ate thereof And shall I make the residue abomination for to be Shall I fall down and kneel think you unto the stock of any tree He feeds on ashes all that while An heart deceiv'd doth him beguile Isa. 44.21 22. O Jacob and O ISRAEL my servant whom I form'd of old As a thick Cloud I did dispell thy sins and failings manifold Remember and return to me For I alone redeemed thee 6. PART v. 24. Thus hath the Lord thy Saviour said that from the womb hath formed thee I am the Lord that all things made Heaven is stretcht out alone by ME. I spread abroad the spacious Earth And by my self I laid it forth The lyars signs that nullifies and makes Diviners mad to be That turneth back the worldly wise and makes their knowledge foolery That seals the Word of 's Ministers And counsels of his Messengers That to Jerusâ—lem doth declare thou shalt have dwellers in thee plac'd And Judah's Cities I will rear and raise up all her places waste That saith unto the deeps be dry And dry thy Rivers up will I. That said of Cyrus yet unborn He is my Shepherd it is He That all my pleasure shall perform and saith Jerusâ—lem built shall be And to the Templ ' of old He said Thy sure Foundation shall be lay'd HYMN 226. Humble Supplications in hard times To the Tune of the Ten Commandments Jer. 14.7 O Lord though our INIQUITIES As Witnesses against US rise Yet do it of thine own accord Save us for thy Names sake O Lord. For we confess our sins to thee And our backslidings many be And we have very oftentimes Provok'd thee by our hainous crimes O Thou the Hope of ISRAEL That canst assist and save so well The onely Saviour we confess In time of trouble and distress Why shouldest thou whom Nations dread Be as a man ASTONISHED And as a very MIGHTY MAN That cannot save for who then can And thou although estranged thus Art in the very midst OF US And we are called by thy Name O leave us not to utter shame HYMN 227. The Glorious Throne Jer. 17.12 A Glorious Throne exalted high since first it did begin Is that high place the Sanctuary which our God dwelleth in O God the Hope of ISRAEL and worthily so nam'd All that forsake thee and rebell shall surely be asham'd Yea all that do depart from ME in whom they ought to trust Saith God the Lord destroy'd shall be and written in the dust Because they have forsook the Lord the fountain and the spring Of Living Waters richly stor'd with every good thing Heal me O Lord as I have crav'd and healed I shall be O save me and I shall be sav'd my praise is all of Thee HYMN 228. Vanity of Idols Jer. 16.19 O Lord that art my strength and fort my refuge in distress The Gentiles shall to Thee resort and thus they shall confess Surely Our Fathers dull of sense have all inherited lies And Vanity and things from whence no profit can arise Shall men make Gods unto themselves and Lo no Gods they be Therefore behold my Soul resolves this once to make them see And I will make them know my hand my might shall they record And they shall know and understand that my Name is the LORD HYMN 229. The Partridge Jer. 17.11 LIke as the Partridge gathers young which are not of her own So he that gathers wealth by wrong but right thereto hath none Shall leave them to another's Rule in midst of all his years And at his end shall be a Fool as by his work appears HYMN 230. Wo to Oppressors Jer. 22.13 WO be to him that builds his house by wrong and injury And by such deeds injurious his Chambers builds on high That doth his neighbours service use without the wages pay'd And doth the recompence refuse that should maintain his trade 1 Thes. 4.6 Col. 3.25 For God avengeth all such things as we have told you true And testifi'd with threatenings before-hand warning you For the wrong-doer surely shall receive his just reward And there is no respect at all of persons with the Lord. HYMN 231. The LORD our Righteousness Jer. 23.6 BEhold the days shall shortly come as saith the Lord our God That I will raise to David's House a righteous Branch and ROD. And there shall reign and prosper much a King of Royal birth And judgment He shall execute and justice in the Earth In His daies Judah shall be sav'd and Israel dwell in peace And by this Name shall he be call'd THE LORD OUR RIGHTEOUSNESS HYMN 232. Effectual Prayer of Captives All People c. Jer. 29.11 I Know the thoughts of my good Will which towards you I saith God intend The thoughts of peace and not of ill to give you an expected end And then unfeignedly shall ye call on ME and your Prayers pursue And ye shall go and pray to ME and I will hearken unto you And ye shall seek and find me then when ye seek for me from your heart And I will bring you back agen from whence I caus'd you to depart And found I will be at your hands and have your Captive-state restor'd And gather you from all the Lands to which I drove you saith the Lord. HYMN 223. Restoration of Israel Jer. 30.7 ALAS the Day is great and chief and none is like thereto It is the time of Jacob's grief but he shall well go through And it shall come to pass that day saith God the Lord of hosts That I will take the yoke away that binds his neck so close And I will burst their bonds that hour they shall not bind a limb And strangers shall no more have power to serve themselves of him But they shall serve the Lord their God and David their good King Whom I 'le raise up with ruling rod for their good governing O let the God of Israel then be prais'd with one accord And people then say all Amen Amen praise
ye the Lord. HYMN 234. The constancy of God's covenant Jer. 33.20 THUS saith the Lord if ye can break my Covenant of the day My law of night if ye can check and take those times away My Covenant may be broken then with David serving ME That he shall have no Son to reign or on his Throne to be The Levites Priests and Ministers and Jacob's House may fail And Covenants with your Ancestors no more at all avail But as the Hosts above our head in Heaven none can count Nor can the Seas be numbered to what their sands amount So I 'le increase and still prefer my Servant David's seed And Levites that administer to me as I decreed Let Israel's God be prais'd therefore of all and all together From first to last for evermore Amen Amen for ever HYMN 235. Murmuring restrained To the Tune of the Ten Commandments Lam. 3.39 WHY should a living man complain A man that sins to suffer pain For it is good in very truth That man should bear his yoke in youth He sits alone with silent soul Because He bears a just controul He puts his mouth into the dust If hope may be in whom to trust He gives his cheek to them that smite He 's filled with reproach and spite For thus he thinks God will restore And not cast off for evermore For though a while He causeth grief Yet will He surely send relief And in his mercies multitude Shall his compassions be renew'd HYMN 236. God afflicts not willingly Lam. 3.33 THE Lord afflicts not willingly Nor grieves mankind with misery To crush with foot or cruel hand All the poor prisoners of the Land. Of man's just right to turn the stream Before the face of God Supream And to subvert a mans just cause The Lord approves not by his Laws Who 's he that saith a thing shall be And it is come to pass saith he When possibly God may permit But never He commanded it Psal. 62. ult Out of the mouth of God most high Comes evil and good with equity For both He censures what is nought And gives reward to works well wrought Let Israel's God be prais'd therefore From first to last for evermore And people all with one accord Say here Amen praise ye the Lord. HYMN 237. Exhortations to Repentance All people c. or O Lord consider c. putting two Verses into a Staff. Lament 3.40 COme let us search and try our way And turn to God without delay Let us lift up our hearts and hands To God in Heaven that commands We have transgrest we have rebell'd And thou thy pardon hast withheld Thy cloud hath hid us from thy view So that our prayer should not pass through Turn us O God turn us to Thee And truly turned we shall be Renew our days as 't was of old Thy face and favour to behold Psalm 79. ult So we thy flock and pasture-store Shall give Thee thanks for evermore And will shew forth to great and small Thy praise to generations all HYMN 238. The Sins of Sodom recorded Tune of the Ten Commandments Ezek. 16.49 REmember this was Sodom's sin great pride and fullness of their bread And IDLENESS was much therein and in her Daughters whom she fed And also that she did not care to strengthen the distressed hand Of such as poor and needy were but waxed haughty in the Land Abominable deeds did they which were committed in my view Therefore I took them quite away as I my self saw good to do Psal. 106. Let Israel's God the Lord most high be prais'd and magnify'd therefore And let his glorious Majesty fill all the Earth for evermore HYMN 239. Pacification by Repentance Ezek. 16.62 I Will establish now with thee the Covenant of my Word And thou shalt know this thing of Me that I am God the Lord. That thou mayst call to mind the same and be confounded sore And never speak a word for shame of this thing any more When I am pacifi'd in this towards thee gratiously For all that thou hast done amiss saith God the Lord most high HYMN 240. The exact Doom Ezek. 18.4 5 9 BEhold saith God all souls are mine and mine peculiarly The Fathers Sons and every ones the Soul that sins shall die But if a man be just and good and doth things just and right The Lord will give that man to live for ever in his sight 10 11 14. If he beget a wicked Son that Son shall surely die His bloud I 'll shed on his own head for living wickedly Now lo if he beget a Son his Fathers sins that sees And shuns them quite and doth things right even he shall live in these 24. If he that seems a righteous man forsakes good ways and true And takes a course to worse and worse as wicked people do The righteousness that he hath done no more shall mention'd be But in the sin he trespass'd in most surely die shall he 21 27 22. And when the wicked leaves his lusts and for my grace doth strive And shall delight to walk aright he saves his soul alive All the transgressions he hath done no more shall mention'd be In his approved righteousness most surely live shall he 29. Psal. 106. ult O House of Israel hearken then for needs confess ye must My Ways to be pure Equity and your own ways unjust Let Israel's great and gratious God have all the praise therefore And people then say all Amen Amen for evermore HYMN 241. Repentance urged Ezek. 18.30 REpent and turn your selves from sin and all transgressions flee And so the sin ye lived in your ruin shall not be Cast your transgressions quite away trespass no more thereby Make new your heart and inward part for wherefore will ye die Why will ye die O Israel's House when I such warning give Ill pleas'd am I that sinners die wherefore return and live HYMN 242. God's Oath of Grace Ezek. 33.10 WHEN Israel speaks as thinking thus the Lord will not forgive And we in our transgressions pine and how then shall we live Say to them as I live saith God I swear it solemnly I have no pleasure in the death of wicked men that die But that the wicked man should turn from his ungodly way That 's my desire and my delight thus therefore shalt thou say O turn ye turn ye speedily from evil and do well For wherefore will ye chuse to die O House of Israel HYMN 243. The Sabbath Ezek. 20.12 MOreover said the Lord to me I gave my Sabbaths signs to be betwixt my self and them That they might know assuredly I am the Lord that sanctify and make them holy men But Israel's House rebell'd no less Against me in the Wilderness than by their former sin And they despis'd my Judgments too Which if a man with care shall do he shall even live therein My Sabbaths they did much pollute Then threatned I to EXECUTE my Wrath in great degree Yet for my Names sake
Instruction Understanding too Grant we may carefully pursue and wise to God thereby may be HYMN 269. The Draw-net Mat. 13.47 Pet. 12.3 THE Kingdom of the Gospel here which is for grace design'd Is like a net cast in the Sea gathering of every kind Which when 't was full men drew to shore sat down to make survey In Vessels gather'd up the good and cast the bad away So shall it be at this World's end the Angels shall come forth Severing the wicked from the just on all the Coasts on earth And they shall cast the wicked ones into a furnace-flame There shall be weeping gnashing teeth and everlasting shame HYMN 270. The Fool in grain Ye Children c. Luke 12.16 THere was a certain rich mans ground That plentifully did abound and made the wealthy owner say What shall I now devise to do Because I want a barn or two wherein I might my harvest lay But now it comes into my mind There is a means that I shall find to lay up all my wealthy Crop I will pull down my barns and build Much greater barns and have them fill'd and heaped up unto the top And I will say unto my Soul Soul live at ease without control eat thou and drink and merry be For worldly goods enough thou hast Lay'd up for many years to last and there can come no want to thee Thou fool said God this night shall they Require thy Soul and take 't away what then becomes of all thy store Such is the man that heaps up wealth And worldly treasures to himself and is not rich to God but poor HYMN 271. The best fear Mat. 10.23 Luke 12.4 MY friends said Christ to you I say fear ye not them that threaten you And can perhaps the body slay but after that no more can do But I will give you warning here and be ye warned by my word Whom ye should ever have in fear namely the mighty Sovereign Lord. Who after he hath smote and slain having all power of life and limb Can cast to hell and endless pain yea I say to you fear ye him HYMN 272. The best rejoycing Now Israel c. Luke 10.17 AND lo the Seventy Disciples came As they return'd from preaching of the word And thus they spake said unto our Lord O Lord we cannot but with joy proclaim How Devils are subject to us through thy Name Our Saviour said I know it must be so I saw proud Satan falling from on high Like to a flash of lightning from the Sky For his power shall come down but yours shall grow And conquer all the forces of the Foe Nevertheless rejoice ye not in this that Devils are subject unto your command But rather much rejoice to understand Your Names are written in the book of bliss And of Eternal life ye shall not miss To Him that sits upon the Throne therefore And unto Christ the Lamb the Holy One And to the seven Spirits before the Throne Ascribe in heaven and earth on sea and shore Dominion power and praise for evermore HYMN 273. Peace with all men Rom. 12.18 AS far as it is possible and in your power doth fall Retain ye still this Principle to live at peace with all Because the fruit of righteousness is sown of him in peace Whose quiet mind is still inclin'd to make Contention cease And therefore follow peace with all and holiness together Without which grace none see the face of God above for ever HYMN 274. Subsistance of God's Kingdom Rom. 14.17 GOD'S Kingdom is not meat and drink the things desir'd of most But righteousness and peace it is and joy i th' Holy Ghost And he that in these things serves Christ as all men ought to do Is much set by of God most high and men commend him too Let us therefore pursue the things that make for mutual peace And things whereby to edifie and make true Love increase HYMN 275. Moderate affections All People c. 1 Cor. 7.27 BRethren I say the time is short And this remains for every sort The Married so to lead their lives As free and not as having Wives The sad as sorrowing not too deep But weeping as they did not weep And they that joy in their fair lot Should joy as if they joyed not The buyers free from carefulness As if not buying to possess Using the World as doth befit And not at all abusing it For lo the World doth quite decay The fashion of it fades away But he that doth the Will of God Hath an Eternal blest abode All Glory to the Holy One That sits upon the soveraign Throne And to the Lamb of God therefore Be praise and Honour evermore HYMN 276. Sowing to the Spirit Gal 6.7 BE not deceiv'd my brethren dear God is not mock'd we know For all shall reap for things done here according as they sow He then that soweth to the flesh corruption shall inherit And they eternal happiness that sow unto the Spirit Unwearied then let us pursue good Works without complaint For we shall reap in season due if that we do not faint And taking opportunity do good to every man But chiefly to the family of Faith the best we can HYMN 277. Amity and Vnity Phil. 2.1 IF any Consolation in Christ is to be had If any Delectation in love to make us glad If any fellowship be felt in God's sweet Spirit of grace If any bowels that can melt or mercies taking place Fulfill our joy like-minded be in mutual love combin'd Having the self-same amity and unity of mind Let nothing out of strife be done or of vain-glory wrought But others to themselves each one preferring in his thought And look not every man of you on his own things alone But on the things of others too to comfort every one HYMN 278. Our Saviour's coming in the Clouds 1 Thess. 4.16 THE Lord himself shall once descend from Heaven with a shout And God's Arch-Angel shall attend and his loud voice break out And then the Trump of God likewise shall his alarum sound And first the dead in Christ shall rise and stand upon the ground Then shall the living that remain to Heaven in clouds repair And be caught up with all the train to meet the Lord i th' air And then shall we for ever joy in presence of the Lord Comfort your selves then mutually with this so sweet a Word HYMN 279. Charity charged upon the rich Now Israel c. 1 Tim. 6.17 THE rich in this World charge thou solemnly Not to be puffed up with secret pride Nor in uncertain riches to confide But on the living Lord that they rely Who gives us richly all things to enjoy That they do good and largely give to th' poor Ready to distribute of their estate And to be willing to communicate A good foundation laying up in store Of gaining life that lasts for evermore HYMN 280. The Call of Grace 2 Tim. 1.9 T IS God that lov'd and
hastned it so fast Alph ' and Omega First and Last To him that is a-thirst will I Give of the Fountain never dry the Wat'r of Life gratuitously He shall have all th' inheritance free That overcomes and shall have Mee his God and he my Son shall be But daunted ones devoyd of grace And all the unbelieving Race and all th' abominable base The murderers and whoremongers Inchanters Witches poysoners all lyars and Idolaters Shall have their part in that broad lake Which coals of fire and brimstone make this after death must they partake Glory to God Almighty then As was of old is now agen and shall be evermore Amen HYMN 300. The Celestial Paradise Our Father c. Rev. 22.1 AND after this he shewed me A River pure as pure might be A Crystal River very clear Of Waters of life which did appear Proceeding from the throne of God And from the Lambs most blest abode Rev. 22.2 Amidst the Street of Salem new And on each side the River grew The tree of life most rich and rare Twelve sorts of fruit each month it bare And lo the leaves thereto design'd Were for the healing of mankind Rev. 3.12 To him that overcomes said he I 'll give to eat of that same tree Of life and he shall have abode Within the Temple of my God A pillar there shall he persever And shall no more go forth for ever Rev. 1.4 To God the Father and the Son Which is and was and is to come And to the seven Spirits of might Which are before the Throne so bright Be given all the praise therefore From first to last for evermore The End of the Hymns out of the New Testament A Brief Summary OF Christian Religion Poetically drawn up Shewing 1. What things are to be Believed 2. What things are to be Implored 3. What things are to be Performed A Christian must believe what Scripture saith Touching the Principles of Christian Faith. One true Eternal God unchangeable Most holy wise just mighty mercifull Invisible immense and infinite And having all things always in his sight Incomprehensible in Persons three The Father Son and Holy Ghost they be The fountain of this Personality Begets the Son who works by his supply Both these produce the Spirit which proceeds And works from both and they by him their deeds So none 's afore but in this order rare All coeternal and coequal are Predestination and foreseen decree Now for God's glory every thing shall be Creation of the world in six days space All Angels first Man in the latter place Perpetual providence the helpless fall Of sinning Angels Some ne're sinn'd at all These were elect and praise their Maker still And with great quickness execute his will These wait on Saints and bear them in their arm Those by permission tempt accuse and harm Reserv'd in chains of darkness which dismay Untill the judgment of the general day Man's innocence and happiness at first That Covenant broke and all therein accurst Original corruption actual sin Transgression censur'd and thus death came in The Law so plainly written in man's heart Obliterated for the greatest part The Earthly Paradise quite lost and gone And all mankind slain by the sin of one A better Covenant wrought man's Restoration By Christ the second Person 's Incarnation Conceiv'd in Virgin 's Womb by Heavenly Powers His manhood sin excepted just like ours To th' Second Person joyn'd immediately And mediately to the rest thereby Making both Natures but one Person still Though having both divine and humane will Divine and Humane Properties distinct Man-God God-Man both these together linkt Equal with God in his spiritual Nature Inferiour to him as the Mediatour Yet in both Natures not in man's alone Far above Angels in the highest Throne His perfect life and blessed Doctrines taught Backt with a world of wonders which he wrought His Judgment Passion Burial Resurrection Ascension Session in his bright perfection And Intercession there at God's right hand And having all things under his command The universal Churches sure Election Calling Adoption Tryal and Correction Redounding to their good Justification Sanctification and sure Preservation The seal of Baptism and the sacred Cup With many an Ordinance to build them up All to be guided by the Scriptures light Which Saints did pen and God's own Spirit indite The common call and gifts of many a one Never built up unto perfection Immortal souls of Saints celestial bliss Imprisonment of theirs that liv'd amiss The Resurrection and the Judgment-day Where Christ in chief and all the Saints bear sway The world that was accurs'd for man misled Purged by fire and reestablished Then Reprobates must pack to endless paiâ— And Saints in endless Glory shall remain 2. What things are to be implored The Preface of the Lord's Prayer Our Father which art in Heaven c. First it sets forth God's glorious attributes Of might and mercy and their blessed fruits Assuring he can help that dwells above And will do as a Father out of love That we through Christ who doth this grace display With reverence and confidence may pray The First Petition Hallowed be thy Name c. That worthy instruments may still be found In Church and State and God by them renown'd Our hearts even fill'd with Heaven our tongues apply'd To edifie and God be glorify'd And that our lives before the World may shine With glittering beams of Graces most Divine The Second Petition Thy Kingdom come c. That Saints be kept and Satan's Kingdom quell'd False Doctrines Errours Anti-Christs expell'd The Gospel spread and prosper'd every where And Christians labouring each man in his sphere For Jew and Gentiles call and confirmation Our happy end and final full Salvation The Third Petition Thy will be done in Earth at it is in Heaven c. That we with wisedom may be all inspir'd To know God's will in what he hath requir'd Our backward natures that are dark and dull Inflam'd with zeal to do it to the full And what he pleaseth of himself to do We may contentedly submit unto The Fourth Petition Giev us this day c. That we depending on God's providence By lawfull means and daily diligence Without ambition avarice or strife May have all needfull comforts of this life For us and ours not envying great or small But helping those that in affliction fall The Fifth Petition Forgive us our trespasses c. That we confessing our vile sinfull Nature Acts and neglects against our great Creatour Not having ought to pay or ought that 's good But of his gift may flee to Christ his bloud For Grace and Peace and Pardon while we live With peacefull minds addicted to forgive The sixth Petition And lead us not into temptation c. That we be never try'd above our strength By weal or wo but may prevail at length That either the temptation time be miss'd Or we with Graces armed to resist That ever watchfull we may never
HYMN 303. A difference betwixt good and bad 3. METRE Psal. 1. THE Man is blest that shuns the snare of wicked mens advice Whom sinners paths and scorners chair by no means can entice But his Delight both Day and Night is in Gods Holy Law Whereon he waits and meditates with constant care and awe Like planted tree by water-springs shall such a man be made A tree that timely fruit forth brings whose leaf shall never fade And all he doth is blest of God the wicked are not so But are like chaff dispers'd abroad when stormy wind doth blow Therefore th' ungodly shall not stand in judgment clear and quit Nor with the just at Christ's right hand shall any sinner sit For men upright are God's delight their ways to him are known But sinners ways shall soon decay and quite be overthrown HYMN 304. 4. METRE Argument The good and bad are here compar'd Both in their Works and their reward The mighty God c. Psalm 1. THE man is blest that walketh not astray by evil counsels of ungodly men Nor doth comply with sinners in their way nor cometh high the scorners seat with them But with delight on God's good word he waiteth And Day and Night thereon he meditateth He shall be like a tree by th' River side whose fruit is ripe and in his season sure Whose leaf in youth and greeness shall abide and all he doth shall prosperously endure Ungodly men may look for no such matter But are like chaff which stormy wind do's scatter Therefore ungodly men shall never stand at Judgment Day as righteous men may trust Nor any one of all the wicked band come in the Congregation of the just For just mens ways the Lord doth know and cherish But Days will come when sinners paths shall perish HYMN 305. Psal 2. Argument Christs Kingdom how oppos'd and hated And how the wrong is vindicated All People c. WHY do the Heathen rage and fret and people plot a thing so vain They rise and are in councill set Rulers and Kings on Earth that reign Against the Lord they proudly speak against his Christ advising thus Their bonds asunder let us break and cast away their cords from us But he that doth in Heaven dwell their wicked doings shall deride And laugh to scorn his foes that swell with such presumptuous haughty pride Then in his wrath the most supream shall all his enemies controll And in Displeasure most extreme shall he torment their guilty soul. HYMN 306. 2. PART Argument Christ's Kingdom how exalted high By type of David's sovereignty UPON my Sions sacred Hill yet have I set my sovereign King Thou hast decreed and wilt fulfill and I will now declare the thing The Lord hath spoken thus to me thou art my true and onely son This Day have I begotten thee ask of me and it shall be done All Heathen Kingdoms I will make to be th' inheritance of thy birth And thou shalt in possession take the utmost parts of all the Earth Thine Iron Rod of sovereign might shall dash thy foes and make them break Yea dash them into pieces quite As Potters Vessels that are weak HYMN 307. 3. PART Argument Kings here are mov'd the Psalmist saith Christ's Kingdom to receive by Faith. NOW therefore O ye Kings take care that ye may truly understand Be well instructed ye that are the Princely Judges of the Land. See that the Lord have service done with reverence and due respect Rejoyce with trembling kiss the Son lest in his wrath ye should be checkt So should ye perish from the way for lo if his least anger flame Blessed O blessed then are they that trust upon his Holy Name HYMN 308. Psalm 3. Argument The Enemies of Saints encrease But God do's still procure their peace Ye Children c. LORD how the number multiplies of my incensed enemies that daily do against me rise Many O Lord many are they that of my soul presume to say God cannot help him any way But Lord thou art a shield for me my head is still upheld by thee in Honour and in Dignity For when with voice so loud and shrill I call'd on God he pleased still to hear me from his holy hill 2. I lay'd me down and sweetly slept I wak'd and was in safety kept for God's good hand did me protect And tho' ten thousand of my foes should me now round about enclose I would not be afraid of those Arise O Lord and plead my cause for thou hast smote them on the Jaws and broke the teeth of all my foes Thus are th' ungodly overthrown salvation is of God alone and thou O Lord dost bless thine own HYMN 309. Felicity of God's protection Psalm 4. PITY me Lord for well I know I am belov'd of thee I find it so because my foe triumphs not over me I am upholden by thy grace in my integrity Thou giv'st me place before thy face and that perpetually The Lord the God of Israel's Name for ever day by day And all his fame let us proclaim Amen Amen I say HYMN 310. Affiance and repose in God. Psal. 4.6 THE greater sort crave worldly wealth and riches they embrace But Lord grant us thy saving health and shining of thy face verse 7 Thou hast put gladness in my heart by those thy beams Divine Much more than they that had their part of plenteous corn and wine verse 8 In peace therefore will I lye down and take my sleep secure For thou O Lord and thou alone dost make my dwelling sure HYMN 311. Psal. 6. Argument He supplicates the Lord to spare Those Chastisements he cannot bear Have mercy c. IN thy incensed wrath O Lord rebuke me not Nor on me lay thy chastning hand in thy displeasure hot verse 2 Have mercy on me Lord for I am wonderous weak Heal me O Lord because thou knowst my bones with anguish break verse 3 My soul is sorely vex'd how long stay wilt thou make verse 4 Return Lord free my soul and save me for thy mercies sake verse 5 For none can after death of thee remembrance have Who can give thanks to thee O Lord when lying in the grave verse 6 I 'm weary with my groans all night I make my bed To swim in sorrows and my couch with tears I watered verse 7 By reason of my grief mine eye consumed is It waxeth old and that because of all mine enemies verse 8 Depart therefore from me ye wicked workers all For lo the Lord has heard my voice when I did weeping call verse 9 My supplication the Lord hath kindly heard The Lord will gratiously receive my Pray'r to him preferr'd Let all mine enemies be sham'd and vexed sore Let them return and suddenly be shamed evermore HYMN 312. Arraignment of Persecutors Psal. 7.11 GOD is a righteous Judge be sure and one that will repay And with the lewd and wicked doer God's angry every day verse 12 Unless he do his sins forgo
and speedily repent He whets his sword and strings his bow and hath it ready bent verse 13 His deadly Darts he doth ordain to smite hâ—m unawares And for the persecutors pain sharp arrows he prepares Let Israel's God the Lord most high be ever prais'd therefore From first to last eternally Amen for evermore HYMN 313. Arraignment of Persecutors and their ruin Psal. 7.14 BEhold how with iniquity the wicked is in pain Conceiving mischief craftily and labours all in vain verse 15 He made a pit and digged it no pains at all he spar'd And now is fall'n into the pit which he himself prepar'd verse 16 Upon his own unhappy crown his mischief shall be spread His violent dealing shall come down and light on his own head verse 17 But I his justice will proclaim that judgeth righteously And with a Song will praise the Name of him that is most high HYMN 314. Babes and Sucklings setting forth God's praise 1. METRE Psalm 8. O Lord our Lord of how great worth is thy Name every where For thou hast set thy glory forth above the starry sphere verse 2 The mouth of babes thou didst ordain thy mighty power to show And tongues of sucklings to restrain the proud imperious foe verse 3 Now when I see the Heavens high the work of thine own hand The Moon and Stars that deck the Sky and in their order stand verse 4 O what is man Lord think I then that he should be in mind Or any of the Sons of Men to whom thou art so kind verse 5 For thou hast made him little less than Angels in degree And crowned him with gloriousness and great Nobility verse 6 Preferr'd him to be Lord thou hast of all thy works of wonder And at his feet all creatures cast that he should keep them under verse 7 All Oxen Sheep and Beasts obey all that in fields do feed verse 8 Fowls of the Air Fish of the Sea and all that therein breed verse 9 O Lord our Lord of how great worth of how exceeding fame And excellence in all the Earth is thy most glorious Name HYMN 315. Babes and Sucklings shaming Atheists 2. METRE Psalm 8. If you put in the Exposition in the lines of the Italian Character you must sing it to the Tune of The Lords Prayer but if you leave the Exposition out you may sing it in the Tune of the 100 Psalm or O Lord Consider c. O Lord our Lord how excellent in all the Earth is thy great Name Above the Heavens Eminent thou spread'st the splendor of thy fame Thy Wisedom Might and Majesty Do far surpass both Earth and Sky From mouth of Babes and Sucklings young thou hast ordained strength to flow To still the scornfull Enemies Tongue and silence the avengefull Foe Their Innocence and Infant grace May shame such Atheists to their face When on the Heav'ns I fix mine eye the Moon and Stars thy Creatures rare Why should God visit man think I or for the Son of man should care An Heir of Heav'n that should have bin But now is fall'n from God by sin Next Angels once Thou had'st him plac'd with Glory and with Honour crown'd And him with high Dominion grac'd or'e all thy handy-works renown'd His Dignity did then excell But sin made all things to rebell Thou gav'st him whatsoever went through paths of Seas or thence came forth O Lord our Lord how Excellent is thy great Name in all the Earth Blessed be God that since the fall Hath thorough Christ restored all HYMN 316. 3. METRE Argument Man's glory shining in his first Creation And thorough Christ seen in his restoration The Mighty God c. Psalm 8. O Lord our Lord O how thy Name excells O're Heaven and Earth thy glittering glory dwels Out of the mouths of Babes and Infants young Thou hast ordained strength against the strong For in these Weaklings is thy strength ordained That our avengefull foe might be restrained When I consider in my serious thought The glorious Heavens which thy fingers wrought The Moon and Stars which were ordain'd by thee What 's Man think I that he should minded be Or what 's the Son of Man what favour is it That thou should'st honour him with so kind a Visit For thou hast made him but a little lower Than glorious Angels that thy Name adore Than Cherubim and Seraphim so bright That see thy face in unapproached light That thou might'st cloath him in a glorious manner With Robes of Royal Dignity and Honour Thou mad'st him have Dominion and Command O're all the works of thine Almighty hand And hast put all things as thou saw'st it meet In due subjection underneath his feet All Sheep and Oxen take them all together And Beasts belonging to the Field whatever All Fowl that fly thou gavest unto him And all the Fishes in the Seas that swim With whatsoever sort among all these That have their passage o're the deepest Seas O Lord our Lord with what great glory crowned Is thy great Name o're all the Earth renowned HYMN 317. Calamity of the wicked or Remarkable Judgment Psalm 9.15 SUNK down the wicked Heathen are into the Pit they made Their foot is taken in the snare which they themselves have lay'd verse 16 By doing judgment God is known when wicked people fall By handy-works which are their own Remarkable to all Psalm 41.13 Let Israel's mighty God therefore be prais'd and prais'd agen From age to age for evermore Amen Amen Amen HYMN 318. Chains of Darkness for the Wicked Psalm 9.17 LEWD men shall into Hell be hurld ' where Chains of Darkness bind And all the people of the World that have not God in mind verse 18 For poor men shall not be forsook for ever in their pain The patient people never look for help from God in vain verse 19 Arise O Lord lest men presume still to prevail by might And let the Heathen have their doom and judgment in thy sight verse 20 Smite them O Lord with fear full sore and let the Nations find And know themselves to be no more but men of mortal kind HYMN 319. Comforts for the Righteous 1. METRE Psalm 11. I Make the Lord my trust and stay why therefore urge ye still My harmless soul to hast away as birds unto the Hill verse 2 For lo the wicked bend their bows their arrows they prepare That closely they may shoot at those that upright-hearted are verse 3 If the foundations of our faith by you be taken away No comfort then the righteous hath nor strength whereon to stay verse 4 But God doth in his Temple reign his Throne 's in Heaven on high His eyes behold the Sons of men and them his eyelids try verse 5 He trys the just mans patience as unto him seems best But lewd men loving violence his soul doth much detest verse 6 On sinners he shall rain down snares brimstone and balls of fire An horrid Tempest he prepares to pay them home
their hire verse 7 For God most just without defect in justice doth delight His countenance with kind aspect beholdeth the upright HYMN 320. Confusion of the wicked 2. METRE The Mighty God c. Psalm 11. I Trust in God why do ye daunt my soul hast as a bird unto your Hill ye say The wicked bend their bows without controll and string their shafts the upright soul to slay If Faith whereon we ground be not assured What can the righteous do to be secured The Lord is in his Holy Temple still his Throne 's in Heaven he can see us then His eyes behold all people good and ill his eye-lids try the Childeren of men God trys the just man who in patience waiteth But wicked men and cruel his soul hateth Upon the wicked he shall rain down snares Brimstone and Fire from which they cannot flee And a prodigious Tempest he prepares and this the portion of their cup shall be For God that 's righteous righteousness affecteth His grace so good all good men so respecteth HYMN 321. Corruption of the Times Psalm 12 1 2 3. HELP Lord for godly men decay the faithfull are but few Men lie and flatter and betray with tongue and talk untrue But God will cut those lips away whence fraud and flattery springs And tongues that dare presume to say such proud blasphemous things 4 5. Our lips say they shall lord it still and hold the upper hand Our Tongues are ours to speak our will. what Lord shall countermand Now for the sighs of needy men and poor mens wrongs and woes I 'll rise saith God and rescue them from proud oppressing Foes 6 7 8. Pure words that will the test abide God's promises come forth Like silver seven times purifi'd in Furnaces of Earth Lord thou shalt keep thy Saints alway from this ungodly Race Though every where they hunt their prey when vile men are in place Psalm 106.48 O let the God of Israel then be prais'd perpetually And let all people say Amen the Lord to magnify HYMN 322. Curbing of the Wicked 2. METRE The Mighty God c. Psalm 12. HELP Lord the Godly cease there 's few of them The faithfull fail among the Sons of men Each man to 's neighbour vanity imparts With flattering lips they speak and double hearts But Godwill cut off every lip that flatters And tongues that speak such proud presumptuous matters Who thus have said our tongues shall bear the sway Our lips are ours and who shall us gainsay Now for the poor men under proud controll And for the sighing of the needy soul I 'll rise saith God and be his sanctuary And set him safe from his proud adversary The Words of God are pure as silver try'd In Earthen Furnace seven times purifi'd Thou shalt preserve O Lord and keep the poor From this lewd generation evermore The wicked walk on all sides to devour When Vilest men are set in place of power HYMN 323. Degenerate World described 1. METRE Psalm 14.1 THere is no God the fool hath thought they are corrupt and lewd Abominations have they wrought and none of them doth good The Lord look'd down from Heaven high man-kind for to discern If any knew spiritually or sought God's Will to learn. But all were wandred from the way defiled by the fall Not one did good not one I say did any good at all Are workers of iniquity so brutishly mis-led To eat my people greedily devouring them like bread Upon the Lord they never call yet greatly did they fear For God will surely be with all the righteous every where The poor man's Counsel ye disdain whose trust on God is stay'd But Oh that Israel might obtain from Sion saving aid When God turns our Captivity and sets poor Sion free Jacob shall joy triumphantly and glad shall Israel be HYMN 324. Degenerate World through Atheism described 2. METRE All People c. Psalm 14. FOOLS say in heart there is no God and with such thoughts their fancy feeds Corrupt they are and none doth good but act abominable deeds The Lord from Heaven view'd all mankind to see who knew or sought for God All were defil'd and far declin'd not one by Nature doing good Are wicked workers all so dead and void of knowledge since the fall To eat my People up like bread without regard of God at all Yet do their hearts with terror quake and guilty makes them to mistrust For God doth in protection take the Generation of the Just. Ye sham'd the Council of the poor because his hope on God was stai'd But O that Israel might procure from Sion Hill some saving aid When God brings back from captive state the chosen flock of Sion Hill Then Jacob shall rejoyce thereat and gladness Israel's heart shall fill HYMN 325. Description of true Christians Psalm 15. THE Tabernacles of thy Grace Lord who shall rest in still Or who shall have a dwelling-place in thy most Holy Hill verse 2 The man that walks in God's true fear whose works are just and straight Who speaks the truth from heart sincere who utters no deceit verse 3 That to his neighbour doth no hurt in body goods or name Nor taketh up a false report to prejudice his fame verse 4 The man whose pure impartial eye vile persons doth contemn But whoso fear the Lord most high he highly honours them His Oath and all his promises that keepeth faithfully Though he sustain the damages that might accrue thereby verse 5 That putteth not to usury the money that he lent Nor takes reward to testify against the innocent He that shall do the will of God whereof this is the sum Shall never perish in this world nor in the world to come HYMN 326. Description of true Citizens of Sion 2. METRE All people c. Psalm 15. O Who shall have a blest abode Within thy sacred Tents O God Thy Holy Hill who shall possess Sure he that walks in uprightness The works of righteousness that doth And from his heart doth speak the truth That slanders none with spightfull tongue Nor doth his neighbour any wrong That takes not up an evil fame Against his neighbours honest Name That doth of vile men vilely deem But hath the Saints in high esteem That changeth not what once he swears Though he the loss and damage bears That puts not out his coyn whereby To get his gain by usury That takes no bribes to circumvent Or prejudice the innocent He that doth these things is approv'd And never shall that man be mov'd HYMN 327. Expectation of Resurrection Psalm 16.8 I Set the Lord still in my sight and trust him over all Since he doth stand at my right-hand I know I shall not fall verse 9 This therefore fills my heart with joys my glory joys in this My flesh shall rest in hope likewise in hope of endless bliss verse 10 Thou wilt not leave my soul in hell nor wilt thou Lord permit Thy Holy One as lost and
gone to perish in the pit verse 11 The path of life thou wilt declare to me with joys full store And Lord at thy right hand there are sweet pleasures evermore HYMN 328. Extolling of Scripture verity and virtue Psalm 19.7 MOST perfect is the Law of God of Soul-converting might His Testimonies are most pure and give the simple light verse 8 The Statutes of the Lord are right and fill the heart with joys The precepts of the Lord are pure inlightening the eyes verse 9 The fear of God his word is clean and doth endure for ever The Judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether verse 10 Yea more than Gold than much fine Gold to be embrac'd alway The hony and the hony-comb are not so sweet as they verse 11 They are thy Servants Monitors how he his life should frame And great reward 's provided for 's if we observe the same HYMN 329. Faith seen in fear of Sin. Psalm 19.12 LORD who can all his Errors see O cleanse my heart within verse 13 From secret faults and keep thou me from all presumptuous sin O let it have no power to reign in me at any time And so shall I be free from stain and scape the greatest crime verse 14 O let the words which I recite my thoughts and whole behaviour Be acceptable in thy sight O Lord my strength and Saviour HYMN 330. Faith's Triumphant Banner Have mercy c. Psalm 20. THE Lord attend thy cry in this distressfull hour Great Jacob's God most gratiously defend thee by his power verse 2 He send thee succour still out of the sanctuary And strengthen thee from Sion Hill against the Adversary verse 3 Thy Offerings in like wise O let him have in mind And let thy whole burnt Sacrifice a good acceptance find verse 4 The Lord now grant to thee thy very hearts desire And let thy prudent councils be accomplish'd all entire verse 5 We will our Joy proclaim in thy assur'd defence And spread our banners in the Name of God our Confidence The Lord now grant in love what-ever thou would'st have verse 6 And now I know that God above doth his Anointed save And he will hear his King from Heaven his Holy Throne With saving strength which he shall bring by his right hand alone verse 7 Some people make their boasts of Chariots some of Horse But in our God the Lord of Hosts we reckon all our force verse 8 While these bow down and fall we rise and stand upright Save Lord and hear us when we call O King of Soveraign might HYMN 331. Faith's Victorious Banner 2. METRE O Lord Consider c. Psalm 20. LORD hear our King this troublous day the Name of Jacob's God defend Help from his holy place convey and succour out of Sion send Remember well and highly prize Thine Offerings and Burnt Sacrifice Thy hearts desire he grant thee still And all thy councils God fulfill In thy Salvation we 'l rejoyce and in our God's great Name shall we Our Banners raise with prayerfull voice all thy requests God grant to thee Now God I know will save from harm With saving strength of his right arm And heareth his anointed one From Heaven his high and Holy Throne Some hope in Chariots help to find and some in Horses hope the same But we will ever bear in mind the Lord our God's all helpfull Name They are brought down and fallen quite But we are risen and stand upright Save Lord O let the King give ear Now when we pray our prayer to hear HYMN 332. Psalm 21. Argument The King's supply and sure defence Obtain'd by Prayer and Confidence THE King rejoyceth to record the comforts of thy might And in thy saving health O Lord How much shall he delight Thou gav'st him what his heart desir'd and that important thing Which he with humble lips requir'd was not deny'd the King. Blessings of goodness to be sure thou hast on him powr'd down And made a Crown of Gold most pure his royal head to crown He askt thee life and thou didst please to give it in such store That he might see the length of days and live for evermore Great is his glorious dignity in this thy saving aid For honour and great majesty thou hast upon him laid For as one ever blest of God thou didst thy King advance And thou hast made him wonderous glad with thy sweet countenance For on the Lord he doth rely to see thy promise prov'd And through thy mercy O most high he never shall be mov'd HYMN 333. 2. PART Argument The sure destruction of rebellious men The Lord is prais'd for Judgments upon them THY hand shall find out all thy foes whoever Lord they be And thy right hand shall find out those that bear ill will to thee And make them as the Ovens hot steam what time thy wrath shall light The Lord in wrath shall swallow them and fire devour them quite Their fruit likewise shalt thou destroy from off the Earths increase And cut off their posterity and cause their seed to cease For they intended ill to thee and thought they should succeed In their mischievous Tragedy but could not act the deed And thou shalt make them for these things to turn their backs apace Charging thine arrows on the strings against their very face Be thou exalted O most high in thine own strength therefore And so our Songs shall magnify thy might for evermore HYMN 334. Psalm 23. Argument God's the good Shepherd of our lives and souls No danger need we fear nor foes controlls Have mercy c. THE Lord my shepherd is and he that doth me feed Since he is mine and I am his what comfort can I need He makes me to lie down on tender pasture grass Then to the streams he leads me on where waters gently pass And when I go astray he doth my soul reclaim Conducting me in the right way for his most holy name Yea though the paths I trod in deaths dark vale should be would not fear for there 's my God a staff of strength to me Thou mak'st me sit and dine even in my enemies sight My head with Oyl my cup with Wine run over day and night Thy goodness sure and grace shall measure all my days And thy house be my dwelling place to give thee endless praise HYMN 335. 2. METRE Argument God the Good Shepherd doth supply No dangers need to terrify All People c. Psalm 23. MY Shepherd is the Lord most blest I shall not want but be supply'd In pastures green he makes me rest by sweet and silent waters side He doth restore my soul that strays the paths of truth he makes me take To walk in his most righteous ways and this he doth for his Name sake Yea though I pass deaths dark abode afraid of ill I will not be For thou art with me O my God thy rod and staff they comfort me In spight of foes thou dost
Protection and Provision from above For those that fear the Lord and trust in 's love THE Lord lookt down from Heaven high beholding all abroad All mortal mans posterity from place of his abode In all the Earth and all the parts the dwellers he survays He fashioneth alike their hearts and all their works he weighs No numerous Hosts can save a King the strength of limb saves none Nor can the Horse deliverance bring his great strength saves not one But lo the eye of God above is ever fixt on those That fear his Name and in his love their confidence repose To save their souls from sharpest sword of Famine that can be Wherefore our soul waits for the Lord our help and shield is he For in him shall our hearts be glad because we can proclaim The confidence that we have had in his most holy Name HYMN 352. Honouring God at all times Psal. 34.1 AT all times I will bless the Lord my mouth shall spread his fame Continually it shall record the praises of his Name My soul shall make her boast in God the humble men shall hear And they shall gladly spread abroad his praises every where O magnifie the Lord with me and let us altogether Exalt his Name in high degree and speak his praise for ever I sought the Lord with fervent cries and graciously he heard And did deliver me likewise from all the harms I fear'd The meek lookt up and sought his Name and they enlightned were Their Faces did receive no shame that fled to him by Prayer This poor man cry'd unto the Lord the Lord did hear his call And saving health to him afford out of his troubles all HYMN 353. Holy Angels protecting Saints And Exhortations to fear God. Psal. 34.7 GOD'S Holy Angel doth encamp round about all those men That have Relâ—gions real stamp and he delivereth them O tast and see that God is good O blessed men are they That have that goodness understood and make it all their stay O fear the Lord ye Saints of his and on his care rely For they that fear him never miss a competent supply Young Lyons shall have meat full scant shall hunger and lack food But they that fear the Lord shall want for nothing that is good HYMN 354. How to fear God aright Psalm 34.11 12 COme unto me my Children dear and hearken to my word And I will teach you how to fear the true and living Lord. Who is the man that would live long and lead a blessed life See thou refrain thy lips and tongue from all deceit and strife 13 14 15. Refrain thee still from doing ill and all good deeds embrace Inquire for peace and quietness and follow it apace Because the Lord's most gracious eye upon the just is bent His ears are open to the cry of all the innocent 16 17. But he looks down with angry frown upon the wicked train To cut their memory from the Earth that none of them remain But when the just do call and cry the Lord doth hear them so That out of pain and misery he lets them timely go HYMN 355. Jewels of God's keeping Psal. 34â—19 FUll many be the miseries which on the just do fall But God doth soon deliver them and help them out of all 20. He keepeth every bone of theirs by his Almighty Arm That not so much as one of them is broken to their harm 21. Evil shall slay the wicked man for sin which he hath wrought And such as hate the righteous man shall quickly come to nought 22. But them that fear the living Lord he keepeth safe and sound And them that put their trust in him no malice shall confound HYMN 356. Psalm 36. Argument Ill deeds describe the wicked sort Godâ—s mercies are the Saints support The mighty God c. verse 1 TRangressions of the lewd to me suggest that there 's no fear of God before his eyes verse 2 For still he sooths himself in his own breast till all abhor his foul iniquities verse 3 The words of his foul mouth are fraud and lewdness He hath left off all wisedom grace and goodness verse 4 He studies mischief on his secret bed he sets himself to go in no good way No evil action doth he hate or dread yet is thy mercy my sufficient stay verse 5 The Heavens O Lord thy mercy comprehendeth Thy faithfulness unto the clouds extendeth HYMN 357. 2. PART Argument God's mercies keep both man and beast His comforts make the Saints to feast Psal. 36. verse 6 THY righteousness is like the mountains great thy Judgments are a most unfathom'd deep Thou Lord art he that holds the sovereign seat thy preservation man and beast doth keep verse 7 How excellent O God is thine affection Which makes mankind to trust to thy protection verse 8 they shall be satisfy'd abundantly with fatness of thy house and holy place And thou shalt make them drink pure streams of joy And pleasures there imparted by thy grace verse 9 For Lord with thee is life's pure fountain present And in thy light shall we see light most pleasant HYMN 358. 3. PART Argument God's mercies to the Saints secure Great woes attend the wicked doer Psalm 36. verse 10 O Lord continue thy compassions kind to them that know thee by experience And let the upright hearted people find thy righteousness for their assur'd defence verse 11 Let not the foot of pride with power oppress me Nor let the hand of lewd men dispossess me verse 12 See there those workers of iniquity how often times they fall before our eyes Yea they shall be cast down eternally and never more be able to arise O let the God of Israel therefore Be prais'd from first to last for evermore HYMN 359. Joys of Heaven 2. METRE Psalm 36.5 THE Heavens O Lord thy mercy fills thy truth doth reach the sky verse 6 Thy justice over-tops the Hills and deep thy judgments lie Thou dost preserve both men and beasts for Lord thy grace excells verse 7 And underneath thy wings in peace mankind securely dwells verse 8 With dainties of thy house most sweet replenish'd they shall be And drink the streams of pure delight imparted there by thee verse 9 For Lord from thee the fountain flows that giveth light to thine And in thy light shall we disclose our lasting light to shine HYMN 360. Just mens vindication Protection and Provision Psalm 37.3 TRust confidently in the Lord to goodness give thy mind So shalt thou dwell in Israel and sure provision find verse 4 Delight thy self in God likewise and he shall set thee have Yea grant entire thy hearts desire whatever thou dost crave verse 5 Commit thy way unto the Lord and rest in him secure And he shall bring to pass the thing and make the issue sure verse 6 He shall bring forth thy righteousness as manifest as light Thy â—udgment he shall make to be as noon-tide shining bright 2. PART verse 18 God
they did presume Shall perish from their dwelling place and in the Grave consume But God will sure my soul redeem from power of the grave For I shall be receiv'd to him an heavenly house to have HYMN 385. 3. PART Argument Envy not worldlings honour nor delight Which ends in horrour and perpetual night Psalm 49. O Be not thou solicitous when any is made rich And when the Glory of his house gets to an higher pitch For when his time shall come to die nought with him shall he have His pomp shall not accompany his person to the Grave Though while he liv'd he blest his soul and men will much commend A man that lives without controll and doth himself befriend He shall go down to his own place into perpetual night Among his cursed Father's race and never more see light Thus man in honour and repute yet understanding not Is well compared to the fruit which soon must die and rot HYMN 386. True Thankfulness Have mercy c. Psalm 23 OFFER to God each day thanksgiving cheerfully And have a special care to pay thy vows to God most high Then seek and sue to me when dangerous daies do frame And I will sure deliver thee and thou shalt praise my Name For whoso offers praise he glorifieth me And he that goes in godly ways shall Gods salvation see HYMN 387. Mightiness of God in Judgment 2. METRE Have mercy c. Psal. 50. THE God of Glorious might the Lord hath summon'd all And call'd the Earth from Suns first light unto the furthest fall verse 2 From Sion's sacred mount beauties perfection right Will God appear to take account in Glory shining bright verse 3 Our God shall come with power and then shall he speak out Before him shall a fire devour with tempests round about verse 4 Calling to Heaven on high and to the Earth below To judge his people openly that all may see and know verse 5 Let each professed Saint be brought before mine eyes Those that have made a Covenant with me by Sacrifice And Heaven shall express how just his judgments be They shall declare his righteousness for none is Judge but he HYMN 388. Mightiness of God in Mercy Have mercy c. 2. METRE Psalm 50.7 MY People hearken well I 'll speak and testifie Against ev'n thee O Israel thy God thy God am I. verse 8 I do not need at all thy Cattle young or old verse 9 I 'll take no Bullock from thy stall nor Hee-goat from thy fold verse 10 For all the herd that fills the Forrest is mine own And Cattle on a thousand hills belong to me alone verse 11 All fowls I can define what e're the mountains breed And all the Salvage beasts are mine that in the field do feed verse 12 If I were hunger-bit I would not tell it thee For that the world and all in it belongs alone to me verse 13 Will I eat bullocks flesh or drink the bloud of Goats verse 14 Offer to God true thankfulness and pay the high'st thy votes verse 15 Then call and cry to me when dangerous days do frame And I will sure deliver thee and thou shalt praise my Name HYMN 389. Mightiness of God in punishing the wicked 4. METRE Have mercy c. Psalm 50.16 17. AS for the wicked now that speaks but acts not fair To him saith God what right hast thou my statutes to declare Why should thy mouth relate the Covenant which I taught When as thou dost instruction hate and set my word at nought verse 18 When thou a thief hast seen with him thou dost consent And a Partaker thou hast been with men incontinent verse 19 Thou giv'st thy mouth to ill thy tongue deceit doth frame Thou sit'st and speak'st with words at will to wound thy brothers Name verse 20 Thine own dear mothers son thou sland'rest with thy tongue These things ungodly thou hast done and I kept silence long verse 21 Therefore thou thought'st of me that I was such as thou Yea altogether like to thee and would thy deeds allow But I 'll put home reproof and set thy sins in place To stand in order plain enough before thy guilty face verse 22 Mind this all ye that have the awfull God forgot That I when there is none to have in pieces tear you not verse 23 But whoso offers praise he glorifieth me And he that goes in godly ways shall God's salvation see HYMN 390. Mightiness of God in the day of Judgment 5. METRE To the old proper Tune Psalm 50. THE God of might Unto the earth did call From Suns first light And rising to his fall From Sion fair The Lord himself hath shone God shall repair In noise and terror known Usher'd with flame Wrapt in a stormy shower And shall proclaim All judgment in his power Gather to me My Saints in Covenant ty'd And Heav'n shall see His justice magnify'd My People hear O Israel I come in And witness bear Against thee for thy sin I will not blame Thy Sacrifices slender Nor Bullocks claim Nor Goats for thee to render Mine is each beast Which widest Forrest feed Even to the least Which thousand hills do breed The Fowls I know Which on the mountains fly Wild beasts also Which in the desarts ly If I would eat To thee I would not show it For th' Earth compleat Is mine I 'd have thee know it That I require Bulls flesh why should'st thou think Or have desire The bloud of Goats to drink Thanksgiving bring And pay to God thy Vows This Offering He specially allows Then on me call In time of thy temptation Save thee I shall And gain thy gratulation HYMN 391. Mightiness of God in Vengeance upon the Wicked 6. METRE Psal. 50. v. 16. BUT to the lewd Saith God why should ye dare Once to intrude My statutes to declare Why do ye vaunt With mouth for to relate My Covenant Whose hearts instruction hate When thou hast seen A thief thou hast consented And with th' unclean To joyn thou wast contented Thou giv'st thy mouth To utter what is naught To speak untruth And guile thy tongue is taught Thou dost backbite To work thy brother blame And full of spight Thy mothers son to shame This hast thou done And my long silence finding Thou thought'st me one Like thee and never minding But I will haste To set before thine eyes In order plac'd All these impieties Consider this Ye that forget God's fear Lest piece by piece Your helpless souls I tear But whoso gives Me praise shall glorify me And he that lives A Saint be saved by me Psal. 106.48 Let Israel's God be ever blest therefore And let 's applaud his Name for evermore And let the Earth in all parts up and down Sound out his worth his Glory and renown And let all People say Amen together Amen praise ye Praise ye the Lord for ever HYMN 392. New building of Sion And the Sacrifices most acceptable to God. 1.
1. METRE Have mercy c. Psalm 70. MAKE haste O God make haste my Saviour now to be And let the time no longer waste before thou succour me verse 2 Let shame confound them all that seek my bloud to spill Let flat confusion on them fall who-ever wish me ill verse 3 Let them be turned back so to reward their shame That no disgracefull language lack to taunt and to defame verse 4 Let them that seek thy face rejoyce in thee always Let them that love thy saving grace say still to God be praise verse 5 But I O Lord am poor and greatly stand in need O thou my God draw nigh therefore and succour me with speed Thou art my onely aid thou art my Saviour strong Let not thy help be still delay'd Lord make no tarrying long HYMN 424. Speedy deliverance urged 2. METRE All People c. Psalm 70. MAKE haste O Lord and help afford Make haste to help me O my Lord Their practices with shame confound That seek my harmless soul to wound With great disgrace let them retire Whoever do my hurt desire Let them that make my grief their game Be turned back with utter shame Most glad and joyfull let them be Who-ever do seek after thee And those that thy salvation love Say ever-blest be God above But I am poor and under-trod Make haste to help me O my God Thou art my hope my help and stay Come Lord and make no more delay HYMN 425. Spiritual Government of Christ figured in Solomon or A prayer for the King. Psal. 72.1 2. THE King O God the King 's dear Son instruct in thy Decrees That Justice may be duely done to men of all degrees verse 3 Then shall the mountains bring us peace and God shall also bless The little Hills to yield increase by means of righteousness verse 4 And he shall judge those people then that worldly comforts lack And he shall save poor needy men and break th' oppressors back verse 5 Then shall they fear thee to be sure the people great and small So long as Sun and Moon endure to Generations all verse 6 He shall descend as rain pour'd forth upon the mowen Grass As show'rs that water all the earth whatever way they pass verse 7 The Just shall flourish in his time and great the peace shall be Untill the Moon surcease to shine Amen Amen say we HYMN 426. Strength and establishment of Christ his Kingdom Psal. 72.11 8. ALL Kings shall worship Christ the Lord before him falling down All Nations shall with one accord do homage to his Crown And his Dominion shall extend from Sea to Sea throughout And from the River to the end of all the Earth about 9 10. The dwellers in the desarts must before him bow full low His enemies shall lick the dust and great submission show The farthest Kingdoms shall present their offerings to this King The Islands and the Continent their Gifts to him shall bring 15 17. And people then continually shall pray for and proclaim His Kingdoms great felicity and daily praise his Name His Name shall shine from East to West as Sunbeams never dim And Nations all shall call him blest as being blest in him 18 19. Now bless the Lord with one accord the God of Israel Who onely brings to pass the things that every where excell And spread the fame of his Great Name always and altogether And fill the Earth with his known worth Amen Amen for ever HYMN 427. 1. METRE Argument Temptation much assaults the pure in heart To see the wicked prosper while they smart Psal. 73. verse 1 HOwe'er it be yet God is good and kind to Israel To every one that 's clean of heart and keeps his Conscience well verse 2 But as for me I almost slipt my feet began to slide And through temptation unawares my steps were turn'd aside verse 3 For when I saw the foolish ones I was with envy griev'd Beholding the prosperity wherein the wicked liv'd verse 4 For both they had an easy death and firm perswasions then verse 5 And were not vext as others were nor plagu'd as other men HYMN 428. 2. METRE Argument The prosperous state the wicked men live in Provokes them to commit far greater sin Psalm 73. verse 6 PRosperity and pride enclose the wicked as a chain And as with Garments they are wrapt with Rapine and Disdain verse 7 With fatness do their eyes stand out They have beyond desire verse 8 they speak great words and threaten high to set oppression higher verse 9 They set their mouth against the Heavens their tongue walks through the Earth verse 10 Therefore God's people much comply and much grief it brings forth verse 11 And thus they say how doth God know sees he that sits so high verse 12 Lo those prophane ones prosper here their riches multiply HYMN 429. 3. METRE Argument The pure in heart sore scourg'd are taught to know That Worldlings joy soon ends in Worlds of woe Psal. 73. verse 13 SURE I have cleans'd my heart in vain in vain my heart I purg'd verse 14 For all day long I have been plagu'd and every morning scourg'd verse 15 But if I say I will speak thus I rashly should condemn The Generation of thy Saints and judge amiss of them verse 16 Yet when I thought to know this thing 't was hard to apprehend verse 17 Till going to the house of God I understood their end verse 18 And namely how thou settest them upon a slippery seat And in a moment casts them down and mak'st their ruine great HYMN 430. 4. METRE Argument The Worldlings joy is but a Dream The pure in heart have joys Supream Psal. 73. verse 19 HOW soon are wicked people brought to desolations path They are consumed utterly with terrours of thy wrath verse 20 And as a Dream when one awakes so thou O Lord most high When thou awak'st thou shalt despise their Image utterly verse 21 Thus for a while my heart was griev'd my reins were prick'd with pain verse 22 So ignorant a fool was I a beast before thee plain verse 23 Yet am I evermore with thee thy right hand holds me fast verse 24 Thou with thy Counsels guidest me to glory at the last HYMN 431. 5. METRE Argument God's the sure portion of the pure in heart Their sure destruction that from him depart Psalm 73. verse 25 WHO is there Lord that I can wish but thee in Heaven above Nor is there any one on earth like thee that I can love verse 26 My flesh and heart doth fail in me but God doth fail me never The strengthner of my heart is he and heritage for ever verse 27 For lo all such as go from thee and unto Idols bow Shall their deserved ruin meet and utter overthrow verse 28 Therefore will I draw nigh to God and in the Lord I 'll trust That I may shew forth all his works to be both good and just HYMN 432.
Strength of sinners subdu'd Or Habitation of Cruelty supprest 1. METRE Psalm 74.11 WHY dost thou Lord thy judgments spare and thy right hand with-draw O pluck it from thy bosome bare to keep thy foes in awe verse 19 O give not to the multitude the turtle-doves dear soul Forget not thy poor flock O God which bears too long controll verse 20 Unto thy Covenant have regard the Earth's a darksome Den And full of Habitations hard possess'd by cruel men verse 21 Let not the simple go with shame and blushing turn their back Nor let the poor to praise thy Name a just occasion lack verse 22 Rise Lord and plead thine own true cause think how the fools defame And what contempt it daily draws upon thy sacred Name verse 23 The clamours of thine Enemies forget not Lord to cease The tumults that against thee rise continually encrease HYMN 433. 2. METRE Argument Strength of Leviathan subdued Pharaoh overthrown in the Wilderness Psal. 74.12 O God thou art my King of old and thou dost still set forth Thy saving mercies manifold in midst of all the Earth verse 13 Thou didst divide and part the Seas by thy great strength and force Thou brok'st the Dragon's head in these returning to their course verse 14 Leviathan's heads with great disgrace were broken there by thee Which to thy flock in desart place was meat and drink to see verse 15 Thou mad'st a Spring with streams to rise from rocks both hard and high Thy powerfull hand did make likewise deep Rivers to be dry verse 16 The day is thine likewise the night by thy decree doth run Thou also hast prepar'd the light and form'd the brighter Sun. verse 17 Thou didst appoint the ends and coasts of all the earth throughout Both Summer heat and Winter frosts thy hand did bring about Psal. 72.18 Let Israel's God the King of Kings be prais'd for evermore Who only doth such wondrous things praise ye the Lord therefore HYMN 434. Temptations encountred and overcome All People c. Psal. 77.7 8. WILL God cast off eternally and is his favour clean remov'd Is mercy quite and clean set by his promise past but never prov'd 9 Hath God forgotten to be kind and wholly left compassions path His tender mercies all confin'd and hath he shut them up in wrath 10. But this said I full well appears to be mine own infirmity But I will call to mind the years of his right hand that is most high 11. I will remember and unfold the mighty works of God the Lord The wonders which he wrought of old surely said I I will record HYMN 435. The Safe Conduct Psalm 77.15 THOU hast O God with powerfull hand redeem'd thy people Jacob's Race And Joseph's from proud Pharaoh's Land conducting them in desart place 16. The Waters Lord had sight of thee the Waters saw and were afraid Thy presence and thy power to see the depths of Seas were sore dismay'd 17. The Clouds pour'd down their watry load the Skies a thundring sound forth sent Thine Arrows were dispers'd abroad shot from the flaming Element 18. In Heaven was thy thunder heard thy lightnings did the world surround Earth shook and trembled sore afeard thy way was in the Seas profound 19 20. Thy paths were in the waters deep thy foot-steps now none understand Thou lead'st thy folk like flocks of sheep by Moses and by Aaron's hand HYMN 436. The time of Trouble complained of Psalm 79.5 HOW long wilt thou be angry Lord for ever till we die And shall thy jealousie bâ— stirr'd to burn perpetually 9. Help us O God Our strength and stay thy Glory to record Save us and purge our sins away for thy Name sakes O Lord. 8. Our former foul iniquity remember now no more Let Grace prevent us speedily for we are humbled sore 2. PART Ibidem Psal. 79.8 9.13 DO not record against us Lord our sins done long agoe Draw nigh apace with tender Grace for we are very low O Lord let some sweet comfort come for sorrows sharp and keen And for the years of sighs and tears that we have lately seen So we thy flock and Pasture-stock shall praise thee evermore And pre-ingage each following age to keep like praise in store HYMN 437. The Vine of Israel pray'd for Psalm 80.8 9. A Noble Vine of Israel thou didst from Aegypt bring The Heathenâ—folk thou didst expell and plant it here to spring Sufficient room for it to shoot preparing by thy hand And when it once had taken root it filled all the Land. 10 11 12. Her goodly boughs like Cedars sprout her shade the hills did hide Her boughs and branches were set out from Sea to River side Why hast thou then broke down of hers the quick-set hedges so That all the transient passengers do pluck her as they go 13 14 15. 'T is wasted by the wood-land Boar wild Beasts from neighbouring coasts Devour thy Vine return therefore we pray thee Lord of Hosts Look down from Heaven and behold and visit this thy Vine And Vine-yard planted here of old by that right hand of thine 79.13 So we thy flock and pasture-stock shall praise thee evermore And shall engage each following age to keep like praise in store HYMN 438. Throne of Israel re-established Psal. 80.17 UPhold the man of thy right hand the Son of man sustain Made strong by thee for thee to stand Lord make him strong again 18. So shall not we go back from thee O quicken us for this end And faithfull suppliants we shall be upon thee to attend 19. Lord God of Hosts our hearts incline and turn them unto thee Let Grace Divine upon us shine and safe our souls shall be HYMN 439. Tryal of Loyalty or Israels ingratitude Have mercy c. Psalm 81.7 NOW hearken and give ear to me my people dear O Israel I will testifie to thy conviction clear verse 9 In thee I say there shall be no strange God at all Nor evermore shalt thou adore or on strange Gods shalt call verse 10 The Lord thy God am I who brought thee graciously With powerfull hand from Aegypt Land and servile tyranny Thy mouth now open wide in prayer to be supply'd And sure I will thy prayers fulfill but Israel still deny'd verse 12 So I in judgment just even left them to their lust To walk as their own counsels were destructive to their trust HYMN 440. Tryal of Israel and attest of God's favour Have mercy c. Psal. 81.13 MY people O that ye had hearkened unto me That Israel had walk'd so well as after my Decree verse 14 I should have soon subdu'd their adversaries rude And turn'd my hand to clear the Land of all their enemies lewd verse 15 They that the Lord do hate have bow'd and been prostrate But Israel's time had been in prime and born eternal date verse 16 I should have made them eat the finest of the Wheat And made the Rock a hony-stock distilling plenty great 2.
shine O give unto the Lord 's great Name ye numerous Kindreds of man-kind Both strength and fame to him proclaim for both in one must be conjoyn'd HYMN 467. 2. PART Argument God's Glory in his Temple shineth forth All Creatures joyn with joyfulness and mirth To serve the Soveraign Judge of all the Earth GIVE to the Lord such Glory due as his Almighty Name imports O bring with you an Offering new and come into his sacred Courts Adore the Lord in beauty clear of his Divine and holy place From far and near O stand in fear before his Glorious awfull face Tell Heathen men Jehovah reigns the spacious world hath he set fast And so sustains that it remains unshaken ever to the last With Justice he shall judge the Earth O let the Heaven rejoyce therefore And let the Earth be fill'd with mirth let Seas and all the billows roar Let fields and fruits shew high degrees of joy and mirth with one accord And then with these the woods and trees shall greatly joy before the Lord. For lo He comes He comes afresh with righteous judgment in his mouth To judge all flesh with righteousness and people with his sacred truth HYMN 468. Psalm 97. to v. 7. Argument Christ reigns and triumphs to his enemies dread The Convert Nations may be comforted To the Tune of the old 121. Psalm THE Lord of Israel doth reign Let all the Earth rejoyce With high exalted voice The Lord his Kingdom doth maintain Let multitude of Nations Express their Gratulations Thick Clouds and Darkness as it were At Sinai's sacred Hill Are round about him still And righteousness and judgment are The blessed Habitation Of his high Throne and station A flame of fire that blazeth bright Before his presence goes And burns up all his foes His Lightnings to the world gave light The Earth that was assembled With terrour saw and trembled The Hills did melt like heated Wax At presence of the Lord By all the Earth ador'd The Heavens declare his righteous Acts All people see his Glory For 't is not transitory HYMN 469. Worship of Images accursed 2. PART Psalm 97. v. 7. COnfusion on them all shall come Who can their fancy please With Graven Images That boast themselves of Idols dumb O all ye Gods adore him And humbly bow before him 8 9. Mount Sion heard and made great mirth And Judah's Daughters joy'd To see thy Judgments try'd For thou art high o're all the Earth Exalted altogether Above all Gods whatever 10. O ye whose love no malice taints But grows to God-ward still Hate all things that are ill He saves the souls of all his Saints And strongly them secures From hands of evil doers 11 12. And light is sown for righteous men And very great delight For men of heart upright Rejoyce in God ye righteous then Give thanks to him in telling His holiness excelling HYMN 470. Salvation of Saints 2. METRE Psalm 97. YE lovers of the Lord hate all that evil is For he the souls doth guard of all dear Saints of his And saveth them From cruel spight and crushing might Of wicked men For just men light is sown and gladness is up-stor'd For each pure hearted one ye just joy in the Lord Him praise and bless At th' memory of his so high Pure holiness HYMN 471. Worship of the Soveraign Lord. 1. METRE Psalm 98. A New Song to the Lord now form for rare things he hath done His right hand and his holy arm the victory hath wone verse 2 The Lord doth make his people know his saving health and might The Lord his righteousness doth show in all the Heathens sight verse 3 His Grace and Truth to Israel he kindly doth record And all the Earth hath seen full well the Glory of the Lord. verse 4 O all the Earth sing to the Lord your joyfull voices raise Make loudest noise with one accord and gladly sing his praise verse 5 With Harp and Psalms melodious voice and Trumpets to him sing verse 6 With sound of Cornet O rejoyce before the Lord the King. verse 7 Let Seas and Shores rejoyce their fills and both roar out with noise verse 8 Let waving flouds and tow'ring hills clap hands and joyn in joys Let Creatures all with one accord rejoyce with joy and mirth verse 9 Before this great and Glorious Lord that comes to judge the Earth With righteousness and equity then judge the world shall he And all the people generally with truth and equity HYMN 472. Worship of the Supream Judge 2. METRE Ye Children c. Psal. 98. SING to the Lord a new made Song Whose holy arm and right hand strong hath wrought rare things victoriously The Lord made known his saving might His righteousness in open sight of Heathen men most gloriously He call'd to mind his Truth and Grace To Israel's House and every place hath seen the Lord's Salvation Make joyfull noises to the Lord O all the Earth with one accord sing praise with acclamation Sing to the Lord with Musick choice With Harp With Harp and with the Voice and some sweet Psalm-devotion Your Trumpets and your Cornets bring To sound loud praise to Christ our King who rules the Earth and Ocean Let Seas and all their fulness roar The world and dwellers on the shore the hills and inundations Before the Lord for lo he comes With righteous decrees and dooms to judge the Lands and Nations HYMN 473. Worship performed by the Ancients 1. METRE Psalm 99. THE mighty God his reign begins let foes with terrour quake He sits between the Cherubins let Earths foundation shake verse 2 Not onely great in Sion's Towers is our most Glorious God But high above all humane powers in all the Earth abroad verse 3 Let all men speak of his great fame give him the honour wholly Extol his great and dreadfull Name for it is purely holy verse 4 His royal power doth righteously and Judgments he loves well Thou dost establish equity and truth in Israel verse 5 Exalt the Lord our God O ye that in his Courts have trod Before his foot-stool bend the knee for he 's a holy God. Moses and Aaron in the throng of Priests and men of fame And faithfull Samuel was among the seekers of his Name verse 7 They pray'd and he did answer make when they his favour sought He in the cloudy pillar spake and they his Judgments wrought verse 8 Thou answeredst them O Lord our God forgiving them likewise Though their inventions with thy rod thou sorely didst chastise verse 9 The Lord our God exalt therefore give him the honour wholly And at his holy hill adore for our Lord God is holy HYMN 474. Worshippers of old Moses Aaron and Samuel 2. METRE Psal. 99. THE Lord the God of Israel reigns let Heathens quake to hear He sits between the Cherubins let th' Earth be mov'd with fear The Lord is great in Sion Seat above all people high Let them proclaim his dreadfull Name so
verse 6 And executes just judgment still for every one that suffers wrong verse 7 His ways to Moses he declar'd his deeds to Israel he did show verse 8 And good and gracious is our Lord to mercy prone to anger slow verse 9 He will not always us upbraid nor evermore displeas'd is he verse 10 Nor hath he so our sins repay'd as justly they deserve to be verse 11 For they that fear him find his Grace outreach the spreadings of the Sky verse 12 And he from us our sins doth place as far as East from West doth lye HYMN 482. 2. PART All People c. Vers. 13. GOD pities them that fear his Name as Fathers pity their own Sons verse 14 For well he knows our brittle Frame and whence our composition comes verse 15 Our time is like the flowry Grass so fair and pleasant to the view verse 16 Which at a blast doth fade and pass and leaves no token where it grew verse 17 But still the mercy of the Lord doth bear an everlasting date To them that tremble at his word and are the true regenerate His righteousness doth still endure to Childrens Children great and small verse 18 To them that keep his Covenant sure and mind his Laws to do them all HYMN 483. 2. METRE Argument God's pardoning Grace he makes us to renew Our youth in age as Eagles use to do Psalm 103. verse 1 MY soul now bless with readiness the Lord's most holy Name And let my hearts most inward parts applaud and spread his fame verse 2 O bless the Lord his praise record my soul be not unkind As one that slights his benefits and puts them out of mind verse 3 Who pardons thy iniquity and cancels all thy score Who healeth thy infirmity and doth thy strength restore verse 4 Who from the Grave thy life did save and crown'd thee from above With mercies free enlarg'd to thee and with his tender love verse 5 Who satisfies thy mouth likewise with blessings that are good Thy flower of youth as th' Eagles doth he makes afresh to bud HYMN 484. 2. PART Argument God vindicates th' opprest as Israel found His mercies far beyond our sins abound GOD doth express his righteousness and judgment to the blest To vindicate the desolate and all that are opprest verse 7 His ways to Moses he did shew his acts to Israel's seed verse 8 The Lord is known a Gracious one and mercifull indeed To anger still inflexible but plentifull in Grace verse 9 He 'll not abide always to chide nor keep his wrath long space verse 10 We never felt his judgments dealt according to our sin Nor hath he thus rewarded us as our deserts have been HYMN 485. 3. PART Argument God's mercies larger than from East to West Parents have no such pity in their breast verse 11 FOR as the Sky is far more high Than Earths inferiour Frame So ample his compassion is to them that fear his Name verse 12 And as the East is from the West a distance marvellous So far I say he puts away our Trespasses from us verse 13 And as the mind of Fathers kind is towards their Children dear So doth the Lord much Grace afford to them that do him fear verse 14 For he can tell and knows full well how quickly we are crush'd He calls to mind out brittle kind and knows we are but dust HYMN 486. 4. PART Argument Man's frailty tendered by Gods clemency His goodness to the Saints posterity verse 15 THE days of man are like a span and quickly he must yield He spreadeth as the fading Grass and flower of the field verse 16 For when a blast of wind hath past upon it it is gone And then must it for ever quit the Ground it grew upon verse 17 But God's free Grace doth still take place for them that fear his Name His righteousness so fathomless may Childrens Children claim verse 18 I mean the seed that take good heed his Covenant to fulfill And think of his Divine Decrees to do them with good will. HYMN 487. 5. PART Argument God's Soveraign Throne where Hosts of Angels wait Each Faithfull one his praise doth celebrate verse 19 THOU hast O Lord in Heaven prepar'd a Throne without decay And over all in general thy Kingdom bears the sway verse 20 His praise recite ye Angels bright in strength that pass us all Ye that fulfill his holy will still hearkning to his call verse 21 His Name applaud ye Hosts of God his Ministers on high That do what his good pleasure is with all alacrity verse 22 O ye his Hosts in all the Coasts of his Dominion whole Bless ye the Lord with one accord O bless the Lord my soul. HYMN 488. Applause of God's Greatness 1. PART Psalm 104. MY Soul O bless and magnifie the Lord thy God so Great Who decks himself with Dignity and Majesty compleat verse 2 Who covereth himself with light and with a Garment fair Who stretcheth out the Heavens bright as Curtains in the Air. verse 3 Upon the watry Element his Chamber beams he binds The Clouds his Charet represent he walks on winged Winds verse 4 He makes his Angels Spirits entire not like our mortal seed His Ministers a flame of fire to pass his work with speed HYMN 489. Applause of the Creation 2. PART Psal. 104.5 THE Lord by his Almighty hand the Earths Foundation lay'd So sure that it shall ever stand although by nothing stay'd verse 6 Which at the first Creation was cloathed with the deep The waters had their station above the mountains steep verse 7 At thy rebuke they fled amain and could no longer stay Thy thundring voice did so constrain that they made hast away verse 8 Up by the mountains then they ran and down the dales apace Imbodying in the Ocean which was their founded place verse 9 Their passage now thou dost restrain by setting them a Bound That they may never turn again to cover all the Ground HYMN 490. Blessings of Provision applauded 3. PART Psal. 104.10 FResh Springs into the Vales he sends which run among the Hills verse 11 Each Beast the Forrest comprehends here take and drink their fills Wild Asses here their thirst do slake verse 12 here feathered Fowl do houze And nests for habitations make and sing among the boughs verse 13 He from his Chambers of the Sky the Earth with Rain hath stor'd Thy works the whole Earth satisfie with fruits which they afford verse 14 He makes the Grass to grow for Beasts and Herbs for man's own use Convenient food with full increase he makes the Earth produce Psal. 41.13 verse 15 And wine he gives to cheer the heart and Oyl to slick the face And bread which strengthneth every part the heart in chiefest place Let Israel's God the Lord most high be blest and prais'd therefore From time to time eternally henceforth for evermore HYMN 491. Blessings of the Creatures viz. Plants Planets 4. PART Psal. 104.16
THE trees of God no sap do want those goodly Cedar-trees Which he in Lebanon did plant verse 17 The Birds make nests in these The Stork in stately fir-trees dwells verse 18 high Rocks the Goats befit The Conies in the hollow Cells of stony Rocks do sit verse 19 The Moon a certain course doth run and thou ordain'st it so And when to set none tells the Sun for he the time doth know Let Israel's God the Lord most high be blest and prais'd therefore From time to time eternally henceforth for evermore HYMN 492. Blessings ordain'd for man. 5. PART Psalm 104.20 THOU makest darkness o're the Earth and darkness makes the night And then the Forest-beasts creep forth whom day-time did affright verse 21 Young Lyons roaring for their prey of God do seek their meat verse 22 The Sun ariseth then do they together make retreat In secret Dens they closely lurk verse 23 and then doth man begin To set upon and ply his work till evening calls him in Let Israelâ—s â—s God the Lord most high be magnifi'd therefore From time to time eternally henceforth for evermore HYMN 493. Blessings rich and plentifull by Land and Sea. 6. PART 1. METRE Psal. 104.24 HOW manifold O Lord are those the works of thine own hand All which thy wisedom did compose thy riches fill the Land. verse 25 No less this wide and spacious Sea wherein 's a huge increase Of creeping things that seek their prey both small and greater beasts verse 26 Here go the ships that carry man over the waters thin And here is that Leviathan thou mad'st to play therein verse 27 These on thy bounty all depend for seasonable food Thy liberal hand thou dost extend and they are fill'd with good 28 29 30. They gather what thou dost supply thou hid'st thy face they mourn Thou tak'st away their breath they die and to their dust return Thy Spirit which a while withdrew anon thou sendest forth And by and by thou dost renew the face of all the Earth Let Israel's God the Lord most high be magnifi'd therefore At all times to eternity Amen for evermore HYMN 494. Blessings shewing forth the Glory of God. 7. PART 1. METRE Psal. 104.31 GOD's Glory in its perfect state for evermore shall stand The Lord shall joy to contemplate the works of his own hand Upon the Earth he casts his eye it trembleth at his look And if he touch the hills on high they smoke at his rebuke I 'll sing unto the Lord as long as I escape the Grave I 'll praise my God with cheerfull Song whil'st I my being have My thoughts of him much joy shall add much joy I say to me And in the Lord I will be glad and great my joy shall be But sinners shall be swept away and perish from the Earth Th' ungodly shall no more bear sway when judgment once comes forth But thou my soul with heart sincere applaud and praise the Lord And let the faithfull every where his Glorious praise record HYMN 495. Creation applauded or service of the Creator 1. PART 2. METRE Give laud c. Psalm 104.1 NOW must I needs applaud Jehovah from my heart And say O Lord my God how very great thou art thou dost thee cloath Most Gloriously with Majesty and honour both Thou coverest thee with light as with a Garment fair Spreading the Heavens bright as curtains in the air who lays likewise His Chamber-beams in watry streamâ— of Cloudy Skies Who also hath assign'd the Clouds to be his Coach And on the winged wind he walks and makes approach his Angel-Quire Spiritual Powers his Ministers a flame of fire HYMN 496. Creation applauded or service of the Elements 2. PART 2. METRE Give Laud c. Psalm 104.5 LORD thou hast laid of old the Earths foundation fast The Deeps did it enfold as with a Garment vast the watry floud Did not remove but far above the mountains stood At thy rebuke they fled thy thundring voice began They climb'd on mountains head and down the valleys ran hasting apace Unto the Ground which thou did'st found for their fit place Thou settest them their bound which they shall not pass o're The shore and solid Ground to compass any more in all the vale Springs run an end which he did send into the dale Abundant drink they yield where through the Hills they burst To every beast in field wild Asses quench their thirst and hard by these The Birds of Spring do sit and sing among the trees HYMN 497. Creation applauded or service of the field 3. PART 2. METRE Give laud c. Psal. 104.13 JEHOVAH from on high doth water all the Hills From Chambers of the Sky and all the Earth he fills and satisfies With fruits which thy great works supply in plenteous wise He doth the Grass produce for Cattel in the field And herbs for mans own use he makes the Earth to yield that he may bring Out of the Ground food to be found for every thing The heart of man to glad he giveth generous wine And Oyl from hence is had to make his face to shine and also bread Whereby mans heart in every part is strengthened HYMN 498. Creation-work applauded or service of the Fruits 4. PART 2. METRE Give Laud c. Vers. 16. GOD's trees are full of juice those Cedars many a one Which he did plant for use in hilly Lebanon where birds make nests The Stork to her takes trees of Fir wherein she rests The hills that are on high wild Goats for refuge climb In Rocks the Rabets lie the lights distinguish time he made the Moon Seasons to show the Sun doth know his going down Thou dost the darkness make and darkness makes the Night Then all the beasts forsake their dens that shade the light young Lyons rore After their prey from God do they seek all their store At rising of the Sun they get together then And hastily they run to hide them in their den man goes from home To work and ply his husbandry till ev'ning come HYMN 499. Creation work applauded or service of the Seas 2. METRE 5. PART Give laud c. Psalm 104.24 to 31. O Lord how manifold thy works are great and small Thy wisedom we behold in making of them all the Earth O Lord Is fill'd with thy benignity and richly stor'd So is this spacious deep wherein a huge increase Of countless Creatures keep both small and greater beasts the Ships here sail And made to swim and play therein that strong-set whale All these do wait on thee that thou maist give them meat When fitting seasons be and what thou giv'st they eat thy hand so good Thou openest wide they are supply'd and fill'd with food Thou hid'st thy face they mourn thou tak'st away their breath They dye and soon return unto their dust by death thy Spirit goes forth Comes a new race and spreads the face of all the Earth HYMN 500. Creator's Glory celebrated 6. PART 2.
METRE Give Laud c. Psal. 104.31 THE Glory of the Lord for ever shall abide And in his works well stor'd Jehovah shall be joy'd his looks provoke The Earth to quake his touch doth make the mountains smoke I 'll sing unto the Lord whilst breath prolongs my days And whilst I am record my God in Songs of praise each thought shall add Sweet joy to me and Lord in thee I will be glad Let sinners be consum'd out of the Earth therefore And wicked men be doom'd to have no being more but O record God's praise alway my soul and say praise ye the Lord. The End of the Fifth Century The Sixth Century OF PSALM-HYMNS HYMN 501. Deliverance celebrated 1. METRE For the Fifth of November Psal. 105.1 2 3. GIVE thanks to God call on his Name his deeds to men make known Sing Psalms to him and O proclaim his wonders every one Glory in God with cheerfull voice his holy Name record And let the very heart rejoyce of them that seek the Lord. 4 5 6 7. O seek the Lord his strength intreat for ever seek his face Remember well his wonders great perform'd in every place O ye his servants Abraham's seed by your spiritual birth The Lord our God he is indeed his Judgments fill the Earth Psalm 44.7 Psalm 57.6 Psalm 106.48 He sav'd our Land from th' Enemies hand and puts our foes to shame They digg'd a pit and fell in it themselves must bear the blame But Israel's God we must applaud at all times evermore Ye people then say all Amen praise ye the Lord therefore HYMN 502. 2. METRE Argument All Israel's Seed and Holy Race Are charg'd to seek God's Holy Face For Works and Judgments shew'd in every place All People c. Psalm 105. verse 1 GIVE thanks to God call on his Name his mighty deeds to men make known verse 2 O sing his praise his works proclaim and shew his wonders every one verse 3 Let hearts rejoyce that seek his face boast in his holy Name always verse 4 Seek seek the Lord his strength and grace O seek him ever all your days verse 5 Remember with religious care the wondrous works that he hath done His Miracles and Judgments rare which from his holy mouth have come verse 6 O ye his servants Abraham's seed his chosen Jacob's Sons by birth verse 7 He is the Lord our God indeed his Judgments are in all the Earth HYMN 503. 2. PART Argument Canaan the type of Heaven promised His people through strong Kingdoms safely led A Princely people chiefly honoured verse 8 HIS Covenant he call'd to mind for evermore to stand full fast The faithfull word which he design'd a thousand ages to outlast verse 9 Which Covenant he with Abraham drew and next to faithfull Isaac swore verse 10 And for a Law confirm'd it new to Jacob as to them before An everlasting Covenant firmly with Israelâ—s â—s seed to stand verse 11 Saying to you I freely grant All Canaans rich and fruitfull Land. An Heritage allotted you verse 12 when but a few the people were The number was but very few and they were also strangers there verse 13 When from one Nation they were sent and to another pass'd along From one t' another Government verse 14 he suffer'd none to do them wrong But Kings for their sakes he controll'd verse 15 and said let no presumptuous Arm Touch mine Anointed nor be bold to do my Prophets any harm HYMN 504. 3. PART Argument Joseph reserv'd for many Lands relief In time of famine he 's preferr'd in chief Psal. 105. verse 16 MOreover then th' Almighty spake that Famine should the Land o'respread A dreadfull Dearth thereby to make and wholly break the staff of Bread. verse 17 But Joseph he had sent before whom for a slave his Brethren sold verse 18 Whose feet with fetters they made sore they lodg'd him in the irons cold verse 19 Untill his words accomplishment the man was try'd by God's decree verse 20 The King the peoples Ruler sent to loose him and to set him free verse 21 He made him Lord of 's Family and Ruler of his Royal wealth verse 22 To teach his Senate policy and bind his Peers as pleas'd himself HYMN 505. 4. PART Argument Israel in Aegypt harbour'd then oppres'd Moses sent in and plagues their Land infest verse 23 THEN Israel into Egypt came and Jacob's houshold there found place To sojourn in the Land of Ham verse 24 and there they multiply'd apace He made them stronger than their foes verse 25 and of their foes to be abhorr'd And subtilly they dealt with those the faithfull servants of the Lord. verse 26 He sent his servant Moses then and Aaron his own chosen man verse 27 They shew'd his signs among those men and wonders in the Land of Ham. verse 28 A darkness he among them sent and it was dark that none could see These were not disobedient unto the word of his decree HYMN 506. 5. PART Argument The plague of bloud of flies of lice of hail And Caterpillars Aegypt's Land assail verse 29 HE turn'd their waters into bloud and slew their fish in ponds and springs verse 30 Their Land brought Frogs a monstrous brood filling the Chambers of their Kings verse 31 Strange flies and lice by his command in all their Coasts there did remain verse 32 He gave them Hail in all their Land and flames of fire for showers of rain verse 33 He smote their vines and their figtrees their trees in field and wilderness verse 24 He spake and Locusts swarm'd like Bees and Caterpillars numberless verse 35 Upon the Lands Green Herbs they fed and did their dainty fruits devour verse 36 All Aegypts first-born he smote dead the chief of all their strength and power HYMN 507. 6. PART Argument Israel departs from Aegypt Land And with an high and mighty hand verse 37 HE brought them forth without controll both hir'd with Gold and Silver bribes And there was not a feeble soul among the Israelitish Tribes verse 38 Full glad was Egypt when they went their terrour did so sore affright verse 39 He spread a Cloud a sheltering Tent and fire to light them all the night verse 40 The people asked to be fed he brought them Quails to eat their fill And satisfy'd them with the bread which he from Heaven did distill verse 41 He opened the rock of stone and thence the waters gushed out The desarts dry were over-flown as if a River ran about verse 42 For he on 's holy promise thought and on his Servant Abraham verse 43 His chosen people thence he brought with joy and gladness every man. verse 44 The Heathens labours and their Lands upon his people he bestow'd To keep his Laws and his commands O spread his praises all abroad HYMN 508. Felicity of the Church pray'd for 1. METRE All People c. A Short Collect. Psalm 106. v. 4. REmember me with favour Lord such as thou bearest to thine
command with my whole heart for ever 35 36. In paths of thy Commands Lord make me go aright For my desire so stands and therein I delight Incline my heart O Lord that I may not digress Incline it to thy word and not to covetousness 37 38. Lord turn away mine eyes turn them O Lord I pray From viewing vanities and quick'n me in thy way Establish thou thy word unto thy servant dear Who is devoted Lord unto thy faithfull fear 39 40. The obloquy I fear Lord turn away from me Eor I confess how clear how good thy judgments be Behold how my desires do for thy precepts press O stir those holy fires to shew thy righteousness Psalm 119. v. 41 to 48· 6. PART The great freedom of the Godly LORD let thy mercies come to me The saving health that flows from thee according to thy promise Lord So shall I have to answer those That are my most reproachfull foes for I have trusted in thy word And take not Lord the word of truth Take it not quite out of my mouth for in thy judgments do I hope So shall I keep and not and not give or'e To keep thy Statutes evermore for that is all my aim and scope And I will walk at liberty Because I seek unfeignedly the precepts which thou hast proclaim'd Thy Testimonies are such things That I will mention them to Kings and never be thereof asham'd And I will much delight my mind In thy Commandements enjoyn'd which I have loved to relate My hands likewise I will direct To thy commands which I affect and in thy Statutes meditate Psal. 119. v. 49 to 56. 7. PART Hearty comfort had in Godliness THY promise to thy servant mind whereon thou mad'st me rest This comfort in thy word I find it cheers me when distrest Though proud men have me greatly scoft thy laws I did not leave Thy judgments old I thought on oft and comfort did receive Yet horrour takes me for this age that leaves thy Statutes quite But in my house of Pilgrimage thy laws were my delight Thy name in mind I have retain'd when night her curtain draws I kept thy word and thus I gain'd because I kept thy laws Psalm 119. v. 57 to 64. 8. PART The Just man's portion and practice THOU art my portion O my Lord I said that I would keep thy word according to thy flat decree I beg thy favour from my heart Thy mercy Lord to me impart as thou hast kindly promis'd me I thought upon my sinfull way And turn'd my feet without delay unto thy Testimonies true I hastned and have not delay'd To keep the word which thou hast said commanding our obedience due The wicked men by troops and bands Have rob'd me with injurious hands yet have I not forgot thy Laws But ev'n at mid-night I will rise To reader thanks in Sacrifice thy righteous Judgments give such cause A dear cumpanion Lord am I To all that fear thee faithfully and of them all that keep thy way The Earth O Lord is richly stor'd With mercies which thou dost afford teach me thy Statutes to obey Psalm 119. v. 65 to 72. 9. PART The keenest affliction profitable ACcording to thy promise free Lord thou hast dealt full well with me Who am thy Servant fearing thee Teach me good judgment Lord I pray And knowledge of thy word and way for I believe what thou dost say While unchastised with thy rod I went astray from thee O God but in thy paths I since have trod Lord thou art good thy nature 's so And thou dost good thy works do show teach me O Lord thy Laws to know The proud against me forg'd a lie But my whole heart I will apply to keep thy precepts faithfully As fat as grease their heart is grown But Lord the Law which thou dost own is my delight and that alone 'T was good for me to undergo Th' afflicting hand of God I know that I might keep thy Statutes so The Law of thy dear mouth I hold Better to me a thousand fold than heaps of Silver and of Gold. Psalm 119. v. 73 to 80. 10. PART The love of Saints to Grace and Godliness I Am created Lord and fashion'd by thy hand O give me skill to know thy will and practice thy command All they that fear thy Name to see me will be glad For I O Lord believ'd thy word and therein help I had Thy Judgments Lord are just I know them so to be And in thy fidelâ—ty thou hast afflicted me Let thy kind love I pray for my true comfort make According to thy promise do for thy dear servants sake O let thy tender love come to me in thy sight That sweetly I may live thereby who in thy Law delight Let proud men be asham'd for they without a cause Have used me with injury but I will mind thy Laws Let those that fear thy Name turn in O Lord to me And every one to whom is known thy precepts what they be O let my heart be sound and in thy Statutes true That no just blame may bring me shame for any thing I do Psalm 119. v. 81 to 88. 11. PART The making God our hope MY soul for thy salvation faints with vehement desire Yet doth thy word uphold my heart with hope that cannot tire Mine eyes do fail for thy sweet word and thus they seem to say When wilt thou comfort me O Lord why dost thou thus delay For I am like a bottle Lord that in the smoak is set Yet do not I at any time thy holy word forget But Lord how long must I compute the time to bear controll When wilt thou Judgment execute on them that hunt my soul The proud have digged pits for me far from thy Law they are Thy precepts and their practices do differ very far But thy commandments O most high are faithfull just and true O help me for most wrongfully do they my soul pursue They had almost consumed me and sent me to the Grave Yet did not I forsake thy Law my very life to save Therefore in loving kindness Lord now quicken me with speed So shall I keep the righteous word which doth from thee proceed Psalm 119. v. 89 to 96. 12. PART The never failing of God's word FOR ever Lord thy word doth last And is in Heaven fixed fast Thy faithfulness all ages see The Earth abides as fix'd by thee They all continue to this day As thou appointest all obey Had not thy Law been my delight Affliction had o're-whelm'd me quite Never will I forgetfull be Of thy sweet Laws that quickened me Save me O Lord for I am thine And I have sought thy Laws divine The wicked have my death design'd But I thy Testimonies mind I find the worlds perfections fail But above all thy Laws avail Psalm 119. v. 97 to 104. 13. PART The power of Religion in practice THY Law O how I prise I mind it all the day Thereby thou
flesh no breaking in where dread and danger meets No going out to wars begun afresh no sad complaining uttered in our streets Happy the people blest so for their bodies Yea happy people whose protector God is HYMN 570. Out of Psalm 145. Argument Perpetual praises to the Lord are vow'd And Saints enjoyn'd to set them out aloud David's Psalm of praise I Will extoll thee Lord my King and bless thy Name for ever Each day will I be honouring thy Name neglecting never Great is the Lord and great in praise his greatness none can search One age shall praise thy works and ways to thy succeeding Church Thy mighty acts they shall proclaim and I will here discuss The glorious fame of thy great Name and works miraculous And men shall shew the mightiness of all thy dreadfull deeds And I 'll express with readiness thy greatness which exceeds The mem'ry of thy goodness great they largely shall express Thy righteousness they shall repeat in Songs of thankfulness HYMN 571. 2. PART Argument God's slow to anger prone to grace His mercy shines in every place Psalm 145. verse 8 THE Lord 's a very gracious one whom kind compassions fill To anger slow to mercy prone and bears us great good will. verse 9 The Lord is very good to all as all his creatures find And all his works in general taste of his mercies kind verse 10 Thee Lord shall all thy works renown and thee thy Saints shall bless verse 11 They shall renown thy Kingly Crown and thy great power express verse 12 To make the Sons of men to know God's mighty acts and great His Kingdoms gloriousness to show and his majestick Seat. verse 13 Thy Kingdom 's an eternal one and stands forever fast And thy alone Dominion from age to age shall last verse 21 Therefore my mouth shall speak his praise and universal flesh His holy Name 's renown shall raise and ever sound afresh HYMN 572. 3. PART Argument The weak upheld all Creatures are supply'd With timely food and God is magnifi'd Psalm 145. v. 20. THE Lord preserveth faithfully all those that do him love But all the wicked he 'll destroy with vengeance from above verse 15 The eyes of all do wait on thee and thou dost give them meat In fitting opportunity that all may have to eat verse 16 Thy opened hand O Lord of might doth great abundance bring To satisfie the appetite of every living thing Psalm 145. 4. PART Argument God just and holy takes delight To hear the Prayers of men upright He quite subverts lewd sinners ways And claims our universal praise verse 17 THE Lord is just in all his ways holy in all he doth verse 18 And nigh to every one that prays and calls on him in truth verse 19 He will fulfill the just desires of all the holy seed He hears their cry what that requires and helps them at their need verse 21 Let Israel's God the Lord therefore be prais'd of all together From first to last for evermore Amen Amen for ever HYMN 573. Trust in God blessed Psalm 146.1 2. 1. METRE GReat praise to God Almighty give my soul praise thou the Lord Yea whilst I have a day to live his praises I 'll record I will give praises â—o my God my soul and song agreeing Whilst here on earth I have abode whilst I have any being 3 4. Trust not in Princes mortal seed nor in the Son of man For help you in your greatest need be sure they never can His breath goes forth and he is dead he turneth to his clay And all his thoughts are perished in that same very day 5 6. But happy happy man is he whom Jacob's God doth own Whose help the Lord his God will be who hopes in him alone Which did the Heaven and Earth begin creating both together The Sea and all that is therein which keepeth truth for ever 7 8. Which executeth judgment good for men that are opprest Which to the hungry giveth food and prisoners sets at rest The Lord doth open blind mens eyes and raiseth from the dust The bowed down the Lord likewise doth greatly love the just 9. He keeps the stranger safe and sure in their forlorn estate The Lord relieves the Orphans poor and Widows desolate But as for men that disobey the Lord on them doth frown And their ungodly wicked way he turneth upside down 10. The Lord throughout all ages still shall reign for evermore Even thy God O Sion hill praise ye the Lord therefore HYMN 574. Trust in God immortal powerfull faithfull Give laud c. Psal. 146. v. 1 to 9. 2. METRE MY soul praise thou the Lord as long as thou hast breath In Songs his praise record and honour him till death trust not in Kings Nor humane seed which are indeed vain helpless things Breath fails and dust they be there all their thoughts are laid But happy happy he whom Jacobâ—s â—s God doth aid that hopes in him Who made all these Heav'n Earth and Seas and all therein That keepeth Covenant still that helps the wrong'd to right That doth the hungry fill that gives the blind their sight sets prisoners free Loves upright men and raiseth them bow'd down that be HYMN 575. Trust in the preserver viz. of Srangers Widows and Fatherless Give laud c. Psalm 146.9 3. METRE THE Lord 's Almighty hand preserveth evermore The Strangers in the Land the Widows and the poor and doth relieve The Fatherless in their distress that mourn and grieve As for the sinners way he turns it upside down But he shall reign for aye and wear th' Eternal Crown thy God thy Lord O Sion-hill shall govern still his praise record HYMN 576. 4. METRE Argument Never in Kings or Princes trust For they quickly fall to dust All People c. Psalm 146.1 to 5. THE Lord 's deserved praise proclaim my soul do thou extoll his fame I while I live will praises give unto the Lord 's Almighty Name Unto my God will I sing praise while breath prolongs my life and days Trust in no King nor mortal thing they can no help nor succour raise For lo there passeth out his breath and he returns to dust of death That very day his thoughts decay and every project perisheth HYMN 577. 5. METRE Argument Happy he that trusts alone In the high and holy one That made Heaven Seas and Shore And keeps Covenant evermore Psa. 146. O Happy happy happy one whoever Jacob's God hath known To be his aid whose hope is staid upon the Lord his God alone That made the Heavens Seas and Shore the Earth and all the num'rous store In liquid Seas he made all these and keepeth truth for evermore In judgment he for us proceeds for to avenge oppressors deeds From bondage he sets prisoners free the Lord likewise the hungry feeds HYMN 578. 6. METRE Argument God loves the Just helps the distrest For ever reigns his Name is blest Psal. 146. THE Lord doth