NOW vieu this Princess branch of Kings See noble birth what genÄ•rose presence brings All gorgeÅus all with grace performd While wealth hath art and art hath wealth adornd Yet beautÄ•ous robes fair face exceeds But fairest mynd within chief glori breeds THUS happi King thy spouse to thee Dezired spouse is led and Virgin shee With virgin troop hir sociates deer Attended all to pleazed eys appear With signs with sounds of ioy they com Where roial palace yields them grateful room AND thow great King in fathers place Shalt children raize endÅed with fathers grace Whom zelous iustice to maintain Shalt Princes high through all thy Lands ordain AND I thy name shal make renoumd While heavÄ•n leads time where evÄ•r fair earth hir ground Extends yea whilÄ•st bothe worlds endure My verse thy praise from peoples shall alure PSALM 49. The Psalmist taking vieu of his old age and death approaching entereth into consideration of the vaniti of worldli mynds who plot for a perpetuiti of greatnes here where death and time devour and consume all things and contrariwise comforteth himself by faith in God who in the morning of the renüed world wherein righteous men shal bere dominion shal redeem him from the power of the grave and death and translate him to his owne everlasting habitation when as worldli men shal be remooved from their graves to hell to be consumed as beasts with death euerlasting YE sons of men where-evÄ•r o're earths great globe disperst Both ye of noble race and ye whom fathers unrehearst In menenes have obscurÄ•d ye rich and poor attend My mouth shal wisdom stream which hart from muzings deep dooth send My thoughts on sentence grave on parable profound Defixt at length my matter dark to harp shal cleerly sound WHY should unpleazing fears my sadded mynd torment When evil days approach sweet years of pleasure when are spent When sin with death at heels my wasting life persues See mighti man whose ey his wealth with gloryÄng trust revieus No one e're brother deer from thralling death redeems Can God the ransom pay who price too high of soules esteems For mortal powÄ•r to reach that cease may vain attempt Mans life in line stil on to draw from iaws of grave exempt HE seeth great sages dy evÄ•n so the brutish fool And leve their wealth th'untimeli thirst of thankles heirs to cool In inward thoughts then count their houses yet secure Their stateli seats shal undevourd through ages all endure And lands shal bere their names But man in honour placÄ•d Like beasts fals doun his house his seat his name from earth effacÄ•d LO ways of fool-wise men which yet their worldli race As proiects high of wisdom deep with much applause embrace But they in grave doo ly like sheep in narrÅed holds Where death as wolf devoured flesh in gnawing panch infolds There dead they dy And when worlds morning fair renues Their yelling crys shal iudging Saints with lordli doom refuze From grave then hell shal seaze and seaz'd their shapes consume When God my soule mee shall from bothe to him redeemd resume THEN feare not grieve not thow when godles person thrives His house when gloriÅus mounts For not when death of life deprives He all shal hence transport ne glori train to grave Though foolish mouth oft cursed soule in life fair blessings gave And though men praize thy mynd stil folÅing worlds delight He hence to fathers race shal pack ay shut from heavÄ•nli light O man great woork of price of wisdom if bereft If beast-like lives like beast he dys in dark destruction left PSALM 50. This Psalm beeing made by ASAPH that Master of Musick who was also a Composer of sacred hymns and a Prophet introduceth God revealing himself to the world by his Creatures by his Oracles and by his Iudgements Then falling to debate matters with his chozen people God sheweth that it is not their sacrifices wherein he taketh pleasure beeing a service to him neither proper of it self and which in fine should cease but in the spiritual sacrifices of praise thankful vows and invocation And he reprooveth those hypocrites that durst talk of the woord of God denying him and it in their lifes and manners whose end vnless they repented should be helples destruction THE mighti God our Lord from heavÄ•ns first glorious voice hath sent To call earths whole from rizing sun to sun declynd extent And then from SiÅn a complete world of beauties all refin'd By oracle by sacred woord more cleer to his hath shin'd To iudgement rests our God proceed In iudgements he dooth com To teach reproove afflict raize up then then comÄ•th final doom Before the Iudge a purging fire corruption shall devour And hidÄ•ous tempest round about from gloomi clouds shal shour BUT now with his peculiar folk to sweet debate he fals And heavÄ•ns fair eys and earths rich womb as conscious witnes cals Assemble me my chozen race takÄ•n up from world forlorn Who law who sacred leaug with mee through sacrifice have sworn O righteous Iudge thy iustice bright the heavÄ•ns great host proclaims Thow fountain whence all iustice flowes thy self more iust remains HEAR ô my people I wil speak thou Isrăel for with thee I will contest Thou knowÄ•st me God yea thy true God to bee That sacrifices rare to mee thy scanti hands have brought And sacred fire on altar oft in vain burnt-hosts hath sought Nor charge I thee nor bull from stall or goats from fold wil take Who world of wealth enioys think'st hee penurious stores should rake NOT so for midst the spatious woods what beast untam'd dooth breed What cattle sparst through thousand mounts on budding shrubs doo feed What bird the hils what savage fierce the desert plains dooth ply Are all myn owne and in my vieu at will serve liue and dy If hunger frail unwoorthi thought could me assail would I Who world and worlds rich store possess to thee forfood apply Or when thy sacrifice thow kilst canst thow so fondly think Base flesh of buls that I should eat or goats foul bloud should drink NAY if thyn humble thankful hart with sacrifice dezire The powÄ•r divine to pleaze and give what God dooth most require Pure sacrifice of praises bring the sacred tribute due From creature blest to King of bliss and of thy vows be true Then in thy troubled state toward heavÄ•n thy soule perplexed raize Crave help of mee thy suit I 'le hear thou me eftsoon shalt praize BUT unto th'impious thus saith God How dar'st thou wretch presume To teach my Law my gracious leaug in graceles lips t'assume Thy life for thereunto to frame through hate thou standst agast And woord divine thy speach promotes thy facts behynd thee cast A thief thy greedi ey hath seen thy hand with him conspires Adultrous crue with them leud hart combines in foul desires Malicious mouth addict'st to rail sly tong to forge deceipt And envious lips owne mothers son to closely
slander wait THUS slave to passions vyld thou livÄ•st and I have silent been Whence yet more impious like thy selfe evÄ•n mee thou didst esteem But I not like to thee at length thy iust reproof have sent And ougli sins to fearful eys wil all aray prezent Consider this ô ye who God and Gods pure law neglect Least unrepenting harts I rend when none can them protect Who incense sweet of thankful praise sends up me right adores And rightÄ•ous life who leads from fall to bliss my grace restores PSALM 51. King DAVID reprooved from God by the Prophet Nathan for his grievous sin with Bathsheba leaveth in this Psalm an excellent pattern of an hart truly repentant returning to the service of God and care of his people MY sinful soule arraind of twofold gilt Of Spouse-bed wrongd of bloud ah fouly spilt With saddest grief in tears imbrynd repents And wailed crimes at mercies feet prezents O sourse of grace whence seas of mercies flowe Release my gilt and love returning shewe MY gilt releasd then clenze my soule from stain From stain which sin behynd stil makes remain And nue sin breeds But since my pensiue sight Sin gilt and stain stil wound by day by night With sour remorse since them I Lord deplore Ah cure them Lord and rightÄ•ous grace restore NO mortal law dooth me transgressour make Thy law divine whose iustice heăvens dooth shake Thee supreme Iudge sole thee my sin offends Whose piercing vieu to secretst thoughts extends Ah evÄl I Lord in thy pure eys have doon So iust reproof so iudgement right is com WHAT shal I plead of sin defiled mass From sin who com through sin to death must pass From mould deformd lo form I first receiv'd And mother frail in sin warm life conceiv'd But thow in soules thyn owne true form dezirÄ•st And wisdom deep it to restore inspirÄ•st AND thus I stood but now orethrowne by sin Deformd defyld ah Lord let grace begin Recure to woork with spring with hysop thyn So scour this soule more white then snowe to shyn And comfort Lord ô ioy now make me hear That bruz̆ed bones returning strength may cheer REMOOVE my sins from thy offended ey And cancel all my falts Hear once my cry Clean hart crëate right spir̆it in mee renue Then wavÄ•ring mynd with heăvenli stay endue Ah cast not off griev'd breaker of thy law Nor HOLI SPIRÄT soules sovÄ•rain life withdraw Restore the ioy of thy sweet saving grace And sins bond powÄ•r with thy free spir̆it displace THEN erring soules my thankful zele shal burn Thy ways to teach who glad to thee shal turn And then my song but bloud keep Lord away My saving Lord thy iustice shal display Sole thou my lips once open Lord again And ioiful mouth shal sacred praise proclaim IF sacrifice thy powÄ•r divine might please If offrings burnt thy burning wrath appeaze What would I spare but nought in heăven obtains Beasts life in man while beastlike mynd remains Man 's owne griev'd spir̆it is Gods best sacrifice His sighs his tears doost ne're iust Lord despize THEN ô return ô bless stil Sion deer Ierusalems stil lingring wals uprear With cleered harts then wee in legal rites Iust sacrifice wherein great God delights Shal bring yong buls at altars side shal bleed And offrings burnt th'undying flames refeed PSALM 67. A praier of the Church unto God to be gracious unto mankynd and to enlarge his blessed Kingdom over all the world whence happines both earthli and celestial shall ensue as hath been fulfilled by the coming of Christ. BE gracious Lord Let cleerly shine The beauties of thy blisful face That earth may see thy ways divine And nations all thy saving grace Let people bless thy sacred name Let people all renoum the same ALL wo exil'd let ioy return For thow who right doost still protect Shalt iudge them who for iustice moorn And erring nations here direct Let people praize thy glorious name Let people all adore the same THEN shall the earth as fild with love Hir gifts in great abundance poure And God our God from heavÄ•n above His choisest blessings richly shoure God shall vs bless and vtmost lands Shal all submit them to his hands PSALM 68. King DAVID having assembled the flour of all Israel to conduct the Ark of God with solemniti to mount Sion the chozen place of rest which was the occasion and is the argument of this Psalm beginneth his march with those sacred woords uzed by Moses alwaies at the remooving of the Ark in the wilderness Then with great exultation celebrateth both the Maiesti and the Goodnes of God as toward mankynd in general so especially toward his peculiarly elected race drawn from servitude and placed in great prosperiti Afterward prosecuting the occasion he setteth foorth the great honour of Sion thus chozen to be the onli seat of Gods aspectable presence amongst his people And upon the consideration of this triumphant ascending of Gods Ark beeing his Sanctuari upon earth he breaketh out into a prophetical description of the Ascension of our Saviour the Lord of that Ark into the celestial Sanctuari whereof that terrestrial was a shado and figure from thence to pour blessings of deliveri from death and of salvation upon mankynd to subdue all his enimies and once again to reduce that selected people from dispersion and miseri Lastly touching by the way the manner of the marching of the Ark he concludeth with a praier to God for the preserving of his people and repressing of their enimies that so forain lands may assubiect also themselfs to God whom finally he exhorteth all the kingdoms of the world to woorship LET pleaze our God to ărize that enÄmies his disband And hating foes in hated flight be chas'd by mighti hand As smoke strong wynds doo drive as fire dooth wax consume So shalt thou sweep them from thy face so wast them all to fume Then shall the rightÄ•ous mynds whose hopes on God depend Reioice in him and thankful shouts to heavÄ•ns high coort upsend SING ô sing praise to God advance that glorious name Th' Eternal SelfbeÄ•ing Lord who mounts on heavÄ•ns high arched frame Prepare make plain his way who o're alpestrious place Coms marching towărd his seat elect triumph before his face Not hee neglecting man despizing mortal care In sacred throne resides not so but chyld of parents bare Him Father fynds him wido Iudge he prison̆er frees To sole an house to rebel race dry parched soil decrees WHEN Captain thow ô God thy troops from PharaÅs thrall Victorious ledst through deserts wyld when march'dst before them all The mooving sea stood still th'unmooving earth it shakÄ•d The heavÄ•ns at presence thyn dropt sweat fore thee mount Sinai quakÄ•d All IsraÄ•ls God did dread Thow then with bountÄ•ous rain Didst chozen land enrich didst strength exhaust repair again HERE thow a seat for thyn thy poor despized bands A seat preparÄ•dst where ioious dwell and rule should neighbour lands
with speed and tender ey reflect Thou Goodnes pure thy servants not neglect In case extreme who mercies hand implore O spring of grace I mercies those adore Then Lord be neer yea for my ' insulting foes To free my soule once heavÄ•nli aid discloze AH see and iudge thou knowÄ•st my sad reproach Fore thee my foes my shames who shameles broach Stand all in sight Their wrongs have worn my hart Full chargÄ•d with grief I lookt if yet som part My frends would bere no frend condoling found If comfort speak but none least comfort sound For strengthning meat yea poizÅning gall they sent And vinÄ•ger tart my thirst to quench prezent THERFORE iust Lord their owne them home repay Their pleazing boord where ioys before them play Let turn a snare to catch them in their woords And that which foli ' as lot to fools affoords Their wishes hurt good fortunes bee their bane Mynds sight obscure their loins rough valure lame AND as in furi man laith lode of blowes So let revenge which from thyn anger flowes Ad stripe to stripe and seaze with raging ire Their hated heads which mischief sole dezire Void stand their castles dweller none be found To grace the tents where graceles facts abound FOR thow whom Lord with hand severe hast smit They fierce persue and inhumanely sit With grievous woords t' encrease thy woundeds pain Let sin so sin so plague to plague enchain Thy righteÅusnes that still they wretched miss Nor way e're fynd that leads to heavÄ•nli bliss Devowd to death from book of life efface Ne write their names where iust mens names have place NOW I stil poor sole rich in griefs remain Help saving Lord and raize me once again That raiz'd thy grace my song may thankful praize And blisful name to heavÄ•ns fair arches raize This sacrifice more pleazing God shal bee Then cleft-hoov'd steer at Altars horns to see THE myld of mynd great comfort hence shal take This sight shal ioy them O let harts awake To seek the Lord and so your harts shal live Nor wynds nor seas can from his anchor drive For ey of care who towărd mans wants reflects His prisÅners crys sure nevÄ•r at need neglects THEN heavÄ•ns and earth then seas and all your gests Which spatiate there conform to supreme hests Ay laud our King who Sion fair wil save And Iudahs touns repair There shall they have A seat and lasting state Thus God shal bless His folks true seed who love towărd him address PSALM 79. This Psalm which seemeth to have been compozed in the time of Antiochus the persecutour by som descendant of the famous ASAPH and who bare also his name which in that Tribe was frequent conteineth a most lamentable complaint unto God of the ruins of Ierusalem the defilements of the Temple and massacre of Gods faithful servants Then praying first for propitiation for the sins of the people the true cause of that calamiti he presseth on with most fervent suit for speedi deliverance and large revenge upon their Hethen enimies THE HethÄ•n ô God who fear not no nor knowe Thy glorious name into thy land are com And in thyn House whence blessings pure did flowe With hands impure polluting facts haue doon DEFYLD thy sacred seat thy rites profanÄ•d Thy treasures robd thy Citti set on fire Ierusalem earths ioy which earst was namÄ•d Throwne doun on heaps sits now in lothed mire THY servants slain for loial love to thee Their bodies dead heăvens fouls cast out to feed And flesh of Saints whose faith thyn eys did see To earths wyld beasts ingluvious throats decreed THEIR bloud as torrent streams about the wals Of sad Ierusalem no burriÄ•r found Opprobrious scorn us grievous lot befals And laughings proud in neighbours mouths abound HOW long ô Lord shal ever flame thyn ire Can no distress once moove to pitti take Thy iealous wrath and shal it rage like fire Which water none no tears may e're asslake AH turn it first gainst those who nor invoke Thy name great Lord nor knowe or seeke thy face Gainst Hethen kingdoms who with mortal stroke Thy Iacob wound lay wast h s resting place REDUCE not Lord to thyn offended eys Those falts forepast which still unthankful wee And fathers our have doon let grace arize Our soules from gilt of sorroed sins to free AND thou arize and with thy mercies deer Prevent our instant deaths Ah case extreme Denys delay Help source of goodnes meer And save vs thow whence safeties all doo stream RESPECT great Lord the glori of thy name Which wee revere our enimies proud despize Insulting HethÄ•n to say they doo not shame Where 's now the God on whom their hope relys BVT let our God make noble in our sight To Hethen eys his high revenging hand That giltles bloud pourd out and not in fight Of servants thyn may full revenged stand AND let the sighs and moornings of thy Saints Who grone in chains to thee access obtain And mighti arm excited by their plaints Them rescue ' who now to death consignd remain THUS neighbours scorns wherewith they thee reproach SevÄ•nfold to them in bosom Lord restore We then thy folk and flock thyn acts shal broach With thanks and praise will evÄ•r our God adore PSALM 73. The Prophet ASAPH by the sence of his owne afflictions and by contrari vieu of the exulting prosperiti of godles persons who pass on a pleasant time blaspheming God and oppressing his servants having endured like as other of the people of God a sore temptation of calling into question the veri Omniscience of God and his government over this loweër world at length getting the victori by Gods especial assistance he sheweth that out of the Sanctuari of God where his Oracles were delivered he had learned that it was not the condition of this transitori life but the end it self whereby the state of the good and bad was to be esteemed Seeing then the end of the wicked to be utter destruction and everlasting happines to attend the righteous he betaketh himself wholy to the conduct of divine direction with great assurance to be guided by Gods counseil in this life and afterward to be received by God into eternal glori In expectance whereof his soule repozeth YET surely God benign to IsraÄ•l stands To pure in hart But I was sore declynd Griev'd vieu of fools of wicked prospering hands Had welnigh sapt my weak unwari mynd FROM bands of death by sicnes force or snare They free pass on live lusti puft with ioy With humane toils and cares untroubled are Yea publick plagues them least and last annoy THIS makes with pride their out-stretcht necks like chein With violence fierce as robe they lims attire Their plentÄ•ous fare red strouting eys proclaim While heaping wealth surmounts evÄ•n harts desire FROM poizÅning filth their lothsom talk they change Oppressions proud with lofti stile to sound Their tongs through earth in wronging men doo range And hellish
gainst his Christ earths Kings and Peers shal band To force ioyn fraud ah fools Heăvens kingdom to withstand Fond earthi mynds ye hate your bliss Gods gracious hests Free laws as thrauling t ys your lawles life detests BVT Hee in heăvens that sits whose ey their thoughts divides Their wicked mynd abhors their vain attempts derides He then in wrath shal speak in wrath which sore shal vex And with distracted thoughts their troubled mynds perplex And then shal glorious voice from heăvenli throne proceed Lo here my Son a King to sacred SiÅn decreed THEN this decree I 'le shew God spake it first to Mee My Son thou art this day have I begotten thee Thy kingdom shal encrease Ask me and Gentile lands Yea utmost ends of earth I 'le render to thy hands VVhom thou obdur'd in sin with rod of irÅn shalt bruze As earthen pot shalt crash while they thy laws refuze THEN ô advize ye kings and ye instruction take Who Iudges are of earth your iudgements right to make Serve God with fear with fear best wisdom is begon With dread your ioys asseaz̆on Then homage to his Son With kiss prezent So so his kindling ire prevent Which them and all their ways gainst whom least spark is bent With horrour dire consumes But blessed ay the wight Who trusts in him to him who sacred faith hath plight PSALM 8. The Prophet DAVID admireth Gods graciousnes toward Man particularly in the future humiliation of Christ and in the exaltation of Mans nature in him and by him ensuing Where together with the supernatural dominion of Manintimated the restauration also of the natural is expressed By the way the Childrens acclamation to our Sauiour at his solemn entri into the Temple and the powerful effect thereof are pointedat ETERNAL Lord th' illustrous fame That sounds through world thy glorious name Whose greatnes fair transcends the skys Whose goodnes earth dooth not despize EvÄ•n tender lips of infants yong Thy grace inspires with praiseful song Whose force thy foes revengeful rage All danted strangely dooth asswage WHEN vp my wondring eys I raize Towărd higher coorts which preach thypraise The heăvens so huge the stars so bright That Prince of day this Queen of night All which doo thee their maker knowe Of peerles hand the matchles showe Lord what is man poor clot of mold That him in mynd thou still shouldst hold Or son of man defiled worm Thy gracious thoughts towărd him to turn A LITTLE thou wilt man abbase Beneath thy blisful Angels place Then ay shal man remain renound With prime of glori princely cround To him as King thy creatures bow And dueti prest shal ioyful vow What e're against his scepter swell His powrful foot thou doun makÄ•st quell THE cattle myld his service bear Yea beasts most wyld his frounds doo fear What flying wing the air divides What swimming fin through water glides What creeping thing in sea or land Hast all subiected to his hand O Lord our Lord what glorious fame Resounds through world thy gracious name TREBLE Eternal Lord th' illustrous fame Thatsounds through world thy glorious name Whose greatnes fair transcends the skys Whose goodnes earth dooth not de spize EvÄ•n tender lips of infants yong Thy grace inspires with praiseful song Whose force thy foes revengeful rage All danted strangely dooth as swage BASE MEANE COVNTERTENOR TENOR LUTE PSALM 15. The moral furniture of a true member of Gods Church set out by King DAVID LORD who shal in thy roial tent reside Whom shal thy sacred mount his dweller claim The man whose feet in paths direct abide Whose lips at trueth whose hands at iustice aim NO wronging tale his tong hath twynd no deed Of his hath neighbour harmd yea slander vile Gainst neighbour raiz'd which itching ears dooth feed With stern rebuke his righteous ears exile THE godles wretch from heăvenli coort reiected As foe he shuns as outcast base despizeth The godli wight by grace divine elected As frend he loves as precious highly prizeth HIS woord as oath his oath as sacred vow He firm observes though harm he thence endure Usurious trade the idles biting plow Ne gain nor ease can him to hold alure THE upright cause sole obiect of his sight No bribe can hurt no present needs to mend So hee the man whom nought shal shake or fright Whom sacred place and blisful ioys attend PSALM 16. The Prophet DAVID in this Psalm noted with a mark of excellenci declareth that beeing first prepared in soule by betaking himself wholy to the service and protection of God he had received supernatural infusion of Diuine Wisdom By vertue whereof with much ioy and exultation he foreprophecieth the speedi Resurrection of our Holi Saviour from death the ground of mans hope and comfort and the happines of the Life to com in the vision of God THEN thow preserve me Lord thou anchor of my mynd My wandring thoughts no rest save in thy favour fynd Thee thee my soule hath chÅzen thee vowd hir Lord to bee Though service myn I knowe can nothing ad to thee Yet to thy servants may in whom thy gifts excell Terrestrial Saints midst whom my high delights doo dwell BVT sorroes them befall yea heaped plaugs oppress VVho gifts from thee to dum or damned gods address Their murdring sacrifice shal never soil my face Their Gods accursed names my lips shal never grace THOW art my God my Lord the portion I love best My health and wealth my ioy my bliss and glorious rest And thow my earthli lot in place both rich and pure A goodli seat shalt long to mee and myn secure THE Lord with thankful praise my humble mynd adores VVho mee with counseil deep in nightli muzing stores For him before me ay my faithful eys engrave He at my right hand stands from falling me to save VVHERFORE my hart with ioy my spir̆it exults in praise And soule hir dying flesh in hopeful rest doun-lays For not my soule beneath exil'd thou'lt leue from thee Ne let thyn HOLI ONE impure corruption see But paths of life wilt shew which to thy presence bring VVhere fullest ioys for ay and purest pleasures spring TREBLE THen thow preserve me Lord thou anchor of my mynd My wandring thoughts no rest save in thy favour fynd Thee thee my soule hath chozÄ•n thee vowd her Lord to bee Though service myn I knowe can nothing ad to thee Yet to thy servants may in whom thy gifts excell Terrestrial Saints midst whom my high delights doo dwell BASE MEANE COVNTERTENOR TENOR LUTE PSALM 17. DAVID grounding upon the innocenci of his owne life and conscience appealeth to God for relief against the oppression and cruelti of his uniust enimies who men of the world place their happines wholy in the corporal pleasures of this life whereas his Feliciti consisteth in enioying Gods fauour in his righteous life here and in the glorious vision of God in the life after the Resurrection This Psalm seemeth
no powÄ•r can stand SOME charrets make their strength and grace In horses som proud glori place Fond ioy false strength at thundring call Horse charrets men to ground doo fall We then to heăvens address our ey Where surer trust faiths eys descry A trust which whilÄ•st they doun are brought Our standing strength and triÅmph hath wrought Then hear vs Lord let heavÄ•ns great king Our king on earth home safely bring â—…ALM 21. King DAVID yieldeth solemn Thanks unto God at his return with Uictori over Gods enimies and farther foresheweth their utter extermination THE King Lord towărd thy glorious face Victorious eys dooth ioyful rear His strength thy spir̆it his health thy grace With doubled triÅmphs his soule dooth chear What hart could wish what lips did crave Thy bountÄ•ous hand him strangely gave YEA whÄ•ther his thoughts had nÄ•ver aspyr'd Thy blessing roial him prevents Of purest gold croun undesyr'd To humble head rich hand prezents Then lire he ask'd thou long to live Yea life eternal didst him give WHAT maiesti on earth can shine What woorship mortal man may grace What glori only not diuine Thy goodnes all on him dooth place That him all ages pattern rare Of matchles bliss shal ay declare THEN ioy his thankful hart hath fraught Which from thy face serene derives Which firm affiănce hath likewise wrought Which ioy again stil fresh revives For sith the King in th'HighÄ•st dooth trust Thou' rt safe ô King ô HighÄ•st thou' rt iust FOR as on thyn thy love is sign'd So powrful hand those monsters dire Which hate the sovÄ•rain good shal fynd And found confound in day of ire As firi furnace they shal fume Which kindled once dooth self consume WITH cursed sires corrupted seed From face of earth thou shalt destroy For spite gainst thee their brains doo breed Vain spite which woorks but self-annoy As mark their faces thou shalt lay On which thy winged shafts may play OTHOW who euerlasting reins Of world almighti Guid doost sway Advance thy strength and proud disdains Of miscrÄ•ants vyld great Lord repay So we thy powÄ•r shal sing and praize Which foes dooth quell thy servants raize TREBLE THe King Lord towărd thy glorious face Victorious eys dooth ioy-ful rear His strength thy spÄrit his health thy grace With doubled triumphs his soule dooth chear What hart could wish what lips did crave Thy bountÄ•ous hand him strangely gave MEANE COVNTERTENOR TENOR BASE LUTE PSALM 22. Our Saviours complaint vpon the Cross thanks giuing for deliuerance and propheci touching the great encrease and perpetuiti of his Church foretold by DAVID MY God my God why doost thou me forsake Why to my plaints thyn ear a stranger make By day I cry but thou far off art gone By night deer Lord but audience fynd I none YET Holi Lord thou same doost stil endure Thyn Israels ioy their song of praises pure Our Fathers Lord in thee did faithful trust On thee they hopÄ•d Thou to their hopes wert iust They cry'd and tears did not shour doun in vain Their crys thou heard'st and freedst them from their pain BVTI a worm not man but mans reproach Where abiects vyld their basest scornings broach What ey me vieuth same ey dooth me deride They wag proud heads false lips they wryth aside He trusts in God Let God from heăven above Make good this trust and now declare his love TRVETH Lord my hope from mothers brest thou wast Then hopes sure ground thy gracious promise past From mothers womb I rest bequeathd to thee Thence me receiv'dst my Saviour Lord to bee THEN saving Lord sith troÅble dooth press so neer Ah troÅble vntryd and no where help appear Be thow not far See Lord what buls are met Huge buls of Basan round haue me beset With gaping iaws much lion-like they play Which ramps to seaze and roars to rend his pray SEE vital iuice to watri stream distild My bones disioint my hart with anguish fild Like melting wax consumes as fire-burnt clay My spir̆its being dryd lifes vigours all decay Yea withÄ•ring tong to parched chops dooth cleve Thus me my Lord in dust of death doost leve FOR dogs have mee besiegÄ•d A savage rout Of vyld malfactors mee envir̆on about Hands Feet they 'ue pierc'd my bones may all be told Which gazing eyâ—… from flinted harts behold My robe vnript amongst them they divide And seamles cote by chancing lot decide BVT thow my Lord in weakest state my strength My hope in death look doun release at length From heavÄ•ns award my life from swoord discharge From powÄ•r of dog my desolate soule enlarge From lions mouth from unÄcorns horns with speed Now hearÄ•st ô save in soules extremest need THY glorious name I 'le preach to brethren deer And faithful Church in midst thy praise shal hear From thankful voice resound Ye sons of grace Who fear your Lord and thow great IsraÄ•ls race LovÄ•d Iacobs seed your revÄ•rend ioys enhance His praise through earth his name to heavÄ•ns advance FOR not with scorning mynd or loathing ey Th' afflicted wight he careles passed by Ne helpful face from rueful sight did hide But gracious ear to iust complaint applyd Then vows I 'le pay before them which thee fear And sacred praise assembli great shal hear THE spirits myld whom dews celestial bless Shal fruits of earth in plentÄ•ous rest possess Their gracious zele Gods glorious praise shal sing Your ended life shal life unending bring YEA natiÅns all which earth 's great globe doo fill EvÄ•n kindreds which hir bounds extremest till At length themselves remember shal and mourn Till whom they left to him again they turn To mighti king whose woord whole world dooth wield Thus worship due shal world united yield FOR him all states shal serve On earths great store The rich shal feed and heavÄ•ns great Lord adore And poorest wretch who doun in dust doth ly To him shal bow and dying death defy This course great ages run Their poster̆ous race In worlds cleer vieu his service shal embrace And so transmit that childrens children ay His iustice learn his sacred will obay PSALM 25. DAVID as it seemeth upon his last farewel and flight from the Coort of Saul understanding perhaps of the great levi of forces to persue him and entring in that distress of state as well into a revieu of sins of his coortli life past as into a forevieu of troubles which in this banishment he must endure wholy casteth himself upon the merci and favour of God Whom he praieth for Protection from his wrongful enimies for Remission of his sins and for Direction in the best coorse of life Withall he celebrateth Gods graciousnes toward his faithful servants and concludeth with a petition in behalf also of the people TO THEE his faithful soule thy servant Lord dooth rear My God my trust ô dain hir humblest suits to hear And let not black disgrace my lifes pure light obscure And frustrate hope proud foes insulting ioys alure Let none
But those who hate the iust Shal perish all the wicked harts owne malice grynds to dust Their owne desires them plague But God shal rightÄ•ous souls redeem And none shal quail to him that trust who him their life esteem PSALM 36. DAVID here entituled the servant of God having described first the reprobate sence of the wicked breaketh out into admiration of the divine infinitnes in all perfections in the participation and fruition of which consisteth the final beatitude of Gods true Servants when the rebellious shal ly under euerlasting destruction THE bestiăl mynd forsaking God resolv'd to ioy in sin To shun remorse first natures light t' extinguish dooth begin Then cheers himself in blyndest ways no vyld desire refrains Til in my hart no dread of God before his eys remains At length evÄ•n gloriÄ•th in his shame and ioith ah wretched state Inventing ill which well adviz'd his trembling soule would hate DEFYLD distuned soule His lips which ought Gods praises sound And world with trueth assist in leud and lying woords abound His mynd of vnderstanding pure good thoughts it self deprives And nought but mischief fraud and wrong on silent bed contrives In sum estrangÄ•d from goodnes all enthral'd to ill he bends His steps towărd death where vengeance due rebelliÅus soules attends O LORD what highth what depth what bredth thy greatnes may profess What hart can goodnes thyn conceive what tong thy praise express Thy bounteÅus grace from heavÄ•ns to earth thy creatures all comprends Thy iustice mountains huge surmounts thy trueth yond clouds extends A deep abiss thy iudgements rest O thow doost all protect Thou man doost save ne simplest beast in needful things neglect BVT ô how precious towărd mankynd thy mercies Lord redound Whence servants thyn thy shadÅing wings their sure retrait have found And when at last through ended toils they at thyn House arrive There pleasantst food there sweetest streams ay pure delights revive For thow ô fountain great of life their life doost still refresh And beams from thee deriv'd their eys with sight al-gloriÅus bless THEN Lord hold on thy kyndnes deer towărd those that knowe thy name And iustice thyn array the soules whom sacred loves enflame And let not proud oppressing foot my gracious ways deface Nor sinning hand misdraw my soule thoughts sinful to embrace Lo sinners proud defecting soules throwne doun in dreadful guise In dead destruction ay involv'd to life shall never rize PSALM 37. King DAVID now full of years and experience remooueth here those great and difficult scandals of wicked mens prosperiti and good mens afflictions He sheweth that the godli who delight in the law of God and exercize themselves in heavenli wisdom live alwaies in the favour of God and under divine protection that God maketh them partakers even of the temporal blessings of this life though not alwaies in the largest yet in a sufficient and contenâ—…ful proportion and such as is for their greatest good which blessings are to them also more constant and permanent and that Gods holi hand both delivereth them from the malignant practises of the wicked and preserveth them in times of publick plagues and calamities furnishing them with abiliti to be helpful also to others yea that though they fall he raizeth them up again and what troubles soever they pass thorough in this life that their end yet is assured peace Wherein they have also this pleazing comfort that God will continue his blessings even to their seed and posteriti Contrarily he intermixeth a discoveri of the truly calamitous state of the wicked who beeing the enimies of God and deprived of his protection though they flourish for a while yeâ—… have no stabiliti but are sodainly cut off yea in the midst of their wealth and pomp they are not only uncontent and restles but endure also much want through inordinate desires and misgovernment As for their attempts against the good they return upon themselves beaten back upon them to their owne confusion And lastly their end is assured destruction involving with it often the ruine of their unblest posteriti Upon these grounds and reasons he exhorteth the good not to fret at the wickeds so false and fading prosperiti but to be careful to avoid sin to delight in God and to employ themselves wholy in dooing that which is good So trusting in God and waiting patiently upon him committing also their ways unto him they shal be both safe under his protection and happi by his blessing LET not unpleazing vieu of bad mens flouring state Through indignation sour thy ioious thoughts abate For doun like withering grass they quicly shall be mowne As bloom of tenderst herb their flour away be blowne BUT thow Gods servant true on him thy Lord rely In him delight and thoughts to rightÄ•ous woorks apply Inhabite then the land thou by thy land shalt live Yea God thy godli hart his full desires shal give IF troubles thee assail to God thy ways commit And trust to him who them to happiÄ•st end shal fit No shame shal thee attaint thy iustnes fair as light And cleer as shining noon he shall produce thy right THEN rest on God his will with patient hope attend And let not woorthles man who brings leud thoughts to end And prospers in his coorse thy discontent imbreed Shun wrath fierce choler rein great sins from rage proceed For proud misdoÅer shal rot while root they lasting take Who humbly wait on God his law their mirrour make BVT yet a while and lo the wicked shall not bee His stateli seat no place for him or his shal see When as the myld with ioy shal pleasant land possess Where length of plentÄ•ous peace shal thankful ioy rebless I'TS true the rightÄ•ous man whose life ill lifes reprooves His sight alone ill mynds to deep distemper mooves That him as publique foe the godles crues beset And practise vyld apply to wrap in snaring net Yea teeth through felnes gnash But God shal them deride Who seeth their day approach black night to all their pride Let swoords be drawn bend bowes the poor and iust to kill Bent bowes shal break drawn swoords the drawÄ•rs best bloud shal spill AND though som iust be poor th'uniust with plenti swell Yet in that one poor house more true content dooth dwel Then all their pomps can yield For God shal him maintain When pride and powÄ•r uniust with shivÄ•red arms remain OUR gracious Lord fit times for all his servants knowes And now he more now less but still their best bestowes ContinÅance is their bliss In perilous time from wrack In plague them shields from death in famin bare from lack WhilÄ• evÄ•n as tenderst faâ—… meer force of smoke consumes So impious wretch Gods foe soon spent to vapour fumes FOR though th'uniust by fraud by force have much purloind Yet nothing thrives leud gain hath vain expence adioin'd That still a borroÄ•r bare on neighbours goods he feeds And none repays The iust still rich in vertuÅus deeds
from cloudi spouts which fals With shouring fluds my pining soule dooth droun YET gracious Lord stil succÅring hand dooth reach His face serene returned ioy shal bring And gladsom day shal thankful euÄ•ning teach With praiseful hymn th'alglorious name to sing MENE while to God thy chased life betake And doleful tune exiled wretch renue My God my strength why doost thou me forsake Why moorning soule dooth murdrous foe persue O THOW who sole sustein'st my wear̆ied life My wear̆ied life whom powÄ•r of right bereves Yet iudge that cry mongst braiding foes so rife Where 's now thy God My bones it swoord-like cleves BVT why ô why my sad deiected mynd Should troubled thoughts thee restles still torment Com grateful hope My gracious God I fynd In throng of woes still swift relief hath sent TREBLE A S cha sed Hart with drouth enra ged first Then ioid with hope towărd wa tri stream dooth bray So Lord my soule my panting soule dooth thrist At lifes high spring hir restles love to stay Ah life of lifes when shal that ioy ing sight of presence thyn re ioice my ioy les ey Whom now salt tears are food to day and night While cha sing foes Wher 's now thy God stil cry BASE MEANE COVNTERTENOR TENOR LUTE PSALM 44. The faithful people of IsraÄ•l vanquished now and dispersed by their Hethen enimies it seems the Philistims in their thraldom also persecuted and martired for Gods true religion in complaining sort prezent to the high throne of grace their present condition beeing oppressed by the enimies of God and yet persisting in Gods true woorship and with great vehemenci implore his favour and succour who to their Ancesters had shewed himself so miraculously benign and helpful OUR pleazed ears renoumed Lord haue heard The ioious tongs of reverend elders tell What acts of thyn their state of old had reard Did cursed seed from chozen soil expell Thy powrful hand them racâ—…h'd vp ours did plant Made them nor wo nor blessing ours to want NOT mortal arm extermind Giants race Nor swoord terrene dezired land possesd Thy arm divine thy right hand lightsom face In favour deer from heavÄ•n their armies blesd Thou self same God my King doost still remain Command great King thy Iacobs strength again SOLE thou command revived strength our foes With horn should push with feet shal trample doun Not swoord not bowe hopes failing thou disclose That aid which foes in hates owne shame did droun Thy loveli name much ioy did then confess Much ioy same name in praise shal ay express THUS once we livÄ•d but now in life we dy Cast off debasÄ•d no more our armies head Harts grief to speak vile foes us force to fly And preying troops in dust our glories tread Thus scattÄ•red lo midst Hethen lands we live Where food to foes flock loved once doost give AH once beloved now sold and not for gain Thy wealth had yet our thralled lifes encreasd Less grief had been but scorn we now remain To neighbours round whose hate our shames appeasd Derided heard hast made a proverb growe Which scoffing HethÄ•n with wagging heads outcrowe WEAK comforts fade strong woes stil fresh renue My grief within without my shame torments Confusions ah confusions round accrue And soul disgrace stil lothed face prezents Reproaching voice blasphemous mouth and ire Of hostile eys dire anguish still enfire ALL this on us is com yet have not wee Forgot thee Lord or false thy leaug prophanÄ•d Nor harts repining writhe their loves from thee Nor feet decline from sacred ways ashamÄ•d Yea though us ruÄnd in Dragons wasts doost place And shade of death make weari lifes embrace IF blessed name unbleft we have forgot Disloial hands if stretcht in strangers guise To Gods no Gods and should our Lord it not Search out whose ey harts secretst thoughts espys Ah love of thee lo tyrants hate procures For thee we dy as knife fat sheep endures AH daily slain At length yet look arize Why sleeps our Lord awake and not bereve Thyn of thy face nor pressures their despize Whose soules to dust dead brests to ground doo cleve Stand up great Lord and for thy mercies sake Oh servants thyn to thy redemption take PSALM 45. A song of honour to the spiritual Marriage of Christ with his Church forâ—…described under the shado of the marriage as it seemeth of King Salomon with the Daughter of Pharao yet so that som circumstances are verified only in the figure and som other things only in the divine mysteri figured A NOBLE act of Kings dezirÄ•d Makes gladsom hart with high conceipts inspirÄ•d Boil o're and tong stream loveli sound Which echÅing pen through world shal ay rebound Of peerles King my song I frame And to that King give consecrate the same NOT mortal beauti decks thy face Ne humane sounds those princeli lips engrace That hieu divine those heavÄ•nli woords Nor race of man nor bliss of earth affoords Sure heavÄ•ns fair wight thee God hath blest So blest in bliss eternal shalt thou rest THEN on but first gird swoord to thigh Thow pÅisant Prince advance with glori high Ride stately foorth in comli sight Stil prosper still prevail brave Lord in fight So woord of trueth through world disspred Give laws fierce mynds in love to iustice wed With iustice myldnes still reside And striking arm let hart of merci guid BUT foes whom goodnes none can win Shal lightning hand with terrours dire begin To fright then shafts as thundred darts Sharp shafts shal pierce their blunt unpliant harts Thus to our King shal Nations bend And arm victorious wide his rule extend THY throne ô God for evÄ•r endures Thy scepter right through all thy state procures Thow iustice lovÄ•st hatÄ•st lawles ways Therfore dooth God thy God thy glori raize Yond all thy troop whose faithful love Thee serves by thee partakes same grace above BUT thow bove all with sacred oil With oils of ioy that earths unpleazing toil Alay imbuÄ•d drawst odour sweet Mir alöĕ cassia in thy garments meet Thus doost from ivor̆ie rooms proceed Whose pleasures deer stil ioying thoughts refeed STRAIT bevi fair prezents sweet vieu Kings daughters chief and lead the noble crue Bove all the Queen whom loveli bride Thou ioious setst on right hand by thy side With gold hir brests with gold hir head Embellisht best rich Ophir which had bred FAIR daughter now a while attend To sage advise thou happi ear shalt lend Thy contries rites thy peoples guise Yea fathers house forget fix sole thyn eys On him who then that beautÄ•ous sight Shal deerly love possess with pure delight He now thy Lord with pleazing grace Bow fair to him so love sweet love embrace LO neighbour Tyre great Queen of seas With curious gift ey finest strives to pleaze With home-bred purple far-fet gold Wil studious seek thy favÅring grace to hold Yea nobles rich with prezents great Shal pleazd aspect of countÄ•nance thyn entreat
Thus did thy goodnes shine thy goodnes which their foes With conquÄ•rous arm subduing round large matter did discloze For damÅsels at return with ioying note to sound Kings armies fly they fly and spoils wee home-left soules haue found FOR though in servile state like scullions mongst the pots With soot ye long have lain begrymd yet now your happiÄ•r lots As dove shal make you shine who with hir lustring wings Now silver̆i hieu now golden light to ey delighted brings For when th'Almighti Lord those Kinglets strawd on ground Like snowe on Salmon black dark woes bright ioy so then had cround NOW Sion draws myn eys whom Bashans peer account Nor Bashans soil nor stateli clifts fair Sions praise surmount For why should worldli hils the earths huge towÄ•rs so rize And vant their might why hill of God with surli brows despize Here Gods dezired rest thus ay shal it excell Celestiăl squadrons here attend here Sinais glories dwell Twise thousands ten and more brave host of heavÄ•nli Knights Gods will observe receiv'd perform hee midst their love requites BUT thow victorious Lord ascended art on high In triumph great lead'st thraldom thrald and there great gest of sky Hast gifts of grace receiv'd mongst men which doost divide Yea race rebellious so doost win with thyn to thyn abide Be blest then Lord our God With saving graces hee Us daily loads For God's the God that brings salvation free Hath issuÄng ways from death but enÄmies head shal smite Yea hairi scalp of him in sin who still shal take delight BUT to his people saith I thâ—…m wil bring again From tyrants yoke from strangers coasts from land and Sea amain As once from Aegypts rod from deapth of sea and pride Of Bashans Giănt I them reducè'd made ancient fields divide That thow thy foot maist dip thy dog his tong embrue In smoking streams of fomi bloud which enÄmies brests out-spue AND now Gods march proceeds thy march ô God my King Who in thy Sanctuări residÄ•st there blessings man doâ—…st bring A â—…ight of ioy Before the singers hold their way Them instruments ensue in midst yong maids on timbrels play All cry with ioy Bless God Praize in assembli high Ye Isrăels stream the Lord. Here first smal Beniamin stands nigh Late Prince here Iudahs Lords their troops and here appear Naphthaliăn Lords from far with Lords who ZebÅlons honour rear AND now since gracious Lord commanded hath our strength Maintain from sacred house placÄ•d o're Ierusalem at length What thow great God for us what hast for fathers wrought So from subiected Kings to thee shal prezents due be brought RATE doun the reed-shafts beast the buls and heards so bold With peoples calf-like Lords who vain in silver plates have rold So woork thy peoples peace securÄ•d from Hethen spite O thow who scattrest them on war who set their fierce delight And then Aegyptiăn peers then Aethiopiăn lands Soon humbly shall with gifts to thee stretch foorth their suppliănt hands YE kings and kingdoms all o're earths fair face disspred With songs and sounds of ioy adore your God and supreme head Whence all your powÄ•rs derive Hee then on th'heavÄ•ns rides On heavÄ•ns of heavÄ•ns of old and rocks with thundring voice divides Ascribe all might to God whose glorious beauti shines On Isrăels head whose peerles strength the matchles sky designs O God thyn Israels strength what venerable fear Thy sanctuaries strike Be blest Our soules to thee we rear PSALM 69. The Prophet King DAVID in the time of Absaloms rebellion for then it should seem this Psalm was made by iniurious persecution of his enimies beeing reduced to extreme distress and miseri though happi that he was therein a type of our Saviour who was then also in him as a Son in his Ancester together with the historical narration of his owne wrongs and griefs prophetically also describeth and that more fully and properly the passions of Christ through the envi and malice of the Iues who cruelly constrained him to pay at a deer ransom the price of that whereof himself in his owne person was not gilti Thus oppressed reproached and scorned by his enimies and by his neerest frends abandoned for no other crime then for his zele toward the service and glori of God he flieth by a most fervent and argumentative praier to God for succour devoteth his enimies amongst whom first Achitophel then Iudas had their parts to utter destruction and lastly in his deliveri sheweth his owne particular thankfulnes the great comfort of Gods people and a general propension of all the creatures of God to praise him for his goodnes toward his chozen Church consisting of all his loving and faithful servants HELP Lord and save a poor distressed wight Not tost with waves though seas against me fight And beat my soule but sinking in the mud Where bottom none and where the surging flud With furious stream beres doun and whelms my life Ah save me Lord and end my bootles strife I strive though spent I cry when voice is quailÄ•d For God I look when eys have looking failÄ•d TH'iniurious spir̆its my not-deserved foes Who hunt my life with numbers me encloze That pass myn hair and rizing still in strength Press on til mee ô wrong they force at length What nevÄ•r I took as taken to restore Ah thee my falts my folies ly before BUT not for mee Eternal Lord of hosts Great Israèls God let those whose humble boasts Of thee have been confounded rest in mynd Nor shame in face when him forlorn they fynd Who thee with them in patient hope hath sought For thy sake Lord to this I lo am brought For thee I scorns and sour rebuke endure May service thyn great Lord such shame procure WHAT should I speak of frends unfrendli face My brethren deer same mothers home-born race A stranger mee an alien mere esteem And why The zele of which I worthi deem Thy sacred hests thy House and glorious name Which godles crues stil grieving mee prophane Hath eăten me up Reproaches throwne at thee From mouths infernal light have all on mee IN grief I wept and fasting fed on care My ioyles lims rough sacweb clothÄ•d on bare My weed they proverb mocks on fasting pour And laugh the tears which vexed hart dooth shour In iudgement place gainst mee the ancients spake Yea balads base vyld drunkards of me make AND I my Lord to thee now praying bend In needfulst time Let ô my crys ascend And time accepted fynd O God my trust If right thou seest and if my plaints be iust In plentÄ•ous merci ' and for thy saving trueth Send ô that help which life in death renuÄ•th OH free me Lord from sinking in this mire This groundles mire and from their fierce desire Whose hate my life persuÄ•th Draw from these waves Th' orewhelmed soule thy hand who drouning craves And prays Forbid this gulf my life t' inglut Devouring pit on me hir mouth to shut HEAR Lord
Governours whence much mischief ensueth or by ani other evil or sorro whatsoever are all brought upon them by their sins and that odious unthankfulnes to God who yet even in publick miseries preserveth and prospereth his humble servants and when Nations apply themselfs faithfully to his service poureth upon them all blessings opposite to those former punishments Which things wise men will consider and make use of especially so as to knowe and acknowlege the Crëatours goodnes YE woorthi mynds in whom Gods gifts excell Whose persons walk on earth high thoughts in heavÄ•ns doo dwell Renoum our Lord ring foorth his glorious name Whose goodnes no time fails sweet mercies still the same OBLAZE his acts ye now at rest that stand From hostile powÄ•r redeemd redeemd from strangers land Ye late dispersd now gathered by his grace From East from West from North yea from great Oceăns place In deserts wyld through uncouth invious ways All tired all forlorn they wandred nights and days With fainting spir̆its through thirst and hunger pin'd And no relief no steps towărd cultivÄ•d place could fynd IN need extreme when lo to God they cry He gracious hears their mone and help from heavÄ•n makes fly So strength renues so straying feet directs To peopled wals and safe from perils all protects O thankful then to God his grace confess His mervÄ•ilous woork to men with ioious tongs express Who thirsting soule with waters sweet refreshd The empti fild and pace towărd longed home addresd IN darknes sad in shade of grisli death With irÅn and anguish bound who sighd their servile breath Il-ruled mynds that this and more deserv'd That Highests woord despysd from Gods advise that swarv'd When hart-burst clean they grovÄ•ling rold in pain Ne hope of better saw nor place for worse remain IN need extreme to God their suit they bent Who pityÄng rueful plight from heavÄ•n sweet comfort sent He darknes dire grim shade of death dispels he cords from hands from feet he fetters burst repels O thankful then to God his grace confess His wondrous act to men with ioious tongs express Who brazen gates made all to fragments flee Brake bars of irÅn strong Lord and prison̆ers did enfree UNGOVERND fools transported by their lust From vertuÅus ways to vice when God severely iust Their wicked ioys afflicts such sicnes sends That soule abhorring meat at deaths pale door attends IN hour extreme to God then lo they cry Who gracious hears their grones and ease from heavÄ•n bids hy Doun comÄ•th his woord the per̆ishing soule to save And hasting life retracts from neer approached grave O thankful then to God his grace confess His mercies great to men with ioious tongs express And clensd in hart iust sacrifice of praise Let grateful hands yield vp renoum him all your days TO Seas in ships who Arts chief woork descend Adventrous harts by trade penurious state to mend Or spatious lakes who pass what wondrous sight Strange woorks of God in deep their staring looks affright Lo strait his woord tempestuÅus wynd dooth rear And roughest frouns on seas late smiling face appear Anon towărd heavÄ•ns on back of arched wave They mount dismount in trise towărd hels unloveli cave As drunk they reel then melting harts gin fail Nought toil nought careful coorse of Masters skil avail IN case extreme when lo to God they cry Who gracious hears griev'd voice and help from heavÄ•n bids hy Strait wynds repose smooth hieu calmd seas regain Harts ioy woorks cheer til safe they long longd havÄ•n attain Then thankful ô to God his grace confess His merveils great to men with ioious tongs express And let Gods Church let faithful people hear Vowd praise in senat grave his mercies rare endeer HEE bubling springs chokes up with thirsti sand Yea rivers rich accursd dry desert makes to stand And fertile soil in plague of owners sin To saltnes damns whence fruit nor skil nor toil can win AGAIN his grace dry desert stores with pools Sends springs and bare burnt earth with fruitful moisture cools There hungri soules their citti sets to place Who sowe their grains plant vines years sweet return embrace Abounding food then blest with restful peace To numbers huge themselves their flocks and heards encrease BUT harts puft up soon spurning heavÄ•nli law Ah fools in chains of sin enchained tortures draw Oppression foul sad days unthriving care Their ioyles mynds abase their branching numbers bare He vyld contempt on woorthles Nobles pours And wayles wasts makes walk chasÄ•d out from lordli towÄ•rs Yet godli poor raizd up from pressing need As tree makes branch as flock his branched race to breed THESE things the iust with reverend ioy shal see And wicked mynds and mouths appald and stopt shal bee Who then is wise these sights to hart to lay Gods goodnes they shal learn Gods praises they display PSALM 110. The Prophet DAVID foresheweth the everlasting Kingdom and Priesthood of Christ who after his Ascension sitting at the Right hand of God should send out his forces from Sion and Ierusalem to reduce the world unto him Which spiritual warfare should take so wonderful effect that not onli at the veri beginning infinite multitudes should adioin themselfs to the Church but in short time also the Empire of Rome it self then Head of mani Nations with other great kingdoms should be conquered and subdued unto the obedience of Christ and his law The proof whereof to the later ages did manifestly appear THE Lord said to my Lord Thow at my right-hand sit While foes their necks I to thy feet as foot-stool make submit From Sion seat of Grace the Lord thy scepters might Through world shal send midst all thy foes bear rule thou Prince of light What day thy warli ranks shal high exploit begin The people prest with cheerful strife to serve thee shal com in Anon as prime of morn with silvÄ•ri perls of dew Al-spreds the world like troops thy youth in sacred house shal shew THE Lord who will not change hath sworn fair Prince to thee A Priest thou art MelchÄsedek like and ay that Priest shal bee This Prince who ' on thy right hand great King of heavÄ•n thus shines Each earthli King in ire shal crush that gainst his rule repines He HÄ•then with swoord shall iudge fields streets with corps shal straw Imperiăl Head whom Nations serve assubiect to his law As lightning swift shal run in way of torrent drink Thus gloriÅus head triumphant raize while danted foes doo shrink PSALM III. The Psalmist here sings the praises of God both for his glorious woorks and for his gracious acts toward the Israelites in mercifully conducting them from the serviliti of Aegypt to the happi land of Canaan and therein chiefly for establishing to their everlasting good his sacred Law and Covenant In observance whereof true wisdom consisteth ALLELV-IA MY hart dooth heavÄ•nli heat enflame To sound high praise to glorious name Th'alglorious Lord midst rightÄ•ous press In sacred senate