cannot fynd inough to fil his hand Nor he can fil hys lap that goeth to gleane vpon the land verse 7 Nor passers by pray God on them to let his blessing fal Nor say we blesse you in the name of God the Lord at al. Deprofundis clamaui psalme .cxxx. VV. VV. ¶ An effectuons prayer of hym that for hys synnes had sustayned great afflictions and notwithstanding he fully trusteth and assureth himself to obtayne mercy and forgeuenes of hys sinnes and at length deliueraunce from al euils LOrd to thee I make my mone when daungers me oppres I cal I sigh plain grone trusting to fynd reles Heare now O lord my request for it is ful due tyme and let thyne eares aye be prest vnto this prayer mine verse 3 O Lord our God if thou way our sinnes and them peruse Who shal then escape and say I can my self excuse verse 4 But Lord thou art merciful and turnest to vs thy grace that we with harts most careful should feare before thy face verse 5 In God I put my whole trust my soule wayteth on his wyl For hys promise is most iust and I hope therin stil verse 6 My soule to God hath regard wishyng for hym alway More then they that watch and ward to see the daunyng day verse 7 Let Israel then boldly in the Lord put hys trust He is that God of mercy that hys delyuer must verse 8 For he it is that must saue Israel from hys sinne And al such as surely haue their confidence in hym Domine non est psalme Cxxxi M. ¶ Dauid charged with ambition and gredy desyre to raygne protesteth his humilitie modesty before God and teacheth al men what they should do Syng this as the â—amentation O Lord I am not puft in mynd I haue no scorneful eye I do not exercyse my selfe in thynges that he to hye But as a child that wayned is euen from his mothers brest So haue I Lord behaued my selfe in sylence and in rest O Israel trust in the Lord let hym be all thy stay From thys tyme for euermore from age to age I say Memento domine psalme .cxxxii. M ¶ The faythful grounding on Gods promise made vnto Dauid desireth that be would establish the same both as touchyng the posterity and the buildyng of the temple to pray there as was fore spoken REmember Dauids troubles Lord how to the Lorde he swore and vowd a vow to Iacobs God to kepe for euermore I wyll not come within my house nor clyme vp to my bed nor let my temples take theyr rest or the eyes in my hed verse 2 Til I haue found out for the Lord a place to set theron An house for Iacobs God to be an habitation verse 3 We heard of it at Ephrata there did we heare this sound and in y â— fields forrests there these voices first were fouÌ„d verse 4 We wil assay and go in now his tabernacle there before his fotestoole to fal down vpoÌ„ our knees in feare verse 5 Arise O Lord aryse I say into thy restyng place both thou the ark of thy streÌ„gth y e preseÌ„ce of thy grace verse 9 Let al thy priestes be clothed Lord with truth and righteousnes Let al thy saintes and holy men syng al with ioyfulnes verse 10 And for thy seruant Dauids sake refuse not Lord I say The face of thine annoynted Lord or turne thy face away The second part verse 11 The Lord to Dauid swore in truth and wil not shrinke from it Saying the frute of thy body vpon thy seat shal sit verse 12 And if thy sonnes my couenaunt kepe that I shal learne echone then shal their sonnes for euer sit vpon thy princely throne verse 13 The Lord himself hath chose Sion and loues therin to dwel verse 14 Saying this is my restyng place I loue and lyke it wel verse 15 And I wyl blesse with great encrease her vittayles euery where and I wil satisfy with bread the nedy that be there verse 16 Yea I wil deck and clothe her priests with my saluation and al her saints shal syng for ioy of my protection verse 17 There wil I surely make the horne of Dauid for to bud For I haue there ordaind for myne a lanthorne bright and good verse 18 As for his enmies I wil cloth with shame for euermore But I wil cause his crowne to shyne more fresh then heretofore Ecce quam bonum psal .cxxxiii. VV. VV ¶ This psalme conteyneth the commendation of godly and brotherly amity which for the excellency therof is compared to the most precious oyle wherwith the priestes onely and instruments of the tabernacle were annoynted Exodus .xxx. Sing this as the .137 Psalme verse 1 O How happy a thyng it is and ioyful for to see Brethren together for to hold the band of amity verse 2 It calth to mind y â— swete perfume and y t costly oyntment which on the sacrificers hed by Gods precept was speÌ„t It wet not Aarons head alone but drentch his beard throughout and finally it did run down his rich attire about verse 3 And as the lower ground doth drynke the dew of Hermon hil and Sion with hys siluer drops the fields with frute doth fil verse 4 Euen so the Lord doth poure on them his blessings manyfold Whose harts mindes without al guile this knot do kepe hold Ecce nunc psalme .cxxxiiii. VV. K ¶ He exhorteth the Leuites that watch in the temple to prayse the Lord. BEhold and haue regard ye seruants of the Lord which in hys house by night do watch prayse hym wyth one accord verse 2 Lyft vp your handes on hygh vnto hys holy place And geue the Lord his prayses due his benefites embrace verse 3 For why the Lord who did both earth and heauen frame Doth Sion bles and wil conserue for euermore the same Laudate nomen Psalme Cxxxv. M. ¶ He exhorteth al the faithful of what estate so euer they be to prayse God for his merueilous works and specially for his graces towardes his people wherin he hath declared hys maiesty to the confusion of al Idolaters and their Idoles O Prayse the Lord prayse hym prayse hym prayse him with one accord O praise him stil all ye that be the seruauntes of the Lord. O prayse hym ye that stand and be in the house of the Lord ye of hys courte and of hys house prayse hym wyth one accord verse 3 Prayse ye the Lord for he is good syng prayses to hys name It is a comely and good thyng alwayes to do the same verse 4 For why the Lord hath chose Iacob hys very owne you see So hath he chosen Israel his treasure for to bee verse 5 For this I know and am ryght sure the Lord is very great He is in dede aboue al gods most easy to intreat verse 6 For whatsoeuer pleased him al that ful wel he wrought In heauen in earth and in y â— sea which he
hath framd of nought verse 7 He lifts vp clouds euen from the earth he makes lightnings rain he bringeth forth the winds also he made nothyng in vayne verse 8 He smote the first borne of ech thing in Egipt that tooke rest he spared there no lyuyng thyng the man nor yet the beast verse 9 He hath in thee shewd wonders great O Egipt voyde of vauntes On Pharao thy cursed kyng and hys seuere seruauntes verse 10 He smote then many nations and did great acts and thynges He slew the great and mightiest and chiefest of their kings verse 11 Sion kyng of the Ammorites and Og kyng of Basan He slew also the kyngdomes all that were of Canaan verse 12 And gaue their land to Israel an heritage we see To Israell hys owne people an heritage to bee verse 13 Thy name O Lord shal stil endure and thy memorial Throughout al generations that are or euer shal verse 14 The Lord wil surely now auenge hys people al in deede and to hys seruauntes he wyll shew fauour in tyme of neede verse 15 The Idols of the heathen are made in al their cost and landes Of syluer and of gold be they the worke euen of mens handes verse 16 They haue their mouths caÌ„not speake eies that haue no sight verse 17 They haue eke eares y t heare nothing their mouthes be breathles quite verse 18 Wherfore al thei are like to theÌ„ that so doth set theÌ„ forth and likewise those that trust in them or think they be ought worth verse 19 O all ye house of Israel see that ye praise the Lord and ye that be of Aarons house prayse hym wyth one accord verse 20 And ye that be of Leuis house praise ye likewyse the Lord and al that stand in awe of hym praise him with one accord verse 21 And out of Syon sound his prayse the great prayse of the Lord Which dwelleth in Ierusalem prayse hym with one accord Confitemini psalm .cxxxvi. N A most earnest exhortation to geue thanks vnto God for the creation and gouernance of all things which standeth in in confessing that he geueth vs al of his mere liberalitie PRaise ye the Lord for he is good for his mercy endureth for euer geue prayse vnto the god of gods for his mercy endureth for euer Geue prayse vnto the lord of Lordes for his mercy endureth for euer which only doth great woÌ„ders work for his mercy endureth for euer verse 5 Which by his wisdom made y â— heaueÌ„s for his mercy endureth c. verse 6 Which on the waters stretcht the earth for his mercy endureth c. verse 7 Which made great light to shine abrode for his mercy endureth c. verse 8 As sunne of rule the lightsome day for his mercy endureth for euer verse 9 The moone and stars to guide the night for his mercy endureth c. verse 10 Which smote Egipt with their first borne for his mercy endu c verse 11 And Israel brought out from theÌ„ for hys mercy endureth for euer verse 12 With mighty hand stretched arme for his mercy endureth c. verse 13 Which cut the red sea in two parts for his mercy endureth for euer verse 14 And Israel made pas there through for his mercy endureth c. verse 15 And dround Pharao and his host for his mercy endureth for euer verse 16 Through wildernes his people led for hys mercy endureth c. verse 17 He which did smite great noble kings for hys mercy endu c. verse 18 And which hath slayne the mighty kings for his mercy endu c. verse 19 As Sion king of the Amorites for his mercy endureth for euer verse 20 And Og the king of Basan land for his mercy endureth for euer verse 21 And gaue their land for heritage for his mercy endureth for euer verse 22 Euen to his seruant Israel for his mercy endureth for euer verse 23 Remembred vs in base estate for his mercy endureth for euer verse 24 And from oppressors rescued vs for his mercy endureth for euer verse 25 Which geueth foode vnto al flesh for his mercy endureth for euer verse 26 Praise ye the God of heaueÌ„ aboue for his mercy endureth for euer verse 27 Geue thanks vnto the Lord of Lords for his mercy endureth c. Super flumina in Babilonis psalm .cxxxvii. VV. VV. ¶ The people of god in their banishment seyng gods true religion decay lyued in great anguish and sorrow of hart the which grief the Caldeans did so litle pitye that they rather increased the same daily with taunts reproches and blasphemies against god wherfore y e Israelites desire god to punish the Edomites who prouoked the Babilonians against theÌ„ and moued by the spirit of god prophecy the destruction of BabiloÌ„ where they wer handled so â—â—rannously WHen as we sate in Babilon the riuers round about and in remembraunce of Sion the teares for grief brast out We haÌ„gd our harps instruments the willow trees vpoÌ„ for in that place men for their vse had planted many one verse 3 Then they to whom we prisoners were said to vs tauntingly Now let vs heare your Ebrue songs and pleasant melody verse 4 Alas said we who can once frame his sorrowful hart to syng The prayses of our louing God thus vnder a straunge king verse 5 But yet if I Ierusalem out of my hart let slyde Then let my fingers quite forget the warblyng harpe to guyde verse 6 And let my tong within my mouth be tyde for euer fast If that I ioy before I see thy ful deliuerance past verse 7 Therfore O Lord remember now the cursed noyse and cry That Edoms sonnes against vs made wheÌ„ they razde our City Remember Lord their cruel words when as wyth one accord they cride on sack and raze their wals in despite of their Lord. verse 8 Euen so shalt thou O Babilon at length to dust be brought and happy shal that man be cald that our reueÌ„ge hath wrought verse 9 Yea blessed shal that man be cald that takes thy children yong to dash their bones against hard stones which lie y e streetes amoÌ„g Confitebor tibi psalme Cxxxviii N Dauid with great courage prayseth the goodnes of god toward hym which is so great that it is known to forren princes who shal prayse the Lord together wyth hym And he is assared to haue like comfort of god in the tyme following as he hath had heretofore Syng this as the .47 Psalme verse 1 THee wil I prayse w t my whole hart my lord my God alwaies Euen in the preseÌ„ce of the Gods I wil aduance thy prayse verse 2 Toward thy holy temple I wil looke and worship thee and praysed in my thankful mouth thy holy name shal bee Euen for thy louyng kyndnes sake and for thy truth withal For thou thy name hast by thy word aduaunced ouer al. verse 3 When I did cal thou heardest me and thou hast made also The
thee was borne wherfore I wil thee prayse with mirth both euening and morne verse 7 As to a monster seldome sene much folke about me throng But thou art now and stil hast bene my fence and ayde so strong verse 8 Wherfore my mouth no time shal lacke thy glory and thy prayse and eke my tong shal not be slacke to honor thee alwayse verse 9 Refuse not me O Lord I say when age my limmes doth take and when my strength doth wast away do not my soule forsake verse 10 Among them selues my foes enquire to take me through deceyt and they agaynst me do conspire that for my soule layd wayt The second part verse 11 Lay hand take him now they sayd for God from him is gone Dispatch him quite for to his ayde I wis there commeth none verse 12 Do not absent thy self away O Lord when nede shal be But that in time of grief thou may in hast geue helpe to me verse 13 With shame confound and ouerthrow al those that seke my life Oppres thē with rebukes also that fayne would worke me strife verse 14 But I wil patiently abyde thy helpe in al assayes Stil more and more ech time tide I wil set forth thy prayse verse 15 My mouth thy iustice shal record that dayly helpe doth send But of thy benefites O Lord I know no compt nor end verse 16 Yet wil I go and seke forth one with thy good helpe O God The sauing health of thee alone to shew and set abrod verse 17 For of my youth thou tookest the care and doost instruct me stil Therfore thy wonders to declare I haue great mind and wil. verse 18 And as in youth from wanton rage thou didst me kepe and stay Forsake me not vnto mine age and til my head be gray verse 19 That I thy strēgth might may show to them that now be here and that our sede thy power may know hereafter many a yere verse 20 O Lord thy iustice doth excede thy doings al may see Thy workes are wonderful in dede oh who is lyke to thee verse 21 Thou madest me fele afflictions sore and yet thou didst me saue yea thou didst helpe and me restore and tokest me from the graue verse 22 And thou mine honor doost encrease my dignitie maintayne yea thou doost make al grief to cease and comforts me agayne verse 23 Therfore thy faithfulnes to prayse I wil both lute and syng My harpe shal sound thy laud alwayes O Israels holy kyng verse 24 My mouth wil ioy with pleasant voyce when I shal sing to thee and eke my soule wil much reioyce for thou hast made me free verse 25 My tong thy vprightnes shal sound and speake it dayly stil For grief and shame do thē confound that sought to worke me ill Deus iudicium tuum Psalme .lxxii. I. H. ¶ He prayeth that the kingdome of God by Christe may come vnder the parson of Salomon vnder whom shall be ryghteousnes peace and felicitie vnto whom all kynges and all nations shall do homage whose name and power shal indure for euer LOrd geue thy iudgements to the king therin instruct hym wel And with his sonne that Princely thyng Lord let thy iustice dwel that he may gouerne vp ryghtly and rule thy folke a ryght and so defend through equitie the poore that haue no might verse 3 And let the mountaines that are hye vnto their folke geue peace And eke let litle hils apply in iustice to encrease verse 4 That he may help the weake poore with aide make thē strōg And eke destroy for euermore al those that do them wrong verse 5 And then from age to age shal they regard and feare thy might So long as sunne doth shine by day or els the moone by night verse 6 Lord make the king vnto the iust like rain to fieldes new mowen And like to drops that lay the dust and fresh the land vnsowen verse 7 The iust shal florish in his time and al shal be at peace Vntil the moone shal leaue to prime wast chaūge to encrease verse 8 He shal be Lord of sea and sand from shore to shore throughout and from the flouds within the land through al the earth about verse 9 The people that in desert dwel shal knele to him ful thicke and al his enmies that rebel the earth and dust shal licke verse 10 Theyr Lordes of al the yles therby great gifts to him shal bring The kings of Sabe and Arabie geue many a costly thyng verse 11 Al kings shal seke with one accord in his good grace to stand And al the people of the world shal serue him at his hand verse 12 For he the nedy sort doth saue that vnto him do cal And eke the simple folke that haue no helpe of man at al. verse 13 He taketh pity on the poore that are with nede opprest He doth preserue them euermore bringes their soules to rest verse 14 He shal redeme theyr life from dread frō fraud frō wrōg frō might And eke the bloud that they shal bleed is precious in his sight verse 15 But he shal liue and they shal bring to him of Sabaes gold He shal be honored as a kyng and dayly be extold verse 16 The mighty mountaines of his land of corne shal beare such thrōg That it like Cedre trees shal stand in Libanus ful long verse 17 Theyr cities eke ful wel shal spede the frutes therof shal pas In plenty it shal far excede and spring as grene as gras verse 18 For euer they shal prayse his name while that the sunne is light And thinke thē happy through y ◠same al folk shal bles his might verse 19 Prayse ye the Lord of hostes and sing to Israels God echone For he doth euery wondrous thing yea he him self alone verse 20 And blessed be his holy name al times eternally That al the earth may prayse the same Amen Amen say I. Quam bonus deus Psalme .lxxiii. T. S. ¶ The Prophet teacheth by his example that neither the worldly prosperitie of the vngodly nor yet the affliction of the good ought to discourage Gods children but rather ought to moue vs to consider our fathers prouidence to cause vs to reuerence gods iudgements for asmuche as the wicked vanishe a waye lyke smoke and the godly enter into lyfe euerlastyng in hope wherof he resigneth him selfe into Gods handes Sing this as the .xliiii. psal verse 1 HOw euer it be yet God is good and kynd to Israel And to al such as safely kepe their consciēce pure wel ▪ verse 2 yet lyke a foole I almost slipt my feete began to slyde And or I wist euē at a pinch my steps a wrye gā glyde verse 3 For when I saw such foolish men I grudged and did disdayne That wicked mē al things should haue wtout turmoyle or payne verse 4 They neuer suffer panges nor grief as if death should them
to prayse him in his workes The Prophet reioyseth therin But the wicked is not able to cōsider that the vngodly when he his most florishing shall most spedely perishe In th end is discribed the felicity of the iust planted in the house of God to prayse the Lord. Syng this as the .88 Psalm verse 1 IT is a thing both good and meete to prayse the highest Lord and to thine name O thou most hye to sing in one accord verse 2 To shew the kindnes of the Lord betime ere day be light and eke declare his truth abrod when it doth draw to night verse 3 Vpon ten stringed instrument on lute and harpe so swete With al the mirth you can inuent of instruments most mete verse 4 For thou hast made me to reioyce in things so wrought by thee and I haue ioy in hart and voyce thy handy workes to see verse 5 O Lord how glorious and how great are al thy workes so stoute So depely are thy counsels set that none can try them out verse 6 The man vnwise hath not the wit this geare to pas to bring and al such fooles are nothing fit to vnderstand this thing verse 7 When so the wicked at their wil as gras do spring ful fast They when they florish in their il for euer shal be wast verse 8 But thou art mighty Lord most hie yea thou doost rayne therfore In euery tyme eternally both now and euermore verse 9 For why O Lord behold and see behold thy foes I say How al that worke iniquitie shal perish and decay verse 10 But thou like as an Unicorne shal lift my horne on hye With fresh and new prepared oyle thine oynted king am I verse 11 And of my foes before mine eyes shalt see the fal and shame Of al that vp against me ryse mine eare shal heare y ◠same verse 12 The iust shal florish vp on hye as date trees bud and blow And as the Ceders multiply in Lybanus that grow verse 13 For they are planted in the place and dwelling of our God within his courtes they spring apace florish al abrod verse 14 And in their age much fruit shal bring both fat wel besene And pleasaūtly both bud spring w t boughes braunches grene verse 15 To shew that God is good and iust and vpright is his wil. He is my rocke my hope and trust in him there is none il Dominus regnauit Psalme .xciii. I. H. ¶ He prayseth the power of God in the creation of the worlde and beateth downe all people whiche lift them vp agaynst his maiestie and prouoketh to consider his promises Syng this as the .77 Psalme verse 1 THe Lord as king aloft doth raign in glory goodly dight and he to shew his strēgth main hath girt himself w t might verse 2 The Lord likewise the earth hath made shaped it so sure No might can make it moue or fade at stay it doth endure verse 3 Ere y t the world was made or wrought thy seat was set before Beyond al time that can be thought thou hast bene euermore verse 4 The flouds O Lord the flouds do rise they rore and make a noyce The floudes I say did enterprise and lifted vp theyr voyce verse 5 Yea though y ◠stormes before in sight though seas do rage and swel The Lord is strong and more of might for he on hye doth dwel verse 6 And loke what promise he doth make his houshold to defend For iust and true they shal it take al tymes withouten end Deus vltionum psalme .xciiii. I. H. ¶ He prayeth vnto God against the violence and arrogancy of tyraunts Then doth he comfort the afflicted by the good issue of their affections as he felt in himself and did see in others and by the ruine of the wicked whom the Lord wil destroy Sing this as the .78 psalme verse 1 O Lord thou doost reuēge al wrong that office longes to thee Sith vengeāce doth to thee belong declare that al may see verse 2 Set forth thy self for thou of right y e erth doost iudge gide Reward the proud men of might accordyng to their pride verse 3 How long shal wicked mē beare sway with lifting vp their voyce How long shal wicked men I say thus triumph and reioyce verse 4 How long shal they with brags burst out proudly prate their fil Shal they reioyce which be so stout whose workes are euer il verse 5 Thy flock O Lord thine heritage they spoyle and vexe ful sore against thy people they do rage still daily more and more verse 6 The widowes which are comfortles and straungers they destroy They slea the children fatherles and none doth put them by verse 7 And whē they take these things in hād this talk they haue of thee Can Iacobs God this vnderstand tush no he cannot see verse 8 O folke vnwise people rude some knowledge now discerne ye fooles among the multitude at length begin to learne verse 9 The lord which made y ◠eare of man he nedes of right must heare He made y ◠eyne al things must then before hys syght appeare verse 10 The Lord doth al the world correct and make them vnderstand Shal he not then your dedes detect how can ye scape his hand verse 11 The lord doth know y ◠thoughts of mā his hart he seeth ful playn The Lord I say mēs thoughts doth frame findeth thē but vain verse 12 But Lord that man is happy sure whom thou doost kepe in aw And through correction doost procure to teach him in thy law verse 13 Wherby he shal in quiet rest in tyme of trouble sit When wicked men shal be supprest and fal into the pit verse 14 For sure the Lord wyl not refuse hys people for to take His heritage whom he dyd chuse he wil no tyme forsake verse 15 Vntil that iudgement be decreed to iustice to conuert That al may follow her with spede that are of vpright hart verse 16 But who vpon my part shal stand against the cursed trayne Or who shal rid me from theyr hand y ◠wicked works maintain verse 17 Except the Lord had bene mine ayde mine enemies to repel My soule and life had now bene layd almost as low as hel verse 18 When I did say my fote doth slyde and now am like to fal Thy goodnes Lord did so prouyde to stay me vp withal verse 19 When with my selfe I mused much and could no comfort fynde Then Lord thy goodnes did me touch and that did ease my mind verse 20 Wilt thou enhaunt thy self and draw with wicked men to sit which with pretence instede of law much mischief do commit verse 21 For they consult against the life of righteous men and good and in their counsels they are ryfe to shed the giltles blood verse 22 But yet the Lord he is to me a strong defence or locke He is my God to him
doth eke his iustice shew in al the Heathens sight verse 3 His grace and truth to Israel in mynd he doth record That al the earth hath sene right wel the goodnes of the Lord. verse 4 Be glad in him with ioyful voyce al people of the earth Geue thankes to God sing and reioyce to him with ioy mirth verse 5 Vpon the harpe vnto him sing geue thanks to hym with psalmes Reioyce before the Lord our king with trumpets with shalmes verse 6 Yea let the sea with al therin with ioy both rore and swel The earth like wise let it begin with al that therin dwel verse 7 And let the flouds reioyce their fils and clap their hands apace and eke the mountaynes and the hils before the Lord his face verse 8 For he shal come to iudge and try the world and euery wight and rule the people mightely with iustice and with right Dominus regnauit psalme .xcix. I. H. He coÌ„mendeth the power equitie and excellency of the kingdoÌ„ of god by Christ ouer y e Iew GeÌ„tils prouoketh theÌ„ to magnify y e fame to serue y e lord following the example of the auncieÌ„t fathers Moyses AaroÌ„ Samuel who calling vpon God were hard in their prayers Sing this as the .95 Psalme verse 1 THe Lord doth raign although at it the people rage ful sore Yea he on Cherubin doth syt though al y e world wold rore verse 2 The Lord that doth in Sion dwel is high woÌ„drous great aboue al folke he doth excel and he aloft is set verse 3 Let al men prayse thy mighty name for it is feareful sure and let them magnify the same that holy is and pure verse 4 The princely power of our kyng doth loue iudgement and ryght thou rightly rulest euery thyng in Iacob through thy might verse 5 To prayse the Lord our God deuyse al honour to hym do His footestoole worship ye lykewyse for he is holy to verse 6 Moyses Aaron and Samuel as priests on hym dyd cal when they did pray he heard theÌ„ wel and gaue theÌ„ aunswer al. verse 7 Within the cloud to them he spake then did they labour stil to kepe such lawes as he did make and pointed them vntil verse 8 O Lord our God thou didst them heare and aunswerst them again Thy mercy did on them appeare their dedes didst not maintayn verse 9 O laud and prayse our God and Lord within his holy hil For why our God throughout the world is holy euer stil 2 Iubilate deo omnis terra psalme C. He exhorteth al to serue the lord who hath made vs and enter into his courtes and assemblies to prayse his name AL people y t on earth do dwel sing to y e Lord with chereful voice him serue w t fear his praise forth tel come ye before him reioice verse 3 The Lord ye know is god in dede wtout our ayde he did vs make We are his folke he doth vs fede for his shepe he doth vs take verse 4 Oh enter theÌ„ his gates w t praise approch with ioy his courts vnto praise laud and bles his name alwayes for it is semely so to do verse 5 For why the Lord our God is good his mercy is for euer sure His truth at al times firmly stood and shal from age to age indure Another of the same verse 1 IN God the lord be glad and light praise him throughout the earth Serue him come before his sight with singing and with mirth verse 2 Know that the Lord our God he is he did vs make and kepe Not we our selues for we are his owne folke and pasture shepe verse 3 O go into his gates alwayes geue thankes within the same Within his courts set forth his prayse and laud his holy name verse 4 For why the goodnes of the Lord for euermore doth raigne from age to age throughout the world his truth doth stil remain Misericordiam iudicium psalm Ci. N. ¶ Dauid discrybeth what gouerhmeÌ„t he wil obserue in his house and kingdome He wil punish and correct by rotyng out the wickâ—d and cheryshing the godly persons Sing this as the .81 psalme verse 1 I Mercy wil and iudgement sing O Lord God vnto thee and wisely do in perfect way vntil thou come to mee verse 2 And in the midst of my house walke in purenes of my sprite verse 3 And I no kind of wicked thyng wil set before my sight I hate their worke that fal away it shal not cleaue to mee verse 4 From me shal part the froward hart none euil wil I see verse 5 Him wil I stroy that slaundereth his neighbour priuely The lofty hart I cannot beare nor hym that looketh hy verse 6 Mine eyes shal be on them within the land that faithful be In perfect way who worketh shal be seruant vnto me verse 7 I wil no guileful person haue within my house to dwel and in my presence he shal not remayne that lies doth tel verse 8 Betimes I wil destroy euen al the wicked of the land That I may from Gods city cut the wicked workers band Domine exaudi orationem psalme Cii I. H. ¶ It semeth that this prayer was apointed to the faithful to pray in the captiuity of Babilon A consolatioÌ„ for the buildinge of the church Wherof foloweth the praise of god to be published vnto al posterityes The conuersion of the Gentils And the stability of the church Syng this as the .67 Psalme verse 1 O Heare my prayer Lord and let my crye come vnto thee verse 2 in tyme of trouble do not hide thy face away from mee Incline thine eares to me make hast to heare me when I cal verse 3 For as the smoke doth fade so do my dayes coÌ„sume and fal verse 4 And as a harth my bones are burnt my hart is smitteÌ„ dead and withers as the grasse that I forget to eat my bread verse 5 By reason of my groning voyce my bones cleaue to my skin verse 6 As Pellicane of wildernes such case now am I in And as an Owle in desert is loe I am such a one verse 7 I watch and as a Sparow on the house top am alone verse 8 Loe daily in reprochful wise myne enmies do me scorne And they y â— do against me rage against me they haue sworne verse 9 Surely with ashes as with bread my hunger I haue fild and mingled haue my drink w t teares y t fro mine eies haue stild verse 10 Because of thy displeasure Lord thy wrath and thy disdayn For thou hast lifted me aloft and cast me down agayn verse 11 The dayes where in I pas my life are lyke the fleeting shade and I am withered like y â— gras that soone away doth fade verse 12 But thou O Lord for euer doost remayne in stedy place And thy remembrance euer doth abyde from race to race The second part verse 13 Thou wilt arise and mercy thou to
him haue the rule and al the stay verse 22 That he might to his wil instruct the princes of his land and wisdomes lore his auncient men might teach to vnderstand verse 23 Then into the Egiptian land came Israel also and Iacob in the land of Ham did liue a straunger tho verse 24 His people he excedingly in number made to flow and ouer al theyr enemies in strength he made them grow verse 25 Whose hart he turnd that they with hate his people did entreate and did his seruaunts wrongfully abuse with false deceit The fourth part verse 26 His faythful seruaunt Moses then and Aaron whom he chose He did commaund to go to them his message to disclose verse 27 The wondrous message of his signes among them they did shew and wonders in the land of Ham then did they worke also verse 28 Darknes he sent and made it darke in stede of brighter day and vnto hys commission they did not disobey verse 29 He turnd theyr waters into bloud he did theyr fishes slay verse 30 Their laÌ„d brought frogs eueÌ„ in y e place where their kiÌ„g Pharao lay verse 31 He spake at his voice there came great swarmes of noysom flies and al the quarters of theyr land were fild with crauling life verse 32 He gaue them cold and stony hayle in stede of milder rayn and firy flames within theyr land he sent vnto theyr payne verse 33 He smote theyr vines al theyr trees wheron the figs did grow and al the trees within their coastes down did he ouerthrow verse 34 He spake then caterpillers did and greshoppers abound verse 35 Which ate the gras in al theyr ground and frute of al theyr land The fifte part verse 36 The first begotten in theyr land eke deadly did he smite yea the begynning and first frute of al theyr strength and might verse 37 With gold and siluer he them brought from Egipt land to pas and in the number of their tribes no feble one there was verse 38 Egipt was glad and ioyful then when they did thence depart For terrour and the feare of them was fallen vpon their hart verse 39 To shroud them from the parching heat a cloud he did display and fire he sent to geue them light when night had hid the day verse 40 They asked and he caused quayles to rayne at theyr request and fully with the bread of heauen theyr hunger he represt verse 41 He opened then the stony rock and waters gushed out and in the dry and parched groundes like riuers ranne about verse 42 For of his holy couenaunt ay mindful was he tho Which to hys seruaunt Abraham he plighted long ago verse 43 He brought his people forth with mirth and his elect with ioy Out of the cruel land where they had liued in great anoy verse 44 And of the Heathen men he gaue to them the frutful lands The labors of the people eke they tooke into theyr hands verse 45 That they his holy statutes might obserue for euermore and faithfully obey his lawes prayse ye the Lord therfore Confitemini domino Psalme .cvi. N. ¶ The people dispersed vnder Antiochus do magnifie the goodnes of God among the iust and repentaunt Desiring to be brought agayne into the lande by Gods mercyfull visitation And after the manifolde meruayles of God wrought in their deliuerauncâ— forth of Egipt the great ingratitude of the people rehearsed they do pray and desire to be gathered from among the Heathen to the entent they may prayse the name of the God of Israel Sing this as the .95 Psalm verse 1 PRayse ye the Lord for he is good his mercy dures for ay verse 2 Who can expresse his noble actes or al his prayse display verse 3 They blessed are that iudgement kepe and iustly do alway verse 4 With fauour of thy people Lord remember me I pray And with thy sauing health O Lord vouchsafe to visite me verse 5 That I the great felicitie of thine elect may se And with thy peoples ioy I may a ioyful mind posses and may with thine inheritaunce a glorying hart expres verse 6 Both we and eke our fathers al haue sinned euery one We haue committed wickednes and lâ—udly we haue done verse 7 The wonders great which thou O Lord hast done in Egipt land Our fathers though they saw them al yet did not vnderstand Nor they thy mercyes multitude did kepâ— in thankful mind But at the sea yea the red sea rebelled most vnkind verse 8 Neuertheles he saued them for honor of his name That he might make his power knowne spred abrod w t fame verse 9 The red sea he did then rebuke and forth with it was dryed and as in wildernes so through the depe he did them guide verse 10 He saued them from the cruel hand of their despitful â—o and from the enmies hand he did deliuer them also The seconde part verse 11 The waters theyr oppressors whelmd not one was left alyue verse 12 TheÌ„ they beleued his wordes prayse in song they did him gyue verse 13 But by and by vnthankfully his workes they cleane for gat and for his counsel and his wil they did neglect to wayt verse 14 But lusted in the wildernes with fond and gredy lust and in the desert tempted God the stay of al theyr trust verse 15 And then their wanton mindes desire he suffred them to haue But wasting leannes therewithal into theyr soule he gaue verse 16 Then when they lodged in the tents at Moses they did grutch Aaron the holy of the Lord so did they enuie much verse 17 Therfore the earth did open wyde and Dathan did deuoure and al Abirams company did couer in that houre verse 18 In their assembly kindled was the whote consuming fyre and wasting flame did theÌ„ burne vp the wicked in his ire verse 19 Vpon the hil of Horeb they an idole calfe did frame and there the molten image they did worship of the same Into the likenes of a calfe that fedeth on the grasse verse 20 Thus they their glory turnd and al their honor did deface verse 21 And God theyr onely sauiour vnkindly they forgot Which many great mighty things in Egipt laÌ„d had wrought The third part verse 22 And in the land of Ham for theÌ„ most wondrous workes had done and by the red sea dreadful thyngs performed long agone verse 23 Therfore for their so shewing them forgetful and vnkind To bryng destruction on them al he purposd in his mynd Had not his chosen Moses stood before them in the breake To turne his wrath least he on theÌ„ w t slaughter should him wreke verse 24 They did despise the pleasaunt land that he beheight to geue yea and the workes that he had spoke they did no whit beleue verse 25 But in their tents with grudging hart they wickedly repynde Nor to the voyce of God the Lord they gaue a harkning mind verse 26 Therfore agaynst them lifted he
Al ye nations of the world prayse ye the Lord alwayes and al ye people euery where set forth his noble prayse For great his kindnes is to vs his truth endures for ay wherfore prayse ye the Lord our God prayse ye the Lord I say Confitemini domin◠Psalme Cxviii M. ¶ Dauid reiected of Saule and of the people at the time appoynted obteined the kingdome for the whiche he biddeth all them that feare the Lord to be thankfull and vnder his person in al this was Christ liuely setforth who should be of his people reiected Syng this as the .98 Psalme verse 1 O Geue the thanks vnto the Lord for gratious is hee Because his mercy doth endure for euer towards thee verse 2 Let Israel confes and say his mercy dures for ay Now let the house of Aaron say his mercy dures for ay verse 3 Let al that feare the Lord our God euen now confes and say The mercy of the Lord our God endureth stil for ay verse 4 In trouble and in heauines vnto the Lord I cride Which louingly hard me at large my sute was not denide verse 5 The Lord himself is on my syde I wil not stand in doubt Nor feare what man can do to me when God stands me about verse 6 The Lord doth take my part with thē that helpe to succour me Therfore I shal see my desire vpon myne enemy verse 7 Better it is to trust in God then in mans mortal sede Or to put confidence in kings or prynces in our nede verse 8 Al nations haue inclosed me and compassed me round But in the name of God shal I myne enemies confound verse 9 They kept me in on euery syde they kept me in I say but through y e Lords most mighty name I shal work their decay verse 10 They came about me al lyke bees but yet in the Lordes name I quēcht their thornes that were on fire and wil destroy y e same verse 11 Thou hast wyth force thrust sore at me that I in dede myght fall But through the Lord I found such help y t they wer vāquisht al verse 12 The Lord is my defence strength my ioy my mirth and song He is become for me in deede a sauior most strong verse 13 The right hand of y e lord our God doth bring to passe great things He causeth voyce of ioy and health in rightrous mens dwellings verse 14 The right hād of the Lord doth bring most mighty things to pas His hath the preeminence his force is as it was verse 15 I wil not dye but euer lyue to vtter and declare the lord his might wōdrous power his works what they are verse 16 The Lord himself hath chastened and hath corrected me But hath not geuen me ouer yet to death as ye may see verse 17 Set open vnto me the gates of truth and righteousnes That I may enter into them the Lordes prayse to confes verse 18 This is the gate euen of the Lord which shal not so be shut But good and righteous men alway shal enter into it verse 19 I wil geue thankes to thee O Lord because thou hast heard me And art become most louingly a sauiour vnto me verse 20 The stone which at this tyme among the builders was refused Is now become the corner stone and chiefly to be vsed verse 21 This was the mighty worke of God this was the lords own fact and it is maruelous to behold with eyes that noble act verse 22 This is the ioyful day in dede which God himself hath wrought Let vs be glad and ioy therin in hart in mynd and thought verse 23 Now help me Lord and prosper vs we wish with one accord Blessed be he that comes to vs in the name of the Lord. verse 24 God is the Lord that shewes vs light bind ye therfore with cord Your sacrifice to the altar and geue thankes to the Lord. verse 25 Thou art my God I wil confes and render thanks to thee thou art my God and I wil prayse thy mercy towardes mee verse 26 O geue ye thanks vnto the Lord for gratious is hee Because his mercy doth endure for euer towardes thee Beati immaculati Psalme Cxix VV. VV. ¶ In this Psalm is contayned an exquisite arte a wonderful vehemēcy in setting forth the praises of gods law wherin y ◠prophet cannot satisfy himself nor sufficiently expresse the affectiō which he beareth therūto adding moreouer many notable complaintes consolations wherfore it is mete that al the faithful haue it alway both in hart and mouth and in the Ebrue euery viii verses beg in with one letter of the Alphabet BLessed are they that perfect are pure in mind and hart whose liues conuersatiō from gods lawes neuer start 2. Blessed are they that geue themselues his statutes to obserue sekyng the Lord with al their hart and neuer from him swerue verse 3 Doubtles such men go not astray nor do no wicked thyng which stedfastly walke in hys pathes without any wandryng verse 4 It is thy wil and commaundement that with attentiue heede Thy noble and diuine precepts we learne and kepe in deede verse 5 Oh would to God it might thee please my wayes so to addres That I might both in hart and voyce thy lawes kepe and confes verse 6 So should no shame my lyfe attaynt whilst I thus set mine eyes and bend my mynd alwayes to muse on thy sacred decrees verse 7 Then wil I prayse with vpright hart and magnify thy name When I shal learn thy iudgements iust and like wise proue y e same verse 8 And wholy wil I geue my self to kepe thy lawes most right Forsake me not for euer Lord but shew thy grace and might BETH The second part verse 9 BY what meanes may a yōg mā best his lyfe learne to amend If that he marke and kepe thy word and therin his time spend verse 10 Vnfaynedly I haue thee sought and thus sekyng abyde Oh neuer suffer me O Lord from thy precepts to slyde verse 11 Within my hart secret thoughts thy wordes I haue hyd stil That I might not at any time offend thy godly wil. verse 12 We magnify thy name O Lord and prayse thee euermore Thy statutes of most worthy fame O Lord teach me therfore verse 13 My lips haue neuer ceast to preach and publish day and nyght The iudgemēts al which did procede frō thy mouth ful of might verse 14 Thy testimonies and thy wayes please me no les in dede then al y e treasures of y e earth which worldlings make their mede verse 15 Of thy precepts I wil stil muse and therfore frame my talke As at a marke so wil I ayme thy wayes how I may walke verse 16 My onely ioy shal be so fixed and on thy lawes so set That nothyng can me so far blynd that I thy words forget GIMEL The third part verse 17 GRaunt to thy seruant now such
†The whole booke of Psalmes collected into English Meter by Thomas Sternhold I. Hopkins and others coÌ„ferred with the Hebrue with apt Notes to syng them withall Faithfully perused and allowed accordyng to the Quenes Maiesties Iniunctions ¶ Very meete to be vsed of al sortes of people priuately for their solace comfort laying apart al vngodly songes and Ballades which read only to the norishing of vice corrupting of youth IAMES V. ☜ If any be afflicted let hym praye and if any be mery let hym syng Psalmes COLLOS III. Let the word of God dwel in you in al wisdoÌ„ teaching and exhortyng one another in Psalmes Hymnes and spiritual songes and sing vnto the Lorde in your hartes ¶ Imprinted at London by Iohn Day ¶ Cum gratia priuilegio Regiâ— Maiestatis per septennium Anno 1565. †A Treatise made by Athanasius the great wherin is set forth how and in what maner ye may vâ—e the Psalmes according to the effect of the mynde of gladnes or sorrow accordingly whiche Psalmes ye shall vse for prayer whiche for thankes geuyng which for rehersall of gods wonderfull actes to the prayse of his name Also ye may see in them how God hath holpen his chosen people from tyme to tyme and neuer forsaken them THe whole Scripture vniuersally is as it were a diuine maistres teachyng both vertue true fayth but the booke of Psalmes hath ouer and besides that in a maner an expresse Image of the state and condition of soules For as he which goeth to a king composeth first his behauiour and setteth in order his wordes least he should be counted rusticall rude so this diuine booke first by choise of all motions wher with the soule is affected warneth then frameth and instructeth by diuers formes of speakyng all such as couet vertue desyre to knowe the lyfe of the Sauiour It is easye therefore for euerye man to fynde out in the Psalmes the motion and state of his owne soule and by that meanes his owne fygure and proper erudition Moreouer with what wordes he may please God and with what words he may correct himselfe and geue God thankes least if he speake that thing whiche is not leafull he fall into impietie For not alone of deedes but also of euery word must we geue accoÌ„pt before the Iudge Wherfore if thou wylt pronounce any maÌ„ happy and blessed thou hast how and wherfore and whom thou maist call happye in the Psalmes as you may see in the fyrste Psalme 32. Psalme 41. Psalme 112. Psalme 119. Psalme and the. 128. Psalme If thou wylte complayne of the laying awayte of the Iewes against the Sauiour saye the second Psalme If thyne acquaintaunce persecute thee and many ryse agaynste thee thou hast the third Psalme If thou beyng troubled on this sort hast called vpon the Lord and because he hath heard thee thou wouldest geue hym thankes syng the .4 Psalme and the .115 Psalme If thou perceiuest wayte to be layde for thee of euill willers and desirest that thy prayer should be heard syng the .5 Psalme If thou feelest the threatnings of God and therby perceiuest thy selfe to be dismayed thou maist say the .6 Psalme and the .37 Psalme If any consult or conspire against thee as Achitophel against Dauid and some man tell in thee syng the .7 Psalme When thou considerest the grace of our Sauiour euery where spred abroade mankind restored vnto health then if thou wilt talke to the Lord syng the .8 Psalme If againe thou wilt syng of the wondrous workes of God geuing God thankes thou hast the 8. Psalme and the 81. Psalme If thou wilt haue thine enemy stopped and driuen backe and neuertheles the creature to be saued not trusting in thy selfe but in gods sonne say the 9. Psalme If any man will make thee afrayd thou with trust in the Lord shalt sing the .10 Psalme If thou seest the pride and malice of many to abound so that nothing which is good and godly is regarded amongst men fly thou vnto the Lord and say the .11 Psalme If the lyinges in wayte of enemies continue stil do not forget thy selfe as though the lord set nought by thee but call vpon the Lord singing the .26 Psalme If thou heare any man blaspheming speakyng ill against gods prouidence be not thou partaker of their wickednes but flying vnto God say the .14 Psalme and .53 Psalme If thou wilt know what sort the lyfe of a Citezin of the kingdome of heauen is syng the 15. Psalme If thou hast neede of prayer for them which withstand thee and compasse thy soule about syng the .17 psalme and 86. 89. and 142. Psalme If thou wilt know how Moyses prayed thou hast the .96 Psalme If thou art escaped from enemies and deliuered from them which persecute thee syng the 18. Psalme If thou maruelest at the order of thinges created and the grace of the deuine prouidence syng the .19 26. 27. Psalmes If thou seest any man troubled comforte them and praying for them saye the wordes of the 20. Psalme If thou seest thy selfe kept of the Lord and that thou prosperest reioyce and syng the 23. psalme If thyne enemies rush vpon thee lyft vp thy soule to God and say the .25 Psalme thou shalt see them worke wickednes in vayne If thyne enemies perseuer and continue and with bloudy handes seeke to seduce thee or kill thee geue not iudgement vnto man for all humayne thynges are suspect But requyryng God to be iudge who is the onely Iudge say the 26. Psalme and 35. 43. Psalme If thine enemies cruelly curse thee and multiply as it were an host with despite feare not no more then though thou were nothyng in daunger at al and syng the 46. Psalme If agayne they be impudent which lye in wayte set thou nothing by them but syng vnto the Lord that which is in the .47 Psalme If thou wylt know how thou ought to go vnto the lord when thou wilt geue him thanks plainly thou shalt vnderstand and see in the 48. Psalme Furthermore when thou renuest thy house and soule which receiueth the Lorde and the sensible house in which thou bodily dwellest geue thankes and say the 49. and 127. psalme If thou see thy kinsmen and frendes hate thee for the truth leaue not of thy loue neither feare such aduersaries but thinke what is to come and syng the 31. psalme If thou seest them that be christened deliuered from the corruptible birth maruelyng at the deuine bounteousnes syng the .31 psalme If thou wilt sing with the iust men remembring them which liue a right sing the 33. ps If thou hast fallen amongest enemyes and wiselye escaped them and fledde from their snares and therfore wilt geue thankes cal together the meeke syng wyth them the .34 psal If thou see the wicked striue to do mischiefe thinke not that sinne is naturally in them as certayne heretykes helde an opinion but say the 36. psalme If thou
weary of the manifolde mischiefes of thys lyfe and wouldest comforte thy selfe thou haste the 102. Psalme Forasmuche as it is meete and conuenient alwayes and in all thynges to geue GOD thankes when thou wilt prayse hym thou hast wherwith to exhort thy soule the 103. Psalme If thou wilt prayse god and know how to prayse him for any thing and what wordes he that prayieth ought to vse thou hast .113 127. 146. 133. 147. 148. 149. 150. Psalmes If thou hast faith as the Lord hath said and beleuest in those things which thou speakest when thou prayest say the .96 Psalme If thou be captiuated with straunge cogitations and hast perceyued thy selfe to be ledde out of the way and art sory therfore cease from henceforth and staying where thou perceiuest thy selfe to synne sit and mourne also as the people did saying the .137 Psalme If thou suppose temptations to bee for thy triall geue thankes after the temptation vnto God saying the .139 Psalme If thou art agayne caught of thine enemies and wouldest be deliuered say the 140. psal If thou wilt make thy prayers say the .5 Psalme and the .141 142. 143. 144. Psalmes If an enemy and tyrant be risen vp against the people feare thou no more then Dauid did Goliath but with Dauid beleue and sing the 144. Psalme If thou cal to remembraunce the goodnes of God toward thee and all men and wouldest prayse God say the .85 Psalme If thou wilt syng vnto the lord thou hast to say in the 96. Psalme in the 98. Psalme If thou beyng but a meane man peraduenture art set before thy brethren in some thing puffe not vp thy selfe in pryde against them but geue the praise to god and sing the 152. or the 151. psalmes If thou wilt syng obedieuce thou hast the 105. and the 106. 107. 111. 112. 113. 114. 115. 116. 117. 118. 119. 134. 145. 147. 148. 149. 150. psalmes If thou wilt sing particularly of the sauior thou hast of him in euery psalme but specially in the .25 and the .110 Psalme Such psalmes as shewe hys lawfull generation of the father and hys presence is the .11 Psalme Such as preache of the diuine crosse and how much lying in wayte he receyued for vs. and how great thinges he suffered are the .2 psalme and the .119 psalme Such as signifye the lyinges in wayte of the Iewes and the malice and Iudas Iscariothes betrayinges are the .21 psalme and the .50 72. psalmes Such as declare his kingdome and power to iudge and his presence in the fleshe is the 16. psalme For declaration of hys glorious resurrection in the fleshe read the .24 the .47 psalmes For his ascention into heauen read the .93 psalme .96 and the .98 the .99 psalmes Which if thou read thou mayst espye what benefites the Lorde bestowed vpon vs by hys passion To him be glory for euer ⧠The vse of the rest of the psalmes not comprehended in the former Table of Athanasius IF thou wouldest prayse God because he hath geuen vs a good prince which will and doth punishe the enemies of Christes religion vse the 21. Psalme If thou be persecuted without a cause if thou wouldest haue no affinitie with vice nor with the vicious vse the .26 Psalme If thou wouldest not be wicked if not accouÌ„ted as a malefactor but wouldest haue theÌ„ punished and thy self and such other godly men defended from their tiranny vse the .28 Psalme If thou seest the nobilitie the councell the magistrates and princes not geuen to religion nor to the praysing of God vse the .29 Psalme If thou desirest to be iust and vertuous vse the .33 Psalme If thou be afflicted with any sickenes and wouldest fayne lyue and see good dayes and Christes glory to be encreased vse the .39 Psalme If thou be banished for religion and art almost in dispayre of returnyng to the country vse the .42 Psalme If thou perceyue thy selfe forsaken of God and therfore persecuted for religion and vertues sake vse the .44 Psalme If thou wouldest complayne of Doeg of a wicked man and wouldest haue him to bee rooted out and thy selfe to haue prosperitie vse the .52 Psalme If thou wouldest be deliuered from thyne enemies whiche persecute thee vnto death vse the .54 Psalme If thou wouldest haue the helpe of God agaynst such as persecute thee without a cause vse the .59 Psalme If thou wouldest prepare thy selfe to fight agaynst the Idumeans or such lyke enemies of Christ vse the .60 Psalme If thou wouldest haue Christ to come conquere and beate downe the Sirians Idumeans Aimnonites Papistes Antichristians Nullifidians Neutralles and vngratious Pelagians vse the .68 Psalme If thou be perswaded that Christ will come and punishe offenders ayde the true worshippers and poure out the dregges of wine and the vengeaunce of his cup on the vngodly vse the .75 Psalme If thou neyther wouldest haue Idolatry neither any lycentious lustes rayne in Christes common wealth thou must geue God thankes if thou be perswaded he both will and caÌ„ take them awaye vsing the .81 Psalme If thou wouldest gladly know Christes Churche how that Sion signifieth it and how that the true religion shal be delated and spred through the whole world vse the .87 psalme If thou goest to fight against the Idumeans or any of Christes enemies whether they offend in maners or in doctrine and wouldest desire God to geue the victory vse the .108 psal If thou wouldest liue a godly life if y u wouldest replenish thy minde with godly preceptes and therby obtâ—ine immortalitie and eternall felicitie Study diligently the .119 psalme If thou be thrust into a college or into a parish town or country whose inhabitours are wicked crafty malicious pickequarels wouldest be deliuered froÌ„ theÌ„ vse the .120 psalme If thou wouldest haue the congregation of Christ to prosper vse the .122 psalme If thou wouldest be deliuered from contempt infamy and the derision of the wicked vse the .123 psalme When thou art deliuered out of prison captiuity or any distres in geuyng thankes to God vse the .124 psalme To vnderstande the safety that those are in whiche are vnder the tuition of the Lorde Iehoua and how that the wicked shal be punished consider the .125 psalme If thou desirest to knowe the felicitie that he hath whiche reuerenceth God and lyueth godly the traÌ„quilitie and peace of conscience which he enioyeth in this life and the vnspeakable ioye in the lyfe to come meditate diligently the .128 psalme To vnderstande howe the good and godly are defended by the ayde of the Lord and the wicked perishe consider the .129 psalme If thou wouldest not be arrogant and proude vse the .131 Psalme If thou wouldest prayse vnitie and concorde among brethren vse the .133 psalme To sing prayses to God for his mercies vse the .134 Psalme FINIS Veni Creator COme holy ghost eternal God procedyng froÌ„ aboue both from the Father the sonne the God of peace loue Visite
our mindes into vs thy heauenly grace inspyre that in all truth and godlines we may haue true desyre Thou art the very comforter in all woe and distresse The heauenly gift of God most high which no tonge can expresse The fountaine and the liuely spring of ioye celestiall The fyre so bright the loue so cleare and vnction spirituall Thou in thy giftes art manifold wherby Christs church doth stand In faythfull hartes writing thy lawe the fynger of Gods hand According to thy promise made thou geuest speech of grace That through thy helpe y e praise of God may stand in euery place O holy ghost into our wittes send downe thy heauenly light Kindle our hartes with feruent loue to serue God day and night Strength and stablish all our weaknes so feable and so frayle That neither flesh the world nor deuill agaynst vs doe preuaile Put backe our enmies far from vs and graunt vs to obtaine Peace in our harts with god and maÌ„ without grudge or disdaine And graunt O lord that thou being our leader and our guide We may eschew the snares of sinne and from thee neuer slyde To vs such plenty of thy grace good Lord graunt we thee pray That thou maist be our comforter at the last dreadfull day Of all strife and dissention O Lord dissolue the bandes And make the knots of peace loue throughout all christeÌ„Ì„ landes GrauÌ„t vs O Lord through thee to know the father most of myght That of his deare beloued sonne we may attayne the sight And that with perfect fayth also we may acknowledge thee The spirit of them both alway one God in persons three Laude and prayse be to the father and to the Sonne equall And to the holy spirite also one God coeternall And pray we that the onely sonne vouchesafe his sprit to send To all that do professe his name vnto the worldes ende Amen Venite exultemus Psalme xcv Syng thys as the Benedictus O Come and let vs now reioyce and sing vnto the Lord And to our onely sauiour also with one accorde O let vs come before his face with inwarde reuerence Confessing all our former sunnes and that with diligence To thanke him for his benefites alwaye distributyng Wherefore to him right ioyfully in Psalmes now let vs sing And that because that God alone is Lord magnificent And eke aboue all other gods a kyng omnipotent His people doth not he forsake at any time or tyde And in his hand are all the coastes of al the world so wyde And with his louing countenaunce he looketh euery where And doth behold the tops of all the mountaines far neere The sea and all that is therin are his for he them made And eke his haÌ„d hath facioned y e earth which doth not fade O come therfore and worship him and downe before him fall And let vs wepe before y e Lord the which hath made vs al. He is our God our Lord and kyng and we his people are His flocke and sheepe of his pasture on whoÌ„ he taketh care This day if ye do heare his voyce yet hearden not your hart As in the bitter murmuring when ye were in deserte Whiche thing was of their negligence committed in the time Of trouble in the wildernes a great and greuous crime Where as your fathers tempted me and tryed euery way They proued me saw my workes what I could do or say These forty yeares I haue bene greued with this generation And euermore I said they eâ—d in their imagination Wherwith their harts wer fore combred long time and many daies Wherfore I know assuredly they haue not knowen my wayes To whom I in mine anger swore that they should not be blest Nor see my ioy celestiall nor enter in my rest Gloria patri All laud and prayse be to the Lord O that of might art most To God the father and the Sonne and to the holy Ghost As it in the beginning was for euer heretofore And is now at this present tyme and shal be euermore The song of Saint Ambrose called Te deum WE prayse thee God we knowledge thee the onely Lord to be and as eternal father al the earth doth worship thee To thee al angels cry the heaueÌ„s all the powers therin To thee Cherub Seraphin to crie they do not linne O Holy Holy Holy Lord of Saboth Lord the God Through heauÌ„ earth thy praise is spred glory al abrod Thapostles glorious company yelde prayses vnto thee The prophetes good ly felowship prayse thee continually The noble and victorious host of Martirs sound thy prayse The holy Church throughout the world doth knowledge thee alwayes Father of endles maiestie they do acknowledge thee Thy Christ thine honorable true and onely sonne to be The holy Ghost the comforter of glory thou art kyng O Christ and of the father art the sonne euerlastyng When sinfull mans decay in hand thou tookest to restore To be enclosd in virgins womb thou diddest not abhorre When thou hadst ouercome of death the sharp cruell might Thou heaueÌ„s kingdom didst set ope to ech beleuing wight In glory of the father thou doost sit on Gods right hand We trust that thou shalt come our iudge our cause to vnderstand Lord helpe thy seruaÌ„ts whoÌ„ thou hast bought w t thy precious bloud And in eternall glory set them with thy saintes so good O Lord do thou thy people saue blesse thine inheritaunce Lord gouerne them and Lord do thou for euer them aduaunce We magnifie thee day by day and world without end Adore thy holy name O Lord Vouchesafe vs to defend From sinne this day Haue mercy Lord haue mercy on vs all And on vs as we trust in thee Lord let thy mercy fall O Lord I haue reposed all my confidence in thee Put to confounding shame therefore Lord let me neuer be ¶ The song of the three Children praysing God prouokyng all creatures to do the same O Alye workes of god the Lord bles ye the Lord praise him magnifie him for euer verse 2 Oye the aungels of the Lord bles ye the Lord prayse him and magnifye him for euer verse 3 3 O ye the starry heauens hye blesse ye the Lord prayse him and magnifye him for euer verse 4 O ye waters aboue the skye bles ye the Lord. c. verse 5 O ye the powers of the Lord bles ye the Lord. c. verse 6 O ye the shining sunne moone bles ye the Lord. c. verse 7 O ye the glistring starres of heaueÌ„ bles ye the Lord. c. verse 8 O ye the showers dropping dew bles ye y e Lord. c. verse 9 O ye the blowing windes of god bles ye the Lord. c. verse 10 O ye the fire warming heate bles ye the Lord. c. verse 11 Ye winter and the sommer tyde bles ye the Lord. c. verse 12 O ye the dewes binding frostes bles ye the Lord. c.
yet there but one almighty is and not almighties three The father God is God the Sonne God holy Ghost also yet are there not three Gods in al but one God and no mo So like wise Lord the Father is and Lord also the Sonne And lord the holy ghost yet are there not thre lords but one For as we are compeld to graunt by christian veritie Eche of the persons by hymfelfe both God and Lord to be So catholike religion forbiddeth vs alway That eyther gods be three or y t there lordes be three to say Of none the father is ne made ne create nor begot The Sonne is of the Father not create ne made but got The holy Ghost is of them both the father and the Sonne He made ne create nor begot but doth proceede alone So we one Father hold not three one Sonne also not three One holy Ghost alone and not three holy Ghostes to bee None in this Trinitie before nor after other is Ne greater any then the rest ne lesser be likewise But euery one among themselues of all the persons three Together coeternal al and al coequal bee So vnitie in Trinitie as said it is before And Trinitie in vnitie in all thynges we adore Therfore what man soeuer that saluation wil attayne This faith touching the Trinitie of force he must retayne And nedeful to eternal lyfe it is that euery wight Of the incarnating of Christ our Lord beleue aright For this the right faith is that we beleue and eke beknow That Christ our lord y e son of God is God and man also God of his fathers substance got before the world began And of his mothers substance borne in world a very man Both perfect god and perfect man in one one Iesus Christ That doth of reasonable soule and humaine flesh subsist Touchyng hys Godhode equal with his father God is he Touching his manhode lower then his father in degree Who though he be both very God and very man also yet is he but one Christ alone and is not persons two One not by turning of Godhode into the flesh of man But by takyng manhode to God this beyng one began All one not by confounding of the substance into one But onely by the vnitie that is of one person For as the reasonable soule and flesh but one man is So in one person God and man is but one Christ lykewyse Who suffred for to saue vs all to hell he did descend The third day rose agayne frō death to heauen he did ascēd He sittes at the ryght hand of God the almighty father there From thence to iudge the quicke dead againe he shal retire At whose returne all men shall rise with bodies new restorde And of their own workes they shal geue accōpt vnto y e lord And they into eternal lyfe shall go that haue done wel Who haue done il shal go into eternal fire to dwel This is the Catholike beliefe who doth not faithfully Beleue the same without al dout he saued cannot be To Father Sonne and holy ghost al glory be therfore As in beginning was is now and shal be euermore The Lamentation of a synner Marckant O Lord turne not away thy face frō him that lieth prostrate Lamenting sore his sinful life before thy mercy gate Which gate thou openest wide to those y t do lament their sin shut not y r gate against me lord but let me enter in And call me not to mine accomptes howe I haue liued here For then I know right well O Lord how vile I shall appeare I nede not to confesse my lyfe I am sure thou canst tell what I haue ben and what I am I know thou knowest it wel O Lord thou knowest what things be past eke the things that bee Thou knowest also what is to come nothing is hid from thee Before y e heauēs earth wer made y u knowest what things wer thē As all things els that haue ben since among the sonnes of men And can the thinges that I haue done be hidden from thee then Nay nay y u knowest thē all O Lord where they wer done whē Wherfore with teares I come to thee to begge and to entreate Euen as the child that hath done euill and feareth to be beate So come I to thy mercy gate where mercy doth abound Requiring mercy for my sinne to heale my deadly wounde O Lord I nede not to repeate what I do begge or craue Thou knowest O Lord before I aske y e thing that I would haue Mercy good Lord mercy I aske this is the totall summe For mercy Lord is all my sute Lord let thy mercy come The humble sute of a sinner O Lord of whom I do depēd be hold my care full hart whē thy will pleasure is release me of my smart y u seest my sorowes what they are my gref is knowne to thee and there is none that cā remoue or take the same frō me But onely thou whose ayde I craue whose mercy stil is prest To ease all those that come to thee for succour and for rest And sith thou seest my restles eyes my teares greuous grone Attēde vnto my sute O Lord marck wel my plaint mone For sinne hath so inclosed me and compast me about That I am now remediles if mercy helpe not out For mortall man cannot realease or mitigate this payne But euē thy Christ my lord god which for my sinnes was slaine Wose bloudy woūdes are yet to see though not with mortall eye yet doth thy saints behold them all and so I trust shall I. Though sinne doth hinder me a while when thou shalt see it good I shall nioy the sight of him and see his woundes and bloud And as thine angels thy saintes do now behold the same So trust I to possesse that place with them to prayse thy name But whiles I lyue here in this vale where sinners do frequent Assist me euer with thy grace my sinnes still to lament Least that I treade in sinners trace and geue them my consent To dwell with them in wickednes wherto nature is bent Onely thy grace must be my stay least that I fall down flat And beyng down then of my selfe cannot recouer that Wherfore this is yet once agayne my sute and my request To graunt me pardon for my sinne that I in thee may rest Then shall my hart my tong and voyce be instruments of prayse And in thy church house of saints sing Psalmes to thee alwaies The Lordes Prayer or Pater noster OVr father which in heauē art lord halowd be thy name thy kingdom come thy wil be done in earth euen as the same in heauē is Geue vs O Lord our dayly bread this day As we forgeue our detters so Forgeue our dettes we pray Into temptation leade vs not From euill make vs free for kingdome power and glory thine both now and euer be The .x. 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verse 7 Rise vp therfore saue me my God for now on thee I call For thou hast broke the chekes teeth of these wicked mē al. verse 8 Saluation onely doth belong to thee O Lord aboue Thou doost bestow vpon thy folke thy blessing and thy loue Cum inuocarem exaudiui Psalme .iiii. T. S. ¶ Whē Saul persecuted Dauid he called vpon God trusting most assuredly in his promise therfore holdly reproueth his enemies who by wilfull malice resisted his dominion And finally preferreth the fauour of God before all worldly treasures Let vs lykewise learne to trust in gods promises when we are afflicted with any kinde of Crosse and so we shall neither feare our enemies nor yet be ouer commen with tentations Syng this as the first Psalme O God that art my righteousnes Lord heare me when I cal Thou hast set me at liberty when I was bound thral verse 2 Haue mercy Lord therfore on me and graūt me this request For vnto thee vncessantly to cry I wil not rest verse 3 O mortall men how long wil ye my glory thus despise Why wander ye in vanitie and folow after lyes verse 4 Know ye that good godly men the lord doth take chuse And whē to him I make my plaint he doth me not refuse verse 5 Sinne not but stād in awe therfore examine wel your hart And in your chamber quietly see you your selues conuert verse 6 Offer to God the sacrifice of righteousnes I say And loke that in the liuing lord you put your trust alway verse 7 The greater sort craue worldly goods riches do embrace But Lord graūt vs thy countenaunce thy fauour and thy grace verse 8 For thou therby shalt make my hart more ioyful and more glad Then they that of their corne wine ful great increase haue had verse 9 In peace therfore lye down wil I taking my rest and slepe For thou onely wilt me O Lord alone in safely kepe Verba mea auribus percipe Psalme .v. T. S ¶ Dauid hauing suffered great calamitie as well by Doeg a Achitophel Saules flatterers as by other infinite enemies calleth to God for succor shewing how requisite it is that God should punishe the malicious enuy of his aduersaries After beyng assured of prosperous successe he conceyueth comforte concludyng that when God shall deliuer hym other also shall be partakers of the same mercies Sing this as the third psalme INcline thine eares vnto my wordes O Lord my plaint consider verse 2 And heare my voyce my king my god to thee I make my praier verse 3 Heare me betime Lord tary not for I wil haue respect My prayer early in the morne to thee for to direct verse 4 And I wil trust through patience in thee my God alone That art not pleased with wickednes il with thee dwels none verse 5 And in thy sight shal neuer stand these furious fooles O Lord Vaine workers of iniquitie thou hast alwayes abhord verse 6 The lyers and the flatterers thou shalt destroy them then And God will hate the bloud thirsty and the deceitful man verse 7 Therfore wil I come to thy house trusting vpon thy grace And reuerently wil worship thee toward thine holy place verse 8 Lord lead me in thy rightuousnes for to confound my foes And eke the way that I shal walke before my face disclose verse 9 For in their mouthes there is no truth their hart is foule vaine verse 10 Their throte an open sepulchre their tonges do glose and fayne verse 11 Destroy their false conspiracies that they may come to nought verse 12 Subuert thē in their heapes of sinne which haue rebelliō wrought verse 13 But those that put their trust in thee let them be glad alwayes And rēder thākes for thy defense and geue thy name the prayse verse 14 For thou with fauour wilt increase the iust righteous still And with thy grace as with a shild defend him from all ill i. Domine ne in furore tuo Psalme .vi. T. S. ¶ When Dauid by his sinnes hath prouoked gods wrath and now felt not onely his hand against him but also conceiued the horrors of death euerlastyng he desired forgeuenes bewayling that if god toke him awaye in his indignation he should lacke occasion to prayse him as he was wont to do whilest he was amongest men Then sodenly feling gods mercy he sharpely rebuketh his enemies whiche reioyseth in his affliction LOrde in thy wrath reproue me not thoughe I deserue thine ire Ne yet correct me in thy rage O Lorde I thee desire For I am weake therfore O Lorde of mercy me forbeare and heale me Lord for why thou knowest my bones do quake for feare verse 3 My soule is troubled very sore and vexed vehemently But Lord how long wilt thou delay to cure my misery verse 4 Lord tourne thee to thy wōted grace my sely soule vp take Oh saue me not for my deserts but for thy mercies sake verse 5 For why no man among the dead remembreth thee one whit Or who shal worship thee O Lord in the infernal pit verse 6 So greuous is my plaint and mone that I wax wondrous faint Al the night long I wash my bed with teares of my complaint verse 7 My sight is dimme and waxeth old with anguish of mine heart For feare of those that be my foes and would my soule subuert verse 8 But now away from me al ye that worke iniquitie For why the Lord hath hard the voyce of my complaint cry verse 9 He heard not onely the request and prayer of my hart But it receiued at my hand and tooke it in good part verse 10 And now my foes that vexed me the Lord wil soone defame And sodenly confound thē al to their rebuke and shame Domine deus meus in te speraui Psalme .vii. T. S. Dauid being falsely accused by Chus one of Saules kinsmē he calleth god to be his defēder to whō he cōmendeth his innocencie First shewing that his conscience did not accuse him of any euill towardes Saule Next that it couched gods glory to award sentence agaynst the wicked And so entring into the consideratiō of gods mercyes and promises he waxeth holde and derideth the vayne enterprises of his enemyes threatnyng that it shall fall on their owne neckes that whiche they haue purposed for others Sing this as the third psalme verse 1 O Lord my God I put my trust and confidence in thee Saue me from thē that me pursue and eke deliuer me verse 2 Least like a Lion he me teare and rent in pieces smal While there is none to succor me and rid me out of thrall verse 3 O Lord my God if I haue done the thing that is not right Or els if I be found in faut or gilty in the sight verse 4 Or to my frend rewarded euil or left him in distres Which me pursued most cruelly and hated me causeles verse 5 Then let my foes
pursue my soule and eke my life down thrust Vnto the earth and also lay myne honour in the dust verse 6 Stert vp O Lord now in thy wrath and put my foes to payne Performe thy kingdome promised to me which wrong sustaine verse 7 TheÌ„ shal great nations come to thee and know thee by this thing If thou declare for loue of theÌ„ thy selfe as Lord and kyng verse 8 And thou that art of al men iudge O Lord now iudge thou me According to my rightousnes and myne integritie The seconde part verse 9 9 Lord cease the hate of wicked men and be the iust mans guide verse 10 By whom the secrets of al hearts are searched and descride verse 11 I take my helpe to come of God in al my grief and smart That doth preserue all those that be of pure and perfect hart verse 12 The iust man and the wicked both God iudgeth by his power So that he feleth his mighty hand euen euery day and houre verse 13 Except he chaunge his mind I dye for euen as he should smit He whets his sword his bow he beÌ„ds ayming where he may hit verse 14 And doth prepare his mortal dartes his arrowes kene and sharpe For them that do me persecute whilest he doth mischief warpe verse 15 But loe though he in trauel be of his deuilish forecast And of his mischief once coÌ„ceiued yet brings forth nought at last verse 16 He digs a ditch and delues it depe in hope to hurt his brother But he shal fal into the pit that he digde vp for other verse 17 Thus wrong retorneth to the hurt of him in whom it bred And al the mischief that he wrought shal fal vpon his head verse 18 I wil geue thankes to God therfore that iudgeth righteously And with my song prayse wil the name of him that is most hie Domine Deus noster Psalme .viij. T. S ¶ The Prophet considering thexcellent liberalitie and fatherly prouidence of God towardes man whom he made as it were a god ouer all his workes doth not onely geue great thankes but is astonished with thadmiration of the same as one nothing able to compasse such great mercyes and so endeth Syng this as the third Psalme verse 1 O God our Lord how wonderful are thy workes euery where Whose fame surmount in dignitie aboue the heaueÌ„s cleare verse 2 EueÌ„ by the mouths of sucking babes y u wilt coÌ„fouÌ„d thy foes For in these babes thy might is sene thy graces they disclose verse 3 And when I see the heaueÌ„s high the workes of thine own hand The sunne the mone and all the starres in order as they stand verse 4 What thing is man Lord thinke I then that y u doost him remeÌ„ber Or what is mans posteritie that thou doost it consider verse 5 For thou hast made him little lesse then angels in degree And thou hast crowned him also with glory and dignitie verse 6 Thou hast preferd him to be Lord of al thy workes of wonder And at his fete hast set al things that he should kepe theÌ„ vnder verse 7 As shepe and neat and al beastes els that in the fieldes do fede verse 8 Foules of the ayre fish in the sea and al that therin brede verse 9 Therfore must I say once again O God that art our Lord How famous how woÌ„derful are thy workes through y e world Confitebor tibi domine Psalme .ix. T. S. ¶ After he had geueÌ„ thaÌ„kes to god for the sundry victories that he had seÌ„t him against his enemies also proued by manifold experieÌ„ce how ready god was at hand in all his troubles â—e being now likewise in daunger of new enemyes desireth god to helpe him according to his wont and destroy the malicious arrogancie of his aduersaries Syng this as the third Psalme verse 1 WIth hart mouth vnto the Lord wil I sing laud and prayse And speake of al thy wondrous workes theÌ„ declare alwaies verse 2 I wil be glad and much reioyce in thee O God most hie And make my songes extoll thy name aboue the starry skye verse 3 For that my foes are driuen backe and turned vnto flight They fal down flat and are destroyd by thy great force myght Thou hast reuenged al my wrong my grief and al my grudge verse 4 Thou doost w t iustice heare my cause most like a righteous iudge verse 5 Thou doost rebuke the HeatheÌ„ folke and wicked so confound That afterward the memory of them cannot be found verse 6 My foe thou hast made good dispatch all our townes destroyed thou hast their fame w t theÌ„ defaced through al the world so wide verse 7 Know thou that he which is aboue for euermore shal raigne And in the seat of equity true iudgement wil maintayne verse 8 With iustice he wil kepe and guide the world and euery wight And so wil yelde with equitie to euery man his right verse 9 He is protector of the poore what time they be opprest He is in al aduersitie their refuge and their rest verse 10 All they that know thy holy name therfore shal trust in thee For thok forsakest not their sute in their necessitie verse 11 Sing Psalmes therfore vnto the Lord that dwelleth in Sion hil Publish among al nations his noble actes and will verse 12 For he is mindful of the bloud of those that be opprest Forgetting not th' afflicted hart that seekes to him for rest The second part verse 13 Haue mercy Lord on me poore wretch whose enmies stil remaine Which from the gates of death are wont to rayse me vp agayne verse 14 In Sion that I might set forth thy prayse with hart and voyce And that in thy saluation Lord my soule might stil reioyce verse 15 The heathen sticke fast in the pit that they them selues preparde And in the net that they did set their own fete fast are snarde verse 16 God she wes his iudgemeÌ„ts which wer good for euery maÌ„ to mark When as ye se the wicked man lye trapt in his own warke verse 17 The wicked and the sinfull men go down to hel for euer And all the people of the world that God wil not remember verse 18 But sure the Lord wil not forget the poore mans grief and payne The pacient people neuer looke for helpe of God in vayne verse 19 O Lord arise least men preuayle that be of worldly myght And let the Heathen folke receyue their iudgement in thy sight verse 20 Lord strike such terror feare and dread into the harts of them That they may know assuredly they be but mortal men Vt quid domine Psalme .x. T. S ¶ He complayneth of the fraud rapine tyranny and of all kindes of wrong whiche worldly men vse assigning the cause therof whiche was that wicked men beyng as it were dronken with worldy prosperitie and therfore setting a part all feare and reuerence towardes god thinke they may do all thinges without
controlyng Therfore he calleth vpon god to sende some remedy these desperate euils And at length comforteth him selfe with hope of delyueraunce Sing this as the third Psalme verse 1 WHat is the cause that thou O Lord art now so far from thine And kepest close thy couÌ„tenauÌ„ce froÌ„ vs this troublous time verse 2 The poore doth perish by the proud and wicked meÌ„s desire Let them be taken in the craft that they them selues conspire verse 3 For in the lust of his own hart the vngodly doth delyte So doth the wicked prayse him self and doth the Lord despite verse 4 He is so proud that right and wrong he setteth al apart Nay nay there is no God sayth he for thus he thinkes in heart verse 5 Because his wayes do prosper stil he doth thy lawes neglect And with a blast doth puffe against such as would him correct verse 6 Tush tush saith he I haue no dread least mine estate should chaÌ„ge And why for al aduersity to him is very straunge verse 7 His mouth is ful of cursednes of fraud deceyte and guile Vnder his to ung doth mischief sit trauel al the while verse 8 He lieth hid in wayes and holes to slay the innocent Against the poore that passe him by his cruel eyes are beÌ„t verse 9 And like a Lion priuily lieth lurkyng in his den If he may snare them in his net to spoile poore simple meÌ„ verse 10 And for the nonce ful craftly he croucheth down I say verse 11 So ar great heapes of pore meÌ„ made by his stroÌ„g power hys pray verse 12 Tush God forgetteth this sayth he therfore may I behold His countenaunce is cast aside he doth it not behold verse 13 Arise O Lord O God in whom the poore mans hope doth rest Lift vp thy hand forget not Lord the poore that be opprest verse 14 What blasphemy is this to thee Lord doost thou not abhorre it To heare the wicked in their harts say tush thou carest not for it verse 15 But thou seest al thys wyckednes and wel doost vnderstand verse 16 That frendles and poore fatherles are left into thy hand verse 17 Of wicked and malitious men then breake the power for euer That they with their iniquitie may perish altogether verse 18 The Lord shal raygne for euermore as kyng and God alone And he wil chase the Heathen folke out of his land eche one verse 19 Thou hearest O lord the poore maÌ„s plaint their praiers request Their harts thou wilt coÌ„firme vntil thine eares to heare be prest verse 20 To iudge the poore and fatherles and helpe them to their right That they may be no more opprest with men of worldly might In Domino confido Psalme .xi. T. S ¶ This Psalme conteyneth two partes In the first Dauid sheweth how hard assaults of teÌ„ptations he sustayned and in how great anguish of mynde he was when Saule dyd persecute him Then next he reioyseth that God sent him succor in his necessitie declaring hys iustice as wel in gouerning the good and the wicked men as the whole world Syng this as the third Psalme verse 1 I Trust in God how dare ye then say thus my soule vntil Flee hence as fast as any foule and hide you in your hil verse 2 Behold y e wicked beÌ„d their bowes make their arrowes prest to shote in secret to hurt y e souÌ„d harmles brest verse 3 Of worldly hope al stayes wer shruÌ„ke clerely brought to nought Alas the iust and rightuous man what euil hath he wrought verse 4 But he that in his temple is most holy and most hye And in the heauens hath his seat of royal maiestye The poore and simple mans estate considereth in his mynde And searcheth out ful narowly the maners of mankynde verse 5 And with a chereful countenance the righteous man wil vse But in his hart he doth abhorre al such as mischief muse verse 6 And on the sinners casteth snares as thicke as any rayne Fire brimstone whirlwindes thick apointed for their payne verse 7 Ye see then how a righteous God doth righteousnes embrace And to the iust and vpright men shewes forth his pleasant face Saluum me fac Deus Psalme .xii. T. S ¶ The prophet learning the miserable estate of the people and the decay of all good order desireth God spedely to send succor to his children Then coÌ„forting himselfe and others with the assurance of gods helpe he commendeth the constant veritie that God obserueth in keping his promises concluding that when all orders are most corrupted then wyl God delyuer his Sing this as the third Psalme verse 1 HElpe Lord for good and godly men do perish and decay And faith truth froÌ„ worldly men is parted cleane away verse 2 Who so doth w t his neighbour talk his talk is al but vaine For euery man bethinketh how to flatter lye and faine verse 3 But flatteryng and deceitful lippes and tonges that be so stout to speak proud words make great brags y â— lord soone cut theÌ„ out verse 4 For they say stil we wil preuayle our tonges shal vs extol our tongs are ours we ought to speak what lord shal vs controll verse 5 But for the great complaint and cry of poore and men opprest Arise wil I now saith the lord and them restore to rest verse 6 Gods worde is lyke to siluer pure that from the earth is tride And hath no lesse then seuen tymes in fyre bene purifide verse 7 Now since thy promise is to helpe Lord keepe thy promise then And saue vs now and euermore from this il kind of men verse 8 For now the wicked world is full of mischiefes manifold When vanitie with mortal men so highly is extold Vsquequo domine Psalme xiii T. S ¶ Dauid as it were ouercommen with sundry and new afflictions flyeth to God as hys onely refuge and so at the length being encouraged through gods promises he conceiueth most sure confidence against the extreame horrors of death Sing this as the third psalme verse 1 HOw long wilt y u forget me Lord shal I neuer be remembred How loÌ„g wilt y u thy visage hide as though y u were offeÌ„ded verse 2 In hart mynde how long shal I with care tormented be How longe eke shal my deadly foe thus triumphe ouer me verse 3 Behold me now my Lord my God and heare me sore opprest Lighten mine eyes least that I sleepe as one by death possest verse 4 Least thus mine enemy say to me behold I do preuayle Least they also that hate my soule reioyce to see me quayle verse 5 But for thy mercies and goodnes my hope shal neuer start In thy reliefe and sauyng health right glad shal bee my hart verse 6 I wil geue thankes vnto the Lord and praises to him syng Because he hath heard my request and graunted my wishyng Dixit insipiens psalme .xiiii. T. S. ¶ He describeth the pâ—ruerse nature of
men which were so growen to licentiousnes that god was brought to vtter contempt for the which thing although he was greatly greued yet being persuaded that God would send some present remedy he comforteth hymself and others THere is no God as folish men affirme in their mad mode their drifts are al corrupt vayne not one of them doth good The Lorde beheld from heauen hit the who le race of mankynde and saw not one that sought in deede the liuing God to finde verse 3 They went all wyde were corrupt and truly there was none That in the world did any good I say there was not one verse 4 Is all their iudgement so far lost that all worke mischief stil Eating my people eueÌ„ as bread not one to seeke Gods wil verse 5 When they thus rage then sodenly great feare on them shal fal For god doth loue the righteous men and wil maintain them al. verse 6 Ye mocke the doinges of the poore to their reproche and shame Because they put their trust in God and cal vpon his name verse 7 But who shal geue thy people health when wilt thou fulfil The promise made to Israel from out of Sion hil verse 8 Euen when thou shalt restore agayne such as were captiues lad Then Iacob shal therin reioyce and Israel shal be glad Domine quis habitabit Psalme .xv. T. S ¶ This Psalme teacheth on what condition God did chuse the Iewes for his peculiar people and wherfore he placed his Temple among them which was to th entent that they be lyuing vprightly godlye might witnes that they were his special and holy people Sing this as the third psalme verse 1 O Lord within thy Tabernacle who shal inhabite stil Or whom wilt thou receyue to dwel in thy most holy hil verse 2 The maÌ„ whose life is vncorrupt whose works ar iust streit Whose hart doth think y e very truth whose tong speakes no deceit verse 3 Nor to his neighbour doth none il in body goods or name Nor willingly doth moue false tales which might empeyr y e same verse 4 That in his hart regardeth not malitious wycked men But those that loue and feare the Lord he maketh much of them verse 5 His oth and al his promises that kepeth faithfully Although he make his couenant so that he doth lose therby verse 6 That putteth not to vsury his money and his coyne Ne for to hurt the innocent doth brybe or els purloyne verse 7 Who so doth al things as you see that here is to be done Shal neuer perish in this world nor in the world to come Conserua me domine Psalme .xvi. T. S. ¶ Dauid prayeth to God for succour not for his workes but for his faythe 's sake protestyng that he hateth al Idolatry taking God onely for his comfort and felicity who suffreth hys to lacke nothyng Syng this as the .xiiii. Psalme verse 1 LOrd kepe me for I trust in thee and do confesse in deede Thou art my God of my goods O lord y u hast no neede verse 2 I geue my goodnes to the saints that in the world do dwel And namely to the faithful flocke in vertue that excel verse 3 They shal heape sorowes on their heds which ruÌ„ as they wer mad To offer to the Idols Gods alas it is to bad verse 4 As for their bloudy sacrifice and offrings of that sort I wil not touch nor yet therof my lips shal make report verse 5 For why the Lord the portion is of mine inheritaunce And thou art he that doost maintain my rent my lot my chauÌ„ce verse 6 The place wherin my lot did fal in beauty did excel Myne heritage assignd to me doth please me wondrous wel verse 7 I thanke the Lord that caused me to vnderstand the right For by his meanes my secret thoughts do teach me euery nyght verse 8 I set the Lord stil in my sight and trust him ouer al For he doth stand on my right hand therfore I shal not fal verse 9 Wherfore my hart and tonge also doth both reioyce together My flesh and body rest in hope when I this thing consider verse 10 Thou wilt not leaue my soule in graue for Lord thou louest me Nor yet wil geue thine holy one corruption for to see verse 11 But wilt teach me the way to lyfe for al treasures and â—â—ore Of perfect ioy are in thy face and power for euermore Exaudi domine iustitiam meam Psalme .xvii. T. S ¶ Here he complayneth vnto God of the cruel pride and arrogancy of Saule and the rest of his enmies who thus raged without any cause geueÌ„ on his part therfore he desireth God to reuenge his innocency and deliuer hym This Psalme ought diligentlye to be noted of such as receiue euil for wel doyng Syng this as the xiiii Psalme verse 1 O Lord geue eare to my iust cause attend when I complaine and heare y e praier y t I put forth with lips that do not fayne verse 2 And let y e iudgemeÌ„t of my cause procede alwaies from thee And let thine eies behold and cleare this my simplicitie verse 3 Thou hast wel tride me in the night and yet couldst nothing finde That I haue spoken with my tonge that was not in my mynde verse 4 As from the workes of wicked men and pathes peruerse and il For loue of thy most holy worde I haue refrayned stil verse 5 Then in thy pathes that be most pure stay me Lord and preserue That from the way wherin I walke my steps may neuer swerue verse 6 For I do cal to thee O Lord surely thou wilt me ayde TheÌ„ heare my prayer way right wel the wordes y t I haue sayd verse 7 O thou the sauiour of all them that put their trust in thee Declare thy strength on them y t spurne against thy maiestie verse 8 O kepe me Lord as thou wouldst kepe the apple of thine eye And vnder couert of thy wings defend me secretly The second part verse 9 From wicked men that trouble me and daily me anoy And from my foes that go about my soule for to destroy verse 10 Which wallow in their worldly wealth so ful and eke so fat that in their pride they do not spare to speak they care not what verse 11 They lie in wait where we should passe w t craft me to confound And musing mischief in their mindes to cast me to the ground verse 12 Much like a Lion gredely that would his pray embrace Or lurkyng like a Lions whelpe within some secret place verse 13 Vp Lord with hast preuent my foe and cast him at thy feete Saue y u my soule froÌ„ the euil man and w t thy sword him smite verse 14 Deliuer me lord by thy power out of these tirants hands Which now so long time raigned haue kepe vs in their bands verse 15 I meane froÌ„ worldly men to whoÌ„ al worldly goodes are rife That
haue no hope nor part of ioy but in this present life Thou of thy store their bellies filst with pleasures to their minde Their children haue inough leaue to theirs the rest behind verse 16 But I shal with pure coÌ„science behold thy gratious face So when I wake I shal be ful with thine image and grace Diligam te domine Psalme .xviii. T. S ¶ This Psalme is the firâ—â—e beginning of Dauids salutation and thankes geuing in the entring into his kingdome wherein he extolleth and praiseth most highlye the maruelous mercies and grace of God who hath both preserued and defended him he setteth forth the image of Christes kingdom painted in his kingdome that the faithful may be assured that Christ shal alwaies conquere ouercome by the vnspeakeable power of his father though al the whole world should say there against O God my streÌ„gth fortitude of force I must loue thee thou art my castle defence in my necessitie My God my rock in whoÌ„ I trust y e worker of my wealth my refuge buckler and my shield the horne of al my health verse 3 When I sing laud vnto the Lorde most worthy to be serued Then fro my foes I am right sure that I shal be preserued verse 4 The panges of death did compasse me and bound me euery where The flowing waues of wickednes did put me in great feare verse 5 The slie and suttle snares of hel were round about me set And for my death there was preparde a deadly trapping net verse 6 I thus beset with paine and grief did pray to God for grace And he forth with did heare my plaint out of his holy place verse 7 Such is his power that in his wrath he made the earth to quake Yea the foundation of the mount of Basan for to shake verse 8 And from his nostrels came a smoke when kindled was his ire and from his mouth came kindled coales of hote consuming fyre verse 9 The Lord descended from aboue and bowde the heauens hie And vnderneath his feete he cast the darknes of the skye verse 10 On Cherubs and on Cherubins ful royally he rode and on the wings of all the windes came flying al abrode The second part verse 11 11 And lyke a den most darke he made his denne and secret place With waters blacke and ayrie cloudes enuironed he was verse 12 But when the presence of his face in brightnes shal appeare theÌ„ cloudes coÌ„sume in their stead come hailes coales of fyre verse 13 These firy dartes and thunderboltes disperse theÌ„ here and there And with his often lightenings he puttes them in great feare verse 14 Lord at thy wrath and threatnings and at thy chiding cheare The springs and the foundations of al the world appeare verse 15 And froÌ„ aboue the Lord sent downe to fetch me from below and pluckt me out of waters great that would me ouerflow verse 16 And me deliuerd from my foes that would haue made me thral Yea from such foes as were to strong for me to deale withal verse 17 They did preuent me to oppres in tyme of my great grief But yet the Lord was my defence my succor and relief verse 18 He brought me forth in open place where as I might be free And kept me safe because he had a fauour vnto me verse 19 And as I was an innocent so did he me regard And to the cleannes of my hands he gaue me my reward verse 20 For that I walked in his wayes and in his pathes haue trod And haue not wauered wickedly against my Lord my God The third part verse 21 But euermore I haue respect to his law and decre His statutes and commaundements I cast not out fro me verse 22 But pure and cleane and vncorrupt appeard before his face And did refrayne from wickednes and sinne in any case verse 23 The Lord therfore wil me reward as I haue done aright And to the cleannes of my handes appearing in his sight verse 24 For Lord with him that holy is wilt thou be holy to and with y e good and vertuous meÌ„ right vertuosly wilt do verse 25 And to the louing and elect thy loue thou wilt reserue And thou wilt vse the wicked men as wicked men deserue verse 26 For thou doost saue the simple folk in trouble wheÌ„ they lye And doost bring down y â— countenance of them that looke ful hye verse 27 The Lord wil light my candel so that it shal shine ful bright The Lord my God wil make also my darknes to be light verse 28 For by thy help an host of men discomfite Lord I shal By thee I scale and ouerleape the strength of any wal verse 29 Vnspotted are the wayes of God his word is purely tride He is a sure defence to such as in his fayth abide verse 30 For who is God except the Lord for other there is none Or els who is omnipotent sauing our God alone The fourth part verse 31 The God that girdeth me with strength is he that I do meane That al the wayes wherin I walke did euermore kepe cleane verse 32 That made my feete like to the Hartes in swiftnes of my pace And for my surety brought me forth into an open place verse 33 He did in order put my handes to battayle and to fight To breake in sunder barres of brasse he gaue my armes y e might verse 34 Thou reachest me thy sauing health thy right hand is my tower Thy loue and familiaritie doth stil encrease my power verse 35 And vnder me thou makest playne the way where I should walk So that my feete shal neuer slip nor stumble at a balke verse 36 And fiersly I pursue and take my foes that me annoyde And from the field do not returne til they be al destroyde verse 37 So I suppresse and wound my foes that they can rise no more For at my foote they fal down flat I strike them all so sore verse 38 For thou doost gird me w t thy streÌ„gth to war in such a wyse That they be al scattred abrode that vp against me ryse verse 39 Lord thou hast put into my handes my mortal enmies yoke and all my foes thou doost deuide in sunder with thy stroke verse 40 They cald for help but none gaue eare nor helpt them with relief Yea to the Lord they cald for helpe yet heard he not their griefe The fyft part verse 41 And stil like dust before the wind I driue them vnder feete And sweepe them out like filthy clay that sticketh in the streete verse 42 Thou keepst me from seditious folke that stil in strife be led and thou doost of the heathen folke appoint me to be hed verse 43 A people straunge to me vnknowen and yet they shal me serue And at the first obey my worde wheras myne owne wil swerue verse 44 I shal be ircksome to mine owne they wil not see my light But wander wide out
deliuered from great perils as appeareth by the prayses and thankes geuing annexed Wherein we may see the constant fayth of Dauid against the assaultes of al enemies and also thend wherfore he desireth to lyue and to be deliuered one ly to worship God in his congregation Hereby he promiseth him selfe assuraunce though father and mother forsake him he teacheth this to be the onely way to see the good thinges in the lande of the lyuing and after hys example he exhorteth to fayth and to attende vpon the Lorde Sing this as the .xviii. psal verse 1 THe Lord is both my health light shal mā make me dismaide Sith god doth geue me strēgth might why shuld I be afraid verse 2 While y e my foes w t al their strēgth begin with me to brawle And thinke to eate me vp at length thē selues haue caught the fal verse 3 Though they in campe against me lye my hart is not afraid In battel pight if they wil try I trust in God for ayde verse 4 One thing of God I do require that he wil not deny For which I pray and wil desire til he to me apply verse 5 That I within his holy place my lyfe throughout may dwell To see the beauty of his face and vew his temple wel verse 6 In tyme of dread he shal me hide within his place most pure And kepe me secret by his syde as on a rocke most sure verse 7 At lēgth I know the Lordes good grace shal make me strōg stout My foes to foyle cleane deface that compasse me about verse 8 Therfore within his house wil I geue sacrifice of prayse With Psalmes songes I wil apply to laud the Lord alwayes The seconde part verse 9 Lord heare the voyce of my request for which to thee I cal Haue mercy Lord on me opprest and send me helpe with al. verse 10 My hart doth knowledge vnto thee I sue to haue thy grace Then seke my face sayst thou to me Lord I wil seke thy face verse 11 In wrath turne not thy self away nor suffer me to slyde Thou art my helpe stil to this day be stil my God and guide verse 12 My parentes both their sonne forsooke and cast me of at large And then the Lord him self yet tooke of me the cure and charge verse 13 Teach me O God the way to thee and lead me on forth right For feare of such as watch for me to trap me if they might verse 14 Do not betake me to the wil of them that be my foes For they surmise agaynst me stil false witnes to depose verse 15 My hart would faint but that in me this hope he fixed fast The Lord gods good grace shal it se in life that ay shal last verse 16 Trust stil in God whose whole thou art his wil abide thou must And he shal ease and strength thy hart if thou in him do trust Ad te domine clamabo Psalme .xxviii. I. H. ¶ Being in great feare and pensiuenes to see God dishonored by the wicked men he desireth to be rid of them and crieth for vengeaunce against them and at length assureth him selfe that God hath herd his prayer vnto whose tuition he commendeth all the faithfull Syng this as the .xxi. Psalme verse 1 THou art O Lord my strength stay the succor which I craue Neglect me not least I be like to them that go to grane verse 2 The voyce of thy suppliant heare that vnto thee doth cry When I lift vp my hands vnto thy holy arke most hye verse 3 Repute not me among the sort of wicked and peruert That speake right fayre vnto theyr frēds thinke ful il in hart verse 4 According to their handy worke as they deserue in dede And after their inuentions let them receiue their mede verse 5 For they regard nothing Gods workes his law ne yet his lore Therfore wil he them and their sede destroy for euermore verse 6 To render thankes vnto the Lord how great a cause haue I My voyce my prayer my complaint that heard so willingly verse 7 He is my shield and fortitude my buckeler in distresse My hope my helpe my hartes relief my song shal him confesse verse 8 He is our strength and our defence our enmies to resist The health and the saluation of his elect by Christ verse 9 Thy people and thine heritage Lord blesse guide and preserue Increase thē Lord rule their harts that they may neuer swerue Afferte domino psalme .xxix. T. S. ¶ An excellent Psalme wherein the Prophete exhorteth the very princes and rulers of the worlde whiche otherwise for the most part thinke there is no God at the least to feare him for the thunders and tempestes for feare wherat all creatures tremble And though there by God threatneth sinners yet is he alwayes mercyful to his and moueth them therby to prayse his name Syng this as the xxi Psalme verse 1 GEue to the Lord ye potentates ye rulers of the world Geue ye all prayse honor strength vnto the lyuing Lord. verse 2 Geue honor to his holy name and honor him alone Worship him in his maiesty within his holy throne verse 3 His voyce doth rule the waters al euē as him self doth please He doth prepare the thunder clappes and gouernes al the sease verse 4 The voyce of God is of great force and wondrous excellent It is most mighty in effect and much magnificent verse 5 The voyce of God doth rent breake the cedre trees so long The Cedre trees of Libanus which are most hye and strong verse 6 And makes them leape like as a calf or els the Vnicorne Not onely trees but moūtaines great wheron the trees ar borne verse 7 His voyce deuideth flames of fire and shakes the wildernes verse 8 It makes the desert quake for feare that called is Cades verse 9 It makes the Hindes for feare to calue makes the couert plaine Then in his temple euery man his glory doth proclaime verse 10 The Lord was set aboue the flouds ruling the raging sea So shal he raygne as Lord and kyng for euer and for aye verse 11 The Lord wil geue his people power in vertue to increase The Lord wil blesse his chosen folke with euerlasting peace Exaltab◠te domine Psalme .xxx. I. H. ¶ When Dauid should haue dedicated his house to the Lord he fell so extreme sicke that he was without all hope of life and therfore after his recouery he rendreth thankes to God exhorting others to the like to learne by his example that God is rather merciful thē seuere and rigorous towardes his children and also that the fall from prosperitie is sodeyne This done he retourneth to prayer promising to prayse God for euer ALl laud and prayse with hart and voyce O Lord I geue to thee whiche didst not make my foes reioyce but hast exalted me O Lorde my God to thee I cryde in all my payne
and grief thou gauest an eare and didst prouide to ease me with relief verse 3 Of thy good wil thou hast cald back my soule from hell to saue Thou didst reuiue wheÌ„ streÌ„gth did lacke kept me froÌ„ the graue verse 4 Sing prayse ye saints that proue se the goodnes of the Lord In memory of his maiesty reioyce with one accord verse 5 For why his anger but a space doth last and flake agayne But in his fauor and his grace alwayes doth life remayne Though gripes of grief panges ful sore shal lodg with vs al night The Lord to ioy shal vs restore before the day be light verse 6 When I enioyd the world at wil thus would I boast and say Tush I am sure to feele none il this wealth shal not decay verse 7 For thou O Lord of thy good grace hadst sent me streÌ„gth ayde But wheÌ„ thou turnd away thy face my mind was sore dismayd verse 8 Wherfore agayne yet did I cry to thee O Lord of might My God with plaints I did apply and prayd both day night verse 9 What gayn is in my bloud sayd I if death destroy my dayes Doth dust declare thy maiesty or yet thy truth doth prayse verse 10 Wherfore my God some pity take O Lord I thee desire Do not this simple soule forsake of helpe I thee require verse 11 Then didst thou turne my grief and wo vnto a chereful voyce The mourning weede thou tookst me fro madst me to reioyce verse 12 Wherfore my soule vncessantly shal sing vnto thy prayse My Lord my God to thee will I geue laud thankes alwayes In te domine speraui Psalme .xxxi. 1. Hop ¶ Dauid deliuered from some great daunger in the deserte of Maon or els where first he rehearseth what meditation he had by the power of faith when death was before his eyes his enemyes beyng ready to take him then he adioyneth the fauour of God alwayes to be ready to those that feare him Finally he exhorteth all the faithful to trust in God and to loue him bycause he preserueth and strengthneth them as they may see by his example Syng this as the. 18. Psalme verse 1 O Lord I put my trust in thee let nothing worke me shame As thou art iust deliuer me and set me quite from blame verse 2 Heare me O lord that anone to help me make good spede Be thou my rocke and house of stone my fence in tyme of nede verse 3 For why as stones thy streÌ„gth is tride thou art my fort and tower For thy names sake be thou my guide lead me in thy power verse 4 Pluck forth my feete breake y e snare which they for me haue laid Thou art my streÌ„gth and al my care is for thy might and ayd verse 5 Into thy handes Lord I commit my spirit which is thy dew For why thou hast redemed it O Lord thou God most true verse 6 I hate such folke as wil not part from things that he abhord When they on trifles set their hart my trust is in the Lord. verse 7 For I will in thy mercy ioy I se it doth excel Thou seest wheÌ„ ought would me annoy knowest my soul ful wel verse 8 Thou hast not left me in their hand that would me ouercharge But thou hast set me out of band to walke abrod at large The second parte verse 9 9 Great grife O Lord doth me assayle some pyty on me take Mine eyes waxe dim my might doth fayle my woÌ„be for wo doth ake verse 10 My life is worne for grief payne my yeares in wo are past My streÌ„gth is gone through disdaine my bones corrupt wast verse 11 Among my foes I am a scorne my frendes are all dismayd My neighbours and my kinsmen borne to se me are afrayd verse 12 As men once dead are out of mind so am I now forgot As smal effect in me they find as in a broken pot verse 13 I hard the brags of al the route their threates my mind did fray How they conspird and went about to take my life away verse 14 But Lord I trust in thee for ayde not to be ouer trod For I confes and stil haue sayd thou art my Lord and God verse 15 The length of al my life and age O Lord is in thy hand Defend me froÌ„ the wrathes and rage of theÌ„ that me withstand verse 16 To me thy seruaunt Lord expresse and shew thy ioyful face And saue me Lord for thy goodnes thy mercy and thy grace The third part verse 17 Lord let me not be put to blame for that on thee I call But let the wicked beare their shame and in the graue to fal verse 18 Oh how great good hast thou in store layd vp ful safe for them That feare and trust in thee therfore before the sonnes of men verse 19 Thy presence shal theÌ„ fence guid from al proud bragges wroÌ„gs Within thy place thou shalt theÌ„ hide from al the strife of toungs verse 20 Thankes to the Lord that hath declard on me his grace so far Me to defend with watch and ward as in a town of war verse 21 Thus did I say both day and night when I was sore opprest Loe I was cleane cast out of sight yet hardst thou my request verse 22 Ye saints loue ye the Lord I say the faithfull he doth guide And to the proud he wil repay according to their pride verse 23 Be strong and God shal stay your hart be bold and haue a lust For sure the Lord wil take your part sith ye on him do trust Beati quorum remissi sunt Psalme .xxxii. T. S. ¶ David punished with greuous sicknes for his sinnes counteth them happy to whom God doth not imputs theyr transgressions And after that he had confessed his sâ—nnes and obteined pardon he exhorteth the wicked men to lyue godly and the good to reioyce Syng this as the .xxx. Psalme verse 1 THe maÌ„ is blest whose wickednes y e Lord hath cleane remitted And he whose sinne wretchednes is hid also couered verse 2 And blest is he to whom the Lord imputeth not his sinne Which in his hart hath hid no guile nor fraude is found therin verse 3 For whilst that I kept close my sinne in silence and constraynt My bones did weare wast away with dayly mone plaint verse 4 For night and day thy hand on me so greuous was and smert That al my bloud and humours moyst to drynes did conuert verse 5 I did therfore confes my fault and al my sinnes discouer The thou O Lord didst me forgeue al my sinnes passe ouer verse 6 The humble man shal pray therfore and seke thee in due time So that the floudes of waters great shal haue no power on him verse 7 When trouble and aduersitie do compasse me about Thou art my refuge and my ioy thou doost rid me out verse
8 Come hither I shal thee teach how y u shalt walk a right And wil thee guide as I my self haue learnde by proofe sight verse 9 Be not so rude and ignoraunt as is the horse and mule Whose mouth w t out a rayne or bit from harme thou cāst not rule verse 10 The wicked man shal manifold sorowes and griefs sustayne But vnto him that trustes in God his goodnes shal remaine verse 11 Be mery therfore in the Lord ye iust lift vp your voyce And ye of pure and perfect hart be glad and eke reioyce Exultate iusti in domino Psalme .xxxiii. IH ¶ He exhorteth good men to prayse God for that he hath not onely created all thinges and by his prouidence gouerneth the same but also is faithfull in his promises He vnderstandeth mans hart and scattereth the counsell of the wicked So that no man cā be preserued by any creature or mans strength but they that put theyr confidence in his mercy shal be preserued from all aduecsitie Syng this as the .xxx. Psalme verse 1 YE rightuous in the Lord reioyce it is a semely sight That vpright mē w t thākful voice shuld praise y e god of might verse 2 Praise ye y e lord w t harp song in Psalmes pleasāt things With lute and instrumēt among that soundeth with ten strings verse 3 Sing to the Lord a song most new with courage geue him prayse verse 4 For why his word is euer true his workes and al his wayes verse 5 To iudgment equity and right he hath a great good wil And with his giftes he doth delight the earth throughout of fil verse 6 For by the word of God alone the heauens al were wrought Their hostes powers euery chone his breath to passe hath brought verse 7 The waters great-gathered hath he on heapes within the shore And hid them in the depth to be as in an house of store verse 8 Al men on earth both least and most feare God and kepe his law Ye that inhabite in ech cost dread him and stand in awe verse 9 What he commaunded wrought it was at once with presēt spede what he doth wil is brought to passe with ful effect in dede verse 10 The counsels of the nations rude the Lord doth driue to nought He doth defeate the multitude of their deuise and thought verse 11 But his decres continew stil they neuer slake or swage The motions of his mind and wil take place in euery age The seconde part verse 12 And blest are they to whom the Lord as God guide is knowen whom he doth chose of mere accord to take them as his own verse 13 The Lord from heauen cast his sight on men mortal by birth verse 14 Considering from his seat of might the dwelles of the earth verse 15 The lord I say whose hād hath wrought mās hart doth it frame For he alone doth know the thought working of the same verse 16 A king that trusteth in his host shal nought preuaile at length The man that of his might doth boast shal fal for al his strēgth verse 17 The troupes of horsemē eke shal fail their sturdy stedes shal sterue The strength of horse shal not preuayle the rider to preserue verse 18 But loo the eyes of God entend and watch to aide the iust With such as feare him to offend and on his goodnes trust verse 19 That he of death and all distres may set their soule from dread And if that dearth the land oppresse in hunger them to feade verse 20 Wherfore our soule doth stil depend on God our strēgth and stay He is the shield vs to defend and driue al darts away verse 21 Our soule in God hath ioy and game reioysing in his might For why in his most holy name we hope and much delight verse 22 Therfore let thy goodnes O Lord stil present with vs bee As we alwayes with one accord do only trust in thee Benedicam domino Psalme .xxxiiii. T. S. ¶ After Dauid had escaped Achis accordyng as it is written in the. 1. Sam. 21. whome in this title he calleth Abimelech whiche was a generall name to all the kynges of the Philistines he prayseth God for his deliueraūce prouoking all others by his example to trust in God to feare and serue him who defendeth the godly with his aungels and vtterly destroyeth the wicked in their sinnes Sing this as the .xxx Psalme verse 1 I Wil geue laud honor both vnto the Lord alwayes And eke my mouth for euermore shal speak vnto his praies verse 2 I do delite to laud the Lord in soule and eke in voyce That humble mē and mortified may heare and so reioyce verse 3 Therfore se that ye magnify with me the liuing Lord And let vs now exalt his name together with one accord verse 4 For I my self besought the Lord he aunswered me agayn And me deliuered incontinent from al my feare and pain verse 5 Who so they be that him behold shal se his lyght most cleare Their countenaunce shal not be dasht they nede it not to feare verse 6 This sely wretch for some relief vnto the Lord did cal Who did him heare without delay and rid him out of thrall verse 7 The angel of the Lord doth pitch his tentes in euery place To saue al such as feare the Lord that nothing them deface verse 8 Tast and consider wel therfore that God is good and iust O happy man that maketh him his onely stay and trust verse 9 Feare ye the Lord his holy ones aboue al earthly thing For they that feare the liuing Lord are sure to lacke nothing verse 10 The Lyons shall be hongerbit and pinde with famine much But as for them that feare the Lord no lacke shal be to such The second part verse 11 Come nere therfore my childrē deare and to my wordes geue eare I shal you teach the perfit way how you the Lord should feare verse 12 Who is that man that would liue long and lead a blessed life verse 13 Se thou refrayne thy tong and lips from al disceit and strife verse 14 Turne backe thy face from doing il and do the godly dede Inquire for peace and quietnes and folow it with spede verse 15 For why the eyes of God aboue vpon the iust are bent His eares likewise do heare the plaint of the poore innocent verse 16 But he doth frowne bēd his browes vpon the wicked trayne And cut away the memory that should of them remayne verse 17 But when the iust do call and cry the Lord doth heare thē so That out of paine and misery forth with he lets thē go verse 18 The Lord is kynd and straight at hand to such as be contrit He sautes also the sorowful the meke and poore in spirit verse 19 Ful many be the miseries that righteous men do suffer But out of al aduersities the Lord doth them deliuer verse
shal be fed with plentye at their wil Of al delight they shal be sped and take therof their fil verse 9 For why the wel of lyfe so pure did ouerflow from thee And in they light we are ful sure the lastyng light to see verse 10 From such as thee desire and know let not thy grace depart Thy righteousnes declare and shew to men of vpright hart verse 11 Let not the proud on me preuayle O Lord of thy good grace Nor let the wicked me assayle to throw me out of place verse 12 But they in their deuice shal fal that wicked workes maintayne They shal be ouerthrown withal and neuer ryse agayne Noli emulari Psalme .xxxvii. VV. VV. ¶ Because the godly should not wonder to see wicked men prosper in this world the prophet sheweth that all thinges shall be graunted according to their hartes desire to them that loue and feare God and they that do the coÌ„trary although they seeme to florish for a time shal at length perish Syng this as the. xxxv Psalme verse 1 CRudge not to see the wicked men in wealth to florish stil Nor yet enuy such as to il haue bent and set their wil. verse 2 For as grene gras florishing herbes are cut wither away So shal their great prosperity soone passe fade and decay verse 3 Trust thou therfore in God alone to do wel geue thy mynd So shalt thou haue y e land as thyne there sure foode shalt find verse 4 In God set al thy harts delite and loke what thou wouldst haue Or els canst wish in al the world thou needst it not to craue verse 5 Cast both thy selfe and thyne affayres on God with perfect trust And thou shalt see with patience the effect both sure and iust verse 6 The perfect lyfe and godly name he wil cleare as the light So that y e sunne eueÌ„ at noone dayes shal not shyne half so bright verse 7 Be stil therfore and stedfastly on God see thou wait then Not shrinking for y e prosperous state of leud and wicked men verse 8 Shake of despite enuy and hate at least in any wyse Their wicked steps auoyd and fly and folow not their guise verse 9 For euery wicked man wil God destroy both more and lesse But such as trust in him are sure the land for to posses verse 10 Watch but a whyle and thou shalt see no more the wycked trayn No not so much as house or place where once he dyd remayn The second part verse 11 But merciful and humble men enioy shal sea and land In rest and peace they shal reioyce for nought shal theÌ„ withstand verse 12 The leud men and malitious against the iust conspyre They gnash their teeth at him as meÌ„ which do his bane desyre verse 13 But while y â— leud meÌ„ thus do think the Lord laughes theÌ„ to scorne for why he seeth their terme approch wheÌ„ they shal sigh morne verse 14 The wicked haue their sword out drawn their bow eke haue thei bent To ouerthrow and kil y e poore as they y e right way weÌ„t verse 15 But y e same sword shal yearse their harts which was to kil the iust likewise the bow shal break to shiuers wherin thei put their trust verse 16 Doubtles the iust maÌ„s poore estate is better a great deale more TheÌ„ al these leud worldy mens rich pompe and heaped store verse 17 For be their power neuer so strong God wil it ouerthrow Where contrary he doth preserue the humble men and low verse 18 He seeth by his great prouidence the good mens trade and way And wil geue them inheritaunce which neuer shal decay verse 19 They shal not be discouraged when some are hard bested When other shal be hungerbit they shal be clad and fed verse 20 For whosoeuer wicked is and enmy to the Lord shal quail yea melt eueÌ„ as laÌ„bs grease or smoke that flyeth abrode The third part verse 21 Behold the wicked boroweth much and neuer paithe again Wheras the iust by liberal gifts makes many glad and fain verse 22 For they whom God doth bles shal haue the land for heritage And they whom he doth curse likewyse shal perish in his rage verse 23 The lord the iust mans waies doth guide geues him good succes To euery thing he takes in hand he sendeth good addres verse 24 Though that he fal yet is he sure not vtterly to quayle Because the lord stretches out his hand at neede doth not fayle verse 25 I haue bene yong and now am old yet did I neuer see The iust man left or els his sede to beg for misery verse 26 But geues alwayes most liberally and lendes where as is neede His children and posteritie receyue of God their meede verse 27 Flee vice therfore and wickednes and vertue do embrace So God shal graunt thee long to haue in earth a dwelling place verse 28 For God so loueth equitie and shewes to his such grace That he preserues theÌ„ euermore but stroyes the wycked race verse 29 Where as y e good and godly men inherite shal the land Hauing as Lordes al thing therin in their own power and hand verse 30 The iust mans mouth doth euer speak of matters wise and hye His tong doth talk to edify with truth and equity verse 31 For in his hart the law of God his Lord doth stil abide So that where euer he goes or walkes his foote caÌ„ neuer flyde verse 32 The wicked like a rauenyng wolfe the iust man doth beset By all meanes seeking him to kil if he fal in his net The fourth part verse 33 Though he should fal into his handes yet god would succor send Though men against him senteÌ„ce geue god would him yet defeÌ„d verse 34 Waite thou on God and kepe his way he shal preserue thee then The earth to rule thou shalt see destroid these wicked men verse 35 The wicked haue I sene most strong and placed in high degree Florishing in al wealth and store as doth the Laurel tree verse 36 But sodenly he passed away and lo he was quite gone theÌ„ I him soght but could scarse find y e place wher dwelt such one verse 37 Marke and behold the perfite man how god doth him encrease For the iust man shal haue at length great ioy with rest peace verse 38 As for transgressours wo to them destroyd they shal al be God wil cut of their budding race and riche posteritie verse 39 But the saluation of the iust doth come from God aboue Who in their trouble sends theÌ„ ayde of his mere grace and loue verse 40 God doth them help saue and deliuer from leud men and vniust And stil wil saue them whilst that they in him do put their trust Domine ne in furore Psalme .xxxviii. I. H. ¶ Dauid lying sicke of some greuous â—isease acknowlegeth himselfe to be chastised of the lord for his sinnes and
therfore prayeth God to turne away his wrath he vttexeth y e greatnes of his griefe by many wordes and circumstances as wounded with the arrowes of Gods ire forsaken of his frendes euil entreated of his enemies but in the end with firme confidence be commendeth his cause to God and hopeth for spedy helpe at his hand Syng this as the. xxxv Psalme verse 1 PVt me not to rebuke O Lord in thy prouoked ire Ne in thy heauy wrath O lord correct me I desire verse 2 Thine arrowes do sticke fast in me thy hand doth presse me sore verse 3 And in my flesh no health at al appeareth any more And al this is by reason of thy wrath that I am in Nor any rest is in my bones by reason of my sinne verse 4 For loe my wicked doings Lord aboue my head are gone As greater lode theÌ„ I can beare they lye me sore vpon verse 5 My wounds stinck and are festred sore and lothsom is to see Which al through mine own folishnes betideth vnto mee And I in careful wise am brought in trouble and distres verse 6 That I go wayling al the day my doleful heauines verse 7 My loynes are fild with sore disease my flesh hath no whole part verse 8 I feble am and broken sore I rore for griefe of hart verse 9 Thou knowst Lord my desire my grones are open in thy sight verse 10 my hart doth paÌ„t my streÌ„gth hath faild my eies haue lost their light verse 11 My louers and my wonted frends stand looking on my wo And eke my kinsmen far a way are me departed fro verse 12 They y â— did seeke my life laid snares they that sought the way To do me hurt spake lies thought on treason all the day The second part verse 13 But as a deafe man I became that connot heare at al verse 14 And as one dum that opens not his mouth to speake withal verse 15 For al my confidence O Lord is wholy set on thee verse 16 O Lord y u Lord that art my God thou shalt geue eare to mee This did I craue that they my foes triumph not ouer mee verse 17 For when my foote did slip then they did ioy my fal to see And truely I poore wretch am set in place a woful wight And eke my griefful heauines is euer in my syght verse 18 For while that I my wickednes in humble wyse confesse And while I for my sinful deedes my sorrowes do expresse verse 19 My foes do stil remayne aliue and mighty are also And they that hate me wrongfully in number hugely grow verse 20 They stand against me that my good with euil do repay Because that good and honest thinges I do ensue alway verse 21 Forsake me not O Lord my God be thou not far away verse 22 Hast me to helpe my Lord my God my safety and my stay Dixi custodiam psalme .xxxix. I. H ¶ Dauid vttereth with what great grief bitternes of mind he was driuen to these outragious complaintes of his infirmities for he confesseth that when he had determined silence that he brast forth yet into wordes that he would not throughe the greatnes of his griefe Then he reâ—erseth certayne requestes which tast of infirmitie of man mireth with them many prayers but al to shewe a mynde wonderfully troubled that it may plainly appeare how he did striue mightely against death and desperation Sing this as the .xxxv. psal verse 1 I Sayd I wil looke to my wayes for feare I should go wrong I wil take heede al tymes that I offend not in my tong verse 2 As with a bit I wil keepe fast my mouth w t force and might Not once to whisper al the while the wicked are in sight verse 3 I held my tonge and spake no word but kept me close and stil Yea from good talke I did refrayne but sore against my wil. verse 4 My hart waxt whote wtin my brest with mustng thought doubt Which did encrease and stir the fyre at last these words brast out verse 5 Lord number out my lyfe and dayes which yet I haue not past So that I may be certified how long my lyfe shal last verse 6 Lord thou hast poynted out my life in length much like a span Mine age is nothing vnto thee so vayne is euery man verse 7 Man walketh like a shade and doth in vayne himselfe annoy In getting goods and cannot tel who shal the same enioy verse 8 Now Lord sith things this wise do frame what helpe do I desire Of truth my helpe doth hang on thee I nothing els require â–ª The second part verse 9 From al the sinnes that I haue done Lord quite me out of hand And make me not a scorne to fooles that nothing vnderstand verse 10 I was as dumme and to complayne no trouble might me moue Because I know it was thy worke my patience for to proue verse 11 Lord take from me thy scourge plage I can them not withstand I faint and pine away for feare of thy most heauy hand verse 12 When thou for sin doost man rebuke he waxeth wo and wan As doth a cloth y e mothes haue fret so vayne a thing is man verse 13 Lord heare my sute geue good heede regard my teares that fal I soiourne like a straunger here as did my fathers al. verse 14 Oh spare a little geue me space my strenght for to restore Before I go away from hence and shal be sene no more Expectans expectaui Psalme .xl. I. H. ¶ Dauid deliuered from great daunger doth magnify and prayse the grace of God for his deliueraunce and commendeth his prouidence towards al mankind Then doth he promyse to geue himself wholy to God seruice and so declare how God is truely worshipped Afterward he geueth thankes and prayseth God and hauing complained of his enemies with good courage he calleth for ayde and succour Syng this as the. xxxv Psalme verse 1 I Wayted loÌ„g and sought the Lord and patiently did beare At length to me he did accord my voyce cry to heare verse 2 He pluckt me froÌ„ the lake so depe out of the mire and clay And on a rocke he set my feete and he did guide my way verse 3 To me he taught a Psalme of prayse which I must shew abrode And sing new songs of thanks alwayse vnto the Lord our God verse 4 When al the folke these things shal see as people much afrayde Then they vnto the Lord wil flee and trust vpon his ayde verse 5 O blest is he whose hope and hart doth in the Lord remayne That w t the proud doth take no part nor such as lye and fayne verse 6 For Lord my God thy woÌ„drous dedes in greatnes far do passe Thy fauour towardes vs exceedes al things that euer was verse 7 When I entend and do deuise thy workes abroade to shew To such a ceckening they do ryse therof no end I
as princes in al lādes verse 18 Wherfore thy holy name al ages shal record The people shal geue thankes to thee for euermore O Lord. Deus noster refugium Psalme .xlvi. I. Hop ¶ A songe of thankes geuyng for the deliueraunce of Ierusalem after Senacherib with hys army was driuen awaye or some other lyke sodayne and maruelous deliueraunce by the myghly hand of God Wherby the Prophet commendyng this great benefite doth exhort the faithfull to geue them selues wholy into the hand of God doubtyng nothing but that vnder his protection they shal be safe agaynst all the assaultes of their enemies THe Lord is our defence and ayde the strength wherby we stand when we with wo are much dismayd he is our helpe at hande Though th earth remoue we wil not feare though hilles so high and stepe be thrust and hurled here and there within the sea so depe verse 3 No though the waues do rage so sore that al the bankes it spils And though it ouer flow the shore beat down mighty hils verse 4 For one fayre floud doth send abrod his pleasaunt streames a pace To fresh the citie of our God and wash his holy place verse 5 In midst of her the Lord doth dwel she can no whit decay Al things agaynst her that rebel the Lord wil truly stay verse 6 The Heathē folcke the kingdomes feare the people make a noyse The earth doth melt not appeare whē god puts forth his voyce verse 7 The Lord of hostes doth take our part to vs he hath an eye Our hope of health with al our hart on Iacobs God doth lye verse 8 Come here se with mind and thought the working of our God What wōders he himself hath wrought throughout the earth abrod verse 9 By him al warres are husht and gone which coūtryes did cōspire Theyr bowes he brake speares eche one theyr Charets brēt w t fire verse 10 Leaue of therfore saith he know I am a God most stout Among the Heathen high low and al the earth throughout verse 11 The Lord of hostes doth vs defend he is our strength and tower On Iacobs God do we depend and on his mighty power Omnes gentes Psalme .xlvii. I H. ¶ The Prophete exhorteth all people to the worshyp of y e true and euer liuing Got commendyng the mercyes of God toward the posteritie of Iacob and after prophecieth of the kingdome of Christ in this tyme of the Gospell Syng this as the .xlv. Psalme verse 1 YE people all in one accord clap handes and eke reioyce Be glad sing vnto the Lord w t swete pleasaūt voyce verse 2 For high the Lord dredful is with wonders manifold A mighty king he is truly in al the earth extold verse 3 The people shal he make to be vnto our bondage thral And vnderneath our feete he shal the nacions make to fal verse 4 For vs the heritage he chose which we posses alone The flouryng worship of Iacob his welbeloued one verse 5 Our God ascended vp on hy with ioy and pleasaunt noyce The Lord goeth vp aboue the sky with trompets royal voyce verse 6 Sing prayses to our God sing prayse sing prayses to our king For God is king of al the earth al skilful prayses sing verse 7 God on the heathen raygnes sits vpon his holy throne The princes of the people haue them ioyned euery one verse 8 To Abrahams people for our God which is exalted hye Vs with a buckler doth defend the earth continually Magnus dominus Psalme .xlviii. ¶ A notable deliueraunce of Hierusalem from the handes of many kinges is mentioned for the whiche thankes are geuen to God and the estate of that Citie is praysed that hath god so presently al all times ready to defend them this Psalme semeth to be made in the tyme of Achaz Iosaphat Asa or Ezechia for in their tymes chiefly was the Citie by forayne Princes assaulted Sing this as the. xlvi Psalme verse 1 GReat is the Lord with great prayse to be aduaunced stil Within the citie of our Lord vpon his holy hil verse 2 Mount Sion is a pleasaunt place it gladdeth al the land The Citie of the mighty kyng on her northside doth stand verse 3 Within the Pallaces therof God is a refuge knowen For loe the kings were gathered and together eke were gone verse 4 But when they did behold it so they wondred and they were Astonied much and sodenly were driuen backe with feare verse 5 Great terrour there on them did fal for euery wo they cry As doth a woman when she shal go trauaile by and by verse 6 As thou with esterne winde the ships vpon the sea doost breake So they were stayd and euen as we heard our fathers speake verse 7 So in the citie of the Lord we saw as it was told Yea in the citie which our Lord for euer wil vphold verse 8 O Lord we wayt and do attend on thy good helpe and grace For which we do al times attend within thy holy place verse 9 O Lord according to thy name for euer is thy prayse And thy right hand O Lord is ful of rightuousnes alwayes Let for thy iudgements Sion mount fulfilled be with ioyes And eke of Iuda graunt O Lord the daughter to reioyce verse 10 Go walke about al Syon hil yea round about her go And tel the towres that therupon are builded in a row verse 11 And marke ye wel her bulwarks al behold her towers there That ye may tel therof to them that after shal be here verse 12 For this God is our God our God for euermore is he Yea and vnto the death also our guider shal he be Audite haec omnes Psalme .xlix. T. S. ¶ The holy ghost calleth all men to the consideration of mans lyfe shewing them not to be most happy that are most wealthy and therfore not to be feared but contrarywise he lyfteth vp our mindes to consider how all things are ruled by Gods prouidence who as he iudgeth these worldlye misers to euerlastyng tormentes so doth he preserue his and will rewarde them in the day of the resurrection 1. Thes 1. Sing this as the .xiv. psal verse 1 AL people herken and geue eare to that that I shal tel Both high low both rich poore y e in y e world do dwel verse 2 For why my mouth shall make discourse of many thynges rightwise In vnderstāding shal my heart his study excercise verse 3 I wil incline mine eare to know the parables so dark And open al my doubtful speech in metre on my harp verse 4 Why should I feare afflictions or any careful toyle Or els my foes which at my heeles are prest my life to spoyle verse 5 For as for such as riches haue wherin theyr trust is most And they which of their treasures great thē selues do brag boast verse 6 There is not one of them that can his brothers
pay thy vowes alwayes vnto the God most hye verse 15 Then seke and cal to me whē ought would worke the blame And I wil sure deliuer thee that thou maist prayse my name verse 16 But to the wicked trayne which talke of God ech day And yet theyr workes are foule vaine to thē the Lord wil say verse 17 With what a face darest thou my word once speake or name Why doth thy talke my law alow thy dedes deny the same verse 18 Where as for to amend thy life thou art so slacke My word the which thou doost pretēd is cast behind thy backe verse 19 When thou a thefe doost see by theft to liue in welth With him thou runnest doost agre likewise to thriue by stelth verse 20 When thou doost them behold that wiues and maydes defile Thou likest it wel and waxest bold to vse that life most vile verse 21 Thy lippes thou doost apply to sclaunder and defame Thy tong is taught to craft and lye and doth stil vse the same verse 22 Thou studiest co reuile thy frends to thee so nere With slaūder thou wouldst nedes defile thy mothers sōne most deare verse 23 Hereat while I do winke as though I did not see Thou goest on stil and so doost thinke that I am like to thee verse 24 But sure I wil not let to strike when I begynne Thy faultes in ordre I wil set and open al thy sinne verse 25 Marke this I you require that haue not God in mind Least whē I plage you in mine ire your help be far to find verse 26 He that doth geue to me the sacrifice of prayse Doth please me wel he shal se to walke in godly wayes i. Miserere mei deus Psalme .li. VV VV. ¶ When Dauid was rebuked by the Prophet nathan for his great offences he did not onely acknowledge the same to God with protestation of his natural corruption and iniquirie But also left a memorial therof to his posteritie Therfore first he desireth God to forgeue his sinnes and renew in him his holy spirit with promise that he wil not be vnmindfull of those great graces Finally fearing least God would punish the whole Church for his faute He requireth that he would rather increase his graces towards the same O Lord consider my distres And now with spede some pitie take My sinnes deface my fautes redresse good Lord for thy great mercyes sake Wash me O Lord and make me cleane Frō this vniust and sinful act and purifie yet once agayne my haynous crime and bloudy fact verse 2 Remorse and sorow do constraine me to acknowledge mine exces verse 3 My sinne alas doth stil remaine before my face without reles verse 4 For thee alone I haue offended committing euel in thy sight And if I were therfore condemned yet were thy iudgmēt iust right verse 5 It is to manifest alas that first I was conceyued in sinne Yea of my mother so borne was yet vile wretch remayne therin verse 6 Also behold Lord thou doost loue the inward truth of a pure hart Therfore thy wisdome frō aboue thou hast reueld me to conuert verse 7 If thou with Hissope purge this blot I shal be cleaner thē the glasse And if y u wash away my spot the snow in whitenes shal I passe verse 8 Therfore O Lord such ioy me sēd that in wardly I may find grace And y ◠my strēgth may now amēd which y u hast swagd for my trespas verse 9 Turne back thy face frownig ire for I haue felt inough thy hād And purge my sinnes I thee desire which do in nūber passe the sād verse 10 Make new my hart within my brest frame it to thy holy wil Thy cōstāt spirit in me let rest which may these raging enmies kil The second parte verse 11 Cast me not Lord out from thy face but spedely my torments end Take not frō me thy spirit grace which may frō dāgers me defēd verse 12 Restore me to those ioyes again which I was wōt in thee to find And let me thy fre spirit retain which vnto thee may stirre my mind verse 13 Thus whē I shal thy mercies know I shal instruct others therin And mē that ar likewise brought low by mine ensāple shal flee sinne verse 14 O God that of my helth art Lord forgeue me this my bloudy vice My hart toung shal thē accord to sing thy mercies and iustice verse 15 Touch thou my lips my tonge vnty O Lord which art y e only kay And thē my mouth shal testify thy wōdrous works praise alway verse 16 And as for outward sacrifice I would haue offred many one But thou estemest thē of no price therin pleasure takest y u none verse 17 The heauy hart the mynd opprest O Lord thou neuer doost reiect And to speake truth it is the best and of al sacrifice the effect verse 18 Lord vnto Siō turne thy face poure out thy mercyes on thy hil And on Ierusalē thy grace build vp the walles and loue it stil verse 19 Thou shalt accept thē our offrings of peace righteousnes I say yea calues many other things vpon thine altar wil we lay ¶ An other of the same by T. N. Sing this as the lamētation HAue mercy on me God after thy great abounding grace After thy mercies multitude do thou my sinnes deface Yet wash me more frō myne offēce clense me frō my sinne For I beknow my fautes stil my sin is in mine eyne Agaynst thee thee alone I haue offended in this case And euel haue I done before the presence of thy face That in the things that thou doost say vpright thou maist be tried And eke in iudgyng that the dome may passe vpon thy side Behold in wickednes my kind and shape I did receyue And loe my sinful mother eke in sin did me conceyue But Loe the truth in inward partes is pleasant vnto thee And secrets of thy wisdome thou reueled hast to mee With Hysope Lord be sprincle me I shal be clensed so yea wash thou me and so I shal be whiter then the snow Of ioy gladnes make thou me to heare the pleasing voyce That so the broosed bones which y u hast brokē may reioyce From the beholding of my sinnes Lord turne away thy face And al my dedes of wickednes do vtterly deface O God create in me a hart vnspotted in thy sight And eke within my bowels Lord renew a stable spirit Ne cast me from thy sight nor take thy holy spirit away The comfort of thy sauing helpe geue me agayne I pray With thy free spirit establish me and I wil teach therfore Sinners thy wayes wicked shal be turnd vnto thy lore The seconde part O God that art God of my helth from bloud deliuer mee That praises of thy righteousnes my tōg may sing to thee My lips that yet fast closed be do thou O Lord
vnlose The praises of thy maiestie my mouth shal so disclose I would haue offred sacrifice if that had pleased thee But pleased w t burnt offrings I know thou wilt not bee A troubled spirit is sacrifice deliteful in Gods eyes A broken an humbled hart God thou wilt not despise In thy good wil deale gently Lord to Sion and with al Graunt that of thy Ierusalem vpreard may be the wal Burnt offrings gifts and sacrifice of iustice in that day Thou shalt accept calues they shal vpon thine altar lay Quid gloriaris Psalme .lii. I. H. ¶ Dauid deseribeth the arrogant tyranny of hys aduersary Doeg Saules chief shephearde who by false surmyses caused Achimeleco with the rest of the Priestes to be slayne Dauid prophecyeth his vestruction and encourageth the faythfull to put theyr confidence in God whose iudgements are most sharpe agaynst his aduersaries And finally he rendreth thankes to God for hys delyueraunce In this Psalme is lyuely set foorth the kyngdome of Antichrist WHy doost thou tyraunt boast abrod thy wicked workes to prayse doost thou not know there is a God whose mercies last alwayes Why doth thy mind yet stil deuise such wicked wiles to warpe Thy tong vntrue in forging lies is like a rasour sharpe verse 3 On mischief why setst thou thy mynde and wilt not walke vpright Thou hast more lust false tales to find then bring y e truth to light verse 4 Thou doost delyte in fraud and guile in mischiefe bloud and wrōg Thy lips haue learnd y e flattering style O false deceitful tong verse 5 Therfore shal God for euer cōfound and pluck thee from thy place Thy seede roote out frō of the ground and so shal thee deface verse 6 The iust when they behold thy fal with feare wil prayse the Lord And in reproch of thee withal cry out with one accord verse 7 Behold the man which wold not take the Lord for hys defence But of his goods his God did make and trust his corrupt sence verse 8 But I an Oliue fresh and grene shal spring and spred abrode For why my trust al tymes hath bene vpon the liuyng God verse 9 For this therfore wil I geue prayse to thee with hart and voyce I wil set forth thy name alwayes wherin thy saints reioyce Dixit insipiens Psalme .liii. T. N. ¶ The Prophet describeth the crooked nature the cruelty and punishment of the wicked whē they looke not for it and desyreth the deliueraunce of the godly that they maye reioyce together Sing this as the. xlvi Psalme verse 1 THe folish man in that which he within his hart hath sayd That there is any God at al hath vtterly denide verse 2 They are corrupt they also a hainous work haue wrought amōg them al there is not one of good that worketh ought verse 3 The Lord lookt down on sons of men from heauen al abrode To see if any were that would be wise and seeke for God verse 4 They are gone al out of the way they are corrupted al There is not one doth any good there is not one at al. verse 5 Do not al wicked workers know that they do feede vpon My people as they feede on bread the lord they cal not on verse 6 Euen there they were afraid stoode with trembling and dismayd Where as there was no cause at al why they should be afrayd verse 7 For God his bones that thee besieged hath scattred al abrode Thou hast confounded them for they reiected are of God verse 8 O lord geue thou thy people health and thou O Lord fulfil Thy promise made to Israel from out of Sion hil verse 9 When God his people shal restore that erst was captiue lad Then Iacob shal therin reioyce and Israel shal be glad Deus in nomine Psalme .liiii. I. H. ¶ Dauid brought into great daunger by reason of Ziphtins calleth vpon the name of God to destroy his enemies promising sacrifice and free offrings for their deliueraunce Sing this as the. xivi Psalme verse 1 GOd saue me for thy holy name and for thy goodnes sake Vnto the strēgth Lord of the same I do my cause betake verse 2 Regard O Lord and geue an eare to thee when I do pray Bow down thy self to me heare the words y ◠I do say verse 3 For straungers vp against me ryse and tyrauntes vexe me stil Which haue not God before their eyes they seeke my soule to spil verse 4 But loe my God doth geue me ayd the Lord is straight at hand with thē by whom my soule is stayd the Lord doth euer stand verse 5 With plages repay agayne al those for me that lie in wayte and with thy truth destroy my foes with their own snare baite verse 6 An offring of free hart and wil that I to thee shal make And prayse thy name for therin stil great comfort I do take verse 7 O Lord at length do set me free from them that craft conspire And now mine eye with ioy doth see on them my harts desire Exaudi deus psalme .lv. I. H ¶ Dauid beyng in great heauines and distres complaineth of the cruelty of Saule of the falshod of his familiiar acquaintaunce vttering most ardent affections to moue the Lord to pitie hym After being assured of deliuerance he setteth forth the grace of god as though he had already obtayned his request Syng this as the. xxxv Psalm verse 1 O God geue eare and do apply to heare me when I pray And when it thee I cal and cry hide not thy selfe away verse 2 Take hede to me graunt my request and aunswer me agayne with plaints I pray ful sore opprest great grief doth me constrain verse 3 Because my foes with threates cries oppres me through despight And so the wicked sort likewise to vexe me haue delyght verse 4 For they in counsel do conspire to charge me with some il So in their hasty wrath and ire they do pursue me stil verse 5 My hart doth faint for want of breath it panteth in my brest The terrours and the bread of death do worke me muche vnrest verse 6 Such dreadful feare on me doth fal that I therwith do quake Such horror whelmeth me with al that I no shift can make verse 7 But I do say who wil geue me the swift and pleasaunt wings Of some fayre doue that I may flee and rest me from these things verse 8 Lo then I would go far away to fly I would not cease And I would hide my self and stay in some great wildernes verse 9 I would be gone in al the hast and not abyde behynd That I were quite and ouer past these blastes of boystrous wind verse 10 Deuide them lord and from them pul their diuelish double tong For I haue spied their city ful of rapine strife and wrong verse 11 Which things both night day throughout do close her as a wal In midst of her is
glory of God Sing this as the. 68 Psalme verse 1 YE rulers that are put in trust to iudge of wrong and right be al your iudgemeÌ„ts true iust not knowiÌ„g nede or might verse 2 Nay in your harts ye marke muse in mischiefe to consent and where ye should true iustice vse your haÌ„ds to brybes are bent verse 3 This wicked sort from their birth day haue erred on thys wyse and from their mothers womb alway haue vsed craft and lyes verse 4 In them the poyson and the breath of serpents do appeare Yea lyke the adder that is deafe and fast doth stop his eare verse 5 Because he wil not heare the voyce of one that charmeth wel No though he were the chief of choyce and did therin excel verse 6 O God breake y u their teeth at once within their mouth throughtout the tuskes y e in their great chawbones lyke LioÌ„s whelpes haÌ„g out verse 7 Let them consum away and wast as water renth forthright The shafts that they do shoute in hast let theÌ„ be broke in flight verse 8 As snailes do wast within the shel and vnto slime do runne As one before his tyme that fel and neuer saw the Sunne verse 9 Before the thornes that now are yong to bushes big shal grow The stormes of anger waxing strong shal take theÌ„ ere their know verse 10 The iust shal ioy it doth theÌ„ good that God doth vengeance take and they shal wash their fete in blond of theÌ„ that hym forsake verse 11 TheÌ„ shal the world shew forth tel that good mâ—â— haue reward And that a God in earth doth dwel that iustice doth regard Eripe me psalme .lix. I. H. Dauid being in great daunger of Saule who sent to stay him in his bed prayeth vnto god declareth his innocency and their fury desiring god to destroy al those that sin of malitious wickednes Whom though he kepe a liue for a time to exercise his people yet in the end vs wil consume them in his wrath that he may be known to be the god of Iacob to y e worldes end for this he singeth prayses to god assured of his mercies SEnd ayd and saue me from my foes O lord I pray to thee defend and kepe me from all those that rise and striue with me O Lord preserue me froÌ„ those men whose doings are not good and set me sure and safe from them that thursteth after bloud verse 3 For loe they wayte my souiÌ„e to take they rage against me stil yea for no fault that I did make I neuer did them il verse 4 They run and do them selues prepare when I no whit offend Arise and saue me from their snare and see what they entend verse 5 O Lord of hostes of Israel arise and strike al landes And pity none that doth rebel and in their mischief standes verse 6 At night they stir and seke about as hounds they houle and greÌ„ne And al the city cleane throughout from place to place they renne verse 7 They spake of me with month alway but in their lips wer swords they greed my deth theÌ„ wold say what none doth hear our words verse 8 But Lord thou hast their wayes espide and laught therat apace The HeatheÌ„ folk thou shalt deryde and mock theÌ„ to their face verse 9 The streÌ„gth that doth my foes withstaÌ„d O Lord doth come of thee My God he is my help at hand a fort of fence to mee verse 10 The Lord to me doth shew his grace in great aboundance stil That I may see my foes in case such as my hart doth wil verse 11 Destroy them not at once O God least it from mind do fal But with thy streÌ„gth driue theÌ„ abrode and so consume theÌ„ al. verse 12 For their il words and truthles tong confound theÌ„ in theyr pryde Their wicked othes w t lies and wrong let al the world deride verse 13 Cousume theÌ„ in thy wrath O Lord that naught of them remayn that meÌ„ may know throughout y e world y e Iacobs god doth raign verse 14 At euening they return apace as dogs they grin and cry Throughout y â— streetes in euery place they run about and spy verse 15 They seeke about for meat I say but let them not be fed Nor find an house wherin they may be bold to put their head verse 16 But I wil shew thy streÌ„gth abrode thy goodnes I wil prayse For thou art my defence and God at nede in al assayes verse 17 Thou art my streÌ„gth thou hast me staid O Lord I sing to thee Thou art my fort my fence and ayd a louing God to me Deus repulset psalme .lx. I. H. Dauid being king ouer Iudah and hauing had many victories sheweth by euident signes y â— God elected him king assuring the people that God wil prosper them if they approue the same After he prayeth vnto God to finish that that he hath begon Syng this as the. 59. Psalm verse 1 O Lord thou didst vs cleane forsake and scattredst vs abrode such great displeasure y u didst take returne to vs O God verse 2 Thy might did moue the land so sore that it in sunder brake the hurt therof O Lord restore for it doth bowe and quake verse 3 With heauy chaunce y u plagest thus the people that are thyne And thou hast geuen vnto vs a drink of deadly wyne verse 4 But yet to such as feare thy name a token shal ensue That they may triumph in the same because they word is true verse 5 So that thy might may kepe saue thy folk that fauor thee that they they help at haÌ„d we may haue O Lord grauÌ„t this to mee verse 6 The Lord did speak froÌ„ his own place this was his ioyful tale I wil deuide SicheÌ„ by pace and mete out Succothes vale verse 7 Gilead is geuen to my hand Manasses mine besyde Ephraim the streÌ„gth of al my land my law doth Iuda guide verse 8 In Moab I wil wash my feete ouer Edom throw my shoo And thou Palestine oughtst to seke for fauour me vnto verse 9 But who wil bring me at this tyde vnto the citie strong Or who to Edom wil me guide so that I go not wrong verse 10 Wilt y u god which didst forsake thy folke their land coastes Our wars in haÌ„d y u wouldst not take nor walk amoÌ„g our hostes verse 11 Geue ayd O Lord and vs releue froÌ„ them that vs disdayne the help that hostes of men can geue it is but al in vayne verse 12 But through our god we shal haue might to take great thiÌ„gs in haÌ„d He wil tread down put to flight al those that vs withstand Exaudi Deus Psalme .lxi. I. H. Whether that he were in daunger of the Ammonites or being pursued of Absolon Here be crtetâ— to be heard deliuered and confirmed in his kingdoÌ„ he promiseth perpetuall praises REgard O Lord for I complaine and
make my sute to thee let not my words returne in vaine but geue an eare to me frō of the coastes vtmost partes of all the earth abroad in grief anguish of my hart I cry to thee O God verse 3 Vpon the rock of thy great power my woful mynd repose thou art my hope my fort and tower my fence against my foes verse 4 Within thy tent I lust to dwel for euer to indure Vnder thy wings I know right wel I shal be safe sure verse 5 The Lord doth my desire regard and doth fulfil the same With goodly gifts wil he reward al them that feare his name verse 6 The king shal he in health maintain and so prolong his dayes That he from age to age shal raign for euermore alwayes verse 7 That he may haue a dwelling place before the Lord for aye O let thy mercy truth and grace defend him from decay verse 8 Then shal I sing for euer stil with prayse vnto thy name That al my vowes I may fulfil and daily pay the same Nonne deo subiecta psalme .lxii. I. H. Dauid declareth by his exāple by y e nature of god y e he must trust in god alone therunto exhorteth al people seing y e al is vanity wtout god al goeth to nought al we ar alwaies taught y e God onely is of power to saue that he rewardeth mā according to bys workes Sing this as the. 6◠Psalme verse 1 MY soule to God shal geue good hede and him alone entend for why wy helth hope to spede doth whole on him depēd verse 2 For he alone is my defence my rock my health my ayd He is my stay that no pretence shal make me much dismayd verse 3 O wicked folk how long wil ye vse crafts sure ye must fal For as a rotten hedge ye be and like a tottering wal verse 4 Whō god doth loue ye seke alwayes to put him to the wurse Ye loue to lie with mouth ye praise and yet your hart doth curse verse 5 Yet stil my soule doth whole depend on God my chief desire From al il feates me to defend none but him I require verse 6 He is my rock my strength my tower my health is of his grace He doth support me that no power can moue me out of place verse 7 God is my glory and my health my soules desire and lust My fort my strēgth my stay my wealth God is mine only trust verse 8 Oh haue your hope in him alway ye folke with one accord Poure out your harts to him and say our trust is in the Lord. verse 9 The sonnes of men deceitful are on balaunce but a sleight With things most vayne do thē cōpare for they cā kepe no weight verse 10 Trust not in wrong robbry or stelth let vayne delightes be gone though goods wel got flow in w c welth set not your harts theron verse 11 The Lord long sith one thing doth tel which here to mind I cal He spake it oft I heard it wel that god alone doth al. verse 12 And that thou Lord art good and kynde thy mercy doth excede So that al sortes wyth thee shal find according to their dede Deus deus meus psalme .lxiii. T. S. Dauid after he had bene in great daunger by Saule in the deserte Ziph made this Psalme wherin he geueth thanks to God for his wonderful deliuerance in whose mercies he trusted euē in the midst of his miseries prophecying the destruction of gods enemies contra rywise happenes to al them that trust in the Lord. 1. Sam. iii Sing this as the. 44 Psalme verse 1 O God my God I watch betyme to come to thee in hast For why my soule and body both doth thirst of thee to tast And in this barrē wildernes where waters there are none my flesh is partcht for thought of thee for thee I wish alone verse 2 That I might see yet once agayn thy glory strength and might As I was wont it to behold within thy temple bryght verse 3 For why thy mercies far surmount this lyfe and wretched dayes My lips therfore shal geue to thee due honor laude and prayse verse 4 And whilst I lyue I wil not fayle to worship thee alway And in thy name I shal lift vp my hands whē I do pray verse 5 My soule is filled as with marow which is both fat and swete my mouth therfore shal sing such sōgs as are for thee most mete verse 6 When as in bed I think on thee and eke al the night tyde verse 7 For vnder couert of thy wings thou art my ioyful guide verse 8 My soule doth surely stick to thee thy right hand is my power verse 9 And those that seke my soule to stroy thē death shal sone deuoure verse 10 The sword shal thē deuour echone their carcases shal fede The hungry foxes which do run their pray to seke at nede verse 11 The king and al men shal reioyce that do profes Gods word For liers mouthes shal thē be stopt which haue y e truth disturbde Exaudi deus vocem meam psalme lxiiii l. H Dauid prayeth against the false reporters and slaunderere he declareth their punishment destruction to the comfort of the iust and the glory of God Syng this as the. 18. Psalm verse 1 O Lord vnto my voyce geue eare with plaint when I do pray and rid my life soule from feare of foes that threat to slay verse 2 Defend me from that sort of men which in deceipts do lurke And from the frowning face of them that al il feates do worke verse 3 who whet their tōgs as we haue sene mē whet sharp their swords Thei shoote abrode their arrowes kene I mean most bitter words verse 4 With priuy sleight shote thei their shaft the vpright man to hit The iust vnware to strike by craft they care or feare no whit verse 5 A wicked worked haue they decreed in counsel thus they cry To vse deceyt let vs not dread what who can it espy verse 6 What wayes to hurt they talk muse al times within their hart They al cōsult what feates to vse ech doth inuent his part verse 7 But yet al this shal not auayle whē they think least vpon God with his dart shal sure assayle and wound thē euery one verse 8 Their crafts their il tōgs withal shal work thēselues such blame That they which then behold their fal shal wonder at y ◠same verse 9 Thē al that see shal know right wel that god y e thing hath wrought and prayse his witty works tel what he to pas hath brought verse 10 Yet shal the iust in God reioyce stil trusting in his might so shal they ioy with mind and voyce whose hart is pure right Te decet hymnus Psalm .lxv. I. H. A prayse and thankesgeuing vnto God by the faythful who are signified by Sion and
trust in thee Let no man doubt or shrinke away for ought that chaunceth me verse 8 It is for thee and for thy sake that I do beare this blame In spite of thee they would me make to hide my face for shame verse 9 My mothers sonnes my brethren al forsake me on a row And as a straunger they me cal my face they wil not know verse 10 Vnto thy house such zeale I beare that it doth pine me much Theyr cheks taūts at thee to heare my very hart doth grutch The second part verse 11 Though I do fast my flesh to chast yea if I wepe and mone Yet in my teeth this geare is cast they pas not therupon verse 12 If I for grief and payne of hart in sackcloth vse to walke Then they anone wil it peruert therof they iest and talke verse 13 Both hye and low and al the throng that sit within the gate They haue me euer in theyr tong of me they talke and prate verse 14 The dronkardes which in wine delite it is their chief pastime To seke which way to worke me spite of me they sing and rime verse 15 But thee the while O Lord I pray that when it pleaseth thee For thy great truth thou wilt alway sēd down thine ayde to me verse 16 Pluck thou my fete out of the myre from drowning do me kepe From such as owe me wrath and ire and from the waters depe verse 17 Least w t the waues I should be drownd depth my soule deuoure And that the pit should me confound and shut me in her power verse 18 O Lord of hostes to me geue eare as thou art good and kind And as thy mercy is most deare Lord haue me in thy mind verse 19 And do not from thy seruaunt hide nor turne thy face away I am opprest on euery side in hast geue eare I say verse 20 O Lord vnto my soule draw nye the same with ayde repose Because of theyr great tyranny acquite me from my foes The third part verse 21 That I abide rebuke and shame thou knowest and thou canst tel For those that seke and worke the same thou seest thē al ful wel verse 22 Whē they with brags do breake my hart I seke for helpe anone But find no frends to ease my smart to comfort me not one verse 23 But in my meat they gaue me gal to cruel for to thinke And gaue me in my thirst withal strong vineger to drinke verse 24 Lord turne their table to a snare to take themselues therin And when they thinke ful wel to fare then trap them in the gin verse 25 And let their eyes be darke and blind that they may nothing see Bow down theyr backe do them bynd in thraldome for to bee verse 26 Poure out thy wrath as hoate as fyre that it on them may fal Let thy displeasure in thine yre take hold vpon them al. As desert drye theyr house disgrace their offring eke expel verse 27 That none therof posses their place nor in their tents do dwel If thou doost strike the man to tame on him they lay ful sore verse 28 And if that thou do woūde the same they seke to hurt him more Then let them heape vp mischief stil sith they are al peruert verse 29 That of thy fauour and good wil they neuer haue no part And dash them cleane out of the booke of life of hope of trust That for their names they neuer looke in number of the iust The fourth part verse 31 Though I O Lord with wo and grief haue benful sore opprest Thy helpe shal geue me such relief that al shal be redrest verse 32 That I may geue thy name the prayse and shew it with a song I wil extol the same alwayes with harty thankes among verse 33 Which is more pleasant vnto thee such mind thy grace hath borne Thē either Oxe or Calfe can be that hath both hoofe and horne verse 34 when simple folke do this behold it shal reioyce them sure Al ye that seke the Lord behold your life for aye shal dure verse 35 For why y e Lord of hosts doth heare the poore whē they cōplaine His prisuners are to him ful deare he doth them not disdaine verse 36 Wherfore the skie earth below the sea with floud and streame His prayse they shal declare and show with al that lyue in them verse 37 For sure our God will Sion saue and Iudaes cities build verse 38 Much folke possession there shal haue her streates shal al be fild Her seruaunts sede shal kepe the same al ages out of mind verse 39 And there al they that loue his name a dwelling place shal find Deus in adiutorium Psalme .lxx. I. H. ¶ He prayeth to be right spedely deliuered as in the .lx. Psalms Then he desireth the shame of his enemies and the ioyfull comfort of all those that seke the Lord. Syng this as the. 72. Psalme verse 1 O God to me take hede of helpe I thee require O Lord of hosts with hast spede help help I thee desire verse 2 With shame confound them al that seke my soule to spil Rebuke thē backe with blame to fal that thinke and wish me il verse 3 Confound them that apply and seke to worke me shame And at my harme do laugh and cry so so there goeth the game verse 4 But let them ioyfull be in thee with ioy and welth Which onely trust and seke to thee and to thy sauing helth verse 5 That they may say alwayes in mirth and one accord Al glory honor laud and prayse be geuen to thee O Lord. verse 6 But I am weake and poore come Lord thine ayde I lacke Thou art my stay and help therfore make spede be not slacke In te domine speraui Psalme .lxxi. I. H. ¶ He prayeth in fayth astablished by the worde of the promise and confirmed by the worke of God from hys youth he desireth nowe to be deliuered from the wicked and cruell man meanyng hys sonne Absolon and his confederacy and he promiseth to be myndefull and thankefull for the same Sing this as the. lxix psalme verse 1 MY Lord my God in al distres my hope is whole in thee Then let no shame my soule oppres nor once take hold on mee verse 2 As thou art iust defend my Lord and rid me out of dread Geue eare and to my suite accord and send me helpe at nede verse 3 Be thou my rocke to whom I may for ayde al tymes resort Thy promise is to helpe alway thou art my fence and fort verse 4 Saue me my God frō wicked men from theyr strength power From folke vniust and eke from them that cruelly deuour verse 5 Thou art the stay wherin I trust thou Lord of hostes art he Yea from my youth I had a lust stil to depend on thee verse 6 Thou hast me kept euē from my birth I through
smite Theyr bodies are both stoute and strong and euer in good plyte verse 5 And free from al aduersity when other men be shent And with the rest they take no part of plague or punishment verse 6 Therfore presumptio doth embrace theyr neckes as doth a chayne And are euen wrapt as in a robe with rapine and disdayne verse 7 They are so fed that euen for fat their eyes oft times out start And as for worldly goodes they haue more thē cā wish their hart verse 8 Theyr life is most licentious bostyng much of the wrong Which they haue done to simple men and euer pryde among verse 9 The heauens and the liuing Lord they spare not to blaspheme And prate they do on worldly things no wight they do esteme verse 10 The people of god oft times turn backe to se their prosprous state And almost drinke the self same cup and folow the same rate The second part verse 11 How can it be that God say they should know and vnderstand These worldly things since wicked mē be Lordes of sea and land verse 12 For we may see how wicked men in riches stil increase Rewarded wel with worldly goodes and lyue in rest and peace verse 13 Then why do I from wickednes my fantasy refrayne And wash my hands with innocents clense my hart in vayne verse 14 And suffer scourges euery day as subiect to al blame And euery morning from my youth susteyne rebuke and shame verse 15 And I had almost sayd as they misliking mine estate But that I should thy children iudge as folk vnfortunate verse 16 Then I bethought me how I might this matter vnderstand But yet the labor was to great for me to take in hand verse 17 Vntil the time I went into thy holy place and then I vnderstood right perfectly the end of al these men verse 18 And namely how thou settest them vpon a slippry place And at thy pleasure and thy wil thou doost them al deface verse 19 Then al men muse at that straunge sight to see how sodenly They are destroyd dispatcht consumde and dead so horribly verse 20 Much lyke a dreame when one a wakth so shal theyr welth decay Theyr famous names in al mens sight shal ebbe and pas away The third part verse 21 Yet thus my hart was greued then my mind was much opprest verse 22 So fond was I and ignoraunt and in this poynt a best verse 23 Yet neuertheles by my right hand thou holdest me alwayes fast verse 24 And with thy counsel doost me guide to glory at the last verse 25 What thing is there that I cā with but thee in heauen aboue And in the earth there is nothing like thee that I can loue verse 26 My fleshe and eke my hart do fayle but God doth fayle me neuer For of my hart God is the strength my portion eke for euer verse 27 And lo al such as thee forsake thou shalt destroy echone And those that trust in any thing sauing in thee alone verse 28 Therfore wil I draw nere to God and euer with him dwel In God alone I put my trust his wonders wil I tel Vt quid deus Psalme .lxxiiii. I. H. ¶ The faithfull complayne of the destruction of the Church and true religion vnder the name of Sion and the altars destroyed And trusting in the might free mercyes of God by his couenaunt they require helpe and succor for the glory of Gods holy name the saluation of hys poore afflicted seruauntes and the confusion of his proude enemies Syng this as the .72 Psalm verse 1 WHy art thou Lord so long from vs in al this daunger depe Why doth thine anger kindle thus at thine own pastor shepe verse 2 Lord cal thy people to thy thought which haue ben thine so lōg The which y u hast redemd brought frō bondage sore strōg verse 3 Haue mind therfore and thinke vpon remember it ful wel Thy pleasaūt place thy moūt Siō where thou wast wōt to dwel verse 4 Lift vp thy foote and come in hast and al thy foes deface Which now at pleasure rob and wast within thy holy place verse 5 A mid thy congregations al thine enemies roare O God They set as signes on euery wal theyr banners splayd abrod verse 6 As men with axes hew the trees that on the hils do grow So shine the bils and swords of these within the temples now verse 7 The selings sawde the carued bordes the goodly grauen stones With axes hāmers villes swords they beate thē down at once verse 8 Thy places they consume with flame and eke in al this toyle The house appointed to thy name they race down to the soyle verse 9 And thus they sayd within theyr hart dispatch them out of hand Then burnt they vp in euery part Gods houses through the lād verse 10 Yet thou no signe of helpe doost send our Prophets al are gone To tel when this our plage should end among vs there is none verse 11 When wilt y u Lord once end this shame cease thine enmies strōg Shal they alway blaspheme thy name rayle on thee so long verse 12 Why doost with draw thy hand a backe and hide it in thy lappe O plucke it out and be not slacke to geue thy foes a rappe The seconde part verse 13 O God thou art my king and Lord and euermore hast bene Yea thy good grace throughout y ◠world for our good help hath sene verse 14 The seas that are so depe dead thy might did make them dry And thou didst breake the serpents head that be therin did dye verse 15 Yea thou didst break y ◠heads so great of whales that are so fel and gauest thē to the folkes to eate that in the desertes dwel verse 16 thou madest a spring w t streames to rise frō rock both hard and hie And eke thy hād doth make likewise depe riuers to be dry verse 17 Both day and eke the night are thine by thee they were begun Thou setst to serue vs with their shine the light eke the Sun verse 18 Thou doost appoint the ends and costes of al the earth about Both sōmer heates winter frosts thy hād hath found thē out verse 19 Thinke on O Lord no tyme forget thy foes that thee defame And how the folish folke are set to rayle vpon thy name verse 20 O let no cruel beast deuour thy Turtle that is true Forget not alwayes in thy power the poore that much doo rue verse 21 Regard thy couenant and behold thy foes posses the land Al sad darke for worne and old our realm as now doth stand verse 22 Let not the simple go away with disapointed shame But let the poore and nedy aye geue prayse vnto thy name verse 23 Rise Lord let be by thee maintaind the cause y t is thyne owne Remember how that thou blasphemd art by the folish one verse 24
fury strong Displeasure wrath and euil spirites to trouble them among verse 50 Then to his wrath he made away and spared not the least But gaue vnto the pestilence the man and eke the beast verse 51 He strake also the first borne al that vp in Egipt came and al the chief of men and beasts within the tents of Ham. verse 52 But as for al his own deare folke he did preserue and kepe and caried them through wildernes euen like a flock of shepe verse 53 Without al feare both safe and sound he brought them out of thral Where as their foes with rage of sea were ouerwhelmed al. verse 54 And brought thē out into the costes of his own holy land Euen to the mount which he had got by his strong arme hand verse 55 And there cast out the Heathen folke and did their land deuyde and in the tents he set their tribes of Israel to abyde verse 56 Yet for al this their god most high they stirred and tempted stil And would not kepe his testament nor yet obey his wil. verse 57 But as their fathers turned backe euen so they went astray Much like a bow that would not bend but slip start away The syxt part verse 58 And greued him with their hil altars with offrings wyth fyre And with theyr Idols vehemently prouoked him to ire verse 59 Therwith his wrath began agayne to kindle in his brest The naughtines of Israel he did so much detest verse 60 Then he forsoke the tabernacle of Silo where he was Right conuersant with earthly mē euen as his dwellyng place verse 61 Then suffred he his might and power in bōdage for to stand And gaue the honor of his Arke into his enmies hand verse 62 And did commit them to the sword wroth with his heritage verse 63 The yong men were deuourd with fire maydes had no mariage verse 64 And with the sword the priests also dyd perish euery chone And not a widow left a liue their death for to bemone verse 65 And then the Lord began to wake like one that slept a tyme Or lyke a valiant man of war refreshed after wyne verse 66 With Emerods in the hinder parts he strake his enmies al and put them then vnto a shame that was perpetual verse 67 Then he the tent and Tabernacle of Ioseph did refuse as for the trybe of Ephraim he would in no wise chuse verse 68 But chose the tribe of Iehuda where as they thought to dwel Euen the noble mount Sion which he did loue so wel verse 69 Where as he did his temple build both sumptuously and sure Like as the earth which he hath made for euer to endure verse 70 Then chose he Dauid him to serue his people for to kepe Which he toke vp and brought away euē from the folds of shepe verse 71 As he did follow the ewes with yong the Lord did hym aduaunce To fede his people of Israel and his inheritaunce verse 72 Thus Dauid with a faithful hart his flock and charge did fede and prudently with al his power did gouerne them in dede Deus venerunt gentes Psalme .lxxix. I. H. ¶ The Israelites complaine to God for the greate calamitie and oppression that they suffred when Antiochus destroyed their temple and city Ierusalem desiring gods ayd against his raging tyranny least gods name and religion should be contemned among the Heathen which should see them thus forsaken and perish Syng this as the .77 Psalme verse 1 O Lord the Gentils do inuade thyne heritage to spoyle Ierusalem an heape is made thy temple they defoyle verse 2 The bodies of thy saints most dere abrode to birdes thei cast the flesh of thē that do thee feare the beasts deuour and wast verse 3 Their bloud throughout Ierusalem as water spilt they haue So that there is not one of them to lay their dead in graue verse 4 Thus are we made a laughing stocke almost the world throughout the enmies at vs iest and mocke which dwel our coastes about verse 5 Wilt thou O Lord thus in thine ire against vs euer fume and shew thy wrath as hote as fyre thy folke for to consume verse 6 Vpon those people poure the same which did thee neuer know al realmes which cal not on thy name consume and ouerthrow verse 7 For they haue got the vpper hand and Iacobs sede destroyd His habitation and hys land they haue left wast and voyd verse 8 Beare not in mind our former faults with spede some pity shew and ayd vs Lord in al assaultes for we are weake and low verse 9 O God that geuest al health and grace on vs declare the same Wey not our works our sinnes deface for honor of thy name verse 10 Why shal the wicked stil alway to vs as people dūme In thy reproch reioyce and say where is their God become Require O Lord as thou seest good before our eyes in sight Of al these folk thy seruants bloud which they spilt in despight verse 11 Receyue into thy sight in hast the clamours grief and wrong Of such as are in prison cast sustayning irons strong Thy force and strength to celebrate Lord set them out of band Which vnto death are destinate and in their enmies hand verse 12 The nations which haue ben so bold as to blaspheme thy name Into their laps with seuen fold repay agayne the same verse 13 So we thy folke thy pasture sheepe wil prayse thee euermore and teach al ages for to kepe for thee lyke prayse in store Qui regis Israel psalme .lxxx. I. H A lamentable prayer to God to helpe the miseries of the church desiring him to cōsider their first estate when his fauour shined towardes them to the entent that he myght finish that worke that he had begon Syng this as the .67 psalme verse 1 THou herde that Israel doost kepe geue eare and take good hede which leadest Ioseph like a shepe doost him watch fede verse 2 Thou Lord I say whose seat is set on Cherubins so bright Shew forth thy self do not let send down thy beames of light verse 3 Before Ephraim and Beniamin Manasses eke likewise To shew thy power do thou begin come help vs Lord aryse verse 4 Direct our harts vnto thy grace conuert vs Lord to thee Shew vs the brightnes of thy face and then ful safe are wee verse 5 Lord God of hostes of Israel how long wilt thou I say Against thy folk in anger swel and wilt not heare them pray verse 6 Thou doost thē fede w t sorrowes depe their bread w t teares thei eat And drinke the teares that they do wepe in measure ful great verse 7 Thou hast vs made a very strife to those that dwel about And that our foes do loue of life they laugh and iest it out verse 8 O take vs lord vnto thy grace conuert our mindes to thee Shew forth to vs thy ioyful face and we
ful safe shal bee verse 9 From Egipt where it grew not wel thou broughtst a vyne ful dere The Heathē folke thou diddest expel then didst plant it here verse 10 Thou didst prepare for it a place and set her rootes ful fast That it did grow and spring apace and fil the land at last verse 11 The hils were couered round about with shade that from it came And eke the Ceders high and stout with braunches of the same verse 12 Why thē didst thou her wal destroy her hedge pluckt vp thou hast That al the folke that passe therby the vyne may spoyle and wast The second part verse 13 The Bore out of the wood so wyld doth dig and route it out The furious beasts out of the field deuour it al about verse 14 O Lord of hostes returne agayn from heauen looke betyme Behold and with thy help sustayn this poore vineyard of thine verse 15 Thy plant I say thine Israel whom thy right hand hath set The same which thou didst loue so wel O Lord do not forget verse 16 They lop and cut it down apace they burn it eke with fyre And through the frowning of thy face we perish in thyne ire verse 17 Let thy right hand be with thē now whom thou hast kept so long and with y e sonne of man whom thou to thee hast made so strong verse 18 And so when thou hast set vs free and saued vs from shame Then wil we neuer fal from thee but cal vpon thy name verse 19 O lord of hostes through thy good grace cōuert vs vnto thee Behold vs with a pleasant face and then ful safe are wee Exultate Deo psalme .lxxxi. I. H. ¶ An exhortation to prayse God both in hart and voyce for his benefites and to worship hym onely God condemneth their ingratitude and sheweth what great benefits they haue lost thorow their owne malice BE light glad in God reioyce which is our strēgth and stay be ioyful lift vp your voyce to Iacobs God I say Prepare your instrumēts most mete some ioy ful Psalme to syng strike vp with harpe and lute so swete on euery pleasaunt stryng verse 3 Blow as it were in the new moone with trumpets of the best As it is vsed to be done at any solemne feast verse 4 For this is vnto Israel a statute and a trade A law that must be kept ful wel which Iacobs god hath made verse 5 This clause with Ioseph was decreed when he from Egipt came That as a witnes al his sede should stil obserue the same verse 6 Whē God I say had so prepard to bring him from that land where as the speach which he had heard he did not vnderstand verse 7 I from his shoulders toke sayth he the burden cleane away And from y e furnace quit him free from burning brick of clay verse 8 When thou in grief didst cry and cal I holpe thee by and by And I did aunswer thee withal in thunder secretly verse 9 Yea at the waters of discord I did thee tempt and proue whereas the goodnes of the Lord with muttering y u didst moue verse 10 Heare O my folke O Israel and I assure it thee Regard marke my words ful wel if thou wilt cleaue to mee The second part verse 11 Thou shalt no God in thee reserue of any land abrode Nor in no wise to bow or serue a straunge and forrayne God verse 12 I am the Lord thy God and I from Egipt set thee free Then aske of me aboundantly and I wil geue it thee verse 13 And yet my people would not heare my voyce when that I spake Nor Israel would not obey but did me quite forsake verse 14 Then did I leaue them to their wil in hardnes of their hart To walke in their own coūsels stil thēselues they might peruert verse 15 O that my people would haue hard the wordes that I did say And eke that Israel would regard to walke within my way verse 16 How sone would I cōfoūd their foes bring thē down fullow And turne my hand vpon al those that would them ouerthrow verse 17 And they that at the Lord do rage as slaues should seke him til But of his folke the time and age should florish euer stil verse 18 I would haue sed them with the crop and finest of the wheat and make the rock with hony drop that they their fils should eat Deus stetit in Synagoga Psalme .lxxxii. I. H. The prophet declaring god to be present amongst the iudges maiestrates reproueth their parciality and vnrighteousnes and exhorteth them to do iustice but seing no amendment be desireth god to vndertake the matter and execute iustice himselfe Sing this as the .77 Psalme verse 1 AMid the prease w t men of might the Lord himself did stand To plead the cause of truth right with iudges of y ◠land verse 2 How long said he wil you procede fals iudgemēt to award and haue respect for loue of mede the wicked to regard verse 3 Wheras of due ye should defend the fatherles and weake and when the poore man doth contend in iudgemēt iustly speake verse 4 If ye he wise defend the cause of poore men in their right And rid the nedy from the clawes of tyrants force and might verse 5 But nothing wil they know or learne in vayne to them I talke They wil not see or ought discerne but stil in darknes walke For lo euē now the tyme is come that al things fal to nought And likewise lawes both al some for gayn ar sold and bought verse 6 I had decred it in my syght as Gods to take you al and children to the most of might for loue I did you cal verse 7 But not withstandyng ye shal dye as men and so decay O tyraunts I shal you destroy and pluck you quyte away verse 8 Vp Lord let thy strength be knowne iudge the world w t might For why al nations are thine own to take them as thy right Deus quis similis Psalme .lxxxiii. I. H. ¶ The people of Israell pray vnto the Lord to deliuer them from their enemies both at home and farre of whiche imagined nothing but their destruction and they desyre that all such wicked people may accordyng as God was accustomed be stricken with the stormye tempestes of Gods wrath that they may know that the Lord is most hye vpon the earth Syng this as the .77 Psalm verse 1 DO not O God refrayne thy toung in silence do not stay Withhold not Lord thy self so lōg nor make no more delay verse 2 For why behold thy foes and see how they do rage cry And those y ◠beare an hate to the hold vp their heads on hie verse 3 Against thy folke they vse disceate and craftly they enquire For thine elect to lye in wayt theyr councell doth conspire verse 4 Come to sayd they let vs expel and
plucke these folke away So that the name of Israel may vtterly decay verse 5 They al conspire within theyr hart how they may thee withstand agaynst the Lord to take a part they are in league and band verse 6 The tents of al the Edomites the Ismalites also The Hagarens and Moabites with diuers othermore verse 7 Gebal with Ammon and like wise doth Amalec conspire The Philistines against thee rise with them that dwel at Tyre verse 8 And Assur eke is wel apayd with them in league to be And doth become a fence and ayde to Lots posterity verse 9 As thou diddest to the Madianites so serue them Lord echeone as to Cicer and to Iabin beside the broke Kison verse 10 Whom thou in Endor didst destroy wast thē through thy might That they like dung on earth did lye and that in open sight The seconde part verse 11 Make thē now theyr Lords appeare like Zeb and Oreb then as Zebah and Zalmana were the kinges of Madian verse 12 Which sayd let vs throughout the lād in al the costs abrod Posses and take into our hand the fayre houses of God verse 13 Tourne thē O God w t stormes as fast as wheles that haue no stay Or like as chaffe which men do cast with windes to fle away verse 14 Like as the fire with rage and fume the mighty forest spilles and as the flame doth quite consume the moūtaynes the hilles verse 15 So let the tempest of thy wrath vpon theyr neckes be layd and of thy stormy wind shower Lord make them al afrayd verse 16 Lord bring them al I thee desire to such rebuke and shame That it may cause them to enquire and learne to seke thy name verse 17 And let them euermore dayly to shame and sclander fal and in rebuke and obliquie to perish eke with al. verse 18 That they may know and fele ful wel that thou art called Lord and that alone thou doost excel raigne throughout the world Quam dilecta tabernacula Psalme .lxxxiiii. I. H. ¶ Dauid driuen forth of his country desireth most ardētly to come againe to the Tabernacle of the Lord and the assemble of the saintes to prayse God pronouncyng them blessed that may so do Then he prayseth the courage of the people that passe thorowe the wildernesse to assemble them selues in Sion Finally with prayse of this matter and confidence of gods goodnes be endeth the Psalme Sing this as the .67 Psalme verse 1 HOw pleasaūt is thy dwelling place O Lord of hostes to me The Tabernacles of thy grace how pleasāt Lord they be verse 2 My soule doth long ful sore to go into thy courts abrod My hart doth lust my flesh also in thee the liuing God verse 3 The sparowes find a roume to rest and saue them selues frō wrong And eke the swalow hath a nest wherin to kepe her yong verse 4 These birdes ful nigh thine alter may haue place to sit and sing O Lord of hostes thou art I say my God and eke my kyng verse 5 Oh they be blessed that may dwel within thy house alwayse For they al times thy factes do tel and euer geue thee prayse verse 6 Yea happy sure like wise are they whose stay and strēgth thou art which to thy house do mind the way and seke it in theyr hart verse 7 As they go through the vale of teares they dig vp fountaines stil That as a spring it al appeares and thou theyr pits doost fil verse 8 Frō strēgth to strēgth they walke ful fast no fayntnes there shal be and so the God of Gods at last in Sion they do se verse 9 O Lord of hostes to me geue hede and heare when I do pray and let it through thine eares procede O Iacobs God I say verse 10 O Lord our shield of thy good grace regard and so draw nere Regard I say behold the face of thine annoynted dere verse 11 For why within thy courts one day is better to abide Then other where to kepe or stay a thousand dayes beside verse 12 Much rather would I kepe a dore within the house of God Then in the tents of wickednes to settle mine abode verse 13 For God the Lord light and defence wil grace and worship gyue and no good thing shal he withold from them that purely lyue verse 14 O Lord of hostes that man is blest and happy sure is hee That is persuaded in his brest to trust al tymes in thee Benedixisti domine Psalme .lxxxv. I H. ¶ Because God withdrew not hys rods from his Churche after the retorne from Babilon first they put him in minde of theyr deliueraunce to th entent that he should not leaue the worke of his grace vnperfite nexte they complayn of theyr long affliction And thirdly they reioyce in hope of felicity promised for their deliueraūce was a figure of Christs kyngdom vnder whiche should be perfite felicity Sing this as the .81 psalme verse 1 THou hast ben mercyful in dede O Lord vnto thy land For thou restoredst Iacobs sede frō thraldome out of band verse 2 The wicked wayes that they wer in y u didst thē clean remit and thou didst hide thy peoples sinne ful close thou coueredst it verse 3 Thine anger eke thou didst asswage that al thy wrath was gone and so didst tourne thee from thy rage with them to be at one verse 4 O God our health do now conuert thy people vnto thee Put al thy wrath from vs apart and angry cease to be verse 5 Why shal thine anger neuer end but stil procede on vs and shal thy wrath it self extend vpon al ages thus verse 6 Wilt thou not rather tourne therfore and quicken vs that we and al thy folke may euermore be glad and ioy in thee verse 7 O Lord on vs do thou declare thy goodnes to our welth Shew forth to vs and do not spare thyne ayde sauing helth verse 8 I wil harke what God sayth for he speaketh to his people peace and to his saints that neuer they returne to folishnes verse 9 For why his health is stil at hand to such as him do feare wherby great glory in our land shal dwel and florish there verse 10 For truth and mercy there shal mete in one to take their place and peace also iustice kis with grete and there they shal imbrace verse 11 As truth from earth shal spring a pace and florish pleasauntly So righteousnes shal shew her face and looke from heauen hye verse 12 Yea God him selfe shal take in hand to geue vs ech good thing and through y ◠costes of al our lād the earth her frutes shal bring verse 13 Before his face shal iustice go much like a guide or stay He shal direct his steps also and kepe them in the way Inclina domine aurem Psalme .lxxxvi. I. H. ¶ Dauid sore afflicted and forsaken of all prayeth feruently for deliueraunce sometymes rebearsing his miseries
sometymes the mercyes receyued desiryng also to be instructed of the Lord that he may feare hym also and glorifie his name He complayneth also of hys aduersaries and requireth to be deliuered from them Syng this as the .81 Psalm verse 1 LOrd bow thine eare to my request and heare me by and by With greuous payne grief opprest ful poore weake am I. verse 2 Preserue my soule because my way and doings holy bee and saue thy seruaunt O my Lord that puts his trust in thee verse 3 Thy mercy Lord on me expresse defend me eke with al For through the day I do not cease on thee to cry and cal verse 4 Cōfort O Lord thy seruaūts soule that now with payne is pinde For vnto thee Lord I extol and lift my soule and mynde verse 5 For thou art good and bountiful thy gifts of grace are free And eke thy mercy plentiful to al that cal on thee verse 6 O Lord likewise when I do pray regard and geue an eare Marke wel the wordes that I do say and al my prayers heare verse 7 In time when trouble doth me moue to thee I do complayne For why I know and wel do proue thou aunswerest me againe verse 8 Among the Gods O Lord is none with thee to be comparde and none can do as thou alone the like hath not bene hard verse 9 The gentils and the people al which thou didst make and frame Before thy face on knees wil fal and glorify thy name verse 10 For why thou art so much of might al power is thine owne Thou workest wonders stil in sight for thou art God alone verse 11 O teach me Lord thy way and I shal in thy truth procede O ioyne my hart to thee so nye that it thy name may dread verse 12 To thee my God wil I geue praise with al my hart O Lord and glorify thy name alwayes for euer through the world verse 13 For why thy mercy shewed to me is great and doth excel Thou setst my soule at liberty out of the lower hel verse 14 O Lord the proud agaynst me rise and heapes of men of might They seke my soule and in no wise wil haue thee in theyr sight verse 15 Thou Lord art merciful and meke ful slacke and slow to wrath Thy goodnes is ful great and eke thy truth no measure hath verse 16 O tourne me Lord and mercy graunt thy strength to me apply O helpe saue thyne own seruaunt thy handmayds sonne am I. verse 17 On me some signe of fauour shew that al my foes may see And be ashamde because Lord thou doost helpe and comfort mee Fundamenta eius Psalme .lxxxvii. I. H. ¶ The holy ghost promiseth that the condition of the Church whiche was a misery after the captiuity of Babilon should be restored to great excellēcy so that there should be nothing more comfortable then to be nombred among the members therof Sing this as the .81 Psalme verse 1 THat city shal ful wel endure her ground worke stil doth stay Vpon the holy hils ful sure it can no time time decay verse 2 God loues the gates of Siō best his grace doth there abide He loued them more then al the rest of Iacobs tents beside verse 3 Ful glorious things reported be in Sion and abrod Great things I say are sayd of thee thou city of our God verse 4 On Rahab I wil cast an eye and beare in mind the same and Babilon shal eke apply and learne to know my name verse 5 Loe Palestine and Tyre also with Ethiope like wise a people old ful long ago were borne and there did rise verse 6 Of Sion they shal say abrod that diuers men of fame Haue there sprong vp the hye God hath founded fast the same verse 7 In their recordes to them it shal through Gods deuise appere Of syon that the chief of al had his beginning there verse 8 The trumpetters with such as sing therin great plenty bee My fountaynes and my pleasaunt springs are compast al in thee Domine deus salutis Psalme .lxxxviii. I. H. ¶ A grieuous complaint of the faithful sore afflicted by sicknes persecutiō aduersitie being as it were left of God without any consolation yet he calleth on God by fayth and striueth against desperation complainyng him selfe to be forsaken of al yearthly helpe LOrd God of health the hope stay thou art alone to me I cal cry throughout the day and al the night to thee O let my prayers sone ascēd vnto thy sight on high encline thyne eare O Lord entend and herken to my cry verse 3 For why my soule with wo is fild and doth in trouble dwel My lyfe and breath almost doth yeld and draweth nye to hel verse 4 I am esteemd as one of them that in the pit do fal And made as one among those men that haue no strength at al. verse 5 As one among the dead and free from things that heare remayne It were more easy for me to be with them the which are slayne verse 6 As those that lye in graue I say whom thou hast cleane forgot The which the hand hath cut away and thou regardst thē not verse 7 Yea lyke to one shut vp ful sure within the lower pit In places darke and al obscure and in the depth of it verse 8 Thine anger and thy wrath likewise ful sore on me doth lye And al thy stormes agaynst me ryse my soule to vexe and try verse 9 Thou puttest my frends far of from me makst them hate me sore I am shut vp in prison fast and can come forth no more verse 10 My sight doth faile through grief and wo I cal to thee O God Throughout the day my handes also to thee I stretch abrod verse 11 Doost thou vnto the dead declare thy wondrous workes of fame Shal dead to life agayne repayre and prayse thee for the same verse 12 Or shal thy louing kindnes Lord be preached in the graue Or shal with them that are destroyd thy truth her honor haue verse 13 Shal they that lye in darke ful low of al thy wonders wot Or there shal they thy iustice know where al things are forgot verse 14 But I O Lord to thee alway do cry and cal apace My prayer eke ere it be day shal come before thy face verse 15 Why doost thou Lord abhorre my soule in grief that seketh thee And now O Lord why doost thou hide thy face away from me verse 16 I am afflict as dying stil from youth this many a yeare Thy terrours which do vexe me il with troubled mind I beare verse 17 The furies of thy wrathful rage ful sore vpon me fal Thy terrours eke do not asswage but me oppres with al. verse 18 Al day they compas me about as water at the tyde And al at once with streames ful stoute beset me on ech syde verse 19 Thou settest far from me my frends
Sion wilt extend The tyme of mercy now the tyme foreset is come to end verse 14 For euen in the stones therof thy seruants do delight and on the dust therof they haue compassion in their sprite verse 15 Then shal y ◠heathen people feare the Lords most holy name and al the kings on earth shal dread thy glory and thy fame verse 16 Then whē the Lord the mighty god agayn shal Sion reare and then when he most nobly in hys glory shal appeare verse 17 To prayer of the desolate when he himself shal bend When he shal not disdayn vnto their prayer to attend verse 18 This shal be written for the age that after shal succede The people yet vncreated the Lords renome shal spred verse 19 For he from his hie sanctuary hath looked down below and out of heauē hath the Lord beheld the earth also verse 20 That of y ◠morning captiue he might heare the woful cry and that he might deliuer those that damned are to dye verse 21 That they in Sion may declare the Lords most holy name And in Ierusalē set forth the prayses of the same verse 22 Then when the people of the land and kyndgdomes with accord Shall be assembled for to do theyr seruyce to the Lord. The third part verse 23 My former force of strength he hath abated in the way and shorter he did cut my dayes thus I therfore dyd say verse 24 My God in midst of al my dayes now take me not away Thy yeres endure eternally from age to age for aye verse 25 Thou the foundations of y ◠earth before all tyme hast layd lord y ◠heauēs are y ◠work which thine own hāds haue made verse 26 Yea they shal perish and decay but thou shalt tary stil and they shal al in time waxe old euen as a garment wil. Thou as a garment shalt thē change chaunged shal they bee verse 27 But thou doost stil abide the same thy yeres do neuer flee verse 28 The children of thy seruant shal continually endure and in thy sight their happy seede for euer shal stand sure 1 Benedic anima mea psalme Ciii T. S This is a Psalme most excellent wherin the Prophet doth prouoke men and angels and al creatures to prayse the Lord for his fatherly mercies and deliuerance of his people from al euils for his prouidence euer al things and the preseruation of the faithful MY soule geue laud vnto the Lord my sprite shall do the same and all the secrets of my hart praise ye his holy name Geue thanks to God for al his gifts shew not thy self vnkind suffer not his benefites to slyp out of thy mynde verse 3 That gaue thee pardon for thy faults and thee restord again For al thy weak and frayle disease and heald thee of thy paine verse 4 That did redeme thy life from death frō which thou couldst not flee His mercy and cōpassion both he did extend to thee verse 5 That fild with goodnes thy desire and did prolong thy youth Like as the Egle casteth her vil wherby her age renueth verse 6 The Lord with iustice doth repay al such as be opprest So that their suffrings their wrōgs are turned to the best verse 7 His wayes his cōmaundements to Moyses he did shew His counsels and his valiant actes the Israelites did know verse 8 The Lord is kind and merciful when sinners do hym greue The slowest to conceyue a wrath and rediest to forgeue verse 9 He chides not vs continually though we be ful of stryfe Nor kepes our faultes in memory for al our sinful lyfe verse 10 Nor yet according to our sinnes the Lord doth vs regard Nor after our iniquities he doth not vs reward verse 11 But as the space is wondrous great twixt heauen and earth aboue So is his goodnes much more large to them that do hym loue verse 12 God doth remoue our sinnes from vs and our offences al as far as is the sunne rising ful distant from his fal The second part verse 13 And looke what pitie parents deare vnto their children beare Like pitie beares the Lord to such as worship him in feare verse 14 The Lord y t made vs knoweth our shape our mould fashion iust how weake and frayle our nature is and how we be but dust verse 15 And how the tyme of mortal men is lyke the withering hay Or like the floure right fayre in field that fades ful soone away verse 16 Whose glosse beauty stormy winds do vtterly disgrace and make that after their assaults such blossoms haue no place verse 17 But yet the goodnes of the Lord with his shal euer stand their childrens children do receyue his righteousnes at hand verse 18 I meane which kepe his couenant with al their whole desyre and not forget to do the thyng that he doth them requyre verse 19 The heauēs hye are made the seat and footestoole of the Lord And by his power imperial he gouernes al the world verse 20 Ye angels which are great in power prayse ye and bles the Lord Which to obey and do hys wyl immediatly accord verse 21 ye noble hostes and ministers cease not to land him stil Which ready are to execute his pleasure and hys wil. verse 22 ye all his works in euery place prayse ye his holy name My hart my mynd and eke my soule prayse ye also the same Benedic anima mea psalme Ciiii. VV. K An excellent Psalme to prayse God for the creation of the world and the gouernaunce of the same by his maruelous prouidence where in the Prophet prayeth against the wicked who are occasions that God diminisheth his blessings MY soule praise the Lord speake good of hys name O Lord our great God how doost thou appeare so passing in glory that great is thy fame honour and ma iestie in thee shyne most cleare with light as a robe thou hast thee beclad wherby al the earth thy greatnes may see the heauens in such sort thou also hast spred that it to a curtayne compared may be verse 3 Hys chamber beames lye in the cloudes ful sure Which as his charet are made him to beare And there with much swiftnes his course doth endure Vpon the wings riding of wind in the ayre verse 4 He maketh his sprites as heraldes to go and lyghtnings to serue we see also prest His wil to accomplish they runne to and fro To saue or consume things as semeth hym best verse 5 He groundeth the earth so firmely and fast that it once to moue none haue shal such power verse 6 The depe a fayre couering for it made thou hast which by his owne nature the hils would deuour verse 7 But at thy rebuke the waters do flye and so geue due place thy word to obey And at the voyce of thunder so feareful they be y t in their great raging they hast soone away verse 8 The mountains ful
high they then vp ascend If thou do but speake thy word they fulfil So like wise the valleis most quickly discend where thou theÌ„ apointest remain they do stil verse 9 Their bonds hast y u set how far they shal run So as in their rage not that passe they can For God hath appointed they shal not returne the earth to destroy more which made was for man The second part verse 10 He sendeth the springs to strong streames and lakes which run do ful swift among the huge hils verse 11 Where both y e wild asses their thirst oft times slakes and beastes of the mountains therof drink their fils verse 12 By these pleasant springs or fountaynes ful fayre The foules of the ayre abide shal and dwel Who moued by nature to hoppe here and there among the grene braunches their songs shal excel verse 13 The mountaynes to moyst the cloudes he doth vse the earth with his workes are wholy repleate verse 14 So as the brute cattle he doth not refuse but grasse doth prouide them and herb for maÌ„s meat verse 15 Yea bread wyne and oyle he made for mans sake His face to refresh and hart to make strong verse 16 The Ceders of Liban this great Lord dyd make which trees he doth nourish that grow vp so long verse 17 In these may birds build and make there their nest In firre trees the storkes remayn and abide verse 18 The hie hils are succours for wild goates to rest And eke the rockes stony for conies to hyde verse 19 The moone then is set her seasons to runne The dayes froÌ„ the nyghtes therby to discerne And by the discendyng also of the Sunne The cold from heat alway therby we do learne verse 20 When darknes doth come by Gods wil and power Then crepe forth do al the beasts of the wood verse 21 The Lions range roaring theyr pray to deuour But yet it is thou Lord which giuest them foode verse 22 Assone as the sunne is vp they retyre To couch in their dennes then are they ful fayne verse 23 That maÌ„ do his workes may as right doth require Til night come and cal him to take rest agayne The third part verse 24 How sondry O Lord are al thy workes found with wisdome ful great they are in dede wrought So that the whole world of thy prayse doth sound and as for thy riches they passe al mens thought verse 25 So is the great sea which large is and broad Where things y â— crepe swarme beasts of ech sort verse 26 There both mighty ships saile and some lye at road The whale huge mâ—strous there also doth sport verse 27 Al things on thee wayt thou doost them relieue And thou in due time ful wel doost them fede verse 28 Now when it doth please thee the same so to geue They gather ful gladly those things which they nede Thou openest thine hand and they find such grace That they with good things are filled we see verse 29 But sore are they troubled if thou turne thy face For if thou their breath take vile dust theÌ„ they bee verse 30 Agayne when the spirit from thee doth procede al things to appoint and what shal insue Then are they created as thou hast decreed and doost by thy goodnes the dry earth renew verse 31 The prayse of the Lord for euer shal last Who may in his workes by right wel reioyce verse 32 His looke can the earth make to tremble ful fast and likewise the mountains to smoke at his voyce verse 33 To this Lord and God sing wil I alwayes So long as I lyue my God prayse wil I. verse 34 TheÌ„ am I most certaine my wordes shal him please I wil reioyce in him to hym wil I cry verse 35 The sinners O Lord consume in thine ire and eke the peruerse them roote out with shame But as for my soule now let it stil desire and say with the faithful prayse ye the Lords name Confitemini domino Psalme Cv. N. ¶ He prayseth the singular goodnes of God who hath of all the people of the world chosen a peculier people to hym selfe and hauyng chosen them neuer â—â—aseth to do them good euen for his promise sake Syng this as the .95 Psalm verse 1 GEue prayses vnto God the Lord and cal vpon his name amoÌ„g y â— people eke declare his workes to spread his fame verse 2 Sing ye vnto the Lord I say and sing vnto him prayse And talke of al the woÌ„drous works y â— he hath wrought alwayes verse 3 In honor of his holy name reioyse with one accorde and let the hart also reioyse of them that seke the Lord. verse 4 Seke ye the Lord seke the streÌ„gth of his eternal might and seke his face continually and presence of his sight verse 5 The woÌ„drous workes that he hath done kepe stil in mindful hart Ne let the iudgements of his mouth out of your mind depart verse 6 Ye that of faithful Abraham his seruaunt are the sede Ye his elect the children that of Iacob do procede verse 7 For he he onely is I say the mighty Lord our God and his most rightful iudgemeÌ„ts are through al the earth abrod verse 8 His promise and his couenaunt which he hath made to his He hath remembred euermore to thousandes of degrees The second part verse 9 The couenaunt which he hath made with Abraham long ago and faythful oth which he hath sworne to Isaac also verse 10 And did confirme the same for law that Iacob should obey and for eternal couenaunt to Israel for ay verse 11 When thus he sayd loe I to you al Canaan land wil geue The lot of your inheritaunce wherin your sede shal liue verse 12 Although theyr number at that time did very smal appeare Yea very smal and in the land they then but strauÌ„gers were verse 13 Whyle yet they walkt from land to land without a sure abode and while fro sondry kingdomes they did wander al abrod verse 14 And wrong at none oppressors hand he suffred them to take But euen the great and mighty kings reproued for theyr sake verse 15 And thus he sayd touch ye not those that mine annoynted be Ne do the Prophetes any harme that do pertayne to me verse 16 He cald a dearth vpon the land of bread he stroyed the store But he agaynst their time of nede had sent a man before The third part verse 17 Euen Ioseph which had once ben sold in liue a slaue in wo verse 18 Whose feete they hurt in stocks whose soule the yron pearst also verse 19 Vntil the time came wheÌ„ his cause was knowen apparantly The mighty word of God the Lord his faulties truth did try verse 20 The king sent and deliuered him from prison where he was The ruler of the people then did frely let him pas verse 21 And ouer al his house he made him Lord to beare the sway and of his substaunce made
his strong reuenging hand Them to destroy in wildernes ere they should see the land verse 27 And to destroy theyr sede among the nations with his rod and through the couÌ„treys of the world to scatter them abrod verse 28 To Baal Peor then they did and ioyne themselues also and eate the offrings of the dead so they forsoke him tho verse 29 Thus with theyr own inuentions his wrath they did prouoke and in his so inkindly wrath the plage vpon them broke verse 30 But Phineas stood vp with zeale the sinners vile to stay and iudgement he did execute and then the plage did stay The fourth part verse 31 It was imputed vnto him for righteousnes that day and from thenceforth so compted is from race to race for aye verse 32 At waters eke of Meribah they did him angry make Yea so far fourth that Moses was then punisht for theyr sake verse 33 Because they vext his spirit so sore that in impatient heat his lips spake vnaduisedly his feauor was so great verse 34 Nor as the Lord commaunded them they slew the people tho verse 35 But were among the heathen mixt and learned their workes also verse 36 And did theyr idols serue which were theyr ruine and decay To feends their sons and daughters they did offer vp and stay verse 37 Yea with vnkindly murdryng knife the giltles bloud they spilt verse 38 Yea theyr own sons daughters bloud without al cause of gilt Whom they to Canaan Idols then offred with wicked hand and so with bloud of innocents defiled was the land verse 39 Thus wer thy stayned with the workes of theyr own filthy way and with their own inuentions a whoryng did they stray verse 40 Therfore agaynst his people was the Lords wrath kindled sore and euen his own inheritaunce therfore he did abhorre verse 41 Into the hands of heathen men he gaue them for a pray and made theyr foes theyr Lords whoÌ„ they were forced to obey The fifte part verse 42 Yea and their hateful enemies opprest them in the land And they were humbly made to stoope as subiectes to theyr haÌ„d verse 43 Ful oftentimes from thral had he deliuered them before But with theyr councels they to wrath prouoked him euermore Therfore they by theyr wickednes were brought ful low to ly verse 44 yet when he saw them in distres he harkned to theyr cry verse 45 He cald to mind his couenaunt which he to them had swore and by his mercyes multitude repented him therfore verse 46 And fauour he them made to find before the sight of those That led theÌ„ captiue froÌ„ their laÌ„d when erst they were their foes verse 47 Saue vs O Lord that art our God saue vs O Lord we pray and from among the heathen folke Lord gather vs away That we may spred the noble prayse of thy most holy name That we may glory in thy prayse and soundyng of thy fame verse 48 The Lord the God of Israel be blest for euermore Let al the people say Amen prayse ye the Lord therfore Confitemini domino Psalme Cvii VV. K. ¶ The Prophet extorteth all those that are redemed by the Lord and gathered vnto hym to geue thankes for this mercifâ—l prouidence of God gouerning all thinges at his good pleasure sendyng good euil prosperitie and aduersitie to bryng men vnto hym Therfore as the righteous thereat reioyce so shal the wicked haue their mouthes stopped Sing this as the 9â— Psalme verse 1 GEue thankes vnto the Lord our God for gratious is hee And that his mercy hath none end al mortal men may see verse 2 Such as y â— Lord redemed hath w t thaÌ„kes should prayse hys name shew how they froÌ„ foes wer freed how he wrought y â— same verse 3 He gathered them forth of the lands that lay so far about FroÌ„ East to West froÌ„ North to South his haÌ„d did find theÌ„ out verse 4 They wandred in the wildernes and strayed from the way and found no citie where to dwel that serue might for their stay verse 5 Whose thirst and honger was so great in these desertes so voyde That fayntnes did theÌ„ sore assault and eke theyr soules anoyde verse 6 Then did they cry in theyr distres vnto the Lord for ayd who did remoue theyr troubles state accordyng as they prayd verse 7 And by that way which was most right he led them like a guide That they might to a citie go and there also abide verse 8 Let men therfore before the Lord confes his goodnes then and shew the wonders that he doth before the sonnes of men verse 9 For he the empty soule sustaynd whom thirst had made to faynt The hungry soule with goodnes fed and did theÌ„ eke acquaynt verse 10 Such as do dwel in darknes depe where they of death do wayt Fast bouÌ„d to tast such troublous storms as yron chaynes do threat The second part verse 11 For that agaynst the Lords own words they sought so to rebel Esteming light his councels high which do so far excel verse 12 But wheÌ„ he humbled theÌ„ ful low they then fel down with grief and none was fouÌ„d so much to help wherby to get relief verse 13 Then did they cry in theyr distres vnto the Lord for ayde who did remoue theyr troublous state according as they prayd verse 14 For he froÌ„ darknes out theÌ„ brought from deathes dredful shade Bursting with force the iron bandes which did before theÌ„ lade verse 15 Let men therfore before the Lord confes his kindnes then and shew the wonders that he doth before the sonnes of men verse 16 For he threw down theyr gates of bras brake theÌ„ w t stroÌ„g hand The yron barres he smote in two nothing could him withstand verse 17 The foolish folke great plages do fele and cannot from theÌ„ wend But heape on mo to those they haue because they do offend verse 18 Theyr soule somuch did loth al meat that none they could abide wherby death had them almost caught as they ful truly tride verse 19 Then did they cry in theyr distres vnto the Lord for ayd who did remoue their troublous state according as they prayd verse 20 For he then sent to them his word which helth did sone restore and brought them froÌ„ those daÌ„gers depe wherin they wer before The third part verse 21 Let men therfore before the Lord confes his kindnes then and shew the wonders that he doth before the sonnes of men verse 22 And let them offer sacrifice with thankes and also feare and speake of al his wondrous workes with glad ioyful cheare verse 23 Such as in ships or brittel barkes into the seas discend Theyr marchaÌ„dise through feareful flouds to coÌ„pas and to end verse 24 Those men are forced to behold the Lords workes what they be and in the daungerous depe the same most marueilous they se verse 25 For at his word the stormy wind ariseth in a rage
ay That froÌ„ the earth their memory he may cut cleane away verse 16 Sith mercy he forgat to shew but did pursue with spite The troubled maÌ„ sought to slay the woful harted wight verse 17 As he did cursing loue it shal betide vnto him so and as he did not blessing loue it shal be far him fro verse 18 As he with cursing clad him selfe so it like water shal Into his bowels and like oyle into his bones befal verse 19 As garment let it be to him to couer him for ay and as a gyrdle wherwith he shal gyrded be alway verse 20 Lo let this same be from the Lord the guerdon of my fo yea and of those that euel speake against my soule also verse 21 But thou O Lord that art my God deale thou I say w t me after thy name deliuer me for good thy mercyes be verse 22 Because in depth of great distres I nedy am and poore and eke within my payned brest my hart is wounded sore verse 23 Euen so do I depart away as doth declining shade and as the grashopper so I am shaken of and fade verse 24 With fasting long froÌ„ nedeful fode enfebled are my knees and al her fatnes hath my flesh enforced ben to leese verse 25 And I also a vile reproch to them was made to be and they that did vpoÌ„ me looke did shake their heds at me verse 26 But thou O Lord that art my God mine ayde succour be according to thy mercy Lord saue and deliuer me verse 27 And they shal know therby y â— this lord is thy mighty haÌ„d and that y u thou hast done it Lord so shal they vnderstand verse 28 Although they curse with spite yet thou shalt bles w t louing voice They shal arise and come to shame thy seruaunt shal reioyce verse 29 Let them be clothed al with shame that enmyes are to me and with confusion as a cloke eke couerd let them be verse 30 But greatly I wil with my mouth geue thankes vnto the Lord and I among the multitude his prayses wil record verse 31 For he with help at his right hand wil stand the poore man by To saue him from the men that would condemne his soule to dy Dixit dominus domino Psalme Cx. N. ¶ Dauid prophecieth of the power and euerlastyng kyngdome geuen to Christ of his priesthood whiche should put an end to the priesthood of Leuy Sing this ad the .68 Psalm verse 1 THe Lord did say vnto my Lord sit thou at my right hand Til I haue made thy foes a stoole wheron thy feete shal staÌ„d verse 2 The Lord shal out of Sion send the scepter of thy might Amid thy mortal foes be thou the ruler in theyr sight And in the day on which they raygne and power they shal see verse 3 Then hereby frewil offrings shal thy people offer thee yea with a holy worshipping then shal they offer al Thy birthes dew is the dew that doth froÌ„ woÌ„be of morning fal verse 4 The Lord hath sworne neuer wil repent what he doth say By thorder of Melchisedech thou art a priest for ay verse 5 The Lord thy God on thy right hand that standeth for thy stay Shal wouÌ„d for thee the stately kings vpon his wrathful day verse 6 The heathen he shal iudge and fil the place with bodyes dead and ouer diuers countreys shal in sonder smite the head And he shal drinke out of the broke that runneth in the way Therfore he shal lift vp on hye his royal head that day Confitebor tibi domine Psalme .cxi. N. ¶ He geueth thankes to the Lord for his mercifull workes towardes his Churche and declareth wherein true wisedome and right knowledge consisteth WIth hart I do accord to prayse laud the Lord In presence of the iust For great his workes are found To search them such are bound as do him loue and trust His workes are glorious also his righteousnes it doth endure for euer his wondrous workes he would we stil remember should hys mercy fayleth neuer verse 5 Suche as do loue him beare a portion full fayre He hath vp for them laid for this they shal wel finde He will them haue in minde and kepe them as he sayd verse 6 For he did not disdayne his workes to shew them playne By lightning and by thunders when he the Heathens land Did geue into their hand where they beheld his wonders verse 7 Of all his workes insueth both iudgement right and truth Wherto his statutes tend verse 8 They are decreed sure For euer to endure whiche equitie doth end Redemption he gaue his people for to saue verse 9 And hath also required his promes not to fayle But alwayes to preuaile his holy name be feared verse 10 Whoso with hartful faine true wisdom wold attaine The Lord feare and obey such as his lawes do kepe shall knowledge haue ful depe his praise shal last for aye Beatus vir psalme Cxii VV. K. ¶ He praiseth the felicitie of them that feare God and condemneth the cursed state of the conâ—emners of God Sing this as the Pater noster verse 1 THe man is blest that god doth feare and that his lawes doth loue in dede His sede on earth God wil vpreare And bles such as from hym procede His house with good he wil fulfil His rightousnes endure shal stil verse 2 Vnto the righteous doth aryse ⧠In trouble ioy in darkenes lyght Compassion is in his eyes And mercy alwayes in his syght verse 3 Yea pitie moueth such to lend He doth by iudgement things expend ⧠verse 4 And furely such shal neuer fayle For in remembrance had is he verse 5 No tidings il can make hym quayle Who in the Lord sure hope doth see verse 6 His hart is firme his feare is past For he shal see his foes down cast verse 7 He did wel for the poore prouide ⧠his righteousnes shal stil remayn And hys estate with prayse abyde Though that the wicked man disdayne verse 8 Yea gnashe his teeth therat shal hee And so consume hys state to see Laudate pueri Psalme Cxiii VV. K. ¶ An exhortation to prayse the Lord for his prouidence in that that contrary to the course of nature he worketh in his church YE childreÌ„ which do serue the Lord praise ye his name with one accorde yea blessed be alwayes hys name who from the rysing of the sunne till it returne where it begunne is to be praysed with great fame The Lord al peoples doth surmount as for his glory we may count aboue the heauens hye to be With God the Lord who may compare whose dwellings in the heauens are of suche great power and force is he verse 6 He doth abase himself we know Thinges to beholde both here below And also in heauen aboue verse 7 The nedy out of dust to drawe and eke the poore which help none sawe His onely mercy did him moue verse
8 And so him set in high degre with princes of great dignitie That rule his people with great fame verse 9 The barren he doth make to beare And with great ioye her frute to reare Therfore praise ye his holy name In exitu Israel psalme Cxiiii VV. VV. ¶ How the Israelites were deliuered out of Egipt and of the wonderfull miracles that God shewed at that tyme which put vs in remembraunce of gods great mercies towardes hys children and of our vnthankfulnes for the same Syng this as the .67 Psalme verse 1 WHen Israel by Gods addres from Pharos land was bent and Iacobs house the straungers left in the same train weÌ„t verse 2 In Iuda God his glory shewde his holynes most bryght So did the Israelites declare his kingdom power and myght verse 3 The sea it saw and sodenly as all amasde dyd flee The roring streames of Iordans floud reculed backwardly verse 4 As rammes afrayd y â— mouÌ„tains skipt their strength did theÌ„ forsake And as y e sely trembling lambes their toppes did beate and shake verse 5 What ayled the sea as all amasde so sodenly to flee Ye rollyng waues of Iordans floud why ran ye backe wardly verse 6 Why shoke ye hils as RaÌ„mes afraid why did your streÌ„gth so shake Why did your tops as tremblyng lambs for feare quiuer quake verse 7 O earth coÌ„fesse thy soueraign Lord and dread his mighty hand Before the face of Iacobs God feare ye both sea and land verse 8 I mean y â— god which froÌ„ hard rocks doth cause many flouds apeare and from the stony flint doth make gush out y e fountaines cleare Non nobis domine psalme Cxv. N ¶ A prayer of the faythfull oppressed by Idolatrous tirants against whom they desire that God would succour theÌ„ for asmuch as there is no comparison betwene him and their false GOD or Idoles trusting most constantly that God wil preserue them in this their nede seing that he hath adopted and receaued them to his fauoure promising finally that they wil not be vnmindfull of so great a benefite if it would please God to heare their prayer and delyuer them by his omnipotent power Sing this as the .78 psalme verse 1 NOt vnto vs Lord not to vs but to thy name geue prayse Both for the mercy and the truth that are in thee alwayes verse 2 Why shal y e heathen scorners say where is their god become verse 3 Our God in he auen is and what he wil that hath he done verse 4 Their Idols siluer are and gold work of mens hands they bee verse 5 They haue a mouth and do not speake and eyes and do not see verse 6 And they haue eares ioynd to their heds and do not heare at al and noses eke they formed haue and do not smel withal verse 7 And hands they haue and handle not and feete and do not go a throte they haue yet through y e same they make no souÌ„d to blow verse 8 Those that make them be like to theÌ„ and those whose trust they be verse 9 O Israel trust in the Lord their help and shield is he verse 10 O Aarons house trust in the Lord their helpe and shield is he verse 11 Trust ye the Lord that feare the Lord their help and shield is he verse 12 The Lord hath myndful bene of vs and wil vs blesse also On Israels and Aarons house his blessyng he wil shew verse 13 Them that be fearers of the Lord the Lord wil blesse them al Euen he wil blesse them euery one the great and eke the smal verse 14 To you I say the louyng Lord wil multiply hys grace To you aud to the children that shal follow of your race verse 15 Ye are the blessed of the Lord euen of the Lord I say Which both the heauen and the earth hath made set in stay verse 16 The heauens yea the heauens hye belong vnto the Lord The earth vnto the sonnes of men he gaue of free accord verse 17 They that be dead do not with prayse set forth y e Lords renoume Nor any that into the place of silence do go downe verse 18 But we wil praise the Lord our god from henceforth and for ay Sound ye the prayses of the Lord praise ye the Lord I say Dilexi quoniam psalme Cxvi N ¶ Dauid being in great daunger of Sauâ—l in the desert of Mammom perceuing y â— great and 〈◊〉 loue of God toward him magnyfyeth such great mercies and protesteed that he wil be thankefull for the same Sing this as the .94 Psalm verse 1 I Loue the Lord because my voyce aud prayer heard hath he when in my dayes I cald on hym he bowed his eare to me verse 2 Euen when the snares of cruel death about beset me round when paines of hel me caught when I wo and sorrow found verse 3 Vpon the name of God my Lord then did I cal and say Deliuer thou my soule O Lord I do thee humbly pray verse 4 The Lord is very merciful and iust he is also and in our God compassion doth plentifully flow verse 5 The Lord in safety doth preserue all those that symple be I was in woful misery and he relieuedme verse 6 And now my soule syth thou art safe returne vnto thy rest For largely loe the Lord to thee his bountie hath exprest verse 7 Because thou hast deliuered my soule from deadly thral My moisted eine froÌ„ mourneful teares my sliding fete from fal verse 8 Before the Lord I in the land of lyfe wyl walke therfore I did beleue therfore I spake for I was troubled sore verse 9 I sayd in my distres and feare that al men lyers be what shal I pay the Lord for al his benefites to me verse 10 The holsome cup of sauyng health I thankfully wil take and on the Lordes name I wil cal when I my prayer make verse 11 I to the Lord wil pay the vowes that I haue him be hight yea euen at this present time in al his peoples sight verse 12 Right deare and precious in his sight the Lord doth ay esteme The death of al his holy ones what euer men do deme verse 13 Thy seruant Lord thy seruant lo I do my self confes Son of thy handmaid thou hast broke the bondes of my distres verse 14 And I wil offer vp to thee a sacrifice of prayse And I wil cal vpon the name of God the Lord alwayes verse 15 I to the Lord wil pay the vowes that I haue him behight yea euen at this present tyme in al his peoples syght verse 16 Yea in the courtes of Gods own house and in the mids of thee O thou Ierusalem I say wherfore the Lord prayse yee Laudate dominum psalme Cxvii N. ¶ He exhorteth the gentils to prayse god because he hath accomplished as wel to them as the Iewes the promise of life euerlastinge by Iesus Christ Sing this as the .98 psalme O
so cause me to reioyse verse 165 Great peace and rest shal al such haue which do thy statutes loue Nor daunger shal theyr quyet state impeire or once remoue verse 166 My onely health and comfort Lord I looke for at thy hand And therfore haue I done those things which y u didst me cōmand verse 167 Thy lawes haue ben my exercise which my soule most desired So much my loue to them was bent that nought els I required verse 168 Thy statutes cōmaundements I kept thou knowest a right For al the things that I haue done are present in thy sight TAV The .xxii. part verse 169 O Lord let my complaint and cry before thy face appeare and as thou hast me promise made so teach me thee to feare verse 170 Myne humble supplication toward thee let find acces and graunt me Lord deliueraunce for so is thy promes verse 171 Then shal my lips thy prayses speake after most ample sort when thou thy statutes hast me taught wherin stādeth al cōfort verse 172 My tong shal sing and preach thy word and on this wise say shal Gods famous actes and noble lawes are iust and perfect al. verse 173 Stretch out thy hand I thee besech and spedely me saue For thy cōmaundemēts to obserue chosē O Lord I haue verse 174 Of thee alone Lord I craue helth for other I know none and in thy law and nothyng els I do delite alone verse 175 Graūt me therfore lōg dayes to liue thy name to magnify and of thy iudgements merciful let me thy fauour try verse 176 For I was lost and went astray much like a wandryng shepe Oh seke me for I haue not fayled thy commaundmentes to kepe Ad dominum cum tribularer Psalme Cxx. S. T. ¶ The prayer of Dauid beyng now banished amonge the barbarious people of Arabia by the false reportes of enuions flatterers And therfore be lamenteth his long abode among those infidels who were geuen to all kynd of wickednes and contention IN trouble and in thral vnto the Lord I cal and he doth me cōfort deliuer me I say frō lyers lippes alway and toung of false report verse 4 What vantage or what thyng Getst thou thus for to styng Thou false and flattering lyer verse 5 Thy toung doth hurt I wene No les then arrowes kene Of whote consuming fire verse 6 Alas to long I slake Within these tentes so blake Which kedars are by name By whom the flocke elect And al of Isaackes sect Are put to open shame verse 7 With thē that peace did hate I came a peace to make And set a quyet lyfe verse 8 But when my word was told Causeles I was controld By thē that would haue stryfe Leuaui oculos meos Psalme Cxxi VV VV. ¶ The Prophet shewed by his own example that the faithfull ought to looke for all their succour of God alone who will gouerne and geue good successe to al their godly enterprises I Lift mine eyes to Sion hil from whence I do attende that succour God me send The mighty God me succour wil which heauen and earth framed and al things therin named verse 3 Thy foote from slip he wil preserue And wil thee safely kepe For he wil neuer slepe verse 4 Lo he that doth Israel conserue No slepe at al can hym catch But his eyes shal euer watch verse 5 The Lord is thy warrant alway ⧠The Lord eke doth thee couer As at thy right hand euer verse 6 The sunne shal not thee partch by day Nor the moone not halfe so bryght Shall with cold thee hurt by nyght ⧠verse 7 The Lord wil kepe thee from distres And wil thy life sure saue And thou also shalt haue verse 8 In al thy busines good successe Where euer thou goest in or out God wil thy thinges bryng about Letatus sum Psalme Cxxii VV. K. ¶ Dauid reioyseth in y ◠name of the faithful y ◠God hath accomplished his promes placed his Arke in Siō for the which he geueth thākes prayeth for the prosperitie of the Church I Did in hart reioyce to heare the peoples voyce in offering so willingly For let vs vp say they in y ◠lords house pray thus spake y e folk ful louīgly Our fete y ◠wādred wide shal in thy gates abide O y u Ierusalē ful fayre which art so semely set much like a citie net y e like wherof is not els where verse 4 The tribes with one accord The tribes of God the Lord Are thither bent their way to take So God before did tel That there his Israel Their prayers should together make verse 5 For there are thrones erect And that for this respect To set forth iustice orderly ⧠Which thrones ryght to maintayne To Dauids house perteyne His folke to iudge accordingly verse 6 To pray let vs not cease For Ierusalems peace Thy frends God prosper myghtely verse 7 Peace be thy walles about †And prosper thee throughout Thy places eke continually verse 8 I wish thee prosperous state For my poore brethrens sake That cōfort haue by meanes of thee ⧠verse 9 Gods house doth me allure Thy wealth for to procure So much alwayes as lyeth in mee Ad te leuaui oculos Psalme Cxxiii T. S. ¶ A prayer of the faythfull whiche are afflicted by the wicked worldlynges and contemners of God Sing this as the .23 psalme verse 1 O Lord that heauen doost posses I lift mine eyes to thee I lift mine eyes to thee Euē as the seruaunt lifteth his his maysters hands to see verse 2 As handmaids watch their maistres hāds some grace for to atchiue So we behold the Lord our God til he do vs forgeue verse 3 Lord graunt vs thy compassion and mercy in thy sight For we be filled and ouer commen with hatred and despight verse 4 Our minds be stuffed with great rebuke the rich worldly wise Do make of vs their mocking stocke the proud do vs despise Nisi quia dominus Psalme Cxxiiij VV VV. ¶ The people of God being deliuered out of a great daūger acknowledge not to haue escaped by their own power but through the fauour of God shew in how great peril they were NOw Israel may say and that truly If that the Lorde had not our cause mainteind If that the Lord had not our right susteynd When al the world agaynst vs furiously made their vprors and sayd we should al dye verse 3 Now long a go they had deuourd vs al And swalowed quicke for ought that we could deme Such was theyr rage as we might wel esteme verse 4 And as the flouddes with mighty force do fal So had they now our life euen brought to thral verse 5 The raging streames most proud in roring noyse Had long a go ouer whelmde vs in the depe verse 6 But loued by God which doth vs safely kepe From bloudy teeth and their most cruel voyce Which as a pray to eate vs would
reioyce verse 7 Euen as the birde out of the foulers grenne Escapeth as way right so it fareth with vs Broke are their nets and we haue scaped thus verse 8 God that made heauen and earth is our helpe then His name hath saued vs from these wicked men Qui confidunt Psalme Cxxv. VV. K. ¶ He describeth the assuraunce of the faithfull in their afflictions and desireth their wealth and the destruction of the wicked SVch as in God the Lord do trust as moūt Sion shal firmely stād be remoued at no hād the Lord wil coūt thē right iust So that they shal be sure for euer to indure verse 2 As mighty mountaines huge great Ierusalem about do close So wil the Lord be vnto those Who on his godly wil do wayt Such are to him so deare They neuer nede to feare ⧠verse 3 For though the righteous try doth he By making wicked men his rod Least they through grief forsake theyr God It shal not as theyr lot stil be verse 4 Geue Lord to those thy light Whose harts are true and right verse 5 But as for such as turne a side ⧠By croked wayes which they out sought The Lord wil surely bring to nought With workes they shal abyde But peace with Israel For euermore shal dwel Another of the same by R. VV. Sing this as the ten Cōmaundementes THose that do put theyr cōfidēce vpon the Lord our God onely And flye to him for his defence in al theyr nede misery Their fayth is sure firme to endure groūded on Christ y e corner stone Moued with no il but stādeth stil stedfast like to the moūt Sion And as about Hierusalem the mighty hils do it compas So that no enemies cōmeth them to hurt that towne in any case So God in dede in euery nede his faithful people doth defend Stāding thē by assuredly frō this time forth world without end Right wise and good is our Lord God and wil not suffer certeinly The sinners and vngodlyes rod to tary vpon his family Least they also from God should go falling to sinne aud wickednes O lord defēd world wtout end thy christē flock through thy goodnes O Lord do good to Christians al that stedfast in thy word abyde Such as willingly frō God fal and to false doctrine dayly slide Such wil the Lord scatter abrod w t Hipocrites throwen down to hel God wil thē sēd paynes wtout end but Lord graūt peace to Israel Glory to God the father al might and to the sonne our Sauiour And to y ◠holy ghost whose light shine in our harts vs succour That the right way from day to day we may walke him glorifie With harts desire al that are here worship the Lord say Amen In conuertendo Psalme Cxxvi. VV. K. ¶ This Psalme was made after the returne of the people from Babylon and sheweth that the meane of theyr deliueraunce was weunderfull after the seuentie yeares of captiuitie forespoken by Iere. 25. 12. and. 29. 10. WHen that the Lord agayne hys Sion had forth brought from bondage great and also seruitude extreme his worke was such as did surmoūt mās hart thought so that we were much like to thē y t vse to dreame our mouthes wer with laughter filled thē and eke our tōgues did shew vs ioyful mē The Heathen folke were forced then this to confes How that the Lord for them also great things had done verse 3 But much more we and therfore can confes no les Wherfore to ioy we haue good cause as we begon verse 4 O Lord go forth thou canst our bondage end As to desertes they flowyng riuers send verse 5 Ful true it is that they which sow with teares in dede a time wil come when they shal reape in mirth and ioy verse 6 They went and wept in bearing of theyr precious sede For that theyr foes ful often times did them annoy But their returne with ioy they shal sure see Their sheaues home bring and not impeired be Nisi dominus Psalme Cxxvii VV. VV. ¶ It is not mans wit to labour but the free goodnes of God that geueth riches preserueth townes and countries graunteth nourishement and children Sing this as the Pater noster verse 1 EXcept the Lord the house do make And therunto do set his hand What men do build it can not stand Likewise in vayne men vndertake Cities and holdes to watch and ward Except the Lord be their safegard verse 2 Though ye rise early in the morne And so at night go late to bed Fedyng ful hardly with browne bread yet were your labor lost and worne ⧠But they whom God doth loue and kepe Receyue al thynges with quiet slepe verse 3 Therfore marke wel when euer ye see That men haue heyres to enioy theyr land It is the gift of Gods own hand For God him selfe doth multiply Of hys great liberality ⧠The blessyng of posterity verse 4 And when the children come to age They grow in strength and actiuenes In person and in comelines So that a shaft shot with courage Of one that hath a most strong arme Flyeth not so swift nor doth lyke arme verse 5 Oh wel is hym that hath his quiuer Furnished with such artilery For when in peril he shal be Such one shal neuer shake nor shiuer when that he pleadeth before the iudge Against his foes which beare hym grudge Beati omnes qui timent psalme .cxxviii. T. S ¶ He describeth the prosperous estate of them that be maried in the feare of god ioyning with al the promises of gods blessings to al them that lyue in this honorable estate accordyng to his commaundements Sing this as the .137 Psalme verse 1 BLessed art thou that fearest God and walkest in hys way verse 2 For of thy labor thou shalt eat happy art thou I say verse 3 Like fruiteful vynes on thy house sides so do thy wife spring out Thy childrē stand like Oliue plants thy table round about verse 4 Thus art thou blest that fearest God and he shal let thee see verse 5 The promised Ierusalem and his felicitie verse 6 Thou shalt thy childrens children see to thy great ioyes encrease And likewise grace on Israel prosperity and peace Sepe expugnauerunt psalme Cxxix N ¶ He admonisheth the church to reioyce though it haue bene afflicted in al ages for God wil deliuer it and the enemies for al their glorious shew shal sodenly be destroyed Syng this as the .137 Psalme verse 1 OFt they now Israel may say me from my youth assayled Oft they assailed me frō my youth yet neuer they preuayled verse 2 Vpon my back the plowers plowed forrowes long did cast verse 3 The rightous lord hath cut the cordes of wicked foes at last verse 4 They that hate hym shal be shamed and turned back also verse 5 And made as grasse vpon the house which withereth ere it grow verse 6 Wherof the mower
power of encreased strength within my soule to grow verse 4 Yea al the kings on earth they shal geue prayse to thee O Lord For they of thy most holy mouth haue heard the mighty word verse 5 They of the wayes of God the Lord in syngyng shal entreat Because the glory of the Lord it is excedyng great verse 6 The Lord is hye and yet he doth behold the lowly spirit But he contemnyng knowes a far the proud lofty wight verse 7 Although in midst of trouble I do walke yet shal I stand Renued by thee O my Lord thou wilt stretch out thy hand Vpon the wrath of al my foes and saued shal I bee By thy right hand The Lord God wil performe his work to me verse 8 Thy mercy Lord endures for ay Lord do me not forsake Forsake me not y ◠am the worke which thine own hād did make Domine probasti psalm .cxxxix. N Dauid to clense his hart from al hipocrisy sheweth that there is nothyng so hyd which god seeth not which he confirmeth by the creation of man After declaryng his zeale and feare of god he protesteth to be enemy to al them that comtemne god Sing this as the .137 Psalme verse 1 O Lord thou hast me tride known my sitting doost thou know verse 2 and rising eke my thoughts a far thou vnderstandst also verse 3 My pathes yea and my lieng down thou cōpassest alwayes and by familiar custome art acquainted with my wayes verse 4 No word is in my tonge O Lord but known it is to thee verse 5 thou me behind holdst before thou layest thy hand on mee verse 6 To wonderful aboue my reach Lord is thy cunning skil It is so hye that I the same cannot attayne vntil verse 7 From sight of thy al seing spirite Lord whether shal I go Or whether shal I flee away thy presence to scape fro verse 8 To heauen if I mount aloft lo thou art present there In hel if I lye down below euen there y u doost appeare verse 9 Yea let me take the mornings wings and let me go and hide Euen there where are y ◠farthest parts wher flowing se a doth slide verse 10 Yea euen thether also shal thy reachyng hand me guyde and thy right hand shal hold me fast and make me to abyde verse 11 Yea if I say the darknes shal yet shroud me from thy sight Lo euen also the darkest nyght about me shal be lyght verse 12 Yea darknes hydeth not from thee but night doth shyne as day To thee the darknes and the lyght are both alyke alway verse 13 For thou possessed hast my raynes and thou hast couered mee Whē I within my mothers womb enclosed was by thee verse 14 Thee wil I prayse made fearfully wondrously I am they workes are maruelous right wel my soule doth know y ◠same verse 15 My bones they are not hid from thee although in secret place I haue bene made and in the earth beneath I shapen was verse 16 When I was formeles then thine eye saw me for in thy booke were written al nought was before that after fashion tooke verse 17 The thoughts therfore of thee O God how deare are they to mee and of them al how passing great the endles numbers be verse 18 If I should compt thē loe their summe more then the sand I see and whensoeuer I awake yet am I stil wyth thee verse 19 The wicked and the bloudy men oh that thou wouldest slay Euen those O God to whom depart depart from me I say verse 20 Euen those of thee O Lord my God that speake ful wickedly Those that are lifted vp in vayne beyng enemies to thee verse 21 Hate I not them that hate thee Lord and that in earnest wyse Contend not I against them al against thee that aryse verse 22 I hate them with vnfayned hate euen as my vtter foes verse 23 Try me O God and know my hart my thoughts proue disclose verse 24 Consider Lord if wickednes in me there any be and in thy way O God my guide for euer lead thou me Eripe me Psalme Cxl. N Dauid cōplayneth of the cruelty falshod iniuries of hys enemies against which he prayeth vnto the Lord and assureth hymself of his help and succor Wherfore he prouoketh the iust to prayse hym and to assure themselues of his tuition Sing this as the Lamentation verse 1 LOrd saue me the euil man and form the cruel wight verse 2 Deliuer me which euil do imagine in their sprit verse 3 which make on me cōtinual war their tongs lo they haue whet Like serpents vnderneth their lips is adders poyson set verse 4 Kepe me O Lord from wicked hands preserue me to abyde Free from the cruel man that meanes to cause my steps to slyde verse 5 The proud haue layd a snare for me and they haue spred a net with cordes in my path way and gins for me eke haue they set verse 6 Therfore I sayd vnto the Lord thou art my God alone Heare me O Lord oh heare the voyce wherwith I pray mone verse 7 O Lord my God thou onely art the strēgth that saueth mee My head in day of battle hath bene couerd stil by thee verse 8 Let not O Lord the wycked haue the end of his desyre Performe not hys wycked thought least with pride be set on fire verse 9 Of them that compas me about the chiefest of them al Lord let the mischief of their lippes vpon themselues befal verse 10 Let coales fal on them let hym cast them in consuming flame and in depe pits so as they may not rise out of the same verse 11 For no backbiter shal on earth be set in stable plight and euil to destruction stil shal hunt the cruel wyght verse 12 I know the Lord thafflicted wyl reuenge and iudge the poore verse 13 The iust shal prayse thy name iust shal dwel with thee euermore Domine clamaui psalme .cxli. N Dauid beyng greuously persecuted vnder Saule onely flyeth vnto God to bane succour desiryng hym to bridle his affections that he may patiently abyde til god take vengeaunce of hys enemies O Lord vpon thee do I cal Lord hast thee vnto me and harken Lord vnto my voyce when I do cry to thee 2 As insence let my prayers be directed in thine eyes the vplifting of my handes as euenyng sacrifice verse 3 My Lord for guiding of my mouth set thou a watch before and also of my mouing lips O Lord kepe thou the dore verse 4 That I should wicked works commit inclyne thou not my hart With il men of their delicates Lord let me eat no part verse 5 But let the righteous smite me Lord for that is good for me Let hym reproue me and the same a precious oyle shal be Such smityng shal not breake my hed the tyme shal shortly fal when I shal in their misery make prayers for them al. verse
6 Then when in stony places down their iudges shal be cast Then shal they heare my words for theÌ„ they haue a pleasaunt tast verse 7 Our bones about the graues mouth lo scattred are they found as he that heweth wood or he that diggeth vp the ground verse 8 But O my Lord my God myne eyes do looke vp vnto thee In thee is al my trust let not my soule forsaken hee verse 9 Which they haue layd to catch me in Lord keepe me from the snare and from the suttle grennes of them that wycked workers are verse 10 The wicked into theyr own nets together let them fal while I do by thy helpe escape the daungers of them al. Voce mea ad Psalme Cxlij N. ¶ Dauid neither ast onied with feare nor caried w t anger nor forced by desperation would kil Saule but with a quiet mind directed his earnest prayer vnto God who did preserue him Sing this as the .14 psalme verse 1 BEfore the Lord God with my voyce I did send out my cry and with my streamed voice vnto the Lord God prayed I. verse 2 My meditation in his sight to poure I did not spare and in the presence of the Lord my trouble did declare verse 3 Although perplexed were my spirit my path was knowen to thee In way where I did walke a snare they slyly layd for mee verse 4 I lookt vewd on my right hand but none there would me know al refuge fayled me and for my soule none cared tho verse 5 Then cried I Lord to thee sayd my hope thou onely art Thou in the land of lyuing art my portion and my part verse 6 Harke to my cry for I am brought ful low deliuer me From them that do me persecute for me to strong they be verse 7 That I may prayse thy name my soule from prisoÌ„ Lord bring out when thou art good to me the iust shal prease me round about Domine exaudi Psalme Cxliij N. ¶ An earnest prayer for remission of sinnes acknowledging that the enemies did cruelly persecute him by Gods iust iudgement He desireth to be restored to grace to be gouerned by his holy spirit that he may spend the rest of his life in the true feare and seruice of God Syng this as the .141 Psalme verse 1 LOrd heare my prayer harke y e plaint that I do make to thee Lord in thy natiue truth and in thy iustice aunswer mee verse 2 In iudgement with thy seruaunt Lord oh enter not at al For iustified be in thy sight not one that liueth shal verse 3 The enmy hath pursued my soule my life to ground hath throwne and layd me in the dark like them that dead are long agone verse 4 Within me in perplexitie was my accombred spirit and in me was a troubled hart amased and afflight verse 5 Yet I record time past in al thy workes I meditate yea in the workes I meditate that thy hands haue creat verse 6 To thee O Lord my God loe I do stretch my crauing haÌ„ds My soule desireth after thee as do the thirsty lands verse 7 Heare me with spede my spirit doth faile hide not thy face me fro Els shal I be like them that down into the pit to go verse 8 Let me thy louing kindnes in the morning heare know For in thee is my trust shew me the way that I shal got verse 9 For I lift vp my soule to thee O Lord deliuer mee From al mine enemies for I haue hidden me with thee verse 10 Teach me to do thy wil for thou thou art my God I say Let thy good spirit vnto the land of mercy me conuey verse 11 For thy names sake w t quikning grace a liue do thou me make and out of trouble bring my soule euen for thy iustice sake verse 12 And for thy mercy slay my foes O Lord destroy them al That do oppresse my soule for I thy seruaunt am and shal Benedictus dominuus Psalme Cxliiij N. ¶ Dauid prayseth y â— Lord w e great affectioÌ„ humility for his kingdom restored for his victories obtained yet calling for helpe the destructioÌ„ of the wicked â—promising to acknowledge the same with songs of prayses declareth wherin the felicity of any people consisteth Syng this as the .141 Psalme verse 1 BLest be the Lord my streÌ„gth that doth instruct my haÌ„d to fight The Lord that doth my fingers frame to battel by his might verse 2 He is my goodnes for t and tower deliuerer and shield In him I trust my people he subdues to me to yeld verse 3 O Lord what thing is maÌ„ that him thou holdest so in price Or son of man that vpon him thou thinkest in such wise verse 4 Man is but like to vanity so pas his dayes to end verse 5 As fleting shade Bow down O Lord thy heaueÌ„s discend verse 6 The mountaines touch they shal smoke cast forth thy lightning flame And scatter theÌ„ thine arrowes shote coÌ„sume theÌ„ w t the same verse 7 Send down thy hand euen from aboue O Lord deliuer mee Take me froÌ„ waters great froÌ„ hand of straungers make me free verse 8 Whose subtle mouth of vanity and fondnes doth entreat and their right hand is a right hand of falshod and deceit verse 9 A new song I wil syng O God and singing wil I bee On viole and on instrument ten stringed vnto thee verse 10 Euen he it is that onely geues deliueraunce to kings Vnto his seruaÌ„t Dauid helpe froÌ„ hurtful sword he bryngs verse 11 FroÌ„ strauÌ„gers haÌ„d me saue sheld whose mouth talkes vanity and their right hand is a right hand of guile and suttelty verse 12 That our sonnes may be as the plants whoÌ„ growing youth doth reare Our daughters as carued cornerstones like to a palace fayre verse 13 Our corners ful and plenty may with sondry sortes be found Our shepe bring thousaÌ„ds in our strets ten thousaÌ„ds may abouÌ„d verse 14 Our Oxen be to labor strong that none do vs inuade There be no going out no cry within our stretes be made verse 15 The people blessed are y t with such blessings are so stord yea blessed al the people are whose God is God the Lord. Exaltabo te deus Psalme Cxlv. N. ¶ This Psalme was made when the kingdome of Dauid florished Wherein he describeth the wonderful prouidence of God as well in gouernyng man as in preseruyng all the rest of his creatures He prayseth God for his iustice mercy but specially for his louyng kindnes toward those that cal vpon him that feare him and loue hym THee wil I laud my God and kyng blesse thy name for aye 2 For euer wil I prayse thy name and blesse the day by day 3 Great is the Lord most worthy prayse hys greatnes none can reach 4 From race to race they shal thy workes prayse and thy power preach verse 5 I of thy glorious maiestie the beauty wil record
and meditate vpon thy workes most wonderful O Lord. verse 6 And they shal of thy power and of thy feareful actes declare and I to publish al abrod thy greatnes wil not spare verse 7 And they into the mētion shal breake of thy goodnes great and I aloud thy righteousnes in singing shal repeat verse 8 The Lord our God is gratious and merciful also Of great abounding mercy and to anger he is slow verse 9 Yea good to al and al his workes his mercy doth excede verse 10 Lo al thy works do praise thee lord doe thy honor spred verse 11 Thy saints do blesse thee they do thy kingdomes glory shew verse 12 And blase thy power to cause the sōnes of mē his power to know And of his mighty kingdome eke to spread the glorious praise verse 13 Thy kingdome Lord a kingdome is that doth endure alwayes And thy dominion through ech age endures without decay verse 14 The Lord vpholdeth them that fal the sliding he doth stay verse 15 The eyes of al do wayt on thee thou doost them al releue and thou to ech suffising foode in season due doost geue verse 16 Thou openest thy plentuous hand and bounteously doost fil al things whatsoeuer doth lyue with gifts of thy good wil. verse 17 The Lord is iust in al his wayes his workes are holy al verse 18 Nere al he his that cal on him in truth that on him cal verse 19 He the desires which they require that feare him wil fulfil and he wil heare thē whē they cry saue them al he wil. verse 20 The Lord preserues al those to him that bear a louing hart But he them al that wicked are wil vtterly subuert verse 21 My thākful mouth shal gladly speake the praises of y e Lord al flesh to prayse his holy name for euer shal accord Lauda anima mea Psalme Cxlvi I. H. ¶ Dauid shewing the great desire he had to prayse God teacheth that none should put theyr trust in men but in God alone who is almighty and deliuereth thafflicted nourisheth the poore setteth prisoners at libertie comforteth the satherles widowes and the straūgers and rangneth kyng for euer Sing this as the .2 137 Psalme verse 1 MY soule prayse thou the Lord alwayes my God I wil cōfes While breath life prolōg my daies my tōg no time shal cease Trust not in worldly princes thē though they abound in wealth Nor in the sonnes of mortal mē in whō there is no health verse 2 For why their breath doth sone depart to earth anone they fal and then the counsels of theyr hart decay and perish al. verse 3 O happy is that man I say whom Iacobs God doth ayde and he whose hope doth not decay but on the Lord is stayd verse 4 Which made the earth waters depe the heauens hye wythal which doth his word and promise kepe in truth and euer shal verse 5 With right alwayes doth he procede for such as suffer wrong The poore and hungry he doth fede and lose the fetters strong verse 6 The Lord doth sēd the blind theyr sight the lame to lims restore The Lord I say doth loue the right and iust man euermore verse 7 He doth defend the fatherles the straungers sad in hart And quyt the widow frō distres il mens wayes subuert verse 8 Thy Lord and God eternally O Sion stil shal rayne In tyme of al posterity for euer to remayne Laudate dominum Psalme Cxlvii N. ¶ The Prophet prayseth the bounty wisedome power suffice and prouidence of God vpon al his creatures But specially vpon his Church which he gathereth together after their dispersion declaring his word iudgement so vnto them as he hath done to no other people PRaise ye the Lord for it is good vnto our God to syng For it is pleasaunt and to prayse it is a comely thing 2 The Lord his own Ierusalem he buildeth vp alone and the disperst of Israel doth gather into one verse 3 He heales the broken in their hart theyr sore vp doth he bynd verse 4 He counts the nūber of the starres names them in their kind verse 5 Great is our Lord great is his power his wisedome infinit verse 6 The Lord releues y e meke throwes to groūd the wicked wight verse 7 Sing vnto God the Lord with prayse vnto the Lord reioyce and to our God vpō the harpe aduaunce your singing voyce verse 8 He couers heauen with cloudes for the earth prepareth rayne and on the mountaines he doth make the gras to grow agayne verse 9 He geues to beastes theyr foode to young rauens when they cry verse 10 His pleasure not in strength of horse nor in mans legs dothly verse 11 But in al those that feare the Lord the Lord hath hys delight and such as do attend vpon his mercies shyning light verse 12 O prayse thy Lord Ierusalem thy God O Sion prayse verse 13 For he the barres hath forged strōg wherwith thy gate he stayes verse 14 Thy children he hath blest in the◠and in thy borders he Doth settle peace with y ◠flower of wheat he filleth thee verse 15 And his commaundement vpon the earth he sendeth out and eke the word with spedy course swyftly run about verse 16 He geueth snow like wol hore frost like ashes doth he spred verse 17 Like morsels casts hys I se therof the cold who can abide verse 18 He sendeth forth his mighty word and melteth thē agayn His wind he makes to blow thē y ◠waters flow amayn verse 19 The doctrine of his holy word to Iacob doth he shew his statutes his iudgments he geues Israel to know verse 20 With euery nation hath he not so dealt nor they haue knowne his secret iudgements ye therfore prayse ye the Lord alone Laudate dominum Psalme Cxlviij I. P. ¶ He prouoketh al creatures to prayse the Lord in heauē in earth in all places specially for the power that he hath geuen to his people Israel whō he hath taken so nere vnto hym GEuelaud vnto the Lord from heauē that is so hye Praise him in dede and word Aboue the starry skie And also ye his angels al armies royal prayse him with glee verse 3 Prayse him both mone sunne Which are so cleare and bright The same in you be done He glistring stars of light verse 4 And eke no les He heauens fayre verse 5 And cloudes of the ayre His laud expresse verse 6 For at his word they were Al formed as we se At his voyce did appere Al things in theyr degre Which he set fast To them he made A law and trade For ay to last verse 7 Extol and prayse Gods name In earth ye Dragons fel Al depe do ye the same For it becommeth you wel verse 8 Him magnify Fyre hayle I se Snow And stormes that blow At hys decree verse 9 The hils and mountaynes al And trees
that fruteful are The Ceders great and tal His worthy prayse declare verse 10 Beastes and cattel Hea birdes flying And wormes crepyng That on earth dwel verse 11 Al kynges both more and les With al theyr pompous trayne Princes and al Iudges That in the world remayne Exalte hys name verse 12 Yong men and maydes Old men and babes Do ye the same verse 13 For his name shal we proue To be most excellent Whose prayse is farre aboue The earth and firmament verse 14 For sure he shal Exalte with blisse The borne of hys And helpe them al His Saints al shal forth tel His prayse and worthynes The children of Israel Ech one both more and les verse 15 And also they That with good wil His wordes fulfil And hym obey Cantate dominum Psalme Cxlix N. ¶ An exhortation to the Churche to prayse the Lord for his victory and conquest that he geueth his saintes agaynst all mans power verse 1 SIng ye vnto the Lord our God a new reioysing song and let the prayse of him be herd his holy saints among verse 2 Let Israel reioyce in hÃm that made him of nothing And let the sede of Sion eke be ioyful in theyr kyng verse 3 Let them sound prayse with voyce of flute vnto his holy name and with the timbrel and the harpe sing prayses of the same verse 4 For why the Lord his pleasure al hath in his people set and by deliueraunce he wil rayse the meke to glory great verse 5 With glory and with honor now let al the saintes reioyce and now aloud vpon their beds aduaunce their singing voyce verse 6 And in their mouthes let be the actes of God the mighty Lord And in their handes eke let them beare a double edged sword verse 7 To plague the Heathen correct the people with their handes verse 8 To bynd theyr stately kings in chaines their Lordes in yroÌ„ baÌ„des verse 9 To execute on them the dome that written is before This honor al his saints shal haue prayse ye the Lord therfore Laudate dominum Psalme CL. N. ¶ An exhortation to prayse the Lord without sease by all maner of wayes for all his mighty and wonderfull workes verse 1 YElde vnto God the mighty Lord prayse in his sanctuarye And prayse him in y â— firmameÌ„t y â— shewes his power on hye verse 2 Aduaunce his name and prayse him in his mighty actes alwayes according to his excellency of greatnes geue him prayse verse 3 His prayses with the princely noyse of sounding trompet blow Prayse him vpon the viole and vpon the harpe also verse 4 Prayse him with timbrel and with flute orgaines and virginals verse 5 With sounding cimbals praise ye him praise him w t loud cimbals verse 6 What euer hath the benefite of breathing praise the Lord To prayse the name of God the Lord agree with one accord ¶ The ende of the Psalmes of Dauid in metre ¶ An exhortation vnto the prayse of God to be song before Mornyng Prayer T. Becon Syng this an the .100 Psalme PRayse the Lord O ye Gentils al which hath brought you into his lyght O praise him al people mortal as it is most worthy right For he is ful determined on vs to poure out his mercy And the Lordes truth be ye assured abideth perpetually Glory be to God the father and to Iesus Christ his true sonne With the holy Ghost in like maner now and at euery season ¶ An exhortation vnto the prayse of God to be song before Euening prayer T. Be. BEhold now geue hede such as be the Lordes seruaunts faithful and true Come praise y e Lord euery degree with such songs as to him are due O ye that stand in the Lordes house euen in our own Gods mansion Praise ye the Lord so bounteous which worketh our saluation Lift vp your haÌ„ds in his holy place yea that in the time of night Praise y â— Lord which geueth al grace for he is a Lord of great might TheÌ„ shal y e Lord out of SioÌ„ which made heaueÌ„ earth by his power Geue to you your nation his blessing mercy and fauour Glory be to God the father c. ¶ The .x. Commaundementes of almighty God ¶ Exodus .xx. VV. VV. AEtend my people and geue eare of ferly thyngs I wil thee tel see that my wordes in mynde thou beare and to my preceptes listen wel verse 1 I am thy Soueraine Lord and God Which haue thee brought from careful thral And eke reclaimed from Pharos rod Make thee no Gods on them to cal verse 2 Nor facioned forme of any thing In heauen or earth to worship it For I thy God by reuengyng With greuous plagues this sinne wil smit verse 3 Take not in vayne his holy name ⧠Abuse it not after thy wil For so thou might sone purchase blame And in his wrath he would thee spil verse 4 The Lord froÌ„ worke the seuenth day cest And brought al things to perfect end So thou and thyne that day take rest That to Gods hestes ye may attend ⧠verse 5 Vnto thy parentes honor geue As Gods commaundements do pretend That thou long dayes and good mayest lyue In earth where God a place doth lend verse 6 Beware of murder and cruel hate verse 7 Al filthy fornication feare verse 8 Se thou steale not in any rate verse 9 False witnes agaynst no man beare verse 10 Thy neighbours house wish not to haue ⧠His wife or ought that he calth myne His field his Oxe his Asse his slaue Or any thing which is not thine A Prayer Thy spirit of grace graunt vs O Lord To kepe these lawes our hartes restore And cause vs al with one accord To magnify the name therfore For of our selues no strength we haue To kepe these lawes after thy wil Thy myght therfore O Christ we craue That we in thee may them fulfil Lord for thy names sake graunt vs this Thou art our strength oh Sauiour Christ Of thee to spede how should we mis In whom our treasure doth consist ⧠To thee for euermore be prayse With thy father in respect and with thy holy spirit alwayes The comforter of thyne elect ¶ The Lordes Prayer D. Cox OVr father which in heauen art And makst vs al one brotherhod to cal vpon thee with one hart Our heauenly father and our God graunt we pray not with lips alone but with the harts depe sigh and grone Thy blessed name be sanctified Thy holy word mought vs inflame In holy lyfe for to abyde To magnifie thy holy name From al errours defend and kepe The litle flocke of thy poore shepe ⧠Thy kingdome come euen at this houre and henceforth euerlastyngly Thine holy ghost into vs poure With all his giftes most plenteously From Sathans rage and filthy band Defend vs with thy mighty hand Thy wil be done with diligence Like as in heauen in earth also In trouble graunt vs pacience
that am vniust and rightuousnes none haue Whereto then shal I trust my sinful soule to saue But truly to that post whereto I cleaue and shal Which is thy mercy most Lord let thy mercy fal And mitigate thy moode or els we perish al The pryce of this thy bloud wherin mercy I cal Thy scripture doth declare no drop of bloud in thee but that thou didst not spare to shed ech drop for mee Now let those drops most swete so moist my hart so dry that I with sin replete may liue and sin may dye That beyng mortifye this sinne of mine in mee I may be sanctified by grace of thyne in thee So that I neuer fal into such mortal sinne That my foes infernal reioyce my death therin But vouchsafe me to kepe from those infernal foes and from that lake so depe wheras no mercy growes And I shal sing the songs confirmed with the iust That vnto thee belongs which art my onely trust The Lamentation ¶ Through perfect repentance y ◠sinner hath a sure trust in god that his sinnes shal be washed away in Christes bloud O Lord in thee is al my trust geue eare vnto my woful cry refuse me not that am vniust but bowing down thy heauenly eye behold how I doo stil lament my synnes wherin I doo offend O Lord for them shall I be shent syth thee to please I doo intend No no not so thy wil is bent To deale with sinners in thyne ire But whē in hart they shal repent thou graūtst with spede their iust desire To thee therfore stil shal I cry To wash away my sinful cryme Thy bloud O Lord is not yet dry But that it may help me in time Hast thee O Lord hast thee I say To poure on me the gifts on grace That when this life must flit away In heauē w t thee I may haue place Where thou doost raigne eternally with god which once did down thee sēd Where angels sing continually To thee be prayse world without end A thankes geuyng after the receiuyng of the Lordes supper Syng this as the .37 Psalme THe Lord be thanked for his gifts and mercy euermore that he doth shew vnto his saints to him be laud therfore Our tonges cannot so prayse y ◠Lord as he doth right deserue Our hartes cannot of hym so thynke as he doth vs preserue His benefites they be so great to vs that be but synne That at our hands for recompence there is no hope to win O synful flesh that thou shouldst haue such mercies of the Lord Thou doost deserue more worthely of hym to be abhord Nought els but sinne and wretchednes doth rest within our harts And stubburnly against the Lord we daily play our parts The sunne aboue in firmament that is to vs a light Doth shew it self more cleane pure then we be in hys syght The heauens aboue and al therin more holy are then we They serue the Lord in their estate ech one in his degree They do not stryue for mastership nor flacke their office set but feare the Lord and do his wil hate is to them no let Also the earth and al therin of God it is in aw It doth obserue the formers wil by skilful natures law The sea and al that is therin doth bend when God doth beck The sprites beneth do trēble al feare his wrathful check But we alas for whom al these were made thē for to rule Do not so know or loue the Lord as doth the Oxe or mult A saw he gaue for vs to know what was his holy wil He would vs good but we would not auoid the thyng is il Not one of vs that seeketh out the Lord of lyfe to please Nor do y ◠thing that might vs ioyne our Christ quiet ease Thus we are al his enemies we can it not deny and he agayn of his good wil would not that we should dy Therfore when remedy was none to bryng vs vnto lyfe the sonne of God our flesh he toke to mend our mortal strife And al the law of God our Lord he dyd it ful obey and for our sins vpon the crosse hys bloud our dets did pay And y ◠we should not yet forget what good he to vs wrought A sygne he left our eyes to tel that he our bodies bought In bread wyne here visible vnto thine eyes and tast his mercies great thou maist record if that his sprite y u hast As once the corn did liue grow and was cut down with sithe and threshed out with many stripes out frō his husk to driue And as the mil with violence did teare it out so smal and made it lyke to earthly dust not sparyng it at al. And as the ouen with fyre whote did close it vp in heat and al this done that I haue said that it should be our meat So was the Lord in his ripe age cut down by cruel death his soule he gaue in torments great yelded vp his breath Because that he to vs might be an euerlastyng bread with much reproch and trouble great on earth his life he led And as the grapes in pleasant tyme are pressed very sore and plucked down whē thei be ripe not let to grow no more Because the iuyse that in them is as comfortable drinke He might receiue ioyful be whē sorowes make vs shrink So christes bloud out pressed was with nayles eke with speare The iuise wherof doth saue al those that rightly do him feare And as the cornes by vnitie into one loafe is knit So is the Lord and his whole church though he in heauen sit As many grapes make but one wyne so should we be but one In fayth and loue in Christ aboue and vnto Christ alone Leading a lyfe without all stryfe in quiet rest and peace From enuy and from malice both our hartes and tonges to cease Which if we do then shal we shew that we his chosen be By faith in him to lead a lyfe as alwayes willed he And that we may so do in dede God send vs al his grace Then after death we shal be sure with hym to haue a place Robert VVisedome PReserue vs Lord by thy dere word frō Turk and Pope defend vs Lord which both would thrust out of his throne our Lord Iesus Christ thy deare sonne Lord Iesus Christ shew forth thy might That thou art Lord of Lordes by ryght Thy poore afflicted flock defend That they may prayse thee without end God holy Ghost our comfortor ⧠Be our Patrone help and succor Geue vs one mind and perfect peace All gifts of grace in vs encrease Thou liuing God in persons three Thy name be praysed in vnitie In all our nede so vs defend That we may praise thee world without end ¶ A forme of Prayer to be vsed in priuate houses euery morning and euenyng ¶ Mornyng prayer ALmighty God most merciful father we do not present our selues
here before thy maiesty trusting in our owne merites or worthines but in thy manifold mercies which hast promised to heare our prayers grauÌ„t our requests which we shal make to thee in y â— name of thy beloued son Iesus Christ our Lord who hath also commaunded vs to assemble our selues together in his name with ful assurance that he wil not onely be amoÌ„gst vs but also be our mediator and aduocate towards thy maiestie that we may obtayne all thinges which shal seme expedient to thy blessed wil for our necessities therfore we besech thee most merciful Father to turne thy louyng countenance towardes vs and impute not vnto vs our manifold sinnes and offences wherby we iustly deserue thy wrath sharp punishment but rather receyue vs to thy mercye for Iesus Christes sake accepting his death and passion as a iust recompence for all our offences in whom onely thou art pleased and through whom thou canst not be offended with vs. And seyng that of thy great mercies we haue quietly passed this nyght graunt O heauenly Father that we may bestow this day wholy in thy seruice so that al our thoughts words and dedes may redouÌ„d to the glory of thy name and good ensample to al men who seyng our good workes may glorify thee our heauenly father And for as much as of thy mere fauour and â—oue thou hast not onely created vs to thyne own similitude and lykenes but also hast chosen vs to be heyres with thy deare Sonne Iesus Christ of that immortal kingdom which thou preparedst for vs before the beginning of y e world we besech thee to encrease our faith knowledge and to lighten our harts with thy holy sprite that we may in y â— mean tyme liue in godly conuersation and integrity of lyfe knowyng that Idolaters adulterers couetous men coÌ„tentious persons drunkards gluttons and such like shal not inherite the kingdom of God And because thou hast commaunded vs to pray one for an other we do not onely make request O Lord for our selues and them that thou hast already called to the true vnderdandyng of thy heauenlye wil but for all people nations of the world who as they know by thy wonderful workes that thou art God ouer al so they may be instructed by thy holy spirit to beleue in thee theyr onely Sauiour redemer But for as much as they cannot beleue except they heare nor cannot heare but by preachyng and none can preache except they be sent therfore O Lord rayse vp faithful distributers of thy misteries who settyng apart al worldly respects may both in their lyfe doctrine onely seeke thy glory Contrarily confound Sathan Antichrist with all hyrelinges whome thou hast already cast of into a reprobate sence that they may not by sectes schismes heresies and errours disquiete thy little flocke And because O Lord we be fallen into the latter dayes and daungerous tymes wherein ignoraunce hath gotten the vpper hand and Sathan by his ministers seke by all meanes to quenche the light of thy Gospell we besech thee to maintayne thy cause against those rauenyng wolues and strengthen al thy seruants whom they keepe in prison and bondage Let not thy long suffryng be an occasion eyther to encrease their tiranny or to discourage thy children neyther yet let our synnes and wickednes be a hynderaunce to thy mercies but with speede O Lord consider these great miseries For thy people Israell many tymes by their synnes prouoked thyne anger and thou punishedst them by thy iust iudgement yet thoughe theyr synnes were neuer so greuous if they once returned from theyr iniquity thou receyuedst them to mercy We therefore most wretched synners be wayle our manifolde synnes and earnestly repent vs for our former wyckednes and vngodly behauiour towardes thee and where as we cannot of our selues purchase thy pardon yet we humbly besech thee for Iesus Christes sake to shew thy mercies vpon vs and receyue vs againe to thy fauour Graunt vs dere father these our requests and al other thynges necessary for vs and thy whole church according to thy promise in Iesus Christ our lord In whose name we besech thee as he hath taught vs saying Our father c. A prayer to be sayd before meales ALl thynges depend vppon thy prouidence O Lord to receyue at thy hands due sustenance in time conuenient thou geuest to them and they gather it thou openest thy hande and they are satisfied with al good things O heauenly father which art the fountayne ful treasure of al goodnes we beseche thee to shew thy mercies vpon vs thy children sanctify these gyfts which we receyue of thy mercifull liberality graunt vs grace to vse them soberly and purely accordyng to thy blessed wyll so that hereby we maye acknowledge thee to bee the author and geuer of all good things and aboue al that we may remember continually to seeke the spirituall foâ—â—e of thy worde wherwith our soules may be nourished euerlastingly through our sauior Christ who is the true bread of life which came down from heauen of whom whosoeuer eateth shal liue for euer and raigne with him in glory world without end So be it A thankes geuyng after meales LEt all nations magnify the Lord let all people reioyce in praysing and extollyng hys great mercies For his fatherly kyndnes is plentifully shewd forth vpon vs and the truth of his promise endureth for euer We render thankes vnto thee O Lorde God for the manifolde benefites which we continually receiue at thy bountiful hand not onely for that it hath pleased thee to frede vs in this present lyfe geuyng vnto vs all thinges necessary for the same but especially because thou hast of thy free mercies fashioned vs a new into an assured hope of a far better lyfe the which thou hast declared vnto vs by thy holy Gospell Therfore we humbly besech thee O heauenly father that thou wilte not suffer our affections to bee so intangled or rooted in these earthly and corruptible thyngs but that we may alwayes haue our myndes dyrected to thee on high coÌ„tinually watchyng for the coÌ„myng of our Lord and Sauiour Christ what time he shal appeare for our ful redemption To whome with thee and the holy Ghost be all honour and glory for euer and euer So be it Another thankes geuyng before meales ETernall and euerlyuing God Father of our Lorde Iesus Christ who of thy most singular loue whiche thou bearest to mankynde hast appointed to his sustenaunce not onely the frutes of the earth but also the foules of the ayre the beastes of the earth and fishes of the sea and hast commaunded thy benefits to be receyued as from thy handes with thanks geuing assuring thy children by the mouth of thy Apostle that to the cleane al things are cleane as the creatures which be sanctifâ—d by thy word by prayer graunt vnto vs so moderately to vse these thy giftes present that the bodies being refreshed the soules may be
more able to procede in all good workes to the prayse of thy holy name through Iesus Christe our Lord. So be it Our Father which art in heauen c. Another THe eyes of all things do looke vp and trust in thee O Lord thou geuest them meat in due season thou openest thy hande and fillest with thy blessing euery liuing creature good Lord blesse vs and al thy gifts which we receiue of thy large liberality through Iesus Christ our Lord. So be it Our father c. Another thankes geuing after meat GLory praise honor be vnto thee most mercifull and omnipotent father who of thine infinite goodnes hast created man to to thine owne image and similitude who also hast fed and daily fedest of thy most bountiful hand all liuing creatures graunt vnto vs that as thou hast nourished these our mortal bodies with corporal foode so thou wouldest replenishe our soules wyth the perfect knowledge of the liuely word of thy beloued sonne Iesus to whoÌ„ be praise glory and honor for euer So be it ¶ God saue the church vniuersal our Quene and Realme God coÌ„fort all them that be comfortles Lord increase our faith O Lorde for Christ thy sonnes sake be merciful to the coÌ„mon wealthes where thy Gospel is truely preached and harbor graunted to the afflicted members of Christes body and illuminate accordyng to thy good pleasure al nations with the brightnes of thy word So be it ¶ Another THe God of glory and peace who hath created redemed presently fed vs be blessed for euer and euer So be it ¶ The God of all power who hath called from death that great pastor of the shepe our Lord Iesus comfort and defend the flock which he hath redemed by the bloud of the eternal testament increase the number of true preachers repres the rage of obstinate tirants mitigate lighteÌ„ the harts of the ignorant relieue the paynes of such as be afflicted but especially of those y â— suffer for y e testimony of his truth finally confound SathaÌ„ by the power of our lord Iesus Christ AmeÌ„ Euening prayer O Lord God fatherr â—â—â—rlasting and ful of pitie we acknowledge and confes that we be not worthy to lift vp our eyes to heauen muche les to present our selues before thy maiestye wyth confidence that thou wilt heare our prayers and graunte oure requestes if we consider our owne deseruynges for our consciences do accuse vs and our synnes witnes against vs and we knowe that thou art an vpright iudge whiche doost not iustifye the synners and wycked men but punishest the faults of al such as transgresse thy commaundementes Yet moste mercifull father since it hath pleased thee to commaunde vs to cal on thee in all our troubles and aduersities promising euen then to help vs when we fele our selues as it were swalowed vp of death desperation we vtterly renounce al worldly confidence flee to thy soueraign bouÌ„tie as our onely stay refuge beseching thee not to cal to remembraunce our manifold sinnes wickednes wherby we continually prouoke thy wrath and indignation against vs neither our negligence and vnkindnes which haue neyther worthely estemed nor in our liues sufficieÌ„tly expressed the swete comfort of thy gospel reueled vnto vs but rather to accept the obedience and death of thy sonne Iesus Christ who by offring vp his body in sacrifice once for all hath made a sufficient recompence for all our synnes Haue mercy therfore vppon vs O Lord and forgeue vs our offences Teach vs by thy holy Spirite that we may ryghtly waye them and earnestly repent for the same And so much the rather O Lord because that the reprobate and such as thou hast forsaken cannot prayse thee nor cal vpon thy name but the repenting hart the sorowful mynd the conscience oppressed hungring and thirsting for thy grace shal euer set forth thy prayse and glory And albeit we be but wormes and dust yet thou art our creator and we be the worke of thy hands yea thou art our father and we thy children thou art our shepeheard and we thy flocke thou art our redemer and we the people whom thou hast bought thou art our God and we thyne inheritaunce Correct vs not therfore in thyne anger O Lord neyther accordyng to our desertes punish vs but mercifully chastice vs wyth a fatherly affection that all the world may know that at what tyme soeuer a synner doth repent hym of hys sinne from the bottome of his hart thou wilt put away his wickednes out of thy remembraunce as thou hast promised by thy holy Prophet Finally for as much as it hath pleased thee to make the nyght for man to rest in as thou hast ordayned hym the day to trauell graunt O deare father that we may so take our bodily rest that our soules may continually watch for the tyme that our Lord Iesus Christ shal appeare for our deliueraunce out of this mortal lyfe and in the mean season that we not ouercomen by any fantasies dreames or other teÌ„ptations may fully set our myndes vpon thee loue thee feare thee and rest in thee furthermore that our sleepe be not excessiue or ouer much after the insatiable desires of our flesh but onely sufficient to content our weake nature that we may be better disposed to lyue in all godly conuersation to the glory of thy holy name and profite of our brethren So be it ¶ A Godly prayer to be sayd at al times HOnor and prayse be geuen to thee O Lord God almighty most deare father of heaueÌ„ for al thy mercies louing kindnes shewed vnto vs in y t it hath pleased thy gratious goodnes frely and of thine owne accord to elect and chose vs to saluation before the beginning of the world and euen lyke continual thankes be geueÌ„ to thee for creating vs after thine own image for redeming vs with the precious bloud of thy deare sonne wheÌ„ we were vtterly lost for sanctifying vs with thy holy spirit in the reuelation knowledge of thy holy word for helping and succoryng vs in al our nedes and necessities for sauing vs from al daungers of body soule for comforting vs so fatherly in al our tribulatioÌ„s and persecutioÌ„s for sparing vs so long and geuing vs so large a time of repeÌ„taunce These benefites O most merciful father like as we knowledge to haue receiued them of thy onely goodnes euen so we besech thee for thy deare sonne Iesus Christes sake to grauÌ„t vs alwayes thy holy spirit wherby we may continually grow in thaÌ„kfulnes towardes thee to be led into al truth and coÌ„forted in al our aduersities O Lord strengtheÌ„ our faith kindle it more in feruentnes loue towardes thee our neyghbours for thy sake Suffer vs not most deare Father to receyue thy word any more in vayne but graunt vs alwayes the assistauÌ„ce of thy grace and holy spirit that in hart word and dede we may sanctify and do worship to thy
name Helpe to amplifie and increase 〈…〉 and whatsoeuer thou sendest we may be hartly wel contēt with thy good pleasure wil Let vs not lacke the thyng O Father without the which we cā not serue thee but blesse thou so al the workes of our handes that we may haue sufficient and not to be chargeable but rather helpeful vnto others be merciful O Lord to our offences seing our det is great which thou hast forgeuē vs in Iesus Christ make vs to loue thee and our neighbours so much y e more Be thou our father our captaine and defender in al temptations hold thou vs by thy merciful hand that we may be deliuered from al inconueniences and end our liues in the sāctifying and honor of thy holy name through Iesu Christ our Lord and onely Sauiour So be it Let thy mighty hand out stretched arme O Lord be stil our defence thy mercy and louyng kindnes in Iesu Christ thy deare sonne our saluation thy true an holy word our instruction thy grace and holy spirit our comfort and consolation vnto the end and in the end So be it O Lord increase our faith ¶ A Confession for al estates and times O Eternal God and most merciful father we confesse acknowledge here before thy diuine maiestie that wear miserable sinners cōceiued and borne in sinne and iniquity so that in vs there is no goodnes For the flesh euermore rebelleth against the spirite wherby we continually transgres thy holy precepts cōmaundemēts so purchace to our selues through thy iust iudgemēt death dānation Notwithstanding O heauēly father for asmuch as we are displeased with our selues for the sinnes that we haue cōmitted agaynst thee do vnfainedly repent vs of the same we most humbly besech thee for Iesus Christs sake to shew thy mercy vpon vs to forgeue vs al our sinnes to increase thy holy spirit in vs y ◠we acknowledging frō the botom of our harts our own vnrighteousnes may frō hēceforth not onely mortify our sinful lustes affections but also bring forth such frutes as may be agreable to thy most blessed wil not for the worthines therof but for y ◠merites of thy dearely beloued sonne Iesus Christ our onely sauiour whom y u hast alredy geuē an oblatiō offring for our sinnes for whose sake we are certeinly perswaded y ◠thou wilt deny vs nothing y t we shal aske in his name according to thy wil. For thy spirite doth assure our consciēces that thou art our merciful father so louest vs thy childrē through him that nothing is able to remoue thy heauēly grace fauour frō vs to the thee therfore O father with the sonne and the holy ghost be al honor glory world without end So be it ¶ A Prayer to be said before a man begin his worke O Lord God most merciful father Sauiour seyng it hath pleased thee to cōmaūd vs to traueil that we may releue our nede we besech thee of thy grace so to blesse our labour y t thy blessing may extend vnto vs without the which we are not able to continue that this great fauor may be a witnes vnto vs of thy bountifulnes assistāce so that therby we may know the fatherly care that y u hast ouer vs. Moreouer O Lord we besech thee that thou wouldest strengthē vs with thine holy spirit that we may faithfully trauail in our estate and vocatiō without fraude or deceit and that we may indeuour our selues to folow thine holy ordinaūces rather thē to seke to satisfy our gredy affectiōs or desire to gayne And if it please thee O Lord to prosper our labour geue vs a minde also to helpe thē that haue nede according to that abilitie that thou of thy mercy shalt geue vs and knowing that al good thinges come of thee graunt that we may humble our selues to our neyghbours and not by any meanes lift our selues vp aboue them whiche haue not receyued so liberal a portion as of thy mercy thou hast geuen vnto vs. And if it please thee to trye and exercise vs by greater pouertye and neede then our fleshe woulde desire that thou wouldest yet O Lorde graunte vs grace to knowe that thou wilt nourish vs cōtinually through thy boūtiful liberality that we be not so tempted that we fal into distrust but that we may paciently wayt til thou fil vs not onely w t corporal graces benefites but chiefly with thine heauenly and spiritual treasures to the intent that we may alwayes haue more ample occasion to geue thee thākes and so wholy to rest vpon thy mercyes Heare vs O Lord of mercy through Iesus Christ thy sonne our Lord. Amen ¶ A Prayer for the whole state of Christes Church ALmighty God and most merciful father we hūbly submit our selues and fal down before thy maiesty beseching thee from the botom of our hartes that this sede of thy worde now sowen amongst vs may take such depe roote that neither y e burning heat of persecutiō cause it to wither neither the thorny cares of this life do choke it but that as sede sowen in good ground it may bring forth thirty sixty an hundreth fold as thy heauenly wisdome hath appointed And because we haue nede continually to craue many things at thy hāds we hūbly besech thee O heauenly father to graunt vs thy holy spirit to direct our petitiōs that they may procede from such a feruent mind as may be agreable to thy most blessed wil. And seing that our infirmitie is able to doo nothing without thy helpe that thou art not ignoraunt with how many and great temptations we poore wretches are on euery side enclosed and compassed Let thy strength O Lord sustayne our weakenes that we 〈◊〉 defēded with the force of thy grace may be safely perserued agaynst al assaultes of Sathan who goeth about cōtinually like a roring Lion seking to deuoure vs. Encrease our faith O merciful father that we do not swarue at any time from thy heauenly word but augment in vs hope and loue with a careful kepyng of al thy cōmaundements that no hardnes of hart no Ipocrisie no concupiscence of the eyes nor inticements of the world do draw vs away frō thy obedience And seing we liue now in these most perilous times let thy fatherly prouidence defend vs agaynst the violence of al our enemyes which do seke by almeanes to oppres thy truth Furthermore for as much as by thy holy Apostle we be taught to make our prayers supplications for al men We pray not onely for our selues here present but besech thee also to reduce al such as be yet ignoraūt frō the miserable captiuitie of blindnes and errour to the pure vnderstanding and knowledge of thy heauenly truth that we al with one consent vnitie of minds may worship thee our onely God sauiour And that al Pastors shepe heardes and Ministers to whom thou