His Sanctu'ry was Judah there He rul'd in Israel verse 3 The sea saw that and fled for fear And Jordan backward fell verse 4 Th' affrighted mountains skipt like rams Low hillocks like young sheep verse 5 What JORDAN reaâ—â—d thy water-dams Why fled the liquid deep verse 6 What made ye ô ye mountains dance Like tim'rous flocks of rams Ye little hills how chance how chance Ye skipt like frighted lambs verse 7 O earth in great Gods presence quake Even Jacobs God that brings verse 8 The stony rock to standing lake The flint to water-springs PSAL. CXV London long tune Great glory appropriated to God the derision of Idols and Idolaters LOrd not to us Lord not to us But give thy Name renown And let thy works miraculous Thy truth and mercies crown verse 2 O wherefore should the heathen cry Now where 's their God become verse 3 Our God he is in heaven high And all he pleas'd hath done verse 4 Their Idols gold and silver be The handy-work of man verse 5 Have eyes and mouths but do not see Nor speak at all they can verse 6 Have ears but do not hear a jot Have noses but no sent verse 7 Proportion'd hands but handle not And feet but never went Their hollow throats no breath goes through verse 8 Their makers like them are And so are all that trust thereto The workâ—man like the ware 2. Part. Argument The Church exhorted to praise God as most interessed in his mercies verse 9 O Isr'el trust in God that must Thy shield and helper be verse 10 In him ô house of Aaron trust Their help and shield is he verse 11 Trust in the Lord your help and shield All ye that do him fear verse 12 His blessing to us he will yield Still mindfull of us here In Isr'els house he 'l bless them all And Aarons house no less verse 13 His fearers all both great and small The Lord will surely bless verse 14 Of you and of your children too VVill God increase the birth verse 15 The blessed of the Lord are you That formed heav'n and earth verse 16 The highest heavens are the Lords Even all the heavens are so But he the spacious earth affords To sonnes of men below verse 17 The dead to silence that go down Do never praise the Lord verse 18 But we will still his Name renown Do ye his praise record PSAL. CXVI To 2. French tune David gives humble thanks for great deliverance from extream temptations I Love the Lord who heard my cry And to my suits good ear did give verse 2 VVhich since to me he did apply I 'l call upon him while I live verse 3 Sorrows of death did me infold Trouble and anguish on me came The pains of hell on me gat hold verse 4 Then call'd I on Jehovahs Name O Lord I pray to thee alone From sorrows pit my soul to pull verse 5 The Lord 's a gracious righteous one Yea and our God is mercifull verse 6 He saves the simple when opprest I was brought low he helped me verse 7 My soul return unto thy rest God hath dealt bounteously with thee verse 8 My soul from death thou didst preserve Mine eyes from tears my feet from falls verse 9 I 'l walk before thee thee to serve Here where the living on thee calls verse 10 I have beleev'd therefore I spoke Tho scorched in afflictions fire verse 11 I said for passion did provoke Tush every man is found a lier 2. Part. Argument David studies true gratitude and celebrates his deliverances in publick verse 12 LOrd what requitall shall I make For all thy benefits to me verse 13 Salvations cup lo I will take And therewithall will call on thee verse 14 My vows to God I 'l render there Yea now in all his peoples eies verse 15 The death of all his Saints sincere The Lord doth very highly prize verse 16 I am thy servant certainly I am a servant of the Lords Thy handmaids son O Lord am I And thou hast loost thy servants cords verse 17 I 'l give thee thanks for sacrifice And on the Lords Name I will call verse 18 I 'l pay my vows to God likewise In sight of these his people all verse 19 In Sions Courts I 'l render them In Gods own house in midst of thee Of thee ô great Jerusalem O therefore praise the Lord with me PSAL. CXVII 1. Strain tune The Gospel truth and grace of God joyfull to all Nations O All ye Nations praise the Lord Ye people all his praise record verse 2 For very great and marvellous His loving kindness is to us His truth endures for evermore O praise his holy Name therefore PSAL. CXVIII York tune An exhortation to praise God as most worthy and to trust in him as most safe THe Lord the Lord is good and kinde O give him thanks therefore Because we do his mercies finde Continued evermore verse 2 Let Israel say this very day His mercies still prevail verse 3 Now let the house of Aaron say His mercies never fail verse 4 Let them that fear the Lord confess His mercies still remain verse 5 I call'd upon him in distress He answered me again verse 6 A spacious place he brought me to The Lord doth take my part For all that man to me can do No fear shall seiz my heart verse 7 God with my helpers takes my part And I fulfill'd shall see VVhat I desired in my heart On en'mies hating me verse 8 It 's better for a mans defence To trust in God alone Then for to put our confidence In any mortall one verse 9 Yea it is better to repose Our confidence in thee Then for to put our trust in those That pow'rfull Princes be 2. Part. Argument The triumphant and typicall victories of David to the great joy of the Church verse 10 ALL Nations compast me about Whom yet I overcame For I shall surely root them out In Gods assistant Name verse 11 They compast me about I say They compast me about But in the Name of God shall they Be all destroy'd no doubt verse 12 Like to a swarm of angry bees They compast me about But like a fire of bramble trees Are soon again put out Yea I shall soon destroy them all In Gods assistant Name verse 13 Thou thrustedst sore to make me fall But God my help became verse 14 The Lord 's become my strength and song And my salvation sweet verse 15 Salvations voice joys sweet tongue In just mens dwellings meet verse 16 The Lords right hand doth valiantly The Lords right hand 's renown'd The Lords right hand 's exalted high With valiant actions crown'd verse 17 I shall not die but still draw breath Gods works to testifie verse 18 Thou didst not give mee ore to death Though sore chastis'd was I. 3. Part. Argument David magnifies God for choosing him a contemptible person to the
calve compells And all his house his praise reherse Each tongue his glory tells verse 10 The Lord upon the floods sits King His kingdome shall not cease verse 11 The Lord will strength to Israel bring And blesse his Church with peace PSAL. XXX Dutch tune Argument David magnifies Gods everlasting mercies by his happy recoveries from momentany miseries LOrd I 'l extoll thee with my voice For I 'm advanc'd by thee Thou hast not made my foes rejoice Nor triumph over mee verse 2 To thee my God complain'd I have Thou Lord hast made me whole verse 3 And from the all-devouring grave Brought back my gasping â—oul That I to pit should not go down Thou sav'dst my life O Lord verse 4 Sing ô ye Saints the Lords renown His holiness record verse 5 His anger in a moment's past Life from his favour springs Tho weeping for a night may last The morning comfort brings verse 6 In my prosperitie I said I shall not moved be verse 7 So strongly was my mountain laid And favour'd so by thee Thou didst thy face obscure and hide And trouble did invade verse 8 Then LORD to thee to thee I cri'd And supplication made verse 9 What profit is there in my bloud VVhen I to pit go down Shall from the dust thy praises bud Shall dust thy truth renown verse 10 LORD I beseech thee hear me now In that which I have pray'd Have mercy on me and be thou My all-sufficient ayd verse 11 To joyfull dancing thou hast turn'd My sorrows dolefull noise My sackcloth loos'd wherein I mourn'd And girt me round with joys verse 12 To th' end my tongue may sing thy praise And never silent be O Lord my God through all my dayes Will I give thanks to thee PSAL. XXXI To Oxford tune Argument David resignes himself to God IN thee ô LORD I put my trust O put me not to shame Deliver me as thou art just By that most righteous Name verse 2 O down to me thy quick ear bow With speed deliverance send A rock of strength an house be thou Thy Servant to defend verse 3 For LORD thou art the rock tower VVhereto I me betake Then lead and guide me by thy power O GOD for thy Names sake verse 4 Pull me from close nets laid for me In thee my strength doth stand verse 5 My Spirit I commit to thee And to no other hand Lord God of truth I 'm thy redeem'd verse 6 All them have I abhorr'd That lying vanities esteem'd But I trust in the LORD verse 7 I in thy mercies will be glad Yea much rejoyce in those For thou hast weigh'd what cares I had And known my soul in woes verse 8 Thou hast not in mine enemies hand Inclos'd me by thy doom But made my stedfast feet to stand In large and spacious room 2. Part. Argument New persecutions renew his supplications verse 9 IN mercy send me Lord relief Whom troubles great befall My mournfull ey 's consum'd with grief My belly soul and all verse 10 My life my yeers my strength my bones Have all together fail'd Consum'd and spent with sighs grones Of wickedness bewail'd verse 11 I was a scorn to all my foes And to my friends a fear And specially reproach't by those That were my neighbours near When seen without they from me fled verse 12 And I am quite forgot As men are out of mind when dead I 'm like a broken pot verse 13 For many slanders have I heard On every side was fear While they together have conferr'd And all against me were They thought to take my life away verse 14 In thee my trust did stand Thou art my God I us'd to say verse 15 My times are in thy hand From persecuting foes of mine And enemies hands me take verse 16 Thy face let on thy servant shine Save me for mercies sake verse 17 Since LORD I call'd upon thy name From shame thy servant save Let wicked men be put to shame And silence in the grave verse 18 These lying lips silence and choak That with contempt and pride Such grievous things have lewdly spoke And righteous men bely'd 3. Part. Argument The great happiness of the Saints in this life verse 19 HOw great thy treasur'd mercies be For them that fear thy name And wrought for them that trust in thee Where men behold the same verse 20 Thy secret presence from mans pride Shall keep them safe and sure Thy close pavilion shall them hide From strife of tongues secure verse 21 The Lord his kindness hath dispenc'd To me in wondrous sort As in a City strongly fenc'd His name be blessed for 't verse 22 I said in haste thou hast cast mee Off from before thine eyes Yet heardst thou when I cry'd to thee My supplications cryes verse 23 O all yee precious Saints of his The LORD sincerely love For every true believer is Preserved from above He plenteously rewards proud doers verse 24 Take courage and he shall Confirm that valiant heart of yours O yee believers all PSAL. XXXII To Cambr. old tune Argument The free forgiving grace of God and benefit of penitent confession O Blessed man is hee Whose sins God passeth by verse 2 And covering them reputes him free From all iniquity Whose spirit entertains no guile verse 3 For while I held my tongue My weary bones wax'd old the while Through roaring all day long verse 4 Thine hand on me was burthensome Each day and night throughout My nat'rall moysture is become As sommers parching drought verse 5 Confessing humbly then did I My sins to thee reveal And did not mine iniquity In any point conceal I said I will to God confess What all my sins have bin And thou forgav'st the wickedness And guilt of all my sin verse 6 Hence all good men thy grace shal crave VVhat time thou mayst be found Nor rising flood nor roaring wave Them ever shall surround verse 7 And hiding place I have of thee Thou shalt preserve from wrongs And round about encompass mee VVith sweet salvations songs 2. Part. Argument He profers to direct Saints and sinners unhappy they that brutishly reject his counsell verse 8 I Will direct thee faithfully The way that thou shalt go And guide thee with my watchfull eye That I may teach thee so verse 9 O be not like the horse and mule By reason nothing led VVhose mouth the bit and bridle rule Lest they too neer thee tread verse 10 For certainly to men unjust Shall miseries abound But him that in the Lord doth trust Shall mercy compasse round verse 11 O all yee righteous men rejoyce And in the Lord delight VVith joyfull shouts lift up your voyce All yee whose hearts are right PSAL. XXXIII York tune 1. Part. Argument The admirable stability of Gods works and counsels in the Trinity of persons YEe righteous in the LORD rejoice For praise
thou the fountain whence Proceedeth my defence Thy wings safe shade Shall now be made My joyfull residence verse 8 My soul pursues thee hard Thy right hand is my guard verse 9 But who assay My soul to slay Shall death and hell reward verse 10 They by the sword shall fall The foxes portion all verse 11 But for the King Fresh joys shall spring While he on God doth call All swearing by his Name Shall glory in the same Their mouth likewise That utter lies The Lord shall stop with shame PSAL. LXIV York tune He shews the destruction of crafty and cruell persecutors and how Gods judgement shall be reverenced of others VOuchsafe ô Lord to hear my cry And to my pray'rs give ear Preserve my life from th' enemie Of whom I stand in fear verse 2 Lord hide me from the secret snare That wicked men devise From them that wicked workers are And up against me rise verse 3 For they have made their tongues acute As sharpest edge of swords That they might deadly arrows shoot Most cruell bitter words verse 4 That they may shoot in secrecy The perfect man to hit They do shoot at him suddainly And do not fear a whit verse 5 With courage they in ill proceed And commune how to lay Their privy snares in hope to speed For who shall see say they verse 6 They to accomplish wickedness Have diligently sought Their hearts are deep and bottomless With every secret thought verse 7 A suddain arrow shall them wound Shot from the Lord to slay verse 8 So shall their tongues themselves confound Beholders flee away verse 9 This shall a feare on all men bring They shall Gods work declare Most prudently considering What these his doings are verse 10 The righteous shall in God delight Trust in his holy Name And all that are in heart upright Shall glory in the same PSAL. LXV New verse tune The promptnes of the Church to serve God The assurance of pardon of sin access to his presence and success in our prayers with the great and terrible God PRaise waiteth for thee still O God in Sions hill And unto thee The vow shall be Performed with good will verse 2 O thou that hearest pray'rs To thee all flesh repairs verse 3 My sins assail And so prevail They fill me with dispairs But Lord no sins are they But what thou dost away verse 4 O blest are those Whom thou hast chose That neer approach thee may Within thy Courts to abide VVhere we are full suppli'd VVith grace of which Thy house is rich Thy Temple sanctifi'd verse 5 Thou wilt by dreadfull things VVhich thy sure justice brings An answer frame O thou great name VVhence our salvation springs VVho art the confidence Of earths concumference And also theirs Whom th' Ocean bears Remote so far from hence verse 6 VVhose strength sets fast the hills And girt with pow'r he stills verse 7 The Sea that raves With boist'rous waves And mens rebellious wills verse 8 Thy signs affright the stout Who all parts dwell about The mornings voice Thou mak'st rejoice And th'evenings goings out 2. Part. Argument The rich blessings of God upon the earth verse 9 THou visitest the land And wat'rest with thy hand Gods river which Makes earth so rich Powrs down at thy command It do'th with water flow And corn thou do'st bestow When as thou hast By thy forecast Provided for it so verse 10 Her ridges that are dry Thou wat'rest plenteously Her furrowes cast Thou setlest fast And softning show'rs apply Thy blessings make the crop To spring upon its top verse 11 Thou crownest th'yeer With goodnes meer Thy paths doe fatness drop verse 12 The pastures are suppli'd And desarts far and wide VVhile rain distills The little hills Rejoyce on every side verse 13 The covered vallies spring With corn which they forth-bring The pastures glad With flocks are clad They shout for joy and sing PSAL. LXVI To Coventry tune He praiseth God for miraculous deliverances SIng to the Lord ô all yee lands And make a joyfull sound verse 2 Sing forth his fame And glorious Name And make his praise renown'd verse 3 How dreadfull works come from thy Thy pow'r say Lord how great hands Foes bow before verse 4 Vast earth adore At his most sacred seat Yea sing unto thy Name shall they In songs thine honour spread verse 5 Gods works come see Whose actions bee To mortalls full of dread verse 6 To firm dry land he turn'd the Sea And all the waters moist There went they through And dry-shod too There wee in him rejoic'd verse 7 He ever rules by soveraign pow'rs His eyes all lands descry O let not then Rebellious men Exalt themselves on high verse 8 All people praise this God of ours With earnest voices strive His praise renown'd To make resound verse 9 Who holds our soul alive And suffereth not on any side Our feet to be remov'd verse 10 For thou ô God With smarting rod Hast us thy servants prov'd As silver in a furnace tri'd So throughly tri'd were we verse 11 Our feet were set Within the net And therein brought by thee Afflictions sore and violent Thou mad'st our loins abide verse 12 Yea thou did'st then Cause furious men Over our heads to ride Through flames of fire we also went And through the watry flouds But surely thou Hast brought us now To places stor'd with goods 2. Part. Argument He gives us an example of true gratitude by performance of vows sacrifices exhortations abstaining from sin and cheerfull praises verse 13 BUrnt-offrings to thy house I 'l bear There those sworn vows to pay verse 14 VVith lips of mine And mouth made thine In my distressfull day verse 15 Burnt sacrifice of fatlings there My soul to thee devotes VVith incense too Of Rammes enow VVith Bullocks offring Goats verse 16 Come hearken ye that fear Gods Name To you declare will I VVhat favour hee Hath done for mee verse 17 My mouth to him did cry I with my tongue extoll'd his fame verse 18 But if I should regard And purpose in My heart to sin My pray'r should not be heard verse 19 But God hath heard me verily And hath been well content VVith willing ear The voice to hear And pray'r I did present verse 20 The Lord I bless and magnifie VVho turned not away Nor grace hath he VVith-held from me VVhen I to him did pray PSAL. LXVII A prayer for the publication of the Gospel and the blessings that do accompany it O God be mercifull to thine And bless us every one Command thy face on us to shine verse 2 Thy way on earth make knowne Thy saving health to Nations all verse 3 Let people praise thy Name O let them all in generall Give praises to the same verse 4 Let all the people far and wide Sing out with joy and mirth For thou shalt justly judge and guide
mount extend Her time for favour which was set Is now come to an end verse 14 Thy Saints take pleasure in her stones Her dust to them is dear verse 15 All heathen lands and kingly thrones Thy names renown shall fear verse 16 Gods shining glory shall appear VVhen Sion he repairs verse 17 He shall regard and lend his ear Unto the needies pray'rs Their humble pray'r he will not scorn verse 18 This thing we will record For future ages yet unborn That they may praise the Lord. verse 19 He look'd from height of 's holy throne The earth view'd from the skie verse 20 To hear the pris'ners dolefull grone And save the doom'd to die verse 21 Both Sion and Jerusalem His name and praise record verse 22 VVhen lands and people all of them Meet there to praise the Lord. verse 23 My strength he weakned in the way My lingring days decay'd verse 24 My God O take me not away Amid'st my days I said Thy yeers throughout all ages last verse 25 Of old time thou hast laid The earths foundation firm and fast Thy hands the heav'ns have made verse 26 They perish as old garment wears But thou shalt still indure As vestures thou shalt change their spheres And chang'd they shall be sure verse 27 Thou art the same of endless years verse 28 Thy servants sonnes survive Their seed before thy face appears Establish'd still alive PSAL. CIII York tune An exhortation to praise God for his incomparable mercies to his Church and children MY soul I charge thee to express The Lords renown and fame Let all within me praise and bless His great and sacred name verse 2 Forget not all his benefits But bless the Lord my soul verse 3 VVho thine offences all remits And makes thee sound and whole verse 4 Who hath redeem'd thee from the dead Destruction threatning sore VVith loving kindness crown'd thy head And tender mercies store verse 5 VVho with his gifts large multitude Thy mouth sufficing fils So that thy youth is now renew'd As Eagles casting bills verse 6 The Lord doth judgment execute And righteousness conclude For persons that are destitute Opprest by tyrants rude verse 7 His ways to Moses he made known His acts to Isr'els seed verse 8 The Lord 's a very gracious one And mercifull indeed To anger slow aboundless deep Of mercies multipli'd verse 9 He will not always anger keep Nor everlasting chide verse 10 He hath not dealt as our offence And wickedness hath bin Nor given us due recompence According to our sin verse 11 For as the heav'nly Orbs appear The earth so far above So great to them that do him fear Is Gods surpassing love verse 12 The sins whereby we have transgrest Removing by his grace As far from us as East and West Are separate in space 2. Part. Argument He magnifies the sweet compassion of God exhorts all creatures to praise him for his greatnes also verse 13 AS fathers are compassionate Unto their children dear So God doth them commiserate That truly do him fear verse 14 For he remembers we are dust Our crasie frame he knows verse 15 The days of man resemble just The grass which short time grows He prospers as a flower in field verse 16 Which when the winds pass ore Is perisht and the place can yield No knowledge of it more verse 17 But lo the Lords abundant grace Eternitie doth fill His constant righteousness takes place To childrens children still verse 18 To every person that consents To keep his cov'nant true And thinks on his commandements For observation due verse 19 In heaven as a glorious King The Lord hath set his throne And over every kind of thing His kingdom rules alone verse 20 Ye Angels that in strength excell And Gods commandments do That know his voice and word so well Still hearkning thereunto verse 21 Bless ye the Lord ô bless him still Ye glorious hoasts of his Ye Ministers that do fulfill What ere his pleasure is verse 22 Yea all his works both far and neer Bless ye the Lords great Name Through his Dominions every where My soul bless thou the same PSAL. CIV Davids tune The admirable power and providence of God in the creation government of the world MY soul the great God magnifie My God thou dost thee cloth With honour and with majestie â—xceeding great in both verse 2 With light thou cover'st thee about As with a Princely robe Like curtains drawn thou stretchest out The bright celestiall globe verse 3 Upon the wat'ry element there His chamber-beams he bindes He makes the clouds his Chariot bear And walks on winged windes verse 4 His Ministers a fiery flame His Angels spirits he makes verse 5 He laid the earths foundation frame So sure it never shakes verse 6 Which thou didst cover with the flood Like garments over-spread The waters ore the mountains stood verse 7 At thy rebuke they fled Thy thundring voice compeld them all To haste away apace verse 8 The mountains rise the valleys fall Each to his founded place verse 9 Their passage thou dost now restrain By setting them their bound That they may never turn again To cover all the ground verse 10 Into the vales fresh springs he sends Which run among the hills verse 11 Each beast the Forest comprehends Here take and drink their fills Wild asses here their thirst do slake verse 12 Here feathered fowl do house And nests for habitations make And sing among the boughes 2. part Argument The works of creation intermixt the use of them for man verse 13 HE from his chambers of the skie The earth with rain hath stor'd Thy works the whole earth satisfie VVith fruits that they afford verse 14 For cattell he makes grass to spring And herbs for mans own use Convenient food for every thing He makes the earth produce verse 15 To glad mans heart he makes fat soil Bring forth the grape for wine Heart-strengthning bread suppling oil To make the count'nance shine verse 16 No juicefull sap Gods trees do want Those goodly Cedar trees Which he in Lebanon did plant verse 17 The birds make nests in these The stork in stately firre-trees dwells verse 18 High hills the goats befit The Conies in the hollow cells Of stony rocks do sit verse 19 The moon a certain course doth run And he ordain'd it so And when to set none tells the Sun For he the time doth know verse 20 Thou makest darkness darkness night The forests beasts do then VVhom glittering day-light did affright Creep all out of their den verse 21 Young Lions roaring for their prey Of God do seek their meat verse 22 The Sun ariseth then do they Together make retreat verse 23 In secret dens they closely lurk And then doth man begin To set upon and ply his work Till ev'ning calls him in 3. Part. Argument The admirable works of
voice With thine inheritance 2. Part. Argument Our disobedience and ingratitudo instanced and exemplifi'd by Israel and humbly confessed verse 6 WE into sins have run The father and the son Transgressing by INIQUITIE VVe wickedly have done verse 7 The wonders which thy hand Perform'd in Aegypt land Our fathers old Who did behold Yet did not understand Thy mercies many a one They did not think upon But at the Sea Provoke did they The red Sea scor'd it on verse 8 Yet letting them alone He sav'd them every one For his Name sake That he might make His mighty power known verse 9 The red Sea on each side At his rebuke was dri'd Through depths profound As desert ground He did his people guide verse 10 Their Saviour he did stand Against their haters hand Redeeming those From hand of foes That rul'd them at command verse 11 The waters drown'd their foes Not one was left of those verse 12 His words the men Beleeved then His praise their songs compose verse 13 His works they soon forgot For 's counsels waited not verse 14 In Wilderness Their lusts excess Restraining not a jot 3. part Argument The judgements of God upon Corah and shamefull Idolatry of Israel IN deserts God they tempt verse 15 At their requests content Quails to bestow With leanness tho Into their soul 't was sent verse 16 As they in camp abide Good Moses they envi'd On Aaron too They envie drew Whom God had sanctifi'd verse 17 The earth asunder clave Became a swallowing grave VVhere Dathan and Abiram stand And unto all they have verse 18 And in their company Fire kindled suddenly The flame caught then Those wicked men Which were burnt up thereby verse 19 In Horeb were they bold To make a calf of gold And worshipped An image dead Which they did melt and mould verse 20 Thus they their glory pass Into a molten mass Of Oxes rude Similitude A beast that eateth grass 4. Part. Argument Gods vehement wrath against Israel pacifi'd by Moses intercession their incredulitie and contempt of the promised land verse 21 OF God their Saviours might They were forgetfull quite VVhose pow'r and dread Accomplished Great things in Aegypts sight verse 22 He wrought with wondrous hand In Hams accursed land Dread things were they At that red Sea Perform'd by his command verse 23 Therefore he said that he Would their destruction be Had not alone His chosen one Good Moses been so free He stood to save them each Before him in the breach To turn away His wrath that day Lest them destruction reach verse 24 Yea they in careless wise That pleasant land despise And entertain His words as vain And deeming them but lies verse 25 But murmured in their tents And gave not their consents With willing ear The voice to hear Of his commandements verse 26 He lifted up his hand That he would them withstand To overthrow That people so Within the desert land verse 27 Their seed to overthrow And scatter them also In forein lands And tyrants hands To serve a heathen to 5. Part. Argument The corporall and spirituall adultery of Israel The zeal of Phinehas their provoking of Moses to passion and lenitie to the Canaanites verse 28 TO Baal the God of Peor Themselves adjoined were They are likewise The sacrifice Of those dead Idols there verse 29 Thus did they him provoke To fiercest angers stroke So hatefull their Inventions were The plague upon them broke verse 30 Then Phinehas rose to aid With justice he repaid Their foulest facts This part he acts And so the plague was stay'd verse 31 'T was deemed righteousness Which that act did express And ages all For ever shall Esteem it for no less verse 32 At Meribah they spake And him they angry make So discontent That ill it went With Moses for their sake verse 33 His Spirit they provoke Rash speeches from him broke Such errour slips From hasty lips So unadvis'd he spoke verse 34 They were advertised And charg'd to smite them dead Yet did not they Those Nations slay verse 35 But were among them spread The works which heath'nish are To learn they did not spare verse 36 And there they serv'd Their Idols carv'd Which were to them a snare 6. Part. Argument The horrid Idolatries of Israel the dreadfull judgement of God for the same verse 37 YEa they did sacrifice Their little girls and boyes Daughters nor Sons Their blind zeal shuns To Devill-Deities verse 38 And innocent bloud they shed Which sons and daughters bled Whom they likewise In sacrifice To Canaan Idols led verse 39 VVith bloud they stain'd the land VVith works of their own hand VVhich they invent A whoring went Defil'd with that foul brand verse 40 The wrath of God therefore Against them kindled sore So that the Lord His own abhor'd Such blame his her'tage bore verse 41 He left them in the hands And under the commands Of heathen men Whose hatred then They felt in forein lands verse 42 Their enemies also Opprest and brought them low His people were Subjected there Under a forein fo 7. Part. Argument Gods mercifull compassions to his distressed people he taketh heart to pray for deâ—â—erance from present calamities verse 43 HE sav'd them many times Yet their unjust designes Provok't him so They were brought low For their abhorred crimes verse 44 But never a whit the less Their pitifull distress He did regard When as he h'ard Their cry in bitterness And he to mind did call His cov'nant for them all verse 45 His mercies shew'd Their multitude For he repents their thrall verse 46 He made them pitied there Of all whose slaves they were verse 47 Lord God our stay Now save we pray Thy people ev'ry where Gather thy flock that strays 'Mong heathen now adays That we may fame Thy holy Name And triumph in thy praise verse 48 Bless Israels God most high To all eternitie And people then Say all Amen The Lord to magnifie PSAL. CVII To Dutch tune That God is magnifi'd for his admirable providence over captives and planters O Give ye thanks unto the Lord Who doth with goodness flow VVith everlasting mercies stor'd verse 2 Let Gods redeem'd say so VVhom he redeem'd from enemies hand verse 3 And gathered them to rest From North and South in every Land And from the East and West verse 4 No Citie they for dwelling found They wandred in the ways Of solitary desert ground verse 5 Where thirst and hunger slays Their weary souls did in them faint verse 6 When trouble on them seis'd Unto the Lord they made complaint Who their distresses eas'd verse 7 He led them forth by straitest ways To Cities of abode verse 8 O then that men would give God praise For all his mercies show'd And for his works and wondrous deeds To men of mortall kind verse 9 Who longing souls with goodness feeds And fills the
the implacable adversaries THey from my youth may Israel say verse 2 They from my youth assail'd And sorely griev'd me many a day But never have prevail'd verse 3 The plowers on my back did plow And made their furrows long verse 4 The righteous Lord hath cut in two The wickeds cords so strong verse 5 All Sions hatefull enemies stop Confound and overthrow verse 6 Make them like grass on houses top Which withereth ere it grow verse 7 Whereof the mower ne'r receives So much as hands can gripe Nor he that bindeth up the sheaves A bosome full grown ripe verse 8 Which never invites the passengers At gathering of the same To say thus much God speed you Sirs We bless you in his Name PSAL. CXXX Oxford tune The depths of sorrow and sin he seeketh succour in Gods mercies and exhorts all thereto OUt of the depths I cri'd to thee verse 2 Lord let my cries be heard And let thine ears attentive be Unto my suits preferr'd verse 3 Such are our sins that none could stand If thou shouldst mark the same verse 4 But there 's forgiveness at thy hand That men may fear thy Name verse 5 I wait for God my soul doth stay I on his Word depend verse 6 My soul waits for him more then they For morning that attend I say more earnestly then those That watch for mornings light verse 7 Let Israel in the Lord repose VVhose mercie 's infinite Redemption in most plenteous wise VVith him is found to be verse 8 From all his scor'd iniquities Shall he set Israel free PSAL. CXXXI Dutch tune Davids meek and quiet spirit waiting upon God by faith exhorteth the Church to follow his example O LORD I have no loftie eies Nor haughty heart have I My soul I do not exercise In things too great and high verse 2 Sure I have shew'd my self as mild And have my self contain'd In silent meekness like a child From his fond mother wean'd Like to a weaned infant just My soul is pacifi'd verse 3 Let Israel in JEHOVAH trust And trusting so abide PSAL. CXXXII York tune Davids zeal to turn the Tabernacle into a Temple He foretels the joy of the people therein and prays for Gods favour KIng Davids case ô LORD record And all his tort'ring care verse 2 To Jacobs mighty God the LORD VVho thus did vow and sware verse 3 Up to my bed I will not climbe Nor come my house amids verse 4 Nor give mine eies a sleeping time Nor slumber to my lids verse 5 Till for the LORD I find a place A place wherein may dwell The mighty God of Jacobs race The God of Israel verse 6 Lo Ephrata this news did yield There heard we of it so VVe found it in the woodland field verse 7 We to his Tents will go And at the footstool of his grace With reverent worship bow verse 8 Rise LORD into thy resting place Thy ARK of strength and thou verse 9 With righteousness thy Priests aray Thy Saints let shout apace verse 10 For DAVIDS sake turn not away Thy Kings anointed face 2. Part. Argument Davids good will is taken for the deed his son Solomon another type of Christ builds the Temple a blessing is promised to Davids seed reigning in Jerusalem verse 11 THe LORD hath unto DAVID sworn VVhich shall not be recall'd VVith children of thy body born Thy throne shall be enstall'd verse 12 If taught my Law and Covenant Thy seed therein persever Their childrens children shall not want To hold the throne for ever verse 13 Because the LORD hath Sion chose His habitation will'd verse 14 This is for ever my repose My dwelling here I 'l build For so have I desir'd to do verse 15 And in abundant wise VVill bless provision thereunto Her poor with bread suffice verse 16 I 'l cloth her Priests with saving grace And make her Saints to shout verse 17 Aloud for joy And in that place Make DAVIDS horn to sprout I have for mine anointed there Ordain'd a shining flame verse 18 A flourishing crown I 'l make him wear But cloth his foes with shame PSAL. CXXXIII 1. Strain tune The commendation and blessing of unitie BEhold how good and full of bliss And what a pleasant thing it is VVhen Brethren do most lovingly Together dwell in unitie verse 2 It 's like the precious ointment shed Upon the top of Aarons head W ch drencht his beard from his crown Even to his garment skirts ran down verse 3 Like pearlie dew on Hermon hills Or which on Sion Mount distills Where GOD powrs down his blessings store Blessings of life for evermore PSAL. CXXXIV Old England tune An exhortation to the Levites to praise God and their blessing and praying for the people BEhold bless ye the LORD of might Ye servants of the Lord VVhich in his house do stand by night All ye his praise record verse 2 Lift up your hands and bless his Name In his most holy hill verse 3 The Lord that heavē earth did frame From Sion bless thee still PSAL. CXXXV To 2. Strain tune The happy election vocation and preservation of the Church by the creator and governor of all things who executed his judgments on our behalf PRaise ye Gods Name His praise proclame O ye his servants spread his fame verse 2 Whose feet have trod The Courts of God The Temple Courts of our great God verse 3 His Name praise ye For good is he And praises very comely be verse 4 His Jacob is And Isr'el his Peculiar and choice treasure is verse 5 The LORD also Is great I know All Gods they are our LORD below verse 6 In heav'n and these Earth deeps and Seas He did what ever did him please verse 7 He vapours sends From earths far ends And rain with lightning makes blends The winds swift wings From treas'ries brings verse 8 And smote all Aegypts first-born things The first increast Of man and beast Even from the greatest to the least verse 9 O Aegypt he In midst of thee Sent tokens that most wondrous be In generall Those judgments fall On Pharaoh and his servants all verse 10 VVho smote and slew And overthrew Great Kings and mighty Nations too verse 11 The Amorite And Bashanite Sihon and OG his hands did smite By him alone Were overthrown The Kings of Canaan every one verse 12 He gave their land To Isr'els hand An heritage at their command verse 13 Thy mem'ry sure And Name endure Not any age shall them obscure 2. Part. Argument Gods gracious reconciliation to his Church the definition of Idols and praise of God verse 14 GOD will repent Our punishment To judge his people he is bent verse 15 Their Gods behold Are form'd of gold And silver which mens hands did mould verse 16 Both mouth and eies They have likewise But blind and speechless Deities Each side an ear But cannot hear No breath doth
THE BOOK OF PSALMS IN METRE CLOSE AND PROPER TO THE HEBREW SMOOTH AND PLEASANT FOR THE METRE Plain and easie for the Tunes With Musicall Notes ARGUMENTS ANNOTATIONS AND INDEX Fitted for the ready use and understanding of all good Christians PSAL. 47. 7. 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 GOD IS KING All lands Commanding PRAISES SING With Understanding Hezekiah commanded the Levites to sing praise unto the LORD with the words of DAVID and of ASAPH the Seer c. 2 Chron. 29. 30. LONDON Printed by Matthew Simmons for the Companie of STATIONERS 1644. At the Committee of the House of COMMONS in Parliament concerning Printing April 2. 1644. IT is this day ordered by the said Committee that the Poëticall Translation of the PSALMS by W. B. c. bee entred into the Register-book of the Company of Stationers and Printed JOHN WHITE Tunes for PSALMS of pure Eights i. e. Eight syllables in a line I. The first French Tune is the tune of the old 100. Psalm used every where and may serve for all the Psalms in Eights O come sing we with joyfull noise To our Sal vations surest rock With Psalms of praise and shouts of joys To our Gods presence let us flock II. The second French tune is the old tune of the 10. Commandements used oft in London A God a King of great Command Above all Kings and Gods he is The earths deep places in his hand The strength of hills is also his III. Sweet tune is the tune of the old 51. Psalm used in most places proper for the 77. Ps. 1 p. 119. Ps. 11. p. 142. Ps. and for the 25. observing sembrief pauses â—n the four-lin'd metres Dry land and seas even both of these His holy â—ands did form and frame O come adore with bended knees The Lord our makers blessed Name For he 's our God and none but he we are his pasture-people choice The sheep of his own hand are we If ye this day will hear his voice IV. Choice tune is an easie extract out of the old 113. Ps serveth properly for the 20. 76. 99. Psalms Then harden not your stubborn heart As in the Provocation they In that extreme temp tation day Provok't me in the desert part When as your fathers tempted me They prov'd me and my work did see I forty yeers was griev'd and said This tempting age hath wholly strayd V. 1. Strain tune i. e. a strain viz. the first and third line of the old 113. Ps. instantly learnt and is proper for all Psalms in the form of the 15 th  VI. 2. Strain tune viz. a strain of the old 148. Ps. And also ye c. instantly learnt and is proper for the 70. and 135. Psalms Moreover these two strains put together make a most compleat and proper tune for the 23. 26. and 146. Psalm This people have in heart digrest And have not known my path most blest To whom therfore In wroth I swore They should not enter in my rest Single tunes of Eights and Sixes VII Martyrs tune proper for sweet and sad ditties used commonly in all places Sing to the LORD a new-made song For he hath marvails done His holy hand and arm most strong The victorie hath wonne VIII Coventry tune proper for sweet and solemn ditties mixt with fours like the 8. Ps. used in private families in London The Lord almighty hath made known His sa ving health and might His truth he openly hath shown In all the Heathens sight IX York tune proper for joyfull ditties used every where and may best serve for both the Coventry tunes to those that cannot sing them Tow'rds Israels honour'd house hath he Re membred truth and grace The earth did his salvation see Declar'd in every place X. Davids tune most proper for joyfull ditties used now frequently in London Make joyfull noise unto the LORD All dwel lers in the earth Make noises lowd his praise record â—n songs of joy and mirth XI Cambridge old tune proper for sad and solemn ditties mixt with foure like the 40. and 41. used in most places With Harp and Psalms melodious voice And Trumpets to him sing With sound of Cornet eke rejoyce Before the LORD the King XII Pause tune used in Coventry most proper for the 49. 52. and 111. Psalms Let seas and shores rejoyce their fills And both roar out with noise Let waving floods and towring hills Clap hands and joyn in joys XIII London long tune proper for solemn ditties and used every where Before the LORD whose comming shall The earth with judgement try Judging the world and people all With truth and equitie XIV Oxford tune proper for sad ditties such as the 6. and 7. Psalms used commonly in all places Behold how much it doth excell And what great joy to see When Brethren do together dwell In perfect unitie XV. Dutch bass tune used commonly in Cambridge and of late in Aldermanbury it agrees in consort with the tune following so that it is all one whether you take for they may be sung both together It s like the precious ointment which was powr'd on Aarons crown Which to his beard and gar ments rich Even to the skirts ran down XVI Dutch tune proper for mixt ditties is the most excellent and ordinary tune in all England Like pearly dew of Hermon hill Or Sions silver show'rs Blessings of life for ever still The LORD upon them powrs Double tunes of Eights and Sixes XVII Sinners tune proper for the saddest ditties in the form of the 38. 51. 88. as the tune of that which was called The humble suit of a sinner A most excellent tune mnch used of old Hard by the brooks of Babylon We sate down weeping there When Sion hill we thought up on Each thought enforc't a tear Amidst it there green willows were Whereon our harps we hung For they that led us captive there Requir'd of us a song XVIII Old England tune is the tune of the old 119. Psalm fiâ— for mixt ditties and may be used for any staffe tune of eights and sixes being best known but when it is put to any of them with four-lin'd metres as the 143 145. 148. it must be observ'd with sembrief pauses which the very meeters will point at And they that wasted us that day Did ask and urge us thus Sing one of Sions songs said they And make some mirth for us What tongue can tune or utter them In forein land what heart If I forget Jerusalem My right hand lose its art XIX New tune or New staffe tune proper for Psalms of mixt forms viz. the 12. 59. 94. 101. 109. 120. is the old tune of Te Deum onely paused and altered in a line or two to fit the metres If I do not remember thee My tongue be speech less quite If thou be not preferr'd of me Above my chief delight And now O Lord full well re cord The sonnes of Edoms cry Thus did they say In Salems day
glorified for the victories of Christ and the Church the true seed of David verse 46 O Blessed be my rock of power That ever doth abide And let the Lord my Saviour Be highly magnifi'd verse 47 'T is God that hath avenged me My people he subjects And my Deliverer is he That me from foes protects verse 48 Above them hast thou rais'd my head That did my hurt conspire And me from him delivered VVhom fury set on fire verse 49 Among the heathen for this thing Thy praises I 'l proclame And cheerfull songs of triumph sing To thy victorious Name verse 50 Full great deliv'rance he doth bring And mercy keeps in store For David his anointed King And HIS seed evermore PSAL. XIX To Davids tune 1. Part. Argument The creatures shew Gods glory the Scriptures his grace and saving knowledge THe heavens give to understand The glory of the Lord The operations of his hand The firmaments record verse 2 Night unto night hath knowledg show'n And day with day confer'd verse 3 And speech or language there is none Where their voice is not heard verse 4 Their line doth close and comprehend The vast earth round about Unto the worlds remotest end Their words are passed out The Lord a TABERNACLE there Did for the Sun compose verse 5 Which as a Bridegroom doth appear That from his chamber goes Rejoycing for to run a race Like to a champion stout verse 6 At heavens farthest distant place Begins his going out And he to heavens utmost end His circuit makes compleat And there is nothing can defend Or hide it from his heart verse 7 The law of God is perfect pure The soul it purifies His testimonies are most sure And make the simple wise PSAL. XIX 2. Part. Argument The names and properties of the Scriptures the benefit of obeying them which makes the godly sue for grace verse 8 THe statues of the Lord are right And consolate the mind His precepts pure affording light To eyes by nature blind verse 9 Gods fear is clean from all defects And alwayes doth endure His Judgements just in all respects And truth it self no truer verse 10 Far more then many treasur'd summes Of gold to be embrac't Far sweeter then the hony-combes Or hony to the taste verse 11 They are thy servants monitors How he his life should frame A great reward 's provided for 's If we observe the same verse 12 But who can all his errours see O cleanse my heart within verse 13 From secret faults ô keep thou mee From all presumptuous sin O let it have no Regiment In me at any time And then shall I be innocent And cleer from greatest crime verse 14 The meditations of my heart And every word I say Take in good part ô Lord that art My Saviour strength and stay PSAL. XX. To choice tune Argument David going forth to battell offers sacrifice the Church prays confidently for acceptation and success LORD hear thee in this troublous day The name of Jacobs God defend verse 2 From Sion be thy strength and stay Help from the Sanctuary send verse 3 Thine offrings all in mind be kept He thy burnt Sacrifice accept verse 4 Thy hearts desire he grant thee still And all thy counsels LORD fulfill verse 5 We will rejoyce in thy defence And spread our banners in the name Of thee our God and confidence LORD hear thy prayers and grant the same verse 6 Now know I God will save from harm With saving strength of his right arm And heareth his anointed one From heav'n his high and holy throne verse 7 Some hope in Charets help to find And some in horses hope the same But wee will ever bear in mind The Lord our Gods all-helpfull name verse 8 They are brought down fallen quite But we are ris'n and stand upright verse 9 Save LORD let the King give ear Now when we pray our prayers to hear PSAL. XXI To Dutch tune Argument David gives thanks for victory and the rich blessings of God O LORD in thy salvation The King shall much delight With joy and exultation In thy great strength and might verse 2 For what his heart desir'd to have Thou granted'st every thing And what his lips of thee did crave Was not deni'd the King verse 3 With thy good blessings powred down Thou hast him richly sped And thou hast set a royall crown Of pure gold on his head verse 4 He ask't thee life and thou did'st give To him that blessing prime Even length of dayes that he might live An everlasting time verse 5 He glorieth most exceedingly In thy salvations aid For honour and great majestie Thou hast upon him laid verse 6 Of blessings ever-flowing streams Thou did'st to him impart And with thy countenances beams Rejoyc'd his joyfull heart verse 7 For LORD the King unfainedly Doth put his trust in thee And through thy mercie ô most High Remov'd he shall not be 2. Part. Argument The consuming wrath of Christ against all implacable adversaries verse 8 THy right-hand shall thy foes disclose Thy hand thy haters all verse 9 And fiery ovens shall burn thy foes What time thy wrath shall fall The Lord shall swallow them in fume Fire shall devour them then verse 10 Their fruit shalt thou from earth consume Their seeds from sons of men verse 11 For they against thee did intend A most mischievous thing But cannot bring to passe the end Of their imagining verse 12 Lord thou shalt make them for these things To turn their backs apace Charging thine arrows on thy strings Against their stubborn face verse 13 In thy peculiar strength O Lord Thy matchless glory raise So shall due cheerfull songs record Thy powers deferved praise PSAL. XXII To Oxford tune 1. Part. Argument David complains of desertion and disdainfulness of his enemies remembers to his comfort Gods ancient dealing with the Saints MY God my God wherefore hast thon Forsook me O wherefore Why art so far from helping now When I do cry and rore verse 2 My God I cry even all day long Yet hear'st thou not my moan All night I cannot hold my tongue verse 3 But thou 'rt an only one Thou that inhabit'st Israels praise verse 4 Our fathers hop'd in thee In thee they trusted all their dayes And thou did'st set them free verse 5 They cry'd to thee and by the same A blest deliverance got And trusting in thy holy Name Confounded were they not verse 6 But I 'm not reckned for a man A despicable worm A meer reproach of men I am Whom all the people spurn verse 7 All they that see me laugh O God Shoot out the lip do they And shake their heads with scornfull nod And thus they speak and say verse 8 He trusted that the Lord would be A Saviour for his sake Let him deliver him since he In him delight did take 2. Part. Argument Gods
becomes the Saints verse 2 Praise God with Psaltrie Harp voice And ten-string'd instruments verse 3 A new song to the Lord indite Sing loud and play with skill verse 4 For lo the word of God is right His works all truth fulfill verse 5 Justice and Judgement he doth love His goodness fils all coasts verse 6 The word of God made heav'n above His Spirit all their hoasts verse 7 He watry seas collected keeps And heaps the billows curl'd In storehouses he layes the deeps O fear him all the world verse 8 In awe of him let all men stand That dwell from sun to sun verse 9 For it stood fast at his command He spake and it was done verse 10 The counsels which the heathen take The Lord doth bring to nought And their device doth fruitlesse make VVhat ere the people thought verse 11 The counsell of the Lord stands sure And so for ever shall Th' intentions of his heart endure To generations all 2. Part. Argument Gods speciall and common providence the creatures vanity and Gods All-sufficiency to help in hardest times verse 12 THat nation's blest whose God 's the Lord That people's blest whom he Hath chosen of his own accord His heritage to be verse 13 The Lord looks down from heaven high Beholding all abroad All mortall mans posterity verse 14 From place of his abode In all the earth and all the parts The dwellers he surveys verse 15 Alike he fashioneth their hearts And all their works he weighs verse 16 No num'rous host can save a King Their corp'rall strength saves none verse 17 A horse of save 's a meer vain thing His great strength saves not one verse 18 Behold Gods eye tow'rds them set ope That him in rev'rence have And them that in his mercies hope verse 19 Their souls from death to save To keep alive when death's destroy verse 20 Our soul waits for the Lord He is our help our shield our joy verse 21 In whom our hearts accord Because we have put confidence In his most holy name verse 22 The mercy Lord to us dispence As we hope in the same PSAL. XXXIV To Martyrs tune Argument David by his own practice and experience inciteth to praise and trust in God AT all times I will blesse the Lord Thy praise ô Lord of hoast verse 2 My busie mouth shall still record My soul in him shall boast The humble wondrous glad shall be In hearing of the same verse 3 O magnifie the LORD with me Let 's all exalt his Name verse 4 I sought the Lord he gave good ear And all my terrours dash't verse 5 They look'd to him inlight'ned were Nor was their face abash't verse 6 This poor man cri'd the Lord did hear And all his troubles end verse 7 Gods Angels tents are pitched near Gods children to defend verse 8 O taste and see how good God is Who trusts in him is blest verse 9 O fear the Lord ye Saints of his Such shall not be distrest verse 10 Young Lyons shall be hunger-pin'd Their food shall be so scant But they that seek the Lord to find Not one good thing shall want 2. Part. Argument The way to true happines with the priviledges of the godly and wickeds misery verse 11 COme children hearken unto me Gods fear I teach to you verse 12 Who longs for life good things to see And dayes desires not few verse 13 The lying lips where falshood breeds And wicked words refrain verse 14 Depart from evill do good deeds Seek peace and peace maintain verse 15 Upon the righteous every where God casts intentive eies And opens his attentive ear To their uncessant cries verse 16 'Gainst workers of iniquitie An angry brow he frames To cut from earth the memory Of their detested names verse 17 The righteous cry the Lord doth hear And all their troubles ends verse 18 To broken hearts the Lord is near And contrite souls defends verse 19 Great are th' afflictions which befall The LORDS most holy ones But God shall help them out of all verse 20 And keepeth all his bones So that not one of them is burst verse 21 But mischief slays the lewd Who hate the righteous shall be curs'd And utterly subdu'd verse 22 The Lord redeems from captive state His servants souls each one And there shall none be desolate That trust in him alone PSAL. XXXV To Oxford tune Argument An earnest prayer against Persecutors LORD plead my righteous cause with those That are with me at strife O fight against my mortall foes That fight against my life verse 2 Lay hold of buckler and of shield My help stand up unto verse 3 Draw out the Spear and keep the field Against them that pursue Say to my soul I 'm thy defence Let shame their hopes controul verse 4 Confusion be their recompence That seek to hurt my soul. Let thy fierce hand them backward strike Confusion may they finde verse 5 Who seek my hurt let them be like The chaff before the winde Let Gods swift Angel make pursuit Close at their heels I say verse 6 Them let Gods Angel persecute In dark and slipp'ry way verse 7 For causlesly within a pit A net for me they hid Even for my soul they digged it And this they causless did verse 8 O let destruction unawares Upon this monster fall And let him having hidden snares Be taken therewithall Even that destruction LORD decree That he fall in the same verse 9 And then my soul shall joyfull be In Gods all-mighty Name And joy in his salvation much verse 10 And all my threat'ned bones Shall say What other God is such VVho saves the needy ones Thou helpest him that stands in need From foes that are too strong The poor from spoilers thou hast free'd And wretched men from wrong 2. Part. Argument The perfidiousness and ingratitude of the wicked verse 11 MOst wicked men against me rise To witness things untrue And charge me with iniquities Whereof I nothing knew verse 12 They did reward my good with ill My love with hate requite And sought my souls destruction still With utmost of their might verse 13 But I their sickness did condole In sackcloth fasted mourn'd The pray'r of mine afflicted soul. Into my bosome turn'd verse 14 I for my foe behaved mee As for my friend or brother I bow'd down heavily as he That mourneth for his mother verse 15 But they rejoyced in my woe And were together got Base abjects when I did not know They tore me ceasing not verse 16 With mocking hypocrites at feasts They gnash't their teeth at me verse 17 O Lord how long shall these vile beasts Both seen and suffered be Destroying Lyons ô defeat My darling soul defend verse 18 I 'l praise thee in assemblies great Where multitudes attend 3. Part. Argument He prays against the spitefulness of the wicked here described verse 19 LEt not my wrongfull enemies
Lift up their horn on high Nor let them wink with scornfull eies that hate me causlesly verse 20 Deceitfull things they take in hand Against such men they plot As are most quiet in the land For peace they utter not verse 21 Yea they their mouths have op'ned wide Against me spitefully Aha Aha mine en'mies cri'd We saw it with our ey verse 22 This thou hast seen no silence keep Lord from me be not far verse 23 Stir up thy self awake from sleep And come to Judgement-bar My Lord my God move to my cause verse 24 Judge me ô Lord my God According to thy righteous laws Nor suff'r it undertrod verse 25 Nor suffer them in heart to say Ah we would have it thus Nor let them say he 's made a prey He 's swallowed up by us verse 26 With shame confound them gen'rally With self-confusion clad Themselves who'gainst me magnifie And at my hurt are glad verse 27 Let them be glad and shout for joy VVith my just cause that side Yea let them say continually The LORD be magnifi'd VVho joys in 's servants prosp'rous state verse 28 And then my gratefull tongue Thy righteousness shall celebrate VVith praises all day long PSAL. XXXVI To London short tune Argument The vilenes of the wicked the greatness of Gods mercies and the interest of the righteous in him and them together LEwd mens transgressions great Unto my heart descries And makes it clear That there 's no fear Of God before his eyes verse 2 He to his own conceit Grosse flatteries doth propound Untill the sin He liveth in An hatefull thing be found verse 3 The words his mouth hath said Are wickednesse and theft Good things to do And wisdom too Hee hath for ever left verse 4 He mischiefe on his bed Deviseth to fulfill He doth delight In ways not right And he abhors no ill verse 5 Thy mercy heaven at least Thy truth the clouds doth touch verse 6 As mountains steep Or swallowing deep Thy truth and judgement 's such Thou Lord sav'st man and beast verse 7 O God how exc'llent things Thy love thy grace Make mortals place Their trust in thy spread wings verse 8 Full feasted they shall be VVith thy sweet houses fat Thy river which Yeeld pleasures rich They all shall drink of that verse 9 The spring of life 's with thee VVe shall see light in thine verse 10 Never remove From them thy love That know thy name divine Thy love and clemency Let th'upright hearted prove verse 11 No foot of pride Let make me slide Nor wiekcd hand remove verse 12 Works of iniquity Destruction shall surprise Lo there they fall And never shall Be able more to rise PSAL. XXXVII To Martyrs tune Argument The many and happy priviledges of the Saints controlling envie and ingratitude THy minde for sinners nor disturb Nor evill doers envie verse 2 For they like grass and tender herb Are soon cut down and die verse 3 Trust in the LORD and put thy hand To actions that are good So shalt thou dwell within the land And be assur'd of food verse 4 Delight in God abundantly And he shall condesend Thy hearts desire to satisfie verse 5 Thy way to God commend Trust in him and it shall be done verse 6 Thy truth shall burnish bright Thy judgement as the noon-tide Sun Thy righteousness as light verse 7 Rest in the LORD with patience stay Fret not thy self a jot At him that prospers in his way And speeds his wicked plot verse 8 Let not rash anger in thee rise Distemp'ring wrath forsake Fret not thy self in any wise In evill to partake verse 9 For evill doers shall be destroy'd But earth shall sure afford An heritage by them enjoy'd That wait upon the Lord. verse 10 For lo the wicked shall be gone Within a little space Yea thou shalt study thereupon Yet shalt not finde his place verse 11 The lowly shall the earth possess And there they shall delight And bath themselves in blissfulness Of peace most infinite 2. Part. Argument The impotent malice of the wicked and precious priviledges of the godly verse 12 THe wicked plots against th'upright And at him grates his teeth verse 13 But God shall laugh at all his spight Whose day he coming see'th verse 14 The wicked have their sword and bow Drawn out and ready bent The poor and needies overthrow Their mischievous intent And them that uprightly converse To slay with cruell stroke verse 15 But their own hearts their swords shall pierce Their bows shall all be broke verse 16 A portion put in godly hands Though it be small and poor Is better far then house or lands Of many a wicked doer verse 17 The wickeds arms shall all be broke But God's the just mans stay verse 18 He knowes the days of upright folk Their heritage lasts for ay verse 19 They shall not once ashamed be VVhen evill times betide And in the day of scarcitie They shall be satisfi'd verse 20 But lo the wicked shall decay As fat of Lambs consume Gods enemies shall fade away And vanish into fume verse 21 The wicked man on borrowing goes But cares not to repay But still the righteous mercy showes And frankly gives away verse 22 By such as he pronounceth blest The earth shall be enjoy'd And such as he doth curse supprest And utterly destroy'd 3. Part. Argument Many remarkable providences towards the godly verse 23 A Good mans steps the Lord doth guide Delighting in his way verse 24 He shall not sink although he slide For him Gods hand doth stay verse 25 I have been young and now am old Yet to my hoary head The just forsook did ne'r behold Nor HIS seed begging bread verse 26 He kindly lends to him that needs His seed is surely blest verse 27 Depart from evill do good deeds And ever dwell in rest verse 28 The Lord his Saints will not reject For he in Judgement joys He will for ever them protect But wicked seed destroys verse 29 The righteous shall the earth enjoy And therein ever dwell verse 30 Because he doth his mouth imploy VVith oracles to tell His tongue deep judgement doth impart verse 31 And he doth carefull hide His Gods commandment in his heart None of his steps shall slide verse 32 The wicked wait the just to slay But to the hand of them verse 33 God will not leave him as a prey Nor him when judg'd condem ' 4. Part. Argument Holiness tends to happiness wickedness to destruction verse 34 WAit on the Lord and keep his ways And thou rais'd by his hand Shalt see when he the wicked slays And shalt injoy the land verse 35 The wicked I have seen bear sway And spread like Laurell green verse 36 Yet suddenly he past away And could no more be seen I sought but him could no where finde But he of upright ways verse 37 The perfect if yee
mark and mind In peace he ends his days verse 38 But them that wilfully offend Together God shall slay And this shall be the wickeds end To be cut off for ay verse 39 But righteous mens salvation Of God Almighty is In times of tribulation He is a rock to his verse 40 And sure the Lord will help command To aid and keep the just And save them from the wickeds hand Because in him they trust PSAL. XXXVIII To Oxford tune Argument David laments his sickness sin and sorrow his bitter enemies and false-hearted friends ME Lord in wrath do not controul Nor scourge in fury fierce verse 2 Thy heavie hand sinks down my soul Thine arrowes deeply pierce verse 3 My flesh no soundnesse hath within Because thou art displeas'd My bones by reason of my sin By no means can be eas'd verse 4 The load of mine iniquities Which o'r my head doth roul Even as a heavie burthen lies Too heavie for my soul. verse 5 Because my foolishness was such My wounds corrupted stink verse 6 I am bow'd down exceeding much And under troubles sink I all the day lament afresh verse 7 Fill'd with a loath'd disease That leaves no soundness in my flesh And on my loyns doth seize verse 8 Feeble I am and broken sore Disquietness doth grinde My wofull heart and makes me rore verse 9 LORD thou know'st all my minde My groaning is not hid from thee verse 10 My grieved heart doth pant My strength and ey-sight faileth me My eyes their light do want verse 11 My lovers friends and all my kin Far from my sore retire verse 12 And they lay snares to take me in Who 'gainst my life conspire And they that seek to do me wrong Do speak mischievous things And base deceits ev'n all day long Are their imaginings 2. Part. Argument Davids patience and prayer in affliction verse 13 AS deaf I heard not and as dumb My lips I never stirr'd verse 14 Thus like a man did I become That doth not hear a word And in whose mouth is no reproof verse 15 But LORD in thee I trust Thou hear'st me to my souls behoof O Lord my God most just verse 16 For hear me ô my Lord said I Lest their insulting pride Should them against me magnifie My foot being slipt aside verse 17 Before me still my sorrows are Ready I am to halt verse 18 For my transgressions I 'l declare with sorrow for my fault verse 19 But still how lively foes have I And they are strong beside And they that hate me wrongfully Are greatly multipli'd verse 20 They are mine adversaries too That good with ill repay Because I carefully pursue A good and godly way verse 21 O Lord my God forsake me not Far from me never be verse 22 My Saviour ô defer no jot But haste to succour me PSAL. XXXIX To Cambr. old tune Argument David troubled at wicked mens prosperitie answers it with consideration of the vanitie and brevitie of life I Will look to my waies I said Lest with my tongue I fin My mouth as with a bridle staid I 'l carefully hold in VVhile wicked men before me stood verse 2 As dumb I spake no word I held my peace yea ev'n from good Then was my sorrow stirr'd verse 3 My heart within me waxed hot While musing hereabout The fire fierce burning ceased not At last these words burst out verse 4 Lord make me understand mine end And dayes most certain date That I may fully apprehend The frailty of my state verse 5 Lo thou hast made my dayes a span Mine age as nothing deem'd Meer vanitie is every man At best estate esteem'd verse 6 Sure each man walks in vainest show In vaine are mortals vext He heaps up wealth and doth not know What gath'rer shall come next 2. Part. Argument David expos'd to contempt by consuming afflictions is patient and prays for respite to improve his short life to the best advantage verse 7 ANd now ô Lord my hope 's in thee All other hopes forborn verse 8 Forgive my sins and save thou me From fools reproach and scorn verse 9 Lo I was dumb and nothing spoke Because the deed was thine verse 10 O Lord revoke from me thy stroke Which while I feel I pine verse 11 When thy rebukes man undergo'th Of sin-chastising pain It wasts his beautie like a moth Sure every man is vain verse 12 Lord hear my prayer my cries attend Not silent at my tears A sojourner my dayes I spend As all my father 's theirs Mine is a strangers residence verse 13 O spare me Lord therefore Restore my strength ere I go hence And shall be seen no more PSAL. XL. To Cambridge old tune David magnifies Gods mercies to himself and admires the greatness of them to his Church FOr God I waited patiently Plung'd in a dreadfull pit My cry he heard And did regard And pluckt me out of it verse 2 He brought me out of miry clay And to a rock me led My feet to stay In safer way My steps he stablished verse 3 New songs put in my mouth did he His praises to record Many shall see And fear by mee And trust upon the Lord. verse 4 Blest man whose faith and whole repose In God doth firme abide And no whit knows The proud nor those To lies that turn aside verse 5 O Lord my God how marvellous The works which thou hast wrought How numerous Are towards us The thoughts which thou hast thought No man can reckon what they are In order unto thee Would I compare And them declare They cannot numbred be PSAL. XL. 2. Part. Argument The circumcised heart and ear of the Saints the perfect obedience of Christ and publication of the Gospel verse 6 NO sacrifice dost thou desire Nor offering brought thee in None made by fire Dost thou require Nor offering brought for sin But thou hast opened mine ear verse 7 Then said I lo I come Thy volumes bear Me witness there Thy book contains the sum verse 8 My God I joy to do thy will Thy law is in my heart Where throngs do fill Thy Sions hill Thy truth will I impart verse 9 Lo I my lips have not refrain'd O Lord thou know'st no less verse 10 With heart restrain'd Have not retain'd Or hid thy righteousness verse 10 And thy salvation have not I Conceal'd in any sort Thy truth nor thy Benignitie From all the great resort verse 11 VVith-hold not thou ô Lord from mee Thy tender love therefore Thy favour free And truth let be My keepers evermore 3. Part. Argument David shews the grievous persecution and gracious preservation of the Saints verse 12 INnumerable woes infold And mine iniquities On me take hold So uncontroll'd I cannot lift mine eyes More mis'ries do my soul assail Then hairs are on my head They so prevail My heart doth fail By
my pray'r O Jacobs God give ear verse 9 O look on thine anointeds face O Lord our shield behold verse 10 For in thy Courts a days short space Excells a thousand-fold In thy fair Temple I profess I 'd rather keep a dore Then in the tents of wickedness Have dwelling evermore verse 11 For God the Lord to Israel is A constant Sun and Shield He will vouchsafe his grace to his And glory freely yield From them that walk in upright way No good thing hold will he verse 12 Lord God of hoasts how blest are they That put their trust in thee PSAL. LXXXV Martyrs tune He praiseth God for deliverance from the Babylonian captivitie praying God to make it compleat LOrd thou hast dealt most favourably With thy beloved land And Jacobs hard captivitie Brought back with pow'rfull hand verse 2 Thou to thy people Lord didst please To seal a pardon free Their grievous sins and trespasses Are covered all by thee verse 3 Thy vehement wrath thou hast allayd Fierce anger turn'd to peace verse 4 Turn us ô God our saving ayd Thine anger tow'rds us cease verse 5 Wilt thou be angry evermore And not thy wrath recall Wilt thou draw out thy wrath so sore To generations all verse 6 Lord shall not we by pow'r divine Again revived bee That so the people that are thine May much rejoice in thee verse 7 Lord grant us thy salvations aid Thy mercy let appear verse 8 Of God the Lord what shall be said That will I gladly hear He to his Saints and people deer Will utter words of peace But let them take a warning here And former follies cease 2. Part. Argument He prophecies honour and happiness to the Church in token of the good things of the Gospel verse 9 SAlvation sure is neer at hand To them that do him fear That glory may invest the Land And be a dweller here verse 10 Now truth and mercy both do meet And both in one consist Now righteousness and peace do greet And mutually have kist verse 11 Justice from heaven shall look down While truth from earth shall spring verse 12 Yea and the Lord shall Israel crown With gifts of each good thing Our land shall yeeld her fruits no doubt verse 13 The righteousness of God Shall go before and point us out The way that he hath trod PSAL. LXXXVI London long tune The transcendent goodness and greatness of God incouraging prayers LOrd bow thy ear and hear my plaint A needy wretch and poor verse 2 Since thou hast made me for a Saint My troubled soul secure O thou my God thy servant save verse 3 Be mercifull to mee Who trust in thee and daily crave And call and cry to thee verse 4 Rejoyce O Lord thy servants heart I lift my soul to thee verse 5 For good and gracious Lord thou art And to forgiveness free To all that call upon thy Name Most rich in mercies fruits verse 6 O Lord attend the prayers I frame Mark well my voyce and suits verse 7 I 'l call for thou wilt answer me In my most troublesome time verse 8 Among the gods is none like thee Nor any works like thine verse 9 All nations which thy hands did frame Thee Lord shall come before And there to glorifie thy name Submissively adore verse 10 For thou art God yea God alone Thy pow'r great wonders doth verse 11 O Lord to me thy way make known I 'l walk in all thy truth 2. Part. Argument As before UNite my heart to fear thy name verse 12 Then Lord my God will I Applaud and magnifie the same To all eternity verse 13 For tow'rds my soul in every deed Thy mercy doth excell Which thy peculiar pow'r hath freed Even from the lowest hell verse 14 The proud are risen for my fall My souls destruction sought By violent men assembling all On thee they have not thought verse 15 But Lord thou art a God most kind Suffâ—ing no little space Compassions store in thee we find And plenteous truth and grace verse 16 O turn to me that I may live Thy grace to me extend Thy strength unto thy servant give Thy handmaids sonne defend verse 17 Some good apparent sign afford That hatefull foes may see And be asham'd because thou Lord Didst help and comfort mee PSAL. LXXXVII Coventry tune The happy priviledges of the Church typed by Sion SIons foundations edifice In holy mountains lies verse 2 Whose gates Gods love Doth far above All Jacobs dwelling prize verse 3 O city of God thy structures frame Obtains a glorious name verse 4 Rahab for one And Babylon I to my friends will name Philistia Ethiop Tyre lo there verse 5 This man was made an heir And Sion they Shall point and say Did this and that man bear The high'st himself shall stablish her verse 6 And this mans birth refer To Sion mount So make his count When hee shall register verse 7 As well the voyce of him that sings As him that tunes the strings Of musick sweet Therein shall meet In thee are all my springs PSAL. LXXXVIII To sinners tune Heman in the deep dungeon of affliction destitute of all outward comforts maketh lamentable complaint I Cry'd before thee day and night Lord God my saving aid verse 2 O let my cries come in thy sight And all the pray'rs I pray'd Incline thin ear unto my cry verse 3 My soul is fill'd with woes My life unto the grave drawes nigh Because opprest with those verse 4 Numbred with them that pass down-right The path to pit they tread I 'm like a man that hath no might verse 5 And free among the dead Even like slain men's my present state Which in the grave do rot Which from thy hand are separate And utterly forgot verse 6 Thou hast me laid in lowest caves Beneath deep darkness barr'd verse 7 Afflicting me with all thy waves Thy wrath doth press me hard verse 8 My ' quaintance far remov'd thou hast And made them me abhor As one whom now shut up so fast There 's no redemption for 2. Part. Argument Hee humbly sues for redress of his grievous afflictions while there was yet hope MIne eye laments a burd'nous load Of sorrows multipli'd Lord I have stretch'd my hands abroad To thee I daily cry'd verse 10 Intend'st thou Lord said I to shew Thy wonders to the dead Shall dead men rise again that so Thy praises may be spread verse 11 Shall we thy loving kindness Lord Within the grave express Shall in destruction men record Thy truth and faithfulness verse 12 Shall we in darkness understand Thy wonders manifold And in oblivions cloudy land Thy righteousness behold verse 13 I' th' morning I to thee will pray Yea Lord I cry'd to thee verse 14 Why dost thou cast my soul away Why hide thy face from mee verse 15 I am afflicted like to die Suffring
soon unmade agen And falls to dust when thou dost say Return yee sonnes of men verse 4 Whereas again a thousand yeers So seemeth in thy fight As yesterday when past appears Or as a watch by night verse 5 Like to a swift and hasty stream Thou mak'st mans life-time pass Or like a transitory dream Or like the springing grass verse 6 Which in the morning flourisheth Most pleasantly up-grown And in the evening withereth Soon after it is mown verse 7 For by thine angers pow'r ô God Are we consum'd and spent And troubled with thy stinging rod Of wrathfull punishment verse 8 Thou set'st in sight th'iniquities Wherein we lewdly run And thy cleer countenance descries Our sinnes in secret done verse 9 For all our dayes are past away Thine anger taking hold We spend our years from day to day As when a tale is told 2. Part. Argument Moses prayer for grace to make good use of our frail life and a happy change of their sad condition verse 10 THe time 's but threescore yeers ten That we continue here And if some stronger sort of men Do live to fourscore yeer Their life is labour strength is none But sorrowfull decay So soon is it cut off and gone We post we fly away verse 11 Who understands among us here What pow'r thine anger hath For answerable to thy fear So great appears thy wrath verse 12 Lord teach us this religious art Of numbring out our days That so we may apply our heart To sacred wisdoms ways verse 13 How long shall thy fierce anger burn O leave thy discontent And for thy servants sake return Concerning them repent verse 14 O satisfie with mercy then And that without delays That we may be most joyfull men And glad even all our days verse 15 According to our days of tears And mis'ries making sad And also for the evill years Comfort and make us glad verse 16 O let thy work appear to those That are thy servants true Thy glorious shining rayes disclose Unto their childrens view verse 17 O let the Lord our God command His face on us to shine Confirm the actions of our hand Confirm them Lord by thine PSAL. XCI Davids tune The admirable safety of the Saints in most perillous times WHo dwelleth in the secret place VVhere God most high doth hide In shadow of th' almighty's grace Full safely shall abide verse 2 The Lord 's my God I will report Ev'n he and none but he He is my refuge and my fort In whom my trust shall be verse 3 He surely shall be thy defence Both from the fowlers snare And from infectious pestilence Which poysoneth the ayre verse 4 His feathers shall thee overspread His wings thy confidence His truth a shield to save thy head And buckler for defence verse 5 Thou shalt not need to be afraid For terrours of the night Nor for the arrow be dismai'd That flies in open light verse 6 Nor shalt thou fear the pestilence That walks in darksome way Nor that destuctions violence That wastes at height of day verse 7 A thousand at thy side shall fall Millions at thy right hand Yet shall it not come neer at all The place where thou dost stand verse 8 Only with thy peculiar eyes Shalt thou behold and see How wicked mens iniquities Shall recompensed be 2. Part. Argument God keepeth his Saints by his providence and Angels from all savage enemies and deadly dangers verse 9 BEcause thou hast the Lord alone VVho is my rock and shade Even the Lord the highest One Thy habitation made verse 10 No plague nor evill shall befall Nor come thy dwelling neer verse 11 For he shall charge his Angels all To keep thee every where verse 12 They shall uphold thee in their hand From stumbling at a stone On Lions neck thy foot shall stand And th'Adder tread upon verse 13 The Dragon and the Lions Whelp Trod under foot by thee verse 14 I saith the Lord will send him help Because he loved me I 'l set him up in high degree Because he knew my name verse 15 With prayers he shall call on me I answering the same I will preserve to honour raise Be with him in temptation verse 16 Suffice him with the length of days And shew him my salvation PSAL. XCII Short staffe tune God is highly magnified for his work of creation providence the depth of his judgements especially to the wicked TO give thanks to the Lord It is an exc'lent thing To magnifie Thy name most high In praises when we sing verse 2 Thy kindness to record So soon as morning springs At night express Thy faithfulness verse 3 On instruments ten strings On harp and psaltery With sweet and solemn sound verse 4 O Lord through thine Own works divine Thou mad'st my joyes abound In them triumph will I The works which thou hast wrought verse 5 How great and rare O Lord they are How deep is every thought verse 6 A brutish man knows not No fool perceives this thing verse 7 All flour'shing when Lewd wicked men As morning grass do spring Then is the finall lot Of their destruction nigh verse 8 But thou dost reigne The most supreme To all eternity 2. Part. Argument The certain downfall of the wicked and exaltation of the righteous and their perpetuall fruitfulness verse 9 FOr lo O Lord thy foes For lo thy foes shall fall Thy truth assures That wicked doers They shall be scattered all verse 10 But like the horn that growes Upon the Un'corns head So Lord thou shalt My horn exalt And fresh oil on me spread verse 11 Mine eye his wish shall see On wicked enemies The same mine ear Of them shall hear That up against me rise verse 12 Even like the Cedar tree That Lebanon forth brings The just shall grow And flourish so As laden palm-tree springs verse 13 Gods Temple plants shall spring In our Gods Courts each one verse 14 And still produce Their fruitfull juice When they are ancient grown Still fat and flourishing verse 15 Gods Justice to express My rock is he Most pure and free From all unrighteousness PSAL. XCIII Coventry tune The Majesty of God stability of his works and of his Church and Ordinaâ—â—es against all the waves of wickedness The Lord our God doth reign on high And doth himself invest With Majesty And potency With both is girt and drest verse 2 The world he fixt for ay to last Thou hast prepar'd thy throne Of old thou hast Confirm'd it fast Thou art th' eternall One. verse 3 The floods O Lord the floods arise The floods lift up their waves Up to the skies Their uprore flies Their voyce rumultuous raves verse 4 Yet is the Lord on high far more Far more of might than these Though num'rous store Of waters roare And mighty waves of seas verse 5 Thy testimonies
questionless Are sure and alter never Pure holiness Doth seemly dress Thy house O Lord for ever PSAL. LXXXXIV New staffe tune The insolence and cruelty of tyrants the All-seeing eye and All-judging power of God O Lord to whom it doth belong Just vengeance to repay O God the punisher of wrong Do thou thy self display verse 2 Thou Judge of all In generall Thy self no longer hide Arise dispence A recompence To all the sonnes of pride verse 3 How long shall wicked men how long Triumph as Lords and Kings verse 4 How long shall they with spitefull tongue Pronounce and speak hard things The multitude Of sinners lewd How long shall boasting use verse 5 Thy folk in rage Thine heritage How they afflict and bruise verse 6 Poor widows strangers orphans they VVith murd'rous hands have smote verse 7 The Lord yet shall not see they say Nor Jacobs God shall note verse 8 Ye rude among The brutish throng O understand discern Ye foolish men Why when why when Will ye be wise and learn verse 9 Shall he that form'd both ears and eies Not he both see and hear verse 10 Not he correct that doth chastise The heathen every where Not he discern That makes man learn verse 11 The Lord discovers plain The thoughts of man Which he doth skan And finds them meerly vain 2. Part. Argument The blessing of sanctifi'd affliction The destruction of the wicked in their sinnes verse 12 THe man whom thou dost Lord chastise Is infinitely blest VVhom by thy Law thou makest wise That thou maist give him rest verse 13 Even when there come Times troublesome Till dangerous days be past And till the ditch Be dig'd in which The wicked shall be cast verse 14 For sure the Lord will not reject The people whom he took The heritage to him select Shall never be forsook verse 15 But sure regress To righteousness Shall judgement have again And joyntly then True-hearted men Shall wait upon her train verse 16 But who against lewd men shall rise Or who for mee 's at hand 'Gainst workers of iniquities In my behalf to stand verse 17 But that the Lord Did help afford My soul had very nigh In silence dwelt verse 18 But when I felt My foot to slip awry Thy mercies Lord did me uphold verse 19 In various thoughts which roll VVithin my brest so manifold Thy comforts glad my soul. verse 20 Lord shall the thrones Of wicked ones Have fellowship with thee When as the same Lewd mischief frame By purposed decree verse 21 Against the righteous souls they flock They guiltless bloud condem ' verse 22 But of my refuge God's the rock And my defence from them verse 23 Hee 'l recompence Their bold offence And take them in their sin The Lord I say Our God shall slay And cut them off therein PSAL. XCV To short staffe tune An exhortation to praise God the maker and governor of the world the Shepherd and Saviour of the Church A dehortation from rebellion and hardness of heart like our unbeleeving forefathers that were debarred entrance into Canaan O Come sing we a song A joyfull noise be made With joint accord Before the LORD Our rock of saving aid verse 2 Into his presence throng Hearts truly thankfull bring And make a noise Exciting joyes Sweet Psalms unto him sing verse 3 Great King great God he is Whose pow'r all Gods transcends The spacious lands Are in his hands verse 4 The deeps he comprehends The strength of hills is his The Sea in his command He made the same His hands did frame The dry and solid land verse 6 O come bow down all we Before him let us fall Let us adore And kneel before The Lord that made us all verse 7 Our God and Shepheard's he His folk and flock are we This day give ear His voice to hear If yee obedient be verse 8 And harden not your heart As once at Meribah Yee did transgress In Wilderness In that temptation day As in the desert part verse 9 Your fathers tempted me And prov'd my might Each Israelite My wonders they did see verse 10 I forty yeers was griev'd VVith this lewd race and said They are indeed An erring seed In heart and judgement straid Nor known nor have believ'd verse 11 Wherefore I sware in wrath And did protest That to my rest They should not tread the path PSAL. XCVI Coventry tune The incomparable majestie of the true God COmpose new songs and sing the same To God ô all the earth verse 2 Sing forth his fame And glorious Name All men of mortall birth From day to day ô do not spare His saving health to show verse 3 His wonders rare And fame declare That Nations all may know verse 4 For God a great God doth appear And greatly prais'd must be And every where Be had in fear Above all Gods must he verse 5 For all the Gods that Nations name Are Idols ev'ry one The Lord this same Most glorious frame Of heaven made alone verse 6 Before him honour stands in sight With majestie divine Adored might And beautie bright In 's Sanctuary shine verse 7 Ye people give unto the Lord Let every stock and tribe Unto the LORD With joint accord Glory and strength ascribe 2. Part. Argument He magnifies God for the hopefull revelation of the Gospel the joy of all creatures verse 8 GIve God the glory as the thing Due to his Name most high Devoutly bring An offering And to his courts draw nigh verse 9 Adore the LORD in beautie cleer Of his most holy place Earth far and near O stand in fear Before his awfull face verse 10 Let heathen know Jehovah reigns Be bold to say the word He Earth sustains That it remains And never shall be stirr'd He righteously shall judge the Earth verse 11 Let heavens rejoice therefore Let all the Earth Be fill'd with mirth And seas swift billows rore verse 12 Let fields and fruits shew high degrees Of mirth with one accord And then shall these The woodland trees verse 13 Rejoyce before the LORD For lo he doth himself address And judgement he pursu'th To judge all flesh With righteousness And people with his truth PSAL. XCVII Davids tune The majestie of Christs kingdome the confusion of Idolaters and great harvest of joyes promised to the godly LEt earth rejoice God reigns alone Let num'rous Iles be glad verse 2 In truth judgement dwels his throne With clouds and darkness clad verse 3 A fire his foes consuming quite There goes before his feet verse 4 His lightnings gave the world their light The earth did quake to see 't verse 5 The hills like wax did melt and thaw Before the earths great Lord verse 6 And all the world his glory saw The heav'ns his truth record verse 7 Who worship graven Images Confusion on them fall That boast of
Idols such as these Ye Gods adore him all verse 8 Mount Sion heard and was hereat With joy affected much And Judahs Daughters joy'd for that Thy judgments Lord were such verse 9 All Gods thou art extoll'd above Ore all the earth most high verse 10 Ye Saints that do Jehovah love Hate all iniquitie His servants souls he saves each one And adverse pow'r controuls verse 11 And for the righteous light is sown And joy for upright souls verse 12 Ye righteous servants of the Lord Great joy in him express And give him thanks when yee record His perfect holiness PSAL. XCVIII To the three first lines of choice tune The victorious salvation of Christ the revelation of his gracious Gospel to the great joy of all creatures UNto the LORD a new song sing For many a great and wondrous thing His mighty pow'r to pass doth bring His holy arm of soveraigntie And his right hand exalted high Have gotten him the victory verse 2 He hath made known his saving might And brought his truth to open light Even in the very heathens sight verse 3 He hath remembred in his mind His perfect truth and mercies kind As all the house of Israel find The ends of all the earth abroad Have seen declar'd and plainly show'd The saving health our God bestow'd verse 4 Make to the Lord a joyfull noise Let all the earth express their joyes And sing his praise with loudest noise verse 5 Sing to the Lord with harp rejoice With instruments of musick choice With harp and psalms melodious voice verse 6 With trumpet and with cornet sound Before this Lord and King renown'd Let sweet and sacred joys abound verse 7 Let all the earth and num'rous store Even all that dwells on seas or shore The world and all its fulness rore verse 8 Let flouds clap hands and every ford And let the hills with one accord Rejoice with joy before the Lord. verse 9 For lo he comes to judge and try The world and people gen'rally With righteousnesse and equitie PSAL. XCIX To choice tune The majesty and equitie of Christ and his kingdom The prayers answers errors corrections mercies miracles recorded of the ancient Saints for our example THe Lord doth reign let people quake 'Twixt Cherubims he sets his seat O let the earth be mov'd and shake verse 2 The Lord in Sion is so great Above all people he is high verse 3 Thy greatness let them magnifie O let them praise the dreadfull Name For high and holy is the same verse 4 The Kings firm strength doth judgment love Thou dost establish equitie Thou execut'st them from above And rul'st in Jacob righteously verse 5 The Lord our God exalt therefore And rev'rently his name adore At foot-stool of his holy throne For he 's a high and holy one verse 6 Moses and Aaron also were Among his Priests and men of fame And Samuel among them there That call'd upon his holy name They call'd and answer he did make verse 7 In cloudy pill'r to them he spake They to his his testimonies clave And kept the ord'nance that he gave verse 8 Thou answ'redst them O Lord our God Thou wast a pard'ning God likewise Though thou tookst vengeance with thy rod And their inventions didst chastise verse 9 The Lord our God exalt yee still And worship at his holy hill For sure the Lord our God alone He is a high and holy one PSAL. C. Southwell tune He exhorts to praise God for our happy calling in Christ Jesus ALL men of mortall birth That dwell in all the earth O make a noise To God with joyes verse 2 And serve the Lord with mirth O come before his throne With singing ev'ry one verse 3 For certainly The Lord most high Ev'n he is God alone He made us and not we Not we our selves but he His folk and flock And pasture stock He made us for to be verse 4 VVith praise come to his gate And in his Courts relate His laud and fame And bless his name His honour celebrate verse 5 For God is good for ever His mercy faileth never His truth doth last All ages past And constant doth persever PSAL. CI. To new staff tune David vows to rule his house and Kingdom with discreet justice to curb and cut off the wicked and countenance the godly LOrd I will sing of mercy sweet And judgement to thy praise verse 2 And wisely guide my wary feet In all thy perfect ways VVhen wilt thou Lord To me accord Thy justice to impart At home will I VValk righteously And with a perfect heart verse 3 I will no wicked thing abide Before mine eyes to be I hate their works that turn aside It shall not cleave to me verse 4 The froward heart From me shall part Anâ— have no more access And I will no Such persons know As practise wickedness verse 5 That man that sland'reth privily I will cut off be sure The stout in heart whose looks are high I will not once indure verse 6 I 'l look out then The faithfull men That dwell with me they may And then shall he My servant be That walks in perfect way verse 7 I in my house will entertain No guilefull man to dwell Nor in my sight shall he remain That lies invents to tell verse 8 I soon cut short The wicked sort And wickd works condem ' That so I may Them take away From Gods Jerusalem PSAL. CII Sinners tune The lamentations of the whole Church as one man in the captivity of Babylon LOrd hear my prayer and let my cry Come speedily to thee verse 2 In day of my calamity Hide not thy face from me Incline thine ear invok'd to day Thine answer quick return verse 3 My days as smoke consume away My bones hearth-like do burn verse 4 My heart like grass is withered With deep and dolefull grones verse 5 While I forget to eat my bread My skin cleaves to my bones verse 6 The Pelican of wilderness And deserts Owl I match verse 7 And Sparrow-like companionless On houses top I watch verse 8 I all day long am made a scorn To my malicious foes The mad men are against me sworn Against me that arose verse 9 For bread I do the ashes eat My drink with weeping mixt verse 10 Because thine indignation great And anger comes betwixt For down thou hast thy servant cast First having rais'd me high verse 11 Like fleeting shade my days are past Like with'ring grass am I. verse 12 But thou O Lord dost still indure From all mutation free To ev'ry generation sure Shall thy remembrance be 2. Part. To martyrs tune The Churches restauration from Babylon and happy reformation in the days of the Gospel he desires to see it but contents himself with consideration of Gods eternity and perpetuity of his Church verse 13 THou shalt arise and mercy yet To Sion
in their mouths appear verse 18 Their makers must Be like them just And so are all that in them trust verse 19 The Lords Name bless His praise express Israels and Aarons house no less verse 20 Let Levi frame To do the same And all that fear his holy Name verse 21 From Sion hill Him bless we will That dwells at Salem bless him still PSAL. CXXXVI London short tune A thankfull commemoration of Gods mercies testifi'd in so many miraculous works UNto the LORD ô ye Give thanks for good is he His mercies sure Do still endure For they eternall be verse 2 The God of Gods proclame With praises to his Name His mercies sure Do still endure Eternally the same verse 3 The Lord of Lords most high With praises magnifie His mercies sure Do still endure To all eternitie verse 4 To him that wrought alone Great wonders many a one His mercies sure Do still endure To ages all made known verse 5 To him that formed by His wisdom all the skie His mercies sure Do still endure To perpetuitie verse 6 That did the earth extend The seas to comprehend His mercies sure Do still endure And never have an end verse 7 To him whose pow'r divine Did make great lights to shine His mercies sure Do still endure Not subject to decline verse 8 The Sun to rule and sway The motions of the day His mercies sure Do still endure And never fall away verse 9 The Moon and starres of light He made to rule by night His mercies sure Do still endure For they are infinite 2. Part. Argument A memoriall of Gods mercies to his Church and judgement on our adversaries verse 10 TO him your thanks devote VVho Aegypts first-born smote His mercies sure Do still endure Of everlasting note verse 11 And from among them all Brought Isr'el out of thrall His mercies sure Do still endure And so for ever shall verse 12 With arm out stretched and VVith his Almighty hand His mercies sure Do still endure For they eternall stand verse 13 To him that did divide The Sea on either side His mercies sure Do still endure And evermore abide verse 14 And Isr'els passage made Amidst it to evade His mercies sure Do still endure And never fail nor fade verse 15 But Pharaoh did confound His hoast in red Sea drown'd His mercies sure Do still endure And ever shall abound verse 16 To him that led his own Through deserts all unknown His mercies sure Do still endure As permanent alone verse 17 To him that smote and slew verse 18 Great Kings and famous too His mercies sure Do still endure And so shall ever do verse 19 King Sihon he did smite That Giant Amorite His mercies sure Do still endure Continuing day and night verse 20 And OG of Bashan King He did to ruine bring His mercies sure Do still endure An unexhausted spring verse 21 And did their land engage To be an heritage His mercies sure Do still endure Out-wearing time and age verse 22 That heritage befell His servant Israel His mercies sure Do still endure Times constant parallel verse 23 Who thought on our estate When low and desolate His mercies sure Do still endure And bear eternall date verse 24 Redeeming us from those That were our mortall foes His mercies sure Do still endure A spring that ever flows verse 25 For he provideth meat Whereof all flesh may eat His mercies sure Do still endure For ever most compleat verse 26 The God of heaven therefore With thankfull thoughts adore His mercies sure Do still endure Henceforth for evermore PSAL. CXXXVII Southwell tune Israels excessive lamentation in the Babylonian captivitie the crueltie of the enemies and Gods dreadfull curse upon them BY Babels Rivers deep There sate we down to weep And thinking still On Sion hill Our tunes in teares we steep verse 2 Our harps untun'd unstrung On willow-trees wee hung verse 3 Where they of us Required thus Sing us a Sion-song And even there did they That carried us away In captive state And desolate Urge us to sing and play They mirth of us demand Tho wasted by their hand verse 4 How shall our tongues Tune Sions Songs Here in a forein land verse 5 Jerus'lem if thou be Forgotten here of me In forein land Let my right hand Forget her facultie If I forget thee ever Then let me prosper never But let it cause My tongue and jaws To cleave and cling together verse 6 If for Jerusalem I do not quite contem ' All joys that be And count not thee Above the chief of them verse 7 Remember LORD the spite Shew'd by the Edomite Thus did they say In Salems day Down with it raze it quite verse 8 O daughter Babylon Whose ruine now comes on Oh happie he That does to thee As thou to us hast done verse 9 And blessed be his pains That dasheth out the brains Of little ones Against the stones VVhen Babels judgment raigns PSAL. CXXXVIII Davids tune David praises God for outward and inward mercies proclaming the comforts of the Gospel and his hope of further favours BEfore the Gods thy praise I 'l sing My heart shall have regard verse 2 Thy praise to utter worshipping Thy holy Temple-ward Thy praise for thy compassions tri'd And truth will I proclame For thou thy Word hast magnifi'd Yea more then all thy Name verse 3 That day whereon I cri'd to thee Thou answeredst me again With inward strength thou strength'nedst me My soul for to sustain verse 4 All Kings on earth shall give thee praise VVhen they shall hear thy words verse 5 Yea singing walk along thy wayes Such great fame is our LORDS verse 6 Though God be high he hath respect To such as lowly be But all proud persons doth neglect Sure thou wilt quicken me verse 7 Yea though I walk in midst of woes Thy hand shalt thou extend Against the wrath of all my foes Thy right hand shall defend verse 8 VVhat me concerns will God fulfill Most firm thy mercy stands Forsake not Lord but succour still The work of thine own hands PSAL. CXXXIX The all-seeing eye of God and admirable workmanship of mans creation O Lord thou hast me searcht and known verse 2 My sitting down thou know'st My rising up my thoughts each one Thou see'st when distant most verse 3 Thou compassest my path my bed And all my ways dost note verse 4 There 's not a word my tongue hath said But thou dost fully know 't verse 5 Behinde before thou hast beset And on me lay'd thy hand verse 6 Such knowledge is too great to get Too high to understand verse 7 Where from thy Spirit shall I go Or from thy presence fly verse 8 Make I my bed in hell below Or climb to heaven high Behold thou art in each of these verse 9 If mornings wings me bear To dwell in parts of utmost seas
ages all His Name do ye still magnifie PSAL. CXLVII To 1. French tune God is glorified for the works of his admirable providence and specially for favours to his Church in his Word and Ordinances PRaise ye the Lord for it is meet The praises of our God to sing For it is an employment sweet And praise a very comely thing verse 2 The Lord doth build Jerusalem The outcasts gleans of Israels bounds verse 3 The broke in heart he healeth them And bindeth up their bleeding wounds verse 4 The number of the starres he tells And all their names he doth recite verse 5 Great is the Lord his pow'r excells His understanding infinite verse 6 Poor humble souls the Lord doth raise But treads the wicked to the ground verse 7 Sing to the Lord with thanks praise And with the harps harmonious sound verse 8 Who with thick clouds orespreads the skie Prepared rain on earth distills And makes the earth to fructifie With store of grass on highest hills verse 9 Who to the beast doth food allot And feeds young ravens when they call verse 10 The strength of horse delights him not Nor yet the legs of champion tall verse 11 Who fear him he delights in them And such as on his grace rely verse 12 Praise praise thy God Jerusalem Thy God ô Sion magnifie verse 13 Thy children in thee he hath blest Strengthned the barrs w ch bar thy gates verse 14 Of wheat he fills thee with the best And in thy borders peace creates verse 15 He sends out his commandment full His word through th' air most swiftly posts verse 16 He gives us snow like gentle wool He spreads like ashes hoary frosts verse 17 His ice like morsells casts about His pinching cold who can sustain verse 18 His pow'rfull Word he sendeth out And makes the waters melt again His pow'r doth cause the winds to blow Whereby the rugged waters flows verse 19 His Word to Jacob he doth show His laws and judgments Israel knows verse 20 He dealt not so with other lands As for the Judgments of the Lord No heathen people understands Do ye therefore his praise record PSAL. CXLVIII Old England tune The creatures in their kinde praise God how much more his people obliged by his benefits PRaise ye the LORD praise ye the Lord From heavens lofty frame Him from on high O magnifie verse 2 All Angels praise his Name O all his hoasts his praise record verse 3 O praise him Moon and Sunne Ye stars of light That shine so bright The like of you be done verse 4 Ye heav'ns of heav'ns that are so high Praise him with full consent And waters ye On high that be Above the firmament verse 5 O let them praise and magnifie The LORDS almighty Name For lo they were Created there When his commandment came verse 6 He hath estâ—blisht them also For ever and for ever So firm decree Ordained hee That they shall pass it never verse 7 Praise ye the Lord from earth below Dragons and every deep verse 8 Fire vapour snow Hail-storms that blow His word that firmly keep verse 9 All mountains high and fruitfull trees All hills and Cedars tall verse 10 Ye fowl with wings And creeping things Ye beasts and cattell all verse 11 Kings Princes people all degrees Ye Judges of the earth verse 12 Young men and maids Children and babes And men of elder birth verse 13 The Lords great Name still praised be For that alone excells And far more high Then earth or skie His glitt'ring glory dwells verse 14 The praise of all his Saints is he His people neer alli'd From Israel born He exalts their horn The Lord be magnifi'd PSAL. CXLIX Magnificat tune The triumphs of the Church in memoriall of great deliverances and the subjection of the adversaries PRaise ye the Lord sing to the Lord A new composed song His memorable praise record His gathered Saints among verse 2 Let joyfull Israel shout and sing In their Creators Name Let Sions children in their King Triumphant joyes proclame verse 3 In dances let them praise his Name The harp before him bring And joyn the timbrell to the same VVith these his praises sing verse 4 For lo the Lord exceedingly In Israel doth delight The meek he 'l richly beautifie With robes of saving might verse 5 In glory let the Saints be joy'd Sing lowd upon their bed verse 6 And their religious mouths imploy'd The Lords high praise to spread And let a double edged sword Be put into their hands verse 7 T' inflict the vengeance of the Lord Upon the heathen lands T' impose the peoples punishments verse 8 Their Kings in chains to bind Their noble Peers and Presidents In iron links confin'd verse 9 To execute upon them all The judgment on record Such honour to the Saints doth fall Praise ye praise ye the Lord. PSAL. CL. To London short tune An exhortation to praise God with instruments of musick typing the melodie of Christians affections PRaise praise the Lord most high Within his Sanctu'rie In topmost tow'r Of his great pow'r With praise him magnifie verse 2 Praise him for acts renown'd With excellency crown'd According to His greatness do verse 3 Praise him with trumpets sound O praise him cheerfully VVith harp and psaltery verse 4 And let the dance His praise advance And timbrells melody Praise him with joynt consents Of stringed instruments The organs bring verse 5 Lowd cimballs ring Each one his praise presents High-sounding cymballs ring verse 6 Let every breathing thing The praise record Of this great Lord And HALLELUJAH sing FINIS THE TABLE Affliction MOderated Psal. 30 Ps. 118 ver 18. Sanctified Ps. 94. ver 12. Ps. 119. ver 67. Consisting with Gods love Ps. 89. 4 part Ps. 99. ver 8. Angels Serving God Ps. 103. 2. p. Ps. 104. 1. p. For the godly Ps. 34. 1. p. Ps. 91. 2. p. Age. Prayer for succour in old age Ps. 71. 2. 3. p. Atheism Described Ps. 14. 53. Cursed Ps. 28. ver 5. Ps. 104. v. 35. Ps. 107. ult Blessings On the ground Ps. 65. 2. p. Ps. 67. upon the godly Ps. 112. Babylonian Bondage Ps. 102. 1. p. Ps. 106 last p. Recovered Ps. 85. 1. p. Ps. 126. Backsliding Ps. 119. 22. p. Church Selected Ps. 95. 135. 1. p. Called Ps. 100. Corrupted 106. 2. p. c. Afflicted Ps. 74. 79. 80. Restored Ps. 85. 1. p. Ps. 102. 2. p. Preserved Ps. 124. 129. Priviledges thereof Ps. 65. 1. p. ps 87. Christ. His kingdom opposed Ps. 2. Raised ibidem His perfection Ps. 45. His offices Ps. 110. His Gospel government Ps. 72. 97. 98. 99. Complaints Of miseries personall Ps. 38. 88. 69. 1â— p. Ps. 25. 2. p. Of miseries Nationall Ps. 74. 79. 80. Conscience Ps. 18. ver 21. Creation and Creatures All of God Ps. 33. 1. And governed Ibidem Ps. 103. 2. p. Ps. 119. ver 91.
3 The fo my soul doth persecute My life quite undertrod My dwelling made In darksome shade As men long dead O God verse 4 Orewhelm'd therefore my spirits sink My heart is desolate verse 5 Thy ancient daies Thy works and waies I mind and meditate Of all thy handy-works I think verse 6 To thee I stretch my hands My soul doth burst VVith fervent thirst For thee like thirsty lands verse 7 Lord hear me soon my spirits shrink Hide not thy face from mee Like them that go To pit below Lest I should quickly be verse 8 Cause me to hear of thy kind love When morning doth begin Cause me to know VVhat way to go For thee my trust is in verse 9 I lift my soul to thee above Me from mine enemies save I fly to thee To shelter mee No other God I have verse 10 Thy spirit is good let that sweet dove Thy servants soul instruct In thy command And to the land Of uprightness conduct verse 11 Lord for thy Names-sake quicken me And that this very thing May well express Thy righteousness My soul from trouble bring verse 12 And of thine own compassions free My foes destroy and dam ' Destroy them whole That vex my soul For I thy servant am Thine heritage Lord bless and keep So that c. Ps. 28. ult PSAL. CXLIV York tune Gods wonderfull protection on his people in warre and battell his gracious respects to mankinde the quickned desires of the faithfull to praise God O Blessed be the LORD my might Who in the war-like field My hands and fingers taught to fight verse 2 My goodness Saviour Shield My fort high towr in whom I trust My people that subdues verse 3 Oh what is man that LORD thou doest Such poor acquaintance chuse Or what is mans posteritie Whereof such reckoning 's made verse 4 Sure man is like to vanitie His dayes as fleeting shade verse 5 LORD bow the heavens come down Toucht mountains make to smoke verse 6 Destroy thy foes with angry frown By dreadfull lightnings stroke Destroy them with thy bended bow verse 7 Send help my soul to save Send thy high hand rid save me so From swallowing waters grave Even from the hands of children strange verse 8 Whose mouths of folly treat And their right hand 's a meer exchange Of falshood and deceit verse 9 My songs on Psaltery I 'l present To thee compos'd anew And on a ten-string'd instrument Will sing thy praises due verse 10 T is he that unto Kings extends Salvations welcome pledge His servant David he defends From swords offensive edge 2. Part. Argument A prayer for the flourishing estate of the Cōmon-weal Felicity is placed in God alone verse 11 RElease and rid me speedily From hand of sinners vile Whose subtle mouth speaks vanitie Their right hand full of guile verse 12 Our sons as plants in youth up grown And daughters to us born Let be as some carv'd corner-stone Fair palace to adorn verse 13 Our garners full as they can hold With ev'ry kind of thing Our sheep a thousand thousand fold VVithin our streets may bring verse 14 Our Oxen not in labour faint No en'mie to invade No leading captive no complaint Within our streets be made verse 15 O blessed people would we say VVith such like blessings stor'd O rather blessed people they VVhose God is God the Lord. PSAL. CXLV Old England tune David in a well composed song of praise extolls Gods majestie might and mercy I Will extoll thee Lord my King And ever bless thy Name verse 2 I all my dayes Will bless and praise And never cease the same verse 3 Great God great praises meriting VVhose greatness none can reach verse 4 One age shall praise Thy works and waies To thy succeeding Church Thy mighty acts shall they recite verse 5 And I will here discuss The fame of thy Great Majesty And works miraculous verse 6 Thy actions of such wondrous might Men shall speak of the same They dreadfull are And I 'l declare The greatness of thy Name verse 7 The mem'ry of thy goodness great They fully shall make known In songs express Thy righteousness verse 8 The Lord 's a gracious one The LORD is easie to intreat verse 9 Kind patient good to all His mercies do Extend unto His works in generall verse 10 Thy works shall praise thee every one Thy Saints thy Name shall bless verse 11 They shall proclame Thy Kingdoms fame And pow'rs Almightines verse 12 To make thy mighty actions known To mans posteritie And celebrate The glorious state Of thy supremacy 2. Part. Arg. As before verse 13 THy kingdom wears eternall crown And thy dominion shall Endure and last All ages past verse 14 God holds up all that fall And raiseth all the bowed down verse 15 All eyes do wait on thee Thou givest meat For them to eat When fittest seasons bee verse 16 Thine opened hand doth satisfie Each living things desire verse 17 Gods Justie sways In all his ways His holiness intire verse 18 To all his suppliants God is nigh Even all that call sincere verse 19 He also will Their pray'rs fulfill Who ever do him fear Hee 'l hear their cry and help afford verse 20 And all his lovers true Will God secure But he will sure Destroy the wicked crue verse 21 My mouth shall magnifie the Lord And universall flesh His holy Name And glorious fame Shall ever sound afresh PSAL. CXLVI To both Strain tunes The vain trust in men and happie confidence is Gods salvation who made all things is most gracious to us in his providence THe Lords deserved praise proclame My soul do thou extoll the same verse 2 I while I live Will praises give Unto the Lords Almighty Name Unto my God will I sing praise While breath prolongs my life and daies verse 3 Trust in no King Nor mortall thing They can no help nor succour bring verse 4 For lo there passeth out his breath And he returns to dust of death That very day His thoughts decay And each of them then perisheth verse 5 O happy happy happy one VVho ever Jacobs God hath known To be his ayd Whose hope is stayd Upon the Lord his God alone verse 6 That made the heavens seas and shore The earth and all the num'rous store In liquid seas He made all these And keepeth truth for evermore verse 7 In-judgment he for us proceeds For to avenge oppressors deeds From bondage He Set pris'ners free The Lord likewise the hungry feeds verse 8 The righteous doth the Lord affect The bowed down he doth erect Opening likewise The blind mans eyes verse 9 The strangers doth the Lord protect The Lord relieves the fatherless And helps the widow in distress But in his wrath The sinners path The Lord doth utterly suppress verse 10 The Lord shall reign eternally Thy God O Sion rules on high And so he shall To